The Paradise Trinity

10:7.1The First, Sec­ond, and Third Per­sons of De­ity are equal to each other, and they are one. “The Lord our God is one God.” There is per­fec­tion of pur­pose and one­ness of ex­e­cu­tion in the di­vine Trin­ity of eter­nal De­i­ties. The Fa­ther, the Son, and the Con­joint Ac­tor are truly and di­vinely one. Of a truth it is writ­ten: “I am the first, and I am the last, and be­side me there is no God.”

10:7.2As things ap­pear to the mor­tal on the fi­nite level, the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, like the Su­preme Be­ing, is con­cerned only with the to­tal—to­tal planet, to­tal uni­verse, to­tal super­uni­verse, to­tal grand uni­verse. This to­tal­ity at­ti­tude ex­ists be­cause the Trin­ity is the to­tal of De­ity and for many other rea­sons.

10:7.3The Su­preme Be­ing is some­thing less and some­thing other than the Trin­ity func­tion­ing in the fi­nite uni­verses; but within cer­tain lim­its and dur­ing the pres­ent era of in­com­plete power-per­son­al­iza­tion, this evo­lu­tion­ary De­ity does ap­pear to re­flect the at­ti­tude of the Trin­ity of Su­prem­acy. The Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit do not per­son­ally func­tion with the Su­preme Be­ing, but dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age they col­lab­o­rate with him as the Trin­ity. We un­der­stand that they sus­tain a sim­i­lar re­la­tion­ship to the Ul­ti­mate. We of­ten con­jec­ture as to what will be the per­sonal re­la­tion­ship be­tween the Par­a­dise De­i­ties and God the Su­preme when he has fi­nally evolved, but we do not re­ally know.

10:7.4We do not find the over­con­trol of Su­prem­acy to be wholly pre­dictable. Fur­ther­more, this un­pre­dictabil­ity ap­pears to be char­ac­ter­ized by a cer­tain de­vel­op­men­tal in­com­plete­ness, un­doubt­edly an ear­mark of the in­com­plete­ness of the Su­preme and of the in­com­plete­ness of fi­nite re­ac­tion to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

10:7.5The mor­tal mind can im­me­di­ately think of a thou­sand and one things—catas­trophic phys­i­cal events, ap­palling ac­ci­dents, hor­rific dis­as­ters, painful ill­nesses, and world-wide scourges—and ask whether such vis­i­ta­tions are cor­re­lated in the un­known ma­neu­ver­ing of this prob­a­ble func­tion­ing of the Su­preme Be­ing. Frankly, we do not know; we are not re­ally sure. But we do ob­serve that, as time passes, all these dif­fi­cult and more or less mys­te­ri­ous sit­u­a­tions al­ways work out for the wel­fare and prog­ress of the uni­verses. It may be that the cir­cum­stances of ex­is­tence and the in­ex­pli­ca­ble vi­cis­si­tudes of liv­ing are all in­ter­wo­ven into a mean­ing­ful pat­tern of high value by the func­tion of the Su­preme and the over­con­trol of the Trin­ity.

10:7.6As a son of God you can dis­cern the per­sonal at­ti­tude of love in all the acts of God the Fa­ther. But you will not al­ways be able to un­der­stand how many of the uni­verse acts of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity re­dound to the good of the in­di­vid­ual mor­tal on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space. In the prog­ress of eter­nity the acts of the Trin­ity will be re­vealed as al­to­gether mean­ing­ful and con­sid­er­ate, but they do not al­ways so ap­pear to the crea­tures of time.