| Our understanding of God is limited. We can learn to | | | | three highest attributes of our Father consist of |
| know Him through His attributes and His awesome | | | | wisdom and understanding. Some consider |
| love for us by studying the spiritual path of Torah | | | | understanding to be a feminine aspect of God. |
| which leads us to oneness with Him. | | | | The next two attributes of God that help us to know |
| In the beginning, all was God. I call Him, "Father", and | | | | our Creator are inner strength and love. It is only by |
| therefore, I generally refer to Him in the masculine | | | | exercising our inner strength that we can attain a state |
| sense as Jesus did. | | | | of unconditional love. It has been said that the greatest |
| We begin with the will of Creator. When I suggested | | | | form of love is compassion. |
| to Cherokee elder, John Red Hat, that we needed to | | | | This pure love, without any conditions attached, is |
| surrender to God so we could do His work, he got | | | | eternal splendor. When a human attains this state of |
| from our Father that, "Surrender is the work!" Now I | | | | being, he is said to be a "tsadik". He has overcome any |
| understand that statement. It is surrender to | | | | evil tendencies within himself. |
| Unconditional Love. We are to be this love. It is to be, | | | | When we attain this state of being, we have reached |
| not only to do. When we are in the state of love, then | | | | a oneness with our heavenly Father. We have |
| the good fruits of our actions will follow. What is in our | | | | completed the circle of learning which takes us back |
| hearts will be revealed to all. | | | | to God. |
| According to mystical Kabbalah, the other two of the | | | | |