The British Study Edition of the Urantia Papers

^0:1.10 7. Ultimate — self-projected and time-space-transcending Deity. Deity omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Deity functioning on the second level of unifying divinity expression as effective overcontrollers and absonite upholders of the master universe. As compared with the ministry of the Deities to the grand universe, this absonite function in the master universe is tantamount to universal overcontrol and supersustenance, sometimes called the Ultimacy of Deity.

^0:1.11 ¶ The finite level of reality is characterized by creature life and time-space limitations. Finite realities may not have endings, but they always have beginnings — they are created. The Deity level of Supremacy may be conceived as a function in relation to finite existences.

^0:1.12 ¶ The absonite level of reality is characterized by things and beings without beginnings or endings and by the transcendence of time and space. Absoniters are not created; they are eventuated — they simply are. The Deity level of Ultimacy connotes a function in relation to absonite realities. No matter in what part of the master universe, whenever time and space are transcended, such an absonite phenomenon is an act of the Ultimacy of Deity.

^0:1.13 ¶ The absolute level is beginningless, 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 fully unified experientially. Whenever, wherever, and however the absolute level of Deity functions, Paradise-absolute values and meanings are manifest.

^0:1.14 ¶ Deity may be existential[7], as in the Eternal Son; experiential[8], as in the Supreme Being; associative, as in God the Sevenfold; undivided, as in the Paradise Trinity.

^0:1.15 Deity is the source of all that which is divine. Deity is characteristically and invariably divine, but all that which is divine is not necessarily Deity, though it will be co-ordinated with Deity and will tend towards some phase of unity with Deity — spiritual, mindal, or personal.

^0:1.16 ¶ DIVINITY is the characteristic, unifying, and co-ordinating quality of Deity.

^0:1.17 Divinity is creature comprehensible as truth, beauty, and goodness; correlated in personality as love, mercy, and ministry; disclosed on impersonal levels as justice, power, and sovereignty.

^0:1.18 Divinity may be perfect — complete — as on existential and creator levels of Paradise perfection; it may be imperfect, as on experiential and creature levels of time-space evolution; or it may be relative, neither perfect nor imperfect, as on certain Havona levels of existential-experiential relationships.

^0:1.19 ¶ When we attempt to conceive of perfection in all phases and forms of relativity, we encounter seven conceivable types[9]:

^0:1.20 1. Absolute perfection in all aspects.

^0:1.21 2. Absolute perfection in some phases and relative perfection in all other aspects.

^0:1.22 3. Absolute, relative, and imperfect aspects in varied association.

^0:1.23 4. Absolute perfection in some respects, imperfection in all others.

^0:1.24 5. Absolute perfection in no direction, relative perfection in all[10] manifestations.

^0:1.25 6. Absolute perfection in no phase, relative in some, imperfect in others.

^0:1.26 7. Absolute perfection in no attribute, imperfection in all.

2. GOD

^0:2.1 Evolving mortal creatures experience an irresistible urge to symbolize their finite concepts of God. Man’s consciousness of moral duty and his spiritual idealism represent a value level — an experiential reality — which is difficult of symbolization.

^0:2.2 Cosmic consciousness implies the recognition of a First Cause, the one and only uncaused reality. God, the Universal Father, functions on three Deity-personality levels of subinfinite value and relative divinity expression:

^0:2.3 1. Prepersonal — as in the ministry of the Father fragments, such as the Thought Adjusters.

^0:2.4 2. Personal — as in the evolutionary experience of created and procreated beings.

^0:2.5 3. Superpersonal — as in the eventuated existences of certain absonite and associated beings.

^0:2.6 GOD is a word symbol designating all personalizations of Deity. The term requires a different definition on each personal level of Deity function and must be still further redefined within each of these levels, as this term may be used to designate the diverse co-ordinate and subordinate personalizations of Deity; for example: the Paradise Creator Sons — the local universe fathers.

^0:2.7 ¶ The term God, as we make use of it, may be understood:

^0:2.8By designation — as God the Father.