Foreword

0:1.1The uni­verse of uni­verses pre­sents phe­nom­ena of de­ity ac­tiv­i­ties on di­verse lev­els of cos­mic re­al­i­ties, mind mean­ings, and spirit val­ues, but all of these min­is­tra­tions—per­sonal or oth­er­wise—are di­vinely co-or­di­nated.

0:1.2DE­ITY is per­son­al­iz­able as God, is preper­sonal and super­per­sonal in ways not al­to­gether com­pre­hen­si­ble by man. De­ity is char­ac­ter­ized by the qual­ity of unity—ac­tual or po­ten­tial—on all super­ma­te­rial lev­els of re­al­ity; and this uni­fy­ing qual­ity is best com­pre­hended by crea­tures as di­vin­ity.

0:1.3De­ity func­tions on per­sonal, preper­sonal, and super­per­sonal lev­els. To­tal De­ity is func­tional on the fol­low­ing seven lev­els:

0:1.41. Static—self-con­tained and self-ex­is­tent De­ity.

0:1.52. Po­ten­tial—self-willed and self-pur­po­sive De­ity.

0:1.63. As­so­cia­tive—self-per­son­al­ized and di­vinely fra­ter­nal De­ity.

0:1.74. Cre­ative—self-dis­tribu­tive and di­vinely re­vealed De­ity.

0:1.85. Evo­lu­tional—self-ex­pan­sive and crea­ture-iden­ti­fied De­ity.

0:1.96. Su­preme—self-ex­pe­ri­en­tial and crea­ture-Cre­ator-uni­fy­ing De­ity. De­ity func­tion­ing on the first crea­ture-iden­ti­fi­ca­tional level as time-space over­con­trollers of the grand uni­verse, some­times des­ig­nated the Su­prem­acy of De­ity.

0:1.107. Ul­ti­mate—self-pro­jected and time-space-tran­scend­ing De­ity. De­ity om­nipo­tent, om­ni­scient, and om­ni­pres­ent. De­ity func­tion­ing on the sec­ond level of uni­fy­ing di­vin­ity ex­pres­sion as ef­fec­tive over­con­trollers and ab­so­nite up­hold­ers of the mas­ter uni­verse. As com­pared with the min­istry of the De­i­ties to the grand uni­verse, this ab­so­nite func­tion in the mas­ter uni­verse is tan­ta­mount to uni­ver­sal over­con­trol and super­sus­te­nance, some­times called the Ul­ti­macy of De­ity.

0:1.11The fi­nite level of re­al­ity is char­ac­ter­ized by crea­ture life and time-space lim­i­ta­tions. Fi­nite re­al­i­ties may not have end­ings, but they al­ways have be­gin­nings—they are cre­ated. The De­ity level of Su­prem­acy may be con­ceived as a func­tion in re­la­tion to fi­nite ex­is­tences.

0:1.12The ab­so­nite level of re­al­ity is char­ac­ter­ized by things and be­ings with­out be­gin­nings or end­ings and by the tran­scen­dence of time and space. Ab­so­niters are not cre­ated; they are even­tu­ated—they sim­ply are. The De­ity level of Ul­ti­macy con­notes a func­tion in re­la­tion to ab­so­nite re­al­i­ties. No mat­ter in what part of the mas­ter uni­verse, when­ever time and space are tran­scended, such an ab­so­nite phe­nom­e­non is an act of the Ul­ti­macy of De­ity.

0:1.13The ab­so­lute level is be­gin­ning­less, end­less, time­less, and space­less. For ex­am­ple: On Par­a­dise, time and space are nonex­is­tent; the time-space sta­tus of Par­a­dise is ab­so­lute. This level is Trin­ity at­tained, ex­is­ten­tially, by the Par­a­dise De­i­ties, but this third level of uni­fy­ing De­ity ex­pres­sion is not fully uni­fied ex­pe­ri­en­tially. When­ever, wher­ever, and how­ever the ab­so­lute level of De­ity func­tions, Par­a­dise-ab­so­lute val­ues and mean­ings are man­i­fest.

0:1.14De­ity may be ex­is­ten­tial, as in the Eter­nal Son; ex­pe­ri­en­tial, as in the Su­preme Be­ing; as­so­cia­tive, as in God the Sev­en­fold; un­di­vided, as in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

0:1.15De­ity is the source of all that which is di­vine. De­ity is char­ac­ter­is­ti­cally and in­vari­ably di­vine, but all that which is di­vine is not nec­es­sar­ily De­ity, though it will be co-or­di­nated with De­ity and will tend to­wards some phase of unity with De­ity—spir­i­tual, mindal, or per­sonal.

0:1.16DI­VIN­ITY is the char­ac­ter­is­tic, uni­fy­ing, and co-or­di­nat­ing qual­ity of De­ity.

0:1.17Di­vin­ity is crea­ture com­pre­hen­si­ble as truth, beauty, and good­ness; cor­re­lated in per­son­al­ity as love, mercy, and min­istry; dis­closed on im­per­sonal lev­els as jus­tice, power, and sov­er­eignty.

0:1.18Di­vin­ity may be per­fect—com­plete—as on ex­is­ten­tial and cre­ator lev­els of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion; it may be im­per­fect, as on ex­pe­ri­en­tial and crea­ture lev­els of time-space evo­lu­tion; or it may be rel­a­tive, nei­ther per­fect nor im­per­fect, as on cer­tain Ha­vona lev­els of ex­is­ten­tial-ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­la­tion­ships.

0:1.19When we at­tempt to con­ceive of per­fec­tion in all phases and forms of rel­a­tiv­ity, we en­counter seven con­ceiv­able types:

0:1.201. Ab­so­lute per­fec­tion in all as­pects.

0:1.212. Ab­so­lute per­fec­tion in some phases and rel­a­tive per­fec­tion in all other as­pects.

0:1.223. Ab­so­lute, rel­a­tive, and im­per­fect as­pects in var­ied as­so­ci­a­tion.

0:1.234. Ab­so­lute per­fec­tion in some re­spects, im­per­fec­tion in all oth­ers.

0:1.245. Ab­so­lute per­fec­tion in no di­rec­tion, rel­a­tive per­fec­tion in all man­i­fes­ta­tions.

0:1.256. Ab­so­lute per­fec­tion in no phase, rel­a­tive in some, im­per­fect in oth­ers.

0:1.267. Ab­so­lute per­fec­tion in no at­tri­bute, im­per­fec­tion in all.