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Paper 14

The Central and Divine Universe

Perfector of Wisdom

3. The Havona Worlds

14:3.1Con­cern­ing the gov­ern­ment of the cen­tral uni­verse, there is none. Ha­vona is so ex­qui­sitely per­fect that no in­tel­lec­tual sys­tem of gov­ern­ment is re­quired. There are no reg­u­larly con­sti­tuted courts, nei­ther are there leg­isla­tive as­sem­blies; Ha­vona re­quires only ad­min­is­tra­tive di­rec­tion. Here may be ob­served the height of the ide­als of true self-gov­ern­ment.

14:3.2There is no need of gov­ern­ment among such per­fect and near-per­fect in­tel­li­gences. They stand in no need of reg­u­la­tion, for they are be­ings of na­tive per­fec­tion in­ter­spersed with evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures who have long since passed the scrutiny of the su­preme tri­bu­nals of the super­uni­verses.

14:3.3The ad­min­is­tra­tion of Ha­vona is not au­to­matic, but it is mar­velously per­fect and di­vinely ef­fi­cient. It is chiefly plan­e­tary and is vested in the res­i­dent Eter­nal of Days, each Ha­vona sphere be­ing di­rected by one of these Trin­ity-ori­gin per­son­al­i­ties. Eter­nals of Days are not cre­ators, but they are per­fect ad­min­is­tra­tors. They teach with su­preme skill and di­rect their plan­e­tary chil­dren with a per­fec­tion of wis­dom bor­der­ing on ab­so­lute­ness.

14:3.4The bil­lion spheres of the cen­tral uni­verse con­sti­tute the train­ing worlds of the high per­son­al­i­ties na­tive to Par­a­dise and Ha­vona and fur­ther serve as the fi­nal prov­ing grounds for as­cend­ing crea­tures from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time. In the ex­e­cu­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther’s great plan of crea­ture as­cen­sion the pil­grims of time are landed on the re­ceiv­ing worlds of the outer or sev­enth cir­cuit, and sub­se­quent to in­creased train­ing and en­larged ex­pe­ri­ence, they are pro­gres­sively ad­vanced in­ward, planet by planet and cir­cle by cir­cle, un­til they fi­nally at­tain the De­i­ties and achieve res­i­dence on Par­a­dise.

14:3.5At pres­ent, al­though the spheres of the seven cir­cuits are main­tained in all their su­per­nal glory, only about one per cent of all plan­e­tary ca­pac­ity is uti­lized in the work of fur­ther­ing the Fa­ther’s uni­ver­sal plan of mor­tal as­cen­sion. About one tenth of one per cent of the area of these enor­mous worlds is ded­i­cated to the life and ac­tiv­i­ties of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, be­ings eter­nally set­tled in light and life who of­ten so­journ and min­is­ter on the Ha­vona worlds. These ex­alted be­ings have their per­sonal res­i­dences on Par­a­dise.

14:3.6The plan­e­tary con­struc­tion of the Ha­vona spheres is en­tirely un­like that of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds and sys­tems of space. Nowhere else in all the grand uni­verse is it con­ve­nient to uti­lize such enor­mous spheres as in­hab­ited worlds. Tri­ata phys­i­cal con­sti­tu­tion, cou­pled with the bal­anc­ing ef­fect of the im­mense dark grav­ity bod­ies, makes it pos­si­ble so per­fectly to equal­ize the phys­i­cal forces and so ex­qui­sitely to bal­ance the var­i­ous at­trac­tions of this tremen­dous cre­ation. Anti­grav­ity is also em­ployed in the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the ma­te­rial func­tions and the spir­i­tual ac­tiv­i­ties of these enor­mous worlds.

14:3.7The ar­chi­tec­ture, light­ing, and heat­ing, as well as the bi­o­logic and artis­tic em­bel­lish­ment, of the Ha­vona spheres, are quite be­yond the great­est pos­si­ble stretch of hu­man imag­i­na­tion. You can­not be told much about Ha­vona; to un­der­stand its beauty and grandeur you must see it. But there are real rivers and lakes on these per­fect worlds.

14:3.8Spir­i­tu­ally these worlds are ide­ally ap­pointed; they are fit­tingly adapted to their pur­pose of har­bor­ing the nu­mer­ous or­ders of dif­fer­ing be­ings who func­tion in the cen­tral uni­verse. Man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties take place on these beau­ti­ful worlds which are far be­yond hu­man com­pre­hen­sion.