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Love is the triumph of the God flame. Love is the ineffable mystery of the holy will. Love is qualitatively and quantitatively the allness of the Absolute. Love is disseminated in myriad ways and works - its splendid achievements, wondrous to perform for all of life - fashioning itself according to the requirements of the moment so that all may share in the cosmic drama of being.
I am acting under the direction of the cosmic hierarchy for this system of worlds, which seeks to release into worded manifestation these admonishments concerning the nature and power of love:
First, let us expand on the concept that "God is love."1 If love is the nature of God and in reality is God, then all who share in the power of love are sharing in the power of God as it is disseminated throughout the universe.
The sharing of the power of God may be likened unto the assimilation of the Sacred Eucharist whereof the Eternal Christ spake unto man and said, "Take, eat; this is my body, which was broken for you."2 In the wonderful thought of the breaking of the body of substance as a sacrifice for mankind, men of vision can perceive the whole nature of God as one of a vast, eternal sacrifice. The words "Drink me while I AM drinking thee," spoken by the Christ of every man, embody the thought of God surrendering unto that which surrenders to him.
There is far more to be caught of the divine idea of love and the nature of love in the thought of God as the Great Donor, giving himself unto man, than there is in the concept, beautiful as it may be, of man surrendering unto God. In the former, we have the picture of the all-knowing One, surrendering unto the seeking monad - the Infinite surrendering unto the finite.
We see the Greater surrendering unto the lesser in the drama which Christ portrayed just before his great ordeal upon Golgotha when he took a towel and girded it around about himself, poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet. His words to Peter, who objected to the ritual, were, "If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me," and his teaching to all, "The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him."3 This precept was truly outpictured by the Eternal Father who broke the body of himself into splendid splinters of his embodied will, which possess and hold within themselves the key to individualization through the sovereign gift of free will.
The mediatorship of the Christ consciousness (the gift of God to man) - the release of the saving emanation, which was the selfsame Logos or Word of Love which went forth to frame the original creation - is also an activity of divine love. Is it any wonder that John the Beloved saw the Church (symbolizing the sea of all men and women who have ever loved God and sought to return to him), coming down from God as the bride of Christ, adorned for the bridegroom who indeed cometh?4
What an act of love and sacrifice is involved in creation! Yet the sweet sophistication of mortal intelligence does so easily deny the Lord of Creation and all that he has done for man, for want of that which they interpret as physical "evidence" of his existence, albeit God has loved those in the depths of self-degradation - even those who, in fact, have denied their own reality by denying the presence of God. His infinite capacity to be long-suffering, his travail as Nature, who abhors a vacuum, seeks to adjust and balance world karma, is also a cogent example of his forbearance.
Yet love can be magnified, for the Infinite possesses the capacity of self-magnification. This propensity to transcendental greatness lies not only within the natural order of things and within the kingdom of God among men, but also within the great Godhead itself. The very nature of all creation, which was destined to be a creation of love, is to possess the powers of expansion in order that men might drink to the last infinite drop the never-ending spiritual joys of cosmic purpose fulfilled.
"Where shall we go from here?" men and women ask from time to time, as they pass some milestone of mortal achievement which they think to be "the ultimate." In the infinite there is indeed opportunity without end, and it is all surrounded by the power of love.
But I must herein make a plea to every reader of my words, to all who will assimilate the great cosmic truths which I am releasing, to recognize that love, even as we understand, it is not love as God understands it. Throughout the hierarchy there is a continual series of successive revelations on the power of love, the nature of love, the steadfast existence of love, and the permanent intention of love for and on behalf of the creation.
"What love is," as the Brotherhood has stated it so clearly, "is what love does." By the actions of men, love bursts into manifestation. Love in bloom is the flowering of all the natural goodness of the universe seldom perceived through a cursory examination of the outer nature of man. In order to see the power of love in action within individuals, the law requires - and I refer to the Great Cosmic Law - a more thorough and penetrating examination of a situation than that which is prompted by the human ego because of its expectation of personal gain.
Those who search for love because they are searching for God in humanity help to produce that love into manifestation. They fan the flame of the Divine upon the altar of the being of their friends and they serve the Christ in glorifying each of these little ones about whom they can hold the immaculate concept of divine love.
Can we do less for any human creature - seeing mankind as we do, encompassed round about with such a sea of mortal terrors - than to consider each one to be a child of the Divine, to amplify the divine nature within them, and to recognize that the divine nature is the nature of love?
We do not intend, blessed ones, to let this subject rest with just these few words on "love." The blessed hierarchy have discussed at some length as to what is the greatest need of the world today and they have all concurred unanimously that it is for divine love.
One of the angels of record who keeps the scrolls for over eighty percent of the people upon this planet (that is to say, among his other duties - he fulfills this responsibility with a great deal of assistance which is provided for him) made the statement that after examining almost all of the individuals upon the planetary body who possess religious inclinations and Godlike aspiration, he found that less than four percent had any real concept of just what the power of love is.
If you stop to consider for a moment the meaning of this, you will see that there is a great need for us to write on, to speak on, and to expound the power of love in order that men may think upon it in a more independent way and forget themselves in the remembering of that love that gave them birth, that raises up all the avatars who have ever sent their light to the planet, and that stands for them in the courts of heaven as a mediator between the divine power and the divine wisdom.
Love begets mercy and mercy can very well beget obedience. Let us move forward now in cosmic humility and willingness to do that which is necessary to promote the high adventure of the cosmic world in the lives of all upon the planet.
May divine love enfold you as never before in the completeness which I AM,