G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:
Well I read this. What was God doing before he made the sky and the
Earth? My answer is preparing "Hell for people like Warhol" (cheap
shot) To say there was no before is bad science. So I'll sum up my
theory once again(because I like it) Cosmic space energy with the
intrinsic gravity force also cosmic created the first BB eons ago.
After this first original huge universe BH were created within. These BH
in about 22 billion years reach a critical mass and out of these
critical mass BH came our mini-universe. How many mini universes are
there identical to ours? More than all the snow flakes in an endless
storm. Bert.

Ha ha ha you little drunkerds minds does know nothing... I created
Heaven, So surly I created Hell too... Hi Hi Hi

THE EVOLUTION OF LOCAL UNIVERSES

A LOCAL universe is the handiwork of a Creator Son (Warhol) of the
Paradise order of Michael. It comprises one hundred constellations,
each embracing one hundred systems of inhabited worlds. Each system
will eventually contain approximately one thousand inhabited spheres.

These universes of time and space are all evolutionary. The
creative plan of the Paradise Michaels always proceeds along the path
of gradual evolvement and progressive development of the physical,
intellectual, and spiritual natures and capacities of the manifold
creatures who inhabit the varied orders of spheres comprising such a
local universe.

Urantia belongs to a local universe whose sovereign is the
God-man of Nebadon, Jesus of Nazareth and Michael of Salvington. And
all of Michael's plans for this local universe were fully approved by
the Paradise Trinity before he ever embarked upon the supreme adventure
of space.

The Sons of God may choose the realms of their creator
activities, but these material creations were originally projected and
planned by the Paradise Architects of the Master Universe.

1. PHYSICAL EMERGENCE OF UNIVERSES
The preuniverse manipulations of space-force and the
primordial energies are the work of the Paradise Master Force
Organizers; but in the superuniverse domains, when emergent energy
becomes responsive to local or linear gravity, they retire in favor of
the power directors of the superuniverse concerned.

These power directors function alone in the prematerial and
postforce phases of a local universe creation. There is no opportunity
for a Creator Son to begin universe organization until the power
directors have effected the mobilization of the space-energies
sufficiently to provide a material foundation--literal suns and
material spheres--for the emerging universe.

The local universes are all approximately of the same energy
potential, though they differ greatly in physical dimensions and may
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content from time to time. The power charge and potential-matter
endowment of a local universe are determined by the manipulations of
the power directors and their predecessors as well as by the Creator
Son's activities and by the endowment of the inherent physical control
possessed by his creative associate.

The energy charge of a local universe is approximately one
one-hundred-thousandth of the force endowment of its superuniverse. In
the case of Nebadon, your local universe, the mass materialization is a
trifle less. Physically speaking, Nebadon possesses all of the physical
endowment of energy and matter that may be found in any of the Orvonton
local creations. The only physical limitation upon the developmental
expansion of the Nebadon universe consists in the quantitative charge
of space-energy held captive by the gravity control of the associated
powers and personalities of the combined universe mechanism.

When energy-matter has attained a certain stage in mass
materialization, a Paradise Creator Son appears upon the scene,
accompanied by a Creative Daughter of the Infinite Spirit.
Simultaneously with the arrival of the Creator Son, work is begun upon
the architectural sphere which is to become the headquarters world of
the projected local universe. For long ages such a local creation
evolves, suns become stabilized, planets form and swing into their
orbits, while the work of creating the architectural worlds which are
to serve as constellation headquarters and system capitals continues.

2. UNIVERSE ORGANIZATION
The Creator Sons are preceded in universe organization by the
power directors and other beings originating in the Third Source and
Center. From the energies of space, thus previously organized, Michael,
your Creator Son, established the inhabited realms of the universe of
Nebadon and ever since has been painstakingly devoted to their
administration. From pre-existent energy these divine Sons materialize
visible matter, project living creatures, and with the co-operation of
the universe presence of the Infinite Spirit, create a diverse retinue
of spirit personalities.

These power directors and energy controllers who long
preceded the Creator Son in the preliminary physical work of universe
organization later serve in magnificent liaison with this Universe Son,
forever remaining in associated control of those energies which they
originally organized and circuitized. On Salvington there now function
the same one hundred power centers who co-operated with your Creator
Son in the original formation of this local universe.

The first completed act of physical creation in Nebadon
consisted in the organization of the headquarters world, the
architectural sphere of Salvington, with its satellites. From the time
of the initial moves of the power centers and physical controllers to
the arrival of the living staff on the completed spheres of Salvington,
there intervened a little over one billion years of your present
planetary time. The construction of Salvington was immediately followed
by the creation of the one hundred headquarters worlds of the projected
constellations and the ten thousand headquarters spheres of the
projected local systems of planetary control and administration,
together with their architectural satellites. Such architectural worlds
are designed to accommodate both physical and spiritual personalities
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Salvington, the headquarters of Nebadon, is situated at the
exact energy-mass center of the local universe. But your local universe
is not a single astronomic system, though a large system does exist at
its physical center.

Salvington is the personal headquarters of Michael of
Nebadon, but he will not always be found there. While the smooth
functioning of your local universe no longer requires the fixed
presence of the Creator Son at the capital sphere, this was not true of
the earlier epochs of physical organization. A Creator Son is unable to
leave his headquarters world until such a time as gravity stabilization
of the realm has been effected through the materialization of
sufficient energy to enable the various circuits and systems to
counterbalance one another by mutual material attraction.

Presently, the physical plan of a universe is completed, and
the Creator Son, in association with the Creative Spirit, projects his
plan of life creation; whereupon does this representation of the
Infinite Spirit begin her universe function as a distinct creative
personality. When this first creative act is formulated and executed,
there springs into being the Bright and Morning Star, the
personification of this initial creative concept of identity and ideal
of divinity. This is the chief executive of the universe, the personal
associate of the Creator Son, one like him in all aspects of character,
though markedly limited in the attributes of divinity.

And now that the right-hand helper and chief executive of the
Creator Son has been provided, there ensues the bringing into existence
of a vast and wonderful array of diverse creatures. The sons and
daughters of the local universe are forthcoming, and soon thereafter
the government of such a creation is provided, extending from the
supreme councils of the universe to the fathers of the constellations
and the sovereigns of the local systems--the aggregations of those
worlds which are designed subsequently to become the homes of the
varied mortal races of will creatures; and each of these worlds will be
presided over by a Planetary Prince.

And then, when such a universe has been so completely
organized and so repletely manned, does the Creator Son enter into the
Father's proposal to create mortal man in their divine image.

The organization of planetary abodes is still progressing in
Nebadon, for this universe is, indeed, a young cluster in the starry
and planetary realms of Orvonton. At the last registry there were
"""3,840,101 inhabited planets in Nebadon"""", and Satania, the local
system of your world, is fairly typical of other systems.

Satania is not a uniform physical system, a single astronomic
unit or organization. Its 619 inhabited worlds are located in over five
hundred different physical systems. Only five have more than two
inhabited worlds, and of these only one has four peopled planets, while
there are forty-six having two inhabited worlds.

The Satania system of inhabited worlds is far removed from
Uversa and that great sun cluster which functions as the physical or
astronomic center of the seventh superuniverse. From Jerusem, the
headquarters of Satania, it is over two hundred thousand light-years to
the physical center of the superuniverse of Orvonton, far, far away in
the dense diameter of the Milky Way. Satania is on the periphery of the
local universe, and Nebadon is now well out towards the edge of
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of the superuniverse is a trifle less than two hundred and fifty
thousand light-years.

The universe of Nebadon now swings far to the south and east
in the superuniverse circuit of Orvonton. The nearest neighboring
universes a Avalon, Henselon, Sanselon, Portalon, Wolvering,
Fanoving, and Alvoring.

But the evolution of a local universe is a long narrative.
Papers dealing with the superuniverse introduce this subject, those of
this section, treating of the local creations, continue it, while those
to follow, touching upon the history and destiny of Urantia, complete
the story. But you can adequately comprehend the destiny of the mortals
of such a local creation only by a perusal of the narratives of the
life and teachings of your Creator Son as he once lived the life of
man, in the likeness of mortal flesh, on your own evolutionary world.

3. THE EVOLUTIONARY IDEA
The only creation that is perfectly settled is Havona, the
central universe, which was made directly by the thought of the
Universal Father and the word of the Eternal Son. Havona is an
existential, perfect, and replete universe, surrounding the home of the
eternal Deities, the center of all things. The creations of the seven
superuniverses are finite, evolutionary, and consistently progressive.

The physical systems of time and space are all evolutionary
in origin. They are not even physically stabilized until they are swung
into the settled circuits of their superuniverses. Neither is a local
universe settled in light and life until its physical possibilities of
expansion and development have been exhausted, and until the spiritual
status of all its inhabited worlds has been forever settled and
stabilized.

Except in the central universe, perfection is a progressive
attainment. In the central creation we have a pattern of perfection,
but all other realms must attain that perfection by the methods
established for the advancement of those particular worlds or
universes. And an almost infinite variety characterizes the plans of
the Creator Sons for organizing, evolving, disciplining, and settling
their respective local universes.

With the exception of the deity presence of the Father, every
local universe is, in a certain sense, a duplication of the
administrative organization of the central or pattern creation.
Although the Universal Father is personally present in the residential
universe, he does not indwell the minds of the beings originating in
that universe as he does literally dwell with the souls of the mortals
of time and space. There seems to be an all-wise compensation in the
adjustment and regulation of the spiritual affairs of the far-flung
creation. In the central universe the Father is personally present as
such but absent in the minds of the children of that perfect creation;
in the universes of space the Father is absent in person, being
represented by his Sovereign Sons, while he is intimately present in
the minds of his mortal children, being spiritually represented by the
prepersonal presence of the Mystery Monitors that reside in the minds
of these will creatures.

On the headquarters of a local universe there reside all
those creator and creative personalities who represent self-contained
authority and administrative autonomy except the personal presence of
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universe there are to be found something of everyone and someone of
almost every class of intelligent beings existing in the central
universe except the Universal Father. Although the Universal Father is
not personally present in a local universe, he is personally
represented by its Creator Son, sometime vicegerent of God and
subsequently supreme and sovereign ruler in his own right.

The farther down the scale of life we go, the more difficult
it becomes to locate, with the eye of faith, the invisible Father. The
lower creatures--and sometimes even the higher personalities--find it
difficult always to envisage the Universal Father in his Creator Sons.
And so, pending the time of their spiritual exaltation, when perfection
of development will enable them to see God in person, they grow weary
in progression, entertain spiritual doubts, stumble into confusion, and
thus isolate themselves from the progressive spiritual aims of their
time and universe. In this way they lose the ability to see the Father
when beholding the Creator Son. The surest safeguard for the creature
throughout the long struggle to attain the Father, during this time
when inherent conditions make such attainment impossible, is
tenaciously to hold on to the truth-fact of the Father's presence in
his Sons. Literally and figuratively, spiritually and personally, the
Father and the Sons are one. It is a fact: He who has seen a Creator
Son has seen the Father.

The personalities of a given universe are settled and
dependable, at the start, only in accordance with their degree of
kinship to Deity. When creature origin departs sufficiently far from
the original and divine Sources, whether we are dealing with the Sons
of God or the creatures of ministry belonging to the Infinite Spirit,
there is an increase in the possibility of disharmony, confusion, and
sometimes rebellion--sin.

Excepting perfect beings of Deity origin, all will creatures
in the superuniverses are of evolutionary nature, beginning in lowly
estate and climbing ever upward, in reality inward. Even highly
spiritual personalities continue to ascend the scale of life by
progressive translations from life to life and from sphere to sphere.
And in the case of those who entertain the Mystery Monitors, there is
indeed no limit to the possible heights of their spiritual ascent and
universe attainment.

The perfection of the creatures of time, when finally
achieved, is wholly an acquirement, a bona fide personality possession.
While the elements of grace are freely admixed, nevertheless, the
creature attainments are the result of individual effort and actual
living, personality reaction to the existing environment.

The fact of animal evolutionary origin does not attach stigma
to any personality in the sight of the universe as that is the
exclusive method of producing one of the two basic types of finite
intelligent will creatures. When the heights of perfection and eternity
are attained, all the more honor to those who began at the bottom and
joyfully climbed the ladder of life, round by round, and who, when they
do reach the heights of glory, will have gained a personal experience
which embodies an actual knowledge of every phase of life from the
bottom to the top.

In all this is shown the wisdom of the Creators. It would be
just as easy for the Universal Father to make all mortals perfect
beings, to impart perfection by his divine word. But that would deprive
them of the wonderful experience of the adventure and training
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an experience to be had only by those who are so fortunate as to begin
at the very bottom of living existence.

In the universes encircling Havona there are provided only a
sufficient number of perfect creatures to meet the need for pattern
teacher guides for those who are ascending the evolutionary scale of
life. The experiential nature of the evolutionary type of personality
is the natural cosmic complement of the ever-perfect natures of the
Paradise-Havona creatures. In reality, both perfect and perfected
creatures are incomplete as regards finite totality. But in the
complemental association of the existentially perfect creatures of the
Paradise-Havona system with the experientially perfected finaliters
ascending from the evolutionary universes, both types find release from
inherent limitations and thus may conjointly attempt to reach the
sublime heights of the ultimate of creature status.

These creature transactions are the universe repercussions of
actions and reactions within the Sevenfold Deity, wherein the eternal
divinity of the Paradise Trinity is conjoined with the evolving
divinity of the Supreme Creators of the time-space universes in, by,
and through the power-actualizing Deity of the Supreme Being.

The divinely perfect creature and the evolutionary perfected
creature are equal in degree of divinity potential, but they differ in
kind. Each must depend on the other to attain supremacy of service. The
evolutionary superuniverses depend on perfect Havona to provide the
final training for their ascending citizens, but so does the perfect
central universe require the existence of the perfecting superuniverses
to provide for the full development of its descending inhabitants.

The two prime manifestations of finite reality, innate
perfection and evolved perfection, be they personalities or universes,
are co-ordinate, dependent, and integrated. Each requires the other to
achieve completion of function, service, and destiny.

4. GOD'S RELATION TO A LOCAL UNIVERSE
Do not entertain the idea that, since the Universal Father
has delegated so much of himself and his power to others, he is a
silent or inactive member of the Deity partnership. Aside from
personality domains and Adjuster bestowal, he is apparently the least
active of the Paradise Deities in that he allows his Deity
co-ordinates, his Sons, and numerous created intelligences to perform
so much in the carrying out of his eternal purpose. He is the silent
member of the creative trio only in that he never does aught which any
of his co-ordinate or subordinate associates can do.

God has full understanding of the need of every intelligent
creature for function and experience, and therefore, in every
situation, be it concerned with the destiny of a universe or the
welfare of the humblest of his creatures, God retires from activity in
favor of the galaxy of creature and Creator personalities who
inherently intervene between himself and any given universe situation
or creative event. But notwithstanding this retirement, this exhibition
of infinite co-ordination, there is on God's part an actual, literal,
and personal participation in these events by and through these
ordained agencies and personalities. The Father is working in and
through all these channels for the welfare of all his far-flung
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As regards the policies, conduct, and administration of a
local universe, the Universal Father acts in the person of his Creator
Son. In the interrelationships of the Sons of God, in the group
associations of the personalities of origin in the Third Source and
Center, or in the relationship between any other creatures, such as
human beings--as concerns such associations the Universal Father never
intervenes. The law of the Creator Son, the rule of the Constellation
Fathers, the System Sovereigns, and the Planetary Princes--the ordained
policies and procedures for that universe--always prevail. There is no
division of authority; never is there a cross working of divine power
and purpose. The Deities are in perfect and eternal unanimity.

The Creator Son rules supreme in all matters of ethical
associations, the relations of any division of creatures to any other
class of creatures or of two or more individuals within any given
group; but such a plan does not mean that the Universal Father may not
in his own way intervene and do aught that pleases the divine mind with
any individual creature throughout all creation, as pertains to that
individual's present status or future prospects and as concerns the
Father's eternal plan and infinite purpose.

In the mortal will creatures the Father is actually present
in the indwelling Adjuster, a fragment of his prepersonal spirit; and
the Father is also the source of the personality of such a mortal will
creature.

These Thought Adjusters, the bestowals of the Universal
Father, are comparatively isolated; they indwell human minds but have
no discernible connection with the ethical affairs of a local creation.
They are not directly co-ordinated with the seraphic service nor with
the administration of systems, constellations, or a local universe, not
even with the rule of a Creator Son, whose will is the supreme law of
his universe.

The indwelling Adjusters are one of God's separate but
unified modes of contact with the creatures of his all but infinite
creation. Thus does he who is invisible to mortal man manifest his
presence, and could he do so, he would show himself to us in still
other ways, but such further revelation is not divinely possible.

We can see and understand the mechanism whereby the Sons
enjoy intimate and complete knowledge regarding the universes of their
jurisdiction; but we cannot fully comprehend the methods whereby God is
so fully and personally conversant with the details of the universe of
universes, although we at least can recognize the avenue whereby the
Universal Father can receive information regarding, and manifest his
presence to, the beings of his immense creation. Through the
personality circuit the Father is cognizant--has personal knowledge--of
all the thoughts and acts of all the beings in all the systems of all
the universes of all creation. Though we cannot fully grasp this
technique of God's communion with his children, we can be strengthened
in the assurance that the "Lord knows his children," and that of each
one of us "he takes note where we were born."

In your universe and in your heart the Universal Father is
present, spiritually speaking, by one of the Seven Master Spirits of
central abode and, specifically, by the divine Adjuster who lives and
works and waits in the depths of the mortal mind.

God is not a self-centered personality; the Father freely
distributes himself to his creation and to his creatures. He lives and
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but also in his Sons, whom he intrusts with the doing of everything
that it is divinely possible for them to do. The Universal Father has
truly divested himself of every function which it is possible for
another being to perform. And this is just as true of mortal man as of
the Creator Son who rules in God's stead at the headquarters of a local
universe. Thus we behold the outworking of the ideal and infinite love
of the Universal Father.

In this universal bestowal of himself we have abundant proof
of both the magnitude and the magnanimity of the Father's divine
nature. If God has withheld aught of himself from the universal
creation, then of that residue he is in lavish generosity bestowing the
Thought Adjusters upon the mortals of the realms, the Mystery Monitors
of time, who so patiently indwell the mortal candidates for life
everlasting.

The Universal Father has poured out himself, as it were, to
make all creation rich in personality possession and potential
spiritual attainment. God has given us himself that we may be like him,
and he has reserved for himself of power and glory only that which is
necessary for the maintenance of those things for the love of which he
has thus divested himself of all things else.

5. THE ETERNAL AND DIVINE PURPOSE
There is a great and glorious purpose in the march of the
universes through space. All of your mortal struggling is not in vain.
We are all part of an immense plan, a gigantic enterprise, and it is
the vastness of the undertaking that renders it impossible to see very
much of it at any one time and during any one life. We are all a part
of an eternal project which the Gods are supervising and outworking.
The whole marvelous and universal mechanism moves on majestically
through space to the music of the meter of the infinite thought and the
eternal purpose of the First Great Source and Center.

The eternal purpose of the eternal God is a high spiritual
ideal. The events of time and the struggles of material existence are
but the transient scaffolding which bridges over to the other side, to
the promised land of spiritual reality and supernal existence. Of
course, you mortals find it difficult to grasp the idea of an eternal
purpose; you are virtually unable to comprehend the thought of
eternity, something never beginning and never ending. Everything
familiar to you has an end.

As regards an individual life, the duration of a realm, or
the chronology of any connected series of events, it would seem that we
are dealing with an isolated stretch of time; everything seems to have
a beginning and an end. And it would appear that a series of such
experiences, lives, ages, or epochs, when successively arranged,
constitutes a straightaway drive, an isolated event of time flashing
momentarily across the infinite face of eternity. But when we look at
all this from behind the scenes, a more comprehensive view and a more
complete understanding suggest that such an explanation is inadequate,
disconnected, and wholly unsuited properly to account for, and
otherwise to correlate, the transactions of time with the underlying
purposes and basic reactions of eternity.

To me it seems more fitting, for purposes of explanation to
the mortal mind, to conceive of eternity as a cycle and the eternal
purpose as an endless circle, a cycle of eternity in some way
synchronized with the transient material cycles of time. As regards the
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the cycle of eternity, we are forced to recognize that such temporary
epochs are born, live, and die just as the temporary beings of time are
born, live, and die. Most human beings die because, having failed to
achieve the spirit level of Adjuster fusion, the metamorphosis of death
constitutes the only possible procedure whereby they may escape the
fetters of time and the bonds of material creation, thereby being
enabled to strike spiritual step with the progressive procession of
eternity. Having survived the trial life of time and material
existence, it becomes possible for you to continue on in touch with,
even as a part of, eternity, swinging on forever with the worlds of
space around the circle of the eternal ages.

The sectors of time are like the flashes of personality in
temporal form; they appear for a season, and then they are lost to
human sight, only to reappear as new actors and continuing factors in
the higher life of the endless swing around the eternal circle.
Eternity can hardly be conceived as a straightaway drive, in view of
our belief in a delimited universe moving over a vast, elongated circle
around the central dwelling place of the Universal Father.

Frankly, eternity is incomprehensible to the finite mind of
time. You simply cannot grasp it; you cannot comprehend it. I do not
completely visualize it, and even if I did, it would be impossible for
me to convey my concept to the human mind. Nevertheless, I have done my
best to portray something of our viewpoint, to tell you somewhat of our
understanding of things eternal. I am endeavoring to aid you in the
crystallization of your thoughts about these values which are of
infinite nature and eternal import.

There is in the mind of God a plan which embraces every
creature of all his vast domains, and this plan is an eternal purpose
of boundless opportunity, unlimited progress, and endless life. And the
infinite treasures of such a matchless career are yours for the
striving!

The goal of eternity is ahead! The adventure of divinity
attainment lies before you! The race for perfection is on! whosoever
will may enter, and certain victory will crown the efforts of every
human being who will run the race of faith and trust, depending every
step of the way on the leading of the indwelling Adjuster and on the
guidance of that good spirit of the Universe Son, which so freely has
been poured out upon all flesh.

[Presented by a Mighty Messenger temporarily attached to the
Supreme Council of Nebadon and assigned to this mission by Gabriel of
Salvington.]


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