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To the extent that we do the will of God
in whatever universe station we may have our existence, in that measure
the almighty potential of the Supreme becomes one step more actual. The
will of God is the purpose of the
First Source and Center as it is potentialized in the three
Absolutes, personalized in the
Eternal Son, conjoined for universe action in the
Infinite Spirit, and eternalized in the everlasting patterns of
Paradise. And
God the Supreme is becoming the highest finite manifestation of the total will of God.
(1278.2)117:0.2
If all grand universers should ever
relatively achieve the full living of the will of God, then would the
time-space creations be settled in light and life, and then would the
Almighty, the deity potential of
Supremacy, become factual 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 evolving universe becomes stabilized after the pattern of the
central universe, when an advancing spirit contacts the united ministry
of the Master Spirits, when an ascending mortal personality finally
attunes to the divine leading of the indwelling Adjuster, then has the
actuality of the Supreme become real by one more degree in the
universes; then has the
divinity of Supremacy advanced one more step toward cosmic realization.
(1278.4)117:0.4
The parts and individuals of the grand universe evolve as a reflection of the total
evolution
of the Supreme, while in turn the Supreme is the synthetic cumulative
total of all grand universe evolution. From the mortal viewpoint both
are evolutionary and experiential reciprocals.
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The Supreme is the beauty of physical
harmony, the truth of intellectual meaning, and the goodness of
spiritual value. He is the sweetness of true success and the joy of
everlasting achievement. He is the oversoul of the grand universe,
the consciousness of the finite cosmos, the completion of finite
reality, and the personification of Creator-creature experience.
Throughout all future eternity
God the Supreme will voice the reality of volitional experience in the trinity relationships of
Deity.
(1278.6)117:1.2
In the persons of the Supreme Creators the Gods have descended from Paradise
to the domains of time and space, there to create and to evolve
creatures with Paradise-attainment capacity who can ascend thereto in
quest of the Father. This universe procession of descending
God-revealing Creators and ascending God-seeking creatures is revelatory
of the Deity
evolution
of the Supreme, in whom both descenders and ascenders achieve mutuality
of understanding, the discovery of eternal and universal brotherhood.
The Supreme Being thus becomes the finite synthesis of the experience of
the perfect-Creator cause and the perfecting-creature response.
(1279.1)117:1.3
The grand universe contains the
possibility of, and ever seeks for, complete unification, and this grows
out of the fact that this cosmic existence is a consequence of the
creative acts and the power mandates of the Paradise Trinity,
which is unqualified unity. This very trinitarian unity is expressed in
the finite cosmos in the Supreme, whose reality becomes increasingly
apparent as the universes attain to the maximum level of
Trinity identification.
(1279.2)117:1.4
The will of the Creator and the will
of the creature are qualitatively different, but they are also
experientially akin, for creature and Creator can collaborate in the
achievement of universe perfection. Man can work in liaison with God and
thereby cocreate an eternal finaliter. God can work even as humanity in
the incarnations of his Sons, who thereby achieve the supremacy of
creature experience.
(1279.3)117:1.5
In the Supreme Being, Creator and creature are united in one Deity whose will is expressive of one divine personality.
And this will of the Supreme is something more than the will of either
creature or Creator, even as the sovereign will of the Master Son of
Nebadon is now something more than a combination of the will of
divinity and humanity. The union of Paradise perfection and time-space experience yields a new meaning value on deity levels of reality.
(1279.4)117:1.6 The evolving divine nature of the
Supreme is becoming a faithful portrayal of the matchless experience of
all creatures and of all Creators in the grand universe. In the Supreme,
creatorship and creaturehood are at one; they are forever united by
that experience which was born of the vicissitudes attendant upon the
solution of the manifold problems which beset all finite creation as it
pursues the eternal path in quest of perfection and liberation from the
fetters of incompleteness.
(1279.5)117:1.7
Truth, beauty, and goodness are
correlated in the ministry of the Spirit, the grandeur of Paradise, the
mercy of the Son, and the experience of the Supreme. God the Supreme is truth, beauty, and goodness, for these concepts of divinity
represent finite maximums of ideational experience. The eternal sources
of these triune qualities of divinity are on superfinite levels, but a
creature could only conceive of such sources as supertruth, superbeauty,
and supergoodness.
(1279.6)117:1.8
Michael, a creator, revealed the
divine love of the Creator Father for his terrestrial children. And
having discovered and received this divine affection, men can aspire to
reveal this love to their brethren in the flesh. Such creature affection
is a true reflection of the love of the Supreme.
(1279.7)117:1.9
The Supreme is symmetrically inclusive. The First Source and Center is potential in the three great
Absolutes,
is actual in Paradise, in the Son, and in the Spirit; but the Supreme
is both actual and potential, a being of personal supremacy and of
almighty power, responsive alike to creature effort and Creator purpose;
self-acting upon the universe and self-reactive to the sum total of the
universe; and at one and the same time the supreme creator and the
supreme creature. The Deity of
Supremacy is thus expressive of the sum total of the entire finite.
(1280.1)117:2.1 The Supreme is God-in-time; his is
the secret of creature growth in time; his also is the conquest of the
incomplete present and the consummation of the perfecting future. And
the final fruits of all finite growth are: power controlled through mind
by spirit by virtue of the unifying and creative presence of personality. The culminating consequence of all this growth is the Supreme Being.
(1280.2)117:2.2
To mortal man, existence is
equivalent to growth. And so indeed it would seem to be, even in the
larger universe sense, for spirit-led existence does seem to result in
experiential growth—augmentation of status. We have long held, however,
that the present growth which characterizes creature existence in the
present universe age is a function of the Supreme. We equally hold that
this kind of growth is peculiar to the age of the growth of the Supreme,
and that it will terminate with the completion of the growth of the
Supreme.
(1280.3)117:2.3
Consider the status of the
creature-trinitized sons: They are born and live in the present universe
age; they have personalities, together with mind and spirit endowments.
They have experiences and the memory thereof, but they do not grow as do ascenders. It is our belief and understanding that these creature-trinitized sons, while they are
in the present universe age, are really
of the next universe age—the age which will follow the completion of the growth of the Supreme. Hence they are not
in the Supreme as of his present status of incompleteness and
consequent growth. Thus they are nonparticipating in the experiential
growth of the present universe age, being held in reserve for the next
universe age.
(1280.4)117:2.4
My own order, the Mighty Messengers, being
Trinity
embraced, are nonparticipating in the growth of the present universe
age. In a sense we are in status as of the preceding universe age as in
fact are the
Stationary Sons of the Trinity. One thing is certain: Our status is fixed by the Trinity embrace, and experience no longer eventuates in growth.
(1280.5)117:2.5 This is not true of the finaliters
nor of any other of the evolutionary and experiential orders which are
participants in the growth process of the Supreme. You mortals now
living on Urantia who may aspire to
Paradise
attainment and finaliter status should understand that such a destiny
is only realizable because you are in and of the Supreme, hence are
participants in the cycle of the growth of the Supreme.
(1280.6)117:2.6
There will come an end sometime to
the growth of the Supreme; his status will achieve completion (in the
energy-spirit sense). This termination of the evolution of the Supreme will also witness the ending of creature evolution as a part of
Supremacy. What kind of growth may characterize the universes of
outer space,
we do not know. But we are very sure that it will be something very
different from anything that has been seen in the present age of the
evolution of the
seven superuniverses. It will undoubtedly be the function of the evolutionary citizens of the
grand universe to compensate the outer-spacers for this deprivation of the growth of Supremacy.
(1280.7)117:2.7
As existent upon the consummation of
the present universe age, the Supreme Being will function as an
experiential sovereign in the grand universe. Outer-spacers—citizens of
the next universe age—will have a postsuperuniverse growth potential, a
capacity for evolutionary attainment presupposing the sovereignty of the
Almighty Supreme, hence excluding creature participation in the power-personality synthesis of the present universe age.
(1281.1)117:2.8 Thus may the incompleteness of the
Supreme be regarded as a virtue since it makes possible the evolutionary
growth of the creature-creation of the present universes. Emptiness
does have its virtue, for it may become experientially filled.
(1281.2)117:2.9
One of the most intriguing questions in finite philosophy
is this: Does the Supreme Being actualize in response to the evolution
of the grand universe, or does this finite cosmos progressively evolve
in response to the gradual actualization of the Supreme? Or is it
possible that they are mutually interdependent for their development?
that they are evolutionary reciprocals, each initiating the growth of
the other? Of this we are certain: Creatures and universes, high and
low, are evolving within the Supreme, and as they evolve, there is
appearing the unified summation of the entire finite activity of this
universe age. And this is the appearance of the Supreme Being, to all
personalities the evolution of the almighty power of
God the Supreme.
3. Significance of the Supreme to Universe Creatures
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(1281.3)117:3.1 The cosmic reality variously designated as the Supreme Being, God the Supreme, and the
Almighty Supreme,
is the complex and universal synthesis of the emerging phases of all
finite realities. The far-flung diversification of eternal energy,
divine spirit, and universal mind attains finite culmination in the
evolution of the Supreme, who is the sum total of all finite growth, self-realized on deity levels of finite maximum completion.
(1281.4)117:3.2
The Supreme is the divine channel through which flows the creative infinity of the triodities that crystallizes into the galactic panorama of space, against which takes place the magnificent
personality drama of time: the spirit conquest of energy-matter through the mediation of mind.
(1281.5)117:3.3
Said Jesus: " I am the living way, "
and so he is the living way from the material level of
self-consciousness to the spiritual level of God-consciousness. And even
as he is this living way of ascension from the self to God, so is the
Supreme the living way from finite consciousness to transcendence of consciousness, even to the insight of
absonity.
(1281.6)117:3.4
Your Creator Son can actually be such a living channel from humanity to divinity
since he has personally experienced the fullness of the traversal of
this universe path of progression, from the true humanity of Joshua ben
Joseph, the
Son of Man, to the
Paradise divinity of
Michael of Nebadon,
the Son of the infinite God. Similarly can the Supreme Being function
as the universe approach to the transcendence of finite limitations, for
he is the actual embodiment and personal epitome of all creature
evolution, progression, and spiritualization. Even the
grand universe
experiences of the descending personalities from Paradise are that part
of his experience which is complemental to his summation of the
ascending experiences of the pilgrims of time.
(1281.7)117:3.5 Mortal man is more than figuratively
made in the image of God. From a physical standpoint this statement is
hardly true, but with reference to certain universe potentialities it is
an actual fact. In the human race, something of the same drama of
evolutionary attainment is being unfolded as takes place, on a vastly
larger scale, in the universe of universes.
Man, a volitional personality, becomes creative in liaison with an
Adjuster, an impersonal entity, in the presence of the finite
potentialities of the Supreme, and the result is the flowering of an
immortal
soul. In the universes the Creator personalities of time and space function in liaison with the impersonal spirit of the
Paradise Trinity and become thereby creative of a new power potential of
Deity reality.
(1282.1)117:3.6
Mortal man, being a creature, is not
exactly like the Supreme Being, who is deity, but man's evolution does
in some ways resemble the growth of the Supreme. Man consciously grows
from the material toward the spiritual by the strength, power, and
persistency of his own decisions; he also grows as his Thought Adjuster
develops new techniques for reaching down from the spiritual to the
morontial soul levels; and once the soul comes into being, it begins to
grow in and of itself.
(1282.2)117:3.7
This is somewhat like the way in which the Supreme Being expands. His sovereignty grows in and out of the acts and achievements of the
Supreme Creator
Personalities; that is the evolution of the majesty of his power as the
ruler of the grand universe. His deity nature is likewise dependent on
the pre-existent unity of the Paradise
Trinity.
But there is still another aspect to the evolution of God the Supreme:
He is not only Creator-evolved and Trinity-derived; he is also
self-evolved and self-derived. God the Supreme is himself a volitional,
creative participant in his own deity actualization. The human morontial
soul is likewise a volitional, cocreative partner in its own
immortalization.
(1282.3)117:3.8
The Father collaborates with the Conjoint Actor in manipulating the energies of Paradise and in rendering these responsive to the Supreme. The Father collaborates with the
Eternal Son
in the production of Creator personalities whose acts will sometime
culminate in the sovereignty of the Supreme. The Father collaborates
with both Son and Spirit in the creation of Trinity personalities to
function as rulers of the grand universe until such time as the
completed evolution of the Supreme qualifies him to assume that
sovereignty. The Father co-operates with his Deity and non-Deity
co-ordinates in these and many other ways in the furtherance of the
evolution of
Supremacy, but he also functions alone in these matters. And his solitary function is probably best revealed in the ministry of the
Thought Adjusters and their associated entities.
(1282.4)117:3.9 Deity is unity, existential in the Trinity, experiential in the Supreme, and, in mortals, creature-realized in Adjuster fusion.
The presence of the Thought Adjusters in mortal man reveals the
essential unity of the universe, for man, the lowest possible type of
universe personality, contains within himself an actual fragment of the
highest and eternal reality, even the original Father of all
personalities.
(1282.5)117:3.10
The Supreme Being evolves by virtue
of his liaison with the Paradise Trinity and in consequence of the
divinity successes of the creator and administrator children of that
Trinity. Man's immortal soul evolves its own eternal destiny by
association with the divine presence of the Paradise Father and in
accordance with the personality decisions of the human mind. What the
Trinity is to God the Supreme, the Adjuster is to evolving man.
(1282.6)117:3.11
During the present universe age the
Supreme Being is apparently unable to function directly as a creator
except in those instances where the finite possibilities of action have
been exhausted by the creative agencies of time and space. Thus far in
universe history this has transpired but once; when the possibilities of
finite action in the matter of universe reflectivity
had been exhausted, then did the Supreme function as the creative
culminator of all antecedent creator actions. And we believe he will
again function as a culminator in future ages whenever antecedent
creatorship has completed an appropriate cycle of creative activity.
(1283.1)117:3.12 The Supreme Being did not create
man, but man was literally created out of, his very life was derived
from, the potentiality of the Supreme. Nor does he evolve man; yet is
the Supreme himself the very essence of evolution. From the finite
standpoint, we actually live, move, and have our being within the
immanence of the Supreme.
(1283.2)117:3.13
The Supreme apparently cannot
initiate original causation but appears to be the catalyzer of all
universe growth and is seemingly destined to provide totality
culmination as regards the destiny of all experiential-evolutionary
beings. The Father originates the concept of a finite cosmos; the Creator Sons factualize this idea in time and space with the consent and co-operation of the
Creative Spirits; the Supreme culminates the total finite and establishes its relationship with the destiny of the absonite.
(1283.3)117:4.1
As we view the ceaseless struggles of the creature creation for perfection of status and divinity
of being, we cannot but believe that these unending efforts bespeak the
unceasing struggle of the Supreme for divine self-realization.
God the Supreme is the finite
Deity,
and he must cope with the problems of the finite in the total sense of
that word. Our struggles with the vicissitudes of time in the evolutions
of space are reflections of his efforts to achieve reality of self and
completion of
sovereignty within the sphere of action which his evolving nature is expanding to the outermost limits of possibility.
(1283.4)117:4.2 Throughout the grand universe the Supreme struggles for expression. His divine
evolution is in measure predicated on the wisdom-action of every
personality
in existence. When a human being chooses eternal survival, he is
cocreating destiny; and in the life of this ascending mortal the finite
God finds an increased measure of personality self-realization and an
enlargement of experiential sovereignty. But if a creature rejects the
eternal career, that part of the Supreme which was dependent on this
creature's choice experiences inescapable delay, a deprivation which
must be compensated by substitutional or collateral experience; as for
the personality of the nonsurvivor, it is absorbed into the
oversoul of creation, becoming a part of the Deity of the Supreme.
(1283.5)117:4.3
God is so trusting, so loving, that
he gives a portion of his divine nature into the hands of even human
beings for safekeeping and self-realization. The Father nature, the
Adjuster presence, is indestructible regardless of the choice of the
mortal being. The child of the Supreme, the evolving self, can be
destroyed notwithstanding that the potentially unifying personality of
such a misguided self will persist as a factor of the Deity of Supremacy.
(1283.6)117:4.4
The human personality can truly
destroy individuality of creaturehood, and though all that was worth
while in the life of such a cosmic suicide will persist, these qualities will not persist as an individual creature. The
Supreme will again find expression in the creatures of the universes
but never again as that particular person; the unique personality of a
nonascender returns to the Supreme as a drop of water returns to the
sea.
(1284.1)117:4.5
Any isolated action of the personal
parts of the finite is comparatively irrelevant to the eventual
appearance of the Supreme Whole, but the whole is nonetheless dependent
on the total acts of the manifold parts. The personality of the
individual mortal is insignificant in the face of the total of
Supremacy, but the personality of each human being represents an
irreplaceable meaning-value in the finite; personality, having once been
expressed, never again finds identical expression except in the
continuing existence of that living personality.
(1284.2)117:4.6
And so, as we strive for
self-expression, the Supreme is striving in us, and with us, for deity
expression. As we find the Father, so has the Supreme again found the Paradise
Creator of all things. As we master the problems of self-realization,
so is the God of experience achieving almighty supremacy in the
universes of time and space.
(1284.3)117:4.7
Mankind does not ascend effortlessly
in the universe, neither does the Supreme evolve without purposeful and
intelligent action. Creatures do not attain perfection by mere
passivity, nor can the spirit of Supremacy factualize the power of the Almighty without unceasing service ministry to the finite creation.
(1284.4)117:4.8
The temporal relation of man to the
Supreme is the foundation for cosmic morality, the universal sensitivity
to, and acceptance of, duty. This is a morality which transcends the temporal sense of
relative right and wrong; it is a morality directly predicated on the
self-conscious creature's appreciation of experiential obligation to
experiential Deity. Mortal man and all other finite creatures are
created out of the living potential of energy, mind, and spirit existent
in the Supreme. It is upon the Supreme that the Adjuster-mortal
ascender draws for the creation of the immortal and divine character of a
finaliter. It is out of the very reality of the Supreme that the
Adjuster, with the consent of the human will, weaves the patterns of the
eternal nature of an ascending son of God.
(1284.5)117:4.9
The evolution of Adjuster progress in
the spiritualizing and eternalizing of a human personality is directly
productive of an enlargement of the sovereignty of the Supreme. Such
achievements in human evolution are at the same time achievements in the
evolutionary actualization of the Supreme. While it is true that
creatures could not evolve without the Supreme, it is probably also true
that the evolution of the Supreme can never be fully attained
independent of the completed evolution of all creatures. Herein lies the
great cosmic responsibility of self-conscious personalities: That
Supreme Deity is in a certain sense dependent on the choosing of the
mortal will. And the mutual progression of creature evolution and of
Supreme evolution is faithfully and fully indicated to the Ancients of Days over the inscrutable mechanisms of universe
reflectivity.
(1284.6)117:4.10
The great challenge that has been given to mortal man is this: Will you decide to personalize the experiencible value meanings
of the cosmos into your own evolving selfhood? or by rejecting
survival, will you allow these secrets of Supremacy to lie dormant,
awaiting the action of another creature at some other time who will in
his way attempt a creature contribution to the evolution of the
finite God? But that will be his contribution to the Supreme, not
yours.
(1284.7)117:4.11
The great struggle of this universe
age is between the potential and the actual—the seeking for
actualization by all that is as yet unexpressed. If mortal man proceeds
upon the Paradise adventure, he is following the motions of time, which
flow as currents within the stream of eternity; if mortal man rejects
the eternal career, he is moving counter to the stream of events in the
finite universes. The mechanical creation moves on inexorably in
accordance with the unfolding purpose of the Paradise Father, but the
volitional creation has the choice of accepting or of rejecting the role
of personality participation in the adventure of eternity. Mortal man
cannot destroy the supreme values
of human existence, but he can very definitely prevent the evolution of
these values in his own personal experience. To the extent that the
human self thus refuses to take part in the Paradise ascent, to just
that extent is the Supreme delayed in achieving divinity expression in
the grand universe.
(1285.1)117:4.12
Into the keeping of mortal man has
been given not only the Adjuster presence of the Paradise Father but
also control over the destiny of an infinitesimal fraction of the future
of the Supreme. For as man attains human destiny, so does the Supreme
achieve destiny on deity levels.
(1285.2)117:4.13
And so the decision awaits each of
you as it once awaited each of us: Will you fail the God of time, who is
so dependent upon the decisions of the finite mind? will you fail the
Supreme personality of the universes by the slothfulness of animalistic
retrogression? will you fail the great brother of all creatures, who is
so dependent on each creature? can you allow yourself to pass into the
realm of the unrealized when before you lies the enchanting vista of the
universe career—the divine discovery of the Paradise Father and the
divine participation in the search for, and the evolution of, the God of
Supremacy?
(1285.3)117:4.14
God's gifts—his bestowal of
reality—are not divorcements from himself; he does not alienate creation
from himself, but he has set up tensions in the creations circling
Paradise. God first loves man and confers upon him the potential of
immortality—eternal reality. And as man loves God, so does man become
eternal in actuality. And here is mystery: The more closely man
approaches God through love, the greater the reality—actuality—of that
man. The more man withdraws from God, the more nearly he approaches
nonreality—cessation of existence. When man consecrates his will to the
doing of the Father's will, when man gives God all that he has, then
does God make that man more than he is.
(1285.4)117:5.1
The great Supreme is the cosmic oversoul of the grand universe.
In him the qualities and quantities of the cosmos do find their deity
reflection; his deity nature is the mosaic composite of the total
vastness of all creature-Creator nature throughout the evolving
universes. And the Supreme is also an actualizing
Deity embodying a creative will which embraces an evolving universe purpose.
(1285.5)117:5.2
The intellectual, potentially personal selves of the finite emerge from the Third Source and Center
and achieve finite time-space Deity synthesis in the Supreme. When the
creature submits to the will of the Creator, he does not submerge or
surrender his
personality;
the individual personality participants in the actualization of the
finite God do not lose their volitional selfhood by so functioning.
Rather are such personalities progressively augmented by participation
in this great Deity adventure; by such union with
divinity man exalts, enriches, spiritualizes, and unifies his evolving self to the very threshold of supremacy.
(1286.1)117:5.3
The evolving immortal soul of man, the joint creation of the material mind and the Adjuster, ascends as such to
Paradise and subsequently, when mustered into the
Corps of the Finality, becomes allied in some new way with the 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.
(1286.2)117:5.4 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.
(1286.3)117:5.5 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. "
(1286.4)117:5.6
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.
(1286.5)117:5.7 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.)
(1286.6)117:5.8
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.
(1286.7)117:5.9 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: " 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.
(1287.1)117:5.10 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.
(1287.2)117:5.11
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.
(1287.3)117:5.12
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.
(1287.4)117:5.13
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.
(1287.5)117:5.14
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.
(1287.6)117:6.1
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. Unrecognizable 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.
(1288.1)117:6.2 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. "
(1288.2)117:6.3
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.
(1288.3)117:6.4 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.
(1288.4)117:6.5
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.
(1288.5)117:6.6 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.
(1288.6)117:6.7
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 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.
(1289.1)117:6.8 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.
(1289.2)117:6.9 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.
(1289.3)117:6.10 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.
(1289.4)117:6.11
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:
(1289.5)117:6.12
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.
(1289.6)117:6.13 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.
(1289.7)117:6.14 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.
(1290.1)117:6.15
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.
(1290.2)117:6.16
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.
(1290.3)117:6.17
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.
(1290.4)117:6.18
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.
(1290.5)117:6.19
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!
(1290.6)117:6.20
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.
(1290.7)117:6.21
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.
(1290.8)117:6.22
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.
(1290.9)117:6.23
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.
(1291.1)117:6.24 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.
(1291.2)117:6.25
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.
(1291.3)117:6.26
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.
(1291.4)117:6.27
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.
(1291.5)117:7.1
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.
(1291.6)117:7.2
While this is an entirely proper
concept of the future of the Supreme, we would call attention to certain
problems inherent in this concept:
(1291.10)117:7.6
It may be that on the upper limits of
the finite, where time conjoins transcended time, there is some sort of
blurring and blending of sequence. It may be that the Supreme is able
to forecast his universe presence onto these supertime levels and then
to a limited degree anticipate future evolution by reflecting this
future forecast back to the created levels as the Immanence of the
Projected Incomplete. Such phenomena may be observed wherever finite
makes contact with superfinite, as in the experiences of human beings
who are indwelt by Thought Adjusters that are veritable predictions of man's future universe attainments throughout all eternity.
(1292.1)117:7.7 When mortal ascenders are admitted to the finaliter corps of Paradise, they take an oath to the
Paradise Trinity, and in taking this oath of allegiance, they are thereby pledging eternal fidelity to
God the Supreme,
who is the Trinity as comprehended by all finite creature
personalities. Subsequently, as the finaliter companies function
throughout the evolving universes, they are solely amenable to the
mandates of Paradise origin until the eventful times of the settling of
local universes in light and life. As the new governmental organizations
of these perfected creations begin to be reflective of the emerging
sovereignty of the Supreme, we observe that the outlying finaliter
companies then acknowledge the jurisdictional authority of such new
governments. It appears that God the Supreme is evolving as the unifier
of the evolutionary
Corps of the Finality, but it is highly probable that the eternal destiny of these seven corps will be directed by the Supreme as a member of the
Ultimate Trinity.
(1292.2)117:7.8
The Supreme Being contains three superfinite possibilities for universe manifestation:
(1292.3)117:7.9 1. Absonite collaboration in the first experiential Trinity.
(1292.5)117:7.11 3. Coinfinite participation in the
Trinity of Trinities, but we have no satisfactory concept as to what this really means.
(1292.6)117:7.12
This is one of the generally accepted
hypotheses of the future of the Supreme, but there are also many
speculations concerning his relations to the present grand universe subsequent to its attainment of the status of light and life.
(1292.7)117:7.13 The present goal of the superuniverses is to become, as they are and within their potentials, perfect, even as is Havona. This perfection pertains to physical and
spiritual attainment,
even to administrative, governmental, and fraternal development. It is
believed that, in the ages to come, the possibilities for disharmony,
maladjustment, and misadaptation will be eventually exhausted in the
superuniverses. The energy
circuits will be in perfect balance and in complete subjugation to mind, while spirit, in the presence of
personality, will have achieved the dominance of mind.
(1292.8)117:7.14
It is conjectured that at this far-distant time the spirit person of the Supreme and attained power of the Almighty will have achieved co-ordinate development, and that both, as unified in and by the
Supreme Mind,
will 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 by all universe personalities.
(1292.9)117:7.15
This concept implies the actual
sovereignty of the Supreme in the grand universe. It is altogether
likely that the present Trinity administrators will continue as his
vicegerents, but we believe that the present demarcations between the seven superuniverses will gradually disappear, and that the entire grand universe will function as a perfected whole.
(1292.10)117:7.16
It is possible that the Supreme may then be personally resident on Uversa,
the headquarters of Orvonton, from which he will direct the
administration of the time creations, but this is really only a
conjecture. Certainly, though, the personality of the Supreme Being will
be definitely contactable at some specific locality, although the
ubiquity of his Deity presence will probably continue to 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 Paradise Trinity.
(1293.1)117:7.17 The perfected grand universe of
those future days will be vastly different from what it is at present.
Gone will be the thrilling adventures of the organization of the galaxies
of space, the planting of life on the uncertain worlds of time, and the
evolving of harmony out of chaos, beauty out of potentials, truth out
of
meanings, and goodness out of
values.
The time 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 the enigma of the emerging Deity of
God the Ultimate
will challenge these perfected citizens of the settled universes just
as their struggling evolutionary forebears were once challenged by the
quest for God the Supreme. The curtain of cosmic destiny will draw back
to reveal the transcendent grandeur of the alluring absonite quest for
the attainment of the Universal Father on those new and higher levels
revealed in the ultimate of creature experience.
(1293.2)117:7.18
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