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Topical Study number 145

"My Important HighLights of The Urantia (Earth) Book"

Part 5


Compiled April 05, 2023 by Dave@PureChristians.org

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.]

3:1.3 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."

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.

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 !]

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 to follow to 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."

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."

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

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 here.]

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 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

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.

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 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 !]

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.]

3:5.17 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

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 !]

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.}

Topical Study number 145

"My Important HighLights of The Urantia (Earth) Book"

Part 6


Compiled April 07, 2023 by Dave@PureChristians.org

PAPER 4. GOD'S RELATION TO THE UNIVERSE

0. INTRODUCTION

[Paper:Section.Paragraph (Numbers)]

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. ...

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 !]

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.

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." ...

4:1.10 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.

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.

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

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]

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]

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.

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 !]

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.

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 !]

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.

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

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.

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 !] ...

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. ...

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.

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

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 !]

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.

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

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 !!]

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.]

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.

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.

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.

4:5.6 The bestowal of a Paradise Son [JESUS Incarnate GOD-MAN here 7 BC - AD 30 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.]

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.

4:5.8 {Presented by a (Paradise-level) Divine Counselor (in our Superuniverse)}

Topical Study number 145

"My Important HighLights of The Urantia (Earth) Book"

Part 7


Compiled April 10, 2023 by Dave@PureChristians.org

PAPER 5 "GOD'S RELATION TO THE INDIVIDUAL"

0. INTRODUCTION

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5:0.1 If the finite mind of man is unable to comprehend how so great and so majestic a God as the Universal Father can descend from his eternal abode in infinite perfection to fraternize with the individual human creature, then must such a finite intellect rest assurance of divine fellowship upon the truth of the fact that an actual fragment of the living God resides within the intellect of every normal-minded and morally conscious Earth mortal. The indwelling Thought Adjusters are a part of the eternal Deity of the Paradise Father. Man does not have to go farther than his own inner experience of the soul's contemplation of this spiritual-reality presence to find God and attempt Communion with Him. [Another good way to realize God's Infinite Presence is to know that God as the Father-Infinite I AM has NO outside and NO beyond; therefore He has to Be within you here and now ! and you have to be within Him here and now ! The good word "enthusiasm" is better seen as "en-Theos-iasm" which means both "God within you" and "you within God". The Thought Adjuster is also the will of God within you to lead and guide your mind and soul; and this pure Spirit Essence is designed to Be the future, all-perfected Paradise Spirit Person You ! God has now become as you are ! so that you may eventually become as He is ! - all perfect in your assigned domains of activity !]

5:0.2 And the eternal God has also reserved to himself the prerogative of bestowing [I AM] Personality upon the divine Creators and the living creatures of the universe of universes, while He has further reserved the prerogative of maintaining direct and Parental Contact with all these personal beings through the Personality Circuit.

1. THE APPROACH TO GOD

5:1.1 The inability of the finite creature to approach the infinite Father is inherent, not in the Father's aloofness, but in the finiteness and material limitations of created beings. The magnitude of the spiritual difference between the highest Personality of universe existence and the lower groups of created intelligences is inconceivable.

5:1.2 Our Father is not in hiding; he is not in arbitrary seclusion. He has mobilized the resources of divine wisdom in a never-ending effort to reveal himself to the children of his universal domains. There is an infinite grandeur and an inexpressible generosity connected with the majesty of his love which causes him to yearn for the association of every created being who can comprehend, love, or approach him; and it is, therefore, the limitations inherent in you, inseparable from your finite personality and material existence, that determine the time and place and circumstances in which you may achieve the goal of the journey of mortal ascension and stand in the presence of the Father at the center of all things. [on Eternal Paradise !]

5:1.3 Although the approach to the Paradise presence of the Father must await your attainment of the highest finite levels of spirit progression, you should rejoice in the recognition of the ever-present possibility of immediate Communion with the bestowal spirit of the Father so intimately associated with your inner soul and your spiritualizing self.

5:1.4 The mortals of the realms of time and space may differ greatly in innate abilities and intellectual endowment, they may enjoy environments exceptionally favorable to social advancement and moral progress, or they may suffer from the lack of almost every human aid to culture and supposed advancement in the arts of civilization; but the possibilities for spiritual progress in the ascension career are equal to all; increasing levels of spiritual insight and cosmic meanings are attained quite independently of all such sociomoral differentials of the diversified material environments on the evolutionary worlds.

5:1.5 However Earth mortals may differ in their intellectual, social, economic, and even moral opportunities and endowments, forget not that their spiritual endowment is uniform and unique. They all enjoy the same Divine Presence of the Gift from the Father, and they are all equally privileged to seek intimate personal Communion with this indwelling Spirit of divine origin, while they may all equally choose to accept the uniform spiritual leading of these Mystery Monitors.

5:1.6 If mortal man is wholeheartedly spiritually motivated, unreservedly consecrated to the doing of the Father’s will, then, since he is so certainly and so effectively spiritually endowed by the indwelling and divine Adjuster, there cannot fail to materialize in that individual’s experience the sublime consciousness of knowing God and the supernal assurance of surviving for the purpose of finding God by the progressive experience of becoming more and more like him.

5:1.7 Man is spiritually indwelt by a surviving Thought Adjuster. If such a human mind is sincerely and spiritually motivated, if such a human soul desires to know God and become like him, honestly wants to do the Father’s will, there exists no negative influence of mortal deprivation nor positive power of possible interference which can prevent such a divinely motivated soul from securely ascending to the portals of Paradise.

