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(197) Works Of Love

Part Two I

Love Builds Up

 Introduction

 

Part Two continues two ideas along with much else

They're Kierkegaard's profound concerns

To love thy neighbor as thyself

And that God's love's middle term

He does not bring them in directly

Not in the words he uses in Part Two

But let us assume and quite correctly

If you're here, you feel their truth

 

Let us assume when love is mentioned

And love is everywhere

It is Part Two's true intention

God, the middle term's, found there

The works of love in building-up

Builds our sacred perception

Divine presence always fills love's cup

Beyond our dimensional imagination

 

Here we conceive the inconceivable

Perhaps the essential task of faith

Believe in the unbelievable

Where the truth now stands in wait

The vastness of Kierkegaard's conception

We can also feel as intimate

Love empowers all our creation

It's reservoir is infinite

 

To love thy neighbor as thyself

And God is love's middle term

Form the essential, living pulse

What in Part Two we learn