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Paper 56

Universal Unity

Mighty Messenger and Machiventa Melchizedek

9. Universal Absolute Unity

56:9.1The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute and the De­ity Ab­so­lute are uni­fied in the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. The Ab­so­lutes are co-or­di­nated in the Ul­ti­mate, con­di­tioned in the Su­preme, and time-space mod­i­fied in God the Sev­en­fold. On subin­fi­nite lev­els there are three Ab­so­lutes, but in in­fin­ity they ap­pear to be one. On Par­a­dise there are three per­son­al­iza­tions of De­ity, but in the Trin­ity they are one.

56:9.2The ma­jor philo­sophic propo­si­tion of the mas­ter uni­verse is this: Did the Ab­so­lute (the three Ab­so­lutes as one in in­fin­ity) ex­ist be­fore the Trin­ity? and is the Ab­so­lute an­ces­tral to the Trin­ity? or is the Trin­ity an­te­ced­ent to the Ab­so­lute?

56:9.3Is the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute a force pres­ence in­de­pen­dent of the Trin­ity? Does the pres­ence of the De­ity Ab­so­lute con­note the un­lim­ited func­tion of the Trin­ity? and is the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute the fi­nal func­tion of the Trin­ity, even a Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties?

56:9.4On first thought, a con­cept of the Ab­so­lute as an­ces­tor to all things—even the Trin­ity—seems to af­ford tran­si­tory sat­is­fac­tion of con­sis­tency grat­i­fi­ca­tion and philo­sophic uni­fi­ca­tion, but any such con­clu­sion is in­val­i­dated by the ac­tu­al­ity of the eter­nity of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. We are taught, and we be­lieve, that the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his Trin­ity as­so­ciates are eter­nal in na­ture and ex­is­tence. There is, then, but one con­sis­tent philo­sophic con­clu­sion, and that is: The Ab­so­lute is, to all uni­verse in­tel­li­gences, the im­per­sonal and co-or­di­nate re­ac­tion of the Trin­ity (of Trin­i­ties) to all ba­sic and pri­mary space sit­u­a­tions, in­trau­ni­ver­sal and ex­tra­uni­ver­sal. To all per­son­al­ity in­tel­li­gences of the grand uni­verse the Par­a­dise Trin­ity for­ever stands in fi­nal­ity, eter­nity, su­prem­acy, and ul­ti­macy and, for all prac­ti­cal pur­poses of per­sonal com­pre­hen­sion and crea­ture re­al­iza­tion, as ab­so­lute.

56:9.5As crea­ture minds may view this prob­lem, they are led to the fi­nal pos­tu­late of the Uni­ver­sal I AM as the pri­mal cause and the un­qual­i­fied source of both the Trin­ity and the Ab­so­lute. When, there­fore, we crave to en­ter­tain a per­sonal con­cept of the Ab­so­lute, we re­vert to our ideas and ide­als of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. When we de­sire to fa­cil­i­tate com­pre­hen­sion or to aug­ment con­scious­ness of this oth­er­wise im­per­sonal Ab­so­lute, we re­vert to the fact that the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is the ex­is­ten­tial Fa­ther of ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity; the Eter­nal Son is the Ab­so­lute Per­son, though not, in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial sense, the per­son­al­iza­tion of the Ab­so­lute. And then we go on to en­vis­age the ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­i­ties as cul­mi­nat­ing in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial per­son­al­iza­tion of the De­ity Ab­so­lute, while con­ceiv­ing the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute as con­sti­tut­ing the uni­verse and the ex­trau­ni­verse phe­nom­ena of the man­i­fest pres­ence of the im­per­sonal ac­tiv­i­ties of the uni­fied and co-or­di­nated De­ity as­so­ci­a­tions of su­prem­acy, ul­ti­macy, and in­fin­ity—the Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties.

56:9.6God the Fa­ther is dis­cern­i­ble on all lev­els from the fi­nite to the in­fi­nite, and though his crea­tures from Par­a­dise to the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds have var­i­ously per­ceived him, only the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit know him as an in­fin­ity.

56:9.7Spir­i­tual per­son­al­ity is ab­so­lute only on Par­a­dise, and the con­cept of the Ab­so­lute is un­qual­i­fied only in in­fin­ity. De­ity pres­ence is ab­so­lute only on Par­a­dise, and the rev­e­la­tion of God must al­ways be par­tial, rel­a­tive, and pro­gres­sive un­til his power be­comes ex­pe­ri­en­tially in­fi­nite in the space po­tency of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, while his per­son­al­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion be­comes ex­pe­ri­en­tially in­fi­nite in the man­i­fest pres­ence of the De­ity Ab­so­lute, and while these two po­ten­tials of in­fin­ity be­come re­al­ity-uni­fied in the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute.

56:9.8But be­yond subin­fi­nite lev­els the three Ab­so­lutes are one, and thereby is in­fin­ity De­ity-re­al­ized re­gard­less of whether any other or­der of ex­is­tence ever self-re­al­izes con­scious­ness of in­fin­ity.

56:9.9Ex­is­ten­tial sta­tus in eter­nity im­plies ex­is­ten­tial self-con­scious­ness of in­fin­ity, even though an­other eter­nity may be re­quired to ex­pe­ri­ence self-re­al­iza­tion of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial po­ten­tial­i­ties in­her­ent in an in­fin­ity eter­nity—an eter­nal in­fin­ity.

56:9.10And God the Fa­ther is the per­sonal source of all man­i­fes­ta­tions of De­ity and re­al­ity to all in­tel­li­gent crea­tures and spirit be­ings through­out all the uni­verse of uni­verses. As per­son­al­i­ties, now or in the suc­ces­sive uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ences of the eter­nal fu­ture, no mat­ter if you achieve the at­tain­ment of God the Sev­en­fold, com­pre­hend God the Su­preme, find God the Ul­ti­mate, or at­tempt to grasp the con­cept of God the Ab­so­lute, you will dis­cover to your eter­nal sat­is­fac­tion that in the con­sum­ma­tion of each ad­ven­ture you have, on new ex­pe­ri­en­tial lev­els, re­dis­cov­ered the eter­nal God—the Par­a­dise Fa­ther of all uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties.

56:9.11The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is the ex­pla­na­tion of uni­ver­sal unity as it must be su­premely, even ul­ti­mately, re­al­ized in the pos­tul­ti­mate unity of ab­so­lute val­ues and mean­ings—un­qual­i­fied Re­al­ity.

56:9.12The Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers go out into space and mo­bi­lize its en­er­gies to be­come grav­ity re­spon­sive to the Par­a­dise pull of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and sub­se­quently there come the Cre­ator Sons, who or­ga­nize these grav­ity-re­spond­ing forces into in­hab­ited uni­verses and therein evolve in­tel­li­gent crea­tures who re­ceive unto them­selves the spirit of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther and sub­se­quently as­cend to the Fa­ther to be­come like him in all pos­si­ble di­vin­ity at­tri­butes.

56:9.13The cease­less and ex­pand­ing march of the Par­a­dise cre­ative forces through space seems to presage the ever-ex­tend­ing do­main of the grav­ity grasp of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the never-end­ing mul­ti­pli­ca­tion of var­ied types of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures who are able to love God and be loved by him, and who, by thus be­com­ing God-know­ing, may choose to be like him, may elect to at­tain Par­a­dise and find God.

56:9.14The uni­verse of uni­verses is al­to­gether uni­fied. God is one in power and per­son­al­ity. There is co-or­di­na­tion of all lev­els of en­ergy and all phases of per­son­al­ity. Phil­o­soph­i­cally and ex­pe­ri­en­tially, in con­cept and in re­al­ity, all things and be­ings cen­ter in the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. God is all and in all, and no things or be­ings ex­ist with­out him.