Creature-Deposits-Divine-Life Doctrine
The doctrine that the creature’s love-act, when it comes out of the soul who lives in the DW, “has the virtue of forming in God Himself the life of love” — the creature, through the DW as enabling condition, “forms in God another Divine Life, and We feel inside of Our very Selves Our Life formed by the creature” — which God receives in triumph and redistributes “for the good of all creatures,” the DW’s own love thus being “not sterile” but carrying “the seed of generating continuous life”; distinct from ILY-1 (which tracks the formal love-act as prayer) in that CDL-1 concerns specifically the creature’s love operating within God’s own interior to generate a new mode of Divine Life received and distributed by God. (E)
Anchors: John 17:21-23; 1 John 4:16; 2 Peter 1:4; Colossians 1:24; John 12:24 — Appearances: 31. Full Registry entry.