Corps of Mortal Finaliters

31:10.21. The Corps of Mor­tal Fi­nal­i­ters.

50:7.2On Je­ru­sem the as­cend­ers from these iso­lated worlds oc­cupy a res­i­den­tial sec­tor by them­selves and are known as the agon­don­ters, mean­ing evo­lu­tion­ary will crea­tures who can be­lieve with­out see­ing, per­se­vere when iso­lated, and tri­umph over in­su­per­a­ble dif­fi­cul­ties even when alone. This func­tional group­ing of the agon­don­ters per­sists through­out the as­cen­sion of the lo­cal uni­verse and the traver­sal of the super­uni­verse; it dis­ap­pears dur­ing the so­journ in Ha­vona but promptly reap­pears upon the at­tain­ment of Par­a­dise and def­i­nitely per­sists in the Corps of the Mor­tal Fi­nal­ity. Taba­man­tia is an agon­don­ter of fi­nal­i­ter sta­tus, hav­ing sur­vived from one of the quar­an­tined spheres in­volved in the first re­bel­lion ever to take place in the uni­verses of time and space.

31:0.12We have no idea as to the na­ture of the fu­ture or­ga­ni­za­tion of this ex­traor­di­nary group, but the fi­nal­i­ters are now wholly a self-gov­ern­ing body. They choose their own per­ma­nent, pe­ri­odic, and as­sign­ment lead­ers and di­rec­tors. No out­side in­flu­ence can ever be brought to bear upon their poli­cies, and their oath of al­le­giance is only to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

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.

53:3.21. The re­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Lu­cifer charged that the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther did not re­ally ex­ist, that phys­i­cal grav­ity and space-en­ergy were in­her­ent in the uni­verse, and that the Fa­ther was a myth in­vented by the Par­a­dise Sons to en­able them to main­tain the rule of the uni­verses in the Fa­ther’s name. He de­nied that per­son­al­ity was a gift of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. He even in­ti­mated that the fi­nal­i­ters were in col­lu­sion with the Par­a­dise Sons to foist fraud upon all cre­ation since they never brought back a very clear-cut idea of the Fa­ther’s ac­tual per­son­al­ity as it is dis­cern­i­ble on Par­a­dise. He traded on rev­er­ence as ig­no­rance. The charge was sweep­ing, ter­ri­ble, and blas­phe­mous. It was this veiled at­tack upon the fi­nal­i­ters that no doubt in­flu­enced the as­cen­dant cit­i­zens then on Je­ru­sem to stand firm and re­main stead­fast in re­sis­tance to all the rebel’s pro­pos­als.

53:3.63. The at­tack upon the uni­ver­sal plan of as­cen­dant mor­tal train­ing. Lu­cifer main­tained that far too much time and en­ergy were ex­pended upon the scheme of so thor­oughly train­ing as­cend­ing mor­tals in the prin­ci­ples of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, prin­ci­ples which he al­leged were un­eth­i­cal and un­sound. He protested against the age­long pro­gram for prepar­ing the mor­tals of space for some un­known des­tiny and pointed to the pres­ence of the fi­nal­i­ter corps on Je­ru­sem as proof that these mor­tals had spent ages of prepa­ra­tion for some des­tiny of pure fic­tion. With de­ri­sion he pointed out that the fi­nal­i­ters had en­coun­tered a des­tiny no more glo­ri­ous than to be re­turned to hum­ble spheres sim­i­lar to those of their ori­gin. He in­ti­mated that they had been de­bauched by over­much dis­ci­pline and pro­longed train­ing, and that they were in re­al­ity traitors to their mor­tal fel­lows since they were now co-op­er­at­ing with the scheme of en­slav­ing all cre­ation to the fic­tions of a myth­i­cal eter­nal des­tiny for as­cend­ing mor­tals. He ad­vo­cated that as­cend­ers should en­joy the lib­erty of in­di­vid­ual self-de­ter­mi­na­tion. He chal­lenged and con­demned the en­tire plan of mor­tal as­cen­sion as spon­sored by the Par­a­dise Sons of God and sup­ported by the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• members of each finaliter company › only Father-fused creatures mustered into

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.

• members of each finaliter company › 1. 1 Havona native (always)

31:0.21. Ha­vona Na­tives.

• members of each finaliter company › 2. 1 Gravity Messenger (always)

31:0.32. Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers.

• members of each finaliter company › 4. ascendant seraphim

31:0.54. Adopted Ser­a­phim.

• members of each finaliter company › 5. Material Sons (sometimes)

31:0.65. Glo­ri­fied Ma­te­rial Sons.

