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Paper 40

The Ascending Sons of God

Mighty Messenger

40:0.1As in many of the ma­jor groups of uni­verse be­ings, seven gen­eral classes of the As­cend­ing Sons of God have been re­vealed:

40:0.21. Fa­ther-fused Mor­tals.

40:0.32. Son-fused Mor­tals.

40:0.43. Spirit-fused Mor­tals.

40:0.54. Evo­lu­tion­ary Ser­a­phim.

40:0.65. As­cend­ing Ma­te­rial Sons.

40:0.76. Trans­lated Mid­way­ers.

40:0.87. Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers.

40:0.9The story of these be­ings, from the lowly an­i­mal-ori­gin mor­tals of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds to the Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, pre­sents a glo­ri­ous recital of the un­stinted be­stowal of di­vine love and gra­cious con­de­scen­sion through­out all time and in all uni­verses of the far-flung cre­ation of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

40:0.10These pre­sen­ta­tions be­gan with a de­scrip­tion of the De­i­ties, and group by group, the nar­ra­tive has de­scended the uni­ver­sal scale of liv­ing be­ings un­til it has reached the low­est or­der of life en­dowed with the po­ten­tial of im­mor­tal­ity; and now am I dis­patched from Sal­ving­ton—one­time a mor­tal of ori­gin on an evo­lu­tion­ary world of space—to elab­o­rate and con­tinue the recital of the eter­nal pur­pose of the Gods re­spect­ing the as­cend­ing or­ders of son­ship, more par­tic­u­larly with re­gard to the mor­tal crea­tures of time and space.

40:0.11Since the greater part of this nar­ra­tive will be de­voted to a dis­cus­sion of the three ba­sic or­ders of as­cend­ing mor­tals, con­sid­er­a­tion will first be given to the non­mor­tal as­cend­ing or­ders of son­ship—se­raphic, Adamic, mid­wayer, and Ad­juster.