God’s Relation to the Individual

5:1.1The in­abil­ity of the fi­nite crea­ture to ap­proach the in­fi­nite Fa­ther is in­her­ent, not in the Fa­ther’s aloof­ness, but in the finite­ness and ma­te­rial lim­i­ta­tions of cre­ated be­ings. The mag­ni­tude of the spir­i­tual dif­fer­ence be­tween the high­est per­son­al­ity of uni­verse ex­is­tence and the lower groups of cre­ated in­tel­li­gences is in­con­ceiv­able. Were it pos­si­ble for the lower or­ders of in­tel­li­gence to be trans­ported in­stantly into the pres­ence of the Fa­ther him­self, they would not know they were there. They would there be just as obliv­i­ous of the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther as where they now are. There is a long, long road ahead of mor­tal man be­fore he can con­sis­tently and within the realms of pos­si­bil­ity ask for safe con­duct into the Par­a­dise pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Spir­i­tu­ally, man must be trans­lated many times be­fore he can at­tain a plane that will yield the spir­i­tual vi­sion which will en­able him to see even any one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

5:1.2Our Fa­ther is not in hid­ing; he is not in ar­bi­trary seclu­sion. He has mo­bi­lized the re­sources of di­vine wis­dom in a never-end­ing ef­fort to re­veal him­self to the chil­dren of his uni­ver­sal do­mains. There is an in­fi­nite grandeur and an in­ex­press­ible gen­eros­ity con­nected with the majesty of his love which causes him to yearn for the as­so­ci­a­tion of ev­ery cre­ated be­ing who can com­pre­hend, love, or ap­proach him; and it is, there­fore, the lim­i­ta­tions in­her­ent in you, in­sep­a­ra­ble from your fi­nite per­son­al­ity and ma­te­rial ex­is­tence, that de­ter­mine the time and place and cir­cum­stances in which you may achieve the goal of the jour­ney of mor­tal as­cen­sion and stand in the pres­ence of the Fa­ther at the cen­ter of all things.

5:1.3Al­though the ap­proach to the Par­a­dise pres­ence of the Fa­ther must await your at­tain­ment of the high­est fi­nite lev­els of spirit pro­gres­sion, you should re­joice in the rec­og­ni­tion of the ever-pres­ent pos­si­bil­ity of im­me­di­ate com­mu­nion with the be­stowal spirit of the Fa­ther so in­ti­mately as­so­ci­ated with your in­ner soul and your spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing self.

5:1.4The mor­tals of the realms of time and space may dif­fer greatly in in­nate abil­i­ties and in­tel­lec­tual en­dow­ment, they may en­joy en­vi­ron­ments ex­cep­tion­ally fa­vor­able to so­cial ad­vance­ment and moral prog­ress, or they may suf­fer from the lack of al­most ev­ery hu­man aid to cul­ture and sup­posed ad­vance­ment in the arts of civ­i­liza­tion; but the pos­si­bil­i­ties for spir­i­tual prog­ress in the as­cen­sion ca­reer are equal to all; in­creas­ing lev­els of spir­i­tual in­sight and cos­mic mean­ings are at­tained quite in­de­pen­dently of all such so­ciomoral dif­fer­en­tials of the di­ver­si­fied ma­te­rial en­vi­ron­ments on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

5:1.5How­ever Uran­tia mor­tals may dif­fer in their in­tel­lec­tual, so­cial, eco­nomic, and even moral op­por­tu­ni­ties and en­dow­ments, for­get not that their spir­i­tual en­dow­ment is uni­form and unique. They all en­joy the same di­vine pres­ence of the gift from the Fa­ther, and they are all equally priv­i­leged to seek in­ti­mate per­sonal com­mu­nion with this in­dwelling spirit of di­vine ori­gin, while they may all equally choose to ac­cept the uni­form spir­i­tual lead­ing of these Mys­tery Mon­i­tors.

