(62.1) 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.
(62.2) 5:0.2 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.
(62.3) 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. 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.
(62.4) 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.
(63.1) 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.
(63.2) 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.
(63.3) 5:1.5
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.
(63.4) 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.
(63.5) 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.
(63.6) 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. 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.
(63.7) 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.
(64.1) 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.
(64.2) 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.
(64.3) 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.
(64.4) 5:2.1
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.
(64.5) 5:2.2
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.
(64.6) 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!
(64.7) 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. "
(65.1) 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.
(65.2) 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.
Bible References and Comparison
(65.3) 5:3.1
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.
(65.4) 5:3.2
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.
(65.5) 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.
(65.6) 5:3.4
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.
(66.1) 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.
(66.2) 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.
(66.3) 5:3.7
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.
(66.4) 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.
(66.5) 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.
(66.6) 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. 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.
(67.1) 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.
(67.2) 5:4.4 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.
(67.3) 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.
(67.4) 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.
(67.5) 5:4.7
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.
(67.6) 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.
(67.7) 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.
(67.8) 5:4.10
The Christian concept of God is an attempt to combine three separate teachings:
(67.9) 5:4.11 1.
The Hebrew concept —God as a vindicator of moral values, a righteous God.
(67.10) 5:4.12 2.
The Greek concept —God as a unifier, a God of wisdom.
(68.1) 5:4.13 3.
Jesus' concept —God as a living friend, a loving Father, the divine presence.
(68.2) 5:4.14 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.
(68.3) 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.
Bible References and Comparison
(68.4) 5:5.1 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.
(68.5) 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.
(68.6) 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.
(68.7) 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.
(68.8) 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.
(69.1) 5:5.6
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.
(69.2) 5:5.7
Mortal man secures three great satisfactions from religious experience, even in the days of his temporal sojourn on earth:
(69.3) 5:5.8
1. Intellectually he acquires the satisfactions of a more unified human consciousness.
(69.4) 5:5.9
2. Philosophically he enjoys the substantiation of his ideals of moral values.
(69.5) 5:5.10 3. Spiritually he thrives in the experience of divine companionship, in the spiritual satisfactions of true worship.
(69.6) 5:5.11
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.
(69.7) 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.
(69.8) 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.
(70.1) 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.
(70.2) 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.
(70.3) 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.
(70.4) 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.
(70.5) 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.
(70.6) 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.
(71.1) 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.
(71.2) 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.
(71.3) 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.
(71.4) 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.
(71.5) 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.
(71.6) 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.
(71.7) 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.
(72.1) 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.
(72.2) 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. ]
Bible References and Comparison
Paper 6. The Eternal Son