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# 44 published Dec 20, 2003
GROWING REALIZATIONS OF THE TRINITY
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1. EVOLVING TRINITY CONCEPTS
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Jesus taught his apostles the truth regarding the persons of the Paradise Trinity, but they thought he spoke figuratively and symbolically. Having been nurtured in Hebraic monotheism, they found it difficult to entertain any belief that seemed to conflict with their dominating concept of Yahweh. And the early Christians inherited the Hebraic prejudice against the Trinity concept. [Yet the plural Deity word in the Old Testament, "Elohim", meaning the "Gods", is found about 2500 times; the singular Deity (also in Old Testament) word, "Eloah", meaning "God" singular, is found only about 250 times ! "Let US make Man in OUR Own Image" is clearly plural Deity ! (Gen 1:26-27)]
The first Trinity of Christianity was proclaimed at Antioch and consisted of God, his Word, and his Wisdom. Paul knew of the Paradise Trinity of Father, Son, and Spirit, but he seldom preached about it and made mention thereof in only a few of his letters to the newly forming churches. ...
The Christian concept of the Trinity, which began to gain recognition near the close of the first century after Christ, was comprised of the Universal Father, our Creator Son Jesus Christ, and our Divine Ministering Holy Spirit and Creative Consort of the Creator Son. [She is also called by some here: "the Bride of Christ.]
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2. TRINITY UNITY AND DEITY PLURALITY
Monotheism arose as a philosophic protest against the inconsistency of polytheism. It developed first through pantheon organizations with the departmentalization of supernatural activities, then through the henotheistic exaltation of one god above the many, and finally through the exclusion of all but the One God of final value.
Trinitarianism grows out of the experiential protest against the impossibility of conceiving the oneness of a deanthropomorphized solitary Deity of unrelated universe significance. Given a sufficient time, philosophy tends to abstract the personal qualities from the Deity concept of pure monotheism, thus reducing this idea of an unrelated God to the status of a pantheistic Absolute. [merely an omnipresent "IT IS" that does not satisfy our hungry souls seeking our True loving Personal Father God and He/They seeking us in a lasting Father and Sons Family Relationship.] It has always been difficult to understand the Personal nature of a God who has no Personal relationships in equality with other and Co-ordinate Personal Beings. Personality in Deity demands that such Deity exist in relation to other and equal Personal Deity.
Through the recognition of the Trinity concept the mind of man can hope to grasp something of the interrelationship of love and law in the time-space creations. Through spiritual faith man gains insight into the love of God but soon discovers that this spiritual faith has no influence on the ordained laws of the material universe. Irrespective of the firmness of man's belief in God as his Paradise Father, expanding cosmic horizons demand that he also give recognition to the reality of Paradise Deity as universal law, that he recognize the Trinity sovereignty extending outward from Paradise and overshadowing even the evolving local universes of the Creator Sons [our Master-Maker Jesus Christ Michael] and Creative Daughters [our Holy Spirit Partner of Jesus] of the three Eternal Persons whose Deity Union is the fact and reality and eternal indivisibility of the Paradise Trinity.
And this selfsame Paradise Trinity is a Real Entity -- not a personality but nonetheless a true and Absolute Reality; not a personality but nonetheless compatible with coexistent personalities -- the Personalities of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. The Trinity is a supersummative Deity Reality eventuating out of the [Coordinate] Conjoining of the three Paradise Deities. The qualities, characteristics, and functions of the Trinity are not the simple sum of the attributes of the three Paradise Deities; Trinity functions are something unique, original, and not wholly predictable from an analysis of the attributes of Father, Son, and Spirit. [a very crude material illustration is to take three basic elements of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen; and then consider the millions of complex organic compounds that can be made from many combinations of C, H and O -- each very unique and much different than just C, H, and O by themselves -- and then with the other basic elements, such a N, S, P and others. ]
For example: The Master, when on earth, admonished his followers that justice is never a personal act; it is always a group function. Neither do the Gods, as persons, administer justice. But they perform this very function as a collective whole, as the Paradise Trinity. [The Trinity Government of All Reality]
The conceptual grasp of the Trinity association of Father, Son, and Spirit prepares the human mind for the further presentation of certain other threefold relationships. Theological reason may be fully satisfied by the concept of the Paradise Trinity, but philosophical and cosmological reason demand the recognition of the other triune associations of the First Source and Center, those triunities in which the Infinite functions in various non-Father capacities of universal manifestation -- the relationships of the God of force, energy, power, causation, reaction, potentiality, actuality, gravity, tension, pattern, principle, and unity.
[These added comments in brackets are by Teacher-Brother Dave. I do personally answer all your sincere questions and comments by email, or in our public Forums, or in our private chat room, as you prefer.]
# 45 published Dec 27, 2003
GROWING REALIZATIONS OF THE TRINITY
3. TRINITIES AND TRIUNITIES
While mankind has sometimes grasped at an understanding of the Trinity of the three Persons of Deity, consistency demands that the human intellect perceive that there are certain relationships between all seven Absolutes. But all that which is true of the Paradise Trinity is not necessarily true of a triunity, for a triunity is something other than a trinity. In certain functional aspects a triunity may be analogous to a trinity, but it is never homologous [a matching structure] in nature with a trinity.
Mortal man is passing through a great age of expanding horizons and enlarging concepts on earth, and his cosmic philosophy must accelerate in evolution to keep pace with the expansion of the intellectual arena of human thought. As the cosmic consciousness of mortal man expands, he perceives the interrelatedness of all that he finds in his material science, intellectual philosophy, and spiritual insight. Still, with all this belief in the unity of the cosmos, man perceives the diversity of all existence. In spite of all concepts concerning the immutability [unchangeableness, absoluteness] of Deity, man perceives that he lives in a universe of constant change and experiential growth. Regardless of the realization of the survival of spiritual values, man has ever to reckon with the mathematics and premathematics of force, energy, and power.
In some manner the eternal repleteness [comprehensive super-completeness] of Infinity must be reconciled with the time-growth of the evolving universes and with the incompleteness of the experiential inhabitants thereof. [finite, perfecting mankind] In some way the conception of total infinitude must be so segmented and qualified that the mortal intellect and the morontia soul can grasp this concept of final value and spiritualizing significance.
While reason demands a monotheistic unity [One God as Primal and Final Source and Center: I AM: the Father-Force of All Reality] of cosmic reality, finite experience requires the postulate of plural Absolutes and of their co-ordination in cosmic relationships. Without co-ordinate existences there is no possibility for the appearance of diversity of absolute relationships, no chance for the operation of differentials, variables, modifiers, attenuators, qualifiers, or diminishers. [God always, in past eternity, had Coordinate and Subordinate Sons and Daughters and many other Beings and Entities; otherwise, He could not BE the Eternal Father ! Paradise is the infinite-sized Home of God, fully big enough for His/Their infinite number of Progeny or "Children".]
In this fifth epochal revelation, total Reality (Infinity) has been presented as it exists in the seven [co-ordinate] Absolutes:
1. The Universal Father.
2. The Eternal Son.
3. The Infinite Spirit. [The first three are the ONE Trinity Center of three Deity Persons]
4. The Isle of Paradise. [ONE infinite, eternal Home on the highest, existential level]
5. The Deity Absolute.
6. The Universal Absolute.
7. The Unqualified Absolute.[ these three Absolutes, on all subinfinite levels, are ONE Absolute in infinity]
The First Source and Center, who is Father to the Eternal Son, is also Pattern to the Paradise Isle. He is personality unqualified in the Son but personality potentialized in the Deity Absolute. The Father is energy revealed in Paradise-Havona [Havona has one billion very high transcendental spheres - and Havona is a perfected example of Infinite Paradise to us that "buffers" Paradise and the revolving, growing universes and super-universes] and at the same time energy concealed in the Unqualified Absolute. The Infinite is ever disclosed in the ceaseless acts of the Conjoint Actor [The Infinite Spirit acting for and with and as both the Father and the Son conjointly] while He is eternally functioning in the compensating but enshrouded activities of the Universal Absolute. Thus is the Father related to the six coordinate Absolutes, and thus do all seven encompass the circle of Infinity throughout the endless cycles of Eternity.
It would seem that triunity of absolute relationships is inevitable. Personality seeks other Personality association on absolute as well as on all other levels. [Yes, the Father God desires close and personal relations with even lowly (just starting out to Glory) you and me ! Wonderful ! Abba is Jesus' Personal word for the Father God of All; Abba means Daddy - very Personal ! ] And the association of the three Paradise Personalities eternalizes the first triunity, the Personality Union of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. For when these three persons, as Persons, conjoin for united function, they thereby constitute a triunity of functional unity, not a trinity -- an organic entity -- but nonetheless a triunity, a threefold functional aggregate unanimity.
The Paradise Trinity is not a triunity; it is not a functional unanimity; rather is it undivided and indivisible Deity. The Father, Son, and Spirit (as Persons) can sustain a relationship to the Paradise Trinity, for the Trinity is their undivided Deity. The Father, Son, and Spirit sustain no such personal relationship to the first triunity, for that is their functional union as three persons. Only as the Trinity -- as undivided Deity -- do They collectively sustain an external relationship to the triunity of their Personal aggregation. [Yes, much of this is not very comprehensible to most humans here now; but remember that the Trinity, and many other Deity associations, including Paradise and the Absolute(s), must be infinitely complex, or they would be merely sub-infinite. This is just an introduction; much more will be posted here later to better clarify these expanding concepts.]
Thus does the Paradise Trinity stand unique among absolute relationships, there are several existential triunities but only one existential Trinity. A triunity is not an entity. It is functional rather than organic. Its members are partners rather than corporative. The components of the triunities may be entities, but a triunity itself is an association.
There is, however, one point of comparison between trinity and triunity: Both eventuate in functions that are something other than the discernible sum of the attributes of the component members. But while they are thus comparable from a functional standpoint, they otherwise exhibit no categorical relationship. They are roughly related as the relation of function to structure. But the function of the triunity association is not the function of the trinity structure or entity.
The triunities are nonetheless real; they are very real. In them is total reality functionalized, and through them does the Universal Father exercise immediate and personal control over the master functions of infinity.
[These added comments in brackets are by Teacher-Brother Dave. I do personally answer all your sincere questions and comments by email, or in our public Forums, or in our private chat room, as you prefer.]
# 46 published Jan 03, 2004
GROWING REALIZATIONS OF THE TRINITY
4. THE SEVEN TRIUNITIES
In attempting the description of seven triunities, attention is directed to the fact that the Universal Father is the primal member of each. HE IS, was, and ever will be: the First Universal Father-Source, Absolute Center, Primal Cause, Universal Controller, Limitless Energizer, Original Unity, Unqualified Upholder, First Person of Deity, Primal Cosmic Pattern, and Essence of Infinity. The Universal Father is the Personal Cause of the Absolutes; He is the Absolute of Absolutes.
The nature and meaning of the seven triunities may be suggested as:
The First Triunity -- the personal-purposive triunity. This is the grouping of the three Deity Personalities:
1. The Universal Father.
2. The Eternal Son.
3. The Infinite Spirit.
This is the threefold union of love, mercy, and ministry -- the purposive and personal association of the three eternal Paradise Personalities. This is the divinely fraternal, creature-loving, fatherly-acting, and ascension-promoting association. The Divine Personalities of this first triunity are Personality-bequeathing, Spirit-bestowing, and Mind-endowing Gods.
This is the triunity of infinite volition; it acts throughout the eternal present and in all of the past-present-future flow of time. This association yields volitional infinity and provides the mechanisms whereby Personal Deity becomes self-revelatory to the creatures of the evolving cosmos. [In Jesus' omnipresent here Spirit of Truth, you and I may even now each personally realize in God-consciousness: "I am a Beloved son of I AM; Thank You our Universal and Eternal Father-Son, One in Spirit."]
