유란시아 책
III 부. 유란시아의 역사
Paper 106
Universe Levels of Reality
Universe Levels of Reality
Sections
- Introduction
- § 1. Primary Association of Finite Functionals
- § 2. Secondary Supreme Finite Integration
- § 3. Transcendental Tertiary Reality Association
- § 4. Ultimate Quartan Integration
- § 5. Coabsolute or Fifth-Phase Association
- § 6. Absolute or Sixth-Phase Integration
- § 7. Finality of Destiny
- § 8. The Trinity of Trinities
- § 9. Existential Infinite Unification
106:0.1 (1162.1)
IT IS not enough that the ascending mortal should know something of the relations of Deity to the genesis and manifestations of cosmic reality; he should also comprehend something of the relationships existing between himself and the numerous levels of existential and experiential realities, of potential and actual realities. Man’s terrestrial orientation, his cosmic insight, and his spiritual directionization are all enhanced by a better comprehension of universe realities and their techniques of interassociation, integration, and unification.
106:0.2 (1162.2)
The present grand universe and the emerging master universe are made up of many forms and phases of reality which, in turn, are existent on several levels of functional activity. These manifold existents and latents have been previously suggested in these papers, and they are now grouped for conceptual convenience in the following categories:
1. 미완성 유한. 이것은 광우주에서 상승하는 피조물의 현 상태, 유란시아 필사자의 현 상태다. 이 수준은, 행성 인간으로부터 운명 달성자가 되기 바로 직전까지의 피조물 실존을 포함한다. 이 수준은, 초기 물리적 출발점으로부터 빛과 생명에 정착하기 직전까지, 그러나 안정된 기간을 제외하고, 그 사이에 있는 우주들에 해당된다. 이 수준은 시공간에서 창조 활동이 있는 현 바깥둘레를 구성한다. 이 수준은, 현 우주 시대가 마감되는 것을 위하여, 낙원으로부터 바깥쪽으로 움직이는 듯한데, 그 시대가 마감되면, 광우주가 빛과 생명에 도달하는 것을 목격하고, 또한 분명히, 첫 외부 공간 층에서 발전하여 성장하는, 어떤 새 질서가 출현함을 목격할 것이다.
106:0.3 (1162.3)
1. Incomplete finites. This is the present status of the ascending creatures of the grand universe, the present status of Urantia mortals. This level embraces creature existence from the planetary human up to, but not including, destiny attainers. It pertains to universes from early physical beginnings up to, but not including, settlement in light and life. This level constitutes the present periphery of creative activity in time and space. It appears to be moving outward from Paradise, for the closing of the present universe age, which will witness the grand universe attainment of light and life, will also and surely witness the appearance of some new order of developmental growth in the first outer space level.
106:0.4 (1162.4)
2. Maximum finites. This is the present status of all experiential creatures who have attained destiny—destiny as revealed within the scope of the present universe age. Even universes can attain to the maximum of status, both spiritually and physically. But the term “maximum” is itself a relative term—maximum in relation to what? And that which is maximum, seemingly final, in the present universe age may be no more than a real beginning in terms of the ages to come. Some phases of Havona appear to be on the maximum order.
106:0.5 (1162.5)
3. Transcendentals. This superfinite level (antecedently) follows finite progression. It implies the prefinite genesis of finite beginnings and the postfinite significance of all apparent finite endings or destinies. Much of Paradise-Havona appears to be on the transcendental order.
106:0.10 (1163.4)
These levels of reality are convenient compromise symbolizations of the present universe age and for the mortal perspective. There are a number of other ways of looking at reality from other-than-mortal perspective and from the standpoint of other universe ages. Thus it should be recognized that the concepts herewith presented are entirely relative, relative in the sense of being conditioned and limited by:
106:0.18 (1163.12)
Reality growth is conditioned by the circumstances of the successive universe ages. The central universe underwent no evolutionary change in the Havona age, but in the present epochs of the superuniverse age it is undergoing certain progressive changes induced by co-ordination with the evolutionary superuniverses. The seven superuniverses, now evolving, will sometime attain the settled status of light and life, will attain the growth limit for the present universe age. But beyond doubt, the next age, the age of the first outer space level, will release the superuniverses from the destiny limitations of the present age. Repletion is continually being superimposed upon completion.
1차 유한 실체 국면 곧 영에서-기원되는 국면은, 피조물 수준에서는 완전한 인격들로서, 그리고 우주 수준에서는 완전한 하보나 창조로서 직접 표현된다. 심지어 체험 신격도, 하보나에 계신 지존자 하나님의 영 인격자 속에서 그렇게 표현된다. 그러나 유한계의 2차 국면, 진화 국면, 시간과-물질에-제약을 받는 국면은, 오직 성장하고 달성한 결과로서 시공우주에서 통합된다. 2차 유한자들, 즉 완전하게 되는 유한자는 모두, 결국 1차 완벽성 수준과 동일한 수준에 도달하겠지만, 그런 운명은 시간 지연에 종속되는데, 중앙 창조에서는 유전적으로 발견되지 않는, 연방우주의 구조적 제한에 종속된다. (우리는 3차 유한자들이 실존한다는 것을 알고 있지만, 이들을 통합하는 기법은 아직 계시되지 않았다.)
106:1.1 (1163.14)
The primary or spirit-origin phases of finite reality find immediate expression on creature levels as perfect personalities and on universe levels as the perfect Havona creation. Even experiential Deity is thus expressed in the spirit person of God the Supreme in Havona. But the secondary, evolutionary, time-and-matter-conditioned phases of the finite become cosmically integrated only as a result of growth and attainment. Eventually all secondary or perfecting finites are to attain a level equal to that of primary perfection, but such destiny is subject to a time delay, a constitutive superuniverse qualification which is not genetically found in the central creation. (We know of the existence of tertiary finites, but the technique of their integration is as yet unrevealed.)
106:1.2 (1164.1)
This superuniverse time lag, this obstacle to perfection attainment, provides for creature participation in evolutionary growth. It thus makes it possible for the creature to enter into partnership with the Creator in the evolution of that selfsame creature. And during these times of expanding growth the incomplete is correlated with the perfect through the ministry of God the Sevenfold.
칠중 하나님은, 진화하는 공간 우주들에서 시간이라는 방해물을 낙원 신격이 인식하신다는 것을 의미한다. 생존하는 물질 인격체가 낙원으로부터 아무리 멀리 있어도, 공간적으로 아무리 깊은 데서 기원되더라도, 칠중 하나님이 거기 계시고, 그런 완성되지 못하고 허덕이면서 진화하는 피조물에게, 진리와 아름다움과 선함으로 이뤄진, 애정 어린 섬김과 자비로운 섬김에 동참하심이 발견될 것이다. 칠중 하나님이 신으로서 베푸는 섬김은, 영원 아들을 거쳐서 낙원 아버지께 이르기까지 안쪽으로 뻗어나가고, 태고 항존자들을 거쳐서 지방우주 아버지들--곧 창조주 아들들--에게 이르기까지 밖으로 뻗어나간다.
106:1.3 (1164.2)
God the Sevenfold signifies the recognition by Paradise Deity of the barriers of time in the evolutionary universes of space. No matter how remote from Paradise, how deep in space, a material survival personality may take origin, God the Sevenfold will be found there present and engaged in the loving and merciful ministry of truth, beauty, and goodness to such an incomplete, struggling, and evolutionary creature. The divinity ministry of the Sevenfold reaches inward through the Eternal Son to the Paradise Father and outward through the Ancients of Days to the universe Fathers—the Creator Sons.
인격을 지녔고 영적 진행과정으로 상승하기 때문에, 사람은 칠중 신격의 인격있는 신성과 영적 신성을 발견하지만;인격체의 진행과정과 관계되지 않는 칠중 하나님의 기타 국면들이 있다. 이렇게 집단화하는 신격의 신성 양상들은, 일곱 으뜸 영과 공동 행위자 사이의 접촉으로 현재 결합돼있으나, 그들은 지존하신 분의 떠오르는 인격 안에서 영원히 통합될 운명이다. 칠중 신격의 다른 국면들은 현 우주 시대에 다양하게 통합돼있지만, 모든 것이 마찬가지로 지존자 안에서 통합될 운명이다. 모든 국면에서, 칠중 하나님은 현 광우주의 기능적 실체가 상대적으로 통일되는 근원이다.
106:1.4 (1164.3)
Man, being personal and ascending by spiritual progression, finds the personal and spiritual divinity of the Sevenfold Deity; but there are other phases of the Sevenfold which are not concerned with the progression of personality. The divinity aspects of this Deity grouping are at present integrated in the liaison between the Seven Master Spirits and the Conjoint Actor, but they are destined to be eternally unified in the emerging personality of the Supreme Being. The other phases of the Sevenfold Deity are variously integrated in the present universe age, but all are likewise destined to be unified in the Supreme. The Sevenfold, in all phases, is the source of the relative unity of the functional reality of the present grand universe.
106:2.1 (1164.4)
As God the Sevenfold functionally co-ordinates finite evolution, so does the Supreme Being eventually synthesize destiny attainment. The Supreme Being is the deity culmination of grand universe evolution—physical evolution around a spirit nucleus and eventual dominance of the spirit nucleus over the encircling and whirling domains of physical evolution. And all of this takes place in accordance with the mandates of personality: Paradise personality in the highest sense, Creator personality in the universe sense, mortal personality in the human sense, Supreme personality in the culminating or experiential totaling sense.
결국, 영은 낙원으로부터 하보나를 거쳐서 온다. 에너지와-물질은, 공간 깊은 데서 진화하는 것처럼 보이고, 하나님의 창조주 아들들과 공동으로 무한 영의 자손들이 이를 권능으로 조직화하는 것 같다. 그리고 이 모든 것은 체험적이며;심지어 창조주 신{神}들과 진화하는 피조물도 포함하여, 폭넓은 살아있는 존재를 참여시키는 시공간 진행사항이다. 광우주에서 창조주 신들이 권능을 지배하는 것은, 차츰 확대되어 시간-공간 창조계가 진화로 정착되고 안정되는 것을 포함하며, 이것이 칠중 하나님의 체험적 권능의 전성기{全盛期}다. 이것은 우주 아버지가 섭리사를 증여하심부터, 낙원 아들들이 생명을 증여함까지, 시공간에서 신성을 달성하는 전체 범위를 포함한다. 이것은 획득된 권능, 입증된 권능, 체험적 권능이며;낙원 신격들이 지닌, 영원성 권능, 헤아릴 수 없는 권능, 실존적 권능과 대조 된다.
106:2.3 (1164.6)
Spirit, in the last analysis, comes from Paradise through Havona. Energy-matter seemingly evolves in the depths of space and is organized as power by the children of the Infinite Spirit in conjunction with the Creator Sons of God. And all of this is experiential; it is a transaction in time and space involving a wide range of living beings including even Creator divinities and evolutionary creatures. The power mastery of the Creator divinities in the grand universe slowly expands to encompass the evolutionary settling and stabilizing of the time-space creations, and this is the flowering of the experiential power of God the Sevenfold. It encompasses the whole gamut of divinity attainment in time and space from the Adjuster bestowals of the Universal Father to the life bestowals of the Paradise Sons. This is earned power, demonstrated power, experiential power; it stands in contrast to the eternity power, the unfathomable power, the existential power of the Paradise Deities.
106:2.4 (1165.1)
This experiential power arising out of the divinity achievements of God the Sevenfold itself manifests the cohesive qualities of divinity by synthesizing—totalizing—as the almighty power of the attained experiential mastery of the evolving creations. And this almighty power in turn finds spirit-personality cohesion on the pilot sphere of the outer belt of Havona worlds in union with the spirit personality of the Havona presence of God the Supreme. Thus does experiential Deity culminate the long evolutionary struggle by investing the power product of time and space with the spirit presence and divine personality resident in the central creation.
106:2.5 (1165.2)
Thus does the Supreme Being eventually attain to the embrace of all of everything evolving in time and space while investing these qualities with spirit personality. Since creatures, even mortals, are personality participants in this majestic transaction, so do they certainly attain the capacity to know the Supreme and to perceive the Supreme as true children of such an evolutionary Deity.
106:2.7 (1165.4)
God the Supreme is experiential; therefore is he completely experiencible. The existential realities of the seven Absolutes are not perceivable by the technique of experience; only the personality realities of the Father, Son, and Spirit can be grasped by the personality of the finite creature in the prayer-worship attitude.
지존하신 분의 완성된 권능-인격 합성 안에서, 그렇게 연관될 수 있는 여러 삼극체의 모든 절대성이 연관될 것이며, 유한한 모든 인격체는, 이 장엄한 진화 인격체에 체험으로 도달할 수 있고 그를 이해할 수 있을 것이다. 가정된 일곱째 영 실존 단계에 상승 존재들이 도달하면, 이들은 거기서, 체험될 수 있는 존재인 지존하신 분 안에 준절대 수준들로 계시된 바와 같은, 삼극체들의 절대성과 무한성에 대한 새로운 의미와-가치의 실현을 체험할 것이다. 그러나 이러한 최고 발전 단계에 도달하는 것은, 아마 광우주 전체가 빛과 생명에 조화롭게 안정되기까지 기다려야 할 것이다.
