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and creative. We are the ones who are changing.
As all relationships are to a large measure warped as they pass through our perceptual filters (so warped that with some people black can be seen as white, and vice versa) so I will be prone to warp my image of God. But if I try, as Jesus did when he was just a child, to hold an image of God as always the highest of truth, beauty and goodness that I can imagine, then I will be seeing Him in the most realistic of lights at my current state of development.
Now I know that my "Thought Adjuster has no special mechanism through which to gain self-expression; there is no mystic religious faculty for the reception or expression of religious emotions. These experiences are made available through the naturally ordained mechanism of mortal mind. And therein lies one explanation of the Adjuster's difficulty in engaging in direct communication with the material mind of its constant indwelling." (1104 ). I also know the potential of my alter ego to create personalities and develop relationships with them. I saw how real were the "imaginary" friends of my brothers when they were 4 to 6 years old. One day Davey Crockett; the next, great adventurers or philosophers or same age friends who had to learn a lesson about following the "rules". They were anything and everything my little brothers desired.
Jesus stuck to one friend only. He called Him "Papa". He dreamed his dream, created it so well that his Thought Adjuster could grab the truth and add to it. And Jesus went on to attain perfect mastery of his human mind.
And so I spin a dream through my alter ego as humans have done right from the beginning of humanity (see .997), I say a prayer of gratitude for all the folks who have walked this earth before me. They have enabled my dear little alter ego to adaptively grasp the concept of One God. I say a prayer of thanks to our Father for dreaming a dream and calling its potential - me. He blessed me with the unique gift of personality through which, long before my Thought Adjuster arrived, had developed a " Subjective self-consciousness" as well as an "Objective response to the Father's personality circuit." (106). Hence I was able to grasp the concept that I was unique and an individual in the true sense of the word, and also that I was His child.
Then I praise God for the reality base of my alter ago - my Thought Adjuster. (996-9) Through God's gift of a part of Himself to me, forevermore, I "will be discovering not only the infinity of the objective Deity but also the unending potentiality of the subjective fragment of this same God." (1181). And when I get too subjective in my discoveries, it will be back to the sand pit with Jesus, so that he can help me to see our Dad with a tinge more reality and a tinge less illusion
Next a prayer of love to Jesus for offering to be my "little child" model. And then a prayer of gratitude to all those personalities who so spoilt me by giving me The Urantia Book to make it all so easy - a step by step technique to unbroken communion with my Thought Adjuster! They have shown me the process. It is up to me to utilize it.
Seeing I totally agree with the concept of my never being able to have enough of a good thing, I realize that in using Jesus as my model, in developing a unbroken communion with my Thought Adjuster, I am actually acquiring two friendships - God and Jesus-Michael. And, with my rudimentary knowledge of the universe, there are lots of spiritual folks who adopt the attitude "If it is good enough for God and Jesus-Michael to call Cecilia Ann a friend, it is good enough for us!". So I probably am acquiring billions of friends by this one process, all through my alter ego with the loving dedicated assistance of my two best friends - God and Jesus.
And my final and most fervent prayer must be: "Dear Lord, please protect me from myself. Help me to get really serious. Help me to not be one of those: "Modern men and women of intelligence (who) evade the religion of Jesus because of their fears of what it will do to them - and with them. And all such fears are well founded. The religion of Jesus does, indeed, dominate and transform its believers, demanding that men dedicate their lives to seeking for a knowledge of the will of the Father in heaven and requiring that the energies of living be consecrated to the unselfish service of the brotherhood of man." (2083).
Help and guide me to dominate me, transform me, so that I can make the home of my mind and spirit a truly lovely, comfy place for my Thought Adjuster. Then we can chat away with me no more putting words in God's mouth but giving Him the opportunity to put words in mine!.
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