The Urantia Book -- Foreword
Foreword: Section XII
XII. The Trinities
P15:7, 0:12.1 The original and eternal Paradise
Trinity is existential and was inevitable. This never-beginning Trinity
was inherent in the fact of the differentiation of the personal and the
nonpersonal by the Father's unfettered will and factualized when his personal
will co-ordinated these dual realities by mind. The post-Havona Trinities
are experiential -- are inherent in the creation of two subabsolute and
evolutional levels of power-personality manifestation in the master universe.
P15:8, 0:12.2 The Paradise
Trinity -- the eternal Deity union of the Universal Father, the Eternal
Son, and the Infinite Spirit -- is existential in actuality, but all potentials
are experiential. Therefore does this Trinity constitute the only Deity
reality embracing infinity, and therefore do there occur the universe phenomena
of the actualization of God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and God the
Absolute.
P15:9, 0:12.3 The first
and second experiential Trinities, the post-Havona Trinities, cannot be
infinite because they embrace derived Deities, Deities evolved by
the experiential actualization of realities created or eventuated by the
existential Paradise Trinity. Infinity of divinity is being ever enriched,
if not enlarged, by finity and absonity of creature and Creator experience.
P16:1, 0:12.4 Trinities
are truths of relationship and facts of co-ordinate Deity manifestation.
Trinity functions encompass Deity realities, and Deity realities always
seek realization and manifestation in personalization. God the Supreme,
God the Ultimate, and even God the Absolute are therefore divine inevitabilities.
These three experiential Deities were potential in the existential Trinity,
the Paradise Trinity, but their universe emergence as personalities of
power is dependent in part on their own experiential functioning in the
universes of power and personality and in part on the experiential achievements
of the post-Havona Creators and Trinities.
P16:2, 0:12.5 The two post-Havona
Trinities, the Ultimate and the Absolute experiential Trinities, are not
now fully manifest; they are in process of universe realization. These
Deity associations may be described as follows:
P16:3, 0:12.6 1. The
Ultimate Trinity, now evolving, will eventually consist of the Supreme
Being, the Supreme Creator Personalities, and the absonite Architects of
the Master Universe, those unique universe planners who are neither creators
nor creatures. God the Ultimate will eventually and inevitably powerize
and personalize as the Deity consequence of the unification of this experiential
Ultimate Trinity in the expanding arena of the well-nigh limitless master
universe.
P16:4, 0:12.7 2. The
Absolute Trinity -- the second experiential Trinity -- now in process
of actualization, will consist of God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and
the unrevealed Consummator of Universe Destiny. This Trinity functions
on both personal and superpersonal levels, even to the borders of the nonpersonal,
and its unification in universality would experientialize Absolute Deity.
P16:5, 0:12.8 The Ultimate
Trinity is experientially unifying in completion, but we truly doubt the
possibility of such full unification of the Absolute Trinity. Our concept,
however, of the eternal Paradise Trinity is an ever-present reminder that
Deity trinitization may accomplish what is otherwise nonattainable; hence
do we postulate the sometime appearance of the Supreme-Ultimate and
the possible
trinitization-factualization of God the Absolute.
P16:6, 0:12.9 The philosophers
of the universes postulate a Trinity of Trinities, an existential-experiential
Trinity Infinite, but they are not able to envisage its personalization;
possibly it would equivalate to the person of the Universal Father on the
conceptual level of the I AM. But irrespective of all this, the original
Paradise Trinity is potentially infinite since the Universal Father actually
is infinite.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
P16:7, 0:12.10 In formulating
the succeeding presentations having to do with the portrayal of the character
of the Universal Father and the nature of his Paradise associates, together
with an attempted description of the perfect central universe and the encircling
seven superuniverses, we are to be guided by the mandate of the superuniverse
rulers which directs that we shall, in all our efforts to reveal truth
and co-ordinate essential knowledge, give preference to the highest existing
human concepts pertaining to the subjects to be presented. We may resort
to pure revelation only when the concept of presentation has had no adequate
previous expression by the human mind.
P17:1, 0:12.11 Successive
planetary revelations of divine truth invariably embrace the highest existing
concepts of spiritual values as a part of the new and enhanced co-ordination
of planetary knowledge. Accordingly, in making these presentations about
God and his universe associates, we have selected as the basis of these
papers more than one thousand human concepts representing the highest and
most advanced planetary knowledge of spiritual values and universe meanings.
Wherein these human concepts, assembled from the God-knowing mortals of
the past and the present, are inadequate to portray the truth as we are
directed to reveal it, we will unhesitatingly supplement them, for this
purpose drawing upon our own superior knowledge of the reality and divinity
of the Paradise Deities and their transcendent residential universe.
P17:2, 0:12.12 We are
fully cognizant of the difficulties of our assignment; we recognize the
impossibility of fully translating the language of the concepts of divinity
and eternity into the symbols of the language of the finite concepts of
the mortal mind. But we know that there dwells within the human mind a
fragment of God, and that there sojourns with the human soul the Spirit
of Truth; and we further know that these spirit forces conspire to enable
material man to grasp the reality of spiritual values and to comprehend
the philosophy of universe meanings. But even more certainly we know that
these spirits of the Divine Presence are able to assist man in the spiritual
appropriation of all truth contributory to the enhancement of the ever-progressing
reality of personal religious experience -- God-consciousness.
P17:3, 0:12.13 [Indited
by an Orvonton Divine Counselor, chief of the corps of superuniverse personalities
assigned to portray on Urantia the truth concerning the Paradise Deities
and the universe of universes.]