GOD’S RELATION TO THE UNIVERSE

God and Nature

CEDOMIL VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D.
March 2004

Interim Paper XVI
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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.

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Material nature is, in a limited sense, the physical habit of God.

The conduct or action of God is qualified and provisionally modified by the experimental

plans and the evolutionary patterns of a local universe, a constellation, a local system,

or an evolutionary planet.

God acts in accordance with a well-defined, unchanging, immutable law throughout the

wide-spreading master universe; but He modifies the patterns of His action so as to

contribute to the co-ordinate and balanced conduct of each local universe, constellation,

local system, planet, and personality in accordance with the local objects, aims, and plans

of the finite projects of the evolutionary scheme unfolding.

Therefore, nature, as mortal man comprehends it, presents the underlying foundation and fundamental background of a changeless Deity and His immutable laws, modified by

upheavals and fluctuations experienced through the outworking of the local plans,

purposes, patterns, and conditions inaugurated and carried out by the local universe,

constellation, system, and planetary elemental nature forces and living personalities.

(For example: As God’s laws have been ordained in local universe of Nebadon, they

have been modified by the plans established by its rulers, the Christ Michael as the

Father’s Creator Son and the Divine Minister as the creative Minister of this universe;

and in addition all this operating laws have been further adversely influenced by the errors,

defaults, and insurrections of certain beings resident upon the Urantia planet and belonging

to the immediate local system of Satania).

Nature is a time-space resultant of two cosmic factors: first- the immutability, perfection,

and rectitude of Paradise Deity; and second- the experimental plans, executive blunders,

insurrectionary errors, incompleteness of development, and imperfection of wisdom of

the extra-Paradise creatures, from the highest to the lowest.

Nature’s threads of divine perfection carried from the circle of eternity, evident in its majestic uniformity, are therefore always modified, qualified, and perchance marred by the acts, mistakes, and disloyalties of the creature personalities of the evolutionary planets and local systems.

For these reasons the unsettled nature must be always considered to be of a changing mood

and whimsical withal, though stable underneath, and varied in accordance with the operating procedures of the local universe.

Nature is the perfection of Paradise divided by the incompletion, evil, and sin of the

unfurnished local universes.

The quotient is thus expressive of both the perfect and the partial, as part of eternal and

the temporal in existence.

Continuing evolution modifies nature by gradually augmenting the portion of Paradise

perfection and diminishing the content of personalities evil, error, and disharmony of

the temporary and transient physical nature.

God is not personally present in nature itself, or in any of its forces, for the phenomenon

of nature is the superimposition of the imperfections of progressive evolution, as evident

from the unfortunate Urantia’s evolutionary history, the consequences of insurrectionary

rebellion upon the Paradise foundations of God’s universal law.

The manifestations of the nature on the Urantia planet, is therefore dependent upon the

proper qualifications of energies patterned by the underlying God’s laws of perfection,

modified by the evolutionary plans of the local universe rulers.

It is a great travesty to worship nature, because it only represents the phase of the

universal divine power. Nature, in unsettled universe, represents the manifestation of

the unfinished, incomplete, and imperfect out-workings of the growth, development and

the progress of a universe experiment in cosmic evolution.

The observed evolutionary imperfections are merely the stop-moments in the exhibition

of the ever-moving reel in a realization and out-picturing of the infinity.

It is exactly the presence of these frame-freeze stop-moments or defect-interruptions of

perfection-continuity which makes it possible for the finite mind of material man to catch

a fleeting glimpse of the Divine Reality in time and space.

It is regretful that the “matter-nature” has been so marred through time, and that now her

beautiful blue face is so scarred and her features so seared by the various human rebellions

against each other, by various human misconducts, and the ignorance of the myriads of her inhabitants of which many are her “own-born” planetary creatures, but who have all

contributed to her injury and disfigurement in time because of their greed and selfish

personal interests.

Nevertheless, the “Mother” matter-nature is of the nether Paradise space potential origin,

and is not the spirit of God. The Father resides in the upper Paradise and His spirit

personality actualizes itself through the nature’s potential.

The preservation of the planetary nature and its life are the responsibilities placed upon

the evolving humanity, and it is the man’s responsibility, having the “dominion” over the

nature, to secure his own existence and the survival of the unified planetary race called “humanity”, which stands for human unity.

In summary, therefore, humans need to preserve and enjoy the nature and its beauty,

but nature itself should never be the object of human spiritual prayer and adoration,

but God the Father as the creator of the entire universe nature and its life.

Reference:

The Urantia Book, Paper 4, Sections 2 (edit/modif.),The Urantia Foundation