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Urantia Book Paper 116 The Almighty Supreme
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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 Almighty Supreme
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Paper 116 The Almighty Supreme
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Introduction
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IF MAN recognized that his Creators--his immediate supervisors--while being
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divine were also finite, and that the God of time and space was an evolving and
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nonabsolute Deity, then would the inconsistencies of temporal inequalities
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cease to be profound religious paradoxes. No longer would religious faith be
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prostituted to the promotion of social smugness in the fortunate while serving
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only to encourage stoical resignation in the unfortunate victims of social
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deprivation.
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When viewing the exquisitely perfect spheres of Havona, it is both reasonable
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and logical to believe they were made by a perfect, infinite, and absolute
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Creator. But that same reason and logic would compel any honest being, when
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viewing the turmoil, imperfections, and inequities of Urantia, to conclude that
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your world had been made by, and was being managed by, Creators who were
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subabsolute, preinfinite, and other than perfect.
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Experiential growth implies creature-Creator partnership--God and man in
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association. Growth is the earmark of experiential Deity: Havona did not grow;
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Havona is and always has been; it is existential like the everlasting Gods who
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are its source. But growth characterizes the grand universe.
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The Almighty Supreme is a living and evolving Deity of power and personality.
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His present domain, the grand universe, is also a growing realm of power and
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personality. His destiny is perfection, but his present experience encompasses
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the elements of growth and incomplete status.
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The Supreme Being functions primarily in the central universe as a spirit
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personality; secondarily in the grand universe as God the Almighty, a
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personality of power. The tertiary function of the Supreme in the master
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universe is now latent, existing only as an unknown mind potential. No one
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knows just what this third development of the Supreme Being will disclose. Some
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believe that, when the superuniverses are settled in light and life, the
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Supreme will become functional from Uversa as the almighty and experiential
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sovereign of the grand universe while expanding in power as the superalmighty
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of the outer universes. Others speculate that the third stage of Supremacy will
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involve the third level of Deity manifestation. But none of us really know.
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1. THE SUPREME MIND
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The experience of every evolving creature personality is a phase of the
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experience of the Almighty Supreme. The intelligent subjugation of every
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physical segment of the superuniverses is a part of the growing control of the
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Almighty Supreme. The creative synthesis of power and personality is a part of
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the creative urge of the Supreme Mind and is the very essence of the
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evolutionary growth of unity in the Supreme Being.
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The union of the power and personality attributes of Supremacy is the function
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of Supreme Mind; and the completed evolution of the Almighty Supreme will
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result in one unified and personal Deity--not in any loosely co-ordinated
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association of divine attributes. From the broader perspective, there will be
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no Almighty apart from the Supreme, no Supreme apart from the Almighty.
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Throughout the evolutionary ages the physical power potential of the Supreme is
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vested in the Seven Supreme Power Directors, and the mind potential reposes in
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the Seven Master Spirits. The Infinite Mind is the function of the Infinite
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Spirit; the cosmic mind, the ministry of the Seven Master Spirits; the Supreme
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Mind is in process of actualizing in the co-ordination of the grand universe
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and in functional association with the revelation and attainment of God the
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Sevenfold.
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The time-space mind, the cosmic mind, is differently functioning in the seven
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superuniverses, but it is co-ordinated by some unknown associative technique in
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the Supreme Being. The Almighty overcontrol of the grand universe is not
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exclusively physical and spiritual. In the seven superuniverses it is primarily
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material and spiritual, but there are also present phenomena of the Supreme
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which are both intellectual and spiritual.
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We really know less about the mind of Supremacy than about any other aspect of
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this evolving Deity. It is unquestionably active throughout the grand universe
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and is believed to have a potential destiny of master universe function which
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is of vast extent. But this we do know: Whereas physique may attain completed
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growth, and whereas spirit may achieve perfection of development, mind never
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ceases to progress--it is the experiential technique of endless progress. The
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Supreme is an experiential Deity and therefore never achieves completion of
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mind attainment.
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2. THE ALMIGHTY AND GOD THE SEVENFOLD
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The appearance of the universe power presence of the Almighty is concomitant
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with the appearance on the stage of cosmic action of the high creators and
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controllers of the evolutionary superuniverses.
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God the Supreme derives his spirit and personality attributes from the Paradise
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Trinity, but he is power-actualizing in the doings of the Creator Sons, the
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Ancients of Days, and the Master Spirits, whose collective acts are the source
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of his growing power as almighty sovereign to and in the seven superuniverses.
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Unqualified Paradise Deity is incomprehensible to the evolving creatures of
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time and space. Eternity and infinity connote a level of deity reality which
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time-space creatures cannot comprehend. Infinity of deity and absoluteness of
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sovereignty are inherent in the Paradise Trinity, and the Trinity is a reality
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which lies somewhat beyond the understanding of mortal man. Time-space
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creatures must have origins, relativities, and destinies in order to grasp
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universe relationships and to understand the meaning values of divinity.
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Therefore does Paradise Deity attenuate and otherwise qualify the
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extra-Paradise personalizations of divinity, thus bringing into existence the
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Supreme Creators and their
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associates, who ever carry the light of life farther and farther from its
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Paradise source until it finds its most distant and beautiful expression in the
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earth lives of the bestowal Sons on the evolutionary worlds.
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And this is the origin of God the Sevenfold, whose successive levels are
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encountered by mortal man in the following order:
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1. The Creator Sons (and Creative Spirits).
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2. The Ancients of Days.
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3. The Seven Master Spirits.
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4. The Supreme Being.
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5. The Conjoint Actor.
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6. The Eternal Son.
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7. The Universal Father.
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The first three levels are the Supreme Creators; the last three levels are the
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Paradise Deities. The Supreme ever intervenes as the experiential spirit
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personalization of the Paradise Trinity and as the experiential focus of the
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evolutionary almighty power of the creator children of the Paradise Deities.
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The Supreme Being is the maximum revelation of Deity to the seven
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superuniverses and for the present universe age.
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By the technique of mortal logic it might be inferred that the experiential
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reunification of the collective acts of the first three levels of God the
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Sevenfold would equivalate to the level of Paradise Deity, but such is not the
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case. Paradise Deity is existential Deity. The Supreme Creators, in their
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divine unity of power and personality, are constitutive and expressive of a new
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power potential of experiential Deity. And this power potential of experiential
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origin finds inevitable and inescapable union with the experiential Deity of
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Trinity origin--the Supreme Being.
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God the Supreme is not the Paradise Trinity, neither is he any one or all of
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those superuniverse Creators whose functional activities actually synthesize
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his evolving almighty power. God the Supreme, while of origin in the Trinity,
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becomes manifest to evolutionary creatures as a personality of power only
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through the co-ordinated functions of the first three levels of God the
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Sevenfold. The Almighty Supreme is now factualizing in time and space through
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the activities of the Supreme Creator Personalities, even as in eternity the
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Conjoint Actor flashed into being by the will of the Universal Father and the
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Eternal Son. These beings of the first three levels of God the Sevenfold are
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the very nature and source of the power of the Almighty Supreme; therefore must
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they ever accompany and sustain his administrative acts.
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3. THE ALMIGHTY AND PARADISE DEITY
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The Paradise Deities not only act directly in their gravity circuits throughout
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the grand universe, but they also function through their various agencies and
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other manifestations, such as:
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1. The mind focalizations of the Third Source and Center. The finite domains of
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energy and spirit are literally held together by the mind presences of the
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Conjoint Actor. This is true from the Creative Spirit in a local universe
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through the Reflective Spirits of a superuniverse to the Master Spirits in the
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grand universe. The mind circuits emanating from these varied intelligence
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focuses represent the cosmic arena of creature choice. Mind is the flexible
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reality which creatures and Creators can so readily manipulate; it is the vital
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link connecting matter and spirit. The mind bestowal of the Third Source and
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Center unifies the spirit person of God the Supreme with the experiential power
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of the evolutionary Almighty.
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2. The personality revelations of the Second Source and Center. The mind
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presences of the Conjoint Actor unify the spirit of divinity with the pattern
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of energy. The bestowal incarnations of the Eternal Son and his Paradise Sons
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unify, actually fuse, the divine nature of a Creator with the evolving nature
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of a creature. The Supreme is both creature and creator; the possibility of his
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being such is revealed in the bestowal actions of the Eternal Son and his
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co-ordinate and subordinate Sons. The bestowal orders of sonship, the Michaels
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and the Avonals, actually augment their divine natures with bona fide creature
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natures which have become theirs by the living of the actual creature life on
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the evolutionary worlds. When divinity becomes like humanity, inherent in this
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relationship is the possibility that humanity can become divine.
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3. The indwelling presences of the First Source and Center. Mind unifies spirit
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causations with energy reactions; bestowal ministry unifies divinity
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descensions with creature ascensions; and the indwelling fragments of the
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Universal Father actually unify the evolving creatures with God on Paradise.
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There are many such presences of the Father which indwell numerous orders of
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personalities, and in mortal man these divine fragments of God are the Thought
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Adjusters. The Mystery Monitors are to human beings what the Paradise Trinity
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is to the Supreme Being. The Adjusters are absolute foundations, and upon
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absolute foundations freewill choice can cause to be evolved the divine reality
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of an eternaliter nature, finaliter nature in the case of man, Deity nature in
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God the Supreme.
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The creature bestowals of the Paradise orders of sonship enable these divine
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Sons to enrich their personalities by the acquisition of the actual nature of
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universe creatures, while such bestowals unfailingly reveal to the creatures
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themselves the Paradise path of divinity attainment. The Adjuster bestowals of
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the Universal Father enable him to draw the personalities of the volitional
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will creatures to himself. And throughout all these relationships in the finite
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universes the Conjoint Actor is the ever-present source of the mind ministry by
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virtue of which these activities take place.
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In these and many other ways do the Paradise Deities participate in the
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evolutions of time as they unfold on the circling planets of space, and as they
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culminate in the emergence of the Supreme personality consequence of all
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evolution.
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4. THE ALMIGHTY AND THE SUPREME CREATORS
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The unity of the Supreme Whole is dependent on the progressive unification of
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the finite parts; the actualization of the Supreme is resultant from, and
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productive of, these very unifications of the factors of supremacy--the
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creators, creatures, intelligences, and energies of the universes.
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During those ages in which the sovereignty of Supremacy is undergoing its time
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development, the almighty power of the Supreme is dependent on the divinity
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acts of God the Sevenfold, while there seems to be a particularly close
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relationship between the Supreme Being and the Conjoint Actor together with his
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primary personalities, the Seven Master Spirits. The Infinite Spirit as the
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Conjoint Actor functions in many ways which compensate the incompletion of
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evolutionary Deity and sustains very close relations to the Supreme. This
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closeness of relationship is shared in measure by all of the Master Spirits but
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especially by Master Spirit Number Seven, who speaks for the Supreme. This
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Master Spirit knows--is in personal contact with--the Supreme.
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Early in the projection of the superuniverse scheme of creation, the Master
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Spirits joined with the ancestral Trinity in the cocreation of the forty-nine
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Reflective Spirits, and concomitantly the Supreme Being functioned creatively
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as the culminator of the conjoined acts of the Paradise Trinity and the
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creative children of Paradise Deity. Majeston appeared and ever since has
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focalized the cosmic presence of the Supreme Mind, while the Master Spirits
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continue as source-centers for the far-flung ministry of the cosmic mind.
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But the Master Spirits continue in supervision of the Reflective Spirits. The
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Seventh Master Spirit is (in his overall supervision of Orvonton from the
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central universe) in personal contact with (and has overcontrol of) the seven
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Reflective Spirits located on Uversa. In his inter- and intrasuperuniverse
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controls and administrations he is in reflective contact with the Reflective
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Spirits of his own type located on each superuniverse capital.
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These Master Spirits are not only the supporters and augmenters of the
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sovereignty of Supremacy, but they are in turn affected by the creative
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purposes of the Supreme. Ordinarily, the collective creations of the Master
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Spirits are of the quasi-material order (power directors, etc.), while their
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individual creations are of the spiritual order (supernaphim, etc.). But when
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the Master Spirits collectively produced the Seven Circuit Spirits in response
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to the will and purpose of the Supreme Being, it is to be noted that the
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offspring of this creative act are spiritual, not material or quasi-material.
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And as it is with the Master Spirits of the superuniverses, so is it with the
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triune rulers of these supercreations--the Ancients of Days. These
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personifications of Trinity justice-judgment in time and space are the field
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fulcrums for the mobilizing almighty power of the Supreme, serving as the
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sevenfold focal points for the evolution of trinitarian sovereignty in the
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domains of time and space. From their vantage point midway between Paradise and
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the evolving worlds, these Trinity-origin sovereigns see both ways, know both
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ways, and co-ordinate both ways.
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But the local universes are the real laboratories in which are worked out the
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mind experiments, galactic adventures, divinity unfoldings, and personality
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progressions which, when cosmically totaled, constitute the actual foundation
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upon which the Supreme is achieving deity evolution in and by experience.
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In the local universes even the Creators evolve: The presence of the Conjoint
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Actor evolves from a living power focus to the status of the divine personality
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of a Universe Mother Spirit; the Creator Son evolves from the nature of
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existential Paradise divinity to the experiential nature of supreme
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sovereignty. The local universes are the starting points of true evolution, the
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spawning
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grounds of bona fide imperfect personalities endowed with the freewill choice
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of becoming cocreators of themselves as they are to be.
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The Magisterial Sons in their bestowals upon the evolutionary worlds eventually
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acquire natures expressive of Paradise divinity in experiential unification
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with the highest spiritual values of material human nature. And through these
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and other bestowals the Michael Creators likewise acquire the natures and
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cosmic viewpoints of their actual local universe children. Such Master Creator
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Sons approximate the completion of subsupreme experience; and when their local
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universe sovereignty is enlarged to embrace the associated Creative Spirits, it
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may be said to approximate the limits of supremacy within the present
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potentials of the evolutionary grand universe.
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When the bestowal Sons reveal new ways for man to find God, they are not
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creating these paths of divinity attainment; rather are they illuminating the
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everlasting highways of progression which lead through the presence of the
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Supreme to the person of the Paradise Father.
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The local universe is the starting place for those personalities who are
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farthest from God, and who can therefore experience the greatest degree of
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spiritual ascent in the universe, can achieve the maximum of experiential
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participation in the cocreation of themselves. These same local universes
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likewise provide the greatest possible depth of experience for the descending
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personalities, who thereby achieve something which is to them just as
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meaningful as the Paradise ascent is to an evolving creature.
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Mortal man appears to be necessary to the full function of God the Sevenfold as
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this divinity grouping culminates in the actualizing Supreme. There are many
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other orders of universe personalities who are equally necessary to the
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evolution of the almighty power of the Supreme, but this portrayal is presented
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for the edification of human beings, hence is largely limited to those factors
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operating in the evolution of God the Sevenfold which are related to mortal
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man.
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5. THE ALMIGHTY AND THE SEVENFOLD CONTROLLERS
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You have been instructed in the relationship of God the Sevenfold to the
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Supreme Being, and you should now recognize that the Sevenfold encompasses the
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controllers as well as the creators of the grand universe. These sevenfold
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controllers of the grand universe embrace the following:
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1. The Master Physical Controllers.
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2. The Supreme Power Centers.
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3. The Supreme Power Directors.
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4. The Almighty Supreme.
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5. The God of Action--the Infinite Spirit.
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6. The Isle of Paradise.
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7. The Source of Paradise--the Universal Father.
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These seven groups are functionally inseparable from God the Sevenfold and
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constitute the physical-control level of this Deity association.
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The bifurcation of energy and spirit (stemming from the conjoint presence of
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the Eternal Son and the Paradise Isle) was symbolized in the superuniverse
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sense when the Seven Master Spirits unitedly engaged in their first act of
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collective creation. This episode witnessed the appearance of the Seven Supreme
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Power Directors. Concomitant therewith the spiritual circuits of the Master
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Spirits contrastively differentiated from the physical activities of power
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director supervision, and immediately did the cosmic mind appear as a new
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factor co-ordinating matter and spirit.
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The Almighty Supreme is evolving as the overcontroller of the physical power of
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the grand universe. In the present universe age this potential of physical
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power appears to be centered in the Seven Supreme Power Directors, who operate
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through the fixed locations of the power centers and through the mobile
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presences of the physical controllers.
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The time universes are not perfect; that is their destiny. The struggle for
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perfection pertains not only to the intellectual and the spiritual levels but
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also to the physical level of energy and mass. The settlement of the seven
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superuniverses in light and life presupposes their attainment of physical
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stability. And it is conjectured that the final attainment of material
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equilibrium will signify the completed evolution of the physical control of the
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Almighty.
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In the early days of universe building even the Paradise Creators are primarily
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concerned with material equilibrium. The pattern of a local universe takes
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shape not only as a result of the activities of the power centers but also
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because of the space presence of the Creative Spirit. And throughout these
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early epochs of local universe building the Creator Son exhibits a
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little-understood attribute of material control, and he does not leave his
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capital planet until the gross equilibrium of the local universe has been
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established.
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In the final analysis, all energy responds to mind, and the physical
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controllers are the children of the mind God, who is the activator of Paradise
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pattern. The intelligence of the power directors is unremittingly devoted to
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the task of bringing about material control. Their struggle for physical
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dominance over the relationships of energy and the motions of mass never ceases
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until they achieve finite victory over the energies and masses which constitute
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their perpetual domains of activity.
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The spirit struggles of time and space have to do with the evolution of spirit
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dominance over matter by the mediation of (personal) mind; the physical
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(nonpersonal) evolution of the universes has to do with bringing cosmic energy
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into harmony with the equilibrium concepts of mind subject to the overcontrol
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of spirit. The total evolution of the entire grand universe is a matter of the
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personality unification of the energy-controlling mind with the
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spirit-co-ordinated intellect and will be revealed in the full appearance of
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the almighty power of the Supreme.
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The difficulty in arriving at a state of dynamic equilibrium is inherent in the
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fact of the growing cosmos. The established circuits of physical creation are
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being continually jeopardized by the appearance of new energy and new mass. A
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growing universe is an unsettled uni-
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verse; hence no part of the cosmic whole can find real stability until the
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fullness of time witnesses the material completion of the seven superuniverses.
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In the settled universes of light and life there are no unexpected physical
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events of major importance. Relatively complete control over the material
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creation has been achieved; still the problems of the relationship of the
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settled universes to the evolving universes continue to challenge the skill of
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the Universe Power Directors. But these problems will gradually vanish with the
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diminution of new creative activity as the grand universe approaches
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culmination of evolutionary expression.
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6. SPIRIT DOMINANCE
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In the evolutionary superuniverses energy-matter is dominant except in
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personality, where spirit through the mediation of mind is struggling for the
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mastery. The goal of the evolutionary universes is the subjugation of
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energy-matter by mind, the co-ordination of mind with spirit, and all of this
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by virtue of the creative and unifying presence of personality. Thus, in
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relation to personality, do physical systems become subordinate; mind systems,
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co-ordinate; and spirit systems, directive.
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This union of power and personality is expressive on deity levels in and as the
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Supreme. But the actual evolution of spirit dominance is a growth which is
|
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predicated on the freewill acts of the Creators and creatures of the grand
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universe.
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On absolute levels, energy and spirit are one. But the moment departure is made
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from such absolute levels, difference appears, and as energy and spirit move
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spaceward from Paradise, the gulf between them widens until in the local
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universes they have become quite divergent. They are no longer identical,
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neither are they alike, and mind must intervene to interrelate them.
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That energy can be directionized by the action of controller personalities
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discloses the responsiveness of energy to mind action. That mass can be
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stabilized through the action of these same controlling entities indicates the
|
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responsiveness of mass to the order-producing presence of mind. And that spirit
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itself in volitional personality can strive through mind for the mastery of
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energy-matter discloses the potential unity of all finite creation.
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There is an interdependence of all forces and personalities throughout the
|
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universe of universes. Creator Sons and Creative Spirits depend on the
|
||
co-operative function of the power centers and physical controllers in the
|
||
organization of universes; the Supreme Power Directors are incomplete without
|
||
the overcontrol of the Master Spirits. In a human being the mechanism of
|
||
physical life is responsive, in part, to the dictates of (personal) mind. This
|
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very mind may, in turn, become dominated by the leadings of purposive spirit,
|
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and the result of such evolutionary development is the production of a new
|
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child of the Supreme, a new personal unification of the several kinds of cosmic
|
||
reality.
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|
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And as it is with the parts, so it is with the whole; the spirit person of
|
||
Supremacy requires the evolutionary power of the Almighty to achieve completion
|
||
of Deity and to attain destiny of Trinity association. The effort is made by
|
||
the personalities of time and space, but the culmination and consummation of
|
||
this effort is the act of the Almighty Supreme. And while the growth of the
|
||
whole is thus a totalizing of the collective growth of the parts, it equally
|
||
follows that the evolution of the parts is a segmented reflection of the
|
||
purposive growth of the whole.
|
||
|
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On Paradise, monota and spirit are as one--indistinguishable except by name. In
|
||
Havona, matter and spirit, while distinguishably different, are at the
|
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same time innately harmonious. In the seven superuniverses, however, there is
|
||
great divergence; there is a wide gulf between cosmic energy and divine spirit;
|
||
therefore is there a greater experiential potential for mind action in
|
||
harmonizing and eventually unifying physical pattern with spiritual purposes.
|
||
In the time-evolving universes of space there is greater divinity attenuation,
|
||
more difficult problems to be solved, and larger opportunity to acquire
|
||
experience in their solution. And this entire superuniverse situation brings
|
||
into being a larger arena of evolutionary existence in which the possibility of
|
||
cosmic experience is made available alike to creature and Creator--even to
|
||
Supreme Deity.
|
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|
||
The dominance of spirit, which is existential on absolute levels, becomes an
|
||
evolutionary experience on finite levels and in the seven superuniverses. And
|
||
this experience is shared alike by all, from mortal man to the Supreme Being.
|
||
All strive, personally strive, in the achievement; all participate, personally
|
||
participate, in the destiny.
|
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7. THE LIVING ORGANISM OF THE GRAND UNIVERSE
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|
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The grand universe is not only a material creation of physical grandeur, spirit
|
||
sublimity, and intellectual magnitude, it is also a magnificent and responsive
|
||
living organism. There is actual life pulsating throughout the mechanism of the
|
||
vast creation of the vibrant cosmos. The physical reality of the universes is
|
||
symbolic of the perceivable reality of the Almighty Supreme; and this material
|
||
and living organism is penetrated by intelligence circuits, even as the human
|
||
body is traversed by a network of neural sensation paths. This physical
|
||
universe is permeated by energy lanes which effectively activate material
|
||
creation, even as the human body is nourished and energized by the circulatory
|
||
distribution of the assimilable energy products of nourishment. The vast
|
||
universe is not without those co-ordinating centers of magnificent overcontrol
|
||
which might be compared to the delicate chemical-control system of the human
|
||
mechanism. But if you only knew something about the physique of a power center,
|
||
we could, by analogy, tell you so much more about the physical universe.
|
||
|
||
Much as mortals look to solar energy for life maintenance, so does the grand
|
||
universe depend upon the unfailing energies emanating from nether Paradise to
|
||
sustain the material activities and cosmic motions of space.
|
||
|
||
Mind has been given to mortals wherewith they may become self-conscious of
|
||
identity and personality; and mind--even a Supreme Mind--has been bestowed upon
|
||
the totality of the finite whereby the spirit of this emerging personality of
|
||
the cosmos ever strives for the mastery of energy-matter.
|
||
|
||
Mortal man is responsive to spirit guidance, even as the grand universe
|
||
responds to the far-flung spirit-gravity grasp of the Eternal Son, the
|
||
universal supermaterial cohesion of the eternal spiritual values of all the
|
||
creations of the finite cosmos of time and space.
|
||
|
||
Human beings are capable of making an everlasting self-identification with
|
||
total and indestructible universe reality--fusion with the indwelling Thought
|
||
Adjuster. Likewise does the Supreme everlastingly depend on the absolute
|
||
stability of Original Deity, the Paradise Trinity.
|
||
|
||
Man's urge for Paradise perfection, his striving for God-attainment, creates a
|
||
genuine divinity tension in the living cosmos which can only be resolved by the
|
||
evolution of an immortal soul; this is what happens in the experience of a
|
||
single mortal creature. But when all creatures and all Creators in the grand
|
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|
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universe likewise strive for God-attainment and divine perfection, there is
|
||
built up a profound cosmic tension which can only find resolution in the
|
||
sublime synthesis of almighty power with the spirit person of the evolving God
|
||
of all creatures, the Supreme Being.
|
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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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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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Melchizedek The Melchizedek Teachings In The Orient The Melchizedek Teachings
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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 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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