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The
Story of Everything
An
abridged edition of The Urantia Book
Paper
104: Growth of the Trinity Concept
The first revelation
of the Trinity on earth was made by the Planetary Prince's staff five
hundred thousand years ago. Subsequent revelations were presented
by Adam and Eve, Melchizedek, and Jesus. It has been difficult for
cultures emerging into monotheism from polytheism to accept the concept
of the Trinity. People of the Hebrew and Islamic faiths find it difficult
to differentiate between worshipping multiple gods (polytheism) and
the worship of one Deity in a triune manifestation.
The Paradise
Trinity is an entity. The Trinity is not a personality, but is a true
and absolute reality eventuating from the conjoining of the Father,
the Son, and the Spirit. Recognition of the Trinity concept leads
to understanding the interrelationship of love and law and to the
investigation of other triune associations of the First Source and
Center in which the Infinite functions in various capacities of force,
energy, power, causation, reaction, potentiality, actuality, gravity,
tension, pattern, principle, and unity.
The completeness
of infinity must be reconciled with the incompleteness of the evolving
universe. Total reality-infinity-is presented as existing in the seven
Absolutes:
The Universal
Father
The Eternal
Son
The Infinite
Spirit
The Isle of
Paradise
The Deity Absolute
The Universal
Absolute
The Unqualified
Absolute
The Paradise
Trinity is not a triunity. It is an undivided and indivisible Deity,
but the three Deities also function as the first triunity. The common
factor between trinity and triunity is that they each result in functions
other than what is the discernible from the sum of the attributes
of component members.
The Universal
Father exercises control of the functions of infinity as the primal
member of many triunities. He reveals himself as love to the creatures
of the evolving cosmos through the personal purposive triunity of
the Father, Son, and Spirit. God patterns the universes and organized
energy through the power pattern-triunity of the Father-Son, the Paradise
Isle, and the Conjoint Actor. All spirit finds reality expression
in the spirit-evolutional triunity of the Father, the Son-Spirit,
and the Deity Absolute. Altogether there are fifteen triune associations
of the First Source and Center in his various functions, and these
associations make the sub-infinite manifestations of God's reality
possible.
Other triune
relationships-triodities- do not involve the Father, but they result
as a consequence of the existence of the triunities. Triodities are
directly concerned in the experiential Deities-the Supreme, Ultimate
and Absolute.
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