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117:2.1 The [[Supreme]] is [[God]]-in-[[time]]; his is the [[secret]] of [[creature]] [[growth]] in time; his also is the [[conquest]] of the incomplete [[present]] and the [[consummation]] of the [[perfecting]] [[future]]. And the final fruits of all [[finite]] [[growth]] are: [[power]] [[controlled]] through [[mind]] by [[spirit]] by [[virtue]] of the [[unifying]] and [[creative]] [[presence]] of [[personality]]. The culminating [[consequence]] of all this [[growth]] is the [[Supreme Being]].

117:2.1 The [[Supreme]] is [[God]]-in-[[time]]; his is the [[secret]] of [[creature]] [[growth]] in time; his also is the [[conquest]] of the incomplete [[present]] and the [[consummation]] of the [[perfecting]] [[future]]. And the final fruits of all [[finite]] [[growth]] are: [[power]] [[controlled]] through [[mind]] by [[spirit]] by [[virtue]] of the [[unifying]] and [[creative]] [[presence]] of [[personality]]. The culminating [[consequence]] of all this [[growth]] is the [[Supreme Being]].

117:2.2 To [[mortal]] man, [[existence]] is [[equivalent]] to [[growth]]. And so indeed it would seem to be, even in the larger [[universe]] sense, for [[spirit]]-[[led]] [[existence]] does seem to result in [[experiential]] [[growth]]—augmentation of [[status]]. We have long held, however, that the present [[growth]] which characterizes [[creature]] [[existence]] in the [[present universe age]] is a [[function]] of the [[Supreme]]. We [[equally]] hold that this kind of [[growth]] is peculiar to the age of the growth of the [[Supreme]], and that it will terminate with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_6:_The_Second_Creative_Thesis completion of the growth of the Supreme].

117:2.2 To [[mortal]] man, [[existence]] is [[equivalent]] to [[growth]]. And so indeed it would seem to be, even in the larger [[universe]] sense, for [[spirit]]-[[led]] [[existence]] does seem to result in [[experiential]] [[growth]]—augmentation of [[status]]. We have long held, however, that the present [[growth]] which characterizes [[creature]] [[existence]] in the [[present universe age]] is a [[function]] of the [[Supreme]]. We [[equally]] hold that this kind of [[growth]] is peculiar to the age of the growth of the [[Supreme]], and that it will terminate with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_6:_The_Second_Creative_Thesis completion of the growth of the Supreme].

117:2.3 Consider the status of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_22#22:8._THE_CREATURE-TRINITIZED_SONS creature-trinitized sons]: They are born and live in the [[present universe age]]; they have [[personalities]], together with [[mind]] and [[spirit]] [[endowments]]. They have [[experiences]] and the [[memory]] thereof, but they do not [[grow]] as do [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascenders]. It is our [[belief]] and [[understanding]] that these [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_22#22:8._THE_CREATURE-TRINITIZED_SONS creature-trinitized sons], while they are in the [[present universe age]], are really of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_6:_The_Second_Creative_Thesis next universe age]—the age which will follow the completion of the [[growth]] of the [[Supreme]]. Hence they are not in the [[Supreme]] as of his present [[status]] of incompleteness and consequent [[growth]]. Thus they are nonparticipating in the experiential [[growth]] of the [[present universe age]], being held in reserve for the [[Absonite|next universe age]].

117:2.3 Consider the status of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_22#22:8._THE_CREATURE-TRINITIZED_SONS creature-trinitized sons]: They are born and live in the [[present universe age]]; they have [[personalities]], together with [[mind]] and [[spirit]] [[endowments]]. They have [[experiences]] and the [[memory]] thereof, but they do not [[grow]] as do [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascenders]. It is our [[belief]] and [[understanding]] that these [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_22#22:8._THE_CREATURE-TRINITIZED_SONS creature-trinitized sons], while they are in the [[present universe age]], are really of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_6:_The_Second_Creative_Thesis next universe age]—the age which will follow the completion of the [[growth]] of the [[Supreme]]. Hence they are not in the [[Supreme]] as of his present [[status]] of incompleteness and consequent [[growth]]. Thus they are nonparticipating in the experiential [[growth]] of the [[present universe age]], being held in reserve for the [[Absonite|next universe age]].

