Message from Jesus, in the Gospel of God’s Love, page 40.
“I desire to write on: How the soul of a mortal receives the Divine Love and what its effect is even though, subsequently, their mind may indulge in those beliefs that might tend to prevent the growth of the soul. The inflowing of this Love is caused by being conveyed by the Holy Spirit, in response to prayerful longings for that Love.
“The prayers of mortals for those things that may tend to make them successful and happy in their natural love are also answered, if it be best that they should be. But these are not the prayers that bring the Divine Love, or cause the Holy Spirit to work with mortals.
“As sincere and earnest prayers ascend to the Father, that soul opens up to the inflowing of this Love, the soul perceptions enlarge and come more into rapport with the conditions that always accompany the presence of this Love. Then, consequently, its entrance into the soul becomes easier, and its reception more perceptible to the soul sense. The more earnest the prayer, and sincere the longings, the sooner faith comes, and with this faith, the realization that the Divine Love is permeating the soul.
“When once the Divine Love finds lodgment in the soul, it starts changing into the substance, partaking of the essence of the Love. And as water may become colored by an ingredient foreign to itself, which changes not only its appearance but also its qualities, so this Divine Love changes both the appearance and qualities of the soul – and this change continues ever thereafter. The natural qualities of the soul and the essence of the Love become one and united, and the soul is made altogether different in its constinuency from what it was before the inflowing of the Love. As this Love increases in quantity, the change and transformation becomes correspondingly greater, until at last the transformation will become so great that the whole soul becomes a thing of this Divine Essence, and partakes of its very nature and substance – a being of Divinity.
When once this Love enters and truly possesses the soul, it never leaves or changes the soul back to natural love. It’s just as impossible for this Essence and sin and error to occupy the same soul, as it is for two material objects to occupy the same space at the same time.” Amen