The Universal Father

1:0.1The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is the God of all cre­ation, the First Source and Cen­ter of all things and be­ings. First think of God as a cre­ator, then as a con­trol­ler, and lastly as an in­fi­nite up­holder. The truth about the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther had be­gun to dawn upon man­kind when the prophet said: “You, God, are alone; there is none be­side you. You have cre­ated the heaven and the heaven of heav­ens, with all their hosts; you pre­serve and con­trol them. By the Sons of God were the uni­verses made. The Cre­ator cov­ers him­self with light as with a gar­ment and stretches out the heav­ens as a cur­tain.” Only the con­cept of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther—one God in the place of many gods—en­abled mor­tal man to com­pre­hend the Fa­ther as di­vine cre­ator and in­fi­nite con­trol­ler.

1:0.2The myr­i­ads of plan­e­tary sys­tems were all made to be even­tu­ally in­hab­ited by many dif­fer­ent types of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures, be­ings who could know God, re­ceive the di­vine af­fec­tion, and love him in re­turn. The uni­verse of uni­verses is the work of God and the dwell­ing place of his di­verse crea­tures. “God cre­ated the heav­ens and formed the earth; he es­tab­lished the uni­verse and cre­ated this world not in vain; he formed it to be in­hab­ited.”

1:0.3The en­light­ened worlds all rec­og­nize and wor­ship the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the eter­nal maker and in­fi­nite up­holder of all cre­ation. The will crea­tures of uni­verse upon uni­verse have em­barked upon the long, long Par­a­dise jour­ney, the fas­ci­nat­ing strug­gle of the eter­nal ad­ven­ture of at­tain­ing God the Fa­ther. The tran­scen­dent goal of the chil­dren of time is to find the eter­nal God, to com­pre­hend the di­vine na­ture, to rec­og­nize the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. God-know­ing crea­tures have only one su­preme am­bi­tion, just one con­sum­ing de­sire, and that is to be­come, as they are in their spheres, like him as he is in his Par­a­dise per­fec­tion of per­son­al­ity and in his uni­ver­sal sphere of righ­teous su­prem­acy. From the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther who in­hab­its eter­nity there has gone forth the su­preme man­date, “Be you per­fect, even as I am per­fect.” In love and mercy the mes­sen­gers of Par­a­dise have car­ried this di­vine ex­hor­ta­tion down through the ages and out through the uni­verses, even to such lowly an­i­mal-ori­gin crea­tures as the hu­man races of Uran­tia.

1:0.4This mag­nif­i­cent and uni­ver­sal in­junc­tion to strive for the at­tain­ment of the per­fec­tion of di­vin­ity is the first duty, and should be the high­est am­bi­tion, of all the strug­gling crea­ture cre­ation of the God of per­fec­tion. This pos­si­bil­ity of the at­tain­ment of di­vine per­fec­tion is the fi­nal and cer­tain des­tiny of all man’s eter­nal spir­i­tual prog­ress.

1:0.5Uran­tia mor­tals can hardly hope to be per­fect in the in­fi­nite sense, but it is en­tirely pos­si­ble for hu­man be­ings, start­ing out as they do on this planet, to at­tain the su­per­nal and di­vine goal which the in­fi­nite God has set for mor­tal man; and when they do achieve this des­tiny, they will, in all that per­tains to self-re­al­iza­tion and mind at­tain­ment, be just as re­plete in their sphere of di­vine per­fec­tion as God him­self is in his sphere of in­fin­ity and eter­nity. Such per­fec­tion may not be uni­ver­sal in the ma­te­rial sense, un­lim­ited in in­tel­lec­tual grasp, or fi­nal in spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence, but it is fi­nal and com­plete in all fi­nite as­pects of di­vin­ity of will, per­fec­tion of per­son­al­ity mo­ti­va­tion, and God-con­scious­ness.

1:0.6This is the true mean­ing of that di­vine com­mand, “Be you per­fect, even as I am per­fect,” which ever urges mor­tal man on­ward and beck­ons him in­ward in that long and fas­ci­nat­ing strug­gle for the at­tain­ment of higher and higher lev­els of spir­i­tual val­ues and true uni­verse mean­ings. This sub­lime search for the God of uni­verses is the su­preme ad­ven­ture of the in­hab­i­tants of all the worlds of time and space.