The British Study Edition of the Urantia Papers

^0:2.9By context — as when used in the discussion of some one deity level or association. When in doubt as to the exact interpretation of the word God, it would be advisable to refer it to the person of the Universal Father.

^0:2.10 ¶ The term God always denotes personality. Deity may, or may not, refer to divinity personalities.

^0:2.11 ¶ The word GOD is used, in these papers, with the following meanings:

^0:2.12 1. God the Father — Creator, Controller, and Upholder. The Universal Father, the First Person of Deity.

^0:2.13 2. God the Son — Co-ordinate Creator, Spirit Controller, and Spiritual Administrator. The Eternal Son, the Second Person of Deity.

^0:2.14 3. God the Spirit — Conjoint Actor, Universal Integrator, and Mind Bestower. The Infinite Spirit, the Third Person of Deity.

^0:2.15 4. 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.

^0:2.16 5. God the Sevenfold — Deity personality anywhere actually functioning in time and space. The personal Paradise Deities and their creative associates functioning in and beyond the borders of the central universe and power-personalizing as the Supreme Being on the first creature level of unifying Deity revelation in time and space. This level, the grand universe, is the sphere of the time-space descension of Paradise personalities in reciprocal association with the time-space ascension of evolutionary creatures.

^0:2.17 6. God the Ultimate — the eventuating God of supertime and transcended space. The second experiential level of unifying Deity manifestation. God the Ultimate implies the attained realization of the synthesized absonite-superpersonal, time-space-transcended, and eventuated-experiential values, co-ordinated on final creative levels of Deity reality.

^0:2.18 7. God the Absolute — the experientializing God of transcended superpersonal values and divinity meanings, now existential as the Deity Absolute. This is the third level of unifying Deity expression and expansion. On this supercreative level, Deity experiences exhaustion of personalizable potential, encounters completion of divinity, and undergoes depletion of capacity for self-revelation to successive and progressive levels of other-personalization. Deity now encounters, impinges upon, and experiences identity with, the Unqualified Absolute.

3. THE FIRST SOURCE AND CENTRE

^0:3.1 Total, infinite reality is existential in seven phases and as seven co-ordinate Absolutes:

^0:3.2 1. The First Source and Centre.

^0:3.3 2. The Second Source and Centre.

^0:3.4 3. The Third Source and Centre.

^0:3.5 4. The Isle of Paradise.

^0:3.6 5. The Deity Absolute.

^0:3.7 6. The Universal Absolute.

^0:3.8 7. The Unqualified Absolute.

^0:3.9 ¶ God, as the First Source and Centre, is primal in relation to total reality — unqualifiedly. The First Source and Centre is infinite as well as eternal and is therefore limited or conditioned only by volition.

^0:3.10 God — the Universal Father — is the personality of the First Source and Centre and as such maintains personal relations of infinite control over all co-ordinate and subordinate sources and centres. Such control is personal and infinite in potential, even though it may never actually function owing to the perfection of the function of such co-ordinate and subordinate sources and centres and personalities.

^0:3.11 The First Source and Centre is, therefore, primal in all domains: deified or undeified, personal or impersonal, actual or potential, finite or infinite. No thing or being, no relativity or finality, exists except in direct or indirect relation to, and dependence on, the primacy of the First Source and Centre.

^0:3.12 ¶ The First Source and Centre is related to the universe as:

^0:3.13 1. The gravity forces of the material universes are convergent in the gravity centre of nether Paradise. That is just why the geographic location of his person is eternally fixed in absolute relation to the force-energy centre of the nether or material plane of Paradise. But the absolute personality of Deity exists on the upper or spiritual plane of Paradise.

^0:3.14 2. The mind forces are convergent in the Infinite Spirit; the differential and divergent cosmic mind in the Seven Master Spirits; the factualizing mind of the Supreme as a time-space experience in Majeston.

^0:3.15 3. The universe spirit forces are convergent in the Eternal Son.