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Paper 116

The Almighty Supreme

Mighty Messenger

1. The Supreme Mind

116:1.1The ex­pe­ri­ence of ev­ery evolv­ing crea­ture per­son­al­ity is a phase of the ex­pe­ri­ence of the Al­mighty Su­preme. The in­tel­li­gent sub­ju­ga­tion of ev­ery phys­i­cal seg­ment of the super­uni­verses is a part of the grow­ing con­trol of the Al­mighty Su­preme. The cre­ative syn­the­sis of power and per­son­al­ity is a part of the cre­ative urge of the Su­preme Mind and is the very essence of the evo­lu­tion­ary growth of unity in the Su­preme Be­ing.

116:1.2The union of the power and per­son­al­ity at­tri­butes of Su­prem­acy is the func­tion of Su­preme Mind; and the com­pleted evo­lu­tion of the Al­mighty Su­preme will re­sult in one uni­fied and per­sonal De­ity—not in any loosely co-or­di­nated as­so­ci­a­tion of di­vine at­tri­butes. From the broader per­spec­tive, there will be no Al­mighty apart from the Su­preme, no Su­preme apart from the Al­mighty.

116:1.3Through­out the evo­lu­tion­ary ages the phys­i­cal power po­ten­tial of the Su­preme is vested in the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors, and the mind po­ten­tial re­poses in the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. The In­fi­nite Mind is the func­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit; the cos­mic mind, the min­istry of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its; the Su­preme Mind is in pro­cess of ac­tu­al­iz­ing in the co-or­di­na­tion of the grand uni­verse and in func­tional as­so­ci­a­tion with the rev­e­la­tion and at­tain­ment of God the Sev­en­fold.

116:1.4The time-space mind, the cos­mic mind, is dif­fer­ently func­tion­ing in the seven super­uni­verses, but it is co-or­di­nated by some un­known as­so­cia­tive tech­nique in the Su­preme Be­ing. The Al­mighty over­con­trol of the grand uni­verse is not ex­clu­sively phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual. In the seven super­uni­verses it is pri­mar­ily ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual, but there are also pres­ent phe­nom­ena of the Su­preme which are both in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual.

116:1.5We re­ally know less about the mind of Su­prem­acy than about any other as­pect of this evolv­ing De­ity. It is un­ques­tion­ably ac­tive through­out the grand uni­verse and is be­lieved to have a po­ten­tial des­tiny of mas­ter uni­verse func­tion which is of vast ex­tent. But this we do know: Whereas physique may at­tain com­pleted growth, and whereas spirit may achieve per­fec­tion of de­vel­op­ment, mind never ceases to pro­gress—it is the ex­pe­ri­en­tial tech­nique of end­less prog­ress. The Su­preme is an ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity and there­fore never achieves com­ple­tion of mind at­tain­ment.