The Paradise Trinity

10:5.1The per­sonal De­i­ties have at­tri­butes, but it is hardly con­sis­tent to speak of the Trin­ity as hav­ing at­tri­butes. This as­so­ci­a­tion of di­vine be­ings may more prop­erly be re­garded as hav­ing func­tions, such as jus­tice ad­min­is­tra­tion, to­tal­ity at­ti­tudes, co-or­di­nate ac­tion, and cos­mic over­con­trol. These func­tions are ac­tively su­preme, ul­ti­mate, and (within the lim­its of De­ity) ab­so­lute as far as all liv­ing re­al­i­ties of per­son­al­ity value are con­cerned.

10:5.2The func­tions of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity are not sim­ply the sum of the Fa­ther’s ap­par­ent en­dow­ment of di­vin­ity plus those spe­cial­ized at­tri­butes that are unique in the per­sonal ex­is­tence of the Son and the Spirit. The Trin­ity as­so­ci­a­tion of the three Par­a­dise De­i­ties re­sults in the evo­lu­tion, even­tu­a­tion, and deiti­za­tion of new mean­ings, val­ues, pow­ers, and ca­pac­i­ties for uni­ver­sal rev­e­la­tion, ac­tion, and ad­min­is­tra­tion. Liv­ing as­so­ci­a­tions, hu­man fam­i­lies, so­cial groups, or the Par­a­dise Trin­ity are not aug­mented by mere arith­meti­cal sum­ma­tion. The group po­ten­tial is al­ways far in ex­cess of the sim­ple sum of the at­tri­butes of the com­po­nent in­di­vid­u­als.

10:5.3The Trin­ity main­tains a unique at­ti­tude as the Trin­ity to­wards the en­tire uni­verse of the past, pres­ent, and fu­ture. And the func­tions of the Trin­ity can best be con­sid­ered in re­la­tion to the uni­verse at­ti­tudes of the Trin­ity. Such at­ti­tudes are si­mul­ta­ne­ous and may be mul­ti­ple con­cern­ing any iso­lated sit­u­a­tion or event:

10:5.41. At­ti­tude to­ward the Fi­nite. The max­i­mum self-lim­i­ta­tion of the Trin­ity is its at­ti­tude to­ward the fi­nite. The Trin­ity is not a per­son, nor is the Su­preme Be­ing an ex­clu­sive per­son­al­iza­tion of the Trin­ity, but the Su­preme is the near­est ap­proach to a power-per­son­al­ity fo­cal­iza­tion of the Trin­ity which can be com­pre­hended by fi­nite crea­tures. Hence the Trin­ity in re­la­tion to the fi­nite is some­times spo­ken of as the Trin­ity of Su­prem­acy.

10:5.52. At­ti­tude to­ward the Ab­so­nite. The Par­a­dise Trin­ity has re­gard for those lev­els of ex­is­tence which are more than fi­nite but less than ab­so­lute, and this re­la­tion­ship is some­times de­nom­i­nated the Trin­ity of Ul­ti­macy. Nei­ther the Ul­ti­mate nor the Su­preme are wholly rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, but in a qual­i­fied sense and to their re­spec­tive lev­els, each seems to rep­re­sent the Trin­ity dur­ing the preper­sonal eras of ex­pe­ri­en­tial-power de­vel­op­ment.

10:5.63. The Ab­so­lute At­ti­tude of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity is in re­la­tion to ab­so­lute ex­is­tences and cul­mi­nates in the ac­tion of to­tal De­ity.

10:5.7The Trin­ity In­fi­nite in­volves the co-or­di­nate ac­tion of all tri­unity re­la­tion­ships of the First Source and Cen­ter—un­de­i­fied as well as de­i­fied—and hence is very dif­fi­cult for per­son­al­i­ties to grasp. In the con­tem­pla­tion of the Trin­ity as in­fi­nite, do not ig­nore the seven tri­uni­ties; thereby cer­tain dif­fi­cul­ties of un­der­stand­ing may be avoided, and cer­tain para­doxes may be par­tially re­solved.

10:5.8But I do not com­mand lan­guage which would en­able me to con­vey to the lim­ited hu­man mind the full truth and the eter­nal sig­nif­i­cance of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and the na­ture of the never-end­ing in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of the three be­ings of in­fi­nite per­fec­tion.