Much light comes if we can ponder deeply on the three expressions of Love: Love in the Personality, Love in the Ego, and Love in the Monad. Love in the Personality gradually develops through the stages of love of self, pure and simple and entirely selfish, to love of family and friends, to love of men and women, until it arrives at the stage of love of humanity or group love consciousness which is the predominant characteristic of the Ego. A Master of Compassion loves, suffers with, and remains with His kind and with His kin. Love in the Ego gradually develops from love of humanity into love universal – a love that expresses not only love of humanity, but also love of the deva evolutions in their totality, and of all forms of divine manifestation. Love in the Personality is love in the three worlds; love in the Ego is love in the solar system, and all that it contains; whilst love in the Monad demonstrates a measure of cosmic love, and embraces much that is outside the solar system altogether.
如果我们能够深入思考爱的三种表达：人格之爱、灵魂之爱和单子（临在）之爱，就会获得许多启示。人格之爱逐渐发展的过程，从纯粹、简单、完全自私的自我之爱，到对家人和朋友的爱，再到对男人和女人的爱，直至达到对人类之爱或群体之爱意识的阶段，这是灵魂的主要特征。一位慈悲上师会爱他的同类和同行者，与他们同甘共苦，并与他们同在。灵魂之爱逐渐地从对人类的爱发展为对宇宙的爱 —— 这种爱不仅表达了对人类的爱，也表达了对天使进化及其整体存在、以及所有神圣显化形态的爱。人格之爱是三界之爱；灵魂之爱是太阳系及其所包含的一切之爱；而临在之爱则展现了一定程度的宇宙之爱，并完全包容了太阳系之外的许多存在。
~ A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
