The Sacred Spheres of Paradise

13:2.1These home worlds of the di­verse or­ders of spir­i­tual be­ings are tremen­dous and stu­pen­dous spheres, and they are equal to Par­a­dise in their match­less beauty and su­perb glory. They are ren­dezvous worlds, re­union spheres, serv­ing as per­ma­nent cos­mic ad­dresses. As fi­nal­i­ters you will be domi­ciled on Par­a­dise, but As­cend­ing­ton will be your home ad­dress at all times, even when you en­ter ser­vice in outer space. Through all eter­nity you will re­gard As­cend­ing­ton as your home of sen­ti­men­tal mem­o­ries and rem­i­nis­cent rec­ol­lec­tions. When you be­come sev­enth-stage spirit be­ings, pos­si­bly you will give up your res­i­den­tial sta­tus on Par­a­dise.

13:2.2If outer uni­verses are in the mak­ing, if they are to be in­hab­ited by time crea­tures of as­cen­sion po­ten­tial, then we in­fer that these chil­dren of the fu­ture will also be des­tined to look upon As­cend­ing­ton as their Par­a­dise home world.

13:2.3As­cend­ing­ton is the only sa­cred sphere that will be un­re­servedly open to your in­spec­tion as a Par­a­dise ar­rival. Vicegering­ton is the only sa­cred sphere that is wholly and un­re­servedly open to my scrutiny. Though its se­crets are con­cerned in my ori­gin, in this uni­verse age I do not re­gard Vicegering­ton as my home. Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings and trin­i­tized be­ings are not the same.

13:2.4The Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings do not fully share the Fa­ther’s worlds; they have their sole homes on the Isle of Par­a­dise in close prox­im­ity to the Most Holy Sphere. They of­ten ap­pear on As­cend­ing­ton, the “bo­som of the Fa­ther-Son-Spirit,” where they frat­er­nize with their breth­ren who have come up from the lowly worlds of space.

13:2.5You might as­sume that Cre­ator Sons, be­ing of Fa­ther-Son ori­gin, would re­gard Vicegering­ton as their home, but such is not the case in this uni­verse age of the func­tion of God the Sev­en­fold. And there are many sim­i­lar prob­lems that will per­plex you, for you are sure to en­counter many dif­fi­cul­ties as you at­tempt to un­der­stand these things which are so near Par­a­dise. Nor can you suc­cess­fully rea­son out these ques­tions; you know so lit­tle. And if you knew more about the Fa­ther’s worlds, you would sim­ply en­counter more dif­fi­cul­ties un­til you knew all about them. Sta­tus on any of these se­cret worlds is ac­quired by ser­vice as well as by na­ture of ori­gin, and the suc­ces­sive uni­verse ages may and do re­dis­tribute cer­tain of these per­son­al­ity group­ings.

13:2.6The worlds of the in­ner cir­cuit are re­ally fra­ter­nal or sta­tus worlds more than ac­tual res­i­den­tial spheres. Mor­tals will at­tain some sta­tus on each of the Fa­ther’s worlds save one. For ex­am­ple: When you mor­tals at­tain Ha­vona, you are granted clear­ance for As­cend­ing­ton, where you are most wel­come, but you are not per­mit­ted to visit the other six sa­cred worlds. Sub­se­quent to your pas­sage through the Par­a­dise regime and af­ter your ad­mis­sion to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, you are granted clear­ance for Sonar­ing­ton since you are sons of God as well as as­cend­ers—and you are even more. But there will al­ways re­main one sev­enth of Sonar­ing­ton, the sec­tor of the in­car­na­tion se­crets of the di­vine Sons, which will not be open to your scrutiny. Never will those se­crets be re­vealed to the as­cen­dant sons of God.

13:2.7Even­tu­ally you will have full ac­cess to As­cend­ing­ton and rel­a­tive ac­cess to the other spheres of the Fa­ther ex­cept Di­vin­ing­ton. But even when you are granted per­mis­sion to land on five ad­di­tional se­cret spheres, af­ter you have be­come a fi­nal­i­ter, you will not be al­lowed to visit all sec­tors of such worlds. Nor will you be per­mit­ted to land on the shores of Di­vin­ing­ton, the “bo­som of the Fa­ther,” though you shall surely stand re­peat­edly at the “right hand of the Fa­ther.” Never through­out all eter­nity will there arise any ne­ces­sity for your pres­ence on the world of the Thought Ad­justers.

13:2.8These ren­dezvous worlds of spirit life are for­bid­den ground to the ex­tent that we are asked not to ne­go­ti­ate en­trance to those phases of these spheres which are wholly out­side our realms of ex­pe­ri­ence. You may be­come crea­ture per­fect even as the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is de­ity per­fect, but you may not know all the ex­pe­ri­en­tial se­crets of all other or­ders of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties. When the Cre­ator has an ex­pe­ri­en­tial per­son­al­ity se­cret with his crea­ture, the Cre­ator pre­serves that se­cret in eter­nal con­fi­dence.

13:2.9All these se­crets are sup­pos­edly known to the col­lec­tive body of the Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy. These be­ings are fully known only by their spe­cial world groups; they are lit­tle com­pre­hended by other or­ders. Af­ter you at­tain Par­a­dise, you will know and ar­dently love the ten Se­crets of Su­prem­acy who di­rect As­cend­ing­ton. Ex­cept­ing Di­vin­ing­ton, you will also achieve a par­tial un­der­stand­ing of the Se­crets of Su­prem­acy on the other worlds of the Fa­ther, though not so per­fectly as on As­cend­ing­ton.

13:2.10The Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy, as their name might sug­gest, are re­lated to the Su­preme; they are like­wise re­lated to the Ul­ti­mate and to the fu­ture Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate. These Se­crets of Su­prem­acy are the se­crets of the Su­preme and also the se­crets of the Ul­ti­mate, even the se­crets of the Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate.