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118:0.10 [[Creative]] [[growth]] is unending but ever [[satisfying]], endless in extent but always punctuated by those [[personality]]-[[satisfying]] moments of transient goal [[attainment]] which serve so effectively as the mobilization preludes to new [[adventures]] in [[cosmic]] [[growth]], [[universe]] [[exploration]], and [[Deity]] [[attainment]].

118:0.10 [[Creative]] [[growth]] is unending but ever [[satisfying]], endless in extent but always punctuated by those [[personality]]-[[satisfying]] moments of transient goal [[attainment]] which serve so effectively as the mobilization preludes to new [[adventures]] in [[cosmic]] [[growth]], [[universe]] [[exploration]], and [[Deity]] [[attainment]].

118:0.11 While the [[domain]] of [[mathematics]] is beset with [[qualitative]] [[limitations]], it does provide the [[finite]] [[mind]] with a [[conceptual]] basis of [[contemplating]] [[infinity]]. There is no [[quantitative]] [[limitation]] to [[numbers]], even in the [[comprehension]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 finite mind]. No matter how large the [[number]] conceived, you can always envisage one more being added. And also, you can [[comprehend]] that that is short of [[infinity]], for no matter how many times you repeat this addition to [[number]], still always one more can be added.[http://books.google.com/books?id=lXjF7JnHQoIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=to+infinity+and+beyond+eli+maor&source=bl&ots=-0tzBVJwr4&sig=GhciSCT1GdkDEioPlthevHDjVR8&hl=en&ei=QuHvTPqJMcGclgeRutXjDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg]

118:0.11 While the [[domain]] of [[mathematics]] is beset with [[qualitative]] [[limitations]], it does provide the [[finite]] [[mind]] with a [[conceptual]] basis of [[contemplating]] [[infinity]]. There is no [[quantitative]] [[limitation]] to [[numbers]], even in the [[comprehension]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 finite mind]. No matter how large the [[number]] conceived, you can always envisage one more being added. And also, you can [[comprehend]] that that is short of [[infinity]], for no matter how many times you repeat this addition to [[number]], still always one more can be added.[http://books.google.com/books?id=lXjF7JnHQoIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=to+infinity+and+beyond+eli+maor&source=bl&ots=-0tzBVJwr4&sig=GhciSCT1GdkDEioPlthevHDjVR8&hl=en&ei=QuHvTPqJMcGclgeRutXjDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg]

118:0.12 At the [[same time]], the [[infinite]] [[series]] can be [[totaled]] at any given point, and this total (more properly, a subtotal) provides the fullness of the sweetness of goal [[attainment]] for a given [[person]] at a given [[time]] and [[status]]. But sooner or later, this same [[person]] begins to [[hunger]] and yearn for new and greater goals, and such [[adventures]] in [[growth]] will be forever forthcoming in the fullness of [[time]] and the [[cycles]] of [[eternity]].

118:0.12 At the [[same time]], the [[infinite]] [[series]] can be [[totaled]] at any given point, and this total (more properly, a subtotal) provides the fullness of the sweetness of goal [[attainment]] for a given [[person]] at a given [[time]] and [[status]]. But sooner or later, this same [[person]] begins to [[hunger]] and yearn for new and greater goals, and such [[adventures]] in [[growth]] will be forever forthcoming in the fullness of [[time]] and the [[cycles]] of [[eternity]].

118:0.13 Each [[successive]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=A_Study_of_the_Master_Universe universe age] is the [[antechamber]] of the following [[era]] of [[cosmic]] [[growth]], and each [[universe]] [[epoch]] provides [[immediate]] [[destiny]] for all preceding [[stages]]. [[Havona]], in and of itself, is a [[perfect]], but perfection-limited, [[creation]]; [[Havona]] perfection, expanding out into the [[evolutionary superuniverses]], finds not only [[cosmic]] [[destiny]] but also [[liberation]] from the [[limitations]] of pre-evolutionary [[existence]].

118:0.13 Each [[successive]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=A_Study_of_the_Master_Universe universe age] is the [[antechamber]] of the following [[era]] of [[cosmic]] [[growth]], and each [[universe]] [[epoch]] provides [[immediate]] [[destiny]] for all preceding [[stages]]. [[Havona]], in and of itself, is a [[perfect]], but perfection-limited, [[creation]]; [[Havona]] perfection, expanding out into the [[evolutionary superuniverses]], finds not only [[cosmic]] [[destiny]] but also [[liberation]] from the [[limitations]] of pre-evolutionary [[existence]].

==118:1. TIME AND ETERNITY==

==118:1. TIME AND ETERNITY==

118:1.9 On the [[levels]] of the [[infinite]] and the [[absolute]] the moment of the present contains all of the [[past]] as well as all of the [[future]]. [[I AM]] signifies also I WAS and I WILL BE. And this [[represents]] our best [[concept]] of eternity and the [[eternal]].

118:1.9 On the [[levels]] of the [[infinite]] and the [[absolute]] the moment of the present contains all of the [[past]] as well as all of the [[future]]. [[I AM]] signifies also I WAS and I WILL BE. And this [[represents]] our best [[concept]] of eternity and the [[eternal]].

118:1.10 On the [[absolute]] and [[eternal]] level, [[potential]] [[reality]] is just as meaningful as [[actual]] [[reality]]. Only on the [[finite]] level and to [[time]]-bound [[creatures]] does there appear to be such a vast [[difference]]. To [[God]], as [[absolute]], an [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascending mortal] who has made the [[eternal]] [[decision]] is already a [[Paradise]] [[finaliter]]. But the [[Universal Father]], through the indwelling [[Thought Adjuster]], is not thus [[limited]] in [[awareness]] but can also know of, and [[participate]] in, every [[temporal]] [[struggle]] with the [[problems]] of the [[creature]] [[ascent]] from [[animal]]like to [[God]]like [[levels]] of [[existence]].

118:1.10 On the [[absolute]] and [[eternal]] level, [[potential]] [[reality]] is just as meaningful as [[actual]] [[reality]]. Only on the [[finite]] level and to [[time]]-bound [[creatures]] does there appear to be such a vast [[difference]]. To [[God]], as [[absolute]], an [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascending mortal] who has made the [[eternal]] [[decision]] is already a [[Paradise]] [[finaliter]]. But the [[Universal Father]], through the indwelling [[Thought Adjuster]], is not thus [[limited]] in [[awareness]] but can also know of, and [[participate]] in, every [[temporal]] [[struggle]] with the [[problems]] of the [[creature]] [[ascent]] from [[animal]]like to [[God]]like [[levels]] of [[existence]].

==118:2. OMNIPRESENCE AND UBIQUITY==

==118:2. OMNIPRESENCE AND UBIQUITY==

118:2.1 The [[ubiquity]] of [[Deity]] must not be [[confused]] with the [[ultimacy]] of the [[divine]] [[omnipresence]]. It is [[volitional]] with the [[Universal Father]] that the [[Supreme]], the [[Ultimate]], and the [[Absolute]] should [[compensate]], [[co-ordinate]], and [[unify]] his [[time-space]] [[ubiquity]] and his [[time-space]]-[[transcended]] [[omnipresence]] with his timeless and spaceless [[universal]] and [[absolute]] [[presence]]. And you should [[remember]] that, while [[Deity]] ubiquity may be so often [[space]] [[associated]], it is not [[necessarily]] time conditioned.

118:2.1 The [[ubiquity]] of [[Deity]] must not be [[confused]] with the [[ultimacy]] of the [[divine]] [[omnipresence]]. It is [[volitional]] with the [[Universal Father]] that the [[Supreme]], the [[Ultimate]], and the [[Absolute]] should [[compensate]], [[co-ordinate]], and [[unify]] his [[time-space]] [[ubiquity]] and his [[time-space]]-[[transcended]] [[omnipresence]] with his timeless and spaceless [[universal]] and [[absolute]] [[presence]]. And you should [[remember]] that, while [[Deity]] ubiquity may be so often [[space]] [[associated]], it is not [[necessarily]] time conditioned.

118:2.2 As [[mortal]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48#48:8._THE_MORONTIA_PROGRESSORS morontia ascenders] you [[progressively]] [[discern]] [[God]] through the [[ministry]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#VIII._GOD_THE_SEVENFOLD God the Sevenfold]. Through [[Havona]] you discover [[God the Supreme]]. On [[Paradise]] you find him as a [[person]], and then as [[finaliters]] you will presently attempt to know him as [[Ultimate]]. Being [[finaliters]], there would seem to be but one [[course]] to pursue after having [[attained]] the [[Ultimate]], and that would be to begin the [[quest]] of the [[Absolute]]. No [[finaliter]] will be disturbed by the uncertainties of the [[attainment]] of the [[Deity Absolute]] since at the end of the [[supreme]] and [[ultimate]] ascensions he encountered [[God]] [[the Father]]. Such [[finaliters]] will no [[doubt]] [[believe]] that, even if they should be successful in finding [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#X._GOD_THE_ABSOLUTE God the Absolute], they would only be [[discovering]] the same [[God]], the [[Paradise Father]] [[manifesting]] himself on more nearly [[infinite]] and [[universal]] levels. Undoubtedly the [[attainment]] of [[God]] in [[absolute]] would reveal the Primal [[Ancestor]] of [[universes]] as well as the Final Father of [[personalities]].

