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GOD’S RELATION TO THE INDIVIDUAL
THE GOD OF PERSONALITY |
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CEDOMIL VUGRINCIC, M.D.,
Ph.D. |
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In the previous Interim-Papers we have reviewed
the meanings of the TRUE WORSHIP of the Paradise Universal Father, the PRAYER
SUPPLICATIONS to the realms of the Paradise Eternal Son and His Spirit of
Truth, and qualified PRAYER REALIZATIONS by the spirit agencies of the Holy
Spirit, the Mind of the Paradise Conjoint Actor. The following Interim-Paper is
devoted to further enlightenment about the true nature of God.
*** The 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 Personality 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. Personality 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 The 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. The 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. Capacity 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. The 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. Having 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. The 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 The personality
circuit of the universe of universes is centered in the person of the
Universal Father, and the As 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. Concerning 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. And 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. (This
is the fifth and last of the series presenting the narrative of the Universal
Father by a Divine Counselor of Uversa). Reference: The Urantia Book, Paper 5, Section 6 |
