God’s Relation to the Universe

4:0.1The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has an eter­nal pur­pose per­tain­ing to the ma­te­rial, in­tel­lec­tual, and spir­i­tual phe­nom­ena of the uni­verse of uni­verses, which he is ex­e­cut­ing through­out all time. God cre­ated the uni­verses of his own free and sov­er­eign will, and he cre­ated them in ac­cor­dance with his all-wise and eter­nal pur­pose. It is doubt­ful whether any­one ex­cept the Par­a­dise De­i­ties and their high­est as­so­ciates re­ally knows very much about the eter­nal pur­pose of God. Even the ex­alted cit­i­zens of Par­a­dise hold very di­verse opin­ions about the na­ture of the eter­nal pur­pose of the De­i­ties.

4:0.2It is easy to de­duce that the pur­pose in cre­at­ing the per­fect cen­tral uni­verse of Ha­vona was purely the sat­is­fac­tion of the di­vine na­ture. Ha­vona may serve as the pat­tern cre­ation for all other uni­verses and as the fin­ish­ing school for the pil­grims of time on their way to Par­a­dise; how­ever, such a su­per­nal cre­ation must ex­ist pri­mar­ily for the plea­sure and sat­is­fac­tion of the per­fect and in­fi­nite Cre­ators.

4:0.3The amaz­ing plan for per­fect­ing evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals and, af­ter their at­tain­ment of Par­a­dise and the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, pro­vid­ing fur­ther train­ing for some undis­closed fu­ture work, does seem to be, at pres­ent, one of the chief con­cerns of the seven super­uni­verses and their many sub­di­vi­sions; but this as­cen­sion scheme for spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing and train­ing the mor­tals of time and space is by no means the ex­clu­sive oc­cu­pa­tion of the uni­verse in­tel­li­gences. There are, in­deed, many other fas­ci­nat­ing pur­suits which oc­cupy the time and en­list the en­er­gies of the ce­les­tial hosts.