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absolutism

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Every paragraph the index cites under absolutism, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

9:0.1A strange thing oc­curred when, in the pres­ence of Par­a­dise, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son unite to per­son­al­ize them­selves. Noth­ing in this eter­nity sit­u­a­tion fore­shad­ows that the Con­joint Ac­tor would per­son­al­ize as an un­lim­ited spir­i­tu­al­ity co-or­di­nated with ab­so­lute mind and en­dowed with unique pre­rog­a­tives of en­ergy ma­nip­u­la­tion. His com­ing into be­ing com­pletes the Fa­ther’s lib­er­a­tion from the bonds of cen­tral­ized per­fec­tion and from the fet­ters of per­son­al­ity ab­so­lutism. And this lib­er­a­tion is dis­closed in the amaz­ing power of the Con­joint Cre­ator to cre­ate be­ings well adapted to serve as min­is­ter­ing spir­its even to the ma­te­rial crea­tures of the sub­se­quently evolv­ing uni­verses.

10:0.1The Par­a­dise Trin­ity of eter­nal De­i­ties fa­cil­i­tates the Fa­ther’s es­cape from per­son­al­ity ab­so­lutism. The Trin­ity per­fectly as­so­ciates the lim­it­less ex­pres­sion of God’s in­fi­nite per­sonal will with the ab­so­lute­ness of De­ity. The Eter­nal Son and the var­i­ous Sons of di­vine ori­gin, to­gether with the Con­joint Ac­tor and his uni­verse chil­dren, ef­fec­tively pro­vide for the Fa­ther’s lib­er­a­tion from the lim­i­ta­tions oth­er­wise in­her­ent in pri­macy, per­fec­tion, change­less­ness, eter­nity, uni­ver­sal­ity, ab­so­lute­ness, and in­fin­ity.

10:2.1By the tech­nique of trin­i­ti­za­tion the Fa­ther di­vests him­self of that un­qual­i­fied spirit per­son­al­ity which is the Son, but in so do­ing he con­sti­tutes him­self the Fa­ther of this very Son and thereby pos­sesses him­self of un­lim­ited ca­pac­ity to be­come the di­vine Fa­ther of all sub­se­quently cre­ated, even­tu­ated, or other per­son­al­ized types of in­tel­li­gent will crea­tures. As the ab­so­lute and un­qual­i­fied per­son­al­ity the Fa­ther can func­tion only as and with the Son, but as a per­sonal Fa­ther he con­tin­ues to be­stow per­son­al­ity upon the di­verse hosts of the dif­fer­ing lev­els of in­tel­li­gent will crea­tures, and he for­ever main­tains per­sonal re­la­tions of lov­ing as­so­ci­a­tion with this vast fam­ily of uni­verse chil­dren.

10:3.7In be­stow­ing ab­so­lute­ness of per­son­al­ity upon the Eter­nal Son, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther es­capes from the fet­ters of per­son­al­ity ab­so­lutism, but in so do­ing he takes a step which makes it for­ever im­pos­si­ble for him to act alone as the per­son­al­ity-ab­so­lute. And with the fi­nal per­son­al­iza­tion of co­ex­is­tent De­ity—the Con­joint Ac­tor—there en­sues the crit­i­cal trini­tar­ian in­ter­de­pen­dence of the three di­vine per­son­al­i­ties with re­gard to the to­tal­ity of De­ity func­tion in ab­so­lute.

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Cited alongside: Universal Father