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Paper 21

The Paradise Creator Sons

Perfector of Wisdom

21:0.1The Cre­ator Sons are the mak­ers and rulers of the lo­cal uni­verses of time and space. These uni­verse cre­ators and sov­er­eigns are of dual ori­gin, em­body­ing the char­ac­ter­is­tics of God the Fa­ther and God the Son. But each Cre­ator Son is dif­fer­ent from ev­ery other; each is unique in na­ture as well as in per­son­al­ity; each is the “only-be­got­ten Son” of the per­fect de­ity ideal of his ori­gin.

21:0.2In the vast work of or­ga­niz­ing, evolv­ing, and per­fect­ing a lo­cal uni­verse, these high Sons al­ways en­joy the sus­tain­ing ap­proval of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The re­la­tion­ship of the Cre­ator Sons with their Par­a­dise Fa­ther is touch­ing and su­perla­tive. No doubt the pro­found af­fec­tion of the De­ity par­ents for their di­vine progeny is the well­spring of that beau­ti­ful and well-nigh di­vine love which even mor­tal par­ents bear their chil­dren.

21:0.3These pri­mary Par­a­dise Sons are per­son­al­ized as Mi­cha­els. As they go forth from Par­a­dise to found their uni­verses, they are known as Cre­ator Mi­cha­els. When set­tled in su­preme au­thor­ity, they are called Mas­ter Mi­cha­els. Some­times we re­fer to the sov­er­eign of your uni­verse of Neb­a­don as Christ Mi­chael. Al­ways and for­ever do they reign af­ter the “or­der of Mi­chael,” that be­ing the des­ig­na­tion of the first Son of their or­der and na­ture.

21:0.4The orig­i­nal or first-born Mi­chael has never ex­pe­ri­enced in­car­na­tion as a ma­te­rial be­ing, but seven times he passed through the ex­pe­ri­ence of spir­i­tual crea­ture as­cent on the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona, ad­vanc­ing from the outer spheres to the in­ner­most cir­cuit of the cen­tral cre­ation. The or­der of Mi­chael knows the grand uni­verse from one end to the other; there is no es­sen­tial ex­pe­ri­ence of any of the chil­dren of time and space in which the Mi­cha­els have not per­son­ally par­tic­i­pated; they are in fact par­tak­ers not only of the di­vine na­ture but also of your na­ture, mean­ing all na­tures, from the high­est to the low­est.

21:0.5The orig­i­nal Mi­chael is the pre­sid­ing head of the pri­mary Par­a­dise Sons when they as­sem­ble for con­fer­ence at the cen­ter of all things. Not long since on Uversa we re­corded a uni­ver­sal broad­cast of a con­clave ex­traor­di­nary on the eter­nal Isle of one hun­dred fifty thou­sand Cre­ator Sons as­sem­bled in the pa­ren­tal pres­ence and en­gaged in de­lib­er­a­tions hav­ing to do with the prog­ress of the uni­fi­ca­tion and sta­bi­liza­tion of the uni­verse of uni­verses. This was a se­lected group of Sov­er­eign Mi­cha­els, sev­en­fold be­stowal Sons.