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Every paragraph the index cites under space levels, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

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

0:8.12The func­tion of God the Sev­en­fold dates from the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the seven super­uni­verses, and it will prob­a­bly ex­pand in con­nec­tion with the fu­ture evo­lu­tion of the cre­ations of outer space. The or­ga­ni­za­tion of these fu­ture uni­verses of the pri­mary, sec­ondary, ter­tiary, and quar­tan space lev­els of pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion will un­doubt­edly wit­ness the in­au­gu­ra­tion of the tran­scen­dent and ab­so­nite ap­proach to De­ity.

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.

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.

11:7.3–6 · four paragraphs not cited here ·

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.

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.

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

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

12:1.41. The Cen­tral Uni­verse—Ha­vona.

12:1.52. The Seven Super­uni­verses.

12:1.63. The First Outer Space Level.

12:1.74. The Sec­ond Outer Space Level.

12:1.85. The Third Outer Space Level.

12:1.96. The Fourth and Out­er­most Space Level.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:2.1When Uran­tia as­tron­o­mers peer through their in­creas­ingly pow­er­ful tele­scopes into the mys­te­ri­ous stretches of outer space and there be­hold the amaz­ing evo­lu­tion of al­most count­less phys­i­cal uni­verses, they should re­al­ize that they are gaz­ing upon the mighty out­work­ing of the un­search­able plans of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse. True, we do pos­sess ev­i­dences which are sug­ges­tive of the pres­ence of cer­tain Par­a­dise per­son­al­ity in­flu­ences here and there through­out the vast en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions now char­ac­ter­is­tic of these outer re­gions, but from the larger view­point the space re­gions ex­tend­ing be­yond the outer bor­ders of the seven super­uni­verses are gen­er­ally rec­og­nized as con­sti­tut­ing the do­mains of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

12:2.2–3 · two paragraphs not cited here ·

12:2.2Al­though the un­aided hu­man eye can see only two or three neb­u­lae out­side the bor­ders of the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton, your tele­scopes lit­er­ally re­veal mil­lions upon mil­lions of these phys­i­cal uni­verses in pro­cess of for­ma­tion. Most of the starry realms vi­su­ally ex­posed to the search of your pres­ent-day tele­scopes are in Or­von­ton, but with pho­to­graphic tech­nique the larger tele­scopes pen­e­trate far be­yond the bor­ders of the grand uni­verse into the do­mains of outer space, where un­told uni­verses are in pro­cess of or­ga­ni­za­tion. And there are yet other mil­lions of uni­verses be­yond the range of your pres­ent in­stru­ments.

12:2.3In the not-dis­tant fu­ture, new tele­scopes will re­veal to the won­der­ing gaze of Uran­tian as­tron­o­mers no less than 375 mil­lion new galax­ies in the re­mote stretches of outer space. At the same time these more pow­er­ful tele­scopes will dis­close that many is­land uni­verses for­merly be­lieved to be in outer space are re­ally a part of the galac­tic sys­tem of Or­von­ton. The seven super­uni­verses are still grow­ing; the pe­riph­ery of each is grad­u­ally ex­pand­ing; new neb­u­lae are con­stantly be­ing sta­bi­lized and or­ga­nized; and some of the neb­u­lae which Uran­tian as­tron­o­mers re­gard as ex­tra­galac­tic are ac­tu­ally on the fringe of Or­von­ton and are trav­el­ing along with us.

12:2.4The Uversa star stu­dents ob­serve that the grand uni­verse is sur­rounded by the an­ces­tors of a se­ries of starry and plan­e­tary clus­ters which com­pletely en­cir­cle the pres­ent in­hab­ited cre­ation as con­cen­tric rings of outer uni­verses upon uni­verses. The physi­cists of Uversa cal­cu­late that the en­ergy and mat­ter of these outer and un­charted re­gions al­ready equal many times the to­tal ma­te­rial mass and en­ergy charge em­braced in all seven super­uni­verses. We are in­formed that the meta­mor­pho­sis of cos­mic force in these outer space lev­els is a func­tion of the Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers. We also know that these forces are an­ces­tral to those phys­i­cal en­er­gies which at pres­ent ac­ti­vate the grand uni­verse. The Or­von­ton power di­rec­tors, how­ever, have noth­ing to do with these far-dis­tant realms, nei­ther are the en­ergy move­ments therein dis­cernibly con­nected with the power cir­cuits of the or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ations.

12:2.5We know very lit­tle of the sig­nif­i­cance of these tremen­dous phe­nom­ena of outer space. A greater cre­ation of the fu­ture is in pro­cess of for­ma­tion. We can ob­serve its im­men­sity, we can dis­cern its ex­tent and sense its ma­jes­tic di­men­sions, but oth­er­wise we know lit­tle more about these realms than do the as­tron­o­mers of Uran­tia. As far as we know, no ma­te­rial be­ings on the or­der of hu­mans, no an­gels or other spirit crea­tures, ex­ist in this outer ring of neb­u­lae, suns, and plan­ets. This dis­tant do­main is be­yond the ju­ris­dic­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments.

12:2.6Through­out Or­von­ton it is be­lieved that a new type of cre­ation is in pro­cess, an or­der of uni­verses des­tined to be­come the scene of the fu­ture ac­tiv­i­ties of the as­sem­bling Corps of the Fi­nal­ity; and if our con­jec­tures are cor­rect, then the end­less fu­ture may hold for all of you the same en­thralling spec­ta­cles that the end­less past has held for your se­niors and pre­de­ces­sors.

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

12:3.92. Spir­i­tual Grav­ity. By the same tech­nique of com­par­a­tive es­ti­ma­tion and cal­cu­la­tion these re­searchers have ex­plored the pres­ent re­ac­tion ca­pac­ity of spirit grav­ity and, with the co-op­er­a­tion of Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers and other spirit per­son­al­i­ties, have ar­rived at the sum­ma­tion of the ac­tive spirit grav­ity of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. And it is most in­struc­tive to note that they find about the same value for the ac­tual and func­tional pres­ence of spirit grav­ity in the grand uni­verse that they pos­tu­late for the pres­ent to­tal of ac­tive spirit grav­ity. In other words: At the pres­ent time prac­ti­cally the en­tire spirit grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son, com­puted on this the­ory of to­tal­ity, is ob­serv­able as func­tion­ing in the grand uni­verse. If these find­ings are de­pend­able, we may con­clude that the uni­verses now evolv­ing in outer space are at the pres­ent time wholly non­spir­i­tual. And if this is true, it would sat­is­fac­to­rily ex­plain why spirit-en­dowed be­ings are in pos­ses­sion of lit­tle or no in­for­ma­tion about these vast en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions aside from know­ing the fact of their phys­i­cal ex­is­tence.

12:3.103. Mind Grav­ity. By these same prin­ci­ples of com­par­a­tive com­pu­ta­tion these ex­perts have at­tacked the prob­lem of mind-grav­ity pres­ence and re­sponse. The mind unit of es­ti­ma­tion was ar­rived at by av­er­ag­ing three ma­te­rial and three spir­i­tual types of men­tal­ity, al­though the type of mind found in the power di­rec­tors and their as­so­ciates proved to be a dis­turb­ing fac­tor in the ef­fort to ar­rive at a ba­sic unit for mind-grav­ity es­ti­ma­tion. There was lit­tle to im­pede the es­ti­ma­tion of the pres­ent ca­pac­ity of the Third Source and Cen­ter for mind-grav­ity func­tion in ac­cor­dance with this the­ory of to­tal­ity. Al­though the find­ings in this in­stance are not so con­clu­sive as in the es­ti­mates of phys­i­cal and spirit grav­ity, they are, com­par­a­tively con­sid­ered, very in­struc­tive, even in­trigu­ing. These in­ves­ti­ga­tors de­duce that about eighty-five per cent of the mind-grav­ity re­sponse to the in­tel­lec­tual draw­ing of the Con­joint Ac­tor takes ori­gin in the ex­ist­ing grand uni­verse. This would sug­gest the pos­si­bil­ity that mind ac­tiv­i­ties are in­volved in con­nec­tion with the ob­serv­able phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties now in prog­ress through­out the realms of outer space. While this es­ti­mate is prob­a­bly far from ac­cu­rate, it ac­cords, in prin­ci­ple, with our be­lief that in­tel­li­gent force or­ga­niz­ers are at pres­ent di­rect­ing uni­verse evo­lu­tion in the space lev­els be­yond the pres­ent outer lim­its of the grand uni­verse. What­ever the na­ture of this pos­tu­lated in­tel­li­gence, it is ap­par­ently not spirit-grav­ity re­spon­sive.

12:4.92. Sec­ondary mo­tion—the al­ter­nate di­rec­tional swings of the suc­ces­sive space lev­els.

12:4.10–14 · five paragraphs not cited here ·

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.

12:4.114. Com­pen­satory or cor­re­lat­ing move­ment de­signed to co-or­di­nate all other mo­tions.

12:4.12The pres­ent re­la­tion­ship of your sun and its as­so­ci­ated plan­ets, while dis­clos­ing many rel­a­tive and ab­so­lute mo­tions in space, tends to con­vey the im­pres­sion to as­tro­nomic ob­servers that you are com­par­a­tively sta­tion­ary in space, and that the sur­round­ing starry clus­ters and streams are en­gaged in out­ward flight at ever-in­creas­ing ve­loc­i­ties as your cal­cu­la­tions pro­ceed out­ward in space. But such is not the case. You fail to rec­og­nize the pres­ent out­ward and uni­form ex­pan­sion of the phys­i­cal cre­ations of all per­vaded space. Your own lo­cal cre­ation (Neb­a­don) par­tic­i­pates in this move­ment of uni­ver­sal out­ward ex­pan­sion. The en­tire seven super­uni­verses par­tic­i­pate in the two-bil­lion-year cy­cles of space res­pi­ra­tion along with the outer re­gions of the mas­ter uni­verse.

12:4.13When the uni­verses ex­pand and con­tract, the ma­te­rial masses in per­vaded space al­ter­nately move against and with the pull of Par­a­dise grav­ity. The work that is done in mov­ing the ma­te­rial en­ergy mass of cre­ation is space work but not power-en­ergy work.

12:4.14Al­though your spec­tro­scopic es­ti­ma­tions of as­tro­nomic ve­loc­i­ties are fairly re­li­able when ap­plied to the starry realms be­long­ing to your super­uni­verse and its as­so­ciate super­uni­verses, such reck­on­ings with ref­er­ence to the realms of outer space are wholly un­re­li­able. Spec­tral lines are dis­placed from the nor­mal to­wards the vi­o­let by an ap­proach­ing star; like­wise these lines are dis­placed to­wards the red by a re­ced­ing star. Many in­flu­ences in­ter­pose to make it ap­pear that the re­ces­sional ve­loc­ity of the ex­ter­nal uni­verses in­creases at the rate of more than one hun­dred miles a sec­ond for ev­ery mil­lion light-years in­crease in dis­tance. By this method of reck­on­ing, sub­se­quent to the per­fec­tion of more pow­er­ful tele­scopes, it will ap­pear that these far-dis­tant sys­tems are in flight from this part of the uni­verse at the un­be­liev­able rate of more than thirty thou­sand miles a sec­ond. But this ap­par­ent speed of re­ces­sion is not real; it re­sults from nu­mer­ous fac­tors of er­ror em­brac­ing an­gles of ob­ser­va­tion and other time-space dis­tor­tions.

12:4.15But the great­est of all such dis­tor­tions arises be­cause the vast uni­verses of outer space, in the realms next to the do­mains of the seven super­uni­verses, seem to be re­volv­ing in a di­rec­tion op­po­site to that of the grand uni­verse. That is, these myr­i­ads of neb­u­lae and their ac­com­pa­ny­ing suns and spheres are at the pres­ent time re­volv­ing clock­wise about the cen­tral cre­ation. The seven super­uni­verses re­volve about Par­a­dise in a coun­ter­clock­wise di­rec­tion. It ap­pears that the sec­ond outer uni­verse of galax­ies, like the seven super­uni­verses, re­volves coun­ter­clock­wise about Par­a­dise. And the as­tro­nomic ob­servers of Uversa think they de­tect ev­i­dence of rev­o­lu­tion­ary move­ments in a third outer belt of far-dis­tant space which are be­gin­ning to ex­hibit di­rec­tional ten­den­cies of a clock­wise na­ture.

12:4.16It is prob­a­ble that these al­ter­nate di­rec­tions of suc­ces­sive space pro­ces­sions of the uni­verses have some­thing to do with the in­tra­mas­ter uni­verse grav­ity tech­nique of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute, which con­sists of a co-or­di­na­tion of forces and an equal­iza­tion of space ten­sions. Mo­tion as well as space is a com­ple­ment or equi­li­brant of grav­ity.

13:2.2If outer uni­verses are in the mak­ing, if they are to be in­hab­ited by time crea­tures of as­cen­sion po­ten­tial, then we in­fer that these chil­dren of the fu­ture will also be des­tined to look upon As­cend­ing­ton as their Par­a­dise home world.

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.

14:1.32. The clock­wise pro­ces­sional of the three Par­a­dise and the seven Ha­vona cir­cuits.

15:1.2We have long since dis­cov­ered that the seven super­uni­verses tra­verse a great el­lipse, a gi­gan­tic and elon­gated cir­cle. Your so­lar sys­tem and other worlds of time are not plung­ing head­long, with­out chart and com­pass, into un­mapped space. The lo­cal uni­verse to which your sys­tem be­longs is pur­su­ing a def­i­nite and well-un­der­stood coun­ter­clock­wise course around the vast swing that en­cir­cles the cen­tral uni­verse. This cos­mic path is well charted and is just as thor­oughly known to the super­uni­verse star ob­servers as the or­bits of the plan­ets con­sti­tut­ing your so­lar sys­tem are known to Uran­tia as­tron­o­mers.

23:2.21These mes­sen­ger-ex­plor­ers of undi­rected as­sign­ment pa­trol the mas­ter uni­verse. They are con­stantly out on ex­plor­ing ex­pe­di­tions to the un­charted re­gions of all outer space. Very much of the in­for­ma­tion which we pos­sess of trans­ac­tions in the realms of outer space, we owe to the ex­plo­rations of the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers as they of­ten work and study with the ce­les­tial as­tron­o­mers.

23:4.5This trans­ac­tion, to­gether with many sim­i­lar oc­cur­rences in uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, un­mis­tak­ably in­di­cates that the per­son­nel of the grand uni­verse, even that of Ha­vona and Par­a­dise, is un­der­go­ing a def­i­nite and cer­tain re­or­ga­ni­za­tion in co-or­di­na­tion with, and with ref­er­ence to, the vast en­ergy evo­lu­tions now tak­ing place through­out the realms of outer space.

23:4.6We in­cline to the be­lief that the eter­nal fu­ture will wit­ness phe­nom­ena of uni­verse evo­lu­tion which will far tran­scend all that the eter­nal past has ex­pe­ri­enced. And we an­tic­i­pate such tremen­dous ad­ven­tures, even as you should, with keen rel­ish and ever-height­en­ing ex­pec­ta­tion.

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

31:0.8These six groups of glo­ri­fied be­ings com­pose this unique body of eter­nal des­tiny. We think we know their fu­ture work, but we are not cer­tain. While the Corps of the Mor­tal Fi­nal­ity is mo­bi­liz­ing on Par­a­dise, and while they now so ex­ten­sively min­is­ter to the uni­verses of space and ad­min­is­ter the worlds set­tled in light and life, their fu­ture des­ti­na­tion must be the now-or­ga­niz­ing uni­verses of outer space. At least that is the con­jec­ture of Uversa.

31:3.2We of Uversa do not know the “fi­nal­ity des­tiny” of the as­cen­dant mor­tals of time. At pres­ent they re­side on Par­a­dise and tem­porar­ily serve in the Corps of Light and Life, but such a tremen­dous course of as­cen­dant train­ing and such lengthy uni­verse dis­ci­pline must be de­signed to qual­ify them for even greater tests of trust and more sub­lime ser­vices of re­spon­si­bil­ity.

31:3.3Not­with­stand­ing that these as­cen­dant mor­tals have at­tained Par­a­dise, have been mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, and have been sent back in large num­bers to par­tic­i­pate in the con­duct of lo­cal uni­verses and to as­sist in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of super­uni­verse af­fairs—in the face of even this ap­par­ent des­tiny, there re­mains the sig­nif­i­cant fact that they are of rec­ord as only sixth-stage spir­its. There un­doubt­edly re­mains one more step in the ca­reer of the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. We do not know the na­ture of that step, but we have taken cog­nizance of, and here call at­ten­tion to, three facts:

31:3.41. We know from the rec­ords that mor­tals are spir­its of the first or­der dur­ing their so­journ in the mi­nor sec­tors, and that they ad­vance to the sec­ond or­der when trans­lated to the ma­jor sec­tors, and to the third when they go for­ward to the cen­tral train­ing worlds of the super­uni­verse. Mor­tals be­come quar­tan or grad­u­ate spir­its af­ter reach­ing the sixth cir­cle of Ha­vona and be­come spir­its of the fifth or­der when they find the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. They sub­se­quently at­tain the sixth stage of spirit ex­is­tence upon tak­ing the oath that musters them for­ever into the eter­nity as­sign­ment of the Corps of the Mor­tal Fi­nal­ity.

31:3.5We ob­serve that spirit clas­si­fi­ca­tion, or des­ig­na­tion, has been de­ter­mined by ac­tual ad­vance­ment from one realm of uni­verse ser­vice to an­other realm of uni­verse ser­vice or from one uni­verse to an­other uni­verse; and we sur­mise that the be­stowal of sev­enth-spirit clas­si­fi­ca­tion upon the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity will be si­mul­ta­ne­ous with their ad­vance­ment to eter­nal as­sign­ment for ser­vice on hith­erto un­recorded and un­re­vealed spheres and con­comi­tant with their at­tain­ment of God the Su­preme. But aside from these bold con­jec­tures, we re­ally know no more about all this than you do; our knowl­edge of the mor­tal ca­reer does not go be­yond pres­ent Par­a­dise des­tiny.

31:3.62. The mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters have fully com­plied with the in­junc­tion of the ages, “Be you per­fect”; they have as­cended the uni­ver­sal path of mor­tal at­tain­ment; they have found God, and they have been duly in­ducted into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Such be­ings have at­tained the pres­ent limit of spirit pro­gres­sion but not fi­nal­ity of ul­ti­mate spirit sta­tus. They have achieved the pres­ent limit of crea­ture per­fec­tion but not fi­nal­ity of crea­ture ser­vice. They have ex­pe­ri­enced the full­ness of De­ity wor­ship but not fi­nal­ity of ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity at­tain­ment.

31:3.73. The glo­ri­fied mor­tals of the Par­a­dise Corps of Fi­nal­ity are as­cen­dant be­ings in pos­ses­sion of ex­pe­ri­en­tial knowl­edge of ev­ery step of the ac­tu­al­ity and phi­los­o­phy of the fullest pos­si­ble life of in­tel­li­gent ex­is­tence, while dur­ing the ages of this as­cent from the low­est ma­te­rial worlds to the spir­i­tual heights of Par­a­dise, these sur­viv­ing crea­tures have been trained to the lim­its of their ca­pac­ity re­spect­ing ev­ery de­tail of ev­ery di­vine prin­ci­ple of the just and ef­fi­cient, as well as mer­ci­ful and pa­tient, ad­min­is­tra­tion of all the uni­ver­sal cre­ation of time and space.

31:3.8We deem that hu­man be­ings are en­ti­tled to share our opin­ions, and that you are free to con­jec­ture with us re­spect­ing the mys­tery of the ul­ti­mate des­tiny of the Par­a­dise Corps of Fi­nal­ity. It seems ev­i­dent to us that the pres­ent as­sign­ments of the per­fected evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures par­take of the na­ture of post­grad­u­ate courses in uni­verse un­der­stand­ing and super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion; and we all ask, “Why should the Gods be so con­cerned in so thor­oughly train­ing sur­viv­ing mor­tals in the tech­nique of uni­verse man­age­ment?”

31:7.4We of Uversa of­ten con­jec­ture re­spect­ing the iden­tity of the sev­enth group of fi­nal­i­ters. We en­ter­tain many ideas, em­brac­ing pos­si­ble as­sign­ment of some of the ac­cu­mu­lat­ing corps of the nu­mer­ous trin­i­tized groups on Par­a­dise, Vicegering­ton, and the in­ner Ha­vona cir­cuit. It is even con­jec­tured that the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity may be per­mit­ted to trini­tize many of their as­sis­tants in the work of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion in the event they are des­tined to the ser­vice of uni­verses now in the mak­ing.

31:7.5One of us holds the opin­ion that this va­cant place in the corps will be filled by some type of be­ing of ori­gin in the new uni­verse of their fu­ture ser­vice; the other in­clines to the be­lief that this place will be oc­cu­pied by some type of Par­a­dise per­son­al­ity not yet cre­ated, even­tu­ated, or trin­i­tized. But we will most likely await the en­trance of the fi­nal­i­ters upon their sev­enth stage of spirit at­tain­ment be­fore we re­ally know.

31:9.42. The Ha­vona Level. The sec­ond Ar­chi­tect even­tu­a­tion yielded three mas­ter plan­ners and ab­so­nite ad­min­is­tra­tors, and they have al­ways been de­voted to the co-or­di­na­tion of the one bil­lion per­fect spheres of the cen­tral uni­verse. Par­a­dise tra­di­tion as­serts that these three Ar­chi­tects, with the coun­sel of the pre-even­tu­ated se­nior Ar­chi­tect, con­tributed to the plan­ning of Ha­vona, but we re­ally do not know.

31:9.53. The Super­uni­verse Level. The third ab­so­nite level em­braces the seven Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects of the seven super­uni­verses, who now, as a group, spend about equal time in the com­pany of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its on Par­a­dise and with the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives on the seven spe­cial worlds of the In­fi­nite Spirit. They are the superco-or­di­na­tors of the grand uni­verse.

31:9.64. The Pri­mary Space Level. This group num­bers sev­enty Ar­chi­tects, and we con­jec­ture that they are con­cerned with the ul­ti­mate plans for the first uni­verse of outer space, now mo­bi­liz­ing be­yond the bor­ders of the pres­ent seven super­uni­verses.

31:9.75. The Sec­ondary Space Level. This fifth corps of Ar­chi­tects num­bers 490, and again we con­jec­ture that they must be con­cerned with the sec­ond uni­verse of outer space, where al­ready our physi­cists have de­tected def­i­nite en­ergy mo­bi­liza­tions.

31:9.86. The Ter­tiary Space Level. This sixth group of Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects num­bers 3,430, and we like­wise in­fer that they may be oc­cu­pied with the gi­gan­tic plans for the third uni­verse of outer space.

31:9.97. The Quar­tan Space Level. This, the fi­nal and largest corps, con­sists of 24,010 Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects, and if our for­mer con­jec­tures are valid, it must be re­lated to the fourth and last of the ever-in­creas­ing-sized uni­verses of outer space.

31:10.11We ven­ture the fore­cast of fu­ture and greater outer uni­verses of in­hab­ited worlds, new spheres peo­pled with new or­ders of ex­qui­site and unique be­ings, a ma­te­rial uni­verse sub­lime in its ul­ti­macy, a vast cre­ation lack­ing in only one im­por­tant de­tail—the pres­ence of ac­tual fi­nite ex­pe­ri­ence in the uni­ver­sal life of as­cen­dant ex­is­tence. Such a uni­verse will come into be­ing un­der a tremen­dous ex­pe­ri­en­tial hand­i­cap: the de­pri­va­tion of par­tic­i­pa­tion in the evo­lu­tion of the Al­mighty Su­preme. These outer uni­verses will all en­joy the match­less min­istry and su­per­nal over­con­trol of the Su­preme Be­ing, but the very fact of his ac­tive pres­ence pre­cludes their par­tic­i­pa­tion in the ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme De­ity.

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31:10.12Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age the evolv­ing per­son­al­i­ties of the grand uni­verse suf­fer many dif­fi­cul­ties due to the in­com­plete ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the sov­er­eignty of God the Su­preme, but we are all shar­ing the unique ex­pe­ri­ence of his evo­lu­tion. We evolve in him and he evolves in us. Some­time in the eter­nal fu­ture the evo­lu­tion of Su­preme De­ity will be­come a com­pleted fact of uni­verse his­tory, and the op­por­tu­nity to par­tic­i­pate in this won­der­ful ex­pe­ri­ence will have passed from the stage of cos­mic ac­tion.

31:10.13But those of us who have ac­quired this unique ex­pe­ri­ence dur­ing the youth of the uni­verse will trea­sure it through­out all fu­ture eter­nity. And many of us spec­u­late that it may be the mis­sion of the grad­u­ally ac­cu­mu­lat­ing re­serves of the as­cen­dant and per­fected mor­tals of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the other six sim­i­larly re­cruit­ing corps, to ad­min­is­ter these outer uni­verses in an ef­fort to com­pen­sate their ex­pe­ri­en­tial de­fi­cien­cies in not hav­ing par­tic­i­pated in the time-space evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing.

31:10.14These de­fi­cien­cies are in­ev­i­ta­ble on all lev­els of uni­verse ex­is­tence. Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age we of the higher lev­els of spir­i­tual ex­is­tences now come down to ad­min­is­ter the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses and min­is­ter to the as­cend­ing mor­tals, thus en­deav­or­ing to atone for their de­fi­cien­cies in the re­al­i­ties of the higher spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence.

31:10.15But though we re­ally know noth­ing about the plans of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse re­spect­ing these outer cre­ations, nev­er­the­less, of three things we are cer­tain:

31:10.161. There ac­tu­ally is a vast and new sys­tem of uni­verses grad­u­ally or­ga­niz­ing in the do­mains of outer space. New or­ders of phys­i­cal cre­ations, enor­mous and gi­gan­tic cir­cles of swarm­ing uni­verses upon uni­verses far out be­yond the pres­ent bounds of the peo­pled and or­ga­nized cre­ations, are ac­tu­ally vis­i­ble through your tele­scopes. At pres­ent, these outer cre­ations are wholly phys­i­cal; they are ap­par­ently un­in­hab­ited and seem to be de­void of crea­ture ad­min­is­tra­tion.

31:10.172. For ages upon ages there con­tin­ues the un­ex­plained and wholly mys­te­ri­ous Par­a­dise mo­bi­liza­tion of the per­fected and as­cen­dant be­ings of time and space, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the six other fi­nal­i­ter corps.

31:10.183. Con­comi­tantly with these trans­ac­tions the Su­preme Per­son of De­ity is pow­er­iz­ing as the al­mighty sov­er­eign of the super­cre­ations.

31:10.19As we view this tri­une de­vel­op­ment, em­brac­ing crea­tures, uni­verses, and De­ity, can we be crit­i­cized for an­tic­i­pat­ing that some­thing new and un­re­vealed is ap­proach­ing cul­mi­na­tion in the mas­ter uni­verse? Is it not nat­u­ral that we should as­so­ciate this age­long mo­bi­liza­tion and or­ga­ni­za­tion of phys­i­cal uni­verses on such a hith­erto un­known scale and the per­son­al­ity emer­gence of the Su­preme Be­ing with this stu­pen­dous scheme of up­step­ping the mor­tals of time to di­vine per­fec­tion and with their sub­se­quent mo­bi­liza­tion on Par­a­dise in the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity—a des­ig­na­tion and des­tiny en­shrouded in uni­verse mys­tery? It is in­creas­ingly the be­lief of all Uversa that the as­sem­bling Corps of the Fi­nal­ity are des­tined to some fu­ture ser­vice in the uni­verses of outer space, where we al­ready are able to iden­tify the clus­ter­ing of at least sev­enty thou­sand ag­gre­ga­tions of mat­ter, each of which is greater than any one of the pres­ent super­uni­verses.

48:8.4In travers­ing the as­cend­ing scale of liv­ing ex­is­tence from mor­tal man to the De­ity em­brace, you ac­tu­ally live the very life of ev­ery pos­si­ble phase and stage of per­fected crea­ture ex­is­tence within the lim­its of the pres­ent uni­verse age. From mor­tal man to Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ter em­braces all that now can be—en­com­passes ev­ery­thing pres­ently pos­si­ble to the liv­ing or­ders of in­tel­li­gent, per­fected fi­nite crea­ture be­ings. If the fu­ture des­tiny of the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters is ser­vice in new uni­verses now in the mak­ing, it is as­sured that in this new and fu­ture cre­ation there will be no cre­ated or­ders of ex­pe­ri­en­tial be­ings whose lives will be wholly dif­fer­ent from those which mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters have lived on some world as a part of their as­cend­ing train­ing, as one of the stages of their age­long prog­ress from an­i­mal to an­gel and from an­gel to spirit and from spirit to God.

55:10.9Spec­u­la­tion con­cern­ing the func­tion of these Cre­ator Sons in con­nec­tion with the outer uni­verses now in pro­cess of pre­lim­i­nary as­sem­bly is wholly fu­tile. But we all en­gage in such pos­tu­la­tions from time to time. On at­tain­ing this fourth stage of de­vel­op­ment the Cre­ator Son be­comes ad­min­is­tra­tively free; the Di­vine Min­is­ter is pro­gres­sively blend­ing her min­istry with that of the super­uni­verse Mas­ter Spirit and the In­fi­nite Spirit. There seems to be evolv­ing a new and sub­lime re­la­tion­ship be­tween the Cre­ator Son, the Cre­ative Spirit, the Evening Stars, the Teacher Sons, and the ever-in­creas­ing fi­nal­i­ter corps.

55:10.10If Mi­chael should ever leave Neb­a­don, Ga­briel would un­doubt­edly be­come chief ad­min­is­tra­tor with the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek as his as­so­ciate. At the same time new sta­tus would be im­parted to all or­ders of per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship, such as Ma­te­rial Sons, uni­v­i­ta­tia, mid­soniters, susa­tia, and Spirit-fused mor­tals. But as long as evo­lu­tion con­tin­ues, the ser­a­phim and the arch­an­gels will be re­quired in uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion.

55:10.11We are, how­ever, sat­is­fied re­gard­ing two fea­tures of our spec­u­la­tions: If the Cre­ator Sons are des­tined to the outer uni­verses, the Di­vine Min­is­ters will un­doubt­edly ac­com­pany them. We are equally sure that the Mel­chiz­e­deks are to re­main with the uni­verses of their ori­gin. We hold that the Mel­chiz­e­deks are des­tined to play ever-in­creas­ingly re­spon­si­ble parts in lo­cal uni­verse gov­ern­ment and ad­min­is­tra­tion.

56:7.6It is a fact that, as the cre­ations of time and space are pro­gres­sively set­tled in evo­lu­tion­ary sta­tus, there is ob­served a new and fuller func­tion­ing of God the Su­preme con­comi­tant with a cor­re­spond­ing with­draw­ing of the first three man­i­fes­ta­tions of God the Sev­en­fold. If and when the grand uni­verse be­comes set­tled in light and life, what then will be the fu­ture func­tion of the Cre­ator-Cre­ative man­i­fes­ta­tions of God the Sev­en­fold if God the Su­preme as­sumes di­rect con­trol of these cre­ations of time and space? Are these or­ga­niz­ers and pi­o­neers of the time-space uni­verses to be lib­er­ated for sim­i­lar ac­tiv­i­ties in outer space? We do not know, but we spec­u­late much con­cern­ing these and re­lated mat­ters.

56:7.7As the fron­tiers of ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity are ex­tended out into the do­mains of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, we en­vi­sion the ac­tiv­ity of God the Sev­en­fold dur­ing the ear­lier evo­lu­tion­ary epochs of these cre­ations of the fu­ture. We are not all in agree­ment re­spect­ing the fu­ture sta­tus of the An­cients of Days and the super­uni­verse Mas­ter Spir­its. Nei­ther do we know whether or not the Su­preme Be­ing will therein func­tion as in the seven super­uni­verses. But we all con­jec­ture that the Mi­cha­els, the Cre­ator Sons, are des­tined to func­tion in these outer uni­verses. Some hold that the fu­ture ages will wit­ness some closer form of union be­tween the as­so­ci­ated Cre­ator Sons and Di­vine Min­is­ters; it is even pos­si­ble that such a cre­ator union might even­tu­ate in some new ex­pres­sion of as­so­ciate-cre­ator iden­tity of an ul­ti­mate na­ture. But we re­ally know noth­ing about these pos­si­bil­i­ties of the un­re­vealed fu­ture.

56:8.2As­cen­dant fi­nal­i­ters, hav­ing been born in the lo­cal uni­verses, nur­tured in the super­uni­verses, and trained in the cen­tral uni­verse, em­brace in their per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ences the full po­ten­tial of the com­pre­hen­sion of the time-space di­vin­ity of God the Sev­en­fold uni­fy­ing in the Su­preme. Fi­nal­i­ters serve suc­ces­sively in super­uni­verses other than those of na­tiv­ity, thereby super­im­pos­ing ex­pe­ri­ence upon ex­pe­ri­ence un­til the full­ness of the sev­en­fold di­ver­sity of pos­si­ble crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence has been en­com­passed. Through the min­istry of the in­dwelling Ad­justers the fi­nal­i­ters are en­abled to find the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, but it is by these tech­niques of ex­pe­ri­ence that such fi­nal­i­ters come re­ally to know the Su­preme Be­ing, and they are des­tined to the ser­vice and the rev­e­la­tion of this Su­preme De­ity in and to the fu­ture uni­verses of outer space.

57:3.2The near-by star stu­dents of that far­away era, as they ob­served this meta­mor­pho­sis of the And­ro­no­ver neb­ula, saw ex­actly what twen­ti­eth-cen­tury as­tron­o­mers see when they turn their tele­scopes space­ward and view the pres­ent-age spi­ral neb­u­lae of ad­ja­cent outer space.

106:0.31. In­com­plete finites. This is the pres­ent sta­tus of the as­cend­ing crea­tures of the grand uni­verse, the pres­ent sta­tus of Uran­tia mor­tals. This level em­braces crea­ture ex­is­tence from the plan­e­tary hu­man up to, but not in­clud­ing, des­tiny at­tain­ers. It per­tains to uni­verses from early phys­i­cal be­gin­nings up to, but not in­clud­ing, set­tle­ment in light and life. This level con­sti­tutes the pres­ent pe­riph­ery of cre­ative ac­tiv­ity in time and space. It ap­pears to be mov­ing out­ward from Par­a­dise, for the clos­ing of the pres­ent uni­verse age, which will wit­ness the grand uni­verse at­tain­ment of light and life, will also and surely wit­ness the ap­pear­ance of some new or­der of de­vel­op­men­tal growth in the first outer space level.

112:7.15The pres­ent known des­tiny of sur­viv­ing mor­tals is the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity; this is also the goal of des­tiny for all Thought Ad­justers who be­come joined in eter­nal union with their mor­tal com­pan­ions. At pres­ent the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters are work­ing through­out the grand uni­verse in many un­der­tak­ings, but we all con­jec­ture that they will have other and even more su­per­nal tasks to per­form in the dis­tant fu­ture af­ter the seven super­uni­verses have be­come set­tled in light and life, and when the fi­nite God has fi­nally emerged from the mys­tery which now sur­rounds this Su­preme De­ity.

112:7.16You have been in­structed to a cer­tain ex­tent about the or­ga­ni­za­tion and per­son­nel of the cen­tral uni­verse, the super­uni­verses, and the lo­cal uni­verses; you have been told some­thing about the char­ac­ter and ori­gin of some of the var­i­ous per­son­al­i­ties who now rule these far-flung cre­ations. You have also been in­formed that there are in pro­cess of or­ga­ni­za­tion vast galax­ies of uni­verses far out be­yond the pe­riph­ery of the grand uni­verse, in the first outer space level. It has also been in­ti­mated in the course of these nar­ra­tives that the Su­preme Be­ing is to dis­close his un­re­vealed ter­tiary func­tion in these now un­charted re­gions of outer space; and you have also been told that the fi­nal­i­ters of the Par­a­dise corps are the ex­pe­ri­en­tial chil­dren of the Su­preme.

112:7.17We be­lieve that the mor­tals of Ad­juster fu­sion, to­gether with their fi­nal­i­ter as­so­ciates, are des­tined to func­tion in some man­ner in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­verses of the first outer space level. We have not the slight­est doubt that in due time these enor­mous galax­ies will be­come in­hab­ited uni­verses. And we are equally con­vinced that among the ad­min­is­tra­tors thereof will be found the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters whose na­tures are the cos­mic con­se­quence of the blend­ing of crea­ture and Cre­ator.

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

117:2.6There will come an end some­time to the growth of the Su­preme; his sta­tus will achieve com­ple­tion (in the en­ergy-spirit sense). This ter­mi­na­tion of the evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme will also wit­ness the end­ing of crea­ture evo­lu­tion as a part of Su­prem­acy. What kind of growth may char­ac­ter­ize the uni­verses of outer space, we do not know. But we are very sure that it will be some­thing very dif­fer­ent from any­thing that has been seen in the pres­ent age of the evo­lu­tion of the seven super­uni­verses. It will un­doubt­edly be the func­tion of the evo­lu­tion­ary cit­i­zens of the grand uni­verse to com­pen­sate the outer-spac­ers for this de­pri­va­tion of the growth of Su­prem­acy.

117:2.7As ex­is­tent upon the con­sum­ma­tion of the pres­ent uni­verse age, the Su­preme Be­ing will func­tion as an ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eign in the grand uni­verse. Outer-spac­ers—cit­i­zens of the next uni­verse age—will have a post­super­uni­verse growth po­ten­tial, a ca­pac­ity for evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment pre­sup­pos­ing the sov­er­eignty of the Al­mighty Su­preme, hence ex­clud­ing crea­ture par­tic­i­pa­tion in the power-per­son­al­ity syn­the­sis of the pres­ent uni­verse age.

119:8.7In pass­ing through the ex­pe­ri­ence of re­veal­ing the Seven Mas­ter Spirit wills of the Trin­ity, the Cre­ator Son has passed through the ex­pe­ri­ence of re­veal­ing the will of the Su­preme. In func­tion­ing as a rev­e­la­tor of the will of Su­prem­acy, Mi­chael, to­gether with all other Mas­ter Sons, has iden­ti­fied him­self eter­nally with the Su­preme. In this uni­verse age he re­veals the Su­preme and par­tic­i­pates in the ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the sov­er­eignty of Su­prem­acy. But in the next uni­verse age we be­lieve he will be col­lab­o­rat­ing with the Su­preme Be­ing in the first ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity for and in the uni­verses of outer space.

Onward

See also outer-spacers; Havona; superuniverses, the seven; space

Cited alongside: Corps of Mortal Finaliters, finaliters, speculations, Supreme, the, space, Architects of the Master Universe, ascending mortals, midspace zones