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Urantia Book Paper 14 The Central And Divine Universe
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART I: The Central and Super
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Universes : The Universal Father The Nature Of God The Attributes Of God God's
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Relation To The Universe God's Relation To The Individual The Eternal Son
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Relation Of The Eternal Son To The Universe The Infinite Spirit Relation Of The
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Infinite Spirit To The Universe The Paradise Trinity The Eternal Isle Of
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Paradise The Universe Of Universes The Sacred Spheres Of Paradise The Central
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And Divine Universe The Seven Superuniverses The Seven Master Spirits The Seven
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Supreme Spirit Groups The Supreme Trinity Personalities The Co-ordinate
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Trinity-origin Beings The Paradise Sons Of God The Paradise Creator Sons The
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Trinitized Sons Of God The Solitary Messengers Higher Personalities Of The
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Infinite Spirit The Messenger Hosts Of Space Ministering Spirits Of The Central
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Universe Ministry Of The Primary Supernaphim Ministering Spirits Of The
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Superuniverses The Universe Power Directors Personalities Of The Grand Universe
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The Corps Of The Finality
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Paper 14 The Central And Divine Universe
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Introduction
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THE perfect and divine universe occupies the center of all creation; it is the
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eternal core around which the vast creations of time and space revolve.
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Paradise is the gigantic nuclear Isle of absolute stability which rests
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motionless at the very heart of the magnificent eternal universe. This central
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planetary family is called Havona and is far-distant from the local universe of
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Nebadon. It is of enormous dimensions and almost unbelievable mass and consists
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of one billion spheres of unimagined beauty and superb grandeur, but the true
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magnitude of this vast creation is really beyond the understanding grasp of the
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human mind.
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This is the one and only settled, perfect, and established aggregation of
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worlds. This is a wholly created and perfect universe; it is not an
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evolutionary development. This is the eternal core of perfection, about which
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swirls that endless procession of universes which constitute the tremendous
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evolutionary experiment, the audacious adventure of the Creator Sons of God,
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who aspire to duplicate in time and to reproduce in space the pattern universe,
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the ideal of divine completeness, supreme finality, ultimate reality, and
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eternal perfection.
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1. THE PARADISE-HAVONA SYSTEM
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From the periphery of Paradise to the inner borders of the seven superuniverses
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there are the following seven space conditions and motions:
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1. The quiescent midspace zones impinging on Paradise.
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2. The clockwise processional of the three Paradise and the seven Havona
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circuits.
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3. The semiquiet space zone separating the Havona circuits from the dark
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gravity bodies of the central universe.
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4. The inner, counterclockwise-moving belt of the dark gravity bodies.
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5. The second unique space zone dividing the two space paths of the dark
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gravity bodies.
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6. The outer belt of dark gravity bodies, revolving clockwise around Paradise.
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7. A third space zone--a semiquiet zone--separating the outer belt of dark
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gravity bodies from the innermost circuits of the seven superuniverses.
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The billion worlds of Havona are arranged in seven concentric circuits
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immediately surrounding the three circuits of Paradise satellites. There are
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upwards of thirty-five million worlds in the innermost Havona circuit and over
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two hundred and forty-five million in the outermost, with proportionate numbers
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intervening. Each circuit differs, but all are perfectly balanced and
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exquisitely organized, and each is pervaded by a specialized representation of
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the Infinite Spirit, one of the Seven Spirits of the Circuits. In addition to
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other functions this impersonal Spirit co-ordinates the conduct of celestial
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affairs throughout each circuit.
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The Havona planetary circuits are not superimposed; their worlds follow each
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other in an orderly linear procession. The central universe whirls around the
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stationary Isle of Paradise in one vast plane, consisting of ten concentric
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stabilized units--the three circuits of Paradise spheres and the seven circuits
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of Havona worlds. Physically regarded, the Havona and the Paradise circuits are
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all one and the same system; their separation is in recognition of functional
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and administrative segregation.
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Time is not reckoned on Paradise; the sequence of successive events is inherent
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in the concept of those who are indigenous to the central Isle. But time is
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germane to the Havona circuits and to numerous beings of both celestial and
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terrestrial origin sojourning thereon. Each Havona world has its own local
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time, determined by its circuit. All worlds in a given circuit have the same
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length of year since they uniformly swing around Paradise, and the length of
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these planetary years decreases from the outermost to the innermost circuit.
