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... Concept of the I AM IV. Universe Reality Paradise V. Personality Realities VI. Energy and Pattern VII. ... Son Bestowals of the Original Michael 6. The Paradise Sons of God 7. The Supreme Revelation of the Father   ... of the Third Source and Center   10. The Paradise Trinity 1. Self-Distribution of the First Source and Center 2. ... 3. The Three Persons of Deity 4. The Trinity Union of Deity 5. Functions of the Trinity Finite, absonite, and absolute attitude 6. The Stationary Sons of the Trinity Justice, evidence, and judgment 7. The Overcontrol of Supremacy 8. The Trinity Beyond the Finite Limits of mortal destiny   11. The Eternal Isle of Paradise 1. The Divine Residence 2. Nature of the Eternal Isle 3. Upper Paradise 4. Peripheral Paradise 5. Nether Paradise 6. Space Respiration Unpervaded space 7. Space Functions of Paradise Midspace zones 8. Paradise Gravity Force, energy, power 9. The Uniqueness of Paradise   12. The Universe of Universes 1. Space Levels ... Realities   13. The Sacred Spheres of Paradise 1. The Seven Sacred Worlds of the Father (1) Divinington ... 14. The Central and Divine Universe 1. The Paradise-Havona System Paradise-Havona day The dark gravity bodies 2. Constitution of Havona ... of the Supreme Spirits   18. The Supreme Trinity Personalities 1. The Trinitized Secrets of Supremacy 2. ... The Faithfuls of Days   19. The Co-ordinate Trinity-Origin Beings 1. The Trinity Teacher Sons 2. The Perfectors of Wisdom 3. The Divine ... 4. The Universal Censors Stationary Sons of the Trinity 5. Inspired Trinity Spirits 6. Havona Natives 7. Paradise Citizens   20. The Paradise Sons of God 1. The Descending Sons of God 2. The ... 4. Magisterial Missions 5. Bestowal of the Paradise Sons of God 6. The Mortal-Bestowal Careers 7. The Trinity Teacher Sons 8. Local Universe Ministry of the Daynals 9. ... Service of the Daynals 10. United Ministry of the Paradise Sons   21. The Paradise Creator Sons The Original Michael 1. Origin and Nature of ... 22. The Trinitized Sons of God 1. The Trinity-Embraced Sons Trinitized Sons of Attainment Trinitized Sons of ... of Trinitization Ascender-trinitized Sons Paradise-Havona trinitized Sons Trinitized sons of destiny 8. The ... Technical Advisers 5. The Custodians of Records on Paradise 6. The Celestial Recorders 7. The Morontia Companions 8. The Paradise Companions   26. Ministering Spirits of the Central ... Pilgrim Helpers 6. The Supremacy Guides 7. The Trinity Guides 8. The Son Finders Failure to find Deity 9. The ... 30. Personalities of the Grand Universe 1. The Paradise Classification of Living Beings I. Triune-Origin Beings II. ... Orders 2. The Uversa Personality Register I. The Paradise Deities II. The Supreme Spirits III. The Trinity-Origin Beings IV. The Sons of God V. Personalities of the ... (5) Superuniverse Wards (6) Havona Pilgrims (7) Paradise Arrivals   31. The Corps of the Finality 1. The ... 4. Gabriel — The Chief Executive 5. The Trinity Ambassadors 6. General Administration Local universe time ...   42. Energy — Mind and Matter 1. Paradise Forces and Energies 2. Universal Nonspiritual Energy Systems ... Essence of Religion   104. Growth of the Trinity Concept 1. Urantian Trinity Concepts 2. Trinity Unity and Deity Plurality 3. Trinities and Triunities 4. ... 3. Transcendental Tertiary Reality Association The Trinity Ultimate 4. Ultimate Quartan Integration Ultimate Deity 5. Coabsolute or Fifth-Phase Association The Trinity Absolute 6. Absolute or Sixth-Phase Integration The cosmos infinite 7. Finality of Destiny 8. The Trinity of Trinities (1) The level of three Trinities (2) The level of ... of Supreme Reality 5. Relation of the Supreme to the Paradise Trinity 6. Relation of the Supreme to the Triodities 7. The Nature ... Almighty and God the Sevenfold 3. The Almighty and Paradise Deity 4. The Almighty and the Supreme Creators 5. The ...

... eternal and central universe is the stationary Isle of Paradise, the geographic center of infinity and the dwelling place of the ... endless, timeless, and spaceless. For example: On Paradise, time and space are nonexistent; the time-space status of Paradise is absolute. This level is Trinity attained, existentially, by the Paradise Deities, but this third level of unifying Deity expression is not ... and however the absolute level of Deity functions, Paradise-absolute values and meanings are manifest. (3.1) 0:1.14 ... associative, as in God the Sevenfold; undivided, as in the Paradise Trinity. (3.2) 0:1.15 Deity is the source of all that which is ... — complete — as on existential and creator levels of Paradise perfection; it may be imperfect, as on experiential and creature ... subordinate personalizations of Deity; for example: the Paradise Creator Sons — the local universe fathers. (4.1) 0:2.7 ... actually functioning in time and space. The personal Paradise Deities and their creative associates functioning in and beyond the ... universe, is the sphere of the time-space descension of Paradise personalities in reciprocal association with the time-space ascension ... and Center. (5.4) 0:3.5 4. The Isle of Paradise. (5.5) 0:3.6 5. The Deity Absolute. (5.6) ... universes are convergent in the gravity center of nether Paradise. That is just why the geographic location of his person is eternally ... the force-energy center of the nether or material plane of Paradise. But the absolute personality of Deity exists on the upper or spiritual plane of Paradise. (5.13) 0:3.14 2. The mind forces are convergent in ... with becoming the Eternal Source of the Isle of Paradise. Coexistent with the differentiation of the Son from the Father, and in the presence of Paradise, there appeared the person of the Infinite Spirit and the central ... the potential of Total Deity. Thenceforth it is only in Trinity association with his two Deity equals that the Father fills all Deity ... (7.7) 0:4.9 3. Existential and Experiential. Paradise Deity is existential, but the emerging Supreme and Ultimate are ... things which center and inhere in the eternal Isle of Paradise. (7.9) 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, ... and energy — spiritual, mindal, or material. All share Paradise as the place of origin, function, and destiny, as regards values, ... existence. (7.10) 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 ... they are a consequence. (7.11) 0:4.13 Paradise is not a creator; it is a unique controller of many universe ... 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. V. Personality Realities (8.1) 0:5.1 ... Personality is never spontaneous; it is the gift of the Paradise Father. Personality is superimposed upon energy, and it is associated ... reason, and the universal mind. But the Isle of Paradise is nonpersonal and extraspiritual, being the essence of the universal ... which is destined to survive mortal death and begin the Paradise ascension. (9.1) 0:5.11 Personality. The ... to the material-gravity circuit centering in nether Paradise, we call matter — energy-matter in all its metamorphic states. ... Unqualified Absolute but which are as yet unresponsive to Paradise gravity. (9.8) 0:6.6 2. Emergent energy embraces those energies which are responsive to Paradise gravity but are as yet unresponsive to local or linear gravity. This ... all forms of energy which, while still responding to Paradise gravity, are directly responsive to linear gravity. This is the ... caused to appear may be attributed to God — Deity — to Paradise force endowment, to the coexistence of personality and power. ... is a master design from which copies are made. Eternal Paradise is the absolute of patterns; the Eternal Son is the pattern ... Father is the direct ancestor-source of both. But Paradise does not bestow pattern, and the Son cannot bestow personality. ... of the associative-creative potentials of the eternal Paradise Deities. (10.7) 0:7.2 Deity is, therefore, dual in ... in Havona is the personal spirit reflection of the triune Paradise Deity. This associative Deity relationship is now creatively expanding ... power of the Almighty Supreme in the grand universe. Paradise Deity, existential as three persons, is thus experientially evolving ... and synthesizer of time-space divinity, of triune Paradise Deity in experiential association with the Supreme Creators of time ... of finite reality, in association with varied phases of Paradise reality, to the end and for the purpose of subsequently embarking upon ... approach to Deity: (11.6) 0:8.2 1. The Paradise Creator Sons. (11.7) 0:8.3 2. The Ancients of Days. ... Deity of the mortal evolutionary creatures of the Paradise-ascension career. Such an experiential discovery-career of the ... of the divine personality of the Universal Father on Paradise. (12.1) 0:8.10 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 ... signalizes absonite unification of the first experiential Trinity and signifies unifying Deity expansion on the second level of creative ... of the universe experiential-Deity actualization of Paradise absonite realities on the eventuating levels of transcended time-space ... is a supersupreme eventuation of Deity. The Supreme is the Trinity unification comprehended by finite beings; the Ultimate is the unification of the Paradise Trinity comprehended by absonite beings. (13.1) 0:9.3 The ... 0:9.4 The first three and past-eternal Deities of Paradise — the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit — ... consequence of the unification of the second experiential Trinity, the Absolute Trinity. This would constitute the experiential realization of absolute ... Universal Absolute, the unrevealed infinity-unity of the Paradise Father. (13.7) 0:11.2 Both potency of cosmic force and ... by the will-reactions and purposeful mandates of the Paradise Trinity. (14.7) 0:11.9 We are convinced that the Unqualified ... and infinity, reality potential and reality actuality, Paradise and space, man and God. Associatively the Universal Absolute ... in all that pertains to universe personality, is strictly Trinity limited and Deity dominated. XII. The Trinities (15.7) 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 ... the master universe. (15.8) 0:12.2 The Paradise Trinity — the eternal Deity union of the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, ... but all potentials are experiential. Therefore does this Trinity constitute the only Deity reality embracing infinity, and therefore do ... of realities created or eventuated by the existential Paradise Trinity. Infinity of divinity is being ever enriched, if not enlarged, by ... relationship and facts of co-ordinate Deity manifestation. Trinity functions encompass Deity realities, and Deity realities always seek ... experiential Deities were potential in the existential Trinity, the Paradise Trinity, but their universe emergence as personalities of power is dependent in ... follows: (16.3) 0:12.6 1. The Ultimate Trinity, now evolving, will eventually consist of the Supreme Being, the ... of the unification of this experiential Ultimate Trinity in the expanding arena of the well-nigh limitless master universe. (16.4) 0:12.7 2. The Absolute Trinity — the second experiential Trinity — now in process of actualization, will consist of God the Supreme, ... and the unrevealed Consummator of Universe Destiny. This Trinity functions on both personal and superpersonal levels, even to the ... Deity. (16.5) 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 ... 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; ... of the I AM. But irrespective of all this, the original Paradise Trinity is potentially infinite since the Universal Father actually is ... character of the Universal Father and the nature of his Paradise associates, together with an attempted description of the perfect ... own superior knowledge of the reality and divinity of the Paradise Deities and their transcendent residential universe. (17.2) ... assigned to portray on Urantia the truth concerning the Paradise Deities and the universe of universes.] ...

... universe upon universe have embarked upon the long, long Paradise journey, the fascinating struggle of the eternal adventure of ... as they are in their spheres, like him as he is in his Paradise perfection of personality and in his universal sphere of righteous ... as I am perfect.” In love and mercy the messengers of Paradise have carried this divine exhortation down through the ages and out ... man’s only possible gift of true value to the Paradise Father. In God, man lives, moves, and has his being; there is nothing ... One. (23.2) 1:1.5 On those worlds where a Paradise Son has lived a bestowal life, God is generally known by some name ... worlds he is variously known as the Father of Fathers, the Paradise Father, the Havona Father, and the Spirit Father. Those who know God through the revelations of the bestowals of the Paradise Sons, eventually yield to the sentimental appeal of the touching ... of the divine presence, the spirit Monitor sent from Paradise to live in the mortal mind of man and there to assist in evolving the ... of God as the Creator, and he is the personal creator of Paradise and the central universe of perfection, but the universes of time and space are all created and organized by the Paradise corps of the Creator Sons. The Universal Father is not the personal ... energies. God the Father is the personal creator of the Paradise universe and, in association with the Eternal Son, the creator of all ... Center functions in the patterns of the eternal Isle of Paradise, and through this absolute gravity center the eternal God exercises ... and Center with the co-ordinate Persons and Absolutes of Paradise does not in the least preclude the direct personal action of the ... shared fully with his coexistent self, the Eternal Son of Paradise. Both the Father and the Son in like manner share the universal and ... of will creatures, but he is contactable (outside of Paradise) only in the presences of his fragmented entities, the will of God abroad in the universes. This Paradise spirit that indwells the minds of the mortals of time and there ... spiritual, the imperfection of man and the perfection of Paradise Deity. The God of universal love unfailingly manifests himself to ... no personal or residential manifestation aside from the Paradise Creator Sons who are the fathers of the inhabited worlds and the ... completed spirit transformation and actually attains Paradise. (28.3) 1:5.6 The natures of the Paradise Creator Sons do not encompass all the unqualified potentials of the ... the Creator Sons. The Father and his Sons are one. These Paradise Sons of the order of Michael are perfect personalities, even the ... divine spirit is a real part of you. The Isle of Paradise responds to all the physical metamorphoses of the universe of ... finally attain the divine embrace of the living God on Paradise. (30.2) 1:6.3 Never lose sight of the antipodal ... such as exists in the personality associations of the Paradise Deities. And the absolute unity of these associations is so perfect ... all spirit. (31.8) 1:7.8 The fact of the Paradise Trinity in no manner violates the truth of the divine unity. The three personalities of Paradise Deity are, in all universe reality reactions and in all creature ... to even the high personalities belonging to my group of Paradise beings. Ever bear in mind that these profound truths pertaining to ... during the successive epochs of the long mortal ascent to Paradise. (32.1) 1:7.9 [Presented by a Divine Counselor, a ... seven of the superuniverses and have long resided at the Paradise center of all things. Many times have I enjoyed the supreme pleasure ...

... }); The Urantia Book Paper 10 The Paradise Trinity (108.1) 10:0.1 THE Paradise Trinity of eternal Deities facilitates the Father’s escape from personality absolutism. The Trinity perfectly associates the limitless expression of God’s infinite ... and infinity. (108.2) 10:0.2 The Paradise Trinity effectively provides for the full expression and perfect revelation of the eternal nature of Deity. The Stationary Sons of the Trinity likewise afford a full and perfect revelation of divine justice. The Trinity is Deity unity, and this unity rests eternally upon the absolute ... inevitability in universe affairs, and that is the Paradise Trinity. I deem the Trinity to have been inevitable. As I view the past, present, and future of ... in retrospect or in prospect, is unthinkable without the Trinity. Given the Paradise Trinity, we can postulate alternate or even multiple ways of doing all things, but without the Trinity of Father, Son, and Spirit we are unable to conceive how the Infinite ... of Deity. No other concept of creation measures up to the Trinity standards of the completeness of the absoluteness inherent in Deity ... Infinite Spirit. (109.4) 10:1.6 Since the Paradise Sons of God visit the evolutionary worlds and sometimes even there ... of the planetary spheres look to the bestowals of these Paradise Sons for reliable and trustworthy information regarding the Father, ... (110.6) 10:2.8 I am of origin in the Paradise Trinity. I know the Trinity as unified Deity; I also know that the Father, Son, and Spirit exist ... sustain the same and equal relations to the Father in the Trinity association. In eternity and as Deities they undoubtedly do, but in ... relationships of a very diverse nature. Looking from Paradise out on the universes, these relationships do seem to be very similar, ... is not discernibly absolute as total Deity except in the Paradise Trinity. (111.7) 10:3.9 The First Source and Center functions ... 2. As controller, through the gravity center of Paradise. (111.10) 10:3.12 3. As spirit, through the Eternal Son. ... 10:3.16 7. As total Deity, he functions only in the Paradise Trinity. (112.1) 10:3.17 All these relinquishments and ... primal manifestations of cosmic reality. 4. The Trinity Union of Deity (112.4) 10:4.1 Of all absolute associations, the Paradise Trinity (the first triunity) is unique as an exclusive association of personal ... those who can know God, but as absolute Deity only in the Paradise Trinity and in relation to universe totality. (112.5) 10:4.2 ... are three perfectly individualized persons of Deity. The Paradise Trinity makes possible the simultaneous expression of all the diversity of the ... of undivided Deity. (112.6) 10:4.3 The Trinity is an association of infinite persons functioning in a nonpersonal ... their personal wills. (112.7) 10:4.4 The Paradise Trinity is real. It exists as the Deity union of Father, Son, and Spirit; ... any two of them, can function in relation to this selfsame Paradise Trinity. The Father, Son, and Spirit can collaborate in a non-Trinity manner, but not as three Deities. As persons they can collaborate as they choose, but that is not the Trinity. (112.8) 10:4.5 Ever remember that what the Infinite ... as him. But it would be futile to attempt to elucidate the Trinity mystery: three as one and in one, and one as two and acting for two. (112.9) 10:4.6 The Trinity is so related to total universe affairs that it must be reckoned with ... any isolated cosmic event or personality relationship. The Trinity functions on all levels of the cosmos, and mortal man is limited to the ... therefore must man be content with a finite concept of the Trinity as the Trinity. (113.1) 10:4.7 As a mortal in the flesh you should view the Trinity in accordance with your individual enlightenment and in harmony with ... soul. You can know very little of the absoluteness of the Trinity, but as you ascend Paradiseward, you will many times experience ... at successive revelations and unexpected discoveries of Trinity supremacy and ultimacy, if not of absoluteness. 5. Functions of the Trinity (113.2) 10:5.1 The personal Deities have attributes, but it is hardly consistent to speak of the Trinity as having attributes. This association of divine beings may more ... (113.3) 10:5.2 The functions of the Paradise Trinity are not simply the sum of the Father’s apparent endowment of divinity ... in the personal existence of the Son and the Spirit. The Trinity association of the three Paradise Deities results in the evolution, eventuation, and deitization of new ... Living associations, human families, social groups, or the Paradise Trinity are not augmented by mere arithmetical summation. The group potential ... component individuals. (113.4) 10:5.3 The Trinity maintains a unique attitude as the Trinity towards the entire universe of the past, present, and future. And the functions of the Trinity can best be considered in relation to the universe attitudes of the Trinity. Such attitudes are simultaneous and may be multiple concerning any ... toward the Finite. The maximum self-limitation of the Trinity is its attitude toward the finite. The Trinity is not a person, nor is the Supreme Being an exclusive personalization of the Trinity, but the Supreme is the nearest approach to a power-personality focalization of the Trinity which can be comprehended by finite creatures. Hence the Trinity in relation to the finite is sometimes spoken of as the Trinity of Supremacy. (113.6) 10:5.5 2. Attitude toward the Absonite. The Paradise Trinity has regard for those levels of existence which are more than finite but ... and this relationship is sometimes denominated the Trinity of Ultimacy. Neither the Ultimate nor the Supreme are wholly representative of the Paradise Trinity, but in a qualified sense and to their respective levels, each seems to represent the Trinity during the prepersonal eras of experiential-power development. ... 10:5.6 3. The Absolute Attitude of the Paradise Trinity is in relation to absolute existences and culminates in the action of total Deity. (113.8) 10:5.7 The Trinity Infinite involves the co-ordinate action of all triunity relationships ... for personalities to grasp. In the contemplation of the Trinity as infinite, do not ignore the seven triunities; thereby certain ... mind the full truth and the eternal significance of the Paradise Trinity and the nature of the never-ending interassociation of the three beings ... perfection. 6. The Stationary Sons of the Trinity (114.2) 10:6.1 All law takes origin in the First ... of law, justice, falls within the province of the Paradise Trinity and is carried out by certain Sons of the Trinity. (114.3) 10:6.2 Justice is inherent in the universal sovereignty of the Paradise Trinity, but goodness, mercy, and truth are the universe ministry of the divine personalities, whose Deity union constitutes the Trinity. Justice is not the attitude of the Father, the Son, or the Spirit. Justice is the Trinity attitude of these personalities of love, mercy, and ministry. No one of the Paradise Deities fosters the administration of justice. Justice is never a ... Infinite Spirit, is the work of the Stationary Sons of the Trinity, beings partaking of the Trinity nature of the united Father, Son, and Spirit. (114.6) 10:6.5 This group of Trinity Sons embraces the following personalities: (114.7) 10:6.6 ... 10:6.16 We are the children of the three Paradise Deities functioning as the Trinity, for I chance to belong to the tenth order of this group, the Universal ... These orders are not representative of the attitude of the Trinity in a universal sense; they represent this collective attitude of Deity ... — justice. They were specifically designed by the Trinity for the precise work to which they are assigned, and they represent the Trinity only in those functions for which they were personalized. (115.1) 10:6.17 The Ancients of Days and their Trinity-origin associates mete out the just judgment of supreme fairness to the ... soul of fairness, ever conforming to the justice of the Trinity, ever fulfilling the divine love of God. When fully perceived and completely understood, the righteous justice of the Trinity and the merciful love of the Universal Father are coincident. But man ... no such full understanding of divine justice. Thus in the Trinity, as man would view it, the personalities of Father, Son, and Spirit are ... of purpose and oneness of execution in the divine Trinity of eternal Deities. The Father, the Son, and the Conjoint Actor are ... As things appear to the mortal on the finite level, the Paradise Trinity, like the Supreme Being, is concerned only with the total — total ... grand universe. This totality attitude exists because the Trinity is the total of Deity and for many other reasons. (115.5) ... Being is something less and something other than the Trinity functioning in the finite universes; but within certain limits and ... Deity does appear to reflect the attitude of the Trinity of Supremacy. The Father, Son, and Spirit do not personally function ... the present universe age they collaborate with him as the Trinity. We understand that they sustain a similar relationship to the ... 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 ... and of the incompleteness of finite reaction to the Paradise Trinity. (115.7) 10:7.5 The mortal mind can immediately think ... by the function of the Supreme and the overcontrol of the Trinity. (116.1) 10:7.6 As a son of God you can discern the ... 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 ... always so appear to the creatures of time. 8. The Trinity Beyond the Finite (116.2) 10:8.1 Many truths and facts pertaining to the Paradise Trinity can only be even partially comprehended by recognizing a function that ... It would be inadvisable to discuss the functions of the Trinity of Ultimacy, but it may be disclosed that God the Ultimate is the Trinity manifestation comprehended by the Transcendentalers. We are inclined to ... but not all, phases of the absonite overcontrol of the Paradise Trinity. The Ultimate is a qualified manifestation of the Trinity in relation to the absonite only in the sense that the Supreme thus partially represents the Trinity in relation to the finite. (116.4) 10:8.3 The ... personalities of total Deity. Their union in the Paradise Trinity and the absolute function of the Trinity equivalate to the function of total Deity. And such completion of Deity ... (116.5) 10:8.4 While no single person of the Paradise Deities actually fills all Deity potential, collectively all three do. ... nature of the ultimate attributes and character of the Paradise Father. Eternity will disclose whether such an attainment is possible, ...

... the bestowal spirits representing the three persons of the Paradise Trinity and are especially concerned with the expansion of truth. ... Truth Spirit of the Sons, the time-space manifestations of Paradise truth — universal truth. The co-ordination of idea-decisions, ... realization of the harmony of Havona and the perfection of Paradise. (1113.2) 101:6.13 5. Salvation from self, deliverance ... status in the universe. Energy and mind do lead back to Paradise and Deity, but neither the energy endowment nor the mind endowment of man proceeds directly from such Paradise Deity. Only in the spiritual sense is man a child of God. And this is ... sense that man is at present endowed and indwelt by the Paradise Father. Mankind can never discover divinity except through the avenue ... time itself becomes but the shadow of eternity cast by Paradise realities upon the moving panoply of space. (1117.4) ...

... The Urantia Book Paper 104 Growth of the Trinity Concept (1143.1) 104:0.1 THE Trinity concept of revealed religion must not be confused with the triad ... made its appearance in religion, and this long before the Paradise Trinity of Deities, or even any of their representatives, had been revealed to ... triad has become mixed with that of a revealed Trinity; in these instances it is often impossible to distinguish one from the other. 1. Urantian Trinity Concepts (1143.4) 104:1.1 The first Urantian revelation leading to the comprehension of the Paradise Trinity was made by the staff of Prince Caligastia about one-half million years ago. This earliest Trinity concept was lost to the world in the unsettled times following the ... (1143.5) 104:1.2 The second presentation of the Trinity was made by Adam and Eve in the first and second gardens. These ... about thirty-five thousand years later, for the Trinity concept of the Sethites persisted in both Mesopotamia and Egypt but ... (1143.6) 104:1.3 The third presentation of the Trinity was made by Machiventa Melchizedek, and this doctrine was symbolized by ... Infinite Spirit. Most of his disciples thought that the Trinity consisted of the three Most Highs of Norlatiadek; a few conceived of the Trinity as the System Sovereign, the Constellation Father, and the local ... Deity; still fewer even remotely grasped the idea of the Paradise association of the Father, Son, and Spirit. (1144.1) ... of the Salem missionaries the Melchizedek teachings of the Trinity gradually spread throughout much of Eurasia and northern Africa. It is ... was Brahma, Siva, and Vishnu.) While the earlier Trinity portrayals were brought to India by the Sethite priests, the later ideas of the Trinity were imported by the Salem missionaries and were developed by the ... of a threefold manifestation of a monotheistic God. A true trinity conception is not just a grouping together of three separate gods. (1144.5) 104:1.8 The Hebrews knew about the Trinity from the Kenite traditions of the days of Melchizedek, but their ... the Islamic faith likewise failed to grasp the idea of the Trinity. It is always difficult for an emerging monotheism to tolerate trinitarianism when confronted by polytheism. The trinity idea takes best hold of those religions which have a firm monotheistic ... taught his apostles the truth regarding the persons of the Paradise Trinity, but they thought he spoke figuratively and symbolically. Having been ... Christians inherited the Hebraic prejudice against the Trinity concept. (1144.8) 104:1.11 The first Trinity of Christianity was proclaimed at Antioch and consisted of God, his Word, and his Wisdom. Paul knew of the Paradise Trinity of Father, Son, and Spirit, but he seldom preached about it and made ... with the Second Person of Deity, the Eternal Son of Paradise. (1144.9) 104:1.12 The Christian concept of the Trinity, which began to gain recognition near the close of the first century ... since the times of Jesus has the factual identity of the Paradise Trinity been known on Urantia (except by a few individuals to whom it was ... disclosures. But though the Christian concept of the Trinity erred in fact, it was practically true with respect to spiritual ... Second Person of Deity, the second member of an infinite Trinity, once dwelt on Urantia; and while in spirit this is true, in actuality ... but they are not the absolute personality. 2. Trinity Unity and Deity Plurality (1145.2) 104:2.1 ... (1145.4) 104:2.3 Through the recognition of the Trinity concept the mind of man can hope to grasp something of the ... of the firmness of man’s belief in God as his Paradise Father, expanding cosmic horizons demand that he also give recognition to the reality of Paradise Deity as universal law, that he recognize the Trinity sovereignty extending outward from Paradise and overshadowing even the evolving local universes of the Creator ... the fact and reality and eternal indivisibility of the Paradise Trinity. (1145.5) 104:2.4 And this selfsame Paradise Trinity is a real entity — not a personality but nonetheless a true and ... personalities of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. The Trinity is a supersummative Deity reality eventuating out of the conjoining of the three Paradise Deities. The qualities, characteristics, and functions of the Trinity are not the simple sum of the attributes of the three Paradise Deities; Trinity functions are something unique, original, and not wholly predictable ... perform this very function as a collective whole, as the Paradise Trinity. (1146.2) 104:2.6 The conceptual grasp of the Trinity association of Father, Son, and Spirit prepares the human mind for the ... reason may be fully satisfied by the concept of the Paradise Trinity, but philosophical and cosmological reason demand the recognition of ... mankind has sometimes grasped at an understanding of the Trinity of the three persons of Deity, consistency demands that the human ... all seven Absolutes. But all that which is true of the Paradise Trinity is not necessarily true of a triunity, for a triunity is something other than a trinity. In certain functional aspects a triunity may be analogous to a trinity, but it is never homologous in nature with a trinity. (1146.4) 104:3.2 Mortal man is passing through a great ... Spirit. (1147.1) 104:3.9 4. The Isle of Paradise. (1147.2) 104:3.10 5. The Deity Absolute. (1147.3) ... who is Father to the Eternal Son, is also Pattern to the Paradise Isle. He is personality unqualified in the Son but personality ... in the Deity Absolute. The Father is energy revealed in Paradise-Havona and at the same time energy concealed in the Unqualified ... as on all other levels. And the association of the three Paradise personalities eternalizes the first triunity, the personality union of ... thereby constitute a triunity of functional unity, not a trinity — an organic entity — but nonetheless a triunity, a threefold ... unanimity. (1147.7) 104:3.15 The Paradise Trinity is not a triunity; it is not a functional unanimity; rather is it ... and Spirit (as persons) can sustain a relationship to the Paradise Trinity, for the Trinity is their undivided Deity. The Father, Son, and Spirit sustain no ... is their functional union as three persons. Only as the Trinity — as undivided Deity — do they collectively sustain an external ... (1147.8) 104:3.16 Thus does the Paradise Trinity stand unique among absolute relationships; there are several existential triunities but only one existential Trinity. A triunity is not an entity. It is functional rather than organic. ... There is, however, one point of comparison between trinity and triunity: Both eventuate in functions that are something other than ... of the triunity association is not the function of the trinity structure or entity. (1147.10) 104:3.18 The triunities ... purposive and personal association of the three eternal Paradise personalities. This is the divinely fraternal, creature-loving, ... 1. The Father-Son. (1148.10) 104:4.11 2. The Paradise Isle. (1148.11) 104:4.12 3. The Conjoint Actor. ... and Center; energy is fashioned after the pattern of Paradise, the absolute materialization; but behind all of this ceaseless ... of the Father-Son, whose union first activated the Paradise pattern in the appearance of Havona concomitant with the birth of the ... recognition of the universe fact of the pattern which is Paradise. The Paradise personalities enlist the freewill adoration of all creatures by the ... loving person are one and the same universal reality; the Paradise Isle and the Eternal Son are co-ordinate but antipodal revelations of ... (1149.5) 104:4.20 From spirit potency to Paradise spirit, all spirit finds reality expression in this triune association ... The Father-Spirit. (1149.9) 104:4.24 2. The Paradise Isle. (1149.10) 104:4.25 3. The Unqualified Absolute. (1149.11) 104:4.26 Paradise is the center of the force-energy activation of the cosmos — the ... Absolute are centered around the absolutum of the Isle of Paradise, whence emanate the unimaginable agitations of the otherwise static ... the Unqualified. And the endless throbbing of the material Paradise heart of the infinite cosmos beats in harmony with the unfathomable ... 1. The Eternal Son. (1151.4) 104:5.4 2. The Paradise Isle. (1151.5) 104:5.5 3. The Conjoint Actor. ... absolute of spirit reality, the absolute personality. The Paradise Isle is the absolute of cosmic reality, the absolute pattern. The ...

... to the three existential persons of Deity, the Isle of Paradise, and the three Absolutes. These seven realities are co-ordinately ... 2. The Universal Controller. I AM cause of eternal Paradise. This is the primal impersonal relationship of actualities, the ... This union of the Father and the Son (in the presence of Paradise) initiates the creative cycle, which is consummated in the appearance ... oneness of the duality of the Father-Son and of the Trinity of the Father-Son-Spirit. (1155.1) 105:2.8 4. The ... our being, from the creatures of space to the citizens of Paradise; and this is just as true of the master universe as of the ... is absolute. (1156.1) 105:3.4 3. The Paradise Source and Center. Second nondeity pattern, the eternal Isle of Paradise; the basis for the realization-revelation of “I AM force” and the ... nonspiritual, impersonal, and nonvolitional reality, Paradise is the absolute of patterns. Just as spirit energy is related to the ... Source and Center through the absolute pattern of the Paradise Isle. Paradise is not in space; space exists relative to Paradise, and the chronicity of motion is determined through Paradise relationship. The eternal Isle is absolutely at rest; all other ... is quiescent, and the Unqualified is co-ordinate with Paradise. Paradise exists at the focus of space, the Unqualified pervades it, and all ... of Deity, the Conjoint Actor; infinite integrator of Paradise cosmic energies with the spirit energies of the Eternal Son; perfect ... the infinite manipulator, forever weaving the pattern of Paradise into the energies of space. This selfsame Conjoint Actor, this God of ... of the Son, the Spirit, the three Absolutes, and the Paradise Isle. * (1157.1) 105:3.10 It is a truth that ... the diversification of cosmic energy, the outspreading of Paradise spirit, and the endowment of mind together with the bestowal of personality, by virtue of which all of these Deity and Paradise derivatives are unified in experience on the creature level and by ... of finite reality be ascribed to the volitional acts of Paradise Deity and to the repercussional adjustments of the functional ... to the domain of the finite, forever swinging inward to Paradise and Deity, always seeking those high destinies commensurate with an ... But these differences, which are so important this side of Paradise, are nonexistent in eternity. (1158.10) 105:5.10 We ... universe of perfection: It is hardly absolute — only the Paradise Isle is truly absolute in the “materialized” sense. Neither is it ... absolute. Havona further acts as a buffer between absolute Paradise and finite creations, still further illustrating the function of ... (1160.6) 105:7.8 4. The two orders of Paradise force organizers. (1160.7) 105:7.9 5. Certain ...

... in time and space. It appears to be moving outward from Paradise, for the closing of the present universe age, which will witness the ... of all apparent finite endings or destinies. Much of Paradise-Havona appears to be on the transcendental order. (1162.6) ... on the destiny level of the completed master universe. Paradise-Havona (especially the circuit of the Father’s worlds) is in many ... development which do not pertain to the mortal ascent to Paradise. (1163.9) 106:0.15 5. Your inability to grasp even a ... 106:1.3 God the Sevenfold signifies the recognition by Paradise Deity of the barriers of time in the evolutionary universes of space. No matter how remote from Paradise, how deep in space, a material survival personality may take origin, ... Sevenfold reaches inward through the Eternal Son to the Paradise Father and outward through the Ancients of Days to the universe ... place in accordance with the mandates of personality: Paradise personality in the highest sense, Creator personality in the universe ... 106:2.3 Spirit, in the last analysis, comes from Paradise through Havona. Energy-matter seemingly evolves in the depths of space ... of the Universal Father to the life bestowals of the Paradise Sons. This is earned power, demonstrated power, experiential power; it ... the unfathomable power, the existential power of the Paradise Deities. (1165.1) 106:2.4 This experiential power ... (1165.3) 106:2.6 Michael of Nebadon is like the Paradise Father because he shares his Paradise perfection; so will evolutionary mortals sometime attain to kinship ... lead to the completed function of the first experiential Trinity — the union of the Supreme Creators, the Supreme Being, and the Architects of the Master Universe. This Trinity is destined to effect the further evolutionary integration of the master creation. (1166.1) 106:3.3 The Paradise Trinity is truly one of infinity, and no Trinity can possibly be infinite that does not include this original Trinity. But the original Trinity is an eventuality of the exclusive association of absolute Deities; ... even creature personalities. Certainly this is true of the Trinity Ultimate, wherein the very presence of the Master Creator Sons among ... actual and bona fide creature experience within this Trinity association. (1166.2) 106:3.4 The first experiential Trinity provides for group attainment of ultimate eventualities. Group ... will doubtless be promulgating the purposes of the Paradise Deities as they are dictated by the Trinity Ultimate, and as they are power-personality unified in the Supreme ... and are co-ordinating on transcendental levels as the Trinity Ultimate. 4. Ultimate Quartan Integration (1166.4) 106:4.1 The Paradise Trinity certainly co-ordinates in the ultimate sense but functions in this respect as a self-qualified absolute; the experiential Trinity Ultimate co-ordinates the transcendental as a transcendental. In the eternal future this experiential Trinity will, through augmenting unity, further activate the eventuating ... Ultimate Deity. (1166.5) 106:4.2 While the Trinity Ultimate is destined to co-ordinate the master creation, God the ... Deities lays the foundation for the second experiential Trinity. This is the Trinity Absolute, the union of God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and the unrevealed Consummator of Universe Destiny. And this Trinity has theoretical capacity to activate the Absolutes of potentiality — ... and Unqualified. But the completed formation of this Trinity Absolute could take place only after the completed evolution of the ... personality reality. The personality aspects of a trinity are inherent in its individual members, and as individual persons they are not that trinity. Only as a collective are they trinity; that is trinity. But always is trinity inclusive of all encompassed deity; trinity is deity unity. (1167.5) 106:5.4 The three Absolutes — Deity, Universal, and Unqualified — are not trinity, for all are not deity. Only the deified can become trinity; all other associations are triunities or triodities. 6. ... Supreme Being, for the formation and full function of the Trinity Ultimate, for the eventuation of God the Ultimate, and even for the inception of the Trinity Absolute. But our concepts regarding the full function of this second experiential Trinity seem to imply something beyond even the wide-spreading master universe. ... if we conceive that the final developments of the Absolute Trinity will take place out on such a superultimate stage of action, then it ... possible to conjecture that the completed function of the Trinity Absolute will achieve final expression in the creations of infinity and ... (1168.3) 106:6.4 Stated otherwise: The Trinity Absolute, as its name implies, is really absolute in total function. We ... Of this, however, we are certain: While the existential Paradise Trinity is infinite, and while the experiential Trinity Ultimate is subinfinite, the Trinity Absolute is not so easy to classify. Though experiential in genesis and ... concepts, we would suggest that the eternity action of the Trinity Absolute may be thought of as culminating in some kind of ... by the volitional act of the Deities who constitute the Paradise Trinity; destiny is established in the vastness of the three great potentials ... probably involved with the Supreme and the Ultimate in the Trinity Absolute. Any experiential destiny can be at least partially ... brings us face to face with the concept of the threefold Trinity encompassing the Paradise Trinity of existential status and the two subsequently appearing Trinities of experiential nature and origin. 8. The Trinity of Trinities (1170.4) 106:8.1 The nature of the Trinity of Trinities is difficult to portray to the human mind; it is the ... in a theoretical infinity of eternity realization. In the Trinity of Trinities the experiential infinite attains to identity with the ... as one in the pre-experiential, pre-existential I AM. The Trinity of Trinities is the final expression of all that is implied in the ... as relativities. (1170.5) 106:8.2 The Trinity of Trinities exists in several phases. It contains possibilities, ... 106:8.3 There are a number of ways in which the Trinity of Trinities can be portrayed. We elect to present the three-level ... These are levels of increasing unification. Actually the Trinity of Trinities is the first level, while the second and third levels are ... personalities. (1171.2) 106:8.9 1. The Paradise Trinity, the association of the three Paradise Deities — Father, Son, and Spirit. It should be remembered that the Paradise Trinity implies a threefold function — an absolute function, a transcendental function (Trinity of Ultimacy), and a finite function (Trinity of Supremacy). The Paradise Trinity is any and all of these at any and all times. (1171.3) 106:8.10 2. The Ultimate Trinity. This is the deity association of the Supreme Creators, God the ... an adequate presentation of the divinity aspects of this Trinity, it should be recorded that there are other phases of this Trinity, which, however, appear to be perfectly co-ordinating with the divinity ... (1171.4) 106:8.11 3. The Absolute Trinity. This is the grouping of God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and the ... The association of these three Trinities in the Trinity of Trinities provides for a possible unlimited integration of reality. ... This is the deity consequence of the unity of the Paradise Trinity in experiential liaison with the Creator-Creative children of the Paradise Deities. The Supreme is the deity embodiment of the completion of the ... deity consequence of the eventuated unity of the second Trinity, the transcendental and absonite personification of divinity. The ... character of the third member of the second level of the Trinity of Trinities. God the Absolute is undoubtedly involved in this ... the personality consequence of the final function of the Trinity Absolute, yet the Deity Absolute is an existential reality of eternity ... liaison and cosmic manifestation. Certainly, the Trinity of Trinities could hardly attain to complete function short of the full ... a minimum distortion of truth if the third member of the Trinity of Trinities is conceived as the Universal Absolute, provided this ... 106:8.19 Though a completed concept of the Trinity of Trinities is difficult to form, a qualified concept is not so difficult. If the second level of the Trinity of Trinities is conceived as essentially personal, it becomes quite ... of any conceptual difficulty in understanding the complete Trinity of Trinities, the personal association of these three Deities on the ... In an unqualified hypothesis of the second level of the Trinity of Trinities, there is embraced the correlation of every phase of every ... we often ask this question: If the second level of the Trinity of Trinities could ever achieve trinity unity, what then would transpire as a consequence of such deity unity? ... (1173.2) 106:9.1 In the concept of the Trinity of Trinities we postulate the possible experiential unification of ... universe ages; such unification is existential in the Paradise Trinity. Infinity unification as an experiential reality is unthinkably remote, ... phenomenon which does not actually take place on Paradise and in eternity. On the absolute level there is neither time nor ... a unity is in process of experiential realization in the Trinity of Trinities, but the degree of the apparent actualization of this threefold Trinity is directly proportional to the disappearance of the qualifications and ... and eternally and existentially present in the Paradise Trinity, within which, at this very universe moment, infinite reality is ... inevitable and is predicated in part on the fact that the Paradise Trinity and the Trinity of Trinities are each an eternity relationship which mortals can only ... concept of the gradual experiential actualization of the Trinity of Trinities — the time viewpoint — must be supplemented by the ... mortals we suggest the acceptance of the truth that the Paradise Trinity is the existential unification of infinity, and that the inability to ... presence and completed manifestation of the experiential Trinity of Trinities is in part due to reciprocal distortion because of: ... (1174.5) 106:9.9 The Universal Father in the Paradise Trinity is the I AM of the Trinity of Trinities, and the failure to experience the Father as infinite is ... The concept of the existential, solitary, pre-Trinity nonattainable I AM and the postulate of the experiential post-Trinity of Trinities and attainable I AM are one and the same hypothesis; no ...

... ALTHOUGH the Universal Father is personally resident on Paradise, at the very center of the universes, he is also actually present on ... until he actually attains the divine presence of his Paradise Father. (1176.3) 107:0.3 God, having commanded man to ... he who is indwelt by a divine Adjuster is indwelt by the Paradise Father. Every mortal who is consciously or unconsciously following the ... yearning and incessant longing to be like God, to attain Paradise, and there before the actual person of Deity to worship the infinite ... presence which actually links the mortal son with his Paradise Father and draws him nearer and nearer to the Father. The Adjuster is ... creature of time. Nor has the ascending progression of the Paradise finaliters as yet disclosed the full possibilities inherent in this ... the eternity partners of the time ascenders of the Paradise Corps of the Finality. Thought Adjusters ordinarily become fused with ... Adjusters, those who have served with the incarnated Paradise Sons, together with many who have achieved unusual distinction during ... experience, there is actual contact with the Father’s Paradise personality as well as with the specialized manifestation of the ... we know something of all the seven secret spheres of Paradise, we know less of Divinington than of the others. Beings of high ... over by the now Personalized Adjuster of the first Paradise Son of the Michael order to complete his sevenfold bestowal upon the ... of the universal presence of the eternal and infinite Paradise Father. (1180.5) 107:4.2 The actual source of the ... 107:4.3 No Adjuster has ever been disloyal to the Paradise Father; the lower orders of personal creatures may sometimes have to ... My order, the Solitary Messengers, together with Inspired Trinity Spirits, can detect the presence of Adjusters by means of spiritual ... with Thought Adjusters. In the universe of Nebadon this Paradise luminosity is widespreadly known as the “pilot light”; on Uversa ... those Supreme Creator Personalities who originate in the Paradise Deities, and who preside over the major governments of the grand ... time. * (1182.5) 107:6.3 Your path to Paradise is the path of spirit attainment, and the Adjuster nature will ... the spiritual nature of the Universal Father. Beyond the Paradise ascent and in the postfinaliter stages of the eternal career, the ... human partner in other than spirit ministry; but the Paradise ascent and the finaliter career are the partnership between the ... the instantaneous and universal gravity circuits of the Paradise Isle. (1182.7) 107:6.5 That the Mystery Monitors are ... they certainly could follow the gravity presence of Paradise into these regions, and though my order of personality can traverse ... quite apart from his presence in the personalities of his Paradise Sons or through his indirect ministrations in the personalities of the ...

