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Paper 106

Universe Levels of Reality

Melchizedek

5. Coabsolute or Fifth-Phase Association

106:5.1The Ul­ti­mate is the apex of tran­scen­den­tal re­al­ity even as the Su­preme is the cap­stone of evo­lu­tion­ary-ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­ity. And the ac­tual emer­gence of these two ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties lays the foun­da­tion for the sec­ond ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity. This is the Trin­ity Ab­so­lute, the union of God the Su­preme, God the Ul­ti­mate, and the un­re­vealed Con­sum­ma­tor of Uni­verse Des­tiny. And this Trin­ity has the­o­ret­i­cal ca­pac­ity to ac­ti­vate the Ab­so­lutes of po­ten­tial­ity—De­ity, Uni­ver­sal, and Un­qual­i­fied. But the com­pleted for­ma­tion of this Trin­ity Ab­so­lute could take place only af­ter the com­pleted evo­lu­tion of the en­tire mas­ter uni­verse, from Ha­vona to the fourth and out­er­most space level.

106:5.2It should be made clear that these ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­i­ties are cor­rel­a­tive, not only of the per­son­al­ity qual­i­ties of ex­pe­ri­en­tial Di­vin­ity, but also of all the other-than-per­sonal qual­i­ties which char­ac­ter­ize their at­tained De­ity unity. While this pre­sen­ta­tion deals pri­mar­ily with the per­sonal phases of the uni­fi­ca­tion of the cos­mos, it is nonethe­less true that the im­per­sonal as­pects of the uni­verse of uni­verses are like­wise des­tined to un­dergo uni­fi­ca­tion as is il­lus­trated by the power-per­son­al­ity syn­the­sis now go­ing on in con­nec­tion with the evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing. The spirit-per­sonal qual­i­ties of the Su­preme are in­sep­a­ra­ble from the power pre­rog­a­tives of the Al­mighty, and both are com­ple­mented by the un­known po­ten­tial of Su­preme Mind. Nei­ther can God the Ul­ti­mate as a per­son be con­sid­ered apart from the other-than-per­sonal as­pects of Ul­ti­mate De­ity. And on the ab­so­lute level the De­ity and the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lutes are in­sep­a­ra­ble and in­dis­tin­guish­able in the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute.

106:5.3Trin­i­ties are, in and of them­selves, not per­sonal, but nei­ther do they con­tra­vene per­son­al­ity. Rather do they en­com­pass it and cor­re­late it, in a col­lec­tive sense, with im­per­sonal func­tions. Trin­i­ties are, then, al­ways de­ity re­al­ity but never per­son­al­ity re­al­ity. The per­son­al­ity as­pects of a trin­ity are in­her­ent in its in­di­vid­ual mem­bers, and as in­di­vid­ual per­sons they are not that trin­ity. Only as a col­lec­tive are they trin­ity; that is trin­ity. But al­ways is trin­ity in­clu­sive of all en­com­passed de­ity; trin­ity is de­ity unity.

106:5.4The three Ab­so­lutes—De­ity, Uni­ver­sal, and Un­qual­i­fied—are not trin­ity, for all are not de­ity. Only the de­i­fied can be­come trin­ity; all other as­so­ci­a­tions are tri­uni­ties or tri­odi­ties.

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