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No person is born with the Divine Love
No person is born with the Divine Love, no matter how divinely constituted he may appear to his fellow man. Man is only born with the natural love. The Divine Love comes only in response to the sincere, earnest prayer of a soul that is filled with longings for Its coming. There is no other way. Receiving the Divine Love is not a right, nor is It ever forced upon anyone. As John explains in Vol. I, (“Divine Love, what It is and what It is not. How It can be obtained,”) “(…) 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 with-out 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 be brought about only by sincere prayer and longing for Its inflowing.” As Jesus says in Vol. I, (“The only Way to the Kingdom of God in the Celestial Heavens,”) “No mediator is needed, nor are the prayers or ceremonies of priests or preachers, for God comes to man, himself, and hears his prayers and responds thereto by sending the Comforter, which is the Father’s messenger for conveying into the souls of men this great Divine Love.”
“This Love,” as John continues, “comes not with observation of mere moral rules, or with good deeds and the exercise of the natural love of a man towards his fellow man, as no man can possibly merit it by any deeds or acts or kindness of heart that he may have. (Acts 38-39, “Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins; and by Him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the Law of Moses.”) 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.” (John 1:17, “For the Law was given by Moses, but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ.”)
The Divine Love is brought into ours souls by the Holy Spirit. It must be clearly understood, that the Holy Spirit is not Itself the Divine Love. But, as Jesus says in Vol. I, (“Many who think that they have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit have only advanced in the natural love and not the Divine Love. Difference between God’s Spirit and the Holy Spirit,”) the Holy Spirit is that part of God’s Spirit that manifests His presence and care in conveying to men’s souls His Divine Love. This Love is the highest and greatest and most holy of His possessions, and can be conveyed to men only by the Holy Spirit; and this appellation is used in contradistinction to the mere spirit, which demonstrates to men the operation of God’s Soul in other directions and for other purposes. His creative spirit, and His caring spirit and the spirit that makes effective his Laws and designs in the governing of the universe, are not the Holy Spirit, though equally part of God’s Soul, and equally necessary for the manifestations of His powers and the exercise of the energies of His Soul. These deal with the things of the universe that do not have interrelationship with the Soul of God and the souls of men, and whenever the Holy Spirit is spoken of it should mean only that part of God’s Spirit which transforms the souls of men into the Substance of the Soul of God in its Quality of Love.”
The New Birth can only be achieved if one has received such a sufficiency of the Divine Love, that the soul has become transformed into a divine soul altogether. This complete transformation is called the New Birth. From that moment on, we will then be true children of God, and no longer of our Earthly parents; or, as we read in John 1:13, “children born not of natural descent (…), but born of God.” And echoed in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come.”
As Jesus says in Vol. I, (“The only Way to the Kingdom of God in the Celestial Heavens,”) “Then, as I have said, this Divine Love of the Father, when possessed by the soul of man, makes him in his substance and essence Divine like unto the Divinity of the Father, and only such souls constitute and inhabit the Celestial or Divine Kingdom of God; and this being so, it must be readily seen that the only way to the Celestial Kingdom is that which leads to the obtaining of this Divine Love, which means the New Birth; and which New Birth is brought about by the flowing into the souls of men this Divine Love, whereby the very Nature and Substance of the Father, and wherefrom men cease to be the merely created beings, but become the souls of men born into the Divine reality of God. Then the only way to the Celestial Kingdom being by the New Birth, and that birth being brought to men only by the inflowing and working of this Divine Love.”
In Vol. I, (“Divine Love, what It is and what It is not. How It can be obtained,”) John says, “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 this is what Jesus tried to explain to Nicodemus, a Pharisee, who did not understand that until a man receives this New Birth (John 3:1-21) he cannot possibly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
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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. This content 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.