유란시아 책
II 부. 지방우주
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 조화를 이룬다. 힘과 에너지와 동력이 있으나, 기원은 모두 하나다. 일곱 연방우주는 외견상 이중적이며;중앙우주는 삼자일체적이지만;낙원은 하나로 구성돼있다. 그리고 낙원은 --과거와 현재와 미래의-- 모든 물질 우주의 실제 근원이다. 그러나 시공우주의 이런 기원은 영원성에 속하는 사건이며;공간이나 물질 시공우주는, 어느 때든지--곧 과거나 현재나 미래에도-- 중심에 있는 빛의 섬으로부터 나오지 않는다. 시공우주의 근원으로서 낙원은, 공간이 있기 전에 그리고 시간 이전에 작용하며;따라서 그 파생물이, 공간에서 궁극적 저장소이고 시간세계에서 계시자요 조정자인 무조건 절대자를 통해서 출현하지 않았다면 시공간에서 버림받은 듯이 보였을 지도 모른다.
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.
낙원 삼위일체 인격자들 중에서 어느 한 분의 삼위일체-이전{以前} 영 천부재능 단편이 자아를-의식하는 정신과 융합함으로써, 완전하게 된 피조물 실존이 달성되고 유지되고 영구화될 수 있다. 필사 정신은, 영원 아들과 무한 영의 아들들과 딸들이 창조한 것이며, 아버지로부터 온 사고 섭리사와 융합됐을 때, 진화 영역의 삼중적 영 천부재능을 갖게 된다. 그러나 이 세 가지 영 표현은, 우주 자존자{自存者}가 영원 아들과 무한 영의 우주 아버지가 되시기 전에, 그분들이 우주 자존자 안에서 영원성 속에 그렇게 통합되어 존재했던 대로, 완결성취자들 안에서 완전히 통합된다.
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.
인격은 선천적으로, 모든 구성 실체를 통합하려고 손을 뻗는다. 제1 근원 및 중심 곧 우주 아버지의 무한한 인격은, 그 구성요소인 일곱 무한 절대자 전체를 통합하며;필사적 사람의 인격도, 우주 아버지께서 독점적으로 직접 증여하셨으므로, 필사 피조물의 구성 요소들을 통합하는 잠재력을 똑같이 지닌다. 모든 피조물 인격의 그런 통합하는 창의성은, 그 인격의 고귀하고 독점적인 근원을 가리키는 출생반점이고, 인격 회로를 통해서 바로 이 근원과 중단 없는 접촉을 이루고 있다는 또 다른 증거인데, 피조물 인격은 이 인격 회로를 수단으로 하여, 낙원에 계시는, 모든 인격의 아버지와 직접 지속적인 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.
신격의 영원한 세 인격자가 낙원 삼위일체 안에서 나뉘지 않은 신격으로서 활동할 때, 세 분은 완전한 통일을 이루며;마찬가지로, 세 분이 연합해서 또는 개별적으로 창조할 때, 그분들의 낙원 자손은 신성의 특징인 통일성을 나타낸다. 그리고 시간-공간 영토의 최상급 창조주들과 통치자들이 명백히 나타내는 이 신성한 목적은, 결국 체험적 지존성의 통치권이라는 통합하는 권능 잠재력으로 귀결되며, 이는 우주의 비인격 에너지가 통일된 가운데, 오직 체험 신격의 체험하는 인격 실체들과 적절히 통합됨으로써만 해결될 수 있는 실체의 긴장상태{緊張狀態}를 일으킨다.
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.
낙원 신격들로부터 나오는 지존하신 분의 인격 실체들은, 하보나 바깥쪽 회로의 안내 세계들에서 광우주의 창조주 신성들로부터 나오는, 전능한 지존자의 특권있는 권능과 통합된다. 한 인격자로서 지존자 하나님은, 일곱 연방우주가 창조되기 전에 하보나에 존재했지만, 오직 영적 수준에서만 활동하셨다. 진화하는 우주들에서 다양한 신성이 합성됨으로 말미암은 전능한 지존성 권능의 진화는, 무한 영의 무한 정신에 잠재적으로 거하는 것으로부터 지존하신 분의 활기찬 기능적 정신으로 전환된, 지존자 정신을 통하여 하보나에서 지존자의 영적 인격자와 조화를 이루는 새로운 신격 권능 현존으로 귀결됐다.
