The Corps of the Finality

31:7.1At the pres­ent time ev­ery fi­nal­i­ter com­pany num­bers 999 per­son­al­i­ties of oath sta­tus, per­ma­nent mem­bers. The va­cant place is oc­cu­pied by the chief of at­tached Evan­gels of Light as­signed on any sin­gle mis­sion. But these be­ings are only tran­sient mem­bers of the corps.

31:7.2Any ce­les­tial per­son­al­ity as­signed to the ser­vice of any fi­nal­i­ter corps is de­nom­i­nated an Evan­gel of Light. These be­ings do not take the fi­nal­i­ter oath, and though sub­ject to the corps or­ga­ni­za­tion they are not of per­ma­nent at­tach­ment. This group may em­brace Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, super­na­phim, se­con­a­phim, Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens, or their trin­i­tized off­spring—any be­ing re­quired in the pros­e­cu­tion of a tran­sient fi­nal­i­ter as­sign­ment. Whether or not the corps is to have these be­ings at­tached to the eter­nal mis­sion, we do not know. At the con­clu­sion of at­tach­ment these Evan­gels of Light re­sume their for­mer sta­tus.

31:7.3As the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity is at pres­ent con­sti­tuted, there are just six classes of per­ma­nent mem­bers. The fi­nal­i­ters, as might be ex­pected, en­gage in much spec­u­la­tion as to the iden­tity of their fu­ture com­rades, but there is lit­tle agree­ment among them.

31:7.4We of Uversa of­ten con­jec­ture re­spect­ing the iden­tity of the sev­enth group of fi­nal­i­ters. We en­ter­tain many ideas, em­brac­ing pos­si­ble as­sign­ment of some of the ac­cu­mu­lat­ing corps of the nu­mer­ous trin­i­tized groups on Par­a­dise, Vicegering­ton, and the in­ner Ha­vona cir­cuit. It is even con­jec­tured that the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity may be per­mit­ted to trini­tize many of their as­sis­tants in the work of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion in the event they are des­tined to the ser­vice of uni­verses now in the mak­ing.

31:7.5One of us holds the opin­ion that this va­cant place in the corps will be filled by some type of be­ing of ori­gin in the new uni­verse of their fu­ture ser­vice; the other in­clines to the be­lief that this place will be oc­cu­pied by some type of Par­a­dise per­son­al­ity not yet cre­ated, even­tu­ated, or trin­i­tized. But we will most likely await the en­trance of the fi­nal­i­ters upon their sev­enth stage of spirit at­tain­ment be­fore we re­ally know.