The Urantia Book

Settings

Reading
Theme
Text size
Line spacing

Typeface

Width
Alignment
Show
Listening

Kept in this browser only.

Paper 56

Universal Unity

Mighty Messenger and Machiventa Melchizedek

8. The Supreme Unifier

56:8.1The Su­preme Be­ing has a three­fold func­tion in the ex­pe­ri­ence of mor­tal man: First, he is the uni­fier of time-space di­vin­ity, God the Sev­en­fold; sec­ond, he is the max­i­mum of De­ity which fi­nite crea­tures can ac­tu­ally com­pre­hend; third, he is mor­tal man’s only av­enue of ap­proach to the tran­scen­den­tal ex­pe­ri­ence of con­sort­ing with ab­so­nite mind, eter­nal spirit, and Par­a­dise per­son­al­ity.

56:8.2As­cen­dant fi­nal­i­ters, hav­ing been born in the lo­cal uni­verses, nur­tured in the super­uni­verses, and trained in the cen­tral uni­verse, em­brace in their per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ences the full po­ten­tial of the com­pre­hen­sion of the time-space di­vin­ity of God the Sev­en­fold uni­fy­ing in the Su­preme. Fi­nal­i­ters serve suc­ces­sively in super­uni­verses other than those of na­tiv­ity, thereby super­im­pos­ing ex­pe­ri­ence upon ex­pe­ri­ence un­til the full­ness of the sev­en­fold di­ver­sity of pos­si­ble crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence has been en­com­passed. Through the min­istry of the in­dwelling Ad­justers the fi­nal­i­ters are en­abled to find the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, but it is by these tech­niques of ex­pe­ri­ence that such fi­nal­i­ters come re­ally to know the Su­preme Be­ing, and they are des­tined to the ser­vice and the rev­e­la­tion of this Su­preme De­ity in and to the fu­ture uni­verses of outer space.

56:8.3Bear in mind, all that God the Fa­ther and his Par­a­dise Sons do for us, we in turn and in spirit have the op­por­tu­nity to do for and in the emerg­ing Su­preme Be­ing. The ex­pe­ri­ence of love, joy, and ser­vice in the uni­verse is mu­tual. God the Fa­ther does not need that his sons should re­turn to him all that he be­stows upon them, but they do (or may) in turn be­stow all of this upon their fel­lows and upon the evolv­ing Su­preme Be­ing.

56:8.4All cre­ational phe­nom­ena are re­flec­tive of an­te­ced­ent cre­ator-spirit ac­tiv­i­ties. Said Je­sus, and it is lit­er­ally true, “The Son does only those things which he sees the Fa­ther do.” In time you mor­tals may be­gin the rev­e­la­tion of the Su­preme to your fel­lows, and in­creas­ingly may you aug­ment this rev­e­la­tion as you as­cend Par­adis­e­ward. In eter­nity you may be per­mit­ted to make in­creas­ing rev­e­la­tions of this God of evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures on su­preme lev­els—even ul­ti­mate—as sev­enth-stage fi­nal­i­ters.