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Urantia Book Paper 13 The Sacred Spheres Of Paradise
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART I: The Central and Super
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Universes : The Universal Father The Nature Of God The Attributes Of God God's
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Relation To The Universe God's Relation To The Individual The Eternal Son
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Relation Of The Eternal Son To The Universe The Infinite Spirit Relation Of The
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Infinite Spirit To The Universe The Paradise Trinity The Eternal Isle Of
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Paradise The Universe Of Universes The Sacred Spheres Of Paradise The Central
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And Divine Universe The Seven Superuniverses The Seven Master Spirits The Seven
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Supreme Spirit Groups The Supreme Trinity Personalities The Co-ordinate
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Trinity-origin Beings The Paradise Sons Of God The Paradise Creator Sons The
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Trinitized Sons Of God The Solitary Messengers Higher Personalities Of The
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Infinite Spirit The Messenger Hosts Of Space Ministering Spirits Of The Central
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Universe Ministry Of The Primary Supernaphim Ministering Spirits Of The
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Superuniverses The Universe Power Directors Personalities Of The Grand Universe
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The Corps Of The Finality
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Paper 13 The Sacred Spheres Of Paradise
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Introduction
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BETWEEN the central Isle of Paradise and the innermost of the Havona planetary
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circuits there are situated in space three lesser circuits of special spheres.
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The innermost circuit consists of the seven secret spheres of the Universal
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Father; the second group is composed of the seven luminous worlds of the
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Eternal Son; in the outermost are the seven immense spheres of the Infinite
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Spirit, the executive-headquarters worlds of the Seven Master Spirits.
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These three seven-world circuits of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are
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spheres of unexcelled grandeur and unimagined glory. Even their material or
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physical construction is of an order unrevealed to you. Each circuit is diverse
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in material, and each world of each circuit is different excepting the seven
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worlds of the Son, which are alike in physical constitution. All twenty-one are
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enormous spheres, and each group of seven is differently eternalized. As far as
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we know they have always been; like Paradise they are eternal. There exists
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neither record nor tradition of their origin.
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The seven secret spheres of the Universal Father, circulating about Paradise in
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close proximity to the eternal Isle, are highly reflective of the spiritual
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luminosity of the central shining of the eternal Deities, shedding this light
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of divine glory throughout Paradise and even upon the seven circuits of Havona.
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On the seven sacred worlds of the Eternal Son there appear to take origin the
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impersonal energies of spirit luminosity. No personal being may sojourn on any
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of these seven shining realms. With spiritual glory they illuminate all
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Paradise and Havona, and they directionize pure spirit luminosity to the seven
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superuniverses. These brilliant spheres of the second circuit likewise emit
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their light (light without heat) to Paradise and to the billion worlds of the
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seven-circuited central universe.
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The seven worlds of the Infinite Spirit are occupied by the Seven Master
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Spirits, who preside over the destinies of the seven superuniverses, sending
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forth the spiritual illumination of the Third Person of Deity to these
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creations of time and space. And all Havona, but not the Isle of Paradise, is
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bathed in these spiritualizing influences.
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Although the worlds of the Father are ultimate status spheres for all
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Father-endowed personalities, this is not their exclusive function. Many beings
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and entities other than personal sojourn on these worlds. Each world in the
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circuit of the Father and the circuit of the Spirit has a distinct type of
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permanent citizenship, but we think the Son's worlds are inhabited by uniform
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types of other-than-personal beings. Father fragments are among the natives of
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Divinington; the other orders of permanent citizenship are unrevealed to you.
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The twenty-one Paradise satellites serve many purposes in both central and
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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
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a consistent view of them, either as to nature or function; thousands of
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activities are there going on which are unrevealed to you. These twenty-one
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spheres embrace the potentials of the function of the master universe. These
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papers afford only a fleeting glimpse of certain circumscribed activities
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pertaining to the present universe age of the grand universe--rather, one of
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the seven sectors of the grand universe.
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1. THE SEVEN SACRED WORLDS OF THE FATHER
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The Father's circuit of sacred life spheres contains the only inherent
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personality secrets in the universe of universes. These satellites of Paradise,
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the innermost of the three circuits, are the only forbidden domains concerned
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with personality in the central universe. Nether Paradise and the worlds of the
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Son are likewise closed to personalities, but neither of those realms is in any
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way directly concerned with personality.
