Universe

The Father, Son, and Spirit are perfectly one in administering universes. 8:6.6

The Architects of the Master Universe embody the Deity concept through the eventuation of universe capacities, transforming undifferentiated potentials into defined plans in perfect anticipation of future needs. 118:4.6

In the Urantia Book

Nature of the universe

• The brief history of the universe reveals the Master Force Organizers mobilizing energies to become gravity responsive to the Universal Father, leading to the evolution of intelligent creatures who ascend to become like him. 56:9.12-13 105:4.9
• The universe can never contain the infinity of God, for 'Do not I fill heaven and earth?' says the Lord. 3:1.2
• The will to do God's will offers the only true escape from material and intellectual limitations, providing a pathway to eternal life in a universe characterized by love, law, unity, and progressive Deity attainment. 101:10.6
• Our universe exists on finite, transcendental, and absolute levels, where the drama of personality performance and energy metamorphosis unfolds endlessly. 105:7.15
• The universe is an infinitely integrated aggregation of real units, all subject to the destiny of the whole, presenting deity activities on diverse levels of cosmic realities, mind meanings, and spirit values, divinely co-ordinated by the Universal Father. 0:1.1 112:5.1
• To be perfect as the Father in heaven is possible because the universe is truly fatherly. 140:4.11
• The entire universe, in all its complexity, is unquestionably friendly. 133:1.4 133:5.8 140:5.11 180:5.8 196:3.8
• The universe is like a curious, thinking scientist observing and classifying phenomena, striving to transcend material things to achieve spiritual goals. 195:7.22-23
• The universe is a creation of mind, mind planned, mind made, and mind administered, operating as a mechanism of law and a manifestation of the First Source and Center. 42:11.1-2
• The universe of universes, including our small world called Urantia, is managed by wise and all-powerful beings who do not cater to our approval, convenience, whims, or curiosity; it is our duty as Life Carriers to patiently wait and cooperate with the rule of wisdom, the reign of power, and the march of progress. 65:5.3
• Progress in the universal economy is fueled by the inherent motion towards achievement, not by egocentrism. 28:6.18
• The universe's existence is not explainable; it exists because God so willed. 4:0.1 115:1.4
• The universe, not inevitable, accidental, or self-existent, is a work of creation wholly subject to the unlimited sovereignty of God. 3:6.2
• The universe, divinely correlated by one infinite mind, is a vast integrated mechanism where the perfect and imperfect are interrelated, allowing finite creatures to ascend in obedience to the Universal Father's mandate of perfection. 56:0.1
• Surviving mortals achieve identity in an expanding, always relative seven-dimensional universe. 130:7.7
• The entire universe is a vast training school, preparing personalities for advancing service and improving function throughout the realms of space. 37:6.2 37:10.6 48:8.3 49:0.1
• The watchword of the universe is progress, as Divine providence works consistently towards the evolution of mankind. 4:1.2
• In the final completion of the master universe, we will look back at its history as just the beginning, with limitless possibilities of eternal youth. 106:7.8 115:3.16
• No interpretation of the universe holds value without acknowledgment of the I AM, the infinite God who created and sustains it. 195:7.18

Physical aspects

• Soon, new telescopes will reveal 375 million galaxies, reshaping astronomers' view of the universe. 12:2.3
• God's indwelling Adjusters serve as a unified mode of contact with creatures within his all but infinite creation. 32:4.7
• The universe is constantly being renewed by the unchanging laws of an ever-adaptable God. 4:1.6 102:7.1-2
• The universe, emanated from Paradise through Unqualified Absolute, is perfectly coordinated and unified in its origin, despite seeming dual in the superuniverses and triune in the central universe, with the Isle of Paradise serving as the source of all material universes throughout eternity. 42:2.3 56:1.1
• The endless, limitless cosmos is all-inclusive and unqualified, existing as the universal, eternal, absolute, and infinite creation of the Infinite I AM. 102:3.10
• The growing cosmos constantly disrupts established circuits with new energy and mass, creating an unsettled universe seeking equilibrium. 116:5.16-17
• about the expanding of the universe see links below | red shift; space:space respiration 42:0.1 42:1.1
• The control and coordination of gravity on Paradise is sufficient for an infinite universe, even if creation continues indefinitely to infinity, as the power of control and coordination resting in the Isle of Paradise would still be adequate. 3:4.2 8:4.1
• The universe, delimited and moving in a vast elongated plane around Paradise, is a finite but orderly creation within the circle of the eternal existence. 15:0.1 32:5.5 42:1.9 56:1.1
• God preserves the eternally stable universe by upholding all things with the word of his power. 4:1.5 15:8.10
• The reality of the material universe is determined by the physical presence of the Infinite. 5:2.1
• The grand universe, a material creation of physical grandeur and spirit sublimity, is also a magnificent and responsive living organism penetrated by intelligence circuits and energy lanes. 116:7.1
• The universe would collapse if God ceased to uphold it, for without him there would be no reality or renewal. 4:1.6

Purpose

• The postulated ever-expanding universe of infinity beyond the master universe transcends all limitations. 12:1.16
• The purpose of the universe is fulfilled by the absonite architects, the Supreme Creators, and the Supreme Being in a harmonious progression. 106:3.1
• The destiny of the universe unfolds through successive ages of growth and evolution, leading towards the ultimate realization of limitless potentials in absolute infinity. 105:7.18 106:0.18
• The Father's house is a journey of ceaseless progression towards spiritual perfection. 181:1.2
• God's relation to the material, intellectual, and spiritual phenomena of the universe of universes is executed throughout all time by the Universal Father with an eternal purpose. 4

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.

• God at hand & far away 3:1.2 — Jer 23:23-24.
• God is all and in all 3:1.2 — Acts 17:28; Ro 11:36; 1 Co 8:6; 1 Co 12:6; 1 Co 15:28; Eph 1:23; Eph 4:6; Col 1:17; Col 3:11; Heb 2:10-11. *God fills all in all*: Eph 1:23; Eph 4:10.
• God works all in all 3:1.2 — 1 Co 12:6.
• Heaven of heavens 3:1.2 — 1 Ki 8:27; 2 Ch 2:6; 2 Ch 6:18; Neh 9:6; Ps 148:4; Dt 10:14.
• Be you perfect 140:4.11 — 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.
• Meek shall inherit earth 140:5.11 — Mt 5:5.
• Thy will done 140:5.11 — Mt 6:10; Mt 26:39,42,44; Mk 14:36,39; Lk 11:2; Lk 22:42.
• Father of all spirits 42:11.1 — Heb 12:9.
• Greatest be server of all 28:6.18 — Acts 20:35.
• Greatest be server of all (quotation) 28:6.18 — Mt 20:26-27; Mt 23:11-12; Mk 9:35; Mk 10:43-44; Lk 22:26.
• Be you perfect, as I am 56:0.1 — 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.
• Invisible God manifested 32:4.7 — Col 1:15-16; 1 Ti 1:17; Heb 11:27.
• God preserves them all 4:1.6 — Job 26:7.
• Constantly renewed 4:1.6 — Ps 104:30.
• The infinite I AM 102:3.10 — Ex 3:13-14.
• Word made flesh 8:4.1 — Jn 1:14.
• Upholds all things by power 4:1.5 — Heb 1:3.
• Send forth creator sons 4:1.5 — Ps 104:30.
• Stability amid instability 4:1.5 — Job 26:7.
• Heaven: many abodes 181:1.2 — Jn 14:2-3.
• Children of light 181:1.2 — Lk 16:8; Jn 12:36; Eph 5:8; 1 Th 5:5.
• Glory to glory 181:1.2 — 2 Co 3:18.
• Become spiritually perfected 181:1.2 — 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.

Where it appears

Universe is linked in 719 paragraphs of the text; the first 40 are listed.

See also

• grand universe
• local universes
• master universe
• reality
• space

What links here