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8218 God's love also works in legal order....

July 19, 1962: Book 86

If My love alone were decisive you would truly all have been redeemed long ago.... Yet My love is also bound to My fundamental law of eternity insofar as its effectiveness presupposes voluntary acceptance.... that every resistance nullifies its effect until this resistance is abandoned, until the law of divine order is fulfilled again through voluntary devotion to Me and My illumination of love can now take place without measure and without limitation, which means return, i.e. union with Me.... i.e. redemption from all form.... I Am indeed supremely powerful and there is no limit for Me, neither of love nor of power.... However, I am also supremely perfect, and this means that I Myself will never step out of the law of eternal order.... that I work contrary to law, which, however, would mean a sudden redemption of My creatures. I can do anything I want.... but I will never want anything that contradicts Me Myself, that is, My highest perfection.... You can never apply human standards and expect Me to circumvent My law of eternity Myself, even if My love is exceedingly great and would like to flow through all of you, My living creations, in order to make you exceedingly blissful.... But bliss also includes fulfilling and fitting into My law of eternal order. And a being would never be completely blissful whose perfection would be questioned because it has not yet completely inserted itself into My law of eternity. For supreme beatitude requires the being's complete alignment with My fundamental nature, and this is only achieved when love has reached the degree that perfection can be spoken of.... because then the being can be close and closely united with Me for all eternity. And I cannot give this perfection to you.... the beings which once fell away from Me of their own free will........ precisely because you still reject it as long as your love has not yet reached that degree.... because you still persist in rejecting My strength of love.... which, in turn, cannot flow towards you against your will. Free will is the characteristic that you are of divine origin. Free will was the cause of your apostasy from Me, and free will has to strive for the change back to love again, the return to Me, and bring it about, but then the effect of My illumination of love can no longer be denied, then you will realize yourselves what strength lies in love and how you ascend higher and higher yourselves, because then your approach to Me as the eternal love will become ever more evident, for then I Myself will be able to work in you through love, and you will constantly increase in light and strength, your being will increasingly return to its original state, it will become again what it was in the beginning when it was emanated by Me in supreme perfection and therefore was also exceedingly blissful.... But then it will have reached its perfection in free will, and you will only realize what this means when you dwell in the kingdom of blissful spirits again, and only then will you understand My infinite love which followed you into the abyss and lifted you up and constantly helped you to reach your final goal: complete unification with Me.... an eternal life in bliss....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers