Universal+Father

Gal Flekt Piks uv **[|Galactic Reflection]** **album**  **with 116 s uv [|albums]**

[|PAPER 1]: [|THE UNIVERSAL FATHER]
1:0.1 The [|Universal] [|Father] is the [|God] of all [|creation], the [|First Source and Center] of all [|things] and [|beings]. First [|think] of God as a creator, then as a controller, and lastly as an infinite upholder. The [|truth] about the Universal Father had begun to dawn upon [|mankind] when the [|prophet] said: "You, God, are alone; there is none beside you. You have created the heaven and the [|heaven of heavens], with all their [|hosts]; you preserve and control them.[|[1]] By the [|Sons of God] were the [|universes] made.[|[2]] The Creator covers himself with [|light] as with a [|garment] and stretches out the heavens as a curtain."[|[3]] Only the [|concept] of the Universal Father—[|one God] in the place of many gods—enabled [|mortal] man to [|comprehend] the Father as divine creator and infinite controller. 1:0.2 The myriads of [|planetary] [|systems] were all made to be eventually inhabited by many different [|types] of [|intelligent] [|creatures], beings who could know God, receive the divine [|affection], and [|love] him in return. The [|universe of universes] is the [|work] of God and the [|dwelling place] of his diverse creatures. "God created the heavens and formed the earth; he established the universe and created this world not in vain; he formed it to be inhabited."[|[4]] 1:0.3 The [|enlightened] worlds all recognize and [|worship] the Universal Father, the [|eternal] maker and [|infinite] upholder of all [|creation]. The [|will] creatures of universe upon universe have embarked upon the long, long [|Paradise] journey, the fascinating struggle of the eternal [|adventure] of attaining [|God the Father]. The [|transcendent] goal of the children of time is to find the eternal God, to comprehend the divine [|nature], to recognize the Universal Father. God-knowing creatures have only one supreme [|ambition], just one consuming [|desire], and that is to become, as they are in their [|spheres], like him as he is in his Paradise [|perfection] of [|personality] and in his universal sphere of righteous [|supremacy]. From the Universal Father who inhabits eternity there has gone forth the supreme [|mandate], "Be you perfect, even as I am perfect."[|[5]] In [|love] and [|mercy] the messengers of Paradise have carried this divine exhortation down through the ages and out through the universes, even to such lowly [|animal]-[|origin] creatures as the [|human] [|races] of [|Urantia]. 1:0.4 This magnificent and [|universal] injunction to strive for the attainment of the [|perfection] of [|divinity] is the first duty, and should be the highest [|ambition], of all the struggling creature creation of the God of perfection. This [|possibility] of the attainment of divine perfection is the final and certain [|destiny] of all man's eternal spiritual [|progress]. 1:0.5 Urantia [|mortals] can hardly [|hope] to be perfect in the infinite sense, but it is entirely possible for [|human beings], starting out as they do on this [|planet], to attain the supernal and divine goal which the infinite God has set for mortal man; and when they do achieve this [|destiny], they will, in all that pertains to [|self-realization] and [|mind] attainment, be just as replete in their sphere of divine perfection as God himself is in his sphere of infinity and eternity. Such perfection may not be universal in the [|material] sense, unlimited in [|intellectual] grasp, or final in [|spiritual] [|experience], but it is final and complete in all finite aspects of divinity of will, [|perfection] of personality [|motivation], and [|God-consciousness]. 1:0.6 This is the true meaning of that divine command, "Be you perfect, even as I am perfect,"[|[6]] which ever urges [|mortal] man onward and beckons him inward in that long and fascinating [|struggle] for the [|attainment] of higher and higher levels of spiritual [|values] and true universe [|meanings]. This [|sublime] search for the God of universes is the supreme [|adventure] of the [|inhabitants of all the worlds] of [|time and space]. 

