P.118 - §1 Paradise is the eternal center of the universe
of universes and the abiding place of the Universal Father, the Eternal
Son, the Infinite Spirit, and their divine co-ordinates and associates.
This central Isle is the most gigantic organized body of cosmic reality
in all the master universe. Paradise is a material sphere as well as a
spiritual abode. All of the intelligent creation of the Universal Father
is domiciled on material abodes; hence must the absolute controlling center
also be material, literal. And again it should be reiterated that spirit
things and spiritual beings are real. P.118 - §2 The material beauty of Paradise consists in the magnificence
of its physical perfection; the grandeur of the Isle of God is exhibited
in the superb intellectual accomplishments and mind development of its
inhabitants; the glory of the central Isle is shown forth in the infinite
endowment of divine spirit personality--the light of life. But the depths
of the spiritual beauty and the wonders of this magnificent ensemble are
utterly beyond the comprehension of the finite mind of material creatures.
The glory and spiritual splendor of the divine abode are impossible of
mortal comprehension. And Paradise is from eternity; there are neither
records nor traditions respecting the origin of this nuclear Isle of Light
and Life. |
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1. THE DIVINE RESIDENCE - P.118 P.118 - §3 Paradise serves many purposes in the administration of
the universal realms, but to creature beings it exists primarily as the
dwelling place of Deity. The personal presence of the Universal Father
is resident at the very center of the upper surface of this well-nigh
circular, but not spherical, abode of the Deities. This Paradise presence
of the Universal Father is immediately surrounded by the personal presence
of the Eternal Son, while they are both invested by the unspeakable glory
of the Infinite Spirit. P.118 - §4 God dwells, has dwelt, and everlastingly will dwell in this same central and eternal abode. We have always found him there and always will. The Universal Father is cosmically focalized, spiritually personalized, and geographically resident at this center of the universe of universes. P.118 - §5 We all know the direct course to pursue to find the Universal
Father. You are not able to comprehend much about the divine residence
because of its remoteness from you and the immensity of the intervening
space, but those who are able to comprehend the meaning of these enormous
distances know God's location and residence just as certainly and literally
as you know the location of New York, London, Rome, or Singapore, cities
definitely and geographically located on Urantia. If you were an intelligent
navigator, equipped with ship, P.119 - §0 maps, and compass, you could readily find these cities.
Likewise, if you had the time and means of passage, were spiritually qualified,
and had the necessary guidance, you could be piloted through universe
upon universe and from circuit to circuit, ever journeying inward through
the starry realms, until at last you would stand before the central shining
of the spiritual glory of the Universal Father. Provided with all the
necessities for the journey, it is just as possible to find the personal
presence of God at the center of all things as to find distant cities
on your own planet. That you have not visited these places in no way disproves
their reality or actual existence. That so few of the universe creatures
have found God on Paradise in no way disproves either the reality of his
existence or the actuality of his spiritual person at the center of all
things. P.119 - §1 The Father is always to be found at this central location.
Did he move, universal pandemonium would be precipitated, for there converge
in him at this residential center the universal lines of gravity from
the ends of creation. Whether we trace the personality circuit back through
the universes or follow the ascending personalities as they journey inward
to the Father; whether we trace the lines of material gravity to nether
Paradise or follow the insurging cycles of cosmic force; whether we trace
the lines of spiritual gravity to the Eternal Son or follow the inward
processional of the Paradise Sons of God; whether we trace out the mind
circuits or follow the trillions upon trillions of celestial beings who
spring from the Infinite Spirit--by any of these observations or by all
of them we are led directly back to the Father's presence, to his central
abode. Here is God personally, literally, and actually present. And from
his infinite being there flow the flood-streams of life, energy, and personality
to all universes. |
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2. NATURE OF THE ETERNAL ISLE - P.119 P.119 - §2 Since you are beginning to glimpse the enormousness of the material universe discernible even from your astronomical location, your space position in the starry systems, it should become evident to you that such a tremendous material universe must have an adequate and worthy capital, a headquarters commensurate with the dignity and infinitude of the universal Ruler of all this vast and far-flung creation of material realms and living beings. P.119 - §3 In form Paradise differs from the inhabited space bodies:
it is not spherical. It is definitely ellipsoid, being one-sixth longer
in the north-south diameter than in the east-west diameter. The central
Isle is essentially flat, and the distance from the upper surface to the
nether surface is one tenth that of the east-west diameter. P.119 - §4 These differences in dimensions, taken in connection with its stationary status and the greater out-pressure of force-energy at the north end of the Isle, make it possible to establish absolute direction in the master universe. P.119 - §5 The central Isle is geographically divided into three domains of activity: P.119 - §6 1. Upper Paradise. P.119 - §7 2. Peripheral Paradise. P.119 - §8 3. Nether Paradise. P.119 - §9 We speak of that surface of Paradise which is occupied
with personality activities as the upper side, and the opposite surface
as the nether side. The periphery of Paradise provides for activities
that are not strictly personal or P.120 - §0 nonpersonal. The Trinity seems to dominate the personal or upper plane, the Unqualified Absolute the nether or impersonal plane. We hardly conceive of the Unqualified Absolute as a person, but we do think of the functional space presence of this Absolute as focalized on nether Paradise. P.120 - §1 The eternal Isle is composed of a single form of materialization--stationary
systems of reality. This literal substance of Paradise is a homogeneous
organization of space potency not to be found elsewhere in all the wide
universe of universes. It has received many names in different universes,
and the Melchizedeks of Nebadon long since named it absolutum. This Paradise
source material is neither dead nor alive; it is the original nonspiritual
expression of the First Source and Center; it is Paradise, and Paradise
is without duplicate. P.120 - §2 It appears to us that the First Source and Center has
concentrated all absolute potential for cosmic reality in Paradise as
a part of his technique of self-liberation from infinity limitations,
as a means of making possible subinfinite, even time-space, creation.
But it does not follow that Paradise is time-space limited just because
the universe of universes discloses these qualities. Paradise exists without
time and has no location in space. P.120 - §3 Roughly: space seemingly originates just below nether
Paradise; time just above upper Paradise. Time, as you understand it,
is not a feature of Paradise existence, though the citizens of the central
Isle are fully conscious of nontime sequence of events. Motion is not
inherent on Paradise; it is volitional. But the concept of distance, even
absolute distance, has very much meaning as it may be applied to relative
locations on Paradise. Paradise is nonspatial; hence its areas are absolute
and therefore serviceable in many ways beyond the concept of mortal mind. |
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3. UPPER PARADISE - P.120 P.120 - §4 On upper Paradise there are three grand spheres of activity,
the Deity presence, the Most Holy Sphere, and the Holy Area. The vast
region immediately surrounding the presence of the Deities is set aside
as the Most Holy Sphere and is reserved for the functions of worship,
trinitization, and high spiritual attainment. There are no material structures
nor purely intellectual creations in this zone; they could not exist there.
It is useless for me to undertake to portray to the human mind the divine
nature and the beauteous grandeur of the Most Holy Sphere of Paradise.
This realm is wholly spiritual, and you are almost wholly material. A
purely spiritual reality is, to a purely material being, apparently nonexistent. |
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| P.120 - §5 While there are no physical materializations in the area
of the Most Holy, there are abundant souvenirs of your material days in
the Holy Land sectors and still more in the reminiscent historic areas of
peripheral Paradise. |
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P.120 - §6 The Holy Area, the outlying or residential region,
is divided into seven concentric zones. Paradise is sometimes called "the
Father's House" since it is his eternal residence, and these seven
zones are often designated "the Father's Paradise mansions."
The inner or first zone is occupied by Paradise Citizens and the natives
of Havona who may chance to be dwelling on Paradise. The next or second
zone is the residential area of the natives of the seven superuniverses
of time and space. This second zone is in part subdivided into seven immense
divisions, the Paradise home of the spirit beings and ascendant creatures
who hail from the universes of evolutionary progression. Each of these
sectors is exclusively P.121 - §0 dedicated to the welfare and advancement of the personalities
of a single superuniverse, but these facilities are almost infinitely
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P.121 - §1 Each of the seven sectors of Paradise is subdivided
into residential units suitable for the lodgment headquarters of one billion
glorified individual working groups. One thousand of these units constitute
a division. One hundred thousand divisions equal one congregation. Ten
million congregations constitute an assembly. One billion assemblies make
one grand unit. And this ascending series continues through the second
grand unit, the third, and so on to the seventh grand unit. And seven
of the grand units make up the master units, and seven of the master units
constitute a superior unit; and thus by sevens the ascending series expands
through the superior, supersuperior, celestial, supercelestial, to the
supreme units. But even this does not utilize all the space available.
This staggering number of residential designations on Paradise, a number
beyond your concept, occupies considerably less than one per cent of the
assigned area of the Holy Land. There is still plenty of room for those
who are on their way inward, even for those who shall not start the Paradise
climb until the times of the eternal future. |
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4. PERIPHERAL PARADISE - P.121 P.121 - §2 The central Isle ends abruptly at the periphery, but
its size is so enormous that this terminal angle is relatively indiscernible
within any circumscribed area. The peripheral surface of Paradise is occupied,
in part, by the landing and dispatching fields for various groups of spirit
personalities. Since the nonpervaded-space zones nearly impinge upon the
periphery, all personality transports destined to Paradise land in these
regions. Neither upper nor nether Paradise is approachable by transport
supernaphim or other types of space traversers. P.121 - §3 The Seven Master Spirits have their personal seats of
power and authority on the seven spheres of the Spirit, which circle about
Paradise in the space between the shining orbs of the Son and the inner
circuit of the Havona worlds, but they maintain force-focal headquarters
on the Paradise periphery. Here the slowly circulating presences of the
Seven Supreme Power Directors indicate the location of the seven flash
stations for certain Paradise energies going forth to the seven superuniverses. P.121 - §4 Here on peripheral Paradise are the enormous historic
and prophetic exhibit areas assigned to the Creator Sons, dedicated to
the local universes of time and space. There are just seven trillion of
these historic reservations now set up or in reserve, but these arrangements
all together occupy only about four per cent of that portion of the peripheral
area thus assigned. We infer that these vast reserves belong to creations
sometime to be situated beyond the borders of the present known and inhabited
seven superuniverses. P.121 - §5 That portion of Paradise which has been designated for
the use of the existing universes is occupied only from one to four per
cent, while the area assigned to these activities is at least one million
times that actually required for such purposes. Paradise is large enough
to accommodate the activities of an almost infinite creation. P.121 - §6 But a further attempt to visualize to you the glories
of Paradise would be futile. You must wait, and ascend while you wait,
for truly, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered
into the mind of mortal man, the things P.122 - §0 which the Universal Father has prepared for those who
survive the life in the flesh on the worlds of time and space." |
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5. NETHER PARADISE - P.122 P.122 - §1 Concerning nether Paradise, we know only that which is revealed; personalities do not sojourn there. It has nothing whatever to do with the affairs of spirit intelligences, nor does the Deity Absolute there function. We are informed that all physical-energy and cosmic-force circuits have their origin on nether Paradise, and that it is constituted as follows: P.122 - §2 1. Directly underneath the location of the Trinity, in the central portion of nether Paradise, is the unknown and unrevealed Zone of Infinity. P.122 - §3 2. This Zone is immediately surrounded by an unnamed area. P.122 - §4 3. Occupying the outer margins of the under surface is a region having mainly to do with space potency and force-energy. The activities of this vast elliptical force center are not identifiable with the known functions of any triunity, but the primordial force-charge of space appears to be focalized in this area. This center consists of three concentric elliptical zones: The innermost is the focal point of the force-energy activities of Paradise itself; the outermost may possibly be identified with the functions of the Unqualified Absolute, but we are not certain concerning the space functions of the mid-zone. P.122 - §5 The inner zone of this force center seems to act as a gigantic heart whose pulsations direct currents to the outermost borders of physical space. It directs and modifies force-energies but hardly drives them. The reality pressure-presence of this primal force is definitely greater at the north end of the Paradise center than in the southern regions; this is a uniformly registered difference. The mother force of space seems to flow in at the south and out at the north through the operation of some unknown circulatory system which is concerned with the diffusion of this basic form of force-energy. From time to time there are also noted differences in the east-west pressures. The forces emanating from this zone are not responsive to observable physical gravity but are always obedient to Paradise gravity. P.122 - §6 The mid-zone of the force center immediately surrounds this area. This mid-zone appears to be static except that it expands and contracts through three cycles of activity. The least of these pulsations is in an east-west direction, the next in a north-south direction, while the greatest fluctuation is in every direction, a generalized expansion and contraction. The function of this mid-area has never been really identified, but it must have something to do with reciprocal adjustment between the inner and the outer zones of the force center. It is believed by many that the mid-zone is the control mechanism of the midspace or quiet zones which separate the successive space levels of the master universe, but no evidence or revelation confirms this. This inference is derived from the knowledge that this mid-area is in some manner related to the functioning of the nonpervaded-space mechanism of the master universe. P.122 - §7 The outer zone is the largest and most active of the
three concentric and elliptical belts of unidentified space potential.
This area is the site of unimagined activities, the central circuit point
of emanations which proceed spaceward in every direction to the outermost
borders of the seven superuniverses and on P.123 - §0 beyond to overspread the enormous and incomprehensible
domains of all outer space. This space presence is entirely impersonal
notwithstanding that in some undisclosed manner it seems to be indirectly
responsive to the will and mandates of the infinite Deities when acting
as the Trinity. This is believed to be the central focalization, the Paradise
center, of the space presence of the Unqualified Absolute. P.123 - §1 All forms of force and all phases of energy seem to be encircuited; they circulate throughout the universes and return by definite routes. But with the emanations of the activated zone of the Unqualified Absolute there appears to be either an outgoing or an incoming--never both simultaneously. This outer zone pulsates in agelong cycles of gigantic proportions. For a little more than one billion Urantia years the space-force of this center is outgoing; then for a similar length of time it will be incoming. And the space-force manifestations of this center are universal; they extend throughout all pervadable space. P.123 - §2 All physical force, energy, and matter are one. All force-energy
originally proceeded from nether Paradise and will eventually return thereto
following the completion of its space circuit. But the energies and material
organizations of the universe of universes did not all come from nether
Paradise in their present phenomenal states; space is the womb of several
forms of matter and prematter. Though the outer zone of the Paradise force
center is the source of space-energies, space does not originate there.
Space is not force, energy, or power. Nor do the pulsations of this zone
account for the respiration of space, but the incoming and outgoing phases
of this zone are synchronized with the two-billion-year expansion-contraction
cycles of space. |
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6. SPACE RESPIRATION - P.123 P.123 - §3 We do not know the actual mechanism of space respiration;
we merely observe that all space alternately contracts and expands. This
respiration affects both the horizontal extension of pervaded space and
the vertical extensions of unpervaded space which exist in the vast space
reservoirs above and below Paradise. In attempting to imagine the volume
outlines of these space reservoirs, you might think of an hourglass. P.123 - §4 As the universes of the horizontal extension of pervaded space expand, the reservoirs of the vertical extension of unpervaded space contract and vice versa. There is a confluence of pervaded and unpervaded space just underneath nether Paradise. Both types of space there flow through the transmuting regulation channels, where changes are wrought making pervadable space nonpervadable and vice versa in the contraction and expansion cycles of the cosmos. P.123 - §5 "Unpervaded" space means: unpervaded by those forces, energies, powers, and presences known to exist in pervaded space. We do not know whether vertical (reservoir) space is destined always to function as the equipoise of horizontal (universe) space; we do not know whether there is a creative intent concerning unpervaded space; we really know very little about the space reservoirs, merely that they exist, and that they seem to counterbalance the space-expansion-contraction cycles of the universe of universes. |
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P.123 - §6 The cycles of space respiration extend in each phase
for a little more than one billion Urantia years. During one phase the
universes expand; during the P.124 - §0 next they contract. Pervaded space is now approaching
the mid-point of the expanding phase, while unpervaded space nears the
mid-point of the contracting phase, and we are informed that the outermost
limits of both space extensions are, theoretically, now approximately
equidistant from Paradise. The unpervaded-space reservoirs now extend
vertically above upper Paradise and below nether Paradise just as far
as the pervaded space of the universe extends horizontally outward from
peripheral Paradise to and even beyond the fourth outer space level. P.124 - §1 For a billion years of Urantia time the space reservoirs
contract while the master universe and the force activities of all horizontal
space expand. It thus requires a little over two billion Urantia years
to complete the entire expansion-contraction cycle. |
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7. SPACE FUNCTIONS OF PARADISE - P.124 P.124 - §2 Space does not exist on any of the surfaces of Paradise.
If one "looked" directly up from the upper surface of Paradise,
one would "see" nothing but unpervaded space going out or coming
in, just now coming in. Space does not touch Paradise; only the quiescent
midspace zones come in contact with the central Isle. |
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| P.124 - §3 Paradise is the actually motionless nucleus of the relatively quiescent zones existing between pervaded and unpervaded space. Geographically these zones appear to be a relative extension of Paradise, but there probably is some motion in them. We know very little about them, but we observe that these zones of lessened space motion separate pervaded and unpervaded space. Similar zones once existed between the levels of pervaded space, but these are now less quiescent. | |
P.124 - §4 The vertical cross section of total space would slightly resemble a maltese cross, with the horizontal arms representing pervaded (universe) space and the vertical arms representing unpervaded (reservoir) space. The areas between the four arms would separate them somewhat as the midspace zones separate pervaded and unpervaded space. These quiescent midspace zones grow larger and larger at greater and greater distances from Paradise and eventually encompass the borders of all space and completely incapsulate both the space reservoirs and the entire horizontal extension of pervaded space. |
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P.124 - §5 Space is neither a subabsolute condition within, nor
the presence of, the Unqualified Absolute, neither is it a function of
the Ultimate. It is a bestowal of Paradise, and the space of the grand
universe and that of all outer regions is believed to be actually pervaded
by the ancestral space potency of the Unqualified Absolute. From near
approach to peripheral Paradise, this pervaded space extends horizontally
outward through the fourth space level and beyond the periphery of the
master universe, but how far beyond we do not know. P.124 - §6 If you imagine a finite, but inconceivably large, V-shaped
plane situated at right angles to both the upper and lower surfaces of
Paradise, with its point nearly tangent to peripheral Paradise, and then
visualize this plane in elliptical revolution about Paradise, its revolution
would roughly outline the volume of pervaded space. P.124 - §7 There is an upper and a lower limit to horizontal space
with reference to any given location in the universes. If one could move
far enough at right angles to P.125 - §0 the plane of Orvonton, either up or down, eventually the upper or lower limit of pervaded space would be encountered. Within the known dimensions of the master universe these limits draw farther and farther apart at greater and greater distances from Paradise; space thickens, and it thickens somewhat faster than does the plane of creation, the universes. P.125 - §1 The relatively quiet zones between the space levels,
such as the one separating the seven superuniverses from the first outer
space level, are enormous elliptical regions of quiescent space activities.
These zones separate the vast galaxies which race around Paradise in orderly
procession. You may visualize the first outer space level, where untold
universes are now in process of formation, as a vast procession of galaxies
swinging around Paradise, bounded above and below by the midspace zones
of quiescence and bounded on the inner and outer margins by relatively
quiet space zones. P.125 - §2 A space level thus functions as an elliptical region
of motion surrounded on all sides by relative motionlessness. Such relationships
of motion and quiescence constitute a curved space path of lessened resistance
to motion which is universally followed by cosmic force and emergent energy
as they circle forever around the Isle of Paradise. P.125 - §3 This alternate zoning of the master universe, in association
with the alternate clockwise and counterclockwise flow of the galaxies,
is a factor in the stabilization of physical gravity designed to prevent
the accentuation of gravity pressure to the point of disruptive and dispersive
activities. Such an arrangement exerts antigravity influence and acts
as a brake upon otherwise dangerous velocities. |
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8. PARADISE GRAVITY - P.125 P.125 - §4 The inescapable pull of gravity effectively grips all
the worlds of all the universes of all space. Gravity is the all-powerful
grasp of the physical presence of Paradise. Gravity is the omnipotent
strand on which are strung the gleaming stars, blazing suns, and whirling
spheres which constitute the universal physical adornment of the eternal
God, who is all things, fills all things, and in whom all things consist. P.125 - §5 The center and focal point of absolute material gravity
is the Isle of Paradise, complemented by the dark gravity bodies encircling
Havona and equilibrated by the upper and nether space reservoirs. All
known emanations of nether Paradise invariably and unerringly respond
to the central gravity pull operating upon the endless circuits of the
elliptical space levels of the master universe. Every known form of cosmic
reality has the bend of the ages, the trend of the circle, the swing of
the great ellipse. P.125 - §6 Space is nonresponsive to gravity, but it acts as an equilibrant on gravity. Without the space cushion, explosive action would jerk surrounding space bodies. Pervaded space also exerts an antigravity influence upon physical or linear gravity; space can actually neutralize such gravity action even though it cannot delay it. Absolute gravity is Paradise gravity. Local or linear gravity pertains to the electrical stage of energy or matter; it operates within the central, super-, and outer universes, wherever suitable materialization has taken place. P.125 - §7 The numerous forms of cosmic force, physical energy, universe power, and various materializations disclose three general, though not perfectly clear-cut, stages of response to Paradise gravity: P.126 - §1 1. Pregravity Stages (Force). This is the first step in the individuation of space potency into the pre-energy forms of cosmic force. This state is analogous to the concept of the primordial force-charge of space, sometimes called pure energy or segregata. P.126 - §2 2. Gravity Stages (Energy). This modification of the force-charge of space is produced by the action of the Paradise force organizers. It signalizes the appearance of energy systems responsive to the pull of Paradise gravity. This emergent energy is originally neutral but consequent upon further metamorphosis will exhibit the so-called negative and positive qualities. We designate these stages ultimata. P.126 - §3 3. Postgravity Stages (Universe Power). In this stage, energy-matter discloses response to the control of linear gravity. In the central universe these physical systems are threefold organizations known as triata. They are the superpower mother systems of the creations of time and space. The physical systems of the superuniverses are mobilized by the Universe Power Directors and their associates. These material organizations are dual in constitution and are known as gravita. The dark gravity bodies encircling Havona are neither triata nor gravita, and their drawing power discloses both forms of physical gravity, linear and absolute. P.126 - §4 Space potency is not subject to the interactions of any
form of gravitation. This primal endowment of Paradise is not an actual
level of reality, but it is ancestral to all relative functional nonspirit
realities--all manifestations of force-energy and the organization of
power and matter. Space potency is a term difficult to define. It does
not mean that which is ancestral to space; its meaning should convey the
idea of the potencies and potentials existent within space. It may be
roughly conceived to include all those absolute influences and potentials
which emanate from Paradise and constitute the space presence of the Unqualified
Absolute. P.126 - §5 Paradise is the absolute source and the eternal focal
point of all energy-matter in the universe of universes. The Unqualified
Absolute is the revealer, regulator, and repository of that which has
Paradise as its source and origin. The universal presence of the Unqualified
Absolute seems to be equivalent to the concept of a potential infinity
of gravity extension, an elastic tension of Paradise presence. This concept
aids us in grasping the fact that everything is drawn inward towards Paradise.
The illustration is crude but nonetheless helpful. It also explains why
gravity always acts preferentially in the plane perpendicular to the mass,
a phenomenon indicative of the differential dimensions of Paradise and
the surrounding creations. |
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9. THE UNIQUENESS OF PARADISE - P.126 P.126 - §6 Paradise is unique in that it is the realm of primal origin and the final goal of destiny for all spirit personalities. Although it is true that not all of the lower spirit beings of the local universes are immediately destined to Paradise, Paradise still remains the goal of desire for all supermaterial personalities. |
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| P.126 - §7 Paradise is the geographic center of infinity; it is not a part of universal creation, not even a real part of the eternal Havona universe. We commonly refer to the central Isle as belonging to the divine universe, but it really does not. Paradise is an eternal and exclusive existence. | |
| P.127 - §1 In the eternity of the past, when the Universal Father gave infinite personality expression of his spirit self in the being of the Eternal Son, simultaneously he revealed the infinity potential of his nonpersonal self as Paradise. Nonpersonal and nonspiritual Paradise appears to have been the inevitable repercussion to the Father's will and act which eternalized the Original Son. Thus did the Father project reality in two actual phases--the personal and the nonpersonal, the spiritual and the nonspiritual. The tension between them, in the face of will to action by the Father and the Son, gave existence to the Conjoint Actor and the central universe of material worlds and spiritual beings. | ![]() |
P.127 - §2 When reality is differentiated into the personal and the nonpersonal (Eternal Son and Paradise), it is hardly proper to call that which is nonpersonal "Deity" unless somehow qualified. The energy and material repercussions of the acts of Deity could hardly be called Deity. Deity may cause much that is not Deity, and Paradise is not Deity; neither is it conscious as mortal man could ever possibly understand such a term. P.127 - §3 Paradise is not ancestral to any being or living entity; it is not a creator. Personality and mind-spirit relationships are transmissible, but pattern is not. Patterns are never reflections; they are duplications--reproductions. Paradise is the absolute of patterns; Havona is an exhibit of these potentials in actuality. P.127 - §4 God's residence is central and eternal, glorious and
ideal. His home is the beauteous pattern for all universe headquarters
worlds; and the central universe of his immediate indwelling is the pattern
for all universes in their ideals, organization, and ultimate destiny. P.127 - §5 Paradise is the universal headquarters of all personality activities and the source-center of all force-space and energy manifestations. Everything which has been, now is, or is yet to be, has come, now comes, or will come forth from this central abiding place of the eternal Gods. Paradise is the center of all creation, the source of all energies, and the place of primal origin of all personalities. P.127 - §6 After all, to mortals the most important thing about
eternal Paradise is the fact that this perfect abode of the Universal
Father is the real and far-distant destiny of the immortal souls of the
mortal and material sons of God, the ascending creatures of the evolutionary
worlds of time and space. Every God-knowing mortal who has espoused the
career of doing the Father's will has already embarked upon the long,
long Paradise trail of divinity pursuit and perfection attainment. And
when such an animal-origin being does stand, as countless numbers now
do, before the Gods on Paradise, having ascended from the lowly spheres
of space, such an achievement represents the reality of a spiritual transformation
bordering on the limits of supremacy. P.127 - §7 [Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom commissioned thus to function by the Ancients of Days on Uversa.] |