P353:4, 31:10.5 During the present universe age the evolving personalities of the grand universe suffer many difficulties due to the incomplete actualization of the sovereignty of God the Supreme, but we are all sharing the unique experience of his evolution. We evolve in him and he evolves in us. Sometime in the eternal future the evolution of Supreme Deity will become a completed fact of universe history, and the opportunity to participate in this wonderful experience will have passed from the stage of cosmic action.
P353:5, 31:10.6 But those of us who have acquired this unique experience during the youth of the universe will treasure it throughout all future eternity. And many of us speculate that it may be the mission of the gradually accumulating reserves of the ascendant and perfected mortals of the Corps of the Finality, in association with the other similarly recruiting corps, to administer these outer universes in an effort to compensate their experiential deficiencies in not having participated in the time-space evolution of the Supreme Being.
P353:6, 31:10.7 These deficiencies are inevitable on all levels of universe existence. During the present universe age we of the higher levels of spiritual existences now come down to administer the evolutionary universes and minister to the ascending mortals, thus endeavoring to atone for their deficiencies in the realities of the higher spiritual experience.
P354:1, 31:10.8 But though we really know nothing about the plans of the Architects of the Master Universe respecting these outer creations, nevertheless, of three things we are certain:
P354:2, 31:10.9 1. There actually is a vast and new system of universes gradually organizing in the domains of outer space. New orders of physical creations, enormous and gigantic circles of swarming universes upon universes far out beyond the present bounds of the peopled and organized creations are actually visible through your telescopes. At present, these outer creations are wholly physical; they are apparently uninhabited and seem to be devoid of creature administration.
P354:3, 31:10.10 2. For ages upon ages there continues the unexplained and wholly mysterious Paradise mobilization of the perfected and ascendant beings of time and space, in association with the six other finaliter corps.
P354:4, 31:10.11 3. Concomitantly with these transactions the Supreme Person of Deity is powerizing as the almighty sovereign of the super-creations.
P354:5, 31:10.12 As we view this development, embracing creatures, universes, and Deity, can we be criticized for anticipating that something new and unrevealed is approaching culmination in the master universe? Is it not natural that we should associate this agelong mobilization and organization of physical universes on such a hitherto unknown scale and the personality emergence of the Supreme Being with this stupendous scheme of upstepping the mortals of time to divine perfection and with their subsequent mobilization on Paradise in the Corps of the Finality -- a designation and destiny enshrouded in universe mystery? It is increasingly the belief of all Uversa that the assembling Corps of the Finality are destined to some future service in the universes of outer space, where we already are able to identify the clustering of at least seventy thousand aggregations of matter, each of which is greater than any one of the present superuniverses.
P354:6, 31:10.13 Evolutionary mortals are born on the planets of space, pass through the morontia worlds, ascend the spirit universes, traverse the Heaven spheres, unite with God, attain Paradise, and are mustered into the primary Corps of the Finality. And as we view this sublime spectacle, we all exclaim: What a glorious destiny for the animal-origin children of time, the material children of space!
Part II. The Local Universe
Chapter 12
Evolution Of Our Universe
P637:1, 56:0.1 God is universally coordinated. The universe is one vast integrated mechanism that is controlled by one infinite unity. The physical, intellectual, and spiritual domains of universal creation are divinely correlated. The perfect and imperfect are truly interrelated, and therefore may the finite evolutionary creature ascend to Paradise in obedience to the Universal Father's mandate: "Be you perfect, even as I am perfect."
P637:2, 56:0.2 The diverse levels of creation are all unified in the plans and administration of the Architects of the Master Universe. To the circumscribed minds of time-space mortals the universe may present many problems and situations which apparently portray disharmony and indicate absence of effective co-ordination; but those who are able to observe wider stretches of universal phenomena, and who are more experienced in this art of detecting the basic unity which underlies creative diversity and of discovering the divine oneness which overspreads all this functioning of plurality, better perceive the divine and single purpose exhibited in all these manifold manifestations of universal creative energy.
Part II. The Local Universe
Chapter 12: Section 1.
Physical Emergence Of Our Universes
P357:5, 32:1.1 The pre-universe manipulations of space-force and the primordial energies are the work of the Paradise Master Force Organizers; but in the universe domains, when emergent energy becomes responsive to local or linear gravity, they retire in favor of the power directors of the universe concerned.
P357:6, 32:1.2 These power directors function alone in the prematerial and post-force phases of a local universe creation. There is no opportunity for a Creator to begin universe organization until the power directors have effected the mobilization of the space-energies sufficiently to provide a material foundation -- literal suns and material spheres -- for the emerging universe.