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 연방우주의 진화 세계들에서 물질적-성향의 피조물은, 오직 지존하신 분이 이런 권능과-인격의 합성 속에서 진화하는 동안에만 그런 신격 통일을 납득할 수 있다. 어떤 실존 수준에서든지, 하나님은 그런 수준에서 사는 존재의 개념 수용력을 넘어설 수 없다. 진리를 인식하고 아름다움을 감상하고 선함을 존중함으로써, 필사 인간은 사랑의 하나님에 대한 인식을 발전시킨 다음, 높아지는 신격 수준을 거쳐서 지존자를 납득하기까지 진보해야한다. 신격은 이처럼 통합된 권능이라고 파악됐으므로, 그다음에는 피조물이 이해하고 달성하도록 영으로 인격화될 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.
시간-공간 우주에서 진화가 꾸준히 진보함에 따라, 신격이 모든 지성 피조물에게 주는 계시가 계속-확장된다. 한 세계, 체계, 성좌, 우주, 연방우주, 또는 광우주에서 진화함으로써 진보가 절정에 도달했다는 것은 이런 연속되는 창조 구성단위들과 그에 상응하는 신격 기능이 확장됐음을 의미한다. 신성 실현의 그런 모든 국지적 향상은 다른 모든 창조 구역에 신격이 명시하는, 윤곽이 뚜렷한 어떤 반향이 수반된다. 낙원에서 바깥쪽으로 확장하면서, 진화로 실현하고 달성한 각각의 새 영토는, 온갖 우주에 대한 체험 신격의 새롭고 확대된 계시를 구성한다.
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 지방우주를 구성하는 것들이 빛과 생명에 점진적으로 정착함에 따라서, 칠중 하나님이 더욱 명백히 나타난다. 한 행성에서 시간-공간의 진화는, 통제하는 칠중 하나님의 첫 표현--곧 창조주 아들과-창조적 영의 연합--과 함께 시작된다. 한 체계가 빛 속에 정착하게 되면, 이런 아들과-영의 연락이 온전히 작동하게 되며;성좌 전체가 그렇게 정착되면, 칠중 하나님의 둘째 국면은 그런 영역에서 두루 더 활발하게 된다. 한 지방우주에서 행정부의 진화가 완성됨에 따라, 연방우주 으뜸 영들이 새롭게 직접 더 돌보게 되며;이 시점에 지존자 하나님의 계속-확장되는 계시와 실현이 또한 시작되는데, 여섯째 하보나 회로의 세계들을 통과하는 동안, 지존하신 분에 대한 상승자의 이해력이 최고조에 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.
한 창조계 구역 안에서 새로운 진화 달성이 있을 때마다, 신성 현현이 공간을 새로 차지할 때마다, 뒤이어서, 당시에 현존하고 예전에 조직된 모든 창조 단위 안에서, 신격의 기능적-계시가 일시에 확장된다. 우주와 그 구성 단위들의 경영 업무가 이렇게 새로 밀어닥치는 것은, 여기에 윤곽을 제시한 기법에 반드시 정확하게 입각해서 나타나지 않을 수도 있는데, 이는 경영을 총괄통제하는, 차후의 이어지는 새 시대들을 위하여 길을 마련하려고, 경영자 중에서 진보된 집단들을 파견하는 것이 관행이기 때문이다. 심지어 궁극자 하나님도, 한 지방우주가 빛과 생명에 정착된 후기 단계에, 자신이 우주들을 초월적으로 총괄통제하리라는 것을 미리 예시하신다.
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.
