0:0. Foreword
The goals of most religions are the same, a deserved, appropriate, just finale. As time passes and when people eventually transcend their religious prejudices they will assign equal validity to all religions that promote peace, love and compassion for others. Righteous living will determine the continuity and destiny of our soul. Our goal in life should be to acquire knowledge, gather positive experiences and live righteously so that our soul can be a part of, and add to the glory of God.
"Follow the religion that is in your heart", be it Bahaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, etc. "Every religion leads to the same divine goal. The three basic principles are: Truth, Simplicity, and Love". ~ Babaji
Pope John Paul described heaven as "neither an abstraction nor a physical place among the clouds, but a blessed community". His interpretation was based on his insight and intellect and if we continue to build on that premise, religious discord can be subdued and eventually eliminated. A community is a group that shares common characteristics or interests. In order to give equal weight to all beliefs one has to admit that the ultimate truth is indecipherable by the human mind and can only be divulged to the spirit which also often misinterprets its meaning, hence we have various religions and beliefs.
"The Messengers of God are the principal and the first teachers. Whenever this world becomes dark, and divided in its opinions and indifferent, God will send one of His Holy Messengers...." and "Therefore we must follow and adore the virtues revealed in the Messengers of God whether in Abraham, Moses, Jesus" Muhammad "or other prophets but we must not adhere to and adore the lamp. We must recognize the sun no matter from what dawning-point it may shine forth, be it Mosaic, Abrahamic or any personal point of orientation whatever, for we are lovers of sunlight and not of orientation". ~ Abdu'l-Baha
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In the minds of many there exists great confusion respecting the meaning of such terms as God, divinity, and deity. People are still more confused and uncertain about the relationships of the divine personalities designated by these numerous appellations. Because of this conceptual poverty associated with so much ideational confusion this introductory statement is formulated in explanation of the meanings that should be attached to certain word symbols as they may be hereinafter used.0:0.2
It is exceedingly difficult to present enlarged concepts and advanced truth, in our endeavor to expand our consciousness and enhance spiritual perception. We will introduce new terms only when the concept to be portrayed finds no terminology that can be employed to convey such a new concept partially or even with more or less distortion of meaning.0:0.3
In the hope of facilitating comprehension and of preventing confusion on the part of those who may peruse these papers, we deem it wise to present in this initial statement an outline of the meanings to be attached to numerous words which are to be employed in designation of Deity and certain associated concepts of the things, meanings, and values of universal reality.0:0.4
In order to formulate this Foreword of definitions and limitations of terminology, it is necessary to anticipate the usage of these terms in the subsequent presentations. This Foreword is not, therefore, a finished statement within itself; it is only a definitive guide designed to assist those who shall read the accompanying papers dealing with Deity and the universe.
0:1.1 The universe also presents phenomena of deity activities on diverse levels of cosmic realities, mind meanings, and spirit values, but all of these ministrations -- personal or otherwise -- are divinely coordinated.
0:1.2 DEITY, what we call God, is a spiritual Order, a spiritual Unity in ways not altogether comprehensible by many. Deity is characterized by the quality of unity -- actual or potential -- on all levels of reality; and we best comprehend this unifying quality as divinity.
0:1.3 Deity functions as a spiritual community. It is the source of all that which is divine. Deity is characteristically and invariably divine, but all that which is divine is not necessarily Deity, though it will be coordinated with Deity and will tend towards some phase of unity with Deity – usually spiritual.
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DIVINITY is the characteristic, unifying, and coordinating quality of Deity.0:1.17 Divinity is comprehensible as truth, beauty, and goodness; correlated in personality as love, and mercy; disclosed on impersonal levels as justice, power, and sovereignty.
0:2.1 People often experience an irresistible urge to symbolize their finite concepts of God. Man's consciousness of moral duty and his spiritual idealism represent a value level -- an experiential reality -- which is difficult of symbolization.
0:2.2 Cosmic consciousnesses imply the recognition of a First Cause, the one and only uncaused reality. God, the Universal Father, functions on three Deity-personality levels of subinfinite value and relative divinity expression:
1. Prepersonal -- as in the ministry of the Father fragments, such as the Thought Adjusters.
2. Personal -- as in the evolutionary experience of created and procreated beings.
3. Superpersonal -- as in the eventuated existences of certain messengers and associated beings.
0:2.3 GOD is a word symbol designating all personalization of Deity. The term requires a different definition on each personal level of Deity function and must be still further redefined within each of these levels, as this term may be used to designate the diverse coordinate personalization of Deity.
0:2.4 The term God, as we make use of it, may be understood:
0:2.5 By designation -- as God the Father.
0:2.6 By context -- as when used in the discussion of some one deity level or association. When in doubt as to the exact interpretation of the word God, it would be advisable to refer it to the person of the Universal Father.
0:2.7 The term God always denotes personality. Deity may, or may not, refer to divinity personalities.
0:2.8 The word GOD is used, in these papers, with the following meanings:
0:2.9 1. God the Father – Supervisor, Controller of the universe, and Upholder. The Universal Father.
0:2.10 2. God the Coordinator - Creator, Spirit Controller, and Spiritual Administrator.
0:2.11 3. God the Spirit -- Universal Integrator, and Mind Bestower. The Infinite Spirit.
0:2.12 4. God the Supreme -- the actualizing or evolving God of time and space. Deity associatively realizing the time-space experiential achievement of creature-Creator identity. The Supreme Being is the experiencing achievement of Deity unity as the evolving and experiential God of the evolutionary creatures of time and space.
0:2.13 5. God the Ultimate -- the eventuating God of supertime and transcended space. The second experiential level of unifying Deity manifestation. God the Ultimate implies the attained realization of the synthesized Superpersonal, time-space-transcended, and eventuated-experiential values, coordinated on final creative levels of Deity reality.
0:2.14 6. God the Absolute -- the experientializing God of transcended superpersonal values and divinity meanings, now existential as the Deity Absolute. This is the third level of unifying Deity expression and expansion. On this level, Deity experiences exhaustion of personalizable potential, encounters completion of divinity, and undergoes depletion of capacity for self-revelation to successive and progressive levels of other-personalization. Deity now encounters, impinges upon, and experiences identity with, the Unqualified Absolute.
0:3.1 Total, infinite reality is existential in several phases and as several coordinate Absolutes:
1. The First Source and Center.
2. The Second Source and Center.
3. The Isle of Paradise.
4. The Deity Absolute.
5. The Universal Absolute.
6. The 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 centers. Such control is personal and infinite in potential, even though it may never actually function owing to the perfection of the function of such coordinate 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:
0:3.6 1. The gravity forces of the material universes are convergent in the gravity center of nether called 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 upper or spiritual plane of Paradise.
0:3.7 2. The mind forces are convergent in the Infinite Spirit; the differential and divergent cosmic mind in the Master Spirits; the factualizing mind of the Supreme as a time-space experience.
0:3.8 3. The universe spirit forces are convergent.
0:3.9 4. The unlimited capacity for deity action resides in the Deity Absolute.
0:3.10 5. The unlimited capacity for infinity response exists in the Unqualified Absolute.
0:3.11 6. The two Absolutes -- Qualified and Unqualified -- are coordinated and unified in and by the Universal Absolute.
0:3.12 7. The potential personality of an evolutionary moral being or of any other moral being is centered in the personality of the Universal Father.
0:3.13 REALITY, as comprehended by finite beings, is partial, relative, and shadowy. 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 reasoning in order to reach the level of the finite mind. Therefore must many of the simultaneous events of eternity be presented as sequential transactions.
0:3.14 As a time-space creature would view the origin and differentiation of Reality, the eternal and infinite I AM achieved Deity liberation from the fetters of unqualified infinity through the exercise of inherent and eternal free will, and this divorcement from unqualified infinity produced the first absolute divinity-tension. The Universal Absolute, which functions to unify and co-ordinate resolve this tension of infinity differential, 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 Eternal Father simultaneously with becoming the Eternal Source of the Isle of Paradise.
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 comprehension of eternity existences --nonending realities and relationships. To the time-space creature, all things must have a beginning-- the primeval cause of causes. Therefore do we conceptualize this philosophic value-level as the I AM.
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 probable that only the Messenger and the Infinite Spirit truly know the Father as infinity; to all other personalities such a concept represents the exercise of faith.
0:4.1 Reality differentially actualizes on diverse universe levels; reality originates in and by the infinite volition of the Universal Father and is realizable in three primal phases on many different levels of universe actualization:
0:4.2 1. Undeified reality ranges from the energy domains of the nonpersonal to the reality realms of the nonpersonalizable values of universal existence, even to the presence of the Unqualified Absolute.
0:4.3 2. Deified reality embraces all of infinite Deity potential ranging upward through all realms of personality from the lowest finite to the highest infinite, thus encompassing the domain of all that which is personalizable and more -- even to the presence of the Deity Absolute.
0:4.4 3. Interassociated reality. Universe reality is supposedly either deified or undeified, but to subdeified beings there exists a vast domain of interassociated reality, potential and actualizing, which is difficult of identification. Much of this coordinate reality is embraced within the realms of the Universal Absolute.
0:4.5 This is the primal concept of original reality: The Father initiates and maintains Reality. The primal differentials of reality are the deified and the undeified -- the Deity Absolute and the Unqualified Absolute. The primal relationship is the tension between them. This Father-initiated divinity-tension is perfectly resolved by, and eternalizes as, the Universal Absolute.
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PARADISE is a term inclusive of the personal and the nonpersonal focal Absolutes of all phases of universe reality. Paradise, properly qualified, may connote any and all forms of reality, Deity, divinity, personality, and energy -- spiritual, mindal, or material. All share Paradise as the place of origin, function, and destiny, as regards values, meanings, and factual existence.0:4.12 The Isle of Paradise -- Paradise not otherwise qualified -- is the Absolute of the material-gravity control of the First Source and Center. Paradise is motionless, being the only stationary thing in the universe. The Isle of Paradise has a universe location but no position in space. This eternal Isle is the actual source of the physical universes -- past, present, and future. The nuclear Isle of Light is a Deity derivative, but it is hardly Deity; neither are the material creations a part of Deity; they are a consequence.
0:4.13 Paradise is not a creator; it is a unique controller of many universe activities, far more of a controller than a reactor. Throughout the material universes Paradise influences the reactions and conduct of all beings having to do with force, energy, and power, but Paradise itself is unique, exclusive, and isolated in the universes. Paradise represents nothing and nothing represents Paradise. It is neither a force nor a presence; it is just Paradise.
0:5.1 Personality is a level of deified reality and ranges from the mortal and midway level of the higher mind activation of wisdom up through the morontial and spiritual to the attainment of finality of personality status. That is the evolutionary ascent of mortal- and kindred-creature personality, but there are numerous other orders of universe personalities.
0:5.2 Reality is subject to universal expansion, personality to infinite diversification, and both are capable of well-nigh unlimited Deity co-ordination and eternal stabilization. While the metamorphic range of nonpersonal reality is definitely limited, we know of no limitations to the progressive evolution of personality realities.
0:5.3 On attained experiential levels all personality orders or values are associable and even cocreational. Even God and man can coexist in a unified personality, as spirit, as is so exquisitely demonstrated in the Messenger.
0:5.4 All subinfinite orders and phases of personality are associative attainable and are potentially cocreational. The prepersonal, the personal, and the superpersonal are all linked together by mutual potential of co-ordinate attainment, progressive achievement, and cocreational capacity. But never does the impersonal directly transmute to the personal. Personality is never spontaneous; it is the gift of the Paradise Father. Personality is superimposed upon energy, and it is associated only with living energy systems; identity can be associated with nonliving energy patterns.
