My Friend:

I would like to begin this study of multilevelate reality with thoughts of the Supreme Being. In the Supreme lies our meaning in life. As The URANTIA Book teaches, in a system, parts are connected to each other only in relation to the whole (1227:7). You and I are parts. The Supreme is the whole. If you wonder where the Supreme is, just go outside on a clear day and look up into the blue sky. You will be gazing into the belly of the Supreme.

The Supreme Being is the totalizer of all human experience and all finite, time-space reality (1182:3; 1268:6; 1276:3). I don't want to lecture you on this. The URANTIA Book teaching on it is replete. I would point out an amazing fact, though. Consider, if you will, the URANTIA Book mention of higher personalities of the Infinite Spirit. Solitary Messengers, for example (256:1). This appellation, higher personalities of the Infinite Spirit, is not devised to signify that Solitary Messengers are personalities who work for the Infinite Spirit. It means, rather, that at the level of reality occupied by the Solitary Messengers, the Infinite Spirit is the spiritual equivalent, in a sense, of a multiple personality, the Solitary Messengers. The Solitary Messengers are the higher finite personalities of the one Infinite Spirit.

The reason I mention this is that we are told in The URANTIA Book that once an ascender becomes a finaliter--a sixth-stage spirit--the ascender becomes associated in a new way, referred to as finaliter transcendation, with the spirit gravity circuit of the Eternal Son and thus becomes a candidate for recognition as a personality of the Supreme (1286:2). You and I shall be personalities of the Supreme. You shall be a personality of the Supreme Being. I shall be a personality of the Supreme Being. As The URANTIA Book says, we shall reveal the Supreme Being as naturally as Jesus revealed the Universal Father (643:6; 644:2; 1229:5; 1286:3). And when we become seventh-stage spirits, on that inconceivably distant day when the growth of the Supreme is complete, your dual mind, and mine, will become triune, each tripartite mind consisting of the mortal mind, the Adjuster mind, and the Supreme Mind--the mind of the accumulated meanings, values, and experience of all time and space (1286:2).

I said that the URANTIA Book teaching about the Supreme is replete. May I recommend in particular that you read pages 1284 and 1285, which I call Hymn to the Supreme? In those extraordinary words, you will see the cosmic basis of morality and duty laid out, which, the writers of these words teach, far transcends concepts of relative right and wrong. You will see your true and sacred obligation and opportunity touchingly portrayed.

You and I shall be personalities of the Supreme. We are the only way the Supreme ever manifests as a person to our level of existence. If God is to come to earth, he must come as we bring him. He will only be as good as we allow him to be in us. The very quality of God that is extended to humans on this earth depends upon how well we who would extend this presence to them follow the Supreme-coordinated Father guidance of the Adjuster. And when you and I go to the higher spheres and gaze upon increasingly divine beings, we will not be gazing upon glory, except as we are willing to see God in these beings, of whom we will progressively be becoming peers. Indeed, the seven cosmic circles of human progress are measures of our cosmic level (1211:2). Entering the third circle signifies that we have attained a certain level of morontia awareness of our initial relationship with the Supreme Being (1211:2).

The Supreme Being, your greater self and mine, the time-space presence of the Paradise Trinity and of the Father-I AM, is the meaning of my existence and of yours--and of mine-yours. We find the Father, The URANTIA Book tells us, in our own hearts and find the Supreme in the hearts of all other humans (1290:9). Once the will of God attains to action, it transmutes from the Father to the Supreme. The Father is in us; the Supreme is all around us. The universe is the Supreme's body. Jesus said that once you find God in your soul, you will find him in others, and then in a whole, vast universe (1733:2).

Only when you and I are centered upon our very reason for existence--actualizing the Supreme Being through Father-indited loving service to our brothers and sisters--can the study of multilevelate reality or anything else have any meaning.