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THE UNIVERSAL GOD The
Mystery of God |
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CEDOMIL VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D.
Interim Paper XXIII |
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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. ***** The infinity of the perfection of God is such that it
eternally constitutes Him a mystery. And the greatest of all the unfathomable mysteries of God is
the phenomenon of the divine indwelling of mortal minds. The manner in which
the Universal Father sojourns with the creatures of time is the most profound
of all universe mysteries; the divine presence in the mind of man is the
mystery of mysteries. The physical bodies of mortals are "the temples of
God." Notwithstanding that the Sovereign Creator Sons come near the
creatures of their inhabited worlds and "draw all men to
themselves"; though they "stand at the door" of consciousness
"and knock" and delight to come in to all who will "open the
doors of their hearts"; although there does exist this intimate personal
communion between the Creator Sons and their mortal creatures, nevertheless,
mortal men have something from God himself which actually dwells within them;
their bodies are the temples thereof. When the mortal soul is through down here, when its course
has been run in temporary form on earth, when its trial trip in the flesh is
finished, when the dust that composes the mortal tabernacle "returns to
the earth whence it came"; then, it is revealed, the indwelling
"Spirit shall return to God who gave it." There sojourns within
each moral being of this planet a fragment of God, a part and parcel of
divinity. It is not yet one with mortals by right of possession, but it is
designedly intended to be one with the mortal soul if it survives the mortal
existence. Celestials are constantly confronted with this mystery of
God; and are nonplused by the increasing unfolding of the endless panorama of
the truth of God’s infinite goodness, endless mercy, matchless wisdom, and
superb character. The divine mystery consists in the inherent difference
which exists between the finite and the infinite, the temporal and the
eternal, the time-space creature and the Universal Creator, the material and
the spiritual, the imperfection of man and the perfection of The God of universal love unfailingly manifests Him-Self
to every one of His creatures up to the fullness of that creature's capacity
to spiritually grasp the qualities of divine truth, beauty, and goodness. To every spirit being and to every mortal creature in
every sphere and on every world of the universe of universes, the Universal
Father reveals all of His gracious and divine Self that can be discerned or
comprehended by such spirit beings and by such mortal creatures. God is no respecter of persons, either spiritual or
material. The divine presence which any child of the universe enjoys at any
given moment is limited only by the capacity of such a creature to receive
and to discern the spirit actualities of the super-material world. As a reality in human spiritual experience God is not a
mystery. But when an attempt is made to make plain the realities of the
spirit world to the physical minds of the material order, mystery appears:
mysteries so subtle and so profound that only the faith-grasp of the
God-knowing mortal can achieve the philosophic miracle of the recognition of
the Infinite by the finite, the discernment of the eternal God by the evolving
mortals of the material worlds of time and space. Reference: The Urantia Book, Paper 1, Section 4
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