© 1961 William S. Sadler Jr.
© 1968 Urantia Foundation
Back in the Prologue to this study, we explored the three-way relationship of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. In the last chapter, we developed the idea of nuclear universes and cytoplasmic universes. In this chapter, we would like to associate these two concepts.
Let us review our study of the Havona thesis, the superuniverse antithesis, and the final synthesis of the perfect and perfected in the completed grand universe, which synthesis was witnessed by the final emergence of the Supreme Being. Again, let us consider the three steps that were involved:
This is the first cycle: Havona thesis, superuniverse antithesis, and the grand universe synthesis. This is what we have been studying in the first three chapters, the three chapters that tell the first story of the master universe – the Finite Story.
This cycle of growth would appear to be completed when the process of synthesis succeeds in putting together those things which were originally so different from, and so challenging to, each other. When thesis and antithesis achieve synthesis, that is the attainment of destiny – at least the destiny that was implied in the original challenge which thesis makes to antithesis, and the counter-challenge which antithesis makes to thesis. (We should not forget that our own imperfection must be just as much of a service-challenge to a being of divine perfection, as his divine perfection is an ascension-challenge to each of us.)
The attainment of destiny, however, always seems to set something new in motion. If the settling of the superuniverses in light and life and the completion of the grand universe led only to the emergence of the Supreme Being and nothing more, then the grand universe might enter upon a static condition of non-growth at the end of the present age. But the appearance of the Supreme sets in motion certain other events: the First Experiential Trinity forms as a factual reality, as the direct consequence of his completed growth.
We submit that the completion of the Supreme Being stands for, and consummates, the completion of the First Synthesis. We further submit that the formation of the First Experiential Trinity is a transaction which has the effect of transforming this First Synthesis into the Second Thesis. The completion of the Supreme is the equivalent of destiny attained; the formation of the new experiential trinity (The Trinity Ultimate) is the equivalent of the new challenge of a new thesis. This new challenge presents a new and greater goal, a new and higher destiny to be achieved.
We believe that the transformation of an old synthesis is a basic principle that runs through the whole growth-history of the master universe. An old synthesis becomes a new thesis. This old synthesis is personalized in the appearance of new Deity; the new thesis is presented in the formation of a new trinity.
The First Experiential Trinity, the Trinity Ultimate, is concerned with the whole master universe, not just with the grand universe. This Trinity really is a new thesis; it is the Second Thesis.
Now, having formulated this new principle of the transformation of synthesis into new thesis, we may attempt to look ahead, to forecast what will happen as the result of the appearance of the Second Thesis on the space-stage of the master universe:
When we view the master universe from a larger perspective it does appear that it is developing rather rapidly. The Havona thesis is followed by the superuniverse antithesis and the grand-universe synthesis. This will be followed by the Second Thesis and the Second Antithesis, all of which will inaugurate the second great adventure – the Ultimate Adventure – in the wide-spreading universes of the now-uninhabited realms of outer space.