The Attributes of God

3:4.1The suc­ces­sive be­stowal of him­self upon the uni­verses as they are brought into be­ing in no wise lessens the po­ten­tial of power or the store of wis­dom as they con­tinue to re­side and re­pose in the cen­tral per­son­al­ity of De­ity. In po­ten­tial of force, wis­dom, and love, the Fa­ther has never less­ened aught of his pos­ses­sion nor be­come di­vested of any at­tri­bute of his glo­ri­ous per­son­al­ity as the re­sult of the un­stinted be­stowal of him­self upon the Par­a­dise Sons, upon his sub­or­di­nate cre­ations, and upon the man­i­fold crea­tures thereof.

3:4.2The cre­ation of ev­ery new uni­verse calls for a new ad­just­ment of grav­ity; but even if cre­ation should con­tinue in­def­i­nitely, eter­nally, even to in­fin­ity, so that even­tu­ally the ma­te­rial cre­ation would ex­ist with­out lim­i­ta­tions, still the power of con­trol and co-or­di­na­tion repos­ing in the Isle of Par­a­dise would be found equal to, and ad­e­quate for, the mas­tery, con­trol, and co-or­di­na­tion of such an in­fi­nite uni­verse. And sub­se­quent to this be­stowal of lim­it­less force and power upon a bound­less uni­verse, the In­fi­nite would still be sur­charged with the same de­gree of force and en­ergy; the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute would still be undi­min­ished; God would still pos­sess the same in­fi­nite po­ten­tial, just as if force, en­ergy, and power had never been poured forth for the en­dow­ment of uni­verse upon uni­verse.

3:4.3And so with wis­dom: The fact that mind is so freely dis­tributed to the think­ing of the realms in no wise im­pov­er­ishes the cen­tral source of di­vine wis­dom. As the uni­verses mul­ti­ply, and be­ings of the realms in­crease in num­ber to the lim­its of com­pre­hen­sion, if mind con­tin­ues with­out end to be be­stowed upon these be­ings of high and low es­tate, still will God’s cen­tral per­son­al­ity con­tinue to em­brace the same eter­nal, in­fi­nite, and all-wise mind.

3:4.4The fact that he sends forth spirit mes­sen­gers from him­self to in­dwell the men and women of your world and other worlds in no wise lessens his abil­ity to func­tion as a di­vine and all-pow­er­ful spirit per­son­al­ity; and there is ab­so­lutely no limit to the ex­tent or num­ber of such spirit Mon­i­tors which he can and may send out. This giv­ing of him­self to his crea­tures cre­ates a bound­less, al­most in­con­ceiv­able fu­ture pos­si­bil­ity of pro­gres­sive and suc­ces­sive ex­is­tences for these di­vinely en­dowed mor­tals. And this prodi­gal dis­tri­bu­tion of him­self as these min­is­ter­ing spirit en­ti­ties in no man­ner di­min­ishes the wis­dom and per­fec­tion of truth and knowl­edge which re­pose in the per­son of the all-wise, all-know­ing, and all-pow­er­ful Fa­ther.

3:4.5To the mor­tals of time there is a fu­ture, but God in­hab­its eter­nity. Even though I hail from near the very abid­ing place of De­ity, I can­not pre­sume to speak with per­fec­tion of un­der­stand­ing con­cern­ing the in­fin­ity of many of the di­vine at­tri­butes. In­fin­ity of mind alone can fully com­pre­hend in­fin­ity of ex­is­tence and eter­nity of ac­tion.

3:4.6Mor­tal man can­not pos­si­bly know the in­fini­tude of the heav­enly Fa­ther. Fi­nite mind can­not think through such an ab­so­lute truth or fact. But this same fi­nite hu­man be­ing can ac­tu­ally feel—lit­er­ally ex­pe­ri­ence—the full and undi­min­ished im­pact of such an in­fi­nite Fa­ther’s LOVE. Such a love can be truly ex­pe­ri­enced, al­beit while qual­ity of ex­pe­ri­ence is un­lim­ited, quan­tity of such an ex­pe­ri­ence is strictly lim­ited by the hu­man ca­pac­ity for spir­i­tual re­cep­tiv­ity and by the as­so­ci­ated ca­pac­ity to love the Fa­ther in re­turn.

3:4.7Fi­nite ap­pre­ci­a­tion of in­fi­nite qual­i­ties far tran­scends the log­i­cally lim­ited ca­pac­i­ties of the crea­ture be­cause of the fact that mor­tal man is made in the im­age of God—there lives within him a frag­ment of in­fin­ity. There­fore man’s near­est and dear­est ap­proach to God is by and through love, for God is love. And all of such a unique re­la­tion­ship is an ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in cos­mic so­ci­ol­ogy, the Cre­ator-crea­ture re­la­tion­ship—the Fa­ther-child af­fec­tion.