유란시아 책
III 부. 유란시아의 역사
Paper 116
The Almighty Supreme
The Almighty Supreme
116:0.1 (1268.1)
IF MAN recognized that his Creators—his immediate supervisors—while being divine were also finite, and that the God of time and space was an evolving and nonabsolute Deity, then would the inconsistencies of temporal inequalities cease to be profound religious paradoxes. No longer would religious faith be prostituted to the promotion of social smugness in the fortunate while serving only to encourage stoical resignation in the unfortunate victims of social deprivation.
116:0.2 (1268.2)
When viewing the exquisitely perfect spheres of Havona, it is both reasonable and logical to believe they were made by a perfect, infinite, and absolute Creator. But that same reason and logic would compel any honest being, when viewing the turmoil, imperfections, and inequities of Urantia, to conclude that your world had been made by, and was being managed by, Creators who were subabsolute, preinfinite, and other than perfect.
116:0.3 (1268.3)
Experiential growth implies creature-Creator partnership—God and man in association. Growth is the earmark of experiential Deity: Havona did not grow; Havona is and always has been; it is existential like the everlasting Gods who are its source. But growth characterizes the grand universe.
지존하신 분은, 1차로 중앙우주에서 영 인격으로서 활동하며;2차로 광우주에서 권능을 지닌 인격체인 전능자 하나님으로서 활동하신다. 총우주에서 지존자의 3차 활동은 지금 숨겨져 있는데, 오직 알려지지 않은 정신 잠재력으로서 존재한다. 지존하신 분의 이런 셋째 발전이 무엇을 드러내게 될지 아무도 모른다. 더러는, 연방우주들이 빛과 생명의 단계에 정착할 때, 전능하고 체험을 겪은 광우주 주권자로서 지존자가 우버사에서 활동하는 한편, 외부 우주들에서 초월전능자로서의 권능을 확장할 것이라고 믿는다. 더러는, 셋째 지존성 단계는 셋째 수준의 신격 현시를 수반할 것이라고 추측한다. 그러나 우리 가운데 정말로 아는 이는 아무도 없다.
116:0.5 (1268.5)
The Supreme Being functions primarily in the central universe as a spirit personality; secondarily in the grand universe as God the Almighty, a personality of power. The tertiary function of the Supreme in the master universe is now latent, existing only as an unknown mind potential. No one knows just what this third development of the Supreme Being will disclose. Some believe that, when the superuniverses are settled in light and life, the Supreme will become functional from Uversa as the almighty and experiential sovereign of the grand universe while expanding in power as the superalmighty of the outer universes. Others speculate that the third stage of Supremacy will involve the third level of Deity manifestation. But none of us really know.
116:1.1 (1268.6)
The experience of every evolving creature personality is a phase of the experience of the Almighty Supreme. The intelligent subjugation of every physical segment of the superuniverses is a part of the growing control of the Almighty Supreme. The creative synthesis of power and personality is a part of the creative urge of the Supreme Mind and is the very essence of the evolutionary growth of unity in the Supreme Being.
116:1.2 (1269.1)
The union of the power and personality attributes of Supremacy is the function of Supreme Mind; and the completed evolution of the Almighty Supreme will result in one unified and personal Deity—not in any loosely co-ordinated association of divine attributes. From the broader perspective, there will be no Almighty apart from the Supreme, no Supreme apart from the Almighty.
116:1.3 (1269.2)
Throughout the evolutionary ages the physical power potential of the Supreme is vested in the Seven Supreme Power Directors, and the mind potential reposes in the Seven Master Spirits. The Infinite Mind is the function of the Infinite Spirit; the cosmic mind, the ministry of the Seven Master Spirits; the Supreme Mind is in process of actualizing in the co-ordination of the grand universe and in functional association with the revelation and attainment of God the Sevenfold.
116:1.4 (1269.3)
The time-space mind, the cosmic mind, is differently functioning in the seven superuniverses, but it is co-ordinated by some unknown associative technique in the Supreme Being. The Almighty overcontrol of the grand universe is not exclusively physical and spiritual. In the seven superuniverses it is primarily material and spiritual, but there are also present phenomena of the Supreme which are both intellectual and spiritual.
