The Trinity: Its Purpose
and Functions
Prepared by Georgia Gecht
Revelations of the Trinity on
Urantia
The first Urantia revelation of the Paradise Trinity was made by the staff of our first Planetary Prince, Calagastia, one half million years ago and was lost to the world in the unsettled times following the planetary rebellion about 200, 000 years ago.
The second revelation was made
by Adam and Eve, in the first and second gardens.
These teachings had not been obliterated when the third revelation was presented by Machiventa Melchizedek and the Salem teachers about 35, 000 years ago. This doctrine was symbolized by three concentric circles which the sage of Salem wore on his breast plate. (1143:#1:1-3) Through the activities of the Salem missionaries, the Melchizedek teachings of the Trinity gradually spread throughout Urasia and northern Africa. 1144:2
The Trinitarian concept found
its way into Hinduism and Buddhism, -- the idea of a threefold manifestation of
a monotheistic God. However, the
monotheistic zeal for the one God, Yaweh, by the Hebrews so eclipsed all such
teachings that by the time of Jesus' appearance, the Elohim doctrine had been
practically eradicated from Jewish theology.
The Hebrew mind could not reconcile the trinitarian concept with the
monotheistic belief in the One Lord, the God of Israel. 1144:2-4
Jesus taught his
apostles the truth regarding the persons of the Paradise Trinity but they were
confused as to the identity of the Trinity. 1144:8
Not since the time of Jesus has
the factual identity of the Paradise Trinity been known on Urantia until its
presentation in these revelatory disclosures, The Urantia Book. 1145:2
Purpose and Functions
"Our concept of the eternal
Paradise Trinity is an ever-present reminder that Deity trinitization may
accomplish what is otherwise non-attainable." 16:6
....."The Trinity
association of the three Paradise Deities results in the evolution,
eventuation, and deitization of new meanings, values, powers, and capacities
for universal revelation, action, and administration… group potential is
FAR IN EXCESS of the SUM OF THE ATTRIBUTES of the component individuals."
113:#5:2
"The Paradise Trinity of
eternal Deities facilitates the Father's escape from personality
absolutism". ...they effectively
provide for the Father's liberation from limitations - otherwise inherent in primacy,
perfection, changelessness, eternity, ... universality, absoluteness, and
infinity."
"The Trinity is Deity unity
and this unity rests eternally upon the absolute foundations of the divine
ONENESS OF THE THREE original, and coordinate and coexistent personalities, God
the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit.
108: Intro.
'The Universal
Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit are unique persons; none is a
duplicate, each is original; ALL ARE UNITED." 110:4
"Notwithstanding
there is only ONE DEITY, there are three positive and divine PERSONALIZATIONS
of Deity." 110:#3:1
"God is the Father-Absolute of ALL personalities in the universe of universes." 111:7 "Spiritually the Eternal Son is omnipresent. The spirit of the Eternal Son is most certainly with you and around you, but not within you and a part of you like the Mystery Monitor." ...”he is "the spiritual drawing power of the all powerful spirit-gravity circuit of the Second Source and Center." 76:#4:6
"You should think of the
Third Source and Center as a universal coordinator, a minister of unlimited
cooperation." 99:3
"They not only act personally
and collectively, but they also coordinate their performances in
VARIOUS GROUPINGS, so that, in the end they function in SEVEN DIFFERENT
SINGULAR AND PLURAL capacities. And
since these seven ASSOCIATIONS exhaust the possibilities for such divinity
combination, it is inevitable that the realities of the universe shall appear
in SEVEN VARIATIONS of values, ........ meanings, ........ and
personality." 110:7
"Early in the
materialization of the universal creation the SEVENFOLD SCHEME of the universe
organization and government was formulated." (164:2) This is the seven "variously diversified
will aspects of the Deities." 1318:3, 4
NOTE:
Regarding Jesus' subjecting himself to these seven wills
of the Deity in his seven bestowals: "The Creator Son achieved
the revelation of the variously diversified wills of the Paradise Deities, whose
synthetic unity, as revealed by the Supreme Creators, is revelatory of the will
of the Supreme Being." 1318:3
"And this selfsame Paradise Trinity is a real entity
- not a personality, .... nonetheless a true and absolute REALITY. The Trinity is a supersummative Deity reality
eventuating out of the conjoining of the three Paradise Deities. The qualities, characteristics and functions
of the Trinity are NOT the simple sum of the attributes of the three
Paradise Deities; Trinity functions are something unique, original, and
not wholly predictable from an analysis of the attributes of the Father, Son
and Spirit." 1145:#2:LP
"Without coordinate existences there is no possibility
for the appearance of DIVERSITY of absolute relationships, no chance for
the operation of differentials, ...variables, ...modifiers, ...attenuators,
...qualifiers, ...or diminishers." 1146:#3:3
" ...the Paradise Trinity,
like the Supreme Being, is concerned only with the total --total planet, total
universe, total superuniverse, total grand universe. This totality attitude
exists because the Trinity is the total of Deity and for many other
reasons." 115:#7:2
"The ONENESS, the indivisibility, of Paradise Deity
is existential (always has been, is, and ever shall be).., and Absolute
... (highest level of spirit and material reality). There are three eternal
personalizations of Deity, -- the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and the
Infinite Spirit, -- but in the Paradise Trinity they are ACTUALLY one Deity,
undivided and indivisible. 640:#5:1
** See page 184:1, for the reason why there are
only seven Master Spirits, and why the universe is operated in seven grand
divisions and why the number seven is basically fundamental in its organization
and administration.