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Paper 116

The Almighty Supreme

Mighty Messenger

2. The Almighty and God the Sevenfold

116:2.1The ap­pear­ance of the uni­verse power pres­ence of the Al­mighty is con­comi­tant with the ap­pear­ance on the stage of cos­mic ac­tion of the high cre­ators and con­trol­lers of the evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses.

116:2.2God the Su­preme de­rives his spirit and per­son­al­ity at­tri­butes from the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, but he is power-ac­tu­al­iz­ing in the do­ings of the Cre­ator Sons, the An­cients of Days, and the Mas­ter Spir­its, whose col­lec­tive acts are the source of his grow­ing power as al­mighty sov­er­eign to and in the seven super­uni­verses.

116:2.3Un­qual­i­fied Par­a­dise De­ity is in­com­pre­hen­si­ble to the evolv­ing crea­tures of time and space. Eter­nity and in­fin­ity con­note a level of de­ity re­al­ity which time-space crea­tures can­not com­pre­hend. In­fin­ity of de­ity and ab­so­lute­ness of sov­er­eignty are in­her­ent in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, and the Trin­ity is a re­al­ity which lies some­what be­yond the un­der­stand­ing of mor­tal man. Time-space crea­tures must have ori­gins, rel­a­tiv­i­ties, and des­tinies in or­der to grasp uni­verse re­la­tion­ships and to un­der­stand the mean­ing val­ues of di­vin­ity. There­fore does Par­a­dise De­ity at­ten­u­ate and oth­er­wise qual­ify the ex­tra-Par­a­dise per­son­al­iza­tions of di­vin­ity, thus bring­ing into ex­is­tence the Su­preme Cre­ators and their as­so­ciates, who ever carry the light of life far­ther and far­ther from its Par­a­dise source un­til it finds its most dis­tant and beau­ti­ful ex­pres­sion in the earth lives of the be­stowal Sons on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

116:2.4And this is the ori­gin of God the Sev­en­fold, whose suc­ces­sive lev­els are en­coun­tered by mor­tal man in the fol­low­ing or­der:

116:2.51. The Cre­ator Sons (and Cre­ative Spir­its).

116:2.62. The An­cients of Days.

116:2.73. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

116:2.84. The Su­preme Be­ing.

116:2.95. The Con­joint Ac­tor.

116:2.106. The Eter­nal Son.

116:2.117. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

116:2.12The first three lev­els are the Su­preme Cre­ators; the last three lev­els are the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. The Su­preme ever in­ter­venes as the ex­pe­ri­en­tial spirit per­son­al­iza­tion of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and as the ex­pe­ri­en­tial fo­cus of the evo­lu­tion­ary al­mighty power of the cre­ator chil­dren of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. The Su­preme Be­ing is the max­i­mum rev­e­la­tion of De­ity to the seven super­uni­verses and for the pres­ent uni­verse age.

116:2.13By the tech­nique of mor­tal logic it might be in­ferred that the ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­uni­fi­ca­tion of the col­lec­tive acts of the first three lev­els of God the Sev­en­fold would equiv­alate to the level of Par­a­dise De­ity, but such is not the case. Par­a­dise De­ity is ex­is­ten­tial De­ity. The Su­preme Cre­ators, in their di­vine unity of power and per­son­al­ity, are con­sti­tu­tive and ex­pres­sive of a new power po­ten­tial of ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity. And this power po­ten­tial of ex­pe­ri­en­tial ori­gin finds in­ev­i­ta­ble and in­es­cap­able union with the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity of Trin­ity ori­gin—the Su­preme Be­ing.

116:2.14God the Su­preme is not the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, nei­ther is he any one or all of those super­uni­verse Cre­ators whose func­tional ac­tiv­i­ties ac­tu­ally syn­the­size his evolv­ing al­mighty power. God the Su­preme, while of ori­gin in the Trin­ity, be­comes man­i­fest to evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures as a per­son­al­ity of power only through the co-or­di­nated func­tions of the first three lev­els of God the Sev­en­fold. The Al­mighty Su­preme is now fac­tu­al­iz­ing in time and space through the ac­tiv­i­ties of the Su­preme Cre­ator Per­son­al­i­ties, even as in eter­nity the Con­joint Ac­tor flashed into be­ing by the will of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son. These be­ings of the first three lev­els of God the Sev­en­fold are the very na­ture and source of the power of the Al­mighty Su­preme; there­fore must they ever ac­com­pany and sus­tain his ad­min­is­tra­tive acts.