118:2.2 As [[mortal]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48#48:8._THE_MORONTIA_PROGRESSORS morontia ascenders] you [[progressively]] [[discern]] [[God]] through the [[ministry]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#VIII._GOD_THE_SEVENFOLD God the Sevenfold]. Through [[Havona]] you discover [[God the Supreme]]. On [[Paradise]] you find him as a [[person]], and then as [[finaliters]] you will presently attempt to know him as [[Ultimate]]. Being [[finaliters]], there would seem to be but one [[course]] to pursue after having [[attained]] the [[Ultimate]], and that would be to begin the [[quest]] of the [[Absolute]]. No [[finaliter]] will be disturbed by the uncertainties of the [[attainment]] of the [[Deity Absolute]] since at the end of the [[supreme]] and [[ultimate]] ascensions he encountered [[God]] [[the Father]]. Such [[finaliters]] will no [[doubt]] [[believe]] that, even if they should be successful in finding [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#X._GOD_THE_ABSOLUTE God the Absolute], they would only be [[discovering]] the same [[God]], the [[Paradise Father]] [[manifesting]] himself on more nearly [[infinite]] and [[universal]] levels. Undoubtedly the [[attainment]] of [[God]] in [[absolute]] would reveal the Primal [[Ancestor]] of [[universes]] as well as the Final Father of [[personalities]].

118:2.3 [[God the Supreme]] may not be a [[demonstration]] of the [[time-space]] [[omnipresence]] of [[Deity]], but he is [[literally]] a [[manifestation]] of [[divine]] [[ubiquity]]. Between the [[spiritual]] [[presence]] of the [[Creator]] and the [[material]] [[manifestations]] of [[creation]] there exists a vast [[domain]] of the ubiquitous becoming —the [[universe]] [[emergence]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#VII._THE_SUPREME_BEING evolutionary Deity].

118:2.3 [[God the Supreme]] may not be a [[demonstration]] of the [[time-space]] [[omnipresence]] of [[Deity]], but he is [[literally]] a [[manifestation]] of [[divine]] [[ubiquity]]. Between the [[spiritual]] [[presence]] of the [[Creator]] and the [[material]] [[manifestations]] of [[creation]] there exists a vast [[domain]] of the ubiquitous becoming —the [[universe]] [[emergence]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#VII._THE_SUPREME_BEING evolutionary Deity].

118:2.4 If [[God the Supreme]] ever [[assumes]] direct [[control]] of [[the universes]] of [[time and space]], we are [[confident]] such a [[Deity]] [[administration]] will [[function]] under the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] of the [[Ultimate]]. In such an [[event]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#IX._GOD_THE_ULTIMATE God the Ultimate] would begin to become [[manifest]] to the [[universes]] of [[time]] as the [[transcendental]] [[Almighty]] (the [[Omnipotent]]) exercising the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] of supertime and [[transcended]] [[space]] concerning the [[administrative]] [[functions]] of the [[Almighty Supreme]].

118:2.4 If [[God the Supreme]] ever [[assumes]] direct [[control]] of [[the universes]] of [[time and space]], we are [[confident]] such a [[Deity]] [[administration]] will [[function]] under the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] of the [[Ultimate]]. In such an [[event]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#IX._GOD_THE_ULTIMATE God the Ultimate] would begin to become [[manifest]] to the [[universes]] of [[time]] as the [[transcendental]] [[Almighty]] (the [[Omnipotent]]) exercising the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] of supertime and [[transcended]] [[space]] concerning the [[administrative]] [[functions]] of the [[Almighty Supreme]].

118:2.5 The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE mortal mind] may ask, even as we do: If the [[evolution]] of [[God the Supreme]] to [[administrative]] [[authority]] in the [[grand universe]] is attended by augmented [[manifestations]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#IX._GOD_THE_ULTIMATE God the Ultimate], will a [[corresponding]] [[emergence]] of [[God]] the [[Ultimate]] in the [[postulated]] [[universes]] of [[outer space]] be attended by similar and enhanced [[revelations]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#X._GOD_THE_ABSOLUTE God the Absolute]? But we really do not know.

118:2.5 The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE mortal mind] may ask, even as we do: If the [[evolution]] of [[God the Supreme]] to [[administrative]] [[authority]] in the [[grand universe]] is attended by augmented [[manifestations]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#IX._GOD_THE_ULTIMATE God the Ultimate], will a [[corresponding]] [[emergence]] of [[God]] the [[Ultimate]] in the [[postulated]] [[universes]] of [[outer space]] be attended by similar and enhanced [[revelations]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#X._GOD_THE_ABSOLUTE God the Absolute]? But we really do not know.

==118:3. TIME-SPACE RELATIONSHIPS==

==118:3. TIME-SPACE RELATIONSHIPS==

==118:4. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY CAUSATION==

==118:4. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY CAUSATION==

118:4.1 Many of the [[theologic]] [[difficulties]] and the [[metaphysical]] [[dilemmas]] of [[mortal]] man are due to [[man]]'s mislocation of [[Deity]] [[personality]] and consequent assignment of [[infinite]] and [[absolute]] attributes to subordinate [[Divinity]] and to [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#VII._THE_SUPREME_BEING evolutionary Deity]. You must not [[forget]] that, while there is indeed a true [[Causality|First Cause]], there are also a host of [[co-ordinate]] and subordinate causes, both [[associate]] and secondary causes.

118:4.1 Many of the [[theologic]] [[difficulties]] and the [[metaphysical]] [[dilemmas]] of [[mortal]] man are due to [[man]]'s mislocation of [[Deity]] [[personality]] and consequent assignment of [[infinite]] and [[absolute]] attributes to subordinate [[Divinity]] and to [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#VII._THE_SUPREME_BEING evolutionary Deity]. You must not [[forget]] that, while there is indeed a true [[Causality|First Cause]], there are also a host of [[co-ordinate]] and subordinate causes, both [[associate]] and secondary causes.

118:4.2 The [[vital]] distinction between first causes and second causes is that first causes produce [[original]] [[effects]] which are ''free'' from [[inheritance]] of any [[factor]] derived from any antecedent [[causation]]. Secondary causes yield [[effects]] which invariably [[exhibit]] inheritance from other and preceding [[causation]].

118:4.2 The [[vital]] distinction between first causes and second causes is that first causes produce [[original]] [[effects]] which are ''free'' from [[inheritance]] of any [[factor]] derived from any antecedent [[causation]]. Secondary causes yield [[effects]] which invariably [[exhibit]] inheritance from other and preceding [[causation]].

118:4.3 The [[purely]] [[static]] [[potentials]] [[inherent]] in the [[Unqualified Absolute]] are reactive to those [[causations]] of the [[Deity Absolute]] which are produced by the [[actions]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]]. In the [[presence]] of the [[Universal Absolute]] these causative-impregnated [[static]] [[potentials]] forthwith become [[active]] and [[responsive]] to the [[influence]] of certain [[transcendental]] [[agencies]] whose [[actions]] result in the [[transmutation]] of these [[activated]] [[potentials]] to the [[status]] of true [[universe]] [[possibilities]] for [[development]], actualized capacities for [[growth]]. It is upon such [[matured]] [[potentials]] that [[the creators]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#PAPER_29:_THE_UNIVERSE_POWER_DIRECTORS controllers] of the [[grand universe]] enact the never-ending [[drama]] of [[cosmic]] [[evolution]].

118:4.3 The [[purely]] [[static]] [[potentials]] [[inherent]] in the [[Unqualified Absolute]] are reactive to those [[causations]] of the [[Deity Absolute]] which are produced by the [[actions]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]]. In the [[presence]] of the [[Universal Absolute]] these causative-impregnated [[static]] [[potentials]] forthwith become [[active]] and [[responsive]] to the [[influence]] of certain [[transcendental]] [[agencies]] whose [[actions]] result in the [[transmutation]] of these [[activated]] [[potentials]] to the [[status]] of true [[universe]] [[possibilities]] for [[development]], actualized capacities for [[growth]]. It is upon such [[matured]] [[potentials]] that [[the creators]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#PAPER_29:_THE_UNIVERSE_POWER_DIRECTORS controllers] of the [[grand universe]] enact the never-ending [[drama]] of [[cosmic]] [[evolution]].

118:4.4 [[Causation]], disregarding [[existential]]s, is [[threefold]] in its basic [[constitution]]. As it operates in [[this universe age]] and concerning the [[finite]] level of the [[seven superuniverses]], it may be conceived as follows:

118:4.4 [[Causation]], disregarding [[existential]]s, is [[threefold]] in its basic [[constitution]]. As it operates in [[this universe age]] and concerning the [[finite]] level of the [[seven superuniverses]], it may be conceived as follows:

*1. 118:4.5 ''Activation of static potentials''. The [[establishment]] of [[destiny]] in the [[Universal Absolute]] by the [[actions]] of the [[Deity Absolute]], operating in and upon the [[Unqualified Absolute]] and in [[consequence]] of the [[volitional]] [[mandates]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]].

*1. 118:4.5 ''Activation of static potentials''. The [[establishment]] of [[destiny]] in the [[Universal Absolute]] by the [[actions]] of the [[Deity Absolute]], operating in and upon the [[Unqualified Absolute]] and in [[consequence]] of the [[volitional]] [[mandates]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]].

*2. 118:4.6 ''Eventuation of universe capacities''. This involves the [[transformation]] of undifferentiated [[potentials]] into [[segregated]] and defined [[plans]]. This is the [[act]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#I._DEITY_AND_DIVINITY Ultimacy of Deity (0:1.10)] and of the manifold [[agencies]] of the [[transcendental]] level. Such [[acts]] are in [[perfect]] [[anticipation]] of the [[future]] needs of the entire [[master universe]]. It is in [[connection]] with the [[segregation]] of [[potentials]] that the [[Architects of the Master Universe]] exist as the veritable embodiments of the [[Deity]] [[concept]] of [[the universes]]. Their [[plans]] appear to be ultimately [[space]] [[limited]] in extent by the [[concept]] [[periphery]] of the [[master universe]], but as [[plans]] they are not otherwise conditioned by [[time]] or [[space]].

*2. 118:4.6 ''Eventuation of universe capacities''. This involves the [[transformation]] of undifferentiated [[potentials]] into [[segregated]] and defined [[plans]]. This is the [[act]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#I._DEITY_AND_DIVINITY Ultimacy of Deity (0:1.10)] and of the manifold [[agencies]] of the [[transcendental]] level. Such [[acts]] are in [[perfect]] [[anticipation]] of the [[future]] needs of the entire [[master universe]]. It is in [[connection]] with the [[segregation]] of [[potentials]] that the [[Architects of the Master Universe]] exist as the veritable embodiments of the [[Deity]] [[concept]] of [[the universes]]. Their [[plans]] appear to be ultimately [[space]] [[limited]] in extent by the [[concept]] [[periphery]] of the [[master universe]], but as [[plans]] they are not otherwise conditioned by [[time]] or [[space]].

*3. 118:4.7 ''Creation and evolution of universe actuals''. It is upon a [[cosmos]] impregnated by the [[capacity]]-producing [[presence]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#I._DEITY_AND_DIVINITY Ultimacy of Deity (0:1.12)] that the [[Supreme Creators]] operate to [[effect]] the [[time]] [[transmutations]] of [[matured]] [[potentials]] into [[experiential]] [[actuals]]. Within the [[master universe]] all actualization of [[potential]] [[reality]] is [[limited]] by [[ultimate]] capacity for [[development]] and is [[time-space]] conditioned in the final [[stages]] of [[emergence]]. The [[Creator Sons]] going out from [[Paradise]] are, in [[actuality]], [[transformative]] [[creators]] in the [[cosmic]] sense. But this in no [[manner]] invalidates [[man]]'s [[concept]] of them as creators; from the [[finite]] [[viewpoint]] they certainly can and do create.

*3. 118:4.7 ''Creation and evolution of universe actuals''. It is upon a [[cosmos]] impregnated by the [[capacity]]-producing [[presence]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#I._DEITY_AND_DIVINITY Ultimacy of Deity (0:1.12)] that the [[Supreme Creators]] operate to [[effect]] the [[time]] [[transmutations]] of [[matured]] [[potentials]] into [[experiential]] [[actuals]]. Within the [[master universe]] all actualization of [[potential]] [[reality]] is [[limited]] by [[ultimate]] capacity for [[development]] and is [[time-space]] conditioned in the final [[stages]] of [[emergence]]. The [[Creator Sons]] going out from [[Paradise]] are, in [[actuality]], [[transformative]] [[creators]] in the [[cosmic]] sense. But this in no [[manner]] invalidates [[man]]'s [[concept]] of them as creators; from the [[finite]] [[viewpoint]] they certainly can and do create.

==118:5. OMNIPOTENCE AND COMPOSSIBILITY==

==118:5. OMNIPOTENCE AND COMPOSSIBILITY==

118:5.2 In the beginning [[the Father]] does all, but as the [[panorama]] of [[eternity]] [[unfolds]] in [[response]] to the [[Free will|will]] and [[mandates]] of the [[Infinite]], it becomes increasingly [[apparent]] that [[creatures]], even men, are to become [[God]]'s [[partners]] in the [[realization]] of finality of [[destiny]]. And this is true even in the life in the [[flesh]]; when [[man]] and [[God]] enter into [[partnership]], no [[limitation]] can be placed upon the [[future]] [[possibilities]] of such a [[partnership]]. When man [[realizes]] that the [[Universal Father]] is his [[partner]] in [[eternal]] [[progression]], when he [[fuses]] with the [[Thought Adjuster|indwelling Father presence]], he has, in [[spirit]], broken the fetters of [[time]] and has already entered upon the [[progressions]] of [[eternity]] in the [[quest]] for the [[Universal Father]].

118:5.2 In the beginning [[the Father]] does all, but as the [[panorama]] of [[eternity]] [[unfolds]] in [[response]] to the [[Free will|will]] and [[mandates]] of the [[Infinite]], it becomes increasingly [[apparent]] that [[creatures]], even men, are to become [[God]]'s [[partners]] in the [[realization]] of finality of [[destiny]]. And this is true even in the life in the [[flesh]]; when [[man]] and [[God]] enter into [[partnership]], no [[limitation]] can be placed upon the [[future]] [[possibilities]] of such a [[partnership]]. When man [[realizes]] that the [[Universal Father]] is his [[partner]] in [[eternal]] [[progression]], when he [[fuses]] with the [[Thought Adjuster|indwelling Father presence]], he has, in [[spirit]], broken the fetters of [[time]] and has already entered upon the [[progressions]] of [[eternity]] in the [[quest]] for the [[Universal Father]].

118:5.3 [[Mortal]] [[consciousness]] [[proceeds]] from the [[fact]], to the [[meaning]], and then to the [[value]]. [[Creator consciousness]] proceeds from the [[thought]]-[[value]], through the [[word]]-[[meaning]], to the [[fact]] of [[action]]. Always must [[God]] [[act]] to break the [[deadlock]] of the unqualified [[unity]] [[inherent]] in [[existential]] [[infinity]]. Always must [[Deity]] provide the [[pattern]] [[universe]], the [[perfect]] [[personalities]], the [[original]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS truth, beauty, and goodness] for which all subdeity [[creations]] strive. Always must [[God]] first find [[man]] that man may later find God. Always must there be a [[Universal Father]] before there can ever be [[universal]] sonship and consequent universal [[brotherhood]].

118:5.3 [[Mortal]] [[consciousness]] [[proceeds]] from the [[fact]], to the [[meaning]], and then to the [[value]]. [[Creator consciousness]] proceeds from the [[thought]]-[[value]], through the [[word]]-[[meaning]], to the [[fact]] of [[action]]. Always must [[God]] [[act]] to break the [[deadlock]] of the unqualified [[unity]] [[inherent]] in [[existential]] [[infinity]]. Always must [[Deity]] provide the [[pattern]] [[universe]], the [[perfect]] [[personalities]], the [[original]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS truth, beauty, and goodness] for which all subdeity [[creations]] strive. Always must [[God]] first find [[man]] that man may later find God. Always must there be a [[Universal Father]] before there can ever be [[universal]] sonship and consequent universal [[brotherhood]].

==118:6. OMNIPOTENCE AND OMNIFICENCE==

==118:6. OMNIPOTENCE AND OMNIFICENCE==

118:6.1 [[God]] is truly [[omnipotent]], but he is not [[omnificent]]—he does not [[personally]] do all that is done. [[Omnipotence]] [[embraces]] the [[power]]-[[potential]] of the [[Almighty Supreme]] and the [[Supreme Being]], but the [[volitional]] [[acts]] of [[God the Supreme]] are not the [[personal]] doings of [[God]] the [[Infinite]].

118:6.1 [[God]] is truly [[omnipotent]], but he is not [[omnificent]]—he does not [[personally]] do all that is done. [[Omnipotence]] [[embraces]] the [[power]]-[[potential]] of the [[Almighty Supreme]] and the [[Supreme Being]], but the [[volitional]] [[acts]] of [[God the Supreme]] are not the [[personal]] doings of [[God]] the [[Infinite]].

118:6.2 To [[advocate]] the [[omnificence]] of primal [[Deity]] would be [[equal]] to disenfranchising well-nigh a million [[Creator Sons]] of [[Paradise]], not to mention the innumerable [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39 hosts] of various other orders of concurring [[creative]] assistants. There is but one uncaused [Cause] in the [[whole]] [[universe]]. All other causes are [[derivatives]] of this one [[First Great Source and Center]]. And none of this [[philosophy]] does any [[violence]] to the [[Free will|freewillness]] of the myriads of the [[children]] of [[Deity]] scattered through a vast [[universe]].

