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Paper 22

The Trinitized Sons of God

Mighty Messenger

1. The Trinity-Embraced Sons

22:1.1All Trin­ity-em­braced sons are orig­i­nally of dual or sin­gle ori­gin, but sub­se­quent to the Trin­ity em­brace they are for­ever de­voted to Trin­ity ser­vice and as­sign­ment. This corps, as re­vealed and as or­ga­nized for super­uni­verse ser­vice, em­braces seven or­ders of per­son­al­i­ties:

22:1.21. Mighty Mes­sen­gers.

22:1.32. Those High in Au­thor­ity.

22:1.43. Those with­out Name and Num­ber.

22:1.54. Trin­i­tized Cus­to­di­ans.

22:1.65. Trin­i­tized Am­bas­sadors.

22:1.76. Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans.

22:1.87. High Son As­sis­tants.

22:1.9These seven groups of per­son­al­i­ties are fur­ther clas­si­fied, ac­cord­ing to ori­gin, na­ture, and func­tion, into three ma­jor di­vi­sions: the Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment, the Trin­i­tized Sons of Se­lec­tion, and the Trin­i­tized Sons of Per­fec­tion.

22:1.10The Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment—the Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber—are all Ad­juster-fused as­cen­dant mor­tals who have at­tained Par­a­dise and the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. But they are not fi­nal­i­ters; when they have been Trin­ity em­braced, their names are re­moved from the fi­nal­i­ter roll call. The new sons of this or­der pass through spe­cific courses of train­ing, for com­par­a­tively short pe­ri­ods, on the cir­cuit head­quar­ters plan­ets of the Ha­vona cir­cuits un­der the di­rec­tion of the Eter­nals of Days. There­after they are as­signed to the ser­vices of the An­cients of Days in the seven super­uni­verses.

22:1.11The Trin­i­tized Sons of Se­lec­tion em­brace the Trin­i­tized Cus­to­di­ans and the Trin­i­tized Am­bas­sadors. They are re­cruited from cer­tain of the evo­lu­tion­ary ser­a­phim and trans­lated mid­way crea­tures who have tra­versed Ha­vona and have at­tained Par­a­dise, as well as from cer­tain of the Spirit-fused and the Son-fused mor­tals who have like­wise as­cended to the cen­tral Isle of Light and Life. Sub­se­quent to their em­brace by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and af­ter a brief train­ing in Ha­vona, the Trin­i­tized Sons of Se­lec­tion are as­signed to the courts of the An­cients of Days.

22:1.12The Trin­i­tized Sons of Per­fec­tion. The Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and their co-or­di­nates, the High Son As­sis­tants, com­prise a unique group of twice-trin­i­tized per­son­al­i­ties. They are the crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons of Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties or of per­fected as­cen­dant mor­tals who have long dis­tin­guished them­selves in the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Some of these crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons, af­ter ser­vice with the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and af­ter serv­ing un­der the Trin­ity Teacher Sons, are re­trini­tized (em­braced) by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and then com­mis­sioned to the courts of the An­cients of Days as Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and as High Son As­sis­tants. Trin­i­tized Sons of Per­fec­tion are as­signed di­rectly to the super­uni­verse ser­vice with­out fur­ther train­ing.

22:1.13Our Trin­ity-ori­gin as­so­ciates—Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, Di­vine Coun­selors, and Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors—are of sta­tion­ary num­bers, but the Trin­ity-em­braced sons are con­stantly in­creas­ing. All seven or­ders of Trin­ity-em­braced sons are com­mis­sioned as mem­bers of one of the seven super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments, and the num­ber in the ser­vice of each super­uni­verse is ex­actly the same; not one has ever been lost. Trin­ity-em­braced be­ings have never gone astray; they may stum­ble tem­porar­ily, but not one has ever been ad­judged in con­tempt of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments. The Sons of At­tain­ment and the Sons of Se­lec­tion have never fal­tered in the ser­vice of Or­von­ton, but the Trin­i­tized Sons of Per­fec­tion have some­times erred in judg­ment and thereby caused tran­sient con­fu­sion.

22:1.14Un­der the di­rec­tion of the An­cients of Days all seven or­ders func­tion very much as self-gov­ern­ing groups. Their scope of ser­vice is far-flung; Trin­i­tized Sons of Per­fec­tion do not leave the super­uni­verse of as­sign­ment, but their trin­i­tized as­so­ciates range the grand uni­verse, jour­ney­ing from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space to the eter­nal Isle of Par­a­dise. They may func­tion in any of the super­uni­verses, but they do so al­ways as mem­bers of the super­gov­ern­ment of orig­i­nal des­ig­na­tion.

22:1.15Ap­par­ently the Trin­ity-em­braced sons have been per­ma­nently as­signed to the ser­vice of the seven super­uni­verses; cer­tainly this as­sign­ment is for the du­ra­tion of the pres­ent uni­verse age, but we have never been in­formed that it is to be eter­nal.