The Co-ordinate Trinity-Origin Beings

19:1.1Of all the high or­ders of ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties re­vealed to you, the Trin­ity Teacher Sons alone act in a dual ca­pac­ity. By ori­gin of Trin­ity na­ture, in func­tion they are al­most wholly de­voted to the ser­vices of di­vine son­ship. They are the li­ai­son be­ings who bridge the uni­verse gulf be­tween Trin­ity- and dual-ori­gin per­son­al­i­ties.

19:1.2While the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity are of com­pleted num­bers, the Teacher Sons are con­stantly in­creas­ing. What the fi­nal num­ber of Teacher Sons will be I do not know. I can, how­ever, state that, at the last pe­ri­odic re­port to Uversa, the Par­a­dise rec­ords in­di­cated 21,001,624,821 of these Sons in ser­vice.

19:1.3These be­ings are the only group of the Sons of God re­vealed to you whose ori­gin is in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. They range the cen­tral and super­uni­verses, and an enor­mous corps is as­signed to each lo­cal uni­verse. They also serve the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets as do the other Par­a­dise Sons of God. Since the scheme of the grand uni­verse is not fully de­vel­oped, large num­bers of Teacher Sons are held in the re­serves on Par­a­dise, and they vol­un­teer for emer­gency duty and un­usual ser­vice in all di­vi­sions of the grand uni­verse, on the lone worlds of space, in the lo­cal and super­uni­verses, and on the worlds of Ha­vona. They also func­tion on Par­a­dise, but it will be more help­ful to post­pone their de­tailed con­sid­er­a­tion un­til we come to the dis­cus­sion of the Par­a­dise Sons of God.

19:1.4In this con­nec­tion, how­ever, it may be noted that Teacher Sons are the su­preme co-or­di­nat­ing per­son­al­i­ties of Trin­ity ori­gin. In such a far-flung uni­verse of uni­verses there is al­ways great dan­ger of suc­cumb­ing to the er­ror of the cir­cum­scribed view­point, to the evil in­her­ent in a seg­men­tal­ized con­cep­tion of re­al­ity and di­vin­ity.

19:1.5For ex­am­ple: The hu­man mind would or­di­nar­ily crave to ap­proach the cos­mic phi­los­o­phy por­trayed in these rev­e­la­tions by pro­ceed­ing from the sim­ple and the fi­nite to the com­plex and the in­fi­nite, from hu­man ori­gins to di­vine des­tinies. But that path does not lead to spir­i­tual wis­dom. Such a pro­ce­dure is the eas­i­est path to a cer­tain form of ge­netic knowl­edge, but at best it can only re­veal man’s ori­gin; it re­veals lit­tle or noth­ing about his di­vine des­tiny.

19:1.6Even in the study of man’s bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion on Uran­tia, there are grave ob­jec­tions to the ex­clu­sive his­toric ap­proach to his pres­ent-day sta­tus and his cur­rent prob­lems. The true per­spec­tive of any re­al­ity prob­lem—hu­man or di­vine, ter­res­trial or cos­mic—can be had only by the full and un­prej­u­diced study and cor­re­la­tion of three phases of uni­verse re­al­ity: ori­gin, his­tory, and des­tiny. The proper un­der­stand­ing of these three ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­i­ties af­fords the ba­sis for a wise es­ti­mate of the cur­rent sta­tus.

19:1.7When the hu­man mind un­der­takes to fol­low the philo­sophic tech­nique of start­ing from the lower to ap­proach the higher, whether in bi­ol­ogy or the­ol­ogy, it is al­ways in dan­ger of com­mit­ting four er­rors of rea­son­ing:

19:1.81. It may ut­terly fail to per­ceive the fi­nal and com­pleted evo­lu­tion­ary goal of ei­ther per­sonal at­tain­ment or cos­mic des­tiny.

19:1.92. It may com­mit the su­preme phil­o­soph­i­cal blun­der by over­sim­pli­fy­ing cos­mic evo­lu­tion­ary (ex­pe­ri­en­tial) re­al­ity, thus lead­ing to the dis­tor­tion of facts, to the per­ver­sion of truth, and to the mis­con­cep­tion of des­tinies.

19:1.103. The study of cau­sa­tion is the pe­rusal of his­tory. But the knowl­edge of how a be­ing be­comes does not nec­es­sar­ily pro­vide an in­tel­li­gent un­der­stand­ing of the pres­ent sta­tus and true char­ac­ter of such a be­ing.

19:1.114. His­tory alone fails ad­e­quately to re­veal fu­ture de­vel­op­ment—des­tiny. Fi­nite ori­gins are help­ful, but only di­vine causes re­veal fi­nal ef­fects. Eter­nal ends are not shown in time be­gin­nings. The pres­ent can be truly in­ter­preted only in the light of the cor­re­lated past and fu­ture.

19:1.12There­fore, be­cause of these and for still other rea­sons, do we em­ploy the tech­nique of ap­proach­ing man and his plan­e­tary prob­lems by em­barka­tion on the time-space jour­ney from the in­fi­nite, eter­nal, and di­vine Par­a­dise Source and Cen­ter of all per­son­al­ity re­al­ity and all cos­mic ex­is­tence.