118:6.2 To [[advocate]] the [[omnificence]] of primal [[Deity]] would be [[equal]] to disenfranchising well-nigh a million [[Creator Sons]] of [[Paradise]], not to mention the innumerable [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39 hosts] of various other orders of concurring [[creative]] assistants. There is but one uncaused [Cause] in the [[whole]] [[universe]]. All other causes are [[derivatives]] of this one [[First Great Source and Center]]. And none of this [[philosophy]] does any [[violence]] to the [[Free will|freewillness]] of the myriads of the [[children]] of [[Deity]] scattered through a vast [[universe]].

118:6.3 Within a local [[frame]], [[volition]] may [[appear]] to [[function]] as an uncaused [[cause]], but it unfailingly [[exhibits]] [[inheritance]] [[factors]] which [[establish]] [[relationship]] with the [[unique]], [[original]], and [[absolute]] [[the Gods|First Causes]].

118:6.3 Within a local [[frame]], [[volition]] may [[appear]] to [[function]] as an uncaused [[cause]], but it unfailingly [[exhibits]] [[inheritance]] [[factors]] which [[establish]] [[relationship]] with the [[unique]], [[original]], and [[absolute]] [[the Gods|First Causes]].

118:7.5 [[Iniquity]] in the [[finite]] [[domains]] reveals the [[transient]] [[reality]] of all God-unidentified [[selfhood]]. Only as a [[creature]] becomes [[God]] [[identified]], does he become truly real in the [[universes]]. Finite [[personality]] is not [[self]]-[[created]], but in the [[superuniverse]] arena of [[choice]] it does self-determine [[destiny]].

118:7.5 [[Iniquity]] in the [[finite]] [[domains]] reveals the [[transient]] [[reality]] of all God-unidentified [[selfhood]]. Only as a [[creature]] becomes [[God]] [[identified]], does he become truly real in the [[universes]]. Finite [[personality]] is not [[self]]-[[created]], but in the [[superuniverse]] arena of [[choice]] it does self-determine [[destiny]].

118:7.6 The [[bestowal]] of life renders [[material]]-[[energy]] [[systems]] capable of self-[[perpetuation]], self-[[propagation]], and self-[[adaptation]]. The [[bestowal]] of [[personality]] imparts to living [[organisms]] the further [[prerogatives]] of [[self]]-[[determination]], self-[[evolution]], and self-[[identification]] with a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:10._ASCENDANT_DESTINIES fusion spirit of Deity].

118:7.6 The [[bestowal]] of life renders [[material]]-[[energy]] [[systems]] capable of self-[[perpetuation]], self-[[propagation]], and self-[[adaptation]]. The [[bestowal]] of [[personality]] imparts to living [[organisms]] the further [[prerogatives]] of [[self]]-[[determination]], self-[[evolution]], and self-[[identification]] with a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:10._ASCENDANT_DESTINIES fusion spirit of Deity].

118:7.7 Subpersonal living [[things]] indicate [[mind]] activating [[energy]]-[[matter]], first as [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS physical controllers], and then as [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:7._THE_ADJUTANT_MIND-SPIRITS adjutant mind-spirits]. [[Personality]] [[endowment]] comes from [[the Father]] and imparts [[unique]] [[prerogatives]] of [[choice]] to the living [[system]]. But if [[personality]] has the [[prerogative]] of exercising volitional [[choice]] of [[reality]] [[identification]], and if this is a true and [[free]] [[choice]], then must evolving [[personality]] also have the possible choice of becoming self-confusing, self-disrupting, and self-destroying. The [[possibility]] of [[cosmic]] [[Suicide|self-destruction]] cannot be avoided if the evolving [[personality]] is to be truly [[free]] in the [[exercise]] of finite will.

118:7.7 Subpersonal living [[things]] indicate [[mind]] activating [[energy]]-[[matter]], first as [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS physical controllers], and then as [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:7._THE_ADJUTANT_MIND-SPIRITS adjutant mind-spirits]. [[Personality]] [[endowment]] comes from [[the Father]] and imparts [[unique]] [[prerogatives]] of [[choice]] to the living [[system]]. But if [[personality]] has the [[prerogative]] of exercising volitional [[choice]] of [[reality]] [[identification]], and if this is a true and [[free]] [[choice]], then must evolving [[personality]] also have the possible choice of becoming self-confusing, self-disrupting, and self-destroying. The [[possibility]] of [[cosmic]] [[Suicide|self-destruction]] cannot be avoided if the evolving [[personality]] is to be truly [[free]] in the [[exercise]] of finite will.

118:7.8 Therefore is there increased [[safety]] in narrowing the [[limits]] of [[personality]] [[choice]] throughout the lower [[levels]] of [[existence]]. [[Choice]] becomes increasingly [[liberated]] as the [[universes]] are [[ascended]]; choice [[eventually]] approximates [[divine]] [[freedom]] when the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending personality] achieves [[divinity]] of [[status]], [[supremacy]] of [[consecration]] to the [[purposes]] of the [[universe]], completion of [[cosmic]]-[[wisdom]] [[attainment]], and finality of [[creature]] [[identification]] with the will and the way of [[God]].

118:7.8 Therefore is there increased [[safety]] in narrowing the [[limits]] of [[personality]] [[choice]] throughout the lower [[levels]] of [[existence]]. [[Choice]] becomes increasingly [[liberated]] as the [[universes]] are [[ascended]]; choice [[eventually]] approximates [[divine]] [[freedom]] when the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending personality] achieves [[divinity]] of [[status]], [[supremacy]] of [[consecration]] to the [[purposes]] of the [[universe]], completion of [[cosmic]]-[[wisdom]] [[attainment]], and finality of [[creature]] [[identification]] with the will and the way of [[God]].

==118:8. CONTROL AND OVERCONTROL==

==118:8. CONTROL AND OVERCONTROL==

118:8.1 In the [[time-space]] [[creations]], [[free will]] is hedged about with restraints, with [[limitations]]. [[Material]]-life [[evolution]] is first [[mechanical]], then [[mind]] [[activated]], and (after the [[bestowal]] of [[personality]]) it may become [[spirit]] directed. [[Organic]] [[evolution]] on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds] is [[physically]] [[limited]] by the [[potentials]] of the [[original]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_36#36:3._LIFE_TRANSPLANTATION physical-life implantations] of the [[Life Carriers]].

118:8.1 In the [[time-space]] [[creations]], [[free will]] is hedged about with restraints, with [[limitations]]. [[Material]]-life [[evolution]] is first [[mechanical]], then [[mind]] [[activated]], and (after the [[bestowal]] of [[personality]]) it may become [[spirit]] directed. [[Organic]] [[evolution]] on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds] is [[physically]] [[limited]] by the [[potentials]] of the [[original]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_36#36:3._LIFE_TRANSPLANTATION physical-life implantations] of the [[Life Carriers]].

118:8.2 [[Mortal]] man is a [[machine]], a living [[mechanism]]; his [[roots]] are truly in the [[physical]] world of [[energy]]. Many human [[reactions]] are [[mechanical]] in [[nature]]; much of life is machinelike. But man, a [[mechanism]], is much more than a machine; he is [[mind]] [[endowed]] and [[spirit]] indwelt; and though he can never throughout his [[material]] life [[escape]] the [[chemical]] and [[electrical]] [[mechanics]] of his [[existence]], he can increasingly learn how to subordinate this [[physical]]-life [[machine]] to the directive [[wisdom]] of [[experience]] by the [[process]] of [[consecrating]] the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE human mind] to the [[execution]] of the [[spiritual]] urges of the indwelling [[Thought Adjuster]].

118:8.2 [[Mortal]] man is a [[machine]], a living [[mechanism]]; his [[roots]] are truly in the [[physical]] world of [[energy]]. Many human [[reactions]] are [[mechanical]] in [[nature]]; much of life is machinelike. But man, a [[mechanism]], is much more than a machine; he is [[mind]] [[endowed]] and [[spirit]] indwelt; and though he can never throughout his [[material]] life [[escape]] the [[chemical]] and [[electrical]] [[mechanics]] of his [[existence]], he can increasingly learn how to subordinate this [[physical]]-life [[machine]] to the directive [[wisdom]] of [[experience]] by the [[process]] of [[consecrating]] the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE human mind] to the [[execution]] of the [[spiritual]] urges of the indwelling [[Thought Adjuster]].

118:8.3 The [[spirit]] [[liberates]], and the [[mechanism]] [[limits]], the [[function]] of will. Imperfect [[choice]], uncontrolled by [[mechanism]], unidentified with [[spirit]], is [[dangerous]] and unstable. [[Mechanical]] [[dominance]] insures [[stability]] at the expense of [[progress]]; [[spirit]] [[alliance]] [[liberates]] [[choice]] from the [[physical]] level and at the [[same time]] [[assures]] the [[divine]] [[stability]] produced by augmented [[universe]] [[insight]] and increased [[cosmic]] [[comprehension]].

118:8.3 The [[spirit]] [[liberates]], and the [[mechanism]] [[limits]], the [[function]] of will. Imperfect [[choice]], uncontrolled by [[mechanism]], unidentified with [[spirit]], is [[dangerous]] and unstable. [[Mechanical]] [[dominance]] insures [[stability]] at the expense of [[progress]]; [[spirit]] [[alliance]] [[liberates]] [[choice]] from the [[physical]] level and at the [[same time]] [[assures]] the [[divine]] [[stability]] produced by augmented [[universe]] [[insight]] and increased [[cosmic]] [[comprehension]].

118:8.4 The great [[danger]] that besets the [[creature]] is that, in achieving [[liberation]] from the fetters of the life [[mechanism]], he will fail to [[compensate]] this loss of [[stability]] by effecting a [[harmonious]] working [[liaison]] with [[spirit]]. [[Creature]] [[choice]], when [[relatively]] [[liberated]] from [[mechanical]] [[stability]], may attempt further [[self]]-[[liberation]] [[independent]] of greater [[spirit]] [[identification]].

118:8.4 The great [[danger]] that besets the [[creature]] is that, in achieving [[liberation]] from the fetters of the life [[mechanism]], he will fail to [[compensate]] this loss of [[stability]] by effecting a [[harmonious]] working [[liaison]] with [[spirit]]. [[Creature]] [[choice]], when [[relatively]] [[liberated]] from [[mechanical]] [[stability]], may attempt further [[self]]-[[liberation]] [[independent]] of greater [[spirit]] [[identification]].

118:8.5 The [[whole]] [[principle]] of [[biologic]] [[evolution]] makes it impossible for [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN primitive man] to [[appear]] on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds] with any large [[endowment]] of [[self]]-[[restraint]]. Therefore does the same [[creative]] [[design]] which [[purposed]] [[evolution]] likewise provide those external restraints of [[time and space]], [[hunger]] and [[fear]], which effectively [[circumscribe]] the subspiritual [[choice]] range of such uncultured [[creatures]]. As man's mind successfully overstrides increasingly [[difficult]] barriers, this same [[creative]] [[design]] has also provided for the slow accumulation of the [[racial]] [[heritage]] of painfully garnered [[experiential]] [[wisdom]]—in other [[words]], for the [[maintenance]] of a [[balance]] between the diminishing external restraints and the augmenting internal restraints.

118:8.5 The [[whole]] [[principle]] of [[biologic]] [[evolution]] makes it impossible for [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN primitive man] to [[appear]] on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds] with any large [[endowment]] of [[self]]-[[restraint]]. Therefore does the same [[creative]] [[design]] which [[purposed]] [[evolution]] likewise provide those external restraints of [[time and space]], [[hunger]] and [[fear]], which effectively [[circumscribe]] the subspiritual [[choice]] range of such uncultured [[creatures]]. As man's mind successfully overstrides increasingly [[difficult]] barriers, this same [[creative]] [[design]] has also provided for the slow accumulation of the [[racial]] [[heritage]] of painfully garnered [[experiential]] [[wisdom]]—in other [[words]], for the [[maintenance]] of a [[balance]] between the diminishing external restraints and the augmenting internal restraints.

118:8.6 The slowness of [[evolution]], of [[human]] [[cultural]] [[progress]], testifies to the effectiveness of that brake—material [[inertia]]—which so [[efficiently]] operates to retard [[dangerous]] [[velocities]] of [[progress]]. Thus does time itself cushion and [[distribute]] the otherwise lethal results of premature [[escape]] from the next-[[encompassing]] barriers to [[human]] [[action]]. For when [[culture]] advances overfast, when [[material]] achievement outruns the [[evolution]] of [[worship]]-[[wisdom]], then does civilization contain within itself the [[seeds]] of [[retrogression]]; and unless buttressed by the swift [[augmentation]] of [[experiential]] [[wisdom]], such human [[societies]] will recede from high but premature levels of [[attainment]], and the "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_ages dark ages]" of the interregnum of [[wisdom]] will bear [[witness]] to the inexorable restoration of the imbalance between [[self]]-[[liberty]] and [[self]]-[[control]].

118:8.6 The slowness of [[evolution]], of [[human]] [[cultural]] [[progress]], testifies to the effectiveness of that brake—material [[inertia]]—which so [[efficiently]] operates to retard [[dangerous]] [[velocities]] of [[progress]]. Thus does time itself cushion and [[distribute]] the otherwise lethal results of premature [[escape]] from the next-[[encompassing]] barriers to [[human]] [[action]]. For when [[culture]] advances overfast, when [[material]] achievement outruns the [[evolution]] of [[worship]]-[[wisdom]], then does civilization contain within itself the [[seeds]] of [[retrogression]]; and unless buttressed by the swift [[augmentation]] of [[experiential]] [[wisdom]], such human [[societies]] will recede from high but premature levels of [[attainment]], and the "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_ages dark ages]" of the interregnum of [[wisdom]] will bear [[witness]] to the inexorable restoration of the imbalance between [[self]]-[[liberty]] and [[self]]-[[control]].

118:8.10 As [[man]] shakes off the shackles of [[fear]], as he bridges [[continents]] and [[oceans]] with his [[machines]], [[generations]] and centuries with his [[records]], he must substitute for each [[transcended]] [[restraint]] a new and voluntarily assumed restraint in [[accordance]] with the [[moral]] [[dictates]] of [[expanding]] human [[wisdom]]. These self-imposed restraints are at once the most [[powerful]] and the most [[tenuous]] of all the [[factors]] of human [[civilization]]—[[concepts]] of [[justice]] and [[ideals]] of [[brotherhood]]. Man even qualifies himself for the restraining [[garments]] of [[mercy]] when he [[dare]]s to [[love]] his fellow men, while he [[achieves]] the beginnings of [[spiritual]] [[brotherhood]] when he [[elects]] to mete out to them that treatment which he himself would be accorded, even that treatment which he [[conceives]] that [[God]] would accord them.

118:8.10 As [[man]] shakes off the shackles of [[fear]], as he bridges [[continents]] and [[oceans]] with his [[machines]], [[generations]] and centuries with his [[records]], he must substitute for each [[transcended]] [[restraint]] a new and voluntarily assumed restraint in [[accordance]] with the [[moral]] [[dictates]] of [[expanding]] human [[wisdom]]. These self-imposed restraints are at once the most [[powerful]] and the most [[tenuous]] of all the [[factors]] of human [[civilization]]—[[concepts]] of [[justice]] and [[ideals]] of [[brotherhood]]. Man even qualifies himself for the restraining [[garments]] of [[mercy]] when he [[dare]]s to [[love]] his fellow men, while he [[achieves]] the beginnings of [[spiritual]] [[brotherhood]] when he [[elects]] to mete out to them that treatment which he himself would be accorded, even that treatment which he [[conceives]] that [[God]] would accord them.

118:8.11 An [[automatic]] [[universe]] [[reaction]] is [[stable]] and, in some [[form]], continuing in the [[cosmos]]. A [[personality]] who [[know]]s [[God]] and [[desires]] [[to do his will]], who has [[spirit]] [[insight]], is [[divinely]] [[stable]] and eternally existent. Man's great [[universe]] [[adventure]] consists in the [[transit]] of his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 mortal mind] from the [[stability]] of [[mechanical]] [[statics]] to the [[divinity]] of [[spiritual]] [[dynamics]], and he achieves this [[transformation]] by the [[force]] and constancy of his own [[personality]] [[decisions]], in each of life's situations declaring, "It is my will that your will be done."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_12]

118:8.11 An [[automatic]] [[universe]] [[reaction]] is [[stable]] and, in some [[form]], continuing in the [[cosmos]]. A [[personality]] who [[know]]s [[God]] and [[desires]] [[to do his will]], who has [[spirit]] [[insight]], is [[divinely]] [[stable]] and eternally existent. Man's great [[universe]] [[adventure]] consists in the [[transit]] of his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 mortal mind] from the [[stability]] of [[mechanical]] [[statics]] to the [[divinity]] of [[spiritual]] [[dynamics]], and he achieves this [[transformation]] by the [[force]] and constancy of his own [[personality]] [[decisions]], in each of life's situations declaring, "It is my will that your will be done."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_12]

==118:9. UNIVERSE MECHANISMS==

==118:9. UNIVERSE MECHANISMS==

118:9.2 [[Mechanisms]] produced by [[Frame of reference|higher minds]] [[function]] to [[liberate]] their [[creative]] [[sources]] but to some [[degree]] unvaryingly [[limit]] the [[action]] of all subordinate [[intelligences]]. To the [[creatures]] of the [[universes]] this [[limitation]] becomes [[apparent]] as the [[mechanism]] of the universes. [[Man]] does not have unfettered [[free will]]; there are [[limits]] to his range of [[choice]], but within the [[radius]] of this choice his will is [[relatively]] [[sovereign]].

118:9.2 [[Mechanisms]] produced by [[Frame of reference|higher minds]] [[function]] to [[liberate]] their [[creative]] [[sources]] but to some [[degree]] unvaryingly [[limit]] the [[action]] of all subordinate [[intelligences]]. To the [[creatures]] of the [[universes]] this [[limitation]] becomes [[apparent]] as the [[mechanism]] of the universes. [[Man]] does not have unfettered [[free will]]; there are [[limits]] to his range of [[choice]], but within the [[radius]] of this choice his will is [[relatively]] [[sovereign]].

118:9.3 The life [[mechanism]] of the [[mortal]] [[personality]], the human [[body]], is the product of [[supermortal]] [[creative]] [[design]]; therefore it can never be perfectly [[controlled]] by man himself. Only when [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascending man], in [[liaison]] with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_110#110:7._THE_ATTAINMENT_OF_IMMORTALITY fused Adjuster], [[self]]-[[creates]] the [[mechanism]] for [[personality]] [[expression]], will he [[achieve]] [[perfected]] [[control]] thereof.

118:9.3 The life [[mechanism]] of the [[mortal]] [[personality]], the human [[body]], is the product of [[supermortal]] [[creative]] [[design]]; therefore it can never be perfectly [[controlled]] by man himself. Only when [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascending man], in [[liaison]] with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_110#110:7._THE_ATTAINMENT_OF_IMMORTALITY fused Adjuster], [[self]]-[[creates]] the [[mechanism]] for [[personality]] [[expression]], will he [[achieve]] [[perfected]] [[control]] thereof.

118:9.4 The [[grand universe]] is [[mechanism]] as well as [[organism]], [[mechanical]] and living—a living [[mechanism]] activated by a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_116_-_The_Almighty_Supreme#116:1._THE_SUPREME_MIND Supreme Mind], [[co-ordinating]] with a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_116_-_The_Almighty_Supreme#116:6._SPIRIT_DOMINANCE Supreme Spirit], and finding [[expression]] on maximum levels of [[power]] and [[personality]] [[unification]] as the [[Supreme Being]]. But to deny the [[mechanism]] of the [[finite]] [[creation]] is to [[Ignorance|deny]] [[fact]] and to disregard [[reality]].

118:9.4 The [[grand universe]] is [[mechanism]] as well as [[organism]], [[mechanical]] and living—a living [[mechanism]] activated by a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_116_-_The_Almighty_Supreme#116:1._THE_SUPREME_MIND Supreme Mind], [[co-ordinating]] with a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_116_-_The_Almighty_Supreme#116:6._SPIRIT_DOMINANCE Supreme Spirit], and finding [[expression]] on maximum levels of [[power]] and [[personality]] [[unification]] as the [[Supreme Being]]. But to deny the [[mechanism]] of the [[finite]] [[creation]] is to [[Ignorance|deny]] [[fact]] and to disregard [[reality]].

118:9.5 [[Mechanisms]] are the products of [[mind]], [[creative]] mind [[acting]] on and in [[cosmic]] [[potentials]]. [[Mechanisms]] are the fixed crystallizations of [[Creator]] [[thought]], and they ever [[function]] true to the [[volitional]] [[concept]] that gave them [[origin]]. But the [[purposive]]ness of any [[mechanism]] is in its [[origin]], not in its [[function]].

118:9.5 [[Mechanisms]] are the products of [[mind]], [[creative]] mind [[acting]] on and in [[cosmic]] [[potentials]]. [[Mechanisms]] are the fixed crystallizations of [[Creator]] [[thought]], and they ever [[function]] true to the [[volitional]] [[concept]] that gave them [[origin]]. But the [[purposive]]ness of any [[mechanism]] is in its [[origin]], not in its [[function]].

118:9.7 We [[understand]] something of how the [[mechanism]] of [[Paradise]] is correlated with the [[personality]] of the [[Eternal Son]]; this is the [[function]] of the [[Conjoint Actor]]. And we have [[theories]] regarding the operations of the [[Universal Absolute]] with [[respect]] to the [[theoretical]] [[mechanisms]] of the Unqualified and the [[potential]] [[person]] of the [[Deity Absolute]]. But in the evolving Deities of [[Supreme]] and [[Ultimate]] we [[observe]] that certain [[impersonal]] [[phases]] are being actually [[united]] with their [[volitional]] [[counterparts]], and thus there is evolving a new [[relationship]] between [[pattern]] and [[person]].

118:9.7 We [[understand]] something of how the [[mechanism]] of [[Paradise]] is correlated with the [[personality]] of the [[Eternal Son]]; this is the [[function]] of the [[Conjoint Actor]]. And we have [[theories]] regarding the operations of the [[Universal Absolute]] with [[respect]] to the [[theoretical]] [[mechanisms]] of the Unqualified and the [[potential]] [[person]] of the [[Deity Absolute]]. But in the evolving Deities of [[Supreme]] and [[Ultimate]] we [[observe]] that certain [[impersonal]] [[phases]] are being actually [[united]] with their [[volitional]] [[counterparts]], and thus there is evolving a new [[relationship]] between [[pattern]] and [[person]].

118:9.8 In the [[eternity]] of the [[past]] [[the Father]] and [[the Son]] found [[union]] in the [[unity]] of the [[expression]] of the [[Infinite Spirit]]. If, in the [[eternity]] of the [[future]], the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 Creator Sons] and the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:6._THE_LOCAL_UNIVERSE_CREATIVE_SPIRITS Creative Spirits] of the [[local universes]] of [[time and space]] should [[attain]] [[creative]] [[union]] in the realms of [[outer space]], what would their [[unity]] create as the combined [[expression]] of their [[divine]] [[natures]]? It may well be that we are to [[witness]] a hitherto unrevealed [[manifestation]] of [[Ultimate]] Deity, a new type of superadministrator. Such [[beings]] would [[embrace]] [[unique]] [[prerogatives]] of [[personality]], being the [[union]] of [[personal]] [[Creator]], [[impersonal]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:6._THE_LOCAL_UNIVERSE_CREATIVE_SPIRITS Creative Spirit], [[mortal]]-[[creature]] [[experience]], and [[progressive]] personalization of the [[Divine Minister]]. Such [[beings]] could be [[ultimate]] in that they would [[embrace]] [[personal]] and [[impersonal]] [[reality]], while they would combine the [[experiences]] of [[Creator]] and [[creature]]. Whatever the [[attributes]] of such third [[persons]] of these [[postulated]] functioning [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#XII._THE_TRINITIES trinities] of the [[creations]] of [[outer space]], they will sustain something of the same [[relation]] to their [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 Creator Fathers] and their [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:6._THE_LOCAL_UNIVERSE_CREATIVE_SPIRITS Creative Mothers] that the [[Infinite Spirit]] does to the [[Universal Father]] and the [[Eternal Son]].

118:9.8 In the [[eternity]] of the [[past]] [[the Father]] and [[the Son]] found [[union]] in the [[unity]] of the [[expression]] of the [[Infinite Spirit]]. If, in the [[eternity]] of the [[future]], the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 Creator Sons] and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:6._THE_LOCAL_UNIVERSE_CREATIVE_SPIRITS Creative Spirits] of the [[local universes]] of [[time and space]] should [[attain]] [[creative]] [[union]] in the realms of [[outer space]], what would their [[unity]] create as the combined [[expression]] of their [[divine]] [[natures]]? It may well be that we are to [[witness]] a hitherto unrevealed [[manifestation]] of [[Ultimate]] Deity, a new type of superadministrator. Such [[beings]] would [[embrace]] [[unique]] [[prerogatives]] of [[personality]], being the [[union]] of [[personal]] [[Creator]], [[impersonal]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:6._THE_LOCAL_UNIVERSE_CREATIVE_SPIRITS Creative Spirit], [[mortal]]-[[creature]] [[experience]], and [[progressive]] personalization of the [[Divine Minister]]. Such [[beings]] could be [[ultimate]] in that they would [[embrace]] [[personal]] and [[impersonal]] [[reality]], while they would combine the [[experiences]] of [[Creator]] and [[creature]]. Whatever the [[attributes]] of such third [[persons]] of these [[postulated]] functioning [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#XII._THE_TRINITIES trinities] of the [[creations]] of [[outer space]], they will sustain something of the same [[relation]] to their [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 Creator Fathers] and their [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:6._THE_LOCAL_UNIVERSE_CREATIVE_SPIRITS Creative Mothers] that the [[Infinite Spirit]] does to the [[Universal Father]] and the [[Eternal Son]].

118:9.9 [[God the Supreme]] is the [[personalization]] of all [[universe]] [[experience]], the [[focalization]] of all [[finite]] [[evolution]], the maximation of all [[creature]] [[reality]], the [[consummation]] of [[cosmic]] [[wisdom]], the [[embodiment]] of the [[harmonious]] [[beauties]] of the [[galaxies]] of [[time]], the [[truth]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_16#16:6._THE_COSMIC_MIND cosmic mind] [[meanings]], and the [[goodness]] of [[supreme]] [[spirit]] [[values]]. And [[God the Supreme]] will, in the [[eternal]] [[future]], [[synthesize]] these manifold finite [[diversities]] into one [[experiential]]ly meaningful [[whole]], even as they are now existentially united on [[absolute]] levels in the [[Paradise Trinity]].

