Titles in this section:

1) Observations in Facing Personal Truth
2) Notes on Receiving Divine Love
3) Differences Between Natural and Divine Love
4) Importance of Prayer and Sincere Longings
 

1) Observations in Facing Personal Truth
Back to Top

One thing I have noticed during my travels is that many persons still feel frustration in their progression towards their Heavenly Father, and I would like to discuss in more detail with you all what I see as the primary reason for this condition of frustration and a feeling that many have that they are still not progressing very rapidly towards their Heavenly Father.

Rapid progression towards God, and therefore rapid reception of His Divine Love which makes this progression possible, can only be obtained by a soul that continually lives in harmony with Truth with regard to its own desires and longings to receive Divine Love. 

When we say or think that we have a desire to really have more Divine Love flow into our soul, and yet we are not conscious of receiving that Love, then we must face an important truth, and that is: We do not have a pure sincere desire that comes from the soul. When I have mentioned this to some, they have become offended with me, as they believe they do have a sincere and pure desire. Then I ask them if they feel the sensations of the Divine Love entering their soul on a consistent basis (i.e., every day for most hours of the day). Most answer truthfully that they do not. I then ask them why this is the case. Most do not feel they know, but they assure me they have a pure desire for the Divine Love. 

But if we have a pure sincere desire from the soul, our Father would immediately respond to our soulful longing, and give us more of His Love. He never delays the delivery of His Love to the soul who truthfully desires it. Never, ever does He withhold that which is sincerely desired with a pure motive from the soul. God is completely faithful in His Laws of Love, and He never fails to respond to a sincere, pure desire. It is very important we understand this one vital fact. If we are not receiving the Love, and yet we think we are longing for it, then the cause of our not receiving it is not God's "mysterious ways" as some may call it, but rather that our own longings and desires are not pure, truthful or sincerely motivated.

The Holy Spirit is the connection by which our soul is connected to God's and which allows the flow of His Divine Love into our own soul when it is longed for. The Holy Spirit is a Spirit of Truth. The Holy Spirit cannot maintain a connection with our soul when our soul is in a condition of having impure, untruthful or insincere desires. If we choose to lie or withhold the truth about our passions, desires, longings and feelings, even to ourselves, then we automatically break the connection with the Holy Spirit, and from that moment, it becomes impossible for our Father to give us more of His Love until we re-establish the connection by living in emotional truth. This is totally dependant on our own thoughts, words, and actions, which are motivated by our own true feelings and emotions, and God will not, and cannot without breaking His Own Laws, which He shall never do, give us the Love we think we desire when we are exercising our Free Will in a way that is preventing a connection with the Holy Spirit.

There are sins of omission and commission in regards to Truth. We involve ourselves in a sin of commission when we lie, since a lie, given for whatever reason, and made either to ourselves, to God or to another person, is the result of a desire on our part to misrepresent the truth. A desire to misrepresent truth comes from an emotion within us that is in disharmony with happiness and God's Laws (even the Laws of Natural Love), and it is this emotional cause we need to find, address and release before we can act with a pure desire. 

We involve ourselves in a sin of omission when we withhold the truth from ourselves, from God or from others. When we withhold the truth and fail to be open or transparent in our dealings with ourselves, others or God, since withholding the truth is also motivated by desires or emotions within us that are in disharmony with God's Laws and happiness, we will need to find, address and release these emotional causes of our desire to withhold truth before we can expect to continue to receive God's Love. 

In other words, if we lie or even cover over the truth, and omit to be open and transparent with ourselves, God or others, then we are also involved in a sin of commission or omission towards Truth, and the result of that sin will be that we will break the connection with God's Holy Spirit, and His Divine Love will no longer be able to flow into our soul. Without truth, Divine Love cannot flow.

Even if our own condition is not observable to ourselves, our Creator and every Celestial spirit is completely aware of every fault, error, belief, desire, passion, emotion and longing within us that is opposing our soul’s reception of God's Love. They are all waiting for US to become conscious of the error WITHIN OURSELVES. I must emphasize this! God waits for US to become conscious of the ERROR within OURSELVES before He can give us more of His Divine Love. It is our responsibility to find the errors within ourselves, although we do have the assistance of God, our Celestial friends, all of those in a better spiritual condition than ourselves, and also other synchronistic events involving any person or situation which can demonstrate to us our own errors. Our soul will attract the events and circumstances required to expose within ourselves our own errors, and this is one of the operations of the Divine Law of Attraction.

So we need to come to see ourselves as we truly are from God's perspective, rather than how we wish to be perceived by ourselves or others. One of the greatest causes of stagnation with regard to the reception of Divine Love is our personal desire to retain false mental concepts of ourselves in an effort to avoid a confrontation with our emotions of error within.

 

Some Reminders About Emotional Clearing

Our Father, since He always Loves us and wants us to find the correct path, is always using his angels and events and circumstances to confront our own errors within, and He has constructed the Laws of Attraction to enable the soul to become confronted with its own error, and this Law operates whether a person has received Divine Love or not.

A soul in error will generally attract pain and suffering to itself, whether that pain be physical in nature (which is usually the result of the active denial of emotions within), or emotional. Generally, many of us have a large amount of fear of dealing with our internal emotions, and so, because of this fear, we also need an even greater amount of physical and emotional pain before we are willing to face our own internal truth. Truth exposes all fears as False Expectations Appearing Real, and once we are perfected in Divine Love, we will have no fear. "Perfect Love throws fear aside."

Almost all physical suffering is emotionally caused. All physical and emotional suffering is the result of sin, whether that sin be of our own making, or the result of the sins of the parents, environment, culture and so on being visited upon our soul, and then, as a subsequent effect, upon our spiritual and material bodies. The effects of ALL sin can be removed from within us, no matter what or who is the cause, depending on our personal and pure desire to enter a deeply loving personal relationship with our Creator. As we receive His Divine Love, this Love has a purifying effect on our soul, which, in turn, affects the condition of our spiritual and physical bodies towards the state that they no longer experience suffering. If we continue to progress until we are in a condition of at-onement with God, at that time even on earth all suffering will cease, except for that caused by others exercising their free will towards us in disharmony with God's Laws (and even those effects are sharply reduced).

Our Father created our body as a perfect system to measure pain, and pain is always an indicator that something is wrong within ourselves. Physical pain is a response provided for the protection of our material body, and emotional pain for the protection of our spiritual body.

For example, if we put our hand on a hot stove, we will quickly feel the pain of a burn, and this causes us to respond in a way that protects our hand from being burnt to a cinder and totally damaged. So the pain is a protection for our physical body and a reminder that placing our body in the path of fire will damage our own body. This causes us to exercise care with potential situations which may cause this pain.

In a similar way, emotional pain is a reminder that if we continue a course of action which is in disharmony with our own creation, we will continue to bear its consequences. For example, if I continue to express my anger with everyone who walks into my path, eventually I will be left completely alone or be in the company of other angry people, since no one who is peaceful will want or value my company. I am continuing to sin, and while I continue to sin my soul’s condition continues to degrade. I must find a way to release my anger and connect to my sadness that does not harm others, myself or God's living creation.

Taking the emotional example further, if I choose to not release the sadness that causes my anger, and if I then choose to continue to suppress the anger and sadness, eventually I will become depressed, and I will be so unhappy that I will feel that life is not worth living. However, once I connect with my sadness, realize the truth about it, and release it and talk to my Father about it, now the operation of His Love will help me overcome the sadness completely so that its cause will be forgotten; and in addition as a result of the cause being removed, I will not be able to get angry nor become depressed.

So, my emotional pain is an indicator that I have emotions, beliefs, practices, thoughts, words or actions that are, or I am living in an environment that is, in disharmony with God's Laws, and to no longer experience emotional pain I must choose to realize and release the soul-based causes of the emotional pain. In other words, I must choose to CHANGE and have an emotional desire to do so.

 

Some Practical Advice

As I have said, one of the greatest causes of stagnation is our own refusal to humbly accept our own true emotional and spiritual condition and then not choosing to develop a desire to change that condition. As long as we desire to retain false mental concepts of ourselves and wish to project to others a false impression of who we really are, it will be impossible for us in that condition to receive more of our Father's Love.

So how do we go about determining who we really are? It is difficult asking others, because unless they are in an obviously better spiritual and emotional condition than we are ourselves, they too may have erroneous concepts of Truth and Love, and they may then teach us even more erroneous concepts which we will later have to remove from our own soul in order to progress.

Do we even really want to know who we really are? Or are we content to retain a false concept of ourselves while we live on earth, preferring to live in a condition of ignorance? Eventually, whether we do it now or later, and whether we do it kicking and screaming against all of the Laws of God (which will cause us great amounts of additional emotional and physical pain), or working in harmony with those laws (which is the least painful method), we will at some time need to have a pure desire to truly know ourselves, and this applies whether we follow the path to the perfection of our natural love, or the Divine Love path.

Surely, the best thing for us to decide is to be completely open and honest with ourselves, others, and especially our Creator, about our own true emotional and spiritual condition.

