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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 5
GOD'S RELATION TO THE INDIVIDUAL
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 Urantia
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.
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God has distributed the infinity of his eternal nature
throughout the existential realities of his six absolute
co-ordinates, but he may, at any time, make direct
personal contact with any part or phase or kind of
creation through the agency of his prepersonal
fragments. And the eternal God has also reserved to
himself the prerogative of bestowing 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
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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. Were it possible for the
lower orders of intelligence to be transported instantly
into the presence of the Father himself, they would not
know they were there. They would there be just as
oblivious of the presence of the Universal Father as
where they now are. There is a long, long road ahead of
mortal man before he can consistently and within the
realms of possibility ask for safe conduct into the
Paradise presence of the Universal Father. Spiritually,
man must be translated many times before he can attain a
plane that will yield the spiritual vision which will
enable him to see even any one of the Seven Master
Spirits.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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However Urantia 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.
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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.
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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.
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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. 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.
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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 ways and by the indulgence of the
self-assertiveness of their intolerant minds and
unspiritual natures.
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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.
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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.
2. THE PRESENCE OF GOD
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The physical presence of the Infinite is the reality of
the material universe. The mind presence of Deity must
be determined by the depth of individual intellectual
experience and by the evolutionary personality level.
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.
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God lives in every one of his spirit-born sons. The
Paradise Sons always have access to the presence of God,
"the right hand of the Father," and all of his creature
personalities have access to the "bosom of the Father."
This refers to the personality circuit, whenever,
wherever, and however contacted, or otherwise entails
personal, self-conscious contact and communion with the
Universal Father, whether at the central abode or at
some other designated place, as on one of the seven
sacred spheres of Paradise.
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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
fact that you are not intellectually conscious of close
and intimate contact with the indwelling Adjuster does
not in the least disprove such an exalted experience.
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."
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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.
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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
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Though the Paradise Deities, from the universe
standpoint, are as one, in their spiritual relations
with such beings as inhabit Urantia 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.
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Supplications of all kinds belong to the realm of the
Eternal Son and the Son's spiritual organization.
Prayers, all formal communications, everything except
adoration and worship of the Universal Father, are
matters that concern a local universe; they do not
ordinarily proceed out of the realm of the jurisdiction
of a Creator Son. But worship is undoubtedly encircuited
and dispatched to the person of the Creator by the
function of the Father's personality circuit. We further
believe that such registry of the homage of an
Adjuster-indwelt creature is facilitated by the Father's
spirit presence. There exists a tremendous amount of
evidence to substantiate such a belief, and I know that
all orders of Father fragments are empowered to register
the bona fide adoration of their subjects acceptably in
the presence of the Universal Father. The Adjusters
undoubtedly also utilize direct prepersonal channels of
communication with God, and they are likewise able to
utilize the spirit-gravity circuits of the Eternal Son.
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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.
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The moment the element of self-interest intrudes upon
worship, that instant devotion translates from worship
to prayer and more appropriately should be directed to
the person of the Eternal Son or the Creator Son. But in
practical religious experience there exists no reason
why prayer should not be addressed to God the Father as
a part of true worship.
5:3.5
When you deal with the practical affairs of your daily
life, you are in the hands of the spirit personalities
having origin in the Third Source and Center; you are
co-operating with the agencies of the Conjoint Actor.
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
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.
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Sincere worship connotes the mobilization of all the
powers of the human personality under the dominance of
the evolving soul and subject to the divine
directionization of the associated Thought Adjuster. The
mind of material limitations can never become highly
conscious of the real significance of true worship.
Man's realization of the reality of the worship
experience is chiefly determined by the developmental
status of his evolving immortal soul. The spiritual
growth of the soul takes place wholly independently of
the intellectual self-consciousness.
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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.
4. GOD IN RELIGION
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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.
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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. With primitive
man, even polytheism is a relative unification of the
evolving concept of Deity; polytheism is monotheism in
the making. Sooner or later, God is destined to be
comprehended as the reality of values, the substance of
meanings, and the life of truth.
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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.
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The domains of philosophy and art intervene between the
nonreligious and the religious activities of the human
self. Through art and philosophy the material-minded man
is inveigled into the contemplation of the spiritual
realities and universe values of eternal meanings.
