4. The Mystery of Godˆ

^1:4.1 The infinity of the perfectˆion of Godˆ is such that it eternallˆy constitutes him mystery. And the greatest of all the unfathomable mysteries of Godˆ is the phenomenon of the divineˆ indwellˆing of mortalˆ minds. The manner in which the Universal Fatherˆ sojourns with the creatures of time is the most profound of all universeˆ mysteries; the divineˆ presence in the mindˆ of man is the mystery of mysteries.

^1:4.2 The physical bodies of mortalsˆ are “the temples of Godˆ.” Notwithstanding that the Sovereign  Creatorˆ Sonsˆ 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  Creatorˆ Sonsˆ and their mortalˆ creatures, nevertheless, mortalˆ men have something from Godˆ himself which actuallˆy dwells within them; their bodies are the temples thereof.

^1:4.3 When you are through down here, when your course has been run in temporary form on earth, when your trial trip in the flesh is finished, when the dust that composes the mortalˆ tabernacle “returns to the earth whence it came”; then, it is revealed, the indwellˆing “Spiritˆ shall return to Godˆ who gave it.” There sojourns within each moralˆ being of this planet a fragment of Godˆ, a part and parcel of divinityˆ. It is not yet yours by right of possession, but it is designedly intended to be one with you if you survive the mortalˆ existence.

^1:4.4 We are constantly confronted with this mystery of God; we are nonplused by the increasing unfolding of the endless panorama of the truth of his infinite goodness, endless mercy, matchless wisdom, and superb character.

^1:4.5 The divineˆ mystery consists in the inherent difference which exists between the finiteˆ and the infinite, the temporal and the eternalˆ, the time-space creature and the Universal Creatorˆ, the material and the spiritˆual, the imperfection of man and the perfectˆion of Paradiseˆ Deityˆ. The Godˆ of universal love unfailingly manifests himself to every one of his creatures up to the fullness of that creature’s capacity to spiritˆually grasp the qualities of divineˆ truth, beauty, and goodness.

^1:4.6 To every spiritˆ being and to every mortalˆ creature in every sphere and on every world of the  universeˆ of universesˆ, the Universal Fatherˆ reveals all of his gracious and divineˆ self that can be discerned or comprehended by such spiritˆ beings and by such mortalˆ creatures. Godˆ is no respecter of persons, either spiritˆual or material. The divineˆ presence which any child of the universeˆ enjoys at any given moment is limited only by the capacity of such a creature to receive and to discern the spiritˆ actualˆities of the supermaterial world.

^1:4.7 As a reality in human spiritˆual experience Godˆ is not a mystery. But when an attempt is made to make plain the realities of the spiritˆ world to the physical minds of the material order, mystery appears: mysteries so subtle and so profound that only the faithˆ-grasp of the God-knowingˆ mortalˆ can achieve the philosophic miracle of the recognition of the Infinite by the finiteˆ, the discernment of the eternalˆ Godˆ by the evolving mortalsˆ of the material worlds of time and spaceˆ.

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