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Paper 116

The Almighty Supreme

Mighty Messenger

116:0.1If man rec­og­nized that his Cre­ators—his im­me­di­ate super­vi­sors—while be­ing di­vine were also fi­nite, and that the God of time and space was an evolv­ing and non­ab­so­lute De­ity, then would the in­con­sis­ten­cies of tem­po­ral in­equal­i­ties cease to be pro­found re­li­gious para­doxes. No longer would re­li­gious faith be pros­ti­tuted to the pro­mo­tion of so­cial smug­ness in the for­tu­nate while serv­ing only to en­cour­age sto­ical res­ig­na­tion in the un­for­tu­nate vic­tims of so­cial de­pri­va­tion.

116:0.2When view­ing the ex­qui­sitely per­fect spheres of Ha­vona, it is both rea­son­able and log­i­cal to be­lieve they were made by a per­fect, in­fi­nite, and ab­so­lute Cre­ator. But that same rea­son and logic would com­pel any hon­est be­ing, when view­ing the tur­moil, im­per­fec­tions, and in­equities of Uran­tia, to con­clude that your world had been made by, and was be­ing man­aged by, Cre­ators who were sub­ab­so­lute, pre­in­fi­nite, and other than per­fect.

116:0.3Ex­pe­ri­en­tial growth im­plies crea­ture-Cre­ator part­ner­ship—God and man in as­so­ci­a­tion. Growth is the ear­mark of ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity: Ha­vona did not grow; Ha­vona is and al­ways has been; it is ex­is­ten­tial like the ev­er­last­ing Gods who are its source. But growth char­ac­ter­izes the grand uni­verse.

116:0.4The Al­mighty Su­preme is a liv­ing and evolv­ing De­ity of power and per­son­al­ity. His pres­ent do­main, the grand uni­verse, is also a grow­ing realm of power and per­son­al­ity. His des­tiny is per­fec­tion, but his pres­ent ex­pe­ri­ence en­com­passes the el­e­ments of growth and in­com­plete sta­tus.

116:0.5The Su­preme Be­ing func­tions pri­mar­ily in the cen­tral uni­verse as a spirit per­son­al­ity; sec­on­dar­ily in the grand uni­verse as God the Al­mighty, a per­son­al­ity of power. The ter­tiary func­tion of the Su­preme in the mas­ter uni­verse is now la­tent, ex­ist­ing only as an un­known mind po­ten­tial. No one knows just what this third de­vel­op­ment of the Su­preme Be­ing will dis­close. Some be­lieve that, when the super­uni­verses are set­tled in light and life, the Su­preme will be­come func­tional from Uversa as the al­mighty and ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eign of the grand uni­verse while ex­pand­ing in power as the super­al­mighty of the outer uni­verses. Oth­ers spec­u­late that the third stage of Su­prem­acy will in­volve the third level of De­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion. But none of us re­ally know.