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Universal Absolute

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

0:3.186. The two Ab­so­lutes—Qual­i­fied and Un­qual­i­fied—are co-or­di­nated and uni­fied in and by the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute.

0:3.19–20 · two paragraphs not cited here ·

0:3.197. The po­ten­tial per­son­al­ity of an evo­lu­tion­ary moral be­ing or of any other moral be­ing is cen­tered in the per­son­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

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.

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.

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.

0:11.2Both po­tency of cos­mic force and po­tency of spirit force are in pro­cess of pro­gres­sive rev­e­la­tion-re­al­iza­tion as the en­rich­ment of all re­al­ity is ef­fected by ex­pe­ri­en­tial growth and through the cor­re­la­tion of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial with the ex­is­ten­tial by the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. By virtue of the equipois­ing pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute, the First Source and Cen­ter re­al­izes ex­ten­sion of ex­pe­ri­en­tial power, en­joys iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with his evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures, and achieves ex­pan­sion of ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity on the lev­els of Su­prem­acy, Ul­ti­macy, and Ab­so­lute­ness.

0:11.3When it is not pos­si­ble fully to dis­tin­guish the De­ity Ab­so­lute from the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, their sup­pos­edly com­bined func­tion or co-or­di­nated pres­ence is des­ig­nated the ac­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute.

0:11.4–9 · six paragraphs not cited here ·

0:11.41. The De­ity Ab­so­lute seems to be the all-pow­er­ful ac­ti­va­tor, while the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute ap­pears to be the all-ef­fi­cient mech­a­nizer of the su­premely uni­fied and ul­ti­mately co-or­di­nated uni­verse of uni­verses, even uni­verses upon uni­verses, made, mak­ing, and yet to be made.

0:11.5The De­ity Ab­so­lute can­not, or at least does not, re­act to any uni­verse sit­u­a­tion in a sub­ab­so­lute man­ner. Ev­ery re­sponse of this Ab­so­lute to any given sit­u­a­tion ap­pears to be made in terms of the wel­fare of the whole cre­ation of things and be­ings, not only in its pres­ent state of ex­is­tence, but also in view of the in­fi­nite pos­si­bil­i­ties of all fu­ture eter­nity.

0:11.6The De­ity Ab­so­lute is that po­ten­tial which was seg­re­gated from to­tal, in­fi­nite re­al­ity by the free­will choice of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and within which all di­vin­ity ac­tiv­i­ties—ex­is­ten­tial and ex­pe­ri­en­tial—take place. This is the Qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute in con­tradis­tinc­tion to the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute; but the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute is super­ad­di­tive to both in the en­com­pass­ment of all ab­so­lute po­ten­tial.

0:11.72. The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute is non­per­sonal, ex­tradi­vine, and un­de­i­fied. The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute is there­fore de­void of per­son­al­ity, di­vin­ity, and all cre­ator pre­rog­a­tives. Nei­ther fact nor truth, ex­pe­ri­ence nor rev­e­la­tion, phi­los­o­phy nor ab­sonity are able to pen­e­trate the na­ture and char­ac­ter of this Ab­so­lute with­out uni­verse qual­i­fi­ca­tion.

0:11.8Let it be made clear that the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute is a pos­i­tive re­al­ity per­vad­ing the grand uni­verse and, ap­par­ently, ex­tend­ing with equal space pres­ence on out into the force ac­tiv­i­ties and pre­ma­te­rial evo­lu­tions of the stag­ger­ing stretches of the space re­gions be­yond the seven super­uni­verses. The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute is not a mere neg­a­tivism of philo­sophic con­cept pred­i­cated on the as­sump­tions of meta­phys­i­cal soph­ist­ries con­cern­ing the uni­ver­sal­ity, dom­i­nance, and pri­macy of the un­con­di­tioned and the un­qual­i­fied. The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute is a pos­i­tive uni­verse over­con­trol in in­fin­ity; this over­con­trol is space-force un­lim­ited but is def­i­nitely con­di­tioned by the pres­ence of life, mind, spirit, and per­son­al­ity, and is fur­ther con­di­tioned by the will-re­ac­tions and pur­pose­ful man­dates of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

0:11.9We are con­vinced that the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute is not an un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated and all-per­vad­ing in­flu­ence com­pa­ra­ble ei­ther to the pan­the­is­tic con­cepts of meta­physics or to the some­time ether hy­poth­e­sis of sci­ence. The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute is force un­lim­ited and De­ity con­di­tioned, but we do not fully per­ceive the re­la­tion of this Ab­so­lute to the spirit re­al­i­ties of the uni­verses.

0:11.103. The Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute, we log­i­cally de­duce, was in­ev­i­ta­ble in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther’s ab­so­lute free­will act of dif­fer­en­ti­at­ing uni­verse re­al­i­ties into de­i­fied and un­de­i­fied—per­son­al­iz­able and non­per­son­al­iz­able—val­ues. The Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute is the De­ity phe­nom­e­non in­dica­tive of the res­o­lu­tion of the ten­sion cre­ated by the free­will act of thus dif­fer­en­ti­at­ing uni­verse re­al­ity, and func­tions as the as­so­cia­tive co-or­di­na­tor of these sum to­tals of ex­is­ten­tial po­ten­tial­i­ties.

0:11.11The ten­sion-pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute sig­ni­fies the ad­just­ment of dif­fer­en­tial be­tween de­ity re­al­ity and un­de­i­fied re­al­ity in­her­ent in the sep­a­ra­tion of the dy­nam­ics of free­will di­vin­ity from the stat­ics of un­qual­i­fied in­fin­ity.

0:11.12Al­ways re­mem­ber: Po­ten­tial in­fin­ity is ab­so­lute and in­sep­a­ra­ble from eter­nity. Ac­tual in­fin­ity in time can never be any­thing but par­tial and must there­fore be non­ab­so­lute; nei­ther can in­fin­ity of ac­tual per­son­al­ity be ab­so­lute ex­cept in un­qual­i­fied De­ity. And it is the dif­fer­en­tial of in­fin­ity po­ten­tial in the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute and the De­ity Ab­so­lute that eter­nal­izes the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute, thereby mak­ing it cos­mi­cally pos­si­ble to have ma­te­rial uni­verses in space and spir­i­tu­ally pos­si­ble to have fi­nite per­son­al­i­ties in time.

0:11.13The fi­nite can co­ex­ist in the cos­mos along with the In­fi­nite only be­cause the as­so­cia­tive pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute so per­fectly equal­izes the ten­sions be­tween time and eter­nity, fin­ity and in­fin­ity, re­al­ity po­ten­tial and re­al­ity ac­tu­al­ity, Par­a­dise and space, man and God. As­so­cia­tively the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute con­sti­tutes the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the zone of pro­gress­ing evo­lu­tional re­al­ity ex­is­tent in the time-space, and in the tran­scended time-space, uni­verses of subin­fi­nite De­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion.

0:11.14The Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute is the po­ten­tial of the static-dy­namic De­ity func­tion­ally re­al­iz­able on time-eter­nity lev­els as fi­nite-ab­so­lute val­ues and as pos­si­ble of ex­pe­ri­en­tial-ex­is­ten­tial ap­proach. This in­com­pre­hen­si­ble as­pect of De­ity may be static, po­ten­tial, and as­so­cia­tive but is not ex­pe­ri­en­tially cre­ative or evo­lu­tional as con­cerns the in­tel­li­gent per­son­al­i­ties now func­tion­ing in the mas­ter uni­verse.

9:6.8The mind-grav­ity cir­cuit is de­pend­able; it em­anates from the Third Per­son of De­ity on Par­a­dise, but not all the ob­serv­able func­tion of mind is pre­dictable. Through­out all known cre­ation there par­al­lels this cir­cuit of mind some lit­tle-un­der­stood pres­ence whose func­tion is not pre­dictable. We be­lieve that this un­pre­dictabil­ity is partly at­tributable to the func­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. What this func­tion is, we do not know; what ac­tu­ates it, we can only con­jec­ture; con­cern­ing its re­la­tion to crea­tures, we can only spec­u­late.

9:6.9Cer­tain phases of the un­pre­dictabil­ity of fi­nite mind may be due to the in­com­plete­ness of the Su­preme Be­ing, and there is a vast zone of ac­tiv­i­ties wherein the Con­joint Ac­tor and the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute may pos­si­bly be tan­gent. There is much about mind that is un­known, but of this we are sure: The In­fi­nite Spirit is the per­fect ex­pres­sion of the mind of the Cre­ator to all crea­tures; the Su­preme Be­ing is the evolv­ing ex­pres­sion of the minds of all crea­tures to their Cre­ator.

10:8.8It may be pos­si­ble that the fi­nal­i­ters will par­tially at­tain the De­ity Ab­so­lute, but even if they should, still in the eter­nity of eter­ni­ties the prob­lem of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute will con­tinue to in­trigue, mys­tify, baf­fle, and chal­lenge the as­cend­ing and pro­gress­ing fi­nal­i­ters, for we per­ceive that the un­fath­oma­bil­ity of the cos­mic re­la­tion­ships of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute will tend to grow in pro­por­tions as the ma­te­rial uni­verses and their spir­i­tual ad­min­is­tra­tion con­tinue to ex­pand.

11:8.9Par­a­dise is the ab­so­lute source and the eter­nal fo­cal point of all en­ergy-mat­ter in the uni­verse of uni­verses. The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute is the re­vealer, reg­u­la­tor, and re­pos­i­tory of that which has Par­a­dise as its source and ori­gin. The uni­ver­sal pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute seems to be equiv­a­lent to the con­cept of a po­ten­tial in­fin­ity of grav­ity ex­ten­sion, an elas­tic ten­sion of Par­a­dise pres­ence. This con­cept aids us in grasp­ing the fact that ev­ery­thing is drawn in­ward to­wards Par­a­dise. The il­lus­tra­tion is crude but nonethe­less help­ful. It also ex­plains why grav­ity al­ways acts pref­er­en­tially in the plane per­pen­dic­u­lar to the mass, a phe­nom­e­non in­dica­tive of the dif­fer­en­tial di­men­sions of Par­a­dise and the sur­round­ing cre­ations.

12:4.53. The Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute does not orig­i­nate ini­tial mo­tion but does equal­ize and con­trol all of the ten­sions orig­i­nated by mo­tion.

12:4.6–15 · ten paragraphs not cited here ·

12:4.6In outer space the force or­ga­niz­ers are ap­par­ently re­spon­si­ble for the pro­duc­tion of the gi­gan­tic uni­verse wheels which are now in pro­cess of stel­lar evo­lu­tion, but their abil­ity so to func­tion must have been made pos­si­ble by some mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

12:4.7Space is, from the hu­man view­point, noth­ing—neg­a­tive; it ex­ists only as re­lated to some­thing pos­i­tive and non­spa­tial. Space is, how­ever, real. It con­tains and con­di­tions mo­tion. It even moves. Space mo­tions may be roughly clas­si­fied as fol­lows:

12:4.81. Pri­mary mo­tion—space res­pi­ra­tion, the mo­tion of space it­self.

12:4.92. Sec­ondary mo­tion—the al­ter­nate di­rec­tional swings of the suc­ces­sive space lev­els.

12:4.103. Rel­a­tive mo­tions—rel­a­tive in the sense that they are not eval­u­ated with Par­a­dise as a base point. Pri­mary and sec­ondary mo­tions are ab­so­lute, mo­tion in re­la­tion to un­mov­ing Par­a­dise.

12:4.114. Com­pen­satory or cor­re­lat­ing move­ment de­signed to co-or­di­nate all other mo­tions.

12:4.12The pres­ent re­la­tion­ship of your sun and its as­so­ci­ated plan­ets, while dis­clos­ing many rel­a­tive and ab­so­lute mo­tions in space, tends to con­vey the im­pres­sion to as­tro­nomic ob­servers that you are com­par­a­tively sta­tion­ary in space, and that the sur­round­ing starry clus­ters and streams are en­gaged in out­ward flight at ever-in­creas­ing ve­loc­i­ties as your cal­cu­la­tions pro­ceed out­ward in space. But such is not the case. You fail to rec­og­nize the pres­ent out­ward and uni­form ex­pan­sion of the phys­i­cal cre­ations of all per­vaded space. Your own lo­cal cre­ation (Neb­a­don) par­tic­i­pates in this move­ment of uni­ver­sal out­ward ex­pan­sion. The en­tire seven super­uni­verses par­tic­i­pate in the two-bil­lion-year cy­cles of space res­pi­ra­tion along with the outer re­gions of the mas­ter uni­verse.

12:4.13When the uni­verses ex­pand and con­tract, the ma­te­rial masses in per­vaded space al­ter­nately move against and with the pull of Par­a­dise grav­ity. The work that is done in mov­ing the ma­te­rial en­ergy mass of cre­ation is space work but not power-en­ergy work.

12:4.14Al­though your spec­tro­scopic es­ti­ma­tions of as­tro­nomic ve­loc­i­ties are fairly re­li­able when ap­plied to the starry realms be­long­ing to your super­uni­verse and its as­so­ciate super­uni­verses, such reck­on­ings with ref­er­ence to the realms of outer space are wholly un­re­li­able. Spec­tral lines are dis­placed from the nor­mal to­wards the vi­o­let by an ap­proach­ing star; like­wise these lines are dis­placed to­wards the red by a re­ced­ing star. Many in­flu­ences in­ter­pose to make it ap­pear that the re­ces­sional ve­loc­ity of the ex­ter­nal uni­verses in­creases at the rate of more than one hun­dred miles a sec­ond for ev­ery mil­lion light-years in­crease in dis­tance. By this method of reck­on­ing, sub­se­quent to the per­fec­tion of more pow­er­ful tele­scopes, it will ap­pear that these far-dis­tant sys­tems are in flight from this part of the uni­verse at the un­be­liev­able rate of more than thirty thou­sand miles a sec­ond. But this ap­par­ent speed of re­ces­sion is not real; it re­sults from nu­mer­ous fac­tors of er­ror em­brac­ing an­gles of ob­ser­va­tion and other time-space dis­tor­tions.

12:4.15But the great­est of all such dis­tor­tions arises be­cause the vast uni­verses of outer space, in the realms next to the do­mains of the seven super­uni­verses, seem to be re­volv­ing in a di­rec­tion op­po­site to that of the grand uni­verse. That is, these myr­i­ads of neb­u­lae and their ac­com­pa­ny­ing suns and spheres are at the pres­ent time re­volv­ing clock­wise about the cen­tral cre­ation. The seven super­uni­verses re­volve about Par­a­dise in a coun­ter­clock­wise di­rec­tion. It ap­pears that the sec­ond outer uni­verse of galax­ies, like the seven super­uni­verses, re­volves coun­ter­clock­wise about Par­a­dise. And the as­tro­nomic ob­servers of Uversa think they de­tect ev­i­dence of rev­o­lu­tion­ary move­ments in a third outer belt of far-dis­tant space which are be­gin­ning to ex­hibit di­rec­tional ten­den­cies of a clock­wise na­ture.

12:4.16It is prob­a­ble that these al­ter­nate di­rec­tions of suc­ces­sive space pro­ces­sions of the uni­verses have some­thing to do with the in­tra­mas­ter uni­verse grav­ity tech­nique of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute, which con­sists of a co-or­di­na­tion of forces and an equal­iza­tion of space ten­sions. Mo­tion as well as space is a com­ple­ment or equi­li­brant of grav­ity.

12:6.6All phases of pri­mor­dial force, nas­cent spirit, and other non­per­sonal ul­ti­mates ap­pear to re­act in ac­cor­dance with cer­tain rel­a­tively sta­ble but un­known laws and are char­ac­ter­ized by a lat­i­tude of per­for­mance and an elas­tic­ity of re­sponse which are of­ten dis­con­cert­ing when en­coun­tered in the phe­nom­ena of a cir­cum­scribed and iso­lated sit­u­a­tion. What is the ex­pla­na­tion of this un­pre­dictable free­dom of re­ac­tion dis­closed by these emerg­ing uni­verse ac­tu­al­i­ties? These un­known, un­fath­omable un­pre­dicta­bles—whether per­tain­ing to the be­hav­ior of a pri­mor­dial unit of force, the re­ac­tion of an uniden­ti­fied level of mind, or the phe­nom­e­non of a vast pre­uni­verse in the mak­ing in the do­mains of outer space—prob­a­bly dis­close the ac­tiv­i­ties of the Ul­ti­mate and the pres­ence-per­for­mances of the Ab­so­lutes, which an­te­date the func­tion of all uni­verse Cre­ators.

12:6.7We do not re­ally know, but we sur­mise that such amaz­ing ver­sa­til­ity and such pro­found co-or­di­na­tion sig­nify the pres­ence and per­for­mance of the Ab­so­lutes, and that such di­ver­sity of re­sponse in the face of ap­par­ently uni­form cau­sa­tion dis­closes the re­ac­tion of the Ab­so­lutes, not only to the im­me­di­ate and sit­u­a­tional cau­sa­tion, but also to all other re­lated cau­sa­tions through­out the en­tire mas­ter uni­verse.

12:6.8–12 · five paragraphs not cited here ·

12:6.8In­di­vid­u­als have their guard­i­ans of des­tiny; plan­ets, sys­tems, con­stel­la­tions, uni­verses, and super­uni­verses each have their re­spec­tive rulers who la­bor for the good of their do­mains. Ha­vona and even the grand uni­verse are watched over by those in­trusted with such high re­spon­si­bil­i­ties. But who fos­ters and cares for the fun­da­men­tal needs of the mas­ter uni­verse as a whole, from Par­a­dise to the fourth and out­er­most space level? Ex­is­ten­tially such over­care is prob­a­bly at­tributable to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, but from an ex­pe­ri­en­tial view­point the ap­pear­ance of the post-Ha­vona uni­verses is de­pen­dent on:

12:6.91. The Ab­so­lutes in po­ten­tial.

12:6.102. The Ul­ti­mate in di­rec­tion.

12:6.113. The Su­preme in evo­lu­tion­ary co-or­di­na­tion.

12:6.124. The Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse in ad­min­is­tra­tion prior to the ap­pear­ance of spe­cific rulers.

12:6.13The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute per­vades all space. We are not al­to­gether clear as to the ex­act sta­tus of the De­ity and Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lutes, but we know the lat­ter func­tions wher­ever the De­ity and Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lutes func­tion. The De­ity Ab­so­lute may be uni­ver­sally pres­ent but hardly space pres­ent. The Ul­ti­mate is, or some­time will be, space pres­ent to the outer mar­gins of the fourth space level. We doubt that the Ul­ti­mate will ever have a space pres­ence be­yond the pe­riph­ery of the mas­ter uni­verse, but within this limit the Ul­ti­mate is pro­gres­sively in­te­grat­ing the cre­ative or­ga­ni­za­tion of the po­ten­tials of the three Ab­so­lutes.

29:3.11The power cen­ters and con­trol­lers ex­ert per­fect con­trol over only seven of the ten forms of en­ergy con­tained in each ba­sic uni­verse cur­rent; those forms which are partly or wholly ex­empt from their con­trol must rep­re­sent the un­pre­dictable realms of en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tion dom­i­nated by the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. If they ex­ert an in­flu­ence upon the pri­mor­dial forces of this Ab­so­lute, we are not cog­nizant of such func­tions, though there is some slight ev­i­dence which would war­rant the opin­ion that cer­tain of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers are some­times au­to­mat­i­cally re­ac­tive to cer­tain im­pulses of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute.

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 28,012th 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 28,011th Ar­chi­tect, and that the 28,012th at­tempt en­coun­tered the math­e­mat­i­cal level of the pres­ence of the Ab­so­lute. In other words, at the 28,012th even­tu­a­tion level the qual­ity of ab­sonity equiv­alated to the level of the Uni­ver­sal and at­tained the value of the Ab­so­lute.

42:0.1The foun­da­tion of the uni­verse is ma­te­rial in the sense that en­ergy is the ba­sis of all ex­is­tence, and pure en­ergy is con­trolled by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Force, en­ergy, is the one thing which stands as an ev­er­last­ing mon­u­ment demon­strat­ing and prov­ing the ex­is­tence and pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. This vast stream of en­ergy pro­ceed­ing from the Par­a­dise Pres­ences has never lapsed, never failed; there has never been a break in the in­fi­nite up­hold­ing.

56:1.2The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute up­holds the phys­i­cal uni­verse, while the De­ity Ab­so­lute mo­ti­vates the ex­qui­site over­con­trol of all ma­te­rial re­al­ity; and both Ab­so­lutes are func­tion­ally uni­fied by the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. This co­he­sive cor­re­la­tion of the ma­te­rial uni­verse is best un­der­stood by all per­son­al­i­ties—ma­te­rial, mor­ontia, ab­so­nite, or spir­i­tual—by the ob­ser­va­tion of the grav­ity re­sponse of all bona fide ma­te­rial re­al­ity to the grav­ity cen­ter­ing on nether Par­a­dise.

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

56:9.2 · one paragraph not cited here ·

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

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

56:9.4 · one paragraph not cited here ·

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

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

56:9.6 · one paragraph not cited here ·

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

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

104:4.29The Fifth Tri­unity—the tri­unity of re­ac­tive in­fin­ity. This as­so­ci­a­tion con­sists of:

104:4.30–33 · four paragraphs not cited here ·

104:4.301. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

104:4.312. The Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute.

104:4.323. The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

104:4.33This group­ing yields the eter­nal­iza­tion of the func­tional in­fin­ity re­al­iza­tion of all that is ac­tu­al­iz­able within the do­mains of non­de­ity re­al­ity. This tri­unity man­i­fests un­lim­ited re­ac­tive ca­pac­ity to the vo­li­tional, causative, ten­sional, and pat­ter­nal ac­tions and pres­ences of the other tri­uni­ties.

104:4.34The Sixth Tri­unity—the tri­unity of cos­mic-as­so­ci­ated De­ity. This group­ing con­sists of:

104:4.35–38 · four paragraphs not cited here ·

104:4.351. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

104:4.362. The De­ity Ab­so­lute.

104:4.373. The Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute.

104:4.38This is the as­so­ci­a­tion of De­ity-in-the-cos­mos, the im­ma­nence of De­ity in con­junc­tion with the tran­scen­dence of De­ity. This is the last out­reach of di­vin­ity on the lev­els of in­fin­ity to­ward those re­al­i­ties which lie out­side the do­main of de­i­fied re­al­ity.

104:4.39The Sev­enth Tri­unity—the tri­unity of in­fi­nite unity. This is the unity of in­fin­ity func­tion­ally man­i­fest in time and eter­nity, the co-or­di­nate uni­fi­ca­tion of ac­tu­als and po­ten­tials. This group con­sists of:

104:5.7The Tri­odity of Po­ten­tial­ity. This tri­odity con­sists in the as­so­ci­a­tion of the three Ab­so­lutes of po­ten­tial­ity:

105:2.84. The In­fi­nite Up­holder. I AM self-as­so­cia­tive. This is the pri­mor­dial as­so­ci­a­tion of the stat­ics and po­ten­tials of re­al­ity. In this re­la­tion­ship, all qual­i­fieds and un­qual­i­fieds are com­pen­sated. This phase of the I AM is best un­der­stood as the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute—the uni­fier of the De­ity and the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lutes.

105:3.87. The Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. Uni­fier of the de­i­fied and the un­de­i­fied; cor­re­la­tor of the ab­so­lute and the rel­a­tive. The Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute (be­ing static, po­ten­tial, and as­so­cia­tive) com­pen­sates the ten­sion be­tween the ever-ex­is­tent and the un­com­pleted.

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.

106:7.3Des­tiny is es­tab­lished by the vo­li­tional act of the De­i­ties who con­sti­tute the Par­a­dise Trin­ity; des­tiny is es­tab­lished in the vast­ness of the three great po­ten­tials whose ab­so­lute­ness en­com­passes the pos­si­bil­i­ties of all fu­ture de­vel­op­ment; des­tiny is prob­a­bly con­sum­mated by the act of the Con­sum­ma­tor of Uni­verse Des­tiny, and this act is prob­a­bly in­volved with the Su­preme and the Ul­ti­mate in the Trin­ity Ab­so­lute. Any ex­pe­ri­en­tial des­tiny can be at least par­tially com­pre­hended by ex­pe­ri­enc­ing crea­tures; but a des­tiny which im­pinges on in­fi­nite ex­is­ten­tials is hardly com­pre­hen­si­ble. Fi­nal­ity des­tiny is an ex­is­ten­tial-ex­pe­ri­en­tial at­tain­ment which ap­pears to in­volve the De­ity Ab­so­lute. But the De­ity Ab­so­lute stands in eter­nity re­la­tion­ship with the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute by virtue of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. And these three Ab­so­lutes, ex­pe­ri­en­tial in pos­si­bil­ity, are ac­tu­ally ex­is­ten­tial and more, be­ing lim­it­less, time­less, space­less, bound­less, and mea­sure­less—truly in­fi­nite.

106:7.4–8 · five paragraphs not cited here ·

106:7.4The im­prob­a­bil­ity of goal at­tain­ment does not, how­ever, pre­vent phil­o­soph­i­cal the­o­riz­ing about such hy­po­thet­i­cal des­tinies. The ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the De­ity Ab­so­lute as an at­tain­able ab­so­lute God may be prac­ti­cally im­pos­si­ble of re­al­iza­tion; nev­er­the­less, such a fi­nal­ity fruition re­mains a the­o­ret­i­cal pos­si­bil­ity. The in­volve­ment of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute in some in­con­ceiv­able cos­mos-in­fi­nite may be mea­sure­lessly re­mote in the fu­tu­rity of end­less eter­nity, but such a hy­poth­e­sis is nonethe­less valid. Mor­tals, mor­ontians, spir­its, fi­nal­i­ters, Tran­scen­den­talers, and oth­ers, to­gether with the uni­verses them­selves and all other phases of re­al­ity, cer­tainly do have a po­ten­tially fi­nal des­tiny that is ab­so­lute in value; but we doubt that any be­ing or uni­verse will ever com­pletely at­tain all of the as­pects of such a des­tiny.

106:7.5No mat­ter how much you may grow in Fa­ther com­pre­hen­sion, your mind will al­ways be stag­gered by the un­re­vealed in­fin­ity of the Fa­ther-I AM, the un­ex­plored vast­ness of which will al­ways re­main un­fath­omable and in­com­pre­hen­si­ble through­out all the cy­cles of eter­nity. No mat­ter how much of God you may at­tain, there will al­ways re­main much more of him, the ex­is­tence of which you will not even sus­pect. And we be­lieve that this is just as true on tran­scen­den­tal lev­els as it is in the do­mains of fi­nite ex­is­tence. The quest for God is end­less!

106:7.6Such in­abil­ity to at­tain God in a fi­nal sense should in no man­ner dis­cour­age uni­verse crea­tures; in­deed, you can and do at­tain De­ity lev­els of the Sev­en­fold, the Su­preme, and the Ul­ti­mate, which mean to you what the in­fi­nite re­al­iza­tion of God the Fa­ther means to the Eter­nal Son and to the Con­joint Ac­tor in their ab­so­lute sta­tus of eter­nity ex­is­tence. Far from ha­rass­ing the crea­ture, the in­fin­ity of God should be the su­preme as­sur­ance that through­out all end­less fu­tu­rity an as­cend­ing per­son­al­ity will have be­fore him the pos­si­bil­i­ties of per­son­al­ity de­vel­op­ment and De­ity as­so­ci­a­tion which even eter­nity will nei­ther ex­haust nor ter­mi­nate.

106:7.7To fi­nite crea­tures of the grand uni­verse the con­cept of the mas­ter uni­verse seems to be well-nigh in­fi­nite, but doubt­less the ab­so­nite ar­chi­tects thereof per­ceive its re­lat­ed­ness to fu­ture and unimag­ined de­vel­op­ments within the un­end­ing I AM. Even space it­self is but an ul­ti­mate con­di­tion, a con­di­tion of qual­i­fi­ca­tion within the rel­a­tive ab­so­lute­ness of the quiet zones of midspace.

106:7.8At the in­con­ceiv­ably dis­tant fu­ture eter­nity mo­ment of the fi­nal com­ple­tion of the en­tire mas­ter uni­verse, no doubt we will all look back upon its en­tire his­tory as only the be­gin­ning, sim­ply the cre­ation of cer­tain fi­nite and tran­scen­den­tal foun­da­tions for even greater and more en­thralling meta­mor­phoses in un­charted in­fin­ity. At such a fu­ture eter­nity mo­ment the mas­ter uni­verse will still seem youth­ful; in­deed, it will be al­ways young in the face of the lim­it­less pos­si­bil­i­ties of never-end­ing eter­nity.

106:7.9The im­prob­a­bil­ity of in­fi­nite des­tiny at­tain­ment does not in the least pre­vent the en­ter­tain­ment of ideas about such des­tiny, and we do not hes­i­tate to say that, if the three ab­so­lute po­ten­tials could ever be­come com­pletely ac­tu­al­ized, it would be pos­si­ble to con­ceive of the fi­nal in­te­gra­tion of to­tal re­al­ity. This de­vel­op­men­tal re­al­iza­tion is pred­i­cated on the com­pleted ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Un­qual­i­fied, Uni­ver­sal, and De­ity Ab­so­lutes, the three po­ten­tial­i­ties whose union con­sti­tutes the la­tency of the I AM, the sus­pended re­al­i­ties of eter­nity, the abeyant pos­si­bil­i­ties of all fu­tu­rity, and more.

106:8.18It will prob­a­bly rep­re­sent a min­i­mum dis­tor­tion of truth if the third mem­ber of the Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties is con­ceived as the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute, pro­vided this con­cep­tion en­vi­sions the Uni­ver­sal not only as static and po­ten­tial but also as as­so­cia­tive. But we still do not per­ceive the re­la­tion­ship to the cre­ative and evo­lu­tional as­pects of the func­tion of to­tal De­ity.

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.

115:3.9 · one paragraph not cited here ·

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.

115:3.10In the as­so­ci­a­tion of the De­ity, Uni­ver­sal, and Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lutes, po­ten­tial­ity is ab­so­lute while ac­tu­al­ity is emer­gent; in the as­so­ci­a­tion of the Sec­ond, Third, and Par­a­dise Sources and Cen­ters, ac­tu­al­ity is ab­so­lute while po­ten­tial­ity is emer­gent; in the orig­i­nal­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter, we can­not say that ei­ther ac­tu­al­ity or po­ten­tial­ity is ei­ther ex­is­tent or emer­gent—the Fa­ther is.

118:4.3The purely static po­ten­tials in­her­ent in the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute are re­ac­tive to those cau­sa­tions of the De­ity Ab­so­lute which are pro­duced by the ac­tions of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. In the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute these causative-im­preg­nated static po­ten­tials forth­with be­come ac­tive and re­spon­sive to the in­flu­ence of cer­tain tran­scen­den­tal agen­cies whose ac­tions re­sult in the trans­mu­ta­tion of these ac­ti­vated po­ten­tials to the sta­tus of true uni­verse pos­si­bil­i­ties for de­vel­op­ment, ac­tu­al­ized ca­pac­i­ties for growth. It is upon such ma­tured po­ten­tials that the cre­ators and con­trol­lers of the grand uni­verse en­act the never-end­ing drama of cos­mic evo­lu­tion.

118:4.4Cau­sa­tion, dis­re­gard­ing ex­is­ten­tials, is three­fold in its ba­sic con­sti­tu­tion. As it op­er­ates in this uni­verse age and con­cern­ing the fi­nite level of the seven super­uni­verses, it may be con­ceived as fol­lows:

118:4.51. Ac­ti­va­tion of static po­ten­tials. The es­tab­lish­ment of des­tiny in the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute by the ac­tions of the De­ity Ab­so­lute, op­er­at­ing in and upon the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute and in con­se­quence of the vo­li­tional man­dates of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

Onward

See also Absolutes: the three

Cited alongside: Unqualified Absolute, Deity Absolute, Absolutes, triodities, God the Ultimate, I AM, personality, predictability