Deity and Reality

105:7.1Tran­scen­den­tals are subin­fi­nite and sub­ab­so­lute but super­fi­nite and super­crea­tural. Tran­scen­den­tals even­tu­ate as an in­te­grat­ing level cor­re­lat­ing the super­val­ues of ab­so­lutes with the max­i­mum val­ues of finites. From the crea­ture stand­point, that which is tran­scen­den­tal would ap­pear to have even­tu­ated as a con­se­quence of the fi­nite; from the eter­nity view­point, in an­tic­i­pa­tion of the fi­nite; and there are those who have con­sid­ered it as a “pre-echo” of the fi­nite.

105:7.2That which is tran­scen­den­tal is not nec­es­sar­ily non­de­vel­op­men­tal, but it is super­evo­lu­tional in the fi­nite sense; nei­ther is it non­ex­pe­ri­en­tial, but it is super­ex­pe­ri­ence as such is mean­ing­ful to crea­tures. Per­haps the best il­lus­tra­tion of such a para­dox is the cen­tral uni­verse of per­fec­tion: It is hardly ab­so­lute—only the Par­a­dise Isle is truly ab­so­lute in the “ma­te­ri­al­ized” sense. Nei­ther is it a fi­nite evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ation as are the seven super­uni­verses. Ha­vona is eter­nal but not change­less in the sense of be­ing a uni­verse of non­growth. It is in­hab­ited by crea­tures (Ha­vona na­tives) who never were ac­tu­ally cre­ated, for they are eter­nally ex­is­tent. Ha­vona thus il­lus­trates some­thing which is not ex­actly fi­nite nor yet ab­so­lute. Ha­vona fur­ther acts as a buffer be­tween ab­so­lute Par­a­dise and fi­nite cre­ations, still fur­ther il­lus­trat­ing the func­tion of tran­scen­den­tals. But Ha­vona it­self is not a tran­scen­den­tal—it is Ha­vona.

105:7.3As the Su­preme is as­so­ci­ated with finites, so the Ul­ti­mate is iden­ti­fied with tran­scen­den­tals. But though we thus com­pare Su­preme and Ul­ti­mate, they dif­fer by some­thing more than de­gree; the dif­fer­ence is also a mat­ter of qual­ity. The Ul­ti­mate is some­thing more than a su­per-Su­preme pro­jected on the tran­scen­den­tal level. The Ul­ti­mate is all of that, but more: The Ul­ti­mate is an even­tu­a­tion of new De­ity re­al­i­ties, the qual­i­fi­ca­tion of new phases of the thereto­fore un­qual­i­fied.

105:7.4Among those re­al­i­ties which are as­so­ci­ated with the tran­scen­den­tal level are the fol­low­ing:

105:7.51. The De­ity pres­ence of the Ul­ti­mate.

105:7.62. The con­cept of the mas­ter uni­verse.

105:7.73. The Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.

105:7.84. The two or­ders of Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers.

105:7.95. Cer­tain mod­i­fi­ca­tions in space po­tency.

105:7.106. Cer­tain val­ues of spirit.

105:7.117. Cer­tain mean­ings of mind.

105:7.128. Ab­so­nite qual­i­ties and re­al­i­ties.

105:7.139. Om­nipo­tence, om­ni­science, and om­nipres­ence.

105:7.1410. Space.

105:7.15The uni­verse in which we now live may be thought of as ex­ist­ing on fi­nite, tran­scen­den­tal, and ab­so­lute lev­els. This is the cos­mic stage on which is en­acted the end­less drama of per­son­al­ity per­for­mance and en­ergy meta­mor­pho­sis.

105:7.16And all of these man­i­fold re­al­i­ties are uni­fied ab­so­lutely by the sev­eral tri­uni­ties, func­tion­ally by the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse, and rel­a­tively by the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, the sub­supreme co-or­di­na­tors of the di­vin­ity of God the Sev­en­fold.

105:7.17God the Sev­en­fold rep­re­sents the per­son­al­ity and di­vin­ity rev­e­la­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to crea­tures of both max­i­mum and sub­max­i­mum sta­tus, but there are other sev­en­fold re­la­tion­ships of the First Source and Cen­ter which do not per­tain to the man­i­fes­ta­tion of the di­vine spir­i­tual min­istry of the God who is spirit.

105:7.18In the eter­nity of the past the forces of the Ab­so­lutes, the spir­its of the De­i­ties, and the per­son­al­i­ties of the Gods stirred in re­sponse to the pri­mor­dial self-will of self-ex­is­tent self-will. In this uni­verse age we are all wit­ness­ing the stu­pen­dous reper­cus­sions of the far-flung cos­mic pan­o­rama of the sub­ab­so­lute man­i­fes­ta­tions of the lim­it­less po­ten­tials of all these re­al­i­ties. And it is al­to­gether pos­si­ble that the con­tin­ued di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of the orig­i­nal re­al­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter may pro­ceed on­ward and out­ward through­out age upon age, on and on, into the far­away and in­con­ceiv­able stretches of ab­so­lute in­fin­ity.

105:7.19[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]