... of men up to the divine heights and spiritual levels of Paradise perfection. And in the experience of thus transforming the human ... Therefore does the spirit of the Father descend from Paradise to participate with finite mortals in every bona fide experience of ... and projected patterns of life conduct are transmitted via Paradise to the reserve corps of Adjusters on Divinington by the reflectivity ... indwelling each ascending creature are reported out by the Paradise authorities to the headquarters of the superuniverse, and from there ... We do know that, following the appearance of a Paradise bestowal Son, an evolutionary world has a Personalized Adjuster ... Source and Center. We sense the presence of the Inspired Trinity Spirits, who are superpersonal expressions of the Paradise Trinity. We likewise unfailingly detect the spirit presence of certain ... in behalf of the Supreme Creator children of the Paradise Deities, the Father has certainly reserved to himself the ... himself, co-ordinately with the spiritual gravity of the Paradise Sons. Said your Paradise bestowal Son when yet on Urantia, “I, if I am lifted up, will draw all men.” This spiritual drawing power of the Paradise Sons and their creative associates we recognize and understand, but we ... to the material mind; they are indispensable to the Paradise ascension. (1191.3) 108:5.2 What the Thought Adjuster ... of ministry, Thought Adjusters work in the manner of Paradise perfection; their ministry is characterized by a flawless technique ... creatures. Following the completion of the mission of a Paradise bestowal Son, these Monitors truly become the “kingdom of heaven ...

... Urantia Book Paper 11 The Eternal Isle of Paradise (118.1) 11:0.1 PARADISE is the eternal center of the universe of universes and the abiding ... body of cosmic reality in all the master universe. Paradise is a material sphere as well as a spiritual abode. All of the ... (118.2) 11:0.2 The material beauty of Paradise consists in the magnificence of its physical perfection; the grandeur ... divine abode are impossible of mortal comprehension. And Paradise is from eternity; there are neither records nor traditions respecting ... 1. The Divine Residence (118.3) 11:1.1 Paradise serves many purposes in the administration of the universal realms, ... circular, but not spherical, abode of the Deities. This Paradise presence of the Universal Father is immediately surrounded by the ... That so few of the universe creatures have found God on Paradise in no way disproves either the reality of his existence or the ... whether we trace the lines of material gravity to nether Paradise or follow the insurging cycles of cosmic force; whether we trace the ... the Eternal Son or follow the inward processional of the Paradise Sons of God; whether we trace out the mind circuits or follow the ... and living beings. (119.3) 11:2.2 In form Paradise differs from the inhabited space bodies: it is not spherical. It is ... of activity: (119.6) 11:2.5 1. Upper Paradise. (119.7) 11:2.6 2. Peripheral Paradise. (119.8) 11:2.7 3. Nether Paradise. (119.9) 11:2.8 We speak of that surface of Paradise which is occupied with personality activities as the upper side, and the opposite surface as the nether side. The periphery of Paradise provides for activities that are not strictly personal or nonpersonal. The Trinity seems to dominate the personal or upper plane, the Unqualified Absolute ... space presence of this Absolute as focalized on nether Paradise. (120.1) 11:2.9 The eternal Isle is composed of a ... stationary systems of reality. This literal substance of Paradise is a homogeneous organization of space potency not to be found ... of Nebadon long since named it absolutum. This Paradise source material is neither dead nor alive; it is the original ... expression of the First Source and Center; it is Paradise, and Paradise is without duplicate. (120.2) 11:2.10 It appears to ... concentrated all absolute potential for cosmic reality in Paradise as a part of his technique of self-liberation from infinity ... even time-space, creation. But it does not follow that Paradise is time-space limited just because the universe of universes discloses these qualities. Paradise exists without time and has no location in space. (120.3) ... Roughly: space seemingly originates just below nether Paradise; time just above upper Paradise. Time, as you understand it, is not a feature of Paradise existence, though the citizens of the central Isle are fully conscious of nontime sequence of events. Motion is not inherent on Paradise; it is volitional. But the concept of distance, even absolute ... much meaning as it may be applied to relative locations on Paradise. Paradise is nonspatial; hence its areas are absolute and therefore serviceable ... ways beyond the concept of mortal mind. 3. Upper Paradise (120.4) 11:3.1 On upper Paradise there are three grand spheres of activity, the Deity presence, the ... and the beauteous grandeur of the Most Holy Sphere of Paradise. This realm is wholly spiritual, and you are almost wholly material. A ... still more in the reminiscent historic areas of peripheral Paradise. (120.6) 11:3.3 The Holy Area, the outlying or ... region, is divided into seven concentric zones. Paradise is sometimes called “the Father’s House” since it is his eternal ... these seven zones are often designated “the Father’s Paradise mansions.” The inner or first zone is occupied by Paradise Citizens and the natives of Havona who may chance to be dwelling on Paradise. The next or second zone is the residential area of the natives of the ... is in part subdivided into seven immense divisions, the Paradise home of the spirit beings and ascendant creatures who hail from the ... (121.1) 11:3.4 Each of the seven sectors of Paradise is subdivided into residential units suitable for the lodgment ... This staggering number of residential designations on Paradise, a number beyond your concept, occupies considerably less than one per ... their way inward, even for those who shall not start the Paradise climb until the times of the eternal future. 4. Peripheral Paradise (121.2) 11:4.1 The central Isle ends abruptly at ... within any circumscribed area. The peripheral surface of Paradise is occupied, in part, by the landing and dispatching fields for ... upon the periphery, all personality transports destined to Paradise land in these regions. Neither upper nor nether Paradise is approachable by transport supernaphim or other types of space ... on the seven spheres of the Spirit, which circle about Paradise in the space between the shining orbs of the Son and the inner circuit ... worlds, but they maintain force-focal headquarters on the Paradise periphery. Here the slowly circulating presences of the Seven Supreme ... the location of the seven flash stations for certain Paradise energies going forth to the seven superuniverses. (121.4) 11:4.3 Here on peripheral Paradise are the enormous historic and prophetic exhibit areas assigned to the ... (121.5) 11:4.4 That portion of Paradise which has been designated for the use of the existing universes is ... million times that actually required for such purposes. Paradise is large enough to accommodate the activities of an almost infinite ... But a further attempt to visualize to you the glories of Paradise would be futile. You must wait, and ascend while you wait, for truly, ... on the worlds of time and space.” 5. Nether Paradise (122.1) 11:5.1 Concerning nether Paradise, we know only that which is revealed; personalities do not sojourn ... and cosmic-force circuits have their origin on nether Paradise, and that it is constituted as follows: (122.2) 11:5.2 1. Directly underneath the location of the Trinity, in the central portion of nether Paradise, is the unknown and unrevealed Zone of Infinity. (122.3) ... is the focal point of the force-energy activities of Paradise itself; the outermost may possibly be identified with the functions of ... primal force is definitely greater at the north end of the Paradise center than in the southern regions; this is a uniformly registered ... to observable physical gravity but are always obedient to Paradise gravity. (122.6) 11:5.6 The mid-zone of the force ... and mandates of the infinite Deities when acting as the Trinity. This is believed to be the central focalization, the Paradise center, of the space presence of the Unqualified Absolute. ... are one. All force-energy originally proceeded from nether Paradise and will eventually return thereto following the completion of its ... of the universe of universes did not all come from nether Paradise in their present phenomenal states; space is the womb of several forms of matter and prematter. Though the outer zone of the Paradise force center is the source of space-energies, space does not originate ... which exist in the vast space reservoirs above and below Paradise. In attempting to imagine the volume outlines of these space ... of pervaded and unpervaded space just underneath nether Paradise. Both types of space there flow through the transmuting regulation ... are, theoretically, now approximately equidistant from Paradise. The unpervaded-space reservoirs now extend vertically above upper Paradise and below nether Paradise just as far as the pervaded space of the universe extends horizontally outward from peripheral Paradise to and even beyond the fourth outer space level. (124.1) ... cycle. 7. Space Functions of Paradise (124.2) 11:7.1 Space does not exist on any of the surfaces of Paradise. If one “looked” directly up from the upper surface of Paradise, one would “see” nothing but unpervaded space going out or coming in, just now coming in. Space does not touch Paradise; only the quiescent midspace zones come in contact with the central Isle. (124.3) 11:7.2 Paradise is the actually motionless nucleus of the relatively quiescent zones ... these zones appear to be a relative extension of Paradise, but there probably is some motion in them. We know very little about ... larger and larger at greater and greater distances from Paradise and eventually encompass the borders of all space and completely ... is it a function of the Ultimate. It is a bestowal of Paradise, and the space of the grand universe and that of all outer regions is ... the Unqualified Absolute. From near approach to peripheral Paradise, this pervaded space extends horizontally outward through the fourth ... at right angles to both the upper and lower surfaces of Paradise, with its point nearly tangent to peripheral Paradise, and then visualize this plane in elliptical revolution about Paradise, its revolution would roughly outline the volume of pervaded space. ... and farther apart at greater and greater distances from Paradise; space thickens, and it thickens somewhat faster than does the plane ... These zones separate the vast galaxies which race around Paradise in orderly procession. You may visualize the first outer space level, ... as a vast procession of galaxies swinging around Paradise, bounded above and below by the midspace zones of quiescence and ... emergent energy as they circle forever around the Isle of Paradise. (125.3) 11:7.9 This alternate zoning of the master ... a brake upon otherwise dangerous velocities. 8. Paradise Gravity (125.4) 11:8.1 The inescapable pull of ... is the all-powerful grasp of the physical presence of Paradise. Gravity is the omnipotent strand on which are strung the gleaming ... focal point of absolute material gravity is the Isle of Paradise, complemented by the dark gravity bodies encircling Havona and ... nether space reservoirs. All known emanations of nether Paradise invariably and unerringly respond to the central gravity pull ... action even though it cannot delay it. Absolute gravity is Paradise gravity. Local or linear gravity pertains to the electrical stage of ... though not perfectly clear-cut, stages of response to Paradise gravity: (126.1) 11:8.5 1. Pregravity Stages ... the force-charge of space is produced by the action of the Paradise force organizers. It signalizes the appearance of energy systems responsive to the pull of Paradise gravity. This emergent energy is originally neutral but consequent ... of any form of gravitation. This primal endowment of Paradise is not an actual level of reality, but it is ancestral to all relative ... absolute influences and potentials which emanate from Paradise and constitute the space presence of the Unqualified Absolute. (126.5) 11:8.9 Paradise is the absolute source and the eternal focal point of all ... the revealer, regulator, and repository of that which has Paradise as its source and origin. The universal presence of the Unqualified ... infinity of gravity extension, an elastic tension of Paradise presence. This concept aids us in grasping the fact that everything is drawn inward towards Paradise. The illustration is crude but nonetheless helpful. It also explains ... a phenomenon indicative of the differential dimensions of Paradise and the surrounding creations. 9. The Uniqueness of Paradise (126.6) 11:9.1 Paradise is unique in that it is the realm of primal origin and the final goal ... beings of the local universes are immediately destined to Paradise, Paradise still remains the goal of desire for all supermaterial personalities. (126.7) 11:9.2 Paradise is the geographic center of infinity; it is not a part of universal ... belonging to the divine universe, but it really does not. Paradise is an eternal and exclusive existence. (127.1) 11:9.3 ... revealed the infinity potential of his nonpersonal self as Paradise. Nonpersonal and nonspiritual Paradise appears to have been the inevitable repercussion to the Father’s ... into the personal and the nonpersonal (Eternal Son and Paradise), it is hardly proper to call that which is nonpersonal “Deity” ... called Deity. Deity may cause much that is not Deity, and Paradise is not Deity; neither is it conscious as mortal man could ever ... understand such a term. (127.3) 11:9.5 Paradise is not ancestral to any being or living entity; it is not a creator. ... reflections; they are duplications — reproductions. Paradise is the absolute of patterns; Havona is an exhibit of these potentials ... and ultimate destiny. (127.5) 11:9.7 Paradise is the universal headquarters of all personality activities and the ... forth from this central abiding place of the eternal Gods. Paradise is the center of all creation, the source of all energies, and the ... all, to mortals the most important thing about eternal Paradise is the fact that this perfect abode of the Universal Father is the ... Father’s will has already embarked upon the long, long Paradise trail of divinity pursuit and perfection attainment. And when such an ... stand, as countless numbers now do, before the Gods on Paradise, having ascended from the lowly spheres of space, such an achievement ...

... which will be attained in Orvonton, in Havona, and on Paradise. Man must think in a mortal universe frame, but that does not mean ... when he pauses to contemplate the undivided Deity of Trinity alongside the plural personalization of God. (1262.1) ... the three Absolutes of actuality, the Second, Third, and Paradise Sources and Centers. This triodity of the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, and the Paradise Isle constitutes the actual revelation of the originality of the First ... is emergent; in the association of the Second, Third, and Paradise Sources and Centers, actuality is absolute while potentiality is ... These triune qualities are not so distinguished on Paradise-eternity levels. In eternity all is — only has all not yet been ... all center in this association of the Son, the Spirit, and Paradise. The personality of the spirit Son is the master pattern for all personality throughout all universes. The substance of the Paradise Isle is the master pattern of which Havona is a perfect, and the ... level. In and to a finite universe the Son, Spirit, and Paradise function in and upon the Ultimate as he is conditioned and qualified ... 115:3.15 Actuality (of Deity) is what man seeks in the Paradise ascent. Potentiality (of human divinity) is what man evolves in that ... of the origins of God the Supreme must begin with the Paradise Trinity, for the Trinity is original Deity while the Supreme is derived Deity. Any consideration ... 115:4.2 The source of the Supreme is in the Paradise Trinity — eternal, actual, and undivided Deity. The Supreme is first of all a spirit person, and this spirit person stems from the Trinity. But the Supreme is secondly a Deity of growth — evolutionary growth ... through the co-operation of the absonite agencies of Paradise and the Supreme Creator Personalities of time. The act of maturing the ... maturation, the Supreme Creator Personalities emerge from Paradise to engage in the agelong task of bringing the evolving universes into ... the triodities; the spirit person of the Supreme, from the Trinity; but the power prerogatives of the Almighty are predicated on the ... Deity. 5. Relation of the Supreme to the Paradise Trinity (1264.7) 115:5.1 The Supreme Being is absolutely dependent on the existence and action of the Paradise Trinity for the reality of his personal and spirit nature. While the growth of ... the Supreme is dependent upon, and is derived from, the Paradise Trinity, which ever remains as the absolute center-source of perfect and ... (1265.1) 115:5.2 The function of the Trinity is related to the function of the Supreme, for the Trinity is functional on all (total) levels, including the level of the ... the superuniverses, so does the discernible action of the Trinity as immediate creator give way to the creative acts of the children of the Paradise Deities. 6. Relation of the Supreme to the Triodities ... continues to function directly in the post-Havona epochs; Paradise gravity grasps the basic units of material existence, the spirit ... of central emplacement — the absolute Isle of Paradise and the infinite Deities resident thereon. These successive levels of ... Spirit, or the nonpersonal realities of the Isle of Paradise. This statement is made with due regard for the absoluteness of these ... is not only predicated on these actualities of Deity and Paradise but is also involved in developments within the Deity, Universal, and ... The motion of the Supreme is twofold: intensively toward Paradise and Deity and extensively toward the limitlessness of the Absolutes of ... finite Deity seeking for dual correlation, inward toward Paradise and the Deities thereof and outward toward infinity and the Absolutes therein. The mighty eruption of the Paradise-creative divinity personalizing in the Creator Sons and powerizing in ... the mighty insurge of Supremacy toward unity with Paradise Deity. (1265.8) 115:6.7 Human beings have learned that ... are not sure, we believe that, as a finite reflection of Paradise Deity, the Supreme is engaged in an eternal progression into outer ... of outer space, this Supreme Being is forever seeking for Paradise coherence. And these dual motions seem to account for most of the ... is relative. The fact of Supremacy is predicated on Paradise power, Son personality, and Conjoint action, but the growth of the ... by the infinite unity of the unsearchable nature of the Paradise Father, the First Source and Center. (1266.5) 115:7.4 ... Absolute Potential. (1266.6) 115:7.5 The Paradise Trinity is considered to be the absolute inevitability; the Seven Master Spirits are apparently Trinity inevitabilities; the power-mind-spirit-personality actualization of the ... function, and destiny: relationship to the originating Trinity, the universe of activity, and the Trinity Ultimate of immediate destiny. (1267.2) 115:7.8 By the ... of the personal Son with the immutable energies of the Paradise pattern, and as the presence of the Universal Absolute unifies Deity ...

