God’s Relation to the Individual

5:6.1The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is the God of per­son­al­i­ties. The do­main of uni­verse per­son­al­ity, from the low­est mor­tal and ma­te­rial crea­ture of per­son­al­ity sta­tus to the high­est per­sons of cre­ator dig­nity and di­vine sta­tus, has its cen­ter and cir­cum­fer­ence in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. God the Fa­ther is the be­stower and the con­ser­va­tor of ev­ery per­son­al­ity. And the Par­a­dise Fa­ther is like­wise the des­tiny of all those fi­nite per­son­al­i­ties who whole­heart­edly choose to do the di­vine will, those who love God and long to be like him.

5:6.2Per­son­al­ity is one of the un­solved mys­ter­ies of the uni­verses. We are able to form ad­e­quate con­cepts of the fac­tors en­ter­ing into the make-up of var­i­ous or­ders and lev­els of per­son­al­ity, but we do not fully com­pre­hend the real na­ture of the per­son­al­ity it­self. We clearly per­ceive the nu­mer­ous fac­tors which, when put to­gether, con­sti­tute the ve­hi­cle for hu­man per­son­al­ity, but we do not fully com­pre­hend the na­ture and sig­nif­i­cance of such a fi­nite per­son­al­ity.

5:6.3Per­son­al­ity is po­ten­tial in all crea­tures who pos­sess a mind en­dow­ment rang­ing from the min­i­mum of self-con­scious­ness to the max­i­mum of God-con­scious­ness. But mind en­dow­ment alone is not per­son­al­ity, nei­ther is spirit nor phys­i­cal en­ergy. Per­son­al­ity is that qual­ity and value in cos­mic re­al­ity which is ex­clu­sively be­stowed by God the Fa­ther upon these liv­ing sys­tems of the as­so­ci­ated and co-or­di­nated en­er­gies of mat­ter, mind, and spirit. Nei­ther is per­son­al­ity a pro­gres­sive achieve­ment. Per­son­al­ity may be ma­te­rial or spir­i­tual, but there ei­ther is per­son­al­ity or there is no per­son­al­ity. The other-than-per­sonal never at­tains the level of the per­sonal ex­cept by the di­rect act of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

5:6.4The be­stowal of per­son­al­ity is the ex­clu­sive func­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the per­son­al­iza­tion of the liv­ing en­ergy sys­tems which he en­dows with the at­tri­butes of rel­a­tive cre­ative con­scious­ness and the free­will con­trol thereof. There is no per­son­al­ity apart from God the Fa­ther, and no per­son­al­ity ex­ists ex­cept for God the Fa­ther. The fun­da­men­tal at­tri­butes of hu­man self­hood, as well as the ab­so­lute Ad­juster nu­cleus of the hu­man per­son­al­ity, are the be­stowals of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, act­ing in his ex­clu­sively per­sonal do­main of cos­mic min­istry.

5:6.5The Ad­justers of preper­sonal sta­tus in­dwell nu­mer­ous types of mor­tal crea­tures, thus in­sur­ing that these same be­ings may sur­vive mor­tal death to per­son­al­ize as mor­ontia crea­tures with the po­ten­tial of ul­ti­mate spirit at­tain­ment. For, when such a crea­ture mind of per­son­al­ity en­dow­ment is in­dwelt by a frag­ment of the spirit of the eter­nal God, the preper­sonal be­stowal of the per­sonal Fa­ther, then does this fi­nite per­son­al­ity pos­sess the po­ten­tial of the di­vine and the eter­nal and as­pire to a des­tiny akin to the Ul­ti­mate, even reach­ing out for a re­al­iza­tion of the Ab­so­lute.

5:6.6Ca­pac­ity for di­vine per­son­al­ity is in­her­ent in the preper­sonal Ad­juster; ca­pac­ity for hu­man per­son­al­ity is po­ten­tial in the cos­mic-mind en­dow­ment of the hu­man be­ing. But the ex­pe­ri­en­tial per­son­al­ity of mor­tal man is not ob­serv­able as an ac­tive and func­tional re­al­ity un­til af­ter the ma­te­rial life ve­hi­cle of the mor­tal crea­ture has been touched by the lib­er­at­ing di­vin­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, be­ing thus launched upon the seas of ex­pe­ri­ence as a self-con­scious and a (rel­a­tively) self-de­ter­mi­na­tive and self-cre­ative per­son­al­ity. The ma­te­rial self is truly and un­qual­i­fiedly per­sonal.