5:1.6If mor­tal man is whole­heart­edly spir­i­tu­ally mo­ti­vated, un­re­servedly con­se­crated to the do­ing of the Fa­ther’s will, then, since he is so cer­tainly and so ef­fec­tively spir­i­tu­ally en­dowed by the in­dwelling and di­vine Ad­juster, there can­not fail to ma­te­ri­al­ize in that in­di­vid­ual’s ex­pe­ri­ence the sub­lime con­scious­ness of know­ing God and the su­per­nal as­sur­ance of sur­viv­ing for the pur­pose of find­ing God by the pro­gres­sive ex­pe­ri­ence of be­com­ing more and more like him.

5:1.7Man is spir­i­tu­ally in­dwelt by a sur­viv­ing Thought Ad­juster. If such a hu­man mind is sin­cerely and spir­i­tu­ally mo­ti­vated, if such a hu­man soul de­sires to know God and be­come like him, hon­estly wants to do the Fa­ther’s will, there ex­ists no neg­a­tive in­flu­ence of mor­tal de­pri­va­tion nor pos­i­tive power of pos­si­ble in­ter­fer­ence which can pre­vent such a di­vinely mo­ti­vated soul from se­curely as­cend­ing to the por­tals of Par­a­dise.

5:1.8The Fa­ther de­sires all his crea­tures to be in per­sonal com­mu­nion with him. He has on Par­a­dise a place to re­ceive all those whose sur­vival sta­tus and spir­i­tual na­ture make pos­si­ble such at­tain­ment. There­fore set­tle in your phi­los­o­phy now and for­ever: To each of you and to all of us, God is ap­proach­able, the Fa­ther is at­tain­able, the way is open; the forces of di­vine love and the ways and means of di­vine ad­min­is­tra­tion are all in­ter­locked in an ef­fort to fa­cil­i­tate the ad­vance­ment of ev­ery wor­thy in­tel­li­gence of ev­ery uni­verse to the Par­a­dise pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

5:1.9The fact that vast time is in­volved in the at­tain­ment of God makes the pres­ence and per­son­al­ity of the In­fi­nite none the less real. Your as­cen­sion is a part of the cir­cuit of the seven super­uni­verses, and though you swing around it count­less times, you may ex­pect, in spirit and in sta­tus, to be ever swing­ing in­ward. You can de­pend upon be­ing trans­lated from sphere to sphere, from the outer cir­cuits ever nearer the in­ner cen­ter, and some day, doubt not, you shall stand in the di­vine and cen­tral pres­ence and see him, fig­u­ra­tively speak­ing, face to face. It is a ques­tion of the at­tain­ment of ac­tual and lit­eral spir­i­tual lev­els; and these spir­i­tual lev­els are at­tain­able by any be­ing who has been in­dwelt by a Mys­tery Mon­i­tor, and who has sub­se­quently eter­nally fused with that Thought Ad­juster.

5:1.10The Fa­ther is not in spir­i­tual hid­ing, but so many of his crea­tures have hid­den them­selves away in the mists of their own will­ful de­ci­sions and for the time be­ing have sep­a­rated them­selves from the com­mu­nion of his spirit and the spirit of his Son by the choos­ing of their own per­verse ways and by the in­dul­gence of the self-as­sertive­ness of their in­tol­er­ant minds and un­spir­i­tual na­tures.

5:1.11Mor­tal man may draw near God and may re­peat­edly for­sake the di­vine will so long as the power of choice re­mains. Man’s fi­nal doom is not sealed un­til he has lost the power to choose the Fa­ther’s will. There is never a clo­sure of the Fa­ther’s heart to the need and the pe­ti­tion of his chil­dren. Only do his off­spring close their hearts for­ever to the Fa­ther’s draw­ing power when they fi­nally and for­ever lose the de­sire to do his di­vine will—to know him and to be like him. Like­wise is man’s eter­nal des­tiny as­sured when Ad­juster fu­sion pro­claims to the uni­verse that such an as­cender has made the fi­nal and ir­re­vo­ca­ble choice to live the Fa­ther’s will.

5:1.12The great God makes di­rect con­tact with mor­tal man and gives a part of his in­fi­nite and eter­nal and in­com­pre­hen­si­ble self to live and dwell within him. God has em­barked upon the eter­nal ad­ven­ture with man. If you yield to the lead­ings of the spir­i­tual forces in you and around you, you can­not fail to at­tain the high des­tiny es­tab­lished by a lov­ing God as the uni­verse goal of his as­cen­dant crea­tures from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space.