The Universal Father

1:2.1God is pri­mal re­al­ity in the spirit world; God is the source of truth in the mind spheres; God over­shad­ows all through­out the ma­te­rial realms. To all cre­ated in­tel­li­gences God is a per­son­al­ity, and to the uni­verse of uni­verses he is the First Source and Cen­ter of eter­nal re­al­ity. God is nei­ther man­like nor ma­chine­like. The First Fa­ther is uni­ver­sal spirit, eter­nal truth, in­fi­nite re­al­ity, and fa­ther per­son­al­ity.

1:2.2The eter­nal God is in­finitely more than re­al­ity ide­al­ized or the uni­verse per­son­al­ized. God is not sim­ply the su­preme de­sire of man, the mor­tal quest ob­jec­ti­fied. Nei­ther is God merely a con­cept, the power-po­ten­tial of righ­teous­ness. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is not a syn­onym for na­ture, nei­ther is he nat­u­ral law per­son­i­fied. God is a tran­scen­dent re­al­ity, not merely man’s tra­di­tional con­cept of su­preme val­ues. God is not a psy­cho­log­i­cal fo­cal­iza­tion of spir­i­tual mean­ings, nei­ther is he “the no­blest work of man.” God may be any or all of these con­cepts in the minds of men, but he is more. He is a sav­ing per­son and a lov­ing Fa­ther to all who en­joy spir­i­tual peace on earth, and who crave to ex­pe­ri­ence per­son­al­ity sur­vival in death.

1:2.3The ac­tu­al­ity of the ex­is­tence of God is demon­strated in hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence by the in­dwelling of the di­vine pres­ence, the spirit Mon­i­tor sent from Par­a­dise to live in the mor­tal mind of man and there to as­sist in evolv­ing the im­mor­tal soul of eter­nal sur­vival. The pres­ence of this di­vine Ad­juster in the hu­man mind is dis­closed by three ex­pe­ri­en­tial phe­nom­ena:

1:2.41. The in­tel­lec­tual ca­pac­ity for know­ing God—God-con­scious­ness.

1:2.52. The spir­i­tual urge to find God—God-seek­ing.

1:2.63. The per­son­al­ity crav­ing to be like God—the whole­hearted de­sire to do the Fa­ther’s will.

1:2.7The ex­is­tence of God can never be proved by sci­en­tific ex­per­i­ment or by the pure rea­son of log­i­cal de­duc­tion. God can be re­al­ized only in the realms of hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence; nev­er­the­less, the true con­cept of the re­al­ity of God is rea­son­able to logic, plau­si­ble to phi­los­o­phy, es­sen­tial to re­li­gion, and in­dis­pens­able to any hope of per­son­al­ity sur­vival.

1:2.8Those who know God have ex­pe­ri­enced the fact of his pres­ence; such God-know­ing mor­tals hold in their per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence the only pos­i­tive proof of the ex­is­tence of the liv­ing God which one hu­man be­ing can of­fer to an­other. The ex­is­tence of God is ut­terly be­yond all pos­si­bil­ity of dem­on­stra­tion ex­cept for the con­tact be­tween the God-con­scious­ness of the hu­man mind and the God-pres­ence of the Thought Ad­juster that in­dwells the mor­tal in­tel­lect and is be­stowed upon man as the free gift of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

1:2.9In the­ory you may think of God as the Cre­ator, and he is the per­sonal cre­ator of Par­a­dise and the cen­tral uni­verse of per­fec­tion, but the uni­verses of time and space are all cre­ated and or­ga­nized by the Par­a­dise corps of the Cre­ator Sons. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is not the per­sonal cre­ator of the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don; the uni­verse in which you live is the cre­ation of his Son Mi­chael. Though the Fa­ther does not per­son­ally cre­ate the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses, he does con­trol them in many of their uni­ver­sal re­la­tion­ships and in cer­tain of their man­i­fes­ta­tions of phys­i­cal, mindal, and spir­i­tual en­er­gies. God the Fa­ther is the per­sonal cre­ator of the Par­a­dise uni­verse and, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Eter­nal Son, the cre­ator of all other per­sonal uni­verse Cre­ators.

1:2.10As a phys­i­cal con­trol­ler in the ma­te­rial uni­verse of uni­verses, the First Source and Cen­ter func­tions in the pat­terns of the eter­nal Isle of Par­a­dise, and through this ab­so­lute grav­ity cen­ter the eter­nal God ex­er­cises cos­mic over­con­trol of the phys­i­cal level equally in the cen­tral uni­verse and through­out the uni­verse of uni­verses. As mind, God func­tions in the De­ity of the In­fi­nite Spirit; as spirit, God is man­i­fest in the per­son of the Eter­nal Son and in the per­sons of the di­vine chil­dren of the Eter­nal Son. This in­ter­re­la­tion of the First Source and Cen­ter with the co-or­di­nate Per­sons and Ab­so­lutes of Par­a­dise does not in the least pre­clude the di­rect per­sonal ac­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther through­out all cre­ation and on all lev­els thereof. Through the pres­ence of his frag­men­tized spirit the Cre­ator Fa­ther main­tains im­me­di­ate con­tact with his crea­ture chil­dren and his cre­ated uni­verses.