유랜시아 책
제 2. 부 지역 우주
제 56 편. 우주의 통일성
Paper 56
Universal Unity
Universal Unity
Sections
- Introduction
- § 1. Physical Co-ordination
- § 2. Intellectual Unity
- § 3. Spiritual Unification
- § 4. Personality Unification
- § 5. Deity Unity
- § 6. Unification of Evolutionary Deity
- § 7. Universal Evolutionary Repercussions
- § 8. The Supreme Unifier
- § 9. Universal Absolute Unity
- § 10. Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
56:0.1 (637.1)
GOD is unity. Deity is universally co-ordinated. The universe of universes is one vast integrated mechanism which is absolutely controlled by one infinite mind. The physical, intellectual, and spiritual domains of universal creation are divinely correlated. The perfect and imperfect are truly interrelated, and therefore may the finite evolutionary creature ascend to Paradise in obedience to the Universal Father’s mandate: “Be you perfect, even as I am perfect.”
56:0.2 (637.2)
The diverse levels of creation are all unified in the plans and administration of the Architects of the Master Universe. To the circumscribed minds of time-space mortals the universe may present many problems and situations which apparently portray disharmony and indicate absence of effective co-ordination; but those of us who are able to observe wider stretches of universal phenomena, and who are more experienced in this art of detecting the basic unity which underlies creative diversity and of discovering the divine oneness which overspreads all this functioning of plurality, better perceive the divine and single purpose exhibited in all these manifold manifestations of universal creative energy.
물리적 창조, 곧 물질 창조는 무한하지 않지만 완전히 조정된다. 물력ㆍ에너지ㆍ동력이 있지만, 이 모두가 같은 기원을 가졌다. 일곱 초우주는 겉보기에 2중이며, 중앙 우주는 3중이지만, 파라다이스는 하나로 구성되어 있다. 그리고 파라다이스는 모든―과거ㆍ현재ㆍ미래―물질 우주의 실제 근원이다. 그러나 우주가 이렇게 유래한 것은 영원에 생긴 사건이며, 어느 시간에도―과거나 현재나 미래에도―공간이나 물질 우주가 중앙의 빛의 섬으로부터 나오지 않는다. 우주의 근원으로서, 파라다이스는 공간보다 이전에, 시간 이전에 작용한다. 따라서 거기서 나온 파생물은 무제한 절대자를 통해서 솟아나지 않는다면, 시간과 공간 속에서 버림받은 듯하다. 이 무제한 절대자는 공간에서 이 파생물이 있는 궁극의 저장소요, 세월 속에서 그 파생물을 드러내고 규제하는 자이다.
56:1.1 (637.3)
The physical or material creation is not infinite, but it is perfectly co-ordinated. There are force, energy, and power, but they are all one in origin. The seven superuniverses are seemingly dual; the central universe, triune; but Paradise is of single constitution. And Paradise is the actual source of all material universes—past, present, and future. But this cosmic derivation is an eternity event; at no time—past, present, or future—does either space or the material cosmos come forth from the nuclear Isle of Light. As the cosmic source, Paradise functions prior to space and before time; hence would its derivations seem to be orphaned in time and space did they not emerge through the Unqualified Absolute, their ultimate repository in space and their revealer and regulator in time.
56:1.2 (637.4)
The Unqualified Absolute upholds the physical universe, while the Deity Absolute motivates the exquisite overcontrol of all material reality; and both Absolutes are functionally unified by the Universal Absolute. This cohesive correlation of the material universe is best understood by all personalities—material, morontia, absonite, or spiritual—by the observation of the gravity response of all bona fide material reality to the gravity centering on nether Paradise.
56:1.3 (638.1)
Gravity unification is universal and unvarying; pure-energy response is likewise universal and inescapable. Pure energy (primordial force) and pure spirit are wholly preresponsive to gravity. These primal forces, inhering in the Absolutes, are personally controlled by the Universal Father; hence does all gravity center in the personal presence of the Paradise Father of pure energy and pure spirit and in his supermaterial abode.
56:1.4 (638.2)
Pure energy is the ancestor of all relative, nonspirit functional realities, while pure spirit is the potential of the divine and directive overcontrol of all basic energy systems. And these realities, so diverse as manifested throughout space and as observed in the motions of time, are both centered in the person of the Paradise Father. In him they are one—must be unified—because God is one. The Father’s personality is absolutely unified.
56:1.5 (638.3)
In the infinite nature of God the Father there could not possibly exist duality of reality, such as physical and spiritual; but the instant we look aside from the infinite levels and absolute reality of the personal values of the Paradise Father, we observe the existence of these two realities and recognize that they are fully responsive to his personal presence; in him all things consist.
56:1.6 (638.4)
The moment you depart from the unqualified concept of the infinite personality of the Paradise Father, you must postulate MIND as the inevitable technique of unifying the ever-widening divergence of these dual universe manifestations of the original monothetic Creator personality, the First Source and Center—the I AM.
56:2.1 (638.5)
The Thought-Father realizes spirit expression in the Word-Son and attains reality expansion through Paradise in the far-flung material universes. The spiritual expressions of the Eternal Son are correlated with the material levels of creation by the functions of the Infinite Spirit, by whose spirit-responsive ministry of mind, and in whose physical-directive acts of mind, the spiritual realities of Deity and the material repercussions of Deity are correlated the one with the other.