106:2.8 (1165.5)
Within the completed power-personality synthesis of the Supreme Being there will be associated all of the absoluteness of the several triodities which could be so associated, and this majestic personality of evolution will be experientially attainable and understandable by all finite personalities. When ascenders attain the postulated seventh stage of spirit existence, they will therein experience the realization of a new meaning-value of the absoluteness and infinity of the triodities as such is revealed on subabsolute levels in the Supreme Being, who is experiencible. But the attainment of these stages of maximum development will probably await the co-ordinate settling of the entire grand universe in light and life.
106:3.2 (1165.7)
During the present universe age the administrative co-ordination of the master universe is the function of the Architects of the Master Universe. But the appearance of the Almighty Supreme at the termination of the present universe age will signify that the evolutionary finite has attained the first stage of experiential destiny. This happening will certainly lead to the completed function of the first experiential Trinity—the union of the Supreme Creators, the Supreme Being, and the Architects of the Master Universe. This Trinity is destined to effect the further evolutionary integration of the master creation.
낙원 삼위일체는 정말로 무한한 삼위일체이며, 어떤 삼위일체도 이 원조{元祖} 삼위일체를 포함하지 않고는 무한할 수 없다. 그러나 원조 삼위일체는 오로지 절대 신격들의 연합으로 생긴 결말이며;준절대 존재들은 이런 원초적 연합과 아무런 관련도 없었다. 나중에 출현하는 체험적 삼위일체들은, 피조 인격체들이 기여한 것들까지도 포함한다. 확실히 이것은 궁극 삼위일체에게 해당되는데, 거기 최상급 창조주 구성원들 가운데 으뜸 창조주 아들들이 현존하는 것 자체가, 이 삼위일체 연합 안에 피조물이 실제로 겪는 진정한 체험이 수반된다는 것을 나타낸다.
106:3.3 (1166.1)
The Paradise Trinity is truly one of infinity, and no Trinity can possibly be infinite that does not include this original Trinity. But the original Trinity is an eventuality of the exclusive association of absolute Deities; subabsolute beings had nothing to do with this primal association. The subsequently appearing and experiential Trinities embrace the contributions of even creature personalities. Certainly this is true of the Trinity Ultimate, wherein the very presence of the Master Creator Sons among the Supreme Creator members thereof betokens the concomitant presence of actual and bona fide creature experience within this Trinity association.
106:3.4 (1166.2)
The first experiential Trinity provides for group attainment of ultimate eventualities. Group associations are enabled to anticipate, even to transcend, individual capacities; and this is true even beyond the finite level. In the ages to come, after the seven superuniverses have been settled in light and life, the Corps of the Finality will doubtless be promulgating the purposes of the Paradise Deities as they are dictated by the Trinity Ultimate, and as they are power-personality unified in the Supreme Being.
과거 영원과 미래 영원의 엄청난 전체 우주 발전 전반에 걸쳐서, 우리는 우주 아버지에 대한 납득 가능한 요소들이 커지는 것을 간파했다. 자존자{自存者}로서 그분이 전체 무한에 충만하다고 우리는 철학적으로 가정하지만, 어떤 피조물도 그런 가정을 체험으로 납득할 수는 없다. 우주들이 확장됨에 따라서, 그리고 시간을-구성하는 공간 속으로 인력{引力}과 사랑이 뻗어감에 따라서, 우리는 제1 근원 및 중심을 점점 더 이해할 수 있다. 우리는, 무조건 절대자의 공간 현존을 뚫고 들어가는 인력 작용을 목격하며, 신격 절대자가 신성으로 현존하는 가운데 영 피조물이 진화하고 확장하는 한편, 시공우주와 영의 진화는 모두, 유한 신격 수준에서 정신과 체험으로 인해 지존하신 분으로서 통합하고, 초월 수준에서는 궁극 삼위일체로서 협조하고 있음을 간파한다.
106:3.5 (1166.3)
Throughout all the gigantic universe developments of past and future eternity, we detect the expansion of the comprehensible elements of the Universal Father. As the I AM, we philosophically postulate his permeation of total infinity, but no creature is able experientially to encompass such a postulate. As the universes expand, and as gravity and love reach out into time-organizing space, we are able to understand more and more of the First Source and Center. We observe gravity action penetrating the space presence of the Unqualified Absolute, and we detect spirit creatures evolving and expanding within the divinity presence of the Deity Absolute while both cosmic and spirit evolution are by mind and experience unifying on finite deity levels as the Supreme Being and are co-ordinating on transcendental levels as the Trinity Ultimate.
106:4.1 (1166.4)
The Paradise Trinity certainly co-ordinates in the ultimate sense but functions in this respect as a self-qualified absolute; the experiential Trinity Ultimate co-ordinates the transcendental as a transcendental. In the eternal future this experiential Trinity will, through augmenting unity, further activate the eventuating presence of Ultimate Deity.
106:4.2 (1166.5)
While the Trinity Ultimate is destined to co-ordinate the master creation, God the Ultimate is the transcendental power-personalization of the directionization of the entire master universe. The completed eventuation of the Ultimate implies the completion of the master creation and connotes the full emergence of this transcendental Deity.
106:4.3 (1166.6)
What changes will be inaugurated by the full emergence of the Ultimate we do not know. But as the Supreme is now spiritually and personally present in Havona, so also is the Ultimate there present but in the absonite and superpersonal sense. And you have been informed of the existence of the Qualified Vicegerents of the Ultimate, though you have not been informed of their present whereabouts or function.
106:4.4 (1167.1)
But irrespective of the administrative repercussions attendant upon the emergence of Ultimate Deity, the personal values of his transcendental divinity will be experiencible by all personalities who have been participants in the actualization of this Deity level. Transcendence of the finite can lead only to ultimate attainment. God the Ultimate exists in transcendence of time and space but is nonetheless subabsolute notwithstanding inherent capacity for functional association with absolutes.
진화로-체험하는 실체의 정점{頂點}이 지존자인 것처럼, 궁극자는 초월 실체의 극치다. 그리고 이 두 체험 신격이 실제로 출현하는 것은, 둘째 체험적 삼위일체가 생기도록 기초를 놓는다. 이는 절대 삼위일체, 즉 지존자 하나님과 궁극자 하나님 그리고 계시되지 않은 우주 운명 완성자, 이 세 분의 합동이다. 이 삼위일체는, 잠재성 절대자들을--곧 신격 절대자와 우주 절대자와 무조건 절대자를-- 이론적으로 활성화시킬 수 있는 권능을 지닌다. 그러나 이 절대 삼위일체가 마침내 현현{顯現}하는 것은, 하보나에서 가장 바깥쪽 넷째 공간 층에 이르기까지, 전체 총우주의 진화가 완성된 후에만 발생될 수 있다.
