God the Supreme

117:3.1The cos­mic re­al­ity var­i­ously des­ig­nated as the Su­preme Be­ing, God the Su­preme, and the Al­mighty Su­preme, is the com­plex and uni­ver­sal syn­the­sis of the emerg­ing phases of all fi­nite re­al­i­ties. The far-flung di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of eter­nal en­ergy, di­vine spirit, and uni­ver­sal mind at­tains fi­nite cul­mi­na­tion in the evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme, who is the sum to­tal of all fi­nite growth, self-re­al­ized on de­ity lev­els of fi­nite max­i­mum com­ple­tion.

117:3.2The Su­preme is the di­vine chan­nel through which flows the cre­ative in­fin­ity of the tri­odi­ties that crys­tal­lizes into the galac­tic pan­o­rama of space, against which takes place the mag­nif­i­cent per­son­al­ity drama of time: the spirit con­quest of en­ergy-mat­ter through the me­di­a­tion of mind.

117:3.3Said Je­sus: “I am the liv­ing way,” and so he is the liv­ing way from the ma­te­rial level of self-con­scious­ness to the spir­i­tual level of God-con­scious­ness. And even as he is this liv­ing way of as­cen­sion from the self to God, so is the Su­preme the liv­ing way from fi­nite con­scious­ness to tran­scen­dence of con­scious­ness, even to the in­sight of ab­sonity.

117:3.4Your Cre­ator Son can ac­tu­ally be such a liv­ing chan­nel from hu­man­ity to di­vin­ity since he has per­son­ally ex­pe­ri­enced the full­ness of the traver­sal of this uni­verse path of pro­gres­sion, from the true hu­man­ity of Joshua ben Joseph, the Son of Man, to the Par­a­dise di­vin­ity of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, the Son of the in­fi­nite God. Sim­i­larly can the Su­preme Be­ing func­tion as the uni­verse ap­proach to the tran­scen­dence of fi­nite lim­i­ta­tions, for he is the ac­tual em­bod­i­ment and per­sonal epit­ome of all crea­ture evo­lu­tion, pro­gres­sion, and spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion. Even the grand uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ences of the de­scend­ing per­son­al­i­ties from Par­a­dise are that part of his ex­pe­ri­ence which is com­ple­men­tal to his sum­ma­tion of the as­cend­ing ex­pe­ri­ences of the pil­grims of time.

117:3.5Mor­tal man is more than fig­u­ra­tively made in the im­age of God. From a phys­i­cal stand­point this state­ment is hardly true, but with ref­er­ence to cer­tain uni­verse po­ten­tial­i­ties it is an ac­tual fact. In the hu­man race, some­thing of the same drama of evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment is be­ing un­folded as takes place, on a vastly larger scale, in the uni­verse of uni­verses. Man, a vo­li­tional per­son­al­ity, be­comes cre­ative in li­ai­son with an Ad­juster, an im­per­sonal en­tity, in the pres­ence of the fi­nite po­ten­tial­i­ties of the Su­preme, and the re­sult is the flow­er­ing of an im­mor­tal soul. In the uni­verses the Cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties of time and space func­tion in li­ai­son with the im­per­sonal spirit of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and be­come thereby cre­ative of a new power po­ten­tial of De­ity re­al­ity.

117:3.6Mor­tal man, be­ing a crea­ture, is not ex­actly like the Su­preme Be­ing, who is de­ity, but man’s evo­lu­tion does in some ways re­sem­ble the growth of the Su­preme. Man con­sciously grows from the ma­te­rial to­ward the spir­i­tual by the strength, power, and per­sis­tency of his own de­ci­sions; he also grows as his Thought Ad­juster de­vel­ops new tech­niques for reach­ing down from the spir­i­tual to the mor­ontial soul lev­els; and once the soul comes into be­ing, it be­gins to grow in and of it­self.

117:3.7This is some­what like the way in which the Su­preme Be­ing ex­pands. His sov­er­eignty grows in and out of the acts and achieve­ments of the Su­preme Cre­ator Per­son­al­i­ties; that is the evo­lu­tion of the majesty of his power as the ruler of the grand uni­verse. His de­ity na­ture is like­wise de­pen­dent on the pre-ex­is­tent unity of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. But there is still an­other as­pect to the evo­lu­tion of God the Su­preme: He is not only Cre­ator-evolved and Trin­ity-de­rived; he is also self-evolved and self-de­rived. God the Su­preme is him­self a vo­li­tional, cre­ative par­tic­i­pant in his own de­ity ac­tu­al­iza­tion. The hu­man mor­ontial soul is like­wise a vo­li­tional, cocre­ative part­ner in its own im­mor­tal­iza­tion.

117:3.8The Fa­ther col­lab­o­rates with the Con­joint Ac­tor in ma­nip­u­lat­ing the en­er­gies of Par­a­dise and in ren­der­ing these re­spon­sive to the Su­preme. The Fa­ther col­lab­o­rates with the Eter­nal Son in the pro­duc­tion of Cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties whose acts will some­time cul­mi­nate in the sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme. The Fa­ther col­lab­o­rates with both Son and Spirit in the cre­ation of Trin­ity per­son­al­i­ties to func­tion as rulers of the grand uni­verse un­til such time as the com­pleted evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme qual­i­fies him to as­sume that sov­er­eignty. The Fa­ther co-op­er­ates with his De­ity and non-De­ity co-or­di­nates in these and many other ways in the fur­ther­ance of the evo­lu­tion of Su­prem­acy, but he also func­tions alone in these mat­ters. And his soli­tary func­tion is prob­a­bly best re­vealed in the min­istry of the Thought Ad­justers and their as­so­ci­ated en­ti­ties.

117:3.9De­ity is unity, ex­is­ten­tial in the Trin­ity, ex­pe­ri­en­tial in the Su­preme, and, in mor­tals, crea­ture-re­al­ized in Ad­juster fu­sion. The pres­ence of the Thought Ad­justers in mor­tal man re­veals the es­sen­tial unity of the uni­verse, for man, the low­est pos­si­ble type of uni­verse per­son­al­ity, con­tains within him­self an ac­tual frag­ment of the high­est and eter­nal re­al­ity, even the orig­i­nal Fa­ther of all per­son­al­i­ties.

117:3.10The Su­preme Be­ing evolves by virtue of his li­ai­son with the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and in con­se­quence of the di­vin­ity suc­cesses of the cre­ator and ad­min­is­tra­tor chil­dren of that Trin­ity. Man’s im­mor­tal soul evolves its own eter­nal des­tiny by as­so­ci­a­tion with the di­vine pres­ence of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther and in ac­cor­dance with the per­son­al­ity de­ci­sions of the hu­man mind. What the Trin­ity is to God the Su­preme, the Ad­juster is to evolv­ing man.

117:3.11Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age the Su­preme Be­ing is ap­par­ently un­able to func­tion di­rectly as a cre­ator ex­cept in those in­stances where the fi­nite pos­si­bil­i­ties of ac­tion have been ex­hausted by the cre­ative agen­cies of time and space. Thus far in uni­verse his­tory this has tran­spired but once; when the pos­si­bil­i­ties of fi­nite ac­tion in the mat­ter of uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity had been ex­hausted, then did the Su­preme func­tion as the cre­ative cul­mi­na­tor of all an­te­ced­ent cre­ator ac­tions. And we be­lieve he will again func­tion as a cul­mi­na­tor in fu­ture ages when­ever an­te­ced­ent cre­ator­ship has com­pleted an ap­pro­pri­ate cy­cle of cre­ative ac­tiv­ity.

117:3.12The Su­preme Be­ing did not cre­ate man, but man was lit­er­ally cre­ated out of, his very life was de­rived from, the po­ten­tial­ity of the Su­preme. Nor does he evolve man; yet is the Su­preme him­self the very essence of evo­lu­tion. From the fi­nite stand­point, we ac­tu­ally live, move, and have our be­ing within the im­ma­nence of the Su­preme.

117:3.13The Su­preme ap­par­ently can­not ini­ti­ate orig­i­nal cau­sa­tion but ap­pears to be the cat­alyzer of all uni­verse growth and is seem­ingly des­tined to pro­vide to­tal­ity cul­mi­na­tion as re­gards the des­tiny of all ex­pe­ri­en­tial-evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings. The Fa­ther orig­i­nates the con­cept of a fi­nite cos­mos; the Cre­ator Sons fac­tu­al­ize this idea in time and space with the con­sent and co-op­er­a­tion of the Cre­ative Spir­its; the Su­preme cul­mi­nates the to­tal fi­nite and es­tab­lishes its re­la­tion­ship with the des­tiny of the ab­so­nite.