Chapter 43Divine Love

Love In the Divine’s love we always find all support and all consolation.

7 May 1954

* When you reach the contact with the Divine’s love you see this love in everything and all circumstances.

20 July 1954

* The Divine’s love and knowledge must always govern our thoughts and actions.

24 July 1954

* May the Divine’s love dwell as the sovereign Master of our hearts and the Divine’s knowledge never leave our thoughts.

29 October 1954

* The Divine’s love can generate in all peace and the satisfaction that comes from benevolence.

27 November 1954

* The Divine’s love is an eternal truth.

21 July 1955

* The Divine Love is the essence of Truth and cannot be affected by human confusions.

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An Old Chaldean Legend1 Long ago, very long ago, in the desert land that is now Arabia, a divine being incarnated on earth to awaken it to the Supreme Love. As one would expect, he was persecuted by men, misunderstood, suspected, hunted after. Mortally wounded by his assailants, he wished to die alone, quietly, so that his work might be accomplished; and, pursued by them, he fled. Suddenly in the broad barren plain, a tiny bush of pomegranate appeared. The Saviour stole under its low branches in order to give up his body in peace; and at once the bush expanded miraculously, increased itself, widened, became deep and luxuriant in such a way that when the pursuers passed by they did not even suspect that the One whom they were chasing was hidden there, and they continued on their way.

While, drop by drop, the sacred blood fell, fertilising the soil, the bush covered itself with marvellous flowers, scarlet, enormous — clusters of petals, innumerable drops of blood...

These are the flowers that, for us, express and hold the Divine Love.

14 November 1955

* Yesterday morning I distributed petals of “Divine Love”. The previous night was, here, the darkest of the year and in India it is a great festival. Its true significance is that the Divine’s Love is at the base and core of all manifestation, even where it seems most completely inconscient.

* When Consciousness separated from its Origin and became Inconscience, the Origin emanated Love to reawaken Consciousness from the depth of the Inconscience and bring it back into touch with its Origin.

1 Message for the 1955 Kali Puja.

It may be said that at its origin love is the supreme power of attraction which awakens, in response, the irresistible need of an absolute self-giving; they are the two poles of the urge towards complete fusion.

No other movement could, better and more surely than this, throw a bridge across the abyss dug by the sense of separation that comes from the formation of the individual. It was necessary to bring back to itself what had been projected into space without destroying for this purpose the universe created thus.

That is why love sprang up, the irresistible power of union.

* When the baker wants to make the dough of his bread rise, he puts some leaven into it, and it is from within that the transformation takes place.

When the Divine wanted to rouse Matter, awaken it and make it rise towards God, He threw Himself into Matter under the form of love, and it is from within that the transformation takes place.

So it is by living from within an organisation that one can help it to become enlightened and rise towards the Truth.

17 January 1965

* Consciousness is a state and a power. Love is a force and an action.

* The Divine has an equal love for all human beings, but the obscurity of consciousness of most men prevents them from perceiving this divine love.

Truth is wonderful. It is in our perception that it is distorted.

26 November 1971

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