11:0. Personalities Of The Grand Universe
P330:1, 30:0.1 The personalities and other-than-personal
entities now functioning on Paradise and in the grand universe constitute a
well-nigh limitless number of living beings. Even the number of major orders and
types would stagger the human imagination, let alone the countless subtypes and
variations. It is, however, desirable to present something of two basic
classifications of living beings -- a suggestion of the Paradise classification
and an abbreviation of the Heaven Personality Register.
P330:2, 30:0.2 It is not possible to formulate comprehensive
and entirely consistent classifications of the personalities of the grand
universe because all of the groups are not revealed. It would require
numerous additional papers to cover the further revelation required to
systematically classify all groups. Such conceptual expansion would hardly be
desirable, as it would deprive the thinking mortals of the next thousand years
of that stimulus to creative speculation that these partially revealed concepts
supply. It is best that man not have an over-revelation; it stifles imagination.
P330:3, 30:1.1 Living beings are classified on Paradise in accordance with inherent and attained relationship to the Paradise Deities. During the grand gatherings of the central and superuniverses those present are often grouped in accordance with origin: those of triune origin, or of Trinity attainment; those of dual origin; and those of single origin. It is difficult to interpret the Paradise classification of living beings to the mortal mind.
P334:7, 30:1.23 There are spirits: spirit entities, spirit presences, personal spirits, prepersonal spirits, superpersonal spirits, spirit existences, spirit personalities -- but neither mortal language nor mortal intellect are adequate. We may however state that there are no personalities of "pure mind"; no entity has personality unless God who is spirit endows him with it. Any mind entity that is not associated with either spiritual or physical energy is not a personality. But in the same sense that there are spirit personalities who have mind there are mind personalities who have spirit. There are whole unrevealed orders of such mind personalities, but they are always spirit associated. Certain other unrevealed creatures are what might be termed mindal- and physical-energy personalities. This type of being is nonresponsive to spirit gravity but is nonetheless a true personality -- is within the Father's circuit.
P334:8, 30:1.24 We cannot even begin to exhaust the story of the living creatures, creators, eventuators, and still-otherwise-existent beings who live and serve in the swarming universes of time and in the central universe of eternity. You mortals are persons; hence we can describe beings that are personalized, but how could an absonitized being ever be explained to you?
P334:17, 30:2.2 The groups of will creatures are divided into numerous classes and minor subdivisions. The presentation of this classification of the personalities of the grand universe is however chiefly concerned in setting forth those orders of intelligent beings who have been revealed in these narratives, most of whom will be encountered in the ascendant experience of the mortals of time.
P337:31, 30:2.21 There are in Heaven the records of numerous
additional groups of intelligent beings, beings that are also closely related to
the organization and administration of the grand universe.
P338:5, 30:3.1 The seven courtesy colonies sojourn on the
architectural spheres for a longer or shorter time while engaged in the
furtherance of their missions and in the execution of their special assignments.
Their work may be described as follows:
P338:6, 30:3.2 1. The Star Students, the celestial
astronomers, choose to work on spheres like Uversa because such specially
constructed worlds are unusually favorable for their observations and
calculations. Uversa is favorably situated for the work of this colony, not only
because of its central location, but also because there are no gigantic living
or dead suns near at hand to disturb the energy currents. These students are not
in any manner organically connected with the affairs of the universe; they are
merely guests.
P338:7, 30:3.3 The astronomical colony of Uversa contains
individuals from many near-by realms, from the central universe. Any being on
any world in any system of any universe may become a star student, may aspire to
join some corps of celestial astronomers. The only requisites are: continuing
life and sufficient knowledge of the worlds of space, especially their physical
laws of evolution and control.
P339:1, 30:3.4 The star-observer colony of Uversa now numbers
over a million. These astronomers come and go, though some remain for
comparatively long periods. They carry on their work with the aid of a multitude
of mechanical instruments and physical appliances; they are also greatly
assisted by the Solitary Messengers and other spirit explorers. These celestial
astronomers make constant use of the living energy transformers and
transmitters, as well as of the reflective personalities, in their work of star
study and space survey. They study all forms and phases of space material and
energy manifestations, and they are just as much interested in force function as
in stellar phenomena; nothing in all space escapes their scrutiny.
