Fifth Sunday after Whitsun

Deus, qui diligéntibus te bona invisibília præparásti: infúnde córdibus nostris tui amóris afféctum; ut te in ómnibus et super ómnia diligéntes, promissiónes tuas, quæ omne desidérium súperant, consequámur. Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.

God, who haſt prepared for them that love thee, ſuch good things as paſs man’s under ſtanding; Pour into our hearts ſuch love toward thee, that we loving thee above all things, may obtain thy promiſes, which exceed all that we can deſire, through Jeſus Chriſt our Lord. Amen. 

Keynote: The Love of God

The outer Church teaches the power of the love of God towards us, but the hidden Church teaches the power of our love of God.

Little do we realize the tremendous potency of the yearning of the soul for the divine reality. When the whole soul goes forth seeking God out of an instinctive longing for the bread of life, it contacts the things of the Spirit at a far higher level than when it cries out for God's love to comfort it or His power to save it from its enemies.

When we seek to know God by the power of the understanding, we can rise no higher than a knowledge of the manner in which the Divine Light shines through the prism of forms. The understanding is of value to us after we have known God as He is, but not before; such studies will not take us to God; in fact, if we have no realization of the true nature of that which we seek, they may darken our vision by holding the mind fast to the bondage of form.

The knowledge of God begins when the operations of the mind end. It is by a form of consciousness which transcends thought that we apprehend spiritual realities. There is but one thing which will draw the soul across the great gulf which is fixed between matter and spirit, and that is an outgoing of strong love towards That which is on the farther side of the gulf.

Then, as we so love, in silence and in stillness, asking nothing of the love of God save that when we may love more and more, the whisper from the silence comes across the great gulf, for consciousness has "tuned in" to the keynote of God.