The Universal Father

1:4.1The in­fin­ity of the per­fec­tion of God is such that it eter­nally con­sti­tutes him mys­tery. And the great­est of all the un­fath­omable mys­ter­ies of God is the phe­nom­e­non of the di­vine in­dwelling of mor­tal minds. The man­ner in which the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther so­journs with the crea­tures of time is the most pro­found of all uni­verse mys­ter­ies; the di­vine pres­ence in the mind of man is the mys­tery of mys­ter­ies.

1:4.2The phys­i­cal bod­ies of mor­tals are “the tem­ples of God.” Not­with­stand­ing that the Sov­er­eign Cre­ator Sons come near the crea­tures of their in­hab­ited worlds and “draw all men to them­selves”; though they “stand at the door” of con­scious­ness “and knock” and de­light to come in to all who will “open the doors of their hearts”; al­though there does ex­ist this in­ti­mate per­sonal com­mu­nion be­tween the Cre­ator Sons and their mor­tal crea­tures, nev­er­the­less, mor­tal men have some­thing from God him­self which ac­tu­ally dwells within them; their bod­ies are the tem­ples thereof.

1:4.3When you are through down here, when your course has been run in tem­po­rary form on earth, when your trial trip in the flesh is fin­ished, when the dust that com­poses the mor­tal taber­na­cle “re­turns to the earth whence it came”; then, it is re­vealed, the in­dwelling “Spirit shall re­turn to God who gave it.” There so­journs within each moral be­ing of this planet a frag­ment of God, a part and par­cel of di­vin­ity. It is not yet yours by right of pos­ses­sion, but it is de­signedly in­tended to be one with you if you sur­vive the mor­tal ex­is­tence.

1:4.4We are con­stantly con­fronted with this mys­tery of God; we are non­plused by the in­creas­ing un­fold­ing of the end­less pan­o­rama of the truth of his in­fi­nite good­ness, end­less mercy, match­less wis­dom, and su­perb char­ac­ter.

1:4.5The di­vine mys­tery con­sists in the in­her­ent dif­fer­ence which ex­ists be­tween the fi­nite and the in­fi­nite, the tem­po­ral and the eter­nal, the time-space crea­ture and the Uni­ver­sal Cre­ator, the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual, the im­per­fec­tion of man and the per­fec­tion of Par­a­dise De­ity. The God of uni­ver­sal love un­fail­ingly man­i­fests him­self to ev­ery one of his crea­tures up to the full­ness of that crea­ture’s ca­pac­ity to spir­i­tu­ally grasp the qual­i­ties of di­vine truth, beauty, and good­ness.

1:4.6To ev­ery spirit be­ing and to ev­ery mor­tal crea­ture in ev­ery sphere and on ev­ery world of the uni­verse of uni­verses, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther re­veals all of his gra­cious and di­vine self that can be dis­cerned or com­pre­hended by such spirit be­ings and by such mor­tal crea­tures. God is no re­specter of per­sons, ei­ther spir­i­tual or ma­te­rial. The di­vine pres­ence which any child of the uni­verse en­joys at any given mo­ment is lim­ited only by the ca­pac­ity of such a crea­ture to re­ceive and to dis­cern the spirit ac­tu­al­i­ties of the super­ma­te­rial world.

1:4.7As a re­al­ity in hu­man spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence God is not a mys­tery. But when an at­tempt is made to make plain the re­al­i­ties of the spirit world to the phys­i­cal minds of the ma­te­rial or­der, mys­tery ap­pears: mys­ter­ies so sub­tle and so pro­found that only the faith-grasp of the God-know­ing mor­tal can achieve the philo­sophic mir­a­cle of the rec­og­ni­tion of the In­fi­nite by the fi­nite, the dis­cern­ment of the eter­nal God by the evolv­ing mor­tals of the ma­te­rial worlds of time and space.