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Paper 104

Growth of the Trinity Concept

Melchizedek

4. The Seven Triunities

104:4.1In at­tempt­ing the de­scrip­tion of seven tri­uni­ties, at­ten­tion is di­rected to the fact that the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is the pri­mal mem­ber of each. He is, was, and ever will be: the First Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther-Source, Ab­so­lute Cen­ter, Pri­mal Cause, Uni­ver­sal Con­trol­ler, Lim­it­less En­er­gizer, Orig­i­nal Unity, Un­qual­i­fied Up­holder, First Per­son of De­ity, Pri­mal Cos­mic Pat­tern, and Essence of In­fin­ity. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is the per­sonal cause of the Ab­so­lutes; he is the ab­so­lute of Ab­so­lutes.

104:4.2The na­ture and mean­ing of the seven tri­uni­ties may be sug­gested as:

104:4.3The First Tri­unity—the per­sonal-pur­po­sive tri­unity. This is the group­ing of the three De­ity per­son­al­i­ties:

104:4.41. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

104:4.52. The Eter­nal Son.

104:4.63. The In­fi­nite Spirit.

104:4.7This is the three­fold union of love, mercy, and min­istry—the pur­po­sive and per­sonal as­so­ci­a­tion of the three eter­nal Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties. This is the di­vinely fra­ter­nal, crea­ture-lov­ing, fa­therly-act­ing, and as­cen­sion-pro­mot­ing as­so­ci­a­tion. The di­vine per­son­al­i­ties of this first tri­unity are per­son­al­ity-be­queath­ing, spirit-be­stow­ing, and mind-en­dow­ing Gods.

104:4.8This is the tri­unity of in­fi­nite vo­li­tion; it acts through­out the eter­nal pres­ent and in all of the past-pres­ent-fu­ture flow of time. This as­so­ci­a­tion yields vo­li­tional in­fin­ity and pro­vides the mech­a­nisms whereby per­sonal De­ity be­comes self-rev­e­la­tory to the crea­tures of the evolv­ing cos­mos.

104:4.9The Sec­ond Tri­unity—the power-pat­tern tri­unity. Whether it be a tiny ul­ti­ma­ton, a blaz­ing star, or a whirling neb­ula, even the cen­tral or super­uni­verses, from the small­est to the largest ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tions, al­ways is the phys­i­cal pat­tern—the cos­mic con­fig­u­ra­tion—de­rived from the func­tion of this tri­unity. This as­so­ci­a­tion con­sists of:

104:4.101. The Fa­ther-Son.

104:4.112. The Par­a­dise Isle.

104:4.123. The Con­joint Ac­tor.

104:4.13En­ergy is or­ga­nized by the cos­mic agents of the Third Source and Cen­ter; en­ergy is fash­ioned af­ter the pat­tern of Par­a­dise, the ab­so­lute ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion; but be­hind all of this cease­less ma­nip­u­la­tion is the pres­ence of the Fa­ther-Son, whose union first ac­ti­vated the Par­a­dise pat­tern in the ap­pear­ance of Ha­vona con­comi­tant with the birth of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Con­joint Ac­tor.

104:4.14In re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence, crea­tures make con­tact with the God who is love, but such spir­i­tual in­sight must never eclipse the in­tel­li­gent rec­og­ni­tion of the uni­verse fact of the pat­tern which is Par­a­dise. The Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties en­list the free­will ado­ra­tion of all crea­tures by the com­pelling power of di­vine love and lead all such spirit-born per­son­al­i­ties into the su­per­nal de­lights of the un­end­ing ser­vice of the fi­nal­i­ter sons of God. The sec­ond tri­unity is the ar­chi­tect of the space stage whereon these trans­ac­tions un­fold; it de­ter­mines the pat­terns of cos­mic con­fig­u­ra­tion.

