Day 14: Saturday, March 21

I am the true Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bring forth fruit, He takes it away; and every one that brings forth fruit, He prunes it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Already you are clean through the word that I have spoken to you. Remain in Me, and I in you; as the branch cannot bring forth fruit from itself, unless it remain in the vine, no more can you, unless you remain in Me. I am the Vine, you are the branches; he who remains in Me, and I in him, this brings forth much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone remain not in Me, he is cast out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If you have remained in Me, and My sayings have remained in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done to you. John 15:1-7

How conjunction is effected shall be told in a few words. With every man God flows into man’s cognitions of Him with acknowledgment of Him, and at the same time flows in with His love towards men…. Conjunction is effected by charity, because God loves every man, and as He cannot do good to man immediately, but only mediately through men, He inspires men with His own love, as He inspires parents with love for their children; and the man who receives that love has conjunction with God, and from God’s love loves his neighbor; and in him God’s love is within man’s love towards the neighbor, and produces in him the will and the ability. True Christian Religion 457:2-3

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