Part 2 of a four-part series on Divine Nature and Human Becoming. If you want to read Part 1: The Prophecy Of Becoming, click here

The Journey from Prophecy to Becoming

This series traces the arc of spiritual becoming over the Christmas period—the Divine that is a cosmological truth and the personal path to self-realization. We’re now traveling from Prophecy through to the Father, then to the Mother and ending on the Son, exploring how God’s nature mirrors individual spiritual realization.

So let’s look at the Father principle—the spark, the impulse, the primordial fire in all existence. Without this impulse of being, nothing can come into manifestation.

The First Thought and the I AM

When Moses stood before the burning bush and asked for God’s name, the answer came: “I AM THAT I AM” (Exodus 3:14). This divine self-identification reveals God’s essential threefold nature as pure being, self-existent, self-aware, unconditioned; the beginning, the end, and all that it encompasses. This I AM consciousness is not merely a name but a living reality that carries within it the full potency of Divine presence. In Christian mystical tradition, this has been understood as the “Name above all names”— although name here refers to the character embodied within it, not just a label. When Jesus later declares “Before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58), he is speaking both chronologically and ontologically, identifying his consciousness with this primordial ground of being and for us this means that inside our souls we carry a part of the Divine nature that is equal to the creator.

We must be clear that the Father’s primordial impulse is not a thought about something—it is Being itself, fully conscious self-awareness, and from that fully conscious state begetting in its image in this same selfless Love. This is the mystery at the heart of existence: Love itself. The Father.

The Father as Primordial Love

Let’s look at the nature of the Father, represented as the primordial urge toward being, toward perfection, and toward oneness.

The divine Trinity appears across the world’s wisdom traditions, each culture recognizing this fundamental pattern woven into the fabric of existence. In ancient Egypt, we find the sacred trinity of Osiris (the divine father), Isis (the divine mother), and Horus (the divine child). In Hindu philosophy, the Bhagavad Gita reveals Sat-Chit-Ananda—Being, Consciousness, and Bliss—the threefold nature of Brahman itself. Christianity speaks of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

This trinity is both mystery and revelation—mysterious in its three-in-one nature, yet obvious once we begin to see. Everywhere we look, reality expresses through three: the Love that initiates, the Wisdom that gives form, and the Divine Will that brings all into manifestation.

The Divine Trinity is the first and ultimate definition that can be given of God’s essence. These can not be three separate gods or even three distinct persons in the human sense, but three necessary aspects of one divine reality:

Love—the Father principle, the initiating impulse, the fire, the source and ground of all being.

Wisdom—representing love’s embodiment. The spoken Word.

Will—the all-powerful Spirit that unites all the elements, the dynamic force through which potentiality becomes actualized and maintained, through which the Father’s love and the wisdom manifest as reality.

As mystical theology teaches, humanity is created in the image and likeness of God—not just physically but structurally. If we look at the image of the Sun, at a distance we feel the Sun has warmth, when we look we see it has light and we know that what we are looking at and feeling travelled a long way through radiation for us to see it. If we look at ourselves, we too are threefold:

Spirit—our will, our creative power, our capacity for choice and action, analogous to God’s will.

Body—our material expression, our form in the world.

Soul—the carrier of our awareness, our knowing, analogous to wisdom.

This correspondence to our nature is no accident. We are microcosms of the divine macrocosm. To understand the Father is to understand the deepest truth about ourselves. To know ourselves fully is to glimpse the nature of the Divine.

Let’s look at this. Can we speak a word without it having a feeling? Of course this is not possible but can we also take action without will power ?

And what of us, should we grow our capacity for rationality and thought and forget warmth and kindness? Or should we intend to develop both of these, but fail to add the right amount of will? In fact, we are surrounded by trinities wherever we look, except in one place, our five senses.

Through the five senses, we see and perceive only duality. They divide the world into subject and object, self and other, pleasant and unpleasant, hot and cold, light and dark. This is their function and their limitation. To compartmentalize. The Swedish mystic Emmanual Swedenborg understood this in the same way as many of the ancient mystical traditions, that Man has an external, which he called the “external man” or as some traditions call the “lower self” —which operates through sensory perception and experiences only separation, only the apparent division between things, failing to perceive unity and only registering distinction. He also recognized that this “external man” is led by his desires and memories in its most outer form or as we would recognise it now, ego. He also recognized deeper levels where there was another level of self that could only function from rationality and affections an journeying deeper he reached the point, a third and deeper level of mind accessible only through faith in the Divine. In this state, he found an affection for Truth and Love just because it was good and that this pure state of being is a unity with God. He also reported that this higher state of being is only accessible in the physical body when all the lower nature is transformed and that from this place mind functions state of inner divinity while still maintaining personal individuality.

This is why every mystical tradition insists on moving beyond sensory perception to grasp spiritual reality. The Trinity cannot be sensed because it is not subject to the dualistic framework the senses impose and in fact too much reliance on these, close human perception to a greater reality.

So lets get back to the Trinity; We know now, three-in-One transcends the either/or logic of sensory experience. We cannot see it, touch it, taste it, or hear it—yet when we shift from sensory consciousness to spiritual awareness we see life is constructed for triune being: in love-wisdom-will, in thought-feeling-action, in being-knowing-doing. The senses say “three separate things”; spiritual sight sees “one reality expressing through three.”

So seeing reality from a spiritual point of view means recognising the Divine at the foundation of reality, between different parts always flows Love. The Creator, loving out to His bride, creation, and seeking unity. In this understanding, it is clear God is and can only be One but must also be 3 and this awareness shows us how humans are made in the image of Love.

The Personal Dimension: Awakening to the Father Within

Lets take this theological understanding out of the conceptual and make it profoundly practical for spiritual development. The Father principle within us is the selfless love in our hearts and to awaken that Love is to truly find God.

The search for a God “out there” won’t get far, to truly seek God is to truly love God from the depths of our hearts.

This is what the mystics mean by the “birth of God in the soul”—that which can be awakened in the soul has always been the deepest truth in the Human Soul. The Father’s love. The substance of our existence, spiritual awakening, is simply the recognition and growth within this fact.

The First Light: Awakening in Mind

So where do we start? Emanuel Swedenborg describes this initial movement with precision: “The man begins to know that the good and the true are something higher.” Before this dawning, our consciousness exists in what he calls “void,” “emptiness,” and “thick darkness”—a state where we mistake our desires for satisfaction, rationality for truth, our cravings for goodness, our passions for love, and our fears for instinct. Mystics throughout the ages knew this threshold intimately. Before any transformation can occur, the mind must first acknowledge that transformation is needed—that the way we have been living, thinking, and desiring is not aligned with reality itself. In fact every Hollywood movie tells this story, from ignorance to emotional change.

This first light is simple recognition: that Love exists. That truth exists. And these are the fundamental nature of God. In Buddhist terms, this is the first glimpse beyond ignorance (avidya), the initial crack in the shell of delusion. In Vedantic language, it is the first questioning that leads from identification with prakriti (nature) toward recognition of Atman.

Search and You Will Find

So what comes next? The work begins with searching, so how will you find your way? Search for God alone in pure Love, and in Pure Love you will find God the Father.

And how do you become aware of reality beyond the 5 senses?

• Build a daily contemplative practice. The mystics throughout the world point to a sitting practice and now more than ever, there are many online resources to help.
• Study scriptures
• Genuinely seek for a relationship with your maker

Search, and you will find!

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The Movement Toward Mother and Son

Having established the Father as primordial Love, as the initiating impulse, we prepare to explore the next movements in this divine symphony. The Father’s love must find expression—it must speak itself, manifest. This leads us toward the Mother principle.

But for now, let us rest in this first principle. Beyond wisdom, beyond manifestation, beyond becoming, in the eternal ground of all that is—Love.

This is the mystery and the promise: that in knowing the Father, we come to know ourselves; in discovering Love as the ground of all being, we discover our own deepest nature and humble our minds in recognition that we are both great and small.

In our next installment, we will explore the Mother principle—the receptive wisdom that receives the Father’s creative impulse and gives it form, the sacred feminine that shapes primordial love into manifest reality. The term ‘man’ in this blog reflected English grammar and is referred to as man and woman.