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Spirit loq. You ask of our constant use of the
term “Father” in expressing God. The purpose of these writings is to attract men
and women to the consideration of truth in the innermost recesses of their own
consciousness. Hence we use the term “Father,” because to the majority of minds
it expresses (what you call) God, in terms of His closest and most
intimate relations to mankind. It soothes that fear which is the greatest
obstacle to your love. Not yet do you appreciate
(p. 85)
the full significance to man of that
deep assimilative love to be felt by him for the “Father in Heaven”; love
unfettered by sense of fear or self-interest, love independent of all
professions, manifested solely in action reaching up to the Object beloved. For
love as we conceive it means the spontaneous uplifting of the whole being to
that which is loved. It is that clinging, absorbing attitude of man to God which
alone shall bring to him direct vision of God.
Man is ever ready to define that which is difficult of definition, rather than
to accomplish that which demands his whole effort of will and faith. Only when
man shall have absorbed into his being the true nature and scope of this love
proceeding from God’s Fatherhood, whence he derives his tenderest conceptions of
Earth’s fatherhood and motherhood combined, shall he grasp such nearer vision of
the infinite fullness of redeeming love in God as will remold into forms of
highest altruism his every relationship to man and beast, only then, too, shall
we deem it unnecessary to speak further to men of God as their “Father in
Heaven.”
But while we accentuate thus the Fatherhood of God we have ever in our thoughts
the Divine Motherhood it implies. The world of men and women is as yet not ripe,
because not sufficiently spiritualized, to comprehend this further and fuller
aspect of the Divine whose force rather than whose love it has hitherto idolized
and feared.
This is so because Force in the Divine is more self-evident to man than that
which underlies and inspires force, namely, Love. Until man’s consciousness of
duality in being shall have been lifted from the gross companionship into which
he has cast it; until woman shall have asserted the essential feature of her
being – love
– on a plane so
high as to draw mankind up from the present material sense of its meaning, until
then, this mystery – which men know only in terms of “masculine”
(p. 86)
and “feminine” and which they have debased to its
lowest elements – shall we guard, awaiting in full assurance Earth’s
fitness for its interpretation. Yet to all who, untainted by the gross
materialism which makes it impossible even of conception to the majority of
mankind, seek explanation of it, we would say, “God wills that we minister in
silence to the
needs of your souls.”
Meanwhile the very mention of the Deity in connexion with man’s present
conception of duality as he beholds it in its manifestation of sex in animal
life, or still more so as he conceives of it in its grosser manifestation of
human sex-relations on Earth, would justly strike horror and terror into the
minds of many truth-seekers and turn them absolutely from the consideration of
our approach to Earth. Until, therefore, man reaches forth further efforts to
the attainment of Divine Wisdom, and sees the highest in all manifestations of
the Divine, we would withhold from Earth that which it is unable yet to
assimilate, our supreme object being the spiritual rather than the intellectual
assimilation of truth. For while man is steeped in the sensuality we behold
around him, there is no doctrine so prone to travesty, yea to deadly blasphemy,
among men, as this of the Duality of all Being.
To this everlasting
fact which underlies the corruption by man of Divine Truth, and which is bound
up in the very nature of the Deity from whom all things proceed and in whom all
things have their being, we dare only point at present, conscious that the near
awakening of man’s intuition shall bring release from his own lower nature which
hitherto forbids him even to gaze on the highest in God lest he cause it to
minister to his own lowest.
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