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Paper 22

The Trinitized Sons of God

Mighty Messenger

10. High Son Assistants

22:10.1The High Son As­sis­tants are the su­pe­rior group of the re­trini­tized trin­i­tized sons of glo­ri­fied as­cen­dant be­ings of the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity and of their eter­nal as­so­ciates, the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties. They are as­signed to the super­uni­verse ser­vice and func­tion as per­sonal aids to the high sons of the gov­ern­ments of the An­cients of Days. They might fit­tingly be de­nom­i­nated pri­vate sec­re­taries. They act, from time to time, as clerks for spe­cial com­mis­sions and other group as­so­ci­a­tions of the high sons. They serve Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, Di­vine Coun­selors, Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors, Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber.

22:10.2If, in dis­cussing the Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans, I have seemed to call at­ten­tion to the lim­i­ta­tions and hand­i­caps of these twice-trin­i­tized sons, let me now, in all fair­ness, call at­ten­tion to their one point of great strength, the at­tri­bute which makes them al­most in­valu­able to us. These be­ings owe their very ex­is­tence to the fact that they are the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of a sin­gle and su­preme con­cept. They are the per­son­al­ity em­bod­i­ment of some di­vine idea, some uni­ver­sal ideal, as it has never be­fore been con­ceived, ex­pressed, or trin­i­tized. And they have sub­se­quently been Trin­ity em­braced; thus they show forth and ac­tu­ally em­body the very wis­dom of the di­vine Trin­ity as con­cerns the idea-ideal of their per­son­al­ity ex­is­tence. As far as that par­tic­u­lar con­cept is re­veal­able to the uni­verses, these per­son­al­i­ties em­body all of ev­ery­thing that any crea­ture or Cre­ator in­tel­li­gence could pos­si­bly con­ceive, ex­press, or ex­em­plify. They are that idea per­son­i­fied.

22:10.3Can you not see that such liv­ing con­cen­tra­tions of a sin­gle su­preme con­cept of uni­verse re­al­ity would be of un­told ser­vice to those who are in­trusted with the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the super­uni­verses?

22:10.4Not long since I was di­rected to head a com­mis­sion of six—one of each of the high sons—as­signed to the study of three prob­lems per­tain­ing to a group of new uni­verses in the south parts of Or­von­ton. I was made acutely aware of the value of the High Son As­sis­tants when I made req­ui­si­tion on the chief of their or­der on Uversa for tem­po­rary as­sign­ment of such sec­re­taries to my com­mis­sion. The first of our ideas was rep­re­sented by a High Son As­sis­tant on Uversa, who was forth­with at­tached to our group. Our sec­ond prob­lem was em­bod­ied in a High Son As­sis­tant as­signed to super­uni­verse num­ber three. We se­cured much help from this source through the cen­tral uni­verse clear­ing­house for the co-or­di­na­tion and dis­sem­i­na­tion of es­sen­tial knowl­edge, but noth­ing com­pa­ra­ble to the as­sis­tance af­forded by the ac­tual pres­ence of a per­son­al­ity who is a con­cept crea­ture-trin­i­tized in su­prem­acy and De­ity-trin­i­tized in fi­nal­ity. Con­cern­ing our third prob­lem, the rec­ords of Par­a­dise dis­closed that such an idea had never been crea­ture trin­i­tized.

22:10.5High Son As­sis­tants are unique and orig­i­nal per­son­al­iza­tions of tremen­dous con­cepts and stu­pen­dous ide­als. And as such they are able to im­part in­ex­press­ible il­lu­mi­na­tion to our de­lib­er­a­tions from time to time. When I am act­ing on some re­mote as­sign­ment out in the uni­verses of space, think what it means, by way of as­sis­tance, if I am so for­tu­nate as to have at­tached to my mis­sion a High Son As­sis­tant who is the full­ness of di­vine con­cept re­gard­ing the very prob­lem I have been sent to at­tack and solve; and I have re­peat­edly had this very ex­pe­ri­ence. The only dif­fi­culty with this plan is that no super­uni­verse can have a com­plete edi­tion of these trin­i­tized ideas; we only get one sev­enth of these be­ings; so it is only about one time in seven that we en­joy the per­sonal as­so­ci­a­tion of these be­ings even when the rec­ords in­di­cate that the idea has been trin­i­tized.

22:10.6We could use to great ad­van­tage much larger num­bers of these be­ings on Uversa. Be­cause of their value to the super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tions, we, in ev­ery way pos­si­ble, en­cour­age the pil­grims of space and also the res­i­dents of Par­a­dise to at­tempt trin­i­ti­za­tion af­ter they have con­tributed to one an­other those ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­i­ties which are es­sen­tial to the en­act­ment of such cre­ative ad­ven­tures.

22:10.7We now have in our super­uni­verse about one and a quar­ter mil­lion High Son As­sis­tants, and they serve on both the ma­jor and mi­nor sec­tors, even as they func­tion on Uversa. They very of­ten ac­com­pany us on our as­sign­ments to the re­mote uni­verses. High Son As­sis­tants are not per­ma­nently as­signed to any Son or to any com­mis­sion. They are in con­stant cir­cu­la­tion, serv­ing where the idea or ideal which they are can best fur­ther the eter­nal pur­poses of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, whose sons they have be­come.

22:10.8They are touch­ingly af­fec­tion­ate, su­perbly loyal, ex­qui­sitely in­tel­li­gent, su­premely wise—re­gard­ing a sin­gle idea—and tran­scen­dently hum­ble. While they can im­part to you the lore of the uni­verse con­cern­ing their one idea or ideal, it is well-nigh pa­thetic to ob­serve them seek­ing knowl­edge and in­for­ma­tion on hosts of other sub­jects, even from the as­cend­ing mor­tals.

22:10.9And this is the nar­ra­tive of the ori­gin, na­ture, and func­tion­ing of cer­tain of those who are called the Trin­i­tized Sons of God, more par­tic­u­larly of those who have passed through the di­vine em­brace of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, and who have then been as­signed to the ser­vices of the super­uni­verses, there to give wise and un­der­stand­ing co-op­er­a­tion with the ad­min­is­tra­tors of the An­cients of Days in their un­tir­ing ef­forts to fa­cil­i­tate the in­ward prog­ress of the as­cend­ing mor­tals of time to­ward their im­me­di­ate Ha­vona des­ti­na­tion and their even­tual Par­a­dise goal.

22:10.10[Nar­rated by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger of the rev­e­la­tory corps of Or­von­ton.]