116:1.5 (1269.4)
We really know less about the mind of Supremacy than about any other aspect of this evolving Deity. It is unquestionably active throughout the grand universe and is believed to have a potential destiny of master universe function which is of vast extent. But this we do know: Whereas physique may attain completed growth, and whereas spirit may achieve perfection of development, mind never ceases to progress—it is the experiential technique of endless progress. The Supreme is an experiential Deity and therefore never achieves completion of mind attainment.
116:2.2 (1269.6)
God the Supreme derives his spirit and personality attributes from the Paradise Trinity, but he is power-actualizing in the doings of the Creator Sons, the Ancients of Days, and the Master Spirits, whose collective acts are the source of his growing power as almighty sovereign to and in the seven superuniverses.
시공간에서 진화하는 피조물은 제한없는 낙원 신격을 납득할 수 없다. 영원성과 무한성은 시간-공간 피조물이 납득할 수 없는 수준의 신격 실체를 의미한다. 신격의 무한성과 주권의 절대성은 낙원 삼위일체 안에 본래부터 있고, 삼위일체는 필사적 사람이 어느 정도 이해할 수 없는 실체다. 시간-공간 피조물은, 우주 관계를 파악하고 신성의 의미 있는 가치를 이해하기 위하여, 기원과 상대성과 운명을 지녀야한다. 따라서 낙원 신격은 낙원-바깥에서 일어나는 신성의 인격화를 약화시키고 달리 제한하시는데, 그리하여 최상급 창조주들과 그 동역자들이 실존하게 되며, 이들은 여러 진화 세계에서 증여 아들들이 땅에서 사는 동안에 가장 멀고 아름다운 표현을 찾을 때까지, 그 낙원 근원으로부터 생명의 빛을 멀리멀리 꾸준히 가져간다.
116:2.3 (1269.7)
Unqualified Paradise Deity is incomprehensible to the evolving creatures of time and space. Eternity and infinity connote a level of deity reality which time-space creatures cannot comprehend. Infinity of deity and absoluteness of sovereignty are inherent in the Paradise Trinity, and the Trinity is a reality which lies somewhat beyond the understanding of mortal man. Time-space creatures must have origins, relativities, and destinies in order to grasp universe relationships and to understand the meaning values of divinity. Therefore does Paradise Deity attenuate and otherwise qualify the extra-Paradise personalizations of divinity, thus bringing into existence the Supreme Creators and their associates, who ever carry the light of life farther and farther from its Paradise source until it finds its most distant and beautiful expression in the earth lives of the bestowal Sons on the evolutionary worlds.
116:2.12 (1270.9)
The first three levels are the Supreme Creators; the last three levels are the Paradise Deities. The Supreme ever intervenes as the experiential spirit personalization of the Paradise Trinity and as the experiential focus of the evolutionary almighty power of the creator children of the Paradise Deities. The Supreme Being is the maximum revelation of Deity to the seven superuniverses and for the present universe age.
116:2.13 (1270.10)
By the technique of mortal logic it might be inferred that the experiential reunification of the collective acts of the first three levels of God the Sevenfold would equivalate to the level of Paradise Deity, but such is not the case. Paradise Deity is existential Deity. The Supreme Creators, in their divine unity of power and personality, are constitutive and expressive of a new power potential of experiential Deity. And this power potential of experiential origin finds inevitable and inescapable union with the experiential Deity of Trinity origin—the Supreme Being.
지존자 하나님은 낙원 삼위일체가 아니며, 뿐만 아니라 그런 연방우주 창조주들 전체 또는 어느 누구도 아닌데, 그 창조주들의 기능적 활동이, 지존자 하나님의 진화하는 전능한 권능을 실제로 통합한다. 지존자 하나님은 삼위일체에서 기원되지만, 오직 칠중 하나님의 처음 세 수준의 조정된 기능을 통해서만, 권능을 지닌 인격체로서, 진화하는 피조물에게 표현된다. 공동 행위자가 영원 속에서 우주 아버지와 영원 아들의 뜻에 따라 삽시간에 존재하게 된 것처럼, 전능한 지존자는 최상급 창조주 인격체들의 활동을 통하여 시공간 속에서 지금 사실화되고 있다. 칠중 하나님의 처음 세 수준에 있는 이 존재들은, 전능한 지존자가 지닌 권능의 바로 그 본성 및 근원이며;따라서 그들은 그의 경영 행위를 항상 따라가고 유지해야한다.
116:2.14 (1270.11)
God the Supreme is not the Paradise Trinity, neither is he any one or all of those superuniverse Creators whose functional activities actually synthesize his evolving almighty power. God the Supreme, while of origin in the Trinity, becomes manifest to evolutionary creatures as a personality of power only through the co-ordinated functions of the first three levels of God the Sevenfold. The Almighty Supreme is now factualizing in time and space through the activities of the Supreme Creator Personalities, even as in eternity the Conjoint Actor flashed into being by the will of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son. These beings of the first three levels of God the Sevenfold are the very nature and source of the power of the Almighty Supreme; therefore must they ever accompany and sustain his administrative acts.
1. 제3 근원 및 중심의 정신 집중. 에너지와 영의 유한한 영역들은, 공동 행위자의 정신 현존으로 인해 글자 그대로 결합된다. 이는 지방우주의 창조적 영으로부터, 연방우주의 반사 영들을 거쳐서, 광우주와 관계된 으뜸 영들에 이르기까지 참말이다. 다양한 이 지성 초점들로부터 발산되는 정신 회로들은, 피조물이 선택하는 시공우주 경기장을 의미한다. 정신은, 피조물과 창조주들이 아주 쉽게 조종할 수 있는 융통성 있는 실체이며;물질과 영을 연결하는 중요한 연결고리다. 지존자 하나님의 영 인격자와 진화하는 전능자가 체험으로 얻은 권능을, 제3 근원 및 중심의 정신 증여가 하나로 만든다.
116:3.2 (1270.13)
1. The mind focalizations of the Third Source and Center. The finite domains of energy and spirit are literally held together by the mind presences of the Conjoint Actor. This is true from the Creative Spirit in a local universe through the Reflective Spirits of a superuniverse to the Master Spirits in the grand universe. The mind circuits emanating from these varied intelligence focuses represent the cosmic arena of creature choice. Mind is the flexible reality which creatures and Creators can so readily manipulate; it is the vital link connecting matter and spirit. The mind bestowal of the Third Source and Center unifies the spirit person of God the Supreme with the experiential power of the evolutionary Almighty.
2. 제2 근원 및 중심의 인격 계시. 공동 행위자의 정신 현존들은, 신성의 영과 에너지 원형을 통합시킨다. 영원 아들과 낙원 아들들이 자신을 증여함으로 육신화{肉身化}하는 것은, 창조주의 신성한 본성을 피조물의 진화하는 본성과 통합시키는데, 실제로 융합한다. 지존자는 지음 받은 자인 동시에 창조자이며;그가 그런 존재일 가능성은, 영원 아들 그리고 그와 동급이거나 그에게 종속되는 아들들의 증여 행위에서 드러난다. 아들신분 중에서 증여 계층인 미가엘과 아보날은, 진화 세계들에서 실제로 피조 생애를 살아봄으로써 그들의 것이 돼버린, 진정한 피조물 본성과 함께 그들의 신성한 본성을 실제로 증대시킨다. 신성{神性}이 인성{人性}처럼 될 때, 인성이 신성으로 바뀔 수 있는 가능성이 이 관계에 내재한다.
116:3.3 (1271.1)
2. The personality revelations of the Second Source and Center. The mind presences of the Conjoint Actor unify the spirit of divinity with the pattern of energy. The bestowal incarnations of the Eternal Son and his Paradise Sons unify, actually fuse, the divine nature of a Creator with the evolving nature of a creature. The Supreme is both creature and creator; the possibility of his being such is revealed in the bestowal actions of the Eternal Son and his co-ordinate and subordinate Sons. The bestowal orders of sonship, the Michaels and the Avonals, actually augment their divine natures with bona fide creature natures which have become theirs by the living of the actual creature life on the evolutionary worlds. When divinity becomes like humanity, inherent in this relationship is the possibility that humanity can become divine.
3. 제1 근원 및 중심의 내주하는 현존. 정신은 영 인과관계를 에너지 반응과 통합하며;증여하는 직무는 신성{神性}의 하강과 피조물의 상승을 통합하며;우주 아버지의 내주하는 단편들은, 진화하는 피조물을 낙원에 계신 하나님과 실제로 통합한다. 수많은 계층의 인격체에게 내주하는 아버지의 그런 현존이 많이 있으며, 필사적 사람 속에 있는 하나님의 이 신성한 단편이 사고 섭리사다. 신비 관찰자들과 인간의 관계는, 낙원 삼위일체와 지존하신 분의 관계와 같다. 섭리사는 절대 토대이며, 절대 토대 위에서 자유의지의 선택은, 영원성취자 본성, 즉 사람의 경우에는 완결성취자 본성, 지존자 하나님의 경우에는 신격 본성이라는 신의 실체가 진화하도록 만들 수 있다.
116:3.4 (1271.2)
3. The indwelling presences of the First Source and Center. Mind unifies spirit causations with energy reactions; bestowal ministry unifies divinity descensions with creature ascensions; and the indwelling fragments of the Universal Father actually unify the evolving creatures with God on Paradise. There are many such presences of the Father which indwell numerous orders of personalities, and in mortal man these divine fragments of God are the Thought Adjusters. The Mystery Monitors are to human beings what the Paradise Trinity is to the Supreme Being. The Adjusters are absolute foundations, and upon absolute foundations freewill choice can cause to be evolved the divine reality of an eternaliter nature, finaliter nature in the case of man, Deity nature in God the Supreme.
116:3.5 (1271.3)
The creature bestowals of the Paradise orders of sonship enable these divine Sons to enrich their personalities by the acquisition of the actual nature of universe creatures, while such bestowals unfailingly reveal to the creatures themselves the Paradise path of divinity attainment. The Adjuster bestowals of the Universal Father enable him to draw the personalities of the volitional will creatures to himself. And throughout all these relationships in the finite universes the Conjoint Actor is the ever-present source of the mind ministry by virtue of which these activities take place.
116:4.1 (1271.5)
The unity of the Supreme Whole is dependent on the progressive unification of the finite parts; the actualization of the Supreme is resultant from, and productive of, these very unifications of the factors of supremacy—the creators, creatures, intelligences, and energies of the universes.
시간이 전개되는 것을 지존성의 주권이 겪고 있는 시대에는, 지존자의 전능{全能}한 권능은 칠중 하나님의 신성 행동에 의존하며, 한편 지존하신 분과 공동 행위자 및 그의 1차 인격체인 일곱 으뜸 영 사이에, 특별히 밀접한 관계가 있는 것처럼 보인다. 공동 행위자로서 무한 영은, 진화하는 신격의 미완성을 보정하며, 지존자와 매우 가까운 관계를 유지하는 여러 가지 방법으로 활동한다. 이런 밀접한 관계를 모든 으뜸 영이 어느 정도 공유하지만, 특히 지존자를 대변하는 칠{7}번 으뜸 영이 그렇다. 이 으뜸 영은 지존자를 안다--지존자와 친히 접촉한다.
116:4.2 (1272.1)
During those ages in which the sovereignty of Supremacy is undergoing its time development, the almighty power of the Supreme is dependent on the divinity acts of God the Sevenfold, while there seems to be a particularly close relationship between the Supreme Being and the Conjoint Actor together with his primary personalities, the Seven Master Spirits. The Infinite Spirit as the Conjoint Actor functions in many ways which compensate the incompletion of evolutionary Deity and sustains very close relations to the Supreme. This closeness of relationship is shared in measure by all of the Master Spirits but especially by Master Spirit Number Seven, who speaks for the Supreme. This Master Spirit knows—is in personal contact with—the Supreme.
116:4.3 (1272.2)
Early in the projection of the superuniverse scheme of creation, the Master Spirits joined with the ancestral Trinity in the cocreation of the forty-nine Reflective Spirits, and concomitantly the Supreme Being functioned creatively as the culminator of the conjoined acts of the Paradise Trinity and the creative children of Paradise Deity. Majeston appeared and ever since has focalized the cosmic presence of the Supreme Mind, while the Master Spirits continue as source-centers for the far-flung ministry of the cosmic mind.
116:4.4 (1272.3)
But the Master Spirits continue in supervision of the Reflective Spirits. The Seventh Master Spirit is (in his overall supervision of Orvonton from the central universe) in personal contact with (and has overcontrol of) the seven Reflective Spirits located on Uversa. In his inter- and intrasuperuniverse controls and administrations he is in reflective contact with the Reflective Spirits of his own type located on each superuniverse capital.
116:4.5 (1272.4)
These Master Spirits are not only the supporters and augmenters of the sovereignty of Supremacy, but they are in turn affected by the creative purposes of the Supreme. Ordinarily, the collective creations of the Master Spirits are of the quasi-material order (power directors, etc.), while their individual creations are of the spiritual order (supernaphim, etc.). But when the Master Spirits collectively produced the Seven Circuit Spirits in response to the will and purpose of the Supreme Being, it is to be noted that the offspring of this creative act are spiritual, not material or quasi-material.