104:4.15Love may char­ac­ter­ize the di­vin­ity of the first tri­unity, but pat­tern is the galac­tic man­i­fes­ta­tion of the sec­ond tri­unity. What the first tri­unity is to evolv­ing per­son­al­i­ties, the sec­ond tri­unity is to the evolv­ing uni­verses. Pat­tern and per­son­al­ity are two of the great man­i­fes­ta­tions of the acts of the First Source and Cen­ter; and no mat­ter how dif­fi­cult it may be to com­pre­hend, it is nonethe­less true that the power-pat­tern and the lov­ing per­son are one and the same uni­ver­sal re­al­ity; the Par­a­dise Isle and the Eter­nal Son are co-or­di­nate but an­tipo­dal rev­e­la­tions of the un­fath­omable na­ture of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther-Force.

104:4.16The Third Tri­unity—the spirit-evo­lu­tional tri­unity. The en­tirety of spir­i­tual man­i­fes­ta­tion has its be­gin­ning and end in this as­so­ci­a­tion, con­sist­ing of:

104:4.171. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

104:4.182. The Son-Spirit.

104:4.193. The De­ity Ab­so­lute.

104:4.20From spirit po­tency to Par­a­dise spirit, all spirit finds re­al­ity ex­pres­sion in this tri­une as­so­ci­a­tion of the pure spirit essence of the Fa­ther, the ac­tive spirit val­ues of the Son-Spirit, and the un­lim­ited spirit po­ten­tials of the De­ity Ab­so­lute. The ex­is­ten­tial val­ues of spirit have their pri­mor­dial gen­e­sis, com­plete man­i­fes­ta­tion, and fi­nal des­tiny in this tri­unity.

104:4.21The Fa­ther ex­ists be­fore spirit; the Son-Spirit func­tions as ac­tive cre­ative spirit; the De­ity Ab­so­lute ex­ists as all-en­com­pass­ing spirit, even be­yond spirit.

104:4.22The Fourth Tri­unity—the tri­unity of en­ergy in­fin­ity. Within this tri­unity there eter­nal­izes the be­gin­nings and the end­ings of all en­ergy re­al­ity, from space po­tency to monota. This group­ing em­braces the fol­low­ing:

104:4.231. The Fa­ther-Spirit.

104:4.242. The Par­a­dise Isle.

104:4.253. The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

104:4.26Par­a­dise is the cen­ter of the force-en­ergy ac­ti­va­tion of the cos­mos—the uni­verse po­si­tion of the First Source and Cen­ter, the cos­mic fo­cal point of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, and the source of all en­ergy. Ex­is­ten­tially pres­ent within this tri­unity is the en­ergy po­ten­tial of the cos­mos-in­fi­nite, of which the grand uni­verse and the mas­ter uni­verse are only par­tial man­i­fes­ta­tions.

104:4.27The fourth tri­unity ab­so­lutely con­trols the fun­da­men­tal units of cos­mic en­ergy and re­leases them from the grasp of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute in di­rect pro­por­tion to the ap­pear­ance in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties of sub­ab­so­lute ca­pac­ity to con­trol and sta­bi­lize the meta­mor­phos­ing cos­mos.

104:4.28This tri­unity is force and en­ergy. The end­less pos­si­bil­i­ties of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute are cen­tered around the ab­so­lu­tum of the Isle of Par­a­dise, whence em­anate the unimag­in­able ag­i­ta­tions of the oth­er­wise static qui­es­cence of the Un­qual­i­fied. And the end­less throb­bing of the ma­te­rial Par­a­dise heart of the in­fi­nite cos­mos beats in har­mony with the un­fath­omable pat­tern and the un­search­able plan of the In­fi­nite En­er­gizer, the First Source and Cen­ter.

104:4.29The Fifth Tri­unity—the tri­unity of re­ac­tive in­fin­ity. This as­so­ci­a­tion con­sists of:

104:4.301. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

104:4.312. The Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute.

104:4.323. The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

104:4.33This group­ing yields the eter­nal­iza­tion of the func­tional in­fin­ity re­al­iza­tion of all that is ac­tu­al­iz­able within the do­mains of non­de­ity re­al­ity. This tri­unity man­i­fests un­lim­ited re­ac­tive ca­pac­ity to the vo­li­tional, causative, ten­sional, and pat­ter­nal ac­tions and pres­ences of the other tri­uni­ties.

104:4.34The Sixth Tri­unity—the tri­unity of cos­mic-as­so­ci­ated De­ity. This group­ing con­sists of:

104:4.351. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

104:4.362. The De­ity Ab­so­lute.

104:4.373. The Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute.

104:4.38This is the as­so­ci­a­tion of De­ity-in-the-cos­mos, the im­ma­nence of De­ity in con­junc­tion with the tran­scen­dence of De­ity. This is the last out­reach of di­vin­ity on the lev­els of in­fin­ity to­ward those re­al­i­ties which lie out­side the do­main of de­i­fied re­al­ity.

104:4.39The Sev­enth Tri­unity—the tri­unity of in­fi­nite unity. This is the unity of in­fin­ity func­tion­ally man­i­fest in time and eter­nity, the co-or­di­nate uni­fi­ca­tion of ac­tu­als and po­ten­tials. This group con­sists of:

104:4.401. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

104:4.412. The Con­joint Ac­tor.

104:4.423. The Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute.

104:4.43The Con­joint Ac­tor uni­ver­sally in­te­grates the vary­ing func­tional as­pects of all ac­tu­al­ized re­al­ity on all lev­els of man­i­fes­ta­tion, from finites through tran­scen­den­tals and on to ab­so­lutes. The Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute per­fectly com­pen­sates the dif­fer­en­tials in­her­ent in the vary­ing as­pects of all in­com­plete re­al­ity, from the lim­it­less po­ten­tial­i­ties of ac­tive-vo­li­tional and causative De­ity re­al­ity to the bound­less pos­si­bil­i­ties of static, re­ac­tive, non­de­ity re­al­ity in the in­com­pre­hen­si­ble do­mains of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

104:4.44As they func­tion in this tri­unity, the Con­joint Ac­tor and the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute are alike re­spon­sive to De­ity and to non­de­ity pres­ences, as also is the First Source and Cen­ter, who in this re­la­tion­ship is to all in­tents and pur­poses con­cep­tu­ally in­dis­tin­guish­able from the I AM.

104:4.45These ap­prox­i­ma­tions are suf­fi­cient to elu­ci­date the con­cept of the tri­uni­ties. Not know­ing the ul­ti­mate level of the tri­uni­ties, you can­not fully com­pre­hend the first seven. While we do not deem it wise to at­tempt any fur­ther elab­o­ra­tion, we may state that there are fif­teen tri­une as­so­ci­a­tions of the First Source and Cen­ter, eight of which are un­re­vealed in these pa­pers. These un­re­vealed as­so­ci­a­tions are con­cerned with re­al­i­ties, ac­tu­al­i­ties, and po­ten­tial­i­ties which are be­yond the ex­pe­ri­en­tial level of su­prem­acy.

104:4.46The tri­uni­ties are the func­tional bal­ance wheel of in­fin­ity, the uni­fi­ca­tion of the unique­ness of the Seven In­fin­ity Ab­so­lutes. It is the ex­is­ten­tial pres­ence of the tri­uni­ties that en­ables the Fa­ther-I AM to ex­pe­ri­ence func­tional in­fin­ity unity de­spite the di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of in­fin­ity into seven Ab­so­lutes. The First Source and Cen­ter is the uni­fy­ing mem­ber of all tri­uni­ties; in him all things have their un­qual­i­fied be­gin­nings, eter­nal ex­is­tences, and in­fi­nite des­tinies—“in him all things con­sist.”

104:4.47Al­though these as­so­ci­a­tions can­not aug­ment the in­fin­ity of the Fa­ther-I AM, they do ap­pear to make pos­si­ble the subin­fi­nite and sub­ab­so­lute man­i­fes­ta­tions of his re­al­ity. The seven tri­uni­ties mul­ti­ply ver­sa­til­ity, eter­nal­ize new depths, deitize new val­ues, dis­close new po­ten­tial­i­ties, re­veal new mean­ings; and all these di­ver­si­fied man­i­fes­ta­tions in time and space and in the eter­nal cos­mos are ex­is­tent in the hy­po­thet­i­cal sta­sis of the orig­i­nal in­fin­ity of the I AM.