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Foreword

Divine Counselor

8. God the Sevenfold

0:8.1To atone for fin­ity of sta­tus and to com­pen­sate for crea­ture lim­i­ta­tions of con­cept, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has es­tab­lished the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture’s sev­en­fold ap­proach to De­ity:

0:8.21. The Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons.

0:8.32. The An­cients of Days.

0:8.43. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

0:8.54. The Su­preme Be­ing.

0:8.65. God the Spirit.

0:8.76. God the Son.

0:8.87. God the Fa­ther.

0:8.9This sev­en­fold De­ity per­son­al­iza­tion in time and space and to the seven super­uni­verses en­ables mor­tal man to at­tain the pres­ence of God, who is spirit. This sev­en­fold De­ity, to fi­nite time-space crea­tures some­time power-per­son­al­iz­ing in the Su­preme Be­ing, is the func­tional De­ity of the mor­tal evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures of the Par­a­dise-as­cen­sion ca­reer. Such an ex­pe­ri­en­tial dis­cov­ery-ca­reer of the re­al­iza­tion of God be­gins with the rec­og­ni­tion of the di­vin­ity of the Cre­ator Son of the lo­cal uni­verse and as­cends through the super­uni­verse An­cients of Days and by way of the per­son of one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its to the at­tain­ment of the dis­cov­ery and rec­og­ni­tion of the di­vine per­son­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther on Par­a­dise.

0:8.10The grand uni­verse is the three­fold De­ity do­main of the Trin­ity of Su­prem­acy, God the Sev­en­fold, and the Su­preme Be­ing. God the Su­preme is po­ten­tial in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, from whom he de­rives his per­son­al­ity and spirit at­tri­butes; but he is now ac­tu­al­iz­ing in the Cre­ator Sons, An­cients of Days, and the Mas­ter Spir­its, from whom he de­rives his power as Al­mighty to the super­uni­verses of time and space. This power man­i­fes­ta­tion of the im­me­di­ate God of evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures ac­tu­ally time-space evolves con­comi­tantly with them. The Al­mighty Su­preme, evolv­ing on the value-level of non­per­sonal ac­tiv­i­ties, and the spirit per­son of God the Su­preme are one re­al­ity—the Su­preme Be­ing.

0:8.11The Cre­ator Sons in the De­ity as­so­ci­a­tion of God the Sev­en­fold pro­vide the mech­a­nism whereby the mor­tal be­comes im­mor­tal and the fi­nite at­tains the em­brace of the in­fi­nite. The Su­preme Be­ing pro­vides the tech­nique for the power-per­son­al­ity mo­bi­liza­tion, the di­vine syn­the­sis, of all these man­i­fold trans­ac­tions, thus en­abling the fi­nite to at­tain the ab­so­nite and, through other pos­si­ble fu­ture ac­tu­al­iza­tions, to at­tempt the at­tain­ment of the Ul­ti­mate. The Cre­ator Sons and their as­so­ci­ated Di­vine Min­is­ters are par­tic­i­pants in this su­preme mo­bi­liza­tion, but the An­cients of Days and the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are prob­a­bly eter­nally fixed as per­ma­nent ad­min­is­tra­tors in the grand uni­verse.

0:8.12The func­tion of God the Sev­en­fold dates from the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the seven super­uni­verses, and it will prob­a­bly ex­pand in con­nec­tion with the fu­ture evo­lu­tion of the cre­ations of outer space. The or­ga­ni­za­tion of these fu­ture uni­verses of the pri­mary, sec­ondary, ter­tiary, and quar­tan space lev­els of pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion will un­doubt­edly wit­ness the in­au­gu­ra­tion of the tran­scen­dent and ab­so­nite ap­proach to De­ity.