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The work combines dedication, sustained argument, and exhortation, drawing throughout on the Psalms, Paul’s letters, and the Song of Songs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBernard begins with God’s claim on human love through creation, divine gifts, and Christian redemption. He then describes four degrees of love: loving oneself for one’s own sake, loving God for personal benefit, loving God for God’s own sake, and finally loving oneself only for God’s sake. Later chapters contrast this love with fear, self-interest, and self-will, presenting charity as willing obedience and locating perfect love at the resurrection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe treatise was composed approximately between 1132 and 1135 at the request of Cardinal Aimeric, named Haimeric in this edition. Bernard writes as abbot of Clairvaux, a Cistercian abbey founded in 1115 during a period when Cistercian spirituality stressed austerity and strict observance of the Rule of Benedict. 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