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Paper 22

The Trinitized Sons of God

Mighty Messenger

9. The Celestial Guardians

22:9.1Crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons are em­braced by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity in classes of seven thou­sand. These trin­i­tized off­spring of per­fected hu­mans and of Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties are all equally em­braced by the De­i­ties, but they are as­signed to the super­uni­verses in ac­cor­dance with the ad­vice of their for­mer in­struc­tors, the Trin­ity Teacher Sons. Those of more ac­cept­able ser­vice are com­mis­sioned High Son As­sis­tants; those of less dis­tin­guished per­for­mance are des­ig­nated Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans.

22:9.2When these unique be­ings have been Trin­ity em­braced, they be­come valu­able ad­juncts to the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments. They are versed in the af­fairs of the as­cen­dant ca­reer, not by per­sonal as­cen­sion, but as a re­sult of their ser­vice with the Trin­ity Teacher Sons on the worlds of space.

22:9.3Al­most one bil­lion Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans have been com­mis­sioned in Or­von­ton. They are chiefly as­signed to the ad­min­is­tra­tions of the Per­fec­tions of Days on the head­quar­ters of the ma­jor sec­tors and are ably as­sisted by a corps of as­cen­dant Son-fused mor­tals.

22:9.4The Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans are the of­fi­cers of the courts of the An­cients of Days, func­tion­ing as court mes­sen­gers and as bear­ers of the sum­monses and de­ci­sions of the var­i­ous tri­bu­nals of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments. They are the ap­pre­hend­ing agents of the An­cients of Days; they go forth from Uversa to bring back be­ings whose pres­ence is re­quired be­fore the super­uni­verse judges; they ex­e­cute the man­dates for the de­ten­tion of any per­son­al­ity in the super­uni­verse. They also ac­com­pany Spirit-fused mor­tals of the lo­cal uni­verses when, for any rea­son, their pres­ence is re­quired on Uversa.

22:9.5The Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and their as­so­ciates, the High Son As­sis­tants, have never been in­dwelt by Ad­justers. Nei­ther are they Spirit nor Son fused. The em­brace of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity does, how­ever, com­pen­sate for the non­fused sta­tus of the Trin­i­tized Sons of Per­fec­tion. The Trin­ity em­brace may act solely upon the idea which is per­son­i­fied in a crea­ture-trin­i­tized son, leav­ing the em­braced son oth­er­wise un­changed, but such a lim­i­ta­tion oc­curs only when so planned.

22:9.6These twice-trin­i­tized sons are mar­velous be­ings, but they are nei­ther as ver­sa­tile nor de­pend­able as their as­cen­dant as­so­ciates; they lack that tremen­dous and pro­found per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence which the rest of the sons be­long­ing to this group have ac­quired by ac­tu­ally climb­ing up to glory from the dark do­mains of space. We of the as­cen­dant ca­reer love them and do all in our power to com­pen­sate their de­fi­cien­cies, but they make us ever grate­ful for our lowly ori­gin and our ca­pac­ity for ex­pe­ri­ence. Their will­ing­ness to rec­og­nize and ac­knowl­edge their de­fi­cien­cies in the ex­pe­ri­en­ci­ble re­al­i­ties of uni­verse as­cen­sion is tran­scen­dently beau­ti­ful and some­times most touch­ingly pa­thetic.

22:9.7Trin­i­tized Sons of Per­fec­tion are lim­ited in con­trast to other Trin­ity-em­braced sons be­cause their ex­pe­ri­en­tial ca­pac­ity is time-space in­hib­ited. They are ex­pe­ri­ence-de­fi­cient, de­spite long train­ing with the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives and the Teacher Sons, and if this were not the case, ex­pe­ri­en­tial sat­u­ra­tion would pre­clude their be­ing left in re­serve for ac­quir­ing ex­pe­ri­ence in a fu­ture uni­verse age. There is sim­ply noth­ing in all uni­ver­sal ex­is­tence which can take the place of ac­tual per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence, and these crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons are held in re­serve for ex­pe­ri­en­tial func­tion in some fu­ture uni­verse epoch.

22:9.8On the man­sion worlds I have of­ten seen these dig­ni­fied of­fi­cers of the high courts of the super­uni­verse look so long­ingly and ap­peal­ingly at even the re­cent ar­rivals from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space that one could not help re­al­iz­ing that these pos­ses­sors of non­ex­pe­ri­en­tial trin­i­ti­za­tion re­ally en­vied their sup­pos­edly less for­tu­nate breth­ren who as­cend the uni­ver­sal path by steps of bona fide ex­pe­ri­ence and ac­tual liv­ing. Not­with­stand­ing their hand­i­caps and lim­i­ta­tions they are a won­der­fully use­ful and ever-will­ing corps of work­ers when it comes to the ex­e­cu­tion of the com­plex ad­min­is­tra­tive plans of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments.