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 URING THIS DISCOURSE of the little Child, Jonathan, impelled his ardent feeling of love, fell down in front of the little Child and wept in his extreme joy and gratitude.
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And the little Child said to the others, 'Do you see how mighty Jonathan's love to Me is?
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Truly I tell you: From every tear which now quells from his eyes, a world shall come into being for him in My kingdom!
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I have in fact already shown you the value and the difference between tears - but here I tell you once more:
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No tear is valued more highly by Me than that which is like the tear of Jonathan.'
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At these words of the little Child the huge Jonathan took hold of himself and declared,
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'O You almighty Lord of my life! How can I, a great sinner, really be worthy of such infinitely great compassion and grace from You?'
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And the little Child affirmed: 'Jonathan, ask yourself how you can possibly love Me so mightily in your heart when you are such a great sinner?
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Is love toward Me not holy in itself, as I am holy in My divine Being?
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How then can you, as so great a sinner, be capable of enduring such holy love in your heart?
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Does not every man become sanctified and wholly newborn by means of love toward God in his heart?
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Now if you are filled with this love, say, what accordingly is in you that you call sin?
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'See, every man's flesh is in fact a sin in itself; therefore every man's flesh must also die.
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Yes, I say to you: even this flesh of My body is under the debt of sin and therefore will have to die just like yours.
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But this sin is after all not voluntary, but only one under judgment and is no debt whatever for your free spirit.
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For that reason your worth is determined not according to your flesh, but entirely according to your love - which is free.
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And it will not be said in the world of the spirit: How was your body, but: How was your love?
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'Behold, if you throw a stone into the air, it does not remain in the air but soon falls back to the earth again.
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Why so? - Because it is attracted by the matter of the earth as a love under judgment, which wholly constitutes the stone itself.
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Why then do not the clouds and the stars fall from heaven? - Because they are attracted by the love of heaven!
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Consequently, if your heart is full of love toward God, the eternally Living, where indeed will this love draw you, since it alone is free and alive in itself?'
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This last question filled all those present with the greatest bliss, and they all knew where they stood.
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