Jesus, explaining about the limitations of the natural love, printed in The Gospel of God’s Love, pages 141 – 143.
“The love God implanted in the two souls He designed to become one in spirit life, is really not two loves, but only one and the same love manifested in the two opposite spirits, and which is only a complete one when these two, apparently independent souls, come together in perfect unity. This is what is commonly called the love of soulmates, and which is that essence of spiritual love which makes the happiness of the two spirits of mortals seemingly complete. Yet this love is not of a divine nature, but merely the highest type of the natural love.
“Love, I know it is said, is the fulfilling of the law, but no person can thoroughly understand this until they know what love is. I do not mean that in order to fulfill the law humans must have the divine love of the Father, because there are laws that govern the divine existence and laws that govern the human spiritual existence; and the divine love is the fulfillment of the former laws and the natural love is the fulfillment of the latter laws.
“I will not say that humans should not cultivate this natural love to the greatest possible degree, for they should. And if that should be the only kind of love that they may have, either on earth or in the spirit world, the more of it that they may possess, the happier they will be, and the greater will be the happioness of their fellow-man or spirit. So when I said when on earth, that humans should love their God and their fellow humans as themselves, I meant that they should do so with all the possibilities of whatever love they might possess.
“Yet, if humans would only learn (as they can) that there is no necessity for them to have only the natural love! They can all seek the greater love, and obtain the correspondingly greater happiness – and Immortality. Many do not realize this, though, and seem to be satisfied with the natural love, and the pleasures that ensue from its possession.
“I would not have them do anything that would lessen this love, or shut their hearts to its influence, but yet I cannot help trying to impress upon them the great desirability of having the higher love in their souls.” Amen