The Second Triunity -- the power-pattern triunity. Whether it be a tiny ultimaton, [100 ultimatons are the components of each tiny electron] a blazing star, or a whirling nebula, even the central or superuniverses, from the smallest to the largest material organizations, always is the physical pattern -- the cosmic configuration -- derived from the function of this triunity. This association consists of:
1. The Father-Son.
2. The Paradise Isle.
3. The Conjoint Actor.
Energy is organized by the cosmic agents of the Third Source and Center; [aka the Conjoint Actor, aka the Infinite Spirit; three designations of the Third Person of the Trinity] energy is fashioned after the pattern of Paradise, the absolute materialization; but behind all of this ceaseless manipulation is the presence of the Father-Son, whose union first activated the Paradise pattern in the appearance of Havona concomitant with the birth of the Infinite Spirit, the Conjoint Actor. [Paradise is the pattern of an infinite ellipse, 7 infinite units "tall" and 6 infinite units "wide"; having no location in space]
In religious experience, creatures make contact with the God who is love, but such spiritual insight must never eclipse the intelligent recognition of the universe fact of the pattern which is Paradise. The Paradise Personalities enlist the freewill adoration of all creatures by the compelling power of divine love and lead all such Spirit-born Personalities into the supernal delights of the unending service of the finaliter sons of God. The second triunity is the architect of the space stage whereon these transactions unfold; it determines the patterns of cosmic configuration. [What a Glorious Destiny in Finality we all may have ! if we so choose to seek and find our True Father God in Jesus in Spirit !]
Love may characterize the Divinity of the first triunity, but Pattern is the galactic manifestation of the second triunity. What the first triunity is to evolving personalities, the second triunity is to the evolving universes. Pattern and Personality are two of the great manifestations of the acts of the First Source and Center; [God the Father-infinite] and no matter how difficult it may be to comprehend, it is nonetheless true that the power-Pattern and the loving Person are one and the same universal Reality; the Paradise Isle and the Eternal Son are co-ordinate but antipodal Revelations of the unfathomable nature of the Universal Father-Force. [Yes, in Him, all things and all realities consist; and our Father-Son Jesus Christ Michael IS the Pattern Personality in our universe Who is making and remaking each of us here into the perfect and perfected Images of God that we will be.]
The Third Triunity -- the spirit-evolutional triunity. The entirety of spiritual manifestation has its beginning and end in this association, consisting of:
1. The Universal Father.
2. The Son-Spirit.
3. The Deity Absolute.
From spirit potency to Paradise Spirit, all spirit finds reality expression in this triune association of the pure spirit essence of the Father, the active spirit values of the Son-Spirit, and the unlimited spirit potentials of the Deity Absolute. The existential values of spirit have their primordial genesis, complete manifestation, and final destiny in this triunity.
The Father exists before spirit; the Son-Spirit functions as active creative spirit; the Deity Absolute exists as all-encompassing spirit, even beyond spirit. [More on this later; however, we may now realize that Paradise Spirit is eternal and God the Father-Infinite is primal -- First Source and Center of all Reality. God is Spirit to us who are persons in space-time; God is always One in Spirit manifestation to us.]
The Fourth Triunity -- the triunity of energy infinity. Within this triunity there eternalizes the beginnings and the endings of all energy reality, from space potency to monota. [the oneness of Paradise Energy and Paradise Spirit is Monota (mono = one) ] This grouping embraces the following:
1. The Father-Spirit.
2. The Paradise Isle.
3. The Unqualified Absolute.
Paradise is the center of the force-energy activation of the cosmos -- the universe position [we could say "infinite Home" of God] of the First Source and Center, the cosmic focal point of the Unqualified Absolute, and the source of all energy. Existentially present within this triunity is the energy potential of the cosmos-infinite, of which the grand universe and the master universe are only partial manifestations. [even this much smaller grand universe is much bigger than most mathematicians, cosmologists, astronomers and philosophers can here imagine ! and that is just a present supreme level of the (potentially to us) supreme-ultimate-absolute-infinite Universe (Cosmos) of Universes without end, and much more]
The fourth triunity absolutely controls the fundamental units of cosmic energy and releases them from the grasp of the Unqualified Absolute in direct proportion to the appearance in the experiential Deities [God the Supreme, God the Ultimate and God the Absolute] of subabsolute capacity to control and stabilize the metamorphosing cosmos.
This triunity is force and energy. The endless possibilities of the Unqualified Absolute are centered around the absolutum [roughly, the Substance of the stationary systems of Reality] of the Isle of Paradise, whence emanate the unimaginable agitations of the otherwise static quiescence of the Unqualified. And the endless throbbing of the material Paradise heart of the infinite cosmos beats in harmony with the unfathomable pattern and the unsearchable plan of the Infinite Energizer, the First Source and Center. [the 5th, 6th and 7th Triunities and the two Triodities will continue here next Sat]
[These added comments in brackets are by Teacher-Brother Dave. I do personally answer all your sincere questions and comments by email, or in our public Forums, or in our private chat room, as you prefer.]
# 47 published Jan 10, 2004
GROWING REALIZATIONS OF THE TRINITY
4. THE SEVEN TRIUNITIES - continued
The Fifth Triunity -- the triunity of reactive infinity. This association consists of:
1. The Universal Father.
2. The Universal Absolute.
3. The Unqualified Absolute.
This grouping yields the eternalization of the functional infinity realization of all that is actualizable within the domains of nondeity reality. This triunity manifests unlimited reactive capacity to the volitional, causative, tensional, and patternal actions and presences of the other triunities. [Later, more here will be presented on the Absolutes - the undisclosed infinity potentials of God. In Infinity, all three Absolutes are One]
The Sixth Triunity -- the triunity of cosmic-associated Deity. This grouping consists of:
1. The Universal Father.
2. The Deity Absolute.
3. The Universal Absolute.
This is the association of Deity-in-the-cosmos, the immanence of Deity in conjunction with the transcendence of Deity. This is the last outreach of divinity on the levels of infinity toward those realities which lie outside the domain of deified reality.
The Seventh Triunity -- the triunity of infinite unity. This is the unity of infinity functionally manifest in time and eternity, the co-ordinate unification of actuals and potentials. This group consists of:
1. The Universal Father.
2. The Conjoint Actor. [The Infinite Spirit acting conjointly - for both the Paradise Father and the Eternal Son]
3. The Universal Absolute.
The Conjoint Actor universally integrates the varying functional aspects of all actualized reality on all levels of manifestation, from finites [Supreme levels] through transcendentals [Ultimate levels] and on to absolutes. The Universal Absolute perfectly compensates the differentials inherent in the varying aspects of all incomplete reality, from the limitless potentialities of active-volitional and causative Deity reality to the boundless possibilities of static, reactive, nondeity reality in the incomprehensible domains of the Unqualified Absolute.
As they function in this triunity, the Conjoint Actor and the Universal Absolute are alike responsive to Deity and to nondeity presences, as also is the First Source and Center, who in this relationship is to all intents and purposes conceptually indistinguishable from the I AM.
These approximations are sufficient to elucidate [to explain, clarify] the concept of the triunities. Not knowing the ultimate level of the triunities, you cannot fully comprehend the first seven. While we do not deem it wise to attempt any further elaboration, we may state that there are fifteen triune associations of the First Source and Center, eight of which are unrevealed in these papers. These unrevealed associations are concerned with realities, actualities, and potentialities which are beyond the experiential level of supremacy. [As good and proper Revelation - as this is - would never try to stifle your progressive and ongoing God-given creative imaginations by presenting an over-revelation. Too little light is dull and boring; too much light is blinding; we are all called by Jesus to let our light so shine for maximum effectiveness.]
The triunities are the functional balance wheel of infinity, the unification of the uniqueness of the Seven Infinity Absolutes. [presented here earlier] It is the existential presence of the triunities that enables the Father- I AM to experience functional infinity unity despite the diversification of Infinity into seven Absolutes. The First Source and Center [God the Universal Father-Infinite-I AM] is the unifying member of all triunities; in Him all things have their unqualified beginnings, eternal existences, and infinite destinies -- "in Him all things consist."
Although these associations cannot augment the infinity of the Father-I AM, they do appear to make possible the subinfinite and subabsolute manifestations of His Reality. The seven triunities multiply versatility, eternalize new depths, deitize new values, disclose new potentialities, reveal new meanings; and all these diversified manifestations in time and space and in the eternal cosmos are existent in the hypothetical stasis of the original Infinity of the I AM.