0:5.5 The Universal Father is the secret of the reality of personality, the bestowal of personality, and the destiny of personality. The Conjoint Actor is the spirit-mind personality, the source of intelligence, reason, and the universal mind. But the Isle of Paradise is nonpersonal and extraspiritual, being the essence of the universal body, the source and center of physical matter, and the absolute master pattern of universal material reality.
0:5.6 these qualities of universal reality are manifest in human experience on the following levels:
0:5.7 1. Body. The material or physical organism of man. The living electrochemical mechanism of animal nature and origin.
0:5.8 2. Mind. The thinking, perceiving, and feeling mechanism of the human organism. The total conscious and unconscious experience. The intelligence associated with the emotional life reaching upward through worship and wisdom to the spirit level.
0:5.9 3. Spirit. The divine spirit that indwells the mind of man -- the Thought Adjuster. This immortal spirit is prepersonal -- not a personality, though destined to become a part of the personality of the surviving mortal creature.
0:5.10 4. Soul. The soul of man is an experiential acquirement. As a mortal creature chooses to "live righteously," so the indwelling spirit becomes the existence of a new reality in human experience. The mortal and material mind is the mother of this same emerging reality. The substance of this new reality is neither material nor spiritual -- it is the emerging and immortal soul that is destined to survive mortal death and begin the Paradise ascension.
0:5.11 Personality. The personality of mortal man is neither body, mind, nor spirit; neither is it the soul. Personality is the one changeless reality in an otherwise ever-changing creature experience; and it unifies all other associated factors of individuality. The personality is the unique bestowal, which the Universal Father makes upon the living and associated energies of matter, mind, and spirit, and which survives with the survival of the soul.
0:5.12 The Messenger. It is a term designating a vast level intervening between the material and the spiritual. It may designate personal or impersonal realities, living or nonliving energies. The warp is spiritual; its woof is physical. The Messenger's spirit, during the spiritual interaction with God has attained the absolute spiritual personality, the secret of spiritual energy, morontial spirits, and perfected spirit; yet, this spiritual interaction is translated by an often conditioned or superstitious mind, hence you have the emergence of various religions.
0:6.1 Any and all things responding to the personality circuit of the Father, we call personal. Any and all things responding to the spirit circuit of the Messenger, we call spirit. Any and all that responds to the mind circuit we call mind, mind as an attribute of the Infinite Spirit -- mind in all its phases. Any and all that responds to the material-gravity circuit centering in nether Paradise, we call matter -- energy-matter in all its metamorphic states.
0:6.2 ENERGY we use as an all-inclusive term applied to spiritual, mental, and material realms. Force is also thus broadly used. Power is ordinarily limited to the designation of the electronic level of material or linear-gravity-responsive matter in the grand universe. Power is also employed to designate sovereignty. We cannot follow your generally accepted definitions of force, energy, and power. There is such paucity of language that we must assign multiple meanings to these terms.
0:6.3 Physical energy is a term denoting all phases and forms of phenomenal motion, action, and potential.
0:6.4 In discussing physical-energy manifestations, we generally use the terms cosmic force, emergent energy, and universe power. These are often employed as follows:
0:6.5 1. Cosmic force embraces all energies deriving from the Unqualified Absolute but which are as yet unresponsive to Paradise gravity.
0:6.6 2. Emergent energy embraces those energies that are responsive to Paradise gravity but are as yet unresponsive to local or linear gravity. This is the pre-electronic level of energy-matter.
0:6.7 3. Universe power includes all forms of energy, which, while still responding to Paradise gravity, are directly responsive to linear gravity. This is the electronic level of energy-matter and all subsequent evolutions thereof.
