If the Universal Father is the God of all creation, the First Source and Center, and perfect in all aspects then who is God the Supreme and God the Ultimate?
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Our God is a wonderful administrator, as well as the Universal Father,
God of all creation and "perfect in all aspects." He is the perfect
Executive among all of his other sterling attributes.
What makes a perfect executive? Well, good executives always delegate
authority. The Universal Father has delegated authority in the persons
of the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit, for starters, creating the
perfect Trinity. It is a mystery, but this Trinity of the persons of
God are, like him, eternally present, having had no beginning. A
great mystery, but true nonetheless.
Together with the three persons of the Trinity, there are four other
Deity manifestations -seven
in all You have named God the Supreme,
and God the Ultimate:
God the
Supreme—the actualizing or evolving God of time and
space. Personal Deity associatively realizing the time-space
experiential achievement of creature-Creator identity. The Supreme
Being is personally experiencing the achievement of Deity unity as the
evolving and experiential God of the evolutionary creatures of time and
space. (0:2.12)
It is through the Supreme that the First Source and Center experiences
individuality and creation. God the Supreme allows the Universal Father
to experience growth - the growth of the time-space creations. The
Universal Father, in and of himself, is already perfect, as you pointed
out. He has no need to experience growth, as he is perfect. Through the
Supreme,
he is able to escape that "limitation."
Having achieved
existential Deity expression of himself in the Son and
the Spirit, the Father is now achieving experiential expression on
hitherto impersonal and unrevealed deity levels as God the Supreme, God
the Ultimate, and God the Absolute; but these experiential Deities are
not now fully existent; they are in process of actualization.
(0:7.4)
Finally:
Do not entertain the idea
that, since the Universal Father has
delegated so much of himself and his power to others, he is a silent or
inactive member of the Deity partnership. Aside from personality
domains and Adjuster bestowal, he is apparently the least active of the
Paradise Deities in that he allows his Deity co-ordinates, his Sons,
and numerous created intelligences to perform so much in the carrying
out of his eternal purpose. He is the silent member of the creative
trio only in that he never does aught which any of his co-ordinate or
subordinate associates can do. (32:4.1)
So, to sum up: The Universal Father is, was and always will be. He had
no beginning and he will have no end. His is primal force and power.
The Son is the Father's divine Word, and the Spirit is eternal Action.
All three are eternal, and have no beginning or end. The
remaining Deity manifestations are experiential and evolutionary. They
did have a beginning, but will have no end, as they eventually manifest
their purposes in the Universe of Universes.
So, even though God is
indeed, perfect in himself, he has created a situation where he is
able to escape that perfection to such an extent that he can actually
experience imperfection. Another way he does this is to bestow himself
in the form of the Thought Adjusters, and so, he even experiences the
day-to-day lives of even his lowliest creatures like you and me.
To me, it seems a brilliant plan - and who could expect any less of our
great and good Spirit Father?
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