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Paper 10

The Paradise Trinity

Universal Censor

2. Deity Personalization

10:2.1By the tech­nique of trin­i­ti­za­tion the Fa­ther di­vests him­self of that un­qual­i­fied spirit per­son­al­ity which is the Son, but in so do­ing he con­sti­tutes him­self the Fa­ther of this very Son and thereby pos­sesses him­self of un­lim­ited ca­pac­ity to be­come the di­vine Fa­ther of all sub­se­quently cre­ated, even­tu­ated, or other per­son­al­ized types of in­tel­li­gent will crea­tures. As the ab­so­lute and un­qual­i­fied per­son­al­ity the Fa­ther can func­tion only as and with the Son, but as a per­sonal Fa­ther he con­tin­ues to be­stow per­son­al­ity upon the di­verse hosts of the dif­fer­ing lev­els of in­tel­li­gent will crea­tures, and he for­ever main­tains per­sonal re­la­tions of lov­ing as­so­ci­a­tion with this vast fam­ily of uni­verse chil­dren.

10:2.2Af­ter the Fa­ther has be­stowed upon the per­son­al­ity of his Son the full­ness of him­self, and when this act of self-be­stowal is com­plete and per­fect, of the in­fi­nite power and na­ture which are thus ex­is­tent in the Fa­ther-Son union, the eter­nal part­ners con­jointly be­stow those qual­i­ties and at­tri­butes which con­sti­tute still an­other be­ing like them­selves; and this con­joint per­son­al­ity, the In­fi­nite Spirit, com­pletes the ex­is­ten­tial per­son­al­iza­tion of De­ity.

10:2.3The Son is in­dis­pens­able to the fa­ther­hood of God. The Spirit is in­dis­pens­able to the fra­ter­nity of the Sec­ond and Third Per­sons. Three per­sons are a min­i­mum so­cial group, but this is least of all the many rea­sons for be­liev­ing in the in­evitabil­ity of the Con­joint Ac­tor.

10:2.4The First Source and Cen­ter is the in­fi­nite fa­ther-per­son­al­ity, the un­lim­ited source per­son­al­ity. The Eter­nal Son is the un­qual­i­fied per­son­al­ity-ab­so­lute, that di­vine be­ing who stands through­out all time and eter­nity as the per­fect rev­e­la­tion of the per­sonal na­ture of God. The In­fi­nite Spirit is the con­joint per­son­al­ity, the unique per­sonal con­se­quence of the ev­er­last­ing Fa­ther-Son union.

10:2.5The per­son­al­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter is the per­son­al­ity of in­fin­ity mi­nus the ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son. The per­son­al­ity of the Third Source and Cen­ter is the super­ad­di­tive con­se­quence of the union of the lib­er­ated Fa­ther-per­son­al­ity and the ab­so­lute Son-per­son­al­ity.

10:2.6The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, and the In­fi­nite Spirit are unique per­sons; none is a du­pli­cate; each is orig­i­nal; all are united.

10:2.7The Eter­nal Son alone ex­pe­ri­ences the full­ness of di­vine per­son­al­ity re­la­tion­ship, con­scious­ness of both son­ship with the Fa­ther and pa­ter­nity to the Spirit and of di­vine equal­ity with both Fa­ther-an­ces­tor and Spirit-as­so­ciate. The Fa­ther knows the ex­pe­ri­ence of hav­ing a Son who is his equal, but the Fa­ther knows no an­ces­tral an­tecedents. The Eter­nal Son has the ex­pe­ri­ence of son­ship, rec­og­ni­tion of per­son­al­ity an­ces­try, and at the same time the Son is con­scious of be­ing joint par­ent to the In­fi­nite Spirit. The In­fi­nite Spirit is con­scious of two­fold per­son­al­ity an­ces­try but is not pa­ren­tal to a co-or­di­nate De­ity per­son­al­ity. With the Spirit the ex­is­ten­tial cy­cle of De­ity per­son­al­iza­tion at­tains com­ple­tion; the pri­mary per­son­al­i­ties of the Third Source and Cen­ter are ex­pe­ri­en­tial and are seven in num­ber.

10:2.8I am of ori­gin in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. I know the Trin­ity as uni­fied De­ity; I also know that the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit ex­ist and act in their def­i­nite per­sonal ca­pac­i­ties. I pos­i­tively know that they not only act per­son­ally and col­lec­tively, but that they also co-or­di­nate their per­for­mances in var­i­ous group­ings, so that in the end they func­tion in seven dif­fer­ent sin­gu­lar and plu­ral ca­pac­i­ties. And since these seven as­so­ci­a­tions ex­haust the pos­si­bil­i­ties for such di­vin­ity com­bi­na­tion, it is in­ev­i­ta­ble that the re­al­i­ties of the uni­verse shall ap­pear in seven vari­a­tions of val­ues, mean­ings, and per­son­al­ity.