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1453 Effects of the works of love.... increased power....

June 4, 1940: Book 24

Power should be increased through love.... Everything what man does is to be born out of love, then he will also feel the increased supply of power; he will be carried by an unprecedented security and stimulate everything around him to love, because the spiritual around him feels love, and the will towards God is stimulated.... And this will in turn is power.... Man cannot imagine a work of love in its effect. Everything imperfect subordinates itself to the perfect as it were.... i.e., all good spiritual has great influence on the spiritual standing in higher development, and the imperfect feels this influence as increased power. It can carry out more easily what its will strives for, and so the power of love penetrates into all beingness and increases the urge to ascend in it. And that is why all thinking and acting should have its origin in love, then it will bear rich fruit. The spiritual in the human being longs for redemption but can only be redeemed through love.... If the human being is now lovingly active, he gives his spirit freedom within himself, and this liberation of the spirit in turn earns him the grace to regocnize the value of love and therefore now to live consciously, i.e. to practice love. And what he now does with the intention of serving God and his neighbour is the outflow of the love that expresses itself in him.... he wants to be good, he wants to strive upwards, he wants to serve, to help his fellow human being, he wants to bring liberation to all beings around him. And every work of love now also gives him the strength to carry out what he wants.... The power of love is effective over the greatest distance.... The human being can include every distant being in his labour of love, it can grant him help in spiritual adversity, for love will always break through and find the path to God; thus a prayerful thought in love will always reach the divine ear and provide the being to whom the prayer applies with abundant strength. Thus, prayer should always be based on profound love; anyone who prays for his neighbour should be prompted to do so by love, then every prayer will find a response from God. Every activity of love results in unimaginable spiritual success, for God Himself is in every labour of love, thus His strength must also overflow into every person who is active in love and bring redemption to the spiritually unredeemed, for to be unredeemed means to be distant from God.... yet to be active in love means to feel God's closeness, and God's closeness must inevitably also mean an influx of strength for the being. And again, every influx of strength is a liberation from an unfree state.... But the being can only become free if it shapes itself into love, for only love generates the strength the being needs to become free....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers