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118:10.1 [[Providence]] does not mean that [[God]] has decided [[all things]] for us and in advance. [[God]] [[loves]] us too much to do that, for that would be nothing short of [[cosmic]] [[tyranny]]. Man does have [[relative]] [[powers]] of [[choice]]. Neither is the [[divine]] [[love]] that shortsighted [[affection]] which would pamper and spoil the [[children]] of men.

118:10.1 [[Providence]] does not mean that [[God]] has decided [[all things]] for us and in advance. [[God]] [[loves]] us too much to do that, for that would be nothing short of [[cosmic]] [[tyranny]]. Man does have [[relative]] [[powers]] of [[choice]]. Neither is the [[divine]] [[love]] that shortsighted [[affection]] which would pamper and spoil the [[children]] of men.

118:10.2 [[The Father]], [[the Son|Son]], and [[the Spirit|Spirit]]—as the [[Trinity]]—are not the [[Almighty Supreme]], but the [[supremacy]] of the Almighty can never be [[manifest]] without them. The [[growth]] of the [[Almighty]] is centered on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_105#105:3._THE_SEVEN_ABSOLUTES_OF_INFINITY Absolutes] of [[actuality]] and predicated on the Absolutes of [[potentiality]]. But the [[functions]] of the [[Almighty Supreme]] are related to the [[functions]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]].

118:10.2 [[The Father]], [[the Son|Son]], and [[the Spirit|Spirit]]—as the [[Trinity]]—are not the [[Almighty Supreme]], but the [[supremacy]] of the Almighty can never be [[manifest]] without them. The [[growth]] of the [[Almighty]] is centered on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_105#105:3._THE_SEVEN_ABSOLUTES_OF_INFINITY Absolutes] of [[actuality]] and predicated on the Absolutes of [[potentiality]]. But the [[functions]] of the [[Almighty Supreme]] are related to the [[functions]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]].

118:10.3 It would [[appear]] that, in the [[Supreme Being]], all [[phases]] of [[universe]] [[activity]] are being partially reunited by the [[personality]] of this [[experiential]] [[Deity]]. When, therefore, we desire to view the [[Trinity]] as one [[God]], and if we [[limit]] this [[concept]] to the present known and organized [[grand universe]], we [[discover]] that the evolving [[Supreme Being]] is the partial portraiture of the [[Paradise Trinity]]. And we further find that this [[Supreme]] [[Deity]] is evolving as the [[personality]] [[synthesis]] of [[finite]] [[matter]], [[mind]], and [[spirit]] in the [[grand universe]].

118:10.3 It would [[appear]] that, in the [[Supreme Being]], all [[phases]] of [[universe]] [[activity]] are being partially reunited by the [[personality]] of this [[experiential]] [[Deity]]. When, therefore, we desire to view the [[Trinity]] as one [[God]], and if we [[limit]] this [[concept]] to the present known and organized [[grand universe]], we [[discover]] that the evolving [[Supreme Being]] is the partial portraiture of the [[Paradise Trinity]]. And we further find that this [[Supreme]] [[Deity]] is evolving as the [[personality]] [[synthesis]] of [[finite]] [[matter]], [[mind]], and [[spirit]] in the [[grand universe]].

118:10.4 [[The Gods]] have [[attributes]] but the [[Trinity]] has [[functions]], and like the Trinity, [[providence]] is a [[function]], the [[composite]] of the other-than-personal ''overcontrol'' of the [[universe of universes]], extending from the evolutionary levels of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#VIII._GOD_THE_SEVENFOLD the Sevenfold] [[synthesizing]] in the [[power]] of the [[Almighty]] on up through the [[transcendental]] realms of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#IX._GOD_THE_ULTIMATE Ultimacy of Deity].

118:10.4 [[The Gods]] have [[attributes]] but the [[Trinity]] has [[functions]], and like the Trinity, [[providence]] is a [[function]], the [[composite]] of the other-than-personal ''overcontrol'' of the [[universe of universes]], extending from the evolutionary levels of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#VIII._GOD_THE_SEVENFOLD the Sevenfold] [[synthesizing]] in the [[power]] of the [[Almighty]] on up through the [[transcendental]] realms of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#IX._GOD_THE_ULTIMATE Ultimacy of Deity].

118:10.5 [[God]] [[loves]] each [[creature]] as a [[child]], and that [[love]] overshadows each [[creature]] throughout all [[time]] and [[eternity]]. [[Providence]] [[functions]] with regard to the [[total]] and deals with the [[function]] of any [[creature]] as such [[function]] is related to the [[total]]. Providential [[intervention]] with regard to any [[being]] is indicative of the importance of the [[function]] of that [[being]] as concerns the [[evolutionary]] [[growth]] of some [[total]]; such total may be the total [[race]], the total [[nation]], the total [[planet]], or even a higher total. It is the importance of the [[function]] of the [[creature]] that occasions providential [[intervention]], not the importance of the [[creature]] as a [[person]].

118:10.5 [[God]] [[loves]] each [[creature]] as a [[child]], and that [[love]] overshadows each [[creature]] throughout all [[time]] and [[eternity]]. [[Providence]] [[functions]] with regard to the [[total]] and deals with the [[function]] of any [[creature]] as such [[function]] is related to the [[total]]. Providential [[intervention]] with regard to any [[being]] is indicative of the importance of the [[function]] of that [[being]] as concerns the [[evolutionary]] [[growth]] of some [[total]]; such total may be the total [[race]], the total [[nation]], the total [[planet]], or even a higher total. It is the importance of the [[function]] of the [[creature]] that occasions providential [[intervention]], not the importance of the [[creature]] as a [[person]].

118:10.7 But what man calls [[providence]] is all too often the product of his own [[imagination]], the fortuitous [[juxtaposition]] of the circumstances of [[chance]]. There is, however, a real and emerging [[providence]] in the [[finite]] realm of [[universe]] [[existence]], a true and actualizing correlation of the [[energies]] of [[space]], the [[motions]] of [[time]], the [[thoughts]] of [[intellect]], the [[ideals]] of [[character]], the [[desires]] of [[spiritual]] [[natures]], and the [[purposive]] volitional [[acts]] of evolving [[personalities]]. The circumstances of the [[material]] realms find final [[finite]] [[integration]] in the interlocking [[presences]] of the [[Supreme]] and the [[Ultimate]].

118:10.7 But what man calls [[providence]] is all too often the product of his own [[imagination]], the fortuitous [[juxtaposition]] of the circumstances of [[chance]]. There is, however, a real and emerging [[providence]] in the [[finite]] realm of [[universe]] [[existence]], a true and actualizing correlation of the [[energies]] of [[space]], the [[motions]] of [[time]], the [[thoughts]] of [[intellect]], the [[ideals]] of [[character]], the [[desires]] of [[spiritual]] [[natures]], and the [[purposive]] volitional [[acts]] of evolving [[personalities]]. The circumstances of the [[material]] realms find final [[finite]] [[integration]] in the interlocking [[presences]] of the [[Supreme]] and the [[Ultimate]].

118:10.8 As the [[mechanisms]] of the [[grand universe]] are perfected to a [[point]] of final [[precision]] through the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] of [[mind]], and as [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 creature mind] [[ascends]] to the [[perfection]] of [[divinity]] [[attainment]] through perfected [[integration]] with [[spirit]], and as the [[Supreme]] consequently [[emerges]] as an [[actual]] unifier of all these [[universe]] [[phenomena]], so does [[providence]] become increasingly [[discernible]].

118:10.8 As the [[mechanisms]] of the [[grand universe]] are perfected to a [[point]] of final [[precision]] through the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] of [[mind]], and as [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 creature mind] [[ascends]] to the [[perfection]] of [[divinity]] [[attainment]] through perfected [[integration]] with [[spirit]], and as the [[Supreme]] consequently [[emerges]] as an [[actual]] unifier of all these [[universe]] [[phenomena]], so does [[providence]] become increasingly [[discernible]].

118:10.9 Some of the amazingly fortuitous conditions occasionally prevailing on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary worlds] may be due to the [[gradually]] emerging [[presence]] of the [[Supreme]], the foretasting of his [[future]] [[universe]] [[activities]]. Most of what a [[mortal]] would call providential is not; his [[judgment]] of such matters is very [[handicapped]] by lack of farsighted [[vision]] into the true [[meanings]] of the circumstances of life. Much of what a [[mortal]] would call good [[luck]] might really be bad luck; the smile of fortune that bestows unearned [[leisure]] and undeserved [[wealth]] may be the greatest of [[human]] afflictions; the [[apparent]] [[cruelty]] of a [[perverse]] fate that heaps [[tribulation]] upon some [[suffering]] [[mortal]] may in [[reality]] be the tempering [[fire]] that is [[transmuting]] the soft iron of immature [[personality]] into the tempered steel of real [[character]].

118:10.9 Some of the amazingly fortuitous conditions occasionally prevailing on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary worlds] may be due to the [[gradually]] emerging [[presence]] of the [[Supreme]], the foretasting of his [[future]] [[universe]] [[activities]]. Most of what a [[mortal]] would call providential is not; his [[judgment]] of such matters is very [[handicapped]] by lack of farsighted [[vision]] into the true [[meanings]] of the circumstances of life. Much of what a [[mortal]] would call good [[luck]] might really be bad luck; the smile of fortune that bestows unearned [[leisure]] and undeserved [[wealth]] may be the greatest of [[human]] afflictions; the [[apparent]] [[cruelty]] of a [[perverse]] fate that heaps [[tribulation]] upon some [[suffering]] [[mortal]] may in [[reality]] be the tempering [[fire]] that is [[transmuting]] the soft iron of immature [[personality]] into the tempered steel of real [[character]].

118:10.10 There is a [[providence]] in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15 evolving universes], and it can be [[discovered]] by [[creatures]] to just the extent that they have attained [[capacity]] to [[perceive]] the [[purpose]] of the evolving [[universes]]. Complete [[capacity]] to [[discern]] [[universe]] [[purposes]] [[equals]] the evolutionary completion of the [[creature]] and may otherwise be [[expressed]] as the [[attainment]] of the [[Supreme]] within the [[limits]] of the present [[state]] of the incomplete universes.

118:10.10 There is a [[providence]] in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15 evolving universes], and it can be [[discovered]] by [[creatures]] to just the extent that they have attained [[capacity]] to [[perceive]] the [[purpose]] of the evolving [[universes]]. Complete [[capacity]] to [[discern]] [[universe]] [[purposes]] [[equals]] the evolutionary completion of the [[creature]] and may otherwise be [[expressed]] as the [[attainment]] of the [[Supreme]] within the [[limits]] of the present [[state]] of the incomplete universes.

118:10.11 The [[love]] of [[the Father]] operates directly in the [[heart]] of the [[individual]], independent of the [[actions]] or [[reactions]] of all other [[individuals]]; the [[relationship]] is personal—man and God. The [[impersonal]] [[presence]] of [[Deity]] ([[Almighty Supreme]] and [[Paradise Trinity]]) [[manifests]] regard for the [[whole]], not for the [[part]]. The [[providence]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118_-_Supreme_and_Ulitimate-Time_and_Space#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] of Supremacy becomes increasingly [[apparent]] as the [[successive]] [[parts]] of the [[universe]] [[progress]] in the [[attainment]] of finite [[destinies]]. As [[the system]]s, [[constellation]]s, [[Local Universe|universes]], and [[superuniverses]] become settled in [[light and life]], the [[Supreme]] increasingly [[emerges]] as the meaningful correlator of all that is transpiring, while the [[Ultimate]] gradually [[emerges]] as the [[transcendental]] unifier of [[all things]].

118:10.11 The [[love]] of [[the Father]] operates directly in the [[heart]] of the [[individual]], independent of the [[actions]] or [[reactions]] of all other [[individuals]]; the [[relationship]] is personal—man and God. The [[impersonal]] [[presence]] of [[Deity]] ([[Almighty Supreme]] and [[Paradise Trinity]]) [[manifests]] regard for the [[whole]], not for the [[part]]. The [[providence]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118_-_Supreme_and_Ulitimate-Time_and_Space#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] of Supremacy becomes increasingly [[apparent]] as the [[successive]] [[parts]] of the [[universe]] [[progress]] in the [[attainment]] of finite [[destinies]]. As [[the system]]s, [[constellation]]s, [[Local Universe|universes]], and [[superuniverses]] become settled in [[light and life]], the [[Supreme]] increasingly [[emerges]] as the meaningful correlator of all that is transpiring, while the [[Ultimate]] gradually [[emerges]] as the [[transcendental]] unifier of [[all things]].