P339:2, 30:3.5 Similar astronomer colonies are to be found on
the sector headquarters worlds as well as on the architectural capitals and
their administrative subdivisions. Except on Paradise, knowledge is not
inherent; understanding of the physical universe is largely dependent on
observation and research.
P339:3, 30:3.6 2. The Celestial Artisans serve throughout the universes. Ascending mortals have their initial contact with these groups in the morontia career of the local universe in connection with which these artisans will be more fully discussed.
P339:4, 30:3.7 3. The Reversion Directors are the promoters of relaxation and humor -- reversion to past memories. They are of great service in the practical operation of the ascending scheme of mortal progression, especially during the earlier phases of morontia transition and spirit experience. Their story belongs to the narrative of the mortal career in the local universe.
P339:5, 30:3.8 4. Extension-School Instructors. The next
higher residential world of the ascendant career always maintains a strong corps
of teachers on the world just below, a sort of preparatory school for the
progressing residents of that sphere; this is a phase of the ascendant scheme
for advancing the pilgrims of time. These schools, their methods of instruction
and examinations, are wholly unlike anything that you essay to conduct on
Urantia.
P339:6, 30:3.9 The entire ascendant plan of mortal progression
is characterized by the practice of giving out to other beings new truth and
experience just as soon as acquired. You work your way through the long school
of Paradise attainment by serving as teachers to those pupils just behind you in
the scale of progression.
P339:7, 30:3.10 5. The Various Reserve Corps. Vast reserves of beings not under our immediate supervision are mobilized on Uversa as the reserve-corps colony. There are many primary divisions of this colony on Uversa, and it is a liberal education to be permitted to spend a season with these extraordinary personalities. Similar general reserves are maintained on universe capitals; they are dispatched on active service on the requisition of their respective group directors.
P339:8, 30:3.11 6. The Student Visitors. From the entire
universe a constant stream of celestial visitors pours through the various
headquarters worlds. As individuals and as classes these various types of beings
flock in upon us as observers, exchange pupils, and student helpers. On Uversa,
at present, there are numerous persons in this courtesy colony. Some of these
visitors may tarry a day, others may remain a year, all dependent on the nature
of their mission. This colony contains almost every class of universe beings
except Creator personalities and morontias.
P340:1, 30:3.12 Morontias are student visitors only within the
confines of the local universe of their origin. They may visit in that capacity
only after they have attained spirit status. Fully one half of our visitor
colony consists of " stopovers," beings en route elsewhere. These
personalities may be executing a universe assignment, or they may be enjoying a
period of leisure -- freedom from assignment. The privilege of intra-universe
travel and observation is a part of the career of all ascending beings. The
human desire to travel and observe new peoples and worlds will be fully
gratified during the travel through the local and central universes.
P340:2, 30:3.13 7. The Ascending Pilgrims. As the
ascending pilgrims are assigned to various areas, they are domiciled as a
courtesy colony on the various headquarters spheres. While functioning here and
there throughout a universe, such groups are largely self-governing. They are an
ever-shifting colony embracing the ascending associates.
P364:3, 32:5.1 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
that God is 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.
P364:4, 32:5.2 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 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.
P364:5, 32:5.3 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.
P364:6, 32:5.4 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 sectors
of time connected with, and forming a part of, 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 us 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.
P365:1, 32:5.5 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.
P365:2, 32:5.6 Eternity is incomprehensible to the finite mind
of time. One simply cannot grasp it; one cannot comprehend it.
P365:3, 32:5.7
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 ours for the striving!
P365:4, 32:5.8
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 which so freely has
been poured out upon all flesh.
P352:9, 31:10.1 The senior Master Architect has the oversight of the Corps of the Finality.
P353:2, 31:10.3
The gathering together of these finaliter corps signifies reality mobilization
of potentials, personalities, minds, spirits, absonites, and experiential
actualities that probably transcend even the future master universe functions of
the Supreme Being. These finaliter corps probably signifies the present activity
of the Ultimate Unity engaged in mustering the forces of the finite and the
absonite in preparation for inconceivable developments in the universes of outer
space. Nothing like this mobilization has taken place since the near times of
eternity when the Paradise Unity similarly mobilized the then existing
personalities of Paradise and Heaven and commissioned them as administrators and
rulers of the projected universes of time and space. The finaliter corps
represents the divinity response of the grand universe to the future needs of
the undeveloped potentials in the outer universes of future-eternal activities.
P353:3, 31:10.4
We venture the forecast of future and greater outer universes of inhabited
worlds, new spheres peopled with new orders of exquisite and unique beings, a
material universe sublime in its ultimacy, a vast creation lacking in only one
important detail -- the presence of actual finite experience in the
universal life of ascendant existence. Such a universe will come into being
under a tremendous experiential handicap: the deprivation of participation in
the evolution of the Almighty Supreme. These outer universes will all enjoy the
matchless ministry and supernal overcontrol of the Supreme Being, but the very
fact of his active presence precludes their participation in the actualization
of the Supreme Deity.
P353:4, 31:10.5
During the present universe age the evolving personalities of the grand universe
suffer many difficulties due to the incomplete actualization of the sovereignty
of God the Supreme, but we are all sharing the unique experience of his
evolution. We evolve in him and he evolves in us. Sometime in the eternal future
the evolution of Supreme Deity will become a completed fact of universe history,
and the opportunity to participate in this wonderful experience will have passed
from the stage of cosmic action.
P353:5, 31:10.6
But those of us who have acquired this unique experience during the youth of the
universe will treasure it throughout all future eternity. And many of us
speculate that it may be the mission of the gradually accumulating reserves of
the ascendant and perfected mortals of the Corps of the Finality, in association
with the other similarly recruiting corps, to administer these outer universes
in an effort to compensate their experiential deficiencies in not having
participated in the time-space evolution of the Supreme Being.
P353:6, 31:10.7
These deficiencies are inevitable on all levels of universe existence. During
the present universe age we of the higher levels of spiritual existences now
come down to administer the evolutionary universes and minister to the ascending
mortals, thus endeavoring to atone for their deficiencies in the realities of
the higher spiritual experience.
P354:1, 31:10.8
But though we really know nothing about the plans of the Architects of the
Master Universe respecting these outer creations, nevertheless, of three things
we are certain:
P354:2, 31:10.9 1. There actually is a vast and new system of universes gradually organizing in the domains of outer space. New orders of physical creations, enormous and gigantic circles of swarming universes upon universes far out beyond the present bounds of the peopled and organized creations are actually visible through your telescopes. At present, these outer creations are wholly physical; they are apparently uninhabited and seem to be devoid of creature administration.
P354:3, 31:10.10 2. For ages upon ages there continues the unexplained and wholly mysterious Paradise mobilization of the perfected and ascendant beings of time and space, in association with the six other finaliter corps.
P354:4, 31:10.11 3. Concomitantly with these transactions the Supreme Person of Deity is powerizing as the almighty sovereign of the super-creations.
P354:5, 31:10.12 As we view this development, embracing creatures, universes, and Deity, can we be criticized for anticipating that something new and unrevealed is approaching culmination in the master universe? Is it not natural that we should associate this agelong mobilization and organization of physical universes on such a hitherto unknown scale and the personality emergence of the Supreme Being with this stupendous scheme of upstepping the mortals of time to divine perfection and with their subsequent mobilization on Paradise in the Corps of the Finality -- a designation and destiny enshrouded in universe mystery? It is increasingly the belief of all Uversa that the assembling Corps of the Finality are destined to some future service in the universes of outer space, where we already are able to identify the clustering of at least seventy thousand aggregations of matter, each of which is greater than any one of the present superuniverses.
P354:6, 31:10.13 Evolutionary mortals are born on the planets of space, pass through the morontia worlds, ascend the spirit universes, traverse the Heaven spheres, unite with God, attain Paradise, and are mustered into the primary Corps of the Finality. And as we view this sublime spectacle, we all exclaim: What a glorious destiny for the animal-origin children of time, the material children of space!