It is time now for a greater comprehension of God and an expanded understanding of God. God is the source and author of your life and of all life within this world and throughout the Greater Community of worlds in which you live.
This new understanding is not to correct previous understandings as much as it is to expand them, to make them more complete and to leave the door open for a greater experience of the Divine will and presence in your life.
In presenting a New Message from God, it is necessary then to renew this experience of the Divine—to freshen it, to separate it from all the things that have been added by human institutions and human inventions and to bring it into greater focus and clarity for you.
Here it is important not to confuse God with religion, for many terrible things have been done in the name of religion and in the name of God. Yet God exists far beyond all of these things—far beyond human error, far beyond human imagination, far beyond human invention and far beyond human corruption.
It is necessary now for you to consider God within the larger arena of intelligent life in which you live, which includes all life within this world and extends beyond it into the Greater Community of worlds.
To have a pure experience of the Divine reality and the Divine will for your life, you must gain this Greater Community understanding of God. Otherwise, you will think of God as a projection of your own personality and human nature, as a projection of your own emotions, thoughts and feelings. You will project onto God your anger, your preferences, your judgments, your desire for revenge, your notions of justice and punishment and so forth.
However, God exists beyond all of this—the real God, the pure God that has been shining like the sun upon you. Regardless of the clouds in the sky, regardless of the pollution in the atmosphere and regardless of the turbulence on the ground, God is like the sun shining upon you. Yet God is beyond the sun, beyond any definition that you can make. Beyond your histories, beyond the great teachers and the great messengers from God, beyond the great spiritual books and testimonies, there is God, the Creator and the author of your life and existence.
What God has created in you lives within you now. It lives beyond your intellect, beyond your thoughts and understanding, beyond your concepts, beyond your ideas and beliefs. It exists in a deeper place within you, within a deeper mind, which in the New Message is called Knowledge. This deeper mind is a mind that knows. It is a mind that waits. It is a mind that sees clearly without distortion, without fear, without preference, without confusion and without speculation. It is a deeper mind within you. This is what God has created in you that is permanent, that will last forever. Beyond your temporary identity in this world, beyond all the events of this world and beyond the river of your experience in this life, there is Knowledge within you, and God is the author of this Knowledge.
If you think of God within this greater context, you can begin to appreciate the power and magnificence of God's creation within the world and even within yourself. Your body, your mind and your personality are all temporary vehicles whose greater purpose is to express your relationship with God and the wisdom that God has given to you to communicate and to contribute to a world in need. Think then of your body, your mind and your intellect as vehicles of expression, valuable in and of themselves but not as valuable as that which they are meant to express and to serve.
Then you will begin to see that God permeates all things, God lives within all things, and yet God is beyond all things. You can feel God's presence wherever you are, and you can find and follow Knowledge wherever you are.
Therefore, to fully understand and experience God within your life, you must come to Knowledge within yourself, which is the greater intelligence, the permanence, that God has created within you and for you. It is who you really are. Beyond all concepts, ideas and illusions, it is your true nature. It is by gaining a connection to Knowledge and by learning to discern Knowledge and follow Knowledge that you learn to experience the presence, the power and the will of God in your life.
Yet the totality of God remains forever beyond the concepts of the intellect, beyond all human inventions and beyond all individual and collective philosophies. For what set of ideas and concepts can contain a God of the Greater Community, God who is the author of countless races of beings in the Universe, all unique and different from one another in so many ways?
To come to God then is to come to Knowledge within yourself, for Knowledge is what calls you to God. Perhaps you will be called to a certain place or to a certain person, but it is for this purpose—to experience God's presence within yourself. For you will need more than belief to appreciate, comprehend and follow what God has given you to see, to know and to do.
Let this be the starting place for you, where you take the steps to Knowledge, where you take the steps to God. You do this whether you are a Christian, a Buddhist, a Muslim or whatever faith tradition you adhere to. Even if you do not have a faith tradition, there are still the steps to Knowledge. God is what created all the world's religions, and Knowledge is what unites them still, despite all of the separation and conflict that exist between them. For separation and conflict are a human invention and not a Divine invention.
The calling reverberates within all of these traditions—within them and beyond them. It is a calling that sounds throughout the Universe to return to the power and presence of Knowledge, to discover what Knowledge has for you to do, to see and to know. This initiates the return to God—the calling, the listening, the responding and the return.
Let this be your understanding.