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0:3.1 Total, infinite reality is existential in seven phases and as seven co-ordinate Absolutes:
:1. The [[First Source and Center]].
:2. The [[Second Source and Center]].
:3. The [[Third Source and Center]].
:4. The Isle of [[Paradise]].
:5. The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#XI._THE_THREE_ABSOLUTES Deity Absolute].
:6. The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#XI._THE_THREE_ABSOLUTES Universal Absolute].
:7. The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#XI._THE_THREE_ABSOLUTES Unqualified Absolute].
0:3.2 God, as the First Source and Center, is primal in [[relation]] to [[total]] [[reality]]—unqualifiedly. The First Source and Center is [[infinite]] as well as [[eternal]] and is therefore limited or conditioned only by [[volition]].
0:3.3 God—the [[Universal Father]]—is the [[personality]] of the [[First Source and Center]] and as such maintains [[personal]] [[relations]] of infinite control over all co-ordinate and subordinate sources and [[center]]s. Such control is personal and infinite in [[potential]], even though it may never actually [[function]] owing to the [[perfection]] of the [[function]] of such co-ordinate and subordinate sources and centers and personalities.
0:3.4 The First Source and Center is, therefore, primal in all domains: deified or undeified, personal or impersonal, actual or potential, [[finite]] or [[infinite]]. No [[thing]] or [[being]], no relativity or finality, exists except in direct or indirect relation to, and dependence on, the primacy of the [[First Source and Center]].
0:3.5 The First Source and Center is related to the [[universe]] as:
:1. 0:3.6 The [[gravity]] [[forces]] of the [[material]] [[universes]] are convergent in the gravity center of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:4._PERIPHERAL_PARADISE nether Paradise]. That is just why the geographic location of his person is eternally fixed in [[absolute]] relation to the [[force]]-[[energy]] [[center]] of the nether or [[material]] [[plane]] of Paradise. But the [[absolute]] [[personality]] of [[Deity]] exists on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:3._UPPER_PARADISE upper or spiritual plane of Paradise].
:2. 0:3.7 The [[mind]] [[forces]] are convergent in the [[Infinite Spirit]]; the differential and divergent cosmic mind in the [[Seven Master Spirits]]; the factualizing mind of [[the Supreme]] as a time-space experience in [[Majeston]].
:3. 0:3.8 The universe [[spirit]] forces are convergent in the [[Eternal Son]].
:4. 0:3.9 The unlimited capacity for [[deity]] [[action]] resides in the [[Deity Absolute]].
:5. 0:3.10 The unlimited capacity for [[infinity]] [[response]] exists in the [[Unqualified Absolute]].
:6. 0:3.11 The two Absolutes—Qualified and Unqualified—are co-ordinated and unified in and by the [[Universal Absolute]].
:7. 0:3.12 The [[potential]] [[personality]] of an evolutionary [[moral]] [[being]] or of any other moral being is [[center]]ed in the [[personality]] of the [[Universal Father]].
0:3.13 [[Reality|REALITY]], as comprehended by finite beings, is partial, [[relative]], and [[shadow]]y. The maximum Deity reality fully comprehensible by evolutionary finite creatures is embraced within the [[Supreme Being]]. Nevertheless there are antecedent and [[eternal]] realities, superfinite realities, which are ancestral to this Supreme Deity of evolutionary [[time-space]] [[creatures]]. In attempting to portray the [[origin]] and [[nature]] of [[universal]] [[reality]], we are forced to employ the [[technique]] of time-space [[reason]]ing in order to reach the level of the [[finite]] [[mind]]. Therefore must many of the [[simultaneous]] [[events]] of [[eternity]] be presented as [[Time|sequential]] transactions.
0:3.14 As a time-space creature would view the origin and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_division differentiation] of [[Reality]], the eternal and infinite [[I AM]] achieved Deity [[Freedom|liberation]] from the fetters of unqualified infinity through the [[exercise]] of inherent and eternal [[free will]], and this [[divorce]]ment from unqualified infinity produced the first absolute [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspense divinity-tension]. This tension of infinity differential is resolved by the [[Universal Absolute]], which functions to unify and co-ordinate the [[dynamic]] [[infinity]] of Total Deity and the static infinity of the [[Unqualified Absolute]].
