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GOD’S RELATION TO THE
INDIVIDUAL The Approach To God |
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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.
*** If the finite mind of man is unable to comprehend how so great
and so majestic a God as the Universal Father can descend from his eternal
abode in infinite perfection to fraternize with the individual human
creature, then must such a finite intellect rest assurance of divine
fellowship upon the truth of the fact that an actual fragment of the living
God resides within the intellect of every normal-minded and morally conscious
Urantia mortal. The indwelling Thought Adjusters are a part of the eternal
Deity of the God has distributed the infinity of his eternal nature
throughout the existential realities of his six absolute co-ordinates, but he
may, at any time, make direct personal contact with any part or phase or kind
of creation through the agency of his prepersonal fragments. And the eternal
God has also reserved to himself the prerogative of bestowing personality
upon the divine Creators and the living creatures of the universe of
universes, while he has further reserved the prerogative of maintaining
direct and parental contact with all these personal beings through the
personality circuit. 1. THE APPROACH TO GOD The inability of the finite creature to approach the infinite
Father is inherent, not in the Father's aloofness, but in the finiteness and
material limitations of created beings. The magnitude of the spiritual
difference between the highest personality of universe existence and the
lower groups of created intelligences is inconceivable. Were it possible for
the lower orders of intelligence to be transported instantly into the
presence of the Father himself, they would not know they were there. They
would there be just as oblivious of the presence of the Universal Father as
where they now are. There is a long, long road ahead of mortal man before he
can consistently and within the realms of possibility ask for safe conduct
into the Our Father is not in hiding; he is not in arbitrary seclusion.
He has mobilized the resources of divine wisdom in a never-ending effort to
reveal himself to the children of his universal domains. There is an infinite
grandeur and an inexpressible generosity connected with the majesty of his
love which causes him to yearn for the association of every created being who
can comprehend, love, or approach him; and it is, therefore, the limitations
inherent in you, inseparable from your finite personality and material
existence, that determine the time and place and circumstances in which you
may achieve the goal of the journey of mortal ascension and stand in the
presence of the Father at the center of all things. Although the approach to the Paradise presence of the Father
must await your attainment of the highest finite levels of spirit
progression, you should rejoice in the recognition of the ever-present
possibility of immediate communion with the bestowal spirit of the Father so
intimately associated with your inner soul and your spiritualizing self. The mortals of the realms of time and space may differ greatly
in innate abilities and intellectual endowment, they may enjoy environments
exceptionally favorable to social advancement and moral progress, or they may
suffer from the lack of almost every human aid to culture and supposed
advancement in the arts of civilization; but the possibilities for spiritual
progress in the ascension career are equal to all; increasing levels of
spiritual insight and cosmic meanings are attained quite independently of all
such sociomoral differentials of the diversified material environments on the
evolutionary worlds. However Urantia mortals may differ in their intellectual,
social, economic, and even moral opportunities and endowments, forget not
that their spiritual endowment is uniform and unique. They all enjoy the same
divine presence of the gift from the Father, and they are all equally
privileged to seek intimate personal communion with this indwelling spirit of
divine origin, while they may all equally choose to accept the uniform
spiritual leading of these Mystery Monitors. If mortal man is wholeheartedly spiritually motivated,
unreservedly consecrated to the doing of the Father's will, then, since he is
so certainly and so effectively spiritually endowed by the indwelling and
divine Adjuster, there cannot fail to materialize in that individual's
experience the sublime consciousness of knowing God and the supernal
assurance of surviving for the purpose of finding God by the progressive
experience of becoming more and more like him. Man is spiritually indwelt by a surviving Thought Adjuster. If
such a human mind is sincerely and spiritually motivated, if such a human
soul desires to know God and become like him, honestly wants to do the
Father's will, there exists no negative influence of mortal deprivation nor
positive power of possible interference which can prevent such a divinely
motivated soul from securely ascending to the portals of Paradise. The Father desires all his creatures to be in personal
communion with him. He has on The fact that vast time is involved in the attainment of God
makes the presence and personality of the Infinite none the less real. Your
ascension is a part of the circuit of the seven superuniverses, and though
you swing around it countless times, you may expect, in spirit and in status,
to be ever swinging inward. You can depend upon being translated from sphere
to sphere, from the outer circuits ever nearer the inner center, and some
day, doubt not, you shall stand in the divine and central presence and see
him, figuratively speaking, face to face. It is a question of the attainment
of actual and literal spiritual levels; and these spiritual levels are
attainable by any being who has been indwelt by a Mystery Monitor, and who
has subsequently eternally fused with that Thought Adjuster. The Father is not in spiritual hiding, but so many of his
creatures have hidden themselves away in the mists of their own willful
decisions and for the time being have separated themselves from the communion
of his spirit and the spirit of his Son by the choosing of their own perverse
ways and by the indulgence of the self-assertiveness of their intolerant
minds and unspiritual natures. Mortal man may draw near God and may repeatedly forsake the
divine will so long as the power of choice remains. Man's final doom is not
sealed until he has lost the power to choose the Father's will. There is
never a closure of the Father's heart to the need and the petition of his
children. Only do his offspring close their hearts forever to the Father's
drawing power when they finally and forever lose the desire to do his divine
will -- to know him and to be like him. Likewise is man's eternal destiny
assured when Adjuster fusion proclaims to the universe that such an ascender
has made the final and irrevocable choice to live the Father's will. The great God makes direct contact with mortal man and gives a
part of his infinite and eternal and incomprehensible self to live and dwell
within him. God has embarked upon the eternal adventure with man. If you
yield to the leadings of the spiritual forces in you and around you, you
cannot fail to attain the high destiny established by a loving God as the
universe goal of his ascendant creatures from the evolutionary worlds of
space. Reference: The Urantia Book, Paper 5, Section 1 |
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