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==PAPER 115: THE SUPREME BEING==
 
==PAPER 115: THE SUPREME BEING==
  
115:0.1 With God the Father, sonship is the great relationship. With God the Supreme, achievement is the prerequisite to status—one must do something as well as be something.
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115:0.1 With [[God]] [[the Father]], sonship is the great [[relationship]]. With [[God the Supreme]], [[achievement]] is the prerequisite to [[status]]—one must ''do'' something as well as ''be'' something.
  
 
==115:1. RELATIVITY OF CONCEPT FRAMES==
 
==115:1. RELATIVITY OF CONCEPT FRAMES==
  
115:1.1 Partial, incomplete, and evolving intellects would be helpless in the master universe, would be unable to form the first rational thought pattern, were it not for the innate ability of all mind, high or low, to form a universe frame in which to think. If mind cannot fathom conclusions, if it cannot penetrate to true origins, then will such mind unfailingly postulate conclusions and invent origins that it may have a means of logical thought within the frame of these mind-created postulates. And while such universe frames for creature thought are indispensable to rational intellectual operations, they are, without exception, erroneous to a greater or lesser degree.
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115:1.1 [[Partial]], incomplete, and [[evolving]] [[intellects]] would be helpless in the [[master universe]], would be unable to form the first [[rational]] [[thought]] [[pattern]], were it not for the [[innate]] [[ability]] of all [[mind]], high or low, to [[form]] a [[universe]] [[frame]] in which to [[think]]. If mind cannot [[fathom]] conclusions, if it cannot penetrate to true [[origins]], then will such mind unfailingly [[postulate]] conclusions and [[invent]] [[origins]] that it may have a means of [[logical]] [[thought]] within the [[frame]] of these mind-created [[postulates]]. And while such [[universe]] [[frames]] for [[creature]] [[thought]] are indispensable to [[rational]] [[intellectual]] operations, they are, without exception, [[erroneous]] to a greater or lesser [[degree]].
  
115:1.2 Conceptual frames of the universe are only relatively true; they are serviceable scaffolding which must eventually give way before the expansions of enlarging cosmic comprehension. The understandings of truth, beauty, and goodness, morality, ethics, duty, love, divinity, origin, existence, purpose, destiny, time, space, even Deity, are only relatively true. God is much, much more than a Father, but the Father is man's highest concept of God; nonetheless, the Father-Son portrayal of Creator-creature relationship will be augmented by those supermortal conceptions of Deity which will be attained in Orvonton, in Havona, and on Paradise. Man must think in a mortal universe frame, but that does not mean that he cannot envision other and higher frames within which thought can take place.
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115:1.2 [[Conceptual]] [[frames]] of the [[universe]] are only [[relatively]] true; they are serviceable [[scaffolding]] which must eventually give way before the expansions of enlarging [[cosmic]] [[comprehension]]. The [[understandings]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS truth, beauty, and goodness], [[morality]], [[ethics]], [[duty]], [[love]], [[divinity]], [[origin]], [[existence]], [[purpose]], [[destiny]], [[time]], [[space]], even [[Deity]], are only [[relatively]] true. [[God]] is much, much more than a [[Father]], but [[the Father]] is man's highest [[concept]] of [[God]]; nonetheless, the Father-Son portrayal of [[Creator]]-[[creature]] [[relationship]] will be augmented by those [[supermortal]] [[conceptions]] of [[Deity]] which will be [[attained]] in [[Orvonton]], in [[Havona]], and on [[Paradise]]. Man must [[think]] in a [[mortal]] [[universe]] [[frame]], but that does not mean that he cannot envision other and higher frames within which [[thought]] can take place.
  
115:1.3 In 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.
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115:1.3 In 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]]. [[Absonite]]s and [[finite]]s are [[derivatives]], [[modifications]], qualifications, and attenuations of the [[original]] and primordial [[absolute]] [[reality]] of [[infinity]].
  
115:1.4 The 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.
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115:1.4 The 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.
  
 
==115:2. THE ABSOLUTE BASIS FOR SUPREMACY==
 
==115:2. THE ABSOLUTE BASIS FOR SUPREMACY==
  
115:2.1 From the existential standpoint, nothing new can happen throughout the galaxies, for the completion of infinity inherent in the I AM is eternally present in the seven Absolutes, is functionally associated in the triunities, and is transmitively associated in the triodities. But the fact that infinity is thus existentially present in these absolute associations in no way makes it impossible to realize new cosmic experientials. From a finite creature's viewpoint, infinity contains much that is potential, much that is on the order of a future possibility rather than a present actuality.
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115:2.1 From the [[existential]] [[standpoint]], nothing new can happen throughout the [[galaxies]], for the completion of [[infinity]] [[inherent]] in the [[I AM]] is [[eternally]] present in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_105#105:3._THE_SEVEN_ABSOLUTES_OF_INFINITY seven Absolutes], is [[functionally]] associated in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:3._TRINITIES_AND_TRIUNITIES triunities], and is transmitively [[associated]] in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:5._TRIODITIES triodities]. But the [[fact]] that [[infinity]] is thus existentially present in these [[absolute]] [[associations]] in no way makes it impossible to realize new [[cosmic]] [[experiential]]s. From a [[finite]] [[creature]]'s [[viewpoint]], [[infinity]] contains much that is [[potential]], much that is on the order of a [[future]] [[possibility]] rather than a present [[actuality]].
  
115:2.2 Value is a unique element in universe reality. We do not comprehend how the value of anything infinite and divine could possibly be increased. But we discover that meanings can be modified if not augmented even in the relations of infinite Deity. To the experiential universes even divine values are increased as actualities by enlarged comprehension of reality meanings.
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115:2.2 [[Value]] is a [[unique]] element in [[universe]] [[reality]]. We do not [[comprehend]] how the [[value]] of anything [[infinite]] and [[divine]] could possibly be increased. But we [[discover]] that [[meanings]] can be [[modified]] if not augmented even in the [[relations]] of [[infinite]] [[Deity]]. To the [[experiential]] [[universes]] even [[divine]] [[values]] are increased as [[actualities]] by enlarged [[comprehension]] of [[reality]] [[meanings]].
  
115:2.3 The entire scheme of universal creation and evolution on all experiencing levels is apparently a matter of the conversion of potentialities into actualities; and this transmutation has to do equally with the realms of space potency, mind potency, and spirit potency.
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115:2.3 The entire [[scheme]] of [[universal]] [[creation]] and [[evolution]] on all experiencing [[levels]] is apparently a matter of the [[conversion]] of [[potentialities]] into [[actualities]]; and this [[transmutation]] has to do [[equally]] with the realms of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_0#XI._THE_THREE_ABSOLUTES space potency, mind potency, and spirit potency].
  
115:2.4 The 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.
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115:2.4 The [[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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:5._TRIODITIES triodity] [[relationships]] impinging upon and in [[the Supreme]].
  
 
==115:3. ORIGINAL, ACTUAL, AND POTENTIAL==
 
==115:3. ORIGINAL, ACTUAL, AND POTENTIAL==
  
115:3.1 The 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.
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115:3.1 The [[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]].
  
115:3.2 Mind can never hope to grasp the concept of an Absolute without attempting first to break the unity of such a reality. Mind is unifying of all divergencies, but in the very absence of such divergencies, mind finds no basis upon which to attempt to formulate understanding concepts.
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115:3.2 [[Mind]] can never [[hope]] to grasp the [[concept]] of an [[Absolute]] without attempting first to break the [[unity]] of such a [[reality]]. Mind is [[unifying]] of all [[divergencies]], but in the very [[absence]] of such divergencies, mind finds no basis upon which to attempt to [[formulate]] [[understanding]] [[concepts]].
  
