The Supreme Being

115:1.1Par­tial, in­com­plete, and evolv­ing in­tel­lects would be help­less in the mas­ter uni­verse, would be un­able to form the first ra­tio­nal thought pat­tern, were it not for the in­nate abil­ity of all mind, high or low, to form a uni­verse frame in which to think. If mind can­not fathom con­clu­sions, if it can­not pen­e­trate to true ori­gins, then will such mind un­fail­ingly pos­tu­late con­clu­sions and in­vent ori­gins that it may have a means of log­i­cal thought within the frame of these mind-cre­ated pos­tu­lates. And while such uni­verse frames for crea­ture thought are in­dis­pens­able to ra­tio­nal in­tel­lec­tual op­er­a­tions, they are, with­out ex­cep­tion, er­ro­neous to a greater or lesser de­gree.

115:1.2Con­cep­tual frames of the uni­verse are only rel­a­tively true; they are ser­vice­able scaf­fold­ing which must even­tu­ally give way be­fore the ex­pan­sions of en­larg­ing cos­mic com­pre­hen­sion. The un­der­stand­ings of truth, beauty, and good­ness, moral­ity, ethics, duty, love, di­vin­ity, ori­gin, ex­is­tence, pur­pose, des­tiny, time, space, even De­ity, are only rel­a­tively true. God is much, much more than a Fa­ther, but the Fa­ther is man’s high­est con­cept of God; nonethe­less, the Fa­ther-Son por­trayal of Cre­ator-crea­ture re­la­tion­ship will be aug­mented by those super­mor­tal con­cep­tions of De­ity which will be at­tained in Or­von­ton, in Ha­vona, and on Par­a­dise. Man must think in a mor­tal uni­verse frame, but that does not mean that he can­not en­vi­sion other and higher frames within which thought can take place.

115:1.3In or­der to fa­cil­i­tate mor­tal com­pre­hen­sion of the uni­verse of uni­verses, the di­verse lev­els of cos­mic re­al­ity have been des­ig­nated as fi­nite, ab­so­nite, and ab­so­lute. Of these only the ab­so­lute is un­qual­i­fiedly eter­nal, truly ex­is­ten­tial. Ab­sonites and finites are deriva­tives, mod­i­fi­ca­tions, qual­i­fi­ca­tions, and at­ten­u­a­tions of the orig­i­nal and pri­mor­dial ab­so­lute re­al­ity of in­fin­ity.

115:1.4The realms of the fi­nite ex­ist by virtue of the eter­nal pur­pose of God. Fi­nite crea­tures, high and low, may pro­pound the­o­ries, and have done so, as to the ne­ces­sity of the fi­nite in the cos­mic econ­omy, but in the last anal­y­sis it ex­ists be­cause God so willed. The uni­verse can­not be ex­plained, nei­ther can a fi­nite crea­ture of­fer a ra­tio­nal rea­son for his own in­di­vid­ual ex­is­tence with­out ap­peal­ing to the prior acts and pre-ex­is­tent vo­li­tion of an­ces­tral be­ings, Cre­ators or pro­cre­ators.