Havona

Havona is the name The Urantia Book gives to the central universe, the "planetary family" of one billion worlds that surrounds the motionless Isle of Paradise 14:0.1. The book calls it "the one and only settled, perfect, and established aggregation of worlds," a universe that was created perfect and "is not an evolutionary development" 14:0.2. It is presented as the pattern the Creator Sons try to reproduce in their own universes and as the final proving ground for mortals on their way to Paradise 14:0.2 14:3.4.

Structure

The billion Havona worlds lie in seven concentric circuits just outside the three circuits of Paradise satellites. The innermost circuit has upwards of thirty-five million worlds and the outermost over two hundred and forty-five million 14:1.9. Each circuit is pervaded by one of the Seven Spirits of the Circuits, an impersonal representation of the Infinite Spirit 14:1.9. The worlds do not stack but follow each other "in an orderly linear procession," and the whole central universe turns around Paradise "in one vast plane" of ten circuits 14:1.10. The book adds that physically the Paradise and Havona circuits are a single system, separated only for administrative purposes 14:1.10.

Time is not reckoned on Paradise, but it applies in Havona, where each world keeps time by its circuit 14:1.11. The inner circuit takes almost a thousand years to go once around Paradise, and this period, the Paradise-Havona day, is "just seven minutes, three and one-eighth seconds less than one thousand years of the present Urantia leap-year calendar" 14:1.12. It is the standard time measure for the seven superuniverses 14:1.13.

Beyond the seventh circuit swirl "an unbelievable number" of dark gravity bodies that neither reflect nor absorb light and "so completely encircle and enshroud Havona as to hide it from the view of even near-by inhabited universes" 14:1.14. They move in two belts, the inner counterclockwise and the outer clockwise, and the book says this balances Havona's gravity 14:1.15. The authors regard these bodies as "unique in the master universe" 14:1.18.

A perfect physical world

The book insists that spirit beings live on "actual spheres of a material nature," and that Havona's worlds are "actual and literal" even though their substance differs from that of evolutionary planets 14:2.1. Havona energy is threefold, where superuniverse energy is twofold, matching a creation made by the Trinity rather than by a Creator Son and a Creative Spirit 14:2.2. Its matter is built from exactly one thousand basic chemical elements and seven forms of energy, giving its natives forty-nine distinct senses 14:2.3. A Urantia mortal taken there "would there be deaf, blind, and utterly lacking in all other sense reactions" 14:2.4.

Little more is described. "You cannot be told much about Havona; to understand its beauty and grandeur you must see it. But there are real rivers and lakes on these perfect worlds" 14:3.7. Decay and death have no part in Havona life; lower living things change form "but they do not resolve by process of decay and cellular death" 14:4.9. Each of the billion worlds is "an original, unique, and exclusive creation," shaped by its resident ruler, "and this is just why no two of them are alike" 14:5.6.

Government and inhabitants

"Concerning the government of the central universe, there is none" 14:3.1. There are no courts and no legislatures, only administration, which is planetary and in the hands of the Eternals of Days, one on each world 14:3.1-3. The book says sin "can be reckoned as impossible of occurrence," but it presents this as an inference from history: no Havona native, and no pilgrim ever admitted, has transgressed the will of Deity 14:2.9.

The Havona natives are "all the offspring of the Paradise Trinity," without parents and not reproducing. The book admits that it cannot portray their creation, calling the story "an attempt to time-space an eternity fact," and states that "the Paradise-Havona system is eternal" 14:4.10. Havoners have a life of their own apart from the ascension plan, including a progression between and within circuits 14:4.12-17. Havona is also home to the pattern beings on which all creatures are modeled: "Even the mortals of time have their goal and ideals of creature existence on the outer circuits" 14:4.18. The angelic ministers of the central universe are the supernaphim 26:0.1, whose secondary and tertiary orders are offspring of the Master Spirits and of the Spirits of the Circuits 26:1.12.

The pilgrim's path

Ascenders are carried past the dark gravity bodies to the outer circuit by transport seconaphim 26:4.11. They arrive "with only one sort of perfection, perfection of purpose"; their faith has been tested and they are "disappointment proof" 26:4.13.

Ability to comprehend is the mortal passport to Paradise. Willingness to believe is the key to Havona.26:4.15

The circuits are traversed from the outside in, each with its own attainment 14:5.4:

• Seventh circuit: comprehension of the Master Spirit of one's own superuniverse.
• Sixth: realization of Supremacy, which prepares the pilgrim for the "Deity adventure."
• Fifth: attainment of the Infinite Spirit.
• Fourth: attainment of the Eternal Son.
• Third: recognition of the Universal Father.
• Second: familiarity with the Paradise hosts.
• First: acceptance into the service of Paradise, followed by Paradise residence and the Corps of the Finality.

The book notes that the "circles of progress in the human mind," the psychic circles, were named after this arrangement 14:5.4. No time limit is set, but while some local universe training worlds may be skipped, "no pilgrim may avoid passing through all seven of the Havona circuits" 26:3.2. "Time is of little consequence on the Havona circles … achievement is the final and supreme test" 26:5.5. Paradise Citizens travel the circuits in the opposite direction, from the inside out 26:3.1, and the first pilgrim from time, Grandfanda, landed on the outer circuit at the same time as the first Paradise pilgrims reached the inner one 26:5.1.

The book promises variety: "Monotony is not a part of the Havona career" 14:5.9. At the end, ascenders go to sleep on the inner circuit and "awaken on the shores of Paradise" 26:11.6. The text counts this as the third of three transitions: "Your first transition was indeed death, the second an ideal sleep, and now the third metamorphosis is the true rest, the relaxation of the ages" 26:11.8.

What Havona is for

Paper 14 lists the ways Havona serves seven orders of beings, while allowing that it may serve "many purposes which are not revealed to me" 14:6.5:

• To the Universal Father it gives "supreme parental satisfaction" and "love satiety on near-equality levels" 14:6.6.
• For the Eternal Son it was the arena in which he could demonstrate bestowal ministry 14:6.13; the book says he bestowed himself seven times on the seven circuits 119:0.2.
• For the Infinite Spirit the worlds are "the mind laboratory of the creators of the cosmic mind" 14:6.20.
• It is "the eternal and perfect proof of the spiritual reality" of the Supreme Being 14:6.23.
• It is the training ground where "the Paradise Michaels are prepared" for creating universes 14:6.27, and where the Universe Mother Spirits receive their prepersonal training 14:6.32.
• For mortals it is "the portal to Paradise and God attainment" 14:6.38; "Paradise is the home, and Havona the workshop and playground, of the finaliters" 14:6.39.

Looking ahead, the author inclines "to the opinion that the potentials of eternal Havona are really unlimited," and expects it to serve as a training universe for beings of future ages, including those of outer space 14:6.41.

Havona and the Bible

The book reads a biblical phrase as an unwitting statement about Havona time: "You have unwittingly read the truth when your eyes rested on the statement 'A day is as a thousand years with God'" 14:1.12 Ps 90:4; 2 P 3:8. The editors of the footnoted text link the dark gravity bodies that hide the central universe to biblical images of God surrounded by darkness 14:1.14 Ps 18:11; Job 22:12-14. The welcome given to pilgrims on the outer circuit is framed by the command "Be you perfect, even as I am perfect" 26:4.12 Mt 5:48, which the book treats as a literal invitation to the ascent through Havona to Paradise.

