Colonization

It is instructive that in the growth of a human being across the span of a life-time, how love colonizes the human soul early on, right at the height of its egoic awakening in adolescence and begins to expand its territory. A young person falls in-love with the image that he or she sees (or feels) of itself in the face of the “other,” and the subversion of the ego, and the expansion of the colony of love begins.

It is a harsh colonization, for the dreams and ideals of love push the soul beyond the limits and conception of itself, and shatters its many ideas and ideals as “false illusions” over and over again, till a newer self begins to form outside the ego. It is a life-long struggle of construction and deconstruction until the glimmer of the Infinite and Divine Compassion behind the false masks of the ego’s face appears, almost unrecognized.

This is God’s work, the task of Spirit, the steep learning curve, the growth of the inner Angel in which the soul participates willy-nilly. We are here to learn. Separation and return have made it so. We have no real choice in the colonization except to resist it or else to accept the force of Spirit leading us on the path beyond what we thought was ourselves into the infinite depths of Divine Love.