Editing Simone Weil (section)

=== Three Forms of the Implicit Love of God ===
In ''Waiting for God'', Weil explains that the three forms of implicit love of God are (1) love of neighbour (2) love of the beauty of the world and (3) love of religious ceremonies.{{r|Weil Waiting for God|pp=137&ndash;199}} As Weil writes, by loving these three objects (neighbour, world's beauty and religious ceremonies), one indirectly loves God before "God comes in person to take the hand of his future bride," since prior to God's arrival, one's soul cannot yet ''directly'' love God as the object.{{r|Weil Waiting for God|p=137}} Love of neighbour occurs (i) when the strong treat the weak ''as equals,''{{r|Weil Waiting for God|pp=143&ndash;144}} (ii) when people give personal attention to those that otherwise seem invisible, anonymous, or non-existent,{{r|Weil Waiting for God|p=149}} and (iii) when people look at and listen to the afflicted ''as they are'', without explicitly thinking about God—i.e., Weil writes, when "God in us" loves the afflicted, ''rather'' than people loving them in God.{{r|Weil Waiting for God|pp=150&ndash;151}} Second, Weil explains, love of the world's beauty occurs when humans imitate God's love for the cosmos: just as God creatively renounced his command over the world—letting it be ruled by human autonomy and matter's "blind necessity"—humans give up their imaginary command over the world, seeing the world ''no longer'' as if they were the world's center.{{r|Weil Waiting for God|pp=158&ndash;160}} Finally, Weil explains, love of religious ceremonies occurs as an implicit love of God, when religious practices are pure.{{r|Weil Waiting for God|p=181}} Weil writes that purity in religion is seen when "faith and love do not fail", and most absolutely, in the [[Eucharist]].{{r|Weil Waiting for God|p=187}}