P1278:6, 117:1.2
In the persons of the Supreme Creators the Gods have descended from Paradise
to the domains of time and space, there to create and to evolve creatures
with Paradise-attainment capacity who can ascend thereto in quest of the Father.
This universe procession of descending God-revealing Creators and ascending
God-seeking creatures is revelatory of the Deity evolution of the Supreme,
in whom both descenders and ascenders achieve mutuality of understanding,
the discovery of eternal and universal brotherhood. The Supreme Being thus
becomes the finite synthesis of the experience of the
perfect-Creator cause
and the
perfecting-creature response.
P1279:1, 117:1.3
The grand universe contains the possibility of, and ever seeks for, complete
unification, and this grows out of the fact that this cosmic existence is
a consequence of the creative acts and the power mandates of the Paradise
Trinity, which is unqualified unity. This very trinitarian unity is expressed
in the finite cosmos in the Supreme, whose reality becomes increasingly apparent
as the universes attain to the maximum level of Trinity identification.
P1279:2, 117:1.4
The will of the Creator and the will of the creature are qualitatively different,
but they are also experientially akin, for creature and Creator can collaborate
in the achievement of universe perfection. Man can work in liaison with God
and thereby cocreate an eternal finaliter. God can work even as humanity in
the incarnations of his Sons, who thereby achieve the supremacy of creature
experience.
P1279:3, 117:1.5
In the Supreme Being, Creator and creature are united in one Deity whose will
is expressive of one divine personality. And this will of the Supreme is something
more than the will of either creature or Creator, even as the sovereign will
of the Master Son of Nebadon is now something more than a combination of the
will of divinity and humanity. The union of Paradise perfection and time-space
experience yields a new meaning value on deity levels of reality.
P1279:4, 117:1.6
The evolving divine nature of the Supreme is becoming a faithful portrayal
of the matchless experience of all creatures and of all Creators in the grand
universe. In the Supreme, creatorship and creaturehood are at one; they are
forever united by that experience which was born of the vicissitudes attendant
upon the solution of the manifold problems which beset all finite creation
as it pursues the eternal path in quest of perfection and liberation from
the fetters of incompleteness.
P1279:5, 117:1.7
Truth, beauty, and goodness are correlated in the ministry of the Spirit,
the grandeur of Paradise, the mercy of the Son, and the experience of the
Supreme. God the Supreme is truth, beauty, and goodness, for these
concepts of divinity represent finite maximums of ideational experience. The
eternal sources of these triune qualities of divinity are on superfinite levels,
but a creature could only conceive of such sources as
supertruth,
superbeauty,
and
supergoodness.
P1279:6, 117:1.8
Michael, a creator, revealed the divine love of the Creator Father for his
terrestrial children. And having discovered and received this divine affection,
men can aspire to reveal this love to their brethren in the flesh. Such creature
affection is a true reflection of the love of the Supreme.
P1279:7, 117:1.9
The Supreme is
symmetrically inclusive. The First Source and Center is potential
in the three great Absolutes, is actual in Paradise, in the Son, and in the
Spirit; but the Supreme is both actual and potential, a being of personal
supremacy and of almighty power, responsive alike to creature effort and Creator
purpose; self-acting upon the universe and
self-reactive to the sum total
of the universe; and at one and the same time the supreme creator and the
supreme creature. The Deity of Supremacy is thus expressive of the sum total
of the entire finite.