The Central and Divine Universe

14:5.1On Uran­tia you pass through a short and in­tense test dur­ing your ini­tial life of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence. On the man­sion worlds and up through your sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, and lo­cal uni­verse, you tra­verse the mor­ontia phases of as­cen­sion. On the train­ing worlds of the super­uni­verse you pass through the true spirit stages of pro­gres­sion and are pre­pared for even­tual tran­sit to Ha­vona. On the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona your at­tain­ment is in­tel­lec­tual, spir­i­tual, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial. And there is a def­i­nite task to be achieved on each of the worlds of each of these cir­cuits.

14:5.2Life on the di­vine worlds of the cen­tral uni­verse is so rich and full, so com­plete and re­plete, that it wholly tran­scends the hu­man con­cept of any­thing a cre­ated be­ing could pos­si­bly ex­pe­ri­ence. The so­cial and eco­nomic ac­tiv­i­ties of this eter­nal cre­ation are en­tirely dis­sim­i­lar to the oc­cu­pa­tions of ma­te­rial crea­tures liv­ing on evo­lu­tion­ary worlds like Uran­tia. Even the tech­nique of Ha­vona thought is un­like the pro­cess of think­ing on Uran­tia.

14:5.3The reg­u­la­tions of the cen­tral uni­verse are fit­tingly and in­her­ently nat­u­ral; the rules of con­duct are not ar­bi­trary. In ev­ery re­quire­ment of Ha­vona there is dis­closed the rea­son of righ­teous­ness and the rule of jus­tice. And these two fac­tors, com­bined, equal what on Uran­tia would be de­nom­i­nated fair­ness. When you ar­rive in Ha­vona, you will nat­u­rally en­joy do­ing things the way they should be done.

14:5.4When in­tel­li­gent be­ings first at­tain the cen­tral uni­verse, they are re­ceived and domi­ciled on the pi­lot world of the sev­enth Ha­vona cir­cuit. As the new ar­rivals pro­gress spir­i­tu­ally, at­tain iden­tity com­pre­hen­sion of their super­uni­verse Mas­ter Spirit, they are trans­ferred to the sixth cir­cle. (It is from these ar­range­ments in the cen­tral uni­verse that the cir­cles of prog­ress in the hu­man mind have been des­ig­nated.) Af­ter as­cend­ers have at­tained a re­al­iza­tion of Su­prem­acy and are thereby pre­pared for the De­ity ad­ven­ture, they are taken to the fifth cir­cuit; and af­ter at­tain­ing the In­fi­nite Spirit, they are trans­ferred to the fourth. Fol­low­ing the at­tain­ment of the Eter­nal Son, they are re­moved to the third; and when they have rec­og­nized the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, they go to so­journ on the sec­ond cir­cuit of worlds, where they be­come more fa­mil­iar with the Par­a­dise hosts. Ar­rival on the first cir­cuit of Ha­vona sig­ni­fies the ac­cep­tance of the can­di­dates of time into the ser­vice of Par­a­dise. In­def­i­nitely, ac­cord­ing to the length and na­ture of the crea­ture as­cen­sion, they will tarry on the in­ner cir­cuit of pro­gres­sive spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. From this in­ner cir­cuit the as­cend­ing pil­grims pass in­ward to Par­a­dise res­i­dence and ad­mis­sion to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

14:5.5Dur­ing your so­journ in Ha­vona as a pil­grim of as­cent, you will be al­lowed to visit freely among the worlds of the cir­cuit of your as­sign­ment. You will also be per­mit­ted to go back to the plan­ets of those cir­cuits you have pre­vi­ously tra­versed. And all this is pos­si­ble to those who so­journ on the cir­cles of Ha­vona with­out the ne­ces­sity of be­ing en­super­na­phimed. The pil­grims of time are able to equip them­selves to tra­verse “achieved” space but must de­pend on the or­dained tech­nique to ne­go­ti­ate “un­achieved” space; a pil­grim can­not leave Ha­vona nor go for­ward be­yond his as­signed cir­cuit with­out the aid of a trans­port super­na­phim.

14:5.6There is a re­fresh­ing orig­i­nal­ity about this vast cen­tral cre­ation. Aside from the phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion of mat­ter and the fun­da­men­tal con­sti­tu­tion of the ba­sic or­ders of in­tel­li­gent be­ings and other liv­ing things, there is noth­ing in com­mon be­tween the worlds of Ha­vona. Ev­ery one of these plan­ets is an orig­i­nal, unique, and ex­clu­sive cre­ation; each planet is a match­less, su­perb, and per­fect pro­duc­tion. And this di­ver­sity of in­di­vid­u­al­ity ex­tends to all fea­tures of the phys­i­cal, in­tel­lec­tual, and spir­i­tual as­pects of plan­e­tary ex­is­tence. Each of these bil­lion per­fec­tion spheres has been de­vel­oped and em­bel­lished in ac­cor­dance with the plans of the res­i­dent Eter­nal of Days. And this is just why no two of them are alike.

14:5.7Not un­til you tra­verse the last of the Ha­vona cir­cuits and visit the last of the Ha­vona worlds, will the tonic of ad­ven­ture and the stim­u­lus of cu­rios­ity dis­ap­pear from your ca­reer. And then will the urge, the for­ward im­pulse of eter­nity, re­place its fore­run­ner, the ad­ven­ture lure of time.

14:5.8Mo­not­ony is in­dica­tive of im­ma­tu­rity of the cre­ative imag­i­na­tion and in­ac­tiv­ity of in­tel­lec­tual co-or­di­na­tion with the spir­i­tual en­dow­ment. By the time an as­cen­dant mor­tal be­gins the ex­plo­ration of these heav­enly worlds, he has al­ready at­tained emo­tional, in­tel­lec­tual, and so­cial, if not spir­i­tual, ma­tu­rity.

14:5.9Not only will you find un­dreamed-of changes con­fronting you as you ad­vance from cir­cuit to cir­cuit in Ha­vona, but your as­ton­ish­ment will be in­ex­press­ible as you pro­gress from planet to planet within each cir­cuit. Each of these bil­lion study worlds is a ver­i­ta­ble uni­ver­sity of sur­prises. Con­tin­u­ing as­ton­ish­ment, un­end­ing won­der, is the ex­pe­ri­ence of those who tra­verse these cir­cuits and tour these gi­gan­tic spheres. Mo­not­ony is not a part of the Ha­vona ca­reer.

14:5.10Love of ad­ven­ture, cu­rios­ity, and dread of mo­not­ony—these traits in­her­ent in evolv­ing hu­man na­ture—were not put there just to ag­gra­vate and an­noy you dur­ing your short so­journ on earth, but rather to sug­gest to you that death is only the be­gin­ning of an end­less ca­reer of ad­ven­ture, an ev­er­last­ing life of an­tic­i­pa­tion, an eter­nal voy­age of dis­cov­ery.

14:5.11Cu­rios­ity—the spirit of in­ves­ti­ga­tion, the urge of dis­cov­ery, the drive of ex­plo­ration—is a part of the in­born and di­vine en­dow­ment of evo­lu­tion­ary space crea­tures. These nat­u­ral im­pulses were not given you merely to be frus­trated and re­pressed. True, these am­bi­tious urges must fre­quently be re­strained dur­ing your short life on earth, dis­ap­point­ment must be of­ten ex­pe­ri­enced, but they are to be fully re­al­ized and glo­ri­ously grat­i­fied dur­ing the long ages to come.