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First Age - Time and Space - Creation

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Overview of Reality At the dawn of time there was nothing but empty space in the regions outside of the central universe. At the eternal core of the master universe there was only  Paradise with Havona encircling it. The eternal Paradise-Havona system has no origin in time. The concept of the entire master universe is eternal.  It is forever living in the minds of its Master Architects. These beings are superfinite, the living "blueprints" of God's whole plan for the total master creation. Master Universe reality is rooted in the unbeginning existence of Havona.  The first expression of master universe reality was the perfection of  Havona in the First Universe Age.  Its next expression is in the Second Universe Age (the present age) when the imperfect super universes of time enter a relationship with the perfect central universe of eternity to constitute the Grand Universe of growing evolutionary perfection.  The final expressions of universe reality (ages three and four) concern the outer universes and their future relationship with the grand universe. These mobilizing physical creations of outer space are neither inhabited nor organized.   They encircle the presently inhabited and organized grand universe.

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Havona Natives and Eternals of Days Havona natives are the offspring of the Paradise Trinity.  They function as the permanent citizens of the Central Universe and as companions to the ascending sons of God. (All orders of beings are self-governing by the time they reach the Havona level.) Each of the billion worlds of Havona is directed by a Supreme Trinity Personality. These rulers are known as the Eternals of Days.  They number exactly one billion, one for each of the Havona spheres. While they are the offspring of the Paradise Trinity,  there are no records of their origin. Forever have these all-wise fathers ruled their exquisite worlds of the Paradise-Havona system.  They function without rotation or reassignment. The Eternals of Days are visible to all will creatures dwelling in their domains. Periodically, they visit the headquarters spheres of the seven superuniverses. They are close of kin to, and are the divine equals of, the Ancients of Days, who preside over the destinies of the seven supergovernments. Except for the established orders of life, such as the Havona natives and other living creatures of the central universe, the resident Eternals of Days have developed their respective spheres entirely in accordance with their own personal ideas and ideals. They visit each other's planets, but they do not copy or imitate; they are always and wholly original. Every world in Havona is a place of everlasting beauty and is wholly unlike any other world in the central universe. Ascending mortals  spend a longer or shorter time on each of these unique and thrilling spheres on their way inward through Havona to Paradise.

