NATURAL LOVE

Natural Love - What the Natural Love of human is, and what it is not.

March 4, 1915

I am here, Jesus.

    I want to write tonight on the Natural Love of Human.

    This Natural Love is one that is not understood by humanity, in its most important particular.  I mean; that this Natural Love is not one that is sufficient to give human the Highest Degree of Happiness, which they may obtain in either the Mortal Life, or in the Life to Come.

    This Natural Love is of a Nature that changes with the change in the ideas and desires of humans, and has no stability that will serve to keep them constant in their affections.

    No human, who has only this Natural Love, can ever be in condition to say that they will continue to have this Natural Love for a longer time than the present.  When they think that their Natural Love can never change, or leave them, they are only giving thought to a wish.  This Natural Love is one that may last for a long time.  Sometimes it seems that it can never die, or grow less.  Yet, in its very nature, it has not that constancy, which insures it lasting longer than a moment of time.

    I do not mean to say anything disparaging of this Natural Love, for it is undoubtedly a Great Gift that the Father has Bestowed upon humankind.  Without it, humans would be in a very unhappy condition.  Yet, it is not the Great Divine Love of the Father, which all humans may receive if they will only seek, and strive, to obtain it by prayer and Faith.

    This Natural Love is that, which unites men and women in Unity while on Earth.  Enables them to approach nearer to a Life of Happiness, than does an other human quality.  Still, it has the danger always accompanying it, that sometime, in some way, it may cease to exist.

    The Mother's Love, is the strongest of all Natural Loves given to mortals.  Apparently, it can never end, or grow old.  Yet, a time may come when that Mother's (Natural) Love will die, or cease to retain all its vitality, or beauty.

    I know it is said that Love never dies.  That is not True, as regards this Natural Love.  No human can say that their love of today will remain their love of a few years hence.  Yet, there is a Love that may be called the Natural Love that will last forever, providing these souls seek, and obtain, The Divine Love of the Father.  That is the Soulmate Love that God has implanted in the two (halves of the soul) that He has Designed to become One, in Spirit Life.  This Soulmate Love is really not two Loves, but One.  The same Love manifested in the two opposite sexes, which is only a Complete One when these two "apparently" independent souls come together in Perfect Unity.  This is what is commonly called the Love of Soulmates, which is that Essence of Spiritual Love, which makes that happiness of the two spirits of mortals seemingly complete.  Yet, this Soulmate Love is not of a Divine Nature, merely the Highest type of Natural Love.

    So, when humans speak of the love of one mortal for their fellow humans, it means merely, the Natural Love, which their human nature is capable of having and giving to another mortal.  I do not wish to be understood as in any way implying that this Natural Love is not a Great Boon and Blessing to Humankind, for it is.  Without it, there would not be the Harmony that exists on Earth.

    At this time hatred and anger seems to have taken it place in the hearts of many humans, who are now striving to kill and destroy.  This is only for a season.  The war (WWI) will cease.  Then humans will realize, more than for a long time, that only their Love for one another can make the Earth a happy and desirable place to live on.

    Love, I know it is said, is the fulfilling of the Law.  No human can thoroughly understand this, until humans know what Love is.   I do not mean that in order to fulfill every Law, human must have the Divine Love of the Father.  Because, there are Laws that govern the Divine Existence, and Laws that govern the human, and merely Spiritual Existence.  The Love of the Divine is the Fulfillment of the former Laws.  The Natural Love is the fulfillment of the latter Laws.  So, you must see that only as humans have the Love of the Divine (Divine Love) can they fulfill the Laws of the Divine Existence.  So, as they have the Natural Love only, can they fulfill the Natural Laws (of Love).

    This Natural Love will not be able to make them One with the Father.  As I have before written, the utmost of its (Natural Love) powers and functions, is to give them that happiness, which they will receive in living the Life of a spirit, or human, un-Redeemed.

    I will not say that human should not cultivate this Natural Love for their fellow human, to the greatest possible degree.  For they should.  If that should be the only kind of Love that they may have, either on Earth, or in the Spirit World.  The more of it that they possesses, they happier will they be, and the greater will be the happiness of their fellow human and fellow spirit.

