Foreword

0:2.1Evolv­ing mor­tal crea­tures ex­pe­ri­ence an ir­re­sistible urge to sym­bol­ize their fi­nite con­cepts of God. Man’s con­scious­ness of moral duty and his spir­i­tual ide­al­ism rep­re­sent a value level—an ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­ity—which is dif­fi­cult of sym­bol­iza­tion.

0:2.2Cos­mic con­scious­ness im­plies the rec­og­ni­tion of a First Cause, the one and only un­caused re­al­ity. God, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, func­tions on three De­ity-per­son­al­ity lev­els of subin­fi­nite value and rel­a­tive di­vin­ity ex­pres­sion:

0:2.31. Preper­sonal—as in the min­istry of the Fa­ther frag­ments, such as the Thought Ad­justers.

0:2.42. Per­sonal—as in the evo­lu­tion­ary ex­pe­ri­ence of cre­ated and pro­cre­ated be­ings.

0:2.53. Super­per­sonal—as in the even­tu­ated ex­is­tences of cer­tain ab­so­nite and as­so­ci­ated be­ings.

0:2.6GOD is a word sym­bol des­ig­nat­ing all per­son­al­iza­tions of De­ity. The term re­quires a dif­fer­ent def­i­ni­tion on each per­sonal level of De­ity func­tion and must be still fur­ther re­de­fined within each of these lev­els, as this term may be used to des­ig­nate the di­verse co-or­di­nate and sub­or­di­nate per­son­al­iza­tions of De­ity; for ex­am­ple: the Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons—the lo­cal uni­verse fa­thers.

0:2.7The term God, as we make use of it, may be un­der­stood:

0:2.8By des­ig­na­tion—as God the Fa­ther.

0:2.9By con­text—as when used in the dis­cus­sion of some one de­ity level or as­so­ci­a­tion. When in doubt as to the ex­act in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the word God, it would be ad­vis­able to re­fer it to the per­son of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

0:2.10The term God al­ways de­notes per­son­al­ity. De­ity may, or may not, re­fer to di­vin­ity per­son­al­i­ties.

0:2.11The word GOD is used, in these pa­pers, with the fol­low­ing mean­ings:

0:2.121. God the Fa­ther—Cre­ator, Con­trol­ler, and Up­holder. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the First Per­son of De­ity.

0:2.132. God the Son—Co-or­di­nate Cre­ator, Spirit Con­trol­ler, and Spir­i­tual Ad­min­is­tra­tor. The Eter­nal Son, the Sec­ond Per­son of De­ity.

0:2.143. God the Spirit—Con­joint Ac­tor, Uni­ver­sal In­te­gra­tor, and Mind Be­stower. The In­fi­nite Spirit, the Third Per­son of De­ity.

0:2.154. God the Su­preme—the ac­tu­al­iz­ing or evolv­ing God of time and space. Per­sonal De­ity as­so­cia­tively re­al­iz­ing the time-space ex­pe­ri­en­tial achieve­ment of crea­ture-Cre­ator iden­tity. The Su­preme Be­ing is per­son­ally ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the achieve­ment of De­ity unity as the evolv­ing and ex­pe­ri­en­tial God of the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures of time and space.

0:2.165. God the Sev­en­fold—De­ity per­son­al­ity any­where ac­tu­ally func­tion­ing in time and space. The per­sonal Par­a­dise De­i­ties and their cre­ative as­so­ciates func­tion­ing in and be­yond the bor­ders of the cen­tral uni­verse and power-per­son­al­iz­ing as the Su­preme Be­ing on the first crea­ture level of uni­fy­ing De­ity rev­e­la­tion in time and space. This level, the grand uni­verse, is the sphere of the time-space de­scen­sion of Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties in re­cip­ro­cal as­so­ci­a­tion with the time-space as­cen­sion of evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures.

0:2.176. God the Ul­ti­mate—the even­tu­at­ing God of super­time and tran­scended space. The sec­ond ex­pe­ri­en­tial level of uni­fy­ing De­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion. God the Ul­ti­mate im­plies the at­tained re­al­iza­tion of the syn­the­sized ab­so­nite-super­per­sonal, time-space-tran­scended, and even­tu­ated-ex­pe­ri­en­tial val­ues, co-or­di­nated on fi­nal cre­ative lev­els of De­ity re­al­ity.

0:2.187. God the Ab­so­lute—the ex­pe­ri­en­tial­iz­ing God of tran­scended super­per­sonal val­ues and di­vin­ity mean­ings, now ex­is­ten­tial as the De­ity Ab­so­lute. This is the third level of uni­fy­ing De­ity ex­pres­sion and ex­pan­sion. On this super­cre­ative level, De­ity ex­pe­ri­ences ex­haus­tion of per­son­al­iz­able po­ten­tial, en­coun­ters com­ple­tion of di­vin­ity, and un­der­goes de­ple­tion of ca­pac­ity for self-rev­e­la­tion to suc­ces­sive and pro­gres­sive lev­els of other-per­son­al­iza­tion. De­ity now en­coun­ters, im­pinges upon, and ex­pe­ri­ences iden­tity with, the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.