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Paper 5

God’s Relation to the Individual

Divine Counselor

5:0.1If the fi­nite mind of man is un­able to com­pre­hend how so great and so ma­jes­tic a God as the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther can de­scend from his eter­nal abode in in­fi­nite per­fec­tion to frat­er­nize with the in­di­vid­ual hu­man crea­ture, then must such a fi­nite in­tel­lect rest as­sur­ance of di­vine fel­low­ship upon the truth of the fact that an ac­tual frag­ment of the liv­ing God re­sides within the in­tel­lect of ev­ery nor­mal-minded and morally con­scious Uran­tia mor­tal. The in­dwelling Thought Ad­justers are a part of the eter­nal De­ity of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. Man does not have to go far­ther than his own in­ner ex­pe­ri­ence of the soul’s con­tem­pla­tion of this spir­i­tual-re­al­ity pres­ence to find God and at­tempt com­mu­nion with him.

5:0.2God has dis­tributed the in­fin­ity of his eter­nal na­ture through­out the ex­is­ten­tial re­al­i­ties of his six ab­so­lute co-or­di­nates, but he may, at any time, make di­rect per­sonal con­tact with any part or phase or kind of cre­ation through the agency of his preper­sonal frag­ments. And the eter­nal God has also re­served to him­self the pre­rog­a­tive of be­stow­ing per­son­al­ity upon the di­vine Cre­ators and the liv­ing crea­tures of the uni­verse of uni­verses, while he has fur­ther re­served the pre­rog­a­tive of main­tain­ing di­rect and pa­ren­tal con­tact with all these per­sonal be­ings through the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit.