The Paradise Creator Sons

21:2.1The Par­a­dise Sons of the pri­mary or­der are the de­sign­ers, cre­ators, builders, and ad­min­is­tra­tors of their re­spec­tive do­mains, the lo­cal uni­verses of time and space, the ba­sic cre­ative units of the seven evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses. A Cre­ator Son is per­mit­ted to choose the space site of his fu­ture cos­mic ac­tiv­ity, but be­fore he may be­gin even the phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion of his uni­verse, he must spend a long pe­riod of ob­ser­va­tion de­voted to the study of the ef­forts of his older broth­ers in var­i­ous cre­ations lo­cated in the super­uni­verse of his pro­jected ac­tion. And prior to all this, the Mi­chael Son will have com­pleted his long and unique ex­pe­ri­ence of Par­a­dise ob­ser­va­tion and Ha­vona train­ing.

21:2.2When a Cre­ator Son de­parts from Par­a­dise to em­bark upon the ad­ven­ture of uni­verse mak­ing, to be­come the head—vir­tu­ally the God—of the lo­cal uni­verse of his own or­ga­ni­za­tion, then, for the first time, he finds him­self in in­ti­mate con­tact with, and in many re­spects de­pen­dent upon, the Third Source and Cen­ter. The In­fi­nite Spirit, though abid­ing with the Fa­ther and the Son at the cen­ter of all things, is des­tined to func­tion as the ac­tual and ef­fec­tive helper of each Cre­ator Son. There­fore is each Cre­ator Son ac­com­pa­nied by a Cre­ative Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit, that be­ing who is des­tined to be­come the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the Mother Spirit of the new lo­cal uni­verse.

21:2.3The de­par­ture of a Mi­chael Son on this oc­ca­sion for­ever lib­er­ates his cre­ator pre­rog­a­tives from the Par­a­dise Sources and Cen­ters, sub­ject only to cer­tain lim­i­ta­tions in­her­ent in the pre-ex­is­tence of these Sources and Cen­ters and to cer­tain other an­te­ced­ent pow­ers and pres­ences. Among these lim­i­ta­tions to the oth­er­wise all-pow­er­ful cre­ator pre­rog­a­tives of a lo­cal uni­verse Fa­ther are the fol­low­ing:

21:2.41. En­ergy-mat­ter is dom­i­nated by the In­fi­nite Spirit. Be­fore any new forms of things, great or small, may be cre­ated, be­fore any new trans­for­ma­tions of en­ergy-mat­ter may be at­tempted, a Cre­ator Son must se­cure the con­sent and work­ing co-op­er­a­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

21:2.52. Crea­ture de­signs and types are con­trolled by the Eter­nal Son. Be­fore a Cre­ator Son may en­gage in the cre­ation of any new type of be­ing, any new de­sign of crea­ture, he must se­cure the con­sent of the Eter­nal and Orig­i­nal Mother Son.

21:2.63. Per­son­al­ity is de­signed and be­stowed by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

21:2.7The types and pat­terns of mind are de­ter­mined by the precrea­ture fac­tors of be­ing. Af­ter these have been as­so­ci­ated to con­sti­tute a crea­ture (per­sonal or oth­er­wise), mind is the en­dow­ment of the Third Source and Cen­ter, the uni­ver­sal source of mind min­istry to all be­ings be­low the level of Par­a­dise Cre­ators.

21:2.8The con­trol of spirit de­signs and types de­pends on the level of their man­i­fes­ta­tion. In the last anal­y­sis, spir­i­tual de­sign is con­trolled by the Trin­ity or by the pre-Trin­ity spirit en­dow­ments of the Trin­ity per­son­al­i­ties—Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit.

21:2.9When such a per­fect and di­vine Son has taken pos­ses­sion of the space site of his cho­sen uni­verse; when the ini­tial prob­lems of uni­verse ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion and of gross equi­lib­rium have been re­solved; when he has formed an ef­fec­tive and co-op­er­a­tive work­ing union with the com­ple­men­tal Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit—then do this Uni­verse Son and this Uni­verse Spirit ini­ti­ate that li­ai­son which is de­signed to give ori­gin to the in­nu­mer­able hosts of their lo­cal uni­verse chil­dren. In con­nec­tion with this event the Cre­ative Spirit fo­cal­iza­tion of the Par­a­dise In­fi­nite Spirit be­comes changed in na­ture, tak­ing on the per­sonal qual­i­ties of the Mother Spirit of a lo­cal uni­verse.

21:2.10Not­with­stand­ing that all Cre­ator Sons are di­vinely like their Par­a­dise par­ents, none ex­actly re­sem­bles an­other; each is unique, di­verse, ex­clu­sive, and orig­i­nal in na­ture as well as in per­son­al­ity. And since they are the ar­chi­tects and mak­ers of the life plans of their re­spec­tive realms, this very di­ver­sity in­sures that their do­mains will also be di­verse in ev­ery form and phase of Mi­chael-de­rived liv­ing ex­is­tence which may be cre­ated or sub­se­quently evolved therein. Hence the or­ders of crea­tures na­tive to the lo­cal uni­verses are quite var­ied. No two are ad­min­is­tered or in­hab­ited by dual-ori­gin na­tive be­ings who are in all re­spects iden­ti­cal. Within any super­uni­verse, one half of their in­her­ent at­tri­butes are quite alike, be­ing de­rived from the uni­form Cre­ative Spir­its; the other half vary, be­ing de­rived from the di­ver­si­fied Cre­ator Sons. But such di­ver­sity does not char­ac­ter­ize those crea­tures of sole ori­gin in the Cre­ative Spirit nor those im­ported be­ings who are na­tive to the cen­tral or super­uni­verses.

21:2.11When a Mi­chael Son is ab­sent from his uni­verse, its gov­ern­ment is di­rected by the first-born na­tive be­ing, the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the lo­cal uni­verse chief ex­ec­u­tive. The ad­vice and coun­sel of the Union of Days is in­valu­able at such times. Dur­ing these ab­sences a Cre­ator Son is able to in­vest the as­so­ci­ated Mother Spirit with the over­con­trol of his spir­i­tual pres­ence on the in­hab­ited worlds and in the hearts of his mor­tal chil­dren. And the Mother Spirit of a lo­cal uni­verse re­mains al­ways at its head­quar­ters, ex­tend­ing her fos­ter­ing care and spir­i­tual min­istry to the ut­ter­most parts of such an evo­lu­tion­ary do­main.

21:2.12The per­sonal pres­ence of a Cre­ator Son in his lo­cal uni­verse is not nec­es­sary to the smooth run­ning of an es­tab­lished ma­te­rial cre­ation. Such Sons may jour­ney to Par­a­dise, and still their uni­verses swing on through space. They may lay down their lines of power to in­car­nate as the chil­dren of time; still their realms whirl on about their re­spec­tive cen­ters. No ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tion is in­de­pen­dent of the ab­so­lute-grav­ity grasp of Par­a­dise or of the cos­mic over­con­trol in­her­ent in the space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.