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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 13
THE SACRED SPHERES OF PARADISE
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BETWEEN the central Isle of Paradise and the innermost
of the Havona planetary circuits there are situated in
space three lesser circuits of special spheres. The
innermost circuit consists of the seven secret spheres
of the Universal Father; the second group is composed of
the seven luminous worlds of the Eternal Son; in the
outermost are the seven immense spheres of the Infinite
Spirit, the executive-headquarters worlds of the Seven
Master Spirits.
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These three seven-world circuits of the Father, the Son,
and the Spirit are spheres of unexcelled grandeur and
unimagined glory. Even their material or physical
construction is of an order unrevealed to you. Each
circuit is diverse in material, and each world of each
circuit is different excepting the seven worlds of the
Son, which are alike in physical constitution. All
twenty-one are enormous spheres, and each group of seven
is differently eternalized. As far as we know they have
always been; like Paradise they are eternal. There
exists neither record nor tradition of their origin.
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The seven secret spheres of the Universal Father,
circulating about Paradise in close proximity to the
eternal Isle, are highly reflective of the spiritual
luminosity of the central shining of the eternal
Deities, shedding this light of divine glory throughout
Paradise and even upon the seven circuits of Havona.
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On the seven sacred worlds of the Eternal Son there
appear to take origin the impersonal energies of spirit
luminosity. No personal being may sojourn on any of
these seven shining realms. With spiritual glory they
illuminate all Paradise and Havona, and they
directionize pure spirit luminosity to the seven
superuniverses. These brilliant spheres of the second
circuit likewise emit their light (light without heat)
to Paradise and to the billion worlds of the
seven-circuited central universe.
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The seven worlds of the Infinite Spirit are occupied by
the Seven Master Spirits, who preside over the destinies
of the seven superuniverses, sending forth the spiritual
illumination of the Third Person of Deity to these
creations of time and space. And all Havona, but not the
Isle of Paradise, is bathed in these spiritualizing
influences.
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Although the worlds of the Father are ultimate status
spheres for all Father-endowed personalities, this is
not their exclusive function. Many beings and entities
other than personal sojourn on these worlds. Each world
in the circuit of the Father and the circuit of the
Spirit has a distinct type of permanent citizenship, but
we think the Son's worlds are inhabited by uniform types
of other-than-personal beings. Father fragments are
among the natives of Divinington; the other orders of
permanent citizenship are unrevealed to you.
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The twenty-one Paradise satellites serve many purposes
in both central and superuniverses not disclosed in
these narratives. You are able to understand so little
of the life of these spheres that you cannot hope to
gain anything like a consistent view of them, either as
to nature or function; thousands of activities are there
going on which are unrevealed to you. These twenty-one
spheres embrace the
potentials of
the function of the master universe. These papers afford
only a fleeting glimpse of certain circumscribed
activities pertaining to the present universe age of the
grand universe -- rather, one of the seven sectors of
the grand universe.
1. THE SEVEN SACRED WORLDS OF THE FATHER
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The Father's circuit of sacred life spheres contains the
only inherent personality secrets in the universe of
universes. These satellites of Paradise, the innermost
of the three circuits, are the only forbidden domains
concerned with personality in the central universe.
Nether Paradise and the worlds of the Son are likewise
closed to personalities, but neither of those realms is
in any way directly concerned with personality.
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The Paradise worlds of the Father are directed by the
highest order of the Stationary Sons of the Trinity, the
Trinitized Secrets of Supremacy. Of these worlds I can
tell little; of their manifold activities I may tell
less. Such information concerns only those beings who
function thereon and go forth therefrom. And though I am
somewhat familiar with six of these special worlds,
never have I landed on Divinington; that world is wholly
forbidden to me.
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One of the reasons for the secrecy of these worlds is
because each of these sacred spheres enjoys a
specialized representation, or manifestation, of the
Deities composing the Paradise Trinity; not a
personality, but a unique presence of Divinity which can
only be appreciated and comprehended by those particular
groups of intelligences resident on, or admissible to,
that particular sphere. The Trinitized Secrets of
Supremacy are the personal agents of these specialized
and impersonal presences of Divinity. And the Secrets of
Supremacy are highly personal beings, superbly endowed
and marvelously adapted to their exalted and exacting
work.
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1. DIVININGTON. This world is, in a unique sense, the
"bosom of the Father," the personal-communion sphere of
the Universal Father, and thereon is a special
manifestation of his divinity. Divinington is the
Paradise rendezvous of the Thought Adjusters, but it is
also the home of numerous other entities, personalities,
and other beings taking origin in the Universal Father.
Many personalities besides the Eternal Son are of direct
origin by the solitary acts of the Universal Father.
Only the Father fragments and those personalities and
other beings of direct and exclusive origin in the
Universal Father fraternize and function on this abode.
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The secrets of
Divinington include the secret of the bestowal and
mission of Thought Adjusters. Their nature, origin, and
the technique of their contact with the lowly creatures
of the evolutionary worlds is a secret of this Paradise
sphere. These amazing transactions do not personally
concern the rest of us, and therefore do the Deities
deem it proper to withhold certain features of this
great and divine ministry from our full understanding.
In so far as we come in contact with this phase of
divine activity, we are permitted full knowledge of
these transactions, but concerning the intimate details
of this great bestowal we are not fully informed.
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This sphere also holds the secrets of the nature,
purpose, and activities of all other forms of Father
fragments, of the Gravity Messengers, and of hosts of
other beings unrevealed to you. It is highly probable
that those truths pertaining to Divinington which are
withheld from me, if revealed, would merely confuse and
handicap me in my present work, and still again, perhaps
they are beyond the conceptual capacity of my order of
being.
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2. SONARINGTON. This sphere is the "bosom of the Son,"
the personal receiving world of the Eternal Son. It is
the Paradise headquarters of the descending and
ascending Sons of God when, and after, they are fully
accredited and finally approved. This world is the
Paradise home for all Sons of the Eternal Son and of his
co-ordinate and associate Sons. There are numerous
orders of divine sonship attached to this supernal abode
which have not been revealed to mortals since they are
not concerned with the plans of the ascension scheme of
human spiritual progression through the universes and on
to Paradise.
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The secrets of
Sonarington include the secret of the incarnation of
the divine Sons. When a Son of God becomes a Son of Man,
is literally born of woman, as occurred on your world
nineteen hundred years ago, it is a universal mystery.
It is occurring right along throughout the universes,
and it is a Sonarington secret of divine sonship. The
Adjusters are a mystery of God the Father. The
incarnation of the divine Sons is a mystery of God the
Son; it is a secret locked up in the seventh sector of
Sonarington, a realm penetrated by none save those who
have personally passed through this unique experience.
Only those phases of incarnation having to do with your
ascension career have been brought to your notice. There
are many other phases of the mystery of the incarnation
of the Paradise Sons of unrevealed types on missions of
universe service which are undisclosed to you. And there
are still other Sonarington mysteries.
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3. SPIRITINGTON. This world is the "bosom of the
Spirit," the Paradise home of the high beings that
exclusively represent the Infinite Spirit. Here
forgather the Seven Master Spirits and certain of their
offspring from all universes. At this celestial abode
may also be found numerous unrevealed orders of spirit
personalities, beings assigned to the manifold
activities of the universe not associated with the plans
of upstepping the mortal creatures of time to the
Paradise levels of eternity.
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The secrets of
Spiritington involve the impenetrable mysteries of
reflectivity. We tell you of the vast and universal
phenomenon of reflectivity, more particularly as it is
operative on the headquarters worlds of the seven
superuniverses, but we never fully explain this
phenomenon, for we do not fully understand it. Much,
very much, we do comprehend, but many basic details are
still mysterious to us. Reflectivity is a secret of God
the Spirit. You have been instructed concerning
reflectivity functions in relation to the ascension
scheme of mortal survival, and it does so operate, but
reflectivity is also an indispensable feature of the
normal working of numerous other phases of universe
occupation. This endowment of the Infinite Spirit is
also utilized in channels other than those of
intelligence gathering and information dissemination.
And there are other secrets of Spiritington.
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4. VICEGERINGTON. This planet is the "bosom of the
Father and the Son" and is the secret sphere of certain
unrevealed beings who take origin by the acts of the
Father and the Son. This is also the Paradise home of
many glorified beings of complex ancestry, those whose
origin is complicated because of the many diverse
techniques operative in the seven superuniverses. Many
groups of beings forgather on this world whose identity
has not been revealed to Urantia mortals.
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The secrets of
Vicegerington include the secrets of trinitization,
and trinitization constitutes the secret of authority to
represent the Trinity, to act as vicegerents of the
Gods. Authority to represent the Trinity attaches only
to those beings, revealed and unrevealed, who are
trinitized, created, eventuated, or eternalized by any
two or all three of the Paradise Trinity. Personalities
brought into being by the trinitizing acts of certain
types of glorified creatures represent no more than the
conceptual potential mobilized in that trinitization,
albeit such creatures may ascend the path of Deity
embrace open to all of their kind.
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Nontrinitized beings do not fully understand the
technique of trinitization by either two or three
Creators or by certain creatures. You will never fully
understand such a phenomenon unless, in the far-distant
future of your glorified career, you should essay and
succeed in such an adventure, because otherwise these
secrets of Vicegerington will always be forbidden you.
But to me, a high Trinity-origin being, all sectors of
Vicegerington are open. I fully understand, and just as
fully and sacredly protect, the secret of my origin and
destiny.
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There are still other forms and phases of trinitization
which have not been brought to the notice of the Urantia
peoples, and these experiences, in their personal
aspects, are duly protected in the secret sector of
Vicegerington.
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5. SOLITARINGTON. This world is the "bosom of the Father
and the Spirit" and is the rendezvous of a magnificent
host of unrevealed beings of origin in the conjoint acts
of the Universal Father and the Infinite Spirit, beings
who partake of the traits of the Father in addition to
their Spirit inheritance.
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This is also the home of the Solitary Messengers and of
other personalities of the superangelic orders. You know
of very few of these beings; there are vast numbers of
orders unrevealed on Urantia. Because they are domiciled
on the fifth world, it does not necessarily follow that
the Father had aught to do with the creation of Solitary
Messengers or their superangelic associates, but in this
universe age he does have to do with their function.
During the present universe age this is also the status
sphere of the Universe Power Directors.
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There are numerous additional orders of spirit
personalities, beings unknown to mortal man, who look
upon Solitarington as their Paradise home sphere. It
should be remembered that all divisions and levels of
universe activities are just as fully provided with
spirit ministers as is the realm concerned with helping
mortal man ascend to his divine Paradise destiny.
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The secrets of
Solitarington. Besides certain secrets of
trinitization, this world holds the secrets of the
personal relation of the Infinite Spirit with certain of
the higher offspring of the Third Source and Center. On
Solitarington are held the mysteries of the intimate
association of numerous unrevealed orders with the
spirits of the Father, of the Son, and of the Spirit,
with the threefold spirit of the Trinity, and with the
spirits of the Supreme, the Ultimate, and the
Supreme-Ultimate.
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6. SERAPHINGTON. This sphere is the "bosom of the Son
and the Spirit" and is the home world of the vast hosts
of unrevealed beings created by the Son and the Spirit.
This is also the destiny sphere of all ministering
orders of the angelic hosts, including supernaphim,
seconaphim, and seraphim. There also serve in the
central and outlying universes many orders of superb
spirits who are not "ministering spirits to those who
shall be heirs of salvation." All these spirit workers
in all levels and realms of universe activities look
upon Seraphington as their Paradise home.
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The secrets of
Seraphington involve a threefold mystery, only one
of which I may mention -- the mystery of seraphic
transport. The ability of various orders of seraphim and
allied spirit beings to envelop within their spirit
forms all orders of nonmaterial personalities and to
carry them away on lengthy interplanetary journeys, is a
secret locked up in the sacred sectors of Seraphington.
The transport seraphim comprehend this mystery, but they
do not communicate it to the rest of us, or perhaps they
cannot. The other mysteries of Seraphington pertain to
the personal experiences of types of spirit servers as
yet not revealed to mortals. And we refrain from
discussing the secrets of such closely related beings
because you can almost comprehend such near orders of
existence, and it would be akin to betrayal of trust to
present even our partial knowledge of such phenomena.
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7. ASCENDINGTON. This unique world is the "bosom of the
Father, Son, and Spirit," the rendezvous of the
ascendant creatures of space, the receiving sphere of
the pilgrims of time who are passing through the Havona
universe on their way to Paradise. Ascendington is the
actual Paradise home of the ascendant souls of time and
space until they attain Paradise status. You mortals
will spend most of your Havona "vacations" on
Ascendington. During your Havona life Ascendington will
be to you what the reversion directors were during the
local and superuniverse ascension. Here you will engage
in thousands of activities which are beyond the grasp of
mortal imagination. And as on every previous advance in
the Godward ascent, your human self will here enter into
new relationships with your divine self.
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The secrets of
Ascendington include the mystery of the gradual and
certain building up in the material and mortal mind of a
spiritual and potentially immortal counterpart of
character and identity. This phenomenon constitutes one
of the most perplexing mysteries of the universes -- the
evolution of an immortal soul within the mind of a
mortal and material creature.
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You will never fully understand this mysterious
transaction until you reach Ascendington. And that is
just why all Ascendington will be open to your wondering
gaze. One seventh of Ascendington is forbidden to me --
that sector concerned with this very secret which is (or
will be) the exclusive experience and possession of your
type of being. This experience belongs to your human
order of existence. My order of personality is not
directly concerned with such transactions. It is
therefore forbidden to me and eventually revealed to
you. But even after it is revealed to you, for some
reason it forever remains your secret. You do not reveal
it to us nor to any other order of beings. We know about
the eternal fusion of a divine Adjuster and an immortal
soul of human origin, but the ascendant finaliters know
this very experience as an absolute reality.
2. FATHER-WORLD RELATIONSHIPS
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These home worlds of the diverse orders of spiritual
beings are tremendous and stupendous spheres, and they
are equal to Paradise in their matchless beauty and
superb glory. They are rendezvous worlds, reunion
spheres, serving as permanent cosmic addresses. As
finaliters you will be domiciled on Paradise, but
Ascendington will be your home address at all times,
even when you enter service in outer space. Through all
eternity you will regard Ascendington as your home of
sentimental memories and reminiscent recollections. When
you become seventh-stage spirit beings, possibly you
will give up your residential status on Paradise.
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If outer universes are in the making, if they are to be
inhabited by time creatures of ascension potential, then
we infer that these children of the future will also be
destined to look upon Ascendington as their Paradise
home world.
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Ascendington is the only sacred sphere that will be
unreservedly open to your inspection as a Paradise
arrival. Vicegerington is the only sacred sphere that is
wholly and unreservedly open to my scrutiny. Though its
secrets are concerned in my origin, in this universe age
I do not regard Vicegerington as my home. Trinity-origin
beings and trinitized beings are not the same.
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The Trinity-origin beings do not fully share the
Father's worlds; they have their sole homes on the Isle
of Paradise in close proximity to the Most Holy Sphere.
They often appear on Ascendington, the "bosom of the
Father-Son-Spirit," where they fraternize with their
brethren who have come up from the lowly worlds of
space.
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You might assume that Creator Sons, being of Father-Son
origin, would regard Vicegerington as their home, but
such is not the case in this universe age of the
function of God the Sevenfold. And there are many
similar problems that will perplex you, for you are sure
to encounter many difficulties as you attempt to
understand these things which are so near Paradise. Nor
can you successfully reason out these questions; you
know so little. And if you knew more about the Father's
worlds, you would simply encounter more difficulties
until you knew all about them. Status on any of these
secret worlds is acquired by service as well as by
nature of origin, and the successive universe ages may
and do redistribute certain of these personality
groupings.
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The worlds of the inner circuit are really fraternal or
status worlds more than actual residential spheres.
Mortals will attain some status on each of the Father's
worlds save one. For example: When you mortals attain
Havona, you are granted clearance for Ascendington,
where you are most welcome, but you are not permitted to
visit the other six sacred worlds. Subsequent to your
passage through the Paradise regime and after your
admission to the Corps of the Finality, you are granted
clearance for Sonarington since you are sons of God as
well as ascenders -- and you are even more. But there
will always remain one seventh of Sonarington, the
sector of the incarnation secrets of the divine Sons,
which will not be open to your scrutiny. Never will
those secrets be revealed to the ascendant sons of God.
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Eventually you will have full access to Ascendington and
relative access to the other spheres of the Father
except Divinington. But even when you are granted
permission to land on five additional secret spheres,
after you have become a finaliter, you will not be
allowed to visit all sectors of such worlds. Nor will
you be permitted to land on the shores of Divinington,
the "bosom of the Father," though you shall surely stand
repeatedly at the "right hand of the Father." Never
throughout all eternity will there arise any necessity
for your presence on the world of the Thought Adjusters.
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These rendezvous worlds of spirit life are forbidden
ground to the extent that we are asked not to negotiate
entrance to those phases of these spheres which are
wholly outside our realms of experience. You may become
creature perfect even as the Universal Father is deity
perfect, but you may not know all the experiential
secrets of all other orders of universe personalities.
When the Creator has an experiential personality secret
with his creature, the Creator preserves that secret in
eternal confidence.
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All these secrets are supposedly known to the collective
body of the Trinitized Secrets of Supremacy. These
beings are fully known only by their special world
groups; they are little comprehended by other orders.
After you attain Paradise, you will know and ardently
love the ten Secrets of Supremacy who direct
Ascendington. Excepting Divinington, you will also
achieve a partial understanding of the Secrets of
Supremacy on the other worlds of the Father, though not
so perfectly as on Ascendington.
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The Trinitized Secrets of Supremacy, as their name might
suggest, are related to the Supreme; they are likewise
related to the Ultimate and to the future
Supreme-Ultimate. These Secrets of Supremacy are the
secrets of the Supreme and also the secrets of the
Ultimate, even the secrets of the Supreme-Ultimate.
3. THE SACRED WORLDS OF THE ETERNAL SON
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The seven luminous spheres of the Eternal Son are the
worlds of the seven phases of pure-spirit existence.
These shining orbs are the source of the threefold light
of Paradise and Havona, their influence being largely,
but not wholly, confined to the central universe.
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Personality is not present on these Paradise satellites;
therefore is there little concerning these pure-spirit
abodes which can be presented to the mortal and material
personality. We are taught that these worlds teem with
the otherwise-than-personal life of the beings of the
Eternal Son. We infer that these entities are being
assembled for ministry in the projected new universes of
outer space. The Paradise philosophers maintain that
each Paradise cycle, about two billion years of Urantia
time, witnesses the creation of additional reserves of
these orders on the secret worlds of the Eternal Son.
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As far as I am informed, no personality has ever been on
any one of these spheres of the Eternal Son. I have
never been assigned to visit one of these worlds in all
my long experience in and out of Paradise. Even the
personalities cocreated by the Eternal Son do not go to
these worlds. We infer that all types of impersonal
spirits -- regardless of parentage -- are admitted to
these spirit homes. As I am a person and have a spirit
form, no doubt such a world would seem empty and
deserted even if I were permitted to pay it a visit.
High spirit personalities are not given to the
gratification of purposeless curiosity, purely useless
adventure. There is at all times altogether too much
intriguing and purposeful adventure to permit the
development of any great interest in those projects
which are either futile or unreal.
