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MEANS TO AN END -- AN INTRODUCTION


As I see it, there are three steps to salvation, Hope > Faith >Love.

Hope, which speaks for itself.

Faith, which I would describe as a kind of knowledge acquired by  
extra-normal means. Best defined through mystical experience it is 
profoundly different from hope, with which it is often confused, and is 
a thing which tells you when your hopes and aspirations are on 
the right track.

The final stage, love, and its active principle charity, is something 
on which I can only offer lame conjecture; to be sure, on the human scale, 
I've known my full share of love and have given love; but, for myself, I
 sympathise with the person in Corinthians 1-13 : even though 
their  faith could have removed a mountain, their love, like mine,
 probably wouldn't register much in the great scheme of things.

So, only God must know the full measure of love, and what faith I have 
prods me in the direction of imagining it as a state of completest 
being and awareness of all things: something to which we, as 
children of God, must eventually aspire.


This belief is what prompted this piece of verse.
It had to be the easiest way of framing and digesting such a notion.




                -Sterl'