Blessed Night, Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone… And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion… For Yourselves And Everyone Else… All Around The World. Now Many Individuals Will Say, “I Love Myself” Or ” I Love Me Some Me!” But Do We Really And Truly Love Ourselves… If We Don’t Acknowledge And Honor The Presence Of The Living God Within Us? And If We Cannot Honestly Say Then, That We Truly Love Ourselves… Then Of Course It’s Impossible To Sincerely Love Others.

But Remember, GOD IS! And Though The World Is Presently In Dire Straits… Due To Mankind’s Seemingly Loveless Existence… And Ego Driven Fear-Based Consciousness; Our Individual Worlds – Dominated By Those Higher Qualities Of Love, Joy, And Compassion… For All…  Guided By The Spirit Of The Living God – Our Very Own “Mighty I AM Presence”… Enables Us To Be Sincere Love – Love As Commanded By Jesus The Christ And The Ascended Masters. And Understand… Those Lessons Of Love Are Not Mere Speech And Lecture – Nor Words Spoken Vainly; But Within Is The The Divine Power And Gift Of God – Put Before Us – To Transform Our Individual And Collective Consciousness… And All The World Around Us.

Thus, Let Us Exist… In Love; And Stand Up For What’s Right; Be Strong; Stop Expending Unnecessary Energy (Mentally And Physically); And Let Us Move More Purposefully… For The Benefit Of Mother Earth… And All Her Citizens! Amen…   

Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life…    

And Y’all Be Love…  

“Christ, our Bridegroom, spoke this word in Latin: Venit. And this word implies two tenses, the past and the present; and yet here it denotes the future too. And that is why we shall consider three comings of our Bridegroom, Jesus Christ. In the first coming He became man, for man’s sake, out of love. The second coming takes place daily, often and many times in every loving heart, with new graces and with new gifts, as each is able to receive them. The third coming we shall see as the coming in the Judgment, or at the hour of death. And in all these comings there are three things to be considered: the why and the wherefore, the inward way, and the outward work.

The reason why God created the angels and man, was His unfathomable goodness and nobleness whereby He willed to do it; that the bliss and the richness which He is Himself might be revealed to rational creatures, so that they might taste Him in time, and enjoy Him outside time in eternity. The reason why God became man was His incomprehensible love, and the need of all men; for man had been corrupted by the Fall, and could not amend himself. But the reason why Christ, according to His Godhead and according to His manhood, wrought all His works on earth, this reason is fourfold: His Divine love which is without measure; the created love called charity, which He had in His soul through union with the Eternal Word and through the perfect gift of His Father; the great need of man; and the glory of His Father. These are the reasons for the coming of Christ our Bridegroom, and for all His works, both outward and inward.

Now, if we would follow Christ our Bridegroom in virtue, so far as we are able, we must consider in what wise He was inwardly, and the works which He wrought outwardly; that is to say, His virtues and the deeds of these virtues. In what wise He was according to His Godhead, this is inaccessible and incomprehensible to us; for it is that according to which He is born of the Father without ceasing, and wherein the Father, in Him and through Him, knows, creates, orders, and rules all things in heaven and on earth. For He is the Wisdom of the Father, and they breathe forth one Spirit, that is, one Love, which is a common bond between Them and all saints, and all good men in heaven and on earth.

Of this condition we shall not speak anymore; but we shall speak of that condition which He had through Divine gifts and according to His created manhood. And this condition was manifold. For as many inward virtues as Christ possessed, so many were His inward conditions: for every virtue has its special condition. The sum of the virtues and conditions in the soul of Christ, this is above the understanding and above the comprehension of all creatures. But we shall take three of them: namely, humility, charity, and patient suffering in inward and outward things. These are the three chief roots and beginnings of all virtues and all perfection.

… The second coming of Christ our Bridegroom takes place every day within good men; often and many times, with new graces and gifts, in all those who make themselves ready for it, each according to his power. We would not speak here of a man’s first conversion, nor of the first grace which was given to him when he turned from sin to the virtues. But we would speak of an increase of new gifts and new virtues from day to day, and of the present coming of Christ our Bridegroom which takes place daily within our souls.

Now we must consider the why and the wherefore, the way and the working of this coming. Its wherefore is fourfold: God’s mercy and our destitution, God’s generosity and our desire. These four things cause the growth of virtue and of nobleness. Now understand this: when the sun sends its beams and its radiance into a deep valley between two high mountains, and, standing in the zenith, can yet shine upon the bottom and ground of the valley, then three things happen: the valley becomes full of light by reflection from the mountains, and it receives more heat, and becomes more fruitful than the plain and level country. And so likewise, when a good man takes his stand upon his own littleness, in the most lowly part of himself, and confesses and knows that he has nothing, and is nothing, and can do nothing of himself, neither stand still nor go on; and when he sees how often he fails in virtues and good works, then he confesses his poverty and his helplessness, then he makes a valley of humility.

And when he is thus humble, and needy, and knows his own need; he lays his distress, and complains of it before the bounty and the mercy of God. And so he marks the sublimity of God and his own lowliness; and thus, he becomes a deep valley. And Christ is a Sun of righteousness and also of mercy, Who stands in the highest part of the firmament, that is, on the right hand of the Father, and from thence He shines into the bottom of the humble heart; for Christ is always moved by helplessness, whenever a man complains of it and lays it before Him with humility.

Then there arise two mountains, that is, two desires; one to serve God and praise Him with reverence, the other to attain noble virtues. Those two mountains are higher than the heavens, for these longings touch God without intermediary, and crave His ungrudging generosity. And then that generosity cannot withhold itself, it must flow forth; for then the soul is made ready to receive, and to hold more gifts. These are the wherefore, and the way of the new coming with new virtues. Then, this valley, the humble heart, receives three things: it becomes more radiant and enlightened by grace, it becomes more ardent in charity, and it becomes more fruitful in perfect virtues and in good works. And thus, you have the why, the way, and the work of this coming.

… The third coming, which is yet to be, will take place at the Judgment, or in the hour of death. The wherefore of this coming is the fitting time, the due cause, and the righteousness of the Judge. The time which is fitting for this coming is the hour of death, and the Last Judgment of all men. When God created the soul out of nothing and united it with the body, He set a fixed day and a fixed hour known only of Him, when it should have to give up temporal things and to appear in His presence. The due cause: for the soul must then account for every word spoken and for every deed done, before the Eternal Truth.

The righteousness of the Judge, for it is to Christ that this Judgment and this Verdict belong; for He is the Son of Man and the Wisdom of the Father, and to this Wisdom all judgment is given, since all hearts, in heaven and on earth and in hell, are clear and open to It. And therefore, these three points are the occasions of the general coming in the Day of Doom, and of the particular coming to each man in the hour of his death.”

The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, by Jan van Ruysbroeck, 1916

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