Supreme and Ultimate—Time and Space

118:5.1The om­nipo­tence of De­ity does not im­ply the power to do the non­doable. Within the time-space frame and from the in­tel­lec­tual ref­er­ence point of mor­tal com­pre­hen­sion, even the in­fi­nite God can­not cre­ate square cir­cles or pro­duce evil that is in­her­ently good. God can­not do the un­god­like thing. Such a con­tra­dic­tion of philo­sophic terms is the equiv­a­lent of nonen­tity and im­plies that noth­ing is thus cre­ated. A per­son­al­ity trait can­not at the same time be God­like and un­god­like. Com­pos­si­bil­ity is in­nate in di­vine power. And all of this is de­rived from the fact that om­nipo­tence not only cre­ates things with a na­ture but also gives ori­gin to the na­ture of all things and be­ings.

118:5.2In the be­gin­ning the Fa­ther does all, but as the pan­o­rama of eter­nity un­folds in re­sponse to the will and man­dates of the In­fi­nite, it be­comes in­creas­ingly ap­par­ent that crea­tures, even men, are to be­come God’s part­ners in the re­al­iza­tion of fi­nal­ity of des­tiny. And this is true even in the life in the flesh; when man and God en­ter into part­ner­ship, no lim­i­ta­tion can be placed upon the fu­ture pos­si­bil­i­ties of such a part­ner­ship. When man re­al­izes that the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is his part­ner in eter­nal pro­gres­sion, when he fuses with the in­dwelling Fa­ther pres­ence, he has, in spirit, bro­ken the fet­ters of time and has al­ready en­tered upon the pro­gres­sions of eter­nity in the quest for the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

118:5.3Mor­tal con­scious­ness pro­ceeds from the fact, to the mean­ing, and then to the value. Cre­ator con­scious­ness pro­ceeds from the thought-value, through the word-mean­ing, to the fact of ac­tion. Al­ways must God act to break the dead­lock of the un­qual­i­fied unity in­her­ent in ex­is­ten­tial in­fin­ity. Al­ways must De­ity pro­vide the pat­tern uni­verse, the per­fect per­son­al­i­ties, the orig­i­nal truth, beauty, and good­ness for which all sub­de­ity cre­ations strive. Al­ways must God first find man that man may later find God. Al­ways must there be a Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther be­fore there can ever be uni­ver­sal son­ship and con­se­quent uni­ver­sal broth­er­hood.