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Paper 35

The Local Universe Sons of God

Chief of Archangels

35:0.1The Sons of God pre­vi­ously in­tro­duced have had a Par­a­dise ori­gin. They are the off­spring of the di­vine Rulers of the uni­ver­sal do­mains. Of the first Par­a­dise or­der of son­ship, the Cre­ator Sons, there is in Neb­a­don only one, Mi­chael, the uni­verse fa­ther and sov­er­eign. Of the sec­ond or­der of Par­a­dise son­ship, the Avo­nal or Mag­is­te­rial Sons, Neb­a­don has its full quota—1,062. And these “lesser Christs” are just as ef­fec­tive and all-pow­er­ful in their plan­e­tary be­stowals as was the Cre­ator and Mas­ter Son on Uran­tia. The third or­der, be­ing of Trin­ity ori­gin, do not reg­is­ter in a lo­cal uni­verse, but I es­ti­mate there are in Neb­a­don be­tween fif­teen and twenty thou­sand Trin­ity Teacher Sons ex­clu­sive of 9,642 crea­ture-trin­i­tized as­sis­tants of rec­ord. These Par­a­dise Day­nals are nei­ther mag­is­trates nor ad­min­is­tra­tors; they are super­teach­ers.

35:0.2The types of Sons about to be con­sid­ered are of lo­cal uni­verse ori­gin; they are the off­spring of a Par­a­dise Cre­ator Son in var­ied as­so­ci­a­tion with the com­ple­men­tal Uni­verse Mother Spirit. The fol­low­ing or­ders of lo­cal uni­verse son­ship find men­tion in these nar­ra­tives:

35:0.31. Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons.

35:0.42. Vo­ron­da­dek Sons.

35:0.53. La­non­an­dek Sons.

35:0.64. Life Car­rier Sons.

35:0.7Tri­une Par­a­dise De­ity func­tions for the cre­ation of three or­ders of son­ship: the Mi­cha­els, the Avo­nals, and the Day­nals. Dual De­ity in the lo­cal uni­verse, the Son and the Spirit, also func­tions in the cre­ation of three high or­ders of Sons: the Mel­chiz­e­deks, the Voron­dadeks, and the La­non­an­deks; and hav­ing achieved this three­fold ex­pres­sion, they col­lab­o­rate with the next level of God the Sev­en­fold in the pro­duc­tion of the ver­sa­tile or­der of Life Car­ri­ers. These be­ings are clas­si­fied with the de­scend­ing Sons of God, but they are a unique and orig­i­nal form of uni­verse life. Their con­sid­er­a­tion will oc­cupy the whole of the next pa­per.