116:4.6 (1272.5)
And as it is with the Master Spirits of the superuniverses, so is it with the triune rulers of these supercreations—the Ancients of Days. These personifications of Trinity justice-judgment in time and space are the field fulcrums for the mobilizing almighty power of the Supreme, serving as the sevenfold focal points for the evolution of trinitarian sovereignty in the domains of time and space. From their vantage point midway between Paradise and the evolving worlds, these Trinity-origin sovereigns see both ways, know both ways, and co-ordinate both ways.
116:4.7 (1272.6)
But the local universes are the real laboratories in which are worked out the mind experiments, galactic adventures, divinity unfoldings, and personality progressions which, when cosmically totaled, constitute the actual foundation upon which the Supreme is achieving deity evolution in and by experience.
116:4.8 (1272.7)
In the local universes even the Creators evolve: The presence of the Conjoint Actor evolves from a living power focus to the status of the divine personality of a Universe Mother Spirit; the Creator Son evolves from the nature of existential Paradise divinity to the experiential nature of supreme sovereignty. The local universes are the starting points of true evolution, the spawning grounds of bona fide imperfect personalities endowed with the freewill choice of becoming cocreators of themselves as they are to be.
116:4.9 (1273.1)
The Magisterial Sons in their bestowals upon the evolutionary worlds eventually acquire natures expressive of Paradise divinity in experiential unification with the highest spiritual values of material human nature. And through these and other bestowals the Michael Creators likewise acquire the natures and cosmic viewpoints of their actual local universe children. Such Master Creator Sons approximate the completion of subsupreme experience; and when their local universe sovereignty is enlarged to embrace the associated Creative Spirits, it may be said to approximate the limits of supremacy within the present potentials of the evolutionary grand universe.
116:4.11 (1273.3)
The local universe is the starting place for those personalities who are farthest from God, and who can therefore experience the greatest degree of spiritual ascent in the universe, can achieve the maximum of experiential participation in the cocreation of themselves. These same local universes likewise provide the greatest possible depth of experience for the descending personalities, who thereby achieve something which is to them just as meaningful as the Paradise ascent is to an evolving creature.
116:4.12 (1273.4)
Mortal man appears to be necessary to the full function of God the Sevenfold as this divinity grouping culminates in the actualizing Supreme. There are many other orders of universe personalities who are equally necessary to the evolution of the almighty power of the Supreme, but this portrayal is presented for the edification of human beings, hence is largely limited to those factors operating in the evolution of God the Sevenfold which are related to mortal man.
116:5.1 (1273.5)
You have been instructed in the relationship of God the Sevenfold to the Supreme Being, and you should now recognize that the Sevenfold encompasses the controllers as well as the creators of the grand universe. These sevenfold controllers of the grand universe embrace the following:
116:5.10 (1273.14)
The bifurcation of energy and spirit (stemming from the conjoint presence of the Eternal Son and the Paradise Isle) was symbolized in the superuniverse sense when the Seven Master Spirits unitedly engaged in their first act of collective creation. This episode witnessed the appearance of the Seven Supreme Power Directors. Concomitant therewith the spiritual circuits of the Master Spirits contrastively differentiated from the physical activities of power director supervision, and immediately did the cosmic mind appear as a new factor co-ordinating matter and spirit.
116:5.11 (1274.1)
The Almighty Supreme is evolving as the overcontroller of the physical power of the grand universe. In the present universe age this potential of physical power appears to be centered in the Seven Supreme Power Directors, who operate through the fixed locations of the power centers and through the mobile presences of the physical controllers.
116:5.12 (1274.2)
The time universes are not perfect; that is their destiny. The struggle for perfection pertains not only to the intellectual and the spiritual levels but also to the physical level of energy and mass. The settlement of the seven superuniverses in light and life presupposes their attainment of physical stability. And it is conjectured that the final attainment of material equilibrium will signify the completed evolution of the physical control of the Almighty.
116:5.13 (1274.3)
In the early days of universe building even the Paradise Creators are primarily concerned with material equilibrium. The pattern of a local universe takes shape not only as a result of the activities of the power centers but also because of the space presence of the Creative Spirit. And throughout these early epochs of local universe building the Creator Son exhibits a little-understood attribute of material control, and he does not leave his capital planet until the gross equilibrium of the local universe has been established.
