Waiting Love Within
April 15, 2022
Waiting Love Within……..
"So if you want to become a real follower of Christ - and you can because the Kingdom of God is within you - you must make a concrete beginning. With an all encompassing desire in which your whole heart is absorbed, you must turn towards the 'Lord in your Midst'. If you cannot yet summon that kind of desire, or if it costs you a great deal of effort - well, then your time has not yet come. No one can force you to produce that boundless longing of the heart. You cannot achieve it by means of exercises or through an intellectual decision. It is a state of being, rather like being in love.
If you have ever really loved someone, or been loved by someone, you will know that the whole heart can be absorbed and uplifted by it. This gives rise to an emanation, which radiates from the heart and establishes the connecting link. Well it is with a love like that, that the heart must devote itself to the spiritual rose, which is present in the heart, in the centre of your being. Then, because the rose is so very near to you and has been waiting for you for such a long time, a powerful connection will come into being between you. Then the foundation for soul-rebirth will have been laid. That is why the Bible says that only love can set you free.
Once this foundation for rebirth is firmly in place, the power of Tao will be able to enter the whole personality-system, so that the nature of Tao can perform its work. Then it is only necessary for the person who is permitted to undergo this miracle* to keep his whole heart in the light of Tao, and not allow his heart's desire-orientation to wander in the highways and byways of the nature of death. This will systematically disconnect the whole personality from all its astral ties with the nature that deviates from God.
A divine creation will come into existence!"
Extract from Chapter 21-III "Rebirth in Tao"
Jan van Ricjkenborgh and Catharose de Petri
* Not a “miracle” perhaps. Only seems like it due to the vast majority of humanity looking in the wrong direction for so long, away from the divinity that resides within each of us, leading to a forgetfulness of our true origins.
Beautiful.
