The Eternal Isle of Paradise

11:9.1Par­a­dise 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.

11:9.2Par­a­dise 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.

11:9.3In 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.

11:9.4When 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.

11:9.5Par­a­dise 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.

11:9.6God’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.

11:9.7Par­a­dise 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.

11:9.8Af­ter 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.

11:9.9[Pre­sented by a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom com­mis­sioned thus to func­tion by the An­cients of Days on Uversa.]