116:5.14 (1274.4)
In the final analysis, all energy responds to mind, and the physical controllers are the children of the mind God, who is the activator of Paradise pattern. The intelligence of the power directors is unremittingly devoted to the task of bringing about material control. Their struggle for physical dominance over the relationships of energy and the motions of mass never ceases until they achieve finite victory over the energies and masses which constitute their perpetual domains of activity.
116:5.15 (1274.5)
The spirit struggles of time and space have to do with the evolution of spirit dominance over matter by the mediation of (personal) mind; the physical (nonpersonal) evolution of the universes has to do with bringing cosmic energy into harmony with the equilibrium concepts of mind subject to the overcontrol of spirit. The total evolution of the entire grand universe is a matter of the personality unification of the energy-controlling mind with the spirit-co-ordinated intellect and will be revealed in the full appearance of the almighty power of the Supreme.
116:5.16 (1274.6)
The difficulty in arriving at a state of dynamic equilibrium is inherent in the fact of the growing cosmos. The established circuits of physical creation are being continually jeopardized by the appearance of new energy and new mass. A growing universe is an unsettled universe; hence no part of the cosmic whole can find real stability until the fullness of time witnesses the material completion of the seven superuniverses.
116:5.17 (1274.7)
In the settled universes of light and life there are no unexpected physical events of major importance. Relatively complete control over the material creation has been achieved; still the problems of the relationship of the settled universes to the evolving universes continue to challenge the skill of the Universe Power Directors. But these problems will gradually vanish with the diminution of new creative activity as the grand universe approaches culmination of evolutionary expression.
116:6.1 (1275.1)
In the evolutionary superuniverses energy-matter is dominant except in personality, where spirit through the mediation of mind is struggling for the mastery. The goal of the evolutionary universes is the subjugation of energy-matter by mind, the co-ordination of mind with spirit, and all of this by virtue of the creative and unifying presence of personality. Thus, in relation to personality, do physical systems become subordinate; mind systems, co-ordinate; and spirit systems, directive.
116:6.3 (1275.3)
On absolute levels, energy and spirit are one. But the moment departure is made from such absolute levels, difference appears, and as energy and spirit move spaceward from Paradise, the gulf between them widens until in the local universes they have become quite divergent. They are no longer identical, neither are they alike, and mind must intervene to interrelate them.
116:6.4 (1275.4)
That energy can be directionized by the action of controller personalities discloses the responsiveness of energy to mind action. That mass can be stabilized through the action of these same controlling entities indicates the responsiveness of mass to the order-producing presence of mind. And that spirit itself in volitional personality can strive through mind for the mastery of energy-matter discloses the potential unity of all finite creation.
116:6.5 (1275.5)
There is an interdependence of all forces and personalities throughout the universe of universes. Creator Sons and Creative Spirits depend on the co-operative function of the power centers and physical controllers in the organization of universes; the Supreme Power Directors are incomplete without the overcontrol of the Master Spirits. In a human being the mechanism of physical life is responsive, in part, to the dictates of (personal) mind. This very mind may, in turn, become dominated by the leadings of purposive spirit, and the result of such evolutionary development is the production of a new child of the Supreme, a new personal unification of the several kinds of cosmic reality.
116:6.6 (1275.6)
And as it is with the parts, so it is with the whole; the spirit person of Supremacy requires the evolutionary power of the Almighty to achieve completion of Deity and to attain destiny of Trinity association. The effort is made by the personalities of time and space, but the culmination and consummation of this effort is the act of the Almighty Supreme. And while the growth of the whole is thus a totalizing of the collective growth of the parts, it equally follows that the evolution of the parts is a segmented reflection of the purposive growth of the whole.
낙원에서는 단일세력과 영이 일치한다--이름으로만 구별될 수 있다. 하보나에서는 물질과 영이 뚜렷이 다르지만, 그와 동시에 본질적으로 조화돼있다. 반면에, 일곱 연방우주에서는 큰 차이가 있으며;시공우주 에너지와 신성한 영 사이에 넓은 간격이 있으며;따라서 물리적 원형{原型}과 영적 목적을 조화시키고 결국 통합시키는 데 정신이 활동할, 더 큰 체험 잠재성이 있다. 시간에-따라-진화하는 여러 공간 우주에는, 더 큰 신성 감소, 해결되기에 더 어려운 문제들, 그리고 이를 해결하는 체험을 획득할 수 있는 기회가 더 많이 있다. 이런 연방우주의 전체 상황은, 진화로 실존하는 더 큰 경기장이 생기게 하는데, 그 안에서 시공우주 체험 가능성은, 피조물과 창조주에게 --심지어 지존자 신격에게도-- 똑같이 쓸모 있다.
