ascending mortals

31:3.3Not­with­stand­ing that these as­cen­dant mor­tals have at­tained Par­a­dise, have been mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, and have been sent back in large num­bers to par­tic­i­pate in the con­duct of lo­cal uni­verses and to as­sist in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of super­uni­verse af­fairs—in the face of even this ap­par­ent des­tiny, there re­mains the sig­nif­i­cant fact that they are of rec­ord as only sixth-stage spir­its. There un­doubt­edly re­mains one more step in the ca­reer of the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. We do not know the na­ture of that step, but we have taken cog­nizance of, and here call at­ten­tion to, three facts:

31:3.41. We know from the rec­ords that mor­tals are spir­its of the first or­der dur­ing their so­journ in the mi­nor sec­tors, and that they ad­vance to the sec­ond or­der when trans­lated to the ma­jor sec­tors, and to the third when they go for­ward to the cen­tral train­ing worlds of the super­uni­verse. Mor­tals be­come quar­tan or grad­u­ate spir­its af­ter reach­ing the sixth cir­cle of Ha­vona and be­come spir­its of the fifth or­der when they find the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. They sub­se­quently at­tain the sixth stage of spirit ex­is­tence upon tak­ing the oath that musters them for­ever into the eter­nity as­sign­ment of the Corps of the Mor­tal Fi­nal­ity.

31:3.5We ob­serve that spirit clas­si­fi­ca­tion, or des­ig­na­tion, has been de­ter­mined by ac­tual ad­vance­ment from one realm of uni­verse ser­vice to an­other realm of uni­verse ser­vice or from one uni­verse to an­other uni­verse; and we sur­mise that the be­stowal of sev­enth-spirit clas­si­fi­ca­tion upon the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity will be si­mul­ta­ne­ous with their ad­vance­ment to eter­nal as­sign­ment for ser­vice on hith­erto un­recorded and un­re­vealed spheres and con­comi­tant with their at­tain­ment of God the Su­preme. But aside from these bold con­jec­tures, we re­ally know no more about all this than you do; our knowl­edge of the mor­tal ca­reer does not go be­yond pres­ent Par­a­dise des­tiny.

31:3.62. The mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters have fully com­plied with the in­junc­tion of the ages, “Be you per­fect”; they have as­cended the uni­ver­sal path of mor­tal at­tain­ment; they have found God, and they have been duly in­ducted into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Such be­ings have at­tained the pres­ent limit of spirit pro­gres­sion but not fi­nal­ity of ul­ti­mate spirit sta­tus. They have achieved the pres­ent limit of crea­ture per­fec­tion but not fi­nal­ity of crea­ture ser­vice. They have ex­pe­ri­enced the full­ness of De­ity wor­ship but not fi­nal­ity of ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity at­tain­ment.

106:2.8Within the com­pleted power-per­son­al­ity syn­the­sis of the Su­preme Be­ing there will be as­so­ci­ated all of the ab­so­lute­ness of the sev­eral tri­odi­ties which could be so as­so­ci­ated, and this ma­jes­tic per­son­al­ity of evo­lu­tion will be ex­pe­ri­en­tially at­tain­able and un­der­stand­able by all fi­nite per­son­al­i­ties. When as­cend­ers at­tain the pos­tu­lated sev­enth stage of spirit ex­is­tence, they will therein ex­pe­ri­ence the re­al­iza­tion of a new mean­ing-value of the ab­so­lute­ness and in­fin­ity of the tri­odi­ties as such is re­vealed on sub­ab­so­lute lev­els in the Su­preme Be­ing, who is ex­pe­ri­en­ci­ble. But the at­tain­ment of these stages of max­i­mum de­vel­op­ment will prob­a­bly await the co-or­di­nate set­tling of the en­tire grand uni­verse in light and life.

117:5.3The evolv­ing im­mor­tal soul of man, the joint cre­ation of the ma­te­rial mind and the Ad­juster, as­cends as such to Par­a­dise and sub­se­quently, when mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, be­comes al­lied in some new way with the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Eter­nal Son by a tech­nique of ex­pe­ri­ence known as fi­nal­i­ter tran­scen­da­tion. Such fi­nal­i­ters thus be­come ac­cept­able can­di­dates for ex­pe­ri­en­tial rec­og­ni­tion as per­son­al­i­ties of God the Su­preme. And when these mor­tal in­tel­lects in the un­re­vealed fu­ture as­sign­ments of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity at­tain the sev­enth stage of spirit ex­is­tence, such dual minds will be­come tri­une. These two at­tuned minds, the hu­man and the di­vine, will be­come glo­ri­fied in union with the ex­pe­ri­en­tial mind of the then ac­tu­al­ized Su­preme Be­ing.

30:4.1While the mor­tal sur­vivors of time and space are de­nom­i­nated as­cend­ing pil­grims when ac­cred­ited for the pro­gres­sive as­cent to Par­a­dise, these evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures oc­cupy such an im­por­tant place in these nar­ra­tives that we here de­sire to pre­sent a syn­op­sis of the fol­low­ing seven stages of the as­cend­ing uni­verse ca­reer:

30:4.21. Plan­e­tary Mor­tals.

30:4.32. Sleep­ing Sur­vivors.

30:4.43. Man­sion World Stu­dents.

30:4.54. Mor­ontia Pro­gres­sors.

30:4.65. Super­uni­verse Wards.

30:4.76. Ha­vona Pil­grims.

30:4.87. Par­a­dise Ar­rivals.

30:4.9The fol­low­ing nar­ra­tive pre­sents the uni­verse ca­reer of an Ad­juster-in­dwelt mor­tal. The Son- and Spirit-fused mor­tals share por­tions of this ca­reer, but we have elected to tell this story as it per­tains to the Ad­juster-fused mor­tals, for such a des­tiny may be an­tic­i­pated by all of the hu­man races of Uran­tia.

30:4.101. Plan­e­tary Mor­tals. Mor­tals are all an­i­mal-ori­gin evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings of as­cen­dant po­ten­tial. In ori­gin, na­ture, and des­tiny these var­i­ous groups and types of hu­man be­ings are not wholly un­like the Uran­tia peo­ples. The hu­man races of each world re­ceive the same min­istry of the Sons of God and en­joy the pres­ence of the min­is­ter­ing spir­its of time. Af­ter nat­u­ral death all types of as­cend­ers frat­er­nize as one mor­ontia fam­ily on the man­sion worlds.

30:4.112. Sleep­ing Sur­vivors. All mor­tals of sur­vival sta­tus, in the cus­tody of per­sonal guard­i­ans of des­tiny, pass through the por­tals of nat­u­ral death and, on the third pe­riod, per­son­al­ize on the man­sion worlds. Those ac­cred­ited be­ings who have, for any rea­son, been un­able to at­tain that level of in­tel­li­gence mas­tery and en­dow­ment of spir­i­tu­al­ity which would en­ti­tle them to per­sonal guard­i­ans, can­not thus im­me­di­ately and di­rectly go to the man­sion worlds. Such sur­viv­ing souls must rest in un­con­scious sleep un­til the judg­ment day of a new epoch, a new dis­pen­sa­tion, the com­ing of a Son of God to call the rolls of the age and ad­ju­di­cate the realm, and this is the gen­eral prac­tice through­out all Neb­a­don. It was said of Christ Mi­chael that, when he as­cended on high at the con­clu­sion of his work on earth, “He led a great mul­ti­tude of cap­tives.” And these cap­tives were the sleep­ing sur­vivors from the days of Adam to the day of the Mas­ter’s res­ur­rec­tion on Uran­tia.

30:4.12The pass­ing of time is of no mo­ment to sleep­ing mor­tals; they are wholly un­con­scious and obliv­i­ous to the length of their rest. On re­assem­bly of per­son­al­ity at the end of an age, those who have slept five thou­sand years will re­act no dif­fer­ently than those who have rested five days. Aside from this time de­lay these sur­vivors pass on through the as­cen­sion regime iden­ti­cally with those who avoid the longer or shorter sleep of death.

30:4.13These dis­pen­sa­tional classes of world pil­grims are uti­lized for group mor­ontia ac­tiv­i­ties in the work of the lo­cal uni­verses. There is a great ad­van­tage in the mo­bi­liza­tion of such enor­mous groups; they are thus kept to­gether for long pe­ri­ods of ef­fec­tive ser­vice.

30:4.143. Man­sion World Stu­dents. All sur­viv­ing mor­tals who reawaken on the man­sion worlds be­long to this class.

30:4.15The phys­i­cal body of mor­tal flesh is not a part of the re­assem­bly of the sleep­ing sur­vivor; the phys­i­cal body has re­turned to dust. The ser­a­phim of as­sign­ment spon­sors the new body, the mor­ontia form, as the new life ve­hi­cle for the im­mor­tal soul and for the in­dwelling of the re­turned Ad­juster. The Ad­juster is the cus­to­dian of the spirit tran­script of the mind of the sleep­ing sur­vivor. The as­signed ser­a­phim is the keeper of the sur­viv­ing iden­tity—the im­mor­tal soul—as far as it has evolved. And when these two, the Ad­juster and the ser­a­phim, re­unite their per­son­al­ity trusts, the new in­di­vid­ual con­sti­tutes the res­ur­rec­tion of the old per­son­al­ity, the sur­vival of the evolv­ing mor­ontia iden­tity of the soul. Such a re­as­so­ci­a­tion of soul and Ad­juster is quite prop­erly called a res­ur­rec­tion, a re­assem­bly of per­son­al­ity fac­tors; but even this does not en­tirely ex­plain the reap­pear­ance of the sur­viv­ing per­son­al­ity. Though you will prob­a­bly never un­der­stand the fact of such an in­ex­pli­ca­ble trans­ac­tion, you will some­time ex­pe­ri­en­tially know the truth of it if you do not re­ject the plan of mor­tal sur­vival.

30:4.16The plan of ini­tial mor­tal de­ten­tion on seven worlds of pro­gres­sive train­ing is nearly uni­ver­sal in Or­von­ton. In each lo­cal sys­tem of ap­prox­i­mately one thou­sand in­hab­ited plan­ets there are seven man­sion worlds, usu­ally satel­lites or sub­satel­lites of the sys­tem cap­i­tal. They are the re­ceiv­ing worlds for the ma­jor­ity of as­cend­ing mor­tals.

30:4.17Some­times all train­ing worlds of mor­tal res­i­dence are called uni­verse “man­sions,” and it was to such spheres that Je­sus al­luded when he said: “In my Fa­ther’s house are many man­sions.” From here on, within a given group of spheres like the man­sion worlds, as­cend­ers will pro­gress in­di­vid­u­ally from one sphere to an­other and from one phase of life to an­other, but they will al­ways ad­vance from one stage of uni­verse study to an­other in class for­ma­tion.

30:4.184. Mor­ontia Pro­gres­sors. From the man­sion worlds on up through the spheres of the sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, and the uni­verse, mor­tals are classed as mor­ontia pro­gres­sors; they are travers­ing the tran­si­tion spheres of mor­tal as­cen­sion. As the as­cend­ing mor­tals pro­gress from the lower to the higher of the mor­ontia worlds, they serve on count­less as­sign­ments in as­so­ci­a­tion with their teach­ers and in com­pany with their more ad­vanced and se­nior breth­ren.

