THE GOD I KNOW - CHAPTER TWO

LOVE AND THE HOLY TRINITY
The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost


There are actually many Gods, all of whom reign or function by the energy of the pure love which they generate as they create life. There is one God who created the world we linve in, who spiritually embodied us and so became the Father and Mother of our spirits. In mortal terminology we call that God, "God the Father";
"Father-Mother God" would be a more accurate terminology.

Jesus Christ, in the lineage of Gods, is of our generation. God our Father-Mother is His Father-Mother too. As God contemplated the mortal experience in a fallen world, which They knew would be necessary to our progress, They also knew we would need a Savior -- one who would love enough to redeem mankind from sin. So God's first creation was that Savior. They reached into the infinity of space where all intelligences wait, and found communion with one who had the inherent capacity to love that much, who wanted to love that much, who chose by his own free agency to love that much. And then God created a spiritual body for that intelligence to inhabit. So came into being God's first-born, Jesus Christ. This Son was thereafter included as part of all His Father's and Mother's works.

Christ's reason to be is to make possible, through love, the success of God's plan for us. He has been called our intermediary, our advocate, our intercessor, the Way. He is the Way because He stands as the passage through whom we of His generation FEEL the love of God, and through whom we, by our acceptance of His atoning sacrifice, return our love to God. In honor to this beloved Son, God calls Their love, as it comes through Christ to us, "The Pure Love of Christ." In honor to Him we call Him "God, the Son."

The third member of the holy trinity, the Holy Ghost, is all the rest of us -- all of humankind. As God perceived a need for each new thin in our world, They reached again into the sea of intelligences and encompassed the unique ONE whose capacity could and desire would fill that need. So came into being spiritually each of us -- because the unique contribution each of us could give and wanted to give was necessary to the whole of God's plan. God had two reasons for choosing every one of us to be born into Their family.

The first reason YOU became part of them was that in the
magnificent perception of Their Love, They sensed your desire
to become more than an intelligence -- YOUR NEED FOR THEM.

The second reason was that THEY NEEDED YOU. The love with
They reached out to find you yearned for the thing you are
and could not be fulfilled without you. If you love so small
a thing as a violet nestled in the woods against a gnarled root
you may have been the one God needed to help create such a lovely
thing, or to appreciate it and find joy in it with Them after it
had been created. The ability to rejoice in beauty is equally
as important a part of the beauty's existence as the ability
to create it. Also, because you are able to love, God needed
you to make Their love perfect. So you were conceived and born,
becoming part of Their family, part of Them, part of the Godhead.

Now, in mortality, where we walk by faith, blinded to our experience as spirits living with God, we have been made aware that there is a Holy Ghost and that it is "a personage of spirit." But we do not know WHO that spirit is until we struggle with opposition long enough to recognize our own personal spirit, our Divine Nature, by accepting the atonement of Christ and receiving His love, so that the carnal man is dead in us. We then can know our place with God, know God's love for us, know our love for God and Christ, and know our reason for being, which is part of God's reason for being.

Through the experience of being born of Christ it is possible to know that the Holy Ghost is one's own spirit, one's own godliness. It is possible to feel one's reality as the third member of the Holy Trinity. God loves each of us that much! They include us as part of Themself. Their love for us stands -- eternally. When we acknowledge Their existence by receiving that love, we also acknowledge our own eternal existence as part of Them, and RECEIVE the gift of the Holy Ghost -- the knowledge of our true SELF.