3. Godˆ is a Universal Spiritˆ

^1:3.1 “Godˆ is spiritˆ.” He is a universal spiritˆual presence. The Universal Fatherˆ is an infinite spiritˆˆual reality; he is “the sovereign, eternalˆ, immortal, invisible, and only true Godˆ.” Even though you are “the offspring of Godˆ,” you ought not to think that the Father is like yourselves in form and physique because you are said to be created “in his image” — indwelt by Mystery Monitorsˆˆ dispatched from the central abode of his eternalˆ presence. Spiritˆ beings are real, notwithstanding they are invisible to human eyes; even though they have not flesh and blood.

^1:3.2 Said the seer of old: “Lo, he goes by me, and I see him not; he passes on also, but I perceive him not.” We may constantly observe the works of Godˆ, we may be highly conscious of the material evidences of his majestic conduct, but rarely may we gaze upon the visible manifestation of his divinityˆ, not even to behold the presence of his delegated spiritˆ of human indwellˆing.

^1:3.3 The Universal Fatherˆ is not invisible because he is hiding himself away from the lowly creatures of materialistic handicaps and limited spiritˆual endowments. The situation rather is: “You cannot see my face, for no mortalˆ can see me and live.” No material man could behold the spiritˆ Godˆ and preserve his mortalˆ existence. The glory and the spiritˆual brilliance of the divineˆ personalityˆ presence is impossible of approach by the lower groups of spiritˆ beings or by any order of material personalities. The spiritˆual luminosity of the Father’s personal presence is a “light which no mortalˆ man can approach; which no material creature has seen or can see.” But it is not necessary to see Godˆ with the eyes of the flesh in order to discern him by the faithˆ-vision of the spiritˆualized mindˆ.

^1:3.4 The spiritˆ nature of the Universal Fatherˆ is shared fully with his coexistent self, the  Eternalˆ Sonˆ of Paradiseˆ. Both the Father and the Son in like manner share the universal and eternalˆ spiritˆ fully and unreservedly with their conjoint personalityˆ co-ordinate, the Infinite Spiritˆˆ. Godˆ’s spiritˆ is, in and of himself, absoluteˆ; in the Son it is unqualified, in the Spiritˆ, universal, and in and by all of them, infinite.

^1:3.5 Godˆ is a universal spiritˆ; Godˆ is the universal person. The supremeˆ personal reality of the finiteˆ creation is spiritˆ; the ultimateˆ reality of the personal cosmos is absoniteˆ spiritˆ. Only the levels of infinity are absoluteˆ, and only on such levels is there finality of oneness between matter, mindˆ, and spiritˆ.

^1:3.6 In the universesˆ  Godˆ the Fatherˆ is, in potential, the overcontroller of matter, mindˆ, and spiritˆ. Only by means of his far-flung  personalityˆ circuitˆˆ does Godˆ deal directly with the personalities of his vast creation of will creatures, but he is contactable (outside of Paradiseˆ) only in the presences of his fragmented entities, the will of Godˆ abroad in the universesˆ. This Paradiseˆ spiritˆ that indwellsˆ the minds of the mortalsˆ of time and there fosters the evolution of the immortal soulˆ of the surviving creature is of the nature and divinityˆ of the Universal Fatherˆ. But the minds of such evolutionaryˆ creatures originate in the local universesˆ and must gain divineˆ perfectˆion by achieving those experientialˆ transformations of spiritˆual attainment which are the inevitable result of a creature’s choosing to do the will of the Father in heaven.

^1:3.7 In the inner experience of man, mindˆ is joined to matter. Such material-linked minds cannot survive mortalˆ death. The technique of survival is embraced in those adjustments of the human will and those transformations in the mortalˆ mindˆ whereby such a God-conscious intellect gradually becomes spiritˆ taught and eventually spiritˆ led. This evolution of the human mindˆ from matter association to spiritˆ union results in the transmutation of the potentially spiritˆ phases of the mortalˆ mindˆ into the morontiaˆ realities of the immortal soulˆ. Mortalˆ mindˆ subservient to matter is destined to become increasingly material and consequently to suffer eventual personalityˆ extinction; mindˆ yielded to spiritˆ is destined to become increasingly spiritˆual and ultimatelˆy to achieve oneness with the surviving and guiding divineˆ spiritˆ and in this way to attain survival and eternityˆ of personalityˆ existence.

^1:3.8 I come forth from the Eternalˆ, and I have repeatedly returned to the presence of the Universal Fatherˆ. I know of the actualˆity and personalityˆ of the First Source and Centerˆ, the Eternalˆ and Universal Fatherˆ. I know that, while the great Godˆ is absoluteˆ, eternalˆ, and infinite, he is also good, divineˆ, and gracious. I know the truth of the great declarations: “Godˆ is spirit” and “Godˆ is love,” and these two attributes are most completely revealed to the universeˆ in the  Eternalˆ Sonˆ.

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