The Paradise Trinity

10:1.1It would seem that the Fa­ther, back in eter­nity, in­au­gu­rated a pol­icy of pro­found self-dis­tri­bu­tion. There is in­her­ent in the self­less, lov­ing, and lov­able na­ture of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther some­thing which causes him to re­serve to him­self the ex­er­cise of only those pow­ers and that au­thor­ity which he ap­par­ently finds it im­pos­si­ble to del­e­gate or to be­stow.

10:1.2The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther all along has di­vested him­self of ev­ery part of him­self that was be­stow­able on any other Cre­ator or crea­ture. He has del­e­gated to his di­vine Sons and their as­so­ci­ated in­tel­li­gences ev­ery power and all au­thor­ity that could be del­e­gated. He has ac­tu­ally trans­ferred to his Sov­er­eign Sons, in their re­spec­tive uni­verses, ev­ery pre­rog­a­tive of ad­min­is­tra­tive au­thor­ity that was trans­fer­able. In the af­fairs of a lo­cal uni­verse, he has made each Sov­er­eign Cre­ator Son just as per­fect, com­pe­tent, and au­thor­i­ta­tive as is the Eter­nal Son in the orig­i­nal and cen­tral uni­verse. He has given away, ac­tu­ally be­stowed, with the dig­nity and sanc­tity of per­son­al­ity pos­ses­sion, all of him­self and all of his at­tri­butes, ev­ery­thing he pos­si­bly could di­vest him­self of, in ev­ery way, in ev­ery age, in ev­ery place, and to ev­ery per­son, and in ev­ery uni­verse ex­cept that of his cen­tral in­dwelling.

10:1.3Di­vine per­son­al­ity is not self-cen­tered; self-dis­tri­bu­tion and shar­ing of per­son­al­ity char­ac­ter­ize di­vine free­will self­hood. Crea­tures crave as­so­ci­a­tion with other per­sonal crea­tures; Cre­ators are moved to share di­vin­ity with their uni­verse chil­dren; the per­son­al­ity of the In­fi­nite is dis­closed as the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, who shares re­al­ity of be­ing and equal­ity of self with two co-or­di­nate per­son­al­i­ties, the Eter­nal Son and the Con­joint Ac­tor.

10:1.4For knowl­edge con­cern­ing the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity and di­vine at­tri­butes we will al­ways be de­pen­dent on the rev­e­la­tions of the Eter­nal Son, for when the con­joint act of cre­ation was ef­fected, when the Third Per­son of De­ity sprang into per­son­al­ity ex­is­tence and ex­e­cuted the com­bined con­cepts of his di­vine par­ents, the Fa­ther ceased to ex­ist as the un­qual­i­fied per­son­al­ity. With the com­ing into be­ing of the Con­joint Ac­tor and the ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion of the cen­tral core of cre­ation, cer­tain eter­nal changes took place. God gave him­self as an ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity to his Eter­nal Son. Thus does the Fa­ther be­stow the “per­son­al­ity of in­fin­ity” upon his only-be­got­ten Son, while they both be­stow the “con­joint per­son­al­ity” of their eter­nal union upon the In­fi­nite Spirit.

10:1.5For these and other rea­sons be­yond the con­cept of the fi­nite mind, it is ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult for the hu­man crea­ture to com­pre­hend God’s in­fi­nite fa­ther-per­son­al­ity ex­cept as it is uni­ver­sally re­vealed in the Eter­nal Son and, with the Son, is uni­ver­sally ac­tive in the In­fi­nite Spirit.

10:1.6Since the Par­a­dise Sons of God visit the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds and some­times even there dwell in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, and since these be­stowals make it pos­si­ble for mor­tal man ac­tu­ally to know some­thing of the na­ture and char­ac­ter of di­vine per­son­al­ity, there­fore must the crea­tures of the plan­e­tary spheres look to the be­stowals of these Par­a­dise Sons for re­li­able and trust­wor­thy in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing the Fa­ther, the Son, and the Spirit.