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This is a large format edition of the novel 'Discovering Love' the first book of the epic series of novels 'The Lodging for the Rose.' The series was started as a project to explore Love in its native dimension as universal love, unbounded and free. The project began with a single novel, the novel, Discovering Love. However, it soon became apparent that a subject as wide as universal love, cannot be addressed in the small form of a single book. It became apparent that a second volume needed to be added, and then another, and so on. Thus, over the span of more than a decade, the work grew into a series of 12 novels, which I have summarily named, for its ancient root, The Lodging for the Rose. A rose is a flower that is seen as beautiful in the human dimension. It is defined so in the human heart and soul where the beauty of the rose is located. A rose has no meaning to a rat; and to a deer, it simply means, food. But to us as human beings, a rose is an object that echoes what we love, a higher-level quality that we cherish as human beings, because this quality is lodged in our humanity. This includes also the love we have for one-another that binds us into one as children of a common humanity. What we call civilization, has developed from this root. The substance of this universal love appears to be so great and so profound, that if it was withdrawn, civilization would collapse. Unfortunately, this rather obvious fact is also causing a crisis. In our modern world its substance is waning. Love is diminishing. Civilization is correspondingly collapsing. We have tens of thousands of nuclear bombs prepared for one another as proof for the fading civilization. The heart has become hollow. We are allowing our economies to collapse for the lack of universal love; even while we face the onrushing resumption of an Ice Age in the near future, potentially in the 2050s, for which the transition has already begun, while society finds no commitment in the heart to prepare its worl