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God the Sevenfold

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

0:2.165. God the Sev­en­fold—De­ity per­son­al­ity any­where ac­tu­ally func­tion­ing in time and space. The per­sonal Par­a­dise De­i­ties and their cre­ative as­so­ciates func­tion­ing in and be­yond the bor­ders of the cen­tral uni­verse and power-per­son­al­iz­ing as the Su­preme Be­ing on the first crea­ture level of uni­fy­ing De­ity rev­e­la­tion in time and space. This level, the grand uni­verse, is the sphere of the time-space de­scen­sion of Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties in re­cip­ro­cal as­so­ci­a­tion with the time-space as­cen­sion of evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures.

0:8.1To atone for fin­ity of sta­tus and to com­pen­sate for crea­ture lim­i­ta­tions of con­cept, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has es­tab­lished the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture’s sev­en­fold ap­proach to De­ity:

0:8.21. The Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons.

0:8.32. The An­cients of Days.

0:8.43. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

0:8.54. The Su­preme Be­ing.

0:8.65. God the Spirit.

0:8.76. God the Son.

0:8.87. God the Fa­ther.

0:8.9This sev­en­fold De­ity per­son­al­iza­tion in time and space and to the seven super­uni­verses en­ables mor­tal man to at­tain the pres­ence of God, who is spirit. This sev­en­fold De­ity, to fi­nite time-space crea­tures some­time power-per­son­al­iz­ing in the Su­preme Be­ing, is the func­tional De­ity of the mor­tal evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures of the Par­a­dise-as­cen­sion ca­reer. Such an ex­pe­ri­en­tial dis­cov­ery-ca­reer of the re­al­iza­tion of God be­gins with the rec­og­ni­tion of the di­vin­ity of the Cre­ator Son of the lo­cal uni­verse and as­cends through the super­uni­verse An­cients of Days and by way of the per­son of one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its to the at­tain­ment of the dis­cov­ery and rec­og­ni­tion of the di­vine per­son­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther on Par­a­dise.

0:8.10The grand uni­verse is the three­fold De­ity do­main of the Trin­ity of Su­prem­acy, God the Sev­en­fold, and the Su­preme Be­ing. God the Su­preme is po­ten­tial in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, from whom he de­rives his per­son­al­ity and spirit at­tri­butes; but he is now ac­tu­al­iz­ing in the Cre­ator Sons, An­cients of Days, and the Mas­ter Spir­its, from whom he de­rives his power as Al­mighty to the super­uni­verses of time and space. This power man­i­fes­ta­tion of the im­me­di­ate God of evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures ac­tu­ally time-space evolves con­comi­tantly with them. The Al­mighty Su­preme, evolv­ing on the value-level of non­per­sonal ac­tiv­i­ties, and the spirit per­son of God the Su­preme are one re­al­ity—the Su­preme Be­ing.

0:8.11The Cre­ator Sons in the De­ity as­so­ci­a­tion of God the Sev­en­fold pro­vide the mech­a­nism whereby the mor­tal be­comes im­mor­tal and the fi­nite at­tains the em­brace of the in­fi­nite. The Su­preme Be­ing pro­vides the tech­nique for the power-per­son­al­ity mo­bi­liza­tion, the di­vine syn­the­sis, of all these man­i­fold trans­ac­tions, thus en­abling the fi­nite to at­tain the ab­so­nite and, through other pos­si­ble fu­ture ac­tu­al­iza­tions, to at­tempt the at­tain­ment of the Ul­ti­mate. The Cre­ator Sons and their as­so­ci­ated Di­vine Min­is­ters are par­tic­i­pants in this su­preme mo­bi­liza­tion, but the An­cients of Days and the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are prob­a­bly eter­nally fixed as per­ma­nent ad­min­is­tra­tors in the grand uni­verse.

0:8.12The func­tion of God the Sev­en­fold dates from the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the seven super­uni­verses, and it will prob­a­bly ex­pand in con­nec­tion with the fu­ture evo­lu­tion of the cre­ations of outer space. The or­ga­ni­za­tion of these fu­ture uni­verses of the pri­mary, sec­ondary, ter­tiary, and quar­tan space lev­els of pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion will un­doubt­edly wit­ness the in­au­gu­ra­tion of the tran­scen­dent and ab­so­nite ap­proach to De­ity.

