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Paper 106

Universe Levels of Reality

Melchizedek

2. Secondary Supreme Finite Integration

106:2.1As God the Sev­en­fold func­tion­ally co-or­di­nates fi­nite evo­lu­tion, so does the Su­preme Be­ing even­tu­ally syn­the­size des­tiny at­tain­ment. The Su­preme Be­ing is the de­ity cul­mi­na­tion of grand uni­verse evo­lu­tion—phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion around a spirit nu­cleus and even­tual dom­i­nance of the spirit nu­cleus over the en­cir­cling and whirling do­mains of phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion. And all of this takes place in ac­cor­dance with the man­dates of per­son­al­ity: Par­a­dise per­son­al­ity in the high­est sense, Cre­ator per­son­al­ity in the uni­verse sense, mor­tal per­son­al­ity in the hu­man sense, Su­preme per­son­al­ity in the cul­mi­nat­ing or ex­pe­ri­en­tial to­tal­ing sense.

106:2.2The con­cept of the Su­preme must pro­vide for the dif­fer­en­tial rec­og­ni­tion of spirit per­son, evo­lu­tion­ary power, and power-per­son­al­ity syn­the­sis—the uni­fi­ca­tion of evo­lu­tion­ary power with, and its dom­i­nance by, spirit per­son­al­ity.

106:2.3Spirit, in the last anal­y­sis, comes from Par­a­dise through Ha­vona. En­ergy-mat­ter seem­ingly evolves in the depths of space and is or­ga­nized as power by the chil­dren of the In­fi­nite Spirit in con­junc­tion with the Cre­ator Sons of God. And all of this is ex­pe­ri­en­tial; it is a trans­ac­tion in time and space in­volv­ing a wide range of liv­ing be­ings in­clud­ing even Cre­ator di­vini­ties and evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures. The power mas­tery of the Cre­ator di­vini­ties in the grand uni­verse slowly ex­pands to en­com­pass the evo­lu­tion­ary set­tling and sta­bi­liz­ing of the time-space cre­ations, and this is the flow­er­ing of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial power of God the Sev­en­fold. It en­com­passes the whole gamut of di­vin­ity at­tain­ment in time and space from the Ad­juster be­stowals of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to the life be­stowals of the Par­a­dise Sons. This is earned power, demon­strated power, ex­pe­ri­en­tial power; it stands in con­trast to the eter­nity power, the un­fath­omable power, the ex­is­ten­tial power of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

106:2.4This ex­pe­ri­en­tial power aris­ing out of the di­vin­ity achieve­ments of God the Sev­en­fold it­self man­i­fests the co­he­sive qual­i­ties of di­vin­ity by syn­the­siz­ing—to­tal­iz­ing—as the al­mighty power of the at­tained ex­pe­ri­en­tial mas­tery of the evolv­ing cre­ations. And this al­mighty power in turn finds spirit-per­son­al­ity co­he­sion on the pi­lot sphere of the outer belt of Ha­vona worlds in union with the spirit per­son­al­ity of the Ha­vona pres­ence of God the Su­preme. Thus does ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity cul­mi­nate the long evo­lu­tion­ary strug­gle by in­vest­ing the power prod­uct of time and space with the spirit pres­ence and di­vine per­son­al­ity res­i­dent in the cen­tral cre­ation.

106:2.5Thus does the Su­preme Be­ing even­tu­ally at­tain to the em­brace of all of ev­ery­thing evolv­ing in time and space while in­vest­ing these qual­i­ties with spirit per­son­al­ity. Since crea­tures, even mor­tals, are per­son­al­ity par­tic­i­pants in this ma­jes­tic trans­ac­tion, so do they cer­tainly at­tain the ca­pac­ity to know the Su­preme and to per­ceive the Su­preme as true chil­dren of such an evo­lu­tion­ary De­ity.

106:2.6Mi­chael of Neb­a­don is like the Par­a­dise Fa­ther be­cause he shares his Par­a­dise per­fec­tion; so will evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals some­time at­tain to kin­ship with the ex­pe­ri­en­tial Su­preme, for they will truly share his evo­lu­tion­ary per­fec­tion.

106:2.7God the Su­preme is ex­pe­ri­en­tial; there­fore is he com­pletely ex­pe­ri­en­ci­ble. The ex­is­ten­tial re­al­i­ties of the seven Ab­so­lutes are not per­ceiv­able by the tech­nique of ex­pe­ri­ence; only the per­son­al­ity re­al­i­ties of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit can be grasped by the per­son­al­ity of the fi­nite crea­ture in the prayer-wor­ship at­ti­tude.

106:2.8Within the com­pleted power-per­son­al­ity syn­the­sis of the Su­preme Be­ing there will be as­so­ci­ated all of the ab­so­lute­ness of the sev­eral tri­odi­ties which could be so as­so­ci­ated, and this ma­jes­tic per­son­al­ity of evo­lu­tion will be ex­pe­ri­en­tially at­tain­able and un­der­stand­able by all fi­nite per­son­al­i­ties. When as­cend­ers at­tain the pos­tu­lated sev­enth stage of spirit ex­is­tence, they will therein ex­pe­ri­ence the re­al­iza­tion of a new mean­ing-value of the ab­so­lute­ness and in­fin­ity of the tri­odi­ties as such is re­vealed on sub­ab­so­lute lev­els in the Su­preme Be­ing, who is ex­pe­ri­en­ci­ble. But the at­tain­ment of these stages of max­i­mum de­vel­op­ment will prob­a­bly await the co-or­di­nate set­tling of the en­tire grand uni­verse in light and life.