0:6.8 Mind is a phenomenon connoting the presence-activity of living ministry in addition to varied energy systems; and this is true on all levels of intelligence. In personality, mind ever intervenes between spirit and matter; therefore is the universe illuminated by three kinds of light: material light, intellectual insight, and spirit luminosity.
0:6.9 Light -- spirit luminosity -- is a word symbol, a figure of speech, which connotes the personality manifestation characteristic of spirit beings of diverse orders. This luminous emanation is in no respect related either to intellectual insight or to physical-light manifestations.
0:6.10 PATTERN can be projected as material, spiritual, or mental, or any combination of these energies. It can pervade personalities, identities, entities, or nonliving matter. But pattern is pattern and remains pattern; only copies are multiplied.
0:6.11 Pattern may configure energy, but it does not control it. Gravity is the sole control of energy-matter. Neither space nor pattern is gravity responsive, but there is no relationship between space and pattern; space is neither pattern nor potential pattern. Pattern is a configuration of reality that has already paid all gravity debt; the reality of any pattern consists of its energies, its mind, spirit, or material components.
0:6.12 In contrast to the aspect of the total, pattern disclose the individual aspect of energy and of personality. Personality or identity forms are patterns resultant from energy (physical, spiritual, or mental) but are not inherent therein. That quality of energy or of personality by virtue of which pattern is caused to appear may be attributed to God -- Deity -- to Paradise force endowment, to the coexistence of personality and power.
0:6.13 Pattern is a master design from which copies are made. Eternal Paradise is the absolute of patterns; the Messenger is the pattern personality; the Universal Father is the direct ancestor-source of both.
0:7.1 The Deity mechanism of the master universe is twofold as concerns eternity relationships. God the Father and God the Spirit are eternal -- are existential beings -- while God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and God the Absolute are actualizing Deity personalities of the epochs in the time-space and the time-space-transcended spheres of master universe evolutionary expansion. These actualizing Deity personalities are future eternals from the time when, and as, they power-personalize in the growing universe by the technique of the experiential actualization of the associative-creative potentials of the eternal Paradise Deities.
0:7.2 Deity is, therefore, dual in presence:
1. Existential -- beings of eternal existence, past, present, and future.
2. Experiential -- beings actualizing in the present but of unending existence throughout all future eternity.
0:7.3 The Father and Spirit are existential -- existential in actuality (though all potentials are supposedly experiential). The Supreme and the Ultimate are wholly experiential. The Deity Absolute is experiential in actualization but existential in potentiality. The essence of Deity is eternal, but only the three original persons of Deity are unqualifiedly eternal. All other Deity personalities have an origin, but they are eternal in destiny.
0:7.4 Having achieved existential Deity expression of himself in the Messenger and the Spirit, the Father is now achieving experiential expression on hitherto impersonal and unrevealed deity levels as God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and God the Absolute; but these experiential Deities are not now fully existent; they are in process of actualization.
0:7.5 God the Supreme is the personal spirit reflection of the Paradise Deity. This associative Deity relationship is now creatively expanding outward in God and is synthesizing in the experiential power of the Almighty Supreme in the grand universe. Paradise Deity is thus experientially evolving in two phases of Supremacy, while these dual phases are power-personality unifying as The Supreme.
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The Supreme Being is not a direct creator, except that he is the father, but he is a synthetic coordinator of all creature-Creator universe activities. The Supreme Being, now actualizing in the evolutionary universes, is the Deity correlator and synthesizer of time-space divinity in experiential association with the Supreme Creators of time and space. When finally actualized, this evolutionary Deity will constitute the eternal fusion of the finite and the infinite -- the everlasting and indissoluble union of experiential power and spirit personality.0:7.8 All time-space finite reality, under the directive urge of the evolving Supreme Being, is engaged in an ever-ascending mobilization and perfecting unification (power-personality synthesis) of all phases and values of finite reality, in association with varied phases of Paradise reality, to the end and for the purpose of subsequently embarking upon the attempt to reach absonite levels of supercreature attainment.