106:5.1 (1167.2)
The Ultimate is the apex of transcendental reality even as the Supreme is the capstone of evolutionary-experiential reality. And the actual emergence of these two experiential Deities lays the foundation for the second experiential Trinity. This is the Trinity Absolute, the union of God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and the unrevealed Consummator of Universe Destiny. And this Trinity has theoretical capacity to activate the Absolutes of potentiality—Deity, Universal, and Unqualified. But the completed formation of this Trinity Absolute could take place only after the completed evolution of the entire master universe, from Havona to the fourth and outermost space level.
이 체험적 삼위일체들은, 체험적 신성의 인격 특성뿐 아니라, 그들이 도달한 신격 통일을 특징짓는, 인격적이지-않은 모든 특성들과도 상호 연관돼있다는 점을 분명히 해야 한다. 이런 설명은 주로 시공우주 통합의 인격적 국면을 다루고 있지만, 그럼에도, 지존하신 분의 진화와 관련하여 지금 이뤄지고 있는 권능-인격 합성이 묘사하다시피, 온갖 우주의 비인격적 양상{樣相}도 마찬가지로 통합 과정을 겪도록 예정돼있음이 사실이다. 지존자의 영-인격적 특성은, 전능자의 권능 특권에서 분리될 수 없으며, 지존자 정신의 알려지지 않은 잠재력이 이 두 가지를 보완한다. 또한 한 인격자로서 궁극자 하나님도, 궁극자 신격의 인격적이지-않은 양상으로부터 분리해서 고려할 수 없다. 그리고 절대 수준에서 신격과 무조건 절대자들은, 우주 절대자 현존 앞에서 분리될 수 없고 구별될 수 없다.
106:5.2 (1167.3)
It should be made clear that these experiential Trinities are correlative, not only of the personality qualities of experiential Divinity, but also of all the other-than-personal qualities which characterize their attained Deity unity. While this presentation deals primarily with the personal phases of the unification of the cosmos, it is nonetheless true that the impersonal aspects of the universe of universes are likewise destined to undergo unification as is illustrated by the power-personality synthesis now going on in connection with the evolution of the Supreme Being. The spirit-personal qualities of the Supreme are inseparable from the power prerogatives of the Almighty, and both are complemented by the unknown potential of Supreme Mind. Neither can God the Ultimate as a person be considered apart from the other-than-personal aspects of Ultimate Deity. And on the absolute level the Deity and the Unqualified Absolutes are inseparable and indistinguishable in the presence of the Universal Absolute.
106:5.3 (1167.4)
Trinities are, in and of themselves, not personal, but neither do they contravene personality. Rather do they encompass it and correlate it, in a collective sense, with impersonal functions. Trinities are, then, always deity reality but never personality reality. The personality aspects of a trinity are inherent in its individual members, and as individual persons they are not that trinity. Only as a collective are they trinity; that is trinity. But always is trinity inclusive of all encompassed deity; trinity is deity unity.
106:6.1 (1167.6)
The present potential of the master universe is hardly absolute, though it may well be near-ultimate, and we deem it impossible to achieve the full revelation of absolute meaning-values within the scope of a subabsolute cosmos. We therefore encounter considerable difficulty in attempting to conceive of a total expression of the limitless possibilities of the three Absolutes or even in attempting to visualize the experiential personalization of God the Absolute on the now impersonal level of the Deity Absolute.
106:6.2 (1168.1)
The space-stage of the master universe seems to be adequate for the actualization of the Supreme Being, for the formation and full function of the Trinity Ultimate, for the eventuation of God the Ultimate, and even for the inception of the Trinity Absolute. But our concepts regarding the full function of this second experiential Trinity seem to imply something beyond even the wide-spreading master universe.
106:6.3 (1168.2)
If we assume a cosmos-infinite—some illimitable cosmos on beyond the master universe—and if we conceive that the final developments of the Absolute Trinity will take place out on such a superultimate stage of action, then it becomes possible to conjecture that the completed function of the Trinity Absolute will achieve final expression in the creations of infinity and will consummate the absolute actualization of all potentials. The integration and association of ever-enlarging segments of reality will approach absoluteness of status proportional to the inclusion of all reality within the segments thus associated.
106:6.4 (1168.3)
Stated otherwise: The Trinity Absolute, as its name implies, is really absolute in total function. We do not know how an absolute function can achieve total expression on a qualified, limited, or otherwise restricted basis. Hence we must assume that any such totality function will be unconditioned (in potential). And it would also appear that the unconditioned would also be unlimited, at least from a qualitative standpoint, though we are not so sure regarding quantitative relationships.
106:6.5 (1168.4)
Of this, however, we are certain: While the existential Paradise Trinity is infinite, and while the experiential Trinity Ultimate is subinfinite, the Trinity Absolute is not so easy to classify. Though experiential in genesis and constitution, it definitely impinges upon the existential Absolutes of potentiality.
인간 정신이 그런 요원하고 초인적인 개념을 파악하려고 애쓰는 것은 도저히 유익하지 못하지만, 우리는 절대 삼위일체의 영원한 행위가, 잠재성 절대자들이 어떤 식으로 결국 체험적이 된다고 생각해도 좋다. 이것은 무조건 절대자는 아니라도, 우주 절대자에 관해서 이치에 맞는 결론인 듯이 보일 것이며;최소한 우리는, 우주 절대자가 정적{靜的}이고 잠재적일 뿐만 아니라, 그 낱말의 전체 신격 의미에서 볼 때, 또한 연합하기 쉽다는 것도 안다. 그러나 상상할 수 있는 신성 및 인격의 가치에 관하여 말하자면, 이렇게 추측된 사건들은 신격 절대자가 인격화하는 것, 그리고 절대자 하나님의 인격--곧 체험 신격들 중에서 셋째이자 마지막 존재의 인격--이 완성되는 데 내재돼있는, 초월인격적 가치와 극단인격적 의미가 나타날 것을 암시한다.
106:6.6 (1168.5)
While it is hardly profitable for the human mind to seek to grasp such faraway and superhuman concepts, we would suggest that the eternity action of the Trinity Absolute may be thought of as culminating in some kind of experientialization of the Absolutes of potentiality. This would appear to be a reasonable conclusion with respect to the Universal Absolute, if not the Unqualified Absolute; at least we know that the Universal Absolute is not only static and potential but also associative in the total Deity sense of those words. But in regard to the conceivable values of divinity and personality, these conjectured happenings imply the personalization of the Deity Absolute and the appearance of those superpersonal values and those ultrapersonal meanings inherent in the personality completion of God the Absolute—the third and last of the experiential Deities.
106:7.1 (1168.6)
Some of the difficulties in forming concepts of infinite reality integration are inherent in the fact that all such ideas embrace something of the finality of universal development, some kind of an experiential realization of all that could ever be. And it is inconceivable that quantitative infinity could ever be completely realized in finality. Always there must remain unexplored possibilities in the three potential Absolutes which no quantity of experiential development could ever exhaust. Eternity itself, though absolute, is not more than absolute.
