To Know Him Is To Love Him
To Love Him Is To Know Him
Uranda September 12, 1946 (2:30 p.m.)
I have emphasized many times that
the only thing we are interested in is the genuine article, no imitations. It
has to be real to be of value. When human beings learn to love God, then the
works of God begin to appear on earth, because there is no other way. Unless we
find out how to love God—how can we come near to Him; how can we receive His
blessings; how can we open our eyes; how can we live for a day?
I have often thought that human
beings are such peculiar creatures. How can we do any of these things and not
have a desire, more than anything else, to love Him; for to know Him is to love
Him and to love Him is to know Him, and when you are with God, so that God is
with you, you are greater than all the powers of this world. When we work
together in the Love of God, that Victory which the Master established is ours
to share. How did Jesus Christ gain that Victory? By loving the Father. He and
the Father were one. How were they one? Through Love.
One of you mentioned today, in
talking with me, that whereas you had in the past been particularly conscious
of the presence of your Lord within you, you had now come to a place where you
were not so conscious of the Lord within as you were of the LORD of Lords. That
made me very happy, because if you are one with your Lord within you, you are
not conscious of something separate from you with respect to your Lord, and
then you really begin to be conscious of the LORD of Love. Then you begin to
live, and so that oneness manifests with your Lord within, which you cannot
fail to have to the degree that you begin to be aware of the Reality of the
LORD of Love, and that oneness, then, with the LORD of Love and the oneness
that is established between you as members of the One Body, fulfills the test
the Master gave: “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye
have love one to another.”
And how do you have that love? By
loving Him. Otherwise, it could not be; otherwise, there would be frictions and
conflicts to set one above the other, and so, we grow in oneness, and I think
that the years that have passed testify, and the things that have been achieved
testify, the words you have spoken, the things you have done, all testify, that
you feel a oneness with me. You have felt for a long time my oneness with the
LORD of Love. You are beginning to know Him as He is, and to know Him is to
love Him and to love Him is to know Him, and so it is that oneness is
established in every direction, and that oneness is of God. It was in that
oneness that our Master gained the Victory.
It is in that
oneness that we are privileged to share that Victory, and as we share it
actually, right down here, in a practical, everyday sense, in everyday life, we
make it possible for our brother man to see, know, understand and share with
us; but except there be a Light, how can any come out of the darkness? You have
seen that Light and have come into it and shared it, and you know that there is
enough for all, that there need not be any darkness, and so again I would say
that it is only as we let these things be an actualized Reality here on earth
that we can cause, or allow to be caused, the fulfillment of that which was
established and begun by Jesus Christ. Unless this becomes an actualized
Realization that lets the Power flow out into the world, or unless someone else
does it, what the Master did is in vain—and that, to me, would be utterly
unthinkable. It must be real in us and manifest through us, that all who will
may share, but even if there were only a few—not that I anticipate that it will
be only a few—it would not be in vain.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
