유란시아 책
II 부. 지방우주
Paper 32
The Evolution of Local Universes
The Evolution of Local Universes
32:0.2 (357.2)
These universes of time and space are all evolutionary. The creative plan of the Paradise Michaels always proceeds along the path of gradual evolvement and progressive development of the physical, intellectual, and spiritual natures and capacities of the manifold creatures who inhabit the varied orders of spheres comprising such a local universe.
32:1.1 (357.5)
The preuniverse manipulations of space-force and the primordial energies are the work of the Paradise Master Force Organizers; but in the superuniverse domains, when emergent energy becomes responsive to local or linear gravity, they retire in favor of the power directors of the superuniverse concerned.
32:1.2 (357.6)
These power directors function alone in the prematerial and postforce phases of a local universe creation. There is no opportunity for a Creator Son to begin universe organization until the power directors have effected the mobilization of the space-energies sufficiently to provide a material foundation—literal suns and material spheres—for the emerging universe.
32:1.3 (357.7)
The local universes are all approximately of the same energy potential, though they differ greatly in physical dimensions and may vary in visible-matter content from time to time. The power charge and potential-matter endowment of a local universe are determined by the manipulations of the power directors and their predecessors as well as by the Creator Son’s activities and by the endowment of the inherent physical control possessed by his creative associate.
32:1.4 (358.1)
The energy charge of a local universe is approximately one one-hundred-thousandth of the force endowment of its superuniverse. In the case of Nebadon, your local universe, the mass materialization is a trifle less. Physically speaking, Nebadon possesses all of the physical endowment of energy and matter that may be found in any of the Orvonton local creations. The only physical limitation upon the developmental expansion of the Nebadon universe consists in the quantitative charge of space-energy held captive by the gravity control of the associated powers and personalities of the combined universe mechanism.
32:1.5 (358.2)
When energy-matter has attained a certain stage in mass materialization, a Paradise Creator Son appears upon the scene, accompanied by a Creative Daughter of the Infinite Spirit. Simultaneously with the arrival of the Creator Son, work is begun upon the architectural sphere which is to become the headquarters world of the projected local universe. For long ages such a local creation evolves, suns become stabilized, planets form and swing into their orbits, while the work of creating the architectural worlds which are to serve as constellation headquarters and system capitals continues.
32:2.1 (358.3)
The Creator Sons are preceded in universe organization by the power directors and other beings originating in the Third Source and Center. From the energies of space, thus previously organized, Michael, your Creator Son, established the inhabited realms of the universe of Nebadon and ever since has been painstakingly devoted to their administration. From pre-existent energy these divine Sons materialize visible matter, project living creatures, and with the co-operation of the universe presence of the Infinite Spirit, create a diverse retinue of spirit personalities.
32:2.2 (358.4)
These power directors and energy controllers who long preceded the Creator Son in the preliminary physical work of universe organization later serve in magnificent liaison with this Universe Son, forever remaining in associated control of those energies which they originally organized and circuitized. On Salvington there now function the same one hundred power centers who co-operated with your Creator Son in the original formation of this local universe.
네바돈에서 최초로 완성된 물리적 창조 행위는, 본부 세계 곧 살빙톤의 건축양식 구체와 그 위성들을 조직하는 것이었다. 동력 중심과 물리 통제관들이 처음 이동한 때부터, 활기찬 참모진이 살빙톤의 완성된 구체들에 도착할 때까지 사이에, 너희의 현 행성 시간으로 10억 년 조금 넘는 시간이 소요됐다. 살빙톤이 건설된 직후에, 기획된 성좌들의 1백 본부 세계, 그리고 행성을 통제하고 경영하는, 기획된 지역 체계들의 1만 본부 구체 및 그 건축양식 위성{衛星}들을 창조하는 일이 뒤따랐다. 그런 건축양식 세계는, 물리적 인격체와 영적 인격체뿐 아니라, 그 사이에 개재하는 모론시아 단계 곧 과도기 단계의 존재들도 수용할 수 있도록 설계돼있다.
32:2.3 (358.5)
The first completed act of physical creation in Nebadon consisted in the organization of the headquarters world, the architectural sphere of Salvington, with its satellites. From the time of the initial moves of the power centers and physical controllers to the arrival of the living staff on the completed spheres of Salvington, there intervened a little over one billion years of your present planetary time. The construction of Salvington was immediately followed by the creation of the one hundred headquarters worlds of the projected constellations and the ten thousand headquarters spheres of the projected local systems of planetary control and administration, together with their architectural satellites. Such architectural worlds are designed to accommodate both physical and spiritual personalities as well as the intervening morontia or transition stages of being.
32:2.5 (359.2)
Salvington is the personal headquarters of Michael of Nebadon, but he will not always be found there. While the smooth functioning of your local universe no longer requires the fixed presence of the Creator Son at the capital sphere, this was not true of the earlier epochs of physical organization. A Creator Son is unable to leave his headquarters world until such a time as gravity stabilization of the realm has been effected through the materialization of sufficient energy to enable the various circuits and systems to counterbalance one another by mutual material attraction.
32:2.6 (359.3)
Presently, the physical plan of a universe is completed, and the Creator Son, in association with the Creative Spirit, projects his plan of life creation; whereupon does this representation of the Infinite Spirit begin her universe function as a distinct creative personality. When this first creative act is formulated and executed, there springs into being the Bright and Morning Star, the personification of this initial creative concept of identity and ideal of divinity. This is the chief executive of the universe, the personal associate of the Creator Son, one like him in all aspects of character, though markedly limited in the attributes of divinity.
32:2.7 (359.4)
And now that the right-hand helper and chief executive of the Creator Son has been provided, there ensues the bringing into existence of a vast and wonderful array of diverse creatures. The sons and daughters of the local universe are forthcoming, and soon thereafter the government of such a creation is provided, extending from the supreme councils of the universe to the fathers of the constellations and the sovereigns of the local systems—the aggregations of those worlds which are designed subsequently to become the homes of the varied mortal races of will creatures; and each of these worlds will be presided over by a Planetary Prince.
32:2.9 (359.6)
The organization of planetary abodes is still progressing in Nebadon, for this universe is, indeed, a young cluster in the starry and planetary realms of Orvonton. At the last registry there were 3,840,101 inhabited planets in Nebadon, and Satania, the local system of your world, is fairly typical of other systems.
32:2.10 (359.7)
Satania is not a uniform physical system, a single astronomic unit or organization. Its 619 inhabited worlds are located in over five hundred different physical systems. Only five have more than two inhabited worlds, and of these only one has four peopled planets, while there are forty-six having two inhabited worlds.
32:2.11 (359.8)
The Satania system of inhabited worlds is far removed from Uversa and that great sun cluster which functions as the physical or astronomic center of the seventh superuniverse. From Jerusem, the headquarters of Satania, it is over two hundred thousand light-years to the physical center of the superuniverse of Orvonton, far, far away in the dense diameter of the Milky Way. Satania is on the periphery of the local universe, and Nebadon is now well out towards the edge of Orvonton. From the outermost system of inhabited worlds to the center of the superuniverse is a trifle less than two hundred and fifty thousand light-years.
32:2.13 (360.2)
But the evolution of a local universe is a long narrative. Papers dealing with the superuniverse introduce this subject, those of this section, treating of the local creations, continue it, while those to follow, touching upon the history and destiny of Urantia, complete the story. But you can adequately comprehend the destiny of the mortals of such a local creation only by a perusal of the narratives of the life and teachings of your Creator Son as he once lived the life of man, in the likeness of mortal flesh, on your own evolutionary world.
32:3.1 (360.3)
The only creation that is perfectly settled is Havona, the central universe, which was made directly by the thought of the Universal Father and the word of the Eternal Son. Havona is an existential, perfect, and replete universe, surrounding the home of the eternal Deities, the center of all things. The creations of the seven superuniverses are finite, evolutionary, and consistently progressive.
32:3.2 (360.4)
The physical systems of time and space are all evolutionary in origin. They are not even physically stabilized until they are swung into the settled circuits of their superuniverses. Neither is a local universe settled in light and life until its physical possibilities of expansion and development have been exhausted, and until the spiritual status of all its inhabited worlds has been forever settled and stabilized.
32:3.3 (360.5)
Except in the central universe, perfection is a progressive attainment. In the central creation we have a pattern of perfection, but all other realms must attain that perfection by the methods established for the advancement of those particular worlds or universes. And an almost infinite variety characterizes the plans of the Creator Sons for organizing, evolving, disciplining, and settling their respective local universes.
아버지의 신격 현존을 제외하고 어느 지방우주든지, 어떤 의미에서는, 원형{原型} 창조물인 중앙 창조물의 경영 조직체를 복제한 것이다. 우주 아버지는, 비록 거주{居住} 우주에 몸소 현존하시더라도, 글자 그대로 시공간에서 필사자의 혼과 함께 거주하시듯이, 중앙우주에서 유래하는 존재들의 정신에 그렇게 거주하시지는 않는다. 광범한 창조의 영적{靈的} 직무에 대한 조절과 규제에는 온전히-지혜로운 보상이 있을 것으로 보인다. 중앙우주에서 아버지는 아버지로서 친히 현존{現存}하지만, 완전한 그 창조물에서 사는 자녀들의 정신 속에 계시지는 않으며;아버지는 공간 우주들에 몸소 계시지 않고, 그의 주권자 아들들이 아버지를 대변하며, 한편 아버지는 필사자 자녀의 정신 속에 친밀하게 현존하시는데, 의지를 지닌 이 피조물 정신에 거주하는 신비 관찰자라는 인격이전{人格以前} 현존이 영적으로 아버지를 대표한다.
32:3.4 (360.6)
With the exception of the deity presence of the Father, every local universe is, in a certain sense, a duplication of the administrative organization of the central or pattern creation. Although the Universal Father is personally present in the residential universe, he does not indwell the minds of the beings originating in that universe as he does literally dwell with the souls of the mortals of time and space. There seems to be an all-wise compensation in the adjustment and regulation of the spiritual affairs of the far-flung creation. In the central universe the Father is personally present as such but absent in the minds of the children of that perfect creation; in the universes of space the Father is absent in person, being represented by his Sovereign Sons, while he is intimately present in the minds of his mortal children, being spiritually represented by the prepersonal presence of the Mystery Monitors that reside in the minds of these will creatures.
32:3.5 (360.7)
On the headquarters of a local universe there reside all those creator and creative personalities who represent self-contained authority and administrative autonomy except the personal presence of the Universal Father. In the local universe there are to be found something of everyone and someone of almost every class of intelligent beings existing in the central universe except the Universal Father. Although the Universal Father is not personally present in a local universe, he is personally represented by its Creator Son, sometime vicegerent of God and subsequently supreme and sovereign ruler in his own right.
우리가 생명의 등급에서 멀리 내려갈수록, 보이지 않는 아버지를 신앙의 눈으로 찾아내기가 점점 더 어려워진다. 낮은 피조물은--그리고 때로는 심지어 고등 인격체들도-- 창조주 아들 안에 계신 우주 아버지를 상상하기가 늘 어렵다는 것을 발견한다. 그래서, 완벽하게 발달하여 하나님을 직접 볼 수 있을 만큼 영적으로 고양되는 시기 이전에는, 진행하기에 점점 지치고, 영적 의구심을 품고, 혼돈에 빠지고, 그리하여 자신의 시대와 우주에서, 점진적인 영적 목표로부터 스스로 벗어난다. 그들은, 창조주 아들을 바라볼 때 아버지를 보는 역량을, 이런 식으로 잃어버린다. 아버지께 도달하기까지 오랫동안 투쟁하는 내내, 내재된 조건들이 그런 성취를 불가능하게 만드는 이 시기 동안, 피조물에게 가장 분명한 안전장치는, 아버지 현존이 아들들 안에 있다는 진리와-사실을 끈기 있게 붙잡는 것이다. 문자적으로 그리고 비유적으로, 영적으로 그리고 인격적으로, 아버지와 아들들은 하나다. 창조주 아들을 본 자는 아버지를 봤다는:그 말은 사실이다.
32:3.6 (361.1)
The farther down the scale of life we go, the more difficult it becomes to locate, with the eye of faith, the invisible Father. The lower creatures—and sometimes even the higher personalities—find it difficult always to envisage the Universal Father in his Creator Sons. And so, pending the time of their spiritual exaltation, when perfection of development will enable them to see God in person, they grow weary in progression, entertain spiritual doubts, stumble into confusion, and thus isolate themselves from the progressive spiritual aims of their time and universe. In this way they lose the ability to see the Father when beholding the Creator Son. The surest safeguard for the creature throughout the long struggle to attain the Father, during this time when inherent conditions make such attainment impossible, is tenaciously to hold on to the truth-fact of the Father’s presence in his Sons. Literally and figuratively, spiritually and personally, the Father and the Sons are one. It is a fact: He who has seen a Creator Son has seen the Father.
32:3.7 (361.2)
The personalities of a given universe are settled and dependable, at the start, only in accordance with their degree of kinship to Deity. When creature origin departs sufficiently far from the original and divine Sources, whether we are dealing with the Sons of God or the creatures of ministry belonging to the Infinite Spirit, there is an increase in the possibility of disharmony, confusion, and sometimes rebellion—sin.
32:3.8 (361.3)
Excepting perfect beings of Deity origin, all will creatures in the superuniverses are of evolutionary nature, beginning in lowly estate and climbing ever upward, in reality inward. Even highly spiritual personalities continue to ascend the scale of life by progressive translations from life to life and from sphere to sphere. And in the case of those who entertain the Mystery Monitors, there is indeed no limit to the possible heights of their spiritual ascent and universe attainment.
32:3.9 (361.4)
The perfection of the creatures of time, when finally achieved, is wholly an acquirement, a bona fide personality possession. While the elements of grace are freely admixed, nevertheless, the creature attainments are the result of individual effort and actual living, personality reaction to the existing environment.
32:3.10 (361.5)
The fact of animal evolutionary origin does not attach stigma to any personality in the sight of the universe as that is the exclusive method of producing one of the two basic types of finite intelligent will creatures. When the heights of perfection and eternity are attained, all the more honor to those who began at the bottom and joyfully climbed the ladder of life, round by round, and who, when they do reach the heights of glory, will have gained a personal experience which embodies an actual knowledge of every phase of life from the bottom to the top.
32:3.11 (361.6)
In all this is shown the wisdom of the Creators. It would be just as easy for the Universal Father to make all mortals perfect beings, to impart perfection by his divine word. But that would deprive them of the wonderful experience of the adventure and training associated with the long and gradual inward climb, an experience to be had only by those who are so fortunate as to begin at the very bottom of living existence.
하보나 주위를 도는 여러 우주에 완전한 피조물이 제공되며, 생명의 진화 단계를 올라가는 자들을 인도하기 위해 원형{原型} 교사 안내자들이 필요로 하는 숫자를 충족시킬 정도만 제공된다. 진화하는 인격체 유형의 체험적 본성은, 낙원-하보나 피조물의 항상-완전한 본성에 자연스러운, 시공우주{時空宇宙 cosmos} 보완물이다. 실제로는, 완전한 피조물과 완전하게 된 피조물 둘 다, 유한한 전체성을 고려할 때 미완성이다. 그러나 진화하는 우주에서 상승하는 체험으로 완전하게 된 완결성취자들과, 낙원-하보나 체계의 실존적으로 완전한 피조물이 상호보완을 위해 연합하는 동안, 두 유형은 선천적 한계로부터 해방되며, 따라서 궁극 피조물 신분이라는 숭고한 절정에 도달하기를 공동으로 시도할 수 있다.
32:3.12 (362.1)
In the universes encircling Havona there are provided only a sufficient number of perfect creatures to meet the need for pattern teacher guides for those who are ascending the evolutionary scale of life. The experiential nature of the evolutionary type of personality is the natural cosmic complement of the ever-perfect natures of the Paradise-Havona creatures. In reality, both perfect and perfected creatures are incomplete as regards finite totality. But in the complemental association of the existentially perfect creatures of the Paradise-Havona system with the experientially perfected finaliters ascending from the evolutionary universes, both types find release from inherent limitations and thus may conjointly attempt to reach the sublime heights of the ultimate of creature status.
32:3.13 (362.2)
These creature transactions are the universe repercussions of actions and reactions within the Sevenfold Deity, wherein the eternal divinity of the Paradise Trinity is conjoined with the evolving divinity of the Supreme Creators of the time-space universes in, by, and through the power-actualizing Deity of the Supreme Being.
