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Urantia Book Paper 117 God The 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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Paper 117 God The Supreme
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Introduction
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TO THE extent that we do the will of God in whatever universe station we may
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have our existence, in that measure the almighty potential of the Supreme
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becomes one step more actual. The will of God is the purpose of the First
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Source and Center as it is potentialized in the three Absolutes, personalized
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in the Eternal Son, conjoined for universe action in the Infinite Spirit, and
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eternalized in the everlasting patterns of Paradise. And God the Supreme is
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becoming the highest finite manifestation of the total will of God.
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If all grand universers should ever relatively achieve the full living of the
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will of God, then would the time-space creations be settled in light and life,
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and then would the Almighty, the deity potential of Supremacy, become factual
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in the emergence of the divine personality of God the Supreme.
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When an evolving mind becomes attuned to the circuits of cosmic mind, when an
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evolving universe becomes stabilized after the pattern of the central universe,
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when an advancing spirit contacts the united ministry of the Master Spirits,
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when an ascending mortal personality finally attunes to the divine leading of
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the indwelling Adjuster, then has the actuality of the Supreme become real by
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one more degree in the universes; then has the divinity of Supremacy advanced
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one more step toward cosmic realization.
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The parts and individuals of the grand universe evolve as a reflection of the
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total evolution of the Supreme, while in turn the Supreme is the synthetic
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cumulative total of all grand universe evolution. From the mortal viewpoint
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both are evolutionary and experiential reciprocals.
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1. NATURE OF THE SUPREME BEING
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The Supreme is the beauty of physical harmony, the truth of intellectual
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meaning, and the goodness of spiritual value. He is the sweetness of true
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success and the joy of everlasting achievement. He is the oversoul of the grand
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universe, the consciousness of the finite cosmos, the completion of finite
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reality, and the personification of Creator-creature experience. Throughout all
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future eternity God the Supreme will voice the reality of volitional experience
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in the trinity relationships of Deity.
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In the persons of the Supreme Creators the Gods have descended from Paradise to
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the domains of time and space, there to create and to evolve creatures with
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Paradise-attainment capacity who can ascend thereto in quest of the Father.
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This universe procession of descending God-revealing Creators and ascending
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God-seeking creatures is revelatory of the Deity evolution of the Supreme, in
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whom
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both descenders and ascenders achieve mutuality of understanding, the discovery
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of eternal and universal brotherhood. The Supreme Being thus becomes the finite
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synthesis of the experience of the perfect-Creator cause and the
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perfecting-creature response.
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The grand universe contains the possibility of, and ever seeks for, complete
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unification, and this grows out of the fact that this cosmic existence is a
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consequence of the creative acts and the power mandates of the Paradise
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Trinity, which is unqualified unity. This very trinitarian unity is expressed
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in the finite cosmos in the Supreme, whose reality becomes increasingly
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apparent as the universes attain to the maximum level of Trinity
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identification.
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The will of the Creator and the will of the creature are qualitatively
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different, but they are also experientially akin, for creature and Creator can
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collaborate in the achievement of universe perfection. Man can work in liaison
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with God and thereby cocreate an eternal finaliter. God can work even as
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humanity in the incarnations of his Sons, who thereby achieve the supremacy of
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creature experience.
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In the Supreme Being, Creator and creature are united in one Deity whose will
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is expressive of one divine personality. And this will of the Supreme is
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something more than the will of either creature or Creator, even as the
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sovereign will of the Master Son of Nebadon is now something more than a
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combination of the will of divinity and humanity. The union of Paradise
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perfection and time-space experience yields a new meaning value on deity levels
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of reality.
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The evolving divine nature of the Supreme is becoming a faithful portrayal of
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the matchless experience of all creatures and of all Creators in the grand
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universe. In the Supreme, creatorship and creaturehood are at one; they are
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forever united by that experience which was born of the vicissitudes attendant
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upon the solution of the manifold problems which beset all finite creation as
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it pursues the eternal path in quest of perfection and liberation from the
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fetters of incompleteness.
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Truth, beauty, and goodness are correlated in the ministry of the Spirit, the
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grandeur of Paradise, the mercy of the Son, and the experience of the Supreme.
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God the Supreme is truth, beauty, and goodness, for these concepts of divinity
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represent finite maximums of ideational experience. The eternal sources of
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these triune qualities of divinity are on superfinite levels, but a creature
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could only conceive of such sources as supertruth, superbeauty, and
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supergoodness.
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Michael, a creator, revealed the divine love of the Creator Father for his
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terrestrial children. And having discovered and received this divine affection,
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men can aspire to reveal this love to their brethren in the flesh. Such
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creature affection is a true reflection of the love of the Supreme.
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The Supreme is symmetrically inclusive. The First Source and Center is
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potential in the three great Absolutes, is actual in Paradise, in the Son, and
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in the Spirit; but the Supreme is both actual and potential, a being of
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personal supremacy and of almighty power, responsive alike to creature effort
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and Creator purpose; self-acting upon the universe and self-reactive to the sum
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total of the universe; and at one and the same time the supreme creator and the
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supreme creature. The Deity of Supremacy is thus expressive of the sum total of
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the entire finite.
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2. THE SOURCE OF EVOLUTIONARY GROWTH
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The Supreme is God-in-time; his is the secret of creature growth in time; his
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also is the conquest of the incomplete present and the consummation of the
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perfecting future. And the final fruits of all finite growth are: power
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controlled through mind by spirit by virtue of the unifying and creative
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presence of personality. The culminating consequence of all this growth is the
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Supreme Being.
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To mortal man, existence is equivalent to growth. And so indeed it would seem
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to be, even in the larger universe sense, for spirit-led existence does seem to
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result in experiential growth--augmentation of status. We have long held,
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however, that the present growth which characterizes creature existence in the
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present universe age is a function of the Supreme. We equally hold that this
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kind of growth is peculiar to the age of the growth of the Supreme, and that it
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will terminate with the completion of the growth of the Supreme.
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Consider the status of the creature-trinitized sons: They are born and live in
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the present universe age; they have personalities, together with mind and
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spirit endowments. They have experiences and the memory thereof, but they do
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not grow as do ascenders. It is our belief and understanding that these
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creature-trinitized sons, while they are in the present universe age, are
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really of the next universe age--the age which will follow the completion of
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the growth of the Supreme. Hence they are not in the Supreme as of his present
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status of incompleteness and consequent growth. Thus they are nonparticipating
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in the experiential growth of the present universe age, being held in reserve
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for the next universe age.
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My own order, the Mighty Messengers, being Trinity embraced, are
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nonparticipating in the growth of the present universe age. In a sense we are
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in status as of the preceding universe age as in fact are the Stationary Sons
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of the Trinity. One thing is certain: Our status is fixed by the Trinity
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embrace, and experience no longer eventuates in growth.
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This is not true of the finaliters nor of any other of the evolutionary and
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experiential orders which are participants in the growth process of the
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Supreme. You mortals now living on Urantia who may aspire to Paradise
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attainment and finaliter status should understand that such a destiny is only
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realizable because you are in and of the Supreme, hence are participants in the
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cycle of the growth of the Supreme.
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There will come an end sometime to the growth of the Supreme; his status will
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achieve completion (in the energy-spirit sense). This termination of the
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evolution of the Supreme will also witness the ending of creature evolution as
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a part of Supremacy. What kind of growth may characterize the universes of
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outer space, we do not know. But we are very sure that it will be something
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very different from anything that has been seen in the present age of the
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evolution of the seven superuniverses. It will undoubtedly be the function of
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the evolutionary citizens of the grand universe to compensate the outer-spacers
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for this deprivation of the growth of Supremacy.
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As existent upon the consummation of the present universe age, the Supreme
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Being will function as an experiential sovereign in the grand universe.
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Outer-spacers--citizens of the next universe age--will have a postsuperuniverse
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growth potential, a capacity for evolutionary attainment presupposing the
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sovereignty of the Almighty Supreme, hence excluding creature participation in
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the power-personality synthesis of the present universe age.
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Thus may the incompleteness of the Supreme be regarded as a virtue since it
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makes possible the evolutionary growth of the creature-creation of the present
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universes. Emptiness does have its virtue, for it may become experientially
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filled.
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One of the most intriguing questions in finite philosophy is this: Does the
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Supreme Being actualize in response to the evolution of the grand universe, or
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does this finite cosmos progressively evolve in response to the gradual
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actualization of the Supreme? Or is it possible that they are mutually
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interdependent for their development? that they are evolutionary reciprocals,
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each initiating the growth of the other? Of this we are certain: Creatures and
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universes, high and low, are evolving within the Supreme, and as they evolve,
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there is appearing the unified summation of the entire finite activity of this
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universe age. And this is the appearance of the Supreme Being, to all
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personalities the evolution of the almighty power of God the Supreme.
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3. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SUPREME TO UNIVERSE
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The cosmic reality variously designated as the Supreme Being, God the Supreme,
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and the Almighty Supreme, is the complex and universal synthesis of the
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emerging phases of all finite realities. The far-flung diversification of
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eternal energy, divine spirit, and universal mind attains finite culmination in
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the evolution of the Supreme, who is the sum total of all finite growth,
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self-realized on deity levels of finite maximum completion.
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The Supreme is the divine channel through which flows the creative infinity of
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the triodities that crystallizes into the galactic panorama of space, against
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which takes place the magnificent personality drama of time: the spirit
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conquest of energy-matter through the mediation of mind.
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Said Jesus: "I am the living way," and so he is the living way from the
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material level of self-consciousness to the spiritual level of
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God-consciousness. And even as he is this living way of ascension from the self
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to God, so is the Supreme the living way from finite consciousness to
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transcendence of consciousness, even to the insight of absonity.
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Your Creator Son can actually be such a living channel from humanity to
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divinity since he has personally experienced the fullness of the traversal of
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this universe path of progression, from the true humanity of Joshua ben Joseph,
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the Son of Man, to the Paradise divinity of Michael of Nebadon, the Son of the
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infinite God. Similarly can the Supreme Being function as the universe approach
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to the transcendence of finite limitations, for he is the actual embodiment and
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personal epitome of all creature evolution, progression, and spiritualization.
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Even the grand universe experiences of the descending personalities from
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Paradise are that part of his experience which is complemental to his summation
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of the ascending experiences of the pilgrims of time.
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Mortal man is more than figuratively made in the image of God. From a physical
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standpoint this statement is hardly true, but with reference to certain
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universe potentialities it is an actual fact. In the human race, something of
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the same drama of evolutionary attainment is being unfolded as takes place, on
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a vastly larger scale, in the universe of universes. Man, a volitional
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personality, becomes creative in liaison with an Adjuster, an impersonal
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entity, in the presence of the finite potentialities of the Supreme, and the
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result is the flowering of an immortal soul. In the universes the Creator
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personalities of time and space function in liaison with the impersonal spirit
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of the Paradise Trinity and become thereby creative of a new power potential of
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Deity reality.
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Mortal man, being a creature, is not exactly like the Supreme Being, who is
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deity, but man's evolution does in some ways resemble the growth of the
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Supreme. Man consciously grows from the material toward the spiritual by the
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strength, power, and persistency of his own decisions; he also grows as his
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Thought Adjuster develops new techniques for reaching down from the spiritual
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to the morontial soul levels; and once the soul comes into being, it begins to
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grow in and of itself.
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This is somewhat like the way in which the Supreme Being expands. His
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sovereignty grows in and out of the acts and achievements of the Supreme
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Creator Personalities; that is the evolution of the majesty of his power as the
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ruler of the grand universe. His deity nature is likewise dependent on the
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pre-existent unity of the Paradise Trinity. But there is still another aspect
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to the evolution of God the Supreme: He is not only Creator-evolved and
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Trinity-derived; he is also self-evolved and self-derived. God the Supreme is
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himself a volitional, creative participant in his own deity actualization. The
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human morontial soul is likewise a volitional, cocreative partner in its own
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immortalization.
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The Father collaborates with the Conjoint Actor in manipulating the energies of
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Paradise and in rendering these responsive to the Supreme. The Father
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collaborates with the Eternal Son in the production of Creator personalities
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whose acts will sometime culminate in the sovereignty of the Supreme. The
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Father collaborates with both Son and Spirit in the creation of Trinity
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personalities to function as rulers of the grand universe until such time as
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the completed evolution of the Supreme qualifies him to assume that
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sovereignty. The Father co-operates with his Deity and non-Deity co-ordinates
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in these and many other ways in the furtherance of the evolution of Supremacy,
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but he also functions alone in these matters. And his solitary function is
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probably best revealed in the ministry of the Thought Adjusters and their
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associated entities.
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Deity is unity, existential in the Trinity, experiential in the Supreme, and,
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in mortals, creature-realized in Adjuster fusion. The presence of the Thought
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Adjusters in mortal man reveals the essential unity of the universe, for man,
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the lowest possible type of universe personality, contains within himself an
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actual fragment of the highest and eternal reality, even the original Father of
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all personalities.
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The Supreme Being evolves by virtue of his liaison with the Paradise Trinity
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and in consequence of the divinity successes of the creator and administrator
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children of that Trinity. Man's immortal soul evolves its own eternal destiny
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by association with the divine presence of the Paradise Father and in
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accordance with the personality decisions of the human mind. What the Trinity
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is to God the Supreme, the Adjuster is to evolving man.
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During the present universe age the Supreme Being is apparently unable to
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function directly as a creator except in those instances where the finite pos-
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sibilities of action have been exhausted by the creative agencies of time and
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space. Thus far in universe history this has transpired but once; when the
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possibilities of finite action in the matter of universe reflectivity had been
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exhausted, then did the Supreme function as the creative culminator of all
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antecedent creator actions. And we believe he will again function as a
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culminator in future ages whenever antecedent creatorship has completed an
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appropriate cycle of creative activity.
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The Supreme Being did not create man, but man was literally created out of, his
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very life was derived from, the potentiality of the Supreme. Nor does he evolve
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man; yet is the Supreme himself the very essence of evolution. From the finite
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standpoint, we actually live, move, and have our being within the immanence of
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the Supreme.
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The Supreme apparently cannot initiate original causation but appears to be the
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catalyzer of all universe growth and is seemingly destined to provide totality
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culmination as regards the destiny of all experiential-evolutionary beings. The
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Father originates the concept of a finite cosmos; the Creator Sons factualize
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this idea in time and space with the consent and co-operation of the Creative
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Spirits; the Supreme culminates the total finite and establishes its
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relationship with the destiny of the absonite.
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4. THE FINITE GOD
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As we view the ceaseless struggles of the creature creation for perfection of
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status and divinity of being, we cannot but believe that these unending efforts
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bespeak the unceasing struggle of the Supreme for divine self-realization. God
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the Supreme is the finite Deity, and he must cope with the problems of the
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finite in the total sense of that word. Our struggles with the vicissitudes of
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time in the evolutions of space are reflections of his efforts to achieve
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reality of self and completion of sovereignty within the sphere of action which
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his evolving nature is expanding to the outermost limits of possibility.
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Throughout the grand universe the Supreme struggles for expression. His divine
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evolution is in measure predicated on the wisdom-action of every personality in
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existence. When a human being chooses eternal survival, he is co-creating
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destiny; and in the life of this ascending mortal the finite God finds an
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increased measure of personality self-realization and an enlargement of
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experiential sovereignty. But if a creature rejects the eternal career, that
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part of the Supreme which was dependent on this creature's choice experiences
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inescapable delay, a deprivation which must be compensated by substitutional or
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collateral experience; as for the personality of the nonsurvivor, it is
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absorbed into the oversoul of creation, becoming a part of the Deity of the
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Supreme.
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God is so trusting, so loving, that he gives a portion of his divine nature
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into the hands of even human beings for safekeeping and self-realization. The
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Father nature, the Adjuster presence, is indestructible regardless of the
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choice of the mortal being. The child of the Supreme, the evolving self, can be
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destroyed notwithstanding that the potentially unifying personality of such a
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misguided self will persist as a factor of the Deity of Supremacy.
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The human personality can truly destroy individuality of creaturehood, and
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though all that was worth while in the life of such a cosmic suicide will
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persist, these qualities will not persist as an individual creature. The
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Supreme will again find expression in the creatures of the universes but never
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again as that par-
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ticular person; the unique personality of a nonascender returns to the Supreme
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as a drop of water returns to the sea.
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Any isolated action of the personal parts of the finite is comparatively
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irrelevant to the eventual appearance of the Supreme Whole, but the whole is
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nonetheless dependent on the total acts of the manifold parts. The personality
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of the individual mortal is insignificant in the face of the total of
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Supremacy, but the personality of each human being represents an irreplaceable
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meaning-value in the finite; personality, having once been expressed, never
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again finds identical expression except in the continuing existence of that
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living personality.
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And so, as we strive for self-expression, the Supreme is striving in us, and
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with us, for deity expression. As we find the Father, so has the Supreme again
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found the Paradise Creator of all things. As we master the problems of
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self-realization, so is the God of experience achieving almighty supremacy in
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the universes of time and space.
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Mankind does not ascend effortlessly in the universe, neither does the Supreme
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evolve without purposeful and intelligent action. Creatures do not attain
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perfection by mere passivity, nor can the spirit of Supremacy factualize the
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power of the Almighty without unceasing service ministry to the finite
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creation.
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The temporal relation of man to the Supreme is the foundation for cosmic
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morality, the universal sensitivity to, and acceptance of, duty. This is a
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morality which transcends the temporal sense of relative right and wrong; it is
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a morality directly predicated on the self-conscious creature's appreciation of
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experiential obligation to experiential Deity. Mortal man and all other finite
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creatures are created out of the living potential of energy, mind, and spirit
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existent in the Supreme. It is upon the Supreme that the Adjuster-mortal
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ascender draws for the creation of the immortal and divine character of a
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finaliter. It is out of the very reality of the Supreme that the Adjuster, with
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the consent of the human will, weaves the patterns of the eternal nature of an
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ascending son of God.
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The evolution of Adjuster progress in the spiritualizing and eternalizing of a
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human personality is directly productive of an enlargement of the sovereignty
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of the Supreme. Such achievements in human evolution are at the same time
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achievements in the evolutionary actualization of the Supreme. While it is true
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that creatures could not evolve without the Supreme, it is probably also true
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that the evolution of the Supreme can never be fully attained independent of
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the completed evolution of all creatures. Herein lies the great cosmic
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responsibility of self-conscious personalities: That Supreme Deity is in a
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certain sense dependent on the choosing of the mortal will. And the mutual
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progression of creature evolution and of Supreme evolution is faithfully and
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fully indicated to the Ancients of Days over the inscrutable mechanisms of
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universe reflectivity.
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The great challenge that has been given to mortal man is this: Will you decide
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to personalize the experiencible value meanings of the cosmos into your own
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evolving selfhood? or by rejecting survival, will you allow these secrets of
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Supremacy to lie dormant, awaiting the action of another creature at some other
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time who will in his way attempt a creature contribution to the evolution of
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the finite God? But that will be his contribution to the Supreme, not yours.
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The great struggle of this universe age is between the potential and the
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actual--the seeking for actualization by all that is as yet unexpressed. If
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mortal
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man proceeds upon the Paradise adventure, he is following the motions of time,
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which flow as currents within the stream of eternity; if mortal man rejects the
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eternal career, he is moving counter to the stream of events in the finite
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universes. The mechanical creation moves on inexorably in accordance with the
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unfolding purpose of the Paradise Father, but the volitional creation has the
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choice of accepting or of rejecting the role of personality participation in
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the adventure of eternity. Mortal man cannot destroy the supreme values of
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human existence, but he can very definitely prevent the evolution of these
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values in his own personal experience. To the extent that the human self thus
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refuses to take part in the Paradise ascent, to just that extent is the Supreme
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delayed in achieving divinity expression in the grand universe.
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Into the keeping of mortal man has been given not only the Adjuster presence of
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the Paradise Father but also control over the destiny of an infinitesimal
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fraction of the future of the Supreme. For as man attains human destiny, so
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does the Supreme achieve destiny on deity levels.
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And so the decision awaits each of you as it once awaited each of us: Will you
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fail the God of time, who is so dependent upon the decisions of the finite
|
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mind? will you fail the Supreme personality of the universes by the
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slothfulness of animalistic retrogression? will you fail the great brother of
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all creatures, who is so dependent on each creature? can you allow yourself to
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pass into the realm of the unrealized when before you lies the enchanting vista
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of the universe career--the divine discovery of the Paradise Father and the
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divine participation in the search for, and the evolution of, the God of
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Supremacy?
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God's gifts--his bestowal of reality--are not divorcements from himself; he
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does not alienate creation from himself, but he has set up tensions in the
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creations circling Paradise. God first loves man and confers upon him the
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potential of immortality--eternal reality. And as man loves God, so does man
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become eternal in actuality. And here is mystery: The more closely man
|
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approaches God through love, the greater the reality--actuality--of that man.
|
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The more man withdraws from God, the more nearly he approaches
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nonreality--cessation of existence. When man consecrates his will to the doing
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of the Father's will, when man gives God all that he has, then does God make
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that man more than he is.
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5. THE OVERSOUL OF CREATION
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The great Supreme is the cosmic oversoul of the grand universe. In him the
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qualities and quantities of the cosmos do find their deity reflection; his
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deity nature is the mosaic composite of the total vastness of all
|
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creature-Creator nature throughout the evolving universes. And the Supreme is
|
||
also an actualizing Deity embodying a creative will which embraces an evolving
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universe purpose.
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The intellectual, potentially personal selves of the finite emerge from the
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Third Source and Center and achieve finite time-space Deity synthesis in the
|
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Supreme. When the creature submits to the will of the Creator, he does not
|
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submerge or surrender his personality; the individual personality participants
|
||
in the actualization of the finite God do not lose their volitional selfhood by
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so functioning. Rather are such personalities progressively augmented by
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participation in this great Deity adventure; by such union with divinity man
|
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exalts,
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enriches, spiritualizes, and unifies his evolving self to the very threshold of
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supremacy.
|
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|
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The evolving immortal soul of man, the joint creation of the material mind and
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||
the Adjuster, ascends as such to Paradise and subsequently, when mustered into
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the Corps of the Finality, becomes allied in some new way with the
|
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spirit-gravity circuit of the Eternal Son by a technique of experience known as
|
||
finaliter transcendation. Such finaliters thus become acceptable candidates for
|
||
experiential recognition as personalities of God the Supreme. And when these
|
||
mortal intellects in the unrevealed future assignments of the Corps of the
|
||
Finality attain the seventh stage of spirit existence, such dual minds will
|
||
become triune. These two attuned minds, the human and the divine, will become
|
||
glorified in union with the experiential mind of the then actualized Supreme
|
||
Being.
|
||
|
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In the eternal future, God the Supreme will be actualized--creatively expressed
|
||
and spiritually portrayed--in the spiritualized mind, the immortal soul, of
|
||
ascendant man, even as the Universal Father was so revealed in the earth life
|
||
of Jesus.
|
||
|
||
Man does not unite with the Supreme and submerge his personal identity, but the
|
||
universe repercussions of the experience of all men do thus form a part of the
|
||
divine experiencing of the Supreme. "The act is ours, the consequences God's."
|
||
|
||
The progressing personality leaves a trail of actualized reality as it passes
|
||
through the ascending levels of the universes. Be they mind, spirit, or energy,
|
||
the growing creations of time and space are modified by the progression of
|
||
personality through their domains. When man acts, the Supreme reacts, and this
|
||
transaction constitutes the fact of progression.
|
||
|
||
The great circuits of energy, mind, and spirit are never the permanent
|
||
possessions of ascending personality; these ministries remain forever a part of
|
||
Supremacy. In the mortal experience the human intellect resides in the rhythmic
|
||
pulsations of the adjutant mind-spirits and effects its decisions within the
|
||
arena produced by encircuitment within this ministry. Upon mortal death the
|
||
human self is everlastingly divorced from the adjutant circuit. While these
|
||
adjutants never seem to transmit experience from one personality to another,
|
||
they can and do transmit the impersonal repercussions of decision-action
|
||
through God the Sevenfold to God the Supreme. (At least this is true of the
|
||
adjutants of worship and wisdom.)
|
||
|
||
And so it is with the spiritual circuits: Man utilizes these in his ascent
|
||
through the universes, but he never possesses them as a part of his eternal
|
||
personality. But these circuits of spiritual ministry, whether Spirit of Truth,
|
||
Holy Spirit, or superuniverse spirit presences, are receptive and reactive to
|
||
the emerging values in ascending personality, and these values are faithfully
|
||
transmitted through the Sevenfold to the Supreme.
|
||
|
||
While such spiritual influences as the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Truth are
|
||
local universe ministrations, their guidance is not wholly confined to the
|
||
geographic limitations of a given local creation. As the ascending mortal
|
||
passes beyond the boundaries of his local universe of origin, he is not
|
||
entirely deprived of the ministry of the Spirit of Truth which has so
|
||
constantly taught and guided him through the philosophic mazes of the material
|
||
and morontial worlds, in every crisis of ascension unfailingly directing the
|
||
Paradise pilgrim, ever saying:
|
||
|
||
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|
||
"This is the way." When you leave the domains of the local universe, through
|
||
the ministry of the spirit of the emerging Supreme Being and through the
|
||
provisions of superuniverse reflectivity, you will still be guided in your
|
||
Paradise ascent by the comforting directive spirit of the Paradise bestowal
|
||
Sons of God.
|
||
|
||
How do these manifold circuits of cosmic ministry register the meanings,
|
||
values, and facts of evolutionary experience in the Supreme? We are not exactly
|
||
certain, but we believe that this registry takes place through the persons of
|
||
the Supreme Creators of Paradise origin who are the immediate bestowers of
|
||
these circuits of time and space. The mind-experience accumulations of the
|
||
seven adjutant mind-spirits, in their ministry to the physical level of
|
||
intellect, are a part of the local universe experience of the Divine Minister,
|
||
and through this Creative Spirit they probably find registry in the mind of
|
||
Supremacy. Likewise are mortal experiences with the Spirit of Truth and the
|
||
Holy Spirit probably registered by similar techniques in the person of
|
||
Supremacy.
|
||
|
||
Even the experience of man and Adjuster must find echo in the divinity of God
|
||
the Supreme, for, as the Adjusters experience, they are like the Supreme, and
|
||
the evolving soul of mortal man is created out of the pre-existent possibility
|
||
for such experience within the Supreme.
|
||
|
||
In this manner do the manifold experiences of all creation become a part of the
|
||
evolution of Supremacy. Creatures merely utilize the qualities and quantities
|
||
of the finite as they ascend to the Father; the impersonal consequences of such
|
||
utilization remain forever a part of the living cosmos, the Supreme person.
|
||
|
||
What man himself takes with him as a personality possession are the character
|
||
consequences of the experience of having used the mind and spirit circuits of
|
||
the grand universe in his Paradise ascent. When man decides, and when he
|
||
consummates this decision in action, man experiences, and the meanings and the
|
||
values of this experience are forever a part of his eternal character on all
|
||
levels, from the finite to the final. Cosmically moral and divinely spiritual
|
||
character represents the creature's capital accumulation of personal decisions
|
||
which have been illuminated by sincere worship, glorified by intelligent love,
|
||
and consummated in brotherly service.
|
||
|
||
The evolving Supreme will eventually compensate finite creatures for their
|
||
inability ever to achieve more than limited experience contact with the
|
||
universe of universes. Creatures can attain the Paradise Father, but their
|
||
evolutionary minds, being finite, are incapable of really understanding the
|
||
infinite and absolute Father. But since all creature experiencing registers in,
|
||
and is a part of, the Supreme, when all creatures attain the final level of
|
||
finite existence, and after total universe development makes possible their
|
||
attainment of God the Supreme as an actual divinity presence, then, inherent in
|
||
the fact of such contact, is contact with total experience. The finite of time
|
||
contains within itself the seeds of eternity; and we are taught that, when the
|
||
fullness of evolution witnesses the exhaustion of the capacity for cosmic
|
||
growth, the total finite will embark upon the absonite phases of the eternal
|
||
career in quest of the Father as Ultimate.
|
||
|
||
6. THE QUEST FOR THE SUPREME
|
||
|
||
We seek the Supreme in the universes, but we find him not. "He is the within
|
||
and the without of all things and beings, moving and quiescent. Unrecog-
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
nizable in his mystery, though distant, yet is he near." The Almighty Supreme
|
||
is "the form of the yet unformed, the pattern of the yet uncreated." The
|
||
Supreme is your universe home, and when you find him, it will be like returning
|
||
home. He is your experiential parent, and even as in the experience of human
|
||
beings, so has he grown in the experience of divine parenthood. He knows you
|
||
because he is creaturelike as well as creatorlike.
|
||
|
||
If you truly desire to find God, you cannot help having born in your minds the
|
||
consciousness of the Supreme. As God is your divine Father, so is the Supreme
|
||
your divine Mother, in whom you are nurtured throughout your lives as universe
|
||
creatures. "How universal is the Supreme--he is on all sides! The limitless
|
||
things of creation depend on his presence for life, and none are refused."
|
||
|
||
What Michael is to Nebadon, the Supreme is to the finite cosmos; his Deity is
|
||
the great avenue through which the love of the Father flows outward to all
|
||
creation, and he is the great avenue through which finite creatures pass inward
|
||
in their quest of the Father, who is love. Even Thought Adjusters are related
|
||
to him; in original nature and divinity they are like the Father, but when they
|
||
experience the transactions of time in the universes of space, they become like
|
||
the Supreme.
|
||
|
||
The act of the creature's choosing to do the will of the Creator is a cosmic
|
||
value and has a universe meaning which is immediately reacted to by some
|
||
unrevealed but ubiquitous force of co-ordination, probably the functioning of
|
||
the ever-enlarging action of the Supreme Being.
|
||
|
||
The morontia soul of an evolving mortal is really the son of the Adjuster
|
||
action of the Universal Father and the child of the cosmic reaction of the
|
||
Supreme Being, the Universal Mother. The mother influence dominates the human
|
||
personality throughout the local universe childhood of the growing soul. The
|
||
influence of the Deity parents becomes more equal after the Adjuster fusion and
|
||
during the superuniverse career, but when the creatures of time begin the
|
||
traversal of the central universe of eternity, the Father nature becomes
|
||
increasingly manifest, attaining its height of finite manifestation upon the
|
||
recognition of the Universal Father and the admission into the Corps of the
|
||
Finality.
|
||
|
||
In and through the experience of finaliter attainment the experiential mother
|
||
qualities of the ascending self become tremendously affected by contact and
|
||
infusion with the spirit presence of the Eternal Son and the mind presence of
|
||
the Infinite Spirit. Then, throughout the realms of finaliter activity in the
|
||
grand universe, there appears a new awakening of the latent mother potential of
|
||
the Supreme, a new realization of experiential meanings, and a new synthesis of
|
||
experiential values of the entire ascension career. It appears that this
|
||
realization of self will continue in the universe careers of the sixth-stage
|
||
finaliters until the mother inheritance of the Supreme attains to finite
|
||
synchrony with the Adjuster inheritance of the Father. This intriguing period
|
||
of grand universe function represents the continuing adult career of the
|
||
ascendant and perfected mortal.
|
||
|
||
Upon the completion of the sixth stage of existence and the entrance upon the
|
||
seventh and final stage of spirit status, there will probably ensue the
|
||
advancing ages of enriching experience, ripening wisdom, and divinity
|
||
realization. In the nature of the finaliter this will probably equal the
|
||
completed attainment of the mind struggle for spirit self-realization, the
|
||
completion of the co-ordination of the ascendant man-nature with the divine
|
||
Adjuster-nature within the limits
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
of finite possibilities. Such a magnificent universe self thus becomes the
|
||
eternal finaliter son of the Paradise Father as well as the eternal universe
|
||
child of the Mother Supreme, a universe self qualified to represent both the
|
||
Father and Mother of universes and personalities in any activity or undertaking
|
||
pertaining to the finite administration of created, creating, or evolving
|
||
things and beings.
|
||
|
||
All soul-evolving humans are literally the evolutionary sons of God the Father
|
||
and God the Mother, the Supreme Being. But until such time as mortal man
|
||
becomes soul-conscious of his divine heritage, this assurance of Deity kinship
|
||
must be faith realized. Human life experience is the cosmic cocoon in which the
|
||
universe endowments of the Supreme Being and the universe presence of the
|
||
Universal Father (none of which are personalities) are evolving the morontia
|
||
soul of time and the human-divine finaliter character of universe destiny and
|
||
eternal service.
|
||
|
||
Men all too often forget that God is the greatest experience in human
|
||
existence. Other experiences are limited in their nature and content, but the
|
||
experience of God has no limits save those of the creature's comprehension
|
||
capacity, and this very experience is in itself capacity enlarging. When men
|
||
search for God, they are searching for everything. When they find God, they
|
||
have found everything. The search for God is the unstinted bestowal of love
|
||
attended by amazing discoveries of new and greater love to be bestowed.
|
||
|
||
All true love is from God, and man receives the divine affection as he himself
|
||
bestows this love upon his fellows. Love is dynamic. It can never be captured;
|
||
it is alive, free, thrilling, and always moving. Man can never take the love of
|
||
the Father and imprison it within his heart. The Father's love can become real
|
||
to mortal man only by passing through that man's personality as he in turn
|
||
bestows this love upon his fellows. The great circuit of love is from the
|
||
Father, through sons to brothers, and hence to the Supreme. The love of the
|
||
Father appears in the mortal personality by the ministry of the indwelling
|
||
Adjuster. Such a God-knowing son reveals this love to his universe brethren,
|
||
and this fraternal affection is the essence of the love of the Supreme.
|
||
|
||
There is no approach to the Supreme except through experience, and in the
|
||
current epochs of creation there are only three avenues of creature approach to
|
||
Supremacy:
|
||
|
||
1. The Paradise Citizens descend from the eternal Isle through Havona, where
|
||
they acquire capacity for Supremacy comprehension through observation of the
|
||
Paradise-Havona reality differential and by exploratory discovery of the
|
||
manifold activities of the Supreme Creator Personalities, ranging from the
|
||
Master Spirits to the Creator Sons.
|
||
|
||
2. The time-space ascenders coming up from the evolutionary universes of the
|
||
Supreme Creators make close approach to the Supreme in the traversal of Havona
|
||
as a preliminary to the augmenting appreciation of the unity of the Paradise
|
||
Trinity.
|
||
|
||
3. The Havona natives acquire a comprehension of the Supreme through contacts
|
||
with descending pilgrims from Paradise and ascending pilgrims from the seven
|
||
superuniverses. Havona natives are inherently in position to harmonize the
|
||
essentially different viewpoints of the citizens of the eternal Isle and the
|
||
citizens of the evolutionary universes.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
To evolutionary creatures there are seven great approaches to the Universal
|
||
Father, and each of these Paradise ascensions passes through the divinity of
|
||
one of the Seven Master Spirits; and each such approach is made possible by an
|
||
enlargement of experience receptivity consequent upon the creature's having
|
||
served in the superuniverse reflective of the nature of that Master Spirit. The
|
||
sum total of these seven experiences constitutes the present-known limits of a
|
||
creature's consciousness of the reality and actuality of God the Supreme.
|
||
|
||
It is not only man's own limitations which prevent him from finding the finite
|
||
God; it is also the incompletion of the universe; even the incompletion of all
|
||
creatures--past, present, and future--makes the Supreme inaccessible. God the
|
||
Father can be found by any individual who has attained the divine level of
|
||
Godlikeness, but God the Supreme will never be personally discovered by any one
|
||
creature until that far-distant time when, through the universal attainment of
|
||
perfection, all creatures will simultaneously find him.
|
||
|
||
Despite the fact that you cannot, in this universe age, personally find him as
|
||
you can and will find the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, nevertheless, the
|
||
Paradise ascent and subsequent universe career will gradually create in your
|
||
consciousness the recognition of the universe presence and the cosmic action of
|
||
the God of all experience. The fruits of the spirit are the substance of the
|
||
Supreme as he is realizable in human experience.
|
||
|
||
Man's sometime attainment of the Supreme is consequent upon his fusion with the
|
||
spirit of Paradise Deity. With Urantians this spirit is the Adjuster presence
|
||
of the Universal Father; and though the Mystery Monitor is from the Father and
|
||
like the Father, we doubt that even such a divine gift can achieve the
|
||
impossible task of revealing the nature of the infinite God to a finite
|
||
creature. We suspect that what the Adjusters will reveal to future
|
||
seventh-stage finaliters will be the divinity and nature of God the Supreme.
|
||
And this revelation will be to a finite creature what the revelation of the
|
||
Infinite would be to an absolute being.
|
||
|
||
The Supreme is not infinite, but he probably embraces all of infinity that a
|
||
finite creature can ever really comprehend. To understand more than the Supreme
|
||
is to be more than finite!
|
||
|
||
All experiential creations are interdependent in their realization of destiny.
|
||
Only existential reality is self-contained and self-existent. Havona and the
|
||
seven superuniverses require each other to achieve the maximum of finite
|
||
attainment; likewise will they be sometime dependent on the future universes of
|
||
outer space for finite transcendence.
|
||
|
||
A human ascender can find the Father; God is existential and therefore real,
|
||
irrespective of the status of experience in the total universe. But no single
|
||
ascender will ever find the Supreme until all ascenders have reached that
|
||
maximum universe maturity which qualifies them simultaneously to participate in
|
||
this discovery.
|
||
|
||
The Father is no respecter of persons; he treats each of his ascending sons as
|
||
cosmic individuals. The Supreme likewise is no respecter of persons; he treats
|
||
his experiential children as a single cosmic total.
|
||
|
||
Man can discover the Father in his heart, but he will have to search for the
|
||
Supreme in the hearts of all other men; and when all creatures perfectly reveal
|
||
the love of the Supreme, then will he become a universe actuality to all
|
||
creatures. And that is just another way of saying that the universes will be
|
||
settled in light and life.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
The attainment of perfected self-realization by all personalities plus the
|
||
attainment of perfected equilibrium throughout the universes equals the
|
||
attainment of the Supreme and witnesses the liberation of all finite reality
|
||
from the limitations of incomplete existence. Such an exhaustion of all finite
|
||
potentials yields the completed attainment of the Supreme and may be otherwise
|
||
defined as the completed evolutionary actualization of the Supreme Being
|
||
himself.
|
||
|
||
Men do not find the Supreme suddenly and spectacularly as an earthquake tears
|
||
chasms into the rocks, but they find him slowly and patiently as a river
|
||
quietly wears away the soil beneath.
|
||
|
||
When you find the Father, you will find the great cause of your spiritual
|
||
ascent in the universes; when you find the Supreme, you will discover the great
|
||
result of your career of Paradise progression.
|
||
|
||
But no God-knowing mortal can ever be lonely in his journey through the cosmos,
|
||
for he knows that the Father walks beside him each step of the way, while the
|
||
very way that he is traversing is the presence of the Supreme.
|
||
|
||
7. THE FUTURE OF THE SUPREME
|
||
|
||
The completed realization of all finite potentials equals the completion of the
|
||
realization of all evolutionary experience. This suggests the final emergence
|
||
of the Supreme as an almighty Deity presence in the universes. We believe that
|
||
the Supreme, in this stage of development, will be as discretely personalized
|
||
as is the Eternal Son, as concretely powerized as is the Isle of Paradise, as
|
||
completely unified as is the Conjoint Actor, and all of this within the
|
||
limitations of the finite possibilities of Supremacy at the culmination of the
|
||
present universe age.
|
||
|
||
While this is an entirely proper concept of the future of the Supreme, we would
|
||
call attention to certain problems inherent in this concept:
|
||
|
||
1. The Unqualified Supervisors of the Supreme could hardly be deitized at any
|
||
stage prior to his completed evolution, and yet these same supervisors even now
|
||
qualifiedly exercise the sovereignty of supremacy concerning the universes
|
||
settled in light and life.
|
||
|
||
2. The Supreme could hardly function in the Trinity Ultimate until he had
|
||
attained complete actuality of universe status, and yet the Trinity Ultimate is
|
||
even now a qualified reality, and you have been informed of the existence of
|
||
the Qualified Vicegerents of the Ultimate.
|
||
|
||
3. The Supreme is not completely real to universe creatures, but there are many
|
||
reasons for deducing that he is quite real to the Sevenfold Deity, extending
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from the Universal Father on Paradise to the Creator Sons and the Creative
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Spirits of the local universes.
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It may be that on the upper limits of the finite, where time conjoins
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transcended time, there is some sort of blurring and blending of sequence. It
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may be that the Supreme is able to forecast his universe presence onto these
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supertime levels and then to a limited degree anticipate future evolution by
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reflecting this future forecast back to the created levels as the Immanence of
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the Projected Incomplete. Such phenomena may be observed wherever finite makes
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contact with superfinite, as in the experiences of human beings who are indwelt
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by Thought Adjusters that are veritable predictions of man's future universe
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attainments throughout all eternity.
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When mortal ascenders are admitted to the finaliter corps of Paradise, they
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take an oath to the Paradise Trinity, and in taking this oath of allegiance,
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they are thereby pledging eternal fidelity to God the Supreme, who is the
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Trinity as comprehended by all finite creature personalities. Subsequently, as
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the finaliter companies function throughout the evolving universes, they are
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solely amenable to the mandates of Paradise origin until the eventful times of
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the settling of local universes in light and life. As the new governmental
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organizations of these perfected creations begin to be reflective of the
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emerging sovereignty of the Supreme, we observe that the outlying finaliter
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companies then acknowledge the jurisdictional authority of such new
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governments. It appears that God the Supreme is evolving as the unifier of the
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evolutionary Corps of the Finality, but it is highly probable that the eternal
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destiny of these seven corps will be directed by the Supreme as a member of the
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Ultimate Trinity.
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The Supreme Being contains three superfinite possibilities for universe
|
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manifestation:
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1. Absonite collaboration in the first experiential Trinity.
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2. Coabsolute relationship in the second experiential Trinity.
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3. Coinfinite participation in the Trinity of Trinities, but we have no
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satisfactory concept as to what this really means.
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This is one of the generally accepted hypotheses of the future of the Supreme,
|
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but there are also many speculations concerning his relations to the present
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grand universe subsequent to its attainment of the status of light and life.
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The present goal of the superuniverses is to become, as they are and within
|
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their potentials, perfect, even as is Havona. This perfection pertains to
|
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physical and spiritual attainment, even to administrative, governmental, and
|
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fraternal development. It is believed that, in the ages to come, the
|
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possibilities for disharmony, maladjustment, and misadaptation will be
|
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eventually exhausted in the superuniverses. The energy circuits will be in
|
||
perfect balance and in complete subjugation to mind, while spirit, in the
|
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presence of personality, will have achieved the dominance of mind.
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It is conjectured that at this far-distant time the spirit person of the
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Supreme and attained power of the Almighty will have achieved co-ordinate
|
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development, and that both, as unified in and by the Supreme Mind, will
|
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factualize as the Supreme Being, a completed actuality in the universes--an
|
||
actuality which will be observable by all creature intelligences, reacted to by
|
||
all created energies, co-ordinated in all spiritual entities, and experienced
|
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by all universe personalities.
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This concept implies the actual sovereignty of the Supreme in the grand
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universe. It is altogether likely that the present Trinity administrators will
|
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continue as his vicegerents, but we believe that the present demarcations
|
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between the seven superuniverses will gradually disappear, and that the entire
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grand universe will function as a perfected whole.
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It is possible that the Supreme may then be personally resident on Uversa, the
|
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headquarters of Orvonton, from which he will direct the administration of the
|
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time creations, but this is really only a conjecture. Certainly, though, the
|
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personality of the Supreme Being will be definitely contactable at some
|
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specific
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locality, although the ubiquity of his Deity presence will probably continue to
|
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permeate the universe of universes. What the relation of the superuniverse
|
||
citizens of that age will be to the Supreme we do not know, but it may be
|
||
something like the present relationship between the Havona natives and the
|
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Paradise Trinity.
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The perfected grand universe of those future days will be vastly different from
|
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what it is at present. Gone will be the thrilling adventures of the
|
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organization of the galaxies of space, the planting of life on the uncertain
|
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worlds of time, and the evolving of harmony out of chaos, beauty out of
|
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potentials, truth out of meanings, and goodness out of values. The time
|
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universes will have achieved the fulfillment of finite destiny! And perhaps for
|
||
a space there will be rest, relaxation from the agelong struggle for
|
||
evolutionary perfection. But not for long! Certainly, surely, and inexorably
|
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the enigma of the emerging Deity of God the Ultimate will challenge these
|
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perfected citizens of the settled universes just as their struggling
|
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evolutionary forebears were once challenged by the quest for God the Supreme.
|
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The curtain of cosmic destiny will draw back to reveal the transcendent
|
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grandeur of the alluring absonite quest for the attainment of the Universal
|
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Father on those new and higher levels revealed in the ultimate of creature
|
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experience.
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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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Foundations Of Religious Faith The Reality Of Religious Experience Growth Of
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Supreme Supreme And Ultimate--time And Space The Bestowals Of Christ Michael
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