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Date:         Fri, 6 Nov 1992 11:28:24 CST
From:         Michael Million <MM24681@UAFSYSB.BITNET>
Subject:      Excerpt: Creator-creature link

 Though one page of 2097 will hardly suffice for full explanation, I
 want to offer this excerpt as an example of the tone and content of
 the most recent revelation to man on earth.    Michael Million
 PS:  the terms Adjuster, Thought Adjuster and Mystery Monitor are
 for our purposes the same as Father fragment.
 --------------------excerpt follows-----------------------------------
 [p. 64]
    The Father is not in spiritual hiding, but so many of his creatures
 have hidden themselves away in the mists of their own willful decisions
 and for the time being have separated themselves from the communion of
 his spirit and the spirit of his Son by their choosing of their own
 perverse ways and by the indulgence of the self-assertiveness of their
 intolerant minds and unspiritual natures.
    Mortal man may draw near God and may repeatedly forsake the divine
 will so long as the power of choice remains.  Man's final doom is not
 sealed until he has lost the power to choose the Father's will.  There
 is never a closure of the Father's heart to the need and the petition
 of his children.  Only do his offspring close their hearts forever to
 the Father's drawing power when they finally and forever lose the desire
 to do his divine will -- to know him and to be like him.  Likewise is
 man's eternal destiny assured when Adjuster fusion proclaims to the
 universe that such an ascender has made the final and irrevocable
 choice to live the Father's will.
    The great God makes direct contact with mortal man and gives a part
 of his infinite and eternal and incomprehensible self to live and dwell
 within him.  God has embarked upon the eternal adventure with man.  If
 you yield to the leadings of the spiritual forces in you and around
 you, you cannot fail to attain the high destiny established by a loving
 God as the universe goal of his ascendant creatures from the evolution-
 ary worlds of space.

                        2.  THE PRESENCE OF GOD

    The physical presence of the Infinite is the reality of the material
 universe.  The mind presence of Deity must be determined by the depth
 of individual intellectual experience and by the evolutionary person-
 ality level.  The spiritual presence of Divinity must of necessity be
 differential in the universe.  It is determined by the spiritual capac-
 ity of receptivity and by the degree of the consecration of the
 creature's will to the doing of the divine will.
    God lives in every one of his spirit-born sons.  The Paradise Sons
 always have access to the presence of God, "the right hand of the
 Father," and all of his creature personalities have access to the
 "bosom of the Father."  This refers to the personality circuit, what-
 ever, wherever, and however contacted, or otherwise entails personal,
 self-conscious contact and communion with the Universal Father, whether
 at the central abode or at some other designated place, as on one of
 the seven sacred spheres of Paradise.
    The divine presence cannot, however, be discovered anywhere in nature
 or even in the lives of God-knowing mortals so fully and so certainly
 as in your attempted communion with the indwelling Mystery Monitor, the
 Paradise Thought Adjuster.  What a mistake to dream of God far off in
 the skies when the spirit of the Universal Father lives within your
 own mind!
    It is because of this God fragment that indwells you that you can
 hope, as you progress in harmonizing with the Adjuster's spiritual
 leadings, more fully to discern the presence and transforming power of
 those other spiritual influences that surround you and impinge upon
 you but do not function as an integral part of [p. 65] you.  The fact
 that you are not intellectually conscious of close and intimate contact
 with the indwelling Adjuster does not in the least disprove such an
 exalted experience.  The proof of fraternity with the divine Adjuster
 consists wholly in the nature and extent of the fruits of the spirit
 which are yielded in the life experience of the individual believer.
 "By their fruits you shall know them."
    It is exceedingly difficult for the meagerly spiritualized, material
 mind of mortal man to experience marked consciousness of the spirit
 activities of such divine entities as the Paradise Adjusters.  As the
 soul of joint mind and Adjuster creation becomes increasingly existent,
 there also evolves a new phase of soul consciousness which is capable
 of experiencing the presence, and of recognizing the spirit leadings
 and other supermaterial activities, of the Mystery Monitors.
    The entire experience of Adjuster communion is one involving moral
 status, mental motivation, and spiritual experience.  The self-reali-
 zation of such an achievement is mainly, though not exclusively,
 limited to the realms of soul consciousness, but the proofs are forth-
 coming and abundant in the manifestation of the fruits of the spirit
 in the lives of all such inner-spirit contactors.
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 [Excerpted from _The URANTIA Book_, pages 64-5; copyrighted by The
 Urantia Foundation, Chicago, Illinois USA]
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