32:3.14 (362.3)
The divinely perfect creature and the evolutionary perfected creature are equal in degree of divinity potential, but they differ in kind. Each must depend on the other to attain supremacy of service. The evolutionary superuniverses depend on perfect Havona to provide the final training for their ascending citizens, but so does the perfect central universe require the existence of the perfecting superuniverses to provide for the full development of its descending inhabitants.
32:4.1 (362.5)
Do not entertain the idea that, since the Universal Father has delegated so much of himself and his power to others, he is a silent or inactive member of the Deity partnership. Aside from personality domains and Adjuster bestowal, he is apparently the least active of the Paradise Deities in that he allows his Deity co-ordinates, his Sons, and numerous created intelligences to perform so much in the carrying out of his eternal purpose. He is the silent member of the creative trio only in that he never does aught which any of his co-ordinate or subordinate associates can do.
하나님은 각 지성 피조물마다 활동하고 체험할 필요가 있음을 충분히 이해하시며, 그렇기 때문에 하나님은, 모든 상황에서 우주의 운명 또는 피조물 가운데 가장 낮은 자의 복지를 고려하면서, 어떤 특정한 우주 상황 또는 창조적 사건과 자신 사이에 선천적으로 개재하는 피조물 무리와 창조주 인격체들에게 유익이 되도록 활동을 자제하신다. 그러나 이렇게 물러나 계심에도, 즉 무한한 협조를 이렇게 표현함에도, 하나님 편에서는 정해진 이 대리자와 인격체들에 의해서, 그리고 그들을 통해서, 이런 사건에 실제로 엄밀하게 몸소 참여하신다. 아버지는 광범한 모든 창조물의 복지를 위해, 이 모든 경로 속에서 그리고 모든 경로를 통해서 일하신다.
32:4.2 (362.6)
God has full understanding of the need of every intelligent creature for function and experience, and therefore, in every situation, be it concerned with the destiny of a universe or the welfare of the humblest of his creatures, God retires from activity in favor of the galaxy of creature and Creator personalities who inherently intervene between himself and any given universe situation or creative event. But notwithstanding this retirement, this exhibition of infinite co-ordination, there is on God’s part an actual, literal, and personal participation in these events by and through these ordained agencies and personalities. The Father is working in and through all these channels for the welfare of all his far-flung creation.
지방우주의 방침과 운영과 경영을 고려할 때, 우주 아버지는 창조주 아들 인격자 안에서 행동하신다. 하나님의 아들들의 상호관계에서, 제3 근원 및 중심으로부터 기원된 인격체의 집단 연합체들에서, 또는 인간들 같은 어떤 다른 피조물 사이의 관계에서--그런 연합체들에 관한 한, 우주 아버지께서는 결코 개입하지 않는다. 창조주 아들의 법, 즉 성좌 아버지들과 체계 주권자들 그리고 행성 왕자들의 통치가--곧 지방우주를 위해 정해진 방침과 과정이-- 항상 우선한다. 권세는 분할되지 않으며;신의 권능과 목적이 어긋나는 일은 결코 있을 수 없다. 신격들은 완전하고 영원하게 일치하신다.
32:4.3 (363.1)
As regards the policies, conduct, and administration of a local universe, the Universal Father acts in the person of his Creator Son. In the interrelationships of the Sons of God, in the group associations of the personalities of origin in the Third Source and Center, or in the relationship between any other creatures, such as human beings—as concerns such associations the Universal Father never intervenes. The law of the Creator Son, the rule of the Constellation Fathers, the System Sovereigns, and the Planetary Princes—the ordained policies and procedures for that universe—always prevail. There is no division of authority; never is there a cross working of divine power and purpose. The Deities are in perfect and eternal unanimity.
32:4.4 (363.2)
The Creator Son rules supreme in all matters of ethical associations, the relations of any division of creatures to any other class of creatures or of two or more individuals within any given group; but such a plan does not mean that the Universal Father may not in his own way intervene and do aught that pleases the divine mind with any individual creature throughout all creation, as pertains to that individual’s present status or future prospects and as concerns the Father’s eternal plan and infinite purpose.
32:4.6 (363.4)
These Thought Adjusters, the bestowals of the Universal Father, are comparatively isolated; they indwell human minds but have no discernible connection with the ethical affairs of a local creation. They are not directly co-ordinated with the seraphic service nor with the administration of systems, constellations, or a local universe, not even with the rule of a Creator Son, whose will is the supreme law of his universe.
32:4.7 (363.5)
The indwelling Adjusters are one of God’s separate but unified modes of contact with the creatures of his all but infinite creation. Thus does he who is invisible to mortal man manifest his presence, and could he do so, he would show himself to us in still other ways, but such further revelation is not divinely possible.
관할하는 우주에 관한 상세하고 완성된 지식을 아들들이 어떻게 누리게 됐는지, 그 짜임새를 우리가 볼 수 있고 알 수 있지만;하나님이 온갖 우주의 자세한 내용에 대해 그토록 충분하게 정통하고 친히 정통하신 방법에 대해서는 충분히 납득할 수 없는데, 그럼에도 최소한, 우주 아버지가 광대한 창조계의 존재들에 관한 정보를 받을 수 있고, 그들에게 자신의 현존을 나타내실 수 있는 수단을 인지할 수는 있다. 아버지는 전체 창조에서 모든 우주의 모든 체계에 있는 모든 존재의 생각과 행동 전체를, 인격 회로를 통해서 인지하신다--곧 친히 아신다. 하나님이 자기 자녀와 교류하시는 이 기법을 충분히 파악할 수는 없을지라도, “주{主}께서는 자기 자녀를 아신다”는 확신과, “그는 우리가 어디서 태어났는지 주목하신다”는 우리 각자의 확신으로 우리는 강해질 수 있다.
32:4.8 (363.6)
We can see and understand the mechanism whereby the Sons enjoy intimate and complete knowledge regarding the universes of their jurisdiction; but we cannot fully comprehend the methods whereby God is so fully and personally conversant with the details of the universe of universes, although we at least can recognize the avenue whereby the Universal Father can receive information regarding, and manifest his presence to, the beings of his immense creation. Through the personality circuit the Father is cognizant—has personal knowledge—of all the thoughts and acts of all the beings in all the systems of all the universes of all creation. Though we cannot fully grasp this technique of God’s communion with his children, we can be strengthened in the assurance that the “Lord knows his children,” and that of each one of us “he takes note where we were born.”
32:4.10 (363.8)
God is not a self-centered personality; the Father freely distributes himself to his creation and to his creatures. He lives and acts, not only in the Deities, but also in his Sons, whom he intrusts with the doing of everything that it is divinely possible for them to do. The Universal Father has truly divested himself of every function which it is possible for another being to perform. And this is just as true of mortal man as of the Creator Son who rules in God’s stead at the headquarters of a local universe. Thus we behold the outworking of the ideal and infinite love of the Universal Father.
32:4.11 (364.1)
In this universal bestowal of himself we have abundant proof of both the magnitude and the magnanimity of the Father’s divine nature. If God has withheld aught of himself from the universal creation, then of that residue he is in lavish generosity bestowing the Thought Adjusters upon the mortals of the realms, the Mystery Monitors of time, who so patiently indwell the mortal candidates for life everlasting.
32:4.12 (364.2)
The Universal Father has poured out himself, as it were, to make all creation rich in personality possession and potential spiritual attainment. God has given us himself that we may be like him, and he has reserved for himself of power and glory only that which is necessary for the maintenance of those things for the love of which he has thus divested himself of all things else.
공간을 지나가는 우주들의 행진에는 크고 영광스런 목적이 있다. 너희 모든 필사자의 투쟁은 헛되지 않다. 우리 모두는, 하나의 광대한 계획 곧 거대한 계획사업의 일부분이며, 어떤 한 시대든지 그리고 어떤 한 생애 동안이든지, 그 이행업무의 매우 많은 부분을 보지 못하는 것은, 그것이 너무 방대하기 때문이다. 우리 모두는, 하나님들이 감독하고 열심히 작업하시는 영원한 기획의 한 부분이다. 경이롭고 보편적인 전체 짜임새가, 위대한 제1 근원 및 중심의 무한한 사고{思考}와 영원한 목적의 박자로 이뤄진 음악에 맞춰 공간을 지나가면서 장엄하게 움직이고 있다.
32:5.1 (364.3)
There is a great and glorious purpose in the march of the universes through space. All of your mortal struggling is not in vain. We are all part of an immense plan, a gigantic enterprise, and it is the vastness of the undertaking that renders it impossible to see very much of it at any one time and during any one life. We are all a part of an eternal project which the Gods are supervising and outworking. The whole marvelous and universal mechanism moves on majestically through space to the music of the meter of the infinite thought and the eternal purpose of the First Great Source and Center.
32:5.2 (364.4)
The eternal purpose of the eternal God is a high spiritual ideal. The events of time and the struggles of material existence are but the transient scaffolding which bridges over to the other side, to the promised land of spiritual reality and supernal existence. Of course, you mortals find it difficult to grasp the idea of an eternal purpose; you are virtually unable to comprehend the thought of eternity, something never beginning and never ending. Everything familiar to you has an end.
개별 인생, 어떤 영역의 지속기간, 또는 어떤 일련의 연결된 사건이든지 그 연대기{年代記}를 볼 때, 우리는 분리된 연속 시간과 씨름하고 있는 것처럼 보일 수 있으며;모든 것은 시작과 끝이 있는 것처럼 보인다. 그리고 그런 일련의 체험이나 인생이나 시대 또는 시기들을 연속으로 배열하면, 영원성의 무한한 표면을 가로질러 순간적으로 번쩍 스쳐 지나가는 시간세계의 독립된 사건, 즉 하나의 일직선 도로를 구성하는 것처럼 보일 수 있다. 그러나 우리가 무대 뒤편에서 이 모든 것을 바라보면, 더 포괄적인 조망과 더욱 완성된 이해로 말미암아, 그런 설명은 부적당하고 앞뒤가 맞지 않고 도저히 어울리지 않아서, 시간세계의 진행사항들을 적절히 설명할 수 없고, 숨겨있는 목적과 영원성의 근본적인 반응을 달리 상호 관련시킬 수 없음을 알게 된다.
32:5.3 (364.5)
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.
필사 정신에게 설명할 목적에서, 영원성을 한 주기{週期}로, 그리고 영원한 목적을 끝없는 궤도{軌道}, 즉 어떤 면에서 순간적이고 물질적인 시간 주기와 동조된 영원성 주기로 상상하는 것이, 나에게는 더 적당해 보인다. 영원성 주기의 일부분을 형성하고 그것과 관련된 시간의 부분을 볼 때, 우리는 덧없는 일시적 존재들이 태어나고 살다가 죽는 것과 똑같이, 그런 현세적인 시기들이 시작되고 계속되다가 끝나는 것으로 인식할 수밖에 없다. 대부분의 인간은 섭리사와 융합하는 영 수준을 성취하지 못하기 때문에 죽는데, 죽음으로 인한 변질은, 그들이 시간의 족쇄와 물질 창조의 굴레를 벗어날 수 있는 유일하게 가능한 과정이며, 그리하여 점진적인 영원성 행진에 영적 발걸음을 맞추게 된다. 너희는, 고통스러운 덧없는 인생과 물질 실존에서 생존함으로써, 영원한 시대라는 원궤도{圓軌道}를 둘러싼 공간 세계들과 함께 끊임없이 회전하는 영원성과 계속 접촉할 수 있고, 심지어 그 영원성의 일부분이 될 수도 있다.
32:5.4 (364.6)
To me it seems more fitting, for purposes of explanation to the mortal mind, to conceive of eternity as a cycle and the eternal purpose as an endless circle, a cycle of eternity in some way synchronized with the transient material cycles of time. As regards the 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 you to continue on in touch with, even as a part of, eternity, swinging on forever with the worlds of space around the circle of the eternal ages.
32:5.5 (365.1)
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.
32:5.6 (365.2)
Frankly, eternity is incomprehensible to the finite mind of time. You simply cannot grasp it; you cannot comprehend it. I do not completely visualize it, and even if I did, it would be impossible for me to convey my concept to the human mind. Nevertheless, I have done my best to portray something of our viewpoint, to tell you somewhat of our understanding of things eternal. I am endeavoring to aid you in the crystallization of your thoughts about these values which are of infinite nature and eternal import.
32:5.8 (365.4)
The goal of eternity is ahead! The adventure of divinity attainment lies before you! The race for perfection is on! whosoever will may enter, and certain victory will crown the efforts of every human being who will run the race of faith and trust, depending every step of the way on the leading of the indwelling Adjuster and on the guidance of that good spirit of the Universe Son, which so freely has been poured out upon all flesh.