2. The Reality of Godˆ

^1:2.1 Godˆ is primal reality in the spiritˆ world; Godˆ is the source of truth in the mindˆ spheres; Godˆ overshadows all throughout the material realms. To all created intelligences Godˆ is a personalityˆ, and to the  universeˆ of universesˆ he is the First Source and Centerˆ of eternalˆ reality. Godˆ is neither manlike nor machinelike. The First Father is universal spiritˆ, eternalˆ truth, infinite reality, and father personalityˆ.

^1:2.2 The eternalˆ Godˆ is infinitely more than reality idealized or the universeˆ personalized. Godˆ is not simply the supremeˆ desire of man, the mortalˆ quest objectified. Neither is Godˆ merely a concept, the powerˆ-potential of righteousness. The Universal Fatherˆ is not a synonym for nature, neither is he natural law personified. Godˆ is a transcendent reality, not merely man’s traditional concept of supremeˆ values. Godˆ is not a psychological focalization of spiritˆual meanings, neither is he “the noblest work of man.” Godˆ may be any or all of these concepts in the minds of men, but he is more. He is a saving person and a loving Father to all who enjoy spiritˆual peace on earth, and who crave to experience personalityˆ survival in death.

^1:2.3 The actualˆity of the existence of Godˆ is demonstrated in human experience by the indwellˆing of the divineˆ presence, the spiritˆ Monitor sent from Paradiseˆ to live in the mortalˆ mindˆ of man and there to assist in evolving the immortal soulˆ of eternalˆ survival. The presence of this divineˆ Adjusterˆ in the human mindˆ is disclosed by three experientialˆ phenomena:

^1:2.4 1. The intellectual capacity for knowing Godˆ — God-consciousness.

^1:2.5 2. The spiritˆual urge to find Godˆ — God-seeking.

^1:2.6 3. The personalityˆ craving to be like Godˆ — the wholehearted desire to do the Father’s will.

^1:2.7 The existence of Godˆ can never be proved by scientific experiment or by the pure reason of logical deduction. Godˆ can be realized only in the realms of human experience; nevertheless, the true concept of the reality of Godˆ is reasonable to logic, plausible to philosophy, essential to religion, and indispensable to any hope of personalityˆ survival.

^1:2.8 Those who know Godˆ have experienced the fact of his presence; such God-knowingˆ mortalsˆ hold in their personal experience the only positive proof of the existence of the living Godˆ which one human being can offer to another. The existence of Godˆ is utterly beyond all possibility of demonstration except for the contact between the God-consciousness of the human mindˆ and the God-presence of the Thought Adjusterˆˆ that indwellsˆ the mortalˆ intellect and is bestowed upon man as the free gift of the Universal Fatherˆ.

^1:2.9 In theory you may think of Godˆ as the Creatorˆ, and he is the personal creatorˆ of Paradiseˆ and the central universeˆˆ of perfectˆion, but the universesˆ of time and spaceˆ are all created and organized by the Paradiseˆ corps of the  Creatorˆ Sonsˆ. The Universal Fatherˆ is not the personal creatorˆ of the local universeˆˆ of Nebadonˆ; the universeˆ in which you live is the creation of his Son Michael. Though the Father does not personally create the evolutionaryˆ universesˆ, he does control them in many of their universal relationships and in certain of their manifestations of physical, mindal, and spiritˆual energies.  Godˆ the Fatherˆ is the personal creatorˆ of the Paradiseˆ universeˆ and, in association with the  Eternalˆ Sonˆ, the creatorˆ of all other personal universeˆ Creatorsˆ.

^1:2.10 As a physical controller in the material  universeˆ of universesˆ, the First Source and Centerˆ functions in the patternsˆ of the eternalˆ Isle of Paradiseˆˆ, and through this absoluteˆ gravityˆ center the eternalˆ Godˆ exercises cosmic overcontrol of the physical level equally in the central universeˆˆ and throughout the  universeˆ of universesˆ. As mindˆ, Godˆ functions in the Deityˆ of the Infinite Spiritˆˆ; as spiritˆ, Godˆ is manifest in the person of the  Eternalˆ Sonˆ and in the persons of the divineˆ children of the  Eternalˆ Sonˆ. This interrelation of the First Source and Centerˆ with the co-ordinate Persons and Absolutesˆ of Paradiseˆ does not in the least preclude the direct personal action of the Universal Fatherˆ throughout all creation and on all levels thereof. Through the presence of his fragmentized spiritˆ the Creatorˆ Father maintains immediate contact with his creature children and his created universesˆ.

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