God the Supreme

117:6.1We seek the Su­preme in the uni­verses, but we find him not. “He is the within and the with­out of all things and be­ings, mov­ing and qui­es­cent. Un­rec­og­niz­able in his mys­tery, though dis­tant, yet is he near.” The Al­mighty Su­preme is “the form of the yet un­formed, the pat­tern of the yet un­cre­ated.” The Su­preme is your uni­verse home, and when you find him, it will be like re­turn­ing home. He is your ex­pe­ri­en­tial par­ent, and even as in the ex­pe­ri­ence of hu­man be­ings, so has he grown in the ex­pe­ri­ence of di­vine par­ent­hood. He knows you be­cause he is crea­ture­like as well as cre­ator­like.

117:6.2If you truly de­sire to find God, you can­not help hav­ing born in your minds the con­scious­ness of the Su­preme. As God is your di­vine Fa­ther, so is the Su­preme your di­vine Mother, in whom you are nur­tured through­out your lives as uni­verse crea­tures. “How uni­ver­sal is the Su­preme—he is on all sides! The lim­it­less things of cre­ation de­pend on his pres­ence for life, and none are re­fused.”

117:6.3What Mi­chael is to Neb­a­don, the Su­preme is to the fi­nite cos­mos; his De­ity is the great av­enue through which the love of the Fa­ther flows out­ward to all cre­ation, and he is the great av­enue through which fi­nite crea­tures pass in­ward in their quest of the Fa­ther, who is love. Even Thought Ad­justers are re­lated to him; in orig­i­nal na­ture and di­vin­ity they are like the Fa­ther, but when they ex­pe­ri­ence the trans­ac­tions of time in the uni­verses of space, they be­come like the Su­preme.

117:6.4The act of the crea­ture’s choos­ing to do the will of the Cre­ator is a cos­mic value and has a uni­verse mean­ing which is im­me­di­ately re­acted to by some un­re­vealed but ubiq­ui­tous force of co-or­di­na­tion, prob­a­bly the func­tion­ing of the ever-en­larg­ing ac­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing.

117:6.5The mor­ontia soul of an evolv­ing mor­tal is re­ally the son of the Ad­juster ac­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the child of the cos­mic re­ac­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing, the Uni­ver­sal Mother. The mother in­flu­ence dom­i­nates the hu­man per­son­al­ity through­out the lo­cal uni­verse child­hood of the grow­ing soul. The in­flu­ence of the De­ity par­ents be­comes more equal af­ter the Ad­juster fu­sion and dur­ing the super­uni­verse ca­reer, but when the crea­tures of time be­gin the traver­sal of the cen­tral uni­verse of eter­nity, the Fa­ther na­ture be­comes in­creas­ingly man­i­fest, at­tain­ing its height of fi­nite man­i­fes­ta­tion upon the rec­og­ni­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the ad­mis­sion into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

117:6.6In and through the ex­pe­ri­ence of fi­nal­i­ter at­tain­ment the ex­pe­ri­en­tial mother qual­i­ties of the as­cend­ing self be­come tremen­dously af­fected by con­tact and in­fu­sion with the spirit pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son and the mind pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Then, through­out the realms of fi­nal­i­ter ac­tiv­ity in the grand uni­verse, there ap­pears a new awak­en­ing of the la­tent mother po­ten­tial of the Su­preme, a new re­al­iza­tion of ex­pe­ri­en­tial mean­ings, and a new syn­the­sis of ex­pe­ri­en­tial val­ues of the en­tire as­cen­sion ca­reer. It ap­pears that this re­al­iza­tion of self will con­tinue in the uni­verse ca­reers of the sixth-stage fi­nal­i­ters un­til the mother in­her­i­tance of the Su­preme at­tains to fi­nite syn­chrony with the Ad­juster in­her­i­tance of the Fa­ther. This in­trigu­ing pe­riod of grand uni­verse func­tion rep­re­sents the con­tin­u­ing adult ca­reer of the as­cen­dant and per­fected mor­tal.

117:6.7Upon the com­ple­tion of the sixth stage of ex­is­tence and the en­trance upon the sev­enth and fi­nal stage of spirit sta­tus, there will prob­a­bly en­sue the ad­vanc­ing ages of en­rich­ing ex­pe­ri­ence, ripen­ing wis­dom, and di­vin­ity re­al­iza­tion. In the na­ture of the fi­nal­i­ter this will prob­a­bly equal the com­pleted at­tain­ment of the mind strug­gle for spirit self-re­al­iza­tion, the com­ple­tion of the co-or­di­na­tion of the as­cen­dant man-na­ture with the di­vine Ad­juster-na­ture within the lim­its of fi­nite pos­si­bil­i­ties. Such a mag­nif­i­cent uni­verse self thus be­comes the eter­nal fi­nal­i­ter son of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther as well as the eter­nal uni­verse child of the Mother Su­preme, a uni­verse self qual­i­fied to rep­re­sent both the Fa­ther and Mother of uni­verses and per­son­al­i­ties in any ac­tiv­ity or un­der­tak­ing per­tain­ing to the fi­nite ad­min­is­tra­tion of cre­ated, cre­at­ing, or evolv­ing things and be­ings.

