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7:4.1The Eter­nal Son is in ev­er­last­ing li­ai­son with the Fa­ther in the suc­cess­ful pros­e­cu­tion of the di­vine plan of prog­ress: the uni­ver­sal plan for the cre­ation, evo­lu­tion, as­cen­sion, and per­fec­tion of will crea­tures. And, in di­vine faith­ful­ness, the Son is the eter­nal equal of the Fa­ther.

7:4.2The Fa­ther and his Son are as one in the for­mu­la­tion and pros­e­cu­tion of this gi­gan­tic at­tain­ment plan for ad­vanc­ing the ma­te­rial be­ings of time to the per­fec­tion of eter­nity. This project for the spir­i­tual el­e­va­tion of the as­cen­dant souls of space is a joint cre­ation of the Fa­ther and the Son, and they are, with the co-op­er­a­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit, en­gaged in as­so­cia­tive ex­e­cu­tion of their di­vine pur­pose.

7:4.3This di­vine plan of per­fec­tion at­tain­ment em­braces three unique, though mar­velously cor­re­lated, en­ter­prises of uni­ver­sal ad­ven­ture:

7:4.41. The Plan of Pro­gres­sive At­tain­ment. This is the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther’s plan of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cen­sion, a pro­gram un­re­servedly ac­cepted by the Eter­nal Son when he con­curred in the Fa­ther’s pro­posal, “Let us make mor­tal crea­tures in our own im­age.” This pro­vi­sion for up­step­ping the crea­tures of time in­volves the Fa­ther’s be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers and the en­dow­ing of ma­te­rial crea­tures with the pre­rog­a­tives of per­son­al­ity.

7:4.52. The Be­stowal Plan. The next uni­ver­sal plan is the great Fa­ther-rev­e­la­tion en­ter­prise of the Eter­nal Son and his co-or­di­nate Sons. This is the pro­posal of the Eter­nal Son and con­sists of his be­stowal of the Sons of God upon the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ations, there to per­son­al­ize and fac­tu­al­ize, to in­car­nate and make real, the love of the Fa­ther and the mercy of the Son to the crea­tures of all uni­verses. In­her­ent in the be­stowal plan, and as a pro­vi­sional fea­ture of this min­is­tra­tion of love, the Par­a­dise Sons act as re­ha­bil­i­ta­tors of that which mis­guided crea­ture will has placed in spir­i­tual jeop­ardy. When­ever and wher­ever there oc­curs a de­lay in the func­tion­ing of the at­tain­ment plan, if re­bel­lion, per­chance, should mar or com­pli­cate this en­ter­prise, then do the emer­gency pro­vi­sions of the be­stowal plan be­come ac­tive forth­with. The Par­a­dise Sons stand pledged and ready to func­tion as re­triev­ers, to go into the very realms of re­bel­lion and there re­store the spir­i­tual sta­tus of the spheres. And such a heroic ser­vice a co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Son did per­form on Uran­tia in con­nec­tion with his ex­pe­ri­en­tial be­stowal ca­reer of sov­er­eignty ac­quire­ment.

7:4.63. The Plan of Mercy Min­istry. When the at­tain­ment plan and the be­stowal plan had been for­mu­lated and pro­claimed, alone and of him­self, the In­fi­nite Spirit pro­jected and put in op­er­a­tion the tremen­dous and uni­ver­sal en­ter­prise of mercy min­istry. This is the ser­vice so es­sen­tial to the prac­ti­cal and ef­fec­tive op­er­a­tion of both the at­tain­ment and the be­stowal un­der­tak­ings, and the spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties of the Third Source and Cen­ter all par­take of the spirit of mercy min­istry which is so much a part of the na­ture of the Third Per­son of De­ity. Not only in cre­ation but also in ad­min­is­tra­tion, the In­fi­nite Spirit func­tions truly and lit­er­ally as the con­joint ex­ec­u­tive of the Fa­ther and the Son.

7:4.7The Eter­nal Son is the per­sonal trus­tee, the di­vine cus­to­dian, of the Fa­ther’s uni­ver­sal plan of crea­ture as­cen­sion. Hav­ing pro­mul­gated the uni­ver­sal man­date, “Be you per­fect, even as I am per­fect,” the Fa­ther in­trusted the ex­e­cu­tion of this tremen­dous un­der­tak­ing to the Eter­nal Son; and the Eter­nal Son shares the fos­ter­ing of this su­per­nal en­ter­prise with his di­vine co-or­di­nate, the In­fi­nite Spirit. Thus do the De­i­ties ef­fec­tively co-op­er­ate in the work of cre­ation, con­trol, evo­lu­tion, rev­e­la­tion, and min­is­tra­tion—and if re­quired, in restora­tion and re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion.

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.]

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105:4.9Pre-ex­is­ten­tials be­come ex­is­ten­tial in the seven Ab­so­lutes, and ex­is­ten­tials be­come func­tional in the tri­uni­ties, the ba­sic as­so­ci­a­tion of Ab­so­lutes. And con­comi­tant with the eter­nal­iza­tion of the tri­uni­ties the uni­verse stage is set—the po­ten­tials are ex­is­tent and the ac­tu­als are pres­ent—and the full­ness of eter­nity wit­nesses the di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of cos­mic en­ergy, the out­spread­ing of Par­a­dise spirit, and the en­dow­ment of mind to­gether with the be­stowal of per­son­al­ity, by virtue of which all of these De­ity and Par­a­dise deriva­tives are uni­fied in ex­pe­ri­ence on the crea­ture level and by other tech­niques on the super­crea­ture level.

106:0.144. Your ig­no­rance of the six prime pur­poses of super­uni­verse de­vel­op­ment which do not per­tain to the mor­tal as­cent to Par­a­dise.

110:2.1When Thought Ad­justers in­dwell hu­man minds, they bring with them the model ca­reers, the ideal lives, as de­ter­mined and fore­or­dained by them­selves and the Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers of Di­vin­ing­ton, which have been cer­ti­fied by the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of Uran­tia. Thus they be­gin work with a def­i­nite and pre­de­ter­mined plan for the in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment of their hu­man sub­jects, but it is not in­cum­bent upon any hu­man be­ing to ac­cept this plan. You are all sub­jects of pre­des­ti­na­tion, but it is not fore­or­dained that you must ac­cept this di­vine pre­des­ti­na­tion; you are at full lib­erty to re­ject any part or all of the Thought Ad­justers’ pro­gram. It is their mis­sion to ef­fect such mind changes and to make such spir­i­tual ad­just­ments as you may will­ingly and in­tel­li­gently au­tho­rize, to the end that they may gain more in­flu­ence over the per­son­al­ity di­rec­tion­iza­tion; but un­der no cir­cum­stances do these di­vine Mon­i­tors ever take ad­van­tage of you or in any way ar­bi­trar­ily in­flu­ence you in your choices and de­ci­sions. The Ad­justers re­spect your sov­er­eignty of per­son­al­ity; they are al­ways sub­servient to your will.

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.

56:0.2The di­verse lev­els of cre­ation are all uni­fied in the plans and ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse. To the cir­cum­scribed minds of time-space mor­tals the uni­verse may pre­sent many prob­lems and sit­u­a­tions which ap­par­ently por­tray dishar­mony and in­di­cate ab­sence of ef­fec­tive co-or­di­na­tion; but those of us who are able to ob­serve wider stretches of uni­ver­sal phe­nom­ena, and who are more ex­pe­ri­enced in this art of de­tect­ing the ba­sic unity which un­der­lies cre­ative di­ver­sity and of dis­cov­er­ing the di­vine one­ness which over­spreads all this func­tion­ing of plu­ral­ity, bet­ter per­ceive the di­vine and sin­gle pur­pose ex­hib­ited in all these man­i­fold man­i­fes­ta­tions of uni­ver­sal cre­ative en­ergy.

2:1.4The Fa­ther con­stantly and un­fail­ingly meets the need of the dif­fer­en­tial of de­mand for him­self as it changes from time to time in var­i­ous sec­tions of his mas­ter uni­verse. The great God knows and un­der­stands him­self; he is in­finitely self-con­scious of all his pri­mal at­tri­butes of per­fec­tion. God is not a cos­mic ac­ci­dent; nei­ther is he a uni­verse ex­per­i­menter. The Uni­verse Sov­er­eigns may en­gage in ad­ven­ture; the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers may ex­per­i­ment; the sys­tem heads may prac­tice; but the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther sees the end from the be­gin­ning, and his di­vine plan and eter­nal pur­pose ac­tu­ally em­brace and com­pre­hend all the ex­per­i­ments and all the ad­ven­tures of all his sub­or­di­nates in ev­ery world, sys­tem, and con­stel­la­tion in ev­ery uni­verse of his vast do­mains.

2:2.1Even your olden proph­ets un­der­stood the eter­nal, never-be­gin­ning, never-end­ing, cir­cu­lar na­ture of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. God is lit­er­ally and eter­nally pres­ent in his uni­verse of uni­verses. He in­hab­its the pres­ent mo­ment with all his ab­so­lute majesty and eter­nal great­ness. “The Fa­ther has life in him­self, and this life is eter­nal life.” Through­out the eter­nal ages it has been the Fa­ther who “gives to all life.” There is in­fi­nite per­fec­tion in the di­vine in­tegrity. “I am the Lord; I change not.” Our knowl­edge of the uni­verse of uni­verses dis­closes not only that he is the Fa­ther of lights, but also that in his con­duct of in­ter­plan­e­tary af­fairs there “is no vari­able­ness nei­ther shadow of chang­ing.” He “de­clares the end from the be­gin­ning.” He says: “My coun­sel shall stand; I will do all my plea­sures” “ac­cord­ing to the eter­nal pur­pose which I pur­posed in my Son.” Thus are the plans and pur­poses of the First Source and Cen­ter like him­self: eter­nal, per­fect, and for­ever change­less.

3:2.2Within the bounds of that which is con­sis­tent with the di­vine na­ture, it is lit­er­ally true that “with God all things are pos­si­ble.” The long-drawn-out evo­lu­tion­ary pro­cesses of peo­ples, plan­ets, and uni­verses are un­der the per­fect con­trol of the uni­verse cre­ators and ad­min­is­tra­tors and un­fold in ac­cor­dance with the eter­nal pur­pose of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, pro­ceed­ing in har­mony and or­der and in keep­ing with the all-wise plan of God. There is only one law­giver. He up­holds the worlds in space and swings the uni­verses around the end­less cir­cle of the eter­nal cir­cuit.

1:2.10As a phys­i­cal con­trol­ler in the ma­te­rial uni­verse of uni­verses, the First Source and Cen­ter func­tions in the pat­terns of the eter­nal Isle of Par­a­dise, and through this ab­so­lute grav­ity cen­ter the eter­nal God ex­er­cises cos­mic over­con­trol of the phys­i­cal level equally in the cen­tral uni­verse and through­out the uni­verse of uni­verses. As mind, God func­tions in the De­ity of the In­fi­nite Spirit; as spirit, God is man­i­fest in the per­son of the Eter­nal Son and in the per­sons of the di­vine chil­dren of the Eter­nal Son. This in­ter­re­la­tion of the First Source and Cen­ter with the co-or­di­nate Per­sons and Ab­so­lutes of Par­a­dise does not in the least pre­clude the di­rect per­sonal ac­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther through­out all cre­ation and on all lev­els thereof. Through the pres­ence of his frag­men­tized spirit the Cre­ator Fa­ther main­tains im­me­di­ate con­tact with his crea­ture chil­dren and his cre­ated uni­verses.

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.

118:10.6Nev­er­the­less, the Fa­ther as a per­son may at any time in­ter­pose a fa­therly hand in the stream of cos­mic events all in ac­cor­dance with the will of God and in con­so­nance with the wis­dom of God and as mo­ti­vated by the love of God.

