A friend of mine read my manifesto on rational faith and pointed out that I didn't really define "love." I probably didn't because it's really hard. If I am going to claim that love is the basis of all manifest reality then my definition of love would have to broad enough to encompass creation and still bear some resemblance to the human emotion that we recognize as our personal experience of it.
Here goes: Love is the drive to unite with the other.
Applied universally, that definition explains why the Divine must create an image of the other within its own self nature. Applied chemically, it places the attraction and contradefinition of fundamental particles as the foundation of material reality. Personally it shows that the urge to merge is the basis of human experience.
I think that works.
