on love part II

"This need to be the creator of what we love is a need to imitate God."

what does this mean for artists? Do not imitate God but allow God to work through you - embody the word.

When we place ourselves in the middle, all else can only stem out from us. we place all else under our subjective lens so that we can bear to love. Through this desublimative process, we create all things anew- removed and superficial. furthermore, we fulfill the need to be the creator of what we love and in turn imitate God (instead of drawing love from God). This is no love at all.

"Love needs reality. What is more terrible than the discover that
through a bodily appearance we have been loving an imaginary being. It
is much more terrible than death, for death does not prevent the beloved
from having lived.

That is the punishment for having fed love on imagination."

Reification, when imitation becomes status quo. absolute love is impossible to understand in the form of a reified subject. To counter the reified is to remove self from the center. Sometimes violently: love at its greatest hour. Grace is supernatural, but for God it is only natural.