117:2.4 My own order, the [[Mighty Messengers]], being [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_22#22:1._THE_TRINITY-EMBRACED_SONS Trinity embraced], are nonparticipating in the [[growth]] of the [[present universe age]]. In a sense we are in [[status]] as of the preceding universe age as in [[fact]] are the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_10#10:6._THE_STATIONARY_SONS_OF_THE_TRINITY Stationary Sons of the Trinity]. One thing is certain: Our [[status]] is fixed by the [[Trinity]] [[embrace]], and  no longer [[eventuates]] in [[growth]].

117:2.4 My own order, the [[Mighty Messengers]], being [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_22#22:1._THE_TRINITY-EMBRACED_SONS Trinity embraced], are nonparticipating in the [[growth]] of the [[present universe age]]. In a sense we are in [[status]] as of the preceding universe age as in [[fact]] are the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_10#10:6._THE_STATIONARY_SONS_OF_THE_TRINITY Stationary Sons of the Trinity]. One thing is certain: Our [[status]] is fixed by the [[Trinity]] [[embrace]], and  no longer [[eventuates]] in [[growth]].

117:2.5 This is not true of the [[finaliters]] nor of any other of the [[evolutionary]] and experiential orders which are [[participants]] in the [[growth]] [[process]] of the [[Supreme]]. You [[mortals]] now living on [[Urantia]] who may [[aspire]] to [[Paradise]] [[attainment]] and [[finaliter]] [[status]] should [[understand]] that such a [[destiny]] is only realizable because you are in and of the [[Supreme]], hence are participants in the [[cycle]] of the [[growth]] of the [[Supreme]].

117:2.5 This is not true of the [[finaliters]] nor of any other of the [[evolutionary]] and experiential orders which are [[participants]] in the [[growth]] [[process]] of the [[Supreme]]. You [[mortals]] now living on [[Urantia]] who may [[aspire]] to [[Paradise]] [[attainment]] and [[finaliter]] [[status]] should [[understand]] that such a [[destiny]] is only realizable because you are in and of the [[Supreme]], hence are participants in the [[cycle]] of the [[growth]] of the [[Supreme]].

117:2.6 There will come an end sometime to the [[growth]] of the [[Supreme]]; his [[status]] will achieve completion (in the [[energy]]-[[spirit]] sense). This termination of the [[evolution]] of the [[Supreme]] will also [[witness]] the ending of [[creature]] evolution as a [[part]] of [[Supremacy]]. What kind of [[growth]] may characterize the [[universes]] of [[outer space]], we do not know. But we are very sure that it will be something very [[different]] from anything that has been seen in the [[present universe age|present age]] of the [[evolution]] of the [[seven superuniverses]]. It will undoubtedly be the [[function]] of the [[evolutionary]] [[citizens]] of the [[grand universe]] to [[compensate]] the outer-spacers for this [[deprivation]] of the [[growth]] of [[Supremacy]].

117:2.6 There will come an end sometime to the [[growth]] of the [[Supreme]]; his [[status]] will achieve completion (in the [[energy]]-[[spirit]] sense). This termination of the [[evolution]] of the [[Supreme]] will also [[witness]] the ending of [[creature]] evolution as a [[part]] of [[Supremacy]]. What kind of [[growth]] may characterize the [[universes]] of [[outer space]], we do not know. But we are very sure that it will be something very [[different]] from anything that has been seen in the [[present universe age|present age]] of the [[evolution]] of the [[seven superuniverses]]. It will undoubtedly be the [[function]] of the [[evolutionary]] [[citizens]] of the [[grand universe]] to [[compensate]] the outer-spacers for this [[deprivation]] of the [[growth]] of [[Supremacy]].