5:1.8 The Father desires all his creatures to be in personal Communion with him. He has on Paradise a place to receive all those whose survival status and spiritual nature make possible such attainment. [Jesus has made the perfect True Light Way for each and all humans to survive and to find the Father in Him !!! Amen ! Thank You Jesus ! ...] Therefore settle in your philosophy now and forever: To each of you and to all of us, God is approachable, the Father is attainable, the way is open; the forces of divine love and the ways and means of divine administration are all interlocked in an effort to facilitate the advancement of every worthy intelligence of every universe to the Paradise presence of the Universal Father. [Thank You our Universal Father and our Universe Creator Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit for these Sacred Gifts including our individual eternal life in God's Pure Light !]

5:1.9 The fact that vast time is involved in the attainment of God makes the presence and personality of the Infinite none the less real. Your ascension is a part of the circuit of the seven superuniverses, and though you swing around it countless times, you may expect, in spirit and in status, to be ever swinging inward. You can depend upon being translated from sphere to sphere, from the outer circuits ever nearer the inner center, and some day, doubt not, you shall stand in the divine and central presence and see him, figuratively speaking, face to face. It is a question of the attainment of actual and literal spiritual levels; and these spiritual levels are attainable by any being who has been indwelt by a Mystery Monitor, and who has subsequently eternally fused with that Thought Adjuster.

5:1.10 The Father is not in spiritual hiding, but so many of his creatures have hidden themselves away in the mists of their own willful decisions and for the time being have separated themselves from the Communion of his Spirit and the Spirit of his Son by the choosing of their own perverse [corrupt, wrong-minded, unrighteous] ways and by the indulgence of the self-assertiveness of their intolerant minds and unspiritual natures.

5:1.11 Mortal man may draw near God and may repeatedly forsake the divine will so long as the power of choice remains. Man’s final doom is not sealed until he has lost the power to choose the Father’s will. There is never a closure of the Father’s heart to the need and the petition of his children. Only do his offspring close their hearts forever to the Father’s drawing power when they finally and forever lose the desire to do his divine will—to know him and to be like him. Likewise is man’s eternal destiny assured when Adjuster fusion proclaims to the universe that such an ascender has made the final and irrevocable choice to live the Father’s will.

5:1.12 The great God makes direct contact with mortal man and gives a part of his infinite and eternal and incomprehensible Self to live and dwell within him. God has embarked upon the eternal adventure with man. If you yield to the leadings of the spiritual forces in you and around you, you cannot fail to attain the high destiny established by a loving God as the universe goal of his ascendant creatures from the evolutionary worlds of space. ["Onto us is Born (Incarnate Deity-Man) a Child, unto us a (Divine Creator) Son is given: and ..." Prayerfully and in the Spirit of Truth peruse again Isa 9:6 (and with or without also singing, listening or playing Handel's "Messiah")]

2. THE PRESENCE OF GOD

5:2.1 The spiritual presence of Divinity must of necessity be differential in the universe. It is determined by the spiritual capacity of receptivity and by the degree of the consecration of the creature's will to the doing of the divine will.

5:2.3 The divine presence cannot, however, be discovered anywhere in nature or even in the lives of God-knowing mortals so fully and so certainly as in your attempted communion with the indwelling Mystery Monitor, the Paradise Thought Adjuster. What a mistake to dream of God far off in the skies when the spirit of the Universal Father lives within your own mind !

5:2.4 It is because of this God fragment that indwells you that you can hope, as you progress in harmonizing with the Adjuster's spiritual leadings, more fully to discern the Presence and Transforming Power of those other spiritual influences that surround you and impinge upon you but do not function as an integral part of you. ... The proof of fraternity with the divine Adjuster consists wholly in the nature and extent of the fruits of the Spirit which are yielded in the life experience of the individual believer. "By their fruits you shall know them."

5:2.5 It is exceedingly difficult for the meagerly spiritualized, material mind of mortal man to experience marked consciousness of the spirit activities of such divine entities as the Paradise Adjusters. As the soul of joint mind and Adjuster creation becomes increasingly existent, there also evolves a new phase of soul consciousness which is capable of experiencing the presence, and of recognizing the spirit leadings and other supermaterial activities, of the Mystery Monitors.

5:2.6 The entire experience of Adjuster communion is one involving moral status, mental motivation, and spiritual experience. The self-realization of such an achievement is mainly, though not exclusively, limited to the realms of soul consciousness, but the proofs are forthcoming and abundant in the manifestation of the fruits of the spirit in the lives of all such inner-spirit contactors.

3. TRUE WORSHIP

5:3.1 Though the Paradise Deities, from the universe standpoint, are as one, in their spiritual relations with such beings as inhabit Earth they are also three distinct and separate Persons. There is a difference between the Godheads in the matter of personal appeals, communion, and other intimate relations. In the highest sense, we worship the Universal Father and him only. True, we can and do worship the Father as He is manifested in his Creator Sons, but it is the Father, directly or indirectly, who is worshiped and adored. [The Paradise Father and our Creator Father-Son Jesus Christ Michael are One in Spirit here upon each of us Humans.]

5:3.3 Worship is for its own sake; prayer embodies a self- or creature-interest element; that is the great difference between worship and prayer. There is absolutely no self-request or other element of personal interest in true worship; we simply worship God for what we comprehend him to be. Worship asks nothing and expects nothing for the worshiper. We do not worship the Father because of anything we may derive from such veneration; we render such devotion and engage in such worship as a natural and spontaneous reaction to the recognition of the Father's matchless personality and because of his lovable nature and adorable attributes.

