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0:1.1 The [[universe of universes]] presents [[phenomena]] of [[deity]] [[activities]] on [[diverse]] levels of cosmic realities, mind meanings, and spirit values, but all of these ministrations—[[personal]] or otherwise—are divinely co-ordinated.
0:1.2 DEITY is personalizable as [[God]], is prepersonal and superpersonal in ways not altogether comprehensible by man. Deity is characterized by the [[quality]] of [[unity]]—[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentiality_and_actuality_(Aristotle) actual or potential]—on all supermaterial levels of [[reality]]; and this unifying quality is best comprehended by [[creatures]] as [[divinity]].
0:1.3 Deity functions on personal, prepersonal, and superpersonal levels. Total Deity is [[functional]] on the following seven levels:
:1. 0:1.4 ''[[Static]]''—self-contained and self-existent Deity.
:2. 0:1.5 ''[[Potential]]''—self-willed and self-purposive Deity.
:3. 0:1.6 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative Associative]—self-personalized and divinely fraternal Deity.
:4. 0:1.7 ''[[Creative]]''—self-distributive and divinely revealed Deity.
:5. 0:1.8 ''[[Evolution|Evolutional]]''—self-expansive and creature-identified Deity.
:6. 0:1.9 ''[[Supreme]]''—self-experiential and creature-Creator-unifying Deity. Deity functioning on the first creature-identificational level as time-space overcontrollers of the [[grand universe]], sometimes designated the Supremacy of Deity.
:7. 0:1.10 ''[[Ultimate]]''—self-projected and [[time-space]]-transcending Deity. Deity omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Deity functioning on the second level of unifying divinity [[expression]] as effective overcontrollers and [[absonite]] upholders of the [[master universe]]. As compared with the ministry of the Deities to the [[grand universe]], this absonite [[function]] in the master universe is tantamount to [[universal]] overcontrol and supersustenance, sometimes called the Ultimacy of Deity.
0:1.11 The ''[[finite]]'' level of [[reality]] is characterized by [[creature]] life and time-space limitations. Finite realities may not have endings, but they always have beginnings—they are created. The Deity level of [[Supremacy]] may be conceived as a function in relation to finite [[existences]].
0:1.12 The ''[[absonite]]'' level of reality is characterized by things and beings without beginnings or endings and by the [[transcendence]] of [[time and space]]. Absoniters are not created; they are ''<u>eventuated</u>''—they simply are. The Deity level of Ultimacy connotes a function in relation to absonite realities. No matter in what part of the master universe, whenever time and space are transcended, such an absonite [[phenomenon]] is an act of the Ultimacy of Deity.
0:1.13 The ''[[absolute]]'' level is beginningless, endless, timeless, and spaceless. For example: On [[Paradise]], time and space are nonexistent; the time-space [[status]] of Paradise is absolute. This level is [[Trinity]] attained, existentially, by the Paradise Deities, but this third level of unifying Deity [[expression]] is not fully unified experientially. Whenever, wherever, and however the absolute level of Deity functions, Paradise-absolute values and meanings are [[manifest]].
0:1.14 Deity may be [[existential]], as in the [[Eternal Son]]; experiential, as in the [[Supreme Being]]; associative, as in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_0_-_The_Foreword#VIII._GOD_THE_SEVENFOLD God the Sevenfold]; undivided, as in the [[Paradise Trinity]].
0:1.15 [[Deity]] is the source of all that which is [[divine]]. Deity is characteristically and invariably divine, but all that which is divine is not [[necessarily]] Deity, though it will be co-ordinated with Deity and will tend towards some [[phase]] of [[unity]] with Deity—spiritual, mindal, or personal.
0:1.16 DIVINITY is the characteristic, unifying, and co-ordinating [[quality]] of Deity.
0:1.17 Divinity is [[creature]] comprehensible as [[truth]], [[beauty]], and [[goodness]]; correlated in [[personality]] as [[love]], [[mercy]], and [[Service|ministry]]; disclosed on impersonal levels as [[justice]], [[power]], and [[sovereignty]].
0:1.18 Divinity may be perfect—complete—as on existential and [[creator]] levels of Paradise perfection; it may be imperfect, as on experiential and [[creature]] levels of [[time-space]] [[evolution]]; or it may be [[relative]], neither perfect nor imperfect, as on certain [[Havona]] levels of existential-experiential [[relationships]].
0:1.19 When we attempt to conceive of [[perfection]] in all phases and forms of [[relativity]], we encounter seven conceivable types:
:1. [[Absolute]] [[perfection]] in all aspects.
:2. Absolute perfection in some [[phases]] and [[relative]] perfection in all other aspects.
:3. Absolute, relative, and imperfect aspects in varied association.
:4. Absolute perfection in some respects, imperfection in all others.
:5. Absolute perfection in no direction, relative perfection in all other [[manifestations]].
:6. Absolute perfection in no phase, relative in some, imperfect in others.
:7. Absolute perfection in no attribute, imperfection in all.
