유란시아 책
Foreword
Sections
너희 세계의 이름인--유란시아{우르_안티아}의 필사자{必死者} 정신은, 하나님, 신성{神性}, 신격{神格} 등과 같은 용어의 의미에 관하여 큰 혼란을 겪고 있다. 인간은, 다수의 이 호칭이 가리키는 신성한 인격체들의 관계에 대해서는 더 모르고 더 많이 혼동하고 있다. 그토록 심한 관념작용 혼동과 관련된 이런 개념상 빈곤 때문에, 이렇게 유란시아에서 영어라는 언어로 전하도록 권한을 부여받은, 오르본톤의 진리 계시자 단체가 여러 문서에서 앞으로 사용할, 특정한 단어 상징에 첨부되는 의미를 설명하도록, 이 머리말을 쓰라고 나는 지시 받았다.
0:0.1 (1.1)
IN THE MINDS of the mortals of Urantia—that being the name of your world—there exists great confusion respecting the meaning of such terms as God, divinity, and deity. Human beings are still more confused and uncertain about the relationships of the divine personalities designated by these numerous appellations. Because of this conceptual poverty associated with so much ideational confusion, I have been directed to formulate this introductory statement in explanation of the meanings which should be attached to certain word symbols as they may be hereinafter used in those papers which the Orvonton corps of truth revealers have been authorized to translate into the English language of Urantia.
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It is exceedingly difficult to present enlarged concepts and advanced truth, in our endeavor to expand cosmic consciousness and enhance spiritual perception, when we are restricted to the use of a circumscribed language of the realm. But our mandate admonishes us to make every effort to convey our meanings by using the word symbols of the English tongue. We have been instructed to introduce new terms only when the concept to be portrayed finds no terminology in English which can be employed to convey such a new concept partially or even with more or less distortion of meaning.
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In the hope of facilitating comprehension and of preventing confusion on the part of every mortal who may peruse these papers, we deem it wise to present in this initial statement an outline of the meanings to be attached to numerous English words which are to be employed in designation of Deity and certain associated concepts of the things, meanings, and values of universal reality.
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But in order to formulate this Foreword of definitions and limitations of terminology, it is necessary to anticipate the usage of these terms in the subsequent presentations. This Foreword is not, therefore, a finished statement within itself; it is only a definitive guide designed to assist those who shall read the accompanying papers dealing with Deity and the universe of universes which have been formulated by an Orvonton commission sent to Urantia for this purpose.
너희 세계 유란시아는, 네바돈 지방우주{地方宇宙}를 구성하는 유사한 여러 인간거주{人間居住} 행성 가운데 하나다. 이 네바돈 우주는, 다른 비슷한 창조물들과 함께, 오르본톤 연방우주{聯邦宇宙}를 구성하는데, 그 수도인 우버사에서 우리 위원단이 왔다. 오르본톤은, 시작도 없고 끝도 없는, 신성하게 완벽한 창조물을--곧 하보나 중앙우주{中央宇宙}를-- 돌고 있는, 시공간{時空間}의 진화하는 일곱 연방우주 가운데 하나다. 이 영원한 중앙우주의 심장부에는, 무한의 지리적 중심이자 영원한 하나님의 처소인, 움직이지 않는 낙원 섬이 자리 잡고 있다.
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Your world, Urantia, is one of many similar inhabited planets which comprise the local universe of Nebadon. This universe, together with similar creations, makes up the superuniverse of Orvonton, from whose capital, Uversa, our commission hails. Orvonton is one of the seven evolutionary superuniverses of time and space which circle the never-beginning, never-ending creation of divine perfection—the central universe of Havona. At the heart of this eternal and central universe is the stationary Isle of Paradise, the geographic center of infinity and the dwelling place of the eternal God.
0:0.6 (1.6)
The seven evolving superuniverses in association with the central and divine universe, we commonly refer to as the grand universe; these are the now organized and inhabited creations. They are all a part of the master universe, which also embraces the uninhabited but mobilizing universes of outer space.
0:1.2 (2.2)
DEITY is personalizable as God, is prepersonal and superpersonal in ways not altogether comprehensible by man. Deity is characterized by the quality of unity—actual or potential—on all supermaterial levels of reality; and this unifying quality is best comprehended by creatures as divinity.
0:1.10 (2.10)
7. Ultimate—self-projected and time-space-transcending Deity. Deity omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Deity functioning on the second level of unifying divinity expression as effective overcontrollers and absonite upholders of the master universe. As compared with the ministry of the Deities to the grand universe, this absonite function in the master universe is tantamount to universal overcontrol and supersustenance, sometimes called the Ultimacy of Deity.
0:1.12 (2.12)
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 (2.13)
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.
0:1.18 (3.5)
Divinity 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.
0:2.6 (3.19)
GOD 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.
0:2.15 (4.9)
4. 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.
0:2.16 (4.10)
5. 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.
0:2.17 (4.11)
6. 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.
0:2.18 (4.12)
7. 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.
0:3.10 (5.9)
God—the Universal Father—is the personality of the First Source and Center and as such maintains personal relations of infinite control over all co-ordinate and subordinate sources and centers. Such control is personal and infinite in potential, even though it may never actually function owing to the perfection of the function of such co-ordinate and subordinate sources and centers and personalities.
0:3.11 (5.10)
The First Source and Center is, therefore, primal in all domains: deified or undeified, personal or impersonal, actual or potential, finite or infinite. No thing or being, no relativity or finality, exists except in direct or indirect relation to, and dependence on, the primacy of the First Source and Center.