117:2.7 As existent upon the [[consummation]] of the [[present universe age]], the [[Supreme Being]] will [[function]] as an [[experiential]] [[sovereign]] in the [[grand universe]]. Outer-spacers—[[citizens]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_6:_The_Second_Creative_Thesis next universe age]—will have a postsuperuniverse [[growth]] [[potential]], a [[capacity]] for [[evolutionary]] [[attainment]] [[presupposing]] the [[sovereignty]] of the [[Almighty Supreme]], hence excluding [[creature]] [[participation]] in the [[power]]-[[personality]] [[synthesis]] of the [[present universe age]].

117:2.7 As existent upon the [[consummation]] of the [[present universe age]], the [[Supreme Being]] will [[function]] as an [[experiential]] [[sovereign]] in the [[grand universe]]. Outer-spacers—[[citizens]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_6:_The_Second_Creative_Thesis next universe age]—will have a postsuperuniverse [[growth]] [[potential]], a [[capacity]] for [[evolutionary]] [[attainment]] [[presupposing]] the [[sovereignty]] of the [[Almighty Supreme]], hence excluding [[creature]] [[participation]] in the [[power]]-[[personality]] [[synthesis]] of the [[present universe age]].

117:2.8 Thus may the incompleteness of the [[Supreme]] be regarded as a [[virtue]] since it makes possible the [[evolutionary]] [[growth]] of the [[creature]]-[[creation]] of the present [[universes]]. [[Emptiness]] does have its [[virtue]], for it may become experientially filled.

117:2.8 Thus may the incompleteness of the [[Supreme]] be regarded as a [[virtue]] since it makes possible the [[evolutionary]] [[growth]] of the [[creature]]-[[creation]] of the present [[universes]]. [[Emptiness]] does have its [[virtue]], for it may become experientially filled.

117:2.9 One of the most [[intriguing]] questions in [[finite]] [[philosophy]] is this: Does the [[Supreme Being]] [[actualize]] in [[response]] to the [[evolution]] of the [[grand universe]], or does this finite [[cosmos]] [[progressively]] evolve in [[response]] to the [[gradual]] [[actualization]] of the [[Supreme]]? Or is it possible that they are [[mutually]] [[interdependent]] for their [[development]]? that they are evolutionary [[reciprocals]], each [[initiating]] the [[growth]] of the [[other]]? Of this we are certain: [[Creatures]] and [[universes]], high and low, are evolving within the [[Supreme]], and as they evolve, there is [[appearing]] the [[unified]] [[summation]] of the entire [[finite]] [[activity]] of [[present universe age|this universe age]]. And this is the [[appearance]] of the [[Supreme Being]], to all [[personalities]] the [[evolution]] of [[the almighty]] [[power]] of ''God the Supreme''.

117:2.9 One of the most [[intriguing]] questions in [[finite]] [[philosophy]] is this: Does the [[Supreme Being]] [[actualize]] in [[response]] to the [[evolution]] of the [[grand universe]], or does this finite [[cosmos]] [[progressively]] evolve in [[response]] to the [[gradual]] [[actualization]] of the [[Supreme]]? Or is it possible that they are [[mutually]] [[interdependent]] for their [[development]]? that they are evolutionary [[reciprocals]], each [[initiating]] the [[growth]] of the [[other]]? Of this we are certain: [[Creatures]] and [[universes]], high and low, are evolving within the [[Supreme]], and as they evolve, there is [[appearing]] the [[unified]] [[summation]] of the entire [[finite]] [[activity]] of [[present universe age|this universe age]]. And this is the [[appearance]] of the [[Supreme Being]], to all [[personalities]] the [[evolution]] of [[the almighty]] [[power]] of ''God the Supreme''.

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