Excerpt from
Chapter One
of the Book
Spiritual
Teachings and Universal Truths
Copyright © 1998 by Raphael. All
rights reserved.
Teachings Concerning
God
You would like for me to enlighten you concerning
God, but what can I tell you that
you would understand? Most of you
do not understand the lowest creatures around you. You do not even understand yourselves to
the correct degree. You cannot
comprehend the composition of the smallest stone, or the most insignificant worm
of the fields. You do not know the
facts of the most commonplace objects that you see everyday, and yet you would
ask me to teach you about the Supreme Being, to give you understanding of
someone purely spiritual.
Unfortunately, for the majority of you, due to your materialistic
mentality and/or religious confinement that is impossible, since you lack all
conceptions required to enable you to grasp these mighty truths. Only by changing your way of thinking,
and accepting the fact that the first step of your spiritual progress is a
spiritual education, can you ever hope to comprehend these teachings and benefit
both spiritually and physically from them.
Having said that,
there is one thing that each of you can reason out for yourself by logical
thinking and that is - There must be
some cause for the existence of everything and everyone in Creation. It's absurd and extremely illogical
to believe that Creation "evolved" from an absolute nothingness or that Creation
created itself. Doesn't the word
Creation logically imply that there must be a Creator?
Precisely as it
is impossible to conceive of a clock without assuming the existence of a clock
maker, it is impossible to conceive of the greatest and most accurate timepieces
of all, the Universes (yes, there are many Universes) without assuming the
existence of a great Master jeweler who built these timepieces with their
billions upon billions of wheels, all of them so perfectly geared and running so
accurately, that the astronomers of today can calculate what the exact relative
positions of the various wheels will be thousands of years from now. The Creator of these timepieces, whose
greatness, origin and composition surpass the grasp of the human mind, is known
to you as God. It should be obvious
to everyone that a God must exist.
Only a fool would say there is no God, a fool who is being deceived by
the Evil Spiritual Powers of Darkness.
As to the nature
of God, that is something which I cannot explain to you, any more than I can
explain the cause of the divine existence.
If God Himself tried to explain these truths to you it would be like
trying to explain the calculations of a planet's orbit to a five year old child,
who would naturally lack all knowledge of astronomy and mathematics and of all
the principles, formulas and equations involved. If it takes astronomers months to
calculate the orbit of a single planet or star, a child unfamiliar with the
first inklings of science and math would be driven mad, if it were attempted to
teach him something utterly beyond the reach of his understanding. In the same way you would be driven out
of your senses if God were to try to fill your mind with ideas which are quite
incomprehensible to you and which your understanding could not assimilate. You have been created with a limited
mental capacity. I suggest that you
accept this fact.
Putting these two
questions aside, there is much I can
teach you concerning God that you
may not know.
Your own
reasoning teaches you that God is a creative spirit, endowed with a will, Who
orders all things sagely, and similarly, you are convinced of His omnipotence,
wisdom and greatness, so far as the human mind is capable of grasping the
same. Many of you know the way in
which He rules the world; you know His wonders and His love and mercy for His
creatures. What I can teach you is
a more precise knowledge of the
truths to be found in the original Holy Scriptures relating to God and His
attributes, and to call your attention to erroneous ideas, falsehoods,
fantasies, and absurdities contained in the false teachings of the various false
religious cults, which include all the religions in the world today.
The fact that God
is a spirit is one thing on which most religions agree. A point on which they do not agree,
however, is whether or not this spirit has shape. Many people think that shape is
associated with matter only, but not with spirit. This is a mistake. Material forms are images of spiritual
forms, and since all material things have form and shape, so too, have all
spiritual things, and so also, has God.
In fact, everything and everyone, in either the material or the spiritual
world, has shape. Beauty is
perfection of form, a statement that is equally true of the realm of the
ethereal. (Ethereal energy is
exceptionally delicate and refined spiritual energy.) God is the perfection of beauty, and
therefore, also the perfection of shape.
God as an integral, thinking and planning being is a personality, and there can be no such
thing as a personality, an "ego" without form or shape.
God as the
highest spirit differs from all created spirits, and difference is possible only
where distinguishing features exist.
Again, features can exist only where there is shape and form. God's shape and form, His appearance, is
that of a man, though He is not human nor is He similar to any created spirit in
composition. He created humans in
His image.
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