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''Existential'' is a word especially used in the Papers. It means something eternal, without a beginning or an ending. There is no time at which it did not exist. An existential being has full knowledge before any experience. God is existential. Hence the word "existential" is used as the opposite of- Experiential. This word designates beings and things that have origins. It also designates all beings that can grow by experience. Even some existential realities can have experiential growth to higher levels. Other realities are wholly (experiential; man is wholly experiential in his growth.)
 
''Existential'' is a word especially used in the Papers. It means something eternal, without a beginning or an ending. There is no time at which it did not exist. An existential being has full knowledge before any experience. God is existential. Hence the word "existential" is used as the opposite of- Experiential. This word designates beings and things that have origins. It also designates all beings that can grow by experience. Even some existential realities can have experiential growth to higher levels. Other realities are wholly (experiential; man is wholly experiential in his growth.)
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Now, for the other three terms which are borrowed from the philosopher [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegel Hegel], who made much of them. We will use them several times in our study.
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Now, for the other three terms which are borrowed from the philosopher [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegel Hegel], who made much of them. We will use them several times in our study.
    
''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegel#Triads Thesis, antithesis, and synthesis]'', are, in part, defined (in Webster) as follows: 'With Hegel (thesis is) the proposition or conception representing the first  stage of developing thought, contrasting with the second stage, or antithesis which negates the thesis, and with the third stage, or synthesis in which thesis and antithesis are brought together."
 
''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegel#Triads Thesis, antithesis, and synthesis]'', are, in part, defined (in Webster) as follows: 'With Hegel (thesis is) the proposition or conception representing the first  stage of developing thought, contrasting with the second stage, or antithesis which negates the thesis, and with the third stage, or synthesis in which thesis and antithesis are brought together."
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If we had not been told about this, we might have expected that God would have synthesized the spirit Son with not-spirit Paradise. This would have produced a balanced situation. Actuals (Eternal Son, Paradise, and Infinite Spirit) would have been synthesized just like Potentials (Unqualified Absolute, Universal Absolute, and Deity [Qualified] Absolute). We could not have foretold that God would unite himself with the Son, in the Spirit, and as the Trinity. (This produces an artistic asymmetry that stands in contrast to a mathematical, or a mechanical, symmetrical balance. It is the difference between putting a dot in the exact center of a rectangle, and locating- it somewhat off-center. God as an artist, evidently takes precedence over God as an engineer.)
 
If we had not been told about this, we might have expected that God would have synthesized the spirit Son with not-spirit Paradise. This would have produced a balanced situation. Actuals (Eternal Son, Paradise, and Infinite Spirit) would have been synthesized just like Potentials (Unqualified Absolute, Universal Absolute, and Deity [Qualified] Absolute). We could not have foretold that God would unite himself with the Son, in the Spirit, and as the Trinity. (This produces an artistic asymmetry that stands in contrast to a mathematical, or a mechanical, symmetrical balance. It is the difference between putting a dot in the exact center of a rectangle, and locating- it somewhat off-center. God as an artist, evidently takes precedence over God as an engineer.)
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When God does unify a part of Actual Reality, he causes this association to include Deity only. He does not synthesize all Actual Reality, he limits this unification to Actual Deity Reality. God leaves Paradise out. Since Paradise is left out of this existential synthesis, it presents a problem for all of God's later appearing associates and subordinates of experiential status. (See [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Appendix_XXII:_Power-Personality_Synthesis#.C2.A72._WHY_DOES_POWER-PERSONALITY_SYNTHESIS_TAKE_PLACE.3F Appendix XXII, § 2. Why does Power-Personality Synthesis Take Place?])
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When God does unify a part of Actual Reality, he causes this association to include Deity only. He does not synthesize all Actual Reality, he limits this unification to Actual Deity Reality. God leaves Paradise out. Since Paradise is left out of this existential synthesis, it presents a problem for all of God's later appearing associates and subordinates of experiential status. (See [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Appendix_XXII:_Power-Personality_Synthesis#.C2.A72._WHY_DOES_POWER-PERSONALITY_SYNTHESIS_TAKE_PLACE.3F Appendix XXII, § 2. Why does Power-Personality Synthesis Take Place?])
    
And now, at last, we have reached the "dawn" of eternity at the close of the Zero Age, and the beginning of factual reality in the First Age of the master universe - the age of Havona.
 
And now, at last, we have reached the "dawn" of eternity at the close of the Zero Age, and the beginning of factual reality in the First Age of the master universe - the age of Havona.

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