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1:5.12 In the contemplation of Deity, the [[concept]] of [[personality]] must be divested of the idea of corporeality. A [[material]] [[body]] is not indispensable to personality in either [[man]] or [[God]]. The corporeality error is shown in both extremes of human [[philosophy]]. In materialism, since man loses his body at [[death]], he ceases to exist as a personality; in pantheism, since God has no body, he is not, therefore, a person. The superhuman type of [[progressing]] personality [[function]]s in a union of [[mind]] and [[spirit]].

1:5.12 In the contemplation of Deity, the [[concept]] of [[personality]] must be divested of the idea of corporeality. A [[material]] [[body]] is not indispensable to personality in either [[man]] or [[God]]. The corporeality error is shown in both extremes of human [[philosophy]]. In materialism, since man loses his body at [[death]], he ceases to exist as a personality; in pantheism, since God has no body, he is not, therefore, a person. The superhuman type of [[progressing]] personality [[function]]s in a union of [[mind]] and [[spirit]].

1:5.13 Personality is not simply an attribute of God; it rather stands for the totality of the co-ordinated infinite nature and the unified divine will which is exhibited in eternity and universality of perfect expression. Personality, in the supreme sense, is the revelation of God to the universe of universes.

1:5.13 Personality is not simply an [[attribute]] of [[God]]; it rather stands for the [[totality]] of the co-ordinated [[infinite]] [[nature]] and the unified divine will which is exhibited in eternity and universality of [[perfect]] [[expression]]. Personality, in the supreme sense, is the [[revelation]] of God to the [[universe of universes]].

1:5.14 God, being eternal, universal, absolute, and infinite, does not grow in knowledge nor increase in wisdom. God does not acquire experience, as finite man might conjecture or comprehend, but he does, within the realms of his own eternal personality, enjoy those continuous expansions of self-realization which are in certain ways comparable to, and analogous with, the acquirement of new experience by the finite creatures of the evolutionary worlds.

1:5.14 God, being eternal, [[universal]], [[absolute]], and infinite, does not grow in [[knowledge]] nor increase in [[wisdom]]. God does not acquire experience, as finite man might conjecture or [[comprehend]], but he does, within the realms of his own eternal personality, enjoy those continuous expansions of [[self-realization]] which are in certain ways comparable to, and [[analogous]] with, the acquirement of new [[experience]] by the [[finite]] creatures of the evolutionary worlds.

1:5.15 The absolute perfection of the infinite God would cause him to suffer the awful limitations of unqualified finality of perfectness were it not a fact that the Universal Father directly participates in the personality struggle of every imperfect soul in the wide universe who seeks, by divine aid, to ascend to the spiritually perfect worlds on high. This progressive experience of every spirit being and every mortal creature throughout the universe of universes is a part of the Father's ever-expanding Deity-consciousness of the never-ending divine circle of ceaseless self-realization.

1:5.15 The [[absolute]] [[perfection]] of the [[infinite]] [[God]] would cause him to [[suffer]] the awful limitations of unqualified [[finality]] of perfectness were it not a [[fact]] that the Universal Father directly participates in the personality struggle of every imperfect [[soul]] in the wide universe who seeks, by divine aid, to [[ascend]] to the spiritually perfect worlds on high. This [[progressive]] experience of every [[spirit]] [[being]] and every [[mortal]] [[creature]] throughout the universe of universes is a part of the Father's ever-expanding [[Deity-consciousness]] of the never-ending divine [[circle]] of ceaseless [[self-realization]].

1:5.16 It is literally true: "In all your afflictions he is afflicted." "In all your triumphs he triumphs in and with you." His prepersonal divine spirit is a real part of you. The Isle of Paradise responds to all the physical metamorphoses of the universe of universes; the Eternal Son includes all the spirit impulses of all creation; the Conjoint Actor encompasses all the mind expression of the expanding cosmos. The Universal Father realizes in the fullness of the divine consciousness all the individual experience of the progressive struggles of the expanding minds and the ascending spirits of every entity, being, and personality of the whole evolutionary creation of time and space. And all this is literally true, for "in Him we all live and move and have our being."

1:5.16 It is literally true: "In all your [[afflictions]] he is afflicted." "In all your triumphs he triumphs in and with you." His [[Thought Adjuster|prepersonal divine spirit]] is a real part of you. The [[Isle of Paradise]] [[responds]] to all the [[physical]] [[metamorphoses]] of the [[universe of universes]]; the [[Eternal Son]] includes all the spirit impulses of all [[creation]]; the [[Conjoint Actor]] [[encompasses]] all the [[mind]] [[expression]] of the expanding [[cosmos]]. The Universal Father realizes in the fullness of the divine [[consciousness]] all the individual experience of the progressive struggles of the expanding minds and the ascending spirits of every entity, being, and personality of the whole evolutionary [[creation]] of [[time and space]]. And all this is literally true, for "in Him we all live and move and have our [[being]]."

==1:6. PERSONALITY IN THE UNIVERSE==

==1:6. PERSONALITY IN THE UNIVERSE==