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Paper 32

The Evolution of Local Universes

Mighty Messenger

1. Physical Emergence of Universes

32:1.1The pre­uni­verse ma­nip­u­la­tions of space-force and the pri­mor­dial en­er­gies are the work of the Par­a­dise Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers; but in the super­uni­verse do­mains, when emer­gent en­ergy be­comes re­spon­sive to lo­cal or lin­ear grav­ity, they re­tire in fa­vor of the power di­rec­tors of the super­uni­verse con­cerned.

32:1.2These power di­rec­tors func­tion alone in the pre­ma­te­rial and post­force phases of a lo­cal uni­verse cre­ation. There is no op­por­tu­nity for a Cre­ator Son to be­gin uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion un­til the power di­rec­tors have ef­fected the mo­bi­liza­tion of the space-en­er­gies suf­fi­ciently to pro­vide a ma­te­rial foun­da­tion—lit­eral suns and ma­te­rial spheres—for the emerg­ing uni­verse.

32:1.3The lo­cal uni­verses are all ap­prox­i­mately of the same en­ergy po­ten­tial, though they dif­fer greatly in phys­i­cal di­men­sions and may vary in vis­i­ble-mat­ter con­tent from time to time. The power charge and po­ten­tial-mat­ter en­dow­ment of a lo­cal uni­verse are de­ter­mined by the ma­nip­u­la­tions of the power di­rec­tors and their pre­de­ces­sors as well as by the Cre­ator Son’s ac­tiv­i­ties and by the en­dow­ment of the in­her­ent phys­i­cal con­trol pos­sessed by his cre­ative as­so­ciate.

32:1.4The en­ergy charge of a lo­cal uni­verse is ap­prox­i­mately one one-hun­dred-thou­sandth of the force en­dow­ment of its super­uni­verse. In the case of Neb­a­don, your lo­cal uni­verse, the mass ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion is a tri­fle less. Phys­i­cally speak­ing, Neb­a­don pos­sesses all of the phys­i­cal en­dow­ment of en­ergy and mat­ter that may be found in any of the Or­von­ton lo­cal cre­ations. The only phys­i­cal lim­i­ta­tion upon the de­vel­op­men­tal ex­pan­sion of the Neb­a­don uni­verse con­sists in the quan­ti­ta­tive charge of space-en­ergy held cap­tive by the grav­ity con­trol of the as­so­ci­ated pow­ers and per­son­al­i­ties of the com­bined uni­verse mech­a­nism.

32:1.5When en­ergy-mat­ter has at­tained a cer­tain stage in mass ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion, a Par­a­dise Cre­ator Son ap­pears upon the scene, ac­com­pa­nied by a Cre­ative Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the ar­rival of the Cre­ator Son, work is be­gun upon the ar­chi­tec­tural sphere which is to be­come the head­quar­ters world of the pro­jected lo­cal uni­verse. For long ages such a lo­cal cre­ation evolves, suns be­come sta­bi­lized, plan­ets form and swing into their or­bits, while the work of cre­at­ing the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds which are to serve as con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters and sys­tem cap­i­tals con­tin­ues.