Urantia United

by Peace Seeker

  P161:7, 14:6.17 The Heaven worlds are the mind laboratory of the creators of the cosmic mind and the ministers to every creature mind in existence. Mind is different on each Heaven world and serves as the pattern for all spiritual and material creature intellects.

  P161:8, 14:6.18 These perfect worlds are the mind graduate schools for all beings destined for Paradise society. They afforded the Spirit abundant opportunity to test out the technique of mind ministry on safe and advisory personalities.

  P161:9, 14:6.19 Heaven is a compensation to the Infinite Spirit for his widespread and unselfish work in the universes of space. Heaven is the perfect home and retreat for the untiring Mind Minister of time and space.

  P161:10, 14:6.20 4. The Supreme Being -- the evolutionary unification of experiential Deity. The Heaven creation is the eternal and perfect proof of the spiritual reality of the Supreme Being. This perfect creation is a revelation of the perfect and symmetrical spirit nature of God the Supreme before the beginnings of the power-personality synthesis of the finite reflections of the Paradise Deities in the experiential universes of time and space.

  P161:11, 14:6.21 In Heaven the power potentials of the Almighty are unified with the spiritual nature of the Supreme. This central creation is an exemplification of the future-eternal unity of the Supreme.

  P161:12, 14:6.22 Heaven is a perfect pattern of the universality potential of the Supreme. This universe is a finished portrayal of the future perfection of the Supreme and is suggestive of the potential of the Ultimate.

  P162:1, 14:6.23 Heaven exhibits finality of spirit values existing as living will creatures of supreme and perfect self-control; mind existing as ultimately equivalent to spirit; reality and unity of intelligence with an unlimited potential.

  P162:12, 14:6.34 7. The Evolutionary Mortals of the Ascending Career. Heaven is the home of the pattern personality of every mortal type and the home of all human personalities of mortal association who are not native to the creations of time.

  P162:13, 14:6.35 These worlds provide the stimulus of all human impulses towards the attainment of true spirit values on the highest conceivable reality levels. Heaven is the pre-Paradise training goal of every ascending mortal. Heaven stands before every will creature as the portal to Paradise and God attainment.

  P163:1, 14:6.36 Paradise is the home, and Heaven the workshop and playground, of the finaliters. And every God-knowing mortal craves to be a finaliter.

  P163:2, 14:6.37 The central universe is not only man's established destiny, but it is also the starting place of the eternal career of the finaliters as they shall sometime be started out on the undisclosed and universal adventure in the experience of exploring the infinity of the Universal Father.

  P163:3, 14:6.38 Heaven will unquestionably continue to function with absonite significance even in future universe ages which may witness space pilgrims attempting to find God on superfinite levels. Heaven has capacity to serve as a training universe for absonite beings. It will probably be the finishing school when other universes are functioning as the intermediate school for the graduates of the primary schools of outer space. And we incline to the opinion that the potentials of eternal Heavens are really unlimited, that the central universe has eternal capacity to serve as an experiential training universe for all past, present, or future types of created beings.

  Part I. The Central Universe

  Chapter 11

  Personalities In The Grand Universe

  P330:1, 30:0.1 The personalities and other-than-personal entities now functioning on Paradise and in the grand universe constitute a well-nigh limitless number of living beings. Even the number of major orders and types would stagger the human imagination, let alone the countless subtypes and variations. It is, however, desirable to present something of two basic classifications of living beings -- a suggestion of the Paradise classification and an abbreviation of the Heaven Personality Register.

  P330:2, 30:0.2 It is not possible to formulate comprehensive and entirely consistent classifications of the personalities of the grand universe because all of the groups are not revealed. It would require numerous additional papers to cover the further revelation required to systematically classify all groups. Such conceptual expansion would hardly be desirable, as it would deprive the thinking mortals of the next thousand years of that stimulus to creative speculation that these partially revealed concepts supply. It is best that man not have an over-revelation; it stifles imagination.

  Part I. The Central Universe

  Chapter 11: Section 1.

  The Paradise Classification

  P330:3, 30:1.1 Living beings are classified on Paradise in accordance with inherent and attained relationship to the Paradise Deities. During the grand gatherings of the central and superuniverses those present are often grouped in accordance with origin: those of triune origin, or of Trinity attainment; those of dual origin; and those of single origin. It is difficult to interpret the Paradise classification of living beings to the mortal mind.

  P334:7, 30:1.23 There are spirits: spirit entities, spirit presences, personal spirits, prepersonal spirits, superpersonal spirits, spirit existences, spirit personalities -- but neither mortal language nor mortal intellect are adequate. We may however state that there are no personalities of "pure mind"; no entity has personality unless God who is spirit endows him with it. Any mind entity that is not associated with either spiritual or physical energy is not a personality. But in the same sense that there are spirit personalities who have mind there are mind personalities who have spirit. There are whole unrevealed orders of such mind personalities, but they are always spirit associated. Certain other unrevealed creatures are what might be termed mindal- and physical-energy personalities. This type of being is nonresponsive to spirit gravity but is nonetheless a true personality -- is within the Father's circuit.