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Just as the Supreme Being progressively evolves from the antecedent divinity endowment of the encompassed grand universe potential of energy and personality, so does God the Ultimate eventuate from the potentials of divinity residing in the transcended time-space domains of the master universe. The actualization of Ultimate Deity signalizes absonite unification of the first experiential Trinity and signifies unifying Deity expansion on the second level of creative self-realization. This constitutes the personality-power equivalent of the universe experiential-Deity actualization of Paradise absonite realities on the eventuating levels of transcended time-space values. The completion of such an experiential unfoldment is designed to afford ultimate service-destiny for all time-space creatures that have attained absonite levels through the completed realization of the Supreme Being and by the ministry of God.0:9.2 God the Ultimate is designative of personal Deity functioning on the divinity levels of the absonite and on the universe spheres of supertime and transcended space. The Ultimate is a super supreme eventuation of Deity. The Supreme is the unification comprehended by finite beings; the Ultimate is the unification of the Paradise comprehended by absonite beings.
0:9.3 The Universal Father, through the mechanism of evolutionary Deity, is actually engaged in the stupendous and amazing act of personality focalization and power mobilization, on their respective universe meaning-levels, of the divine reality values of the finite, the absonite, and even of the absolute.
0:9.4 The eternal Deities of Paradise -- the Universal Father and the Infinite Spirit -- are, in the eternal future, to be personality-complemented by the experiential actualization of associate evolutionary Deities -- God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and possibly God the Absolute.
0:9.5 God the Supreme and God the Ultimate, now evolving in the experiential universes, are not existential -- not past eternals, only future eternals, time-space-conditioned and transcendental-conditioned eternals. They are Deities of supreme, ultimate, and possibly supreme-ultimate endowments, but they have experienced historic universe origins. They will never have an end, but they do have personality beginnings. They are indeed actualizations of eternal and infinite Deity potentials, but they themselves are neither unqualifiedly eternal nor infinite.
0:10.1 There are many features of the eternal reality of the Deity Absolute which cannot be fully explained to the time-space finite mind, but the actualization of God the Absolute would be in consequence of its unification. This would constitute the experiential realization of absolute divinity, the unification of absolute meanings on absolute levels; but we are not certain regarding the encompassment of all absolute values since we have at no time been informed that the Qualified Absolute is the equivalent of the Infinite. Super ultimate destinies are involved in absolute meanings and infinite spirituality, and without both of these unachieved realities we cannot establish absolute values.
0:10.2 God the Absolute is the realization-attainment goal of all superabsonite beings, but the power and personality potential of the Deity Absolute transcends our concept, and we hesitate to discuss those realities which are so far removed from experiential actualization.
0:11.1 When the combined thought of the Universal Father functioning in the God of Action, constituted the creation of the divine and central universe, the Father followed the expression of his thought into the act of their Conjoint Executive by differentiating his presence from the potentials of infinity. And these undisclosed infinity potentials remain space concealed in the Unqualified Absolute and divinely enshrouded in the Deity Absolute, while these two eventually become one in the functioning of the Universal Absolute, the unrevealed infinity-unity of the Paradise Father.
0:11.2 Both potency of cosmic force and potency of spirit force are in process of progressive revelation-realization as the enrichment of all reality is effected by experiential growth and through the correlation of the experiential with the existential by the Universal Absolute. By virtue of the equipoise presence of the Universal Absolute, the First Source and Center realizes extension of experiential power, enjoys identification with his evolutionary creatures, and achieves expansion of experiential Deity on the levels of Supremacy, Ultimacy, and Absoluteness.
0:11.3 When it is not possible fully to distinguish the Deity Absolute from the Unqualified Absolute, their supposedly combined function or coordinated presence is designated the action of the Universal Absolute.
