The Corps of the Finality

31:8.1Part of the per­fected mor­tal’s ex­pe­ri­ence on Par­a­dise as a fi­nal­i­ter con­sists in the ef­fort to achieve com­pre­hen­sion of the na­ture and func­tion of more than one thou­sand groups of the tran­scen­den­tal super­cit­i­zens of Par­a­dise, even­tu­ated be­ings of ab­so­nite at­tri­butes. In their as­so­ci­a­tion with these super­per­son­al­i­ties, the as­cen­dant fi­nal­i­ters re­ceive great as­sis­tance from the help­ful guid­ance of nu­mer­ous or­ders of tran­scen­den­tal min­is­ters who are as­signed to the task of in­tro­duc­ing the evolved fi­nal­i­ters to their new Par­a­dise breth­ren. The en­tire or­der of the Tran­scen­den­talers live in the west of Par­a­dise in a vast area which they ex­clu­sively oc­cupy.

31:8.2In the dis­cus­sion of Tran­scen­den­talers we are re­stricted, not only by the lim­i­ta­tions of hu­man com­pre­hen­sion, but also by the terms of the man­date gov­ern­ing these dis­clo­sures con­cern­ing the per­son­al­i­ties of Par­a­dise. These be­ings are in no way con­nected with the mor­tal as­cent to Ha­vona. The vast host of the Par­a­dise Tran­scen­den­talers have noth­ing what­ever to do with the af­fairs of ei­ther Ha­vona or the seven super­uni­verses, be­ing con­cerned only with the super­ad­min­is­tra­tion of the af­fairs of the mas­ter uni­verse.

31:8.3You, be­ing a crea­ture, can con­ceive of a Cre­ator, but you can hardly com­pre­hend that there ex­ists an enor­mous and di­ver­si­fied ag­gre­ga­tion of in­tel­li­gent be­ings who are nei­ther Cre­ators nor crea­tures. These Tran­scen­den­talers cre­ate no be­ings, nei­ther were they ever cre­ated. In speak­ing of their ori­gin, in or­der to avoid us­ing a new term—an ar­bi­trary and mean­ing­less des­ig­na­tion—we deem it best to say that Tran­scen­den­talers sim­ply even­tu­ate. The De­ity Ab­so­lute may well have been con­cerned in their ori­gin and may be im­pli­cated in their des­tiny, but these unique be­ings are not now dom­i­nated by the De­ity Ab­so­lute. They are sub­ject to God the Ul­ti­mate, and their pres­ent Par­a­dise so­journ is in ev­ery way Trin­ity super­vised and di­rected.

31:8.4Al­though all mor­tals who at­tain Par­a­dise fre­quently frat­er­nize with the Tran­scen­den­talers as they do with the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens, it de­vel­ops that man’s first se­ri­ous con­tact with a Tran­scen­den­taler oc­curs on that event­ful oc­ca­sion when, as a mem­ber of a new fi­nal­i­ter group, the mor­tal as­cender stands in the fi­nal­i­ter re­ceiv­ing cir­cle as the Trin­ity oath of eter­nity is ad­min­is­tered by the chief of Tran­scen­den­talers, the pre­sid­ing head of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.