Divine love is the essence of God’s own great soul. Every part of God is divine and divine love is God’s single most important attribute. There are some attributes of God that aren’t granted as part of this divine love, such as omniscience and omnipresence.
One of the fascinating facts about divine love is that it is indivisible. What this means is that the divine love that lodges in our souls remains connected, in some mysterious way, to all the other divine love in existence.
One consequence of this is that the bonds between those beings whose souls have been made wholly divine is said to be much stronger than even the closest of family ties that we are familiar with on earth. This is quite a statement and is something that one needs to reflect on at length to truly understand its significance.
I believe another consequence of the connectedness of all divine love is that it allows all divine beings to share a common divine reality in a much deeper and more fundamental way than the reality that we currently share with others during our earthly lives. Divine reality is God’s reality.
This is all rather amazing, but then it isn’t possible to compare divine love with any other substance. Nor can the divine path be meaningfully compared to any other way of reaching God. It is totally unique.
All other paths lead only to the perfection of the natural love we were born with. At that point, our soul state allows us to enter the highest of the natural heavens of the spirit world. None can progress further than this fixed ceiling without developing their soul in divine love. Beyond the natural heavens lie the celestial realms of the afterlife, where we can progress forever.
Divine love is said to exist and permeate all places where beings who have souls can exist. In other words, the universe we live in and the spirit world, including the celestial realms, are full of divine love. It surrounds us at all times and in all places, and there is an infinite supply of it.
When I first came across the Padgett Messages, I remember being impressed at the meticulous care and attention given to explaining the nature of divine love and its purpose. Equally as impressive is the authoritative manner in which a wide range of fundamental topics pertaining to the nature of God and our existence are handled. I remember how unexpected and surprising it was to be told that something has to be added to our being before we can make the true spiritual progress that God wants us to experience. I’d never considered such a scenario before. It’s a simple and brilliant solution for overcoming the many weaknesses, limitations and inadequacies that beset us as humans. It makes complete sense that in no other way can we get close to our Creator, other than by sharing some of God’s attributes.
One interesting characteristic of divine love is that it acts to progressively remove any darkness that envelops our souls but at the end of the process the divine love itself remains as pristine pure as it was at the start. This cleansing of our souls has an extremely important consequence. Removing darkness from our souls wipes out the consequences of any sinful act that we indulged in that caused the darkening in the first place. In other words, God’s law of compensation whereby we suffer in direct proportion to our wrongdoings is nullified by the action of a higher divine law that removes from our souls the very substance on which the lower law acts. This allows those who follow the divine path to progress very quickly relative to those whose souls are cleansed only by the action of the law of compensation. This is an astonishing truth and is something that one needs to dwell on at length before it can be fully assimilated into our being as personal knowledge.
There are many stories in the Padgett Messages of spirits who found themselves in very dark conditions when they initially reached the spirit world but after being introduced to divine love are amazed to find that the source of their suffering leaves them as their souls develop in this love. In general, their suffering is not relieved immediately, and typically, a lot of earnest prayer is required but, nevertheless, these spirits can and often do progress swiftly.
In fact, there may be a disproportionate number of divine angels who started off in the lower hells. The reason for this is that the suffering they were undergoing in the hell realms gave them the incentive to pray earnestly for divine love once they found out about it. By contrast, those who lead a good life on earth end up inhabiting a pleasant realm of the spirit world where they are often perfectly content, with the result that they may show little interest when a divine angel comes along and tries to tell them about a better place they could be! However, we are also told that in the hell realms it is very hard to hear about heavenly things and the occupants may suffer there for a very long time before they get the chance to progress. It’s not that help isn’t always available, it’s just that a spirit in poor soul condition may themselves block out any awareness of the presence of those who want to help them.
While on the subject of hell, the teachings make it clear that the hell realms are both a place and a state of mind, just like the spirit heavens. We are told that we require a place of habitation in the spirit world and that we make or determine this for ourselves by our actions on earth. And that even if the hell realms were to be emptied they would still remain as actual places, at least for a period of time. Furthermore, the grim nature of the hells adds to the inhabitants suffering beyond that which is caused solely by the law of compensation. Likewise, in the heavens, the beautiful atmosphere adds to the general happiness of the inhabitants beyond what they may have earned as individuals by their virtuous behaviour.
The most significant change we experience as divine love practitioners is the development of a completely new divine consciousness. Over time, our existing soul becomes totally transformed into a divine soul, complete with a new consciousness. The nature of this consciousness is very different to our material mind. It is described as allowing us to process information along multiple avenues in parallel and to be aware on many levels at the same time. We are not limited to sequential thinking where one thought follows another. We eventually reach a point where our material mind (or the spirit body equivalent if we are in the spirit world) becomes redundant and withers away similar to an unused muscle. Essentially, we undergo a significant mind upgrade. When you consider the limitations of a human mind then it is hardly surprising that this should be the case if our lives are to truly blossom in a future phase of our existence. A key point to make is that we never lose our sense of identity. The primary purpose of our earth life is to gain individuality. Along with this comes personality. These we retain forever.
Knowledge appears to be inherent in the very nature of divine love. In the Padgett Messages, some spirits on the divine path report finding that they developed a deep knowledge of subjects they had never studied and that their knowledge quickly outstripped even that of spirits on the natural love path who had dedicated themselves to particular avenues of study. There is therefore a wisdom in divine love that gives us direct access to knowledge that we hold within ourselves, so to speak, and I have been told that it also helps us to access the vast amount of knowledge that is available in various forms and repositories in the spirit environment. I was told that this last ability comes about because the indivisibility of divine love creates a mechanism whereby those on the divine path are, to a greater or lesser extent, able to tap at will into the combined knowledge of other beings who have divine love in their souls.
Another curious aspect of divine life follows from being immortal, which gives divine beings the ability to step in and out of time at will. I have been told that they experience a sense of timelessness when they choose to be outside of time. It seems time is experienced as a sequence of events but without the sense of any time passing.
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