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 Paradise presence of the Universal Father.
Spiritually, man must be translated many times before he can attain a plane
that will yield the spiritual vision which will enable him to see even any one
of the Seven Master Spirits.
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.
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 Paradise a place to
receive all those whose survival status and spiritual nature make possible such
attainment. Therefore settle in your philosophy now and forever: To each of you
and to all of us, God is approachable, the Father is attainable, the way is
open; the forces of divine love and the ways and means of divine administration
are all interlocked in an effort to facilitate the advancement of every worthy
intelligence of every universe to the Paradise presence of the Universal
Father.
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.
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