master universe

12:1.3Pro­ceed­ing out­ward from Par­a­dise through the hor­i­zon­tal ex­ten­sion of per­vaded space, the mas­ter uni­verse is ex­is­tent in six con­cen­tric el­lipses, the space lev­els en­cir­cling the cen­tral Isle:

3:2.4God con­trols all power; he has made “a way for the light­ning”; he has or­dained the cir­cuits of all en­ergy. He has de­creed the time and man­ner of the man­i­fes­ta­tion of all forms of en­ergy-mat­ter. And all these things are held for­ever in his ev­er­last­ing grasp—in the grav­i­ta­tional con­trol cen­ter­ing on nether Par­a­dise. The light and en­ergy of the eter­nal God thus swing on for­ever around his ma­jes­tic cir­cuit, the end­less but or­derly pro­ces­sion of the starry hosts com­pos­ing the uni­verse of uni­verses. All cre­ation cir­cles eter­nally around the Par­a­dise-Per­son­al­ity cen­ter of all things and be­ings.

12:0.2In prin­ci­ple, that is, in eter­nal po­ten­tial, we con­ceive of ma­te­rial cre­ation as be­ing in­fi­nite be­cause the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is ac­tu­ally in­fi­nite, but as we study and ob­serve the to­tal ma­te­rial cre­ation, we know that at any given mo­ment in time it is lim­ited, al­though to your fi­nite minds it is com­par­a­tively lim­it­less, vir­tu­ally bound­less.

12:0.3We are con­vinced, from the study of phys­i­cal law and from the ob­ser­va­tion of the starry realms, that the in­fi­nite Cre­ator is not yet man­i­fest in fi­nal­ity of cos­mic ex­pres­sion, that much of the cos­mic po­ten­tial of the In­fi­nite is still self-con­tained and un­re­vealed. To cre­ated be­ings the mas­ter uni­verse might ap­pear to be al­most in­fi­nite, but it is far from fin­ished; there are still phys­i­cal lim­its to the ma­te­rial cre­ation, and the ex­pe­ri­en­tial rev­e­la­tion of the eter­nal pur­pose is still in prog­ress.

12:1.1The uni­verse of uni­verses is not an in­fi­nite plane, a bound­less cube, nor a lim­it­less cir­cle; it cer­tainly has di­men­sions. The laws of phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion prove con­clu­sively that the whole vast ag­gre­ga­tion of force-en­ergy and mat­ter-power func­tions ul­ti­mately as a space unit, as an or­ga­nized and co-or­di­nated whole. The ob­serv­able be­hav­ior of the ma­te­rial cre­ation con­sti­tutes ev­i­dence of a phys­i­cal uni­verse of def­i­nite lim­its. The fi­nal proof of both a cir­cu­lar and de­lim­ited uni­verse is af­forded by the, to us, well-known fact that all forms of ba­sic en­ergy ever swing around the curved path of the space lev­els of the mas­ter uni­verse in obe­di­ence to the in­ces­sant and ab­so­lute pull of Par­a­dise grav­ity.

12:1.16The cen­tral uni­verse is the cre­ation of eter­nity; the seven super­uni­verses are the cre­ations of time; the four outer space lev­els are un­doubt­edly des­tined to even­tu­ate-evolve the ul­ti­macy of cre­ation. And there are those who main­tain that the In­fi­nite can never at­tain full ex­pres­sion short of in­fin­ity; and there­fore do they pos­tu­late an ad­di­tional and un­re­vealed cre­ation be­yond the fourth and out­er­most space level, a pos­si­ble ever-ex­pand­ing, never-end­ing uni­verse of in­fin­ity. In the­ory we do not know how to limit ei­ther the in­fin­ity of the Cre­ator or the po­ten­tial in­fin­ity of cre­ation, but as it ex­ists and is ad­min­is­tered, we re­gard the mas­ter uni­verse as hav­ing lim­i­ta­tions, as be­ing def­i­nitely de­lim­ited and bounded on its outer mar­gins by open space.

105:3.76. The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. Static, re­ac­tive, and abeyant; the un­re­vealed cos­mic in­fin­ity of the I AM; to­tal­ity of non­de­i­fied re­al­ity and fi­nal­ity of all non­per­sonal po­ten­tial. Space lim­its the func­tion of the Un­qual­i­fied, but the pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied is with­out limit, in­fi­nite. There is a con­cept pe­riph­ery to the mas­ter uni­verse, but the pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied is lim­it­less; even eter­nity can­not ex­haust the bound­less qui­es­cence of this non­de­ity Ab­so­lute.

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.

15:6.10The super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton is il­lu­mi­nated and warmed by more than ten tril­lion blaz­ing suns. These suns are the stars of your ob­serv­able as­tro­nomic sys­tem. More than two tril­lion are too dis­tant and too small ever to be seen from Uran­tia. But in the mas­ter uni­verse there are as many suns as there are glasses of wa­ter in the oceans of your world.

• unification is eventuating act of God the Ultimate

10:8.2It would be in­ad­vis­able to dis­cuss the func­tions of the Trin­ity of Ul­ti­macy, but it may be dis­closed that God the Ul­ti­mate is the Trin­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion com­pre­hended by the Tran­scen­den­talers. We are in­clined to the be­lief that the uni­fi­ca­tion of the mas­ter uni­verse is the even­tu­at­ing act of the Ul­ti­mate and is prob­a­bly re­flec­tive of cer­tain, but not all, phases of the ab­so­nite over­con­trol of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. The Ul­ti­mate is a qual­i­fied man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Trin­ity in re­la­tion to the ab­so­nite only in the sense that the Su­preme thus par­tially rep­re­sents the Trin­ity in re­la­tion to the fi­nite.

• actualizes Trinity Absolute

106:5.1The Ul­ti­mate is the apex of tran­scen­den­tal re­al­ity even as the Su­preme is the cap­stone of evo­lu­tion­ary-ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­ity. And the ac­tual emer­gence of these two ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties lays the foun­da­tion for the sec­ond ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity. This is the Trin­ity Ab­so­lute, the union of God the Su­preme, God the Ul­ti­mate, and the un­re­vealed Con­sum­ma­tor of Uni­verse Des­tiny. And this Trin­ity has the­o­ret­i­cal ca­pac­ity to ac­ti­vate the Ab­so­lutes of po­ten­tial­ity—De­ity, Uni­ver­sal, and Un­qual­i­fied. But the com­pleted for­ma­tion of this Trin­ity Ab­so­lute could take place only af­ter the com­pleted evo­lu­tion of the en­tire mas­ter uni­verse, from Ha­vona to the fourth and out­er­most space level.

• at inconceivably distant moment
• universe will be always young in face of limitless possibilities

106:7.8At the in­con­ceiv­ably dis­tant fu­ture eter­nity mo­ment of the fi­nal com­ple­tion of the en­tire mas­ter uni­verse, no doubt we will all look back upon its en­tire his­tory as only the be­gin­ning, sim­ply the cre­ation of cer­tain fi­nite and tran­scen­den­tal foun­da­tions for even greater and more en­thralling meta­mor­phoses in un­charted in­fin­ity. At such a fu­ture eter­nity mo­ment the mas­ter uni­verse will still seem youth­ful; in­deed, it will be al­ways young in the face of the lim­it­less pos­si­bil­i­ties of never-end­ing eter­nity.

10:0.3From the pres­ent sit­u­a­tion on the cir­cle of eter­nity, look­ing back­ward into the end­less past, we can dis­cover only one in­es­cap­able in­evitabil­ity in uni­verse af­fairs, and that is the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. I deem the Trin­ity to have been in­ev­i­ta­ble. As I view the past, pres­ent, and fu­ture of time, I con­sider noth­ing else in all the uni­verse of uni­verses to have been in­ev­i­ta­ble. The pres­ent mas­ter uni­verse, viewed in ret­ro­spect or in prospect, is un­think­able with­out the Trin­ity. Given the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, we can pos­tu­late al­ter­nate or even mul­ti­ple ways of do­ing all things, but with­out the Trin­ity of Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit we are un­able to con­ceive how the In­fi­nite could achieve three­fold and co-or­di­nate per­son­al­iza­tion in the face of the ab­so­lute one­ness of De­ity. No other con­cept of cre­ation mea­sures up to the Trin­ity stan­dards of the com­plete­ness of the ab­so­lute­ness in­her­ent in De­ity unity cou­pled with the re­plete­ness of vo­li­tional lib­er­a­tion in­her­ent in the three­fold per­son­al­iza­tion of De­ity.

11:6.4The cy­cles of space res­pi­ra­tion ex­tend in each phase for a lit­tle more than one bil­lion Uran­tia years. Dur­ing one phase the uni­verses ex­pand; dur­ing the next they con­tract. Per­vaded space is now ap­proach­ing the mid-point of the ex­pand­ing phase, while un­per­vaded space nears the mid-point of the con­tract­ing phase, and we are in­formed that the out­er­most lim­its of both space ex­ten­sions are, the­o­ret­i­cally, now ap­prox­i­mately equidis­tant from Par­a­dise. The un­per­vaded-space reser­voirs now ex­tend ver­ti­cally above up­per Par­a­dise and be­low nether Par­a­dise just as far as the per­vaded space of the uni­verse ex­tends hor­i­zon­tally out­ward from pe­riph­eral Par­a­dise to and even be­yond the fourth outer space level.

11:6.5For a bil­lion years of Uran­tia time the space reser­voirs con­tract while the mas­ter uni­verse and the force ac­tiv­i­ties of all hor­i­zon­tal space ex­pand. It thus re­quires a lit­tle over two bil­lion Uran­tia years to com­plete the en­tire ex­pan­sion-con­trac­tion cy­cle.

105:1.7The uni­verse of uni­verses, with its in­nu­mer­able host of in­hab­it­ing per­son­al­i­ties, is a vast and com­plex or­gan­ism, but the First Source and Cen­ter is in­finitely more com­plex than the uni­verses and per­son­al­i­ties which have be­come real in re­sponse to his will­ful man­dates. When you stand in awe of the mag­ni­tude of the mas­ter uni­verse, pause to con­sider that even this in­con­ceiv­able cre­ation can be no more than a par­tial rev­e­la­tion of the In­fi­nite.

12:6.8In­di­vid­u­als have their guard­i­ans of des­tiny; plan­ets, sys­tems, con­stel­la­tions, uni­verses, and super­uni­verses each have their re­spec­tive rulers who la­bor for the good of their do­mains. Ha­vona and even the grand uni­verse are watched over by those in­trusted with such high re­spon­si­bil­i­ties. But who fos­ters and cares for the fun­da­men­tal needs of the mas­ter uni­verse as a whole, from Par­a­dise to the fourth and out­er­most space level? Ex­is­ten­tially such over­care is prob­a­bly at­tributable to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, but from an ex­pe­ri­en­tial view­point the ap­pear­ance of the post-Ha­vona uni­verses is de­pen­dent on:

12:6.91. The Ab­so­lutes in po­ten­tial.

12:6.102. The Ul­ti­mate in di­rec­tion.

12:6.113. The Su­preme in evo­lu­tion­ary co-or­di­na­tion.

12:6.124. The Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse in ad­min­is­tra­tion prior to the ap­pear­ance of spe­cific rulers.

12:1.2The suc­ces­sive space lev­els of the mas­ter uni­verse con­sti­tute the ma­jor di­vi­sions of per­vaded space—to­tal cre­ation, or­ga­nized and par­tially in­hab­ited or yet to be or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited. If the mas­ter uni­verse were not a se­ries of el­lip­ti­cal space lev­els of less­ened re­sis­tance to mo­tion, al­ter­nat­ing with zones of rel­a­tive qui­es­cence, we con­ceive that some of the cos­mic en­er­gies would be ob­served to shoot off on an in­fi­nite range, off on a straight-line path into track­less space; but we never find force, en­ergy, or mat­ter thus be­hav­ing; ever they whirl, al­ways swing­ing on­ward in the tracks of the great space cir­cuits.

12:1.41. The Cen­tral Uni­verse—Ha­vona.

12:1.52. The Seven Super­uni­verses.

12:1.63. The First Outer Space Level.

12:1.74. The Sec­ond Outer Space Level.

12:1.85. The Third Outer Space Level.

12:1.96. The Fourth and Out­er­most Space Level.

12:1.10Ha­vona, the cen­tral uni­verse, is not a time cre­ation; it is an eter­nal ex­is­tence. This never-be­gin­ning, never-end­ing uni­verse con­sists of one bil­lion spheres of sub­lime per­fec­tion and is sur­rounded by the enor­mous dark grav­ity bod­ies. At the cen­ter of Ha­vona is the sta­tion­ary and ab­so­lutely sta­bi­lized Isle of Par­a­dise, sur­rounded by its twenty-one satel­lites. Ow­ing to the enor­mous en­cir­cling masses of the dark grav­ity bod­ies about the fringe of the cen­tral uni­verse, the mass con­tent of this cen­tral cre­ation is far in ex­cess of the to­tal known mass of all seven sec­tors of the grand uni­verse.

12:1.11The Par­a­dise-Ha­vona Sys­tem, the eter­nal uni­verse en­cir­cling the eter­nal Isle, con­sti­tutes the per­fect and eter­nal nu­cleus of the mas­ter uni­verse; all seven of the super­uni­verses and all re­gions of outer space re­volve in es­tab­lished or­bits around the gi­gan­tic cen­tral ag­gre­ga­tion of the Par­a­dise satel­lites and the Ha­vona spheres.

12:1.12The Seven Super­uni­verses are not pri­mary phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tions; nowhere do their bound­aries di­vide a neb­u­lar fam­ily, nei­ther do they cross a lo­cal uni­verse, a prime cre­ative unit. Each super­uni­verse is sim­ply a ge­o­graphic space clus­ter­ing of ap­prox­i­mately one sev­enth of the or­ga­nized and par­tially in­hab­ited post-Ha­vona cre­ation, and each is about equal in the num­ber of lo­cal uni­verses em­braced and in the space en­com­passed. Neb­a­don, your lo­cal uni­verse, is one of the newer cre­ations in Or­von­ton, the sev­enth super­uni­verse.

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.

12:1.14The Outer Space Lev­els. Far out in space, at an enor­mous dis­tance from the seven in­hab­ited super­uni­verses, there are as­sem­bling vast and un­be­liev­ably stu­pen­dous cir­cuits of force and ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing en­er­gies. Be­tween the en­ergy cir­cuits of the seven super­uni­verses and this gi­gan­tic outer belt of force ac­tiv­ity, there is a space zone of com­par­a­tive quiet, which varies in width but av­er­ages about four hun­dred thou­sand light-years. These space zones are free from star dust—cos­mic fog. Our stu­dents of these phe­nom­ena are in doubt as to the ex­act sta­tus of the space-forces ex­ist­ing in this zone of rel­a­tive quiet which en­cir­cles the seven super­uni­verses. But about one-half mil­lion light-years be­yond the pe­riph­ery of the pres­ent grand uni­verse we ob­serve the be­gin­nings of a zone of an un­be­liev­able en­ergy ac­tion which in­creases in vol­ume and in­ten­sity for over twenty-five mil­lion light-years. These tremen­dous wheels of en­er­giz­ing forces are sit­u­ated in the first outer space level, a con­tin­u­ous belt of cos­mic ac­tiv­ity en­cir­cling the whole of the known, or­ga­nized, and in­hab­ited cre­ation.

12:1.15Still greater ac­tiv­i­ties are tak­ing place be­yond these re­gions, for the Uversa physi­cists have de­tected early ev­i­dence of force man­i­fes­ta­tions more than fifty mil­lion light-years be­yond the out­er­most ranges of the phe­nom­ena in the first outer space level. These ac­tiv­i­ties un­doubt­edly presage the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the ma­te­rial cre­ations of the sec­ond outer space level of the mas­ter uni­verse.

31:8.2In the dis­cus­sion of Tran­scen­den­talers we are re­stricted, not only by the lim­i­ta­tions of hu­man com­pre­hen­sion, but also by the terms of the man­date gov­ern­ing these dis­clo­sures con­cern­ing the per­son­al­i­ties of Par­a­dise. These be­ings are in no way con­nected with the mor­tal as­cent to Ha­vona. The vast host of the Par­a­dise Tran­scen­den­talers have noth­ing what­ever to do with the af­fairs of ei­ther Ha­vona or the seven super­uni­verses, be­ing con­cerned only with the super­ad­min­is­tra­tion of the af­fairs of the mas­ter uni­verse.