유란시아 책
I 부. 중앙우주와 연방우주들
Paper 3
The Attributes of God
The Attributes of God
3:0.1 (44.1)
GOD is everywhere present; the Universal Father rules the circle of eternity. But he rules in the local universes in the persons of his Paradise Creator Sons, even as he bestows life through these Sons. “God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Sons.” These Creator Sons of God are the personal expression of himself in the sectors of time and to the children of the whirling planets of the evolving universes of space.
3:0.2 (44.2)
The highly personalized Sons of God are clearly discernible by the lower orders of created intelligences, and so do they compensate for the invisibility of the infinite and therefore less discernible Father. The Paradise Creator Sons of the Universal Father are a revelation of an otherwise invisible being, invisible because of the absoluteness and infinity inherent in the circle of eternity and in the personalities of the Paradise Deities.
창조자직무는, 하나님의 속성이라 할 수 없으며;오히려 하나님을 대행하는 본성의 총합이다. 그리고 창조자직무의 이 보편적 기능은, 무한하고 신성한 제1 근원 및 중심 실체의 모든 조화된 속성에 제약을 받고 통제되면서 영구적으로 나타난다. 우리는 신성한 본성 가운데 어느 한 특질이 다른 것들보다 선재{先在} 한다고 생각할 수 있는지에 대해 진지하게 의문을 갖지만, 만약에 그렇다면, 신격의 창조자직무 본성은 다른 모든 본성과 활동과 속성보다 선행했을지도 모른다. 그리고 신격의 창조자직무는, 하나님이 아버지시라는 보편적 진리에서 완결된다.
3:0.3 (44.3)
Creatorship is hardly an attribute of God; it is rather the aggregate of his acting nature. And this universal function of creatorship is eternally manifested as it is conditioned and controlled by all the co-ordinated attributes of the infinite and divine reality of the First Source and Center. We sincerely doubt whether any one characteristic of the divine nature can be regarded as being antecedent to the others, but if such were the case, then the creatorship nature of Deity would take precedence over all other natures, activities, and attributes. And the creatorship of Deity culminates in the universal truth of the Fatherhood of God.
3:1.1 (44.4)
The ability of the Universal Father to be everywhere present, and at the same time, constitutes his omnipresence. God alone can be in two places, in numberless places, at the same time. God is simultaneously present “in heaven above and on the earth beneath”; as the Psalmist exclaimed: “Whither shall I go from your spirit? or whither shall I flee from your presence?”
“주께서는, ‘나는 멀리 있을 뿐만 아니라 가까이에도 있는 하나님이라’고 말씀하신다. ‘내가 하늘과 땅을 가득 채우지 않느냐?’” 우주 아버지는 방대한 창조의 모든 부분에, 그리고 어떤 마음이든지 그 속에, 항상 현존하신다. “만유를 채우고 만유에 충만함,” 그리고 “만유 속에서 모든 일을 하는 그의 충만함”이시며, 더 나아가서, 그 인격 개념은, “하늘과(곧 우주와) 온갖 하늘도(곧 온갖 우주도) 그를 담을 수 없는” 그런 것이다. 하나님이 전부이고 전체 속에 계심은, 글자 그대로 진실이다. 그러나 그조차 하나님의 전부가 아니다. 무한자는 오직 무한 속에서만 결국 드러날 수 있으며;결과를 분석한다고 해서 원인을 충분히 납득할 수는 결코 없으며;살아계신 하나님은, 속박되지 않는 자유 의지로 창조 활동을 하심으로 탄생된 창조물 전체 총계보다, 측량할 수 없을 만큼 더 크시다. 하나님은 시공우주에 두루 자신을 드러내시지만, 그 시공우주는 결코 하나님의 무한성 전체를 담거나 둘러쌀 수 없다.
3:1.2 (44.5)
“‘I am a God at hand as well as afar off,’ says the Lord. ‘Do not I fill heaven and earth?’” The Universal Father is all the time present in all parts and in all hearts of his far-flung creation. He is “the fullness of him who fills all and in all,” and “who works all in all,” and further, the concept of his personality is such that “the heaven (universe) and heaven of heavens (universe of universes) cannot contain him.” It is literally true that God is all and in all. But even that is not all of God. The Infinite can be finally revealed only in infinity; the cause can never be fully comprehended by an analysis of effects; the living God is immeasurably greater than the sum total of creation that has come into being as a result of the creative acts of his unfettered free will. God is revealed throughout the cosmos, but the cosmos can never contain or encompass the entirety of the infinity of God.
피조물이 하나님 안에 존재할 뿐만 아니라, 또한 하나님이 피조물 속에 사신다. “우리가 그분 안에 거한다는 것을 우리는 아는데, 그분이 우리 안에 사시기 때문이며;자신의 영을 우리에게 제공하셨다. 낙원 아버지께서 주신 이 선물은, 사람에게서 분리될 수 없는 동무다.” “늘-현존하고 전체에-충만한 하나님이시다.” “영존하는 아버지의 영이 모든 필사 자녀의 정신에 감춰져있다.” “사람이 친구를 찾아 나서지만, 바로 그 친구는 그의 마음에 살고 있다.” “참된 하나님은 멀리 계시지 않으며;그는 우리의 일부분이며;그의 영이 우리 안에서 말씀하신다.” “아버지가 자녀 안에 사신다. 하나님은 항상 우리와 함께 계신다. 그는 영원한 운명을 안내하는 영이시다.”
