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CHAPTER XXV
LOVE
Love, as generally understood on earth, is a sentiment of impulsion between two beings who desire a
closer union. But in reality, love is clothed in infinite forms, from the most vulgar to the most sublime.
Principle of life universal, it procures for the soul in its highest and purest manifestation that intensity of
radiation which warms and vivifies all and everything about it; and by its power the soul feels itself closely
united to Divinity, the ardent center of all life and love.
God is love: it was through love He created beings to associate them with His joys and His works.
Love is a sacrifice. God poured out His own life to give it to souls. At the same time with the vital effusion,
they received the effective principle, destined to grow and blossom in them through duty and sacrifice to
others. So are they ennobled and glorified as they approach the Supreme Center. Love is an inexhaustible force
– it constantly renews itself, and at the same time enriches those who give and those who receive. It is by love,
the sun of souls, through which God acts in the world. By it He attracts to Himself all the poor beings delayed
by human passions and made captive by matter! And He lifts them, and leads them up the spiral of infinite
ascension toward the splendors of light and liberty. It has disciplined and fashioned the human soul, and
helped to turn the entire race from sensualism and bestiality.
Christ is not the only example of radiant souls on earth. There others who seem to send forth a
regenerating exhalation – an atmosphere of peace and protection, as if endowed by a special Providence. All
those who live under their moral influence feel a repose of spirit and a serenity which is a foretaste of celestial
quietude. In a circle of seekers after spirituals truths, directed and inspired by spirits from high realms, this
sensation becomes keener. We have often felt ourselves in the presence of these great entities in the work of
our group in Tours.
These impressions become more and more alive, in the measure that one becomes separated from
inferior planes, where selfish impulses reign, and climbs the stairs of the glorious spiritual hierarchy, and
begins to approach the Divine Center. Then comes the experience which completes the intuitions that each
soul is a system of force, and a generator of love whose power of action grows with its elevation. So is
explained and affirmed the universal fraternity. Some day, when the true idea of life disengages itself from the
doubts and incertitude which obsess human thought, we will comprehend this grand brotherhood of souls.
We feel that all are enveloped by the divine magnetism, by the breath of love which fills space. Apart
from this powerful tie, souls also constitute separate groups of families, which are formed during centuries by
the community of joys, sorrows, and trials. The real family is that of space, and the one of earth is but an
image – a feeble reflection, as are all the things of earth, compared to those of heaven. The true family is
composed of spirits who together have climbed the rude paths of destiny, and who have learned how to
understand, and how to love. Who can describe the intimate and tender sentiments which unite these beings –
the ineffable joy born of the fusion of their minds and consciousness, the fluidic union of souls under the smile
of God? These spiritual groups are the hallowed center where selfishness vanishes, where hearts dilate, and
where the souls that have suffered and are delivered by death come to rejoin their beloved ones.
Who can paint the ecstasy of purified souls, arriving at the summits of light, filled with divine love!
And the celestial lovers, bound together in the bosom of the families of space, assembled to consecrate by
solemn rites the symbolic and indestructible union! That is the veritable hymen of twin souls which God binds
together by a golden thread for eternity. They will follow each other henceforth in their pilgrimages through
the worlds; they will march hand in hand, smiling at misfortune, and finding in their mutual tenderness the
force to endure all the bitterness of fate. Sometimes, separated by rebirths, they still conserve the secret
intuition that their isolation is but passing. After the trials of separation, they foresee the intoxication of a
reunion at the doorway of the immensities. Among those who walk here sad and solitary, bowed under the
burden of life, there are those who keep, deep in their hearts, the vague memory of their spiritual family. Those
souls suffer cruelly with homesickness for space and celestial love, and nothing in all the joys of earth can
console them. Their thoughts go often in the waking hours, but more frequently in sleep, to join the beloved
beings who await them in the Beyond. The profound sentiments of expected compensations give them moral
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