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10:3.1 Notwithstanding there is only one [[Deity]], there are three positive and divine [[personalizations]] of Deity. Regarding the endowment of man with the [[Thought Adjuster|divine Adjusters]], the Father said: "Let us make mortal man in our own image."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.1] Repeatedly throughout the [[Urantia]]n [[writings]] there occurs this [[reference]] to the [[acts]] and doings of plural Deity, clearly showing recognition of the [[existence]] and working of the three Sources and Centers.
10:3.2 We are taught that [[the Son]] and [[the Spirit]] sustain the same and [[equal]] [[relations]] to [[the Father]] in the [[Trinity]] [[association]]. In eternity and as Deities they undoubtedly do, but in [[time]] and as [[personalities]] they certainly [[Manifest|disclose]] [[relationships]] of a very [[diverse]] [[nature]]. Looking from [[Paradise]] out on [[Master Universe|the universes]], these relationships do seem to be very similar, but when viewed from the domains of [[space]], they appear to be quite [[different]].
10:3.3 The [[divine Sons]] are indeed the "Word of God,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter] but the [[children]] of the Spirit are truly the "Act of God."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_genesis#Chapter_.1] God [[speaks]] through [[the Son]] and, with the Son, [[acts]] through the [[Infinite Spirit]], while in all universe activities the Son and the Spirit are exquisitely [[Brotherhood|fraternal]], [[work]]ing as two [[equal]] brothers with admiration and [[love]] for an honored and divinely respected common [[Father]].
10:3.4 The Father, Son, and Spirit are certainly equal in [[nature]], [[co-ordinate]] in [[being]], but there are unmistakable [[differences]] in their universe [[performances]], and when acting alone, each person of Deity is apparently limited in [[Absolute|absoluteness]].
10:3.5 The Universal Father, prior to his self-willed divestment of the [[personality]], [[powers]], and [[attributes]] which constitute the Son and the Spirit, seems to have been (philosophically considered) an unqualified, absolute, and infinite Deity. But such a [[theoretical]] [[First Source and Center]] without a Son could not in any sense of the [[word]] be considered the Universal Father; [[fatherhood]] is not real without sonship. Furthermore, the Father, to have been absolute in a [[total]] sense, must have existed at some eternally distant [[moment]] alone. But he never had such a [[solitary]] [[existence]]; the Son and the Spirit are both coeternal with the Father. The First Source and Center has always been, and will forever be, the eternal Father of the Original Son and, with the Son, the eternal progenitor of the Infinite Spirit.
10:3.6 We observe that the Father has divested himself of all direct [[manifestations]] of absoluteness except absolute [[fatherhood]] and absolute [[volition]]. We do not know whether volition is an inalienable [[attribute]] of [[the Father]]; we can only observe that he did not divest himself of volition. Such infinity of will must have been eternally [[inherent]] in the First Source and Center.
10:3.7 In bestowing absoluteness of [[personality]] upon the Eternal Son, the Universal Father escapes from the fetters of personality absolutism, but in so doing he takes a step which makes it forever impossible for him to act [[alone]] as the personality-absolute. And with the final [[personalization]] of coexistent Deity—the [[Conjoint Actor]]—there ensues the critical trinitarian [[interdependence]] of the three divine personalities with regard to the [[totality]] of Deity [[function]] in absolute.
10:3.8 God is the Father-Absolute of all personalities in the [[universe of universes]]. The Father is personally absolute in [[liberty]] of [[action]], but in the [[Seven superuniverses|universes]] of [[time and space]], made, in the making, and yet to be made, the Father is not [[discernibly]] absolute as total Deity except in the ''Paradise Trinity''.
10:3.9 The [[First Source and Center]] functions outside of [[Havona]] in the [[phenomenal]] universes as follows:
*1. 10:3.10 As [[creator]], through the [[Creator Sons]], his grandsons.
*2. 10:3.11 As [[controller]], through the [[gravity]] [[center]] of [[Paradise]].
*3. 10:3.12 As [[spirit]], through the [[Eternal Son]].
*4. 10:3.13 As [[mind]], through the [[Conjoint Creator]].
*5. 10:3.14 As a [[Father]], he maintains parental contact with all creatures through his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#VI._ENERGY_AND_PATTERN personality circuit].