56:2.2 (638.6)
Mind is the functional endowment of the Infinite Spirit, therefore infinite in potential and universal in bestowal. The primal thought of the Universal Father eternalizes in dual expression: the Isle of Paradise and his Deity equal, the spiritual and Eternal Son. Such duality of eternal reality renders the mind God, the Infinite Spirit, inevitable. Mind is the indispensable channel of communication between spiritual and material realities. The material evolutionary creature can conceive and comprehend the indwelling spirit only by the ministry of mind.
56:2.3 (638.7)
This infinite and universal mind is ministered in the universes of time and space as the cosmic mind; and though extending from the primitive ministry of the adjutant spirits up to the magnificent mind of the chief executive of a universe, even this cosmic mind is adequately unified in the supervision of the Seven Master Spirits, who are in turn co-ordinated with the Supreme Mind of time and space and perfectly correlated with the all-embracing mind of the Infinite Spirit.
56:3.1 (639.1)
As the universal mind gravity is centered in the Paradise personal presence of the Infinite Spirit, so does the universal spirit gravity center in the Paradise personal presence of the Eternal Son. The Universal Father is one, but to time-space he is revealed in the dual phenomena of pure energy and pure spirit.
56:3.2 (639.2)
Paradise spirit realities are likewise one, but in all time-space situations and relations this single spirit is revealed in the dual phenomena of the spirit personalities and emanations of the Eternal Son and the spirit personalities and influences of the Infinite Spirit and associated creations; and there is yet a third—pure-spirit fragmentations—the Father’s bestowal of the Thought Adjusters and other spirit entities which are prepersonal.
56:3.3 (639.3)
No matter on what level of universe activities you may encounter spiritual phenomena or contact with spirit beings, you may know that they are all derived from the God who is spirit by the ministry of the Spirit Son and the Infinite Mind Spirit. And this far-flung spirit functions as a phenomenon on the evolutionary worlds of time as it is directed from the headquarters of the local universes. From these capitals of the Creator Sons come the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Truth, together with the ministry of the adjutant mind-spirits, to the lower and evolving levels of material minds.
56:3.4 (639.4)
While mind is more unified on the level of the Master Spirits in association with the Supreme Being and as the cosmic mind in subordination to the Absolute Mind, the spirit ministry to the evolving worlds is more directly unified in the personalities resident on the headquarters of the local universes and in the persons of the presiding Divine Ministers, who are in turn well-nigh perfectly correlated with the Paradise gravity circuit of the Eternal Son, wherein occurs final unification of all time-space spirit manifestations.
자의식하는 지성이, 파라다이스 삼위일체의 어느 한 분의 자질, 삼위일체 이전의 영 자질의 분신과 융합함으로, 사람은 완전해진 인간 존재에 도달할 수 있고, 이를 지원하고, 영원하게 만들 수 있다. 필사자의 지성은 영원한 아들의 아들, 그리고 무한한 영의 딸이 창조한 것이며, 아버지로부터 온 생각 조절자와 융합되었을 때, 진화 영역의 세 가지 영 자질을 취한다. 그러나 이 세 가지 영 표현이, 우주의 스스로 계신 이가, 일찍이 영원한 아들과 무한한 영의 우주의 아버지가 되기 전에 자신 안에서 영원 속에 통일된 것 같이, 이러한 표현도 최후자 안에서 완전히 통일된다.
56:3.5 (639.5)
Perfected creature existence can be attained, sustained, and eternalized by the fusion of self-conscious mind with a fragment of the pre-Trinity spirit endowment of some one of the persons of the Paradise Trinity. The mortal mind is the creation of the Sons and Daughters of the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit and, when fused with the Thought Adjuster from the Father, partakes of the threefold spirit endowment of the evolutionary realms. But these three spirit expressions become perfectly unified in the finaliters, even as they were in eternity so unified in the Universal I AM ere he ever became the Universal Father of the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit.
56:3.6 (639.6)
Spirit must always and ultimately become threefold in expression and Trinity-unified in final realization. Spirit originates from one source through a threefold expression; and in finality it must and does attain its full realization in that divine unification which is experienced in finding God—oneness with divinity—in eternity, and by means of the ministry of the cosmic mind of the infinite expression of the eternal word of the Father’s universal thought.
56:4.1 (639.7)
The Universal Father is a divinely unified personality; hence will all his ascendant children who are carried to Paradise by the rebound momentum of the Thought Adjusters, who went forth from Paradise to indwell material mortals in obedience to the Father’s mandate, likewise be fully unified personalities ere they reach Havona.
성격은 본래부터, 그를 구성하는 모든 실체를 통일하려고 손을 뻗는다. 첫째 근원 중심, 우주의 아버지의 무한한 성격은 구성 요소인 일곱 무한 절대자를 모두 통일한다. 필사 인간의 성격은, 우주의 아버지가 독점으로 직접 수여한 것이니까, 필사 인간을 구성하는 요소들을 통일하는 잠재성을 마찬가지로 소유한다. 모든 인간 성격의 그러한 통일하는 창조성은 그 성격의 높고 순전한 근원을 가리키는 출생 표시이며, 성격 회로를 통해서 바로 이 근원과 단절되지 않고서 접촉하는 것을 더욱 증거한다. 이 성격 회로의 방법으로 사람의 인격은 파라다이스에 계신, 모든 성격의 아버지와 직접, 오래 가는 접촉을 유지한다.
