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Foreword

Divine Counselor

9. God the Ultimate

0:9.1Just as the Su­preme Be­ing pro­gres­sively evolves from the an­te­ced­ent di­vin­ity en­dow­ment of the en­com­passed grand uni­verse po­ten­tial of en­ergy and per­son­al­ity, so does God the Ul­ti­mate even­tu­ate from the po­ten­tials of di­vin­ity re­sid­ing in the tran­scended time-space do­mains of the mas­ter uni­verse. The ac­tu­al­iza­tion of Ul­ti­mate De­ity sig­nal­izes ab­so­nite uni­fi­ca­tion of the first ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity and sig­ni­fies uni­fy­ing De­ity ex­pan­sion on the sec­ond level of cre­ative self-re­al­iza­tion. This con­sti­tutes the per­son­al­ity-power equiv­a­lent of the uni­verse ex­pe­ri­en­tial-De­ity ac­tu­al­iza­tion of Par­a­dise ab­so­nite re­al­i­ties on the even­tu­at­ing lev­els of tran­scended time-space val­ues. The com­ple­tion of such an ex­pe­ri­en­tial un­fold­ment is de­signed to af­ford ul­ti­mate ser­vice-des­tiny for all time-space crea­tures who have at­tained ab­so­nite lev­els through the com­pleted re­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing and by the min­istry of God the Sev­en­fold.

0:9.2God the Ul­ti­mate is des­ig­na­tive of per­sonal De­ity func­tion­ing on the di­vin­ity lev­els of the ab­so­nite and on the uni­verse spheres of super­time and tran­scended space. The Ul­ti­mate is a super­su­preme even­tu­a­tion of De­ity. The Su­preme is the Trin­ity uni­fi­ca­tion com­pre­hended by fi­nite be­ings; the Ul­ti­mate is the uni­fi­ca­tion of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity com­pre­hended by ab­so­nite be­ings.

0:9.3The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, through the mech­a­nism of evo­lu­tion­ary De­ity, is ac­tu­ally en­gaged in the stu­pen­dous and amaz­ing act of per­son­al­ity fo­cal­iza­tion and power mo­bi­liza­tion, on their re­spec­tive uni­verse mean­ing-lev­els, of the di­vine re­al­ity val­ues of the fi­nite, the ab­so­nite, and even of the ab­so­lute.

0:9.4The first three and past-eter­nal De­i­ties of Par­a­dise—the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, and the In­fi­nite Spirit—are, in the eter­nal fu­ture, to be per­son­al­ity-com­ple­mented by the ex­pe­ri­en­tial ac­tu­al­iza­tion of as­so­ciate evo­lu­tion­ary De­i­ties—God the Su­preme, God the Ul­ti­mate, and pos­si­bly God the Ab­so­lute.

0:9.5God the Su­preme and God the Ul­ti­mate, now evolv­ing in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­verses, are not ex­is­ten­tial—not past eter­nals, only fu­ture eter­nals, time-space-con­di­tioned and tran­scen­den­tal-con­di­tioned eter­nals. They are De­i­ties of su­preme, ul­ti­mate, and pos­si­bly su­preme-ul­ti­mate en­dow­ments, but they have ex­pe­ri­enced his­toric uni­verse ori­gins. They will never have an end, but they do have per­son­al­ity be­gin­nings. They are in­deed ac­tu­al­iza­tions of eter­nal and in­fi­nite De­ity po­ten­tials, but they them­selves are nei­ther un­qual­i­fiedly eter­nal nor in­fi­nite.