• members of each finaliter company › 6. secondary midwayer (sometimes)

31:0.76. Glo­ri­fied Mid­way Crea­tures.

• ascendant associates stay together in
• members of each finaliter company › all received in equality regardless of type

31:0.9The corps is or­ga­nized in ac­cor­dance with the work­ing as­so­ci­a­tions of the worlds of space and in keep­ing with the as­so­cia­tive ex­pe­ri­ence ac­quired through­out the long and event­ful as­cen­dant ca­reer. All the as­cen­dant crea­tures ad­mit­ted to this corps are re­ceived in equal­ity, but this ex­alted equal­ity in no way ab­ro­gates in­di­vid­u­al­ity or de­stroys per­sonal iden­tity. We can im­me­di­ately dis­cern, in com­mu­ni­cat­ing with a fi­nal­i­ter, whether he is an as­cen­dant mor­tal, Ha­vona na­tive, adopted ser­a­phim, mid­way crea­ture, or Ma­te­rial Son.

• initially serve in superuniverses not of origin
• service on Urantia

31:0.10Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age the fi­nal­i­ters re­turn to serve in the uni­verses of time. They are as­signed to la­bor suc­ces­sively in the dif­fer­ent super­uni­verses and never in their na­tive super­uni­verses un­til af­ter they have served in all the other six super­cre­ations. Thus may they ac­quire the sev­en­fold con­cept of the Su­preme Be­ing.

31:0.11One or more com­pa­nies of the mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters are con­stantly in ser­vice on Uran­tia. There is no do­main of uni­verse ser­vice to which they are not as­signed; they func­tion uni­ver­sally and with al­ter­nat­ing and equal pe­ri­ods of as­signed duty and free ser­vice.

• members of each finaliter company › 1. 1 Havona native (always)
• members of each finaliter company › viewpoint of perfection by Havona natives

31:1.1Many of the Ha­vona na­tives who serve as teach­ers in the pil­grim-train­ing schools of the cen­tral uni­verse be­come greatly at­tached to the as­cend­ing mor­tals and still more in­trigued with the fu­ture work and des­tiny of the Corps of Mor­tal Fi­nal­i­ters. On Par­a­dise there is main­tained, at the ad­min­is­tra­tive head­quar­ters of the corps, a reg­istry for Ha­vona vol­un­teers pre­sided over by the as­so­ciate of Grand­fanda. To­day, you will find mil­lions upon mil­lions of Ha­vona na­tives upon this wait­ing list. These per­fect be­ings of di­rect and di­vine cre­ation are of great as­sis­tance to the Mor­tal Corps of Fi­nal­ity, and they will un­doubt­edly be of even greater ser­vice in the far-dis­tant fu­ture. They pro­vide the view­point of one born in per­fec­tion and di­vine re­plete­ness. The fi­nal­i­ters thus em­brace both phases of ex­pe­ri­en­tial ex­is­tence—per­fect and per­fected.

• members of each finaliter company › Havona natives must achieve experiential capacity to receive Father fragment
• members of each finaliter company › only Father-fused creatures mustered into

31:1.2Ha­vona na­tives must achieve cer­tain ex­pe­ri­en­tial de­vel­op­ments in li­ai­son with evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings which will cre­ate re­cep­tion ca­pac­ity for the be­stowal of a frag­ment of the spirit of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The Mor­tal Fi­nal­i­ter Corps has as per­ma­nent mem­bers only such be­ings as have been fused with the spirit of the First Source and Cen­ter, or who, like the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers, in­nately em­body this spirit of God the Fa­ther.

• 1000 in each
• members of each finaliter company › ascendant mortals and seraphim number 990 per company; ascenders total 997

31:1.3The in­hab­i­tants of the cen­tral uni­verse are re­ceived into the corps in the ra­tio of one in a thou­sand—a fi­nal­i­ter com­pany. The corps is or­ga­nized for tem­po­rary ser­vice in com­pa­nies of one thou­sand, the as­cen­dant crea­tures num­ber­ing 997 to one Ha­vona na­tive and one Grav­ity Mes­sen­ger. Fi­nal­i­ters are thus mo­bi­lized in com­pa­nies, but the fi­nal­ity oath is ad­min­is­tered in­di­vid­u­ally. It is an oath of sweep­ing im­pli­ca­tions and eter­nal im­port. The Ha­vona na­tive takes the same oath and be­comes for­ever at­tached to the corps.

• members of each finaliter company › 2. 1 Gravity Messenger (always)

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

• members of each finaliter company › Gravity Messenger has staff of 999 Messengers

31:2.3Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers may be at­tached to a fi­nal­i­ter com­pany in un­lim­ited num­bers, but only one mes­sen­ger, the chief of his fel­lows, is mus­tered into the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. This chief how­ever has as­signed to him a per­ma­nent staff of 999 fel­low mes­sen­gers, and as oc­ca­sion may re­quire, he may call upon the re­serves of the or­der for as­sis­tants in un­lim­ited num­bers.

• members of each finaliter company › ascendant mortals and seraphim number 990 per company; ascenders total 997

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.

• members of each finaliter company › 4. ascendant seraphim

31:4.1Many of the faith­ful se­raphic guard­i­ans of mor­tals are per­mit­ted to go through the as­cen­dant ca­reer with their hu­man wards, and many of these guard­ian an­gels, af­ter be­com­ing Fa­ther fused, join their sub­jects in tak­ing the fi­nal­i­ter oath of eter­nity and for­ever ac­cept the des­tiny of their mor­tal as­so­ciates. An­gels who pass through the as­cend­ing ex­pe­ri­ence of mor­tal be­ings may share the des­tiny of hu­man na­ture; they may equally and eter­nally be mus­tered into this Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Large num­bers of the adopted and glo­ri­fied ser­a­phim are at­tached to the var­i­ous non­mor­tal fi­nal­i­ter corps.

31:5.1There is pro­vi­sion in the uni­verses of time and space whereby the Adamic cit­i­zens of the lo­cal sys­tems, when long de­layed in re­ceiv­ing plan­e­tary as­sign­ment, may ini­ti­ate a pe­ti­tion for re­lease from per­ma­nent-cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus. And if granted, they join the as­cend­ing pil­grims on the uni­verse cap­i­tals and thence pro­ceed on­ward to Par­a­dise and the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

31:5.2When an ad­vanced evo­lu­tion­ary world at­tains the later eras of the age of light and life, the Ma­te­rial Sons, the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve, may elect to hu­man­ize, re­ceive Ad­justers, and em­bark upon the evo­lu­tion­ary course of uni­verse as­cent lead­ing to the Corps of Mor­tal Fi­nal­i­ters. Cer­tain of these Ma­te­rial Sons have par­tially failed or tech­ni­cally de­faulted in their mis­sion as bi­o­logic ac­cel­er­a­tors, as Adam did on Uran­tia; and then are they com­pelled to take the nat­u­ral course of the peo­ples of the realm, re­ceive Ad­justers, pass through death, and pro­gress by faith through the as­cen­dant regime, sub­se­quently at­tain­ing Par­a­dise and the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

31:5.3These Ma­te­rial Sons are not to be found in many fi­nal­i­ter com­pa­nies. Their pres­ence lends great po­ten­tial to the pos­si­bil­i­ties of high ser­vice for such a group, and they are in­vari­ably cho­sen as its lead­ers. If both of the Edenic pair are at­tached to the same group, they are usu­ally per­mit­ted to func­tion jointly, as one per­son­al­ity. Such as­cen­dant pairs are far more suc­cess­ful in the ad­ven­ture of trini­tiz­ing than are the as­cen­dant mor­tals.

31:6.1On many plan­ets the mid­way crea­tures are pro­duced in large num­bers, but they sel­dom tarry on their na­tive world sub­se­quent to its be­ing set­tled in light and life. Then, or soon there­after, they are re­leased from per­ma­nent-cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus and start on the as­cen­sion to Par­a­dise, pass­ing through the mor­ontia worlds, the super­uni­verse, and Ha­vona in com­pany with the mor­tals of time and space.

31:6.2The mid­way crea­tures from var­i­ous uni­verses dif­fer greatly in ori­gin and na­ture, but they are all des­tined to one or an­other of the Par­a­dise fi­nal­ity corps. The sec­ondary mid­way­ers are all even­tu­ally Ad­juster fused and are mus­tered into the mor­tal corps. Many fi­nal­i­ter com­pa­nies have one of these glo­ri­fied be­ings in their group.

• members of each finaliter company › 7. vacant place in company transiently occupied by chief of attached Evangels of Light

31:7.1At the pres­ent time ev­ery fi­nal­i­ter com­pany num­bers 999 per­son­al­i­ties of oath sta­tus, per­ma­nent mem­bers. The va­cant place is oc­cu­pied by the chief of at­tached Evan­gels of Light as­signed on any sin­gle mis­sion. But these be­ings are only tran­sient mem­bers of the corps.

• members of each finaliter company › all surviving secondary midwayers join

40:3.1Al­though de­prived of the im­me­di­ate ben­e­fits of the plan­e­tary be­stowals of the de­scend­ing Sons of God, though the Par­a­dise as­cent is long de­ferred, nev­er­the­less, soon af­ter an evo­lu­tion­ary planet has at­tained the in­ter­me­di­ate epochs of light and life (if not be­fore), both groups of mid­way crea­tures are re­leased from plan­e­tary duty. Some­times the ma­jor­ity of them are trans­lated, along with their hu­man cousins, on the day of the de­scent of the tem­ple of light and the el­e­va­tion of the Plan­e­tary Prince to the dig­nity of Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign. Upon be­ing re­lieved of plan­e­tary ser­vice, both or­ders are reg­is­tered in the lo­cal uni­verse as as­cend­ing Sons of God and im­me­di­ately be­gin the long Par­a­dise as­cent by the very routes or­dained for the pro­gres­sion of the mor­tal races of the ma­te­rial worlds. The pri­mary group are des­tined to var­i­ous fi­nal­i­ter corps, but the sec­ondary or Adamic mid­way­ers are all routed for en­roll­ment in the Mor­tal Corps of Fi­nal­ity.

• members of each finaliter company › only Father-fused creatures mustered into

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

• 1000 in each

47:0.2Tran­si­tion world num­ber one it­self is quite ex­clu­sively de­voted to as­cen­dant ac­tiv­i­ties, be­ing the head­quar­ters of the fi­nal­i­ter corps as­signed to Sa­ta­nia. This world now serves as the head­quar­ters for more than one hun­dred thou­sand com­pa­nies of fi­nal­i­ters, and there are one thou­sand glo­ri­fied be­ings in each of these groups.

• members of each finaliter company › only Father-fused creatures mustered into

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

• members of each finaliter company › new entrants after age of Supreme?

55:6.10We of­ten pon­der: If the grand uni­verse should be set­tled in light and life, would the as­cend­ing ex­qui­site mor­tals still be des­tined to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity? But we do not know.

• members of each finaliter company › 4. ascendant seraphim

113:7.5Some of the des­tiny guard­i­ans of at­tach­ment dur­ing the mor­tal ca­reer fol­low the course of the as­cend­ing pil­grims through Ha­vona. The oth­ers bid their long-time mor­tal as­so­ciates a tem­po­rary farewell, and then, while these mor­tals tra­verse the cir­cles of the cen­tral uni­verse, these guard­i­ans of des­tiny achieve the cir­cles of Seraph­ing­ton. And they will be in wait­ing on the shores of Par­a­dise when their mor­tal as­so­ciates awaken from the last tran­sit sleep of time into the new ex­pe­ri­ences of eter­nity. Such as­cend­ing ser­a­phim sub­se­quently en­ter upon di­ver­gent ser­vices in the fi­nal­i­ter corps and in the Se­raphic Corps of Com­ple­tion.

• members of each finaliter company › 4. ascendant seraphim

113:7.8Only des­tiny guard­i­ans are mus­tered into the pri­mary or mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, and such pairs have en­gaged in the su­preme ad­ven­ture of iden­tity at-one­ness; the two be­ings have achieved spir­i­tual bi-uni­fi­ca­tion on Seraph­ing­ton prior to their re­cep­tion into the fi­nal­i­ter corps. In this ex­pe­ri­ence the two an­gelic na­tures, so com­ple­men­tal in all uni­verse func­tions, achieve ul­ti­mate spirit two-in-one­ness, reper­cussing in a new ca­pac­ity for the re­cep­tion of, and fu­sion with, a non-Ad­juster frag­ment of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. And so do some of your lov­ing se­raphic as­so­ciates in time also be­come your fi­nal­i­ter as­so­ciates in eter­nity, chil­dren of the Su­preme and per­fected sons of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

• accept jurisdiction of universes in light and life

117:7.7When mor­tal as­cend­ers are ad­mit­ted to the fi­nal­i­ter corps of Par­a­dise, they take an oath to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, and in tak­ing this oath of al­le­giance, they are thereby pledg­ing eter­nal fi­delity to God the Su­preme, who is the Trin­ity as com­pre­hended by all fi­nite crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties. Sub­se­quently, as the fi­nal­i­ter com­pa­nies func­tion through­out the evolv­ing uni­verses, they are solely amenable to the man­dates of Par­a­dise ori­gin un­til the event­ful times of the set­tling of lo­cal uni­verses in light and life. As the new gov­ern­men­tal or­ga­ni­za­tions of these per­fected cre­ations be­gin to be re­flec­tive of the emerg­ing sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme, we ob­serve that the out­ly­ing fi­nal­i­ter com­pa­nies then ac­knowl­edge the ju­ris­dic­tional au­thor­ity of such new gov­ern­ments. It ap­pears that God the Su­preme is evolv­ing as the uni­fier of the evo­lu­tion­ary Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, but it is highly prob­a­ble that the eter­nal des­tiny of these seven corps will be di­rected by the Su­preme as a mem­ber of the Ul­ti­mate Trin­ity.

12:2.6Through­out Or­von­ton it is be­lieved that a new type of cre­ation is in pro­cess, an or­der of uni­verses des­tined to be­come the scene of the fu­ture ac­tiv­i­ties of the as­sem­bling Corps of the Fi­nal­ity; and if our con­jec­tures are cor­rect, then the end­less fu­ture may hold for all of you the same en­thralling spec­ta­cles that the end­less past has held for your se­niors and pre­de­ces­sors.

31:0.8These six groups of glo­ri­fied be­ings com­pose this unique body of eter­nal des­tiny. We think we know their fu­ture work, but we are not cer­tain. While the Corps of the Mor­tal Fi­nal­ity is mo­bi­liz­ing on Par­a­dise, and while they now so ex­ten­sively min­is­ter to the uni­verses of space and ad­min­is­ter the worlds set­tled in light and life, their fu­ture des­ti­na­tion must be the now-or­ga­niz­ing uni­verses of outer space. At least that is the con­jec­ture of Uversa.

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.

31:3.3Not­with­stand­ing 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.

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?”

31:7.4We of Uversa of­ten con­jec­ture re­spect­ing the iden­tity of the sev­enth group of fi­nal­i­ters. We en­ter­tain many ideas, em­brac­ing pos­si­ble as­sign­ment of some of the ac­cu­mu­lat­ing corps of the nu­mer­ous trin­i­tized groups on Par­a­dise, Vicegering­ton, and the in­ner Ha­vona cir­cuit. It is even con­jec­tured that the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity may be per­mit­ted to trini­tize many of their as­sis­tants in the work of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion in the event they are des­tined to the ser­vice of uni­verses now in the mak­ing.

31:7.5One of us holds the opin­ion that this va­cant place in the corps will be filled by some type of be­ing of ori­gin in the new uni­verse of their fu­ture ser­vice; the other in­clines to the be­lief that this place will be oc­cu­pied by some type of Par­a­dise per­son­al­ity not yet cre­ated, even­tu­ated, or trin­i­tized. But we will most likely await the en­trance of the fi­nal­i­ters upon their sev­enth stage of spirit at­tain­ment be­fore we re­ally know.

31:10.13But those of us who have ac­quired this unique ex­pe­ri­ence dur­ing the youth of the uni­verse will trea­sure it through­out all fu­ture eter­nity. And many of us spec­u­late that it may be the mis­sion of the grad­u­ally ac­cu­mu­lat­ing re­serves of the as­cen­dant and per­fected mor­tals of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the other six sim­i­larly re­cruit­ing corps, to ad­min­is­ter these outer uni­verses in an ef­fort to com­pen­sate their ex­pe­ri­en­tial de­fi­cien­cies in not hav­ing par­tic­i­pated in the time-space evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing.

31:10.14These de­fi­cien­cies are in­ev­i­ta­ble on all lev­els of uni­verse ex­is­tence. Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age we of the higher lev­els of spir­i­tual ex­is­tences now come down to ad­min­is­ter the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses and min­is­ter to the as­cend­ing mor­tals, thus en­deav­or­ing to atone for their de­fi­cien­cies in the re­al­i­ties of the higher spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence.

31:10.15But though we re­ally know noth­ing about the plans of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse re­spect­ing these outer cre­ations, nev­er­the­less, of three things we are cer­tain:

31:10.161. There ac­tu­ally is a vast and new sys­tem of uni­verses grad­u­ally or­ga­niz­ing in the do­mains of outer space. New or­ders of phys­i­cal cre­ations, enor­mous and gi­gan­tic cir­cles of swarm­ing uni­verses upon uni­verses far out be­yond the pres­ent bounds of the peo­pled and or­ga­nized cre­ations, are ac­tu­ally vis­i­ble through your tele­scopes. At pres­ent, these outer cre­ations are wholly phys­i­cal; they are ap­par­ently un­in­hab­ited and seem to be de­void of crea­ture ad­min­is­tra­tion.

31:10.172. For ages upon ages there con­tin­ues the un­ex­plained and wholly mys­te­ri­ous Par­a­dise mo­bi­liza­tion of the per­fected and as­cen­dant be­ings of time and space, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the six other fi­nal­i­ter corps.

31:10.183. Con­comi­tantly with these trans­ac­tions the Su­preme Per­son of De­ity is pow­er­iz­ing as the al­mighty sov­er­eign of the super­cre­ations.

31:10.19As we view this tri­une de­vel­op­ment, em­brac­ing crea­tures, uni­verses, and De­ity, can we be crit­i­cized for an­tic­i­pat­ing that some­thing new and un­re­vealed is ap­proach­ing cul­mi­na­tion in the mas­ter uni­verse? Is it not nat­u­ral that we should as­so­ciate this age­long mo­bi­liza­tion and or­ga­ni­za­tion of phys­i­cal uni­verses on such a hith­erto un­known scale and the per­son­al­ity emer­gence of the Su­preme Be­ing with this stu­pen­dous scheme of up­step­ping the mor­tals of time to di­vine per­fec­tion and with their sub­se­quent mo­bi­liza­tion on Par­a­dise in the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity—a des­ig­na­tion and des­tiny en­shrouded in uni­verse mys­tery? It is in­creas­ingly the be­lief of all Uversa that the as­sem­bling Corps of the Fi­nal­ity are des­tined to some fu­ture ser­vice in the uni­verses of outer space, where we al­ready are able to iden­tify the clus­ter­ing of at least sev­enty thou­sand ag­gre­ga­tions of mat­ter, each of which is greater than any one of the pres­ent super­uni­verses.

48:8.4In travers­ing the as­cend­ing scale of liv­ing ex­is­tence from mor­tal man to the De­ity em­brace, you ac­tu­ally live the very life of ev­ery pos­si­ble phase and stage of per­fected crea­ture ex­is­tence within the lim­its of the pres­ent uni­verse age. From mor­tal man to Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ter em­braces all that now can be—en­com­passes ev­ery­thing pres­ently pos­si­ble to the liv­ing or­ders of in­tel­li­gent, per­fected fi­nite crea­ture be­ings. If the fu­ture des­tiny of the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters is ser­vice in new uni­verses now in the mak­ing, it is as­sured that in this new and fu­ture cre­ation there will be no cre­ated or­ders of ex­pe­ri­en­tial be­ings whose lives will be wholly dif­fer­ent from those which mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters have lived on some world as a part of their as­cend­ing train­ing, as one of the stages of their age­long prog­ress from an­i­mal to an­gel and from an­gel to spirit and from spirit to God.

112:7.16You have been in­structed to a cer­tain ex­tent about the or­ga­ni­za­tion and per­son­nel of the cen­tral uni­verse, the super­uni­verses, and the lo­cal uni­verses; you have been told some­thing about the char­ac­ter and ori­gin of some of the var­i­ous per­son­al­i­ties who now rule these far-flung cre­ations. You have also been in­formed that there are in pro­cess of or­ga­ni­za­tion vast galax­ies of uni­verses far out be­yond the pe­riph­ery of the grand uni­verse, in the first outer space level. It has also been in­ti­mated in the course of these nar­ra­tives that the Su­preme Be­ing is to dis­close his un­re­vealed ter­tiary func­tion in these now un­charted re­gions of outer space; and you have also been told that the fi­nal­i­ters of the Par­a­dise corps are the ex­pe­ri­en­tial chil­dren of the Su­preme.

112:7.17We be­lieve that the mor­tals of Ad­juster fu­sion, to­gether with their fi­nal­i­ter as­so­ciates, are des­tined to func­tion in some man­ner in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­verses of the first outer space level. We have not the slight­est doubt that in due time these enor­mous galax­ies will be­come in­hab­ited uni­verses. And we are equally con­vinced that among the ad­min­is­tra­tors thereof will be found the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters whose na­tures are the cos­mic con­se­quence of the blend­ing of crea­ture and Cre­ator.

112:7.18What an ad­ven­ture! What a ro­mance! A gi­gan­tic cre­ation to be ad­min­is­tered by the chil­dren of the Su­preme, these per­son­al­ized and hu­man­ized Ad­justers, these Ad­jus­ter­ized and eter­nal­ized mor­tals, these mys­te­ri­ous com­bi­na­tions and eter­nal as­so­ci­a­tions of the high­est known man­i­fes­ta­tion of the essence of the First Source and Cen­ter and the low­est form of in­tel­li­gent life ca­pa­ble of com­pre­hend­ing and at­tain­ing the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. We con­ceive that such amal­ga­mated be­ings, such part­ner­ships of Cre­ator and crea­ture, will be­come su­perb rulers, match­less ad­min­is­tra­tors, and un­der­stand­ing and sym­pa­thetic di­rec­tors of any and all forms of in­tel­li­gent life which may come into ex­is­tence through­out these fu­ture uni­verses of the first outer space level.