56:4.2 (640.1)
Personality inherently reaches out to unify all constituent realities. The infinite personality of the First Source and Center, the Universal Father, unifies all seven constituent Absolutes of Infinity; and the personality of mortal man, being an exclusive and direct bestowal of the Universal Father, likewise possesses the potential of unifying the constituent factors of the mortal creature. Such unifying creativity of all creature personality is a birthmark of its high and exclusive source and is further evidential of its unbroken contact with this same source through the personality circuit, by means of which the personality of the creature maintains direct and sustaining contact with the Father of all personality on Paradise.
56:4.3 (640.2)
Notwithstanding that God is manifest from the domains of the Sevenfold up through supremacy and ultimacy to God the Absolute, the personality circuit, centering on Paradise and in the person of God the Father, provides for the complete and perfect unification of all these diverse expressions of divine personality so far as concerns all creature personalities on all levels of intelligent existence and in all the realms of the perfect, perfected, and perfecting universes.
56:4.4 (640.3)
While God is to and in the universes all that we have portrayed, nevertheless, to you and to all other God-knowing creatures he is one, your Father and their Father. To personality God cannot be plural. God is Father to each of his creatures, and it is literally impossible for any child to have more than one father.
56:4.5 (640.4)
Philosophically, cosmically, and with reference to differential levels and locations of manifestation, you may and perforce must conceive of the functioning of plural Deities and postulate the existence of plural Trinities; but in the worshipful experience of the personal contact of every worshiping personality throughout the master universe, God is one; and that unified and personal Deity is our Paradise parent, God the Father, the bestower, conservator, and Father of all personalities from mortal man on the inhabited worlds to the Eternal Son on the central Isle of Light.
56:5.2 (640.6)
From the original Paradise-Havona level of existential reality, two subabsolute levels have differentiated, and thereon have the Father, Son, and Spirit engaged in the creation of numerous personal associates and subordinates. And while it is inappropriate in this connection to undertake the consideration of absonite deity unification on transcendental levels of ultimacy, it is feasible to look at some features of the unifying function of the various Deity personalizations in whom divinity is functionally manifest to the diverse sectors of creation and to the different orders of intelligent beings.
56:5.3 (640.7)
The present functioning of divinity in the superuniverses is actively manifest in the operations of the Supreme Creators—the local universe Creator Sons and Spirits, the superuniverse Ancients of Days, and the Seven Master Spirits of Paradise. These beings constitute the first three levels of God the Sevenfold leading inward to the Universal Father, and this entire domain of God the Sevenfold is co-ordinating on the first level of experiential deity in the evolving Supreme Being.
파라다이스 삼위일체 안에서 갈라지지 않은 신으로서, 영원한 신 세 분이 활동할 때, 그들은 완전히 통일된다. 마찬가지로, 그들이 연합하여, 또는 따로따로 창조할 때, 그들의 파라다이스 자손은 그 특징인 신의 통일성을 드러낸다. 그리고 이 시공 영토를 다스리는 최상 창조자이자 통치자들이 명백히 드러내는 이 신성한 목적은 궁극에 체험적으로 최상인, 군주의 통일하는 동력 잠재성이 된다. 그 잠재성은 실체의 긴장을 일으키며, 이것은 우주의 비성격 에너지가 통일된 가운데, 오로지 체험적 신의 체험하는 성격 실체들과 적절히 통일함으로 해결될 수 있다.
56:6.1 (641.2)
When the three eternal persons of Deity function as undivided Deity in the Paradise Trinity, they achieve perfect unity; likewise, when they create, either associatively or severally, their Paradise progeny exhibit the characteristic unity of divinity. And this divinity of purpose manifested by the Supreme Creators and Rulers of the time-space domains eventuates in the unifying power potential of the sovereignty of experiential supremacy which, in the presence of the impersonal energy unity of the universe, constitutes a reality tension that can be resolved only through adequate unification with the experiential personality realities of experiential Deity.
최상 존재의 성격 실체들은 파라다이스 신들로부터 솟아나오며, 하보나의 바깥 회로의 시범 세계에서, 대우주의 창조자인 신들로부터 올라오는 전능 최상위의 동력 특권과 함께 통일된다. 하나의 성격자로서 최상위 하나님은 일곱 초우주가 창조되기 전에 하보나에서 존재했으나 오직 영적 수준에서 활동했다. 진화하는 여러 우주에서 다양한 신의 통합으로 인하여, 전능자가 최상의 동력을 진화하는 것은 궁극에 새로운 동력을 가진 신의 계심이 되었고, 이것은 최상 지성의 수단으로 하보나에 계신 최상위의 영적 몸과 조정되었다. 동시에 이 최상 지성은 무한한 영의 무한한 지성에 거하는 잠재성을, 최상 존재의 활발한 기능적 지성으로 변화시켰다.
56:6.2 (641.3)
The personality realities of the Supreme Being come forth from the Paradise Deities and on the pilot world of the outer Havona circuit unify with the power prerogatives of the Almighty Supreme coming up from the Creator divinities of the grand universe. God the Supreme as a person existed in Havona before the creation of the seven superuniverses, but he functioned only on spiritual levels. The evolution of the Almighty power of Supremacy by diverse divinity synthesis in the evolving universes eventuated in a new power presence of Deity which co-ordinated with the spiritual person of the Supreme in Havona by means of the Supreme Mind, which concomitantly translated from the potential resident in the infinite mind of the Infinite Spirit to the active functional mind of the Supreme Being.
