PAPER 13
- THE SACRED SPHERES OF PARADISE
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The twenty-one
Paradise satellites serve many purposes in both
central and superuniverses not disclosed in these
narratives. You are able to understand so
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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are always open
to all beings who desire to visit them, and who can
command the necessary means of transit.
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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