3:1.12The fluc­tu­a­tions of the Fa­ther’s pres­ence are not due to the change­able­ness of God. The Fa­ther does not re­tire in seclu­sion be­cause he has been slighted; his af­fec­tions are not alien­ated be­cause of the crea­ture’s wrong­do­ing. Rather, hav­ing been en­dowed with the power of choice (con­cern­ing Him­self), his chil­dren, in the ex­er­cise of that choice, di­rectly de­ter­mine the de­gree and lim­i­ta­tions of the Fa­ther’s di­vine in­flu­ence in their own hearts and souls. The Fa­ther has freely be­stowed him­self upon us with­out limit and with­out fa­vor. He is no re­specter of per­sons, plan­ets, sys­tems, or uni­verses. In the sec­tors of time he con­fers dif­fer­en­tial honor only on the Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties of God the Sev­en­fold, the co-or­di­nate cre­ators of the fi­nite uni­verses.

17:8.3The seven Su­preme Spirit groups are the co-or­di­na­tors of the in­hab­ited cre­ation. The as­so­ci­a­tion of their di­rect­ing heads, the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, ap­pears to co-or­di­nate the far-flung ac­tiv­i­ties of God the Sev­en­fold:

31:9.14The Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects con­tribute tech­ni­cal ap­proval of the as­sign­ment of the Cre­ator Sons to their space sites for the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the lo­cal uni­verses. There is a very close as­so­ci­a­tion be­tween the Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects and the Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons, and while this re­la­tion­ship is un­re­vealed, you have been in­formed of the as­so­ci­a­tion of the Ar­chi­tects and the grand uni­verse Su­preme Cre­ators in the re­la­tion­ship of the first ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity. These two groups, to­gether with the evolv­ing and ex­pe­ri­en­tial Su­preme Be­ing, con­sti­tute the Trin­ity Ul­ti­mate of tran­scen­den­tal val­ues and mas­ter uni­verse mean­ings.

33:1.3Our Cre­ator Son ex­erts the same spir­i­tual draw­ing power, spirit grav­ity, from the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse that the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise would ex­ert if he were per­son­ally pres­ent on Sal­ving­ton, and more; this Uni­verse Son is also the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. Cre­ator Sons are per­son­al­ity cen­ters for the spir­i­tual forces of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther-Son. Cre­ator Sons are the fi­nal power-per­son­al­ity fo­cal­iza­tions of the mighty time-space at­tri­butes of God the Sev­en­fold.

36:6.7There are some things con­nected with the elab­o­ra­tion of life on the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets which are not al­to­gether clear to us. We fully com­pre­hend the phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion of the elec­tro­chem­i­cal for­mu­las of the Life Car­ri­ers, but we do not wholly un­der­stand the na­ture and source of the life-ac­ti­va­tion spark. We know that life flows from the Fa­ther through the Son and by the Spirit. It is more than pos­si­ble that the Mas­ter Spir­its are the sev­en­fold chan­nel of the river of life which is poured out upon all cre­ation. But we do not com­pre­hend the tech­nique whereby the super­vis­ing Mas­ter Spirit par­tic­i­pates in the ini­tial episode of life be­stowal on a new planet. The An­cients of Days, we are con­fi­dent, also have some part in this in­au­gu­ra­tion of life on a new world, but we are wholly ig­no­rant of the na­ture thereof. We do know that the Uni­verse Mother Spirit ac­tu­ally vi­tal­izes the life­less pat­terns and im­parts to such ac­ti­vated plasm the pre­rog­a­tives of or­gan­is­mal re­pro­duc­tion. We ob­serve that these three are the lev­els of God the Sev­en­fold, some­times des­ig­nated as the Su­preme Cre­ators of time and space; but oth­er­wise we know lit­tle more than Uran­tia mor­tals—sim­ply that con­cept is in­her­ent in the Fa­ther, ex­pres­sion in the Son, and life re­al­iza­tion in the Spirit.

42:2.144. Uni­verse power. Space-force has been changed into space-en­ergy and thence into the en­ergy of grav­ity con­trol. Thus has phys­i­cal en­ergy been ripened to that point where it can be di­rected into chan­nels of power and made to serve the man­i­fold pur­poses of the uni­verse Cre­ators. This work is car­ried on by the ver­sa­tile di­rec­tors, cen­ters, and con­trol­lers of phys­i­cal en­ergy in the grand uni­verse—the or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ations. These Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors as­sume the more or less com­plete con­trol of twenty-one of the thirty phases of en­ergy con­sti­tut­ing the pres­ent en­ergy sys­tem of the seven super­uni­verses. This do­main of power-en­ergy-mat­ter is the realm of the in­tel­li­gent ac­tiv­i­ties of the Sev­en­fold, func­tion­ing un­der the time-space over­con­trol of the Su­preme.

56:5.3The pres­ent func­tion­ing of di­vin­ity in the super­uni­verses is ac­tively man­i­fest in the op­er­a­tions of the Su­preme Cre­ators—the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ator Sons and Spir­its, the super­uni­verse An­cients of Days, and the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise. These be­ings con­sti­tute the first three lev­els of God the Sev­en­fold lead­ing in­ward to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and this en­tire do­main of God the Sev­en­fold is co-or­di­nat­ing on the first level of ex­pe­ri­en­tial de­ity in the evolv­ing Su­preme Be­ing.

56:6.1When the three eter­nal per­sons of De­ity func­tion as un­di­vided De­ity in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, they achieve per­fect unity; like­wise, when they cre­ate, ei­ther as­so­cia­tively or sev­er­ally, their Par­a­dise progeny ex­hibit the char­ac­ter­is­tic unity of di­vin­ity. And this di­vin­ity of pur­pose man­i­fested by the Su­preme Cre­ators and Rulers of the time-space do­mains even­tu­ates in the uni­fy­ing power po­ten­tial of the sov­er­eignty of ex­pe­ri­en­tial su­prem­acy which, in the pres­ence of the im­per­sonal en­ergy unity of the uni­verse, con­sti­tutes a re­al­ity ten­sion that can be re­solved only through ad­e­quate uni­fi­ca­tion with the ex­pe­ri­en­tial per­son­al­ity re­al­i­ties of ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity.

56:6.2The per­son­al­ity re­al­i­ties of the Su­preme Be­ing come forth from the Par­a­dise De­i­ties and on the pi­lot world of the outer Ha­vona cir­cuit unify with the power pre­rog­a­tives of the Al­mighty Su­preme com­ing up from the Cre­ator di­vini­ties of the grand uni­verse. God the Su­preme as a per­son ex­isted in Ha­vona be­fore the cre­ation of the seven super­uni­verses, but he func­tioned only on spir­i­tual lev­els. The evo­lu­tion of the Al­mighty power of Su­prem­acy by di­verse di­vin­ity syn­the­sis in the evolv­ing uni­verses even­tu­ated in a new power pres­ence of De­ity which co-or­di­nated with the spir­i­tual per­son of the Su­preme in Ha­vona by means of the Su­preme Mind, which con­comi­tantly trans­lated from the po­ten­tial res­i­dent in the in­fi­nite mind of the In­fi­nite Spirit to the ac­tive func­tional mind of the Su­preme Be­ing.

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.

105:6.54. The di­vin­ity re­sponse to the im­per­fec­tion in­her­ent in the time lag of evo­lu­tion is dis­closed in the com­pen­sat­ing pres­ence of God the Sev­en­fold, by whose ac­tiv­i­ties that which is per­fect­ing is in­te­grated with both the per­fect and the per­fected. This time lag is in­sep­a­ra­ble from evo­lu­tion, which is cre­ativ­ity in time. Be­cause of it, as well as for other rea­sons, the al­mighty power of the Su­preme is pred­i­cated on the di­vin­ity suc­cesses of God the Sev­en­fold. This time lag makes pos­si­ble crea­ture par­tic­i­pa­tion in di­vine cre­ation by per­mit­ting crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties to be­come part­ners with De­ity in the at­tain­ment of max­i­mum de­vel­op­ment. Even the ma­te­rial mind of the mor­tal crea­ture thus be­comes part­ner with the di­vine Ad­juster in the du­al­iza­tion of the im­mor­tal soul. God the Sev­en­fold also pro­vides tech­niques of com­pen­sa­tion for the ex­pe­ri­en­tial lim­i­ta­tions of in­her­ent per­fec­tion as well as com­pen­sat­ing the preas­cen­sion lim­i­ta­tions of im­per­fec­tion.

105:7.17God the Sev­en­fold rep­re­sents the per­son­al­ity and di­vin­ity rev­e­la­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to crea­tures of both max­i­mum and sub­max­i­mum sta­tus, but there are other sev­en­fold re­la­tion­ships of the First Source and Cen­ter which do not per­tain to the man­i­fes­ta­tion of the di­vine spir­i­tual min­istry of the God who is spirit.

106:1.2This super­uni­verse time lag, this ob­sta­cle to per­fec­tion at­tain­ment, pro­vides for crea­ture par­tic­i­pa­tion in evo­lu­tion­ary growth. It thus makes it pos­si­ble for the crea­ture to en­ter into part­ner­ship with the Cre­ator in the evo­lu­tion of that self­same crea­ture. And dur­ing these times of ex­pand­ing growth the in­com­plete is cor­re­lated with the per­fect through the min­istry of God the Sev­en­fold.

106:1.3God the Sev­en­fold sig­ni­fies the rec­og­ni­tion by Par­a­dise De­ity of the bar­ri­ers of time in the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses of space. No mat­ter how re­mote from Par­a­dise, how deep in space, a ma­te­rial sur­vival per­son­al­ity may take ori­gin, God the Sev­en­fold will be found there pres­ent and en­gaged in the lov­ing and mer­ci­ful min­istry of truth, beauty, and good­ness to such an in­com­plete, strug­gling, and evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture. The di­vin­ity min­istry of the Sev­en­fold reaches in­ward through the Eter­nal Son to the Par­a­dise Fa­ther and out­ward through the An­cients of Days to the uni­verse Fa­thers—the Cre­ator Sons.

106:1.4Man, be­ing per­sonal and as­cend­ing by spir­i­tual pro­gres­sion, finds the per­sonal and spir­i­tual di­vin­ity of the Sev­en­fold De­ity; but there are other phases of the Sev­en­fold which are not con­cerned with the pro­gres­sion of per­son­al­ity. The di­vin­ity as­pects of this De­ity group­ing are at pres­ent in­te­grated in the li­ai­son be­tween the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and the Con­joint Ac­tor, but they are des­tined to be eter­nally uni­fied in the emerg­ing per­son­al­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing. The other phases of the Sev­en­fold De­ity are var­i­ously in­te­grated in the pres­ent uni­verse age, but all are like­wise des­tined to be uni­fied in the Su­preme. The Sev­en­fold, in all phases, is the source of the rel­a­tive unity of the func­tional re­al­ity of the pres­ent grand uni­verse.

106:3.2Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age the ad­min­is­tra­tive co-or­di­na­tion of the mas­ter uni­verse is the func­tion of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse. But the ap­pear­ance of the Al­mighty Su­preme at the ter­mi­na­tion of the pres­ent uni­verse age will sig­nify that the evo­lu­tion­ary fi­nite has at­tained the first stage of ex­pe­ri­en­tial des­tiny. This hap­pen­ing will cer­tainly lead to the com­pleted func­tion of the first ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity—the union of the Su­preme Cre­ators, the Su­preme Be­ing, and the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse. This Trin­ity is des­tined to ef­fect the fur­ther evo­lu­tion­ary in­te­gra­tion of the mas­ter cre­ation.

106:5.2It should be made clear that these ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­i­ties are cor­rel­a­tive, not only of the per­son­al­ity qual­i­ties of ex­pe­ri­en­tial Di­vin­ity, but also of all the other-than-per­sonal qual­i­ties which char­ac­ter­ize their at­tained De­ity unity. While this pre­sen­ta­tion deals pri­mar­ily with the per­sonal phases of the uni­fi­ca­tion of the cos­mos, it is nonethe­less true that the im­per­sonal as­pects of the uni­verse of uni­verses are like­wise des­tined to un­dergo uni­fi­ca­tion as is il­lus­trated by the power-per­son­al­ity syn­the­sis now go­ing on in con­nec­tion with the evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing. The spirit-per­sonal qual­i­ties of the Su­preme are in­sep­a­ra­ble from the power pre­rog­a­tives of the Al­mighty, and both are com­ple­mented by the un­known po­ten­tial of Su­preme Mind. Nei­ther can God the Ul­ti­mate as a per­son be con­sid­ered apart from the other-than-per­sonal as­pects of Ul­ti­mate De­ity. And on the ab­so­lute level the De­ity and the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lutes are in­sep­a­ra­ble and in­dis­tin­guish­able in the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute.

115:4.7The growth of Su­prem­acy de­rives from the tri­odi­ties; the spirit per­son of the Su­preme, from the Trin­ity; but the power pre­rog­a­tives of the Al­mighty are pred­i­cated on the di­vin­ity suc­cesses of God the Sev­en­fold, while the con­join­ing of the power pre­rog­a­tives of the Al­mighty Su­preme with the spirit per­son of God the Su­preme takes place by virtue of the min­istry of the Con­joint Ac­tor, who be­stowed the mind of the Su­preme as the con­join­ing fac­tor in this evo­lu­tion­ary De­ity.

116:2.1The ap­pear­ance of the uni­verse power pres­ence of the Al­mighty is con­comi­tant with the ap­pear­ance on the stage of cos­mic ac­tion of the high cre­ators and con­trol­lers of the evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses.

116:2.2God the Su­preme de­rives his spirit and per­son­al­ity at­tri­butes from the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, but he is power-ac­tu­al­iz­ing in the do­ings of the Cre­ator Sons, the An­cients of Days, and the Mas­ter Spir­its, whose col­lec­tive acts are the source of his grow­ing power as al­mighty sov­er­eign to and in the seven super­uni­verses.

116:2.3Un­qual­i­fied Par­a­dise De­ity is in­com­pre­hen­si­ble to the evolv­ing crea­tures of time and space. Eter­nity and in­fin­ity con­note a level of de­ity re­al­ity which time-space crea­tures can­not com­pre­hend. In­fin­ity of de­ity and ab­so­lute­ness of sov­er­eignty are in­her­ent in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, and the Trin­ity is a re­al­ity which lies some­what be­yond the un­der­stand­ing of mor­tal man. Time-space crea­tures must have ori­gins, rel­a­tiv­i­ties, and des­tinies in or­der to grasp uni­verse re­la­tion­ships and to un­der­stand the mean­ing val­ues of di­vin­ity. There­fore does Par­a­dise De­ity at­ten­u­ate and oth­er­wise qual­ify the ex­tra-Par­a­dise per­son­al­iza­tions of di­vin­ity, thus bring­ing into ex­is­tence the Su­preme Cre­ators and their as­so­ciates, who ever carry the light of life far­ther and far­ther from its Par­a­dise source un­til it finds its most dis­tant and beau­ti­ful ex­pres­sion in the earth lives of the be­stowal Sons on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

116:2.4And this is the ori­gin of God the Sev­en­fold, whose suc­ces­sive lev­els are en­coun­tered by mor­tal man in the fol­low­ing or­der:

116:2.51. The Cre­ator Sons (and Cre­ative Spir­its).

116:2.62. The An­cients of Days.

116:2.73. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

116:2.84. The Su­preme Be­ing.

116:2.95. The Con­joint Ac­tor.

116:2.106. The Eter­nal Son.

116:2.117. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

116:2.12The first three lev­els are the Su­preme Cre­ators; the last three lev­els are the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. The Su­preme ever in­ter­venes as the ex­pe­ri­en­tial spirit per­son­al­iza­tion of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and as the ex­pe­ri­en­tial fo­cus of the evo­lu­tion­ary al­mighty power of the cre­ator chil­dren of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. The Su­preme Be­ing is the max­i­mum rev­e­la­tion of De­ity to the seven super­uni­verses and for the pres­ent uni­verse age.

116:2.13By the tech­nique of mor­tal logic it might be in­ferred that the ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­uni­fi­ca­tion of the col­lec­tive acts of the first three lev­els of God the Sev­en­fold would equiv­alate to the level of Par­a­dise De­ity, but such is not the case. Par­a­dise De­ity is ex­is­ten­tial De­ity. The Su­preme Cre­ators, in their di­vine unity of power and per­son­al­ity, are con­sti­tu­tive and ex­pres­sive of a new power po­ten­tial of ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity. And this power po­ten­tial of ex­pe­ri­en­tial ori­gin finds in­ev­i­ta­ble and in­es­cap­able union with the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity of Trin­ity ori­gin—the Su­preme Be­ing.

116:2.14God the Su­preme is not the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, nei­ther is he any one or all of those super­uni­verse Cre­ators whose func­tional ac­tiv­i­ties ac­tu­ally syn­the­size his evolv­ing al­mighty power. God the Su­preme, while of ori­gin in the Trin­ity, be­comes man­i­fest to evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures as a per­son­al­ity of power only through the co-or­di­nated func­tions of the first three lev­els of God the Sev­en­fold. The Al­mighty Su­preme is now fac­tu­al­iz­ing in time and space through the ac­tiv­i­ties of the Su­preme Cre­ator Per­son­al­i­ties, even as in eter­nity the Con­joint Ac­tor flashed into be­ing by the will of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son. These be­ings of the first three lev­els of God the Sev­en­fold are the very na­ture and source of the power of the Al­mighty Su­preme; there­fore must they ever ac­com­pany and sus­tain his ad­min­is­tra­tive acts.

116:4.2Dur­ing those ages in which the sov­er­eignty of Su­prem­acy is un­der­go­ing its time de­vel­op­ment, the al­mighty power of the Su­preme is de­pen­dent on the di­vin­ity acts of God the Sev­en­fold, while there seems to be a par­tic­u­larly close re­la­tion­ship be­tween the Su­preme Be­ing and the Con­joint Ac­tor to­gether with his pri­mary per­son­al­i­ties, the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. The In­fi­nite Spirit as the Con­joint Ac­tor func­tions in many ways which com­pen­sate the in­com­ple­tion of evo­lu­tion­ary De­ity and sus­tains very close re­la­tions to the Su­preme. This close­ness of re­la­tion­ship is shared in mea­sure by all of the Mas­ter Spir­its but es­pe­cially by Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Seven, who speaks for the Su­preme. This Mas­ter Spirit knows—is in per­sonal con­tact with—the Su­preme.

116:4.3–11 · nine paragraphs not cited here ·

116:4.3Early in the pro­jec­tion of the super­uni­verse scheme of cre­ation, the Mas­ter Spir­its joined with the an­ces­tral Trin­ity in the cocre­ation of the forty-nine Re­flec­tive Spir­its, and con­comi­tantly the Su­preme Be­ing func­tioned cre­atively as the cul­mi­na­tor of the con­joined acts of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and the cre­ative chil­dren of Par­a­dise De­ity. Maj­es­ton ap­peared and ever since has fo­cal­ized the cos­mic pres­ence of the Su­preme Mind, while the Mas­ter Spir­its con­tinue as source-cen­ters for the far-flung min­istry of the cos­mic mind.

116:4.4But the Mas­ter Spir­its con­tinue in super­vi­sion of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its. The Sev­enth Mas­ter Spirit is (in his over­all super­vi­sion of Or­von­ton from the cen­tral uni­verse) in per­sonal con­tact with (and has over­con­trol of) the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its lo­cated on Uversa. In his in­ter- and in­tra­super­uni­verse con­trols and ad­min­is­tra­tions he is in re­flec­tive con­tact with the Re­flec­tive Spir­its of his own type lo­cated on each super­uni­verse cap­i­tal.

116:4.5These Mas­ter Spir­its are not only the sup­port­ers and aug­menters of the sov­er­eignty of Su­prem­acy, but they are in turn af­fected by the cre­ative pur­poses of the Su­preme. Or­di­nar­ily, the col­lec­tive cre­ations of the Mas­ter Spir­its are of the quasi-ma­te­rial or­der (power di­rec­tors, etc.), while their in­di­vid­ual cre­ations are of the spir­i­tual or­der (super­na­phim, etc.). But when the Mas­ter Spir­its col­lec­tively pro­duced the Seven Cir­cuit Spir­its in re­sponse to the will and pur­pose of the Su­preme Be­ing, it is to be noted that the off­spring of this cre­ative act are spir­i­tual, not ma­te­rial or quasi-ma­te­rial.

116:4.6And as it is with the Mas­ter Spir­its of the super­uni­verses, so is it with the tri­une rulers of these super­cre­ations—the An­cients of Days. These per­son­i­fi­ca­tions of Trin­ity jus­tice-judg­ment in time and space are the field ful­crums for the mo­bi­liz­ing al­mighty power of the Su­preme, serv­ing as the sev­en­fold fo­cal points for the evo­lu­tion of trini­tar­ian sov­er­eignty in the do­mains of time and space. From their van­tage point mid­way be­tween Par­a­dise and the evolv­ing worlds, these Trin­ity-ori­gin sov­er­eigns see both ways, know both ways, and co-or­di­nate both ways.

116:4.7But the lo­cal uni­verses are the real lab­o­ra­to­ries in which are worked out the mind ex­per­i­ments, galac­tic ad­ven­tures, di­vin­ity un­fold­ings, and per­son­al­ity pro­gres­sions which, when cos­mi­cally to­taled, con­sti­tute the ac­tual foun­da­tion upon which the Su­preme is achiev­ing de­ity evo­lu­tion in and by ex­pe­ri­ence.

116:4.8In the lo­cal uni­verses even the Cre­ators evolve: The pres­ence of the Con­joint Ac­tor evolves from a liv­ing power fo­cus to the sta­tus of the di­vine per­son­al­ity of a Uni­verse Mother Spirit; the Cre­ator Son evolves from the na­ture of ex­is­ten­tial Par­a­dise di­vin­ity to the ex­pe­ri­en­tial na­ture of su­preme sov­er­eignty. The lo­cal uni­verses are the start­ing points of true evo­lu­tion, the spawn­ing grounds of bona fide im­per­fect per­son­al­i­ties en­dowed with the free­will choice of be­com­ing cocre­ators of them­selves as they are to be.

116:4.9The Mag­is­te­rial Sons in their be­stowals upon the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds even­tu­ally ac­quire na­tures ex­pres­sive of Par­a­dise di­vin­ity in ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­fi­ca­tion with the high­est spir­i­tual val­ues of ma­te­rial hu­man na­ture. And through these and other be­stowals the Mi­chael Cre­ators like­wise ac­quire the na­tures and cos­mic view­points of their ac­tual lo­cal uni­verse chil­dren. Such Mas­ter Cre­ator Sons ap­prox­i­mate the com­ple­tion of sub­supreme ex­pe­ri­ence; and when their lo­cal uni­verse sov­er­eignty is en­larged to em­brace the as­so­ci­ated Cre­ative Spir­its, it may be said to ap­prox­i­mate the lim­its of su­prem­acy within the pres­ent po­ten­tials of the evo­lu­tion­ary grand uni­verse.

116:4.10When the be­stowal Sons re­veal new ways for man to find God, they are not cre­at­ing these paths of di­vin­ity at­tain­ment; rather are they il­lu­mi­nat­ing the ev­er­last­ing high­ways of pro­gres­sion which lead through the pres­ence of the Su­preme to the per­son of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

116:4.11The lo­cal uni­verse is the start­ing place for those per­son­al­i­ties who are far­thest from God, and who can there­fore ex­pe­ri­ence the great­est de­gree of spir­i­tual as­cent in the uni­verse, can achieve the max­i­mum of ex­pe­ri­en­tial par­tic­i­pa­tion in the cocre­ation of them­selves. These same lo­cal uni­verses like­wise pro­vide the great­est pos­si­ble depth of ex­pe­ri­ence for the de­scend­ing per­son­al­i­ties, who thereby achieve some­thing which is to them just as mean­ing­ful as the Par­a­dise as­cent is to an evolv­ing crea­ture.

116:4.12Mor­tal man ap­pears to be nec­es­sary to the full func­tion of God the Sev­en­fold as this di­vin­ity group­ing cul­mi­nates in the ac­tu­al­iz­ing Su­preme. There are many other or­ders of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties who are equally nec­es­sary to the evo­lu­tion of the al­mighty power of the Su­preme, but this por­trayal is pre­sented for the ed­i­fi­ca­tion of hu­man be­ings, hence is largely lim­ited to those fac­tors op­er­at­ing in the evo­lu­tion of God the Sev­en­fold which are re­lated to mor­tal man.

116:5.1You have been in­structed in the re­la­tion­ship of God the Sev­en­fold to the Su­preme Be­ing, and you should now rec­og­nize that the Sev­en­fold en­com­passes the con­trol­lers as well as the cre­ators of the grand uni­verse. These sev­en­fold con­trol­lers of the grand uni­verse em­brace the fol­low­ing:

116:5.21. The Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

116:5.32. The Su­preme Power Cen­ters.

116:5.43. The Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors.

116:5.54. The Al­mighty Su­preme.

116:5.65. The God of Ac­tion—the In­fi­nite Spirit.

116:5.76. The Isle of Par­a­dise.

116:5.87. The Source of Par­a­dise—the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

116:5.9These seven groups are func­tion­ally in­sep­a­ra­ble from God the Sev­en­fold and con­sti­tute the phys­i­cal-con­trol level of this De­ity as­so­ci­a­tion.

117:1.2In the per­sons of the Su­preme Cre­ators the Gods have de­scended from Par­a­dise to the do­mains of time and space, there to cre­ate and to evolve crea­tures with Par­a­dise-at­tain­ment ca­pac­ity who can as­cend thereto in quest of the Fa­ther. This uni­verse pro­ces­sion of de­scend­ing God-re­veal­ing Cre­ators and as­cend­ing God-seek­ing crea­tures is rev­e­la­tory of the De­ity evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme, in whom both de­scen­ders and as­cend­ers achieve mu­tu­al­ity of un­der­stand­ing, the dis­cov­ery of eter­nal and uni­ver­sal broth­er­hood. The Su­preme Be­ing thus be­comes the fi­nite syn­the­sis of the ex­pe­ri­ence of the per­fect-Cre­ator cause and the per­fect­ing-crea­ture re­sponse.

117:3.7This is some­what like the way in which the Su­preme Be­ing ex­pands. His sov­er­eignty grows in and out of the acts and achieve­ments of the Su­preme Cre­ator Per­son­al­i­ties; that is the evo­lu­tion of the majesty of his power as the ruler of the grand uni­verse. His de­ity na­ture is like­wise de­pen­dent on the pre-ex­is­tent unity of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. But there is still an­other as­pect to the evo­lu­tion of God the Su­preme: He is not only Cre­ator-evolved and Trin­ity-de­rived; he is also self-evolved and self-de­rived. God the Su­preme is him­self a vo­li­tional, cre­ative par­tic­i­pant in his own de­ity ac­tu­al­iza­tion. The hu­man mor­ontial soul is like­wise a vo­li­tional, cocre­ative part­ner in its own im­mor­tal­iza­tion.

117:7.53. The Su­preme is not com­pletely real to uni­verse crea­tures, but there are many rea­sons for de­duc­ing that he is quite real to the Sev­en­fold De­ity, ex­tend­ing from the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther on Par­a­dise to the Cre­ator Sons and the Cre­ative Spir­its of the lo­cal uni­verses.

118:0.9While God the Sev­en­fold is in­dis­pens­able to the evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment of the Su­preme, the Su­preme is also in­dis­pens­able to the even­tual emer­gence of the Ul­ti­mate. And the dual pres­ence of the Su­preme and the Ul­ti­mate con­sti­tutes the ba­sic as­so­ci­a­tion of sub­ab­so­lute and de­rived De­ity, for they are in­ter­de­pen­dently com­ple­men­tal in the at­tain­ment of des­tiny. To­gether they con­sti­tute the ex­pe­ri­en­tial bridge link­ing the be­gin­nings and the com­ple­tions of all cre­ative growth in the mas­ter uni­verse.

118:4.73. Cre­ation and evo­lu­tion of uni­verse ac­tu­als. It is upon a cos­mos im­preg­nated by the ca­pac­ity-pro­duc­ing pres­ence of the Ul­ti­macy of De­ity that the Su­preme Cre­ators op­er­ate to ef­fect the time trans­mu­ta­tions of ma­tured po­ten­tials into ex­pe­ri­en­tial ac­tu­als. Within the mas­ter uni­verse all ac­tu­al­iza­tion of po­ten­tial re­al­ity is lim­ited by ul­ti­mate ca­pac­ity for de­vel­op­ment and is time-space con­di­tioned in the fi­nal stages of emer­gence. The Cre­ator Sons go­ing out from Par­a­dise are, in ac­tu­al­ity, trans­for­ma­tive cre­ators in the cos­mic sense. But this in no man­ner in­val­i­dates man’s con­cept of them as cre­ators; from the fi­nite view­point they cer­tainly can and do cre­ate.

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