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GOD’S RELATION TO
THE UNIVERSE The realization of
God |
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CEDOMIL
VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D.
Interim Paper XVIII |
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In the previous Interim-
Papers we have reviewed the meanings of the TRUE WORSHIP of the agencies of the Holy Spirit,
the Mind of the The following Interim-Paper is
devoted to further enlightenment about the true nature of God.
***** God
the Father is the only position-stationary, and self-contained being in the
whole universe of
universes, having no outside, no beyond, no future, and no past. God
is absolute self-willed, self-existent and universal creative spirit presence
of the eternal “now”,
manifesting through His actualizing purposive absolute universal energies. Since
God is self-existent, He is absolutely independent, and His very identity is
changeless: “I,
the Lord, change not.” God
is immutable, and yet He can pass from simplicity to complexity, from
identity to variation,
from quiescence to motion, from infinity to finitude, from the divine to the
human, and
from unity to duality and tri-unity, because He has Will, i.e. He is divine
Will-Power. God
is the divine being of absolute self-determination; there are no limits to His
universe reactions,
save those which are self-imposed, and His free-willed acts are conditioned
only by
those divine qualities and perfect attributes which inherently characterize
His eternal nature. For
this reason the God relates Him-Self to the universe as the divine being of
final free-willed goodness
of creative infinity. The
Absolute Father (The Father-Absolute) is the creator of the central and
perfect universe of
Havona, and He is the Father of all universe Creators. Personality,
goodness, and numerous other characteristics, God shares with his created and
evolutionary
children, such as man, but the infinity of divine Will is His alone. God
is limited in His creative acts only by the sentiments of His eternal nature,
and by the dictates
of His infinite wisdom. God
personally chooses only that which is infinitely perfect, hence the supernal
perfection of
the central universe. God’s
Creator Sons fully share His divinity, even phases of His absoluteness, and
they are not
limited by that finality of wisdom which directs Father’s infinity of Will. Hence
in the Michaels order of sonship, creative free will becomes even more
active, wholly divine,
almost ultimate, and well-near absolute. The
Father is infinite and eternal, but to deny the possibility of His volitional
Self-limitation, amounts
to a denial of this very concept of His volitional absoluteness. God’s
absoluteness pervades all seven levels of universe reality. The
wholeness of this absolute nature is the subject to the relationship of the
Creator to
His creature personality. Precision
may characterize the Trinitarian justice in the universe of universes, but in
all His
vast family relationship with the creature of time, the God of universes is
governed by
His divine sentiment. First
and last, eternally, the infinite God is the divine FATHER of all creation. In
the God the Father, His free-willed performances are not ruled by His power,
nor are they
guided by His intellect alone. His personality is defined as consisting in
spirit and manifesting
Him-Self to the universes as the Father’s divine LOVE. Therefore, in all His personal
relations with the creature personalities of the universes, the First Source and Center
is always and consistently the loving God the Father. God,
as the Father in the highest sense, is eternally motivated by the perfect
idealism of
His divine love, and that tender nature finds its strongest expression and
greatest satisfaction
in loving His children, only asking to be loved back in return. In
science, God is the First Cause; in religion, He is the
universal and loving Father; and
in philosophy, He is the one being who exists by Him-Self, independent
of any other
being for existence, but beneficently conferring the reality of existence on
all things
and upon all created beings. It
requires a revelation to show that the First Cause of science and the
self-existent Source of
all, unified in the Absolute Being of philosophy, are the God of religion,
the Father full of mercy
and goodness, who has pledged to effect the eternal survival of His children
on earth. All
God’s children crave the concept of the Infinite, but worship the
experience-idea of the Father,
grasping anywhere and anytime on their ascension way to Paradise, the highest
concepts
of His Deity personality and divinity virtues they can attain at certain
point in time. The
consciousness of victorious ascending human life on earth is born of that creature’s faith,
which dares to challenge each of its recurring life episode of its solar
existence, when
confronted with the awful spectacle of human limitations, by declaring the
unfailing solar
victory in overcoming this world of finitude and mortality, by saying: “In
human my-self there lives the Father’s Thought Adjuster, the fragment of the
Father’s Absolute
spirit presence of the universe of universes, who can and will help me to
overcome.” Reference: The
Urantia Book, Paper 4, Section 4 (edit/modif.) |
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