Live Söderlund has served as Grand Master of the Scandinavian Languages Jurisdiction of AMORC and of the Traditional Martinist Order since 1994. She is also on the Board of Directors of the Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC.
Born in Jessheim, Norway, on August 4, 1963, Soror Söderlund joined the Rosicrucian Order in 1981, when she was a college student. She was an active member of Mjøsa Chapter when she moved to Onsala, Sweden, and began her work at the Grand Lodge in 1984. She was installed in the office of Grand Master on September 17, 1994.
Most of her time is spent working at the Grand Lodge, leading the daily work, weekend seminars, and degree initiations. Among Soror Live Söderlund’s private interests are Rosicrucian and historical literature, archaeology, long walks in nature, sports, and traveling.
Discourse
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What do we mean when we use the word love?
In attempting to answer this important question we will recall that the Rosicrucian teachings tell us that everything consists of vibrations. All that exists physically, mentally, or spiritually is, in essence, different frequencies of vibrating energy.
The source of the energy of creation is God, and its nature is love. But what is God and what is love? Such concepts as God and love cannot be understood through the explanations of others, for we can only hope to come to understand them through our own personal experiences.
One way of approaching a more complete understanding of love is by focusing on the seven main expressions of love’s mysteries within our own human nature, expressions that in many aspects harmonize with the seven main psychic centers of our body. Through these psychic centers we can experience the different aspects of love, all the way from the highest level of expression to the most mundane.
Through these seven psychic centers we can experience:
- The ultimate expression of love through mystical attunement with its source.
- The love for the God of our Heart, both expressed and reached through our spiritual work, our choices, and our development in life.
- The altruistic, all-compassionate love towards everything created.
- The ability to love others for who they are.
- The wish to express love through humanity’s highest virtues.
- The urge to protect our loved ones.
- The expression of love through our passion, attraction, devotion, and affection.
By concentrating on these seven psychic centers we will learn, among other things, that love has no boundaries, that protecting our loved ones includes allowing them to learn from life and have their own experiences necessary for personal and spiritual growth, that true love is radiating through all virtues, and that true love is a tool tearing down all obstacles that may limit personal freedom and growth for others.
Fratres and Sorores, everything that exists is the vibrating energy of God’s love searching for the possibility of expressing its true nature. Our greatest challenge and task is to serve this purpose through all our works, thoughts, and deeds. So, as RCUI Instructor Frater Taliaferro would have said, “Don’t just sit there and vibrate. Do something!”
After this conference, as we return to our everyday lives, let us do something that will make a difference, something that will make this world a more loveable and peaceful place in which to live.
And whenever we use the word love, whenever we express love, may it be with the understanding of its sevenfold dimensions of beauty, strength, gentleness, greatness, charity, purity, and divineness.
So Mote It Be!
I love you ... je t’aime ... ich liebe dich ... te quero ... jeg elsker deg ...
