God the Supreme

117:5.1The great Su­preme is the cos­mic over­soul of the grand uni­verse. In him the qual­i­ties and quan­ti­ties of the cos­mos do find their de­ity re­flec­tion; his de­ity na­ture is the mo­saic com­pos­ite of the to­tal vast­ness of all crea­ture-Cre­ator na­ture through­out the evolv­ing uni­verses. And the Su­preme is also an ac­tu­al­iz­ing De­ity em­body­ing a cre­ative will which em­braces an evolv­ing uni­verse pur­pose.

117:5.2The in­tel­lec­tual, po­ten­tially per­sonal selves of the fi­nite emerge from the Third Source and Cen­ter and achieve fi­nite time-space De­ity syn­the­sis in the Su­preme. When the crea­ture sub­mits to the will of the Cre­ator, he does not sub­merge or sur­ren­der his per­son­al­ity; the in­di­vid­ual per­son­al­ity par­tic­i­pants in the ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the fi­nite God do not lose their vo­li­tional self­hood by so func­tion­ing. Rather are such per­son­al­i­ties pro­gres­sively aug­mented by par­tic­i­pa­tion in this great De­ity ad­ven­ture; by such union with di­vin­ity man ex­alts, en­riches, spir­i­tu­al­izes, and uni­fies his evolv­ing self to the very thresh­old of su­prem­acy.

117:5.3The evolv­ing im­mor­tal soul of man, the joint cre­ation of the ma­te­rial mind and the Ad­juster, as­cends as such to Par­a­dise and sub­se­quently, when mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, be­comes al­lied in some new way with the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Eter­nal Son by a tech­nique of ex­pe­ri­ence known as fi­nal­i­ter tran­scen­da­tion. Such fi­nal­i­ters thus be­come ac­cept­able can­di­dates for ex­pe­ri­en­tial rec­og­ni­tion as per­son­al­i­ties of God the Su­preme. And when these mor­tal in­tel­lects in the un­re­vealed fu­ture as­sign­ments of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity at­tain the sev­enth stage of spirit ex­is­tence, such dual minds will be­come tri­une. These two at­tuned minds, the hu­man and the di­vine, will be­come glo­ri­fied in union with the ex­pe­ri­en­tial mind of the then ac­tu­al­ized Su­preme Be­ing.

117:5.4In the eter­nal fu­ture, God the Su­preme will be ac­tu­al­ized—cre­atively ex­pressed and spir­i­tu­ally por­trayed—in the spir­i­tu­al­ized mind, the im­mor­tal soul, of as­cen­dant man, even as the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther was so re­vealed in the earth life of Je­sus.

117:5.5Man does not unite with the Su­preme and sub­merge his per­sonal iden­tity, but the uni­verse reper­cus­sions of the ex­pe­ri­ence of all men do thus form a part of the di­vine ex­pe­ri­enc­ing of the Su­preme. “The act is ours, the con­se­quences God’s.”

117:5.6The pro­gress­ing per­son­al­ity leaves a trail of ac­tu­al­ized re­al­ity as it passes through the as­cend­ing lev­els of the uni­verses. Be they mind, spirit, or en­ergy, the grow­ing cre­ations of time and space are mod­i­fied by the pro­gres­sion of per­son­al­ity through their do­mains. When man acts, the Su­preme re­acts, and this trans­ac­tion con­sti­tutes the fact of pro­gres­sion.

117:5.7The great cir­cuits of en­ergy, mind, and spirit are never the per­ma­nent pos­ses­sions of as­cend­ing per­son­al­ity; these min­istries re­main for­ever a part of Su­prem­acy. In the mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence the hu­man in­tel­lect re­sides in the rhyth­mic pul­sa­tions of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its and ef­fects its de­ci­sions within the arena pro­duced by en­cir­cuit­ment within this min­istry. Upon mor­tal death the hu­man self is ev­er­last­ingly di­vorced from the ad­ju­tant cir­cuit. While these ad­ju­tants never seem to trans­mit ex­pe­ri­ence from one per­son­al­ity to an­other, they can and do trans­mit the im­per­sonal reper­cus­sions of de­ci­sion-ac­tion through God the Sev­en­fold to God the Su­preme. (At least this is true of the ad­ju­tants of wor­ship and wis­dom.)

117:5.8And so it is with the spir­i­tual cir­cuits: Man uti­lizes these in his as­cent through the uni­verses, but he never pos­sesses them as a part of his eter­nal per­son­al­ity. But these cir­cuits of spir­i­tual min­istry, whether Spirit of Truth, Holy Spirit, or super­uni­verse spirit pres­ences, are re­cep­tive and re­ac­tive to the emerg­ing val­ues in as­cend­ing per­son­al­ity, and these val­ues are faith­fully trans­mit­ted through the Sev­en­fold to the Su­preme.