5:4.5
All religions teach the worship of Deity and some
doctrine of human salvation. The Buddhist religion
promises salvation from suffering, unending peace; the
Jewish religion promises salvation from difficulties,
prosperity predicated on righteousness; the Greek
religion promised salvation from disharmony, ugliness,
by the realization of beauty; Christianity promises
salvation from sin, sanctity; Mohammedanism provides
deliverance from the rigorous moral standards of Judaism
and Christianity. The religion of Jesus is salvation
from self, deliverance from the evils of creature
isolation in time and in eternity.
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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.
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The Zoroastrians had a religion of morals; the Hindus a
religion of metaphysics; the Confucianists a religion of
ethics. Jesus lived a religion of
service. All
these religions are of value in that they are valid
approaches to the religion of Jesus. 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
The Greek religion had a watchword "Know yourself"; the
Hebrews centered their teaching on "Know your God"; the
Christians preach a gospel aimed at a "knowledge of the
Lord Jesus Christ"; Jesus proclaimed the good news of
"knowing God, and yourself as a son of God." These
differing concepts of the purpose of religion determine
the individual's attitude in various life situations and
foreshadow the depth of worship and the nature of his
personal habits of prayer. The spiritual status of any
religion may be determined by the nature of its prayers.
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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:
1. The Hebrew
concept -- God as a vindicator of moral values, a
righteous God.
2. The Greek
concept -- God as a unifier, a God of wisdom.
3. Jesus' concept
-- God as a living friend, a loving Father, the divine
presence.
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It must therefore be evident that composite Christian
theology encounters great difficulty in attaining
consistency. This difficulty is further aggravated by
the fact that the doctrines of early Christianity were
generally based on the personal religious experience of
three different persons: Philo of Alexandria, Jesus of
Nazareth, and Paul of Tarsus.
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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.
5. THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF GOD
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Morality has its origin in the reason of
self-consciousness; it is superanimal but wholly
evolutionary. Human evolution embraces in its unfolding
all endowments antecedent to the bestowal of the
Adjusters and to the pouring out of the Spirit of Truth.
But the attainment of levels of morality does not
deliver man from the real struggles of mortal living.
Man's physical environment entails the battle for
existence; the social surroundings necessitate ethical
adjustments; the moral situations require the making of
choices in the highest realms of reason; the spiritual
experience (having realized God) demands that man find
him and sincerely strive to be like him.
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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.
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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.
5:5.4
Moral conduct is always an antecedent of evolved
religion and a part of even revealed religion, but never
the whole of religious experience. Social service is the
result of moral thinking and religious living. Morality
does not biologically lead to the higher spiritual
levels of religious experience. The adoration of the
abstract beautiful is not the worship of God; neither is
exaltation of nature nor the reverence of unity the
worship of God.
5:5.5
Evolutionary religion is the mother of the science, art,
and philosophy which elevated man to the level of
receptivity to revealed religion, including the bestowal
of Adjusters and the coming of the Spirit of Truth. The
evolutionary picture of human existence begins and ends
with religion, albeit very different qualities of
religion, one evolutional and biological, the other
revelational and periodical. And so, while religion is
normal and natural to man, it is also optional. Man does
not have to be religious against his will.
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Religious experience, being essentially spiritual, can
never be fully understood by the material mind; hence
the function of theology, the psychology of religion.
The essential doctrine of the human realization of God
creates a paradox in finite comprehension. 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. The difficulties and
paradoxes of religion are inherent in the fact that the
realities of religion are utterly beyond the mortal
capacity for intellectual comprehension.
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Mortal man secures three great satisfactions from
religious experience, even in the days of his temporal
sojourn on earth:
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1. Intellectually
he acquires the satisfactions of a more unified human
consciousness.
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2.
Philosophically he enjoys the substantiation of his
ideals of moral values.
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3. Spiritually
he thrives in the experience of divine companionship, in
the spiritual satisfactions of true worship.
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God-consciousness, as it is experienced by an evolving
mortal of the realms, must consist of three varying
factors, three differential levels of reality
realization. There is first the mind consciousness --
the comprehension of the
idea of God.