3:1.4 (45.1)
The creature not only exists in God, but God also lives in the creature. “We know we dwell in him because he lives in us; he has given us his spirit. This gift from the Paradise Father is man’s inseparable companion.” “He is the ever-present and all-pervading God.” “The spirit of the everlasting Father is concealed in the mind of every mortal child.” “Man goes forth searching for a friend while that very friend lives within his own heart.” “The true God is not afar off; he is a part of us; his spirit speaks from within us.” “The Father lives in the child. God is always with us. He is the guiding spirit of eternal destiny.”
3:1.5 (45.1)
Truly of the human race has it been said, “You are of God” because “he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.” Even in wrongdoing you torment the indwelling gift of God, for the Thought Adjuster must needs go through the consequences of evil thinking with the human mind of its incarceration.
하나님의 편재성은 실제로 그 무한한 본성의 일부이며;공간은 신격에게 어떤 장애물도 아니다. 하나님은, 완벽하게 그리고 제한 없이, 오직 낙원과 중앙우주에서만 식별되도록 현존하신다. 하보나를 둘러싸고 있는 창조계에서는 눈에 보이도록 그렇게 현존하지 않으시는데, 이는 하나님께서 시공간의 우주들에서 동격 창조자와 통치자들의 주권과 신성한 특권을 인정하시려고, 자신이 몸소 현존하심과 실제로 현존하심을 제한시켜왔기 때문이다. 따라서 신의 현존에 대한 개념은, 영원 아들과 무한 영 그리고 낙원 섬의 현존 회로들을 포함하여, 형태화하는 양식과 경로의 범주를 넓게 허용해야한다. 또한 우주 아버지 현존과 그의 영원한 협조자 및 대행기관들의 행위를 항상 구분할 수 있는 것도 아니며, 그들은 그의 변하지 않는 목적이 무한하게 요구하는 사항 전체를 아주 완전하게 충족시킨다. 그러나 인격 회로와 섭리사의 경우에는 그렇지 않아서;하나님이 독특하게, 몸소, 그리고 독점적으로 행동하신다.
3:1.6 (45.1)
The omnipresence of God is in reality a part of his infinite nature; space constitutes no barrier to Deity. God is, in perfection and without limitation, discernibly present only on Paradise and in the central universe. He is not thus observably present in the creations encircling Havona, for God has limited his direct and actual presence in recognition of the sovereignty and the divine prerogatives of the co-ordinate creators and rulers of the universes of time and space. Hence must the concept of the divine presence allow for a wide range of both mode and channel of manifestation embracing the presence circuits of the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, and the Isle of Paradise. Nor is it always possible to distinguish between the presence of the Universal Father and the actions of his eternal co-ordinates and agencies, so perfectly do they fulfill all the infinite requirements of his unchanging purpose. But not so with the personality circuit and the Adjusters; here God acts uniquely, directly, and exclusively.
우주 통제관은, 그 질량에 따라서, 이 현존{現存}을 위한 물리적 수요에 반응하여, 그리고 모든 것으로 하여금 그 안에 붙어 있고 존재하도록 만드는 선천적 창조 본성 때문에, 항상 똑같은 정도로, 우주의 모든 부분에서 낙원 섬의 인력 회로에 잠재적으로 현존한다. 마찬가지로 제1 근원 및 중심은, 무조건 절대자, 즉 영원한 미래에 속하는 창조되지 않은 우주들의 저장소{貯藏所}에 잠재적으로 현존하신다. 하나님은 그렇게, 과거와 현재와 미래의 물리적 우주들에 잠재적으로 충만하시다. 그는 소위 물질 창조를 일관성 있게 하는 근본 기초다. 비영적{非靈的}인 이 신격 잠재력은, 그의 독점 대행기관들 가운데 어느 하나가 이유를 알 수 없이 우주 작용 단계에 간섭함으로 인해, 물리적 실존 수준 전반에 여기저기서 실제가 된다.
3:1.7 (45.1)
The Universal Controller is potentially present in the gravity circuits of the Isle of Paradise in all parts of the universe at all times and in the same degree, in accordance with the mass, in response to the physical demands for this presence, and because of the inherent nature of all creation which causes all things to adhere and consist in him. Likewise is the First Source and Center potentially present in the Unqualified Absolute, the repository of the uncreated universes of the eternal future. God thus potentially pervades the physical universes of the past, present, and future. He is the primordial foundation of the coherence of the so-called material creation. This nonspiritual Deity potential becomes actual here and there throughout the level of physical existences by the inexplicable intrusion of some one of his exclusive agencies upon the stage of universe action.
3:1.8 (45.1)
The mind presence of God is correlated with the absolute mind of the Conjoint Actor, the Infinite Spirit, but in the finite creations it is better discerned in the everywhere functioning of the cosmic mind of the Paradise Master Spirits. Just as the First Source and Center is potentially present in the mind circuits of the Conjoint Actor, so is he potentially present in the tensions of the Universal Absolute. But mind of the human order is a bestowal of the Daughters of the Conjoint Actor, the Divine Ministers of the evolving universes.
3:1.9 (46.1)
The everywhere-present spirit of the Universal Father is co-ordinated with the function of the universal spirit presence of the Eternal Son and the everlasting divine potential of the Deity Absolute. But neither the spiritual activity of the Eternal Son and his Paradise Sons nor the mind bestowals of the Infinite Spirit seem to exclude the direct action of the Thought Adjusters, the indwelling fragments of God, in the hearts of his creature children.