2:2.5God’s pri­mal per­fec­tion con­sists not in an as­sumed righ­teous­ness but rather in the in­her­ent per­fec­tion of the good­ness of his di­vine na­ture. He is fi­nal, com­plete, and per­fect. There is no thing lack­ing in the beauty and per­fec­tion of his righ­teous char­ac­ter. And the whole scheme of liv­ing ex­is­tences on the worlds of space is cen­tered in the di­vine pur­pose of el­e­vat­ing all will crea­tures to the high des­tiny of the ex­pe­ri­ence of shar­ing the Fa­ther’s Par­a­dise per­fec­tion. God is nei­ther self-cen­tered nor self-con­tained; he never ceases to be­stow him­self upon all self-con­scious crea­tures of the vast uni­verse of uni­verses.

9:5.6Mind, on Uran­tia, is a com­pro­mise be­tween the essence of thought per­fec­tion and the evolv­ing men­tal­ity of your im­ma­ture hu­man na­ture. The plan for your in­tel­lec­tual evo­lu­tion is, in­deed, one of sub­lime per­fec­tion, but you are far short of that di­vine goal as you func­tion in the taber­na­cles of the flesh. Mind is truly of di­vine ori­gin, and it does have a di­vine des­tiny, but your mor­tal minds are not yet of di­vine dig­nity.

26:9.4Step by step, life by life, world by world, the as­cen­dant ca­reer has been mas­tered, and the goal of De­ity has been at­tained. Sur­vival is com­plete in per­fec­tion, and per­fec­tion is re­plete in the su­prem­acy of di­vin­ity. Time is lost in eter­nity; space is swal­lowed up in wor­ship­ful iden­tity and har­mony with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The broad­casts of Ha­vona flash forth the space re­ports of glory, the good news that in very truth the con­sci­en­tious crea­tures of an­i­mal na­ture and ma­te­rial ori­gin have, through evo­lu­tion­ary as­cen­sion, be­come in re­al­ity and eter­nally the per­fected sons of God.

170:2.87. The new gospel af­firmed that hu­man sal­va­tion is the rev­e­la­tion of a far-reach­ing di­vine pur­pose to be ful­filled and re­al­ized in the fu­ture des­tiny of the end­less ser­vice of the sal­vaged sons of God.

2:1.10Be­cause the First Fa­ther is in­fi­nite in his plans and eter­nal in his pur­poses, it is in­her­ently im­pos­si­ble for any fi­nite be­ing ever to grasp or com­pre­hend these di­vine plans and pur­poses in their full­ness. Mor­tal man can glimpse the Fa­ther’s pur­poses only now and then, here and there, as they are re­vealed in re­la­tion to the out­work­ing of the plan of crea­ture as­cen­sion on its suc­ces­sive lev­els of uni­verse pro­gres­sion. Though man can­not en­com­pass the sig­nif­i­cance of in­fin­ity, the in­fi­nite Fa­ther does most cer­tainly fully com­pre­hend and lov­ingly em­brace all the fin­ity of all his chil­dren in all uni­verses.

3:2.7Sit­u­a­tions do arise in which it ap­pears that emer­gency rul­ings have been made, that nat­u­ral laws have been sus­pended, that mis­adap­ta­tions have been rec­og­nized, and that an ef­fort is be­ing made to rec­tify the sit­u­a­tion; but such is not the case. Such con­cepts of God have their ori­gin in the lim­ited range of your view­point, in the finite­ness of your com­pre­hen­sion, and in the cir­cum­scribed scope of your sur­vey; such mis­un­der­stand­ing of God is due to the pro­found ig­no­rance you en­joy re­gard­ing the ex­is­tence of the higher laws of the realm, the mag­ni­tude of the Fa­ther’s char­ac­ter, the in­fin­ity of his at­tri­butes, and the fact of his free-will­ness.

3:2.8The plan­e­tary crea­tures of God’s spirit in­dwelling, scat­tered hither and yon through­out the uni­verses of space, are so nearly in­fi­nite in num­ber and or­der, their in­tel­lects are so di­verse, their minds are so lim­ited and some­times so gross, their vi­sion is so cur­tailed and lo­cal­ized, that it is al­most im­pos­si­ble to for­mu­late gen­er­al­iza­tions of law ad­e­quately ex­pres­sive of the Fa­ther’s in­fi­nite at­tri­butes and at the same time to any de­gree com­pre­hen­si­ble to these cre­ated in­tel­li­gences. There­fore, to you the crea­ture, many of the acts of the all-pow­er­ful Cre­ator seem to be ar­bi­trary, de­tached, and not in­fre­quently heart­less and cruel. But again I as­sure you that this is not true. God’s do­ings are all pur­pose­ful, in­tel­li­gent, wise, kind, and eter­nally con­sid­er­ate of the best good, not al­ways of an in­di­vid­ual be­ing, an in­di­vid­ual race, an in­di­vid­ual planet, or even an in­di­vid­ual uni­verse; but they are for the wel­fare and best good of all con­cerned, from the low­est to the high­est. In the epochs of time the wel­fare of the part may some­times ap­pear to dif­fer from the wel­fare of the whole; in the cir­cle of eter­nity such ap­par­ent dif­fer­ences are nonex­is­tent.

3:2.9We are all a part of the fam­ily of God, and we must there­fore some­times share in the fam­ily dis­ci­pline. Many of the acts of God which so dis­turb and con­fuse us are the re­sult of the de­ci­sions and fi­nal rul­ings of all-wis­dom, em­pow­er­ing the Con­joint Ac­tor to ex­e­cute the choos­ing of the in­fal­li­ble will of the in­fi­nite mind, to en­force the de­ci­sions of the per­son­al­ity of per­fec­tion, whose sur­vey, vi­sion, and so­lic­i­tude em­brace the high­est and eter­nal wel­fare of all his vast and far-flung cre­ation.

3:2.10Thus it is that your de­tached, sec­tional, fi­nite, gross, and highly ma­te­ri­al­is­tic view­point and the lim­i­ta­tions in­her­ent in the na­ture of your be­ing con­sti­tute such a hand­i­cap that you are un­able to see, com­pre­hend, or know the wis­dom and kind­ness of many of the di­vine acts which to you seem fraught with such crush­ing cru­elty, and which seem to be char­ac­ter­ized by such ut­ter in­dif­fer­ence to the com­fort and wel­fare, to the plan­e­tary hap­pi­ness and per­sonal pros­per­ity, of your fel­low crea­tures. It is be­cause of the lim­its of hu­man vi­sion, it is be­cause of your cir­cum­scribed un­der­stand­ing and fi­nite com­pre­hen­sion, that you mis­un­der­stand the mo­tives, and per­vert the pur­poses, of God. But many things oc­cur on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds which are not the per­sonal do­ings of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

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.

7:0.1The Orig­i­nal Son is ever con­cerned with the ex­e­cu­tion of the spir­i­tual as­pects of the Fa­ther’s eter­nal pur­pose as it pro­gres­sively un­folds in the phe­nom­ena of the evolv­ing uni­verses with their man­i­fold groups of liv­ing be­ings. We do not fully com­pre­hend this eter­nal plan, but the Par­a­dise Son un­doubt­edly does.

56:9.12The Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers go out into space and mo­bi­lize its en­er­gies to be­come grav­ity re­spon­sive to the Par­a­dise pull of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and sub­se­quently there come the Cre­ator Sons, who or­ga­nize these grav­ity-re­spond­ing forces into in­hab­ited uni­verses and therein evolve in­tel­li­gent crea­tures who re­ceive unto them­selves the spirit of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther and sub­se­quently as­cend to the Fa­ther to be­come like him in all pos­si­ble di­vin­ity at­tri­butes.

56:9.13The cease­less and ex­pand­ing march of the Par­a­dise cre­ative forces through space seems to presage the ever-ex­tend­ing do­main of the grav­ity grasp of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the never-end­ing mul­ti­pli­ca­tion of var­ied types of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures who are able to love God and be loved by him, and who, by thus be­com­ing God-know­ing, may choose to be like him, may elect to at­tain Par­a­dise and find God.

94:6.6His un­der­stand­ing of the eter­nal pur­pose of God was clear, for he said: “The Ab­so­lute De­ity does not strive but is al­ways vic­to­ri­ous; he does not co­erce man­kind but al­ways stands ready to re­spond to their true de­sires; the will of God is eter­nal in pa­tience and eter­nal in the in­evitabil­ity of its ex­pres­sion.” And of the true re­li­gion­ist he said, in ex­press­ing the truth that it is more blessed to give than to re­ceive: “The good man seeks not to re­tain truth for him­self but rather at­tempts to be­stow these riches upon his fel­lows, for that is the re­al­iza­tion of truth. The will of the Ab­so­lute God al­ways ben­e­fits, never de­stroys; the pur­pose of the true be­liever is al­ways to act but never to co­erce.”

12:8.3What­ever the trans­for­ma­tions of force in the out­ly­ing uni­verses, hav­ing gone out from Par­a­dise, it jour­neys on sub­ject to the never-end­ing, ever-pres­ent, un­fail­ing pull of the eter­nal Isle, obe­di­ently and in­her­ently swing­ing on for­ever around the eter­nal space paths of the uni­verses. Phys­i­cal en­ergy is the one re­al­ity which is true and stead­fast in its obe­di­ence to uni­ver­sal law. Only in the realms of crea­ture vo­li­tion has there been de­vi­a­tion from the di­vine paths and the orig­i­nal plans. Power and en­ergy are the uni­ver­sal ev­i­dences of the sta­bil­ity, con­stancy, and eter­nity of the cen­tral Isle of Par­a­dise.

42:4.2We do not fully com­pre­hend the al­most end­less changes to which phys­i­cal en­ergy may be sub­ject. In one uni­verse it ap­pears as light, in an­other as light plus heat, in an­other as forms of en­ergy un­known on Uran­tia; in un­told mil­lions of years it may reap­pear as some form of rest­less, surg­ing elec­tri­cal en­ergy or mag­netic power; and still later on it may again ap­pear in a sub­se­quent uni­verse as some form of vari­able mat­ter go­ing through a se­ries of meta­mor­phoses, to be fol­lowed by its out­ward phys­i­cal dis­ap­pear­ance in some great cat­a­clysm of the realms. And then, af­ter count­less ages and al­most end­less wan­der­ing through num­ber­less uni­verses, again may this same en­ergy re-emerge and many times change its form and po­ten­tial; and so do these trans­for­ma­tions con­tinue through suc­ces­sive ages and through­out count­less realms. Thus mat­ter sweeps on, un­der­go­ing the trans­mu­ta­tions of time but swing­ing ever true to the cir­cle of eter­nity; even if long pre­vented from re­turn­ing to its source, it is ever re­spon­sive thereto, and it ever pro­ceeds in the path or­dained by the In­fi­nite Per­son­al­ity who sent it forth.

• mortal sorrows and trials are part of

23:2.12The con­fu­sion and tur­moil of Uran­tia do not sig­nify that the Par­a­dise Rulers lack ei­ther in­ter­est or abil­ity to man­age af­fairs dif­fer­ently. The Cre­ators are pos­sessed of full power to make Uran­tia a ver­i­ta­ble par­a­dise, but such an Eden would not con­tribute to the de­vel­op­ment of those strong, no­ble, and ex­pe­ri­enced char­ac­ters which the Gods are so surely forg­ing out on your world be­tween the anvils of ne­ces­sity and the ham­mers of an­guish. Your anx­i­eties and sor­rows, your tri­als and dis­ap­point­ments, are just as much a part of the di­vine plan on your sphere as are the ex­qui­site per­fec­tion and in­fi­nite adap­ta­tion of all things to their su­preme pur­pose on the worlds of the cen­tral and per­fect uni­verse.

• folly attempting advancement independently of

74:3.3Adam’s sec­ond day on earth was spent in ses­sion with the plan­e­tary re­ceivers and the ad­vi­sory coun­cil. From the Mel­chiz­e­deks, and their as­so­ciates, Adam and Eve learned more about the de­tails of the Cali­gas­tia re­bel­lion and the re­sult of that up­heaval upon the world’s prog­ress. And it was, on the whole, a dis­heart­en­ing story, this long recital of the mis­man­age­ment of world af­fairs. They learned all the facts re­gard­ing the ut­ter col­lapse of the Cali­gas­tia scheme for ac­cel­er­at­ing the pro­cess of so­cial evo­lu­tion. They also ar­rived at a full re­al­iza­tion of the folly of at­tempt­ing to achieve plan­e­tary ad­vance­ment in­de­pen­dently of the di­vine plan of pro­gres­sion. And thus ended a sad but en­light­en­ing day—their sec­ond on Uran­tia.

• adding our schemes to d.p. is evil

75:3.9In­flu­enced by flat­tery, en­thu­si­asm, and great per­sonal per­sua­sion, Eve then and there con­sented to em­bark upon the much-dis­cussed en­ter­prise, to add her own lit­tle scheme of world sav­ing to the larger and more far-reach­ing di­vine plan. Be­fore she quite re­al­ized what was tran­spir­ing, the fa­tal step had been taken. It was done.

75:4.1The ce­les­tial life of the planet was astir. Adam rec­og­nized that some­thing was wrong, and he asked Eve to come aside with him in the Gar­den. And now, for the first time, Adam heard the en­tire story of the long-nour­ished plan for ac­cel­er­at­ing world im­prove­ment by op­er­at­ing si­mul­ta­ne­ously in two di­rec­tions: the pros­e­cu­tion of the di­vine plan con­comi­tantly with the ex­e­cu­tion of the Ser­a­p­ata­tia en­ter­prise.

75:4.2And as the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter thus com­muned in the moon­lit Gar­den, “the voice in the Gar­den” re­proved them for dis­obe­di­ence. And that voice was none other than my own an­nounce­ment to the Edenic pair that they had trans­gressed the Gar­den covenant; that they had dis­obeyed the in­struc­tions of the Mel­chiz­e­deks; that they had de­faulted in the ex­e­cu­tion of their oaths of trust to the sov­er­eign of the uni­verse.

75:4.3Eve had con­sented to par­tic­i­pate in the prac­tice of good and evil. Good is the car­ry­ing out of the di­vine plans; sin is a de­lib­er­ate trans­gres­sion of the di­vine will; evil is the mis­adap­ta­tion of plans and the mal­ad­just­ment of tech­niques re­sult­ing in uni­verse dishar­mony and plan­e­tary con­fu­sion.

75:4.4Ev­ery time the Gar­den pair had par­taken of the fruit of the tree of life, they had been warned by the arch­an­gel cus­to­dian to re­frain from yield­ing to the sug­ges­tions of Cali­gas­tia to com­bine good and evil. They had been thus ad­mon­ished: “In the day that you com­min­gle good and evil, you shall surely be­come as the mor­tals of the realm; you shall surely die.”

75:4.5Eve had told Cano of this oft-re­peated warn­ing on the fate­ful oc­ca­sion of their se­cret meet­ing, but Cano, not know­ing the im­port or sig­nif­i­cance of such ad­mo­ni­tions, had as­sured her that men and women with good mo­tives and true in­ten­tions could do no evil; that she should surely not die but rather live anew in the per­son of their off­spring, who would grow up to bless and sta­bi­lize the world.

75:4.6Even though this project of mod­i­fy­ing the di­vine plan had been con­ceived and ex­e­cuted with en­tire sin­cer­ity and with only the high­est mo­tives con­cern­ing the wel­fare of the world, it con­sti­tuted evil be­cause it rep­re­sented the wrong way to achieve righ­teous ends, be­cause it de­parted from the right way, the di­vine plan.

75:4.7True, Eve had found Cano pleas­ant to the eyes, and she re­al­ized all that her se­ducer prom­ised by way of “new and in­creased knowl­edge of hu­man af­fairs and quick­ened un­der­stand­ing of hu­man na­ture as sup­ple­men­tal to the com­pre­hen­sion of the Adamic na­ture.”

75:4.8I talked to the fa­ther and mother of the vi­o­let race that night in the Gar­den as be­came my duty un­der the sor­row­ful cir­cum­stances. I lis­tened fully to the recital of all that led up to the de­fault of Mother Eve and gave both of them ad­vice and coun­sel con­cern­ing the im­me­di­ate sit­u­a­tion. Some of this ad­vice they fol­lowed; some they dis­re­garded. This con­fer­ence ap­pears in your rec­ords as “the Lord God call­ing to Adam and Eve in the Gar­den and ask­ing, ‘Where are you?’” It was the prac­tice of later gen­er­a­tions to at­trib­ute ev­ery­thing un­usual and ex­traor­di­nary, whether nat­u­ral or spir­i­tual, di­rectly to the per­sonal in­ter­ven­tion of the Gods.

• no gain from short cuts or personal inventions

75:8.5Never, in all your as­cent to Par­a­dise, will you gain any­thing by im­pa­tiently at­tempt­ing to cir­cum­vent the es­tab­lished and di­vine plan by short cuts, per­sonal in­ven­tions, or other de­vices for im­prov­ing on the way of per­fec­tion, to per­fec­tion, and for eter­nal per­fec­tion.

• progress predicated upon effort, achievement upon perseverance, personality development upon faith

115:7.2All this must be ac­cord­ing to the Fa­ther’s plan, which has pred­i­cated fi­nite prog­ress upon ef­fort, crea­ture achieve­ment upon per­se­ver­ance, and per­son­al­ity de­vel­op­ment upon faith. By thus or­dain­ing the ex­pe­ri­ence-evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme, the Fa­ther has made it pos­si­ble for fi­nite crea­tures to ex­ist in the uni­verses and, by ex­pe­ri­en­tial pro­gres­sion, some­time to at­tain the di­vin­ity of Su­prem­acy.

136:8.5Je­sus was fully aware of the short cuts open to one of his pow­ers. He knew many ways in which the at­ten­tion of the na­tion, and the whole world, could be im­me­di­ately fo­cused upon him­self. Soon the Pass­over would be cel­e­brated at Je­ru­sa­lem; the city would be thronged with vis­i­tors. He could as­cend the pin­na­cle of the tem­ple and be­fore the be­wil­dered mul­ti­tude walk out on the air; that would be the kind of a Mes­siah they were look­ing for. But he would sub­se­quently dis­ap­point them since he had not come to re-es­tab­lish David’s throne. And he knew the fu­til­ity of the Cali­gas­tia method of try­ing to get ahead of the nat­u­ral, slow, and sure way of ac­com­plish­ing the di­vine pur­pose. Again the Son of Man bowed obe­di­ently to the Fa­ther’s way, the Fa­ther’s will.

136:8.6Je­sus chose to es­tab­lish the king­dom of heaven in the hearts of man­kind by nat­u­ral, or­di­nary, dif­fi­cult, and try­ing meth­ods, just such pro­ce­dures as his earth chil­dren must sub­se­quently fol­low in their work of en­larg­ing and ex­tend­ing that heav­enly king­dom. For well did the Son of Man know that it would be “through much tribu­la­tion that many of the chil­dren of all ages would en­ter into the king­dom.” Je­sus was now pass­ing through the great test of civ­i­lized man, to have power and stead­fastly refuse to use it for purely self­ish or per­sonal pur­poses.

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.

4:1.4There is no lim­i­ta­tion of the forces and per­son­al­i­ties which the Fa­ther may use to up­hold his pur­pose and sus­tain his crea­tures. “The eter­nal God is our refuge, and un­der­neath are the ev­er­last­ing arms.” “He who dwells in the se­cret place of the Most High shall abide un­der the shadow of the Al­mighty.” “Be­hold, he who keeps us shall nei­ther slum­ber nor sleep.” “We know that all things work to­gether for good to those who love God,” “for the eyes of the Lord are over the righ­teous, and his ears are open to their prayers.”

178:3.3“You look down on yon­der city in sor­row, for you have heard my words telling of the end of Je­ru­sa­lem. I have fore­warned you lest you should per­ish in her de­struc­tion and so de­lay the procla­ma­tion of the gospel of the king­dom. Like­wise do I warn you to take heed lest you need­lessly ex­pose your­selves to peril when they come to take the Son of Man. I must go, but you are to re­main to wit­ness to this gospel when I have gone, even as I di­rected that Laz­a­rus flee from the wrath of man that he might live to make known the glory of God. If it is the Fa­ther’s will that I de­part, noth­ing you may do can frus­trate the di­vine plan. Take heed to your­selves lest they kill you also. Let your souls be valiant in de­fense of the gospel by spirit power but be not mis­led into any fool­ish at­tempt to de­fend the Son of Man. I need no de­fense by the hand of man; the armies of heaven are even now near at hand; but I am de­ter­mined to do the will of my Fa­ther in heaven, and there­fore must we sub­mit to that which is so soon to come upon us.

3:5.3In the af­fairs of men’s hearts the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther may not al­ways have his way; but in the con­duct and des­tiny of a planet the di­vine plan pre­vails; the eter­nal pur­pose of wis­dom and love tri­umphs.

115:1.4The realms of the fi­nite ex­ist by virtue of the eter­nal pur­pose of God. Fi­nite crea­tures, high and low, may pro­pound the­o­ries, and have done so, as to the ne­ces­sity of the fi­nite in the cos­mic econ­omy, but in the last anal­y­sis it ex­ists be­cause God so willed. The uni­verse can­not be ex­plained, nei­ther can a fi­nite crea­ture of­fer a ra­tio­nal rea­son for his own in­di­vid­ual ex­is­tence with­out ap­peal­ing to the prior acts and pre-ex­is­tent vo­li­tion of an­ces­tral be­ings, Cre­ators or pro­cre­ators.

45:7.3The Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons con­duct up­ward of thirty dif­fer­ent ed­u­ca­tional cen­ters on Je­ru­sem. These train­ing schools be­gin with the col­lege of self-eval­u­a­tion and end with the schools of Je­ru­sem cit­i­zen­ship, wherein the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters join with the Mel­chiz­e­deks and oth­ers in their su­preme ef­fort to qual­ify the mor­tal sur­vivors for the as­sump­tion of the high re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment. The en­tire uni­verse is or­ga­nized and ad­min­is­tered on the rep­re­sen­ta­tive plan. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment is the di­vine ideal of self-gov­ern­ment among non­per­fect be­ings.

40:10.5That mor­tal des­tinies do thus vary in no wise proves that one is nec­es­sar­ily greater or lesser than an­other, merely that they dif­fer. Ad­juster-fused as­cend­ers do in­deed have a grand and glo­ri­ous ca­reer as fi­nal­i­ters spread out be­fore them in the eter­nal fu­ture, but this does not mean that they are pre­ferred above their as­cen­dant breth­ren. There is no fa­voritism, noth­ing ar­bi­trary, in the se­lec­tive op­er­a­tion of the di­vine plan of mor­tal sur­vival.

• Father’s effort to reveal himself to his children

5:1.2Our Fa­ther is not in hid­ing; he is not in ar­bi­trary seclu­sion. He has mo­bi­lized the re­sources of di­vine wis­dom in a never-end­ing ef­fort to re­veal him­self to the chil­dren of his uni­ver­sal do­mains. There is an in­fi­nite grandeur and an in­ex­press­ible gen­eros­ity con­nected with the majesty of his love which causes him to yearn for the as­so­ci­a­tion of ev­ery cre­ated be­ing who can com­pre­hend, love, or ap­proach him; and it is, there­fore, the lim­i­ta­tions in­her­ent in you, in­sep­a­ra­ble from your fi­nite per­son­al­ity and ma­te­rial ex­is­tence, that de­ter­mine the time and place and cir­cum­stances in which you may achieve the goal of the jour­ney of mor­tal as­cen­sion and stand in the pres­ence of the Fa­ther at the cen­ter of all things.

