Transcendence

Society helps man to overcome crudities and disabilities and the raw primitive urges and inclinations.

The animating spring of all improvement and permanent advancement in individuals and society, is not their knowledge of the actual, but their conception of the possibilities. Not until imagination has caught the vision of divine perfection, does conscience feel the necessity of doing duty as for God's law; only then do the small graces and amenities shine with any light.

Through the ideal, the intellectual and moral faculties can be exalted, refined and purified: Poor, indeed, must thou be, if around thee no ray of light or joy thou canst bestow.

God-consciousness, as it is experienced by an evolving mortal of the realms, must consist of three varying factors, three differential levels of reality realization.

There is first the mind consciousness — the comprehension of the idea of God.

Then follows the soul consciousness — the realization of the ideal of God.

Last, dawns the spirit consciousness — the realization of the spirit reality of God.

By the unification of these factors of the divine realization, no matter how incomplete, the mortal personality at all times overspreads all conscious levels with a realization of the personality of God.

In those mortals who have attained the Corps of the Finality all this will in time lead to the realization of the supremacy of God and may subsequently eventuate in the realization of the ultimacy of God, some phase of the absonite superconsciousness of the Paradise Father.

Michael Of Nebadon
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