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God of Evolution - The Supreme Being Relativity of Concept Frames Evolving intellects would be unable to form the first rational thought pattern, if it were not for the innate ability of all mind, high or low, to form a universe frame in which to think. If mind cannot fathom conclusions, if it cannot penetrate to true origins, then a mind will unfailingly postulate conclusions and invent origins so that it may have a means of logical thought within the frame of these mind-created postulates. And while such universe frames for creature thought are indispensable to rational intellectual operations, they are, without exception, more or less erroneous. Conceptual frames of the universe are only relatively true.  They are serviceable scaffolding which must eventually give way before the expansions of enlarging cosmic comprehension. The understandings of truth, beauty, and goodness, morality, ethics, duty, love, divinity, origin, existence, purpose, destiny, time, space, and even Deity, are only relatively true.  Man must think in a mortal universe frame, but that does not mean that he cannot envision other and higher frames within which thought can take place. The Absolute Basis for Supremacy From the existential standpoint, nothing new can happen throughout the galaxies, for the completion of infinity inherent in the I AM is eternally present in the seven Absolutes, is functionally associated in the triunities, and is transmitively associated in the triodities. But the fact that infinity is thus existentially present in these absolute associations in no way makes it impossible to realize new cosmic experientials. From a finite creature's viewpoint, infinity contains much that is potential, much that is on the order of a future possibility rather than a present actuality. The entire scheme of universal creation and evolution on all experiencing levels is a matter of the conversion of potentialities into actualities; and this transmutation has to do equally with the realms of space potency, mind potency, and spirit potency. The apparent method whereby the possibilities of the cosmos are brought into actual existence varies from level to level, being experiential evolution in the finite and experiential eventuation in the absonite. Original, Actual and Potential There is no language in the past, present, or future of Earth adequate to express the reality of infinity or the infinity of reality. Man, a finite creature in an infinite cosmos, must content himself with distorted reflections and attenuated conceptions of that limitless, boundless, never-beginning, never-ending existence the comprehension of which is simply beyond his ability. Though man's spiritual nature reaches up in the worship experience to the Father who is infinite, man's intellectual comprehension capacity is exhausted by the maximum conception of the Supreme Being. Beyond the Supreme, concepts are increasingly names; less and less are they true designations of reality; more and more do they become the creature's projection of finite understanding toward the superfinite. One basic conception of the absolute level involves a postulate of three phases: 1. The Original. The unqualified concept of the First Source and Center, that source manifestation of the I AM from which all reality takes origin. 2. The Actual. The union of the three Absolutes of actuality, the Second, Third, and Paradise Sources and Centers. This triodity of the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, and the Paradise Isle constitutes the actual revelation of the originality of the First Source and Center. 3. The Potential. The union of the three Absolutes of potentiality, the Deity, Unqualified, and Universal Absolutes. This triodity of existential potentiality constitutes the potential revelation of the originality of the First Source and Center. The interassociation of the Original, the Actual, and the Potential yields the tensions within infinity which result in the possibility for all universe growth; and growth is the nature of the Sevenfold, the Supreme, and the Ultimate. From the time viewpoint, the Actual is that which was and is; the Potential is that which is becoming and will be; the Original is that which is. It is in the triodity of actuality that the existents of the cosmos have their center.  Whether it is spirit, mind, or energy, all center in this association of the Son, the Spirit, and Paradise. The personality of the spirit Son is the master pattern for all personality throughout all universes. The substance of the Paradise Isle is the master pattern of which Havona is a perfect, and the super universes are a perfecting, revelation. The Conjoint Actor is at one and the same time the mind activation of cosmic energy, the conceptualization of spirit purpose, and the integration of the mathematical causes and effects of the material levels with the volitional purposes and motives of the spiritual level. In and to a finite universe the Son, Spirit, and Paradise function in and upon the Ultimate as he is conditioned and qualified in the Supreme. The final dynamics of the cosmos have to do with the continual transfer of reality from potentiality to actuality. In theory, there may be an end to this metamorphosis, but in fact, such is impossible since the Potential and the Actual are both encircuited in the Original (the I AM), and this identification makes it forever impossible to place a limit on the developmental progression of the universe. Whatsoever is identified with the I AM can never find an end to progression since the actuality of the potentials of the I AM is absolute, and the potentiality of the actuals of the I AM is also absolute. Always will actuals be opening up new avenues of the realization of hitherto impossible potentials - every human decision not only actualizes a new reality in human experience but also opens up a new capacity for human growth. The man lives in every child, and the morontia progressor is resident in the mature God-knowing man. The final penetration of the truth, beauty, and goodness of the Supreme Being could only open up to the progressing creature those absonite qualities of ultimate divinity which lie beyond the concept levels of truth, beauty, and goodness. Sources of Supreme Reality The source of the Supreme is in the Paradise Trinity - eternal, actual, and undivided Deity. The Supreme is first of all a spirit person, and this spirit person stems from the Trinity. But the Supreme is secondly a Deity of growth - evolutionary growth - and this growth derives from the two triodities, actual and potential. It is not so difficult to comprehend that the infinite does contain the finite as it is to understand just how this infinite actually is manifest to the finite. But the Thought Adjusters indwelling mortal man are one of the eternal proofs that even the absolute God (as absolute) can and does actually make direct contact with even the lowest and least of all universe will creatures. The growth of Supremacy derives from the triodities; the spirit person of the Supreme, from the Trinity; but the power prerogatives of the Almighty are predicated on the divinity successes of God the Sevenfold, while the conjoining of the power prerogatives of the Almighty Supreme with the spirit person of God the Supreme takes place by virtue of the ministry of the Conjoint Actor, who bestowed the mind of the Supreme as the conjoining factor in this evolutionary Deity. Relation of the Supreme to the Paradise Trinity While the growth of the Supreme is a matter of triodity relationship, the spirit personality of God the Supreme is dependent upon, and is derived from, the Paradise Trinity, which ever remains as the absolute center-source of perfect and infinite stability around which the evolutionary growth of the Supreme progressively unfolds. Relation of the Supreme to the Triodities The triodity of actuality continues to function directly in the post-Havona epochs; Paradise gravity grasps the basic units of material existence, the spirit gravity of the Eternal Son operates directly upon the fundamental values of spirit existence, and the mind gravity of the Conjoint Actor unerringly clutches all vital meanings of intellectual existence. The Supreme not only grows as the Creators and creatures of the evolving universes attain to Godlikeness, but this finite Deity also experiences growth as a result of the creature and Creator mastery of the finite possibilities of the grand universe. The motion of the Supreme is twofold: intensively toward Paradise and Deity and extensively toward the limitlessness of the Absolutes of potential. In the present universe age this dual motion is revealed in the descending and ascending personalities of the grand universe. The Supreme Creator Personalities and all their divine associates are reflective of the outward, diverging motion of the Supreme, while the ascending pilgrims from the seven super universes are indicative of the inward, converging trend of Supremacy. Always is the finite Deity seeking for dual correlation, inward toward Paradise and the Deities thereof and outward toward infinity and the Absolutes therein. The Nature of the Supreme In the Deity of the Supreme the Father-I AM has achieved relatively complete liberation from the limitations inherent in infinity of status, eternity of being, and absoluteness of nature. But God the Supreme has been freed from all existential limitations only by having become subject to experiential qualifications of universal function. In attaining capacity for experience, the finite God also becomes subject to the necessity therefor; in achieving liberation from eternity, the Almighty encounters the barriers of time; and the Supreme could only know growth and development as a consequence of partiality of existence and incompleteness of nature, nonabsoluteness of being. All this must be according to the Father's plan, which has predicated finite progress upon effort, creature achievement upon perseverance, and personality development upon faith. By thus ordaining the experience-evolution of the Supreme, the Father has made it possible for finite creatures to exist in the universes and, by experiential progression, sometime to attain the divinity of Supremacy. God the Supreme  is the indispensable focalizer, summarizer, and encompasser of evolutionary experience, effectively unifying the results of this mode of reality perception in his Deity nature. And all this he appears to do for the purpose of contributing to the appearance of the inevitable eventuation, the superexperience and superfinite manifestation of God the Ultimate. The Supreme Being cannot be fully appreciated without taking into consideration source, function, and destiny: relationship to the originating Trinity, the universe of activity, and the Trinity Ultimate of immediate destiny.

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The Paradise Sons of God The lack of a knowledge of the multiple Sons of God is a source of great confusion on Urantia. The Eternal Son is the personal source of the attributes of mercy and service that characterize all orders of the descending Sons of God as they function throughout creation. All the divine nature, if not all the infinity of attributes, the Eternal Son unfailingly transmits to the Paradise Sons who go out from the eternal Isle to reveal his divine character to the universe of universes. The Eternal Son The Original and Eternal Son is the offspring-person of the "first" completed and infinite thought of the Universal Father. Creator Sons Each time the Universal Father and the Eternal Son jointly project a new, original, identical, unique, and absolute personal thought, that very instant this creative idea is perfectly and finally personalized in the being and personality of a new and original Creator Son. In spirit nature, divine wisdom, and co-ordinate creative power, these Creator Sons are potentially equal with God the Father and God the Son.   The Creator Sons go out from Paradise into the universes of time and, with the co-operation of the controlling and creative agencies of the Third Source and Center, complete the organization of the local universes of progressive evolution. These Sons are not attached to, nor are they concerned with, the central and universal controls of matter, mind, and spirit. Hence are they limited in their creative acts by the pre-existence, priority, and primacy of the First Source and Center and his co-ordinate Absolutes. The Creator Sons are able to administer only that which they bring into existence. Absolute administration is inherent in priority of existence and is inseparable from eternity of presence. The Father remains primal in the universes. Magisterial Sons Much as the Creator Sons are personalized by the Father and the Son, so are the Magisterial Sons personalized by the Son and the Spirit. These are the Sons who, in the experiences of creature incarnation, earn the right to serve as the judges of survival in the creations of time and space. Trinity Teacher Sons The Father, Son, and Spirit also unite to personalize the versatile Trinity Teacher Sons, who range the grand universe as the supernal teachers of all personalities, human and divine. And there are numerous other orders of Paradise sonship that have not been brought to the attention of Urantia mortals. Between the Original Mother Son and these hosts of Paradise Sons scattered throughout all creation, there is a direct and exclusive channel of communication, a channel whose function is inherent in the quality of spiritual kinship which unites them in bonds of near-absolute spiritual association. This intersonship circuit is entirely different from the universal circuit of spirit gravity, which also centers in the person of the Second Source and Center. All Sons of God who take origin in the persons of the Paradise Deities are in direct and constant communication with the Eternal Mother Son. And such communication is instantaneous; it is independent of time though sometimes conditioned by space. The Eternal Son not only has at all times perfect knowledge concerning the status, thoughts, and manifold activities of all orders of Paradise sonship, but he also has perfection of knowledge at all times regarding everything of spiritual value which exists in the hearts of all creatures in the primary central creation of eternity and in the secondary time creations of the co-ordinate Creator Sons.