0:11.13 The finite can coexist in the cosmos along with the Infinite only because the associative presence of the Universal Absolute so perfectly equalizes the tensions between time and eternity, finite and infinity, reality potential and reality actuality, Paradise and space, man and God. Associatively the Universal Absolute constitutes the identification of the zone of progressing evolutional reality existent in the time-space, and in the transcended time-space, universes of subinfinite Deity manifestation.
0:11.14 The Universal Absolute is the potential of the static-dynamic Deity functionally realizable on time-eternity levels as finite-absolute values and as possible of experiential-existential approach. This incomprehensible aspect of Deity may be static, potential, and associative but is not experientially creative or evolutional as concerns the intelligent personalities now functioning in the master universe.
0:11.15 The Absolute. The two Absolutes -- qualified and unqualified -- while so apparently divergent in function as they may be observed by mind creatures, are perfectly and divinely unified in and by the Universal Absolute. In the last analysis and in the final comprehension all three are one Absolute. On subinfinite levels they are functionally differentiated, but in infinity they are ONE.
0:12.10 In formulating the succeeding presentations having to do with the portrayal of the character of the Universal Father and the nature of his Paradise associates, together with an attempted description of the perfect central universe and the encircling universes, we are to be guided by the mandate of God who directs that we shall, in all our efforts to reveal truth and coordinate essential knowledge, give preference to the highest existing human concepts pertaining to the subjects to be presented. We may resort to pure revelation only when the concept of presentation has had no adequate previous expression by the human mind.
0:12.11 Successive planetary revelations of divine truth invariably embrace the highest existing concepts of spiritual values as a part of the new and enhanced coordination of planetary knowledge. Accordingly, in making these presentations about God and his universe associates, we have selected as the basis of these papers more than one thousand human concepts representing the highest and most advanced planetary knowledge of spiritual values and universe meanings. Wherein these human concepts, assembled from the God-knowing mortals of the past and the present, are inadequate to portray the truth as we are directed to reveal it, we will unhesitatingly supplement them, for this purpose drawing upon our own superior knowledge of the reality and divinity of the Paradise Deities and their transcendent universe.
0:12.12 We are fully cognizant of the difficulties of our assignment; we recognize the impossibility of fully translating the language of the concepts of divinity and eternity into the symbols of the language of the finite concepts of the mortal mind. But we know that there dwells within the human mind a fragment of God, and that there sojourns with the human soul the Spirit of Truth; and we further know that these spirit forces conspire to enable material man to grasp the reality of spiritual values and to comprehend the philosophy of universe meanings. But even more certainly we know that these spirits of the Divine Presence are able to assist man in the spiritual appropriation of all truth contributory to the enhancement of the ever-progressing reality of personal religious experience -- God-consciousness.
"Divine revelation had been held back for a long time and the kingdom of heaven had fallen into the hands of human reason alone. No one is unaware of the corruption in which the people were involved by following defective reason. Thus when the rain of revelation did not descend for a period, the water of reason dried up.
So in these oaths God Almighty draws attention to this firm and eternal law of nature and calls for reflection upon it that all the vegetation of the earth depends upon the water of heaven. Thus, for the hidden law that governs divine revelation the obvious law of nature is a witness. Then try to derive benefit from the testimony of this witness and do not make reason alone your guide, for it is not a water that can continue without heavenly water. As it is a characteristic of heavenly water that it pulls up the water of all the wells, whether it falls directly into a well or not, in the same way, when a recipient of divine revelation appears in the world then, whether a wise person follows him or not, reason is illumined and clarified to a degree not witnessed before.
People begin to search for the truth and their faculty of reflection is stirred up from the unseen. Thus, all this upsurge of reason and of the heart is initiated by the blessed advent of the recipient of divine revelation and the waters of the earth are pulled up by it. So, when you find that everyone has started a search for religion and an upsurge has stirred earthly waters, then rise up and be warned and know for certain that heavy rain has fallen from heaven and that the water of divine revelation has fallen upon a human heart". ~ The Philosophy of the Oaths 7,8.