30:4.19Mor­ontia pro­gres­sion per­tains to con­tin­u­ing ad­vance­ment of in­tel­lect, spirit, and per­son­al­ity form. Sur­vivors are still three-na­tured be­ings. Through­out the en­tire mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence they are wards of the lo­cal uni­verse. The regime of the super­uni­verse does not func­tion un­til the spirit ca­reer be­gins.

30:4.20Mor­tals ac­quire real spirit iden­tity just be­fore they leave the lo­cal uni­verse head­quar­ters for the re­ceiv­ing worlds of the mi­nor sec­tors of the super­uni­verse. Pass­ing from the fi­nal mor­ontia stage to the first or low­est spirit sta­tus is but a slight tran­si­tion. The mind, per­son­al­ity, and char­ac­ter are un­changed by such an ad­vance; only does the form un­dergo mod­i­fi­ca­tion. But the spirit form is just as real as the mor­ontia body, and it is equally dis­cern­i­ble.

30:4.21Be­fore de­part­ing from their na­tive lo­cal uni­verses for the super­uni­verse re­ceiv­ing worlds, the mor­tals of time are re­cip­i­ents of spirit con­fir­ma­tion from the Cre­ator Son and the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. From this point on, the sta­tus of the as­cend­ing mor­tal is for­ever set­tled. Super­uni­verse wards have never been known to go astray. As­cend­ing ser­a­phim are also ad­vanced in an­gelic stand­ing at the time of their de­par­ture from the lo­cal uni­verses.

30:4.225. Super­uni­verse Wards. All as­cend­ers ar­riv­ing on the train­ing worlds of the super­uni­verses be­come the wards of the An­cients of Days; they have tra­versed the mor­ontia life of the lo­cal uni­verse and are now ac­cred­ited spir­its. As young spir­its they be­gin the as­cen­sion of the super­uni­verse sys­tem of train­ing and cul­ture, ex­tend­ing from the re­ceiv­ing spheres of their mi­nor sec­tor in through the study worlds of the ten ma­jor sec­tors and on to the higher cul­tural spheres of the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters.

30:4.23There are three or­ders of stu­dent spir­its in ac­cor­dance with their so­journ upon the mi­nor sec­tor, ma­jor sec­tors, and the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters worlds of spirit pro­gres­sion. As mor­ontia as­cend­ers stud­ied and worked on the worlds of the lo­cal uni­verse, so spirit as­cend­ers con­tinue to mas­ter new worlds while they prac­tice at giv­ing out to oth­ers that which they have im­bibed at the ex­pe­ri­en­tial founts of wis­dom. But go­ing to school as a spirit be­ing in the super­uni­verse ca­reer is very un­like any­thing that has ever en­tered the imag­i­na­tive realms of the ma­te­rial mind of man.

30:4.24Be­fore leav­ing the super­uni­verse for Ha­vona, these as­cend­ing spir­its re­ceive the same thor­ough course in super­uni­verse man­age­ment that they re­ceived dur­ing their mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence in lo­cal uni­verse super­vi­sion. Be­fore spirit mor­tals reach Ha­vona, their chief study, but not ex­clu­sive oc­cu­pa­tion, is the mas­tery of lo­cal and super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. The rea­son for all of this ex­pe­ri­ence is not now fully ap­par­ent, but no doubt such train­ing is wise and nec­es­sary in view of their pos­si­ble fu­ture des­tiny as mem­bers of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

30:4.25The super­uni­verse regime is not the same for all as­cend­ing mor­tals. They re­ceive the same gen­eral ed­u­ca­tion, but spe­cial groups and classes are car­ried through spe­cial courses of in­struc­tion and are put through spe­cific courses of train­ing.

30:4.266. Ha­vona Pil­grims. When spirit de­vel­op­ment is com­plete, even though not re­plete, then the sur­viv­ing mor­tal pre­pares for the long flight to Ha­vona, the haven of evo­lu­tion­ary spir­its. On earth you were a crea­ture of flesh and blood; through the lo­cal uni­verse you were a mor­ontia be­ing; through the super­uni­verse you were an evolv­ing spirit; with your ar­rival on the re­ceiv­ing worlds of Ha­vona your spir­i­tual ed­u­ca­tion be­gins in re­al­ity and in earnest; your even­tual ap­pear­ance on Par­a­dise will be as a per­fected spirit.

30:4.27The jour­ney from the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters to the Ha­vona re­ceiv­ing spheres is al­ways made alone. From now on no more class or group in­struc­tion will be ad­min­is­tered. You are through with the tech­ni­cal and ad­min­is­tra­tive train­ing of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space. Now be­gins your per­sonal ed­u­ca­tion, your in­di­vid­ual spir­i­tual train­ing. From first to last, through­out all Ha­vona, the in­struc­tion is per­sonal and three­fold in na­ture: in­tel­lec­tual, spir­i­tual, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial.

30:4.28The first act of your Ha­vona ca­reer will be to rec­og­nize and thank your trans­port se­con­a­phim for the long and safe jour­ney. Then you are pre­sented to those be­ings who will spon­sor your early Ha­vona ac­tiv­i­ties. Next you go to reg­is­ter your ar­rival and pre­pare your mes­sage of thanks­giv­ing and ado­ra­tion for dis­patch to the Cre­ator Son of your lo­cal uni­verse, the uni­verse Fa­ther who made pos­si­ble your son­ship ca­reer. This con­cludes the for­mal­i­ties of the Ha­vona ar­rival; where­upon you are ac­corded a long pe­riod of leisure for free ob­ser­va­tion, and this af­fords op­por­tu­nity for look­ing up your friends, fel­lows, and as­so­ciates of the long as­cen­sion ex­pe­ri­ence. You may also con­sult the broad­casts to as­cer­tain who of your fel­low pil­grims have de­parted for Ha­vona since the time of your leav­ing Uversa.

30:4.29The fact of your ar­rival on the re­ceiv­ing worlds of Ha­vona will be duly trans­mit­ted to the head­quar­ters of your lo­cal uni­verse and per­son­ally con­veyed to your se­raphic guard­ian, wher­ever that ser­a­phim may chance to be.

30:4.30The as­cen­dant mor­tals have been thor­oughly trained in the af­fairs of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space; now they be­gin their long and prof­itable con­tact with the cre­ated spheres of per­fec­tion. What a prepa­ra­tion for some fu­ture work is af­forded by this com­bined, unique, and ex­traor­di­nary ex­pe­ri­ence! But I can­not tell you about Ha­vona; you must see these worlds to ap­pre­ci­ate their glory or to un­der­stand their grandeur.

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.

30:4.32Par­a­dise ar­rivals are ac­corded a pe­riod of free­dom, af­ter which they be­gin their as­so­ci­a­tions with the seven groups of the pri­mary super­na­phim. They are des­ig­nated Par­a­dise grad­u­ates when they have fin­ished their course with the con­duc­tors of wor­ship and then, as fi­nal­i­ters, are as­signed on ob­ser­va­tional and co-op­er­a­tive ser­vice to the ends of the far-flung cre­ation. As yet there seems to be no spe­cific or set­tled em­ploy­ment for the Mor­tal Corps of Fi­nal­i­ters, though they serve in many ca­pac­i­ties on worlds set­tled in light and life.

30:4.33If there should be no fu­ture or un­re­vealed des­tiny for the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, the pres­ent as­sign­ment of these as­cen­dant be­ings would be al­to­gether ad­e­quate and glo­ri­ous. Their pres­ent des­tiny wholly jus­ti­fies the uni­ver­sal plan of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cent. But the fu­ture ages of the evo­lu­tion of the spheres of outer space will un­doubt­edly fur­ther elab­o­rate, and with more re­plete­ness di­vinely il­lu­mi­nate, the wis­dom and lov­ing-kind­ness of the Gods in the ex­e­cu­tion of their di­vine plan of hu­man sur­vival and mor­tal as­cen­sion.

30:4.34This nar­ra­tive, to­gether with what has been re­vealed to you and with what you may ac­quire in con­nec­tion with in­struc­tion re­spect­ing your own world, pre­sents an out­line of the ca­reer of an as­cend­ing mor­tal. The story varies con­sid­er­ably in the dif­fer­ent super­uni­verses, but this recital af­fords a glimpse of the av­er­age plan of mor­tal pro­gres­sion as it is op­er­a­tive in the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don and in the sev­enth seg­ment of the grand uni­verse, the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton.

30:4.35[Spon­sored by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger from Uversa.]

27:7.8Af­ter the at­tain­ment of the su­preme sat­is­fac­tion of the full­ness of wor­ship, you are qual­i­fied for ad­mis­sion to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. The as­cen­dant ca­reer is well-nigh fin­ished, and the sev­enth ju­bilee pre­pares for cel­e­bra­tion. The first ju­bilee marked the mor­tal agree­ment with the Thought Ad­juster when the pur­pose to sur­vive was sealed; the sec­ond was the awak­en­ing in the mor­ontia life; the third was the fu­sion with the Thought Ad­juster; the fourth was the awak­en­ing in Ha­vona; the fifth cel­e­brated the find­ing of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and the sixth ju­bilee was the oc­ca­sion of the Par­a­dise awak­en­ing from the fi­nal tran­sit slum­ber of time. The sev­enth ju­bilee marks en­trance into the mor­tal fi­nal­i­ter corps and the be­gin­ning of the eter­nity ser­vice. The at­tain­ment of the sev­enth stage of spirit re­al­iza­tion by a fi­nal­i­ter will prob­a­bly sig­nal­ize the cel­e­bra­tion of the first of the ju­bilees of eter­nity.

44:0.18There is also here with me a Mighty Mes­sen­ger from Uversa, an as­cen­dant Ad­juster-fused, one­time mor­tal be­ing, and he per­ceives you as you are, and at the same time he vi­su­al­izes the Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger, the super­na­phim, and other ce­les­tial be­ings pres­ent. Never in your long as­cen­dancy will you lose the power to rec­og­nize your as­so­ciates of for­mer ex­is­tences. Al­ways, as you as­cend in­ward in the scale of life, will you re­tain the abil­ity to rec­og­nize and frat­er­nize with the fel­low be­ings of your pre­vi­ous and lower lev­els of ex­pe­ri­ence. Each new trans­la­tion or res­ur­rec­tion will add one more group of spirit be­ings to your vi­sion range with­out in the least de­priv­ing you of the abil­ity to rec­og­nize your friends and fel­lows of for­mer es­tates.

44:0.19All this is made pos­si­ble in the ex­pe­ri­ence of as­cend­ing mor­tals by the ac­tion of the in­dwelling Thought Ad­justers. Through their re­ten­tion of the du­pli­cates of your en­tire life’s ex­pe­ri­ences, you are as­sured of never los­ing any true at­tri­bute you once had; and these Ad­justers are go­ing through with you, as a part of you, in re­al­ity, as you.

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.”

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.

40:7.1The send­ing of Ad­justers, their in­dwelling, is in­deed one of the un­fath­omable mys­ter­ies of God the Fa­ther. These frag­ments of the di­vine na­ture of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther carry with them the po­ten­tial of crea­ture im­mor­tal­ity. Ad­justers are im­mor­tal spir­its, and union with them con­fers eter­nal life upon the soul of the fused mor­tal.

40:7.2Your own races of sur­viv­ing mor­tals be­long to this group of the as­cend­ing Sons of God. You are now plan­e­tary sons, evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures de­rived from the Life Car­rier im­plan­ta­tions and mod­i­fied by the Adamic-life in­fu­sion, hardly yet as­cend­ing sons; but you are in­deed sons of as­cen­sion po­ten­tial—even to the high­est heights of glory and di­vin­ity at­tain­ment—and this spir­i­tual sta­tus of as­cend­ing son­ship you may at­tain by faith and by free­will co-op­er­a­tion with the spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing ac­tiv­i­ties of the in­dwelling Ad­juster. When you and your Ad­justers are fi­nally and for­ever fused, when you two are made one, even as in Christ Mi­chael the Son of God and the Son of Man are one, then in fact have you be­come the as­cend­ing sons of God.

40:7.3The de­tails of the Ad­juster ca­reer of in­dwelling min­istry on a pro­ba­tion­ary and evo­lu­tion­ary planet are not a part of my as­sign­ment; the elab­o­ra­tion of this great truth em­braces your whole ca­reer. I in­clude the men­tion of cer­tain Ad­juster func­tions in or­der to make a re­plete state­ment re­gard­ing Ad­juster-fused mor­tals. These in­dwelling frag­ments of God are with your or­der of be­ing from the early days of phys­i­cal ex­is­tence through all of the as­cend­ing ca­reer in Neb­a­don and Or­von­ton and on through Ha­vona to Par­a­dise it­self. There­after, in the eter­nal ad­ven­ture, this same Ad­juster is one with you and of you.

40:7.4These are the mor­tals who have been com­manded by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, “Be you per­fect, even as I am per­fect.” The Fa­ther has be­stowed him­self upon you, placed his own spirit within you; there­fore does he de­mand ul­ti­mate per­fec­tion of you. The nar­ra­tive of hu­man as­cent from the mor­tal spheres of time to the di­vine realms of eter­nity con­sti­tutes an in­trigu­ing recital not in­cluded in my as­sign­ment, but this su­per­nal ad­ven­ture should be the su­preme study of mor­tal man.

40:7.5Fu­sion with a frag­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is equiv­a­lent to a di­vine val­i­da­tion of even­tual Par­a­dise at­tain­ment, and such Ad­juster-fused mor­tals are the only class of hu­man be­ings who all tra­verse the Ha­vona cir­cuits and find God on Par­a­dise. To the Ad­juster-fused mor­tal the ca­reer of uni­ver­sal ser­vice is wide open. What dig­nity of des­tiny and glory of at­tain­ment await ev­ery one of you! Do you fully ap­pre­ci­ate what has been done for you? Do you com­pre­hend the grandeur of the heights of eter­nal achieve­ment which are spread out be­fore you?—even you who now trudge on in the lowly path of life through your so-called “vale of tears”?

31:3.1As­cen­dant Ad­juster-fused mor­tals com­pose the bulk of the pri­mary Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. To­gether with the adopted and glo­ri­fied ser­a­phim they usu­ally con­sti­tute 990 in each fi­nal­i­ter com­pany. The pro­por­tion of mor­tals and an­gels in any one group varies, though the mor­tals far out­num­ber the ser­a­phim. The Ha­vona na­tives, glo­ri­fied Ma­te­rial Sons, glo­ri­fied mid­way crea­tures, the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers, and the un­known and miss­ing mem­ber make up only one per cent of the corps; each com­pany of one thou­sand fi­nal­i­ters has places for just ten of these non­mor­tal and non­seraphic per­son­al­i­ties.

31:3.2We of Uversa do not know the “fi­nal­ity des­tiny” of the as­cen­dant mor­tals of time. At pres­ent they re­side on Par­a­dise and tem­porar­ily serve in the Corps of Light and Life, but such a tremen­dous course of as­cen­dant train­ing and such lengthy uni­verse dis­ci­pline must be de­signed to qual­ify them for even greater tests of trust and more sub­lime ser­vices of re­spon­si­bil­ity.

31:3.73. The glo­ri­fied mor­tals of the Par­a­dise Corps of Fi­nal­ity are as­cen­dant be­ings in pos­ses­sion of ex­pe­ri­en­tial knowl­edge of ev­ery step of the ac­tu­al­ity and phi­los­o­phy of the fullest pos­si­ble life of in­tel­li­gent ex­is­tence, while dur­ing the ages of this as­cent from the low­est ma­te­rial worlds to the spir­i­tual heights of Par­a­dise, these sur­viv­ing crea­tures have been trained to the lim­its of their ca­pac­ity re­spect­ing ev­ery de­tail of ev­ery di­vine prin­ci­ple of the just and ef­fi­cient, as well as mer­ci­ful and pa­tient, ad­min­is­tra­tion of all the uni­ver­sal cre­ation of time and space.

31:3.8We deem that hu­man be­ings are en­ti­tled to share our opin­ions, and that you are free to con­jec­ture with us re­spect­ing the mys­tery of the ul­ti­mate des­tiny of the Par­a­dise Corps of Fi­nal­ity. It seems ev­i­dent to us that the pres­ent as­sign­ments of the per­fected evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures par­take of the na­ture of post­grad­u­ate courses in uni­verse un­der­stand­ing and super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion; and we all ask, “Why should the Gods be so con­cerned in so thor­oughly train­ing sur­viv­ing mor­tals in the tech­nique of uni­verse man­age­ment?”

• swing around superuniverses many times

5:1.9The fact that vast time is in­volved in the at­tain­ment of God makes the pres­ence and per­son­al­ity of the In­fi­nite none the less real. Your as­cen­sion is a part of the cir­cuit of the seven super­uni­verses, and though you swing around it count­less times, you may ex­pect, in spirit and in sta­tus, to be ever swing­ing in­ward. You can de­pend upon be­ing trans­lated from sphere to sphere, from the outer cir­cuits ever nearer the in­ner cen­ter, and some day, doubt not, you shall stand in the di­vine and cen­tral pres­ence and see him, fig­u­ra­tively speak­ing, face to face. It is a ques­tion of the at­tain­ment of ac­tual and lit­eral spir­i­tual lev­els; and these spir­i­tual lev­els are at­tain­able by any be­ing who has been in­dwelt by a Mys­tery Mon­i­tor, and who has sub­se­quently eter­nally fused with that Thought Ad­juster.

• Ascendington

13:1.217. AS­CEND­ING­TON. This unique world is the “bo­som of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit,” the ren­dezvous of the as­cen­dant crea­tures of space, the re­ceiv­ing sphere of the pil­grims of time who are pass­ing through the Ha­vona uni­verse on their way to Par­a­dise. As­cend­ing­ton is the ac­tual Par­a­dise home of the as­cen­dant souls of time and space un­til they at­tain Par­a­dise sta­tus. You mor­tals will spend most of your Ha­vona “va­ca­tions” on As­cend­ing­ton. Dur­ing your Ha­vona life As­cend­ing­ton will be to you what the re­ver­sion di­rec­tors were dur­ing the lo­cal and super­uni­verse as­cen­sion. Here you will en­gage in thou­sands of ac­tiv­i­ties which are be­yond the grasp of mor­tal imag­i­na­tion. And as on ev­ery pre­vi­ous ad­vance in the God­ward as­cent, your hu­man self will here en­ter into new re­la­tion­ships with your di­vine self.

• progression of survivors from Urantia

14:5.1On Uran­tia you pass through a short and in­tense test dur­ing your ini­tial life of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence. On the man­sion worlds and up through your sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, and lo­cal uni­verse, you tra­verse the mor­ontia phases of as­cen­sion. On the train­ing worlds of the super­uni­verse you pass through the true spirit stages of pro­gres­sion and are pre­pared for even­tual tran­sit to Ha­vona. On the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona your at­tain­ment is in­tel­lec­tual, spir­i­tual, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial. And there is a def­i­nite task to be achieved on each of the worlds of each of these cir­cuits.

• all 10 superuniverse major sectors

18:4.9Al­though you are en­tered only upon the reg­istry of the ma­jor sec­tor of Splan­don, which em­braces the lo­cal uni­verse of your ori­gin, you will have to pass through ev­ery one of the ten ma­jor di­vi­sions of our super­uni­verse. You will see all thirty of the Or­von­ton Per­fec­tions of Days be­fore you reach Uversa.

• only 1 minor sector

18:5.5You will all some­time know the three Re­cents of Days in charge of Ensa, your mi­nor sec­tor, since you must pass through their hands on your way in­ward to the train­ing worlds of the ma­jor sec­tors. In as­cend­ing to Uversa, you will pass through only one group of mi­nor sec­tor train­ing spheres.

• progression of survivors from Urantia

31:10.20Evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals are born on the plan­ets of space, pass through the mor­ontia worlds, as­cend the spirit uni­verses, tra­verse the Ha­vona spheres, find God, at­tain Par­a­dise, and are mus­tered into the pri­mary Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, therein to await the next as­sign­ment of uni­verse ser­vice. There are six other as­sem­bling fi­nal­ity corps, but Grand­fanda, the first mor­tal as­cender, pre­sides as Par­a­dise chief of all or­ders of fi­nal­i­ters. And as we view this sub­lime spec­ta­cle, we all ex­claim: What a glo­ri­ous des­tiny for the an­i­mal-ori­gin chil­dren of time, the ma­te­rial sons of space!

• residential area on Edentia

43:1.9The mor­ontia area as­signed to as­cend­ing mor­tals res­i­dent on Eden­tia is lo­cated in the mid-zone of the thirty-fifth tri­an­gle ad­join­ing the head­quar­ters of the fi­nal­i­ters, sit­u­ated in the thirty-sixth tri­an­gle. The gen­eral head­quar­ters of the uni­v­i­ta­tia oc­cu­pies an enor­mous area in the mid-re­gion of the thirty-fourth tri­an­gle im­me­di­ately ad­join­ing the res­i­den­tial reser­va­tion of the mor­ontia cit­i­zens. From these ar­range­ments it may be seen that pro­vi­sion is made for the ac­com­mo­da­tion of at least sev­enty ma­jor di­vi­sions of ce­les­tial life, and also that each of these sev­enty tri­an­gu­lar ar­eas is cor­re­lated with some one of the sev­enty ma­jor spheres of mor­ontia train­ing.

• residence in Jerusem circles

46:5.18The sev­enth cir­cle is the ren­dezvous of the as­cend­ing sons, those as­signed mor­tals who may be tem­porar­ily func­tion­ing on the sys­tem head­quar­ters, to­gether with their se­raphic con­sorts. All ex-mor­tals above the sta­tus of Je­ru­sem cit­i­zens and be­low that of fi­nal­i­ters are reck­oned as be­long­ing to the group hav­ing its head­quar­ters in this cir­cle.

• residence in Jerusem circles

46:5.275. The cir­cles of the as­cend­ing mor­tals. The cen­tral area of the cir­cles of the as­cend­ing mor­tals is oc­cu­pied by a group of 619 plan­e­tary memo­ri­als rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the in­hab­ited worlds of the sys­tem, and these struc­tures pe­ri­od­i­cally un­dergo ex­ten­sive changes. It is the priv­i­lege of the mor­tals from each world to agree, from time to time, upon cer­tain of the al­ter­ations or ad­di­tions to their plan­e­tary memo­ri­als. Many changes are even now be­ing made in the Uran­tia struc­tures. The cen­ter of these 619 tem­ples is oc­cu­pied by a work­ing model of Eden­tia and its many worlds of as­cen­dant cul­ture. This model is forty miles in di­am­e­ter and is an ac­tual re­pro­duc­tion of the Eden­tia sys­tem, true to the orig­i­nal in ev­ery de­tail.

7:3.2The spir­i­tual-grav­ity pull of the Eter­nal Son con­sti­tutes the in­her­ent se­cret of the Par­a­dise as­cen­sion of sur­viv­ing hu­man souls. All gen­uine spirit val­ues and all bona fide spir­i­tu­al­ized in­di­vid­u­als are held within the un­fail­ing grasp of the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son. The mor­tal mind, for ex­am­ple, ini­ti­ates its ca­reer as a ma­te­rial mech­a­nism and is even­tu­ally mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity as a well-nigh per­fected spirit ex­is­tence, be­com­ing pro­gres­sively less sub­ject to ma­te­rial grav­ity and cor­re­spond­ingly more re­spon­sive to the in­ward pulling urge of spirit grav­ity dur­ing this en­tire ex­pe­ri­ence. The spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit lit­er­ally pulls the soul of man Par­adis­e­ward.

30:2.12812. Ad­juster-fused Mor­tal Cit­i­zens of Par­a­dise.

43:9.2This en­tire so­journ on the con­stel­la­tion train­ing worlds, cul­mi­nat­ing in Eden­tia cit­i­zen­ship, is a pe­riod of true and heav­enly bliss for the mor­ontia pro­gres­sors. Through­out your so­journ on the sys­tem worlds you were evolv­ing from a near-an­i­mal to a mor­ontia crea­ture; you were more ma­te­rial than spir­i­tual. On the Sal­ving­ton spheres you will be evolv­ing from a mor­ontia be­ing to the sta­tus of a true spirit; you will be more spir­i­tual than ma­te­rial. But on Eden­tia, as­cend­ers are mid­way be­tween their for­mer and their fu­ture es­tates, mid­way in their pas­sage from evo­lu­tion­ary an­i­mal to as­cend­ing spirit. Dur­ing your whole stay on Eden­tia and its worlds you are “as the an­gels”; you are con­stantly pro­gress­ing but all the while main­tain­ing a gen­eral and a typ­i­cal mor­ontia sta­tus.

25:8.9Many ad­di­tional ser­vices are per­formed by the Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions: If an as­cend­ing mor­tal should reach the cen­tral uni­verse alone and, while travers­ing Ha­vona, should fail in some phase of the De­ity ad­ven­ture, in due course he would be re­manded to the uni­verses of time, and forth­with a call would be made to the re­serves of the Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions. One of this or­der would be as­signed to fol­low the de­feated pil­grim, to be with him and to com­fort and cheer him, and to re­main with him un­til he re­turned to the cen­tral uni­verse to re­sume the Par­a­dise as­cent.

26:3.96. The Trans­port Per­son­al­i­ties. These be­ings, of ori­gin on cir­cuit num­ber six, usu­ally op­er­ate from planet num­ber forty in the out­er­most cir­cuit. It is they who take away the dis­ap­pointed can­di­dates who tran­siently fail in the De­ity ad­ven­ture. They stand ready to serve all who must come and go in the ser­vice of Ha­vona, and who are not space tra­versers.

26:8.3Af­ter the at­tain­ment of the In­fi­nite Spirit, no more ex­am­i­na­tions are con­ducted. The tests of the in­ner cir­cles are the per­for­mances of the pil­grim can­di­dates when in the em­brace of the en­shroud­ment of the De­i­ties. Ad­vance­ment is de­ter­mined purely by the spir­i­tu­al­ity of the in­di­vid­ual, and no one but the Gods pre­sumes to pass upon this pos­ses­sion. In the event of fail­ure no rea­sons are ever as­signed, nei­ther are the can­di­dates them­selves nor their var­i­ous tu­tors and guides ever chided or crit­i­cized. On Par­a­dise, dis­ap­point­ment is never re­garded as de­feat; post­pone­ment is never looked upon as dis­grace; the ap­par­ent fail­ures of time are never con­fused with the sig­nif­i­cant de­lays of eter­nity.

26:8.4Not many pil­grims ex­pe­ri­ence the de­lay of seem­ing fail­ure in the De­ity ad­ven­ture. Nearly all at­tain the In­fi­nite Spirit, though oc­ca­sion­ally a pil­grim from super­uni­verse num­ber one does not suc­ceed on the first at­tempt. The pil­grims who at­tain the Spirit sel­dom fail in find­ing the Son; of those who do fail on the first ad­ven­ture, al­most all hail from super­uni­verses three and five. The great ma­jor­ity of those who fail on the first ad­ven­ture to at­tain the Fa­ther, af­ter find­ing both the Spirit and the Son, hail from super­uni­verse num­ber six, though a few from num­bers two and three are like­wise un­suc­cess­ful. And all this seems clearly to in­di­cate that there is some good and suf­fi­cient rea­son for these ap­par­ent fail­ures; in re­al­ity, sim­ply un­escapable de­lays.

26:8.5The de­feated can­di­dates for the De­ity ad­ven­ture are placed un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the chiefs of as­sign­ment, a group of pri­mary super­na­phim, and are re­manded to the work of the realms of space for a pe­riod of not less than one mil­len­nium. They never re­turn to the super­uni­verse of their na­tiv­ity, al­ways to that super­cre­ation most pro­pi­tious for their re­train­ing in prepa­ra­tion for the sec­ond De­ity ad­ven­ture. Fol­low­ing this ser­vice, on their own mo­tion, they re­turn to the outer cir­cle of Ha­vona, are im­me­di­ately es­corted to the cir­cle of their in­ter­rupted ca­reer, and at once re­sume their prepa­ra­tions for the De­ity ad­ven­ture. Never do the sec­ondary super­na­phim fail to pi­lot their sub­jects suc­cess­fully on the sec­ond at­tempt, and the same super­aphic min­is­ters and other guides al­ways at­tend these can­di­dates dur­ing this sec­ond ad­ven­ture.

26:10.2Those who are un­suc­cess­ful in the first ef­fort at De­ity at­tain­ment are ad­vanced from the cir­cle of fail­ure di­rectly to the sec­ond cir­cle be­fore they are re­turned to super­uni­verse ser­vice. Thus the coun­selors and ad­vis­ers also serve as the coun­selors and com­forters of these dis­ap­pointed pil­grims. They have just en­coun­tered their great­est dis­ap­point­ment, in no way dif­fer­ing from the long list of such ex­pe­ri­ences whereon they climbed, as on a lad­der, from chaos to glory—ex­cept in its mag­ni­tude. These are they who have drained the ex­pe­ri­en­tial cup to its dregs; and I have ob­served that they tem­porar­ily re­turn to the ser­vices of the super­uni­verses as the high­est type of lov­ing min­is­tra­tors to the chil­dren of time and tem­po­ral dis­ap­point­ments.

26:10.3Af­ter a long so­journ on cir­cuit num­ber two the sub­jects of dis­ap­point­ment are ex­am­ined by the coun­cils of per­fec­tion sit­ting on the pi­lot world of this cir­cle and are cer­ti­fied as hav­ing passed the Ha­vona test; and this, so far as non­spir­i­tual sta­tus is con­cerned, grants them the same stand­ing in the uni­verses of time as if they had ac­tu­ally suc­ceeded in the De­ity ad­ven­ture. The spirit of such can­di­dates was wholly ac­cept­able; their fail­ure was in­her­ent in some phase of the tech­nique of ap­proach or in some part of their ex­pe­ri­en­tial back­ground.

26:10.4They are then taken by the coun­selors of the cir­cle be­fore the chiefs of as­sign­ment on Par­a­dise and are re­manded to the ser­vice of time on the worlds of space; and they go with joy and glad­ness to the tasks of for­mer days and ages. In an­other day they will re­turn to the cir­cle of their great­est dis­ap­point­ment and at­tempt anew the De­ity ad­ven­ture.

16:5.1Each seg­ment of the grand uni­verse, each in­di­vid­ual uni­verse and world, en­joys the ben­e­fits of the united coun­sel and wis­dom of all Seven Mas­ter Spir­its but re­ceives the per­sonal touch and tinge of only one. And the per­sonal na­ture of each Mas­ter Spirit en­tirely per­vades and uniquely con­di­tions his super­uni­verse.

16:5.2Through this per­sonal in­flu­ence of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its ev­ery crea­ture of ev­ery or­der of in­tel­li­gent be­ings, out­side of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona, must bear the char­ac­ter­is­tic stamp of in­di­vid­u­al­ity in­dica­tive of the an­ces­tral na­ture of some one of these Seven Par­a­dise Spir­its. As con­cerns the seven super­uni­verses, each na­tive crea­ture, man or an­gel, will for­ever bear this badge of na­tal iden­ti­fi­ca­tion.

16:5.3The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its do not di­rectly in­vade the ma­te­rial minds of the in­di­vid­ual crea­tures on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space. The mor­tals of Uran­tia do not ex­pe­ri­ence the per­sonal pres­ence of the mind-spirit in­flu­ence of the Mas­ter Spirit of Or­von­ton. If this Mas­ter Spirit does at­tain any sort of con­tact with the in­di­vid­ual mor­tal mind dur­ing the ear­lier evo­lu­tion­ary ages of an in­hab­ited world, it must oc­cur through the min­istry of the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit, the con­sort and as­so­ciate of the Cre­ator Son of God who pre­sides over the des­tinies of each lo­cal cre­ation. But this very Cre­ative Mother Spirit is, in na­ture and char­ac­ter, quite like the Mas­ter Spirit of Or­von­ton.

16:5.4The phys­i­cal stamp of a Mas­ter Spirit is a part of man’s ma­te­rial ori­gin. The en­tire mor­ontia ca­reer is lived un­der the con­tin­u­ing in­flu­ence of this same Mas­ter Spirit. It is hardly strange that the sub­se­quent spirit ca­reer of such an as­cend­ing mor­tal never fully erad­i­cates the char­ac­ter­is­tic stamp of this same super­vis­ing Spirit. The im­press of a Mas­ter Spirit is ba­sic to the very ex­is­tence of ev­ery pre-Ha­vona stage of mor­tal as­cen­sion.

16:5.5The dis­tinc­tive per­son­al­ity trends ex­hib­ited in the life ex­pe­ri­ence of evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals, which are char­ac­ter­is­tic in each super­uni­verse, and which are di­rectly ex­pres­sive of the na­ture of the dom­i­nat­ing Mas­ter Spirit, are never fully ef­faced, not even af­ter such as­cend­ers are sub­jected to the long train­ing and uni­fy­ing dis­ci­pline en­coun­tered on the one bil­lion ed­u­ca­tional spheres of Ha­vona. Even the sub­se­quent in­tense Par­a­dise cul­ture does not suf­fice to erad­i­cate the ear­marks of super­uni­verse ori­gin. Through­out all eter­nity an as­cen­dant mor­tal will ex­hibit traits in­dica­tive of the pre­sid­ing Spirit of his super­uni­verse of na­tiv­ity. Even in the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, when it is de­sired to ar­rive at or to por­tray a com­plete Trin­ity re­la­tion­ship to the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ation, al­ways a group of seven fi­nal­i­ters is as­sem­bled, one from each super­uni­verse.

25:2.4Each of the seven super­cre­ations is ac­tu­ally per­vaded by that one of the Mas­ter Spir­its who pre­sides over its des­tinies. Each super­uni­verse thus be­comes like a gi­gan­tic mir­ror re­flect­ing the na­ture and char­ac­ter of the super­vis­ing Mas­ter Spirit, and all of this is fur­ther con­tin­ued in ev­ery sub­sidiary lo­cal uni­verse by the pres­ence and func­tion of the Cre­ative Mother Spir­its. The ef­fect of such an en­vi­ron­ment upon evo­lu­tion­ary growth is so pro­found that in their post­super­uni­verse ca­reers the con­cil­ia­tors col­lec­tively man­i­fest forty-nine ex­pe­ri­en­tial view­points, or in­sights, each an­gu­lar—hence in­com­plete—but all mu­tu­ally com­pen­satory and to­gether tend­ing to en­com­pass the cir­cle of Su­prem­acy.

26:2.5There are seven types of these high an­gels, each of ori­gin in one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and in na­ture pat­terned ac­cord­ingly. Col­lec­tively, the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its cre­ate many dif­fer­ent groups of unique be­ings and en­ti­ties, and the in­di­vid­ual mem­bers of each or­der are com­par­a­tively uni­form in na­ture. But when these same Seven Spir­its cre­ate in­di­vid­u­ally, the re­sult­ing or­ders are al­ways sev­en­fold in na­ture; the chil­dren of each Mas­ter Spirit par­take of the na­ture of their cre­ator and are ac­cord­ingly di­verse from the oth­ers. Such is the ori­gin of the sec­ondary super­na­phim, and the an­gels of all seven cre­ated types func­tion in all chan­nels of ac­tiv­ity open to their en­tire or­der, chiefly on the seven cir­cuits of the cen­tral and di­vine uni­verse.

27:2.3When you mor­tal as­cend­ers at­tain Par­a­dise, your so­ci­etal re­la­tion­ships in­volve a great deal more than con­tact with a host of ex­alted and di­vine be­ings and with a fa­mil­iar mul­ti­tude of glo­ri­fied fel­low mor­tals. You must also frat­er­nize with up­wards of three thou­sand dif­fer­ent or­ders of Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens, with the var­i­ous groups of the Tran­scen­den­talers, and with nu­mer­ous other types of Par­a­dise in­hab­i­tants, per­ma­nent and tran­sient, who have not been re­vealed on Uran­tia. Af­ter sus­tained con­tact with these mighty in­tel­lects of Par­a­dise, it is very rest­ful to visit with the an­gelic types of mind; they re­mind the mor­tals of time of the ser­a­phim with whom they have had such long con­tact and such re­fresh­ing as­so­ci­a­tion.

24:6.4The num­ber of Grad­u­ate Guides is be­yond the power of hu­man minds to grasp, and they con­tinue to ap­pear. Their ori­gin is some­thing of a mys­tery. They have not ex­isted from eter­nity; they mys­te­ri­ously ap­pear as they are needed. There is no rec­ord of a Grad­u­ate Guide in all the realms of the cen­tral uni­verse un­til that far-dis­tant day when the first mor­tal pil­grim of all time made his way to the outer belt of the cen­tral cre­ation. The in­stant he ar­rived on the pi­lot world of the outer cir­cuit, he was met with friendly greet­ings by Malvo­rian, the first of the Grad­u­ate Guides and now the chief of their su­preme coun­cil and the di­rec­tor of their vast ed­u­ca­tional or­ga­ni­za­tion.

24:6.5On the Par­a­dise rec­ords of Ha­vona, in the sec­tion de­nom­i­nated “Grad­u­ate Guides,” there ap­pears this ini­tial en­try:

24:6.6“And Malvo­rian, the first of this or­der, did greet and in­struct the pil­grim dis­cov­erer of Ha­vona and did con­duct him from the outer cir­cuits of ini­tial ex­pe­ri­ence, step by step and cir­cuit by cir­cuit, un­til he stood in the very pres­ence of the Source and Des­tiny of all per­son­al­ity, sub­se­quently cross­ing the thresh­old of eter­nity to Par­a­dise.”

24:6.7At that far-dis­tant time I was at­tached to the ser­vice of the An­cients of Days on Uversa, and we all re­joiced in the as­sur­ance that, even­tu­ally, pil­grims from our super­uni­verse would reach Ha­vona. For ages we had been taught that the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures of space would at­tain Par­a­dise, and the thrill of all time swept through the heav­enly courts when the first pil­grim ac­tu­ally ar­rived.

24:6.8The name of this pil­grim dis­cov­erer of Ha­vona is Grand­fanda, and he hailed from planet 341 of sys­tem 84 in con­stel­la­tion 62 of lo­cal uni­verse 1,131 sit­u­ated in super­uni­verse num­ber one. His ar­rival was the sig­nal for the es­tab­lish­ment of the broad­cast ser­vice of the uni­verse of uni­verses. Thereto­fore only the broad­casts of the super­uni­verses and the lo­cal uni­verses had been in op­er­a­tion, but the an­nounce­ment of the ar­rival of Grand­fanda at the por­tals of Ha­vona sig­nal­ized the in­au­gu­ra­tion of the “space re­ports of glory,” so named be­cause the ini­tial uni­verse broad­cast re­ported the Ha­vona ar­rival of the first of the evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings to at­tain en­trance upon the goal of as­cen­dant ex­is­tence.

30:1.501. Ad­juster-fused Mor­tals.

30:1.512. Son-fused Mor­tals.

30:1.523. Spirit-fused Mor­tals.

30:2.471. Fa­ther-fused Mor­tals.

30:2.482. Son-fused Mor­tals.

30:2.493. Spirit-fused Mor­tals.

30:2.1567. As­cend­ing Pil­grims.

196:2.2Je­sus’ life in the flesh por­trays a tran­scen­dent re­li­gious growth from the early ideas of prim­i­tive awe and hu­man rev­er­ence up through years of per­sonal spir­i­tual com­mu­nion un­til he fi­nally ar­rived at that ad­vanced and ex­alted sta­tus of the con­scious­ness of his one­ness with the Fa­ther. And thus, in one short life, did Je­sus tra­verse that ex­pe­ri­ence of re­li­gious spir­i­tual pro­gres­sion which man be­gins on earth and or­di­nar­ily achieves only at the con­clu­sion of his long so­journ in the spirit train­ing schools of the suc­ces­sive lev­els of the pre-Par­a­dise ca­reer. Je­sus pro­gressed from a purely hu­man con­scious­ness of the faith cer­tain­ties of per­sonal re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence to the sub­lime spir­i­tual heights of the pos­i­tive re­al­iza­tion of his di­vine na­ture and to the con­scious­ness of his close as­so­ci­a­tion with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in the man­age­ment of a uni­verse. He pro­gressed from the hum­ble sta­tus of mor­tal de­pen­dence which prompted him spon­ta­neously to say to the one who called him Good Teacher, “Why do you call me good? None is good but God,” to that sub­lime con­scious­ness of achieved di­vin­ity which led him to ex­claim, “Which one of you con­victs me of sin?” And this pro­gress­ing as­cent from the hu­man to the di­vine was an ex­clu­sively mor­tal achieve­ment. And when he had thus at­tained di­vin­ity, he was still the same hu­man Je­sus, the Son of Man as well as the Son of God.

47:4.4A newly de­vel­oped and suit­ably ad­justed mor­ontia body is ac­quired at the time of each ad­vance from one man­sion world to an­other. You go to sleep with the se­raphic trans­port and awake with the new but un­de­vel­oped body in the res­ur­rec­tion halls, much as when you first ar­rived on man­sion world num­ber one ex­cept that the Thought Ad­juster does not leave you dur­ing these tran­sit sleeps be­tween the man­sion worlds. Your per­son­al­ity re­mains in­tact af­ter you once pass from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds to the ini­tial man­sion world.

47:4.5Your Ad­juster mem­ory re­mains fully in­tact as you as­cend the mor­ontia life. Those men­tal as­so­ci­a­tions that were purely an­i­mal­is­tic and wholly ma­te­rial nat­u­rally per­ished with the phys­i­cal brain, but ev­ery­thing in your men­tal life which was worth while, and which had sur­vival value, was coun­ter­parted by the Ad­juster and is re­tained as a part of per­sonal mem­ory all the way through the as­cen­dant ca­reer. You will be con­scious of all your worth-while ex­pe­ri­ences as you ad­vance from one man­sion world to an­other and from one sec­tion of the uni­verse to an­other—even to Par­a­dise.

48:4.20The prin­ci­ples of Uran­tian play life are phil­o­soph­i­cally sound and con­tinue to ap­ply on up through your as­cend­ing life, through the cir­cuits of Ha­vona to the eter­nal shores of Par­a­dise. As as­cen­dant be­ings you are in pos­ses­sion of per­sonal mem­o­ries of all for­mer and lower ex­is­tences, and with­out such iden­tity mem­o­ries of the past there would be no ba­sis for the hu­mor of the pres­ent, ei­ther mor­tal laugh­ter or mor­ontia mirth. It is this re­call­ing of past ex­pe­ri­ences that pro­vides the ba­sis for pres­ent di­ver­sion and amuse­ment. And so you will en­joy the ce­les­tial equiv­a­lents of your earthly hu­mor all the way up through your long mor­ontia, and then in­creas­ingly spir­i­tual, ca­reers. And that part of God (the Ad­juster) which be­comes an eter­nal part of the per­son­al­ity of an as­cen­dant mor­tal con­tributes the over­tones of di­vin­ity to the joy­ous ex­pres­sions, even spir­i­tual laugh­ter, of the as­cend­ing crea­tures of time and space.

16:3.14Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Seven. The pre­sid­ing Spirit of the sev­enth super­uni­verse is a uniquely equal por­trayal of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, and the In­fi­nite Spirit. The Sev­enth Spirit, the fos­ter­ing ad­viser of all tri­une-ori­gin be­ings, is also the ad­viser and di­rec­tor of all the as­cend­ing pil­grims of Ha­vona, those lowly be­ings who have at­tained the courts of glory through the com­bined min­istry of the Fa­ther, the Son, and the Spirit.

16:3.18It is Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Seven who, in his mul­ti­ple ca­pac­i­ties, per­son­ally spon­sors the prog­ress of the as­cen­sion can­di­dates from the worlds of time in their at­tempts to achieve com­pre­hen­sion of the un­di­vided De­ity of Su­prem­acy. Such com­pre­hen­sion in­volves a grasp of the ex­is­ten­tial sov­er­eignty of the Trin­ity of Su­prem­acy so co-or­di­nated with a con­cept of the grow­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme Be­ing as to con­sti­tute the crea­ture grasp of the unity of Su­prem­acy. Crea­ture re­al­iza­tion of these three fac­tors equals Ha­vona com­pre­hen­sion of Trin­ity re­al­ity and en­dows the pil­grims of time with the abil­ity even­tu­ally to pen­e­trate the Trin­ity, to dis­cover the three in­fi­nite per­sons of De­ity.

16:3.19The in­abil­ity of the Ha­vona pil­grims fully to find God the Su­preme is com­pen­sated by the Sev­enth Mas­ter Spirit, whose tri­une na­ture in such a pe­cu­liar man­ner is rev­e­la­tory of the spirit per­son of the Su­preme. Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age of the non­con­tactabil­ity of the per­son of the Su­preme, Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Seven func­tions in the place of the God of as­cen­dant crea­tures in the mat­ter of per­sonal re­la­tion­ships. He is the one high spirit be­ing that all as­cend­ers are cer­tain to rec­og­nize and some­what com­pre­hend when they reach the cen­ters of glory.

