BD.8250
August 24, 1962

GOD AND JESUS ARE ONE - GOD BECOMES MAN - DEIFICATION OF JESUS

The fact that the spiritual condition of humanity grows darker and darker results from the inability of men to understand the state of "becoming One" of God with Jesus; therefore neither does humanity have the right under- standing of the "becoming man" of God. Men came to the wrong thinking through the teaching of the "three per- sons" of the Godhead. It has to be repeated over and over again that the eternal Divinity cannot be thought of as a person; that therefore there is no other conception of it as of a force, which fills the whole infinity. This force cannot be limited, neither can it be thought of as a "form" - though it can radiate entirely through a form.

The occurrence of total radiation through divine Force took place with the man Jesus, - HE was replenished with Love, and Love is the Ur-substance of the eternal Deity that is continuously emitted into infinity, that creates and maintains everything. This divine Love-Force radiated through the human form Of Jesus and manifested Itself in HIM. The Ur-Being of God took residence in the man Jesus, and thus became God "Man". And because Jesus was totally replenished by the Ur-Substance of God, HE be- came "God" - for also the human exterior cover could, as completely spiritualised after His death on the cross, unify with God, so that Jesus then became the visible Deity, and man cannot imagine God in any other form but in Jesus. However, it can never be a question of "two persons".

The man Jesus reached His aim on Earth, the total Deification that all created beings should reach. - For God wanted to create "images" whose ultimate perfection must nevertheless be gained through the free will of the being. The man Jesus did not only reach this deification through a life of Love, but also blotted out the sin-guilt of mankind through His Work of Redemption. - HE used God's Love- Force, because without it HE would not have been able to endure the awful pain and the death on the cross. This Love-Force was the Ur-element of God, and so it was God HIMSELF in all abundance in the man Jesus that accomplished the Redemption-Work.

If you, however, speak of a "God manifested in three per- sons", then you have an erroneous concept, for the eternal Deity cannot be personified. It is only Love, and this Love manifested Itself in Jesus; the eternal God-SPIRIT acted in Jesus - HE can be imagined for all beings only in Jesus. As the beings once created by God apostate from HIM because they could not see HIM, HE became in Jesus a visible God.

But Jesus is not a second being that can be thought of as separate from God. HE is GOD! Since God is Love- Force which radiated through a totally spiritualised form, and this form was nothing but divine Ur-substance which can only be pictured by those beings who have already spiritualised themselves in order to be able to see spiritually.

When one speaks of FATHER, SON, and the HOLY SPIRIT, that indeed is valid as a description of the Being of God - if FATHER is acknowledged as Love, SON as Wisdom, and the HOLY SPIRIT as Force - as Will or Might of God. For God's Seeing is Love, Wisdom, and Might. But the goal that was set by God Himself with the Creation of the beings - the deification of these beings in free-will - explains, too, the "becoming man" of God in Jesus - the visible Deity in Jesus. But the "three persons" deity does not at all admit a right explanation, i.e., an explanation in accordance with the Truth. Mankind created concepts for itself that hinder therefore their spiritual maturing process, because only One God can be called on; three different Gods shall not be prayed to, because God Himself wants to be recognized in Jesus, and therefore HE can only be worshipped in Jesus.

And HE demands this acknowledgment by all men, be- cause the acknowledgment was once denied HIM. At the same time the Redemption-Work must also be recognized, for without Jesus Christ no man can find forgiveness of his ur-guilt; therefore man has to confess himself to HIM; he has to believe that God Himself had compassion for humanity and has accomplished in Jesus the Work of Redemption.

AMEN