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Paper 30

Personalities of the Grand Universe

Mighty Messenger

30:0.1The per­son­al­i­ties and other-than-per­sonal en­ti­ties now func­tion­ing on Par­a­dise and in the grand uni­verse con­sti­tute a well-nigh lim­it­less num­ber of liv­ing be­ings. Even the num­ber of ma­jor or­ders and types would stag­ger the hu­man imag­i­na­tion, let alone the count­less sub­types and vari­a­tions. It is, how­ever, de­sir­able to pre­sent some­thing of two ba­sic clas­si­fi­ca­tions of liv­ing be­ings—a sug­ges­tion of the Par­a­dise clas­si­fi­ca­tion and an ab­bre­vi­a­tion of the Uversa Per­son­al­ity Reg­is­ter.

30:0.2It is not pos­si­ble to for­mu­late com­pre­hen­sive and en­tirely con­sis­tent clas­si­fi­ca­tions of the per­son­al­i­ties of the grand uni­verse be­cause all of the groups are not re­vealed. It would re­quire nu­mer­ous ad­di­tional pa­pers to cover the fur­ther rev­e­la­tion re­quired to sys­tem­at­i­cally clas­sify all groups. Such con­cep­tual ex­pan­sion would hardly be de­sir­able as it would de­prive the think­ing mor­tals of the next thou­sand years of that stim­u­lus to cre­ative spec­u­la­tion which these par­tially re­vealed con­cepts sup­ply. It is best that man not have an over­rev­e­la­tion; it sti­fles imag­i­na­tion.