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Paper 105

Deity and Reality

Melchizedek

4. Unity, Duality, and Triunity

105:4.1The uni­verse philoso­phers pos­tu­late the eter­nity ex­is­tence of the I AM as the pri­mal source of all re­al­ity. And con­comi­tant there­with they pos­tu­late the self-seg­men­ta­tion of the I AM into the pri­mary self-re­la­tion­ships—the seven phases of in­fin­ity. And si­mul­ta­ne­ous with this as­sump­tion is the third pos­tu­late—the eter­nity ap­pear­ance of the Seven Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity and the eter­nal­iza­tion of the du­al­ity as­so­ci­a­tion of the seven phases of the I AM and these seven Ab­so­lutes.

105:4.2The self-rev­e­la­tion of the I AM thus pro­ceeds from static self through self-seg­men­ta­tion and self-re­la­tion­ship to ab­so­lute re­la­tion­ships, re­la­tion­ships with self-de­rived Ab­so­lutes. Du­al­ity be­comes thus ex­is­tent in the eter­nal as­so­ci­a­tion of the Seven Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity with the sev­en­fold in­fin­ity of the self-seg­mented phases of the self-re­veal­ing I AM. These dual re­la­tion­ships, eter­nal­iz­ing to the uni­verses as the seven Ab­so­lutes, eter­nal­ize the ba­sic foun­da­tions for all uni­verse re­al­ity.

105:4.3It has been some­time stated that unity begets du­al­ity, that du­al­ity begets tri­unity, and that tri­unity is the eter­nal an­ces­tor of all things. There are, in­deed, three great classes of pri­mor­dial re­la­tion­ships, and they are:

105:4.41. Unity re­la­tion­ships. Re­la­tions ex­is­tent within the I AM as the unity thereof is con­ceived as a three­fold and then as a sev­en­fold self-dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion.

105:4.52. Du­al­ity re­la­tion­ships. Re­la­tions ex­is­tent be­tween the I AM as sev­en­fold and the Seven Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity.

105:4.63. Tri­unity re­la­tion­ships. These are the func­tional as­so­ci­a­tions of the Seven Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity.

105:4.7Tri­unity re­la­tion­ships arise upon du­al­ity foun­da­tions be­cause of the in­evitabil­ity of Ab­so­lute in­teras­so­ci­a­tion. Such tri­unity as­so­ci­a­tions eter­nal­ize the po­ten­tial of all re­al­ity; they en­com­pass both de­i­fied and un­de­i­fied re­al­ity.

105:4.8The I AM is un­qual­i­fied in­fin­ity as unity. The du­al­i­ties eter­nal­ize re­al­ity foun­da­tions. The tri­uni­ties even­tu­ate the re­al­iza­tion of in­fin­ity as uni­ver­sal func­tion.

105:4.9Pre-ex­is­ten­tials be­come ex­is­ten­tial in the seven Ab­so­lutes, and ex­is­ten­tials be­come func­tional in the tri­uni­ties, the ba­sic as­so­ci­a­tion of Ab­so­lutes. And con­comi­tant with the eter­nal­iza­tion of the tri­uni­ties the uni­verse stage is set—the po­ten­tials are ex­is­tent and the ac­tu­als are pres­ent—and the full­ness of eter­nity wit­nesses the di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of cos­mic en­ergy, the out­spread­ing of Par­a­dise spirit, and the en­dow­ment of mind to­gether with the be­stowal of per­son­al­ity, by virtue of which all of these De­ity and Par­a­dise deriva­tives are uni­fied in ex­pe­ri­ence on the crea­ture level and by other tech­niques on the super­crea­ture level.