A LESSON OF LOVE
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This is a revelation, a lesson, a showing
These are revelations of love
that will be taught to you in sixteen showings
You will be shown and you will be told
you will see with the eye and with the soul
you will hear with the mind and with the heart
You will be given the teachings
and they will stay with you:
you will not be allowed to forget them.
Start where you are:
with the crowning of thorns,
with this moment of pain in your life,
with the crucified man on a cross,
stripped of his clothes, crowned
with thorns that have been
stripped of their blossoms, and
the wounds are blossoming red, the blood
is pouring down his face. It pours over
the whole world. And if you keep looking at that,
at that pain and that suffering, that man
on a barren tree, you will come to understand
the Trinity
and the Incarnation
and the Union of God and Man's soul.
Is there anything else you wish to know?
You will see Christ's face change color as he dies
and the doing of God in all things.
You will see blood flow from Christ's body
as he is scourged, flogged with leaded thongs,
and the utter defeat of the Devil, the Fiend, the Enemy,
the one whose envy has poisoned all things.
You will see the reward of your love for God
in God's love for you and feel how your feelings
can change though God's love does not.
You will see Christ die and the whole Trinity
rejoice in the world's salvation; you will see his cloven
side, his cloven Heart, and his blessed Mother
in heaven as as she now rejoices with her Son.
You will be shown the foundation of your prayer and the way
in which Christ will take you out of all pains.
You will see how you dwell in God, and
how God dwells in you, and what is the meaning,
the meaning of this and the reason,
the explanation, the significance,
which is none other than Love.
You will be told and you will be shown and
you will see that all is well.
God is able to make all well,
God knows how to make all things well,
God wants to make all things well,
God promises to make all things well,
and you will see for yourself that
all things will be well.
Are you ready to learn? Let us begin.
