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Paper 12

The Universe of Universes

Perfector of Wisdom

12:0.1The im­men­sity of the far-flung cre­ation of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is ut­terly be­yond the grasp of fi­nite imag­i­na­tion; the enor­mous­ness of the mas­ter uni­verse stag­gers the con­cept of even my or­der of be­ing. But the mor­tal mind can be taught much about the plan and ar­range­ment of the uni­verses; you can know some­thing of their phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion and mar­velous ad­min­is­tra­tion; you may learn much about the var­i­ous groups of in­tel­li­gent be­ings who in­habit the seven super­uni­verses of time and the cen­tral uni­verse of eter­nity.

12:0.2In prin­ci­ple, that is, in eter­nal po­ten­tial, we con­ceive of ma­te­rial cre­ation as be­ing in­fi­nite be­cause the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is ac­tu­ally in­fi­nite, but as we study and ob­serve the to­tal ma­te­rial cre­ation, we know that at any given mo­ment in time it is lim­ited, al­though to your fi­nite minds it is com­par­a­tively lim­it­less, vir­tu­ally bound­less.

12:0.3We are con­vinced, from the study of phys­i­cal law and from the ob­ser­va­tion of the starry realms, that the in­fi­nite Cre­ator is not yet man­i­fest in fi­nal­ity of cos­mic ex­pres­sion, that much of the cos­mic po­ten­tial of the In­fi­nite is still self-con­tained and un­re­vealed. To cre­ated be­ings the mas­ter uni­verse might ap­pear to be al­most in­fi­nite, but it is far from fin­ished; there are still phys­i­cal lim­its to the ma­te­rial cre­ation, and the ex­pe­ri­en­tial rev­e­la­tion of the eter­nal pur­pose is still in prog­ress.