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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 11
THE ETERNAL ISLE OF PARADISE
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The central Isle is geographically divided into three
domains of activity:
1. Upper Paradise.
2. Peripheral Paradise.
3. Nether Paradise.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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:
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1. Directly underneath the location of the Trinity, in
the central portion of nether Paradise, is the unknown
and unrevealed Zone of Infinity.
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2. This Zone is immediately surrounded by an unnamed
area.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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