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4:4.1 [[God]] is the only stationary, self-contained, and changeless [[being]] in the whole [[universe of universes]], having no outside, no beyond, no past, and no future. God is purposive [[energy]] ([[creative]] [[spirit]]) and [[absolute]] [[will]], and these are self-existent and [[universal]].
 
4:4.1 [[God]] is the only stationary, self-contained, and changeless [[being]] in the whole [[universe of universes]], having no outside, no beyond, no past, and no future. God is purposive [[energy]] ([[creative]] [[spirit]]) and [[absolute]] [[will]], and these are self-existent and [[universal]].
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4:4.2 Since God is self-existent, he is [[absolute]]ly independent. The very [[identity]] of God is inimical to [[change]]. "I, the Lord, change not."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Malachi#Chapter_.3] God is immutable; but not until you achieve [[Paradise]] [[status]] can you even begin to [[understand]] how God can pass from [[simplicity]] to [[complexity]], from [[identity]] to variation, from [[quiescence]] to [[motion]], from [[infinity]] to [[Finite|finitude]], from the [[divine]] to the [[human]], and from [[unity]] to [[duality]] and [[triunity]]. And God can thus modify the [[manifestations]] of his absoluteness because divine immutability does not imply immobility; God has will—he is [[will]].
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4:4.2 Since God is self-existent, he is [[absolute]]ly independent. The very [[identity]] of God is inimical to [[change]]. "I, the Lord, change not."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Malachi#Chapter_.3] God is immutable; but not until you achieve [[Paradise]] [[status]] can you even begin to [[understand]] how God can pass from [[simplicity]] to [[complexity]], from [[identity]] to variation, from [[quiescence]] to [[motion]], from [[infinity]] to [[Finite|finitude]], from the [[divine]] to the [[human]], and from [[unity]] to [[duality]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:3._TRINITIES_AND_TRIUNITIES triunity]. And God can thus modify the [[manifestations]] of his absoluteness because divine immutability does not imply immobility; God has will—he is [[will]].
    
4:4.3 God is the [[being]] of [[absolute]] self-[[determination]]; there are no [[limits]] to his [[universe]] [[reactions]] save those which are self-imposed, and his [[freewill]] [[acts]] are conditioned only by those divine [[qualities]] and perfect [[attributes]] which inherently characterize his [[eternal]] [[nature]]. Therefore is God [[Relationship|related]] to the [[universe]] as the being of final [[goodness]] plus a [[free will]] of [[creative]] [[infinity]].
 
4:4.3 God is the [[being]] of [[absolute]] self-[[determination]]; there are no [[limits]] to his [[universe]] [[reactions]] save those which are self-imposed, and his [[freewill]] [[acts]] are conditioned only by those divine [[qualities]] and perfect [[attributes]] which inherently characterize his [[eternal]] [[nature]]. Therefore is God [[Relationship|related]] to the [[universe]] as the being of final [[goodness]] plus a [[free will]] of [[creative]] [[infinity]].