The Adjuster and the Soul

111:5.1The do­ing of the will of God is noth­ing more or less than an ex­hi­bi­tion of crea­ture will­ing­ness to share the in­ner life with God—with the very God who has made such a crea­ture life of in­ner mean­ing-value pos­si­ble. Shar­ing is God­like—di­vine. God shares all with the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit, while they, in turn, share all things with the di­vine Sons and spirit Daugh­ters of the uni­verses.

111:5.2The im­i­ta­tion of God is the key to per­fec­tion; the do­ing of his will is the se­cret of sur­vival and of per­fec­tion in sur­vival.

111:5.3Mor­tals live in God, and so God has willed to live in mor­tals. As men trust them­selves to him, so has he—and first—trusted a part of him­self to be with men; has con­sented to live in men and to in­dwell men sub­ject to the hu­man will.

111:5.4Peace in this life, sur­vival in death, per­fec­tion in the next life, ser­vice in eter­nity—all these are achieved (in spirit) now when the crea­ture per­son­al­ity con­sents—chooses—to sub­ject the crea­ture will to the Fa­ther’s will. And al­ready has the Fa­ther cho­sen to make a frag­ment of him­self sub­ject to the will of the crea­ture per­son­al­ity.

111:5.5Such a crea­ture choice is not a sur­ren­der of will. It is a con­se­cra­tion of will, an ex­pan­sion of will, a glo­ri­fi­ca­tion of will, a per­fect­ing of will; and such choos­ing raises the crea­ture will from the level of tem­po­ral sig­nif­i­cance to that higher es­tate wherein the per­son­al­ity of the crea­ture son com­munes with the per­son­al­ity of the spirit Fa­ther.

111:5.6This choos­ing of the Fa­ther’s will is the spir­i­tual find­ing of the spirit Fa­ther by mor­tal man, even though an age must pass be­fore the crea­ture son may ac­tu­ally stand in the fac­tual pres­ence of God on Par­a­dise. This choos­ing does not so much con­sist in the nega­tion of crea­ture will—“Not my will but yours be done”—as it con­sists in the crea­ture’s pos­i­tive af­fir­ma­tion: “It is my will that your will be done.” And if this choice is made, sooner or later will the God-choos­ing son find in­ner union (fu­sion) with the in­dwelling God frag­ment, while this same per­fect­ing son will find su­preme per­son­al­ity sat­is­fac­tion in the wor­ship com­mu­nion of the per­son­al­ity of man and the per­son­al­ity of his Maker, two per­son­al­i­ties whose cre­ative at­tri­butes have eter­nally joined in self-willed mu­tu­al­ity of ex­pres­sion—the birth of an­other eter­nal part­ner­ship of the will of man and the will of God.