P637:1, 56:0.1 God is unity. Deity is universally co-ordinated. The universe of universes is one vast integrated mechanism that is absolutely controlled by one infinite mind. The physical, intellectual, and spiritual domains of universal creation are divinely correlated. The perfect and imperfect are truly interrelated, and therefore may the finite evolutionary creature ascend to Paradise in accordance with the Universal Father's mandate: "Be you perfect, even as I am perfect."
P637:2, 56:0.2 The diverse levels of creation are all unified in the plans and administration of the Architects of the Master Universe. To the circumscribed minds of time-space mortals the universe may present many problems and situations which apparently portray disharmony and indicate absence of effective co-ordination; but those of us who are able to observe wider stretches of universal phenomena, and who are more experienced in this art of detecting the basic unity which underlies creative diversity and of discovering the divine oneness which overspreads all this functioning of plurality, better perceive the divine and single purpose exhibited in all these manifold manifestations of universal creative energy.
P637:3, 56:1.1 The physical or material creation is not infinite, but it is perfectly co-ordinated. There are force, energy, and power, but they are all one in origin. The superuniverses are seemingly dual but Paradise is of single constitution. And Paradise is the actual source of all material universes -- past, present, and future. But this cosmic derivation is an eternity event; at no time -- past, present, or future -- does either space or the material cosmos come forth from the nuclear Isle of Light. As the cosmic source, Paradise functions prior to space and before time; hence would its derivations seem to be orphaned in time and space did they not emerge through the Unqualified Absolute, their ultimate repository in space and their revealer and regulator in time.
P637:4, 56:1.2 The Unqualified Absolute upholds the physical
universe, while the Deity Absolute motivates the exquisite overcontrol of all
material reality; and both Absolutes are functionally unified by the Universal
Absolute. This cohesive correlation of the material universe is best understood
by all personalities -- material, morontia, absonite, or spiritual -- by the
observation of the gravity response of all bona fide material reality to the
gravity centering on nether Paradise.
P638:1, 56:1.3 Gravity unification is universal and unvarying;
pure-energy response is likewise universal and inescapable. Pure energy
(primordial force) and pure spirit are wholly preresponsive to gravity. The
Universal Father personally controls these primal forces, inhering in the
Absolutes, hence does all gravity center in the personal presence of the
Paradise Father of pure energy and pure spirit.
P638:2, 56:1.4 Pure energy is the ancestor of all relative,
nonspirit functional realities, while pure spirit is the potential of the divine
and directive overcontrol of all basic energy systems. And these realities, so
diverse as manifested throughout space and as observed in the motions of time,
are both centered in the person of the Paradise Father. In him they are one --
must be unified -- because God is one. The Father's personality is absolutely
unified.
P638:3, 56:1.5 In the infinite nature of God the Father there
could not possibly exist duality of reality, such as physical and spiritual; but
the instant we look aside from the infinite levels and absolute reality of the
personal values of the Paradise Father, we observe the existence of these two
realities and recognize that they are fully responsive to his personal presence;
in him all things consist.
P638:4, 56:1.6 The moment you depart from the unqualified
concept of the infinite personality of the Paradise Father, you must postulate MIND
as the inevitable technique of unifying the ever-widening divergence of these
dual universe manifestations of the original monothetic Creator personality, the
First Source and Center -- the I AM.
P638:5, 56:2.1 The Thought-Father attains reality expansion through Paradise in the far-flung material universes.
P638:6, 56:2.2 Mind is the functional endowment of the Infinite
Spirit, therefore infinite in potential and universal in bestowal. The primal
thought of the Universal Father eternalizes in dual expression: the Isle of
Paradise. Such duality of eternal reality renders the mind God, the Infinite
Spirit, inevitable. Mind is the indispensable channel of communication between
spiritual and material realities. The material evolutionary creature can
conceive and comprehend the indwelling spirit only by the ministry of mind.
P638:7, 56:2.3 This infinite and universal mind is ministered
in the universes of time and space as the cosmic mind; and though extending from
the primitive ministry of the adjutant spirits up to the magnificent mind of the
chief executive of a universe, even this cosmic mind is adequately unified in
the supervision of the Master Spirits, who are in turn co-ordinated with the
Supreme Mind of time and space and perfectly correlated with the all-embracing
mind of the Infinite Spirit.
