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8646 The gospel of love must be proclaimed....

October 16, 1963: Book 91

When the gospel of love is preached to you then you know that it is Me Myself on whose behalf My messengers offer to you what is exceedingly important if you want to reach soul maturity still on earth. Then I will address you Myself through the mouth of a human being, for I want to impress upon you the importance of fulfilling My commandments of love; I want to induce you to change your selfish love into unselfish neighbourly love.... I want to encourage you to unite with Me Myself, for I am love, and every work of love unites you with Me, with every work of love you tie Me Myself to you, and therefore you can only take on your original nature again through loving activity, since you were emanated by Me as pure love and were perfect.... Only love brings about this change back. And this is your only earth life task, to form your nature again to love. And that is why I have to preach to you again and again My divine love teaching; I have to make use of the mouth of My servants on earth to preach to you the gospel, which demands from you fulfilment of My love commandments. Your nature is still too much filled with self-love; every person thinks too much of himself and does not respect his fellow human being who needs his help in spiritual or earthly adversity.... and he is not aware of the fact that every day is lived in vain where a work of love could not help his soul to mature.... And that is why he has to be pointed to it again and again; I have to send My messengers to him again and again, which remind him to take care of the neighbour unselfishly, to put his own ego aside and to always only practice love, which alone helps him to perfection.... But he is also to receive a right, truthful enlightenment about the meaning of My love commandments; he is to know about the effect of a right love life and about the severe consequences of a way of life without love.... The reason for his being human is always to be explained in all truth, which was the rejection of My love and the transformation of the original being into unkindness; he is to know what love itself is.... that it is My fundamental nature, that it is also the original substance of every single created being and that without love every being must be called highly imperfect, that perfection cannot be thought of without love.... that all beatitude, all light and all strength is dependent on love and that therefore the human being only walks across earth to shape his nature into love again if he wants to be eternally happy.... Where therefore the gospel of love is preached to you men, there you hear Me Myself, because I stand behind everyone who teaches love, and he then only expresses what I Myself would say, if I would stay in the midst of you and teach you. But I always have to make use of a man to force no man to believe, because also love must remain completely free despite the commandment, because a forced love is no love and therefore also draws no blessing after it. Deep in the heart the divine spark must be ignited, which I have placed into you, so that you are able to love at all, because you gave away this ability in free will when you rejected every illumination of love from Me.... You were completely devoid of all love, and you would never ever be able to reach perfection on earth if My merciful love had not provided you with a tiny spark which you only need to ignite, which can flare up brightly in you and burn into a mighty fire.... And this is the aim which you are to reach: that you are again filled with love power and afterwards become again divine beings, which you were in the beginning. But at the beginning of your embodiment you lack all knowledge about your original state, your apostasy from Me and your earth assignment. And that is why again and again the gospel of love is preached to you; that is why you are also again and again fatefully stimulated to love work. Your life will take place so that you can always practice unselfish love, and your will is always only to be prepared to use every opportunity where you can be active in love. Because your life in eternity depends on it. Only the soul, which shapes itself to love, can stay in nearness to God.... Only love brings about the union with Me, the eternal love, and only love gives you back again all qualities and abilities, which belong to perfection and which you once voluntarily gave away when you gave up your love to Me and therefore hardened in your substance.... You must again become love; you must again accept your original nature, otherwise you cannot become happy in eternity. And because you did not know this at the beginning of your embodiment as a result of your lack of love, which is also lack of light, My commandments of love are repeatedly brought to you, on the fulfilment of which your beatitude depends.... For only through love will you unite with Me again, and you will be perfect again as you were in the beginning...._>Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers