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Paper 20

The Paradise Sons of God

Perfector of Wisdom

4. Magisterial Missions

20:4.1Prior to the plan­e­tary ap­pear­ance of a be­stowal Son, an in­hab­ited world is usu­ally vis­ited by a Par­a­dise Avo­nal on a mag­is­te­rial mis­sion. If it is an ini­tial mag­is­te­rial vis­i­ta­tion, the Avo­nal is al­ways in­car­nated as a ma­te­rial be­ing. He ap­pears on the planet of as­sign­ment as a full-fledged male of the mor­tal races, a be­ing fully vis­i­ble to, and in phys­i­cal con­tact with, the mor­tal crea­tures of his day and gen­er­a­tion. Through­out a mag­is­te­rial in­car­na­tion the con­nec­tion of the Avo­nal Son with the lo­cal and the uni­ver­sal spir­i­tual forces is com­plete and un­bro­ken.

20:4.2A planet may ex­pe­ri­ence many mag­is­te­rial vis­i­ta­tions both be­fore and af­ter the ap­pear­ance of a be­stowal Son. It may be vis­ited many times by the same or other Avo­nals, act­ing as dis­pen­sa­tional ad­ju­di­ca­tors, but such tech­ni­cal mis­sions of judg­ment are nei­ther be­stowal nor mag­is­te­rial, and the Avo­nals are never in­car­nated at such times. Even when a planet is blessed with re­peated mag­is­te­rial mis­sions, the Avo­nals do not al­ways sub­mit to mor­tal in­car­na­tion; and when they do serve in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, they al­ways ap­pear as adult be­ings of the realm; they are not born of woman.

20:4.3When in­car­nated on ei­ther be­stowal or mag­is­te­rial mis­sions, the Par­a­dise Sons have ex­pe­ri­enced Ad­justers, and these Ad­justers are dif­fer­ent for each in­car­na­tion. The Ad­justers that oc­cupy the minds of the in­car­nated Sons of God can never hope for per­son­al­ity through fu­sion with the hu­man-di­vine be­ings of their in­dwelling, but they are of­ten per­son­al­ized by fiat of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Such Ad­justers form the su­preme Di­vin­ing­ton coun­cil of di­rec­tion for the ad­min­is­tra­tion, iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, and dis­patch of Mys­tery Mon­i­tors to the in­hab­ited realms. They also re­ceive and ac­credit Ad­justers on their re­turn to the “bo­som of the Fa­ther” upon the mor­tal dis­so­lu­tion of their earthly taber­na­cles. In this way the faith­ful Ad­justers of the world judges be­come the ex­alted chiefs of their kind.

20:4.4Uran­tia has never been host to an Avo­nal Son on a mag­is­te­rial mis­sion. Had Uran­tia fol­lowed the gen­eral plan of in­hab­ited worlds, it would have been blessed with a mag­is­te­rial mis­sion some­time be­tween the days of Adam and the be­stowal of Christ Mi­chael. But the reg­u­lar se­quence of Par­a­dise Sons on your planet was wholly de­ranged by the ap­pear­ance of your Cre­ator Son on his ter­mi­nal be­stowal nine­teen hun­dred years ago.

20:4.5Uran­tia may yet be vis­ited by an Avo­nal com­mis­sioned to in­car­nate on a mag­is­te­rial mis­sion, but re­gard­ing the fu­ture ap­pear­ance of Par­a­dise Sons, not even “the an­gels in heaven know the time or man­ner of such vis­i­ta­tions,” for a Mi­chael-be­stowal world be­comes the in­di­vid­ual and per­sonal ward of a Mas­ter Son and, as such, is wholly sub­ject to his own plans and rul­ings. And with your world, this is fur­ther com­pli­cated by Mi­chael’s prom­ise to re­turn. Re­gard­less of the mis­un­der­stand­ings about the Uran­tian so­journ of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, one thing is cer­tainly au­then­tic—his prom­ise to come back to your world. In view of this prospect, only time can re­veal the fu­ture or­der of the vis­i­ta­tions of the Par­a­dise Sons of God on Uran­tia.