Paper 105 Overview: Deity and Reality

Even high orders of universe intelligences can only partially comprehend infinity, and for the human mind, understanding the eternity-mystery of reality's origin and destiny is tremendously challenging. In approaching these concepts, we might visualize eternity-infinity as an almost limitless circle produced by one absolute cause, which operates throughout endless diversification while seeking infinite potential. The paper explores the relationship between Deity and reality, including the philosophical concept of the I AM, the Seven Absolutes of Infinity, and how finite reality emerges from infinite potential.

The paper carefully examines how reality progresses from its absolute and infinite origins to the finite and transcendental levels where our universe exists. It describes the relationships between unity, duality, and triunity, and explains how the promulgation of finite reality creates repercussions throughout existence, including the creation of both perfect and evolutionary beings. This framework helps us understand how human experience relates to the larger cosmic structure and how the eternal drama of personality and energy unfolds across multiple levels of reality.

For even the highest orders of universe intelligences, infinity remains only partially comprehensible, and the finality of reality is only relatively understandable. As the human mind attempts to penetrate the mystery of the origin and destiny of all that is called real, we might helpfully approach this problem by thinking of eternity-infinity as an almost limitless circle, produced by one absolute cause, functioning throughout endless diversification while seeking some absolute and infinite potential of destiny.

When the mortal intellect tries to grasp the concept of reality totality, such a finite mind confronts infinity-reality, which can never be fully comprehended by any subinfinite mind. The human mind can hardly form an adequate concept of eternal existences, but despite these limitations, this paper attempts to present conceptions of reality totality, recognizing that these concepts will undergo distortion in the process of translation to the comprehension level of the mortal mind.

Philosophers of the universes attribute absolute primal causation in infinity to the Universal Father functioning as the infinite, eternal, and absolute I AM. This concept presents dangers when introduced to the mortal intellect because it is far from human experiential understanding and can lead to distortion of meanings and misconception of values. Nevertheless, the philosophic concept of the I AM provides finite beings some basis for approaching the partial comprehension of absolute origins and infinite destinies, though in all personality meanings, the I AM is synonymous with the First Person of Deity, the Universal Father.

The I AM is both the Infinite and infinity itself, and from a sequential time viewpoint, all reality originates in the infinite I AM, whose existence forms the premier philosophic postulate for finite creatures. This concept represents unqualified infinity, the undifferentiated reality of all that could ever be in infinite eternity, without qualification as deified or undeified, actual or potential, personal or impersonal, static or dynamic. Finite minds must conceive a beginning, and while reality never truly had a beginning, the I AM can be conceptualized as a hypothetical moment when infinity was undifferentiated and contained all possibilities before any self-expression occurred.

In considering the origin of reality, we must remember that all absolute reality has existed from eternity, having no beginning. The seven realities—the three persons of Deity, the Isle of Paradise, and the three Absolutes—are co-ordinately eternal, even though we must use time-space language to present their origins to human understanding. There must be a postulated theoretical moment of "first" volitional expression and "first" repercussional reaction within the I AM, which can be conceived as self-differentiation of The Infinite One from The Infinitude, further expanded into a triune conception recognizing the eternal continuum of The Infinity.

This self-metamorphosis of the I AM culminates in multiple differentiations of deified and undeified reality, potential and actual reality, and other realities difficult to classify. These differentiations establish the basis for a sevenfold self-relationship that can be understood in relation to the Seven Absolutes of Infinity: the Universal Father as father of the Eternal Son, the Universal Controller as cause of eternal Paradise, the Universal Creator as one with the Eternal Son, the Infinite Upholder as self-associative, the Infinite Potential as self-qualified, the Infinite Capacity as static-reactive, and the Universal One of Infinity as the eternal fact of infinity-reality.

The seven primary relationships within the I AM eternalize as the Seven Absolutes of Infinity. Although we must portray reality origins and infinity differentiation through sequential narrative, all seven Absolutes are unqualifiedly and co-ordinately eternal, having no beginning. The seven Absolutes form the premise of reality and include: the First Source and Center (the Universal Father), the Second Source and Center (the Eternal and Original Son), the Paradise Source and Center (the eternal Isle of Paradise), and the Third Source and Center (the Conjoint Actor, or Infinite Spirit).

The remaining three Absolutes are: the Deity Absolute (the causational, potentially personal possibilities of universal reality), the Unqualified Absolute (the unrevealed cosmic infinity of the I AM and totality of nondeified reality), and the Universal Absolute (the unifier of the deified and undeified, correlating the absolute and the relative). While the First Source and Center might appear antecedent to all absolutes from a mortal perspective, this assumption is invalidated by the eternity coexistence of the Son, the Spirit, the three Absolutes, and Paradise Isle, which together form the foundation of all reality.

Universe philosophers postulate the eternal existence of the I AM as the primal source of all reality, along with the self-segmentation of the I AM into seven phases of infinity and the simultaneous appearance of the Seven Absolutes of Infinity. The self-revelation of the I AM proceeds from static self through self-segmentation and self-relationship to absolute relationships with self-derived Absolutes. Duality exists in the eternal association of the seven Absolutes with the sevenfold infinity of the self-segmented phases of the self-revealing I AM, establishing the foundations for all universe reality.

There are three great classes of primordial relationships: unity relationships (within the I AM), duality relationships (between the I AM and the Seven Absolutes), and triunity relationships (the functional associations of the Seven Absolutes). Triunity relationships arise upon duality foundations because of the inevitability of Absolute interassociation, and they eternalize the potential of all reality, encompassing both deified and undeified reality. The I AM represents unqualified infinity as unity, the dualities establish reality foundations, and the triunities enable the realization of infinity as universal function, setting the universe stage for the potentials and actuals of cosmic energy, Paradise spirit, and the endowment of mind and personality.

Just as the original diversification of the I AM must be attributed to inherent and self-contained volition, the promulgation of finite reality comes from the volitional acts of Paradise Deity and the repercussional adjustments of the functional triunities. Before the appearance of the finite, all reality diversification seemingly occurred on absolute levels, but introducing finite reality involved a qualification of absoluteness and created relativities. Though we present this narrative as a sequence, transcendentals both preceded and succeeded the finite, serving as both causal and consummational in relation to finite reality.

Finite possibility is inherent in the Infinite, but transforming possibility to probability and inevitability required the free will of the First Source and Center, activating all triunity associations. With the appearance of relative and qualified reality comes a new cycle of reality—the growth cycle—eternally swinging from infinity heights to the finite domain, always seeking destinies aligned with its infinite source. For creatures, the beginning of the finite is the genesis of reality, as there is no conceivable actuality prior to the finite from a creature's perspective. Finite reality appears in two original phases: primary maximums (the supremely perfect reality like Havona) and secondary maximums (the supremely perfected reality of the superuniverses), along with tertiary maximums that result from relationships between the primary and secondary.

The promulgation of finite existences represents a transfer from potentials to actuals within the absolute associations of functional infinity. This creative actualization of the finite generated several significant repercussions throughout existence. First came the deity response, which produced three levels of experiential supremacy: the actuality of personal-spirit supremacy in Havona, the potential for personal-power supremacy in the grand universe, and the capacity for some unknown function of experiential mind acting on a level of supremacy in the future master universe.

Other repercussions included the universe response, which activated architectural plans for the superuniverse space level, and the creature repercussion, which resulted in the appearance of both perfect beings like the Havona natives and perfected evolutionary ascenders from the seven superuniverses. Evolutionary creation inherently includes imperfection, which is the origin of potential evil—the misadaptation, disharmony, and conflict inherent in growth. A fourth repercussion is the divinity response to evolutionary imperfection, shown in the compensating presence of God the Sevenfold, whose activities help integrate the perfecting with both the perfect and perfected, allowing creatures to participate in divine creation and become partners with Deity.

Transcendentals occupy a unique position in cosmic reality—they are subinfinite and subabsolute but also superfinite and supercreatural. They function as an integrating level correlating the supervalues of absolutes with the maximum values of finites. From the creature perspective, transcendentals appear to have resulted from the finite, but from an eternity viewpoint, they existed in anticipation of the finite, sometimes described as a "pre-echo" of finite reality. Transcendentals are not necessarily nondevelopmental but are superevolutional in the finite sense, representing a level of superexperience meaningful to creatures.

The central universe of Havona illustrates some transcendental qualities—it is neither truly absolute (only Paradise is) nor a finite evolutionary creation like the superuniverses. It is eternal yet not changeless, inhabited by never-created beings who eternally exist. Among the transcendental realities are the Deity presence of the Ultimate, the concept of the master universe, the Architects of the Master Universe, certain orders of Paradise force organizers, and various modifications in space potency, values of spirit, and meanings of mind. All these manifold realities are unified by the triunities, functionally coordinated by the Architects of the Master Universe, and relatively unified by the Seven Master Spirits as subsupreme coordinators of the divinity of God the Sevenfold.