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Absolute Presence Circuits in the Super Universes Circuits of the Super Universes The universal circuits of Paradise pervade the realms of the seven superuniverses. These presence circuits are: the personality gravity of the Universal Father, the spiritual gravity of the Eternal Son, the mind gravity of the Conjoint Actor, and the material gravity of the eternal Isle. Universal Gravity All forms of force-energy (material, mindal, or spiritual), are subject to the grasp of the universal presences of the Absolutes.  The presences are called gravity. Personality is responsive to the Father's exclusive personality gravity circuit.  Though this circuit is exclusive to the Father, he is not excluded from the other circuits.  The Universal Father is infinite and acts over all four absolute gravity circuits in the master universe: 1. The Personality Gravity of the Universal Father. 2. The Spirit Gravity of the Eternal Son. 3 The Mind Gravity of the Conjoint Actor. 4. The Cosmic Gravity of the Isle of Paradise. These four circuits are not related to the nether Paradise force center. They are neither force, energy, nor power circuits. They are absolute presence circuits and like God, they are independent of time and space. Physical Gravity 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. 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 active cosmic-gravity action of the Isle of Paradise.  Ninety-five per cent is engaged in controlling material systems beyond the borders of the present organized universes. Spiritual Gravity At the present time practically the entire spirit gravity of the Eternal Son is observable as functioning in the grand universe. It appears that the universes now evolving in outer space are at the present time wholly nonspiritual. This fact explains why spirit-endowed beings have little or no information about these vast energy manifestations aside from knowing the fact of their physical existence. Mind Gravity 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 suggests that mind activities are involved in connection with the observable physical activities now in progress throughout the realms of outer space. It indicates that intelligent force organizers are at present directing universe evolution in the space levels beyond the present outer limits of the grand universe.

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Energy Energy and Pattern Any and all things responding to the personality circuit of the Father is called personal. Any and all things responding to the spirit circuit of the Son is called spirit. Any and all that responds to the mind circuit of the Conjoint Actor is called mind, mind as an attribute of the Infinite Spirit (mind in all its phases). Any and all that responds to the material-gravity circuit centering in nether Paradise is called matter - energy (matter in all its metamorphic states). Energy Encircuitment The circuit of energy begins at the Paradise level and flows full circle around the great ellipse of creation back to Paradise. The process of creation and evolution is a cycle of descension through the down-stepping of energy and personality from the infinite to the physical (creation), and ascension from the physical back to the spiritual (evolution). The following columns show the relationships between the Cosmic Family Tree of Universal Personalities, the functions they provide, Universal Energy Encircuitment, and the levels of Physical, Mental, and Spiritual evolution that mortals ascend through on their way back to the center of the universe. Energy Domain Controlling Authority 0. Pure Paradise Energy 1. Space Potency 2. Primordial Force 3. Puissant Energy 4. Gravity 5. Power - Matter 6. Havona Force 7. Transcendental Potency 0. Pure Paradise Energy 0. The Paradise Trinity 1. Unqualified Absolute 2. Primary Master Force Organizers 3. Secondary Master Force Organizers 4. Associate Master Force Organizers 5. Universe Power Directors 6. The Conjoint Actor 7. Absonite Eventuates 0. The Paradise Trinity