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The Paradise worlds of the Father are directed by the highest order of the
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Stationary Sons of the Trinity, the Trinitized Secrets of Supremacy. Of these
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worlds I can tell little; of their manifold activities I may tell less. Such
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information concerns only those beings who function thereon and go forth
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therefrom. And though I am somewhat familiar with six of these special worlds,
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never have I landed on Divinington; that world is wholly forbidden to me.
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One of the reasons for the secrecy of these worlds is because each of these
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sacred spheres enjoys a specialized representation, or manifestation, of the
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Deities composing the Paradise Trinity; not a personality, but a unique
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presence of Divinity which can only be appreciated and comprehended by those
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particular groups of intelligences resident on, or admissible to, that
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particular sphere. The Trinitized Secrets of Supremacy are the personal agents
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of these specialized and impersonal presences of Divinity. And the Secrets of
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Supremacy are highly personal beings, superbly endowed and marvelously adapted
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to their exalted and exacting work.
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1. DIVININGTON. This world is, in a unique sense, the "bosom of the Father,"
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the personal-communion sphere of the Universal Father, and thereon is a special
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manifestation of his divinity. Divinington is the Paradise rendezvous of the
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Thought Adjusters, but it is also the home of numerous other entities,
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personalities, and other beings taking origin in the Universal Father. Many
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personalities besides the Eternal Son are of direct origin by the solitary acts
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of the Universal Father. Only the Father fragments and those personalities and
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other beings of direct and exclusive origin in the Universal Father fraternize
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and function on this abode.
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The secrets of Divinington include the secret of the bestowal and mission of
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Thought Adjusters. Their nature, origin, and the technique of their contact
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with the lowly creatures of the evolutionary worlds is a secret of this
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Paradise sphere. These amazing transactions do not personally concern the rest
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of us, and therefore do the Deities deem it proper to withhold certain features
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of this great and divine ministry from our full understanding. In so far as we
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come in contact with this phase of divine activity, we are permitted full
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knowledge of these transactions, but concerning the intimate details of this
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great bestowal we are not fully informed.
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This sphere also holds the secrets of the nature, purpose, and activities of
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all other forms of Father fragments, of the Gravity Messengers, and of hosts of
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other beings unrevealed to you. It is highly probable that those truths
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pertaining to Divinington which are withheld from me, if revealed, would merely
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confuse and handicap me in my present work, and still again, perhaps they are
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beyond the conceptual capacity of my order of being.
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2. SONARINGTON. This sphere is the "bosom of the Son," the personal receiving
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world of the Eternal Son. It is the Paradise headquarters of the descending and
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ascending Sons of God when, and after, they are fully accredited and finally
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approved. This world is the Paradise home for all Sons of the Eternal Son and
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of his co-ordinate and associate Sons. There are numerous orders of divine
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sonship attached to this supernal abode which have not been revealed to mortals
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since they are not concerned with the plans of the ascension scheme of human
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spiritual progression through the universes and on to Paradise.
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The secrets of Sonarington include the secret of the incarnation of the divine
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Sons. When a Son of God becomes a Son of Man, is literally born of woman, as
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occurred on your world nineteen hundred years ago, it is a universal mystery.
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It is occurring right along throughout the universes, and it is a Sonarington
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secret of divine sonship. The Adjusters are a mystery of God the Father. The
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incarnation of the divine Sons is a mystery of God the Son; it is a secret
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locked up in the seventh sector of Sonarington, a realm penetrated by none save
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those who have personally passed through this unique experience. Only those
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phases of incarnation having to do with your ascension career have been brought
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to your notice. There are many other phases of the mystery of the incarnation
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of the Paradise Sons of unrevealed types on missions of universe service which
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are undisclosed to you. And there are still other Sonarington mysteries.
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3. SPIRITINGTON. This world is the "bosom of the Spirit," the Paradise home of
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the high beings that exclusively represent the Infinite Spirit. Here forgather
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the Seven Master Spirits and certain of their offspring from all universes. At
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this celestial abode may also be found numerous unrevealed orders of spirit
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personalities, beings assigned to the manifold activities of the universe not
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associated with the plans of upstepping the mortal creatures of time to the
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Paradise levels of eternity.
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The secrets of Spiritington involve the impenetrable mysteries of reflectivity.
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We tell you of the vast and universal phenomenon of reflectivity, more
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particularly as it is operative on the headquarters worlds of the seven
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superuniverses, but we never fully explain this phenomenon, for we do not fully
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understand it. Much, very much, we do comprehend, but many basic details are
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still mysterious to us. Reflectivity is a secret of God the Spirit. You have
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been instructed concerning reflectivity functions in relation to the ascension
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scheme of mortal survival, and it does so operate, but reflectivity is also an
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indispensable feature of the normal working of numerous other phases of
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universe occupation. This endowment of the Infinite Spirit is also utilized in
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channels other than those of intelligence gathering and information
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dissemination. And there are other secrets of Spiritington.
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4. VICEGERINGTON. This planet is the "bosom of the Father and the Son" and is
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the secret sphere of certain unrevealed beings who take origin by the acts of
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the Father and the Son. This is also the Paradise home of many glori-
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fied beings of complex ancestry, those whose origin is complicated because of
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the many diverse techniques operative in the seven superuniverses. Many groups
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of beings forgather on this world whose identity has not been revealed to
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Urantia mortals.
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The secrets of Vicegerington include the secrets of trinitization, and
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trinitization constitutes the secret of authority to represent the Trinity, to
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act as vicegerents of the Gods. Authority to represent the Trinity attaches
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only to those beings, revealed and unrevealed, who are trinitized, created,
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eventuated, or eternalized by any two or all three of the Paradise Trinity.
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Personalities brought into being by the trinitizing acts of certain types of
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glorified creatures represent no more than the conceptual potential mobilized
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in that trinitization, albeit such creatures may ascend the path of Deity
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embrace open to all of their kind.
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Nontrinitized beings do not fully understand the technique of trinitization by
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either two or three Creators or by certain creatures. You will never fully
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understand such a phenomenon unless, in the far-distant future of your
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glorified career, you should essay and succeed in such an adventure, because
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otherwise these secrets of Vicegerington will always be forbidden you. But to
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me, a high Trinity-origin being, all sectors of Vicegerington are open. I fully
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understand, and just as fully and sacredly protect, the secret of my origin and
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destiny.
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There are still other forms and phases of trinitization which have not been
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brought to the notice of the Urantia peoples, and these experiences, in their
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personal aspects, are duly protected in the secret sector of Vicegerington.
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5. SOLITARINGTON. This world is the "bosom of the Father and the Spirit" and is
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the rendezvous of a magnificent host of unrevealed beings of origin in the
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conjoint acts of the Universal Father and the Infinite Spirit, beings who
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partake of the traits of the Father in addition to their Spirit inheritance.
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This is also the home of the Solitary Messengers and of other personalities of
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the superangelic orders. You know of very few of these beings; there are vast
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numbers of orders unrevealed on Urantia. Because they are domiciled on the
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fifth world, it does not necessarily follow that the Father had aught to do
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with the creation of Solitary Messengers or their superangelic associates, but
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in this universe age he does have to do with their function. During the present
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universe age this is also the status sphere of the Universe Power Directors.
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There are numerous additional orders of spirit personalities, beings unknown to
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mortal man, who look upon Solitarington as their Paradise home sphere. It
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should be remembered that all divisions and levels of universe activities are
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just as fully provided with spirit ministers as is the realm concerned with
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helping mortal man ascend to his divine Paradise destiny.
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The secrets of Solitarington. Besides certain secrets of trinitization, this
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world holds the secrets of the personal relation of the Infinite Spirit with
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certain of the higher offspring of the Third Source and Center. On
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Solitarington are held the mysteries of the intimate association of numerous
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unrevealed orders with the spirits of the Father, of the Son, and of the
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Spirit, with the threefold spirit of the Trinity, and with the spirits of the
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Supreme, the Ultimate, and the Supreme-Ultimate.
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6. SERAPHINGTON. This sphere is the "bosom of the Son and the Spirit" and is
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the home world of the vast hosts of unrevealed beings created by the Son and
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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
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serve in the central and outlying universes many orders of superb spirits who
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are not "ministering spirits to those who shall be heirs of salvation." All
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these spirit workers in all levels and realms of universe activities look upon
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Seraphington as their Paradise home.
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The secrets of Seraphington involve a threefold mystery, only one of which I
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may mention--the mystery of seraphic transport. The ability of various orders
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of seraphim and allied spirit beings to envelop within their spirit forms all
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orders of nonmaterial personalities and to carry them away on lengthy
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interplanetary journeys, is a secret locked up in the sacred sectors of
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Seraphington. The transport seraphim comprehend this mystery, but they do not
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communicate it to the rest of us, or perhaps they cannot. The other mysteries
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of Seraphington pertain to the personal experiences of types of spirit servers
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as yet not revealed to mortals. And we refrain from discussing the secrets of
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such closely related beings because you can almost comprehend such near orders
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of existence, and it would be akin to betrayal of trust to present even our
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partial knowledge of such phenomena.
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7. ASCENDINGTON. This unique world is the "bosom of the Father, Son, and
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Spirit," the rendezvous of the ascendant creatures of space, the receiving
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sphere of the pilgrims of time who are passing through the Havona universe on
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their way to Paradise. Ascendington is the actual Paradise home of the
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ascendant souls of time and space until they attain Paradise status. You
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mortals will spend most of your Havona "vacations" on Ascendington. During your
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Havona life Ascendington will be to you what the reversion directors were
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during the local and superuniverse ascension. Here you will engage in thousands
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of activities which are beyond the grasp of mortal imagination. And as on every
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previous advance in the Godward ascent, your human self will here enter into
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new relationships with your divine self.
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The secrets of Ascendington include the mystery of the gradual and certain
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building up in the material and mortal mind of a spiritual and potentially
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immortal counterpart of character and identity. This phenomenon constitutes one
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of the most perplexing mysteries of the universes--the evolution of an immortal
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soul within the mind of a mortal and material creature.
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You will never fully understand this mysterious transaction until you reach
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Ascendington. And that is just why all Ascendington will be open to your
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wondering gaze. One seventh of Ascendington is forbidden to me--that sector
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concerned with this very secret which is (or will be) the exclusive experience
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and possession of your type of being. This experience belongs to your human
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order of existence. My order of personality is not directly concerned with such
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transactions. It is therefore forbidden to me and eventually revealed to you.
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But even after it is revealed to you, for some reason it forever remains your
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secret. You do not reveal it to us nor to any other order of beings. We know
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about the eternal fusion of a divine Adjuster and an immortal soul of human
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origin, but the ascendant finaliters know this very experience as an absolute
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reality.
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2. FATHER-WORLD RELATIONSHIPS
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These home worlds of the diverse orders of spiritual beings are tremendous and
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stupendous spheres, and they are equal to Paradise in their matchless beauty
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and superb glory. They are rendezvous worlds, reunion spheres, serving as per-
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manent cosmic addresses. As finaliters you will be domiciled on Paradise, but
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Ascendington will be your home address at all times, even when you enter
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service in outer space. Through all eternity you will regard Ascendington as
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your home of sentimental memories and reminiscent recollections. When you
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become seventh-stage spirit beings, possibly you will give up your residential
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status on Paradise.
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If outer universes are in the making, if they are to be inhabited by time
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creatures of ascension potential, then we infer that these children of the
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future will also be destined to look upon Ascendington as their Paradise home
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world.
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Ascendington is the only sacred sphere that will be unreservedly open to your
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inspection as a Paradise arrival. Vicegerington is the only sacred sphere that
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is wholly and unreservedly open to my scrutiny. Though its secrets are
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concerned in my origin, in this universe age I do not regard Vicegerington as
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my home. Trinity-origin beings and trinitized beings are not the same.
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The Trinity-origin beings do not fully share the Father's worlds; they have
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their sole homes on the Isle of Paradise in close proximity to the Most Holy
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Sphere. They often appear on Ascendington, the "bosom of the
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Father-Son-Spirit," where they fraternize with their brethren who have come up
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from the lowly worlds of space.
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You might assume that Creator Sons, being of Father-Son origin, would regard
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Vicegerington as their home, but such is not the case in this universe age of
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the function of God the Sevenfold. And there are many similar problems that
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will perplex you, for you are sure to encounter many difficulties as you
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attempt to understand these things which are so near Paradise. Nor can you
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successfully reason out these questions; you know so little. And if you knew
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more about the Father's worlds, you would simply encounter more difficulties
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until you knew all about them. Status on any of these secret worlds is acquired
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by service as well as by nature of origin, and the successive universe ages may
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and do redistribute certain of these personality groupings.
