The Big Picture

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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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for this edition of the Rancho
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And he was given authority to do
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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.
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long, long time, but it's a it's
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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
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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.