Grand+Universe

[|Grand Universe]
The seven evolving superuniverses in association with the central and divine universe, we commonly refer to as the **grand universe**; these are the now organized and inhabited creations. They are all a part of the [|master universe], which also embraces the uninhabited but mobilizing universes of [|outer space].



== Urantia Text [|Paper 105]:[|5. PROMULGATION OF FINITE REALITY] ==

105:5.1 Just as the [|original] [|diversification] of the [|I AM] must be attributed to [|inherent] and self-contained [|volition], so must the [|promulgation] of [|finite] [|reality] be ascribed to the [|volitional] [|acts] of [|Paradise] [|Deity] and to the repercussional [|adjustments] of the [|functional triunities]. 105:5.2 Prior to the [|deitization of the finite], it would [|appear] that all [|reality] [|diversification] took place on [|absolute] levels; but the [|volitional] act [|promulgating] finite reality connotes a qualification of absoluteness and implies the [|appearance] of [|relativities]. 105:5.3 While we present this [|narrative] as a [|sequence] and portray the historic [|appearance] of the [|finite] as a direct [|derivative] of the [|absolute], it should be borne in [|mind] that [|transcendentals] both preceded and succeeded all that is [|finite]. [|Transcendental] [|ultimates] are, in [|relation] to the [|finite], both [|causal] and [|consummational]. 105:5.4 [|Finite] [|possibility] is [|inherent] in the [|Infinite], but the [|transmutation] of [|possibility] to [|probability] and [|inevitability] must be [|attributed] to the self-existent [|free will] of the [|First Source and Center], activating all [|triunity associations]. Only the [|infinity] of [|the Father]'s will could ever have so qualified the [|absolute] level of [|existence] as to eventuate an [|ultimate] or to create a [|finite]. 105:5.5 With the [|appearance] of [|relative] and qualified [|reality] there comes into [|being] a new [|cycle] of reality—the [|growth] [|cycle]—a [|majestic] downsweep from the heights of [|infinity] to the [|domain] of the [|finite], forever swinging inward to [|Paradise] and [|Deity], always seeking those high [|destinies] [|commensurate] with an infinity [|source]. 105:5.6 These inconceivable [|transactions] mark the beginning of [|universe] [|history], mark the coming into [|existence] of time itself. To a [|creature], the beginning of the [|finite] is the [|genesis] of [|reality]; as viewed by [|creature] [|mind], there is no [|actuality] conceivable prior to the [|finite]. This newly appearing finite reality exists in two original [|phases]: 105:5.7 These, then, are the two [|original] [|manifestations]: the constitutively perfect and the evolutionally perfected. The [|two] are [|co-ordinate] in [|eternity] [|relationships], but within the [|limits] of time they are seemingly [|different]. A [|time] [|factor] means [|growth] to that which grows; secondary finites grow; hence those that are growing must [|appear] as incomplete in time. But these [|differences], which are so important this side of [|Paradise], are nonexistent in [|eternity]. 105:5.8 We speak of the [|perfect] and the perfected as primary and secondary maximums, but there is still another type: [|Trinitizing] and other [|relationships] between the primaries and the secondaries result in the [|appearance] of tertiary maximums —[|things], [|meanings], and [|values] that are neither perfect nor perfected yet are [|co-ordinate] with both [|ancestral] [|factors].
 * 1. //Primary maximums//, the supremely [|perfect] reality, the Havona type of [|universe] and [|creature].
 * 2. //Secondary maximums//, the supremely perfected [|reality], the superuniverse type of creature and [|creation].

 == Urantia Text [|Paper 105]:[|6. REPERCUSSIONS OF FINITE REALITY] ==

105:6.1 The entire [|promulgation] of [|finite] [|existences] [|represents] a [|transference] from [|potentials] to [|actuals] within the [|absolute] [|associations] of [|functional infinity]. Of the many [|repercussions] to [|creative] [|actualization] of the [|finite], there may be cited:
 * 1. 105:6.2 //The deity response//, the [|appearance] of the [|three] [|levels] of experiential [|supremacy]: the [|actuality] of [|personal]-[|spirit] supremacy in [|Havona], the [|potential] for [|personal-power supremacy] in the [|grand universe] to be, and the capacity for some [|unknown function] of experiential [|mind] acting on some level of supremacy in the [|future] [|master universe].
 * 2. 105:6.3 //The universe response// involved an [|activation] of the [|architectural] [|plans] for the [|superuniverse] space level, and this [|evolution] is still progressing throughout the [|physical] [|organization] of the [|seven superuniverses].
 * 3. 105:6.4 //The creature repercussion// to [|finite]-[|reality] [|promulgation] resulted in the [|appearance] of [|perfect beings] on the order of the [|eternal inhabitants of Havona] and of [|perfected evolutionary ascenders] from the [|seven superuniverses]. But to [|attain] [|perfection] as an [|evolutionary] (time-creative) [|experience] implies something other-than-perfection as a point of departure. Thus arises imperfection in the [|evolutionary creations]. And this is the [|origin] of [|potential] [|evil]. Misadaptation, disharmony, and [|conflict], all these things are [|inherent] in [|evolutionary] [|growth], from [|physical] [|universes] to [|personal] [|creatures].
 * 4. 105:6.5 //The divinity response// to the imperfection [|inherent] in the time lag of [|evolution] is disclosed in the [|compensating] [|presence] of [|God the Sevenfold], by whose [|activities] that which is perfecting is [|integrated] with both the perfect and the perfected. This time lag is inseparable from [|evolution], which is [|creativity] in [|time]. Because of it, as well as for other reasons, the [|almighty power of the Supreme] is predicated on the [|divinity] successes of [|God the Sevenfold]. This time lag makes possible [|creature] [|participation] in [|divine] [|creation] by permitting creature [|personalities] to become [|partners] with [|Deity] in the [|attainment] of maximum [|development]. Even the [|material] [|mind] of the [|mortal] [|creature] thus becomes [|partner] with the divine [|Adjuster] in the dualization of the [|immortal] [|soul]. [|God the Sevenfold] also provides [|techniques] of [|compensation] for the experiential [|limitations] of [|inherent] [|perfection] as well as compensating the preascension [|limitations] of imperfection.

 == Urantia Text [|Paper 106]:[|2. SECONDARY SUPREME FINITE INTEGRATION] ==

106:2.1 As [|God the Sevenfold] [|functionally] [|co-ordinates] [|finite] [|evolution], so does the [|Supreme Being] [|eventually] [|synthesize] [|destiny] [|attainment]. The [|Supreme Being] is the deity culmination of [|grand universe] [|evolution]—physical evolution around a [|spirit] [|nucleus] and [|eventual] [|dominance] of the [|spirit] nucleus over the encircling and whirling [|domains] of [|physical] evolution. And all of this takes place in [|accordance] with the [|mandates] of [|personality]: [|Paradise] personality in the highest sense, [|Creator] personality in the [|universe] sense, [|mortal] [|personality] in the [|human] sense, [|Supreme] personality in the culminating or experiential [|totaling] sense. 106:2.2 The [|concept] of [|the Supreme] must provide for the [|differential] [|recognition] of spirit [|person], evolutionary [|power], and power-personality [|synthesis]—the unification of evolutionary power with, and its [|dominance] by, [|spirit] [|personality]. 106:2.3 [|Spirit], in the last [|analysis], comes from [|Paradise] through [|Havona]. [|Energy]-[|matter] seemingly evolves in the depths of [|space] and is [|organized] as power by the [|children] of the [|Infinite Spirit] in conjunction with the [|Creator Sons of God]. And all of this is experiential; it is a [|transaction] in [|time and space] involving a wide range of living [|beings] including even [|Creator] divinities and [|evolutionary creatures]. The [|power] mastery of the [|Creator] divinities in the [|grand universe] slowly expands to [|encompass] the evolutionary settling and [|stabilizing] of the [|time-space] creations, and this is the flowering of the experiential [|power] of [|God the Sevenfold]. It [|encompasses] the whole [|gamut] of [|divinity] [|attainment] in [|time and space] from the [|Adjuster] bestowals of the [|Universal Father] to the life [|bestowals of the Paradise Sons]. This is [|earned] power, demonstrated power, experiential power; it stands in [|contrast] to the [|eternity] power, the unfathomable power, the existential power of the [|Paradise Deities]. 106:2.4 This experiential [|power] arising out of the [|divinity] achievements of [|God the Sevenfold] itself [|manifests] the cohesive [|qualities] of [|divinity] by synthesizing—[|totalizing]—as the almighty power of the [|attained] experiential [|mastery] of the [|evolving creations]. And this almighty [|power] in turn finds [|spirit]-[|personality] [|cohesion] on the pilot sphere of the outer belt of [|Havona worlds] in [|union] with the [|spirit] [|personality] of the [|Havona] [|presence] of [|God the Supreme]. Thus does experiential [|Deity] culminate the long [|evolutionary] [|struggle] by investing the [|power] [|product] of [|time and space] with the [|spirit] [|presence] and divine [|personality] resident in the [|central creation]. 106:2.5 Thus does the [|Supreme Being] [|eventually] [|attain] to the [|embrace] of all of [|everything] evolving in [|time and space] while investing these [|qualities] with spirit [|personality]. Since [|creatures], even [|mortals], are personality [|participants] in this [|majestic] [|transaction], so do they certainly [|attain] the [|capacity] to know [|the Supreme] and to [|perceive] the Supreme as true [|children] of such an [|evolutionary Deity]. 106:2.6 [|Michael] of [|Nebadon] is like the [|Paradise Father] because he [|shares] his [|Paradise] [|perfection]; so will [|evolutionary mortals] sometime [|attain] to kinship with the experiential [|Supreme], for they will truly [|share] his evolutionary [|perfection]. 106:2.7 [|God the Supreme] is [|experiential]; therefore is he completely experiencible. The [|existential] realities of the [|seven Absolutes] are not perceivable by the [|technique] of [|experience]; only the [|personality] [|realities] of [|the Father], [|Son], and [|Spirit] can be grasped by the [|personality] of the [|finite] [|creature] in the [|prayer]-[|worship] [|attitude]. 106:2.8 Within the completed [|power]-[|personality] [|synthesis] of the [|Supreme Being] there will be [|associated] all of the absoluteness of the several [|triodities] which could be so [|associated], and this [|majestic] [|personality] of [|evolution] will be experientially attainable and understandable by all [|finite] [|personalities]. When ascenders [|attain] the postulated [|seventh stage of spirit existence], they will therein [|experience] the [|realization] of a new [|meaning]-[|value] of the absoluteness and [|infinity] of the [|triodities] as such is revealed on subabsolute levels in the [|Supreme Being], who is experiencible. But the [|attainment] of these [|stages] of maximum [|development] will probably await the [|co-ordinate] settling of the entire [|grand universe] in [|light and life].