“Selfish love is not self-love. Selfish love seeks not to share with every other part of God’s Life but that it may possess this Life unto itself, holding people, things, and ideas imprisoned in the domain of exclusivity. This is the idolatrous adornment of the ego.
That which seeks not its own but another’s good, drawing forth abundance that it may expand the glories of Life and share them with the many, is a manifestation of the truest Love. This is true Self-love — the love of the True Self in all.
Self-love, or the love of the Real Self, does not generate disrespect or aloofness; on the contrary, it generates man’s faith in the inherent Good of all and teaches him, even while admitting the possibility of human error, that error is no part of the Real Self.
True Self-love is the foundation of all other relationships. The love of father and mother for one another and their children and the love of the offspring for its parents are such relationships. The love of siblings, relatives, neighbors, the servant and its lord, the disciple and Master relate to man’s contact with other life relationships. There is the love of angels for the lowly and of God for His highest creations. And everywhere is Love unfolding the mysteries of Life.”
St. Germain On Alchemy – Formulas For Self-Transformation, Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, p. 321 – 322.
