Paradise

• nature of Paradise › exists at definite geographic location; geographic center of infinity, dwelling place of God

0:0.5Your world, Uran­tia, is one of many sim­i­lar in­hab­ited plan­ets which com­prise the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. This uni­verse, to­gether with sim­i­lar cre­ations, makes up the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton, from whose cap­i­tal, Uversa, our com­mis­sion hails. Or­von­ton is one of the seven evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses of time and space which cir­cle the never-be­gin­ning, never-end­ing cre­ation of di­vine per­fec­tion—the cen­tral uni­verse of Ha­vona. At the heart of this eter­nal and cen­tral uni­verse is the sta­tion­ary Isle of Par­a­dise, the ge­o­graphic cen­ter of in­fin­ity and the dwell­ing place of the eter­nal God.

• nature of Paradise › all things are present on P.; space and time are nonexistent

0:1.13The ab­so­lute level is be­gin­ning­less, end­less, time­less, and space­less. For ex­am­ple: On Par­a­dise, time and space are nonex­is­tent; the time-space sta­tus of Par­a­dise is ab­so­lute. This level is Trin­ity at­tained, ex­is­ten­tially, by the Par­a­dise De­i­ties, but this third level of uni­fy­ing De­ity ex­pres­sion is not fully uni­fied ex­pe­ri­en­tially. When­ever, wher­ever, and how­ever the ab­so­lute level of De­ity func­tions, Par­a­dise-ab­so­lute val­ues and mean­ings are man­i­fest.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › material gravity convergence

0:3.131. The grav­ity forces of the ma­te­rial uni­verses are con­ver­gent in the grav­ity cen­ter of nether Par­a­dise. That is just why the ge­o­graphic lo­ca­tion of his per­son is eter­nally fixed in ab­so­lute re­la­tion to the force-en­ergy cen­ter of the nether or ma­te­rial plane of Par­a­dise. But the ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity of De­ity ex­ists on the up­per or spir­i­tual plane of Par­a­dise.

• origin › differentiation from I AM

0:3.22In this orig­i­nal trans­ac­tion the the­o­ret­i­cal I AM achieved the re­al­iza­tion of per­son­al­ity by be­com­ing the Eter­nal Fa­ther of the Orig­i­nal Son si­mul­ta­ne­ously with be­com­ing the Eter­nal Source of the Isle of Par­a­dise. Co­ex­is­tent with the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of the Son from the Fa­ther, and in the pres­ence of Par­a­dise, there ap­peared the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit and the cen­tral uni­verse of Ha­vona. With the ap­pear­ance of co­ex­is­tent per­sonal De­ity, the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Fa­ther es­caped, as a per­son­al­ity, from oth­er­wise in­ev­i­ta­ble dif­fu­sion through­out the po­ten­tial of To­tal De­ity. Thence­forth it is only in Trin­ity as­so­ci­a­tion with his two De­ity equals that the Fa­ther fills all De­ity po­ten­tial, while in­creas­ingly ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity is be­ing ac­tu­al­ized on the di­vin­ity lev­els of Su­prem­acy, Ul­ti­macy, and Ab­so­lute­ness.

• nature of Paradise

0:4.11PAR­A­DISE is a term in­clu­sive of the per­sonal and the non­per­sonal fo­cal Ab­so­lutes of all phases of uni­verse re­al­ity. Par­a­dise, prop­erly qual­i­fied, may con­note any and all forms of re­al­ity, De­ity, di­vin­ity, per­son­al­ity, and en­ergy—spir­i­tual, mindal, or ma­te­rial. All share Par­a­dise as the place of ori­gin, func­tion, and des­tiny, as re­gards val­ues, mean­ings, and fac­tual ex­is­tence.

• nature of Paradise › all matter comes from P. and is drawn toward P.
• nature of Paradise › is not Deity or creator
• nature of Paradise › motionless nucleus between pervaded and unpervaded space
• nature of Paradise › not in space; space exists relative to
• nature of Paradise › source and focal point of absolute material gravity

0:4.12The Isle of Par­a­dise—Par­a­dise not oth­er­wise qual­i­fied—is the Ab­so­lute of the ma­te­rial-grav­ity con­trol of the First Source and Cen­ter. Par­a­dise is mo­tion­less, be­ing the only sta­tion­ary thing in the uni­verse of uni­verses. The Isle of Par­a­dise has a uni­verse lo­ca­tion but no po­si­tion in space. This eter­nal Isle is the ac­tual source of the phys­i­cal uni­verses—past, pres­ent, and fu­ture. The nu­clear Isle of Light is a De­ity deriva­tive, but it is hardly De­ity; nei­ther are the ma­te­rial cre­ations a part of De­ity; they are a con­se­quence.

• nature of Paradise › unique; P. is just P.

0:4.13Par­a­dise is not a cre­ator; it is a unique con­trol­ler of many uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties, far more of a con­trol­ler than a re­ac­tor. Through­out the ma­te­rial uni­verses Par­a­dise in­flu­ences the re­ac­tions and con­duct of all be­ings hav­ing to do with force, en­ergy, and power, but Par­a­dise it­self is unique, ex­clu­sive, and iso­lated in the uni­verses. Par­a­dise rep­re­sents noth­ing and noth­ing rep­re­sents Par­a­dise. It is nei­ther a force nor a pres­ence; it is just Par­a­dise.

• nature of Paradise › master pattern for all universes in organization and destiny

0:5.5The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is the se­cret of the re­al­ity of per­son­al­ity, the be­stowal of per­son­al­ity, and the des­tiny of per­son­al­ity. The Eter­nal Son is the ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity, the se­cret of spir­i­tual en­ergy, mor­ontia spir­its, and per­fected spir­its. The Con­joint Ac­tor is the spirit-mind per­son­al­ity, the source of in­tel­li­gence, rea­son, and the uni­ver­sal mind. But the Isle of Par­a­dise is non­per­sonal and ex­traspir­i­tual, be­ing the essence of the uni­ver­sal body, the source and cen­ter of phys­i­cal mat­ter, and the ab­so­lute mas­ter pat­tern of uni­ver­sal ma­te­rial re­al­ity.

• nature of Paradise › does not bestow pattern
• nature of Paradise › master pattern for all universes in organization and destiny

0:6.13Pat­tern is a mas­ter de­sign from which copies are made. Eter­nal Par­a­dise is the ab­so­lute of pat­terns; the Eter­nal Son is the pat­tern per­son­al­ity; the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is the di­rect an­ces­tor-source of both. But Par­a­dise does not be­stow pat­tern, and the Son can­not be­stow per­son­al­ity.

• origin › Father is eternity-source of

1:2.9In the­ory you may think of God as the Cre­ator, and he is the per­sonal cre­ator of Par­a­dise and the cen­tral uni­verse of per­fec­tion, but the uni­verses of time and space are all cre­ated and or­ga­nized by the Par­a­dise corps of the Cre­ator Sons. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is not the per­sonal cre­ator of the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don; the uni­verse in which you live is the cre­ation of his Son Mi­chael. Though the Fa­ther does not per­son­ally cre­ate the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses, he does con­trol them in many of their uni­ver­sal re­la­tion­ships and in cer­tain of their man­i­fes­ta­tions of phys­i­cal, mindal, and spir­i­tual en­er­gies. God the Fa­ther is the per­sonal cre­ator of the Par­a­dise uni­verse and, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Eter­nal Son, the cre­ator of all other per­sonal uni­verse Cre­ators.

• Father acts as controller through gravity of

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.

• nature of Paradise › responds to all physical changes of universes

1:5.16It is lit­er­ally true: “In all your af­flic­tions he is af­flicted.” “In all your tri­umphs he tri­umphs in and with you.” His preper­sonal di­vine spirit is a real part of you. The Isle of Par­a­dise re­sponds to all the phys­i­cal meta­mor­phoses of the uni­verse of uni­verses; the Eter­nal Son in­cludes all the spirit im­pulses of all cre­ation; the Con­joint Ac­tor en­com­passes all the mind ex­pres­sion of the ex­pand­ing cos­mos. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther re­al­izes in the full­ness of the di­vine con­scious­ness all the in­di­vid­ual ex­pe­ri­ence of the pro­gres­sive strug­gles of the ex­pand­ing minds and the as­cend­ing spir­its of ev­ery en­tity, be­ing, and per­son­al­ity of the whole evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ation of time and space. And all this is lit­er­ally true, for “in Him we all live and move and have our be­ing.”

• nature of Paradise › perfection undiluted on

2:2.4Out in the uni­verses, per­fec­tion must nec­es­sar­ily be a rel­a­tive term, but in the cen­tral uni­verse and es­pe­cially on Par­a­dise, per­fec­tion is undi­luted; in cer­tain phases it is even ab­so­lute. Trin­ity man­i­fes­ta­tions vary the ex­hi­bi­tion of the di­vine per­fec­tion but do not at­ten­u­ate it.

• nature of Paradise › physical universe coheres in

2:7.7The eter­nal quest is for uni­fi­ca­tion, for di­vine co­her­ence. The far-flung phys­i­cal uni­verse co­heres in the Isle of Par­a­dise; the in­tel­lec­tual uni­verse co­heres in the God of mind, the Con­joint Ac­tor; the spir­i­tual uni­verse is co­her­ent in the per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son. But the iso­lated mor­tal of time and space co­heres in God the Fa­ther through the di­rect re­la­tion­ship be­tween the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster and the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Man’s Ad­juster is a frag­ment of God and ev­er­last­ingly seeks for di­vine uni­fi­ca­tion; it co­heres with, and in, the Par­a­dise De­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter.

• life on Paradise › God discernibly present on

3:1.6The om­nipres­ence of God is in re­al­ity a part of his in­fi­nite na­ture; space con­sti­tutes no bar­rier to De­ity. God is, in per­fec­tion and with­out lim­i­ta­tion, dis­cernibly pres­ent only on Par­a­dise and in the cen­tral uni­verse. He is not thus ob­serv­ably pres­ent in the cre­ations en­cir­cling Ha­vona, for God has lim­ited his di­rect and ac­tual pres­ence in rec­og­ni­tion of the sov­er­eignty and the di­vine pre­rog­a­tives of the co-or­di­nate cre­ators and rulers of the uni­verses of time and space. Hence must the con­cept of the di­vine pres­ence al­low for a wide range of both mode and chan­nel of man­i­fes­ta­tion em­brac­ing the pres­ence cir­cuits of the Eter­nal Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit, and the Isle of Par­a­dise. Nor is it al­ways pos­si­ble to dis­tin­guish be­tween the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the ac­tions of his eter­nal co-or­di­nates and agen­cies, so per­fectly do they ful­fill all the in­fi­nite re­quire­ments of his un­chang­ing pur­pose. But not so with the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit and the Ad­justers; here God acts uniquely, di­rectly, and ex­clu­sively.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › material gravity convergence

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.

• nature of Paradise › control adequate for infinite universe

3:4.2The cre­ation of ev­ery new uni­verse calls for a new ad­just­ment of grav­ity; but even if cre­ation should con­tinue in­def­i­nitely, eter­nally, even to in­fin­ity, so that even­tu­ally the ma­te­rial cre­ation would ex­ist with­out lim­i­ta­tions, still the power of con­trol and co-or­di­na­tion repos­ing in the Isle of Par­a­dise would be found equal to, and ad­e­quate for, the mas­tery, con­trol, and co-or­di­na­tion of such an in­fi­nite uni­verse. And sub­se­quent to this be­stowal of lim­it­less force and power upon a bound­less uni­verse, the In­fi­nite would still be sur­charged with the same de­gree of force and en­ergy; the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute would still be undi­min­ished; God would still pos­sess the same in­fi­nite po­ten­tial, just as if force, en­ergy, and power had never been poured forth for the en­dow­ment of uni­verse upon uni­verse.

• Father has a place on P. for all whose survival status and spiritual nature make attainment possible

5:1.8The Fa­ther de­sires all his crea­tures to be in per­sonal com­mu­nion with him. He has on Par­a­dise a place to re­ceive all those whose sur­vival sta­tus and spir­i­tual na­ture make pos­si­ble such at­tain­ment. There­fore set­tle in your phi­los­o­phy now and for­ever: To each of you and to all of us, God is ap­proach­able, the Fa­ther is at­tain­able, the way is open; the forces of di­vine love and the ways and means of di­vine ad­min­is­tra­tion are all in­ter­locked in an ef­fort to fa­cil­i­tate the ad­vance­ment of ev­ery wor­thy in­tel­li­gence of ev­ery uni­verse to the Par­a­dise pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › material gravity convergence

5:6.11As all grav­ity is cir­cuited in the Isle of Par­a­dise, as all mind is cir­cuited in the Con­joint Ac­tor and all spirit in the Eter­nal Son, so is all per­son­al­ity cir­cuited in the per­sonal pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and this cir­cuit unerringly trans­mits the wor­ship of all per­son­al­i­ties to the Orig­i­nal and Eter­nal Per­son­al­ity.

• nature of Paradise › counterpoise to Eternal Son
• nature of Paradise › upholds all things material

7:0.3As the up­holder of spirit re­al­i­ties, the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter is the eter­nal coun­ter­poise of the Isle of Par­a­dise, which so mag­nif­i­cently up­holds all things ma­te­rial. Thus is the First Source and Cen­ter for­ever re­vealed in the ma­te­rial beauty of the ex­qui­site pat­terns of the cen­tral Isle and in the spir­i­tual val­ues of the su­per­nal per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son.

• nature of Paradise › control adequate for infinite universe
• nature of Paradise › universal stabilizer

9:0.2The Fa­ther is in­fi­nite in love and vo­li­tion, in spir­i­tual thought and pur­pose; he is the uni­ver­sal up­holder. The Son is in­fi­nite in wis­dom and truth, in spir­i­tual ex­pres­sion and in­ter­pre­ta­tion; he is the uni­ver­sal re­vealer. Par­a­dise is in­fi­nite in po­ten­tial for force en­dow­ment and in ca­pac­ity for en­ergy dom­i­nance; it is the uni­ver­sal sta­bi­lizer. The Con­joint Ac­tor pos­sesses unique pre­rog­a­tives of syn­the­sis, in­fi­nite ca­pac­ity to co-or­di­nate all ex­ist­ing uni­verse en­er­gies, all ac­tual uni­verse spir­its, and all real uni­verse in­tel­lects; the Third Source and Cen­ter is the uni­ver­sal uni­fier of the man­i­fold en­er­gies and di­verse cre­ations which have ap­peared in con­se­quence of the di­vine plan and the eter­nal pur­pose of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• origin › appeared simultaneously with Eternal Son

9:1.7And herein is an in­fi­nite mys­tery: That the In­fi­nite si­mul­ta­ne­ously re­vealed his in­fin­ity in the Son and as Par­a­dise, and then there springs into ex­is­tence a be­ing equal to God in di­vin­ity, re­flec­tive of the Son’s spir­i­tual na­ture, and ca­pa­ble of ac­ti­vat­ing the Par­a­dise pat­tern, a be­ing pro­vi­sion­ally sub­or­di­nate in sov­er­eignty but in many ways ap­par­ently the most ver­sa­tile in ac­tion. And such ap­par­ent su­pe­ri­or­ity in ac­tion is dis­closed in an at­tri­bute of the Third Source and Cen­ter which is su­pe­rior even to phys­i­cal grav­ity—the uni­ver­sal man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Isle of Par­a­dise.

• nature of Paradise › source and focal point of absolute material gravity

9:3.1The Isle of Par­a­dise is the source and sub­stance of phys­i­cal grav­ity; and that should be suf­fi­cient to in­form you that grav­ity is one of the most real and eter­nally de­pend­able things in the whole phys­i­cal uni­verse of uni­verses. Grav­ity can­not be mod­i­fied or an­nulled ex­cept by the forces and en­er­gies con­jointly spon­sored by the Fa­ther and the Son, which have been in­trusted to, and are func­tion­ally as­so­ci­ated with, the per­son of the Third Source and Cen­ter.

• nature of Paradise › is not a person

9:3.7All these ma­te­rial ac­tiv­i­ties of the God of Ac­tion ap­pear to re­late his func­tion to the Isle of Par­a­dise, and in­deed the agen­cies of power are all re­gard­ful of, even de­pen­dent on, the ab­so­lute­ness of the eter­nal Isle. But the Con­joint Ac­tor does not act for, or in re­sponse to, Par­a­dise. He acts, per­son­ally, for the Fa­ther and the Son. Par­a­dise is not a per­son. The non­per­sonal, im­per­sonal, and oth­er­wise not per­sonal do­ings of the Third Source and Cen­ter are all vo­li­tional acts of the Con­joint Ac­tor him­self; they are not re­flec­tions, deriva­tions, or reper­cus­sions of any­thing or any­body.

• nature of Paradise › Infinite Spirit activates pattern of
• nature of Paradise › master pattern for all universes in organization and destiny
• nature of Paradise › material fulcrum of infinity

9:3.8Par­a­dise is the pat­tern of in­fin­ity; the God of Ac­tion is the ac­ti­va­tor of that pat­tern. Par­a­dise is the ma­te­rial ful­crum of in­fin­ity; the agen­cies of the Third Source and Cen­ter are the levers of in­tel­li­gence which mo­ti­vate the ma­te­rial level and in­ject spon­tane­ity into the mech­a­nism of the phys­i­cal cre­ation.

• nature of Paradise › energy and spirit are one on

9:6.7The greater the spirit-en­ergy di­ver­gence, the greater the ob­serv­able func­tion of mind; the lesser the di­ver­sity of en­ergy and spirit, the lesser the ob­serv­able func­tion of mind. Ap­par­ently, the max­i­mum func­tion of the cos­mic mind is in the time uni­verses of space. Here mind seems to func­tion in a mid-zone be­tween en­ergy and spirit, but this is not true of the higher lev­els of mind; on Par­a­dise, en­ergy and spirit are es­sen­tially one.

• reflectivity focuses on

9:7.1The Con­joint Ac­tor is able to co-or­di­nate all lev­els of uni­verse ac­tu­al­ity in such man­ner as to make pos­si­ble the si­mul­ta­ne­ous rec­og­ni­tion of the men­tal, the ma­te­rial, and the spir­i­tual. This is the phe­nom­e­non of uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity, that unique and in­ex­pli­ca­ble power to see, hear, sense, and know all things as they tran­spire through­out a super­uni­verse, and to fo­cal­ize, by re­flec­tiv­ity, all this in­for­ma­tion and knowl­edge at any de­sired point. The ac­tion of re­flec­tiv­ity is shown in per­fec­tion on each of the head­quar­ters worlds of the seven super­uni­verses. It is also op­er­a­tive through­out all sec­tors of the super­uni­verses and within the bound­aries of the lo­cal uni­verses. Re­flec­tiv­ity fi­nally fo­cal­izes on Par­a­dise.

• Father acts as controller through gravity of

10:3.112. As con­trol­ler, through the grav­ity cen­ter of Par­a­dise.

• nature of Paradise › exists at definite geographic location; geographic center of infinity, dwelling place of God
• nature of Paradise › large enough to accommodate an almost infinite creation
• nature of Paradise › material sphere as well as spiritual abode

11:0.1Par­a­dise is the eter­nal cen­ter of the uni­verse of uni­verses and the abid­ing place of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit, and their di­vine co-or­di­nates and as­so­ciates. This cen­tral Isle is the most gi­gan­tic or­ga­nized body of cos­mic re­al­ity in all the mas­ter uni­verse. Par­a­dise is a ma­te­rial sphere as well as a spir­i­tual abode. All of the in­tel­li­gent cre­ation of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is domi­ciled on ma­te­rial abodes; hence must the ab­so­lute con­trol­ling cen­ter also be ma­te­rial, lit­eral. And again it should be re­it­er­ated that spirit things and spir­i­tual be­ings are real.

• origin › existed from eternity

11:0.2The ma­te­rial beauty of Par­a­dise con­sists in the mag­nif­i­cence of its phys­i­cal per­fec­tion; the grandeur of the Isle of God is ex­hib­ited in the su­perb in­tel­lec­tual ac­com­plish­ments and mind de­vel­op­ment of its in­hab­i­tants; the glory of the cen­tral Isle is shown forth in the in­fi­nite en­dow­ment of di­vine spirit per­son­al­ity—the light of life. But the depths of the spir­i­tual beauty and the won­ders of this mag­nif­i­cent en­sem­ble are ut­terly be­yond the com­pre­hen­sion of the fi­nite mind of ma­te­rial crea­tures. The glory and spir­i­tual splen­dor of the di­vine abode are im­pos­si­ble of mor­tal com­pre­hen­sion. And Par­a­dise is from eter­nity; there are nei­ther rec­ords nor tra­di­tions re­spect­ing the ori­gin of this nu­clear Isle of Light and Life.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › upper Paradise › Father resides at center of
• nature of Paradise › exists at definite geographic location; geographic center of infinity, dwelling place of God
• nature of Paradise › shape is ellipsoidal, 1/6 longer north-south than east-west; essentially flat, only 1/10 as deep as it is wide

11:1.1Par­a­dise serves many pur­poses in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­ver­sal realms, but to crea­ture be­ings it ex­ists pri­mar­ily as the dwell­ing place of De­ity. The per­sonal pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is res­i­dent at the very cen­ter of the up­per sur­face of this well-nigh cir­cu­lar, but not spher­i­cal, abode of the De­i­ties. This Par­a­dise pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is im­me­di­ately sur­rounded by the per­sonal pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son, while they are both in­vested by the un­speak­able glory of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

11:1.2God dwells, has dwelt, and ev­er­last­ingly will dwell in this same cen­tral and eter­nal abode. We have al­ways found him there and al­ways will. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is cos­mi­cally fo­cal­ized, spir­i­tu­ally per­son­al­ized, and ge­o­graph­i­cally res­i­dent at this cen­ter of the uni­verse of uni­verses.

• nature of Paradise › exists at definite geographic location; geographic center of infinity, dwelling place of God

11:1.3We all know the di­rect course to pur­sue to find the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. You are not able to com­pre­hend much about the di­vine res­i­dence be­cause of its re­mote­ness from you and the im­men­sity of the in­ter­ven­ing space, but those who are able to com­pre­hend the mean­ing of these enor­mous dis­tances know God’s lo­ca­tion and res­i­dence just as cer­tainly and lit­er­ally as you know the lo­ca­tion of New York, Lon­don, Rome, or Sin­ga­pore, cities def­i­nitely and ge­o­graph­i­cally lo­cated on Uran­tia. If you were an in­tel­li­gent nav­i­ga­tor, equipped with ship, maps, and com­pass, you could read­ily find these cities. Like­wise, if you had the time and means of pas­sage, were spir­i­tu­ally qual­i­fied, and had the nec­es­sary guid­ance, you could be pi­loted through uni­verse upon uni­verse and from cir­cuit to cir­cuit, ever jour­ney­ing in­ward through the starry realms, un­til at last you would stand be­fore the cen­tral shin­ing of the spir­i­tual glory of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Pro­vided with all the ne­ces­si­ties for the jour­ney, it is just as pos­si­ble to find the per­sonal pres­ence of God at the cen­ter of all things as to find dis­tant cities on your own planet. That you have not vis­ited these places in no way dis­proves their re­al­ity or ac­tual ex­is­tence. That so few of the uni­verse crea­tures have found God on Par­a­dise in no way dis­proves ei­ther the re­al­ity of his ex­is­tence or the ac­tu­al­ity of his spir­i­tual per­son at the cen­ter of all things.

11:1.4The Fa­ther is al­ways to be found at this cen­tral lo­ca­tion. Did he move, uni­ver­sal pan­de­mo­nium would be pre­cip­i­tated, for there con­verge in him at this res­i­den­tial cen­ter the uni­ver­sal lines of grav­ity from the ends of cre­ation. Whether we trace the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit back through the uni­verses or fol­low the as­cend­ing per­son­al­i­ties as they jour­ney in­ward to the Fa­ther; whether we trace the lines of ma­te­rial grav­ity to nether Par­a­dise or fol­low the in­surg­ing cy­cles of cos­mic force; whether we trace the lines of spir­i­tual grav­ity to the Eter­nal Son or fol­low the in­ward pro­ces­sional of the Par­a­dise Sons of God; whether we trace out the mind cir­cuits or fol­low the tril­lions upon tril­lions of ce­les­tial be­ings who spring from the In­fi­nite Spirit—by any of these ob­ser­va­tions or by all of them we are led di­rectly back to the Fa­ther’s pres­ence, to his cen­tral abode. Here is God per­son­ally, lit­er­ally, and ac­tu­ally pres­ent. And from his in­fi­nite be­ing there flow the flood-streams of life, en­ergy, and per­son­al­ity to all uni­verses.

• nature of Paradise › shape is ellipsoidal, 1/6 longer north-south than east-west; essentially flat, only 1/10 as deep as it is wide

11:2.2In form Par­a­dise dif­fers from the in­hab­ited space bod­ies: it is not spher­i­cal. It is def­i­nitely el­lip­soid, be­ing one-sixth longer in the north-south di­am­e­ter than in the east-west di­am­e­ter. The cen­tral Isle is es­sen­tially flat, and the dis­tance from the up­per sur­face to the nether sur­face is one tenth that of the east-west di­am­e­ter.

• nature of Paradise › universe direction established by north-south axis

11:2.3These dif­fer­ences in di­men­sions, taken in con­nec­tion with its sta­tion­ary sta­tus and the greater out-pres­sure of force-en­ergy at the north end of the Isle, make it pos­si­ble to es­tab­lish ab­so­lute di­rec­tion in the mas­ter uni­verse.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › dominated by focalized presence of Unqualified Absolute
• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › personalities not present on

11:2.8We speak of that sur­face of Par­a­dise which is oc­cu­pied with per­son­al­ity ac­tiv­i­ties as the up­per side, and the op­po­site sur­face as the nether side. The pe­riph­ery of Par­a­dise pro­vides for ac­tiv­i­ties that are not strictly per­sonal or non­per­sonal. The Trin­ity seems to dom­i­nate the per­sonal or up­per plane, the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute the nether or im­per­sonal plane. We hardly con­ceive of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute as a per­son, but we do think of the func­tional space pres­ence of this Ab­so­lute as fo­cal­ized on nether Par­a­dise.

• nature of Paradise › absolutum is literal substance of

11:2.9The eter­nal Isle is com­posed of a sin­gle form of ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion—sta­tion­ary sys­tems of re­al­ity. This lit­eral sub­stance of Par­a­dise is a ho­mo­ge­neous or­ga­ni­za­tion of space po­tency not to be found else­where in all the wide uni­verse of uni­verses. It has re­ceived many names in dif­fer­ent uni­verses, and the Mel­chiz­e­deks of Neb­a­don long since named it ab­so­lu­tum. This Par­a­dise source ma­te­rial is nei­ther dead nor alive; it is the orig­i­nal non­spir­i­tual ex­pres­sion of the First Source and Cen­ter; it is Par­a­dise, and Par­a­dise is with­out du­pli­cate.

• Father has concentrated all potential for cosmic reality in
• nature of Paradise › all matter comes from P. and is drawn toward P.
• nature of Paradise › all things are present on P.; space and time are nonexistent
• nature of Paradise › not in space; space exists relative to

11:2.10It ap­pears to us that the First Source and Cen­ter has con­cen­trated all ab­so­lute po­ten­tial for cos­mic re­al­ity in Par­a­dise as a part of his tech­nique of self-lib­er­a­tion from in­fin­ity lim­i­ta­tions, as a means of mak­ing pos­si­ble subin­fi­nite, even time-space, cre­ation. But it does not fol­low that Par­a­dise is time-space lim­ited just be­cause the uni­verse of uni­verses dis­closes these qual­i­ties. Par­a­dise ex­ists with­out time and has no lo­ca­tion in space.

• nature of Paradise › motion not inherent on

11:2.11Roughly: space seem­ingly orig­i­nates just be­low nether Par­a­dise; time just above up­per Par­a­dise. Time, as you un­der­stand it, is not a fea­ture of Par­a­dise ex­is­tence, though the cit­i­zens of the cen­tral Isle are fully con­scious of non­time se­quence of events. Mo­tion is not in­her­ent on Par­a­dise; it is vo­li­tional. But the con­cept of dis­tance, even ab­so­lute dis­tance, has very much mean­ing as it may be ap­plied to rel­a­tive lo­ca­tions on Par­a­dise. Par­a­dise is non­spa­tial; hence its ar­eas are ab­so­lute and there­fore ser­vice­able in many ways be­yond the con­cept of mor­tal mind.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › upper Paradise › areas › 1. Deity presence
• geographical divisions of Paradise › upper Paradise › areas › 2. Most Holy Sphere

11:3.1On up­per Par­a­dise there are three grand spheres of ac­tiv­ity, the De­ity pres­ence, the Most Holy Sphere, and the Holy Area. The vast re­gion im­me­di­ately sur­round­ing the pres­ence of the De­i­ties is set aside as the Most Holy Sphere and is re­served for the func­tions of wor­ship, trin­i­ti­za­tion, and high spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. There are no ma­te­rial struc­tures nor purely in­tel­lec­tual cre­ations in this zone; they could not ex­ist there. It is use­less for me to un­der­take to por­tray to the hu­man mind the di­vine na­ture and the beau­teous grandeur of the Most Holy Sphere of Par­a­dise. This realm is wholly spir­i­tual, and you are al­most wholly ma­te­rial. A purely spir­i­tual re­al­ity is, to a purely ma­te­rial be­ing, ap­par­ently nonex­is­tent.

11:3.2While there are no phys­i­cal ma­te­ri­al­iza­tions in the area of the Most Holy, there are abun­dant sou­venirs of your ma­te­rial days in the Holy Land sec­tors and still more in the rem­i­nis­cent his­toric ar­eas of pe­riph­eral Par­a­dise.

• Father’s house
• geographical divisions of Paradise › upper Paradise › areas › 3. Holy Area
• nature of Paradise › large enough to accommodate an almost infinite creation

11:3.3The Holy Area, the out­ly­ing or res­i­den­tial re­gion, is di­vided into seven con­cen­tric zones. Par­a­dise is some­times called “the Fa­ther’s House” since it is his eter­nal res­i­dence, and these seven zones are of­ten des­ig­nated “the Fa­ther’s Par­a­dise man­sions.” The in­ner or first zone is oc­cu­pied by Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens and the na­tives of Ha­vona who may chance to be dwell­ing on Par­a­dise. The next or sec­ond zone is the res­i­den­tial area of the na­tives of the seven super­uni­verses of time and space. This sec­ond zone is in part sub­di­vided into seven im­mense di­vi­sions, the Par­a­dise home of the spirit be­ings and as­cen­dant crea­tures who hail from the uni­verses of evo­lu­tion­ary pro­gres­sion. Each of these sec­tors is ex­clu­sively ded­i­cated to the wel­fare and ad­vance­ment of the per­son­al­i­ties of a sin­gle super­uni­verse, but these fa­cil­i­ties are al­most in­finitely be­yond the re­quire­ments of the pres­ent seven super­uni­verses.

• life on Paradise › organization of working groups

11:3.4Each of the seven sec­tors of Par­a­dise is sub­di­vided into res­i­den­tial units suit­able for the lodg­ment head­quar­ters of one bil­lion glo­ri­fied in­di­vid­ual work­ing groups. One thou­sand of these units con­sti­tute a di­vi­sion. One hun­dred thou­sand di­vi­sions equal one con­gre­ga­tion. Ten mil­lion con­gre­ga­tions con­sti­tute an as­sem­bly. One bil­lion as­sem­blies make one grand unit. And this as­cend­ing se­ries con­tin­ues through the sec­ond grand unit, the third, and so on to the sev­enth grand unit. And seven of the grand units make up the mas­ter units, and seven of the mas­ter units con­sti­tute a su­pe­rior unit; and thus by sev­ens the as­cend­ing se­ries ex­pands through the su­pe­rior, super­su­pe­rior, ce­les­tial, super­ce­les­tial, to the su­preme units. But even this does not uti­lize all the space avail­able. This stag­ger­ing num­ber of res­i­den­tial des­ig­na­tions on Par­a­dise, a num­ber be­yond your con­cept, oc­cu­pies con­sid­er­ably less than one per cent of the as­signed area of the Holy Land. There is still plenty of room for those who are on their way in­ward, even for those who shall not start the Par­a­dise climb un­til the times of the eter­nal fu­ture.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › peripheral Paradise › non-pervaded space nearly impinges upon
• geographical divisions of Paradise › peripheral Paradise › personality transports utilize

11:4.1The cen­tral Isle ends abruptly at the pe­riph­ery, but its size is so enor­mous that this ter­mi­nal an­gle is rel­a­tively in­dis­cernible within any cir­cum­scribed area. The pe­riph­eral sur­face of Par­a­dise is oc­cu­pied, in part, by the land­ing and dis­patch­ing fields for var­i­ous groups of spirit per­son­al­i­ties. Since the non­per­vaded-space zones nearly im­pinge upon the pe­riph­ery, all per­son­al­ity trans­ports des­tined to Par­a­dise land in these re­gions. Nei­ther up­per nor nether Par­a­dise is ap­proach­able by trans­port super­na­phim or other types of space tra­versers.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › peripheral Paradise › Master Spirits’ power focuses slowly circulate around
• geographical divisions of Paradise › peripheral Paradise › Seven Supreme Power Directors stationed on

11:4.2The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its have their per­sonal seats of power and au­thor­ity on the seven spheres of the Spirit, which cir­cle about Par­a­dise in the space be­tween the shin­ing orbs of the Son and the in­ner cir­cuit of the Ha­vona worlds, but they main­tain force-fo­cal head­quar­ters on the Par­a­dise pe­riph­ery. Here the slowly cir­cu­lat­ing pres­ences of the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors in­di­cate the lo­ca­tion of the seven flash sta­tions for cer­tain Par­a­dise en­er­gies go­ing forth to the seven super­uni­verses.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › peripheral Paradise › historic and prophetic exhibit areas for each local universe

11:4.3Here on pe­riph­eral Par­a­dise are the enor­mous his­toric and pro­phetic ex­hibit ar­eas as­signed to the Cre­ator Sons, ded­i­cated to the lo­cal uni­verses of time and space. There are just seven tril­lion of these his­toric reser­va­tions now set up or in re­serve, but these ar­range­ments all to­gether oc­cupy only about four per cent of that por­tion of the pe­riph­eral area thus as­signed. We in­fer that these vast re­serves be­long to cre­ations some­time to be sit­u­ated be­yond the bor­ders of the pres­ent known and in­hab­ited seven super­uni­verses.

• nature of Paradise › large enough to accommodate an almost infinite creation

11:4.4That por­tion of Par­a­dise which has been des­ig­nated for the use of the ex­ist­ing uni­verses is oc­cu­pied only from one to four per cent, while the area as­signed to these ac­tiv­i­ties is at least one mil­lion times that ac­tu­ally re­quired for such pur­poses. Par­a­dise is large enough to ac­com­mo­date the ac­tiv­i­ties of an al­most in­fi­nite cre­ation.

11:4.5But a fur­ther at­tempt to vi­su­al­ize to you the glo­ries of Par­a­dise would be fu­tile. You must wait, and as­cend while you wait, for truly, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nei­ther has it en­tered into the mind of mor­tal man, the things which the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has pre­pared for those who sur­vive the life in the flesh on the worlds of time and space.”

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › Deity Absolute does not function on nether P.
• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › personalities not present on
• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › physical-energy, cosmic-force circuits originate on

11:5.1Con­cern­ing nether Par­a­dise, we know only that which is re­vealed; per­son­al­i­ties do not so­journ there. It has noth­ing what­ever to do with the af­fairs of spirit in­tel­li­gences, nor does the De­ity Ab­so­lute there func­tion. We are in­formed that all phys­i­cal-en­ergy and cos­mic-force cir­cuits have their ori­gin on nether Par­a­dise, and that it is con­sti­tuted as fol­lows:

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › concentric elliptical zones of absolute force presence
• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › concentric elliptical zones of absolute force presence › 1. Zone of Infinity

11:5.21. Di­rectly un­der­neath the lo­ca­tion of the Trin­ity, in the cen­tral por­tion of nether Par­a­dise, is the un­known and un­re­vealed Zone of In­fin­ity.

11:5.32. This Zone is im­me­di­ately sur­rounded by an un­named area.

11:5.43. Oc­cu­py­ing the outer mar­gins of the un­der sur­face is a re­gion hav­ing mainly to do with space po­tency and force-en­ergy. The ac­tiv­i­ties of this vast el­lip­ti­cal force cen­ter are not iden­ti­fi­able with the known func­tions of any tri­unity, but the pri­mor­dial force-charge of space ap­pears to be fo­cal­ized in this area. This cen­ter con­sists of three con­cen­tric el­lip­ti­cal zones: The in­ner­most is the fo­cal point of the force-en­ergy ac­tiv­i­ties of Par­a­dise it­self; the out­er­most may pos­si­bly be iden­ti­fied with the func­tions of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, but we are not cer­tain con­cern­ing the space func­tions of the mid-zone.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › absoluta flows into and out of
• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › acts as a gigantic heart directing currents to all space
• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › all emanations of nether P. respond to P. gravity
• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › concentric elliptical zones of absolute force presence › 2. inner zone; directs and modifies force-energies

11:5.5The in­ner zone of this force cen­ter seems to act as a gi­gan­tic heart whose pul­sa­tions di­rect cur­rents to the out­er­most bor­ders of phys­i­cal space. It di­rects and mod­i­fies force-en­er­gies but hardly drives them. The re­al­ity pres­sure-pres­ence of this pri­mal force is def­i­nitely greater at the north end of the Par­a­dise cen­ter than in the south­ern re­gions; this is a uni­formly reg­is­tered dif­fer­ence. The mother force of space seems to flow in at the south and out at the north through the op­er­a­tion of some un­known cir­cu­la­tory sys­tem which is con­cerned with the dif­fu­sion of this ba­sic form of force-en­ergy. From time to time there are also noted dif­fer­ences in the east-west pres­sures. The forces em­a­nat­ing from this zone are not re­spon­sive to ob­serv­able phys­i­cal grav­ity but are al­ways obe­di­ent to Par­a­dise grav­ity.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › concentric elliptical zones of absolute force presence › 3. mid-zone; unidentified function

11:5.6The mid-zone of the force cen­ter im­me­di­ately sur­rounds this area. This mid-zone ap­pears to be static ex­cept that it ex­pands and con­tracts through three cy­cles of ac­tiv­ity. The least of these pul­sa­tions is in an east-west di­rec­tion, the next in a north-south di­rec­tion, while the great­est fluc­tu­a­tion is in ev­ery di­rec­tion, a gen­er­al­ized ex­pan­sion and con­trac­tion. The func­tion of this mid-area has never been re­ally iden­ti­fied, but it must have some­thing to do with re­cip­ro­cal ad­just­ment be­tween the in­ner and the outer zones of the force cen­ter. It is be­lieved by many that the mid-zone is the con­trol mech­a­nism of the midspace or quiet zones which sep­a­rate the suc­ces­sive space lev­els of the mas­ter uni­verse, but no ev­i­dence or rev­e­la­tion con­firms this. This in­fer­ence is de­rived from the knowl­edge that this mid-area is in some man­ner re­lated to the func­tion­ing of the non­per­vaded-space mech­a­nism of the mas­ter uni­verse.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › acts as a gigantic heart directing currents to all space
• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › concentric elliptical zones of absolute force presence › 4. outer zone; focus of Unqualified Absolute
• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › dominated by focalized presence of Unqualified Absolute

11:5.7The outer zone is the largest and most ac­tive of the three con­cen­tric and el­lip­ti­cal belts of uniden­ti­fied space po­ten­tial. This area is the site of unimag­ined ac­tiv­i­ties, the cen­tral cir­cuit point of em­a­na­tions which pro­ceed space­ward in ev­ery di­rec­tion to the out­er­most bor­ders of the seven super­uni­verses and on be­yond to over­spread the enor­mous and in­com­pre­hen­si­ble do­mains of all outer space. This space pres­ence is en­tirely im­per­sonal not­with­stand­ing that in some undis­closed man­ner it seems to be in­di­rectly re­spon­sive to the will and man­dates of the in­fi­nite De­i­ties when act­ing as the Trin­ity. This is be­lieved to be the cen­tral fo­cal­iza­tion, the Par­a­dise cen­ter, of the space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › 2 billion year space-force cycles

11:5.8All forms of force and all phases of en­ergy seem to be en­cir­cuited; they cir­cu­late through­out the uni­verses and re­turn by def­i­nite routes. But with the em­a­na­tions of the ac­ti­vated zone of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute there ap­pears to be ei­ther an out­go­ing or an in­com­ing—never both si­mul­ta­ne­ously. This outer zone pul­sates in age­long cy­cles of gi­gan­tic pro­por­tions. For a lit­tle more than one bil­lion Uran­tia years the space-force of this cen­ter is out­go­ing; then for a sim­i­lar length of time it will be in­com­ing. And the space-force man­i­fes­ta­tions of this cen­ter are uni­ver­sal; they ex­tend through­out all per­vad­able space.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › not all energies come from

11:5.9All phys­i­cal force, en­ergy, and mat­ter are one. All force-en­ergy orig­i­nally pro­ceeded from nether Par­a­dise and will even­tu­ally re­turn thereto fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of its space cir­cuit. But the en­er­gies and ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tions of the uni­verse of uni­verses did not all come from nether Par­a­dise in their pres­ent phe­nom­e­nal states; space is the womb of sev­eral forms of mat­ter and pre­mat­ter. Though the outer zone of the Par­a­dise force cen­ter is the source of space-en­er­gies, space does not orig­i­nate there. Space is not force, en­ergy, or power. Nor do the pul­sa­tions of this zone ac­count for the res­pi­ra­tion of space, but the in­com­ing and out­go­ing phases of this zone are syn­chro­nized with the two-bil­lion-year ex­pan­sion-con­trac­tion cy­cles of space.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › 2 billion year space-force cycles

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.

• nature of Paradise › midspace zones impinge on P.; space does not

11:7.1Space does not ex­ist on any of the sur­faces of Par­a­dise. If one “looked” di­rectly up from the up­per sur­face of Par­a­dise, one would “see” noth­ing but un­per­vaded space go­ing out or com­ing in, just now com­ing in. Space does not touch Par­a­dise; only the qui­es­cent midspace zones come in con­tact with the cen­tral Isle.

• nature of Paradise › motionless nucleus between pervaded and unpervaded space

11:7.2Par­a­dise is the ac­tu­ally mo­tion­less nu­cleus of the rel­a­tively qui­es­cent zones ex­ist­ing be­tween per­vaded and un­per­vaded space. Ge­o­graph­i­cally these zones ap­pear to be a rel­a­tive ex­ten­sion of Par­a­dise, but there prob­a­bly is some mo­tion in them. We know very lit­tle about them, but we ob­serve that these zones of less­ened space mo­tion sep­a­rate per­vaded and un­per­vaded space. Sim­i­lar zones once ex­isted be­tween the lev­els of per­vaded space, but these are now less qui­es­cent.

11:7.3The ver­ti­cal cross sec­tion of to­tal space would slightly re­sem­ble a Mal­tese cross, with the hor­i­zon­tal arms rep­re­sent­ing per­vaded (uni­verse) space and the ver­ti­cal arms rep­re­sent­ing un­per­vaded (reser­voir) space. The ar­eas be­tween the four arms would sep­a­rate them some­what as the midspace zones sep­a­rate per­vaded and un­per­vaded space. These qui­es­cent midspace zones grow larger and larger at greater and greater dis­tances from Par­a­dise and even­tu­ally en­com­pass the bor­ders of all space and com­pletely in­cap­su­late both the space reser­voirs and the en­tire hor­i­zon­tal ex­ten­sion of per­vaded space.

• space is bestowal of

11:7.4Space is nei­ther a sub­ab­so­lute con­di­tion within, nor the pres­ence of, the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, nei­ther is it a func­tion of the Ul­ti­mate. It is a be­stowal of Par­a­dise, and the space of the grand uni­verse and that of all outer re­gions is be­lieved to be ac­tu­ally per­vaded by the an­ces­tral space po­tency of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. From near ap­proach to pe­riph­eral Par­a­dise, this per­vaded space ex­tends hor­i­zon­tally out­ward through the fourth space level and be­yond the pe­riph­ery of the mas­ter uni­verse, but how far be­yond we do not know.

11:7.5If you imag­ine a fi­nite, but in­con­ceiv­ably large, V-shaped plane sit­u­ated at right an­gles to both the up­per and lower sur­faces of Par­a­dise, with its point nearly tan­gent to pe­riph­eral Par­a­dise, and then vi­su­al­ize this plane in el­lip­ti­cal rev­o­lu­tion about Par­a­dise, its rev­o­lu­tion would roughly out­line the vol­ume of per­vaded space.

11:7.6There is an up­per and a lower limit to hor­i­zon­tal space with ref­er­ence to any given lo­ca­tion in the uni­verses. If one could move far enough at right an­gles to the plane of Or­von­ton, ei­ther up or down, even­tu­ally the up­per or lower limit of per­vaded space would be en­coun­tered. Within the known di­men­sions of the mas­ter uni­verse these lim­its draw far­ther and far­ther apart at greater and greater dis­tances from Par­a­dise; space thick­ens, and it thick­ens some­what faster than does the plane of cre­ation, the uni­verses.

11:7.7The rel­a­tively quiet zones be­tween the space lev­els, such as the one sep­a­rat­ing the seven super­uni­verses from the first outer space level, are enor­mous el­lip­ti­cal re­gions of qui­es­cent space ac­tiv­i­ties. These zones sep­a­rate the vast galax­ies which race around Par­a­dise in or­derly pro­ces­sion. You may vi­su­al­ize the first outer space level, where un­told uni­verses are now in pro­cess of for­ma­tion, as a vast pro­ces­sion of galax­ies swing­ing around Par­a­dise, bounded above and be­low by the midspace zones of qui­es­cence and bounded on the in­ner and outer mar­gins by rel­a­tively quiet space zones.

11:7.8A space level thus func­tions as an el­lip­ti­cal re­gion of mo­tion sur­rounded on all sides by rel­a­tive mo­tion­less­ness. Such re­la­tion­ships of mo­tion and qui­es­cence con­sti­tute a curved space path of less­ened re­sis­tance to mo­tion which is uni­ver­sally fol­lowed by cos­mic force and emer­gent en­ergy as they cir­cle for­ever around the Isle of Par­a­dise.

11:7.9This al­ter­nate zon­ing of the mas­ter uni­verse, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the al­ter­nate clock­wise and coun­ter­clock­wise flow of the galax­ies, is a fac­tor in the sta­bi­liza­tion of phys­i­cal grav­ity de­signed to pre­vent the ac­cen­tu­a­tion of grav­ity pres­sure to the point of dis­rup­tive and dis­per­sive ac­tiv­i­ties. Such an ar­range­ment ex­erts anti­grav­ity in­flu­ence and acts as a brake upon oth­er­wise dan­ger­ous ve­loc­i­ties.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › all emanations of nether P. respond to P. gravity
• nature of Paradise › source and focal point of absolute material gravity

11:8.2The cen­ter and fo­cal point of ab­so­lute ma­te­rial grav­ity is the Isle of Par­a­dise, com­ple­mented by the dark grav­ity bod­ies en­cir­cling Ha­vona and equi­li­brated by the up­per and nether space reser­voirs. All known em­a­na­tions of nether Par­a­dise in­vari­ably and unerringly re­spond to the cen­tral grav­ity pull op­er­at­ing upon the end­less cir­cuits of the el­lip­ti­cal space lev­els of the mas­ter uni­verse. Ev­ery known form of cos­mic re­al­ity has the bend of the ages, the trend of the cir­cle, the swing of the great el­lipse.

• nature of Paradise › absoluta is primal endowment of

11:8.8Space po­tency is not sub­ject to the in­ter­ac­tions of any form of grav­i­ta­tion. This pri­mal en­dow­ment of Par­a­dise is not an ac­tual level of re­al­ity, but it is an­ces­tral to all rel­a­tive func­tional non­spirit re­al­i­ties—all man­i­fes­ta­tions of force-en­ergy and the or­ga­ni­za­tion of power and mat­ter. Space po­tency is a term dif­fi­cult to de­fine. It does not mean that which is an­ces­tral to space; its mean­ing should con­vey the idea of the po­ten­cies and po­ten­tials ex­is­tent within space. It may be roughly con­ceived to in­clude all those ab­so­lute in­flu­ences and po­ten­tials which em­anate from Par­a­dise and con­sti­tute the space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

• nature of Paradise › all matter comes from P. and is drawn toward P.
• nature of Paradise › energy proceeds from, returns to, and is fashioned after, P.
• Unqualified Absolute is regulator and repository of all that originates in

11:8.9Par­a­dise is the ab­so­lute source and the eter­nal fo­cal point of all en­ergy-mat­ter in the uni­verse of uni­verses. The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute is the re­vealer, reg­u­la­tor, and re­pos­i­tory of that which has Par­a­dise as its source and ori­gin. The uni­ver­sal pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute seems to be equiv­a­lent to the con­cept of a po­ten­tial in­fin­ity of grav­ity ex­ten­sion, an elas­tic ten­sion of Par­a­dise pres­ence. This con­cept aids us in grasp­ing the fact that ev­ery­thing is drawn in­ward to­wards Par­a­dise. The il­lus­tra­tion is crude but nonethe­less help­ful. It also ex­plains why grav­ity al­ways acts pref­er­en­tially in the plane per­pen­dic­u­lar to the mass, a phe­nom­e­non in­dica­tive of the dif­fer­en­tial di­men­sions of Par­a­dise and the sur­round­ing cre­ations.

• goal for all supermaterial personalities
• nature of Paradise › unique; P. is just P.

11:9.1Par­a­dise is unique in that it is the realm of pri­mal ori­gin and the fi­nal goal of des­tiny for all spirit per­son­al­i­ties. Al­though it is true that not all of the lower spirit be­ings of the lo­cal uni­verses are im­me­di­ately des­tined to Par­a­dise, Par­a­dise still re­mains the goal of de­sire for all super­ma­te­rial per­son­al­i­ties.

• nature of Paradise › exists at definite geographic location; geographic center of infinity, dwelling place of God

11:9.2Par­a­dise is the ge­o­graphic cen­ter of in­fin­ity; it is not a part of uni­ver­sal cre­ation, not even a real part of the eter­nal Ha­vona uni­verse. We com­monly re­fer to the cen­tral Isle as be­long­ing to the di­vine uni­verse, but it re­ally does not. Par­a­dise is an eter­nal and ex­clu­sive ex­is­tence.

• origin › appeared simultaneously with Eternal Son
• reveals infinity potential of Father’s nonpersonal self

11:9.3In the eter­nity of the past, when the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther gave in­fi­nite per­son­al­ity ex­pres­sion of his spirit self in the be­ing of the Eter­nal Son, si­mul­ta­ne­ously he re­vealed the in­fin­ity po­ten­tial of his non­per­sonal self as Par­a­dise. Non­per­sonal and non­spir­i­tual Par­a­dise ap­pears to have been the in­ev­i­ta­ble reper­cus­sion to the Fa­ther’s will and act which eter­nal­ized the Orig­i­nal Son. Thus did the Fa­ther project re­al­ity in two ac­tual phases—the per­sonal and the non­per­sonal, the spir­i­tual and the non­spir­i­tual. The ten­sion be­tween them, in the face of will to ac­tion by the Fa­ther and the Son, gave ex­is­tence to the Con­joint Ac­tor and the cen­tral uni­verse of ma­te­rial worlds and spir­i­tual be­ings.

• nature of Paradise › is not conscious
• nature of Paradise › is not Deity or creator

11:9.4When re­al­ity is dif­fer­en­ti­ated into the per­sonal and the non­per­sonal (Eter­nal Son and Par­a­dise), it is hardly proper to call that which is non­per­sonal “De­ity” un­less some­how qual­i­fied. The en­ergy and ma­te­rial reper­cus­sions of the acts of De­ity could hardly be called De­ity. De­ity may cause much that is not De­ity, and Par­a­dise is not De­ity; nei­ther is it con­scious as mor­tal man could ever pos­si­bly un­der­stand such a term.

• nature of Paradise › master pattern for all universes in organization and destiny

11:9.5Par­a­dise is not an­ces­tral to any be­ing or liv­ing en­tity; it is not a cre­ator. Per­son­al­ity and mind-spirit re­la­tion­ships are trans­mis­si­ble, but pat­tern is not. Pat­terns are never re­flec­tions; they are du­pli­ca­tions—re­pro­duc­tions. Par­a­dise is the ab­so­lute of pat­terns; Ha­vona is an ex­hibit of these po­ten­tials in ac­tu­al­ity.

11:9.6God’s res­i­dence is cen­tral and eter­nal, glo­ri­ous and ideal. His home is the beau­teous pat­tern for all uni­verse head­quar­ters worlds; and the cen­tral uni­verse of his im­me­di­ate in­dwelling is the pat­tern for all uni­verses in their ide­als, or­ga­ni­za­tion, and ul­ti­mate des­tiny.

• nature of Paradise › all matter comes from P. and is drawn toward P.
• nature of Paradise › exists at definite geographic location; geographic center of infinity, dwelling place of God

11:9.7Par­a­dise is the uni­ver­sal head­quar­ters of all per­son­al­ity ac­tiv­i­ties and the source-cen­ter of all force-space and en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions. Ev­ery­thing which has been, now is, or is yet to be, has come, now comes, or will come forth from this cen­tral abid­ing place of the eter­nal Gods. Par­a­dise is the cen­ter of all cre­ation, the source of all en­er­gies, and the place of pri­mal ori­gin of all per­son­al­i­ties.

• goal for all supermaterial personalities
• nature of Paradise › all matter comes from P. and is drawn toward P.

11:9.8Af­ter all, to mor­tals the most im­por­tant thing about eter­nal Par­a­dise is the fact that this per­fect abode of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is the real and far-dis­tant des­tiny of the im­mor­tal souls of the mor­tal and ma­te­rial sons of God, the as­cend­ing crea­tures of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space. Ev­ery God-know­ing mor­tal who has es­poused the ca­reer of do­ing the Fa­ther’s will has al­ready em­barked upon the long, long Par­a­dise trail of di­vin­ity pur­suit and per­fec­tion at­tain­ment. And when such an an­i­mal-ori­gin be­ing does stand, as count­less num­bers now do, be­fore the Gods on Par­a­dise, hav­ing as­cended from the lowly spheres of space, such an achieve­ment rep­re­sents the re­al­ity of a spir­i­tual trans­for­ma­tion bor­der­ing on the lim­its of su­prem­acy.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › absolute gravity circuits not related to force center of

12:3.1All forms of force-en­ergy—ma­te­rial, mindal, or spir­i­tual—are alike sub­ject to those grasps, those uni­ver­sal pres­ences, which we call grav­ity. Per­son­al­ity also is re­spon­sive to grav­ity—to the Fa­ther’s ex­clu­sive cir­cuit; but though this cir­cuit is ex­clu­sive to the Fa­ther, he is not ex­cluded from the other cir­cuits; the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is in­fi­nite and acts over all four ab­so­lute-grav­ity cir­cuits in the mas­ter uni­verse:

12:3.21. The Per­son­al­ity Grav­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

12:3.32. The Spirit Grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son.

12:3.43. The Mind Grav­ity of the Con­joint Ac­tor.

12:3.54. The Cos­mic Grav­ity of the Isle of Par­a­dise.

12:3.6These four cir­cuits are not re­lated to the nether Par­a­dise force cen­ter; they are nei­ther force, en­ergy, nor power cir­cuits. They are ab­so­lute pres­ence cir­cuits and like God are in­de­pen­dent of time and space.

• nature of Paradise › is stationary

12:4.1All units of cos­mic en­ergy are in pri­mary rev­o­lu­tion, are en­gaged in the ex­e­cu­tion of their mis­sion, while swing­ing around the uni­ver­sal or­bit. The uni­verses of space and their com­po­nent sys­tems and worlds are all re­volv­ing spheres, mov­ing along the end­less cir­cuits of the mas­ter uni­verse space lev­els. Ab­so­lutely noth­ing is sta­tion­ary in all the mas­ter uni­verse ex­cept the very cen­ter of Ha­vona, the eter­nal Isle of Par­a­dise, the cen­ter of grav­ity.

• nature of Paradise › is stationary

12:4.103. Rel­a­tive mo­tions—rel­a­tive in the sense that they are not eval­u­ated with Par­a­dise as a base point. Pri­mary and sec­ondary mo­tions are ab­so­lute, mo­tion in re­la­tion to un­mov­ing Par­a­dise.

• nature of Paradise › all things are present on P.; space and time are nonexistent

12:5.3Time and space are in­sep­a­ra­ble only in the time-space cre­ations, the seven super­uni­verses. Non­tem­po­ral space (space with­out time) the­o­ret­i­cally ex­ists, but the only truly non­tem­po­ral place is Par­a­dise area. Non­spa­tial time (time with­out space) ex­ists in mind of the Par­a­dise level of func­tion.

• life on Paradise › pilgrims may visit P. without undergoing transition rest
• life on Paradise › residency attained only after terminal sleep of time

12:5.4The rel­a­tively mo­tion­less midspace zones im­ping­ing on Par­a­dise and sep­a­rat­ing per­vaded from un­per­vaded space are the tran­si­tion zones from time to eter­nity, hence the ne­ces­sity of Par­a­dise pil­grims be­com­ing un­con­scious dur­ing this tran­sit when it is to cul­mi­nate in Par­a­dise cit­i­zen­ship. Time-con­scious vis­i­tors can go to Par­a­dise with­out thus sleep­ing, but they re­main crea­tures of time.

• Father acts as controller through gravity of

12:6.2In the phys­i­cal con­trol of the mas­ter uni­verse the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther ex­er­cises pri­or­ity and pri­macy through the Isle of Par­a­dise; God is ab­so­lute in the spir­i­tual ad­min­is­tra­tion of the cos­mos in the per­son of the Eter­nal Son. Con­cern­ing the do­mains of mind, the Fa­ther and the Son func­tion co-or­di­nately in the Con­joint Ac­tor.

• nature of Paradise › power and energy evidence stability of

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.

• nature of Paradise › matter, mind, and spirit are co-ordinate on

12:8.14On Par­a­dise the three en­er­gies, phys­i­cal, mindal, and spir­i­tual, are co-or­di­nate. In the evo­lu­tion­ary cos­mos en­ergy-mat­ter is dom­i­nant ex­cept in per­son­al­ity, where spirit, through the me­di­a­tion of mind, is striv­ing for the mas­tery. Spirit is the fun­da­men­tal re­al­ity of the per­son­al­ity ex­pe­ri­ence of all crea­tures be­cause God is spirit. Spirit is un­chang­ing, and there­fore, in all per­son­al­ity re­la­tions, it tran­scends both mind and mat­ter, which are ex­pe­ri­en­tial vari­ables of pro­gres­sive at­tain­ment.

• life on Paradise › sacred spheres of Paradise emit light to Paradise

13:0.3The seven se­cret spheres of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, cir­cu­lat­ing about Par­a­dise in close prox­im­ity to the eter­nal Isle, are highly re­flec­tive of the spir­i­tual lu­mi­nos­ity of the cen­tral shin­ing of the eter­nal De­i­ties, shed­ding this light of di­vine glory through­out Par­a­dise and even upon the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona.

13:0.4On the seven sa­cred worlds of the Eter­nal Son there ap­pear to take ori­gin the im­per­sonal en­er­gies of spirit lu­mi­nos­ity. No per­sonal be­ing may so­journ on any of these seven shin­ing realms. With spir­i­tual glory they il­lu­mi­nate all Par­a­dise and Ha­vona, and they di­rec­tion­ize pure spirit lu­mi­nos­ity to the seven super­uni­verses. These bril­liant spheres of the sec­ond cir­cuit like­wise emit their light (light with­out heat) to Par­a­dise and to the bil­lion worlds of the seven-cir­cuited cen­tral uni­verse.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › personalities not present on

13:1.1The Fa­ther’s cir­cuit of sa­cred life spheres con­tains the only in­her­ent per­son­al­ity se­crets in the uni­verse of uni­verses. These satel­lites of Par­a­dise, the in­ner­most of the three cir­cuits, are the only for­bid­den do­mains con­cerned with per­son­al­ity in the cen­tral uni­verse. Nether Par­a­dise and the worlds of the Son are like­wise closed to per­son­al­i­ties, but nei­ther of those realms is in any way di­rectly con­cerned with per­son­al­ity.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › 2 billion year space-force cycles

13:3.2Per­son­al­ity is not pres­ent on these Par­a­dise satel­lites; there­fore is there lit­tle con­cern­ing these pure-spirit abodes which can be pre­sented to the mor­tal and ma­te­rial per­son­al­ity. We are taught that these worlds teem with the oth­er­wise-than-per­sonal life of the be­ings of the Eter­nal Son. We in­fer that these en­ti­ties are be­ing as­sem­bled for min­istry in the pro­jected new uni­verses of outer space. The Par­a­dise philoso­phers main­tain that each Par­a­dise cy­cle, about two bil­lion years of Uran­tia time, wit­nesses the cre­ation of ad­di­tional re­serves of these or­ders on the se­cret worlds of the Eter­nal Son.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › peripheral Paradise › Master Spirits’ power focuses slowly circulate around

13:4.2The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are the su­preme and ul­ti­mate rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the In­fi­nite Spirit. They main­tain their per­sonal sta­tions, their power fo­cuses, on the pe­riph­ery of Par­a­dise, but all op­er­a­tions con­cerned with their man­age­ment and di­rec­tion of the grand uni­verse are con­ducted on and from these seven spe­cial ex­ec­u­tive spheres of the In­fi­nite Spirit. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are, in re­al­ity, the mind-spirit bal­ance wheel of the uni­verse of uni­verses, an all-em­brac­ing, all-en­com­pass­ing, and all-co-or­di­nat­ing power of cen­tral lo­ca­tion.

• nature of Paradise › nuclear Isle of absolute stability

14:0.1The per­fect and di­vine uni­verse oc­cu­pies the cen­ter of all cre­ation; it is the eter­nal core around which the vast cre­ations of time and space re­volve. Par­a­dise is the gi­gan­tic nu­clear Isle of ab­so­lute sta­bil­ity which rests mo­tion­less at the very heart of the mag­nif­i­cent eter­nal uni­verse. This cen­tral plan­e­tary fam­ily is called Ha­vona and is far-dis­tant from the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. It is of enor­mous di­men­sions and al­most un­be­liev­able mass and con­sists of one bil­lion spheres of unimag­ined beauty and su­perb grandeur, but the true mag­ni­tude of this vast cre­ation is re­ally be­yond the un­der­stand­ing grasp of the hu­man mind.

• nature of Paradise › midspace zones impinge on P.; space does not

14:1.21. The qui­es­cent midspace zones im­ping­ing on Par­a­dise.

• nature of Paradise › all things are present on P.; space and time are nonexistent
• nature of Paradise › time nonexistent on

14:1.11Time is not reck­oned on Par­a­dise; the se­quence of suc­ces­sive events is in­her­ent in the con­cept of those who are in­dige­nous to the cen­tral Isle. But time is ger­mane to the Ha­vona cir­cuits and to nu­mer­ous be­ings of both ce­les­tial and ter­res­trial ori­gin so­journ­ing thereon. Each Ha­vona world has its own lo­cal time, de­ter­mined by its cir­cuit. All worlds in a given cir­cuit have the same length of year since they uni­formly swing around Par­a­dise, and the length of these plan­e­tary years de­creases from the out­er­most to the in­ner­most cir­cuit.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › material gravity convergence
• life on Paradise › nothing is experimental on

14:2.6All nat­u­ral law is co-or­di­nated on a ba­sis en­tirely dif­fer­ent than in the dual-en­ergy sys­tems of the evolv­ing cre­ations. The en­tire cen­tral uni­verse is or­ga­nized in ac­cor­dance with the three­fold sys­tem of per­fect and sym­met­ri­cal con­trol. Through­out the whole Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem there is main­tained a per­fect bal­ance be­tween all cos­mic re­al­i­ties and all spir­i­tual forces. Par­a­dise, with an ab­so­lute grasp of ma­te­rial cre­ation, per­fectly reg­u­lates and main­tains the phys­i­cal en­er­gies of this cen­tral uni­verse; the Eter­nal Son, as a part of his all-em­brac­ing spirit grasp, most per­fectly sus­tains the spir­i­tual sta­tus of all who in­dwell Ha­vona. On Par­a­dise noth­ing is ex­per­i­men­tal, and the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem is a unit of cre­ative per­fec­tion.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › peripheral Paradise › Master Spirits’ power focuses slowly circulate around

15:0.1As far as the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is con­cerned—as a Fa­ther—the uni­verses are vir­tu­ally nonex­is­tent; he deals with per­son­al­i­ties; he is the Fa­ther of per­son­al­i­ties. As far as the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit are con­cerned—as cre­ator part­ners—the uni­verses are lo­cal­ized and in­di­vid­ual un­der the joint rule of the Cre­ator Sons and the Cre­ative Spir­its. As far as the Par­a­dise Trin­ity is con­cerned, out­side Ha­vona there are just seven in­hab­ited uni­verses, the seven super­uni­verses which hold ju­ris­dic­tion over the cir­cle of the first post-Ha­vona space level. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its ra­di­ate their in­flu­ence out from the cen­tral Isle, thus con­sti­tut­ing the vast cre­ation one gi­gan­tic wheel, the hub be­ing the eter­nal Isle of Par­a­dise, the seven spokes the ra­di­a­tions of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, the rim the outer re­gions of the grand uni­verse.

• from Urantia, P. is located through center of Milky Way

15:3.3Ob­ser­va­tion of the so-called Milky Way dis­closes the com­par­a­tive in­crease in Or­von­ton stel­lar den­sity when the heav­ens are viewed in one di­rec­tion, while on ei­ther side the den­sity di­min­ishes; the num­ber of stars and other spheres de­creases away from the chief plane of our ma­te­rial super­uni­verse. When the an­gle of ob­ser­va­tion is pro­pi­tious, gaz­ing through the main body of this realm of max­i­mum den­sity, you are look­ing to­ward the res­i­den­tial uni­verse and the cen­ter of all things.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › force-charge of space responds to

15:4.1While cre­ation and uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion re­main for­ever un­der the con­trol of the in­fi­nite Cre­ators and their as­so­ciates, the whole phe­nom­e­non pro­ceeds in ac­cor­dance with an or­dained tech­nique and in con­for­mity to the grav­ity laws of force, en­ergy, and mat­ter. But there is some­thing of mys­tery as­so­ci­ated with the uni­ver­sal force-charge of space; we quite un­der­stand the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the ma­te­rial cre­ations from the ul­ti­ma­tonic stage for­ward, but we do not fully com­pre­hend the cos­mic an­ces­try of the ul­ti­ma­tons. We are con­fi­dent that these an­ces­tral forces have a Par­a­dise ori­gin be­cause they for­ever swing through per­vaded space in the ex­act gi­gan­tic out­lines of Par­a­dise. Though non­re­spon­sive to Par­a­dise grav­ity, this force-charge of space, the an­ces­tor of all ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion, does al­ways re­spond to the pres­ence of nether Par­a­dise, be­ing ap­par­ently cir­cuited in and out of the nether Par­a­dise cen­ter.

• broadcasts of

15:9.96. The broad­casts of Par­a­dise, the space re­ports of Ha­vona.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › peripheral Paradise › Master Spirits’ power focuses slowly circulate around

16:0.12The Mas­ter Spir­its have many func­tions, but at the pres­ent time their par­tic­u­lar do­main is the cen­tral super­vi­sion of the seven super­uni­verses. Each Mas­ter Spirit main­tains an enor­mous force-fo­cal head­quar­ters, which slowly cir­cu­lates around the pe­riph­ery of Par­a­dise, al­ways main­tain­ing a po­si­tion op­po­site the super­uni­verse of im­me­di­ate super­vi­sion and at the Par­a­dise fo­cal point of its spe­cial­ized power con­trol and seg­men­tal en­ergy dis­tri­bu­tion. The ra­dial bound­ary lines of any one of the super­uni­verses do ac­tu­ally con­verge at the Par­a­dise head­quar­ters of the super­vis­ing Mas­ter Spirit.

• Infinite Spirit exerts personal presence on

16:2.3The In­fi­nite Spirit ex­erts an in­flu­ence of per­sonal pres­ence within the con­fines of the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem; else­where his per­sonal spirit pres­ence is ex­erted by and through one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. There­fore is the super­uni­verse spirit pres­ence of the Third Source and Cen­ter on any world or in any in­di­vid­ual con­di­tioned by the unique na­ture of the super­vi­sory Mas­ter Spirit of that seg­ment of cre­ation. Con­versely, the com­bined lines of spirit force and in­tel­li­gence pass in­ward to the Third Per­son of De­ity by way of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › Seven Master Spirits not involved with

16:4.4We are un­able to trace any per­sonal con­nec­tion be­tween the cos­mic-en­ergy work of the Mas­ter Spir­its and the force func­tions of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. The en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the Mas­ter Spir­its are all di­rected from the pe­riph­ery of Par­a­dise; they do not ap­pear to be in any di­rect man­ner as­so­ci­ated with the force phe­nom­ena iden­ti­fied with the nether sur­face of Par­a­dise.

• personalities pass through sacred spheres of Spirit on journeys to and from P.

17:1.6On the ex­ec­u­tive sphere of the sev­enth super­uni­verse the staff en­gaged in keep­ing straight the af­fairs of Or­von­ton runs into num­bers be­yond hu­man com­pre­hen­sion and em­braces prac­ti­cally ev­ery or­der of ce­les­tial in­tel­li­gence. All super­uni­verse ser­vices of per­son­al­ity dis­patch (ex­cept In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its and Thought Ad­justers) pass through one of these seven ex­ec­u­tive worlds on their uni­verse jour­neys to and from Par­a­dise, and here are main­tained the cen­tral reg­istries for all per­son­al­i­ties cre­ated by the Third Source and Cen­ter who func­tion in the super­uni­verses. The sys­tem of ma­te­rial, mor­ontial, and spir­i­tual rec­ords on one of these ex­ec­u­tive worlds of the Spirit amazes even a be­ing of my or­der.

• life on Paradise › knowledge inherent

24:2.2The Cen­sus Di­rec­tors are a spe­cial and com­pleted cre­ation of the In­fi­nite Spirit, and they ex­ist in num­bers un­known to us. They are so cre­ated as to be able to main­tain per­fect syn­chrony with the re­flec­tiv­ity tech­nique of the super­uni­verses, while at the same time they are per­son­ally sen­si­tive and re­spon­sive to in­tel­li­gent will. These di­rec­tors, by a not-fully-un­der­stood tech­nique, are made im­me­di­ately aware of the birth of will in any part of the grand uni­verse. They are, there­fore, al­ways com­pe­tent to give us the num­ber, na­ture, and where­abouts of all will crea­tures in any part of the cen­tral cre­ation and the seven super­uni­verses. But they do not func­tion on Par­a­dise; there is no need for them there. On Par­a­dise knowl­edge is in­her­ent; the De­i­ties know all things.

• life on Paradise › certainty of warm welcome upon arrival

25:8.5If you, as an as­cen­dant mor­tal, should reach Par­a­dise in the com­pany of the com­pan­ion or close as­so­ciate of your earthly ca­reer, or if your se­raphic guard­ian of des­tiny should chance to ar­rive with you or were wait­ing for you, then no per­ma­nent com­pan­ion would be as­signed you. But if you ar­rive alone, a com­pan­ion will cer­tainly wel­come you as you awaken on the Isle of Light from the ter­mi­nal sleep of time. Even if it is known that you will be ac­com­pa­nied by some­one of as­cen­dant as­so­ci­a­tion, tem­po­rary com­pan­ions will be des­ig­nated to wel­come you to the eter­nal shores and to es­cort you to the reser­va­tion made ready for the re­cep­tion of you and your as­so­ciates. You may be cer­tain of be­ing warmly wel­comed when you ex­pe­ri­ence the res­ur­rec­tion into eter­nity on the ev­er­last­ing shores of Par­a­dise.

• primary supernaphim are angels of

26:1.121. The Min­is­ter­ing Spir­its of the Cen­tral Uni­verse. The three or­ders of super­na­phim serve in the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem. Pri­mary or Par­a­dise super­na­phim are cre­ated by the In­fi­nite Spirit. The sec­ondary and ter­tiary or­ders, serv­ing in Ha­vona, are re­spec­tively the off­spring of the Mas­ter Spir­its and of the Spir­its of the Cir­cuits.

• primary supernaphim are angels of

26:2.2Pri­mary super­na­phim are the ex­clu­sive off­spring of the Con­joint Cre­ator. They di­vide their min­istry about equally be­tween cer­tain groups of the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens and the ever-en­larg­ing corps of as­cen­dant pil­grims. These an­gels of the eter­nal Isle are highly ef­fi­ca­cious in fur­ther­ing the es­sen­tial train­ing of both groups of Par­a­dise dwellers. They con­tribute much that is help­ful to the mu­tual un­der­stand­ing of these two unique or­ders of uni­verse crea­tures—the one be­ing the high­est type of di­vine and per­fect will crea­ture, and the other, the per­fected evo­lu­tion of the low­est type of will crea­ture in all the uni­verse of uni­verses.

• ability to comprehend is passport to P.

26:4.14Faith has won for the as­cen­dant pil­grim a per­fec­tion of pur­pose which ad­mits the chil­dren of time to the por­tals of eter­nity. Now must the pil­grim helpers be­gin the work of de­vel­op­ing that per­fec­tion of un­der­stand­ing and that tech­nique of com­pre­hen­sion which are so in­dis­pens­able to Par­a­dise per­fec­tion of per­son­al­ity.

26:4.15Abil­ity to com­pre­hend is the mor­tal pass­port to Par­a­dise. Will­ing­ness to be­lieve is the key to Ha­vona. The ac­cep­tance of son­ship, co-op­er­a­tion with the in­dwelling Ad­juster, is the price of evo­lu­tion­ary sur­vival.

• life on Paradise › ascenders’ nonresidential excursions to
• life on Paradise › residency attained only after terminal sleep of time

26:7.4When an as­cen­dant soul ac­tu­ally starts for Par­a­dise, he is ac­com­pa­nied only by the tran­sit trio: the super­aphic cir­cle as­so­ciate, the Grad­u­ate Guide, and the ever-pres­ent servi­tal as­so­ciate of the lat­ter. These ex­cur­sions from the Ha­vona cir­cles to Par­a­dise are trial trips; the as­cend­ers are not yet of Par­a­dise sta­tus. They do not achieve res­i­den­tial sta­tus on Par­a­dise un­til they have passed through the ter­mi­nal rest of time sub­se­quent to the at­tain­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the fi­nal clear­ance of the Ha­vona cir­cuits. Not un­til af­ter the di­vine rest do they par­take of the “essence of di­vin­ity” and the “spirit of su­prem­acy” and thus re­ally be­gin to func­tion in the cir­cle of eter­nity and in the pres­ence of the Trin­ity.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › upper Paradise › Father resides at center of

26:7.5The as­cender’s com­pan­ions of the tran­sit trio are not re­quired to en­able him to lo­cate the ge­o­graphic pres­ence of the spir­i­tual lu­mi­nos­ity of the Trin­ity, rather to af­ford all pos­si­ble as­sis­tance to a pil­grim in his dif­fi­cult task of rec­og­niz­ing, dis­cern­ing, and com­pre­hend­ing the In­fi­nite Spirit suf­fi­ciently to con­sti­tute per­son­al­ity rec­og­ni­tion. Any as­cen­dant pil­grim on Par­a­dise can dis­cern the ge­o­graphic or lo­ca­tional pres­ence of the Trin­ity, the great ma­jor­ity are able to con­tact the in­tel­lec­tual re­al­ity of the De­i­ties, es­pe­cially the Third Per­son, but not all can rec­og­nize or even par­tially com­pre­hend the re­al­ity of the spir­i­tual pres­ence of the Fa­ther and the Son. Still more dif­fi­cult is even the min­i­mum spir­i­tual com­pre­hen­sion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• life on Paradise › entails responsibilities of new and higher order

26:10.1The super­aphic coun­selors and ad­vis­ers of the sec­ond cir­cle are the in­struc­tors of the chil­dren of time re­gard­ing the ca­reer of eter­nity. The at­tain­ment of Par­a­dise en­tails re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of a new and higher or­der, and the so­journ on the sec­ond cir­cle af­fords am­ple op­por­tu­nity to re­ceive the help­ful coun­sel of these de­voted super­na­phim.

• life on Paradise › residency attained only after terminal sleep of time

26:11.6Near the end of the first-cir­cle so­journ the as­cend­ing pil­grims first meet the in­sti­ga­tors of rest of the pri­mary or­der of super­na­phim. These are the an­gels of Par­a­dise com­ing out to greet those who stand at the thresh­old of eter­nity and to com­plete their prepa­ra­tion for the tran­si­tion slum­ber of the last res­ur­rec­tion. You are not re­ally a child of Par­a­dise un­til you have tra­versed the in­ner cir­cle and have ex­pe­ri­enced the res­ur­rec­tion of eter­nity from the ter­mi­nal sleep of time. The per­fected pil­grims be­gin this rest, go to sleep, on the first cir­cle of Ha­vona, but they awaken on the shores of Par­a­dise. Of all who as­cend to the eter­nal Isle, only those who thus ar­rive are the chil­dren of eter­nity; the oth­ers go as vis­i­tors, as guests with­out res­i­den­tial sta­tus.

• primary supernaphim are angels of

27:0.1Pri­mary super­na­phim are the su­per­nal ser­vants of the De­i­ties on the eter­nal Isle of Par­a­dise. Never have they been known to de­part from the paths of light and righ­teous­ness. The roll calls are com­plete; from eter­nity not one of this mag­nif­i­cent host has been lost. These high super­na­phim are per­fect be­ings, su­preme in per­fec­tion, but they are not ab­so­nite, nei­ther are they ab­so­lute. Be­ing of the essence of per­fec­tion, these chil­dren of the In­fi­nite Spirit work in­ter­change­ably and at will in all phases of their man­i­fold du­ties. They do not func­tion ex­ten­sively out­side Par­a­dise, though they do par­tic­i­pate in the var­i­ous mil­len­nial gath­er­ings and group re­unions of the cen­tral uni­verse. They also go forth as spe­cial mes­sen­gers of the De­i­ties, and in large num­bers they as­cend to be­come Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers.

• life on Paradise › divine rest essential to enjoyment of

27:1.1The in­sti­ga­tors of rest are the in­spec­tors of Par­a­dise who go forth from the cen­tral Isle to the in­ner cir­cuit of Ha­vona, there to col­lab­o­rate with their col­leagues, the com­ple­ments of rest of the sec­ondary or­der of super­na­phim. The one es­sen­tial to the en­joy­ment of Par­a­dise is rest, di­vine rest; and these in­sti­ga­tors of rest are the fi­nal in­struc­tors who make ready the pil­grims of time for their in­tro­duc­tion to eter­nity. They be­gin their work on the fi­nal at­tain­ment cir­cle of the cen­tral uni­verse and con­tinue it when the pil­grim awakes from the last tran­si­tion sleep, the slum­ber which grad­u­ates a crea­ture of space into the realm of the eter­nal.

• life on Paradise › service also plays essential part

27:2.1This is the group des­ig­nated from time to time by the chief super­na­phim, “the orig­i­nal pat­tern an­gel,” to pre­side over the or­ga­ni­za­tion of all three or­ders of these an­gels—pri­mary, sec­ondary, and ter­tiary. The super­na­phim, as a body, are wholly self-gov­ern­ing and self-reg­u­la­tory ex­cept for the func­tions of their mu­tual chief, the first an­gel of Par­a­dise, who ever pre­sides over all these spirit per­son­al­i­ties.

• also known as Eternal Isle, Isle of Light

27:4.2Har­mony is the keynote of the cen­tral uni­verse, and de­tectable or­der pre­vails on Par­a­dise. Proper con­duct is es­sen­tial to prog­ress by way of knowl­edge, through phi­los­o­phy, to the spir­i­tual heights of spon­ta­neous wor­ship. There is a di­vine tech­nique in the ap­proach to Di­vin­ity; and the ac­quire­ment of this tech­nique must await the pil­grims’ ar­rival on Par­a­dise. The spirit of it has been im­parted on the cir­cles of Ha­vona, but the fi­nal touches of the train­ing of the pil­grims of time can be ap­plied only af­ter they ac­tu­ally at­tain the Isle of Light.

• life on Paradise › conduct wholly spontaneous and free
• life on Paradise › confusion never appears

27:4.3All Par­a­dise con­duct is wholly spon­ta­neous, in ev­ery sense nat­u­ral and free. But there still is a proper and per­fect way of do­ing things on the eter­nal Isle, and the di­rec­tors of con­duct are ever by the side of the “strangers within the gates” to in­struct them and so guide their steps as to put them at per­fect ease and at the same time to en­able the pil­grims to avoid that con­fu­sion and un­cer­tainty which would oth­er­wise be in­ev­i­ta­ble. Only by such an ar­range­ment could end­less con­fu­sion be avoided; and con­fu­sion never ap­pears on Par­a­dise.

• life on Paradise › inexpressibly strange to new residents

27:4.4These di­rec­tors of con­duct re­ally serve as glo­ri­fied teach­ers and guides. They are chiefly con­cerned with in­struct­ing the new mor­tal res­i­dents re­gard­ing the al­most end­less ar­ray of new sit­u­a­tions and un­fa­mil­iar us­ages. Not­with­stand­ing all the long prepa­ra­tion there­for and the long jour­ney thereto, Par­a­dise is still in­ex­press­ibly strange and un­ex­pect­edly new to those who fi­nally at­tain res­i­den­tial sta­tus.

• also known as Eternal Isle, Isle of Light

27:5.2These cus­to­di­ans con­duct in­for­mal courses of in­struc­tion for the res­i­dents of the eter­nal Isle, but their chief func­tion is that of ref­er­ence and ver­i­fi­ca­tion. Any so­journer on Par­a­dise may at will have by his side the liv­ing re­pos­i­tory of the par­tic­u­lar fact or truth he may wish to know. At the north­ern ex­trem­ity of the Isle there are avail­able the liv­ing find­ers of knowl­edge, who will des­ig­nate the di­rec­tor of the group hold­ing the in­for­ma­tion sought, and forth­with will ap­pear the bril­liant be­ings who are the very thing you wish to know. No longer must you seek en­light­en­ment from en­grossed pages; you now com­mune with liv­ing in­tel­li­gence face to face. Su­preme knowl­edge you thus ob­tain from the liv­ing be­ings who are its fi­nal cus­to­di­ans.

• life on Paradise › high-speed instructional techniques

27:6.4These Par­a­dise philoso­phers teach by ev­ery pos­si­ble method of in­struc­tion, in­clud­ing the higher graph tech­nique of Ha­vona and cer­tain Par­a­dise meth­ods of com­mu­ni­cat­ing in­for­ma­tion. All of these higher tech­niques of im­part­ing knowl­edge and con­vey­ing ideas are ut­terly be­yond the com­pre­hen­sion ca­pac­ity of even the most highly de­vel­oped hu­man mind. One hour’s in­struc­tion on Par­a­dise would be the equiv­a­lent of ten thou­sand years of the word-mem­ory meth­ods of Uran­tia. You can­not grasp such com­mu­ni­ca­tion tech­niques, and there is sim­ply noth­ing in mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence with which they may be com­pared, noth­ing to which they can be likened.

• life on Paradise › vast sanctuary of divine service

27:7.2While the Isle of Par­a­dise con­tains cer­tain places of wor­ship, it is more nearly one vast sanc­tu­ary of di­vine ser­vice. Wor­ship is the first and dom­i­nant pas­sion of all who climb to its bliss­ful shores—the spon­ta­neous ebul­li­tion of the be­ings who have learned enough of God to at­tain his pres­ence. Cir­cle by cir­cle, dur­ing the in­ward jour­ney through Ha­vona, wor­ship is a grow­ing pas­sion un­til on Par­a­dise it be­comes nec­es­sary to di­rect and oth­er­wise con­trol its ex­pres­sion.

• awakening on P. as resident is mortal’s 6th jubilee

27:7.8Af­ter the at­tain­ment of the su­preme sat­is­fac­tion of the full­ness of wor­ship, you are qual­i­fied for ad­mis­sion to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. The as­cen­dant ca­reer is well-nigh fin­ished, and the sev­enth ju­bilee pre­pares for cel­e­bra­tion. The first ju­bilee marked the mor­tal agree­ment with the Thought Ad­juster when the pur­pose to sur­vive was sealed; the sec­ond was the awak­en­ing in the mor­ontia life; the third was the fu­sion with the Thought Ad­juster; the fourth was the awak­en­ing in Ha­vona; the fifth cel­e­brated the find­ing of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and the sixth ju­bilee was the oc­ca­sion of the Par­a­dise awak­en­ing from the fi­nal tran­sit slum­ber of time. The sev­enth ju­bilee marks en­trance into the mor­tal fi­nal­i­ter corps and the be­gin­ning of the eter­nity ser­vice. The at­tain­ment of the sev­enth stage of spirit re­al­iza­tion by a fi­nal­i­ter will prob­a­bly sig­nal­ize the cel­e­bra­tion of the first of the ju­bilees of eter­nity.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › peripheral Paradise › Seven Supreme Power Directors stationed on

29:1.3The Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors are sta­tioned on pe­riph­eral Par­a­dise, where their slowly cir­cu­lat­ing pres­ences in­di­cate the where­abouts of the force-fo­cal head­quar­ters of the Mas­ter Spir­its. These power di­rec­tors func­tion singly in the power-en­ergy reg­u­la­tion of the super­uni­verses but col­lec­tively in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the cen­tral cre­ation. They op­er­ate from Par­a­dise but main­tain them­selves as ef­fec­tive power cen­ters in all di­vi­sions of the grand uni­verse.

• life on Paradise › knowledge inherent

30:3.5Sim­i­lar as­tron­o­mer colonies are to be found on the sec­tor head­quar­ters worlds of the super­uni­verse as well as on the ar­chi­tec­tural cap­i­tals of the lo­cal uni­verses and their ad­min­is­tra­tive sub­di­vi­sions. Ex­cept on Par­a­dise, knowl­edge is not in­her­ent; un­der­stand­ing of the phys­i­cal uni­verse is largely de­pen­dent on ob­ser­va­tion and re­search.

• senior Architect of Master Universe co-ordinates all below level of Deity

31:9.31. The Par­a­dise Level. Only the se­nior or first-even­tu­ated Ar­chi­tect func­tions on this high­est level of the ab­so­nite. This ul­ti­mate per­son­al­ity—nei­ther Cre­ator nor crea­ture—even­tu­ated in the dawn of eter­nity and now func­tions as the ex­qui­site co-or­di­na­tor of Par­a­dise and its twenty-one worlds of as­so­ci­ated ac­tiv­i­ties.

• nature of Paradise › material light obeys circular-gravity presence of

41:5.6En­ergy, whether as light or in other forms, in its flight through space moves straight for­ward. The ac­tual par­ti­cles of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence tra­verse space like a fusil­lade. They go in a straight and un­bro­ken line or pro­ces­sion ex­cept as they are acted on by su­pe­rior forces, and ex­cept as they ever obey the lin­ear-grav­ity pull in­her­ent in ma­te­rial mass and the cir­cu­lar-grav­ity pres­ence of the Isle of Par­a­dise.

• nature of Paradise › master pattern for all universes in organization and destiny
• origin › Father is eternity-source of

42:1.1The foun­da­tion of the uni­verse is ma­te­rial, but the essence of life is spirit. The Fa­ther of spir­its is also the an­ces­tor of uni­verses; the eter­nal Fa­ther of the Orig­i­nal Son is also the eter­nity-source of the orig­i­nal pat­tern, the Isle of Par­a­dise.

• nature of Paradise › all matter comes from P. and is drawn toward P.

42:1.2Mat­ter—en­ergy—for they are but di­verse man­i­fes­ta­tions of the same cos­mic re­al­ity, as a uni­verse phe­nom­e­non is in­her­ent in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. “In him all things con­sist.” Mat­ter may ap­pear to man­i­fest in­her­ent en­ergy and to ex­hibit self-con­tained pow­ers, but the lines of grav­ity in­volved in the en­er­gies con­cerned in all these phys­i­cal phe­nom­ena are de­rived from, and are de­pen­dent on, Par­a­dise. The ul­ti­ma­ton, the first mea­sur­able form of en­ergy, has Par­a­dise as its nu­cleus.

42:1.3There is in­nate in mat­ter and pres­ent in uni­ver­sal space a form of en­ergy not known on Uran­tia. When this dis­cov­ery is fi­nally made, then will physi­cists feel that they have solved, al­most at least, the mys­tery of mat­ter. And so will they have ap­proached one step nearer the Cre­ator; so will they have mas­tered one more phase of the di­vine tech­nique; but in no sense will they have found God, nei­ther will they have es­tab­lished the ex­is­tence of mat­ter or the op­er­a­tion of nat­u­ral laws apart from the cos­mic tech­nique of Par­a­dise and the mo­ti­vat­ing pur­pose of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

42:1.4Sub­se­quent to even still greater prog­ress and fur­ther dis­cov­er­ies, af­ter Uran­tia has ad­vanced im­mea­sur­ably in com­par­i­son with pres­ent knowl­edge, though you should gain con­trol of the en­ergy rev­o­lu­tions of the elec­tri­cal units of mat­ter to the ex­tent of mod­i­fy­ing their phys­i­cal man­i­fes­ta­tions—even af­ter all such pos­si­ble prog­ress, for­ever will sci­en­tists be pow­er­less to cre­ate one atom of mat­ter or to orig­i­nate one flash of en­ergy or ever to add to mat­ter that which we call life.

42:1.5The cre­ation of en­ergy and the be­stowal of life are the pre­rog­a­tives of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his as­so­ciate Cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties. The river of en­ergy and life is a con­tin­u­ous out­pour­ing from the De­i­ties, the uni­ver­sal and united stream of Par­a­dise force go­ing forth to all space. This di­vine en­ergy per­vades all cre­ation. The force or­ga­niz­ers ini­ti­ate those changes and in­sti­tute those mod­i­fi­ca­tions of space-force which even­tu­ate in en­ergy; the power di­rec­tors trans­mute en­ergy into mat­ter; thus the ma­te­rial worlds are born. The Life Car­ri­ers ini­ti­ate those pro­cesses in dead mat­ter which we call life, ma­te­rial life. The Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors like­wise per­form through­out the tran­si­tion realms be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual worlds. The higher spirit Cre­ators in­au­gu­rate sim­i­lar pro­cesses in di­vine forms of en­ergy, and there en­sue the higher spirit forms of in­tel­li­gent life.

• nature of Paradise › energy proceeds from, returns to, and is fashioned after, P.

42:1.6En­ergy pro­ceeds from Par­a­dise, fash­ioned af­ter the di­vine or­der. En­ergy—pure en­ergy—par­takes of the na­ture of the di­vine or­ga­ni­za­tion; it is fash­ioned af­ter the simil­i­tude of the three Gods em­braced in one, as they func­tion at the head­quar­ters of the uni­verse of uni­verses. And all force is cir­cuited in Par­a­dise, comes from the Par­a­dise Pres­ences and re­turns thereto, and is in essence a man­i­fes­ta­tion of the un­caused Cause—the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and with­out the Fa­ther would not any­thing ex­ist that does ex­ist.

42:1.7Force de­rived from self-ex­is­tent De­ity is in it­self ever ex­is­tent. Force-en­ergy is im­per­ish­able, in­de­struc­tible; these man­i­fes­ta­tions of the In­fi­nite may be sub­ject to un­lim­ited trans­mu­ta­tion, end­less trans­for­ma­tion, and eter­nal meta­mor­pho­sis; but in no sense or de­gree, not even to the slight­est imag­in­able ex­tent, could they or ever shall they suf­fer ex­tinc­tion. But en­ergy, though spring­ing from the In­fi­nite, is not in­finitely man­i­fest; there are outer lim­its to the pres­ently con­ceived mas­ter uni­verse.

42:1.8En­ergy is eter­nal but not in­fi­nite; it ever re­sponds to the all-em­brac­ing grasp of In­fin­ity. For­ever force and en­ergy go on; hav­ing gone out from Par­a­dise, they must re­turn thereto, even if age upon age be re­quired for the com­ple­tion of the or­dained cir­cuit. That which is of Par­a­dise De­ity ori­gin can have only a Par­a­dise des­ti­na­tion or a De­ity des­tiny.

42:1.9And all this con­firms our be­lief in a cir­cu­lar, some­what lim­ited, but or­derly and far-flung uni­verse of uni­verses. If this were not true, then ev­i­dence of en­ergy de­ple­tion at some point would sooner or later ap­pear. All laws, or­ga­ni­za­tions, ad­min­is­tra­tion, and the tes­ti­mony of uni­verse ex­plor­ers—ev­ery­thing points to the ex­is­tence of an in­fi­nite God but, as yet, a fi­nite uni­verse, a cir­cu­lar­ity of end­less ex­is­tence, well-nigh lim­it­less but, nev­er­the­less, fi­nite in con­trast with in­fin­ity.

• nature of Paradise › never-beginning, never-ending, never-moving, never-changing

42:2.31. Space po­tency. This is the un­ques­tioned free space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. The ex­ten­sion of this con­cept con­notes the uni­verse force-space po­ten­tial in­her­ent in the func­tional to­tal­ity of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, while the in­ten­sion of this con­cept im­plies the to­tal­ity of cos­mic re­al­ity—uni­verses—which em­anated eter­ni­ty­wise from the never-be­gin­ning, never-end­ing, never-mov­ing, never-chang­ing Isle of Par­a­dise.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › concentric elliptical zones of absolute force presence

42:2.4The phe­nom­ena in­dige­nous to the nether side of Par­a­dise prob­a­bly em­brace three zones of ab­so­lute force pres­ence and per­for­mance: the ful­cral zone of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, the zone of the Isle of Par­a­dise it­self, and the in­ter­ven­ing zone of cer­tain uniden­ti­fied equal­iz­ing and com­pen­sat­ing agen­cies or func­tions. These tri­con­cen­tric zones are the cen­trum of the Par­a­dise cy­cle of cos­mic re­al­ity.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › concentric elliptical zones of absolute force presence

42:2.72. Pri­mor­dial force. This rep­re­sents the first ba­sic change in space po­tency and may be one of the nether Par­a­dise func­tions of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. We know that the space pres­ence go­ing out from nether Par­a­dise is mod­i­fied in some man­ner from that which is in­com­ing. But re­gard­less of any such pos­si­ble re­la­tion­ships, the openly rec­og­nized trans­mu­ta­tion of space po­tency into pri­mor­dial force is the pri­mary dif­fer­en­ti­at­ing func­tion of the ten­sion-pres­ence of the liv­ing Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers.

• nature of Paradise › tranosta is energy system on

42:2.186. Tran­scen­den­tal en­ergy. This en­ergy sys­tem op­er­ates on and from the up­per level of Par­a­dise and only in con­nec­tion with the ab­so­nite peo­ples. On Uversa it is de­nom­i­nated TRA­NOSTA.

• nature of Paradise › monota is living nonspiritual energy system

42:2.197. Monota. En­ergy is close of kin to di­vin­ity when it is Par­a­dise en­ergy. We in­cline to the be­lief that monota is the liv­ing, non­spirit en­ergy of Par­a­dise—an eter­nity coun­ter­part of the liv­ing, spirit en­ergy of the Orig­i­nal Son—hence the non­spir­i­tual en­ergy sys­tem of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

42:2.20We can­not dif­fer­en­ti­ate the na­ture of Par­a­dise spirit and Par­a­dise monota; they are ap­par­ently alike. They have dif­fer­ent names, but you can hardly be told very much about a re­al­ity whose spir­i­tual and whose non­spir­i­tual man­i­fes­ta­tions are dis­tin­guish­able only by name.

• nature of Paradise › mind is absolute on

42:10.7On Par­a­dise, mind is ab­so­lute; in Ha­vona, ab­so­nite; in Or­von­ton, fi­nite. Mind al­ways con­notes the pres­ence-ac­tiv­ity of liv­ing min­istry plus var­ied en­ergy sys­tems, and this is true of all lev­els and of all kinds of mind. But be­yond the cos­mic mind it be­comes in­creas­ingly dif­fi­cult to por­tray the re­la­tion­ships of mind to non­spir­i­tual en­ergy. Ha­vona mind is sub­ab­so­lute but super­evo­lu­tion­ary; be­ing ex­is­ten­tial-ex­pe­ri­en­tial, it is nearer the ab­so­nite than any other con­cept re­vealed to you. Par­a­dise mind is be­yond hu­man un­der­stand­ing; it is ex­is­ten­tial, non­spa­tial, and non­tem­po­ral. Nev­er­the­less, all of these lev­els of mind are over­shad­owed by the uni­ver­sal pres­ence of the Con­joint Ac­tor—by the mind-grav­ity grasp of the God of mind on Par­a­dise.

• life on Paradise › chance meeting on P. reveals more than could be communicated in 1000 years

44:4.3Each super­uni­verse has its own lan­guage, a tongue spo­ken by its per­son­al­i­ties and pre­vail­ing through­out its sec­tors. This is known as the tongue of Uversa in our super­uni­verse. Each lo­cal uni­verse also has its own lan­guage. All of the higher or­ders of Neb­a­don are bilin­gual, speak­ing both the lan­guage of Neb­a­don and the tongue of Uversa. When two in­di­vid­u­als from dif­fer­ent lo­cal uni­verses meet, they com­mu­ni­cate in the tongue of Uversa; if, how­ever, one of them hails from an­other super­uni­verse, they must have re­course to a trans­la­tor. In the cen­tral uni­verse there is lit­tle need of a lan­guage; there ex­ists per­fect and well-nigh com­plete un­der­stand­ing; there, only the Gods are not fully com­pre­hended. We are taught that a chance meet­ing on Par­a­dise re­veals more of mu­tual un­der­stand­ing than could be com­mu­ni­cated by a mor­tal lan­guage in a thou­sand years. Even on Sal­ving­ton we “know as we are known.”

• probationary nursery children constitute permanent ascendant citizenship of

47:2.8But if they choose the Par­a­dise path of per­fec­tion, they are im­me­di­ately made ready for trans­la­tion to the first man­sion world, where many of them ar­rive in time to join their par­ents in the Ha­vona as­cent. Af­ter pass­ing through Ha­vona and at­tain­ing the De­i­ties, these sal­vaged souls of mor­tal ori­gin con­sti­tute the per­ma­nent as­cen­dant cit­i­zen­ship of Par­a­dise. These chil­dren who have been de­prived of the valu­able and es­sen­tial evo­lu­tion­ary ex­pe­ri­ence on the worlds of mor­tal na­tiv­ity are not mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

• life on Paradise › beings indigenous to P. incapable of depletion

48:4.11All be­ings en­joy this sort of re­ver­sion ex­cept those who are in­her­ent Cre­ators, hence au­to­matic self-re­ju­ve­na­tors, and cer­tain highly spe­cial­ized types of crea­tures, such as the power cen­ters and the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, who are al­ways and eter­nally thor­oughly busi­nesslike in all their re­ac­tions. These pe­ri­odic re­leases from the ten­sion of func­tional duty are a reg­u­lar part of life on all worlds through­out the uni­verse of uni­verses but not on the Isle of Par­a­dise. Be­ings in­dige­nous to the cen­tral abode are in­ca­pable of de­ple­tion and are not, there­fore, sub­ject to re-en­er­giz­ing. And with such be­ings of eter­nal Par­a­dise per­fec­tion there can be no such re­ver­sion to evo­lu­tion­ary ex­pe­ri­ences.

• life on Paradise › no need for humor

48:4.16The need for the re­lax­ation and di­ver­sion of hu­mor is great­est in those or­ders of as­cen­dant be­ings who are sub­jected to sus­tained stress in their up­ward strug­gles. The two ex­tremes of life have lit­tle need for hu­mor­ous di­ver­sions. Prim­i­tive men have no ca­pac­ity there­for, and be­ings of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion have no need thereof. The hosts of Ha­vona are nat­u­rally a joy­ous and ex­hil­a­rat­ing as­sem­blage of su­premely happy per­son­al­i­ties. On Par­a­dise the qual­ity of wor­ship ob­vi­ates the ne­ces­sity for re­ver­sion ac­tiv­i­ties. But among those who start their ca­reers far be­low the goal of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion, there is a large place for the min­istry of the re­ver­sion di­rec­tors.

• no short cuts or easy paths to

48:5.7Those things which you might have learned on earth, but which you failed to learn, must be ac­quired un­der the tute­lage of these faith­ful and pa­tient teach­ers. There are no royal roads, short cuts, or easy paths to Par­a­dise. Ir­re­spec­tive of the in­di­vid­ual vari­a­tions of the route, you mas­ter the lessons of one sphere be­fore you pro­ceed to an­other; at least this is true af­ter you once leave the world of your na­tiv­ity.

• nature of Paradise › time nonexistent on

54:5.1312. Time, even in a uni­verse of time, is rel­a­tive: If a Uran­tia mor­tal of av­er­age length of life should com­mit a crime which pre­cip­i­tated world-wide pan­de­mo­nium, and if he were ap­pre­hended, tried, and ex­e­cuted within two or three days of the com­mis­sion of the crime, would it seem a long time to you? And yet that would be nearer a com­par­i­son with the length of Lu­cifer’s life even if his ad­ju­di­ca­tion, now be­gun, should not be com­pleted for a hun­dred thou­sand Uran­tia years. The rel­a­tive lapse of time from the view­point of Uversa, where the lit­i­ga­tion is pend­ing, could be in­di­cated by say­ing that the crime of Lu­cifer was be­ing brought to trial within two and a half sec­onds of its com­mis­sion. From the Par­a­dise view­point the ad­ju­di­ca­tion is si­mul­ta­ne­ous with the en­act­ment.

• nature of Paradise › all matter comes from P. and is drawn toward P.
• nature of Paradise › all things are present on P.; space and time are nonexistent
• nature of Paradise › of single constitution

56:1.1The phys­i­cal or ma­te­rial cre­ation is not in­fi­nite, but it is per­fectly co-or­di­nated. There are force, en­ergy, and power, but they are all one in ori­gin. The seven super­uni­verses are seem­ingly dual; the cen­tral uni­verse, tri­une; but Par­a­dise is of sin­gle con­sti­tu­tion. And Par­a­dise is the ac­tual source of all ma­te­rial uni­verses—past, pres­ent, and fu­ture. But this cos­mic deriva­tion is an eter­nity event; at no time—past, pres­ent, or fu­ture—does ei­ther space or the ma­te­rial cos­mos come forth from the nu­clear Isle of Light. As the cos­mic source, Par­a­dise func­tions prior to space and be­fore time; hence would its deriva­tions seem to be or­phaned in time and space did they not emerge through the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, their ul­ti­mate re­pos­i­tory in space and their re­vealer and reg­u­la­tor in time.

• origin › appeared simultaneously with Eternal Son
• origin › Father is eternity-source of

56:2.2Mind is the func­tional en­dow­ment of the In­fi­nite Spirit, there­fore in­fi­nite in po­ten­tial and uni­ver­sal in be­stowal. The pri­mal thought of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther eter­nal­izes in dual ex­pres­sion: the Isle of Par­a­dise and his De­ity equal, the spir­i­tual and Eter­nal Son. Such du­al­ity of eter­nal re­al­ity ren­ders the mind God, the In­fi­nite Spirit, in­ev­i­ta­ble. Mind is the in­dis­pens­able chan­nel of com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial re­al­i­ties. The ma­te­rial evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture can con­ceive and com­pre­hend the in­dwelling spirit only by the min­istry of mind.

• nature of Paradise › all things are present on P.; space and time are nonexistent
• nature of Paradise › time nonexistent on

65:8.2If spend­ing so much time in ef­fect­ing the evo­lu­tion­ary changes of life de­vel­op­ment oc­ca­sions per­plex­ity, I would say that we can­not time the life pro­cesses to un­fold any faster than the phys­i­cal meta­mor­phoses of a planet will per­mit. We must wait upon the nat­u­ral, phys­i­cal de­vel­op­ment of a planet; we have ab­so­lutely no con­trol over ge­o­logic evo­lu­tion. If the phys­i­cal con­di­tions would al­low, we could ar­range for the com­pleted evo­lu­tion of life in con­sid­er­ably less than one mil­lion years. But we are all un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the Su­preme Rulers of Par­a­dise, and time is nonex­is­tent on Par­a­dise.

65:8.3The in­di­vid­ual’s yard­stick for time mea­sure­ment is the length of his life. All crea­tures are thus time con­di­tioned, and there­fore do they re­gard evo­lu­tion as be­ing a long-drawn-out pro­cess. To those of us whose life span is not lim­ited by a tem­po­ral ex­is­tence, evo­lu­tion does not seem to be such a pro­tracted trans­ac­tion. On Par­a­dise, where time is nonex­is­tent, these things are all pres­ent in the mind of In­fin­ity and the acts of Eter­nity.

• Amida Buddha teaching of

94:12.3Among these be­liev­ers it is taught that the soul, upon ex­pe­ri­enc­ing death, may elect to en­joy a so­journ in Par­a­dise prior to en­ter­ing Nir­vana, the ul­ti­mate of ex­is­tence. It is pro­claimed that this new sal­va­tion is at­tained by faith in the di­vine mer­cies and lov­ing care of Amida, God of the Par­a­dise in the west. In their phi­los­o­phy, the Amidists hold to an In­fi­nite Re­al­ity which is be­yond all fi­nite mor­tal com­pre­hen­sion; in their re­li­gion, they cling to faith in the all-mer­ci­ful Amida, who so loves the world that he will not suf­fer one mor­tal who calls on his name in true faith and with a pure heart to fail in the at­tain­ment of the su­per­nal hap­pi­ness of Par­a­dise.

• triunity membership

104:4.9The Sec­ond Tri­unity—the power-pat­tern tri­unity. Whether it be a tiny ul­ti­ma­ton, a blaz­ing star, or a whirling neb­ula, even the cen­tral or super­uni­verses, from the small­est to the largest ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tions, al­ways is the phys­i­cal pat­tern—the cos­mic con­fig­u­ra­tion—de­rived from the func­tion of this tri­unity. This as­so­ci­a­tion con­sists of:

• nature of Paradise › material fulcrum of infinity

104:4.13En­ergy is or­ga­nized by the cos­mic agents of the Third Source and Cen­ter; en­ergy is fash­ioned af­ter the pat­tern of Par­a­dise, the ab­so­lute ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion; but be­hind all of this cease­less ma­nip­u­la­tion is the pres­ence of the Fa­ther-Son, whose union first ac­ti­vated the Par­a­dise pat­tern in the ap­pear­ance of Ha­vona con­comi­tant with the birth of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Con­joint Ac­tor.

104:4.14In re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence, crea­tures make con­tact with the God who is love, but such spir­i­tual in­sight must never eclipse the in­tel­li­gent rec­og­ni­tion of the uni­verse fact of the pat­tern which is Par­a­dise. The Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties en­list the free­will ado­ra­tion of all crea­tures by the com­pelling power of di­vine love and lead all such spirit-born per­son­al­i­ties into the su­per­nal de­lights of the un­end­ing ser­vice of the fi­nal­i­ter sons of God. The sec­ond tri­unity is the ar­chi­tect of the space stage whereon these trans­ac­tions un­fold; it de­ter­mines the pat­terns of cos­mic con­fig­u­ra­tion.

• triunity membership

104:4.22The Fourth Tri­unity—the tri­unity of en­ergy in­fin­ity. Within this tri­unity there eter­nal­izes the be­gin­nings and the end­ings of all en­ergy re­al­ity, from space po­tency to monota. This group­ing em­braces the fol­low­ing:

• nature of Paradise › member of triodity of actuality

104:5.2The Tri­odity of Ac­tu­al­ity. This tri­odity con­sists in the in­ter­re­la­tion­ship of the three ab­so­lute ac­tu­als:

• nature of Paradise › master pattern for all universes in organization and destiny

104:5.6The Eter­nal Son is the ab­so­lute of spirit re­al­ity, the ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity. The Par­a­dise Isle is the ab­so­lute of cos­mic re­al­ity, the ab­so­lute pat­tern. The Con­joint Ac­tor is the ab­so­lute of mind re­al­ity, the co-or­di­nate of ab­so­lute spirit re­al­ity, and the ex­is­ten­tial De­ity syn­the­sis of per­son­al­ity and power. This tri­une as­so­ci­a­tion even­tu­ates the co-or­di­na­tion of the sum to­tal of ac­tu­al­ized re­al­ity—spirit, cos­mic, or mindal. It is un­qual­i­fied in ac­tu­al­ity.

• origin › differentiation from I AM

105:2.62. The Uni­ver­sal Con­trol­ler. I AM cause of eter­nal Par­a­dise. This is the pri­mal im­per­sonal re­la­tion­ship of ac­tu­al­i­ties, the orig­i­nal non­spir­i­tual as­so­ci­a­tion. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is God-as-love; the Uni­ver­sal Con­trol­ler is God-as-pat­tern. This re­la­tion­ship es­tab­lishes the po­ten­tial of form—con­fig­u­ra­tion—and de­ter­mines the mas­ter pat­tern of im­per­sonal and non­spir­i­tual re­la­tion­ship—the mas­ter pat­tern from which all copies are made.

• nature of Paradise › an Absolute of Infinity
• nature of Paradise › master pattern for all universes in organization and destiny
• nature of Paradise › motionless nucleus between pervaded and unpervaded space
• nature of Paradise › not in space; space exists relative to
• nature of Paradise › realization-revelation of I AM force
• nature of Paradise › source and focal point of absolute material gravity

105:3.43. The Par­a­dise Source and Cen­ter. Sec­ond non­de­ity pat­tern, the eter­nal Isle of Par­a­dise; the ba­sis for the re­al­iza­tion-rev­e­la­tion of “I AM force” and the foun­da­tion for the es­tab­lish­ment of grav­ity con­trol through­out the uni­verses. Re­gard­ing all ac­tu­al­ized, non­spir­i­tual, im­per­sonal, and non­vo­li­tional re­al­ity, Par­a­dise is the ab­so­lute of pat­terns. Just as spirit en­ergy is re­lated to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther through the ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity of the Mother-Son, so is all cos­mic en­ergy grasped in the grav­ity con­trol of the First Source and Cen­ter through the ab­so­lute pat­tern of the Par­a­dise Isle. Par­a­dise is not in space; space ex­ists rel­a­tive to Par­a­dise, and the chronic­ity of mo­tion is de­ter­mined through Par­a­dise re­la­tion­ship. The eter­nal Isle is ab­so­lutely at rest; all other or­ga­nized and or­ga­niz­ing en­ergy is in eter­nal mo­tion; in all space, only the pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute is qui­es­cent, and the Un­qual­i­fied is co-or­di­nate with Par­a­dise. Par­a­dise ex­ists at the fo­cus of space, the Un­qual­i­fied per­vades it, and all rel­a­tive ex­is­tence has its be­ing within this do­main.

• nature of Paradise › an Absolute of actuality

115:3.72. The Ac­tual. The union of the three Ab­so­lutes of ac­tu­al­ity, the Sec­ond, Third, and Par­a­dise Sources and Cen­ters. This tri­odity of the Eter­nal Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit, and the Par­a­dise Isle con­sti­tutes the ac­tual rev­e­la­tion of the orig­i­nal­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter.

115:3.83. The Po­ten­tial. The union of the three Ab­so­lutes of po­ten­tial­ity, the De­ity, Un­qual­i­fied, and Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lutes. This tri­odity of ex­is­ten­tial po­ten­tial­ity con­sti­tutes the po­ten­tial rev­e­la­tion of the orig­i­nal­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter.

115:3.9The in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of the Orig­i­nal, the Ac­tual, and the Po­ten­tial yields the ten­sions within in­fin­ity which re­sult in the pos­si­bil­ity for all uni­verse growth; and growth is the na­ture of the Sev­en­fold, the Su­preme, and the Ul­ti­mate.

115:3.10In the as­so­ci­a­tion of the De­ity, Uni­ver­sal, and Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lutes, po­ten­tial­ity is ab­so­lute while ac­tu­al­ity is emer­gent; in the as­so­ci­a­tion of the Sec­ond, Third, and Par­a­dise Sources and Cen­ters, ac­tu­al­ity is ab­so­lute while po­ten­tial­ity is emer­gent; in the orig­i­nal­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter, we can­not say that ei­ther ac­tu­al­ity or po­ten­tial­ity is ei­ther ex­is­tent or emer­gent—the Fa­ther is.

• Havona is a perfect revelation of
• nature of Paradise › master pattern for all universes in organization and destiny

115:3.14It is in the tri­odity of ac­tu­al­ity that the ex­is­tents of the cos­mos have their cen­ter; be it spirit, mind, or en­ergy, all cen­ter in this as­so­ci­a­tion of the Son, the Spirit, and Par­a­dise. The per­son­al­ity of the spirit Son is the mas­ter pat­tern for all per­son­al­ity through­out all uni­verses. The sub­stance of the Par­a­dise Isle is the mas­ter pat­tern of which Ha­vona is a per­fect, and the super­uni­verses are a per­fect­ing, rev­e­la­tion. The Con­joint Ac­tor is at one and the same time the mind ac­ti­va­tion of cos­mic en­ergy, the con­cep­tu­al­iza­tion of spirit pur­pose, and the in­te­gra­tion of the math­e­mat­i­cal causes and ef­fects of the ma­te­rial lev­els with the vo­li­tional pur­poses and mo­tives of the spir­i­tual level. In and to a fi­nite uni­verse the Son, Spirit, and Par­a­dise func­tion in and upon the Ul­ti­mate as he is con­di­tioned and qual­i­fied in the Su­preme.

• nature of Paradise › part of God the Sevenfold

116:5.9These seven groups are func­tion­ally in­sep­a­ra­ble from God the Sev­en­fold and con­sti­tute the phys­i­cal-con­trol level of this De­ity as­so­ci­a­tion.

• geographical divisions of Paradise › nether Paradise › grand universe depends upon energies from

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.

• Deities of P. transcend time and space

130:7.4Time is the stream of flow­ing tem­po­ral events per­ceived by crea­ture con­scious­ness. Time is a name given to the suc­ces­sion-ar­range­ment whereby events are rec­og­nized and seg­re­gated. The uni­verse of space is a time-re­lated phe­nom­e­non as it is viewed from any in­te­rior po­si­tion out­side of the fixed abode of Par­a­dise. The mo­tion of time is only re­vealed in re­la­tion to some­thing which does not move in space as a time phe­nom­e­non. In the uni­verse of uni­verses Par­a­dise and its De­i­ties tran­scend both time and space. On the in­hab­ited worlds, hu­man per­son­al­ity (in­dwelt and ori­ented by the Par­a­dise Fa­ther’s spirit) is the only phys­i­cally re­lated re­al­ity which can tran­scend the ma­te­rial se­quence of tem­po­ral events.

• life on Paradise › ascender’s identification with spirit values is complete on

132:2.8Un­til you at­tain Par­a­dise lev­els, good­ness will al­ways be more of a quest than a pos­ses­sion, more of a goal than an ex­pe­ri­ence of at­tain­ment. But even as you hunger and thirst for righ­teous­ness, you ex­pe­ri­ence in­creas­ing sat­is­fac­tion in the par­tial at­tain­ment of good­ness. The pres­ence of good­ness and evil in the world is in it­self pos­i­tive proof of the ex­is­tence and re­al­ity of man’s moral will, the per­son­al­ity, which thus iden­ti­fies these val­ues and is also able to choose be­tween them.

132:2.9By the time of the at­tain­ment of Par­a­dise the as­cend­ing mor­tal’s ca­pac­ity for iden­ti­fy­ing the self with true spirit val­ues has be­come so en­larged as to re­sult in the at­tain­ment of the per­fec­tion of the pos­ses­sion of the light of life. Such a per­fected spirit per­son­al­ity be­comes so wholly, di­vinely, and spir­i­tu­ally uni­fied with the pos­i­tive and su­preme qual­i­ties of good­ness, beauty, and truth that there re­mains no pos­si­bil­ity that such a righ­teous spirit would cast any neg­a­tive shadow of po­ten­tial evil when ex­posed to the search­ing lu­mi­nos­ity of the di­vine light of the in­fi­nite Rulers of Par­a­dise. In all such spirit per­son­al­i­ties, good­ness is no longer par­tial, con­trastive, and com­par­a­tive; it has be­come di­vinely com­plete and spir­i­tu­ally re­plete; it ap­proaches the pu­rity and per­fec­tion of the Su­preme.

• values and realities of

189:1.3Man­kind is slow to per­ceive that, in all that is per­sonal, mat­ter is the skele­ton of mor­ontia, and that both are the re­flected shadow of en­dur­ing spirit re­al­ity. How long be­fore you will re­gard time as the mov­ing im­age of eter­nity and space as the fleet­ing shadow of Par­a­dise re­al­i­ties?

• values and realities of

195:7.4Par­a­dise val­ues of eter­nity and in­fin­ity, of truth, beauty, and good­ness, are con­cealed within the facts of the phe­nom­ena of the uni­verses of time and space. But it re­quires the eye of faith in a spirit-born mor­tal to de­tect and dis­cern these spir­i­tual val­ues.