God the Supreme

117:1.1The Su­preme is the beauty of phys­i­cal har­mony, the truth of in­tel­lec­tual mean­ing, and the good­ness of spir­i­tual value. He is the sweet­ness of true suc­cess and the joy of ev­er­last­ing achieve­ment. He is the over­soul of the grand uni­verse, the con­scious­ness of the fi­nite cos­mos, the com­ple­tion of fi­nite re­al­ity, and the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of Cre­ator-crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence. Through­out all fu­ture eter­nity God the Su­preme will voice the re­al­ity of vo­li­tional ex­pe­ri­ence in the trin­ity re­la­tion­ships of De­ity.

117:1.2In the per­sons of the Su­preme Cre­ators the Gods have de­scended from Par­a­dise to the do­mains of time and space, there to cre­ate and to evolve crea­tures with Par­a­dise-at­tain­ment ca­pac­ity who can as­cend thereto in quest of the Fa­ther. This uni­verse pro­ces­sion of de­scend­ing God-re­veal­ing Cre­ators and as­cend­ing God-seek­ing crea­tures is rev­e­la­tory of the De­ity evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme, in whom both de­scen­ders and as­cend­ers achieve mu­tu­al­ity of un­der­stand­ing, the dis­cov­ery of eter­nal and uni­ver­sal broth­er­hood. The Su­preme Be­ing thus be­comes the fi­nite syn­the­sis of the ex­pe­ri­ence of the per­fect-Cre­ator cause and the per­fect­ing-crea­ture re­sponse.

117:1.3The grand uni­verse con­tains the pos­si­bil­ity of, and ever seeks for, com­plete uni­fi­ca­tion, and this grows out of the fact that this cos­mic ex­is­tence is a con­se­quence of the cre­ative acts and the power man­dates of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, which is un­qual­i­fied unity. This very trini­tar­ian unity is ex­pressed in the fi­nite cos­mos in the Su­preme, whose re­al­ity be­comes in­creas­ingly ap­par­ent as the uni­verses at­tain to the max­i­mum level of Trin­ity iden­ti­fi­ca­tion.

117:1.4The will of the Cre­ator and the will of the crea­ture are qual­i­ta­tively dif­fer­ent, but they are also ex­pe­ri­en­tially akin, for crea­ture and Cre­ator can col­lab­o­rate in the achieve­ment of uni­verse per­fec­tion. Man can work in li­ai­son with God and thereby cocre­ate an eter­nal fi­nal­i­ter. God can work even as hu­man­ity in the in­car­na­tions of his Sons, who thereby achieve the su­prem­acy of crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence.

117:1.5In the Su­preme Be­ing, Cre­ator and crea­ture are united in one De­ity whose will is ex­pres­sive of one di­vine per­son­al­ity. And this will of the Su­preme is some­thing more than the will of ei­ther crea­ture or Cre­ator, even as the sov­er­eign will of the Mas­ter Son of Neb­a­don is now some­thing more than a com­bi­na­tion of the will of di­vin­ity and hu­man­ity. The union of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion and time-space ex­pe­ri­ence yields a new mean­ing value on de­ity lev­els of re­al­ity.

117:1.6The evolv­ing di­vine na­ture of the Su­preme is be­com­ing a faith­ful por­trayal of the match­less ex­pe­ri­ence of all crea­tures and of all Cre­ators in the grand uni­verse. In the Su­preme, cre­ator­ship and crea­ture­hood are at one; they are for­ever united by that ex­pe­ri­ence which was born of the vi­cis­si­tudes at­ten­dant upon the so­lu­tion of the man­i­fold prob­lems which be­set all fi­nite cre­ation as it pur­sues the eter­nal path in quest of per­fec­tion and lib­er­a­tion from the fet­ters of in­com­plete­ness.

117:1.7Truth, beauty, and good­ness are cor­re­lated in the min­istry of the Spirit, the grandeur of Par­a­dise, the mercy of the Son, and the ex­pe­ri­ence of the Su­preme. God the Su­preme is truth, beauty, and good­ness, for these con­cepts of di­vin­ity rep­re­sent fi­nite max­i­mums of ide­a­tional ex­pe­ri­ence. The eter­nal sources of these tri­une qual­i­ties of di­vin­ity are on super­fi­nite lev­els, but a crea­ture could only con­ceive of such sources as super­truth, super­beauty, and super­good­ness.

117:1.8Mi­chael, a cre­ator, re­vealed the di­vine love of the Cre­ator Fa­ther for his ter­res­trial chil­dren. And hav­ing dis­cov­ered and re­ceived this di­vine af­fec­tion, men can as­pire to re­veal this love to their breth­ren in the flesh. Such crea­ture af­fec­tion is a true re­flec­tion of the love of the Su­preme.

117:1.9The Su­preme is sym­met­ri­cally in­clu­sive. The First Source and Cen­ter is po­ten­tial in the three great Ab­so­lutes, is ac­tual in Par­a­dise, in the Son, and in the Spirit; but the Su­preme is both ac­tual and po­ten­tial, a be­ing of per­sonal su­prem­acy and of al­mighty power, re­spon­sive alike to crea­ture ef­fort and Cre­ator pur­pose; self-act­ing upon the uni­verse and self-re­ac­tive to the sum to­tal of the uni­verse; and at one and the same time the su­preme cre­ator and the su­preme crea­ture. The De­ity of Su­prem­acy is thus ex­pres­sive of the sum to­tal of the en­tire fi­nite.