“Man knows that there is such a thing as love, but he does not know what love is.” – Emanuel Swedenborg, 1763

The Mystery of Love

We are emotional beings. Love is deeply personal to each of us and cannot be defined or confined to simple terms. In 1763, Emanuel Swedenborg wrote in Divine Love and Wisdom, ‘Man knows that there is such a thing as love, but he does not know what love is.’ He was right then—and in many ways, still right today. In his era, the world held just 700 million people. There were horses and cobblestone streets, books in libraries, and letters that took weeks to travel between towns.

Today, more than 8 billion people live on this planet. We carry instant access to knowledge in our pockets, yet the mystery of love remains. We can Google definitions, find psychological theories, and even measure the electromagnetic field of the human heart—but we still feel our way through love more than we understand it.

The Electromagnetic Heart

Modern science reveals that the heart’s electromagnetic field extends several feet beyond the body. Our emotions—joy, grief, compassion, anger—radiate through this field and influence both ourselves and others. When our emotions rise and fall, they shape how we think, sleep, eat, and perceive the world. Love is the most powerful of these forces. It colors our relationships with family, friends, lovers, co-workers, and even strangers. It is a frequency—a vibration of coherence that organizes the chaos of emotion into harmony.

Imagine billions of hearts radiating coherent waves of love, compassion, and forgiveness—our collective energy field would literally reshape the emotional climate of Earth.

Divine Frequency: God as Love in Motion

As mystics and scientists alike now recognize, love is not merely an emotion—it is a frequency. When Swedenborg wrote of Divine Love and Wisdom, he intuited what we can now measure: that consciousness itself vibrates.

The electromagnetic field of the heart pulses with coherent rhythm when we feel compassion, gratitude, or joy. In that state of resonance, the HeartMath Institute has shown, our brain waves and heartbeats synchronize—forming a unified pattern of energy that radiates outward in measurable coherence.

The Law of One describes this as the green-ray vibration, the energy of the heart center that bridges spirit and matter, bringing harmony to all densities of experience. In this frequency, the Creator becomes knowable—not as a distant deity, but as the living current flowing through all beings.

To love, then, is to tune oneself to that divine broadcast. To open the heart is to align with the frequency of God.

As the old saying goes:

“God is a frequency you tune in through love.”

The Dalai Lama: A Living Example of Love

Probably one of the best modern embodiments of love is His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Exiled from his homeland when China invaded Tibet, he became a global ambassador of compassion. Traveling from country to country, he shared a simple but profound message of goodwill.

When asked about his religion, he does not speak of Tibetan Buddhism; he simply says, ‘My religion is love.’ Even referring to the Chinese government that exiled him, he calls them ‘my friends, the enemy.’ This mirrors the lesson Jesus offered nearly two thousand years earlier—’Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.’ For most of us, that teaching challenges everything the ego holds dear. Yet it points to a universal truth: when love expands beyond preference and polarity, it becomes divine.

The Essence of Spiritual Love

As we evolve spiritually, we begin to realize that the essence of our being is love itself—a divine radiating energy that holds all things together. From a higher perspective, spiritual love:

• Is divine energy — the creative intelligence that permeates all life.
• Is unconditional and without judgment — it simply is, beyond right and wrong.
• Is the unification of the feminine and masculine within — the sacred marriage of balance and wholeness.
• Is the acceptance of self — embracing all that we are without shame or fear.
• Is the realization of oneness — the awareness that all beings share one Source.

Ancient Teachers, Eternal Wisdom

Lao Tzu: ‘Nothing but good comes to him who loves others as he loves himself.’

Buddha: ‘When you see yourself in others, it is impossible to hurt anyone else.’

Krishna: ‘To Me, all beings are the same. I hate none, and no one is more dear to Me than another.’

Jesus: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Together, their voices echo through time — four paths, one truth:

New Testament Parallels:
John 13:34 — “A new commandment I give you, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
Matthew 22:39 — “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
1 John 4:20 — “If one does not love his brother whom he has seen, he cannot love God whom he has not seen.”
These passages converge on the same principle: love of others reveals and completes love of God, for divine life flows through relationship.

Hebrew Scripture:
Leviticus 19:18 — “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Deuteronomy 32:10 — “He guarded him as the apple of His eye.”
The Thomasine saying fuses these two commandments—love and guardianship—into one mystical injunction: protect your brother as God protects His creation.

Gnostic Insight:
In the Gospel of Philip, “Love is the wine of the Father; whoever drinks it becomes one with Him.”
The Tripartite Tractate teaches that the elect are “members of one another,” sharing the same life of the Spirit.
To love the brother as the soul is to restore the original harmony of the pleroma—the undivided body of light.

Hindu Wisdom:
Chandogya Upanishad 6.8.7 — “Tat tvam asi — Thou art That.”
Bhagavad Gītā 6.32 — “He who sees the Self in all beings and all beings in the Self is perfect in yoga.”
The Thomasine call to love the brother as the soul mirrors the Vedantic insight that all beings share one Ātman, one divine Self.

Buddhist Reflection:
Dhammapada 129–130 — “All tremble at violence; all fear death. Seeing yourself in others, do not harm or cause harm.”
Mettā Sutta — “Even as a mother protects her only child, so with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.”
The pupil of the eye, symbol of awareness, represents mindfulness and compassion guarding all beings as one’s own life.

Islamic / Sufi Wisdom:
Hadith — “None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.”
Rūmī: “The lover’s eyes see no stranger; all faces are his own.”
In Sufism, love (ʿishq) and vision (basīrah) are intertwined—the purified eye sees only the Beloved in all.

Jewish Mysticism:
Zohar III:73a — “When one loves another, the Shekhinah rests between them.”
To guard the brother as the pupil of the eye is to guard the dwelling of the divine Presence within relationship.
Each act of love becomes an act of cosmic preservation.

Taoist Teaching:
Tao Te Ching 49 — “The sage has no fixed heart; the people’s heart is his heart.”
The sage protects others as he protects his own life, moving in harmony with the Tao that unites all beings.

Hermetic / Egyptian Wisdom:
Corpus Hermeticum X.24 — “He who knows himself knows all others as himself, for all are one soul.”
In Egyptian theology, the Eye of Horus symbolizes restoration, healing, and divine perception. To guard the brother as the pupil of the eye is to preserve the wholeness of the Eye of Light—the harmony of creation itself.

The Law of One:
(Session 4.20) “To serve another is to serve the self, for all are one.”
(Session 1.10) “Love is the great protector; in love there is no separation.”
To love and guard the brother as oneself is the practical path to unity consciousness and the balancing of the green-ray energy center.

Christian Mystics:
Meister Eckhart: “The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.”
St. Francis of Assisi: “When I love my brother, I love Christ in disguise.”
Julian of Norwich: “We are all one in love, for love is God and God is our life.”
These mystics embody Thomas’s insight: divine vision and divine love are the same act of seeing.

A Vision for Humanity

Consider the magnitude of 8 billion people radiating love—each heart a transmitter of peace. What would happen if every person, even for one minute a day, consciously sent love to the world?

The energy of our emotions already affects our homes, cities, and countries. Love—true, awakened love—could transform them.

Imagine it. Feel it. Radiate it. Just food for thought.