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Study 52 Paper 2
"THE NATURE OF GOD"
Selections and comments
Compiled 7/11/2012 by Dave@PureChristians.org
Introduction
Page 33B (2:0.1) Inasmuch as man's highest possible concept of God is embraced within the human idea and ideal of a primal and infinite personality, it is permissible, and may prove helpful, to study certain characteristics of the divine nature which constitute the character of Deity. The nature of God can best be understood by the Revelation of the Father which [our Jesus Christ] Michael unfolded in his manifold teachings and in his superb mortal Life in the flesh. The divine nature can also be better understood by man if he regards himself as a child of God and looks up to the Paradise Creator as a true spiritual Father.
33B (2:0.2) The nature of God can be studied in a revelation of supreme ideas, the divine character can be envisaged as a portrayal of supernal ideals, but the most enlightening and spiritually edifying of all revelations of the divine nature is to be found in the comprehension of the religious life of Jesus of Nazareth, both [both !!] before and after his attainment of full consciousness of divinity. If the incarnated life of Michael is taken as the background of the revelation of God to man, we may attempt to put in human word symbols certain ideas and ideals concerning the divine nature which may possibly contribute to a further illumination and unification of the human concept of the nature and the character of the personality of the Universal Father.
33C (2:0.3) In all our efforts to enlarge and spiritualize the human concept of God, we are tremendously handicapped by the limited capacity of the mortal mind. We are also seriously handicapped in the execution of our assignment by the limitations of language and by the poverty of material which can be utilized for purposes of illustration or comparison in our efforts to portray divine values and to present spiritual meanings to the finite, mortal mind of man. All our efforts to enlarge the human concept of God would be well-nigh futile except for the fact that the mortal mind is indwelt by the bestowed Adjuster of the Universal Father and is pervaded by the Truth Spirit of the Creator Son. Depending, therefore, on the presence of these divine spirits within the heart of man for assistance in the enlargement of the concept of God, I cheerfully undertake the execution of my mandate to attempt the further portrayal of the nature of God to the mind of man.
1. THE INFINITY OF GOD
34B (2:1.3) Notwithstanding the infinity of the stupendous manifestations of the Father's eternal and universal [ I AM] Personality, He is unqualifiedly self-conscious of both his infinity and eternity; likewise He knows fully his perfection and power. He is the only Being in the universe, aside from his divine co-ordinates, who experiences a perfect, proper, and complete appraisal of Himself.
34B (2:1.4) The Father constantly and unfailingly meets the need of the differential of demand for Himself as it changes from time to time in various sections of his master universe. The great God knows and understands Himself; He is infinitely self-conscious of all his primal attributes of perfection. God is not a cosmic accident; neither is He a universe experimenter. The Universe Sovereigns [Universe Creators such as our Maker and Master Jesus] may engage in adventure; the Constellation Fathers [the Most Highs; lesser, lesser Christ types] may experiment; the system heads [lower yet, 100 systems in a constellation; 100 constellations in a local universe. Also, when done, 1000 planets per system. Thus our local universe made and perfectly Controlled by Jesus Christ Michael will have ten million human-inhabited worlds when done.] may practice; but the Universal Father sees the end from the beginning, and his divine plan and eternal purpose actually embrace and comprehend all the experiments and all the adventures of all his subordinates in every world, system, and constellation in every universe of his vast domains. [Jesus Christ Michael is not subordinate as the lower constellation and lower system and lower planetary rulers are; Jesus is Coordinate Deity, a Master Creator Son of God and the Fullness of God here to us ! HE IS I AM as I AM has so willed. At the Transfiguration of Jesus, up on Mount Hermon, in the land of the gentiles, GOD the Father-Infinite I AM spoke/still speaks: "This is My Beloved SON (JESUS); give heed to Him." (only ! Obey and follow only Jesus !)]
34C (2:1.5) No thing is new to God, and no cosmic event every comes as a surprise; He inhabits the circle of eternity. He is without beginning or end of days. To God there is no past, present, or future; all time is present at any given moment. [GOD sees you, in Jesus, now perfect ! and AS You will Be in some more trillions of years, ascending and perfecting in Spirit in the over one billion ever higher heavens ! (Real and Super-Real Spiritual spheres, not seen in our physical telescopes)] He is the great and only I AM.
34C (2:1.6) The Universal Father is absolutely and without qualification infinite in all his attributes; and this fact, in and of itself, automatically shuts him off from all direct personal communication with finite material beings and other lowly created intelligences.
34D (2:1.7) And all this necessitates such arrangements for contact and communication with his manifold creatures as have been ordained, first, in the personalities of the Paradise Sons of God, who, although perfect in divinity, also often partake of the nature of the very flesh and blood of the planetary races, becoming one of you and one with you; thus, as it were, God becomes man, as occurred in the bestowal of [Jesus Christ] Michael, Who was called interchangeably the Son of God and the Son of Man. [Jesus today IS our One True GOD-MAN and He is One Eternal Personality !] And second, there are the personalities of the Infinite Spirit, [also called here the Daughters of God, many types of angels] the various orders of the seraphic hosts and other celestial intelligences who draw near to the material beings of lowly origin and in so many ways minister to them and serve them. and third, there are the impersonal Mystery Monitors, Thought Adjusters, the actual gift of the great God himself sent to indwell such as the humans of earth, sent without announcement and without explanation. In endless profusion they descend from the heights of Glory to grace and indwell the humble minds of those mortals who possess the capacity for God-consciousness or the potential [!!] therefor. [Thank You, Jesus Christ Michael !!] [Since A.D. 30, when Jesus ascended back into the Father I AM. and They as One Spirit sent He the Spirit of Truth upon all human flesh here; this qualifies each and every human being as a divinely beloved son of God in Jesus !!! Those defective or aborted humans who can not achieve God-consciousness here; will be repersonalized up on the first of the next seven (higher) Mansion Worlds made by Jesus for our rehabilitation and further perfection ! Now you see why Jesus tells us to dare to love even our "enemies" as they will all be with us up in the next higher heavens ! All humans here (other than Jesus Christ) have sinned and are very very very far short of the perfect Glory of God and Being perfectly Godlike ! We start out in bodies of dust with many residual animal emotions and thus all of us have a very very very long way to go into Finality Perfection and Paradise Residence. All Persons, Beings and Entities on infinite-sized Paradise are perfect in Spirit Nature; but not all-knowing and not all -powerful; Only God and His Coordinate Agents Are; as He so wills.]
35B (2:1.10) Because the First Father is Infinite in His Plans and Eternal in His Purposes, it is inherently impossible for any finite being ever to grasp or comprehend these divine plans and purposes in their fullness. Mortal man can glimpse the Father's purposes only now and then, here and there, as they are revealed in relation to the outworking of the plan of creature ascension on its successive levels of universe progression. Though man cannot encompass the significance of infinity, the infinite Father does most certainly fully comprehend and lovingly embrace all the finity of all his children in all universes. [The Infinite I AM in finite humans and finite humans within the Infinite I AM who has no outside and no beyond !]
35C (2:1.11) Divinity and eternity the Father shares with large numbers of the higher Paradise beings, but we question whether infinity and consequent universal primacy is fully shared with any save his co-ordinate associates of the Paradise Trinity. Infinity of personality must, perforce, embrace all finitude of personality; hence the Truth--literal Truth--of the teaching which declares that "In Him we live and move and have our being." That fragment of the pure Deity of the Universal Father which indwells mortal man is a part of the infinity of the First Great Source and Center, the Father of Fathers. [In Jesus' Spirit here, we can, even here and now, personally in God-consciousness, grasp the great Truth that: "I am a divinely Beloved ascending son of I AM; I am a son of God in Jesus ! Thank You Jesus ! Thank You the Universal Father I AM on Paradise and in the Personality Gravity Presence Circuit in God and everywhere.]
2. THE FATHER'S ETERNAL PERFECTION
35D (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 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 like himself: eternal, perfect, and forever changeless.
35D (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 !]
36C (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
36D (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.]
36D (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 !]
37D-38A (2:3.6) The rule of the Creator Sons in the local universes [each local universe, when completed, will have about ten million human inhabited worlds, and many higher spheres, some through which we 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.
4. THE DIVINE MERCY
38A (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."
38B (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 !]
38C (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 Christian Americans, Jewish Israeli and Islamic Palestinians and all 6.5 billion Human Persons on earth are LOVED EQUALLY by both GOD and JESUS, and One in Spirit ! 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 !]
38D (2:4.5) ... 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-Creator is Jesus Christ Michael; obey and follow Him ! Thank You our One Holy Father-Son-Spirit of Truth ! (Next here we will continue with the love and goodness of God.)]
5. THE LOVE OF GOD
page 38D (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."
39A (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."
39B (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."
39B (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."
39B (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 !]
39C (2:5.6) ... 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 !]
40A (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.
40B (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 !]
40C (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
40C (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.
41A (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."
41A (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.
41B (2:6.5) 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 !!!]
41C (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.
41C (2:6.7) God is never wrathful, vengeful, or angry. ... 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.
41D (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 progressively real and increasingly spiritual universe.
42A (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.
7. DIVINE TRUTH AND BEAUTY
42B (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.
42C (2:7.4) The false science of materialism would sentence mortal man to become an outcast in the universe. Such partial knowledge is potentially evil; it is knowledge composed of both good and evil. Truth is beautiful because it is both replete and symmetrical. When man searches for truth, he pursues the divinely Real.
42D (2:7.6) Divine truth is best known by its spiritual flavor.
42D (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 and everlastingly seeks for divine unification; it coheres with, and in, the Paradise Deity of the First Source and Center.
43B (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.
43C (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.
43D (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 !]
43D (2:7.13) {Presented by a Divine Counselor acting by authority of the Ancients of Days on Uversa.}
Study 53 Paper 3
"THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD"
Selections and comments
Compiled 7/13/2012 by Dave@PureChristians.org
Introduction
Page 44B (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.
44B (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
44CD (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?"
44D (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.]
45A (3:1.3) The Father's presence unceasingly patrols the master universe. "His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it; and there is nothing hidden from the light thereof."
45A (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."
45B (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.
45B (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.
46B (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 !]
46C (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
46D (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.]
46D (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.
47D (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 !]
48C (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:
48C (3:2.12) 1. By the nature of God, especially by his infinite love, by truth, beauty, and goodness.
48C (3:2.13) 2. By the will of God, by his mercy ministry and fatherly relationship with the personalities of the universe.
48C (3:2.14) 3. By the law of God, by the righteousness and justice of the eternal Paradise Trinity.
48CD(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 to follow to help clarify these new terms and levels of Deity]
3. GOD'S UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE
48D (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."
49A (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; 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."
49B (3:3.3) God is possessed of unlimited power to know all things; his consciousness is universal. His 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.
4. GOD'S LIMITLESSNESS
Page 49CD (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 !]
49D (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 here.]
50C (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.]
50C (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 of God is freely given to us by our Sovereign Savior Jesus Christ here with us in Spirit ! Amen.]
5. THE FATHER'S SUPREME RULE
50D (3:5.1) In his contact with the post-Havona creations, [Infinite Paradise and the one billion surrounding immense spiritual spheres of Havona constitute the Central Universe of the present Grand Universe which include 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.
51A (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."
51A (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 admitted into the higher superuniverse realm. Always remember that this planet earth is the arena where Jesus Christ Michael won All Power of GOD for 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 !]
51AB (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.]
52C (3:5.17) 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
52D (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 !]
52D (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.
53A (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.
53B (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!
53B (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.
53B (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.
53C (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 !]
53D (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]
53D (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.}
Study 54 Paper 4
"GOD'S RELATION TO THE UNIVERSE"
Selections and comments
Compiled 7/16/2012 by Dave@PureChristians.org
Introduction
Page 54B (4:0.1) 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. ...
54C (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
54CD (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.
54D (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.]
55A (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 !]
55A (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."
55B (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.
55B (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." ...
56A (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 and the Conjoint Actor.
56B (4:1.11) I am inclined to believe that it is this far-flung and generally unrecognizable control of the co-ordination 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.
56B (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.
2. GOD AND NATURE
56C (4:2.1) Nature is in a limited sense the physical habit of God. The conduct, or action, of God is qualified and provisionally modified by the experimental plans and the evolutionary patterns of a local universe, a constellation, a system, or a planet. [Each local universe, when completed in this supreme age, will have 100 constellations, 10,000 systems and 10,000,000 inhabited planets with human life. There are 700,000 local universe in this grand universe age; and an unlimited number is possible in our very distant future !] God acts in accordance with a well-defined, unchanging, immutable law throughout the wide-spreading master universe; [much bigger and a higher, more glorious reality than the grand universe] but he modifies the patterns of his action so as to contribute to the co-ordinate and balanced conduct of each universe, constellation, system, planet, and personality [!!] in accordance with the local objects, aims, and plans of the finite projects of evolutionary unfolding. [and as ordained by our Sovereign Creator Son Jesus Christ Michael]
56C (4:2.2) Therefore, nature, as mortal man understands it, presents the underlying foundation and fundamental background of a changeless Deity and his immutable laws, modified by, fluctuating because of, and experiencing upheavals through, the working of the local plans, purposes, patterns, and conditions which have been inaugurated and are being carried out by the local universe, constellation, system, and planetary forces and personalities. For example: As God's laws have been ordained in Nebadon [our local universe made by Jesus] , they are modified by the plans established by the Creator Son and Creative Spirit of this local universe; and in addition to all this the operation of these laws has been further influenced by the errors, defaults, and insurrections of certain beings [Lucifer and Satan rebellion 200,00 years ago and also the Adam and Eve default about 37,000 years ago; since Pentecost of A.D. 30, Jesus has stripped them of all powers and of all evil influences upon all humans] resident upon your planet and belonging to your immediate planetary system. [of 619 of eventually about 1000 inhabited worlds in our system]
56D (4:2.3) Nature is a time-space resultant of two cosmic factors: first, the immutability, [never changing, absolute] perfection, and rectitude [righteousness, perfect judgment] of Paradise Deity, and second, the experimental plans, executive blunders, insurrectionary errors, incompleteness of development, and imperfection of wisdom of the extra-Paradise creatures, from the highest to the lowest. Nature therefore carries a uniform, unchanging, majestic, and marvelous thread of perfection from the circle of Eternity; but in each universe, on each planet, and in each individual life, this nature is modified, qualified, and perchance marred by the acts, the mistakes, and the disloyalties of the creatures of the evolutionary systems and universes; and therefore must nature ever be of a changing mood, whimsical withal, though stable underneath, and varied in accordance with the operating procedures of a local universe.
57A (4:2.4) Nature is the perfection of Paradise divided by the incompletion, evil, and sin of the unfinished universes. This quotient is thus expressive of both the perfect and the partial, of both the eternal and the temporal. Continuing evolution modifies nature by augmenting the content of Paradise perfection and by diminishing the content of the evil, error, and disharmony of relative reality. [Please know and believe that all things and creature beings are getting better - evolving - growing - perfecting in our actually friendly and Fatherly universe ! Amen !]
57B (4:2.5) God is not personally present in nature or in any of the forces of nature, for the phenomenon of nature is the superimposition of the imperfections of progressive evolution and, sometimes, the consequences of insurrectionary rebellion, upon the Paradise foundations of God's universal law. As it appears on such a world as Earth, nature can never be the adequate expression, the true representation, the faithful portrayal, of an all-wise and infinite God.
57B (4:2.6) Nature, on your world, is a qualification of the laws of perfection by the evolutionary plans of the local universe. What a travesty [inferior distortion !] to worship nature because it is in a limited, qualified sense pervaded by God; because it is a phase of the universal and, therefore, divine power ! Nature also is a manifestation of the unfinished, the incomplete, the imperfect outworkings of the development, growth, and progress of a universe experiment in cosmic evolution. [Also realize that our young planet earth is also a decimal (one in ten planets are) EXPERIMENTAL planet with more variation allowed in life forms; this is good for all the universe long-term, but somewhat more confusing and difficult here short-term (maybe just 50,000 more years or less; just about 5% more of mankind's life on earth to date. Perfection comes in probably at an exponentially increasing rate !]
57BC (4:2.7) The apparent defects of the natural world are not indicative of any such corresponding defects in the character of God. Rather are such observed imperfections merely the inevitable stop-moments in the exhibition of the ever-moving reel of infinity picturization. It is these very defect-interruptions of perfection-continuity which make it possible for the finite mind of material man to catch a fleeting glimpse of divine reality in time and space. [deep and profound; worth reflecting upon !] The material manifestations of divinity appear defective to the evolutionary mind of man only because mortal man persists in viewing the phenomena of nature through natural eyes, human vision unaided by morontia mota [soul wisdom] or by revelation, its compensatory substitute on the worlds of time.
57C (4:2.8) And nature is marred, her beautiful face is scarred, her features are seared, by the rebellion, the misconduct, the misthinking of the myriads of creatures who are a part of nature, but who have contributed to her disfigurement in time. No, nature is not God. Nature is not an object of worship. [also know that there are no "holy lands" on this mud-ball Earth ! Dumb Humans try to make their own favored lands "holy"; that is such stupidity ! God and Jesus and Their One Combined Spirit of Truth are omnipresent upon all Humans worldwide without favor or respect of persons. There are no "chosen races" and no "chosen nations". In Truth, God sees no nations at all; only the Individual Human and his immediate nuclear family and the one worldwide Brotherhood of all Mankind. Jesus is calling all of us to love all persons equally ! Even to dare to "Love your enemy." All the intervening gangs, clans, tribes, cities, counties, states and nations are just temporary, finite Human institutions, which are still slowly evolving and combining into one planetary government of all people, by all people and for all people. Humans here are slowly becoming more like the perfect eternal nature of Jesus: each a Divine-Human with sacred Divine-Human rights !]
3. GOD'S UNCHANGING CHARACTER
Page 57D (4:3.1) All too long has man thought of God as one like himself. God is not, never was, and never will be jealous of man or any other being in the universe of universes. Knowing that the Creator Son [our Master Maker Jesus Christ] intended man to be the masterpiece of the planetary creation, to be the ruler of all the earth, the sight of his being dominated by his own baser passions, the spectacle of his bowing down before idols of wood, stone, gold, and selfish ambition -- these sordid scenes stir God and his Sons to be jealous for man, but never of him.
57D (4:3.2) The eternal God is incapable of wrath and anger in the sense of these human emotions and as man understands such reactions. These sentiments are mean and despicable; they are hardly worthy of being called human, much less divine; and such attitudes are utterly foreign to the perfect nature and gracious character of the Universal Father. [Never did our Father God "repent of making man"; never did He or any of his Paradise Sons and high Spirits ever make any mistakes! Only out in the lower, incomplete universe levels have a few fallen junior agents of God gone into defaults and rebellions. In A.D.30 - on, Jesus Christ has restored our individual spiritual status and divine destiny; but humans still have full freewill choice to act more Godlike or as unspiritual animals or worse. Count the costs !] ...
58A (4:3.4) God repents of nothing he has ever done, now does, or ever will do. He is all-wise as well as all-powerful. Man's grows out of the trials and errors of human experience; God's wisdom consists in the unqualified perfection of his infinite universe insight, and this divine foreknowledge effectively directs the creative free will. ...
58B (4:3.6) The infinite goodness of the Father is beyond the comprehension of the finite mind of time; hence must there always be afforded a contrast with comparative evil (not sin) for the effective exhibition of all phases of relative goodness. Perfection of divine goodness can be discerned by mortal imperfection of insight only because it stands in contrastive association with relative imperfection in the relationships of time and matter in the motions of space.
58C (4:3.7) The character of God is infinitely superhuman; therefore must such a nature of divinity be Personalized, as in the divine Sons, before it can even be faith-grasped by the finite mind of man. [In our Living, Perfect GOD-MAN JESUS; we can and do see the Perfect, loving and merciful and saving nature of the Paradise Father-Infinite of All Reality ! Amen !]
4. THE REALIZATION OF GOD
58C (4:4.1) God is the only stationary, self-contained, and changeless being in the whole universe of universes, having no outside, no beyond, no past, and no future. God is purposive energy (creative spirit) and absolute will, and these are self-existent and universal. [Thus You, Dear Reader, are now fully inside of God ! You can never run away from Him in Spirit Reality, only briefly here in some possible soul and/or mind unreality delusions. God never changes; all past and all future are open to Him and his eternal unchanging purpose for each Individual and the whole Family of God ! He calls you and all to (eventually) be perfect as HE IS]
58D (4:4.2) Since God is self-existent, He is absolutely independent. The very identity of God is inimical [adverse] to change. "I, the Lord, change not." God is immutable; [not changeable] but not until you achieve Paradise status can you even begin to understand how God can pass from simplicity to complexity, from identity to variation, from quiescence [being at rest, stationary] to motion, from infinity to finitude, from the divine to the human, and from unity to duality and triunity. And God can thus modify the manifestations of his absoluteness because divine immutability does not imply immobility; God has will -- He is will.
58D (4:4.3) God is the being of absolute self-determination; there are not limits to his universe reactions save those which are self-imposed, and his freewill acts are conditioned only by those divine qualities and perfect attributes which inherently characterize his eternal nature. Therefore is God related to the universe as the Being of final goodness plus a free will of creative Infinity.
58D (4:4.4) The Father-Absolute is the Creator of the Central and perfect universe [Infinite nuclear Paradise and the one billion surrounding, circling Havona Spheres (all perfect and all perfected levels)] and the Father of all other Creators. Personality, goodness, and numerous other characteristics, God shares with man and other beings, but infinity of will is his alone. God is limited in his creative acts only by the sentiments of his eternal nature and by the dictates of his infinite wisdom. God personally chooses only that which is infinitely perfect, hence the supernal [from above, heavenly, divine] perfection of the Central universe; and while the Creator Sons [our Creator Father-Son Jesus Christ Michael here] fully share his divinity, even phases of his absoluteness, they are not altogether limited by that finality of wisdom which directs the Father's infinity of will. Hence, in the Michael order of Sonship, creative free will becomes even more active, wholly divine and well-nigh ultimate, if not absolute. The Father is infinite and eternal, but to deny the possibility of his volitional self-limitation amounts to a denial of this very concept of his Volitional [will, power to decide] Absoluteness.
59B (4:4.5) God's absoluteness pervades [diffused everywhere, all-present] all seven levels of universe reality. And the whole of this absolute nature is subject to the relationship of the Creator to his universe creature family. Precision may characterize trinitarian justice in the universe of universes, but in all his vast family relationship with the creatures of time the God of universes is governed by divine sentiment. First and last -- eternally -- the infinite God is a Father. Of all the possible titles by which He might appropriately be known, I [a high Paradise-level Divine Counselor] have been instructed to portray the God of all creation as the Universal Father.
59B (4:4.6) In God the Father freewill performances are not ruled by power, nor are they guided by intellect alone; the Divine Personality is defined as consisting in Spirit and manifesting himself to the universes as love. Therefore, in all his personal relations with the creature personalities of the universes, the First Source and Center is always and consistently a loving Father. God is a Father in the highest sense of the term. He is eternally motivated by the perfect idealism of divine love, and that tender nature finds its strongest expression and greatest satisfaction in loving and being loved.
59C (4:4.7) In science, God is the First Cause; in religion, the universal and loving Father; in philosophy, the One Being who exists by himself, not dependent on any other being for existence but beneficently conferring reality of existence on all things and upon all other beings. But it requires Revelation to show that the First Cause of science and the self-existent Unity of philosophy are the God of religion, full of mercy and goodness and pledged to effect the eternal survival of his children on earth. [Thank You our Holy Father-Son-Spirit for CONTINUING to ever give us more and higher Revelations and to be with us in Spirit as we continue to progress in spirit, soul, mind and body to grasp ever more of You and Your Realities !]
59CD (4:4.8) We crave the concept of the Infinite, but we worship the experience-idea of God, our anywhere and any-time capacity to grasp the Personality and Divinity factors of our highest concept of Deity.
59D (4:4.9) The consciousness of a victorious human life on earth is born of that creature faith which dares to challenge each recurring episode of existence when confronted with the awful spectacle of human limitations, by the unfailing declaration: Even if I cannot do this, there lives in me One who can and will do it, a part of the Father-Absolute of the universe of universes. And that is "the victory which overcomes the world, even your faith." [Ask our ever-present Father God in Jesus to give you a sacred God-conscious experience to allow you to EXPERIENCE HIM/THEM and not just have some 2nd- or 3rd- or lower- handed down intellectual IDEAS ABOUT God ! On average, this usually first happens here on earth to normal humans at about ages 30-40 which are the normal ages of dawning soul awareness stronger than just mind awareness. Later, states of ever higher Spirit awareness will unfold upon and within you; be patient and live in sincere faith in our loving and merciful Everlasting One Father-Son-Spirit God.]
5. ERRONEOUS IDEAS OF GOD
59D (4:5.1) Religious tradition is the imperfectly preserved record of the experiences of the God-knowing men of past ages, but such records are untrustworthy as guides for religious living or as the source of true information about the Universal Father. Such ancient beliefs have been invariably altered by the fact that primitive man was a mythmaker. [The True Word of God here with us is JESUS Who Is Spirit; He is the only living Spirit of living Truth on this planet and in his large universe ! GOD IS SPIRIT and not merely a sacred book or bible ! Infinite difference ! Behold our God ! Not merely read about what some unknown person in the dim past thought about Him. The Bible has no record of what Jesus did or said between His Incarnate ages of 12 through 30 here ! He did much good Ministry and Revelation then, as well as NOW CONTINUING ! as Jesus Christ is fully here as He the Spirit of all Paradise Father-Son Union Truth !!]