P639:1, 56:3.1 The universal mind gravity is centered in the
Paradise personal presence of the Infinite Spirit. The Universal Father is one,
but to time-space he is revealed in the dual phenomena of pure energy and pure
spirit.
P639:2, 56:3.2 Paradise spirit realities are likewise one, but
in all time-space situations and relations this single spirit is revealed in the
dual phenomena of the spirit personalities and emanations
and influences of the Infinite Spirit and associated creations; and there
is yet a third -- pure-spirit fragmentations -- the Father's bestowal of the
Thought Adjusters and other spirit entities which are prepersonal.
P639:3, 56:3.3 No matter on what level of universe activities
you may encounter spiritual phenomena or contact with spirit beings, you may
know that they are all derived from the God who is spirit and the Infinite Mind
Spirit. And this far-flung spirit functions as a phenomenon on the evolutionary
worlds of time as it is directed from the headquarters of the local universes.
From these capitals come the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Truth, together with
the ministry of the adjutant mind-spirits, to the lower and evolving levels of
material minds.
P639:4, 56:3.4 While mind is more unified on the level of the
Master Spirits in association with the Supreme Being and as the cosmic mind in
subordination to the Absolute Mind, the spirit ministry to the evolving worlds
is more directly unified in the personalities resident on the headquarters of
the local universes and in the persons of the presiding Divine Ministers, who
are in turn well-nigh perfectly correlated with the Paradise gravity circuits,
wherein occurs final unification of all time-space spirit manifestations.
P639:5, 56:3.5 Perfected creature existence can be attained,
sustained, and eternalized by the fusion of self-conscious mind with a fragment
of the Infinite Spirit. The mortal mind is the creation of the Infinite Spirit
and, when fused with the Thought Adjuster from the Father, partakes of the
spirit endowment of the evolutionary realms. But these spirit expressions become
perfectly unified in the finaliters; even as they were in eternity so unified in
the Universal I AM ere he ever became the Universal Father of the Infinite
Spirit.
P639:6, 56:3.6 Spirit originates from one source through a
threefold expression; and in finality it must and does attain its full
realization in that divine unification which is experienced in finding God --
oneness with divinity -- in eternity, and by means of the ministry of the cosmic
mind of the infinite expression of the eternal word of the Father's universal
thought.
P639:7, 56:4.1 The Universal Father is a divinely unified
personality; hence will all his ascendant children who are carried to Paradise
by the rebound momentum of the Thought Adjusters, who went forth from Paradise
to indwell material mortals in obedience to the Father's mandate, likewise be
fully unified personalities ere they reach Heaven.
P640:2, 56:4.3 Notwithstanding that God is manifest up through
supremacy and ultimacy to God the Absolute, the personality circuit, centering
on Paradise and in the person of God the Father, provides for the complete and
perfect unification of all these diverse expressions of divine personality so
far as concerns all creature personalities on all levels of intelligent
existence and in all the realms of the perfect, perfected, and perfecting
universes.
P640:3, 56:4.4 While God is to and in the universes all that we have portrayed, nevertheless, to you and to all other God-knowing creatures he is one, your Father and their Father. To personality God cannot be plural. God is Father to each of his creatures, and it is literally impossible for any child to have more than one father.
P640:4, 56:4.5 Philosophically, cosmically, and with reference to differential levels and locations of manifestation, you may and perforce must conceive of the functioning of plural Deities; but in the worshipful experience of the personal contact of every worshiping personality throughout the master universe, God is one; and that unified and personal Deity is our Paradise parent, God the Father, the bestower, conservator, and Father of all personalities from mortal man on the inhabited worlds to the central Isle of Light.
P640:5, 56:5.1 The oneness, the indivisibility, of Paradise Deity is existential and absolute. There are two eternal personalizations of Deity -- the Universal Father and the Infinite Spirit -- but in Paradise they are actually one Deity, undivided and indivisible.
P640:6, 56:5.2 From the original Paradise-Heaven level of existential reality, two subabsolute levels have differentiated, and thereon have the Father and Spirit engaged in the creation of numerous personal associates and subordinates. And while it is inappropriate in this connection to undertake the consideration of absonite deity unification on transcendental levels of ultimacy, it is feasible to look at some features of the unifying function of the various Deity personalizations in whom divinity is functionally manifest to the diverse sectors of creation and to the different orders of intelligent beings.
P640:7, 56:5.3 The present functioning of divinity in the superuniverses is actively manifest in the operations of the Supreme Creators -- the local universe Creator Spirits and the Master Spirits of Paradise. These beings constitute the first levels of God leading inward to the Universal Father, and this entire domain of God is coordinating on the first level of experiential deity in the evolving Supreme Being.
P641:1, 56:5.4 On Paradise and in the central universe, Deity unity is a fact of existence. Throughout the evolving universes of time and space, Deity unity is an achievement
P641:2, 56:6.1 When the eternal persons of Deity function as
undivided Deity in Paradise, they achieve perfect unity; likewise, when they
create, either associatively or severally, their Paradise progeny exhibit the
characteristic unity of divinity. And this divinity of purpose manifested by the
Supreme Creators and Administrators of the time-space domains eventuates in the
unifying power potential of the sovereignty of experiential supremacy which, in
the presence of the impersonal energy unity of the universe, constitutes a
reality tension that can be resolved only through adequate unification with the
experiential personality realities of experiential Deity.
P641:3, 56:6.2 The personality realities of the Supreme Being
come forth from the Paradise Deities and on the pilot world of the outer Heaven
circuit unify with the power prerogatives of the Almighty Supreme coming up from
the Creator divinities of the grand universe. God the Supreme existed in Heaven
before the creation of the superuniverses, but he functioned only on spiritual
levels. The evolution of the Almighty power of Supremacy by diverse divinity
synthesis in the evolving universes eventuated in a new power presence of Deity
which co-ordinated with the spiritual Supreme in Heaven by means of the Supreme
Mind, which concomitantly translated from the potential resident in the infinite
mind of the Infinite Spirit to the active functional mind of the Supreme Being.
P641:4, 56:6.3 The material-minded creatures of the
evolutionary worlds of the superuniverses can comprehend Deity unity only as it
is evolving in this power-personality synthesis of the Supreme Being. On any
level of existence God cannot exceed the conceptual capacity of the beings that
live on such a level. Mortal man must, through the recognition of truth, the
appreciation of beauty, and the worship of goodness, evolve the recognition of a
God of love and then progress through ascending deity levels to the
comprehension of the Supreme. Deity, having been thus grasped as unified in
power, can then be personalized in spirit to creature understanding and
attainment.
P641:5, 56:6.4 While ascending mortals achieve power
comprehension of the Almighty on the capitals of the superuniverses and
personality comprehension of the Supreme on the outer circuits of Heaven, they
do not actually find the Supreme Being as they are destined to find the Paradise
Deities. Even the finaliters, sixth-stage spirits, have not found the Supreme
Being, nor are they likely to until they have achieved seventh-stage-spirit
status, and until the Supreme has become actually functional in the activities
of the future outer universes.
P641:6, 56:6.5 But when ascenders find the Universal Father as
the seventh level of God, they have attained the personality of the First Person
of all deity levels of personal relationships with universe creatures.
P642:3, 56:7.3 The Universal Father and the Infinite Spirit are existential deity manifestations to intelligent creatures and are not, therefore, similarly expanded in personality relations with the mind and spirit creatures of all creation.
P642:4, 56:7.4 It should be noted that ascending souls may
experience the impersonal presence of successive levels of Deity long before
they become sufficiently spiritual and adequately educated to attain
experiential personal recognition of, and contact with, these Deities as
personal beings.
P642:5, 56:7.5 Each new evolutionary attainment within a sector
of creation, as well as every new invasion of space by divinity manifestations,
is attended by simultaneous expansions of Deity functional-revelation within the
then existing and previously organized units of all creation. This new invasion
of the administrative work of the universes and their component units may not
always appear to be executed exactly in accordance with the technique herewith
outlined because it is the practice to send forth advance groups of
administrators to prepare the way for the subsequent and successive eras of new
administrative overcontrol. Even God the Ultimate foreshadows his transcendental
overcontrol of the universes during the later stages of a local universe settled
in light and life.
P642:6, 56:7.6 It is a fact that, as the creations of time and
space are progressively settled in evolutionary status, there is observed a new
and fuller functioning of God the Supreme concomitant with a corresponding
withdrawing of the first manifestations of God. If and when the grand universe
becomes settled in light and life, what then will be the future function of the
Creator-Creative manifestations if God the Supreme assumes direct control of
these creations of time and space? Are these organizers and pioneers of the
time-space universes to be liberated for similar activities in outer space? We
do not know, but we speculate much concerning these and related matters.
P643:1, 56:7.7 As the frontiers of experiential Deity are
extended out into the domains of the Unqualified Absolute, we envision the
activity of God during the earlier evolutionary epochs of these creations of the
future and hold that the future ages will witness some closer form of union
between the associated Creators and Divine Ministers; it is even possible that
such a creator union might eventuate in some new expression of associate-creator
identity of an ultimate nature. But we really know nothing about these
possibilities of the unrevealed future.
P643:2, 56:7.8 We do know, however, that in the universes
of time and space, we are provided a
progressive approach to the Universal Father, and that this evolutionary
approach is experientially unified in God the Supreme. We might conjecture that
such a plan must prevail in the outer universes; on the other hand, the new
orders of beings that may sometime inhabit these universes may be able to
approach Deity on ultimate levels and by absonite techniques. In short, we have
not the slightest concept of what technique of deity approach may become
operative in the future universes of outer space.
P643:3, 56:7.9 Nevertheless, we deem that the perfected
superuniverse will in some way become a part of the Paradise-ascension careers
of those beings who may inhabit these outer creations. It is quite possible that
in that future age we may witness outer-spacers approaching Heaven through the
superuniverses, administered by God the Supreme with or without the
collaboration of the Master Spirits.
P643:4, 56:8.1 The Supreme Being has a threefold function in
the experience of mortal man: First, he is the unifier of time-space divinity;
second, he is the maximum of Deity which finite creatures can actually
comprehend; third, he is mortal man's only avenue of approach to the
transcendental experience of consorting with absonite mind, eternal spirit, and
Paradise personality.
P643:5, 56:8.2 Ascendant finaliters, having been born in the
local universes, nurtured in the superuniverse, and trained in the central
universe, embrace in their personal experiences the full potential of the
comprehension of the time-space divinity of unifying in the Supreme. Finaliters
serve successively in the superuniverse other than those of nativity, thereby
superimposing experience upon experience until the fullness of the diversity of
possible creature experience has been encompassed. Through the ministry of the
indwelling Adjusters the finaliters are enabled to find the Universal
Father, but it is by these techniques of experience that such finaliters come
really to know the Supreme Being, and they are destined to the service
and the revelation of this Supreme Deity in and to the future universes
of outer space.
P644:1, 56:8.3 Bear in mind, all that God the Father does for
us, we in turn and in spirit have the opportunity to do for and in the emerging
Supreme Being. The experience of love, joy, and service in the universe is
mutual. God the Father does not need that his children should return to him all
that he bestows upon them, but they do (or may) in turn bestow all of this upon
their fellows and upon the evolving Supreme Being.
P644:2, 56:8.4 All creational phenomena are reflective of
antecedent creator-spirit activities. In time you mortals may begin the
revelation of the Supreme to your fellows, and increasingly may you augment this
revelation as you ascend Paradiseward. In eternity you may be permitted to make
increasing revelations of this God of evolutionary creatures on supreme levels
-- even ultimate -- as seventh-stage finaliters.
P644:3, 56:9.1 The Unqualified Absolute and the Deity Absolute are unified in the Universal Absolute. The Absolutes are co-ordinated in the Ultimate, conditioned in the Supreme, and time-space modified in God. On subinfinite levels there are two Absolutes, but in infinity they appear to be one. On Paradise there are three personalizations of Deity, but they are one.
P644:7, 56:9.5 As creature minds may view this problem, they are led to the final postulate of the Universal I AM as the primal cause and the unqualified source of the Absolute. When, therefore, we crave to entertain a personal concept of the Absolute, we revert to our ideas and ideals of the Paradise Father. When we desire to facilitate comprehension or to augment consciousness of this otherwise impersonal Absolute, we revert to the fact that the Universal Father is the existential Father of absolute personality, the personalization of the Absolute.