낙원 삼위일체를 구성하는 신격들의 자발적 행동이 운명을 확립하며;운명은 광대한 세 가지 큰 잠재성 안에서 확립되고, 그 절대성은 미래에 발전할 모든 가능성을 포함하며;아마 우주 운명 완성자의 행위가 운명을 완성하고, 이 행위는 아마 절대 삼위일체 안에서 지존자 및 궁극자와 관련돼있을 것이다. 어떤 체험적 운명이든지, 체험하는 피조물이 최소한 부분적으로나마 납득할 수 있지만;무한한 실존자들에게 영향을 미치는 운명은 도저히 납득할 수 없다. 완결된 운명은 실존적이고-체험적인 달성이며, 신격 절대자를 참여시키는 듯하다. 그러나 우주 절대자 덕분으로, 신격 절대자는 무조건 절대자와 영원한 관계를 유지한다. 그리고 체험 가능성을 지닌 이 세 절대자는 실존적이고 그 이상인데, 무제한적이고, 무시간적이고, 무공간적이고, 끝이 없고, 측량할 수 없기 때문이다--정말로 무한하다.
106:7.3 (1169.2)
Destiny is established by the volitional act of the Deities who constitute the Paradise Trinity; destiny is established in the vastness of the three great potentials whose absoluteness encompasses the possibilities of all future development; destiny is probably consummated by the act of the Consummator of Universe Destiny, and this act is probably involved with the Supreme and the Ultimate in the Trinity Absolute. Any experiential destiny can be at least partially comprehended by experiencing creatures; but a destiny which impinges on infinite existentials is hardly comprehensible. Finality destiny is an existential-experiential attainment which appears to involve the Deity Absolute. But the Deity Absolute stands in eternity relationship with the Unqualified Absolute by virtue of the Universal Absolute. And these three Absolutes, experiential in possibility, are actually existential and more, being limitless, timeless, spaceless, boundless, and measureless—truly infinite.
그러나 목표 달성이 불가능하다고 해서 그런 가상의 운명에 관하여 철학적 이론을 세우는 것을 방해하지는 못한다. 도달-가능한 절대 하나님으로서 신격 절대자가 현실화됨은, 실질적으로 실현하기가 불가능할지도 모르며;그럼에도, 완결되는 그런 결실은 이론적 가능성으로서 남아있다. 무조건 절대자가 어떤 상상할 수 없는 무한한-시공우주에 연루되는 것은, 끝없이 영원한 미래에 헤아릴 수 없을 만큼 아득히 먼 일일지 모르지만, 그런 가정은 그럼에도 타당하다. 필사자, 모론시아 존재, 영, 완결성취자, 초월자, 및 기타 존재들은, 우주들 자체 및 모든 다른 국면의 실체와 함께, 절대 가치가 있는 잠재적 최종 운명을 확실히 지니지만;우리는 어떤 존재나 우주든지 그런 운명의 모든 양상을 언제든 철저히 달성할 수 있을지 의심한다.
106:7.4 (1169.3)
The improbability of goal attainment does not, however, prevent philosophical theorizing about such hypothetical destinies. The actualization of the Deity Absolute as an attainable absolute God may be practically impossible of realization; nevertheless, such a finality fruition remains a theoretical possibility. The involvement of the Unqualified Absolute in some inconceivable cosmos-infinite may be measurelessly remote in the futurity of endless eternity, but such a hypothesis is nonetheless valid. Mortals, morontians, spirits, finaliters, Transcendentalers, and others, together with the universes themselves and all other phases of reality, certainly do have a potentially final destiny that is absolute in value; but we doubt that any being or universe will ever completely attain all of the aspects of such a destiny.
아버지를 납득하는 데서 너희가 아무리 성장하더라도, 너희의 정신은 아버지-자존자{自存者}의 계시되지 않은 무한성으로 인해 항상 어리둥절할 것인데, 탐구되지 않은 그 무한성의 방대함은, 모든 영원성 순환 전체에 걸쳐서, 항상 깊이를 헤아릴 수 없고 납득할 수 없는 채로 남아있을 것이다. 너희가 하나님께 아무리 가까이 다가가더라도, 그 존재에 대해 너희가 상상하지도 못할 훨씬 많은 부분이 항상 남아있을 것이다. 그리고 우리가 믿기로는, 이것이 유한한 실존 영역에서 참말인 것처럼, 초월 수준에서도 참말이다. 하나님을 탐구함에는 끝이 없다!
106:7.5 (1169.4)
No matter how much you may grow in Father comprehension, your mind will always be staggered by the unrevealed infinity of the Father-I AM, the unexplored vastness of which will always remain unfathomable and incomprehensible throughout all the cycles of eternity. No matter how much of God you may attain, there will always remain much more of him, the existence of which you will not even suspect. And we believe that this is just as true on transcendental levels as it is in the domains of finite existence. The quest for God is endless!
최종 의미에서 하나님께 도달하지 못하는 그런 무능력이, 어떤 면에서도 우주 피조물을 낙담시켜서는 안 되며;너희는 정말로, 칠중존재와 지존자와 궁극자의 신격 수준에 도달할 수 있고 실제로 도달하는데, 이것이 너희에게 의미하는 바는, 아버지 하나님을 무한히 인식하는 것이, 절대 지위를 지닌 영원히 실존하는 영원 아들에게 그리고 공동 행위자에게 의미하는 바와 같다. 하나님의 무한성은, 피조계{被造界}를 괴롭히기는커녕, 끝없는 미래 전반에 걸쳐서, 영원성조차 고갈시키지 않고 종결시키지도 않을 인격을 발전시키고 신격과 연합할 가능성을, 상승하는 인격체가 앞으로 소유하게 되리라고, 최상으로 보증할 것임에 틀림없다.
106:7.6 (1169.5)
Such inability to attain God in a final sense should in no manner discourage universe creatures; indeed, you can and do attain Deity levels of the Sevenfold, the Supreme, and the Ultimate, which mean to you what the infinite realization of God the Father means to the Eternal Son and to the Conjoint Actor in their absolute status of eternity existence. Far from harassing the creature, the infinity of God should be the supreme assurance that throughout all endless futurity an ascending personality will have before him the possibilities of personality development and Deity association which even eternity will neither exhaust nor terminate.
106:7.7 (1169.6)
To finite creatures of the grand universe the concept of the master universe seems to be well-nigh infinite, but doubtless the absonite architects thereof perceive its relatedness to future and unimagined developments within the unending I AM. Even space itself is but an ultimate condition, a condition of qualification within the relative absoluteness of the quiet zones of midspace.
