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The nature of the Trinity of Trinities is difficult to portray to the human
mind; it is the actual summation of the entirety of experiential infinity
as such is manifested in a theoretical infinity of eternity realization. In
the Trinity of Trinities the experiential infinite attains to identity with
the existential infinite, and both are as one in the
pre-experiential, pre-existential
I AM. The Trinity of Trinities is the final expression of all that is implied
in the fifteen triunities and associated triodities.
Finalities are difficult
for relative beings to comprehend, be they existential or experiential; therefore
must they always be presented as relativities.
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The Trinity of Trinities exists in several phases. It contains possibilities,
probabilities, and inevitabilities that stagger the imaginations of beings
far above the human level. It has implications that are probably unsuspected
by the celestial philosophers, for its implications are in the triunities,
and the triunities are, in the last analysis, unfathomable.
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There are a number of ways in which the Trinity of Trinities can be portrayed.
We elect to present the
three-level concept, which is as follows:
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THE FIRST LEVEL: On this initial level of association it is believed that
the three Trinities function as perfectly synchronized, though distinct, groupings
of Deity personalities.
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1. The Paradise Trinity, the association of the three Paradise Deities
-- Father, Son, and Spirit. It should be remembered that the Paradise Trinity
implies a threefold function -- an absolute function, a transcendental function
(Trinity of Ultimacy), and a finite function (Trinity of Supremacy). The Paradise
Trinity is any and all of these at any and all times.
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2. The Ultimate Trinity. This is the deity association of the Supreme
Creators, God the Supreme, and the Architects of the Master Universe. While
this is an adequate presentation of the divinity aspects of this Trinity,
it should be recorded that there are other phases of this Trinity, which,
however, appear to be perfectly co-ordinating with the divinity aspects.
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3. The Absolute Trinity. This is the grouping of God the Supreme, God
the Ultimate, and the Consummator of Universe Destiny in regard to all divinity
values. Certain other phases of this triune grouping have to do with
other-than-divinity
values in the expanding cosmos. But these are unifying with the divinity phases
just as the power and the personality aspects of the experiential Deities
are now in process of experiential synthesis.
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The association of these three Trinities in the Trinity of Trinities provides
for a possible unlimited integration of reality. This grouping contains causes,
intermediates, and
finals;
inceptors,
realizers, and
consummators; beginnings,
existences, and destinies. The Father-Son partnership has become Son-Spirit
and then
Spirit-Supreme and on to Supreme-Ultimate and Ultimate-Absolute,
even to Absolute and Father-Infinite -- the completion of the cycle of reality.
Likewise, in other phases not so immediately concerned with divinity and personality,
does the First Great Source and Center self-realize the limitlessness of reality
around the circle of eternity, from the absoluteness of
self-existence, through
the
endlessness of self-revelation, to the finality of self-realization --
from the absolute of existentials to the finality of experientials.
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THE SECOND LEVEL: The co-ordination of the three Trinities inevitably involves
the associative union of the experiential Deities, who are genetically associated
with these Trinities. The nature of this second level has been sometimes presented
as:
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1. The Supreme. This is the deity consequence of the unity of the Paradise
Trinity in experiential liaison with the Creator-Creative children of the
Paradise Deities. The Supreme is the deity embodiment of the completion of
the first stage of finite evolution.
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2. The Ultimate. This is the deity consequence of the eventuated unity
of the second Trinity, the transcendental and absonite personification of
divinity. The Ultimate consists in a variably regarded unity of many qualities,
and the human conception thereof would do well to include at least those phases
of ultimacy which are control directing, personally experiencible, and
tensionally
unifying, but there are many other unrevealed aspects of the eventuated Deity.
While the Ultimate and the Supreme are comparable, they are not identical,
neither is the Ultimate merely an amplification of the Supreme.
