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7454 Deification of Jesus.... incarnation of God....

November 12, 1959: Book 78

No human being will properly understand the problem of God's incarnation in Jesus who does not know about the 'deification of the created', about the aim of all beings which emerged from God's hand as His 'creatures' and are to achieve the aim of becoming His 'children'.... which He could not create because free will belongs to the highest perfection and therefore had to be used by the beings themselves in the right direction. God certainly created the beings out of Himself in all perfection, He created images of Himself which He constantly permeated with light and strength and which were therefore also able to create and shape like Him in infinity.... But these beings were His 'creatures'.... Beings which could not be other than as they had come forth from the hand of God through His will.... But God wanted 'children'.... He wanted beings who, of their own will, were and remained exactly the same as He Himself.... He wanted beings which, as supremely perfect true images, remained in free will, even though they could also direct this free will differently. And He could not create such beings for Himself, He could only direct them in such a way that they themselves now provided the evidence to be and remain true images of God.... All beings also possessed free will as a sign of their perfection, and this meant that it could turn in all directions, that it could also distance itself far away from God as well as remain in His closest proximity.... And this decision of will either resulted in becoming children or in a fall into the abyss, an infinite distance from God which, however, can and will one day lead to unification with Him again and then the beings will also have entered the state of childship to God, which was the first and last aim and purpose of creation. And this 'childship' of God is achieved through complete union with Him.... but union with Him through love.... i.e.: As a primordially created being it was constantly permeated by God's strength of love, through the fall into the abyss it lost this strength of love because it placed itself in opposition to it. Yet as a divine being it also has to be permeated by God's love, every obstacle which prevents God's illumination has to be removed, there has to be a direct bond between God and the being so that love can radiate into the being without restraint and thus a unification has taken place between the father and His child.... and now the child has become His image, a God-like being: perfect, just as the father in heaven is perfect.... And thus the man Jesus also had to deify Himself on earth through a life of love so that He could reach the highest aim: To merge completely with the father through love, so that He could ascend to heaven as 'God'.... just as, conversely, the eternal deity, i.e. 'love', fully and completely fulfilled the external form of a human being, thus becoming 'human' Himself for the sake of one purpose: to redeem humanity from eternal death. Only 'love' could accomplish such a work of mercy, but love is God. And thus God embodied Himself in a human being, He chose an external form for Himself which was sinless and which, in free will, completely shaped itself into love, i.e., it accepted God within itselfi. And thus the human being Jesus deified Himself through love, and God accomplished the act of salvation, He suffered and died on the cross in order to redeem humanity....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers