Paper #147- God and Universe (7)
GOD AND UNIVERSE (7)
Existential I AM DIVINITY that IS
The Existential DIVINE I AM is living, SELF-conscious, SELF-sustainable, non-personal reality that manifests its existential presence by projection of its Spirit Energy Life Force (SELF) Creative Potential into the parameters of the realm it wishes to initiate and evolve (such as the initiation and creation/evolution of the Paradise Absolute and its universes).
This means that the Existential I AM DIVINITY that IS, by projecting its Creative Potential of its Divine I AM SELF into the different dimensional realms, creates infinite number of universes (the living “cells” of the Existential DIVINE I AM) through which experiences its existential, SELF-sustainable and infinite perfect presence.
The Urantia Book described Absolute realm, in which the non-time/non-space Paradise and then the rest of SPACE and time-space universes were created, would be the example of one of such living “cells” of the Existential DIVINE I AM SELF in manifestation.
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Many religions and philosophies of this world have claimed the existence of a non-personal realm that is the creator of everything that IS, calling such existential reality the omni-present, omni-scient and omni-potent GOD.
It is important to note the philosophical difference between the statement of “ONE GOD that IS” (Hegel) such as the Urantia Book’s Paradise 1st Center and Source (1st C&S), or GOD the Father, from the statement about the presence of “Existential (DIVINE I AM) GOD that IS”.
The first one suggests the presence of ONE GOD or 1st GOD (followed by the other GODs as in case of Paradise Trinity 2nd and 3rd GOD S&Cs), while the second one suggests the presence of perfect, limit-less, self-aware Existential (DIVINE I AM) GOD that just IS, being only observable by the manifestation of its Spirit Energy Life Force (SELF) in creation of the limitless number of universes of its Existential DIVINE I AM presence.
Kabbalah’s Ayn Sof or Ein Sof, derived from Ibn Gabriol’s “Endless One” (No End, Un-ending or No-Ending Infinity), worships the presence of the Endless Reality that IS, similar to the presence of Existential DIVINE I AM prior to its manifestation of SELF (Spirit Energy Life Force).
According to the ancient Chinese philosophy, TAO is the Existential presence in everything there is. CHI is the primal substance that animates the universe in Taoism, a mysterious force introduced to this world by ancient Chinese myths and legends that have also told us about the Tai Chi and about TAO. CHI is the force that sets the universe, this world and everything in it into motion. CHI is also the force that sustains all things once they are created.
The meaning of TAO is analogous to the meaning of Existential Divine I AM presence that IS, and CHI, as the primal substance that animates the universe and sustains all created things, is analogous to the Existential Divine’s Spirit Energy Life Force (SELF) Creative Potential present in all universe(s) manifestations.
The Existential DIVINE I AM living reality that IS acts through manifestation of It-SELF, as the creator of its existential “omni-cells” or omni-universes. From the initiated Paradise central non-time/non-space Absoluton (Absolute I AM) the Absolute Paradise and then the SPACE (Spirit Potentialized Absolute Centers Energies) were originated. In the SPACE the Grand universe has evolved including its God Supreme’s time-space initiated physical nebulas, their suns and planets (such as the Andronover nebula, its sun Monmatia and this planet Urantia).
The presence of the Existential DIVINE I AM reality that IS, as the Creator of everything that IS, might be difficult to understand and envision by the time-space limited human mind.
In the next Paper the significance of the Existential DIVINE I AM presence that IS, relative to the Absolute Paradise universe and life, will be discussed further.
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