The Urantia Book
PAPER 11
THE ETERNAL ISLE OF PARADISE
Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom commissioned thus to function
by the Ancients of Days on Uversa.
11:0.1 PARADISE is the eternal center of the
universe of universes and the abiding place of the Universal
Father, the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, and their divine
co-ordinates and associates. This central Isle is the most
gigantic organized body of cosmic reality in all the master
universe. Paradise is a material sphere as well as a spiritual
abode. All of the intelligent creation of the Universal Father
is domiciled on material abodes; hence must the absolute
controlling center also be material, literal. And again it
should be reiterated that spirit things and spiritual beings are
real.
11:0.2 The material beauty of Paradise
consists in the magnificence of its physical perfection; the
grandeur of the Isle of God is exhibited in the superb
intellectual accomplishments and mind development of its
inhabitants; the glory of the central Isle is shown forth in the
infinite endowment of divine spirit personality -- the light of
life. But the depths of the spiritual beauty and the wonders of
this magnificent ensemble are utterly beyond the comprehension
of the finite mind of material creatures. The glory and
spiritual splendor of the divine abode are impossible of mortal
comprehension. And Paradise is from eternity; there are neither
records nor traditions respecting the origin of this nuclear
Isle of Light and Life.
1. THE DIVINE RESIDENCE
11:1.1 Paradise serves many purposes in the
administration of the universal realms, but to creature beings
it exists primarily as the dwelling place of Deity. The personal
presence of the Universal Father is resident at the very center
of the upper surface of this well-nigh circular, but not
spherical, abode of the Deities. This Paradise presence of the
Universal Father is immediately surrounded by the personal
presence of the Eternal Son, while they are both invested by the
unspeakable glory of the Infinite Spirit.
11:1.2 God dwells, has dwelt, and
everlastingly will dwell in this same central and eternal abode.
We have always found him there and always will. The Universal
Father is cosmically focalized, spiritually personalized, and
geographically resident at this center of the universe of
universes.
11:1.3 We all know the direct course to pursue
to find the Universal Father. You are not able to comprehend
much about the divine residence because of its remoteness from
you and the immensity of the intervening space, but those who
are able to comprehend the meaning of these enormous distances
know God's location and residence just as certainly and
literally as you know the location of New York, London, Rome, or
Singapore, cities definitely and geographically located on
Urantia. If you were an intelligent navigator, equipped with
ship, maps, and compass, you could readily find these cities.
Likewise, if you had the time and means of passage, were
spiritually qualified, and had the necessary guidance, you could
be piloted through universe upon universe and from circuit to
circuit, ever journeying inward through the starry realms, until
at last you would stand before the central shining of the
spiritual glory of the Universal Father. Provided with all the
necessities for the journey, it is just as possible to find the
personal presence of God at the center of all things as to find
distant cities on your own planet. That you have not visited
these places in no way disproves their reality or actual
existence. That so few of the universe creatures have found God
on Paradise in no way disproves either the reality of his
existence or the actuality of his spiritual person at the center
of all things.
11:1.4 The Father is always to be found at
this central location. Did he move, universal pandemonium would
be precipitated, for there converge in him at this residential
center the universal lines of gravity from the ends of creation.
Whether we trace the personality circuit back through the
universes or follow the ascending personalities as they journey
inward to the Father; whether we trace the lines of material
gravity to nether Paradise or follow the insurging cycles of
cosmic force; whether we trace the lines of spiritual gravity to
the Eternal Son or follow the inward processional of the
Paradise Sons of God; whether we trace out the mind circuits or
follow the trillions upon trillions of celestial beings who
spring from the Infinite Spirit -- by any of these observations
or by all of them we are led directly back to the Father's
presence, to his central abode. Here is God personally,
literally, and actually present. And from his infinite being
there flow the flood-streams of life, energy, and personality to
all universes.
2. NATURE OF THE ETERNAL ISLE
11:2.1 Since you are beginning to glimpse the
enormousness of the material universe discernible even from your
astronomical location, your space position in the starry
systems, it should become evident to you that such a tremendous
material universe must have an adequate and worthy capital, a
headquarters commensurate with the dignity and infinitude of the
universal Ruler of all this vast and far-flung creation of
material realms and living beings.
11:2.2 In form Paradise differs from the
inhabited space bodies: it is not spherical. It is definitely
ellipsoid, being one-sixth longer in the north-south diameter
than in the east-west diameter. The central Isle is essentially
flat, and the distance from the upper surface to the nether
surface is one tenth that of the east-west diameter.
11:2.3 These differences in dimensions, taken
in connection with its stationary status and the greater
out-pressure of force-energy at the north end of the Isle, make
it possible to establish absolute direction in the master
universe.
11:2.4 The central Isle is geographically
divided into three domains of activity:
1. Upper Paradise.
2. Peripheral Paradise.
3. Nether Paradise.
11:2.5 We speak of that surface of Paradise
which is occupied with personality activities as the upper side,
and the opposite surface as the nether side. The periphery of
Paradise provides for activities that are not strictly personal
or nonpersonal. The Trinity seems to dominate the personal or
upper plane, the Unqualified Absolute the nether or impersonal
plane. We hardly conceive of the Unqualified Absolute as a
person, but we do think of the functional space presence of this
Absolute as focalized on nether Paradise.
11:2.6 The eternal Isle is composed of a
single form of materialization -- stationary systems of reality.
This literal substance of Paradise is a homogeneous organization
of space potency not to be found elsewhere in all the wide
universe of universes. It has received many names in different
universes, and the Melchizedeks of Nebadon long since named it
absolutum. This Paradise source material is neither dead
nor alive; it is the original nonspiritual expression of the
First Source and Center; it is Paradise, and Paradise is
without duplicate.
11:2.7 It appears to us that the First Source
and Center has concentrated all absolute potential for cosmic
reality in Paradise as a part of his technique of
self-liberation from infinity limitations, as a means of making
possible subinfinite, even time-space, creation. But it does not
follow that Paradise is time-space limited just because the
universe of universes discloses these qualities. Paradise exists
without time and has no location in space.
11:2.8 Roughly: space seemingly originates
just below nether Paradise; time just above upper Paradise.
Time, as you understand it, is not a feature of Paradise
existence, though the citizens of the central Isle are fully
conscious of nontime sequence of events. Motion is not inherent
on Paradise; it is volitional. But the concept of distance, even
absolute distance, has very much meaning as it may be applied to
relative locations on Paradise. Paradise is nonspatial; hence
its areas are absolute and therefore serviceable in many ways
beyond the concept of mortal mind.
3. UPPER PARADISE
11:3.1 On upper Paradise there are three grand
spheres of activity, the Deity presence, the Most Holy
Sphere, and the Holy Area. The vast region
immediately surrounding the presence of the Deities is set aside
as the Most Holy Sphere and is reserved for the functions of
worship, trinitization, and high spiritual attainment. There are
no material structures nor purely intellectual creations in this
zone; they could not exist there. It is useless for me to
undertake to portray to the human mind the divine nature and the
beauteous grandeur of the Most Holy Sphere of Paradise. This
realm is wholly spiritual, and you are almost wholly material. A
purely spiritual reality is, to a purely material being,
apparently nonexistent.
11:3.2 While there are no physical
materializations in the area of the Most Holy, there are
abundant souvenirs of your material days in the Holy Land
sectors and still more in the reminiscent historic areas of
peripheral Paradise.
11:3.3 The Holy Area, the outlying or
residential region, is divided into seven concentric zones.
Paradise is sometimes called "the Father's House" since it is
his eternal residence, and these seven zones are often
designated "the Father's Paradise mansions." The inner or first
zone is occupied by Paradise Citizens and the natives of Havona
who may chance to be dwelling on Paradise. The next or second
zone is the residential area of the natives of the seven
superuniverses of time and space. This second zone is in part
subdivided into seven immense divisions, the Paradise home of
the spirit beings and ascendant creatures who hail from the
universes of evolutionary progression. Each of these sectors is
exclusively dedicated to the welfare and advancement of the
personalities of a single superuniverse, but these facilities
are almost infinitely beyond the requirements of the present
seven superuniverses.
11:3.4 Each of the seven sectors of Paradise
is subdivided into residential units suitable for the lodgment
headquarters of one billion glorified individual working groups.
One thousand of these units constitute a division. One hundred
thousand divisions equal one congregation. Ten million
congregations constitute an assembly. One billion assemblies
make one grand unit. And this ascending series continues through
the second grand unit, the third, and so on to the seventh grand
unit. And seven of the grand units make up the master units, and
seven of the master units constitute a superior unit; and thus
by sevens the ascending series expands through the superior,
supersuperior, celestial, supercelestial, to the supreme units.
But even this does not utilize all the space available. This
staggering number of residential designations on Paradise, a
number beyond your concept, occupies considerably less than one
per cent of the assigned area of the Holy Land. There is still
plenty of room for those who are on their way inward, even for
those who shall not start the Paradise climb until the times of
the eternal future.
4. PERIPHERAL PARADISE
11:4.1 The central Isle ends abruptly at the
periphery, but its size is so enormous that this terminal angle
is relatively indiscernible within any circumscribed area. The
peripheral surface of Paradise is occupied, in part, by the
landing and dispatching fields for various groups of spirit
personalities. Since the nonpervaded-space zones nearly impinge
upon the periphery, all personality transports destined to
Paradise land in these regions. Neither upper nor nether
Paradise is approachable by transport supernaphim or other types
of space traversers.
11:4.2 The Seven Master Spirits have their
personal seats of power and authority on the seven spheres of
the Spirit, which circle about Paradise in the space between the
shining orbs of the Son and the inner circuit of the Havona
worlds, but they maintain force-focal headquarters on the
Paradise periphery. Here the slowly circulating presences of the
Seven Supreme Power Directors indicate the location of the seven
flash stations for certain Paradise energies going forth to the
seven superuniverses.
11:4.3 Here on peripheral Paradise are the
enormous historic and prophetic exhibit areas assigned to the
Creator Sons, dedicated to the local universes of time and
space. There are just seven trillion of these historic
reservations now set up or in reserve, but these arrangements
all together occupy only about four per cent of that portion of
the peripheral area thus assigned. We infer that these vast
reserves belong to creations sometime to be situated beyond the
borders of the present known and inhabited seven superuniverses.
11:4.4 That portion of Paradise which has been
designated for the use of the existing universes is occupied
only from one to four per cent, while the area assigned to these
activities is at least one million times that actually required
for such purposes. Paradise is large enough to accommodate the
activities of an almost infinite creation.
11:4.5 But a further attempt to visualize to
you the glories of Paradise would be futile. You must wait, and
ascend while you wait, for truly, "Eye has not seen, nor ear
heard, neither has it entered into the mind of mortal man, the
things which the Universal Father has prepared for those who
survive the life in the flesh on the worlds of time and space."
5. NETHER PARADISE
11:5.1 Concerning nether Paradise, we know
only that which is revealed; personalities do not sojourn there.
It has nothing whatever to do with the affairs of spirit
intelligences, nor does the Deity Absolute there function. We
are informed that all physical-energy and cosmic-force circuits
have their origin on nether Paradise, and that it is constituted
as follows:
11:5.2 1. Directly underneath the location of
the Trinity, in the central portion of nether Paradise, is the
unknown and unrevealed Zone of Infinity.
11:5.3 2. This Zone is immediately surrounded
by an unnamed area.
11:5.4 3. Occupying the outer margins of the
under surface is a region having mainly to do with space potency
and force-energy. The activities of this vast elliptical force
center are not identifiable with the known functions of any
triunity, but the primordial force-charge of space appears to be
focalized in this area. This center consists of three concentric
elliptical zones: The innermost is the focal point of the
force-energy activities of Paradise itself; the outermost may
possibly be identified with the functions of the Unqualified
Absolute, but we are not certain concerning the space functions
of the mid-zone.
11:5.5 The inner zone of this force
center seems to act as a gigantic heart whose pulsations direct
currents to the outermost borders of physical space. It directs
and modifies force-energies but hardly drives them. The reality
pressure-presence of this primal force is definitely greater at
the north end of the Paradise center than in the southern
regions; this is a uniformly registered difference. The mother
force of space seems to flow in at the south and out at the
north through the operation of some unknown circulatory system
which is concerned with the diffusion of this basic form of
force-energy. From time to time there are also noted differences
in the east-west pressures. The forces emanating from this zone
are not responsive to observable physical gravity but are always
obedient to Paradise gravity.
11:5.6 The mid-zone of the force center
immediately surrounds this area. This mid-zone appears to be
static except that it expands and contracts through three cycles
of activity. The least of these pulsations is in an east-west
direction, the next in a north-south direction, while the
greatest fluctuation is in every direction, a generalized
expansion and contraction. The function of this mid-area has
never been really identified, but it must have something to do
with reciprocal adjustment between the inner and the outer zones
of the force center. It is believed by many that the mid-zone is
the control mechanism of the midspace or quiet zones which
separate the successive space levels of the master universe, but
no evidence or revelation confirms this. This inference is
derived from the knowledge that this mid-area is in some manner
related to the functioning of the nonpervaded-space mechanism of
the master universe.
11:5.7 The outer zone is the largest
and most active of the three concentric and elliptical belts of
unidentified space potential. This area is the site of
unimagined activities, the central circuit point of emanations
which proceed spaceward in every direction to the outermost
borders of the seven superuniverses and on beyond to overspread
the enormous and incomprehensible domains of all outer space.
This space presence is entirely impersonal notwithstanding that
in some undisclosed manner it seems to be indirectly responsive
to the will and mandates of the infinite Deities when acting as
the Trinity. This is believed to be the central focalization,
the Paradise center, of the space presence of the Unqualified
Absolute.
11:5.8 All forms of force and all phases of
energy seem to be encircuited; they circulate throughout the
universes and return by definite routes. But with the emanations
of the activated zone of the Unqualified Absolute there appears
to be either an outgoing or an incoming -- never both
simultaneously. This outer zone pulsates in agelong cycles of
gigantic proportions. For a little more than one billion Urantia
years the space-force of this center is outgoing; then for a
similar length of time it will be incoming. And the space-force
manifestations of this center are universal; they extend
throughout all pervadable space.
11:5.9 All physical force, energy, and matter
are one. All force-energy originally proceeded from nether
Paradise and will eventually return thereto following the
completion of its space circuit. But the energies and material
organizations of the universe of universes did not all come from
nether Paradise in their present phenomenal states; space is the
womb of several forms of matter and prematter. Though the outer
zone of the Paradise force center is the source of
space-energies, space does not originate there. Space is not
force, energy, or power. Nor do the pulsations of this zone
account for the respiration of space, but the incoming and
outgoing phases of this zone are synchronized with the
two-billion-year expansion-contraction cycles of space.
6. SPACE RESPIRATION
11:6.1 We do not know the actual mechanism of
space respiration; we merely observe that all space alternately
contracts and expands. This respiration affects both the
horizontal extension of pervaded space and the vertical
extensions of unpervaded space which exist in the vast space
reservoirs above and below Paradise. In attempting to imagine
the volume outlines of these space reservoirs, you might think
of an hourglass.
11:6.2 As the universes of the horizontal
extension of pervaded space expand, the reservoirs of the
vertical extension of unpervaded space contract and vice versa.
