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Foreword

Divine Counselor

7. The Supreme Being

0:7.1The De­ity mech­a­nism of the mas­ter uni­verse is two­fold as con­cerns eter­nity re­la­tion­ships. God the Fa­ther, God the Son, and God the Spirit are eter­nal—are ex­is­ten­tial be­ings—while God the Su­preme, God the Ul­ti­mate, and God the Ab­so­lute are ac­tu­al­iz­ing De­ity per­son­al­i­ties of the post-Ha­vona epochs in the time-space and the time-space-tran­scended spheres of mas­ter uni­verse evo­lu­tion­ary ex­pan­sion. These ac­tu­al­iz­ing De­ity per­son­al­i­ties are fu­ture eter­nals from the time when, and as, they power-per­son­al­ize in the grow­ing uni­verses by the tech­nique of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the as­so­cia­tive-cre­ative po­ten­tials of the eter­nal Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

0:7.2De­ity is, there­fore, dual in pres­ence:

0:7.31. Ex­is­ten­tial—be­ings of eter­nal ex­is­tence, past, pres­ent, and fu­ture.

0:7.42. Ex­pe­ri­en­tial—be­ings ac­tu­al­iz­ing in the post-Ha­vona pres­ent but of un­end­ing ex­is­tence through­out all fu­ture eter­nity.

0:7.5The Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit are ex­is­ten­tial—ex­is­ten­tial in ac­tu­al­ity (though all po­ten­tials are sup­pos­edly ex­pe­ri­en­tial). The Su­preme and the Ul­ti­mate are wholly ex­pe­ri­en­tial. The De­ity Ab­so­lute is ex­pe­ri­en­tial in ac­tu­al­iza­tion but ex­is­ten­tial in po­ten­tial­ity. The essence of De­ity is eter­nal, but only the three orig­i­nal per­sons of De­ity are un­qual­i­fiedly eter­nal. All other De­ity per­son­al­i­ties have an ori­gin, but they are eter­nal in des­tiny.

0:7.6Hav­ing achieved ex­is­ten­tial De­ity ex­pres­sion of him­self in the Son and the Spirit, the Fa­ther is now achiev­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial ex­pres­sion on hith­erto im­per­sonal and un­re­vealed de­ity lev­els as God the Su­preme, God the Ul­ti­mate, and God the Ab­so­lute; but these ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties are not now fully ex­is­tent; they are in pro­cess of ac­tu­al­iza­tion.

0:7.7God the Su­preme in Ha­vona is the per­sonal spirit re­flec­tion of the tri­une Par­a­dise De­ity. This as­so­cia­tive De­ity re­la­tion­ship is now cre­atively ex­pand­ing out­ward in God the Sev­en­fold and is syn­the­siz­ing in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial power of the Al­mighty Su­preme in the grand uni­verse. Par­a­dise De­ity, ex­is­ten­tial as three per­sons, is thus ex­pe­ri­en­tially evolv­ing in two phases of Su­prem­acy, while these dual phases are power-per­son­al­ity uni­fy­ing as one Lord, the Su­preme Be­ing.

0:7.8The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther achieves free­will lib­er­a­tion from the bonds of in­fin­ity and the fet­ters of eter­nity by the tech­nique of trin­i­ti­za­tion, three­fold De­ity per­son­al­iza­tion. The Su­preme Be­ing is even now evolv­ing as a subeter­nal per­son­al­ity uni­fi­ca­tion of the sev­en­fold man­i­fes­ta­tion of De­ity in the time-space seg­ments of the grand uni­verse.

0:7.9The Su­preme Be­ing is not a di­rect cre­ator, ex­cept that he is the fa­ther of Maj­es­ton, but he is a syn­thetic co-or­di­na­tor of all crea­ture-Cre­ator uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties. The Su­preme Be­ing, now ac­tu­al­iz­ing in the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses, is the De­ity cor­re­la­tor and syn­the­sizer of time-space di­vin­ity, of tri­une Par­a­dise De­ity in ex­pe­ri­en­tial as­so­ci­a­tion with the Su­preme Cre­ators of time and space. When fi­nally ac­tu­al­ized, this evo­lu­tion­ary De­ity will con­sti­tute the eter­nal fu­sion of the fi­nite and the in­fi­nite—the ev­er­last­ing and in­dis­sol­u­ble union of ex­pe­ri­en­tial power and spirit per­son­al­ity.

0:7.10All time-space fi­nite re­al­ity, un­der the di­rec­tive urge of the evolv­ing Su­preme Be­ing, is en­gaged in an ever-as­cend­ing mo­bi­liza­tion and per­fect­ing uni­fi­ca­tion (power-per­son­al­ity syn­the­sis) of all phases and val­ues of fi­nite re­al­ity, in as­so­ci­a­tion with var­ied phases of Par­a­dise re­al­ity, to the end and for the pur­pose of sub­se­quently em­bark­ing upon the at­tempt to reach ab­so­nite lev­els of super­crea­ture at­tain­ment.