106:7.8 (1170.1)
At the inconceivably distant future eternity moment of the final completion of the entire master universe, no doubt we will all look back upon its entire history as only the beginning, simply the creation of certain finite and transcendental foundations for even greater and more enthralling metamorphoses in uncharted infinity. At such a future eternity moment the master universe will still seem youthful; indeed, it will be always young in the face of the limitless possibilities of never-ending eternity.
106:7.9 (1170.2)
The improbability of infinite destiny attainment does not in the least prevent the entertainment of ideas about such destiny, and we do not hesitate to say that, if the three absolute potentials could ever become completely actualized, it would be possible to conceive of the final integration of total reality. This developmental realization is predicated on the completed actualization of the Unqualified, Universal, and Deity Absolutes, the three potentialities whose union constitutes the latency of the I AM, the suspended realities of eternity, the abeyant possibilities of all futurity, and more.
106:7.10 (1170.3)
Such eventualities are rather remote to say the least; nevertheless, in the mechanisms, personalities, and associations of the three Trinities we believe we detect the theoretical possibility of the reuniting of the seven absolute phases of the Father-I AM. And this brings us face to face with the concept of the threefold Trinity encompassing the Paradise Trinity of existential status and the two subsequently appearing Trinities of experiential nature and origin.
106:8.1 (1170.4)
The nature of the Trinity of Trinities is difficult to portray to the human mind; it is the actual summation of the entirety of experiential infinity as such is manifested in a theoretical infinity of eternity realization. In the Trinity of Trinities the experiential infinite attains to identity with the existential infinite, and both are as one in the pre-experiential, pre-existential I AM. The Trinity of Trinities is the final expression of all that is implied in the fifteen triunities and associated triodities. Finalities are difficult for relative beings to comprehend, be they existential or experiential; therefore must they always be presented as relativities.
106:8.2 (1170.5)
The Trinity of Trinities exists in several phases. It contains possibilities, probabilities, and inevitabilities that stagger the imaginations of beings far above the human level. It has implications that are probably unsuspected by the celestial philosophers, for its implications are in the triunities, and the triunities are, in the last analysis, unfathomable.
106:8.9 (1171.2)
1. The Paradise Trinity, the association of the three Paradise Deities—Father, Son, and Spirit. It should be remembered that the Paradise Trinity implies a threefold function—an absolute function, a transcendental function (Trinity of Ultimacy), and a finite function (Trinity of Supremacy). The Paradise Trinity is any and all of these at any and all times.
106:8.10 (1171.3)
2. The Ultimate Trinity. This is the deity association of the Supreme Creators, God the Supreme, and the Architects of the Master Universe. While this is an adequate presentation of the divinity aspects of this Trinity, it should be recorded that there are other phases of this Trinity, which, however, appear to be perfectly co-ordinating with the divinity aspects.
106:8.11 (1171.4)
3. The Absolute Trinity. This is the grouping of God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and the Consummator of Universe Destiny in regard to all divinity values. Certain other phases of this triune grouping have to do with other-than-divinity values in the expanding cosmos. But these are unifying with the divinity phases just as the power and the personality aspects of the experiential Deities are now in process of experiential synthesis.
삼위일체들의 삼위일체 안에서, 이 세 가지 삼위일체의 연합은, 실체의 가능한 한없는 종합을 마련해준다. 이 집합은, 원인과 중간 상태와 결과를 포함하고;개시자와 실행자와 완성자를 포함하며;시작과 실존과 운명을 포함한다. 아버지-아들의 협력관계는 아들-영이 됐고, 다음에는 영-지존자가 됐고, 이어서 지존-궁극자와 궁극-절대자, 심지어 절대자와 아버지-무한자까지 됐다--실체 순환이 완성됐다. 마찬가지로, 신성과 인격에 아주 직접 관계되지 않는 다른 여러 국면에서, 위대한 제1 근원 및 중심은, 영원성 순환을 중심으로, 자아-실존 절대성으로부터, 무한한 자아-계시를 거쳐서, 완결된 자아-실현에 이르기까지--곧 절대 실존자로부터 완결된 체험자들에 이르기까지--, 실체의 무제한성을 스스로-실현한다.
106:8.12 (1171.5)
The association of these three Trinities in the Trinity of Trinities provides for a possible unlimited integration of reality. This grouping contains causes, intermediates, and finals; inceptors, realizers, and consummators; beginnings, existences, and destinies. The Father-Son partnership has become Son-Spirit and then Spirit-Supreme and on to Supreme-Ultimate and Ultimate-Absolute, even to Absolute and Father-Infinite—the completion of the cycle of reality. Likewise, in other phases not so immediately concerned with divinity and personality, does the First Great Source and Center self-realize the limitlessness of reality around the circle of eternity, from the absoluteness of self-existence, through the endlessness of self-revelation, to the finality of self-realization—from the absolute of existentials to the finality of experientials.
106:8.15 (1171.8)
2. The Ultimate. This is the deity consequence of the eventuated unity of the second Trinity, the transcendental and absonite personification of divinity. The Ultimate consists in a variably regarded unity of many qualities, and the human conception thereof would do well to include at least those phases of ultimacy which are control directing, personally experiencible, and tensionally unifying, but there are many other unrevealed aspects of the eventuated Deity. While the Ultimate and the Supreme are comparable, they are not identical, neither is the Ultimate merely an amplification of the Supreme.
106:8.16 (1172.1)
3. The Absolute. There are many theories held as to the character of the third member of the second level of the Trinity of Trinities. God the Absolute is undoubtedly involved in this association as the personality consequence of the final function of the Trinity Absolute, yet the Deity Absolute is an existential reality of eternity status.
이 셋째 구성원에 관한 개념적 어려움은, 그런 구성원 자격의 전제가 실제로는 오직 하나의 절대자를 의미한다는 사실에 내재돼있다. 이론적으로, 그런 사건이 발생될 수 있다면 우리는 세 절대자가 하나로서 체험으로 통합된 것을 목격해야한다. 그리고 무한 속에서 실존적으로 하나의 절대자만 있다고 우리는 배웠다. 누가 이 셋째 구성원이 될 수 있는지 아주 분명치는 않으나, 상상도 못한 접촉과 시공우주적 현현의 어떤 형태로, 신격 절대자와 우주 절대자와 무조건 절대자가 구성할 수 있다는 가정이 종종 제기된다. 분명히, 삼위일체들의 삼위일체는 세 절대자가 충분히 통합되지 않은 상태에서는 완성된 기능을 도저히 획득할 수 없고, 세 절대자는 무한한 잠재력을 모두 남김없이 실현하지 않고서는 도저히 통합될 수 없다.
