The Evolution of Local Universes

32:4.1Do not en­ter­tain the idea that, since the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has del­e­gated so much of him­self and his power to oth­ers, he is a silent or in­ac­tive mem­ber of the De­ity part­ner­ship. Aside from per­son­al­ity do­mains and Ad­juster be­stowal, he is ap­par­ently the least ac­tive of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties in that he al­lows his De­ity co-or­di­nates, his Sons, and nu­mer­ous cre­ated in­tel­li­gences to per­form so much in the car­ry­ing out of his eter­nal pur­pose. He is the silent mem­ber of the cre­ative trio only in that he never does aught which any of his co-or­di­nate or sub­or­di­nate as­so­ciates can do.

32:4.2God has full un­der­stand­ing of the need of ev­ery in­tel­li­gent crea­ture for func­tion and ex­pe­ri­ence, and there­fore, in ev­ery sit­u­a­tion, be it con­cerned with the des­tiny of a uni­verse or the wel­fare of the hum­blest of his crea­tures, God re­tires from ac­tiv­ity in fa­vor of the galaxy of crea­ture and Cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties who in­her­ently in­ter­vene be­tween him­self and any given uni­verse sit­u­a­tion or cre­ative event. But not­with­stand­ing this re­tire­ment, this ex­hi­bi­tion of in­fi­nite co-or­di­na­tion, there is on God’s part an ac­tual, lit­eral, and per­sonal par­tic­i­pa­tion in these events by and through these or­dained agen­cies and per­son­al­i­ties. The Fa­ther is work­ing in and through all these chan­nels for the wel­fare of all his far-flung cre­ation.

32:4.3As re­gards the poli­cies, con­duct, and ad­min­is­tra­tion of a lo­cal uni­verse, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther acts in the per­son of his Cre­ator Son. In the in­ter­re­la­tion­ships of the Sons of God, in the group as­so­ci­a­tions of the per­son­al­i­ties of ori­gin in the Third Source and Cen­ter, or in the re­la­tion­ship be­tween any other crea­tures, such as hu­man be­ings—as con­cerns such as­so­ci­a­tions the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther never in­ter­venes. The law of the Cre­ator Son, the rule of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, and the Plan­e­tary Princes—the or­dained poli­cies and pro­ce­dures for that uni­verse—al­ways pre­vail. There is no di­vi­sion of au­thor­ity; never is there a cross work­ing of di­vine power and pur­pose. The De­i­ties are in per­fect and eter­nal una­nim­ity.

32:4.4The Cre­ator Son rules su­preme in all mat­ters of eth­i­cal as­so­ci­a­tions, the re­la­tions of any di­vi­sion of crea­tures to any other class of crea­tures or of two or more in­di­vid­u­als within any given group; but such a plan does not mean that the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther may not in his own way in­ter­vene and do aught that pleases the di­vine mind with any in­di­vid­ual crea­ture through­out all cre­ation, as per­tains to that in­di­vid­ual’s pres­ent sta­tus or fu­ture prospects and as con­cerns the Fa­ther’s eter­nal plan and in­fi­nite pur­pose.

32:4.5In the mor­tal will crea­tures the Fa­ther is ac­tu­ally pres­ent in the in­dwelling Ad­juster, a frag­ment of his preper­sonal spirit; and the Fa­ther is also the source of the per­son­al­ity of such a mor­tal will crea­ture.

32:4.6These Thought Ad­justers, the be­stowals of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, are com­par­a­tively iso­lated; they in­dwell hu­man minds but have no dis­cern­i­ble con­nec­tion with the eth­i­cal af­fairs of a lo­cal cre­ation. They are not di­rectly co-or­di­nated with the se­raphic ser­vice nor with the ad­min­is­tra­tion of sys­tems, con­stel­la­tions, or a lo­cal uni­verse, not even with the rule of a Cre­ator Son, whose will is the su­preme law of his uni­verse.

32:4.7The in­dwelling Ad­justers are one of God’s sep­a­rate but uni­fied modes of con­tact with the crea­tures of his all but in­fi­nite cre­ation. Thus does he who is in­vis­i­ble to mor­tal man man­i­fest his pres­ence, and could he do so, he would show him­self to us in still other ways, but such fur­ther rev­e­la­tion is not di­vinely pos­si­ble.

32:4.8We can see and un­der­stand the mech­a­nism whereby the Sons en­joy in­ti­mate and com­plete knowl­edge re­gard­ing the uni­verses of their ju­ris­dic­tion; but we can­not fully com­pre­hend the meth­ods whereby God is so fully and per­son­ally con­ver­sant with the de­tails of the uni­verse of uni­verses, al­though we at least can rec­og­nize the av­enue whereby the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther can re­ceive in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing, and man­i­fest his pres­ence to, the be­ings of his im­mense cre­ation. Through the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit the Fa­ther is cog­nizant—has per­sonal knowl­edge—of all the thoughts and acts of all the be­ings in all the sys­tems of all the uni­verses of all cre­ation. Though we can­not fully grasp this tech­nique of God’s com­mu­nion with his chil­dren, we can be strength­ened in the as­sur­ance that the “Lord knows his chil­dren,” and that of each one of us “he takes note where we were born.”

32:4.9In your uni­verse and in your heart the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is pres­ent, spir­i­tu­ally speak­ing, by one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of cen­tral abode and, specif­i­cally, by the di­vine Ad­juster who lives and works and waits in the depths of the mor­tal mind.

32:4.10God is not a self-cen­tered per­son­al­ity; the Fa­ther freely dis­tributes him­self to his cre­ation and to his crea­tures. He lives and acts, not only in the De­i­ties, but also in his Sons, whom he in­trusts with the do­ing of ev­ery­thing that it is di­vinely pos­si­ble for them to do. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has truly di­vested him­self of ev­ery func­tion which it is pos­si­ble for an­other be­ing to per­form. And this is just as true of mor­tal man as of the Cre­ator Son who rules in God’s stead at the head­quar­ters of a lo­cal uni­verse. Thus we be­hold the out­work­ing of the ideal and in­fi­nite love of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

32:4.11In this uni­ver­sal be­stowal of him­self we have abun­dant proof of both the mag­ni­tude and the mag­na­nim­ity of the Fa­ther’s di­vine na­ture. If God has with­held aught of him­self from the uni­ver­sal cre­ation, then of that residue he is in lav­ish gen­eros­ity be­stow­ing the Thought Ad­justers upon the mor­tals of the realms, the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors of time, who so pa­tiently in­dwell the mor­tal can­di­dates for life ev­er­last­ing.

32:4.12The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has poured out him­self, as it were, to make all cre­ation rich in per­son­al­ity pos­ses­sion and po­ten­tial spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. God has given us him­self that we may be like him, and he has re­served for him­self of power and glory only that which is nec­es­sary for the main­te­nance of those things for the love of which he has thus di­vested him­self of all things else.