THE PART AND THE WHOLE ~ AS ABOVE SO BELOW~AS MOVES THE PART SO MOVES THE WHOLE~AS THE UNIVERSE SO THE SOUL~THE 7 ABSOLUTES ETERNAL AND INFINITE RELATIONSHIP WITH EACH BEING~

 FER 7. The Part and the Whole

(137.4) 12:7.1 An inexorable and impersonal law, which is equivalent to the function of a cosmic providence, operates throughout all time and space and with respect to all reality whatever its nature.

Mercy characterizes the attitude of the Creator's love for the individual; impartiality motivates the attitude of the Creator towards the whole.

The Creator's will does not necessarily prevail in the part-the heart of a given personality-but his will actually governs the whole, the universe of universes.

(137.5) 12:7.2 In all his transactions with all his beings it is certain that the Creator's laws are not intrinsically arbitrary.

To you, with your limited vision and finite viewpoint, the Creator's actions must often appear arbitrary and dictatorial.

The Creator's laws are merely the Creator's habits, His way of repeatedly doing things; and He always does all things well.

You observe that the Creator does the same thing in the same way, and repeatedly, simply because it is the best way to do that particular thing in a given circumstance; and the best way is the right way, and therefore infinite wisdom always commands it in that precise and perfect way.

You must remember also that nature is not the exclusive action of Deity; there are other influences on those phenomena which man calls nature.

(12:7.3 It is inconsistent with the divine nature to bestow any sort of declension or even to permit at any time the performance of a purely personal act in a prosaic or indifferent manner.

It should be made clear, however, that if, in the divinity of any situation, in the extremity of any circumstance, in any case where the course of supreme wisdom might indicate the demand for a different conduct—if the demand for perfection might for any reason dictate another method of reaction, a better one, then and there the omniscient Creator would function in that better and more appropriate manner.

That would be the expression of a higher law, not the revocation of a lower law.

(137.7) 12:7.4 The Creator is not a slave to his habits, to the chronicity of the repetition of his own voluntary actions.

There is no conflict between the laws of the Infinite; they are all perfections of an infallible nature; they are all unquestionable acts expressive of faultless decisions.

Law is the immutable reaction of an infinite, perfect, divine mind.

The Creator's actions are all volitional notwithstanding this apparent uniformity.

In The Creator "there is no variableness, no shadow of change."

But all this which can be truly said of the Universal Originator and Designer cannot be said with equal certainty of all his subordinate intelligences or of his evolving creatures.

(137.8) 12:7.5 Because the Universal Originator is immutable, therefore may you be confident, in all ordinary circumstances, that he will do the same thing, in the same identical and superb manner.

As it is writen in some of your inspired scriptures: "The Creator is the guarantee of stability for all created things and beings. He is God; therefore He does not change."

(138.1) 12:7.6 All this immutability of conduct and uniformity of action is personal, conscious, and highly volitional, for the great Creator is not the helpless slave of his own perfection and infinity.

The Creator is not a blind and automatic force; he is not a power subject to an enslaving law.

The Creator is neither a mathematical equation nor a chemical formula.

He is a free and primordial personality.

He is the Universal Architect, a being supercharged with personality and the universal source of all creature personality.

(12:7.7 The Creator's will does not uniformly prevail in the heart of the material mortal who seeks his Creator, but if the time frame is extended beyond the moment of encompassing the totality of the first life, then does the Creator's will become increasingly discernible in the fruits of the spirit which are produced in the lives of the spirit-guided children of Divinity.

And if human life is further extended to include the morontia experience, the divine will is seen to shine with ever-increasing brilliance in the spiritualized acts of those creatures of time who have begun to enjoy the divine delights of experiencing the relationship of man's personality to the personality of the Universal Architect.

(12:7.8 The Parenthood of the Creator and the brotherhood of man present a paradox of the part and the whole on the personality level.

The Creator loves each individual as an individual child of the celestial family.

Yet the Creator thus loves all individuals; he has no favorites, and the universality of his love produces a relationship of wholeness, universal brotherhood.

(12:7.9 The Creator's's love absolutely individualizes each personality as a unique child of the Universal Originator—Creator, an unduplicated being in infinity, an irreplaceable will creature in all eternity.

The love of the Eternal Creator glorifies each child of the Universe, illuminating each member of the celestial family, sharply outlining the unique nature of each personal being against the impersonal levels outside the fraternal circle of the Creator of all.

The Creator's love vividly portrays the transcendent worth of every will creature, unmistakably revealing the very high value which the Universal Architect has placed upon each and every one of his children, from the highest creative personality of Paradise status down to the lowest personality of will dignity among the tribes of savage men at the dawn of the human species on some evolutionary world of time and space.

(12:7.10 The very love of the Creator for the individual creates the divine family of all individuals, the universal brotherhood of the freewill children of the Paradise Parent.

And this brotherhood, being universal, is a relationship of wholeness.

Fraternity, when universal, does not reveal the relationship to an individual, but the relationship to all. 

Fraternity is a reality of the whole and therefore reveals qualities of the whole, in contradistinction to the qualities of the part.

(138.6) 12:7.11 Fraternity constitutes a fact of relationship between all personalities in universe existence.

No person can evade the benefits or penalties which may accrue to them as a result of a relationship with other persons.

The part benefits or suffers in relation to the whole.

The good effort of each person benefits all humanity; the error or evil of each person increases the tribulations of all humans.

As the part moves, so moves the whole.

As is the progress of the whole, so is the progress of the part.

The relative velocities of the part and the whole determine whether the part is retarded by the inertia of the whole or whether it advances by the momentum of cosmic brotherhood.

(139.1) 12:7.12 It is a mystery that the Eternal Creator should be a highly personal and self-conscious being with a residential center of government and, at the same time, be personally present in such a vast universe and in personal contact with an almost infinite number of beings.

That such a phenomenon is a mystery beyond human comprehension should not in the least diminish your faith and trust.

Do not let the magnitude of infinity, the vastness of eternity, and the grandeur and glory of the incomparable character of the Creator overwhelm you, cause you to falter, or discourage you; for the Father is not far from any of you; he dwells within you, and in him we all literally move, actually live, and truly have our being.

(139.2) 12:7.13 Although the Paradise Parent functions through his divine Creators and creature children, also enjoys the most intimate inner contact with you, a contact so sublime, so highly personal, that it is still beyond my comprehension—that mysterious communion of the Creator fragment with the human soul and with the mortal mind in which he actually dwells.

If you know what you do with these gifts of the Creator, by that very fact you know that the Creator is in close relationship, not only with his divine associates, but also with his evolving mortal children of time.

The Creator certainly dwells on Paradise, but his divine presence also dwells in the minds of men.

(139.3) 12:7.14 Even though the spirit of a Son Creator be poured out upon all flesh, even though a Son once dwelt among you in the likeness of mortal flesh, even though the seraphim personally guard and guide you, how can any of these divine beings of the Second and Third Centers ever hope to come as near to you or understand you as fully as the Father, who has given a part of himself to be in you, to be your true, divine, and even eternal being?

(142.2) 12:9.7 [Presented by a Perfecter of Wisdom acting at the bidding of the Ancients of Days.]