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THE UNIVERSAL GOD God is a Universal
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CEDOMIL VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D.
Interim
Paper XXII |
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In the previous Interim-Papers
we have reviewed the meanings of the TRUE WORSHIP of the Eternal Son and His Spirit of
Truth, and qualified PRAYER REALIZATIONS by the spirit agencies of the Holy Spirit,
the mind expression of the The following Interim-Paper is
devoted to further enlightenment about the true nature of God.
*** "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 the man is "the offspring of God," he ought not to think
that the Father is like him-self
in form and physique because the man is said to be created "in Father’s
image" and indwelt
by Mystery Monitors dispatched from the central abode of God’s eternal
presence. Spirit
beings them-selves are real, notwithstanding they are invisible to human
eyes; even though
they are not made of flesh and blood. Said the seer of old: "Lo, he goes
by me, and
I see him not; he passes on also, but I perceive him not." The
man may constantly observe the works of God, he may be highly conscious of
the material evidences
of His majestic conduct, but rarely may the man gaze upon the visible
manifestation of
God’s divinity, not even to behold the presence of His delegated spirit of
human indwelling. The
Universal Father is not invisible because He is hiding Himself away from the
lowly creatures
of materialistic handicaps and limited spiritual endowments. The situation
rather is: "You
cannot see my face, for no mortal can see me and live." No material man
could behold the
spirit of God and preserve his mortal existence. The glory and the spiritual
brilliance of the
divine personality presence is
impossible of approach by the lower groups of spirit beings or
by any order of material personalities. The spiritual luminosity of the
Father's personal presence
is a "Light which no mortal man can approach; which no material creature
has seen
or can see." But it is not necessary to see God with the eyes of the
flesh in order to discern
Him by the faith-vision of the spiritualized mind. God
is a universal spirit; God is the Universal Person. The
Divine Counselor of Orvonton has personally stated: ‘I come forth from the
Eternal, and
I have repeatedly returned to the presence of the Universal Father. I know of
the actuality
and personality of the First Source and Center, the Eternal and Universal
Father. I
know that, while the great God is absolute, eternal, and infinite, he is also
good, divine, and
gracious. I know the truth of the great declarations: "God is
spirit" and "God is love," and
these two attributes are most completely revealed to the universe in the
Eternal Son.’ The
spirit nature of the Universal Father is shared fully with His coexistent
Self, the Eternal Son
of spirit
fully and unreservedly with their conjoint personality co-ordinate, the
Infinite Spirit. God's
spirit is, in and of Him-Self, absolute; in the Son it is unqualified, in the
Spirit, universal, and
in and by all of them, infinite. Only
the eternal levels of infinity are Absolute, and only on such levels is there
absolute finality
of oneness between the matter, mind, and spirit. The
Ultimate reality of the personal non-time/non-space cosmos is the absonite
spirit. The
Supreme personal reality of the finite creation is the spirit of time and
space. In
the universes God the Father is in potential, the overcontroller of matter,
mind, and spirit. Only
by means of His far-flung personality circuit does God deal directly with the
personalities of
His vast creation of will creatures. He is contactable outside of abroad
only through the presences of His will-fragmented entities, His Thought
Adjusters. This
evolution
of the immortal soul of the surviving creature is of the nature and divinity
of the Universal
Father. The minds of the evolutionary creatures originate in the local
universes and
must gain divine perfection by achieving those experiential transformations
of spiritual attainment
which are the inevitable result of a
creature's choosing to do the will of the Father in
heaven. In
the lower experience of man his mind is joined to matter. Such
material-linked minds cannot
survive mortal death. Mortal mind subservient to matter is destined to become
increasingly material and eventually will suffer its personality extinction; only the mind
yielded to spirit is destined to become increasingly
spiritual and ultimately will achieve oneness with the surviving and
guiding divine spirit and attain
survival and eternity of its personality existence. The technique of survival is embraced in the adjustments
of the human will and those transformations in the mortal mind whereby such a
God-conscious intellect gradually becomes spirit taught and eventually spirit led. This evolution of
the human mind from matter association to spirit union results in the transmutation
of the potentially spirit phases of the mortal mind into the morontia realities of the immortal
soul. Reference: The
Urantia Book, Paper 1, Section 3 (edit/modif.)
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