There is a confluence of pervaded and unpervaded space just
underneath nether Paradise. Both types of space there flow
through the transmuting regulation channels, where changes are
wrought making pervadable space nonpervadable and vice versa in
the contraction and expansion cycles of the cosmos.
11:6.3 "Unpervaded" space means: unpervaded by
those forces, energies, powers, and presences known to exist in
pervaded space. We do not know whether vertical (reservoir)
space is destined always to function as the equipoise of
horizontal (universe) space; we do not know whether there is a
creative intent concerning unpervaded space; we really know very
little about the space reservoirs, merely that they exist, and
that they seem to counterbalance the space-expansion-contraction
cycles of the universe of universes.
11:6.4 The cycles of space respiration extend
in each phase for a little more than one billion Urantia years.
During one phase the universes expand; during the next they
contract. Pervaded space is now approaching the mid-point of the
expanding phase, while unpervaded space nears the mid-point of
the contracting phase, and we are informed that the outermost
limits of both space extensions are, theoretically, now
approximately equidistant from Paradise. The unpervaded-space
reservoirs now extend vertically above upper Paradise and below
nether Paradise just as far as the pervaded space of the
universe extends horizontally outward from peripheral Paradise
to and even beyond the fourth outer space level.
11:6.5 For a billion years of Urantia time the
space reservoirs contract while the master universe and the
force activities of all horizontal space expand. It thus
requires a little over two billion Urantia years to complete the
entire expansion-contraction cycle.
7. SPACE FUNCTIONS OF PARADISE
11:7.1 Space does not exist on any of the
surfaces of Paradise. If one "looked" directly up from the upper
surface of Paradise, one would "see" nothing but unpervaded
space going out or coming in, just now coming in. Space does not
touch Paradise; only the quiescent midspace zones come in
contact with the central Isle.
11:7.2 Paradise is the actually motionless
nucleus of the relatively quiescent zones existing between
pervaded and unpervaded space. Geographically these zones appear
to be a relative extension of Paradise, but there probably is
some motion in them. We know very little about them, but we
observe that these zones of lessened space motion separate
pervaded and unpervaded space. Similar zones once existed
between the levels of pervaded space, but these are now less
quiescent.
11:7.3 The vertical cross section of total
space would slightly resemble a Maltese cross, with the
horizontal arms representing pervaded (universe) space and the
vertical arms representing unpervaded (reservoir) space. The
areas between the four arms would separate them somewhat as the
midspace zones separate pervaded and unpervaded space. These
quiescent midspace zones grow larger and larger at greater and
greater distances from Paradise and eventually encompass the
borders of all space and completely incapsulate both the space
reservoirs and the entire horizontal extension of pervaded
space.
11:7.4 Space is neither a subabsolute
condition within, nor the presence of, the Unqualified Absolute,
neither is it a function of the Ultimate. It is a bestowal of
Paradise, and the space of the grand universe and that of all
outer regions is believed to be actually pervaded by the
ancestral space potency of the Unqualified Absolute. From near
approach to peripheral Paradise, this pervaded space extends
horizontally outward through the fourth space level and beyond
the periphery of the master universe, but how far beyond we do
not know.
11:7.5 If you imagine a finite, but
inconceivably large, V-shaped plane situated at right angles to
both the upper and lower surfaces of Paradise, with its point
nearly tangent to peripheral Paradise, and then visualize this
plane in elliptical revolution about Paradise, its revolution
would roughly outline the volume of pervaded space.
11:7.6 There is an upper and a lower limit to
horizontal space with reference to any given location in the
universes. If one could move far enough at right angles to the
plane of Orvonton, either up or down, eventually the upper or
lower limit of pervaded space would be encountered. Within the
known dimensions of the master universe these limits draw
farther and farther apart at greater and greater distances from
Paradise; space thickens, and it thickens somewhat faster than
does the plane of creation, the universes.
11:7.7 The relatively quiet zone between the
space levels, such as the one separating the seven
superuniverses from the first outer space level, are enormous
elliptical regions of quiescent space activities. These zones
separate the vast galaxies which race around Paradise in orderly
procession. You may visualize the first outer space level, where
untold universes are now in process of formation, as a vast
procession of galaxies swinging around Paradise, bounded above
and below by the midspace zones of quiescence and bounded on the
inner and outer margins by relatively quiet space zones.
11:7.8 A space level thus functions as an
elliptical region of motion surrounded on all sides by relative
motionlessness. Such relationships of motion and quiescence
constitute a curved space path of lessened resistance to motion
which is universally followed by cosmic force and emergent
energy as they circle forever around the Isle of Paradise.
11:7.9 This alternate zoning of the master
universe, in association with the alternate clockwise and
counterclockwise flow of the galaxies, is a factor in the
stabilization of physical gravity designed to prevent the
accentuation of gravity pressure to the point of disruptive and
dispersive activities. Such an arrangement exerts antigravity
influence and acts as a brake upon otherwise dangerous
velocities.
8. PARADISE GRAVITY
11:8.1 The inescapable pull of gravity
effectively grips all the worlds of all the universes of all
space. Gravity is the all-powerful grasp of the physical
presence of Paradise. Gravity is the omnipotent strand on which
are strung the gleaming stars, blazing suns, and whirling
spheres which constitute the universal physical adornment of the
eternal God, who is all things, fills all things, and in whom
all things consist.
11:8.2 The center and focal point of absolute
material gravity is the Isle of Paradise, complemented by the
dark gravity bodies encircling Havona and equilibrated by the
upper and nether space reservoirs. All known emanations of
nether Paradise invariably and unerringly respond to the central
gravity pull operating upon the endless circuits of the
elliptical space levels of the master universe. Every known form
of cosmic reality has the bend of the ages, the trend of the
circle, the swing of the great ellipse.
11:8.3 Space is nonresponsive to gravity, but
it acts as an equilibrant on gravity. Without the space cushion,
explosive action would jerk surrounding space bodies. Pervaded
space also exerts an antigravity influence upon physical or
linear gravity; space can actually neutralize such gravity
action even though it cannot delay it. Absolute gravity is
Paradise gravity. Local or linear gravity pertains to the
electrical stage of energy or matter; it operates within the
central, super-, and outer universes, wherever suitable
materialization has taken place.
11:8.4 The numerous forms of cosmic force,
physical energy, universe power, and various materializations
disclose three general, though not perfectly clear-cut, stages
of response to Paradise gravity:
11:8.5 1. Pregravity Stages (Force).
This is the first step in the individuation of space potency
into the pre-energy forms of cosmic force. This state is
analogous to the concept of the primordial force-charge of
space, sometimes called pure energy or segregata.
11:8.6 2. Gravity Stages (Energy). This
modification of the force-charge of space is produced by the
action of the Paradise force organizers. It signalizes the
appearance of energy systems responsive to the pull of Paradise
gravity. This emergent energy is originally neutral but
consequent upon further metamorphosis will exhibit the so-called
negative and positive qualities. We designate these stages
ultimata.
11:8.7 3. Postgravity Stages (Universe
Power). In this stage, energy-matter discloses response to
the control of linear gravity. In the central universe these
physical systems are threefold organizations known as triata.
They are the superpower mother systems of the creations of time
and space. The physical systems of the superuniverses are
mobilized by the Universe Power Directors and their associates.
These material organizations are dual in constitution and are
known as gravita. The dark gravity bodies encircling
Havona are neither triata nor gravita, and their drawing power
discloses both forms of physical gravity, linear and absolute.
11:8.8 Space potency is not subject to the
interactions of any form of gravitation. This primal endowment
of Paradise is not an actual level of reality, but it is
ancestral to all relative functional nonspirit realities -- all
manifestations of force-energy and the organization of power and
matter. Space potency is a term difficult to define. It does not
mean that which is ancestral to space; its meaning should convey
the idea of the potencies and potentials existent within space.
