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117:1.1 The [[Supreme]] is the [[beauty]] of [[physical]] [[harmony]], the [[truth]] of [[intellectual]] [[meaning]], and the [[goodness]] of [[spiritual]] [[value]]. He is the sweetness of true success and the [[joy]] of everlasting [[achievement]]. He is the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_117#117:5._THE_OVERSOUL_OF_CREATION oversoul] of the [[grand universe]], the [[consciousness]] of the [[finite]] [[cosmos]], the completion of finite [[reality]], and the [[personification]] of [[Creator]]-[[creature]] [[experience]]. Throughout all [[future]] [[eternity]] ''God the Supreme'' will [[voice]] the [[reality]] of [[volitional]] [[experience]] in the [[trinity]] [[relationships]] of [[Deity]].
117:1.2 In the [[persons]] of the [[Supreme Creators]] [[the Gods]] have [[descended]] from [[Paradise]] to the [[domains]] of [[time and space]], there to [[create]] and to evolve [[creatures]] with [[Paradise]]-[[attainment]] [[capacity]] who can [[ascend]] thereto in [[quest]] of [[the Father]]. This [[universe]] [[procession]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:1._THE_DESCENDING_SONS_OF_GOD descending] God-[[revealing]] Creators and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending] God-[[seeking]] creatures is [[revelatory]] of the [[Deity]] [[evolution]] of the [[Supreme]], in whom both descenders and ascenders achieve [[mutuality]] of [[understanding]], the [[discovery]] of [[eternal]] and [[universal]] [[brotherhood]]. The [[Supreme Being]] thus becomes the [[finite]] [[synthesis]] of the [[experience]] of the perfect-[[Creator]] [[cause]] and the perfecting-[[creature]] [[response]].
117:1.3 The [[grand universe]] contains the [[possibility]] of, and ever seeks for, complete [[unification]], and this [[grows]] out of the [[fact]] that this [[cosmic]] [[existence]] is a consequence of the [[creative]] [[acts]] and the [[power]] [[mandates]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]], which is unqualified [[unity]]. This very trinitarian [[unity]] is [[expressed]] in the finite [[cosmos]] in the [[Supreme]], whose [[reality]] becomes increasingly [[apparent]] as [[the universes]] [[attain]] to the maximum level of [[Trinity]] identification.
117:1.4 The will of the [[Creator]] and the will of the [[creature]] are [[qualitatively]] [[different]], but they are also [[experientially]] [[akin]], for creature and Creator can [[collaborate]] in the [[achievement]] of [[universe]] [[perfection]]. Man can [[work]] in [[liaison]] with [[God]] and thereby [[cocreate]] an [[eternal]] [[finaliter]]. [[God]] can [[work]] even as [[humanity]] in the [[incarnations]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD his Sons], who thereby [[achieve]] the [[supremacy]] of [[creature]] [[experience]].
117:1.5 In the [[Supreme Being]], [[Creator]] and [[creature]] are [[united]] in one [[Deity]] whose [[Free will|will]] is [[expressive]] of one [[divine]] [[personality]]. And this will of the [[Supreme]] is something more than the will of either [[creature]] or [[Creator]], even as the [[sovereign]] will of the [[Master Son]] of [[Nebadon]] is now something more than a combination of the will of [[divinity]] and [[humanity]]. The [[union]] of [[Paradise]] [[perfection]] and [[time-space]] [[experience]] yields a new [[meaning]] [[value]] on deity levels of [[reality]].
117:1.6 The [[evolving]] divine [[nature]] of the [[Supreme]] is becoming a [[faithful]] portrayal of the matchless [[experience]] of all [[creatures]] and of all [[Creators]] in the [[grand universe]]. In the [[Supreme]], creatorship and creaturehood are at one; they are forever [[united]] by that [[experience]] which was born of the [[vicissitudes]] attendant upon the solution of the manifold [[problems]] which beset all [[finite]] [[creation]] as it pursues the [[eternal]] [[path]] in [[quest]] of perfection and [[liberation]] from the fetters of incompleteness.
