Meredith Sprunger's Synopsis of The Urantia Book
Synopsis of Paper 106
UNIVERSE LEVELS OF REALITY
1. Man's terrestrial orientation, his cosmic insight, and his spiritual directionization are all enhanced by a better comprehension of universe realities and their techniques of interassociation, integration, and unification.
2. The present grand universe and the emerging master universe are made up of many forms and phases of reality...and they are now grouped for conceptual convenience in the following categories:
1. Incomplete finites
2. Maximum finites ...And that which is maximum, seemingly final, in the present universe age may be no more than a real beginning in terms of the ages to come...
3. Transcendentals
4. Ultimates
5. Coabsolutes
6. Absolutes
7. InfinityIt should be recognized that the concepts herewith presented are entirely relative.
3. The secondary, evolutionary, time‑and‑matter‑conditioned phases of the finite become cosmically integrated only as a result of growth and attainment ...We know of the existence of tertiary finites, but the technique of their integration is as yet unrevealed.
4. This superuniverse time lag, this obstacle to perfection attainment, provides for creature participation in evolutionary growth. It thus makes it possible for the creature to enter into partnership with the Creator in the evolution of that selfsame creature. And during these times of expanding growth the incomplete is correlated with the perfect through the ministry of God the Sevenfold.
5. The Supreme Being is the deity culmination of grand universe evolution—physical evolution around a spirit nucleus and eventual dominance of the spirit nucleus over the encircling and whirling domains of physical evolution. And all of this takes place in accordance with the mandates of personality: Paradise personality in the highest sense, Creator personality in the universe sense, mortal personality in the human sense, Supreme personality in the culminating or experiential totaling sense.
6. Michael of Nebadon is like the Paradise Father because he shares his Paradise perfection; so will evolutionary mortals sometime attain to kinship with the experiential Supreme, for they will truly share his evolutionary perfection.
7. During the present universe age the administrative co‑ordination of the master universe is the function of the Architects of the Master Universe. But the appearance of the Almighty Supreme at the termination of the present universe age will signify that the evolutionary, finite has attained the first stage of experiential destiny. This happening will certainly lead to the completed function of the first experiential Trinity—the union of the Supreme Creators, the Supreme Being, and the Architects of the Master Universe. This Trinity is destined to effect the further evolutionary integration of the master creation.
8. In the ages to come, after the seven superuniverses have been settled in light and life, the Corps of the Finality will doubtless be promulgating the purposes of the Paradise Deities as they are dictated by the Trinity Ultimate, and as they are power‑personality unified in the Supreme Being.
9. While the Trinity Ultimate is destined to co‑ordinate the master creation, God the Ultimate is the transcendental power‑personalization of the directionization of the entire master universe. The completed eventuation of the Ultimate implies the completion of the master creation and connotes the full emergence of this transcendental Deity.
10. The Ultimate is the apex of transcendental reality even as the Supreme is the capstone of evolutionary‑experiential reality. And the actual emergence of these two experiential Deities lays the foundation for the second experiential Trinity. This is the Trinity Absolute, the union of God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and the Unrevealed Consummator of Universe Destiny ...Trinities are, then, always deity reality but never personality reality. The personality aspects of a trinity are inherent in its individual members, and as individual persons they are not that trinity. Only as a collective are they trinity; that is trinity.
11. The three Absolutes—Deity, Universal, and Unqualified—are not trinity, for all are not deity. Only the deified can become trinity; all other associations are triunities or triodities.
12. The space‑stage of the master universe seems to be adequate for the actualization of the Supreme Being, for the formation and full function of the Trinity Ultimate, for the eventuation of God the Ultimate, and even for the inception of the Trinity Absolute. But our concepts regarding the full function of this second experiential Trinity seem to imply something beyond even the wide‑spreading master universe.
13. Mortals, morontians, spirits, finaliters, Transcendentalers, and others, together with the universes themselves and all other phases of reality, certainly do have a potentially final destiny that is absolute in value; but we doubt that any being or universe will ever completely attain all of the aspects of such a destiny.
14. No matter how much you may grow in Father comprehension, your mind will always be staggered by the unrevealed infinity of the Father‑I AM, the unexplored vastness of which will always remain unfathomable and incomprehensible throughout all the cycles of eternity...The quest for God is endless!
15. Far from harassing the creature, the infinity of God should be the supreme assurance that throughout all endless futurity an ascending personality will have before him the possibilities of personality development and Deity association which even eternity will neither exhaust nor terminate.
16. At the inconceivably distant future eternity moment of the final completion of the entire master universe, no doubt we will all look back upon its entire history as only the beginning, simply the creation of certain finite and transcendental foundations for even greater and more enthralling metamorphoses in uncharted infinity. At such a future eternity moment the master universe will still seem youthful; indeed, it will be always young in the face of the limitless possibilities of never‑ending eternity.
17. In the Trinity of Trinities the experiential infinite attains to identify 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. Infinity unification as an experiential reality is unthinkably remote, but an unqualified unity of infinity now dominates the present moment of universe existence and unites the divergencies of all reality with an existential majesty that is absolute.
22. Time, space, and experience are man's greatest aids to relative reality perception and yet his most formidable obstacles to complete reality perception.
23. The paradox created by the experiential and the existential viewpoints is inevitable and is predicated in part on the fact that the Paradise Trinity and the Trinity of Trinities are each an eternity relationship which mortals can only perceive as a time‑space relativity.
24. The concept of the existential, solitary, pre‑Trinity nonattainable I AM and the postulate of the experiential post‑Trinity of Trinities and attainable I AM are one and the same hypothesis; no actual change has taken place in the Infinite; all apparent developments are due to increased capacities for reality reception and cosmic appreciation
25. The I AM, in the final analysis, must exist before all existentials and after all experientials.
26. Sooner or later we all become aware that all creature growth is proportional to Father identification. We arrive at the understanding that living the will of God is the eternal passport to the endless possibility of infinity itself.
27. Such a Father life is one predicated on truth, sensitive to beauty, and dominated by goodness. Such a God‑knowing person is inwardly illuminated by worship and outwardly devoted to the wholehearted service of the universal brotherhood of all personalities, a service ministry which is filled with mercy and motivated by love, while all these life qualities are unified in the evolving personality on ever‑ascending levels of cosmic wisdom, self‑realization, God‑finding, and Father worship.
Discussion Questions
1. Why is the universe levels of reality helpful in spite of our many limitations of comprehension?
2. How is our partnership with the Creator facilitated in our evolutionary growth?
3. How does God the Sevenfold serve as a ladder in our spiritual growth?
4. How might the evolutionary power of the Supreme differ from the existential power of Paradise?
5. What can we understand of the presence of God the Ultimate in Havona in the absonite and superpersonal sense?
6. What is the value of contemplating the finality of destiny which is endless?
7. How do existentials and experientials work together in the universe?
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