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is SonIn the
previous Interim-Papers we have reviewed the meanings of the TRUE WORSHIP of
the Paradise Universal Father, the PRAYER SUPPLICATIONS to the realms of the
Paradise Eternal Son and His Spirit of Truth, and qualified PRAYER
REALIZATIONS by the spirit agencies of the Holy Spirit, the Mind of the
Paradise Conjoint Actor.
The following
Interim-Paper is devoted to further enlightenment about the true nature of
God.
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THE URANTIA BOOK—PAPER 10
10:7 THE OVERCONTROL OF SUPREMACY
Audio Version
10:7.1 The
First, Second, and Third Persons of Deity
are equal to each other, and they are one. " The
Lord our God is one God. " There is perfection of purpose and oneness of
execution in the divine Trinity
of eternal Deities. The Father, the Son, and the Conjoint Actor
are truly and divinely one. Of a truth it is written: "
I am the first, and I am the last, and beside me there is no God.
"
10:7.2 As
things appear to the mortal on the finite level, the Paradise Trinity,
like the Supreme Being, is concerned only with the total—total planet, total
universe, total superuniverse, total
grand universe.
This totality
attitude exists because the Trinity is the total of Deity and for many other
reasons.
10:7.3 The Supreme Being
is something less and something other than the Trinity functioning in the
finite universes; but within certain limits and during the present era of
incomplete power-personalization, this evolutionary Deity does appear to
reflect the attitude of the Trinity
of Supremacy. The Father, Son, and Spirit do not personally function
with the Supreme Being, but during the present universe age they collaborate
with him as the Trinity. We understand that they sustain a similar
relationship to the Ultimate. We often
conjecture as to what will be the personal relationship between the Paradise
Deities and God
the Supreme when he has finally evolved, but we do not really know.
10:7.4 We do not find
the overcontrol of Supremacy to be wholly
predictable. Furthermore, this unpredictability appears to be characterized
by a certain developmental incompleteness, undoubtedly an earmark of the
incompleteness of the Supreme and of the incompleteness of finite reaction to
the Paradise Trinity.
10:7.5 The mortal
mind can immediately think of a thousand and one things—catastrophic physical
events, appalling accidents, horrific disasters, painful illnesses, and
world-wide scourges—and ask whether such visitations are correlated in the
unknown maneuvering of this probable functioning of the Supreme Being.
Frankly, we do not know; we are not really sure. But we do observe that, as
time passes, all these difficult and more or less mysterious situations always
work out for the welfare and progress of the universes. It may be that the
circumstances of existence and the inexplicable vicissitudes of living are
all interwoven into a meaningful pattern of high value by the function of the
Supreme and the overcontrol of the Trinity.
10:7.6 As a son of God
you can discern the personal attitude of love in all the acts of God
the Father. But you will not always be able to understand how many
of the universe acts of the Paradise Trinity redound
to the good of the individual mortal on the evolutionary worlds of space. In
the progress of eternity the acts of the Trinity will be revealed as
altogether meaningful and considerate, but they do not always so appear to
the creatures of time.
REFERENCE:
The
Urantia Book, Paper 10, 10:7.1 – 10:7.6
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