The universe as created and under creation
by the First Source and Centre of all things and beings (or what we prefer to
call as the Universal Father God) is so immense and vast that it would be
difficult for finite beings such as you, the mortals of this small planet
earth, to comprehend.
The Outline of the Structure of the Master Universe
Not only for you, but it is difficult for
even several orders of us too, the superior immortal beings who exist in non
material energy realms of the Universe. The enormousness of the master universe
staggers the concept of even me who has ventured to reveal some truths about it
to you, the lowly mortals of earth. No doubt, some of your intelligent
scientists with their advanced space exploration devices have already finding
more and more evidences to prove the incomprehensive vastness of the created
universe of time and space.
But the mortal mind can be taught much
about the plan and arrangement of the universes; you can know something of
their physical organization and marvelous administration; you may learn much
about the various groups of intelligent beings who inhabit the seven super universes
of time and the central universe of eternity.
In principle, we conceive of
material creation as being infinite because the Universal Father is actually
infinite, but as we study and observe the total material creation, we know that
at any given moment in time it is limited, although to your finite minds it is
comparatively limitless, virtually boundless.
To created beings the master
universe might appear to be almost infinite, but it is far from finished; there
are still physical limits to the material creation!
The universe of universes is not
an infinite plane, a boundless cube, nor a limitless circle; it certainly has
dimensions.
The laws of physical organization
and administration prove conclusively that the whole vast aggregation of
force-energy and matter-power functions ultimately as a space unit, as an
organized and co-ordinated whole.
The observable behavior of the
material creation constitutes evidence of a physical universe of definite
limits.
The successive space levels of
the master universe constitute the major divisions of pervaded space of total
creation, organized and partially inhabited or yet to be organized and
inhabited.
The centre of the whole of the
universe is the stationary universe island of enormous size which existed right
from eternity as is the case of the Universal Father God. This is the
matter-energy-gravity concentration of the entire universe and it is the
nucleus of the master universe. Let us call this nucleus as the Paradise-
because it is the unique material existence of the universe which is the
residence of the Universal Father God. Remember, some of you have been calling
the residence of God as Paradise for many centuries!
And Paradise is not an
imagination, but it is real. It is the first existential non-living reality of
the universe! It is also the only non-moving and non-spherical living space for
the immortal beings of the highest orders.
Proceeding outward from Paradise
through the horizontal extension of pervaded space, the master universe is
existent in six concentric ellipses, the space levels encircling the central
Isle:
1. The Central Universe — called the Havona
2. The Seven
Super-universes- The Seven Sectors of the Grand Universe
3. The First
Outer Space Level.
4. The
Second Outer Space Level.
5. The Third
Outer Space Level.
6. The Fourth and Outermost Space
Level.
Havona, the central
universe, is not a time creation; it is an eternal existence. This
never-beginning, never-ending universe consists of one billion spheres of
sublime perfection and is surrounded by the enormous dark gravity bodies.
At the center of Havona is the
stationary and absolutely stabilized Isle of Paradise, surrounded by its
twenty-one satellites. Owing to the enormous encircling masses of the dark
gravity bodies about the fringe of the central universe, the mass content of
this central creation is far in excess of the total known mass of all seven
sectors of the grand universe.
The Stationary Paradise together
with the one billion perfected worlds of Havona that encircles Paradise constitute the perfect and
eternal nucleus of the master universe.
The seven sectors of the grand
universe (which we call as the seven super-universes) and all four regions of
outer space revolve in established orbits around the gigantic central
aggregation of the Paradise - Havona System.
The Seven Super-universes are not primary physical
organizations; nowhere do their boundaries divide a nebular family, neither do
they cross a local universe, a prime creative unit.
Each super-universe is simply a
geographic space clustering of approximately one seventh of the organized and
partially inhabited post-Havona creation, and each is about equal in the number
of local universes that constitute them and in the space encompassed.
Your earth is a life sustaining
planet which is one among the 3.8 million such planetary worlds of your local
universe which we prefer to introduce to you as Nebadon.
Nebadon is one of the local
universes of the seventh super-universe which we would like you to identify as Orvonton.
Being the last in the evolutionary process, both Orvonton and Nebadon
are still contituing with their creative processes and are not yet fully
finished creations.
The Grand Universe is the present organized
and inhabited creation. It consists of the seven super-universes, with an
aggregate evolutionary potential of around seven trillion inhabited planets,
not to mention the eternal spheres of the central creation.
But this tentative estimate takes
no account of architectural administrative spheres, neither does it include the
outlying groups of unorganized universes. The present irregular edge of the
grand universe, its uneven and unfinished periphery, together with the tremendously
unsettled condition of the whole astronomical space, is an indication that even
the seven super-universes are not yet fully completed. All the seven super-universe
sectors of the grand universe are in varying degrees of creation even now.
As we move from within, from the
divine center outward in any one direction, we do, eventually, come to the
outer limits of the organized and inhabited creation; we come to the outer
limits of the grand universe. And it is near this outer border, in a far-off
corner of such a magnificent creation, that your local universe, Nebadon, has
its eventful existence.
Far out in space, at an enormous
distance from the seven inhabited super-universes, there are assembling vast
and unbelievably stupendous circuits of force and materializing energies.
Between the energy circuits of
the seven super-universes and this gigantic outer belt of force activity, there
is a space zone of comparative quiet, which varies in width but averages about
four hundred thousand light-years. These space zones are free from star dust, the
cosmic fog.
But about one-half million
light-years beyond the periphery of the present grand universe we observe the
beginnings of a zone of an unbelievable energy action which increases in volume
and intensity for over twenty-five million light-years. These tremendous wheels
of energizing forces are situated in the first outer space level, a continuous
belt of cosmic activity encircling the whole of the known, organized, and
inhabited creation.
Still greater activities are
taking place beyond these regions. We have detected early evidence of force
manifestations more than fifty million light-years beyond the outermost ranges
of the phenomena in the first outer space level. These activities undoubtedly indicate
the signs of the organization of the material creations of the second outer
space level of the master universe.
The central universe is the creation
of eternity; the seven super-universes are the creations of time; the four
outer space levels are undoubtedly destined to eventuate-evolve the ultimacy of
creation.
And there are those among us who
maintain that the Infinite can never attain full expression short of infinity;
and therefore they postulate an additional and unrevealed creation beyond the
fourth and outermost space level, a possible ever-expanding, never-ending
universe of infinity.
In theory we do not know how to
limit either the infinity of the Creator or the potential infinity of creation,
but as it exists and is administered, we regard the master universe as having
limitations, as being definitely delimited and bounded on its outer margins by
open space.
But remember this. You are not
alone in this universe. You are one among the many orders of intelligent living
beings that are created under definite plans of the Universal Father God. You may
be mortals now in the physical sense. You may not be immortals like us as of
now.
But I assure you, you are not
destined to be mortals. There exists a definite plan for each and every one of
you. If you live your short lives on your first world of experiential existence
fulfilling the basic requirements of divine mandate, you would survive your
physical death and progress to become mighty immortals like us or perhaps even
greater ones! So try to live according to the divine plans when you struggle
with your intelligence and wisdom on your evolutionary planet!
Think about the futility of living with your human egos, greed and other such progress inhibiting qualities which could alienate you from the divine plans .
Think of the possibilities of the future immortality and an ever expanding life of immortal adventure!
[*As told by one of the immortal authors of the Urantia Book; language simplified/adapted for better understanding]
