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10. The Philosophy of Divine Love.
Introduction.
Our
Lord uses the wording ‘The Philosophy of Divine Love’ in the messages and this
shows us how man’s philosophies fall short of ‘The Philosophy of Divine
Love’. Some fall short in logic, others
in love, or both logic and love. These man made philosophies need the ultimate
Philosophy of Divine Love, which itself is not a philosophy in the traditional
meaning of the word but a bringing together of faith and reason. Man, through reason, can only reach a limited
understanding of reality and the nature of being. He needs God to reveal
Himself to man, to show him his true dignity and destiny and that man needs
Salvation. God himself, in the person
of
Christ, the second Person of the Blessed Trinity died for love of us, to redeem
mankind from sin and death and to show us the way to the Father. Christ is the
definitive Revelation of God, a Revelation of Love, the Word made flesh. (Jn
1:14) Our Lord shows that He is not just the Prime Mover as St. Thomas Aquinas
taught, He is the Prime Lover and all movement that comes from God is a
movement of Love for man’s Salvation and sanctification. The beauty and wonder
of all creation including man is an expression of Gods love for us.
7th October
1998.
Patricia. Lord how can we prove that Love
is the prime mover and you are the Prime Lover and that all movement in
creation is a movement of Love, that the Love of God sets all creation in
perpetual motion?
Jesus. Restoration, Renewal, Regeneration, Resurrection! [Patricia. Original
innocence in creation has been spoilt by sin.
God has arranged that we can regain our innocence in Christ and through
His Church]
Patricia. Lord can we prove you exist
without a doubt?
Jesus. You are the greatest proof. Do you doubt your own existence? Who made you?
Make another just like you out of nothing and I will wait until you do.
Patricia. Lord what of those who say they
might not exist and doubt even their own existence.
Jesus. By saying they do not exists proves they do exist. Their very doubting comes from a being that
is doubting. Men complicate things for
themselves. While such souls doubt,
others leap forward in faith.
30th December 1999.
Patricia. Philosophy in Greek means the
‘love of wisdom’, Revelation tells us that God is love and God is the source of
all wisdom. Bertrand Russell described
philosophy as “the no-man’s land between science and theology – exposed to
attack from both sides.”
Jesus. Why attack, when love fills the gap with
Revelation.
Patricia. Philosophy is the research into the first
cause.
Jesus. The Philosophy of Divine Love is the Alpha
and Omega. It begins in God and ends in
God, has man for its subject, and creation to confirm it.
The
Rule of Necessity – your necessity is
Divine Love!
Jesus. It is necessary that man be saved from
himself (original sin) but in freedom, God’s love for man is man’s freedom
purified and perfected (if he responds to grace).
Patricia. Thales, the philosopher was a
practical thinker.
Jesus. I AM a practical lover, the Prime Lover,
and all movement is the movement of love.
Patricia. Thales put forward the theory
that perhaps everything in the beginning was made of water.
Jesus. Waters of Salvation! (Patricia. Flow in love from the Heart of
Christ opened on the Cross for all humanity)
Patricia. Pythagoras believed in a self
evident philosophy.
Jesus. The evidence of God – Revelation (Faith and
reason).
Patricia. Pythagoras spoke of the beauty and certainty
of mathematics.
Jesus. Are they so certain? Three into one will not go except for God,
the Trinity!
Yet
your God is your real certainty.
(Patricia. For
Pythagoras, only man is truly self evident.)
Patricia. For Heraclitus there was a
central fire that never dies.
Jesus. The fire of Divine Love! If you centred your life on discovering its
source, you would be filled with the sight of its glory!
Jesus. Man often acts like someone with a ladder
looking for the truth. (Patricia. The ladder represents the means to find God)
He tries to reach truth by putting the ladder upright into the air reaching up
into the sky (this method is unstable and will not support itself), or leaning
against a tree (natural religions and enquiry). Some men use the ladder flat on
the ground and get nowhere – they set their sights too low, others never climb
high enough. (P. I was shown people with good ladders but they use only a few
rungs of the ladder and then give up)
Others
put their ladders against other people and they accept another man as the
summit of their climb; (those who follow man made philosophies that are
incomplete without God). Some climb into trees and see the birds, eat the
fruit, and from the trees enjoy the sun and sky and say, ‘this is very
pleasant’ and ‘it is enough, why seek
more?’. Some pull up the ladder into the tree and try to use the tree as a
platform to reach higher. Others use a pyramid made of men, and place their
ladder on top of this pyramid only to find that their ladder is still too short
to reach their goal (sometimes a goal of a god of their own making, not the One
True God).
Patricia. What is the answer, Lord?
Jesus. The correct ladder to reach up to your God,
the source of all truth, is humility. Then Truth reaches down and reveals
Himself to the humble soul.
Patricia. Oh Lord God, be the humility in
me so that attracted by your own Divine Humility, you will immediately reach
down to your poor helpless child and raise her up in the revelation of
yourself.
Jesus. Man cannot reach God. God has to reveal
Himself to man. (Patricia. Referring to Revelation in the Scriptures, Tradition
and Magisterium).
17th September
2005. Philosophy of Divine Love.
Patricia. Lord, can we solve and
understand all the problems of being and knowing?
Jesus. It is simple.
As I have told you, I AM therefore you are. I AM LOVE – DIVINE LOVE. I Love you with an infinite and therefore
perfect Love, Sacrificial Love, Merciful Love, Just Love, Tender humble
Love! You are Loved into being – kept in
being by My Love. I draw My beloved into
Divine Union. All is Love in Being. Love God and your neighbour as yourself! To be, is to be loved by your God. Divine Love is perpetual energy and movement
bringing into being, holding in being, moving in love, that which is in being
to different actualities and potentialities. In man drawing to perfection.
Potential is very important in creation and in man. If you consider potential you will not be
afraid of death. You will see that what
is actual today moves into a new potentiality in its being to become a new
actuality, reality - perfection.
Patricia. Man, woman and children being transformed in
God from sinners to saints.