PAPER 11
THE ETERNAL ISLE OF PARADISE
11:0.1 PARADISE is the eternal center of the
universe of universes and the abiding place of the Universal Father, the
Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, and their divine co-ordinates and
associates. This central Isle is the most gigantic organized body of cosmic
reality in all the master universe. Paradise is a material sphere as well as a
spiritual abode. All of the intelligent creation of the Universal Father is
domiciled on material abodes; hence must the absolute controlling center also
be material, literal. And again it should be reiterated that spirit things and
spiritual beings are real.
11:0.2 The material beauty of Paradise consists in
the magnificence of its physical perfection; the grandeur of the Isle of God
is exhibited in the superb intellectual accomplishments and mind development
of its inhabitants; the glory of the central Isle is shown forth in the
infinite endowment of divine spirit personality -- the light of life. But the
depths of the spiritual beauty and the wonders of this magnificent ensemble
are utterly beyond the comprehension of the finite mind of material creatures.
The glory and spiritual splendor of the divine abode are impossible of mortal
comprehension. And Paradise is from eternity; there are neither records nor
traditions respecting the origin of this nuclear Isle of Light and Life.
1. THE DIVINE RESIDENCE
11:1.1 Paradise serves many purposes in the
administration of the universal realms, but to creature beings it exists
primarily as the dwelling place of Deity. The personal presence of the
Universal Father is resident at the very center of the upper surface of this
well-nigh circular, but not spherical, abode of the Deities. This Paradise
presence of the Universal Father is immediately surrounded by the personal
presence of the Eternal Son, while they are both invested by the unspeakable
glory of the Infinite Spirit.
11:1.2 God dwells, has dwelt, and everlastingly will
dwell in this same central and eternal abode. We have always found him there
and always will. The Universal Father is cosmically focalized, spiritually
personalized, and geographically resident at this center of the universe of
universes.
11:1.3 We all know the direct course to pursue to
find the Universal Father. You are not able to comprehend much about the
divine residence because of its remoteness from you and the immensity of the
intervening space, but those who are able to comprehend the meaning of these
enormous distances know God's location and residence just as certainly and
literally as you know the location of New York, London, Rome, or Singapore,
cities definitely and geographically located on Urantia. If you were an
intelligent navigator, equipped with ship, maps, and compass, you could
readily find these cities. Likewise, if you had the time and means of passage,
were spiritually qualified, and had the necessary guidance, you could be
piloted through universe upon universe and from circuit to circuit, ever
journeying inward through the starry realms, until at last you would stand
before the central shining of the spiritual glory of the Universal Father.
Provided with all the necessities for the journey, it is just as possible to
find the personal presence of God at the center of all things as to find
distant cities on your own planet. That you have not visited these places in
no way disproves their reality or actual existence. That so few of the
universe creatures have found God on Paradise in no way disproves either the
reality of his existence or the actuality of his spiritual person at the
center of all things.
11:1.4 The Father is always to be found at this
central location. Did he move, universal pandemonium would be precipitated,
for there converge in him at this residential center the universal lines of
gravity from the ends of creation. Whether we trace the personality circuit
back through the universes or follow the ascending personalities as they
journey inward to the Father; whether we trace the lines of material gravity
to nether Paradise or follow the insurging cycles of cosmic force; whether we
trace the lines of spiritual gravity to the Eternal Son or follow the inward
processional of the Paradise Sons of God; whether we trace out the mind
circuits or follow the trillions upon trillions of celestial beings who spring
from the Infinite Spirit -- by any of these observations or by all of them we
are led directly back to the Father's presence, to his central abode. Here is
God personally, literally, and actually present. And from his infinite being
there flow the flood-streams of life, energy, and personality to all
universes.
2. NATURE OF THE ETERNAL ISLE
11:2.1 Since you are beginning to glimpse the
enormousness of the material universe discernible even from your astronomical
location, your space position in the starry systems, it should become evident
to you that such a tremendous material universe must have an adequate and
worthy capital, a headquarters commensurate with the dignity and infinitude of
the universal Ruler of all this vast and far-flung creation of material realms
and living beings.
11:2.2 In form Paradise differs from the inhabited
space bodies: it is not spherical. It is definitely ellipsoid, being one-sixth
longer in the north-south diameter than in the east-west diameter. The central
Isle is essentially flat, and the distance from the upper surface to the
nether surface is one tenth that of the east-west diameter.
11:2.3 These differences in dimensions, taken in
connection with its stationary status and the greater out-pressure of
force-energy at the north end of the Isle, make it possible to establish
absolute direction in the master universe.
11:2.4 The central Isle is geographically divided
into three domains of activity:
1. Upper Paradise.
2. Peripheral Paradise.
3. Nether Paradise.
11:2.5 We speak of that surface of Paradise which is
occupied with personality activities as the upper side, and the opposite
surface as the nether side. The periphery of Paradise provides for activities
that are not strictly personal or nonpersonal. The Trinity seems to dominate
the personal or upper plane, the Unqualified Absolute the nether or impersonal
plane. We hardly conceive of the Unqualified Absolute as a person, but we do
think of the functional space presence of this Absolute as focalized on nether
Paradise.
11:2.6 The eternal Isle is composed of a single form
of materialization -- stationary systems of reality. This literal substance of
Paradise is a homogeneous organization of space potency not to be found
elsewhere in all the wide universe of universes. It has received many names in
different universes, and the Melchizedeks of Nebadon long since named it
absolutum. This Paradise source material is neither dead nor alive; it
is the original nonspiritual expression of the First Source and Center; it is
Paradise, and Paradise is without duplicate.
11:2.7 It appears to us that the First Source and
Center has concentrated all absolute potential for cosmic reality in Paradise
as a part of his technique of self-liberation from infinity limitations, as a
means of making possible subinfinite, even time-space, creation. But it does
not follow that Paradise is time-space limited just because the universe of
universes discloses these qualities. Paradise exists without time and has no
location in space.
11:2.8 Roughly: space seemingly originates just
below nether Paradise; time just above upper Paradise. Time, as you understand
it, is not a feature of Paradise existence, though the citizens of the central
Isle are fully conscious of nontime sequence of events. Motion is not inherent
on Paradise; it is volitional. But the concept of distance, even absolute
distance, has very much meaning as it may be applied to relative locations on
Paradise. Paradise is nonspatial; hence its areas are absolute and therefore
serviceable in many ways beyond the concept of mortal mind.
3. UPPER PARADISE
11:3.1 On upper Paradise there are three grand
spheres of activity, the Deity presence, the Most Holy Sphere,
and the Holy Area. The vast region immediately surrounding the presence
of the Deities is set aside as the Most Holy Sphere and is reserved for the
functions of worship, trinitization, and high spiritual attainment. There are
no material structures nor purely intellectual creations in this zone; they
could not exist there. It is useless for me to undertake to portray to the
human mind the divine nature and the beauteous grandeur of the Most Holy
Sphere of Paradise. This realm is wholly spiritual, and you are almost wholly
material. A purely spiritual reality is, to a purely material being,
apparently nonexistent.
11:3.2 While there are no physical materializations
in the area of the Most Holy, there are abundant souvenirs of your material
days in the Holy Land sectors and still more in the reminiscent historic areas
of peripheral Paradise.
11:3.3 The Holy Area, the outlying or residential
region, is divided into seven concentric zones. Paradise is sometimes called
"the Father's House" since it is his eternal residence, and these seven zones
are often designated "the Father's Paradise mansions." The inner or first zone
is occupied by Paradise Citizens and the natives of Havona who may chance to
be dwelling on Paradise. The next or second zone is the residential area of
the natives of the seven superuniverses of time and space. This second zone is
in part subdivided into seven immense divisions, the Paradise home of the
spirit beings and ascendant creatures who hail from the universes of
evolutionary progression. Each of these sectors is exclusively dedicated to
the welfare and advancement of the personalities of a single superuniverse,
but these facilities are almost infinitely beyond the requirements of the
present seven superuniverses.
11:3.4 Each of the seven sectors of Paradise is
subdivided into residential units suitable for the lodgment headquarters of
one billion glorified individual working groups. One thousand of these units
constitute a division. One hundred thousand divisions equal one congregation.
Ten million congregations constitute an assembly. One billion assemblies make
one grand unit. And this ascending series continues through the second grand
unit, the third, and so on to the seventh grand unit. And seven of the grand
units make up the master units, and seven of the master units constitute a
superior unit; and thus by sevens the ascending series expands through the
superior, supersuperior, celestial, supercelestial, to the supreme units. But
even this does not utilize all the space available. This staggering number of
residential designations on Paradise, a number beyond your concept, occupies
considerably less than one per cent of the assigned area of the Holy Land.
There is still plenty of room for those who are on their way inward, even for
those who shall not start the Paradise climb until the times of the eternal
future.
4. PERIPHERAL PARADISE
11:4.1 The central Isle ends abruptly at the
periphery, but its size is so enormous that this terminal angle is relatively
indiscernible within any circumscribed area. The peripheral surface of
Paradise is occupied, in part, by the landing and dispatching fields for
various groups of spirit personalities. Since the nonpervaded-space zones
nearly impinge upon the periphery, all personality transports destined to
Paradise land in these regions. Neither upper nor nether Paradise is
approachable by transport supernaphim or other types of space
traversers.
11:4.2 The Seven Master Spirits have their personal
seats of power and authority on the seven spheres of the Spirit, which circle
about Paradise in the space between the shining orbs of the Son and the inner
circuit of the Havona worlds, but they maintain force-focal headquarters on
the Paradise periphery. Here the slowly circulating presences of the Seven
Supreme Power Directors indicate the location of the seven flash stations for
certain Paradise energies going forth to the seven superuniverses.
11:4.3 Here on peripheral Paradise are the enormous
historic and prophetic exhibit areas assigned to the Creator Sons, dedicated
to the local universes of time and space. There are just seven trillion of
these historic reservations now set up or in reserve, but these arrangements
all together occupy only about four per cent of that portion of the peripheral
area thus assigned. We infer that these vast reserves belong to creations
sometime to be situated beyond the borders of the present known and inhabited
seven superuniverses.
11:4.4 That portion of Paradise which has been
designated for the use of the existing universes is occupied only from one to
four per cent, while the area assigned to these activities is at least one
million times that actually required for such purposes. Paradise is large
enough to accommodate the activities of an almost infinite
creation.
11:4.5 But a further attempt to visualize to you the
glories of Paradise would be futile. You must wait, and ascend while you wait,
for truly, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the
mind of mortal man, the things which the Universal Father has prepared for
those who survive the life in the flesh on the worlds of time and space."
5. NETHER PARADISE
11:5.1 Concerning nether Paradise, we know only that
which is revealed; personalities do not sojourn there. It has nothing whatever
to do with the affairs of spirit intelligences, nor does the Deity Absolute
there function. We are informed that all physical-energy and cosmic-force
circuits have their origin on nether Paradise, and that it is constituted as
follows:
11:5.2 1. Directly underneath the location of the
Trinity, in the central portion of nether Paradise, is the unknown and
unrevealed Zone of Infinity.
11:5.3 2. This Zone is immediately surrounded by an
unnamed area.
11:5.4 3. Occupying the outer margins of the under
surface is a region having mainly to do with space potency and force-energy.
The activities of this vast elliptical force center are not identifiable with
the known functions of any triunity, but the primordial force-charge of space
appears to be focalized in this area. This center consists of three concentric
elliptical zones: The innermost is the focal point of the force-energy
activities of Paradise itself; the outermost may possibly be identified with
the functions of the Unqualified Absolute, but we are not certain concerning
the space functions of the mid-zone.
