The Spheres of Light and Life

55:11.1Mi­nor and ma­jor sec­tors of the super­uni­verse do not fig­ure di­rectly in the plan of be­ing set­tled in light and life. Such an evo­lu­tion­ary pro­gres­sion per­tains pri­mar­ily to the lo­cal uni­verse as a unit and con­cerns only the com­po­nents of a lo­cal uni­verse. A super­uni­verse is set­tled in light and life when all of its com­po­nent lo­cal uni­verses are thus per­fected. But not one of the seven super­uni­verses has at­tained a level of pro­gres­sion even ap­proach­ing this.

55:11.2The mi­nor sec­tor age. As far as ob­ser­va­tions can pen­e­trate, the fifth or mi­nor sec­tor stage of sta­bi­liza­tion has ex­clu­sively to do with phys­i­cal sta­tus and with the co-or­di­nate set­tling of the one hun­dred as­so­ci­ated lo­cal uni­verses in the es­tab­lished cir­cuits of the super­uni­verse. Ap­par­ently none but the power cen­ters and their as­so­ciates are con­cerned in these re­align­ments of the ma­te­rial cre­ation.

55:11.3The ma­jor sec­tor age. Con­cern­ing the sixth stage, or ma­jor sec­tor sta­bi­liza­tion, we can only con­jec­ture since none of us have wit­nessed such an event. Nev­er­the­less, we can pos­tu­late much con­cern­ing the ad­min­is­tra­tive and other read­just­ments which would prob­a­bly ac­com­pany such an ad­vanced sta­tus of in­hab­ited worlds and their uni­verse group­ings.

55:11.4Since the mi­nor sec­tor sta­tus has to do with co-or­di­nate phys­i­cal equi­lib­rium, we in­fer that ma­jor sec­tor uni­fi­ca­tion will be con­cerned with cer­tain new in­tel­lec­tual lev­els of at­tain­ment, pos­si­bly some ad­vanced achieve­ments in the su­preme re­al­iza­tion of cos­mic wis­dom.

55:11.5We ar­rive at con­clu­sions re­gard­ing the read­just­ments which would prob­a­bly at­tend the re­al­iza­tion of hith­erto un­attained lev­els of evo­lu­tion­ary prog­ress by ob­serv­ing the re­sults of such achieve­ments on the in­di­vid­ual worlds and in the ex­pe­ri­ences of in­di­vid­ual mor­tals liv­ing on these older and highly de­vel­oped spheres.

55:11.6Let it be made clear that the ad­min­is­tra­tive mech­a­nisms and gov­ern­men­tal tech­niques of a uni­verse or a super­uni­verse can­not in any man­ner limit or re­tard the evo­lu­tion­ary de­vel­op­ment or spir­i­tual prog­ress of an in­di­vid­ual in­hab­ited planet or of any in­di­vid­ual mor­tal on such a sphere.

55:11.7In some of the older uni­verses we find worlds set­tled in the fifth and the sixth stages of light and life—even far ex­tended into the sev­enth epoch—whose lo­cal sys­tems are not yet set­tled in light. Younger plan­ets may de­lay sys­tem uni­fi­ca­tion, but this does not in the least hand­i­cap the prog­ress of an older and ad­vanced world. Nei­ther can en­vi­ron­men­tal lim­i­ta­tions, even on an iso­lated world, thwart the per­sonal at­tain­ment of the in­di­vid­ual mor­tal; Je­sus of Naz­a­reth, as a man among men, per­son­ally achieved the sta­tus of light and life over nine­teen hun­dred years ago on Uran­tia.

55:11.8It is by ob­serv­ing what takes place on long-set­tled worlds that we ar­rive at fairly re­li­able con­clu­sions as to what will hap­pen when a whole super­uni­verse is set­tled in light, even if we can­not safely pos­tu­late the event of the sta­bi­liza­tion of the seven super­uni­verses.