The Ascending Sons of God

40:6.1The mor­tal races stand as the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the low­est or­der of in­tel­li­gent and per­sonal cre­ation. You mor­tals are di­vinely beloved, and ev­ery one of you may choose to ac­cept the cer­tain des­tiny of a glo­ri­ous ex­pe­ri­ence, but you are not yet by na­ture of the di­vine or­der; you are wholly mor­tal. You will be reck­oned as as­cend­ing sons the in­stant fu­sion takes place, but the sta­tus of the mor­tals of time and space is that of faith sons prior to the event of the fi­nal amal­ga­ma­tion of the sur­viv­ing mor­tal soul with some type of eter­nal and im­mor­tal spirit.

40:6.2It is a solemn and su­per­nal fact that such lowly and ma­te­rial crea­tures as Uran­tia hu­man be­ings are the sons of God, faith chil­dren of the High­est. “Be­hold, what man­ner of love the Fa­ther has be­stowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God.” “As many as re­ceived him, to them gave he the power to rec­og­nize that they are the sons of God.” While “it does not yet ap­pear what you shall be,” even now “you are the faith sons of God”; “for you have not re­ceived the spirit of bond­age again to fear, but you have re­ceived the spirit of son­ship, whereby you cry, ‘our Fa­ther.’” Spoke the prophet of old in the name of the eter­nal God: “Even to them will I give in my house a place and a name bet­ter than sons; I will give them an ev­er­last­ing name, one that shall not be cut off.” “And be­cause you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts.”

40:6.3All evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of mor­tal habi­ta­tion har­bor these faith sons of God, sons of grace and mercy, mor­tal be­ings be­long­ing to the di­vine fam­ily and ac­cord­ingly called the sons of God. Uran­tia mor­tals are en­ti­tled to re­gard them­selves as be­ing the sons of God be­cause:

40:6.41. You are sons of spir­i­tual prom­ise, faith sons; you have ac­cepted the sta­tus of son­ship. You be­lieve in the re­al­ity of your son­ship, and thus does your son­ship with God be­come eter­nally real.

40:6.52. A Cre­ator Son of God be­came one of you; he is your el­der brother in fact; and if in spirit you be­come truly re­lated broth­ers of Christ, the vic­to­ri­ous Mi­chael, then in spirit must you also be sons of that Fa­ther which you have in com­mon—even the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther of all.

40:6.63. You are sons be­cause the spirit of a Son has been poured out upon you, has been freely and cer­tainly be­stowed upon all Uran­tia races. This spirit ever draws you to­ward the di­vine Son, who is its source, and to­ward the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, who is the source of that di­vine Son.

40:6.74. Of his di­vine free-will­ness, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has given you your crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties. You have been en­dowed with a mea­sure of that di­vine spon­tane­ity of free­will ac­tion which God shares with all who may be­come his sons.

40:6.85. There dwells within you a frag­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and you are thus di­rectly re­lated to the di­vine Fa­ther of all the Sons of God.