Love Creates...

"It is for love that the whole universe sprang into existence, and it is for the
sake of love that it is kept going.

"God descends into the realm of Illusion because the apparent duality of the
Beloved and the lover is eventually contributory to His conscious enjoyment of
His own divinity.

"The development of love is conditioned and sustained by the tension of duality.
God has to suffer apparent differentiation into a multiplicity of souls in order
to carry on the game of love. They are His own forms, and in relation to them He
at once assumes the roles of the divine Lover and the divine Beloved. As the
Beloved, He is the real and the ultimate object of their appreciation. As the
divine Lover, He is their real and ultimate savior, drawing them back to
Himself.

"Thus, though the whole world of duality is only an illusion, that illusion has
come into being for a significant purpose.

"Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes
the entire significance of creation.

"If love were excluded from life, all the souls in the world would assume
complete externality to each other; and the only possible relations and contacts
in such a loveless world would be superficial and mechanical. It is because of
love that the contacts and relations between individual souls become
significant.

"It is love that gives meaning and value to all the happenings in the world of
duality. But while love gives meaning to the world of duality, it is at the same
time a standing challenge to duality.

"As love gathers strength, it generates creative restlessness and becomes the
main driving power of that spiritual dynamic which ultimately succeeds in
restoring to consciousness the original unity of Being."

Meher Baba
Discourses
Myrtle Beach, SC: Sheriar Foundation, 7th rev. ed., 1987, pp. 115-116.