106:8.17 (1172.2)
The concept difficulty regarding this third member is inherent in the fact that the presupposition of such a membership really implies just one Absolute. Theoretically, if such an event could take place, we should witness the experiential unification of the three Absolutes as one. And we are taught that, in infinity and existentially, there is one Absolute. While it is least clear as to who this third member can be, it is often postulated that such may consist of the Deity, Universal, and Unqualified Absolutes in some form of unimagined liaison and cosmic manifestation. Certainly, the Trinity of Trinities could hardly attain to complete function short of the full unification of the three Absolutes, and the three Absolutes can hardly be unified short of the complete realization of all infinite potentials.
106:8.18 (1172.3)
It will probably represent a minimum distortion of truth if the third member of the Trinity of Trinities is conceived as the Universal Absolute, provided this conception envisions the Universal not only as static and potential but also as associative. But we still do not perceive the relationship to the creative and evolutional aspects of the function of total Deity.
106:8.19 (1172.4)
Though a completed concept of the Trinity of Trinities is difficult to form, a qualified concept is not so difficult. If the second level of the Trinity of Trinities is conceived as essentially personal, it becomes quite possible to postulate the union of God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and God the Absolute as the personal repercussion of the union of the personal Trinities who are ancestral to these experiential Deities. We venture the opinion that these three experiential Deities will certainly unify on the second level as the direct consequence of the growing unity of their ancestral and causative Trinities who constitute the first level.
106:8.20 (1172.5)
The first level consists of three Trinities; the second level exists as the personality association of experiential-evolved, experiential-eventuated, and experiential-existential Deity personalities. And regardless of any conceptual difficulty in understanding the complete Trinity of Trinities, the personal association of these three Deities on the second level has become manifest to our own universe age in the phenomenon of the deitization of Majeston, who was actualized on this second level by the Deity Absolute, acting through the Ultimate and in response to the initial creative mandate of the Supreme Being.
106:8.21 (1172.6)
THE THIRD LEVEL: In an unqualified hypothesis of the second level of the Trinity of Trinities, there is embraced the correlation of every phase of every kind of reality that is, or was, or could be in the entirety of infinity. The Supreme Being is not only spirit but also mind and power and experience. The Ultimate is all this and much more, while, in the conjoined concept of the oneness of the Deity, Universal, and Unqualified Absolutes, there is included the absolute finality of all reality realization.
지존자와 궁극자와 완성된 절대자, 이 세 분의 합동에는, 자존자{自存者}가 원래 분할한 모습, 그리고 일곱 무한 절대자의 출현으로 귀결됐던 무한의 모습을 기능적으로 다시 결합시키는 일이 일어날 수 있다. 비록 우주의 철학자들은 이렇게 될 가능성이 아주 희박하다고 판단하더라도, 우리는 여전히 이렇게 자주 질문한다:둘째 수준에서 삼위일체들의 삼위일체가 삼위일체 통일을 언젠가 성취할 수 있다면, 그런 신격 통일 결과로 무엇이 발생될 것인가? 아직은 알 수 없지만, 체험적으로 달성 가능한 자존자가 실현되도록 직접 연결될 것이라고 확신한다. 인격있는 존재들의 관점에서 볼 때, 이는 알 수 없는 자존자가 이미 아버지-무한자로서 체험될 수 있게 됐음을 의미할 수 있다. 무인격적 견지에서, 이 절대 운명이 무엇을 의미할지는 다른 문제이고, 오직 영원만이 해명해 줄 수 있는 문제다. 그러나 가능성이 적은 이런 결말을, 우리가 인격있는 피조물로서 보건대, 모든 인격체의 최종 운명을, 바로 이 인격체들의 우주 아버지가 최종적으로 아실 것이라고 우리는 추론한다.
106:8.22 (1172.7)
In the union of the Supreme, Ultimate, and the complete Absolute, there could occur the functional reassembly of those aspects of infinity which were originally segmentalized by the I AM, and which resulted in the appearance of the Seven Absolutes of Infinity. Though the universe philosophers deem this to be a most remote probability, still, we often ask this question: If the second level of the Trinity of Trinities could ever achieve trinity unity, what then would transpire as a consequence of such deity unity? We do not know, but we are confident that it would lead directly to the realization of the I AM as an experiential attainable. From the standpoint of personal beings it could mean that the unknowable I AM had become experiencible as the Father-Infinite. What these absolute destinies might mean from a nonpersonal standpoint is another matter and one which only eternity could possibly clarify. But as we view these remote eventualities as personal creatures, we deduce that the final destiny of all personalities is the final knowing of the Universal Father of these selfsame personalities.
106:8.23 (1173.1)
As we philosophically conceive of the I AM in past eternity, he is alone, there is none beside him. Looking forward into future eternity, we do not see that the I AM could possibly change as an existential, but we are inclined to forecast a vast experiential difference. Such a concept of the I AM implies full self-realization—it embraces that limitless galaxy of personalities who have become volitional participants in the self-revelation of the I AM, and who will remain eternally as absolute volitional parts of the totality of infinity, final sons of the absolute Father.
106:9.1 (1173.2)
In the concept of the Trinity of Trinities we postulate the possible experiential unification of limitless reality, and we sometimes theorize that all this may happen in the utter remoteness of far-distant eternity. But there is nonetheless an actual and present unification of infinity in this very age as in all past and future universe ages; such unification is existential in the Paradise Trinity. Infinity unification as an experiential reality is unthinkably remote, but an unqualified unity of infinity now dominates the present moment of universe existence and unites the divergencies of all reality with an existential majesty that is absolute.
영원성이 완성된 완결 수준에서 무한한 통합을 생각하려고 애쓸 때, 유한한 피조물은 자신의 유한 실존에 내재된 지능 한계에 직면한다. 시공간과 체험은 피조물 개념에 방해물이지만;그럼에도, 시간이 없고 공간에서 분리되고 체험이 제외된다면, 어떤 피조물이든지 우주 실체에 대한 제한된 납득마저 성취할 수 없다. 시간에 대한 민감성 없이는 어떤 진화 피조물도, 연속되는 관계를 도저히 감지할 수 없다. 공간을 감지하지 못한다면 어떤 피조물도, 동시에 일어나는 관계를 헤아릴 수 없다. 체험 없이는 어떤 진화 피조물도 존재할 수조차 없으며;오직 일곱 무한 절대자만이 정말로 체험을 초월하고, 이조차 특정 국면에서는 체험적일지도 모른다.
106:9.2 (1173.3)
When finite creatures attempt to conceive of infinite unification on the finality levels of consummated eternity, they are face to face with intellect limitations inherent in their finite existences. Time, space, and experience constitute barriers to creature concept; and yet, without time, apart from space, and except for experience, no creature could achieve even a limited comprehension of universe reality. Without time sensitivity, no evolutionary creature could possibly perceive the relations of sequence. Without space perception, no creature could fathom the relations of simultaneity. Without experience, no evolutionary creature could even exist; only the Seven Absolutes of Infinity really transcend experience, and even these may be experiential in certain phases.
