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Paper 20

The Paradise Sons of God

Perfector of Wisdom

9. Planetary Service of the Daynals

20:9.1When the prog­ress of events on an evo­lu­tion­ary world in­di­cates that the time is ripe to ini­ti­ate a spir­i­tual age, the Trin­ity Teacher Sons al­ways vol­un­teer for this ser­vice. You are not fa­mil­iar with this or­der of son­ship be­cause Uran­tia has never ex­pe­ri­enced a spir­i­tual age, a mil­len­nium of cos­mic en­light­en­ment. But the Teacher Sons even now visit your world for the pur­pose of for­mu­lat­ing plans con­cern­ing their pro­jected so­journ on your sphere. They will be due to ap­pear on Uran­tia af­ter its in­hab­i­tants have gained com­par­a­tive de­liv­er­ance from the shack­les of an­i­mal­ism and from the fet­ters of ma­te­ri­al­ism.

20:9.2Trin­ity Teacher Sons have noth­ing to do with ter­mi­nat­ing plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tions. They nei­ther judge the dead nor trans­late the liv­ing, but on each plan­e­tary mis­sion they are ac­com­pa­nied by a Mag­is­te­rial Son who per­forms these ser­vices. Teacher Sons are wholly con­cerned with the ini­ti­a­tion of a spir­i­tual age, with the dawn of the era of spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties on an evo­lu­tion­ary planet. They make real the spir­i­tual coun­ter­parts of ma­te­rial knowl­edge and tem­po­ral wis­dom.

20:9.3The Teacher Sons usu­ally re­main on their vis­i­ta­tion plan­ets for one thou­sand years of plan­e­tary time. One Teacher Son pre­sides over the plan­e­tary mil­len­nial reign and is as­sisted by sev­enty as­so­ciates of his or­der. The Day­nals do not in­car­nate or oth­er­wise so ma­te­ri­al­ize them­selves as to be vis­i­ble to mor­tal be­ings; there­fore is con­tact with the world of vis­i­ta­tion main­tained through the ac­tiv­i­ties of the Bril­liant Evening Stars, lo­cal uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties who are as­so­ci­ated with the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

20:9.4The Day­nals may re­turn many times to an in­hab­ited world, and fol­low­ing their fi­nal mis­sion the planet will be ush­ered into the set­tled sta­tus of a sphere of light and life, the evo­lu­tion­ary goal of all the mor­tal-in­hab­ited worlds of the pres­ent uni­verse age. The Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity has much to do with the spheres set­tled in light and life, and their plan­e­tary ac­tiv­i­ties touch upon those of the Teacher Sons. In­deed, the whole or­der of Day­nal son­ship is in­ti­mately con­nected with all phases of fi­nal­i­ter ac­tiv­i­ties in the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ations of time and space.

20:9.5The Trin­ity Teacher Sons seem to be so com­pletely iden­ti­fied with the regime of mor­tal pro­gres­sion through the ear­lier stages of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cen­sion that we are of­ten led to spec­u­late re­gard­ing their pos­si­ble as­so­ci­a­tion with the fi­nal­i­ters in the undis­closed ca­reer of the fu­ture uni­verses. We ob­serve that the ad­min­is­tra­tors of the super­uni­verses are part Trin­ity-ori­gin per­son­al­i­ties and part Trin­ity-em­braced as­cen­dant evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures. We firmly be­lieve that the Teacher Sons and the fi­nal­i­ters are now en­gaged in ac­quir­ing the ex­pe­ri­ence of time-as­so­ci­a­tion which may be the pre­lim­i­nary train­ing to pre­pare them for close as­so­ci­a­tion in some un­re­vealed fu­ture des­tiny. On Uversa it is our be­lief that, when the super­uni­verses are fi­nally set­tled in light and life, these Par­a­dise Teacher Sons, who have be­come so thor­oughly fa­mil­iar with the prob­lems of evo­lu­tion­ary worlds and have been so long as­so­ci­ated with the ca­reer of evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals, will prob­a­bly be trans­ferred to eter­nal as­so­ci­a­tion with the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.