118:10.12 In the beginnings on an [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary world] the [[natural]] occurrences of the [[material]] order and the [[personal]] [[desires]] of [[human being]]s often appear to be antagonistic. Much that takes place on an evolving world is rather hard for [[mortal]] man to [[understand]]—[[natural law]] is so often apparently [[cruel]], heartless, and indifferent to all that is [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS true, beautiful, and good] in human [[comprehension]]. But as [[humanity]] [[progresses]] in [[planetary]] [[development]], we [[observe]] that this [[viewpoint]] is [[modified]] by the following [[factors]]:

118:10.12 In the beginnings on an [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary world] the [[natural]] occurrences of the [[material]] order and the [[personal]] [[desires]] of [[human being]]s often appear to be antagonistic. Much that takes place on an evolving world is rather hard for [[mortal]] man to [[understand]]—[[natural law]] is so often apparently [[cruel]], heartless, and indifferent to all that is [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS true, beautiful, and good] in human [[comprehension]]. But as [[humanity]] [[progresses]] in [[planetary]] [[development]], we [[observe]] that this [[viewpoint]] is [[modified]] by the following [[factors]]:

*1. 118:10.13 ''Man's augmenting vision'' —his increased [[understanding]] of the world in which he lives; his enlarging [[capacity]] for the [[comprehension]] of the material [[facts]] of [[time]], the meaningful [[ideas]] of [[thought]], and the valuable [[ideals]] of [[spiritual]] [[insight]]. As long as men [[measure]] only by the yardstick of the [[things]] of a [[physical]] [[nature]], they can never [[hope]] to find [[unity]] in [[time and space]].

*1. 118:10.13 ''Man's augmenting vision'' —his increased [[understanding]] of the world in which he lives; his enlarging [[capacity]] for the [[comprehension]] of the material [[facts]] of [[time]], the meaningful [[ideas]] of [[thought]], and the valuable [[ideals]] of [[spiritual]] [[insight]]. As long as men [[measure]] only by the yardstick of the [[things]] of a [[physical]] [[nature]], they can never [[hope]] to find [[unity]] in [[time and space]].

118:10.18 To [[realize]] [[providence]] in [[time]], man must accomplish the task of achieving [[perfection]]. But man can even now foretaste this [[providence]] in its [[eternity]] [[meanings]] as he ponders the [[universe]] [[fact]] that [[all things]], be they [[good]] or [[evil]], [[work]] [[together]] for the advancement of [[God]]-knowing [[mortals]] in their [[quest]] for [[the Father]] of all.

118:10.18 To [[realize]] [[providence]] in [[time]], man must accomplish the task of achieving [[perfection]]. But man can even now foretaste this [[providence]] in its [[eternity]] [[meanings]] as he ponders the [[universe]] [[fact]] that [[all things]], be they [[good]] or [[evil]], [[work]] [[together]] for the advancement of [[God]]-knowing [[mortals]] in their [[quest]] for [[the Father]] of all.

118:10.19 [[Providence]] becomes increasingly [[discernible]] as men reach upward from the [[material]] to the [[spiritual]]. The [[attainment]] of completed [[spiritual]] [[insight]] enables the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending personality] to detect [[harmony]] in what was theretofore [[chaos]]. Even [[morontia]] [[mota]] [[represents]] a real advance in this direction.

118:10.19 [[Providence]] becomes increasingly [[discernible]] as men reach upward from the [[material]] to the [[spiritual]]. The [[attainment]] of completed [[spiritual]] [[insight]] enables the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending personality] to detect [[harmony]] in what was theretofore [[chaos]]. Even [[morontia]] [[mota]] [[represents]] a real advance in this direction.

118:10.20 [[Providence]] is in [[part]] the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] of the incomplete [[Supreme]] [[manifested]] in the incomplete [[universes]], and it must therefore ever be:

118:10.20 [[Providence]] is in [[part]] the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] of the incomplete [[Supreme]] [[manifested]] in the incomplete [[universes]], and it must therefore ever be:

*1. ''Partial'' —due to the incompleteness of the [[actualization]] of the [[Supreme Being]], and

*1. ''Partial'' —due to the incompleteness of the [[actualization]] of the [[Supreme Being]], and

118:10.22 Sponsored by a [[Mighty Messenger]] temporarily sojourning on [[Urantia]].

118:10.22 Sponsored by a [[Mighty Messenger]] temporarily sojourning on [[Urantia]].

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