Purpose

== Urantia Text [|PAPER 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].