Roy Masters
While God is incomprehensible, His essence can be seen in everything He creates. So how can those with perverse intellects, never having discovered how to separate their souls from the molecular bondage to their mortal natures, ever fathom what lies beyond nature’s boundaries?
They can do little but dabble in equations, ascribing “understanding” to what is only the dryness of rote learning. Never will they experience the joy of realizing that God is in the universe and the universe is in God—One sustaining, the other being sustained.
While all things are sustained from the beginning by His reinforcing power, only man can reach inward toward the beginning to receive His direct Personal Essence, the like of which is reserved for the good angels and the children of the Light.
The malevolent ones are deprived of this intimate quickening. Whereas the inspired, being infilled with emanations of His primal essence, reflect His likeness in much the same way the moon acts as a secondary likeness to the sun.
As the moon reflects the light of the sun, so too we achieve knowledge of the Son, and beyond Him, the Father.
Whosoever partakes of this inner Universal Light also possesses spiritual power—a knowledge understood as faith to the degree to which he or she has matured in the Light.
True love for God is need. To need is to love. Not to need Him is a denial of Him and thus, to be filled up with the love of the world. Even love’s true yearning comes from Him and goes back up to Him as the cry for redemption.
Thus does the absence of sensual passion and emotion in the pursuit of virtue constitute love for God, whereby Love has space to enter and displace the indwelling worldly evil, bringing with it, as God’s love always does, all the bounty and blessings of the spirit.
Those souls sweetened by means of God’s infilling love reveal His Character within them.
"As the moon reflects the light of the sun, so too we achieve knowledge of the Son, and beyond Him, the Father."
Not even does the cosmos revolve about its own nature, except by the Spirit of its origin. All celestial motion turns about the Soul of itself, advancing, unfolding in succession and change through timeless times from the pre-existent Will.
For at the heart of the heavens there lies a timeless realm with no other place beyond. Such heavenly worlds, by virtue of their timeless nature, are ethereal. For what can be above nature except that which is spiritual? Where can there be anything so subtly formed?
That region beyond the spherical dimension of time cannot admit corporeal bodies such as ours. While flesh and blood cannot enter there, this does not prevent a soul from crossing the Stillness into this paradigm, purified of sensual attachments.
This realm, while coexisting with ours, encompasses the boundary of the physical universe, since it is from this region the cosmos came.
And so it came to pass in assigning the boundaries between the paradigms of heaven and the material realms, the Majestic Craftsman set into motion the order of existence, and set within its finished order the triumph of all His creations, man reflecting His likeness—part heaven, part earth, a living soul in material form.
How delicately is man balanced in his respondings, and in their unfolding order. Observe the gravities, the material pulls upon his allegiance, how they pit him against the Spirit who made him spirit, in this very material world God also created.
And to what end, you may ask, is this conflict shaped? The direct answer would be to rob the mystery of its discovery, of the vital searching, beyond which there is life eternal.
Therefore, man, the created, is made different by virtue of this divine command whereby love born from freely chosen allegiance might one day bring forth abundant fruits now hidden and stored within man.
And in the day of the perfect time, there will pour out true love, one for another and from each to all.