Then follows the soul consciousness -- the realization
of the ideal
of God. Last, dawns the spirit consciousness -- the
realization of the
spirit reality
of God. By the unification of these factors of the
divine realization, no matter how incomplete, the mortal
personality at all times overspreads all conscious
levels with a realization of the
personality
of God. In those mortals who have attained the Corps of
the Finality all this will in time lead to the
realization of the
supremacy of
God and may subsequently eventuate in the realization of
the ultimacy
of God, some phase of the absonite superconsciousness of
the Paradise Father.
5:5.12
The experience of God-consciousness remains the same
from generation to generation, but with each advancing
epoch in human knowledge the philosophic concept and the
theologic definitions of God
must change.
God-knowingness, religious consciousness, is a universe
reality, but no matter how valid (real) religious
experience is, it must be willing to subject itself to
intelligent criticism and reasonable philosophic
interpretation; it must not seek to be a thing apart in
the totality of human experience.
5:5.13
Eternal survival of personality is wholly dependent on
the choosing of the mortal mind, whose decisions
determine the survival potential of the immortal soul.
When the mind believes God and the soul knows God, and
when, with the fostering Adjuster, they all
desire God,
then is survival assured. Limitations of intellect,
curtailment of education, deprivation of culture,
impoverishment of social status, even inferiority of the
human standards of morality resulting from the
unfortunate lack of educational, cultural, and social
advantages, cannot invalidate the presence of the divine
spirit in such unfortunate and humanly handicapped but
believing individuals. The indwelling of the Mystery
Monitor constitutes the inception and insures the
possibility of the potential of growth and survival of
the immortal soul.
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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.
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.
5:6.2
Personality is one of the unsolved mysteries of the
universes. We are able to form adequate concepts of the
factors entering into the make-up of various orders and
levels of personality, but we do not fully comprehend
the real nature of the personality itself. We clearly
perceive the numerous factors which, when put together,
constitute the vehicle for human personality, but we do
not fully comprehend the nature and significance of such
a finite personality.
5:6.3
Personality is potential in all creatures who possess a
mind endowment ranging from the minimum of
self-consciousness to the maximum of God-consciousness.
But mind endowment alone is not personality, neither is
spirit nor physical energy. 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 co-ordinated 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.
5:6.5
The Adjusters of prepersonal status indwell numerous
types of mortal creatures, thus insuring that these same
beings may survive mortal death to personalize as
morontia creatures with the potential of ultimate spirit
attainment. For, when such a creature mind of
personality endowment is indwelt by a fragment of the
spirit of the eternal God, the prepersonal bestowal of
the personal Father, then does this finite personality
possess the potential of the divine and the eternal and
aspire to a destiny akin to the Ultimate, even reaching
out for a realization of the Absolute.
5:6.6
Capacity for divine personality is inherent in the
prepersonal Adjuster; capacity for human personality is
potential in the cosmic-mind endowment of the human
being. But the experiential personality of mortal man is
not observable as an active and functional reality until
after the material life vehicle of the mortal creature
has been touched by the liberating divinity of the
Universal Father, being thus launched upon the seas of
experience as a self-conscious and a (relatively)
self-determinative and self-creative personality. The
material self is truly and
unqualifiedly
personal.
5:6.7
The material self has personality and identity, temporal
identity; the prepersonal 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.
5:6.8
Having thus provided for the growth of the immortal soul
and having liberated man's inner self from the fetters
of absolute dependence on antecedent causation, the
Father stands aside. Now, man having thus been liberated
from the fetters of causation response, at least as
pertains to eternal destiny, and provision having been
made for the growth of the immortal self, the soul, it
remains for man himself to will the creation or to
inhibit the creation of this surviving and eternal self
which is his for the choosing. 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 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
Concerning those personalities who are not Adjuster
indwelt: The attribute of choice-liberty is also
bestowed by the Universal Father, and such persons are
likewise embraced in the great circuit of divine love,
the personality circuit of the Universal Father. God
provides for the sovereign choice of all true
personalities. 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 Divine Counselor
of Uversa.
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