THE GOD I KNOW

PRELUDE

We each create our own God --
using what we glean from those
we trust . . . our parents at first,
then maybe the preachers at church
or the refs at ballgames.
Teachers, or controversial books,
may churn up disturbing questions,
screen and TV idols impress.

At some point our relationship
with deity (God-or-not) becomes
a personal responsibility. Living along,
aware or unaware, blind or seeing,
we pick and choose what works for us,
pattern our worship to suit our lifestyle,
create a God we find useful.

For some people God feeds fear
and strokes ego; they perform
to avoid punishment or reap reward.
Others decide there is no soul, no hereafter,
turn worship to their comfort zones --
money, power, sex, drugs, sports, crime . . .
or perhaps science, the brain, nature.
Following tradition, many worship
a cross, agony, suffering. Some
discover unconditional love,
and worship a gracious God.

We each create our own God.



The book which follows describes the God I have created using the tools that have come into my path and the insights I have received from the "ether." Choosing to
worship this God has brought me peace, joy, and most importantly, pure love.
I offer it to you with the hope that it will bless your life.



CHAPTER ONE

THE GOD I KNOW


All good and comforting things that have ever been thought or said or written about God are true of the God I know. Everything we believe about Him that makes us want to be near Him, that causes us to worship Him with love and joy, is true. He is all good things we desire Him to be. He is a perfect mystery, whom we can adore from afar; or He is a living personage who can reach out and hold us in His arms -- because He wants to be, and has the power to be, whatever each of us needs Him to be as a positive influence in our lives. The Energy of Love which emanates from Him fills the whole universe, and it dwells in our individual hearts to the degree that we recognize and receive it.

There is more to understand about the God I know than has ever been plainly written. He has a wife. She is so much a part of Him in all the ways of Love, that while they are two people, a man and a woman, they need only one name, God. It is because they are together that Love is, that beauty is, that truth is, that goodness is, that WE are. We have a Mother in Heaven as well as a Father in Heaven.

God created mankind in His own image, male and female. Mortal men look like God-Man in form and stature; mortal women look like God-Woman. Whatever we perceive in one another to be beautiful is part of the image of God. If we could look upon Them with our physical eyes, God-Man would appear as the embodiment of perfect magnifi-cent manliness, and His wife, God-Woman would appear to be the most beautiful and radiant of women.

The reality of God for me is that God the Man and God the Woman are One God, because They are necessary to each other's finishing and to each other's ability to create. The power of both combine to become the ultimate Power-of-God. God-Man embodies masculine love-energy, which is unique in its capacities and qualities. God-Woman embodies feminine love-energy, which is also unique in its own components, especially as it differs from male energy. Both energies are holy and mighty and awesome in their power. But the ultimate omnipotence which is God, results as the two entities of God-energy come together in the harmoniously eloquent explosion of the consummation of their Love -- as Thought, Feeling and Being become One. Life is created when the two elements of godly love become one love. Life -- in all the abundant fullness and limitless possibility of aliveness. Infinite Life. Eternal, ever-expanding, gloriously fulfilling, joyously increasindg -- LIFE.

All the infinitely mighty and infinitely delicate creations which are the handiwork of God result from the fusion of God-Man energy with God-Woman energy. The God I know has made known to me that my spiritual being is a creation of that Oneness. The intelligence which I am and which, like God, has no beginning or end, but is co-eternal with Him, would have remained only an unembodied intelligence wandering through space, were it not for the love of my Heavenly Father and Mother, who chose to recognize me, sensed my yearning to become, and included me in Their Love. That knowledge is a revelation, not a remembered event. But there is in my present con-
sciousness a sure awareness that God is both Mother and Father. The spiritual experiences through which God has responded to my need bear witness to me of the nature of God. I know that the ultimate Godly Man-Woman love relationship encompasses in oneness all positive energy and becomes the Creator, the God I worship.

Hereafter in this writing the word "God" will be understood to mean both Father and Mother in Heaven. To enhance this concept, plural pronouns will be used. God is Love -- the pure fulfillment of two beings who become One.

The most important thing to know about God in order to develop a personal relationship with Them is that each of us is a desired product of Their perfect Oneness, and each was, in his creation, a perfect product. We were created because of love, by love and we are loved. This creation occured before mortality. Although it is forgotten in our conscious minds, it is alive in our deepest hearts. Its reality is the positive energy within us and the source of all goodness we perceive or bring to pass. It is our hope for immortality and it is a valid hope. God has a reason for being. We are part of that reason. God has a plan. We, by our own choice, are part of that plan. Here, now, in mortality we are living out one well-planned phase of our relationship with God.

We need to know that mortality is temporary, that it is a uniquely important experience in our eternal pattern, and that it is necessary to our becoming all that we desire to become. If we can put mortality into perspective, all its contradictions fall away. Knowing God brings mortality into clear perspective.

It is most comforting to know that because They created us, God knows and loves each one of us as a separate individual whose unique personality gives birth to a unique love relationship with Them. The truths by which God would govern us are universal, but when applied are also individual to each separate need. God's "commandments" include EACH of us at the same time they include ALL of us. God does not consider suggesting we do anything that would not ultimately bring us happiness or make us better, and They do not ask us to do anthing except to protect us from hurting ourselves or each other.

The God I know is kind and loving and generous. One of Their purely unselfish attributes is that Their joy is valuable to Them because it is shared with us. They offer Their glory, Their power, Their kingdom, Their life, to all who desire Them. By Their own choice They put Themself in the position of needing us as recipients of Their goodness. They exist to Love us.