The Fatherhood of God

The Brotherhood of Humankind

You are a son or daughter of God!

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YOU are part of the infinite God's virtually infinite creation, and you have an optimum function, things to do, purposes to fulfill -- a thrilling adventure toward perfection which can begin for you here and now and progress into eternity.

CONSIDER:

The Universal Father is the Creator, Controller, and Infinite Upholder of all reality, the First Source and Center of all things and beings. God is YOUR FATHER, and he loves you infinitely, uniquely, and supremely.

All men and women are kin to the Creator in one vast cosmic family, spiritual brothers and sisters with all the privileges and responsibilities of family membership.

The kingdom of God is within you; a vast spiritual potential for peace, strength, purpose, and joy indwells your mind ... you can actualize it by living faith.

The Father knows your needs better than you yourself; to align your mind with the will of God is your greatest possible good.

Your life need not end at physical death; the adventure of eternal progression is yours for the choosing -- and it can begin for you NOW!

God calls you to be true to the best you know -- to give total allegiance to the supreme values: truth, beauty, goodness, and love -- to strive for a nobility and righteousness of character like that of our Father.

The challenge to "Be perfect, as God your Father is perfect" can be achieved by EVERY sincerely God-seeking individual, though age beyond age of evolutionary progression be required to accomplish it.

Finding God is a decision, a deliberate exercise of your own God-given free will. The spiritual satisfaction of doing good to your fellow man is the highest happiness, and to that you are called: to experience, and to share with others, the reality of the Father's love. "HE WHO SEEKS WILL FIND", said JESUS.

"The kingdom of God is within you." Jesus came to show the divine way, the will of God for each person. He came to teach that we are children of the Universal Father, and that we can come to know this as a daily, transformative, personal experience.

THE ESSENCE of Jesus' way is LOVE and SERVICE -- to love GOD with all your heart, mind, soul and strength and to love your neighbor as He loves each of us. Jesus taught the way of being most alive, not merely an abstract doctrine or system of thought. And Jesus IS what he taught!

THE LIVING GOD is found by living faith alone -- by believing the truth and then acting on that realization; by daring to live by the highest and noblest INNER leadings; by being willing to share your inner life with God by a trusting commitment to his perfect SPIRIT guidance and direction from within.

The "Good News" of the infinite love of the Universal Father for all his sons and daughters on earth, of eternal life through wholehearted faith, of the indwelling presence in the mind of man of the Spirit of God, of the privilege of progressively sharing in his perfection in and through loving service to our fellows, is the saving gospel message of the universe Creator Son, who was incarnated as Jesus of Nazareth and who lived his life on earth as a revelation of the Father's matchless personality to all humankind for all generations on all the inhabited worlds . . .