30:2.1321. The Corps of Mor­tal Fi­nal­i­ters.

188:3.83. The ac­quired spirit iden­tity of the man of Naz­a­reth which was built up dur­ing his life­time in the flesh, first, by the di­rect ef­forts of his Thought Ad­juster, and later, by his own per­fect ad­just­ment be­tween the phys­i­cal ne­ces­si­ties and the spir­i­tual re­quire­ments of the ideal mor­tal ex­is­tence, as it was ef­fected by his never-ceas­ing choice of the Fa­ther’s will, must have been con­signed to the cus­tody of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. Whether or not this spirit re­al­ity re­turned to be­come a part of the res­ur­rected per­son­al­ity, we do not know, but we be­lieve it did. But there are those in the uni­verse who hold that this soul-iden­tity of Je­sus now re­poses in the “bo­som of the Fa­ther,” to be sub­se­quently re­leased for lead­er­ship of the Neb­a­don Corps of the Fi­nal­ity in their undis­closed des­tiny in con­nec­tion with the un­cre­ated uni­verses of the un­or­ga­nized realms of outer space.

• completion of Havona and Paradise residency

14:5.4When in­tel­li­gent be­ings first at­tain the cen­tral uni­verse, they are re­ceived and domi­ciled on the pi­lot world of the sev­enth Ha­vona cir­cuit. As the new ar­rivals pro­gress spir­i­tu­ally, at­tain iden­tity com­pre­hen­sion of their super­uni­verse Mas­ter Spirit, they are trans­ferred to the sixth cir­cle. (It is from these ar­range­ments in the cen­tral uni­verse that the cir­cles of prog­ress in the hu­man mind have been des­ig­nated.) Af­ter as­cend­ers have at­tained a re­al­iza­tion of Su­prem­acy and are thereby pre­pared for the De­ity ad­ven­ture, they are taken to the fifth cir­cuit; and af­ter at­tain­ing the In­fi­nite Spirit, they are trans­ferred to the fourth. Fol­low­ing the at­tain­ment of the Eter­nal Son, they are re­moved to the third; and when they have rec­og­nized the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, they go to so­journ on the sec­ond cir­cuit of worlds, where they be­come more fa­mil­iar with the Par­a­dise hosts. Ar­rival on the first cir­cuit of Ha­vona sig­ni­fies the ac­cep­tance of the can­di­dates of time into the ser­vice of Par­a­dise. In­def­i­nitely, ac­cord­ing to the length and na­ture of the crea­ture as­cen­sion, they will tarry on the in­ner cir­cuit of pro­gres­sive spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. From this in­ner cir­cuit the as­cend­ing pil­grims pass in­ward to Par­a­dise res­i­dence and ad­mis­sion to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

• full attainment of worship

27:0.1Pri­mary super­na­phim are the su­per­nal ser­vants of the De­i­ties on the eter­nal Isle of Par­a­dise. Never have they been known to de­part from the paths of light and righ­teous­ness. The roll calls are com­plete; from eter­nity not one of this mag­nif­i­cent host has been lost. These high super­na­phim are per­fect be­ings, su­preme in per­fec­tion, but they are not ab­so­nite, nei­ther are they ab­so­lute. Be­ing of the essence of per­fec­tion, these chil­dren of the In­fi­nite Spirit work in­ter­change­ably and at will in all phases of their man­i­fold du­ties. They do not func­tion ex­ten­sively out­side Par­a­dise, though they do par­tic­i­pate in the var­i­ous mil­len­nial gath­er­ings and group re­unions of the cen­tral uni­verse. They also go forth as spe­cial mes­sen­gers of the De­i­ties, and in large num­bers they as­cend to be­come Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers.

• full attainment of worship

27:7.3The pe­ri­odic, spon­ta­neous, group, and other spe­cial out­bursts of su­preme ado­ra­tion and spir­i­tual praise en­joyed on Par­a­dise are con­ducted un­der the lead­er­ship of a spe­cial corps of pri­mary super­na­phim. Un­der the di­rec­tion of these con­duc­tors of wor­ship, such homage achieves the crea­ture goal of su­preme plea­sure and at­tains the heights of the per­fec­tion of sub­lime self-ex­pres­sion and per­sonal en­joy­ment. All pri­mary super­na­phim crave to be con­duc­tors of wor­ship; and all as­cen­dant be­ings would en­joy for­ever re­main­ing in the at­ti­tude of wor­ship did not the chiefs of as­sign­ment pe­ri­od­i­cally dis­perse these as­sem­blages. But no as­cen­dant be­ing is ever re­quired to en­ter upon the as­sign­ments of eter­nal ser­vice un­til he has at­tained full sat­is­fac­tion in wor­ship.

• 7th jubilee; finaliters become 6th stage spirits
• full attainment of worship

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.

• sweeping oath to Trinity

27:7.9And thus ends the story of the Par­a­dise super­na­phim, the high­est or­der of all the min­is­ter­ing spir­its, those be­ings who, as a uni­ver­sal class, ever at­tend you from the world of your ori­gin un­til you are fi­nally bid­den farewell by the con­duc­tors of wor­ship as you take the Trin­ity oath of eter­nity and are mus­tered into the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

112:7.15The pres­ent known des­tiny of sur­viv­ing mor­tals is the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity; this is also the goal of des­tiny for all Thought Ad­justers who be­come joined in eter­nal union with their mor­tal com­pan­ions. At pres­ent the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters are work­ing through­out the grand uni­verse in many un­der­tak­ings, but we all con­jec­ture that they will have other and even more su­per­nal tasks to per­form in the dis­tant fu­ture af­ter the seven super­uni­verses have be­come set­tled in light and life, and when the fi­nite God has fi­nally emerged from the mys­tery which now sur­rounds this Su­preme De­ity.

47:2.8But if they choose the Par­a­dise path of per­fec­tion, they are im­me­di­ately made ready for trans­la­tion to the first man­sion world, where many of them ar­rive in time to join their par­ents in the Ha­vona as­cent. Af­ter pass­ing through Ha­vona and at­tain­ing the De­i­ties, these sal­vaged souls of mor­tal ori­gin con­sti­tute the per­ma­nent as­cen­dant cit­i­zen­ship of Par­a­dise. These chil­dren who have been de­prived of the valu­able and es­sen­tial evo­lu­tion­ary ex­pe­ri­ence on the worlds of mor­tal na­tiv­ity are not mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

31:0.1The Corps of Mor­tal Fi­nal­i­ters rep­re­sents the pres­ent known des­ti­na­tion of the as­cend­ing Ad­juster-fused mor­tals of time. But there are other groups who are also as­signed to this corps. The pri­mary fi­nal­i­ter corps is com­posed of the fol­low­ing:

20:9.4The Day­nals may re­turn many times to an in­hab­ited world, and fol­low­ing their fi­nal mis­sion the planet will be ush­ered into the set­tled sta­tus of a sphere of light and life, the evo­lu­tion­ary goal of all the mor­tal-in­hab­ited worlds of the pres­ent uni­verse age. The Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity has much to do with the spheres set­tled in light and life, and their plan­e­tary ac­tiv­i­ties touch upon those of the Teacher Sons. In­deed, the whole or­der of Day­nal son­ship is in­ti­mately con­nected with all phases of fi­nal­i­ter ac­tiv­i­ties in the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ations of time and space.

20:9.5The Trin­ity Teacher Sons seem to be so com­pletely iden­ti­fied with the regime of mor­tal pro­gres­sion through the ear­lier stages of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cen­sion that we are of­ten led to spec­u­late re­gard­ing their pos­si­ble as­so­ci­a­tion with the fi­nal­i­ters in the undis­closed ca­reer of the fu­ture uni­verses. We ob­serve that the ad­min­is­tra­tors of the super­uni­verses are part Trin­ity-ori­gin per­son­al­i­ties and part Trin­ity-em­braced as­cen­dant evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures. We firmly be­lieve that the Teacher Sons and the fi­nal­i­ters are now en­gaged in ac­quir­ing the ex­pe­ri­ence of time-as­so­ci­a­tion which may be the pre­lim­i­nary train­ing to pre­pare them for close as­so­ci­a­tion in some un­re­vealed fu­ture des­tiny. On Uversa it is our be­lief that, when the super­uni­verses are fi­nally set­tled in light and life, these Par­a­dise Teacher Sons, who have be­come so thor­oughly fa­mil­iar with the prob­lems of evo­lu­tion­ary worlds and have been so long as­so­ci­ated with the ca­reer of evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals, will prob­a­bly be trans­ferred to eter­nal as­so­ci­a­tion with the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.