What is the Central Essence of all?
When I had seen the splendour of the Love-light that flooded the world, I was beside myself with joy. All the many loves which I had known on your side faded into insignificance beside the great glowing radiance of that love which swathed me about as with a garment and enabled me to see what marvellous possibilities, what undreamed-of powers were all the while in the heart of each of us. For there is no other word for it but love. God is love, and love is God, and the mystic power of God is love. We may become as God so far as we enter into His divine nature, which is love. We may be as god as we love, and we remove ourselves from God as we do not love. When you feel as if you were unable to sympathise with any person, by so much as you are unable to sympathise even with his sins, you are out of God. He is all in all, and all His all is love, and you cannot work out His purposes in hate and unkindness.
Oh! if only I could make you see as we see it here, how true it is that they only live who love; that all that is not love is as death; that the soul that does not love is without God in outer darkness, and the only way to save the world is to drench it with love; yes, love even for the worst. It is not by disliking men, even for their sins, that you will save them from their sins. Pardon me, but this is the truth; all else that I can tell is but as the fringe; this is the central essence of all.
—Spirit Julia
The glowing eye of NGC 6751 | NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