0:3.13 (5.12)
1. The gravity forces of the material universes are convergent in the gravity center of nether Paradise. That is just why the geographic location of his person is eternally fixed in absolute relation to the force-energy center of the nether or material plane of Paradise. But the absolute personality of Deity exists on the upper or spiritual plane of Paradise.
실체는, 유한한 존재들이 납득하듯이, 부분적이고 상대적이고 그림자와 같다. 유한한 진화 피조물이 충분히 납득할 수 있는 최대한의 신격 실체는, 지존하신 분 안에 포함돼있다. 그럼에도 이에 선행{先行}하는 영원한 실체들, 초월유한 실체들도 있으며, 이들은 시간-공간에서 진화된 피조물의 이 지존하신 신격의 선조{先祖}가 된다. 보편적 실체의 기원과 본성을 묘사하려고 시도하면서, 유한 정신 수준까지 미치기 위하여, 우리는 시간-공간의 추론 기법을 채택할 수밖에 없다. 따라서, 동시에 생긴 영원의 사건들을, 우리는 연속된 진행사항들로서 묘사할 수밖에 없다.
0:3.20 (5.19)
REALITY, as comprehended by finite beings, is partial, relative, and shadowy. The maximum Deity reality fully comprehensible by evolutionary finite creatures is embraced within the Supreme Being. Nevertheless there are antecedent and eternal realities, superfinite realities, which are ancestral to this Supreme Deity of evolutionary time-space creatures. In attempting to portray the origin and nature of universal reality, we are forced to employ the technique of time-space reasoning in order to reach the level of the finite mind. Therefore must many of the simultaneous events of eternity be presented as sequential transactions.
0:3.21 (6.1)
As a time-space creature would view the origin and differentiation of Reality, the eternal and infinite I AM achieved Deity liberation from the fetters of unqualified infinity through the exercise of inherent and eternal free will, and this divorcement from unqualified infinity produced the first absolute divinity-tension. This tension of infinity differential is resolved by the Universal Absolute, which functions to unify and co-ordinate the dynamic infinity of Total Deity and the static infinity of the Unqualified Absolute.
이러한 원래의 진행사항에서, 이론상 자존자{自存者}는 원조{元祖} 아들의 영원한 아버지가 됨으로써 인격 실현을 성취했고, 이와 동시에 낙원 섬의 영원한 근원이 됐다. 낙원 현존 앞에서, 아들이 아버지로부터 차별화될 때부터 공존{共存}하는, 무한 영 인격자와 하보나 중앙우주{中央宇宙}가 나타났다. 영원 아들과 무한 영이라는 공존하는 인격있는 신격이 출현함과 함께, 아버지는, 한 인격으로서, 총체 신격의 잠재력 전반에 걸쳐서, 다른 방법으로는 불가피한 분산을 피했다. 그때부터 아버지는, 모든 신격 잠재력을 채우는 일은 오직 동등한 두 신격과 이루는 삼위일체 연합에서만 가능하며, 한편 체험 신격은, 지존, 궁극, 및 절대 신성{神性} 수준에서 점점 더 실제화되고 있다.
0:3.22 (6.2)
In this original transaction the theoretical I AM achieved the realization of personality by becoming the Eternal Father of the Original Son simultaneously with becoming the Eternal Source of the Isle of Paradise. Coexistent with the differentiation of the Son from the Father, and in the presence of Paradise, there appeared the person of the Infinite Spirit and the central universe of Havona. With the appearance of coexistent personal Deity, the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit, the Father escaped, as a personality, from otherwise inevitable diffusion throughout the potential of Total Deity. Thenceforth it is only in Trinity association with his two Deity equals that the Father fills all Deity potential, while increasingly experiential Deity is being actualized on the divinity levels of Supremacy, Ultimacy, and Absoluteness.
자존자 개념은, 시간에-묶이고 공간에-매인 사람의 유한 정신에게, 그리고 영원성 현존들--곧 시작도 없고 끝도 없는 실체들 및 관계들--을 피조물이 도저히 납득할 수 없는 것에 대하여, 우리가 철학적으로 양보한 것이다. 시간-공간 피조물에게, 원인 없는 한 분--곧 원초적 원인들의 원인-- 외에, 만유{萬有}는 시작이 있어야한다. 그러므로 우리는, 이 철학적 가치-수준을 자존자로 개념화시키는 동시에, 영원 아들 및 무한 영이 자존자와 영원히 공존함을;다시 말해서, 자존자가 아들의 아버지가 아니었고 아들과 함께 영의 아버지가 아니었던 때가 결코 없었음을, 모든 피조물에게 가르친다.
0:3.23 (6.3)
The concept of the I AM is a philosophic concession which we make to the time-bound, space-fettered, finite mind of man, to the impossibility of creature comprehension of eternity existences—nonbeginning, nonending realities and relationships. To the time-space creature, all things must have a beginning save only the ONE UNCAUSED—the primeval cause of causes. Therefore do we conceptualize this philosophic value-level as the I AM, at the same time instructing all creatures that the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit are coeternal with the I AM; in other words, that there never was a time when the I AM was not the Father of the Son and, with him, of the Spirit.
0:3.24 (6.4)
The Infinite is used to denote the fullness—the finality—implied by the primacy of the First Source and Center. The theoretical I AM is a creature-philosophic extension of the “infinity of will,” but the Infinite is an actual value-level representing the eternity-intension of the true infinity of the absolute and unfettered free will of the Universal Father. This concept is sometimes designated the Father-Infinite.
0:3.25 (6.5)
Much of the confusion of all orders of beings, high and low, in their efforts to discover the Father-Infinite, is inherent in their limitations of comprehension. The absolute primacy of the Universal Father is not apparent on subinfinite levels; therefore is it probable that only the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit truly know the Father as an infinity; to all other personalities such a concept represents the exercise of faith.
0:4.4 (7.2)
3. Interassociated reality. Universe reality is supposedly either deified or undeified, but to subdeified beings there exists a vast domain of interassociated reality, potential and actualizing, which is difficult of identification. Much of this co-ordinate reality is embraced within the realms of the Universal Absolute.
0:4.5 (7.3)
This is the primal concept of original reality: The Father initiates and maintains Reality. The primal differentials of reality are the deified and the undeified—the Deity Absolute and the Unqualified Absolute. The primal relationship is the tension between them. This Father-initiated divinity-tension is perfectly resolved by, and eternalizes as, the Universal Absolute.
0:4.10 (7.8)
4. Personal and Impersonal. Deity expansion, personality expression, and universe evolution are forever conditioned by the Father’s freewill act which forever separated the mind-spirit-personal meanings and values of actuality and potentiality centering in the Eternal Son from those things which center and inhere in the eternal Isle of Paradise.
0:4.11 (7.9)
PARADISE is a term inclusive of the personal and the nonpersonal focal Absolutes of all phases of universe reality. Paradise, properly qualified, may connote any and all forms of reality, Deity, divinity, personality, and energy—spiritual, mindal, or material. All share Paradise as the place of origin, function, and destiny, as regards values, meanings, and factual existence.
0:4.12 (7.10)
The Isle of Paradise—Paradise not otherwise qualified—is the Absolute of the material-gravity control of the First Source and Center. Paradise is motionless, being the only stationary thing in the universe of universes. The Isle of Paradise has a universe location but no position in space. This eternal Isle is the actual source of the physical universes—past, present, and future. The nuclear Isle of Light is a Deity derivative, but it is hardly Deity; neither are the material creations a part of Deity; they are a consequence.
0:4.13 (7.11)
Paradise is not a creator; it is a unique controller of many universe activities, far more of a controller than a reactor. Throughout the material universes Paradise influences the reactions and conduct of all beings having to do with force, energy, and power, but Paradise itself is unique, exclusive, and isolated in the universes. Paradise represents nothing and nothing represents Paradise. It is neither a force nor a presence; it is just Paradise.
0:5.1 (8.1)
Personality is a level of deified reality and ranges from the mortal and midwayer level of the higher mind activation of worship and wisdom up through the morontial and spiritual to the attainment of finality of personality status. That is the evolutionary ascent of mortal- and kindred-creature personality, but there are numerous other orders of universe personalities.
0:5.2 (8.2)
Reality is subject to universal expansion, personality to infinite diversification, and both are capable of well-nigh unlimited Deity co-ordination and eternal stabilization. While the metamorphic range of nonpersonal reality is definitely limited, we know of no limitations to the progressive evolution of personality realities.
0:5.4 (8.4)
All subinfinite orders and phases of personality are associative attainables and are potentially cocreational. The prepersonal, the personal, and the superpersonal are all linked together by mutual potential of co-ordinate attainment, progressive achievement, and cocreational capacity. But never does the impersonal directly transmute to the personal. Personality is never spontaneous; it is the gift of the Paradise Father. Personality is superimposed upon energy, and it is associated only with living energy systems; identity can be associated with nonliving energy patterns.
0:5.5 (8.5)
The Universal Father is the secret of the reality of personality, the bestowal of personality, and the destiny of personality. The Eternal Son is the absolute personality, the secret of spiritual energy, morontia spirits, and perfected spirits. The Conjoint Actor is the spirit-mind personality, the source of intelligence, reason, and the universal mind. But the Isle of Paradise is nonpersonal and extraspiritual, being the essence of the universal body, the source and center of physical matter, and the absolute master pattern of universal material reality.
0:5.10 (8.10)
4. Soul. The soul of man is an experiential acquirement. As a mortal creature chooses to “do the will of the Father in heaven,” so the indwelling spirit becomes the father of a new reality in human experience. The mortal and material mind is the mother of this same emerging reality. The substance of this new reality is neither material nor spiritual—it is morontial. This is the emerging and immortal soul which is destined to survive mortal death and begin the Paradise ascension.
0:5.11 (9.1)
Personality. The personality of mortal man is neither body, mind, nor spirit; neither is it the soul. Personality is the one changeless reality in an otherwise ever-changing creature experience; and it unifies all other associated factors of individuality. The personality is the unique bestowal which the Universal Father makes upon the living and associated energies of matter, mind, and spirit, and which survives with the survival of the morontial soul.
0:6.1 (9.3)
Any and all things responding to the personality circuit of the Father, we call personal. Any and all things responding to the spirit circuit of the Son, we call spirit. Any and all that responds to the mind circuit of the Conjoint Actor, we call mind, mind as an attribute of the Infinite Spirit—mind in all its phases. Any and all that responds to the material-gravity circuit centering in nether Paradise, we call matter—energy-matter in all its metamorphic states.
0:6.2 (9.4)
ENERGY we use as an all-inclusive term applied to spiritual, mindal, and material realms. Force is also thus broadly used. Power is ordinarily limited to the designation of the electronic level of material or linear-gravity-responsive matter in the grand universe. Power is also employed to designate sovereignty. We cannot follow your generally accepted definitions of force, energy, and power. There is such paucity of language that we must assign multiple meanings to these terms.
