MAN_AS_GOD
God's Expansion and Contraction
God's creative process involves a cycle of contraction (limiting Himself as man) and expansion (the birth of God within man). While expansion is limitless,…
Related Bible passages
- Philippians 2:7
- John 10:34
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Fulfillment Of Gods Plan
God actually took upon Himself the limit of contraction, which is man. Now He is born, the birth being an expansion. There is no limit to expansion. God is forever expanding and then, at a moment of expansion, He then has a new venture of contraction. Then He expands beyond what He was. Then He contracts. Then He expands beyond what He was and that is God’s play. There is no limit to expansion. He puts a limit to contraction. The limit is man.
God's creative process involves a cycle of contraction (limiting Himself as man) and expansion (the birth of God within man). While expansion is limitless, contraction is limited to the form of man, representing God's deliberate self-limitation for experience.
Power
God is bringing forth his own being, because he is buried in us. And he is bringing it up into the stream of creativity, so that the same one being – God – is infinite in potential. But God is not infinite in actual fact, because then he would be dead! He couldn’t expand. He couldn’t go beyond what he is. So, God is ever expanding. There’s no limit to expansion; there is only a limit to contraction. He took upon himself that limit when he became Neville. That was the limit of contraction, the limit of opacity. Now, he breaks the shell by my exercising within me the law of repentance. And so I exercise my Imagination, and then he breaks the shell. There’s no limit now to expansion, no limit to translucence. There was only the limit, which he placed upon himself, which was the limit of death – which is opacity and contraction.
God, infinite in potential, limits himself by contracting into individual human beings (the limit of opacity and death). Through the exercise of imagination and the law of repentance, man (God in contraction) breaks this shell, expanding back into infinite translucence and creativity, thus fulfilling God's continuous expansion.