The Paradise Sons of God

20:3.1The Avo­nals are known as Mag­is­te­rial Sons be­cause they are the high mag­is­trates of the realms, the ad­ju­di­ca­tors of the suc­ces­sive dis­pen­sa­tions of the worlds of time. They pre­side over the awak­en­ing of the sleep­ing sur­vivors, sit in judg­ment on the realm, bring to an end a dis­pen­sa­tion of sus­pended jus­tice, ex­e­cute the man­dates of an age of pro­ba­tion­ary mercy, re­as­sign the space crea­tures of plan­e­tary min­istry to the tasks of the new dis­pen­sa­tion, and re­turn to the head­quar­ters of their lo­cal uni­verse upon the com­ple­tion of their mis­sion.

20:3.2When they sit in judg­ment on the des­tinies of an age, the Avo­nals de­cree the fate of the evo­lu­tion­ary races, but though they may ren­der judg­ments ex­tin­guish­ing the iden­tity of per­sonal crea­tures, they do not ex­e­cute such sen­tences. Ver­dicts of this na­ture are ex­e­cuted by none but the au­thor­i­ties of a super­uni­verse.

20:3.3The ar­rival of a Par­a­dise Avo­nal on an evo­lu­tion­ary world for the pur­pose of ter­mi­nat­ing a dis­pen­sa­tion and of in­au­gu­rat­ing a new era of plan­e­tary pro­gres­sion is not nec­es­sar­ily ei­ther a mag­is­te­rial mis­sion or a be­stowal mis­sion. Mag­is­te­rial mis­sions some­times, and be­stowal mis­sions al­ways, are in­car­na­tions; that is, on such as­sign­ments the Avo­nals serve on a planet in ma­te­rial form—lit­er­ally. Their other vis­its are “tech­ni­cal,” and in this ca­pac­ity an Avo­nal is not in­car­nated for plan­e­tary ser­vice. If a Mag­is­te­rial Son comes solely as a dis­pen­sa­tional ad­ju­di­ca­tor, he ar­rives on a planet as a spir­i­tual be­ing, in­vis­i­ble to the ma­te­rial crea­tures of the realm. Such tech­ni­cal vis­its oc­cur re­peat­edly in the long his­tory of an in­hab­ited world.

20:3.4Avo­nal Sons may act as plan­e­tary judges prior to both the mag­is­te­rial and be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ences. On ei­ther of these mis­sions, how­ever, the in­car­nated Son will judge the pass­ing plan­e­tary age; like­wise does a Cre­ator Son when in­car­nated on a mis­sion of be­stowal in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh. When a Par­a­dise Son vis­its an evo­lu­tion­ary world and be­comes like one of its peo­ple, his pres­ence ter­mi­nates a dis­pen­sa­tion and con­sti­tutes a judg­ment of the realm.