Deity and Reality

105:2.1In con­sid­er­ing the gen­e­sis of re­al­ity, ever bear in mind that all ab­so­lute re­al­ity is from eter­nity and is with­out be­gin­ning of ex­is­tence. By ab­so­lute re­al­ity we re­fer to the three ex­is­ten­tial per­sons of De­ity, the Isle of Par­a­dise, and the three Ab­so­lutes. These seven re­al­i­ties are co-or­di­nately eter­nal, not­with­stand­ing that we re­sort to time-space lan­guage in pre­sent­ing their se­quen­tial ori­gins to hu­man be­ings.

105:2.2In fol­low­ing the chrono­log­i­cal por­trayal of the ori­gins of re­al­ity, there must be a pos­tu­lated the­o­ret­i­cal mo­ment of “first” vo­li­tional ex­pres­sion and “first” reper­cus­sional re­ac­tion within the I AM. In our at­tempts to por­tray the gen­e­sis and gen­er­a­tion of re­al­ity, this stage may be con­ceived as the self-dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of The In­fi­nite One from The In­fini­tude, but the pos­tu­la­tion of this dual re­la­tion­ship must al­ways be ex­panded to a tri­une con­cep­tion by the rec­og­ni­tion of the eter­nal con­tin­uum of The In­fin­ity, the I AM.

105:2.3This self-meta­mor­pho­sis of the I AM cul­mi­nates in the mul­ti­ple dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of de­i­fied re­al­ity and of un­de­i­fied re­al­ity, of po­ten­tial and ac­tual re­al­ity, and of cer­tain other re­al­i­ties that can hardly be so clas­si­fied. These dif­fer­en­ti­a­tions of the the­o­ret­i­cal monis­tic I AM are eter­nally in­te­grated by si­mul­ta­ne­ous re­la­tion­ships aris­ing within the same I AM—the pre­po­ten­tial, pre­ac­tual, preper­sonal, mono­thetic pre­re­al­ity which, though in­fi­nite, is re­vealed as ab­so­lute in the pres­ence of the First Source and Cen­ter and as per­son­al­ity in the lim­it­less love of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

105:2.4By these in­ter­nal meta­mor­phoses the I AM is es­tab­lish­ing the ba­sis for a sev­en­fold self-re­la­tion­ship. The philo­sophic (time) con­cept of the soli­tary I AM and the tran­si­tional (time) con­cept of the I AM as tri­une can now be en­larged to en­com­pass the I AM as sev­en­fold. This sev­en­fold—or seven phase—na­ture may be best sug­gested in re­la­tion to the Seven Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity:

105:2.51. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. I AM fa­ther of the Eter­nal Son. This is the pri­mal per­son­al­ity re­la­tion­ship of ac­tu­al­i­ties. The ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity of the Son makes ab­so­lute the fact of God’s fa­ther­hood and es­tab­lishes the po­ten­tial son­ship of all per­son­al­i­ties. This re­la­tion­ship es­tab­lishes the per­son­al­ity of the In­fi­nite and con­sum­mates its spir­i­tual rev­e­la­tion in the per­son­al­ity of the Orig­i­nal Son. This phase of the I AM is par­tially ex­pe­ri­en­ci­ble on spir­i­tual lev­els even by mor­tals who, while yet in the flesh, may wor­ship our Fa­ther.

105:2.62. The Uni­ver­sal Con­trol­ler. I AM cause of eter­nal Par­a­dise. This is the pri­mal im­per­sonal re­la­tion­ship of ac­tu­al­i­ties, the orig­i­nal non­spir­i­tual as­so­ci­a­tion. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is God-as-love; the Uni­ver­sal Con­trol­ler is God-as-pat­tern. This re­la­tion­ship es­tab­lishes the po­ten­tial of form—con­fig­u­ra­tion—and de­ter­mines the mas­ter pat­tern of im­per­sonal and non­spir­i­tual re­la­tion­ship—the mas­ter pat­tern from which all copies are made.

105:2.73. The Uni­ver­sal Cre­ator. I AM one with the Eter­nal Son. This union of the Fa­ther and the Son (in the pres­ence of Par­a­dise) ini­ti­ates the cre­ative cy­cle, which is con­sum­mated in the ap­pear­ance of con­joint per­son­al­ity and the eter­nal uni­verse. From the fi­nite mor­tal’s view­point, re­al­ity has its true be­gin­nings with the eter­nity ap­pear­ance of the Ha­vona cre­ation. This cre­ative act of De­ity is by and through the God of Ac­tion, who is in essence the unity of the Fa­ther-Son man­i­fested on and to all lev­els of the ac­tual. There­fore is di­vine cre­ativ­ity un­fail­ingly char­ac­ter­ized by unity, and this unity is the out­ward re­flec­tion of the ab­so­lute one­ness of the du­al­ity of the Fa­ther-Son and of the Trin­ity of the Fa­ther-Son-Spirit.

105:2.84. The In­fi­nite Up­holder. I AM self-as­so­cia­tive. This is the pri­mor­dial as­so­ci­a­tion of the stat­ics and po­ten­tials of re­al­ity. In this re­la­tion­ship, all qual­i­fieds and un­qual­i­fieds are com­pen­sated. This phase of the I AM is best un­der­stood as the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute—the uni­fier of the De­ity and the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lutes.

105:2.95. The In­fi­nite Po­ten­tial. I AM self-qual­i­fied. This is the in­fin­ity bench mark bear­ing eter­nal wit­ness to the vo­li­tional self-lim­i­ta­tion of the I AM by virtue of which there was achieved three­fold self-ex­pres­sion and self-rev­e­la­tion. This phase of the I AM is usu­ally un­der­stood as the De­ity Ab­so­lute.

105:2.106. The In­fi­nite Ca­pac­ity. I AM static-re­ac­tive. This is the end­less ma­trix, the pos­si­bil­ity for all fu­ture cos­mic ex­pan­sion. This phase of the I AM is per­haps best con­ceived as the super­grav­ity pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

105:2.117. The Uni­ver­sal One of In­fin­ity. I AM as I AM. This is the sta­sis or self-re­la­tion­ship of In­fin­ity, the eter­nal fact of in­fin­ity-re­al­ity and the uni­ver­sal truth of re­al­ity-in­fin­ity. In so far as this re­la­tion­ship is dis­cern­i­ble as per­son­al­ity, it is re­vealed to the uni­verses in the di­vine Fa­ther of all per­son­al­ity—even of ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity. In so far as this re­la­tion­ship is im­per­son­ally ex­press­ible, it is con­tacted by the uni­verse as the ab­so­lute co­her­ence of pure en­ergy and of pure spirit in the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. In so far as this re­la­tion­ship is con­ceiv­able as an ab­so­lute, it is re­vealed in the pri­macy of the First Source and Cen­ter; in him we all live and move and have our be­ing, from the crea­tures of space to the cit­i­zens of Par­a­dise; and this is just as true of the mas­ter uni­verse as of the in­finites­i­mal ul­ti­ma­ton, just as true of what is to be as of that which is and of what has been.