    So, when I said on Earth; that humans should Love their God, and Love their fellow humans, as they Love themselves, I meant that they should do so with all the possibilities of whatever Love they might possess.  Yet, if humans would only learn, as they can, that there is no necessity for them to have only the Natural Love, but that they can all seek the Greater Happiness, and Immortality (that comes with the possession of the Divine Love).  Humans do not Realize this though.  They seem to be satisfied with this Natural Love, and the pleasures that ensue from its possession.

    I would not have them do anything that would lessen this Natural Love, or, shut their hearts to its influence, when it is Pure and Good, yet, I cannot help trying to impress upon them the great desirability of having this Higher Love (Divine Love) in their souls.

    Yes, I am a Lover of all humans.  I want them to feel the happiness of the inflowing of the Divine Love.  Thereby, learn what the Divine Love of God means, and what they may have, if they will only seek.

   This Love of the purely Natural (kind), will not suffice for the temptations that beset humans on Earth, also, will not insure against temptations when they become spirits.  I know this.  Hence, I say it with the positiveness of one who Knows.  You may say, with authority.

    As you are tired, I must stop.

With all my Love and blessings, I am, your brother in spirit, Jesus.

Natural Love

February 3rd, 1916

I am here, Luke.

    I come tonight to say a few words concerning; The Great Truth of the development of the soul in its Natural Love, wherein the New Birth is never experienced.

    I know, that humans think that this Natural Love has in it a part of the Divinity of the Father's Divine Nature, and that as they develop in the way of purifying it, and ridding it of those things which tend to impair its Harmony, they will realize that there exists in their souls this Divinity, of which we have written.  This is not True.  This Natural Love partakes only of those elements which the Father implanted in it at the time of human's Creation.  In none of these elements are any of the Qualities of the Divine Nature.

    It is difficult to explain, just the distinction between the Divine Love coming from the Father, and the Natural Love also coming from Him, yet, not having any of the Divine Nature, or Qualities.  It is a fact.  The Natural Love may become so purified that it may come into Perfect Harmony with the Laws governing its condition and composition, yet, fall far short of having in it, any of the Divine Love.

    So, as we have explained to you, the soul may obtain this Divine Love, and thereby become a part of the Father's Divinity.  I will now try to explain how the Natural Love of human may be developed, so that their soul may come into Harmony with the Law of Love, the Natural Love, and make them a very happy, pure and contented being.

    In the first place, I wish to say that there is no such thing in the World as "Original Sin", or evil.  That God did not create them, or permit them to exist, except, as He permits human to use their own will, without limitation.  I mean by this that He does not say that a human, in the exercise of this will, shall do this, or do that.  As respects this will, human is untrammeled.  He does say, and His Laws are inexorable in this particular, that human, when in the exercise of the great power of free will, causes that will to come into conflict with the Will of God, or to violate His Laws (of Love and Harmony), they, human, must suffer the consequences (of the violation of the Law).

    This may be illustrated by your Natural Laws declaring the freedom of the press.  Human may publish whatsoever they please.  So long as they do not thereby violate the rights of others, or of decency, they may make their publications without fear of the Law.  But when in the exercise of this freedom of speech, as you call it, they violate the Law, then they must suffer the consequences of this violation.

    So it is with the mortal, who in the exercise of their free will, violates the Will of the Father, or the Laws (of Love and Harmony) limiting its exercise by the mortal, they must suffer the consequences (of the Law).  The results of this violation are sin and evil created, and in no other way.  Surprising as it may sound to you; human is the creator of sin and evil.  Not God, who is only Good.

    Then the question arises, how can sin and evil be eradicated from the World?  Every thoughtful human will have the same answer.  That is; by humans ceasing to violate the Will of God, or His Laws, which restrict the exercise of the wills of mortals, to that, which in its right exercise will not produce sin or evil.  In other words, when humans, by the wrong use of their wills, bring about inharmony, they can, by the right use of their wills, not disturb that Harmony, which when it exists, leaves no room for the presence of sin and error.

    So you see, the one thing necessary in order for humans to become happy and free from everything that defiles them, or causes unhappiness, or discord to exist, is to develop their souls in this Natural Love, until this Natural Love comes into Perfect Unison with the Laws that control it.  Thus may be applied the oft quoted expression; that Love is the fulfilling of the Law.  This means Love in its Purest and most Perfect State.

    Now, how can this development of the Natural Love be accomplished by humans?

