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Paper 31

The Corps of the Finality

Divine Counselor and One without Name and Number

2. Gravity Messengers

31:2.1Wher­ever and when­ever Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers are func­tion­ing, the fi­nal­i­ters are in com­mand. All Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers are un­der the ex­clu­sive ju­ris­dic­tion of Grand­fanda, and they are as­signed only to the pri­mary Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. They are in­valu­able to the fi­nal­i­ters even now, and they will be all-ser­vice­able in the eter­nal fu­ture. No other group of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures pos­sesses such a per­son­al­ized mes­sen­ger corps able to tran­scend time and space. Sim­i­lar types of mes­sen­ger-re­cord­ers at­tached to other fi­nal­i­ter corps are not per­son­al­ized; they are ab­soni­tized.

31:2.2Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers hail from Di­vin­ing­ton, and they are mod­i­fied and per­son­al­ized Ad­justers, but no one of our Uversa group will un­der­take to ex­plain the na­ture of one of these mes­sen­gers. We know they are highly per­sonal be­ings, di­vine, in­tel­li­gent, and touch­ingly un­der­stand­ing, but we do not com­pre­hend their time­less tech­nique of travers­ing space. They seem to be com­pe­tent to uti­lize any and all en­er­gies, cir­cuits, and even grav­ity. Fi­nal­i­ters of the mor­tal corps can­not defy time and space, but they have as­so­ci­ated with them and sub­ject to their com­mand all but in­fi­nite spirit per­son­al­i­ties who can. We pre­sume to call Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers per­son­al­i­ties, but in re­al­ity they are super­spirit be­ings, un­lim­ited and bound­less per­son­al­i­ties. They are of an en­tirely dif­fer­ent or­der of per­son­al­ity as com­pared with Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers.

31:2.3Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers may be at­tached to a fi­nal­i­ter com­pany in un­lim­ited num­bers, but only one mes­sen­ger, the chief of his fel­lows, is mus­tered into the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. This chief how­ever has as­signed to him a per­ma­nent staff of 999 fel­low mes­sen­gers, and as oc­ca­sion may re­quire, he may call upon the re­serves of the or­der for as­sis­tants in un­lim­ited num­bers.

31:2.4Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers and glo­ri­fied mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters achieve a touch­ing and pro­found af­fec­tion for one an­other; they have much in com­mon: One is a di­rect per­son­al­iza­tion of a frag­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the other a crea­ture per­son­al­ity ex­is­tent in the sur­viv­ing im­mor­tal soul fused with a frag­ment of the same Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the spirit Thought Ad­juster.