God's+Relations

== [|32:4. GOD'S RELATION TO A LOCAL UNIVERSE] ==

32:4.1 Do not [|entertain] the [|idea] that, since the [|Universal Father] has [|delegated] so much of himself and his [|power] to others, he is a [|silent] or inactive member of the [|Deity] [|partnership]. Aside from [|personality] domains and [|Adjuster] [|bestowal], he is [|apparently] the least [|active] of the [|Paradise Deities] in that he allows his [|Deity co-ordinates], [|his Sons], and numerous [|created] [|intelligences] to [|perform] so much in the carrying out of his [|eternal] [|purpose]. He is the [|silent] member of the [|creative] [|trio] only in that he never does aught which any of his [|co-ordinate] or subordinate [|associates] can do. 32:4.2 [|God] has full [|understanding] of the need of every [|intelligent] [|creature] for [|function] and [|experience], and therefore, in every [|situation], be it concerned with the [|destiny] of a [|universe] or the [|welfare] of the [|humblest] of his [|creatures], [|God] retires from [|activity] in favor of the [|galaxy] of [|creature] and [|Creator] [|personalities] who [|inherently] [|intervene] between himself and any given [|universe] situation or [|creative] [|event]. But notwithstanding this retirement, this [|exhibition] of [|infinite] [|co-ordination], there is on [|God]'s part an [|actual], [|literal], and [|personal] [|participation] in these [|events] by and through these [|ordained] [|agencies] and [|personalities]. [|The Father] is [|working] in and through all these [|channels] for the welfare of all his far-flung [|creation]. 32:4.3 As regards the [|policies], [|conduct], and [|administration] of a [|local universe], the [|Universal Father] [|acts] in the [|person] of his [|Creator Son]. In the interrelationships of [|the Sons of God], in the [|group] [|associations] of the [|personalities] of [|origin] in the [|Third Source and Center], or in the [|relationship] between any other [|creatures], such as [|human beings]—as concerns such [|associations] the [|Universal Father] never [|intervenes]. The [|law] of the [|Creator Son], the rule of the [|Constellation Fathers], the [|System Sovereigns], and the [|Planetary Princes]—the [|ordained] [|policies] and [|procedures] for that [|universe]—always prevail. There is no division of [|authority]; never is there a [|cross working] of [|divine] [|power] and [|purpose]. [|The Deities] are in [|perfect] and [|eternal] [|unanimity]. 32:4.4 The [|Creator Son] rules [|supreme] in all matters of [|ethical] [|associations], the [|relations] of any division of [|creatures] to any other [|class] of [|creatures] or of two or more [|individuals] within any given [|group]; but such a [|plan] does not mean that the [|Universal Father] may not in his own way [|intervene] and do aught that pleases the [|divine] [|mind] with any [|individual] [|creature] throughout all [|creation], as pertains to that [|individual]'s present [|status] or [|future] prospects and as concerns [|the Father]'s [|eternal] [|plan] and [|infinite] [|purpose]. 32:4.5 In the [|mortal] [|will] [|creatures] [|the Father] is [|actually] present in the [|indwelling Adjuster], a [|fragment] of his prepersonal [|spirit]; and [|the Father] is also the [|source] of the [|personality] of such a [|mortal] [|will] [|creature]. 32:4.6 These [|Thought Adjusters], the [|bestowals] of the [|Universal Father], are comparatively [|isolated]; they indwell [|human] [|minds] but have no [|discernible] [|connection] with the [|ethical] affairs of a [|local creation]. They are not directly [|co-ordinated] with the [|seraphic] [|service] nor with the [|administration] of [|systems], [|constellations], or a [|local universe], not even with the rule of a [|Creator Son], whose will is the [|supreme] [|law] of his [|universe]. 32:4.7 The [|indwelling Adjusters] are one of [|God]'s separate but [|unified] modes of contact with the [|creatures] of his all but [|infinite] [|creation]. Thus does he who is [|invisible] to [|mortal] [|man] [|manifest] his [|presence], and could he do so, he would show himself to us in still other ways, but such further [|revelation] is not [|divinely] [|possible]. 32:4.8 We can [|see] and [|understand] the [|mechanism] whereby the [|Sons] enjoy [|intimate] and complete [|knowledge] regarding the [|universes] of their [|jurisdiction]; but we cannot fully [|comprehend] the [|methods] whereby [|God] is so fully and [|personally] conversant with the details of the [|universe of universes], although we at least can [|recognize] the avenue whereby the [|Universal Father] can receive [|information] regarding, and [|manifest] his [|presence] to, the [|beings] of his immense [|creation]. Through the [|personality circuit]] [|the Father] is cognizant—has [|personal] [|knowledge]—of all the [|thoughts] and [|acts] of all the [|beings] in all [|the systems] of all the [|universes] of all [|creation]. Though we cannot fully grasp this [|technique] of [|God]'s [|communion] with his [|children], we can be strengthened in the [|assurance] that the "Lord knows his children,"[|[1]] and that of each one of us "he takes note where we were born."[|[2]] 32:4.9 In your [|universe] and in your [|heart] the [|Universal Father] is present, [|spiritually] speaking, by one of the [|Seven Master Spirits] of central abode and, specifically, by the [|divine Adjuster] who lives and [|works] and waits in the depths of the [|mortal] [|mind]. 32:4.10 [|God] is not a [|self]-[|centered] [|personality]; [|the Father] freely [|distributes] himself to his [|creation] and to his [|creatures]. He lives and [|acts], not only in [|the Deities], but also in [|his Sons], whom he intrusts with the [|doing] of [|everything] that it is [|divinely] [|possible] for them to do. The [|Universal Father] has truly divested himself of every [|function] which it is possible for another [|being] to [|perform]. And this is just as true of [|mortal] [|man] as of the [|Creator Son] who rules in [|God]'s stead at the [|headquarters] of a [|local universe]. Thus we behold the outworking of the [|ideal] and [|infinite] [|love] of the [|Universal Father]. 32:4.11 In this [|universal] [|bestowal] of himself we have [|abundant] [|proof] of both the [|magnitude] and the magnanimity of [|the Father]'s [|divine] [|nature]. If [|God] has withheld aught of himself from the [|universal] [|creation], then of that residue he is in lavish [|generosity] bestowing the [|Thought Adjusters] upon the [|mortals] of the realms, the [|Mystery Monitors] of [|time], who so [|patiently] indwell the [|mortal] [|candidates] for life [|everlasting]. 32:4.12 The [|Universal Father] has poured out himself, as it were, to make all [|creation] rich in [|personality] [|possession] and [|potential] [|spiritual] [|attainment]. [|God] has given us himself that we may be like him, and he has reserved for himself of [|power] and [|glory] only that which is [|necessary] for the [|maintenance] of those [|things] for the [|love] of which he has thus divested himself of [|all things] else.