• human survival and mortal ascension

30:4.33If there should be no fu­ture or un­re­vealed des­tiny for the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, the pres­ent as­sign­ment of these as­cen­dant be­ings would be al­to­gether ad­e­quate and glo­ri­ous. Their pres­ent des­tiny wholly jus­ti­fies the uni­ver­sal plan of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cent. But the fu­ture ages of the evo­lu­tion of the spheres of outer space will un­doubt­edly fur­ther elab­o­rate, and with more re­plete­ness di­vinely il­lu­mi­nate, the wis­dom and lov­ing-kind­ness of the Gods in the ex­e­cu­tion of their di­vine plan of hu­man sur­vival and mor­tal as­cen­sion.

• gradual progressive development

32:0.2These uni­verses of time and space are all evo­lu­tion­ary. The cre­ative plan of the Par­a­dise Mi­cha­els al­ways pro­ceeds along the path of grad­ual evolve­ment and pro­gres­sive de­vel­op­ment of the phys­i­cal, in­tel­lec­tual, and spir­i­tual na­tures and ca­pac­i­ties of the man­i­fold crea­tures who in­habit the var­ied or­ders of spheres com­pris­ing such a lo­cal uni­verse.

• subjecting energy-matter to spirit through striving of personal mind

42:10.1The end­less sweep of rel­a­tive cos­mic re­al­ity, from the ab­so­lute­ness of Par­a­dise monota to the ab­so­lute­ness of space po­tency, is sug­ges­tive of cer­tain evo­lu­tions of re­la­tion­ship in the non­spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties of the First Source and Cen­ter—those re­al­i­ties which are con­cealed in space po­tency, re­vealed in monota, and pro­vi­sion­ally dis­closed on in­ter­ven­ing cos­mic lev­els. This eter­nal cy­cle of en­ergy, be­ing cir­cuited in the Fa­ther of uni­verses, is ab­so­lute and, be­ing ab­so­lute, is ex­pan­sile in nei­ther fact nor value; nev­er­the­less the Pri­mal Fa­ther is even now—as al­ways—self-re­al­iz­ing of an ever-ex­pand­ing arena of time-space, and of time-space-tran­scended, mean­ings, an arena of chang­ing re­la­tion­ships wherein en­ergy-mat­ter is be­ing pro­gres­sively sub­jected to the over­con­trol of liv­ing and di­vine spirit through the ex­pe­ri­en­tial striv­ing of liv­ing and per­sonal mind.

• graduated opportunity to master operation of universe through actual participation in every step

48:8.2There is a def­i­nite and di­vine pur­pose in all this mor­ontia and sub­se­quent spirit scheme of mor­tal pro­gres­sion, this elab­o­rate uni­verse train­ing school for as­cend­ing crea­tures. It is the de­sign of the Cre­ators to af­ford the crea­tures of time a grad­u­ated op­por­tu­nity to mas­ter the de­tails of the op­er­a­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion of the grand uni­verse, and this long course of train­ing is best car­ried for­ward by hav­ing the sur­viv­ing mor­tal climb up grad­u­ally and by ac­tual par­tic­i­pa­tion in ev­ery step of the as­cent.

• universes expand as gravity and love reach out into time-organizing space

106:3.5Through­out all the gi­gan­tic uni­verse de­vel­op­ments of past and fu­ture eter­nity, we de­tect the ex­pan­sion of the com­pre­hen­si­ble el­e­ments of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. As the I AM, we phil­o­soph­i­cally pos­tu­late his per­me­ation of to­tal in­fin­ity, but no crea­ture is able ex­pe­ri­en­tially to en­com­pass such a pos­tu­late. As the uni­verses ex­pand, and as grav­ity and love reach out into time-or­ga­niz­ing space, we are able to un­der­stand more and more of the First Source and Cen­ter. We ob­serve grav­ity ac­tion pen­e­trat­ing the space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, and we de­tect spirit crea­tures evolv­ing and ex­pand­ing within the di­vin­ity pres­ence of the De­ity Ab­so­lute while both cos­mic and spirit evo­lu­tion are by mind and ex­pe­ri­ence uni­fy­ing on fi­nite de­ity lev­els as the Su­preme Be­ing and are co-or­di­nat­ing on tran­scen­den­tal lev­els as the Trin­ity Ul­ti­mate.

• subjecting energy-matter to spirit through striving of personal mind

112:2.15The pur­pose of cos­mic evo­lu­tion is to achieve unity of per­son­al­ity through in­creas­ing spirit dom­i­nance, vo­li­tional re­sponse to the teach­ing and lead­ing of the Thought Ad­juster. Per­son­al­ity, both hu­man and super­hu­man, is char­ac­ter­ized by an in­her­ent cos­mic qual­ity which may be called “the evo­lu­tion of dom­i­nance,” the ex­pan­sion of the con­trol of both it­self and its en­vi­ron­ment.

• gigantic creation administered by finaliters

112:7.18What an ad­ven­ture! What a ro­mance! A gi­gan­tic cre­ation to be ad­min­is­tered by the chil­dren of the Su­preme, these per­son­al­ized and hu­man­ized Ad­justers, these Ad­jus­ter­ized and eter­nal­ized mor­tals, these mys­te­ri­ous com­bi­na­tions and eter­nal as­so­ci­a­tions of the high­est known man­i­fes­ta­tion of the essence of the First Source and Cen­ter and the low­est form of in­tel­li­gent life ca­pa­ble of com­pre­hend­ing and at­tain­ing the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. We con­ceive that such amal­ga­mated be­ings, such part­ner­ships of Cre­ator and crea­ture, will be­come su­perb rulers, match­less ad­min­is­tra­tors, and un­der­stand­ing and sym­pa­thetic di­rec­tors of any and all forms of in­tel­li­gent life which may come into ex­is­tence through­out these fu­ture uni­verses of the first outer space level.

