Gifts of Heaven · Volume 1 · Chapter 69

Love’s striving for union. Preservation of individuality

17th October 1840, afternoon.

[1] So write another epithet, and this epithet still illuminates many a dark corner of the South Pole.

[2] As far as the attracting forces are concerned, these correspond to love, which always hungers for peaceful union, and which, once it has seized, no longer let go what it has seized, but cleanses it’s seized object from all hard parts until even the smallest dust of sand leaves the dearly conceived object, so that the object becomes soft through and through – like love itself, in order to be capable of the most intimate union.

[3] But that it behaves like this you can easily see therefrom, when you pay attention to a loving couple, which embraces each other and hugs and presses against each other as long and close as ever possible. And if there were not hostile repulsive matter between them, such as skin, flesh and bones, the two lovers would unite to one; and even if lovers would become spiritually completely alike, the unification would still strive for a greater intimacy.

[4] See, therefore wise limits are always set by Me in everything and everyone, so that despite all love, one individuality can never devour the other too much. And these measures as barriers are the repelling forces in everything and everyone. Therefore it happens even with the angels in the most humble and highest heaven of innocence that their great love is allowed to change it’s state in order to constantly preserve it’s individuality; they have a similar mental characteristic than the tiring and dulling of the flesh after the act of procreation. And if all this would not have been so arranged by Me, and all this out of My eternal order, then finally all flesh and all spirit would perish. For love for itself would have no goal and no measure, and may it yet be of any kind whatsoever, all of which will be clearly and completely revealed to you only at the later revelations of the spirit-world, heaven and hell, and that is when all will already have penetrated deeper into themselves, that is: into the center of their life from Me.

[5] Now see, it is the same between the earths and the sun, which world bodies only appear for what they are to the fleshly eye – but whoever could look at them with the eyes of the spirit, would immediately see corresponding spirits in the most diverse gradations of love – in every drop of water, air and ether; yes in a grain of sand he would discover whole associations of like-loving and thus like-minded spirits. Yes, he would finally become aware that he himself is completely stuffed and surrounded by many spirits who are related to him in love, and he would also see earthly spirits in the sun and so also vice versa.

[6] Behold, all attraction and movement is actually based on this, and so is all repulsion, propulsion or thrushing power. So then opposite poles attract each other, because love can only embrace what is opposite and attracts it in itself because of the beautiful resemblance: Thus because of the similarity, because love sees itself in the object, and beautiful therefore, because every object takes on a certain rounding in it’s absoluteness, through which it becomes pleasant to it’s primitive being, which feels emptiness, because a part of his love has made itself absolute. And just as the primitive being feels it’s emptiness, so the absolute being feels only it’s own impermanence and has no rest until it has reunited with primitive existence. But if certain barriers are then drawn against such associations, then polar as well as gender differences arise from it, which nevertheless constantly feel the need for unification and constantly strive for it.

[7] And so as it is with love, so it is with the opposite because the self repels and detests itself, since it is an abstract equal and therefore can unite itself as little as an equal barrel with another.

[8] Behold, this little and much is again a little flame for you; take it into your heart, so that it may again illuminate many a dark place of the south pole of the earth, but especially of the fleshly south

pole of your love, Amen. I, the eternal Love and Wisdom, Amen, Amen, Amen, who is called Jesus Jehovah, Amen.