Coming from a position of having a sinful nature, how to we achieve this? A sinful nature means that we will generally have a pre-disposition to deny our own true condition due to all of the emotions of error within us. In addition, we may actually desire or have a passion for things that are in disharmony with God's moral or ethical laws (Laws of Natural Love), and while we continue to believe these things are able to be practiced without penalty, we continue to worsen the condition of our own soul, and therefore increase its pain until we recognize the truth.

The only way I can progress consistently and without limit is to emotionally accept that I am in a condition of error, that only God is the source of Absolute Truth, and that I must generate within me a pure desire to seek for and find His Truth. This is the only path that will set me free. To do this, I must begin to see myself how God sees me, and I must desire from the heart to come to know Him and His Truths. I must become God-reliant. A side benefit of this course of action is that I will also come to know myself completely, and I will place myself in the condition of being able to receive God's Divine Love consistently. His Love is the only substance that can transform me into a Divine Angel, and it will also create within me untold happiness.

If I am not conscious of the Divine Love entering my soul, and assuming I think I desire it to enter me, then there must be something wrong within myself for this condition to exist. Although I think I desire His Love, I must not have a sincerely motivated pure desire for it. So I must question my self truthfully and openly if I want to move beyond this condition of stagnation in regards to receiving and experiencing my Father's Love.

I do this by asking myself a few important questions on a daily basis. These are:

• What events are currently happening in my life that demonstrate I am out of harmony with God's Love, and how have I attracted these events to my life?
  
• What emotions within me are triggered by these events and are those emotions in harmony with Truth and Love?
  
• Do I feel any emotional or physical pain? If so, what reasons within my beliefs, emotions, desires or passions could there be for my experiencing this pain?
  
• How do I portray myself to others? Am I being emotionally truthful and open?
  
• Am I still doing things that God or a celestial angel would not do?
  
• How do I really feel inside, and what tools am I using to deny my feelings?
  
• Have all my actions been moral and ethical? If not, what is the emotional cause for my being immoral or unethical?
  

As most who know me realize, I have a notebook with me most of the time. I then use this notebook to write down things that I notice in my life that are not in harmony with my Father's Laws of Love, based on my own honest answers to these questions. I then make those subjects a matter for prayer with my Father.

Coming from a condition of sin, sometimes during my progression I have felt physical pain and yet not been able to identify its emotional or spiritual cause. Or I have experienced frustration. During this time I make the subject a matter of intense prayer to my Father, asking Him to demonstrate to me using whatever methods are at His disposal over the next few days what the true cause may be. I then make an effort to take notice of the events and circumstances that happen over the next few days to see what my Father is telling me is the cause of the issue. I am particularly careful to take notice of everything, even those things of what may normally be called minor, since I have found that it is often the instant mental dismissal of something that has been presented to me many times that has been the cause of the stagnation. He is so Merciful and Generous towards me that He keeps on showing me what is wrong within me even when I have repeatedly ignored the issue, and the closer I return to Him the more I remember the consistency of His Love.

I do these things and much more because what I desire the most in my life is to know my Creator intimately. This desire has been with me for as long as I can remember. My relationship with Him is my passion. He is my never-ending love. It is difficult for me to describe in words how intense this desire for God is within me, and I cannot keep from weeping just thinking about it. Every other desire within me is subservient. I realize that I cannot keep coming closer to Him without confronting all and any error within me that keeps me distant from Him, and just as my desire for Him is personal, passionate and real, so too I take personal responsibility for the condition within me that prevents my progression towards Him. While my soul exists, this will forever be the state I seek.

It is not possible to reach God without facing personal truth, without seeing things as they really are within our own personal emotional and spiritual condition. We cannot fake it until we make it, we cannot counterfeit passion for God; it either exists as a real substantial emotional feeling, or it does not exist and needs to be developed and nurtured by coming to know the Divine Truth. We cannot fake a desire for Divine Truth; we either have a passion for knowledge, or we need to be willing to remove the emotions within us that cause us to reject it.

So rather than becoming frustrated with your progression, allow yourselves to re-examine your own feelings, desires, passions and longings, and be totally willing to face the Truth about yourself as God sees you. If you do, you will find that your relationship with Him will forever grow.

-- August 2006    

 

 
2) Notes on Receiving Divine Love
Back to Top

At-onement with the Father is a condition as well as a collection of feelings. Since this is the case, we can to a certain extent determine our personal progress in Divine Love by the extent to which we feel feelings that are in accord with at-onement with God, and the extent to which we do not feel feelings that are the result of personal dissatisfaction.

Of course, it must always be stated that persons may have a certain amount of Divine Love within their soul and not be conscious of that fact. Their lack of consciousness may result from their mental beliefs in things of error, and these beliefs will result in their remaining unconscious of their own condition until such time as their mental beliefs have been adjusted to conform to God’s Truth.

Also, a person may believe Truth, and as yet, to a certain degree be unconscious of the feelings of God’s Love, and this is usually due to that same person having a large amount of unresolved emotional issues causing their own suffering. While a person is suffering the effects of error, it is very difficult for that same person to feel the inflow of God’s Love, even if such an inflow is actually occurring. The reason for this is usually because feelings of suffering due to error are usually very powerful when first felt, and generally it is very difficult to feel two opposing feelings at the same time and to the same intensity.

A person may also believe the Truth, but the belief be of the mind only, and an awakening of the soul longings may not have occurred at all. This condition has also been explained within the Padgett messages. Now the person in this condition cannot receive Divine Love at all until they have an awakening of the soul, which involves their coming to understand that the soul is the feeling, passionate, longing, desirous part of their being. Obviously, until their soul is awakened, a person in this condition cannot feel Divine Love, since their soul longings have not begun to be exercised.

But, although those conditions described in the previous paragraphs may be truthful, we need not assume that it is impossible for a person to determine their own progress in becoming closer to their Father and receiving His Divine Love. In fact, it would be very wrong for us to assume that we cannot determine our own progress, since the reality for both men and spirits is that progress can be determined.

 

Progress in the Spirit Realm

Of course, progress in the spirit realm is much easier to determine than is progress while we are living on earth. In the spirit realm, if we are prevented from living in a higher spiritual sphere, then we are only limited either by the amount of natural love or the amount of Divine Love that is in our own soul, for one cannot progress to a higher sphere until the soul is in a condition of love (either natural love until the sixth sphere, or Divine Love for any sphere) that will enable it to enter the higher position.

The spheres in the spiritual universe are controlled totally by what could be considered to be force fields of God’s Love. No mortal or spirit is capable of traveling to a sphere when the degree of love that exists within its own soul is not greater and of a more powerful nature than the amount of love required to enter the sphere.

Since a spirit can only enter a sphere that has a love nature of a lower or similar order to its own love nature, a spirit can measure its own progress in God’s Love by simply making the attempt to enter all spheres, and seeing what spheres within the spiritual universe it can enter, and which ones it cannot.

Of course, many spirits are not consciously aware that the prevention of their moving to a higher sphere, in which more happiness and love exists, is totally dependent on the condition of their own soul. It is the truth nevertheless, and once a spirit comes to this knowledge, they begin to progress. The spirits who come to a knowledge of the Father and begin praying to Him for His Divine Love have the ability to progress at a much faster rate than those who develop their natural love, since our Father’s Love has the ability to remove the causes within the soul of a person upon which the normal operation of the Law of Compensation would apply.

So, any spirit is able to measure their own progress quite simply and easily by the limitations that are upon their ability to travel within the spirit world, by the amount of personal happiness and contentment they experience, and by the feelings they experience within their spirit body and their soul when the Divine Love comes to them. These feelings have been described within the Padgett messages and often create within the spirit an insatiable desire for a closer relationship with their Father.

 

Progress on Earth

Since Divine Love can be felt entering the soul, and the soul is connected to the spirit body while in the spirit world, and the spirit and material bodies while in the material world, it thus follows that the spirit and material bodies can feel the sensations of Divine Love entering if they are sensitive to the feelings. Also, any person can feel the results upon their personal happiness, peace, love and contentment, and judge to a certain degree their own progress.

This means that a person who has a consciousness of the Way to Truth can examine himself or herself and see how they personally are progressing. By contrasting the conditions of feeling between a person in error and a person who is in complete at-onement with their Father, we can examine ourselves and usually clearly see how we are personally progressing over time in our spiritual condition. If we find that we are moving further away from feelings of dissatisfaction and closer towards feelings of satisfaction, over a period of time, then we are obviously progressing spiritually. Of course, one must take care of this self-examination during the expiation process, since often a person feels like they are regressing in this time when they are actually moving forward.

Since our Father is never wrathful, then we would become less wrathful if we are growing in His Love. Since our Father is always Loving, we would always become more loving. Since our Father is happy, we will always become more happy. Our Father is joyous, so we become more joyful. Our Father is peaceful, so we become more peaceful. Our Father is always honest, so we become more honest. Our Father loves Truth, so we come to love Truth. Our Father gives to others, and so as we become at-one with Him, we also will be motivated to give.

So, we can measure how much of His Love we have in our soul by seeing how close we are to that perfect ideal. How loving are we in our daily life, towards ourselves personally and others? How calm are we? How joyful are we? How much do we have peace? Do we have personal clarity? So these are some ways we can tell whether we are growing spiritually.