0:6.8 (9.10)
Mind is a phenomenon connoting the presence-activity of living ministry in addition to varied energy systems; and this is true on all levels of intelligence. In personality, mind ever intervenes between spirit and matter; therefore is the universe illuminated by three kinds of light: material light, intellectual insight, and spirit luminosity.
0:6.11 (10.3)
Pattern may configure energy, but it does not control it. Gravity is the sole control of energy-matter. Neither space nor pattern are gravity responsive, but there is no relationship between space and pattern; space is neither pattern nor potential pattern. Pattern is a configuration of reality which has already paid all gravity debt; the reality of any pattern consists of its energies, its mind, spirit, or material components.
0:6.12 (10.4)
In contrast to the aspect of the total, pattern discloses the individual aspect of energy and of personality. Personality or identity forms are patterns resultant from energy (physical, spiritual, or mindal) but are not inherent therein. That quality of energy or of personality by virtue of which pattern is caused to appear may be attributed to God—Deity—to Paradise force endowment, to the coexistence of personality and power.
총우주에서 신격 체제는 영원성 관계들을 고려할 때 이중적이다. 아버지 하나님과 아들 하나님과 영 하나님은 영원하며--곧 실존적 존재들이며--, 한편 지존자 하나님과 궁극자 하나님과 절대자 하나님은, 총우주가 진화로 확장하는, 시간-공간의 구체{球體}와 시간-공간을-초월하는 구체들에서, 하보나-이후 시기에 실제화하는 신격 인격체들이다. 영원한 낙원 신격들이 연합-창조적 잠재력을 체험적으로 실제화하는 기법으로, 성장하는 우주들에서 실제화하는 이 신격 인격체들은, 자신이 권능으로-인격화할 때부터, 그리고 그렇게 하면서, 미래 영원자{永遠者}가 된다.
0:7.1 (10.6)
The Deity mechanism of the master universe is twofold as concerns eternity relationships. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit are eternal—are existential beings—while God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and God the Absolute are actualizing Deity personalities of the post-Havona epochs in the time-space and the time-space-transcended spheres of master universe evolutionary expansion. These actualizing Deity personalities are future eternals from the time when, and as, they power-personalize in the growing universes by the technique of the experiential actualization of the associative-creative potentials of the eternal Paradise Deities.
0:7.5 (10.10)
The Father, Son, and Spirit are existential—existential in actuality (though all potentials are supposedly experiential). The Supreme and the Ultimate are wholly experiential. The Deity Absolute is experiential in actualization but existential in potentiality. The essence of Deity is eternal, but only the three original persons of Deity are unqualifiedly eternal. All other Deity personalities have an origin, but they are eternal in destiny.
0:7.6 (10.11)
Having achieved existential Deity expression of himself in the Son and the Spirit, the Father is now achieving experiential expression on hitherto impersonal and unrevealed deity levels as God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and God the Absolute; but these experiential Deities are not now fully existent; they are in process of actualization.
0:7.7 (11.1)
God the Supreme in Havona is the personal spirit reflection of the triune Paradise Deity. This associative Deity relationship is now creatively expanding outward in God the Sevenfold and is synthesizing in the experiential power of the Almighty Supreme in the grand universe. Paradise Deity, existential as three persons, is thus experientially evolving in two phases of Supremacy, while these dual phases are power-personality unifying as one Lord, the Supreme Being.
0:7.8 (11.2)
The Universal Father achieves freewill liberation from the bonds of infinity and the fetters of eternity by the technique of trinitization, threefold Deity personalization. The Supreme Being is even now evolving as a subeternal personality unification of the sevenfold manifestation of Deity in the time-space segments of the grand universe.
0:7.9 (11.3)
The Supreme Being is not a direct creator, except that he is the father of Majeston, but he is a synthetic co-ordinator of all creature-Creator universe activities. The Supreme Being, now actualizing in the evolutionary universes, is the Deity correlator and synthesizer of time-space divinity, of triune Paradise Deity in experiential association with the Supreme Creators of time and space. When finally actualized, this evolutionary Deity will constitute the eternal fusion of the finite and the infinite—the everlasting and indissoluble union of experiential power and spirit personality.
0:7.10 (11.4)
All time-space finite reality, under the directive urge of the evolving Supreme Being, is engaged in an ever-ascending mobilization and perfecting unification (power-personality synthesis) of all phases and values of finite reality, in association with varied phases of Paradise reality, to the end and for the purpose of subsequently embarking upon the attempt to reach absonite levels of supercreature attainment.
시공간에서, 그리고 일곱 연방우주에 대해서 신격이 이렇게 일곱 겹으로 인격화한 것은, 필사적 사람으로 하여금, 영{靈}이신 하나님 현존에 도달할 수 있게 한다. 지존하신 분 안에서 언젠가 권능으로-인격화하는 유한한 시간-공간 피조물에게, 이 칠중 신격은, 낙원으로-상승하는 생애를 사는 진화하는 필사 피조물에게 기능적 신격이다. 하나님을 깨닫는, 그러한 체험적으로 발견하는-생애는, 지방우주의 창조주 아들의 신성을 인식하는 것과 함께 시작하고, 연방우주의 태고 항존자들을 통하여, 그리고 일곱 으뜸 영 가운데 하나의 인격자를 경유하여, 낙원에 계신 우주 아버지의 신성한 인격을 발견하고 인식하기까지 상승한다.
0:8.9 (11.13)
This sevenfold Deity personalization in time and space and to the seven superuniverses enables mortal man to attain the presence of God, who is spirit. This sevenfold Deity, to finite time-space creatures sometime power-personalizing in the Supreme Being, is the functional Deity of the mortal evolutionary creatures of the Paradise-ascension career. Such an experiential discovery-career of the realization of God begins with the recognition of the divinity of the Creator Son of the local universe and ascends through the superuniverse Ancients of Days and by way of the person of one of the Seven Master Spirits to the attainment of the discovery and recognition of the divine personality of the Universal Father on Paradise.
광우주는, 지존성 삼위일체와 칠중 하나님과 지존하신 분의 삼중 신격 영역이다. 지존자 하나님은, 낙원 삼위일체 안에 잠재하고, 자신의 인격과 영 속성들을 삼위일체로부터 도출하지만;이제 창조주 아들들과 태고 항존자들과 으뜸 영들 안에서 실제화하고 있는데, 시공간의 연방우주들에 대하여 전능자로서 자신의 권능을 그들로부터 얻어낸다. 진화하는 피조물이 마주치는 하나님의 이러한 권능 현시{顯示}는, 실제로 피조물과 함께 시간-공간에서 진화한다. 인격없는 활동의 가치-수준에서 진화하는 전능한 지존자 및 지존자 하나님의 영 인격자는 하나의 실체--지존하신 분--이다.
0:8.10 (12.1)
The grand universe is the threefold Deity domain of the Trinity of Supremacy, God the Sevenfold, and the Supreme Being. God the Supreme is potential in the Paradise Trinity, from whom he derives his personality and spirit attributes; but he is now actualizing in the Creator Sons, Ancients of Days, and the Master Spirits, from whom he derives his power as Almighty to the superuniverses of time and space. This power manifestation of the immediate God of evolutionary creatures actually time-space evolves concomitantly with them. The Almighty Supreme, evolving on the value-level of nonpersonal activities, and the spirit person of God the Supreme are one reality—the Supreme Being.
칠중 하나님의 신격 연합체 안에서 창조주 아들들은, 필사적 사람을 불멸하게 만들고 유한자가 무한자에게 받아들여지게 하는 장치를 마련해준다. 권능과-인격을 동원하는, 이 모든 다양한 진행사항들을 신성하게 합성하는 기법을 지존하신 분이 마련해주는데, 그리하여 지존하신 분은, 유한자로 하여금 유한절대에 도달하게 하고, 미래의 다른 가능한 실제화들을 통해서 궁극자에게 도달하는 것을 시도하게 만든다. 창조주 아들들 및 관련된 신성한 사역자들이 이 최상의 준비작업에 참여하지만, 태고 항존자들과 일곱 으뜸 영은 아마 광우주에서 영구 관리자들로서 영원히 고정돼있을 것이다.
0:8.11 (12.2)
The Creator Sons in the Deity association of God the Sevenfold provide the mechanism whereby the mortal becomes immortal and the finite attains the embrace of the infinite. The Supreme Being provides the technique for the power-personality mobilization, the divine synthesis, of all these manifold transactions, thus enabling the finite to attain the absonite and, through other possible future actualizations, to attempt the attainment of the Ultimate. The Creator Sons and their associated Divine Ministers are participants in this supreme mobilization, but the Ancients of Days and the Seven Master Spirits are probably eternally fixed as permanent administrators in the grand universe.
0:8.12 (12.3)
The function of God the Sevenfold dates from the organization of the seven superuniverses, and it will probably expand in connection with the future evolution of the creations of outer space. The organization of these future universes of the primary, secondary, tertiary, and quartan space levels of progressive evolution will undoubtedly witness the inauguration of the transcendent and absonite approach to Deity.
지존하신 분은, 둘러싼 광우주의 에너지 및 인격 잠재성의 선행{先行}하는 신성{神性} 재능으로부터 점진적으로 진화하며, 마찬가지로 궁극자 하나님은, 총우주의 시간-공간 초월 영역에 거하는 신성의 잠재성으로부터 결말에 이른다. 궁극자 신격이 실제화하는 것은, 첫 체험적 삼위일체가 유한절대적으로 통합됐음을 가리키며, 둘째 수준의 창조적 자아-실현에서 통합하는 신격이 확장됨을 의미한다. 이것은 초월된 시간-공간 가치가 결말에 이르는 수준에서, 낙원의 유한절대 실체들이 우주에서 체험적-신격으로 실제화하는 것과 인격-권능 면에서 동등하다. 이러한 체험적 전개가 완성되는 것은, 지존하신 분이 실현을 완성하심과 칠중 하나님이 섬기심으로 유한절대 수준에 도달하는, 시간-공간의 모든 피조물에게 궁극적 봉사-운명을 제공하도록 고안돼있다.
0:9.1 (12.4)
Just as the Supreme Being progressively evolves from the antecedent divinity endowment of the encompassed grand universe potential of energy and personality, so does God the Ultimate eventuate from the potentials of divinity residing in the transcended time-space domains of the master universe. The actualization of Ultimate Deity signalizes absonite unification of the first experiential Trinity and signifies unifying Deity expansion on the second level of creative self-realization. This constitutes the personality-power equivalent of the universe experiential-Deity actualization of Paradise absonite realities on the eventuating levels of transcended time-space values. The completion of such an experiential unfoldment is designed to afford ultimate service-destiny for all time-space creatures who have attained absonite levels through the completed realization of the Supreme Being and by the ministry of God the Sevenfold.
0:9.2 (12.5)
God the Ultimate is designative of personal Deity functioning on the divinity levels of the absonite and on the universe spheres of supertime and transcended space. The Ultimate is a supersupreme eventuation of Deity. The Supreme is the Trinity unification comprehended by finite beings; the Ultimate is the unification of the Paradise Trinity comprehended by absonite beings.
0:9.3 (13.1)
The Universal Father, through the mechanism of evolutionary Deity, is actually engaged in the stupendous and amazing act of personality focalization and power mobilization, on their respective universe meaning-levels, of the divine reality values of the finite, the absonite, and even of the absolute.
0:9.4 (13.2)
The first three and past-eternal Deities of Paradise—the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit—are, in the eternal future, to be personality-complemented by the experiential actualization of associate evolutionary Deities—God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and possibly God the Absolute.
0:9.5 (13.3)
God the Supreme and God the Ultimate, now evolving in the experiential universes, are not existential—not past eternals, only future eternals, time-space-conditioned and transcendental-conditioned eternals. They are Deities of supreme, ultimate, and possibly supreme-ultimate endowments, but they have experienced historic universe origins. They will never have an end, but they do have personality beginnings. They are indeed actualizations of eternal and infinite Deity potentials, but they themselves are neither unqualifiedly eternal nor infinite.
신격 절대자라는 영원한 실체에는, 시간-공간의 유한한 지성인에게 충분히 설명할 수 없는 많은 특색이 있으나, 절대자 하나님이 실제화하는 것은, 둘째 체험적 삼위일체, 즉 절대 삼위일체가 통합되는 결과일 것이다. 이것은 절대 신성의 체험적 실현, 즉 절대 수준에서 절대 의미를 지닌 것들의 통합이겠지만;우리는 결코, 한정된 절대자가 무한자와 동등하다고 들은 적이 없기 때문에, 모든 절대 가치의 범위에 관해 확신하지 못한다. 초월궁극 운명은 절대 의미와 무한한 영성{靈性}에 관련되며, 아직 달성되지 않은 이 두 실체 없이는, 우리가 절대 가치를 확립할 수 없다.
0:10.1 (13.4)
There are many features of the eternal reality of the Deity Absolute which cannot be fully explained to the time-space finite mind, but the actualization of God the Absolute would be in consequence of the unification of the second experiential Trinity, the Absolute Trinity. This would constitute the experiential realization of absolute divinity, the unification of absolute meanings on absolute levels; but we are not certain regarding the encompassment of all absolute values since we have at no time been informed that the Qualified Absolute is the equivalent of the Infinite. Superultimate destinies are involved in absolute meanings and infinite spirituality, and without both of these unachieved realities we cannot establish absolute values.
0:11.1 (13.6)
When the combined thought of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son, functioning in the God of Action, constituted the creation of the divine and central universe, the Father followed the expression of his thought into the word of his Son and the act of their Conjoint Executive by differentiating his Havona presence from the potentials of infinity. And these undisclosed infinity potentials remain space concealed in the Unqualified Absolute and divinely enshrouded in the Deity Absolute, while these two become one in the functioning of the Universal Absolute, the unrevealed infinity-unity of the Paradise Father.
0:11.2 (13.7)
Both potency of cosmic force and potency of spirit force are in process of progressive revelation-realization as the enrichment of all reality is effected by experiential growth and through the correlation of the experiential with the existential by the Universal Absolute. By virtue of the equipoising presence of the Universal Absolute, the First Source and Center realizes extension of experiential power, enjoys identification with his evolutionary creatures, and achieves expansion of experiential Deity on the levels of Supremacy, Ultimacy, and Absoluteness.
0:11.5 (14.3)
The Deity Absolute cannot, or at least does not, react to any universe situation in a subabsolute manner. Every response of this Absolute to any given situation appears to be made in terms of the welfare of the whole creation of things and beings, not only in its present state of existence, but also in view of the infinite possibilities of all future eternity.
0:11.6 (14.4)
The Deity Absolute is that potential which was segregated from total, infinite reality by the freewill choice of the Universal Father, and within which all divinity activities—existential and experiential—take place. This is the Qualified Absolute in contradistinction to the Unqualified Absolute; but the Universal Absolute is superadditive to both in the encompassment of all absolute potential.
0:11.7 (14.5)
2. The Unqualified Absolute is nonpersonal, extradivine, and undeified. The Unqualified Absolute is therefore devoid of personality, divinity, and all creator prerogatives. Neither fact nor truth, experience nor revelation, philosophy nor absonity are able to penetrate the nature and character of this Absolute without universe qualification.
무조건 절대자는 광우주에 널리 퍼지는 확실한 실체라는 점을 분명히 밝혀두자, 그리고 이 실체는 일곱 연방우주 너머에 압도적으로 뻗어나가는 공간 지역들에서, 공간에 한결같이 현존하면서 물질-이전{以前}의 진화가 생기는 쪽으로 확장하는 듯하다. 무조건 절대자는, 무조건적인 것들과 제한받지 않는 것들이 보편적이고 우월하고 탁월하다는 형이상학적 궤변에 근거한 철학적 개념을 단순히 부인한 생각이 아니다. 무조건 절대자는 무한에서 확실히 우주를 총괄통제하며;이러한 총괄통제는 공간-힘에 제한이 없지만, 생명과 정신과 영과 인격이 현존함에 따라서 분명하게 조절되고, 낙원 삼위일체의 의지-반응과 의도하는 명령에 따라서 더욱 조절된다.
