The Urantia Book -- Foreword
Foreword: Section VIII
VIII. God The Sevenfold
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To atone for finity of status and to compensate for creature limitations of
concept, the Universal Father has established the evolutionary creature's
sevenfold approach to Deity:
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This sevenfold Deity personalization in time and space and to the seven superuniverses
enables mortal man to attain the presence of God, who is spirit. This sevenfold
Deity, to finite time-space creatures sometime power-personalizing in the
Supreme Being, is the functional Deity of the mortal evolutionary creatures
of the Paradise-ascension career. Such an experiential
discovery-career of
the realization of God begins with the recognition of the divinity of the
Creator Son of the local universe and ascends through the superuniverse Ancients
of Days and by way of the person of one of the Seven Master Spirits to the
attainment of the discovery and recognition of the divine personality of the
Universal Father on Paradise.
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The grand universe is the threefold Deity domain of the Trinity of Supremacy,
God the Sevenfold, and the Supreme Being. God the Supreme is potential in
the Paradise Trinity, from whom he derives his personality and spirit attributes;
but he is now actualizing in the Creator Sons, Ancients of Days, and the Master
Spirits, from whom he derives his power as Almighty to the superuniverses
of time and space. This power manifestation of the immediate God of evolutionary
creatures actually time-space evolves concomitantly with them. The Almighty
Supreme, evolving on the value-level of nonpersonal activities, and the spirit
person of God the Supreme are one reality -- the Supreme Being.
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The Creator Sons in the Deity association of God the Sevenfold provide the
mechanism whereby the mortal becomes immortal and the finite attains the embrace
of the infinite. The Supreme Being provides the technique for the power-personality
mobilization, the divine synthesis, of all these manifold transactions,
thus enabling the finite to attain the absonite and, through other possible
future actualizations, to attempt the attainment of the Ultimate. The Creator
Sons and their associated Divine Ministers are participants in this supreme
mobilization, but the Ancients of Days and the Seven Master Spirits are probably
eternally fixed as permanent administrators in the grand universe.
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The function of God the Sevenfold dates from the organization of the seven
superuniverses, and it will probably expand in connection with the future
evolution of the creations of outer space. The organization of these future
universes of the primary, secondary, tertiary, and quartan space levels of
progressive evolution will undoubtedly witness the inauguration of the transcendent
and absonite approach to Deity.