117:6.8All soul-evolv­ing hu­mans are lit­er­ally the evo­lu­tion­ary sons of God the Fa­ther and God the Mother, the Su­preme Be­ing. But un­til such time as mor­tal man be­comes soul-con­scious of his di­vine her­itage, this as­sur­ance of De­ity kin­ship must be faith re­al­ized. Hu­man life ex­pe­ri­ence is the cos­mic co­coon in which the uni­verse en­dow­ments of the Su­preme Be­ing and the uni­verse pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther (none of which are per­son­al­i­ties) are evolv­ing the mor­ontia soul of time and the hu­man-di­vine fi­nal­i­ter char­ac­ter of uni­verse des­tiny and eter­nal ser­vice.

117:6.9Men all too of­ten for­get that God is the great­est ex­pe­ri­ence in hu­man ex­is­tence. Other ex­pe­ri­ences are lim­ited in their na­ture and con­tent, but the ex­pe­ri­ence of God has no lim­its save those of the crea­ture’s com­pre­hen­sion ca­pac­ity, and this very ex­pe­ri­ence is in it­self ca­pac­ity en­larg­ing. When men search for God, they are search­ing for ev­ery­thing. When they find God, they have found ev­ery­thing. The search for God is the un­stinted be­stowal of love at­tended by amaz­ing dis­cov­er­ies of new and greater love to be be­stowed.

117:6.10All true love is from God, and man re­ceives the di­vine af­fec­tion as he him­self be­stows this love upon his fel­lows. Love is dy­namic. It can never be cap­tured; it is alive, free, thrilling, and al­ways mov­ing. Man can never take the love of the Fa­ther and im­prison it within his heart. The Fa­ther’s love can be­come real to mor­tal man only by pass­ing through that man’s per­son­al­ity as he in turn be­stows this love upon his fel­lows. The great cir­cuit of love is from the Fa­ther, through sons to broth­ers, and hence to the Su­preme. The love of the Fa­ther ap­pears in the mor­tal per­son­al­ity by the min­istry of the in­dwelling Ad­juster. Such a God-know­ing son re­veals this love to his uni­verse breth­ren, and this fra­ter­nal af­fec­tion is the essence of the love of the Su­preme.

117:6.11There is no ap­proach to the Su­preme ex­cept through ex­pe­ri­ence, and in the cur­rent epochs of cre­ation there are only three av­enues of crea­ture ap­proach to Su­prem­acy:

117:6.121. The Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens de­scend from the eter­nal Isle through Ha­vona, where they ac­quire ca­pac­ity for Su­prem­acy com­pre­hen­sion through ob­ser­va­tion of the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona re­al­ity dif­fer­en­tial and by ex­ploratory dis­cov­ery of the man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties of the Su­preme Cre­ator Per­son­al­i­ties, rang­ing from the Mas­ter Spir­its to the Cre­ator Sons.

117:6.132. The time-space as­cend­ers com­ing up from the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses of the Su­preme Cre­ators make close ap­proach to the Su­preme in the traver­sal of Ha­vona as a pre­lim­i­nary to the aug­ment­ing ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the unity of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

117:6.143. The Ha­vona na­tives ac­quire a com­pre­hen­sion of the Su­preme through con­tacts with de­scend­ing pil­grims from Par­a­dise and as­cend­ing pil­grims from the seven super­uni­verses. Ha­vona na­tives are in­her­ently in po­si­tion to har­mo­nize the es­sen­tially dif­fer­ent view­points of the cit­i­zens of the eter­nal Isle and the cit­i­zens of the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses.

117:6.15To evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures there are seven great ap­proaches to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and each of these Par­a­dise as­cen­sions passes through the di­vin­ity of one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its; and each such ap­proach is made pos­si­ble by an en­large­ment of ex­pe­ri­ence re­cep­tiv­ity con­se­quent upon the crea­ture’s hav­ing served in the super­uni­verse re­flec­tive of the na­ture of that Mas­ter Spirit. The sum to­tal of these seven ex­pe­ri­ences con­sti­tutes the pres­ent-known lim­its of a crea­ture’s con­scious­ness of the re­al­ity and ac­tu­al­ity of God the Su­preme.

117:6.16It is not only man’s own lim­i­ta­tions which pre­vent him from find­ing the fi­nite God; it is also the in­com­ple­tion of the uni­verse; even the in­com­ple­tion of all crea­tures—past, pres­ent, and fu­ture—makes the Su­preme in­ac­ces­si­ble. God the Fa­ther can be found by any in­di­vid­ual who has at­tained the di­vine level of God­like­ness, but God the Su­preme will never be per­son­ally dis­cov­ered by any one crea­ture un­til that far-dis­tant time when, through the uni­ver­sal at­tain­ment of per­fec­tion, all crea­tures will si­mul­ta­ne­ously find him.

117:6.17De­spite the fact that you can­not, in this uni­verse age, per­son­ally find him as you can and will find the Fa­ther, the Son, and the Spirit, nev­er­the­less, the Par­a­dise as­cent and sub­se­quent uni­verse ca­reer will grad­u­ally cre­ate in your con­scious­ness the rec­og­ni­tion of the uni­verse pres­ence and the cos­mic ac­tion of the God of all ex­pe­ri­ence. The fruits of the spirit are the sub­stance of the Su­preme as he is re­al­iz­able in hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence.

117:6.18Man’s some­time at­tain­ment of the Su­preme is con­se­quent upon his fu­sion with the spirit of Par­a­dise De­ity. With Uran­tians this spirit is the Ad­juster pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and though the Mys­tery Mon­i­tor is from the Fa­ther and like the Fa­ther, we doubt that even such a di­vine gift can achieve the im­pos­si­ble task of re­veal­ing the na­ture of the in­fi­nite God to a fi­nite crea­ture. We sus­pect that what the Ad­justers will re­veal to fu­ture sev­enth-stage fi­nal­i­ters will be the di­vin­ity and na­ture of God the Su­preme. And this rev­e­la­tion will be to a fi­nite crea­ture what the rev­e­la­tion of the In­fi­nite would be to an ab­so­lute be­ing.

117:6.19The Su­preme is not in­fi­nite, but he prob­a­bly em­braces all of in­fin­ity that a fi­nite crea­ture can ever re­ally com­pre­hend. To un­der­stand more than the Su­preme is to be more than fi­nite!

117:6.20All ex­pe­ri­en­tial cre­ations are in­ter­de­pen­dent in their re­al­iza­tion of des­tiny. Only ex­is­ten­tial re­al­ity is self-con­tained and self-ex­is­tent. Ha­vona and the seven super­uni­verses re­quire each other to achieve the max­i­mum of fi­nite at­tain­ment; like­wise will they be some­time de­pen­dent on the fu­ture uni­verses of outer space for fi­nite tran­scen­dence.

117:6.21A hu­man as­cender can find the Fa­ther; God is ex­is­ten­tial and there­fore real, ir­re­spec­tive of the sta­tus of ex­pe­ri­ence in the to­tal uni­verse. But no sin­gle as­cender will ever find the Su­preme un­til all as­cend­ers have reached that max­i­mum uni­verse ma­tu­rity which qual­i­fies them si­mul­ta­ne­ously to par­tic­i­pate in this dis­cov­ery.

117:6.22The Fa­ther is no re­specter of per­sons; he treats each of his as­cend­ing sons as cos­mic in­di­vid­u­als. The Su­preme like­wise is no re­specter of per­sons; he treats his ex­pe­ri­en­tial chil­dren as a sin­gle cos­mic to­tal.

117:6.23Man can dis­cover the Fa­ther in his heart, but he will have to search for the Su­preme in the hearts of all other men; and when all crea­tures per­fectly re­veal the love of the Su­preme, then will he be­come a uni­verse ac­tu­al­ity to all crea­tures. And that is just an­other way of say­ing that the uni­verses will be set­tled in light and life.

117:6.24The at­tain­ment of per­fected self-re­al­iza­tion by all per­son­al­i­ties plus the at­tain­ment of per­fected equi­lib­rium through­out the uni­verses equals the at­tain­ment of the Su­preme and wit­nesses the lib­er­a­tion of all fi­nite re­al­ity from the lim­i­ta­tions of in­com­plete ex­is­tence. Such an ex­haus­tion of all fi­nite po­ten­tials yields the com­pleted at­tain­ment of the Su­preme and may be oth­er­wise de­fined as the com­pleted evo­lu­tion­ary ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing him­self.

117:6.25Men do not find the Su­preme sud­denly and spec­tac­u­larly as an earth­quake tears chasms into the rocks, but they find him slowly and pa­tiently as a river qui­etly wears away the soil be­neath.

117:6.26When you find the Fa­ther, you will find the great cause of your spir­i­tual as­cent in the uni­verses; when you find the Su­preme, you will dis­cover the great re­sult of your ca­reer of Par­a­dise pro­gres­sion.

117:6.27But no God-know­ing mor­tal can ever be lonely in his jour­ney through the cos­mos, for he knows that the Fa­ther walks be­side him each step of the way, while the very way that he is travers­ing is the pres­ence of the Su­preme.