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Urantia Book Paper 104 Growth Of The Trinity Concept
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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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Paper 104 Growth Of The Trinity Concept
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Introduction
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THE Trinity concept of revealed religion must not be confused with the triad
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beliefs of evolutionary religions. The ideas of triads arose from many
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suggestive relationships but chiefly because of the three joints of the
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fingers, because three legs were the fewest which could stabilize a stool,
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because three support points could keep up a tent; furthermore, primitive man,
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for a long time, could not count beyond three.
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Aside from certain natural couplets, such as past and present, day and night,
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hot and cold, and male and female, man generally tends to think in triads:
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yesterday, today, and tomorrow; sunrise, noon, and sunset; father, mother, and
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child. Three cheers are given the victor. The dead are buried on the third day,
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and the ghost is placated by three ablutions of water.
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As a consequence of these natural associations in human experience, the triad
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made its appearance in religion, and this long before the Paradise Trinity of
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Deities, or even any of their representatives, had been revealed to mankind.
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Later on, the Persians, Hindus, Greeks, Egyptians, Babylonians, Romans, and
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Scandinavians all had triad gods, but these were still not true trinities.
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Triad deities all had a natural origin and have appeared at one time or another
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among most of the intelligent peoples of Urantia. Sometimes the concept of an
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evolutionary triad has become mixed with that of a revealed Trinity; in these
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instances it is often impossible to distinguish one from the other.
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1. URANTIAN TRINITY CONCEPTS
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The first Urantian revelation leading to the comprehension of the Paradise
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Trinity was made by the staff of Prince Caligastia about one-half million years
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ago. This earliest Trinity concept was lost to the world in the unsettled times
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following the planetary rebellion.
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The second presentation of the Trinity was made by Adam and Eve in the first
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and second gardens. These teachings had not been wholly obliterated even in the
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times of Machiventa Melchizedek about thirty-five thousand years later, for the
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Trinity concept of the Sethites persisted in both Mesopotamia and Egypt but
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more especially in India, where it was long perpetuated in Agni, the Vedic
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three-headed fire god.
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The third presentation of the Trinity was made by Machiventa Melchizedek, and
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this doctrine was symbolized by the three concentric circles which the sage of
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Salem wore on his breast plate. But Machiventa found it very difficult to teach
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the Palestinian Bedouins about the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and the
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Infinite Spirit. Most of his disciples thought that the Trinity consisted of
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the three Most Highs of Norlatiadek; a few conceived of the Trinity as the
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System Sovereign, the Constellation Father, and the local universe Creator
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Deity; still fewer even remotely grasped the idea of the Paradise association
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of the Father, Son, and Spirit.
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Through the activities of the Salem missionaries the Melchizedek teachings of
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the Trinity gradually spread throughout much of Eurasia and northern Africa. It
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is often difficult to distinguish between the triads and the trinities in the
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later Andite and the post-Melchizedek ages, when both concepts to a certain
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extent intermingled and coalesced.
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Among the Hindus the trinitarian concept took root as Being, Intelligence, and
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Joy. (A later Indian conception was Brahma, Siva, and Vishnu.) While the
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earlier Trinity portrayals were brought to India by the Sethite priests, the
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later ideas of the Trinity were imported by the Salem missionaries and were
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developed by the native intellects of India through a compounding of these
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doctrines with the evolutionary triad conceptions.
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The Buddhist faith developed two doctrines of a trinitarian nature: The earlier
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was Teacher, Law, and Brotherhood; that was the presentation made by Gautama
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Siddhartha. The later idea, developing among the northern branch of the
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followers of Buddha, embraced Supreme Lord, Holy Spirit, and Incarnate Savior.
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And these ideas of the Hindus and Buddhists were real trinitarian postulates,
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that is, the idea of a threefold manifestation of a monotheistic God. A true
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trinity conception is not just a grouping together of three separate gods.
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The Hebrews knew about the Trinity from the Kenite traditions of the days of
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Melchizedek, but their monotheistic zeal for the one God, Yahweh, so eclipsed
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all such teachings that by the time of Jesus' appearance the Elohim doctrine
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had been practically eradicated from Jewish theology. The Hebrew mind could not
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reconcile the trinitarian concept with the monotheistic belief in the One Lord,
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the God of Israel.
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The followers of the Islamic faith likewise failed to grasp the idea of the
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Trinity. It is always difficult for an emerging monotheism to tolerate
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trinitarianism when confronted by polytheism. The trinity idea takes best hold
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of those religions which have a firm monotheistic tradition coupled with
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doctrinal elasticity. The great monotheists, the Hebrews and Mohammedans, found
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it difficult to distinguish between worshiping three gods, polytheism, and
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trinitarianism, the worship of one Deity existing in a triune manifestation of
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divinity and personality.
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Jesus taught his apostles the truth regarding the persons of the Paradise
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Trinity, but they thought he spoke figuratively and symbolically. Having been
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nurtured in Hebraic monotheism, they found it difficult to entertain any belief
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that seemed to conflict with their dominating concept of Yahweh. And the early
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Christians inherited the Hebraic prejudice against the Trinity concept.
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The first Trinity of Christianity was proclaimed at Antioch and consisted of
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God, his Word, and his Wisdom. Paul knew of the Paradise Trinity of Father,
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Son, and Spirit, but he seldom preached about it and made mention thereof in
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only a few of his letters to the newly forming churches. Even then, as did his
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fellow apostles, Paul confused Jesus, the Creator Son of the local universe,
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with the Second Person of Deity, the Eternal Son of Paradise.
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The Christian concept of the Trinity, which began to gain recognition near the
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close of the first century after Christ, was comprised of the Universal Father,
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the Creator Son of Nebadon, and the Divine Minister of Salvington--Mother
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Spirit of the local universe and creative consort of the Creator Son.
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Not since the times of Jesus has the factual identity of the Paradise Trinity
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been known on Urantia (except by a few individuals to whom it was especially
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revealed) until its presentation in these revelatory disclosures. But though
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the Christian concept of the Trinity erred in fact, it was practically true
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with respect to spiritual relationships. Only in its philosophic implications
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and cosmological consequences did this concept suffer embarrassment: It has
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been difficult for many who are cosmic minded to believe that the Second Person
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of Deity, the second member of an infinite Trinity, once dwelt on Urantia; and
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while in spirit this is true, in actuality it is not a fact. The Michael
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Creators fully embody the divinity of the Eternal Son, but they are not the
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absolute personality.
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2. TRINITY UNITY AND DEITY PLURALITY
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Monotheism arose as a philosophic protest against the inconsistency of
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polytheism. It developed first through pantheon organizations with the
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departmentalization of supernatural activities, then through the henotheistic
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exaltation of one god above the many, and finally through the exclusion of all
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but the One God of final value.
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Trinitarianism grows out of the experiential protest against the impossibility
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of conceiving the oneness of a deanthropomorphized solitary Deity of unrelated
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universe significance. Given a sufficient time, philosophy tends to abstract
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the personal qualities from the Deity concept of pure monotheism, thus reducing
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this idea of an unrelated God to the status of a pantheistic Absolute. It has
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always been difficult to understand the personal nature of a God who has no
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personal relationships in equality with other and co-ordinate personal beings.
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Personality in Deity demands that such Deity exist in relation to other and
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equal personal Deity.
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Through the recognition of the Trinity concept the mind of man can hope to
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grasp something of the interrelationship of love and law in the time-space
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creations. Through spiritual faith man gains insight into the love of God but
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soon discovers that this spiritual faith has no influence on the ordained laws
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of the material universe. Irrespective of the firmness of man's belief in God
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as his Paradise Father, expanding cosmic horizons demand that he also give
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recognition to the reality of Paradise Deity as universal law, that he
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recognize the Trinity sovereignty extending outward from Paradise and
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overshadowing even the evolving local universes of the Creator Sons and
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Creative Daughters of the three eternal persons whose deity union is the fact
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and reality and eternal indivisibility of the Paradise Trinity.
