The Spheres of Light and Life

55:4.1In the suc­ces­sive stages of set­tled ex­is­tence the in­hab­ited worlds make mar­velous prog­ress un­der the wise and sym­pa­thetic ad­min­is­tra­tion of the vol­un­teer Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, as­cend­ers of Par­a­dise at­tain­ment who have come back to min­is­ter to their breth­ren in the flesh. These fi­nal­i­ters are ac­tive in co-op­er­a­tion with the Trin­ity Teacher Sons, but they do not be­gin their real par­tic­i­pa­tion in world af­fairs un­til the mor­ontia tem­ple ap­pears on earth.

55:4.2Upon the for­mal in­au­gu­ra­tion of the plan­e­tary min­istry of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, the ma­jor­ity of the ce­les­tial hosts with­draw. But the se­raphic guard­i­ans of des­tiny con­tinue their per­sonal min­istry to the pro­gress­ing mor­tals in light; in­deed such an­gels come in ever-in­creas­ing num­bers through­out the set­tled ages since larger and larger groups of hu­man be­ings reach the third cos­mic cir­cle of co-or­di­nate mor­tal at­tain­ment dur­ing the plan­e­tary life span.

55:4.3This is merely the first of the suc­ces­sive ad­min­is­tra­tive ad­just­ments which at­tend the un­fold­ing of the suc­ces­sive ages of in­creas­ingly bril­liant at­tain­ment on the in­hab­ited worlds as they pass from the first to the sev­enth stage of set­tled ex­is­tence.

55:4.41. The first stage of light and life. A world in this ini­tial set­tled stage is be­ing ad­min­is­tered by three rulers:

55:4.5a. The Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign, pres­ently to be ad­vised by a coun­sel­ing Trin­ity Teacher Son, in all prob­a­bil­ity the chief of the ter­mi­nal corps of such Sons to func­tion on the planet.

55:4.6b. The chief of the plan­e­tary corps of fi­nal­i­ters.

55:4.7c. Adam and Eve, who func­tion jointly as the uni­fiers of the dual lead­er­ship of the Prince-Sov­er­eign and the chief of fi­nal­i­ters.

55:4.8Act­ing as in­ter­preters for the se­raphic guard­i­ans and the fi­nal­i­ters are the ex­alted and lib­er­ated mid­way crea­tures. One of the last acts of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons on their ter­mi­nal mis­sion is to lib­er­ate the mid­way­ers of the realm and to pro­mote (or re­store) them to ad­vanced plan­e­tary sta­tus, as­sign­ing them to re­spon­si­ble places in the new ad­min­is­tra­tion of the set­tled sphere. Such changes have al­ready been made in the range of hu­man vi­sion as en­able mor­tals to rec­og­nize these here­to­fore in­vis­i­ble cousins of the early Adamic regime. This is made pos­si­ble by the fi­nal dis­cov­er­ies of phys­i­cal sci­ence in li­ai­son with the en­larged plan­e­tary func­tions of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

55:4.9The Sys­tem Sov­er­eign has au­thor­ity to re­lease mid­way crea­tures any time af­ter the first set­tled stage so that they may hu­man­ize in the mor­ontia by the aid of the Life Car­ri­ers and the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and, af­ter re­ceiv­ing Thought Ad­justers, start out on their Par­a­dise as­cen­sion.

55:4.10In the third and sub­se­quent stages, some of the mid­way­ers are still func­tion­ing, chiefly as con­tact per­son­al­i­ties for the fi­nal­i­ters, but as each stage of light and life is en­tered, new or­ders of li­ai­son min­is­ters largely re­place the mid­way­ers; very few of them ever re­main be­yond the fourth stage of light. The sev­enth stage will wit­ness the com­ing of the first ab­so­nite min­is­ters from Par­a­dise to serve in the places of cer­tain uni­verse crea­tures.

55:4.112. The sec­ond stage of light and life. This epoch is sig­nal­ized on the worlds by the ar­rival of a Life Car­rier who be­comes the vol­un­teer ad­viser of the plan­e­tary rulers re­gard­ing the fur­ther ef­forts to pu­rify and sta­bi­lize the mor­tal race. Thus do the Life Car­ri­ers ac­tively par­tic­i­pate in the fur­ther evo­lu­tion of the hu­man race—phys­i­cally, so­cially, and eco­nom­i­cally. And then they ex­tend their super­vi­sion to the fur­ther pu­rifi­ca­tion of the mor­tal stock by the dras­tic elim­i­na­tion of the re­tarded and per­sist­ing rem­nants of in­fe­rior po­ten­tial of an in­tel­lec­tual, philo­sophic, cos­mic, and spir­i­tual na­ture. Those who de­sign and plant life on an in­hab­ited world are fully com­pe­tent to ad­vise the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, who have full and un­ques­tioned au­thor­ity to purge the evolv­ing race of all detri­men­tal in­flu­ences.

55:4.12From the sec­ond stage on through­out the ca­reer of a set­tled planet the Teacher Sons serve as coun­selors to the fi­nal­i­ters. Dur­ing such mis­sions they serve as vol­un­teers and not by as­sign­ment; and they serve ex­clu­sively with the fi­nal­i­ter corps ex­cept that, upon the con­sent of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, they may be had as ad­vis­ers to the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve.

55:4.133. The third stage of light and life. Dur­ing this epoch the in­hab­ited worlds ar­rive at a new ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the An­cients of Days, the sec­ond phase of God the Sev­en­fold, and the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of these super­uni­verse rulers en­ter into new re­la­tion­ships with the plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion.

55:4.14In each suc­ceed­ing age of set­tled ex­is­tence the fi­nal­i­ters func­tion in ever-in­creas­ing ca­pac­i­ties. There ex­ists a close work­ing con­nec­tion be­tween the fi­nal­i­ters, the Evening Stars (the super­an­gels), and the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

55:4.15Dur­ing this or the fol­low­ing age a Teacher Son, as­sisted by the min­is­ter­ing-spirit quar­tet, be­comes at­tached to the elec­tive mor­tal chief ex­ec­u­tive, who now be­comes as­so­ci­ated with the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign as joint ad­min­is­tra­tor of world af­fairs. These mor­tal chief ex­ec­u­tives serve for twenty-five years of plan­e­tary time, and it is this new de­vel­op­ment that makes it easy for the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve to se­cure re­lease from their world of long-time as­sign­ment dur­ing the fol­low­ing ages.

55:4.16The min­is­ter­ing-spirit quar­tets con­sist of: the se­raphic chief of the sphere, the super­uni­verse sec­o­raphic coun­selor, the arch­an­gel of trans­la­tions, and the om­niaphim who func­tions as the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the As­signed Sen­tinel sta­tioned on the sys­tem head­quar­ters. But these ad­vis­ers never prof­fer coun­sel un­less it is asked for.

55:4.174. The fourth stage of light and life. On these worlds the Trin­ity Teacher Sons ap­pear in new roles. As­sisted by the crea­ture-trini­tized sons so long as­so­ci­ated with their or­der, they now come to the worlds as vol­un­teer coun­selors and ad­vis­ers to the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign and his as­so­ciates. Such cou­ples—Par­adise-Ha­vona-trini­tized sons and as­cender-trini­tized sons—rep­re­sent dif­fer­ing uni­verse view­points and di­verse per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ences which are highly ser­vice­able to the plan­e­tary rulers.

55:4.18At any time af­ter this age the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve can pe­ti­tion the Sov­er­eign Cre­ator Son for re­lease from plan­e­tary du­ties in or­der to be­gin their Par­a­dise as­cent; or they can re­main on the planet as di­rec­tors of the newly ap­pear­ing or­der of in­creas­ingly spir­i­tual so­ci­ety com­posed of ad­vanced mor­tals striv­ing to com­pre­hend the philo­sophic teach­ings of the fi­nal­i­ters por­trayed by the Bril­liant Evening Stars, who are now as­signed to these worlds to col­lab­o­rate in pairs with the se­con­a­phim from the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse.

