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Paper 115

The Supreme Being

Mighty Messenger

7. The Nature of the Supreme

115:7.1In the De­ity of the Su­preme the Fa­ther-I AM has achieved rel­a­tively com­plete lib­er­a­tion from the lim­i­ta­tions in­her­ent in in­fin­ity of sta­tus, eter­nity of be­ing, and ab­so­lute­ness of na­ture. But God the Su­preme has been freed from all ex­is­ten­tial lim­i­ta­tions only by hav­ing be­come sub­ject to ex­pe­ri­en­tial qual­i­fi­ca­tions of uni­ver­sal func­tion. In at­tain­ing ca­pac­ity for ex­pe­ri­ence, the fi­nite God also be­comes sub­ject to the ne­ces­sity there­for; in achiev­ing lib­er­a­tion from eter­nity, the Al­mighty en­coun­ters the bar­ri­ers of time; and the Su­preme could only know growth and de­vel­op­ment as a con­se­quence of par­tial­ity of ex­is­tence and in­com­plete­ness of na­ture, non­ab­so­lute­ness of be­ing.

115:7.2All this must be ac­cord­ing to the Fa­ther’s plan, which has pred­i­cated fi­nite prog­ress upon ef­fort, crea­ture achieve­ment upon per­se­ver­ance, and per­son­al­ity de­vel­op­ment upon faith. By thus or­dain­ing the ex­pe­ri­ence-evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme, the Fa­ther has made it pos­si­ble for fi­nite crea­tures to ex­ist in the uni­verses and, by ex­pe­ri­en­tial pro­gres­sion, some­time to at­tain the di­vin­ity of Su­prem­acy.

115:7.3In­clud­ing the Su­preme and even the Ul­ti­mate, all re­al­ity, ex­cept­ing the un­qual­i­fied val­ues of the seven Ab­so­lutes, is rel­a­tive. The fact of Su­prem­acy is pred­i­cated on Par­a­dise power, Son per­son­al­ity, and Con­joint ac­tion, but the growth of the Su­preme is in­volved in the De­ity Ab­so­lute, the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, and the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. And this syn­the­siz­ing and uni­fy­ing De­ity—God the Su­preme—is the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the fi­nite shadow cast athwart the grand uni­verse by the in­fi­nite unity of the un­search­able na­ture of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, the First Source and Cen­ter.

115:7.4To the ex­tent that the tri­odi­ties are di­rectly op­er­a­tive on the fi­nite level, they im­pinge upon the Su­preme, who is the De­ity fo­cal­iza­tion and cos­mic sum­ma­tion of the fi­nite qual­i­fi­ca­tions of the na­tures of the Ab­so­lute Ac­tual and the Ab­so­lute Po­ten­tial.

115:7.5The Par­a­dise Trin­ity is con­sid­ered to be the ab­so­lute in­evitabil­ity; the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are ap­par­ently Trin­ity in­evitabil­i­ties; the power-mind-spirit-per­son­al­ity ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme must be the evo­lu­tion­ary in­evitabil­ity.

115:7.6God the Su­preme does not ap­pear to have been in­ev­i­ta­ble in un­qual­i­fied in­fin­ity, but he seems to be on all rel­a­tiv­ity lev­els. He is the in­dis­pens­able fo­cal­izer, sum­ma­rizer, and en­com­passer of evo­lu­tion­ary ex­pe­ri­ence, ef­fec­tively uni­fy­ing the re­sults of this mode of re­al­ity per­cep­tion in his De­ity na­ture. And all this he ap­pears to do for the pur­pose of con­tribut­ing to the ap­pear­ance of the in­ev­i­ta­ble even­tu­a­tion, the super­ex­pe­ri­ence and super­fi­nite man­i­fes­ta­tion of God the Ul­ti­mate.

115:7.7The Su­preme Be­ing can­not be fully ap­pre­ci­ated with­out tak­ing into con­sid­er­a­tion source, func­tion, and des­tiny: re­la­tion­ship to the orig­i­nat­ing Trin­ity, the uni­verse of ac­tiv­ity, and the Trin­ity Ul­ti­mate of im­me­di­ate des­tiny.

115:7.8By the pro­cess of sum­mat­ing evo­lu­tion­ary ex­pe­ri­ence the Su­preme con­nects the fi­nite with the ab­so­nite, even as the mind of the Con­joint Ac­tor in­te­grates the di­vine spir­i­tu­al­ity of the per­sonal Son with the im­mutable en­er­gies of the Par­a­dise pat­tern, and as the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute uni­fies De­ity ac­ti­va­tion with the Un­qual­i­fied re­ac­tiv­ity. And this unity must be a rev­e­la­tion of the un­de­tected work­ing of the orig­i­nal unity of the First Fa­ther-Cause and Source-Pat­tern of all things and all be­ings.

115:7.9[Spon­sored by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily so­journ­ing on Uran­tia.]