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Paper 30

Personalities of the Grand Universe

Mighty Messenger

1. The Paradise Classification of Living Beings

30:1.1Liv­ing be­ings are clas­si­fied on Par­a­dise in ac­cor­dance with in­her­ent and at­tained re­la­tion­ship to the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. Dur­ing the grand gath­er­ings of the cen­tral and super­uni­verses those pres­ent are of­ten grouped in ac­cor­dance with ori­gin: those of tri­une ori­gin, or of Trin­ity at­tain­ment; those of dual ori­gin; and those of sin­gle ori­gin. It is dif­fi­cult to in­ter­pret the Par­a­dise clas­si­fi­ca­tion of liv­ing be­ings to the mor­tal mind, but we are au­tho­rized to pre­sent the fol­low­ing:

30:1.2I. TRI­UNE-ORI­GIN BE­INGS. Be­ings cre­ated by all three Par­a­dise De­i­ties, ei­ther as such or as the Trin­ity, to­gether with the Trin­i­tized Corps, which des­ig­na­tion refers to all groups of trin­i­tized be­ings, re­vealed and un­re­vealed.

30:1.3A. The Su­preme Spir­its.

30:1.41. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

30:1.52. The Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives.

30:1.63. The Seven Or­ders of Re­flec­tive Spir­its.

30:1.7B. The Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity.

30:1.81. Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy.

30:1.92. Eter­nals of Days.

30:1.103. An­cients of Days.

30:1.114. Per­fec­tions of Days.

30:1.125. Re­cents of Days.

30:1.136. Unions of Days.

30:1.147. Faith­fuls of Days.

30:1.158. Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom.

30:1.169. Di­vine Coun­selors.

30:1.1710. Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors.

30:1.18C. Trin­ity-ori­gin and Trin­i­tized Be­ings.

30:1.191. Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

30:1.202. In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its.

30:1.213. Ha­vona Na­tives.

30:1.224. Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens.

30:1.235. Un­re­vealed Trin­ity-ori­gin Be­ings.

30:1.246. Un­re­vealed De­ity-trin­i­tized Be­ings.

30:1.257. Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment.

30:1.268. Trin­i­tized Sons of Se­lec­tion.

30:1.279. Trin­i­tized Sons of Per­fec­tion.

30:1.2810. Crea­ture-trin­i­tized Sons.

30:1.29II. DUAL-ORI­GIN BE­INGS. Those of ori­gin in any two of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties or oth­er­wise cre­ated by any two be­ings of di­rect or in­di­rect de­scent from the Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

30:1.30A. The De­scend­ing Or­ders.

30:1.311. Cre­ator Sons.

30:1.322. Mag­is­te­rial Sons.

30:1.333. Bright and Morn­ing Stars.

30:1.344. Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­deks.

30:1.355. The Mel­chiz­e­deks.

30:1.366. The Voron­dadeks.

30:1.377. The La­non­an­deks.

30:1.388. Bril­liant Evening Stars.

30:1.399. The Arch­an­gels.

30:1.4010. Life Car­ri­ers.

30:1.4111. Un­re­vealed Uni­verse Aids.

30:1.4212. Un­re­vealed Sons of God.

30:1.43B. The Sta­tion­ary Or­ders.

30:1.441. Aban­don­ters.

30:1.452. Susa­tia.

30:1.463. Uni­v­i­ta­tia.

30:1.474. Spironga.

30:1.485. Un­re­vealed Dual-ori­gin Be­ings.

30:1.49C. The As­cend­ing Or­ders.

30:1.501. Ad­juster-fused Mor­tals.

30:1.512. Son-fused Mor­tals.

30:1.523. Spirit-fused Mor­tals.

30:1.534. Trans­lated Mid­way­ers.

30:1.545. Un­re­vealed As­cend­ers.

30:1.55III. SIN­GLE-ORI­GIN BE­INGS. Those of ori­gin in any one of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties or oth­er­wise cre­ated by any one be­ing of di­rect or in­di­rect de­scent from the Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

30:1.56A. The Su­preme Spir­its.

30:1.571. Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers.

30:1.582. The Seven Spir­its of the Ha­vona Cir­cuits.

30:1.593. The Twelve­fold Ad­ju­tants of the Ha­vona Cir­cuits.

30:1.604. The Re­flec­tive Im­age Aids.

30:1.615. Uni­verse Mother Spir­its.