P645:1, 56:9.6 God the Father is discernible on all levels from
the finite to the infinite, and though his creatures from Paradise to the
evolutionary worlds have variously perceived him, only the Infinite Spirit knows
him as an infinity.
P645:2, 56:9.7 Spiritual personality is absolute only on
Paradise, and the concept of the Absolute is unqualified only in infinity. Deity
presence is absolute only on Paradise, and the revelation of God must always be
partial, relative, and progressive until his power becomes experientially
infinite in the space potency of the Unqualified Absolute, while his personality
manifestation becomes experientially infinite in the manifest presence of the
Deity Absolute, and while these two potentials of infinity become
reality-unified in the Universal Absolute.
P645:3, 56:9.8 But beyond subinfinite levels the two Absolutes are
one, and thereby is infinity Deity-realized regardless of whether any other
order of existence ever self-realizes consciousness of infinity.
P645:4, 56:9.9 Existential status in eternity implies
existential self-consciousness of infinity, even though another eternity may be
required to experience self-realization of the experiential potentialities
inherent in an infinity eternity -- an eternal infinity.
P645:5, 56:9.10 And God the Father is the personal source of
all manifestations of Deity and reality to all intelligent creatures and spirit
beings throughout all of the universes. As personalities, now or in the
successive universe experiences of the eternal future, no matter if you achieve
the attainment of God, comprehend God the Supreme, find God the Ultimate, or
attempt to grasp the concept of God the Absolute, you will discover to your
eternal satisfaction that in the consummation of each adventure you have, on new
experiential levels, rediscovered the eternal God -- the Paradise Father of all
universe personalities.
P645:6, 56:9.11 The Universal Father is the explanation of
universal unity as it must be supremely, even ultimately, realized in the
postultimate unity of absolute values and meanings -- unqualified Reality.
P645:7, 56:9.12 The Master Force Organizers go out into space
and mobilize its energies to become gravity responsive to the Paradise pull of
the Universal Father; and subsequently there come the Creators, who organize
these gravity-responding forces into inhabited universes and therein evolve
intelligent creatures who receive unto themselves the spirit of the Paradise
Father and subsequently ascend to the Father to become like him in all possible
divinity attributes.
P645:8, 56:9.13 The ceaseless and expanding march of the
Paradise creative forces through space seems to presage the ever-extending
domain of the gravity grasp of the Universal Father and the never-ending
multiplication of varied types of intelligent creatures who are able to love God
and be loved by him, and who, by thus becoming God-knowing, may choose to be
like him, may elect to attain Paradise and find God.
P646:1, 56:9.14 The universes are altogether unified. God is
one in power and personality. There is co-ordination of all levels of energy and
all phases of personality. Philosophically and experientially, in concept and in
reality, all things and beings center in the Paradise Father. God is all and in
all, and no things or beings exist without him.
P646:2, 56:10.1 As the worlds settled in life and light
progress from the initial stage to the final epochs, they successively grasp for
the realization of the reality of God. Throughout the continuing stages of such
a world's history the ever-progressing mortals grow in the knowledge of God the
Supreme, while they vaguely discern the reality of the overshadowing ministry of
God the Ultimate.
P646:3, 56:10.2 Throughout this glorious age the chief pursuit
of the ever-advancing mortals is the quest for a better understanding and a
fuller realization of the comprehensible elements of Deity -- truth, beauty, and
goodness. This represents man's effort to discern God in mind, matter, and
spirit. And as the mortal pursues this quest, he finds himself increasingly
absorbed in the experiential study of philosophy, cosmology, and divinity.
P646:4, 56:10.3 Philosophy you somewhat grasp, and divinity you
comprehend in worship, social service, and personal spiritual experience, but
the pursuit of beauty -- cosmology -- you all too often limit to the study of
man's crude artistic endeavors. Beauty, art, is largely a matter of the
unification of contrasts. Variety is essential to the concept of beauty. The
supreme beauty, the height of finite art, is the drama of the unification of the
vastness of the cosmic extremes of Creator and creature. Man finding God and God
finding man -- the creature becoming perfect as is the Creator -- that is the
supernal achievement of the supremely beautiful, the attainment of the apex of
cosmic art.
P646:5, 56:10.4 Highest beauty consists in the panorama of the
unification of the variations which have been born of pre-existent harmonious
reality.
