The Sacred Spheres of Paradise

13:1.1The Fa­ther’s cir­cuit of sa­cred life spheres con­tains the only in­her­ent per­son­al­ity se­crets in the uni­verse of uni­verses. These satel­lites of Par­a­dise, the in­ner­most of the three cir­cuits, are the only for­bid­den do­mains con­cerned with per­son­al­ity in the cen­tral uni­verse. Nether Par­a­dise and the worlds of the Son are like­wise closed to per­son­al­i­ties, but nei­ther of those realms is in any way di­rectly con­cerned with per­son­al­ity.

13:1.2The Par­a­dise worlds of the Fa­ther are di­rected by the high­est or­der of the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity, the Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy. Of these worlds I can tell lit­tle; of their man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties I may tell less. Such in­for­ma­tion con­cerns only those be­ings who func­tion thereon and go forth there­from. And though I am some­what fa­mil­iar with six of these spe­cial worlds, never have I landed on Di­vin­ing­ton; that world is wholly for­bid­den to me.

13:1.3One of the rea­sons for the se­crecy of these worlds is be­cause each of these sa­cred spheres en­joys a spe­cial­ized rep­re­sen­ta­tion, or man­i­fes­ta­tion, of the De­i­ties com­pos­ing the Par­a­dise Trin­ity; not a per­son­al­ity, but a unique pres­ence of Di­vin­ity which can only be ap­pre­ci­ated and com­pre­hended by those par­tic­u­lar groups of in­tel­li­gences res­i­dent on, or ad­mis­si­ble to, that par­tic­u­lar sphere. The Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy are the per­sonal agents of these spe­cial­ized and im­per­sonal pres­ences of Di­vin­ity. And the Se­crets of Su­prem­acy are highly per­sonal be­ings, su­perbly en­dowed and mar­velously adapted to their ex­alted and ex­act­ing work.

13:1.41. DI­VIN­ING­TON. This world is, in a unique sense, the “bo­som of the Fa­ther,” the per­sonal-com­mu­nion sphere of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and thereon is a spe­cial man­i­fes­ta­tion of his di­vin­ity. Di­vin­ing­ton is the Par­a­dise ren­dezvous of the Thought Ad­justers, but it is also the home of nu­mer­ous other en­ti­ties, per­son­al­i­ties, and other be­ings tak­ing ori­gin in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Many per­son­al­i­ties be­sides the Eter­nal Son are of di­rect ori­gin by the soli­tary acts of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Only the Fa­ther frag­ments and those per­son­al­i­ties and other be­ings of di­rect and ex­clu­sive ori­gin in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther frat­er­nize and func­tion on this abode.

13:1.5The se­crets of Di­vin­ing­ton in­clude the se­cret of the be­stowal and mis­sion of Thought Ad­justers. Their na­ture, ori­gin, and the tech­nique of their con­tact with the lowly crea­tures of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds is a se­cret of this Par­a­dise sphere. These amaz­ing trans­ac­tions do not per­son­ally con­cern the rest of us, and there­fore do the De­i­ties deem it proper to with­hold cer­tain fea­tures of this great and di­vine min­istry from our full un­der­stand­ing. In so far as we come in con­tact with this phase of di­vine ac­tiv­ity, we are per­mit­ted full knowl­edge of these trans­ac­tions, but con­cern­ing the in­ti­mate de­tails of this great be­stowal we are not fully in­formed.

13:1.6This sphere also holds the se­crets of the na­ture, pur­pose, and ac­tiv­i­ties of all other forms of Fa­ther frag­ments, of the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers, and of hosts of other be­ings un­re­vealed to you. It is highly prob­a­ble that those truths per­tain­ing to Di­vin­ing­ton which are with­held from me, if re­vealed, would merely con­fuse and hand­i­cap me in my pres­ent work, and still again, per­haps they are be­yond the con­cep­tual ca­pac­ity of my or­der of be­ing.

13:1.72. SONAR­ING­TON. This sphere is the “bo­som of the Son,” the per­sonal re­ceiv­ing world of the Eter­nal Son. It is the Par­a­dise head­quar­ters of the de­scend­ing and as­cend­ing Sons of God when, and af­ter, they are fully ac­cred­ited and fi­nally ap­proved. This world is the Par­a­dise home for all Sons of the Eter­nal Son and of his co-or­di­nate and as­so­ciate Sons. There are nu­mer­ous or­ders of di­vine son­ship at­tached to this su­per­nal abode which have not been re­vealed to mor­tals since they are not con­cerned with the plans of the as­cen­sion scheme of hu­man spir­i­tual pro­gres­sion through the uni­verses and on to Par­a­dise.

13:1.8The se­crets of Sonar­ing­ton in­clude the se­cret of the in­car­na­tion of the di­vine Sons. When a Son of God be­comes a Son of Man, is lit­er­ally born of woman, as oc­curred on your world nine­teen hun­dred years ago, it is a uni­ver­sal mys­tery. It is oc­cur­ring right along through­out the uni­verses, and it is a Sonar­ing­ton se­cret of di­vine son­ship. The Ad­justers are a mys­tery of God the Fa­ther. The in­car­na­tion of the di­vine Sons is a mys­tery of God the Son; it is a se­cret locked up in the sev­enth sec­tor of Sonar­ing­ton, a realm pen­e­trated by none save those who have per­son­ally passed through this unique ex­pe­ri­ence. Only those phases of in­car­na­tion hav­ing to do with your as­cen­sion ca­reer have been brought to your no­tice. There are many other phases of the mys­tery of the in­car­na­tion of the Par­a­dise Sons of un­re­vealed types on mis­sions of uni­verse ser­vice which are undis­closed to you. And there are still other Sonar­ing­ton mys­ter­ies.

13:1.93. SPIR­IT­ING­TON. This world is the “bo­som of the Spirit,” the Par­a­dise home of the high be­ings that ex­clu­sively rep­re­sent the In­fi­nite Spirit. Here for­gather the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and cer­tain of their off­spring from all uni­verses. At this ce­les­tial abode may also be found nu­mer­ous un­re­vealed or­ders of spirit per­son­al­i­ties, be­ings as­signed to the man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties of the uni­verse not as­so­ci­ated with the plans of up­step­ping the mor­tal crea­tures of time to the Par­a­dise lev­els of eter­nity.

13:1.10The se­crets of Spir­it­ing­ton in­volve the im­pen­e­tra­ble mys­ter­ies of re­flec­tiv­ity. We tell you of the vast and uni­ver­sal phe­nom­e­non of re­flec­tiv­ity, more par­tic­u­larly as it is op­er­a­tive on the head­quar­ters worlds of the seven super­uni­verses, but we never fully ex­plain this phe­nom­e­non, for we do not fully un­der­stand it. Much, very much, we do com­pre­hend, but many ba­sic de­tails are still mys­te­ri­ous to us. Re­flec­tiv­ity is a se­cret of God the Spirit. You have been in­structed con­cern­ing re­flec­tiv­ity func­tions in re­la­tion to the as­cen­sion scheme of mor­tal sur­vival, and it does so op­er­ate, but re­flec­tiv­ity is also an in­dis­pens­able fea­ture of the nor­mal work­ing of nu­mer­ous other phases of uni­verse oc­cu­pa­tion. This en­dow­ment of the In­fi­nite Spirit is also uti­lized in chan­nels other than those of in­tel­li­gence gath­er­ing and in­for­ma­tion dis­sem­i­na­tion. And there are other se­crets of Spir­it­ing­ton.

13:1.114. VICEGERING­TON. This planet is the “bo­som of the Fa­ther and the Son” and is the se­cret sphere of cer­tain un­re­vealed be­ings who take ori­gin by the acts of the Fa­ther and the Son. This is also the Par­a­dise home of many glo­ri­fied be­ings of com­plex an­ces­try, those whose ori­gin is com­pli­cated be­cause of the many di­verse tech­niques op­er­a­tive in the seven super­uni­verses. Many groups of be­ings for­gather on this world whose iden­tity has not been re­vealed to Uran­tia mor­tals.

13:1.12The se­crets of Vicegering­ton in­clude the se­crets of trin­i­ti­za­tion, and trin­i­ti­za­tion con­sti­tutes the se­cret of au­thor­ity to rep­re­sent the Trin­ity, to act as vicegerents of the Gods. Au­thor­ity to rep­re­sent the Trin­ity at­taches only to those be­ings, re­vealed and un­re­vealed, who are trin­i­tized, cre­ated, even­tu­ated, or eter­nal­ized by any two or all three of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. Per­son­al­i­ties brought into be­ing by the trini­tiz­ing acts of cer­tain types of glo­ri­fied crea­tures rep­re­sent no more than the con­cep­tual po­ten­tial mo­bi­lized in that trin­i­ti­za­tion, al­beit such crea­tures may as­cend the path of De­ity em­brace open to all of their kind.

13:1.13Non­trini­tized be­ings do not fully un­der­stand the tech­nique of trin­i­ti­za­tion by ei­ther two or three Cre­ators or by cer­tain crea­tures. You will never fully un­der­stand such a phe­nom­e­non un­less, in the far-dis­tant fu­ture of your glo­ri­fied ca­reer, you should es­say and suc­ceed in such an ad­ven­ture, be­cause oth­er­wise these se­crets of Vicegering­ton will al­ways be for­bid­den you. But to me, a high Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ing, all sec­tors of Vicegering­ton are open. I fully un­der­stand, and just as fully and sa­credly pro­tect, the se­cret of my ori­gin and des­tiny.

13:1.14There are still other forms and phases of trin­i­ti­za­tion which have not been brought to the no­tice of the Uran­tia peo­ples, and these ex­pe­ri­ences, in their per­sonal as­pects, are duly pro­tected in the se­cret sec­tor of Vicegering­ton.

13:1.155. SOLI­TAR­ING­TON. This world is the “bo­som of the Fa­ther and the Spirit” and is the ren­dezvous of a mag­nif­i­cent host of un­re­vealed be­ings of ori­gin in the con­joint acts of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the In­fi­nite Spirit, be­ings who par­take of the traits of the Fa­ther in ad­di­tion to their Spirit in­her­i­tance.

13:1.16This is also the home of the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers and of other per­son­al­i­ties of the super­an­gelic or­ders. You know of very few of these be­ings; there are vast num­bers of or­ders un­re­vealed on Uran­tia. Be­cause they are domi­ciled on the fifth world, it does not nec­es­sar­ily fol­low that the Fa­ther had aught to do with the cre­ation of Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers or their super­an­gelic as­so­ciates, but in this uni­verse age he does have to do with their func­tion. Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age this is also the sta­tus sphere of the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors.

13:1.17There are nu­mer­ous ad­di­tional or­ders of spirit per­son­al­i­ties, be­ings un­known to mor­tal man, who look upon Soli­tar­ing­ton as their Par­a­dise home sphere. It should be re­mem­bered that all di­vi­sions and lev­els of uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties are just as fully pro­vided with spirit min­is­ters as is the realm con­cerned with help­ing mor­tal man as­cend to his di­vine Par­a­dise des­tiny.

13:1.18The se­crets of Soli­tar­ing­ton. Be­sides cer­tain se­crets of trin­i­ti­za­tion, this world holds the se­crets of the per­sonal re­la­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit with cer­tain of the higher off­spring of the Third Source and Cen­ter. On Soli­tar­ing­ton are held the mys­ter­ies of the in­ti­mate as­so­ci­a­tion of nu­mer­ous un­re­vealed or­ders with the spir­its of the Fa­ther, of the Son, and of the Spirit, with the three­fold spirit of the Trin­ity, and with the spir­its of the Su­preme, the Ul­ti­mate, and the Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate.

13:1.196. SERAPH­ING­TON. This sphere is the “bo­som of the Son and the Spirit” and is the home world of the vast hosts of un­re­vealed be­ings cre­ated by the Son and the Spirit. This is also the des­tiny sphere of all min­is­ter­ing or­ders of the an­gelic hosts, in­clud­ing super­na­phim, se­con­a­phim, and ser­a­phim. There also serve in the cen­tral and out­ly­ing uni­verses many or­ders of su­perb spir­its who are not “min­is­ter­ing spir­its to those who shall be heirs of sal­va­tion.” All these spirit work­ers in all lev­els and realms of uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties look upon Seraph­ing­ton as their Par­a­dise home.

13:1.20The se­crets of Seraph­ing­ton in­volve a three­fold mys­tery, only one of which I may men­tion—the mys­tery of se­raphic trans­port. The abil­ity of var­i­ous or­ders of ser­a­phim and al­lied spirit be­ings to en­velop within their spirit forms all or­ders of non­ma­te­rial per­son­al­i­ties and to carry them away on lengthy in­ter­plan­e­tary jour­neys, is a se­cret locked up in the sa­cred sec­tors of Seraph­ing­ton. The trans­port ser­a­phim com­pre­hend this mys­tery, but they do not com­mu­ni­cate it to the rest of us, or per­haps they can­not. The other mys­ter­ies of Seraph­ing­ton per­tain to the per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ences of types of spirit servers as yet not re­vealed to mor­tals. And we re­frain from dis­cussing the se­crets of such closely re­lated be­ings be­cause you can al­most com­pre­hend such near or­ders of ex­is­tence, and it would be akin to be­trayal of trust to pre­sent even our par­tial knowl­edge of such phe­nom­ena.

13:1.217. AS­CEND­ING­TON. This unique world is the “bo­som of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit,” the ren­dezvous of the as­cen­dant crea­tures of space, the re­ceiv­ing sphere of the pil­grims of time who are pass­ing through the Ha­vona uni­verse on their way to Par­a­dise. As­cend­ing­ton is the ac­tual Par­a­dise home of the as­cen­dant souls of time and space un­til they at­tain Par­a­dise sta­tus. You mor­tals will spend most of your Ha­vona “va­ca­tions” on As­cend­ing­ton. Dur­ing your Ha­vona life As­cend­ing­ton will be to you what the re­ver­sion di­rec­tors were dur­ing the lo­cal and super­uni­verse as­cen­sion. Here you will en­gage in thou­sands of ac­tiv­i­ties which are be­yond the grasp of mor­tal imag­i­na­tion. And as on ev­ery pre­vi­ous ad­vance in the God­ward as­cent, your hu­man self will here en­ter into new re­la­tion­ships with your di­vine self.

13:1.22The se­crets of As­cend­ing­ton in­clude the mys­tery of the grad­ual and cer­tain build­ing up in the ma­te­rial and mor­tal mind of a spir­i­tual and po­ten­tially im­mor­tal coun­ter­part of char­ac­ter and iden­tity. This phe­nom­e­non con­sti­tutes one of the most per­plex­ing mys­ter­ies of the uni­verses—the evo­lu­tion of an im­mor­tal soul within the mind of a mor­tal and ma­te­rial crea­ture.

13:1.23You will never fully un­der­stand this mys­te­ri­ous trans­ac­tion un­til you reach As­cend­ing­ton. And that is just why all As­cend­ing­ton will be open to your won­der­ing gaze. One sev­enth of As­cend­ing­ton is for­bid­den to me—that sec­tor con­cerned with this very se­cret which is (or will be) the ex­clu­sive ex­pe­ri­ence and pos­ses­sion of your type of be­ing. This ex­pe­ri­ence be­longs to your hu­man or­der of ex­is­tence. My or­der of per­son­al­ity is not di­rectly con­cerned with such trans­ac­tions. It is there­fore for­bid­den to me and even­tu­ally re­vealed to you. But even af­ter it is re­vealed to you, for some rea­son it for­ever re­mains your se­cret. You do not re­veal it to us nor to any other or­der of be­ings. We know about the eter­nal fu­sion of a di­vine Ad­juster and an im­mor­tal soul of hu­man ori­gin, but the as­cen­dant fi­nal­i­ters know this very ex­pe­ri­ence as an ab­so­lute re­al­ity.