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Urantia Book Paper 32 The Evolution Of Local Universes
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART II: The Local Universe :
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The Evolution Of Local Universes Administration Of The Local Universe The Local
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Universe Mother Spirit The Local Universe Sons Of God The Life Carriers
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Personalities Of The Local Universe Ministering Spirits Of The Local Universe
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The Seraphic Hosts The Ascending Sons Of God Physical Aspects Of The Local
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Universe Energy--mind And Matter The Constellations The Celestial Artisans The
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Local System Administration The Local System Headquarters The Seven Mansion
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Worlds The Morontia Life The Inhabited Worlds The Planetary Princes The
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Planetary Adams Planetary Mortal Epochs The Lucifer Rebellion Problems Of The
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Lucifer Rebellion The Spheres Of Light And Life Universal Unity
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Paper 32 The Evolution Of Local Universes
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Introduction
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A LOCAL universe is the handiwork of a Creator Son of the Paradise order of
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Michael. It comprises one hundred constellations, each embracing one hundred
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systems of inhabited worlds. Each system will eventually contain approximately
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one thousand inhabited spheres.
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These universes of time and space are all evolutionary. The creative plan of
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the Paradise Michaels always proceeds along the path of gradual evolvement and
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progressive development of the physical, intellectual, and spiritual natures
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and capacities of the manifold creatures who inhabit the varied orders of
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spheres comprising such a local universe.
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Urantia belongs to a local universe whose sovereign is the God-man of Nebadon,
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Jesus of Nazareth and Michael of Salvington. And all of Michael's plans for
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this local universe were fully approved by the Paradise Trinity before he ever
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embarked upon the supreme adventure of space.
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The Sons of God may choose the realms of their creator activities, but these
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material creations were originally projected and planned by the Paradise
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Architects of the Master Universe.
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1. PHYSICAL EMERGENCE OF UNIVERSES
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The preuniverse manipulations of space-force and the primordial energies are
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the work of the Paradise Master Force Organizers; but in the superuniverse
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domains, when emergent energy becomes responsive to local or linear gravity,
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they retire in favor of the power directors of the superuniverse concerned.
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These power directors function alone in the prematerial and postforce phases of
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a local universe creation. There is no opportunity for a Creator Son to begin
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universe organization until the power directors have effected the mobilization
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of the space-energies sufficiently to provide a material foundation--literal
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suns and material spheres--for the emerging universe.
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The local universes are all approximately of the same energy potential, though
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they differ greatly in physical dimensions and may vary in visible-matter
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content from time to time. The power charge and potential-matter endowment of a
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local universe are determined by the manipulations of the power directors and
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their predecessors as well as by the Creator Son's activities and by the
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endowment of the inherent physical control possessed by his creative associate.
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The energy charge of a local universe is approximately one
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one-hundred-thousandth of the force endowment of its superuniverse. In the case
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of Nebadon, your local universe, the mass materialization is a trifle less.
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Physically speaking, Nebadon possesses all of the physical endowment of energy
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and matter that may be found in any of the Orvonton local creations. The only
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physical limitation upon the developmental expansion of the Nebadon universe
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consists in the quantitative charge of space-energy held captive by the gravity
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control of the associated powers and personalities of the combined universe
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mechanism.
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When energy-matter has attained a certain stage in mass materialization, a
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Paradise Creator Son appears upon the scene, accompanied by a Creative Daughter
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of the Infinite Spirit. Simultaneously with the arrival of the Creator Son,
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work is begun upon the architectural sphere which is to become the headquarters
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world of the projected local universe. For long ages such a local creation
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evolves, suns become stabilized, planets form and swing into their orbits,
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while the work of creating the architectural worlds which are to serve as
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constellation headquarters and system capitals continues.
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2. UNIVERSE ORGANIZATION
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The Creator Sons are preceded in universe organization by the power directors
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and other beings originating in the Third Source and Center. From the energies
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of space, thus previously organized, Michael, your Creator Son, established the
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inhabited realms of the universe of Nebadon and ever since has been
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painstakingly devoted to their administration. From pre-existent energy these
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divine Sons materialize visible matter, project living creatures, and with the
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co-operation of the universe presence of the Infinite Spirit, create a diverse
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retinue of spirit personalities.
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These power directors and energy controllers who long preceded the Creator Son
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in the preliminary physical work of universe organization later serve in
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magnificent liaison with this Universe Son, forever remaining in associated
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control of those energies which they originally organized and circuitized. On
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Salvington there now function the same one hundred power centers who
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co-operated with your Creator Son in the original formation of this local
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universe.
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The first completed act of physical creation in Nebadon consisted in the
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organization of the headquarters world, the architectural sphere of Salvington,
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with its satellites. From the time of the initial moves of the power centers
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and physical controllers to the arrival of the living staff on the completed
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spheres of Salvington, there intervened a little over one billion years of your
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present planetary time. The construction of Salvington was immediately followed
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by the creation of the one hundred headquarters worlds of the projected
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constellations and the ten thousand headquarters spheres of the projected local
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systems of planetary control and administration, together with their
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architectural satellites. Such architectural worlds are designed to accommodate
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both physical and spiritual personalities as well as the intervening morontia
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or transition stages of being.
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Salvington, the headquarters of Nebadon, is situated at the exact energy-mass
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center of the local universe. But your local universe is not a single
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astronomic system, though a large system does exist at its physical center.
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Salvington is the personal headquarters of Michael of Nebadon, but he will not
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always be found there. While the smooth functioning of your local universe no
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longer requires the fixed presence of the Creator Son at the capital sphere,
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this was not true of the earlier epochs of physical organization. A Creator Son
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is unable to leave his headquarters world until such a time as gravity
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stabilization of the realm has been effected through the materialization of
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sufficient energy to enable the various circuits and systems to counterbalance
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one another by mutual material attraction.
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Presently, the physical plan of a universe is completed, and the Creator Son,
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in association with the Creative Spirit, projects his plan of life creation;
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whereupon does this representation of the Infinite Spirit begin her universe
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function as a distinct creative personality. When this first creative act is
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formulated and executed, there springs into being the Bright and Morning Star,
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the personification of this initial creative concept of identity and ideal of
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divinity. This is the chief executive of the universe, the personal associate
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of the Creator Son, one like him in all aspects of character, though markedly
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limited in the attributes of divinity.
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And now that the right-hand helper and chief executive of the Creator Son has
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been provided, there ensues the bringing into existence of a vast and wonderful
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array of diverse creatures. The sons and daughters of the local universe are
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forthcoming, and soon thereafter the government of such a creation is provided,
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extending from the supreme councils of the universe to the fathers of the
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constellations and the sovereigns of the local systems--the aggregations of
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those worlds which are designed subsequently to become the homes of the varied
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mortal races of will creatures; and each of these worlds will be presided over
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by a Planetary Prince.
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And then, when such a universe has been so completely organized and so
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repletely manned, does the Creator Son enter into the Father's proposal to
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create mortal man in their divine image.
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The organization of planetary abodes is still progressing in Nebadon, for this
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universe is, indeed, a young cluster in the starry and planetary realms of
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Orvonton. At the last registry there were 3,840,101 inhabited planets in
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Nebadon, and Satania, the local system of your world, is fairly typical of
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other systems.
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Satania is not a uniform physical system, a single astronomic unit or
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organization. Its 619 inhabited worlds are located in over five hundred
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different physical systems. Only five have more than two inhabited worlds, and
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of these only one has four peopled planets, while there are forty-six having
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two inhabited worlds.
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The Satania system of inhabited worlds is far removed from Uversa and that
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great sun cluster which functions as the physical or astronomic center of the
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seventh superuniverse. From Jerusem, the headquarters of Satania, it is over
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two hundred thousand light-years to the physical center of the superuniverse of
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Orvonton, far, far away in the dense diameter of the Milky Way. Satania is on
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the periphery of the local universe, and Nebadon is now well out towards the
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edge of Orvonton. From the outermost system of inhabited worlds to the center
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of the superuniverse is a trifle less than two hundred and fifty thousand
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light-years.
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The universe of Nebadon now swings far to the south and east in the
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superuniverse circuit of Orvonton. The nearest neighboring universes are:
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Avalon, Henselon, Sanselon, Portalon, Wolvering, Fanoving, and Alvoring.
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But the evolution of a local universe is a long narrative. Papers dealing with
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the superuniverse introduce this subject, those of this section, treating of
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the local creations, continue it, while those to follow, touching upon the
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history and destiny of Urantia, complete the story. But you can adequately
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comprehend the destiny of the mortals of such a local creation only by a
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perusal of the narratives of the life and teachings of your Creator Son as he
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once lived the life of man, in the likeness of mortal flesh, on your own
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evolutionary world.
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3. THE EVOLUTIONARY IDEA
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The only creation that is perfectly settled is Havona, the central universe,
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which was made directly by the thought of the Universal Father and the word of
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the Eternal Son. Havona is an existential, perfect, and replete universe,
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surrounding the home of the eternal Deities, the center of all things. The
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creations of the seven superuniverses are finite, evolutionary, and
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consistently progressive.
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The physical systems of time and space are all evolutionary in origin. They are
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not even physically stabilized until they are swung into the settled circuits
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of their superuniverses. Neither is a local universe settled in light and life
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until its physical possibilities of expansion and development have been
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exhausted, and until the spiritual status of all its inhabited worlds has been
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forever settled and stabilized.
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Except in the central universe, perfection is a progressive attainment. In the
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central creation we have a pattern of perfection, but all other realms must
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attain that perfection by the methods established for the advancement of those
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particular worlds or universes. And an almost infinite variety characterizes
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the plans of the Creator Sons for organizing, evolving, disciplining, and
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settling their respective local universes.
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With the exception of the deity presence of the Father, every local universe
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is, in a certain sense, a duplication of the administrative organization of the
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central or pattern creation. Although the Universal Father is personally
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present in the residential universe, he does not indwell the minds of the
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beings originating in that universe as he does literally dwell with the souls
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of the mortals of time and space. There seems to be an all-wise compensation in
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the adjustment and regulation of the spiritual affairs of the far-flung
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creation. In the central universe the Father is personally present as such but
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absent in the minds of the children of that perfect creation; in the universes
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of space the Father is absent in person, being represented by his Sovereign
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Sons, while he is intimately present in the minds of his mortal children, being
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spiritually represented by the prepersonal presence of the Mystery Monitors
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that reside in the minds of these will creatures.
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On the headquarters of a local universe there reside all those creator and
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creative personalities who represent self-contained authority and
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administrative autonomy except the personal presence of the Universal Father.
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In the local
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universe there are to be found something of everyone and someone of almost
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every class of intelligent beings existing in the central universe except the
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Universal Father. Although the Universal Father is not personally present in a
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local universe, he is personally represented by its Creator Son, sometime
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vicegerent of God and subsequently supreme and sovereign ruler in his own
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right.
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The farther down the scale of life we go, the more difficult it becomes to
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locate, with the eye of faith, the invisible Father. The lower creatures--and
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sometimes even the higher personalities--find it difficult always to envisage
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the Universal Father in his Creator Sons. And so, pending the time of their
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spiritual exaltation, when perfection of development will enable them to see
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God in person, they grow weary in progression, entertain spiritual doubts,
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stumble into confusion, and thus isolate themselves from the progressive
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spiritual aims of their time and universe. In this way they lose the ability to
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see the Father when beholding the Creator Son. The surest safeguard for the
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creature throughout the long struggle to attain the Father, during this time
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when inherent conditions make such attainment impossible, is tenaciously to
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hold on to the truth-fact of the Father's presence in his Sons. Literally and
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figuratively, spiritually and personally, the Father and the Sons are one. It
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is a fact: He who has seen a Creator Son has seen the Father.
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The personalities of a given universe are settled and dependable, at the start,
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only in accordance with their degree of kinship to Deity. When creature origin
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departs sufficiently far from the original and divine Sources, whether we are
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dealing with the Sons of God or the creatures of ministry belonging to the
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Infinite Spirit, there is an increase in the possibility of disharmony,
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confusion, and sometimes rebellion--sin.