5:3.5 And so it is: You worship God; pray to, and commune with, the Son; and work out the details of your earthly sojourn in connection with the intelligences of the Infinite Spirit operating on your world and throughout your universe.

5:3.6 [Very Important:] The Creator or Sovereign Sons who preside over the destinies of the local universes stand in the place of both the Universal Father and the Eternal Son of Paradise. These Universe Sons receive, in the name of the Father, the adoration of worship and give ear to the pleas of their petitioning subjects throughout their respective creations. To the children of a local universe a Michael Son is, to all practical intents and purposes, God. He is the local universe personification of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son. The Infinite Spirit maintains personal contact with the children of these realms through the Universe Spirits, the administrative and creative associates of the Paradise Creator Sons.

5:3.7 ... The spiritual growth of the soul takes place wholly independently of the intellectual self-consciousness. [Wonderful ! Soul is just like you; soul is the more enduring, potentially eternal you who can survive physical death and who can be re-personalized in a higher morontia (soul-form) super-body up on the next of seven mansion worlds made by Jesus Christ Michael for our further rehabilitation on the way to higher Spirit status later.]

5:3.8 The worship experience consists in the sublime attempt of the betrothed Adjuster to communicate to the divine Father the inexpressible longings and the unutterable aspirations of the human soul--the conjoint creation of the God-seeking mortal mind and the God-revealing immortal Adjuster. Worship is, therefore, the act of the material mind's assenting to the attempt of its spiritualizing self, under the guidance of the associated spirit, to communicate with God as a faith son of the Universal Father. The mortal mind consents to worship; the immortal soul craves and initiates worship; the divine Adjuster presence conducts such worship in behalf of the mortal mind and the evolving immortal soul. True worship, in the last analysis, becomes an experience realized on four cosmic levels: the intellectual, the morontial, the spiritual, and the personal--the consciousness of mind, soul, and spirit, and their unification in personality. [Tremendous !! Thank You our loving and gracious Father God !!! Please peruse this paragraph several times ! Morontia is a soul reality that is super-physical, but is a sub-spiritual reality. More on this later.]

4. GOD IN RELIGION

5:4.1 The morality of the religions of evolution drives men forward in the God quest by the motive power of fear. The religions of Revelation allure men to seek for a God of love because they crave to become like him. But religion is not merely a passive feeling of "absolute dependence" and "surety of survival"; it is a living and dynamic experience of divinity attainment predicated on humanity service.

5:4.2 The great and immediate service of true religion is the establishment of an enduring unity in human experience, a lasting peace and a profound assurance.

5:4.3 God is not only the determiner of destiny; He is man's eternal destination. All nonreligious human activities seek to bend the universe to the distorting service of self; the truly religious individual seeks to identify the self with the universe and then to dedicate the activities of this unified self to the service of the universe family of fellow beings, human and superhuman.

5:4.5 All religions teach the worship of Deity and some doctrine of human salvation. ... The religion of Jesus is salvation from self, deliverance from the evils of creature isolation in time and in eternity.

5:4.6 The Hebrews based their religion on goodness; the Greeks on beauty; both religions sought truth. Jesus revealed a God of love, and love is all-embracing of truth, beauty, and goodness.

5:4.7 Jesus lived a religion of service. ... Religion is destined to become the reality of the spiritual unification of all that is good, beautiful, and true in human experience.

5:4.8 Jesus proclaimed the good news of "knowing God, and yourself as a son of God."

5:4.9 The concept of a semihuman and jealous God is an inevitable transition between polytheism and sublime monotheism. An exalted anthropomorphism is the highest attainment level of purely evolutionary religion. Christianity has elevated the concept of anthropomorphism from the ideal of the human to the transcendent and divine concept of the person of the glorified Christ. And this is the highest anthropomorphism that man can ever conceive.

5:4.10 The Christian concept of God is an attempt to combine three separate teachings:

5:4.11 #1. The Hebrew concept—God as a vindicator of moral values, a righteous God.

5:4.12 #2. The Greek concept—God as a unifier, a God of wisdom.

5:4.13 #3. Jesus' concept [of God] -- God as a living Friend, a loving Father, the Divine Presence. [personally experienced in living-faith God-consciousness in Jesus and the Father-Son Spirit Presence !]

5:4.15 In the study of the religious life of Jesus, view him positively. Think not so much of his sinlessness as of his righteousness, his loving service. Jesus upstepped the passive love disclosed in the Hebrew concept of the heavenly Father to the higher active and creature-loving affection of a God who is the Father of every individual, even of the wrongdoer. [Yes ! This still spiritually backward world needs most to know and believe the Good News Truth that each and every Human being is NOW a divinely Beloved son of God ! Thank You Jesus ! Eventually Divine-Human rights will be legislated worldwide and lived by an ever increasing number of Divine-Humans ! "Love your enemies" as they too are of Divine Spirit potential in destiny finality on Perfect Paradise in/with Jesus ! ]

5. THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF GOD

5:5.1 ... the spiritual experience (having realized God) demands that man find him and sincerely strive to be like him.

5:5.2 Religion is not grounded in the facts of science, the obligations of society, the assumptions of philosophy, or the implied duties of morality. Religion is an independent realm of human response to life situations and is unfailingly exhibited at all stages of human development which are postmoral. Religion may permeate all four levels of the realization of values and the enjoyment of universe fellowship: the physical or material level of self-preservation; the social or emotional level of fellowship; the moral or duty level of reason; the spiritual level of the consciousness of universe fellowship through divine worship.

5:5.3 The fact-seeking scientist conceives of God as the First Cause, a God of force. The emotional artist sees God as the ideal of beauty, a God of aesthetics. The reasoning philosopher is sometimes inclined to posit a God of universal unity, even a pantheistic Deity. The religionist of faith believes in a God who fosters survival, the Father in heaven, the God of love.

5:5.5 ... while religion is normal and natural to man, it is also optional. Man does not have to be religious against his will.

5:5.6 It is well-nigh impossible for human logic and finite reason to harmonize the concept of divine immanence, God within and a part of every individual, with the idea of God's transcendence, the divine domination of the universe of universes. These two essential concepts of Deity must be unified in the faith-grasp of the concept of the transcendence of a personal God and in the realization of the indwelling presence of a fragment of that God in order to justify intelligent worship and validate the hope of personality survival.

5:5.7 Mortal man secures three great satisfactions from religious experience, even in the days of his temporal sojourn on earth:

5:5.8 #1. Intellectually he acquires the satisfactions of a more unified human consciousness.

5:5.9 #2. Philosophically he enjoys the substantiation of his ideals of moral values.

5:5.10 #3. Spiritually [a mortal] thrives in the experience of divine companionship, in the spiritual satisfactions of true worship.

5:5.14 The ability of mortal parents to procreate is not predicated on their educational, cultural, social, or economic status. The union of the parental factors under natural conditions is quite sufficient to initiate offspring. A human mind discerning right and wrong and possessing the capacity to worship God, in union with a divine Adjuster, is all that is required in that mortal to initiate and foster the production of his immortal soul of survival qualities if such a spirit-endowed individual seeks God and sincerely desires to become like him, honestly elects to do the will of the Father in heaven. [Even your faith is a free Gift from God ! If you are having any problems in seeking and finding God AS A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, just sincerely and wholeheartedly continue to ask our Creator Father and Elder Brother Jesus and the Holy Spirit above and within you to help you Know God in your soul, and thus have perfect spiritual peace -- even the same Paradise peace of God that Jesus has !]

6. THE GOD OF PERSONALITY

5:6.1 The Universal Father is the God of personalities. The domain of universe personality, from the lowest mortal and material creature of personality status to the highest persons of creator dignity and divine status, has its center and circumference in the Universal Father. God the Father is the bestower and the conservator of every personality. And the Paradise Father is likewise the destiny of all those finite personalities who wholeheartedly choose to do the divine will, those who love God and long to be like him.

5:6.3 Personality is that quality and value in cosmic reality which is exclusively bestowed by God the Father upon these living systems of the associated and coordinated energies of matter, mind, and spirit. Neither is personality a progressive achievement. Personality may be material or spiritual, but there either is personality or there is no personality. The other-than-personal never attains the level of the personal except by the direct act of the Paradise Father.

5:6.4 The bestowal of personality is the exclusive function of the Universal Father, the personalization of the living energy systems which He endows with the attributes of relative creative consciousness and the freewill control thereof. There is no personality apart from God the Father, and no personality exists except for God the Father. The fundamental attributes of human selfhood, as well as the absolute Adjuster nucleus of the human personality, are the bestowals of the Universal Father, acting in his exclusively personal domain of cosmic ministry.

5:6.7 The material self has personality and identity, temporal identity; the pre-personal spirit Adjuster also has identity, eternal identity. This material personality and this spirit prepersonality are capable of so uniting their creative attributes as to bring into existence the surviving identity of the immortal soul. [What great Gifts from God !]

5:6.8 No other being, force, creator, or agency in all the wide universe of universes can interfere to any degree with the absolute sovereignty of the mortal free will, as it operates within the realms of choice, regarding the eternal destiny of the personality of the choosing mortal. As pertains to eternal survival, God has decreed the sovereignty of the material and mortal will, and that decree is absolute.

5:6.9 The bestowal of creature personality confers relative liberation from slavish response to antecedent causation, and the personalities of all such moral beings, evolutionary or otherwise, are centered in the personality of the Universal Father. They are ever drawn towards his Paradise presence by that kinship of being which constitutes the vast and universal family circle and fraternal circuit of the eternal God. There is a kinship of divine spontaneity in all personality.

5:6.10 The Personality circuit of the universe of universes is centered in the Person of the Universal Father, and the Paradise Father is personally conscious of, and in personal touch with, all personalities of all levels of self-conscious existence. And this personality consciousness of all creation exists independently of the mission of the Thought Adjusters.

5:6.11 As all gravity is circuited in the Isle of Paradise, as all Mind is circuited in the Conjoint Actor and all Spirit in the Eternal Son, so is all [yes, ALL !] Personality circuited in the Personal Presence of the Universal Father, and this circuit unerringly transmits the worship of all personalities to the Original and Eternal Personality.

5:6.12 No personal creature can be coerced into the eternal adventure; the portal of eternity opens only in response to the freewill choice of the freewill sons of the God of free will. [!!!]

5:6.13 And this represents my efforts to present the relation of the living God to the children of time. And when all is said and done, I can do nothing more helpful than to reiterate that God is your universe Father, and that you are all his planetary children.

