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Reality unfolds in ascending levels—from finite to infinite—integrated by spirit, mind, and personality. God’s purpose unifies all cosmic processes, blending experiential growth with eternal values across space, time, and realms.
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This paper explores the complex relationships between finite beings, Deity, and the multiple levels of cosmic reality that span from imperfection to infinity. It outlines seven levels of reality, each representing stages of experiential growth, transcendental coordination, or absolute potential. Finite beings progress through evolutionary development, guided by God the Sevenfold, eventually contributing to the unification of reality within the Supreme Being. This integration reflects the combined achievements of personal growth, spiritual attainment, and cosmic evolution.
The paper further examines how transcendental and absolute realities build upon finite foundations to form experiential Trinities, such as the Trinity Ultimate and the Trinity Absolute. These cosmic structures coordinate the evolving functions of the Supreme and Ultimate Deity, advancing toward the potential full expression of all reality. The culmination of this process is represented in the concept of the Trinity of Trinities, a theoretical unification of all experiential and existential reality. While infinite unification already exists in the Paradise Trinity, the experiential path reveals the ultimate destiny of all personalities: the progressive realization and knowing of the Universal Father.
For ascending mortals, it is insufficient merely to comprehend the relationship of Deity to cosmic genesis and manifestation; they must also grasp the relationships between themselves and the numerous levels of existential and experiential realities, of potential and actual reality structures. Terrestrial orientation, cosmic insight, and spiritual directionization are all enhanced through a better understanding of universe realities and the techniques by which these domains interassociate, integrate, and unify. The present grand universe and the emerging master universe comprise many forms and phases of reality that function on several levels of activity, which have been grouped into seven categories for conceptual convenience.
These seven categories of reality extend from the incomplete finites (the current status of ascending creatures) through maximum finites, transcendentals, ultimates, coabsolutes, and absolutes, to infinity itself: the pre-existential and post-experiential status of unqualified unity. It must be recognized that these conceptualizations are entirely relative, conditioned by the limitations of mortal language, the restricted capacity of the human mind, the incomplete development of the seven superuniverses, ignorance of the superuniverse's six prime purposes unrelated to mortal ascension, inability to grasp even a partial eternity viewpoint, impossibility of depicting cosmic evolution beyond the current universe age, and the inherent inability of any creature to comprehend what truly exists before beginnings and after destinies.
The primary or spirit-origin phases of finite reality find immediate expression on creature levels as perfect personalities and on universe levels as the perfect Havona creation. Even experiential Deity is expressed in the spirit person of God the Supreme in Havona. In contrast, the secondary, evolutionary, time-and-matter-conditioned phases of finitude achieve cosmic integration only through growth and attainment. These secondary phases must eventually attain levels equivalent to primary perfection, but this destiny is subject to a time delay, a constitutive superuniverse qualification absent from the central creation. This temporal barrier provides the opportunity for creature participation in evolutionary growth, enabling the creature to partner with the Creator in the evolution of the creature's own self.
God the Sevenfold signifies Paradise Deity's recognition of the temporal barriers inherent in the evolutionary universes. No matter how distant from Paradise, material survival personalities find God the Sevenfold present, engaged in the loving ministry of truth, beauty, and goodness. The divinity ministry of the Sevenfold extends inward through the Eternal Son to the Paradise Father and outward through the Ancients of Days to the Creator Sons. Mortals who develop spiritually discover the personal and spiritual divinity aspects of the Sevenfold, though other phases exist that do not concern personality progression. These various aspects of the Sevenfold Deity are presently integrated through the liaison between the Seven Master Spirits and the Conjoint Actor, but all phases are destined for eternal unification in the emerging personality of the Supreme Being, the source of the relative unity of functional reality in the present grand universe.
As God the Sevenfold functionally coordinates finite evolution, the Supreme Being synthesizes destiny attainment. The Supreme Being represents the deity culmination of grand universe evolution—physical evolution around a spirit nucleus with the eventual dominance of spirit over the encircling domains of physical evolution. This process unfolds according to the mandates of personality: Paradise personality at the highest level, Creator personality at the universe level, mortal personality at the human level, and Supreme personality as the experiential totality of all these elements. The concept of the Supreme must allow for differential recognition of spirit person, evolutionary power, and the unification of evolutionary power with, and its dominance by, spirit personality.
Spirit originates from Paradise through Havona, while energy-matter seemingly evolves in space and is organized by the children of the Infinite Spirit working with the Creator Sons of God. This is an experiential transaction involving a wide range of beings from Creator divinities to evolutionary creatures. The expanding power mastery of Creator divinities in the grand universe encompasses the evolutionary settling and stabilization of time-space creations, marking the flowering of God the Sevenfold's experiential power. This earned, demonstrated experiential power manifests the cohesive qualities of divinity through synthesis as the almighty power of attained experiential mastery over evolving creations. This almighty power achieves spirit-personality cohesion on the outer belt of Havona in union with the Havona presence of God the Supreme, culminating the long evolutionary struggle by investing the product of time and space with the spirit presence and divine personality of the central creation.
In the cosmic procession of reality levels, the absonite architects formulate the plan, the Supreme Creators implement it in existence, and the Supreme Being will consummate its fullness as it was time-created by the Supreme Creators and space-forecasted by the Master Architects. During the present universe age, the administrative coordination of the master universe falls under the purview of the Architects of the Master Universe. The emergence of the Almighty Supreme at the conclusion of the current universe age will signify that the evolutionary finite has attained the first stage of experiential destiny, an event that will propel the completed function of the first experiential Trinity, uniting 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, though it is essential to recognize that the Paradise Trinity remains truly and uniquely infinite. No Trinity can be infinite without including this original Trinity of absolute Deities; subabsolute beings played no role in this primal association. The subsequently appearing experiential Trinities incorporate the contributions of creature personalities, exemplified by the Trinity Ultimate, wherein the presence of the Master Creator Sons among the Supreme Creator members betokens the concomitant presence of actual creature experience. In future ages, after the seven superuniverses have settled in light and life, the Corps of the Finality will likely promulgate the purposes of the Paradise Deities as dictated by the Trinity Ultimate and power-personality unified in the Supreme Being.
The Paradise Trinity coordinates in the ultimate sense while functioning as a self-qualified absolute; the experiential Trinity Ultimate coordinates the transcendental as a transcendental entity. In the eternal future, this experiential Trinity will, through augmenting unity, further activate the eventuating presence of Ultimate Deity. While the Trinity Ultimate is destined to coordinate the master creation, God the Ultimate serves as the transcendental power-personalization directing the entire master universe. The completed manifestation of the Ultimate implies the completion of the master creation and indicates the full emergence of this transcendental Deity.
The full emergence of the Ultimate will undoubtedly initiate changes we cannot currently foresee, though we know the Ultimate is presently spiritually and personally present in Havona in an absonite and superpersonal capacity. We have been informed of the existence of the Qualified Vicegerents of the Ultimate, though their current whereabouts and functions remain undisclosed. Regardless of the administrative repercussions that may accompany the emergence of Ultimate Deity, the personal values of his transcendental divinity will be experientially accessible to all personalities who have participated in actualizing this Deity level. Transcendence of the finite invariably leads to ultimate attainment, with God the Ultimate existing in transcendence of time and space yet remaining subabsolute despite possessing inherent capacity for functional association with absolutes.
The Ultimate represents the apex of transcendental reality, just as the Supreme constitutes the capstone of evolutionary-experiential reality. The actual emergence of these two experiential Deities establishes the foundation for the second experiential Trinity, the Trinity Absolute, which unites God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and the unrevealed Consummator of Universe Destiny. This Trinity possesses theoretical capacity to activate the Absolutes of potentiality (Deity, Universal, and Unqualified), though its complete formation could only occur after the entire master universe has fully evolved, from Havona through all four space levels.
The experiential Trinities correlate not only the personality qualities of experiential Divinity but also all other-than-personal qualities characterizing their attained Deity unity. While this presentation primarily addresses the personal phases of cosmic unification, the impersonal aspects of the universe of universes are likewise destined for unification, as illustrated by the power-personality synthesis currently progressing in connection with the Supreme Being's evolution. The spirit-personal qualities of the Supreme are inseparable from the Almighty's power prerogatives, both complemented by Supreme Mind's unknown potential. Similarly, God the Ultimate as a person cannot be considered apart from Ultimate Deity's other-than-personal aspects, and at the absolute level, the Deity and Unqualified Absolutes are inseparable and indistinguishable in the Universal Absolute's presence.
The present potential of the master universe, while not quite absolute, may approach the ultimate in its scope. We encounter considerable difficulty in attempting to conceive of the total expression of the limitless possibilities within the three Absolutes or in visualizing the experiential personalization of God the Absolute from the currently impersonal level of the Deity Absolute. The space-stage of the master universe appears adequate for actualizing the Supreme Being, forming and enabling the full function of the Trinity Ultimate, for the emergence of God the Ultimate, and even for the inception of the Trinity Absolute. Nevertheless, our concepts regarding the Trinity Absolute's complete function seem to implicate something beyond even the vast master universe.
If we postulate a cosmos-infinite, an illimitable cosmos extending beyond the master universe, and if we conjecture that the final developments of the Trinity Absolute will occur in such a superultimate stage, then it becomes conceivable that the completed function of the Trinity Absolute will achieve final expression in the creations of infinity and consummate the absolute actualization of all potentials. The integration and association of ever-expanding segments of reality will approach absoluteness of status proportional to the inclusion of all reality within these segments. Stated differently, the Trinity Absolute, as its name suggests, is truly absolute in total function. We must assume that any such totality function would be unconditioned (in potential) and therefore unlimited, at least from a qualitative standpoint, though quantitative relationships remain less certain.
The difficulties in forming concepts of infinite reality integration stem partly from the fact that such ideas embrace the finality of universal development, meaning some form of experiential realization of all potential futures. However, quantitative infinity can never be fully realized in finality since the three potential Absolutes will always contain unexplored possibilities that no amount of experiential development could exhaust. Eternity itself, though absolute, is not more than absolute. Even a tentative concept of final integration remains inseparable from the fruitions of unqualified eternity and is therefore practically unattainable at any conceivable future moment.
Destiny is established through the volitional act of the Deities constituting the Paradise Trinity; it exists in the vastness of the three great potentials whose absoluteness encompasses all future development possibilities. Destiny is probably consummated through the act of the Consummator of Universe Destiny, likely involving the Supreme and Ultimate in the Trinity Absolute. Any experiential destiny can be at least partially comprehended by experiencing creatures, but a destiny impinging on infinite existentials remains largely incomprehensible. Finality destiny appears to involve the Deity Absolute, which maintains an eternal relationship with the Unqualified Absolute through the Universal Absolute. These three Absolutes, experiential in possibility, are actually existential and more, being limitless, timeless, spaceless, boundless, and measureless—truly infinite.
The nature of the Trinity of Trinities is exceptionally difficult to portray to the human mind as it represents the actual summation of experiential infinity manifested in a theoretical infinity of eternity realization. Within the Trinity of Trinities, the experiential infinite achieves identity with the existential infinite, and both are unified in the pre-experiential, pre-existential I AM. This construct represents the final expression of everything implied in the fifteen triunities and associated triodities, with finalities that are challenging for relative beings to comprehend, whether they are existential or experiential in nature. The Trinity of Trinities exists in multiple phases with implications that likely exceed the understanding of even celestial philosophers, for its implications reside in the triunities, which are ultimately unfathomable.
We can conceptualize the Trinity of Trinities as a three-level structure: The first level encompasses the three Trinities: the Paradise Trinity (with its absolute, transcendental, and finite functions), the Ultimate Trinity (the deity association of Supreme Creators, God the Supreme, and the Master Universe Architects, with both divinity and non-divinity aspects), and the Absolute Trinity (uniting God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and the Consummator of Universe Destiny regarding divinity values and other-than-divinity values). The second level involves the associative union of the experiential Deities genetically connected to the three Trinities: the Supreme (embodying the completion of the first stage of finite evolution), the Ultimate (representing the eventuated unity of the second Trinity with many qualities beyond ultimacy), and the Absolute (involving God the Absolute and the Deity Absolute in a complex relationship that implies the unification of the three Absolutes).
The third level of the Trinity of Trinities embraces the correlation of every phase and kind of reality throughout infinity. The Supreme, Ultimate, and the unified Absolutes include every aspect of reality from spirit to mind to power to experience. In the theoretical union of the Supreme, Ultimate, and the complete Absolute, there could occur the functional reassembly of infinity aspects originally segmentalized by the I AM, resulting in the Seven Absolutes of Infinity. While universe philosophers consider this an extremely remote possibility, if the second level of the Trinity of Trinities achieved trinity unity, it could lead to the realization of the I AM as an experientially attainable entity. From a personal perspective, this could mean the unknowable I AM becomes experiencible as the Father-Infinite, though the implications from a non-personal standpoint remain unclear until eternity clarifies them. From the personal creature perspective, we deduce that all personalities' final destiny is the ultimate knowing of the Universal Father.
In the concept of the Trinity of Trinities, we postulate the possible experiential unification of limitless reality in the remote future of distant eternity. Nevertheless, an actual unification of infinity already exists in the present age as in all past and future universe ages; such unification is existential in the Paradise Trinity. While infinity unification as an experiential reality remains unfathomably remote, an unqualified unity of infinity already dominates the present moment of universe existence, uniting all divergencies of reality with absolute majesty. When finite creatures attempt to conceive of infinite unification at the finality levels of consummated eternity, they confront intellect limitations inherent in their finite nature.
Time, space, and experience constitute barriers to creature comprehension of reality, yet paradoxically, they also serve as humanity's greatest aids to relative reality perception. Without time sensitivity, no evolutionary creature could perceive sequential relationships; without space perception, none could fathom simultaneity; without experience, evolutionary creatures could not even exist. The concept of the unification of all reality, whether in the current or any future universe age, is fundamentally twofold: existential and experiential. While such unity progresses through experiential realization in the Trinity of Trinities, the degree of apparent actualization is directly proportional to the disappearance of reality's qualifications and imperfections in the cosmos. However, total integration of reality already exists unqualifiedly and eternally in the Paradise Trinity, wherein infinite reality is absolutely unified at this very moment of universe experience.

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