Universe Levels of Reality

106:7.1Some of the dif­fi­cul­ties in form­ing con­cepts of in­fi­nite re­al­ity in­te­gra­tion are in­her­ent in the fact that all such ideas em­brace some­thing of the fi­nal­ity of uni­ver­sal de­vel­op­ment, some kind of an ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­iza­tion of all that could ever be. And it is in­con­ceiv­able that quan­ti­ta­tive in­fin­ity could ever be com­pletely re­al­ized in fi­nal­ity. Al­ways there must re­main un­ex­plored pos­si­bil­i­ties in the three po­ten­tial Ab­so­lutes which no quan­tity of ex­pe­ri­en­tial de­vel­op­ment could ever ex­haust. Eter­nity it­self, though ab­so­lute, is not more than ab­so­lute.

106:7.2Even a ten­ta­tive con­cept of fi­nal in­te­gra­tion is in­sep­a­ra­ble from the fruitions of un­qual­i­fied eter­nity and is, there­fore, prac­ti­cally non­re­al­iz­able at any con­ceiv­able fu­ture time.

106:7.3Des­tiny is es­tab­lished by the vo­li­tional act of the De­i­ties who con­sti­tute the Par­a­dise Trin­ity; des­tiny is es­tab­lished in the vast­ness of the three great po­ten­tials whose ab­so­lute­ness en­com­passes the pos­si­bil­i­ties of all fu­ture de­vel­op­ment; des­tiny is prob­a­bly con­sum­mated by the act of the Con­sum­ma­tor of Uni­verse Des­tiny, and this act is prob­a­bly in­volved with the Su­preme and the Ul­ti­mate in the Trin­ity Ab­so­lute. Any ex­pe­ri­en­tial des­tiny can be at least par­tially com­pre­hended by ex­pe­ri­enc­ing crea­tures; but a des­tiny which im­pinges on in­fi­nite ex­is­ten­tials is hardly com­pre­hen­si­ble. Fi­nal­ity des­tiny is an ex­is­ten­tial-ex­pe­ri­en­tial at­tain­ment which ap­pears to in­volve the De­ity Ab­so­lute. But the De­ity Ab­so­lute stands in eter­nity re­la­tion­ship with the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute by virtue of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. And these three Ab­so­lutes, ex­pe­ri­en­tial in pos­si­bil­ity, are ac­tu­ally ex­is­ten­tial and more, be­ing lim­it­less, time­less, space­less, bound­less, and mea­sure­less—truly in­fi­nite.

106:7.4The im­prob­a­bil­ity of goal at­tain­ment does not, how­ever, pre­vent phil­o­soph­i­cal the­o­riz­ing about such hy­po­thet­i­cal des­tinies. The ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the De­ity Ab­so­lute as an at­tain­able ab­so­lute God may be prac­ti­cally im­pos­si­ble of re­al­iza­tion; nev­er­the­less, such a fi­nal­ity fruition re­mains a the­o­ret­i­cal pos­si­bil­ity. The in­volve­ment of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute in some in­con­ceiv­able cos­mos-in­fi­nite may be mea­sure­lessly re­mote in the fu­tu­rity of end­less eter­nity, but such a hy­poth­e­sis is nonethe­less valid. Mor­tals, mor­ontians, spir­its, fi­nal­i­ters, Tran­scen­den­talers, and oth­ers, to­gether with the uni­verses them­selves and all other phases of re­al­ity, cer­tainly do have a po­ten­tially fi­nal des­tiny that is ab­so­lute in value; but we doubt that any be­ing or uni­verse will ever com­pletely at­tain all of the as­pects of such a des­tiny.

106:7.5No mat­ter how much you may grow in Fa­ther com­pre­hen­sion, your mind will al­ways be stag­gered by the un­re­vealed in­fin­ity of the Fa­ther-I AM, the un­ex­plored vast­ness of which will al­ways re­main un­fath­omable and in­com­pre­hen­si­ble through­out all the cy­cles of eter­nity. No mat­ter how much of God you may at­tain, there will al­ways re­main much more of him, the ex­is­tence of which you will not even sus­pect. And we be­lieve that this is just as true on tran­scen­den­tal lev­els as it is in the do­mains of fi­nite ex­is­tence. The quest for God is end­less!

106:7.6Such in­abil­ity to at­tain God in a fi­nal sense should in no man­ner dis­cour­age uni­verse crea­tures; in­deed, you can and do at­tain De­ity lev­els of the Sev­en­fold, the Su­preme, and the Ul­ti­mate, which mean to you what the in­fi­nite re­al­iza­tion of God the Fa­ther means to the Eter­nal Son and to the Con­joint Ac­tor in their ab­so­lute sta­tus of eter­nity ex­is­tence. Far from ha­rass­ing the crea­ture, the in­fin­ity of God should be the su­preme as­sur­ance that through­out all end­less fu­tu­rity an as­cend­ing per­son­al­ity will have be­fore him the pos­si­bil­i­ties of per­son­al­ity de­vel­op­ment and De­ity as­so­ci­a­tion which even eter­nity will nei­ther ex­haust nor ter­mi­nate.

106:7.7To fi­nite crea­tures of the grand uni­verse the con­cept of the mas­ter uni­verse seems to be well-nigh in­fi­nite, but doubt­less the ab­so­nite ar­chi­tects thereof per­ceive its re­lat­ed­ness to fu­ture and unimag­ined de­vel­op­ments within the un­end­ing I AM. Even space it­self is but an ul­ti­mate con­di­tion, a con­di­tion of qual­i­fi­ca­tion within the rel­a­tive ab­so­lute­ness of the quiet zones of midspace.

106:7.8At the in­con­ceiv­ably dis­tant fu­ture eter­nity mo­ment of the fi­nal com­ple­tion of the en­tire mas­ter uni­verse, no doubt we will all look back upon its en­tire his­tory as only the be­gin­ning, sim­ply the cre­ation of cer­tain fi­nite and tran­scen­den­tal foun­da­tions for even greater and more en­thralling meta­mor­phoses in un­charted in­fin­ity. At such a fu­ture eter­nity mo­ment the mas­ter uni­verse will still seem youth­ful; in­deed, it will be al­ways young in the face of the lim­it­less pos­si­bil­i­ties of never-end­ing eter­nity.

106:7.9The im­prob­a­bil­ity of in­fi­nite des­tiny at­tain­ment does not in the least pre­vent the en­ter­tain­ment of ideas about such des­tiny, and we do not hes­i­tate to say that, if the three ab­so­lute po­ten­tials could ever be­come com­pletely ac­tu­al­ized, it would be pos­si­ble to con­ceive of the fi­nal in­te­gra­tion of to­tal re­al­ity. This de­vel­op­men­tal re­al­iza­tion is pred­i­cated on the com­pleted ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Un­qual­i­fied, Uni­ver­sal, and De­ity Ab­so­lutes, the three po­ten­tial­i­ties whose union con­sti­tutes the la­tency of the I AM, the sus­pended re­al­i­ties of eter­nity, the abeyant pos­si­bil­i­ties of all fu­tu­rity, and more.

106:7.10Such even­tu­al­i­ties are rather re­mote to say the least; nev­er­the­less, in the mech­a­nisms, per­son­al­i­ties, and as­so­ci­a­tions of the three Trin­i­ties we be­lieve we de­tect the the­o­ret­i­cal pos­si­bil­ity of the re­unit­ing of the seven ab­so­lute phases of the Fa­ther-I AM. And this brings us face to face with the con­cept of the three­fold Trin­ity en­com­pass­ing the Par­a­dise Trin­ity of ex­is­ten­tial sta­tus and the two sub­se­quently ap­pear­ing Trin­i­ties of ex­pe­ri­en­tial na­ture and ori­gin.