Index of references

Havona is the central universe that is at the center of all creation, a universe without beginning or end and perfect. At the center of Havona is the stationary Isle of Paradise, the geographic center of infinity and the dwelling place of God. 0:0.5

the awakening in Havona represents for us the celebration of the fourth mortal jubilee 27:7.8

When we mortals attain Havona, we are granted clearance for Ascendington, one of the Sacred Spheres surrounding Paradise, where we are most welcome, but we are not permitted to visit the other six sacred worlds. 13:2.6

The original Michael, the firstborn Creator Son, made the Havona passage of all ascending pilgrims as a bestowal in the times of Grandfanda, the first mortal to arrive in Havona 7:5.8-9

Havona circuits

• First Havona circuit
• The first Havona circuit is the innermost circuit 26:11.2-3
• There are upwards of 35 million worlds in the innermost Havona circuit 14:1.9
• the first circuit, and the last one, is inhabited by multiple types of unrevealed beings that provide the superaphic complements of rest with many opportunities for the education of the ascending pilgrims 26:11
• Among those who dwell on this inner circuit are the creature-trinitized sons. 26:11.2-3 27:3.3
• Much of an ascender’s time on the last circuit is devoted to a continuation of the study of the impending problems of Paradise residence. 26:11.1
• Arrival on the first circuit of Havona signifies the acceptance of the candidates of time into the service of Paradise. Here the task is progressive spiritual attainment 14:5.4
• Second Havona circuit
• counselors and advisers function on the second circle as the instructors of the children of time 26:10
• defeated pilgrims, those who are unsuccessful in attain Deity, are advanced to the second circuit before returning to superuniverses 26:10.2-4
• the task in this circle is gaining familiarity with Paradise hosts 14:5.4
• Third Havona circuit
• On the worlds of this circuit the Father guides maintain schools of wisdom and colleges of technique wherein all the beings inhabiting the central universe serve as teachers. 26:9
• the task here is the recognition of Universal Father. The attainment of the Universal Father is the passport to eternity, notwithstanding the remaining circuits to be traversed. 14:5.4 26:9.2
• Ascending mortals become fifth degree graduate spirits when we meet the Universal Father. 31:3.4
• Fourth Havona circuit
• The fourth Havona circuit is sometimes called the “circuit of the Sons. 26:8.1
• The Son finders are the superaphic ministers of the ascending mortals of the fourth circuit. In addition to preparing us for the realization the Trinity relationships of the Eternal Son, they fully instruct us for our success.26:8.2
• the task here is the recognition of Eternal Son 14:5.4 26:8.1-2
• Fifth Havona circuit
• task here is recognition of Infinite Spirit 14:5.4 26:7.1-6
• Trinity guides are the tireless ministers of the fifth circle of the Havona training of the advancing pilgrims of time and space. The spiritual graduates are here designated “candidates for the Deity adventure”. Seldom does the quest for the Infinite Spirit fail of consummation, and when their subjects have succeeded in this phase of the Deity adventure, the Trinity guides prepare to transfer them to the ministry of the Son finders on the fourth circle of Havona. 26:7
• Sixth Havona circuit
• We mortals reach the degree of fourth stage spirits in this circuit. 31:3.4
• The supremacy guides function only on the sixth circle of the central universe. Ascenders of space are designated “spiritual graduates” when translated from the seventh to the sixth circle and are placed under the immediate supervision of the supremacy guides. 26:6
• the task here is recognition of Supreme 14:5.4 26:6 56:7.2
• Seventh Havona circuit
• this circuit is comprised of over 245 million worlds. In the others there are minor intermediate proportions 14:1.9
• this is the outermost circuit 14:1.9 26:4.12
• pilgrim helpers, who operate in this circle, help us mortals in three areas: first, the supreme understanding of the Paradise Trinity; second, the spiritual comprehension of the Father-Son partnership; and third, the intellectual recognition of the Infinite Spirit. 26:5
• the task here is recognition of one’s Master Spirit 14:5.4 26:5.5
• pilot world of 7th Havona circuit
• When we awake for first time in the central universe, we are received and domiciled on the pilot world of the seventh Havona circuit. 14:3.4 14:5.4 26:3.2 26:4.12-13 106:2.4
• The personality realities of the Supreme Being come forth from the Paradise Deities and on the pilot world of the outer Havona circuit unify with the power prerogatives of the Almighty Supreme coming up from the Creator divinities of the grand universe. 56:6.2 106:2.4