5. TRIODITIES
There are certain other triune relationships which are non-Father in constitution, but they are not real triunities, and they are always distinguished from the Father triunities. They are called variously, associate triunities, co-ordinate triunities, and triodities. They are consequential to the existence of the triunities. Two of these associations are constituted as follows:
The Triodity of Actuality. This triodity consists in the interrelationship of the three absolute actuals:
1. The Eternal Son.
2. The Paradise Isle.
3. The Conjoint Actor.
The Eternal Son is the absolute of spirit reality, the absolute Personality. The Paradise Isle is the absolute of cosmic reality, the absolute Pattern. The Conjoint Actor is the absolute of Mind reality, the co-ordinate of absolute Spirit reality, and the existential Deity synthesis of personality and power. This triune association eventuates the co-ordination of the sum total of actualized reality -- spirit, cosmic, or mindal. It is unqualified in actuality.
The Triodity of Potentiality. This triodity consists in the association of the three Absolutes of potentiality:
1. The Deity Absolute.
2. The Universal Absolute.
3. The Unqualified Absolute.
Thus are interassociated the infinity reservoirs of all latent energy reality-- spirit, mindal, or cosmic. This association yields the integration of all latent energy reality. It is infinite in potential.
As the triunities are primarily concerned with the functional unification of infinity, so are triodities involved in the cosmic appearance of experiential Deities. The triunities are indirectly concerned, but the triodities are directly concerned, in the experiential Deities--Supreme, Ultimate, and Absolute. They appear in the emerging power-personality synthesis of the Supreme Being. And to the time creatures of space the Supreme Being is a revelation of the unity of the I AM.
[Presented by a Melchizedek of our Local Universe made/being made by our Creator Father-Son Jesus Christ Michael. Melchizedeks are very high Sons of God, just one step subordinate to our Sovereign Master-Maker Jesus Christ. In the Bible they are called "Lesser Christs". Our Local Universe of Nebadon has about 10 million Melchizedek Sons of God, about one per inhabited planet when Nebadon is completed by Jesus.]
[These added comments in brackets are by Teacher-Brother Dave. I do personally answer all your sincere questions and comments by email, or in our public Forums, or in our private chat room, as you prefer.]
# 48 published Jan 17, 2004
Paper 105
DEITY AND REALITY
Introduction
[Brother Dave's initial comments: It is God's will that each Human Person should use his mind, as well as his heart and soul, to find God, to know Him/Them in Jesus Christ our Good Master and Maker , and to continue to strive to more fully comprehend universal Reality-Infinity. Some of this great Revelation will be difficult at first; but all seeking, sincere Humans will benefit from perusals of this important Paper, and discussing and sharing same with friends and relatives. The Face that the Infinite God of All Reality turns to us ... is JUST LIKE OUR JESUS ! ... full of Fatherly and Elder Brotherly love, mercy and ministry to guide and sustain us in our eternal ascension career of God-finding and God-revealing.]
"To even high orders of universe intelligences infinity is only partially comprehensible, and the finality of reality is only relatively understandable. The human mind, as it seeks to penetrate the eternity-mystery of the origin and destiny of all that is called real, may helpfully approach the problem by conceiving eternity-infinity as an almost limitless ellipse which is produced by one absolute cause, and which functions throughout this universal circle of endless diversification, ever seeking some absolute and infinite potential of destiny.
When the mortal intellect attempts to grasp the concept of reality totality, such a finite mind is face to face with infinity-reality; reality totality is infinity and therefore can never be fully comprehended by any mind that is subinfinite in concept capacity.
The human mind can hardly form an adequate concept of eternity existences, and without such comprehension it is impossible to portray even our concepts of reality totality. Nevertheless, we may attempt such a presentation, although we are fully aware that our concepts must be subjected to profound distortion in the process of translation-modification to the comprehension level of mortal mind.
1. THE PHILOSOPHIC CONCEPT OF
THE I AM
Absolute primal causation in infinity the philosophers of the universes attribute to the Universal Father functioning as the infinite, the eternal, and the absolute I AM.
There are many elements of danger attendant upon the presentation to the mortal intellect of this idea of an infinite I AM since this concept is so remote from human experiential understanding as to involve serious distortion of meanings and misconception of values. Nevertheless, the philosophic concept of the I AM does afford finite beings some basis for an attempted approach to the partial comprehension of absolute origins and infinite destinies. But in all our attempts to elucidate the genesis and fruition of reality, let it be made clear that this concept of the I AM is, in all personality meanings and values, synonymous with the First Person of Deity, the Universal Father of all personalities. But this postulate of the I AM is not so clearly identifiable in undeified realms of universal reality. [for example, there is no " I AM atom"; but there is I AM Father-Paradise Force-Source making and sustaining each atom, and smaller parts partially known here. Matter is undeified reality out in the universes. Even "nature" is not God here; God is a Transcendent Personal Reality Who can be Known by you and by me in Spirit and in Truth ! Wonderful !]
The I AM is the Infinite; the I AM is also infinity. From the sequential, time viewpoint, all reality has its origin in the infinite I AM, whose solitary existence in past infinite eternity must be a finite creature's premier philosophic postulate. The concept of the I AM connotes unqualified infinity, the undifferentiated reality of all that could ever be in all of an infinite eternity.
As an existential concept the I AM is neither deified nor undeified, neither actual nor potential, neither personal nor impersonal, neither static nor dynamic. No qualification can be applied to the Infinite except to state that the I AM is. The philosophic postulate of the I AM is one universe concept which is somewhat more difficult of comprehension than that of the Unqualified Absolute.
To the finite mind there simply must be a beginning, and though there never was a real beginning to reality, still there are certain source relationships which reality manifests to infinity. The prereality, primordial, eternity situation may be thought of something like this: At some infinitely distant, hypothetical, past-eternity moment, the I AM may be conceived as both thing and no thing, as both cause and effect, as both volition and response. At this hypothetical eternity moment there is no differentiation throughout all infinity. Infinity is filled by the Infinite; the Infinite encompasses infinity. This is the hypothetical static moment of eternity; actuals are still contained within their potentials, [the three Absolutes, which are also eternal in the infinite will of God] and potentials have not yet appeared within the infinity of the I AM. But even in this conjectured situation we must assume the existence of the possibility of self-will. [To God the Father of All, all "not yet's" and all "will be's" are Eternal NOW to/in Him !]
Ever remember that man's comprehension of the Universal Father is a personal experience. God, as your spiritual Father, is comprehensible to you and to all other mortals; but your experiential worshipful concept of the Universal Father must always be less than your philosophic postulate of the infinity of the First Source and Center, the I AM. When we speak of the Father, we mean God as he is understandable by his creatures both high and low, but there is much more of Deity which is not comprehensible to universe creatures. God, your Father and my Father, is that phase of the Infinite which we perceive in our personalities as an actual experiential reality, [in Jesus and in Their One Holy Spirit of Truth !!!] but the I AM ever remains as our hypothesis of all that we feel is unknowable of the first Source and Center. And even that hypothesis probably falls far short of the unfathomed infinity of original reality.
The universe of universes, [the Central and the Grand and the Master universes and more for the future to infinity] with its innumerable host of inhabiting personalities, is a vast and complex organism, but the First Source and Center [I AM GOD] is infinitely more complex than the universes and personalities which have become real in response to His willful mandates. When you stand in awe of the magnitude of the master universe, pause to consider that even this inconceivable creation can be no more than a partial revelation of the Infinite.
Infinity is indeed remote from the experience level of mortal comprehension, but even in this age on your planet, your concepts of infinity are growing, and they will continue to grow throughout your endless careers stretching onward into future eternity. Unqualified infinity is meaningless to the finite creature, but infinity is capable of self-limitation and is susceptible of reality expression to all levels of universe existences. And the face which the Infinite turns toward all universe personalities is the face of a Father, the Universal Father of love." [Thank You our loving Father Jesus for showing us here the loving Universal Father Infinite I AM; I am pleased to be Your Beloved Son ...]
[These added comments in brackets are by Teacher-Brother Dave. I do personally answer all your sincere questions and comments by email, or in our public Forums, or in our private chat room, as you prefer.]
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