55:4.19The fi­nal­i­ters are chiefly en­gaged in ini­ti­at­ing the new and super­ma­te­rial ac­tiv­i­ties of so­ci­ety—so­cial, cul­tural, philo­sophic, cos­mic, and spir­i­tual. As far as we can dis­cern, they will con­tinue this min­istry far into the sev­enth epoch of evo­lu­tion­ary sta­bil­ity, when, pos­si­bly, they may go forth to min­is­ter in outer space; where­upon we con­jec­ture their places may be taken by ab­so­nite be­ings from Par­a­dise.

55:4.205. The fifth stage of light and life. The read­just­ments of this stage of set­tled ex­is­tence per­tain al­most en­tirely to the phys­i­cal do­mains and are of pri­mary con­cern to the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

55:4.216. The sixth stage of light and life wit­nesses the de­vel­op­ment of new func­tions of the mind cir­cuits of the realm. Cos­mic wis­dom seems to be­come con­sti­tu­tive in the uni­verse min­istry of mind.

55:4.227. The sev­enth stage of light and life. Early in the sev­enth epoch the Trin­ity Teacher coun­selor of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign is joined by a vol­un­teer ad­viser sent by the An­cients of Days, and later on they will be aug­mented by a third coun­selor com­ing from the super­uni­verse Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive.

55:4.23Dur­ing this epoch, if not be­fore, Adam and Eve are al­ways re­lieved of plan­e­tary du­ties. If there is a Ma­te­rial Son in the fi­nal­i­ter corps, he may be­come as­so­ci­ated with the mor­tal chief ex­ec­u­tive, and some­times it is a Mel­chiz­e­dek who vol­un­teers to func­tion in this ca­pac­ity. If a mid­wayer is among the fi­nal­i­ters, all of that or­der re­main­ing on the planet are im­me­di­ately re­leased.

55:4.24Upon ob­tain­ing re­lease from their age­long as­sign­ment, a Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve may se­lect ca­reers as fol­lows:

55:4.251. They can se­cure plan­e­tary re­lease and from the uni­verse head­quar­ters start out im­me­di­ately on the Par­a­dise ca­reer, re­ceiv­ing Thought Ad­justers at the con­clu­sion of the mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence.

55:4.262. Very of­ten a Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve will re­ceive Ad­justers while yet serv­ing on a world set­tled in light con­comi­tant with the re­ceiv­ing of Ad­justers by some of their im­ported pure-line chil­dren who have vol­un­teered for a term of plan­e­tary ser­vice. Sub­se­quently they may all go to uni­verse head­quar­ters and there be­gin the Par­a­dise ca­reer.

55:4.273. A Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve may elect—as do Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters from the sys­tem cap­i­tal—to go di­rect to the mid­sonite world for a brief so­journ, there to re­ceive their Ad­justers.

55:4.284. They may de­cide to re­turn to the sys­tem head­quar­ters, there for a time to oc­cupy seats on the su­preme court, af­ter which ser­vice they will re­ceive Ad­justers and be­gin the Par­a­dise as­cent.

55:4.295. They may choose to go from their ad­min­is­tra­tive du­ties back to their na­tive world to serve as teach­ers for a sea­son and to be­come Ad­juster in­dwelt at the time of trans­fer to the uni­verse head­quar­ters.

55:4.30Through­out all of these epochs the im­ported as­sist­ing Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters ex­ert a tremen­dous in­flu­ence on the pro­gress­ing so­cial and eco­nomic or­ders. They are po­ten­tially im­mor­tal, at least un­til such time as they elect to hu­man­ize, re­ceive Ad­justers, and start for Par­a­dise.

55:4.31On the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds a be­ing must hu­man­ize to re­ceive a Thought Ad­juster. All as­cen­dant mem­bers of the Mor­tal Corps of Fi­nal­i­ters have been Ad­juster in­dwelt and fused ex­cept ser­a­phim, and they are Fa­ther in­dwelt by an­other type of spirit at the time of be­ing mus­tered into this corps.