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absonity

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Every paragraph the index cites under absonity, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

30:1.92IV. EVEN­TU­ATED TRAN­SCEN­DEN­TAL BE­INGS. There is to be found on Par­a­dise a vast host of tran­scen­den­tal be­ings whose ori­gin is not or­di­nar­ily dis­closed to the uni­verses of time and space un­til they are set­tled in light and life. These Tran­scen­den­talers are nei­ther cre­ators nor crea­tures; they are the even­tu­ated chil­dren of di­vin­ity, ul­ti­macy, and eter­nity. These “even­tu­a­tors” are nei­ther fi­nite nor in­fi­nite—they are ab­so­nite; and ab­sonity is nei­ther in­fin­ity nor ab­so­lute­ness.

30:1.93–113 · 21 paragraphs not cited here ·

30:1.93These un­cre­ated non­cre­ators are ever loyal to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and obe­di­ent to the Ul­ti­mate. They are ex­is­tent on four ul­ti­mate lev­els of per­son­al­ity ac­tiv­ity and are func­tional on the seven lev­els of the ab­so­nite in twelve grand di­vi­sions con­sist­ing of one thou­sand ma­jor work­ing groups of seven classes each. These even­tu­ated be­ings in­clude the fol­low­ing or­ders:

30:1.941. The Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.

30:1.952. Tran­scen­den­tal Re­cord­ers.

30:1.963. Other Tran­scen­den­talers.

30:1.974. Pri­mary Even­tu­ated Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers.

30:1.985. As­so­ciate Tran­scen­den­tal Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers.

30:1.99God, as a super­per­son, even­tu­ates; God, as a per­son, cre­ates; God, as a preper­son, frag­ments; and such an Ad­juster frag­ment of him­self evolves the spirit soul upon the ma­te­rial and mor­tal mind in ac­cor­dance with the free­will choos­ing of the per­son­al­ity which has been be­stowed upon such a mor­tal crea­ture by the pa­ren­tal act of God as a Fa­ther.

30:1.100V. FRAG­MENTED EN­TI­TIES OF DE­ITY. This or­der of liv­ing ex­is­tence, orig­i­nat­ing in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, is best typ­i­fied by the Thought Ad­justers, though these en­ti­ties are by no means the only frag­men­ta­tions of the preper­sonal re­al­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter. The func­tions of the other-than-Ad­juster frag­ments are man­i­fold and lit­tle known. Fu­sion with an Ad­juster or other such frag­ment con­sti­tutes the crea­ture a Fa­ther-fused be­ing.

30:1.101The frag­men­ta­tions of the pre­mind spirit of the Third Source and Cen­ter, though hardly com­pa­ra­ble to the Fa­ther frag­ments, should be here re­corded. Such en­ti­ties dif­fer very greatly from Ad­justers; they do not as such dwell on Spir­it­ing­ton, nor do they as such tra­verse the mind-grav­ity cir­cuits; nei­ther do they in­dwell mor­tal crea­tures dur­ing the life in the flesh. They are not preper­sonal in the sense that the Ad­justers are, but such frag­ments of pre­mind spirit are be­stowed upon cer­tain of the sur­viv­ing mor­tals, and fu­sion there­with con­sti­tutes them Spirit-fused mor­tals in con­tradis­tinc­tion to Ad­juster-fused mor­tals.

30:1.102Still more dif­fi­cult of de­scrip­tion is the in­di­vid­u­al­ized spirit of a Cre­ator Son, union with which con­sti­tutes the crea­ture a Son-fused mor­tal. And there are still other frag­men­ta­tions of De­ity.

30:1.103VI. SUPER­PER­SONAL BE­INGS. There is a vast host of other-than-per­sonal be­ings of di­vine ori­gin and of man­i­fold ser­vice in the uni­verse of uni­verses. Cer­tain of these be­ings are res­i­dent on the Par­a­dise worlds of the Son; oth­ers, like the super­per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Eter­nal Son, are en­coun­tered else­where. They are for the most part un­men­tioned in these nar­ra­tives, and it would be quite fu­tile to at­tempt their de­scrip­tion to per­sonal crea­tures.

30:1.104VII. UN­CLAS­SI­FIED AND UN­RE­VEALED OR­DERS. Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age it would not be pos­si­ble to place all be­ings, per­sonal or oth­er­wise, within clas­si­fi­ca­tions per­tain­ing to the pres­ent uni­verse age; nor have all such cat­e­gories been re­vealed in these nar­ra­tives; hence nu­mer­ous or­ders have been omit­ted from these lists. Con­sider the fol­low­ing:

30:1.105The Con­sum­ma­tor of Uni­verse Des­tiny.

30:1.106The Qual­i­fied Vicegerents of the Ul­ti­mate.

30:1.107The Un­qual­i­fied Super­vi­sors of the Su­preme.

30:1.108The Un­re­vealed Cre­ative Agen­cies of the An­cients of Days.

30:1.109Maj­es­ton of Par­a­dise.

30:1.110The Un­named Re­flec­ti­va­tor Li­aisons of Maj­es­ton.

30:1.111The Mid­sonite Or­ders of the Lo­cal Uni­verses.

30:1.112No es­pe­cial sig­nif­i­cance need at­tach to the list­ing of these or­ders to­gether ex­cept that none of them ap­pear in the Par­a­dise clas­si­fi­ca­tion as re­vealed herein. These are the un­clas­si­fied few; you have yet to learn of the un­re­vealed many.

30:1.113There are spir­its: spirit en­ti­ties, spirit pres­ences, per­sonal spir­its, preper­sonal spir­its, super­per­sonal spir­its, spirit ex­is­tences, spirit per­son­al­i­ties—but nei­ther mor­tal lan­guage nor mor­tal in­tel­lect are ad­e­quate. We may how­ever state that there are no per­son­al­i­ties of “pure mind”; no en­tity has per­son­al­ity un­less he is en­dowed with it by God who is spirit. Any mind en­tity that is not as­so­ci­ated with ei­ther spir­i­tual or phys­i­cal en­ergy is not a per­son­al­ity. But in the same sense that there are spirit per­son­al­i­ties who have mind there are mind per­son­al­i­ties who have spirit. Maj­es­ton and his as­so­ciates are fairly good il­lus­tra­tions of mind-dom­i­nated be­ings, but there are bet­ter il­lus­tra­tions of this type of per­son­al­ity un­known to you. There are even whole un­re­vealed or­ders of such mind per­son­al­i­ties, but they are al­ways spirit as­so­ci­ated. Cer­tain other un­re­vealed crea­tures are what might be termed mindal- and phys­i­cal-en­ergy per­son­al­i­ties. This type of be­ing is non­re­spon­sive to spirit grav­ity but is nonethe­less a true per­son­al­ity—is within the Fa­ther’s cir­cuit.

30:1.114These pa­pers do not—can­not—even be­gin to ex­haust the story of the liv­ing crea­tures, cre­ators, even­tu­a­tors, and still-oth­er­wise-ex­is­tent be­ings who live and wor­ship and serve in the swarm­ing uni­verses of time and in the cen­tral uni­verse of eter­nity. You mor­tals are per­sons; hence we can de­scribe be­ings who are per­son­al­ized, but how could an ab­soni­tized be­ing ever be ex­plained to you?

30:4.317. Par­a­dise Ar­rivals. On reach­ing Par­a­dise with res­i­den­tial sta­tus, you be­gin the pro­gres­sive course in di­vin­ity and ab­sonity. Your res­i­dence on Par­a­dise sig­ni­fies that you have found God, and that you are to be mus­tered into the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Of all the crea­tures of the grand uni­verse, only those who are Fa­ther fused are mus­tered into the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Only such in­di­vid­u­als take the fi­nal­i­ter oath. Other be­ings of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion or at­tain­ment may be tem­porar­ily at­tached to this fi­nal­ity corps, but they are not of eter­nal as­sign­ment to the un­known and un­re­vealed mis­sion of this ac­cu­mu­lat­ing host of the evo­lu­tion­ary and per­fected vet­er­ans of time and space.

31:2.1Wher­ever and when­ever Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers are func­tion­ing, the fi­nal­i­ters are in com­mand. All Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers are un­der the ex­clu­sive ju­ris­dic­tion of Grand­fanda, and they are as­signed only to the pri­mary Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. They are in­valu­able to the fi­nal­i­ters even now, and they will be all-ser­vice­able in the eter­nal fu­ture. No other group of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures pos­sesses such a per­son­al­ized mes­sen­ger corps able to tran­scend time and space. Sim­i­lar types of mes­sen­ger-re­cord­ers at­tached to other fi­nal­i­ter corps are not per­son­al­ized; they are ab­soni­tized.

31:9.10These seven groups of Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects to­tal 28,011 uni­verse plan­ners. On Par­a­dise there is a tra­di­tion that far back in eter­nity there was at­tempted the even­tu­a­tion of the 28,012th Mas­ter Ar­chi­tect, but that this be­ing failed to ab­soni­tize, ex­pe­ri­enc­ing per­son­al­ity seizure by the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. It is pos­si­ble that the as­cend­ing se­ries of the Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects at­tained the limit of ab­sonity in the 28,011th Ar­chi­tect, and that the 28,012th at­tempt en­coun­tered the math­e­mat­i­cal level of the pres­ence of the Ab­so­lute. In other words, at the 28,012th even­tu­a­tion level the qual­ity of ab­sonity equiv­alated to the level of the Uni­ver­sal and at­tained the value of the Ab­so­lute.

36:4.8The pur­pose of the mid­sonite crea­tures is not at pres­ent known, but it would ap­pear that these per­son­al­i­ties are for­gath­er­ing on the sev­enth fi­nal­i­ter world in prepa­ra­tion for some fu­ture even­tu­al­ity in uni­verse evo­lu­tion. Our in­quiries con­cern­ing the mid­sonite races are al­ways re­ferred to the fi­nal­i­ters, and al­ways do the fi­nal­i­ters de­cline to dis­cuss the des­tiny of their wards. Re­gard­less of our un­cer­tainty as to the fu­ture of the mid­soniters, we do know that ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse in Or­von­ton har­bors such an ac­cu­mu­lat­ing corps of these mys­te­ri­ous be­ings. It is the be­lief of the Mel­chiz­e­dek life car­ri­ers that their mid­sonite chil­dren will some day be en­dowed with the tran­scen­den­tal and eter­nal spirit of ab­sonity by God the Ul­ti­mate.

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See also reality: levels of reality

Cited alongside: Corps of Mortal Finaliters, eventuation, finaliters, reality, Transcendentalers