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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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Paper 106 explores the complex structure of universe reality, from the finite levels where mortals currently exist to the absolute levels of infinity. These levels represent a conceptual framework to help ascending mortals understand the relationship between different aspects of cosmic reality and their own place within the grand scheme of creation. The paper emphasizes that these reality levels are compromise symbolizations adapted for mortal understanding and are relative to our current universe age.
This comprehensive examination of reality levels reveals how the universe is structured from incomplete finite existence through maximum finite attainment, transcendental levels, ultimates, coabsolutes, absolutes, and infinity. Through each level, the paper describes how personality, spirit, and energy-matter interact and evolve toward increasingly unified states. The Trinity of Trinities concept is presented as the theoretical culmination of all reality integration, while acknowledging that the Paradise Trinity already provides an existential unification of infinity in the present.
It is essential for ascending mortals to understand the relationships of Deity to cosmic reality and their own relationship to the numerous levels of existential and experiential realities. A better comprehension of universe realities enhances human terrestrial orientation, cosmic insight, and spiritual direction. The current grand universe and the emerging master universe consist of many forms and phases of reality that function on several levels of activity.
These manifold existences are grouped into seven categories to assist with conceptual understanding: incomplete finites, maximum finites, transcendentals, ultimates, coabsolutes, absolutes, and infinity. These levels of reality represent compromise symbolizations from a mortal perspective and are limited by human language, the mortal mind, superuniverse development, ignorance of the superuniverse's primary purposes, inability to grasp eternity, difficulty depicting cosmic evolution beyond the current universe age, and the inability to understand pre-existentials and post-experientials.
The primary or spirit-origin phases of finite reality find immediate expression as perfect personalities and as the perfect Havona creation. These primary phases represent perfection without the need for evolutionary development. In contrast, the secondary phases of finite reality, which are conditional on time and matter, achieve cosmic integration only through growth and attainment. While primary finites are inherently perfect, secondary finites must overcome time delays and evolutionary barriers to achieve comparable perfection, assisted by God the Sevenfold during their growth process.
God the Sevenfold represents Paradise Deity's recognition of the time barriers in evolutionary universes. No matter how remote from Paradise, this sevenfold manifestation of Deity engages in loving and merciful ministry to evolutionary creatures. When humans seek spiritual progression, they encounter the personal and spiritual aspects of Sevenfold Deity, but other phases exist that aren't concerned with personality progression. The divinity aspects of this Deity grouping are currently integrated through the liaison of the Seven Master Spirits and the Conjoint Actor, but will ultimately be unified in the emerging personality of the Supreme Being.
As God the Sevenfold functionally coordinates finite evolution, the Supreme Being synthesizes destiny attainment. The Supreme Being represents the culmination of grand universe evolution—the dominance of spirit over the domains of physical evolution. This process follows the mandates of personality: Paradise personality in the highest sense, Creator personality in the universe sense, mortal personality in the human sense, and Supreme personality in the culminating experiential sense.
The concept of the Supreme must provide for the recognition of spirit person, evolutionary power, and their synthesis. Spirit originates from Paradise through Havona, while energy-matter evolves in space and is organized by the children of the Infinite Spirit working with the Creator Sons. This evolutionary process involves the expanding power mastery of Creator divinities throughout the grand universe, encompassing the stabilization of time-space creations. This experiential power arising from God the Sevenfold's achievements manifests cohesive qualities by synthesizing as the almighty power of attained mastery over evolving creations, ultimately finding spirit-personality cohesion with the divine presence of God the Supreme in Havona.
In the cosmic order of creation, the absonite architects create the plan, the Supreme Creators bring it into existence, and the Supreme Being will ultimately consummate its fullness. During our current universe age, the administrative coordination of the master universe is performed by the Architects of the Master Universe. When the Almighty Supreme appears at the conclusion of the present universe age, it will signal that evolutionary finite reality has reached its first stage of experiential destiny.
This emergence will lead to the completed function of the first experiential Trinity—the union of the Supreme Creators, the Supreme Being, and the Architects of the Master Universe. This Trinity will further integrate the master creation. The Paradise Trinity is truly infinite, and while subsequent experiential Trinities cannot be infinite without including the original Trinity, they do incorporate creature contributions. The Trinity Ultimate, for example, includes the Master Creator Sons among its members, demonstrating the presence of actual creature experience within this Trinity association.
The Paradise Trinity coordinates in the ultimate sense as a self-qualified absolute, while the experiential Trinity Ultimate coordinates the transcendental as a transcendental entity. In the eternal future, this experiential Trinity will, through increasing unity, further activate the presence of Ultimate Deity. The Trinity Ultimate is destined to coordinate the master creation, while God the Ultimate represents the transcendental power-personalization directing the entire master universe.
The completed manifestation of the Ultimate implies the completion of the master creation and the full emergence of this transcendental Deity. While we don't know what changes will occur with the full emergence of the Ultimate, this Deity is already present in Havona in an absonite and superpersonal sense. Though we don't know where the Qualified Vicegerents of the Ultimate currently reside, we do know that the personal values of the Ultimate's transcendental divinity will be experienced by all personalities who participate in actualizing this Deity level.
The Ultimate represents the apex of transcendental reality just as the Supreme represents the highest point of evolutionary-experiential reality. The actual emergence of these two experiential Deities establishes the foundation for the second experiential Trinity—the Trinity Absolute. This Trinity consists of the union of God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and the unrevealed Consummator of Universe Destiny, and theoretically has the capacity to activate the Absolutes of potentiality.
However, the complete formation of the Trinity Absolute could only occur after the entire master universe has fully evolved, from Havona to the fourth and outermost space level. These experiential Trinities correlate not only the personality qualities of experiential Divinity but also all non-personal qualities that characterize their attained Deity unity. The spirit-personal qualities of the Supreme are inseparable from the power prerogatives of the Almighty, and both are complemented by the unknown potential of Supreme Mind. Similarly, God the Ultimate as a person cannot be considered apart from the non-personal aspects of Ultimate Deity.
The current potential of the master universe is not fully absolute, though it may be near-ultimate. It is difficult to achieve the complete revelation of absolute meaning-values within a sub-absolute cosmos, and similarly challenging to conceive of the total expression of the limitless possibilities of the three Absolutes or to visualize the experiential personalization of God the Absolute from the currently impersonal level of the Deity Absolute.
The master universe's space-stage appears sufficient for the actualization of the Supreme Being, the formation and function of the Trinity Ultimate, the emergence of God the Ultimate, and even the beginning of the Trinity Absolute. However, for the Trinity Absolute to fully function seems to require something beyond the master universe. If we assume a cosmos-infinite beyond the master universe, the final developments of the Trinity Absolute might achieve full expression in the creations of infinity, consummating the absolute actualization of all potentials as segments of reality become increasingly associated.
Some difficulties in understanding infinite reality integration stem from the fact that these ideas encompass the concept of completed universal development and the experiential realization of all potential futures. However, quantitative infinity can never be completely realized because 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.
Destiny is established by the volitional acts of the Deities constituting the Paradise Trinity, within the vastness of three great potentials whose absoluteness encompasses all future development possibilities. Destiny is probably consummated by the Consummator of Universe Destiny, likely involving the Supreme and Ultimate in the Trinity Absolute. Any experiential destiny can be at least partially understood by creatures, but a destiny involving infinite existentials is hardly comprehensible, as it appears to involve the Deity Absolute in relationship with the Unqualified Absolute through the Universal Absolute.
The Trinity of Trinities is challenging to explain to the human mind as it represents the actual summation of experiential infinity as manifested in a theoretical infinity of eternity realization. In this concept, the experiential infinite achieves identity with the existential infinite, and both become one in the pre-experiential, pre-existential I AM. The Trinity of Trinities represents the final expression of all implications in the fifteen triunities and associated triodities.
The Trinity of Trinities can be presented as a three-level concept: (1) The level of the three Trinities, (2) The level of experiential Deity, and (3) The level of the I AM. These are levels of increasing unification, with the Trinity of Trinities being the first level while the other two are unification derivatives of the first. On the first level, the three Trinities function as synchronized Deity groupings: the Paradise Trinity, the Ultimate Trinity, and the Absolute Trinity. The second level involves the associative union of experiential Deities: the Supreme, the Ultimate, and the Absolute. The third level embraces the correlation of every phase of all reality.
In the concept of the Trinity of Trinities, we theorize the possible experiential unification of limitless reality in the far distant future. However, there is already an actual and present unification of infinity in this universe age and all past and future ages, as the Paradise Trinity provides an existential unification of infinity. While infinity unification as an experiential reality remains extremely remote, an unqualified unity of infinity already dominates the present moment of universe existence.
When finite creatures attempt to conceive of infinite unification at the level of consummated eternity, they face intellectual limitations inherent in their finite existence. Time, space, and experience create barriers to complete comprehension of universe reality, yet they are also humanity's greatest aids to relative reality perception. The paradox of the experiential and existential viewpoints is inevitable and stems from the fact that both the Paradise Trinity and the Trinity of Trinities are eternity relationships that mortals can only perceive through time-space relativity.
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Paper 106 - Universe Levels of Reality