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Foreword

Divine Counselor

12. The Trinities

0:12.1The orig­i­nal and eter­nal Par­a­dise Trin­ity is ex­is­ten­tial and was in­ev­i­ta­ble. This never-be­gin­ning Trin­ity was in­her­ent in the fact of the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of the per­sonal and the non­per­sonal by the Fa­ther’s un­fet­tered will and fac­tu­al­ized when his per­sonal will co-or­di­nated these dual re­al­i­ties by mind. The post-Ha­vona Trin­i­ties are ex­pe­ri­en­tial—are in­her­ent in the cre­ation of two sub­ab­so­lute and evo­lu­tional lev­els of power-per­son­al­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion in the mas­ter uni­verse.

0:12.2The Par­a­dise Trin­ity—the eter­nal De­ity union of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, and the In­fi­nite Spirit—is ex­is­ten­tial in ac­tu­al­ity, but all po­ten­tials are ex­pe­ri­en­tial. There­fore does this Trin­ity con­sti­tute the only De­ity re­al­ity em­brac­ing in­fin­ity, and there­fore do there oc­cur the uni­verse phe­nom­ena of the ac­tu­al­iza­tion of God the Su­preme, God the Ul­ti­mate, and God the Ab­so­lute.

0:12.3The first and sec­ond ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­i­ties, the post-Ha­vona Trin­i­ties, can­not be in­fi­nite be­cause they em­brace de­rived De­i­ties, De­i­ties evolved by the ex­pe­ri­en­tial ac­tu­al­iza­tion of re­al­i­ties cre­ated or even­tu­ated by the ex­is­ten­tial Par­a­dise Trin­ity. In­fin­ity of di­vin­ity is be­ing ever en­riched, if not en­larged, by fin­ity and ab­sonity of crea­ture and Cre­ator ex­pe­ri­ence.

0:12.4Trin­i­ties are truths of re­la­tion­ship and facts of co-or­di­nate De­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion. Trin­ity func­tions en­com­pass De­ity re­al­i­ties, and De­ity re­al­i­ties al­ways seek re­al­iza­tion and man­i­fes­ta­tion in per­son­al­iza­tion. God the Su­preme, God the Ul­ti­mate, and even God the Ab­so­lute are there­fore di­vine in­evitabil­i­ties. These three ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties were po­ten­tial in the ex­is­ten­tial Trin­ity, the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, but their uni­verse emer­gence as per­son­al­i­ties of power is de­pen­dent in part on their own ex­pe­ri­en­tial func­tion­ing in the uni­verses of power and per­son­al­ity and in part on the ex­pe­ri­en­tial achieve­ments of the post-Ha­vona Cre­ators and Trin­i­ties.

0:12.5The two post-Ha­vona Trin­i­ties, the Ul­ti­mate and the Ab­so­lute ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­i­ties, are not now fully man­i­fest; they are in pro­cess of uni­verse re­al­iza­tion. These De­ity as­so­ci­a­tions may be de­scribed as fol­lows:

0:12.61. The Ul­ti­mate Trin­ity, now evolv­ing, will even­tu­ally con­sist of the Su­preme Be­ing, the Su­preme Cre­ator Per­son­al­i­ties, and the ab­so­nite Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse, those unique uni­verse plan­ners who are nei­ther cre­ators nor crea­tures. God the Ul­ti­mate will even­tu­ally and in­evitably pow­er­ize and per­son­al­ize as the De­ity con­se­quence of the uni­fi­ca­tion of this ex­pe­ri­en­tial Ul­ti­mate Trin­ity in the ex­pand­ing arena of the well-nigh lim­it­less mas­ter uni­verse.

0:12.72. The Ab­so­lute Trin­ity—the sec­ond ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity—now in pro­cess of ac­tu­al­iza­tion, will con­sist of God the Su­preme, God the Ul­ti­mate, and the un­re­vealed Con­sum­ma­tor of Uni­verse Des­tiny. This Trin­ity func­tions on both per­sonal and super­per­sonal lev­els, even to the bor­ders of the non­per­sonal, and its uni­fi­ca­tion in uni­ver­sal­ity would ex­pe­ri­en­tial­ize Ab­so­lute De­ity.

0:12.8The Ul­ti­mate Trin­ity is ex­pe­ri­en­tially uni­fy­ing in com­ple­tion, but we truly doubt the pos­si­bil­ity of such full uni­fi­ca­tion of the Ab­so­lute Trin­ity. Our con­cept, how­ever, of the eter­nal Par­a­dise Trin­ity is an ever-pres­ent re­minder that De­ity trin­i­ti­za­tion may ac­com­plish what is oth­er­wise nonat­tain­able; hence do we pos­tu­late the some­time ap­pear­ance of the Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate and the pos­si­ble trin­i­ti­za­tion-fac­tu­al­iza­tion of God the Ab­so­lute.

0:12.9The philoso­phers of the uni­verses pos­tu­late a Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties, an ex­is­ten­tial-ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity In­fi­nite, but they are not able to en­vis­age its per­son­al­iza­tion; pos­si­bly it would equiv­alate to the per­son of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther on the con­cep­tual level of the I AM. But ir­re­spec­tive of all this, the orig­i­nal Par­a­dise Trin­ity is po­ten­tially in­fi­nite since the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther ac­tu­ally is in­fi­nite.

0:12.10AC­KNOWL­EDG­MENT

0:12.11In for­mu­lat­ing the suc­ceed­ing pre­sen­ta­tions hav­ing to do with the por­trayal of the char­ac­ter of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the na­ture of his Par­a­dise as­so­ciates, to­gether with an at­tempted de­scrip­tion of the per­fect cen­tral uni­verse and the en­cir­cling seven super­uni­verses, we are to be guided by the man­date of the super­uni­verse rulers which di­rects that we shall, in all our ef­forts to re­veal truth and co-or­di­nate es­sen­tial knowl­edge, give pref­er­ence to the high­est ex­ist­ing hu­man con­cepts per­tain­ing to the sub­jects to be pre­sented. We may re­sort to pure rev­e­la­tion only when the con­cept of pre­sen­ta­tion has had no ad­e­quate pre­vi­ous ex­pres­sion by the hu­man mind.

0:12.12Suc­ces­sive plan­e­tary rev­e­la­tions of di­vine truth in­vari­ably em­brace the high­est ex­ist­ing con­cepts of spir­i­tual val­ues as a part of the new and en­hanced co-or­di­na­tion of plan­e­tary knowl­edge. Ac­cord­ingly, in mak­ing these pre­sen­ta­tions about God and his uni­verse as­so­ciates, we have se­lected as the ba­sis of these pa­pers more than one thou­sand hu­man con­cepts rep­re­sent­ing the high­est and most ad­vanced plan­e­tary knowl­edge of spir­i­tual val­ues and uni­verse mean­ings. Wherein these hu­man con­cepts, as­sem­bled from the God-know­ing mor­tals of the past and the pres­ent, are in­ad­e­quate to por­tray the truth as we are di­rected to re­veal it, we will un­hesi­tat­ingly sup­ple­ment them, for this pur­pose draw­ing upon our own su­pe­rior knowl­edge of the re­al­ity and di­vin­ity of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties and their tran­scen­dent res­i­den­tial uni­verse.

0:12.13We are fully cog­nizant of the dif­fi­cul­ties of our as­sign­ment; we rec­og­nize the im­pos­si­bil­ity of fully trans­lat­ing the lan­guage of the con­cepts of di­vin­ity and eter­nity into the sym­bols of the lan­guage of the fi­nite con­cepts of the mor­tal mind. But we know that there dwells within the hu­man mind a frag­ment of God, and that there so­journs with the hu­man soul the Spirit of Truth; and we fur­ther know that these spirit forces con­spire to en­able ma­te­rial man to grasp the re­al­ity of spir­i­tual val­ues and to com­pre­hend the phi­los­o­phy of uni­verse mean­ings. But even more cer­tainly we know that these spir­its of the Di­vine Pres­ence are able to as­sist man in the spir­i­tual ap­pro­pri­a­tion of all truth con­trib­u­tory to the en­hance­ment of the ever-pro­gress­ing re­al­ity of per­sonal re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence—God-con­scious­ness.

0:12.14[In­dited by an Or­von­ton Di­vine Coun­selor, Chief of the Corps of Super­uni­verse Per­son­al­i­ties as­signed to por­tray on Uran­tia the truth con­cern­ing the Par­a­dise De­i­ties and the uni­verse of uni­verses.]