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Paper 118

Supreme and Ultimate—Time and Space

Mighty Messenger

118:0.1Con­cern­ing the sev­eral na­tures of De­ity, it may be said:

118:0.21. The Fa­ther is self-ex­is­tent self.

118:0.32. The Son is co­ex­is­tent self.

118:0.43. The Spirit is con­joint-ex­is­tent self.

118:0.54. The Su­preme is evo­lu­tion­ary-ex­pe­ri­en­tial self.

118:0.65. The Sev­en­fold is self-dis­tribu­tive di­vin­ity.

118:0.76. The Ul­ti­mate is tran­scen­den­tal-ex­pe­ri­en­tial self.

118:0.87. The Ab­so­lute is ex­is­ten­tial-ex­pe­ri­en­tial self.

118:0.9While God the Sev­en­fold is in­dis­pens­able to the evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment of the Su­preme, the Su­preme is also in­dis­pens­able to the even­tual emer­gence of the Ul­ti­mate. And the dual pres­ence of the Su­preme and the Ul­ti­mate con­sti­tutes the ba­sic as­so­ci­a­tion of sub­ab­so­lute and de­rived De­ity, for they are in­ter­de­pen­dently com­ple­men­tal in the at­tain­ment of des­tiny. To­gether they con­sti­tute the ex­pe­ri­en­tial bridge link­ing the be­gin­nings and the com­ple­tions of all cre­ative growth in the mas­ter uni­verse.

118:0.10Cre­ative growth is un­end­ing but ever sat­is­fy­ing, end­less in ex­tent but al­ways punc­tu­ated by those per­son­al­ity-sat­is­fy­ing mo­ments of tran­sient goal at­tain­ment which serve so ef­fec­tively as the mo­bi­liza­tion pre­ludes to new ad­ven­tures in cos­mic growth, uni­verse ex­plo­ration, and De­ity at­tain­ment.

118:0.11While the do­main of math­e­mat­ics is be­set with qual­i­ta­tive lim­i­ta­tions, it does pro­vide the fi­nite mind with a con­cep­tual ba­sis of con­tem­plat­ing in­fin­ity. There is no quan­ti­ta­tive lim­i­ta­tion to num­bers, even in the com­pre­hen­sion of the fi­nite mind. No mat­ter how large the num­ber con­ceived, you can al­ways en­vis­age one more be­ing added. And also, you can com­pre­hend that that is short of in­fin­ity, for no mat­ter how many times you re­peat this ad­di­tion to num­ber, still al­ways one more can be added.

118:0.12At the same time, the in­fi­nite se­ries can be to­taled at any given point, and this to­tal (more prop­erly, a subto­tal) pro­vides the full­ness of the sweet­ness of goal at­tain­ment for a given per­son at a given time and sta­tus. But sooner or later, this same per­son be­gins to hunger and yearn for new and greater goals, and such ad­ven­tures in growth will be for­ever forth­com­ing in the full­ness of time and the cy­cles of eter­nity.

118:0.13Each suc­ces­sive uni­verse age is the an­techam­ber of the fol­low­ing era of cos­mic growth, and each uni­verse epoch pro­vides im­me­di­ate des­tiny for all pre­ced­ing stages. Ha­vona, in and of it­self, is a per­fect, but per­fec­tion-lim­ited, cre­ation; Ha­vona per­fec­tion, ex­pand­ing out into the evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses, finds not only cos­mic des­tiny but also lib­er­a­tion from the lim­i­ta­tions of pre-evo­lu­tion­ary ex­is­tence.