일곱 초우주의 여러 진화 세계에서 물질 위주로 생각하는 인간은 오직 최상 존재가 이렇게 동력을 가진 성격자로 통합되면서 진화하는 그러한 신의 통일성을 이해할 수 있다. 어떤 존재 수준에서도, 하나님은 그러한 수준에서 사는 존재들의 개념 능력을 뛰어넘을 수 없다. 진리를 인식하고 아름다움을 이해하고, 선을 존중함으로, 필사 인간은 사랑의 하나님에 대한 인식을 길러야 하며, 그리고 나서 높아지는 신 수준을 거쳐서, 최상위를 이해하기까지 진보해야 한다. 신이 이처럼 동력이 통일된 것으로 파악되었으니까, 그리고 나서 신은 사람이 이해하고 도달하도록 영적으로 성격화될 수 있다.
56:6.3 (641.4)
The material-minded creatures of the evolutionary worlds of the seven superuniverses can comprehend Deity unity only as it is evolving in this power-personality synthesis of the Supreme Being. On any level of existence God cannot exceed the conceptual capacity of the beings who live on such a level. Mortal man must, through the recognition of truth, the appreciation of beauty, and the worship of goodness, evolve the recognition of a God of love and then progress through ascending deity levels to the comprehension of the Supreme. Deity, having been thus grasped as unified in power, can then be personalized in spirit to creature understanding and attainment.
56:6.4 (641.5)
While ascending mortals achieve power comprehension of the Almighty on the capitals of the superuniverses and personality comprehension of the Supreme on the outer circuits of Havona, they do not actually find the Supreme Being as they are destined to find the Paradise Deities. Even the finaliters, sixth-stage spirits, have not found the Supreme Being, nor are they likely to until they have achieved seventh-stage-spirit status, and until the Supreme has become actually functional in the activities of the future outer universes.
시공의 우주에서 진화가 꾸준히 진보하는 데에는 신이 모든 지적 인간에게 주는 계시, 항상 확대되는 계시가 뒤따른다. 한 세계나 체계, 별자리나 우주, 초우주 또는 대우주에서, 진화로 진보하여 높이 도달하는 것은 이 진보적인 여러 창조 단위에 대하여, 그리고 이에 대응하여 거기서 신의 활동이 확대됨을 알린다. 신성의 실현이 그렇게 지역에서 향상될 때마다 뒤이어, 창조의 모든 다른 구역에 대하여 신의 명시의 영향, 윤곽이 분명한 어떤 영향이 확대된다. 파라다이스로부터 바깥으로 뻗으면서, 진화로 실현하고 도달한 새로운 영토는 각기, 체험하는 신이 온 우주에게 주는 새롭고 확대된 계시가 된다.
56:7.1 (642.1)
The steady progress of evolution in the time-space universes is accompanied by ever-enlarging revelations of Deity to all intelligent creatures. The attainment of the height of evolutionary progress on a world, in a system, constellation, universe, superuniverse, or in the grand universe signalizes corresponding enlargements of deity function to and in these progressive units of creation. And every such local enhancement of divinity realization is accompanied by certain well-defined repercussions of enlarged deity manifestation to all other sectors of creation. Extending outward from Paradise, each new domain of realized and attained evolution constitutes a new and enlarged revelation of experiential Deity to the universe of universes.
한 지역 우주의 구성 분자들이 점진적으로 빛과 생명 속에 안정됨에 따라서, 칠중 신은 갈수록 더 명백하게 나타난다. 한 행성에서 시공의 진화는, 지배하는 칠중 신의 첫째 표현―창조 아들과 창조 영의 결합―과 함께 시작된다. 한 체계가 빛 속에 안정되고 나서, 이러한 아들과 영의 연락은 충만히 작용하며, 한 별자리 전체가 이처럼 안정될 때, 칠중 신의 제2 단계가 그러한 영역에서 두루, 더 활발하게 된다. 한 지역 우주에서 행정부의 진화가 완결되면 초우주의 으뜸 영들이 새로이, 직접 더 보살피는 일이 뒤따른다. 그리고 이 시점에서 칠중 신의 늘 확대되는 계시와 실현이 또한 시작되며, 이것은 여섯째 하보나 회로의 세계들을 통과하는 동안 승천자가 최상 존재를 이해하는 높이까지 이른다.
56:7.2 (642.2)
As the components of a local universe are progressively settled in light and life, God the Sevenfold is increasingly made manifest. Time-space evolution begins on a planet with the first expression of God the Sevenfold—the Creator Son-Creative Spirit association—in control. With the settling of a system in light, this Son-Spirit liaison attains the fullness of function; and when an entire constellation is thus settled, the second phase of God the Sevenfold becomes more active throughout such a realm. The completed administrative evolution of a local universe is attended by new and more direct ministrations of the superuniverse Master Spirits; and at this point there also begins that ever-expanding revelation and realization of God the Supreme which culminates in the ascender’s comprehension of the Supreme Being while passing through the worlds of the sixth Havona circuit.
창조된 한 구역 안에서 새로운 진화적 달성이 있을 때마다, 신성(神性)의 명시가 공간을 새로이 침입할 때마다, 뒤이어 당시에 존재하고 예전에 조직된 모든 창조 단위 안에서 신의 기능적 계시가 동시에 확장된다. 우주와 그 구성 단위들의 행정 작업이 이렇게 새로이 침입하는 것은, 여기에 윤곽을 제시한 기법 그대로 집행되는 것처럼 반드시 보이지 않을지 모른다. 이는 행정을 통제하는 차후의 연속되는 새 시대를 위하여 길을 예비하려고 전위(前衛) 행정자 집단을 보내는 것이 관례이기 때문이다. 궁극위 하나님조차 한 지역 우주가 빛과 생명 속에 안정된 후기 단계에, 그가 초월적으로 우주를 전반적으로 통제한다는 것을 미리 예시한다.
