image of God

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• spirit presence of Father in bestowal of Adjusters

1:3.1“God is spirit.” He is a uni­ver­sal spir­i­tual pres­ence. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is an in­fi­nite spir­i­tual re­al­ity; he is “the sov­er­eign, eter­nal, im­mor­tal, in­vis­i­ble, and only true God.” Even though you are “the off­spring of God,” you ought not to think that the Fa­ther is like your­selves in form and physique be­cause you are said to be cre­ated “in his im­age”—in­dwelt by Mys­tery Mon­i­tors dis­patched from the cen­tral abode of his eter­nal pres­ence. Spirit be­ings are real, not­with­stand­ing they are in­vis­i­ble to hu­man eyes; even though they have not flesh and blood.

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3:4.7Fi­nite ap­pre­ci­a­tion of in­fi­nite qual­i­ties far tran­scends the log­i­cally lim­ited ca­pac­i­ties of the crea­ture be­cause of the fact that mor­tal man is made in the im­age of God—there lives within him a frag­ment of in­fin­ity. There­fore man’s near­est and dear­est ap­proach to God is by and through love, for God is love. And all of such a unique re­la­tion­ship is an ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in cos­mic so­ci­ol­ogy, the Cre­ator-crea­ture re­la­tion­ship—the Fa­ther-child af­fec­tion.

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6:5.7Though the Eter­nal Son can­not per­son­ally par­tic­i­pate in the be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers, he did sit in coun­cil with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in the eter­nal past, ap­prov­ing the plan and pledg­ing end­less co-op­er­a­tion, when the Fa­ther, in pro­ject­ing the be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers, pro­posed to the Son, “Let us make mor­tal man in our own im­age.” And as the spirit frag­ment of the Fa­ther dwells within you, so does the spirit pres­ence of the Son en­velop you, while these two for­ever work as one for your spir­i­tual ad­vance­ment.

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7:4.41. The Plan of Pro­gres­sive At­tain­ment. This is the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther’s plan of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cen­sion, a pro­gram un­re­servedly ac­cepted by the Eter­nal Son when he con­curred in the Fa­ther’s pro­posal, “Let us make mor­tal crea­tures in our own im­age.” This pro­vi­sion for up­step­ping the crea­tures of time in­volves the Fa­ther’s be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers and the en­dow­ing of ma­te­rial crea­tures with the pre­rog­a­tives of per­son­al­ity.

• man made in
• spirit presence of Father in bestowal of Adjusters

10:3.1Not­with­stand­ing there is only one De­ity, there are three pos­i­tive and di­vine per­son­al­iza­tions of De­ity. Re­gard­ing the en­dow­ment of man with the di­vine Ad­justers, the Fa­ther said: “Let us make mor­tal man in our own im­age.” Re­peat­edly through­out the Uran­tian writ­ings there oc­curs this ref­er­ence to the acts and do­ings of plu­ral De­ity, clearly show­ing rec­og­ni­tion of the ex­is­tence and work­ing of the three Sources and Cen­ters.

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32:2.8And then, when such a uni­verse has been so com­pletely or­ga­nized and so re­pletely manned, does the Cre­ator Son en­ter into the Fa­ther’s pro­posal to cre­ate mor­tal man in their di­vine im­age.

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74:7.20The moral law of Eden was lit­tle dif­fer­ent from the seven com­mand­ments of Dala­ma­tia. But the Adamites taught many ad­di­tional rea­sons for these com­mands; for in­stance, re­gard­ing the in­junc­tion against mur­der, the in­dwelling of the Thought Ad­juster was pre­sented as an ad­di­tional rea­son for not de­stroy­ing hu­man life. They taught that “whoso sheds man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed, for in the im­age of God made he man.”

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92:5.1In evo­lu­tion­ary re­li­gion, the gods are con­ceived to ex­ist in the like­ness of man’s im­age; in rev­e­la­tory re­li­gion, men are taught that they are God’s sons—even fash­ioned in the fi­nite im­age of di­vin­ity; in the syn­the­sized be­liefs com­pounded from the teach­ings of rev­e­la­tion and the prod­ucts of evo­lu­tion, the God con­cept is a blend of:

• spirit presence of Father in bestowal of Adjusters

108:6.3The Mys­tery Mon­i­tors are un­doubt­edly the be­stowal of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the re­flec­tion of the im­age of God abroad in the uni­verse. A great teacher once ad­mon­ished men that they should be re­newed in the spirit of their minds; that they be­come new men who, like God, are cre­ated in righ­teous­ness and in the com­ple­tion of truth. The Ad­juster is the mark of di­vin­ity, the pres­ence of God. The “im­age of God” does not re­fer to phys­i­cal like­ness nor to the cir­cum­scribed lim­i­ta­tions of ma­te­rial crea­ture en­dow­ment but rather to the gift of the spirit pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in the su­per­nal be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers upon the hum­ble crea­tures of the uni­verses.

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117:3.5Mor­tal man is more than fig­u­ra­tively made in the im­age of God. From a phys­i­cal stand­point this state­ment is hardly true, but with ref­er­ence to cer­tain uni­verse po­ten­tial­i­ties it is an ac­tual fact. In the hu­man race, some­thing of the same drama of evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment is be­ing un­folded as takes place, on a vastly larger scale, in the uni­verse of uni­verses. Man, a vo­li­tional per­son­al­ity, be­comes cre­ative in li­ai­son with an Ad­juster, an im­per­sonal en­tity, in the pres­ence of the fi­nite po­ten­tial­i­ties of the Su­preme, and the re­sult is the flow­er­ing of an im­mor­tal soul. In the uni­verses the Cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties of time and space func­tion in li­ai­son with the im­per­sonal spirit of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and be­come thereby cre­ative of a new power po­ten­tial of De­ity re­al­ity.