99 This union is also reciprocal, as the following passages in the Word
clearly show:
Philip, do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in
me? Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. (John
14 : 10 , 11 )
So that you will know and believe that the Father is in me and I am in
the Father. (John 10 : 38 )
So that all may be one as you, Father, are in me and I am in you.
(John 17 : 21 )
Father, all that is mine is yours, and all that is yours is mine. (John 17 : 10 )
The union is reciprocal because no union or partnership between two
exists unless each party moves closer to the other. Every partnership in
the entirety of heaven, in all the world, and throughout the human form
is the result of two parties moving into a closer relationship with each
other until both parties intend the same things. This leads to a similarity,
harmony, unanimity, and agreement in every detail between the parties.
This is how our soul and our body form a partnership with each
other. This is how our spirit forms a partnership with the sensory and
motor organs of our body. This is how our heart and our lungs form a
partnership. This is how our will and our intellect form a partnership.
This is how all our parts and organs form partnerships, both within
themselves and with each other. This is how the minds of people who
deeply love each other form a partnership. It is an integral part of all love
and friendship. Love wants to love and it wants to be loved.
In the world, too, all things that are inseparably linked to each other
have a reciprocal interaction. There is an interaction like this between the
heat of the sun and the heat in a piece of wood or a rock, and in living
things between their vital heat and the heat in all their tissues. There is a
similar interaction between the earth and a root, through the root with
the tree, and through the tree with the fruit. Also like this is the relation-
ship of a magnet to a piece of iron, and so on.
If a given partnership is not the result of two things moving closer
to each other in a mutual and reciprocal way, then a partnership devel-
ops that is only superficial rather than deep. In time, the partners in a
superficial relationship drift away from each other, sometimes so far that
they no longer recognize each other.100 A real partnership is not possible unless it happens mutually and recip-
rocally. Therefore the Lord’s partnership with us is mutual and reciprocal,