0:3.15 In this [[original]] transaction the [[theoretical]] [[I AM]] achieved the [[realization]] of [[personality]] by becoming the [[Universal Father|Eternal Father]] of the [[Eternal Son|Original Son]] simultaneously with becoming the Eternal Source of the Isle of [[Paradise]]. Coexistent with the differentiation of the Son from the Father, and in the [[presence]] of Paradise, there appeared the [[person]] of the [[Infinite Spirit]] and the central universe of [[Havona]]. With the appearance of coexistent personal Deity, the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit, [[the Father]] escaped, as a personality, from otherwise inevitable diffusion throughout the [[potential]] of Total Deity. Thenceforth it is only in [[Trinity]] association with his two Deity equals that the Father fills all Deity potential, while increasingly experiential Deity is being actualized on the divinity levels of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_106 Supremacy, Ultimacy, and Absoluteness].
0:3.16 The [[concept]] of the [[I AM]] is a philosophic concession which we make to the [[time]]-bound, [[space]]-fettered, [[finite]] [[mind]] of man, to the impossibility of [[creature]] [[Understanding|comprehension]] of [[eternity]] [[existences]]—nonbeginning, nonending realities and [[relationships]]. To the time-space creature, all [[things]] must have a beginning save only the ONE UNCAUSED—the primeval cause of causes. Therefore do we conceptualize this philosophic value-level as the I AM, at the same time instructing all creatures that the [[Eternal Son]] and the [[Infinite Spirit]] are coeternal with the I AM; in other [[words]], that there never was a time when the [[I AM]] was not the Father of the Son and, with him, of the Spirit.
0:3.17 The Infinite is used to denote the fullness—the finality—implied by the primacy of the First Source and Center. The [[theoretical]] I AM is a creature-philosophic extension of the "infinity of will," but the Infinite is an actual value-level representing the eternity-intension of the true infinity of the absolute and unfettered [[free will]] of the [[Universal Father]]. This [[concept]] is sometimes designated the Father-Infinite.
0:3.18 Much of the [[confusion]] of all orders of beings, high and low, in their efforts to discover the Father-Infinite, is inherent in their limitations of comprehension. The [[absolute]] primacy of the Universal Father is not apparent on subinfinite levels; therefore is it [[Probability|probable]] that only the [[Eternal Son]] and the [[Infinite Spirit]] truly know the Father as an [[infinity]]; to all other personalities such a [[concept]] represents the exercise of [[faith]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_0 Go to Paper 0]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 0 - The Foreword]]
0:3.1 Total, infinite reality is existential in seven phases and as seven co-ordinate Absolutes:
:1. The [[First Source and Center]].
:2. The [[Second Source and Center]].
:3. The [[Third Source and Center]].
:4. The Isle of [[Paradise]].
:5. The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#XI._THE_THREE_ABSOLUTES Deity Absolute].
:6. The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#XI._THE_THREE_ABSOLUTES Universal Absolute].
:7. The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#XI._THE_THREE_ABSOLUTES Unqualified Absolute].
0:3.2 God, as the First Source and Center, is primal in [[relation]] to [[total]] [[reality]]—unqualifiedly. The First Source and Center is [[infinite]] as well as [[eternal]] and is therefore limited or conditioned only by [[volition]].
0:3.3 God—the [[Universal Father]]—is the [[personality]] of the [[First Source and Center]] and as such maintains [[personal]] [[relations]] of infinite control over all co-ordinate and subordinate sources and [[center]]s. Such control is personal and infinite in [[potential]], even though it may never actually [[function]] owing to the [[perfection]] of the [[function]] of such co-ordinate and subordinate sources and centers and personalities.
0:3.4 The First Source and Center is, therefore, primal in all domains: deified or undeified, personal or impersonal, actual or potential, [[finite]] or [[infinite]]. No [[thing]] or [[being]], no relativity or finality, exists except in direct or indirect relation to, and dependence on, the primacy of the [[First Source and Center]].
0:3.5 The First Source and Center is related to the [[universe]] as:
:1. 0:3.6 The [[gravity]] [[forces]] of the [[material]] [[universes]] are convergent in the gravity center of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:4._PERIPHERAL_PARADISE nether Paradise]. That is just why the geographic location of his person is eternally fixed in [[absolute]] relation to the [[force]]-[[energy]] [[center]] of the nether or [[material]] [[plane]] of Paradise. But the [[absolute]] [[personality]] of [[Deity]] exists on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:3._UPPER_PARADISE upper or spiritual plane of Paradise].
:2. 0:3.7 The [[mind]] [[forces]] are convergent in the [[Infinite Spirit]]; the differential and divergent cosmic mind in the [[Seven Master Spirits]]; the factualizing mind of [[the Supreme]] as a time-space experience in [[Majeston]].
