The Sacred Spheres of Paradise

13:3.1The seven lu­mi­nous spheres of the Eter­nal Son are the worlds of the seven phases of pure-spirit ex­is­tence. These shin­ing orbs are the source of the three­fold light of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona, their in­flu­ence be­ing largely, but not wholly, con­fined to the cen­tral uni­verse.

13:3.2Per­son­al­ity is not pres­ent on these Par­a­dise satel­lites; there­fore is there lit­tle con­cern­ing these pure-spirit abodes which can be pre­sented to the mor­tal and ma­te­rial per­son­al­ity. We are taught that these worlds teem with the oth­er­wise-than-per­sonal life of the be­ings of the Eter­nal Son. We in­fer that these en­ti­ties are be­ing as­sem­bled for min­istry in the pro­jected new uni­verses of outer space. The Par­a­dise philoso­phers main­tain that each Par­a­dise cy­cle, about two bil­lion years of Uran­tia time, wit­nesses the cre­ation of ad­di­tional re­serves of these or­ders on the se­cret worlds of the Eter­nal Son.

13:3.3As far as I am in­formed, no per­son­al­ity has ever been on any one of these spheres of the Eter­nal Son. I have never been as­signed to visit one of these worlds in all my long ex­pe­ri­ence in and out of Par­a­dise. Even the per­son­al­i­ties cocre­ated by the Eter­nal Son do not go to these worlds. We in­fer that all types of im­per­sonal spir­its—re­gard­less of parent­age—are ad­mit­ted to these spirit homes. As I am a per­son and have a spirit form, no doubt such a world would seem empty and de­serted even if I were per­mit­ted to pay it a visit. High spirit per­son­al­i­ties are not given to the grat­i­fi­ca­tion of pur­pose­less cu­rios­ity, purely use­less ad­ven­ture. There is at all times al­to­gether too much in­trigu­ing and pur­pose­ful ad­ven­ture to per­mit the de­vel­op­ment of any great in­ter­est in those projects which are ei­ther fu­tile or un­real.