From: ssam@blueyonder.co.uk   
      
   True Gospel Revealed Anew by Jesus   
   Vol.I, page 34   
      
      
     DIVINE LOVE   
      
     What It is and What It Is Not. How It Can Be Obtained.   
      
     I AM HERE. St. John (Apostle of Jesus).   
      
     I come to-night to say only a few words and these in reference to   
   love--the Divine Love of the Father which He rebestowed upon mankind at the   
   coming of the Master.   
      
     This Love is the greatest thing in all the world, and the only thing that   
   can make man at one with the Father, and change the soul of man as it has   
   existed since his creation, into a Divine Substance filled with the Essence   
   of the Father. There is nothing else in all the universe of God that can   
   cause man to become a new creature, and an inhabitant of the Father's   
   Kingdom; and when men possess this Love, then they possess everything that   
   will make them not only the perfect man but the divine angel.   
      
     Then men will understand the moral precepts of brotherly love and also the   
   Father's oneness, and they will not have to seek for other help in order to   
   bring into the life of the human race those qualities that will bring to it   
   peace and good will.   
      
     Then will every man know that every other man is his brother, and be able   
   to do unto each as he would have the other to do unto him, and this without   
   effort or sacrifice on his part, for love worketh its own fulfillment and   
   all its beneficence floweth towards the fellow-man as falls the dews from   
   heaven. Envy and hatred and strife and jealousy and all the other evil   
   qualities of man will disappear, and only peace and joy and happiness will   
   remain.   
      
     IT IS SO ABUNDANT THAT IT MAY BE POSSESSED BY ALL MEN BY THE MERE SEEKING   
   AND THE SINCERE LONGING FOR ITS INFLOWING. BUT MAN MUST UNDERSTAND THAT IT   
   IS NOT HIS BY MATTER OF RIGHT, NOR IS IT EVER FORCED UPON HIM, BUT COMES   
   ONLY IN RESPONSE TO THE SINCERE EARNEST PRAYER OF A SOUL THAT IS FILLED WITH   
   LONGINGS FOR ITS COMING.   
      
     This Love comes not with observation of mere moral rules, or with good   
   deeds and the exercise of the natural love of a man towards his fellows,   
   because no man can possibly merit it by any deeds or acts or kindness of   
   heart that he may have.   
      
     All these things are desirable and they work out their own rewards, and   
   bring the happiness and peace that result from good thoughts and kind deeds;   
   but all these do not bring unto the soul of man this Great Love. It is the   
   Father alone, and only when the soul is opened up to its reception can it   
   possibly find its home in that soul.   
      
     It is greater than faith or hope, because it is the real substance of the   
   Father, while faith and hope are the qualities which a man may possess by   
   his own efforts, and which are given him that he may realize the possibility   
   of obtaining this Love. They are merely means--it is the end and fullness of   
   their exercise.   
      
     But men must not believe that all love is the Divine Love for it is very   
   different in its substance and qualities from all other loves.   
      
     All men have, a part of their possessions, the natural love, and they need   
   not pray for a bestowal of that, although since it has become defiled by sin   
   it needs to be purified and freed from this blight, and the Father is ever   
   willing and ready to help men obtain this purification.   
      
     But this Divine Love is not a part of man's nature nor can he obtain or   
   possess it, except he seek for it. It comes from without and is not   
   developed from within.   
      
     IT IS THE RESULT OF INDIVIDUAL ACQUIREMENT, AND NOT THE OBJECT OF   
   UNIVERSAL POSSESSION. IT MAY BE POSSESSED BY ALL; IT CAN BE POSSESSED BY   
   ONLY A FEW; AND EACH MAN MUST DETERMINE FOR HIMSELF WHETHER IT SHALL BE HIS.   
   WITH GOD THERE IS NO RESPECT OF PERSONS; NEITHER IS THERE ANY ROYAL ROAD TO   
   THE OBTAINING OF THIS LOVE. ALL MUST PURSUE THE SAME WAY AND THAT WAY IS THE   
   ONE THAT JESUS TAUGHT: THE OPENING UP OF THE SOUL TO THIS LOVE FINDING A   
   LODGMENT THEREIN, WHICH CAN RE BROUGHT ABOUT ONLY BY SINCERE PRAYER AND   
   LONGING FOR ITS INFLOWING.   
      
     THIS LOVE IS THE LIFE OF THE CELESTIAL HEAVENS AND THE ONLY KEY THAT WILL   
   UNLOCK THE GATES, AND WHEN THE MORTAL ENTERS THEREIN, ALL OTHER LOVE IS   
   ABSORBED BY IT. IT HAS NO SUBSTITUTE, AND IS OF ITSELF, A THING APART. IT IS   
   OF THE ESSENCE OF THE DIVINE, AND THE SPIRIT WHICH POSSESSES IT IS DIVINE   
   ITSELF. IT MAY BE YOURS, IT MAY BE ALL MEN'S AND IT MAY NOT. YOU MUST DECIDE   
   THAT QUESTION FOR YOURSELF, NOT EVEN THE FATHER CAN MAKE THE DECISION FOR   
   YOU.   
      
     IN CLOSING LET ME REPEAT THAT IT IS THE GREATEST THING IN ALL GOD'S   
   UNIVERSE AND NOT ONLY THE GREATEST, BUT THE SUM OF ALL THINGS, FOR FROM IT   
   FLOWS EVERY OTHER THING THAT BRINGS PEACE AND HAPPINESS.   
      
     I will not write more to-night, and with my love to you, and the blessing   
   of the Father, I will say good-night.   
      
       Your brother in Christ,   
      
         JOHN   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)