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3816 ‘He who abides in love abides in Me....’

June 30, 1946: Book 48

The approach to God takes place through every work of love.... For God is Eternal Love Himself, and if a work of love is performed, the glowing spark of love in the human being will unite with the fire of divine love.... God Himself, Whose fundamental nature is Love and Strength, comes close to the human being. Only the spiritually awakened human being is able to understand this and yet it cannot be explained in any other way.... But it becomes understandable to every human being if he performs deeds love himself, then he senses God around and within himself, he feels close to the essence of the Deity himself, he no longer doubts God's existence, for Eternal Love Itself instructs him and gives him the knowledge of the essence of love, of its origin and strength. The loving human being is in constant contact with the primary source of love, he constantly draws strength from God, for Divine Love Itself is now working in him. The loving human being can also never be without faith, for he also believes in what he feels within himself, consequently he also recognises the supreme Being because It has made Itself aware to him through love. For love is not a quality, it is the essence itself. This is too difficult for the human being of this earth to understand but will be clearly comprehensible to the soul when it discards the heaviness of earth and enters the spiritual kingdom. On earth it remains a mystery to it, which it is unable to unveil, only that the awareness of God's presence becomes ever stronger in the human being the more he lives with love, and consequently he can no longer imagine love without God and God without love. And thus the concept of God is inseparably linked with the concept of love, and the human being progresses towards the fullest realisation of the essence of love.... Whose heart has turned into love is therefore also constantly close to God.... God Himself dwells in him, the unification of the spiritual spark resting in the human heart with the eternal Father-Spirit has taken place because the spark of love has merged with the fire of eternal love.... Man now lives in God and God is in him.... But only through loving activity can union with God be established, any other connection is impossible, because the essence of the Eternal Deity is love and only the same can unite with It. ‘He who abides in love abides in Me and I in him....’ These are His Words, which are to be taken completely literally and which allow no other explanation. And therefore His Word only teaches love so that people establish the connection with Eternal Love, because this is the purpose of earthly life, so that they become like God, so that they strive for unity, so that they become blissfully happy through love, so that they can eternally stay close to God, Who is Eternal Love Himself....

Amen

Translated by Sven Immecke