The Ascending Sons of God

40:5.1Mor­tals rep­re­sent the last link in the chain of those be­ings who are called sons of God. The per­sonal touch of the Orig­i­nal and Eter­nal Son passes on down through a se­ries of de­creas­ingly di­vine and in­creas­ingly hu­man per­son­al­iza­tions un­til there ar­rives a be­ing much like your­selves, one you can see, hear, and touch. And then you are made spir­i­tu­ally aware of the great truth which your faith may grasp—son­ship with the eter­nal God!

40:5.2Like­wise does the Orig­i­nal and In­fi­nite Spirit, by a long se­ries of de­creas­ingly di­vine and in­creas­ingly hu­man or­ders, draw nearer and nearer to the strug­gling crea­tures of the realms, reach­ing the limit of ex­pres­sion in the an­gels—than whom you were cre­ated but a lit­tle lower—who per­son­ally guard and guide you in the life jour­ney of the mor­tal ca­reer of time.

40:5.3God the Fa­ther does not, can­not, thus down­step him­self to make such near per­sonal con­tact with the al­most lim­it­less num­ber of as­cend­ing crea­tures through­out the uni­verse of uni­verses. But the Fa­ther is not de­prived of per­sonal con­tact with his lowly crea­tures; you are not with­out the di­vine pres­ence. Al­though God the Fa­ther can­not be with you by di­rect per­son­al­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion, he is in you and of you in the iden­tity of the in­dwelling Thought Ad­justers, the di­vine Mon­i­tors. Thus does the Fa­ther, who is the far­thest from you in per­son­al­ity and in spirit, draw the near­est to you in the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit and in the spirit touch of in­ner com­mu­nion with the very souls of his mor­tal sons and daugh­ters.

40:5.4Spirit iden­ti­fi­ca­tion con­sti­tutes the se­cret of per­sonal sur­vival and de­ter­mines the des­tiny of spir­i­tual as­cen­sion. And since the Thought Ad­justers are the only spir­its of fu­sion po­ten­tial to be iden­ti­fied with man dur­ing the life in the flesh, the mor­tals of time and space are pri­mar­ily clas­si­fied in ac­cor­dance with their re­la­tion to these di­vine gifts, the in­dwelling Mys­tery Mon­i­tors. This clas­si­fi­ca­tion is as fol­lows:

40:5.51. Mor­tals of the tran­sient or ex­pe­ri­en­tial Ad­juster so­journ.

40:5.62. Mor­tals of the non-Ad­juster-fu­sion types.

40:5.73. Mor­tals of Ad­juster-fu­sion po­ten­tial.

40:5.8Se­ries one—mor­tals of the tran­sient or ex­pe­ri­en­tial Ad­juster so­journ. This se­ries des­ig­na­tion is tem­po­rary for any evolv­ing planet, be­ing used dur­ing the early stages of all in­hab­ited worlds ex­cept those of the sec­ond se­ries.

40:5.9Mor­tals of se­ries one in­habit the worlds of space dur­ing the ear­lier epochs of the evo­lu­tion of man­kind and em­brace the most prim­i­tive types of hu­man minds. On many worlds like pre-Adamic Uran­tia great num­bers of the higher and more ad­vanced types of prim­i­tive men ac­quire sur­vival ca­pac­ity but fail to at­tain Ad­juster fu­sion. For ages upon ages, be­fore man’s as­cent to the level of higher spir­i­tual vo­li­tion, the Ad­justers oc­cupy the minds of these strug­gling crea­tures dur­ing their short lives in the flesh, and the mo­ment such will crea­tures are in­dwelt by Ad­justers, the group guard­ian an­gels be­gin to func­tion. While these mor­tals of the first se­ries do not have per­sonal guard­i­ans, they do have group cus­to­di­ans.

40:5.10An ex­pe­ri­en­tial Ad­juster re­mains with a prim­i­tive hu­man be­ing through­out his en­tire life­time in the flesh. The Ad­justers con­tribute much to the ad­vance­ment of prim­i­tive men but are un­able to form eter­nal unions with such mor­tals. This tran­sient min­istry of the Ad­justers ac­com­plishes two things: First, they gain valu­able and ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in the na­ture and work­ing of the evo­lu­tion­ary in­tel­lect, an ex­pe­ri­ence which will be in­valu­able in con­nec­tion with later con­tacts on other worlds with be­ings of higher de­vel­op­ment. Sec­ond, the tran­sient so­journ of the Ad­justers con­tributes much to­wards prepar­ing their mor­tal sub­jects for pos­si­ble sub­se­quent Spirit fu­sion. All God-seek­ing souls of this type achieve eter­nal life through the spir­i­tual em­brace of the Mother Spirit of the lo­cal uni­verse, thus be­com­ing as­cend­ing mor­tals of the lo­cal uni­verse regime. Many per­sons from pre-Adamic Uran­tia were thus ad­vanced to the man­sion worlds of Sa­ta­nia.

40:5.11The Gods who or­dained that mor­tal man should climb to higher lev­els of spir­i­tual in­tel­li­gence through long ages of evo­lu­tion­ary tri­als and tribu­la­tions, take note of his sta­tus and needs at ev­ery stage of the as­cent; and al­ways are they di­vinely fair and just, even charm­ingly mer­ci­ful, in the fi­nal judg­ments of these strug­gling mor­tals of the early days of the evolv­ing races.

