The Majesty, the Greatness, the Vastness of Dimensional God

The  Majesty,  the  Greatness,

the  Vastness  of  Dimensional  God

 

Then, O King! the God, so saying,

Stood, to Pritha's Son displaying

All the splendour, wonder, dread

Of His vast Almighty-head.

Out of countless eyes beholding,

Out of countless mouths commanding,

Countless mystic forms enfolding

In one Form: supremely standing 

Countless radiant glories wearing,

Countless heavenly weapons bearing,

Crowned with garlands of star-clusters,

Robed in garb of woven lustres,

Breathing from His perfect Presence

Breaths of every subtle essence

Of all heavenly odours; shedding

Blinding brilliance; overspreading—

Boundless, beautiful—all spaces

With His all-regarding faces;

So He showed! If there should rise

Suddenly with the skies

Sunburst of a thousand suns

Flooding earth with beams undeemed-of,

Then might be that Holy One's

Majesty and radiance dreamed of!

 

So did Pandu's Son behold

All this universe enfold

All its huge diversity

Into one vast shape, and be

Visible, and viewed, and blended

In one Body—subtle, splendid,

Nameless—the All-comprehending

God of Gods, the Never-Ending

Deity!

 

Martin Cecil   November 4, 1979

"How great is God Almighty." We cannot really know God Almighty. This term has reference to undimensional God, supreme God. It would be impossible to describe that in dimensional terms. Because we are properly present here in a dimensional world we find no necessity to try to get out of it into some undimensional state in order that we might comprehend what is there present. There is undimensional God and there is also dimensional God. Dimensional God was described by using the word "Jehovah." 

We have before considered that highest spiritual substance of the most intense vibrational nature which merges into the undimensional state. This substance fills the whole of what we would refer to as the universe. There isn't any place, dimensionally speaking, where it isn't. This substance is of such a vibrational nature that it is capable of accommodating the spirit of love. The spirit of love is not separate from God—God is love. So the essences of God in the dimensional world are the essences of love, the union between this highest vibrational substance and the spirit of love. Here is the substance that fills the whole of creation. It is undifferentiated. All is love. Here is the union between the spirit of love and this substance which is capable of being one with love, so that love may emerge into the dimensional universe. At that level there is only love substance filling and composing all that creation is to be. 

In order for creation to take place this undifferentiated substance must be differentiated. The essence of truth is present initially in the process of differentiation of the original love substance. At all the vibratory levels of substance below this highest substance the essence of truth is present. It is by reason of the spirit of truth in union with the essential substance that the differentiation of the original substance of love may transpire. So there are the essences of love and the essences of truth. At every level below the essences of truth, are present the essences of life. Here is the holy trinity: love, truth and life in the dimensional world by reason of the substance with which these spirits may find union. These essences rightly pour forth through the substance which is present at lower levels, initially what might be referred to as heart substance. When the heart is pure there is an open door of connection between this holy trinity and the earth, what we think of as the manifest world, the world of form as we understand it. This pouring forth is spiritual expression in this world of form—mental form, physical form. 

The largeness is at the highest levels. Here is the creative process by which something is coming into the world. It is being differentiated and consequently narrowed down, brought to focus; and we ourselves have a responsibility for allowing this differentiation to take place at the level where we are. In order to gain perspective in this regard we may well return to those simple words: "How great is God Almighty," who in this process of creation has made all things well. But there is a very specific way in which it happens, and properly we are a part of the happening. Otherwise within the range of human experience the true happening is absent and there are voids consequently on every hand. 

I am sure that most of you have given some consideration to The Song Celestial: The Bhagavad-Gita, in the recognition that here is a portrayal in symbolic form of the truth as it relates to human experience. The principal characters were Krishna, the God in human form; and Arjuna, who was aware of the God in human form. After a great deal of consideration of earthly things there came a point when Arjuna felt that it was most necessary that he should begin to see things as they really were. So he spoke to Krishna along these lines, and here is part of what he said: 

O Thou Divinest One

If this can be, if I may bear the sight,

Make Thyself visible, Lord of all prayer!

Show me Thy very Self, the Eternal God!

Krishna can be seen as providing a focus point in the dimensional world for these highest essences. We might say here was the Christ, the Word made flesh, the essences brought to a particular point of focus. But these essences are not something all on their own. This highest substance is present throughout the whole universal creation, everywhere. If it is brought to focus at some point, that fact doesn't extract the essence from itself; it is still the essence but merely brought to focus; it is still the universal essence. Here is the Word that was with God in the beginning, the Word that is God, God dimensional. There could be no God dimensional if there wasn't first God undimensional, but you cannot separate the two; there's no line of demarcation. This universal substance at the highest vibratory level merges into the undimensional.

It is useless for us to try to examine the undimensional. Insofar as we are concerned it would be nothing. It isn't nothing; we discover that it isn't nothing by reason of dimensional God. Dimensional God relates to these essences at the highest vibrational level, the love essences, which in the creative process must be brought to focus, differentiated into the various levels dimensionally speaking. We have noted how this is achieved—the emergence through the connecting substance of the pure heart into the world of creative action when we have a sense of the reality of dimensional God, the essences of love.

These essences of love are not only brought to focus on this little earth, but everywhere else in the universe in various ways. Arjuna was asking for an awareness within the scope of his own vision of what this would be, the essences brought to focus throughout the whole universe. I think one should be a little cautious about asking for any such thing. However, whether brash or simply trusting, Arjuna requested this, and I have read the words. And here is Krishna's reply:

Gaze, then, thou son of Pritha

I manifest for thee

     Those hundred thousand thousand shapes

     that clothe my Mystery:

     I show thee all my semblances,

     infinite, rich, divine,

     My changeful hues, my countless forms.

     See! in this face of mine,

     Wonders unnumbered, Indian Prince!

     revealed to none save thee.

     Behold! this is the Universe!—

     Look! what is live and dead

     I gather all in one—in Me!

     Gaze, as thy lips have said,

     ON GOD ETERNAL, VERY GOD!

     See Me! see what thou prayest!

     Thou canst not!—nor, with human eyes,

     Arjuna! ever mayest!

     Therefore I give thee sense divine.

     Have other eyes, new light!

     And, look! This is My glory,

     unveiled to mortal sight!

I read this this evening to emphasize the majesty, the greatness, the vastness, of dimensional God; and dimensional God is only an aspect of God. It has sometimes been felt by those who were associated with this ministry that it was a little thing; human beings tend to be impressed by numbers. But to the extent that the heart opens and yields and the creative processes of purification take place, there comes some sensing of the smallness of this external world in which we dwell; I suppose it could be said, the insignificance of it when seen in the light of the reality of dimensional God revealed by reason of this highest vibrational substance filling the whole universe. God is omnipresent in this sense, in the dimensional sense. The substance is here where we are. If it is anywhere and everywhere in the universe, it is here where we are. 

As the windows of heaven are opened, or as a door is opened in heaven, we don't go through into heaven; we become aware simply of what is already present with us. The wholeness of God is already present with us, brought to specific focus in the reality of the truth of our own being, so that this differentiated aspect may find expression in a fitting way according to the part which we are here to play. But what it is that enables us to play this part dwarfs into insignificance the circumstances, the environment, in which we play the part. The circumstance, even the earth itself, becomes scarcely discernible from the standpoint of true perspective, because whatever comes to focus of dimensional God in our own expression is not in any way separate or apart from the whole of dimensional God.

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