• Mighty Messengers
• Those High in Authority
• Those without Name or Number

15:10.12The re­main­ing three or­ders, Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber, are glo­ri­fied as­cen­dant mor­tals. The first of these or­ders came up through the as­cen­dant regime and passed through Ha­vona in the days of Grand­fanda. Hav­ing at­tained Par­a­dise, they were mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, em­braced by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, and sub­se­quently as­signed to the su­per­nal ser­vice of the An­cients of Days. As a class, these three or­ders are known as Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment, be­ing of dual ori­gin but now of Trin­ity ser­vice. Thus was the ex­ec­u­tive branch of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment en­larged to in­clude the glo­ri­fied and per­fected chil­dren of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

22:2.1Mighty Mes­sen­gers be­long to the as­cen­dant group of the Trin­i­tized Sons. They are a class of per­fected mor­tals who have been re­bel­lion tested or oth­er­wise equally proved as to their per­sonal loy­alty; all have passed through some def­i­nite test of uni­verse al­le­giance. At some time in their Par­a­dise as­cent they stood firm and loyal in the face of the dis­loy­alty of their su­pe­ri­ors, and some did ac­tively and loy­ally func­tion in the places of such un­faith­ful lead­ers.

22:2.2With such per­sonal rec­ords of fi­delity and de­vo­tion, these as­cend­ing mor­tals pass on through Ha­vona with the stream of the pil­grims of time, at­tain Par­a­dise, grad­u­ate there­from, and are mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. There­upon they are trin­i­tized in the se­cret em­brace of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and sub­se­quently are com­mis­sioned to be­come as­so­ci­ated with the An­cients of Days in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the gov­ern­ments of the seven super­uni­verses.

22:2.3Ev­ery as­cen­dant mor­tal of in­sur­rec­tionary ex­pe­ri­ence who func­tions loy­ally in the face of re­bel­lion is even­tu­ally des­tined to be­come a Mighty Mes­sen­ger of the super­uni­verse ser­vice. Like­wise is any as­cen­dant crea­ture who ef­fec­tively pre­vents such up­heavals of er­ror, evil, or sin; for ac­tion de­signed to pre­vent re­bel­lion or to ef­fect higher types of loy­alty in a uni­verse cri­sis is re­garded as of even greater value than loy­alty in the face of ac­tual re­bel­lion.

22:2.4The se­nior Mighty Mes­sen­gers were cho­sen from those as­cen­dant mor­tals of time and space who were among the ear­lier Par­a­dise ar­rivals, many hav­ing tra­versed Ha­vona in the times of Grand­fanda. But the first trini­tiz­ing of Mighty Mes­sen­gers was not ef­fected un­til the can­di­date corps con­tained rep­re­sen­ta­tives from each of the seven super­uni­verses. And the last group of this or­der to qual­ify on Par­a­dise em­braced as­cen­dant pil­grims from the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don.

22:2.5Mighty Mes­sen­gers are em­braced by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity in classes of seven hun­dred thou­sand, one hun­dred thou­sand for as­sign­ment to each super­uni­verse. Al­most one tril­lion Mighty Mes­sen­gers are com­mis­sioned on Uversa, and there is ev­ery rea­son to be­lieve that the num­ber serv­ing in each of the seven super­uni­verses is ex­actly the same.

22:2.6I am a Mighty Mes­sen­ger, and it may in­ter­est Uran­tians to know that the com­pan­ion and as­so­ciate of my mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence was also tri­umphant in the great test, and that, though we were many times and for long pe­ri­ods sep­a­rated in the age­long in­ward as­cent to Ha­vona, we were em­braced in the same seven-hun­dred-thou­sand group, and that we spent our time pass­ing through Vicegering­ton in close and lov­ing as­so­ci­a­tion. We were fi­nally com­mis­sioned and to­gether as­signed to Uversa of Or­von­ton, and we are of­ten dis­patched in com­pany for the ex­e­cu­tion of as­sign­ments re­quir­ing the ser­vices of two Mes­sen­gers.

22:2.7Mighty Mes­sen­gers, in com­mon with all Trin­ity-em­braced sons, are as­signed to all phases of super­uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties. They main­tain con­stant con­nec­tion with their head­quar­ters through the super­uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity ser­vice. Mighty Mes­sen­gers serve in all sec­tors of a super­uni­verse and fre­quently ex­e­cute mis­sions to the lo­cal uni­verses and even to the in­di­vid­ual worlds, as I do on this oc­ca­sion.

22:2.8In the super­uni­verse courts, Mighty Mes­sen­gers act as de­fend­ers of both in­di­vid­u­als and plan­ets when they come up for ad­ju­di­ca­tion; they also as­sist the Per­fec­tions of Days in the di­rec­tion of the af­fairs of the ma­jor sec­tors. As a group, their chief as­sign­ment is that of super­uni­verse ob­servers. They are sta­tioned on the var­i­ous head­quar­ters worlds and on in­di­vid­ual plan­ets of im­por­tance as the of­fi­cial ob­servers of the An­cients of Days. When so as­signed, they also serve as ad­vis­ers to the au­thor­i­ties di­rect­ing the af­fairs of the spheres of their so­journ. The Mes­sen­gers take ac­tive part in all phases of the as­cen­dant scheme of mor­tal pro­gres­sion. With their as­so­ciates of mor­tal ori­gin they keep the super­gov­ern­ments in close and per­sonal touch with the sta­tus and pro­gres­sion of the plans of the de­scend­ing Sons of God.

22:2.9Mighty Mes­sen­gers are fully con­scious of their en­tire as­cen­dant ca­reers, and that is why they are such use­ful and sym­pa­thetic min­is­ters, un­der­stand­ing mes­sen­gers, for ser­vice on any world of space and to any crea­ture of time. As soon as you are de­liv­ered from the flesh, you will com­mu­ni­cate freely and un­der­stand­ingly with us since we spring from all the races on all the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space, that is, from those mor­tal races that are in­dwelt by, and sub­se­quently fused with, Thought Ad­justers.

22:3.1Those High in Au­thor­ity, the sec­ond group of the Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment, are all Ad­juster-fused be­ings of mor­tal ori­gin. These are the per­fected mor­tals who have ex­hib­ited su­pe­rior ad­min­is­tra­tive abil­ity and have shown ex­traor­di­nary ex­ec­u­tive ge­nius through­out their long as­cend­ing ca­reers. They are the cream of gov­ern­ing abil­ity de­rived from the sur­viv­ing mor­tals of space.

22:3.2Sev­enty thou­sand of Those High in Au­thor­ity are trin­i­tized at each Trin­ity li­ai­son. Though the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don is a com­par­a­tively young cre­ation, it has rep­re­sen­ta­tives among a re­cently trin­i­tized class of this or­der. There are now com­mis­sioned in Or­von­ton more than ten bil­lion of these skill­ful ad­min­is­tra­tors. Like all sep­a­rate or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings, they main­tain their own head­quar­ters on Uversa, and like the other Trin­ity-em­braced sons, their re­serves on Uversa act as the cen­tral di­rect­ing body of their or­der in Or­von­ton.

22:3.3Those High in Au­thor­ity are ad­min­is­tra­tors with­out lim­i­ta­tion. They are the ev­ery­where-pres­ent and al­ways-ef­fi­cient ex­ec­u­tives of the An­cients of Days. They serve on any sphere, on any in­hab­ited world, and in any phase of ac­tiv­ity in any of the seven super­uni­verses.

22:3.4Hav­ing su­perb ad­min­is­tra­tive wis­dom and un­usual ex­ec­u­tive skill, these bril­liant be­ings as­sume to pre­sent the cause of jus­tice in be­half of the super­uni­verse tri­bu­nals; they fos­ter the ex­e­cu­tion of jus­tice and the rec­ti­fi­ca­tion of mis­adap­ta­tions in the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses. There­fore, if you should ever be cited for er­rors of judg­ment while you are as­cend­ing the worlds and spheres of your or­dained cos­mic pro­gres­sion, it is hardly likely that you would suf­fer in­jus­tice since your pros­e­cu­tors would be one­time as­cen­dant crea­tures who are per­son­ally fa­mil­iar with ev­ery step of the ca­reer you have tra­versed and are travers­ing.

22:4.1Those with­out Name and Num­ber con­sti­tute the third and last group of the Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment; they are the as­cen­dant souls who have de­vel­oped the abil­ity to wor­ship be­yond the skill of all the sons and daugh­ters of the evo­lu­tion­ary races from the worlds of time and space. They have ac­quired a spir­i­tual con­cept of the eter­nal pur­pose of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther which com­par­a­tively tran­scends the com­pre­hen­sion of the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures of name or num­ber; there­fore are they de­nom­i­nated Those with­out Name and Num­ber. More strictly trans­lated, their name would be “Those above Name and Num­ber.”

22:4.2This or­der of sons is em­braced by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity in groups of seven thou­sand. There are of rec­ord on Uversa over one hun­dred mil­lion of these sons com­mis­sioned in Or­von­ton.

22:4.3Since Those with­out Name and Num­ber are the su­pe­rior spir­i­tual minds of the sur­vival races, they are es­pe­cially qual­i­fied to sit in judg­ment and to ren­der opin­ions when a spir­i­tual view­point is de­sir­able, and when ex­pe­ri­ence in the as­cen­dant ca­reer is es­sen­tial to an ad­e­quate com­pre­hen­sion of the ques­tions in­volved in the prob­lem to be ad­ju­di­cated. They are the su­preme ju­rors of Or­von­ton. A mal­ad­min­is­tered jury sys­tem may be more or less of a trav­esty of jus­tice on some worlds, but on Uversa and its ex­ten­sion tri­bu­nals we em­ploy the high­est type of evolved spir­i­tual men­tal­ity as ju­ror-judges. Ad­ju­di­ca­tion is the high­est func­tion of any gov­ern­ment, and those who are in­trusted with ver­dict ren­der­ing should be cho­sen from the high­est and most no­ble types of the most ex­pe­ri­enced and un­der­stand­ing in­di­vid­u­als.

22:4.4The se­lec­tion of can­di­dates for the trin­i­ti­za­tion classes of Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber is in­her­ent and au­to­matic. The se­lec­tive tech­niques of Par­a­dise are not in any sense ar­bi­trary. Per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence and spir­i­tual val­ues de­ter­mine the per­son­nel of the Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment. Such be­ings are equal in au­thor­ity and uni­form in ad­min­is­tra­tive sta­tus, but they all pos­sess in­di­vid­u­al­ity and di­verse char­ac­ters; they are not stan­dard­ized be­ings. All are char­ac­ter­is­ti­cally dif­fer­ent, de­pend­ing on the dif­fer­en­tials of their as­cen­dant ca­reers.

22:4.5In ad­di­tion to these ex­pe­ri­en­tial qual­i­fi­ca­tions, the Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment have been trin­i­tized in the di­vine em­brace of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. Con­se­quently they func­tion as the co-or­di­nate as­so­ciates of the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity, for the Trin­ity em­brace does seem to pre­cip­i­tate out of the stream of fu­ture time many of the un­re­al­ized po­ten­tials of crea­ture be­ings. But this is true con­cern­ing only that which per­tains to the pres­ent uni­verse age.

22:4.6This group of sons is chiefly, but not wholly, con­cerned with the ser­vices of the as­cen­dant ca­reer of the time-space mor­tals. If the view­point of a mor­tal crea­ture is ever in doubt, the ques­tion is set­tled by ap­peal to an as­cen­dant com­mis­sion con­sist­ing of a Mighty Mes­sen­ger, One High in Au­thor­ity, and One with­out Name and Num­ber.

22:4.7You mor­tals who read this mes­sage may your­selves as­cend to Par­a­dise, at­tain the Trin­ity em­brace, and in re­mote fu­ture ages be at­tached to the ser­vice of the An­cients of Days in one of the seven super­uni­verses, and some­time be as­signed to en­large the rev­e­la­tion of truth to some evolv­ing in­hab­ited planet, even as I am now func­tion­ing on Uran­tia.

• Technical Advisers (temporary members)

25:4.2The Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers are re­cruited from the ranks of the fol­low­ing per­son­al­ity or­ders:

• Technical Advisers (temporary members)

25:4.11Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers fre­quently func­tion as in­di­vid­u­als but are or­ga­nized for ser­vice and main­tain com­mon head­quar­ters on the spheres of as­sign­ment in groups of seven. In each group at least five must be of per­ma­nent sta­tus, while two may be of tem­po­rary as­so­ci­a­tion. As­cend­ing mor­tals and as­cend­ing mid­way crea­tures serve on these ad­vi­sory com­mis­sions while pur­su­ing the Par­a­dise as­cent, but they do not en­ter the reg­u­lar courses of train­ing for Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers, nor do they ever be­come per­ma­nent mem­bers of the or­der.

25:4.12Those mor­tals and mid­way­ers who serve tran­siently with the ad­vis­ers are cho­sen for such work be­cause of their ex­pert­ness in the con­cept of uni­ver­sal law and su­preme jus­tice. As you jour­ney to­ward your Par­a­dise goal, con­stantly ac­quir­ing added knowl­edge and en­hanced skill, you are con­tin­u­ously af­forded the op­por­tu­nity to give out to oth­ers the wis­dom and ex­pe­ri­ence you have al­ready ac­cu­mu­lated; all the way in to Ha­vona you en­act the role of a pupil-teacher. You will work your way through the as­cend­ing lev­els of this vast ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­ver­sity by im­part­ing to those just be­low you the new-found knowl­edge of your ad­vanc­ing ca­reer. In the uni­ver­sal regime you are not reck­oned as hav­ing pos­sessed your­self of knowl­edge and truth un­til you have demon­strated your abil­ity and your will­ing­ness to im­part this knowl­edge and truth to oth­ers.

• evangels of destiny

35:3.21In the Mel­chiz­e­dek Col­lege of Spir­i­tual En­dow­ment all or­ders—even the Par­a­dise or­ders—of the Sons of God co-op­er­ate with the Mel­chiz­e­dek and the se­raphic teach­ers in train­ing the hosts who go forth as evan­gels of des­tiny, pro­claim­ing spir­i­tual lib­erty and di­vine son­ship even to the re­mote worlds of the uni­verse. This par­tic­u­lar school of the Mel­chiz­e­dek Uni­ver­sity is an ex­clu­sive uni­verse in­sti­tu­tion; stu­dent vis­i­tors are not re­ceived from other realms.

• Celestial Overseers

37:6.7Be­fore leav­ing the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, most Uran­tia mor­tals will be af­forded op­por­tu­nity to serve for a longer or shorter time as mem­bers of the Neb­a­don corps of Ce­les­tial Over­seers.

• celestial artisans

44:0.4Any mor­ontia per­son­al­ity or spirit en­tity is el­i­gi­ble for ad­mis­sion to the corps of the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans; that is, any be­ing be­low the rank of in­her­ent di­vine son­ship. As­cend­ing sons of God from the evo­lu­tion­ary spheres may, af­ter their ar­rival on the mor­ontia worlds, ap­ply for ad­mis­sion to the ar­ti­san corps and, if suf­fi­ciently gifted, may choose such a ca­reer for a longer or shorter pe­riod. But no one may en­list with the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans for less than one mil­len­nium, one thou­sand years of super­uni­verse time.

107:1.6In their re­la­tion­ship to fu­sion crea­tures they re­veal a su­per­nal love and spir­i­tual min­istry that is pro­foundly con­fir­ma­tive of the dec­la­ra­tion that God is spirit. But there is much that takes place in ad­di­tion to this tran­scen­dent min­istry that has never been re­vealed to Uran­tia mor­tals. Nei­ther do we fully un­der­stand just what re­ally tran­spires when the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther gives of him­self to be a part of the per­son­al­ity of a crea­ture of time. Nor has the as­cend­ing pro­gres­sion of the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters as yet dis­closed the full pos­si­bil­i­ties in­her­ent in this su­per­nal part­ner­ship of man and God. In the last anal­y­sis, the Fa­ther frag­ments must be the gift of the ab­so­lute God to those crea­tures whose des­tiny en­com­passes the pos­si­bil­ity of the at­tain­ment of God as ab­so­lute.

119:5.1A lit­tle over three hun­dred mil­lion years ago, as time is reck­oned on Uran­tia, we wit­nessed an­other of those trans­fers of uni­verse au­thor­ity to Im­manuel and ob­served the prepa­ra­tions of Mi­chael for de­par­ture. This oc­ca­sion was dif­fer­ent from the pre­vi­ous ones in that he an­nounced that his des­ti­na­tion was Uversa, head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton. In due time our Sov­er­eign de­parted, but the broad­casts of the super­uni­verse never made men­tion of Mi­chael’s ar­rival at the courts of the An­cients of Days. Shortly af­ter his de­par­ture from Sal­ving­ton there did ap­pear in the Uversa broad­casts this sig­nif­i­cant state­ment: “There ar­rived to­day an unan­nounced and un­num­bered as­cen­dant pil­grim of mor­tal ori­gin from the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, cer­ti­fied by Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton and ac­com­pa­nied by Ga­briel of Neb­a­don. This uniden­ti­fied be­ing pre­sents the sta­tus of a true spirit and has been re­ceived into our fel­low­ship.”

119:5.2If you should visit Uversa to­day, you would hear the re­count­ing of the days when Even­tod so­journed there, this par­tic­u­lar and un­known pil­grim of time and space be­ing known on Uversa by that name. And this as­cend­ing mor­tal, at least a su­perb per­son­al­ity in the ex­act like­ness of the spirit stage of the as­cend­ing mor­tals, lived and func­tioned on Uversa for a pe­riod of eleven years of Or­von­ton stan­dard time. This be­ing re­ceived the as­sign­ments and per­formed the du­ties of a spirit mor­tal in com­mon with his fel­lows from the var­i­ous lo­cal uni­verses of Or­von­ton. In “all points he was tested and tried, even as his fel­lows,” and on all oc­ca­sions he proved wor­thy of the con­fi­dence and trust of his su­pe­ri­ors, while he un­fail­ingly com­manded the re­spect and loyal ad­mi­ra­tion of his fel­low spir­its.

119:5.3On Sal­ving­ton we fol­lowed the ca­reer of this spirit pil­grim with con­sum­mate in­ter­est, know­ing full well, by the pres­ence of Ga­briel, that this unas­sum­ing and un­num­bered pil­grim spirit was none other than the be­stowed ruler of our lo­cal uni­verse. This first ap­pear­ance of Mi­chael in­car­nated in the role of one stage of mor­tal evo­lu­tion was an event which thrilled and en­thralled all Neb­a­don. We had heard of such things but now we be­held them. He ap­peared on Uversa as a fully de­vel­oped and per­fectly trained spirit mor­tal and, as such, con­tin­ued his ca­reer up to the oc­ca­sion of the ad­vance­ment of a group of as­cend­ing mor­tals to Ha­vona; where­upon he held con­verse with the An­cients of Days and im­me­di­ately, in the com­pany of Ga­briel, took sud­den and un­cer­e­mo­ni­ous leave of Uversa, ap­pear­ing shortly there­after in his ac­cus­tomed place on Sal­ving­ton.

119:5.4Not un­til the com­ple­tion of this be­stowal did it fi­nally dawn upon us that Mi­chael was prob­a­bly go­ing to in­car­nate in the like­ness of his var­i­ous or­ders of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties, from the high­est Mel­chiz­e­deks right on down to the mor­tals of flesh and blood on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space. About this time the Mel­chiz­e­dek col­leges be­gan to teach the prob­a­bil­ity of Mi­chael’s some­time in­car­nat­ing as a mor­tal of the flesh, and there oc­curred much spec­u­la­tion as to the pos­si­ble tech­nique of such an in­ex­pli­ca­ble be­stowal. That Mi­chael had in per­son per­formed in the role of an as­cend­ing mor­tal lent new and added in­ter­est to the whole scheme of crea­ture pro­gres­sion all the way up through both the lo­cal uni­verse and the super­uni­verse.

119:5.5Still, the tech­nique of these suc­ces­sive be­stowals re­mained a mys­tery. Even Ga­briel con­fesses that he does not com­pre­hend the method whereby this Par­a­dise Son and uni­verse Cre­ator could, at will, as­sume the per­son­al­ity and live the life of one of his own sub­or­di­nate crea­tures.

25:8.5If you, as an as­cen­dant mor­tal, should reach Par­a­dise in the com­pany of the com­pan­ion or close as­so­ciate of your earthly ca­reer, or if your se­raphic guard­ian of des­tiny should chance to ar­rive with you or were wait­ing for you, then no per­ma­nent com­pan­ion would be as­signed you. But if you ar­rive alone, a com­pan­ion will cer­tainly wel­come you as you awaken on the Isle of Light from the ter­mi­nal sleep of time. Even if it is known that you will be ac­com­pa­nied by some­one of as­cen­dant as­so­ci­a­tion, tem­po­rary com­pan­ions will be des­ig­nated to wel­come you to the eter­nal shores and to es­cort you to the reser­va­tion made ready for the re­cep­tion of you and your as­so­ciates. You may be cer­tain of be­ing warmly wel­comed when you ex­pe­ri­ence the res­ur­rec­tion into eter­nity on the ev­er­last­ing shores of Par­a­dise.

25:8.6Re­cep­tion com­pan­ions are as­signed dur­ing the ter­mi­nal days of the as­cend­ers’ so­journ on the last cir­cuit of Ha­vona, and they care­fully ex­am­ine the rec­ords of mor­tal ori­gin and event­ful as­cent through the worlds of space and the cir­cles of Ha­vona. When they greet the mor­tals of time, they are al­ready well versed in the ca­reers of these ar­riv­ing pil­grims and im­me­di­ately prove to be sym­pa­thetic and in­trigu­ing com­pan­ions.

