The Sublime Adventure – III. At The Beginning (1 of 2)
Date Posted: May 8th, 2008
At the beginning only The Universal Father, The Eternal Son,
The Infinite Spirit, and The Central Universe existed.
“The Universal Father is the God of all creations, the First
Source and Center of all things and beings.” [P21].
“The Eternal Son is the perfect and final expression of the
‘first’ personal and absolute concept of the Universal Father.
Accordingly, whenever and however the Father personally and
absolutely expresses himself, he does so through his Eternal Son,
who ever has been, now is, and ever will be, the living and
divine Word.”
The Revelator (a Divine Counsellor) goes on to say that “We
speak of God’s ‘first’ thought and allude to an impossible time
origin of the Eternal Son for the purpose of gaining access to
the thought channels of the human intellect.” In reality,
“… the Universal Father never could have had a first thought,
nor could the Eternal Son ever have had a beginning.”
“We [The Higher Personalities] believe the Son sprang from
the Father; we are taught that both are unqualifiedly eternal.
It is apparent, therefore, that no time creature can ever fully
comprehend this mystery of a Son who is derived from the Father,
and yet who is co-ordinately eternal with the Father himself.”
Because of this the Revelator was instructed to use “… such
time concepts of sequentiality.” [P73].
“We are now face to face with the eternity origin of the
Infinite Spirit, the Third Person of Deity. The very instant
that God the Father and God the Son conjointly conceive an
identical and infinite action – the execution of an absolute
thought plan – that very moment, the Infinite Spirit springs full
fledgedly into existence.”
Again, time concepts of sequentiality are used here. The
Revelator puts it this way: “And thus we portray the sequential
origin of the Third Source and Center as an interpretative
condescension to the time-bound and space conditioned mind of
mortal creatures.”
In reality, the three Persons of the Deity “… are without
beginning or ending of days; they are co-ordinate, supreme,
ultimate, absolute, and infinite. They are and always have been
and ever shall be. And they are three distinctly individualized
but eternally associated persons, God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Spirit.” [P91 & 92].
[I know that the concepts outlined above are difficult to
comprehend. But my narrative must start with the Deity. There
are other more complex notions related to God in the Book. I
humbly admit that my understanding of these concepts is rather
limited. Therefore, I am not that much more ahead of you.
Regardless of how much you understand, you will still be able to
follow me as I take you through the voyage of eternity].