:3. 0:3.8 The universe [[spirit]] forces are convergent in the [[Eternal Son]].
:4. 0:3.9 The unlimited capacity for [[deity]] [[action]] resides in the [[Deity Absolute]].
:5. 0:3.10 The unlimited capacity for [[infinity]] [[response]] exists in the [[Unqualified Absolute]].
:6. 0:3.11 The two Absolutes—Qualified and Unqualified—are co-ordinated and unified in and by the [[Universal Absolute]].
:7. 0:3.12 The [[potential]] [[personality]] of an evolutionary [[moral]] [[being]] or of any other moral being is [[center]]ed in the [[personality]] of the [[Universal Father]].
0:3.13 [[Reality|REALITY]], as comprehended by finite beings, is partial, [[relative]], and [[shadow]]y. The maximum Deity reality fully comprehensible by evolutionary finite creatures is embraced within the [[Supreme Being]]. Nevertheless there are antecedent and [[eternal]] realities, superfinite realities, which are ancestral to this Supreme Deity of evolutionary [[time-space]] [[creatures]]. In attempting to portray the [[origin]] and [[nature]] of [[universal]] [[reality]], we are forced to employ the [[technique]] of time-space [[reason]]ing in order to reach the level of the [[finite]] [[mind]]. Therefore must many of the [[simultaneous]] [[events]] of [[eternity]] be presented as [[Time|sequential]] transactions.
0:3.14 As a time-space creature would view the origin and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_division differentiation] of [[Reality]], the eternal and infinite [[I AM]] achieved Deity [[Freedom|liberation]] from the fetters of unqualified infinity through the [[exercise]] of inherent and eternal [[free will]], and this [[divorce]]ment from unqualified infinity produced the first absolute [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspense divinity-tension]. This tension of infinity differential is resolved by the [[Universal Absolute]], which functions to unify and co-ordinate the [[dynamic]] [[infinity]] of Total Deity and the static infinity of the [[Unqualified Absolute]].
0:3.15 In this [[original]] transaction the [[theoretical]] [[I AM]] achieved the [[realization]] of [[personality]] by becoming the [[Universal Father|Eternal Father]] of the [[Eternal Son|Original Son]] simultaneously with becoming the Eternal Source of the Isle of [[Paradise]]. Coexistent with the differentiation of the Son from the Father, and in the [[presence]] of Paradise, there appeared the [[person]] of the [[Infinite Spirit]] and the central universe of [[Havona]]. With the appearance of coexistent personal Deity, the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit, [[the Father]] escaped, as a personality, from otherwise inevitable diffusion throughout the [[potential]] of Total Deity. Thenceforth it is only in [[Trinity]] association with his two Deity equals that the Father fills all Deity potential, while increasingly experiential Deity is being actualized on the divinity levels of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_106 Supremacy, Ultimacy, and Absoluteness].
0:3.16 The [[concept]] of the [[I AM]] is a philosophic concession which we make to the [[time]]-bound, [[space]]-fettered, [[finite]] [[mind]] of man, to the impossibility of [[creature]] [[Understanding|comprehension]] of [[eternity]] [[existences]]—nonbeginning, nonending realities and [[relationships]]. To the time-space creature, all [[things]] must have a beginning save only the ONE UNCAUSED—the primeval cause of causes. Therefore do we conceptualize this philosophic value-level as the I AM, at the same time instructing all creatures that the [[Eternal Son]] and the [[Infinite Spirit]] are coeternal with the I AM; in other [[words]], that there never was a time when the [[I AM]] was not the Father of the Son and, with him, of the Spirit.
0:3.17 The Infinite is used to denote the fullness—the finality—implied by the primacy of the First Source and Center. The [[theoretical]] I AM is a creature-philosophic extension of the "infinity of will," but the Infinite is an actual value-level representing the eternity-intension of the true infinity of the absolute and unfettered [[free will]] of the [[Universal Father]]. This [[concept]] is sometimes designated the Father-Infinite.
0:3.18 Much of the [[confusion]] of all orders of beings, high and low, in their efforts to discover the Father-Infinite, is inherent in their limitations of comprehension. The [[absolute]] primacy of the Universal Father is not apparent on subinfinite levels; therefore is it [[Probability|probable]] that only the [[Eternal Son]] and the [[Infinite Spirit]] truly know the Father as an [[infinity]]; to all other personalities such a [[concept]] represents the exercise of [[faith]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_0 Go to Paper 0]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 0 - The Foreword]]
