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Paper 56

Universal Unity

Mighty Messenger and Machiventa Melchizedek

1. Physical Co-ordination

56:1.1The phys­i­cal or ma­te­rial cre­ation is not in­fi­nite, but it is per­fectly co-or­di­nated. There are force, en­ergy, and power, but they are all one in ori­gin. The seven super­uni­verses are seem­ingly dual; the cen­tral uni­verse, tri­une; but Par­a­dise is of sin­gle con­sti­tu­tion. And Par­a­dise is the ac­tual source of all ma­te­rial uni­verses—past, pres­ent, and fu­ture. But this cos­mic deriva­tion is an eter­nity event; at no time—past, pres­ent, or fu­ture—does ei­ther space or the ma­te­rial cos­mos come forth from the nu­clear Isle of Light. As the cos­mic source, Par­a­dise func­tions prior to space and be­fore time; hence would its deriva­tions seem to be or­phaned in time and space did they not emerge through the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, their ul­ti­mate re­pos­i­tory in space and their re­vealer and reg­u­la­tor in time.

56:1.2The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute up­holds the phys­i­cal uni­verse, while the De­ity Ab­so­lute mo­ti­vates the ex­qui­site over­con­trol of all ma­te­rial re­al­ity; and both Ab­so­lutes are func­tion­ally uni­fied by the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. This co­he­sive cor­re­la­tion of the ma­te­rial uni­verse is best un­der­stood by all per­son­al­i­ties—ma­te­rial, mor­ontia, ab­so­nite, or spir­i­tual—by the ob­ser­va­tion of the grav­ity re­sponse of all bona fide ma­te­rial re­al­ity to the grav­ity cen­ter­ing on nether Par­a­dise.

56:1.3Grav­ity uni­fi­ca­tion is uni­ver­sal and un­vary­ing; pure-en­ergy re­sponse is like­wise uni­ver­sal and in­es­cap­able. Pure en­ergy (pri­mor­dial force) and pure spirit are wholly pre­re­spon­sive to grav­ity. These pri­mal forces, in­her­ing in the Ab­so­lutes, are per­son­ally con­trolled by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; hence does all grav­ity cen­ter in the per­sonal pres­ence of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther of pure en­ergy and pure spirit and in his super­ma­te­rial abode.

56:1.4Pure en­ergy is the an­ces­tor of all rel­a­tive, non­spirit func­tional re­al­i­ties, while pure spirit is the po­ten­tial of the di­vine and di­rec­tive over­con­trol of all ba­sic en­ergy sys­tems. And these re­al­i­ties, so di­verse as man­i­fested through­out space and as ob­served in the mo­tions of time, are both cen­tered in the per­son of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. In him they are one—must be uni­fied—be­cause God is one. The Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity is ab­so­lutely uni­fied.

56:1.5In the in­fi­nite na­ture of God the Fa­ther there could not pos­si­bly ex­ist du­al­ity of re­al­ity, such as phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual; but the in­stant we look aside from the in­fi­nite lev­els and ab­so­lute re­al­ity of the per­sonal val­ues of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, we ob­serve the ex­is­tence of these two re­al­i­ties and rec­og­nize that they are fully re­spon­sive to his per­sonal pres­ence; in him all things con­sist.

56:1.6The mo­ment you de­part from the un­qual­i­fied con­cept of the in­fi­nite per­son­al­ity of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, you must pos­tu­late MIND as the in­ev­i­ta­ble tech­nique of uni­fy­ing the ever-widen­ing di­ver­gence of these dual uni­verse man­i­fes­ta­tions of the orig­i­nal mono­thetic Cre­ator per­son­al­ity, the First Source and Cen­ter—the I AM.