God

Proclamation

God is the Creator of all intelligent life in the universe(s) and the source of Knowledge in all sentient beings.

Short Quotes

"God is the experience of total relationship."

• Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 1

"God is not a person or a personage or a personality or a singular awareness."

"To think like this is to underestimate the Creator and to overestimate yourself."

• The Recitation

What is God

You must think of God now in the Greater Community - not a human God, not a God of your written history, not a God of your trials and tribulations, but a God for all time, for all races, for all dimensions, for those who are primitve and for those who are advanced, for those who think like you and for those who think so differenlty, for those who believe and for those for whom belief is inexplicable. This is God in the Greater community. And this is where you must begin.

• Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter One, p. 2

Relationship with God

"To understand God’s work in the world, you must understand God’s work in the entire universe."

• God, Knowledge, and the Angelic Presence, 9/17/08

"Believing in God may be preliminary to knowing God, but believing and knowing are not the same. Many people claim they believe in God, either because they believe or because they are afraid not to believe. However, to know God is to come into relationship with God."

• Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 9

"It is the Greater Power of Knowledge—the mystery, the evidence of things unseen—that must be the focus of your faith, that must be the heart of your religion, that must be the source of your encouragement, your wisdom and your guidance."

• The Great Faith 4/25/07

God's Will for Humankind

"The Creator of all life wills that humanity repair a world in decline to preserve human self-sufficiency and thus secure human freedom and independence in this world. The Creator of all life wills that humanity emerge into this Greater Community of intelligent life in the Universe as a free and independent race able to sustain itself, able to establish itself, able to learn the Knowledge and wisdom it must gain in order to function within this larger environment.

"But what God wills must be translated through human awareness, human relationships, human understanding and human behavior. God wills that you be happier than you are today, that you be more successful than you are today, that you be more compassionate than you are today, that you be more effective than you are today as an individual. Therefore, you see, what God wills must be translated into human experience."

• A New Way Forward for Humanity, 12/31/06

"God does not care if you believe in Jesus, or if you follow the Koran, or if you try to be unattached with everything. God wants you to follow Knowledge."

• Errors in Religious Understanding, 1/10/09

Metaphors

"The emphasis here is for you to reach that vantage point where you can see your relationship with God and with yourself clearly while you are in the world. It is from this vantage point that you will be able to see the relationship of all things. Like climbing a great mountain, you must reach a certain position where the relationship of that mountain to everything around it becomes self-evident."

• Relationship & Higher Purpose, Chapter 1, Your Most Primary Relationship