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An Introductory Study of the Triunites
Paper 104, Section 4 of The Urantia Book

by Stuart R. Kerr, III

The Relationship between the Universal Father
and the Seven Absolutes of Infinity

The First Source and Center, who is Father to the Eternal Son, is also Pattern to the Paradise Isle. He is personally unqualified in the Son but personality potentialized in the Deity Absolute. The Father is energy revealed in Paradise-Havona and at the same time energy concealed in the Unqualified Absolute. The Infinite is ever disclosed in the ceaseless acts of the Conjoint Actor while he is eternally functioning in the compensating but enshrouded activities of the Universal Absolute. Thus is the Father related to the six co-ordinate Absolutes, and thus do all seven encompass the circle of infinity throughout the endless cycles of eternity. [104:3.6](1147:5)

Triunity

"The triunities are the functional balance wheel of infinity, the unification of the uniqueness of the Seven Infinity Absolutes. It is the existential presence of the triunities that enables the Father-I AM to experience functional infinity unity despite the diversification of infinity into seven Absolutes. The First Source and Center is the unifying member of all triunities; in Him all things have their unqualified beginnings, eternal existences, and infinite destinies." [104:4.25](1150:14)

In the elucidation of the seven revealed triunities, it is important to point out that the Universal Father is the primal member of each. He is, was, and ever will be:

  • The First Universal Father- Source
  • Absolute Center
  • Primal Cause
  • Universal Controller
  • Limitless Energizer
  • Original Unity
  • Unqualified Upholder
  • First Person of Deity
  • Primal Cosmic Pattern
  • Essence of Infinity

As the First Source and Center, the Universal Father is the personal cause of the other six Absolutes of Infinity; He is the absolute of Absolutes. The completion of infinity inherent in the I AM is eternally present in the seven Absolutes. Infinity is functionally associated in the triunities and transmitively associated in the triodities. Total reality is functionalized in the triunities, and it is through them that the Universal Father exercises His immediate and personal control over the master functions of infinity. It is the conversion of potentialities into actualities that provides for the entire scheme of universal creation and evolution on all experiencing levels. These transmutations of reality Potentials deal equally with the realms of space potency, mind potency, and spirit potency.

Although finite Possibility is inherent in the Infinite, it is the attribute of the self-existent free will of the First Source and Center that activates all triunity associations that functionalize the transmutation of possibility to probability and inevitability It is the infinity of the Father's will, which so qualifies the absolute level of existence as to eventuate an ultimate or to create a finite.

God passes from simplicity to complexity, from identity to variation, from quiescence to motion, from infinity to finitude, from the divine to the human, and from unity to duality and triunity. It is because God possesses will, IS Will, that he can accordingly modify the manifestations of his absoluteness.

There are three great classes of primordial relationships that provide the absolute foundation for generating realities on the finite and absonite levels in the Master Universe:

  • 1. Unity Relationships -- the unity of relations existent within the I Am, conceived of as a threefold and then as a sevenfold self-differentiation.
  • 2. Duality Relationships -- relations existent between the I Am as sevenfold and the Seven Absolutes of Infinity.
  • 3. Triunity Relationships -- the functional associations of the Seven Absolutes of Infinity.

"The I AM is unqualified infinity as unity. The dualities externalize reality foundations. The triunities eventuate the realization of infinity as universal function." [105:4.8](1157:10)

The duality foundations result in triunity relationships because Absolute interassociation is inevitable. These trinity associations externalize the Potential of all infinity; they encompass both deified relationships of the First Source and Center—undeified as well as deified—are coordinately involved in the action of the Trinity Infinite. Contemplation of the seven triunities can reduce certain difficulties of understanding in the comprehension of the Trinity as infinite, and certain paradoxes may be partially resolved. The First Source and Center can be recognized in other triune associations in which the Infinite functions in various non-Father capacities of universal manifestation. These triunity relationships present, apart from a personal God as Father, a God of force, energy, Power, causation, reaction, potentiality, actuality, gravity, tension, pattern, principle, and unity.

"Pre-existentials become existential in the seven Absolutes, and existentials become functional in the triunities, the basic association of Absolutes. And concomitant with the eternalization of the triunities the universe stage is set— the potentials are existent and the actuals are present—and the fullness of eternity witnesses 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 other techniques on the supercreature level." [105:4.9](1157:10)

Paradise Pattern and Energy

"Pattern and personality are two of the great manifestations of the acts of the First Source and Center; and no matter how difficult it may be to comprehend, it is nonetheless true that the power-Pattern and the living person are one and the same universe reality; the Paradise Isle and the Eternal Son are co-ordinate but antipodal revelations of the unfathomable nature of the Universal Father-Force." [104:4.9](1148:15)

Paradise is:

  • 1. The co-ordinate but antipodal revelation of the Universal Father-Force (in conjunction with the Eternal Son).
  • 2. The center of all creation.
  • 3. The place of primal personality origin (the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit).
  • 4. The absolute of pattern Potentials, of which Havona is an eternal and actualized exhibit.
  • 5. The source of all energies, of all non-spiritual/non-mindal realities;
    • The source of time and space (wherein all creation takes place and by virtue of which motion is related to space and sequence becomes comprehensible to finite beings).
    • The source of space potency (from which all materialization is derived).

Paradise is the geographic center of infinity; it is not a part of the universe creation, not even a real part of the Havona universe. Paradise is an eternal and exclusive existence. It is not actually part of the Master Universe; it is Primal to the derivative creations of the Master Universe.

Paradise energy, monota, can be characterized as living but non-spirit energy; it is indistinguishable from that Paradise spirit which originates in the person of the Eternal Son. Paradise monota is the original non-spirit expression of the First Source and Center.

Thought Adjusters, as pre-personal God fragments, are fragments of something, which, when expressed, are known as either Paradise monota or Paradise spirit. These Father fragments are existentially primal to the Father's freewill expression of Paradise spirit and Paradise monota. This is why a Thought Adjuster fragment of the Father can effectively utilize the gravity circuit of Paradise for entering time-space reality.

The Eternal Isle of Paradise is composed of a single form of materialization, a stationary system of reality and a homogenous organization of space potency, called absolutum by the Melchizedeks of Nebadon. Absolutum is the "stuff of Paradise," Space potency, absolute, is that which emanates from Paradise and is the ultimate ancestor of all matter.

Space potency passes from Paradise, at its source, to the control and custody of the Unqualified Absolute, whose functional presence pervades all universe space. As the free-space presence of the Unqualified Absolute, space potency is universe force-space Potential. It emanates from Paradise while remaining pre-realitized in the domain of the Unqualified Absolute. Space potency remains responsive to the personal grasp of the Universe Father.

The Unqualified Absolute is one of three Absolutes of potentiality which appear to supercede matter, to transcend mind, and to supervene spirit. The three Absolutes might be thought of as not-fully-revealed universe presences in the phenomena of space potency and in the function of other superultimates.

All material reality is reproductive, duplicative, of the absolute Paradise pattern. Energy is fashioned after the pattern of Paradise, the absolute materialization, and this energy is organized by the cosmic agents of the Third Source and Center. This absolute manipulation of Paradise energy by the God of Action is initiated by the union of the Father-Son, whose presence "first activated the Paradise pattern in the appearance of Havona concomitant with the birth of the Infinite Spirit, the conjoint Actor."' [104:4.7](1148:13)

The Conjoint Actor, as the God of Action, is very likely involved in the prying loose of space potency from the grasp of the Unqualified Absolute. This potency of space then becomes modifiable and transmutable by the living presence of the Paradise Force Organizers.

Space potency is not subject to any known form of gravitation. It is still pre-responsive to gravity, the all-powerful grasp of the physical presence of Paradise. Absolute gravity is Paradise gravity. Space potency is that potential infinity of gravity extension, the elastic tension of Paradise presence.

Material energy potential begins as absolute space potency. It is evolved into segregated primordial force, segreqata. The emergence of Primordia1 force from space potency is probably a function of the Conjoint Actor, the Infinite manipulator. as he functions within the fourth triunity of "energy infinity," . At the level of segregata, the transcendental level of the Ultimate, the Primary and Secondary Force Organizers begin to actively function while under the direction of the Architects of the Master Universe.

Primordial force, segregata, is the first form of force which is manipulatable outside of the Deity domain. The Conjoint Actor gets directly involved at the level of segregate. The arrival of the Primary Master Force Organizers signals this involvement, and their combined presence completes the segregation of space potency. This primordial force-charge of space is "pure energy".

Primary Eventuated Master Force Organizers transmute space potency ~ this pre-material potential into primary and secondary energy manifestations of physical reality. The space presence of these force organizers initiates that tremendous force for mobilizing the eventual appearance of the ultimatonic units of universe matter.

The force organizers initiate those changes and institute those modifications of space-force which eventuate in this emergent energy. Thus, material energy potential, space potency, is downgraded to actuality, where the supreme can begin functioning, by first passing through the energy domain of the Ultimate. This force-charge of space, cosmic force, is known as ultimata, and this is the domain of the emerging Ultimate, God the Ultimate.

Ultimata is neutral, pre-positive/negative metamorphosed energy. The first emerging stage of ultimatomic energy is known as puissant energy, primary energy, and it is not yet definitively responsive to the Paradise gravity pull.

The presence of the Associate Transcendental Master Force Organizers evolve primary energy into gravity energy, the second stage of emerging ultimatonic energy. This secondary energy is the potential of universe matter. It is directly responsive to the circular grasp of Paradise (absolute) energy, and potentially responsive to the linear gravity pull on the material mass of the electronic and post-electronic stages of energy and matter.

Ultimatons are the first measurable form of energy, and, as ultimatonic matter, they comprise the the Primal physica1 units of material existence. An ultimaton possesses Paradise as its literal nucleus. Paradise controls materialized realities through its potentia1 infinity of gravity power, and it may effect this control from within the ultimatons of cosmic space.

Now, the Universe Power Directors begin the work of transmuting the ultimaton into the circuits and revolutions of the electron. This stage of materialization (electronic stage) falls under the complete grasp of the drawing power of linear gravity. This is the stage of post-gravity response, universe power, known as Gravita. As the power directors transmute energy into matter, the material worlds are born.

The approximate combination of about one hundred ultimatons yields an equivalent mass of one electron. Ultimatons spread, or cluster, within the electron according to their axial revolutionary velocities. These axial revolutions determine the negative or positive natures of several type of electronic units. The Ultimatonic function of clustering is effected by mutual attraction, responsive only to the circular Paradise-gravity pull.

Superuniverse gravita results in the evolution of "dual" material organizations, whereas the absolute gravity-responsive energy-matter in the Central Universe of Havona, triata, results in the generation of "triune" physical systems. Exactly one thousand basic chemical elements make up the material of Havona, and there exists here the balanced function of seven forms of Havona energy. The basic organization of this threefold creation of Havona is wholly unlike that of the twofold constitution of the created universes of time and space.

The Havona dark gravity bodies which intermediate the space boundaries of the Central and Grand Universes draw on both linear and absolute physical gravity. Their composition is unrevealed, being neither triata nor gravita. On the Isle of Paradise itself, transcendentalers derive their energies from tranosta, an energy form not elsewhere known outside of the central Isle.

Seven Revealed Triune Associations

The First Triunity -- The Personal-Purposive Triunity -- Volitional infinity, self-revelatory Deity to the creatures of the evolving cosmos.

  • The Universal Father
  • The Eternal Son
  • The Infinite Spirit

[104:4.4] "This is the threefold union of love, mercy, and ministry -- the purposive and personal association of the three eternal Paradise personalities. This is the divinely fraternal, creature-loving, fatherly-acting, and ascension-promoting association. The divine personalities of this first triunity are personality-bequeathing, spirit-bestowing, and mind-endowing Gods."

The Second Triunity -- The Power-Pattern Triunity -- The galactic manifestation of pattern; space-stage architecture; determining the patterns of cosmic configuration.

  • The Father-Son
  • The Paradise Isle
  • The Conjoint Actor

[104:4.7] "Energy is organized by the cosmic agents of the Third Source and Center; energy is fashioned after the pattern of Paradise, the absolute materialization; but behind all of this ceaseless manipulation is the presence of the Father-Son, whose union first activated the Paradise pattern in the appearance of Havona concomitant with the birth of the Infinite Spirit, the Conjoint Actor."

[104:4.8] "In religious experience, creatures make contact with the God who is love, but such spiritual insight must never eclipse the intelligent recognition of the universe fact of the pattern which is Paradise. The Paradise personalities enlist the freewill adoration of all creatures by the compelling power of divine love and lead all such spirit-born personalities into the supernal delights of the unending service of the finaliter sons of God. The second triunity is the architect of the space stage whereon these transactions unfold; it determines the patterns of cosmic configuration."

[104:4.9] "Love may characterize the divinity of the first triunity, but pattern is the galactic manifestation of the second triunity. What the first triunity is to evolving personalities, the second triunity is to the evolving universes. Pattern and personality are two of the great manifestations of the acts of the First Source and Center; and no matter how difficult it may be to comprehend, it is nonetheless true that the power-pattern and the loving person are one and the same universal reality; the Paradise Isle and the Eternal Son are co-ordinate but antipodal revelations of the unfathomable nature of the Universal Father-Force."

