P141:5, 12:9.4 Technical analysis does not reveal what a person or a thing can do. For example: Water is used effectively to extinguish fire. That water will put out fire is a fact of everyday experience, but no analysis of water could ever be made to disclose such a property. Analysis determines that water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen; a further study of these elements discloses that oxygen is the real supporter of combustion and that hydrogen will itself freely burn.
P141:6, 12:9.5 Our religion is becoming real because it is emerging from the slavery of fear and the bondage of superstition. Our philosophy struggles for emancipation from dogma and tradition. Our science is engaged in the agelong contest between truth and error while it fights for deliverance from the bondage of abstraction, the slavery of mathematics, and the relative blindness of mechanistic materialism.
P142:1, 12:9.6 Mortal man has a spirit nucleus. The mind is a personal-energy system existing around a divine spirit nucleus and functioning in a material environment. Such a living relationship of personal mind and spirit constitutes the universe potential of eternal personality. Real trouble, lasting disappointment, serious defeat, or inescapable death can come only after self-concepts presume fully to displace the governing power of the central spirit nucleus, thereby disrupting the cosmic scheme of personality identity.
Part I. The Central Universe
Chapter 10
The Central Universe
P152:1, 14:0.1 Paradise is in the Central Universe; it is the gigantic nuclear Isle of absolute stability that rests motionless at the very heart of the magnificent eternal universe. This perfect universe occupies the center of all creation; it is the eternal core around which the vast creations of time and space revolve. It is of enormous dimensions and almost unbelievable mass and consists of probably a billion spheres of unimagined beauty and superb grandeur, but the true magnitude of this vast creation is really beyond the understanding grasp of the human mind.
P152:2, 14:0.2 Paradise is the one and only settled, perfect, and established aggregation of existences. This is a wholly created and perfect universe; it is not an evolutionary development. This is the eternal core of perfection, about which swirls that endless procession of universes that constitute the tremendous evolutionary experiment; the audacious adventure of the Creator, it duplicates in time and reproduces in space the pattern universe, the ideal of divine completeness, supreme finality, ultimate reality, and eternal perfection.
Part I. The Central Universe
Chapter 10: Section 1.
The Paradise-Heaven Organization
P154:3, 14:2.1 Spirit beings do not dwell in nebulous space; they do not inhabit ethereal worlds; they are domiciled on actual spheres of a material nature, worlds just as real as those on which mortals live. The Heaven world is actual and literal, albeit their literal substance differs from the material organization of the planets of the universes.
P154:4, 14:2.2 The physical realities of Heaven represent an order of energy organization radically different from any prevailing in the evolutionary universes of space. Heaven energies are threefold; universe units of energy-matter contain a twofold energy charge, although one form of energy exists in negative and positive phases.
P154:5, 14:2.3 The material of Heaven consists of the organization of many basic chemical elements and the balanced function of the forms of Heaven energy. Each of these basic energies manifests several phases of excitation, so that the Heaven natives respond to many differing sensation stimuli. In other words, viewed from a purely physical standpoint, the natives of the central universe possess many specialized forms of sensation. The morontia senses are several, and the higher spiritual orders of reaction response vary in different types of beings.
P154:6, 14:2.4 None of the beings of the central universe would be visible to us. Neither would any of the physical stimuli of those faraway worlds excite a reaction in our gross sense organs. If we could be transported to Heaven physically, we would there be deaf, blind, and utterly lacking in all other sense reactions; we could only function as a limited self-conscious being deprived of all environmental stimuli and all reactions thereto.
P154:7, 14:2.5 There are numerous physical phenomena and spiritual reactions transpiring in the central creation which are unknown to us. The basic organization of a threefold creation is wholly unlike that of the twofold constitution of the created universes of time and space.
P154:8, 14:2.6 All natural law is co-ordinated on a basis entirely different than in the dual-energy systems of the evolving creations. The entire central universe is organized in accordance with the threefold system of perfect and symmetrical control. Throughout the whole Paradise-Heaven system there is maintained a perfect balance between all cosmic realities and all spiritual forces. Paradise, with an absolute grasp of material creation, perfectly regulates and maintains the physical energies of this central universe. On Paradise nothing is experimental, and the Paradise-Heaven system is a unit of creative perfection.
P155:1, 14:2.7 The universal spiritual gravity is amazingly active throughout the central universe. All spirit values and spiritual personalities are unceasingly drawn inward towards the abode of God. This Godward urge is intense and inescapable. The ambition to attain God is stronger in the central universe, not because spirit gravity is stronger than in the outlying universes, but because those beings who have attained Heaven are more fully spiritualized and hence more responsive to the ever-present action of the universal spirit-gravity pull.
P155:2, 14:2.8 Likewise does the Infinite Spirit draw all intellectual values Paradise ward. Throughout the central universe the mind gravity of the Infinite Spirit functions and constitutes the urge of the ascendant souls to find God, to attain Deity, to achieve Paradise, and to know the Father.
P155:3, 14:2.9 Heaven is a spiritually perfect and physically stable universe. The control and balanced stability of the central universe appear to be perfect. Everything is perfectly predictable, but mind phenomena and personality volition are not. But there has never been an instance of misconduct by any creature of any group of personalities ever created in, or admitted to, the central Heaven universe. So perfect and so divine are the methods and means of selection in the universes of time that never in the records of Heaven has an error occurred; no mistakes have ever been made; no ascendant soul has ever been prematurely permitted to remain in the central universe.
Part I. The Central Universe
Chapter 10: Section 2.
The Heaven Unity
P155:4, 14:3.1 Heaven is a spiritual unity. Concerning the government of the central universe, there is none. Heaven is so exquisitely perfect that no intellectual system of government is required. There are no regularly constituted courts, neither are there legislative assemblies; Heaven requires only administrative direction. Here may be observed the height of the ideals of true self-government.
P155:5, 14:3.2 There is no need of government among such perfect and near-perfect intelligences. They stand in no need of regulation, for they are beings of native perfection interspersed with evolutionary creatures that have long since passed the scrutiny of the supreme tribunals of the superuniverses.
P155:6, 14:3.3 The administration of Heaven is automatic, it is marvelously perfect and divinely efficient. It is chiefly planetary and is vested and directed by the elected Intern of each Heaven sphere. The residents are also perfect administrators. They teach with supreme skill and direct their planetary children with a perfection of wisdom bordering on absoluteness.
P156:1, 14:3.4 Personalities native to Paradise and Heaven serve as receptionists for ascending souls from the evolutionary worlds of time. In the execution of the Universal Father's great plan of soul ascension the pilgrims of time are landed on the receiving areas of the circuit.
P156:2, 14:3.5 Although the spheres of the circuits are maintained in all their supernal glory, only about one per cent of all planetary capacity is utilized in the work of furthering the Father's u
niversal plan of mortal ascension. Only a small amount of these enormous areas are dedicated to the life and activities of the Receivers, beings eternally settled in light and life that often sojourns on the Heavens. These exalted beings have their personal residences on Paradise.
P156:3, 14:3.6 The planetary construction of the Heaven spheres is entirely unlike that of the evolutionary worlds and systems of space. Nowhere else in all the grand universe is it convenient to utilize such enormous spheres as inhabited worlds. Its physical constitution, coupled with the balancing effect of the immense dark gravity bodies, makes it possible so perfectly to equalize the physical forces and so exquisitely to balance the various attractions of this tremendous creation. Antigravity is also employed in the organization of the material functions and the spiritual activities of these enormous worlds.
P156:4, 14:3.7 The architecture, lighting, and heating, as well as the biologic and artistic embellishment, of the Heaven spheres are quite beyond the greatest possible stretch of human imagination. You cannot be told much about Heaven; to understand its beauty and grandeur you must see it. There are also real rivers and lakes on these perfect worlds.
P156:5, 14:3.8 Spiritually these worlds are ideally united; they are fittingly adapted to their purpose of harboring the numerous tasks of differing beings who function in the central universe. Manifold activities take place on these beautiful worlds that are far beyond human comprehension.
Part I. The Central Universe
Chapter 10: Section 3.
Life In Heaven
P158:4, 14:5.1 On Earth we pass through a short period of time during our initial life of material existence. On the mansion worlds and up through our system, constellation, and local universe, we traverse the morontia phases of ascension. On the circuits of Heaven our attainment is intellectual, spiritual, and experiential.
P158:5, 14:5.2 Life on the divine worlds of the central universe is so rich and full, so complete and replete, that it wholly transcends the human concept of anything a created being could possibly experience. The social and economic activities of this eternal creation are entirely dissimilar to the occupations of material creatures living on evolutionary worlds like Earth. Even the technique of Heaven thought is unlike the process of thinking on Earth.
P158:7, 14:5.4 When intelligent beings first attain the central universe, they are received and domiciled on the pilot world of the Heaven circuit. As the new arrivals adapt to their new spirituality, attain identity comprehension of their superuniverse Master Spirit, they are transferred to the sixth circle. (It is from these arrangements in the central universe that the circles of progress in the human mind have been designated.) After ascenders have attained a realization of Supremacy and are thereby prepared for the Deity adventure, they are taken to the fifth circuit; and after attaining the Infinite Spirit; they are transferred to the fourth. Arrival on the first circuit of Heaven signifies the acceptance of the candidates of time into Paradise. Indefinitely, according to the length and nature of the creature ascension, they will tarry on the inner circuit of progressive spiritual attainment. From this inner circuit the ascending pilgrims pass inward to Paradise residence and admission to the Corps of the Finality.
P159:1, 14:5.5 During your sojourn in Heaven as a pilgrim of ascent, you will be allowed to visit freely among the worlds of the circuit. And all this is possible to those who sojourn on the circles of Heaven without the necessity of being ensupernaphimed. The pilgrims of time are able to equip themselves to traverse "achieved" space but must depend on the ordained technique to negotiate "unachieved" space; a pilgrim cannot leave Heaven nor go forward beyond his assigned circuit without the aid of a transport supernaphim.
P159:2, 14:5.6 There is a refreshing originality about this vast central creation. Aside from the physical organization of matter and the fundamental constitution of the basic orders of intelligent beings and other living things, there is nothing in common between the worlds of Heaven. Every one of these planets is an original, unique, and exclusive creation; each planet is a matchless, superb, and perfect production. And this diversity of individuality extends to all features of the physical, intellectual, and spiritual aspects of planetary existence. Each of these numerous perfection spheres has been developed and embellished in accordance with the plans of the residents. And this is just why no two of them are alike.
P159:3, 14:5.7 Not until you traverse the last of the Heaven circuits and visit the last of the Heaven worlds, will the tonic of adventure and the stimulus of curiosity disappear from you. And then will the urge, the forward impulse of eternity, replace its forerunner, the adventure lure of time.
P159:4, 14:5.8 Monotony is indicative of immaturity of the creative imagination and inactivity of intellectual co-ordination with the spiritual endowment. By the time an ascendant mortal begins the exploration of these heavenly worlds, he has already attained emotional, intellectual, and social, if not spiritual, maturity.
P159:5, 14:5.9 Not only will you find undreamed-of changes confronting you as you advance from circuit to circuit in Heaven, but your astonishment will be inexpressible as you progress from planet to planet within each circuit. Each of these numerous study worlds is a veritable university of surprises. Continuing astonishment, unending wonder, is the experience of those who traverse these circuits and tour these gigantic spheres. Monotony is not a part of the Heavens.
P159:6, 14:5.10 Love of adventure, curiosity, and dread of monotony -- these traits inherent in evolving human nature -- were not put there just to aggravate and annoy us during our short sojourn on earth. Physical death is only the beginning of an endless career of adventure, an everlasting life of anticipation, an eternal voyage of discovery.
P160:1, 14:5.11 Curiosity -- the spirit of investigation, the urge of discovery, the drive of exploration -- is a part of the inborn and divine endowment of evolutionary space creatures. These natural impulses were not given you merely to be frustrated and repressed. True, these ambitious urges must frequently be restrained during your short life on earth, disappointment must be often experienced, but they are to be fully realized and gloriously gratified during the long ages to come.
Part I. The Central Universe
Chapter 10: Section 4.
The Purpose Of The Central Universe
P160:2, 14:6.1 The range of the activities of Heaven is enormous. In general, they may be described as:
1.Heavenly.
2.Paradisiacal.
3.Ascendant-finite -- Supreme-Ultimate evolutional.
P160:6, 14:6.2 Many superfinite activities take place in the Heaven of the present universe age, involving untold diversities of absonite and other phases of mind and spirit functions. It is possible that the central universe serves many purposes that are not revealed to us, as it functions in numerous ways beyond the comprehension of the created mind. Nevertheless, we will endeavor to depict how this perfect creation ministers to the needs and contributes to the satisfactions of the orders of universe intelligence.
P160:7, 14:6.3 1. The Universal Father -- the First Source and Center. God the Father derives supreme parental satisfaction from the perfection of the central creation. He enjoys the experience of love satiety on near-equality levels. The perfect Creator is divinely pleased with the adoration of the perfect creature.
P160:8, 14:6.4 Heaven affords the Father supreme achievement gratification. The perfection realization in Heaven compensates for the time-space delay of the eternal urge of infinite expansion.
P160:9, 14:6.5 The Father enjoys the Heaven reciprocation of the divine beauty. It satisfies the divine mind to afford a perfect pattern of exquisite harmony for all evolving universes.
P160:10, 14:6.6 Our Father beholds the central universe with perfect pleasure because it is a worthy revelation of spirit reality to all personalities of the universe of universes.
P160:11, 14:6.7 The God of universes has favorable regard for Heaven and Paradise as the eternal power nucleu
s for all subsequent universe expansion in time and space.
P160:12, 14:6.8 The eternal Father views with never-ending satisfaction the Heaven creation as the worthy and alluring goal for the ascension candidates of time, his mortal grandchildren of space achieving their Creator-Father's eternal home. And God takes pleasure in the Paradise-Heaven universe as the eternal home of Deity and the divine family.
P161:4, 14:6.14 3. The Infinite Spirit -- the Second Source and Center. The Heaven universe affords the Infinite Spirit proof of being the Conjoint Actor. In Heaven the Infinite Spirit derives the combined satisfaction of functioning as a creative activity while enjoying the satisfaction of absolute coexistence with this divine achievement.
P161:5, 14:6.15 In Heaven the Infinite Spirit found an arena wherein he could demonstrate the ability and willingness to serve as a potential mercy minister. In this perfect creation the Spirit rehearsed for the adventure of ministry in the evolutionary universes.
P161:6, 14:6.16 This perfect creation afforded the Infinite Spirit opportunity to participate in universe administration -- to administer a universe as associate-Creator offspring, thereby preparing for the joint administration of the local universes.