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Urantia Book Paper 115 The Supreme Being
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART III: The History of Urantia
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: The Origin Of Urantia Life Establishment On Urantia The Marine-life Era On
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Urantia Urantia During The Early Land-life Era The Mammalian Era On Urantia The
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Dawn Races Of Early Man The First Human Family The Evolutionary Races Of Color
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The Overcontrol Of Evolution The Planetary Prince Of Urantia The Planetary
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Rebellion The Dawn Of Civilization Primitive Human Institutions The Evolution
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Of Human Government Development Of The State Government On A Neighboring Planet
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The Garden Of Eden Adam And Eve The Default Of Adam And Eve The Second Garden
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The Midway Creatures The Violet Race After The Days Of Adam Andite Expansion In
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The Orient Andite Expansion In The Occident Development Of Modern Civilization
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The Evolution Of Marriage The Marriage Institution Marriage And Family Life The
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Origins Of Worship Early Evolution Of Religion The Ghost Cults Fetishes,
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Charms, And Magic Sin, Sacrifice, And Atonement Shamanism--medicine Men And
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Priests The Evolution Of Prayer The Later Evolution Of Religion Machiventa
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Melchizedek The Melchizedek Teachings In The Orient The Melchizedek Teachings
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In The Levant Yahweh--god Of The Hebrews Evolution Of The God Concept Among The
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Hebrews The Melchizedek Teachings In The Occident The Social Problems Of
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Religion Religion In Human Experience The Real Nature Of Religion The
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Foundations Of Religious Faith The Reality Of Religious Experience Growth Of
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The Trinity Concept Deity And Reality Universe Levels Of Reality Origin And
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Nature Of Thought Adjusters Mission And Ministry Of Thought Adjusters Relation
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Of Adjusters To Universe Creatures Relation Of Adjusters To Individual Mortals
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... The Supreme Being
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Paper 115 The Supreme Being
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Introduction
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WITH God the Father, sonship is the great relationship. With God the Supreme,
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achievement is the prerequisite to status--one must do something as well as be
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something.
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1. RELATIVITY OF CONCEPT FRAMES
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Partial, incomplete, and evolving intellects would be helpless in the master
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universe, would be unable to form the first rational thought pattern, were it
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not for the innate ability of all mind, high or low, to form a universe frame
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in which to think. If mind cannot fathom conclusions, if it cannot penetrate to
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true origins, then will such mind unfailingly postulate conclusions and invent
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origins that it may have a means of logical thought within the frame of these
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mind-created postulates. And while such universe frames for creature thought
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are indispensable to rational intellectual operations, they are, without
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exception, erroneous to a greater or lesser degree.
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Conceptual frames of the universe are only relatively true; they are
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serviceable scaffolding which must eventually give way before the expansions of
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enlarging cosmic comprehension. The understandings of truth, beauty, and
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goodness, morality, ethics, duty, love, divinity, origin, existence, purpose,
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destiny, time, space, even Deity, are only relatively true. God is much, much
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more than a Father, but the Father is man's highest concept of God;
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nonetheless, the Father-Son portrayal of Creator-creature relationship will be
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augmented by those supermortal conceptions of Deity which will be attained in
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Orvonton, in Havona, and on Paradise. Man must think in a mortal universe
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frame, but that does not mean that he cannot envision other and higher frames
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within which thought can take place.
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In order to facilitate mortal comprehension of the universe of universes, the
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diverse levels of cosmic reality have been designated as finite, absonite, and
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absolute. Of these only the absolute is unqualifiedly eternal, truly
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existential. Absonites and finites are derivatives, modifications,
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qualifications, and attenuations of the original and primordial absolute
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reality of infinity.
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The realms of the finite exist by virtue of the eternal purpose of God. Finite
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creatures, high and low, may propound theories, and have done so, as to the
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necessity of the finite in the cosmic economy, but in the last analysis it
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exists because God so willed. The universe cannot be explained, neither can a
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finite creature offer a rational reason for his own individual existence
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without appealing to the prior acts and pre-existent volition of ancestral
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beings, Creators or procreators.
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2. THE ABSOLUTE BASIS FOR SUPREMACY
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From the existential standpoint, nothing new can happen throughout the
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galaxies, for the completion of infinity inherent in the I AM is eternally
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present in the seven Absolutes, is functionally associated in the triunities,
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and is transmitively associated in the triodities. But the fact that infinity
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is thus existentially present in these absolute associations in no way makes it
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impossible to realize new cosmic experientials. From a finite creature's
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viewpoint, infinity contains much that is potential, much that is on the order
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of a future possibility rather than a present actuality.
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Value is a unique element in universe reality. We do not comprehend how the
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value of anything infinite and divine could possibly be increased. But we
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discover that meanings can be modified if not augmented even in the relations
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of infinite Deity. To the experiential universes even divine values are
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increased as actualities by enlarged comprehension of reality meanings.
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The entire scheme of universal creation and evolution on all experiencing
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levels is apparently a matter of the conversion of potentialities into
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actualities; and this transmutation has to do equally with the realms of space
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potency, mind potency, and spirit potency.
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The apparent method whereby the possibilities of the cosmos are brought into
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actual existence varies from level to level, being experiential evolution in
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the finite and experiential eventuation in the absonite. Existential infinity
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is indeed unqualified in all-inclusiveness, and this very all-inclusiveness
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must, perforce, encompass even the possibility for evolutionary finite
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experiencing. And the possibility for such experiential growth becomes a
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universe actuality through triodity relationships impinging upon and in the
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Supreme.
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3. ORIGINAL, ACTUAL, AND POTENTIAL
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The absolute cosmos is conceptually without limit; to define the extent and
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nature of this primal reality is to place qualifications upon infinity and to
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attenuate the pure concept of eternity. The idea of the infinite-eternal, the
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eternal-infinite, is unqualified in extent and absolute in fact. There is no
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language in the past, present, or future of Urantia adequate to express the
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reality of infinity or the infinity of reality. Man, a finite creature in an
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infinite cosmos, must content himself with distorted reflections and attenuated
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conceptions of that limitless, boundless, never-beginning, never-ending
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existence the comprehension of which is really beyond his ability.
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Mind can never hope to grasp the concept of an Absolute without attempting
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first to break the unity of such a reality. Mind is unifying of all
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divergencies, but in the very absence of such divergencies, mind finds no basis
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upon which to attempt to formulate understanding concepts.
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The primordial stasis of infinity requires segmentation prior to human attempts
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at comprehension. There is a unity in infinity which has been expressed in
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these papers as the I AM--the premier postulate of the creature mind. But never
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can a creature understand how it is that this unity becomes duality, triunity,
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and diversity while yet remaining an unqualified unity. Man encounters a
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similar problem when he pauses to contemplate the undivided Deity of Trinity
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alongside the plural personalization of God.
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It is only man's distance from infinity that causes this concept to be
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expressed as one word. While infinity is on the one hand UNITY, on the other it
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is DIVERSITY without end or limit. Infinity, as it is observed by finite
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intelligences, is the maximum paradox of creature philosophy and finite
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metaphysics. Though man's spiritual nature reaches up in the worship experience
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to the Father who is infinite, man's intellectual comprehension capacity is
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exhausted by the maximum conception of the Supreme Being. Beyond the Supreme,
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concepts are increasingly names; less and less are they true designations of
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reality; more and more do they become the creature's projection of finite
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understanding toward the superfinite.
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One basic conception of the absolute level involves a postulate of three
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phases:
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1. The Original. The unqualified concept of the First Source and Center, that
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source manifestation of the I AM from which all reality takes origin.
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2. The Actual. The union of the three Absolutes of actuality, the Second,
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Third, and Paradise Sources and Centers. This triodity of the Eternal Son, the
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Infinite Spirit, and the Paradise Isle constitutes the actual revelation of the
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originality of the First Source and Center.
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3. The Potential. The union of the three Absolutes of potentiality, the Deity,
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Unqualified, and Universal Absolutes. This triodity of existential potentiality
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constitutes the potential revelation of the originality of the First Source and
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Center.
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The interassociation of the Original, the Actual, and the Potential yields the
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tensions within infinity which result in the possibility for all universe
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growth; and growth is the nature of the Sevenfold, the Supreme, and the
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Ultimate.
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In the association of the Deity, Universal, and Unqualified Absolutes,
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potentiality is absolute while actuality is emergent; in the association of the
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Second, Third, and Paradise Sources and Centers, actuality is absolute while
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potentiality is emergent; in the originality of the First Source and Center, we
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cannot say that either actuality or potentiality is either existent or
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emergent--the Father is.
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From the time viewpoint, the Actual is that which was and is; the Potential is
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that which is becoming and will be; the Original is that which is. From the
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eternity viewpoint, the differences between the Original, the Actual, and the
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Potential are not thus apparent. These triune qualities are not so
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distinguished on Paradise-eternity levels. In eternity all is--only has all not
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yet been revealed in time and space.
