The Urantia Book -- Foreword
Foreword: Section IV
IV. Universe Reality
P6:6, 0:4.1 Reality differentially actualizes
on diverse universe levels; reality originates in and by the infinite volition
of the Universal Father and is realizable in three primal phases on many
different levels of universe actualization:
P6:7, 0:4.2 1. Undeified
reality ranges from the energy domains of the nonpersonal to the reality
realms of the nonpersonalizable values of universal existence, even to
the presence of the Unqualified Absolute.
P7:1, 0:4.3 2. Deified
reality embraces all of infinite Deity potential ranging upward through
all realms of personality from the lowest finite to the highest infinite,
thus encompassing the domain of all that which is personalizable and more
-- even to the presence of the Deity Absolute.
P7:2, 0:4.4 3. Interassociated
reality. Universe reality is supposedly either deified or undeified,
but to
subdeified beings there exists a vast domain of interassociated
reality, potential and actualizing, which is difficult of identification.
Much of this co-ordinate reality is embraced within the realms of the Universal
Absolute.
P7:3, 0:4.5 This is the
primal concept of original reality: The Father initiates and maintains
Reality. The primal differentials of reality are the deified and
the undeified -- the Deity Absolute and the Unqualified Absolute. The primal
relationship is the tension between them. This
Father-initiated
divinity-tension is perfectly resolved by, and eternalizes as, the Universal
Absolute.
P7:4, 0:4.6 From the viewpoint
of time and space, reality is further divisible as:
P7:5, 0:4.7 1. Actual
and Potential. Realities existing in fullness of expression in contrast
to those which carry undisclosed capacity for growth. The Eternal Son is
an absolute spiritual actuality; mortal man is very largely an unrealized
spiritual potentiality.
P7:6, 0:4.8 2. Absolute
and Subabsolute. Absolute realities are eternity existences. Subabsolute
realities are projected on two levels: Absonites -- realities which are
relative with respect to both time and eternity. Finites -- realities which
are projected in space and are actualized in time.
P7:7, 0:4.9 3. Existential
and Experiential. Paradise Deity is existential, but the emerging Supreme
and Ultimate are experiential.
P7:8, 0:4.10 4. Personal
and Impersonal. Deity expansion, personality expression, and universe
evolution are forever conditioned by the Father's freewill act which forever
separated the mind-spirit-personal meanings and values of actuality and
potentiality centering in the Eternal Son from those things which center
and inhere in the eternal Isle of Paradise.
P7:9, 0:4.11 PARADISE
is a term inclusive of the personal and the nonpersonal focal Absolutes
of all phases of universe reality. Paradise, properly qualified, may connote
any and all forms of reality, Deity, divinity, personality, and energy
-- spiritual, mindal, or material. All share Paradise as the place of origin,
function, and destiny, as regards values, meanings, and factual existence.
P7:10, 0:4.12 The Isle
of Paradise -- Paradise not otherwise qualified -- is the Absolute
of the material-gravity control of the First Source and Center. Paradise
is motionless, being the only stationary thing in the universe of universes.
The Isle of Paradise has a universe location but no position in space.
This eternal Isle is the actual source of the physical universes -- past,
present, and future. The nuclear Isle of Light is a Deity derivative, but
it is hardly Deity; neither are the material creations a part of Deity;
they are a consequence.
P7:11, 0:4.13 Paradise
is not a creator; it is a unique controller of many universe activities,
far more of a controller than a
reactor. Throughout the material universes
Paradise influences the reactions and conduct of all beings having to do
with force, energy, and power, but Paradise itself is unique, exclusive,
and isolated in the universes. Paradise represents nothing and nothing
represents Paradise. It is neither a force nor a presence; it is just Paradise.