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5681 Love is the highest....

May 22, 1953: Book 62

Love is the highest.... What are you without love? Powerless, hardened creatures who don't recognize Me, for whom I don't exist because they don't feel My strength of love which can only touch them when they have become love themselves. Love is the key to beatitude, for beatitude is freedom, light and strength, beatitude is union with Me which can only take place through love. Thus no being can become blissful if it does not develop love within itself, and every being which has become love must be blissful. For this reason everything else is worthless, no matter what you believe you possess, be it extraordinary abilities which you can achieve on earth as a human being or earthly treasures, everything is worthless if you don't have love, for all this will pass away but love will remain as the essence of your soul and follow you into eternity.... How poor, therefore, are people on earth, even though they are earthly respected and have many possessions of their own. How poor they are when they are without love.... They lack realization of their own being and their task as well as the realization of Myself, they are far away from Me and also from truth, their life is only a delusion of their senses which ceases to exist at the moment of death. Love is supreme, and if you do not have love, you are dead forms without spirit and without life.... For love is the divine which forms you into gods, love is My share which lets you become one with Me. Love is the actual life, a state of light and strength and freedom, which you therefore create for yourselves if you are unselfishly active in love. Then you will be knowledgeable, you will be able to recognize correctly, you will be able to see through everything, nothing will remain hidden from you, you will be in the light if you live in love.... But you will also be full of strength, for love is strength, it is the fundamental substance of Myself, Who is also the source of strength from eternity. Hence you will be able to accomplish everything if you, permeated by My strength through loving activity, can now also create and work with My strength, which flows to you without restriction, and therefore you can also accomplish everything according to your will.... You will be full of strength, you will be able to be active without hindrance, for the strength of love knows no restriction, because the divine source of strength never runs dry and is always at the disposal of the person who lives in love.... And you will be able to carry out everything with complete freedom because love loosens every restraint. As soon as you are active in love you have released yourselves from your adversary's shackle, and the union with Me does not restrict your freedom or your will, you merely align your will with Mine of your own accord, you enter into My will and thus work in freedom of will and yet in fullest accordance with Mine, which makes you exceedingly happy and fills you ever more with love.... love is the highest, and anyone who has shaped himself into love has truly found supreme bliss and won My love, which he will never ever lose, for anyone who has once united with Me through love I will never ever let go of him.... he has become Mine and will remain so for all eternity....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers