speculations

• origin of motion?
• what causes outer space force-energy transmutations?

12:4.2The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute is func­tion­ally lim­ited to space, but we are not so sure about the re­la­tion of this Ab­so­lute to mo­tion. Is mo­tion in­her­ent therein? We do not know. We know that mo­tion is not in­her­ent in space; even the mo­tions of space are not in­nate. But we are not so sure about the re­la­tion of the Un­qual­i­fied to mo­tion. Who, or what, is re­ally re­spon­si­ble for the gi­gan­tic ac­tiv­i­ties of force-en­ergy trans­mu­ta­tions now in prog­ress out be­yond the bor­ders of the pres­ent seven super­uni­verses? Con­cern­ing the ori­gin of mo­tion we have the fol­low­ing opin­ions:

12:4.31. We think the Con­joint Ac­tor ini­ti­ates mo­tion in space.

12:4.42. If the Con­joint Ac­tor pro­duces the mo­tions of space, we can­not prove it.

12:4.53. The Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute does not orig­i­nate ini­tial mo­tion but does equal­ize and con­trol all of the ten­sions orig­i­nated by mo­tion.

12:4.6In outer space the force or­ga­niz­ers are ap­par­ently re­spon­si­ble for the pro­duc­tion of the gi­gan­tic uni­verse wheels which are now in pro­cess of stel­lar evo­lu­tion, but their abil­ity so to func­tion must have been made pos­si­ble by some mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

• Divinington

13:1.5The se­crets of Di­vin­ing­ton in­clude the se­cret of the be­stowal and mis­sion of Thought Ad­justers. Their na­ture, ori­gin, and the tech­nique of their con­tact with the lowly crea­tures of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds is a se­cret of this Par­a­dise sphere. These amaz­ing trans­ac­tions do not per­son­ally con­cern the rest of us, and there­fore do the De­i­ties deem it proper to with­hold cer­tain fea­tures of this great and di­vine min­istry from our full un­der­stand­ing. In so far as we come in con­tact with this phase of di­vine ac­tiv­ity, we are per­mit­ted full knowl­edge of these trans­ac­tions, but con­cern­ing the in­ti­mate de­tails of this great be­stowal we are not fully in­formed.

13:1.6This sphere also holds the se­crets of the na­ture, pur­pose, and ac­tiv­i­ties of all other forms of Fa­ther frag­ments, of the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers, and of hosts of other be­ings un­re­vealed to you. It is highly prob­a­ble that those truths per­tain­ing to Di­vin­ing­ton which are with­held from me, if re­vealed, would merely con­fuse and hand­i­cap me in my pres­ent work, and still again, per­haps they are be­yond the con­cep­tual ca­pac­ity of my or­der of be­ing.

• usefulness of speculations › high spirit personalities not given to gratification of purposeless curiosity

13:3.3As far as I am in­formed, no per­son­al­ity has ever been on any one of these spheres of the Eter­nal Son. I have never been as­signed to visit one of these worlds in all my long ex­pe­ri­ence in and out of Par­a­dise. Even the per­son­al­i­ties cocre­ated by the Eter­nal Son do not go to these worlds. We in­fer that all types of im­per­sonal spir­its—re­gard­less of parent­age—are ad­mit­ted to these spirit homes. As I am a per­son and have a spirit form, no doubt such a world would seem empty and de­serted even if I were per­mit­ted to pay it a visit. High spirit per­son­al­i­ties are not given to the grat­i­fi­ca­tion of pur­pose­less cu­rios­ity, purely use­less ad­ven­ture. There is at all times al­to­gether too much in­trigu­ing and pur­pose­ful ad­ven­ture to per­mit the de­vel­op­ment of any great in­ter­est in those projects which are ei­ther fu­tile or un­real.

• future citizens of Havona?

19:6.4The sta­tus evo­lu­tion of Ha­vona na­tives has oc­ca­sioned much spec­u­la­tion on Uversa. Since they are con­stantly fil­ter­ing into the sev­eral Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, and since no more are be­ing cre­ated, it is ap­par­ent that the num­ber of na­tives re­main­ing in Ha­vona is con­stantly di­min­ish­ing. The ul­ti­mate con­se­quences of these trans­ac­tions have never been re­vealed to us, but we do not be­lieve that Ha­vona will ever be en­tirely de­pleted of its na­tives. We have en­ter­tained the the­ory that Havon­ers will pos­si­bly cease en­ter­ing the fi­nal­i­ter corps some­time dur­ing the ages of the suc­ces­sive cre­ations of the outer space lev­els. We have also en­ter­tained the thought that in these sub­se­quent uni­verse ages the cen­tral uni­verse may be peo­pled by a mixed group of res­i­dent be­ings, a cit­i­zen­ship con­sist­ing only in part of the orig­i­nal Ha­vona na­tives. We do not know what or­der or type of crea­ture may be thus des­tined to res­i­den­tial sta­tus in the fu­ture Ha­vona, but we have thought of:

19:6.51. The uni­v­i­ta­tia, who are at pres­ent the per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of the lo­cal uni­verse con­stel­la­tions.

19:6.62. Fu­ture types of mor­tals who may be born on the in­hab­ited spheres of the super­uni­verses in the flow­er­ing of the ages of light and life.

19:6.73. The in­com­ing spir­i­tual aris­toc­racy of the suc­ces­sive outer uni­verses.

• usefulness of speculations › waste no time upon futile conjectures

20:6.1The method whereby a Par­a­dise Son be­comes ready for mor­tal in­car­na­tion as a be­stowal Son, be­comes en­moth­ered on the be­stowal planet, is a uni­ver­sal mys­tery; and any ef­fort to de­tect the work­ing of this Sonar­ing­ton tech­nique is doomed to meet with cer­tain fail­ure. Let the sub­lime knowl­edge of the mor­tal life of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth sink into your souls, but waste no thought in use­less spec­u­la­tion as to how this mys­te­ri­ous in­car­na­tion of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don was ef­fected. Let us all re­joice in the knowl­edge and as­sur­ance that such achieve­ments are pos­si­ble to the di­vine na­ture and waste no time on fu­tile con­jec­tures about the tech­nique em­ployed by di­vine wis­dom to ef­fect such phe­nom­ena.

• association of Trinity Teacher Sons with finaliters in outer space?

20:9.5The Trin­ity Teacher Sons seem to be so com­pletely iden­ti­fied with the regime of mor­tal pro­gres­sion through the ear­lier stages of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cen­sion that we are of­ten led to spec­u­late re­gard­ing their pos­si­ble as­so­ci­a­tion with the fi­nal­i­ters in the undis­closed ca­reer of the fu­ture uni­verses. We ob­serve that the ad­min­is­tra­tors of the super­uni­verses are part Trin­ity-ori­gin per­son­al­i­ties and part Trin­ity-em­braced as­cen­dant evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures. We firmly be­lieve that the Teacher Sons and the fi­nal­i­ters are now en­gaged in ac­quir­ing the ex­pe­ri­ence of time-as­so­ci­a­tion which may be the pre­lim­i­nary train­ing to pre­pare them for close as­so­ci­a­tion in some un­re­vealed fu­ture des­tiny. On Uversa it is our be­lief that, when the super­uni­verses are fi­nally set­tled in light and life, these Par­a­dise Teacher Sons, who have be­come so thor­oughly fa­mil­iar with the prob­lems of evo­lu­tion­ary worlds and have been so long as­so­ci­ated with the ca­reer of evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals, will prob­a­bly be trans­ferred to eter­nal as­so­ci­a­tion with the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

• function of Creator Sons in outer universes?

21:6.1No one may with fi­nal­ity of au­thor­ity pre­sume to dis­cuss ei­ther the na­tures or the des­tinies of the sev­en­fold Mas­ter Sov­er­eigns of the lo­cal uni­verses; nev­er­the­less, we all spec­u­late much re­gard­ing these mat­ters. We are taught, and we be­lieve, that each Par­a­dise Mi­chael is the ab­so­lute of the dual de­ity con­cepts of his ori­gin; thus he em­bod­ies ac­tual phases of the in­fin­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son. The Mi­cha­els must be par­tial in re­la­tion to to­tal in­fin­ity, but they are prob­a­bly ab­so­lute in re­la­tion to that part of in­fin­ity con­cerned in their ori­gin. But as we ob­serve their work in the pres­ent uni­verse age, we de­tect no ac­tion that is more than fi­nite; any con­jec­tured super­fi­nite ca­pac­i­ties must be self-con­tained and as yet un­re­vealed.

• destiny of Solitary Messengers?

23:3.4It is wholly be­yond my abil­ity to ex­plain to the ma­te­rial type of mind how a spirit can be a real per­son and at the same time tra­verse space at such tremen­dous ve­loc­i­ties. But these very Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers ac­tu­ally come to, and go from, Uran­tia at these in­com­pre­hen­si­ble speeds; in­deed, the whole econ­omy of uni­ver­sal ad­min­is­tra­tion would be largely de­prived of its per­sonal el­e­ment were this not a fact.

• Are Solitary Messengers connected with bestowal of Supreme-Ultimate Mind?

23:4.2The Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers demon­strate such an amaz­ing abil­ity to co-or­di­nate all types and or­ders of fi­nite per­son­al­ity—even to make con­tact with the ab­so­nite regime of the mas­ter uni­verse over­con­trollers—that some of us pos­tu­late that the cre­ation of these mes­sen­gers by the In­fi­nite Spirit is in some man­ner re­lated to the Con­joint Ac­tor’s be­stowal of Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate Mind.

23:4.3When a fi­nal­i­ter and a Par­a­dise Cit­i­zen co-op­er­ate in the trin­i­ti­za­tion of a “child of time and eter­nity”—a trans­ac­tion in­volv­ing the un­re­vealed mind po­ten­tials of the Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate—and when such an un­clas­si­fied per­son­al­ity is dis­patched to Vicegering­ton, a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger (a con­jec­tured per­son­al­ity reper­cus­sion of the be­stowal of such de­ity mind) is al­ways as­signed as guard­ian-com­pan­ion to such a crea­ture-trin­i­tized son. This mes­sen­ger ac­com­pa­nies the new son of des­tiny to the world of his as­sign­ment and nev­er­more leaves Vicegering­ton. When thus at­tached to the des­tinies of a child of time and eter­nity, a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger is for­ever trans­ferred to the sole super­vi­sion of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse. What the fu­ture of such an ex­traor­di­nary as­so­ci­a­tion may be, we do not know. For ages these part­ner­ships of unique per­son­al­i­ties have con­tin­ued to for­gather on Vicegering­ton, but not even a sin­gle pair has ever gone forth there­from.

• Inspired Trinity Spirits take place of Solitary Messengers?

23:4.4Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers are of sta­tion­ary num­bers, but the trin­i­ti­za­tion of the sons of des­tiny is ap­par­ently an un­lim­ited tech­nique. Since each trin­i­tized son of des­tiny has as­signed to him a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger, it ap­pears to us that at some time in the re­mote fu­ture the sup­ply of mes­sen­gers will be­come ex­hausted. Who will take up their work in the grand uni­verse? Will their ser­vice be as­sumed by some new de­vel­op­ment among the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its? Is the grand uni­verse at some re­mote pe­riod go­ing to be more nearly ad­min­is­tered by Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings while the sin­gle- and dual-ori­gin crea­tures move on into the realms of outer space? If the mes­sen­gers re­turn to their for­mer ser­vice, will these sons of des­tiny ac­com­pany them? Will the trini­ti­za­tions be­tween fi­nal­i­ters and Par­a­dise-Havon­ers cease when the sup­ply of Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers has been ab­sorbed as guard­ian-com­pan­ions of these sons of des­tiny? Are all our ef­fi­cient Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers go­ing to be con­cen­trated on Vicegering­ton? Are these ex­traor­di­nary spirit per­son­al­i­ties go­ing to be eter­nally as­so­ci­ated with these trin­i­tized sons of un­re­vealed des­tiny? What sig­nif­i­cance should we at­tach to the fact that these cou­ples for­gath­er­ing on Vicegering­ton are un­der the ex­clu­sive di­rec­tion of those mighty mys­tery be­ings, the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse? These and many sim­i­lar ques­tions we ask our­selves, and ask nu­mer­ous other or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings, but we do not know the an­swers.

• usefulness of speculations › stimulus of creative speculation

30:0.2It is not pos­si­ble to for­mu­late com­pre­hen­sive and en­tirely con­sis­tent clas­si­fi­ca­tions of the per­son­al­i­ties of the grand uni­verse be­cause all of the groups are not re­vealed. It would re­quire nu­mer­ous ad­di­tional pa­pers to cover the fur­ther rev­e­la­tion re­quired to sys­tem­at­i­cally clas­sify all groups. Such con­cep­tual ex­pan­sion would hardly be de­sir­able as it would de­prive the think­ing mor­tals of the next thou­sand years of that stim­u­lus to cre­ative spec­u­la­tion which these par­tially re­vealed con­cepts sup­ply. It is best that man not have an over­rev­e­la­tion; it sti­fles imag­i­na­tion.

• finaliters become 7th stage spirits upon attainment of Supreme?

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.

• identity of 1000th member of finaliter companies?

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.

• future of outer space universes?

31:10.10The gath­er­ing to­gether of these seven fi­nal­i­ter corps sig­ni­fies re­al­ity mo­bi­liza­tion of po­ten­tials, per­son­al­i­ties, minds, spir­its, ab­sonites, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial ac­tu­al­i­ties that prob­a­bly tran­scend even the fu­ture mas­ter uni­verse func­tions of the Su­preme Be­ing. These seven fi­nal­i­ter corps prob­a­bly sig­nify the pres­ent ac­tiv­ity of the Ul­ti­mate Trin­ity en­gaged in mus­ter­ing the forces of the fi­nite and the ab­so­nite in prepa­ra­tion for in­con­ceiv­able de­vel­op­ments in the uni­verses of outer space. Noth­ing like this mo­bi­liza­tion has taken place since the near times of eter­nity when the Par­a­dise Trin­ity sim­i­larly mo­bi­lized the then ex­ist­ing per­son­al­i­ties of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona and com­mis­sioned them as ad­min­is­tra­tors and rulers of the pro­jected seven super­uni­verses of time and space. The seven fi­nal­i­ter corps rep­re­sent the di­vin­ity re­sponse of the grand uni­verse to the fu­ture needs of the un­de­vel­oped po­ten­tials in the outer uni­verses of fu­ture-eter­nal ac­tiv­i­ties.

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.

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.

• spornagia someday escape animal existence?

46:7.8There are those who be­lieve that, in a fu­ture uni­verse age, these faith­ful sporna­gia will es­cape from their an­i­mal level of ex­is­tence and at­tain a wor­thy evo­lu­tional des­tiny of pro­gres­sive in­tel­lec­tual growth and even spir­i­tual achieve­ment.

• if grand universe in light and life, will mortals still be destined for the Corps of Finality?

55:6.10We of­ten pon­der: If the grand uni­verse should be set­tled in light and life, would the as­cend­ing ex­qui­site mor­tals still be des­tined to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity? But we do not know.

• regarding Urantia › son and daughter of Adam and Eve return?
• regarding Urantia › will Machiventa Melchizedek become Planetary Sovereign?

55:7.3When such an era is at­tained on your world, no doubt Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, now the vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia, will oc­cupy the seat of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign; and it has long been con­jec­tured on Je­ru­sem that he will be ac­com­pa­nied by a son and daugh­ter of the Uran­tia Adam and Eve who are now held on Eden­tia as wards of the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek. These chil­dren of Adam might so serve on Uran­tia in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Mel­chiz­e­dek-Sov­er­eign since they were de­prived of pro­cre­ative pow­ers al­most 37,000 years ago at the time they gave up their ma­te­rial bod­ies on Uran­tia in prepa­ra­tion for tran­sit to Eden­tia.

• function of Creator Sons in outer universes?
• usefulness of speculations › futile, but all engage in

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.

• Supreme Being emerge from Havona when superuniverses achieve light and life?

55:12.5None of us en­ter­tain a sat­is­fac­tory con­cept of what will hap­pen when the grand uni­verse (the seven super­uni­verses as de­pen­dent on Ha­vona) be­comes en­tirely set­tled in light and life. That event will un­doubt­edly be the most pro­found oc­cur­rence in the an­nals of eter­nity since the ap­pear­ance of the cen­tral uni­verse. There are those who hold that the Su­preme Be­ing him­self will emerge from the Ha­vona mys­tery en­shroud­ing his spirit per­son and will be­come res­i­den­tial on the head­quar­ters of the sev­enth super­uni­verse as the al­mighty and ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eign of the per­fected cre­ations of time and space. But we re­ally do not know.

• function of Creator Sons in outer universes?
• future administration of grand universe?
• Supreme someday assumes control of 7 superuniverses?

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.

56:7.8We do know, how­ever, that in the uni­verses of time and space, God the Sev­en­fold pro­vides a pro­gres­sive ap­proach to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and that this evo­lu­tion­ary ap­proach is ex­pe­ri­en­tially uni­fied in God the Su­preme. We might con­jec­ture that such a plan must pre­vail in the outer uni­verses; on the other hand, the new or­ders of be­ings that may some­time in­habit these uni­verses may be able to ap­proach De­ity on ul­ti­mate lev­els and by ab­so­nite tech­niques. In short, we have not the slight­est con­cept of what tech­nique of de­ity ap­proach may be­come op­er­a­tive in the fu­ture uni­verses of outer space.

56:7.9Nev­er­the­less, we deem that the per­fected super­uni­verses will in some way be­come a part of the Par­a­dise-as­cen­sion ca­reers of those be­ings who may in­habit these outer cre­ations. It is quite pos­si­ble that in that fu­ture age we may wit­ness outer-spac­ers ap­proach­ing Ha­vona through the seven super­uni­verses, ad­min­is­tered by God the Su­preme with or with­out the col­lab­o­ra­tion of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

• do Universal Absolute, Deity Absolute represent unlimited function of Trinity?
• is Unqualified Absolute independent of Trinity?

56:9.3Is the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute a force pres­ence in­de­pen­dent of the Trin­ity? Does the pres­ence of the De­ity Ab­so­lute con­note the un­lim­ited func­tion of the Trin­ity? and is the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute the fi­nal func­tion of the Trin­ity, even a Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties?

• regarding Urantia › had Mogul empire not broken up

79:1.9The last great man­i­fes­ta­tion of the sub­merged mil­i­tary ge­nius of the cen­tral Asi­atic And­ites was in A.D. 1200, when the Mon­gols un­der Genghis Khan be­gan the con­quest of the greater por­tion of the Asi­atic con­ti­nent. And like the And­ites of old, these war­riors pro­claimed the ex­is­tence of “one God in heaven.” The early breakup of their em­pire long de­layed cul­tural in­ter­course be­tween Oc­ci­dent and Ori­ent and greatly hand­i­capped the growth of the mono­the­is­tic con­cept in Asia.

• regarding Urantia › had Andites driven secondary Sangiks out of India

79:2.8Had the And­ite con­querors been in num­bers three times what they were, or had they driven out or de­stroyed the least de­sir­able third of the mixed or­ange-green-in­digo in­hab­i­tants, then would In­dia have be­come one of the world’s lead­ing cen­ters of cul­tural civ­i­liza­tion and un­doubt­edly would have at­tracted more of the later waves of Mes­o­po­ta­mi­ans that flowed into Tur­kes­tan and thence north­ward to Eu­rope.

• regarding Urantia › had Andites driven secondary Sangiks out of India

79:3.5But for more than seven thou­sand years, down to the end of the And­ite mi­gra­tions, the re­li­gious sta­tus of the in­hab­i­tants of In­dia was far above that of the world at large. Dur­ing these times In­dia bid fair to pro­duce the lead­ing cul­tural, re­li­gious, philo­sophic, and com­mer­cial civ­i­liza­tion of the world. And but for the com­plete sub­mer­gence of the And­ites by the peo­ples of the south, this des­tiny would prob­a­bly have been re­al­ized.

• regarding Urantia › had China’s mountains not hindered Andite migrations

79:6.13And but for the moun­tain bar­ri­ers and the later de­cline in spir­i­tual cul­ture, the yel­low race un­doubt­edly would have at­tracted to it­self the larger part of the And­ite mi­gra­tions from Tur­kes­tan and un­ques­tion­ably would have quickly dom­i­nated world civ­i­liza­tion.

• regarding Urantia › future of Urantia’s celestial government?

93:10.5Ma­chi­venta con­tin­ued as a plan­e­tary re­ceiver up to the times of the tri­umph of Mi­chael on Uran­tia. Sub­se­quently, he was at­tached to the Uran­tia ser­vice on Je­ru­sem as one of the four and twenty di­rec­tors, only just re­cently hav­ing been el­e­vated to the po­si­tion of per­sonal am­bas­sador on Je­ru­sem of the Cre­ator Son, bear­ing the ti­tle Vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia. It is our be­lief that, as long as Uran­tia re­mains an in­hab­ited planet, Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek will not be fully re­turned to the du­ties of his or­der of son­ship but will re­main, speak­ing in the terms of time, for­ever a plan­e­tary min­is­ter rep­re­sent­ing Christ Mi­chael.

93:10.6As his was an emer­gency be­stowal on Uran­tia, it does not ap­pear from the rec­ords what Ma­chi­venta’s fu­ture may be. It may de­velop that the Mel­chiz­e­dek corps of Neb­a­don have sus­tained the per­ma­nent loss of one of their num­ber. Re­cent rul­ings handed down from the Most Highs of Eden­tia, and later con­firmed by the An­cients of Days of Uversa, strongly sug­gest that this be­stowal Mel­chiz­e­dek is des­tined to take the place of the fallen Plan­e­tary Prince, Cali­gas­tia. If our con­jec­tures in this re­spect are cor­rect, it is al­to­gether pos­si­ble that Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek may again ap­pear in per­son on Uran­tia and in some mod­i­fied man­ner re­sume the role of the de­throned Plan­e­tary Prince, or else ap­pear on earth to func­tion as vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince rep­re­sent­ing Christ Mi­chael, who now ac­tu­ally holds the ti­tle of Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia. While it is far from clear to us as to what Ma­chi­venta’s des­tiny may be, nev­er­the­less, events which have so re­cently taken place strongly sug­gest that the fore­go­ing con­jec­tures are prob­a­bly not far from the truth.

93:10.7We well un­der­stand how, by his tri­umph on Uran­tia, Mi­chael be­came the suc­ces­sor of both Cali­gas­tia and Adam; how he be­came the plan­e­tary Prince of Peace and the sec­ond Adam. And now we be­hold the con­fer­ring upon this Mel­chiz­e­dek of the ti­tle Vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia. Will he also be con­sti­tuted Vicegerent Ma­te­rial Son of Uran­tia? Or is there a pos­si­bil­ity that an un­ex­pected and un­prece­dented event is to take place, the some­time re­turn to the planet of Adam and Eve or cer­tain of their progeny as rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Mi­chael with the ti­tles vicegerents of the sec­ond Adam of Uran­tia?

93:10.8And all these spec­u­la­tions as­so­ci­ated with the cer­tainty of fu­ture ap­pear­ances of both Mag­is­te­rial and Trin­ity Teacher Sons, in con­junc­tion with the ex­plicit prom­ise of the Cre­ator Son to re­turn some­time, make Uran­tia a planet of fu­ture un­cer­tainty and ren­der it one of the most in­ter­est­ing and in­trigu­ing spheres in all the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. It is al­to­gether pos­si­ble that, in some fu­ture age when Uran­tia is ap­proach­ing the era of light and life, af­ter the af­fairs of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion and the Cali­gas­tia se­ces­sion have been fi­nally ad­ju­di­cated, we may wit­ness the pres­ence on Uran­tia, si­mul­ta­ne­ously, of Ma­chi­venta, Adam, Eve, and Christ Mi­chael, as well as ei­ther a Mag­is­te­rial Son or even Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

• usefulness of speculations › chill comfort to hungry multitudes

94:11.13At times the Ab­so­lute was even thought of as con­tained within the in­fi­nite I AM. But these spec­u­la­tions were chill com­fort to the hun­gry mul­ti­tudes who craved to hear words of prom­ise, to hear the sim­ple gospel of Salem, that faith in God would as­sure di­vine fa­vor and eter­nal sur­vival.

• usefulness of speculations › religious s. inevitable but always detrimental
• usefulness of speculations › s. invariably falsify their object

102:3.2Re­li­gious spec­u­la­tion is in­ev­i­ta­ble but al­ways detri­men­tal; spec­u­la­tion in­vari­ably fal­si­fies its ob­ject. Spec­u­la­tion tends to trans­late re­li­gion into some­thing ma­te­rial or hu­man­is­tic, and thus, while di­rectly in­ter­fer­ing with the clar­ity of log­i­cal thought, it in­di­rectly causes re­li­gion to ap­pear as a func­tion of the tem­po­ral world, the very world with which it should ev­er­last­ingly stand in con­trast. There­fore will re­li­gion al­ways be char­ac­ter­ized by para­doxes, the para­doxes re­sult­ing from the ab­sence of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial con­nec­tion be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual lev­els of the uni­verse—mor­ontia mota, the super­phil­o­sophic sen­si­tiv­ity for truth dis­cern­ment and unity per­cep­tion.

• usefulness of speculations › hardly profitable for human mind to seek to grasp faraway and superhuman concepts

106:6.6While it is hardly prof­itable for the hu­man mind to seek to grasp such far­away and super­hu­man con­cepts, we would sug­gest that the eter­nity ac­tion of the Trin­ity Ab­so­lute may be thought of as cul­mi­nat­ing in some kind of ex­pe­ri­en­tial­iza­tion of the Ab­so­lutes of po­ten­tial­ity. This would ap­pear to be a rea­son­able con­clu­sion with re­spect to the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute, if not the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute; at least we know that the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute is not only static and po­ten­tial but also as­so­cia­tive in the to­tal De­ity sense of those words. But in re­gard to the con­ceiv­able val­ues of di­vin­ity and per­son­al­ity, these con­jec­tured hap­pen­ings im­ply the per­son­al­iza­tion of the De­ity Ab­so­lute and the ap­pear­ance of those super­per­sonal val­ues and those ul­tra­p­er­sonal mean­ings in­her­ent in the per­son­al­ity com­ple­tion of God the Ab­so­lute—the third and last of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties.

• usefulness of speculations › improbability of goal attainment does not prevent philosophical theorizing

106:7.4The im­prob­a­bil­ity of goal at­tain­ment does not, how­ever, pre­vent phil­o­soph­i­cal the­o­riz­ing about such hy­po­thet­i­cal des­tinies. The ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the De­ity Ab­so­lute as an at­tain­able ab­so­lute God may be prac­ti­cally im­pos­si­ble of re­al­iza­tion; nev­er­the­less, such a fi­nal­ity fruition re­mains a the­o­ret­i­cal pos­si­bil­ity. The in­volve­ment of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute in some in­con­ceiv­able cos­mos-in­fi­nite may be mea­sure­lessly re­mote in the fu­tu­rity of end­less eter­nity, but such a hy­poth­e­sis is nonethe­less valid. Mor­tals, mor­ontians, spir­its, fi­nal­i­ters, Tran­scen­den­talers, and oth­ers, to­gether with the uni­verses them­selves and all other phases of re­al­ity, cer­tainly do have a po­ten­tially fi­nal des­tiny that is ab­so­lute in value; but we doubt that any be­ing or uni­verse will ever com­pletely at­tain all of the as­pects of such a des­tiny.

• usefulness of speculations › improbability of goal attainment does not prevent philosophical theorizing

106:7.9The im­prob­a­bil­ity of in­fi­nite des­tiny at­tain­ment does not in the least pre­vent the en­ter­tain­ment of ideas about such des­tiny, and we do not hes­i­tate to say that, if the three ab­so­lute po­ten­tials could ever be­come com­pletely ac­tu­al­ized, it would be pos­si­ble to con­ceive of the fi­nal in­te­gra­tion of to­tal re­al­ity. This de­vel­op­men­tal re­al­iza­tion is pred­i­cated on the com­pleted ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Un­qual­i­fied, Uni­ver­sal, and De­ity Ab­so­lutes, the three po­ten­tial­i­ties whose union con­sti­tutes the la­tency of the I AM, the sus­pended re­al­i­ties of eter­nity, the abeyant pos­si­bil­i­ties of all fu­tu­rity, and more.

• 7 finaliter corps will be directed by the Supreme?

117:7.7When mor­tal as­cend­ers are ad­mit­ted to the fi­nal­i­ter corps of Par­a­dise, they take an oath to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, and in tak­ing this oath of al­le­giance, they are thereby pledg­ing eter­nal fi­delity to God the Su­preme, who is the Trin­ity as com­pre­hended by all fi­nite crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties. Sub­se­quently, as the fi­nal­i­ter com­pa­nies func­tion through­out the evolv­ing uni­verses, they are solely amenable to the man­dates of Par­a­dise ori­gin un­til the event­ful times of the set­tling of lo­cal uni­verses in light and life. As the new gov­ern­men­tal or­ga­ni­za­tions of these per­fected cre­ations be­gin to be re­flec­tive of the emerg­ing sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme, we ob­serve that the out­ly­ing fi­nal­i­ter com­pa­nies then ac­knowl­edge the ju­ris­dic­tional au­thor­ity of such new gov­ern­ments. It ap­pears that God the Su­preme is evolv­ing as the uni­fier of the evo­lu­tion­ary Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, but it is highly prob­a­ble that the eter­nal des­tiny of these seven corps will be di­rected by the Su­preme as a mem­ber of the Ul­ti­mate Trin­ity.

• Supreme someday personally resident on Uversa?

117:7.16It is pos­si­ble that the Su­preme may then be per­son­ally res­i­dent on Uversa, the head­quar­ters of Or­von­ton, from which he will di­rect the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the time cre­ations, but this is re­ally only a con­jec­ture. Cer­tainly, though, the per­son­al­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing will be def­i­nitely con­tactable at some spe­cific lo­cal­ity, al­though the ubiq­uity of his De­ity pres­ence will prob­a­bly con­tinue to per­me­ate the uni­verse of uni­verses. What the re­la­tion of the super­uni­verse cit­i­zens of that age will be to the Su­preme we do not know, but it may be some­thing like the pres­ent re­la­tion­ship be­tween the Ha­vona na­tives and the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

• emergence of Ultimate in outer space attended by enhanced revelations of Absolute?

118:2.5The mor­tal mind may ask, even as we do: If the evo­lu­tion of God the Su­preme to ad­min­is­tra­tive au­thor­ity in the grand uni­verse is at­tended by aug­mented man­i­fes­ta­tions of God the Ul­ti­mate, will a cor­re­spond­ing emer­gence of God the Ul­ti­mate in the pos­tu­lated uni­verses of outer space be at­tended by sim­i­lar and en­hanced rev­e­la­tions of God the Ab­so­lute? But we re­ally do not know.

• usefulness of speculations › futile, but all engage in

151:2.7When Thomas had fin­ished speak­ing, the ma­jor­ity of his fel­low preach­ers were about ready to agree with him, even Pe­ter and Na­than­iel were on their way over to speak with him, when Je­sus arose and said: “Well done, Thomas; you have dis­cerned the true mean­ing of para­bles; but both Pe­ter and Na­than­iel have done you all equal good in that they have so fully shown the dan­ger of un­der­tak­ing to make an al­le­gory out of my para­bles. In your own hearts you may of­ten prof­itably en­gage in such flights of the spec­u­la­tive imag­i­na­tion, but you make a mis­take when you seek to of­fer such con­clu­sions as a part of your pub­lic teach­ing.”

151:2.8Now that the ten­sion was over, Pe­ter and Na­than­iel con­grat­u­lated each other on their in­ter­pre­ta­tions, and with the ex­cep­tion of the Al­pheus twins, each of the apos­tles ven­tured to make an in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the para­ble of the sower be­fore they re­tired for the night. Even Ju­das Is­car­iot of­fered a very plau­si­ble in­ter­pre­ta­tion. The twelve would of­ten, among them­selves, at­tempt to fig­ure out the Mas­ter’s para­bles as they would an al­le­gory, but never again did they re­gard such spec­u­la­tions se­ri­ously. This was a very prof­itable ses­sion for the apos­tles and their as­so­ciates, es­pe­cially so since from this time on Je­sus more and more em­ployed para­bles in con­nec­tion with his pub­lic teach­ing.

• regarding Urantia › had Rome accepted gospel of kingdom

195:3.11And this Ro­man Em­pire lasted suf­fi­ciently long to in­sure the sur­vival of Chris­tian­ity even af­ter the em­pire col­lapsed. But we have of­ten con­jec­tured what would have hap­pened in Rome and in the world if it had been the gospel of the king­dom which had been ac­cepted in the place of Greek Chris­tian­ity.

• usefulness of speculations › man’s universe romancing may not be fact, but much is truth

196:3.31In the realm of re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence, spir­i­tual pos­si­bil­ity is po­ten­tial re­al­ity. Man’s for­ward spir­i­tual urge is not a psy­chic il­lu­sion. All of man’s uni­verse ro­manc­ing may not be fact, but much, very much, is truth.