115:3.3 The primordial stasis of infinity requires segmentation prior to human attempts at comprehension. There is a unity in infinity which has been expressed in these papers as the I AM—the premier postulate of the creature mind. But never can a creature understand how it is that this unity becomes duality, triunity, and diversity while yet remaining an unqualified unity. Man encounters a similar problem when he pauses to contemplate the undivided Deity of Trinity alongside the plural personalization of God.
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115:3.3 The primordial [[stasis]] of [[infinity]] requires [[segmentation]] prior to [[human]] attempts at [[comprehension]]. There is a [[unity]] in [[infinity]] which has been [[expressed]] in these papers as the [[I AM]]—the premier [[postulate]] of the [[creature]] [[mind]]. But never can a creature [[understand]] how it is that this [[unity]] becomes [[duality]], [[triunity]], and [[diversity]] while yet remaining an unqualified [[unity]]. Man encounters a similar [[problem]] when he pauses to [[contemplate]] the undivided [[Deity]] of [[Trinity]] alongside the [[plural]] [[personalization]] of [[God]].
  
115:3.4 It is only man's distance from infinity that causes this concept to be expressed as one word. While infinity is on the one hand UNITY, on the other it is DIVERSITY without end or limit. Infinity, as it is observed by finite intelligences, is the maximum paradox of creature philosophy and finite metaphysics. Though man's spiritual nature reaches up in the worship experience to the Father who is infinite, man's intellectual comprehension capacity is exhausted by the maximum conception of the Supreme Being. Beyond the Supreme, concepts are increasingly names; less and less are they true designations of reality; more and more do they become the creature's projection of finite understanding toward the superfinite.
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115:3.4 It is only man's distance from [[infinity]] that [[causes]] this [[concept]] to be [[expressed]] as one [[word]]. While infinity is on the one hand [[Unity|UNITY]], on the other it is [[Diversity|DIVERSITY]] without end or limit. [[Infinity]], as it is observed by [[finite]] [[intelligences]], is the maximum [[paradox]] of [[creature]] [[philosophy]] and finite [[metaphysics]]. Though man's [[spiritual]] [[nature]] reaches up in the [[worship]] [[experience]] to [[the Father]] who is infinite, man's [[intellectual]] [[comprehension]] [[capacity]] is [[exhausted]] by the maximum [[conception]] of the [[Supreme Being]]. Beyond the [[Supreme]], [[concepts]] are increasingly [[names]]; less and less are they true designations of [[reality]]; more and more do they become the [[creature]]'s [[projection]] of [[finite]] [[understanding]] toward the [[Absonite|superfinite]].
  
115:3.5 One basic conception of the absolute level involves a postulate of three phases:
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115:3.5 One basic conception of the [[absolute]] level involves a [[postulate]] of [[three]] [[phases]]:
  
*1. 115:3.6 The Original. The unqualified concept of the First Source and Center, that source manifestation of the I AM from which all reality takes origin.
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*1. 115:3.6 ''The Original''. The unqualified [[concept]] of the [[First Source and Center]], that source [[manifestation]] of the [[I AM]] from which all [[reality]] takes [[origin]].
*2. 115:3.7 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.
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*2. 115:3.7 ''The Actual''. The [[union]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:5._TRIODITIES 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]].
*3. 115:3.8 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.
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*3. 115:3.8 ''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 The 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.
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115:3.9 The 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]].
  
115:3.10 In 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.
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115:3.10 In the [[association]] of the [[Three Absolutes|Deity, Universal, and Unqualified Absolutes]], [[potentiality]] is [[absolute]] while [[actuality]] is [[emergent]]; in the [[association]] of the [[Second Source and Center|Second]], [[Third  Source and Center|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.
  
115:3.11 From the time viewpoint, the Actual is that which was and is; the Potential is that which is becoming and will be; the Original is that which is. From the eternity viewpoint, the differences between the Original, the Actual, and the Potential are not thus apparent. These triune qualities are not so distinguished on Paradise-eternity levels. In eternity all is—only has all not yet been revealed in time and space.
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115:3.11 From the [[time]] [[viewpoint]], the [[Actual]] is that which was and is; the [[Potential]] is that which is becoming and will be; the [[Original]] is that which is. From the [[eternity]] [[viewpoint]], the [[differences]] between the Original, the Actual, and the Potential are not thus [[apparent]]. These [[triune]] [[qualities]] are not so distinguished on [[Paradise]]-[[eternity]] levels. In [[eternity]] all is—only has all not yet been [[revealed]] in [[time and space]].
  
115:3.12 From a creature's viewpoint, actuality is substance, potentiality is capacity. Actuality exists centermost and expands therefrom into peripheral infinity; potentiality comes inward from the infinity periphery and converges at the center of all things. Originality is that which first causes and then balances the dual motions of the cycle of reality metamorphosis from potentials to actuals and the potentializing of existing actuals.
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115:3.12 From a [[creature]]'s [[viewpoint]], [[actuality]] is substance, [[potentiality]] is [[capacity]]. [[Actuality]] exists centermost and expands therefrom into [[peripheral]] [[infinity]]; [[potentiality]] comes inward from the infinity [[periphery]] and [[converges]] at the [[center]] of [[Everything|all things]]. [[Originality]] is that which first [[cause]]s and then [[balances]] the [[dual]] [[motions]] of the [[cycle]] of [[reality]] [[metamorphosis]] from [[potentials]] to [[actuals]] and the potentializing of existing actuals.
  
115:3.13 The three Absolutes of potentiality are operative on the purely eternal level of the cosmos, hence never function as such on subabsolute levels. On the descending levels of reality the triodity of potentiality is manifest with the Ultimate and upon the Supreme. The potential may fail to time-actualize with respect to a part on some subabsolute level, but never in the aggregate. The will of God does ultimately prevail, not always concerning the individual but invariably concerning the total.
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115:3.13 The [[three Absolutes]] of [[potentiality]] are operative on the [[purely]] [[eternal]] level of the [[cosmos]], hence never [[function]] as such on subabsolute [[levels]]. On the [[descending]] levels of [[reality]] the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:5._TRIODITIES triodity] of [[potentiality]] is [[manifest]] with the [[Ultimate]] and upon the [[Supreme]]. The [[potential]] may fail to [[time]]-actualize with respect to a part on some subabsolute level, but never in the [[aggregate]]. The will of God does ultimately prevail, not always concerning the [[individual]] but invariably concerning the [[total]].
  
115:3.14 It is in the triodity of actuality that the existents of the cosmos have their center; be it spirit, mind, or energy, all center in this association of the Son, the Spirit, and Paradise. The personality of the spirit Son is the master pattern for all personality throughout all universes. The substance of the Paradise Isle is the master pattern of which Havona is a perfect, and the superuniverses are a perfecting, revelation. The Conjoint Actor is at one and the same time the mind activation of cosmic energy, the conceptualization of spirit purpose, and the integration of the mathematical causes and effects of the material levels with the volitional purposes and motives of the spiritual level. In and to a finite universe the Son, Spirit, and Paradise function in and upon the Ultimate as he is conditioned and qualified in the Supreme.
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115:3.14 It is in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:5._TRIODITIES triodity] of actuality that the existents of the [[cosmos]] have their [[center]]; be it [[spirit]], [[mind]], or [[energy]], all center in this [[association]] of [[the Son]], [[the Spirit]], and [[Paradise]]. The [[personality]] of the spirit Son is the master [[pattern]] for all [[personality]] throughout all [[universes]]. The substance of the [[Paradise Isle]] is the master [[pattern]] of which [[Havona]] is a [[perfect]], and the [[superuniverses]] are a perfecting, [[revelation]]. The [[Conjoint Actor]] is at one and the [[Simultaneity|same time] the [[mind]] activation of [[cosmic]] [[energy]], the conceptualization of [[spirit]] [[purpose]], and the [[integration]] of the [[mathematical]] [[causes]] and [[effects]] of the [[material]] levels with the [[volitional]] [[purposes]] and [[motives]] of the [[spiritual]] level. In and to a [[finite]] [[universe]] [[the Son]], [[the Spirit|Spirit]], and [[Paradise]] [[function]] in and upon the [[Ultimate]] as he is conditioned and qualified in the [[Supreme]].
  
115:3.15 Actuality (of Deity) is what man seeks in the Paradise ascent. Potentiality (of human divinity) is what man evolves in that search. The Original is what makes possible the coexistence and integration of man the actual, man the potential, and man the eternal.
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115:3.15 [[Actuality]] (of [[Deity]]) is what man seeks in the [[Ascension Career|Paradise ascent]]. [[Potentiality]] (of [[human]] [[divinity]]) is what man evolves in that search. The [[Original]] is what makes possible the coexistence and [[integration]] of man the [[actual]], man the [[potential]], and man the [[eternal]].
  
115:3.16 The final dynamics of the cosmos have to do with the continual transfer of reality from potentiality to actuality. In theory, there may be an end to this metamorphosis, but in fact, such is impossible since the Potential and the Actual are both encircuited in the Original (the I AM), and this identification makes it forever impossible to place a limit on the developmental progression of the universe. Whatsoever is identified with the I AM can never find an end to progression since the actuality of the potentials of the I AM is absolute, and the potentiality of the actuals of the I AM is also absolute. Always will actuals be opening up new avenues of the realization of hitherto impossible potentials—every human decision not only actualizes a new reality in human experience but also opens up a new capacity for human growth. The man lives in every child, and the morontia progressor is resident in the mature God-knowing man.
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115:3.16 The final [[dynamics]] of the [[cosmos]] have to do with the continual [[transfer]] of [[reality]] from [[potentiality]] to [[actuality]]. In [[theory]], there may be an end to this [[metamorphosis]], but in [[fact]], such is impossible since the [[Potential]] and the [[Actual]] are both encircuited in the [[Original]] (the [[I AM]]), and this identification makes it forever impossible to place a [[limit]] on the [[developmental]] [[progression]] of the [[universe]]. Whatsoever is identified with the [[I AM]] can never find an end to [[progression]] since the actuality of the potentials of the I AM is [[absolute]], and the potentiality of the actuals of the I AM is also absolute. Always will actuals be opening up new avenues of the [[realization]] of hitherto impossible [[potentials]]—every [[human]] [[decision]] not only [[actualizes]] a new [[reality]] in human [[experience]] but also opens up a new [[capacity]] for [[human]] [[growth]]. The man lives in every child, and the [[morontia]] progressor is resident in the [[mature]] [[God]]-knowing man.
  
115:3.17 Statics in growth can never appear in the total cosmos since the basis for growth—the absolute actuals—is unqualified, and since the possibilities for growth—the absolute potentials—are unlimited. From a practical viewpoint the philosophers of the universe have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as an end
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115:3.17 [[Static]]s in [[growth]] can never appear in the [[total]] [[cosmos]] since the basis for growth—the [[absolute]] actuals—is unqualified, and since the [[possibilities]] for [[growth]]—the [[absolute]] [[potentials]]—are unlimited. From a [[practical]] [[viewpoint]] the philosophers of the universe have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as an end.
  
115:3.18 From a circumscribed view there are, indeed, many ends, many terminations of activities, but from a larger viewpoint on a higher universe level, there are no endings, merely transitions from one phase of development to another. The major chronicity of the master universe is concerned with the several universe ages, the Havona, the superuniverse, and the outer universe ages. But even these basic divisions of sequence relationships cannot be more than relative landmarks on the unending highway of eternity.
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115:3.18 From a circumscribed view there are, indeed, many ends, many terminations of [[activities]], but from a larger [[viewpoint]] on a higher [[universe]] [[level]], there are no endings, merely [[transitions]] from one [[phase]] of [[development]] to another. The major [[chronicity]] of the [[master universe]] is concerned with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=A_Study_of_the_Master_Universe several universe ages], the [[Havona]], the [[superuniverse]], and the [[Outer Space|outer universe ages]]. But even these basic divisions of [[sequence]] [[relationships]] cannot be more than [[relative]] landmarks on the unending highway of [[eternity]].
  
115:3.19 The final penetration of the truth, beauty, and goodness of the Supreme Being could only open up to the progressing creature those absonite qualities of ultimate divinity which lie beyond the concept levels of truth, beauty, and goodness.
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115:3.19 The final penetration of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS truth, beauty, and goodness] of the [[Supreme Being]] could only open up to the progressing [[creature]] those [[absonite]] [[qualities]] of [[ultimate]] [[divinity]] which lie beyond the [[concept]] levels of [[truth]], [[beauty]], and [[goodness]].
  
 
==115:4. SOURCES OF SUPREME REALITY==
 
==115:4. SOURCES OF SUPREME REALITY==
  
115:4.1 Any consideration of the origins of God the Supreme must begin with the Paradise Trinity, for the Trinity is original Deity while the Supreme is derived Deity. Any consideration of the growth of the Supreme must give consideration to the existential triodities, for they encompass all absolute actuality and all infinite potentiality (in conjunction with the First Source and Center). And the evolutionary Supreme is the culminating and personally volitional focus of the transmutation—the transformation—of potentials to actuals in and on the finite level of existence. The two triodities, actual and potential, encompass the totality of the interrelationships of growth in the universes.
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115:4.1 Any [[consideration]] of the [[origins]] of [[God the Supreme]] must begin with the [[Paradise Trinity]], for the [[Trinity]] is [[original]] [[Deity]] while [[the Supreme]] is derived Deity. Any [[consideration]] of the [[growth]] of the Supreme must give consideration to the [[existential]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:5._TRIODITIES triodities], for they [[encompass]] all [[absolute]] [[actuality]] and all infinite [[potentiality]] (in conjunction with the [[First Source and Center]]). And the [[evolutionary]] [[Supreme]] is the culminating and personally [[volitional]] [[focus]] of the [[transmutation]]—the [[transformation]]—of [[potentials]] to [[actuals]] in and on the [[finite]] level of [[existence]]. The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:5._TRIODITIES two triodities], actual and potential, [[encompass]] the [[totality]] of the interrelationships of [[growth]] in the [[universes]].
  
115:4.2 The source of the Supreme is in the Paradise Trinity—eternal, actual, and undivided Deity. The Supreme is first of all a spirit person, and this spirit person stems from the Trinity. But the Supreme is secondly a Deity of growth—evolutionary growth—and this growth derives from the two triodities, actual and potential.
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115:4.2 The [[source]] of [[the Supreme]] is in the [[Paradise Trinity]]—[[eternal]], [[actual]], and undivided [[Deity]]. The [[Supreme]] is first of all a [[spirit]] [[person]], and this spirit person stems from the [[Trinity]]. But the [[Supreme]] is secondly a [[Deity]] of [[growth]]—evolutionary growth—and this growth derives from the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:5._TRIODITIES two triodities], [[actual]] and [[potential]].
  
115:4.3 If it is difficult to comprehend that the infinite triodities can function on the finite level, pause to consider that their very infinity must in itself contain the potentiality of the finite; infinity encompasses all things ranging from the lowest and most qualified finite existence to the highest and unqualifiedly absolute realities.
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115:4.3 If it is [[difficult]] to [[comprehend]] that the infinite [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:5._TRIODITIES triodities] can [[function]] on the [[finite]] level, pause to [[consider]] that their very [[infinity]] must in itself contain the [[potentiality]] of the [[finite]]; infinity [[encompasses]] [[Everything|all things]] ranging from the lowest and most qualified finite [[existence]] to the highest and unqualifiedly [[absolute]] [[realities]].
  
115:4.4 It is not so difficult to comprehend that the infinite does contain the finite as it is to understand just how this infinite actually is manifest to the finite. But the Thought Adjusters indwelling mortal man are one of the eternal proofs that even the absolute God (as absolute) can and does actually make direct contact with even the lowest and least of all universe will creatures.
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115:4.4 It is not so [[difficult]] to [[comprehend]] that the [[infinite]] does contain the [[finite]] as it is to understand just how this infinite actually is [[manifest]] to the [[finite]]. But the [[Thought Adjusters]] indwelling [[mortal]] man are one of the [[eternal]] [[proofs]] that even the [[absolute]] [[God]] (as absolute) can and does actually make direct [[contact]] with even the lowest and least of all [[universe]] [[Free will|will]] [[creatures]].
  
115:4.5 The triodities which collectively encompass the actual and the potential are manifest on the finite level in conjunction with the Supreme Being. The technique of such manifestation is both direct and indirect: direct in so far as triodity relations repercuss directly in the Supreme and indirect in so far as they are derived through the eventuated level of the absonite.
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115:4.5 The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:5._TRIODITIES triodities] which [[collectively]] [[encompass]] the [[actual]] and the [[potential]] are [[manifest]] on the [[finite]] level in conjunction with the [[Supreme Being]]. The [[technique]] of such [[manifestation]] is both direct and indirect: direct in so far as [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:5._TRIODITIES triodity] relations repercuss directly in the [[Supreme]] and indirect in so far as they are derived through the [[eventuated]] level of the [[absonite]].
  
115:4.6 Supreme reality, which is total finite reality, is in process of dynamic growth between the unqualified potentials of outer space and the unqualified actuals at the center of all things. The finite domain thus factualizes through the co-operation of the absonite agencies of Paradise and the Supreme Creator Personalities of time. The act of maturing the qualified possibilities of the three great potential Absolutes is the absonite function of the Architects of the Master Universe and their transcendental associates. And when these eventualities have attained to a certain point of maturation, the Supreme Creator Personalities emerge from Paradise to engage in the agelong task of bringing the evolving universes into factual being.
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115:4.6 [[Supreme]] [[reality]], which is [[total]] [[finite]] [[reality]], is in [[process]] of [[dynamic]] [[growth]] between the unqualified [[potentials]] of [[outer space]] and the unqualified [[actuals]] at the [[center]] of [[Everything|all things]]. The [[finite]] [[domain]] thus factualizes through the [[co-operation]] of the [[absonite]] [[agencies]] of [[Paradise]] and the [[Supreme Creator Personalities]] of [[time]]. The [[act]] of [[maturing]] the qualified [[possibilities]] of the [[three]] great potential [[Absolutes]] is the [[absonite]] [[function]] of the [[Architects of the Master Universe]] and their [[transcendental]] [[associates]]. And when these [[eventualities]] have [[attained]] to a certain point of [[maturation]], the ''[[Supreme Creator Personalities]]'' emerge from [[Paradise]] to [[engage]] in the agelong task of bringing the evolving [[universes]] into [[factual]] [[being]].
  
115:4.7 The growth of Supremacy derives from the triodities; the spirit person of the Supreme, from the Trinity; but the power prerogatives of the Almighty are predicated on the divinity successes of God the Sevenfold, while the conjoining of the power prerogatives of the Almighty Supreme with the spirit person of God the Supreme takes place by virtue of the ministry of the Conjoint Actor, who bestowed the mind of the Supreme as the conjoining factor in this evolutionary Deity.
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115:4.7 The [[growth]] of [[Supremacy]] derives from the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:5._TRIODITIES triodities]; the [[spirit]] [[person]] of [[the Supreme]], from the [[Trinity]]; but the [[power]] [[prerogatives]] of [[the Almighty]] are predicated on the [[divinity]] successes of [[God the Sevenfold]], while the conjoining of the [[power]] [[prerogatives]] of the [[Almighty Supreme]] with the [[spirit]] [[person]] of [[God the Supreme]] takes place by [[virtue]] of the [[ministry]] of the [[Conjoint Actor]], who [[bestowed]] the [[mind]] of the [[Supreme]] as the conjoining [[factor]] in this evolutionary [[Deity]].
  
 
==115:5. RELATION OF THE SUPREME TO THE PARADISE TRINITY==
 
==115:5. RELATION OF THE SUPREME TO THE PARADISE TRINITY==
  
115:5.1 The Supreme Being is absolutely dependent on the existence and action of the Paradise Trinity for the reality of his personal and spirit nature. While the growth of the Supreme is a matter of triodity relationship, the spirit personality of God the Supreme is dependent upon, and is derived from, the Paradise Trinity, which ever remains as the absolute center-source of perfect and infinite stability around which the evolutionary growth of the Supreme progressively unfolds.
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115:5.1 The [[Supreme Being]] is [[absolutely]] dependent on the [[existence]] and [[action]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]] for the [[reality]] of his [[personal]] and [[spirit]] [[nature]]. While the [[growth]] of the [[Supreme]] is a matter of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:5._TRIODITIES triodity] [[relationship]], the [[spirit]] [[personality]] of [[God the Supreme]] is dependent upon, and is derived from, the [[Paradise Trinity]], which ever remains as the [[absolute]] [[center]]-[[source]] of [[perfect]] and [[infinite]] [[stability]] around which the evolutionary [[growth]] of the [[Supreme]] [[progressively]] [[unfolds]].
  
115:5.2 The function of the Trinity is related to the function of the Supreme, for the Trinity is functional on all (total) levels, including the level of the function of Supremacy. But as the age of Havona gives way to the age of the superuniverses, so does the discernible action of the Trinity as immediate creator give way to the creative acts of the children of the Paradise Deities.
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115:5.2 The [[function]] of the [[Trinity]] is related to the [[function]] of the [[Supreme]], for the [[Trinity]] is [[functional]] on all ([[total]]) levels, including the [[level]] of the [[function]] of [[Supremacy]]. But as the age of [[Havona]] gives way to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=A_Study_of_the_Master_Universe#Chapter_2:_The_Evolutionary_Antithesis age of the superuniverses], so does the [[discernible]] [[action]] of the [[Trinity]] as [[immediate]] [[creator]] give way to the [[creative]] [[acts]] of the [[Divine Sons|children of the Paradise Deities]].
  
