Evolution+of+Local+Universes

=Urantia Text [|Paper 32: The Evolution of Local Universes]=

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 * [|1] [|PAPER 32: THE EVOLUTION OF LOCAL UNIVERSES]
 * [|2] [|32:1. PHYSICAL EMERGENCE OF UNIVERSES]
 * [|3] [|32:2. UNIVERSE ORGANIZATION]
 * [|4] [|32:3. THE EVOLUTIONARY IDEA]
 * [|5] [|32:4. GOD'S RELATION TO A LOCAL UNIVERSE]
 * [|6] [|32:5. THE ETERNAL AND DIVINE PURPOSE]

[|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]. 

[|32:1. PHYSICAL EMERGENCE OF UNIVERSES]
32:1.1 The preuniverse [|manipulations] of [|space]-[|force] and the primordial [|energies] are the [|work] of the [|Paradise Master Force Organizers]; but in the [|superuniverse] domains, when [|emergent energy] becomes [|responsive] to local or [|linear] [|gravity], they retire in favor of the [|power directors] of the [|superuniverse] concerned. 32:1.2 These [|power directors] [|function] alone in the prematerial and postforce [|phases] of a [|local universe] [|creation]. There is no [|opportunity] for a [|Creator Son] to begin [|universe] [|organization] until the [|power directors] have [|effected] the mobilization of the [|space]-[|energies] sufficiently to provide a [|material] [|foundation]—[|literal] [|suns] and [|material] [|spheres]—for the [|emerging] [|universe]. 32:1.3 The [|local universes] are all approximately of the same [|energy] [|potential], though they [|differ] greatly in [|physical] [|dimensions] and may vary in visible-[|matter] [|content] from [|time] to time. The [|power] [|charge] and [|potential]-[|matter] [|endowment] of a [|local universe] are determined by the [|manipulations] of the [|power directors]] and their [|predecessors] as well as by the [|Creator Son]'s [|activities] and by the [|endowment] of the [|inherent] [|physical] [|control] [|possessed] by his [|creative] [|associate]. 32:1.4 The [|energy] [|charge] of a [|local universe] is approximately one one-hundred-thousandth of the [|force] [|endowment] of its [|superuniverse]. In the case of [|Nebadon], your [|local universe], the [|mass] [|materialization] is a trifle less. [|Physically] speaking, [|Nebadon] [|possesses] all of the [|physical] [|endowment] of [|energy] and [|matter] that may be found in any of the [|Orvonton] local creations. The only [|physical] [|limitation] upon the [|developmental] expansion of the [|Nebadon] [|universe] consists in the [|quantitative] [|charge] of [|space]-[|energy] held captive by the [|gravity] [|control] of the [|associated] powers and [|personalities] of the combined [|universe] [|mechanism]. 32:1.5 When [|energy]-[|matter] has [|attained] a certain [|stage] in [|mass] [|materialization], a [|Paradise] [|Creator Son] appears upon the scene, accompanied by a [|Creative Daughter] of the [|Infinite Spirit]. [|Simultaneously] with the arrival of the [|Creator Son], [|work] is begun upon the [|architectural sphere] which is to become the [|headquarters] world of the [|projected] [|local universe]. For long ages such a local [|creation] evolves, [|suns] become [|stabilized], [|planets] [|form] and swing into their [|orbits], while the [|work] of creating the [|architectural worlds] which are to serve as [|constellation] [|headquarters] and [|system] capitals continues. 

[|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]. 

[|32:3. THE EVOLUTIONARY IDEA]
32:3.1 The only [|creation] that is [|perfectly] settled is [|Havona], the central universe, which was made directly by the [|thought] of the [|Universal Father] and the [|word] of the [|Eternal Son]. [|Havona] is an [|existential], [|perfect], and replete [|universe], surrounding the [|home] of the eternal [|Deities], the [|center] of [|all things]. The [|creations] of the [|seven superuniverses] are [|finite], [|evolutionary], and consistently [|progressive]. 32:3.2 The [|physical] [|systems] of [|time and space] are all [|evolutionary] in [|origin]. They are not even [|physically] [|stabilized] until they are swung into the settled [|circuits] of their [|superuniverses]. Neither is a [|local universe] settled in [|light and life] until its [|physical] [|possibilities] of expansion and [|development] have been exhausted, and until the [|spiritual] [|status] of all its [|inhabited worlds] has been forever settled and [|stabilized]. 32:3.3 Except in the [|central universe], [|perfection] is a [|progressive] [|attainment]. In the [|central] [|creation] we have a [|pattern] of [|perfection], but all other realms must [|attain] that [|perfection] by the [|methods] established for the [|advancement] of those particular worlds or [|universes]. And an almost [|infinite] [|variety] characterizes the [|plans] of the [|Creator Sons] for [|organizing], [|evolving], [|disciplining], and settling their respective [|local universes]. 32:3.4 With the exception of the [|deity] [|presence] of [|the Father], every [|local universe] is, in a certain sense, a duplication of the [|administrative] [|organization] of the [|central] or [|pattern] [|creation]. Although the [|Universal Father] is [|personally] present in the residential [|universe], he does not indwell the [|minds] of the [|beings] [|originating] in that [|universe] as he does [|literally] dwell with the [|souls] of the [|mortals] of [|time and space]. There seems to be an all-[|wise] [|compensation] in the adjustment and regulation of the [|spiritual] affairs of the far-flung [|creation]. In the [|central universe] [|the Father] is personally present as such but [|absent] in the [|minds] of the [|children] of that [|perfect] [|creation]; in the [|universes] of [|space] [|the Father] is absent in [|person], being [|represented] by his [|Sovereign Sons], while he is [|intimately] present in the [|minds] of his [|mortal] [|children], being [|spiritually] [|represented] by the prepersonal [|presence] of the [|Mystery Monitors] that reside in the [|minds] of these [|will] [|creatures]. 32:3.5 On the [|headquarters] of a [|local universe] there reside all those [|creator] and [|creative] [|personalities] who [|represent] self-contained [|authority] and [|administrative] [|autonomy] except the [|personal] [|presence] of the [|Universal Father]. In the [|local universe] there are to be found something of everyone and someone of almost every [|class] of [|intelligent] [|beings] existing in the [|central universe] except the [|Universal Father]. Although the Universal Father is not [|personally] present in a [|local universe], he is personally [|represented] by its [|Creator Son], sometime [|vicegerent] of [|God] and subsequently [|supreme and sovereign ruler] in his own right. 32:3.6 The farther down the [|scale] of life we go, the more [|difficult] it becomes to locate, with the eye of [|faith], the [|invisible] [|Father]. The lower [|creatures]—and sometimes even the [|higher personalities]—find it [|difficult] always to envisage the [|Universal Father] in his [|Creator Sons]. And so, pending the [|time] of their [|spiritual] exaltation, when [|perfection] of [|development] will enable them to see [|God] in [|person], they grow weary in [|progression], entertain [|spiritual] [|doubts], stumble into [|confusion], and thus [|isolate] themselves from the [|progressive] [|spiritual] aims of their [|time] and [|universe]. In this way they lose the [|ability] to see [|the Father] when beholding the [|Creator Son]. The surest safeguard for the [|creature] throughout the long [|struggle] to [|attain] [|the Father], during this [|time] when [|inherent] conditions make such [|attainment] impossible, is tenaciously to hold on to the [|truth]-[|fact] of [|the Father]'s [|presence] in [|his Sons]. [|Literally] and figuratively, [|spiritually] and [|personally], [|the Father] and [|the Sons] are one. It is a [|fact]: He who has seen a [|Creator Son] has seen [|the Father]. 32:3.7 The [|personalities] of a given [|universe] are settled and dependable, at the start, only in accordance with their [|degree] of [|kinship] to [|Deity]. When [|creature] [|origin] departs sufficiently far from the [|original] and [|divine] [|Sources], whether we are dealing with the [|Sons of God] or the [|creatures of ministry] belonging to the [|Infinite Spirit], there is an increase in the [|possibility] of disharmony, [|confusion], and sometimes [|rebellion]—[|sin]. 32:3.8 Excepting [|perfect] [|beings] of [|Deity] [|origin], all [|will] [|creatures] in the [|superuniverses] are of [|evolutionary] [|nature], [|beginning in lowly estate and climbing ever upward], in [|reality] inward. Even highly [|spiritual] [|personalities] continue to [|ascend] the scale of life by [|progressive] [|translations] from life to life and from [|sphere] to sphere. And in the case of those who entertain the [|Mystery Monitors], there is indeed no [|limit] to the possible heights of their [|spiritual] [|ascent] and [|universe] [|attainment]. 32:3.9 The [|perfection] of the [|creatures] of [|time], when finally [|achieved], is wholly an acquirement, a bona fide [|personality] [|possession]. While the elements of [|grace] are freely admixed, nevertheless, the [|creature] [|attainments] are the result of [|individual] [|effort] and actual living, [|personality] [|reaction] to the existing [|environment]. 32:3.10 The [|fact] of [|animal] [|evolutionary] [|origin] does not attach [|stigma] to any [|personality] in the [|sight] of the [|universe] as that is the exclusive [|method] of producing one of the two basic [|types] of [|finite] [|intelligent] [|will] [|creatures]. When the heights of [|perfection] and [|eternity] are [|attained], all the more [|honor] to those who began at the bottom and [|joyfully] [|climbed] the ladder of life, round by round, and who, when they do reach the heights of [|glory], will have gained a [|personal] [|experience] which [|embodies] an [|actual] [|knowledge] of every [|phase] of life from the bottom to the top. 32:3.11 In all this is shown the [|wisdom] of [|the Creators]. It would be just as easy for the [|Universal Father] to make all [|mortals] [|perfect] [|beings], to impart [|perfection] by his [|divine] [|word]. But that would deprive them of the [|wonderful] [|experience] of the [|adventure] and [|training] [|associated] with the long and [|gradual] [|inward climb], an [|experience] to be had only by those who are so fortunate as to begin at the very bottom of living [|existence]. 32:3.12 In the [|universes] encircling [|Havona] there are provided only a sufficient [|number] of [|perfect] [|creatures] to meet the need for [|pattern] [|teacher] [|guides] for those who are [|ascending] the [|evolutionary] scale of life. The [|experiential] [|nature] of the evolutionary [|type] of [|personality] is the [|natural] [|cosmic] [|complement] of the ever-[|perfect] [|natures] of the [|Paradise]-[|Havona] [|creatures]. In [|reality], both [|perfect] and perfected [|creatures] are incomplete as regards [|finite] [|totality]. But in the [|complemental] [|association] of the [|existentially] [|perfect] [|creatures] of the [|Paradise-Havona system] with the experientially perfected [|finaliters] [|ascending] from the [|evolutionary] [|universes], both [|types] find release from [|inherent] [|limitations] and thus may conjointly attempt to reach the [|sublime] heights of the [|ultimate] of [|creature] [|status]. 32:3.13 These [|creature] [|transactions] are the [|universe] repercussions of [|actions] and [|reactions] within the [|Sevenfold Deity], wherein the [|eternal] [|divinity] of the [|Paradise Trinity] is conjoined with the evolving [|divinity] of the [|Supreme Creators] of the [|time-space] [|universes] in, by, and through the [|power]-[|actualizing] [|Deity] of the [|Supreme Being]. 32:3.14 The [|divinely] [|perfect] [|creature] and the [|evolutionary] [|perfected] [|creature] are [|equal] in [|degree] of [|divinity] [|potential], but they [|differ] in kind. Each must depend on the other to [|attain] [|supremacy] of [|service]. The [|evolutionary] [|superuniverses] depend on [|perfect] [|Havona] to provide the final [|training] for their [|ascending] [|citizens], but so does the [|perfect] [|central universe] require the [|existence] of the perfecting [|superuniverses] to provide for the full [|development] of its [|descending] inhabitants. 32:3.15 The two prime [|manifestations] of [|finite] [|reality], [|innate] [|perfection] and [|evolved] perfection, be they [|personalities] or [|universes], are [|co-ordinate], dependent, and [|integrated]. Each requires the other to [|achieve] completion of [|function], [|service], and [|destiny]. 

[|32:4. GOD'S RELATION TO A LOCAL UNIVERSE]
32:4.1 Do not [|entertain] the [|idea] that, since the [|Universal Father] has [|delegated] so much of himself and his [|power] to others, he is a [|silent] or inactive member of the [|Deity] [|partnership]. Aside from [|personality] domains and [|Adjuster] [|bestowal], he is [|apparently] the least [|active] of the [|Paradise Deities] in that he allows his [|Deity co-ordinates], [|his Sons], and numerous [|created] [|intelligences] to [|perform] so much in the carrying out of his [|eternal] [|purpose]. He is the [|silent] member of the [|creative] [|trio] only in that he never does aught which any of his [|co-ordinate] or subordinate [|associates] can do. 32:4.2 [|God] has full [|understanding] of the need of every [|intelligent] [|creature] for [|function] and [|experience], and therefore, in every [|situation], be it concerned with the [|destiny] of a [|universe] or the [|welfare] of the [|humblest] of his [|creatures], [|God] retires from [|activity] in favor of the [|galaxy] of [|creature] and [|Creator] [|personalities] who [|inherently] [|intervene] between himself and any given [|universe] situation or [|creative] [|event]. But notwithstanding this retirement, this [|exhibition] of [|infinite] [|co-ordination], there is on [|God]'s part an [|actual], [|literal], and [|personal] [|participation] in these [|events] by and through these [|ordained] [|agencies] and [|personalities]. [|The Father] is [|working] in and through all these [|channels] for the welfare of all his far-flung [|creation]. 32:4.3 As regards the [|policies], [|conduct], and [|administration] of a [|local universe], the [|Universal Father] [|acts] in the [|person] of his [|Creator Son]. In the interrelationships of [|the Sons of God], in the [|group] [|associations] of the [|personalities] of [|origin] in the [|Third Source and Center], or in the [|relationship] between any other [|creatures], such as [|human beings]—as concerns such [|associations] the [|Universal Father] never [|intervenes]. The [|law] of the [|Creator Son], the rule of the [|Constellation Fathers], the [|System Sovereigns], and the [|Planetary Princes]—the [|ordained] [|policies] and [|procedures] for that [|universe]—always prevail. There is no division of [|authority]; never is there a [|cross working] of [|divine] [|power] and [|purpose]. [|The Deities] are in [|perfect] and [|eternal] [|unanimity]. 32:4.4 The [|Creator Son] rules [|supreme] in all matters of [|ethical] [|associations], the [|relations] of any division of [|creatures] to any other [|class] of [|creatures] or of two or more [|individuals] within any given [|group]; but such a [|plan] does not mean that the [|Universal Father] may not in his own way [|intervene] and do aught that pleases the [|divine] [|mind] with any [|individual] [|creature] throughout all [|creation], as pertains to that [|individual]'s present [|status] or [|future] prospects and as concerns [|the Father]'s [|eternal] [|plan] and [|infinite] [|purpose]. 32:4.5 In the [|mortal] [|will] [|creatures] [|the Father] is [|actually] present in the [|indwelling Adjuster], a [|fragment] of his prepersonal [|spirit]; and [|the Father] is also the [|source] of the [|personality] of such a [|mortal] [|will] [|creature]. 32:4.6 These [|Thought Adjusters], the [|bestowals] of the [|Universal Father], are comparatively [|isolated]; they indwell [|human] [|minds] but have no [|discernible] [|connection] with the [|ethical] affairs of a [|local creation]. They are not directly [|co-ordinated] with the [|seraphic] [|service] nor with the [|administration] of [|systems], [|constellations], or a [|local universe], not even with the rule of a [|Creator Son], whose will is the [|supreme] [|law] of his [|universe]. 32:4.7 The [|indwelling Adjusters] are one of [|God]'s separate but [|unified] modes of contact with the [|creatures] of his all but [|infinite] [|creation]. Thus does he who is [|invisible] to [|mortal] [|man] [|manifest] his [|presence], and could he do so, he would show himself to us in still other ways, but such further [|revelation] is not [|divinely] [|possible]. 32:4.8 We can [|see] and [|understand] the [|mechanism] whereby the [|Sons] enjoy [|intimate] and complete [|knowledge] regarding the [|universes] of their [|jurisdiction]; but we cannot fully [|comprehend] the [|methods] whereby [|God] is so fully and [|personally] conversant with the details of the [|universe of universes], although we at least can [|recognize] the avenue whereby the [|Universal Father] can receive [|information] regarding, and [|manifest] his [|presence] to, the [|beings] of his immense [|creation]. Through the [|personality circuit]] [|the Father] is cognizant—has [|personal] [|knowledge]—of all the [|thoughts] and [|acts] of all the [|beings] in all [|the systems] of all the [|universes] of all [|creation]. Though we cannot fully grasp this [|technique] of [|God]'s [|communion] with his [|children], we can be strengthened in the [|assurance] that the "Lord knows his children,"[|[1]] and that of each one of us "he takes note where we were born."[|[2]] 32:4.9 In your [|universe] and in your [|heart] the [|Universal Father] is present, [|spiritually] speaking, by one of the [|Seven Master Spirits] of central abode and, specifically, by the [|divine Adjuster] who lives and [|works] and waits in the depths of the [|mortal] [|mind]. 32:4.10 [|God] is not a [|self]-[|centered] [|personality]; [|the Father] freely [|distributes] himself to his [|creation] and to his [|creatures]. He lives and [|acts], not only in [|the Deities], but also in [|his Sons], whom he intrusts with the [|doing] of [|everything] that it is [|divinely] [|possible] for them to do. The [|Universal Father] has truly divested himself of every [|function] which it is possible for another [|being] to [|perform]. And this is just as true of [|mortal] [|man] as of the [|Creator Son] who rules in [|God]'s stead at the [|headquarters] of a [|local universe]. Thus we behold the outworking of the [|ideal] and [|infinite] [|love] of the [|Universal Father]. 32:4.11 In this [|universal] [|bestowal] of himself we have [|abundant] [|proof] of both the [|magnitude] and the magnanimity of [|the Father]'s [|divine] [|nature]. If [|God] has withheld aught of himself from the [|universal] [|creation], then of that residue he is in lavish [|generosity] bestowing the [|Thought Adjusters] upon the [|mortals] of the realms, the [|Mystery Monitors] of [|time], who so [|patiently] indwell the [|mortal] [|candidates] for life [|everlasting]. 32:4.12 The [|Universal Father] has poured out himself, as it were, to make all [|creation] rich in [|personality] [|possession] and [|potential] [|spiritual] [|attainment]. [|God] has given us himself that we may be like him, and he has reserved for himself of [|power] and [|glory] only that which is [|necessary] for the [|maintenance] of those [|things] for the [|love] of which he has thus divested himself of [|all things] else. 

