The Universal Father

1:1.1Of all the names by which God the Fa­ther is known through­out the uni­verses, those which des­ig­nate him as the First Source and the Uni­verse Cen­ter are most of­ten en­coun­tered. The First Fa­ther is known by var­i­ous names in dif­fer­ent uni­verses and in dif­fer­ent sec­tors of the same uni­verse. The names which the crea­ture as­signs to the Cre­ator are much de­pen­dent on the crea­ture’s con­cept of the Cre­ator. The First Source and Uni­verse Cen­ter has never re­vealed him­self by name, only by na­ture. If we be­lieve that we are the chil­dren of this Cre­ator, it is only nat­u­ral that we should even­tu­ally call him Fa­ther. But this is the name of our own choos­ing, and it grows out of the rec­og­ni­tion of our per­sonal re­la­tion­ship with the First Source and Cen­ter.

1:1.2The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther never im­poses any form of ar­bi­trary rec­og­ni­tion, for­mal wor­ship, or slav­ish ser­vice upon the in­tel­li­gent will crea­tures of the uni­verses. The evo­lu­tion­ary in­hab­i­tants of the worlds of time and space must of them­selves—in their own hearts—rec­og­nize, love, and vol­un­tar­ily wor­ship him. The Cre­ator re­fuses to co­erce or com­pel the sub­mis­sion of the spir­i­tual free wills of his ma­te­rial crea­tures. The af­fec­tion­ate ded­i­ca­tion of the hu­man will to the do­ing of the Fa­ther’s will is man’s choic­est gift to God; in fact, such a con­se­cra­tion of crea­ture will con­sti­tutes man’s only pos­si­ble gift of true value to the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. In God, man lives, moves, and has his be­ing; there is noth­ing which man can give to God ex­cept this choos­ing to abide by the Fa­ther’s will, and such de­ci­sions, ef­fected by the in­tel­li­gent will crea­tures of the uni­verses, con­sti­tute the re­al­ity of that true wor­ship which is so sat­is­fy­ing to the love-dom­i­nated na­ture of the Cre­ator Fa­ther.

1:1.3When you have once be­come truly God-con­scious, af­ter you re­ally dis­cover the ma­jes­tic Cre­ator and be­gin to ex­pe­ri­ence the re­al­iza­tion of the in­dwelling pres­ence of the di­vine con­trol­ler, then, in ac­cor­dance with your en­light­en­ment and in ac­cor­dance with the man­ner and method by which the di­vine Sons re­veal God, you will find a name for the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther which will be ad­e­quately ex­pres­sive of your con­cept of the First Great Source and Cen­ter. And so, on dif­fer­ent worlds and in var­i­ous uni­verses, the Cre­ator be­comes known by nu­mer­ous ap­pel­la­tions, in spirit of re­la­tion­ship all mean­ing the same but, in words and sym­bols, each name stand­ing for the de­gree, the depth, of his en­throne­ment in the hearts of his crea­tures of any given realm.

1:1.4Near the cen­ter of the uni­verse of uni­verses, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is gen­er­ally known by names which may be re­garded as mean­ing the First Source. Far­ther out in the uni­verses of space, the terms em­ployed to des­ig­nate the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther more of­ten mean the Uni­ver­sal Cen­ter. Still far­ther out in the starry cre­ation, he is known, as on the head­quar­ters world of your lo­cal uni­verse, as the First Cre­ative Source and Di­vine Cen­ter. In one near-by con­stel­la­tion God is called the Fa­ther of Uni­verses. In an­other, the In­fi­nite Up­holder, and to the east, the Di­vine Con­trol­ler. He has also been des­ig­nated the Fa­ther of Lights, the Gift of Life, and the All-pow­er­ful One.

1:1.5On those worlds where a Par­a­dise Son has lived a be­stowal life, God is gen­er­ally known by some name in­dica­tive of per­sonal re­la­tion­ship, ten­der af­fec­tion, and fa­therly de­vo­tion. On your con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters God is re­ferred to as the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and on dif­fer­ent plan­ets in your lo­cal sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds he is var­i­ously known as the Fa­ther of Fa­thers, the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, the Ha­vona Fa­ther, and the Spirit Fa­ther. Those who know God through the rev­e­la­tions of the be­stowals of the Par­a­dise Sons, even­tu­ally yield to the sen­ti­men­tal ap­peal of the touch­ing re­la­tion­ship of the crea­ture-Cre­ator as­so­ci­a­tion and re­fer to God as “our Fa­ther.”

1:1.6On a planet of sex crea­tures, in a world where the im­pulses of pa­ren­tal emo­tion are in­her­ent in the hearts of its in­tel­li­gent be­ings, the term Fa­ther be­comes a very ex­pres­sive and ap­pro­pri­ate name for the eter­nal God. He is best known, most uni­ver­sally ac­knowl­edged, on your planet, Uran­tia, by the name God. The name he is given is of lit­tle im­por­tance; the sig­nif­i­cant thing is that you should know him and as­pire to be like him. Your proph­ets of old truly called him “the ev­er­last­ing God” and re­ferred to him as the one who “in­hab­its eter­nity.”