4.
The Divine Image

      Man and woman, enstructurated, as they are, in the realities of multiple dimensions, can find numerous ways of viewing their relationship with the Infinite.
      Some persons perceive their relationship with the Infinite in a purely physical context. There is stabilizing symmetry in the concept that one exists solely as a partate of the Physical Absolute. In this view, worlds, universes, and persons march through the ages in an unbroken chain of cause and effect forged by unvarying physical laws.
      Other individuals conceive of their relationship with the Infinite in terms of mindal reality. Intellectual satisfaction can be found in the idea that one is a cell in the Absolute Mind. This perspective conceives of all phenomena and all realities, including persons, as thoughts, or shadows of thoughts, in the mind of the Infinite.

      Some persons visualize their relationship with the Creator as purely of spirit. One can in concept overcome the apparent inequities of existence and attain to the rule of righteousness by seeing oneself as a spirit partate in the Spirit Absolute. All things, in this view, are vitalized by the Spirit of the Infinite, which waters the inert vessels of existence with life and sets the sun of rectitude in the heavens.
      Others see their relationship with God as one between two persons. Those who know the Infinite as the Absolute Person experience the joy of the truth, he lives! Some of these know the Infinite as King, others as Lawgiver, Provider, Friend, Brother, or Father. All order their lives around their individual perceptions of this truth, in so doing shaping their emotional framework, outlook on life, and expectations.

      The Infinite is more than one's perception of him. There are corridors of infinity that a given person will never know, though they may be trodden by countless others. One knows in truth only the turns that one's own life has taken on the way to the peak of the Rainbow Swan. Others know only their trails. One can speak of -- and perhaps evaluate, to some degree -- only one's own experiences. None but the Infinite may rank the approaches and the lives on the wending adventure.

      My perception of my relationship with the Infinite is that he is my infinitely loving Father. Some others, I know, relate more with him as King. Yet others as Judge. I believe these things, too. Even if I did not, I can enjoy the thirst for righteousness of those who do. We are all comrades.