118:9.9 [[God the Supreme]] is the [[personalization]] of all [[universe]] [[experience]], the [[focalization]] of all [[finite]] [[evolution]], the maximation of all [[creature]] [[reality]], the [[consummation]] of [[cosmic]] [[wisdom]], the [[embodiment]] of the [[harmonious]] [[beauties]] of the [[galaxies]] of [[time]], the [[truth]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_16#16:6._THE_COSMIC_MIND cosmic mind] [[meanings]], and the [[goodness]] of [[supreme]] [[spirit]] [[values]]. And [[God the Supreme]] will, in the [[eternal]] [[future]], [[synthesize]] these manifold finite [[diversities]] into one [[experiential]]ly meaningful [[whole]], even as they are now existentially united on [[absolute]] levels in the [[Paradise Trinity]].

==118:10. FUNCTIONS OF PROVIDENCE==

==118:10. FUNCTIONS OF PROVIDENCE==

118:10.1 [[Providence]] does not mean that [[God]] has decided [[all things]] for us and in advance. [[God]] [[loves]] us too much to do that, for that would be nothing short of [[cosmic]] [[tyranny]]. Man does have [[relative]] [[powers]] of [[choice]]. Neither is the [[divine]] [[love]] that shortsighted [[affection]] which would pamper and spoil the [[children]] of men.

118:10.1 [[Providence]] does not mean that [[God]] has decided [[all things]] for us and in advance. [[God]] [[loves]] us too much to do that, for that would be nothing short of [[cosmic]] [[tyranny]]. Man does have [[relative]] [[powers]] of [[choice]]. Neither is the [[divine]] [[love]] that shortsighted [[affection]] which would pamper and spoil the [[children]] of men.

118:10.2 [[The Father]], [[the Son|Son]], and [[the Spirit|Spirit]]—as the [[Trinity]]—are not the [[Almighty Supreme]], but the [[supremacy]] of the Almighty can never be [[manifest]] without them. The [[growth]] of the [[Almighty]] is centered on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_105#105:3._THE_SEVEN_ABSOLUTES_OF_INFINITY Absolutes] of [[actuality]] and predicated on the Absolutes of [[potentiality]]. But the [[functions]] of the [[Almighty Supreme]] are related to the [[functions]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]].

118:10.2 [[The Father]], [[the Son|Son]], and [[the Spirit|Spirit]]—as the [[Trinity]]—are not the [[Almighty Supreme]], but the [[supremacy]] of the Almighty can never be [[manifest]] without them. The [[growth]] of the [[Almighty]] is centered on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_105#105:3._THE_SEVEN_ABSOLUTES_OF_INFINITY Absolutes] of [[actuality]] and predicated on the Absolutes of [[potentiality]]. But the [[functions]] of the [[Almighty Supreme]] are related to the [[functions]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]].

118:10.3 It would [[appear]] that, in the [[Supreme Being]], all [[phases]] of [[universe]] [[activity]] are being partially reunited by the [[personality]] of this [[experiential]] [[Deity]]. When, therefore, we desire to view the [[Trinity]] as one [[God]], and if we [[limit]] this [[concept]] to the present known and organized [[grand universe]], we [[discover]] that the evolving [[Supreme Being]] is the partial portraiture of the [[Paradise Trinity]]. And we further find that this [[Supreme]] [[Deity]] is evolving as the [[personality]] [[synthesis]] of [[finite]] [[matter]], [[mind]], and [[spirit]] in the [[grand universe]].

118:10.3 It would [[appear]] that, in the [[Supreme Being]], all [[phases]] of [[universe]] [[activity]] are being partially reunited by the [[personality]] of this [[experiential]] [[Deity]]. When, therefore, we desire to view the [[Trinity]] as one [[God]], and if we [[limit]] this [[concept]] to the present known and organized [[grand universe]], we [[discover]] that the evolving [[Supreme Being]] is the partial portraiture of the [[Paradise Trinity]]. And we further find that this [[Supreme]] [[Deity]] is evolving as the [[personality]] [[synthesis]] of [[finite]] [[matter]], [[mind]], and [[spirit]] in the [[grand universe]].

118:10.4 [[The Gods]] have [[attributes]] but the [[Trinity]] has [[functions]], and like the Trinity, [[providence]] is a [[function]], the [[composite]] of the other-than-personal ''overcontrol'' of the [[universe of universes]], extending from the evolutionary levels of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#VIII._GOD_THE_SEVENFOLD the Sevenfold] [[synthesizing]] in the [[power]] of the [[Almighty]] on up through the [[transcendental]] realms of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#IX._GOD_THE_ULTIMATE Ultimacy of Deity].

118:10.4 [[The Gods]] have [[attributes]] but the [[Trinity]] has [[functions]], and like the Trinity, [[providence]] is a [[function]], the [[composite]] of the other-than-personal ''overcontrol'' of the [[universe of universes]], extending from the evolutionary levels of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#VIII._GOD_THE_SEVENFOLD the Sevenfold] [[synthesizing]] in the [[power]] of the [[Almighty]] on up through the [[transcendental]] realms of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#IX._GOD_THE_ULTIMATE Ultimacy of Deity].

118:10.5 [[God]] [[loves]] each [[creature]] as a [[child]], and that [[love]] overshadows each [[creature]] throughout all [[time]] and [[eternity]]. [[Providence]] [[functions]] with regard to the [[total]] and deals with the [[function]] of any [[creature]] as such [[function]] is related to the [[total]]. Providential [[intervention]] with regard to any [[being]] is indicative of the importance of the [[function]] of that [[being]] as concerns the [[evolutionary]] [[growth]] of some [[total]]; such total may be the total [[race]], the total [[nation]], the total [[planet]], or even a higher total. It is the importance of the [[function]] of the [[creature]] that occasions providential [[intervention]], not the importance of the [[creature]] as a [[person]].

118:10.5 [[God]] [[loves]] each [[creature]] as a [[child]], and that [[love]] overshadows each [[creature]] throughout all [[time]] and [[eternity]]. [[Providence]] [[functions]] with regard to the [[total]] and deals with the [[function]] of any [[creature]] as such [[function]] is related to the [[total]]. Providential [[intervention]] with regard to any [[being]] is indicative of the importance of the [[function]] of that [[being]] as concerns the [[evolutionary]] [[growth]] of some [[total]]; such total may be the total [[race]], the total [[nation]], the total [[planet]], or even a higher total. It is the importance of the [[function]] of the [[creature]] that occasions providential [[intervention]], not the importance of the [[creature]] as a [[person]].

118:10.7 But what man calls [[providence]] is all too often the product of his own [[imagination]], the fortuitous [[juxtaposition]] of the circumstances of [[chance]]. There is, however, a real and emerging [[providence]] in the [[finite]] realm of [[universe]] [[existence]], a true and actualizing correlation of the [[energies]] of [[space]], the [[motions]] of [[time]], the [[thoughts]] of [[intellect]], the [[ideals]] of [[character]], the [[desires]] of [[spiritual]] [[natures]], and the [[purposive]] volitional [[acts]] of evolving [[personalities]]. The circumstances of the [[material]] realms find final [[finite]] [[integration]] in the interlocking [[presences]] of the [[Supreme]] and the [[Ultimate]].

118:10.7 But what man calls [[providence]] is all too often the product of his own [[imagination]], the fortuitous [[juxtaposition]] of the circumstances of [[chance]]. There is, however, a real and emerging [[providence]] in the [[finite]] realm of [[universe]] [[existence]], a true and actualizing correlation of the [[energies]] of [[space]], the [[motions]] of [[time]], the [[thoughts]] of [[intellect]], the [[ideals]] of [[character]], the [[desires]] of [[spiritual]] [[natures]], and the [[purposive]] volitional [[acts]] of evolving [[personalities]]. The circumstances of the [[material]] realms find final [[finite]] [[integration]] in the interlocking [[presences]] of the [[Supreme]] and the [[Ultimate]].

118:10.8 As the [[mechanisms]] of the [[grand universe]] are perfected to a [[point]] of final [[precision]] through the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] of [[mind]], and as [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 creature mind] [[ascends]] to the [[perfection]] of [[divinity]] [[attainment]] through perfected [[integration]] with [[spirit]], and as the [[Supreme]] consequently [[emerges]] as an [[actual]] unifier of all these [[universe]] [[phenomena]], so does [[providence]] become increasingly [[discernible]].

118:10.8 As the [[mechanisms]] of the [[grand universe]] are perfected to a [[point]] of final [[precision]] through the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] of [[mind]], and as [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 creature mind] [[ascends]] to the [[perfection]] of [[divinity]] [[attainment]] through perfected [[integration]] with [[spirit]], and as the [[Supreme]] consequently [[emerges]] as an [[actual]] unifier of all these [[universe]] [[phenomena]], so does [[providence]] become increasingly [[discernible]].

118:10.9 Some of the amazingly fortuitous conditions occasionally prevailing on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary worlds] may be due to the [[gradually]] emerging [[presence]] of the [[Supreme]], the foretasting of his [[future]] [[universe]] [[activities]]. Most of what a [[mortal]] would call providential is not; his [[judgment]] of such matters is very [[handicapped]] by lack of farsighted [[vision]] into the true [[meanings]] of the circumstances of life. Much of what a [[mortal]] would call good [[luck]] might really be bad luck; the smile of fortune that bestows unearned [[leisure]] and undeserved [[wealth]] may be the greatest of [[human]] afflictions; the [[apparent]] [[cruelty]] of a [[perverse]] fate that heaps [[tribulation]] upon some [[suffering]] [[mortal]] may in [[reality]] be the tempering [[fire]] that is [[transmuting]] the soft iron of immature [[personality]] into the tempered steel of real [[character]].

118:10.9 Some of the amazingly fortuitous conditions occasionally prevailing on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary worlds] may be due to the [[gradually]] emerging [[presence]] of the [[Supreme]], the foretasting of his [[future]] [[universe]] [[activities]]. Most of what a [[mortal]] would call providential is not; his [[judgment]] of such matters is very [[handicapped]] by lack of farsighted [[vision]] into the true [[meanings]] of the circumstances of life. Much of what a [[mortal]] would call good [[luck]] might really be bad luck; the smile of fortune that bestows unearned [[leisure]] and undeserved [[wealth]] may be the greatest of [[human]] afflictions; the [[apparent]] [[cruelty]] of a [[perverse]] fate that heaps [[tribulation]] upon some [[suffering]] [[mortal]] may in [[reality]] be the tempering [[fire]] that is [[transmuting]] the soft iron of immature [[personality]] into the tempered steel of real [[character]].

118:10.10 There is a [[providence]] in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15 evolving universes], and it can be [[discovered]] by [[creatures]] to just the extent that they have attained [[capacity]] to [[perceive]] the [[purpose]] of the evolving [[universes]]. Complete [[capacity]] to [[discern]] [[universe]] [[purposes]] [[equals]] the evolutionary completion of the [[creature]] and may otherwise be [[expressed]] as the [[attainment]] of the [[Supreme]] within the [[limits]] of the present [[state]] of the incomplete universes.

118:10.10 There is a [[providence]] in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15 evolving universes], and it can be [[discovered]] by [[creatures]] to just the extent that they have attained [[capacity]] to [[perceive]] the [[purpose]] of the evolving [[universes]]. Complete [[capacity]] to [[discern]] [[universe]] [[purposes]] [[equals]] the evolutionary completion of the [[creature]] and may otherwise be [[expressed]] as the [[attainment]] of the [[Supreme]] within the [[limits]] of the present [[state]] of the incomplete universes.

118:10.11 The [[love]] of [[the Father]] operates directly in the [[heart]] of the [[individual]], independent of the [[actions]] or [[reactions]] of all other [[individuals]]; the [[relationship]] is personal—man and God. The [[impersonal]] [[presence]] of [[Deity]] ([[Almighty Supreme]] and [[Paradise Trinity]]) [[manifests]] regard for the [[whole]], not for the [[part]]. The [[providence]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118_-_Supreme_and_Ulitimate-Time_and_Space#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] of Supremacy becomes increasingly [[apparent]] as the [[successive]] [[parts]] of the [[universe]] [[progress]] in the [[attainment]] of finite [[destinies]]. As [[the system]]s, [[constellation]]s, [[Local Universe|universes]], and [[superuniverses]] become settled in [[light and life]], the [[Supreme]] increasingly [[emerges]] as the meaningful correlator of all that is transpiring, while the [[Ultimate]] gradually [[emerges]] as the [[transcendental]] unifier of [[all things]].

118:10.11 The [[love]] of [[the Father]] operates directly in the [[heart]] of the [[individual]], independent of the [[actions]] or [[reactions]] of all other [[individuals]]; the [[relationship]] is personal—man and God. The [[impersonal]] [[presence]] of [[Deity]] ([[Almighty Supreme]] and [[Paradise Trinity]]) [[manifests]] regard for the [[whole]], not for the [[part]]. The [[providence]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118_-_Supreme_and_Ulitimate-Time_and_Space#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] of Supremacy becomes increasingly [[apparent]] as the [[successive]] [[parts]] of the [[universe]] [[progress]] in the [[attainment]] of finite [[destinies]]. As [[the system]]s, [[constellation]]s, [[Local Universe|universes]], and [[superuniverses]] become settled in [[light and life]], the [[Supreme]] increasingly [[emerges]] as the meaningful correlator of all that is transpiring, while the [[Ultimate]] gradually [[emerges]] as the [[transcendental]] unifier of [[all things]].

118:10.12 In the beginnings on an [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary world] the [[natural]] occurrences of the [[material]] order and the [[personal]] [[desires]] of [[human being]]s often appear to be antagonistic. Much that takes place on an evolving world is rather hard for [[mortal]] man to [[understand]]—[[natural law]] is so often apparently [[cruel]], heartless, and indifferent to all that is [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS true, beautiful, and good] in human [[comprehension]]. But as [[humanity]] [[progresses]] in [[planetary]] [[development]], we [[observe]] that this [[viewpoint]] is [[modified]] by the following [[factors]]:

118:10.12 In the beginnings on an [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary world] the [[natural]] occurrences of the [[material]] order and the [[personal]] [[desires]] of [[human being]]s often appear to be antagonistic. Much that takes place on an evolving world is rather hard for [[mortal]] man to [[understand]]—[[natural law]] is so often apparently [[cruel]], heartless, and indifferent to all that is [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS true, beautiful, and good] in human [[comprehension]]. But as [[humanity]] [[progresses]] in [[planetary]] [[development]], we [[observe]] that this [[viewpoint]] is [[modified]] by the following [[factors]]:

*1. 118:10.13 ''Man's augmenting vision'' —his increased [[understanding]] of the world in which he lives; his enlarging [[capacity]] for the [[comprehension]] of the material [[facts]] of [[time]], the meaningful [[ideas]] of [[thought]], and the valuable [[ideals]] of [[spiritual]] [[insight]]. As long as men [[measure]] only by the yardstick of the [[things]] of a [[physical]] [[nature]], they can never [[hope]] to find [[unity]] in [[time and space]].

*1. 118:10.13 ''Man's augmenting vision'' —his increased [[understanding]] of the world in which he lives; his enlarging [[capacity]] for the [[comprehension]] of the material [[facts]] of [[time]], the meaningful [[ideas]] of [[thought]], and the valuable [[ideals]] of [[spiritual]] [[insight]]. As long as men [[measure]] only by the yardstick of the [[things]] of a [[physical]] [[nature]], they can never [[hope]] to find [[unity]] in [[time and space]].

118:10.18 To [[realize]] [[providence]] in [[time]], man must accomplish the task of achieving [[perfection]]. But man can even now foretaste this [[providence]] in its [[eternity]] [[meanings]] as he ponders the [[universe]] [[fact]] that [[all things]], be they [[good]] or [[evil]], [[work]] [[together]] for the advancement of [[God]]-knowing [[mortals]] in their [[quest]] for [[the Father]] of all.

118:10.18 To [[realize]] [[providence]] in [[time]], man must accomplish the task of achieving [[perfection]]. But man can even now foretaste this [[providence]] in its [[eternity]] [[meanings]] as he ponders the [[universe]] [[fact]] that [[all things]], be they [[good]] or [[evil]], [[work]] [[together]] for the advancement of [[God]]-knowing [[mortals]] in their [[quest]] for [[the Father]] of all.

118:10.19 [[Providence]] becomes increasingly [[discernible]] as men reach upward from the [[material]] to the [[spiritual]]. The [[attainment]] of completed [[spiritual]] [[insight]] enables the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending personality] to detect [[harmony]] in what was theretofore [[chaos]]. Even [[morontia]] [[mota]] [[represents]] a real advance in this direction.

118:10.19 [[Providence]] becomes increasingly [[discernible]] as men reach upward from the [[material]] to the [[spiritual]]. The [[attainment]] of completed [[spiritual]] [[insight]] enables the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending personality] to detect [[harmony]] in what was theretofore [[chaos]]. Even [[morontia]] [[mota]] [[represents]] a real advance in this direction.

118:10.20 [[Providence]] is in [[part]] the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] of the incomplete [[Supreme]] [[manifested]] in the incomplete [[universes]], and it must therefore ever be:

118:10.20 [[Providence]] is in [[part]] the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol] of the incomplete [[Supreme]] [[manifested]] in the incomplete [[universes]], and it must therefore ever be:

*1. ''Partial'' —due to the incompleteness of the [[actualization]] of the [[Supreme Being]], and

*1. ''Partial'' —due to the incompleteness of the [[actualization]] of the [[Supreme Being]], and

118:10.22 Sponsored by a [[Mighty Messenger]] temporarily sojourning on [[Urantia]].

118:10.22 Sponsored by a [[Mighty Messenger]] temporarily sojourning on [[Urantia]].

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