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future eternals

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

0:7.1The De­ity mech­a­nism of the mas­ter uni­verse is two­fold as con­cerns eter­nity re­la­tion­ships. God the Fa­ther, God the Son, and God the Spirit are eter­nal—are ex­is­ten­tial be­ings—while God the Su­preme, God the Ul­ti­mate, and God the Ab­so­lute are ac­tu­al­iz­ing De­ity per­son­al­i­ties of the post-Ha­vona epochs in the time-space and the time-space-tran­scended spheres of mas­ter uni­verse evo­lu­tion­ary ex­pan­sion. These ac­tu­al­iz­ing De­ity per­son­al­i­ties are fu­ture eter­nals from the time when, and as, they power-per­son­al­ize in the grow­ing uni­verses by the tech­nique of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the as­so­cia­tive-cre­ative po­ten­tials of the eter­nal Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

0:7.2De­ity is, there­fore, dual in pres­ence:

0:7.31. Ex­is­ten­tial—be­ings of eter­nal ex­is­tence, past, pres­ent, and fu­ture.

0:7.42. Ex­pe­ri­en­tial—be­ings ac­tu­al­iz­ing in the post-Ha­vona pres­ent but of un­end­ing ex­is­tence through­out all fu­ture eter­nity.

0:7.5The Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit are ex­is­ten­tial—ex­is­ten­tial in ac­tu­al­ity (though all po­ten­tials are sup­pos­edly ex­pe­ri­en­tial). The Su­preme and the Ul­ti­mate are wholly ex­pe­ri­en­tial. The De­ity Ab­so­lute is ex­pe­ri­en­tial in ac­tu­al­iza­tion but ex­is­ten­tial in po­ten­tial­ity. The essence of De­ity is eter­nal, but only the three orig­i­nal per­sons of De­ity are un­qual­i­fiedly eter­nal. All other De­ity per­son­al­i­ties have an ori­gin, but they are eter­nal in des­tiny.

0:9.5God the Su­preme and God the Ul­ti­mate, now evolv­ing in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­verses, are not ex­is­ten­tial—not past eter­nals, only fu­ture eter­nals, time-space-con­di­tioned and tran­scen­den­tal-con­di­tioned eter­nals. They are De­i­ties of su­preme, ul­ti­mate, and pos­si­bly su­preme-ul­ti­mate en­dow­ments, but they have ex­pe­ri­enced his­toric uni­verse ori­gins. They will never have an end, but they do have per­son­al­ity be­gin­nings. They are in­deed ac­tu­al­iza­tions of eter­nal and in­fi­nite De­ity po­ten­tials, but they them­selves are nei­ther un­qual­i­fiedly eter­nal nor in­fi­nite.

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