It may be roughly conceived to include all those absolute
influences and potentials which emanate from Paradise and
constitute the space presence of the Unqualified Absolute.
11:8.9 Paradise is the absolute source and the
eternal focal point of all energy-matter in the universe of
universes. The Unqualified Absolute is the revealer, regulator,
and repository of that which has Paradise as its source and
origin. The universal presence of the Unqualified Absolute seems
to be equivalent to the concept of a potential infinity of
gravity extension, an elastic tension of Paradise presence. This
concept aids us in grasping the fact that everything is drawn
inward towards Paradise. The illustration is crude but
nonetheless helpful. It also explains why gravity always acts
preferentially in the plane perpendicular to the mass, a
phenomenon indicative of the differential dimensions of Paradise
and the surrounding creations.
9. THE UNIQUENESS OF PARADISE
11:9.1 Paradise is unique in that it is the
realm of primal origin and the final goal of destiny for all
spirit personalities. Although it is true that not all of the
lower spirit beings of the local universes are immediately
destined to Paradise, Paradise still remains the goal of desire
for all supermaterial personalities.
11:9.2 Paradise is the geographic center of
infinity; it is not a part of universal creation, not even a
real part of the eternal Havona universe. We commonly refer to
the central Isle as belonging to the divine universe, but it
really does not. Paradise is an eternal and exclusive existence.
11:9.3 In the eternity of the past, when the
Universal Father gave infinite personality expression of his
spirit self in the being of the Eternal Son, simultaneously he
revealed the infinity potential of his nonpersonal self as
Paradise. Nonpersonal and nonspiritual Paradise appears to have
been the inevitable repercussion to the Father's will and act
which eternalized the Original Son. Thus did the Father project
reality in two actual phases -- the personal and the nonpersonal,
the spiritual and the nonspiritual. The tension between them, in
the face of will to action by the Father and the Son, gave
existence to the Conjoint Actor and the central universe of
material worlds and spiritual beings.
11:9.4 When reality is differentiated into the
personal and the nonpersonal (Eternal Son and Paradise), it is
hardly proper to call that which is nonpersonal "Deity" unless
somehow qualified. The energy and material repercussions of the
acts of Deity could hardly be called Deity. Deity may cause much
that is not Deity, and Paradise is not Deity; neither is it
conscious as mortal man could ever possibly understand such a
term.
11:9.5 Paradise is not ancestral to any being
or living entity; it is not a creator. Personality and
mind-spirit relationships are transmissible, but pattern
is not. Patterns are never reflections; they are duplications --
reproductions. Paradise is the absolute of patterns; Havona is
an exhibit of these potentials in actuality.
11:9.6 God's residence is central and eternal,
glorious and ideal. His home is the beauteous pattern for all
universe headquarters worlds; and the central universe of his
immediate indwelling is the pattern for all universes in their
ideals, organization, and ultimate destiny.
11:9.7 Paradise is the universal headquarters
of all personality activities and the source-center of all
force-space and energy manifestations. Everything which has
been, now is, or is yet to be, has come, now comes, or will come
forth from this central abiding place of the eternal Gods.
Paradise is the center of all creation, the source of all
energies, and the place of primal origin of all personalities.
11:9.8 After all, to mortals the most
important thing about eternal Paradise is the fact that this
perfect abode of the Universal Father is the real and
far-distant destiny of the immortal souls of the mortal and
material sons of God, the ascending creatures of the
evolutionary worlds of time and space. Every God-knowing mortal
who has espoused the career of doing the Father's will has
already embarked upon the long, long Paradise trail of divinity
pursuit and perfection attainment. And when such an
animal-origin being does stand, as countless numbers now do,
before the Gods on Paradise, having ascended from the lowly
spheres of space, such an achievement represents the reality of
a spiritual transformation bordering on the limits of supremacy.
11:9.9
Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom commissioned thus to function
by the Ancients of Days on Uversa.
