love
fear and love
Professor Strict-and-Sober Shani teaches on the topic of one portion of the human experience game, which is the game-option to perceive that one has // no choice // .
The English word for the perception of // blocked choice // is Fear.
Fear is perception of lack of choice
Compassion is the desire for another to have freedom from suffering.
Love is the desire for another to have happiness and alignment with Truth.
So Pijan might say that love expressed as a “desire for another’s happiness” is a bridge between the astral and spiritual levels. The language of desire belongs to the emotional plane, but the quality of unselfish goodwill reflects the soul.
The opposite of fear is love. When humans understand something, they react to it with love.
“May all beings be happy”
AT ANY ONE MOMENT, fear may arise.
Okay! Now act on it.
Fear is OK. Fear is not taboo, is not wrong, is not ignorant. In the Age of Kumbha, fear = a crafted learning experience, that = designed to evoke an Intelligent Growth Response.
Feeling fear? Acknowledge the distress. Do not repress. Give it some space. Then allow the Intelligent Growth Response!
It would be recommended to convert this fear-driven worry narrative into immediate declaiming — making statements of faith — in yourself, in your guides, and in your earthly helpers-and-healers.
Call in your support! You will get all the help that you need.
Fear darkens the mind, and its stupidity can block the awareness of the helpers-and-healers who are surrounding you AT ALL TIMES. However have FAITH that they are with you and they are aching to help.
Make a vow to consciously replace fear-based expectations with an ability to recognize your helpers-and-healers — both Earthly and in-spirit.
Make it a habit.
The mind is a creature of habit. Replace the fear habit with a new habit of self-trust, self-awareness, and joy in the privilege of learning.
- Surya = the Eye of the Soul.
I love you is really EYE love you!
To be loved is to be seen, to be seen is to be loved
What you’re describing is a coherent interpretation within Barbara Pijan/Alice Bailey-style esoteric philosophy, but it’s an interpretation rather than something Pijan explicitly states word for word.
In that framework, you could indeed understand:
- “I” → the soul or higher self.
- “Love” → goodwill, compassion, the desire for another being’s growth, happiness and freedom from suffering.
- “You” → the personality (mental, emotional, and physical nature) through which the soul is expressing.
From that perspective, expressions of love become acts of service and reassurance directed toward personalities that are still learning and evolving.
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However, most esoteric traditions — including Bailey’s — would not necessarily say that souls have no need for loving exchange. Rather, they would say that souls are already united in love by their nature. Verbal expressions such as “I love you” are primarily useful within the world of personality because human beings experience separation, uncertainty, loneliness, and misunderstanding.
So your thought:
“Souls already know; personalities need reassurance”
fits fairly well with that worldview.
Where I would slightly refine it is with the word ego. In many spiritual traditions, “ego” is not treated as something bad that merely craves validation. The personality has legitimate needs for affection, safety, belonging, and communication. Telling someone “I love you” isn’t necessarily feeding illusion; it can be a genuine expression of the soul working through the personality.
In fact, one could argue from within the same philosophy:
The soul’s love often reaches another person precisely through words, touch, kindness, and reassurance.
So instead of:
- Soul → good
- Personality → needy and inferior
many esoteric teachers would say:
- Soul → source of love.
- Personality → instrument through which that love is expressed.
A beautiful paradox in these traditions is that although the soul may “already know,” the personality is the field in which that knowledge gradually becomes lived experience.
Your reflection also echoes ideas found in other traditions:
- Christianity: “Perfect love casts out fear.”
- Buddhism: loving-kindness toward all beings.
- Hindu Vedanta: the Self recognizing itself in others.
- Sufism: the Beloved loving the Beloved through human forms.
So the idea you’re arriving at is not unusual at all within mystical thought. It’s one way of understanding human love as something deeper than emotion alone.
The remedy for Fear is Faith.
This is a superb opportunity to register a state of godly awareness. Say, “I am here, and I am feeling fear.” Excellent.
Now, assert faith. Open the anointed eye. Focus the attention upon the conviction that just as one has created this fear experience, so one has generated the capability — in this MOMENT — to intentionally redirect the mind to the stability of Faith in one’s ability to solve this puzzle.
Fear (FALSE Expectations Appearing Real) darkens the mind, and its stupidity can block awareness.
LIGHT THIS SHIT UP! TRUTH! STAY LIT! LIVING IN TRUTH! THAT’S IT!
Happy : is an expression, feeling, or state of well-being, joy, and contentment.
Physical : Expression : Well-being
Emotional : Feeling : Joy
Mental : State : Contentment
At the end of the day, everybody just wants to be happy. Wishing you joy!