4. THE WORLDS OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT
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Between the inner circuit of Havona and the shining
spheres of the Eternal Son there circle the seven orbs
of the Infinite Spirit, worlds inhabited by the
offspring of the Infinite Spirit, by the trinitized sons
of glorified created personalities, and by other types
of unrevealed beings concerned with the effective
administration of the many enterprises of the various
realms of universe activities.
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The Seven Master Spirits are the supreme and ultimate
representatives of the Infinite Spirit. They maintain
their personal stations, their power focuses, on the
periphery of Paradise, but all operations concerned with
their management and direction of the grand universe are
conducted on and from these seven special executive
spheres of the Infinite Spirit. The Seven Master Spirits
are, in reality, the mind-spirit balance wheel of the
universe of universes, an all-embracing,
all-encompassing, and all-co-ordinating power of central
location.
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From these seven special spheres the Master Spirits
operate to equalize and stabilize the cosmic-mind
circuits of the grand universe. They also have to do
with the differential spiritual attitude and presence of
the Deities throughout the grand universe. Physical
reactions are uniform, unvarying, and always
instantaneous and automatic. But experiential spiritual
presence is in accordance with the underlying conditions
or states of spiritual receptivity inherent in the
individual minds of the realms.
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Physical authority, presence, and function are unvarying
in all the universes, small or great. The differing
factor in spiritual presence, or reaction, is the
fluctuating differential in its recognition and
reception by will creatures. Whereas the spiritual
presence of absolute and existential Deity is in no
manner whatever influenced by attitudes of loyalty or
disloyalty on the part of created beings, at the same
time it is true that the functioning presence of
subabsolute and experiential Deity is definitely and
directly influenced by the decisions, choices, and
will-attitudes of such finite creature beings -- by the
loyalty and devotion of the individual being, planet,
system, constellation, or universe. But this spiritual
presence of divinity is not whimsical nor arbitrary; its
experiential variance is inherent in the freewill
endowment of personal creatures.
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The determiner of the differential of spiritual presence
exists in your own hearts and minds and consists in the
manner of your own choosing, in the decisions of your
minds, and in the determination of your own wills. This
differential is inherent in the freewill reactions of
intelligent personal beings, beings whom the Universal
Father has ordained shall exercise this liberty of
choosing. And the Deities are ever true to the ebb and
flow of their spirits in meeting and satisfying the
conditions and demands of this differential of creature
choice, now bestowing more of their presence in response
to a sincere desire for the same and again withdrawing
themselves from the scene as their creatures decide
adversely in the exercise of their divinely bestowed
freedom of choice. And thus does the spirit of divinity
become humbly obedient to the choosing of the creatures
of the realms.
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The executive abodes of the Seven Master Spirits are, in
reality, the Paradise headquarters of the seven
superuniverses and their correlated segments in outer
space. Each Master Spirit presides over one
superuniverse, and each of these seven worlds is
exclusively assigned to one of the Master Spirits. There
is literally no phase of the sub-Paradise administration
of the seven superuniverses which is not provided for on
these executive worlds. They are not so exclusive as the
spheres of the Father or those of the Son, and though
residential status is limited to native beings and those
who work thereon, these seven administrative planets are
always open to all beings who desire to visit them, and
who can command the necessary means of transit.
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To me, these executive worlds are the most interesting
and intriguing spots outside of Paradise. In no other
place in the wide universe can one observe such varied
activities, involving so many different orders of living
beings, having to do with operations on so many diverse
levels, occupations at once material, intellectual, and
spiritual. When I am accorded a period of release from
assignment, if I chance to be on Paradise or in Havona,
I usually proceed to one of these busy worlds of the
Seven Master Spirits, there to inspire my mind with such
spectacles of enterprise, devotion, loyalty, wisdom, and
effectiveness. Nowhere else can I observe such an
amazing interassociation of personality performances on
all seven levels of universe reality. And I am always
stimulated by the activities of those who well know how
to do their work, and who so thoroughly enjoy doing it.
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Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom commissioned thus to
function by the Ancients of Days on Uversa.
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