Unqualified+Absolute

[|The Unqualified Absolute]
 //** [|Our place in the Universe...] **//

== Urantia Text Paper 0: [|XI]. [|The Unqualified Absolute] ==

0:11.7 2. The Unqualified Absolute is nonpersonal, extradivine, and undeified. The Unqualified Absolute is therefore devoid of [|personality], [|divinity], and all [|creator] prerogatives. Neither [|fact] nor [|truth], [|experience] nor [|revelation], [|philosophy] nor [|absonity] are able to penetrate the [|nature] and [|character] of this [|Absolute] without universe qualification.

0:11.8 Let it be made clear that the Unqualified Absolute is a positive [|reality] pervading the [|grand universe] and, apparently, extending with equal [|space] [|presence] on out into the force activities and prematerial evolutions of the staggering stretches of the space regions beyond the [|seven superuniverses]. The Unqualified Absolute is not a mere [|negativism] of philosophic concept predicated on the assumptions of metaphysical sophistries concerning the [|universality], dominance, and primacy of the unconditioned and the unqualified. The Unqualified Absolute is a positive [|universe overcontrol] in [|infinity]; this overcontrol is space-force unlimited but is definitely conditioned by the presence of life, [|mind], [|spirit], and [|personality], and is further conditioned by the will-[|reactions] and [|purposeful] [|mandates] of the Paradise [|Trinity].

0:11.9 We are convinced that the Unqualified Absolute is not an undifferentiated and all-pervading [|influence] comparable either to the [|pantheistic] [|concepts] of metaphysics or to the sometime ether hypothesis of science. The Unqualified Absolute is force unlimited and Deity conditioned, but we do not fully perceive the relation of this Absolute to the spirit realities of the universes.

== Urantia Book [|Paper 12]:[|2. THE DOMAINS OF THE UNQUALIFIED ABSOLUTE] ==

12:2.1 When [|Urantia] [|astronomers] peer through their increasingly powerful [|telescopes] into the [|mysterious] stretches of [|outer space] and there behold the amazing [|evolution] of almost countless [|physical] [|universes], they should realize that they are gazing upon the mighty outworking of the unsearchable plans of the [|Architects of the Master Universe]. True, we do possess [|evidences] which are suggestive of the [|presence] of certain [|Paradise] [|personality] [|influences] here and there throughout the vast energy [|manifestations] now characteristic of these outer regions, but from the larger [|viewpoint] the space regions extending beyond the outer borders of the seven superuniverses are generally recognized as constituting the domains of the [|Unqualified Absolute].

12:2.2 Although the unaided human eye can see only two or three [|nebulae] outside the borders of the [|superuniverse] of [|Orvonton], your telescopes literally reveal millions upon millions of these [|physical] [|universes] in [|process] of formation. Most of the starry realms visually exposed to the search of your present-day telescopes are in [|Orvonton], but with photographic [|technique] the larger telescopes penetrate far beyond the borders of the [|grand universe] into the domains of [|outer space], where untold universes are in process of [|organization]. And there are yet other millions of universes beyond the range of your present instruments.

12:2.3 In the not-distant future, [|new telescopes] will reveal to the [|wondering] gaze of [|Urantian] [|astronomers] no less than 375 million new galaxies in the remote stretches of [|outer space]. At the same time these more powerful telescopes will disclose that many island universes formerly believed to be in outer space are really a part of the [|galactic] system of [|Orvonton]. [|The seven superuniverses] are still growing; the periphery of each is gradually expanding; new [|nebulae] are constantly being stabilized and organized; and some of the nebulae which Urantian astronomers regard as extragalactic are actually on the fringe of Orvonton and are traveling along with us.

12:2.4 The [|Uversa] star students [|observe] that the [|grand universe] is surrounded by the ancestors of a series of starry and planetary clusters which completely encircle the present inhabited creation as concentric rings of outer universes upon universes. The physicists of Uversa calculate that the energy and matter of these outer and uncharted regions already equal many times the total [|material] [|mass] and energy charge embraced in all [|seven superuniverses]. We are informed that the [|metamorphosis] of cosmic force in these outer space levels is a [|function] of the [|Paradise force organizers]. We also know that these forces are [|ancestral] to those physical energies which at present activate the [|grand universe]. The [|Orvonton power directors], however, have nothing to do with these far-distant realms, neither are the energy movements therein discernibly [|connected] with the [|power circuits] of the organized and inhabited creations.

12:2.5 We know very little of the significance of these tremendous [|phenomena] of [|outer space]. A greater [|creation] of the [|future] is in [|process] of formation. We can [|observe] its immensity, we can [|discern] its extent and sense its [|majestic] [|dimensions], but otherwise we know little more about these realms than do the [|astronomers] of [|Urantia]. As far as we know, no [|material] [|beings] on the order of [|humans], no [|angels] or other [|spirit] [|creatures], exist in this outer ring of [|nebulae], suns, and [|planets]. This distant domain is beyond the jurisdiction and [|administration] of the [|superuniverse governments].

12:2.6 Throughout [|Orvonton] it is believed that a new [|type] of [|creation] is in [|process], an order of universes [|destined] to become the scene of the future activities of the assembling [|Corps of the Finality]; and if our conjectures are correct, then the endless [|future] may hold for all of you the same enthralling [|spectacles] that the endless [|past] has held for your seniors and predecessors.