[|32:5. THE ETERNAL AND DIVINE PURPOSE]
32:5.1 There is a great and [|glorious] [|purpose] in the [|march] of the [|universes] through [|space]. All of your [|mortal] [|struggling] is not in vain. We are all part of an immense [|plan], a gigantic [|enterprise], and it is the vastness of the undertaking that renders it impossible to see very much of it at any one [|time] and during any one life. We are all a part of an [|eternal] [|project] which [|the Gods] are supervising and outworking. The whole [|marvelous] and [|universal] [|mechanism] moves on [|majestically] through [|space] to the [|music] of the meter of the [|infinite] [|thought] and the [|eternal] [|purpose] of the [|First Great Source and Center]. 32:5.2 The [|eternal] [|purpose] of the [|eternal] [|God] is a high [|spiritual] [|ideal]. The [|events] of [|time] and the struggles of [|material] [|existence] are but the [|transient] [|scaffolding] which bridges over to the other side, to the [|promised] land of [|spiritual] [|reality] and [|supernal] [|existence]. Of [|course], you [|mortals] find it [|difficult] to grasp the [|idea] of an [|eternal] [|purpose]; you are [|virtually] unable to [|comprehend] the [|thought] of [|eternity], something never beginning and never ending. [|Everything] familiar to you has an end. 32:5.3 As regards an [|individual] life, the duration of a realm, or the [|chronology] of any [|connected] [|series] of [|events], it would seem that we are dealing with an [|isolated] stretch of [|time]; [|everything] seems to have a beginning and an end. And it would [|appear] that a [|series] of such [|experiences], lives, ages, or [|epochs], when [|successively] arranged, [|constitutes] a straightaway drive, an [|isolated] [|event] of [|time] flashing momentarily across the [|infinite] face of [|eternity]. But when we look at all this from behind the scenes, a more [|comprehensive] [|view] and a more complete [|understanding] suggest that such an explanation is inadequate, disconnected, and wholly unsuited properly to account for, and otherwise to correlate, the [|transactions] of [|time] with the underlying [|purposes] and basic [|reactions] of [|eternity]. 32:5.4 To me it seems more fitting, for [|purposes] of [|explanation] to the [|mortal] [|mind], to [|conceive] of [|eternity] as a [|cycle] and the eternal [|purpose] as an endless [|circle], a [|cycle] of [|eternity] in some way [|synchronized] with the transient [|material] cycles of [|time]. As regards the [|sectors] of time [|connected] with, and forming a part of, the [|cycle] of [|eternity], we are [|forced] to [|recognize] that such temporary [|epochs] are born, live, and die just as the temporary [|beings] of [|time] are born, live, and die. Most [|human beings] die because, having failed to achieve the [|spirit] level of [|Adjuster fusion], the [|metamorphosis] of [|death] [|constitutes] the only possible [|procedure] whereby they may escape the fetters of [|time] and the bonds of [|material] [|creation], thereby being enabled to strike [|spiritual] step with the [|progressive] [|procession] of [|eternity]. Having [|survived] the [|trial] life of [|time] and [|material] [|existence], it becomes possible for you to continue on in [|touch] with, even as a part of, [|eternity], swinging on forever with the [|worlds of space] around the [|circle] of the [|eternal] ages. 32:5.5 The sectors of [|time] are like the flashes of [|personality] in [|temporal] [|form]; they appear for a season, and then they are lost to [|human] [|sight], only to reappear as new actors and continuing [|factors] in the higher life of the endless swing around the [|eternal] [|circle]. Eternity can hardly be [|conceived] as a straightaway drive, in view of our [|belief] in a delimited [|universe] moving over a vast, [|elongated circle] around the [|central dwelling place] of the [|Universal Father]. 32:5.6 Frankly, [|eternity] is [|incomprehensible] to the [|finite] [|mind] of [|time]. You simply cannot grasp it; you cannot [|comprehend] it. I do not completely [|visualize] it, and even if I did, it would be impossible for me to convey my [|concept] to the [|human] [|mind]. Nevertheless, I have done my best to portray something of our [|viewpoint], to tell you somewhat of our [|understanding] of [|things] [|eternal]. I am endeavoring to aid you in the [|crystallization] of your [|thoughts] about these [|values] which are of [|infinite] [|nature] and [|eternal] import. 32:5.7 There is in the [|mind] of [|God] a [|plan] which [|embraces] every [|creature] of all his vast domains, and this plan is an [|eternal] [|purpose] of boundless [|opportunity], unlimited [|progress], and endless life. And the [|infinite] treasures of such a matchless [|career] are yours for the striving! 32:5.8 The goal of [|eternity] is ahead! The [|adventure] of [|divinity] [|attainment] lies before you! The race for [|perfection] is on! whosoever will may enter, and certain victory will crown the efforts of every [|human being] who will run the race of [|faith] and [|trust], depending every step of the way on the leading of the [|indwelling Adjuster] and on the [|guidance] of that [|good] [|spirit of the Universe Son], which so freely has been poured out upon all [|flesh]. 32:5.9 [Presented by a [|Mighty Messenger] temporarily attached to the [|Supreme Council of Nebadon] and assigned to this mission by [|Gabriel] of [|Salvington].]