30:1.626. The Sev­en­fold Ad­ju­tant Mind-Spir­its.

30:1.637. Un­re­vealed De­ity-ori­gin Be­ings.

30:1.64B. The As­cend­ing Or­ders.

30:1.651. Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers.

30:1.662. As­cend­ing Ma­te­rial Sons.

30:1.673. Evo­lu­tion­ary Ser­a­phim.

30:1.684. Evo­lu­tion­ary Cheru­bim.

30:1.695. Un­re­vealed As­cend­ers.

30:1.70C. The Fam­ily of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

30:1.711. Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers.

30:1.722. Uni­verse Cir­cuit Super­vi­sors.

30:1.733. Cen­sus Di­rec­tors.

30:1.744. Per­sonal Aids of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

30:1.755. As­so­ciate In­spec­tors.

30:1.766. As­signed Sen­tinels.

30:1.777. Grad­u­ate Guides.

30:1.788. Ha­vona Servi­tals.

30:1.799. Uni­ver­sal Con­cil­ia­tors.

30:1.8010. Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions.

30:1.8111. Super­na­phim.

30:1.8212. Se­con­a­phim.

30:1.8313. Ter­tiaphim.

30:1.8414. Om­niaphim.

30:1.8515. Ser­a­phim.

30:1.8616. Cheru­bim and Sa­no­bim.

30:1.8717. Un­re­vealed Spirit-ori­gin Be­ings.

30:1.8818. The Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors.

30:1.8919. The Su­preme Power Cen­ters.

30:1.9020. The Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

30:1.9121. The Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors.

30:1.92IV. EVEN­TU­ATED TRAN­SCEN­DEN­TAL BE­INGS. There is to be found on Par­a­dise a vast host of tran­scen­den­tal be­ings whose ori­gin is not or­di­nar­ily dis­closed to the uni­verses of time and space un­til they are set­tled in light and life. These Tran­scen­den­talers are nei­ther cre­ators nor crea­tures; they are the even­tu­ated chil­dren of di­vin­ity, ul­ti­macy, and eter­nity. These “even­tu­a­tors” are nei­ther fi­nite nor in­fi­nite—they are ab­so­nite; and ab­sonity is nei­ther in­fin­ity nor ab­so­lute­ness.

30:1.93These un­cre­ated non­cre­ators are ever loyal to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and obe­di­ent to the Ul­ti­mate. They are ex­is­tent on four ul­ti­mate lev­els of per­son­al­ity ac­tiv­ity and are func­tional on the seven lev­els of the ab­so­nite in twelve grand di­vi­sions con­sist­ing of one thou­sand ma­jor work­ing groups of seven classes each. These even­tu­ated be­ings in­clude the fol­low­ing or­ders:

30:1.941. The Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.

30:1.952. Tran­scen­den­tal Re­cord­ers.

30:1.963. Other Tran­scen­den­talers.

30:1.974. Pri­mary Even­tu­ated Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers.

30:1.985. As­so­ciate Tran­scen­den­tal Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers.

30:1.99God, as a super­per­son, even­tu­ates; God, as a per­son, cre­ates; God, as a preper­son, frag­ments; and such an Ad­juster frag­ment of him­self evolves the spirit soul upon the ma­te­rial and mor­tal mind in ac­cor­dance with the free­will choos­ing of the per­son­al­ity which has been be­stowed upon such a mor­tal crea­ture by the pa­ren­tal act of God as a Fa­ther.

30:1.100V. FRAG­MENTED EN­TI­TIES OF DE­ITY. This or­der of liv­ing ex­is­tence, orig­i­nat­ing in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, is best typ­i­fied by the Thought Ad­justers, though these en­ti­ties are by no means the only frag­men­ta­tions of the preper­sonal re­al­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter. The func­tions of the other-than-Ad­juster frag­ments are man­i­fold and lit­tle known. Fu­sion with an Ad­juster or other such frag­ment con­sti­tutes the crea­ture a Fa­ther-fused be­ing.

30:1.101The frag­men­ta­tions of the pre­mind spirit of the Third Source and Cen­ter, though hardly com­pa­ra­ble to the Fa­ther frag­ments, should be here re­corded. Such en­ti­ties dif­fer very greatly from Ad­justers; they do not as such dwell on Spir­it­ing­ton, nor do they as such tra­verse the mind-grav­ity cir­cuits; nei­ther do they in­dwell mor­tal crea­tures dur­ing the life in the flesh. They are not preper­sonal in the sense that the Ad­justers are, but such frag­ments of pre­mind spirit are be­stowed upon cer­tain of the sur­viv­ing mor­tals, and fu­sion there­with con­sti­tutes them Spirit-fused mor­tals in con­tradis­tinc­tion to Ad­juster-fused mor­tals.

30:1.102Still more dif­fi­cult of de­scrip­tion is the in­di­vid­u­al­ized spirit of a Cre­ator Son, union with which con­sti­tutes the crea­ture a Son-fused mor­tal. And there are still other frag­men­ta­tions of De­ity.

30:1.103VI. SUPER­PER­SONAL BE­INGS. There is a vast host of other-than-per­sonal be­ings of di­vine ori­gin and of man­i­fold ser­vice in the uni­verse of uni­verses. Cer­tain of these be­ings are res­i­dent on the Par­a­dise worlds of the Son; oth­ers, like the super­per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Eter­nal Son, are en­coun­tered else­where. They are for the most part un­men­tioned in these nar­ra­tives, and it would be quite fu­tile to at­tempt their de­scrip­tion to per­sonal crea­tures.

30:1.104VII. UN­CLAS­SI­FIED AND UN­RE­VEALED OR­DERS. Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age it would not be pos­si­ble to place all be­ings, per­sonal or oth­er­wise, within clas­si­fi­ca­tions per­tain­ing to the pres­ent uni­verse age; nor have all such cat­e­gories been re­vealed in these nar­ra­tives; hence nu­mer­ous or­ders have been omit­ted from these lists. Con­sider the fol­low­ing:

30:1.105The Con­sum­ma­tor of Uni­verse Des­tiny.

30:1.106The Qual­i­fied Vicegerents of the Ul­ti­mate.

30:1.107The Un­qual­i­fied Super­vi­sors of the Su­preme.

30:1.108The Un­re­vealed Cre­ative Agen­cies of the An­cients of Days.

30:1.109Maj­es­ton of Par­a­dise.

30:1.110The Un­named Re­flec­ti­va­tor Li­aisons of Maj­es­ton.

30:1.111The Mid­sonite Or­ders of the Lo­cal Uni­verses.

30:1.112No es­pe­cial sig­nif­i­cance need at­tach to the list­ing of these or­ders to­gether ex­cept that none of them ap­pear in the Par­a­dise clas­si­fi­ca­tion as re­vealed herein. These are the un­clas­si­fied few; you have yet to learn of the un­re­vealed many.

30:1.113There are spir­its: spirit en­ti­ties, spirit pres­ences, per­sonal spir­its, preper­sonal spir­its, super­per­sonal spir­its, spirit ex­is­tences, spirit per­son­al­i­ties—but nei­ther mor­tal lan­guage nor mor­tal in­tel­lect are ad­e­quate. We may how­ever state that there are no per­son­al­i­ties of “pure mind”; no en­tity has per­son­al­ity un­less he is en­dowed with it by God who is spirit. Any mind en­tity that is not as­so­ci­ated with ei­ther spir­i­tual or phys­i­cal en­ergy is not a per­son­al­ity. But in the same sense that there are spirit per­son­al­i­ties who have mind there are mind per­son­al­i­ties who have spirit. Maj­es­ton and his as­so­ciates are fairly good il­lus­tra­tions of mind-dom­i­nated be­ings, but there are bet­ter il­lus­tra­tions of this type of per­son­al­ity un­known to you. There are even whole un­re­vealed or­ders of such mind per­son­al­i­ties, but they are al­ways spirit as­so­ci­ated. Cer­tain other un­re­vealed crea­tures are what might be termed mindal- and phys­i­cal-en­ergy per­son­al­i­ties. This type of be­ing is non­re­spon­sive to spirit grav­ity but is nonethe­less a true per­son­al­ity—is within the Fa­ther’s cir­cuit.

30:1.114These pa­pers do not—can­not—even be­gin to ex­haust the story of the liv­ing crea­tures, cre­ators, even­tu­a­tors, and still-oth­er­wise-ex­is­tent be­ings who live and wor­ship and serve in the swarm­ing uni­verses of time and in the cen­tral uni­verse of eter­nity. You mor­tals are per­sons; hence we can de­scribe be­ings who are per­son­al­ized, but how could an ab­soni­tized be­ing ever be ex­plained to you?