60A (4:5.2) One of the greatest sources of confusion on Earth concerning the nature of God grows out of the failure of your sacred books clearly to distinguish between the Personalities of the Paradise Trinity and between Paradise Deity and the local universe Creators and administrators. ... World religious thought still confuses the associate personalities of Deity with the Universal Father himself, so that all are included under one appellation. [Jesus and the Holy Spirit and the Father-Infinite are all as One in Spirit ! but each is a different Personality ! and each with different functions and attributes.]
60B (4:5.3) The people of Earth continue to suffer from the influence of primitive concepts of God. The gods who go on a rampage in the storm; who shake the earth in their wrath and strike down men in their anger; who inflict their judgments of displeasure in times of famine and flood -- these are the gods of primitive religion; they are not the Gods who live and rule the universes. Such concepts are a relic of the times when men supposed that the universe was under the guidance and domination of the whims of such imaginary gods. But mortal man is beginning to realize that he lives in a realm of comparative law and order as far as concerns the administrative policies and conduct of the Supreme Creators and the Supreme Controllers.
60C (4:5.4) The barbarous idea of appeasing an angry God, of propitiating [pacifying, appeasing] an offended Lord, of winning the favor of Deity through sacrifices and penance and even by the shedding of blood, represents a religion wholly puerile [childish] and primitive, a philosophy unworthy of an enlightened age of science and truth. Such beliefs are utterly repulsive to the celestial beings and the divine rulers who serve and reign in the universes. It is an affront to God to believe, hold, or teach that innocent blood must be shed in order to win his favor or to divert the fictitious divine wrath.
60C (4:5.5) The Hebrews believed that "without the shedding of blood there could be no remission of sin." They had not found deliverance from the old and pagan idea that the Gods could not be appeased except by the sight of blood, though Moses did make a distinct advance when he forbade human sacrifices and substituted therefor, in the primitive minds of his childlike Bedouin followers, the ceremonial sacrifice of animals.
60D (4:5.6) The bestowal of a Paradise Son [JESUS Incarnate GOD-MAN here 7BC-AD30 and now STILL HERE FULLY IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH !] on your world was inherent in the situation of closing a planetary age; it was inescapable, and it was not made necessary for the purpose of winning the favor of God. This bestowal also happened to be the final personal act of a Creator Son in the long adventure of earning the experiential Sovereignty of his universe. ["It is finished !"] What a travesty upon the infinite character of God ! this teaching that his fatherly heart in all its austere [severe, somber, strict] coldness and hardness was so untouched by the misfortunes and sorrows of his creatures that his tender mercies were not forthcoming until he saw his blameless Son bleeding and dying upon the cross of Calvary! [Paul's "atonement doctrines" derived from earlier, false Egyptian, Persian, Mithraic and Jewish blood-sacrifice doctrines must be soon upstepped to Jesus' pure Teachings of God's love, and we each personally striving to ATTUNE to God's Spirit will of the Thought Adjuster within and to become as One (At-Onement Teaching) in God as Jesus Christ IS ! Yes, the New Testament is far superior to the barbaric Old Testament, but TOO MUCH of the so-called New Testament is just old, false beliefs taught by Paul and his imperfect religious experiences! Only the pure eternal Truth of Jesus must be our Guiding Standard and in His One Spirit of the Living, Loving Father God ! If any scripture doesn't sound up to (ring true to) the pure Spirit level of Jesus; it is just partial, relative truths mixed with many human errors.]
60D (4:5.7) But the inhabitants of Earth are to find deliverance from these ancient errors and pagan superstitions respecting the nature of the Universal Father. The Revelation of the Truth about God is appearing, and the human race is destined to know the Universal Father in all that beauty of character and loveliness of attributes so magnificently portrayed by the Creator Son who sojourned on Earth as the Son of Man and the Son of God.
61A (4:5.8) {Presented by a (Paradise-level) Divine Counselor (in our Superuniverse)}
