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FATHER
THE GOD, OR THE GREAT INVISIBLE FORE-FATHER
A symbol to indicate Absolute Being, -the First
or unmanifest Logos, -the Source of all that is. No conception is
possible of Potential Deity, -it is a "thrice unknown Darkness" to
the lower mind.
From the Father proceeds the Son, -the Second Logos, God manifest
and limited in His creation.
"Jesus calls the Life-Force Our Father. My Father worketh hitherto,
and I work.' Then all the working of the Life-Force in the past even
in what to our perception has been most gross and dreadful-has been
the working of a Mind and Will which means well by us and could not
do otherwise, for it is our Father. . . . We must work that God's
work may be done and our own destiny fulfilled. And we know it; we
all know it. There is that within us all which makes us know that
that alone is great and worthy of reverence in human character and
deed which is the outcome of life spent in the service of objects
wider and higher than the purely selfish and personal." - R. J.
CAMPBELL, Serm., Jesus and the Life-Force.
“There was, he (a Gnostic) says, at first nothing whatever that is
begotten; the Father was in solitude, unbegotten, not circumscribed
either by space or time, with none to counsel Him, with no kind of
substance that can be apprehended by any ordinary mode of
apprehension. He was in solitude, as they say quiescent, and
reposing in Himself alone. But inasmuch as He had the faculty of
generation, it seemed good to Him at last to bring to birth and to
put forth what He had within Himself that was fairest and most
perfect; for He was no lover of solitude. For He was, the writer
says, all Love; but love is not love, unless there be an object of
love." - HIPPOLYTUS, Refutation, VI. 29.
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ABSOLUTE
AIN SOPH
ARHAT
ATMAN
BRAHMA
GODHEAD
MICROCOSM
MONAD
OGDOAD
PRAGÂPATI
TRINITY
VIVANHAO
ZERANA
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