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And this selfsame Paradise Trinity is a real entity--not a personality but
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nonetheless a true and absolute reality; not a personality but nonetheless
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compatible with coexistent personalities--the personalities of the Father, the
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Son, and the Spirit. The Trinity is a supersummative Deity reality eventuating
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out of the conjoining of the three Paradise Deities. The qualities,
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characteristics, and functions of the Trinity are not the simple sum of the
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attributes of the three Paradise Deities; Trinity functions are something
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unique, original, and not wholly predictable from an analysis of the attributes
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of Father, Son, and Spirit.
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For example: The Master, when on earth, admonished his followers that justice
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is never a personal act; it is always a group function. Neither do the Gods, as
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persons, administer justice. But they perform this very function as a
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collective whole, as the Paradise Trinity.
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The conceptual grasp of the Trinity association of Father, Son, and Spirit
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prepares the human mind for the further presentation of certain other threefold
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relationships. Theological reason may be fully satisfied by the concept of the
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Paradise Trinity, but philosophical and cosmological reason demand the
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recognition of the other triune associations of the First Source and Center,
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those triunities in which the Infinite functions in various non-Father
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capacities of universal manifestation--the relationships of the God of force,
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energy, power, causation, reaction, potentiality, actuality, gravity, tension,
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pattern, principle, and unity.
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3. TRINITIES AND TRIUNITIES
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While mankind has sometimes grasped at an understanding of the Trinity of the
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three persons of Deity, consistency demands that the human intellect perceive
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that there are certain relationships between all seven Absolutes. But all that
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which is true of the Paradise Trinity is not necessarily true of a triunity,
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for a triunity is something other than a trinity. In certain functional aspects
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a triunity may be analogous to a trinity, but it is never homologous in nature
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with a trinity.
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Mortal man is passing through a great age of expanding horizons and enlarging
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concepts on Urantia, and his cosmic philosophy must accelerate in evolution to
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keep pace with the expansion of the intellectual arena of human thought. As the
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cosmic consciousness of mortal man expands, he perceives the interrelatedness
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of all that he finds in his material science, intellectual philosophy, and
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spiritual insight. Still, with all this belief in the unity of the cosmos, man
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perceives the diversity of all existence. In spite of all concepts concerning
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the immutability of Deity, man perceives that he lives in a universe of
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constant change and experiential growth. Regardless of the realization of the
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survival of spiritual values, man has ever to reckon with the mathematics and
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premathematics of force, energy, and power.
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In some manner the eternal repleteness of infinity must be reconciled with the
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time-growth of the evolving universes and with the incompleteness of the
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experiential inhabitants thereof. In some way the conception of total
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infinitude must be so segmented and qualified that the mortal intellect and the
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morontia soul can grasp this concept of final value and spiritualizing
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significance.
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While reason demands a monotheistic unity of cosmic reality, finite experience
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requires the postulate of plural Absolutes and of their co-ordination in cosmic
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relationships. Without co-ordinate existences there is no possibility for the
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appearance of diversity of absolute relationships, no chance for the operation
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of differentials, variables, modifiers, attenuators, qualifiers, or
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diminishers.
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In these papers total reality (infinity) has been presented as it exists in the
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seven Absolutes:
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1. The Universal Father.
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2. The Eternal Son.
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3. The Infinite Spirit.
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4. The Isle of Paradise.
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5. The Deity Absolute.
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6. The Universal Absolute.
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7. The Unqualified Absolute.
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The First Source and Center, who is Father to the Eternal Son, is also Pattern
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to the Paradise Isle. He is personality unqualified in the Son but personality
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potentialized in the Deity Absolute. The Father is energy revealed in
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Paradise-Havona and at the same time energy concealed in the Unqualified
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Absolute. The Infinite is ever disclosed in the ceaseless acts of the Conjoint
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Actor while he is eternally functioning in the compensating but enshrouded
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activities of the Universal Absolute. Thus is the Father related to the six
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co-ordinate Absolutes, and thus do all seven encompass the circle of infinity
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throughout the endless cycles of eternity.
