Foreword
We deem it wise to present in this initial statement an outline of the meanings to be attached to numerous English words which are to be employed in designation of Deity and certain associated concepts of the things, meanings, and values of universal reality. On all supermaterial levels of reality; this unifying quality is best comprehended by creatures as divinity. The finite level of reality is characterized by creature life and time space limitations.
(Transitory conditions, impermanent, changeable, not a true definition of reality, just a feature of manifest destiny.)
The absonite level of reality is characterized by things and beings without beginnings or endings and by the transcendence of time and space.
The Soul is made out of the eternal substance.
Mortals: an experiential reality. Cosmic consciousness implies the recognition of a First Cause, the one and only uncaused reality, God, the Universal Father.
We move into an unchanging environment within the self that the eternal balance lives in us in our transitory duties, unburnt and deathless. This is the same "reality" of GOD that is ever with us. This is our beginning, our middle and our end, always with us.
Total, infinite reality is existential in seven phases and as seven coordinate Absolutes: REALITY, as comprehended by finite beings, is partial, relative, and shadowy. In attempting to portray the origin and nature of universal reality, we are forced to employ the technique of time space reasoning in order to reach the level of the finite mind. From the viewpoint of time and space, reality is further divisible. The Universal Father is the secret of the reality of personality, the bestowal of personality, and the destiny of personality (which I call sweetness).
Webster's: reality = the totality of real things and events; facts; all living in reality means turning or returning to the all. All living in a real Christian experience make GOD a fact of their existence.
The Soul of man is an experiential acquirement. As a mortal creature chooses to "do the will of the Father in heaven," so the indwelling spirit becomes the parent of a new reality in human experience. The conscious mind is the mother of this same emerging reality. The substance of this new reality is neither material nor spiritual it is morontial. This is blending the material with the spiritual, it makes the physical, the temple of the Most High. The Soul is made out of the eternal substance.
Personality (sweetness) is the one changeless reality in an otherwise ever changing creature experience; it unifies all other associated factors of individuality. The personality is the unique bestowal which the Universal Father makes upon the living and associated energies of matter, mind, and spirit, and continues with the Soul on it universal journey.
The Almighty Supreme, evolving on the value level of non personal activities, and the spirit person of God the Supreme are one reality the Supreme Being. God the Absolute is the realization attainment goal of all beings, the power and personality potential of the Deity Absolute transcends our concept, and we hesitate to discuss those realities which are so far removed from experiential actualization. Here they lack confidence in us (the Commission) to comprehend and they say so a few times in the UB.
We are fully cognizant of the difficulties of our assignment; we recognize the impossibility of fully translating the language of the concepts of divinity and eternity into the symbols of the language of the finite concepts of the conscious mind. But we know that there dwells within the human mind a fragment of God, and that there sojourns with the human Soul the Spirit of Truth; and we further know that these spirit forces conspire to enable creation to grasp the reality of spiritual values and to comprehend the philosophy of universe meanings. But even more certainly we know that these spirits of the Divine Presence are able to assist man in the spiritual appropriation of all truth contributory to the enhancement of the ever progressing reality of personal religious experience, God consciousness.
Webster's: philosophy = Ethics, a discipline comprising as its core logic, aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology, pursuit of wisdom, a search for a general understanding of values and reality by chiefly speculative rather than observational means, an analysis of the grounds of and concepts expressing fundamental beliefs.
Paper 1
In God, man lives, moves, and has his being; (Acts 17:28) there is nothing which man can give to God except this choosing to abide by the Father's will, and God like decisions, effected by the intelligent will creatures of the universes, constitute the reality of that true worship which is so satisfying to the love dominated nature of the Creator Father. We are already living in infinity.
God is primal reality in the spirit world; God is the source of truth in the mind spheres; God overshadows all throughout the material realms. To all created intelligences God is a personality, and to the universe of universes God is the First Source and Center of eternal reality. God is neither manlike nor machinelike. The First Father is universal spirit, eternal truth, infinite reality, and parental personality. The true concept of the reality of God is reasonable to logic, plausible to philosophy, essential to religion, and indispensable to any hope of survival.
Web Dictionary: religion = rely and gere, rely = depend and gere = manage: religion rely on management of a higher order. French prédilection, from Old French, from Medieval Latin praedctus, past participle of praed ligere, to prefer : Latin prae, pre + Latin ligere, to love ; see diligent: predilection, bias, leaning, partiality, penchant, prejudice, proclivity, propensity. The word religion, in its most primordial meaning, can be traced to Latin re 'back' and ligare 'tie', i.e., kinship tied back. In Archaic usage, religion means 'scrupulous conformity'. From 'tie back' we get 'return to God'.
"God is spirit." He is a universal spiritual presence. The Universal Father is an infinite spiritual reality; he is "the sovereign, eternal, immortal, invisible, and only true God." Even though you are "the offspring of God," 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". "The express image of GOD" as stated in scripture, uses "express" as an outward term. Jesus expressions of divinity are GOD/Spirit, not the form and substance of Earth entities. Jesus transfiguration is also the image of light that GOD is. Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
As a reality in spiritual experience God is not mysterious. (Mystery as used here is colloquial usage, meaning obscure. The origin of the word 'mystery' indicated that one is an initiate into the hidden, sacred or secret knowledge.) is utterly futile to discuss such incomprehensible concepts of divine personality with the minds of those whose maximum concept of the reality of being consists in the idea and ideal of personality. When personality becomes THAT sweetness of the light (truly the light is sweet) in the individual, the so called finite person is in that infinity of GOD, that GOD connection and cosmic reality becomes a fact of ascension reality.
I am fully aware that I have at my command no language adequate to make clear to the mortal mind how these universe resolutions appear to us. Such appearances are through the GOD connection, giving a realization and comprehension of what is in the present and a way to proceed at the same time.
Webster's: resolve = to make clear or understandable; to reduce by analysis; Latin: loose, release; solve = to find a solution, explanation, or answer, such as 'solve again'.
Paper 2
All this he has done and now does, and ever more will continue to do, without in the least detracting from the fact and reality of his infinity, eternity, and primacy. The greatest punishment (in reality an inevitable consequence) for wrongdoing and deliberate rebellion against the government of God is loss of existence as an individual subject of that government. The energy returns to GOD who gave it, is reabsorbed in GOD. The so called punishment is a loss of individuality, not a loss of matter, mind or spirit.
Ecclesiastes 3:19-21 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth. The difference between me and the beast is that I choose love. Revelation 2:4 'thy first love'.
Webster's: rebellion = oppose authority.