The Mystery of God is one by which every human Soul is impressed, before which all awakened Souls stand in awe, and after which many seek that they may solve the mystery and know God. In every language, almost, the word which signifies God implies the Eternal Good. We speak of God as the Eternal Love, the Eternal Light, the Eternal Life; but all are gathered up into the idea affirmed in the term God. God is Good. Good there is a quality. It is not a principle, but the quality of a principle. God is Good because God is the Eternal Love, Eternal Light, Eternal Life. Goodness is of the very nature of perfect Love, and of the Light begotten of Love, and of the Life manifested from Love. In the ancient Hebrew language, Jehovah implied the Divine Principle. Yahweh was the Eternal and Ever Most Blessed One. All sublime qualities are in God as Jehovah. All sublime qualities manifest in the realm of Being, of worlds, of Life are ftom Him. Good in man is of the quality of the Good that He is. Love in man is of the quality of the Eternal Love. Yahweh creates children; and these partake of His qualities that He may be reflected gloriously through them.

The mystery of God is the most sublime. The trans­cendency of God above all manifest creation is beyond speech. So is His Immanence in the children whom He creates. The majesty of the mystery of the Being of God is nowhere more transcendently expressed than in the lowly state of a human Soul wherein the Divine Immanence is not only potential and latent, but sublimely realized.

The mystery of God is the mystery of the Divine Sub­stance and the Sacred Flame called the Spirit. He is no person. He is no individual. God is not expressed, nor indeed can He be expressed, by any terms we could com­mand, nor any signs we could give, nor any symbol we could fashion. God is He and She and It: that is, God is Fatherhood-Motherhood in all Spirit and Substance; the creative, the formulative, the fashioning, the transforming, the transfiguring and perfecting power inherent in all Being, and realized for glorious manifestation in the realm we speak of as Divine. It is thus a human Soul, through the Divine realm within it, knows the Mystery and expresses it in all the Divine attributes which are begotten and built up, glorified and manifested from and through and by the Eternal Love, the Eternal Light, the Eternal Life, contained within the sacred casket of the Heavenly Principle which is God in the Soul.

Thus is Yahweh known. Thus is Jehovah revealed. Thus is the Divine Mystery unveiled to Souls.


From Life’s Mysteries Unveiled by John Todd Ferrier, pp 80-81.
© The Order of the Cross. First published in 1922.

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