5:6.14 {This is the fifth and last of the series presenting the narrative of the Universal Father by a Paradise Divine Counselor of Uversa.}

Topical Study number 145

"My Important HighLights of The Urantia (Earth) Book"

Part 8


Compiled April 12, 2023 by Dave@PureChristians.org

PAPER 6 THE ETERNAL SON

0. INTRODUCTION

6:0.1 The Eternal Son is the perfect and final expression of the "first" personal and absolute concept of the Universal Father. Accordingly, whenever and however the Father personally and absolutely expresses himself, He does so through his Eternal Son, who ever has been, now is, and ever will be, the living and divine Word. And this Eternal Son is residential at the center of all things, in association with, and immediately enshrouding the personal presence of, the Eternal and Universal Father.

6:0.2 We speak of God's "first" thought and allude to an impossible time origin of the Eternal Son for the purpose of gaining access to the thought channels of the human intellect. Such distortions of language represent our best efforts at contact-compromise with the time-bound minds of mortal creatures. In the sequential sense the Universal Father never could have had a first thought, nor could the Eternal Son ever have had a beginning. But I was instructed to portray the realities of eternity to the time-limited minds of mortals by such symbols of thought and to designate the relationships of eternity by such time concepts of sequentiality. [The absolute of time is eternity; the absolute of space is Paradise; the Absolute of Spirit You is GOD ! More later.]

6:0.3 The Eternal Son is the spiritual personalization of the Paradise Father's universal and infinite concept of divine Reality, unqualified Spirit, and absolute Personality. And thereby does the Son constitute the divine Revelation of the Creator identity of the Universal Father. The perfect Personality of the Son discloses that the Father is actually the eternal and universal Source of all the meanings and values of the spiritual, the volitional, the purposeful, and the personal.

6:0.4 In an effort to enable the finite mind of time to form some sequential concept of the relationships of the eternal and infinite beings of the Paradise Trinity, we utilize such license of conception as to refer to the "Father's first personal, universal, and infinite concept." It is impossible for me to convey to the human mind any adequate idea of the eternal relations of the Deities; therefore do I employ such terms as will afford the finite mind something of an idea of the relationship of these eternal beings in the subsequent eras of time. We believe the Son sprang from the Father; we are taught that both are unqualifiedly eternal. It is apparent, therefore, that no time creature can ever fully comprehend this mystery of a Son who is derived from the Father, and yet who is co-ordinately eternal with the Father himself. [God is not bound by time ! All time -- past and present and future -- IS NOW to GOD ! The Third Person of the Paradise Trinity -- the Infinite Spirit -- is also eternal ! So is infinite Paradise -- the infinite-sized Home of an infinite and eternal Family of God ! Such wonders ! and much more to come in an unending Revelation of God and His Realities to all of his Children !]

1. IDENTITY OF THE ETERNAL SON

6:1.1 The Eternal Son is the original and only-begotten Son of God. He is God the Son, the Second Person of Deity and the associate Creator of all [eternal, perfect, existential] things. As the Father is the First Great Source and Center, so the Eternal Son is the Second Great Source and Center.

6:1.2 The Eternal Son is the spiritual center and the divine administrator of the spiritual government of the universe of universes. The Universal Father is first a creator and then a controller; the Eternal Son is first a cocreator and then a spiritual administrator. "God is Spirit," and the Son is a Personal Revelation of that Spirit. The First Source and Center is the Volitional [Infinite Will/Decision] Absolute; the Second Source and Center is the Personality Absolute.

6:1.4 When a Son of the Eternal Son [our Divine Coordinate Creator Son Jesus Christ Michael] appeared on Earth, those who fraternized with this Divine Being in Human form alluded to him as "He who was from the beginning, whom we have heard, whom we have seen with our eyes, whom we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, even the Word of life." And this bestowal Son came forth from the Father just as truly as did the Original Son, as is suggested in one of his earthly prayers: "And now, O my Father, Glorify Me with your own Self, with the Glory which I had with You before this world was." [Yes, I, Brother Dave here, am given to know this saving Truth in personal Father-Son God-consciousness since my sudden spirit birthday of May 24, 1977 and forevermore ... This Sacred Vision in Spirit of the Unity and Eternity of God the Paradise Father and our Creator Father-Son Jesus is being granted to more and more humans here as we all continue to seek personally for our personal and loving and merciful Father God ! Blaise Pascal, Charles Finney, many others have written on some of this eternal-destiny God-conscious experience in Jesus Who is fully here as He the Spirit of All Truth -- OUR GOD and He has made each and every human being here of Earth a faith-son of God with a potential for eternal Life in the Light of God-seeking and GOD FINDING fully in Jesus fully here and now ! Amen !]

6:1.5 The Eternal Son is known by different names in various universes. In the central universe [of Paradise-Havona] He is known as the Co-ordinate Source, the Cocreator, and the Associate Absolute. On Uversa, the headquarters of the superuniverse, we designate the Son as the Co-ordinate Spirit Center and as the Eternal Spirit Administrator. On Salvington, the headquarters of your local universe, this Son is of record as the Second Eternal Source and Center. The Melchizedeks speak of him as the Son of Sons. On your world, but not in your system of inhabited spheres, this Original Son has been confused with a co-ordinate Creator Son, [Jesus Christ] Michael of Nebadon, who bestowed himself upon the mortal races of Earth. [Both God the Universal Father and God the Eternal Son are only Personally Present in and as our Sovereign Creator Father-Son Jesus Christ Michael. This will be further explained here later.]

