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The Isle of Paradise is the eternal, unmoving center of all reality. It anchors universal gravity, sustains energy, and serves as the dwelling place of Deity and the source of all material existence.
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Paradise is the eternal center of the universe of universes and the home of the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit. It is both a material sphere and a spiritual home, making it unique in all creation. The beauty of Paradise includes its physical perfection, the amazing minds of its inhabitants, and the divine spirit found there.
Paradise serves many purposes but is mainly the home of the Deity beings. The Universal Father lives at the very center of the upper surface of Paradise. If we had the right guidance and were spiritually ready, we could travel to Paradise and find God's personal presence there, just as we could find cities on earth with the right maps.
Paradise is the eternal center of the universe and home to the Universal Father, Eternal Son, Infinite Spirit, and their associates. It is the largest organized body of cosmic reality in the entire universe. Paradise is a material sphere and also a spiritual home, and all intelligent beings created by the Universal Father live on material worlds.
The physical beauty of Paradise comes from its perfect design, while its grandeur shows in the intelligence of those who live there. The divine spirit personalities that live there create a light that mortal minds cannot fully understand. Paradise has existed forever and there are no records about how it was created.
On upper Paradise, there are three main areas: the Deity presence, the Most Holy Sphere, and the Holy Area. The personal presence of the Universal Father is at the very center of the upper surface. The Father is surrounded by the personal presence of the Eternal Son, and they are both surrounded by the glory of the Infinite Spirit.
God has always lived, lives now, and will always live in this central and eternal home. We all know the direct path to find the Universal Father. If we had the right guidance and were spiritually qualified, we could travel through the universes until we reached the spiritual glory of the Universal Father at the center of all things, just like finding cities on earth with the right maps and transportation.
Since you can see how big the material universe is from your position among the stars, it should be clear that such a huge universe must have an appropriate capital. The headquarters must match the dignity of the universal Ruler of this vast creation of material realms and living beings.
Paradise is not shaped like a sphere but is elliptical, being one-sixth longer in the north-south diameter than in the east-west diameter. The central Isle is basically flat, and the distance from the upper surface to the lower surface is one-tenth of the east-west diameter. These size differences, along with Paradise being stationary and having greater energy force at the north end, make it possible to establish absolute direction in the master universe.
On upper Paradise, there are three grand spheres of activity: the Deity presence, the Most Holy Sphere, and the Holy Area. The area around the Deities is set aside as the Most Holy Sphere and is used for worship, trinitization, and high spiritual achievement. No material structures or purely intellectual creations can exist there because it is completely spiritual.
While there are no physical objects in the Most Holy area, there are many souvenirs of material life in the Holy Land sectors and in the historical areas of peripheral Paradise. The Holy Area, which is the residential region, is divided into seven concentric zones. Paradise is sometimes called "the Father's House" because it is his eternal home, and these seven zones are often called "the Father's Paradise mansions."
The central Isle ends abruptly at the edge, but its size is so enormous that this terminal angle is hard to notice within any specific area. The peripheral surface of Paradise is partly used for landing and departure fields for various spirit beings. Since the nonpervaded-space zones almost touch the periphery, all personality transports headed to Paradise land in these regions.
The Seven Master Spirits have their personal seats of power on the seven spheres of the Spirit, which circle Paradise in the space between the Son's shining orbs and the inner circuit of the Havona worlds. However, they maintain force headquarters on the Paradise periphery. Here, the slowly circulating presences of the Seven Supreme Power Directors show the location of the seven flash stations for certain Paradise energies going out to the seven superuniverses.
About nether Paradise, we only know what has been revealed to us. Spirit beings do not stay there, and it has nothing to do with spirit activities. The Deity Absolute does not function there. We are told that all physical energy and cosmic force circuits start on nether Paradise, which is organized in specific ways.
Directly under the Trinity's location, in the central part of nether Paradise, is the unknown and unrevealed Zone of Infinity. This Zone is immediately surrounded by an unnamed area. The outer margins of the under surface is a region mainly dealing with space potency and force-energy. The activities of this vast force center are not clearly identified with any known functions, but the basic force-charge of space seems to be focused in this area.
We do not know the actual way space respiration works. We just observe that all space alternately gets smaller and larger. This breathing affects both the sideways extension of pervaded space and the up-and-down extensions of unpervaded space that exist in the vast space reservoirs above and below Paradise.
As the universes of pervaded space get bigger, the reservoirs of unpervaded space get smaller, and the other way around. There is a meeting place of pervaded and unpervaded space just below nether Paradise. Both types of space flow through special channels, where changes are made that turn pervadable space into nonpervadable space and vice versa during the shrinking and expanding cycles of the cosmos.
Space does not exist on any of the surfaces of Paradise. If you "looked" directly up from the upper surface of Paradise, you would "see" nothing but unpervaded space coming in or going out, which is currently coming in. Space does not touch Paradise; only the quiet midspace zones come in contact with the central Isle.
Paradise is the motionless center of the relatively quiet zones between pervaded and unpervaded space. Geographically, these zones appear to be an extension of Paradise, but there is probably some movement in them. We know very little about them, but we see that these zones of slower space movement separate pervaded and unpervaded space.
The unavoidable pull of gravity effectively holds all the worlds of all the universes in space. Gravity is the powerful grasp of Paradise's physical presence. Gravity is the all-powerful strand on which the stars, suns, and spinning spheres that make up the universal physical decoration of the eternal God are strung.
The center of absolute material gravity is the Isle of Paradise, complemented by the dark gravity bodies around Havona and balanced by the upper and lower space reservoirs. All known energy from nether Paradise always responds to the central gravity pull that operates on the endless circuits of the elliptical space levels of the universe. Every known form of cosmic reality follows the bend of the ages, the trend of the circle, the swing of the great ellipse.
Paradise is unique because it is the place of original beginning and the final goal for all spirit personalities. While not all lower spirit beings from local universes are immediately headed for Paradise, it remains the goal for all supermaterial personalities.
Paradise is the center of infinity and is not part of universal creation, not even part of the eternal Havona universe. We usually say the central Isle belongs to the divine universe, but it really is separate. Paradise is an eternal and exclusive existence.

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