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==PAPER 116: THE ALMIGHTY SUPREME==

==PAPER 116: THE ALMIGHTY SUPREME==

116:0.1 If man [[recognized]] that his [[Supreme Creator Personalities|Creators]]—his [[immediate]] supervisors—while being [[divine]] were also [[finite]], and that the [[God]] of [[time and space]] was an [[evolving]] and nonabsolute [[Deity]], then would the inconsistencies of [[temporal]] inequalities cease to be [[profound]] [[religious]] [[paradoxes]]. No longer would religious [[faith]] be [[prostituted]] to the promotion of [[social]] [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/smugness smugness] in the fortunate while serving only to [[encourage]] stoical resignation in the unfortunate [[victims]] of social [[deprivation]].

116:0.1 If man [[recognized]] that his [[Supreme Creator Personalities|Creators]]—his [[immediate]] supervisors—while being [[divine]] were also [[finite]], and that the [[God]] of [[time and space]] was an [[evolving]] and nonabsolute [[Deity]], then would the inconsistencies of [[temporal]] inequalities cease to be [[profound]] [[religious]] [[paradoxes]]. No longer would religious [[faith]] be [[prostituted]] to the promotion of [[social]] [https://www.thefreedictionary.com/smugness smugness] in the fortunate while serving only to [[encourage]] stoical resignation in the unfortunate [[victims]] of social [[deprivation]].

116:0.2 When viewing the exquisitely [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_14#14:3._THE_HAVONA_WORLDS perfect spheres of Havona], it is both [[reasonable]] and [[logical]] to believe they were made by a [[perfect]], [[infinite]], and [[absolute]] [[Creator]]. But that same reason and logic would [[compel]] any [[honest]] [[being]], when viewing the [[turmoil]], imperfections, and inequities of [[Urantia]], to conclude that your world had been made by, and was being [[managed]] by, [[Supreme Creator Personalities|Creators]] who were subabsolute, preinfinite, and [[other]] than [[perfect]].

116:0.2 When viewing the exquisitely [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_14#14:3._THE_HAVONA_WORLDS perfect spheres of Havona], it is both [[reasonable]] and [[logical]] to believe they were made by a [[perfect]], [[infinite]], and [[absolute]] [[Creator]]. But that same reason and logic would [[compel]] any [[honest]] [[being]], when viewing the [[turmoil]], imperfections, and inequities of [[Urantia]], to conclude that your world had been made by, and was being [[managed]] by, [[Supreme Creator Personalities|Creators]] who were subabsolute, preinfinite, and [[other]] than [[perfect]].

116:0.3 [[Experiential]] [[growth]] implies [[creature]]-[[Creator]] [[partnership]]—God and man in [[association]]. [[Growth]] is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earmark_(agriculture) earmark] of [[experiential]] [[Deity]]: [[Havona]] did not [[grow]]; Havona is and always has been; it is [[existential]] like the everlasting [[Gods]] who are its [[source]]. But [[growth]] characterizes the [[grand universe]].

116:0.3 [[Experiential]] [[growth]] implies [[creature]]-[[Creator]] [[partnership]]—God and man in [[association]]. [[Growth]] is the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earmark_(agriculture) earmark] of [[experiential]] [[Deity]]: [[Havona]] did not [[grow]]; Havona is and always has been; it is [[existential]] like the everlasting [[Gods]] who are its [[source]]. But [[growth]] characterizes the [[grand universe]].

116:0.4 The ''Almighty Supreme'' is a living and [[evolving]] [[Deity]] of [[power]] and [[personality]]. His present [[domain]], the [[grand universe]], is also a growing realm of [[power]] and [[personality]]. His [[destiny]] is [[perfection]], but his present [[experience]] [[encompasses]] the elements of [[growth]] and incomplete [[status]].

116:0.4 The ''Almighty Supreme'' is a living and [[evolving]] [[Deity]] of [[power]] and [[personality]]. His present [[domain]], the [[grand universe]], is also a growing realm of [[power]] and [[personality]]. His [[destiny]] is [[perfection]], but his present [[experience]] [[encompasses]] the elements of [[growth]] and incomplete [[status]].

116:4.7 But the [[local universes]] are the real [[laboratories]] in which are worked out the [[mind]] [[experiments]], galactic [[adventures]], [[divinity]] [[unfoldings]], and [[personality]] [[progressions]] which, when [[cosmically]] totaled, [[constitute]] the [[actual]] [[foundation]] upon which the [[Supreme]] is achieving [[deity]] [[evolution]] in and by [[experience]].

116:4.7 But the [[local universes]] are the real [[laboratories]] in which are worked out the [[mind]] [[experiments]], galactic [[adventures]], [[divinity]] [[unfoldings]], and [[personality]] [[progressions]] which, when [[cosmically]] totaled, [[constitute]] the [[actual]] [[foundation]] upon which the [[Supreme]] is achieving [[deity]] [[evolution]] in and by [[experience]].

116:4.8 In the [[local universes]] even [[the Creators]] evolve: The [[presence]] of the [[Conjoint Actor]] evolves from a living [[power]] [[focus]] to the [[status]] of the [[divine]] [[personality]] of a [[Universe Mother Spirit]]; the [[Creator Son]] evolves from the [[nature]] of [[existential]] [[Paradise]] [[divinity]] to the [[experiential]] [[nature]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY supreme sovereignty]. The [[local universes]] are the starting points of true [[evolution]], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn_%28biology%29 spawning grounds] of [[bona fide]] imperfect [[personalities]] [[endowed]] with the [[freewill]] choice of becoming [[cocreators]] of themselves as they are to be.

116:4.8 In the [[local universes]] even [[the Creators]] evolve: The [[presence]] of the [[Conjoint Actor]] evolves from a living [[power]] [[focus]] to the [[status]] of the [[divine]] [[personality]] of a [[Universe Mother Spirit]]; the [[Creator Son]] evolves from the [[nature]] of [[existential]] [[Paradise]] [[divinity]] to the [[experiential]] [[nature]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY supreme sovereignty]. The [[local universes]] are the starting points of true [[evolution]], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn_%28biology%29 spawning grounds] of [[bona fide]] imperfect [[personalities]] [[endowed]] with the [[freewill]] choice of becoming [[cocreators]] of themselves as they are to be.

116:4.9 The [[Magisterial Sons]] in their [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:2._THE_MAGISTERIAL_SONS bestowals] upon the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary worlds] [[eventually]] acquire natures [[expressive]] of [[Paradise]] [[divinity]] in [[experiential]] unification with the highest spiritual [[values]] of [[material]] [[human]] nature. And through these and other [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowals the Michael Creators] likewise acquire the [[natures]] and [[cosmic]] [[viewpoints]] of their [[actual]] [[local universe]] children. Such [[Master Creator Sons]] approximate the completion of subsupreme [[experience]]; and when their [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY local universe sovereignty] is enlarged to [[embrace]] the [[associated]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:6._THE_LOCAL_UNIVERSE_CREATIVE_SPIRITS Creative Spirits], it may be said to approximate the [[limits]] of [[supremacy]] within the present [[potentials]] of the evolutionary [[grand universe]].

116:4.9 The [[Magisterial Sons]] in their [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:2._THE_MAGISTERIAL_SONS bestowals] upon the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary worlds] [[eventually]] acquire natures [[expressive]] of [[Paradise]] [[divinity]] in [[experiential]] unification with the highest spiritual [[values]] of [[material]] [[human]] nature. And through these and other [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowals the Michael Creators] likewise acquire the [[natures]] and [[cosmic]] [[viewpoints]] of their [[actual]] [[local universe]] children. Such [[Master Creator Sons]] approximate the completion of subsupreme [[experience]]; and when their [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY local universe sovereignty] is enlarged to [[embrace]] the [[associated]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:6._THE_LOCAL_UNIVERSE_CREATIVE_SPIRITS Creative Spirits], it may be said to approximate the [[limits]] of [[supremacy]] within the present [[potentials]] of the evolutionary [[grand universe]].

==116:7. THE LIVING ORGANISM OF THE GRAND UNIVERSE==

==116:7. THE LIVING ORGANISM OF THE GRAND UNIVERSE==

116:7.1 The [[grand universe]] is not only a [[material]] [[creation]] of physical [[grandeur]], [[spirit]] [[sublimity]], and [[intellectual]] [[magnitude]], it is also a [[magnificent]] and [[responsive]] living [[organism]]. There is [[actual]] life [[pulsating]] throughout the [[mechanism]] of the vast [[creation]] of the [[Vital|vibrant]] [[cosmos]]. The [[physical]] [[reality]] of [[the universes]] is [[symbolic]] of the [[perceivable]] [[reality]] of the ''Almighty Supreme''; and this [[material]] and living [[organism]] is penetrated by [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_9#9:6._THE_MIND-GRAVITY_CIRCUIT intelligence circuits], even as the [[human]] [[body]] is traversed by a [[network]] of [[Neural Network|neural sensation]] [[paths]]. This [[physical]] [[universe]] is permeated by [[energy]] lanes which [[effectively]] [[activate]] material [[creation]], even as the [[human]] [[body]] is nourished and [[energized]] by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulatory_system circulatory distribution] of the assimilable [[energy]] [[products]] of [[Nutrition|nourishment]]. The vast [[universe]] is not without those [[co-ordinating]] centers of magnificent [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] which might be [[compared]] to the delicate [[chemical]]-[[control]] system of the [[human]] [[mechanism]]. But if you only knew something about the [[physique]] of a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:2._THE_SUPREME_POWER_CENTERS power center], we could, by [[analogy]], tell you so much more about the [[physical]] [[universe]].

116:7.1 The [[grand universe]] is not only a [[material]] [[creation]] of physical [[grandeur]], [[spirit]] [[sublimity]], and [[intellectual]] [[magnitude]], it is also a [[magnificent]] and [[responsive]] living [[organism]]. There is [[actual]] life [[pulsating]] throughout the [[mechanism]] of the vast [[creation]] of the [[Vital|vibrant]] [[cosmos]]. The [[physical]] [[reality]] of [[the universes]] is [[symbolic]] of the [[perceivable]] [[reality]] of the ''Almighty Supreme''; and this [[material]] and living [[organism]] is penetrated by [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_9#9:6._THE_MIND-GRAVITY_CIRCUIT intelligence circuits], even as the [[human]] [[body]] is traversed by a [[network]] of [[Neural Network|neural sensation]] [[paths]]. This [[physical]] [[universe]] is permeated by [[energy]] lanes which [[effectively]] [[activate]] material [[creation]], even as the [[human]] [[body]] is nourished and [[energized]] by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulatory_system circulatory distribution] of the assimilable [[energy]] [[products]] of [[Nutrition|nourishment]]. The vast [[universe]] is not without those [[co-ordinating]] centers of magnificent [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] which might be [[compared]] to the delicate [[chemical]]-[[control]] system of the [[human]] [[mechanism]]. But if you only knew something about the [[physique]] of a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:2._THE_SUPREME_POWER_CENTERS power center], we could, by [[analogy]], tell you so much more about the [[physical]] [[universe]].

116:7.2 Much as [[mortals]] look to [[solar energy]] for life [[maintenance]], so does the [[grand universe]] depend upon the unfailing [[energies]] [[emanating]] from [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:5._NETHER_PARADISE nether Paradise] to sustain the [[material]] [[activities]] and [[cosmic]] [[motions]] of [[space]].

116:7.2 Much as [[mortals]] look to [[solar energy]] for life [[maintenance]], so does the [[grand universe]] depend upon the unfailing [[energies]] [[emanating]] from [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:5._NETHER_PARADISE nether Paradise] to sustain the [[material]] [[activities]] and [[cosmic]] [[motions]] of [[space]].