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It would seem that triunity of absolute relationships is inevitable.
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Personality seeks other personality association on absolute as well as on all
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other levels. And the association of the three Paradise personalities
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eternalizes the first triunity, the personality union of the Father, the Son,
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and the Spirit. For when these three persons, as persons, conjoin for united
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function, they thereby constitute a triunity of functional unity, not a
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trinity--an organic entity--but nonetheless a triunity, a threefold functional
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aggregate unanimity.
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The Paradise Trinity is not a triunity; it is not a functional unanimity;
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rather is it undivided and indivisible Deity. The Father, Son, and Spirit (as
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persons) can sustain a relationship to the Paradise Trinity, for the Trinity is
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their undivided Deity. The Father, Son, and Spirit sustain no such personal
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relationship to the first triunity, for that is their functional union as three
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persons. Only as the Trinity--as undivided Deity--do they collectively sustain
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an external relationship to the triunity of their personal aggregation.
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Thus does the Paradise Trinity stand unique among absolute relationships, there
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are several existential triunities but only one existential Trinity. A triunity
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is not an entity. It is functional rather than organic. Its members are
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partners rather than corporative. The components of the triunities may be
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entities, but a triunity itself is an association.
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There is, however, one point of comparison between trinity and triunity: Both
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eventuate in functions that are something other than the discernible sum of the
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attributes of the component members. But while they are thus comparable from a
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functional standpoint, they otherwise exhibit no categorical relationship. They
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are roughly related as the relation of function to structure. But the function
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of the triunity association is not the function of the trinity structure or
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entity.
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The triunities are nonetheless real; they are very real. In them is total
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reality functionalized, and through them does the Universal Father exercise
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immediate and personal control over the master functions of infinity.
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4. THE SEVEN TRIUNITIES
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In attempting the description of seven triunities, attention is directed to the
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fact that the Universal Father is the primal member of each. He is, was, and
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ever will be: the First Universal Father-Source, Absolute Center, Primal
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Cause, Universal Controller, Limitless Energizer, Original Unity, Unqualified
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Upholder, First Person of Deity, Primal Cosmic Pattern, and Essence of
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Infinity. The Universal Father is the personal cause of the Absolutes; he is
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the absolute of Absolutes.
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The nature and meaning of the seven triunities may be suggested as:
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The First Triunity--the personal-purposive triunity. This is the grouping of
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the three Deity personalities:
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1. The Universal Father.
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2. The Eternal Son.
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3. The Infinite Spirit.
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This is the threefold union of love, mercy, and ministry--the purposive and
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personal association of the three eternal Paradise personalities. This is the
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divinely fraternal, creature-loving, fatherly-acting, and ascension-promoting
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association. The divine personalities of this first triunity are
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personality-bequeathing, spirit-bestowing, and mind-endowing Gods.
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This is the triunity of infinite volition; it acts throughout the eternal
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present and in all of the past-present-future flow of time. This association
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yields volitional infinity and provides the mechanisms whereby personal Deity
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becomes self-revelatory to the creatures of the evolving cosmos.
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The Second Triunity--the power-pattern triunity. Whether it be a tiny
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ultimaton, a blazing star, or a whirling nebula, even the central or
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superuniverses, from the smallest to the largest material organizations, always
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is the physical pattern--the cosmic configuration--derived from the function of
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this triunity. This association consists of:
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1. The Father-Son.
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2. The Paradise Isle.
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3. The Conjoint Actor.
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Energy is organized by the cosmic agents of the Third Source and Center; energy
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is fashioned after the pattern of Paradise, the absolute materialization; but
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behind all of this ceaseless manipulation is the presence of the Father-Son,
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whose union first activated the Paradise pattern in the appearance of Havona
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concomitant with the birth of the Infinite Spirit, the Conjoint Actor.
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In religious experience, creatures make contact with the God who is love, but
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such spiritual insight must never eclipse the intelligent recognition of the
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universe fact of the pattern which is Paradise. The Paradise personalities
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enlist the freewill adoration of all creatures by the compelling power of
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divine love and lead all such spirit-born personalities into the supernal
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delights of the unending service of the finaliter sons of God. The second
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triunity is the architect of the space stage whereon these transactions unfold;
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it determines the patterns of cosmic configuration.
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Love may characterize the divinity of the first triunity, but pattern is the
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galactic manifestation of the second triunity. What the first triunity is to
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evolving personalities, the second triunity is to the evolving universes.
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Pattern and personality are two of the great manifestations of the acts of the
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First Source and Center; and no matter how difficult it may be to comprehend,
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it
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is nonetheless true that the power-pattern and the loving person are one and
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the same universal reality; the Paradise Isle and the Eternal Son are
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co-ordinate but antipodal revelations of the unfathomable nature of the
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Universal Father-Force.
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The Third Triunity--the spirit-evolutional triunity. The entirety of spiritual
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manifestation has its beginning and end in this association, consisting of:
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1. The Universal Father.
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2. The Son-Spirit.
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3. The Deity Absolute.
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From spirit potency to Paradise spirit, all spirit finds reality expression in
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this triune association of the pure spirit essence of the Father, the active
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spirit values of the Son-Spirit, and the unlimited spirit potentials of the
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Deity Absolute. The existential values of spirit have their primordial genesis,
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complete manifestation, and final destiny in this triunity.
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The Father exists before spirit; the Son-Spirit functions as active creative
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spirit; the Deity Absolute exists as all-encompassing spirit, even beyond
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spirit.
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The Fourth Triunity--the triunity of energy infinity. Within this triunity
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there eternalizes the beginnings and the endings of all energy reality, from
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space potency to monota. This grouping embraces the following:
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1. The Father-Spirit.
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2. The Paradise Isle.
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3. The Unqualified Absolute.
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Paradise is the center of the force-energy activation of the cosmos--the
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universe position of the First Source and Center, the cosmic focal point of the
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Unqualified Absolute, and the source of all energy. Existentially present
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within this triunity is the energy potential of the cosmos-infinite, of which
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the grand universe and the master universe are only partial manifestations.
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The fourth triunity absolutely controls the fundamental units of cosmic energy
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and releases them from the grasp of the Unqualified Absolute in direct
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proportion to the appearance in the experiential Deities of subabsolute
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capacity to control and stabilize the metamorphosing cosmos.
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This triunity is force and energy. The endless possibilities of the Unqualified
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Absolute are centered around the absolutum of the Isle of Paradise, whence
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emanate the unimaginable agitations of the otherwise static quiescence of the
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Unqualified. And the endless throbbing of the material Paradise heart of the
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infinite cosmos beats in harmony with the unfathomable pattern and the
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unsearchable plan of the Infinite Energizer, the First Source and Center.
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The Fifth Triunity--the triunity of reactive infinity. This association
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consists of:
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1. The Universal Father.
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2. The Universal Absolute.
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3. The Unqualified Absolute.
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This grouping yields the eternalization of the functional infinity realization
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of all that is actualizable within the domains of nondeity reality. This
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triunity
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manifests unlimited reactive capacity to the volitional, causative, tensional,
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and patternal actions and presences of the other triunities.
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The Sixth Triunity--the triunity of cosmic-associated Deity. This grouping
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consists of:
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1. The Universal Father.
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2. The Deity Absolute.
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3. The Universal Absolute.
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This is the association of Deity-in-the-cosmos, the immanence of Deity in
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conjunction with the transcendence of Deity. This is the last outreach of
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divinity on the levels of infinity toward those realities which lie outside the
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domain of deified reality.
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The Seventh Triunity--the triunity of infinite unity. This is the unity of
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infinity functionally manifest in time and eternity, the co-ordinate
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unification of actuals and potentials. This group consists of:
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1. The Universal Father.
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2. The Conjoint Actor.
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3. The Universal Absolute.
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The Conjoint Actor universally integrates the varying functional aspects of all
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actualized reality on all levels of manifestation, from finites through
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transcendentals and on to absolutes. The Universal Absolute perfectly
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compensates the differentials inherent in the varying aspects of all incomplete
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reality, from the limitless potentialities of active-volitional and causative
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Deity reality to the boundless possibilities of static, reactive, nondeity
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reality in the incomprehensible domains of the Unqualified Absolute.
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As they function in this triunity, the Conjoint Actor and the Universal
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Absolute are alike responsive to Deity and to nondeity presences, as also is
|
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the First Source and Center, who in this relationship is to all intents and
|
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purposes conceptually indistinguishable from the I AM.
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These approximations are sufficient to elucidate the concept of the triunities.
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Not knowing the ultimate level of the triunities, you cannot fully comprehend
|
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the first seven. While we do not deem it wise to attempt any further
|
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elaboration, we may state that there are fifteen triune associations of the
|
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First Source and Center, eight of which are unrevealed in these papers. These
|
||
unrevealed associations are concerned with realities, actualities, and
|
||
potentialities which are beyond the experiential level of supremacy.
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The triunities are the functional balance wheel of infinity, the unification of
|
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the uniqueness of the Seven Infinity Absolutes. It is the existential presence
|
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of the triunities that enables the Father-I AM to experience functional
|
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infinity unity despite the diversification of infinity into seven Absolutes.
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The First Source and Center is the unifying member of all triunities; in him
|
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all things have their unqualified beginnings, eternal existences, and infinite
|
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destinies--"in him all things consist."
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|
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Although these associations cannot augment the infinity of the Father-I AM,
|
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they do appear to make possible the subinfinite and subabsolute manifestations
|
||
of his reality. The seven triunities multiply versatility, eternalize
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new depths, deitize new values, disclose new potentialities, reveal new
|
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meanings; and all these diversified manifestations in time and space and in the
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eternal cosmos are existent in the hypothetical stasis of the original infinity
|
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of the I AM.
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5. TRIODITIES
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There are certain other triune relationships which are non-Father in
|
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constitution, but they are not real triunities, and they are always
|
||
distinguished from the Father triunities. They are called variously, associate
|
||
triunities, co-ordinate triunities, and triodities. They are consequential to
|
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the existence of the triunities. Two of these associations are constituted as
|
||
follows:
|
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The Triodity of Actuality. This triodity consists in the interrelationship of
|
||
the three absolute actuals:
|
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|
||
1. The Eternal Son.
|
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|
||
2. The Paradise Isle.
|
||
|
||
3. The Conjoint Actor.
|
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|
||
The Eternal Son is the absolute of spirit reality, the absolute personality.
|
||
The Paradise Isle is the absolute of cosmic reality, the absolute pattern. The
|
||
Conjoint Actor is the absolute of mind reality, the co-ordinate of absolute
|
||
spirit reality, and the existential Deity synthesis of personality and power.
|
||
This triune association eventuates the co-ordination of the sum total of
|
||
actualized reality--spirit, cosmic, or mindal. It is unqualified in actuality.
|
||
|
||
The Triodity of Potentiality. This triodity consists in the association of the
|
||
three Absolutes of potentiality:
|
||
|
||
1. The Deity Absolute.
|
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|
||
2. The Universal Absolute.
|
||
|
||
3. The Unqualified Absolute.
|
||
|
||
Thus are interassociated the infinity reservoirs of all latent energy
|
||
reality--spirit, mindal, or cosmic. This association yields the integration of
|
||
all latent energy reality. It is infinite in potential.
|
||
|
||
As the triunities are primarily concerned with the functional unification of
|
||
infinity, so are triodities involved in the cosmic appearance of experiential
|
||
Deities. The triunities are indirectly concerned, but the triodities are
|
||
directly concerned, in the experiential Deities--Supreme, Ultimate, and
|
||
Absolute. They appear in the emerging power-personality synthesis of the
|
||
Supreme Being. And to the time creatures of space the Supreme Being is a
|
||
revelation of the unity of the I AM.
|
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|
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[Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
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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 Garden Of Eden Adam And Eve The Default Of Adam And Eve The Second Garden
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