The Evolution of Local Universes

32:3.1The only cre­ation that is per­fectly set­tled is Ha­vona, the cen­tral uni­verse, which was made di­rectly by the thought of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the word of the Eter­nal Son. Ha­vona is an ex­is­ten­tial, per­fect, and re­plete uni­verse, sur­round­ing the home of the eter­nal De­i­ties, the cen­ter of all things. The cre­ations of the seven super­uni­verses are fi­nite, evo­lu­tion­ary, and con­sis­tently pro­gres­sive.

32:3.2The phys­i­cal sys­tems of time and space are all evo­lu­tion­ary in ori­gin. They are not even phys­i­cally sta­bi­lized un­til they are swung into the set­tled cir­cuits of their super­uni­verses. Nei­ther is a lo­cal uni­verse set­tled in light and life un­til its phys­i­cal pos­si­bil­i­ties of ex­pan­sion and de­vel­op­ment have been ex­hausted, and un­til the spir­i­tual sta­tus of all its in­hab­ited worlds has been for­ever set­tled and sta­bi­lized.

32:3.3Ex­cept in the cen­tral uni­verse, per­fec­tion is a pro­gres­sive at­tain­ment. In the cen­tral cre­ation we have a pat­tern of per­fec­tion, but all other realms must at­tain that per­fec­tion by the meth­ods es­tab­lished for the ad­vance­ment of those par­tic­u­lar worlds or uni­verses. And an al­most in­fi­nite va­ri­ety char­ac­ter­izes the plans of the Cre­ator Sons for or­ga­niz­ing, evolv­ing, dis­ci­plin­ing, and set­tling their re­spec­tive lo­cal uni­verses.

32:3.4With the ex­cep­tion of the de­ity pres­ence of the Fa­ther, ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse is, in a cer­tain sense, a du­pli­ca­tion of the ad­min­is­tra­tive or­ga­ni­za­tion of the cen­tral or pat­tern cre­ation. Al­though the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is per­son­ally pres­ent in the res­i­den­tial uni­verse, he does not in­dwell the minds of the be­ings orig­i­nat­ing in that uni­verse as he does lit­er­ally dwell with the souls of the mor­tals of time and space. There seems to be an all-wise com­pen­sa­tion in the ad­just­ment and reg­u­la­tion of the spir­i­tual af­fairs of the far-flung cre­ation. In the cen­tral uni­verse the Fa­ther is per­son­ally pres­ent as such but ab­sent in the minds of the chil­dren of that per­fect cre­ation; in the uni­verses of space the Fa­ther is ab­sent in per­son, be­ing rep­re­sented by his Sov­er­eign Sons, while he is in­ti­mately pres­ent in the minds of his mor­tal chil­dren, be­ing spir­i­tu­ally rep­re­sented by the preper­sonal pres­ence of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors that re­side in the minds of these will crea­tures.

32:3.5On the head­quar­ters of a lo­cal uni­verse there re­side all those cre­ator and cre­ative per­son­al­i­ties who rep­re­sent self-con­tained au­thor­ity and ad­min­is­tra­tive au­ton­omy ex­cept the per­sonal pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. In the lo­cal uni­verse there are to be found some­thing of ev­ery­one and some­one of al­most ev­ery class of in­tel­li­gent be­ings ex­ist­ing in the cen­tral uni­verse ex­cept the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Al­though the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is not per­son­ally pres­ent in a lo­cal uni­verse, he is per­son­ally rep­re­sented by its Cre­ator Son, some­time vicegerent of God and sub­se­quently su­preme and sov­er­eign ruler in his own right.

32:3.6The far­ther down the scale of life we go, the more dif­fi­cult it be­comes to lo­cate, with the eye of faith, the in­vis­i­ble Fa­ther. The lower crea­tures—and some­times even the higher per­son­al­i­ties—find it dif­fi­cult al­ways to en­vis­age the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in his Cre­ator Sons. And so, pend­ing the time of their spir­i­tual ex­al­ta­tion, when per­fec­tion of de­vel­op­ment will en­able them to see God in per­son, they grow weary in pro­gres­sion, en­ter­tain spir­i­tual doubts, stum­ble into con­fu­sion, and thus iso­late them­selves from the pro­gres­sive spir­i­tual aims of their time and uni­verse. In this way they lose the abil­ity to see the Fa­ther when be­hold­ing the Cre­ator Son. The surest safe­guard for the crea­ture through­out the long strug­gle to at­tain the Fa­ther, dur­ing this time when in­her­ent con­di­tions make such at­tain­ment im­pos­si­ble, is tena­ciously to hold on to the truth-fact of the Fa­ther’s pres­ence in his Sons. Lit­er­ally and fig­u­ra­tively, spir­i­tu­ally and per­son­ally, the Fa­ther and the Sons are one. It is a fact: He who has seen a Cre­ator Son has seen the Fa­ther.

32:3.7The per­son­al­i­ties of a given uni­verse are set­tled and de­pend­able, at the start, only in ac­cor­dance with their de­gree of kin­ship to De­ity. When crea­ture ori­gin de­parts suf­fi­ciently far from the orig­i­nal and di­vine Sources, whether we are deal­ing with the Sons of God or the crea­tures of min­istry be­long­ing to the In­fi­nite Spirit, there is an in­crease in the pos­si­bil­ity of dishar­mony, con­fu­sion, and some­times re­bel­lion—sin.

32:3.8Ex­cept­ing per­fect be­ings of De­ity ori­gin, all will crea­tures in the super­uni­verses are of evo­lu­tion­ary na­ture, be­gin­ning in lowly es­tate and climb­ing ever up­ward, in re­al­ity in­ward. Even highly spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties con­tinue to as­cend the scale of life by pro­gres­sive trans­la­tions from life to life and from sphere to sphere. And in the case of those who en­ter­tain the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors, there is in­deed no limit to the pos­si­ble heights of their spir­i­tual as­cent and uni­verse at­tain­ment.

32:3.9The per­fec­tion of the crea­tures of time, when fi­nally achieved, is wholly an ac­quire­ment, a bona fide per­son­al­ity pos­ses­sion. While the el­e­ments of grace are freely ad­mixed, nev­er­the­less, the crea­ture at­tain­ments are the re­sult of in­di­vid­ual ef­fort and ac­tual liv­ing, per­son­al­ity re­ac­tion to the ex­ist­ing en­vi­ron­ment.

32:3.10The fact of an­i­mal evo­lu­tion­ary ori­gin does not at­tach stigma to any per­son­al­ity in the sight of the uni­verse as that is the ex­clu­sive method of pro­duc­ing one of the two ba­sic types of fi­nite in­tel­li­gent will crea­tures. When the heights of per­fec­tion and eter­nity are at­tained, all the more honor to those who be­gan at the bot­tom and joy­fully climbed the lad­der of life, round by round, and who, when they do reach the heights of glory, will have gained a per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence which em­bod­ies an ac­tual knowl­edge of ev­ery phase of life from the bot­tom to the top.

32:3.11In all this is shown the wis­dom of the Cre­ators. It would be just as easy for the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to make all mor­tals per­fect be­ings, to im­part per­fec­tion by his di­vine word. But that would de­prive them of the won­der­ful ex­pe­ri­ence of the ad­ven­ture and train­ing as­so­ci­ated with the long and grad­ual in­ward climb, an ex­pe­ri­ence to be had only by those who are so for­tu­nate as to be­gin at the very bot­tom of liv­ing ex­is­tence.

32:3.12In the uni­verses en­cir­cling Ha­vona there are pro­vided only a suf­fi­cient num­ber of per­fect crea­tures to meet the need for pat­tern teacher guides for those who are as­cend­ing the evo­lu­tion­ary scale of life. The ex­pe­ri­en­tial na­ture of the evo­lu­tion­ary type of per­son­al­ity is the nat­u­ral cos­mic com­ple­ment of the ever-per­fect na­tures of the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona crea­tures. In re­al­ity, both per­fect and per­fected crea­tures are in­com­plete as re­gards fi­nite to­tal­ity. But in the com­ple­men­tal as­so­ci­a­tion of the ex­is­ten­tially per­fect crea­tures of the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem with the ex­pe­ri­en­tially per­fected fi­nal­i­ters as­cend­ing from the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses, both types find re­lease from in­her­ent lim­i­ta­tions and thus may con­jointly at­tempt to reach the sub­lime heights of the ul­ti­mate of crea­ture sta­tus.

32:3.13These crea­ture trans­ac­tions are the uni­verse reper­cus­sions of ac­tions and re­ac­tions within the Sev­en­fold De­ity, wherein the eter­nal di­vin­ity of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity is con­joined with the evolv­ing di­vin­ity of the Su­preme Cre­ators of the time-space uni­verses in, by, and through the power-ac­tu­al­iz­ing De­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing.

32:3.14The di­vinely per­fect crea­ture and the evo­lu­tion­ary per­fected crea­ture are equal in de­gree of di­vin­ity po­ten­tial, but they dif­fer in kind. Each must de­pend on the other to at­tain su­prem­acy of ser­vice. The evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses de­pend on per­fect Ha­vona to pro­vide the fi­nal train­ing for their as­cend­ing cit­i­zens, but so does the per­fect cen­tral uni­verse re­quire the ex­is­tence of the per­fect­ing super­uni­verses to pro­vide for the full de­vel­op­ment of its de­scend­ing in­hab­i­tants.

32:3.15The two prime man­i­fes­ta­tions of fi­nite re­al­ity, in­nate per­fec­tion and evolved per­fec­tion, be they per­son­al­i­ties or uni­verses, are co-or­di­nate, de­pen­dent, and in­te­grated. Each re­quires the other to achieve com­ple­tion of func­tion, ser­vice, and des­tiny.