Ascendington

• 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.

13:1.22The se­crets of As­cend­ing­ton in­clude the mys­tery of the grad­ual and cer­tain build­ing up in the ma­te­rial and mor­tal mind of a spir­i­tual and po­ten­tially im­mor­tal coun­ter­part of char­ac­ter and iden­tity. This phe­nom­e­non con­sti­tutes one of the most per­plex­ing mys­ter­ies of the uni­verses—the evo­lu­tion of an im­mor­tal soul within the mind of a mor­tal and ma­te­rial crea­ture.

13:1.23You will never fully un­der­stand this mys­te­ri­ous trans­ac­tion un­til you reach As­cend­ing­ton. And that is just why all As­cend­ing­ton will be open to your won­der­ing gaze. One sev­enth of As­cend­ing­ton is for­bid­den to me—that sec­tor con­cerned with this very se­cret which is (or will be) the ex­clu­sive ex­pe­ri­ence and pos­ses­sion of your type of be­ing. This ex­pe­ri­ence be­longs to your hu­man or­der of ex­is­tence. My or­der of per­son­al­ity is not di­rectly con­cerned with such trans­ac­tions. It is there­fore for­bid­den to me and even­tu­ally re­vealed to you. But even af­ter it is re­vealed to you, for some rea­son it for­ever re­mains your se­cret. You do not re­veal it to us nor to any other or­der of be­ings. We know about the eter­nal fu­sion of a di­vine Ad­juster and an im­mor­tal soul of hu­man ori­gin, but the as­cen­dant fi­nal­i­ters know this very ex­pe­ri­ence as an ab­so­lute re­al­ity.

13:2.4The Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings do not fully share the Fa­ther’s worlds; they have their sole homes on the Isle of Par­a­dise in close prox­im­ity to the Most Holy Sphere. They of­ten ap­pear on As­cend­ing­ton, the “bo­som of the Fa­ther-Son-Spirit,” where they frat­er­nize with their breth­ren who have come up from the lowly worlds of space.

13:0.6Al­though the worlds of the Fa­ther are ul­ti­mate sta­tus spheres for all Fa­ther-en­dowed per­son­al­i­ties, this is not their ex­clu­sive func­tion. Many be­ings and en­ti­ties other than per­sonal so­journ on these worlds. Each world in the cir­cuit of the Fa­ther and the cir­cuit of the Spirit has a dis­tinct type of per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship, but we think the Son’s worlds are in­hab­ited by uni­form types of other-than-per­sonal be­ings. Fa­ther frag­ments are among the na­tives of Di­vin­ing­ton; the other or­ders of per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship are un­re­vealed to you.

13:2.1These home worlds of the di­verse or­ders of spir­i­tual be­ings are tremen­dous and stu­pen­dous spheres, and they are equal to Par­a­dise in their match­less beauty and su­perb glory. They are ren­dezvous worlds, re­union spheres, serv­ing as per­ma­nent cos­mic ad­dresses. As fi­nal­i­ters you will be domi­ciled on Par­a­dise, but As­cend­ing­ton will be your home ad­dress at all times, even when you en­ter ser­vice in outer space. Through all eter­nity you will re­gard As­cend­ing­ton as your home of sen­ti­men­tal mem­o­ries and rem­i­nis­cent rec­ol­lec­tions. When you be­come sev­enth-stage spirit be­ings, pos­si­bly you will give up your res­i­den­tial sta­tus on Par­a­dise.

13:2.2If outer uni­verses are in the mak­ing, if they are to be in­hab­ited by time crea­tures of as­cen­sion po­ten­tial, then we in­fer that these chil­dren of the fu­ture will also be des­tined to look upon As­cend­ing­ton as their Par­a­dise home world.

13:2.6The worlds of the in­ner cir­cuit are re­ally fra­ter­nal or sta­tus worlds more than ac­tual res­i­den­tial spheres. Mor­tals will at­tain some sta­tus on each of the Fa­ther’s worlds save one. For ex­am­ple: When you mor­tals at­tain Ha­vona, you are granted clear­ance for As­cend­ing­ton, where you are most wel­come, but you are not per­mit­ted to visit the other six sa­cred worlds. Sub­se­quent to your pas­sage through the Par­a­dise regime and af­ter your ad­mis­sion to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, you are granted clear­ance for Sonar­ing­ton since you are sons of God as well as as­cend­ers—and you are even more. But there will al­ways re­main one sev­enth of Sonar­ing­ton, the sec­tor of the in­car­na­tion se­crets of the di­vine Sons, which will not be open to your scrutiny. Never will those se­crets be re­vealed to the as­cen­dant sons of God.

112:7.2When your earthly course in tem­po­rary form has been run, you are to awaken on the shores of a bet­ter world, and even­tu­ally you will be united with your faith­ful Ad­juster in an eter­nal em­brace. And this fu­sion con­sti­tutes the mys­tery of mak­ing God and man one, the mys­tery of fi­nite crea­ture evo­lu­tion, but it is eter­nally true. Fu­sion is the se­cret of the sa­cred sphere of As­cend­ing­ton, and no crea­ture, save those who have ex­pe­ri­enced fu­sion with the spirit of De­ity, can com­pre­hend the true mean­ing of the ac­tual val­ues which are con­joined when the iden­tity of a crea­ture of time be­comes eter­nally one with the spirit of Par­a­dise De­ity.