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Paper 14

The Central and Divine Universe

Perfector of Wisdom

6. The Purpose of the Central Universe

14:6.1The range of the ac­tiv­i­ties of seven-cir­cuited Ha­vona is enor­mous. In gen­eral, they may be de­scribed as:

14:6.21. Havonal.

14:6.32. Par­a­di­si­a­cal.

14:6.43. As­cen­dant-fi­nite—Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate evo­lu­tional.

14:6.5Many super­fi­nite ac­tiv­i­ties take place in the Ha­vona of the pres­ent uni­verse age, in­volv­ing un­told di­ver­si­ties of ab­so­nite and other phases of mind and spirit func­tions. It is pos­si­ble that the cen­tral uni­verse serves many pur­poses which are not re­vealed to me, as it func­tions in nu­mer­ous ways be­yond the com­pre­hen­sion of the cre­ated mind. Nev­er­the­less, I will en­deavor to de­pict how this per­fect cre­ation min­is­ters to the needs and con­tributes to the sat­is­fac­tions of seven or­ders of uni­verse in­tel­li­gence.

14:6.61. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther—the First Source and Cen­ter. God the Fa­ther de­rives su­preme pa­ren­tal sat­is­fac­tion from the per­fec­tion of the cen­tral cre­ation. He en­joys the ex­pe­ri­ence of love sati­ety on near-equal­ity lev­els. The per­fect Cre­ator is di­vinely pleased with the ado­ra­tion of the per­fect crea­ture.

14:6.7Ha­vona af­fords the Fa­ther su­preme achieve­ment grat­i­fi­ca­tion. The per­fec­tion re­al­iza­tion in Ha­vona com­pen­sates for the time-space de­lay of the eter­nal urge of in­fi­nite ex­pan­sion.

14:6.8The Fa­ther en­joys the Ha­vona re­cip­ro­ca­tion of the di­vine beauty. It sat­is­fies the di­vine mind to af­ford a per­fect pat­tern of ex­qui­site har­mony for all evolv­ing uni­verses.

14:6.9Our Fa­ther be­holds the cen­tral uni­verse with per­fect plea­sure be­cause it is a wor­thy rev­e­la­tion of spirit re­al­ity to all per­son­al­i­ties of the uni­verse of uni­verses.

14:6.10The God of uni­verses has fa­vor­able re­gard for Ha­vona and Par­a­dise as the eter­nal power nu­cleus for all sub­se­quent uni­verse ex­pan­sion in time and space.

14:6.11The eter­nal Fa­ther views with never-end­ing sat­is­fac­tion the Ha­vona cre­ation as the wor­thy and al­lur­ing goal for the as­cen­sion can­di­dates of time, his mor­tal grand­chil­dren of space achiev­ing their Cre­ator-Fa­ther’s eter­nal home. And God takes plea­sure in the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona uni­verse as the eter­nal home of De­ity and the di­vine fam­ily.

14:6.122. The Eter­nal Son—the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. To the Eter­nal Son the su­perb cen­tral cre­ation af­fords eter­nal proof of the part­ner­ship ef­fec­tive­ness of the di­vine fam­ily—Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit. It is the spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial ba­sis for ab­so­lute con­fi­dence in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

14:6.13Ha­vona af­fords the Eter­nal Son an al­most un­lim­ited base for the ever-ex­pand­ing re­al­iza­tion of spirit power. The cen­tral uni­verse af­forded the Eter­nal Son the arena wherein he could safely and se­curely demon­strate the spirit and tech­nique of the be­stowal min­istry for the in­struc­tion of his as­so­ciate Par­a­dise Sons.

14:6.14Ha­vona is the re­al­ity foun­da­tion for the Eter­nal Son’s spirit-grav­ity con­trol of the uni­verse of uni­verses. This uni­verse af­fords the Son the grat­i­fi­ca­tion of pa­ren­tal crav­ing, spir­i­tual re­pro­duc­tion.

14:6.15The Ha­vona worlds and their per­fect in­hab­i­tants are the first and the eter­nally fi­nal dem­on­stra­tion that the Son is the Word of the Fa­ther. Thereby is the con­scious­ness of the Son as an in­fi­nite com­ple­ment of the Fa­ther per­fectly grat­i­fied.

14:6.16And this uni­verse af­fords the op­por­tu­nity for the re­al­iza­tion of re­cip­ro­ca­tion of equal­ity fra­ter­nity be­tween the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son, and this con­sti­tutes the ev­er­last­ing proof of the in­fi­nite per­son­al­ity of each.