• subjecting energy-matter to spirit through striving of personal mind

116:5.15The spirit strug­gles of time and space have to do with the evo­lu­tion of spirit dom­i­nance over mat­ter by the me­di­a­tion of (per­sonal) mind; the phys­i­cal (non­per­sonal) evo­lu­tion of the uni­verses has to do with bring­ing cos­mic en­ergy into har­mony with the equi­lib­rium con­cepts of mind sub­ject to the over­con­trol of spirit. The to­tal evo­lu­tion of the en­tire grand uni­verse is a mat­ter of the per­son­al­ity uni­fi­ca­tion of the en­ergy-con­trol­ling mind with the spirit-co-or­di­nated in­tel­lect and will be re­vealed in the full ap­pear­ance of the al­mighty power of the Su­preme.

• subjecting energy-matter to spirit through striving of personal mind

116:6.1In the evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses en­ergy-mat­ter is dom­i­nant ex­cept in per­son­al­ity, where spirit through the me­di­a­tion of mind is strug­gling for the mas­tery. The goal of the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses is the sub­ju­ga­tion of en­ergy-mat­ter by mind, the co-or­di­na­tion of mind with spirit, and all of this by virtue of the cre­ative and uni­fy­ing pres­ence of per­son­al­ity. Thus, in re­la­tion to per­son­al­ity, do phys­i­cal sys­tems be­come sub­or­di­nate; mind sys­tems, co-or­di­nate; and spirit sys­tems, di­rec­tive.

• subjecting energy-matter to spirit through striving of personal mind

116:6.4That en­ergy can be di­rec­tion­ized by the ac­tion of con­trol­ler per­son­al­i­ties dis­closes the re­spon­sive­ness of en­ergy to mind ac­tion. That mass can be sta­bi­lized through the ac­tion of these same con­trol­ling en­ti­ties in­di­cates the re­spon­sive­ness of mass to the or­der-pro­duc­ing pres­ence of mind. And that spirit it­self in vo­li­tional per­son­al­ity can strive through mind for the mas­tery of en­ergy-mat­ter dis­closes the po­ten­tial unity of all fi­nite cre­ation.

• subjecting energy-matter to spirit through striving of personal mind

117:2.1The Su­preme is God-in-time; his is the se­cret of crea­ture growth in time; his also is the con­quest of the in­com­plete pres­ent and the con­sum­ma­tion of the per­fect­ing fu­ture. And the fi­nal fruits of all fi­nite growth are: power con­trolled through mind by spirit by virtue of the uni­fy­ing and cre­ative pres­ence of per­son­al­ity. The cul­mi­nat­ing con­se­quence of all this growth is the Su­preme Be­ing.

• subjecting energy-matter to spirit through striving of personal mind

117:3.2The Su­preme is the di­vine chan­nel through which flows the cre­ative in­fin­ity of the tri­odi­ties that crys­tal­lizes into the galac­tic pan­o­rama of space, against which takes place the mag­nif­i­cent per­son­al­ity drama of time: the spirit con­quest of en­ergy-mat­ter through the me­di­a­tion of mind.

• subjecting energy-matter to spirit through striving of personal mind

117:7.13The pres­ent goal of the super­uni­verses is to be­come, as they are and within their po­ten­tials, per­fect, even as is Ha­vona. This per­fec­tion per­tains to phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual at­tain­ment, even to ad­min­is­tra­tive, gov­ern­men­tal, and fra­ter­nal de­vel­op­ment. It is be­lieved that, in the ages to come, the pos­si­bil­i­ties for dishar­mony, mal­ad­just­ment, and mis­adap­ta­tion will be even­tu­ally ex­hausted in the super­uni­verses. The en­ergy cir­cuits will be in per­fect bal­ance and in com­plete sub­ju­ga­tion to mind, while spirit, in the pres­ence of per­son­al­ity, will have achieved the dom­i­nance of mind.

34:7.5Uran­tia mor­tals are com­pelled to un­dergo such marked strug­gling be­tween the spirit and the flesh be­cause their re­mote an­ces­tors were not more fully Adamized by the Edenic be­stowal. It was the di­vine plan that the mor­tal races of Uran­tia should have had phys­i­cal na­tures more nat­u­rally spirit re­spon­sive.

35:9.7The large num­ber of these Sons who have lapsed from in­tegrity does not in­di­cate any fault in cre­ator­ship. They could have been made di­vinely per­fect, but they were so cre­ated that they might bet­ter un­der­stand, and draw near to, the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures dwell­ing on the worlds of time and space.

35:9.8Of all the lo­cal uni­verses in Or­von­ton, our uni­verse has, with the ex­cep­tion of Henselon, lost the largest num­ber of this or­der of Sons. On Uversa it is the con­sen­sus that we have had so much ad­min­is­tra­tive trou­ble in Neb­a­don be­cause our Sons of the La­non­an­dek or­der have been cre­ated with such a large de­gree of per­sonal lib­erty in choos­ing and plan­ning. I do not make this ob­ser­va­tion by way of crit­i­cism. The Cre­ator of our uni­verse has full au­thor­ity and power to do this. It is the con­tention of our high rulers that, while such free-choos­ing Sons make ex­ces­sive trou­ble in the ear­lier ages of the uni­verse, when things are fully sifted and fi­nally set­tled, the gains of higher loy­alty and fuller vo­li­tional ser­vice on the part of these thor­oughly tested Sons will far more than com­pen­sate for the con­fu­sion and tribu­la­tions of ear­lier times.

22:4.1Those with­out Name and Num­ber con­sti­tute the third and last group of the Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment; they are the as­cen­dant souls who have de­vel­oped the abil­ity to wor­ship be­yond the skill of all the sons and daugh­ters of the evo­lu­tion­ary races from the worlds of time and space. They have ac­quired a spir­i­tual con­cept of the eter­nal pur­pose of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther which com­par­a­tively tran­scends the com­pre­hen­sion of the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures of name or num­ber; there­fore are they de­nom­i­nated Those with­out Name and Num­ber. More strictly trans­lated, their name would be “Those above Name and Num­ber.”