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Paper 21

The Paradise Creator Sons

Perfector of Wisdom

5. Relation of Master Sons to the Universe

21:5.1The power of a Mas­ter Mi­chael is un­lim­ited be­cause de­rived from ex­pe­ri­enced as­so­ci­a­tion with the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, is un­ques­tioned be­cause de­rived from ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence as the very crea­tures sub­ject to such au­thor­ity. The na­ture of the sov­er­eignty of a sev­en­fold Cre­ator Son is su­preme be­cause it:

21:5.21. Em­braces the sev­en­fold view­point of Par­a­dise De­ity.

21:5.32. Em­bod­ies a sev­en­fold at­ti­tude of time-space crea­tures.

21:5.43. Per­fectly syn­the­sizes Par­a­dise at­ti­tude and crea­ture view­point.

21:5.5This ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eignty is thus all-in­clu­sive of the di­vin­ity of God the Sev­en­fold cul­mi­nat­ing in the Su­preme Be­ing. And the per­sonal sov­er­eignty of a sev­en­fold Son is like the fu­ture sov­er­eignty of the some­time-to-be-com­pleted Su­preme Be­ing, em­brac­ing as it does the fullest pos­si­ble con­tent of the power and au­thor­ity of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity man­i­festable within the time-space lim­its con­cerned.

21:5.6With the achieve­ment of su­preme lo­cal uni­verse sov­er­eignty, there passes from a Mi­chael Son the power and op­por­tu­nity to cre­ate en­tirely new types of crea­ture be­ings dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age. But a Mas­ter Son’s loss of power to orig­i­nate en­tirely new or­ders of be­ings in no way in­ter­feres with the work of life elab­o­ra­tion al­ready es­tab­lished and in pro­cess of un­fold­ment; this vast pro­gram of uni­verse evo­lu­tion goes on with­out in­ter­rup­tion or cur­tail­ment. The ac­quire­ment of su­preme sov­er­eignty by a Mas­ter Son im­plies the re­spon­si­bil­ity of per­sonal de­vo­tion to the fos­ter­ing and the ad­min­is­ter­ing of that which has al­ready been de­signed and cre­ated, and of that which will sub­se­quently be pro­duced by those who have been thus de­signed and cre­ated. In time there may de­velop an al­most end­less evo­lu­tion of di­verse be­ings, but no en­tirely new pat­tern or type of in­tel­li­gent crea­ture will hence­forth take di­rect ori­gin from a Mas­ter Son. This is the first step, the be­gin­ning, of a set­tled ad­min­is­tra­tion in any lo­cal uni­verse.

21:5.7The el­e­va­tion of a sev­en­fold be­stowal Son to the un­ques­tioned sov­er­eignty of his uni­verse means the be­gin­ning of the end of age­long un­cer­tainty and rel­a­tive con­fu­sion. Sub­se­quent to this event, that which can­not be some­time spir­i­tu­al­ized will even­tu­ally be dis­or­ga­nized; that which can­not be some­time co-or­di­nated with cos­mic re­al­ity will even­tu­ally be de­stroyed. When the pro­vi­sions of end­less mercy and name­less pa­tience have been ex­hausted in an ef­fort to win the loy­alty and de­vo­tion of the will crea­tures of the realms, jus­tice and righ­teous­ness will pre­vail. That which mercy can­not re­ha­bil­i­tate jus­tice will even­tu­ally an­ni­hi­late.

21:5.8The Mas­ter Mi­cha­els are su­preme in their own lo­cal uni­verses when once they have been in­stalled as sov­er­eign rulers. The few lim­i­ta­tions upon their rule are those in­her­ent in the cos­mic pre-ex­is­tence of cer­tain forces and per­son­al­i­ties. Oth­er­wise these Mas­ter Sons are su­preme in au­thor­ity, re­spon­si­bil­ity, and ad­min­is­tra­tive power in their re­spec­tive uni­verses; they are as Cre­ators and Gods, su­preme in vir­tu­ally all things. There is no pen­e­tra­tion be­yond their wis­dom re­gard­ing the func­tion­ing of a given uni­verse.

21:5.9Af­ter his el­e­va­tion to set­tled sov­er­eignty in a lo­cal uni­verse a Par­a­dise Mi­chael is in full con­trol of all other Sons of God func­tion­ing in his do­main, and he may freely rule in ac­cor­dance with his con­cept of the needs of his realms. A Mas­ter Son may at will vary the or­der of the spir­i­tual ad­ju­di­ca­tion and evo­lu­tion­ary ad­just­ment of the in­hab­ited plan­ets. And such Sons do make and carry out the plans of their own choos­ing in all mat­ters of spe­cial plan­e­tary needs, in par­tic­u­lar re­gard­ing the worlds of their crea­ture so­journ and still more con­cern­ing the realm of ter­mi­nal be­stowal, the planet of in­car­na­tion in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh.

21:5.10The Mas­ter Sons seem to be in per­fect com­mu­ni­ca­tion with their be­stowal worlds, not only the worlds of their per­sonal so­journ but all worlds whereon a Mag­is­te­rial Son has be­stowed him­self. This con­tact is main­tained by their own spir­i­tual pres­ence, the Spirit of Truth, which they are able to “pour out upon all flesh.” These Mas­ter Sons also main­tain an un­bro­ken con­nec­tion with the Eter­nal Mother Son at the cen­ter of all things. They pos­sess a sym­pa­thetic reach which ex­tends from the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther on high to the lowly races of plan­e­tary life in the realms of time.