Deity

Deity functions on personal, prepersonal, and superpersonal levels. Total Deity is functional on the following seven levels: (0:1.3-10,14)

In the Urantia Book

# Static

# Potential

# Associative

# Creative

# Evolutional

# Supreme

# Ultimate

• the Seven Master Spirits are hardly expressive of threefold Deity, they are the eternal portrayal of sevenfold Deity, the active and associative functions of the three ever-existent persons of Deity. 16:1.1-2
• In considering the genesis of reality, we must bear in mind that all absolute reality is from eternity and is without beginning of existence. By absolute reality we must refer to the three existential persons of Deity, the Isle of Paradise, and the three Absolutes. These seven realities are co-ordinately eternal 105
• Deity presence absolute only on upper Paradise 11:3.1 56:9.7

Description

• Although Divinity may be plural in manifestation, in human experience Deity is singular, always one. 34:6.2
• Deity is unity, existential in the Trinity, experiential in the Supreme, and, in mortals, creature-realized in Adjuster fusion. 117:3.9
• Deity is unity, and the unity of Deity not only embraces the spiritual values of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son but is also cognizant of the energy facts 0:2.10 103:7.3
• the different natures of Deity are: the Father, the Son, the Spirit, the Supreme, the Sevenfold, the Ultimate, and the Absolute 118:0.1-8
• Deity is personalizable as God, is prepersonal and superpersonal in ways not altogether comprehensible by man and is characterized by the quality of unity, quality that is best comprehended as divinity. (0:1.2,16) 0:1.15 56:5
• Deity is the source of all that which is divine. 0:1.15
• Supreme is the maximum of Deity that creatures can understand 56:6.3 56:8.1
• truth, beauty, and goodness are revelation of Deity, the comprehensible elements of Deity (56:10.2,9)
• Deity is the transcendental, even the infinite, goal of universal and eternal attainment. 56:10.16
• The equivalent of mind, the ability to know and be known, is indigenous to Deity. 6:6.2

Existential Deities

• Notwithstanding there is only one Deity, there are three positive and divine personalizations of Deity: Universal Father, Eternal Son, and Infinite Spirit 3:6.8 10:3 56:5.1 56:7.3
• the Father is not discernibly absolute as total Deity except in the Paradise Trinity. 0:7.1-6 (10:3.7,8,16) 117:3.9
• master circuits of the grand universe derive from personality presences of Paradise Deities 34:4.5
• Physical matter is the time-space shadow of the Paradise energy-shining of the absolute Deities. 56:10.18
• Whereas absolute and existential Deity is in no manner whatever influenced by attitudes of loyalty or disloyalty of created beings, subabsolute and experiential Deity is definitely and directly influenced by the loyalties of finite creatures. 13:4.3-5
• task of Havona pilgrims is spiritual and personality recognition of Deities 26:7.5
• While no single person of the Paradise Deities fills all Deity potential, collectively all three do, as three seem to be the minimum number of beings required to activate the prepersonal and existential potential of total Deity—the Deity Absolute. 10:8.4
• In the universe of universes Paradise and its Deities transcend both time and space. 130:7.4
• God as a Father takes precedence over all other phases of Deity manifestation in all the dealings of divinity with humanity. 54:6.2
• The Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit are, in a certain sense, the constituent personalities of total Deity. Their union in the Paradise Trinity and the absolute function of the Trinity equivalate to the function of total Deity. 10:8.3-4

Experiential Deities

• associate evolutionary Deities of the three Deities of Paradise are: God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and possibly God the Absolute 0:9.4
• The first and second experiential Trinities, the post-Havona Trinities, cannot be infinite because they embrace derived Deities, Deities evolved 0:12.3
• The steady progress of evolution in the time-space universes is accompanied by ever-enlarging revelations of Deity to all intelligent creatures. (56:7.1,2,5)
• The Father has achieved existential Deity expression of himself in the Son and the Spirit, and now is achieving experiential expression on hitherto impersonal and unrevealed deity levels as God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and God the Absolute. 0:7.6
• overcontrol by experiential Deities causes phenomena of their activities to be unpredictable 15:8.9
• their presence is influenced by creature loyalty 13:4.4-5
• the unity of the existential Deities translates into a unifying power potential of the sovereignty of experiential supremacy, the unification of the evolutionary Deity 56:6

Direct descendants from the Deities

• fragmented Deity entities, such as Thought Adjusters, appear in the Paradise classification of beings; and there are many other unrevealed types of fragmentations 30:1.100-102
• in the Paradise classification there exist unrevealed beings of direct Deity origin (30:1.23,24,63)

Nature of Deity

• the nature of Deity can be described by these characteristics:
• * Beauty | beauty
• * Goodness | goodness
• * Justice | justice: divine justice
• * Love | love: divine love
• * Mercy | mercy
• * Omnipotence | omnipotence
• * Omniscience | omniscience
• * Truth | truth
• The energy and material repercussions of the acts of Deity could hardly be called Deity. Paradise is not Deity 11:9.4

Personalization of Deity

• Deity personalization culminated in the Infinite Spirit. First the Father donated the fullness of himself to the personality of his Son, and then both called upon the infinite power of their Father-Son union to bestow the qualities and attributes of a conjoint personality, the Infinite Spirit. 10:2-4
• realities of Deity seek realization in personalization 0:12.4
• the threefold personalization of Deity was the absolute inevitability, while the appearance of the Seven Master Spirits was the subabsolute inevitability. 16:1.1

Approach to the Deity

• the Universal Father has established the evolutionary creature’s sevenfold approach to Deity: 0:8.1-8
• # The Paradise Creator Sons.
• # The Ancients of Days.
• # The Seven Master Spirits.
• # The Supreme Being.
• # God the Spirit.
• # God the Son.
• # God the Father.

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Know and be known 6:6.2 — 1 Co 13:12.
• Trinity 56:5.1 — Mt 28:19; Acts 2:32-33; 2 Co 13:14; 1 Jn 5:7. *Trinity (Paul's early view)*: 1 Co 12:4-6.
• Spirit gravity 34:4.5 — Jer 31:3; Jn 6:44; Jn 12:32.

Where it appears

Deity is linked in 303 paragraphs of the text; the first 40 are listed.

See also

• Eternal Son
• God
• Infinite Spirit
• Universal Father
• gods and goddesses

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