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1:3.1 "God is spirit."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter_4] 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."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_Paul_to_Timothy#The_1st_Letter_of_Paul_to_Timothy.2C_I] Even though you are "the offspring of God,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Acts_of_the_Apostles#Acts.17] you ought not to think that the Father is like yourselves in [[Appearance|form and physique]] because you are said to be created "in his image"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.1]—indwelt by [[Mystery Monitors]] dispatched from the [[Paradise|central abode]] of his eternal presence. Spirit beings are real, notwithstanding they are invisible to human [[Perception|eyes]]; even though they have not [[flesh]] and blood.

1:3.1 "God is spirit."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter_4] 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."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_Paul_to_Timothy#The_1st_Letter_of_Paul_to_Timothy.2C_I] Even though you are "the offspring of God,"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Acts_of_the_Apostles#Acts.17] you ought not to think that the Father is like yourselves in [[Appearance|form and physique]] because you are said to be created "in his image"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.1]—indwelt by [[Mystery Monitors]] dispatched from the [[Paradise|central abode]] of his eternal presence. Spirit beings are real, notwithstanding they are invisible to human [[Perception|eyes]]; even though they have not [[flesh]] and blood.

1:3.2 Said the seer of old: "Lo, he goes by me, and I see him not; he passes on also, but I perceive him not."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.9] We may constantly [[observe]] the [[works]] of God, we may be highly conscious of the [[material]] [[evidences]] of his [[majestic]] [[Behavior|conduct]], but rarely may we gaze upon the visible [[manifestation]] of his [[divinity]], not even to behold the [[presence]] of his [[Thought Adjuster|delegated spirit of human indwelling]].

1:3.2 Said the seer of old: "Lo, he goes by me, and I see him not; he passes on also, but I perceive him not."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.9] We may constantly [[observe]] the [[works]] of God, we may be highly conscious of the [[material]] [[evidences]] of his [[majestic]] [[Behavior|conduct]], but rarely may we gaze upon the visible [[manifestation]] of his [[divinity]], not even to behold the [[presence]] of his [[Thought Adjuster|delegated spirit of human indwelling]].

1:3.3 The Universal Father is not invisible because he is hiding himself away from the lowly creatures of materialistic handicaps and limited spiritual endowments. The situation rather is: "You cannot see my face, for no mortal can see me and live."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Exodus#Chapter_.33] No [[material]] [[Human|man]] could behold the spirit [[God]] and preserve his [[mortal]] [[existence]]. The [[glory]] and the spiritual [[brilliance]] of the [[divine]] [[personality]] presence is impossible of approach by the lower groups of spirit beings or by any order of material personalities. The spiritual [[luminosity]] of the Father's [[personal]] presence is a "[[light]] which no mortal man can approach; which no material creature has seen or can see."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_Paul_to_Timothy#The_1st_Letter_of_Paul_to_Timothy.2CVI] But it is not [[necessary]] to see God with the eyes of the [[flesh]] in order to [[discern]] him by the [[faith]]-[[vision]] of the [[Enlightened|spiritualized]] [[mind]].

1:3.3 The Universal Father is not invisible because he is hiding himself away from the lowly creatures of materialistic handicaps and limited spiritual endowments. The situation rather is: "You cannot see my face, for no mortal can see me and live."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Exodus#Chapter_.33] No [[material]] [[Human|man]] could behold the spirit [[God]] and preserve his [[mortal]] [[existence]]. The [[glory]] and the spiritual [[brilliance]] of the [[divine]] [[personality]] presence is impossible of approach by the lower groups of spirit beings or by any order of material personalities. The spiritual [[luminosity]] of the Father's [[personal]] presence is a "[[light]] which no mortal man can approach; which no material creature has seen or can see."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_Paul_to_Timothy#The_1st_Letter_of_Paul_to_Timothy.2CVI] But it is not [[necessary]] to see God with the eyes of the [[flesh]] in order to [[discern]] him by the [[faith]]-[[vision]] of the [[Enlightened|spiritualized]] [[mind]].

1:3.4 The [[spirit]] [[nature]] of the Universal Father is shared fully with his coexistent self, the [[Eternal Son]] of [[Paradise]]. Both the Father and the Son in like [[manner]] [[share]] the universal and eternal spirit fully and unreservedly with their conjoint personality co-ordinate, the [[Infinite Spirit]]. God's spirit is, in and of himself, [[absolute]]; in the Son it is unqualified, in the Spirit, [[universal]], and in and by all of them, [[infinite]].

1:3.4 The [[spirit]] [[nature]] of the Universal Father is shared fully with his coexistent self, the [[Eternal Son]] of [[Paradise]]. Both the Father and the Son in like [[manner]] [[share]] the universal and eternal spirit fully and unreservedly with their conjoint personality co-ordinate, the [[Infinite Spirit]]. God's spirit is, in and of himself, [[absolute]]; in the Son it is unqualified, in the Spirit, [[universal]], and in and by all of them, [[infinite]].

1:3.5 God is a universal spirit; God is the universal person. The [[supreme]] personal reality of the [[finite]] [[creation]] is [[spirit]]; the [[ultimate]] reality of the personal [[cosmos]] is [[absonite]] spirit. Only the levels of infinity are [[absolute]], and only on such levels is there [[finality]] of oneness between [[matter]], [[mind]], and [[spirit]].

