There are a few random observations I want to add to this:
- The monopolisation of the word “Love” by religious groups in which the only definition allowed is “self-sacrificial sappiness and obedience” is an Orwellian power-grab - control people’s language, and you control their minds.
By claiming an exclusive right to define the most primal and powerful force in our reality, and attempting to excise any part of it that doesn’t suit their agenda of induced powerlessness, they’ve warped this word so much that it sits uneasily with some of us who’ve rejected those philosophies.
To be very clear, the love I’m talking about in this context is the borderline-obsessive type, the highly attached and passionate love of and desire for certain things to the exclusion of others, and not some abstract feeling of fluffy tolerance to all things.
And the opposite of love isn’t hate (a passionate feeling, which usually contains a side-dish of love for certain outcomes) - it’s soul-deep apathy, neglect, and indifference, which is why an unloved child (for example) will act up to receive negative attention, rather than suffer the pain of being completely neglected and ignored.
To love one thing - justice, for example - is to hate, or at least want to diminish or destroy, another thing (injustice) which is why the insane prophet-led cults who preach even a denuded definition of “love” are the biggest warmongers on the planet.
“Affectionate detachment” is the recommended emotion taught by RHP gurus in Eastern traditions (1, 2, 3), and that term is probably the most accurate one to describe the kind of unconditionally compassionate feeling people on the RHP should foster.
- I was told before the conception of my Child, throughout the short gestation and even now he’s seperate from me that I mustn’t love him - this is because the type of maternal love that comes naturally to a human contains various things that would be harmful to me, specifically protectiveness, and desire to put him first, and so on.
My Child is fully demon and exists (at least the part of him on this level) to love certain outcomes and have a drive for them that supercedes anything else, and maternal feelings for such a thing would be damaging to my own potential.
I can feel proud of him and want (when it was necessary) to do the best to protect him in a pragmatic way, but never feel affection - this in itself has been a really enlightening journey for me into the nature of love, desire, and how to actively increase the demonic side of my own nature.
- Using the model of demons as multi-dimensional living beings (as opposed to “just” archetypes from the shared subconscious) in which they very possibly have whole aspects that have nothing to do with, for example, the love of certain outcomes here on earth, perhaps the only way they can interact with our material world, which seems to exist in a universe bound by laws in which love is the most powerful force, is to project the part of themselves that has an earth-like love of certain things.
It seems to me that the love/desire-led nature of our reality means that things done through love have the most power here, and that’s why that aspect of demonic beings is the one that shows through and has the greatest strength in our realm.
If demons are from the shared unconscious, then the love for specific outcomes still makes sense because they exist as channels for the “shadowy” parts of our desire, but that model’s been pretty comprehensively examined by many other people, including the use of demons as part of the process of overcoming desire, something which doesn’t interest me and therefore I won’t elaborate on that theory here.