11:5.5 The inner zone of this force center
seems to act as a gigantic heart whose pulsations direct currents to the
outermost borders of physical space. It directs and modifies force-energies
but hardly drives them. The reality pressure-presence of this primal force is
definitely greater at the north end of the Paradise center than in the
southern regions; this is a uniformly registered difference. The mother force
of space seems to flow in at the south and out at the north through the
operation of some unknown circulatory system which is concerned with the
diffusion of this basic form of force-energy. From time to time there are also
noted differences in the east-west pressures. The forces emanating from this
zone are not responsive to observable physical gravity but are always obedient
to Paradise gravity.
11:5.6 The 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.
11:5.7 The outer zone is the largest and most
active of the three concentric and elliptical belts of unidentified space
potential. This area is the site of unimagined activities, the central circuit
point of emanations which proceed spaceward in every direction to the
outermost borders of the seven superuniverses and on beyond to overspread the
enormous and incomprehensible domains of all outer space. This space presence
is entirely impersonal notwithstanding that in some undisclosed manner it
seems to be indirectly responsive to the will and mandates of the infinite
Deities when acting as the Trinity. This is believed to be the central
focalization, the Paradise center, of the space presence of the Unqualified
Absolute.
11:5.8 All forms of force and all phases of energy
seem to be encircuited; they circulate throughout the universes and return by
definite routes. But with the emanations of the activated zone of the
Unqualified Absolute there appears to be either an outgoing or an incoming --
never both simultaneously. This outer zone pulsates in agelong cycles of
gigantic proportions. For a little more than one billion Urantia years the
space-force of this center is outgoing; then for a similar length of time it
will be incoming. And the space-force manifestations of this center are
universal; they extend throughout all pervadable space.
11:5.9 All physical force, energy, and matter are
one. All force-energy originally proceeded from nether Paradise and will
eventually return thereto following the completion of its space circuit. But
the energies and material organizations of the universe of universes did not
all come from nether Paradise in their present phenomenal states; space is the
womb of several forms of matter and prematter. Though the outer zone of the
Paradise force center is the source of space-energies, space does not
originate there. Space is not force, energy, or power. Nor do the pulsations
of this zone account for the respiration of space, but the incoming and
outgoing phases of this zone are synchronized with the two-billion-year
expansion-contraction cycles of space.
6. SPACE RESPIRATION
11:6.1 We do not know the actual mechanism of space
respiration; we merely observe that all space alternately contracts and
expands. This respiration affects both the horizontal extension of pervaded
space and the vertical extensions of unpervaded space which exist in the vast
space reservoirs above and below Paradise. In attempting to imagine the volume
outlines of these space reservoirs, you might think of an
hourglass.
11:6.2 As the universes of the horizontal extension
of pervaded space expand, the reservoirs of the vertical extension of
unpervaded space contract and vice versa. There is a confluence of pervaded
and unpervaded space just underneath nether Paradise. Both types of space
there flow through the transmuting regulation channels, where changes are
wrought making pervadable space nonpervadable and vice versa in the
contraction and expansion cycles of the cosmos.
11:6.3 "Unpervaded" space means: unpervaded by those
forces, energies, powers, and presences known to exist in pervaded space. We
do not know whether vertical (reservoir) space is destined always to function
as the equipoise of horizontal (universe) space; we do not know whether there
is a creative intent concerning unpervaded space; we really know very little
about the space reservoirs, merely that they exist, and that they seem to
counterbalance the space-expansion-contraction cycles of the universe of
universes.
11:6.4 The cycles of space respiration extend in
each phase for a little more than one billion Urantia years. During one phase
the universes expand; during the next they contract. Pervaded space is now
approaching the mid-point of the expanding phase, while unpervaded space nears
the mid-point of the contracting phase, and we are informed that the outermost
limits of both space extensions are, theoretically, now approximately
equidistant from Paradise. The unpervaded-space reservoirs now extend
vertically above upper Paradise and below nether Paradise just as far as the
pervaded space of the universe extends horizontally outward from peripheral
Paradise to and even beyond the fourth outer space level.
11:6.5 For a billion years of Urantia time the space
reservoirs contract while the master universe and the force activities of all
horizontal space expand. It thus requires a little over two billion Urantia
years to complete the entire expansion-contraction cycle.
7. SPACE FUNCTIONS OF PARADISE
11:7.1 Space does not exist on any of the surfaces
of Paradise. If one "looked" directly up from the upper surface of Paradise,
one would "see" nothing but unpervaded space going out or coming in, just now
coming in. Space does not touch Paradise; only the quiescent midspace
zones come in contact with the central Isle.
11:7.2 Paradise 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 The 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.
11:7.4 Space 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.
11:7.5 If 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.
11:7.6 There 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.
11:7.7 The relatively quiet zone 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.
11:7.8 A 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.
11:7.9 This 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.
8. PARADISE GRAVITY
11:8.1 The inescapable pull of gravity effectively
grips all the worlds of all the universes of all space. Gravity is the
all-powerful grasp of the physical presence of Paradise. Gravity is the
omnipotent strand on which are strung the gleaming stars, blazing suns, and
whirling spheres which constitute the universal physical adornment of the
eternal God, who is all things, fills all things, and in whom all things
consist.
11:8.2 The center and focal point of absolute
material gravity is the Isle of Paradise, complemented by the dark gravity
bodies encircling Havona and equilibrated by the upper and nether space
reservoirs. All known emanations of nether Paradise invariably and unerringly
respond to the central gravity pull operating upon the endless circuits of the
elliptical space levels of the master universe. Every known form of cosmic
reality has the bend of the ages, the trend of the circle, the swing of the
great ellipse.
11:8.3 Space is nonresponsive to gravity, but it
acts as an equilibrant on gravity. Without the space cushion, explosive action
would jerk surrounding space bodies. Pervaded space also exerts an antigravity
influence upon physical or linear gravity; space can actually neutralize such
gravity action even though it cannot delay it. Absolute gravity is Paradise
gravity. Local or linear gravity pertains to the electrical stage of energy or
matter; it operates within the central, super-, and outer universes, wherever
suitable materialization has taken place.
11:8.4 The numerous forms of cosmic force, physical
energy, universe power, and various materializations disclose three general,
though not perfectly clear-cut, stages of response to Paradise
gravity:
11:8.5 1. Pregravity Stages (Force). This is
the first step in the individuation of space potency into the pre-energy forms
of cosmic force. This state is analogous to the concept of the primordial
force-charge of space, sometimes called pure energy or
segregata.
11:8.6 2. Gravity Stages (Energy). This
modification of the force-charge of space is produced by the action of the
Paradise force organizers. It signalizes the appearance of energy systems
responsive to the pull of Paradise gravity. This emergent energy is originally
neutral but consequent upon further metamorphosis will exhibit the so-called
negative and positive qualities. We designate these stages ultimata.
11:8.7 3. Postgravity Stages (Universe
Power). In this stage, energy-matter discloses response to the control of
linear gravity. In the central universe these physical systems are threefold
organizations known as triata. They are the superpower mother systems
of the creations of time and space. The physical systems of the superuniverses
are mobilized by the Universe Power Directors and their associates. These
material organizations are dual in constitution and are known as
gravita. The dark gravity bodies encircling Havona are neither triata
nor gravita, and their drawing power discloses both forms of physical gravity,
linear and absolute.
11:8.8 Space potency is not subject to the
interactions of any form of gravitation. This primal endowment of Paradise is
not an actual level of reality, but it is ancestral to all relative functional
nonspirit realities -- all manifestations of force-energy and the organization
of power and matter. Space potency is a term difficult to define. It does not
mean that which is ancestral to space; its meaning should convey the idea of
the potencies and potentials existent within space. It may be roughly
conceived to include all those absolute influences and potentials which
emanate from Paradise and constitute the space presence of the Unqualified
Absolute.
11:8.9 Paradise is the absolute source and the
eternal focal point of all energy-matter in the universe of universes. The
Unqualified Absolute is the revealer, regulator, and repository of that which
has Paradise as its source and origin. The universal presence of the
Unqualified Absolute seems to be equivalent to the concept of a potential
infinity of gravity extension, an elastic tension of Paradise presence. This
concept aids us in grasping the fact that everything is drawn inward towards
Paradise. The illustration is crude but nonetheless helpful. It also explains
why gravity always acts preferentially in the plane perpendicular to the mass,
a phenomenon indicative of the differential dimensions of Paradise and the
surrounding creations.
9. THE UNIQUENESS OF PARADISE
11:9.1 Paradise is unique in that it is the realm of
primal origin and the final goal of destiny for all spirit personalities.
Although it is true that not all of the lower spirit beings of the local
universes are immediately destined to Paradise, Paradise still remains the
goal of desire for all supermaterial personalities.
11:9.2 Paradise is the geographic center of
infinity; it is not a part of universal creation, not even a real part of the
eternal Havona universe. We commonly refer to the central Isle as belonging to
the divine universe, but it really does not. Paradise is an eternal and
exclusive existence.
11:9.3 In the eternity of the past, when the
Universal Father gave infinite personality expression of his spirit self in
the being of the Eternal Son, simultaneously he revealed the infinity
potential of his nonpersonal self as Paradise. Nonpersonal and nonspiritual
Paradise appears to have been the inevitable repercussion to the Father's will
and act which eternalized the Original Son. Thus did the Father project
reality in two actual phases -- the personal and the nonpersonal, the
spiritual and the nonspiritual. The tension between them, in the face of will
to action by the Father and the Son, gave existence to the Conjoint Actor and
the central universe of material worlds and spiritual beings.
11:9.4 When reality is differentiated into the
personal and the nonpersonal (Eternal Son and Paradise), it is hardly proper
to call that which is nonpersonal "Deity" unless somehow qualified. The energy
and material repercussions of the acts of Deity could hardly be called Deity.
Deity may cause much that is not Deity, and Paradise is not Deity; neither is
it conscious as mortal man could ever possibly understand such a term.
11:9.5 Paradise is not ancestral to any being or
living entity; it is not a creator. Personality and mind-spirit relationships
are transmissible, but pattern is not. Patterns are never reflections;
they are duplications -- reproductions. Paradise is the absolute of patterns;
Havona is an exhibit of these potentials in actuality.
11:9.6 God's residence is central and eternal,
glorious and ideal. His home is the beauteous pattern for all universe
headquarters worlds; and the central universe of his immediate indwelling is
the pattern for all universes in their ideals, organization, and ultimate
destiny.
11:9.7 Paradise is the universal headquarters of all
personality activities and the source-center of all force-space and energy
manifestations. Everything which has been, now is, or is yet to be, has come,
now comes, or will come forth from this central abiding place of the eternal
Gods. Paradise is the center of all creation, the source of all energies, and
the place of primal origin of all personalities.
11:9.8 After all, to mortals the most important
thing about eternal Paradise is the fact that this perfect abode of the
Universal Father is the real and far-distant destiny of the immortal souls of
the mortal and material sons of God, the ascending creatures of the
evolutionary worlds of time and space. Every God-knowing mortal who has
espoused the career of doing the Father's will has already embarked upon the
long, long Paradise trail of divinity pursuit and perfection attainment. And
when such an animal-origin being does stand, as countless numbers now do,
before the Gods on Paradise, having ascended from the lowly spheres of space,
such an achievement represents the reality of a spiritual transformation
bordering on the limits of supremacy.
11:9.9 Presented by
a Perfector of Wisdom commissioned thus to function by the Ancients of Days on
Uversa.
