The Evolution of Local Universes

32:5.1There is a great and glo­ri­ous pur­pose in the march of the uni­verses through space. All of your mor­tal strug­gling is not in vain. We are all part of an im­mense plan, a gi­gan­tic en­ter­prise, and it is the vast­ness of the un­der­tak­ing that ren­ders it im­pos­si­ble to see very much of it at any one time and dur­ing any one life. We are all a part of an eter­nal project which the Gods are super­vis­ing and out­work­ing. The whole mar­velous and uni­ver­sal mech­a­nism moves on ma­jes­ti­cally through space to the mu­sic of the me­ter of the in­fi­nite thought and the eter­nal pur­pose of the First Great Source and Cen­ter.

32:5.2The eter­nal pur­pose of the eter­nal God is a high spir­i­tual ideal. The events of time and the strug­gles of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence are but the tran­sient scaf­fold­ing which bridges over to the other side, to the prom­ised land of spir­i­tual re­al­ity and su­per­nal ex­is­tence. Of course, you mor­tals find it dif­fi­cult to grasp the idea of an eter­nal pur­pose; you are vir­tu­ally un­able to com­pre­hend the thought of eter­nity, some­thing never be­gin­ning and never end­ing. Ev­ery­thing fa­mil­iar to you has an end.

32:5.3As re­gards an in­di­vid­ual life, the du­ra­tion of a realm, or the chronol­ogy of any con­nected se­ries of events, it would seem that we are deal­ing with an iso­lated stretch of time; ev­ery­thing seems to have a be­gin­ning and an end. And it would ap­pear that a se­ries of such ex­pe­ri­ences, lives, ages, or epochs, when suc­ces­sively ar­ranged, con­sti­tutes a straight­away drive, an iso­lated event of time flash­ing mo­men­tar­ily across the in­fi­nite face of eter­nity. But when we look at all this from be­hind the scenes, a more com­pre­hen­sive view and a more com­plete un­der­stand­ing sug­gest that such an ex­pla­na­tion is in­ad­e­quate, dis­con­nected, and wholly un­suited prop­erly to ac­count for, and oth­er­wise to cor­re­late, the trans­ac­tions of time with the un­der­ly­ing pur­poses and ba­sic re­ac­tions of eter­nity.

32:5.4To me it seems more fit­ting, for pur­poses of ex­pla­na­tion to the mor­tal mind, to con­ceive of eter­nity as a cy­cle and the eter­nal pur­pose as an end­less cir­cle, a cy­cle of eter­nity in some way syn­chro­nized with the tran­sient ma­te­rial cy­cles of time. As re­gards the sec­tors of time con­nected with, and form­ing a part of, the cy­cle of eter­nity, we are forced to rec­og­nize that such tem­po­rary epochs are born, live, and die just as the tem­po­rary be­ings of time are born, live, and die. Most hu­man be­ings die be­cause, hav­ing failed to achieve the spirit level of Ad­juster fu­sion, the meta­mor­pho­sis of death con­sti­tutes the only pos­si­ble pro­ce­dure whereby they may es­cape the fet­ters of time and the bonds of ma­te­rial cre­ation, thereby be­ing en­abled to strike spir­i­tual step with the pro­gres­sive pro­ces­sion of eter­nity. Hav­ing sur­vived the trial life of time and ma­te­rial ex­is­tence, it be­comes pos­si­ble for you to con­tinue on in touch with, even as a part of, eter­nity, swing­ing on for­ever with the worlds of space around the cir­cle of the eter­nal ages.

32:5.5The sec­tors of time are like the flashes of per­son­al­ity in tem­po­ral form; they ap­pear for a sea­son, and then they are lost to hu­man sight, only to reap­pear as new ac­tors and con­tin­u­ing fac­tors in the higher life of the end­less swing around the eter­nal cir­cle. Eter­nity can hardly be con­ceived as a straight­away drive, in view of our be­lief in a de­lim­ited uni­verse mov­ing over a vast, elon­gated cir­cle around the cen­tral dwell­ing place of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

32:5.6Frankly, eter­nity is in­com­pre­hen­si­ble to the fi­nite mind of time. You sim­ply can­not grasp it; you can­not com­pre­hend it. I do not com­pletely vi­su­al­ize it, and even if I did, it would be im­pos­si­ble for me to con­vey my con­cept to the hu­man mind. Nev­er­the­less, I have done my best to por­tray some­thing of our view­point, to tell you some­what of our un­der­stand­ing of things eter­nal. I am en­deav­or­ing to aid you in the crys­tal­liza­tion of your thoughts about these val­ues which are of in­fi­nite na­ture and eter­nal im­port.

32:5.7There is in the mind of God a plan which em­braces ev­ery crea­ture of all his vast do­mains, and this plan is an eter­nal pur­pose of bound­less op­por­tu­nity, un­lim­ited prog­ress, and end­less life. And the in­fi­nite trea­sures of such a match­less ca­reer are yours for the striv­ing!

32:5.8The goal of eter­nity is ahead! The ad­ven­ture of di­vin­ity at­tain­ment lies be­fore you! The race for per­fec­tion is on! whoso­ever will may en­ter, and cer­tain vic­tory will crown the ef­forts of ev­ery hu­man be­ing who will run the race of faith and trust, de­pend­ing ev­ery step of the way on the lead­ing of the in­dwelling Ad­juster and on the guid­ance of that good spirit of the Uni­verse Son, which so freely has been poured out upon all flesh.

32:5.9[Pre­sented by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily at­tached to the Su­preme Coun­cil of Neb­a­don and as­signed to this mis­sion by Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton.]