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From a creature's viewpoint, actuality is substance, potentiality is capacity.
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Actuality exists centermost and expands therefrom into peripheral infinity;
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potentiality comes inward from the infinity periphery and converges at the
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center of all things. Originality is that which first causes and then balances
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the dual motions of the cycle of reality metamorphosis from potentials to
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actuals and the potentializing of existing actuals.
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The three Absolutes of potentiality are operative on the purely eternal level
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of the cosmos, hence never function as such on subabsolute levels. On the
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descending levels of reality the triodity of potentiality is manifest with the
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Ultimate and upon the Supreme. The potential may fail to time-actualize with
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respect to a part on some subabsolute level, but never in the aggregate. The
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will of God does
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ultimately prevail, not always concerning the individual but invariably
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concerning the total.
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It is in the triodity of actuality that the existents of the cosmos have their
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center; be it spirit, mind, or energy, all center in this association of the
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Son, the Spirit, and Paradise. The personality of the spirit Son is the master
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pattern for all personality throughout all universes. The substance of the
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Paradise Isle is the master pattern of which Havona is a perfect, and the
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superuniverses are a perfecting, revelation. The Conjoint Actor is at one and
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the same time the mind activation of cosmic energy, the conceptualization of
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spirit purpose, and the integration of the mathematical causes and effects of
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the material levels with the volitional purposes and motives of the spiritual
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level. In and to a finite universe the Son, Spirit, and Paradise function in
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and upon the Ultimate as he is conditioned and qualified in the Supreme.
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Actuality (of Deity) is what man seeks in the Paradise ascent. Potentiality (of
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human divinity) is what man evolves in that search. The Original is what makes
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possible the coexistence and integration of man the actual, man the potential,
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and man the eternal.
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The final dynamics of the cosmos have to do with the continual transfer of
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reality from potentiality to actuality. In theory, there may be an end to this
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metamorphosis, but in fact, such is impossible since the Potential and the
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Actual are both encircuited in the Original (the I AM), and this identification
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makes it forever impossible to place a limit on the developmental progression
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of the universe. Whatsoever is identified with the I AM can never find an end
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to progression since the actuality of the potentials of the I AM is absolute,
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and the potentiality of the actuals of the I AM is also absolute. Always will
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actuals be opening up new avenues of the realization of hitherto impossible
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potentials--every human decision not only actualizes a new reality in human
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experience but also opens up a new capacity for human growth. The man lives in
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every child, and the morontia progressor is resident in the mature God-knowing
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man.
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Statics in growth can never appear in the total cosmos since the basis for
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growth--the absolute actuals--is unqualified, and since the possibilities for
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growth--the absolute potentials--are unlimited. From a practical viewpoint the
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philosophers of the universe have come to the conclusion that there is no such
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thing as an end.
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From a circumscribed view there are, indeed, many ends, many terminations of
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activities, but from a larger viewpoint on a higher universe level, there are
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no endings, merely transitions from one phase of development to another. The
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major chronicity of the master universe is concerned with the several universe
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ages, the Havona, the superuniverse, and the outer universe ages. But even
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these basic divisions of sequence relationships cannot be more than relative
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landmarks on the unending highway of eternity.
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The final penetration of the truth, beauty, and goodness of the Supreme Being
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could only open up to the progressing creature those absonite qualities of
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ultimate divinity which lie beyond the concept levels of truth, beauty, and
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goodness.
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4. SOURCES OF SUPREME REALITY
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Any consideration of the origins of God the Supreme must begin with the
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Paradise Trinity, for the Trinity is original Deity while the Supreme is
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derived
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Deity. Any consideration of the growth of the Supreme must give consideration
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to the existential triodities, for they encompass all absolute actuality and
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all infinite potentiality (in conjunction with the First Source and Center).
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And the evolutionary Supreme is the culminating and personally volitional focus
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of the transmutation--the transformation--of potentials to actuals in and on
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the finite level of existence. The two triodities, actual and potential,
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encompass the totality of the interrelationships of growth in the universes.
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The source of the Supreme is in the Paradise Trinity--eternal, actual, and
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undivided Deity. The Supreme is first of all a spirit person, and this spirit
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person stems from the Trinity. But the Supreme is secondly a Deity of
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growth--evolutionary growth--and this growth derives from the two triodities,
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actual and potential.
