Excerpt from "Teach Us to Love"
From Chapter Three: God's Gift--the Inner Spirit
The Role of the Inner Spirit
You, the children living on the worlds of evolution, have within your mind a fragment of the Universal Father/Mother. God gives each of you an actual piece of Spirit's nature with its divinity attributes (Truth, Beauty, and Goodness) as the link between you and the Divine Being. God is geographically separated from you by the vast expanse of space He creates, yet this fragment of Spirit lives within you as our Creator's means of maintaining contact with His children who live so far away. Since you cannot see God, this piece of divinity is the gift of Spirit to assist the children of time and space in the discernment of spiritual reality. While you will never be the totality of God, you can become perfectly attuned to our Universal Father/Mother's will and love through your interaction with your inner spirit fragment. It acts as the receptacle for the love God has for you, as the guide to assist you to discern that which is true, and helps you to appreciate and seek spiritual values.
Were it not for this spirit presence, your lives would be little more than animal in nature. It is actually what separates you from the animals. The inner spirit presence elevates you to the future acquirement of spiritual status by virtue of its presence within your mind. You evolve toward perfection as the spirit fragment guides you toward God.
Your life on this planet is so largely material, and so much time and effort is vested in the tangible pursuits of maintaining your physical existence, that you may not see or understand there is another dimension of reality. Reality is composed of three types of matter and energy: material, mind, and spiritual. Your access to the level of spiritual reality lives within your mind as the inner spirit. This link to the greater reality of the spiritual dimension exists just beyond the five physical senses. The spirit fragment dwells in a portion of your mind called the superconscious and, for the most part, lies dormant because you may not recognize the spiritual component to your being. Whether you call it the higher self, inner pilot, inner advisor, inner light, spirit of God, Holy Spirit, or any other name, this spirit is waiting to make contact with you and to lead you into the beautiful world of spiritual reality. You could not be attuned to Spirit without this.
Because of God's great love for you, He wants you to benefit from the joys of spiritual living. The inner spirit makes the reality of love, truth, beauty and goodness alive within you, should you desire to open yourself to its leadings. This is the mechanism God uses to link Spirit to the children living so very far removed from the Creator's domicile at the center of the universe, Paradise. It actually accompanies you as you go through life. You experience no thought, word, or deed without the knowledge of God by way of your inner spirit fragment.
God, in infinite wisdom and love, gave you this indwelling spirit so you can become perfectly attuned to divine ideals and values, enabling you one day to see Spirit – to actually stand in God's presence. You will, through the fusing with your inner spirit, be able to reach a perfected state of existence through experience and evolution. God has directed you to become perfect as Spirit is perfect, and this cooperative union between human and spirit is the way to attain this status. The divine spirit within helps you ascend step by step until the day you stand before God at the heavenly center of creation.
Thus, the spirit fragment eventually returns its ward to its Divine Source. This is the goal of the children living on evolutionary worlds. It is God's plan for the children of evolutionary worlds to have the potential for eternal existence. Thereafter, your destiny is to live eternally, giving love and sharing it with others through devoted learning about and service to God's never-ending creation. It is a magnificent destiny!
You, the children living on the worlds of evolution, have within your mind a fragment of the Universal Father/Mother. God gives each of you an actual piece of Spirit's nature with its divinity attributes (Truth, Beauty, and Goodness) as the link between you and the Divine Being. God is geographically separated from you by the vast expanse of space He creates, yet this fragment of Spirit lives within you as our Creator's means of maintaining contact with His children who live so far away. Since you cannot see God, this piece of divinity is the gift of Spirit to assist the children of time and space in the discernment of spiritual reality. While you will never be the totality of God, you can become perfectly attuned to our Universal Father/Mother's will and love through your interaction with your inner spirit fragment. It acts as the receptacle for the love God has for you, as the guide to assist you to discern that which is true, and helps you to appreciate and seek spiritual values.
Were it not for this spirit presence, your lives would be little more than animal in nature. It is actually what separates you from the animals. The inner spirit presence elevates you to the future acquirement of spiritual status by virtue of its presence within your mind. You evolve toward perfection as the spirit fragment guides you toward God.
Your life on this planet is so largely material, and so much time and effort is vested in the tangible pursuits of maintaining your physical existence, that you may not see or understand there is another dimension of reality. Reality is composed of three types of matter and energy: material, mind, and spiritual. Your access to the level of spiritual reality lives within your mind as the inner spirit. This link to the greater reality of the spiritual dimension exists just beyond the five physical senses. The spirit fragment dwells in a portion of your mind called the superconscious and, for the most part, lies dormant because you may not recognize the spiritual component to your being. Whether you call it the higher self, inner pilot, inner advisor, inner light, spirit of God, Holy Spirit, or any other name, this spirit is waiting to make contact with you and to lead you into the beautiful world of spiritual reality. You could not be attuned to Spirit without this.
Because of God's great love for you, He wants you to benefit from the joys of spiritual living. The inner spirit makes the reality of love, truth, beauty and goodness alive within you, should you desire to open yourself to its leadings. This is the mechanism God uses to link Spirit to the children living so very far removed from the Creator's domicile at the center of the universe, Paradise. It actually accompanies you as you go through life. You experience no thought, word, or deed without the knowledge of God by way of your inner spirit fragment.
God, in infinite wisdom and love, gave you this indwelling spirit so you can become perfectly attuned to divine ideals and values, enabling you one day to see Spirit – to actually stand in God's presence. You will, through the fusing with your inner spirit, be able to reach a perfected state of existence through experience and evolution. God has directed you to become perfect as Spirit is perfect, and this cooperative union between human and spirit is the way to attain this status. The divine spirit within helps you ascend step by step until the day you stand before God at the heavenly center of creation.
Thus, the spirit fragment eventually returns its ward to its Divine Source. This is the goal of the children living on evolutionary worlds. It is God's plan for the children of evolutionary worlds to have the potential for eternal existence. Thereafter, your destiny is to live eternally, giving love and sharing it with others through devoted learning about and service to God's never-ending creation. It is a magnificent destiny!