106:9.3 (1173.4)
Time, space, and experience are man’s greatest aids to relative reality perception and yet his most formidable obstacles to complete reality perception. Mortals and many other universe creatures find it necessary to think of potentials as being actualized in space and evolving to fruition in time, but this entire process is a time-space phenomenon which does not actually take place on Paradise and in eternity. On the absolute level there is neither time nor space; all potentials may be there perceived as actuals.
106:9.4 (1173.5)
The concept of the unification of all reality, be it in this or any other universe age, is basically twofold: existential and experiential. Such a unity is in process of experiential realization in the Trinity of Trinities, but the degree of the apparent actualization of this threefold Trinity is directly proportional to the disappearance of the qualifications and imperfections of reality in the cosmos. But total integration of reality is unqualifiedly and eternally and existentially present in the Paradise Trinity, within which, at this very universe moment, infinite reality is absolutely unified.
체험적 및 실존적 관점이 만든 역설{逆說}은 불가피하고, 낙원 삼위일체와 삼위일체들의 삼위일체는 각각, 오직 시간-공간 상대성으로써만 필사자들이 감지할 수 있는 영원성 관계라는 사실에 어느 정도 입각한다. 삼위일체들의 삼위일체가 점차 체험으로 현실화되는 것에 대한 인간 개념--곧 시간 관점--은, 이것이 이미 사실화됐음을 추가적으로 가정함으로--곧 영원의 관점으로-- 보충돼야한다. 그러나 이 두 관점이 어떻게 조화될 수 있을 것인가? 낙원 삼위일체가 실존적으로 무한히 통합될 것이며, 체험하는 삼위일체들의 삼위일체가 실제로 현존하고 철저히 형태화됐음을 간파하지 못하는 것은 부분적으로 다음의 이유 때문에 상호 왜곡으로 말미암는다는 그 진실을 받아들이라고, 우리는 유한 필사자들에게 제안한다:
106:9.5 (1174.1)
The paradox created by the experiential and the existential viewpoints is inevitable and is predicated in part on the fact that the Paradise Trinity and the Trinity of Trinities are each an eternity relationship which mortals can only perceive as a time-space relativity. The human concept of the gradual experiential actualization of the Trinity of Trinities—the time viewpoint—must be supplemented by the additional postulate that this is already a factualization—the eternity viewpoint. But how can these two viewpoints be reconciled? To finite mortals we suggest the acceptance of the truth that the Paradise Trinity is the existential unification of infinity, and that the inability to detect the actual presence and completed manifestation of the experiential Trinity of Trinities is in part due to reciprocal distortion because of:
106:9.9 (1174.5)
The Universal Father in the Paradise Trinity is the I AM of the Trinity of Trinities, and the failure to experience the Father as infinite is due to finite limitations. The concept of the existential, solitary, pre-Trinity nonattainable I AM and the postulate of the experiential post-Trinity of Trinities and attainable I AM are one and the same hypothesis; no actual change has taken place in the Infinite; all apparent developments are due to increased capacities for reality reception and cosmic appreciation.
106:9.10 (1174.6)
The I AM, in the final analysis, must exist before all existentials and after all experientials. While these ideas may not clarify the paradoxes of eternity and infinity in the human mind, they should at least stimulate such finite intellects to grapple anew with these never-ending problems, problems which will continue to intrigue you on Salvington and later as finaliters and on throughout the unending future of your eternal careers in the wide-spreading universes.
영원을 향한 마지막 탐색이, 끝없이 무한을 탐험하는 것 곧 제1 근원 및 중심의 절대성을 찾아내는 끝없는 탐사 여행임을, 모든 우주 인격체는 곧 깨닫기 시작할 것이다. 우리 모두는, 모든 피조물 성장이 아버지처럼 되는 것에 비례함을 머지않아 알게 된다. 우리는 하나님 뜻대로 사는 것이 무한의 끝없는 가능성에 이르는 영원한 신분증 그 자체임을 이해하게 된다. 무한자를 찾는 데 성공하는 것이, 아버지를 닮음을 성취하는 데 정비례하고, 이 우주 시대에 아버지의 실체들이 신성{神性}의 특성들 내부에 계시된다는 것을, 필사자는 언젠가 깨달을 것이다. 그리고 신성의 이런 특성은 우주 피조물이 거룩하게 사는 체험에서 개인적으로 이용되며, 거룩하게 산다는 것은 하나님 뜻대로 산다는 것을 의미한다.
106:9.11 (1174.7)
Sooner or later all universe personalities begin to realize that the final quest of eternity is the endless exploration of infinity, the never-ending voyage of discovery into the absoluteness of the First Source and Center. Sooner or later we all become aware that all creature growth is proportional to Father identification. We arrive at the understanding that living the will of God is the eternal passport to the endless possibility of infinity itself. Mortals will sometime realize that success in the quest of the Infinite is directly proportional to the achievement of Fatherlikeness, and that in this universe age the realities of the Father are revealed within the qualities of divinity. And these qualities of divinity are personally appropriated by universe creatures in the experience of living divinely, and to live divinely means actually to live the will of God.
물질적이고 진화적인 유한한 피조물에게, 아버지 뜻에 따라 사는 인생은 인격체의 경기장에서 영적 우위를 달성하는 데 직접 연결되며, 아버지-무한자를 납득함에 그런 피조물을 한 걸음 더 가까이 데려다 준다. 아버지를 닮는 그런 인생은, 진리에 입각하고 아름다움에 민감하고 선함이 지배하는 인생이다. 하나님을 아는 그런 인간은, 경배함으로써 내적으로 빛을 받고 외적으로는 모든 인격체가 우주에서 형제관계라는 마음으로 봉사에 전념하는데, 이 봉사는 자비로 가득하고 사랑으로 인해 동기가 유발되어 베푸는 것이며, 한편 인생의 이런 모든 특성은, 시공우주 지혜와 자아를-실현하는 수준, 하나님을-발견하고 아버지께 경배 드리는 끊임없이-상승하는 수준에서, 진화하는 인격 안에 통합된다.
106:9.12 (1175.1)
To material, evolutionary, finite creatures, a life predicated on the living of the Father’s will leads directly to the attainment of spirit supremacy in the personality arena and brings such creatures one step nearer the comprehension of the Father-Infinite. Such a Father life is one predicated on truth, sensitive to beauty, and dominated by goodness. Such a God-knowing person is inwardly illuminated by worship and outwardly devoted to the wholehearted service of the universal brotherhood of all personalities, a service ministry which is filled with mercy and motivated by love, while all these life qualities are unified in the evolving personality on ever-ascending levels of cosmic wisdom, self-realization, God-finding, and Father worship.