117:1.7 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS Truth, beauty, and goodness] are correlated in the [[ministry]] of [[the Spirit]], the [[grandeur]] of [[Paradise]], the [[mercy]] of [[the Son]], and the [[experience]] of the [[Supreme]]. God the Supreme is [[truth]], [[beauty]], and [[goodness]], for these [[concepts]] of [[divinity]] [[represent]] finite maximums of ideational [[experience]]. The [[eternal]] [[sources]] of these [[triune]] [[qualities]] of [[divinity]] are on [[superfinite]] levels, but a [[creature]] could only conceive of such sources as supertruth, superbeauty, and supergoodness.
117:1.8 [[Michael]], a creator, [[revealed]] the [[divine]] [[love]] of [[the Father|the Creator Father]] for his [[terrestrial]] [[children]]. And having [[discovered]] and received this [[divine]] [[affection]], men can [[aspire]] to [[reveal]] this [[love]] to their brethren in the [[flesh]]. Such [[creature]] [[affection]] is a true [[reflection]] of the [[love]] of the [[Supreme]].
117:1.9 The [[Supreme]] is [[symmetrically]] inclusive. The [[First Source and Center]] is [[potential]] in the [[the Absolutes|three great Absolutes]], is [[actual]] in [[Paradise]], in [[the Son]], and in [[the Spirit]]; but the Supreme is both [[actual]] and [[potential]], a [[being]] of [[personal]] supremacy and of [[almighty]] [[power]], responsive alike to creature [[effort]] and Creator [[purpose]]; self-acting upon the [[universe]] and self-reactive to the sum [[total]] of the universe; and at one and the same time the supreme [[creator]] and the supreme [[creature]]. The Deity of Supremacy is thus [[expressive]] of the sum [[total]] of the entire [[finite]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_117 Go to Paper 117]</center>
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[[Category:Paper 117 - God the Supreme]]
117:1.1 The [[Supreme]] is the [[beauty]] of [[physical]] [[harmony]], the [[truth]] of [[intellectual]] [[meaning]], and the [[goodness]] of [[spiritual]] [[value]]. He is the sweetness of true success and the [[joy]] of everlasting [[achievement]]. He is the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_117#117:5._THE_OVERSOUL_OF_CREATION oversoul] of the [[grand universe]], the [[consciousness]] of the [[finite]] [[cosmos]], the completion of finite [[reality]], and the [[personification]] of [[Creator]]-[[creature]] [[experience]]. Throughout all [[future]] [[eternity]] ''God the Supreme'' will [[voice]] the [[reality]] of [[volitional]] [[experience]] in the [[trinity]] [[relationships]] of [[Deity]].
117:1.2 In the [[persons]] of the [[Supreme Creators]] [[the Gods]] have [[descended]] from [[Paradise]] to the [[domains]] of [[time and space]], there to [[create]] and to evolve [[creatures]] with [[Paradise]]-[[attainment]] [[capacity]] who can [[ascend]] thereto in [[quest]] of [[the Father]]. This [[universe]] [[procession]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:1._THE_DESCENDING_SONS_OF_GOD descending] God-[[revealing]] Creators and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending] God-[[seeking]] creatures is [[revelatory]] of the [[Deity]] [[evolution]] of the [[Supreme]], in whom both descenders and ascenders achieve [[mutuality]] of [[understanding]], the [[discovery]] of [[eternal]] and [[universal]] [[brotherhood]]. The [[Supreme Being]] thus becomes the [[finite]] [[synthesis]] of the [[experience]] of the perfect-[[Creator]] [[cause]] and the perfecting-[[creature]] [[response]].
