Universe Levels of Reality

106:1.1The pri­mary or spirit-ori­gin phases of fi­nite re­al­ity find im­me­di­ate ex­pres­sion on crea­ture lev­els as per­fect per­son­al­i­ties and on uni­verse lev­els as the per­fect Ha­vona cre­ation. Even ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity is thus ex­pressed in the spirit per­son of God the Su­preme in Ha­vona. But the sec­ondary, evo­lu­tion­ary, time-and-mat­ter-con­di­tioned phases of the fi­nite be­come cos­mi­cally in­te­grated only as a re­sult of growth and at­tain­ment. Even­tu­ally all sec­ondary or per­fect­ing finites are to at­tain a level equal to that of pri­mary per­fec­tion, but such des­tiny is sub­ject to a time de­lay, a con­sti­tu­tive super­uni­verse qual­i­fi­ca­tion which is not ge­net­i­cally found in the cen­tral cre­ation. (We know of the ex­is­tence of ter­tiary finites, but the tech­nique of their in­te­gra­tion is as yet un­re­vealed.)

106:1.2This super­uni­verse time lag, this ob­sta­cle to per­fec­tion at­tain­ment, pro­vides for crea­ture par­tic­i­pa­tion in evo­lu­tion­ary growth. It thus makes it pos­si­ble for the crea­ture to en­ter into part­ner­ship with the Cre­ator in the evo­lu­tion of that self­same crea­ture. And dur­ing these times of ex­pand­ing growth the in­com­plete is cor­re­lated with the per­fect through the min­istry of God the Sev­en­fold.

106:1.3God the Sev­en­fold sig­ni­fies the rec­og­ni­tion by Par­a­dise De­ity of the bar­ri­ers of time in the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses of space. No mat­ter how re­mote from Par­a­dise, how deep in space, a ma­te­rial sur­vival per­son­al­ity may take ori­gin, God the Sev­en­fold will be found there pres­ent and en­gaged in the lov­ing and mer­ci­ful min­istry of truth, beauty, and good­ness to such an in­com­plete, strug­gling, and evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture. The di­vin­ity min­istry of the Sev­en­fold reaches in­ward through the Eter­nal Son to the Par­a­dise Fa­ther and out­ward through the An­cients of Days to the uni­verse Fa­thers—the Cre­ator Sons.

106:1.4Man, be­ing per­sonal and as­cend­ing by spir­i­tual pro­gres­sion, finds the per­sonal and spir­i­tual di­vin­ity of the Sev­en­fold De­ity; but there are other phases of the Sev­en­fold which are not con­cerned with the pro­gres­sion of per­son­al­ity. The di­vin­ity as­pects of this De­ity group­ing are at pres­ent in­te­grated in the li­ai­son be­tween the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and the Con­joint Ac­tor, but they are des­tined to be eter­nally uni­fied in the emerg­ing per­son­al­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing. The other phases of the Sev­en­fold De­ity are var­i­ously in­te­grated in the pres­ent uni­verse age, but all are like­wise des­tined to be uni­fied in the Su­preme. The Sev­en­fold, in all phases, is the source of the rel­a­tive unity of the func­tional re­al­ity of the pres­ent grand uni­verse.