Paper 116 Overview: The Almighty Supreme

The Almighty Supreme is a living and growing Deity who connects the Paradise Trinity with the evolving worlds of time and space. The Supreme Being is developing through the experiences of all creatures and creators in the grand universe. As the Supreme grows through our actions and decisions, he gradually becomes more real and powerful in the universe.

The Supreme Being helps us understand why there are imperfections in our world. When we realize that God works through finite creators who are still learning and growing, we can better accept the hardships of life. The Supreme Being shows us that growth comes through experience, and even God is growing in new ways through the experiences of his creatures.

If people understood that their creators are both divine and finite, they would better understand the inequalities of the world. The universe of Havona was made perfect by a perfect Creator, but the imperfect worlds like earth were made by creators who are still learning and growing. This helps explain why there are problems and imperfections here.

The Almighty Supreme is a living and evolving Deity with both power and personality. The Supreme works in the central universe as a spirit personality and in the grand universe as God the Almighty. A third aspect of the Supreme exists as a potential in the master universe, which will develop in the future when the superuniverses are settled in light and life.

The experience of every evolving creature is part of the experience of the Almighty Supreme. When intelligent beings control physical things, or when personality and power come together creatively, they are participating in the growth of the Supreme Being. The Supreme Mind connects all these experiences and makes them part of the Supreme.

The Supreme Mind is bringing together the power and personality of Supremacy, which will eventually result in one unified Deity. The power potential of the Supreme is currently in the Seven Supreme Power Directors, while the mind potential is in the Seven Master Spirits. The Supreme Mind is gradually developing through the coordination of the grand universe.

The Almighty appears in the universe at the same time as the high creators and controllers of the evolutionary superuniverses appear. God the Supreme gets his spirit and personality from the Paradise Trinity, but his power comes from the actions of the Creator Sons, Ancients of Days, and Master Spirits. Their collective acts give him growing power as the ruler of the seven superuniverses.

Pure Paradise Deity is too difficult for time-space creatures to understand. Concepts like eternity and infinity are beyond what mortal beings can grasp. Therefore, Paradise Deity creates lower forms of divinity that extend outward into time and space. These seven levels, known as God the Sevenfold, allow mortal man to gradually approach the divine, starting with the Creator Sons and eventually reaching the Universal Father.

The Paradise Deities act directly throughout the grand universe through their gravity circuits. They also work through various agencies and manifestations, such as the mind focuses of the Third Source and Center. The mind presence of the Conjoint Actor unifies the spirit of divinity with the pattern of energy and connects the Almighty Supreme with experiential power.

The personality revelations of the Second Source and Center, including the incarnations of the Eternal Son and Paradise Sons, unite divine nature with creature nature. The indwelling fragments of the Universal Father, such as the Thought Adjusters in humans, unite evolving creatures with God on Paradise. These three methods - mind unification, bestowal ministry, and indwelling fragments - show how Paradise Deity participates in the evolution of time.

The unity of the Supreme Whole depends on the progressive unification of the finite parts. The Supreme Being comes into existence through the unifications of supremacy - the creators, creatures, intelligences, and energies of the universes. During the development of the Supreme's sovereignty, his almighty power depends on the divinity acts of God the Sevenfold.

The Master Spirits have a particularly close relationship with the Supreme Being, especially Master Spirit Number Seven who speaks for the Supreme. The local universes are like laboratories where mind experiments, galactic adventures, and divinity development take place. In these realms, even the Creators evolve, as shown by the Creator Sons who start with Paradise divinity but develop experiential sovereignty through their work in time and space.

God the Sevenfold includes not only creators but also controllers of the grand universe. The seven controllers are: the Master Physical Controllers, the Supreme Power Centers, the Supreme Power Directors, the Almighty Supreme, the God of Action (Infinite Spirit), the Isle of Paradise, and the Source of Paradise (Universal Father). These seven groups work together as the physical-control level of God the Sevenfold.

The Almighty Supreme is developing as the controller of physical power in the grand universe. Currently, this physical power is centered in the Seven Supreme Power Directors. The settling of the seven superuniverses in light and life will require physical stability, which will mark the completed evolution of the Almighty's physical control. All energy responds to mind, and the physical controllers are working to bring cosmic energy into harmony with the mind's equilibrium concepts.

In the evolving superuniverses, energy-matter is dominant except in personality, where spirit is striving for mastery through mind. The goal of the evolutionary universes is for mind to control energy-matter, for mind to coordinate with spirit, and for all of this to happen through the presence of personality. Physical systems become subordinate to personality, mind systems become coordinate, and spirit systems become directive.

At absolute levels, energy and spirit are one. But in the local universes, they have become quite different from each other, and mind must work to relate them. The spirit person of Supremacy needs the evolutionary power of the Almighty to achieve completion. In Havona, matter and spirit naturally work together, but in the seven superuniverses, there is a wide gap between cosmic energy and divine spirit, creating greater potential for mind to harmonize them.

The grand universe is not just a material creation but also a magnificent and responsive living organism. The physical universe is like a body with intelligence circuits similar to human nerves, energy lanes like blood vessels, and coordinating centers similar to the chemical control system of the human body. Just as humans look to the sun for energy, the grand universe depends on the energies from Paradise to sustain material activities.

Humans have mind to become self-aware of identity and personality, and the Supreme Being has Supreme Mind to strive for mastery of the cosmos. Humans can make an everlasting self-identification with universe reality by fusing with their Thought Adjusters. Similarly, the Supreme Being depends on the stability of Original Deity, the Paradise Trinity. Human striving for God creates a tension that is resolved by developing an immortal soul, and when all creatures strive for God, this cosmic tension finds resolution in the Almighty Supreme.