0:11.8 (14.6)
Let it be made clear that the Unqualified Absolute is a positive reality pervading the grand universe and, apparently, extending with equal space presence on out into the force activities and prematerial evolutions of the staggering stretches of the space regions beyond the seven superuniverses. The Unqualified Absolute is not a mere negativism of philosophic concept predicated on the assumptions of metaphysical sophistries concerning the universality, dominance, and primacy of the unconditioned and the unqualified. The Unqualified Absolute is a positive universe overcontrol in infinity; this overcontrol is space-force unlimited but is definitely conditioned by the presence of life, mind, spirit, and personality, and is further conditioned by the will-reactions and purposeful mandates of the Paradise Trinity.
0:11.9 (14.7)
We are convinced that the Unqualified Absolute is not an undifferentiated and all-pervading influence comparable either to the pantheistic concepts of metaphysics or to the sometime ether hypothesis of science. The Unqualified Absolute is force unlimited and Deity conditioned, but we do not fully perceive the relation of this Absolute to the spirit realities of the universes.
0:11.10 (14.8)
3. The Universal Absolute, we logically deduce, was inevitable in the Universal Father’s absolute freewill act of differentiating universe realities into deified and undeified—personalizable and nonpersonalizable—values. The Universal Absolute is the Deity phenomenon indicative of the resolution of the tension created by the freewill act of thus differentiating universe reality, and functions as the associative co-ordinator of these sum totals of existential potentialities.
0:11.12 (15.2)
Always remember: Potential infinity is absolute and inseparable from eternity. Actual infinity in time can never be anything but partial and must therefore be nonabsolute; neither can infinity of actual personality be absolute except in unqualified Deity. And it is the differential of infinity potential in the Unqualified Absolute and the Deity Absolute that eternalizes the Universal Absolute, thereby making it cosmically possible to have material universes in space and spiritually possible to have finite personalities in time.
0:11.13 (15.3)
The finite can coexist in the cosmos along with the Infinite only because the associative presence of the Universal Absolute so perfectly equalizes the tensions between time and eternity, finity and infinity, reality potential and reality actuality, Paradise and space, man and God. Associatively the Universal Absolute constitutes the identification of the zone of progressing evolutional reality existent in the time-space, and in the transcended time-space, universes of subinfinite Deity manifestation.
0:11.14 (15.4)
The Universal Absolute is the potential of the static-dynamic Deity functionally realizable on time-eternity levels as finite-absolute values and as possible of experiential-existential approach. This incomprehensible aspect of Deity may be static, potential, and associative but is not experientially creative or evolutional as concerns the intelligent personalities now functioning in the master universe.
0:11.15 (15.5)
The Absolute. The two Absolutes—qualified and unqualified—while so apparently divergent in function as they may be observed by mind creatures, are perfectly and divinely unified in and by the Universal Absolute. In the last analysis and in the final comprehension all three are one Absolute. On subinfinite levels they are functionally differentiated, but in infinity they are ONE.
0:11.16 (15.6)
We never use the term the Absolute as a negation of aught or as a denial of anything. Neither do we regard the Universal Absolute as self-determinative, a sort of pantheistic and impersonal Deity. The Absolute, in all that pertains to universe personality, is strictly Trinity limited and Deity dominated.
0:12.1 (15.7)
The original and eternal Paradise Trinity is existential and was inevitable. This never-beginning Trinity was inherent in the fact of the differentiation of the personal and the nonpersonal by the Father’s unfettered will and factualized when his personal will co-ordinated these dual realities by mind. The post-Havona Trinities are experiential—are inherent in the creation of two subabsolute and evolutional levels of power-personality manifestation in the master universe.
0:12.2 (15.8)
The Paradise Trinity—the eternal Deity union of the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit—is existential in actuality, but all potentials are experiential. Therefore does this Trinity constitute the only Deity reality embracing infinity, and therefore do there occur the universe phenomena of the actualization of God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and God the Absolute.
0:12.3 (15.9)
The first and second experiential Trinities, the post-Havona Trinities, cannot be infinite because they embrace derived Deities, Deities evolved by the experiential actualization of realities created or eventuated by the existential Paradise Trinity. Infinity of divinity is being ever enriched, if not enlarged, by finity and absonity of creature and Creator experience.
삼위일체들은 연관성의 명제{命題}이자, 대등한 신격 현현{顯現}의 진상{眞相}이다. 삼위일체의 기능은 신격 실체들을 포함하며, 신격 실체들은 언제나 인격화함으로 실현과 현현을 추구한다. 따라서 지존자 하나님과 궁극자 하나님 그리고 심지어 절대자 하나님도, 신으로서 불가피한 존재들이다. 이 세 체험 신격은, 실존적 삼위일체, 즉 낙원 삼위일체 안에 잠재했지만, 이들이 권능을 지닌 인격체로서 우주에 출현한 것은, 권능과 인격체가 있는 우주에서 바로 그들이 체험으로 활동하는 데 일부 의존하고, 하보나-이후 창조주들 및 삼위일체들의 체험적 성취에도 일부 의존한다.
0:12.4 (16.1)
Trinities are truths of relationship and facts of co-ordinate Deity manifestation. Trinity functions encompass Deity realities, and Deity realities always seek realization and manifestation in personalization. God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and even God the Absolute are therefore divine inevitabilities. These three experiential Deities were potential in the existential Trinity, the Paradise Trinity, but their universe emergence as personalities of power is dependent in part on their own experiential functioning in the universes of power and personality and in part on the experiential achievements of the post-Havona Creators and Trinities.
0:12.6 (16.3)
1. The Ultimate Trinity, now evolving, will eventually consist of the Supreme Being, the Supreme Creator Personalities, and the absonite Architects of the Master Universe, those unique universe planners who are neither creators nor creatures. God the Ultimate will eventually and inevitably powerize and personalize as the Deity consequence of the unification of this experiential Ultimate Trinity in the expanding arena of the well-nigh limitless master universe.
0:12.7 (16.4)
2. The Absolute Trinity—the second experiential Trinity—now in process of actualization, will consist of God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and the unrevealed Consummator of Universe Destiny. This Trinity functions on both personal and superpersonal levels, even to the borders of the nonpersonal, and its unification in universality would experientialize Absolute Deity.
0:12.8 (16.5)
The Ultimate Trinity is experientially unifying in completion, but we truly doubt the possibility of such full unification of the Absolute Trinity. Our concept, however, of the eternal Paradise Trinity is an ever-present reminder that Deity trinitization may accomplish what is otherwise nonattainable; hence do we postulate the sometime appearance of the Supreme-Ultimate and the possible trinitization-factualization of God the Absolute.
0:12.9 (16.6)
The philosophers of the universes postulate a Trinity of Trinities, an existential-experiential Trinity Infinite, but they are not able to envisage its personalization; possibly it would equivalate to the person of the Universal Father on the conceptual level of the I AM. But irrespective of all this, the original Paradise Trinity is potentially infinite since the Universal Father actually is infinite.
0:12.11 (16.8)
In formulating the succeeding presentations having to do with the portrayal of the character of the Universal Father and the nature of his Paradise associates, together with an attempted description of the perfect central universe and the encircling seven superuniverses, we are to be guided by the mandate of the superuniverse rulers which directs that we shall, in all our efforts to reveal truth and co-ordinate essential knowledge, give preference to the highest existing human concepts pertaining to the subjects to be presented. We may resort to pure revelation only when the concept of presentation has had no adequate previous expression by the human mind.
신성한 진리를 연속해서 행성에 주는 계시들은, 행성의 지식을 새롭고 더 낫게 조정하는 방안의 일부로서, 영적 가치를 갖는 가장 높은 현존 개념들을 반드시 포함한다. 따라서, 하나님과 그 우주 동역자들에 관한 이 발표문을 작성하면서, 우리는 이 여러 문서의 기초로서 영적 가치와 우주 의미들을 갖는, 가장 높고 가장 진보된 행성 지식을 대변하는, 1,000개 이상의 인간 개념을 선택했다. 하나님을-아는 과거와 현재의 필사자들로부터 수집한 이 인간 개념들이, 우리에게 계시하도록 지시한 그 진리를 묘사하기에는 어떤 면에서 부적당하지만, 낙원 신격들의 실체와 신성 그리고 그들이 거주하는 초월적인 우주에 대하여 우리 자신의 우세한 지식으로 끌어당기려는 이 목적을 위하여, 우리는 주저하지 않고 그 개념들을 첨가할 것이다.
0:12.12 (17.1)
Successive planetary revelations of divine truth invariably embrace the highest existing concepts of spiritual values as a part of the new and enhanced co-ordination of planetary knowledge. Accordingly, in making these presentations about God and his universe associates, we have selected as the basis of these papers more than one thousand human concepts representing the highest and most advanced planetary knowledge of spiritual values and universe meanings. Wherein these human concepts, assembled from the God-knowing mortals of the past and the present, are inadequate to portray the truth as we are directed to reveal it, we will unhesitatingly supplement them, for this purpose drawing upon our own superior knowledge of the reality and divinity of the Paradise Deities and their transcendent residential universe.
우리에게 배정된 임무가 얼마나 어려운지, 우리는 잘 인지하고 있으며;신성 및 영원성 개념을 담는 말을, 필사자 정신의 상징들 속으로 온전하게 번역하는 것이 불가능함을 깨닫는다. 그러나 우리는, 인간의 정신 속에 하나님의 단편{斷片}이 거하고 있다는 것, 그리고 진리의 영이 인간의 혼과 함께 머물고 있다는 것을 알며;더욱이 우리는, 이런 영 세력들이, 물질적 사람으로 하여금 영적 가치들의 실체를 파악할 수 있도록, 그리고 우주 의미들의 철학을 납득할 수 있도록 협력하고 있다는 것을 알고 있다. 그러나 우리는, --하나님을-의식하는-- 계속-진보하는 개인 종교 체험 실체를 증진시키는 데 기여하는 모든 진리를 영적으로 사용하도록, 신성한 현존의 이 영들이 사람을 도울 수 있다는 것을, 더욱 확실하게 안다.
0:12.13 (17.2)
We are fully cognizant of the difficulties of our assignment; we recognize the impossibility of fully translating the language of the concepts of divinity and eternity into the symbols of the language of the finite concepts of the mortal mind. But we know that there dwells within the human mind a fragment of God, and that there sojourns with the human soul the Spirit of Truth; and we further know that these spirit forces conspire to enable material man to grasp the reality of spiritual values and to comprehend the philosophy of universe meanings. But even more certainly we know that these spirits of the Divine Presence are able to assist man in the spiritual appropriation of all truth contributory to the enhancement of the ever-progressing reality of personal religious experience—God-consciousness.