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The worlds of the inner circuit are really fraternal or status worlds more than
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actual residential spheres. Mortals will attain some status on each of the
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Father's worlds save one. For example: When you mortals attain Havona, you are
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granted clearance for Ascendington, where you are most welcome, but you are not
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permitted to visit the other six sacred worlds. Subsequent to your passage
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through the Paradise regime and after your admission to the Corps of the
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Finality, you are granted clearance for Sonarington since you are sons of God
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as well as ascenders--and you are even more. But there will always remain one
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seventh of Sonarington, the sector of the incarnation secrets of the divine
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Sons, which will not be open to your scrutiny. Never will those secrets be
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revealed to the ascendant sons of God.
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Eventually you will have full access to Ascendington and relative access to the
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other spheres of the Father except Divinington. But even when you are granted
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permission to land on five additional secret spheres, after you have become a
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finaliter, you will not be allowed to visit all sectors of such worlds. Nor
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will you be permitted to land on the shores of Divinington, the "bosom of the
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Father," though you shall surely stand repeatedly at the "right hand of the
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Father." Never throughout all eternity will there arise any necessity for your
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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
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we are asked not to negotiate entrance to those phases of these spheres which
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are wholly outside our realms of experience. You may become creature perfect
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even as the Universal Father is deity perfect, but you may not know all the
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experiential secrets of all other orders of universe personalities. When the
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Creator has an experiential personality secret with his creature, the Creator
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preserves that secret in eternal confidence.
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All these secrets are supposedly known to the collective body of the Trinitized
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Secrets of Supremacy. These beings are fully known only by their special world
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groups; they are little comprehended by other orders. After you attain
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Paradise, you will know and ardently love the ten Secrets of Supremacy who
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direct Ascendington. Excepting Divinington, you will also achieve a partial
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understanding of the Secrets of Supremacy on the other worlds of the Father,
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though not so perfectly as on Ascendington.
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The Trinitized Secrets of Supremacy, as their name might suggest, are related
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to the Supreme; they are likewise related to the Ultimate and to the future
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Supreme-Ultimate. These Secrets of Supremacy are the secrets of the Supreme and
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also the secrets of the Ultimate, even the secrets of the Supreme-Ultimate.
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3. THE SACRED WORLDS OF THE ETERNAL SON
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The seven luminous spheres of the Eternal Son are the worlds of the seven
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phases of pure-spirit existence. These shining orbs are the source of the
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threefold light of Paradise and Havona, their influence being largely, but not
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wholly, confined to the central universe.
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Personality is not present on these Paradise satellites; therefore is there
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little concerning these pure-spirit abodes which can be presented to the mortal
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and material personality. We are taught that these worlds teem with the
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otherwise-than-personal life of the beings of the Eternal Son. We infer that
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these entities are being assembled for ministry in the projected new universes
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of outer space. The Paradise philosophers maintain that each Paradise cycle,
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about two billion years of Urantia time, witnesses the creation of additional
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reserves of these orders on the secret worlds of the Eternal Son.
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As far as I am informed, no personality has ever been on any one of these
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spheres of the Eternal Son. I have never been assigned to visit one of these
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worlds in all my long experience in and out of Paradise. Even the personalities
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cocreated by the Eternal Son do not go to these worlds. We infer that all types
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of impersonal spirits--regardless of parentage--are admitted to these spirit
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homes. As I am a person and have a spirit form, no doubt such a world would
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seem empty and deserted even if I were permitted to pay it a visit. High spirit
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personalities are not given to the gratification of purposeless curiosity,
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purely useless adventure. There is at all times altogether too much intriguing
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and purposeful adventure to permit the development of any great interest in
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those projects which are either futile or unreal.
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4. THE WORLDS OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT
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Between the inner circuit of Havona and the shining spheres of the Eternal Son
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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
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personalities, and by other types of unrevealed beings concerned with the
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effective administration of the many enterprises of the various realms of
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universe activities.
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The Seven Master Spirits are the supreme and ultimate representatives of the
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Infinite Spirit. They maintain their personal stations, their power focuses, on
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the periphery of Paradise, but all operations concerned with their management
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and direction of the grand universe are conducted on and from these seven
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special executive spheres of the Infinite Spirit. The Seven Master Spirits are,
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in reality, the mind-spirit balance wheel of the universe of universes, an
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all-embracing, all-encompassing, and all-co-ordinating power of central
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location.
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From these seven special spheres the Master Spirits operate to equalize and
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stabilize the cosmic-mind circuits of the grand universe. They also have to do
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with the differential spiritual attitude and presence of the Deities throughout
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the grand universe. Physical reactions are uniform, unvarying, and always
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instantaneous and automatic. But experiential spiritual presence is in
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accordance with the underlying conditions or states of spiritual receptivity
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inherent in the individual minds of the realms.
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Physical authority, presence, and function are unvarying in all the universes,
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small or great. The differing factor in spiritual presence, or reaction, is the
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fluctuating differential in its recognition and reception by will creatures.
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Whereas the spiritual presence of absolute and existential Deity is in no
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manner whatever influenced by attitudes of loyalty or disloyalty on the part of
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created beings, at the same time it is true that the functioning presence of
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subabsolute and experiential Deity is definitely and directly influenced by the
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decisions, choices, and will-attitudes of such finite creature beings--by the
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loyalty and devotion of the individual being, planet, system, constellation, or
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universe. But this spiritual presence of divinity is not whimsical nor
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arbitrary; its experiential variance is inherent in the freewill endowment of
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personal creatures.
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The determiner of the differential of spiritual presence exists in your own
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hearts and minds and consists in the manner of your own choosing, in the
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decisions of your minds, and in the determination of your own wills. This
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differential is inherent in the freewill reactions of intelligent personal
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beings, beings whom the Universal Father has ordained shall exercise this
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liberty of choosing. And the Deities are ever true to the ebb and flow of their
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spirits in meeting and satisfying the conditions and demands of this
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differential of creature choice, now bestowing more of their presence in
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response to a sincere desire for the same and again withdrawing themselves from
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the scene as their creatures decide adversely in the exercise of their divinely
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bestowed freedom of choice. And thus does the spirit of divinity become humbly
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obedient to the choosing of the creatures of the realms.
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The executive abodes of the Seven Master Spirits are, in reality, the Paradise
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headquarters of the seven superuniverses and their correlated segments in outer
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space. Each Master Spirit presides over one superuniverse, and each of these
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seven worlds is exclusively assigned to one of the Master Spirits. There is
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literally no phase of the sub-Paradise administration of the seven
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superuniverses which is not provided for on these executive worlds. They are
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not so exclusive as the spheres of the Father or those of the Son, and though
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residential status is limited to native beings and those who work thereon,
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these seven administrative planets
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are always open to all beings who desire to visit them, and who can command the
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necessary means of transit.
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To me, these executive worlds are the most interesting and intriguing spots
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outside of Paradise. In no other place in the wide universe can one observe
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such varied activities, involving so many different orders of living beings,
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having to do with operations on so many diverse levels, occupations at once
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material, intellectual, and spiritual. When I am accorded a period of release
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from assignment, if I chance to be on Paradise or in Havona, I usually proceed
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to one of these busy worlds of the Seven Master Spirits, there to inspire my
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mind with such spectacles of enterprise, devotion, loyalty, wisdom, and
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effectiveness. Nowhere else can I observe such an amazing interassociation of
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personality performances on all seven levels of universe reality. And I am
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always stimulated by the activities of those who well know how to do their
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work, and who so thoroughly enjoy doing it.
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[Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom commissioned thus to function by the
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Ancients of Days on Uversa.]
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART I: The Central and Super
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Universes : The Universal Father The Nature Of God The Attributes Of God God's
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Relation To The Universe God's Relation To The Individual The Eternal Son
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Relation Of The Eternal Son To The Universe The Infinite Spirit Relation Of The
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Infinite Spirit To The Universe The Paradise Trinity The Eternal Isle Of
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Paradise The Universe Of Universes The Sacred Spheres Of Paradise The Central
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And Divine Universe The Seven Superuniverses The Seven Master Spirits The Seven
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Supreme Spirit Groups The Supreme Trinity Personalities The Co-ordinate
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Trinity-origin Beings The Paradise Sons Of God The Paradise Creator Sons The
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Trinitized Sons Of God The Solitary Messengers Higher Personalities Of The
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Infinite Spirit The Messenger Hosts Of Space Ministering Spirits Of The Central
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Universe Ministry Of The Primary Supernaphim Ministering Spirits Of The
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Superuniverses The Universe Power Directors Personalities Of The Grand Universe
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The Corps Of The Finality
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