6:1.6 Although any of the Paradise Sons may fittingly be called Sons of God, we are in the habit of reserving the designation "the Eternal Son" for this Original Son, the Second Source and Center, cocreator with the Universal Father of the central universe of power and perfection and cocreator of all other divine Sons who spring from the infinite Deities. [Co-ordinate Sons of God are the highest of the eternal Sons of God and are One with and as BOTH God the Father and God the Eternal Son in and to their local universes; sub-ordinate Sons of God --from the "lesser Christ' type Melchizedeks and all the way down to us humans here are not yet the fullness of God; but are increasingly being made perfect and more replete in universe and eternal experiences. Jesus is fully perfect and has all the Sovereignty and fullness of God to us in his/our large local universe. Now you know a little more why The God of All Reality on Paradise has eternally Revealed-commanded to us on His Son Jesus Christ Michael: "This is My Beloved Son; give heed to (obey and follow only) Him."]

2. NATURE OF THE ETERNAL SON

6:2.2 The Eternal Son is the eternal Word of God. He is wholly like the Father; in fact, the Eternal Son is God the Father personally manifest to the universe of universes. And thus it was and is and forever will be true of the Eternal Son and of all the co-ordinate Creator Sons: "He who has seen the Son has seen the Father." [Yes ! SEE JESUS: SEE GOD !!!]

6:2.3 In nature the Son is wholly like the Spirit Father. When we worship the Universal Father, actually we at the same time worship God the Son and God the Spirit. God the Son is just as divinely Real and Eternal in nature as God the Father.

6:2.8 In divine goodness I discern no difference between the Father and the Son. The Father loves his universe children as a Father; the Eternal Son looks upon all creatures both as Father and as Brother. [!!! Both the Paradise Eternal (Original) Son and our good universe Creator Father-Son Jesus are our Very Elder Brothers !!!]

3. MINISTRY OF THE FATHER'S LOVE

6:3.2 The Eternal Son is the great mercy Minister to all creation. Mercy is the essence of the Son's spiritual character. The mandates of the Eternal Son, as they go forth over the spirit circuits of the Second Source and Center, are keyed in tones of mercy.

6:3.5 God is love, the Son is mercy. Mercy is applied love, the Father's love in action in the Person of his Eternal Son. The love of this universal Son is likewise universal. As love is comprehended on a sex planet, the love of God is more comparable to the love of a father, while the love of the Eternal Son is more like the affection of a mother. Crude, indeed, are such illustrations, but I [a Divine Counselor from Paradise out here now] employ them in the hope of conveying to the human mind the thought that there is a difference, not in divine content but in quality and technique of expression, between the love of the Father and the love of the Son.

4. ATTRIBUTES OF THE ETERNAL SON

6:4.3 The omnipresence of the Original Son constitutes the spiritual unity of the universe of universes. The spiritual cohesion of all creation rests upon the everywhere active presence of the divine spirit of the Eternal Son. When we conceive of the Father's spiritual presence, we find it difficult to differentiate it in our thinking from the spiritual presence of the Eternal Son. The spirit of the Father is eternally resident in the spirit of the Son.

6:4.5 In his contact with personality, the Father acts in the personality circuit. In his personal and detectable contact with spiritual creation, He appears in the fragments of the totality of his Deity, and these Father fragments [The pure spirit of God within you, the Thought Adjuster, the Mystery Monitor, the future perfected You to Be!] have a solitary, unique, and exclusive function wherever and whenever they appear in the universes. In all such situations the spirit of the Son is co-ordinate with the spiritual function of the fragmented presence of the Universal Father.

6:4.6 Spiritually the Eternal Son is omnipresent. The spirit of the Eternal Son is most certainly with you and around you, but not within you and a part of you like the Mystery Monitor. The indwelling Father fragment adjusts the human mind to progressively divine attitudes, whereupon such an ascending mind becomes increasingly responsive to the spiritual drawing power of the all-powerful spirit-gravity circuit of the Second Source and Center.

6:4.9 The Eternal Son, as a loving, merciful, and ministering spiritual personality, is wholly and infinitely equal with the Universal Father, while in all those merciful and affectionate personal contacts with the ascendant beings of the lower realms the Eternal Son is just as kind and considerate, just as patient and long-suffering, as are his Paradise Sons in the local universes who so frequently bestow themselves upon the evolutionary worlds of time. [Our Creator Son Jesus Christ Michael Incarnated here on Earth from 7 B.C. to AD 30; and then returned as He the Spirit of all Truth to us, then and NOW and eternally ! and as GOD and as OUR GOD and our GODMAN ...and much more to be further explained here. Also see John 16:7-16, Rev 21:3-7, etc]

5. LIMITATIONS OF THE ETERNAL SON

6:5.7 Though the Eternal Son cannot personally participate in the bestowal of the Thought Adjusters, He did sit in council with the Universal Father in the eternal past, approving the plan and pledging endless co-operation, when the Father, in projecting the bestowal of the Thought Adjusters, proposed to the Son, "Let Us make mortal man in our own Image." And as the spirit fragment of the Father dwells within you, so does the Spirit Presence of the Son envelop you, while these two forever work as ONE for your spiritual advancement.

6. THE SPIRIT MIND

6:6.1 The Eternal Son is Spirit and has Mind, but not a mind or a spirit which mortal mind can comprehend. Mortal man perceives mind on the finite, cosmic, material, and personal levels. Man also observes mind phenomena in living organisms functioning on the subpersonal (animal) level, but it is difficult for him to grasp the nature of mind when associated with supermaterial beings and as a part of exclusive Spirit Personalities. Mind must, however, be differently defined when it refers to the spirit level of existence, and when it is used to denote spirit functions of intelligence. That kind of mind which is directly allied with spirit is comparable neither to that mind which co-ordinates spirit and matter nor to that mind which is allied only with matter.