5:6.7The ma­te­rial self has per­son­al­ity and iden­tity, tem­po­ral iden­tity; the preper­sonal spirit Ad­juster also has iden­tity, eter­nal iden­tity. This ma­te­rial per­son­al­ity and this spirit preper­son­al­ity are ca­pa­ble of so unit­ing their cre­ative at­tri­butes as to bring into ex­is­tence the sur­viv­ing iden­tity of the im­mor­tal soul.

5:6.8Hav­ing thus pro­vided for the growth of the im­mor­tal soul and hav­ing lib­er­ated man’s in­ner self from the fet­ters of ab­so­lute de­pen­dence on an­te­ced­ent cau­sa­tion, the Fa­ther stands aside. Now, man hav­ing thus been lib­er­ated from the fet­ters of cau­sa­tion re­sponse, at least as per­tains to eter­nal des­tiny, and pro­vi­sion hav­ing been made for the growth of the im­mor­tal self, the soul, it re­mains for man him­self to will the cre­ation or to in­hibit the cre­ation of this sur­viv­ing and eter­nal self which is his for the choos­ing. No other be­ing, force, cre­ator, or agency in all the wide uni­verse of uni­verses can in­ter­fere to any de­gree with the ab­so­lute sov­er­eignty of the mor­tal free will, as it op­er­ates within the realms of choice, re­gard­ing the eter­nal des­tiny of the per­son­al­ity of the choos­ing mor­tal. As per­tains to eter­nal sur­vival, God has de­creed the sov­er­eignty of the ma­te­rial and mor­tal will, and that de­cree is ab­so­lute.

5:6.9The be­stowal of crea­ture per­son­al­ity con­fers rel­a­tive lib­er­a­tion from slav­ish re­sponse to an­te­ced­ent cau­sa­tion, and the per­son­al­i­ties of all such moral be­ings, evo­lu­tion­ary or oth­er­wise, are cen­tered in the per­son­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. They are ever drawn to­wards his Par­a­dise pres­ence by that kin­ship of be­ing which con­sti­tutes the vast and uni­ver­sal fam­ily cir­cle and fra­ter­nal cir­cuit of the eter­nal God. There is a kin­ship of di­vine spon­tane­ity in all per­son­al­ity.

5:6.10The per­son­al­ity cir­cuit of the uni­verse of uni­verses is cen­tered in the per­son of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and the Par­a­dise Fa­ther is per­son­ally con­scious of, and in per­sonal touch with, all per­son­al­i­ties of all lev­els of self-con­scious ex­is­tence. And this per­son­al­ity con­scious­ness of all cre­ation ex­ists in­de­pen­dently of the mis­sion of the Thought Ad­justers.

5:6.11As all grav­ity is cir­cuited in the Isle of Par­a­dise, as all mind is cir­cuited in the Con­joint Ac­tor and all spirit in the Eter­nal Son, so is all per­son­al­ity cir­cuited in the per­sonal pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and this cir­cuit unerringly trans­mits the wor­ship of all per­son­al­i­ties to the Orig­i­nal and Eter­nal Per­son­al­ity.

5:6.12Con­cern­ing those per­son­al­i­ties who are not Ad­juster in­dwelt: The at­tri­bute of choice-lib­erty is also be­stowed by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and such per­sons are like­wise em­braced in the great cir­cuit of di­vine love, the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. God pro­vides for the sov­er­eign choice of all true per­son­al­i­ties. No per­sonal crea­ture can be co­erced into the eter­nal ad­ven­ture; the por­tal of eter­nity opens only in re­sponse to the free­will choice of the free­will sons of the God of free will.

5:6.13And this rep­re­sents my ef­forts to pre­sent the re­la­tion of the liv­ing God to the chil­dren of time. And when all is said and done, I can do noth­ing more help­ful than to re­it­er­ate that God is your uni­verse Fa­ther, and that you are all his plan­e­tary chil­dren.

5:6.14[This is the fifth and last of the se­ries pre­sent­ing the nar­ra­tive of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther by a Di­vine Coun­selor of Uversa.]