[|1:1. THE FATHER'S NAME]
1:1.1 Of all the [|names] by which [|God] the [|Father] is known throughout the [|universes], those which designate him as the [|First Source and the Universe Center] are most often encountered. The First Father is known by various names in [|different] universes and in [|different sectors] of the same universe. The names which the [|creature] assigns to the [|Creator] are much dependent on the creature's [|concept] of the Creator. The First Source and Universe Center has never revealed himself by name, only by [|nature]. If we believe that we are the [|children] of this Creator, it is only [|natural] that we should eventually call him Father. But this is the name of our own choosing, and it grows out of the recognition of our [|personal] [|relationship] with the First Source and Center. 1:1.2 The Universal Father never [|imposes] any form of [|arbitrary] recognition, [|formal] [|worship], or [|slavish] [|service] upon the intelligent [|will] creatures of the universes. The [|evolutionary] inhabitants of the worlds of [|time and space] must of themselves—in their own [|hearts]—recognize, [|love], and voluntarily [|worship] him. The Creator refuses to [|coerce] or compel the submission of the spiritual [|free wills] of his [|material] creatures. The [|affectionate] [|dedication] of the human will to the [|doing of the Father's will] is man's choicest gift to God; in [|fact], such a [|consecration] of creature will constitutes man's only possible gift of true [|value] to the [|Paradise] [|Father]. In God, man lives, moves, and has his [|being]; there is nothing which man can give to God except this choosing to abide by the Father's will, and such [|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. 1:1.3 When you have once become truly [|God-conscious], after you really [|discover] the [|majestic] [|Creator] and begin to [|experience] the [|realization] of the indwelling [|presence] of the [|divine controller], then, in accordance with your [|enlightenment] and in accordance with the [|manner] and [|method] by which the [|divine Sons] [|reveal] God, you will find a name for the Universal Father which will be adequately [|expressive] of your [|concept] of the [|First Great Source and Center]. And so, on different worlds and in various universes, the Creator becomes known by numerous appellations, in [|spirit] of [|relationship] all [|meaning] the same but, in [|words] and [|symbols], each name standing for the degree, the depth, of his [|enthronement] in the [|hearts] of his [|creatures] of any given realm. 1:1.4 Near the [|center] of the [|universe of universes], the Universal Father is generally known by [|names] which may be regarded as meaning the First Source. Farther out in the universes of space, the terms employed to designate the Universal Father more often mean the Universal Center. Still farther out in the starry [|creation], he is known, as on the [|headquarters world] of your [|local universe], as the First Creative Source and Divine Center. In one near-by [|constellation] God is called the Father of Universes. In another, the Infinite Upholder, and to the east, the Divine Controller. He has also been designated the Father of Lights, the Gift of Life, and the All-powerful One. 1:1.5 On those worlds where a [|Paradise Son] has lived a [|bestowal life], God is generally known by some name indicative of [|personal] [|relationship], tender [|affection], and [|fatherly] [|devotion]. On your [|constellation headquarters] God is referred to as the Universal Father, and on different [|planets] in your [|local system] of inhabited worlds he is variously known as the Father of Fathers, the [|Paradise] Father, the [|Havona] Father, and the Spirit Father. Those who know God through the [|revelations] of the bestowals of the Paradise Sons, eventually yield to the sentimental appeal of the [|touching] [|relationship] of the creature-Creator association and refer to God as "our Father."[|[7]] 1:1.6 On a [|planet] of [|sex] [|creatures], in a world where the impulses of [|parental] [|emotion] are inherent in the [|hearts] of its intelligent beings, the term Father becomes a very [|expressive] and appropriate name for the eternal God. He is best known, most universally acknowledged, on your planet, [|Urantia], by the name [|God]. The name he is given is of little importance; the significant thing is that you should know him and aspire to be like him. Your [|prophets] of old truly called him "the everlasting God"[|[8]] and referred to him as the one who "inhabits eternity."[|[9]]