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Paper 31

The Corps of the Finality

Divine Counselor and One without Name and Number

31:0.1The Corps of Mor­tal Fi­nal­i­ters rep­re­sents the pres­ent known des­ti­na­tion of the as­cend­ing Ad­juster-fused mor­tals of time. But there are other groups who are also as­signed to this corps. The pri­mary fi­nal­i­ter corps is com­posed of the fol­low­ing:

31:0.21. Ha­vona Na­tives.

31:0.32. Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers.

31:0.43. Glo­ri­fied Mor­tals.

31:0.54. Adopted Ser­a­phim.

31:0.65. Glo­ri­fied Ma­te­rial Sons.

31:0.76. Glo­ri­fied Mid­way Crea­tures.

31:0.8These six groups of glo­ri­fied be­ings com­pose this unique body of eter­nal des­tiny. We think we know their fu­ture work, but we are not cer­tain. While the Corps of the Mor­tal Fi­nal­ity is mo­bi­liz­ing on Par­a­dise, and while they now so ex­ten­sively min­is­ter to the uni­verses of space and ad­min­is­ter the worlds set­tled in light and life, their fu­ture des­ti­na­tion must be the now-or­ga­niz­ing uni­verses of outer space. At least that is the con­jec­ture of Uversa.

31:0.9The corps is or­ga­nized in ac­cor­dance with the work­ing as­so­ci­a­tions of the worlds of space and in keep­ing with the as­so­cia­tive ex­pe­ri­ence ac­quired through­out the long and event­ful as­cen­dant ca­reer. All the as­cen­dant crea­tures ad­mit­ted to this corps are re­ceived in equal­ity, but this ex­alted equal­ity in no way ab­ro­gates in­di­vid­u­al­ity or de­stroys per­sonal iden­tity. We can im­me­di­ately dis­cern, in com­mu­ni­cat­ing with a fi­nal­i­ter, whether he is an as­cen­dant mor­tal, Ha­vona na­tive, adopted ser­a­phim, mid­way crea­ture, or Ma­te­rial Son.

31:0.10Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age the fi­nal­i­ters re­turn to serve in the uni­verses of time. They are as­signed to la­bor suc­ces­sively in the dif­fer­ent super­uni­verses and never in their na­tive super­uni­verses un­til af­ter they have served in all the other six super­cre­ations. Thus may they ac­quire the sev­en­fold con­cept of the Su­preme Be­ing.

31:0.11One or more com­pa­nies of the mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters are con­stantly in ser­vice on Uran­tia. There is no do­main of uni­verse ser­vice to which they are not as­signed; they func­tion uni­ver­sally and with al­ter­nat­ing and equal pe­ri­ods of as­signed duty and free ser­vice.

31:0.12We have no idea as to the na­ture of the fu­ture or­ga­ni­za­tion of this ex­traor­di­nary group, but the fi­nal­i­ters are now wholly a self-gov­ern­ing body. They choose their own per­ma­nent, pe­ri­odic, and as­sign­ment lead­ers and di­rec­tors. No out­side in­flu­ence can ever be brought to bear upon their poli­cies, and their oath of al­le­giance is only to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

31:0.13The fi­nal­i­ters main­tain their own head­quar­ters on Par­a­dise, in the super­uni­verses, in the lo­cal uni­verses, and on all the di­vi­sional cap­i­tals. They are a sep­a­rate or­der of evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ation. We do not di­rectly man­age them or con­trol them, and yet they are ab­so­lutely loyal and al­ways co-op­er­a­tive with all our plans. They are in­deed the ac­cu­mu­lat­ing tried and true souls of time and space—the evo­lu­tion­ary salt of the uni­verse—and they are for­ever proof against evil and se­cure against sin.