Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

GOVERNMENT, GOOD 

A symbol of the Divine order of the principles and laws of the universe, or of the soul.

"God is the Governor of all the world. The purpose of His government, the one design on which it all proceeds, is that the whole world, through obedience to Him, should be wrought into His likeness, and made the utterance of His character. that thought dwell before your mind, and feel, as you must feel, what a sublime and glorious picture it involves. Then remember that God does not treat the world in one great, vague generality. He sees the world made up of free souls of men and women. The world can become like Him by obedience, only as the souls of men and women become like Him by obedience. Each soul must enter into that consummation by its own free submission; helped, no doubt, by the movement of souls all about it, and by the great promise of the world's salvation, but yet acting for itself, by its own personal resolve. To each soul God brings all the material of this terrestrial struggle,— all the temptations, all the disappointments, all the successes, all the doubts and perplexities, all the jarring of interests, all the chances of hinderance and chances of help which come flocking about every new-born life. . . The real victory in the struggle can be nothing less than the accomplishment in us of that which it is the object of all His government to accomplish in the world." - PHILLIPS BROOKS, Serm., The Pillar, etc.  

See Also

CIVILISING
GOLDEN AGE
KINGLY OFFICE
MINISTERS
OANNES
OHONAMOCHІ