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Paper 21

The Paradise Creator Sons

Perfector of Wisdom

6. Destiny of the Master Michaels

21:6.1No one may with fi­nal­ity of au­thor­ity pre­sume to dis­cuss ei­ther the na­tures or the des­tinies of the sev­en­fold Mas­ter Sov­er­eigns of the lo­cal uni­verses; nev­er­the­less, we all spec­u­late much re­gard­ing these mat­ters. We are taught, and we be­lieve, that each Par­a­dise Mi­chael is the ab­so­lute of the dual de­ity con­cepts of his ori­gin; thus he em­bod­ies ac­tual phases of the in­fin­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son. The Mi­cha­els must be par­tial in re­la­tion to to­tal in­fin­ity, but they are prob­a­bly ab­so­lute in re­la­tion to that part of in­fin­ity con­cerned in their ori­gin. But as we ob­serve their work in the pres­ent uni­verse age, we de­tect no ac­tion that is more than fi­nite; any con­jec­tured super­fi­nite ca­pac­i­ties must be self-con­tained and as yet un­re­vealed.

21:6.2The com­ple­tion of the crea­ture-be­stowal ca­reers and the el­e­va­tion to su­preme uni­verse sov­er­eignty must sig­nify the com­pleted lib­er­a­tion of a Mi­chael’s fi­nite-ac­tion ca­pac­i­ties ac­com­pa­nied by the ap­pear­ance of ca­pac­ity for more-than-fi­nite ser­vice. For in this con­nec­tion we note that such Mas­ter Sons are then re­stricted in the pro­duc­tion of new types of crea­ture be­ings, a re­stric­tion un­doubt­edly made nec­es­sary by the lib­er­a­tion of their super­fi­nite po­ten­tial­i­ties.

21:6.3It is highly prob­a­ble that these undis­closed cre­ator pow­ers will re­main self-con­tained through­out the pres­ent uni­verse age. But some­time in the far-dis­tant fu­ture, in the now mo­bi­liz­ing uni­verses of outer space, we be­lieve that the li­ai­son be­tween a sev­en­fold Mas­ter Son and a sev­enth-stage Cre­ative Spirit may at­tain to ab­so­nite lev­els of ser­vice at­tended by the ap­pear­ance of new things, mean­ings, and val­ues on tran­scen­den­tal lev­els of ul­ti­mate uni­verse sig­nif­i­cance.

21:6.4Just as the De­ity of the Su­preme is ac­tu­al­iz­ing by virtue of ex­pe­ri­en­tial ser­vice, so are the Cre­ator Sons achiev­ing the per­sonal re­al­iza­tion of the Par­a­dise-di­vin­ity po­ten­tials bound up in their un­fath­omable na­tures. When on Uran­tia, Christ Mi­chael once said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” And we be­lieve that in eter­nity the Mi­cha­els are lit­er­ally des­tined to be “the way, the truth, and the life,” ever blaz­ing the path for all uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties as it leads from su­preme di­vin­ity through ul­ti­mate ab­sonity to eter­nal de­ity fi­nal­ity.

21:6.5[Pre­sented by a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom from Uversa.]