6:6.4 The Eternal Son is wholly spiritual; man is very nearly entirely material; therefore much pertaining to the Spirit Personality of the Eternal Son, to his seven spiritual spheres encircling Paradise and to the nature of the impersonal creations of the Paradise Son, will have to await your attainment of spirit status following your completion of the morontia [soul] ascension of your local universe. And then, as you pass through the superuniverse and on to Havona [one billion immense spiritual spheres !] many of these spirit-concealed mysteries will clarify as you begin to be endowed with the "mind of the spirit" -- spiritual insight.

7. PERSONALITY OF THE ETERNAL SON

6:7.1 The Eternal Son is that infinite Personality from whose unqualified personality fetters the Universal Father escaped by the technique of trinitization, and by virtue of which He has ever since continued to bestow himself in endless profusion upon his ever-expanding universe of Creators and creatures. The Son is Absolute Personality; God is Father Personality -- the Source of personality, the Bestower of personality, the Cause of personality. Every personal being derives personality from the Universal Father just as the Original Son eternally derives his Personality from the Paradise Father. [We humans on Urantia (Earth) are now in the I AM Personality Circuit of God the Paradise Universal Father. I AM]

6:7.2 The Personality of the Paradise Son is absolute and purely spiritual, and this Absolute Personality is also the divine and eternal Pattern, first, of the Father's bestowal of Personality upon the Conjoint Actor and, subsequently, of his bestowal of personality upon the myriads of his creatures throughout a far-flung universe. [Here, our Creator Son Jesus is the Pattern Personality for you and for me ! In Jesus we are in the Spirit Image of God with the Spirit Identity of Jesus and his universe Family of God ! Jesus Christ is also the full Presence of both God the Universal Father and God the Eternal Son to us. More on this later.]

6:7.3 The Eternal Son is truly a merciful Minister, a divine Spirit, a spiritual Power, and a Real Personality. The Son is the spiritual and personal nature of God made manifest to the universes -- the sum and substance of the First Source and Center, divested of all that which is nonpersonal, extradivine, nonspiritual, and pure potential. But it is impossible to convey to the human mind a word picture of the beauty and grandeur of the supernal Personality of the Eternal Son. Everything that tends to obscure the Universal Father operates with almost equal influence to prevent the conceptual recognition of the Eternal Son. You must await your attainment of Paradise, and then you will understand why I was unable to portray the character of this Absolute Personality to the understanding of the finite mind. [Always know and believe the Truth-Fact that the best way for us to realize God the Father and God the Eternal Son and God the Infinite Spirit is to know and continue to learn the supernal (Divine, from Above) Life and Teachings of our Coordinate Creator Son of God -GODMAN -- JESUS ! See JESUS: See GOD: They Are One in Spirit here upon all and also within us believing faith-sons of God ! Amen ! ]

8. REALIZATION OF THE ETERNAL SON

6:8.1 Concerning identity, nature, and other attributes of Personality, the Eternal Son is the full equal, the perfect complement, and the eternal counterpart of the Universal Father. In the same sense that God is the Universal Father, the Son is the Universal Mother. And all of us, high and low, constitute their universal Family. [Tremendous !! Amen ! Just as Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are our universe Father and Mother as One Combined Father-Son Spirit, God the Universal Father and God the Eternal Son are our Deity Grand-Parents; and all are as One in Spirit here with and within each of us ! There are other ways of stating these same Truths that will be introduced later.]

6:8.2 To appreciate the character of the Son, you should study the revelation of the divine character of the Father; they are forever and inseparably ONE. As Divine Personalities they are virtually indistinguishable by the lower orders of intelligence. They are not so difficult of separate recognition by those whose origin is in the Creative acts of the Deities themselves. Beings of nativity in the central universe and on Paradise discern the Father and the Son not only as one Personal Unity of universal Control but also as two separate Personalities functioning in definite domains of universe administration.

6:8.5 Even though the Eternal Son is the pattern of mortal personality attainment, you find it easier to grasp the Reality of both the Father and the Spirit because the Father is the Actual Bestower of your human personality and the Infinite Spirit is the Absolute Source of your mortal mind. But as you ascend in the Paradise path of spiritual progression, the Personality of the Eternal Son will become increasingly Real to you, and the Reality of his infinitely spiritual Mind will become more discernible to your progressively spiritualizing mind.

6:8.6 Never can the concept of the Eternal Son shine brightly in your material or subsequent morontial [soul-level] mind; not until you spiritize and commence your spirit ascension will the comprehension of the Personality of the Eternal Son begin to equal the vividness of your concept of the personality of the Creator Son of Paradise origin who, in person and as a person, onetime incarnated and lived on Earth as a man among men. [Yes ! Behold now in Spirit our True GODMAN JESUS CHRIST ! This good and divine time in Eternity is NOW ...] 6:8.7 Throughout your local universe experience the Creator Son, whose Personality is comprehensible by man, must compensate for your inability to grasp the full significance of the more exclusively spiritual, but none the less personal, Eternal Son of Paradise. As you progress through your seventh superuniverse and Havona, [one billion immense, perfect-perfected spheres] as you leave behind you [for awhile, until returning as Paradise Finaliters back to Jesus Christ and working in our original local universe in this Supreme Age] the vivid picture and deep memories of the Creator Son of your local universe, the passing of this material and morontia experience will be compensated by ever-enlarging concepts and intensifying comprehension of the Eternal Son of Paradise, whose Reality and nearness will ever augment as you progress Paradiseward. [Later we will go with Our Good Master Jesus into greater adventures in the much larger Master Universe of the Paradise Trinity ... augmenting Reality of God without end for us !] 6:8.8 The Eternal Son is a grand and glorious Personality. Although it is beyond the powers of the mortal and material mind to grasp the Actuality of the Personality of such an Infinite Being, doubt not, HE IS A PERSON. I know whereof I speak. Times almost without number I have stood in the Divine Presence of this Eternal Son and then journeyed forth in the universe to execute his gracious bidding. [To do the One United Will of the Holy Father-Son-Spirit of Truth here, we are lovingly Directed in Spirit and in Truth to always follow (obey, give heed to) our Master Jesus our Creator Father and Very Elder Brother ... More on the Eternal Son's relations to the Universe next.] PAPER 7 RELATION OF THE ETERNAL SON TO THE UNIVERSE

