The Song of Songs, attributed to Solomon (who had 700 wives and 300 concubines, obviously an authority on love), is full of wonderful erotic prose depicting various tormented impossible loves. Rabbis and Priests, embarrassed by the illicit language of Solomon's rather candid poems, proclaimed these songs of songs must be an allegory for the love between God and his bride: Israel (Judaism) or the Church (Christianity). However, nothing of this far fetched interpretation is even remotely alluded in the actual text. The troubadours might have been influenced by these allegorical interpretation of the Song of Songs and transferred back the dysfunctional love between God and Humanity to its original context of men and women.
Dysfunctional love:
When you find yourself in an impossible, destructive love, when you KNOW the person you desire is not good for you, unavailable, or does not reciprocate your affections, don't be discouraged. You are not alone. Don't feel like you must pursue it at all price. Let it be, and join the wonderfully creative troubadours who made their imperfect love a perfect story or song. According to the Bible, God also had an impossible love with the ancient Israelites. That codependent love drove God mad. It made him often times jealous, angry, aloof, as well as violent.
He could not stand when his love went "whoring" after other sexier and more approachable gods. The Biblical God punishes his people, then they repent, and soon thereafter, resume their flirtation with other deities (7 years itch) and once again God leaves them, slams the door etc. Read the bible...it's all there...So if God has an impossible love, how can we get it right?
Separation is Creation:
A close examination of stories of creation reveals that most creation myths follow the path of separation. Just as one cell breaks into two in order to procreate life, the Genesis story of creation depicts a process of splitting. God divides the light and dark, earth from heaven, the waters below from the above, the dry land from the sea and Adam's rib from his body etc. The message is clear: creation, as in creativity, always follows separation. Even if you find a "possible" love and it ends up being impossible, no worries, the splitting or separation will be followed with a big creation. A Big-Bang of ingenuity
will follow your breakup. After separations, always, there is a renewal and a surge of artistic and creative expression.
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