God’s Relation to the Individual

5:2.1The phys­i­cal pres­ence of the In­fi­nite is the re­al­ity of the ma­te­rial uni­verse. The mind pres­ence of De­ity must be de­ter­mined by the depth of in­di­vid­ual in­tel­lec­tual ex­pe­ri­ence and by the evo­lu­tion­ary per­son­al­ity level. The spir­i­tual pres­ence of Di­vin­ity must of ne­ces­sity be dif­fer­en­tial in the uni­verse. It is de­ter­mined by the spir­i­tual ca­pac­ity of re­cep­tiv­ity and by the de­gree of the con­se­cra­tion of the crea­ture’s will to the do­ing of the di­vine will.

5:2.2God lives in ev­ery one of his spirit-born sons. The Par­a­dise Sons al­ways have ac­cess to the pres­ence of God, “the right hand of the Fa­ther,” and all of his crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties have ac­cess to the “bo­som of the Fa­ther.” This refers to the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit, when­ever, wher­ever, and how­ever con­tacted, or oth­er­wise en­tails per­sonal, self-con­scious con­tact and com­mu­nion with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, whether at the cen­tral abode or at some other des­ig­nated place, as on one of the seven sa­cred spheres of Par­a­dise.

5:2.3The di­vine pres­ence can­not, how­ever, be dis­cov­ered any­where in na­ture or even in the lives of God-know­ing mor­tals so fully and so cer­tainly as in your at­tempted com­mu­nion with the in­dwelling Mys­tery Mon­i­tor, the Par­a­dise Thought Ad­juster. What a mis­take to dream of God far off in the skies when the spirit of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther lives within your own mind!

5:2.4It is be­cause of this God frag­ment that in­dwells you that you can hope, as you pro­gress in har­mo­niz­ing with the Ad­juster’s spir­i­tual lead­ings, more fully to dis­cern the pres­ence and trans­form­ing power of those other spir­i­tual in­flu­ences that sur­round you and im­pinge upon you but do not func­tion as an in­te­gral part of you. The fact that you are not in­tel­lec­tu­ally con­scious of close and in­ti­mate con­tact with the in­dwelling Ad­juster does not in the least dis­prove such an ex­alted ex­pe­ri­ence. The proof of fra­ter­nity with the di­vine Ad­juster con­sists wholly in the na­ture and ex­tent of the fruits of the spirit which are yielded in the life ex­pe­ri­ence of the in­di­vid­ual be­liever. “By their fruits you shall know them.”

5:2.5It is ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult for the mea­gerly spir­i­tu­al­ized, ma­te­rial mind of mor­tal man to ex­pe­ri­ence marked con­scious­ness of the spirit ac­tiv­i­ties of such di­vine en­ti­ties as the Par­a­dise Ad­justers. As the soul of joint mind and Ad­juster cre­ation be­comes in­creas­ingly ex­is­tent, there also evolves a new phase of soul con­scious­ness which is ca­pa­ble of ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the pres­ence, and of rec­og­niz­ing the spirit lead­ings and other super­ma­te­rial ac­tiv­i­ties, of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors.

5:2.6The en­tire ex­pe­ri­ence of Ad­juster com­mu­nion is one in­volv­ing moral sta­tus, men­tal mo­ti­va­tion, and spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence. The self-re­al­iza­tion of such an achieve­ment is mainly, though not ex­clu­sively, lim­ited to the realms of soul con­scious­ness, but the proofs are forth­com­ing and abun­dant in the man­i­fes­ta­tion of the fruits of the spirit in the lives of all such in­ner-spirit con­tac­tors.