56:7.5 (642.5)
Each new evolutionary attainment within a sector of creation, as well as every new invasion of space by divinity manifestations, is attended by simultaneous expansions of Deity functional-revelation within the then existing and previously organized units of all creation. This new invasion of the administrative work of the universes and their component units may not always appear to be executed exactly in accordance with the technique herewith outlined because it is the practice to send forth advance groups of administrators to prepare the way for the subsequent and successive eras of new administrative overcontrol. Even God the Ultimate foreshadows his transcendental overcontrol of the universes during the later stages of a local universe settled in light and life.
여러 시공 창조의 진화적 지위가 점진적으로 안정됨에 따라서, 최상위 하나님의 새롭고 더 충만한 활동이 관찰되는 것이 하나의 사실이며, 이에 상응하여 동시에 칠중 신의 처음 세 가지 명시가 철수(撤收)된다. 대우주가 빛과 생명 속에 안정되면, 그리고 그렇게 될 때, 최상위 하나님이 이 여러 시공 창조를 직접 통제하는 일을 맡는다면, 칠중 신이 창조 아들 및 창조 딸로 명시되어 과연 미래에 무슨 역할을 할 것인가? 시공의 여러 우주를 조직하고 개척한 이분들은 바깥 우주에서 비슷한 활동을 하도록 해방될 것인가? 우리는 알지 못하지만, 이것을 비롯하여 관계된 문제들에 대하여 우리는 많이 추측해 본다.
56:7.6 (642.6)
It is a fact that, as the creations of time and space are progressively settled in evolutionary status, there is observed a new and fuller functioning of God the Supreme concomitant with a corresponding withdrawing of the first three manifestations of God the Sevenfold. If and when the grand universe becomes settled in light and life, what then will be the future function of the Creator-Creative manifestations of God the Sevenfold if God the Supreme assumes direct control of these creations of time and space? Are these organizers and pioneers of the time-space universes to be liberated for similar activities in outer space? We do not know, but we speculate much concerning these and related matters.
체험하는 신의 개척지가 무제한 절대자의 영토로 뻗어나감에 따라서, 우리는 이 미래 창조들의 초기의 진화 시대에 칠중 신이 무슨 일을 할 것인가 상상해본다. 옛적부터 늘 계신 이들과 초우주 으뜸 영들의 미래 지위가 어떻게 될 것인가에 관하여 우리 모두가 의견이 일치하지는 않는다. 우리는 최상 존재가 일곱 초우주에서 한 것처럼 거기서 활동할 것인지, 그렇지 않을지도 모른다. 그러나 창조 아들인 미가엘들이 이 여러 바깥 우주에서 활동하도록 예정되어 있다고 우리 모두가 추측한다. 더러는 미래 시대에, 연결된 창조 아들과 신성한 봉사자들이 더 가까운 형태로 연합된 것을 구경할 것이라고 주장하고 있다. 그러한 창조자 연합이 종국에 궁극의 성질을 가진, 부(副)창조자 신분의 어떤 새로운 표현이 된다는 것도 가능하다. 그러나 밝혀지지 않은 앞날의 이 여러 가능성에 관하여 우리는 정말로 아무것도 모른다.
56:7.7 (643.1)
As the frontiers of experiential Deity are extended out into the domains of the Unqualified Absolute, we envision the activity of God the Sevenfold during the earlier evolutionary epochs of these creations of the future. We are not all in agreement respecting the future status of the Ancients of Days and the superuniverse Master Spirits. Neither do we know whether or not the Supreme Being will therein function as in the seven superuniverses. But we all conjecture that the Michaels, the Creator Sons, are destined to function in these outer universes. Some hold that the future ages will witness some closer form of union between the associated Creator Sons and Divine Ministers; it is even possible that such a creator union might eventuate in some new expression of associate-creator identity of an ultimate nature. But we really know nothing about these possibilities of the unrevealed future.
56:7.8 (643.2)
We do know, however, that in the universes of time and space, God the Sevenfold provides a progressive approach to the Universal Father, and that this evolutionary approach is experientially unified in God the Supreme. We might conjecture that such a plan must prevail in the outer universes; on the other hand, the new orders of beings that may sometime inhabit these universes may be able to approach Deity on ultimate levels and by absonite techniques. In short, we have not the slightest concept of what technique of deity approach may become operative in the future universes of outer space.
56:7.9 (643.3)
Nevertheless, we deem that the perfected superuniverses will in some way become a part of the Paradise-ascension careers of those beings who may inhabit these outer creations. It is quite possible that in that future age we may witness outer-spacers approaching Havona through the seven superuniverses, administered by God the Supreme with or without the collaboration of the Seven Master Spirits.
56:8.1 (643.4)
The Supreme Being has a threefold function in the experience of mortal man: First, he is the unifier of time-space divinity, God the Sevenfold; second, he is the maximum of Deity which finite creatures can actually comprehend; third, he is mortal man’s only avenue of approach to the transcendental experience of consorting with absonite mind, eternal spirit, and Paradise personality.