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Excepting perfect beings of Deity origin, all will creatures in the
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superuniverses are of evolutionary nature, beginning in lowly estate and
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climbing ever upward, in reality inward. Even highly spiritual personalities
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continue to ascend the scale of life by progressive translations from life to
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life and from sphere to sphere. And in the case of those who entertain the
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Mystery Monitors, there is indeed no limit to the possible heights of their
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spiritual ascent and universe attainment.
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The perfection of the creatures of time, when finally achieved, is wholly an
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acquirement, a bona fide personality possession. While the elements of grace
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are freely admixed, nevertheless, the creature attainments are the result of
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individual effort and actual living, personality reaction to the existing
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environment.
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The fact of animal evolutionary origin does not attach stigma to any
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personality in the sight of the universe as that is the exclusive method of
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producing one of the two basic types of finite intelligent will creatures. When
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the heights of perfection and eternity are attained, all the more honor to
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those who began at the bottom and joyfully climbed the ladder of life, round by
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round, and who, when they do reach the heights of glory, will have gained a
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personal experience which embodies an actual knowledge of every phase of life
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from the bottom to the top.
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In all this is shown the wisdom of the Creators. It would be just as easy for
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the Universal Father to make all mortals perfect beings, to impart perfection
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by his divine word. But that would deprive them of the wonderful experience of
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the adventure and training associated with the long and gradual inward climb,
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an experience to be had only by those who are so fortunate as to begin at the
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very bottom of living existence.
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In the universes encircling Havona there are provided only a sufficient number
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of perfect creatures to meet the need for pattern teacher guides for those who
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are ascending the evolutionary scale of life. The experiential nature of the
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evolutionary type of personality is the natural cosmic complement of the
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ever-perfect natures of the Paradise-Havona creatures. In reality, both perfect
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and perfected creatures are incomplete as regards finite totality. But in the
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complemental association of the existentially perfect creatures of the
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Paradise-Havona system with the experientially perfected finaliters ascending
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from the evolutionary universes, both types find release from inherent
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limitations and thus may conjointly attempt to reach the sublime heights of the
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ultimate of creature status.
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These creature transactions are the universe repercussions of actions and
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reactions within the Sevenfold Deity, wherein the eternal divinity of the
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Paradise Trinity is conjoined with the evolving divinity of the Supreme
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Creators of the time-space universes in, by, and through the power-actualizing
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Deity of the Supreme Being.
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The divinely perfect creature and the evolutionary perfected creature are equal
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in degree of divinity potential, but they differ in kind. Each must depend on
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the other to attain supremacy of service. The evolutionary superuniverses
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depend on perfect Havona to provide the final training for their ascending
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citizens, but so does the perfect central universe require the existence of the
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perfecting superuniverses to provide for the full development of its descending
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inhabitants.
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The two prime manifestations of finite reality, innate perfection and evolved
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perfection, be they personalities or universes, are co-ordinate, dependent, and
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integrated. Each requires the other to achieve completion of function, service,
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and destiny.
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4. GOD'S RELATION TO A LOCAL UNIVERSE
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Do not entertain the idea that, since the Universal Father has delegated so
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much of himself and his power to others, he is a silent or inactive member of
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the Deity partnership. Aside from personality domains and Adjuster bestowal, he
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is apparently the least active of the Paradise Deities in that he allows his
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Deity co-ordinates, his Sons, and numerous created intelligences to perform so
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much in the carrying out of his eternal purpose. He is the silent member of the
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creative trio only in that he never does aught which any of his co-ordinate or
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subordinate associates can do.
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God has full understanding of the need of every intelligent creature for
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function and experience, and therefore, in every situation, be it concerned
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with the destiny of a universe or the welfare of the humblest of his creatures,
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God retires from activity in favor of the galaxy of creature and Creator
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personalities who inherently intervene between himself and any given universe
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situation or creative event. But notwithstanding this retirement, this
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exhibition of infinite co-ordination, there is on God's part an actual,
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literal, and personal participation in these events by and through these
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ordained agencies and personalities. The Father is working in and through all
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these channels for the welfare of all his far-flung creation.