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Control of Energy Controllers and Power Centers The Seven Supreme Power Directors are stationed on peripheral Paradise where their slowly circulating presences indicate the whereabouts of the force-focal headquarters of the Master Spirits on the orbiting seven super universes. The Supreme Power Directors have existed from the earliest times of the First Age of Creation.   They were personalized by the Seven Master Spirits.  They then collaborated with their parents in the production of more than ten billion associates. The headquarters spheres of the super universes are constructed so that they are able to function as efficient power-energy regulators.  They serve as focal points for directing energy to their component local universes. They exert a powerful influence over the balance and control of the physical energies circulating through organized space. The Supreme Power Centers The Seven Supreme Power  Centers of the grand universe function in the following seven groups: 1. Supreme Center Supervisors. 2. Havona Centers. 3. Superuniverse Centers. 4. Local Universe Centers. 5. Constellation Centers. 6. System Centers. 7. Unclassified Centers. The power centers and physical controllers of the super universes assume direction and partial control of the thirty energy systems which comprise the gravita domain. The physical-energy circuits administered by the power centers of Uversa (capital of the super universe of Overton in which Earth resides) require a little over 968 million years to complete the encirclement of the super universe. Since evolving energy has substance, maintaining the equilibrium between matter and energy necessitates the everlasting making and unmaking of the lesser material units. The living power directors and force organizers are the secret of the special control and intelligent direction of the endless metamorphoses of universe making, unmaking, and remaking. Nebulae may disperse, suns burn out, systems vanish, and planets perish, but the universes do not run down.

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Reflectivity The Conjoint Actor is able to co-ordinate all levels of universe actuality in such manner as to make possible the simultaneous recognition of the mental, the material, and the spiritual. This is the phenomenon of universe reflectivity, the unique and inexplicable power to see, hear, sense, and know all things as they transpire throughout a super universe, and to focalize, by reflectivity, all this information and knowledge at any desired point. The action of reflectivity is operative throughout all sectors of the super universes and within the boundaries of the local universes. Reflectivity finally focalizes on Paradise. Reflectivity is omniscience within the limits of the experiential finite. It represents the emergence of the presence-consciousness of the Supreme Being. The utilization of reflectivity in any of its phases is equivalent to partial contact with the consciousness of the Supreme. Majeston - Chief of Reflectivity The creation of Majeston signalized the first supreme creative act of the Supreme Being. This will to action was volitional in the Supreme Being, but the stupendous reaction of the Deity Absolute was not foreknown. Not since the eternity-appearance of Havona had the universe witnessed such a tremendous factualization of such a gigantic and far-flung alignment of power and coordination of functional spirit activities. The Deity response to the creative wills of the Supreme Being and his associates was vastly beyond their purposeful intent and greatly in excess of their conceptual forecasts. Majeston, the chief of reflectiviy, is assisted by his Reflective Spirits. The Reflective Spirits are of divine Trinity origin. There are forty-nine of these unique and somewhat mysterious beings. Seven of these extraordinary personalities were created at a time, and each such creative episode was effected by a liaison of the Paradise Trinity and one of the Seven Master Spirits. Majeston is a true person, the personal and infallible center of reflectivity phenomena in all seven superuniverses of time and space. He maintains permanent Paradise headquarters near the center of all things at the rendezvous of the Seven Master Spirits. He is concerned solely with the co-ordination and maintenance of the reflectivity service in the far-flung creation. He is not otherwise involved in the administration of universe affairs. The forty-nine Reflective Spirits are of Trinity origin, but each of the seven creative episodes attendant upon their appearance was productive of a type of being in nature resembling the characteristics of the coancestral Master Spirit. Thus they variously reflect the natures and characters of the seven possible combinations of the association of the divinity characteristics of the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit. For this reason it is necessary to have seven of these Reflective Spirits on the headquarters of each superuniverse. One of each of the seven types is required in order to achieve the perfect reflection of all phases of every possible manifestation of the three Paradise Deities as such phenomena might occur in any part of the seven super universes. One of each type was accordingly assigned to service in each of the superuniverses. These groups of seven dissimilar Reflective Spirits maintain headquarters on the capitals of the super universes at the reflective focus of each realm.

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Havona Power Centers Before the creation of the universes of time and space, power centers were not required in Havona, but ever since these far-distant times, one million have functioned in the central creation, each center having the supervision of a thousand Havona worlds. In the divine universe there is perfection of energy control, a condition not existing elsewhere. Perfection of energy regulation is the ultimate goal of all the power centers and the physical controllers of space.