117:5.9While such spir­i­tual in­flu­ences as the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Truth are lo­cal uni­verse min­is­tra­tions, their guid­ance is not wholly con­fined to the ge­o­graphic lim­i­ta­tions of a given lo­cal cre­ation. As the as­cend­ing mor­tal passes be­yond the bound­aries of his lo­cal uni­verse of ori­gin, he is not en­tirely de­prived of the min­istry of the Spirit of Truth which has so con­stantly taught and guided him through the philo­sophic mazes of the ma­te­rial and mor­ontial worlds, in ev­ery cri­sis of as­cen­sion un­fail­ingly di­rect­ing the Par­a­dise pil­grim, ever say­ing: “This is the way.” When you leave the do­mains of the lo­cal uni­verse, through the min­istry of the spirit of the emerg­ing Su­preme Be­ing and through the pro­vi­sions of super­uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity, you will still be guided in your Par­a­dise as­cent by the com­fort­ing di­rec­tive spirit of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Sons of God.

117:5.10How do these man­i­fold cir­cuits of cos­mic min­istry reg­is­ter the mean­ings, val­ues, and facts of evo­lu­tion­ary ex­pe­ri­ence in the Su­preme? We are not ex­actly cer­tain, but we be­lieve that this reg­istry takes place through the per­sons of the Su­preme Cre­ators of Par­a­dise ori­gin who are the im­me­di­ate be­stow­ers of these cir­cuits of time and space. The mind-ex­pe­ri­ence ac­cu­mu­la­tions of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its, in their min­istry to the phys­i­cal level of in­tel­lect, are a part of the lo­cal uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence of the Di­vine Min­is­ter, and through this Cre­ative Spirit they prob­a­bly find reg­istry in the mind of Su­prem­acy. Like­wise are mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ences with the Spirit of Truth and the Holy Spirit prob­a­bly reg­is­tered by sim­i­lar tech­niques in the per­son of Su­prem­acy.

117:5.11Even the ex­pe­ri­ence of man and Ad­juster must find echo in the di­vin­ity of God the Su­preme, for, as the Ad­justers ex­pe­ri­ence, they are like the Su­preme, and the evolv­ing soul of mor­tal man is cre­ated out of the pre-ex­is­tent pos­si­bil­ity for such ex­pe­ri­ence within the Su­preme.

117:5.12In this man­ner do the man­i­fold ex­pe­ri­ences of all cre­ation be­come a part of the evo­lu­tion of Su­prem­acy. Crea­tures merely uti­lize the qual­i­ties and quan­ti­ties of the fi­nite as they as­cend to the Fa­ther; the im­per­sonal con­se­quences of such uti­liza­tion re­main for­ever a part of the liv­ing cos­mos, the Su­preme per­son.

117:5.13What man him­self takes with him as a per­son­al­ity pos­ses­sion are the char­ac­ter con­se­quences of the ex­pe­ri­ence of hav­ing used the mind and spirit cir­cuits of the grand uni­verse in his Par­a­dise as­cent. When man de­cides, and when he con­sum­mates this de­ci­sion in ac­tion, man ex­pe­ri­ences, and the mean­ings and the val­ues of this ex­pe­ri­ence are for­ever a part of his eter­nal char­ac­ter on all lev­els, from the fi­nite to the fi­nal. Cos­mi­cally moral and di­vinely spir­i­tual char­ac­ter rep­re­sents the crea­ture’s cap­i­tal ac­cu­mu­la­tion of per­sonal de­ci­sions which have been il­lu­mi­nated by sin­cere wor­ship, glo­ri­fied by in­tel­li­gent love, and con­sum­mated in broth­erly ser­vice.

117:5.14The evolv­ing Su­preme will even­tu­ally com­pen­sate fi­nite crea­tures for their in­abil­ity ever to achieve more than lim­ited ex­pe­ri­ence con­tact with the uni­verse of uni­verses. Crea­tures can at­tain the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, but their evo­lu­tion­ary minds, be­ing fi­nite, are in­ca­pable of re­ally un­der­stand­ing the in­fi­nite and ab­so­lute Fa­ther. But since all crea­ture ex­pe­ri­enc­ing reg­is­ters in, and is a part of, the Su­preme, when all crea­tures at­tain the fi­nal level of fi­nite ex­is­tence, and af­ter to­tal uni­verse de­vel­op­ment makes pos­si­ble their at­tain­ment of God the Su­preme as an ac­tual di­vin­ity pres­ence, then, in­her­ent in the fact of such con­tact, is con­tact with to­tal ex­pe­ri­ence. The fi­nite of time con­tains within it­self the seeds of eter­nity; and we are taught that, when the full­ness of evo­lu­tion wit­nesses the ex­haus­tion of the ca­pac­ity for cos­mic growth, the to­tal fi­nite will em­bark upon the ab­so­nite phases of the eter­nal ca­reer in quest of the Fa­ther as Ul­ti­mate.