Worthiness is achieved through obedience. God represents order, harmony, beauty, and elegance. The Universe is a single connected system. Research into DNA has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved.  Because God alone truly is, all that is must in some sense be God, or at least a manifestation of God. Many Scientist now believe the existence of God is not only possible but probable. From their perspective, an intelligent force predating our Universe initiated creation. God is the creator and that into al created beings have returned. The created Universe is in process of passing from God in his first form to God in his last form. Natura is eternal; the whole process is eternally present; and everything is a theophania, a manifestation of God. God is the immanent cause or goal of nature, distinct from each finite particular only because the Lord includes them all within is own being. The study of nature, even with all its intellectual rigor, is filled with spiritual wonder. Every physical object in this vast Universe, including our human bodies, is built of the light of creation. The divine life which informs everything also informs the human mind and soul, and the soul is immortal because it is part of the divine. Since all events are equally ruled by divine law, miracles are part of Godly rituals. Scientific minds have drawn clear links between this force of intelligence and the spiritual realm. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

The breath of the human knowledge base is increasing exponentially. Our minds, like the Universe, are expanding. The Universe must necessarily be a single all-inclusive system if it is to be intelligible. There is an inward mystical union because something predates our Universe. In recognizing the limitations of the human mind to understand something as transcendent as a God-like force, modern science concedes that such force is actually a much more likely explanation for our beginnings than our minds would have some to believe. And in doing so, echoes the sentiments of metaphysical inquiry across the ages. Nature is entirely the manifestation of the spirit. God is good and independent of all the ordinary contingencies of chance and misfortune. He is capable of completely filling and occupying the mind and is the supreme good. The only knowledge which can satisfy these requirements is the knowledge that the mind is part of the total system of nature and is at one with it when recognizing that everything is as it must be. Felicity is the knowledge of necessity, for if the mind can accept the necessity of its own place in the whole ordering of things, there will be room neither for rebellion nor for complaint. The Universe as a single connected system might be difficult for our human mind because we can only grasp so much; our understanding is limited by our own three-dimensional capacity for thought. And this is quite enlightening. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

We can reflect on our thinking. If nothing else, this concept opens our eyes to the limitations of the human mind and the possibilities that may exist, if would could only perceive them. We might then contemplate the things in our own lives which continue to elude us. Things we do not understand or have stopped questioning. Recognizing the limitations we place on our own minds can help us to see how these thoughts might be holding us back. And how our reality might change if our perceptions could change. For human knowledge is sometimes of the confused kind which does not rise to the rational and scientific explanation of phenomena, let alone to that Scientia intuitiva (intuitive knowledge) by which the mind grasps the whole necessity of things and becomes identical with the infinita idea Dei (infinite idea of God). Freed from all those passions which dominated human actions so long as one did not grasp them intellectually, human beings are moved only by a fully conscious awareness of one’s place in the whole system. It is this awareness that which can also be used to identify as the intellectual love of God. The Universe is one spirit and immense beauty. And we must each create or own meaning. Living with purpose and love. And yes, continue to strive to understand. “The LORD our God is testing us to find out whether we love him with all our hearts and with all our souls. It is the LORD our God we must follow, and him we must revere,” reports Deuteronomy 13. 2-4. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

God and the Universe are identified because the World is the material through which the beings realizes their infinite moral vocation, and the divine is the moral order that includes both the World and the beings. The divine is identified with this ultimate nature of things. The divine is identified with this ultimate distinctionless merging of nature and spirit, a unity more fundamental than any of the differences of the merely empirical World. God himself is in a state of everlasting expansion and contraction, and this constitutes the creation and existence of the World. We are to respect the voice of conscience as the voice of God in the soul of human beings and are encouraged to develop a spirit of free inquiry in all directions. Because God is perfect, the perfectibility of human beings is possible because the voice of God is also in the human heart. The goodness welcomes us kindly as a mortal human in divine company, shakes our hands, and sets our minds at rest by telling us that it is right and just that we should have taken this road. We must now learn both the true and the unreliable beliefs of mortals.  What is clear is that the whole journey is nowhere on Earth, but in the Heavens, and it begins in the realm of darkness and ends in the realm of light. The worth of a soul is its capacity to become as God. The spirit of God will confirm to each of us individually our divine worth.  #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

Order, vanity, misery, boredom, and causes of effects all portray the human condition by showing humanity’s ways of dealing with and reacting to the ordinary World. This tendency to wrongfully identify ourselves. We can find truth and happiness in God. If humans are miserable, vain creatures, unable by our own resources to find first truths from which to derive other, we have to realize that we know truth not only by reason but more so by the year. It is in this latter way that we know first principles, and it is in vain that reason, which plays no part in this, tries to combat them. As children of God, we are all important. If we hold our heads up, our arms our, and walk with the Lord, God will build us, mold us, and magnify us. What a great blessing to be created in the image of God and know of our true potential in and through him! What a great blessing to know that in God’s strength we can do all things. We seek for happiness, but cannot find it apart from religion. It is not unreasonable to believe in God and to seek for religious guidance. We can frequently savor the sweet whisperings of the Holy host verifying the truth of our spiritual worth. Let there be no question about the value of our souls as humans. The whole intent of the gospel plan is to provide an opportunity for each of us to reach our fullest potential, which is eternal progression and the possibility of Godhood. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

Spiritual worth and worthiness are not the same. Spiritual worth means to value ourselves the way the Heavenly Father values, not as the World values us. The secrets of nature are hidden from us, and although it always active, we do not always discover its effects. In the course of time, through experience and understanding, we come to learn more about the natural World. Hence, as more data are accumulated, we should expect to find previously accepted hypotheses replaced by newer ones. Our conclusions about nature are always limited by the amount of experience gathered up to now. In time we seek for truths in terms of our experience and comprehension. What is sought for may be unchanging, but the results of the quest are the variable developments that constitute the history of science. “When you enter the land of the LORD is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices one’s son or daughter in the fire. We must be blameless before God,” reports Deuteronomy 18.9-10 and 13. The Lord assures us that when we have virtuous thoughts, God will bless us with confidence, even the confidence to know who we really are. There has never been a more crucial time to heed the Lord’s words. We acknowledge our Heavenly Father and praise the Lord for his blessings. We then rejoice that we are counted worthy to receive. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6