P646:6, 56:10.5 The attainment of cosmologic levels of thought
includes:
P646:7, 56:10.6 1. Curiosity. Hunger for harmony and thirst for beauty. Persistent attempts to discover new levels of harmonious cosmic relationships.
P646:8, 56:10.7 2. Aesthetic appreciation. Love of the beautiful and ever-advancing appreciation of the artistic touch of all creative manifestations on all levels of reality.
P646:9, 56:10.8 3. Ethic sensitivity. Through the realization of truth the appreciation of beauty leads to the sense of the eternal fitness of those things that impinge upon the recognition of divine goodness in Deity relations with all beings; and thus even cosmology leads to the pursuit of divine reality values -- to God-consciousness.
P646:10, 56:10.9 The worlds settled in light and life are so
fully concerned with the comprehension of truth, beauty, and goodness because
these quality values embrace the revelation of Deity to the realms of time and
space. The meanings of eternal truth make a combined appeal to the intellectual
and spiritual natures of mortal man. Universal beauty embraces the harmonious
relations and rhythms of the cosmic creation; this is more distinctly the
intellectual appeal and leads towards unified and synchronous comprehension of
the material universe. Divine goodness represents the revelation of infinite
values to the finite mind, therein to be perceived and elevated to the very
threshold of the spiritual level of human comprehension.
P647:1, 56:10.10 Truth is the basis of science and philosophy,
presenting the intellectual foundation of religion. Beauty sponsors art, music,
and the meaningful rhythms of all human experience. Goodness embraces the sense
of ethics, morality, and religion -- experiential perfection-hunger.
P647:3, 56:10.12 Goodness is the mental recognition of the
relative values of the diverse levels of divine perfection. The recognition of
goodness implies a mind of moral status, a personal mind with ability to
discriminate between good and evil. But the possession of goodness, greatness,
is the measure of real divinity attainment.
P647:4, 56:10.13 The recognition of true relations implies
a mind competent to discriminate between truth and error. The bestowal Spirit of
Truth that invests the human minds of Earth is unerringly responsive to truth --
the living spirit relationship of all things and all beings as they are
co-ordinated in the eternal ascent Godward.
P647:5, 56:10.14 Every impulse of every electron, thought, or
spirit is an acting unit in the whole universe. The universe is a whole; no
thing or being exists or lives in isolation. Cosmic socialization constitutes
the highest form of personality unification. Said Jesus: "He who would be
greatest among you, let him become server of all."
P647:7, 56:10.16 All insight into the relations of the parts to
any given whole requires an understanding grasp of the relation of all parts to
that whole; and in the universe this means the relation of created parts to the
Creative Whole. Deity thus becomes the transcendental, even the infinite, goal
of universal and eternal attainment.
P647:8, 56:10.17 Universal beauty is the recognition of the
reflection of the Isle of Paradise in the material creation, Divine goodness is
more fully shown forth in the loving ministry of the manifold personalities of
the Infinite Spirit. But love, the sum total of these three qualities, is man's
perception of God as his spirit Father.
P648:1, 56:10.18 Physical matter is the time-space shadow of
the Paradise energy-shining of the absolute Deity. Truth meanings are the
mortal-intellect repercussions of the eternal word of Deity -- the time-space
comprehension of supreme concepts. The goodness values of divinity are the
merciful ministries of the spirit personalities of the Universal, the Eternal,
and the Infinite to the time-space finite creatures of the evolutionary spheres.
P648:2, 56:10.19 These meaningful reality values of divinity
are blended in the Father's relation with each personal creature as divine love.
They manifest their qualities through the Spirit and his spirit children as
divine ministry, the portrayal of loving mercy to the children of time. The
Supreme Being as power-personality synthesis primarily manifests these
divinities. They are variously shown forth by God in differing associations of
divine meanings and values on ascending levels.
P648:3, 56:10.20 To finite man truth, beauty, and goodness embrace the full revelation of divinity reality. As this love-comprehension of Deity finds spiritual expression in the lives of God-knowing mortals, there are yielded the fruits of divinity: intellectual peace, social progress, moral satisfaction, spiritual joy, and cosmic wisdom. The advanced mortals on a world in the stages of light and life have learned that love is the greatest thing in the universe -- and they know that God is love.
P648:4, 56:10.21 Love is the desire to do good to others.