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Paper 105

Deity and Reality

Melchizedek

6. Repercussions of Finite Reality

105:6.1The en­tire pro­mul­ga­tion of fi­nite ex­is­tences rep­re­sents a trans­fer­ence from po­ten­tials to ac­tu­als within the ab­so­lute as­so­ci­a­tions of func­tional in­fin­ity. Of the many reper­cus­sions to cre­ative ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the fi­nite, there may be cited:

105:6.21. The de­ity re­sponse, the ap­pear­ance of the three lev­els of ex­pe­ri­en­tial su­prem­acy: the ac­tu­al­ity of per­sonal-spirit su­prem­acy in Ha­vona, the po­ten­tial for per­sonal-power su­prem­acy in the grand uni­verse to be, and the ca­pac­ity for some un­known func­tion of ex­pe­ri­en­tial mind act­ing on some level of su­prem­acy in the fu­ture mas­ter uni­verse.

105:6.32. The uni­verse re­sponse in­volved an ac­ti­va­tion of the ar­chi­tec­tural plans for the super­uni­verse space level, and this evo­lu­tion is still pro­gress­ing through­out the phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion of the seven super­uni­verses.

105:6.43. The crea­ture reper­cus­sion to fi­nite-re­al­ity pro­mul­ga­tion re­sulted in the ap­pear­ance of per­fect be­ings on the or­der of the eter­nal in­hab­i­tants of Ha­vona and of per­fected evo­lu­tion­ary as­cend­ers from the seven super­uni­verses. But to at­tain per­fec­tion as an evo­lu­tion­ary (time-cre­ative) ex­pe­ri­ence im­plies some­thing other-than-per­fec­tion as a point of de­par­ture. Thus arises im­per­fec­tion in the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ations. And this is the ori­gin of po­ten­tial evil. Mis­adap­ta­tion, dishar­mony, and con­flict, all these things are in­her­ent in evo­lu­tion­ary growth, from phys­i­cal uni­verses to per­sonal crea­tures.

105:6.54. The di­vin­ity re­sponse to the im­per­fec­tion in­her­ent in the time lag of evo­lu­tion is dis­closed in the com­pen­sat­ing pres­ence of God the Sev­en­fold, by whose ac­tiv­i­ties that which is per­fect­ing is in­te­grated with both the per­fect and the per­fected. This time lag is in­sep­a­ra­ble from evo­lu­tion, which is cre­ativ­ity in time. Be­cause of it, as well as for other rea­sons, the al­mighty power of the Su­preme is pred­i­cated on the di­vin­ity suc­cesses of God the Sev­en­fold. This time lag makes pos­si­ble crea­ture par­tic­i­pa­tion in di­vine cre­ation by per­mit­ting crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties to be­come part­ners with De­ity in the at­tain­ment of max­i­mum de­vel­op­ment. Even the ma­te­rial mind of the mor­tal crea­ture thus be­comes part­ner with the di­vine Ad­juster in the du­al­iza­tion of the im­mor­tal soul. God the Sev­en­fold also pro­vides tech­niques of com­pen­sa­tion for the ex­pe­ri­en­tial lim­i­ta­tions of in­her­ent per­fec­tion as well as com­pen­sat­ing the preas­cen­sion lim­i­ta­tions of im­per­fec­tion.