The Third Triunity -- The Spirit -Evolutional Triunity -- The pre-spirit of the Father, the active creative spirit of the Son-Spirit, the all-encompassing (even beyond) spirit of the Deity Absolute.

  • The Universal Father
  • The Son-Spirit
  • The Deity Absolute

[104:4.11] "From spirit potency to Paradise spirit, all spirit finds reality expression in this triune association of the pure spirit essence of the Father, the active spirit values of the Son-Spirit, and the unlimited spirit potentials of the Deity Absolute. The existential values of spirit have their primordial genesis, complete manifestation, and final destiny in this triunity."

The Fourth Triunity -- The Trinity of Energy Infinity -- The beginnings and the endings of all energy reality, from space potency to monota.

  • The Father-Spirit
  • The Paradise Isle
  • The Unqualified Absolute

[104:4.14] "Paradise is the center of the force-energy activation of the cosmos -- the universe position of the First Source and Center, the cosmic focal point of the Unqualified Absolute, and the source of all energy. Existentially present within this triunity is the energy potential of the cosmos-infinite, of which the grand universe and the master universe are only partial manifestations."

[104:4.15] "The fourth triunity absolutely controls the fundamental units of cosmic energy and releases them from the grasp of the Unqualified Absolute in direct proportion to the appearance in the experiential Deities of subabsolute capacity to control and stabilize the metamorphosing cosmos."

The Fifth Triunity -- The Triunity of Reactive Infinity -- A passive-reactive triunity of pure potential

  • The Universal Father
  • The Universal Absolute
  • The Unqualified Absolute

[104:4.18] "This grouping yields the eternalization of the functional infinity realization of all that is actualizable within the domains of nondeity reality. This triunity manifests unlimited reactive capacity to the volitional, causative, tensional, and patternal actions and presences of the other triunities."

The Sixth Triunity -- The Triunity of Cosmic-Associated Deity -- The Immanence of the Universal Father in relation to the transcendance of two Absolutes of Potential

  • The Universal Father
  • The Deity Absolute
  • The Universal Absolute

[104:4.20] "This is the association of Deity-in-the-cosmos, the immanence of Deity in conjunction with the transcendence of Deity. This is the last outreach of divinity on the levels of infinity toward those realities which lie outside the domain of deified reality."

The Seventh Triunity -- The Triunity of Infinite Deity -- The coordinate unification of actuals and potentials, the equal responsiveness to Deity and to nondeity presences, the indistinguishability of the First Source and Center from the I AM.

  • The Universal Father
  • The Conjoint Actor
  • The Universal Absolute

[104:4.22] "The Conjoint Actor universally integrates the varying functional aspects of all actualized reality on all levels of manifestation, from finites through transcendentals and on to absolutes. The Universal Absolute perfectly compensates the differentials inherent in the varying aspects of all incomplete reality, from the limitless potentialities of active-volitional and causative Deity reality to the boundless possibilities of static, reactive, nondeity reality in the incomprehensible domains of the Unqualified Absolute."

Editor's note: Each of these Triunities appears to result from the Universal Father entering into relationship with specific "phases" or aspects of total infinite reality which exist as a result of his volitional creativity. The repercussions of these relationships give rise to the dynamic phenomena of universe reality. Because of this apparent associative-genetic "mechanism," the author of this paper, Stuart Kerr, has conjectured that we might consider the possibility of eight additional unrevealed triune associations. It logically follows that these would be:

  • First Unrevealed Triunity
    • The Universal Father
    • The Eternal Son
    • The Deity Absolute
  • Second Unrevealed Triunity
    • The Universal Father
    • The Isle of Paradise
    • The Unqualified Absolute
  • Third Unrevealed Triunity
    • The Universal Father
    • The Isle of Paradise
    • The Infinite Spirit
  • Fourth Unrevealed Triunity
    • The Universal Father-Deity Absolute
    • The Unqualified Absolute
    • The Universal Absolute
  • Fifth Unrevealed Triunity
    • The Universal Father
    • The Eternal Son
    • The Deity Absolute-Universal Absolute
  • The Sixth Unrevealed Triunity
    • The Universal Father-Universal Absolute
    • The Isle of Paradise
    • The Unqualified Absolute
  • The Seventh Unrevealed Triunity
    • The Universal Father
    • The Eternal Son
    • The Isle of Paradise
  • The Eighth Unrevealed Triunity
    • The Universal Father
    • The Deity Absolute
    • The Unqualified Absolute

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