God’s Presence

1. God’s Presence Presented by: Melba Ariza, M. A. in Transpersonal Psychology

2. God’s aspects • God is tender, sweet, and loving. He is the Supreme Creator of everything that exists. He is in all the infinite cosmos. • He has the followings aspects: • God–Father • The Father is the Creator who says, “Let it be,” and it is done. He is the force of creation, filling the infinite space of the cosmos. He is obeyed by the other forces of the cosmos. • God–Mother • The Divine Mother is the feminine force of God filling the infinite space of the cosmos. She gestates all creation of all species, including galaxies, stars, worlds, constellations, people, animals, plants, etc., from the infinitely big to microscopic.

3. God’s Aspects • God–Son • The Cosmic Christ is another primary force of creation that fills the infinite space of the cosmos. It is love, the conciliatory force. It is the force of love that makes happiness possible through the conciliation of all species for the procreation. As the Cosmic Christ, God fills the infinite cosmos. In some parts of the cosmos, this aspect of God is active, such as in galaxies, solar systems, stars, constellations, etc.; in the empty space, this aspect of God is in repose. • God–Holy Spirit • The Holy Spirit is another force filling the infinite space of the cosmos and giving life to all the species of the creation. This aspect is called the “Giver of Life,” and is found in every seed

4. God’s aspects God is in every human being and keeps each person’s life. He is also in every animal, in each plant and tree, and in all the lakes, rivers, and oceans.

5. God’s components Dr. Villegas (V. M. De Soto) defines seven components of God: Spirit, Consciousness, Energy, Life, Love, Matter, and Light

6. God and the cosmos • If we observe the entire universe, we can see that all these components are in the infinite cosmos. We are made with the same components as well as everything in creation. Before creation, everything was in existence as cosmic energy. Now, it is separated and classified. Therefore, there is not one place where God is not.

7. God’s Love • Dr. Villegas (V.M. De Soto) says that nothing is more beautiful than the love for God, knowing Him in all His manifestations. Unlike karma, which does not forgive any error, we need never be afraid of God because He is the greatest Being in the cosmos and always forgives our weakness and defects.

8. Love Dr. Villegas (V.M. De Soto) says that one of the causes of suffering is that we do not follow God’s greatest commandment: “Love one another.” We often do not love our brother, the animals, or even ourselves.

9. Divine Mother—Feminine Aspect of God • Dr. Villegas (V.M. De Soto) points out that we often confuse the Divine Mother, or the feminine part of God, with the Virgin Mary. Religion has only taught about God as Father, leaving us lacking the teaching of God as Mother. However, God as Mother—that is, Mother of nature and creation—has great importance.

10. God as Mother • God as Mother has been ignored for thousands of years, but we can find evidence of Her in the Old Testament in translations as diverse as Hebrew and Greek. In the creation, we find that both masculine and feminine exist everywhere and in everything. Genesis, chapter 1, verses 26 and 27, says that God created man in His own image. Man and woman He created. This indicates that God has both masculine and feminine aspects.

11. God is… • God is within and around ourselves, we will need to make the effort to behave well, recognizing that God is within ourselves and not in a heaven far away from us. This makes a big difference. We know that we need to go within in silence to commune with God. These are essential things for each individual to know in order to live with trust and confidence.

12. Law of Karma • the cosmic laws, such as the law of karma, constitutes the cycles of birth and death that continue until the attainment of liberation through purification of the mind and elevation of consciousness.

13. Law of karma • The consequence of breaking God’s law is called “karma.” The consequence of keeping God’s law or making merits is called “Dharma.”.

14. The law of karma says… • The one who gives also receives, and the more he gives, the more he receives. This refers not only to material things, but also to non-material things, such as love, compassion, and luck. Jesus refers to the law of karma when he says that the same way you measure others you will be measured.

15. How the law of karma works: • the following examples demonstrate how karma works: If the soul of a man doesn’t get proper education, he might live through life doing wrong things to others—robbing, hurting, hitting people, provoking fires, violating women, and killing. One day, this person might get a heart attack and die, never having made up for what he has done. His soul might then take a physical body and come back to a very difficult existence. He might live in a poor home, never get an education, be rejected by everyone, work hard at jobs, get robbed, lose everything he has, have his house burnt and his wife sexually assaulted, and finally, be killed. This way this person would pay for all the karmas he has gotten in the previous life, doing all kinds of wrong things to others.

16. More on karma: • On the other hand, the outcome will be very different for another person’s soul if that man behaves well. For example, this person might spend his life helping people, giving food to the poor, and helping children to study, and then leave all his money to build schools and shelters when he dies. When this soul comes back in a physical body, he would be born into a rich family, maybe even be a prince or a king, and receive all kind of attention because the law of karma is accomplished based on our actions.

17. The law of Karma • This law of karma is the best thing we learn in life because it clears the concept of justice and suffering. This is very important because we may be used to think that it is unjust for the poor to suffer the most.

18. When we know the law of karma… • We develop awareness in our actions and open to consciousness, observing that your thoughts and actions should come according to your highest nature and God’s commandments.

19. Keeping the law of karma • In order to do this, it is necessary to clean our mind from bad thoughts, words, and actions that go against God’s laws, such as violence, aggression, theft, arrogance, terrorism, drugs, hate, resentment, revenge, deception, smoking, alcohol, insults, lies, and fights, just to mention some of our many errors.

20. Work on your personality • We need to be aware and conscious of our personality to see reality. Life begins and ends at any instant, and we need to consciously unite with God. It is important that we work on our personality’s shadows to achieve this union

21. Our objective in life • Humanity’s objective should be to know God’s kindness in having created us from His own components and with our free will to incorporate His virtues into our personality

22. We need to cultivate: • Prudence, Temperance, Justice and Fortitude. • Humility, Compassion, Courtesy, Devotion, Mercy, Purity(very important), Peace and Endurance.

23. The most important… • As Jesus says: Love one another