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Paper 31

The Corps of the Finality

Divine Counselor and One without Name and Number

9. Architects of the Master Universe

31:9.1The Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse are the gov­ern­ing corps of the Par­a­dise Tran­scen­den­talers. This gov­ern­ing corps num­bers 28,011 per­son­al­i­ties pos­sess­ing mas­ter minds, su­perb spir­its, and su­per­nal ab­sonites. The pre­sid­ing of­fi­cer of this mag­nif­i­cent group, the se­nior Mas­ter Ar­chi­tect, is the co-or­di­nat­ing head of all Par­a­dise in­tel­li­gences be­low the level of De­ity.

31:9.2The six­teenth pro­scrip­tion of the man­date au­tho­riz­ing these nar­ra­tives says: “If deemed wise, the ex­is­tence of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse and their as­so­ciates may be dis­closed, but their ori­gin, na­ture, and des­tiny may not be fully re­vealed.” We may, how­ever, in­form you that these Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects ex­ist in seven lev­els of the ab­so­nite. These seven groups are clas­si­fied as fol­lows:

31:9.31. The Par­a­dise Level. Only the se­nior or first-even­tu­ated Ar­chi­tect func­tions on this high­est level of the ab­so­nite. This ul­ti­mate per­son­al­ity—nei­ther Cre­ator nor crea­ture—even­tu­ated in the dawn of eter­nity and now func­tions as the ex­qui­site co-or­di­na­tor of Par­a­dise and its twenty-one worlds of as­so­ci­ated ac­tiv­i­ties.

31:9.42. The Ha­vona Level. The sec­ond Ar­chi­tect even­tu­a­tion yielded three mas­ter plan­ners and ab­so­nite ad­min­is­tra­tors, and they have al­ways been de­voted to the co-or­di­na­tion of the one bil­lion per­fect spheres of the cen­tral uni­verse. Par­a­dise tra­di­tion as­serts that these three Ar­chi­tects, with the coun­sel of the pre-even­tu­ated se­nior Ar­chi­tect, con­tributed to the plan­ning of Ha­vona, but we re­ally do not know.

31:9.53. The Super­uni­verse Level. The third ab­so­nite level em­braces the seven Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects of the seven super­uni­verses, who now, as a group, spend about equal time in the com­pany of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its on Par­a­dise and with the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives on the seven spe­cial worlds of the In­fi­nite Spirit. They are the superco-or­di­na­tors of the grand uni­verse.

31:9.64. The Pri­mary Space Level. This group num­bers sev­enty Ar­chi­tects, and we con­jec­ture that they are con­cerned with the ul­ti­mate plans for the first uni­verse of outer space, now mo­bi­liz­ing be­yond the bor­ders of the pres­ent seven super­uni­verses.

31:9.75. The Sec­ondary Space Level. This fifth corps of Ar­chi­tects num­bers 490, and again we con­jec­ture that they must be con­cerned with the sec­ond uni­verse of outer space, where al­ready our physi­cists have de­tected def­i­nite en­ergy mo­bi­liza­tions.

31:9.86. The Ter­tiary Space Level. This sixth group of Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects num­bers 3,430, and we like­wise in­fer that they may be oc­cu­pied with the gi­gan­tic plans for the third uni­verse of outer space.

31:9.97. The Quar­tan Space Level. This, the fi­nal and largest corps, con­sists of 24,010 Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects, and if our for­mer con­jec­tures are valid, it must be re­lated to the fourth and last of the ever-in­creas­ing-sized uni­verses of outer space.

31:9.10These seven groups of Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects to­tal 28,011 uni­verse plan­ners. On Par­a­dise there is a tra­di­tion that far back in eter­nity there was at­tempted the even­tu­a­tion of the 28,012th Mas­ter Ar­chi­tect, but that this be­ing failed to ab­soni­tize, ex­pe­ri­enc­ing per­son­al­ity seizure by the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. It is pos­si­ble that the as­cend­ing se­ries of the Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects at­tained the limit of ab­sonity in the 28,011th Ar­chi­tect, and that the 28,012th at­tempt en­coun­tered the math­e­mat­i­cal level of the pres­ence of the Ab­so­lute. In other words, at the 28,012th even­tu­a­tion level the qual­ity of ab­sonity equiv­alated to the level of the Uni­ver­sal and at­tained the value of the Ab­so­lute.

31:9.11In their func­tional or­ga­ni­za­tion the three super­vis­ing Ar­chi­tects of Ha­vona act as as­so­ciate as­sis­tants to the soli­tary Par­a­dise Ar­chi­tect. The seven Ar­chi­tects of the super­uni­verses act as co-or­di­nates of the three super­vi­sors of Ha­vona. The sev­enty plan­ners of the uni­verses of the pri­mary outer space level are at pres­ent serv­ing as as­so­ciate as­sis­tants to the seven Ar­chi­tects of the seven super­uni­verses.

31:9.12The Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse have at their dis­posal nu­mer­ous groups of as­sis­tants and helpers, in­clud­ing two vast or­ders of force or­ga­niz­ers, the pri­mary even­tu­ated and the as­so­ciate tran­scen­den­tal. These Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers are not to be con­fused with the power di­rec­tors, who are ger­mane to the grand uni­verse.

31:9.13All be­ings pro­duced by the union of the chil­dren of time and eter­nity, such as the trin­i­tized off­spring of the fi­nal­i­ters and the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens, be­come wards of the Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects. But of all other crea­tures or en­ti­ties re­vealed as func­tion­ing in the pres­ent or­ga­nized uni­verses, only Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers and In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its main­tain any or­ganic as­so­ci­a­tion with the Tran­scen­den­talers and the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.

31:9.14The Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects con­tribute tech­ni­cal ap­proval of the as­sign­ment of the Cre­ator Sons to their space sites for the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the lo­cal uni­verses. There is a very close as­so­ci­a­tion be­tween the Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects and the Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons, and while this re­la­tion­ship is un­re­vealed, you have been in­formed of the as­so­ci­a­tion of the Ar­chi­tects and the grand uni­verse Su­preme Cre­ators in the re­la­tion­ship of the first ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity. These two groups, to­gether with the evolv­ing and ex­pe­ri­en­tial Su­preme Be­ing, con­sti­tute the Trin­ity Ul­ti­mate of tran­scen­den­tal val­ues and mas­ter uni­verse mean­ings.