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As regards the policies, conduct, and administration of a local universe, the
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Universal Father acts in the person of his Creator Son. In the
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interrelationships of the Sons of God, in the group associations of the
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personalities of origin in the Third Source and Center, or in the relationship
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between any other creatures, such as human beings--as concerns such
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associations the Universal Father never intervenes. The law of the Creator Son,
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the rule of the Constellation Fathers, the System Sovereigns, and the Planetary
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Princes--the ordained policies and procedures for that universe--always
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prevail. There is no division of authority; never is there a cross working of
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divine power and purpose. The Deities are in perfect and eternal unanimity.
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The Creator Son rules supreme in all matters of ethical associations, the
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relations of any division of creatures to any other class of creatures or of
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two or more individuals within any given group; but such a plan does not mean
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that the Universal Father may not in his own way intervene and do aught that
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pleases the divine mind with any individual creature throughout all creation,
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as pertains to that individual's present status or future prospects and as
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concerns the Father's eternal plan and infinite purpose.
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In the mortal will creatures the Father is actually present in the indwelling
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Adjuster, a fragment of his prepersonal spirit; and the Father is also the
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source of the personality of such a mortal will creature.
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These Thought Adjusters, the bestowals of the Universal Father, are
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comparatively isolated; they indwell human minds but have no discernible
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connection with the ethical affairs of a local creation. They are not directly
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co-ordinated with the seraphic service nor with the administration of systems,
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constellations, or a local universe, not even with the rule of a Creator Son,
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whose will is the supreme law of his universe.
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The indwelling Adjusters are one of God's separate but unified modes of contact
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with the creatures of his all but infinite creation. Thus does he who is
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invisible to mortal man manifest his presence, and could he do so, he would
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show himself to us in still other ways, but such further revelation is not
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divinely possible.
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We can see and understand the mechanism whereby the Sons enjoy intimate and
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complete knowledge regarding the universes of their jurisdiction; but we cannot
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fully comprehend the methods whereby God is so fully and personally conversant
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with the details of the universe of universes, although we at least can
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recognize the avenue whereby the Universal Father can receive information
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regarding, and manifest his presence to, the beings of his immense creation.
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Through the personality circuit the Father is cognizant--has personal
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knowledge--of all the thoughts and acts of all the beings in all the systems of
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all the universes of all creation. Though we cannot fully grasp this technique
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of God's communion with his children, we can be strengthened in the assurance
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that the "Lord knows his children," and that of each one of us "he takes note
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where we were born."
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In your universe and in your heart the Universal Father is present, spiritually
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speaking, by one of the Seven Master Spirits of central abode and,
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specifically, by the divine Adjuster who lives and works and waits in the
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depths of the mortal mind.
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God is not a self-centered personality; the Father freely distributes himself
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to his creation and to his creatures. He lives and acts, not only in the
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Deities,
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but also in his Sons, whom he intrusts with the doing of everything that it is
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divinely possible for them to do. The Universal Father has truly divested
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himself of every function which it is possible for another being to perform.
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And this is just as true of mortal man as of the Creator Son who rules in God's
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stead at the headquarters of a local universe. Thus we behold the outworking of
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the ideal and infinite love of the Universal Father.
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In this universal bestowal of himself we have abundant proof of both the
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magnitude and the magnanimity of the Father's divine nature. If God has
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withheld aught of himself from the universal creation, then of that residue he
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is in lavish generosity bestowing the Thought Adjusters upon the mortals of the
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realms, the Mystery Monitors of time, who so patiently indwell the mortal
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candidates for life everlasting.
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The Universal Father has poured out himself, as it were, to make all creation
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rich in personality possession and potential spiritual attainment. God has
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given us himself that we may be like him, and he has reserved for himself of
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power and glory only that which is necessary for the maintenance of those
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things for the love of which he has thus divested himself of all things else.
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5. THE ETERNAL AND DIVINE PURPOSE
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There is a great and glorious purpose in the march of the universes through
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space. All of your mortal struggling is not in vain. We are all part of an
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immense plan, a gigantic enterprise, and it is the vastness of the undertaking
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that renders it impossible to see very much of it at any one time and during
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any one life. We are all a part of an eternal project which the Gods are
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supervising and outworking. The whole marvelous and universal mechanism moves
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on majestically through space to the music of the meter of the infinite thought
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and the eternal purpose of the First Great Source and Center.
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The eternal purpose of the eternal God is a high spiritual ideal. The events of
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time and the struggles of material existence are but the transient scaffolding
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which bridges over to the other side, to the promised land of spiritual reality
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and supernal existence. Of course, you mortals find it difficult to grasp the
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idea of an eternal purpose; you are virtually unable to comprehend the thought
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of eternity, something never beginning and never ending. Everything familiar to
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you has an end.
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As regards an individual life, the duration of a realm, or the chronology of
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any connected series of events, it would seem that we are dealing with an
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isolated stretch of time; everything seems to have a beginning and an end. And
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it would appear that a series of such experiences, lives, ages, or epochs, when
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successively arranged, constitutes a straightaway drive, an isolated event of
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time flashing momentarily across the infinite face of eternity. But when we
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look at all this from behind the scenes, a more comprehensive view and a more
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complete understanding suggest that such an explanation is inadequate,
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disconnected, and wholly unsuited properly to account for, and otherwise to
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correlate, the transactions of time with the underlying purposes and basic
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reactions of eternity.
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To me it seems more fitting, for purposes of explanation to the mortal mind, to
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conceive of eternity as a cycle and the eternal purpose as an endless circle, a
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cycle of eternity in some way synchronized with the transient material cycles
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of time. As regards the sectors of time connected with, and forming a part of,
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the cycle of eternity, we are forced to recognize that such temporary epochs
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are born, live, and die just as the temporary beings of time are born, live,
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and die. Most human beings die because, having failed to achieve the spirit
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level of Adjuster fusion, the metamorphosis of death constitutes the only
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possible procedure whereby they may escape the fetters of time and the bonds of
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material creation, thereby being enabled to strike spiritual step with the
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progressive procession of eternity. Having survived the trial life of time and
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material existence, it becomes possible for you to continue on in touch with,
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even as a part of, eternity, swinging on forever with the worlds of space
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around the circle of the eternal ages.
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The sectors of time are like the flashes of personality in temporal form; they
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appear for a season, and then they are lost to human sight, only to reappear as
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new actors and continuing factors in the higher life of the endless swing
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around the eternal circle. Eternity can hardly be conceived as a straightaway
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drive, in view of our belief in a delimited universe moving over a vast,
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elongated circle around the central dwelling place of the Universal Father.
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Frankly, eternity is incomprehensible to the finite mind of time. You simply
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cannot grasp it; you cannot comprehend it. I do not completely visualize it,
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and even if I did, it would be impossible for me to convey my concept to the
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human mind. Nevertheless, I have done my best to portray something of our
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viewpoint, to tell you somewhat of our understanding of things eternal. I am
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endeavoring to aid you in the crystallization of your thoughts about these
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values which are of infinite nature and eternal import.
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There is in the mind of God a plan which embraces every creature of all his
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vast domains, and this plan is an eternal purpose of boundless opportunity,
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unlimited progress, and endless life. And the infinite treasures of such a
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matchless career are yours for the striving!
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The goal of eternity is ahead! The adventure of divinity attainment lies before
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you! The race for perfection is on! whosoever will may enter, and certain
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victory will crown the efforts of every human being who will run the race of
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faith and trust, depending every step of the way on the leading of the
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indwelling Adjuster and on the guidance of that good spirit of the Universe
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Son, which so freely has been poured out upon all flesh.
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[Presented by a Mighty Messenger temporarily attached to the Supreme Council of
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Nebadon and assigned to this mission by Gabriel of Salvington.]
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART II: The Local Universe :
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The Evolution Of Local Universes Administration Of The Local Universe The Local
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Universe Mother Spirit The Local Universe Sons Of God The Life Carriers
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Personalities Of The Local Universe Ministering Spirits Of The Local Universe
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The Seraphic Hosts The Ascending Sons Of God Physical Aspects Of The Local
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Universe Energy--mind And Matter The Constellations The Celestial Artisans The
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Local System Administration The Local System Headquarters The Seven Mansion
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Worlds The Morontia Life The Inhabited Worlds The Planetary Princes The
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Planetary Adams Planetary Mortal Epochs The Lucifer Rebellion Problems Of The
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Lucifer Rebellion The Spheres Of Light And Life Universal Unity
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