Relating Love and Knowledge

I have been reflecting much on the relationship between love and knowledge lately and how they are linked. It is clear from reading in the tradition that love transforms--it is the transformative element that catalyzes growth. Knowledge, then, gives understanding about the process to the one being transformed. We are, in fact, meant (and designed) to understand, because we are the creature who seeks, knocks, and asks questions. Yeshua encourages that response in us. He said at one point, "You shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

Love and knowledge are clearly linked. However, one further element is needed that combines (or links) them--it is praxis. Praxis gives wisdom because it allows us to embody all that we know and love. It is an embodiment in the form of light--the creation, perhaps, of a light-body that is unseen to the outer eye, but perceptible to the heart. This light-body is perhaps also what is meant by the single Pearl in the Gospel tradition.