행성이나 체계나 성좌{星座} 또는 우주에서 하나님 현존에 관련하여, 어느 창조 단위에서든지 그런 현존의 정도는, 지존하신 분 현존이 얼마나 진화했는가를 재는 척도인데:체계와 행성들 자체에까지 미치는 광대한 우주 조직에 관해서는, 전반적으로 하나님을 인식하고 하나님께 충성함으로 이것이 결정된다. 그러므로 어떤 행성들(또는 심지어 체계들)이 영적 어둠 속으로 멀리 던져졌을 때, 이들이 더 큰 창조 단위들과 교통하지 못하고 어떤 의미에서 격리돼있거나 부분적으로 고립되는 것은, 때때로 이 국면의 고귀한 하나님 현존을 보존하고 보호하려는 기대감 때문이다. 그리고 이 모든 것은, 유란시아에서 작동되고 있듯이, 완고하고 사악하고 반역적인 소수의 이간시키는 행위들로 인해 고립되는 결과를 최대한 겪지 않기 위하여 가능한 한 대다수 세계들이 영적으로 방어적 대응을 하는 것이다.
3:1.10 (46.2)
Concerning God’s presence in a planet, system, constellation, or a universe, the degree of such presence in any creational unit is a measure of the degree of the evolving presence of the Supreme Being: It is determined by the en masse recognition of God and loyalty to him on the part of the vast universe organization, running down to the systems and planets themselves. Therefore it is sometimes with the hope of conserving and safeguarding these phases of God’s precious presence that, when some planets (or even systems) have plunged far into spiritual darkness, they are in a certain sense quarantined, or partially isolated from intercourse with the larger units of creation. And all this, as it operates on Urantia, is a spiritually defensive reaction of the majority of the worlds to save themselves, as far as possible, from suffering the isolating consequences of the alienating acts of a headstrong, wicked, and rebellious minority.
3:1.11 (46.3)
While the Father parentally encircuits all his sons—all personalities—his influence in them is limited by the remoteness of their origin from the Second and the Third Persons of Deity and augmented as their destiny attainment nears such levels. The fact of God’s presence in creature minds is determined by whether or not they are indwelt by Father fragments, such as the Mystery Monitors, but his effective presence is determined by the degree of co-operation accorded these indwelling Adjusters by the minds of their sojourn.
아버지 현존이 변동하는 것은 하나님의 변덕스러움 때문이 아니다. 아버지는 자신이 무시당함으로 인해 은둔하여 물러나 있는 것이 아니며;그분의 애정은, 피조물이 나쁜 짓을 했다는 이유로 배제되지 않는다. 오히려 아버지의 자녀들은, (그분 자신에 관해) 선택하는 능력을 부여받았기 때문에, 그 선택권을 사용함으로써, 자신의 마음과 혼 안에서 아버지의 신성한 영향력이 미치는 수준과 정도를 직접 결정한다. 아버지는 제한 없이 그리고 편애함 없이 우리에게 자신을 자유롭게 증여해오셨다. 인격자나 행성이나 체계 또는 우주들을 차별대우하지 않으신다. 시간 구역{區域}에서, 아버지는 칠중 하나님의 낙원 인격체들에게만 서로 다른 명예를 수여하시는데, 그들은 유한한 우주의 동격 창조자다.
3:1.12 (46.4)
The fluctuations of the Father’s presence are not due to the changeableness of God. The Father does not retire in seclusion because he has been slighted; his affections are not alienated because of the creature’s wrongdoing. Rather, having been endowed with the power of choice (concerning Himself), his children, in the exercise of that choice, directly determine the degree and limitations of the Father’s divine influence in their own hearts and souls. The Father has freely bestowed himself upon us without limit and without favor. He is no respecter of persons, planets, systems, or universes. In the sectors of time he confers differential honor only on the Paradise personalities of God the Sevenfold, the co-ordinate creators of the finite universes.
3:2.2 (46.6)
Within the bounds of that which is consistent with the divine nature, it is literally true that “with God all things are possible.” The long-drawn-out evolutionary processes of peoples, planets, and universes are under the perfect control of the universe creators and administrators and unfold in accordance with the eternal purpose of the Universal Father, proceeding in harmony and order and in keeping with the all-wise plan of God. There is only one lawgiver. He upholds the worlds in space and swings the universes around the endless circle of the eternal circuit.
신의 모든 속성 중에서 그의 전능하심은, 특히 물질 우주에서 진행될 때 가장 잘 이해된다. 비영적{非靈的} 현상으로 본다면, 하나님은 에너지다. 물리적 사실에 대한 이 선언은, 제1 근원 및 중심이 전체 공간에서 우주적인 물리 현상의 최초 원인이라는, 납득할 수 없는 진리에 기초한다. 이 신성한 활동에서, 모든 물리적 에너지 및 기타 물질 형태화가 시작된다. 빛, 다시 말해서 열이 없는 빛은, 신격들의 또 다른 비영적 현현{顯現}이다. 그리고 유란시아에 실제로 알려지지 않은 또 다른 형태의 비영적 에너지가 있으며;이것은 아직 인식되지 않고 있다.
3:2.3 (47.1)
Of all the divine attributes, his omnipotence, especially as it prevails in the material universe, is the best understood. Viewed as an unspiritual phenomenon, God is energy. This declaration of physical fact is predicated on the incomprehensible truth that the First Source and Center is the primal cause of the universal physical phenomena of all space. From this divine activity all physical energy and other material manifestations are derived. Light, that is, light without heat, is another of the nonspiritual manifestations of the Deities. And there is still another form of nonspiritual energy which is virtually unknown on Urantia; it is as yet unrecognized.
3:2.4 (47.2)
God controls all power; he has made “a way for the lightning”; he has ordained the circuits of all energy. He has decreed the time and manner of the manifestation of all forms of energy-matter. And all these things are held forever in his everlasting grasp—in the gravitational control centering on nether Paradise. The light and energy of the eternal God thus swing on forever around his majestic circuit, the endless but orderly procession of the starry hosts composing the universe of universes. All creation circles eternally around the Paradise-Personality center of all things and beings.
