Paper 115
The Supreme Being
1. Relativity of Concept Frames
1Partial, incomplete, and evolving intellects would be helpless in the master universe, would be unable to form the first rational thought pattern, were it not for the innate ability of all mind, high or low, to form a universe frame in which to think. If mind cannot fathom conclusions, if it cannot penetrate to true origins, then will such mind unfailingly postulate conclusions and invent origins that it may have a means of logical thought within the frame of these mind-created postulates. And while such universe frames for creature thought are indispensable to rational intellectual operations, they are, without exception, erroneous to a greater or lesser degree.
- concepts › means of logical thought within frame of postulates; all erroneous to greater or lesser degree
- mind › nature of mind › innately forms universe frame in which to think
- perspective › logical thought is within frame of postulates; all are erroneous to greater or lesser degree
- scaffolding › concepts are serviceable, but all somewhat erroneous
2Conceptual frames of the universe are only relatively true; they are serviceable scaffolding which must eventually give way before the expansions of enlarging cosmic comprehension. The understandings of truth, beauty, and goodness, morality, ethics, duty, love, divinity, origin, existence, purpose, destiny, time, space, even Deity, are only relatively true. God is much, much more than a Father, but the Father is man’s highest concept of God; nonetheless, the Father-Son portrayal of Creator-creature relationship will be augmented by those supermortal conceptions of Deity which will be attained in Orvonton, in Havona, and on Paradise. Man must think in a mortal universe frame, but that does not mean that he cannot envision other and higher frames within which thought can take place.
- beauty › man’s understanding of b. only relatively true
- concepts › means of logical thought within frame of postulates; all erroneous to greater or lesser degree
- duty › man’s understanding of d. only relatively true
- ethics › man’s understanding of e. only relatively true
- goodness › man’s understanding of g. only relatively true
- love › man’s understanding of l. is only relatively true
- morality › man’s understanding of m. only relatively true
- scaffolding › concepts are serviceable, but all somewhat erroneous
- truth › warnings › man’s understanding of t. only relatively true
- Universal Father › described › Father idea is highest human concept of God
3In order to facilitate mortal comprehension of the universe of universes, the diverse levels of cosmic reality have been designated as finite, absonite, and absolute. Of these only the absolute is unqualifiedly eternal, truly existential. Absonites and finites are derivatives, modifications, qualifications, and attenuations of the original and primordial absolute reality of infinity.
4The realms of the finite exist by virtue of the eternal purpose of God. Finite creatures, high and low, may propound theories, and have done so, as to the necessity of the finite in the cosmic economy, but in the last analysis it exists because God so willed. The universe cannot be explained, neither can a finite creature offer a rational reason for his own individual existence without appealing to the prior acts and pre-existent volition of ancestral beings, Creators or procreators.