1:3.5 God is a universal spirit; God is the universal person. The [[supreme]] personal reality of the [[finite]] [[creation]] is [[spirit]]; the [[ultimate]] reality of the personal [[cosmos]] is [[absonite]] spirit. Only the levels of infinity are [[absolute]], and only on such levels is there [[finality]] of oneness between [[matter]], [[mind]], and [[spirit]].

1:3.6 In [[Grand Universe|the universes]] God the Father is, in [[potential]], [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL the overcontroller] of [[matter]], [[mind]], and [[spirit]]. Only by means of his far-flung [[personality]] [[circuit]] does God deal directly with the personalities of his vast [[creation]] of [[Free will|will]] [[creatures]], but he is contactable (outside of [[Paradise]]) only in the presences of his [[Thought Adjusters|fragmented entities]], the will of God abroad in [[Seven superuniverses|the universes]]. This Paradise spirit that indwells the minds of the mortals of [[time]] and there fosters the [[evolution]] of the immortal [[soul]] of the [[surviving]] creature is of the [[nature]] and [[divinity]] of the Universal Father. But the minds of such evolutionary creatures originate in the [[local universes]] and must gain [[divine]] [[perfection]] by achieving those [[experiential]] [[transformations]] of spiritual attainment which are the inevitable result of a creature's choosing to [[do the will of the Father]] in [[heaven]].

1:3.6 In [[Grand Universe|the universes]] God the Father is, in [[potential]], [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL the overcontroller] of [[matter]], [[mind]], and [[spirit]]. Only by means of his far-flung [[personality]] [[circuit]] does God deal directly with the personalities of his vast [[creation]] of [[Free will|will]] [[creatures]], but he is contactable (outside of [[Paradise]]) only in the presences of his [[Thought Adjusters|fragmented entities]], the will of God abroad in [[Seven superuniverses|the universes]]. This Paradise spirit that indwells the minds of the mortals of [[time]] and there fosters the [[evolution]] of the immortal [[soul]] of the [[surviving]] creature is of the [[nature]] and [[divinity]] of the Universal Father. But the minds of such evolutionary creatures originate in the [[local universes]] and must gain [[divine]] [[perfection]] by achieving those [[experiential]] [[transformations]] of spiritual attainment which are the inevitable result of a creature's choosing to [[do the will of the Father]] in [[heaven]].

1:3.7 In the [[Inner Life|inner experience]] of man, mind is joined to matter. Such material-linked minds cannot [[survive]] mortal [[death]]. The [[technique]] of survival is [[embrace]]d in those adjustments of the human will and those transformations in the mortal mind whereby such a [[God-conscious]] [[intellect]] [[Progressive|gradually]] becomes spirit taught and eventually spirit led. This [[evolution]] of the human mind from matter association to spirit union results in the transmutation of the potentially spirit phases of the mortal mind into the [[morontia]] realities of the immortal [[soul]]. Mortal mind subservient to matter is [[destined]] to become increasingly [[material]] and consequently to suffer eventual [[personality]] [[Death|extinction]]; mind yielded to spirit is destined to become increasingly [[spiritual]] and ultimately to achieve [[Fusion|oneness]] with the surviving and [[guiding]] divine spirit and in this way to attain [[survival]] and [[eternity]] of [[personality]] [[existence]].

1:3.7 In the [[Inner Life|inner experience]] of man, mind is joined to matter. Such material-linked minds cannot [[survive]] mortal [[death]]. The [[technique]] of survival is [[embrace]]d in those adjustments of the human will and those transformations in the mortal mind whereby such a [[God-conscious]] [[intellect]] [[Progressive|gradually]] becomes spirit taught and eventually spirit led. This [[evolution]] of the human mind from matter association to spirit union results in the transmutation of the potentially spirit phases of the mortal mind into the [[morontia]] realities of the immortal [[soul]]. Mortal mind subservient to matter is [[destined]] to become increasingly [[material]] and consequently to suffer eventual [[personality]] [[Death|extinction]]; mind yielded to spirit is destined to become increasingly [[spiritual]] and ultimately to achieve [[Fusion|oneness]] with the surviving and [[guiding]] divine spirit and in this way to attain [[survival]] and [[eternity]] of [[personality]] [[existence]].

1:3.8 I come forth from the Eternal, and I have repeatedly returned to the presence of the Universal Father. I know of the actuality and personality of the [[First Source and Center]], the Eternal and Universal Father. I know that, while the great God is [[absolute]], [[eternal]], and [[infinite]], he is also [[good]], [[divine]], and [[gracious]]. I know the [[truth]] of the great declarations: "God is spirit"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter_4] and "God is love,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_John#1st_Letter_of_John.2C_IV] and these two attributes are most completely revealed to the universe in the [[Eternal Son]].

1:3.8 I come forth from the Eternal, and I have repeatedly returned to the presence of the Universal Father. I know of the actuality and personality of the [[First Source and Center]], the Eternal and Universal Father. I know that, while the great God is [[absolute]], [[eternal]], and [[infinite]], he is also [[good]], [[divine]], and [[gracious]]. I know the [[truth]] of the great declarations: "God is spirit"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter_4] and "God is love,"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_John#1st_Letter_of_John.2C_IV] and these two attributes are most completely revealed to the universe in the [[Eternal Son]].

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