3:2.5 (47.3)
The omnipotence of the Father pertains to the everywhere dominance of the absolute level, whereon the three energies, material, mindal, and spiritual, are indistinguishable in close proximity to him—the Source of all things. Creature mind, being neither Paradise monota nor Paradise spirit, is not directly responsive to the Universal Father. God adjusts with the mind of imperfection—with Urantia mortals through the Thought Adjusters.
3:2.6 (47.4)
The Universal Father is not a transient force, a shifting power, or a fluctuating energy. The power and wisdom of the Father are wholly adequate to cope with any and all universe exigencies. As the emergencies of human experience arise, he has foreseen them all, and therefore he does not react to the affairs of the universe in a detached way but rather in accordance with the dictates of eternal wisdom and in consonance with the mandates of infinite judgment. Regardless of appearances, the power of God is not functioning in the universe as a blind force.
3:2.7 (47.5)
Situations do arise in which it appears that emergency rulings have been made, that natural laws have been suspended, that misadaptations have been recognized, and that an effort is being made to rectify the situation; but such is not the case. Such concepts of God have their origin in the limited range of your viewpoint, in the finiteness of your comprehension, and in the circumscribed scope of your survey; such misunderstanding of God is due to the profound ignorance you enjoy regarding the existence of the higher laws of the realm, the magnitude of the Father’s character, the infinity of his attributes, and the fact of his free-willness.
공간에서 우주들 도처에 여기저기 퍼져있는, 하나님의 영이 내주하는 행성 피조물은 그 수와 종류에서 거의 무한에 가깝고, 그들의 지능은 너무나 다양하며, 그들의 정신은 너무 제한돼있고 때로는 너무 조잡하며, 그들의 상상력은 너무 짧고 국한돼있어서, 아버지의 무한한 속성들을 알맞게 표현할 수 있는, 그리고 동시에 이 창조된 지성체가 제법 납득할 수 있는, 보편화된 법칙을 고안하기가 거의 불가능하다. 그러므로 너희 피조물에게는, 전능하신 창조주의 행위 가운데 많은 부분이, 독단적이고 초연하고 종종 냉혹하고 잔인한 것처럼 보인다. 그러나 너희에게 다시 다짐하는데, 그것은 진실이 아니다. 하나님이 하시는 일은 반드시 목적이 있고, 지성적이고, 현명하고, 친절하고, 최고의 선을 끊임없이 고려하며, 한 개별 존재나 개별 인종이나 개별 행성 또는 심지어 어떤 개별 우주에게 항상 그런 것은 아니지만;가장 낮은 자들로부터 가장 높은 자들에 이르기까지, 고려되는 모든 존재의 복지와 최고 선{善}을 위한 것이다. 한때의 시절에, 일부 복지가 때로는 전체 복지와 다른 것처럼 보일지 모르지만;영원성 궤도에서는 그런 외견상 차이가 존재하지 않는다.
3:2.8 (47.6)
The planetary creatures of God’s spirit indwelling, scattered hither and yon throughout the universes of space, are so nearly infinite in number and order, their intellects are so diverse, their minds are so limited and sometimes so gross, their vision is so curtailed and localized, that it is almost impossible to formulate generalizations of law adequately expressive of the Father’s infinite attributes and at the same time to any degree comprehensible to these created intelligences. Therefore, to you the creature, many of the acts of the all-powerful Creator seem to be arbitrary, detached, and not infrequently heartless and cruel. But again I assure you that this is not true. God’s doings are all purposeful, intelligent, wise, kind, and eternally considerate of the best good, not always of an individual being, an individual race, an individual planet, or even an individual universe; but they are for the welfare and best good of all concerned, from the lowest to the highest. In the epochs of time the welfare of the part may sometimes appear to differ from the welfare of the whole; in the circle of eternity such apparent differences are nonexistent.
3:2.9 (48.1)
We are all a part of the family of God, and we must therefore sometimes share in the family discipline. Many of the acts of God which so disturb and confuse us are the result of the decisions and final rulings of all-wisdom, empowering the Conjoint Actor to execute the choosing of the infallible will of the infinite mind, to enforce the decisions of the personality of perfection, whose survey, vision, and solicitude embrace the highest and eternal welfare of all his vast and far-flung creation.
그래서, 너희 존재의 본성에 선천적으로 들어 있는 제한조건들, 그리고 너희의 단절되고 부분적이고 유한하고 조잡하고 매우 물질적인 관점이, 신의 많은 행위에 담긴 지혜와 친절함을 너희가 보거나 납득하거나 알 수 없게 하는 그런 장애를 일으키는데, 너희에게는 그런 신의 행위가 압도적인 잔인성으로 가득한 것처럼 보이고, 너희의 동료 피조물의 안락함과 복지에 대해, 즉 행성의 행복과 개인의 번영에 대해 그렇게 철저히 무관심한 특징이 있는 것처럼 보인다. 너희가 하나님의 동기를 잘못 이해하고 목적을 오해하는 것은, 인간적 식견의 한계 때문이요, 너희의 제한된 이해력과 유한한 납득력 때문이다. 그러나 우주 아버지의 직접 행위가 아닌 것들이 진화 세계들에서 발생한다.
