grand universe

• 7 superuniverses plus Havona

0:0.6The seven evolv­ing super­uni­verses in as­so­ci­a­tion with the cen­tral and di­vine uni­verse, we com­monly re­fer to as the grand uni­verse; these are the now or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ations. They are all a part of the mas­ter uni­verse, which also em­braces the un­in­hab­ited but mo­bi­liz­ing uni­verses of outer space.

• Ancients of Days and Seven Master Spirits are eternally fixed as administrators of

0:8.11The Cre­ator Sons in the De­ity as­so­ci­a­tion of God the Sev­en­fold pro­vide the mech­a­nism whereby the mor­tal be­comes im­mor­tal and the fi­nite at­tains the em­brace of the in­fi­nite. The Su­preme Be­ing pro­vides the tech­nique for the power-per­son­al­ity mo­bi­liza­tion, the di­vine syn­the­sis, of all these man­i­fold trans­ac­tions, thus en­abling the fi­nite to at­tain the ab­so­nite and, through other pos­si­ble fu­ture ac­tu­al­iza­tions, to at­tempt the at­tain­ment of the Ul­ti­mate. The Cre­ator Sons and their as­so­ci­ated Di­vine Min­is­ters are par­tic­i­pants in this su­preme mo­bi­liza­tion, but the An­cients of Days and the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are prob­a­bly eter­nally fixed as per­ma­nent ad­min­is­tra­tors in the grand uni­verse.

• 7 superuniverses plus Havona
• incomplete, unsettled; present edge is ragged

12:1.13The Grand Uni­verse is the pres­ent or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ation. It con­sists of the seven super­uni­verses, with an ag­gre­gate evo­lu­tion­ary po­ten­tial of around seven tril­lion in­hab­ited plan­ets, not to men­tion the eter­nal spheres of the cen­tral cre­ation. But this ten­ta­tive es­ti­mate takes no ac­count of ar­chi­tec­tural ad­min­is­tra­tive spheres, nei­ther does it in­clude the out­ly­ing groups of un­or­ga­nized uni­verses. The pres­ent ragged edge of the grand uni­verse, its un­even and un­fin­ished pe­riph­ery, to­gether with the tremen­dously un­set­tled con­di­tion of the whole as­tro­nom­i­cal plot, sug­gests to our star stu­dents that even the seven super­uni­verses are, as yet, un­com­pleted. As we move from within, from the di­vine cen­ter out­ward in any one di­rec­tion, we do, even­tu­ally, come to the outer lim­its of the or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ation; we come to the outer lim­its of the grand uni­verse. And it is near this outer bor­der, in a far-off cor­ner of such a mag­nif­i­cent cre­ation, that your lo­cal uni­verse has its event­ful ex­is­tence.

• uses only 5% of Paradise gravity

12:3.81. Phys­i­cal Grav­ity. Hav­ing for­mu­lated an es­ti­mate of the sum­ma­tion of the en­tire phys­i­cal-grav­ity ca­pac­ity of the grand uni­verse, they have la­bo­ri­ously ef­fected a com­par­i­son of this find­ing with the es­ti­mated to­tal of ab­so­lute grav­ity pres­ence now op­er­a­tive. These cal­cu­la­tions in­di­cate that the to­tal grav­ity ac­tion on the grand uni­verse is a very small part of the es­ti­mated grav­ity pull of Par­a­dise, com­puted on the ba­sis of the grav­ity re­sponse of ba­sic phys­i­cal units of uni­verse mat­ter. These in­ves­ti­ga­tors reach the amaz­ing con­clu­sion that the cen­tral uni­verse and the sur­round­ing seven super­uni­verses are at the pres­ent time mak­ing use of only about five per cent of the ac­tive func­tion­ing of the Par­a­dise ab­so­lute-grav­ity grasp. In other words: At the pres­ent mo­ment about ninety-five per cent of the ac­tive cos­mic-grav­ity ac­tion of the Isle of Par­a­dise, com­puted on this to­tal­ity the­ory, is en­gaged in con­trol­ling ma­te­rial sys­tems be­yond the bor­ders of the pres­ent or­ga­nized uni­verses. These cal­cu­la­tions all re­fer to ab­so­lute grav­ity; lin­ear grav­ity is an in­ter­ac­tive phe­nom­e­non which can be com­puted only by know­ing the ac­tual Par­a­dise grav­ity.

• 7 superuniverses plus Havona

15:2.97. The Grand Uni­verse. Seven super­uni­verses make up the pres­ent or­ga­nized grand uni­verse, con­sist­ing of ap­prox­i­mately seven tril­lion in­hab­it­able worlds plus the ar­chi­tec­tural spheres and the one bil­lion in­hab­ited spheres of Ha­vona. The super­uni­verses are ruled and ad­min­is­tered in­di­rectly and re­flec­tively from Par­a­dise by the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. The bil­lion worlds of Ha­vona are di­rectly ad­min­is­tered by the Eter­nals of Days, one such Su­preme Trin­ity Per­son­al­ity pre­sid­ing over each of these per­fect spheres.

• registry number for Urantia

15:14.8The grand uni­verse num­ber of your world, Uran­tia, is 5,342,482,337,666. That is the reg­istry num­ber on Uversa and on Par­a­dise, your num­ber in the cat­a­logue of the in­hab­ited worlds. I know the phys­i­cal-sphere reg­istry num­ber, but it is of such an ex­traor­di­nary size that it is of lit­tle prac­ti­cal sig­nif­i­cance to the mor­tal mind.

• seven Supreme Spirit groups are directors of

17:0.1The seven Su­preme Spirit groups are the uni­ver­sal co-or­di­nat­ing di­rec­tors of the seven-seg­mented ad­min­is­tra­tion of the grand uni­verse. Al­though all are classed among the func­tional fam­ily of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the fol­low­ing three groups are usu­ally clas­si­fied as chil­dren of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity:

• Supreme Center Supervisors regulate energy circuits of

29:2.101. Su­preme Cen­ter Super­vi­sors. These seven co-or­di­nates and as­so­ciates of the Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors are the reg­u­la­tors of the mas­ter en­ergy cir­cuits of the grand uni­verse. Each cen­ter super­vi­sor is head­quar­tered on one of the spe­cial worlds of the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives, and they work in close as­so­ci­a­tion with these co-or­di­na­tors of gen­eral uni­verse af­fairs.

116:7.1The grand uni­verse is not only a ma­te­rial cre­ation of phys­i­cal grandeur, spirit sub­lim­ity, and in­tel­lec­tual mag­ni­tude, it is also a mag­nif­i­cent and re­spon­sive liv­ing or­gan­ism. There is ac­tual life pul­sat­ing through­out the mech­a­nism of the vast cre­ation of the vi­brant cos­mos. The phys­i­cal re­al­ity of the uni­verses is sym­bolic of the per­ceiv­able re­al­ity of the Al­mighty Su­preme; and this ma­te­rial and liv­ing or­gan­ism is pen­e­trated by in­tel­li­gence cir­cuits, even as the hu­man body is tra­versed by a net­work of neu­ral sen­sa­tion paths. This phys­i­cal uni­verse is per­me­ated by en­ergy lanes which ef­fec­tively ac­ti­vate ma­te­rial cre­ation, even as the hu­man body is nour­ished and en­er­gized by the cir­cu­la­tory dis­tri­bu­tion of the as­sim­i­l­able en­ergy prod­ucts of nour­ish­ment. The vast uni­verse is not with­out those co-or­di­nat­ing cen­ters of mag­nif­i­cent over­con­trol which might be com­pared to the del­i­cate chem­i­cal-con­trol sys­tem of the hu­man mech­a­nism. But if you only knew some­thing about the physique of a power cen­ter, we could, by anal­ogy, tell you so much more about the phys­i­cal uni­verse.

• dependent upon unfailing energies emanating from nether Paradise

116:7.2Much as mor­tals look to so­lar en­ergy for life main­te­nance, so does the grand uni­verse de­pend upon the un­fail­ing en­er­gies em­a­nat­ing from nether Par­a­dise to sus­tain the ma­te­rial ac­tiv­i­ties and cos­mic mo­tions of space.

116:7.3Mind has been given to mor­tals where­with they may be­come self-con­scious of iden­tity and per­son­al­ity; and mind—even a Su­preme Mind—has been be­stowed upon the to­tal­ity of the fi­nite whereby the spirit of this emerg­ing per­son­al­ity of the cos­mos ever strives for the mas­tery of en­ergy-mat­ter.

116:7.4Mor­tal man is re­spon­sive to spirit guid­ance, even as the grand uni­verse re­sponds to the far-flung spirit-grav­ity grasp of the Eter­nal Son, the uni­ver­sal super­ma­te­rial co­he­sion of the eter­nal spir­i­tual val­ues of all the cre­ations of the fi­nite cos­mos of time and space.

116:7.5Hu­man be­ings are ca­pa­ble of mak­ing an ev­er­last­ing self-iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with to­tal and in­de­struc­tible uni­verse re­al­ity—fu­sion with the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster. Like­wise does the Su­preme ev­er­last­ingly de­pend on the ab­so­lute sta­bil­ity of Orig­i­nal De­ity, the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

116:7.6Man’s urge for Par­a­dise per­fec­tion, his striv­ing for God-at­tain­ment, cre­ates a gen­uine di­vin­ity ten­sion in the liv­ing cos­mos which can only be re­solved by the evo­lu­tion of an im­mor­tal soul; this is what hap­pens in the ex­pe­ri­ence of a sin­gle mor­tal crea­ture. But when all crea­tures and all Cre­ators in the grand uni­verse like­wise strive for God-at­tain­ment and di­vine per­fec­tion, there is built up a pro­found cos­mic ten­sion which can only find res­o­lu­tion in the sub­lime syn­the­sis of al­mighty power with the spirit per­son of the evolv­ing God of all crea­tures, the Su­preme Be­ing.

116:7.7[Spon­sored by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily so­journ­ing on Uran­tia.]

• ever seeks for complete unification

117:1.3The grand uni­verse con­tains the pos­si­bil­ity of, and ever seeks for, com­plete uni­fi­ca­tion, and this grows out of the fact that this cos­mic ex­is­tence is a con­se­quence of the cre­ative acts and the power man­dates of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, which is un­qual­i­fied unity. This very trini­tar­ian unity is ex­pressed in the fi­nite cos­mos in the Su­preme, whose re­al­ity be­comes in­creas­ingly ap­par­ent as the uni­verses at­tain to the max­i­mum level of Trin­ity iden­ti­fi­ca­tion.

• dependent on future universes of outer space for finite transcendence

117:6.20All ex­pe­ri­en­tial cre­ations are in­ter­de­pen­dent in their re­al­iza­tion of des­tiny. Only ex­is­ten­tial re­al­ity is self-con­tained and self-ex­is­tent. Ha­vona and the seven super­uni­verses re­quire each other to achieve the max­i­mum of fi­nite at­tain­ment; like­wise will they be some­time de­pen­dent on the fu­ture uni­verses of outer space for fi­nite tran­scen­dence.