Supreme and Ultimate—Time and Space

118:4.1Many of the the­o­logic dif­fi­cul­ties and the meta­phys­i­cal dilem­mas of mor­tal man are due to man’s mis­lo­ca­tion of De­ity per­son­al­ity and con­se­quent as­sign­ment of in­fi­nite and ab­so­lute at­tri­butes to sub­or­di­nate Di­vin­ity and to evo­lu­tion­ary De­ity. You must not for­get that, while there is in­deed a true First Cause, there are also a host of co-or­di­nate and sub­or­di­nate causes, both as­so­ciate and sec­ondary causes.

118:4.2The vi­tal dis­tinc­tion be­tween first causes and sec­ond causes is that first causes pro­duce orig­i­nal ef­fects which are free from in­her­i­tance of any fac­tor de­rived from any an­te­ced­ent cau­sa­tion. Sec­ondary causes yield ef­fects which in­vari­ably ex­hibit in­her­i­tance from other and pre­ced­ing cau­sa­tion.

118:4.3The purely static po­ten­tials in­her­ent in the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute are re­ac­tive to those cau­sa­tions of the De­ity Ab­so­lute which are pro­duced by the ac­tions of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. In the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute these causative-im­preg­nated static po­ten­tials forth­with be­come ac­tive and re­spon­sive to the in­flu­ence of cer­tain tran­scen­den­tal agen­cies whose ac­tions re­sult in the trans­mu­ta­tion of these ac­ti­vated po­ten­tials to the sta­tus of true uni­verse pos­si­bil­i­ties for de­vel­op­ment, ac­tu­al­ized ca­pac­i­ties for growth. It is upon such ma­tured po­ten­tials that the cre­ators and con­trol­lers of the grand uni­verse en­act the never-end­ing drama of cos­mic evo­lu­tion.

118:4.4Cau­sa­tion, dis­re­gard­ing ex­is­ten­tials, is three­fold in its ba­sic con­sti­tu­tion. As it op­er­ates in this uni­verse age and con­cern­ing the fi­nite level of the seven super­uni­verses, it may be con­ceived as fol­lows:

118:4.51. Ac­ti­va­tion of static po­ten­tials. The es­tab­lish­ment of des­tiny in the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute by the ac­tions of the De­ity Ab­so­lute, op­er­at­ing in and upon the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute and in con­se­quence of the vo­li­tional man­dates of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

118:4.62. Even­tu­a­tion of uni­verse ca­pac­i­ties. This in­volves the trans­for­ma­tion of un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated po­ten­tials into seg­re­gated and de­fined plans. This is the act of the Ul­ti­macy of De­ity and of the man­i­fold agen­cies of the tran­scen­den­tal level. Such acts are in per­fect an­tic­i­pa­tion of the fu­ture needs of the en­tire mas­ter uni­verse. It is in con­nec­tion with the seg­re­ga­tion of po­ten­tials that the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse ex­ist as the ver­i­ta­ble em­bod­i­ments of the De­ity con­cept of the uni­verses. Their plans ap­pear to be ul­ti­mately space lim­ited in ex­tent by the con­cept pe­riph­ery of the mas­ter uni­verse, but as plans they are not oth­er­wise con­di­tioned by time or space.

118:4.73. Cre­ation and evo­lu­tion of uni­verse ac­tu­als. It is upon a cos­mos im­preg­nated by the ca­pac­ity-pro­duc­ing pres­ence of the Ul­ti­macy of De­ity that the Su­preme Cre­ators op­er­ate to ef­fect the time trans­mu­ta­tions of ma­tured po­ten­tials into ex­pe­ri­en­tial ac­tu­als. Within the mas­ter uni­verse all ac­tu­al­iza­tion of po­ten­tial re­al­ity is lim­ited by ul­ti­mate ca­pac­ity for de­vel­op­ment and is time-space con­di­tioned in the fi­nal stages of emer­gence. The Cre­ator Sons go­ing out from Par­a­dise are, in ac­tu­al­ity, trans­for­ma­tive cre­ators in the cos­mic sense. But this in no man­ner in­val­i­dates man’s con­cept of them as cre­ators; from the fi­nite view­point they cer­tainly can and do cre­ate.