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Paper 115

The Supreme Being

Mighty Messenger

6. Relation of the Supreme to the Triodities

115:6.1The tri­odity of ac­tu­al­ity con­tin­ues to func­tion di­rectly in the post-Ha­vona epochs; Par­a­dise grav­ity grasps the ba­sic units of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence, the spirit grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son op­er­ates di­rectly upon the fun­da­men­tal val­ues of spirit ex­is­tence, and the mind grav­ity of the Con­joint Ac­tor unerringly clutches all vi­tal mean­ings of in­tel­lec­tual ex­is­tence.

115:6.2But as each stage of cre­ative ac­tiv­ity pro­ceeds out through un­charted space, it func­tions and ex­ists far­ther and far­ther re­moved from di­rect ac­tion by the cre­ative forces and di­vine per­son­al­i­ties of cen­tral em­place­ment—the ab­so­lute Isle of Par­a­dise and the in­fi­nite De­i­ties res­i­dent thereon. These suc­ces­sive lev­els of cos­mic ex­is­tence be­come, there­fore, in­creas­ingly de­pen­dent upon de­vel­op­ments within the three Ab­so­lute po­ten­tial­i­ties of in­fin­ity.

115:6.3The Su­preme Be­ing em­braces pos­si­bil­i­ties for cos­mic min­istry that are not ap­par­ently man­i­fested in the Eter­nal Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit, or the non­per­sonal re­al­i­ties of the Isle of Par­a­dise. This state­ment is made with due re­gard for the ab­so­lute­ness of these three ba­sic ac­tu­al­i­ties, but the growth of the Su­preme is not only pred­i­cated on these ac­tu­al­i­ties of De­ity and Par­a­dise but is also in­volved in de­vel­op­ments within the De­ity, Uni­ver­sal, and Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lutes.

115:6.4The Su­preme not only grows as the Cre­ators and crea­tures of the evolv­ing uni­verses at­tain to God­like­ness, but this fi­nite De­ity also ex­pe­ri­ences growth as a re­sult of the crea­ture and Cre­ator mas­tery of the fi­nite pos­si­bil­i­ties of the grand uni­verse. The mo­tion of the Su­preme is two­fold: in­ten­sively to­ward Par­a­dise and De­ity and ex­ten­sively to­ward the lim­it­less­ness of the Ab­so­lutes of po­ten­tial.

115:6.5In the pres­ent uni­verse age this dual mo­tion is re­vealed in the de­scend­ing and as­cend­ing per­son­al­i­ties of the grand uni­verse. The Su­preme Cre­ator Per­son­al­i­ties and all their di­vine as­so­ciates are re­flec­tive of the out­ward, di­verg­ing mo­tion of the Su­preme, while the as­cend­ing pil­grims from the seven super­uni­verses are in­dica­tive of the in­ward, con­verg­ing trend of Su­prem­acy.

115:6.6Al­ways is the fi­nite De­ity seek­ing for dual cor­re­la­tion, in­ward to­ward Par­a­dise and the De­i­ties thereof and out­ward to­ward in­fin­ity and the Ab­so­lutes therein. The mighty erup­tion of the Par­a­dise-cre­ative di­vin­ity per­son­al­iz­ing in the Cre­ator Sons and pow­er­iz­ing in the power con­trol­lers, sig­ni­fies the vast out­surge of Su­prem­acy into the do­mains of po­ten­tial­ity, while the end­less pro­ces­sion of the as­cend­ing crea­tures of the grand uni­verse wit­nesses the mighty in­surge of Su­prem­acy to­ward unity with Par­a­dise De­ity.

115:6.7Hu­man be­ings have learned that the mo­tion of the in­vis­i­ble may some­times be dis­cerned by ob­serv­ing its ef­fects on the vis­i­ble; and we in the uni­verses have long since learned to de­tect the move­ments and trends of Su­prem­acy by ob­serv­ing the reper­cus­sions of such evo­lu­tions in the per­son­al­i­ties and pat­terns of the grand uni­verse.

115:6.8Though we are not sure, we be­lieve that, as a fi­nite re­flec­tion of Par­a­dise De­ity, the Su­preme is en­gaged in an eter­nal pro­gres­sion into outer space; but as a qual­i­fi­ca­tion of the three Ab­so­lute po­ten­tials of outer space, this Su­preme Be­ing is for­ever seek­ing for Par­a­dise co­her­ence. And these dual mo­tions seem to ac­count for most of the ba­sic ac­tiv­i­ties in the pres­ently or­ga­nized uni­verses.