117:4.14 [[God]]'s [[gifts]]—his [[bestowal]] of [[reality]]—are not [[divorce]]ments from himself; he does not [[alienate]] [[creation]] from himself, but he has set up [[tensions]] in the creations [[Orbit|circling]] [[Paradise]]. [[God]] first [[loves]] [[man]] and confers upon him the [[potential]] of [[immortality]]—[[eternal]] [[reality]]. And as [[man]] [[loves]] [[God]], so does man become [[eternal]] in [[actuality]]. And here is [[mystery]]: The more closely man approaches [[God]] through [[love]], the greater the [[reality]]—[[actuality]]—of that man. The more man withdraws from [[God]], the more nearly he approaches nonreality—cessation of [[existence]]. When man [[consecrates]] his will to the [[doing of the Father's will]], when [[man]] gives [[God]] all that he has, then does God make that man more than he is. | 117:4.14 [[God]]'s [[gifts]]—his [[bestowal]] of [[reality]]—are not [[divorce]]ments from himself; he does not [[alienate]] [[creation]] from himself, but he has set up [[tensions]] in the creations [[Orbit|circling]] [[Paradise]]. [[God]] first [[loves]] [[man]] and confers upon him the [[potential]] of [[immortality]]—[[eternal]] [[reality]]. And as [[man]] [[loves]] [[God]], so does man become [[eternal]] in [[actuality]]. And here is [[mystery]]: The more closely man approaches [[God]] through [[love]], the greater the [[reality]]—[[actuality]]—of that man. The more man withdraws from [[God]], the more nearly he approaches nonreality—cessation of [[existence]]. When man [[consecrates]] his will to the [[doing of the Father's will]], when [[man]] gives [[God]] all that he has, then does God make that man more than he is. |