Faith is the surety of the omnipotence of God and man; the certainty that man will reach the deific life.
Salvation is a ladder reaching from the heart of man to heart of God. It has three steps; Belief is first, and this is what man thinks, perhaps, is truth.
And faith is next, and this is what man knows is truth.
Fruition is the last, and this is man himself, the truth.
Belief is lost in faith; and in fruition is lost; and man is saved when he has reached deific life; when he and God are one.
Mortal man secures three great satisfactions from religious experience, even in the days of his temporal sojourn on earth:
1. Intellectually he acquires the satisfactions of a more unified human consciousness.
2. Philosophically he enjoys the substantiation of his ideals of moral values.
3. Spiritually he thrives in the experience of divine companionship, in the spiritual satisfactions of true worship.
God-consciousness, as it is experienced by an evolving mortal of the realms, must consist of three varying factors, three differential levels of reality realization.
There is first the mind consciousness — the comprehension of the idea of God.
Then follows the soul consciousness — the realization of the ideal of God.
Last, dawns the spirit consciousness — the realization of the spirit reality of God.
By the unification of these factors of the divine realization, no matter how incomplete, the mortal personality at all times overspreads all conscious levels with a realization of the personality of God.
In those mortals who have attained the Corps of the Finality all this will in time lead to the realization of the supremacy of God and may subsequently eventuate in the realization of the ultimacy of God, some phase of the absonite superconsciousness of the Paradise Father.
Michael Of Nebadon
The Planetary Gospel
