PAPER 117: Section 2.
The Source Of Evolutionary Growth
P1280:1, 117:2.1 The Supreme is God- in-time; his is the secret of creature growth in time; his also is the conquest of the incomplete present and the consummation of the perfecting future. And the final fruits of all finite growth are: power controlled through mind by spirit by virtue of the unifying and creative presence of personality. The culminating consequence of all this growth is the Supreme Being.
P1280:2, 117:2.2 To mortal man, existence is equivalent to growth. And so indeed it would seem to be, even in the larger universe sense, for spirit-led existence does seem to result in experiential growth -- augmentation of status. We have long held, however, that the present growth which characterizes creature existence in the present universe age is a function of the Supreme. We equally hold that this kind of growth is peculiar to the age of the growth of the Supreme, and that it will terminate with the completion of the growth of the Supreme.
P1280:3, 117:2.3
Consider the status of the creature-trinitized sons: They are born and live
in the present universe age; they have personalities, together with mind and
spirit endowments. They have experiences and the memory thereof, but they
do not grow as do ascenders. It is our belief and understanding that
these creature-trinitized sons, while they are in the present universe
age, are really of the next universe age -- the age which will follow
the completion of the growth of the Supreme. Hence they are not in the
Supreme as of his present status of incompleteness and consequent growth.
Thus they are nonparticipating in the experiential growth of the present universe
age, being held in reserve for the next universe age.
P1280:4, 117:2.4
My own order, the Mighty Messengers, being Trinity embraced, are nonparticipating
in the growth of the present universe age. In a sense we are in status as
of the preceding universe age as in fact are the Stationary Sons of the Trinity.
One thing is certain: Our status is fixed by the Trinity embrace, and experience
no longer eventuates in growth.
P1280:5, 117:2.5
This is not true of the finaliters nor of any other of the evolutionary and
experiential orders which are participants in the growth process of the Supreme.
You mortals now living on Urantia who may aspire to Paradise attainment and
finaliter status should understand that such a destiny is only realizable
because you are in and of the Supreme, hence are participants in the cycle
of the growth of the Supreme.
P1280:6, 117:2.6
There will come an end sometime to the growth of the Supreme; his status will
achieve completion (in the energy-spirit sense). This termination of the evolution
of the Supreme will also witness the ending of creature evolution as a part
of Supremacy. What kind of growth may characterize the universes of outer
space, we do not know. But we are very sure that it will be something very
different from anything that has been seen in the present age of the evolution
of the seven superuniverses. It will undoubtedly be the function of the evolutionary
citizens of the grand universe to compensate the outer-spacers for this deprivation
of the growth of Supremacy.
P1280:7, 117:2.7
As existent upon the consummation of the present universe age, the Supreme
Being will function as an experiential sovereign in the grand universe. Outer-spacers
-- citizens of the next universe age -- will have a postsuperuniverse growth
potential, a capacity for evolutionary attainment
presupposing the sovereignty
of the Almighty Supreme, hence excluding creature participation in the power-personality
synthesis of the present universe age.
P1281:1, 117:2.8
Thus may the incompleteness of the Supreme be regarded as a virtue since it
makes possible the evolutionary growth of the
creature-creation of the present
universes.
Emptiness does have its virtue, for it may become experientially
filled.
P1281:2, 117:2.9
One of the most intriguing questions in finite philosophy is this: Does the
Supreme Being actualize in response to the evolution of the grand universe,
or does this finite cosmos progressively evolve in response to the gradual
actualization of the Supreme? Or is it possible that they are mutually interdependent
for their development? that they are evolutionary reciprocals, each initiating
the growth of the other? Of this we are certain: Creatures and universes,
high and low, are evolving within the Supreme, and as they evolve, there is
appearing the unified summation of the entire finite activity of this universe
age. And this is the appearance of the Supreme Being, to all personalities
the evolution of the almighty power of God the Supreme.