reality

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › ultimate reality › omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent
• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › ultimate reality › unifier and correlator of all absonite reality

0:1.107. Ul­ti­mate—self-pro­jected and time-space-tran­scend­ing De­ity. De­ity om­nipo­tent, om­ni­scient, and om­ni­pres­ent. De­ity func­tion­ing on the sec­ond level of uni­fy­ing di­vin­ity ex­pres­sion as ef­fec­tive over­con­trollers and ab­so­nite up­hold­ers of the mas­ter uni­verse. As com­pared with the min­istry of the De­i­ties to the grand uni­verse, this ab­so­nite func­tion in the mas­ter uni­verse is tan­ta­mount to uni­ver­sal over­con­trol and super­sus­te­nance, some­times called the Ul­ti­macy of De­ity.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › characterized by time-space creature life
• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › has beginnings, may not have endings

0:1.11The fi­nite level of re­al­ity is char­ac­ter­ized by crea­ture life and time-space lim­i­ta­tions. Fi­nite re­al­i­ties may not have end­ings, but they al­ways have be­gin­nings—they are cre­ated. The De­ity level of Su­prem­acy may be con­ceived as a func­tion in re­la­tion to fi­nite ex­is­tences.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › without beginnings or endings, transcending time and space

0:1.12The ab­so­nite level of re­al­ity is char­ac­ter­ized by things and be­ings with­out be­gin­nings or end­ings and by the tran­scen­dence of time and space. Ab­so­niters are not cre­ated; they are even­tu­ated—they sim­ply are. The De­ity level of Ul­ti­macy con­notes a func­tion in re­la­tion to ab­so­nite re­al­i­ties. No mat­ter in what part of the mas­ter uni­verse, when­ever time and space are tran­scended, such an ab­so­nite phe­nom­e­non is an act of the Ul­ti­macy of De­ity.

• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › beginningless, endless, timeless, spaceless, limitless; unqualifiedly eternal – truly existential
• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › existential reality › Trinity attained

0:1.13The ab­so­lute level is be­gin­ning­less, end­less, time­less, and space­less. For ex­am­ple: On Par­a­dise, time and space are nonex­is­tent; the time-space sta­tus of Par­a­dise is ab­so­lute. This level is Trin­ity at­tained, ex­is­ten­tially, by the Par­a­dise De­i­ties, but this third level of uni­fy­ing De­ity ex­pres­sion is not fully uni­fied ex­pe­ri­en­tially. When­ever, wher­ever, and how­ever the ab­so­lute level of De­ity func­tions, Par­a­dise-ab­so­lute val­ues and mean­ings are man­i­fest.

• levels of reality › 4. other categorizations of reality › total r. is existential in 7 Absolutes

0:3.1To­tal, in­fi­nite re­al­ity is ex­is­ten­tial in seven phases and as seven co-or­di­nate Ab­so­lutes:

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › partial, shadowy as understood by finite beings

0:3.20RE­AL­ITY, as com­pre­hended by fi­nite be­ings, is par­tial, rel­a­tive, and shad­owy. The max­i­mum De­ity re­al­ity fully com­pre­hen­si­ble by evo­lu­tion­ary fi­nite crea­tures is em­braced within the Su­preme Be­ing. Nev­er­the­less there are an­te­ced­ent and eter­nal re­al­i­ties, super­fi­nite re­al­i­ties, which are an­ces­tral to this Su­preme De­ity of evo­lu­tion­ary time-space crea­tures. In at­tempt­ing to por­tray the ori­gin and na­ture of uni­ver­sal re­al­ity, we are forced to em­ploy the tech­nique of time-space rea­son­ing in or­der to reach the level of the fi­nite mind. There­fore must many of the si­mul­ta­ne­ous events of eter­nity be pre­sented as se­quen­tial trans­ac­tions.

• genesis of reality › origin in differentiation of I AM

0:3.21As a time-space crea­ture would view the ori­gin and dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of Re­al­ity, the eter­nal and in­fi­nite I AM achieved De­ity lib­er­a­tion from the fet­ters of un­qual­i­fied in­fin­ity through the ex­er­cise of in­her­ent and eter­nal free will, and this di­vorce­ment from un­qual­i­fied in­fin­ity pro­duced the first ab­so­lute di­vin­ity-ten­sion. This ten­sion of in­fin­ity dif­fer­en­tial is re­solved by the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute, which func­tions to unify and co-or­di­nate the dy­namic in­fin­ity of To­tal De­ity and the static in­fin­ity of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

• genesis of reality › creation of Eternal Son
• genesis of reality › creation of Infinite Spirit

0:3.22In this orig­i­nal trans­ac­tion the the­o­ret­i­cal I AM achieved the re­al­iza­tion of per­son­al­ity by be­com­ing the Eter­nal Fa­ther of the Orig­i­nal Son si­mul­ta­ne­ously with be­com­ing the Eter­nal Source of the Isle of Par­a­dise. Co­ex­is­tent with the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of the Son from the Fa­ther, and in the pres­ence of Par­a­dise, there ap­peared the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit and the cen­tral uni­verse of Ha­vona. With the ap­pear­ance of co­ex­is­tent per­sonal De­ity, the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Fa­ther es­caped, as a per­son­al­ity, from oth­er­wise in­ev­i­ta­ble dif­fu­sion through­out the po­ten­tial of To­tal De­ity. Thence­forth it is only in Trin­ity as­so­ci­a­tion with his two De­ity equals that the Fa­ther fills all De­ity po­ten­tial, while in­creas­ingly ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity is be­ing ac­tu­al­ized on the di­vin­ity lev­els of Su­prem­acy, Ul­ti­macy, and Ab­so­lute­ness.

• genesis of reality › originates in will of Father

0:4.1Re­al­ity dif­fer­en­tially ac­tu­al­izes on di­verse uni­verse lev­els; re­al­ity orig­i­nates in and by the in­fi­nite vo­li­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and is re­al­iz­able in three pri­mal phases on many dif­fer­ent lev­els of uni­verse ac­tu­al­iza­tion:

• levels of reality › 4. other categorizations of reality › undeified r. ranges from energy domains to Unqualified Absolute

0:4.21. Un­de­i­fied re­al­ity ranges from the en­ergy do­mains of the non­per­sonal to the re­al­ity realms of the non­per­son­al­iz­able val­ues of uni­ver­sal ex­is­tence, even to the pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

• levels of reality › 4. other categorizations of reality › Deity reality › ranges from personality to Deity Absolute

0:4.32. De­i­fied re­al­ity em­braces all in­fi­nite De­ity po­ten­tials rang­ing up­ward through all realms of per­son­al­ity from the low­est fi­nite to the high­est in­fi­nite, thus en­com­pass­ing the do­main of all that which is per­son­al­iz­able and more—even to the pres­ence of the De­ity Ab­so­lute.

• levels of reality › 4. other categorizations of reality › interassociated r. embraced within realms of Universal Absolute

0:4.43. In­teras­so­ci­ated re­al­ity. Uni­verse re­al­ity is sup­pos­edly ei­ther de­i­fied or un­de­i­fied, but to sub­de­i­fied be­ings there ex­ists a vast do­main of in­teras­so­ci­ated re­al­ity, po­ten­tial and ac­tu­al­iz­ing, which is dif­fi­cult of iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. Much of this co-or­di­nate re­al­ity is em­braced within the realms of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute.

• genesis of reality › originates in will of Father

0:4.5This is the pri­mal con­cept of orig­i­nal re­al­ity: The Fa­ther ini­ti­ates and main­tains Re­al­ity. The pri­mal dif­fer­en­tials of re­al­ity are the de­i­fied and the un­de­i­fied—the De­ity Ab­so­lute and the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. The pri­mal re­la­tion­ship is the ten­sion be­tween them. This Fa­ther-ini­ti­ated di­vin­ity-ten­sion is per­fectly re­solved by, and eter­nal­izes as, the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › in human experience

0:4.6From the view­point of time and space, re­al­ity is fur­ther di­vis­i­ble as:

0:4.71. Ac­tual and Po­ten­tial. Re­al­i­ties ex­ist­ing in full­ness of ex­pres­sion in con­trast to those which carry undis­closed ca­pac­ity for growth. The Eter­nal Son is an ab­so­lute spir­i­tual ac­tu­al­ity; mor­tal man is very largely an un­re­al­ized spir­i­tual po­ten­tial­ity.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › without beginnings or endings, transcending time and space
• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality

0:4.82. Ab­so­lute and Sub­ab­so­lute. Ab­so­lute re­al­i­ties are eter­nity ex­is­tences. Sub­ab­so­lute re­al­i­ties are pro­jected on two lev­els: Ab­sonites—re­al­i­ties which are rel­a­tive with re­spect to both time and eter­nity. Finites—re­al­i­ties which are pro­jected in space and are ac­tu­al­ized in time.

• levels of reality
• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › existential reality › vs. experiential r.
• levels of reality › 4. other categorizations of reality › 7 phases

0:4.93. Ex­is­ten­tial and Ex­pe­ri­en­tial. Par­a­dise De­ity is ex­is­ten­tial, but the emerg­ing Su­preme and Ul­ti­mate are ex­pe­ri­en­tial.

• levels of reality › 4. other categorizations of reality › personal r. vs. impersonal r.

0:4.104. Per­sonal and Im­per­sonal. De­ity ex­pan­sion, per­son­al­ity ex­pres­sion, and uni­verse evo­lu­tion are for­ever con­di­tioned by the Fa­ther’s free­will act which for­ever sep­a­rated the mind-spirit-per­sonal mean­ings and val­ues of ac­tu­al­ity and po­ten­tial­ity cen­ter­ing in the Eter­nal Son from those things which cen­ter and in­here in the eter­nal Isle of Par­a­dise.

0:4.11PAR­A­DISE is a term in­clu­sive of the per­sonal and the non­per­sonal fo­cal Ab­so­lutes of all phases of uni­verse re­al­ity. Par­a­dise, prop­erly qual­i­fied, may con­note any and all forms of re­al­ity, De­ity, di­vin­ity, per­son­al­ity, and en­ergy—spir­i­tual, mindal, or ma­te­rial. All share Par­a­dise as the place of ori­gin, func­tion, and des­tiny, as re­gards val­ues, mean­ings, and fac­tual ex­is­tence.

0:4.12The Isle of Par­a­dise—Par­a­dise not oth­er­wise qual­i­fied—is the Ab­so­lute of the ma­te­rial-grav­ity con­trol of the First Source and Cen­ter. Par­a­dise is mo­tion­less, be­ing the only sta­tion­ary thing in the uni­verse of uni­verses. The Isle of Par­a­dise has a uni­verse lo­ca­tion but no po­si­tion in space. This eter­nal Isle is the ac­tual source of the phys­i­cal uni­verses—past, pres­ent, and fu­ture. The nu­clear Isle of Light is a De­ity deriva­tive, but it is hardly De­ity; nei­ther are the ma­te­rial cre­ations a part of De­ity; they are a con­se­quence.

0:4.13Par­a­dise is not a cre­ator; it is a unique con­trol­ler of many uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties, far more of a con­trol­ler than a re­ac­tor. Through­out the ma­te­rial uni­verses Par­a­dise in­flu­ences the re­ac­tions and con­duct of all be­ings hav­ing to do with force, en­ergy, and power, but Par­a­dise it­self is unique, ex­clu­sive, and iso­lated in the uni­verses. Par­a­dise rep­re­sents noth­ing and noth­ing rep­re­sents Par­a­dise. It is nei­ther a force nor a pres­ence; it is just Par­a­dise.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › in human experience

0:5.6These qual­i­ties of uni­ver­sal re­al­ity are man­i­fest in Uran­tian hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence on the fol­low­ing lev­els:

0:5.71. Body. The ma­te­rial or phys­i­cal or­gan­ism of man. The liv­ing elec­tro­chem­i­cal mech­a­nism of an­i­mal na­ture and ori­gin.

0:5.82. Mind. The think­ing, per­ceiv­ing, and feel­ing mech­a­nism of the hu­man or­gan­ism. The to­tal con­scious and un­con­scious ex­pe­ri­ence. The in­tel­li­gence as­so­ci­ated with the emo­tional life reach­ing up­ward through wor­ship and wis­dom to the spirit level.

0:5.93. Spirit. The di­vine spirit that in­dwells the mind of man—the Thought Ad­juster. This im­mor­tal spirit is preper­sonal—not a per­son­al­ity, though des­tined to be­come a part of the per­son­al­ity of the sur­viv­ing mor­tal crea­ture.

0:5.104. Soul. The soul of man is an ex­pe­ri­en­tial ac­quire­ment. As a mor­tal crea­ture chooses to “do the will of the Fa­ther in heaven,” so the in­dwelling spirit be­comes the fa­ther of a new re­al­ity in hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence. The mor­tal and ma­te­rial mind is the mother of this same emerg­ing re­al­ity. The sub­stance of this new re­al­ity is nei­ther ma­te­rial nor spir­i­tual—it is mor­ontial. This is the emerg­ing and im­mor­tal soul which is des­tined to sur­vive mor­tal death and be­gin the Par­a­dise as­cen­sion.

0:5.11Per­son­al­ity. The per­son­al­ity of mor­tal man is nei­ther body, mind, nor spirit; nei­ther is it the soul. Per­son­al­ity is the one change­less re­al­ity in an oth­er­wise ever-chang­ing crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence; and it uni­fies all other as­so­ci­ated fac­tors of in­di­vid­u­al­ity. The per­son­al­ity is the unique be­stowal which the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther makes upon the liv­ing and as­so­ci­ated en­er­gies of mat­ter, mind, and spirit, and which sur­vives with the sur­vival of the mor­ontial soul.

0:5.12Mor­ontia is a term des­ig­nat­ing a vast level in­ter­ven­ing be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual. It may des­ig­nate per­sonal or im­per­sonal re­al­i­ties, liv­ing or non­liv­ing en­er­gies. The warp of mor­ontia is spir­i­tual; its woof is phys­i­cal.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › Supreme provides technique for finite to attain absonite

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.

• genesis of reality › creation of Havona; appearance of material and spiritual gravity

0:11.1When the com­bined thought of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son, func­tion­ing in the God of Ac­tion, con­sti­tuted the cre­ation of the di­vine and cen­tral uni­verse, the Fa­ther fol­lowed the ex­pres­sion of his thought into the word of his Son and the act of their Con­joint Ex­ec­u­tive by dif­fer­en­ti­at­ing his Ha­vona pres­ence from the po­ten­tials of in­fin­ity. And these undis­closed in­fin­ity po­ten­tials re­main space con­cealed in the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute and di­vinely en­shrouded in the De­ity Ab­so­lute, while these two be­come one in the func­tion­ing of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute, the un­re­vealed in­fin­ity-unity of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › material, mindal, and spiritual energies indistinguishable

1:3.5God is a uni­ver­sal spirit; God is the uni­ver­sal per­son. The su­preme per­sonal re­al­ity of the fi­nite cre­ation is spirit; the ul­ti­mate re­al­ity of the per­sonal cos­mos is ab­so­nite spirit. Only the lev­els of in­fin­ity are ab­so­lute, and only on such lev­els is there fi­nal­ity of one­ness be­tween mat­ter, mind, and spirit.

• ultimate universe r. comprehended only by personal experience in God’s will

1:7.5Ul­ti­mate uni­verse re­al­ity can­not be grasped by math­e­mat­ics, logic, or phi­los­o­phy, only by per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence in pro­gres­sive con­for­mity to the di­vine will of a per­sonal God. Nei­ther sci­ence, phi­los­o­phy, nor the­ol­ogy can val­i­date the per­son­al­ity of God. Only the per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence of the faith sons of the heav­enly Fa­ther can ef­fect the ac­tual spir­i­tual re­al­iza­tion of the per­son­al­ity of God.

• personality of higher level ultimately triumphs over personality of lower level

2:3.5In any uni­verse con­test be­tween ac­tual lev­els of re­al­ity, the per­son­al­ity of the higher level will ul­ti­mately tri­umph over the per­son­al­ity of the lower level. This in­ev­i­ta­ble out­come of uni­verse con­tro­versy is in­her­ent in the fact that di­vin­ity of qual­ity equals the de­gree of re­al­ity or ac­tu­al­ity of any will crea­ture. Undi­luted evil, com­plete er­ror, will­ful sin, and un­mit­i­gated in­iq­uity are in­her­ently and au­to­mat­i­cally sui­ci­dal. Such at­ti­tudes of cos­mic un­re­al­ity can sur­vive in the uni­verse only be­cause of tran­sient mercy-tol­er­ance pend­ing the ac­tion of the jus­tice-de­ter­min­ing and fair­ness-find­ing mech­a­nisms of the uni­verse tri­bu­nals of righ­teous ad­ju­di­ca­tion.

• all adheres and consists in God
• genesis of reality › Father’s nonspiritual potential becomes actual on physical level by intrusion of his exclusive agencies

3:1.7The Uni­ver­sal Con­trol­ler is po­ten­tially pres­ent in the grav­ity cir­cuits of the Isle of Par­a­dise in all parts of the uni­verse at all times and in the same de­gree, in ac­cor­dance with the mass, in re­sponse to the phys­i­cal de­mands for this pres­ence, and be­cause of the in­her­ent na­ture of all cre­ation which causes all things to ad­here and con­sist in him. Like­wise is the First Source and Cen­ter po­ten­tially pres­ent in the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, the re­pos­i­tory of the un­cre­ated uni­verses of the eter­nal fu­ture. God thus po­ten­tially per­vades the phys­i­cal uni­verses of the past, pres­ent, and fu­ture. He is the pri­mor­dial foun­da­tion of the co­her­ence of the so-called ma­te­rial cre­ation. This non­spir­i­tual De­ity po­ten­tial be­comes ac­tual here and there through­out the level of phys­i­cal ex­is­tences by the in­ex­pli­ca­ble in­tru­sion of some one of his ex­clu­sive agen­cies upon the stage of uni­verse ac­tion.

• genesis of reality › originates in will of Father

3:2.3Of all the di­vine at­tri­butes, his om­nipo­tence, es­pe­cially as it pre­vails in the ma­te­rial uni­verse, is the best un­der­stood. Viewed as an un­spir­i­tual phe­nom­e­non, God is en­ergy. This dec­la­ra­tion of phys­i­cal fact is pred­i­cated on the in­com­pre­hen­si­ble truth that the First Source and Cen­ter is the pri­mal cause of the uni­ver­sal phys­i­cal phe­nom­ena of all space. From this di­vine ac­tiv­ity all phys­i­cal en­ergy and other ma­te­rial man­i­fes­ta­tions are de­rived. Light, that is, light with­out heat, is an­other of the non­spir­i­tual man­i­fes­ta­tions of the De­i­ties. And there is still an­other form of non­spir­i­tual en­ergy which is vir­tu­ally un­known on Uran­tia; it is as yet un­rec­og­nized.

• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › dominates other levels
• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › material, mindal, and spiritual energies indistinguishable

3:2.5The om­nipo­tence of the Fa­ther per­tains to the ev­ery­where dom­i­nance of the ab­so­lute level, whereon the three en­er­gies, ma­te­rial, mindal, and spir­i­tual, are in­dis­tin­guish­able in close prox­im­ity to him—the Source of all things. Crea­ture mind, be­ing nei­ther Par­a­dise monota nor Par­a­dise spirit, is not di­rectly re­spon­sive to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. God ad­justs with the mind of im­per­fec­tion—with Uran­tia mor­tals through the Thought Ad­justers.

• genesis of reality › originates in will of Father

4:1.6The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has not with­drawn from the man­age­ment of the uni­verses; he is not an in­ac­tive De­ity. If God should re­tire as the pres­ent up­holder of all cre­ation, there would im­me­di­ately oc­cur a uni­ver­sal col­lapse. Ex­cept for God, there would be no such thing as re­al­ity. At this very mo­ment, as dur­ing the re­mote ages of the past and in the eter­nal fu­ture, God con­tin­ues to up­hold. The di­vine reach ex­tends around the cir­cle of eter­nity. The uni­verse is not wound up like a clock to run just so long and then cease to func­tion; all things are con­stantly be­ing re­newed. The Fa­ther un­ceas­ingly pours forth en­ergy, light, and life. The work of God is lit­eral as well as spir­i­tual. “He stretches out the north over the empty space and hangs the earth upon noth­ing.”

• defect-interruptions permit man to glimpse

4:2.7The ap­par­ent de­fects of the nat­u­ral world are not in­dica­tive of any such cor­re­spond­ing de­fects in the char­ac­ter of God. Rather are such ob­served im­per­fec­tions merely the in­ev­i­ta­ble stop-mo­ments in the ex­hi­bi­tion of the ever-mov­ing reel of in­fin­ity pic­tur­iza­tion. It is these very de­fect-in­ter­rup­tions of per­fec­tion-con­ti­nu­ity which make it pos­si­ble for the fi­nite mind of ma­te­rial man to catch a fleet­ing glimpse of di­vine re­al­ity in time and space. The ma­te­rial man­i­fes­ta­tions of di­vin­ity ap­pear de­fec­tive to the evo­lu­tion­ary mind of man only be­cause mor­tal man per­sists in view­ing the phe­nom­ena of na­ture through nat­u­ral eyes, hu­man vi­sion un­aided by mor­ontia mota or by rev­e­la­tion, its com­pen­satory sub­sti­tute on the worlds of time.

• God-consciousness experienced on levels of mind, soul, spirit, and personality
• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › ultimate reality › finaliters may someday realize the ultimacy of God

5:5.11God-con­scious­ness, as it is ex­pe­ri­enced by an evolv­ing mor­tal of the realms, must con­sist of three vary­ing fac­tors, three dif­fer­en­tial lev­els of re­al­ity re­al­iza­tion. There is first the mind con­scious­ness—the com­pre­hen­sion of the idea of God. Then fol­lows the soul con­scious­ness—the re­al­iza­tion of the ideal of God. Last, dawns the spirit con­scious­ness—the re­al­iza­tion of the spirit re­al­ity of God. By the uni­fi­ca­tion of these fac­tors of the di­vine re­al­iza­tion, no mat­ter how in­com­plete, the mor­tal per­son­al­ity at all times over­spreads all con­scious lev­els with a re­al­iza­tion of the per­son­al­ity of God. In those mor­tals who have at­tained the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity all this will in time lead to the re­al­iza­tion of the su­prem­acy of God and may sub­se­quently even­tu­ate in the re­al­iza­tion of the ul­ti­macy of God, some phase of the ab­so­nite super­con­scious­ness of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

• genesis of reality › creation of Eternal Son

6:7.1The Eter­nal Son is that in­fi­nite per­son­al­ity from whose un­qual­i­fied per­son­al­ity fet­ters the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther es­caped by the tech­nique of trin­i­ti­za­tion, and by virtue of which he has ever since con­tin­ued to be­stow him­self in end­less pro­fu­sion upon his ever-ex­pand­ing uni­verse of Cre­ators and crea­tures. The Son is ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity; God is fa­ther per­son­al­ity—the source of per­son­al­ity, the be­stower of per­son­al­ity, the cause of per­son­al­ity. Ev­ery per­sonal be­ing de­rives per­son­al­ity from the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther just as the Orig­i­nal Son eter­nally de­rives his per­son­al­ity from the Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

• genesis of reality › creation of Infinite Spirit

8:0.3We are now face to face with the eter­nity ori­gin of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Third Per­son of De­ity. The very in­stant that God the Fa­ther and God the Son con­jointly con­ceive an iden­ti­cal and in­fi­nite ac­tion—the ex­e­cu­tion of an ab­so­lute thought-plan—that very mo­ment, the In­fi­nite Spirit springs full-fledgedly into ex­is­tence.

• genesis of reality › creation of Infinite Spirit

8:1.1In the eter­nity of the past, upon the per­son­al­iza­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit the di­vine per­son­al­ity cy­cle be­comes per­fect and com­plete. The God of Ac­tion is ex­is­tent, and the vast stage of space is set for the stu­pen­dous drama of cre­ation—the uni­ver­sal ad­ven­ture—the di­vine pan­o­rama of the eter­nal ages.

8:1.2The first act of the In­fi­nite Spirit is the in­spec­tion and rec­og­ni­tion of his di­vine par­ents, the Fa­ther-Fa­ther and the Mother-Son. He, the Spirit, un­qual­i­fiedly iden­ti­fies both of them. He is fully cog­nizant of their sep­a­rate per­son­al­i­ties and in­fi­nite at­tri­butes as well as of their com­bined na­ture and united func­tion. Next, vol­un­tar­ily, with tran­scen­dent will­ing­ness and in­spir­ing spon­tane­ity, the Third Per­son of De­ity, not­with­stand­ing his equal­ity with the First and Sec­ond Per­sons, pledges eter­nal loy­alty to God the Fa­ther and ac­knowl­edges ev­er­last­ing de­pen­dence upon God the Son.

• genesis of reality › creation of Havona; appearance of material and spiritual gravity

8:1.4The God of Ac­tion func­tions and the dead vaults of space are astir. One bil­lion per­fect spheres flash into ex­is­tence. Prior to this hy­po­thet­i­cal eter­nity mo­ment the space-en­er­gies in­her­ent in Par­a­dise are ex­is­tent and po­ten­tially op­er­a­tive, but they have no ac­tu­al­ity of be­ing; nei­ther can phys­i­cal grav­ity be mea­sured ex­cept by the re­ac­tion of ma­te­rial re­al­i­ties to its in­ces­sant pull. There is no ma­te­rial uni­verse at this (as­sumed) eter­nally dis­tant mo­ment, but the very in­stant that one bil­lion worlds ma­te­ri­al­ize, there is in ev­i­dence grav­ity suf­fi­cient and ad­e­quate to hold them in the ev­er­last­ing grasp of Par­a­dise.

8:1.5There now flashes through the cre­ation of the Gods the sec­ond form of en­ergy, and this out­flow­ing spirit is in­stantly grasped by the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son. Thus the two­fold grav­ity-em­braced uni­verse is touched with the en­ergy of in­fin­ity and im­mersed in the spirit of di­vin­ity. In this way is the soil of life pre­pared for the con­scious­ness of mind made man­i­fest in the as­so­ci­ated in­tel­li­gence cir­cuits of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

8:1.6Upon these seeds of po­ten­tial ex­is­tence, dif­fused through­out the cen­tral cre­ation of the Gods, the Fa­ther acts, and crea­ture per­son­al­ity ap­pears. Then does the pres­ence of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties fill all or­ga­nized space and be­gin ef­fec­tively to draw all things and be­ings Par­adis­e­ward.

• genesis of reality › creation of Infinite Spirit

8:3.1As the Eter­nal Son is the word ex­pres­sion of the “first” ab­so­lute and in­fi­nite thought of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, so the Con­joint Ac­tor is the per­fect ex­e­cu­tion of the “first” com­pleted cre­ative con­cept or plan for com­bined ac­tion by the Fa­ther-Son per­son­al­ity part­ner­ship of ab­so­lute thought-word union. The Third Source and Cen­ter eter­nal­izes con­cur­rently with the cen­tral or fiat cre­ation, and only this cen­tral cre­ation is eter­nal in ex­is­tence among uni­verses.

• genesis of reality › Father’s thought eternalized in Paradise and Eternal Son

9:1.7And herein is an in­fi­nite mys­tery: That the In­fi­nite si­mul­ta­ne­ously re­vealed his in­fin­ity in the Son and as Par­a­dise, and then there springs into ex­is­tence a be­ing equal to God in di­vin­ity, re­flec­tive of the Son’s spir­i­tual na­ture, and ca­pa­ble of ac­ti­vat­ing the Par­a­dise pat­tern, a be­ing pro­vi­sion­ally sub­or­di­nate in sov­er­eignty but in many ways ap­par­ently the most ver­sa­tile in ac­tion. And such ap­par­ent su­pe­ri­or­ity in ac­tion is dis­closed in an at­tri­bute of the Third Source and Cen­ter which is su­pe­rior even to phys­i­cal grav­ity—the uni­ver­sal man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Isle of Par­a­dise.

• genesis of reality › space is a bestowal of Paradise

11:7.4Space is nei­ther a sub­ab­so­lute con­di­tion within, nor the pres­ence of, the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, nei­ther is it a func­tion of the Ul­ti­mate. It is a be­stowal of Par­a­dise, and the space of the grand uni­verse and that of all outer re­gions is be­lieved to be ac­tu­ally per­vaded by the an­ces­tral space po­tency of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. From near ap­proach to pe­riph­eral Par­a­dise, this per­vaded space ex­tends hor­i­zon­tally out­ward through the fourth space level and be­yond the pe­riph­ery of the mas­ter uni­verse, but how far be­yond we do not know.

• elliptic symmetry of

11:8.2The cen­ter and fo­cal point of ab­so­lute ma­te­rial grav­ity is the Isle of Par­a­dise, com­ple­mented by the dark grav­ity bod­ies en­cir­cling Ha­vona and equi­li­brated by the up­per and nether space reser­voirs. All known em­a­na­tions of nether Par­a­dise in­vari­ably and unerringly re­spond to the cen­tral grav­ity pull op­er­at­ing upon the end­less cir­cuits of the el­lip­ti­cal space lev­els of the mas­ter uni­verse. Ev­ery known form of cos­mic re­al­ity has the bend of the ages, the trend of the cir­cle, the swing of the great el­lipse.

• genesis of reality › creation of Eternal Son
• genesis of reality › Father’s thought eternalized in Paradise and Eternal Son

11:9.3In the eter­nity of the past, when the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther gave in­fi­nite per­son­al­ity ex­pres­sion of his spirit self in the be­ing of the Eter­nal Son, si­mul­ta­ne­ously he re­vealed the in­fin­ity po­ten­tial of his non­per­sonal self as Par­a­dise. Non­per­sonal and non­spir­i­tual Par­a­dise ap­pears to have been the in­ev­i­ta­ble reper­cus­sion to the Fa­ther’s will and act which eter­nal­ized the Orig­i­nal Son. Thus did the Fa­ther project re­al­ity in two ac­tual phases—the per­sonal and the non­per­sonal, the spir­i­tual and the non­spir­i­tual. The ten­sion be­tween them, in the face of will to ac­tion by the Fa­ther and the Son, gave ex­is­tence to the Con­joint Ac­tor and the cen­tral uni­verse of ma­te­rial worlds and spir­i­tual be­ings.

• r. measured by physical gravity is antithesis of spirit r.

12:8.5As the mind of any per­son­al­ity in the uni­verse be­comes more spir­i­tual—God­like—it be­comes less re­spon­sive to ma­te­rial grav­ity. Re­al­ity, mea­sured by phys­i­cal-grav­ity re­sponse, is the an­tithe­sis of re­al­ity as de­ter­mined by qual­ity of spirit con­tent. Phys­i­cal-grav­ity ac­tion is a quan­ti­ta­tive de­ter­miner of non­spirit en­ergy; spir­i­tual-grav­ity ac­tion is the qual­i­ta­tive mea­sure of the liv­ing en­ergy of di­vin­ity.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › matter, mind, and spirit
• levels of reality › 4. other categorizations of reality › 7 levels

12:8.9Though it is hardly pos­si­ble for the mor­tal mind to com­pre­hend the seven lev­els of rel­a­tive cos­mic re­al­ity, the hu­man in­tel­lect should be able to grasp much of the mean­ing of three func­tion­ing lev­els of fi­nite re­al­ity:

12:8.101. Mat­ter. Or­ga­nized en­ergy which is sub­ject to lin­ear grav­ity ex­cept as it is mod­i­fied by mo­tion and con­di­tioned by mind.

12:8.112. Mind. Or­ga­nized con­scious­ness which is not wholly sub­ject to ma­te­rial grav­ity, and which be­comes truly lib­er­ated when mod­i­fied by spirit.

12:8.123. Spirit. The high­est per­sonal re­al­ity. True spirit is not sub­ject to phys­i­cal grav­ity but even­tu­ally be­comes the mo­ti­vat­ing in­flu­ence of all evolv­ing en­ergy sys­tems of per­son­al­ity dig­nity.

• levels of reality › 4. other categorizations of reality › Deity reality › mind-spirit unified by personality

12:8.13The goal of ex­is­tence of all per­son­al­i­ties is spirit; ma­te­rial man­i­fes­ta­tions are rel­a­tive, and the cos­mic mind in­ter­venes be­tween these uni­ver­sal op­po­sites. The be­stowal of mind and the min­is­tra­tion of spirit are the work of the as­so­ciate per­sons of De­ity, the In­fi­nite Spirit and the Eter­nal Son. To­tal De­ity re­al­ity is not mind but spirit-mind—mind-spirit uni­fied by per­son­al­ity. Nev­er­the­less the ab­so­lutes of both the spirit and the thing con­verge in the per­son of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• r. response delivers from false a priori assumptions

16:6.4There ex­ists in all per­son­al­ity as­so­ci­a­tions of the cos­mic mind a qual­ity which might be de­nom­i­nated the “re­al­ity re­sponse.” It is this uni­ver­sal cos­mic en­dow­ment of will crea­tures which saves them from be­com­ing help­less vic­tims of the im­plied a pri­ori as­sump­tions of sci­ence, phi­los­o­phy, and re­li­gion. This re­al­ity sen­si­tiv­ity of the cos­mic mind re­sponds to cer­tain phases of re­al­ity just as en­ergy-ma­te­rial re­sponds to grav­ity. It would be still more cor­rect to say that these super­ma­te­rial re­al­i­ties so re­spond to the mind of the cos­mos.

• evil inherent in segmentalized conception of

19:1.4In this con­nec­tion, how­ever, it may be noted that Teacher Sons are the su­preme co-or­di­nat­ing per­son­al­i­ties of Trin­ity ori­gin. In such a far-flung uni­verse of uni­verses there is al­ways great dan­ger of suc­cumb­ing to the er­ror of the cir­cum­scribed view­point, to the evil in­her­ent in a seg­men­tal­ized con­cep­tion of re­al­ity and di­vin­ity.

• levels of reality › 4. other categorizations of reality › 3 phases are origin, history, and destiny

19:1.6Even in the study of man’s bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion on Uran­tia, there are grave ob­jec­tions to the ex­clu­sive his­toric ap­proach to his pres­ent-day sta­tus and his cur­rent prob­lems. The true per­spec­tive of any re­al­ity prob­lem—hu­man or di­vine, ter­res­trial or cos­mic—can be had only by the full and un­prej­u­diced study and cor­re­la­tion of three phases of uni­verse re­al­ity: ori­gin, his­tory, and des­tiny. The proper un­der­stand­ing of these three ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­i­ties af­fords the ba­sis for a wise es­ti­mate of the cur­rent sta­tus.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › philosophical blunder of oversimplifying

19:1.92. It may com­mit the su­preme phil­o­soph­i­cal blun­der by over­sim­pli­fy­ing cos­mic evo­lu­tion­ary (ex­pe­ri­en­tial) re­al­ity, thus lead­ing to the dis­tor­tion of facts, to the per­ver­sion of truth, and to the mis­con­cep­tion of des­tinies.

• genesis of reality › eternity existence of I AM is primal source of all

19:1.12There­fore, be­cause of these and for still other rea­sons, do we em­ploy the tech­nique of ap­proach­ing man and his plan­e­tary prob­lems by em­barka­tion on the time-space jour­ney from the in­fi­nite, eter­nal, and di­vine Par­a­dise Source and Cen­ter of all per­son­al­ity re­al­ity and all cos­mic ex­is­tence.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › matter in all suns and planets is identical

29:1.4These mighty be­ings are the phys­i­cal an­ces­tors of the vast host of the power cen­ters and, through them, of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers scat­tered through­out the seven super­uni­verses. Such sub­or­di­nate phys­i­cal-con­trol or­gan­isms are ba­si­cally uni­form, iden­ti­cal ex­cept for the dif­fer­en­tial ton­ing of each super­uni­verse corps. In or­der to change in super­uni­verse ser­vice, they would merely have to re­turn to Par­a­dise for re­ton­ing. The phys­i­cal cre­ation is fun­da­men­tally uni­form in ad­min­is­tra­tion.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › eventuation process

30:1.92IV. EVEN­TU­ATED TRAN­SCEN­DEN­TAL BE­INGS. There is to be found on Par­a­dise a vast host of tran­scen­den­tal be­ings whose ori­gin is not or­di­nar­ily dis­closed to the uni­verses of time and space un­til they are set­tled in light and life. These Tran­scen­den­talers are nei­ther cre­ators nor crea­tures; they are the even­tu­ated chil­dren of di­vin­ity, ul­ti­macy, and eter­nity. These “even­tu­a­tors” are nei­ther fi­nite nor in­fi­nite—they are ab­so­nite; and ab­sonity is nei­ther in­fin­ity nor ab­so­lute­ness.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › 7 levels

30:1.93These un­cre­ated non­cre­ators are ever loyal to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and obe­di­ent to the Ul­ti­mate. They are ex­is­tent on four ul­ti­mate lev­els of per­son­al­ity ac­tiv­ity and are func­tional on the seven lev­els of the ab­so­nite in twelve grand di­vi­sions con­sist­ing of one thou­sand ma­jor work­ing groups of seven classes each. These even­tu­ated be­ings in­clude the fol­low­ing or­ders:

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › Architects of Master Universe, Transcendentalers, Master Force Organizers are absonite beings

30:1.941. The Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.

30:1.952. Tran­scen­den­tal Re­cord­ers.

30:1.963. Other Tran­scen­den­talers.

30:1.974. Pri­mary Even­tu­ated Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers.

30:1.985. As­so­ciate Tran­scen­den­tal Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers.

30:1.99God, as a super­per­son, even­tu­ates; God, as a per­son, cre­ates; God, as a preper­son, frag­ments; and such an Ad­juster frag­ment of him­self evolves the spirit soul upon the ma­te­rial and mor­tal mind in ac­cor­dance with the free­will choos­ing of the per­son­al­ity which has been be­stowed upon such a mor­tal crea­ture by the pa­ren­tal act of God as a Fa­ther.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › eventuation process

31:8.3You, be­ing a crea­ture, can con­ceive of a Cre­ator, but you can hardly com­pre­hend that there ex­ists an enor­mous and di­ver­si­fied ag­gre­ga­tion of in­tel­li­gent be­ings who are nei­ther Cre­ators nor crea­tures. These Tran­scen­den­talers cre­ate no be­ings, nei­ther were they ever cre­ated. In speak­ing of their ori­gin, in or­der to avoid us­ing a new term—an ar­bi­trary and mean­ing­less des­ig­na­tion—we deem it best to say that Tran­scen­den­talers sim­ply even­tu­ate. The De­ity Ab­so­lute may well have been con­cerned in their ori­gin and may be im­pli­cated in their des­tiny, but these unique be­ings are not now dom­i­nated by the De­ity Ab­so­lute. They are sub­ject to God the Ul­ti­mate, and their pres­ent Par­a­dise so­journ is in ev­ery way Trin­ity super­vised and di­rected.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › Architects of Master Universe exist on 7 absonite levels; have supernal absonites

31:9.1The Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse are the gov­ern­ing corps of the Par­a­dise Tran­scen­den­talers. This gov­ern­ing corps num­bers 28,011 per­son­al­i­ties pos­sess­ing mas­ter minds, su­perb spir­its, and su­per­nal ab­sonites. The pre­sid­ing of­fi­cer of this mag­nif­i­cent group, the se­nior Mas­ter Ar­chi­tect, is the co-or­di­nat­ing head of all Par­a­dise in­tel­li­gences be­low the level of De­ity.

31:9.2The six­teenth pro­scrip­tion of the man­date au­tho­riz­ing these nar­ra­tives says: “If deemed wise, the ex­is­tence of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse and their as­so­ciates may be dis­closed, but their ori­gin, na­ture, and des­tiny may not be fully re­vealed.” We may, how­ever, in­form you that these Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects ex­ist in seven lev­els of the ab­so­nite. These seven groups are clas­si­fied as fol­lows:

31:9.31. The Par­a­dise Level. Only the se­nior or first-even­tu­ated Ar­chi­tect func­tions on this high­est level of the ab­so­nite. This ul­ti­mate per­son­al­ity—nei­ther Cre­ator nor crea­ture—even­tu­ated in the dawn of eter­nity and now func­tions as the ex­qui­site co-or­di­na­tor of Par­a­dise and its twenty-one worlds of as­so­ci­ated ac­tiv­i­ties.

31:9.42. The Ha­vona Level. The sec­ond Ar­chi­tect even­tu­a­tion yielded three mas­ter plan­ners and ab­so­nite ad­min­is­tra­tors, and they have al­ways been de­voted to the co-or­di­na­tion of the one bil­lion per­fect spheres of the cen­tral uni­verse. Par­a­dise tra­di­tion as­serts that these three Ar­chi­tects, with the coun­sel of the pre-even­tu­ated se­nior Ar­chi­tect, con­tributed to the plan­ning of Ha­vona, but we re­ally do not know.

31:9.53. The Super­uni­verse Level. The third ab­so­nite level em­braces the seven Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects of the seven super­uni­verses, who now, as a group, spend about equal time in the com­pany of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its on Par­a­dise and with the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives on the seven spe­cial worlds of the In­fi­nite Spirit. They are the superco-or­di­na­tors of the grand uni­verse.

31:9.64. The Pri­mary Space Level. This group num­bers sev­enty Ar­chi­tects, and we con­jec­ture that they are con­cerned with the ul­ti­mate plans for the first uni­verse of outer space, now mo­bi­liz­ing be­yond the bor­ders of the pres­ent seven super­uni­verses.

31:9.75. The Sec­ondary Space Level. This fifth corps of Ar­chi­tects num­bers 490, and again we con­jec­ture that they must be con­cerned with the sec­ond uni­verse of outer space, where al­ready our physi­cists have de­tected def­i­nite en­ergy mo­bi­liza­tions.

31:9.86. The Ter­tiary Space Level. This sixth group of Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects num­bers 3,430, and we like­wise in­fer that they may be oc­cu­pied with the gi­gan­tic plans for the third uni­verse of outer space.

31:9.97. The Quar­tan Space Level. This, the fi­nal and largest corps, con­sists of 24,010 Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects, and if our for­mer con­jec­tures are valid, it must be re­lated to the fourth and last of the ever-in­creas­ing-sized uni­verses of outer space.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › eventuation process
• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › limit of absonity reached in 28,012th Master Architect

31:9.10These seven groups of Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects to­tal 28,011 uni­verse plan­ners. On Par­a­dise there is a tra­di­tion that far back in eter­nity there was at­tempted the even­tu­a­tion of the 28,012^th Mas­ter Ar­chi­tect, but that this be­ing failed to ab­soni­tize, ex­pe­ri­enc­ing per­son­al­ity seizure by the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. It is pos­si­ble that the as­cend­ing se­ries of the Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects at­tained the limit of ab­sonity in the 28,011^th Ar­chi­tect, and that the 28,012^th at­tempt en­coun­tered the math­e­mat­i­cal level of the pres­ence of the Ab­so­lute. In other words, at the 28,012^th even­tu­a­tion level the qual­ity of ab­sonity equiv­alated to the level of the Uni­ver­sal and at­tained the value of the Ab­so­lute.

31:10.1The se­nior Mas­ter Ar­chi­tect has the over­sight of the seven Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, and they are:

31:10.21. The Corps of Mor­tal Fi­nal­i­ters.

31:10.32. The Corps of Par­a­dise Fi­nal­i­ters.

31:10.43. The Corps of Trin­i­tized Fi­nal­i­ters.

31:10.54. The Corps of Con­joint Trin­i­tized Fi­nal­i­ters.

31:10.65. The Corps of Ha­vona Fi­nal­i­ters.

31:10.76. The Corps of Tran­scen­den­tal Fi­nal­i­ters.

31:10.87. The Corps of Un­re­vealed Sons of Des­tiny.

31:10.9Each of these des­tiny corps has a pre­sid­ing head, and the seven con­sti­tute the Su­preme Coun­cil of Des­tiny on Par­a­dise; and dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age Grand­fanda is the chief of this su­preme body of uni­verse as­sign­ment for the chil­dren of ul­ti­mate des­tiny.

31:10.10The gath­er­ing to­gether of these seven fi­nal­i­ter corps sig­ni­fies re­al­ity mo­bi­liza­tion of po­ten­tials, per­son­al­i­ties, minds, spir­its, ab­sonites, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial ac­tu­al­i­ties that prob­a­bly tran­scend even the fu­ture mas­ter uni­verse func­tions of the Su­preme Be­ing. These seven fi­nal­i­ter corps prob­a­bly sig­nify the pres­ent ac­tiv­ity of the Ul­ti­mate Trin­ity en­gaged in mus­ter­ing the forces of the fi­nite and the ab­so­nite in prepa­ra­tion for in­con­ceiv­able de­vel­op­ments in the uni­verses of outer space. Noth­ing like this mo­bi­liza­tion has taken place since the near times of eter­nity when the Par­a­dise Trin­ity sim­i­larly mo­bi­lized the then ex­ist­ing per­son­al­i­ties of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona and com­mis­sioned them as ad­min­is­tra­tors and rulers of the pro­jected seven super­uni­verses of time and space. The seven fi­nal­i­ter corps rep­re­sent the di­vin­ity re­sponse of the grand uni­verse to the fu­ture needs of the un­de­vel­oped po­ten­tials in the outer uni­verses of fu­ture-eter­nal ac­tiv­i­ties.

31:10.11We ven­ture the fore­cast of fu­ture and greater outer uni­verses of in­hab­ited worlds, new spheres peo­pled with new or­ders of ex­qui­site and unique be­ings, a ma­te­rial uni­verse sub­lime in its ul­ti­macy, a vast cre­ation lack­ing in only one im­por­tant de­tail—the pres­ence of ac­tual fi­nite ex­pe­ri­ence in the uni­ver­sal life of as­cen­dant ex­is­tence. Such a uni­verse will come into be­ing un­der a tremen­dous ex­pe­ri­en­tial hand­i­cap: the de­pri­va­tion of par­tic­i­pa­tion in the evo­lu­tion of the Al­mighty Su­preme. These outer uni­verses will all en­joy the match­less min­istry and su­per­nal over­con­trol of the Su­preme Be­ing, but the very fact of his ac­tive pres­ence pre­cludes their par­tic­i­pa­tion in the ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme De­ity.

31:10.12Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age the evolv­ing per­son­al­i­ties of the grand uni­verse suf­fer many dif­fi­cul­ties due to the in­com­plete ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the sov­er­eignty of God the Su­preme, but we are all shar­ing the unique ex­pe­ri­ence of his evo­lu­tion. We evolve in him and he evolves in us. Some­time in the eter­nal fu­ture the evo­lu­tion of Su­preme De­ity will be­come a com­pleted fact of uni­verse his­tory, and the op­por­tu­nity to par­tic­i­pate in this won­der­ful ex­pe­ri­ence will have passed from the stage of cos­mic ac­tion.

31:10.13But those of us who have ac­quired this unique ex­pe­ri­ence dur­ing the youth of the uni­verse will trea­sure it through­out all fu­ture eter­nity. And many of us spec­u­late that it may be the mis­sion of the grad­u­ally ac­cu­mu­lat­ing re­serves of the as­cen­dant and per­fected mor­tals of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the other six sim­i­larly re­cruit­ing corps, to ad­min­is­ter these outer uni­verses in an ef­fort to com­pen­sate their ex­pe­ri­en­tial de­fi­cien­cies in not hav­ing par­tic­i­pated in the time-space evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing.

31:10.14These de­fi­cien­cies are in­ev­i­ta­ble on all lev­els of uni­verse ex­is­tence. Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age we of the higher lev­els of spir­i­tual ex­is­tences now come down to ad­min­is­ter the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses and min­is­ter to the as­cend­ing mor­tals, thus en­deav­or­ing to atone for their de­fi­cien­cies in the re­al­i­ties of the higher spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence.

31:10.15But though we re­ally know noth­ing about the plans of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse re­spect­ing these outer cre­ations, nev­er­the­less, of three things we are cer­tain:

31:10.161. There ac­tu­ally is a vast and new sys­tem of uni­verses grad­u­ally or­ga­niz­ing in the do­mains of outer space. New or­ders of phys­i­cal cre­ations, enor­mous and gi­gan­tic cir­cles of swarm­ing uni­verses upon uni­verses far out be­yond the pres­ent bounds of the peo­pled and or­ga­nized cre­ations, are ac­tu­ally vis­i­ble through your tele­scopes. At pres­ent, these outer cre­ations are wholly phys­i­cal; they are ap­par­ently un­in­hab­ited and seem to be de­void of crea­ture ad­min­is­tra­tion.

31:10.172. For ages upon ages there con­tin­ues the un­ex­plained and wholly mys­te­ri­ous Par­a­dise mo­bi­liza­tion of the per­fected and as­cen­dant be­ings of time and space, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the six other fi­nal­i­ter corps.

31:10.183. Con­comi­tantly with these trans­ac­tions the Su­preme Per­son of De­ity is pow­er­iz­ing as the al­mighty sov­er­eign of the super­cre­ations.

31:10.19As we view this tri­une de­vel­op­ment, em­brac­ing crea­tures, uni­verses, and De­ity, can we be crit­i­cized for an­tic­i­pat­ing that some­thing new and un­re­vealed is ap­proach­ing cul­mi­na­tion in the mas­ter uni­verse? Is it not nat­u­ral that we should as­so­ciate this age­long mo­bi­liza­tion and or­ga­ni­za­tion of phys­i­cal uni­verses on such a hith­erto un­known scale and the per­son­al­ity emer­gence of the Su­preme Be­ing with this stu­pen­dous scheme of up­step­ping the mor­tals of time to di­vine per­fec­tion and with their sub­se­quent mo­bi­liza­tion on Par­a­dise in the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity—a des­ig­na­tion and des­tiny en­shrouded in uni­verse mys­tery? It is in­creas­ingly the be­lief of all Uversa that the as­sem­bling Corps of the Fi­nal­ity are des­tined to some fu­ture ser­vice in the uni­verses of outer space, where we al­ready are able to iden­tify the clus­ter­ing of at least sev­enty thou­sand ag­gre­ga­tions of mat­ter, each of which is greater than any one of the pres­ent super­uni­verses.

31:10.20Evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals are born on the plan­ets of space, pass through the mor­ontia worlds, as­cend the spirit uni­verses, tra­verse the Ha­vona spheres, find God, at­tain Par­a­dise, and are mus­tered into the pri­mary Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, therein to await the next as­sign­ment of uni­verse ser­vice. There are six other as­sem­bling fi­nal­ity corps, but Grand­fanda, the first mor­tal as­cender, pre­sides as Par­a­dise chief of all or­ders of fi­nal­i­ters. And as we view this sub­lime spec­ta­cle, we all ex­claim: What a glo­ri­ous des­tiny for the an­i­mal-ori­gin chil­dren of time, the ma­te­rial sons of space!

31:10.21[Jointly spon­sored by a Di­vine Coun­selor and One with­out Name and Num­ber au­tho­rized so to func­tion by the An­cients of Days on Uversa.]

31:10.22These thirty-one pa­pers de­pict­ing the na­ture of De­ity, the re­al­ity of Par­a­dise, the or­ga­ni­za­tion and work­ing of the cen­tral and super­uni­verses, the per­son­al­i­ties of the grand uni­verse, and the high des­tiny of evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals, were spon­sored, for­mu­lated, and put into En­glish by a high com­mis­sion con­sist­ing of twenty-four Or­von­ton ad­min­is­tra­tors act­ing in ac­cor­dance with a man­date is­sued by the An­cients of Days of Uversa di­rect­ing that we should do this on Uran­tia, 606 of Sa­ta­nia, in Nor­la­ti­adek of Neb­a­don, in the year A.D. 1934.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › 2 manifestations of r. are innate perfection and evolved perfection

32:3.15The two prime man­i­fes­ta­tions of fi­nite re­al­ity, in­nate per­fec­tion and evolved per­fec­tion, be they per­son­al­i­ties or uni­verses, are co-or­di­nate, de­pen­dent, and in­te­grated. Each re­quires the other to achieve com­ple­tion of func­tion, ser­vice, and des­tiny.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › physical universe characterized by number 10

36:2.11The num­ber ten—the dec­i­mal sys­tem—is in­her­ent in the phys­i­cal uni­verse but not in the spir­i­tual. The do­main of life is char­ac­ter­ized by three, seven, and twelve or by mul­ti­ples and com­bi­na­tions of these ba­sic num­bers. There are three pri­mal and es­sen­tially dif­fer­ent life plans, af­ter the or­der of the three Par­a­dise Sources and Cen­ters, and in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don these three ba­sic forms of life are seg­re­gated on three dif­fer­ent types of plan­ets. There were, orig­i­nally, twelve dis­tinct and di­vine con­cepts of trans­mis­si­ble life. This num­ber twelve, with its sub­di­vi­sions and mul­ti­ples, runs through­out all ba­sic life pat­terns of all seven super­uni­verses. There are also seven ar­chi­tec­tural types of life de­sign, fun­da­men­tal ar­range­ments of the re­pro­duc­ing con­fig­u­ra­tions of liv­ing mat­ter. The Or­von­ton life pat­terns are con­fig­ured as twelve in­her­i­tance car­ri­ers. The dif­fer­ing or­ders of will crea­tures are con­fig­ured as 12, 24, 48, 96, 192, 384, and 768. On Uran­tia there are forty-eight units of pat­tern con­trol—trait de­ter­min­ers—in the sex cells of hu­man re­pro­duc­tion.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › matter in all suns and planets is identical

41:3.2The suns of Neb­a­don are not un­like those of other uni­verses. The ma­te­rial com­po­si­tion of all suns, dark is­lands, plan­ets, and satel­lites, even me­te­ors, is quite iden­ti­cal. These suns have an av­er­age di­am­e­ter of about one mil­lion miles, that of your own so­lar orb be­ing slightly less. The largest star in the uni­verse, the stel­lar cloud Antares, is four hun­dred and fifty times the di­am­e­ter of your sun and is sixty mil­lion times its vol­ume. But there is abun­dant space to ac­com­mo­date all of these enor­mous suns. They have just as much com­par­a­tive el­bow room in space as one dozen or­anges would have if they were cir­cu­lat­ing about through­out the in­te­rior of Uran­tia, and were the planet a hol­low globe.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › present confusion due to incomplete grasp of activities of Conjoint Actor, Unqualified Absolute

41:5.8The ac­tion of cer­tain sec­ondary and other undis­cov­ered en­er­gies pres­ent in the space re­gions of your lo­cal uni­verse is such that so­lar-light em­a­na­tions ap­pear to ex­e­cute cer­tain wavy phe­nom­ena as well as to be chopped up into in­finites­i­mal por­tions of def­i­nite length and weight. And, prac­ti­cally con­sid­ered, that is ex­actly what hap­pens. You can hardly hope to ar­rive at a bet­ter un­der­stand­ing of the be­hav­ior of light un­til such a time as you ac­quire a clearer con­cept of the in­ter­ac­tion and in­ter­re­la­tion­ship of the var­i­ous space-forces and so­lar en­er­gies op­er­at­ing in the space re­gions of Neb­a­don. Your pres­ent con­fu­sion is also due to your in­com­plete grasp of this prob­lem as it in­volves the in­teras­so­ci­ated ac­tiv­i­ties of the per­sonal and non­per­sonal con­trol of the mas­ter uni­verse—the pres­ences, the per­for­mances, and the co-or­di­na­tion of the Con­joint Ac­tor and the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

• genesis of reality › universes emanated from Paradise

42:2.31. Space po­tency. This is the un­ques­tioned free space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. The ex­ten­sion of this con­cept con­notes the uni­verse force-space po­ten­tial in­her­ent in the func­tional to­tal­ity of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, while the in­ten­sion of this con­cept im­plies the to­tal­ity of cos­mic re­al­ity—uni­verses—which em­anated eter­ni­ty­wise from the never-be­gin­ning, never-end­ing, never-mov­ing, never-chang­ing Isle of Par­a­dise.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › tranosta is energy system on upper Paradise in connection with absonite peoples

42:2.186. Tran­scen­den­tal en­ergy. This en­ergy sys­tem op­er­ates on and from the up­per level of Par­a­dise and only in con­nec­tion with the ab­so­nite peo­ples. On Uversa it is de­nom­i­nated TRA­NOSTA.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › mind is absonite in Havona

42:10.7On Par­a­dise, mind is ab­so­lute; in Ha­vona, ab­so­nite; in Or­von­ton, fi­nite. Mind al­ways con­notes the pres­ence-ac­tiv­ity of liv­ing min­istry plus var­ied en­ergy sys­tems, and this is true of all lev­els and of all kinds of mind. But be­yond the cos­mic mind it be­comes in­creas­ingly dif­fi­cult to por­tray the re­la­tion­ships of mind to non­spir­i­tual en­ergy. Ha­vona mind is sub­ab­so­lute but super­evo­lu­tion­ary; be­ing ex­is­ten­tial-ex­pe­ri­en­tial, it is nearer the ab­so­nite than any other con­cept re­vealed to you. Par­a­dise mind is be­yond hu­man un­der­stand­ing; it is ex­is­ten­tial, non­spa­tial, and non­tem­po­ral. Nev­er­the­less, all of these lev­els of mind are over­shad­owed by the uni­ver­sal pres­ence of the Con­joint Ac­tor—by the mind-grav­ity grasp of the God of mind on Par­a­dise.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › spirit more real than matter

44:0.15All these ac­tiv­i­ties of the mor­ontia and spirit worlds are real. To spirit be­ings the spirit world is a re­al­ity. To us the ma­te­rial world is the more un­real. The higher forms of spir­its freely pass through or­di­nary mat­ter. High spir­its are re­ac­tive to noth­ing ma­te­rial ex­cept­ing cer­tain of the ba­sic en­er­gies. To ma­te­rial be­ings the spirit world is more or less un­real; to spirit be­ings the ma­te­rial world is al­most en­tirely un­real, be­ing merely a shadow of the sub­stance of spirit re­al­i­ties.

44:0.16I can­not, with ex­clu­sive spirit vi­sion, per­ceive the build­ing in which this nar­ra­tive is be­ing trans­lated and re­corded. A Di­vine Coun­selor from Uversa who chances to stand by my side per­ceives still less of these purely ma­te­rial cre­ations. We dis­cern how these ma­te­rial struc­tures ap­pear to you by view­ing a spirit coun­ter­part pre­sented to our minds by one of our at­tend­ing en­ergy trans­form­ers. This ma­te­rial build­ing is not ex­actly real to me, a spirit be­ing, but it is, of course, very real and very ser­vice­able to ma­te­rial mor­tals.

• levels of reality › 4. other categorizations of reality › 3 original phases of divine energy are physical, mindal, and spiritual energy

44:5.54. The com­pound ma­nip­u­la­tors. This is the ad­ven­tur­ous group of well-trained be­ings who are ded­i­cated to the func­tional as­so­ci­a­tion of the three orig­i­nal phases of di­vine en­ergy man­i­fested through­out the uni­verses as phys­i­cal, mindal, and spir­i­tual en­er­gies. These are the keen per­son­al­i­ties who are in re­al­ity seek­ing to dis­cover the uni­verse pres­ence of God the Su­preme, for in this De­ity per­son­al­ity there must oc­cur the ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­fi­ca­tion of all grand uni­verse di­vin­ity. And to a cer­tain ex­tent, these ar­ti­sans have in re­cent times met with some suc­cess.

• levels of reality › 4. other categorizations of reality › 3 phases of existence are material, morontial, and spiritual

46:4.8The sys­tem cap­i­tals are unique in that they are the only worlds which ex­hibit well-nigh per­fectly all three phases of uni­verse ex­is­tence: the ma­te­rial, the mor­ontial, and the spir­i­tual. Whether you are a ma­te­rial, mor­ontia, or spirit per­son­al­ity, you will feel at home on Je­ru­sem; so also do the com­bined be­ings, such as the mid­way crea­tures and the Ma­te­rial Sons.

• genesis of reality › Father’s thought eternalized in Paradise and Eternal Son

56:2.2Mind is the func­tional en­dow­ment of the In­fi­nite Spirit, there­fore in­fi­nite in po­ten­tial and uni­ver­sal in be­stowal. The pri­mal thought of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther eter­nal­izes in dual ex­pres­sion: the Isle of Par­a­dise and his De­ity equal, the spir­i­tual and Eter­nal Son. Such du­al­ity of eter­nal re­al­ity ren­ders the mind God, the In­fi­nite Spirit, in­ev­i­ta­ble. Mind is the in­dis­pens­able chan­nel of com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial re­al­i­ties. The ma­te­rial evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture can con­ceive and com­pre­hend the in­dwelling spirit only by the min­istry of mind.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › Supreme provides technique for finite to attain absonite

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.

• genesis of reality › eternity existence of I AM is primal source of all

56:10.11The ex­is­tence of beauty im­plies the pres­ence of ap­pre­cia­tive crea­ture mind just as cer­tainly as the fact of pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion in­di­cates the dom­i­nance of the Su­preme Mind. Beauty is the in­tel­lec­tual rec­og­ni­tion of the har­mo­nious time-space syn­the­sis of the far-flung di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of phe­nom­e­nal re­al­ity, all of which stems from pre-ex­is­tent and eter­nal one­ness.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › matter, mind, and spirit

65:7.8Al­ways should the do­mains of the phys­i­cal (elec­tro­chem­i­cal) and the men­tal re­sponse to en­vi­ron­men­tal stim­uli be dif­fer­en­ti­ated, and in turn must they all be rec­og­nized as phe­nom­ena apart from spir­i­tual ac­tiv­i­ties. The do­mains of phys­i­cal, men­tal, and spir­i­tual grav­ity are dis­tinct realms of cos­mic re­al­ity, not­with­stand­ing their in­ti­mate in­ter­re­la­tions.

• sin is knowingly resisting cosmic r.

67:1.4There are many ways of look­ing at sin, but from the uni­verse philo­sophic view­point sin is the at­ti­tude of a per­son­al­ity who is know­ingly re­sist­ing cos­mic re­al­ity. Er­ror might be re­garded as a mis­con­cep­tion or dis­tor­tion of re­al­ity. Evil is a par­tial re­al­iza­tion of, or mal­ad­just­ment to, uni­verse re­al­i­ties. But sin is a pur­pose­ful re­sis­tance to di­vine re­al­ity—a con­scious choos­ing to op­pose spir­i­tual prog­ress—while in­iq­uity con­sists in an open and per­sis­tent de­fi­ance of rec­og­nized re­al­ity and sig­ni­fies such a de­gree of per­son­al­ity dis­in­te­gra­tion as to bor­der on cos­mic in­san­ity.

• true self-realization results from identification with

94:11.6But a great lim­i­ta­tion in the orig­i­nal gospel of Sid­dhartha, as it was in­ter­preted by his fol­low­ers, was that it at­tempted the com­plete lib­er­a­tion of the hu­man self from all the lim­i­ta­tions of the mor­tal na­ture by the tech­nique of iso­lat­ing the self from ob­jec­tive re­al­ity. True cos­mic self-re­al­iza­tion re­sults from iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with cos­mic re­al­ity and with the fi­nite cos­mos of en­ergy, mind, and spirit, bounded by space and con­di­tioned by time.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › supreme r. is sovereignty of truth, beauty, goodness

99:4.4No mat­ter what up­heavals may at­tend the so­cial and eco­nomic growth of civ­i­liza­tion, re­li­gion is gen­uine and worth while if it fos­ters in the in­di­vid­ual an ex­pe­ri­ence in which the sov­er­eignty of truth, beauty, and good­ness pre­vails, for such is the true spir­i­tual con­cept of su­preme re­al­ity. And through love and wor­ship this be­comes mean­ing­ful as fel­low­ship with man and son­ship with God.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › economic necessities tie man up with r.

99:7.5Eco­nomic in­ter­de­pen­dence and so­cial fra­ter­nity will ul­ti­mately con­duce to broth­er­hood. Man is nat­u­rally a dreamer, but sci­ence is sober­ing him so that re­li­gion can pres­ently ac­ti­vate him with far less dan­ger of pre­cip­i­tat­ing fa­nat­i­cal re­ac­tions. Eco­nomic ne­ces­si­ties tie man up with re­al­ity, and per­sonal re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence brings this same man face to face with the eter­nal re­al­i­ties of an ever-ex­pand­ing and pro­gress­ing cos­mic cit­i­zen­ship.

• signifies change, growth

100:3.5Val­ues can never be static; re­al­ity sig­ni­fies change, growth. Change with­out growth, ex­pan­sion of mean­ing and ex­al­ta­tion of value, is val­ue­less—is po­ten­tial evil. The greater the qual­ity of cos­mic adap­ta­tion, the more of mean­ing any ex­pe­ri­ence pos­sesses. Val­ues are not con­cep­tual il­lu­sions; they are real, but al­ways they de­pend on the fact of re­la­tion­ships. Val­ues are al­ways both ac­tual and po­ten­tial—not what was, but what is and is to be.

• Jesus frankly faced

100:7.4The Son of Man was al­ways a well-poised per­son­al­ity. Even his en­e­mies main­tained a whole­some re­spect for him; they even feared his pres­ence. Je­sus was un­afraid. He was sur­charged with di­vine en­thu­si­asm, but he never be­came fa­nat­i­cal. He was emo­tion­ally ac­tive but never flighty. He was imag­i­na­tive but al­ways prac­ti­cal. He frankly faced the re­al­i­ties of life, but he was never dull or pro­saic. He was coura­geous but never reck­less; pru­dent but never cow­ardly. He was sym­pa­thetic but not sen­ti­men­tal; unique but not ec­cen­tric. He was pi­ous but not sanc­ti­mo­nious. And he was so well-poised be­cause he was so per­fectly uni­fied.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › faith in Jesus provides salvation from

101:6.157. Sal­va­tion from the fi­nite, the per­fected one­ness with De­ity in and through the Su­preme by which the crea­ture at­tempts the tran­scen­den­tal dis­cov­ery of the Ul­ti­mate on the post­fi­naliter lev­els of the ab­so­nite.

• spiritual r. not discernible in physical causes and effects

101:10.1In­tel­li­gent man knows that he is a child of na­ture, a part of the ma­te­rial uni­verse; he like­wise dis­cerns no sur­vival of in­di­vid­ual per­son­al­ity in the mo­tions and ten­sions of the math­e­mat­i­cal level of the en­ergy uni­verse. Nor can man ever dis­cern spir­i­tual re­al­ity through the ex­am­i­na­tion of phys­i­cal causes and ef­fects.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › is good; only its misuse and perversion is evil and sinful

102:3.15Sci­ence is only sat­is­fied with first causes, re­li­gion with su­preme per­son­al­ity, and phi­los­o­phy with unity. Rev­e­la­tion af­firms that these three are one, and that all are good. The eter­nal real is the good of the uni­verse and not the time il­lu­sions of space evil. In the spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence of all per­son­al­i­ties, al­ways is it true that the real is the good and the good is the real.

• in local universe, r. is matter, morontia, and spirit

103:6.7Your dif­fi­culty in ar­riv­ing at a more har­mo­nious co-or­di­na­tion be­tween sci­ence and re­li­gion is due to your ut­ter ig­no­rance of the in­ter­ven­ing do­main of the mor­ontia world of things and be­ings. The lo­cal uni­verse con­sists of three de­grees, or stages, of re­al­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion: mat­ter, mor­ontia, and spirit. The mor­ontia an­gle of ap­proach erases all di­ver­gence be­tween the find­ings of the phys­i­cal sci­ences and the func­tion­ing of the spirit of re­li­gion. Rea­son is the un­der­stand­ing tech­nique of the sci­ences; faith is the in­sight tech­nique of re­li­gion; mota is the tech­nique of the mor­ontia level. Mota is a super­ma­te­rial re­al­ity sen­si­tiv­ity which is be­gin­ning to com­pen­sate in­com­plete growth, hav­ing for its sub­stance knowl­edge-rea­son and for its essence faith-in­sight. Mota is a super­phil­o­soph­i­cal rec­on­cil­i­a­tion of di­ver­gent re­al­ity per­cep­tion which is nonat­tain­able by ma­te­rial per­son­al­i­ties; it is pred­i­cated, in part, on the ex­pe­ri­ence of hav­ing sur­vived the ma­te­rial life of the flesh. But many mor­tals have rec­og­nized the de­sir­abil­ity of hav­ing some method of rec­on­cil­ing the in­ter­play be­tween the widely sep­a­rated do­mains of sci­ence and re­li­gion; and meta­physics is the re­sult of man’s un­avail­ing at­tempt to span this well-rec­og­nized chasm. But hu­man meta­physics has proved more con­fus­ing than il­lu­mi­nat­ing. Meta­physics stands for man’s well-meant but fu­tile ef­fort to com­pen­sate for the ab­sence of the mota of mor­ontia.

• elliptic symmetry of

103:6.14When the phi­los­o­phy of man leans heav­ily to­ward the world of mat­ter, it be­comes ra­tio­nal­is­tic or nat­u­ral­is­tic. When phi­los­o­phy in­clines par­tic­u­larly to­ward the spir­i­tual level, it be­comes ide­al­is­tic or even mys­ti­cal. When phi­los­o­phy is so un­for­tu­nate as to lean upon meta­physics, it un­fail­ingly be­comes skep­ti­cal, con­fused. In past ages, most of man’s knowl­edge and in­tel­lec­tual eval­u­a­tions have fallen into one of these three dis­tor­tions of per­cep­tion. Phi­los­o­phy dare not project its in­ter­pre­ta­tions of re­al­ity in the lin­ear fash­ion of logic; it must never fail to reckon with the el­lip­tic sym­me­try of re­al­ity and with the es­sen­tial cur­va­ture of all re­la­tion con­cepts.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › sensitivity to r. constitutive in mind of man

103:7.11All di­vi­sions of hu­man thought are pred­i­cated on cer­tain as­sump­tions which are ac­cepted, though un­proved, by the con­sti­tu­tive re­al­ity sen­si­tiv­ity of the mind en­dow­ment of man. Sci­ence starts out on its vaunted ca­reer of rea­son­ing by as­sum­ing the re­al­ity of three things: mat­ter, mo­tion, and life. Re­li­gion starts out with the as­sump­tion of the va­lid­ity of three things: mind, spirit, and the uni­verse—the Su­preme Be­ing.

• levels of reality › 4. other categorizations of reality › total r. is existential in 7 Absolutes

104:3.5In these pa­pers to­tal re­al­ity (in­fin­ity) has been pre­sented as it ex­ists in the seven Ab­so­lutes:

104:3.61. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

104:3.72. The Eter­nal Son.

104:3.83. The In­fi­nite Spirit.

104:3.94. The Isle of Par­a­dise.

104:3.105. The De­ity Ab­so­lute.

104:3.116. The Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute.

104:3.127. The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

• elliptic symmetry of

105:0.1To even high or­ders of uni­verse in­tel­li­gences in­fin­ity is only par­tially com­pre­hen­si­ble, and the fi­nal­ity of re­al­ity is only rel­a­tively un­der­stand­able. The hu­man mind, as it seeks to pen­e­trate the eter­nity-mys­tery of the ori­gin and des­tiny of all that is called real, may help­fully ap­proach the prob­lem by con­ceiv­ing eter­nity-in­fin­ity as an al­most lim­it­less el­lipse which is pro­duced by one ab­so­lute cause, and which func­tions through­out this uni­ver­sal cir­cle of end­less di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion, ever seek­ing some ab­so­lute and in­fi­nite po­ten­tial of des­tiny.

• total r. is infinity; can never be comprehended by finite mind

105:0.2When the mor­tal in­tel­lect at­tempts to grasp the con­cept of re­al­ity to­tal­ity, such a fi­nite mind is face to face with in­fin­ity-re­al­ity; re­al­ity to­tal­ity is in­fin­ity and there­fore can never be fully com­pre­hended by any mind that is subin­fi­nite in con­cept ca­pac­ity.

• genesis of reality › eternity existence of I AM is primal source of all

105:1.3The I AM is the In­fi­nite; the I AM is also in­fin­ity. From the se­quen­tial, time view­point, all re­al­ity has its ori­gin in the in­fi­nite I AM, whose soli­tary ex­is­tence in past in­fi­nite eter­nity must be a fi­nite crea­ture’s pre­mier philo­sophic pos­tu­late. The con­cept of the I AM con­notes un­qual­i­fied in­fin­ity, the un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated re­al­ity of all that could ever be in all of an in­fi­nite eter­nity.

• genesis of reality
• genesis of reality › never was a real beginning to r.

105:1.5To the fi­nite mind there sim­ply must be a be­gin­ning, and though there never was a real be­gin­ning to re­al­ity, still there are cer­tain source re­la­tion­ships which re­al­ity man­i­fests to in­fin­ity. The pre­re­al­ity, pri­mor­dial, eter­nity sit­u­a­tion may be thought of some­thing like this: At some in­finitely dis­tant, hy­po­thet­i­cal, past-eter­nity mo­ment, the I AM may be con­ceived as both thing and no thing, as both cause and ef­fect, as both vo­li­tion and re­sponse. At this hy­po­thet­i­cal eter­nity mo­ment there is no dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion through­out all in­fin­ity. In­fin­ity is filled by the In­fi­nite; the In­fi­nite en­com­passes in­fin­ity. This is the hy­po­thet­i­cal static mo­ment of eter­nity; ac­tu­als are still con­tained within their po­ten­tials, and po­ten­tials have not yet ap­peared within the in­fin­ity of the I AM. But even in this con­jec­tured sit­u­a­tion we must as­sume the ex­is­tence of the pos­si­bil­ity of self-will.

• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › from eternity; comprised of 3 persons of Deity, Paradise, and the Absolutes

105:2.1In con­sid­er­ing the gen­e­sis of re­al­ity, ever bear in mind that all ab­so­lute re­al­ity is from eter­nity and is with­out be­gin­ning of ex­is­tence. By ab­so­lute re­al­ity we re­fer to the three ex­is­ten­tial per­sons of De­ity, the Isle of Par­a­dise, and the three Ab­so­lutes. These seven re­al­i­ties are co-or­di­nately eter­nal, not­with­stand­ing that we re­sort to time-space lan­guage in pre­sent­ing their se­quen­tial ori­gins to hu­man be­ings.

• genesis of reality

105:2.2In fol­low­ing the chrono­log­i­cal por­trayal of the ori­gins of re­al­ity, there must be a pos­tu­lated the­o­ret­i­cal mo­ment of “first” vo­li­tional ex­pres­sion and “first” reper­cus­sional re­ac­tion within the I AM. In our at­tempts to por­tray the gen­e­sis and gen­er­a­tion of re­al­ity, this stage may be con­ceived as the self-dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of The In­fi­nite One from The In­fini­tude, but the pos­tu­la­tion of this dual re­la­tion­ship must al­ways be ex­panded to a tri­une con­cep­tion by the rec­og­ni­tion of the eter­nal con­tin­uum of The In­fin­ity, the I AM.

105:2.3This self-meta­mor­pho­sis of the I AM cul­mi­nates in the mul­ti­ple dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of de­i­fied re­al­ity and of un­de­i­fied re­al­ity, of po­ten­tial and ac­tual re­al­ity, and of cer­tain other re­al­i­ties that can hardly be so clas­si­fied. These dif­fer­en­ti­a­tions of the the­o­ret­i­cal monis­tic I AM are eter­nally in­te­grated by si­mul­ta­ne­ous re­la­tion­ships aris­ing within the same I AM—the pre­po­ten­tial, pre­ac­tual, preper­sonal, mono­thetic pre­re­al­ity which, though in­fi­nite, is re­vealed as ab­so­lute in the pres­ence of the First Source and Cen­ter and as per­son­al­ity in the lim­it­less love of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

105:2.4By these in­ter­nal meta­mor­phoses the I AM is es­tab­lish­ing the ba­sis for a sev­en­fold self-re­la­tion­ship. The philo­sophic (time) con­cept of the soli­tary I AM and the tran­si­tional (time) con­cept of the I AM as tri­une can now be en­larged to en­com­pass the I AM as sev­en­fold. This sev­en­fold—or seven phase—na­ture may be best sug­gested in re­la­tion to the Seven Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity:

• genesis of reality › creation of Eternal Son

105:2.51. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. I AM fa­ther of the Eter­nal Son. This is the pri­mal per­son­al­ity re­la­tion­ship of ac­tu­al­i­ties. The ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity of the Son makes ab­so­lute the fact of God’s fa­ther­hood and es­tab­lishes the po­ten­tial son­ship of all per­son­al­i­ties. This re­la­tion­ship es­tab­lishes the per­son­al­ity of the In­fi­nite and con­sum­mates its spir­i­tual rev­e­la­tion in the per­son­al­ity of the Orig­i­nal Son. This phase of the I AM is par­tially ex­pe­ri­en­ci­ble on spir­i­tual lev­els even by mor­tals who, while yet in the flesh, may wor­ship our Fa­ther.

• genesis of reality › creation of Infinite Spirit
• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › begins with appearance of Havona

105:2.73. The Uni­ver­sal Cre­ator. I AM one with the Eter­nal Son. This union of the Fa­ther and the Son (in the pres­ence of Par­a­dise) ini­ti­ates the cre­ative cy­cle, which is con­sum­mated in the ap­pear­ance of con­joint per­son­al­ity and the eter­nal uni­verse. From the fi­nite mor­tal’s view­point, re­al­ity has its true be­gin­nings with the eter­nity ap­pear­ance of the Ha­vona cre­ation. This cre­ative act of De­ity is by and through the God of Ac­tion, who is in essence the unity of the Fa­ther-Son man­i­fested on and to all lev­els of the ac­tual. There­fore is di­vine cre­ativ­ity un­fail­ingly char­ac­ter­ized by unity, and this unity is the out­ward re­flec­tion of the ab­so­lute one­ness of the du­al­ity of the Fa­ther-Son and of the Trin­ity of the Fa­ther-Son-Spirit.

• genesis of reality
• genesis of reality › eternity existence of I AM is primal source of all

105:4.1The uni­verse philoso­phers pos­tu­late the eter­nity ex­is­tence of the I AM as the pri­mal source of all re­al­ity. And con­comi­tant there­with they pos­tu­late the self-seg­men­ta­tion of the I AM into the pri­mary self-re­la­tion­ships—the seven phases of in­fin­ity. And si­mul­ta­ne­ous with this as­sump­tion is the third pos­tu­late—the eter­nity ap­pear­ance of the Seven Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity and the eter­nal­iza­tion of the du­al­ity as­so­ci­a­tion of the seven phases of the I AM and these seven Ab­so­lutes.

• genesis of reality › 7 Absolutes eternalize foundations for all r.

105:4.2The self-rev­e­la­tion of the I AM thus pro­ceeds from static self through self-seg­men­ta­tion and self-re­la­tion­ship to ab­so­lute re­la­tion­ships, re­la­tion­ships with self-de­rived Ab­so­lutes. Du­al­ity be­comes thus ex­is­tent in the eter­nal as­so­ci­a­tion of the Seven Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity with the sev­en­fold in­fin­ity of the self-seg­mented phases of the self-re­veal­ing I AM. These dual re­la­tion­ships, eter­nal­iz­ing to the uni­verses as the seven Ab­so­lutes, eter­nal­ize the ba­sic foun­da­tions for all uni­verse re­al­ity.

• genesis of reality
• genesis of reality › r. exists by virtue of eternal purpose of God

105:5.1Just as the orig­i­nal di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of the I AM must be at­tributed to in­her­ent and self-con­tained vo­li­tion, so must the pro­mul­ga­tion of fi­nite re­al­ity be as­cribed to the vo­li­tional acts of Par­a­dise De­ity and to the reper­cus­sional ad­just­ments of the func­tional tri­uni­ties.

105:5.2Prior to the deiti­za­tion of the fi­nite, it would ap­pear that all re­al­ity di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion took place on ab­so­lute lev­els; but the vo­li­tional act pro­mul­gat­ing fi­nite re­al­ity con­notes a qual­i­fi­ca­tion of ab­so­lute­ness and im­plies the ap­pear­ance of rel­a­tiv­i­ties.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › transcendentals preceded and succeed finite

105:5.3While we pre­sent this nar­ra­tive as a se­quence and por­tray the his­toric ap­pear­ance of the fi­nite as a di­rect deriva­tive of the ab­so­lute, it should be borne in mind that tran­scen­den­tals both pre­ceded and suc­ceeded all that is fi­nite. Tran­scen­den­tal ul­ti­mates are, in re­la­tion to the fi­nite, both causal and con­sum­ma­tional.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › possibility for finite is inherent in the Infinite

105:5.4Fi­nite pos­si­bil­ity is in­her­ent in the In­fi­nite, but the trans­mu­ta­tion of pos­si­bil­ity to prob­a­bil­ity and in­evitabil­ity must be at­tributed to the self-ex­is­tent free will of the First Source and Cen­ter, ac­ti­vat­ing all tri­unity as­so­ci­a­tions. Only the in­fin­ity of the Fa­ther’s will could ever have so qual­i­fied the ab­so­lute level of ex­is­tence as to even­tu­ate an ul­ti­mate or to cre­ate a fi­nite.

105:5.5With the ap­pear­ance of rel­a­tive and qual­i­fied re­al­ity there comes into be­ing a new cy­cle of re­al­ity—the growth cy­cle—a ma­jes­tic down­sweep from the heights of in­fin­ity to the do­main of the fi­nite, for­ever swing­ing in­ward to Par­a­dise and De­ity, al­ways seek­ing those high des­tinies com­men­su­rate with an in­fin­ity source.

105:5.6These in­con­ceiv­able trans­ac­tions mark the be­gin­ning of uni­verse his­tory, mark the com­ing into ex­is­tence of time it­self. To a crea­ture, the be­gin­ning of the fi­nite is the gen­e­sis of re­al­ity; as viewed by crea­ture mind, there is no ac­tu­al­ity con­ceiv­able prior to the fi­nite. This newly ap­pear­ing fi­nite re­al­ity ex­ists in two orig­i­nal phases:

105:5.71. Pri­mary max­i­mums, the su­premely per­fect re­al­ity, the Ha­vona type of uni­verse and crea­ture.

105:5.82. Sec­ondary max­i­mums, the su­premely per­fected re­al­ity, the super­uni­verse type of crea­ture and cre­ation.

105:5.9These, then, are the two orig­i­nal man­i­fes­ta­tions: the con­sti­tu­tively per­fect and the evo­lu­tion­ally per­fected. The two are co-or­di­nate in eter­nity re­la­tion­ships, but within the lim­its of time they are seem­ingly dif­fer­ent. A time fac­tor means growth to that which grows; sec­ondary finites grow; hence those that are grow­ing must ap­pear as in­com­plete in time. But these dif­fer­ences, which are so im­por­tant this side of Par­a­dise, are nonex­is­tent in eter­nity.

105:5.10We speak of the per­fect and the per­fected as pri­mary and sec­ondary max­i­mums, but there is still an­other type: Trini­tiz­ing and other re­la­tion­ships be­tween the pri­maries and the sec­on­daries re­sult in the ap­pear­ance of ter­tiary max­i­mums—things, mean­ings, and val­ues that are nei­ther per­fect nor per­fected yet are co-or­di­nate with both an­ces­tral fac­tors.

105:6.1The en­tire pro­mul­ga­tion of fi­nite ex­is­tences rep­re­sents a trans­fer­ence from po­ten­tials to ac­tu­als within the ab­so­lute as­so­ci­a­tions of func­tional in­fin­ity. Of the many reper­cus­sions to cre­ative ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the fi­nite, there may be cited:

105:6.21. The de­ity re­sponse, the ap­pear­ance of the three lev­els of ex­pe­ri­en­tial su­prem­acy: the ac­tu­al­ity of per­sonal-spirit su­prem­acy in Ha­vona, the po­ten­tial for per­sonal-power su­prem­acy in the grand uni­verse to be, and the ca­pac­ity for some un­known func­tion of ex­pe­ri­en­tial mind act­ing on some level of su­prem­acy in the fu­ture mas­ter uni­verse.

105:6.32. The uni­verse re­sponse in­volved an ac­ti­va­tion of the ar­chi­tec­tural plans for the super­uni­verse space level, and this evo­lu­tion is still pro­gress­ing through­out the phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion of the seven super­uni­verses.

105:6.43. The crea­ture reper­cus­sion to fi­nite-re­al­ity pro­mul­ga­tion re­sulted in the ap­pear­ance of per­fect be­ings on the or­der of the eter­nal in­hab­i­tants of Ha­vona and of per­fected evo­lu­tion­ary as­cend­ers from the seven super­uni­verses. But to at­tain per­fec­tion as an evo­lu­tion­ary (time-cre­ative) ex­pe­ri­ence im­plies some­thing other-than-per­fec­tion as a point of de­par­ture. Thus arises im­per­fec­tion in the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ations. And this is the ori­gin of po­ten­tial evil. Mis­adap­ta­tion, dishar­mony, and con­flict, all these things are in­her­ent in evo­lu­tion­ary growth, from phys­i­cal uni­verses to per­sonal crea­tures.

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.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › transcendentals are subinfinite and subabsolute but superfinite and supercreatural

105:7.1Tran­scen­den­tals are subin­fi­nite and sub­ab­so­lute but super­fi­nite and super­crea­tural. Tran­scen­den­tals even­tu­ate as an in­te­grat­ing level cor­re­lat­ing the super­val­ues of ab­so­lutes with the max­i­mum val­ues of finites. From the crea­ture stand­point, that which is tran­scen­den­tal would ap­pear to have even­tu­ated as a con­se­quence of the fi­nite; from the eter­nity view­point, in an­tic­i­pa­tion of the fi­nite; and there are those who have con­sid­ered it as a “pre-echo” of the fi­nite.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › Havona is not absonite, but illustrates it

105:7.2That which is tran­scen­den­tal is not nec­es­sar­ily non­de­vel­op­men­tal, but it is super­evo­lu­tional in the fi­nite sense; nei­ther is it non­ex­pe­ri­en­tial, but it is super­ex­pe­ri­ence as such is mean­ing­ful to crea­tures. Per­haps the best il­lus­tra­tion of such a para­dox is the cen­tral uni­verse of per­fec­tion: It is hardly ab­so­lute—only the Par­a­dise Isle is truly ab­so­lute in the “ma­te­ri­al­ized” sense. Nei­ther is it a fi­nite evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ation as are the seven super­uni­verses. Ha­vona is eter­nal but not change­less in the sense of be­ing a uni­verse of non­growth. It is in­hab­ited by crea­tures (Ha­vona na­tives) who never were ac­tu­ally cre­ated, for they are eter­nally ex­is­tent. Ha­vona thus il­lus­trates some­thing which is not ex­actly fi­nite nor yet ab­so­lute. Ha­vona fur­ther acts as a buffer be­tween ab­so­lute Par­a­dise and fi­nite cre­ations, still fur­ther il­lus­trat­ing the func­tion of tran­scen­den­tals. But Ha­vona it­self is not a tran­scen­den­tal—it is Ha­vona.

105:7.3As the Su­preme is as­so­ci­ated with finites, so the Ul­ti­mate is iden­ti­fied with tran­scen­den­tals. But though we thus com­pare Su­preme and Ul­ti­mate, they dif­fer by some­thing more than de­gree; the dif­fer­ence is also a mat­ter of qual­ity. The Ul­ti­mate is some­thing more than a su­per-Su­preme pro­jected on the tran­scen­den­tal level. The Ul­ti­mate is all of that, but more: The Ul­ti­mate is an even­tu­a­tion of new De­ity re­al­i­ties, the qual­i­fi­ca­tion of new phases of the thereto­fore un­qual­i­fied.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › realities associated with absonite

105:7.4Among those re­al­i­ties which are as­so­ci­ated with the tran­scen­den­tal level are the fol­low­ing:

105:7.51. The De­ity pres­ence of the Ul­ti­mate.

105:7.62. The con­cept of the mas­ter uni­verse.

105:7.73. The Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.

105:7.84. The two or­ders of Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers.

105:7.95. Cer­tain mod­i­fi­ca­tions in space po­tency.

105:7.106. Cer­tain val­ues of spirit.

105:7.117. Cer­tain mean­ings of mind.

105:7.128. Ab­so­nite qual­i­ties and re­al­i­ties.

105:7.139. Om­nipo­tence, om­ni­science, and om­nipres­ence.

105:7.1410. Space.

• levels of reality › 4. other categorizations of reality › exists on finite, transcendental, and absolute levels

105:7.15The uni­verse in which we now live may be thought of as ex­ist­ing on fi­nite, tran­scen­den­tal, and ab­so­lute lev­els. This is the cos­mic stage on which is en­acted the end­less drama of per­son­al­ity per­for­mance and en­ergy meta­mor­pho­sis.

105:7.16And all of these man­i­fold re­al­i­ties are uni­fied ab­so­lutely by the sev­eral tri­uni­ties, func­tion­ally by the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse, and rel­a­tively by the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, the sub­supreme co-or­di­na­tors of the di­vin­ity of God the Sev­en­fold.

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.

• genesis of reality

105:7.18In the eter­nity of the past the forces of the Ab­so­lutes, the spir­its of the De­i­ties, and the per­son­al­i­ties of the Gods stirred in re­sponse to the pri­mor­dial self-will of self-ex­is­tent self-will. In this uni­verse age we are all wit­ness­ing the stu­pen­dous reper­cus­sions of the far-flung cos­mic pan­o­rama of the sub­ab­so­lute man­i­fes­ta­tions of the lim­it­less po­ten­tials of all these re­al­i­ties. And it is al­to­gether pos­si­ble that the con­tin­ued di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of the orig­i­nal re­al­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter may pro­ceed on­ward and out­ward through­out age upon age, on and on, into the far­away and in­con­ceiv­able stretches of ab­so­lute in­fin­ity.

105:7.19[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• understanding r. enhances man’s terrestrial and cosmic orientation

106:0.1It is not enough that the as­cend­ing mor­tal should know some­thing of the re­la­tions of De­ity to the gen­e­sis and man­i­fes­ta­tions of cos­mic re­al­ity; he should also com­pre­hend some­thing of the re­la­tion­ships ex­ist­ing be­tween him­self and the nu­mer­ous lev­els of ex­is­ten­tial and ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­i­ties, of po­ten­tial and ac­tual re­al­i­ties. Man’s ter­res­trial ori­en­ta­tion, his cos­mic in­sight, and his spir­i­tual di­rec­tion­iza­tion are all en­hanced by a bet­ter com­pre­hen­sion of uni­verse re­al­i­ties and their tech­niques of in­teras­so­ci­a­tion, in­te­gra­tion, and uni­fi­ca­tion.

• levels of reality › 4. other categorizations of reality › 7 phases

106:0.2The pres­ent grand uni­verse and the emerg­ing mas­ter uni­verse are made up of many forms and phases of re­al­ity which, in turn, are ex­is­tent on sev­eral lev­els of func­tional ac­tiv­ity. These man­i­fold ex­is­tents and la­tents have been pre­vi­ously sug­gested in these pa­pers, and they are now grouped for con­cep­tual con­ve­nience in the fol­low­ing cat­e­gories:

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality
• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › ascending creatures are incomplete finites up to destiny attainment

106:0.31. In­com­plete finites. This is the pres­ent sta­tus of the as­cend­ing crea­tures of the grand uni­verse, the pres­ent sta­tus of Uran­tia mor­tals. This level em­braces crea­ture ex­is­tence from the plan­e­tary hu­man up to, but not in­clud­ing, des­tiny at­tain­ers. It per­tains to uni­verses from early phys­i­cal be­gin­nings up to, but not in­clud­ing, set­tle­ment in light and life. This level con­sti­tutes the pres­ent pe­riph­ery of cre­ative ac­tiv­ity in time and space. It ap­pears to be mov­ing out­ward from Par­a­dise, for the clos­ing of the pres­ent uni­verse age, which will wit­ness the grand uni­verse at­tain­ment of light and life, will also and surely wit­ness the ap­pear­ance of some new or­der of de­vel­op­men­tal growth in the first outer space level.

106:0.42. Max­i­mum finites. This is the pres­ent sta­tus of all ex­pe­ri­en­tial crea­tures who have at­tained des­tiny—des­tiny as re­vealed within the scope of the pres­ent uni­verse age. Even uni­verses can at­tain to the max­i­mum of sta­tus, both spir­i­tu­ally and phys­i­cally. But the term “max­i­mum” is it­self a rel­a­tive term—max­i­mum in re­la­tion to what? And that which is max­i­mum, seem­ingly fi­nal, in the pres­ent uni­verse age may be no more than a real be­gin­ning in terms of the ages to come. Some phases of Ha­vona ap­pear to be on the max­i­mum or­der.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › much of Paradise-Havona is absonite
• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › transcendentals preceded and succeed finite

106:0.53. Tran­scen­den­tals. This super­fi­nite level (an­te­ced­ently) fol­lows fi­nite pro­gres­sion. It im­plies the pre­f­i­nite gen­e­sis of fi­nite be­gin­nings and the postfi­nite sig­nif­i­cance of all ap­par­ent fi­nite end­ings or des­tinies. Much of Par­a­dise-Ha­vona ap­pears to be on the tran­scen­den­tal or­der.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › ultimate reality › level of master universe significance
• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › ultimate reality › much of Paradise-Havona is

106:0.64. Ul­ti­mates. This level en­com­passes that which is of mas­ter uni­verse sig­nif­i­cance and im­pinges on the des­tiny level of the com­pleted mas­ter uni­verse. Par­a­dise-Ha­vona (es­pe­cially the cir­cuit of the Fa­ther’s worlds) is in many re­spects of ul­ti­mate sig­nif­i­cance.

• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › coabsolute r. is supermaster universe level of 5th-phase association

106:0.75. Coab­so­lutes. This level im­plies the pro­jec­tion of ex­pe­ri­en­tials upon a super­mas­ter uni­verse field of cre­ative ex­pres­sion.

• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality

106:0.86. Ab­so­lutes. This level con­notes the eter­nity pres­ence of the seven ex­is­ten­tial Ab­so­lutes. It may also in­volve some de­gree of as­so­cia­tive ex­pe­ri­en­tial at­tain­ment, but if so, we do not un­der­stand how, per­haps through the con­tact po­ten­tial of per­son­al­ity.

• levels of reality › 4. other categorizations of reality › infinity – the hypothetical r. before all beginnings and after all destinies

106:0.97. In­fin­ity. This level is pre-ex­is­ten­tial and pos­t­ex­pe­ri­en­tial. Un­qual­i­fied unity of in­fin­ity is a hy­po­thet­i­cal re­al­ity be­fore all be­gin­nings and af­ter all des­tinies.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › unrevealed tertiary finites

106:1.1The pri­mary or spirit-ori­gin phases of fi­nite re­al­ity find im­me­di­ate ex­pres­sion on crea­ture lev­els as per­fect per­son­al­i­ties and on uni­verse lev­els as the per­fect Ha­vona cre­ation. Even ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity is thus ex­pressed in the spirit per­son of God the Su­preme in Ha­vona. But the sec­ondary, evo­lu­tion­ary, time-and-mat­ter-con­di­tioned phases of the fi­nite be­come cos­mi­cally in­te­grated only as a re­sult of growth and at­tain­ment. Even­tu­ally all sec­ondary or per­fect­ing finites are to at­tain a level equal to that of pri­mary per­fec­tion, but such des­tiny is sub­ject to a time de­lay, a con­sti­tu­tive super­uni­verse qual­i­fi­ca­tion which is not ge­net­i­cally found in the cen­tral cre­ation. (We know of the ex­is­tence of ter­tiary finites, but the tech­nique of their in­te­gra­tion is as yet un­re­vealed.)

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.

106:2.1As God the Sev­en­fold func­tion­ally co-or­di­nates fi­nite evo­lu­tion, so does the Su­preme Be­ing even­tu­ally syn­the­size des­tiny at­tain­ment. The Su­preme Be­ing is the de­ity cul­mi­na­tion of grand uni­verse evo­lu­tion—phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion around a spirit nu­cleus and even­tual dom­i­nance of the spirit nu­cleus over the en­cir­cling and whirling do­mains of phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion. And all of this takes place in ac­cor­dance with the man­dates of per­son­al­ity: Par­a­dise per­son­al­ity in the high­est sense, Cre­ator per­son­al­ity in the uni­verse sense, mor­tal per­son­al­ity in the hu­man sense, Su­preme per­son­al­ity in the cul­mi­nat­ing or ex­pe­ri­en­tial to­tal­ing sense.

106:2.2The con­cept of the Su­preme must pro­vide for the dif­fer­en­tial rec­og­ni­tion of spirit per­son, evo­lu­tion­ary power, and power-per­son­al­ity syn­the­sis—the uni­fi­ca­tion of evo­lu­tion­ary power with, and its dom­i­nance by, spirit per­son­al­ity.

• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › existential reality › eternity power of Paradise Deities

106:2.3Spirit, in the last anal­y­sis, comes from Par­a­dise through Ha­vona. En­ergy-mat­ter seem­ingly evolves in the depths of space and is or­ga­nized as power by the chil­dren of the In­fi­nite Spirit in con­junc­tion with the Cre­ator Sons of God. And all of this is ex­pe­ri­en­tial; it is a trans­ac­tion in time and space in­volv­ing a wide range of liv­ing be­ings in­clud­ing even Cre­ator di­vini­ties and evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures. The power mas­tery of the Cre­ator di­vini­ties in the grand uni­verse slowly ex­pands to en­com­pass the evo­lu­tion­ary set­tling and sta­bi­liz­ing of the time-space cre­ations, and this is the flow­er­ing of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial power of God the Sev­en­fold. It en­com­passes the whole gamut of di­vin­ity at­tain­ment in time and space from the Ad­juster be­stowals of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to the life be­stowals of the Par­a­dise Sons. This is earned power, demon­strated power, ex­pe­ri­en­tial power; it stands in con­trast to the eter­nity power, the un­fath­omable power, the ex­is­ten­tial power of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

106:2.4This ex­pe­ri­en­tial power aris­ing out of the di­vin­ity achieve­ments of God the Sev­en­fold it­self man­i­fests the co­he­sive qual­i­ties of di­vin­ity by syn­the­siz­ing—to­tal­iz­ing—as the al­mighty power of the at­tained ex­pe­ri­en­tial mas­tery of the evolv­ing cre­ations. And this al­mighty power in turn finds spirit-per­son­al­ity co­he­sion on the pi­lot sphere of the outer belt of Ha­vona worlds in union with the spirit per­son­al­ity of the Ha­vona pres­ence of God the Su­preme. Thus does ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity cul­mi­nate the long evo­lu­tion­ary strug­gle by in­vest­ing the power prod­uct of time and space with the spirit pres­ence and di­vine per­son­al­ity res­i­dent in the cen­tral cre­ation.

106:2.5Thus does the Su­preme Be­ing even­tu­ally at­tain to the em­brace of all of ev­ery­thing evolv­ing in time and space while in­vest­ing these qual­i­ties with spirit per­son­al­ity. Since crea­tures, even mor­tals, are per­son­al­ity par­tic­i­pants in this ma­jes­tic trans­ac­tion, so do they cer­tainly at­tain the ca­pac­ity to know the Su­preme and to per­ceive the Su­preme as true chil­dren of such an evo­lu­tion­ary De­ity.

106:2.6Mi­chael of Neb­a­don is like the Par­a­dise Fa­ther be­cause he shares his Par­a­dise per­fec­tion; so will evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals some­time at­tain to kin­ship with the ex­pe­ri­en­tial Su­preme, for they will truly share his evo­lu­tion­ary per­fec­tion.

106:2.7God the Su­preme is ex­pe­ri­en­tial; there­fore is he com­pletely ex­pe­ri­en­ci­ble. The ex­is­ten­tial re­al­i­ties of the seven Ab­so­lutes are not per­ceiv­able by the tech­nique of ex­pe­ri­ence; only the per­son­al­ity re­al­i­ties of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit can be grasped by the per­son­al­ity of the fi­nite crea­ture in the prayer-wor­ship at­ti­tude.

106:2.8Within the com­pleted power-per­son­al­ity syn­the­sis of the Su­preme Be­ing there will be as­so­ci­ated all of the ab­so­lute­ness of the sev­eral tri­odi­ties which could be so as­so­ci­ated, and this ma­jes­tic per­son­al­ity of evo­lu­tion will be ex­pe­ri­en­tially at­tain­able and un­der­stand­able by all fi­nite per­son­al­i­ties. When as­cend­ers at­tain the pos­tu­lated sev­enth stage of spirit ex­is­tence, they will therein ex­pe­ri­ence the re­al­iza­tion of a new mean­ing-value of the ab­so­lute­ness and in­fin­ity of the tri­odi­ties as such is re­vealed on sub­ab­so­lute lev­els in the Su­preme Be­ing, who is ex­pe­ri­en­ci­ble. But the at­tain­ment of these stages of max­i­mum de­vel­op­ment will prob­a­bly await the co-or­di­nate set­tling of the en­tire grand uni­verse in light and life.

106:3.1The ab­so­nite ar­chi­tects even­tu­ate the plan; the Su­preme Cre­ators bring it into ex­is­tence; the Su­preme Be­ing will con­sum­mate its full­ness as it was time cre­ated by the Su­preme Cre­ators, and as it was space fore­cast by the Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects.

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.

106:3.3The Par­a­dise Trin­ity is truly one of in­fin­ity, and no Trin­ity can pos­si­bly be in­fi­nite that does not in­clude this orig­i­nal Trin­ity. But the orig­i­nal Trin­ity is an even­tu­al­ity of the ex­clu­sive as­so­ci­a­tion of ab­so­lute De­i­ties; sub­ab­so­lute be­ings had noth­ing to do with this pri­mal as­so­ci­a­tion. The sub­se­quently ap­pear­ing and ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­i­ties em­brace the con­tri­bu­tions of even crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties. Cer­tainly this is true of the Trin­ity Ul­ti­mate, wherein the very pres­ence of the Mas­ter Cre­ator Sons among the Su­preme Cre­ator mem­bers thereof be­to­kens the con­comi­tant pres­ence of ac­tual and bona fide crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence within this Trin­ity as­so­ci­a­tion.

106:3.4The first ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity pro­vides for group at­tain­ment of ul­ti­mate even­tu­al­i­ties. Group as­so­ci­a­tions are en­abled to an­tic­i­pate, even to tran­scend, in­di­vid­ual ca­pac­i­ties; and this is true even be­yond the fi­nite level. In the ages to come, af­ter the seven super­uni­verses have been set­tled in light and life, the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity will doubt­less be pro­mul­gat­ing the pur­poses of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties as they are dic­tated by the Trin­ity Ul­ti­mate, and as they are power-per­son­al­ity uni­fied in the Su­preme Be­ing.

106:3.5Through­out all the gi­gan­tic uni­verse de­vel­op­ments of past and fu­ture eter­nity, we de­tect the ex­pan­sion of the com­pre­hen­si­ble el­e­ments of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. As the I AM, we phil­o­soph­i­cally pos­tu­late his per­me­ation of to­tal in­fin­ity, but no crea­ture is able ex­pe­ri­en­tially to en­com­pass such a pos­tu­late. As the uni­verses ex­pand, and as grav­ity and love reach out into time-or­ga­niz­ing space, we are able to un­der­stand more and more of the First Source and Cen­ter. We ob­serve grav­ity ac­tion pen­e­trat­ing the space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, and we de­tect spirit crea­tures evolv­ing and ex­pand­ing within the di­vin­ity pres­ence of the De­ity Ab­so­lute while both cos­mic and spirit evo­lu­tion are by mind and ex­pe­ri­ence uni­fy­ing on fi­nite de­ity lev­els as the Su­preme Be­ing and are co-or­di­nat­ing on tran­scen­den­tal lev­els as the Trin­ity Ul­ti­mate.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › ultimate reality › Trinity Ultimate co-ordinates master universe

106:4.1The Par­a­dise Trin­ity cer­tainly co-or­di­nates in the ul­ti­mate sense but func­tions in this re­spect as a self-qual­i­fied ab­so­lute; the ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity Ul­ti­mate co-or­di­nates the tran­scen­den­tal as a tran­scen­den­tal. In the eter­nal fu­ture this ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity will, through aug­ment­ing unity, fur­ther ac­ti­vate the even­tu­at­ing pres­ence of Ul­ti­mate De­ity.

106:4.2While the Trin­ity Ul­ti­mate is des­tined to co-or­di­nate the mas­ter cre­ation, God the Ul­ti­mate is the tran­scen­den­tal power-per­son­al­iza­tion of the di­rec­tion­iza­tion of the en­tire mas­ter uni­verse. The com­pleted even­tu­a­tion of the Ul­ti­mate im­plies the com­ple­tion of the mas­ter cre­ation and con­notes the full emer­gence of this tran­scen­den­tal De­ity.

106:4.3What changes will be in­au­gu­rated by the full emer­gence of the Ul­ti­mate we do not know. But as the Su­preme is now spir­i­tu­ally and per­son­ally pres­ent in Ha­vona, so also is the Ul­ti­mate there pres­ent but in the ab­so­nite and super­per­sonal sense. And you have been in­formed of the ex­is­tence of the Qual­i­fied Vicegerents of the Ul­ti­mate, though you have not been in­formed of their pres­ent where­abouts or func­tion.

106:4.4But ir­re­spec­tive of the ad­min­is­tra­tive reper­cus­sions at­ten­dant upon the emer­gence of Ul­ti­mate De­ity, the per­sonal val­ues of his tran­scen­den­tal di­vin­ity will be ex­pe­ri­en­ci­ble by all per­son­al­i­ties who have been par­tic­i­pants in the ac­tu­al­iza­tion of this De­ity level. Tran­scen­dence of the fi­nite can lead only to ul­ti­mate at­tain­ment. God the Ul­ti­mate ex­ists in tran­scen­dence of time and space but is nonethe­less sub­ab­so­lute not­with­stand­ing in­her­ent ca­pac­ity for func­tional as­so­ci­a­tion with ab­so­lutes.

106:5.1The Ul­ti­mate is the apex of tran­scen­den­tal re­al­ity even as the Su­preme is the cap­stone of evo­lu­tion­ary-ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­ity. And the ac­tual emer­gence of these two ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties lays the foun­da­tion for the sec­ond ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity. This is the Trin­ity Ab­so­lute, the union of God the Su­preme, God the Ul­ti­mate, and the un­re­vealed Con­sum­ma­tor of Uni­verse Des­tiny. And this Trin­ity has the­o­ret­i­cal ca­pac­ity to ac­ti­vate the Ab­so­lutes of po­ten­tial­ity—De­ity, Uni­ver­sal, and Un­qual­i­fied. But the com­pleted for­ma­tion of this Trin­ity Ab­so­lute could take place only af­ter the com­pleted evo­lu­tion of the en­tire mas­ter uni­verse, from Ha­vona to the fourth and out­er­most space level.

• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › Deity and Unqualified Absolutes are indistinguishable in presence of Universal Absolute

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.

106:5.3Trin­i­ties are, in and of them­selves, not per­sonal, but nei­ther do they con­tra­vene per­son­al­ity. Rather do they en­com­pass it and cor­re­late it, in a col­lec­tive sense, with im­per­sonal func­tions. Trin­i­ties are, then, al­ways de­ity re­al­ity but never per­son­al­ity re­al­ity. The per­son­al­ity as­pects of a trin­ity are in­her­ent in its in­di­vid­ual mem­bers, and as in­di­vid­ual per­sons they are not that trin­ity. Only as a col­lec­tive are they trin­ity; that is trin­ity. But al­ways is trin­ity in­clu­sive of all en­com­passed de­ity; trin­ity is de­ity unity.

106:5.4The three Ab­so­lutes—De­ity, Uni­ver­sal, and Un­qual­i­fied—are not trin­ity, for all are not de­ity. Only the de­i­fied can be­come trin­ity; all other as­so­ci­a­tions are tri­uni­ties or tri­odi­ties.

• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › impossible to achieve full revelation of absolute r. in subabsolute cosmos

106:6.1The pres­ent po­ten­tial of the mas­ter uni­verse is hardly ab­so­lute, though it may well be near-ul­ti­mate, and we deem it im­pos­si­ble to achieve the full rev­e­la­tion of ab­so­lute mean­ing-val­ues within the scope of a sub­ab­so­lute cos­mos. We there­fore en­counter con­sid­er­able dif­fi­culty in at­tempt­ing to con­ceive of a to­tal ex­pres­sion of the lim­it­less pos­si­bil­i­ties of the three Ab­so­lutes or even in at­tempt­ing to vi­su­al­ize the ex­pe­ri­en­tial per­son­al­iza­tion of God the Ab­so­lute on the now im­per­sonal level of the De­ity Ab­so­lute.

106:6.2The space-stage of the mas­ter uni­verse seems to be ad­e­quate for the ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing, for the for­ma­tion and full func­tion of the Trin­ity Ul­ti­mate, for the even­tu­a­tion of God the Ul­ti­mate, and even for the in­cep­tion of the Trin­ity Ab­so­lute. But our con­cepts re­gard­ing the full func­tion of this sec­ond ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity seem to im­ply some­thing be­yond even the wide-spread­ing mas­ter uni­verse.

106:6.3If we as­sume a cos­mos-in­fi­nite—some il­lim­itable cos­mos on be­yond the mas­ter uni­verse—and if we con­ceive that the fi­nal de­vel­op­ments of the Ab­so­lute Trin­ity will take place out on such a super­ul­ti­mate stage of ac­tion, then it be­comes pos­si­ble to con­jec­ture that the com­pleted func­tion of the Trin­ity Ab­so­lute will achieve fi­nal ex­pres­sion in the cre­ations of in­fin­ity and will con­sum­mate the ab­so­lute ac­tu­al­iza­tion of all po­ten­tials. The in­te­gra­tion and as­so­ci­a­tion of ever-en­larg­ing seg­ments of re­al­ity will ap­proach ab­so­lute­ness of sta­tus pro­por­tional to the in­clu­sion of all re­al­ity within the seg­ments thus as­so­ci­ated.

106:6.4Stated oth­er­wise: The Trin­ity Ab­so­lute, as its name im­plies, is re­ally ab­so­lute in to­tal func­tion. We do not know how an ab­so­lute func­tion can achieve to­tal ex­pres­sion on a qual­i­fied, lim­ited, or oth­er­wise re­stricted ba­sis. Hence we must as­sume that any such to­tal­ity func­tion will be un­con­di­tioned (in po­ten­tial). And it would also ap­pear that the un­con­di­tioned would also be un­lim­ited, at least from a qual­i­ta­tive stand­point, though we are not so sure re­gard­ing quan­ti­ta­tive re­la­tion­ships.

106:6.5Of this, how­ever, we are cer­tain: While the ex­is­ten­tial Par­a­dise Trin­ity is in­fi­nite, and while the ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity Ul­ti­mate is subin­fi­nite, the Trin­ity Ab­so­lute is not so easy to clas­sify. Though ex­pe­ri­en­tial in gen­e­sis and con­sti­tu­tion, it def­i­nitely im­pinges upon the ex­is­ten­tial Ab­so­lutes of po­ten­tial­ity.

106:6.6While it is hardly prof­itable for the hu­man mind to seek to grasp such far­away and super­hu­man con­cepts, we would sug­gest that the eter­nity ac­tion of the Trin­ity Ab­so­lute may be thought of as cul­mi­nat­ing in some kind of ex­pe­ri­en­tial­iza­tion of the Ab­so­lutes of po­ten­tial­ity. This would ap­pear to be a rea­son­able con­clu­sion with re­spect to the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute, if not the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute; at least we know that the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute is not only static and po­ten­tial but also as­so­cia­tive in the to­tal De­ity sense of those words. But in re­gard to the con­ceiv­able val­ues of di­vin­ity and per­son­al­ity, these con­jec­tured hap­pen­ings im­ply the per­son­al­iza­tion of the De­ity Ab­so­lute and the ap­pear­ance of those super­per­sonal val­ues and those ul­tra­p­er­sonal mean­ings in­her­ent in the per­son­al­ity com­ple­tion of God the Ab­so­lute—the third and last of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties.

• completion of cycle of r.

106:8.12The as­so­ci­a­tion of these three Trin­i­ties in the Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties pro­vides for a pos­si­ble un­lim­ited in­te­gra­tion of re­al­ity. This group­ing con­tains causes, in­ter­me­di­ates, and fi­nals; in­cep­tors, re­al­iz­ers, and con­sum­ma­tors; be­gin­nings, ex­is­tences, and des­tinies. The Fa­ther-Son part­ner­ship has be­come Son-Spirit and then Spirit-Su­preme and on to Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate and Ul­ti­mate-Ab­so­lute, even to Ab­so­lute and Fa­ther-In­fi­nite—the com­ple­tion of the cy­cle of re­al­ity. Like­wise, in other phases not so im­me­di­ately con­cerned with di­vin­ity and per­son­al­ity, does the First Great Source and Cen­ter self-re­al­ize the lim­it­less­ness of re­al­ity around the cir­cle of eter­nity, from the ab­so­lute­ness of self-ex­is­tence, through the end­less­ness of self-rev­e­la­tion, to the fi­nal­ity of self-re­al­iza­tion—from the ab­so­lute of ex­is­ten­tials to the fi­nal­ity of ex­pe­ri­en­tials.

106:9.1In the con­cept of the Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties we pos­tu­late the pos­si­ble ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­fi­ca­tion of lim­it­less re­al­ity, and we some­times the­o­rize that all this may hap­pen in the ut­ter re­mote­ness of far-dis­tant eter­nity. But there is nonethe­less an ac­tual and pres­ent uni­fi­ca­tion of in­fin­ity in this very age as in all past and fu­ture uni­verse ages; such uni­fi­ca­tion is ex­is­ten­tial in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. In­fin­ity uni­fi­ca­tion as an ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­ity is un­think­ably re­mote, but an un­qual­i­fied unity of in­fin­ity now dom­i­nates the pres­ent mo­ment of uni­verse ex­is­tence and unites the di­ver­gen­cies of all re­al­ity with an ex­is­ten­tial majesty that is ab­so­lute.

106:9.2When fi­nite crea­tures at­tempt to con­ceive of in­fi­nite uni­fi­ca­tion on the fi­nal­ity lev­els of con­sum­mated eter­nity, they are face to face with in­tel­lect lim­i­ta­tions in­her­ent in their fi­nite ex­is­tences. Time, space, and ex­pe­ri­ence con­sti­tute bar­ri­ers to crea­ture con­cept; and yet, with­out time, apart from space, and ex­cept for ex­pe­ri­ence, no crea­ture could achieve even a lim­ited com­pre­hen­sion of uni­verse re­al­ity. With­out time sen­si­tiv­ity, no evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture could pos­si­bly per­ceive the re­la­tions of se­quence. With­out space per­cep­tion, no crea­ture could fathom the re­la­tions of si­mul­tane­ity. With­out ex­pe­ri­ence, no evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture could even ex­ist; only the Seven Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity re­ally tran­scend ex­pe­ri­ence, and even these may be ex­pe­ri­en­tial in cer­tain phases.

• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › beginningless, endless, timeless, spaceless, limitless; unqualifiedly eternal – truly existential
• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › neither time nor space; all potentials perceived as actuals

106:9.3Time, space, and ex­pe­ri­ence are man’s great­est aids to rel­a­tive re­al­ity per­cep­tion and yet his most formidable ob­sta­cles to com­plete re­al­ity per­cep­tion. Mor­tals and many other uni­verse crea­tures find it nec­es­sary to think of po­ten­tials as be­ing ac­tu­al­ized in space and evolv­ing to fruition in time, but this en­tire pro­cess is a time-space phe­nom­e­non which does not ac­tu­ally take place on Par­a­dise and in eter­nity. On the ab­so­lute level there is nei­ther time nor space; all po­ten­tials may be there per­ceived as ac­tu­als.

106:9.4The con­cept of the uni­fi­ca­tion of all re­al­ity, be it in this or any other uni­verse age, is ba­si­cally two­fold: ex­is­ten­tial and ex­pe­ri­en­tial. Such a unity is in pro­cess of ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­iza­tion in the Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties, but the de­gree of the ap­par­ent ac­tu­al­iza­tion of this three­fold Trin­ity is di­rectly pro­por­tional to the dis­ap­pear­ance of the qual­i­fi­ca­tions and im­per­fec­tions of re­al­ity in the cos­mos. But to­tal in­te­gra­tion of re­al­ity is un­qual­i­fiedly and eter­nally and ex­is­ten­tially pres­ent in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, within which, at this very uni­verse mo­ment, in­fi­nite re­al­ity is ab­so­lutely uni­fied.

106:9.5The para­dox cre­ated by the ex­pe­ri­en­tial and the ex­is­ten­tial view­points is in­ev­i­ta­ble and is pred­i­cated in part on the fact that the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and the Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties are each an eter­nity re­la­tion­ship which mor­tals can only per­ceive as a time-space rel­a­tiv­ity. The hu­man con­cept of the grad­ual ex­pe­ri­en­tial ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties—the time view­point—must be sup­ple­mented by the ad­di­tional pos­tu­late that this is al­ready a fac­tu­al­iza­tion—the eter­nity view­point. But how can these two view­points be rec­on­ciled? To fi­nite mor­tals we sug­gest the ac­cep­tance of the truth that the Par­a­dise Trin­ity is the ex­is­ten­tial uni­fi­ca­tion of in­fin­ity, and that the in­abil­ity to de­tect the ac­tual pres­ence and com­pleted man­i­fes­ta­tion of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties is in part due to re­cip­ro­cal dis­tor­tion be­cause of:

106:9.61. The lim­ited hu­man view­point, the in­abil­ity to grasp the con­cept of un­qual­i­fied eter­nity.

106:9.72. The im­per­fect hu­man sta­tus, the re­mote­ness from the ab­so­lute level of ex­pe­ri­en­tials.

106:9.83. The pur­pose of hu­man ex­is­tence, the fact that man­kind is de­signed to evolve by the tech­nique of ex­pe­ri­ence and, there­fore, must be in­her­ently and con­sti­tu­tively de­pen­dent on ex­pe­ri­ence. Only an Ab­so­lute can be both ex­is­ten­tial and ex­pe­ri­en­tial.

106:9.9The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity is the I AM of the Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties, and the fail­ure to ex­pe­ri­ence the Fa­ther as in­fi­nite is due to fi­nite lim­i­ta­tions. The con­cept of the ex­is­ten­tial, soli­tary, pre-Trin­ity nonat­tain­able I AM and the pos­tu­late of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial post-Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties and at­tain­able I AM are one and the same hy­poth­e­sis; no ac­tual change has taken place in the In­fi­nite; all ap­par­ent de­vel­op­ments are due to in­creased ca­pac­i­ties for re­al­ity re­cep­tion and cos­mic ap­pre­ci­a­tion.

106:9.10The I AM, in the fi­nal anal­y­sis, must ex­ist be­fore all ex­is­ten­tials and af­ter all ex­pe­ri­en­tials. While these ideas may not clar­ify the para­doxes of eter­nity and in­fin­ity in the hu­man mind, they should at least stim­u­late such fi­nite in­tel­lects to grap­ple anew with these never-end­ing prob­lems, prob­lems which will con­tinue to in­trigue you on Sal­ving­ton and later as fi­nal­i­ters and on through­out the un­end­ing fu­ture of your eter­nal ca­reers in the wide-spread­ing uni­verses.

106:9.11Sooner or later all uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties be­gin to re­al­ize that the fi­nal quest of eter­nity is the end­less ex­plo­ration of in­fin­ity, the never-end­ing voy­age of dis­cov­ery into the ab­so­lute­ness of the First Source and Cen­ter. Sooner or later we all be­come aware that all crea­ture growth is pro­por­tional to Fa­ther iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. We ar­rive at the un­der­stand­ing that liv­ing the will of God is the eter­nal pass­port to the end­less pos­si­bil­ity of in­fin­ity it­self. Mor­tals will some­time re­al­ize that suc­cess in the quest of the In­fi­nite is di­rectly pro­por­tional to the achieve­ment of Fa­ther­like­ness, and that in this uni­verse age the re­al­i­ties of the Fa­ther are re­vealed within the qual­i­ties of di­vin­ity. And these qual­i­ties of di­vin­ity are per­son­ally ap­pro­pri­ated by uni­verse crea­tures in the ex­pe­ri­ence of liv­ing di­vinely, and to live di­vinely means ac­tu­ally to live the will of God.

106:9.12To ma­te­rial, evo­lu­tion­ary, fi­nite crea­tures, a life pred­i­cated on the liv­ing of the Fa­ther’s will leads di­rectly to the at­tain­ment of spirit su­prem­acy in the per­son­al­ity arena and brings such crea­tures one step nearer the com­pre­hen­sion of the Fa­ther-In­fi­nite. Such a Fa­ther life is one pred­i­cated on truth, sen­si­tive to beauty, and dom­i­nated by good­ness. Such a God-know­ing per­son is in­wardly il­lu­mi­nated by wor­ship and out­wardly de­voted to the whole­hearted ser­vice of the uni­ver­sal broth­er­hood of all per­son­al­i­ties, a ser­vice min­istry which is filled with mercy and mo­ti­vated by love, while all these life qual­i­ties are uni­fied in the evolv­ing per­son­al­ity on ever-as­cend­ing lev­els of cos­mic wis­dom, self-re­al­iza­tion, God-find­ing, and Fa­ther wor­ship.

106:9.13[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › is good; only its misuse and perversion is evil and sinful

111:6.3The prob­lem of sin is not self-ex­is­tent in the fi­nite world. The fact of finite­ness is not evil or sin­ful. The fi­nite world was made by an in­fi­nite Cre­ator—it is the hand­i­work of his di­vine Sons—and there­fore it must be good. It is the mis­use, dis­tor­tion, and per­ver­sion of the fi­nite that gives ori­gin to evil and sin.

• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › beginningless, endless, timeless, spaceless, limitless; unqualifiedly eternal – truly existential

115:1.3In or­der to fa­cil­i­tate mor­tal com­pre­hen­sion of the uni­verse of uni­verses, the di­verse lev­els of cos­mic re­al­ity have been des­ig­nated as fi­nite, ab­so­nite, and ab­so­lute. Of these only the ab­so­lute is un­qual­i­fiedly eter­nal, truly ex­is­ten­tial. Ab­sonites and finites are deriva­tives, mod­i­fi­ca­tions, qual­i­fi­ca­tions, and at­ten­u­a­tions of the orig­i­nal and pri­mor­dial ab­so­lute re­al­ity of in­fin­ity.

• genesis of reality › r. exists by virtue of eternal purpose of God

115:1.4The realms of the fi­nite ex­ist by virtue of the eter­nal pur­pose of God. Fi­nite crea­tures, high and low, may pro­pound the­o­ries, and have done so, as to the ne­ces­sity of the fi­nite in the cos­mic econ­omy, but in the last anal­y­sis it ex­ists be­cause God so willed. The uni­verse can­not be ex­plained, nei­ther can a fi­nite crea­ture of­fer a ra­tio­nal rea­son for his own in­di­vid­ual ex­is­tence with­out ap­peal­ing to the prior acts and pre-ex­is­tent vo­li­tion of an­ces­tral be­ings, Cre­ators or pro­cre­ators.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › possibility for finite is inherent in the Infinite

115:2.4The ap­par­ent method whereby the pos­si­bil­i­ties of the cos­mos are brought into ac­tual ex­is­tence varies from level to level, be­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial evo­lu­tion in the fi­nite and ex­pe­ri­en­tial even­tu­a­tion in the ab­so­nite. Ex­is­ten­tial in­fin­ity is in­deed un­qual­i­fied in all-in­clu­sive­ness, and this very all-in­clu­sive­ness must, per­force, en­com­pass even the pos­si­bil­ity for evo­lu­tion­ary fi­nite ex­pe­ri­enc­ing. And the pos­si­bil­ity for such ex­pe­ri­en­tial growth be­comes a uni­verse ac­tu­al­ity through tri­odity re­la­tion­ships im­ping­ing upon and in the Su­preme.

• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › beginningless, endless, timeless, spaceless, limitless; unqualifiedly eternal – truly existential

115:3.1The ab­so­lute cos­mos is con­cep­tu­ally with­out limit; to de­fine the ex­tent and na­ture of this pri­mal re­al­ity is to place qual­i­fi­ca­tions upon in­fin­ity and to at­ten­u­ate the pure con­cept of eter­nity. The idea of the in­fi­nite-eter­nal, the eter­nal-in­fi­nite, is un­qual­i­fied in ex­tent and ab­so­lute in fact. There is no lan­guage in the past, pres­ent, or fu­ture of Uran­tia ad­e­quate to ex­press the re­al­ity of in­fin­ity or the in­fin­ity of re­al­ity. Man, a fi­nite crea­ture in an in­fi­nite cos­mos, must con­tent him­self with dis­torted re­flec­tions and at­ten­u­ated con­cep­tions of that lim­it­less, bound­less, never-be­gin­ning, never-end­ing ex­is­tence the com­pre­hen­sion of which is re­ally be­yond his abil­ity.

• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › Original, Actual, and Potential phases

115:3.5One ba­sic con­cep­tion of the ab­so­lute level in­volves a pos­tu­late of three phases:

115:3.61. The Orig­i­nal. The un­qual­i­fied con­cept of the First Source and Cen­ter, that source man­i­fes­ta­tion of the I AM from which all re­al­ity takes ori­gin.

115:3.72. The Ac­tual. The union of the three Ab­so­lutes of ac­tu­al­ity, the Sec­ond, Third, and Par­a­dise Sources and Cen­ters. This tri­odity of the Eter­nal Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit, and the Par­a­dise Isle con­sti­tutes the ac­tual rev­e­la­tion of the orig­i­nal­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter.

115:3.83. The Po­ten­tial. The union of the three Ab­so­lutes of po­ten­tial­ity, the De­ity, Un­qual­i­fied, and Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lutes. This tri­odity of ex­is­ten­tial po­ten­tial­ity con­sti­tutes the po­ten­tial rev­e­la­tion of the orig­i­nal­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter.

115:3.9The in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of the Orig­i­nal, the Ac­tual, and the Po­ten­tial yields the ten­sions within in­fin­ity which re­sult in the pos­si­bil­ity for all uni­verse growth; and growth is the na­ture of the Sev­en­fold, the Su­preme, and the Ul­ti­mate.

• excepting 7 Absolutes, all r. is relative

115:7.3In­clud­ing the Su­preme and even the Ul­ti­mate, all re­al­ity, ex­cept­ing the un­qual­i­fied val­ues of the seven Ab­so­lutes, is rel­a­tive. The fact of Su­prem­acy is pred­i­cated on Par­a­dise power, Son per­son­al­ity, and Con­joint ac­tion, but the growth of the Su­preme is in­volved in the De­ity Ab­so­lute, the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, and the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. And this syn­the­siz­ing and uni­fy­ing De­ity—God the Su­preme—is the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the fi­nite shadow cast athwart the grand uni­verse by the in­fi­nite unity of the un­search­able na­ture of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, the First Source and Cen­ter.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › domains of energy and spirit literally held together by mind presences of Infinite Spirit

116:3.21. The mind fo­cal­iza­tions of the Third Source and Cen­ter. The fi­nite do­mains of en­ergy and spirit are lit­er­ally held to­gether by the mind pres­ences of the Con­joint Ac­tor. This is true from the Cre­ative Spirit in a lo­cal uni­verse through the Re­flec­tive Spir­its of a super­uni­verse to the Mas­ter Spir­its in the grand uni­verse. The mind cir­cuits em­a­nat­ing from these var­ied in­tel­li­gence fo­cuses rep­re­sent the cos­mic arena of crea­ture choice. Mind is the flex­i­ble re­al­ity which crea­tures and Cre­ators can so read­ily ma­nip­u­late; it is the vi­tal link con­nect­ing mat­ter and spirit. The mind be­stowal of the Third Source and Cen­ter uni­fies the spirit per­son of God the Su­preme with the ex­pe­ri­en­tial power of the evo­lu­tion­ary Al­mighty.

• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › energy and spirit are one

116:6.3On ab­so­lute lev­els, en­ergy and spirit are one. But the mo­ment de­par­ture is made from such ab­so­lute lev­els, dif­fer­ence ap­pears, and as en­ergy and spirit move space­ward from Par­a­dise, the gulf be­tween them widens un­til in the lo­cal uni­verses they have be­come quite di­ver­gent. They are no longer iden­ti­cal, nei­ther are they alike, and mind must in­ter­vene to in­ter­re­late them.

• mortals’ r. is greater as they approach God

117:4.14God’s gifts—his be­stowal of re­al­ity—are not di­vorce­ments from him­self; he does not alien­ate cre­ation from him­self, but he has set up ten­sions in the cre­ations cir­cling Par­a­dise. God first loves man and con­fers upon him the po­ten­tial of im­mor­tal­ity—eter­nal re­al­ity. And as man loves God, so does man be­come eter­nal in ac­tu­al­ity. And here is mys­tery: The more closely man ap­proaches God through love, the greater the re­al­ity—ac­tu­al­ity—of that man. The more man with­draws from God, the more nearly he ap­proaches non­re­al­ity—ces­sa­tion of ex­is­tence. When man con­se­crates his will to the do­ing of the Fa­ther’s will, when man gives God all that he has, then does God make that man more than he is.

• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › existential reality › self-contained and self-existent

117:6.20All ex­pe­ri­en­tial cre­ations are in­ter­de­pen­dent in their re­al­iza­tion of des­tiny. Only ex­is­ten­tial re­al­ity is self-con­tained and self-ex­is­tent. Ha­vona and the seven super­uni­verses re­quire each other to achieve the max­i­mum of fi­nite at­tain­ment; like­wise will they be some­time de­pen­dent on the fu­ture uni­verses of outer space for fi­nite tran­scen­dence.

• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › present moment contains all past and future; potential r. just as meaningful as actual r.

118:1.9On the lev­els of the in­fi­nite and the ab­so­lute the mo­ment of the pres­ent con­tains all of the past as well as all of the fu­ture. I AM sig­ni­fies also I WAS and I WILL BE. And this rep­re­sents our best con­cept of eter­nity and the eter­nal.

118:1.10On the ab­so­lute and eter­nal level, po­ten­tial re­al­ity is just as mean­ing­ful as ac­tual re­al­ity. Only on the fi­nite level and to time-bound crea­tures does there ap­pear to be such a vast dif­fer­ence. To God, as ab­so­lute, an as­cend­ing mor­tal who has made the eter­nal de­ci­sion is al­ready a Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ter. But the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, through the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster, is not thus lim­ited in aware­ness but can also know of, and par­tic­i­pate in, ev­ery tem­po­ral strug­gle with the prob­lems of the crea­ture as­cent from an­i­mallike to God­like lev­els of ex­is­tence.

• levels of reality › 2. absonite reality › ultimate reality › space is absolutely ultimate
• levels of reality › 3. absolute reality › space comes nearest of all nonabsolute things to being absolute

118:3.5Space comes the near­est of all non­ab­so­lute things to be­ing ab­so­lute. Space is ap­par­ently ab­so­lutely ul­ti­mate. The real dif­fi­culty we have in un­der­stand­ing space on the ma­te­rial level is due to the fact that, while ma­te­rial bod­ies ex­ist in space, space also ex­ists in these same ma­te­rial bod­ies. While there is much about space that is ab­so­lute, that does not mean that space is ab­so­lute.

• creature becomes real as he becomes God identified

118:7.5In­iq­uity in the fi­nite do­mains re­veals the tran­sient re­al­ity of all God-uniden­ti­fied self­hood. Only as a crea­ture be­comes God iden­ti­fied, does he be­come truly real in the uni­verses. Fi­nite per­son­al­ity is not self-cre­ated, but in the super­uni­verse arena of choice it does self-de­ter­mine des­tiny.

130:4.1The night be­fore they left Alexan­dria Ga­nid and Je­sus had a long visit with one of the gov­ern­ment pro­fes­sors at the uni­ver­sity who lec­tured on the teach­ings of Plato. Je­sus in­ter­preted for the learned Greek teacher but in­jected no teach­ing of his own in refu­ta­tion of the Greek phi­los­o­phy. Gonod was away on busi­ness that evening; so, af­ter the pro­fes­sor had de­parted, the teacher and his pupil had a long and heart-to-heart talk about Plato’s doc­trines. While Je­sus gave qual­i­fied ap­proval of some of the Greek teach­ings which had to do with the the­ory that the ma­te­rial things of the world are shad­owy re­flec­tions of in­vis­i­ble but more sub­stan­tial spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties, he sought to lay a more trust­wor­thy foun­da­tion for the lad’s think­ing; so he be­gan a long dis­ser­ta­tion con­cern­ing the na­ture of re­al­ity in the uni­verse. In sub­stance and in mod­ern phrase­ol­ogy Je­sus said to Ga­nid:

130:4.2The source of uni­verse re­al­ity is the In­fi­nite. The ma­te­rial things of fi­nite cre­ation are the time-space reper­cus­sions of the Par­a­dise Pat­tern and the Uni­ver­sal Mind of the eter­nal God. Cau­sa­tion in the phys­i­cal world, self-con­scious­ness in the in­tel­lec­tual world, and pro­gress­ing self­hood in the spirit world—these re­al­i­ties, pro­jected on a uni­ver­sal scale, com­bined in eter­nal re­lat­ed­ness, and ex­pe­ri­enced with per­fec­tion of qual­ity and di­vin­ity of value—con­sti­tute the re­al­ity of the Su­preme. But in an ever-chang­ing uni­verse the Orig­i­nal Per­son­al­ity of cau­sa­tion, in­tel­li­gence, and spirit ex­pe­ri­ence is change­less, ab­so­lute. All things, even in an eter­nal uni­verse of lim­it­less val­ues and di­vine qual­i­ties, may, and of­ten­times do, change ex­cept the Ab­so­lutes and that which has at­tained the phys­i­cal sta­tus, in­tel­lec­tual em­brace, or spir­i­tual iden­tity which is ab­so­lute.

130:4.3The high­est level to which a fi­nite crea­ture can pro­gress is the rec­og­ni­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the know­ing of the Su­preme. And even then such be­ings of fi­nal­ity des­tiny go on ex­pe­ri­enc­ing change in the mo­tions of the phys­i­cal world and in its ma­te­rial phe­nom­ena. Like­wise do they re­main aware of self­hood pro­gres­sion in their con­tin­u­ing as­cen­sion of the spir­i­tual uni­verse and of grow­ing con­scious­ness in their deep­en­ing ap­pre­ci­a­tion of, and re­sponse to, the in­tel­lec­tual cos­mos. Only in the per­fec­tion, har­mony, and una­nim­ity of will can the crea­ture be­come as one with the Cre­ator; and such a state of di­vin­ity is at­tained and main­tained only by the crea­ture’s con­tin­u­ing to live in time and eter­nity by con­sis­tently con­form­ing his fi­nite per­sonal will to the di­vine will of the Cre­ator. Al­ways must the de­sire to do the Fa­ther’s will be su­preme in the soul and dom­i­nant over the mind of an as­cend­ing son of God.

130:4.4A one-eyed per­son can never hope to vi­su­al­ize depth of per­spec­tive. Nei­ther can sin­gle-eyed ma­te­rial sci­en­tists nor sin­gle-eyed spir­i­tual mys­tics and al­le­gorists cor­rectly vi­su­al­ize and ad­e­quately com­pre­hend the true depths of uni­verse re­al­ity. All true val­ues of crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence are con­cealed in depth of rec­og­ni­tion.

130:4.5Mind­less cau­sa­tion can­not evolve the re­fined and com­plex from the crude and the sim­ple, nei­ther can spir­it­less ex­pe­ri­ence evolve the di­vine char­ac­ters of eter­nal sur­vival from the ma­te­rial minds of the mor­tals of time. The one at­tri­bute of the uni­verse which so ex­clu­sively char­ac­ter­izes the in­fi­nite De­ity is this un­end­ing cre­ative be­stowal of per­son­al­ity which can sur­vive in pro­gres­sive De­ity at­tain­ment.

130:4.6Per­son­al­ity is that cos­mic en­dow­ment, that phase of uni­ver­sal re­al­ity, which can co­ex­ist with un­lim­ited change and at the same time re­tain its iden­tity in the very pres­ence of all such changes, and for­ever af­ter­ward.

130:4.7Life is an adap­ta­tion of the orig­i­nal cos­mic cau­sa­tion to the de­mands and pos­si­bil­i­ties of uni­verse sit­u­a­tions, and it comes into be­ing by the ac­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Mind and the ac­ti­va­tion of the spirit spark of the God who is spirit. The mean­ing of life is its adapt­abil­ity; the value of life is its pro­gress­abil­ity—even to the heights of God-con­scious­ness.

130:4.8Mis­adap­ta­tion of self-con­scious life to the uni­verse re­sults in cos­mic dishar­mony. Fi­nal di­ver­gence of per­son­al­ity will from the trend of the uni­verses ter­mi­nates in in­tel­lec­tual iso­la­tion, per­son­al­ity seg­re­ga­tion. Loss of the in­dwelling spirit pi­lot super­venes in spir­i­tual ces­sa­tion of ex­is­tence. In­tel­li­gent and pro­gress­ing life be­comes then, in and of it­self, an in­con­tro­vert­ible proof of the ex­is­tence of a pur­pose­ful uni­verse ex­press­ing the will of a di­vine Cre­ator. And this life, in the ag­gre­gate, strug­gles to­ward higher val­ues, hav­ing for its fi­nal goal the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

130:4.9Only in de­gree does man pos­sess mind above the an­i­mal level aside from the higher and quasi-spir­i­tual min­is­tra­tions of in­tel­lect. There­fore an­i­mals (not hav­ing wor­ship and wis­dom) can­not ex­pe­ri­ence super­con­scious­ness, con­scious­ness of con­scious­ness. The an­i­mal mind is only con­scious of the ob­jec­tive uni­verse.

130:4.10Knowl­edge is the sphere of the ma­te­rial or fact-dis­cern­ing mind. Truth is the do­main of the spir­i­tu­ally en­dowed in­tel­lect that is con­scious of know­ing God. Knowl­edge is demon­stra­ble; truth is ex­pe­ri­enced. Knowl­edge is a pos­ses­sion of the mind; truth an ex­pe­ri­ence of the soul, the pro­gress­ing self. Knowl­edge is a func­tion of the non­spir­i­tual level; truth is a phase of the mind-spirit level of the uni­verses. The eye of the ma­te­rial mind per­ceives a world of fac­tual knowl­edge; the eye of the spir­i­tu­al­ized in­tel­lect dis­cerns a world of true val­ues. These two views, syn­chro­nized and har­mo­nized, re­veal the world of re­al­ity, wherein wis­dom in­ter­prets the phe­nom­ena of the uni­verse in terms of pro­gres­sive per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence.

130:4.11Er­ror (evil) is the penalty of im­per­fec­tion. The qual­i­ties of im­per­fec­tion or facts of mis­adap­ta­tion are dis­closed on the ma­te­rial level by crit­i­cal ob­ser­va­tion and by sci­en­tific anal­y­sis; on the moral level, by hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence. The pres­ence of evil con­sti­tutes proof of the in­ac­cu­ra­cies of mind and the im­ma­tu­rity of the evolv­ing self. Evil is, there­fore, also a mea­sure of im­per­fec­tion in uni­verse in­ter­pre­ta­tion. The pos­si­bil­ity of mak­ing mis­takes is in­her­ent in the ac­qui­si­tion of wis­dom, the scheme of pro­gress­ing from the par­tial and tem­po­ral to the com­plete and eter­nal, from the rel­a­tive and im­per­fect to the fi­nal and per­fected. Er­ror is the shadow of rel­a­tive in­com­plete­ness which must of ne­ces­sity fall across man’s as­cend­ing uni­verse path to Par­a­dise per­fec­tion. Er­ror (evil) is not an ac­tual uni­verse qual­ity; it is sim­ply the ob­ser­va­tion of a rel­a­tiv­ity in the re­lat­ed­ness of the im­per­fec­tion of the in­com­plete fi­nite to the as­cend­ing lev­els of the Su­preme and Ul­ti­mate.

130:4.12Al­though Je­sus told all this to the lad in lan­guage best suited to his com­pre­hen­sion, at the end of the dis­cus­sion Ga­nid was heavy of eye and was soon lost in slum­ber. They rose early the next morn­ing to go aboard the boat bound for Lasea on the is­land of Crete. But be­fore they em­barked, the lad had still fur­ther ques­tions to ask about evil, to which Je­sus replied:

130:4.13Evil is a rel­a­tiv­ity con­cept. It arises out of the ob­ser­va­tion of the im­per­fec­tions which ap­pear in the shadow cast by a fi­nite uni­verse of things and be­ings as such a cos­mos ob­scures the liv­ing light of the uni­ver­sal ex­pres­sion of the eter­nal re­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite One.

130:4.14Po­ten­tial evil is in­her­ent in the nec­es­sary in­com­plete­ness of the rev­e­la­tion of God as a time-space-lim­ited ex­pres­sion of in­fin­ity and eter­nity. The fact of the par­tial in the pres­ence of the com­plete con­sti­tutes rel­a­tiv­ity of re­al­ity, cre­ates ne­ces­sity for in­tel­lec­tual choos­ing, and es­tab­lishes value lev­els of spirit rec­og­ni­tion and re­sponse. The in­com­plete and fi­nite con­cept of the In­fi­nite which is held by the tem­po­ral and lim­ited crea­ture mind is, in and of it­self, po­ten­tial evil. But the aug­ment­ing er­ror of un­jus­ti­fied de­fi­ciency in rea­son­able spir­i­tual rec­ti­fi­ca­tion of these orig­i­nally in­her­ent in­tel­lec­tual dishar­monies and spir­i­tual in­suf­fi­cien­cies, is equiv­a­lent to the re­al­iza­tion of ac­tual evil.

130:4.15All static, dead, con­cepts are po­ten­tially evil. The fi­nite shadow of rel­a­tive and liv­ing truth is con­tin­u­ally mov­ing. Static con­cepts in­vari­ably re­tard sci­ence, pol­i­tics, so­ci­ety, and re­li­gion. Static con­cepts may rep­re­sent a cer­tain knowl­edge, but they are de­fi­cient in wis­dom and de­void of truth. But do not per­mit the con­cept of rel­a­tiv­ity so to mis­lead you that you fail to rec­og­nize the co-or­di­na­tion of the uni­verse un­der the guid­ance of the cos­mic mind, and its sta­bi­lized con­trol by the en­ergy and spirit of the Su­preme.

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › fleeting shadow of Paradise realities

189:1.3Man­kind is slow to per­ceive that, in all that is per­sonal, mat­ter is the skele­ton of mor­ontia, and that both are the re­flected shadow of en­dur­ing spirit re­al­ity. How long be­fore you will re­gard time as the mov­ing im­age of eter­nity and space as the fleet­ing shadow of Par­a­dise re­al­i­ties?

• levels of reality › 1. finite reality › Paradise values concealed within physical facts

195:7.4Par­a­dise val­ues of eter­nity and in­fin­ity, of truth, beauty, and good­ness, are con­cealed within the facts of the phe­nom­ena of the uni­verses of time and space. But it re­quires the eye of faith in a spirit-born mor­tal to de­tect and dis­cern these spir­i­tual val­ues.

• levels of reality › 4. other categorizations of reality › 3 elements of r. are fact, idea, and relation

196:3.2There are just three el­e­ments in uni­ver­sal re­al­ity: fact, idea, and re­la­tion. The re­li­gious con­scious­ness iden­ti­fies these re­al­i­ties as sci­ence, phi­los­o­phy, and truth. Phi­los­o­phy would be in­clined to view these ac­tiv­i­ties as rea­son, wis­dom, and faith—phys­i­cal re­al­ity, in­tel­lec­tual re­al­ity, and spir­i­tual re­al­ity. We are in the habit of des­ig­nat­ing these re­al­i­ties as thing, mean­ing, and value.

• comprehending r. is equivalent of approaching God

196:3.3The pro­gres­sive com­pre­hen­sion of re­al­ity is the equiv­a­lent of ap­proach­ing God. The find­ing of God, the con­scious­ness of iden­tity with re­al­ity, is the equiv­a­lent of the ex­pe­ri­enc­ing of self-com­ple­tion—self-en­tirety, self-to­tal­ity. The ex­pe­ri­enc­ing of to­tal re­al­ity is the full re­al­iza­tion of God, the fi­nal­ity of the God-know­ing ex­pe­ri­ence.