Love has critical function. Erōs, philía, and agápē are progressive aspects of love. Each of these three aspects in turn has a unique function. Erōs assures the survival of the species. Philía assures the survival of civilization. Agápē assures the species’ ascendancy into the next level of stratified stability essential to evolutionary progress. Erōs, philía, and agápē are each a progressive, evolving phase toward unification into a cooperating, dynamic reality consisting of unique, diverse, evolving, creative realities that explore transformative manifestations of infinite possibilities turned into tangible probabilities to be experienced which will facilitate an ever-expanding consciousness necessary for the experience of an ever-evolving agápē existence. Is this the reality of a divine supreme being? I think not. Rather, I believe this to be a multitudinous, vastly diverse existence within a divine reality, not a divine person.
The Big Bang has happened. We are each a manifestation of an aspect of that explosive (therefore expansive) reality. A central, critical lesson that must be learned by each and every seeker is that the end does not justify the means. The end does not justify the means because the means are in fact the end.
I am not trying to get somewhere; I am already there. I am to learn where here is and to perceive here for what it is (nothing more, nothing less) but I must always remember that Wonder and Mystery are forever and always present so my cognition will have limits. Despite any limitations, my experience will be whole, complete and substantial because my consciousness is far more than cognition. The aspiration is to learn and harmonize with reality which is the union of opposites. Heaven and hell are not places. They are conditions of being. Being in harmony is heaven.