Evolution

Evolutionary Idea
include component="page" page="Evolutionary Idea" ==Urantia Book Paper [|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].

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