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Besides Havona-circuit time, there is the Paradise-Havona standard day and
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other time designations which are determined on, and are sent out from, the
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seven Paradise satellites of the Infinite Spirit. The Paradise-Havona standard
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day is based on the length of time required for the planetary abodes of the
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first or inner Havona circuit to complete one revolution around the Isle of
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Paradise; and though their velocity is enormous, owing to their situation
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between the dark gravity bodies and gigantic Paradise, it requires almost one
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thousand years for these spheres to complete their circuit. You have
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unwittingly read the truth when your eyes rested on the statement "A day is as
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a thousand years with God, as but a watch in the night." One Paradise-Havona
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day is just seven minutes, three and one-eighth seconds less than one thousand
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years of the present Urantia leap-year calendar.
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This Paradise-Havona day is the standard time measurement for the seven
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superuniverses, although each maintains its own internal time standards.
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On the outskirts of this vast central universe, far out beyond the seventh belt
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of Havona worlds, there swirl an unbelievable number of enormous dark gravity
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bodies. These multitudinous dark masses are quite unlike other space bodies in
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many particulars; even in form they are very different. These dark gravity
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bodies neither reflect nor absorb light; they are nonreactive to
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physical-energy light, and they so completely encircle and enshroud Havona as
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to hide it from the view of even near-by inhabited universes of time and space.
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The great belt of dark gravity bodies is divided into two equal elliptical
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circuits by a unique space intrusion. The inner belt revolves counterclockwise;
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the outer revolves clockwise. These alternate directions of motion, coupled
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with the extraordinary mass of the dark bodies, so effectively equalize the
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lines of Havona gravity as to render the central universe a physically balanced
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and perfectly stabilized creation.
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The inner procession of dark gravity bodies is tubular in arrangement,
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consisting of three circular groupings. A cross section of this circuit would
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exhibit three concentric circles of about equal density. The outer circuit of
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dark gravity
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bodies is arranged perpendicularly, being ten thousand times higher than the
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inner circuit. The up-and-down diameter of the outer circuit is fifty thousand
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times that of the transverse diameter.
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The intervening space which exists between these two circuits of gravity bodies
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is unique in that nothing like it is to be found elsewhere in all the wide
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universe. This zone is characterized by enormous wave movements of an
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up-and-down nature and is permeated by tremendous energy activities of an
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unknown order.
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In our opinion, nothing like the dark gravity bodies of the central universe
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will characterize the future evolution of the outer space levels; we regard
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these alternate processions of stupendous gravity-balancing bodies as unique in
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the master universe.
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2. CONSTITUTION OF HAVONA
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Spirit beings do not dwell in nebulous space; they do not inhabit ethereal
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worlds; they are domiciled on actual spheres of a material nature, worlds just
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as real as those on which mortals live. The Havona worlds are actual and
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literal, albeit their literal substance differs from the material organization
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of the planets of the seven superuniverses.
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The physical realities of Havona represent an order of energy organization
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radically different from any prevailing in the evolutionary universes of space.
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Havona energies are threefold; superuniverse units of energy-matter contain a
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twofold energy charge, although one form of energy exists in negative and
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positive phases. The creation of the central universe is threefold (Trinity);
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the creation of a local universe (directly) is twofold, by a Creator Son and a
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Creative Spirit.
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The material of Havona consists of the organization of exactly one thousand
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basic chemical elements and the balanced function of the seven forms of Havona
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energy. Each of these basic energies manifests seven phases of excitation, so
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that the Havona natives respond to forty-nine differing sensation stimuli. In
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other words, viewed from a purely physical standpoint, the natives of the
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central universe possess forty-nine specialized forms of sensation. The
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morontia senses are seventy, and the higher spiritual orders of reaction
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response vary in different types of beings from seventy to two hundred and ten.
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None of the physical beings of the central universe would be visible to
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Urantians. Neither would any of the physical stimuli of those faraway worlds
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excite a reaction in your gross sense organs. If a Urantia mortal could be
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transported to Havona, he would there be deaf, blind, and utterly lacking in
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all other sense reactions; he could only function as a limited self-conscious
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being deprived of all environmental stimuli and all reactions thereto.
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There are numerous physical phenomena and spiritual reactions transpiring in
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the central creation which are unknown on worlds such as Urantia. The basic
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organization of a threefold creation is wholly unlike that of the twofold
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constitution of the created universes of time and space.
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All natural law is co-ordinated on a basis entirely different than in the
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dual-energy systems of the evolving creations. The entire central universe is
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organized in accordance with the threefold system of perfect and symmetrical
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control. Throughout the whole Paradise-Havona system there is maintained a
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perfect
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balance between all cosmic realities and all spiritual forces. Paradise, with
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an absolute grasp of material creation, perfectly regulates and maintains the
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physical energies of this central universe; the Eternal Son, as a part of his
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all-embracing spirit grasp, most perfectly sustains the spiritual status of all
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who indwell Havona. On Paradise nothing is experimental, and the
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Paradise-Havona system is a unit of creative perfection.
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The universal spiritual gravity of the Eternal Son is amazingly active
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throughout the central universe. All spirit values and spiritual personalities
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are unceasingly drawn inward towards the abode of the Gods. This Godward urge
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is intense and inescapable. The ambition to attain God is stronger in the
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central universe, not because spirit gravity is stronger than in the outlying
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universes, but because those beings who have attained Havona are more fully
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spiritualized and hence more responsive to the ever-present action of the
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universal spirit-gravity pull of the Eternal Son.
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Likewise does the Infinite Spirit draw all intellectual values Paradiseward.
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Throughout the central universe the mind gravity of the Infinite Spirit
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functions in liaison with the spirit gravity of the Eternal Son, and these
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together constitute the combined urge of the ascendant souls to find God, to
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attain Deity, to achieve Paradise, and to know the Father.
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Havona is a spiritually perfect and physically stable universe. The control and
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balanced stability of the central universe appear to be perfect. Everything
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physical or spiritual is perfectly predictable, but mind phenomena and
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personality volition are not. We do infer that sin can be reckoned as
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impossible of occurrence, but we do this on the ground that the native freewill
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creatures of Havona have never been guilty of transgressing the will of Deity.
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Through all eternity these supernal beings have been consistently loyal to the
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Eternals of Days. Neither has sin appeared in any creature who has entered
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Havona as a pilgrim. There has never been an instance of misconduct by any
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creature of any group of personalities ever created in, or admitted to, the
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central Havona universe. So perfect and so divine are the methods and means of
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selection in the universes of time that never in the records of Havona has an
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error occurred; no mistakes have ever been made; no ascendant soul has ever
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been prematurely admitted to the central universe.
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3. THE HAVONA WORLDS
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Concerning the government of the central universe, there is none. Havona is so
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exquisitely perfect that no intellectual system of government is required.
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There are no regularly constituted courts, neither are there legislative
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assemblies; Havona requires only administrative direction. Here may be observed
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the height of the ideals of true self-government.
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There is no need of government among such perfect and near-perfect
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intelligences. They stand in no need of regulation, for they are beings of
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native perfection interspersed with evolutionary creatures who have long since
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passed the scrutiny of the supreme tribunals of the superuniverses.
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The administration of Havona is not automatic, but it is marvelously perfect
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and divinely efficient. It is chiefly planetary and is vested in the resident
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Eternal of Days, each Havona sphere being directed by one of these
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Trinity-origin personalities. Eternals of Days are not creators, but they are
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perfect administrators.
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They teach with supreme skill and direct their planetary children with a
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perfection of wisdom bordering on absoluteness.
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The billion spheres of the central universe constitute the training worlds of
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the high personalities native to Paradise and Havona and further serve as the
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final proving grounds for ascending creatures from the evolutionary worlds of
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time. In the execution of the Universal Father's great plan of creature
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ascension the pilgrims of time are landed on the receiving worlds of the outer
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or seventh circuit, and subsequent to increased training and enlarged
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experience, they are progressively advanced inward, planet by planet and circle
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by circle, until they finally attain the Deities and achieve residence on
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Paradise.
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At present, although the spheres of the seven circuits are maintained in all
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their supernal glory, only about one per cent of all planetary capacity is
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utilized in the work of furthering the Father's universal plan of mortal
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ascension. About one tenth of one per cent of the area of these enormous worlds
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is dedicated to the life and activities of the Corps of the Finality, beings
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eternally settled in light and life who often sojourn and minister on the
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Havona worlds. These exalted beings have their personal residences on Paradise.
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The planetary construction of the Havona spheres is entirely unlike that of the
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evolutionary worlds and systems of space. Nowhere else in all the grand
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universe is it convenient to utilize such enormous spheres as inhabited worlds.
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Triata physical constitution, coupled with the balancing effect of the immense
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dark gravity bodies, makes it possible so perfectly to equalize the physical
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forces and so exquisitely to balance the various attractions of this tremendous
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creation. Antigravity is also employed in the organization of the material
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functions and the spiritual activities of these enormous worlds.
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The architecture, lighting, and heating, as well as the biologic and artistic
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embellishment, of the Havona spheres, are quite beyond the greatest possible
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stretch of human imagination. You cannot be told much about Havona; to
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understand its beauty and grandeur you must see it. But there are real rivers
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and lakes on these perfect worlds.
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Spiritually these worlds are ideally appointed; they are fittingly adapted to
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their purpose of harboring the numerous orders of differing beings who function
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in the central universe. Manifold activities take place on these beautiful
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worlds which are far beyond human comprehension.
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4. CREATURES OF THE CENTRAL UNIVERSE
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There are seven basic forms of living things and beings on the Havona worlds,
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and each of these basic forms exists in three distinct phases. Each of these
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three phases is divided into seventy major divisions, and each major division
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is composed of one thousand minor divisions, with yet other subdivisions, and
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so on. These basic life groups might be classified as:
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1. Material.
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2. Morontial.
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3. Spiritual.
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4. Absonite.
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5. Ultimate.
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6. Coabsolute.
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7. Absolute.
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Decay and death are not a part of the cycle of life on the Havona worlds. In
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the central universe the lower living things undergo the transmutation of
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materialization. They do change form and manifestation, but they do not resolve
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by process of decay and cellular death.
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The Havona natives are all the offspring of the Paradise Trinity. They are
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without creature parents, and they are nonreproducing beings. We cannot portray
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the creation of these citizens of the central universe, beings who never were
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created. The entire story of the creation of Havona is an attempt to time-space
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an eternity fact which has no relation to time or space as mortal man
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comprehends them. But we must concede human philosophy a point of origin; even
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personalities far above the human level require a concept of "beginnings."
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Nevertheless, the Paradise-Havona system is eternal.
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The natives of Havona live on the billion spheres of the central universe in
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the same sense that other orders of permanent citizenship dwell on their
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respective spheres of nativity. As the material order of sonship carries on the
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material, intellectual, and spiritual economy of a billion local systems in a
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superuniverse, so, in a larger sense, do the Havona natives live and function
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on the billion worlds of the central universe. You might possibly regard these
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Havoners as material creatures in the sense that the word "material" could be
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expanded to describe the physical realities of the divine universe.
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There is a life that is native to Havona and possesses significance in and of
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itself. Havoners minister in many ways to Paradise descenders and to
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superuniverse ascenders, but they also live lives that are unique in the
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central universe and have relative meaning quite apart from either Paradise or
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the superuniverses.
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As the worship of the faith sons of the evolutionary worlds ministers to the
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satisfaction of the Universal Father's love, so the exalted adoration of the
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Havona creatures satiates the perfect ideals of divine beauty and truth. As
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mortal man strives to do the will of God, these beings of the central universe
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live to gratify the ideals of the Paradise Trinity. In their very nature they
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are the will of God. Man rejoices in the goodness of God, Havoners exult in the
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divine beauty, while you both enjoy the ministry of the liberty of living
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truth.
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Havoners have both optional present and future unrevealed destinies. And there
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is a progression of native creatures that is peculiar to the central universe,
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a progression that involves neither ascent to Paradise nor penetration of the
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superuniverses. This progression to higher Havona status may be suggested as
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follows:
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1. Experiential progress outward from the first to the seventh circuit.
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2. Progress inward from the seventh to the first circuit.
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3. Intracircuit progress--progression within the worlds of a given circuit.
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In addition to the Havona natives, the inhabitants of the central universe
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embrace numerous classes of pattern beings for various universe
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groups--advisers, directors, and teachers of their kind and to their kind
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throughout creation. All beings in all universes are fashioned along the lines
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of some one order of pattern creature living on some one of the billion worlds
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of Havona. Even the mortals of time have their goal and ideals of creature
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existence on the outer circuits of these pattern spheres on high.
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Then there are those beings who have attained the Universal Father, and who are
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entitled to go and come, who are assigned here and there in the universes on
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missions of special service. And on every Havona world will be found the
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attainment candidates, those who have physically attained the central universe,
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but who have not yet achieved that spiritual development which will enable them
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to claim Paradise residence.
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The Infinite Spirit is represented on the Havona worlds by a host of
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personalities, beings of grace and glory, who administer the details of the
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intricate intellectual and spiritual affairs of the central universe. On these
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worlds of divine perfection they perform the work indigenous to the normal
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conduct of this vast creation and, in addition, carry on the manifold tasks of
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teaching, training, and ministering to the enormous numbers of ascendant
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creatures who have climbed to glory from the dark worlds of space.
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There are numerous groups of beings native to the Paradise-Havona system that
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are in no way directly associated with the ascension scheme of creature
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perfection attainment; therefore are they omitted from the personality
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classifications presented to the mortal races. Only the major groups of
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superhuman beings and those orders directly connected with your survival
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experience are herein presented.
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Havona teems with the life of all phases of intelligent beings, who there seek
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to advance from lower to higher circuits in their efforts to attain higher
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levels of divinity realization and enlarged appreciation of supreme meanings,
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ultimate values, and absolute reality.
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5. LIFE IN HAVONA
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On Urantia you pass through a short and intense test during your initial life
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of material existence. On the mansion worlds and up through your system,
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constellation, and local universe, you traverse the morontia phases of
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ascension. On the training worlds of the superuniverse you pass through the
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true spirit stages of progression and are prepared for eventual transit to
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Havona. On the seven circuits of Havona your attainment is intellectual,
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spiritual, and experiential. And there is a definite task to be achieved on
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each of the worlds of each of these circuits.
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Life on the divine worlds of the central universe is so rich and full, so
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complete and replete, that it wholly transcends the human concept of anything a
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created being could possibly experience. The social and economic activities of
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this eternal creation are entirely dissimilar to the occupations of material
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creatures living on evolutionary worlds like Urantia. Even the technique of
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Havona thought is unlike the process of thinking on Urantia.
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The regulations of the central universe are fittingly and inherently natural;
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the rules of conduct are not arbitrary. In every requirement of Havona there is
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disclosed the reason of righteousness and the rule of justice. And these two
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factors, combined, equal what on Urantia would be denominated fairness. When
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you arrive in Havona, you will naturally enjoy doing things the way they should
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be done.
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When intelligent beings first attain the central universe, they are received
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and domiciled on the pilot world of the seventh Havona circuit. As the new
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arrivals progress spiritually, attain identity comprehension of their
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superuniverse Master Spirit, they are transferred to the sixth circle. (It is
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from these arrangements in the central universe that the circles of progress in
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the human mind have been
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designated.) After ascenders have attained a realization of Supremacy and are
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thereby prepared for the Deity adventure, they are taken to the fifth circuit;
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and after attaining the Infinite Spirit, they are transferred to the fourth.
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Following the attainment of the Eternal Son, they are removed to the third; and
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when they have recognized the Universal Father, they go to sojourn on the
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second circuit of worlds, where they become more familiar with the Paradise
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hosts. Arrival on the first circuit of Havona signifies the acceptance of the
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candidates of time into the service of Paradise. Indefinitely, according to the
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length and nature of the creature ascension, they will tarry on the inner
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circuit of progressive spiritual attainment. From this inner circuit the
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ascending pilgrims pass inward to Paradise residence and admission to the Corps
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of the Finality.
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During your sojourn in Havona as a pilgrim of ascent, you will be allowed to
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visit freely among the worlds of the circuit of your assignment. You will also
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be permitted to go back to the planets of those circuits you have previously
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traversed. And all this is possible to those who sojourn on the circles of
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Havona without the necessity of being ensupernaphimed. The pilgrims of time are
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able to equip themselves to traverse "achieved" space but must depend on the
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ordained technique to negotiate "unachieved" space; a pilgrim cannot leave
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Havona nor go forward beyond his assigned circuit without the aid of a
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transport supernaphim.
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There is a refreshing originality about this vast central creation. Aside from
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the physical organization of matter and the fundamental constitution of the
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basic orders of intelligent beings and other living things, there is nothing in
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common between the worlds of Havona. Every one of these planets is an original,
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unique, and exclusive creation; each planet is a matchless, superb, and perfect
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production. And this diversity of individuality extends to all features of the
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physical, intellectual, and spiritual aspects of planetary existence. Each of
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these billion perfection spheres has been developed and embellished in
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accordance with the plans of the resident Eternal of Days. And this is just why
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no two of them are alike.
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Not until you traverse the last of the Havona circuits and visit the last of
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the Havona worlds, will the tonic of adventure and the stimulus of curiosity
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disappear from your career. And then will the urge, the forward impulse of
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eternity, replace its forerunner, the adventure lure of time.
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Monotony is indicative of immaturity of the creative imagination and inactivity
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of intellectual co-ordination with the spiritual endowment. By the time an
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ascendant mortal begins the exploration of these heavenly worlds, he has
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already attained emotional, intellectual, and social, if not spiritual,
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maturity.
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Not only will you find undreamed-of changes confronting you as you advance from
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circuit to circuit in Havona, but your astonishment will be inexpressible as
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you progress from planet to planet within each circuit. Each of these billion
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study worlds is a veritable university of surprises. Continuing astonishment,
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unending wonder, is the experience of those who traverse these circuits and
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tour these gigantic spheres. Monotony is not a part of the Havona career.
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Love of adventure, curiosity, and dread of monotony--these traits inherent in
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evolving human nature--were not put there just to aggravate and annoy you
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during your short sojourn on earth, but rather to suggest to you that death is
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only the beginning of an endless career of adventure, an everlasting life of
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anticipation, an eternal voyage of discovery.
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Curiosity--the spirit of investigation, the urge of discovery, the drive of
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exploration--is a part of the inborn and divine endowment of evolutionary space
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creatures. These natural impulses were not given you merely to be frustrated
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and repressed. True, these ambitious urges must frequently be restrained during
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your short life on earth, disappointment must be often experienced, but they
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are to be fully realized and gloriously gratified during the long ages to come.
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6. THE PURPOSE OF THE CENTRAL UNIVERSE
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The range of the activities of seven-circuited Havona is enormous. In general,
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they may be described as:
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1. Havonal.
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2. Paradisiacal.
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3. Ascendant-finite--Supreme-Ultimate evolutional.
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Many superfinite activities take place in the Havona of the present universe
|
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age, involving untold diversities of absonite and other phases of mind and
|
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spirit functions. It is possible that the central universe serves many purposes
|
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which are not revealed to me, as it functions in numerous ways beyond the
|
||
comprehension of the created mind. Nevertheless, I will endeavor to depict how
|
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this perfect creation ministers to the needs and contributes to the
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satisfactions of seven orders of universe intelligence.
|
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|
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1. The Universal Father--the First Source and Center. God the Father derives
|
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supreme parental satisfaction from the perfection of the central creation. He
|
||
enjoys the experience of love satiety on near-equality levels. The perfect
|
||
Creator is divinely pleased with the adoration of the perfect creature.
|
||
|
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Havona affords the Father supreme achievement gratification. The perfection
|
||
realization in Havona compensates for the time-space delay of the eternal urge
|
||
of infinite expansion.
|
||
|
||
The Father enjoys the Havona reciprocation of the divine beauty. It satisfies
|
||
the divine mind to afford a perfect pattern of exquisite harmony for all
|
||
evolving universes.
|
||
|
||
Our Father beholds the central universe with perfect pleasure because it is a
|
||
worthy revelation of spirit reality to all personalities of the universe of
|
||
universes.
|
||
|
||
The God of universes has favorable regard for Havona and Paradise as the
|
||
eternal power nucleus for all subsequent universe expansion in time and space.
|
||
|
||
The eternal Father views with never-ending satisfaction the Havona creation as
|
||
the worthy and alluring goal for the ascension candidates of time, his mortal
|
||
grandchildren of space achieving their Creator-Father's eternal home. And God
|
||
takes pleasure in the Paradise-Havona universe as the eternal home of Deity and
|
||
the divine family.
|
||
|
||
2. The Eternal Son--the Second Source and Center. To the Eternal Son the superb
|
||
central creation affords eternal proof of the partnership effectiveness of the
|
||
divine family--Father, Son, and Spirit. It is the spiritual and material basis
|
||
for absolute confidence in the Universal Father.
|
||
|
||
Havona affords the Eternal Son an almost unlimited base for the ever-expanding
|
||
realization of spirit power. The central universe afforded the Eternal Son the
|
||
arena wherein he could safely and securely demonstrate the spirit and
|
||
|
||
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||
technique of the bestowal ministry for the instruction of his associate
|
||
Paradise Sons.
|
||
|
||
Havona is the reality foundation for the Eternal Son's spirit-gravity control
|
||
of the universe of universes. This universe affords the Son the gratification
|
||
of parental craving, spiritual reproduction.
|
||
|
||
The Havona worlds and their perfect inhabitants are the first and the eternally
|
||
final demonstration that the Son is the Word of the Father. Thereby is the
|
||
consciousness of the Son as an infinite complement of the Father perfectly
|
||
gratified.
|
||
|
||
And this universe affords the opportunity for the realization of reciprocation
|
||
of equality fraternity between the Universal Father and the Eternal Son, and
|
||
this constitutes the everlasting proof of the infinite personality of each.
|
||
|
||
3. The Infinite Spirit--the Third Source and Center. The Havona universe
|
||
affords the Infinite Spirit proof of being the Conjoint Actor, the infinite
|
||
representative of the unified Father-Son. In Havona the Infinite Spirit derives
|
||
the combined satisfaction of functioning as a creative activity while enjoying
|
||
the satisfaction of absolute coexistence with this divine achievement.
|
||
|
||
In Havona the Infinite Spirit found an arena wherein he could demonstrate the
|
||
ability and willingness to serve as a potential mercy minister. In this perfect
|
||
creation the Spirit rehearsed for the adventure of ministry in the evolutionary
|
||
universes.
|
||
|
||
This perfect creation afforded the Infinite Spirit opportunity to participate
|
||
in universe administration with both divine parents--to administer a universe
|
||
as associate-Creator offspring, thereby preparing for the joint administration
|
||
of the local universes as the Creative Spirit associates of the Creator Sons.
|
||
|
||
The Havona worlds are the mind laboratory of the creators of the cosmic mind
|
||
and the ministers to every creature mind in existence. Mind is different on
|
||
each Havona world and serves as the pattern for all spiritual and material
|
||
creature intellects.
|
||
|
||
These perfect worlds are the mind graduate schools for all beings destined for
|
||
Paradise society. They afforded the Spirit abundant opportunity to test out the
|
||
technique of mind ministry on safe and advisory personalities.
|
||
|
||
Havona is a compensation to the Infinite Spirit for his widespread and
|
||
unselfish work in the universes of space. Havona is the perfect home and
|
||
retreat for the untiring Mind Minister of time and space.
|
||
|
||
4. The Supreme Being--the evolutionary unification of experiential Deity. The
|
||
Havona creation is the eternal and perfect proof of the spiritual reality of
|
||
the Supreme Being. This perfect creation is a revelation of the perfect and
|
||
symmetrical spirit nature of God the Supreme before the beginnings of the
|
||
power-personality synthesis of the finite reflections of the Paradise Deities
|
||
in the experiential universes of time and space.
|
||
|
||
In Havona the power potentials of the Almighty are unified with the spiritual
|
||
nature of the Supreme. This central creation is an exemplification of the
|
||
future-eternal unity of the Supreme.
|
||
|
||
Havona is a perfect pattern of the universality potential of the Supreme. This
|
||
universe is a finished portrayal of the future perfection of the Supreme and is
|
||
suggestive of the potential of the Ultimate.
|
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|
||
Havona exhibits finality of spirit values existing as living will creatures of
|
||
supreme and perfect self-control; mind existing as ultimately equivalent to
|
||
spirit; reality and unity of intelligence with an unlimited potential.
|
||
|
||
5. The Co-ordinate Creator Sons. Havona is the educational training ground
|
||
where the Paradise Michaels are prepared for their subsequent adventures in
|
||
universe creation. This divine and perfect creation is a pattern for every
|
||
Creator Son. He strives to make his own universe eventually attain to these
|
||
Paradise-Havona levels of perfection.
|
||
|
||
A Creator Son uses the creatures of Havona as personality-pattern possibilities
|
||
for his own mortal children and spirit beings. The Michael and other Paradise
|
||
Sons view Paradise and Havona as the divine destiny of the children of time.
|
||
|
||
The Creator Sons know that the central creation is the real source of that
|
||
indispensable universe overcontrol which stabilizes and unifies their local
|
||
universes. They know that the personal presence of the ever-present influence
|
||
of the Supreme and of the Ultimate is in Havona.
|
||
|
||
Havona and Paradise are the source of a Michael Son's creative power. Here
|
||
dwell the beings who co-operate with him in universe creation. From Paradise
|
||
come the Universe Mother Spirits, the cocreators of local universes.
|
||
|
||
The Paradise Sons regard the central creation as the home of their divine
|
||
parents--their home. It is the place they enjoy returning to ever and anon.
|
||
|
||
6. The Co-ordinate Ministering Daughters. The Universe Mother Spirits,
|
||
cocreators of the local universes, secure their prepersonal training on the
|
||
worlds of Havona in close association with the Spirits of the Circuits. In the
|
||
central universe the Spirit Daughters of the local universes were duly trained
|
||
in the methods of co-operation with the Sons of Paradise, all the while subject
|
||
to the will of the Father.
|
||
|
||
On the worlds of Havona the Spirit and the Daughters of the Spirit find the
|
||
mind patterns for all their groups of spiritual and material intelligences, and
|
||
this central universe is the sometime destiny of those creatures which a
|
||
Universe Mother Spirit jointly sponsors with an associated Creator Son.
|
||
|
||
The Universe Mother Creator remembers Paradise and Havona as the place of her
|
||
origin and the home of the Infinite Mother Spirit, the abode of the personality
|
||
presence of the Infinite Mind.
|
||
|
||
From this central universe also came the bestowal of the personal prerogatives
|
||
of creatorship which a Universe Divine Minister employs as complemental to a
|
||
Creator Son in the work of creating living will creatures.
|
||
|
||
And lastly, since these Daughter Spirits of the Infinite Mother Spirit will not
|
||
likely ever return to their Paradise home, they derive great satisfaction from
|
||
the universal reflectivity phenomenon associated with the Supreme Being in
|
||
Havona and personalized in Majeston on Paradise.
|
||
|
||
7. The Evolutionary Mortals of the Ascending Career. Havona is the home of the
|
||
pattern personality of every mortal type and the home of all superhuman
|
||
personalities of mortal association who are not native to the creations of
|
||
time.
|
||
|
||
These worlds provide the stimulus of all human impulses towards the attainment
|
||
of true spirit values on the highest conceivable reality levels. Havona is the
|
||
pre-Paradise training goal of every ascending mortal. Here mortals attain
|
||
pre-Paradise Deity--the Supreme Being. Havona stands before every will creature
|
||
as the portal to Paradise and God attainment.
|
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|
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|
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Paradise is the home, and Havona the workshop and playground, of the
|
||
finaliters. And every God-knowing mortal craves to be a finaliter.
|
||
|
||
The central universe is not only man's established destiny, but it is also the
|
||
starting place of the eternal career of the finaliters as they shall sometime
|
||
be started out on the undisclosed and universal adventure in the experience of
|
||
exploring the infinity of the Universal Father.
|
||
|
||
Havona will unquestionably continue to function with absonite significance even
|
||
in future universe ages which may witness space pilgrims attempting to find God
|
||
on superfinite levels. Havona has capacity to serve as a training universe for
|
||
absonite beings. It will probably be the finishing school when the seven
|
||
superuniverses are functioning as the intermediate school for the graduates of
|
||
the primary schools of outer space. And we incline to the opinion that the
|
||
potentials of eternal Havona are really unlimited, that the central universe
|
||
has eternal capacity to serve as an experiential training universe for all
|
||
past, present, or future types of created beings.
|
||
|
||
[Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom commissioned thus to function by the
|
||
Ancients of Days on Uversa.]
|
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|
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART I: The Central and Super
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Universes : The Universal Father The Nature Of God The Attributes Of God God's
|
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Relation To The Universe God's Relation To The Individual The Eternal Son
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Relation Of The Eternal Son To The Universe The Infinite Spirit Relation Of The
|
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Infinite Spirit To The Universe The Paradise Trinity The Eternal Isle Of
|
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Paradise The Universe Of Universes The Sacred Spheres Of Paradise The Central
|
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And Divine Universe The Seven Superuniverses The Seven Master Spirits The Seven
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|
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|
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