- 5 - more precise explanation of the truths contained in the Holy Writ concerning God and call your attention to erroneous interpretations contained in the teachings of your various creeds about God and His attributes. The fact that God is a spirit is one thing on which all religions agree, and for which you have the word of Christ: John 4: 24: ‘God is spirit, and those who worship Him should worship Him in spirit and in truth.’ A point on which they do not agree, however, is that this highest spirit has form. Many people think that form is associated with matter only, but not with spirit. This is wrong. • The material world is a copy of the spiritual world, and since all material things have form and shape, so, too, do all spiritual things, including God. In fact, there is nothing that has no form, in the material or in the spiritual world. Beauty is perfection of form, a statement that is equally true of the realm of spirit. God is the perfection of beauty and, hence, also the perfection of form. God as an integral, thinking and planning being is a personality, and there can be no such thing as a personality, an ‘ego’, without form and shape. God as the highest spirit differs from all created spirits, and difference is possible only where distinguishing features exist. Again, features can exist only where there is shape and form. Because God has form, He can be seen by the other spirits. All who go to Him will see Him face to face, as He is. For this reason, Moses begged God to travel in person with the people of Israel: Exodus 33: 15: ‘If thou dost not come with us in person, then let us not leave this place.’ And the Lord said unto Moses, ‘This request, too, will I grant you.’ (Exodus 33:17) And again, Moses asked: Exodus 33: 18-20: ‘Show me, I pray Thee, Thy face.’ ... But God said, ‘Thou canst not see my face; for man shall not see me and live.’ God therefore has a figure and a countenance, and can be seen by spirits, though not by human eyes. “Inasmuch as God possesses personality and form, He is not omnipresent in the sense in which you understand the word. It is true that He is aware of all things and of all events through the force that emanates from Him, for everything in existence owes its being, its perpetuation and its functions solely to the force disseminated by God. ‘In Him we live, move and are.’ Through His power He maintains contact with everything that exists; nothing can escape His influence. But as a personified spirit He is not everywhere. That is why you pray: ‘Our Father, who art in heaven.’ Psalm 33: 13-15: ‘The Lord looks down from heaven and sees all His human children; from His throne He overlooks all the inhabitants of the earth, He Who fashioned the hearts of them all, who pays attention to all that they do.’
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