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If it is difficult to comprehend that the infinite triodities can function on
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the finite level, pause to consider that their very infinity must in itself
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contain the potentiality of the finite; infinity encompasses all things ranging
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from the lowest and most qualified finite existence to the highest and
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unqualifiedly absolute realities.
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It is not so difficult to comprehend that the infinite does contain the finite
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as it is to understand just how this infinite actually is manifest to the
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finite. But the Thought Adjusters indwelling mortal man are one of the eternal
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proofs that even the absolute God (as absolute) can and does actually make
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direct contact with even the lowest and least of all universe will creatures.
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The triodities which collectively encompass the actual and the potential are
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manifest on the finite level in conjunction with the Supreme Being. The
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technique of such manifestation is both direct and indirect: direct in so far
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as triodity relations repercuss directly in the Supreme and indirect in so far
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as they are derived through the eventuated level of the absonite.
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Supreme reality, which is total finite reality, is in process of dynamic growth
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between the unqualified potentials of outer space and the unqualified actuals
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at the center of all things. The finite domain thus factualizes through the
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co-operation of the absonite agencies of Paradise and the Supreme Creator
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Personalities of time. The act of maturing the qualified possibilities of the
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three great potential Absolutes is the absonite function of the Architects of
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the Master Universe and their transcendental associates. And when these
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eventualities have attained to a certain point of maturation, the Supreme
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Creator Personalities emerge from Paradise to engage in the agelong task of
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bringing the evolving universes into factual being.
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The growth of Supremacy derives from the triodities; the spirit person of the
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Supreme, from the Trinity; but the power prerogatives of the Almighty are
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predicated on the divinity successes of God the Sevenfold, while the conjoining
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of the power prerogatives of the Almighty Supreme with the spirit person of God
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the Supreme takes place by virtue of the ministry of the Conjoint Actor, who
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bestowed the mind of the Supreme as the conjoining factor in this evolutionary
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Deity.
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5. RELATION OF THE SUPREME TO THE PARADISE
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The Supreme Being is absolutely dependent on the existence and action of the
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Paradise Trinity for the reality of his personal and spirit nature. While the
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growth of the Supreme is a matter of triodity relationship, the spirit
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personality of God the Supreme is dependent upon, and is derived from, the
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Paradise Trinity, which ever remains as the absolute center-source of perfect
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and infinite stability around which the evolutionary growth of the Supreme
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progressively unfolds.
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The function of the Trinity is related to the function of the Supreme, for the
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Trinity is functional on all (total) levels, including the level of the
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function of Supremacy. But as the age of Havona gives way to the age of the
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superuniverses, so does the discernible action of the Trinity as immediate
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creator give way to the creative acts of the children of the Paradise Deities.
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6. RELATION OF THE SUPREME TO THE TRIODITIES
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The triodity of actuality continues to function directly in the post-Havona
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epochs; Paradise gravity grasps the basic units of material existence, the
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spirit gravity of the Eternal Son operates directly upon the fundamental values
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of spirit existence, and the mind gravity of the Conjoint Actor unerringly
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clutches all vital meanings of intellectual existence.
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But as each stage of creative activity proceeds out through uncharted space, it
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functions and exists farther and farther removed from direct action by the
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creative forces and divine personalities of central emplacement--the absolute
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Isle of Paradise and the infinite Deities resident thereon. These successive
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levels of cosmic existence become, therefore, increasingly dependent upon
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developments within the three Absolute potentialities of infinity.
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The Supreme Being embraces possibilities for cosmic ministry that are not
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apparently manifested in the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, or the
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nonpersonal realities of the Isle of Paradise. This statement is made with due
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regard for the absoluteness of these three basic actualities, but the growth of
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the Supreme is not only predicated on these actualities of Deity and Paradise
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but is also involved in developments within the Deity, Universal, and
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Unqualified Absolutes.
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universes attain to Godlikeness, but this finite Deity also experiences growth
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as a result of the creature and Creator mastery of the finite possibilities of
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the grand universe. The motion of the Supreme is twofold: intensively toward
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Paradise and Deity and extensively toward the limitlessness of the Absolutes of
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potential.
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ascending personalities of the grand universe. The Supreme Creator
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Personalities and all their divine associates are reflective of the outward,
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diverging motion of the Supreme, while the ascending pilgrims from the seven
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superuniverses are indicative of the inward, converging trend of Supremacy.
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Always is the finite Deity seeking for dual correlation, inward toward Paradise
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and the Deities thereof and outward toward infinity and the Absolutes therein.