 

Feelings

Love is a feeling and emotion, and so, it follows that our Father’s Love is His Feeling and Emotion of Love for us. Whenever we are in love in a human sense, we generally feel it. In the same manner, the soul, when it has its Father’s Love entering it, will feel it if it remains sensitive to the feelings.

As His Love enters our soul, it will have an effect on our emotions and both the spiritual and physical bodies, and feelings and sensations will occur in those bodies which can indicate to us that our Father’s Love is flowing into our soul. There will usually be an emotional response to the inflow of His Love. Also, there is a physical response in our physical body. Some describe it as feeling like pleasant tingling sensations, usually beginning from the crown chakra, which is our connection with the Divine, and then being distributed throughout our body.

Personally, the best way I can describe this physical feeling is like this: When someone tickles my back lightly, or lightly brushes the hair on my head, arm or legs, I have a feeling that is a very powerful beautiful pleasant tingling sensation that usually travels from the base of my spine and flows all over my body traveling up to my head and that fully explodes within my brain. For me, there is no other feeling in my body that compares to this feeling and I could experience it all day without growing tired of it.

When I pray for God’s Love and I feel its inflowing, I feel both the emotions of Love from God, and love for Him, and these physical sensations that generally encompass my entire body. If we are clearing things emotionally, we may find that we do not feel these feelings until after the emotions have cleared.

 

What if I Am Not Feeling This?

The key is not to be downhearted if we do not feel these feeling since all that is required is that we continue to clear our personal emotional baggage, and we will eventually feel the feelings of His Love entering our soul.

If we are not feeling it, this may not mean that God’s Love is not flowing into our soul. It could mean that we are still living in the mind, or, if we have experienced the feelings of longing for God’s Love, it may mean that our other feelings are still overwhelming the feelings of Divine Love, since the Divine Love when it first comes, usually comes with very gentle feelings.

So a person may be receiving Divine Love, but not be conscious of the feelings because of the other stronger overwhelming emotional baggage that needs to continuously be released. Once released, then the Divine Love will freely flow into the soul, and it will be felt.

Many people have been praying for Divine Love for years, but say in all honesty they do not really feel it. If this is the case, then they have not begun the process of clearing out their own emotional baggage, or they have been resisting that process of emotional clearing. If we resist the process of emotional clearing, then we are really saying to our Father that we want His Love, but not if it means we have to feel the other painful feelings that we have within. So we are putting a price on His Love, and we are resisting His Love with our own Free Will. His Love of course is priceless, and if we put a price on it, then our personal understanding of how Great this Love is cannot be correct, and so we need to correct our erroneous beliefs regarding this Love before it can freely flow into our soul.

If we resist His Love with our Free Will, then He will not give us more of His Love, because His Love will never enter us against our own Free Will. Free Will is one of God’s Greatest Gifts of Love, and our Father will never force His Love upon a person who does not have a soul longing for it and who attempts to deny the operation of the Divine Love by not allowing emotions of error to be removed from the soul or not allowing beliefs in error of the mind to be released from the mind.

-- May 2005

 

 

3) Differences Between Natural & Divine Love
Back to Top

Our spiritual brothers and sisters are working very hard to make sure that the world is ready for what is coming upon it soon, and that there will be a large multitude of people who have already experienced the Divine Love and Divine Truth personally. When these events unfold, it will be easier for these ones to come to see the truth in the full sense, and they will become the loud voice proclaiming our Father's Love to the world. I am finding it so exciting to see how many persons are being led spiritually towards the Light that comes from our Father, and how many changes will be accomplished in the world due to this large amount of preparation that has been done by our Father and our spirit brothers and sisters.

So many are teaching these things, but struggle to an extent releasing their own personal emotions and feelings that are not in harmony with the Divine Love, and once they are shown how to allow and work through these feelings and emotions, their connection with their spiritual brothers and sisters, and with their Father, will be so great that the feelings will become burning desires within them to spread the truth and to live the truth in their own day-to-day lives to a much greater extent. The reality of our existence will become plain to any who seek for Truth, and so many spirits and mortals will be led towards our Father's Love.

 

Two paths, natural & divine

At the moment, I find that many people, even people who believe in God, are still self-reliant rather than God-reliant, which is basically the transition that needs to occur from following the path to the Perfect Natural man to following the path of the Divine Angel. This is the transition that many who are now Celestial spirits made soon after they entered the 3rd sphere of the spiritual kingdom. While in this condition, they zealously seek for personal truth, which is excellent. But, also, they have a tendency to ignore things within them that only experiencing Divine Love can expose. Many have the viewpoint that as they come closer to themselves in truth, they are automatically coming closer to our Father. In addition, they believe that their own expression of love is Divine Love within them, and they think that they were created with the Divine Love within them, and all they need is to experience their own soul truth, and that Divine Love will become manifest.

But in reality, Divine Love is a substance of our Father that is so very much apart from the natural love of the perfect man, and in some ways the two forms of love are so far apart and so distinct from each other that to compare them is almost like comparing night from day. The natural love, as a creation and gift of our Father, is a thing of beauty, and obviously eventually all souls in the Universe will come to experience it at some moment in their future. However, compared to the Divine Love of the Father, it is but a dim flame of fire from a candle, compared to the burning furnace of our sun.

 

Limitations of natural love

Although the natural love has the qualities to assist all persons, mortal or spirit, to live in harmony with each other and in harmony with the Laws of his or her own creation, it does not have, and never will have, the ability to transform the soul into at-onement with God. In addition, the possessor of natural love only can never experience the happiness that comes from progression above the 6th sphere of the spirit world into the Celestial spheres and above. Also, he or she can never truly recombine with his or her soulmate in the manner in which our Father intended and experience the highest form of natural love in its ideal setting. There are just so many experiences that are not available to the person who has not received Divine Love, and one of the main things that must be taught is the major difference in both experience and destination between the person living in natural love and the angel having the Divine Love.

 

Some comparisons

The Divine Love operating and flowing within the soul results in a person being unable to sin, that is, not having any desire for sin. The natural love flowing and operating within the soul without Divine Love, while helping a person to desist from sin, does not result in the removal of the desire for sin, as evidenced by the first human couple, Amon and Aman, who, although perfect natural humans in natural love, sinned by rejecting the path of Divine Love as taught to them by their Father. In addition, all those within the spirit kingdom who refuse to seek for the Divine Love are in a similar condition – sinning against the operation of the Holy Spirit and rejecting the Divine Love that comes from our Father – and yet they possess the natural love to a purified degree.

The Divine Love operating and flowing within the soul results in the soul seeking at-onement with its Father, and, in harmony with this desire, the soul learns to become God-reliant rather than self-reliant, recognizing, accepting, rejoicing in and loving its own dependence on its Father. The natural love operating and flowing within the soul without Divine Love does not cause this state to exist, but rather results in even more self-reliance, and rather than recognizing, accepting and loving dependence on God, it rejects full emotional dependence on God, favouring its own abilities, intellect, knowledge, morals, and love nature in preference to accepting God's Truth, God's Love, and God's Highest Laws of Love.

The Divine Love operating and flowing within the soul causes the soul to expand beyond the human in its capacity and ability to recognize and experience emotion, desire, passion and longing, and to grow to the extent that it is able to begin to experience the most powerful emotion of God, His Own Divine Love, within itself. The natural love flowing and operating within the soul without Divine Love can only ever grow to experience the emotion of a soul perfect in natural love and does not have the capacity to experience the Divine Love. As such, a soul in this love cannot experience any of God's emotions, because the experience of those emotions is only possible when God's Love has opened the soul’s capacity to experience God's emotions. So a person developed in natural love only can only imagine what God feels, rather than actually feeling what God feels.

The Divine Love operating and flowing within the soul causes the soul to become at-one with our Father and experience the gift of Immortality that results with this at-onement with God. The soul becomes Divine in the true sense, in that, one of God's Qualities and His Essence now exists within the soul, never being able to be removed. The natural love flowing and operating within the soul does not result in the possession of immortality, and the soul without Divine Love does not have a part of the Divine existing within itself, and never can have unless it seeks for It and obtains It. Our soul was not born with the Divine Love within it, but rather with the ability or potentiality to possess the Divine Love.

The Divine Love operating and flowing within the soul causes the soul to come to understand Divine Truth, which is the only Absolute Truth of the Universe of the Creator. The very Knowledge of God flows into the soul with the inflowing of Divine Love, and a complete knowledge of the Laws of Divine Love, which are the most powerful and most enduring of all laws within the Universe of God. The natural love flowing and operating within the soul only results in that soul coming to learn the truths that its own capacity for understanding allows, dependent on intellectual and moral development, and the Laws of the Spiritual Heavens. Many 6th-sphere spirits have their own concepts of the One God and their own concepts of intellectual truth, some of which is in complete error or is relative truth only, and some of which may be Absolute Truth. Separation and segregation of nationality and religion still occur in the sixth sphere, because these relative truths, although able to bring the spirits believing in them to the moral and intellectual development required to live in the sixth sphere, the highest of the spiritual heavens, these relative truths are not Divine and therefore cannot result in the soul development required to understand that separation and segregation in themselves are against the Laws of Divine Love, and are not harmonious to at-onement with God.

The Divine Love operating and flowing within the soul causes the soul to experience the benefits of repentance, which is the Divine Forgiveness of the Father. This forgiveness results in the removal of the causes of sin from the soul, and it overcomes the Laws of Compensation which would normally operate upon the soul of mankind progressing in the path to the perfect natural human. The natural love flowing and operating within the soul only results in that soul having to continually experience and re-experience the effects of sin and their causes, and forgiveness only results when that soul has actually completely forgotten on an emotional level all of the disharmony within itself to God's Moral Laws. It must discover all those laws itself, through trial and error, and through the assistance of other spirits with higher moral and intellectual development. As such, the path to the perfect natural man, although broad and spacious, is also long and difficult, and often begins with long periods of pain and suffering with little progress, living in unhappy situations and circumstances for long periods of time.

In contrast, the Divine Love operating on the soul causes that soul to understand the Divine Truth of Divine Forgiveness, and as a result, it learns to feel repentant and contrite in spirit for the things it has done and the causes of disharmony with its Father within itself. This spirit of repentance draws Celestial spirits, who understand the Laws of Divine Love, to come to that person, who is then taught by both their own Father, the source of all Law, and by their brothers and sisters who know the Laws their Father has taught. The Divine Truth is Truth direct from the Father, and the process of the discovery of that truth is much more simple, direct, and easier on the soul than the process of coming to know the Law without knowing the Source of the Law.

There are many other comparisons I could make, but I will only make one more, and this is the most important comparison.

The Divine Love operating and flowing within the soul causes the soul to begin to discover the Truth about it, and come to know the Beauty and Wonder of the Soul of its Creator, its Father. A personal relationship with God develops and grows, and becomes the burning passion and desire of the soul that possesses Divine Love, and all other pursuits, material or spiritual in nature (but still material), become subservient to and unimportant compared to getting to know the True Nature of our Father. Divine Love causes the soul to truly understand its priorities and what will bring it true happiness, and no other pursuit brings the total satisfaction that results from a soul knowing and feeling its Heavenly Father. This soul truly becomes God's son or daughter and friend in a personal sense, and in return, God becomes our true Father and best Friend. There is no comparison with this in natural love, because there is nothing that the natural love can offer that can compare.

I have written this in the hope that those who may see it will consider the true differences between the path that seeks the Divine Love of the Father, which is only accessible through the experience of being Born Again into that Love, and the path of developing the soul towards the perfect natural man. Many confuse the two paths because they do not understand the benefits or results that come from at-onement with our Father, and they do not understand the difference between the Divine Love and the natural love.

 -- February 2007

 

 

4) Importance of Prayer and Sincere Longings
Back to Top

Developing the soul longings in such a manner that the Divine Love can flow into our souls is not necessarily an easy thing. The Divine Love only flows into our souls when the longings of the soul are pure and sincere in desire towards our heavenly Father. The problem is that we often define sincerity or purity in an intellectual way only, and, as has been pointed out in many of the Padgett messages, intellectual constructions of our own mind have no influence on how our Father interacts with us, because all interaction between ourselves and God are soul to Soul.

Often people who are attempting to progress on the Divine Love path complain that even though they have "sincere longings" for the Divine Love, they are not conscious of feeling this love entering them. Also, when we examine their lives, they are also often attracting the same kinds of events and people as they always have. In response I say to them that our Father's Laws, even His Laws of Divine Love, are consistent and never change, so, if we are not conscious of the Divine Love flowing into the soul once we learn about the process, or changes are not automatically happening around us, then obviously even though we believe our longings to be sincere and pure, they cannot be, and our soul is continuing to attract events and situations based on the soul's true condition.

 

We Prevent God from Answering Our Prayer

For our Father to respond to our soul longings with His Love, those longings must be based on emotions of purity and sincerity. We will receive the Divine Love in proportion to the intensity of our sincere longings, since this law is always consistent. However, due to the effects of sin (disharmony with God's Law), our soul is also damaged by other emotions, and it is usually these other emotions and desires that are in disharmony with God that affect our sincerity and purity.

For example, let’s say that mentally and intellectually we think that we have a pure desire for our Father's Love, but we retain anger, resentment or hatred towards another person within us emotionally. While we intellectually justify the retention of this emotion within us (usually by saying that the person is "bad" or has "hurt" me, that we are "over it" or some such other reasoning), then we are actually in a soul condition where we are not going to actually receive Divine Love, because we have not come to understand the Laws of Forgiveness and how they relate to the reception of Divine Love.

If someone has truly hurt us, what we first need to do is to allow ourselves to feel and express the emotions we have about the event. This may take many months of emotional processing, firstly getting through our anger, then feeling sad, then crying and weeping about the event, then crying and weeping as we experience and realize the true cause (which is most often childhood-related, or related to the penalty of breaking Divine Law).

We also need to have realizations regarding how these emotions have damaged our relationship with God and others. As we do this, the emotion eventually leaves us, and so then we are in the condition where we are able to forget the emotion (remembering that true forgiveness is emotional forgetfulness, where we retain the mental memory of the event, but no longer have any emotional damage from it).

As we go through this process, Divine Love will ebb and flow depending on our will and desire, but once we are in that condition where we have finalized the emotion, then the Divine Love can then again continuously flow into our own souls. This is but one example where we may be holding onto an emotion that we are intellectually denying even exists.

 

Clues about NOT Receiving Divine Love

Often, when we are denying an emotion in error or disharmony with God's Laws of Love, we then try to convince ourselves that we "must" be receiving the Divine Love, even though we do not feel it enter us or our lives do not demonstrate that changes are occurring for us. We do this in an attempt to "feel good" or think good thoughts about ourselves. We may tell ourselves that we "must be" receiving the Divine Love, or hope that we are, even when we are not. We do this so that we do not have to face other difficult emotions within us, or so that we do not have to address areas in our lives where we are morally or ethically out of harmony with God's Laws.

Other times we may know that we are not receiving Divine Love, but say to ourselves and others that we are doing all we can to receive it. We feign ignorance. When we do this, we are really lying to ourselves and others at the emotional level, because if we recognized the truth, we would know that God's Love cannot be tricked into entering us, nor can it be bartered with, cajoled, manipulated, bought or bargained with. The simple fact is that if we are not receiving the Divine Love, then our soul condition is preventing its flow into our soul, and our prayers must not be sincere even if we hope they are.

If we have no desire to truly deal with moral or ethical issues of natural love, or we want to believe that we are in a good condition when we are not (and we are not willing to face this truth emotionally), the Divine Love will not flow into our soul in further abundance until we have developed more fully a truly sincere desire to deal emotionally with these issues.

We can often tell ourselves that we want to feel God's Love, but at the same time, be very resistive to dealing with other emotions within our own soul that prevent the flow of the Divine Love. The Holy Spirit (which is the conduit for Divine Love) can only make a connection with our soul when the soul is at the same moment in a condition of truth. When we deny that we have emotions within, but are not receiving the Divine Love, the fact that the Divine Love is not flowing should tell us that the Holy Spirit cannot make a connection, and so, therefore, we must be in a condition of error or disharmony. The Law of Attraction will expose our true soul condition by attracting events and situations in which our feelings and emotions in disharmony with God's Laws are triggered, but, more often than not initially, we have a tendency to ignore or run away from those events. The result generally is that these events become stronger and more consistent, until we recognize that we need to actually develop a true desire to process the emotion that these events trigger.

 

Find Cause of Lack of Sincerity

So, if I think I am praying (heartfelt longing for God's Love) sincerely, but I cannot feel myself receiving the Divine Love, then my prayer cannot be sincere or pure, and I need to look deeper within myself and ask myself what would be the cause of my lack of emotional or soul-based sincerity. Usually we will find that we truly do not wish to exercise our free will to address an emotional error, either by emotionally denying issues of morality or ethics, or being resistive to feeling and experiencing other deep emotions (such as lack of trust in God, lack of self-love, lack of honesty, lack of self-responsibility, injuries with femininity, injuries affecting masculinity, low self-worth, loneliness, etc.) which will prevent the connection with the Holy Spirit. And it is not necessarily the emotions that cause our lack of connection, but rather, our resistance and fear towards experiencing our emotions and allowing their release.

We do not need to be perfect before we receive Divine Love, and any person can receive more of it, even a person in the deepest of the hells in the first sphere. However, the Divine Love flows into the soul to an amount that is directly proportional with a pure desire, and a pure desire is inversely proportional to emotions of error. It is difficult for a person in the hells of the first sphere to actually generate a pure desire, because they have so many other very damaging emotions, which overcome their desire to experience at-onement with God.

God will continue to give us His Love while we have a pure longing for it, but if we are closed down emotionally to the experience of clearing away our disharmonious emotions and emotional beliefs, or we are unwilling to bring our lives into harmony morally or ethically with the Laws of Natural Love, then we really lack a pure desire and must firstly work through the emotional reasons why we lack such a desire before we will again feel the flow of Divine Love. So God's Love enters us until it finds a point of resistance or disharmony within the soul, and then it is up to us to use our free will to remove the resistance from the soul (by the emotional release of its cause), and this must occur before we will continue to receive Divine Love in more abundance.

-- April 2007

Back to Top