Passage 8

In English

Since man has, as his essential characteristic, the quality of love, he has only to foster it and attend to it so that he might love the Lord to the fullest, by loving the Lord's Creation as much as the Lord Himself. Then the tree of life will yield the sweet fruit of (intimate loving devotion). The fruit will have the bitter skin of I-ness and My-ness, which has to be removed. Certain egoistic desires and attributes might persist as 'seeds' which, too, have to be removed before the sweet pulp of love is offered to the Lord. When said that she had the vesture of desire and anger, she meant that she was unaffected by them. When she said that she was wearing the five elements contacted by the five senses in five distinct ways - sight, smell, taste, touch and sound - as a 'garland' round her neck, she meant that she was not contaminated by their contact. Naturally, the Lord knew that she was completely dedicated to Divinity, that hers was , that her had no blemish. So He granted the final consummation of to .