 
==115:6. RELATION OF THE SUPREME TO THE TRIODITIES==
 
==115:6. RELATION OF THE SUPREME TO THE TRIODITIES==
  
115:6.1 The triodity of actuality continues to function directly in the post-Havona epochs; Paradise gravity grasps the basic units of material existence, the spirit gravity of the Eternal Son operates directly upon the fundamental values of spirit existence, and the mind gravity of the Conjoint Actor unerringly clutches all vital meanings of intellectual existence.
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115:6.1 The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:5._TRIODITIES triodity] of [[actuality]] continues to [[function]] directly in the post-[[Havona]] [[epochs]]; [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:8._PARADISE_GRAVITY Paradise gravity] grasps the basic [[units]] of [[material]] [[existence]], the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:1._THE_SPIRIT-GRAVITY_CIRCUIT spirit gravity] of the [[Eternal Son]] operates directly upon the [[fundamental]] [[values]] of [[spirit]] [[existence]], and the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_9#9:6._THE_MIND-GRAVITY_CIRCUIT mind gravity] of the [[Conjoint Actor]] unerringly clutches all [[vital]] [[meanings]] of [[intellectual]] [[existence]].
  
115:6.2 But as each stage of creative activity proceeds out through uncharted space, it functions and exists farther and farther removed from direct action by the creative forces and divine personalities of central emplacement—the absolute Isle of Paradise and the infinite Deities resident thereon. These successive levels of cosmic existence become, therefore, increasingly dependent upon developments within the three Absolute potentialities of infinity.
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115:6.2 But as each [[stage]] of [[creative]] [[activity]] [[proceeds]] out through [[Outer Space|uncharted space]], it [[functions]] and exists farther and farther removed from direct [[action]] by the [[creative]] [[forces]] and [[divine]] [[personalities]] of central emplacement—the [[absolute]] [[Isle of Paradise]] and the [[infinite]] [[the Deities|Deities]] resident thereon. These [[successive]] levels of [[cosmic]] [[existence]] become, therefore, increasingly dependent upon [[developments]] within the [[The Absolutes|three Absolute potentialities]] of [[infinity]].
  
115:6.3 The Supreme Being embraces possibilities for cosmic ministry that are not apparently manifested in the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, or the nonpersonal realities of the Isle of Paradise. This statement is made with due regard for the absoluteness of these three basic actualities, but the growth of the Supreme is not only predicated on these actualities of Deity and Paradise but is also involved in developments within the Deity, Universal, and Unqualified Absolutes.
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115:6.3 The [[Supreme Being]] [[embraces]] [[possibilities]] for [[cosmic]] [[ministry]] that are not apparently [[manifested]] in the [[Eternal Son]], the [[Infinite Spirit]], or the nonpersonal [[realities]] of the [[Isle of Paradise]]. This [[statement]] is made with due regard for the absoluteness of these [[three]] basic [[actualities]], but the [[growth]] of [[the Supreme]] is not only predicated on these [[actualities]] of [[Deity]] and [[Paradise]] but is also involved in [[developments]] within the [[the Absolutes|Deity, Universal, and Unqualified Absolutes]].
  
115:6.4 The Supreme not only grows as the Creators and creatures of the evolving universes attain to Godlikeness, but this finite Deity also experiences growth as a result of the creature and Creator mastery of the finite possibilities of the grand universe. The motion of the Supreme is twofold: intensively toward Paradise and Deity and extensively toward the limitlessness of the Absolutes of potential.
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115:6.4 [[The Supreme]] not only [[grows]] as [[Supreme Creator Personalities|the Creators]] and [[creatures]] of the [[Seven Superuniverses|evolving universes]] attain to Godlikeness, but this [[finite]] [[Deity]] also [[experiences]] [[growth]] as a result of the [[creature]] and [[Creator]] mastery of the finite [[possibilities]] of the [[grand universe]]. The [[motion]] of [[the Supreme]] is twofold: intensively toward [[Paradise]] and [[Deity]] and extensively toward the limitlessness of [[the Absolutes]] of [[potential]].
  
115:6.5 In the present universe age this dual motion is revealed in the descending and ascending personalities of the grand universe. The Supreme Creator Personalities and all their divine associates are reflective of the outward, diverging motion of the Supreme, while the ascending pilgrims from the seven superuniverses are indicative of the inward, converging trend of Supremacy.
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115:6.5 In the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2:_The_Evolutionary_Antithesis present universe age] this [[dual]] [[motion]] is [[revealed]] in the descending and ascending personalities of the [[grand universe]]. The [[Supreme Creator Personalities]] and all their [[divine]] [[associates]] are [[reflective]] of the outward, diverging [[motion]] of [[the Supreme]], while the [[ascending]] [[pilgrims]] from the [[seven superuniverses]] are indicative of the inward, [[converging]] trend of [[Supremacy]].
  
115:6.6 Always is the finite Deity seeking for dual correlation, inward toward Paradise and the Deities thereof and outward toward infinity and the Absolutes therein. The mighty eruption of the Paradise-creative divinity personalizing in the Creator Sons and powerizing in the power controllers, signifies the vast outsurge of Supremacy into the domains of potentiality, while the endless procession of the ascending creatures of the grand universe witnesses the mighty insurge of Supremacy toward unity with Paradise Deity.
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115:6.6 Always is the [[finite]] [[Deity]] seeking for [[dual]] correlation, inward toward [[Paradise]] and [[the Deities]] thereof and outward toward [[infinity]] and [[the Absolutes]] therein. The mighty eruption of the [[Paradise]]-[[creative]] [[divinity]] personalizing in the [[Creator Sons]] and powerizing in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS power controllers], signifies the vast outsurge of [[Supremacy]] into the [[domains]] of [[potentiality]], while the endless [[procession]] of the ascending creatures of the [[grand universe]] [[witnesses]] the mighty insurge of [[Supremacy]] toward [[unity]] with [[Paradise]] Deity.
  
115:6.7 Human beings have learned that the motion of the invisible may sometimes be discerned by observing its effects on the visible; and we in the universes have long since learned to detect the movements and trends of Supremacy by observing the repercussions of such evolutions in the personalities and patterns of the grand universe.
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115:6.7 [[Human beings]] have learned that the [[motion]] of the [[invisible]] may sometimes be [[discerned]] by [[observing]] its [[effects]] on the visible; and we in [[the universes]] have long since learned to detect the movements and [[trends]] of [[Supremacy]] by observing the repercussions of such evolutions in the [[personalities]] and [[patterns]] of the [[grand universe]].
  
115:6.8 Though we are not sure, we believe that, as a finite reflection of Paradise Deity, the Supreme is engaged in an eternal progression into outer space; but as a qualification of the three Absolute potentials of outer space, this Supreme Being is forever see king for Paradise coherence. And these dual motions seem to account for most of the basic activities in the presently organized universes.
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115:6.8 Though we are not sure, we believe that, as a [[finite]] [[reflection]] of [[Paradise]] [[Deity]], [[the Supreme]] is engaged in an [[eternal]] [[progression]] into [[outer space]]; but as a qualification of the [[the Absolutes|three Absolute]] [[potentials]] of [[outer space]], this [[Supreme Being]] is forever seeking for [[Paradise]] [[coherence]]. And these [[dual]] [[motions]] seem to account for most of the basic [[activities]] in the presently [[organized]] [[universes]].
  
 
==115:7. THE NATURE OF THE SUPREME==
 
==115:7. THE NATURE OF THE SUPREME==
  
115:7.1 In the Deity of the Supreme the Father-I AM has achieved relatively complete liberation from the limitations inherent in infinity of status, eternity of being, and absoluteness of nature. But God the Supreme has been freed from all existential limitations only by having become subject to experiential qualifications of universal function. In attaining capacity for experience, the finite God also becomes subject to the necessity therefor; in achieving liberation from eternity, the Almighty encounters the barriers of time; and the Supreme could only know growth and development as a consequence of partiality of existence and incompleteness of nature, nonabsoluteness of being.
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115:7.1 In the [[Deity]] of the [[Supreme]] [[the Father]]-[[I AM]] has achieved [[relatively]] complete [[liberation]] from the [[limitations]] [[inherent]] in [[infinity]] of [[status]], [[eternity]] of [[being]], and absoluteness of [[nature]]. But [[God the Supreme]] has been freed from all [[existential]] [[limitations]] only by having become subject to [[experiential]] qualifications of [[universal]] [[function]]. In attaining [[capacity]] for [[experience]], the finite [[God]] also becomes subject to the [[necessity]] therefor; in achieving [[liberation]] from [[eternity]], [[the Almighty]] encounters the barriers of [[time]]; and the [[Supreme]] could only know [[growth]] and [[development]] as a consequence of partiality of [[existence]] and incompleteness of [[nature]], nonabsoluteness of [[being]].
  
115:7.2 All this must be according to the Father's plan, which has predicated finite progress upon effort, creature achievement upon perseverance, and personality development upon faith. By thus ordaining the experience-evolution of the Supreme, the Father has made it possible for finite creatures to exist in the universes and, by experiential progression, sometime to attain the divinity of Supremacy.
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115:7.2 All this must be according to [[the Father]]'s [[plan]], which has predicated [[finite]] [[progress]] upon [[effort]], creature achievement upon [[perseverance]], and [[personality]] [[development]] upon [[faith]]. By thus [[ordaining]] the [[experience]]-[[evolution]] of the [[Supreme]], [[the Father]] has made it possible for finite [[creatures]] to exist in [[the universes]] and, by experiential [[progression]], sometime to [[attain]] the [[divinity]] of [[Supremacy]].
  
115:7.3 Including 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.
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115:7.3 Including the [[Supreme]] and even the [[Ultimate]], all [[reality]], excepting the unqualified [[values]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_105#105:3._THE_SEVEN_ABSOLUTES_OF_INFINITY seven Absolutes], is [[relative]]. The fact of [[Supremacy]] is predicated on [[Paradise]] [[power]], [[Eternal Son|Son]] [[personality]], and [[Conjoint Actor|Conjoint action]], but the [[growth]] of [[the Supreme]] is involved in the [[the Absolutes|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]].
  
115:7.4 To the extent that the triodities are directly operative on the finite level, they impinge upon the Supreme, who is the Deity focalization and cosmic summation of the finite qualifications of the natures of the Absolute Actual and the Absolute Potential.
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115:7.4 To the extent that the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:5._TRIODITIES triodities] are directly operative on the [[finite]] level, they impinge upon the [[Supreme]], who is the [[Deity]] [[focalization]] and [[cosmic]] summation of the finite qualifications of the [[natures]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:5._TRIODITIES Absolute Actual and the Absolute Potential].
  
115:7.5 The Paradise Trinity is considered to be the absolute inevitability; the Seven Master Spirits are apparently Trinity inevitabilities; the power-mind-spirit-personality actualization of the Supreme must be the evolutionary inevitability.
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115:7.5 The [[Paradise Trinity]] is [[considered]] to be the [[absolute]] [[inevitability]]; the [[Seven Master Spirits]] are apparently [[Trinity]] [[inevitabilities]]; the [[power]]-[[mind]]-[[spirit]]-[[personality]] actualization of the [[Supreme]] must be the [[evolutionary]] [[inevitability]].
  
115:7.6 God the Supreme does not appear to have been inevitable in unqualified infinity, but he seems to be on all relativity levels. He is the indispensable focalizer, summarizer, and encompasser of evolutionary experience, effectively unifying the results of this mode of reality perception in his Deity nature. And all this he appears to do for the purpose of contributing to the appearance of the inevitable eventuation, the superexperience and superfinite manifestation of God the Ultimate.
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115:7.6 [[God the Supreme]] does not appear to have been [[inevitable]] in unqualified [[infinity]], but he seems to be on all [[relativity]] [[levels]]. He is the indispensable [[focalizer]], summarizer, and encompasser of [[evolutionary]] [[experience]], effectively unifying the results of this [[mode]] of [[reality]] [[perception]] in his [[Deity]] [[nature]]. And all this he [[appears]] to do for the [[purpose]] of contributing to the [[appearance]] of the inevitable eventuation, the superexperience and superfinite [[manifestation]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#IX._GOD_THE_ULTIMATE God the Ultimate].
  
115:7.7 The Supreme Being cannot be fully appreciated without taking into consideration source, function, and destiny: relationship to the originating Trinity, the universe of activity, and the Trinity Ultimate of immediate destiny.
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115:7.7 The [[Supreme Being]] cannot be fully [[appreciated]] without taking into [[consideration]] [[source]], [[function]], and [[destiny]]: [[relationship]] to the originating [[Trinity]], the [[universe]] of [[activity]], and the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#XII._THE_TRINITIES Trinity Ultimate] of [[immediate]] [[destiny]].
  
115:7.8 By the process of summating evolutionary experience the Supreme connects the finite with the absonite, even as the mind of the Conjoint Actor integrates the divine spirituality of the personal Son with the immutable energies of the Paradise pattern, and as the presence of the Universal Absolute unifies Deity activation with the Unqualified reactivity. And this unity must be a revelation of the undetected working of the original unity of the First Father-Cause and Source-Pattern of all things and all beings.
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115:7.8 By the [[process]] of summating [[evolutionary]] [[experience]] the [[Supreme]] [[connects]] the [[finite]] with the [[absonite]], even as the [[mind]] of the [[Conjoint Actor]] [[integrates]] the [[divine]] [[spirituality]] of the [[Eternal Son|personal Son]] with the immutable [[energies]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#VI._ENERGY_AND_PATTERN Paradise pattern], and as the [[presence]] of the [[Universal Absolute]] unifies Deity activation with the Unqualified reactivity. And this [[unity]] must be a [[revelation]] of the undetected working of the [[original]] [[unity]] of the First Father-Cause and Source-Pattern of [[all things]] and all [[beings]].
  
 
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PAPER 115: THE SUPREME BEING

115:0.1 With God the Father, sonship is the great relationship. With God the Supreme, achievement is the prerequisite to status—one must do something as well as be something.

115:1. RELATIVITY OF CONCEPT FRAMES

115:1.1 Partial, incomplete, and evolving intellects would be helpless in the master universe, would be unable to form the first rational thought pattern, were it not for the innate ability of all mind, high or low, to form a universe frame in which to think. If mind cannot fathom conclusions, if it cannot penetrate to true origins, then will such mind unfailingly postulate conclusions and invent origins that it may have a means of logical thought within the frame of these mind-created postulates. And while such universe frames for creature thought are indispensable to rational intellectual operations, they are, without exception, erroneous to a greater or lesser degree.

115:1.2 Conceptual frames of the universe are only relatively true; they are serviceable scaffolding which must eventually give way before the expansions of enlarging cosmic comprehension. The understandings of truth, beauty, and goodness, morality, ethics, duty, love, divinity, origin, existence, purpose, destiny, time, space, even Deity, are only relatively true. God is much, much more than a Father, but the Father is man's highest concept of God; nonetheless, the Father-Son portrayal of Creator-creature relationship will be augmented by those supermortal conceptions of Deity which will be attained in Orvonton, in Havona, and on Paradise. Man must think in a mortal universe frame, but that does not mean that he cannot envision other and higher frames within which thought can take place.

