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Affection
an emotion, a feeling: like, goodwill,
kindly feeling, love, a passion, lust. esp. feeling as opp. to reason. A mental state; an emotion, a feeling.
Feeling as opp. to reason; passion, lust. Goodwill, kindly feeling, love. a moderate feeling or emotion, the
feeling aspect (as in pleasure) of consciousness. Oxford Dictionary
The feelings include
both the affectionate and desirable emotions/passions (those that are loving and trusting) and the hostile and
invidious emotions/passions (those that are hateful and fearful). Those attempting to live by the moral codes of either the ‘real’ world or ‘spiritual’
world are admonished to give full reign to the good feelings while repressing, denying, or watching the
‘bad’ ones. As such, the feeling of affection is but a counterpoint for the underlying feelings of fear and aggression and consequently often proves to be a very
capricious and transitory feeling.
Affection is but a fickle feeling that most mimics the genuine intimacy and well-wishing nature evidenced when the instinctual emotions and passions are eliminated in human beings. Given that the very
nature of the actual universe is both pure and benevolent, these same qualities are then automatically and
spontaneously the qualities of one who lives in Actual Freedom .
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