3:2.10 (48.2)
Thus it is that your detached, sectional, finite, gross, and highly materialistic viewpoint and the limitations inherent in the nature of your being constitute such a handicap that you are unable to see, comprehend, or know the wisdom and kindness of many of the divine acts which to you seem fraught with such crushing cruelty, and which seem to be characterized by such utter indifference to the comfort and welfare, to the planetary happiness and personal prosperity, of your fellow creatures. It is because of the limits of human vision, it is because of your circumscribed understanding and finite comprehension, that you misunderstand the motives, and pervert the purposes, of God. But many things occur on the evolutionary worlds which are not the personal doings of the Universal Father.
하나님의 권능은 무제한이고, 본성은 신성하고, 뜻은 최종적이고, 속성은 무한하고, 지혜는 영원하고, 그 실체는 절대적이다. 그러나 우주 아버지의 이 모든 특질은, 신격 안에 통합돼있고, 낙원 삼위일체 안에 그리고 삼위일체의 신성한 아들들 안에 보편적으로 표현돼있다. 그 외에, 낙원과 하보나 중앙우주 바깥에서는, 하나님께 속하는 모든 것을 진화하는 지존자 현존이 제한하고, 결말에 이른 궁극자 현존이 조절하고, 세 실존 절대자--곧 신격 절대자와 우주 절대자와 무조건 절대자--가 조정한다. 그리고 하나님 현존이 그렇게 제한되는 것은, 하나님 뜻이 그러하기 때문이다.
3:2.15 (48.6)
God is unlimited in power, divine in nature, final in will, infinite in attributes, eternal in wisdom, and absolute in reality. But all these characteristics of the Universal Father are unified in Deity and universally expressed in the Paradise Trinity and in the divine Sons of the Trinity. Otherwise, outside of Paradise and the central universe of Havona, everything pertaining to God is limited by the evolutionary presence of the Supreme, conditioned by the eventuating presence of the Ultimate, and co-ordinated by the three existential Absolutes—Deity, Universal, and Unqualified. And God’s presence is thus limited because such is the will of God.
3:3.1 (48.8)
“God knows all things.” The divine mind is conscious of, and conversant with, the thought of all creation. His knowledge of events is universal and perfect. The divine entities going out from him are a part of him; he who “balances the clouds” is also “perfect in knowledge.” “The eyes of the Lord are in every place.” Said your great teacher of the insignificant sparrow, “One of them shall not fall to the ground without my Father’s knowledge,” and also, “The very hairs of your head are numbered.” “He tells the number of the stars; he calls them all by their names.”
우주 아버지는 온 우주에서 유일하게 공간의 별과 행성이 몇 개인지 실제로 아는 인격이시다. 온갖 우주에 속한 모든 세계를, 하나님은 변함없이 의식하신다. 그가 또한 말씀하신다:“나는 내 백성의 고통을 분명히 봤고, 저희의 부르짖음을 들었고, 저희의 슬픔을 안다.” “주는 하늘에서 보시며;사람의 모든 자손을 바라보시는데;자신이 거하는 장소에서 땅에 있는 모든 거주자를 감찰하시기” 때문이다. 각 피조물 자녀마다 정말로 이렇게 말할 수 있다:“그는 내가 가는 길을 아시며, 나를 다 시험하신 후에는, 내가 정금같이 나아갈 것이다.” “하나님은 우리의 앉고 일어섬을 아시며;멀리 떨어진 우리의 생각을 이해하고 우리의 모든 길에 정통하시다.” “우리와 관계를 맺으시는 그분의 눈앞에 모든 것이 드러나 있고 열려 있다.” 그리고 “그가 너의 구조{構造}를 아시며;네가 티끌임을 기억하신다”는 것을 이해함이, 어떤 인간에게든지 참된 위로가 될 것이다. 살아계신 하나님에 대해, “너희의 아버지께서는 너희가 요청하기도 전에 너희에게 필요한 것을 아신다”고 예수께서 말씀했다.
3:3.2 (49.1)
The Universal Father is the only personality in all the universe who does actually know the number of the stars and planets of space. All the worlds of every universe are constantly within the consciousness of God. He also says: “I have surely seen the affliction of my people, I have heard their cry, and I know their sorrows.” For “the Lord looks from heaven; he beholds all the sons of men; from the place of his habitation he looks upon all the inhabitants of the earth.” Every creature child may truly say: “He knows the way I take, and when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” “God knows our downsittings and our uprisings; he understands our thoughts afar off and is acquainted with all our ways.” “All things are naked and open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.” And it should be a real comfort to every human being to understand that “he knows your frame; he remembers that you are dust.” Jesus, speaking of the living God, said, “Your Father knows what you have need of even before you ask him.”
3:3.3 (49.2)
God is possessed of unlimited power to know all things; his consciousness is universal. His personal circuit encompasses all personalities, and his knowledge of even the lowly creatures is supplemented indirectly through the descending series of divine Sons and directly through the indwelling Thought Adjusters. And furthermore, the Infinite Spirit is all the time everywhere present.
3:3.5 (49.4)
Omnipotence does not imply the power to do the nondoable, the ungodlike act. Neither does omniscience imply the knowing of the unknowable. But such statements can hardly be made comprehensible to the finite mind. The creature can hardly understand the range and limitations of the will of the Creator.
3:4.1 (49.5)
The successive bestowal of himself upon the universes as they are brought into being in no wise lessens the potential of power or the store of wisdom as they continue to reside and repose in the central personality of Deity. In potential of force, wisdom, and love, the Father has never lessened aught of his possession nor become divested of any attribute of his glorious personality as the result of the unstinted bestowal of himself upon the Paradise Sons, upon his subordinate creations, and upon the manifold creatures thereof.
