Love is the highest expression of consciousness. It’s the creative power behind all that exists, other than what humans create through negativity. As we become ever more loving, we fulfill the purpose of existence. Love is the foundation of all happiness, while an absence of love causes suffering.
Divine love – the highest form of 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. 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.
Our soul has access to this divine love. When we pray sincerely for it to become a part of us, then it lodges permanently in our soul. It changes us profoundly, but its own pristine, incorruptible and immortal nature never changes in all eternity. It generates the sublime and overwhelming feeling of being directly touched by God; a feeling that changes our life thereafter. When our soul has been completely transformed by divine love, then the door to a higher dimension fully opens. At that point, we become celestial beings who have earned the right to inhabit the celestial realms of the spirit world. A great inflowing of this love heralded the pentecostal awakening that the disciples of Jesus experienced after his death. By giving them the motivation to continue, it’s not overstating things to say that divine love has changed history. Sadly, knowledge of divine love was eventually lost as the church established itself and sought to gain power and control over the masses.
Although divine love is entirely non-material, it intermingles with and saturates all the physical space in our universe. In fact, it permeates all places where beings who have a soul can exist. In other words, the universe 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.
What’s the purpose of this love? Well, the idea that existence is only as meaningful as the mind subjectively decides it is, is an understandable viewpoint but it’s incorrect. Life is far more meaningful than we’re capable of understanding. God is not constrained to work within parameters that meet mankind’s expectations. The purpose of divine love is to remove our spiritual blindness and open us up fully to experiencing the wonders of God’s creation. As it accumulates in our soul, it provides us with a new divine consciousness and new soul perceptions that allow us to explore ever more of creation. Our spiritual guides, who are further along the path than we are, help us in this transformation. For the spiritually blind to see, requires a deep awakening within us. Not just signing up to some new ideas, however profound, but a deep remaking of our core being by adding a new consciousness that is itself pure love.
As we progress on the divine path, less and less of the fruits of that journey can be directly recognised by the perceptions of the material mind. What exists in a higher dimension is invisible to the mind, but not to the developing soul. At some point, the material mind essentially becomes irrelevant, except insofar as we use it to deal with worldly affairs. For the mind to become a mere bystander in our life is a truth and state of affairs that few can easily accept.
The reality that we aren’t our mind can sometimes be accepted conceptually but rarely can it be experienced as fact. We make that leap when we step into divine awareness, which exists only in the soul mind. The material mind initiates the divine journey, since the will must be directed to the process of praying, and other activities that secure us on the path. Thereafter, it becomes increasingly irrelevant, as the soul mind slowly comes into ascendancy.
The soul knows the physical body will die and is indifferent to that fact. Its own existence is unaffected. This demonstrates that the part of our consciousness that in many people is terrified of dying has somehow split off from the soul. At least it appears to have when viewed from the perspective of the material mind. But the soul encompasses the material mind, which is just an adjunct, something our minds struggle to truly acknowledge.
The way to the highest truth – through divine love – is simple, but few accept it because our consciousness literally can’t comprehend what it means. That’s why it starts out as a journey of faith. Those who don’t invest a modicum of faith can never take the journey.
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. No one 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.
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 soul 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 soul has an extremely important consequence. Removing darkness from the soul 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 soul 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.
As outlined, 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 the 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 the 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. It also helps us to access the vast amount of knowledge that is available in various forms and repositories in the spirit environment.
Divine love is the mystery of all mysteries. It enables the soul to experience and know divine reality, including itself, God and all of creation. It’s been called the fulfilment of all God’s laws and is the greatest power that exists.
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