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The Big Picture · Urantia Radio

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  We're going to be talking about the big picture, and it's part
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  of our Can You Handle the Truth series, where we really dig deep
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  on some of the concepts in the Arantia book.
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  And today we're going to look at AER 12 on the universes of
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  universes. That's what we've got in store
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  800-654-0759. For you astrophysicists, junior
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  astronomers, and curious star students, I bring you the big
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  picture, sponsored by a perfector of wisdom.
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  And he was given authority to do so by the ancients of days.
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  And that in itself, if you understand the level of
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  personalities we're talking about, is a very big deal.
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  Also, the Urantia book online illustrated version comes with a
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  really nice set of imagery you can check out if you go to the
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  foundation, which is urantia.org and look for the your or, or
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  even better, go to truthbook.com and check out their illustrated
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  version of the Urantia book. I haven't recommended that in a
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  long, long time, but it's a it's a great resource@truthbook.com.
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  So let's read from paper 12 on the immensity of of the
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  far-flung creation of the Universal Father.
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  They say that it is utterly beyond the grasp of finite
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  imagination. They write.
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  The enormousness of the master universe staggers the concept of
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  even my own order of being. But the mortal mind can be
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  taught much about the plan and arrangement of the universes.
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  You can know something of their physical organization and
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  marvelous administration. You may learn much about the
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  various groups of intelligent beings who inhabit the seven
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  super universes of time and the central universe of Eternity.
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  They write to created beings. The Master universe might appear
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  to be almost infinite, but it is far from finished.
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  There are still physical limits to the material creation, and
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  the experiential revelation of the eternal purpose is still in
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  progress, they write. The universe of universes is not
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  an infinite plane, a boundless cube, nor a limitless circle.
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  It certainly has dimensions. The laws of physical
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  organization and administration prove conclusively that the
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  whole vast aggregation of force, energy, and matter power
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  functions ultimately as an organized and coordinated whole.
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  The final proof of both a circular and delimited universe
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  is afforded by the to us well known fact that all forms of
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  basic energy ever swing around the curved path of the space
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  levels of the mastery Universe in obedience to the incessant
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  and absolute pull of Paradise gravity.
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  Proceeding outward from paradise through the horizontal extension
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  of pervaded space, the Master Universe is existent in six
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  concentric ellipses, the space levels encircling the central
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  aisle. In the not far distant future,
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  new telescopes will reveal to the wandering gaze of Urantian
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  astronomers no less than 375,000,000 new galaxies in the
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  remote stretches of outer space. At the same time, these more
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  powerful telescopes will disclose that many island
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  universes formerly believed to be in outer space regions are
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  really a part of our galactic system of Orvington.
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  Orvington, by the way, is the name of our super universe. the
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  Super universes, including our own, are still growing.
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  From Paper 12, Section 3. All forms of force, energy,
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  material, mindel or spiritual are alike subject to those
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  grasps, those universal presences, which we call
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  gravity. Personality is also responsive
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  to gravity, to the Father's exclusive circuit.
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  Now taking a a note, a side note, we're being told here
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  there are three forms of energy that are measurable.
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  And there is a section in these papers, which I won't go into
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  too deeply now, that talks about the research that they
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  conducted, research that shows that most of the activity going
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  on in the present age is limited to just the seven universes of
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  which we are apart. And very little activity is
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  happening in the four outer regions outside the present
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  grand universe. So if you can follow me, what
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  that means is our present universe is both young and
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  active. It is growing outward with new
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  life, evolving on new worlds. God's present grand universe is
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  still unfolding. This section also delves into
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  the concepts of time and space and how they interact with
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  creation. So for example, paper 12 Section
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  4 reads space is from the human viewpoint, nothing negative.
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  It exists only as related to something positive and non
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  spatial. Space is however real.
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  It contains and conditions motion.
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  Space even moves like space-time is a bestowal of paradise, but
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  not in the same sense, only indirectly.
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  Time comes by virtue of motion, and because mind is inherently
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  aware of sequentiality. Man's mind is less time bound
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  than space bound because of the inherent nature of mind.
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  Even during the days of the earth, life, and the flesh,
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  though, man's mind is rigidly space bound.
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  The creative human imagination is comparatively time free, but
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  time itself is not genetically a quality of mind.
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  I like that paragraph, especially when it talks about
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  that we're space bound but not time bound.
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  We can think of the past, we can think of the present, We can
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  project the future. We remember things in a
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  sequential order. Think about how great it is that
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  you and I can sit in a living room or somewhere on the beach
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  and have a mental picture of all of the great moments of our life
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  that have spread apart so many years and decades.
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  That's an amazing thing that we we just simply take for granted.
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  But that's that's the mind at work.
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  Let's close with the anecdote that I think you'll find
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  encouraging. The narrator speaks of the
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  present grand universe as being fully active.
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  Paper 12 enforces the idea that the Father and the Trinity are
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  fully engaged in its administration of the universe.
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  We are part of that activity, Michael.
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  Coming to our world is part of that activity.
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  The angels doing the biddings and counseling us and helping us
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  is part of that activity. But then the narrator projects
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  the someday participation of what happens in the outer
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  regions, regions which are today only in their infancy.
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  Here's what the perfector of wisdom has to say about the
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  future. He says that we know very little
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  of the significance of these tremendous phenomena of outer
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  space. A greater creation of the future
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  is in process of formation. We can observe its immensity, we
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  can discern its extent and sense its majestic dimensions, but
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  otherwise we know little more about these realms than do the
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  astronomers of Urantia. As far as we know, no material
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  being on the order of humans, no angels or other spirit creatures
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  exist in this outer ring of nebula, Suns and planets.
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  This distant domain is beyond the jurisdiction and the
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  administration of the Super universe governments.
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  They say that it is believed that a new type of creation is
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  in process, an order of universes destined to become the
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  scene of the future activities of the assembling core of the
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  finality. Those are mortal ascenders.
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  That's you and me. And then he writes.
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  And if our conjectures are correct, then the Endless future
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  may hold for all of you the same enthralling spectacles that the
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  endless past has held for your seniors and predecessors.
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  It's a concept that spurs the imagination and should provide
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  hope to those who speculate as to what it all means.
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  And I felt compelled to share it with you as a way of
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  illustrating, yet again, why the Urantia book is not only unique,
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  but original. You can sense the ring of truth
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  that comes from the author spoken as if these events are
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  speculations and wholly real and ongoing all around us.
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  But we also, hearing about this, understand that most people are
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  in the dark about all of it. How transformative would it be
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  if more people knew the truth of these things?
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  Until we meet again, I appreciate you stopping by and
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  checking out this latest episode of the Rancho Radio Podcast.