INTRODUCTION

7:0.3 As the upholder of spirit realities, the Second Source and Center is the eternal counterpoise [counterbalance] of the Isle of Paradise, which so magnificently upholds all things material. Thus is the First Source and Center forever revealed in the material beauty of the exquisite patterns of the central Isle and in the spiritual values of the supernal Personality of the Eternal Son.

7:0.4 The Eternal Son is the actual upholder of the vast creation of spirit realities and spiritual beings. The spirit world is the habit, the personal conduct, of the Son, and the impersonal realities of spirit nature are always responsive to the will and purpose of the perfect Personality of the Absolute Son.

1. THE SPIRIT-GRAVITY CIRCUIT

7:1.3 Spirit realities respond to the drawing power of the center of spiritual gravity in accordance with their qualitative value, their actual degree of spirit nature. Spirit substance (quality) is just as responsive to spirit gravity as the organized energy of physical matter (quantity) is responsive to physical gravity. Spiritual values and spirit forces are real. From the viewpoint of personality, spirit is the soul of creation; matter is the shadowy physical body.

7:1.4 The reactions and fluctuations of spirit gravity are ever true to the content of spiritual values, the qualitative spiritual status of an individual or a world. This drawing power is instantly responsive to the inter- and intraspirit values of any universe situation or planetary condition. Every time a spiritual reality actualizes in the universes, this change necessitates the immediate and instantaneous readjustment of spirit gravity. Such a new spirit is actually a part of the Second Source and Center; and just as certainly as mortal man becomes a spiritized being, he will attain the spiritual Son, the Center and Source of spirit gravity. [The First Source and Center -- God the Universal Father on Paradise -- originates and controls Personality gravity; The Third Source and Center -- God the Infinite Spirit -- originates and controls Mind gravity and universal energy manifestations; Paradise is the Source and Pattern for all primal force-energy and the origin of our local linear physical gravity circuit here. More later]

7:1.6 Spirit-gravity pull and response thereto operate not only on the universe as a whole but also even between individuals and groups of individuals. There is a spiritual cohesiveness among the spiritual and spiritized personalities of any world, race, nation, or believing group of individuals. There is a direct attractiveness of a spirit nature between spiritually minded persons of like tastes and longings. The term kindred spirits is not wholly a figure of speech. [There are also kindred personalities, kindred souls and kindred minds.]

7:1.7 Like the material gravity of Paradise, the spiritual gravity of the Eternal Son is absolute. Sin and rebellion may interfere with the operation of local universe circuits, but nothing can suspend the spirit gravity of the Eternal Son. The Lucifer rebellion [about 200,000 years ago, and Lucifer caused immediate defaults of Satan, and then Adam and Eve about 37,000 years ago. All evil spirits were curtailed and subdued by Jesus Christ when He sent the Spirit of Truth upon all flesh here in AD30 and NOW and always ! See John 12:31-32 and 16:11; Jude 1:6; I Peter 4:17; John 16:7-16 Sin and evils remain here because each human is finite -- imperfect still -- and has sacred God-given free will. More later. ] produced many changes in your system of inhabited worlds and on Earth, but we do not observe that the resultant spiritual quarantine of your planet in the least affected the presence and function of either the omnipresent spirit of the Eternal Son or the associated spirit-gravity circuit. [We enjoy perfect spiritual peace here in He the Holy Father-Son-Spirit of Truth -- even All Truth in/of/as God -- in Jesus Christ ! Amen !]

7:1.10 Viewed from the personality standpoint and by persons, the Eternal Son and the Deity Absolute appear to be related in the following way: The Eternal Son dominates the realm of actual spiritual values, whereas the Deity Absolute seems to pervade the vast domain of potential spirit values. All actual value of spirit nature finds lodgment in the gravity grasp of the Eternal Son but, if potential, then apparently in the presence of the Deity Absolute.

7:1.11 Spirit seems to emerge from the potentials of the Deity Absolute; evolving spirit finds correlation in the experiential and incomplete grasps of the Supreme and the Ultimate; spirit eventually finds final destiny in the absolute grasp of the spiritual gravity of the Eternal Son. This appears to be the cycle of experiential spirit, but existential spirit is inherent in the infinity of the Second Source and Center. [Complex ? Always remember: If God were small enough for our finite understanding, He/She/They would not be big enough for our real needs ! Also, only Spirit can Reveal Spirit to Spirit; thus you must be reborn -- Spirit born -- Born again to begin to grasp some of this in Spirit and in Father-Son Truth. This is possible here and now because of God's Gifts of your personality and God's spirit will within you and He the Spirit of All Truth --Jesus Christ Michael here with us ! Amen !]


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