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Paper 56

Universal Unity

Mighty Messenger and Machiventa Melchizedek

7. Universal Evolutionary Repercussions

56:7.1The steady prog­ress of evo­lu­tion in the time-space uni­verses is ac­com­pa­nied by ever-en­larg­ing rev­e­la­tions of De­ity to all in­tel­li­gent crea­tures. The at­tain­ment of the height of evo­lu­tion­ary prog­ress on a world, in a sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, uni­verse, super­uni­verse, or in the grand uni­verse sig­nal­izes cor­re­spond­ing en­large­ments of de­ity func­tion to and in these pro­gres­sive units of cre­ation. And ev­ery such lo­cal en­hance­ment of di­vin­ity re­al­iza­tion is ac­com­pa­nied by cer­tain well-de­fined reper­cus­sions of en­larged de­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion to all other sec­tors of cre­ation. Ex­tend­ing out­ward from Par­a­dise, each new do­main of re­al­ized and at­tained evo­lu­tion con­sti­tutes a new and en­larged rev­e­la­tion of ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity to the uni­verse of uni­verses.

56:7.2As the com­po­nents of a lo­cal uni­verse are pro­gres­sively set­tled in light and life, God the Sev­en­fold is in­creas­ingly made man­i­fest. Time-space evo­lu­tion be­gins on a planet with the first ex­pres­sion of God the Sev­en­fold—the Cre­ator Son-Cre­ative Spirit as­so­ci­a­tion—in con­trol. With the set­tling of a sys­tem in light, this Son-Spirit li­ai­son at­tains the full­ness of func­tion; and when an en­tire con­stel­la­tion is thus set­tled, the sec­ond phase of God the Sev­en­fold be­comes more ac­tive through­out such a realm. The com­pleted ad­min­is­tra­tive evo­lu­tion of a lo­cal uni­verse is at­tended by new and more di­rect min­is­tra­tions of the super­uni­verse Mas­ter Spir­its; and at this point there also be­gins that ever-ex­pand­ing rev­e­la­tion and re­al­iza­tion of God the Su­preme which cul­mi­nates in the as­cender’s com­pre­hen­sion of the Su­preme Be­ing while pass­ing through the worlds of the sixth Ha­vona cir­cuit.

56:7.3The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, and the In­fi­nite Spirit are ex­is­ten­tial de­ity man­i­fes­ta­tions to in­tel­li­gent crea­tures and are not, there­fore, sim­i­larly ex­panded in per­son­al­ity re­la­tions with the mind and spirit crea­tures of all cre­ation.

56:7.4It should be noted that as­cend­ing mor­tals may ex­pe­ri­ence the im­per­sonal pres­ence of suc­ces­sive lev­els of De­ity long be­fore they be­come suf­fi­ciently spir­i­tual and ad­e­quately ed­u­cated to at­tain ex­pe­ri­en­tial per­sonal rec­og­ni­tion of, and con­tact with, these De­i­ties as per­sonal be­ings.

56:7.5Each new evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment within a sec­tor of cre­ation, as well as ev­ery new in­va­sion of space by di­vin­ity man­i­fes­ta­tions, is at­tended by si­mul­ta­ne­ous ex­pan­sions of De­ity func­tional-rev­e­la­tion within the then ex­ist­ing and pre­vi­ously or­ga­nized units of all cre­ation. This new in­va­sion of the ad­min­is­tra­tive work of the uni­verses and their com­po­nent units may not al­ways ap­pear to be ex­e­cuted ex­actly in ac­cor­dance with the tech­nique here­with out­lined be­cause it is the prac­tice to send forth ad­vance groups of ad­min­is­tra­tors to pre­pare the way for the sub­se­quent and suc­ces­sive eras of new ad­min­is­tra­tive over­con­trol. Even God the Ul­ti­mate fore­shad­ows his tran­scen­den­tal over­con­trol of the uni­verses dur­ing the later stages of a lo­cal uni­verse set­tled in light and life.

56:7.6It is a fact that, as the cre­ations of time and space are pro­gres­sively set­tled in evo­lu­tion­ary sta­tus, there is ob­served a new and fuller func­tion­ing of God the Su­preme con­comi­tant with a cor­re­spond­ing with­draw­ing of the first three man­i­fes­ta­tions of God the Sev­en­fold. If and when the grand uni­verse be­comes set­tled in light and life, what then will be the fu­ture func­tion of the Cre­ator-Cre­ative man­i­fes­ta­tions of God the Sev­en­fold if God the Su­preme as­sumes di­rect con­trol of these cre­ations of time and space? Are these or­ga­niz­ers and pi­o­neers of the time-space uni­verses to be lib­er­ated for sim­i­lar ac­tiv­i­ties in outer space? We do not know, but we spec­u­late much con­cern­ing these and re­lated mat­ters.

56:7.7As the fron­tiers of ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity are ex­tended out into the do­mains of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, we en­vi­sion the ac­tiv­ity of God the Sev­en­fold dur­ing the ear­lier evo­lu­tion­ary epochs of these cre­ations of the fu­ture. We are not all in agree­ment re­spect­ing the fu­ture sta­tus of the An­cients of Days and the super­uni­verse Mas­ter Spir­its. Nei­ther do we know whether or not the Su­preme Be­ing will therein func­tion as in the seven super­uni­verses. But we all con­jec­ture that the Mi­cha­els, the Cre­ator Sons, are des­tined to func­tion in these outer uni­verses. Some hold that the fu­ture ages will wit­ness some closer form of union be­tween the as­so­ci­ated Cre­ator Sons and Di­vine Min­is­ters; it is even pos­si­ble that such a cre­ator union might even­tu­ate in some new ex­pres­sion of as­so­ciate-cre­ator iden­tity of an ul­ti­mate na­ture. But we re­ally know noth­ing about these pos­si­bil­i­ties of the un­re­vealed fu­ture.

56:7.8We do know, how­ever, that in the uni­verses of time and space, God the Sev­en­fold pro­vides a pro­gres­sive ap­proach to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and that this evo­lu­tion­ary ap­proach is ex­pe­ri­en­tially uni­fied in God the Su­preme. We might con­jec­ture that such a plan must pre­vail in the outer uni­verses; on the other hand, the new or­ders of be­ings that may some­time in­habit these uni­verses may be able to ap­proach De­ity on ul­ti­mate lev­els and by ab­so­nite tech­niques. In short, we have not the slight­est con­cept of what tech­nique of de­ity ap­proach may be­come op­er­a­tive in the fu­ture uni­verses of outer space.

56:7.9Nev­er­the­less, we deem that the per­fected super­uni­verses will in some way be­come a part of the Par­a­dise-as­cen­sion ca­reers of those be­ings who may in­habit these outer cre­ations. It is quite pos­si­ble that in that fu­ture age we may wit­ness outer-spac­ers ap­proach­ing Ha­vona through the seven super­uni­verses, ad­min­is­tered by God the Su­preme with or with­out the col­lab­o­ra­tion of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

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