“God is Love. And Love must love. And to love there must be a Beloved.”
"The Lover and the Beloved", p. 1.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Context: God is Love. And Love must love. And to love there must be a Beloved. But since God is Existence infinite and eternal there is no one for Him to love but Himself. And in order to love Himself He must imagine Himself as the Beloved whom He as the Lover imagines He loves.
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