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3924 Love building principle - lovelessness destroying principle....

November 5, 1946: Book 49

Even the immutable law of love can be overturned in free will. It is the law which underlies the divine order and which is therefore eternally unchangeable in itself and the fulfilment of which means upward development, construction and preservation of all creations that have emerged from God. If this law is overturned, then backward development and destruction is the inevitable consequence. And it is up to the human will to place itself under this law and thus to remain in the divine order or to transgress against the law contrary to the divine order. Understandably, the consequences of the right or wrong will are of immense importance for the spiritual, which is embodied in the human being for the final test of will. For to violate the fundamental law is to destroy the very element of life, because the original substance of all created things is love.... a power that emanates from God as the eternal love, thus also being the all-sustaining elemental power. And thus a violation of love is a non-observance of this power and its original source, a violation of love is a counteraction and therefore destructive where eternal love was active in building up. Divine order cannot continue to exist where the law of love is not observed, and thus spiritual and earthly chaos, spiritual and earthly decay is the inevitable result of it, which ultimately leads to dissolution. This cannot be made comprehensible to the human intellect as long as it sins against divine law itself.... But if he fulfils it, then this explanation is also understandable to him because he is able to feel the strength of love himself as well as to recognize all correlations in a bright spirit and thus develops upwards. But the former completely eliminates that strength which alone is constructive and constant, and he remains a dead creature as long as he is not permeated by the strength of love.... in the state of death. For life alone only creates the fulfilment of the fundamental law, life is inconceivable without love, life is a state of divine order. For earthly life as a human being is also spiritual death as soon as it is led without love. The constructive principle remains love for all eternity, the destructive principle is unkindness and hatred.... And thus people can never ever expect a life, a life of the soul on this side and the other side, in which the last principle prevails.... For life on earth is only an illusory life which ultimately disintegrates into nothing. But anyone who pays homage to the divine principle, who observes the law of love and lives accordingly, his life is indestructible, it remains untouched by the destructive effect of unkindness, it is a life in fullest strength because he is constantly fed by the original source of strength, because he himself unites with eternal love through a life of love and thus can never ever lose his life, which is fundamentally only consolidated strength of love. Anyone who understands this is already highly placed in the knowledge which only love can bring him, the integration into the eternal law and thus life in divine order.... And he need not fear death, for there is no death for him, he lives and will live in eternity, united with the eternal love, Which was his origin, Which as eternal creative power continues to be active and gives countless beings eternal life....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers