The Mystery Of Mysteries.
Divine love, brought by God’s Comforter into our soul in response to our prayerful desires, remains a mystery until it’s personally experienced. After that, it’s known indirectly through its effects but remains utterly mysterious in itself. It changes us profoundly, but its own pristine and incorruptible nature never changes in all eternity. As it builds in quantity inside us, this love eventually becomes who we are, yet never impinges on our personality or sense of individuality. These apparent contradictions only add to its elusive nature.
No one who experiences divine love can find adequate words to describe the sublime and overwhelming feeling of being directly touched by God. It’s a feeling that changes everything. We remain finite individuals but develop a divine sense of oneness with God.
Divine love acts as a catalyst, lodging permanently in our soul and imparting its immortal, unchanging nature to us. This causes us to become immortal. We’re told that only those who become divine are immortal. Being created in the image of God does not in itself confer either divinity or immortality since the image is not the same thing as the substance. Perhaps surprisingly, even after our soul has been completely transformed into a divine soul by this love, which is the essence of God’s own soul, we still retain the ability to change and can receive more love forever.
It helps our understanding to recognise that divine love is not just love. It’s a life force that embodies countless facets, including divine truth, knowledge, light, life and consciousness. It also germinates various seeds embedded in our soul that represent gifts that God implanted in us when we were created. These blossom in the form of new skills and abilities as we progress, adding to our individual uniqueness.
It’s known that the divine love resides within one’s soul, but the internal structure of the soul is not well understood, at least in terms that our celestial teachers can convey readily to us in words. We’re told that a divine soul develops new senses that cause a range of new perceptions to arise, which allow us to explore higher dimensions of reality. Those without these perceptions remain totally unaware of these higher realms.
Of course, it’s not necessary for us to understand the interactions between divine love and specific parts of our being in order for us to benefit from the effects it has on us. In the end, it doesn’t matter. As possessers of divine love, we experience a wholeness and wholesomeness that is the most satisfying journey we can ever undertake.
The Padgett Messages - The Core Truths 