115:1.3 In 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.

115:1.4 The 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.

115:2. THE ABSOLUTE BASIS FOR SUPREMACY

115:2.1 From the existential standpoint, nothing new can happen throughout the galaxies, for the completion of infinity inherent in the I AM is eternally present in the seven Absolutes, is functionally associated in the triunities, and is transmitively associated in the triodities. But the fact that infinity is thus existentially present in these absolute associations in no way makes it impossible to realize new cosmic experientials. From a finite creature's viewpoint, infinity contains much that is potential, much that is on the order of a future possibility rather than a present actuality.

115:2.2 Value is a unique element in universe reality. We do not comprehend how the value of anything infinite and divine could possibly be increased. But we discover that meanings can be modified if not augmented even in the relations of infinite Deity. To the experiential universes even divine values are increased as actualities by enlarged comprehension of reality meanings.

115:2.3 The entire scheme of universal creation and evolution on all experiencing levels is apparently a matter of the conversion of potentialities into actualities; and this transmutation has to do equally with the realms of space potency, mind potency, and spirit potency.

115:2.4 The 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.

115:3. ORIGINAL, ACTUAL, AND POTENTIAL

115:3.1 The 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.

115:3.2 Mind can never hope to grasp the concept of an Absolute without attempting first to break the unity of such a reality. Mind is unifying of all divergencies, but in the very absence of such divergencies, mind finds no basis upon which to attempt to formulate understanding concepts.

115:3.3 The primordial stasis of infinity requires segmentation prior to human attempts at comprehension. There is a unity in infinity which has been expressed in these papers as the I AM—the premier postulate of the creature mind. But never can a creature understand how it is that this unity becomes duality, triunity, and diversity while yet remaining an unqualified unity. Man encounters a similar problem when he pauses to contemplate the undivided Deity of Trinity alongside the plural personalization of God.

115:3.4 It is only man's distance from infinity that causes this concept to be expressed as one word. While infinity is on the one hand UNITY, on the other it is DIVERSITY without end or limit. Infinity, as it is observed by finite intelligences, is the maximum paradox of creature philosophy and finite metaphysics. Though man's spiritual nature reaches up in the worship experience to the Father who is infinite, man's intellectual comprehension capacity is exhausted by the maximum conception of the Supreme Being. Beyond the Supreme, concepts are increasingly names; less and less are they true designations of reality; more and more do they become the creature's projection of finite understanding toward the superfinite.

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

115:3.9 The 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.

115:3.10 In 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.

115:3.11 From the time viewpoint, the Actual is that which was and is; the Potential is that which is becoming and will be; the Original is that which is. From the eternity viewpoint, the differences between the Original, the Actual, and the Potential are not thus apparent. These triune qualities are not so distinguished on Paradise-eternity levels. In eternity all is—only has all not yet been revealed in time and space.

115:3.12 From a creature's viewpoint, actuality is substance, potentiality is capacity. Actuality exists centermost and expands therefrom into peripheral infinity; potentiality comes inward from the infinity periphery and converges at the center of all things. Originality is that which first causes and then balances the dual motions of the cycle of reality metamorphosis from potentials to actuals and the potentializing of existing actuals.

115:3.13 The three Absolutes of potentiality are operative on the purely eternal level of the cosmos, hence never function as such on subabsolute levels. On the descending levels of reality the triodity of potentiality is manifest with the Ultimate and upon the Supreme. The potential may fail to time-actualize with respect to a part on some subabsolute level, but never in the aggregate. The will of God does ultimately prevail, not always concerning the individual but invariably concerning the total.

115:3.14 It is in the triodity of actuality that the existents of the cosmos have their center; be it spirit, mind, or energy, all center in this association of the Son, the Spirit, and Paradise. The personality of the spirit Son is the master pattern for all personality throughout all universes. The substance of the Paradise Isle is the master pattern of which Havona is a perfect, and the superuniverses are a perfecting, revelation. The Conjoint Actor is at one and the [[Simultaneity|same time] the mind activation of cosmic energy, the conceptualization of spirit purpose, and the integration of the mathematical causes and effects of the material levels with the volitional purposes and motives of the spiritual level. In and to a finite universe the Son, Spirit, and Paradise function in and upon the Ultimate as he is conditioned and qualified in the Supreme.

115:3.15 Actuality (of Deity) is what man seeks in the Paradise ascent. Potentiality (of human divinity) is what man evolves in that search. The Original is what makes possible the coexistence and integration of man the actual, man the potential, and man the eternal.

115:3.16 The final dynamics of the cosmos have to do with the continual transfer of reality from potentiality to actuality. In theory, there may be an end to this metamorphosis, but in fact, such is impossible since the Potential and the Actual are both encircuited in the Original (the I AM), and this identification makes it forever impossible to place a limit on the developmental progression of the universe. Whatsoever is identified with the I AM can never find an end to progression since the actuality of the potentials of the I AM is absolute, and the potentiality of the actuals of the I AM is also absolute. Always will actuals be opening up new avenues of the realization of hitherto impossible potentials—every human decision not only actualizes a new reality in human experience but also opens up a new capacity for human growth. The man lives in every child, and the morontia progressor is resident in the mature God-knowing man.

115:3.17 Statics in growth can never appear in the total cosmos since the basis for growth—the absolute actuals—is unqualified, and since the possibilities for growth—the absolute potentials—are unlimited. From a practical viewpoint the philosophers of the universe have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as an end.

115:3.18 From a circumscribed view there are, indeed, many ends, many terminations of activities, but from a larger viewpoint on a higher universe level, there are no endings, merely transitions from one phase of development to another. The major chronicity of the master universe is concerned with the several universe ages, the Havona, the superuniverse, and the outer universe ages. But even these basic divisions of sequence relationships cannot be more than relative landmarks on the unending highway of eternity.

115:3.19 The final penetration of the truth, beauty, and goodness of the Supreme Being could only open up to the progressing creature those absonite qualities of ultimate divinity which lie beyond the concept levels of truth, beauty, and goodness.

115:4. SOURCES OF SUPREME REALITY

115:4.1 Any consideration of the origins of God the Supreme must begin with the Paradise Trinity, for the Trinity is original Deity while the Supreme is derived Deity. Any consideration of the growth of the Supreme must give consideration to the existential triodities, for they encompass all absolute actuality and all infinite potentiality (in conjunction with the First Source and Center). And the evolutionary Supreme is the culminating and personally volitional focus of the transmutation—the transformation—of potentials to actuals in and on the finite level of existence. The two triodities, actual and potential, encompass the totality of the interrelationships of growth in the universes.

115:4.2 The source of the Supreme is in the Paradise Trinityeternal, actual, and undivided Deity. The Supreme is first of all a spirit person, and this spirit person stems from the Trinity. But the Supreme is secondly a Deity of growth—evolutionary growth—and this growth derives from the two triodities, actual and potential.

115:4.3 If it is difficult to comprehend that the infinite triodities can function on the finite level, pause to consider that their very infinity must in itself contain the potentiality of the finite; infinity encompasses all things ranging from the lowest and most qualified finite existence to the highest and unqualifiedly absolute realities.

