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Paper 23

The Solitary Messengers

Divine Counselor

4. Special Ministry of Solitary Messengers

23:4.1The Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers seem to be per­son­al­ity co-or­di­na­tors for all types of spirit be­ings. Their min­istry helps to make all the per­son­al­i­ties of the far-flung spir­i­tual world akin. They con­tribute much to the de­vel­op­ment, in all spirit be­ings, of a con­scious­ness of group iden­tity. Ev­ery type of spirit be­ing is served by spe­cial groups of Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers who fos­ter the abil­ity of such be­ings to un­der­stand and frat­er­nize with all other types and or­ders, how­ever dis­sim­i­lar.

23:4.2The Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers demon­strate such an amaz­ing abil­ity to co-or­di­nate all types and or­ders of fi­nite per­son­al­ity—even to make con­tact with the ab­so­nite regime of the mas­ter uni­verse over­con­trollers—that some of us pos­tu­late that the cre­ation of these mes­sen­gers by the In­fi­nite Spirit is in some man­ner re­lated to the Con­joint Ac­tor’s be­stowal of Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate Mind.

23:4.3When a fi­nal­i­ter and a Par­a­dise Cit­i­zen co-op­er­ate in the trin­i­ti­za­tion of a “child of time and eter­nity”—a trans­ac­tion in­volv­ing the un­re­vealed mind po­ten­tials of the Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate—and when such an un­clas­si­fied per­son­al­ity is dis­patched to Vicegering­ton, a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger (a con­jec­tured per­son­al­ity reper­cus­sion of the be­stowal of such de­ity mind) is al­ways as­signed as guard­ian-com­pan­ion to such a crea­ture-trin­i­tized son. This mes­sen­ger ac­com­pa­nies the new son of des­tiny to the world of his as­sign­ment and nev­er­more leaves Vicegering­ton. When thus at­tached to the des­tinies of a child of time and eter­nity, a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger is for­ever trans­ferred to the sole super­vi­sion of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse. What the fu­ture of such an ex­traor­di­nary as­so­ci­a­tion may be, we do not know. For ages these part­ner­ships of unique per­son­al­i­ties have con­tin­ued to for­gather on Vicegering­ton, but not even a sin­gle pair has ever gone forth there­from.

23:4.4Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers are of sta­tion­ary num­bers, but the trin­i­ti­za­tion of the sons of des­tiny is ap­par­ently an un­lim­ited tech­nique. Since each trin­i­tized son of des­tiny has as­signed to him a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger, it ap­pears to us that at some time in the re­mote fu­ture the sup­ply of mes­sen­gers will be­come ex­hausted. Who will take up their work in the grand uni­verse? Will their ser­vice be as­sumed by some new de­vel­op­ment among the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its? Is the grand uni­verse at some re­mote pe­riod go­ing to be more nearly ad­min­is­tered by Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings while the sin­gle- and dual-ori­gin crea­tures move on into the realms of outer space? If the mes­sen­gers re­turn to their for­mer ser­vice, will these sons of des­tiny ac­com­pany them? Will the trini­ti­za­tions be­tween fi­nal­i­ters and Par­a­dise-Havon­ers cease when the sup­ply of Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers has been ab­sorbed as guard­ian-com­pan­ions of these sons of des­tiny? Are all our ef­fi­cient Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers go­ing to be con­cen­trated on Vicegering­ton? Are these ex­traor­di­nary spirit per­son­al­i­ties go­ing to be eter­nally as­so­ci­ated with these trin­i­tized sons of un­re­vealed des­tiny? What sig­nif­i­cance should we at­tach to the fact that these cou­ples for­gath­er­ing on Vicegering­ton are un­der the ex­clu­sive di­rec­tion of those mighty mys­tery be­ings, the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse? These and many sim­i­lar ques­tions we ask our­selves, and ask nu­mer­ous other or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings, but we do not know the an­swers.

23:4.5This trans­ac­tion, to­gether with many sim­i­lar oc­cur­rences in uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, un­mis­tak­ably in­di­cates that the per­son­nel of the grand uni­verse, even that of Ha­vona and Par­a­dise, is un­der­go­ing a def­i­nite and cer­tain re­or­ga­ni­za­tion in co-or­di­na­tion with, and with ref­er­ence to, the vast en­ergy evo­lu­tions now tak­ing place through­out the realms of outer space.

23:4.6We in­cline to the be­lief that the eter­nal fu­ture will wit­ness phe­nom­ena of uni­verse evo­lu­tion which will far tran­scend all that the eter­nal past has ex­pe­ri­enced. And we an­tic­i­pate such tremen­dous ad­ven­tures, even as you should, with keen rel­ish and ever-height­en­ing ex­pec­ta­tion.

23:4.7[Pre­sented by a Di­vine Coun­selor from Uversa.]