시공간 창조계가 진화 상태에서 점진적으로 안정됨에 따라, 지존자 하나님의 새롭고 더 충만한 기능발휘가 목격되는 것이 사실이며, 이에 상응하여 칠중 하나님의 처음 세 현현이 동시에 철수한다. 광우주가 빛과 생명에 정착된다면, 그리고 그렇게 될 때, 지존자 하나님이 이 시공간 창조계에 대하여 직접 통제하기 시작한다면, 칠중 하나님이 창조주-아들과-창조적-딸로 현현하여 미래에 할 역할은 과연 무엇일까? 시간-공간 우주들을 조직하고 개척한 이분들은 외부 공간에서 비슷한 활동을 하도록 해방될 것인가? 우리는 모르지만, 이것을 비롯해서 관련된 문제들에 관해 여러모로 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.
체험 신격의 개척지가 무조건 절대자 영역으로 확장됨에 따라서, 우리는 미래의 이 창조계 가운데 초기 진화 시절에 칠중 하나님이 무슨 일을 할 것인지 상상해본다. 우리는, 태고 항존자들과 연방우주 으뜸 영들의 미래 지위에 관하여, 의견이 다 일치하지는 않는다. 뿐만 아니라, 지존하신 분이 일곱 연방우주에서 하는 것처럼 거기서도 활동하시게 될지 아닐지 알지 못한다. 그러나 우리는 모두, 창조주 아들인 미가엘들이 이 외부 우주들에서 활동하게 돼있다고 추측한다. 더러는, 연합된 창조주 아들들과 신성한 사역자들이 더 밀접한 형태로 합동하는 것을 미래 시대에 보게 될 것이라고 주장하며;그런 창조자 합동이 결국 궁극적 본성을 갖는, 어떤 새로운 부{副}-창조자 신분 표현으로서 일어나는 것도 가능하다. 그러나 우리는 계시되지 않은 미래의 이런 가능성에 관해서 정말로 아는 바 없다.
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.
아무튼 우리가 아는 것은, 시공간의 우주들에서, 우주 아버지께 도달하는 점진적 접근법을 칠중 하나님이 제공하신다는 것과, 이 진화적 접근이 지존자 하나님 안에서 체험으로 통합된다는 것이다. 우리는 그런 계획이 외부 우주들에서도 반드시 효과를 나타낼 것이라고 추측할 수 있으며;다른 한 편으로는, 언젠가 이 우주들에 거주할 새 계층의 존재들이, 궁극 수준에서 그리고 유한절대 기법으로 신격에게 접근할 수 있을지도 모른다. 요컨대, 외부 공간의 미래 우주들에서 신격에 접근하는 어떤 기법이 작용할 것인지에 대한 개념을, 우리는 전혀 갖고 있지 않다.
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.
지방우주에서 태어나고 연방우주에서 양육 받고 중앙우주에서 훈련 받은 상승 완결성취자들은, 지존자 안에서 통합하시는 칠중 하나님의 시간-공간 신성을 납득할 수 있는 충분한 잠재력을, 자신이 몸소 체험함으로 받아들인다. 완결성취자들은, 자신이 태어나지 않은 다른 연방우주들에서 연속으로 근무하는데, 그리하여 피조물이 체험할 수 있는 일곱 가지 다양성에 충분히 익숙해질 때까지, 체험에 체험을 더한다. 완결성취자들은, 내주하는 섭리사의 섬김을 통해서 우주 아버지를 발견할 수 있으나, 그런 완결성취자들은 바로 이 체험 기법으로 지존하신 분을 실제로 알게되고, 외부 공간의 미래 우주들에서 그리고 그 우주들에게, 이 지존적 신격을 계시하고 사역하게 돼있다.
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.