P357:7, 32:1.3 The local universes are all approximately of the same energy potential, though they differ greatly in physical dimensions and may vary in visible-matter content from time to time. The power charge and potential-matter endowment of a local universe are determined by the manipulations of the power directors and their predecessors as well as by the Creator’s activities and by the endowment of the inherent physical control possessed by his creative associate.
P358:2, 32:1.5 When energy-matter has attained a certain stage in mass materialization, work is begun upon the architectural sphere which is to become the headquarters world of the projected local universe. For long ages such a local creation evolves, suns become stabilized, planets form and swing into their orbits, while the work of creating the architectural worlds which are to serve as constellation headquarters and system capitals continues.
Part II. The Local Universe
Chapter 12: Section 2.
Universe Organization
P358:3, 32:2.1 The Creator is preceded in universe organization by the power directors and other beings originating in the Second Source and Center. From the energies of space, thus previously organized they established the inhabited realms of other universes and ever since have been painstakingly devoted to their administration. From pre-existent energy the power directors materialize visible matter, project living creatures, and with the co-operation of the universe presence of the Infinite Spirit, create a diverse retinue of spirit personalities.
P358:4, 32:2.2 These power directors and energy controllers who long preceded the Creator in the preliminary physical work of universe organization later serve in magnificent liaison, forever remaining in associated control of those energies which they originally organized and circuitized.
P358:5, 32:2.3 The first completed act of physical creation consisted in the organization of the headquarters world, the architectural sphere with its satellites. From the time of the initial moves of the power centers and physical controllers to the arrival of the living staff on the completed spheres, there intervened a little over one billion years of our present planetary time. The construction was immediately followed by the creation of the hundred headquarters worlds of the projected constellations and the numerous headquarters spheres of the projected local systems of planetary control and administration, together with their architectural satellites. Such architectural worlds are designed to accommodate both physical and spiritual personalities as well a
s the intervening morontia or transition stages of being.
Part II. The Local Universe
Chapter 12: Section 3.
The Evolutionary Idea
P360:3, 32:3.1 The only creation that is perfectly settled is Heaven, the central universe; it was made directly by the energy and thought of the Universal Father. Heaven is an existential, perfect, and replete universe, surrounding the home of the eternal Deities, the center of all things. The creations of other universes are finite, evolutionary, and consistently progressive.
P360:4, 32:3.2 The physical systems of time and space are all evolutionary in origin. They are not even physically stabilized until they are swung into the settled circuits of the other universes. Neither is a local universe settled in light and life until its physical possibilities of expansion and development have been exhausted, and until the spiritual status of all its inhabited worlds has been forever settled and stabilized.
P360:5, 32:3.3 Except in the central universe, perfection is a progressive attainment. In the central creation we have a pattern of perfection, but all other realms must attain that perfection by the methods established for the advancement of those particular worlds or universes. And an almost infinite variety characterizes the plans of the Creator for organizing, evolving, disciplining, and settling the respective local universes.
P360:6, 32:3.4 With the exception of the deity presence of the Father, every local universe is, in a certain sense, a duplication of the administrative organization of the central or pattern creation. Although the Universal Father is personally present in the residential universe, he does not indwell the minds of the beings originating in that universe as he does literally dwell with the souls of the mortals of time and space. There seems to be an all-wise compensation in the adjustment and regulation of the spiritual affairs of the far-flung creation. In the central universe the Father is personally present as such but absent in the minds of the children of that perfect creation; in the universes of space the Father is absent in person, while he is intimately present in the minds of his mortal children, being spiritually represented by the prepersonal presence of the Mystery Monitors that reside in the minds of these will creatures.
P360:7, 32:3.5 On the headquarters of a local universe there reside all those creator and creative personalities who represent self-contained authority and administrative autonomy except the personal presence of the Universal Father. In the local universe there are to be found something of everyone and someone of almost every class of intelligent beings existing in the central universe except the Universal Father.
P361:1, 32:3.6 The farther down the scale of life we go, the more difficult it becomes to locate, with the eye of faith, the invisible Father. The lower creatures -- and sometimes even the higher personalities -- find it difficult always to envisage the Universal Father. And so, pending the time of their spiritual exaltation, when perfection of development will enable them to see God in person, they grow weary in progression, entertain spiritual doubts, stumble into confusion, and thus isolate themselves from the progressive spiritual aims of their time and universe. In this way they lose the ability to see the Father. The surest safeguard for the creature throughout the long struggle to attain the Father, during this time when inherent conditions make such attainment impossible, is tenaciously to hold on to the truth-fact of the Father's presence.
P361:2, 32:3.7 The personalities of a given universe are settled and dependable, at the start, only in accordance with their degree of kinship to Deity. When creature origin departs sufficiently far from the original and Sources, there is an increase in the possibility of disharmony, confusion, and sometimes rebellion.
P361:3, 32:3.8 Excepting perfect beings of Deity origin, all will creatures in the universe are of evolutionary nature, beginning in lowly estate and climbing ever upward, in reality inward. Even highly spiritual personalities continue to ascend the scale of life by progressive translations from life to life and from sphere to sphere. And in the case of those who entertain the Mystery Monitors, there is indeed no limit to the possible heights of their spiritual ascent and universe attainment.
P361:4, 32:3.9 The perfection of the creatures of time, when finally achieved, is wholly an acquirement, a bona fide personality possession. While the elements of grace are freely admixed, nevertheless, the creature attainments are the result of individual effort and actual living, personality reaction to the existing environment.
P361:5, 32:3.10 The fact of animal evolutionary origin does not attach stigma to any personality in the sight of the universe as that is the exclusive method of producing one of the two basic types of finite intelligent will creatures. When the heights of perfection and eternity are attained, all the more honor to those who began at the bottom and joyfully climbed the ladder of life, round by round, and who, when they do reach the heights of glory, will have gained a personal experience which embodies an actual knowledge of every phase of life from the bottom to the top.
P361:6, 32:3.11 In all this is shown the wisdom of the Creator. It would be just as easy for the Universal Father to make all mortals perfect beings, to impart perfection by his divine word. But that would deprive them of the wonderful experience of the adventure and training associated with the long and gradual inward climb, an experience to be had only by those who are so fortunate as to begin at the very bottom of living existence.
P362:1, 32:3.12 In the universes encircling Heaven there are provided only a sufficient number of perfect creatures to meet the need for pattern teacher guides for those who are ascending the evolutionary scale of life. The experiential nature of the evolutionary type of personality is the natural cosmic complement of the ever-perfect natures of the Paradise-Heaven creatures. In reality, both perfect and perfected creatures are incomplete as regards finite totality. But in the complemental association of the existentially perfect creatures of the Paradise-Heaven system with the experientially perfected finaliters ascending from the evolutionary universes, both types find release from inherent limitations and thus may conjointly attempt to reach the sublime heights of the ultimate of creature status.
P362:2, 32:3.13 These creature transactions are the universe repercussions of actions and reactions within the Deity, wherein the eternal divinity of the Paradise is conjoined with the evolving divinity of the Supreme Creators of the time-space universes in, by, and through the power-actualizing Deity of the Supreme Being.
P362:3, 32:3.14 The divinely perfect creature and the evolutionary perfected creature are equal in degree of divinity potential, but they differ in kind. Each must depend on the other to attain supremacy of service. The evolutionary universes depend on perfect Heaven to provide the final training for their ascending citizens, but so does the perfect central universe require the existence of the perfecting universes to provide for the full development of its descending inhabitants.
P362:4, 32:3.15 The two prime manifestations of finite reality, innate perfection and evolved perfection, be they personalities or universes, are co-ordinate, dependent, and integrated. Each requires the other to achieve completion of function, service, and destiny.
Part II. The Local Universe
Chapter 12: Section 4.
God's Relation To Our Universe
P362:5, 32:4.1 Do not entertain the idea that, since the Universal Father has delegated so much of himself and his power to others, he is a silent or inactive member of the Deity partnership. Aside from personality domains and Adjuster bestowal, he is apparently the least active of the Paradise Deities in that he allows his Deity co-ordinates, numerous created intelligences to perform so much in the carrying out of his eternal purpose. He is the silent member only in that he never does aught which any of his co-ordinate or subordinate associates can do.
P362:6, 32:4.2 God has full understanding of the need of every intelligent creature for function and experience, and therefore, in every situation, be it concerned with the destiny of a universe or the welfare of the humblest
of his creatures, God retires from activity in favor of the galaxy of creature and Creator personalities who inherently intervene between himself and any given universe situation or creative event. But notwithstanding this retirement, this exhibition of infinite co-ordination, there is on God's part an actual, literal, and personal participation in these events by and through these ordained agencies and personalities. The Father is working in and through all these channels for the welfare of all his far-flung creation.
P363:1, 32:4.3 As regards the policies, conduct, and administration of our local universe, the Universal Father acts in association with the Second Source and Center, or in the relationship between any other creatures, such as human beings -- as concerns such associations the Universal Father never intervenes. The law and rule of the Constellation Fathers, the System Sovereigns, and the Planetary Princes -- the ordained policies and procedures for that universe -- always prevail. There is no division of authority; never is there a cross working of divine power and purpose. They are in perfect and eternal unanimity.
P363:2, 32:4.4 The Universal Father may in his own way intervene and do aught that pleases the divine mind with any individual creature throughout all creation, as pertains to that individual's present status or future prospects and as concerns the Father's eternal plan and infinite purpose.