    The mind, while a powerful helper in this regard, is not, of itself, sufficient to bring about this great desideratum.  It is True that with every mortal, there is a constant warfare between the appetites and lusts of the flesh, and their Higher Desires.  Hence, it is said, that these appetites and desires are sinful, the cause of evil and the inharmony that exists in the lives of mortals.  This statement is not altogether True.  For as human was made with Spiritual Aspirations and Desires, so also, were they made with appetites and desires of the flesh.  The latter, of themselves, are not evils.

    The failure to make the distinction between the fact that these appetites and desires of the flesh are not evil, and the fact that only the perversion of them brings evil, is the great stumbling block that stands in the way of human's developing this Natural Love in the manner that I have indicated.  These, what are sometimes called the animal appetites and desires, may be exercised in such a way as to be in Perfect Harmony with the Laws that control them.  In such exercise, not interfere with, or prevent, the development of this Natural Love to Perfection.

    Human, in the free exercise of their will, has in their wanderings, gone beyond the limitations, which the Law of Harmony has placed upon them, added to, and increased and distorted, the appetites and desires of the flesh, which were originally Bestowed upon them.  Hence, have them self, created those things that are not in Harmony with the Creation of them self.

    So you see, human is a creator, as well as a creature.  As the latter, they cannot alter or change any of the effects of their Creation.  As the former, they can alter and change, even abolish, the effects of their own creation.  As the creator is greater than the things that they created.  Although, these things of their own creation have held them in bondage and unhappiness, to a more or less extent, ever since they became their creator. The strength of this apparent paradox is that the creator, human, has for all these long centuries believed it, and submitted to their creations, and still does so.

So what is the remedy?

    Simply this: Human must Awaken to the fact that they are greater than their creatures (creations), and that their creations are subject to their will.  That whenever, by their existence and workings, they bring discord and unhappiness, and cause their will to be exercised in opposition to the Will of the Father, then they must be destroyed.  Never be permitted to come into existence again.  Let humans become the masters of their creatures, and obedient to the Great Will of their Creator.  They will realize that sin, error, and unhappiness will disappear.  Their Natural Love will come into Harmony with the Laws of its Creation.  Earth will indeed become a heaven.  The Brotherhood (Fellowship) of Human established on Earth.

    If humans will only think, and thinking, believe, that all sin and error, and the resulting unhappiness and sorrow in the World, are children of their own creation.  Not the children of God.  That, in the Economy of His Universe, He leaves the control, management, and even the existence of these children, to the will of their parents.  They will then understand why evil exists, and why wars, hatred and misery continue on Earth, to blight the lives and happiness of mortals.  Why, as some say, and especially the so-called christians, God permits all these things to exist, flourish, and apparently contradict the Great Truth; that He is Good, and the Fountainhead of All Goodness.

    The Universe, the inhabitants thereof, and the Greatest Production of His Power, human, were All Created by God.  But sin and error, and their awful followings, are the creatures of human.  The Laws of His Universe work in Harmony.  All is Good.  Even the apparent inharmony, which human has created, does not affect that Great Harmony.  But is confined in its workings to human, them self.  Only human is apparently in inharmony.  That is caused by human them self.

    Suppose, for a moment, that human's will was working in accord with that of the Father.  Can you imagine that there would be any of these creatures of human's perverted will in existence?  Would there be any evil, hatred, disease, or suffering known to the consciousness of human?  I tell you, no.

   Now I say, human, their creator, must destroy these inharmonious creatures.  Human must kill, and bury deep and forever, these children of the perverted exercise of their will.  Until then, sin and error, and all their concomitants, will continue to live, flourish, and torment their creator.

    I say here, with all emphasis, and with a full realization of the great significance and responsibility in the sight of God, which I assume in saying it, that human can destroy these bastard creatures of their will, so perverted and discordant.

    Their Natural Love, if permitted to assert its God-Given powers and functions, is sufficient to bring their will in accord with that of the Father, and turn their thoughts away from these children of theirs, and to make them conscious of Purity and Truth.  The dead desires, and dead appetites, will bury their dead children.  Human will come into their own again.

    Then comes the question.  How is human to accomplish this great end, so devoutly to be wished for?

    Well, it is late now.  I will write upon this important feature of this development of their Natural Love in my next message.

So with all my Love, I will say goodnight.

Your brother in Christ, Luke. 

Natural Love