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Topical Study 95 ""Uncompromised Christianity —
A New Revelation"
Compiled 5/04/2016 by Dave@PureChristians.org
[Part 5 of many]
PAPER 2 THE NATURE OF GOD
2. THE FATHER'S ETERNAL PERFECTION
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2:2.1 Even your olden prophets understood the eternal, never-beginning, never-ending, circular nature of the Universal Father. God is literally and eternally present in his universe of universes. He inhabits the present moment with all his absolute majesty and eternal greatness. "The Father has life in himself, and this life is eternal life." Throughout the eternal ages it has been the Father who "gives to all life." There is infinite perfection in the divine integrity. "I AM the Lord; I change not." Our knowledge of the universe of [700,000] universes discloses not only that He is the Father of Lights, but also that in his conduct of inter- planetary affairs there "is no variableness neither shadow of changing." He "declares the end from the beginning." He says: "My counsel shall stand; I will do all my pleasures" "according to the eternal purpose which I purposed in my Son." Thus are the plans and purposes of the First Source and Center [God the Universal Father in a larger sense including impersonal attributes of Infinity and Absoluteness, and control of all energies and more !] like himself: [I AM] eternal, perfect, and forever changeless.
2:2.2 There is finality of completeness and perfection of repleteness in the mandates of the Father. "Whatsoever God does, it shall be forever; nothing can be added to it nor anything taken from it." The Universal Father does not repent of his original purposes of wisdom and perfection. His plans are steadfast, his counsel immutable, while his acts are divine and infallible. "A thousand years in his sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night." The perfection of divinity and the magnitude of eternity are forever beyond the full grasp of the circumscribed mind of mortal man. [Our Creator Son of God Jesus Christ perfectly portrays the perfect, unchanging nature of God to us ! The Father God of All Reality on Paradise is just as kind, and loving as Jesus is ! In the Bible, Old Testament, there are many passages which falsely show an emotional, changing, merely human-like finite god ! That is so wrong ! That was the simplistic views of early (usually well-meaning) uneducated and nonspiritual humans. For example, in the 150 Psalms, written by over 20 humans over about an 1100 year period, you will find descriptions of God there ranging from the very early barbaric savage "demon god" "Yahweh" up to the better views of a loving, perfect, unchanging (Absolute) and Infinite Father God I AM. Jesus took only the very best of the Old Testament and then elevated those to even much higher and truer Revelations of our Father God of All; both in Jesus' Teachings about Elohim (The Triune God) and in Jesus' perfect Life examples ! Behold the Man ! Behold our God ! Behold our One GOD-MAN JESUS ! See Jesus; See God and see a Spirit-perfected Man as One Person: Jesus Christ Michael !!]
2:2.5 God's primal perfection consists not in an assumed righteousness but rather in the inherent perfection of the goodness of his divine nature. He is final, complete, and perfect. There is no thing lacking in the beauty and perfection of his righteous character. And the whole scheme of living existences on the worlds of space is centered in the divine purpose of elevating all will creatures [including all humans ! and us !!] to the high destiny of the experience of sharing the Father's Paradise perfection. God is neither self-centered nor self-contained; He never ceases to bestow himself upon all self- conscious creatures of the vast universe of universes.
2:2.6 God is eternally and infinitely perfect, He cannot personally know imperfection as his own experience, but He does share the consciousness of all the experience of imperfectness of all the struggling creatures of the evolutionary universes of all the Paradise Creator Sons. The personal and liberating touch of the God of perfection overshadows the hearts and encircuits the natures of all those mortal creatures who have ascended to the universe level of moral discernment. In this manner, as well as through the contacts of the divine presence, the Universal Father actually participates in the experience with immaturity and imperfection in the evolving career of every moral being of the entire universe. [God lives within each moral human as a pure Spirit Essence called a Thought Adjuster - the will of God living within you !]
2:2.7 Human limitations, potential evil, are not a part of the divine nature, but mortal experience with evil and all man's relations thereto are most certainly a part of God's ever-expanding self-realization in the children of time--creatures of moral responsibility who have been created or evolved by every Creator Son going out from Paradise. [Yes, all humans on earth and in this local universe are created by our Jesus Christ Michael. God and Jesus have both declared to us: "Be you perfect; even as I AM perfect." This implies that we start out in this first life in imperfection. Because of the pure, perfect spirit of God within each of us, we surely know that we are not perfect here now ! All humans do much err and frequently sin; but our divine Destiny is to be eventually perfect if we continue to ever follow Jesus and his perfect, loving and merciful Spirit Guidance into the Paradise Father I AM. Amen !]
3. JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
2:3.1 God is righteous; therefore is He just. "The Lord is righteous in all his ways." " 'I have not done without cause all that I have done,' says the Lord." "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." The justice of the Universal Father cannot be influenced by the acts and performances of his creatures, "for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, no respect of persons, no taking of gifts." [Thus, there are no "chosen races" or "chosen nations"; all humans must spiritually perfect in Jesus into eternal Life, or later choose to be not.]
2:3.2 How futile to make puerile [childish, nonspiritual] appeals to such a God to modify his changeless decrees so that we can avoid the just consequences of the operation of his wise natural laws and righteous spiritual mandates! "Be not deceived; God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap." True, even in the justice of reaping the harvest of wrongdoing, this divine justice is always tempered with mercy. Infinite wisdom is the eternal arbiter which determines the proportions of justice and mercy which shall be meted out in any given circumstance. The greatest punishment (in reality an inevitable consequence) for wrongdoing and deliberate rebellion against the government of God is loss of existence as an individual subject of that government. The final result of wholehearted sin is annihilation. In the last analysis, such sin-identified individuals have destroyed themselves by becoming wholly unreal through their embrace of iniquity. The factual disappearance of such a creature is, however, always delayed until the ordained order of justice current in that universe has been fully complied with. [In the Bible, Book of Revelation, the "final death" is mentioned; this makes the false concept of an "eternal hell-fire" illogical, and not ever possible with our loving and merciful Father God and Creator Son Jesus Christ Michael !]
2:3.6 The rule of the Creator Sons in the local universes [each of the 700,000 local universes, when completed, will have about ten million human inhabited worlds, and 570 higher soul-level spheres, which through all, each of us will ascend.] is one of creation and spiritualization. These Sons devote themselves to the effective execution of the Paradise plan of progressive mortal ascension, to the rehabilitation of rebels and wrong thinkers, but when all such loving efforts are finally and forever rejected, the final decree of dissolution is executed by forces acting under the jurisdiction of the Ancients of Days. [For those humans who absolutely and finally reject God's perfect Plan of eternal Life in God's Light, instant and painless eternal extinction of that human happens. There is no barbaric "hell". God is infinite, unchanging perfect divine love and lavish mercy !]
4. THE DIVINE MERCY
2:4.1 Mercy is simply justice tempered by that wisdom which grows out of perfection of knowledge and the full recognition of the natural weaknesses and environmental handicaps of finite creatures. "Our God is full of compassion, gracious, long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy." Therefore "whosoever calls upon the Lord shall be saved," "for He will abundantly pardon." "The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting"; yes, "his mercy endures forever." "I AM the Lord who executes loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth, for in these things I delight." "I do not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men," for I AM "the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort."
2:4.2 God is inherently kind, naturally compassionate, and everlastingly merciful. And never is it necessary that any influence [especially no mere human "intercessory prayers" ! Prayer is for YOU to to better realize God's will and to change ONLY YOU ! When you pray for the welfare of others, that is good; as that should help to change YOU. Always tell another human that you are praying for them; and then they will see your love and concern and may even pray more themselves for the needed spiritual fruits of the spirit and abiding peace and progress in Jesus.] be brought to bear upon the Father to call forth his loving-kindness. The creature's need is wholly sufficient to insure the full flow of the Father's tender mercies and his saving grace. Since God knows all about his children, it is easy for him to forgive. The better man understands his neighbor, the easier it will be to forgive him, even to love him. [Jesus here in Spirit tells us always to try to DARE TO LOVE (with Divine Understanding) EVEN YOUR ENEMIES !]
2:4.3 Only the discernment of infinite wisdom enables a righteous God to minister justice and mercy at the same time and in any given universe situation. The heavenly Father is never torn by conflicting attitudes towards his universe children; God is never a victim of attitudinal antagonisms. God's all-knowingness unfailingly directs his free will in the choosing of that universe conduct which perfectly, simultaneously, and equally satisfies the demands of all his divine attributes and the infinite qualities of his eternal nature.
2:4.4 Mercy is the natural and inevitable offspring of goodness and love. [Love is the desire to do good to others, as you Know in Spirit or believe in faith that JESUS would do !] The good nature of a loving Father could not possibly withhold the wise ministry of mercy to each member of every group of his universe children. Eternal justice and divine mercy together constitute what in human experience would be called fairness. [All Christians, Jewish Israeli, Islamic Palestinians, and all 7.5 billion human persons on earth are LOVED EQUALLY by both GOD and JESUS, who are One in Spirit here with us ! Do you ? Now be fair and just as JESUS IS ! Drop militant nationalism ! Be Active in Godly peace and justice to each and to all Humans; as they each are eternally Divine-Humans in Spirit Destiny potential ! God and Jesus bestow the Eternal Reign of Their One Combined Father-Son Spirit to fall upon and Guide ALL PERSONS ! Amen !]
2:4.5 Divine mercy represents a fairness technique of adjustment between the universe levels of perfection and imperfection. Mercy is the justice of Supremacy adapted to the situations of the evolving finite, the righteousness of Eternity modified to meet the highest interests and universe welfare of the children of time. Mercy is not a contravention of justice but rather an understanding interpretation of the demands of supreme justice as it is fairly applied to the subordinate spiritual beings and to the material creatures of the evolving universes. Mercy is the justice of the Paradise Trinity wisely and lovingly visited upon the manifold intelligences of the creations of time and space as it is formulated by divine wisdom and determined by the all-knowing mind and the sovereign free will of the Universal Father and all his associated Creators. [Our Coordinate Deity and our Creator is Jesus Christ Michael; obey and follow Him ! Thank You our One Holy Father-Son-Spirit of Truth !]
5. THE LOVE OF GOD
2:5.1 "God is love"; therefore his only personal attitude towards the affairs of the universe is always a reaction of divine affection. The Father loves us sufficiently to bestow his life upon us. "He makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust."
2:5.2 It is wrong to think of God as being coaxed into loving his children because of the sacrifices of his Sons or the intercession of his subordinate creatures, "for the Father himself loves you." It is in response to this paternal affection that God sends the marvelous Adjusters [each a pure spirit portion of God within; the will of God] to indwell the minds of men. God's love is universal; "whosoever will may come." He would "have all men be saved by coming into the knowledge of the truth." He is "not willing that any should perish."
2:5.3 The Creators [Our Creator Father-Son of God is Jesus Christ Michael] are the very first to attempt to save man from the disastrous results of his foolish transgression of the divine laws. God's love is by nature a fatherly affection; therefore does He sometimes "chasten us for our own profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness." Even during your fiery trials remember that "in all our afflictions He is afflicted with us."
2:5.4 God is divinely kind to sinners. When rebels return to righteousness, they are mercifully received, "for our God will abundantly pardon." "I am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins." "Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God."
2:5.5 After all, the greatest evidence of the goodness of God and the supreme reason for loving him is the indwelling gift of the Father -- the Adjuster who so patiently awaits the hour when you both shall be eternally made one. Though you cannot find God by searching, [with only the physical eyes and human mind] if you will submit to the leading of the indwelling Spirit, you will be unerringly guided, step by step, life by life, through universe upon universe, and age by age, until you finally stand in the presence of the Paradise Personality of the Universal Father. [Wonderful !]
2:5.6 How unreasonable that you should not worship God because the limitations of human nature and the handicaps of your material creation make it impossible for you to see him. Between you and God there is a tremendous distance (physical space) to be traversed. There likewise exists a great gulf of spiritual differential which must be bridged; but notwithstanding all that physically and spiritually separates you from the Paradise personal presence of God, stop and ponder the solemn fact that God lives within you; He has in his own way already bridged the gulf. He has sent of himself, his spirit, to live in you and to toil with you as you pursue your eternal universe career. [God has now become as you are ! so that you may become as He is -- perfect in spirit destiny attainment !]
2:5.7 [a Paradise Divine Counselor:] I find it easy and pleasant to worship one who is so great and at the same time so affectionately devoted to the uplifting ministry of his lowly creatures. I naturally love one who is so powerful in creation and in the control thereof, and yet who is so perfect in goodness and so faithful in the loving-kindness which constantly overshadows us. I think I would love God just as much if He were not so great and powerful, as long as He is so good and merciful. We all love the Father more because of his nature than in recognition of his amazing attributes. [We also love God on Paradise as He is just as infinitely loving and abundantly merciful as our Universe Creator Jesus here is ! There is absolutely no "wrath" nor "anger" in God; as some animalistic, nonspiritual humans here still have for a brief period. The Divine Nature is pure and perfect and forever unchanging.]
2:5.8 When I observe the [Coordinate Deity -- fully God here] Creator Sons and their subordinate administrators struggling so valiantly with the manifold difficulties of time inherent in the evolution of the universes of space, I discover that I bear these lesser [subordinate] rulers of the universes a great and profound affection. After all, I think we all, including the mortals of the realms, love the Universal Father and all other beings, divine or human, because we discern that these personalities truly love us. The experience of loving is very much a direct response to the experience of being loved. Knowing that God loves me, I should continue to love him supremely, even though He were divested of all his attributes of supremacy, ultimacy, and absoluteness.
2:5.9 The Father's love follows us now and throughout the endless circle of the eternal ages. As you ponder the loving nature of God, there is only one reasonable and natural personality reaction thereto: You will increasingly love your Maker; you will yield to God an affection analogous to that given by a child to an earthly parent; for, as a father, a real father, a true father, loves his children, so the Universal Father loves and forever seeks the welfare of his created sons and daughters.
2:5.10 But the love of God is an intelligent and farseeing parental affection. The divine love functions in unified association with divine wisdom and all other infinite characteristics of the perfect nature of the Universal Father. [Very Important:] God is love, but love is not God. The greatest manifestation of the divine love for mortal beings is observed in the bestowal of the Thought Adjusters, but your greatest revelation of the Father's love is seen in the bestowal life of his Son [Jesus Christ] Michael as He lived on earth the ideal spiritual life. It is the indwelling Adjuster who individualizes the love of God to each human soul.
2:5.11 At times I am almost pained to be compelled to portray the divine affection of the heavenly Father for his universe children by the employment of the human word symbol love. This term, even though it does connote man's highest concept of the mortal relations of respect and devotion, is so frequently designative of so much of human relationship that is wholly ignoble and utterly unfit to be known by any word which is also used to indicate the matchless affection of the living God for his universe creatures! How unfortunate that I cannot make use of some supernal and exclusive term which would convey to the mind of man the true nature and exquisitely beautiful significance of the divine affection of the Paradise Father. [We can and do see the love of the Father and the Son in the full Life and Teachings of our Master Son of God Jesus ! SEE JESUS; SEE GOD; They are One in SPIRIT !]
2:5.12 When man loses sight of the love of a personal God, the Kingdom of God becomes merely the kingdom of good. Notwithstanding the infinite unity of the divine nature, [infinite, pure, divine (agape)] love is the dominant characteristic of all God's personal dealings with his creatures.
6. THE GOODNESS OF GOD
2:6.1 In the physical universe we may see the divine beauty, in the intellectual world we may discern eternal truth, but the goodness of God is found only in the spiritual world of personal religious experience. In its true essence, religion is a faith-trust in the goodness of God. God could be great and absolute, somehow even intelligent and personal, in philosophy; but in religion God must also be moral; He must be good. Man might fear a great God, but he trusts and loves only a good God. This goodness of God is a part of the Personality of God, and its full Revelation appears only in the personal religious experience of the believing sons of God.
2:6.2 Religion implies that the superworld of spirit nature is cognizant of, and responsive to, the fundamental needs of the human world. [We are called by God and Jesus to BE PERFECT; not to be merely statisfied with ordinary, temporal human urges and selfish desires. "From clod to God"] Evolutionary religion may become ethical, but only revealed religion becomes truly and spiritually moral. The olden [false, human] concept that God is a Deity dominated by kingly morality was upstepped by Jesus to that affectionately touching level of intimate family morality of the parent-child relationship, than which there is none more tender and beautiful in mortal experience. [Jesus called our loving Father God "Abba" -- "Daddy"; and He called and calls us each a beloved son or daughter of our Father God !]
2:6.3 The "richness of the goodness of God leads erring man to repentance." "Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from the Father of Lights." "God is good; He is the eternal refuge of the souls of men." "The Lord God is merciful and gracious. He is long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth." "Taste and see that the Lord is good ! Blessed is the man who trusts him." "The Lord is gracious and full of compassion. He is the God of salvation." "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up the wounds of the soul. He is man's all-powerful benefactor."
2:6.4 The concept of God as a king-judge, although it fostered a high moral standard and created a law-respecting people as a group, left the individual believer in a sad position of insecurity respecting his status in time and in eternity. The later Hebrew prophets proclaimed God to be a Father to Israel; Jesus revealed God as the Father of each human being. The entire mortal concept of God is transcendently Illuminated by the Life of Jesus.
Selflessness is inherent in parental love. God loves not like a father, but as a Father. He is the Paradise Father of every universe personality.
2:6.5 Righteousness implies that God is the source of the moral law of the universe. Truth exhibits God as a revealer, as a teacher. But love gives and craves affection, seeks understanding fellowship such as exists between parent and child. Righteousness may be the divine thought, but love is a father's attitude. The erroneous supposition that the righteousness of God was irreconcilable with the selfless love of the heavenly Father, presupposed absence of unity in the nature of Deity and led directly to the elaboration of the atonement doctrine, which is a philosophic assault upon both the unity and the free-willness of God. [Thank You, Jesus, for showing us the True Father God of Love, Light and Life in and as You !!!]
2:6.6 The affectionate heavenly Father, whose Spirit indwells his children on earth, is not a divided personality -- one of justice and one of mercy -- neither does it require a mediator to secure the Father's favor or forgiveness. Divine righteousness is not dominated by strict retributive justice; God as a Father transcends God as a judge.
2:6.7 God is never wrathful, vengeful, or angry. It is true that wisdom does often restrain his love, while justice conditions his rejected mercy. [God gives you freewill; so if you fully reject God's mercy and plans for your rehabilitation, you are in serious trouble and could be later extinguished forever. Accept the love, mercy and salvation offered by God and Jesus as One in Spirit here now !] His love of righteousness cannot help being exhibited as equal hatred for sin. The Father is not an inconsistent personality; the divine unity is perfect. In the Paradise Trinity there is absolute unity despite the eternal identities of the co-ordinates of God.
2:6.8 God loves the sinner and hates the sin: such a statement is true philosophically, but God is a transcendent Personality, and persons can only love and hate other persons. Sin is not a person. God loves the sinner because he is a personality reality (potentially eternal), while towards sin God strikes no personal attitude, for sin is not a spiritual reality; it is not personal; therefore does only the justice of God take cognizance of its existence. The love of God saves the sinner; the law of God destroys the sin. [in Psalms 1:6, "The way of the sinner shall be destroyed" (meaning that the sinner will learn to sin no more !)] This attitude of the divine nature would apparently change if the sinner finally identified himself wholly with sin just as the same mortal mind may also fully identify itself with the indwelling spirit Adjuster. Such a sin-identified mortal would then become wholly nonspiritual in nature (and therefore personally unreal) and would experience eventual extinction of being. Unreality, even incompleteness of creature nature, cannot exist forever in a progressingly real and increasingly spiritual universe.
2:6.9 Facing the world of personality, God is discovered to be a loving person; facing the spiritual world, He is a personal love; in religious experience He is both. Love identifies the volitional will of God. The goodness of God rests at the bottom of the divine free-willness -- the universal tendency to love, show mercy, manifest patience, and minister forgiveness.
Topical Study 95 ""Uncompromised Christianity —
A New Revelation"
Compiled 5/06/2016 by Dave@PureChristians.org
[Part 6 of many]
PAPER 2 THE NATURE OF GOD, Cont.
7. DIVINE TRUTH AND BEAUTY
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2:7.3 [Important paragraph:] Divine truth, final truth, is uniform and universal, but the story of things spiritual, as it is told by numerous individuals hailing from various spheres, may sometimes vary in details owing to this relativity in the completeness of knowledge and in the repleteness of personal experience as well as in the length and extent of that experience. While the laws and decrees, the thoughts and attitudes, of the First Great Source and Center [The Paradise Father-Infinite I AM] are eternally, infinitely, and universally true; at the same time, their application to, and adjustment for, every universe, system, world, and created intelligence, are in accordance with the plans and technique of the Creator Sons as they function in their respective universes, as well as in harmony with the local plans and procedures of the Infinite Spirit and of all other associated celestial personalities. [Our Sovereign Creator Son Jesus Christ Michael made our large local universe named Nebadon]
2:7.6 Intellectual self-consciousness can discover the beauty of truth, its spiritual quality, not only by the philosophic consistency of its concepts, but more certainly and surely by the unerring response of the ever-present Spirit of Truth. [Our Master Jesus here in Spirit and as our God] Happiness ensues from the recognition of truth because it can be acted out; it can be lived. Disappointment and sorrow attend upon error because, not being a reality, it cannot be realized in experience. Divine truth is best known by its spiritual flavor.
2:7.7 The eternal quest is for unification, for divine coherence. The far-flung physical universe coheres in the Isle of Paradise; the intellectual universe coheres in the God of mind, the Conjoint Actor; [The Infinite Spirit acting for both God the Universal Father and God the Eternal Son] the spiritual universe is coherent in the personality of the Eternal Son. But the isolated mortal of time and space coheres in God the Father through the direct relationship between the indwelling Thought Adjuster and the Universal Father. Man's Adjuster is a fragment of God [living within us ! God's pure will !] and everlastingly seeks for divine unification; it coheres with, and in, the Paradise Deity of the First Source and Center.
2:7.9 The great mistake of the Hebrew religion was its failure to associate the goodness of God with the factual truths of science and the appealing beauty of art. As civilization progressed, and since religion continued to pursue the same unwise course of overemphasizing the goodness of God to the relative exclusion of truth and neglect of beauty, there developed an increasing tendency for certain types of men to turn away from the abstract and dissociated concept of isolated goodness. The overstressed and isolated morality of modern religion, which fails to hold the devotion and loyalty of many twentieth-century men, would rehabilitate itself if, in addition to its moral mandates, it would give equal consideration to the truths of science, philosophy, and spiritual experience, and to the beauties of the physical creation, the charm of intellectual art, and the grandeur of genuine character achievement.
2:7.10 The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beauty, and divine goodness. Such a new and righteous vision of morality will attract all that is good in the mind of man and challenge that which is best in the human soul. Truth, beauty, and goodness are divine realities, and as man ascends the scale of spiritual living, these supreme qualities of the Eternal become increasingly coordinated and unified in God, who is love.
2:7.11 All truth — material, philosophic, or spiritual — is both beautiful and good. All real beauty — material art or spiritual symmetry — is both true and good. All genuine goodness — whether personal morality, social equity, or divine ministry — is equally true and beautiful. Health, sanity, and happiness are integrations of truth, beauty, and goodness as they are blended in human experience. Such levels of efficient living come about through the unification of energy systems, idea systems, and spirit systems.
2:7.12 Truth is coherent, beauty attractive, goodness stabilizing. And when these values of that which is real are coordinated in personality experience, the result is a high order of love conditioned by wisdom and qualified by loyalty. The real purpose of all universe education is to effect the better co-ordination of the isolated child of the worlds with the larger realities of his expanding experience. Reality is finite on the human level, infinite and eternal on the higher and divine levels. [Seek to be balanced — coordinated — as our Master Jesus now perfectly is ! Behold the perfect Spirit GOD-MAN JESUS ! here with us !! If you can not master your mind; you may now freely ask for the perfect Mind of our Master Jesus ! Amen !]
2:7.13 {Presented by a Divine Counselor acting by authority of the Ancients of Days on Uversa.}
PAPER 3 THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD
0. Introduction
3:0.1 God is everywhere present; the Universal Father rules the Circle of Eternity. But He rules in the local universes in the persons of his Paradise Creator Sons, [our Jesus Christ Michael] even as He bestows life through these Sons. "God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Sons." [see I John 5:11-12 and John 3:16 Jesus gives each of us our lives ! All humans are Jesusonians — sons of God made by our Creator Father-Son Jesus !] These Creator Sons of God are the personal expression of Himself [the fullness of God here to us; see Jesus; see God !] in the sectors of time and to the children of the whirling planets of the evolving universes of space.
3:0.2 The highly personalized Sons of God are clearly discernible by the lower orders of created intelligences, and so do they compensate for the invisibility of the infinite and therefore less discernible Father. The Paradise Creator Sons of the Universal Father are a revelation of an otherwise invisible being, invisible because of the absoluteness and infinity inherent in the circle of eternity and in the personalities of the Paradise Deities. [in the Trinity]
1. GOD'S EVERYWHERENESS
3:1.1 The ability of the Universal Father to be everywhere present, and at the same time, constitutes his omnipresence. God alone can be in two places, in numberless places, at the same time. God is simultaneously present "in heaven above and on the earth beneath"; as the Psalmist exclaimed: "Whither shall I go from your spirit? or whither shall I flee from your presence?"
3:1.2 "I am a God at hand as well as afar off,' says the Lord. `Do not I fill heaven and earth?'" The Universal Father is all the time present in all parts and in all hearts of his far-flung creation. He is "the fullness of him who fills all and in all," and "who works all in all," and further, the concept of his personality is such that "the heaven (universe) and heaven of heavens (universe of universes) can- not contain him." It is literally true that God is all and in all. But even that is not all of God. The Infinite can be finally revealed only in infinity; the cause can never be fully comprehended by an analysis of effects; the living God is immeasurably greater than the sum total of creation that has come into being as a result of the creative acts of his unfettered free will. God is revealed throughout the cosmos, but the cosmos can never contain or encompass the entirety of the infinity of God. [God as the Unqualified Infinite I AM has no outside and no beyond; all Reality is thus within Him.]
3:1.4 The creature not only exists in God, but God also lives in the creature. "We know we dwell in him because He lives in us; He has given us his Spirit. This gift from the Paradise Father is man's inseparable companion." "He is the ever-present and all-pervading God." "The Spirit of the everlasting Father is concealed in the mind of every [yes, every !!] mortal child." "Man goes forth searching for a friend while that very Friend lives within his own heart." "The true God is not afar off; He is a part of us; his Spirit speaks from within us." "The Father lives in the child. God is always with us. He is the guiding Spirit of eternal destiny."
3:1.5 Truly of the human race has it been said, "You are of God" because "he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him." Even in wrongdoing you torment the indwelling gift of God, for the Thought Adjuster must needs go through the consequences of evil thinking with the human mind of its incarceration.
3:1.6 The omnipresence of God is in reality a part of his infinite nature; space constitutes no barrier to Deity. God is, in perfection and without limitation, discernibly present only on Paradise and in the central universe. He is not thus observably present in the [space-time universe] creations encircling Havona, for God has limited his direct and actual presence in recognition of the sovereignty and the divine prerogatives of the co-ordinate creators and rulers of the universes of time and space. [Our Sovereign Creator Jesus Christ Michael] Hence must the concept of the divine Presence allow for a wide range of both mode and channel of manifestation embracing the presence circuits of the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, and the Isle of Paradise. Nor is it always possible to distinguish between the Presence of the Universal Father and the actions of his eternal co-ordinates [our God-Man Jesus here with us] and agencies, so perfectly do they fulfill all the infinite requirements of his unchanging purpose. But not so with the personality circuit and the Adjusters; here God acts uniquely, directly, and exclusively.
3:1.11 While the Father parentally encircuits all his sons — all personalities — his influence in them is limited by the remoteness of their origin from the Second and the Third Persons of Deity and augmented as their destiny attainment nears such levels. The fact of God's Presence in creature minds is determined by whether or not they are indwelt by Father fragments, such as the Mystery Monitors, but his effective presence is determined by the degree of co-operation accorded these indwelling Adjusters by the minds of their sojourn. [God has eternally told us to cooperate with (follow, heed, obey) Jesus ! Today on Earth, only about 1/3 of humans are somewhat followers of Jesus in Spirit and in Truth; for this planet to swing into the higher spheres of Light and Life, all must want to follow our Master and Good Savior Jesus ! Much evangelism and service outreach is needed; you may help too !]
3:1.12 The fluctuations of the Father's presence are not due to the changeableness of God. The Father does not retire in seclusion because He has been slighted; his affections are not alienated because of the creature's wrongdoing. Rather, having been endowed with the power of choice (concerning himself), his children, in the exercise of that choice, directly determine the degree and limitations of the Father's divine influence in their own hearts and souls. The Father has freely bestowed himself upon us without limit and without favor. He is no respecter of persons, planets, systems, or universes. In the sectors of time He confers differential honor only on the Paradise personalities of God the Sevenfold, the co-ordinate creators of the finite universes. [On our Sovereign Father-Son Jesus; all Humans on earth and on all the other ten million planets (when done) in our local universe are EQUAL in Spirit potential and are EQUALLY loved by God ! There are no "chosen people", no "chosen race", no "chosen nation". The many races of humans on this planet are greatly mixed and will continue to blend into one race in just a very short few hundred years. Jesus has told us clearly that He is making "... of one blood all the races of mankind"; and we now, in his Spirit, are in one universal Brotherhood of all mankind ! under the universe Spirit Sovereignty of Jesus Christ ! We shall follow him into full peace and planetary progress ! Amen !]
2. GOD'S INFINITE POWER
3:2.1 All the universes know that "the Lord God omnipotent reigns." The affairs of this world and other worlds are divinely supervised. "He does according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth." It is eternally true, "there is no power but of God." [Yes, many Spirit of God resisting, foolish humans here think that bombs and bullets have great power - great acts, but only physically and in space-time; in infinite Paradise-Eternity all Consequences are GOD's ! He decides who and what is eternally Real; are you ? If not, ask to be spiritually transformed and gradually learn to love all persons, even your worst enemies ! as Jesus lovingly commands. There is only Real Power of God in Spirit and in Truth.]
3:2.2 Within the bounds of that which is consistent with the divine nature, it is literally true that "with God all things are possible." The long-drawn-out evolutionary processes of peoples, planets, and universes are under the perfect control of the universe Creators and Administrators and unfold in accordance with the eternal purpose of the Universal Father, proceeding in harmony and order and in keeping with the all-wise plan of God. There is only one Lawgiver. He upholds the worlds in space and swings the universes around the endless circle of the eternal circuit. [God's Law always includes his infinite love and lavish mercy and perfect spiritual ministry to all persons and beings without favor of anyone or any group !]
3:2.3 Of all the divine attributes, his omnipotence, especially as it prevails in the material universe, is the best understood. Viewed as an unspiritual phenomenon, God is energy. ... God controls all power; He has made "a way for the lightning"; He has ordained the circuits of all energy. He has decreed the time and manner of the manifestation of all forms of energy-matter. And all these things are held forever in his everlasting grasp in the gravitational control centering on nether [the underside of] Paradise. The light and energy of the eternal God thus swing on forever around his majestic circuit, the endless but orderly procession of the starry hosts composing the universe of universes. All creation circles eternally around the Paradise-Personality center of all things and beings.
3:2.6 The Universal Father is not a transient force, a shifting power, or a fluctuating energy. The power and wisdom of the Father are wholly adequate to cope with any and all universe exigencies. As the emergencies of human experience arise, He has foreseen them all, and therefore He does not react to the affairs of the universe in a detached way but rather in accordance with the dictates of eternal wisdom and in consonance with the mandates of infinite judgment. Regardless of appearances, the power of God is not functioning in the universe as a blind force.
3:2.7 Situations do arise in which it appears that emergency rulings have been made, that natural laws have been suspended, that misadaptations have been recognized, and that an effort is being made to rectify the situation; but such is not the case. Such concepts of God have their origin in the limited range of your viewpoint, in the finiteness of your comprehension, and in the circumscribed scope of your survey; such misunderstanding of God is due to the profound ignorance you enjoy regarding the existence of the higher laws of the realm, the magnitude of the Father's character, the infinity of his attributes, and the fact of his free-willness.
3:2.8 The planetary creatures of God's spirit indwelling, scattered hither and yon throughout the universes of space, are so nearly infinite in number and order, their intellects are so diverse, their minds are so limited and sometimes so gross, their vision is so curtailed and localized, that it is almost impossible to formulate generalizations of law adequately expressive of the Father's infinite attributes and at the same time to any degree comprehensible to these created intelligences. Therefore, to you the creature, many of the acts of the all-powerful Creator seem to be arbitrary, detached, and not infrequently heartless and cruel. But again I assure you that this is not true. God's doings are all purposeful, intelligent, wise, kind, and eternally considerate of the best good, not always of an individual being, an individual race, an individual planet, or even an individual universe; but they are for the welfare and best good of all concerned, from the lowest to the highest. In the epochs of time the welfare of the part may sometimes appear to differ from the welfare of the whole; in the Circle of Eternity such apparent differences are nonexistent. [With the Spirits of God and Jesus within and upon you now; you may be able to partly grasp these great Truths in Spirit; but your finite, undisciplined mind will hardly be able to grasp much of this presently; be patient and strong in living faith ! Even our faith is a free gift from God !!] ]
3:2.9 We are all a part of the [infinite] Family of God, and we must therefore sometimes share in the family discipline. Many of the acts of God which so disturb and confuse us are the result of the decisions and final rulings of all-wisdom, empowering the Conjoint Actor [the Infinite Spirit as a Divine Activator of the united will of the Father and the son] to execute the choosing of the infallible will of the infinite Mind, to enforce the decisions of the Personality of perfection, whose survey, vision, and solicitude embrace the highest and eternal welfare of all his vast and far-flung creation.
3:2.10 Thus it is that your detached, sectional, finite, gross, and highly materialistic viewpoint and the limitations inherent in the nature of your being constitute such a handicap that you are unable to see, comprehend, or know the wisdom and kindness of many of the divine acts which to you seem fraught with such crushing cruelty, and which seem to be characterized by such utter indifference to the comfort and welfare, to the planetary happiness and personal prosperity, of your fellow creatures. It is because of the limits of human vision, it is because of your circumscribed understanding and finite comprehension, that you misunderstand the motives, and pervert the purposes, of God. But many things occur on the evolutionary worlds which are not the personal doings of the Universal Father. [There is sin on this world because most of the 7.3 billion living humans here do errors of judgment and sometimes willfully sin ! We are born here in this first physical life; and thus we each will have only about 75 to 80 years of initial experience. After ascending up through 570 progressively higher soul reality Heavens in Nebadon, we will ascend in higher Spirit stages up through just over one billion ever-higher Spirit Heavens in roughly one trillion more years. Then we will be all spirit-perfected and granted eternal Residence on Paradise with God ! Unlimited future adventures also await us !!]
3:2.11 The divine Omnipotence is perfectly coordinated with the other attributes of the personality of God. The power of God is, ordinarily, only limited in its universe spiritual manifestation by three conditions or situations:
3:2.12 1. By the nature of God, especially by his infinite love, by truth, beauty, and goodness.
3:2.13 2. By the will of God, by his mercy ministry and fatherly relationship with the personalities of the universe.
3:2.14 3. By the law of God, by the righteousness and justice of the eternal Paradise Trinity.
3:2.15 God is Unlimited in power, Divine in nature, Final in will, Infinite in attributes, Eternal in wisdom, and Absolute in Reality. But all these characteristics of the Universal Father are unified in Deity and universally expressed in the Paradise Trinity and in the divine Sons of the Trinity. Otherwise, outside of Paradise and the central universe of Havona, everything pertaining to God is limited by the evolutionary presence of the Supreme, conditioned by the eventuating presence of the Ultimate, and coordinated by the three existential Absolutes — Deity, Universal, and Unqualified. And God's presence is thus limited because such is the will of God. [Much more in this whole 2097 page Revelation of Truth will help clarify these new terms and levels of Deity]
3. GOD'S UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE
3:3.1 "God knows all things." The divine Mind [Infinite Spirit and numerous Spirit entities] is conscious of, and conversant with, the thought of all creation. His knowledge of events is universal and perfect. The divine entities going out from him are a part of him; He who "balances the clouds" is also "perfect in knowledge." "The eyes of the Lord are in every place." Said your great Teacher [Jesus Christ] of the insignificant sparrow, "One of them shall not fall to the ground without my Father's knowledge," and also, "The very hairs of your head are numbered." "He tells the number of the stars; He calls them all by their names." [He also knows the exact number of, and location of, all sub-atomic particles, and sub-sub-atomic particles not yet discovered by our physicists !]
3:3.2 The Universal Father is the only Personality in all the universe who does actually know the number of the stars and planets of space. All the worlds of every universe are constantly within the consciousness of God. He also says: "I have surely seen the affliction of my people, [all humans] I have heard their cry, and I know their sorrows." For "the Lord looks from Heaven; [Paradise;] He beholds all the sons of men; from the place of his habitation He looks upon all the inhabitants of the earth." Every creature child may truly say: "He knows the way I take, and when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold." "God knows our downsittings and our uprisings; He understands our thoughts afar off and is acquainted with all our ways." "All things are naked and open to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do." And it should be a real comfort to every human being to understand that "He knows your frame; He remembers that you are dust." Jesus, speaking of the living God, said, "Your Father knows what you have need of even before you ask Him."
3:3.3 God is possessed of unlimited power to know all things; his consciousness is universal. His [I AM] Personal Circuit encompasses all personalities, and his knowledge of even the lowly creatures is supplemented indirectly through the descending series of divine Sons and directly through the indwelling Thought Adjusters. [the pure spirit of God within you here and now and forevermore; the future perfect Spirit You] And furthermore, the Infinite Spirit is all the time everywhere present.
3:3.4 We [high Divine Counselors from Paradise] are not wholly certain as to whether or not God chooses to foreknow events of sin. But even if God should foreknow the freewill acts of his children, such foreknowledge does not in the least abrogate [remove, abolish] their freedom. One thing is certain: God is never subjected to surprise. [and God NEVER makes any mistakes ! God NEVER said that He "...was sorry that He made man" and NEVER that He would thus have to destroy mankind with a giant "flood". Such ideas are fully unspiritual and also scientifically untrue. Read the Bibles and other spiritual writings only for the highest eternal spiritual Truths of and about God and Jesus here with us fully in Spirit; reject all things sub-Paradise-God-Perfect and things not Eternal ! Jesus did and does; thus so can You ! — eventually]
Topical Study 95 ""Uncompromised Christianity —
A New Revelation"
Compiled 5/09/2016 by Dave@PureChristians.org
[Part 7 of many]
PAPER 3 THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD, Cont.
4. GOD'S LIMITLESSNESS
3:4.1 The successive bestowal of Himself upon the universes as they are brought into being in no wise lessens the potential of Power or the store of Wisdom as they continue to reside and repose in the Central Personality of Deity. [ConCentrate in Him ! in Spirit and in Truth ! Amen !] In potential of force, wisdom, and love, the Father has never lessened aught of his possession nor become divested of any attribute of his glorious Personality as the result of the unstinted [unrestricted, not limited] bestowal of Himself upon the Paradise Sons, upon his subordinate creations, and upon the manifold creatures thereof. [I state that our Sovereign God-Man Jesus Christ is a Coordinate Deity Paradise Son, the fullness of God to us. HE IS I AM to us. He is not a subordinate Son of God as we are. We start out at the lowest level of all the different types of Sons of God; and we have the greatest potential for eventual Paradise Destiny. Also God the Father-Infinite I AM is unchanged and unqualified on infinite Paradise while He is also fully in Personality and in Spirit within our Creator Son Jesus Who is running and maintaining our universe and you and me ! How can this be? Personality and mind-spirit relationships are transmissible! Also remember that God the Universal Father on Paradise can be in numberless places at the same time ! Also recall that God has no outside and no beyond !]
3:4.2 The creation of every new universe calls for a new adjustment of gravity; but even if creation should continue indefinitely, eternally, even to infinity, so that eventually the material creation would exist without limitations, still the power of control and coordination reposing in the Isle of Paradise would be found equal to, and adequate for, the mastery, control, and coordination of such an infinite universe. [!!] And subsequent to this bestowal of limitless force and power upon a boundless universe, the Infinite [Father I AM] would still be surcharged with the same degree of force and energy; the Unqualified Absolute [Eternal-Primal-Final I AM Father-Force] would still be undiminished; God would still possess the same infinite potential, just as if force, energy, and power had never been poured forth for the endowment of universe upon universe. [This paragraph covers only force-energy-power in the universes to infinity; this undiminished Infinity of God is also fully True on the levels of Mind and Spirit and Personality ! Much more on this later in the full Revelation.]
3:4.3 And so with wisdom: The fact that mind is so freely distributed to the thinking of the realms in no wise impoverishes the central source of divine Wisdom. As the universes multiply, and beings of the realms increase in number to the limits of comprehension, if Mind continues without end to be bestowed upon these beings of high and low estate, still will God's central Personality [I AM] continue to embrace the same eternal, infinite, and all-wise Mind. [If you can not yet master your mind, you may now freely ask for the perfect Mind of our Master JESUS here to Guide you into All Truth: GOD !]
3:4.4 The fact that He sends forth Spirit messengers from Himself to indwell the men and women of your world and other worlds [there will be seven trillion human inhabited worlds in just this Supreme Grand Universe Age of about one trillion years, then Ultimate and Absolute and Infinite levels will be revealed, without end !] in no wise lessens his ability to function as a divine and all-powerful Spirit Personality; and there is absolutely no limit to the extent or number of such spirit Monitors [also called Thought Adjusters] which He can and may send out. This giving of Himself to his creatures creates a boundless, almost inconceivable future possibility of progressive and successive existences for these divinely endowed mortals. And this prodigal [lavish, abundant, replete] distribution of Himself as these ministering Spirit entities in no manner diminishes the wisdom and perfection of Truth and Knowledge which repose in the Person of the all-wise, all-knowing, and all-powerful Father.
3:4.5 To the mortals of time there is a future, but God inhabits Eternity. [God has no past and no future ! time is a supreme qualification of Absolute Eternity] Even though I hail from near the very abiding place of Deity, I cannot presume to speak with perfection of understanding concerning the infinity of many of the divine attributes. Infinity of mind alone can fully comprehend Infinity of Existence and Eternity of Action.
3:4.6 Mortal man cannot possibly know the Infinitude of the heavenly Father. Finite mind cannot think through such an Absolute Truth or Fact. But this same finite human being can actually feel — literally experience — the full and undiminished impact of such an infinite Father's LOVE. Such a love can be truly experienced, albeit while quality of experience is unlimited, quantity of such an experience is strictly limited by the human capacity for spiritual receptivity and by the associated capacity to love the Father in return. [If you seek God wholeheartedly, Jesus will suddenly or gradually Reveal Him to you — all in perfect God-speed ! Each day on Earth, there are more personally God-conscious human sons of God in Jesus and thus in Light and Life Eternal ! Amen ! Some of us here do Know God in as Jesus in Spirit and in Truth, and not only as an intellectual, handed-down Theology. Both are much needed in this present age on Earth.]
3:4.7 Finite appreciation of infinite qualities far transcends the logically limited capacities of the creature because of the fact that mortal man is made in the image of God — there lives within him a fragment of infinity. [!!!] Therefore man's nearest and dearest approach to God is by and through love, for God is love. And all of such a unique relationship is an actual experience in cosmic sociology, the Creator-creature relationship — the Father-child affection. [GOD IS love; but love is not GOD !! Love is a spiritual value and not The Infinite One Personality of I AM Father-Force-Source-Center. You and I, having our Father God-given unique personalities, are now in the One Personality Circuit of the Paradise Father-Infinite I AM. His pure Spirit Essence indwells each of us; and the Way into the Eternal Light and Life of God is freely given to us by our Sovereign Savior Jesus Christ Michael here with us always in Spirit ! Amen.]
5. THE FATHER'S SUPREME RULE
3:5.1 In his contact with the post-Havona creations, [Eternal Paradise Isle and the one billion surrounding immense spiritual spheres of Havona constitute the Central Universe of the present Grand Universe which includes 700,000 surrounding local universes of the Coordinate Creator Sons of God] the Universal Father does not exercise his infinite Power and final Authority by direct transmittal but rather through his [Creator] Sons and their subordinate personalities. And God does all this of his own free will. Any and all powers delegated, if occasion should arise, if it should become the choice of the Divine Mind, could be exercised direct; but, as a rule, such action only takes place as a result of the failure of the delegated personality to fulfill the divine trust. At such times and in the face of such default and within the limits of the reservation of divine power and potential, the Father does act independently and in accordance with the mandates of his own choice; and that choice is always one of unfailing perfection and infinite wisdom.
3:5.2 The Father rules through his Sons; [Our Eternal Creator Son of God Jesus Christ Michael is our Sovereign Savior and more !] on down through the universe organization there is an unbroken chain of rulers ending with the Planetary Princes, who direct the destinies of the evolutionary spheres of the Father's vast domains. It is no mere poetic expression that exclaims: "The Earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof." "He removes kings and sets up kings." "The Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men."
3:5.3 In the affairs of men's hearts the Universal Father may not always have his way; but in the conduct and destiny of a planet the divine plan prevails; the eternal purpose of wisdom and love triumphs. [the destiny of our planet Earth is to be Spirit of God perfected and to be eventually admitted into the higher superuniverse realm. Always remember that this planet Earth is the arena where Jesus Christ Michael won All Power of GOD in Jesus' local universe of ten million human inhabited worlds and many higher spheres ! Thus, this Earth abides forever in our Father God's loving care ! "World without end !" See Eph 3:21 and others. Note well that Jesus Rules as our Sovereign God here and now and forever, and not merely only "1000 years in the future". Small human minds think in small human concepts; let us dare to stretch more in Spirit and in Truth into God's Eternal-Now View !]
3:5.4 Said Jesus: "My Father, who gave them to Me., is greater than all; and no one is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand." As you glimpse the manifold workings and view the staggering immensity of God's well-nigh limitless creation, you may falter in your concept of his primacy, but you should not fail to accept Him as securely and everlastingly enthroned at the Paradise center of all things and as the beneficent Father of all intelligent beings. There is but "one God and Father of all, who is above all and in all," "and He is before all things, and in him all things consist." [and this One Father-Infinite I AM and Triune Deity can only be perceived and realized here in JESUS. SEE JESUS; SEE GOD the Father-Infinite I AM; HE IS I AM HERE NOW.]
3:5.5 The uncertainties of life and the vicissitudes of existence do not in any manner contradict the concept of the universal sovereignty of God. [and the universe sovereignty of Jesus here with us always] All evolutionary creature life is beset by certain inevitabilities. Consider the following:
3:5.6 1. Is courage — strength of character — desirable? Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments.
3:5.7 2. Is altruism — service of one's fellows — desirable? Then must life experience provide for encountering situations of social inequality.
3:5.8 3. Is hope — the grandeur of trust — desirable? Then human existence must constantly be confronted with insecurities and recurrent uncertainties.
3:5.9 4. Is faith — the supreme assertion of human thought — desirable? Then must the mind of man find itself in that troublesome predicament where it ever knows less than it can believe.
3:5.10 5. Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads, desirable? Then must man grow up in a world where error is present and falsehood always possible.
3:5.11 6. Is idealism — the approaching concept of the divine — desirable? Then must man struggle in an environment of relative goodness and beauty, surroundings stimulative of the irrepressible reach for better things.
3:5.12 7. Is loyalty — devotion to highest duty — desirable? Then must man carry on amid the possibilities of betrayal and desertion. The valor of devotion to duty consists in the implied danger of default.
3:5.13 8. Is unselfishness — the spirit of self-forgetfulness — desirable? Then must mortal man live face to face with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor. Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake. Man could never lay saving hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast.
3:5.14 9. Is pleasure — the satisfaction of happiness — desirable? Then must man live in a world where the alternative of pain and the likelihood of suffering are ever-present experiential possibilities.
3:5.15 Throughout the universe, every unit is regarded as a part of the whole. Survival of the part is dependent on co-operation with the plan and purpose of the whole, the wholehearted desire and perfect willingness to do the Father's divine will. The only evolutionary world without error (the possibility of unwise judgment) would be a world without free intelligence. In the Havona [all ultimate-transcendental and all perfected] universe there are a billion perfect worlds with their perfect inhabitants, but evolving man must be fallible if he is to be free. Free and inexperienced intelligence cannot possibly at first be uniformly wise. The possibility of mistaken judgment (evil) becomes sin only when the human will consciously endorses and knowingly embraces a deliberate immoral judgment.
3:5.16 The full appreciation of truth, beauty, and goodness is inherent in the perfection of the divine [Central] universe. The inhabitants of the Havona worlds do not require the potential of relative value levels as a choice stimulus; such perfect beings are able to identify and choose the good in the absence of all contrastive and thought-compelling moral situations. But all such perfect beings are, in moral nature and spiritual status, what they are by virtue of the fact of existence. They have experientially earned advancement only within their inherent status. Mortal man earns even his status as an ascension candidate by his own faith and hope. Everything divine which the human mind grasps and the human soul acquires is an experiential attainment; it is a reality of personal experience and is therefore a unique possession in contrast to the inherent goodness and righteousness of the inerrant personalities of Havona.
3:5.2 The creatures of Havona are naturally brave, but they are not courageous in the human sense. They are innately kind and considerate, but hardly altruistic in the human way. They are expectant of a pleasant future, but not hopeful in the exquisite manner of the trusting mortal of the uncertain evolutionary spheres. They have faith in the stability of the universe, but they are utter strangers to that saving faith whereby mortal man climbs from the status of an animal up to the portals of Paradise. They love the truth, but they know nothing of its soul-saving qualities. ["What is Truth?" (no answer) "WHO IS TRUTH?" JESUS AS OUR GOD, AND ONE WITH/AS THE PARADISE FATHER-INFINITE I AM, IS OUR SOUL-SAVING TRUTH !] They are idealists, but they were born that way; they are wholly ignorant of the ecstasy of becoming such by exhilarating choice. They are loyal, but they have never experienced the thrill of wholehearted and intelligent devotion to duty in the face of temptation to default. They are unselfish, but they never gained such levels of experience by the magnificent conquest of a belligerent self. They enjoy pleasure, but they do not comprehend the sweetness of the pleasure escape from the pain potential. [Are you now beginning to spiritually realize that we live and progress in a friendly and a Fatherly Universe ! You should ! and you, and we all, will ! Thank You our Master God-Man JESUS !]
6. THE FATHER'S PRIMACY
3:6.1 With divine selflessness, consummate [complete, perfect] generosity, the Universal Father relinquishes authority and delegates power, but He is still primal; his hand is on the mighty lever of the circumstances of the universal realms; He has reserved all final decisions and unerringly wields the all-powerful veto scepter of his Eternal Purpose with unchallengeable Authority over the welfare and destiny of the outstretched, whirling, and ever-circling creation. [The Divine Authority of the Trinity Government of All Reality in our universe is in the Eternal Sovereignty of Jesus here ! "Jesus is My Beloved Son; Obey Him." says the Paradise Universal Father I AM, and at the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ on Mt. Hermon in AD30 and NOW and forevermore ! None of the Coordinate Deity Creator Sons have ever gone astry; but if any did; God the Universal Father-Infinite I AM would overrule them.]
3:6.2 The Sovereignty of God is unlimited; it is the fundamental fact of all creation. The universe was not inevitable. The universe is not an accident, neither is it self-existent. The universe is a work of creation and is therefore wholly subject to the will of the Creator. The will of God is divine truth, living love; therefore are the perfecting creations of the evolutionary universes characterized by goodness — nearness to divinity; by potential evil — remoteness from divinity.
3:6.3 All religious philosophy, sooner or later, arrives at the concept of unified universe rule, of one God. Universe causes cannot be lower than universe effects. The source of the streams of universe life and of the cosmic mind must be above the levels of their manifestation. The human mind cannot be consistently explained in terms of the lower orders of existence. Man's mind can be truly comprehended only by recognizing the reality of higher orders of thought and purposive will. Man as a moral being is inexplicable unless the reality of the Universal Father is acknowledged.
3:6.4 The mechanistic philosopher professes to reject the idea of a universal and sovereign will, the very sovereign will whose activity in the elaboration of universe laws he so deeply reverences. What unintended homage the mechanist pays the law-Creator when he conceives such laws to be self-acting and self-explanatory!
3:6.5 It is a great blunder to humanize God, except in the concept of the indwelling Thought Adjuster, but even that is not so stupid as completely to mechanize the idea of the First Great Source and Center.
3:6.6 Does the Paradise Father suffer? I do not know. The Creator Sons most certainly can and sometimes do, even as do mortals. The Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit suffer in a modified sense. I think the Universal Father does, but I cannot understand how; perhaps through the Personality Circuit or through the individuality of the Thought Adjusters and other bestowals of his eternal nature. He has said of the mortal races, "In all your afflictions I am afflicted." He unquestionably experiences a fatherly and sympathetic understanding; He may truly suffer, but I do not comprehend the nature thereof.
3:6.7 The infinite and eternal Ruler of the Universe of Universes is power, form, energy, process, pattern, principle, presence, and idealized reality. But He is more; He is Personal; He exercises a sovereign will, experiences self-consciousness of divinity, executes the mandates of a creative mind, pursues the satisfaction of the realization of an eternal purpose, and manifests a Father's love and affection for his universe children. And all these more personal traits of the Father can be better understood by observing them as they were revealed in the Bestowal Life of [Jesus Christ] Michael, your Creator Son, while He was incarnated on Earth. [Of all human knowledge, the most valuable and eternal is to know and strive to actually do, in loving service to all, the divinely perfect Life and Eternal Teachings of our Sovereign Savior Jesus ! We are all blessed to now be living here on Earth in a time of great and much needed Epochal Revelation !]