116:6.7 (1275.7)
On Paradise, monota and spirit are as one—indistinguishable except by name. In Havona, matter and spirit, while distinguishably different, are at the same time innately harmonious. In the seven superuniverses, however, there is great divergence; there is a wide gulf between cosmic energy and divine spirit; therefore is there a greater experiential potential for mind action in harmonizing and eventually unifying physical pattern with spiritual purposes. In the time-evolving universes of space there is greater divinity attenuation, more difficult problems to be solved, and larger opportunity to acquire experience in their solution. And this entire superuniverse situation brings into being a larger arena of evolutionary existence in which the possibility of cosmic experience is made available alike to creature and Creator—even to Supreme Deity.
116:6.8 (1276.1)
The dominance of spirit, which is existential on absolute levels, becomes an evolutionary experience on finite levels and in the seven superuniverses. And this experience is shared alike by all, from mortal man to the Supreme Being. All strive, personally strive, in the achievement; all participate, personally participate, in the destiny.
광우주는, 물리적으로 웅대하고, 영적으로 장엄하고, 지적으로 고결한 물질 창조일 뿐만 아니라, 당당하고 민감한 살아있는 유기체다. 활력이 넘치는 시공우주의 광대한 창조 체제에 두루, 실제 생명의 맥박이 뛰고 있다. 물리적 우주 실체는, 감지할 수 있는 전능한 지존자의 실체를 상징하며;마치 인간 육신 전체에 신경 감각 경로들의 망이 퍼져있는 것과 흡사하게, 물리적이고 살아있는 이 유기체에 정보 회로들이 스며있다. 물리적인 이 우주에는, 물리적 창조를 효과적으로 활성화시키는 에너지 통로들이 꽉 들어차 있는데, 이는 인간 육체가 음식물에서 흡수될 수 있는 에너지 산물들을 순환 분배함으로, 자양분을 공급하고 에너지를 얻는 것과 마찬가지다. 방대한 우주에는, 인간의 장치인 섬세한 화학-통제 체계에 비교될만한, 훌륭하게 총괄통제하는 조정 중심지들이 있을 수 있다. 그러나 너희가 동력 중심의 형세에 관하여 다만 조금이라도 알았다면, 우리는 유추함으로, 물리적 우주에 관해서 훨씬 더 많이 너희에게 일러줄 수 있었을 것이다.
116:7.1 (1276.2)
The grand universe is not only a material creation of physical grandeur, spirit sublimity, and intellectual magnitude, it is also a magnificent and responsive living organism. There is actual life pulsating throughout the mechanism of the vast creation of the vibrant cosmos. The physical reality of the universes is symbolic of the perceivable reality of the Almighty Supreme; and this material and living organism is penetrated by intelligence circuits, even as the human body is traversed by a network of neural sensation paths. This physical universe is permeated by energy lanes which effectively activate material creation, even as the human body is nourished and energized by the circulatory distribution of the assimilable energy products of nourishment. The vast universe is not without those co-ordinating centers of magnificent overcontrol which might be compared to the delicate chemical-control system of the human mechanism. But if you only knew something about the physique of a power center, we could, by analogy, tell you so much more about the physical universe.
116:7.3 (1276.4)
Mind has been given to mortals wherewith they may become self-conscious of identity and personality; and mind—even a Supreme Mind—has been bestowed upon the totality of the finite whereby the spirit of this emerging personality of the cosmos ever strives for the mastery of energy-matter.
116:7.6 (1276.7)
Man’s urge for Paradise perfection, his striving for God-attainment, creates a genuine divinity tension in the living cosmos which can only be resolved by the evolution of an immortal soul; this is what happens in the experience of a single mortal creature. But when all creatures and all Creators in the grand universe likewise strive for God-attainment and divine perfection, there is built up a profound cosmic tension which can only find resolution in the sublime synthesis of almighty power with the spirit person of the evolving God of all creatures, the Supreme Being.