The Nature of God

2:0.1Inas­much as man’s high­est pos­si­ble con­cept of God is em­braced within the hu­man idea and ideal of a pri­mal and in­fi­nite per­son­al­ity, it is per­mis­si­ble, and may prove help­ful, to study cer­tain char­ac­ter­is­tics of the di­vine na­ture which con­sti­tute the char­ac­ter of De­ity. The na­ture of God can best be un­der­stood by the rev­e­la­tion of the Fa­ther which Mi­chael of Neb­a­don un­folded in his man­i­fold teach­ings and in his su­perb mor­tal life in the flesh. The di­vine na­ture can also be bet­ter un­der­stood by man if he re­gards him­self as a child of God and looks up to the Par­a­dise Cre­ator as a true spir­i­tual Fa­ther.

2:0.2The na­ture of God can be stud­ied in a rev­e­la­tion of su­preme ideas, the di­vine char­ac­ter can be en­vis­aged as a por­trayal of su­per­nal ide­als, but the most en­light­en­ing and spir­i­tu­ally ed­i­fy­ing of all rev­e­la­tions of the di­vine na­ture is to be found in the com­pre­hen­sion of the re­li­gious life of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth, both be­fore and af­ter his at­tain­ment of full con­scious­ness of di­vin­ity. If the in­car­nated life of Mi­chael is taken as the back­ground of the rev­e­la­tion of God to man, we may at­tempt to put in hu­man word sym­bols cer­tain ideas and ide­als con­cern­ing the di­vine na­ture which may pos­si­bly con­tribute to a fur­ther il­lu­mi­na­tion and uni­fi­ca­tion of the hu­man con­cept of the na­ture and the char­ac­ter of the per­son­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

2:0.3In all our ef­forts to en­large and spir­i­tu­al­ize the hu­man con­cept of God, we are tremen­dously hand­i­capped by the lim­ited ca­pac­ity of the mor­tal mind. We are also se­ri­ously hand­i­capped in the ex­e­cu­tion of our as­sign­ment by the lim­i­ta­tions of lan­guage and by the pov­erty of ma­te­rial which can be uti­lized for pur­poses of il­lus­tra­tion or com­par­i­son in our ef­forts to por­tray di­vine val­ues and to pre­sent spir­i­tual mean­ings to the fi­nite, mor­tal mind of man. All our ef­forts to en­large the hu­man con­cept of God would be well-nigh fu­tile ex­cept for the fact that the mor­tal mind is in­dwelt by the be­stowed Ad­juster of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and is per­vaded by the Truth Spirit of the Cre­ator Son. De­pend­ing, there­fore, on the pres­ence of these di­vine spir­its within the heart of man for as­sis­tance in the en­large­ment of the con­cept of God, I cheer­fully un­der­take the ex­e­cu­tion of my man­date to at­tempt the fur­ther por­trayal of the na­ture of God to the mind of man.