BD.7494
January 4, 1960

LOVE IS LIFE ITSELF

Within love you find the true life, - Love awakens you to life and love maintains your life forever. - Because he who lives in love lives in Me and I in him, and since I am Myself the Love and the Life from eternity, everything that stands within love must move within life. My arch-Being has to be in him who practices love. - You have escaped death forever once love has awakened you to life, because you have then also escaped him who brought death into the world through his lovelessness.

He who has love also has life; life however is constant use of My power; life is constant calling upon this power and its use in accordance with My will. A man who stands within love and hence within life can therefore be no longer inactive, because he shall constantly be utilising the power streaming through him in accordance with My will, which is also his will, because love and life always signify union with Myself.

And man therefore can attain to the full life of his soul already on earth if he tries to live within love, when he unites with Me through love and then constantly receives power from me, which then manifests life: a condition of constant activity and bliss.

Such man does not have to fear death in eternity, since he has overcome same, even if in the world it may appear that a man lacks strength and is no longer suitable for carrying on terrestrially; yet his soul is no longer bound, it is free and can act and create in freedom, which however has spiritual rather than tellurian effect, because we are speaking about the true life.

Life on earth however can still be a mere state of death, when only the living-standard of the body is considered, which however can sink any day so that the condition of death can overtake both body and soul, and life be lost eternally. - Care should be devoted to the life of the soul, and this comes about only through a life of love, which brings power to the soul and hence gives the soul life, which endures forever.

Love alone secures you such life, and your soul shall be joyful in finding its way out of the condition of death into one of life, whence it can then be, and is, constantly active, the constant influx of power not permitting any further inactivity or standstill, because it works and acts within My will, and this work consists in helping those souls to salvation who are still in a condition of death, hence needing help in their impotence.

This work the soul is accomplishing even where the body feels nothing of this, because it has its action, which is independent of the body, yet will not let a soul rest who has once attained to life through love. - Love alone is the true life. - Hence you cannot be in a state of life so long as you are without love, whence you cannot act and create for the spiritual kingdom if lacking in love. But if you are active for My kingdom then you shall not be short of love, and need only to try strengthening your power - you need only to constantly exercise love so as to be constantly flooded with ever more power, enabling you to then consciously or unconsciously work for the good of those souls still in want because they have not found the true life yet. All work that you carry out on such soul is a sign that you have found life yourselves, and all such work shall be blessed, because life breeds more life, and whatever you have wrested from eternal death shall witness of you and your life, since you could do nothing if you had not already found life through union with Me, and My constant flooding of you with My power.

You live and shall live eternally, and shall be active in accordance with My will, finding your own bliss therein already on earth and also in the spiritual kingdom.

AMEN