... derives his spirit and personality attributes from the Paradise Trinity, but he is power-actualizing in the doings of the Creator Sons, the ... (1269.7) 116:2.3 Unqualified Paradise Deity is incomprehensible to the evolving creatures of time and space. ... deity and absoluteness of sovereignty are inherent in the Paradise Trinity, and the Trinity is a reality which lies somewhat beyond the understanding of mortal ... understand the meaning values of divinity. Therefore does Paradise Deity attenuate and otherwise qualify the extra-Paradise personalizations of divinity, thus bringing into existence the Supreme ... ever carry the light of life farther and farther from its Paradise source until it finds its most distant and beautiful expression in the ... are the Supreme Creators; the last three levels are the Paradise Deities. The Supreme ever intervenes as the experiential spirit personalization of the Paradise Trinity and as the experiential focus of the evolutionary almighty power of the creator children of the Paradise Deities. The Supreme Being is the maximum revelation of Deity to the ... of God the Sevenfold would equivalate to the level of Paradise Deity, but such is not the case. Paradise Deity is existential Deity. The Supreme Creators, in their divine ... and inescapable union with the experiential Deity of Trinity origin — the Supreme Being. (1270.11) 116:2.14 God the Supreme is not the Paradise Trinity, neither is he any one or all of those superuniverse Creators whose ... almighty power. God the Supreme, while of origin in the Trinity, becomes manifest to evolutionary creatures as a personality of power ... his administrative acts. 3. The Almighty and Paradise Deity (1270.12) 116:3.1 The Paradise Deities not only act directly in their gravity circuits throughout the ... The bestowal incarnations of the Eternal Son and his Paradise Sons unify, actually fuse, the divine nature of a Creator with the ... Father actually unify the evolving creatures with God on Paradise. There are many such presences of the Father which indwell numerous ... The Mystery Monitors are to human beings what the Paradise Trinity is to the Supreme Being. The Adjusters are absolute ... (1271.3) 116:3.5 The creature bestowals of the Paradise orders of sonship enable these divine Sons to enrich their ... unfailingly reveal to the creatures themselves the Paradise path of divinity attainment. The Adjuster bestowals of the Universal ... 116:3.6 In these and many other ways do the Paradise Deities participate in the evolutions of time as they unfold on the ... of creation, the Master Spirits joined with the ancestral Trinity in the cocreation of the forty-nine Reflective Spirits, and ... creatively as the culminator of the conjoined acts of the Paradise Trinity and the creative children of Paradise Deity. Majeston appeared and ever since has focalized the cosmic ... — the Ancients of Days. These personifications of Trinity justice-judgment in time and space are the field fulcrums for the ... of time and space. From their vantage point midway between Paradise and the evolving worlds, these Trinity-origin sovereigns see both ways, know both ways, and co-ordinate both ... the Creator Son evolves from the nature of existential Paradise divinity to the experiential nature of supreme sovereignty. The local ... worlds eventually acquire natures expressive of Paradise divinity in experiential unification with the highest spiritual values ... through the presence of the Supreme to the person of the Paradise Father. (1273.3) 116:4.11 The local universe is the ... something which is to them just as meaningful as the Paradise ascent is to an evolving creature. (1273.4) 116:4.12 ... Spirit. (1273.11) 116:5.7 6. The Isle of Paradise. (1273.12) 116:5.8 7. The Source of Paradise — the Universal Father. (1273.13) 116:5.9 These ... from the conjoint presence of the Eternal Son and the Paradise Isle) was symbolized in the superuniverse sense when the Seven Master ... In the early days of universe building even the Paradise Creators are primarily concerned with material equilibrium. The ... are the children of the mind God, who is the activator of Paradise pattern. The intelligence of the power directors is unremittingly ... appears, and as energy and spirit move spaceward from Paradise, the gulf between them widens until in the local universes they have ... to achieve completion of Deity and to attain destiny of Trinity association. The effort is made by the personalities of time and space, ... growth of the whole. (1275.7) 116:6.7 On Paradise, monota and spirit are as one — indistinguishable except by name. In ... depend upon the unfailing energies emanating from nether Paradise to sustain the material activities and cosmic motions of space. ... depend on the absolute stability of Original Deity, the Paradise Trinity. (1276.7) 116:7.6 Man’s urge for Paradise perfection, his striving for God-attainment, creates a genuine ...

... Spirit, and eternalized in the everlasting patterns of Paradise. And God the Supreme is becoming the highest finite manifestation of ... will voice the reality of volitional experience in the trinity relationships of Deity. (1278.6) 117:1.2 In the ... of the Supreme Creators the Gods have descended from Paradise to the domains of time and space, there to create and to evolve creatures with Paradise-attainment capacity who can ascend thereto in quest of the Father. ... of the creative acts and the power mandates of the Paradise Trinity, which is unqualified unity. This very trinitarian unity is expressed ... apparent as the universes attain to the maximum level of Trinity identification. (1279.2) 117:1.4 The will of the ... of the will of divinity and humanity. The union of Paradise perfection and time-space experience yields a new meaning value on ... correlated in the ministry of the Spirit, the grandeur of Paradise, the mercy of the Son, and the experience of the Supreme. God the ... is potential in the three great Absolutes, is actual in Paradise, in the Son, and in the Spirit; but the Supreme is both actual and ... 117:2.4 My own order, the Mighty Messengers, being Trinity embraced, are nonparticipating in the growth of the present universe ... 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. (1280.5) ... You mortals now living on Urantia who may aspire to Paradise attainment and finaliter status should understand that such a destiny ... true humanity of Joshua ben Joseph, the Son of Man, to the Paradise divinity of Michael of Nebadon, the Son of the infinite God. Similarly ... universe experiences of the descending personalities from Paradise are that part of his experience which is complemental to his summation ... function in liaison with the impersonal spirit of the Paradise Trinity and become thereby creative of a new power potential of Deity reality. ... is likewise dependent on the pre-existent unity of the Paradise Trinity. But there is still another aspect to the evolution of God the Supreme: He is not only Creator-evolved and Trinity-derived; he is also self-evolved and self-derived. God the Supreme is ... with the Conjoint Actor in manipulating the energies of Paradise and in rendering these responsive to the Supreme. The Father ... collaborates with both Son and Spirit in the creation of Trinity personalities to function as rulers of the grand universe until such ... 117:3.9 Deity is unity, existential in the Trinity, experiential in the Supreme, and, in mortals, creature-realized in ... Supreme Being evolves by virtue of his liaison with the Paradise Trinity and in consequence of the divinity successes of the creator and administrator children of that Trinity. Man’s immortal soul evolves its own eternal destiny by association with the divine presence of the Paradise Father and in accordance with the personality decisions of the human mind. What the Trinity is to God the Supreme, the Adjuster is to evolving man. (1282.6) ... As we find the Father, so has the Supreme again found the Paradise Creator of all things. As we master the problems of self-realization, ... is as yet unexpressed. If mortal man proceeds upon the Paradise adventure, he is following the motions of time, which flow as currents ... inexorably in accordance with the unfolding purpose of the Paradise Father, but the volitional creation has the choice of accepting or of ... that the human self thus refuses to take part in the Paradise ascent, to just that extent is the Supreme delayed in achieving ... man has been given not only the Adjuster presence of the Paradise Father but also control over the destiny of an infinitesimal fraction ... of the universe career — the divine discovery of the Paradise Father and the divine participation in the search for, and the ... but he has set up tensions in the creations circling Paradise. God first loves man and confers upon him the potential of immortality ... of the material mind and the Adjuster, ascends as such to Paradise and subsequently, when mustered into the Corps of the Finality, ... in every crisis of ascension unfailingly directing the Paradise pilgrim, ever saying: “This is the way.” When you leave the ... reflectivity, you will still be guided in your Paradise ascent by the comforting directive spirit of the Paradise bestowal Sons of God. (1287.1) 117:5.10 How do these ... takes place through the persons of the Supreme Creators of Paradise origin who are the immediate bestowers of these circuits of time and ... the mind and spirit circuits of the grand universe in his Paradise ascent. When man decides, and when he consummates this decision in ... with the universe of universes. Creatures can attain the Paradise Father, but their evolutionary minds, being finite, are incapable of ... self thus becomes the eternal finaliter son of the Paradise Father as well as the eternal universe child of the Mother Supreme, a ... to Supremacy: (1289.5) 117:6.12 1. The Paradise Citizens descend from the eternal Isle through Havona, where they ... for Supremacy comprehension through observation of the Paradise-Havona reality differential and by exploratory discovery of the ... to the augmenting appreciation of the unity of the Paradise Trinity. (1289.7) 117:6.14 3. The Havona natives acquire a ... the Supreme through contacts with descending pilgrims from Paradise and ascending pilgrims from the seven superuniverses. Havona natives ... approaches to the Universal Father, and each of these Paradise ascensions passes through the divinity of one of the Seven Master ... the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, nevertheless, the Paradise ascent and subsequent universe career will gradually create in your ... Supreme is consequent upon his fusion with the spirit of Paradise Deity. With Urantians this spirit is the Adjuster presence of the ... you will discover the great result of your career of Paradise progression. (1291.4) 117:6.27 But no God-knowing ... the Eternal Son, as concretely powerized as is the Isle of Paradise, as completely unified as is the Conjoint Actor, and all of this ... 117:7.4 2. The Supreme could hardly function in the Trinity Ultimate until he had attained complete actuality of universe status, and yet the Trinity Ultimate is even now a qualified reality, and you have been informed of ... Sevenfold Deity, extending from the Universal Father on Paradise to the Creator Sons and the Creative Spirits of the local universes. ... mortal ascenders are admitted to the finaliter corps of Paradise, they take an oath to the Paradise Trinity, and in taking this oath of allegiance, they are thereby pledging eternal fidelity to God the Supreme, who is the Trinity as comprehended by all finite creature personalities. Subsequently, as ... universes, they are solely amenable to the mandates of Paradise origin until the eventful times of the settling of local universes in ... be directed by the Supreme as a member of the Ultimate Trinity. (1292.2) 117:7.8 The Supreme Being contains three ... 1. Absonite collaboration in the first experiential Trinity. (1292.4) 117:7.10 2. Coabsolute relationship in the second experiential Trinity. (1292.5) 117:7.11 3. Coinfinite participation in the Trinity of Trinities, but we have no satisfactory concept as to what this ... grand universe. It is altogether likely that the present Trinity administrators will continue as his vicegerents, but we believe that ... present relationship between the Havona natives and the Paradise Trinity. (1293.1) 117:7.17 The perfected grand universe of ...