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bankruptcy and even to crime. Now, let us summarize what has been said:

The three currents of Love, which are: spiritual Love emanating from Absolute I,

psychic Love emanating from Absolute II and carnal Love emanating from Absolute III,
permeate all organic life on Earth.

But, man alone possesses the faculty of intercepting and experiencing all of these

currents. However, man is able to seize and experience psychic Love, Christ’s Love, only
in proportion to the progressive formation of the magnetic centre within him, and of the

incorporation of this centre by the higher emotive centre. And before being able to

accede to spiritual Love, that of the Holy Spirit, man has to attain the development of

the higher intellectual centre, over and above that of the higher emotive centre. The

man without who is dominated by his unfinished Personality can accede to Love only on
the plane pertaining to Absolute III: for even though the other two currents flit through

him, he is, generally, incapable of intercepting them. So, it is impossible for him to

imagine their intrinsic nature. But, on the plane of Absolute III, he intercepts and
experiences Love: for, on this plane, the sexual centre helps him to absorb and to

radiate the creative energy which ensures procreation. This Love, however, carries a

promise, a thread of Ariane: by altering his attitude towards it, by suppressing its bestial

aspect, man can fight against the current and come to the top. But this transformation is