The Paradise Trinity

10:8.1Many truths and facts per­tain­ing to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity can only be even par­tially com­pre­hended by rec­og­niz­ing a func­tion that tran­scends the fi­nite.

10:8.2It would be in­ad­vis­able to dis­cuss the func­tions of the Trin­ity of Ul­ti­macy, but it may be dis­closed that God the Ul­ti­mate is the Trin­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion com­pre­hended by the Tran­scen­den­talers. We are in­clined to the be­lief that the uni­fi­ca­tion of the mas­ter uni­verse is the even­tu­at­ing act of the Ul­ti­mate and is prob­a­bly re­flec­tive of cer­tain, but not all, phases of the ab­so­nite over­con­trol of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. The Ul­ti­mate is a qual­i­fied man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Trin­ity in re­la­tion to the ab­so­nite only in the sense that the Su­preme thus par­tially rep­re­sents the Trin­ity in re­la­tion to the fi­nite.

10:8.3The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, and the In­fi­nite Spirit are, in a cer­tain sense, the con­stituent per­son­al­i­ties of to­tal De­ity. Their union in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and the ab­so­lute func­tion of the Trin­ity equiv­alate to the func­tion of to­tal De­ity. And such com­ple­tion of De­ity tran­scends both the fi­nite and the ab­so­nite.

10:8.4While no sin­gle per­son of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties ac­tu­ally fills all De­ity po­ten­tial, col­lec­tively all three do. Three in­fi­nite per­sons seem to be the min­i­mum num­ber of be­ings re­quired to ac­ti­vate the preper­sonal and ex­is­ten­tial po­ten­tial of to­tal De­ity—the De­ity Ab­so­lute.

10:8.5We know the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, and the In­fi­nite Spirit as per­sons, but I do not per­son­ally know the De­ity Ab­so­lute. I love and wor­ship God the Fa­ther; I re­spect and honor the De­ity Ab­so­lute.

10:8.6I once so­journed in a uni­verse where a cer­tain group of be­ings taught that the fi­nal­i­ters, in eter­nity, were even­tu­ally to be­come the chil­dren of the De­ity Ab­so­lute. But I am un­will­ing to ac­cept this so­lu­tion of the mys­tery which en­shrouds the fu­ture of the fi­nal­i­ters.

10:8.7The Corps of the Fi­nal­ity em­brace, among oth­ers, those mor­tals of time and space who have at­tained per­fec­tion in all that per­tains to the will of God. As crea­tures and within the lim­its of crea­ture ca­pac­ity they fully and truly know God. Hav­ing thus found God as the Fa­ther of all crea­tures, these fi­nal­i­ters must some­time be­gin the quest for the super­fi­nite Fa­ther. But this quest in­volves a grasp of the ab­so­nite na­ture of the ul­ti­mate at­tri­butes and char­ac­ter of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. Eter­nity will dis­close whether such an at­tain­ment is pos­si­ble, but we are con­vinced, even if the fi­nal­i­ters do grasp this ul­ti­mate of di­vin­ity, they will prob­a­bly be un­able to at­tain the super­ul­ti­mate lev­els of ab­so­lute De­ity.

10:8.8It may be pos­si­ble that the fi­nal­i­ters will par­tially at­tain the De­ity Ab­so­lute, but even if they should, still in the eter­nity of eter­ni­ties the prob­lem of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute will con­tinue to in­trigue, mys­tify, baf­fle, and chal­lenge the as­cend­ing and pro­gress­ing fi­nal­i­ters, for we per­ceive that the un­fath­oma­bil­ity of the cos­mic re­la­tion­ships of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute will tend to grow in pro­por­tions as the ma­te­rial uni­verses and their spir­i­tual ad­min­is­tra­tion con­tinue to ex­pand.

10:8.9Only in­fin­ity can dis­close the Fa­ther-In­fi­nite.

10:8.10[Spon­sored by a Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor act­ing by au­thor­ity from the An­cients of Days res­i­dent on Uversa.]