Circuits of Havona, generally

• The clockwise processional of Paradise and Havona circuits rotate around Paradise. 14:1.3
• Adjusted ascendant mortals who reach Paradise and the Corps of the Finality undergo training on circuit headquarters planets before serving under the guidance of the Ancients of Days. 22:1.10
• Time is defined by the length of year on each unique Havona circuit. 14:1.11
• The Seven Spirits of the Havona Circuits co-ordinate celestial affairs throughout each of the perfectly balanced and exquisitely organized circuits, representing a specialized aspect of the Infinite Spirit within each. 14:1.9 17:0.11 17:5 26:2.6
• One Census Director is stationed on each circuit within Havona, under the jurisdiction of the Ancients of Days, with seven Directors operating in total. 24:2.3
• Recognition requirements on each circuit in the central universe serve as milestones for ascending pilgrims on their journey towards spiritual attainment and eventual admission to the Corps of the Finality on Paradise. 14:5.4 26:5.4

Creation of Havona

• The Architects of Master Universe, including the three master planners and absonite administrators from the second Architect eventuation, may have contributed to the planning of the Havona Level. 31:9.4
• The Eternal Son, cocreator with the Universal Father, created the central universe of Havona. 6:1.6 32:3.1
• In this original transaction by Infinite Spirit, the Father achieved the realization of personality as the Eternal Father of the Original Son and the Eternal Source of the Isle of Paradise. 0:3.22 0:11.1 (8:1.4,7) 105:2.7
• The order of energy organization in Havona is threefold, by the Trinity, while in the evolutionary universes of space it is twofold. 14:2.2
• The Infinite Spirit eternalizes concurrently with the birth of the Havona worlds, deitizing as the Conjoint Creator. 8:1.7
• God projected eternal Havona with the Son and in the Spirit, establishing a pattern of co-ordinate participation in creation—sharing for all Sons and Daughters of God. 54:2.1
• The Eternal Son's bestowal in Havona was transcendental, adding to the experience of all inhabitants and pilgrims. 7:5.5-7

Function of Havona

• The Eternal Son is the basis for absolute confidence in Father. 14:6.12
• Havona serves as a buffer between absolute Paradise and finite creations, illustrating an absonite level of transcendental existence that is superevolutional and superexperiential in nature. 105:7.2
• Havona was created solely for the satisfaction of God. 4:0.2
• The God of universes favors Havona and Paradise as the eternal power nucleus for universe expansion. 14:6.10
• Havona exemplifies the future-eternal unity of the Supreme through unifying the power potentials of the Almighty with the spiritual nature. 14:6.24
• The billion spheres of the central universe are the final proving ground for ascending creatures in the great plan of creature ascension. 14:3.4
• Havona, the future finishing school for outer spacers, will continue to serve as a training universe for absonite beings across all universe ages. 14:6.41
• Havona's full development requires superuniverses for the evolutionary perfected creature to attain supremacy of service and for the perfect central universe to provide final training. 32:3.14-15
• The Havona worlds serve as the mind laboratory for the creators of the cosmic mind, shaping the intellect of every creature in existence. 14:6.20
• The central universe of Havona serves as the beauteous pattern for all universes, existing primarily for the pleasure of the infinite Creators. 4:0.2 11:9.6 14:4.15 32:3.3-4 44:0.13
• Possible future citizens of Havona may include univitatia, future types of mortals from superuniverses, and incoming spiritual aristocracy of outer universes. 19:6.4-7
• The purpose of Havona is the satisfaction of the divine nature, serving as a pattern creation for all universes and a finishing school for pilgrims on their way to Paradise, ultimately existing primarily for the pleasure and satisfaction of the perfect and infinite Creators. 4:0.2 14:6
• Havona serves various beings, contributing to their satisfaction through diverse activities. 14:6
• The Creator Sons recognize that the central creation is the primary source of overcontrol, stabilizing their local universes, while the presence of the Supreme and the Ultimate in Havona further reinforces this understanding. 14:6.29
• The billion spheres of the central universe are the training grounds for ascending creatures from the evolutionary worlds, guiding them towards ultimate residence on Paradise. 14:3.4
• Paradise is the workshop and playground of finaliters, and every God-knowing mortal craves to be one. 14:6.39
• The omnipresence of God is discernably present only in Paradise and the central universe, with a wide range of manifestation through various channels. 3:1.6

