God

It is important to remember that God is love and is all powerful, wise and merciful in addition. God is not a nebulous power as some people speculate. God has a personality and we can have a personal relationship with God. Some religions have told us we should regard God as a parent figure and this is confirmed in the divine love teachings.

God has a form but not one we can see with human or spirit eyes. Not until new divine perceptions have been developed in our souls can we start to become aware of God’s form. God is a single entity and not a trinity as some believe. Jesus did and does exist and is a divine being as a result of his soul being completely transformed by divine love during his life on earth. All of us can follow the same path. Jesus is divine but does not claim to be God and remains a finite individual, although an extremely exalted one. Of course, being ‘as one’ with God means sharing some of God’s attributes and such a being may appear God-like to all of us who are significantly less spiritually developed.

God has an actual place of habitation high up in the heavens that those on the divine path constantly progress towards.

We should not confuse the Creator and the Creation. Although God is aware of everything that happens, God is not personally present in every part of our universe. An argument is sometimes put forward that since God is infinite then God fills all of space. This is the result of confusing the Creator and the Creation. In the universe, we see evidence of God’s handiwork but we won’t find the living presence of God, except insofar as we choose to experience God directly in our own lives.

Nor is the universe like a clockwork mechanism that is blindly following God’s laws while God watches passively from the outside. God can and does intervene in the unfolding events of the universe when the need arises.

Only God is immortal and those to whom God grants a divine nature through bestowing on them divine love. This love is the only substance that embodies the principle of immortality and once this immortality has been given to us it can no more be taken away from us than it can be from God. Natural love, by contrast, does not confer immortality and no being who possesses only the love they were born with can be sure of living for all eternity. Survival of bodily death, by itself, demonstrates only the continuity of life after death and since change is constant, none can say whether those with only this love will live forever or not.

Beware of popular beliefs such as ‘I am God’, ‘I am divine’, ‘I am one with all creation’, etc. These imply that you have nothing more to do except somehow ‘realise’ what you already are. This is the ‘oneness trap’. If you believe these statements to be literally already true then this is tantamount to turning your back on God, declaring your independence and seeking redemption purely through your own efforts. This desire for independence from God is the mistake that humanity has always made. A God-centric life starts with humility and the understanding that we need external help. The key teaching in this book is that we need something (divine love) to be added to what we already are if we are to become all we can be. And only God can give us that. In no other way can it become part of us. Polishing up what is inside us and leading a moral life is to be admired but it will never bring the greater happiness that God wants all of us to experience. The highest aspiration we can have is to be as one with God.

For the sake of brevity, I have greatly simplified the points above in relation to what I have called the oneness trap. I don’t wish to be critical of anyone’s spiritual approach to life and much good can come from various paths. If you aren’t comfortable with anything I have presented then feel free to ignore it.

Be aware that prayer has real power and every sincere prayer brings a response. God takes direct responsibility for our spiritual progress in divine love. When we send out our longings for divine love then God’s Comforter brings this love into our souls. We are told no power in the universe or spirit world can interfere with this love coming into our souls when we pray earnestly for its inflowing. When we request help with mundane affairs then God delegates those tasks to spirits and divine angels to carry out.

Divine love is the highest form of happiness that even God can bestow on us. If we want evidence that we are truly loved by God then consider the fact that our souls were explicitly made with the potential for this love to form part of our existence. You can try an experiment whereby you pray for this divine love to prove to yourself its existence. It is important that you truly open up to God when you pray. When we spend most of our time deeply engaged with the world around us it is hard to suddenly switch to be deeply engaged with God, which is essential for our prayers to be successful. The reciting of mere words largely devoid of any real emotion will not elicit the desired response. You should find ways of opening up to God so that your prayers are said in all earnestness. You may want to think about someone you care a great deal about to get into the right frame of mind and soul before you pray. I sometimes imagine being helpless on my deathbed to allow me to feel the importance of connecting to God now before that time comes. It’s especially helpful to approach our relationship with God with the innocence of a child. This acknowledges that God has no hidden agenda and no ulterior motive in helping us. This attitude helps to lower the barriers that we put in place to protect ourselves from others harming us. In our prayers, opening up and expressing the underlying vulnerability we feel is precisely what’s required to bring God’s divine love into our souls.

Once you start to receive divine love then your soul will inform you as to the veracity or otherwise of all the statements made in this book. Reject everything that you are not comfortable with. Be your own teacher through your direct relationship with God. You can ask your spirit guides for help as well. All human beings are fallible and I personally would not recommend that anyone sets out to find a guru type of figure to guide them – it simply isn’t necessary and if you are unfortunate in your choice then it could cause untold harm to your spiritual (and even worldly) hopes and ambitions.

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