The Ascending Sons of God

40:9.1As­cend­ing Spirit-fused mor­tals are not Third Source per­son­al­i­ties; they are in­cluded in the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity cir­cuit, but they have fused with in­di­vid­u­al­iza­tions of the pre­mind spirit of the Third Source and Cen­ter. Such Spirit fu­sion never oc­curs dur­ing the span of nat­u­ral life; it takes place only at the time of mor­tal reawak­en­ing in the mor­ontia ex­is­tence on the man­sion worlds. In the fu­sion ex­pe­ri­ence there is no over­lap­ping; the will crea­ture is ei­ther Spirit fused, Son fused, or Fa­ther fused. Those who are Ad­juster or Fa­ther fused are never Spirit or Son fused.

40:9.2The fact that these types of mor­tal crea­tures are not Ad­juster-fu­sion can­di­dates does not pre­vent the Ad­justers from in­dwelling them dur­ing the life in the flesh. Ad­justers do work in the minds of such be­ings dur­ing the span of ma­te­rial life but never be­come ev­er­last­ingly one with their pupil souls. Dur­ing this tem­po­rary so­journ the Ad­justers ef­fec­tively build up the same spirit coun­ter­part of mor­tal na­ture—the soul—that they do in the can­di­dates for Ad­juster fu­sion. Up to the time of mor­tal death the work of the Ad­justers is wholly akin to their func­tion in your own races, but upon mor­tal dis­so­lu­tion the Ad­justers take eter­nal leave of these Spirit-fu­sion can­di­dates and, pro­ceed­ing di­rectly to Di­vin­ing­ton, the head­quar­ters of all di­vine Mon­i­tors, there await the new as­sign­ments of their or­der.

40:9.3When such sleep­ing sur­vivors are reper­son­al­ized on the man­sion worlds, the place of the de­parted Ad­juster is filled by an in­di­vid­u­al­iza­tion of the spirit of the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the In­fi­nite Spirit in the lo­cal uni­verse con­cerned. This spirit in­fu­sion con­sti­tutes these sur­viv­ing crea­tures Spirit-fused mor­tals. Such be­ings are in ev­ery way your equals in mind and spirit; and they are in­deed your con­tem­po­raries, shar­ing the man­sion and mor­ontia spheres in com­mon with your or­der of fu­sion can­di­dates and with those who are to be Son fused.

40:9.4There is, how­ever, one par­tic­u­lar in which Spirit-fused mor­tals dif­fer from their as­cen­dant breth­ren: Mor­tal mem­ory of hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence on the ma­te­rial worlds of ori­gin sur­vives death in the flesh be­cause the in­dwelling Ad­juster has ac­quired a spirit coun­ter­part, or tran­script, of those events of hu­man life which were of spir­i­tual sig­nif­i­cance. But with Spirit-fused mor­tals there ex­ists no such mech­a­nism whereby hu­man mem­ory may per­sist. The Ad­juster tran­scripts of mem­ory are full and in­tact, but these ac­qui­si­tions are ex­pe­ri­en­tial pos­ses­sions of the de­parted Ad­justers and are not avail­able to the crea­tures of their for­mer in­dwelling, who there­fore awaken in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the mor­ontia spheres of Neb­a­don as if they were newly cre­ated be­ings, crea­tures with­out con­scious­ness of for­mer ex­is­tence.

40:9.5Such chil­dren of the lo­cal uni­verse are en­abled to re­pos­sess them­selves of much of their for­mer hu­man mem­ory ex­pe­ri­ence through hav­ing it re­told by the as­so­ci­ated ser­a­phim and cheru­bim and by con­sult­ing the rec­ords of the mor­tal ca­reer filed by the record­ing an­gels. This they can do with un­doubted as­sur­ance be­cause the sur­viv­ing soul, of ex­pe­ri­en­tial ori­gin in the ma­te­rial and mor­tal life, while hav­ing no mem­ory of mor­tal events, does have a resid­ual ex­pe­ri­en­tial-rec­og­ni­tion-re­sponse to these un­re­mem­bered events of past ex­pe­ri­ence.

40:9.6When a Spirit-fused mor­tal is told about the events of the un­re­mem­bered past ex­pe­ri­ence, there is an im­me­di­ate re­sponse of ex­pe­ri­en­tial rec­og­ni­tion within the soul (iden­tity) of such a sur­vivor which in­stantly in­vests the nar­rated event with the emo­tional tinge of re­al­ity and with the in­tel­lec­tual qual­ity of fact; and this dual re­sponse con­sti­tutes the re­con­struc­tion, rec­og­ni­tion, and val­i­da­tion of an un­re­mem­bered facet of mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence.

40:9.7Even with Ad­juster-fu­sion can­di­dates, only those hu­man ex­pe­ri­ences which were of spir­i­tual value are com­mon pos­ses­sions of the sur­viv­ing mor­tal and the re­turn­ing Ad­juster and hence are im­me­di­ately re­mem­bered sub­se­quent to mor­tal sur­vival. Con­cern­ing those hap­pen­ings which were not of spir­i­tual sig­nif­i­cance, even these Ad­juster-fusers must de­pend upon the at­tri­bute of rec­og­ni­tion-re­sponse in the sur­viv­ing soul. And since any one event may have a spir­i­tual con­no­ta­tion to one mor­tal but not to an­other, it be­comes pos­si­ble for a group of con­tem­po­rary as­cend­ers from the same planet to pool their store of Ad­juster-re­mem­bered events and thus to re­con­struct any ex­pe­ri­ence which they had in com­mon, and which was of spir­i­tual value in the life of any one of them.

40:9.8While we un­der­stand such tech­niques of mem­ory re­con­struc­tion fairly well, we do not grasp the tech­nique of per­son­al­ity rec­og­ni­tion. Per­son­al­i­ties of one­time as­so­ci­a­tion mu­tu­ally re­spond quite in­de­pen­dently of the op­er­a­tion of mem­ory, al­beit, mem­ory it­self and the tech­niques of its re­con­struc­tion are nec­es­sary to in­vest such mu­tual per­son­al­ity re­sponse with the full­ness of rec­og­ni­tion.

40:9.9A Spirit-fused sur­vivor is also able to learn much about the life he lived in the flesh by re­vis­it­ing his na­tiv­ity world sub­se­quent to the plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tion in which he lived. Such chil­dren of Spirit fu­sion are en­abled to en­joy these op­por­tu­ni­ties for in­ves­ti­gat­ing their hu­man ca­reers since they are in gen­eral con­fined to the ser­vice of the lo­cal uni­verse. They do not share your high and ex­alted des­tiny in the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity; only Ad­juster-fused mor­tals or other es­pe­cially em­braced as­cen­dant be­ings are mus­tered into the ranks of those who await the eter­nal De­ity ad­ven­ture. Spirit-fused mor­tals are the per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of the lo­cal uni­verses; they may as­pire to Par­a­dise des­tiny, but they can­not be sure of it. In Neb­a­don their uni­verse home is the eighth group of worlds en­cir­cling Sal­ving­ton, a des­tiny-heaven of na­ture and lo­ca­tion much like the one en­vi­sioned by the plan­e­tary tra­di­tions of Uran­tia.