Seeing God
I asked again, "Do the angels and saints who live in the highest spheres of heaven, always look on the face of God? And, if they see Him, in what form and state does He appear?" One of the Saints said, "As the sea is full of water, so is the whole universe filled with God, and every inhabitant of heaven feels His presence about him on every side. When one dives under water, above and below and round about there is nothing but water, so in heaven is the presence of God felt. And just as in the water of the sea, there are uncounted living creatures, so in the Infinite Being of God His creatures exist.
Because He is Infinite, His children, who are finite, can see Him only in the form of Messiah. As the Lord Himself has said, "He that has seen Me has seen the Father" (John 14:9). In this world of spirits, the spiritual progress of any one governs the degree to which he is able to know and feel God; and Yeshua also reveals His glorious form to each one according to his spiritual enlightenment and capacity. If Messiah were to appear in the same glorious light to the dwellers of the darkened lower spheres of the spiritual world, as he appears to those in the higher planes, then they would not be able to bear it. So He tempers the glory of His manifestation to the state of progress, and to the capacity, of each individual soul."
Then another Saint added, "God's presence can indeed be felt and enjoyed but it cannot be expressed in words. As the sweetness of the sweet is enjoyed by tasting, and not by the most graphic descriptive phrasing, so every one in heaven experiences the joy of the presence of God, and every one in the spiritual world knows that his experience of God is real, and has no need that any should attempt to help him with a verbal description of it."