3:6.8 God the Father loves men; God the Son serves men; God the Spirit inspires the children of the universe to the ever-ascending adventure of finding God the Father by the ways ordained by God the Sons through the ministry of the grace of God the Spirit. [a Divine Counselor Benediction, compare with the apostolic benediction, II Cor 13:14]
3:6.9 {Being the Divine Counselor assigned to the presentation of the revelation of the Universal Father, I have continued with this statement of the attributes of Deity.}
PAPER 4 GOD'S RELATION TO THE UNIVERSE
0. Introduction
4:0.1 [God's Eternal Purpose:] The Universal Father has an eternal purpose pertaining to the material, intellectual, and spiritual phenomena of the universe of universes, [700,000 universes in just this present Grand Universe age; each universe will have 10,000,000 human inhabited worlds and many higher administrative spheres] which he is executing throughout all time. God created the universes of his own free and sovereign will, and He created them in accordance with his all-wise and eternal purpose. It is doubtful whether anyone except the Paradise Deities and their highest associates [such as our Coordinate Creator Son of God Jesus Christ Michael] really knows very much about the eternal purpose of God. Even the exalted citizens of Paradise hold very diverse opinions about the nature of the eternal purpose of the Deities. [!!]
4:0.2 It is easy to deduce that the purpose in creating the perfect central universe of Havona was purely the satisfaction of the divine nature. Havona may serve as the pattern creation for all other universes and as the finishing school for the pilgrims of time [ascending humans] on their way to Paradise; however, such a supernal creation must exist primarily for the pleasure and satisfaction of the perfect and infinite Creators.
4:0.3 The amazing plan for perfecting evolutionary mortals [us !] and, after their attainment of Paradise and the Corps of the finality, providing further training for some undisclosed future work, [we each have a very glorious eternal destiny !] does seem to be, at present, one of the chief concerns of the seven superuniverses and their many subdivisions; but this ascension scheme for spiritualizing and training the mortals of time and space is by no means the exclusive occupation of the universe intelligences. There are, indeed, many other fascinating pursuits which occupy the time and enlist the energies of the celestial hosts.
1. THE UNIVERSE ATTITUDE OF THE FATHER
4:1.1 For ages the inhabitants of Earth have misunderstood the providence of God. There is a providence of divine outworking on your world, but it is not the childish, arbitrary, and material ministry many mortals have conceived it to be. The providence of God consists in the interlocking activities of the celestial beings and the divine spirits who, in accordance with cosmic law, unceasingly labor for the honor of God and for the spiritual advancement of his universe children.
4:1.2 Can you not advance in your concept of God's dealing with man to that level where you recognize that the watchword of the universe is progress? Through long ages the human race has struggled to reach its present position. Throughout all these millenniums Providence has been working out the plan of progressive evolution. the two thoughts are not opposed in practice, only in man's mistaken concepts. Divine providence is never arrayed in opposition to true human progress, either temporal or spiritual. Providence is always consistent with the unchanging and perfect nature of the supreme Lawmaker. [The Supreme Invitation-Command of our loving and merciful Father God is: "Be you perfect; even as I AM perfect." We do live and progress in a very friendly and Fatherly universe ! Our Master Jesus made our universe of things and beings; and He and is making, it all perfect ! The Grand Universe timetable is probably about one trillion years; mankind has only been on our 4.5 billion year old Earth for just about one million years — thus we are young and immature — so be calm and patient and enjoy your personal — and our Brotherhood of all Mankind — never-ending ultimate and absolute perfection destiny unfolding.]
4:1.3 "God is faithful" and "all his commandments are just." "His faithfulness is established in the very skies." "Forever, O Lord, your Word is settled in Heaven. Your faithfulness is to all generations; you have established the Earth and it abides." "He is a faithful Creator." [There is no end to this world; this is the special, unique local universe world of ten million where Jesus Incarnated and won full universe Sovereignty ! This world abides forever in our Father God's loving care ! Eph 3:21 "...world without end !"]
4:1.4 There is no limitation of the forces and personalities which the Father may use to uphold his purpose and sustain his creatures. "The eternal God is our refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms." "He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." "Behold, He who keeps us shall neither slumber nor sleep." "We know that all things work together for good to those who love God," "for the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers."
4:1.5 God upholds "all things by the word of his power." And when new worlds are born, He "sends forth his Sons and they are created." God not only creates, but He "preserves them all." God constantly upholds all things material and all beings spiritual. The universes are eternally stable. There is stability in the midst of apparent instability. There is an underlying order and security in the midst of the energy upheavals and the physical cataclysms of the starry realms. [Even our physical universe is still evolving ! It will be much better in about one trillion more years ! maybe sooner !]
4:1.6 The Universal Father has not withdrawn from the management of the universes; He is not an inactive Deity. If God should retire as the present Upholder of all creation, there would immediately occur a universal collapse. Except for God, there would be no such thing as Reality. At this very moment, as during the remote ages of the past and in the eternal future, God continues to uphold. The divine reach extends around the circle of Eternity. The universe is not wound up like a clock to run just so long and then cease to function; all things are constantly being renewed. The Father unceasingly pours forth [pure Force-] Energy, Light, and Life. The work of God is literal as well as spiritual. "He stretches out the north over the empty space and hangs the Earth upon nothing."
4:1.7 A being of my order [a high Paradise-level Divine Counselor] is able to discover ultimate harmony and to detect far-reaching and profound coordination in the routine affairs of universe administration. Much that seems disjointed and haphazard to the mortal mind appears orderly and constructive to my understanding. But there is very much going on in the universes that I do not fully comprehend. I have long been a student of, and am more or less conversant with, the recognized forces, energies, minds, morontias, [soul level materials and beings super-material but sub-spiritual,] spirits, and personalities of the local universes and the [seven] superuniverses. I have a general understanding of how these agencies and personalities operate, and I am intimately familiar with the workings of the accredited spirit intelligences of the grand universe. Notwithstanding my knowledge of the phenomena of the universes, I am constantly confronted with cosmic reactions which I cannot fully fathom. I am continually encountering apparently fortuitous conspiracies of the interassociation of forces, energies, intellects, and spirits, which I cannot satisfactorily explain. [There is an evolving synergy on ultimate and absolute levels positively uplifting the lower supreme levels in which we live and progress.]
4:1.8 I am entirely competent to trace out and to analyze the working-of all phenomena directly resulting from the functioning of the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, and, to a large extent, the Isle of Paradise. My perplexity is occasioned by encountering what appears to be the performance of their mysterious co-ordinates, the three Absolutes of potentiality. [Eternally actual to God the Universal Father; He sees all potentials as actuals !] These Absolutes seem to supersede matter, to transcend mind, and to supervene spirit. I am constantly confused and often perplexed by my inability to comprehend these complex transactions which I attribute to the presences and performances of the Unqualified Absolute, the Deity Absolute, and the Universal Absolute. [Total Reality has seven infinite Absolutes: God the Father, the Son and the Spirit of the Paradise Trinity, Infinite Paradise, and the Three as One Absolutes just mentioned here. The Trinity is on Upper Paradise; the Absolutes are on lower (nether) Paradise]
4:1.9 These Absolutes must be the not-fully-revealed presences abroad in the universe which, in the phenomena of space potency and in the function of other superultimates, render it impossible for physicists, philosophers, or even religionists to predict with certainty as to just how the primordials of force, concept, or spirit will respond to demands made in a complex reality situation involving supreme adjustments and ultimate values.
4:1.10 There is also an organic unity in the universes of time and space which seems to underlie the whole fabric of cosmic events. This living presence of the evolving Supreme Being, this Immanence of the Projected Incomplete, is inexplicably manifested ever and anon by what appears to be an amazingly fortuitous co-ordination of apparently unrelated universe happenings. This must be the function of Providence — the realm of the Supreme Being [evolving with and as us in all the grand universe of space and time] and the Conjoint Actor. [The Infinite Spirit as a Divine Activator of the united will of the Father and the Son]
4:1.11 I am inclined to believe that it is this far-flung and generally unrecognizable control of the coordination and interassociation of all phases and forms of universe activity that causes such a variegated [diversified] and apparently hopelessly confused medley of physical, mental, moral, and spiritual phenomena so unerringly to work out to the glory of God and for the good of men and angels.
4:1.12 But in the larger sense the apparent "accidents" of the cosmos are undoubtedly a part of the finite drama of the time-space adventure of the Infinite in his eternal manipulation of the Absolutes.
