Dialogue Nine: Love and Relationship

Setting: The sun is rising. Light spills over the hill. The long night of questioning is nearing its end—but this, right here, is the center of it all.

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Socrates (gazing into the light):
Love is the soul’s longing for what is eternal. That’s what I taught. Eros drives man upward—toward beauty, truth, the divine. We love what we lack. We desire what we are not yet.

Jesus:
But I am Love. And I lack nothing. Still, I came for you.

Socrates (turning slowly):
Then your love is not desire?

Jesus:
No. It is sacrifice. I do not love you because I need you. I love you because you need Me.

Socrates (with honest awe):
That is foreign to the philosophers. We ascend through love. You descend in it.