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8629 The great importance of a love life....

September 28, 1963: Book 91

The ascent upwards has to be covered, and every step to perfection requires strength, which you can only ever receive from Me and the supply of which always earns you the bond with Me. As long as you go level ways, which need no effort at all, your earth life earns you no profit; you remain standing on the same degree of development, as you have started earth life. And this has been in vain for you.... Only when you yourselves are of the will to progress and you then spare no effort to reach the aim, earth life is of use for you, and you can reckon with complete success when you do not slacken to strive and to work on yourselves. But as long as you are powerless, you will not succeed, but you can at any time request power from Me or acquire power yourselves through love work, because love itself is power, and as soon as you are active in love, you also possess the power to ascend and to perfect yourselves. Because you will then always more shape yourselves to love, because every supply of power out of Me again drives you to love work, therefore every love work has an effect as increased degree of love. And you can increase this degree of love unlimitedly, because I also hand out power unlimitedly, if you just request it and make the supply possible through intimate union with Me. And so the one thing will now become understandable to you that love is everything. Without love you stand still, or you sink back to the deep, but love inspires you, and you can reach heights and secure your perfection, because through love you unite with Me as eternal love and now also fulfil your earth life purpose: the change back to that being, which you were in the beginning and which now can also again be unlimited happy. But without love this change back is impossible; without love you remain in the deep; you remain part of him who is without all love. But I have lowered a spark of love into your heart out of favour, as proof of My endless love towards you, so that you well can accomplish the work of reshaping, which however always requires your will, because you are in no way forced to it. And so therefore only one thing is important that you recognize the importance of a love life during your earth change.... Love is strength and will always help you to ascend.... You men lack love at the beginning of earth life, because it has changed once to I-love, but which is a wrongly directed love and therefore can never lead upwards.... However, if the divine spark of love planted in you is ignited, then you will be able to change your selfish love into unselfish neighbourly love in a short time, into selfless love which makes you happy and wants to give, which alone has the right to be called divine. And you men are able to let the love spark glow in you, if you are just also willing to it, because the will alone determines your doing and leaving during earth life. And according to this will also your life will bring ascent or decline. And that is why I try everything to make clear to you the great importance of your earth life as well as the fulfilment of My love commandments, so that you then consciously walk the path across earth.... so that you consciously strive towards your aim and reach perfection when you ask for strength or acquire it yourselves through loving activity.... The great importance of a life of love is not yet properly recognized by all of you humans, otherwise you would only ever make an effort to let yourselves be driven by the love within you to every action and thought.... You would practice love until you would no longer be able to live in any other way than in love, and then your purpose on earth will also have been achieved, for then you will be able to unite with Me again as the eternal love.... The radiated little spark of love has merged again with the fire of love; it has returned to its start. And I have achieved the aim I set Myself when I created the beings: that they have returned to Me as My 'children' and can now create and work in immeasurable bliss...._>Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers