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7409 Divine love doctrine.... humanly issued commandments....

September 14, 1959: Book 78

Little is required of you during earthly life, for I am fully satisfied with your love for Me and your neighbour. I only gave you these two commandments when I lived on earth, and I only make these two demands of you today because you will fulfil everything if you only fulfil these two commandments: To love Me above all else and to love your neighbour as yourself.... This commandment is therefore the most important of all commandments which human will has added and therefore makes demands on you which you exceedingly eagerly strive to fulfil. But these humanly issued commandments will not earn you maturity of soul if love is disregarded, if My commandments of love are put aside and thus their fulfilment is questioned. Then you can still do as eagerly as people demand of you.... you will not accomplish the change of nature which is the purpose and aim of your earthly life and which is the only demand I make of you. And you should pay attention to My voice, you should not fail to accept the teaching of love which I preached on earth as the man Jesus and to which I repeatedly point through My word.... Love is the highest.... You should kindle love within yourselves, for only love will unite you with Me, only love will make you perfect, and only through love will you attain beatitude. And if you humans would only ever pay attention to your thoughts, words and actions and always let love prevail, you would very soon realize yourselves that there is nothing more blissful than to practice love for your neighbour and thereby also prove your love for Me. But if you disregard love then you can exhaust yourselves in other deeds and words.... they are worthless for the soul because they are worthless before Me, Who never gave you such commandments which demand anything but love from you. But you humans pay too much attention to 'human' demands, and you pay no attention to the demands of your God and father.... You eagerly comply with these requirements, you allow yourselves to be satisfied with forms and customs and don't give an account to yourselves as to what I might have intended by fulfilling such commandments which were issued by people and are supposed to be sanctioned by Me.... Consider how My love, wisdom and power can be harmonized with what you regard as important commandments and eagerly comply with them. You have a completely wrong idea of My nature, you make things up for yourselves which truly have no spiritual or meaningful justification, but you believe that I am behind it and demand that you fulfil such humanly decreed commandments.... I only want love from you, and you only prove it to Me through unselfish neighbourly love. What you do for your neighbour in true brotherly love I look upon with favourable eyes, and this will be credited to you one day in My kingdom, which you can only enter if you have shaped yourselves into love, as is your task in earthly life.... And you completely fulfil My desire if only you practice this love, for then you will take on your original nature again, which was love, and you will fulfil your purpose of earthly life: through love you will unite with Me again, from Whom you once originated in highest perfection....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers