We have progressed in spite of ourselves, given our loss of core values: self-love, and self-knowledge; of divine love and divine knowledge. These conceptions and perceptions made us originally conceive ourselves as part of the cosmos, and its unfolding creation, not apart from the cosmos' evolving creation, whose crown we are. This loss, plus its conceptual tools, complicates and obtrudes upon our lives. Our progress and perpetuation, despite this "loss" is evidence of a love never lost.