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How A Soul Must Receive The Divine Love

(excerpt from) How A Soul Must Receive The Divine Love Of The Father In Order To Become An Inhabitant Of The Kingdom of GOD And Realize That Immortality Of Which I Have Written You.

I AM HERE. Jesus.

I desire tonight to write you on the subject: How a soul must receive the Divine Love of the Father in order to become an inhabitant of the Kingdom of GOD, and realize that immortality of which I have written you.

In the first place, it must be understood that the Divine Love of the Father is an entirely distinct kind of love from the love which the Father bestowed upon man at the time of his creation, and which man has possessed in a more or less condition of purity ever since that time.

MERE MORAL GOODNESS, OR THE POSSESSION OF THE NATURAL LOVE TO ITS FULLEST DEGREE WILL NOT CONFER UPON MAN THIS DIVINE NATURE THAT I HAVE MENTIONED; NOR WILL GOOD ACTS, AND CHARITY AND KINDNESS, OF THEMSELVES LEAD MEN TO THE POSSESSION OF THIS LOVE, BUT THE POSSESSION OF THIS LOVE IN TRUTH AND IN FACT, WILL LEAD TO CHARITY, AND GOOD DEEDS, AND KINDNESS, ALWAYS UNSELFISH, AND TO A BROTHERHOOD OF MEN ON EARTH THAT THE MERE NATURAL LOVE CANNOT POSSIBLY LEAD TO OR CAUSE TO EXIST.

I know that men expect that sometime, in the far distant future, by means of education and conventions and preachments of moral truth, this dream of an ideal brotherhood will be established on Earth, and all the souls of hatred and war, and the oppression of the weak by the strong will disappear. But I tell you that if men depend upon this mere natural love and all the great feelings and impulses that may arise from it, to bring about this condition so much desired, they will find disappointments and lose faith in the goodness of men, and at times a retrogression, not only in that love, but in the conduct of men towards one another, and in the treatment of nations by one another.

I have digressed somewhat from my subject, but I thought it best to show to man that his dependence upon himself, which is his dependence on this natural love, is not sufficient and adequate to bring him into a condition of happiness even on Earth, and therefore totally inadequate to bring him into the Kingdom of Heaven.

THE DIVINE LOVE THAT I SPEAK OF, IS OF ITSELF NOT ONLY ABLE TO MAKE A MAN AN INHABITANT OF THE FATHER’S KINGDOM, BUT IS SUFFICIENT TO ENABLE HIM TO BRING ABOUT AND REALIZE TO THE FULLEST OF HIS DREAMS THAT GREAT BROTHERHOOD, EVEN WHILE ON EARTH.

THE FATHER IS ALL GOODNESS AND LOVE AND TRUTH, AND FORGIVENESS, AND KINDNESS, AND THESE QUALITIES THE SOULS OF MEN BECOME POSSESSED OF, WHEN THEY RECEIVE AND POSSESS THE DIVINE LOVE. AND WHEN MAN IS SINCERE AND FAITHFUL, AND POSSESSES THERE QUALITIES, THEY NEVER LEAVE HIM OR CHANGE; AND WHEN THIS BROTHERHOOD SHALL BE FOUNDED ON THEM, IT WILL BE BUILT ON A ROCK AND WILL CONTINUE TO LIVE AND BECOME PURER AND FIRMER IN ITS BINDING EFFECT, AND IN THE GREAT RESULTS THAT WILL FLOW FROM IT, FOR ITS FOUNDATION STONE WILL BE THE DIVINE NATURE OF THE FATHER, WHICH IS WITHOUT VARIABLENESS OR CHANGE AND NEVER DISAPPOINTING.

A BROTHERHOOD SO CREATED AND JOINED TOGETHER IS, AS I SAY, “THE ONLY TRUE BROTHERHOOD THAT WILL MAKE FOR MAN A KIND OF HEAVEN ON EARTH, AND BANISH WARS AND HATRED AND STRIFE AND SELFISHNESS, AND THE PRINCIPAL OF MINE AND THINE. THE MINE WILL BE CHANGED TO OURS, AND ALL MANKIND WILL RE TRULY BROTHERS, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO RACE OR SECT OR INTELLECTUAL ACQUIREMENTS. ALL WILL BE RECOGNIZED AS THE CHILDREN OF THE ONE FATHER.”

SUCH WILL BE THE EFFECT OF THE EXISTENCE OF THIS LOVE IN MEN’S SOULS ON EARTH, AND WHEN SUCH SOULS LEAVE THEIR ENVELOPE OF FLESH, THEY WILL FIND THEIR HOMES IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD–PARTS OF THE DIVINITY OF THE FATHER, AND PARTAKERS OF HIS IMMORTALITY.

BUT ONLY THIS DIVINE LOVE WILL FIT THE SOULS OF MEN FOR THIS KINGDOM BECAUSE IN THIS KINGDOM ALL THINGS PARTAKE OF THIS DIVINE NATURE AND NOTHING WHICH HAS NOT THAT QUALITY CAN POSSIBLY ENTER THEREIN.

So men must understand, that no mere belief or ceremony of church or baptism, or any of these things are sufficient to enable a soul to become an inhabitant of this Kingdom. Men may do and deceive themselves in their beliefs that anything short of or other than this Divine Love can ensure them an entrance into the Kingdom.

Beliefs may help men to seek and aspire to the possession of this Love, but unless and until this Divine Love is actually possessed by the souls of men, they cannot become partakers of the divine nature and enjoy the happiness and peace of the Father’s Kingdom.

When the way to obtain this Love is so easy and the joy of its possession is so great, it is surprising that men will be satisfied with the husks of formalism and the satisfaction and delusion of mere lip worship and intellectual beliefs.

As I have said this Love is waiting for every man to possess, who sincerely and with true soul aspirations seek it. It is not a part of, but surrounding and enveloping every man, but at the same time forming no part of him unless his longings and prayers have opened up his soul, so that it may flow in and infill him with its presence.

Man is never compelled to receive it, as he is never compelled to do other things against his will, but as in the latter case, when in the exercise of that same will, he refuses to let the Divine Love flow into his soul, he must suffer the penalty, which is the utter and absolute deprivation of any possibility to become an inhabitant of the Kingdom of GOD, or Celestial Kingdom, and of any consciousness of the fact of his immortality.

Your brother and friend,

JESUS.

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This content originally appeared on Mark Kramer’s web site divine-love.org, but some years ago he did not renew it and the site has disappeared. Thiscontent has been copied from the Way Back machine, as I believe his insights are unique. I have not however tried to reproduce this in the same unique visual style he created, but the words are unchanged.