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105:1.1 [[Absolute]] primal [[causation]] in [[infinity]] the [[philosophers]] of [[the universes]] attribute to the [[Universal Father]] [[functioning]] as the infinite, the [[eternal]], and the [[absolute]] [[I AM]].

105:1.2 There are many elements of [[danger]] attendant upon the presentation to the [[mortal]] [[intellect]] of this [[idea]] of an [[infinite]] [[I AM]] since this [[concept]] is so remote from [[human]] experiential [[understanding]] as to involve serious [[distortion]] of [[meanings]] and misconception of [[values]]. Nevertheless, the [[philosophic]] [[concept]] of the [[I AM]] does afford [[finite]] [[beings]] some basis for an attempted approach to the [[partial]] [[comprehension]] of [[absolute]] [[origins]] and infinite [[destinies]]. But in all our attempts to elucidate the [[genesis]] and fruition of [[reality]], let it be made [[clear]] that this [[concept]] of the [[I AM]] is, in all [[personality]] [[meanings]] and [[values]], synonymous with the First [[Person]] of [[Deity]], the [[Universal Father]] of all [[personalities]]. But this [[postulate]] of the [[I AM]] is not so clearly identifiable in undeified realms of [[universal]] [[reality]].

105:1.3 The [[I AM]] is the [[Infinite]]; the [[I AM]] is also infinity. From the sequential, [[time]] [[viewpoint]], all [[reality]] has its [[origin]] in the [[infinite]] [[I AM]], whose [[solitary]] [[existence]] in [[past]] infinite [[eternity]] must be a [[finite]] [[creature]]'s premier [[philosophic]] [[postulate]]. The [[concept]] of the [[I AM]] connotes unqualified [[infinity]], the undifferentiated [[reality]] of all that could ever be in all of an [[infinite]] [[eternity]].

105:1.4 As an [[existential]] [[concept]] the [[I AM]] is neither deified nor undeified, neither [[actual]] nor [[potential]], neither [[personal]] nor [[impersonal]], neither [[static]] nor [[dynamic]]. No qualification can be [[applied]] to the Infinite except to state that the [[I AM]] is. The [[philosophic]] [[postulate]] of the [[I AM]] is one [[universe]] [[concept]] which is somewhat more [[difficult]] of [[comprehension]] than that of the [[Unqualified Absolute]].

105:1.5 To the [[finite]] [[mind]] there simply must be a beginning, and though there never was a real beginning to [[reality]], still there are certain [[source]] [[relationships]] which reality [[manifests]] to [[infinity]]. The prereality, primordial, [[eternity]] situation may be thought of something like this: At some infinitely distant, [[hypothetical]], [[past]]-eternity [[moment]], the [[I AM]] may be conceived as both thing and no thing, as both [[cause]] and [[effect]], as both [[volition]] and [[response]]. At this [[hypothetical]] [[eternity]] [[moment]] there is no differentiation throughout all [[infinity]]. Infinity is filled by the Infinite; the Infinite [[encompasses]] infinity. This is the [[hypothetical]] [[static]] [[moment]] of eternity; [[actuals]] are still contained within their [[potentials]], and potentials have not yet appeared within the [[infinity]] of the [[I AM]]. But even in this conjectured situation we must [[assume]] the [[existence]] of the [[possibility]] of [[self]]-[[Free will|will]].

105:1.6 Ever [[remember]] that man's [[comprehension]] of the [[Universal Father]] is a [[personal]] [[experience]]. [[God]], as your [[spiritual]] [[Father]], is [[comprehensible]] to you and to all other [[mortals]]; but your experiential [[worshipful]] [[concept]] of the [[Universal Father]] must always be less than your [[philosophic]] [[postulate]] of the [[infinity]] of the [[First Source and Center]], the [[I AM]]. When we speak of [[the Father]], we mean [[God]] as he is understandable by his [[creatures]] both high and low, but there is much more of [[Deity]] which is not comprehensible to [[universe]] [[creatures]]. [[God]], your Father and my [[Father]], is that [[phase]] of the [[Infinite]] which we [[perceive]] in our [[personalities]] as an [[actual]] experiential [[reality]], but the [[I AM]] ever remains as our [[hypothesis]] of all that we feel is unknowable of the [[First Source and Center]]. And even that [[hypothesis]] probably falls far short of the unfathomed [[infinity]] of [[original]] [[reality]].

105:1.7 The [[universe of universes]], with its innumerable host of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_30 inhabiting personalities], is a vast and [[complex]] [[organism]], but the [[First Source and Center]] is infinitely more [[complex]] than the [[universes]] and [[personalities]] which have become real in [[response]] to his willful [[mandates]]. When you stand in [[awe]] of the [[magnitude]] of the [[master universe]], pause to [[consider]] that even this inconceivable [[creation]] can be no more than a [[partial]] [[revelation]] of the [[Infinite]].

105:1.8 [[Infinity]] is indeed remote from the [[experience]] level of [[mortal]] [[comprehension]], but even in this age on [[Urantia]] your [[concepts]] of [[infinity]] are growing, and they will continue to grow throughout your [[Ascension Career|endless careers]] stretching onward into [[future]] [[eternity]]. Unqualified [[infinity]] is meaningless to the [[finite]] [[creature]], but infinity is capable of [[self]]-[[limitation]] and is susceptible of [[reality]] [[expression]] to all [[levels]] of [[universe]] existences. And the face which the [[Infinite]] turns toward all [[universe]] [[personalities]] is the face of a [[Father]], the [[Universal Father]] of [[love]].

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