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Paper 106

Universe Levels of Reality

Melchizedek

6. Absolute or Sixth-Phase Integration

106:6.1The pres­ent po­ten­tial of the mas­ter uni­verse is hardly ab­so­lute, though it may well be near-ul­ti­mate, and we deem it im­pos­si­ble to achieve the full rev­e­la­tion of ab­so­lute mean­ing-val­ues within the scope of a sub­ab­so­lute cos­mos. We there­fore en­counter con­sid­er­able dif­fi­culty in at­tempt­ing to con­ceive of a to­tal ex­pres­sion of the lim­it­less pos­si­bil­i­ties of the three Ab­so­lutes or even in at­tempt­ing to vi­su­al­ize the ex­pe­ri­en­tial per­son­al­iza­tion of God the Ab­so­lute on the now im­per­sonal level of the De­ity Ab­so­lute.

106:6.2The space-stage of the mas­ter uni­verse seems to be ad­e­quate for the ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing, for the for­ma­tion and full func­tion of the Trin­ity Ul­ti­mate, for the even­tu­a­tion of God the Ul­ti­mate, and even for the in­cep­tion of the Trin­ity Ab­so­lute. But our con­cepts re­gard­ing the full func­tion of this sec­ond ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity seem to im­ply some­thing be­yond even the wide-spread­ing mas­ter uni­verse.

106:6.3If we as­sume a cos­mos-in­fi­nite—some il­lim­itable cos­mos on be­yond the mas­ter uni­verse—and if we con­ceive that the fi­nal de­vel­op­ments of the Ab­so­lute Trin­ity will take place out on such a super­ul­ti­mate stage of ac­tion, then it be­comes pos­si­ble to con­jec­ture that the com­pleted func­tion of the Trin­ity Ab­so­lute will achieve fi­nal ex­pres­sion in the cre­ations of in­fin­ity and will con­sum­mate the ab­so­lute ac­tu­al­iza­tion of all po­ten­tials. The in­te­gra­tion and as­so­ci­a­tion of ever-en­larg­ing seg­ments of re­al­ity will ap­proach ab­so­lute­ness of sta­tus pro­por­tional to the in­clu­sion of all re­al­ity within the seg­ments thus as­so­ci­ated.

106:6.4Stated oth­er­wise: The Trin­ity Ab­so­lute, as its name im­plies, is re­ally ab­so­lute in to­tal func­tion. We do not know how an ab­so­lute func­tion can achieve to­tal ex­pres­sion on a qual­i­fied, lim­ited, or oth­er­wise re­stricted ba­sis. Hence we must as­sume that any such to­tal­ity func­tion will be un­con­di­tioned (in po­ten­tial). And it would also ap­pear that the un­con­di­tioned would also be un­lim­ited, at least from a qual­i­ta­tive stand­point, though we are not so sure re­gard­ing quan­ti­ta­tive re­la­tion­ships.

106:6.5Of this, how­ever, we are cer­tain: While the ex­is­ten­tial Par­a­dise Trin­ity is in­fi­nite, and while the ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity Ul­ti­mate is subin­fi­nite, the Trin­ity Ab­so­lute is not so easy to clas­sify. Though ex­pe­ri­en­tial in gen­e­sis and con­sti­tu­tion, it def­i­nitely im­pinges upon the ex­is­ten­tial Ab­so­lutes of po­ten­tial­ity.

106:6.6While it is hardly prof­itable for the hu­man mind to seek to grasp such far­away and super­hu­man con­cepts, we would sug­gest that the eter­nity ac­tion of the Trin­ity Ab­so­lute may be thought of as cul­mi­nat­ing in some kind of ex­pe­ri­en­tial­iza­tion of the Ab­so­lutes of po­ten­tial­ity. This would ap­pear to be a rea­son­able con­clu­sion with re­spect to the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute, if not the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute; at least we know that the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute is not only static and po­ten­tial but also as­so­cia­tive in the to­tal De­ity sense of those words. But in re­gard to the con­ceiv­able val­ues of di­vin­ity and per­son­al­ity, these con­jec­tured hap­pen­ings im­ply the per­son­al­iza­tion of the De­ity Ab­so­lute and the ap­pear­ance of those super­per­sonal val­ues and those ul­tra­p­er­sonal mean­ings in­her­ent in the per­son­al­ity com­ple­tion of God the Ab­so­lute—the third and last of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties.