Tigran Aivazian - The British Study Edition of the Urantia Papers

0:1.12¶ The absonite level of reality is characterized by things and beings without beginnings or endings and by the transcendence of time and space. Absoniters are not created; they are eventuated — they simply are. The Deity level of Ultimacy connotes a function in relation to absonite realities. No matter in what part of the master universe, whenever time and space are transcended, such an absonite phenomenon is an act of the Ultimacy of Deity.

0:1.13¶ The absolute level is beginningless, endless, timeless, and spaceless. For example: On Paradise, time and space are nonexistent; the time-space status of Paradise is absolute. This level is Trinity attained, existentially, by the Paradise Deities, but this third level of unifying Deity expression is not fully unified experientially. Whenever, wherever, and however the absolute level of Deity functions, Paradise-absolute values and meanings are manifest.

0:1.14¶ Deity may be existential [7] [7] existential , Defined at 0:7.3 as “beings of eternal existence, past, present, and future”. , as in the Eternal Son; experiential [8] [8] experiential , Defined at 0:7.4 as “beings actualizing in the post-Havona present but of unending existence throughout all future eternity”. , as in the Supreme Being; associative, as in God the Sevenfold; undivided, as in the Paradise Trinity.

0:1.15Deity 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 co-ordinated with Deity and will tend towards some phase of unity with Deity — spiritual, mindal, or personal.

0:1.16¶ DIVINITY is the characteristic, unifying, and co-ordinating quality of Deity.

0:1.17Divinity is creature comprehensible as truth, beauty, and goodness; correlated in personality as love, mercy, and ministry; disclosed on impersonal levels as justice, power, and sovereignty.

0:1.18Divinity may be perfect — complete — as on existential and creator levels of Paradise perfection; it may be imperfect, as on experiential and creature levels of time-space evolution; or it may be relative, neither perfect nor imperfect, as on certain Havona levels of existential-experiential relationships.

0:1.19¶ When we attempt to conceive of perfection in all phases and forms of relativity, we encounter seven conceivable types [9] [9] seven conceivable types , The following list of seven elements contains all non-empty subsets (2 3 - 1 = 7) of the set {Absolute, Relative, Imperfection}, listed in this particular order to reflect the inherent ordering of the three basic elements as follows: Absolute > Relative > Imperfection. :

0:1.201. Absolute perfection in all aspects.

0:1.212. Absolute perfection in some phases and relative perfection in all other aspects.

0:1.223. Absolute, relative, and imperfect aspects in varied association.

0:1.234. Absolute perfection in some respects, imperfection in all others.

0:1.245. Absolute perfection in no direction, relative perfection in all [10] [10] all manifestations , In 1955 text: all other manifestations. The word “other” was removed. The original phraseology is incorrect because the reference to other manifestations requires the existence of one or more additional manifestations to which this other is being contrasted. As this particular phase of perfection exists in only one manifestation — relative perfection — there are no additional types which require or permit the use of other in this context. The error occurred when “other” was inserted into the 1955 text during one of the pre-publication transcriptions by accidentally repeating the pattern of use found immediately before and after this sentence. manifestations.

0:1.256. Absolute perfection in no phase, relative in some, imperfect in others.

0:1.267. Absolute perfection in no attribute, imperfection in all.

0:2.1Evolving mortal creatures 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.

0:2.2Cosmic consciousness implies 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:

0:2.31. Prepersonal — as in the ministry of the Father fragments, such as the Thought Adjusters.

0:2.42. Personal — as in the evolutionary experience of created and procreated beings.

0:2.53. Superpersonal — as in the eventuated existences of certain absonite and associated beings.

0:2.6GOD is a word symbol designating all personalizations 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 co-ordinate and subordinate personalizations of Deity; for example: the Paradise Creator Sons — the local universe fathers.

0:2.7¶ The term God, as we make use of it, may be understood:

0:2.8 By designation — as God the Father.

0:2.9 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.

0:2.10¶ The term God always denotes personality. Deity may, or may not, refer to divinity personalities.

0:2.11¶ The word GOD is used, in these papers, with the following meanings:

0:2.121. God the Father — Creator, Controller, and Upholder. The Universal Father, the First Person of Deity.

0:2.132. God the Son — Co-ordinate Creator, Spirit Controller, and Spiritual Administrator. The Eternal Son, the Second Person of Deity.

0:2.143. God the Spirit — Conjoint Actor, Universal Integrator, and Mind Bestower. The Infinite Spirit, the Third Person of Deity.

0:2.154. God the Supreme — the actualizing or evolving God of time and space. Personal Deity associatively realizing the time-space experiential achievement of creature-Creator identity. The Supreme Being is personally experiencing the achievement of Deity unity as the evolving and experiential God of the evolutionary creatures of time and space.

0:2.165. God the Sevenfold — Deity personality anywhere actually functioning in time and space. The personal Paradise Deities and their creative associates functioning in and beyond the borders of the central universe and power-personalizing as the Supreme Being on the first creature level of unifying Deity revelation in time and space. This level, the grand universe, is the sphere of the time-space descension of Paradise personalities in reciprocal association with the time-space ascension of evolutionary creatures.

0:2.176. 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 absonite-superpersonal, time-space-transcended, and eventuated-experiential values, co-ordinated on final creative levels of Deity reality.

0:2.187. 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 supercreative 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.