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3. The Absolute. There are many theories held as to the character of
the third member of the second level of the Trinity of Trinities. God the
Absolute is undoubtedly involved in this association as the personality consequence
of the final function of the Trinity Absolute, yet the Deity Absolute is an
existential reality of eternity status.
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The concept difficulty regarding this third member is inherent in the fact
that the
presupposition of such a membership really implies just one Absolute.
Theoretically, if such an event could take place, we should witness the experiential
unification of the three Absolutes as one. And we are taught that, in
infinity and existentially, there is one Absolute. While it is least
clear as to who this third member can be, it is often postulated that such
may consist of the Deity, Universal, and Unqualified Absolutes in some form
of unimagined liaison and cosmic manifestation. Certainly, the Trinity of
Trinities could hardly attain to complete function short of the full unification
of the three Absolutes, and the three Absolutes can hardly be unified short
of the complete realization of all infinite potentials.
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It will probably represent a minimum distortion of truth if the third member
of the Trinity of Trinities is conceived as the Universal Absolute, provided
this conception envisions the Universal not only as static and potential but
also as associative. But we still do not perceive the relationship to the
creative and evolutional aspects of the function of total Deity.
P1172:4, 106:8.16
Though a completed concept of the Trinity of Trinities is difficult to form,
a qualified concept is not so difficult. If the second level of the Trinity
of Trinities is conceived as essentially personal, it becomes quite possible
to postulate the union of God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and God the Absolute
as the personal repercussion of the union of the personal Trinities who are
ancestral to these experiential Deities. We venture the opinion that these
three experiential Deities will certainly unify on the second level as the
direct consequence of the growing unity of their ancestral and causative Trinities
who constitute the first level.
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The first level consists of three Trinities; the second level exists as the
personality association of
experiential-evolved,
experiential-eventuated,
and experiential-existential Deity personalities. And regardless of any conceptual
difficulty in understanding the complete Trinity of Trinities, the personal
association of these three Deities on the second level has become manifest
to our own universe age in the phenomenon of the deitization of Majeston,
who was actualized on this second level by the Deity Absolute, acting through
the Ultimate and in response to the initial creative mandate of the Supreme
Being.
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THE THIRD LEVEL: In an unqualified hypothesis of the second level of the Trinity
of Trinities, there is embraced the correlation of every phase of every kind
of reality that is, or was, or could be in the entirety of infinity. The Supreme
Being is not only spirit but also mind and power and experience. The Ultimate
is all this and much more, while, in the conjoined concept of the oneness
of the Deity, Universal, and Unqualified Absolutes, there is included the
absolute finality of all reality realization.
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In the union of the Supreme, Ultimate, and the complete Absolute, there could
occur the functional reassembly of those aspects of infinity which were originally
segmentalized by the I AM, and which resulted in the appearance of the Seven
Absolutes of Infinity. Though the universe philosophers deem this to be a
most remote probability, still, we often ask this question: If the second
level of the Trinity of Trinities could ever achieve trinity unity, what then
would transpire as a consequence of such deity unity? We do not know, but
we are confident that it would lead directly to the realization of the I AM
as an experiential attainable. From the standpoint of personal beings it could
mean that the unknowable I AM had become experiencible as the Father-Infinite.
What these absolute destinies might mean from a nonpersonal standpoint is
another matter and one which only eternity could possibly clarify. But as
we view these remote eventualities as personal creatures, we deduce that the
final destiny of all personalities is the final knowing of the Universal Father
of these selfsame personalities.
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As we philosophically conceive of the I AM in past eternity, he is alone,
there is none beside him. Looking forward into future eternity, we do not
see that the I AM could possibly change as an existential, but we are inclined
to forecast a vast experiential difference. Such a concept of the I AM implies
full self-realization -- it embraces that limitless galaxy of personalities
who have become volitional participants in the self-revelation of the I AM,
and who will remain eternally as absolute volitional parts of the totality
of infinity, final sons of the absolute Father.
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