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[[Category:Paper 0 - The Foreword]]
0:1.1 The [[universe of universes]] presents [[phenomena]] of [[deity]] [[activities]] on [[diverse]] levels of cosmic realities, mind meanings, and spirit values, but all of these ministrations—[[personal]] or otherwise—are divinely co-ordinated.
0:1.2 DEITY is personalizable as [[God]], is prepersonal and superpersonal in ways not altogether comprehensible by man. Deity is characterized by the [[quality]] of [[unity]]—[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentiality_and_actuality_(Aristotle) actual or potential]—on all supermaterial levels of [[reality]]; and this unifying quality is best comprehended by [[creatures]] as [[divinity]].
0:1.3 Deity functions on personal, prepersonal, and superpersonal levels. Total Deity is [[functional]] on the following seven levels:
:1. 0:1.4 ''[[Static]]''—self-contained and self-existent Deity.
:2. 0:1.5 ''[[Potential]]''—self-willed and self-purposive Deity.
:3. 0:1.6 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative Associative]—self-personalized and divinely fraternal Deity.
:4. 0:1.7 ''[[Creative]]''—self-distributive and divinely revealed Deity.
:5. 0:1.8 ''[[Evolution|Evolutional]]''—self-expansive and creature-identified Deity.
:6. 0:1.9 ''[[Supreme]]''—self-experiential and creature-Creator-unifying Deity. Deity functioning on the first creature-identificational level as time-space overcontrollers of the [[grand universe]], sometimes designated the Supremacy of Deity.
:7. 0:1.10 ''[[Ultimate]]''—self-projected and [[time-space]]-transcending Deity. Deity omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Deity functioning on the second level of unifying divinity [[expression]] as effective overcontrollers and [[absonite]] upholders of the [[master universe]]. As compared with the ministry of the Deities to the [[grand universe]], this absonite [[function]] in the master universe is tantamount to [[universal]] overcontrol and supersustenance, sometimes called the Ultimacy of Deity.
0:1.11 The ''[[finite]]'' level of [[reality]] is characterized by [[creature]] life and time-space limitations. Finite realities may not have endings, but they always have beginnings—they are created. The Deity level of [[Supremacy]] may be conceived as a function in relation to finite [[existences]].
0:1.12 The ''[[absonite]]'' level of reality is characterized by things and beings without beginnings or endings and by the [[transcendence]] of [[time and space]]. Absoniters are not created; they are ''<u>eventuated</u>''—they simply are. The Deity level of Ultimacy connotes a function in relation to absonite realities. No matter in what part of the master universe, whenever time and space are transcended, such an absonite [[phenomenon]] is an act of the Ultimacy of Deity.
0:1.13 The ''[[absolute]]'' level is beginningless, endless, timeless, and spaceless. For example: On [[Paradise]], time and space are nonexistent; the time-space [[status]] of Paradise is absolute. This level is [[Trinity]] attained, existentially, by the Paradise Deities, but this third level of unifying Deity [[expression]] is not fully unified experientially. Whenever, wherever, and however the absolute level of Deity functions, Paradise-absolute values and meanings are [[manifest]].
0:1.14 Deity may be [[existential]], as in the [[Eternal Son]]; experiential, as in the [[Supreme Being]]; associative, as in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_0_-_The_Foreword#VIII._GOD_THE_SEVENFOLD God the Sevenfold]; undivided, as in the [[Paradise Trinity]].
0:1.15 [[Deity]] is the source of all that which is [[divine]]. Deity is characteristically and invariably divine, but all that which is divine is not [[necessarily]] Deity, though it will be co-ordinated with Deity and will tend towards some [[phase]] of [[unity]] with Deity—spiritual, mindal, or personal.
0:1.16 DIVINITY is the characteristic, unifying, and co-ordinating [[quality]] of Deity.
0:1.17 Divinity is [[creature]] comprehensible as [[truth]], [[beauty]], and [[goodness]]; correlated in [[personality]] as [[love]], [[mercy]], and [[Service|ministry]]; disclosed on impersonal levels as [[justice]], [[power]], and [[sovereignty]].
0:1.18 Divinity may be perfect—complete—as on existential and [[creator]] levels of Paradise perfection; it may be imperfect, as on experiential and [[creature]] levels of [[time-space]] [[evolution]]; or it may be [[relative]], neither perfect nor imperfect, as on certain [[Havona]] levels of existential-experiential [[relationships]].
0:1.19 When we attempt to conceive of [[perfection]] in all phases and forms of [[relativity]], we encounter seven conceivable types:
:1. [[Absolute]] [[perfection]] in all aspects.
:2. Absolute perfection in some [[phases]] and [[relative]] perfection in all other aspects.
:3. Absolute, relative, and imperfect aspects in varied association.
:4. Absolute perfection in some respects, imperfection in all others.
:5. Absolute perfection in no direction, relative perfection in all other [[manifestations]].
:6. Absolute perfection in no phase, relative in some, imperfect in others.
:7. Absolute perfection in no attribute, imperfection in all.
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_0 Go to Paper 0]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 0 - The Foreword]]