God the Supreme

117:2.1The Su­preme is God-in-time; his is the se­cret of crea­ture growth in time; his also is the con­quest of the in­com­plete pres­ent and the con­sum­ma­tion of the per­fect­ing fu­ture. And the fi­nal fruits of all fi­nite growth are: power con­trolled through mind by spirit by virtue of the uni­fy­ing and cre­ative pres­ence of per­son­al­ity. The cul­mi­nat­ing con­se­quence of all this growth is the Su­preme Be­ing.

117:2.2To mor­tal man, ex­is­tence is equiv­a­lent to growth. And so in­deed it would seem to be, even in the larger uni­verse sense, for spirit-led ex­is­tence does seem to re­sult in ex­pe­ri­en­tial growth—aug­men­ta­tion of sta­tus. We have long held, how­ever, that the pres­ent growth which char­ac­ter­izes crea­ture ex­is­tence in the pres­ent uni­verse age is a func­tion of the Su­preme. We equally hold that this kind of growth is pe­cu­liar to the age of the growth of the Su­preme, and that it will ter­mi­nate with the com­ple­tion of the growth of the Su­preme.

117:2.3Con­sider the sta­tus of the crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons: They are born and live in the pres­ent uni­verse age; they have per­son­al­i­ties, to­gether with mind and spirit en­dow­ments. They have ex­pe­ri­ences and the mem­ory thereof, but they do not grow as do as­cend­ers. It is our be­lief and un­der­stand­ing that these crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons, while they are in the pres­ent uni­verse age, are re­ally of the next uni­verse age—the age which will fol­low the com­ple­tion of the growth of the Su­preme. Hence they are not in the Su­preme as of his pres­ent sta­tus of in­com­plete­ness and con­se­quent growth. Thus they are non­par­tic­i­pat­ing in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial growth of the pres­ent uni­verse age, be­ing held in re­serve for the next uni­verse age.

117:2.4My own or­der, the Mighty Mes­sen­gers, be­ing Trin­ity em­braced, are non­par­tic­i­pat­ing in the growth of the pres­ent uni­verse age. In a sense we are in sta­tus as of the pre­ced­ing uni­verse age as in fact are the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity. One thing is cer­tain: Our sta­tus is fixed by the Trin­ity em­brace, and ex­pe­ri­ence no longer even­tu­ates in growth.

117:2.5This is not true of the fi­nal­i­ters nor of any other of the evo­lu­tion­ary and ex­pe­ri­en­tial or­ders which are par­tic­i­pants in the growth pro­cess of the Su­preme. You mor­tals now liv­ing on Uran­tia who may as­pire to Par­a­dise at­tain­ment and fi­nal­i­ter sta­tus should un­der­stand that such a des­tiny is only re­al­iz­able be­cause you are in and of the Su­preme, hence are par­tic­i­pants in the cy­cle of the growth of the Su­preme.

117:2.6There will come an end some­time to the growth of the Su­preme; his sta­tus will achieve com­ple­tion (in the en­ergy-spirit sense). This ter­mi­na­tion of the evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme will also wit­ness the end­ing of crea­ture evo­lu­tion as a part of Su­prem­acy. What kind of growth may char­ac­ter­ize the uni­verses of outer space, we do not know. But we are very sure that it will be some­thing very dif­fer­ent from any­thing that has been seen in the pres­ent age of the evo­lu­tion of the seven super­uni­verses. It will un­doubt­edly be the func­tion of the evo­lu­tion­ary cit­i­zens of the grand uni­verse to com­pen­sate the outer-spac­ers for this de­pri­va­tion of the growth of Su­prem­acy.

117:2.7As ex­is­tent upon the con­sum­ma­tion of the pres­ent uni­verse age, the Su­preme Be­ing will func­tion as an ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eign in the grand uni­verse. Outer-spac­ers—cit­i­zens of the next uni­verse age—will have a post­super­uni­verse growth po­ten­tial, a ca­pac­ity for evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment pre­sup­pos­ing the sov­er­eignty of the Al­mighty Su­preme, hence ex­clud­ing crea­ture par­tic­i­pa­tion in the power-per­son­al­ity syn­the­sis of the pres­ent uni­verse age.

117:2.8Thus may the in­com­plete­ness of the Su­preme be re­garded as a virtue since it makes pos­si­ble the evo­lu­tion­ary growth of the crea­ture-cre­ation of the pres­ent uni­verses. Empti­ness does have its virtue, for it may be­come ex­pe­ri­en­tially filled.

117:2.9One of the most in­trigu­ing ques­tions in fi­nite phi­los­o­phy is this: Does the Su­preme Be­ing ac­tu­al­ize in re­sponse to the evo­lu­tion of the grand uni­verse, or does this fi­nite cos­mos pro­gres­sively evolve in re­sponse to the grad­ual ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme? Or is it pos­si­ble that they are mu­tu­ally in­ter­de­pen­dent for their de­vel­op­ment? that they are evo­lu­tion­ary re­cip­ro­cals, each ini­ti­at­ing the growth of the other? Of this we are cer­tain: Crea­tures and uni­verses, high and low, are evolv­ing within the Su­preme, and as they evolve, there is ap­pear­ing the uni­fied sum­ma­tion of the en­tire fi­nite ac­tiv­ity of this uni­verse age. And this is the ap­pear­ance of the Su­preme Be­ing, to all per­son­al­i­ties the evo­lu­tion of the al­mighty power of God the Su­preme.