새 우주가 창조될 때마다 새롭게 인력을 조절할 필요가 있지만;비록 창조가 무기한으로 영원하게, 심지어 무한에 이르기까지 계속되어, 결국에는 물질 창조가 제한조건 없이 존재하게 된다고 해도, 낙원 섬이 통제하고 조정하는 능력은, 그런 무한한 우주를 지배하고 통제하고 조정하기에 충분하고 또한 감당할 수 있을 것으로 여전히 확인될 것이다. 그리고 끝없는 우주에 무제한의 힘과 능력을 이렇게 증여한 후에, 무한자는 여전히 같은 정도의 힘과 에너지로 넘치게 채워질 것이며;무조건 절대자는 여전히 줄지 않을 것이며;하나님은 마치 힘과 에너지와 권능을 이 우주 저 우주에 기증품으로 쏟아 붓기 전처럼, 동일한 무한한 잠재력을 그대로 지니실 것이다.
3:4.2 (49.6)
The creation of every new universe calls for a new adjustment of gravity; but even if creation should continue indefinitely, eternally, even to infinity, so that eventually the material creation would exist without limitations, still the power of control and co-ordination reposing in the Isle of Paradise would be found equal to, and adequate for, the mastery, control, and co-ordination of such an infinite universe. And subsequent to this bestowal of limitless force and power upon a boundless universe, the Infinite would still be surcharged with the same degree of force and energy; the Unqualified Absolute would still be undiminished; God would still possess the same infinite potential, just as if force, energy, and power had never been poured forth for the endowment of universe upon universe.
3:4.3 (50.1)
And so with wisdom: The fact that mind is so freely distributed to the thinking of the realms in no wise impoverishes the central source of divine wisdom. As the universes multiply, and beings of the realms increase in number to the limits of comprehension, if mind continues without end to be bestowed upon these beings of high and low estate, still will God’s central personality continue to embrace the same eternal, infinite, and all-wise mind.
너희의 세계 및 다른 세계들의 남녀에게 내주하도록 하나님이 영{靈} 사자{使者}들을 자신으로부터 내보낸다는 사실은, 신성하고 전능한 영 인격으로서 작용하는 그의 역량을 조금도 줄이지 않으며;그가 보낼 수 있고 또한 보내게 될 그런 영 관찰자의 범위와 수에는 결코 아무 제한도 없다. 피조물에게 자신을 이렇게 내어주는 일은, 신성하게 재능을 받은 이 필사자들을 위한, 점진적으로 연속해서 실존할, 생각조차 못할 끝없는 미래의 가능성을 만들어낸다. 그리고 섬기는 이런 영 실재들로서 자신을 아낌없이 분배하는 이 일은, 온전히-지혜롭고 전부-알고 전능한 아버지 인격자 안에 머무는 진리와 지식의, 지혜와 완벽성을 조금도 경감시키지 않는다.
3:4.4 (50.2)
The fact that he sends forth spirit messengers from himself to indwell the men and women of your world and other worlds in no wise lessens his ability to function as a divine and all-powerful spirit personality; and there is absolutely no limit to the extent or number of such spirit Monitors which he can and may send out. This giving of himself to his creatures creates a boundless, almost inconceivable future possibility of progressive and successive existences for these divinely endowed mortals. And this prodigal distribution of himself as these ministering spirit entities in no manner diminishes the wisdom and perfection of truth and knowledge which repose in the person of the all-wise, all-knowing, and all-powerful Father.
3:4.5 (50.3)
To the mortals of time there is a future, but God inhabits eternity. Even though I hail from near the very abiding place of Deity, I cannot presume to speak with perfection of understanding concerning the infinity of many of the divine attributes. Infinity of mind alone can fully comprehend infinity of existence and eternity of action.
3:4.6 (50.4)
Mortal man cannot possibly know the infinitude of the heavenly Father. Finite mind cannot think through such an absolute truth or fact. But this same finite human being can actually feel—literally experience—the full and undiminished impact of such an infinite Father’s LOVE. Such a love can be truly experienced, albeit while quality of experience is unlimited, quantity of such an experience is strictly limited by the human capacity for spiritual receptivity and by the associated capacity to love the Father in return.
3:4.7 (50.5)
Finite appreciation of infinite qualities far transcends the logically limited capacities of the creature because of the fact that mortal man is made in the image of God—there lives within him a fragment of infinity. Therefore man’s nearest and dearest approach to God is by and through love, for God is love. And all of such a unique relationship is an actual experience in cosmic sociology, the Creator-creature relationship—the Father-child affection.
하보나-이후의 창조계와 접촉할 때, 우주 아버지는 자신의 무한한 권능과 최종 권한을 직접 전달함으로 행사하지 않고, 오히려 아들들 및 그 하위{下位} 인격체들을 통해서 행사하신다. 그리고 하나님은 이 모든 것을 자신의 고유한 자유 의지로 행하신다. 특별한 일이 발생되면, 신{神}의 정신이 선택해야한다면, 위임된 권능을 모두 직접 행사하실 수 있지만;원칙적으로 이런 조치는, 위임받은 그 인격체가 신이 맡긴 책무를 이행하지 못한 결과로 발생될 뿐이다. 그런 경우에 그런 불이행에도 불구하고, 그리고 유보된 신의 권능과 잠재력 한계 내에서, 아버지는 독립적으로 그리고 자신의 고유한 선택 명령에 따라서 행동하시며;그 선택은 항상 어김없이 완벽하고 무한히 지혜로운 선택이다.
3:5.1 (50.6)
In his contact with the post-Havona creations, the Universal Father does not exercise his infinite power and final authority by direct transmittal but rather through his Sons and their subordinate personalities. And God does all this of his own free will. Any and all powers delegated, if occasion should arise, if it should become the choice of the divine mind, could be exercised direct; but, as a rule, such action only takes place as a result of the failure of the delegated personality to fulfill the divine trust. At such times and in the face of such default and within the limits of the reservation of divine power and potential, the Father does act independently and in accordance with the mandates of his own choice; and that choice is always one of unfailing perfection and infinite wisdom.
3:5.2 (51.1)
The Father rules through his Sons; on down through the universe organization there is an unbroken chain of rulers ending with the Planetary Princes, who direct the destinies of the evolutionary spheres of the Father’s vast domains. It is no mere poetic expression that exclaims: “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.” “He removes kings and sets up kings.” “The Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men.”
예수께서 말씀했다:“저희를 나에게 주신 내 아버지는 누구보다 크시며;아무도 아버지 손에서 저희를 뺏을 수 없다.” 너희가 다양한 작업을 훑어보고 하나님의 거의 끝없는 창조계의 압도적 광대함을 구경할 때, 그의 탁월성에 대한 너희의 개념이 흔들릴 수 있겠으나, 모든 것의 낙원 중심에서 확실하게 영원토록 보좌에 앉아계시고, 모든 지성 존재의 인정 많은 아버지이신 것을 받아들이기에 실패해서는 안 된다. “만유 위에 그리고 만유 안에 존재하는 유일하신 하나님, 곧 만유의 아버지”가 계시며, “그는 모든 것 이전에 존재하시고, 만유가 그분 안에 있다.”
3:5.4 (51.3)
Said Jesus: “My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.” As you glimpse the manifold workings and view the staggering immensity of God’s well-nigh limitless creation, you may falter in your concept of his primacy, but you should not fail to accept him as securely and everlastingly enthroned at the Paradise center of all things and as the beneficent Father of all intelligent beings. There is but “one God and Father of all, who is above all and in all,” “and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.”
3:5.13 (51.12)
8. Is unselfishness—the spirit of self-forgetfulness—desirable? Then must mortal man live face to face with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor. Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake. Man could never lay saving hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast.
우주 전역에 두루, 각 단일체마다 전체의 일부분으로 간주된다. 부분의 생존은, 전체의 계획 및 목적과 협동함, 즉 아버지의 신성한 뜻을 행하기를 전심으로 소망하고 완전히 자발적으로 행하는 태도에 달려있다. 오류가(곧 어리석은 판단의 가능성이) 없는 유일한 진화 세계는, 자유로운 지성체가 없는 세계일 것이다. 하보나 우주에는 완전한 거주민이 사는 완전한 10억 세계가 있으나, 진화하는 사람은 자신이 자유롭게 되고자 한다면 오류에 빠질 수 있어야한다. 자유롭고 체험이 없는 지성체는, 처음에는 한결같이 현명할 수 없다. 잘못된 판단(곧 악)의 가능성은, 고의적인 부도덕한 판단을 인간의 의지가 의식적으로 시인하고 알면서 받아들일 때에만 죄가 된다.
3:5.15 (52.1)
Throughout the universe, every unit is regarded as a part of the whole. Survival of the part is dependent on co-operation with the plan and purpose of the whole, the wholehearted desire and perfect willingness to do the Father’s divine will. The only evolutionary world without error (the possibility of unwise judgment) would be a world without free intelligence. In the Havona universe there are a billion perfect worlds with their perfect inhabitants, but evolving man must be fallible if he is to be free. Free and inexperienced intelligence cannot possibly at first be uniformly wise. The possibility of mistaken judgment (evil) becomes sin only when the human will consciously endorses and knowingly embraces a deliberate immoral judgment.
진리와 아름다움과 선함을 온전히 헤아림은, 완비된 신성한 우주에 내재돼있다. 하보나 세계의 거주민에게는, 선택을 자극하기 위한, 가능하고 비교될만한 여러 가치 수준이 필요하지 않으며;그런 완전한 존재들은, 대조되고 사고{思考}를-강요하는 모든 도덕적 상황이 없을 때에도 선한 것을 식별하고 선택할 수 있다. 그러나 그런 완전한 존재들은 모두, 도덕적 본성과 영적 신분에서, 그렇게 실존하기 때문에 그렇다. 그들은 자신의 선천적 신분의 범위 내에서만 체험으로 향상을 이룩한다. 필사적 사람은, 상승 후보자라는 자기 신분조차, 자신의 신앙과 희망으로 얻는다. 인간의 정신이 파악하고 인간의 혼이 획득하는 신성한 모든 것은 체험으로 달성되며;그것은 몸소 체험하는 실체이고, 따라서 과오 없는 하보나 인격체들의 선천적 선함 및 의로움과는 대조적인 어떤 독특한 소유물이다.
3:5.16 (52.2)
The full appreciation of truth, beauty, and goodness is inherent in the perfection of the divine universe. The inhabitants of the Havona worlds do not require the potential of relative value levels as a choice stimulus; such perfect beings are able to identify and choose the good in the absence of all contrastive and thought-compelling moral situations. But all such perfect beings are, in moral nature and spiritual status, what they are by virtue of the fact of existence. They have experientially earned advancement only within their inherent status. Mortal man earns even his status as an ascension candidate by his own faith and hope. Everything divine which the human mind grasps and the human soul acquires is an experiential attainment; it is a reality of personal experience and is therefore a unique possession in contrast to the inherent goodness and righteousness of the inerrant personalities of Havona.
하보나 피조물은 선천적으로 용감하지만, 인간의 감각에서 볼 때에는 용감함이 없다. 그들은 천부적으로 친절하고 배려심이 있지만, 인간의 방식으로 볼 때에는 도저히 이타적이라 할 수 없다. 그들은 기분 좋은 미래를 기대하는 자들이지만, 불확실한 진화 구체{球體}를 신뢰하는 필사자의 정교한 방식으로 볼 때에는 희망이 없다. 그들은 우주의 안정성에 대한 신뢰감이 있지만, 필사적 사람으로 하여금 동물 신분에서 낙원 입구를 향해 올라가게 하는, 구원하는 신앙에 대해서는 전혀 알지 못한다. 그들은 진리를 사랑하지만, 혼을-구원하는 진리의 특성에 대해서는 아무 것도 모른다. 그들은 이상주의자이지만, 이미 그런 식으로 태어났으며;환희에 이르는 선택으로 이상주의자가 되는 황홀감은 도무지 알지 못한다. 그들은 충성스럽지만, 약속을 저버리고 싶은 유혹에 직면해서도 전심을 다해 지성적으로 의무에 헌신하는 전율을 체험한 적이 전혀 없다. 그들은 이기적이지 않지만, 호전적 자아를 훌륭하게 정복하는 그런 체험 수준을 획득한 적이 전혀 없다. 그들은 즐거움을 누리지만, 잠재된 고통에서 벗어나는 즐거움의 단맛은 납득하지 못한다.
3:5.17 (52.3)
The creatures of Havona are naturally brave, but they are not courageous in the human sense. They are innately kind and considerate, but hardly altruistic in the human way. They are expectant of a pleasant future, but not hopeful in the exquisite manner of the trusting mortal of the uncertain evolutionary spheres. They have faith in the stability of the universe, but they are utter strangers to that saving faith whereby mortal man climbs from the status of an animal up to the portals of Paradise. They love the truth, but they know nothing of its soul-saving qualities. They are idealists, but they were born that way; they are wholly ignorant of the ecstasy of becoming such by exhilarating choice. They are loyal, but they have never experienced the thrill of wholehearted and intelligent devotion to duty in the face of temptation to default. They are unselfish, but they never gained such levels of experience by the magnificent conquest of a belligerent self. They enjoy pleasure, but they do not comprehend the sweetness of the pleasure escape from the pain potential.
3:6.1 (52.4)
With divine selflessness, consummate generosity, the Universal Father relinquishes authority and delegates power, but he is still primal; his hand is on the mighty lever of the circumstances of the universal realms; he has reserved all final decisions and unerringly wields the all-powerful veto scepter of his eternal purpose with unchallengeable authority over the welfare and destiny of the outstretched, whirling, and ever-circling creation.
3:6.2 (52.5)
The sovereignty of God is unlimited; it is the fundamental fact of all creation. The universe was not inevitable. The universe is not an accident, neither is it self-existent. The universe is a work of creation and is therefore wholly subject to the will of the Creator. The will of God is divine truth, living love; therefore are the perfecting creations of the evolutionary universes characterized by goodness—nearness to divinity; by potential evil—remoteness from divinity.
3:6.3 (53.1)
All religious philosophy, sooner or later, arrives at the concept of unified universe rule, of one God. Universe causes cannot be lower than universe effects. The source of the streams of universe life and of the cosmic mind must be above the levels of their manifestation. The human mind cannot be consistently explained in terms of the lower orders of existence. Man’s mind can be truly comprehended only by recognizing the reality of higher orders of thought and purposive will. Man as a moral being is inexplicable unless the reality of the Universal Father is acknowledged.
3:6.4 (53.2)
The mechanistic philosopher professes to reject the idea of a universal and sovereign will, the very sovereign will whose activity in the elaboration of universe laws he so deeply reverences. What unintended homage the mechanist pays the law-Creator when he conceives such laws to be self-acting and self-explanatory!
낙원 아버지가 괴로워하시나? 나는 모른다. 창조주 아들들은 필사자가 하는 것처럼 아주 분명히 그럴 수 있고 때로는 그렇다. 영원 아들과 무한 영은 한정된 의미에서 볼 때 괴로워하신다. 나는 우주 아버지도 괴로워하신다고 생각하지만, 어떻게 그러신지는 이해할 수 없으며;아마 인격 회로를 통해서, 또는 사고 섭리사의 개체성 그리고 그의 영원한 본성인 다른 여러 증여를 통해서일 것이다. 그는 필사자 인종에 대해, “너희의 모든 고난 속에서 내가 괴로워한다”고 말씀해오셨다. 그는 아버지답고 호의적인 이해심을 분명히 체험하며;진실로 괴로워하시겠지만, 나는 그 본질을 납득하지 못한다.
3:6.6 (53.4)
Does the Paradise Father suffer? I do not know. The Creator Sons most certainly can and sometimes do, even as do mortals. The Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit suffer in a modified sense. I think the Universal Father does, but I cannot understand how; perhaps through the personality circuit or through the individuality of the Thought Adjusters and other bestowals of his eternal nature. He has said of the mortal races, “In all your afflictions I am afflicted.” He unquestionably experiences a fatherly and sympathetic understanding; he may truly suffer, but I do not comprehend the nature thereof.
3:6.7 (53.5)
The infinite and eternal Ruler of the universe of universes is power, form, energy, process, pattern, principle, presence, and idealized reality. But he is more; he is personal; he exercises a sovereign will, experiences self-consciousness of divinity, executes the mandates of a creative mind, pursues the satisfaction of the realization of an eternal purpose, and manifests a Father’s love and affection for his universe children. And all these more personal traits of the Father can be better understood by observing them as they were revealed in the bestowal life of Michael, your Creator Son, while he was incarnated on Urantia.