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The mighty eruption of the Paradise-creative divinity personalizing in the
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Creator Sons and powerizing in the power controllers, signifies the vast
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outsurge of Supremacy into the domains of potentiality, while the endless
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procession of the ascending creatures of the grand universe witnesses the
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mighty insurge of Supremacy toward unity with Paradise Deity.
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long since learned to detect the movements and trends of Supremacy by observing
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the repercussions of such evolutions in the personalities and patterns of the
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grand universe.
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Deity, the Supreme is engaged in an eternal progression into outer space; but
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as a qualification of the three Absolute potentials of outer space, this
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Supreme Being is forever seeking for Paradise coherence. And these dual motions
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seem to account for most of the basic activities in the presently organized
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universes.
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7. THE NATURE OF THE SUPREME
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In the Deity of the Supreme the Father-I AM has achieved relatively complete
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liberation from the limitations inherent in infinity of status, eternity of
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being, and absoluteness of nature. But God the Supreme has been freed from all
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existential limitations only by having become subject to experiential
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qualifications of universal function. In attaining capacity for experience, the
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finite God also becomes subject to the necessity therefor; in achieving
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liberation from eternity, the Almighty encounters the barriers of time; and the
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Supreme could only know growth and development as a consequence of partiality
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of existence and incompleteness of nature, nonabsoluteness of being.
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All this must be according to the Father's plan, which has predicated finite
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progress upon effort, creature achievement upon perseverance, and personality
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development upon faith. By thus ordaining the experience-evolution of the
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Supreme, the Father has made it possible for finite creatures to exist in the
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universes and, by experiential progression, sometime to attain the divinity of
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Supremacy.
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Including the Supreme and even the Ultimate, all reality, excepting the
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unqualified values of the seven Absolutes, is relative. The fact of Supremacy
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is predicated on Paradise power, Son personality, and Conjoint action, but the
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growth of the Supreme is involved in the Deity Absolute, the Unqualified
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Absolute, and the Universal Absolute. And this synthesizing and unifying
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Deity--God the Supreme--is the personification of the finite shadow cast
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athwart the grand universe by the infinite unity of the unsearchable nature of
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the Paradise Father, the First Source and Center.
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To the extent that the triodities are directly operative on the finite level,
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they impinge upon the Supreme, who is the Deity focalization and cosmic
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summation of the finite qualifications of the natures of the Absolute Actual
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and the Absolute Potential.
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The Paradise Trinity is considered to be the absolute inevitability; the Seven
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Master Spirits are apparently Trinity inevitabilities; the
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power-mind-spirit-personality actualization of the Supreme must be the
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evolutionary inevitability.
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God the Supreme does not appear to have been inevitable in unqualified
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infinity, but he seems to be on all relativity levels. He is the indispensable
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focalizer, summarizer, and encompasser of evolutionary experience, effectively
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unifying the results of this mode of reality perception in his Deity nature.
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And all this he appears to do for the purpose of contributing to the appearance
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of the inevitable eventuation, the superexperience and superfinite
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manifestation of God the Ultimate.
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The Supreme Being cannot be fully appreciated without taking into consideration
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source, function, and destiny: relationship to the originating Trinity, the
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universe of activity, and the Trinity Ultimate of immediate destiny.
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By the process of summating evolutionary experience the Supreme connects the
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finite with the absonite, even as the mind of the Conjoint Actor integrates the
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divine spirituality of the personal Son with the immutable energies of the
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Paradise pattern, and as the presence of the Universal Absolute unifies Deity
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activation with the Unqualified reactivity. And this unity must be a revelation
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of the undetected working of the original unity of the First Father-Cause and
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Source-Pattern of all things and all beings.
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[Sponsored by a Mighty Messenger temporarily sojourning on Urantia.]
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART III: The History of Urantia
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: The Origin Of Urantia Life Establishment On Urantia The Marine-life Era On
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Urantia Urantia During The Early Land-life Era The Mammalian Era On Urantia The
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Dawn Races Of Early Man The First Human Family The Evolutionary Races Of Color
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The Overcontrol Of Evolution The Planetary Prince Of Urantia The Planetary
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Rebellion The Dawn Of Civilization Primitive Human Institutions The Evolution
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The Orient Andite Expansion In The Occident Development Of Modern Civilization
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The Adjuster And The Soul Personality Survival Seraphic Guardians Of Destiny
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Seraphic Planetary Government The Supreme Being The Almighty Supreme God The
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Supreme Supreme And Ultimate--time And Space The Bestowals Of Christ Michael
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