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Paper 116

The Almighty Supreme

Mighty Messenger

3. The Almighty and Paradise Deity

116:3.1The Par­a­dise De­i­ties not only act di­rectly in their grav­ity cir­cuits through­out the grand uni­verse, but they also func­tion through their var­i­ous agen­cies and other man­i­fes­ta­tions, such as:

116:3.21. The mind fo­cal­iza­tions of the Third Source and Cen­ter. The fi­nite do­mains of en­ergy and spirit are lit­er­ally held to­gether by the mind pres­ences of the Con­joint Ac­tor. This is true from the Cre­ative Spirit in a lo­cal uni­verse through the Re­flec­tive Spir­its of a super­uni­verse to the Mas­ter Spir­its in the grand uni­verse. The mind cir­cuits em­a­nat­ing from these var­ied in­tel­li­gence fo­cuses rep­re­sent the cos­mic arena of crea­ture choice. Mind is the flex­i­ble re­al­ity which crea­tures and Cre­ators can so read­ily ma­nip­u­late; it is the vi­tal link con­nect­ing mat­ter and spirit. The mind be­stowal of the Third Source and Cen­ter uni­fies the spirit per­son of God the Su­preme with the ex­pe­ri­en­tial power of the evo­lu­tion­ary Al­mighty.

116:3.32. The per­son­al­ity rev­e­la­tions of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. The mind pres­ences of the Con­joint Ac­tor unify the spirit of di­vin­ity with the pat­tern of en­ergy. The be­stowal in­car­na­tions of the Eter­nal Son and his Par­a­dise Sons unify, ac­tu­ally fuse, the di­vine na­ture of a Cre­ator with the evolv­ing na­ture of a crea­ture. The Su­preme is both crea­ture and cre­ator; the pos­si­bil­ity of his be­ing such is re­vealed in the be­stowal ac­tions of the Eter­nal Son and his co-or­di­nate and sub­or­di­nate Sons. The be­stowal or­ders of son­ship, the Mi­cha­els and the Avo­nals, ac­tu­ally aug­ment their di­vine na­tures with bona fide crea­ture na­tures which have be­come theirs by the liv­ing of the ac­tual crea­ture life on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. When di­vin­ity be­comes like hu­man­ity, in­her­ent in this re­la­tion­ship is the pos­si­bil­ity that hu­man­ity can be­come di­vine.

116:3.43. The in­dwelling pres­ences of the First Source and Cen­ter. Mind uni­fies spirit cau­sa­tions with en­ergy re­ac­tions; be­stowal min­istry uni­fies di­vin­ity de­scen­sions with crea­ture as­cen­sions; and the in­dwelling frag­ments of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther ac­tu­ally unify the evolv­ing crea­tures with God on Par­a­dise. There are many such pres­ences of the Fa­ther which in­dwell nu­mer­ous or­ders of per­son­al­i­ties, and in mor­tal man these di­vine frag­ments of God are the Thought Ad­justers. The Mys­tery Mon­i­tors are to hu­man be­ings what the Par­a­dise Trin­ity is to the Su­preme Be­ing. The Ad­justers are ab­so­lute foun­da­tions, and upon ab­so­lute foun­da­tions free­will choice can cause to be evolved the di­vine re­al­ity of an eter­naliter na­ture, fi­nal­i­ter na­ture in the case of man, De­ity na­ture in God the Su­preme.

116:3.5The crea­ture be­stowals of the Par­a­dise or­ders of son­ship en­able these di­vine Sons to en­rich their per­son­al­i­ties by the ac­qui­si­tion of the ac­tual na­ture of uni­verse crea­tures, while such be­stowals un­fail­ingly re­veal to the crea­tures them­selves the Par­a­dise path of di­vin­ity at­tain­ment. The Ad­juster be­stowals of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther en­able him to draw the per­son­al­i­ties of the vo­li­tional will crea­tures to him­self. And through­out all these re­la­tion­ships in the fi­nite uni­verses the Con­joint Ac­tor is the ever-pres­ent source of the mind min­istry by virtue of which these ac­tiv­i­ties take place.

116:3.6In these and many other ways do the Par­a­dise De­i­ties par­tic­i­pate in the evo­lu­tions of time as they un­fold on the cir­cling plan­ets of space, and as they cul­mi­nate in the emer­gence of the Su­preme per­son­al­ity con­se­quence of all evo­lu­tion.