In his contact with the post-Havona creations, the Universal Father does not exercise his infinite
power and final authority by direct transmittal but rather through his Sons and their subordinate
personalities. And God does all this of his own free will. Any and all powers delegated, if occasion
should arise, if it should become the choice of the divine mind, could be exercised direct; but, as a rule,
such action only takes place as a result of the failure of the delegated personality to fulfill the divine
trust. At such times and in the face of such default and within the limits of the reservation of divine
power and potential, the Father does act independently and in accordance with the mandates of his own
choice; and that choice is always one of unfailing perfection and infinite wisdom.
The Father rules through his Sons; on down through the universe organization there is an
unbroken chain of rulers ending with the Planetary Princes, who direct the destinies of the evolutionary
spheres of the Father's vast domains. It is no mere poetic expression that exclaims: "The earth is the
Lord's and the fullness thereof." "He removes kings and sets up kings." "The Most Highs rule in the
kingdoms of men."
In the affairs of men's hearts the Universal Father may not always have his way; but in the
conduct and destiny of a planet the divine plan prevails; the eternal purpose of wisdom and love
triumphs.
Said Jesus: "My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to pluck
them out of my Father's hand." As you glimpse the manifold workings and view the staggering
immensity of God's well-nigh limitless creation, you may falter in your concept of his primacy, but you
should not fail to accept him as securely and everlastingly enthroned at the Paradise center of all things
and as the beneficent Father of all intelligent beings. There is but "one God and Father of all, who is
above all and in all," "and he is before all things, and in him all things consist."
The uncertainties of life and the vicissitudes of existence do not in any manner contradict the
concept of the universal sovereignty of God. All evolutionary creature life is beset by certain inevitabilities.
Consider the following:
- Is courage, strength of character, desirable? Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments.
- Is altruism, service of one's fellows, desirable? Then must life experience provide forencountering situations of social inequality.
- Is hope, the grandeur of trust. desirable? Then human existence must constantly be confronted with insecurities and recurrent uncertainties.
- Is faith, the supreme assertion of human thought, desirable? Then must the mind of man find itself in that troublesome predicament where it ever knows less than it can believe.
- Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads, desirable? Then must man grow up in a world where error is present and falsehood always possible.
- Is idealism, the approaching concept of the divine, desirable? Then must man struggle in an environment of relative goodness and beauty, surroundings stimulative of the irrepressible reach forbetter things.
- Is loyalty, devotion to highest duty, desirable? Then must man carry on amid the possibilities of betrayal and desertion. The valor of devotion to duty consists in the implied danger of default.
- Is unselfishness, the spirit of self-forgetfulness, desirable? Then must mortal man live face to face with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor. Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake. Man could never lay saving hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast.
- Is pleasure, the satisfaction of happiness, desirable? Then must man live in a world where the alternative of pain and the likelihood of suffering are ever-present experiential possibilities.
Throughout the universe, every unit is regarded as a part of the whole. Survival of the part is dependent on co-operation with the plan and purpose of the whole, the wholehearted desire and perfect
willingness to do the Father's divine will. The only evolutionary world without error (the possibility of
unwise judgment) would be a world without free intelligence. In the Havona universe there are a billion
perfect worlds with their perfect inhabitants, but evolving man must be fallible if he is to be free. Free
and inexperienced intelligence cannot possibly at first be uniformly wise. The possibility of mistaken
judgment (evil) becomes sin only when the human will consciously endorses and knowingly embraces a
deliberate immoral judgment.
The full appreciation of truth, beauty, and goodness is inherent in the perfection of the divine
universe. The inhabitants of the Havona worlds do not require the potential of relative value levels as a
choice stimulus; such perfect beings are able to identify and choose the good in the absence of all
contrastive and thought-compelling moral situations. But all such perfect beings are, in moral nature and
spiritual status, what they are by virtue of the fact of existence. They have experientially earned
advancement only within their inherent status. Mortal man earns even his status as an ascension
candidate by his own faith and hope. Everything divine which the human mind grasps and the human
soul acquires is an experiential attainment; it is a reality of personal experience and is therefore a unique
possession in contrast to the inherent goodness and righteousness of the inerrant personalities of Havona.
The creatures of Havona are naturally brave, but they are not courageous in the human sense.
They are innately kind and considerate, but hardly altruistic in the human way. They are expectant of a
pleasant future, but not hopeful in the exquisite manner of the trusting mortal of the uncertain
evolutionary spheres. They have faith in the stability of the universe, but they are utter strangers to that
saving faith whereby mortal man climbs from the status of an animal up to the portals of Paradise. They
love the truth, but they know nothing of its soul-saving qualities. They are idealists, but they were born
that way; they are wholly ignorant of the ecstasy of becoming such by exhilarating choice. They are
loyal, but they have never experienced the thrill of wholehearted and intelligent devotion to duty in the
face of temptation to default. They are unselfish, but they never gained such levels of experience by the
magnificent conquest of a belligerent self. They enjoy pleasure, but they do not comprehend the
sweetness of the pleasure escape from the pain potential.THE URANTIA BOOK
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