*6. 10:3.15 As a [[person]], he acts directly throughout creation by his exclusive fragments—in mortal man by the [[Thought Adjusters]].
*7. 10:3.16 As [[total]] [[Deity]], he functions only in the ''Paradise Trinity''.
10:3.17 All these relinquishments and [[delegations]] of jurisdiction by the Universal Father are wholly voluntary and self-imposed. The all-powerful Father [[Intention|purposefully]] assumes these [[limitations]] of [[universe]] [[authority]].
10:3.18 The [[Eternal Son]] seems to [[function]] as one with the Father in all spiritual respects except in the bestowals of the [[Thought Adjusters|God fragments]] and in other prepersonal activities. Neither is the Son closely identified with the [[intellectual]] [[activities]] of [[material]] [[creatures]] nor with the [[energy]] activities of the material [[universes]]. As absolute the Son functions as a person and only in the domain of the spiritual universe.
10:3.19 The Infinite Spirit is amazingly [[universal]] and unbelievably [[versatile]] in all his operations. He [[performs]] in the [[spheres]] of [[mind]], [[matter]], and [[spirit]]. The Conjoint Actor [[represents]] the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:4._THE_SEVEN_TRIUNITIES Father-Son association], but he also [[functions]] as himself. He is not directly concerned with [[physical]] [[gravity]], with [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:1._THE_SPIRIT-GRAVITY_CIRCUIT spiritual gravity], or with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_5#5:6._THE_GOD_OF_PERSONALITY personality circuit (5.6.10)], but he more or less [[participates]] in all other universe activities. While apparently dependent on three [[existential]] and [[absolute]] [[gravity]] [[controls]], the Infinite Spirit appears to exercise three supercontrols. This threefold endowment is employed in many ways to [[transcend]] and seemingly to neutralize even the [[manifestations]] of primary [[forces]] and energies, right up to the superultimate borders of absoluteness. In certain situations these supercontrols absolutely transcend even the primal manifestations of [[cosmic]] [[reality]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_10 Go to Paper 10]</center>
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[[Category:Paper 10 - The Paradise Trinity]]
10:3.1 Notwithstanding there is only one [[Deity]], there are three positive and divine [[personalizations]] of Deity. Regarding the endowment of man with the [[Thought Adjuster|divine Adjusters]], the Father said: "Let us make mortal man in our own image."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.1] Repeatedly throughout the [[Urantia]]n [[writings]] there occurs this [[reference]] to the [[acts]] and doings of plural Deity, clearly showing recognition of the [[existence]] and working of the three Sources and Centers.
10:3.2 We are taught that [[the Son]] and [[the Spirit]] sustain the same and [[equal]] [[relations]] to [[the Father]] in the [[Trinity]] [[association]]. In eternity and as Deities they undoubtedly do, but in [[time]] and as [[personalities]] they certainly [[Manifest|disclose]] [[relationships]] of a very [[diverse]] [[nature]]. Looking from [[Paradise]] out on [[Master Universe|the universes]], these relationships do seem to be very similar, but when viewed from the domains of [[space]], they appear to be quite [[different]].
10:3.3 The [[divine Sons]] are indeed the "Word of God,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter] but the [[children]] of the Spirit are truly the "Act of God."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_genesis#Chapter_.1] God [[speaks]] through [[the Son]] and, with the Son, [[acts]] through the [[Infinite Spirit]], while in all universe activities the Son and the Spirit are exquisitely [[Brotherhood|fraternal]], [[work]]ing as two [[equal]] brothers with admiration and [[love]] for an honored and divinely respected common [[Father]].
10:3.4 The Father, Son, and Spirit are certainly equal in [[nature]], [[co-ordinate]] in [[being]], but there are unmistakable [[differences]] in their universe [[performances]], and when acting alone, each person of Deity is apparently limited in [[Absolute|absoluteness]].
