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11:1.1 Paradise serves many [[purposes]] in the [[administration]] of the [[universal]] realms, but to [[creature]] [[beings]] it exists primarily as the dwelling place of [[Deity]]. The [[personal]] [[presence]] of the [[Universal Father]] is resident at the very [[center]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:3._UPPER_PARADISE upper surface] of this well-nigh circular, but not spherical, abode of the Deities. This Paradise presence of the Universal Father is immediately surrounded by the personal presence of the [[Eternal Son]], while they are both invested by the unspeakable [[glory]] of the [[Infinite Spirit]].

11:1.1 Paradise serves many [[purposes]] in the [[administration]] of the [[universal]] realms, but to [[creature]] [[beings]] it exists primarily as the dwelling place of [[Deity]]. The [[personal]] [[presence]] of the [[Universal Father]] is resident at the very [[center]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:3._UPPER_PARADISE upper surface] of this well-nigh circular, but not spherical, abode of the Deities. This Paradise presence of the Universal Father is immediately surrounded by the personal presence of the [[Eternal Son]], while they are both invested by the unspeakable [[glory]] of the [[Infinite Spirit]].

11:1.2 [[God]] dwells, has dwelt, and everlastingly will dwell in this same central and eternal abode. We have always found him there and always will. The Universal Father is cosmically [[Focus|focalized]], spiritually personalized, and geographically resident at this [[center]] of the [[universe of universes]].

11:1.2 [[God]] dwells, has dwelt, and everlastingly will dwell in this same central and eternal abode. We have always found him there and always will. The Universal Father is cosmically [[Focus|focalized]], spiritually personalized, and geographically resident at this [[center]] of the [[universe of universes]].

11:1.3 We all know the direct course to pursue to find the Universal Father. You are not able to [[comprehend]] much about the divine [[Home|residence]] because of its remoteness from you and the immensity of the intervening [[space]], but those who are able to comprehend the [[meaning]] of these enormous distances know God's location and residence just as certainly and literally as you know the location of [[New York City|New York]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London London], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome Rome], or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore Singapore], cities definitely and geographically located on [[Urantia]]. If you were an intelligent [[navigator]], equipped with ship, maps, and [[compass]], you could readily find these cities. Likewise, if you had the [[time]] and means of passage, were spiritually qualified, and had the necessary [[guidance]], you could be piloted through [[Ascension Career|universe upon universe]] and from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_34#34:4._THE_LOCAL_UNIVERSE_CIRCUITS circuit] to [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:1._THE_SPIRIT-GRAVITY_CIRCUIT circuit], ever [[journeying]] inward through the starry realms, until at last you would stand before the central shining of the spiritual [[glory]] of the Universal Father. Provided with all the [[necessities]] for the journey, it is just as possible to find the [[personal]] [[presence]] of [[God]] at the [[center]] of [[all things]] as to find distant cities on your own [[planet]]. That you have not visited these places in no way disproves their [[reality]] or actual [[existence]]. That so few of the universe creatures have found God on Paradise in no way disproves either the reality of his existence or the [[actuality]] of his spiritual person at the center of all things.

11:1.3 We all know the direct course to pursue to find the Universal Father. You are not able to [[comprehend]] much about the divine [[Home|residence]] because of its remoteness from you and the immensity of the intervening [[space]], but those who are able to comprehend the [[meaning]] of these enormous distances know God's location and residence just as certainly and literally as you know the location of [[New York City|New York]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London London], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome Rome], or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore Singapore], cities definitely and geographically located on [[Urantia]]. If you were an intelligent [[navigator]], equipped with ship, maps, and [[compass]], you could readily find these cities. Likewise, if you had the [[time]] and means of passage, were spiritually qualified, and had the necessary [[guidance]], you could be piloted through [[Ascension Career|universe upon universe]] and from [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_34#34:4._THE_LOCAL_UNIVERSE_CIRCUITS circuit] to [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:1._THE_SPIRIT-GRAVITY_CIRCUIT circuit], ever [[journeying]] inward through the starry realms, until at last you would stand before the central shining of the spiritual [[glory]] of the Universal Father. Provided with all the [[necessities]] for the journey, it is just as possible to find the [[personal]] [[presence]] of [[God]] at the [[center]] of [[all things]] as to find distant cities on your own [[planet]]. That you have not visited these places in no way disproves their [[reality]] or actual [[existence]]. That so few of the universe creatures have found God on Paradise in no way disproves either the reality of his existence or the [[actuality]] of his spiritual person at the center of all things.

11:1.4 The [[Father]] is always to be found at this central location. Did he move, [[universal]] [[pandemonium]] would be precipitated, for there converge in him at this residential [[center]] the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_12#12:3._UNIVERSAL_GRAVITY universal lines of gravity] from the ends of [[creation]]. Whether we trace the [[personality]] [[circuit]] back through the universes or follow the ascending personalities as they journey inward to the Father; whether we trace the lines of material gravity to nether Paradise or follow the insurging [[cycles]] of cosmic [[force]]; whether we trace the lines of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:1._THE_SPIRIT-GRAVITY_CIRCUIT spiritual gravity] to the [[Eternal Son]] or follow the inward processional of the [[Paradise Sons of God]]; whether we trace out the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_9#9:6._THE_MIND-GRAVITY_CIRCUIT mind circuits] or follow the trillions upon trillions of [[celestial]] [[beings]] who spring from the [[Infinite Spirit]]—by any of these [[observations]] or by all of them we are led directly back to [[the Father]]'s presence, to his central abode. Here is God personally, [[literally]], and actually present. And from his infinite being there [[flow]] the flood-streams of life, [[energy]], and [[personality]] to [[Master Universe|all universes]].

11:1.4 The [[Father]] is always to be found at this central location. Did he move, [[universal]] [[pandemonium]] would be precipitated, for there converge in him at this residential [[center]] the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_12#12:3._UNIVERSAL_GRAVITY universal lines of gravity] from the ends of [[creation]]. Whether we trace the [[personality]] [[circuit]] back through the universes or follow the ascending personalities as they journey inward to the Father; whether we trace the lines of material gravity to nether Paradise or follow the insurging [[cycles]] of cosmic [[force]]; whether we trace the lines of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:1._THE_SPIRIT-GRAVITY_CIRCUIT spiritual gravity] to the [[Eternal Son]] or follow the inward processional of the [[Paradise Sons of God]]; whether we trace out the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_9#9:6._THE_MIND-GRAVITY_CIRCUIT mind circuits] or follow the trillions upon trillions of [[celestial]] [[beings]] who spring from the [[Infinite Spirit]]—by any of these [[observations]] or by all of them we are led directly back to [[the Father]]'s presence, to his central abode. Here is God personally, [[literally]], and actually present. And from his infinite being there [[flow]] the flood-streams of life, [[energy]], and [[personality]] to [[Master Universe|all universes]].

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