Firstly, is it meant there as a verb or as a noun?
Very good question.
Just as light is both a particle and a wave, Love is both a noun and a verb.
Love is the glue that holds the soul together, binding to both masculine and feminine consciousness. Without Love, the soul vibrates and wobbles like a wet blanket in the spin cycle of a washer, preventing consciousness from reaching higher frequencies.
Like a tire on a car that is out of balsnce, you don’t notice it at low rpm’s. But at high rpm’s the whole car shakes.
This is also how the Quakers and Shakers got their names. When the high frequency of the Holy Spirit moved in, the impurities in their soul were obstacles to Love, causing their bodies to quake and shake.
I can explain the neuroscience and specific frequencies where Transcendence occurs. There is a sychronization of the Theta and Beta frequencies of consciousness that facilitates raising them up into the high gamma frequency.
Gamma frequencies are the consciousness frequencies of the mystics.
Just like a car increases in rpm’s when you hit the accelerator, the action potential firing rates of the neurons increases with prayer.
Back to Love. The higher you go in levels of consciousness, the greater the Love and Light. They are intrinsic qualities of higher consciousness. Thus God is Love and Light.
When Jesus yold us to L9ve God, He was telling us to raise our consciousness to the highest level possible.
When He told us to Love our neighbors as ourselves, He was telling us to find and remove the obstacles to Love in our soul so we can become as pure as the soul of a young child.