40:5.12Se­ries two—mor­tals of the non-Ad­juster-fu­sion types. These are spe­cial­ized types of hu­man be­ings who are not able to ef­fect eter­nal union with their in­dwelling Ad­justers. Type clas­si­fi­ca­tion among the one-, two-, and three-brained races is not a fac­tor in Ad­juster fu­sion; all such mor­tals are akin, but these non-Ad­juster-fu­sion types are a wholly dif­fer­ent and markedly mod­i­fied or­der of will crea­tures. Many of the non­breathers be­long to this se­ries, and there are nu­mer­ous other groups who do not or­di­nar­ily fuse with Ad­justers.

40:5.13Like se­ries num­ber one, each mem­ber of this group en­joys the min­istry of a sin­gle Ad­juster dur­ing life­time in the flesh. Dur­ing tem­po­ral life these Ad­justers do ev­ery­thing for their sub­jects of tem­po­rary in­dwelling that is done on other worlds where the mor­tals are of fu­sion po­ten­tial. The mor­tals of this sec­ond se­ries are of­ten in­dwelt by vir­gin Ad­justers, but the higher hu­man types are of­ten in li­ai­son with mas­ter­ful and ex­pe­ri­enced Mon­i­tors.

40:5.14In the as­cen­dant plan for up­step­ping the an­i­mal-ori­gin crea­tures, these be­ings en­joy the same de­voted ser­vice of the Sons of God as is ex­tended to the Uran­tia type of mor­tals. Se­raphic co-op­er­a­tion with Ad­justers on the non­fu­sion plan­ets is just as fully pro­vided as on the worlds of fu­sion po­ten­tial; the guard­i­ans of des­tiny min­is­ter on such spheres just as on Uran­tia and sim­i­larly func­tion at the time of mor­tal sur­vival, at which time the sur­viv­ing soul be­comes Spirit fused.

40:5.15When you en­counter these mod­i­fied mor­tal types on the man­sion worlds, you will find no dif­fi­culty in com­mu­ni­cat­ing with them. There they speak the same sys­tem lan­guage but by a mod­i­fied tech­nique. These be­ings are iden­ti­cal with your or­der of crea­ture life in spirit and per­son­al­ity man­i­fes­ta­tions, dif­fer­ing only in cer­tain phys­i­cal fea­tures and in the fact that they are non­fusible with Thought Ad­justers.

40:5.16As to just why this type of crea­ture is never able to fuse with the Ad­justers of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, I am un­able to say. Some of us in­cline to the be­lief that the Life Car­ri­ers, in their ef­forts to for­mu­late be­ings ca­pa­ble of main­tain­ing ex­is­tence in an un­usual plan­e­tary en­vi­ron­ment, are con­fronted with the ne­ces­sity of mak­ing such rad­i­cal mod­i­fi­ca­tions in the uni­verse plan of in­tel­li­gent will crea­tures that it be­comes in­her­ently im­pos­si­ble to bring about per­ma­nent union with the Ad­justers. Of­ten have we asked: Is this an in­tended or an un­in­tended part of the as­cen­sion plan? but we have not found the an­swer.

40:5.17Se­ries three—mor­tals of Ad­juster-fu­sion po­ten­tial. All Fa­ther-fused mor­tals are of an­i­mal ori­gin, just like the Uran­tia races. They em­brace mor­tals of the one-brained, two-brained, and three-brained types of Ad­juster-fu­sion po­ten­tial. Uran­tians are of the in­ter­me­di­ate or two-brained type, be­ing in many ways hu­manly su­pe­rior to the one-brained groups but def­i­nitely lim­ited in com­par­i­son with the three-brained or­ders. These three types of phys­i­cal-brain en­dow­ment are not fac­tors in Ad­juster be­stowal, in se­raphic ser­vice, or in any other phase of spirit min­istry. The in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual dif­fer­en­tial be­tween the three brain types char­ac­ter­izes in­di­vid­u­als who are oth­er­wise quite alike in mind en­dow­ment and spir­i­tual po­ten­tial, be­ing great­est in the tem­po­ral life and tend­ing to di­min­ish as the man­sion worlds are tra­versed one by one. From the sys­tem head­quar­ters on, the pro­gres­sion of these three types is the same, and their even­tual Par­a­dise des­tiny is iden­ti­cal.

40:5.18The un­num­bered se­ries. These nar­ra­tives can­not pos­si­bly em­brace all of the fas­ci­nat­ing vari­a­tions in the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. You know that ev­ery tenth world is a dec­i­mal or ex­per­i­men­tal planet, but you know noth­ing of the other vari­ables that punc­tu­ate the pro­ces­sional of the evo­lu­tion­ary spheres. There are dif­fer­ences too nu­mer­ous to nar­rate even be­tween the re­vealed or­ders of liv­ing crea­tures as be­tween plan­ets of the same group, but this pre­sen­ta­tion makes clear the es­sen­tial dif­fer­ences in re­la­tion to the as­cen­sion ca­reer. And the as­cen­sion ca­reer is the most im­por­tant fac­tor in any con­sid­er­a­tion of the mor­tals of time and space.

40:5.19As to the chances of mor­tal sur­vival, let it be made for­ever clear: All souls of ev­ery pos­si­ble phase of mor­tal ex­is­tence will sur­vive pro­vided they man­i­fest will­ing­ness to co-op­er­ate with their in­dwelling Ad­justers and ex­hibit a de­sire to find God and to at­tain di­vine per­fec­tion, even though these de­sires be but the first faint flick­ers of the prim­i­tive com­pre­hen­sion of that “true light which lights ev­ery man who comes into the world.”