3172 Bright heights.... selfless or inverted love....

June 27, 1944: Book 41

God's voice sounds down to earth from bright heights, and love reigns in these high regions, and love speaks to people and tries to change them into love, because again only a soul which has become love can enter these bright heights. And therefore the soul has to be shown the path as to how it can shape itself into love, and God Himself shows it this path through His word.... Thus, wherever love is taught, wherever the human being is encouraged to act with love, wherever love for God and his neighbor is suggested to people, God Himself is at work there and He speaks through those who spread the divine teaching of love. And you should listen to them. You need not fear falling prey to error, you need not fear hostile forces which want to divert you from the truth but you can without doubt regard God Himself as the giver, because love can only be preached by people who receive their knowledge from the heights of light. Love is of divine origin and no human being or spiritual being will ever use words of love if he stands apart from God and is therefore far removed from love. Yet anyone who teaches love will always be in contact with bright heights, and God Himself will place the words into his mouth so that they will not remain without effect, for it is His word which the human being passes on if he preaches love. Yet people have to pay attention to one thing, that only pure, selfless love is divine, whereas craving love is not entitled to be addressed as divine love. Divine love wants to give, and the divine doctrine of love only ever commands love for God and one's neighbor, but love for oneself should never predominate because then desire sets in, which suffocates pure love....

Wrong love always has something material as its goal, it seeks to possess something which still contains immature spiritual substances and is therefore earthly, it arises from the desire for earthly goods, for increased well-being of the body.... And such love cannot be divine, for divine love only has God as its goal, just as it can only emanate from God. A conscientious examination of his feelings will confirm to the human being that love for earthly things diminishes love for God, whereas selfless, pure love strengthens love for God. And therefore pure, selfless love will make you happy, while earthly love triggers desires that call for constant fulfillment. Love continues to radiate down to earth from bright heights in the form of gifts which are intended to help the soul to unite with its spirit, i.e. to return to bright heights again. But wrong love separates the soul from the spirit, it prevents its awakening and development and thus pushes the soul into the abyss; it is a selfish love which should not be called love as such because it is not divine but the characteristic of the one who is without love and therefore tries to weaken love through constant activity. God tries to change people to love through His word. His adversary tries to appropriate this love through the world, the human being himself can now listen to God's word of his own free will and thus receive the divine emanation of love in order to return to God again through it. However, he can also fall prey to the world, which lures and shines with its false rays and turns the human being's love into selfish love; then he inexorably strives towards the one who is devoid of all love....

amen

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