The Ascending Sons of God

40:10.1Spirit-fused mor­tals are, gen­er­ally speak­ing, con­fined to a lo­cal uni­verse; Son-fused sur­vivors are re­stricted to a super­uni­verse; Ad­juster-fused mor­tals are des­tined to pen­e­trate the uni­verse of uni­verses. The spir­its of mor­tal fu­sion al­ways as­cend to the level of ori­gin; such spirit en­ti­ties un­fail­ingly re­turn to the sphere of pri­mal source.

40:10.2Spirit-fused mor­tals are of the lo­cal uni­verse; they do not, or­di­nar­ily, as­cend be­yond the con­fines of their na­tive realm, be­yond the bound­aries of the space range of the spirit that per­vades them. Son-fused as­cend­ers like­wise rise to the source of spirit en­dow­ment, for much as the Truth Spirit of a Cre­ator Son fo­cal­izes in the as­so­ci­ated Di­vine Min­is­ter, so is his “fu­sion spirit” im­ple­mented in the Re­flec­tive Spir­its of the higher uni­verses. Such spirit re­la­tion­ship be­tween the lo­cal and the super­uni­verse lev­els of God the Sev­en­fold may be dif­fi­cult of ex­pla­na­tion but not of dis­cern­ment, be­ing un­mis­tak­ably re­vealed in those chil­dren of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its—the sec­o­raphic Voices of the Cre­ator Sons. The Thought Ad­juster, hail­ing from the Fa­ther on Par­a­dise, never stops un­til the mor­tal son stands face to face with the eter­nal God.

40:10.3The mys­te­ri­ous vari­able in as­so­cia­tive tech­nique whereby a mor­tal be­ing does not or can­not be­come eter­nally fused with the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster may seem to dis­close a flaw in the as­cen­sion scheme; Son and Spirit fu­sion do, su­per­fi­cially, re­sem­ble com­pen­sa­tions of un­ex­plained fail­ures in some de­tail of the Par­a­dise-at­tain­ment plan; but all such con­clu­sions stand in er­ror; we are taught that all these hap­pen­ings un­fold in obe­di­ence to the es­tab­lished laws of the Su­preme Uni­verse Rulers.

40:10.4We have an­a­lyzed this prob­lem and have reached the un­doubted con­clu­sion that the con­sign­ment of all mor­tals to an ul­ti­mate Par­a­dise des­tiny would be un­fair to the time-space uni­verses inas­much as the courts of the Cre­ator Sons and of the An­cients of Days would then be wholly de­pen­dent on the ser­vices of those who were in tran­sit to higher realms. And it does seem to be no more than fit­ting that the lo­cal and the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments should each be pro­vided with a per­ma­nent group of as­cen­dant cit­i­zen­ship; that the func­tions of these ad­min­is­tra­tions should be en­riched by the ef­forts of cer­tain groups of glo­ri­fied mor­tals who are of per­ma­nent sta­tus, evo­lu­tion­ary com­ple­ments of the aban­don­ters and of the susa­tia. Now it is quite ob­vi­ous that the pres­ent as­cen­sion scheme ef­fec­tively pro­vides the time-space ad­min­is­tra­tions with just such groups of as­cen­dant crea­tures; and we have many times won­dered: Does all this rep­re­sent an in­tended part of the all-wise plans of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse de­signed to pro­vide the Cre­ator Sons and the An­cients of Days with a per­ma­nent as­cen­dant pop­u­la­tion? with evolved or­ders of cit­i­zen­ship that will be­come in­creas­ingly com­pe­tent to carry for­ward the af­fairs of these realms in the uni­verse ages to come?

40:10.5That mor­tal des­tinies do thus vary in no wise proves that one is nec­es­sar­ily greater or lesser than an­other, merely that they dif­fer. Ad­juster-fused as­cend­ers do in­deed have a grand and glo­ri­ous ca­reer as fi­nal­i­ters spread out be­fore them in the eter­nal fu­ture, but this does not mean that they are pre­ferred above their as­cen­dant breth­ren. There is no fa­voritism, noth­ing ar­bi­trary, in the se­lec­tive op­er­a­tion of the di­vine plan of mor­tal sur­vival.

40:10.6While the Ad­juster-fused fi­nal­i­ters ob­vi­ously en­joy the widest ser­vice op­por­tu­nity of all, the at­tain­ment of this goal au­to­mat­i­cally shuts them off from the chance to par­tic­i­pate in the age­long strug­gle of some one uni­verse or super­uni­verse, from the ear­lier and less set­tled epochs to the later and es­tab­lished eras of rel­a­tive per­fec­tion at­tain­ment. Fi­nal­i­ters ac­quire a mar­velous and far-flung ex­pe­ri­ence of tran­sient ser­vice in all seven seg­ments of the grand uni­verse, but they do not or­di­nar­ily ac­quire that in­ti­mate knowl­edge of any one uni­verse which even now char­ac­ter­izes the Spirit-fused vet­er­ans of the Neb­a­don Corps of Com­ple­tion. These in­di­vid­u­als en­joy an op­por­tu­nity to wit­ness the as­cend­ing pro­ces­sional of the plan­e­tary ages as they un­fold one by one on ten mil­lion in­hab­ited worlds. And in the faith­ful ser­vice of such lo­cal uni­verse cit­i­zens, ex­pe­ri­ence super­im­poses upon ex­pe­ri­ence un­til the full­ness of time ripens that high qual­ity of wis­dom which is en­gen­dered by fo­cal­ized ex­pe­ri­ence—au­thor­i­ta­tive wis­dom—and this in it­self is a vi­tal fac­tor in the set­tling of any lo­cal uni­verse.

40:10.7As it is with the Spirit fusers, so is it with those Son-fused mor­tals who have achieved res­i­den­tial sta­tus on Uversa. Some of these be­ings hail from the ear­li­est epochs of Or­von­ton, and they rep­re­sent a slowly ac­cu­mu­lat­ing body of in­sight-deep­en­ing wis­dom which is mak­ing ever-aug­ment­ing ser­vice con­tri­bu­tions to the wel­fare and even­tual set­tle­ment of the sev­enth super­uni­verse.

40:10.8What the ul­ti­mate des­tiny of these sta­tion­ary or­ders of lo­cal and of super­uni­verse cit­i­zen­ship will be we do not know, but it is quite pos­si­ble that, when the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters are pi­o­neer­ing the ex­pand­ing fron­tiers of di­vin­ity in the plan­e­tary sys­tems of the first outer space level, their Son- and Spirit-fused breth­ren of the as­cen­dant evo­lu­tion­ary strug­gle will be ac­cept­ably con­tribut­ing to the main­te­nance of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial equi­lib­rium of the per­fected super­uni­verses while they stand ready to wel­come the in­com­ing stream of Par­a­dise pil­grims who may, at that dis­tant day, pour in through Or­von­ton and its sis­ter cre­ations as a vast spirit-quest­ing tor­rent from these now un­charted and un­in­hab­ited galax­ies of outer space.

40:10.9While the ma­jor­ity of Spirit fusers serve per­ma­nently as cit­i­zens of the lo­cal uni­verses, all do not. If some phase of their uni­verse min­istry should re­quire their per­sonal pres­ence in the super­uni­verse, then would such trans­for­ma­tions of be­ing be wrought in these cit­i­zens as would en­able them to as­cend to the higher uni­verse; and upon the ar­rival of the Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans with or­ders to pre­sent such Spirit-fused mor­tals at the courts of the An­cients of Days, they would so as­cend, never to re­turn. They be­come wards of the super­uni­verse, serv­ing as as­sis­tants to the Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and per­ma­nently, save for those few who are in turn sum­moned to the ser­vice of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona.

40:10.10Like their Spirit-fused breth­ren, the Son fusers nei­ther tra­verse Ha­vona nor at­tain Par­a­dise un­less they have un­der­gone cer­tain mod­i­fy­ing trans­for­ma­tions. For good and suf­fi­cient rea­sons, such changes have been wrought in cer­tain Son-fused sur­vivors, and these be­ings are to be en­coun­tered ever and anon on the seven cir­cuits of the cen­tral uni­verse. Thus it is that cer­tain num­bers of both the Son- and the Spirit-fused mor­tals do ac­tu­ally as­cend to Par­a­dise, do at­tain a goal in many ways equal to that which awaits the Fa­ther-fused mor­tals.

40:10.11Fa­ther-fused mor­tals are po­ten­tial fi­nal­i­ters; their des­ti­na­tion is the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and him they do at­tain, but within the purview of the pres­ent uni­verse age, fi­nal­i­ters, as such, are not des­tiny at­tain­ers. They re­main un­fin­ished crea­tures—sixth-stage spir­its—and hence non­ac­tive in the evo­lu­tion­ary do­mains of pre­light-and-life sta­tus.

40:10.12When a mor­tal fi­nal­i­ter is Trin­ity em­braced—be­comes a Trin­i­tized Son, such as a Mighty Mes­sen­ger—then has that fi­nal­i­ter at­tained des­tiny, at least for the pres­ent uni­verse age. Mighty Mes­sen­gers and their fel­lows may not in the ex­act sense be sev­enth-stage spir­its, but in ad­di­tion to other things the Trin­ity em­brace en­dows them with ev­ery­thing which a fi­nal­i­ter will some­time achieve as a sev­enth-stage spirit. Af­ter Spirit-fused or Son-fused mor­tals are trin­i­tized, they pass through the Par­a­dise ex­pe­ri­ence with the Ad­juster-fused as­cend­ers, with whom they are then iden­ti­cal in all mat­ters per­tain­ing to super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. These Trin­i­tized Sons of Se­lec­tion or of At­tain­ment at least for now are fin­ished crea­tures, in con­trast to the fi­nal­i­ters, who are at pres­ent un­fin­ished crea­tures.

40:10.13Thus, in the fi­nal anal­y­sis, it would be hardly proper to use the words “greater” or “lesser” in con­trast­ing the des­tinies of the as­cend­ing or­ders of son­ship. Ev­ery such son of God shares the fa­ther­hood of God, and God loves each of his crea­ture sons alike; he is no more a re­specter of as­cen­dant des­tinies than is he of the crea­tures who may at­tain such des­tinies. The Fa­ther loves each of his sons, and that af­fec­tion is not less than true, holy, di­vine, un­lim­ited, eter­nal, and unique—a love be­stowed upon this son and upon that son, in­di­vid­u­ally, per­son­ally, and ex­clu­sively. And such a love ut­terly eclipses all other facts. Son­ship is the su­preme re­la­tion­ship of the crea­ture to the Cre­ator.

40:10.14As mor­tals you can now rec­og­nize your place in the fam­ily of di­vine son­ship and be­gin to sense the obli­ga­tion to avail your­selves of the ad­van­tages so freely pro­vided in and by the Par­a­dise plan for mor­tal sur­vival, which plan has been so en­hanced and il­lu­mi­nated by the life ex­pe­ri­ence of a be­stowal Son. Ev­ery fa­cil­ity and all power have been pro­vided for in­sur­ing your ul­ti­mate at­tain­ment of the Par­a­dise goal of di­vine per­fec­tion.

40:10.15[Pre­sented by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily at­tached to the staff of Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton.]