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Paper 31

The Corps of the Finality

Divine Counselor and One without Name and Number

10. The Ultimate Adventure

31:10.1The se­nior Mas­ter Ar­chi­tect has the over­sight of the seven Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, and they are:

31:10.21. The Corps of Mor­tal Fi­nal­i­ters.

31:10.32. The Corps of Par­a­dise Fi­nal­i­ters.

31:10.43. The Corps of Trin­i­tized Fi­nal­i­ters.

31:10.54. The Corps of Con­joint Trin­i­tized Fi­nal­i­ters.

31:10.65. The Corps of Ha­vona Fi­nal­i­ters.

31:10.76. The Corps of Tran­scen­den­tal Fi­nal­i­ters.

31:10.87. The Corps of Un­re­vealed Sons of Des­tiny.

31:10.9Each of these des­tiny corps has a pre­sid­ing head, and the seven con­sti­tute the Su­preme Coun­cil of Des­tiny on Par­a­dise; and dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age Grand­fanda is the chief of this su­preme body of uni­verse as­sign­ment for the chil­dren of ul­ti­mate des­tiny.

31:10.10The gath­er­ing to­gether of these seven fi­nal­i­ter corps sig­ni­fies re­al­ity mo­bi­liza­tion of po­ten­tials, per­son­al­i­ties, minds, spir­its, ab­sonites, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial ac­tu­al­i­ties that prob­a­bly tran­scend even the fu­ture mas­ter uni­verse func­tions of the Su­preme Be­ing. These seven fi­nal­i­ter corps prob­a­bly sig­nify the pres­ent ac­tiv­ity of the Ul­ti­mate Trin­ity en­gaged in mus­ter­ing the forces of the fi­nite and the ab­so­nite in prepa­ra­tion for in­con­ceiv­able de­vel­op­ments in the uni­verses of outer space. Noth­ing like this mo­bi­liza­tion has taken place since the near times of eter­nity when the Par­a­dise Trin­ity sim­i­larly mo­bi­lized the then ex­ist­ing per­son­al­i­ties of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona and com­mis­sioned them as ad­min­is­tra­tors and rulers of the pro­jected seven super­uni­verses of time and space. The seven fi­nal­i­ter corps rep­re­sent the di­vin­ity re­sponse of the grand uni­verse to the fu­ture needs of the un­de­vel­oped po­ten­tials in the outer uni­verses of fu­ture-eter­nal ac­tiv­i­ties.

31:10.11We ven­ture the fore­cast of fu­ture and greater outer uni­verses of in­hab­ited worlds, new spheres peo­pled with new or­ders of ex­qui­site and unique be­ings, a ma­te­rial uni­verse sub­lime in its ul­ti­macy, a vast cre­ation lack­ing in only one im­por­tant de­tail—the pres­ence of ac­tual fi­nite ex­pe­ri­ence in the uni­ver­sal life of as­cen­dant ex­is­tence. Such a uni­verse will come into be­ing un­der a tremen­dous ex­pe­ri­en­tial hand­i­cap: the de­pri­va­tion of par­tic­i­pa­tion in the evo­lu­tion of the Al­mighty Su­preme. These outer uni­verses will all en­joy the match­less min­istry and su­per­nal over­con­trol of the Su­preme Be­ing, but the very fact of his ac­tive pres­ence pre­cludes their par­tic­i­pa­tion in the ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme De­ity.

31:10.12Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age the evolv­ing per­son­al­i­ties of the grand uni­verse suf­fer many dif­fi­cul­ties due to the in­com­plete ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the sov­er­eignty of God the Su­preme, but we are all shar­ing the unique ex­pe­ri­ence of his evo­lu­tion. We evolve in him and he evolves in us. Some­time in the eter­nal fu­ture the evo­lu­tion of Su­preme De­ity will be­come a com­pleted fact of uni­verse his­tory, and the op­por­tu­nity to par­tic­i­pate in this won­der­ful ex­pe­ri­ence will have passed from the stage of cos­mic ac­tion.

31:10.13But those of us who have ac­quired this unique ex­pe­ri­ence dur­ing the youth of the uni­verse will trea­sure it through­out all fu­ture eter­nity. And many of us spec­u­late that it may be the mis­sion of the grad­u­ally ac­cu­mu­lat­ing re­serves of the as­cen­dant and per­fected mor­tals of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the other six sim­i­larly re­cruit­ing corps, to ad­min­is­ter these outer uni­verses in an ef­fort to com­pen­sate their ex­pe­ri­en­tial de­fi­cien­cies in not hav­ing par­tic­i­pated in the time-space evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing.

31:10.14These de­fi­cien­cies are in­ev­i­ta­ble on all lev­els of uni­verse ex­is­tence. Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age we of the higher lev­els of spir­i­tual ex­is­tences now come down to ad­min­is­ter the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses and min­is­ter to the as­cend­ing mor­tals, thus en­deav­or­ing to atone for their de­fi­cien­cies in the re­al­i­ties of the higher spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence.

31:10.15But though we re­ally know noth­ing about the plans of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse re­spect­ing these outer cre­ations, nev­er­the­less, of three things we are cer­tain:

31:10.161. There ac­tu­ally is a vast and new sys­tem of uni­verses grad­u­ally or­ga­niz­ing in the do­mains of outer space. New or­ders of phys­i­cal cre­ations, enor­mous and gi­gan­tic cir­cles of swarm­ing uni­verses upon uni­verses far out be­yond the pres­ent bounds of the peo­pled and or­ga­nized cre­ations, are ac­tu­ally vis­i­ble through your tele­scopes. At pres­ent, these outer cre­ations are wholly phys­i­cal; they are ap­par­ently un­in­hab­ited and seem to be de­void of crea­ture ad­min­is­tra­tion.

31:10.172. For ages upon ages there con­tin­ues the un­ex­plained and wholly mys­te­ri­ous Par­a­dise mo­bi­liza­tion of the per­fected and as­cen­dant be­ings of time and space, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the six other fi­nal­i­ter corps.

31:10.183. Con­comi­tantly with these trans­ac­tions the Su­preme Per­son of De­ity is pow­er­iz­ing as the al­mighty sov­er­eign of the super­cre­ations.

31:10.19As we view this tri­une de­vel­op­ment, em­brac­ing crea­tures, uni­verses, and De­ity, can we be crit­i­cized for an­tic­i­pat­ing that some­thing new and un­re­vealed is ap­proach­ing cul­mi­na­tion in the mas­ter uni­verse? Is it not nat­u­ral that we should as­so­ciate this age­long mo­bi­liza­tion and or­ga­ni­za­tion of phys­i­cal uni­verses on such a hith­erto un­known scale and the per­son­al­ity emer­gence of the Su­preme Be­ing with this stu­pen­dous scheme of up­step­ping the mor­tals of time to di­vine per­fec­tion and with their sub­se­quent mo­bi­liza­tion on Par­a­dise in the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity—a des­ig­na­tion and des­tiny en­shrouded in uni­verse mys­tery? It is in­creas­ingly the be­lief of all Uversa that the as­sem­bling Corps of the Fi­nal­ity are des­tined to some fu­ture ser­vice in the uni­verses of outer space, where we al­ready are able to iden­tify the clus­ter­ing of at least sev­enty thou­sand ag­gre­ga­tions of mat­ter, each of which is greater than any one of the pres­ent super­uni­verses.

31:10.20Evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals are born on the plan­ets of space, pass through the mor­ontia worlds, as­cend the spirit uni­verses, tra­verse the Ha­vona spheres, find God, at­tain Par­a­dise, and are mus­tered into the pri­mary Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, therein to await the next as­sign­ment of uni­verse ser­vice. There are six other as­sem­bling fi­nal­ity corps, but Grand­fanda, the first mor­tal as­cender, pre­sides as Par­a­dise chief of all or­ders of fi­nal­i­ters. And as we view this sub­lime spec­ta­cle, we all ex­claim: What a glo­ri­ous des­tiny for the an­i­mal-ori­gin chil­dren of time, the ma­te­rial sons of space!

31:10.21[Jointly spon­sored by a Di­vine Coun­selor and One with­out Name and Num­ber au­tho­rized so to func­tion by the An­cients of Days on Uversa.]

31:10.22These thirty-one pa­pers de­pict­ing the na­ture of De­ity, the re­al­ity of Par­a­dise, the or­ga­ni­za­tion and work­ing of the cen­tral and super­uni­verses, the per­son­al­i­ties of the grand uni­verse, and the high des­tiny of evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals, were spon­sored, for­mu­lated, and put into En­glish by a high com­mis­sion con­sist­ing of twenty-four Or­von­ton ad­min­is­tra­tors act­ing in ac­cor­dance with a man­date is­sued by the An­cients of Days of Uversa di­rect­ing that we should do this on Uran­tia, 606 of Sa­ta­nia, in Nor­la­ti­adek of Neb­a­don, in the year A.D. 1934.