The Attributes of God

3:6.1With di­vine self­less­ness, con­sum­mate gen­eros­ity, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther re­lin­quishes au­thor­ity and del­e­gates power, but he is still pri­mal; his hand is on the mighty lever of the cir­cum­stances of the uni­ver­sal realms; he has re­served all fi­nal de­ci­sions and unerringly wields the all-pow­er­ful veto scepter of his eter­nal pur­pose with un­chal­lenge­able au­thor­ity over the wel­fare and des­tiny of the out­stretched, whirling, and ever-cir­cling cre­ation.

3:6.2The sov­er­eignty of God is un­lim­ited; it is the fun­da­men­tal fact of all cre­ation. The uni­verse was not in­ev­i­ta­ble. The uni­verse is not an ac­ci­dent, nei­ther is it self-ex­is­tent. The uni­verse is a work of cre­ation and is there­fore wholly sub­ject to the will of the Cre­ator. The will of God is di­vine truth, liv­ing love; there­fore are the per­fect­ing cre­ations of the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses char­ac­ter­ized by good­ness—near­ness to di­vin­ity; by po­ten­tial evil—re­mote­ness from di­vin­ity.

3:6.3All re­li­gious phi­los­o­phy, sooner or later, ar­rives at the con­cept of uni­fied uni­verse rule, of one God. Uni­verse causes can­not be lower than uni­verse ef­fects. The source of the streams of uni­verse life and of the cos­mic mind must be above the lev­els of their man­i­fes­ta­tion. The hu­man mind can­not be con­sis­tently ex­plained in terms of the lower or­ders of ex­is­tence. Man’s mind can be truly com­pre­hended only by rec­og­niz­ing the re­al­ity of higher or­ders of thought and pur­po­sive will. Man as a moral be­ing is in­ex­pli­ca­ble un­less the re­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is ac­knowl­edged.

3:6.4The mech­a­nis­tic philoso­pher pro­fesses to re­ject the idea of a uni­ver­sal and sov­er­eign will, the very sov­er­eign will whose ac­tiv­ity in the elab­o­ra­tion of uni­verse laws he so deeply rev­er­ences. What un­in­tended homage the mech­a­nist pays the law-Cre­ator when he con­ceives such laws to be self-act­ing and self-ex­plana­tory!

3:6.5It is a great blun­der to hu­man­ize God, ex­cept in the con­cept of the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster, but even that is not so stupid as com­pletely to mech­a­nize the idea of the First Great Source and Cen­ter.

3:6.6Does the Par­a­dise Fa­ther suf­fer? I do not know. The Cre­ator Sons most cer­tainly can and some­times do, even as do mor­tals. The Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit suf­fer in a mod­i­fied sense. I think the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther does, but I can­not un­der­stand how; per­haps through the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit or through the in­di­vid­u­al­ity of the Thought Ad­justers and other be­stowals of his eter­nal na­ture. He has said of the mor­tal races, “In all your af­flic­tions I am af­flicted.” He un­ques­tion­ably ex­pe­ri­ences a fa­therly and sym­pa­thetic un­der­stand­ing; he may truly suf­fer, but I do not com­pre­hend the na­ture thereof.

3:6.7The in­fi­nite and eter­nal Ruler of the uni­verse of uni­verses is power, form, en­ergy, pro­cess, pat­tern, prin­ci­ple, pres­ence, and ide­al­ized re­al­ity. But he is more; he is per­sonal; he ex­er­cises a sov­er­eign will, ex­pe­ri­ences self-con­scious­ness of di­vin­ity, ex­e­cutes the man­dates of a cre­ative mind, pur­sues the sat­is­fac­tion of the re­al­iza­tion of an eter­nal pur­pose, and man­i­fests a Fa­ther’s love and af­fec­tion for his uni­verse chil­dren. And all these more per­sonal traits of the Fa­ther can be bet­ter un­der­stood by ob­serv­ing them as they were re­vealed in the be­stowal life of Mi­chael, your Cre­ator Son, while he was in­car­nated on Uran­tia.

3:6.8God the Fa­ther loves men; God the Son serves men; God the Spirit in­spires the chil­dren of the uni­verse to the ever-as­cend­ing ad­ven­ture of find­ing God the Fa­ther by the ways or­dained by God the Sons through the min­istry of the grace of God the Spirit.

3:6.9[Be­ing the Di­vine Coun­selor as­signed to the pre­sen­ta­tion of the rev­e­la­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, I have con­tin­ued with this state­ment of the at­tri­butes of De­ity.]