God

If we assume that a god created the universe, it’s reasonable to ask, what he/she/it is like. How can we find out about that without meeting the entity directly?

The Principle assumes – quite reasonably – that a few things about a creator can be concluded from the structure of the created objects. Unless they are broken, they reflect the intention and essence of the origin.

A TV and its instruction manual, for example, testifies to the fact that some people want a wireless, one way, incoming  audio and video connection with some other people saying and doing something interesting elsewhere. The design of the device also implies that somebody with an engineering background has been involved in the process. But be careful, before you assume too much – for example that the folks who manufactured it went to high school.

The movement’s teaching uses a similar approach in analyzing the universe. It observes two sets of complementary characteristics. One is the polarity of plus and minus, in the living world also referred to as male and female. The other one is the polarity between an internal aspect, like the human mind or an animal’s instinct, and an outer aspect, like the body. It goes on to observe, that the internal aspect determines largely the behavior of the outside and calls this a subject-object-relationship, where the subject gives the basic direction which the object basically follows.

The book actually applies the subject-object principle also to the first set of characteristics, assuming that the plus is in the subject and the minus is in the object position. That seems clear when you look at a proton ( plus ) and an electron ( minus ) or the earth ( big = subject ) and the moon ( small = object ). However, the positions become increasingly interchangeable when moving to higher levels up to the human realm.

Marriage and family is a central institution for the movement and the old man speaks a lot about men and women. If you read his speeches, you will find that he clearly associates men with the subject and women with the object position.

However, he doesn’t apply the rule to the higher levels in a roundabout way. Neither does the majority of the movement – at least as far as the enlightened world is concerned. The not so enlightened world might consider the fact that even the proton is influenced by the electron.

Ignoring this would allow for some real flashy statements concerning the movements attitude towards the sexes. But you wouldn’t really get the whole picture. Read at least the section on dominion. Please excuse the harsh word ‘dominion’ - it’s a term from the book.

After observing the two sets of complementary  characteristics - plus / minus and internal / external and the subject-object-relationship everywhere in the universe, the Principle assumes that these are reflections of the creator’s character: It (God) has male and female aspects and it has something like a mind that determines the direction of its energy and force.

The final conclusion is that the origin must be a person – outside of time and space. That person has both male and female characteristics. In one word, according to the teaching, god is a parent.