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Paper 115

The Supreme Being

Mighty Messenger

2. The Absolute Basis for Supremacy

115:2.1From the ex­is­ten­tial stand­point, noth­ing new can hap­pen through­out the galax­ies, for the com­ple­tion of in­fin­ity in­her­ent in the I AM is eter­nally pres­ent in the seven Ab­so­lutes, is func­tion­ally as­so­ci­ated in the tri­uni­ties, and is trans­mi­tively as­so­ci­ated in the tri­odi­ties. But the fact that in­fin­ity is thus ex­is­ten­tially pres­ent in these ab­so­lute as­so­ci­a­tions in no way makes it im­pos­si­ble to re­al­ize new cos­mic ex­pe­ri­en­tials. From a fi­nite crea­ture’s view­point, in­fin­ity con­tains much that is po­ten­tial, much that is on the or­der of a fu­ture pos­si­bil­ity rather than a pres­ent ac­tu­al­ity.

115:2.2Value is a unique el­e­ment in uni­verse re­al­ity. We do not com­pre­hend how the value of any­thing in­fi­nite and di­vine could pos­si­bly be in­creased. But we dis­cover that mean­ings can be mod­i­fied if not aug­mented even in the re­la­tions of in­fi­nite De­ity. To the ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­verses even di­vine val­ues are in­creased as ac­tu­al­i­ties by en­larged com­pre­hen­sion of re­al­ity mean­ings.

115:2.3The en­tire scheme of uni­ver­sal cre­ation and evo­lu­tion on all ex­pe­ri­enc­ing lev­els is ap­par­ently a mat­ter of the con­ver­sion of po­ten­tial­i­ties into ac­tu­al­i­ties; and this trans­mu­ta­tion has to do equally with the realms of space po­tency, mind po­tency, and spirit po­tency.

115:2.4The ap­par­ent method whereby the pos­si­bil­i­ties of the cos­mos are brought into ac­tual ex­is­tence varies from level to level, be­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial evo­lu­tion in the fi­nite and ex­pe­ri­en­tial even­tu­a­tion in the ab­so­nite. Ex­is­ten­tial in­fin­ity is in­deed un­qual­i­fied in all-in­clu­sive­ness, and this very all-in­clu­sive­ness must, per­force, en­com­pass even the pos­si­bil­ity for evo­lu­tion­ary fi­nite ex­pe­ri­enc­ing. And the pos­si­bil­ity for such ex­pe­ri­en­tial growth be­comes a uni­verse ac­tu­al­ity through tri­odity re­la­tion­ships im­ping­ing upon and in the Su­preme.