The Eternal Isle of Paradise

11:0.1Par­a­dise 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.

11:0.2The 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.