Local+Universes

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== Urantia Text [|PAPER 32]: [|THE EVOLUTION OF LOCAL UNIVERSES] ==

32:0.1 A [|local universe] is the handiwork of a [|Creator Son] of the [|Paradise] [|order of Michael]. It comprises one hundred [|constellations], each embracing one hundred [|systems] of [|inhabited worlds]. Each system will [|eventually] contain approximately one thousand inhabited [|spheres]. 32:0.2 These [|universes] of [|time and space] are all [|evolutionary]. The [|creative] [|plan] of the [|Paradise Michaels] always proceeds along the path of [|gradual] evolvement and [|progressive] [|development] of the [|physical], [|intellectual], and [|spiritual] [|natures] and [|capacities] of the manifold [|creatures] who inhabit the varied orders of [|spheres] comprising such a [|local universe]. 32:0.3 [|Urantia] belongs to a [|local universe] whose [|sovereign] is the [|God-man] of Nebadon, [|Jesus] of [|Nazareth] and [|Michael] of [|Salvington]. And all of [|Michael]'s plans for this [|local universe] were fully approved by the [|Paradise Trinity] before he ever embarked upon the [|supreme] [|adventure] of [|space]. 32:0.4 The [|Sons of God] may choose the realms of their [|creator] [|activities], but these [|material] [|creations] were [|originally] [|projected] and [|planned] by the [|Paradise] [|Architects of the Master Universe].

==Urantia Text [|PAPER 33]: [|ADMINISTRATION OF THE LOCAL UNIVERSE] ==

33:0.1 While the [|Universal Father] most [|certainly] [|rules] over his vast [|creation], he [|functions] in a [|local universe] [|administration] through the [|person] of the [|Creator Son]. [|The Father] does not otherwise [|personally] [|function] in the [|administrative] affairs of a [|local universe]. These matters are [|intrusted] to the [|Creator Son] and to the [|local universe] [|Mother Spirit] and to their [|manifold children]. The [|plans], [|policies], and [|administrative] [|acts] of the [|local universe] are [|formed] and [|executed] by [|this Son], who, in conjunction with his [|Spirit associate], [|delegates] [|executive] [|power] to [|Gabriel] and [|jurisdictional] [|authority] to the [|Constellation Fathers], [|System Sovereigns], and [|Planetary Princes].

==Urantia Text [|PAPER 32] :[|2. UNIVERSE ORGANIZATION] ==

32:2.1 The [|Creator Sons] are preceded in [|universe] [|organization] by the [|power directors] and other [|beings] [|originating] in the [|Third Source and Center]. From the [|energies] of [|space], thus previously [|organized], [|Michael], your [|Creator Son], established the [|inhabited realms] of the [|universe] of [|Nebadon] and ever since has been painstakingly [|devoted] to their [|administration]. From [|pre-existent energy] these [|divine Sons] [|materialize] visible [|matter], [|project] living [|creatures], and with the [|co-operation] of the [|universe] [|presence] of the [|Infinite Spirit], [|create] a [|diverse] [|retinue of spirit personalities]. 32:2.2 These [|power directors] and [|energy controllers] who long preceded the [|Creator Son] in the preliminary [|physical] [|work] of [|universe] [|organization] later serve in [|magnificent] [|liaison] with this Universe Son, forever remaining in [|associated] [|control] of those [|energies] which they [|originally] [|organized] and [|circuitized]. On [|Salvington] there now [|function] the same one hundred [|power centers] who [|co-operated] with your [|Creator Son] in the [|original] formation of this [|local universe]. 32:2.3 The first completed [|act] of [|physical] [|creation] in [|Nebadon] consisted in the [|organization] of the [|headquarters] world, the [|architectural sphere] of [|Salvington], with its [|satellites]. From the [|time] of the initial moves of the [|power centers] and [|physical controllers] to the arrival of the [|living staff] on the completed [|spheres] of [|Salvington], there intervened a little over [|one billion years] of your present [|planetary] [|time]. The construction of [|Salvington] was [|immediately] followed by the [|creation] of the one hundred [|headquarters] worlds of the [|projected] [|constellations] and the ten thousand [|headquarters] [|spheres] of the projected [|local systems] of [|planetary] [|control] and [|administration], together with their [|architectural satellites]. Such architectural worlds are [|designed] to accommodate both [|physical] and [|spiritual] [|personalities] as well as the intervening [|morontia] or [|transition] [|stages] of [|being]. 32:2.4 [|Salvington], the [|headquarters] of [|Nebadon], is situated at the exact [|energy]-[|mass] [|center] of the [|local universe]. But your local universe is not a single [|astronomic] [|system], though a large system does exist at its [|physical] [|center]. 32:2.5 [|Salvington] is the [|personal] [|headquarters] of [|Michael] of [|Nebadon], but he will not always be found there. While the smooth [|functioning] of your [|local universe] no longer requires the fixed [|presence] of the [|Creator Son] at the capital [|sphere], this was not true of the earlier [|epochs] of [|physical] [|organization]. A [|Creator Son] is unable to leave his [|headquarters] world until such a [|time] as [|gravity] [|stabilization] of the realm has been [|effected] through the [|materialization] of sufficient [|energy] to enable the various [|circuits] and systems to counterbalance one another by [|mutual] [|material] [|attraction]. 32:2.6 Presently, the [|physical] [|plan] of a [|universe] is completed, and the [|Creator Son], in [|association] with the [|Creative Spirit], [|projects] his [|plan] of life [|creation]; whereupon does this [|representation] of the [|Infinite Spirit] begin her [|universe] [|function] as a [|distinct] [|creative] [|personality]. When this first [|creative] [|act] is [|formulated] and [|executed], there springs into [|being] the [|Bright and Morning Star], the [|personification] of this initial [|creative] [|concept] of [|identity] and [|ideal] of [|divinity]. This is the [|chief executive] of the [|universe], the [|personal] [|associate] of the [|Creator Son], one like him in all aspects of [|character], though markedly [|limited] in the [|attributes] of [|divinity]. 32:2.7 And now that the right-hand helper and [|chief executive] of the [|Creator Son] has been provided, there ensues the bringing into [|existence] of a vast and [|wonderful] array of [|diverse] [|creatures]. The [|sons and daughters of the local universe] are forthcoming, and soon thereafter the [|government] of such a [|creation] is provided, extending from the [|supreme councils] of the universe to the [|fathers] of the [|constellations] and the [|sovereigns] of the [|local systems]—the [|aggregations] of those worlds which are [|designed] subsequently to become the [|homes] of the varied [|mortal] [|races] of [|will] [|creatures]; and each of these worlds will be presided over by a [|Planetary Prince]. 32:2.8 And then, when such a [|universe] has been so completely [|organized] and so repletely manned, does the [|Creator Son] enter into [|the Father]'s proposal to [|create mortal man in their divine image]. 32:2.9 The [|organization] of [|planetary] abodes is still [|progressing] in [|Nebadon], for this [|universe] is, indeed, a young [|cluster] in the [|starry] and [|planetary] realms of [|Orvonton]. At the last registry there were 3,840,101 [|inhabited planets] in [|Nebadon], and [|Satania], the [|local system] of your world, is fairly [|typical] of other systems. 32:2.10 [|Satania] is not a [|uniform] [|physical] [|system], a single [|astronomic] [|unit] or [|organization]. Its 619 [|inhabited worlds] are located in over five hundred [|different] [|physical] [|systems]. Only five have more than two inhabited worlds, and of these only one has four peopled [|planets], while there are forty-six having two inhabited worlds. 32:2.11 The [|Satania] [|system] of [|inhabited worlds] is far removed from [|Uversa] and that great [|sun] cluster which [|functions] as the [|physical] or [|astronomic] [|center] of the [|seventh superuniverse]. From [|Jerusem], the [|headquarters] of [|Satania], it is over two hundred thousand [|light-years] to the [|physical] [|center] of the [|superuniverse] of [|Orvonton], far, far away in the dense diameter of the [|Milky Way]. [|Satania] is on the [|periphery] of the [|local universe], and [|Nebadon] is now well out towards the edge of [|Orvonton]. From the outermost [|system] of [|inhabited worlds] to the [|center] of the [|superuniverse] is a trifle less than two hundred and fifty thousand [|light-years]. 32:2.12 The [|universe] of [|Nebadon] now swings far to the south and east in the [|superuniverse] [|circuit] of [|Orvonton]. The nearest neighboring universes are: [|Avalon], [|Henselon], Sanselon, Portalon, Wolvering, Fanoving, and Alvoring. 32:2.13 But the [|evolution] of a [|local universe] is a long [|narrative]. Papers dealing with the [|superuniverse] introduce this subject, those of this section, treating of the [|local creations], continue it, while those to follow, [|touching] upon the [|history] and [|destiny] of [|Urantia], complete the [|story]. But you can adequately [|comprehend] the [|destiny] of the [|mortals] of such a [|local creation] only by a perusal of the [|narratives] of the [|life and teachings of your Creator Son] as he once lived the life of [|man], in the likeness of [|mortal] [|flesh], on your own evolutionary [|world].

==Urantia Text [|PAPER 33]: [|3. THE UNIVERSE SON AND SPIRIT]==

33:3.1 While pervading all the [|universes] of [|time and space], the [|Infinite Spirit] [|functions] from the [|headquarters] of each [|local universe] as a specialized [|focalization] acquiring full [|personality] qualities by the [|technique] of [|creative] [|co-operation] with the [|Creator Son]. As concerns a [|local universe], the [|administrative] [|authority] of a [|Creator Son] is [|supreme]; the [|Infinite Spirit], as the [|Divine Minister], is wholly [|co-operative] though perfectly co-ordinate. 33:3.2 The Universe [|Mother Spirit] of [|Salvington], the [|associate] of [|Michael] in the [|control] and [|administration] of [|Nebadon], is of the [|sixth group of Supreme Spirits], being the 611,121st of that order. She volunteered to accompany Michael on the occasion of his [|liberation] from [|Paradise] obligations and has ever since [|functioned] with him in [|creating] and [|governing] his [|universe]. 33:3.3 The [|Master Creator Son] is the [|personal] [|sovereign] of his [|universe], but in all the details of its [|management] the [|Universe Spirit] is codirector with the Son. While the Spirit ever acknowledges the Son as sovereign and ruler, the Son always accords the Spirit a co-ordinate position and [|equality] of [|authority] in all the affairs of the realm. In all his [|work] of [|love] and [|life bestowal] the Creator Son is always and ever perfectly sustained and ably [|assisted] by the all-[|wise] and ever-[|faithful] [|Universe Spirit] and by all of her [|diversified] [|retinue of angelic personalities]. Such a [|Divine Minister] is in [|reality] the [|mother] of [|spirits and spirit] [|personalities], the ever-present and all-wise adviser of the [|Creator Son], a [|faithful] and true [|manifestation] of the [|Paradise] [|Infinite Spirit]. 33:3.4 The [|Son] [|functions] as a [|father] in his [|local universe]. [|The Spirit], as [|mortal] [|creatures] would [|understand], enacts the role of a [|mother], always assisting the Son and being everlastingly indispensable to the [|administration] of the [|universe]. In the face of [|insurrection] only the Son and his [|associated Sons] can [|function] as deliverers. Never can the Spirit undertake to contest [|rebellion] or [|defend] [|authority], but ever does the Spirit sustain the Son in all of [|everything] he may be required to [|experience] in his efforts to [|stabilize] [|government] and uphold [|authority] on worlds tainted with [|evil] or dominated by [|sin]. Only a Son can retrieve the [|work] of their joint [|creation], but no Son could [|hope] for final success without the incessant [|co-operation] of the [|Divine Minister] and her vast [|assemblage of spirit helpers], the daughters of God, who so [|faithfully] and [|valiantly] [|struggle] for the welfare of [|mortal] [|men] and the [|glory] of their [|divine] [|parents]. 33:3.5 Upon the completion of the [|Creator Son]'s [|seventh and final creature bestowal], the uncertainties of periodic [|isolation] terminate for the [|Divine Minister], and the Son's universe helper becomes forever settled in surety and [|control]. It is at the enthronement of the [|Creator Son] as a [|Master Son], at the jubilee of jubilees, that the [|Universe Spirit], before the [|assembled hosts], first makes [|public] and [|universal] acknowledgment of subordination to the Son, pledging [|fidelity] and [|obedience]. This [|event] occurred in [|Nebadon] at the time of [|Michael's return] to [|Salvington] after the [|Urantian bestowal]. Never before this momentous occasion did the [|Universe Spirit] acknowledge subordination to the [|Universe Son], and not until after this voluntary relinquishment of [|power] and [|authority] by the Spirit could it be [|truthfully] proclaimed of the Son that "all power in heaven and on earth has been committed to his hand."[|[3]] 33:3.6 After this [|pledge] of subordination by the Creative [|Mother Spirit], [|Michael] of Nebadon [|nobly] acknowledged his [|eternal] dependence on his Spirit companion, constituting the Spirit co-ruler of his [|universe] domains and requiring all their [|creatures] to pledge themselves in [|loyalty] to [|the Spirit] as they had to [|the Son]; and there issued and went forth the final "Proclamation of Equality." Though he was the [|sovereign] of this [|local universe], the Son published to the worlds the [|fact] of the Spirit's [|equality] with him in all [|endowments] of [|personality] and [|attributes] of [|divine] [|character]. And this becomes the [|transcendent] [|pattern] for the [|family] [|organization] and [|government] of even the lowly [|creatures] of the [|worlds of space]. This is, in [|deed] and in [|truth], the high [|ideal] of the [|family] and the [|human] [|institution] of voluntary [|marriage]. 33:3.7 The [|Son] and the [|Spirit] now preside over the [|universe] much as a [|father] and [|mother] watch over, and minister to, their [|family] of [|sons and daughters]. It is not altogether out of place to refer to the [|Universe Spirit] as the [|creative] companion of the [|Creator Son] and to regard the [|creatures] of the realms as their [|sons and daughters]—a grand and [|glorious] [|family] but one of untold [|responsibilities] and endless watchcare. 33:3.8 The [|Son] initiates the [|creation] of [|certain of the universe children], while [|the Spirit] is solely [|responsible] for bringing into [|existence] the [|numerous orders of spirit personalities] who minister and serve under the direction and [|guidance] of this selfsame [|Mother Spirit]. In the [|creation] of other [|types] of [|universe] [|personalities], both the Son and the Spirit [|function] [|together], and in no [|creative] [|act] does the one do aught without the [|counsel] and approval of the other.