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On God

God exists!  He is real! However, there are many facets to the term God and many levels of understanding.  It has been said that the average Christian prays to their personal god...that is, the highest aspect of themselves.  You see, man is the first level of being that can claim god status.  God is a creator.  Man is also a creator.  Although, it goes without saying that man is far from anything resembling perfection, nonetheless, he is a god in the making.  Christ refers to this fact in the statement "I have said you are gods" (John 10:34).

Going higher we can say that the informing life of our planet is God - He is the creator of all that lies within His sphere of influence...but that does not include the entire solar system.  However perfect our planetary life is to us, He is not perfect when it comes to that great life informing our solar system.  He IS God!  Higher than that we dare not go since those stupendous lives are so far removed from our small aptitude that there is no point in trying to comprehend the nature of life on those tremendously high levels.  Life progresses from point to point.  As each individual life achieves perfection on its own level - the next highest level is entered and work begins to master that level - there is no death - only evolutionary life, constantly changing and moving upwards toward the next highest sphere of livingness. 

At whatever level within our solar system each life incarnates upon various streams of energy.  One such stream of energy is called that of 'Love-Wisdom' - it is said the main characteristic of the informing life of our solar system, God, is upon this particular stream of energy.  'God is Love' is a factual statement.  Man's attempt to try and describe, or in any way consider Him as some emotional, vengeful or angry God is absurd!  There is only love streaming through Him to us.  It is our misunderstanding, misuse, and present attainment upon the ladder of life that limits our ability to respond and demonstrate in the highest manner possible this energy, as individuals, and as a race.  The perfect life of a son of God was demonstrated for us in the Person of the Christ.  Such is the destiny of us all!

Quotes:

"First and foremost, there must be recognition of the fact of God.  That central Reality can be called by any name that man may choose according to his mental or emotional bent, racial tradition and heritage, for it cannot be defined or conditioned by names.  Human beings perforce always use names in order to express that which they sense, feel and know, both of the phenomenal and also of the intangible.  Consciously or unconsciously, all men recognize God Transcendent and God Immanent.  They sense God to be the Creator and the Inspiration of all that is.

The Eastern faiths have ever emphasized God Immanent, deep within the human heart, " nearer than hands and feet, " the Self, the One, the Atma, smaller than the small, yet all-comprehensive.  The Western faiths have presented God Transcendent, outside His universe, an Onlooker.  God transcendent, first of all, conditioned men's concept of Deity, for the action of this transcendent God appeared in the processes of nature; later, in the Jewish dispensation, God appeared as the tribal Jehovah, as the soul ( the rather unpleasant soul ) of a nation.  Next, God was seen as a perfected man, and the divine God-man walked the Earth in the Person of the Christ.  Today we have a rapidly growing emphasis upon God immanent in every human being and in every created form.  Today, we should have the churches presenting a synthesis of these two ideas which have been summed up for us in the statement of Shri Krishna in The Bhagavad Gita: "Having pervaded this whole Universe with a fragment of Myself, I remain."  God, greater than the whole, yet God present also in the part; God Transcendent guarantees the plan for our world and is the Purpose, conditioning all lives from the minutest atom, up through all the kingdoms of nature, to man."

- The Reappearance of the Christ, p 144-145,  by Alice A. Bailey

"A new definition of God was given us when the Buddha taught that God was Light and showed us the way of illumination, and when Christ revealed to us that God was Love through His life and service on earth.  Today the knowledge aspect of illumination is being comprehended, but the inner meaning of love is only now dimly sensed.  Yet light and love have been revealed to the world by two great Sons of God in two Approaches.  A new Approach is on the Way, bringing us the next needed truth.  We ask ourselves: What will it be?  For it, the knowers and lovers of God and their fellowmen are prepared; for it, the masses of men wait."

- The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, p 406,  by Alice A. Bailey

"At this 'end of the age' man stands before the door of opportunity, and, because he is in process of discovering his own divinity, he will enter into the realm of real values and arrive at a truer knowledge of God.  The mystery of the new birth confronts him, and through that experience he must pass.

This divinity in man must be brought to the birth, both in the individual and in the race, and thus can the kingdom of God on earth be brought into being."

- From Bethlehem To Calvary p 50, by Alice A. Bailey

"Man lives by the incarnation of God in himself.  By passing through the gate of the new birth, he can redeem the flesh in which that divinity is encased, and can then help in the redemption of the world."

- From Bethlehem To Calvary p 54, by Alice A. Bailey