PAPER 105: Section 3.
The Seven Absolutes Of Infinity
P1155:5, 105:3.1 The seven prime relationships within the I AM eternalize as the Seven Absolutes of Infinity. But though we may portray reality origins and infinity differentiation by a sequential narrative, in fact all seven Absolutes are unqualifiedly and co-ordinately eternal. It may be necessary for mortal minds to conceive of their beginnings, but always should this conception be overshadowed by the realization that the seven Absolutes had no beginning; they are eternal and as such have always been. The seven Absolutes are the premise of reality. They have been described in these papers as follows:
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1. The First Source and Center. First Person of Deity and primal nondeity
pattern, God, the Universal Father, creator, controller, and upholder; universal
love, eternal spirit, and infinite energy; potential of all potentials and
source of all actuals; stability of all statics and
dynamism of all change;
source of pattern and Father of persons. Collectively, all seven Absolutes
equivalate to infinity, but the Universal Father himself actually is infinite.
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2. The Second Source and Center. Second Person of Deity, the Eternal
and Original Son; the absolute personality realities of the I AM and the basis
for the realization-revelation of "I AM personality." No personality
can hope to attain the Universal Father except through his Eternal Son; neither
can personality attain to spirit levels of existence apart from the action
and aid of this absolute pattern for all personalities. In the Second Source
and Center spirit is unqualified while personality is absolute.
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3. The Paradise Source and Center. Second nondeity pattern, the eternal
Isle of Paradise; the basis for the realization-revelation of "I AM force"
and the foundation for the establishment of gravity control throughout the
universes. Regarding all actualized, nonspiritual, impersonal, and nonvolitional
reality, Paradise is the absolute of patterns. Just as spirit energy is related
to the Universal Father through the absolute personality of the Mother-Son,
so is all cosmic energy grasped in the gravity control of the First Source
and Center through the absolute pattern of the Paradise Isle. Paradise is
not in space; space exists relative to Paradise, and the chronicity of motion
is determined through Paradise relationship. The eternal Isle is absolutely
at rest; all other organized and organizing energy is in eternal motion; in
all space, only the presence of the Unqualified Absolute is quiescent, and
the Unqualified is co-ordinate with Paradise. Paradise exists at the focus
of space, the Unqualified pervades it, and all relative existence has its
being within this domain.
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4. The Third Source and Center. Third Person of Deity, the Conjoint
Actor; infinite integrator of Paradise cosmic energies with the spirit energies
of the Eternal Son; perfect co-ordinator of the motives of will and the mechanics
of force; unifier of all actual and actualizing reality. Through the ministrations
of his manifold children the Infinite Spirit reveals the mercy of the Eternal
Son while at the same time functioning as the infinite manipulator, forever
weaving the pattern of Paradise into the energies of space. This selfsame
Conjoint Actor, this God of Action, is the perfect expression of the limitless
plans and purposes of the Father-Son while functioning himself as the source
of mind and the bestower of intellect upon the creatures of a far-flung cosmos.
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5. The Deity Absolute. The
causational, potentially personal possibilities
of universal reality, the totality of all Deity potential. The Deity Absolute
is the purposive qualifier of the unqualified, absolute, and nondeity realities.
The Deity Absolute is the qualifier of the absolute and the
absolutizer of
the qualified -- the destiny inceptor.
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6. The Unqualified Absolute. Static, reactive, and abeyant; the unrevealed
cosmic infinity of the I AM; totality of
nondeified reality and finality of
all nonpersonal potential. Space limits the function of the Unqualified, but
the presence of the Unqualified is without limit, infinite. There is a concept
periphery to the master universe, but the presence of the Unqualified is limitless;
even eternity cannot exhaust the boundless quiescence of this nondeity Absolute.
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7. The Universal Absolute. Unifier of the deified and the undeified;
correlator of the absolute and the relative. The Universal Absolute (being
static, potential, and associative) compensates the tension between the ever-existent
and the uncompleted.
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The Seven Absolutes of Infinity constitute the beginnings of reality. As mortal
minds would regard it, the First Source and Center would appear to be antecedent
to all absolutes. But such a postulate, however helpful, is invalidated by
the eternity coexistence of the Son, the Spirit, the three Absolutes, and
the Paradise Isle.
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It is a truth that the Absolutes are manifestations of the I AM-First
Source and Center; it is a fact that these Absolutes never had a beginning
but are co-ordinate eternals with the First Source and Center. The relationships
of absolutes in eternity cannot always be presented without involving paradoxes
in the language of time and in the concept patterns of space. But regardless
of any confusion concerning the origin of the Seven Absolutes of Infinity,
it is both fact and truth that all reality is predicated upon their eternity
existence and infinity relationships.