10:3.5 The Universal Father, prior to his self-willed divestment of the [[personality]], [[powers]], and [[attributes]] which constitute the Son and the Spirit, seems to have been (philosophically considered) an unqualified, absolute, and infinite Deity. But such a [[theoretical]] [[First Source and Center]] without a Son could not in any sense of the [[word]] be considered the Universal Father; [[fatherhood]] is not real without sonship. Furthermore, the Father, to have been absolute in a [[total]] sense, must have existed at some eternally distant [[moment]] alone. But he never had such a [[solitary]] [[existence]]; the Son and the Spirit are both coeternal with the Father. The First Source and Center has always been, and will forever be, the eternal Father of the Original Son and, with the Son, the eternal progenitor of the Infinite Spirit.
10:3.6 We observe that the Father has divested himself of all direct [[manifestations]] of absoluteness except absolute [[fatherhood]] and absolute [[volition]]. We do not know whether volition is an inalienable [[attribute]] of [[the Father]]; we can only observe that he did not divest himself of volition. Such infinity of will must have been eternally [[inherent]] in the First Source and Center.
10:3.7 In bestowing absoluteness of [[personality]] upon the Eternal Son, the Universal Father escapes from the fetters of personality absolutism, but in so doing he takes a step which makes it forever impossible for him to act [[alone]] as the personality-absolute. And with the final [[personalization]] of coexistent Deity—the [[Conjoint Actor]]—there ensues the critical trinitarian [[interdependence]] of the three divine personalities with regard to the [[totality]] of Deity [[function]] in absolute.
10:3.8 God is the Father-Absolute of all personalities in the [[universe of universes]]. The Father is personally absolute in [[liberty]] of [[action]], but in the [[Seven superuniverses|universes]] of [[time and space]], made, in the making, and yet to be made, the Father is not [[discernibly]] absolute as total Deity except in the ''Paradise Trinity''.
10:3.9 The [[First Source and Center]] functions outside of [[Havona]] in the [[phenomenal]] universes as follows:
*1. 10:3.10 As [[creator]], through the [[Creator Sons]], his grandsons.
*2. 10:3.11 As [[controller]], through the [[gravity]] [[center]] of [[Paradise]].
*3. 10:3.12 As [[spirit]], through the [[Eternal Son]].
*4. 10:3.13 As [[mind]], through the [[Conjoint Creator]].
*5. 10:3.14 As a [[Father]], he maintains parental contact with all creatures through his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#VI._ENERGY_AND_PATTERN personality circuit].
*6. 10:3.15 As a [[person]], he acts directly throughout creation by his exclusive fragments—in mortal man by the [[Thought Adjusters]].
*7. 10:3.16 As [[total]] [[Deity]], he functions only in the ''Paradise Trinity''.
10:3.17 All these relinquishments and [[delegations]] of jurisdiction by the Universal Father are wholly voluntary and self-imposed. The all-powerful Father [[Intention|purposefully]] assumes these [[limitations]] of [[universe]] [[authority]].
10:3.18 The [[Eternal Son]] seems to [[function]] as one with the Father in all spiritual respects except in the bestowals of the [[Thought Adjusters|God fragments]] and in other prepersonal activities. Neither is the Son closely identified with the [[intellectual]] [[activities]] of [[material]] [[creatures]] nor with the [[energy]] activities of the material [[universes]]. As absolute the Son functions as a person and only in the domain of the spiritual universe.
10:3.19 The Infinite Spirit is amazingly [[universal]] and unbelievably [[versatile]] in all his operations. He [[performs]] in the [[spheres]] of [[mind]], [[matter]], and [[spirit]]. The Conjoint Actor [[represents]] the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:4._THE_SEVEN_TRIUNITIES Father-Son association], but he also [[functions]] as himself. He is not directly concerned with [[physical]] [[gravity]], with [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:1._THE_SPIRIT-GRAVITY_CIRCUIT spiritual gravity], or with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_5#5:6._THE_GOD_OF_PERSONALITY personality circuit (5.6.10)], but he more or less [[participates]] in all other universe activities. While apparently dependent on three [[existential]] and [[absolute]] [[gravity]] [[controls]], the Infinite Spirit appears to exercise three supercontrols. This threefold endowment is employed in many ways to [[transcend]] and seemingly to neutralize even the [[manifestations]] of primary [[forces]] and energies, right up to the superultimate borders of absoluteness. In certain situations these supercontrols absolutely transcend even the primal manifestations of [[cosmic]] [[reality]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_10 Go to Paper 10]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 10 - The Paradise Trinity]]