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Paper 105

Deity and Reality

Melchizedek

3. The Seven Absolutes of Infinity

105:3.1The seven prime re­la­tion­ships within the I AM eter­nal­ize as the Seven Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity. But though we may por­tray re­al­ity ori­gins and in­fin­ity dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion by a se­quen­tial nar­ra­tive, in fact all seven Ab­so­lutes are un­qual­i­fiedly and co-or­di­nately eter­nal. It may be nec­es­sary for mor­tal minds to con­ceive of their be­gin­nings, but al­ways should this con­cep­tion be over­shad­owed by the re­al­iza­tion that the seven Ab­so­lutes had no be­gin­ning; they are eter­nal and as such have al­ways been. The seven Ab­so­lutes are the premise of re­al­ity. They have been de­scribed in these pa­pers as fol­lows:

105:3.21. The First Source and Cen­ter. First Per­son of De­ity and pri­mal non­de­ity pat­tern, God, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, cre­ator, con­trol­ler, and up­holder; uni­ver­sal love, eter­nal spirit, and in­fi­nite en­ergy; po­ten­tial of all po­ten­tials and source of all ac­tu­als; sta­bil­ity of all stat­ics and dy­namism of all change; source of pat­tern and Fa­ther of per­sons. Col­lec­tively, all seven Ab­so­lutes equiv­alate to in­fin­ity, but the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther him­self ac­tu­ally is in­fi­nite.

105:3.32. The Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. Sec­ond Per­son of De­ity, the Eter­nal and Orig­i­nal Son; the ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity re­al­i­ties of the I AM and the ba­sis for the re­al­iza­tion-rev­e­la­tion of “I AM per­son­al­ity.” No per­son­al­ity can hope to at­tain the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther ex­cept through his Eter­nal Son; nei­ther can per­son­al­ity at­tain to spirit lev­els of ex­is­tence apart from the ac­tion and aid of this ab­so­lute pat­tern for all per­son­al­i­ties. In the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter spirit is un­qual­i­fied while per­son­al­ity is ab­so­lute.

105:3.43. The Par­a­dise Source and Cen­ter. Sec­ond non­de­ity pat­tern, the eter­nal Isle of Par­a­dise; the ba­sis for the re­al­iza­tion-rev­e­la­tion of “I AM force” and the foun­da­tion for the es­tab­lish­ment of grav­ity con­trol through­out the uni­verses. Re­gard­ing all ac­tu­al­ized, non­spir­i­tual, im­per­sonal, and non­vo­li­tional re­al­ity, Par­a­dise is the ab­so­lute of pat­terns. Just as spirit en­ergy is re­lated to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther through the ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity of the Mother-Son, so is all cos­mic en­ergy grasped in the grav­ity con­trol of the First Source and Cen­ter through the ab­so­lute pat­tern of the Par­a­dise Isle. Par­a­dise is not in space; space ex­ists rel­a­tive to Par­a­dise, and the chronic­ity of mo­tion is de­ter­mined through Par­a­dise re­la­tion­ship. The eter­nal Isle is ab­so­lutely at rest; all other or­ga­nized and or­ga­niz­ing en­ergy is in eter­nal mo­tion; in all space, only the pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute is qui­es­cent, and the Un­qual­i­fied is co-or­di­nate with Par­a­dise. Par­a­dise ex­ists at the fo­cus of space, the Un­qual­i­fied per­vades it, and all rel­a­tive ex­is­tence has its be­ing within this do­main.

105:3.54. The Third Source and Cen­ter. Third Per­son of De­ity, the Con­joint Ac­tor; in­fi­nite in­te­gra­tor of Par­a­dise cos­mic en­er­gies with the spirit en­er­gies of the Eter­nal Son; per­fect co-or­di­na­tor of the mo­tives of will and the me­chan­ics of force; uni­fier of all ac­tual and ac­tu­al­iz­ing re­al­ity. Through the min­is­tra­tions of his man­i­fold chil­dren the In­fi­nite Spirit re­veals the mercy of the Eter­nal Son while at the same time func­tion­ing as the in­fi­nite ma­nip­u­la­tor, for­ever weav­ing the pat­tern of Par­a­dise into the en­er­gies of space. This self­same Con­joint Ac­tor, this God of Ac­tion, is the per­fect ex­pres­sion of the lim­it­less plans and pur­poses of the Fa­ther-Son while func­tion­ing him­self as the source of mind and the be­stower of in­tel­lect upon the crea­tures of a far-flung cos­mos.

105:3.65. The De­ity Ab­so­lute. The cau­sa­tional, po­ten­tially per­sonal pos­si­bil­i­ties of uni­ver­sal re­al­ity, the to­tal­ity of all De­ity po­ten­tial. The De­ity Ab­so­lute is the pur­po­sive qual­i­fier of the un­qual­i­fied, ab­so­lute, and non­de­ity re­al­i­ties. The De­ity Ab­so­lute is the qual­i­fier of the ab­so­lute and the ab­so­l­u­tizer of the qual­i­fied—the des­tiny in­cep­tor.

105:3.76. The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. Static, re­ac­tive, and abeyant; the un­re­vealed cos­mic in­fin­ity of the I AM; to­tal­ity of non­de­i­fied re­al­ity and fi­nal­ity of all non­per­sonal po­ten­tial. Space lim­its the func­tion of the Un­qual­i­fied, but the pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied is with­out limit, in­fi­nite. There is a con­cept pe­riph­ery to the mas­ter uni­verse, but the pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied is lim­it­less; even eter­nity can­not ex­haust the bound­less qui­es­cence of this non­de­ity Ab­so­lute.

105:3.87. The Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. Uni­fier of the de­i­fied and the un­de­i­fied; cor­re­la­tor of the ab­so­lute and the rel­a­tive. The Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute (be­ing static, po­ten­tial, and as­so­cia­tive) com­pen­sates the ten­sion be­tween the ever-ex­is­tent and the un­com­pleted.

105:3.9The Seven Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity con­sti­tute the be­gin­nings of re­al­ity. As mor­tal minds would re­gard it, the First Source and Cen­ter would ap­pear to be an­te­ced­ent to all ab­so­lutes. But such a pos­tu­late, how­ever help­ful, is in­val­i­dated by the eter­nity co­ex­is­tence of the Son, the Spirit, the three Ab­so­lutes, and the Par­a­dise Isle.

105:3.10It is a truth that the Ab­so­lutes are man­i­fes­ta­tions of the I AM-First Source and Cen­ter; it is a fact that these Ab­so­lutes never had a be­gin­ning but are co-or­di­nate eter­nals with the First Source and Cen­ter. The re­la­tion­ships of ab­so­lutes in eter­nity can­not al­ways be pre­sented with­out in­volv­ing para­doxes in the lan­guage of time and in the con­cept pat­terns of space. But re­gard­less of any con­fu­sion con­cern­ing the ori­gin of the Seven Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity, it is both fact and truth that all re­al­ity is pred­i­cated upon their eter­nity ex­is­tence and in­fin­ity re­la­tion­ships.

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