Mind and Love

 Mind and love. How fantasies become reality.


One way in which the freedom and creative power of the soul manifests itself is that it can imagine practically anything, whether false or true, reasonable or nonsensical, because nothing and no one prevents the “mind,” which is the level of the soul's ideas, from creating what it then grasps and nourishes with its love, nurtures it, and anchors it within itself as reality. 

Life would be easier if the soul did not have this freedom and only had reasonable and sensible thoughts, but the challenge for this life is precisely to control its love by rejecting in its heart what is not good and what its mind presents to it as tests, saying: Look at this, try that, or what do you think of this other thing? The heart, which is the will of the soul, must then say no to what is not good in God's order and accept only what is good. In this way, the soul strengthens its will and the person becomes the master of his life. For our destiny is to become lords in the kingdom of God, princes in heaven.

When thoughts first arise in the mind, they are only empty forms; they are shells, images, and words floating in the space of the mind, which dissolve into nothingness if the soul does not draw them into its heart and fill them with its love and affection, which happens from the desires and the light or wisdom already present in the soul. Depending on this will and wisdom, the soul fills good or evil thoughts with its love, thereby giving them life and making them into something, for love is substance, blood, while a thought is only a form. 

Love is therefore life for thoughts; it brings them into a lasting existence. Thoughts are conceived in the spirit, but are born in love and brought to maturity through love.

As long as the soul does not give its thoughts love, they are not yet something real, true. But as soon as a thought or a whole series of thoughts is grasped and embraced with the life substance of love that comes from the heart of the soul, a change takes place. Through this change, which is brought about by the soul's love or affection for certain ideas, whether they come from its own repertoire or from external influences, which is more often the case, these ideas become truths for the human being, regardless of whether they are correct or not, because now the soul has fallen in love, as those who deal with advertising and propaganda know only too well. They only stimulate our love; we do the rest. 

The ultimate responsibility therefore lies with the soul itself, which must learn to distinguish falsehood from truth by suffering through its mistakes in love. All this must take place in the absolute freedom of its life, that is, of its thinking and willing, for only in this inviolable freedom can the spiritual, God-given creative power of the soul develop fully. Making mistakes is therefore almost inevitable. But those who have their love under control do not so easily fall in love with things or people who will let them down, because they do not blindly feed their own thoughts with their love. Nor will they seek blame outside themselves, but will gratefully recognize every disappointment as a lesson to guide themselves more wisely, seeking the advice of the Lord, whom they recognize as the only true and good. They will not blame God for their problems, because they value the freedom of their spirit. 

If God took away their freedom of thought and filtered out all inappropriate thoughts, the soul would never learn to control its love, which is its life force. This life is a test of love, and for that, the soul must be free and learn that its decisions either distance it from God and the truth or bring it closer.

In this way, if it is attentive, it can correct itself and easily learn to reject evil and recognize good, with the help of the Word of God and, above all, by asking the divine spirit that dwells within it for enlightenment. Only in this way is the mind silenced, not through thought control, but because the love of the soul no longer responds to its ideas, which were once trials and are now no longer necessary, because the love of the soul becomes ever more firmly rooted in the Lord and in the truth that emanates from the Divine, which is merciful love.


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