Love
Paper 1 – The Universal Father
1:7:3 (31.3) Only a person can love and be loved.
2:4:2 (38.2) The better man understands his neighbor, the easier it will be to forgive him, even to love him.
2:6:4 (41.2) Selflessness is inherent in parental love.
Paper 12 – The Universe of Universes
12:9:2 (141.3) love is the secret of beneficial association between personalities.
Paper 14 – The Central and Divine Universe
14:5:10 (159.6) love of adventure, curiosity, and dread of monotony—these traits inherent in evolving human nature—were not put there just to aggravate and annoy you during your short sojourn on earth, but rather to suggest to you that death is only the beginning of an endless career of adventure, an everlasting life of anticipation, an eternal voyage of discovery.
Paper 16 – The Seven Master Spirits
16:9:8 (196.4) Unselfish social consciousness must be, at bottom, a religious consciousness; that is, if it is objective; otherwise it is a purely subjective philosophic abstraction and therefore devoid of love. Only a God-knowing individual can love another person as he loves himself.
Paper 21 – The Paradise Creator Sons
21:0:2 (234.2) No doubt the profound affection of the Deity parents for their divine progeny is the wellspring of that beautiful and well-nigh divine love which even mortal parents bear their children.
Paper 27 – Ministry of the Primary Supernaphim
27:7:7 (304.5) What a fruition of the eternal plan and purpose of the Gods that the intelligent love of the creature child should give full satisfaction to the infinite love of the Creator Father!
Paper 32 – The Evolution of Local Universes
32:4:10 (363.8) Thus we behold the outworking of the ideal and infinite love of the Universal Father.
Paper 33 – Administration of the Local Universe
33:3:3 (368.3) In all his work of love and life bestowal the Creator Son is always and ever perfectly sustained and ably assisted by the all-wise and ever-faithful Universe Spirit and by all of her diversified retinue of angelic personalities.
Paper 34 – The Local Universe Mother Spirit
34:6:13 (381.7) The consciousness of the spirit domination of a human life is presently attended by an increasing exhibition of the characteristics of the Spirit in the life reactions of such a spirit-led mortal, “for the fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance.” … And throughout every trial and in the presence of every hardship, spirit-born souls are sustained by that hope which transcends all fear because the love of God is shed abroad in all hearts by the presence of the divine Spirit.
39:4:11 (435.4) As you ascend the personality scale, first you learn to be loyal, then to love, then to be filial, and then may you be free; but not until you are a finaliter, not until you have attained perfection of loyalty, can you self-realize finality of liberty.
Paper 40 – The Ascending Sons of God
40:0:9 (443.9) The story of these beings, from the lowly animal-origin mortals of the evolutionary worlds to the Personalized Adjusters of the Universal Father, presents a glorious recital of the unstinted bestowal of divine love and gracious condescension throughout all time and in all universes of the far-flung creation of the Paradise Deities.
Paper 40 – The Ascending Sons of God
40:6:2 (448.1) “Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God.”
Paper 40 – The Ascending Sons of God
40:10:13 (454.2) The Father loves each of his sons, and that affection is not less than true, holy, divine, unlimited, eternal, and unique—a love bestowed upon this son and upon that son, individually, personally, and exclusively. And such a love utterly eclipses all other facts.
Paper 47 – The Seven Mansion Worlds
47:6:3 (536.4) A new social order is being introduced, one based on the understanding sympathy of mutual appreciation, the unselfish love of mutual service, and the overmastering motivation of the realization of a common and supreme destiny—the Paradise goal of worshipful and divine perfection.
48:7:28 (557.12) Knowledge is possessed only by sharing; it is safeguarded by wisdom and socialized by love.
Paper 52 – Planetary Mortal Epochs
52:6:4 (597.5) Ignorance breeds suspicion, and suspicion is incompatible with the essential attitude of sympathy and love.
Paper 52 – Planetary Mortal Epochs
52:6:7 (598.2) The only technique for accelerating the natural trend of social evolution is that of applying spiritual pressure from above, thus augmenting moral insight while enhancing the soul capacity of every mortal to understand and love every other mortal. Mutual understanding and fraternal love are transcendent civilizers and mighty factors in the world-wide realization of the brotherhood of man.
Paper 3 – The Attributes of God
3:4:7 (50.5) Therefore man’s nearest and dearest approach to God is by and through love, for God is love.
