The Corps of the Finality

31:1.1Many of the Ha­vona na­tives who serve as teach­ers in the pil­grim-train­ing schools of the cen­tral uni­verse be­come greatly at­tached to the as­cend­ing mor­tals and still more in­trigued with the fu­ture work and des­tiny of the Corps of Mor­tal Fi­nal­i­ters. On Par­a­dise there is main­tained, at the ad­min­is­tra­tive head­quar­ters of the corps, a reg­istry for Ha­vona vol­un­teers pre­sided over by the as­so­ciate of Grand­fanda. To­day, you will find mil­lions upon mil­lions of Ha­vona na­tives upon this wait­ing list. These per­fect be­ings of di­rect and di­vine cre­ation are of great as­sis­tance to the Mor­tal Corps of Fi­nal­ity, and they will un­doubt­edly be of even greater ser­vice in the far-dis­tant fu­ture. They pro­vide the view­point of one born in per­fec­tion and di­vine re­plete­ness. The fi­nal­i­ters thus em­brace both phases of ex­pe­ri­en­tial ex­is­tence—per­fect and per­fected.

31:1.2Ha­vona na­tives must achieve cer­tain ex­pe­ri­en­tial de­vel­op­ments in li­ai­son with evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings which will cre­ate re­cep­tion ca­pac­ity for the be­stowal of a frag­ment of the spirit of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The Mor­tal Fi­nal­i­ter Corps has as per­ma­nent mem­bers only such be­ings as have been fused with the spirit of the First Source and Cen­ter, or who, like the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers, in­nately em­body this spirit of God the Fa­ther.

31:1.3The in­hab­i­tants of the cen­tral uni­verse are re­ceived into the corps in the ra­tio of one in a thou­sand—a fi­nal­i­ter com­pany. The corps is or­ga­nized for tem­po­rary ser­vice in com­pa­nies of one thou­sand, the as­cen­dant crea­tures num­ber­ing 997 to one Ha­vona na­tive and one Grav­ity Mes­sen­ger. Fi­nal­i­ters are thus mo­bi­lized in com­pa­nies, but the fi­nal­ity oath is ad­min­is­tered in­di­vid­u­ally. It is an oath of sweep­ing im­pli­ca­tions and eter­nal im­port. The Ha­vona na­tive takes the same oath and be­comes for­ever at­tached to the corps.

31:1.4The Ha­vona re­cruits fol­low the com­pany of their as­sign­ment; wher­ever the group goes, they go. And you should see their en­thu­si­asm in the new work of the fi­nal­i­ters. The pos­si­bil­ity of at­tain­ing the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity is one of the su­perb thrills of Ha­vona; the pos­si­bil­ity of be­com­ing a fi­nal­i­ter is one of the su­preme ad­ven­tures of these per­fect races.

31:1.5The Ha­vona na­tives are also re­ceived, in the same ra­tio, into the Corps of Con­joint Trin­i­tized Fi­nal­i­ters on Vicegering­ton and into the Corps of Tran­scen­den­tal Fi­nal­i­ters on Par­a­dise. The Ha­vona cit­i­zens re­gard these three des­tinies as con­sti­tut­ing the su­preme goals of their su­per­nal ca­reers, to­gether with their pos­si­ble ad­mis­sion to the Corps of Ha­vona Fi­nal­i­ters.