하늘 가는 최후자는 지역 우주에서 태어나서, 초우주에서 양육되고, 중앙 우주에서 훈련받았으니까, 최상위 안에서 통일되는 칠중 신의 시공 신성을 이해하는 충분한 잠재성을 그들의 개인적 체험 속에서 가진다. 최후자는 그들이 태어난 곳이 아닌 여러 초우주에서 연달아 근무하며, 이렇게 하여 가능한 인간 체험의 일곱 가지 다양성을 충분히 몸에 익힐 때까지, 체험에 체험을 자꾸 쌓는다. 깃드는 조절자의 봉사를 통해서, 최후자는 우주의 아버지를 찾아낼 수 있게 된다. 그러나 바로 이 체험 기법으로 그러한 최후자는 최상 존재를 정말로 알게 되며, 그들은 바깥 공간에서 앞날의 여러 우주에서 최상위 신에게 봉사하는 데, 그리고 여러 우주에 그를 계시하는 일에 예정되어 있다.
56:8.2 (643.5)
Ascendant finaliters, having been born in the local universes, nurtured in the superuniverses, and trained in the central universe, embrace in their personal experiences the full potential of the comprehension of the time-space divinity of God the Sevenfold unifying in the Supreme. Finaliters serve successively in superuniverses other than those of nativity, thereby superimposing experience upon experience until the fullness of the sevenfold diversity of possible creature experience has been encompassed. Through the ministry of the indwelling Adjusters the finaliters are enabled to find the Universal Father, but it is by these techniques of experience that such finaliters come really to know the Supreme Being, and they are destined to the service and the revelation of this Supreme Deity in and to the future universes of outer space.
56:8.3 (644.1)
Bear in mind, all that God the Father and his Paradise Sons do for us, we in turn and in spirit have the opportunity to do for and in the emerging Supreme Being. The experience of love, joy, and service in the universe is mutual. God the Father does not need that his sons should return to him all that he bestows upon them, but they do (or may) in turn bestow all of this upon their fellows and upon the evolving Supreme Being.
56:8.4 (644.2)
All creational phenomena are reflective of antecedent creator-spirit activities. Said Jesus, and it is literally true, “The Son does only those things which he sees the Father do.” In time you mortals may begin the revelation of the Supreme to your fellows, and increasingly may you augment this revelation as you ascend Paradiseward. In eternity you may be permitted to make increasing revelations of this God of evolutionary creatures on supreme levels—even ultimate—as seventh-stage finaliters.
56:9.1 (644.3)
The Unqualified Absolute and the Deity Absolute are unified in the Universal Absolute. The Absolutes are co-ordinated in the Ultimate, conditioned in the Supreme, and time-space modified in God the Sevenfold. On subinfinite levels there are three Absolutes, but in infinity they appear to be one. On Paradise there are three personalizations of Deity, but in the Trinity they are one.
처음 생각에는, 절대자가 만물―아니 삼위일체―의 조상이라는 개념은 일관성을 충족시키고 철학적으로 통일되는 일시적 만족감을 주는 듯하지만, 그러한 어떤 결론도 파라다이스 삼위일체가 영원하다는 사실로 말미암아 무효(無效)가 된다. 우리는 우주의 아버지와 그의 삼위일체 동료들의 성품과 존재는 영원하다고 가르침을 받았고, 우리는 그렇게 믿는다. 그렇다면, 일관성 있는 철학적 결론이 오직 하나 있으니, 바로 이것이다: 온 우주의 지성 존재들이 보기에, 절대자는 모든 기본적 1차 상황, 우주 안 및 우주 바깥의 공간 상황에 대하여 (가장 높은) 삼자일체가 비성격 방법으로 나란히 반응하는 것이다. 사람이 몸소 이해하고 깨닫는 모든 실질적 목적으로 볼 때, 대우주에서 모든 지적 성격 존재에게 파라다이스 삼위일체는 최종으로, 영원히, 최상으로, 궁극에 언제까지나 절대적인 것으로 남아 있다.
56:9.4 (644.6)
On first thought, a concept of the Absolute as ancestor to all things—even the Trinity—seems to afford transitory satisfaction of consistency gratification and philosophic unification, but any such conclusion is invalidated by the actuality of the eternity of the Paradise Trinity. We are taught, and we believe, that the Universal Father and his Trinity associates are eternal in nature and existence. There is, then, but one consistent philosophic conclusion, and that is: The Absolute is, to all universe intelligences, the impersonal and co-ordinate reaction of the Trinity (of Trinities) to all basic and primary space situations, intrauniversal and extrauniversal. To all personality intelligences of the grand universe the Paradise Trinity forever stands in finality, eternity, supremacy, and ultimacy and, for all practical purposes of personal comprehension and creature realization, as absolute.
인간의 지성으로 이 문제를 보다시피, 지성은 우주의 스스로 계신 이가 삼위일체와 절대자, 이 둘의 원초적 원인이요 무제한의 근원이라는 최종의 가설에 도달할 수밖에 없다. 따라서 절대자가 성격을 가졌다는 개념을 몹시 살펴보고 싶을 때, 우리는 파라다이스 아버지 개념과 이상(理想)으로 도로 돌아오게 된다. 우리가 다른 면에서 비성격인 이 절대자를 이해하는 것을 수월하게 하거나 그를 더 크게 의식(意識)하기를 바랄 때, 우리는 우주의 아버지가 절대 성격을 가진 실존적 아버지이며, 영원한 아들은 체험적 의미에서 절대자가 성격화된 것은 아니지만, 그가 절대 성격자라는 사실로 도로 돌아온다. 다음에 우리는 더 나아가서, 체험적 삼자일체들이 결국, 체험으로 신 절대자의 성격화를 초래한다고 상상하며, 한편 우주 절대자는 최상ㆍ궁극ㆍ무한성을 가진, 통일되고 조정된 신 관계―가장 높은 삼자일체―의 비성격 활동이 명백히 나타나는 그러한 우주 및 우주 바깥의 현상을 빚어낸다고 생각한다.
56:9.5 (644.7)
As creature minds may view this problem, they are led to the final postulate of the Universal I AM as the primal cause and the unqualified source of both the Trinity and the Absolute. When, therefore, we crave to entertain a personal concept of the Absolute, we revert to our ideas and ideals of the Paradise Father. When we desire to facilitate comprehension or to augment consciousness of this otherwise impersonal Absolute, we revert to the fact that the Universal Father is the existential Father of absolute personality; the Eternal Son is the Absolute Person, though not, in the experiential sense, the personalization of the Absolute. And then we go on to envisage the experiential Trinities as culminating in the experiential personalization of the Deity Absolute, while conceiving the Universal Absolute as constituting the universe and the extrauniverse phenomena of the manifest presence of the impersonal activities of the unified and co-ordinated Deity associations of supremacy, ultimacy, and infinity—the Trinity of Trinities.
56:9.7 (645.2)
Spiritual personality is absolute only on Paradise, and the concept of the Absolute is unqualified only in infinity. Deity presence is absolute only on Paradise, and the revelation of God must always be partial, relative, and progressive until his power becomes experientially infinite in the space potency of the Unqualified Absolute, while his personality manifestation becomes experientially infinite in the manifest presence of the Deity Absolute, and while these two potentials of infinity become reality-unified in the Universal Absolute.
56:9.10 (645.5)
And God the Father is the personal source of all manifestations of Deity and reality to all intelligent creatures and spirit beings throughout all the universe of universes. As personalities, now or in the successive universe experiences of the eternal future, no matter if you achieve the attainment of God the Sevenfold, comprehend God the Supreme, find God the Ultimate, or attempt to grasp the concept of God the Absolute, you will discover to your eternal satisfaction that in the consummation of each adventure you have, on new experiential levels, rediscovered the eternal God—the Paradise Father of all universe personalities.
56:9.12 (645.7)
The Master Force Organizers go out into space and mobilize its energies to become gravity responsive to the Paradise pull of the Universal Father; and subsequently there come the Creator Sons, who organize these gravity-responding forces into inhabited universes and therein evolve intelligent creatures who receive unto themselves the spirit of the Paradise Father and subsequently ascend to the Father to become like him in all possible divinity attributes.
56:9.13 (645.8)
The ceaseless and expanding march of the Paradise creative forces through space seems to presage the ever-extending domain of the gravity grasp of the Universal Father and the never-ending multiplication of varied types of intelligent creatures who are able to love God and be loved by him, and who, by thus becoming God-knowing, may choose to be like him, may elect to attain Paradise and find God.
56:9.14 (646.1)
The universe of universes is altogether unified. God is one in power and personality. There is co-ordination of all levels of energy and all phases of personality. Philosophically and experientially, in concept and in reality, all things and beings center in the Paradise Father. God is all and in all, and no things or beings exist without him.
56:10.1 (646.2)
As the worlds settled in life and light progress from the initial stage to the seventh epoch, they successively grasp for the realization of the reality of God the Sevenfold, ranging from the adoration of the Creator Son to the worship of his Paradise Father. Throughout the continuing seventh stage of such a world’s history the ever-progressing mortals grow in the knowledge of God the Supreme, while they vaguely discern the reality of the overshadowing ministry of God the Ultimate.
56:10.2 (646.3)
Throughout this glorious age the chief pursuit of the ever-advancing mortals is the quest for a better understanding and a fuller realization of the comprehensible elements of Deity—truth, beauty, and goodness. This represents man’s effort to discern God in mind, matter, and spirit. And as the mortal pursues this quest, he finds himself increasingly absorbed in the experiential study of philosophy, cosmology, and divinity.
너희는 철학을 얼마큼 파악하며, 신을 예배하고 사회에 봉사하고 개인의 영적 체험을 겪으면서 신성(神性)을 이해한다. 하지만 너희는 아름다움을 추구하는 것―우주를 보는 눈―을 아주 흔히 사람의 서툰 예술적 노력을 공부하는 데 국한시킨다. 아름다움, 곧 예술은 대체로 대조 되는 물건들을 하나로 만드는 문제이다. 다양성은 아름다움의 개념에 필수이다. 최상의 아름다움, 유한한 예술의 절정은 창조자와 인간, 엄청나게 떨어져 있는 두 우주 극단(極端)을 통일하는 드라마이다. 하나님을 찾아내는 사람, 그리고 사람을 찾아내는 하나님―창조자가 완전한 것 같이 완전하게 되는 인간―바로 이것이 최상으로 아름다운 것을 훌륭하게 성취하는 것이요, 우주 예술의 정점에 이르는 것이다.
56:10.3 (646.4)
Philosophy you somewhat grasp, and divinity you comprehend in worship, social service, and personal spiritual experience, but the pursuit of beauty—cosmology—you all too often limit to the study of man’s crude artistic endeavors. Beauty, art, is largely a matter of the unification of contrasts. Variety is essential to the concept of beauty. The supreme beauty, the height of finite art, is the drama of the unification of the vastness of the cosmic extremes of Creator and creature. Man finding God and God finding man—the creature becoming perfect as is the Creator—that is the supernal achievement of the supremely beautiful, the attainment of the apex of cosmic art.
56:10.8 (646.9)
3. Ethic sensitivity. Through the realization of truth the appreciation of beauty leads to the sense of the eternal fitness of those things which impinge upon the recognition of divine goodness in Deity relations with all beings; and thus even cosmology leads to the pursuit of divine reality values—to God-consciousness.
빛과 생명 속에 안정된 세계들은 진리ㆍ아름다움ㆍ선을 이해하는 데 아주 충분히 관심을 가지고 있는데, 이것은 이러한 품질의 가치 기준이 시공 영역에 신이 주는 계시를 포함하기 때문이다. 영원한 진리의 중요성은 필사 인간의 지적ㆍ영적 성품 모두에 호소하는 힘을 가진다. 우주의 아름다움은 우주의 창조에서 조화되는 관계와 리듬을 포함한다. 이것은 아주 뚜렷이 지적 호소력이며, 물질 우주를 통일되게, 동시에 발맞추어 이해하는 방향으로 이끈다. 신의 선함은 사람의 유한한 지능에 무한한 가치를 계시하는 것이며, 계시는 유한한 지능이 파악하고 인간이 이해하는 영적 수준의 바로 그 문턱까지 높아질 것이다.
56:10.9 (646.10)
The worlds settled in light and life are so fully concerned with the comprehension of truth, beauty, and goodness because these quality values embrace the revelation of Deity to the realms of time and space. The meanings of eternal truth make a combined appeal to the intellectual and spiritual natures of mortal man. Universal beauty embraces the harmonious relations and rhythms of the cosmic creation; this is more distinctly the intellectual appeal and leads towards unified and synchronous comprehension of the material universe. Divine goodness represents the revelation of infinite values to the finite mind, therein to be perceived and elevated to the very threshold of the spiritual level of human comprehension.
56:10.11 (647.2)
The existence of beauty implies the presence of appreciative creature mind just as certainly as the fact of progressive evolution indicates the dominance of the Supreme Mind. Beauty is the intellectual recognition of the harmonious time-space synthesis of the far-flung diversification of phenomenal reality, all of which stems from pre-existent and eternal oneness.
56:10.12 (647.3)
Goodness is the mental recognition of the relative values of the diverse levels of divine perfection. The recognition of goodness implies a mind of moral status, a personal mind with ability to discriminate between good and evil. But the possession of goodness, greatness, is the measure of real divinity attainment.
56:10.13 (647.4)
The recognition of true relations implies a mind competent to discriminate between truth and error. The bestowal Spirit of Truth which invests the human minds of Urantia is unerringly responsive to truth—the living spirit relationship of all things and all beings as they are co-ordinated in the eternal ascent Godward.
56:10.14 (647.5)
Every impulse of every electron, thought, or spirit is an acting unit in the whole universe. Only sin is isolated and evil gravity resisting on the mental and spiritual levels. The universe is a whole; no thing or being exists or lives in isolation. Self-realization is potentially evil if it is antisocial. It is literally true: “No man lives by himself.” Cosmic socialization constitutes the highest form of personality unification. Said Jesus: “He who would be greatest among you, let him become server of all.”
56:10.15 (647.6)
Even truth, beauty, and goodness—man’s intellectual approach to the universe of mind, matter, and spirit—must be combined into one unified concept of a divine and supreme ideal. As mortal personality unifies the human experience with matter, mind, and spirit, so does this divine and supreme ideal become power-unified in Supremacy and then personalized as a God of fatherly love.
56:10.16 (647.7)
All insight into the relations of the parts to any given whole requires an understanding grasp of the relation of all parts to that whole; and in the universe this means the relation of created parts to the Creative Whole. Deity thus becomes the transcendental, even the infinite, goal of universal and eternal attainment.
56:10.17 (647.8)
Universal beauty is the recognition of the reflection of the Isle of Paradise in the material creation, while eternal truth is the special ministry of the Paradise Sons who not only bestow themselves upon the mortal races but even pour out their Spirit of Truth upon all peoples. Divine goodness is more fully shown forth in the loving ministry of the manifold personalities of the Infinite Spirit. But love, the sum total of these three qualities, is man’s perception of God as his spirit Father.
56:10.18 (648.1)
Physical matter is the time-space shadow of the Paradise energy-shining of the absolute Deities. Truth meanings are the mortal-intellect repercussions of the eternal word of Deity—the time-space comprehension of supreme concepts. The goodness values of divinity are the merciful ministries of the spirit personalities of the Universal, the Eternal, and the Infinite to the time-space finite creatures of the evolutionary spheres.
56:10.19 (648.2)
These meaningful reality values of divinity are blended in the Father’s relation with each personal creature as divine love. They are co-ordinated in the Son and his Sons as divine mercy. They manifest their qualities through the Spirit and his spirit children as divine ministry, the portrayal of loving mercy to the children of time. These three divinities are primarily manifested by the Supreme Being as power-personality synthesis. They are variously shown forth by God the Sevenfold in seven differing associations of divine meanings and values on seven ascending levels.
56:10.20 (648.3)
To finite man truth, beauty, and goodness embrace the full revelation of divinity reality. As this love-comprehension of Deity finds spiritual expression in the lives of God-knowing mortals, there are yielded the fruits of divinity: intellectual peace, social progress, moral satisfaction, spiritual joy, and cosmic wisdom. The advanced mortals on a world in the seventh stage of light and life have learned that love is the greatest thing in the universe—and they know that God is love.
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56:10.23 (648.6)
This paper on Universal Unity is the twenty-fifth of a series of presentations by various authors, having been sponsored as a group by a commission of Nebadon personalities numbering twelve and acting under the direction of Mantutia Melchizedek. We indited these narratives and put them in the English language, by a technique authorized by our superiors, in the year 1934 of Urantia time.