언뜻 생각하기에는, 절대자가 만유의 조상--심지어 삼위일체의 조상--이라는 개념이, 일관성을 충족시키고 철학적으로 통합되는 일시적 만족감을 주는 듯이 보이지만, 그런 어떤 결론도, 낙원 삼위일체가 영원하다는 사실로 말미암아 무효가 된다. 우리가 배우고 믿는 것은, 우주 아버지와 그분의 삼위일체 동역자들이 본성과 실존에서 영원하다는 점이다. 그렇다면, 다음과 같은 오직 한 가지 일관된 철학적 결론이 가능한데:모든 우주 지성체들에게, 절대자는 우주-내부와 우주-외부의 모든 1차 기본 공간 상황에 대한 (삼위일체들의) 삼위일체의 비인격적이고 조정된 반응이다. 광우주에서 인격을 지닌 모든 지성존재에게, 낙원 삼위일체는 언제나 완결성과 영원성과 지존성 및 궁극성으로 존재하며, 또한 개인적 납득과 피조물 실현의 모든 실질적 목적을 위하여 절대원리로서 서 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.
피조물 정신들이 이 문제를 바라볼 때, 그들은 우주의 자존자가, 삼위일체와 절대자, 이 두 분의 최초 원인이고 무조건 근원이라는 최종의 가설에 도달할 수밖에 없다. 따라서 절대자에 대한 인격적 개념을 고려하기를 우리가 갈구할 때, 우리는 낙원 아버지에 대한 우리의 개념과 이상{理想}으로 돌아오게 된다. 다른 면에서 비인격인 이 절대자를 우리가 수월하게 납득하고자 하거나 더 강하게 의식하고자 할 때, 우리는 우주 아버지가 절대 인격을 지닌 실존적 아버지라는 사실로 돌아오며;영원 아들은 체험적 의미에서는 절대자가 인격화된 존재가 아니지만, 그분이 절대 인격자라는 사실로 돌아오게 된다. 그다음에 우리는 더 나아가서, 체험적 삼위일체들이 결국 신격 절대자의 체험적 인격화에서 절정에 이른다고 상상하는 한편, 우주 절대자는 지존성과 긍극성과 무한성을 지닌, 통합되고 조화된 신격 연합--곧 삼위일체들의 삼위일체--의 비인격 활동이 명백하게 현존하는 그런 우주 및 우주 바깥쪽 현상을 만들어낸다고 상상한다.
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.
철학을 어느 정도 파악하고 경배와 사회봉사와 개인적인 영적 체험을 통하여 신성을 납득하지만, 너희는 모두 아름다움을 추구하는 것--곧 우주론--을 사람의 미숙한 예술적 노력에 대한 연구에 제한시키는 경우가 너무 많다. 아름다움 곧 예술은 주로 대조되는 것들을 통합시키는 문제다. 다양성은 아름다움이라는 개념에 필수다. 최고의 아름다움 곧 순수 예술의 절정은, 창조주와 피조물이라는 엄청나게 차이나는 시공우주 양 극단을 통합시키는 극적인 사건이다. 사람이 하나님을 발견함과 하나님이 사람을 발견함--곧 창조주가 완전한 것 같이 완전하게 되는 피조물을 발견함--, 바로 이것이 최상으로 아름다운 숭고한 성취 곧 시공우주 예술의 정상에 도달하는 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 생명에 정착된 세계들은, 진리와 아름다움과 선함을 납득하기에 아주 충분할 만큼 관심을 갖는데, 시공간 영역들에게 신격이 주는 계시를, 이런 우수한 가치기준이 포함하기 때문이다. 영원한 진리의 중요성이 필사 인간의 지적 본성과 영적 본성 둘 다에게 호소하도록 만든다. 우주의 아름다움은 시공우주 창조계에서 조화로운 관계와 순환을 포함하며;이는 아주 분명하게 지적인 호소이고, 물질 우주를 단일화하여 동시에 납득하도록 안내한다. 신의 선함은 무한한 가치를 유한 정신에게 계시하는 것을 의미하는데, 이 계시는, 유한 정신에게 감지되고 인간이 납득할 수 있는 영적 수준, 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.