Universe Levels of Reality

106:9.1In the con­cept of the Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties we pos­tu­late the pos­si­ble ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­fi­ca­tion of lim­it­less re­al­ity, and we some­times the­o­rize that all this may hap­pen in the ut­ter re­mote­ness of far-dis­tant eter­nity. But there is nonethe­less an ac­tual and pres­ent uni­fi­ca­tion of in­fin­ity in this very age as in all past and fu­ture uni­verse ages; such uni­fi­ca­tion is ex­is­ten­tial in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. In­fin­ity uni­fi­ca­tion as an ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­ity is un­think­ably re­mote, but an un­qual­i­fied unity of in­fin­ity now dom­i­nates the pres­ent mo­ment of uni­verse ex­is­tence and unites the di­ver­gen­cies of all re­al­ity with an ex­is­ten­tial majesty that is ab­so­lute.

106:9.2When fi­nite crea­tures at­tempt to con­ceive of in­fi­nite uni­fi­ca­tion on the fi­nal­ity lev­els of con­sum­mated eter­nity, they are face to face with in­tel­lect lim­i­ta­tions in­her­ent in their fi­nite ex­is­tences. Time, space, and ex­pe­ri­ence con­sti­tute bar­ri­ers to crea­ture con­cept; and yet, with­out time, apart from space, and ex­cept for ex­pe­ri­ence, no crea­ture could achieve even a lim­ited com­pre­hen­sion of uni­verse re­al­ity. With­out time sen­si­tiv­ity, no evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture could pos­si­bly per­ceive the re­la­tions of se­quence. With­out space per­cep­tion, no crea­ture could fathom the re­la­tions of si­mul­tane­ity. With­out ex­pe­ri­ence, no evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture could even ex­ist; only the Seven Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity re­ally tran­scend ex­pe­ri­ence, and even these may be ex­pe­ri­en­tial in cer­tain phases.

106:9.3Time, space, and ex­pe­ri­ence are man’s great­est aids to rel­a­tive re­al­ity per­cep­tion and yet his most formidable ob­sta­cles to com­plete re­al­ity per­cep­tion. Mor­tals and many other uni­verse crea­tures find it nec­es­sary to think of po­ten­tials as be­ing ac­tu­al­ized in space and evolv­ing to fruition in time, but this en­tire pro­cess is a time-space phe­nom­e­non which does not ac­tu­ally take place on Par­a­dise and in eter­nity. On the ab­so­lute level there is nei­ther time nor space; all po­ten­tials may be there per­ceived as ac­tu­als.

106:9.4The con­cept of the uni­fi­ca­tion of all re­al­ity, be it in this or any other uni­verse age, is ba­si­cally two­fold: ex­is­ten­tial and ex­pe­ri­en­tial. Such a unity is in pro­cess of ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­iza­tion in the Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties, but the de­gree of the ap­par­ent ac­tu­al­iza­tion of this three­fold Trin­ity is di­rectly pro­por­tional to the dis­ap­pear­ance of the qual­i­fi­ca­tions and im­per­fec­tions of re­al­ity in the cos­mos. But to­tal in­te­gra­tion of re­al­ity is un­qual­i­fiedly and eter­nally and ex­is­ten­tially pres­ent in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, within which, at this very uni­verse mo­ment, in­fi­nite re­al­ity is ab­so­lutely uni­fied.

106:9.5The para­dox cre­ated by the ex­pe­ri­en­tial and the ex­is­ten­tial view­points is in­ev­i­ta­ble and is pred­i­cated in part on the fact that the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and the Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties are each an eter­nity re­la­tion­ship which mor­tals can only per­ceive as a time-space rel­a­tiv­ity. The hu­man con­cept of the grad­ual ex­pe­ri­en­tial ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties—the time view­point—must be sup­ple­mented by the ad­di­tional pos­tu­late that this is al­ready a fac­tu­al­iza­tion—the eter­nity view­point. But how can these two view­points be rec­on­ciled? To fi­nite mor­tals we sug­gest the ac­cep­tance of the truth that the Par­a­dise Trin­ity is the ex­is­ten­tial uni­fi­ca­tion of in­fin­ity, and that the in­abil­ity to de­tect the ac­tual pres­ence and com­pleted man­i­fes­ta­tion of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties is in part due to re­cip­ro­cal dis­tor­tion be­cause of:

106:9.61. The lim­ited hu­man view­point, the in­abil­ity to grasp the con­cept of un­qual­i­fied eter­nity.

106:9.72. The im­per­fect hu­man sta­tus, the re­mote­ness from the ab­so­lute level of ex­pe­ri­en­tials.

106:9.83. The pur­pose of hu­man ex­is­tence, the fact that man­kind is de­signed to evolve by the tech­nique of ex­pe­ri­ence and, there­fore, must be in­her­ently and con­sti­tu­tively de­pen­dent on ex­pe­ri­ence. Only an Ab­so­lute can be both ex­is­ten­tial and ex­pe­ri­en­tial.

106:9.9The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity is the I AM of the Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties, and the fail­ure to ex­pe­ri­ence the Fa­ther as in­fi­nite is due to fi­nite lim­i­ta­tions. The con­cept of the ex­is­ten­tial, soli­tary, pre-Trin­ity nonat­tain­able I AM and the pos­tu­late of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial post-Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties and at­tain­able I AM are one and the same hy­poth­e­sis; no ac­tual change has taken place in the In­fi­nite; all ap­par­ent de­vel­op­ments are due to in­creased ca­pac­i­ties for re­al­ity re­cep­tion and cos­mic ap­pre­ci­a­tion.

106:9.10The I AM, in the fi­nal anal­y­sis, must ex­ist be­fore all ex­is­ten­tials and af­ter all ex­pe­ri­en­tials. While these ideas may not clar­ify the para­doxes of eter­nity and in­fin­ity in the hu­man mind, they should at least stim­u­late such fi­nite in­tel­lects to grap­ple anew with these never-end­ing prob­lems, prob­lems which will con­tinue to in­trigue you on Sal­ving­ton and later as fi­nal­i­ters and on through­out the un­end­ing fu­ture of your eter­nal ca­reers in the wide-spread­ing uni­verses.

106:9.11Sooner or later all uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties be­gin to re­al­ize that the fi­nal quest of eter­nity is the end­less ex­plo­ration of in­fin­ity, the never-end­ing voy­age of dis­cov­ery into the ab­so­lute­ness of the First Source and Cen­ter. Sooner or later we all be­come aware that all crea­ture growth is pro­por­tional to Fa­ther iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. We ar­rive at the un­der­stand­ing that liv­ing the will of God is the eter­nal pass­port to the end­less pos­si­bil­ity of in­fin­ity it­self. Mor­tals will some­time re­al­ize that suc­cess in the quest of the In­fi­nite is di­rectly pro­por­tional to the achieve­ment of Fa­ther­like­ness, and that in this uni­verse age the re­al­i­ties of the Fa­ther are re­vealed within the qual­i­ties of di­vin­ity. And these qual­i­ties of di­vin­ity are per­son­ally ap­pro­pri­ated by uni­verse crea­tures in the ex­pe­ri­ence of liv­ing di­vinely, and to live di­vinely means ac­tu­ally to live the will of God.

106:9.12To ma­te­rial, evo­lu­tion­ary, fi­nite crea­tures, a life pred­i­cated on the liv­ing of the Fa­ther’s will leads di­rectly to the at­tain­ment of spirit su­prem­acy in the per­son­al­ity arena and brings such crea­tures one step nearer the com­pre­hen­sion of the Fa­ther-In­fi­nite. Such a Fa­ther life is one pred­i­cated on truth, sen­si­tive to beauty, and dom­i­nated by good­ness. Such a God-know­ing per­son is in­wardly il­lu­mi­nated by wor­ship and out­wardly de­voted to the whole­hearted ser­vice of the uni­ver­sal broth­er­hood of all per­son­al­i­ties, a ser­vice min­istry which is filled with mercy and mo­ti­vated by love, while all these life qual­i­ties are uni­fied in the evolv­ing per­son­al­ity on ever-as­cend­ing lev­els of cos­mic wis­dom, self-re­al­iza­tion, God-find­ing, and Fa­ther wor­ship.

106:9.13[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]