25:8.7Dur­ing your pre­fi­naliter so­journ on Par­a­dise, if for any rea­son you should be tem­porar­ily sep­a­rated from your as­so­ciate of the as­cend­ing ca­reer—mor­tal or se­raphic—a Par­a­dise Com­pan­ion would be forth­with as­signed for coun­sel and com­pan­ion­ship. When once as­signed to an as­cen­dant mor­tal of soli­tary res­i­dence on Par­a­dise, the com­pan­ion re­mains with this per­son un­til he ei­ther is re­joined by his as­cen­dant as­so­ciates or is duly mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

25:8.11But not so with two closely as­so­ci­ated mor­tal as­cend­ers: If one at­tains God while the other tem­porar­ily fails, the suc­cess­ful in­di­vid­ual in­vari­ably chooses to go back to the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ations with the dis­ap­pointed per­son­al­ity, but this is not per­mit­ted. In­stead, a call is made to the re­serves of the Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions, and one of the vol­un­teers is se­lected to ac­com­pany the dis­ap­pointed pil­grim. A vol­un­teer Par­a­dise Cit­i­zen then be­comes as­so­ci­ated with the suc­cess­ful mor­tal, who tar­ries on the cen­tral Isle await­ing the Ha­vona re­turn of the de­feated com­rade and in the mean­time teaches in cer­tain Par­a­dise schools, pre­sent­ing the ad­ven­tur­ous story of the evo­lu­tion­ary as­cent.

117:6.5The mor­ontia soul of an evolv­ing mor­tal is re­ally the son of the Ad­juster ac­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the child of the cos­mic re­ac­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing, the Uni­ver­sal Mother. The mother in­flu­ence dom­i­nates the hu­man per­son­al­ity through­out the lo­cal uni­verse child­hood of the grow­ing soul. The in­flu­ence of the De­ity par­ents be­comes more equal af­ter the Ad­juster fu­sion and dur­ing the super­uni­verse ca­reer, but when the crea­tures of time be­gin the traver­sal of the cen­tral uni­verse of eter­nity, the Fa­ther na­ture be­comes in­creas­ingly man­i­fest, at­tain­ing its height of fi­nite man­i­fes­ta­tion upon the rec­og­ni­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the ad­mis­sion into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

110:7.4Sub­se­quent to mor­tal fu­sion the Ad­justers share your des­tiny and ex­pe­ri­ence; they are you. Af­ter the fu­sion of the im­mor­tal mor­ontia soul and the as­so­ci­ated Ad­juster, all of the ex­pe­ri­ence and all of the val­ues of the one even­tu­ally be­come the pos­ses­sion of the other, so that the two are ac­tu­ally one en­tity. In a cer­tain sense, this new be­ing is of the eter­nal past as well as for the eter­nal fu­ture. All that was once hu­man in the sur­viv­ing soul and all that is ex­pe­ri­en­tially di­vine in the Ad­juster now be­come the ac­tual pos­ses­sion of the new and ever-as­cend­ing uni­verse per­son­al­ity. But on each uni­verse level the Ad­juster can en­dow the new crea­ture only with those at­tri­butes which are mean­ing­ful and of value on that level. An ab­so­lute one­ness with the di­vine Mon­i­tor, a com­plete ex­haus­tion of the en­dow­ment of an Ad­juster, can only be achieved in eter­nity sub­se­quent to the fi­nal at­tain­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Fa­ther of spir­its, ever the source of these di­vine gifts.

32:3.8Ex­cept­ing per­fect be­ings of De­ity ori­gin, all will crea­tures in the super­uni­verses are of evo­lu­tion­ary na­ture, be­gin­ning in lowly es­tate and climb­ing ever up­ward, in re­al­ity in­ward. Even highly spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties con­tinue to as­cend the scale of life by pro­gres­sive trans­la­tions from life to life and from sphere to sphere. And in the case of those who en­ter­tain the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors, there is in­deed no limit to the pos­si­ble heights of their spir­i­tual as­cent and uni­verse at­tain­ment.

32:3.9The per­fec­tion of the crea­tures of time, when fi­nally achieved, is wholly an ac­quire­ment, a bona fide per­son­al­ity pos­ses­sion. While the el­e­ments of grace are freely ad­mixed, nev­er­the­less, the crea­ture at­tain­ments are the re­sult of in­di­vid­ual ef­fort and ac­tual liv­ing, per­son­al­ity re­ac­tion to the ex­ist­ing en­vi­ron­ment.

32:3.10The fact of an­i­mal evo­lu­tion­ary ori­gin does not at­tach stigma to any per­son­al­ity in the sight of the uni­verse as that is the ex­clu­sive method of pro­duc­ing one of the two ba­sic types of fi­nite in­tel­li­gent will crea­tures. When the heights of per­fec­tion and eter­nity are at­tained, all the more honor to those who be­gan at the bot­tom and joy­fully climbed the lad­der of life, round by round, and who, when they do reach the heights of glory, will have gained a per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence which em­bod­ies an ac­tual knowl­edge of ev­ery phase of life from the bot­tom to the top.

107:4.7Can you re­ally re­al­ize the true sig­nif­i­cance of the Ad­juster’s in­dwelling? Do you re­ally fathom what it means to have an ab­so­lute frag­ment of the ab­so­lute and in­fi­nite De­ity, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, in­dwelling and fus­ing with your fi­nite mor­tal na­tures? When mor­tal man fuses with an ac­tual frag­ment of the ex­is­ten­tial Cause of the to­tal cos­mos, no limit can ever be placed upon the des­tiny of such an un­prece­dented and unimag­in­able part­ner­ship. In eter­nity, man will be dis­cov­er­ing not only the in­fin­ity of the ob­jec­tive De­ity but also the un­end­ing po­ten­tial­ity of the sub­jec­tive frag­ment of this same God. Al­ways will the Ad­juster be re­veal­ing to the mor­tal per­son­al­ity the won­der of God, and never can this su­per­nal rev­e­la­tion come to an end, for the Ad­juster is of God and as God to mor­tal man.

117:5.9While such spir­i­tual in­flu­ences as the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Truth are lo­cal uni­verse min­is­tra­tions, their guid­ance is not wholly con­fined to the ge­o­graphic lim­i­ta­tions of a given lo­cal cre­ation. As the as­cend­ing mor­tal passes be­yond the bound­aries of his lo­cal uni­verse of ori­gin, he is not en­tirely de­prived of the min­istry of the Spirit of Truth which has so con­stantly taught and guided him through the philo­sophic mazes of the ma­te­rial and mor­ontial worlds, in ev­ery cri­sis of as­cen­sion un­fail­ingly di­rect­ing the Par­a­dise pil­grim, ever say­ing: “This is the way.” When you leave the do­mains of the lo­cal uni­verse, through the min­istry of the spirit of the emerg­ing Su­preme Be­ing and through the pro­vi­sions of super­uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity, you will still be guided in your Par­a­dise as­cent by the com­fort­ing di­rec­tive spirit of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Sons of God.

53:7.10The as­cend­ing mor­tals were vul­ner­a­ble, but they with­stood the soph­ist­ries of re­bel­lion bet­ter than the lower spir­its. While many on the lower man­sion worlds, those who had not at­tained fi­nal fu­sion with their Ad­justers, fell, it is re­corded to the glory of the wis­dom of the as­cen­sion scheme that not a sin­gle mem­ber of the Sa­ta­nia as­cen­dant cit­i­zen­ship res­i­dent on Je­ru­sem par­tic­i­pated in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

53:7.12It was over two years of sys­tem time from the be­gin­ning of the “war in heaven” un­til the in­stal­la­tion of Lu­cifer’s suc­ces­sor. But at last the new Sov­er­eign came, land­ing on the sea of glass with his staff. I was among the re­serves mo­bi­lized on Eden­tia by Ga­briel, and I well re­mem­ber the first mes­sage of Lanaforge to the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther of Nor­la­ti­adek. It read: “Not a sin­gle Je­ru­sem cit­i­zen was lost. Ev­ery as­cen­dant mor­tal sur­vived the fiery trial and emerged from the cru­cial test tri­umphant and al­to­gether vic­to­ri­ous.” And on to Sal­ving­ton, Uversa, and Par­a­dise went this mes­sage of as­sur­ance that the sur­vival ex­pe­ri­ence of mor­tal as­cen­sion is the great­est se­cu­rity against re­bel­lion and the surest safe­guard against sin. This no­ble Je­ru­sem band of faith­ful mor­tals num­bered just 187,432,811.

14:6.377. The Evo­lu­tion­ary Mor­tals of the As­cend­ing Ca­reer. Ha­vona is the home of the pat­tern per­son­al­ity of ev­ery mor­tal type and the home of all super­hu­man per­son­al­i­ties of mor­tal as­so­ci­a­tion who are not na­tive to the cre­ations of time.

14:6.38These worlds pro­vide the stim­u­lus of all hu­man im­pulses to­wards the at­tain­ment of true spirit val­ues on the high­est con­ceiv­able re­al­ity lev­els. Ha­vona is the pre-Par­a­dise train­ing goal of ev­ery as­cend­ing mor­tal. Here mor­tals at­tain pre-Par­a­dise De­ity—the Su­preme Be­ing. Ha­vona stands be­fore ev­ery will crea­ture as the por­tal to Par­a­dise and God at­tain­ment.

14:6.39Par­a­dise is the home, and Ha­vona the work­shop and play­ground, of the fi­nal­i­ters. And ev­ery God-know­ing mor­tal craves to be a fi­nal­i­ter.

14:6.40The cen­tral uni­verse is not only man’s es­tab­lished des­tiny, but it is also the start­ing place of the eter­nal ca­reer of the fi­nal­i­ters as they shall some­time be started out on the undis­closed and uni­ver­sal ad­ven­ture in the ex­pe­ri­ence of ex­plor­ing the in­fin­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

43:2.5The con­stel­la­tion leg­isla­tive body is di­vided into three groups. The leg­isla­tive pro­gram of a con­stel­la­tion orig­i­nates in the lower house of as­cend­ers, a group pre­sided over by a fi­nal­i­ter and con­sist­ing of one thou­sand rep­re­sen­ta­tive mor­tals. Each sys­tem nom­i­nates ten mem­bers to sit in this de­lib­er­a­tive as­sem­bly. On Eden­tia this body is not fully re­cruited at the pres­ent time.

• mortals denominated ascending sons after fusion

30:3.137. The As­cend­ing Pil­grims. As the as­cend­ing pil­grims are as­signed to var­i­ous ser­vices in con­nec­tion with their Par­a­dise pro­gres­sion, they are domi­ciled as a cour­tesy colony on the var­i­ous head­quar­ters spheres. While func­tion­ing here and there through­out a super­uni­verse, such groups are largely self-gov­ern­ing. They are an ever-shift­ing colony em­brac­ing all or­ders of evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals and their as­cend­ing as­so­ciates.

117:6.132. The time-space as­cend­ers com­ing up from the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses of the Su­preme Cre­ators make close ap­proach to the Su­preme in the traver­sal of Ha­vona as a pre­lim­i­nary to the aug­ment­ing ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the unity of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

56:3.5Per­fected crea­ture ex­is­tence can be at­tained, sus­tained, and eter­nal­ized by the fu­sion of self-con­scious mind with a frag­ment of the pre-Trin­ity spirit en­dow­ment of some one of the per­sons of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. The mor­tal mind is the cre­ation of the Sons and Daugh­ters of the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit and, when fused with the Thought Ad­juster from the Fa­ther, par­takes of the three­fold spirit en­dow­ment of the evo­lu­tion­ary realms. But these three spirit ex­pres­sions be­come per­fectly uni­fied in the fi­nal­i­ters, even as they were in eter­nity so uni­fied in the Uni­ver­sal I AM ere he ever be­came the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther of the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit.