Mystical Angels

What are some mystical and ancient views on love & attraction?

Why are we attracted to some people strongly and not others? Often the attraction we feel is overwhelming to the point of being almost a spiritual experience... Just wondering if the ancients had any interesting theories or mythology behind love and attraction - perhaps the connection of two long lost souls?

Public Comments

1. It depends on what your attraction is towards a certain individual is, we are all at one time or another time finds ourselves attractive to both the good, bad, right and wrong. how you define each things and how you bounce off or on on each choices is what alternately brings you to your destiny of eternity.
2. The attraction of two souls... We probably have more beliefs right now then we've ever had in the past, just think of all the symbols, rituals of Valentines day, courtship, meeting parents, marriege, etc. Going back in time though, Plato created the idea of humans which walked on four legs with two heads, who were exceptionally mighty, but then they angered the gods, so Zeus split them into two, and ever since then the two halves of humans have been looking for each other... I haven't actually read the Symposium, so I don't know if he meant that as a joke or had any justification, but either way that's usually the most frequently cited example of ancient ideas of love. The Irish have traditionally had their anam cara (soul mate) - a person who is not necessarily a love, but a "kindred soul". As I recall Japanese had the idea of an invisible red thread which went from one person to their true love, or perhaps each person and all the other people they'll ever meet.
3. I like the old Greek myth, that Zeus created mortals with four arms, four legs, two heads, two hearts and one soul. People were happy and content, their souls were complete. Over time in a fit of anger Zeus split them in two with a lightning bolt, and ever since then man and woman have been roaming the earth with only half a soul, searching for their other half so they can be reunited.