Individual worlds of Havona

• The billion worlds of Havona are arranged in one plane of 7 concentric circuits surrounding Paradise satellites. 14:1.9-10
• The resident Eternals of Days, directed by one Eternal of Days, ensure the marvelously perfect and divinely efficient administration of Havona and its billion worlds. 14:3.3 15:2.9
• In the vast central creation of Havona, every world is a refreshing originality, wholly unlike any other world. 14:5.6 18:2.4
• The worlds on the Havona planetary circuits follow each other in an orderly linear procession. 14:1.10
• In Havona worlds, mind differs on each sphere, serving as the pattern for all creature intellects. 14:6.20
• One Universal Censor is stationed on each of the billion worlds in the central universe, attached to the planetary administration of the resident Eternal of Days. 19:4.2
• The Infinite Spirit ministers personally in Havona, serving as an inspiring pattern for all beings in the divine universe. 8:4.3 16:2.3

Life in Havona (14:5)

• Only a small fraction of planetary capacity is currently utilized for furthering the Father's universal plan of mortal ascension. 14:3.5
• Ascenders spend time on every world on their way inward through Havona to Paradise, each unique and exclusive in its architecture, embellishment, structures, and creations. 18:2.4 24:6.3
• Havona now traversed by ascending mortals differs in many respects from the central universe as it was before the times of Grandfanda, demonstrating modifications initiated by the Supreme Being in response to the arrival of the first of his experiential children. 24:7.9
• Harmony is universal language in Havona for men, angels, and spirits, with the power to transform a whole world. 44:1.15
• In Havona, the inherently natural rules of conduct reveal the reason of righteousness and the rule of justice, embodying fairness. 14:5.3
• In the central universe, there is little need of language, as perfect understanding prevails among the Gods. 44:4.3
• On Orvonton, mind is finite; in Havona, absonite; on Paradise, absolute. 42:10.7
• In the central universe of Havona, only administrative direction is necessary as there is no need for government, courts, or legislatures among beings of native perfection. 14:3.1-2
• Ascending pilgrims from the seven superuniverses pass through Havona without a set time limit. 26:3.2
• The Graduate Guide stays with the pilgrim throughout their journey through the seven circuits of Havona worlds. 24:6.3
• Secondary supernaphim are angels of the seven planetary circuits of Havona, created by the Master Spirits. 26:1.12 26:2.4-6
• Sin has never occurred in the spiritually perfect universe of Havona. 14:2.9
• Training in the central universe is quantitative, qualitative, and experiential, encompassing intellectual, spiritual, and supreme aspects for the pilgrims on the various Havona circles. 26:5.4

Nature and constitution

• The three Architects of Master Universe co-ordinate the one billion perfect spheres of Havona. 31:9.4
• There are seven basic life groups on the Havona worlds, each existing in three distinct phases, divided into seventy major divisions and one thousand minor divisions, including material, morontial, spiritual, absonite, ultimate, coabsolute, and absolute forms. 14:4.1-8
• Havona consists of 1000 chemical elements and 7 threefold energies, a universe of actual spheres with unique energy organization. Compare that with the architectural spheres following the links. 14:2 56:1.1
• The Twelvefold Adjutants of Havona operate within its circuits. 30:1.59
• The central perfect eternal universe of Havona is the core of all creation, surrounded by one billion spheres of sublime perfection. 0:0.5 8:3.1 12:1.10-11 14:0.1
• Paradise, as the actual source of all material universes, functions prior to space and before time, with their ultimate repository in space and their revealer and regulator in time, in perfect coordination with the architectural spheres of Havona. 56:1.1
• Havona is a divine universe comprised of 1 billion perfect worlds circling Paradise, ruled by Eternals of Days and directed by Supreme Trinity Personalities. 8:1.4 12:1.10 14:0.1 14:4.15 18:2.1 26:3.1
• Havona energy systems, being triune, reveal a unique order of energy organization not found in the evolutionary universes of space. 11:8.7 14:2.2 42:2.16
• From the finite perspective, the appearance of Havona marks the true beginning of reality, as testified by the Infinite Spirit and the eternal nature of the central universe. 8:1.9 105:2.7
• Havona is an existential realm unaffected by growth, in contrast to the grand universe where experiential growth is the hallmark of evolution. 116:0.3
• about the Havona energy see link to triata | triata
• Havona's largest inhabited spheres in the grand universe exhibit a unique planetary construction, utilizing immense dark gravity bodies to achieve perfect physical balance and harmony, with the aid of antigravity for material and spiritual organization. 14:3.6
• In the seven superuniverses, there is a wide gulf between cosmic energy and divine spirit; however, in Havona, matter and spirit are innately harmonious. 116:6.7
• In Havona, there is no decay or cellular death, only transmutation and transformation. 14:4.9
• Real rivers and lakes are just a glimpse of the unimaginable beauty and grandeur found in the architecture, lighting, heating, biologic, and artistic embellishment of the spheres in Havona. 14:3.7
• The division of Havona from the superuniverses in space does not line up with the clear-cut administrative boundaries of the grand universe. 41:0.2
• The standard day in Havona is equivalent to 1000 years on Earth and is derived from the time it takes for the inner circuit to orbit Paradise. 14:1.12-13
• The stimuli of Havona would render a Urantian devoid of senses, if transported there. 14:2.4
• In the Central Universe of Havona, bodies with dark gravity exceed the mass of the 7 superuniverses. 12:1.4

Inhabitants of Havona

• In Havona, one million Havona Centers oversee a thousand worlds each, ensuring perfect energy regulation and control in the divine universe. 29:2.12
• In Havona, there are two billion and seventy Stationary Sons of the Trinity, part of the grand corps of Trinity administrators and rulers. 19:4.8
• Paradise Citizens and pilgrim helpers arrived in Havona in the days of Grandfanda to welcome ascenders to the central universe. 26:5.1

Perfection of Havona

• In Havona, energy and spirit states exist in perfect balance, reflecting the exquisite spiritual harmony of the eternal creation. 7:2.2
• Havona is the ultimate, divine, and non-evolutionary universe, created by the thought and word of the Eternal Son for the eternal Deities. 14:0.2 32:3.1
• Havona is the perfect revelation of Paradise, showcasing the master pattern of the absolute of patterns that exist within the cosmos. 11:9.5 115:3.14
• Havona is a perfection-limited creation expanding cosmic destiny and liberation into evolutionary superuniverses. 118:0.13
• In Havona, perfection ensures total harmony that transcends all possibilities of disharmony in the central universe. 10:6.17
• The sacred spheres of Paradise emit spiritual light to all realms of the universe, including Havona and the seven superuniverses. 13:0.3-4

Seven Spirits of Havona Circuits pervade; not part of original

• The Seven Spirits of the Circuits oversee the seven planetary circuits of Havona, each a creation within the pattern universe. 26:2.6
• The Supreme Being functions as a spirit personality in Havona, while his other functions in the universe remain uncertain. 116:0.5

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Be you perfect 26:4.12 — Gn 17:1; 1 Ki 8:61; Lv 19:2; Dt 18:13; Mt 5:48; 2 Co 13:11; Jm 1:4; 1 P 1:16.
• Know as we are known 44:4.3 — Jn 10:15; 1 Co 13:12.

Where it appears

Havona is linked in 188 paragraphs of the text; the first 40 are listed.

See also

• Eternals of Days
• Havona natives
• Havona pilgrims
• Seven Spirits of Havona Circuits

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