115:4.4 It is not so difficult to comprehend that the infinite does contain the finite as it is to understand just how this infinite actually is manifest to the finite. But the Thought Adjusters indwelling mortal man are one of the eternal proofs that even the absolute God (as absolute) can and does actually make direct contact with even the lowest and least of all universe will creatures.

115:4.5 The triodities which collectively encompass the actual and the potential are manifest on the finite level in conjunction with the Supreme Being. The technique of such manifestation is both direct and indirect: direct in so far as triodity relations repercuss directly in the Supreme and indirect in so far as they are derived through the eventuated level of the absonite.

115:4.6 Supreme reality, which is total finite reality, is in process of dynamic growth between the unqualified potentials of outer space and the unqualified actuals at the center of all things. The finite domain thus factualizes through the co-operation of the absonite agencies of Paradise and the Supreme Creator Personalities of time. The act of maturing the qualified possibilities of the three great potential Absolutes is the absonite function of the Architects of the Master Universe and their transcendental associates. And when these eventualities have attained to a certain point of maturation, the Supreme Creator Personalities emerge from Paradise to engage in the agelong task of bringing the evolving universes into factual being.

115:4.7 The growth of Supremacy derives from the triodities; the spirit person of the Supreme, from the Trinity; but the power prerogatives of the Almighty are predicated on the divinity successes of God the Sevenfold, while the conjoining of the power prerogatives of the Almighty Supreme with the spirit person of God the Supreme takes place by virtue of the ministry of the Conjoint Actor, who bestowed the mind of the Supreme as the conjoining factor in this evolutionary Deity.

115:5. RELATION OF THE SUPREME TO THE PARADISE TRINITY

115:5.1 The Supreme Being is absolutely dependent on the existence and action of the Paradise Trinity for the reality of his personal and spirit nature. While the growth of the Supreme is a matter of triodity relationship, the spirit personality of God the Supreme is dependent upon, and is derived from, the Paradise Trinity, which ever remains as the absolute center-source of perfect and infinite stability around which the evolutionary growth of the Supreme progressively unfolds.

115:5.2 The function of the Trinity is related to the function of the Supreme, for the Trinity is functional on all (total) levels, including the level of the function of Supremacy. But as the age of Havona gives way to the age of the superuniverses, so does the discernible action of the Trinity as immediate creator give way to the creative acts of the children of the Paradise Deities.

115:6. RELATION OF THE SUPREME TO THE TRIODITIES

115:6.1 The triodity of actuality continues to function directly in the post-Havona epochs; Paradise gravity grasps the basic units of material existence, the spirit gravity of the Eternal Son operates directly upon the fundamental values of spirit existence, and the mind gravity of the Conjoint Actor unerringly clutches all vital meanings of intellectual existence.

115:6.2 But as each stage of creative activity proceeds out through uncharted space, it functions and exists farther and farther removed from direct action by the creative forces and divine personalities of central emplacement—the absolute Isle of Paradise and the infinite Deities resident thereon. These successive levels of cosmic existence become, therefore, increasingly dependent upon developments within the three Absolute potentialities of infinity.

115:6.3 The Supreme Being embraces possibilities for cosmic ministry that are not apparently manifested in the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, or the nonpersonal realities of the Isle of Paradise. This statement is made with due regard for the absoluteness of these three basic actualities, but the growth of the Supreme is not only predicated on these actualities of Deity and Paradise but is also involved in developments within the Deity, Universal, and Unqualified Absolutes.

115:6.4 The Supreme not only grows as the Creators and creatures of the evolving universes attain to Godlikeness, but this finite Deity also experiences growth as a result of the creature and Creator mastery of the finite possibilities of the grand universe. The motion of the Supreme is twofold: intensively toward Paradise and Deity and extensively toward the limitlessness of the Absolutes of potential.

115:6.5 In the present universe age this dual motion is revealed in the descending and ascending personalities of the grand universe. The Supreme Creator Personalities and all their divine associates are reflective of the outward, diverging motion of the Supreme, while the ascending pilgrims from the seven superuniverses are indicative of the inward, converging trend of Supremacy.

115:6.6 Always is the finite Deity seeking for dual correlation, inward toward Paradise and the Deities thereof and outward toward infinity and the Absolutes therein. The mighty eruption of the Paradise-creative divinity personalizing in the Creator Sons and powerizing in the power controllers, signifies the vast outsurge of Supremacy into the domains of potentiality, while the endless procession of the ascending creatures of the grand universe witnesses the mighty insurge of Supremacy toward unity with Paradise Deity.

115:6.7 Human beings have learned that the motion of the invisible may sometimes be discerned by observing its effects on the visible; and we in the universes have long since learned to detect the movements and trends of Supremacy by observing the repercussions of such evolutions in the personalities and patterns of the grand universe.

115:6.8 Though we are not sure, we believe that, as a finite reflection of Paradise Deity, the Supreme is engaged in an eternal progression into outer space; but as a qualification of the three Absolute potentials of outer space, this Supreme Being is forever seeking for Paradise coherence. And these dual motions seem to account for most of the basic activities in the presently organized universes.

115:7. THE NATURE OF THE SUPREME

115:7.1 In the Deity of the Supreme the Father-I AM has achieved relatively complete liberation from the limitations inherent in infinity of status, eternity of being, and absoluteness of nature. But God the Supreme has been freed from all existential limitations only by having become subject to experiential qualifications of universal function. In attaining capacity for experience, the finite God also becomes subject to the necessity therefor; in achieving liberation from eternity, the Almighty encounters the barriers of time; and the Supreme could only know growth and development as a consequence of partiality of existence and incompleteness of nature, nonabsoluteness of being.

115:7.2 All this must be according to the Father's plan, which has predicated finite progress upon effort, creature achievement upon perseverance, and personality development upon faith. By thus ordaining the experience-evolution of the Supreme, the Father has made it possible for finite creatures to exist in the universes and, by experiential progression, sometime to attain the divinity of Supremacy.

115:7.3 Including 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 DeityGod 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.

115:7.4 To the extent that the triodities are directly operative on the finite level, they impinge upon the Supreme, who is the Deity focalization and cosmic summation of the finite qualifications of the natures of the Absolute Actual and the Absolute Potential.

115:7.5 The Paradise Trinity is considered to be the absolute inevitability; the Seven Master Spirits are apparently Trinity inevitabilities; the power-mind-spirit-personality actualization of the Supreme must be the evolutionary inevitability.

115:7.6 God the Supreme does not appear to have been inevitable in unqualified infinity, but he seems to be on all relativity levels. He is the indispensable focalizer, summarizer, and encompasser of evolutionary experience, effectively unifying the results of this mode of reality perception in his Deity nature. And all this he appears to do for the purpose of contributing to the appearance of the inevitable eventuation, the superexperience and superfinite manifestation of God the Ultimate.

115:7.7 The Supreme Being cannot be fully appreciated without taking into consideration source, function, and destiny: relationship to the originating Trinity, the universe of activity, and the Trinity Ultimate of immediate destiny.

115:7.8 By the process of summating evolutionary experience the Supreme connects the finite with the absonite, even as the mind of the Conjoint Actor integrates the divine spirituality of the personal Son with the immutable energies of the Paradise pattern, and as the presence of the Universal Absolute unifies Deity activation with the Unqualified reactivity. And this unity must be a revelation of the undetected working of the original unity of the First Father-Cause and Source-Pattern of all things and all beings.

115:7.9 Sponsored by a Mighty Messenger temporarily sojourning on Urantia.

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