117:1.3 The [[grand universe]] contains the [[possibility]] of, and ever seeks for, complete [[unification]], and this [[grows]] out of the [[fact]] that this [[cosmic]] [[existence]] is a consequence of the [[creative]] [[acts]] and the [[power]] [[mandates]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]], which is unqualified [[unity]]. This very trinitarian [[unity]] is [[expressed]] in the finite [[cosmos]] in the [[Supreme]], whose [[reality]] becomes increasingly [[apparent]] as [[the universes]] [[attain]] to the maximum level of [[Trinity]] identification.
117:1.4 The will of the [[Creator]] and the will of the [[creature]] are [[qualitatively]] [[different]], but they are also [[experientially]] [[akin]], for creature and Creator can [[collaborate]] in the [[achievement]] of [[universe]] [[perfection]]. Man can [[work]] in [[liaison]] with [[God]] and thereby [[cocreate]] an [[eternal]] [[finaliter]]. [[God]] can [[work]] even as [[humanity]] in the [[incarnations]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD his Sons], who thereby [[achieve]] the [[supremacy]] of [[creature]] [[experience]].
117:1.5 In the [[Supreme Being]], [[Creator]] and [[creature]] are [[united]] in one [[Deity]] whose [[Free will|will]] is [[expressive]] of one [[divine]] [[personality]]. And this will of the [[Supreme]] is something more than the will of either [[creature]] or [[Creator]], even as the [[sovereign]] will of the [[Master Son]] of [[Nebadon]] is now something more than a combination of the will of [[divinity]] and [[humanity]]. The [[union]] of [[Paradise]] [[perfection]] and [[time-space]] [[experience]] yields a new [[meaning]] [[value]] on deity levels of [[reality]].
117:1.6 The [[evolving]] divine [[nature]] of the [[Supreme]] is becoming a [[faithful]] portrayal of the matchless [[experience]] of all [[creatures]] and of all [[Creators]] in the [[grand universe]]. In the [[Supreme]], creatorship and creaturehood are at one; they are forever [[united]] by that [[experience]] which was born of the [[vicissitudes]] attendant upon the solution of the manifold [[problems]] which beset all [[finite]] [[creation]] as it pursues the [[eternal]] [[path]] in [[quest]] of perfection and [[liberation]] from the fetters of incompleteness.
117:1.7 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS Truth, beauty, and goodness] are correlated in the [[ministry]] of [[the Spirit]], the [[grandeur]] of [[Paradise]], the [[mercy]] of [[the Son]], and the [[experience]] of the [[Supreme]]. God the Supreme is [[truth]], [[beauty]], and [[goodness]], for these [[concepts]] of [[divinity]] [[represent]] finite maximums of ideational [[experience]]. The [[eternal]] [[sources]] of these [[triune]] [[qualities]] of [[divinity]] are on [[superfinite]] levels, but a [[creature]] could only conceive of such sources as supertruth, superbeauty, and supergoodness.
117:1.8 [[Michael]], a creator, [[revealed]] the [[divine]] [[love]] of [[the Father|the Creator Father]] for his [[terrestrial]] [[children]]. And having [[discovered]] and received this [[divine]] [[affection]], men can [[aspire]] to [[reveal]] this [[love]] to their brethren in the [[flesh]]. Such [[creature]] [[affection]] is a true [[reflection]] of the [[love]] of the [[Supreme]].
117:1.9 The [[Supreme]] is [[symmetrically]] inclusive. The [[First Source and Center]] is [[potential]] in the [[the Absolutes|three great Absolutes]], is [[actual]] in [[Paradise]], in [[the Son]], and in [[the Spirit]]; but the Supreme is both [[actual]] and [[potential]], a [[being]] of [[personal]] supremacy and of [[almighty]] [[power]], responsive alike to creature [[effort]] and Creator [[purpose]]; self-acting upon the [[universe]] and self-reactive to the sum [[total]] of the universe; and at one and the same time the supreme [[creator]] and the supreme [[creature]]. The Deity of Supremacy is thus [[expressive]] of the sum [[total]] of the entire [[finite]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_117 Go to Paper 117]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 117 - God the Supreme]]
