Paper 56
1. God is unity. Deity is universally co‑ordinated. The universe of universes is one vast integrated mechanism which 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 obedience to the Universal Father's mandate: "Be you perfect, even as I am perfect."
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. The primal thought of the Universal Father eternalizes in dual expression: the Isle of Paradise and his Deity equal, the spiritual and Eternal Son. 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.
5. As the universal mind. gravity is centered in the Paradise personal presence of the Infinite Spirit, so does the universal spirit gravity center in the Paradise personal presence of the Eternal Son. The Universal Father is one, but to time‑space he is revealed in the dual phenomena of pure energy and. pure spirit.
6. The mortal mind is the creation of the Sons and Daughters of the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit and, when fused with the Thought Adjuster from the Father, partakes of the threefold spirit endowment of the evolutionary realms. But these three 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 Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit.
Spirit must always and ultimately become threefold in expression and Trinity-unified in final realization.
7. Personality inherently reaches out to unify all constituent realities. The infinite personality of the First Source and Center, the Universal Father, unifies all seven constituent Absolutes of Infinity…Such unifying creativity of all creature personality is a birthmark of its high end. exclusive source and is further evidential of its unbroken contact with this same source through the personality circuit.
8. To personality God cannot be plural...Philosophically, cosmically, and with reference to differential levels and locations of manifestation, you may and perforce must conceive of the functioning of plural Deities and postulate the existence of plural Trinities; but in the worshipful experience of the personal contact of every worshiping personality throughout the master universe, God is one…Father of all personalities from mortal man on the inhabited worlds to the Eternal Son on the central Isle of Light.
9. The oneness, the indivisibility, of Paradise Deity is existential and absolute. There are three eternal personalizations of Deity—the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit—but in the Paradise Trinity they are actually one Deity, undivided and indivisible.
10. God the Supreme as a person existed in Havona before the creation of the seven 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 person of the Supreme in Havona 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.
11. 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 Havona, they do not actually find the Supreme Being as they are destined to find the Paradise Deities...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.
12. It should be noted that ascending mortals 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.
13. We are not all in agreement respecting the future status of the Ancients of Days and the superuniverse Master Spirits...Nevertheless, we deem that the perfected superuniverses 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 Havona through the seven superuniverses, administered by God the Supreme with or without the collaboration of the Seven Master Spirits.
14. The Supreme Being has a threefold function in the experience of mortal man: First, he is the unifier of time‑space divinity, God the Sevenfold.; 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.
15. 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.
16. 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 the Sevenfold.
17. There is, then, but one consistent philosophic conclusion, and that is: The Absolute is, to all universe intelligences, the impersonal and co‑ordinate reaction of the Trinity (of Trinities) to all basic and primary space situations, intrauniversal and extrauniversal. To all personality intelligences of the grand universe the Paradise Trinity forever stands in finality, eternity, supremacy, and ultimacy and, for all practical purposes of personal comprehension and creature realization, as absolute.
18. 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 both the Trinity and the Absolute.
19. 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
20. As personalities, now or in the successive universe experiences of the eternal future, no matter if you achieve the attainment of God the Sevenfold, 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.
21. 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.
22. Hence materialism, atheism, is the maximation of ugliness, the climax of the finite antithesis of the beautiful. Highest beauty consists in the panorama of the unification of the variations which have been born of pre‑existent harmonious reality
23. 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.
24. Every impulse of every electron, thought, or spirit is an acting unit in the whole universe. Only sin is isolated and evil gravity resisting on the mental and spiritual levels. The universe is a whole; no thing or being exists or lives in isolation. Self‑realization is potentially evil if it is antisocial ...Cosmic socialization constitutes the highest form of personality unification. Said Jesus: "He who would be greatest among you, let him become server of all."
25. To finite man truth, beauty, and goodness embrace the full revelation of divine 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 seventh stage of light and life have learned that love is the greatest thing in the universe—and they know that God is love. Love is the desire to do good to others.
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1. What complexities in human experience help us understand the underlying unity of all things?
2. What concepts help us intuit Paradise before the advent of space and time?
3. What does it mean that pure energy and pure spirit are preresponsive to gravity?
4. What are the philosophic parallels between the Unqualified Absolute, the Deity Absolute, and the Universal Absolute and the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit?
5. How does the unifying capacity oi personality transcend the mystery that lies beyond our understanding?
6. How will being a part of the evolving Supreme Being help us understand God the Supreme in future ages?
7. How do we verify that our perception of truth, beauty, and goodness are harmonious with spiritual reality?
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