  P334:8, 30:1.24 We cannot even begin to exhaust the story of the living creatures, creators, eventuators, and still-otherwise-existent beings who live and serve in the swarming universes of time and in the central universe of eternity. You mortals are persons; hence we can describe beings that are personalized, but how could an absonitized being ever be explained to you?

  P334:17, 30:2.2 The groups of will creatures are divided into numerous classes and minor subdivisions. The presentation of this classification of the personalities of the grand universe is however chiefly concerned in setting forth those orders of intelligent beings who have been revealed in these narratives, most of whom will be encountered in the ascendant experience of the mortals of time.

  P337:31, 30:2.21 There are in Heaven the records of numerous additional groups of intelligent beings, beings that are also closely related to the organization and administration of the grand universe.

  Part I. The Central Universe

  Chapter 11: Section 2.

  The Courtesy Colonies

  P338:5, 30:3.1 The seven courtesy colonies sojourn on the architectural spheres for a longer or shorter time while engaged in the furtherance of their missions and in the execution of their special assignments. Their work may be described as follows:

  P338:6, 30:3.2 1. The Star Students, the celestial astronomers, choose to work on spheres like Uversa because such specially constructed worlds are unusually favorable for their observations and calculations. Uversa is favorably situated for the work of this colony, not only because of its central location, but also because there are no gigantic living or dead suns near at hand to disturb the energy currents. These students are not in any manner organically connected with the affairs of the universe; they are merely guests.

  P338:7, 30:3.3 The astronomical colony of Uversa contains individuals from many near-by realms, from the central universe. Any being on any world in any system of any universe may become a star student, may aspire to join some corps of celestial astronomers. The only requisites are: continuing life and sufficient knowledge of the worlds of space, especially their physical laws of evolution
and control.

  P339:1, 30:3.4 The star-observer colony of Uversa now numbers over a million. These astronomers come and go, though some remain for comparatively long periods. They carry on their work with the aid of a multitude of mechanical instruments and physical appliances; they are also greatly assisted by the Solitary Messengers and other spirit explorers. These celestial astronomers make constant use of the living energy transformers and transmitters, as well as of the reflective personalities, in their work of star study and space survey. They study all forms and phases of space material and energy manifestations, and they are just as much interested in force function as in stellar phenomena; nothing in all space escapes their scrutiny.

  P339:2, 30:3.5 Similar astronomer colonies are to be found on the sector headquarters worlds as well as on the architectural capitals and their administrative subdivisions. Except on Paradise, knowledge is not inherent; understanding of the physical universe is largely dependent on observation and research.

  P339:3, 30:3.6 2. The Celestial Artisans serve throughout the universes. Ascending mortals have their initial contact with these groups in the morontia career of the local universe in connection with which these artisans will be more fully discussed.

  P339:4, 30:3.7 3. The Reversion Directors are the promoters of relaxation and humor -- reversion to past memories. They are of great service in the practical operation of the ascending scheme of mortal progression, especially during the earlier phases of morontia transition and spirit experience. Their story belongs to the narrative of the mortal career in the local universe.

  P339:5, 30:3.8 4. Extension-School Instructors. The next higher residential world of the ascendant career always maintains a strong corps of teachers on the world just below, a sort of preparatory school for the progressing residents of that sphere; this is a phase of the ascendant scheme for advancing the pilgrims of time. These schools, their methods of instruction and examinations, are wholly unlike anything that you essay to conduct on Urantia.

  P339:6, 30:3.9 The entire ascendant plan of mortal progression is characterized by the practice of giving out to other beings new truth and experience just as soon as acquired. You work your way through the long school of Paradise attainment by serving as teachers to those pupils just behind you in the scale of progression.

  P339:7, 30:3.10 5. The Various Reserve Corps. Vast reserves of beings not under our immediate supervision are mobilized on Uversa as the reserve-corps colony. There are many primary divisions of this colony on Uversa, and it is a liberal education to be permitted to spend a season with these extraordinary personalities. Similar general reserves are maintained on universe capitals; they are dispatched on active service on the requisition of their respective group directors.

  P339:8, 30:3.11 6. The Student Visitors. From the entire universe a constant stream of celestial visitors pours through the various headquarters worlds. As individuals and as classes these various types of beings flock in upon us as observers, exchange pupils, and student helpers. On Uversa, at present, there are numerous persons in this courtesy colony. Some of these visitors may tarry a day, others may remain a year, all dependent on the nature of their mission. This colony contains almost every class of universe beings except Creator personalities and morontias.

  P340:1, 30:3.12  Morontias are student visitors only within the confines of the local universe of their origin. They may visit in that capacity only after they have attained spirit status. Fully one half of our visitor colony consists of " stopovers," beings en route elsewhere. These personalities may be executing a universe assignment, or they may be enjoying a period of leisure -- freedom from assignment. The privilege of intra-universe travel and observation is a part of the career of all ascending beings. The human desire to travel and observe new peoples and worlds will be fully gratified during the travel through the local and central universes.

  P340:2, 30:3.13 7. The Ascending Pilgrims. As the ascending pilgrims are assigned to various areas, they are domiciled as a courtesy colony on the various headquarters spheres. While functioning here and there throughout a universe, such groups are largely self-governing. They are an ever-shifting colony embracing the ascending associates.

  Part I. The Central Universe

  Chapter 11: Section 3.

  The Eternal Purpose

  P364:3, 32:5.1 There is a great and glorious purpose in the march of the universes through space. All of your mortal struggling is not in vain. We are all part of an immense plan, a gigantic enterprise, and it is the vastness of the undertaking that renders it impossible to see very much of it at any one time and during any one life. We are all a part of an eternal project that God is supervising and outworking. The whole marvelous and universal mechanism moves on majestically through space to the music of the meter of the infinite thought and the eternal purpose of the First Great Source and Center.

  P364:4, 32:5.2 The eternal purpose of the eternal God is a high spiritual ideal. The events of time and the struggles of material existence are but the transient scaffolding which bridges over to the other side, to the promised land of spiritual reality and supernal existence. Of course mortals find it difficult to grasp the idea of an eternal purpose; you are virtually unable to comprehend the thought of eternity, something never beginning and never ending. Everything familiar to you has an end.

  P364:5, 32:5.3 As regards an individual life, the duration of a realm, or the chronology of any connected series of events, it would seem that we are dealing with an isolated stretch of time; everything seems to have a beginning and an end. And it would appear that a series of such experiences, lives, ages, or epochs, when successively arranged, constitutes a straightaway drive, an isolated event of time flashing momentarily across the infinite face of eternity. But when we look at all this from behind the scenes, a more comprehensive view and a more complete understanding suggest that such an explanation is inadequate, disconnected, and wholly unsuited properly to account for, and otherwise to correlate, the transactions of time with the underlying purposes and basic reactions of eternity.

  P364:6, 32:5.4 It seems more fitting, for purposes of explanation to the mortal mind, to conceive of eternity as a cycle and the eternal purpose as an endless circle, a cycle of eternity in some way synchronized with the transient material cycles of time. As regards the sectors of time connected with, and forming a part of, the cycle of eternity, we are forced to recognize that such temporary epochs are born, live, and die just as the temporary beings of time are born, live, and die. Most human beings die because, having failed to achieve the spirit level of Adjuster fusion, the metamorphosis of death constitutes the only possible procedure whereby they may escape the fetters of time and the bonds of material creation, thereby being enabled to strike spiritual step with the progressive procession of eternity. Having survived the trial life of time and material existence, it becomes possible for us to continue on in touch with, even as a part of, eternity, swinging on forever with the worlds of space around the circle of the eternal ages.

  P365:1, 32:5.5 The sectors of time are like the flashes of personality in temporal form; they appear for a season, and then they are lost to human sight, only to reappear as new actors and continuing factors in the higher life of the endless swing around the eternal circle. Eternity can hardly be conceived as a straightaway drive, in view of our belief in a delimited universe moving over a vast, elongated circle around the central dwelling place of the Universal Father.

  P365:2, 32:5.6 Eternity is incomprehensible to the finite mind of time. One simply cannot grasp it; one cannot comprehend it.

  P365:3, 32:5.7 There is in the mind of God a plan which embraces every creature of all his vast domains, and this plan is an eternal purpose of boundless opportunity, unlimited progress, and endless life. And the infinite treasures of such a matchless career are ours for the striving!

  P365:4, 32:5.8 The goal of eternity is ahead! The adventure of divinity attainment lies before you. The race for perfection i
s on! Whosoever will may enter, and certain victory will crown the efforts of every human being who will run the race of faith and trust, depending every step of the way on the leading of the indwelling Adjuster and on the guidance of that good spirit which so freely has been poured out upon all flesh.

  Part I. The Central Universe

  Chapter 11: Section 4.

  Architects of the Master Universe

  P352:9, 31:10.1 The senior Master Architect has the oversight of the Corps of the Finality.

  P353:2, 31:10.3 The gathering together of these finaliter corps signifies reality mobilization of potentials, personalities, minds, spirits, absonites, and experiential actualities that probably transcend even the future master universe functions of the Supreme Being. These finaliter corps probably signifies the present activity of the Ultimate Unity engaged in mustering the forces of the finite and the absonite in preparation for inconceivable developments in the universes of outer space. Nothing like this mobilization has taken place since the near times of eternity when the Paradise Unity similarly mobilized the then existing personalities of Paradise and Heaven and commissioned them as administrators and rulers of the projected universes of time and space. The finaliter corps represents the divinity response of the grand universe to the future needs of the undeveloped potentials in the outer universes of future-eternal activities.

  P353:3, 31:10.4 We venture the forecast of future and greater outer universes of inhabited worlds, new spheres peopled with new orders of exquisite and unique beings, a material universe sublime in its ultimacy, a vast creation lacking in only one important detail -- the presence of actual finite experience in the universal life of ascendant existence. Such a universe will come into being under a tremendous experiential handicap: the deprivation of participation in the evolution of the Almighty Supreme. These outer universes will all enjoy the matchless ministry and supernal overcontrol of the Supreme Being, but the very fact of his active presence precludes their participation in the actualization of the Supreme Deity.