Ministering Spirits of the Central Universe

26:11.1Much of an as­cender’s time on the last cir­cuit is de­voted to a con­tin­u­a­tion of the study of the im­pend­ing prob­lems of Par­a­dise res­i­dence. A vast and di­verse host of be­ings, the ma­jor­ity un­re­vealed, are per­ma­nent and tran­sient res­i­dents of this in­ner ring of Ha­vona worlds. And the com­min­gling of these man­i­fold types pro­vides the super­aphic com­ple­ments of rest with a rich sit­u­a­tional en­vi­ron­ment which they ef­fec­tively uti­lize in fur­ther­ing the ed­u­ca­tion of the as­cend­ing pil­grims, es­pe­cially with re­gard to the prob­lems of ad­just­ment to the many groups of be­ings soon to be en­coun­tered on Par­a­dise.

26:11.2Among those who dwell on this in­ner cir­cuit are the crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons. The pri­mary and the sec­ondary super­na­phim are the gen­eral cus­to­di­ans of the con­joint corps of these sons, in­clud­ing the trin­i­tized off­spring of the mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters and sim­i­lar progeny of the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens. Cer­tain of these sons are Trin­ity em­braced and com­mis­sioned in the super­gov­ern­ments, oth­ers are var­i­ously as­signed, but the great ma­jor­ity are be­ing gath­ered to­gether in the con­joint corps on the per­fect worlds of the in­ner Ha­vona cir­cuit. Here, un­der the super­vi­sion of the super­na­phim, they are be­ing pre­pared for some fu­ture work by a spe­cial and un­named corps of high Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens who were, prior to the times of Grand­fanda, first ex­ec­u­tive as­sis­tants to the Eter­nals of Days. There are many rea­sons for con­jec­tur­ing that these two unique groups of trin­i­tized be­ings are go­ing to work to­gether in the re­mote fu­ture, not the least of which is their com­mon des­tiny in the re­serves of the Par­a­dise Corps of Trin­i­tized Fi­nal­i­ters.

26:11.3On this in­ner­most cir­cuit, both the as­cend­ing and the de­scend­ing pil­grims frat­er­nize with each other and with the crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons. Like their par­ents, these sons de­rive great ben­e­fits from in­teras­so­ci­a­tion, and it is the spe­cial mis­sion of the super­na­phim to fa­cil­i­tate and to in­sure the con­fra­ter­nity of the trin­i­tized sons of the mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters and the trin­i­tized sons of the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens. The super­aphic com­ple­ments of rest are not so much con­cerned with their train­ing as with pro­mot­ing their un­der­stand­ing as­so­ci­a­tion with di­verse groups.

26:11.4Mor­tals have re­ceived the Par­a­dise com­mand: “Be you per­fect, even as your Par­a­dise Fa­ther is per­fect.” To these trin­i­tized sons of the con­joint corps the super­vis­ing super­na­phim never cease to pro­claim: “Be you un­der­stand­ing of your as­cen­dant breth­ren, even as the Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons know and love them.”

26:11.5The mor­tal crea­ture must find God. The Cre­ator Son never stops un­til he finds man—the low­est will crea­ture. Be­yond doubt, the Cre­ator Sons and their mor­tal chil­dren are prepar­ing for some fu­ture and un­known uni­verse ser­vice. Both tra­verse the gamut of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­verse and so are ed­u­cated and trained for their eter­nal mis­sion. Through­out the uni­verses there is oc­cur­ring this unique blend­ing of the hu­man and the di­vine, the com­min­gling of crea­ture and Cre­ator. Un­think­ing mor­tals have re­ferred to the man­i­fes­ta­tion of di­vine mercy and ten­der­ness, es­pe­cially to­wards the weak and in be­half of the needy, as in­dica­tive of an an­thro­po­mor­phic God. What a mis­take! Rather should such man­i­fes­ta­tions of mercy and for­bear­ance by hu­man be­ings be taken as ev­i­dence that mor­tal man is in­dwelt by the spirit of the liv­ing God; that the crea­ture is, af­ter all, di­vin­ity mo­ti­vated.

26:11.6Near the end of the first-cir­cle so­journ the as­cend­ing pil­grims first meet the in­sti­ga­tors of rest of the pri­mary or­der of super­na­phim. These are the an­gels of Par­a­dise com­ing out to greet those who stand at the thresh­old of eter­nity and to com­plete their prepa­ra­tion for the tran­si­tion slum­ber of the last res­ur­rec­tion. You are not re­ally a child of Par­a­dise un­til you have tra­versed the in­ner cir­cle and have ex­pe­ri­enced the res­ur­rec­tion of eter­nity from the ter­mi­nal sleep of time. The per­fected pil­grims be­gin this rest, go to sleep, on the first cir­cle of Ha­vona, but they awaken on the shores of Par­a­dise. Of all who as­cend to the eter­nal Isle, only those who thus ar­rive are the chil­dren of eter­nity; the oth­ers go as vis­i­tors, as guests with­out res­i­den­tial sta­tus.

26:11.7And now, at the cul­mi­na­tion of the Ha­vona ca­reer, as you mor­tals go to sleep on the pi­lot world of the in­ner cir­cuit, you go not alone to your rest as you did on the worlds of your ori­gin when you closed your eyes in the nat­u­ral sleep of mor­tal death, nor as you did when you en­tered the long tran­sit trance prepara­tory for the jour­ney to Ha­vona. Now, as you pre­pare for the at­tain­ment rest, there moves over by your side your long-time as­so­ciate of the first cir­cle, the ma­jes­tic com­ple­ment of rest, who pre­pares to en­ter the rest as one with you, as the pledge of Ha­vona that your tran­si­tion is com­plete, and that you await only the fi­nal touches of per­fec­tion.

26:11.8Your first tran­si­tion was in­deed death, the sec­ond an ideal sleep, and now the third meta­mor­pho­sis is the true rest, the re­lax­ation of the ages.

26:11.9[Pre­sented by a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom from Uversa.]