{"id":4575,"date":"2007-09-09T13:50:47","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T13:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/09\/beginning-there-was-love\/"},"modified":"2007-09-09T13:50:47","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T13:50:47","slug":"beginning-there-was-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/09\/beginning-there-was-love\/","title":{"rendered":"In the beginning there was love.."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In the beginning Love arose,<br>which was the primal germ cell of the mind.<br>The Seers, searching in their hearts with wisdom,<br>discovered the connection of Being in Nonbeing.<\/p>\n<p>A crosswise line cut Being from Nonbeing.<br>What was described above it, what below?<br>Bearers of seed there were and mighty forces<br>thrust from below and forward move above.<\/p>\n<p>-Rig Veda<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the beginning Love arose,<br \/>which was the primal germ cell of the mind.<br \/>The Seers, searching in their hearts with wisdom,<br \/>discovered the connection of Being in Nonbeing.<\/p>\n<p>A crosswise line cut Being from Nonbeing.<br \/>What was described above it, what below?<br \/>Bearers of seed there were and mighty forces<br \/>thrust from below and forward move above.<\/p>\n<p>-Rig Veda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual_quotes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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