The Paradise Sons of God

20:2.1Ev­ery time an orig­i­nal and ab­so­lute con­cept of be­ing for­mu­lated by the Eter­nal Son unites with a new and di­vine ideal of lov­ing ser­vice con­ceived by the In­fi­nite Spirit, a new and orig­i­nal Son of God, a Par­a­dise Mag­is­te­rial Son, is pro­duced. These Sons con­sti­tute the or­der of Avo­nals in con­tradis­tinc­tion to the or­der of Mi­chael, the Cre­ator Sons. Though not cre­ators in the per­sonal sense, they are closely as­so­ci­ated with the Mi­cha­els in all their work. The Avo­nals are plan­e­tary min­is­ters and judges, the mag­is­trates of the time-space realms—of all races, to all worlds, and in all uni­verses.

20:2.2We have rea­sons for be­liev­ing that the to­tal num­ber of Mag­is­te­rial Sons in the grand uni­verse is about one bil­lion. They are a self-gov­ern­ing or­der, be­ing di­rected by their su­preme coun­cil on Par­a­dise, which is made up of ex­pe­ri­enced Avo­nals drawn from the ser­vices of all uni­verses. But when as­signed to, and com­mis­sioned in, a lo­cal uni­verse, they serve un­der the di­rec­tion of the Cre­ator Son of that do­main.

20:2.3Avo­nals are the Par­a­dise Sons of ser­vice and be­stowal to the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets of the lo­cal uni­verses. And since each Avo­nal Son has an ex­clu­sive per­son­al­ity, since no two are alike, their work is in­di­vid­u­ally unique in the realms of their so­journ, where they are of­ten in­car­nated in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh and some­times are born of earthly moth­ers on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

20:2.4In ad­di­tion to their ser­vices on the higher ad­min­is­tra­tive lev­els, the Avo­nals have a three­fold func­tion on the in­hab­ited worlds:

20:2.51. Ju­di­cial Ac­tions. They act at the close of the plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tions. In time, scores—hun­dreds—of such mis­sions may be ex­e­cuted on each in­di­vid­ual world, and they may go to the same or to other worlds times with­out num­ber as dis­pen­sa­tion ter­mi­na­tors, lib­er­a­tors of the sleep­ing sur­vivors.

20:2.62. Mag­is­te­rial Mis­sions. A plan­e­tary vis­i­ta­tion of this type usu­ally oc­curs prior to the ar­rival of a be­stowal Son. On such a mis­sion an Avo­nal ap­pears as an adult of the realm by a tech­nique of in­car­na­tion not in­volv­ing mor­tal birth. Sub­se­quent to this first and usual mag­is­te­rial visit, Avo­nals may re­peat­edly serve in a mag­is­te­rial ca­pac­ity on the same planet both be­fore and af­ter the ap­pear­ance of the be­stowal Son. On these ad­di­tional mag­is­te­rial mis­sions an Avo­nal may or may not ap­pear in ma­te­rial and vis­i­ble form, but on none of them will he be born into the world as a help­less babe.

20:2.73. Be­stowal Mis­sions. The Avo­nal Sons do all, at least once, be­stow them­selves upon some mor­tal race on some evo­lu­tion­ary world. Ju­di­cial vis­its are nu­mer­ous, mag­is­te­rial mis­sions may be plu­ral, but on each planet there ap­pears but one be­stowal Son. Be­stowal Avo­nals are born of woman as Mi­chael of Neb­a­don was in­car­nated on Uran­tia.

20:2.8There is no limit to the num­ber of times the Avo­nal Sons may serve on mag­is­te­rial and on be­stowal mis­sions, but usu­ally, when the ex­pe­ri­ence has been seven times tra­versed, there is sus­pen­sion in fa­vor of those who have had less of such ser­vice. These Sons of mul­ti­ple be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence are then as­signed to the high per­sonal coun­cil of a Cre­ator Son, thus be­com­ing par­tic­i­pants in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of uni­verse af­fairs.

20:2.9In all their work for and on the in­hab­ited worlds, the Mag­is­te­rial Sons are as­sisted by two or­ders of lo­cal uni­verse crea­tures, the Mel­chiz­e­deks and the arch­an­gels, while on be­stowal mis­sions they are also ac­com­pa­nied by the Bril­liant Evening Stars, like­wise of ori­gin in the lo­cal cre­ations. In ev­ery plan­e­tary ef­fort the sec­ondary Par­a­dise Sons, the Avo­nals, are sup­ported by the full power and au­thor­ity of a pri­mary Par­a­dise Son, the Cre­ator Son of their lo­cal uni­verse of ser­vice. To all in­tents and pur­poses their work on the in­hab­ited spheres is just as ef­fec­tive and ac­cept­able as would have been the ser­vice of a Cre­ator Son upon such worlds of mor­tal habi­ta­tion.