14:6.173. The In­fi­nite Spirit—the Third Source and Cen­ter. The Ha­vona uni­verse af­fords the In­fi­nite Spirit proof of be­ing the Con­joint Ac­tor, the in­fi­nite rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the uni­fied Fa­ther-Son. In Ha­vona the In­fi­nite Spirit de­rives the com­bined sat­is­fac­tion of func­tion­ing as a cre­ative ac­tiv­ity while en­joy­ing the sat­is­fac­tion of ab­so­lute co­ex­is­tence with this di­vine achieve­ment.

14:6.18In Ha­vona the In­fi­nite Spirit found an arena wherein he could demon­strate the abil­ity and will­ing­ness to serve as a po­ten­tial mercy min­is­ter. In this per­fect cre­ation the Spirit re­hearsed for the ad­ven­ture of min­istry in the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses.

14:6.19This per­fect cre­ation af­forded the In­fi­nite Spirit op­por­tu­nity to par­tic­i­pate in uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion with both di­vine par­ents—to ad­min­is­ter a uni­verse as as­so­ciate-Cre­ator off­spring, thereby prepar­ing for the joint ad­min­is­tra­tion of the lo­cal uni­verses as the Cre­ative Spirit as­so­ciates of the Cre­ator Sons.

14:6.20The Ha­vona worlds are the mind lab­o­ra­tory of the cre­ators of the cos­mic mind and the min­is­ters to ev­ery crea­ture mind in ex­is­tence. Mind is dif­fer­ent on each Ha­vona world and serves as the pat­tern for all spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial crea­ture in­tel­lects.

14:6.21These per­fect worlds are the mind grad­u­ate schools for all be­ings des­tined for Par­a­dise so­ci­ety. They af­forded the Spirit abun­dant op­por­tu­nity to test out the tech­nique of mind min­istry on safe and ad­vi­sory per­son­al­i­ties.

14:6.22Ha­vona is a com­pen­sa­tion to the In­fi­nite Spirit for his wide­spread and un­selfish work in the uni­verses of space. Ha­vona is the per­fect home and re­treat for the un­tir­ing Mind Min­is­ter of time and space.

14:6.234. The Su­preme Be­ing—the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­fi­ca­tion of ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity. The Ha­vona cre­ation is the eter­nal and per­fect proof of the spir­i­tual re­al­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing. This per­fect cre­ation is a rev­e­la­tion of the per­fect and sym­met­ri­cal spirit na­ture of God the Su­preme be­fore the be­gin­nings of the power-per­son­al­ity syn­the­sis of the fi­nite re­flec­tions of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­verses of time and space.

14:6.24In Ha­vona the power po­ten­tials of the Al­mighty are uni­fied with the spir­i­tual na­ture of the Su­preme. This cen­tral cre­ation is an ex­em­pli­fi­ca­tion of the fu­ture-eter­nal unity of the Su­preme.

14:6.25Ha­vona is a per­fect pat­tern of the uni­ver­sal­ity po­ten­tial of the Su­preme. This uni­verse is a fin­ished por­trayal of the fu­ture per­fec­tion of the Su­preme and is sug­ges­tive of the po­ten­tial of the Ul­ti­mate.

14:6.26Ha­vona ex­hibits fi­nal­ity of spirit val­ues ex­ist­ing as liv­ing will crea­tures of su­preme and per­fect self-con­trol; mind ex­ist­ing as ul­ti­mately equiv­a­lent to spirit; re­al­ity and unity of in­tel­li­gence with an un­lim­ited po­ten­tial.

14:6.275. The Co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Sons. Ha­vona is the ed­u­ca­tional train­ing ground where the Par­a­dise Mi­cha­els are pre­pared for their sub­se­quent ad­ven­tures in uni­verse cre­ation. This di­vine and per­fect cre­ation is a pat­tern for ev­ery Cre­ator Son. He strives to make his own uni­verse even­tu­ally at­tain to these Par­a­dise-Ha­vona lev­els of per­fec­tion.

14:6.28A Cre­ator Son uses the crea­tures of Ha­vona as per­son­al­ity-pat­tern pos­si­bil­i­ties for his own mor­tal chil­dren and spirit be­ings. The Mi­chael and other Par­a­dise Sons view Par­a­dise and Ha­vona as the di­vine des­tiny of the chil­dren of time.

14:6.29The Cre­ator Sons know that the cen­tral cre­ation is the real source of that in­dis­pens­able uni­verse over­con­trol which sta­bi­lizes and uni­fies their lo­cal uni­verses. They know that the per­sonal pres­ence of the ever-pres­ent in­flu­ence of the Su­preme and of the Ul­ti­mate is in Ha­vona.

14:6.30Ha­vona and Par­a­dise are the source of a Mi­chael Son’s cre­ative power. Here dwell the be­ings who co-op­er­ate with him in uni­verse cre­ation. From Par­a­dise come the Uni­verse Mother Spir­its, the cocre­ators of lo­cal uni­verses.

14:6.31The Par­a­dise Sons re­gard the cen­tral cre­ation as the home of their di­vine par­ents—their home. It is the place they en­joy re­turn­ing to ever and anon.

14:6.326. The Co-or­di­nate Min­is­ter­ing Daugh­ters. The Uni­verse Mother Spir­its, cocre­ators of the lo­cal uni­verses, se­cure their preper­sonal train­ing on the worlds of Ha­vona in close as­so­ci­a­tion with the Spir­its of the Cir­cuits. In the cen­tral uni­verse the Spirit Daugh­ters of the lo­cal uni­verses were duly trained in the meth­ods of co-op­er­a­tion with the Sons of Par­a­dise, all the while sub­ject to the will of the Fa­ther.

14:6.33On the worlds of Ha­vona the Spirit and the Daugh­ters of the Spirit find the mind pat­terns for all their groups of spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial in­tel­li­gences, and this cen­tral uni­verse is the some­time des­tiny of those crea­tures which a Uni­verse Mother Spirit jointly spon­sors with an as­so­ci­ated Cre­ator Son.

14:6.34The Uni­verse Mother Cre­ator re­mem­bers Par­a­dise and Ha­vona as the place of her ori­gin and the home of the In­fi­nite Mother Spirit, the abode of the per­son­al­ity pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Mind.

14:6.35From this cen­tral uni­verse also came the be­stowal of the per­sonal pre­rog­a­tives of cre­ator­ship which a Uni­verse Di­vine Min­is­ter em­ploys as com­ple­men­tal to a Cre­ator Son in the work of cre­at­ing liv­ing will crea­tures.

14:6.36And lastly, since these Daugh­ter Spir­its of the In­fi­nite Mother Spirit will not likely ever re­turn to their Par­a­dise home, they de­rive great sat­is­fac­tion from the uni­ver­sal re­flec­tiv­ity phe­nom­e­non as­so­ci­ated with the Su­preme Be­ing in Ha­vona and per­son­al­ized in Maj­es­ton on Par­a­dise.

14:6.377. The Evo­lu­tion­ary Mor­tals of the As­cend­ing Ca­reer. Ha­vona is the home of the pat­tern per­son­al­ity of ev­ery mor­tal type and the home of all super­hu­man per­son­al­i­ties of mor­tal as­so­ci­a­tion who are not na­tive to the cre­ations of time.

14:6.38These worlds pro­vide the stim­u­lus of all hu­man im­pulses to­wards the at­tain­ment of true spirit val­ues on the high­est con­ceiv­able re­al­ity lev­els. Ha­vona is the pre-Par­a­dise train­ing goal of ev­ery as­cend­ing mor­tal. Here mor­tals at­tain pre-Par­a­dise De­ity—the Su­preme Be­ing. Ha­vona stands be­fore ev­ery will crea­ture as the por­tal to Par­a­dise and God at­tain­ment.

14:6.39Par­a­dise is the home, and Ha­vona the work­shop and play­ground, of the fi­nal­i­ters. And ev­ery God-know­ing mor­tal craves to be a fi­nal­i­ter.

14:6.40The cen­tral uni­verse is not only man’s es­tab­lished des­tiny, but it is also the start­ing place of the eter­nal ca­reer of the fi­nal­i­ters as they shall some­time be started out on the undis­closed and uni­ver­sal ad­ven­ture in the ex­pe­ri­ence of ex­plor­ing the in­fin­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

14:6.41Ha­vona will un­ques­tion­ably con­tinue to func­tion with ab­so­nite sig­nif­i­cance even in fu­ture uni­verse ages which may wit­ness space pil­grims at­tempt­ing to find God on super­fi­nite lev­els. Ha­vona has ca­pac­ity to serve as a train­ing uni­verse for ab­so­nite be­ings. It will prob­a­bly be the fin­ish­ing school when the seven super­uni­verses are func­tion­ing as the in­ter­me­di­ate school for the grad­u­ates of the pri­mary schools of outer space. And we in­cline to the opin­ion that the po­ten­tials of eter­nal Ha­vona are re­ally un­lim­ited, that the cen­tral uni­verse has eter­nal ca­pac­ity to serve as an ex­pe­ri­en­tial train­ing uni­verse for all past, pres­ent, or fu­ture types of cre­ated be­ings.

14:6.42[Pre­sented by a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom com­mis­sioned thus to func­tion by the An­cients of Days on Uversa.]