corps of permanent citizens

13:1.1The Fa­ther’s cir­cuit of sa­cred life spheres con­tains the only in­her­ent per­son­al­ity se­crets in the uni­verse of uni­verses. These satel­lites of Par­a­dise, the in­ner­most of the three cir­cuits, are the only for­bid­den do­mains con­cerned with per­son­al­ity in the cen­tral uni­verse. Nether Par­a­dise and the worlds of the Son are like­wise closed to per­son­al­i­ties, but nei­ther of those realms is in any way di­rectly con­cerned with per­son­al­ity.

13:1.2The Par­a­dise worlds of the Fa­ther are di­rected by the high­est or­der of the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity, the Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy. Of these worlds I can tell lit­tle; of their man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties I may tell less. Such in­for­ma­tion con­cerns only those be­ings who func­tion thereon and go forth there­from. And though I am some­what fa­mil­iar with six of these spe­cial worlds, never have I landed on Di­vin­ing­ton; that world is wholly for­bid­den to me.

13:1.3One of the rea­sons for the se­crecy of these worlds is be­cause each of these sa­cred spheres en­joys a spe­cial­ized rep­re­sen­ta­tion, or man­i­fes­ta­tion, of the De­i­ties com­pos­ing the Par­a­dise Trin­ity; not a per­son­al­ity, but a unique pres­ence of Di­vin­ity which can only be ap­pre­ci­ated and com­pre­hended by those par­tic­u­lar groups of in­tel­li­gences res­i­dent on, or ad­mis­si­ble to, that par­tic­u­lar sphere. The Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy are the per­sonal agents of these spe­cial­ized and im­per­sonal pres­ences of Di­vin­ity. And the Se­crets of Su­prem­acy are highly per­sonal be­ings, su­perbly en­dowed and mar­velously adapted to their ex­alted and ex­act­ing work.

13:1.41. DI­VIN­ING­TON. This world is, in a unique sense, the “bo­som of the Fa­ther,” the per­sonal-com­mu­nion sphere of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and thereon is a spe­cial man­i­fes­ta­tion of his di­vin­ity. Di­vin­ing­ton is the Par­a­dise ren­dezvous of the Thought Ad­justers, but it is also the home of nu­mer­ous other en­ti­ties, per­son­al­i­ties, and other be­ings tak­ing ori­gin in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Many per­son­al­i­ties be­sides the Eter­nal Son are of di­rect ori­gin by the soli­tary acts of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Only the Fa­ther frag­ments and those per­son­al­i­ties and other be­ings of di­rect and ex­clu­sive ori­gin in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther frat­er­nize and func­tion on this abode.

13:1.5The se­crets of Di­vin­ing­ton in­clude the se­cret of the be­stowal and mis­sion of Thought Ad­justers. Their na­ture, ori­gin, and the tech­nique of their con­tact with the lowly crea­tures of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds is a se­cret of this Par­a­dise sphere. These amaz­ing trans­ac­tions do not per­son­ally con­cern the rest of us, and there­fore do the De­i­ties deem it proper to with­hold cer­tain fea­tures of this great and di­vine min­istry from our full un­der­stand­ing. In so far as we come in con­tact with this phase of di­vine ac­tiv­ity, we are per­mit­ted full knowl­edge of these trans­ac­tions, but con­cern­ing the in­ti­mate de­tails of this great be­stowal we are not fully in­formed.

13:1.6This sphere also holds the se­crets of the na­ture, pur­pose, and ac­tiv­i­ties of all other forms of Fa­ther frag­ments, of the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers, and of hosts of other be­ings un­re­vealed to you. It is highly prob­a­ble that those truths per­tain­ing to Di­vin­ing­ton which are with­held from me, if re­vealed, would merely con­fuse and hand­i­cap me in my pres­ent work, and still again, per­haps they are be­yond the con­cep­tual ca­pac­ity of my or­der of be­ing.

13:1.72. SONAR­ING­TON. This sphere is the “bo­som of the Son,” the per­sonal re­ceiv­ing world of the Eter­nal Son. It is the Par­a­dise head­quar­ters of the de­scend­ing and as­cend­ing Sons of God when, and af­ter, they are fully ac­cred­ited and fi­nally ap­proved. This world is the Par­a­dise home for all Sons of the Eter­nal Son and of his co-or­di­nate and as­so­ciate Sons. There are nu­mer­ous or­ders of di­vine son­ship at­tached to this su­per­nal abode which have not been re­vealed to mor­tals since they are not con­cerned with the plans of the as­cen­sion scheme of hu­man spir­i­tual pro­gres­sion through the uni­verses and on to Par­a­dise.

13:1.8The se­crets of Sonar­ing­ton in­clude the se­cret of the in­car­na­tion of the di­vine Sons. When a Son of God be­comes a Son of Man, is lit­er­ally born of woman, as oc­curred on your world nine­teen hun­dred years ago, it is a uni­ver­sal mys­tery. It is oc­cur­ring right along through­out the uni­verses, and it is a Sonar­ing­ton se­cret of di­vine son­ship. The Ad­justers are a mys­tery of God the Fa­ther. The in­car­na­tion of the di­vine Sons is a mys­tery of God the Son; it is a se­cret locked up in the sev­enth sec­tor of Sonar­ing­ton, a realm pen­e­trated by none save those who have per­son­ally passed through this unique ex­pe­ri­ence. Only those phases of in­car­na­tion hav­ing to do with your as­cen­sion ca­reer have been brought to your no­tice. There are many other phases of the mys­tery of the in­car­na­tion of the Par­a­dise Sons of un­re­vealed types on mis­sions of uni­verse ser­vice which are undis­closed to you. And there are still other Sonar­ing­ton mys­ter­ies.

13:1.93. SPIR­IT­ING­TON. This world is the “bo­som of the Spirit,” the Par­a­dise home of the high be­ings that ex­clu­sively rep­re­sent the In­fi­nite Spirit. Here for­gather the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and cer­tain of their off­spring from all uni­verses. At this ce­les­tial abode may also be found nu­mer­ous un­re­vealed or­ders of spirit per­son­al­i­ties, be­ings as­signed to the man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties of the uni­verse not as­so­ci­ated with the plans of up­step­ping the mor­tal crea­tures of time to the Par­a­dise lev­els of eter­nity.

13:1.10The se­crets of Spir­it­ing­ton in­volve the im­pen­e­tra­ble mys­ter­ies of re­flec­tiv­ity. We tell you of the vast and uni­ver­sal phe­nom­e­non of re­flec­tiv­ity, more par­tic­u­larly as it is op­er­a­tive on the head­quar­ters worlds of the seven super­uni­verses, but we never fully ex­plain this phe­nom­e­non, for we do not fully un­der­stand it. Much, very much, we do com­pre­hend, but many ba­sic de­tails are still mys­te­ri­ous to us. Re­flec­tiv­ity is a se­cret of God the Spirit. You have been in­structed con­cern­ing re­flec­tiv­ity func­tions in re­la­tion to the as­cen­sion scheme of mor­tal sur­vival, and it does so op­er­ate, but re­flec­tiv­ity is also an in­dis­pens­able fea­ture of the nor­mal work­ing of nu­mer­ous other phases of uni­verse oc­cu­pa­tion. This en­dow­ment of the In­fi­nite Spirit is also uti­lized in chan­nels other than those of in­tel­li­gence gath­er­ing and in­for­ma­tion dis­sem­i­na­tion. And there are other se­crets of Spir­it­ing­ton.

13:1.114. VICEGERING­TON. This planet is the “bo­som of the Fa­ther and the Son” and is the se­cret sphere of cer­tain un­re­vealed be­ings who take ori­gin by the acts of the Fa­ther and the Son. This is also the Par­a­dise home of many glo­ri­fied be­ings of com­plex an­ces­try, those whose ori­gin is com­pli­cated be­cause of the many di­verse tech­niques op­er­a­tive in the seven super­uni­verses. Many groups of be­ings for­gather on this world whose iden­tity has not been re­vealed to Uran­tia mor­tals.

13:1.12The se­crets of Vicegering­ton in­clude the se­crets of trin­i­ti­za­tion, and trin­i­ti­za­tion con­sti­tutes the se­cret of au­thor­ity to rep­re­sent the Trin­ity, to act as vicegerents of the Gods. Au­thor­ity to rep­re­sent the Trin­ity at­taches only to those be­ings, re­vealed and un­re­vealed, who are trin­i­tized, cre­ated, even­tu­ated, or eter­nal­ized by any two or all three of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. Per­son­al­i­ties brought into be­ing by the trini­tiz­ing acts of cer­tain types of glo­ri­fied crea­tures rep­re­sent no more than the con­cep­tual po­ten­tial mo­bi­lized in that trin­i­ti­za­tion, al­beit such crea­tures may as­cend the path of De­ity em­brace open to all of their kind.

13:1.13Non­trini­tized be­ings do not fully un­der­stand the tech­nique of trin­i­ti­za­tion by ei­ther two or three Cre­ators or by cer­tain crea­tures. You will never fully un­der­stand such a phe­nom­e­non un­less, in the far-dis­tant fu­ture of your glo­ri­fied ca­reer, you should es­say and suc­ceed in such an ad­ven­ture, be­cause oth­er­wise these se­crets of Vicegering­ton will al­ways be for­bid­den you. But to me, a high Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ing, all sec­tors of Vicegering­ton are open. I fully un­der­stand, and just as fully and sa­credly pro­tect, the se­cret of my ori­gin and des­tiny.

13:1.14There are still other forms and phases of trin­i­ti­za­tion which have not been brought to the no­tice of the Uran­tia peo­ples, and these ex­pe­ri­ences, in their per­sonal as­pects, are duly pro­tected in the se­cret sec­tor of Vicegering­ton.

13:1.155. SOLI­TAR­ING­TON. This world is the “bo­som of the Fa­ther and the Spirit” and is the ren­dezvous of a mag­nif­i­cent host of un­re­vealed be­ings of ori­gin in the con­joint acts of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the In­fi­nite Spirit, be­ings who par­take of the traits of the Fa­ther in ad­di­tion to their Spirit in­her­i­tance.

13:1.16This is also the home of the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers and of other per­son­al­i­ties of the super­an­gelic or­ders. You know of very few of these be­ings; there are vast num­bers of or­ders un­re­vealed on Uran­tia. Be­cause they are domi­ciled on the fifth world, it does not nec­es­sar­ily fol­low that the Fa­ther had aught to do with the cre­ation of Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers or their super­an­gelic as­so­ciates, but in this uni­verse age he does have to do with their func­tion. Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age this is also the sta­tus sphere of the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors.

13:1.17There are nu­mer­ous ad­di­tional or­ders of spirit per­son­al­i­ties, be­ings un­known to mor­tal man, who look upon Soli­tar­ing­ton as their Par­a­dise home sphere. It should be re­mem­bered that all di­vi­sions and lev­els of uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties are just as fully pro­vided with spirit min­is­ters as is the realm con­cerned with help­ing mor­tal man as­cend to his di­vine Par­a­dise des­tiny.

13:1.18The se­crets of Soli­tar­ing­ton. Be­sides cer­tain se­crets of trin­i­ti­za­tion, this world holds the se­crets of the per­sonal re­la­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit with cer­tain of the higher off­spring of the Third Source and Cen­ter. On Soli­tar­ing­ton are held the mys­ter­ies of the in­ti­mate as­so­ci­a­tion of nu­mer­ous un­re­vealed or­ders with the spir­its of the Fa­ther, of the Son, and of the Spirit, with the three­fold spirit of the Trin­ity, and with the spir­its of the Su­preme, the Ul­ti­mate, and the Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate.

13:1.196. SERAPH­ING­TON. This sphere is the “bo­som of the Son and the Spirit” and is the home world of the vast hosts of un­re­vealed be­ings cre­ated by the Son and the Spirit. This is also the des­tiny sphere of all min­is­ter­ing or­ders of the an­gelic hosts, in­clud­ing super­na­phim, se­con­a­phim, and ser­a­phim. There also serve in the cen­tral and out­ly­ing uni­verses many or­ders of su­perb spir­its who are not “min­is­ter­ing spir­its to those who shall be heirs of sal­va­tion.” All these spirit work­ers in all lev­els and realms of uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties look upon Seraph­ing­ton as their Par­a­dise home.

13:1.20The se­crets of Seraph­ing­ton in­volve a three­fold mys­tery, only one of which I may men­tion—the mys­tery of se­raphic trans­port. The abil­ity of var­i­ous or­ders of ser­a­phim and al­lied spirit be­ings to en­velop within their spirit forms all or­ders of non­ma­te­rial per­son­al­i­ties and to carry them away on lengthy in­ter­plan­e­tary jour­neys, is a se­cret locked up in the sa­cred sec­tors of Seraph­ing­ton. The trans­port ser­a­phim com­pre­hend this mys­tery, but they do not com­mu­ni­cate it to the rest of us, or per­haps they can­not. The other mys­ter­ies of Seraph­ing­ton per­tain to the per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ences of types of spirit servers as yet not re­vealed to mor­tals. And we re­frain from dis­cussing the se­crets of such closely re­lated be­ings be­cause you can al­most com­pre­hend such near or­ders of ex­is­tence, and it would be akin to be­trayal of trust to pre­sent even our par­tial knowl­edge of such phe­nom­ena.

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.

13:2.1These 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.

13:2.3As­cend­ing­ton is the only sa­cred sphere that will be un­re­servedly open to your in­spec­tion as a Par­a­dise ar­rival. Vicegering­ton is the only sa­cred sphere that is wholly and un­re­servedly open to my scrutiny. Though its se­crets are con­cerned in my ori­gin, in this uni­verse age I do not re­gard Vicegering­ton as my home. Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings and trin­i­tized be­ings are not the same.

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.

13:2.5You might as­sume that Cre­ator Sons, be­ing of Fa­ther-Son ori­gin, would re­gard Vicegering­ton as their home, but such is not the case in this uni­verse age of the func­tion of God the Sev­en­fold. And there are many sim­i­lar prob­lems that will per­plex you, for you are sure to en­counter many dif­fi­cul­ties as you at­tempt to un­der­stand these things which are so near Par­a­dise. Nor can you suc­cess­fully rea­son out these ques­tions; you know so lit­tle. And if you knew more about the Fa­ther’s worlds, you would sim­ply en­counter more dif­fi­cul­ties un­til you knew all about them. Sta­tus on any of these se­cret worlds is ac­quired by ser­vice as well as by na­ture of ori­gin, and the suc­ces­sive uni­verse ages may and do re­dis­tribute cer­tain of these per­son­al­ity group­ings.

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.

13:2.7Even­tu­ally you will have full ac­cess to As­cend­ing­ton and rel­a­tive ac­cess to the other spheres of the Fa­ther ex­cept Di­vin­ing­ton. But even when you are granted per­mis­sion to land on five ad­di­tional se­cret spheres, af­ter you have be­come a fi­nal­i­ter, you will not be al­lowed to visit all sec­tors of such worlds. Nor will you be per­mit­ted to land on the shores of Di­vin­ing­ton, the “bo­som of the Fa­ther,” though you shall surely stand re­peat­edly at the “right hand of the Fa­ther.” Never through­out all eter­nity will there arise any ne­ces­sity for your pres­ence on the world of the Thought Ad­justers.

13:2.8These ren­dezvous worlds of spirit life are for­bid­den ground to the ex­tent that we are asked not to ne­go­ti­ate en­trance to those phases of these spheres which are wholly out­side our realms of ex­pe­ri­ence. You may be­come crea­ture per­fect even as the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is de­ity per­fect, but you may not know all the ex­pe­ri­en­tial se­crets of all other or­ders of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties. When the Cre­ator has an ex­pe­ri­en­tial per­son­al­ity se­cret with his crea­ture, the Cre­ator pre­serves that se­cret in eter­nal con­fi­dence.

13:2.9All these se­crets are sup­pos­edly known to the col­lec­tive body of the Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy. These be­ings are fully known only by their spe­cial world groups; they are lit­tle com­pre­hended by other or­ders. Af­ter you at­tain Par­a­dise, you will know and ar­dently love the ten Se­crets of Su­prem­acy who di­rect As­cend­ing­ton. Ex­cept­ing Di­vin­ing­ton, you will also achieve a par­tial un­der­stand­ing of the Se­crets of Su­prem­acy on the other worlds of the Fa­ther, though not so per­fectly as on As­cend­ing­ton.

13:2.10The Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy, as their name might sug­gest, are re­lated to the Su­preme; they are like­wise re­lated to the Ul­ti­mate and to the fu­ture Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate. These Se­crets of Su­prem­acy are the se­crets of the Su­preme and also the se­crets of the Ul­ti­mate, even the se­crets of the Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate.

13:4.1Be­tween the in­ner cir­cuit of Ha­vona and the shin­ing spheres of the Eter­nal Son there cir­cle the seven orbs of the In­fi­nite Spirit, worlds in­hab­ited by the off­spring of the In­fi­nite Spirit, by the trin­i­tized sons of glo­ri­fied cre­ated per­son­al­i­ties, and by other types of un­re­vealed be­ings con­cerned with the ef­fec­tive ad­min­is­tra­tion of the many en­ter­prises of the var­i­ous realms of uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties.

13:4.2The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are the su­preme and ul­ti­mate rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the In­fi­nite Spirit. They main­tain their per­sonal sta­tions, their power fo­cuses, on the pe­riph­ery of Par­a­dise, but all op­er­a­tions con­cerned with their man­age­ment and di­rec­tion of the grand uni­verse are con­ducted on and from these seven spe­cial ex­ec­u­tive spheres of the In­fi­nite Spirit. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are, in re­al­ity, the mind-spirit bal­ance wheel of the uni­verse of uni­verses, an all-em­brac­ing, all-en­com­pass­ing, and all-co-or­di­nat­ing power of cen­tral lo­ca­tion.

13:4.3From these seven spe­cial spheres the Mas­ter Spir­its op­er­ate to equal­ize and sta­bi­lize the cos­mic-mind cir­cuits of the grand uni­verse. They also have to do with the dif­fer­en­tial spir­i­tual at­ti­tude and pres­ence of the De­i­ties through­out the grand uni­verse. Phys­i­cal re­ac­tions are uni­form, un­vary­ing, and al­ways in­stan­ta­neous and au­to­matic. But ex­pe­ri­en­tial spir­i­tual pres­ence is in ac­cor­dance with the un­der­ly­ing con­di­tions or states of spir­i­tual re­cep­tiv­ity in­her­ent in the in­di­vid­ual minds of the realms.

13:4.4Phys­i­cal au­thor­ity, pres­ence, and func­tion are un­vary­ing in all the uni­verses, small or great. The dif­fer­ing fac­tor in spir­i­tual pres­ence, or re­ac­tion, is the fluc­tu­at­ing dif­fer­en­tial in its rec­og­ni­tion and re­cep­tion by will crea­tures. Whereas the spir­i­tual pres­ence of ab­so­lute and ex­is­ten­tial De­ity is in no man­ner what­ever in­flu­enced by at­ti­tudes of loy­alty or dis­loy­alty on the part of cre­ated be­ings, at the same time it is true that the func­tion­ing pres­ence of sub­ab­so­lute and ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity is def­i­nitely and di­rectly in­flu­enced by the de­ci­sions, choices, and will-at­ti­tudes of such fi­nite crea­ture be­ings—by the loy­alty and de­vo­tion of the in­di­vid­ual be­ing, planet, sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, or uni­verse. But this spir­i­tual pres­ence of di­vin­ity is not whim­si­cal nor ar­bi­trary; its ex­pe­ri­en­tial vari­ance is in­her­ent in the free­will en­dow­ment of per­sonal crea­tures.

13:4.5The de­ter­miner of the dif­fer­en­tial of spir­i­tual pres­ence ex­ists in your own hearts and minds and con­sists in the man­ner of your own choos­ing, in the de­ci­sions of your minds, and in the de­ter­mi­na­tion of your own wills. This dif­fer­en­tial is in­her­ent in the free­will re­ac­tions of in­tel­li­gent per­sonal be­ings, be­ings whom the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has or­dained shall ex­er­cise this lib­erty of choos­ing. And the De­i­ties are ever true to the ebb and flow of their spir­its in meet­ing and sat­is­fy­ing the con­di­tions and de­mands of this dif­fer­en­tial of crea­ture choice, now be­stow­ing more of their pres­ence in re­sponse to a sin­cere de­sire for the same and again with­draw­ing them­selves from the scene as their crea­tures de­cide ad­versely in the ex­er­cise of their di­vinely be­stowed free­dom of choice. And thus does the spirit of di­vin­ity be­come humbly obe­di­ent to the choos­ing of the crea­tures of the realms.

13:4.6The ex­ec­u­tive abodes of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are, in re­al­ity, the Par­a­dise head­quar­ters of the seven super­uni­verses and their cor­re­lated seg­ments in outer space. Each Mas­ter Spirit pre­sides over one super­uni­verse, and each of these seven worlds is ex­clu­sively as­signed to one of the Mas­ter Spir­its. There is lit­er­ally no phase of the sub-Par­a­dise ad­min­is­tra­tion of the seven super­uni­verses which is not pro­vided for on these ex­ec­u­tive worlds. They are not so ex­clu­sive as the spheres of the Fa­ther or those of the Son, and though res­i­den­tial sta­tus is lim­ited to na­tive be­ings and those who work thereon, these seven ad­min­is­tra­tive plan­ets are al­ways open to all be­ings who de­sire to visit them, and who can com­mand the nec­es­sary means of tran­sit.

13:4.7To me, these ex­ec­u­tive worlds are the most in­ter­est­ing and in­trigu­ing spots out­side of Par­a­dise. In no other place in the wide uni­verse can one ob­serve such var­ied ac­tiv­i­ties, in­volv­ing so many dif­fer­ent or­ders of liv­ing be­ings, hav­ing to do with op­er­a­tions on so many di­verse lev­els, oc­cu­pa­tions at once ma­te­rial, in­tel­lec­tual, and spir­i­tual. When I am ac­corded a pe­riod of re­lease from as­sign­ment, if I chance to be on Par­a­dise or in Ha­vona, I usu­ally pro­ceed to one of these busy worlds of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, there to in­spire my mind with such spec­ta­cles of en­ter­prise, de­vo­tion, loy­alty, wis­dom, and ef­fec­tive­ness. Nowhere else can I ob­serve such an amaz­ing in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of per­son­al­ity per­for­mances on all seven lev­els of uni­verse re­al­ity. And I am al­ways stim­u­lated by the ac­tiv­i­ties of those who well know how to do their work, and who so thor­oughly en­joy do­ing it.

13:4.8[Pre­sented by a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom com­mis­sioned thus to func­tion by the An­cients of Days on Uversa.]

19:6.1The Ha­vona na­tives are the di­rect cre­ation of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, and their num­ber is be­yond the con­cept of your cir­cum­scribed minds. Nei­ther is it pos­si­ble for Uran­tians to con­ceive of the in­her­ent en­dow­ments of such di­vinely per­fect crea­tures as these Trin­ity-ori­gin races of the eter­nal uni­verse. You can never truly en­vis­age these glo­ri­ous crea­tures; you must await your ar­rival in Ha­vona, when you can greet them as spirit com­rades.

19:6.2Dur­ing your long so­journ on the bil­lion worlds of Ha­vona cul­ture you will de­velop an eter­nal friend­ship for these su­perb be­ings. And how deep is that friend­ship which grows up be­tween the low­est per­sonal crea­ture from the worlds of space and these high per­sonal be­ings na­tive to the per­fect spheres of the cen­tral uni­verse! As­cend­ing mor­tals, in their long and lov­ing as­so­ci­a­tion with the Ha­vona na­tives, do much to com­pen­sate for the spir­i­tual im­pov­er­ish­ment of the ear­lier stages of mor­tal pro­gres­sion. At the same time, through their con­tacts with as­cend­ing pil­grims, the Havon­ers gain an ex­pe­ri­ence which to no small ex­tent over­comes the ex­pe­ri­en­tial hand­i­cap of hav­ing al­ways lived a life of di­vine per­fec­tion. The good to both as­cend­ing mor­tal and Ha­vona na­tive is great and mu­tual.

19:6.3Ha­vona na­tives, like all other Trin­ity-ori­gin per­son­al­i­ties, are pro­jected in di­vine per­fec­tion, and as with other Trin­ity-ori­gin per­son­al­i­ties, the pass­ing of time may add to their stores of ex­pe­ri­en­tial en­dow­ments. But un­like the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity, Havon­ers may evolve in sta­tus, may have an un­re­vealed fu­ture eter­nity-des­tiny. This is il­lus­trated by those Havon­ers who ser­vice-fac­tu­al­ize ca­pac­ity for fu­sion with a non-Ad­juster Fa­ther frag­ment and so qual­ify for mem­ber­ship in the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. And there are other fi­nal­i­ter corps open to these na­tives of the cen­tral uni­verse.

19:6.4The sta­tus evo­lu­tion of Ha­vona na­tives has oc­ca­sioned much spec­u­la­tion on Uversa. Since they are con­stantly fil­ter­ing into the sev­eral Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, and since no more are be­ing cre­ated, it is ap­par­ent that the num­ber of na­tives re­main­ing in Ha­vona is con­stantly di­min­ish­ing. The ul­ti­mate con­se­quences of these trans­ac­tions have never been re­vealed to us, but we do not be­lieve that Ha­vona will ever be en­tirely de­pleted of its na­tives. We have en­ter­tained the the­ory that Havon­ers will pos­si­bly cease en­ter­ing the fi­nal­i­ter corps some­time dur­ing the ages of the suc­ces­sive cre­ations of the outer space lev­els. We have also en­ter­tained the thought that in these sub­se­quent uni­verse ages the cen­tral uni­verse may be peo­pled by a mixed group of res­i­dent be­ings, a cit­i­zen­ship con­sist­ing only in part of the orig­i­nal Ha­vona na­tives. We do not know what or­der or type of crea­ture may be thus des­tined to res­i­den­tial sta­tus in the fu­ture Ha­vona, but we have thought of:

19:6.51. The uni­v­i­ta­tia, who are at pres­ent the per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of the lo­cal uni­verse con­stel­la­tions.

19:6.62. Fu­ture types of mor­tals who may be born on the in­hab­ited spheres of the super­uni­verses in the flow­er­ing of the ages of light and life.

19:6.73. The in­com­ing spir­i­tual aris­toc­racy of the suc­ces­sive outer uni­verses.

19:6.8We know that the Ha­vona of the pre­vi­ous uni­verse age was some­what dif­fer­ent from the Ha­vona of the pres­ent age. We deem it no more than rea­son­able to as­sume that we are now wit­ness­ing those slow changes in the cen­tral uni­verse that are an­tic­i­pa­tory of the ages to come. One thing is cer­tain: The uni­verse is non­static; only God is change­less.

19:7.1There are res­i­dent on Par­a­dise nu­mer­ous groups of su­perb be­ings, the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens. They are not di­rectly con­cerned with the scheme of per­fect­ing as­cend­ing will crea­tures and are not, there­fore, fully re­vealed to Uran­tia mor­tals. There are more than three thou­sand or­ders of these su­per­nal in­tel­li­gences, the last group hav­ing been per­son­al­ized si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the man­date of the Trin­ity which pro­mul­gated the cre­ative plan of the seven super­uni­verses of time and space.

19:7.2Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens and Ha­vona na­tives are some­times des­ig­nated col­lec­tively as Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties.

19:7.3This com­pletes the story of those be­ings who are brought into ex­is­tence by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. None of them have ever gone astray. And yet, in the high­est sense, they are all free­will en­dowed.

19:7.4Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings pos­sess pre­rog­a­tives of tran­sit which make them in­de­pen­dent of trans­port per­son­al­i­ties, such as ser­a­phim. We all pos­sess the power of mov­ing about freely and quickly in the uni­verse of uni­verses. Ex­cept­ing the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, we can­not at­tain the al­most un­be­liev­able ve­loc­ity of the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, but we are able so to uti­lize the sum to­tal of the trans­port fa­cil­i­ties in space that we can reach any point in a super­uni­verse, from its head­quar­ters, in less than one year of Uran­tia time. It re­quired 109 days of your time for me to jour­ney from Uversa to Uran­tia.

19:7.5Through these same av­enues we are en­abled to in­ter­com­mu­ni­cate in­stan­ta­neously. Our en­tire or­der of cre­ation finds it­self in touch with ev­ery in­di­vid­ual em­braced within ev­ery di­vi­sion of the chil­dren of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity save only the In­spired Spir­its.

19:7.6[Pre­sented by a Di­vine Coun­selor of Uversa.]

• corps of permanent citizens

30:2.116VII. THE CORPS OF PER­MA­NENT CIT­I­ZEN­SHIP.

30:2.1171. The Plan­e­tary Mid­way­ers.

30:2.1182. The Adamic Sons of the Sys­tems.

30:2.1193. The Con­stel­la­tion Uni­v­i­ta­tia.

30:2.1204. The Lo­cal Uni­verse Susa­tia.

30:2.1215. Spirit-fused Mor­tals of the Lo­cal Uni­verses.

30:2.1226. The Super­uni­verse Aban­don­ters.

30:2.1237. Son-fused Mor­tals of the Super­uni­verses.

30:2.1248. The Ha­vona Na­tives.

30:2.1259. Na­tives of the Par­a­dise Spheres of the Spirit.

30:2.12610. Na­tives of the Fa­ther’s Par­a­dise Spheres.

30:2.12711. The Cre­ated Cit­i­zens of Par­a­dise.

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

• 4. susatia of local universes

37:9.7The Susa­tia. These mar­velous be­ings re­side and func­tion as per­ma­nent cit­i­zens on Sal­ving­ton, the head­quar­ters of this lo­cal uni­verse. They are the bril­liant off­spring of the Cre­ator Son and Cre­ative Spirit and are closely as­so­ci­ated with the as­cen­dant cit­i­zens of the lo­cal uni­verse, the Spirit-fused mor­tals of the Neb­a­don Corps of Per­fec­tion.

• 3. univitatia of constellations

37:9.8The Uni­v­i­ta­tia. Each of the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters clus­ters of ar­chi­tec­tural spheres en­joys the con­tin­u­ous min­istry of a res­i­den­tial or­der of be­ings known as the uni­v­i­ta­tia. These chil­dren of the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit con­sti­tute the per­ma­nent pop­u­la­tion of the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters worlds. They are non­re­pro­duc­ing be­ings ex­ist­ing on a plane of life about half­way be­tween the semi­ma­te­rial sta­tus of the Ma­te­rial Sons domi­ciled on the sys­tem head­quar­ters and the more def­i­nitely spir­i­tual plane of the Spirit-fused mor­tals and the susa­tia of Sal­ving­ton; but the uni­v­i­ta­tia are not mor­ontia be­ings. They ac­com­plish for as­cend­ing mor­tals dur­ing the traver­sal of the con­stel­la­tion spheres what the Ha­vona na­tives con­tribute to the pil­grim spir­its pass­ing through the cen­tral cre­ation.

• 2. Material Sons of local systems

37:9.9The Ma­te­rial Sons of God. When a cre­ative li­ai­son be­tween the Cre­ator Son and the uni­verse rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Uni­verse Mother Spirit, has com­pleted its cy­cle, when no more off­spring of the com­bined na­ture are forth­com­ing, then does the Cre­ator Son per­son­al­ize in dual form his last con­cept of be­ing, thus fi­nally con­firm­ing his own and orig­i­nal dual ori­gin. In and of him­self he then cre­ates the beau­ti­ful and su­perb Sons and Daugh­ters of the ma­te­rial or­der of uni­verse son­ship. This is the ori­gin of the orig­i­nal Adam and Eve of each lo­cal sys­tem of Neb­a­don. They are a re­pro­duc­ing or­der of son­ship, be­ing cre­ated male and fe­male. Their progeny func­tion as the rel­a­tively per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of a sys­tem cap­i­tal, though some are com­mis­sioned as Plan­e­tary Adams.

37:9.10On a plan­e­tary mis­sion the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter are com­mis­sioned to found the Adamic race of that world, a race de­signed even­tu­ally to amal­ga­mate with the mor­tal in­hab­i­tants of that sphere. Plan­e­tary Adams are both de­scend­ing and as­cend­ing Sons, but we or­di­nar­ily class them as as­cend­ing.

• 1. midwayers of evolutionary planets

37:9.11The Mid­way Crea­tures. In the early days of most in­hab­ited worlds, cer­tain super­hu­man but ma­te­ri­al­ized be­ings are of as­sign­ment, but they usu­ally re­tire upon the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Adams. The trans­ac­tions of such be­ings and the ef­forts of the Ma­te­rial Sons to im­prove the evo­lu­tion­ary races of­ten re­sult in the ap­pear­ance of a lim­ited num­ber of crea­tures who are dif­fi­cult to clas­sify. These unique be­ings are of­ten mid­way be­tween the Ma­te­rial Sons and the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures; hence their des­ig­na­tion, mid­way crea­tures. In a com­par­a­tive sense these mid­way­ers are the per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. From the early days of the ar­rival of a Plan­e­tary Prince to the far-dis­tant time of the set­tling of the planet in light and life, they are the only group of in­tel­li­gent be­ings to re­main con­tin­u­ously on the sphere. On Uran­tia the mid­way min­is­ters are in re­al­ity the ac­tual cus­to­di­ans of the planet; they are, prac­ti­cally speak­ing, the cit­i­zens of Uran­tia. Mor­tals are in­deed the phys­i­cal and ma­te­rial in­hab­i­tants of an evo­lu­tion­ary world, but you are all so short-lived; you tarry on your na­tiv­ity planet such a short time. You are born, live, die, and pass on to other worlds of evo­lu­tion­ary pro­gres­sion. Even the super­hu­man be­ings who serve on the plan­ets as ce­les­tial min­is­ters are of tran­sient as­sign­ment; few of them are long at­tached to a given sphere. The mid­way crea­tures, how­ever, pro­vide con­ti­nu­ity of plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion in the face of ever-chang­ing ce­les­tial min­istries and con­stantly shift­ing mor­tal in­hab­i­tants. Through­out all of this never-ceas­ing chang­ing and shift­ing, the mid­way crea­tures re­main on the planet un­in­ter­rupt­edly car­ry­ing on their work.

• corps of permanent citizens
• 6. abandonters of superuniverses

37:9.12In like man­ner, all di­vi­sions of the ad­min­is­tra­tive or­ga­ni­za­tion of the lo­cal uni­verses and super­uni­verses have their more or less per­ma­nent pop­u­la­tions, in­hab­i­tants of cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus. As Uran­tia has its mid­way­ers, Je­ru­sem, your sys­tem cap­i­tal, has the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters; Eden­tia, your con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters, has the uni­v­i­ta­tia, while the cit­i­zens of Sal­ving­ton are two­fold, the cre­ated susa­tia and the evolved Spirit-fused mor­tals. The ad­min­is­tra­tive worlds of the mi­nor and ma­jor sec­tors of the super­uni­verses do not have per­ma­nent cit­i­zens. But the Uversa head­quar­ters spheres are con­tin­u­ously fos­tered by an amaz­ing group of be­ings known as the aban­don­ters, the cre­ation of the un­re­vealed agents of the An­cients of Days and the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its res­i­dent on the cap­i­tal of Or­von­ton. These res­i­den­tial cit­i­zens on Uversa are at pres­ent ad­min­is­ter­ing the rou­tine af­fairs of their world un­der the im­me­di­ate super­vi­sion of the Uversa corps of the Son-fused mor­tals. Even Ha­vona has its na­tive be­ings, and the cen­tral Isle of Light and Life is the home of the var­i­ous groups of Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens.

40:9.1As­cend­ing Spirit-fused mor­tals are not Third Source per­son­al­i­ties; they are in­cluded in the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity cir­cuit, but they have fused with in­di­vid­u­al­iza­tions of the pre­mind spirit of the Third Source and Cen­ter. Such Spirit fu­sion never oc­curs dur­ing the span of nat­u­ral life; it takes place only at the time of mor­tal reawak­en­ing in the mor­ontia ex­is­tence on the man­sion worlds. In the fu­sion ex­pe­ri­ence there is no over­lap­ping; the will crea­ture is ei­ther Spirit fused, Son fused, or Fa­ther fused. Those who are Ad­juster or Fa­ther fused are never Spirit or Son fused.

40:9.2The fact that these types of mor­tal crea­tures are not Ad­juster-fu­sion can­di­dates does not pre­vent the Ad­justers from in­dwelling them dur­ing the life in the flesh. Ad­justers do work in the minds of such be­ings dur­ing the span of ma­te­rial life but never be­come ev­er­last­ingly one with their pupil souls. Dur­ing this tem­po­rary so­journ the Ad­justers ef­fec­tively build up the same spirit coun­ter­part of mor­tal na­ture—the soul—that they do in the can­di­dates for Ad­juster fu­sion. Up to the time of mor­tal death the work of the Ad­justers is wholly akin to their func­tion in your own races, but upon mor­tal dis­so­lu­tion the Ad­justers take eter­nal leave of these Spirit-fu­sion can­di­dates and, pro­ceed­ing di­rectly to Di­vin­ing­ton, the head­quar­ters of all di­vine Mon­i­tors, there await the new as­sign­ments of their or­der.

40:9.3When such sleep­ing sur­vivors are reper­son­al­ized on the man­sion worlds, the place of the de­parted Ad­juster is filled by an in­di­vid­u­al­iza­tion of the spirit of the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the In­fi­nite Spirit in the lo­cal uni­verse con­cerned. This spirit in­fu­sion con­sti­tutes these sur­viv­ing crea­tures Spirit-fused mor­tals. Such be­ings are in ev­ery way your equals in mind and spirit; and they are in­deed your con­tem­po­raries, shar­ing the man­sion and mor­ontia spheres in com­mon with your or­der of fu­sion can­di­dates and with those who are to be Son fused.

40:9.4There is, how­ever, one par­tic­u­lar in which Spirit-fused mor­tals dif­fer from their as­cen­dant breth­ren: Mor­tal mem­ory of hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence on the ma­te­rial worlds of ori­gin sur­vives death in the flesh be­cause the in­dwelling Ad­juster has ac­quired a spirit coun­ter­part, or tran­script, of those events of hu­man life which were of spir­i­tual sig­nif­i­cance. But with Spirit-fused mor­tals there ex­ists no such mech­a­nism whereby hu­man mem­ory may per­sist. The Ad­juster tran­scripts of mem­ory are full and in­tact, but these ac­qui­si­tions are ex­pe­ri­en­tial pos­ses­sions of the de­parted Ad­justers and are not avail­able to the crea­tures of their for­mer in­dwelling, who there­fore awaken in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the mor­ontia spheres of Neb­a­don as if they were newly cre­ated be­ings, crea­tures with­out con­scious­ness of for­mer ex­is­tence.

40:9.5Such chil­dren of the lo­cal uni­verse are en­abled to re­pos­sess them­selves of much of their for­mer hu­man mem­ory ex­pe­ri­ence through hav­ing it re­told by the as­so­ci­ated ser­a­phim and cheru­bim and by con­sult­ing the rec­ords of the mor­tal ca­reer filed by the record­ing an­gels. This they can do with un­doubted as­sur­ance be­cause the sur­viv­ing soul, of ex­pe­ri­en­tial ori­gin in the ma­te­rial and mor­tal life, while hav­ing no mem­ory of mor­tal events, does have a resid­ual ex­pe­ri­en­tial-rec­og­ni­tion-re­sponse to these un­re­mem­bered events of past ex­pe­ri­ence.

40:9.6When a Spirit-fused mor­tal is told about the events of the un­re­mem­bered past ex­pe­ri­ence, there is an im­me­di­ate re­sponse of ex­pe­ri­en­tial rec­og­ni­tion within the soul (iden­tity) of such a sur­vivor which in­stantly in­vests the nar­rated event with the emo­tional tinge of re­al­ity and with the in­tel­lec­tual qual­ity of fact; and this dual re­sponse con­sti­tutes the re­con­struc­tion, rec­og­ni­tion, and val­i­da­tion of an un­re­mem­bered facet of mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence.

40:9.7Even with Ad­juster-fu­sion can­di­dates, only those hu­man ex­pe­ri­ences which were of spir­i­tual value are com­mon pos­ses­sions of the sur­viv­ing mor­tal and the re­turn­ing Ad­juster and hence are im­me­di­ately re­mem­bered sub­se­quent to mor­tal sur­vival. Con­cern­ing those hap­pen­ings which were not of spir­i­tual sig­nif­i­cance, even these Ad­juster-fusers must de­pend upon the at­tri­bute of rec­og­ni­tion-re­sponse in the sur­viv­ing soul. And since any one event may have a spir­i­tual con­no­ta­tion to one mor­tal but not to an­other, it be­comes pos­si­ble for a group of con­tem­po­rary as­cend­ers from the same planet to pool their store of Ad­juster-re­mem­bered events and thus to re­con­struct any ex­pe­ri­ence which they had in com­mon, and which was of spir­i­tual value in the life of any one of them.

40:9.8While we un­der­stand such tech­niques of mem­ory re­con­struc­tion fairly well, we do not grasp the tech­nique of per­son­al­ity rec­og­ni­tion. Per­son­al­i­ties of one­time as­so­ci­a­tion mu­tu­ally re­spond quite in­de­pen­dently of the op­er­a­tion of mem­ory, al­beit, mem­ory it­self and the tech­niques of its re­con­struc­tion are nec­es­sary to in­vest such mu­tual per­son­al­ity re­sponse with the full­ness of rec­og­ni­tion.

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.

43:7.1Uni­v­i­ta­tia are the per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of Eden­tia and its as­so­ci­ated worlds, all seven hun­dred sev­enty worlds sur­round­ing the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters be­ing un­der their super­vi­sion. These chil­dren of the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit are pro­jected on a plane of ex­is­tence in be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual, but they are not mor­ontia crea­tures. The na­tives of each of the sev­enty ma­jor spheres of Eden­tia pos­sess dif­fer­ent vis­i­ble forms, and the mor­ontia mor­tals have their mor­ontia forms at­tuned to cor­re­spond with the as­cend­ing scale of the uni­v­i­ta­tia each time they change res­i­dence from one Eden­tia sphere to an­other as they pass suc­ces­sively from world num­ber one to world num­ber sev­enty.

43:7.2Spir­i­tu­ally, the uni­v­i­ta­tia are alike; in­tel­lec­tu­ally, they vary as do mor­tals; in form, they much re­sem­ble the mor­ontia state of ex­is­tence, and they are cre­ated to func­tion in sev­enty di­verse or­ders of per­son­al­ity. Each of these or­ders of uni­v­i­ta­tia ex­hibits ten ma­jor vari­a­tions of in­tel­lec­tual ac­tiv­ity, and each of these vary­ing in­tel­lec­tual types pre­sides over the spe­cial train­ing and cul­tural schools of pro­gres­sive oc­cu­pa­tional or prac­ti­cal so­cial­iza­tion on some one of the ten satel­lites which swing around each of the ma­jor Eden­tia worlds.

43:7.3These seven hun­dred mi­nor worlds are tech­ni­cal spheres of prac­ti­cal ed­u­ca­tion in the work­ing of the en­tire lo­cal uni­verse and are open to all classes of in­tel­li­gent be­ings. These train­ing schools of spe­cial skill and tech­ni­cal knowl­edge are not con­ducted ex­clu­sively for as­cend­ing mor­tals, al­though mor­ontia stu­dents con­sti­tute by far the largest group of all those who at­tend these courses of train­ing. When you are re­ceived on any one of the sev­enty ma­jor worlds of so­cial cul­ture, you are im­me­di­ately given clear­ance for each of the ten sur­round­ing satel­lites.

• 6. abandonters of superuniverses

43:7.4In the var­i­ous cour­tesy colonies, as­cend­ing mor­ontia mor­tals pre­dom­i­nate among the re­ver­sion di­rec­tors, but the uni­v­i­ta­tia rep­re­sent the largest group as­so­ci­ated with the Neb­a­don corps of ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans. In all Or­von­ton no ex­tra-Ha­vona be­ings ex­cept­ing the Uversa aban­don­ters can equal the uni­v­i­ta­tia in artis­tic skill, so­cial adapt­abil­ity, and co-or­di­nat­ing clev­er­ness.

43:7.5These cit­i­zens of the con­stel­la­tion are not ac­tu­ally mem­bers of the ar­ti­san corps, but they freely work with all groups and con­tribute much to mak­ing the con­stel­la­tion worlds the chief spheres for the re­al­iza­tion of the mag­nif­i­cent artis­tic pos­si­bil­i­ties of tran­si­tion cul­ture. They do not func­tion be­yond the con­fines of the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters worlds.

45:5.1The great di­vi­sions of ce­les­tial life have their head­quar­ters and im­mense pre­serves on Je­ru­sem, in­clud­ing the var­i­ous or­ders of di­vine Sons, high spir­its, super­an­gels, an­gels, and mid­way crea­tures. The cen­tral abode of this won­der­ful sec­tor is the chief tem­ple of the Ma­te­rial Sons.

45:5.2The do­main of the Adams is the cen­ter of at­trac­tion to all new ar­rivals on Je­ru­sem. It is an enor­mous area con­sist­ing of one thou­sand cen­ters, al­though each fam­ily of Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters lives on an es­tate of its own up to the time of the de­par­ture of its mem­bers for ser­vice on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space or un­til their em­barka­tion upon the Par­a­dise-as­cen­sion ca­reer.

45:5.3These Ma­te­rial Sons are the high­est type of sex-re­pro­duc­ing be­ings to be found on the train­ing spheres of the evolv­ing uni­verses. And they are re­ally ma­te­rial; even the Plan­e­tary Adams and Eves are plainly vis­i­ble to the mor­tal races of the in­hab­ited worlds. These Ma­te­rial Sons are the last and phys­i­cal link in the chain of per­son­al­i­ties ex­tend­ing from di­vin­ity and per­fec­tion above down to hu­man­ity and ma­te­rial ex­is­tence be­low. These Sons pro­vide the in­hab­ited worlds with a mu­tu­ally con­tactable in­ter­me­di­ary be­tween the in­vis­i­ble Plan­e­tary Prince and the ma­te­rial crea­tures of the realms.

45:5.4At the last mil­len­nial reg­is­tra­tion on Sal­ving­ton there were of rec­ord in Neb­a­don 161,432,840 Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters of cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus on the lo­cal sys­tem cap­i­tals. The num­ber of Ma­te­rial Sons varies in the dif­fer­ent sys­tems, and their num­ber is be­ing con­stantly in­creased by nat­u­ral re­pro­duc­tion. In the ex­er­cise of their re­pro­duc­tive func­tions they are not guided wholly by the per­sonal de­sires of the con­tact­ing per­son­al­i­ties but also by the higher gov­ern­ing bod­ies and ad­vi­sory coun­cils.

45:5.5These Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters are the per­ma­nent in­hab­i­tants of Je­ru­sem and its as­so­ci­ated worlds. They oc­cupy vast es­tates on Je­ru­sem and par­tic­i­pate lib­er­ally in the lo­cal man­age­ment of the cap­i­tal sphere, ad­min­is­ter­ing prac­ti­cally all rou­tine af­fairs with the as­sis­tance of the mid­way­ers and the as­cend­ers.

45:5.6On Je­ru­sem these re­pro­duc­ing Sons are per­mit­ted to ex­per­i­ment with the ide­als of self-gov­ern­ment af­ter the man­ner of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, and they are achiev­ing a very high type of so­ci­ety. The higher or­ders of son­ship re­serve the veto func­tions of the realm, but in nearly ev­ery re­spect the Je­ru­sem Adamites gov­ern them­selves by uni­ver­sal suf­frage and rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment. Some­time they hope to be granted vir­tu­ally com­plete au­ton­omy.

45:5.7The char­ac­ter of the ser­vice of the Ma­te­rial Sons is largely de­ter­mined by their ages. While they are not el­i­gi­ble for ad­mis­sion to the Mel­chiz­e­dek Uni­ver­sity of Sal­ving­ton—be­ing ma­te­rial and or­di­nar­ily lim­ited to cer­tain plan­ets—nev­er­the­less, the Mel­chiz­e­deks main­tain strong fac­ul­ties of teach­ers on the head­quar­ters of each sys­tem for the in­struc­tion of the younger gen­er­a­tions of Ma­te­rial Sons. The ed­u­ca­tional and spir­i­tual train­ing sys­tems pro­vided for the de­vel­op­ment of the younger Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters are the acme of per­fec­tion in scope, tech­nique, and prac­ti­ca­bil­ity.

• 12. Adjuster-fused mortal citizens of Paradise

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.

48:2.1These unique be­ings are ex­clu­sively con­cerned with the super­vi­sion of those ac­tiv­i­ties which rep­re­sent a work­ing com­bi­na­tion of spir­i­tual and phys­i­cal or semi­ma­te­rial en­er­gies. They are ex­clu­sively de­voted to the min­istry of mor­ontia pro­gres­sion. Not that they so much min­is­ter to mor­tals dur­ing the tran­si­tion ex­pe­ri­ence, but they rather make pos­si­ble the tran­si­tion en­vi­ron­ment for the pro­gress­ing mor­ontia crea­tures. They are the chan­nels of mor­ontia power which sus­tain and en­er­gize the mor­ontia phases of the tran­si­tion worlds.

48:2.2Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors are the off­spring of a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. They are fairly stan­dard in de­sign though dif­fer­ing slightly in na­ture in the var­i­ous lo­cal cre­ations. They are cre­ated for their spe­cific func­tion and re­quire no train­ing be­fore en­ter­ing upon their re­spon­si­bil­i­ties.

48:2.3The cre­ation of the first Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors is si­mul­ta­ne­ous with the ar­rival of the first mor­tal sur­vivor on the shores of some one of the first man­sion worlds in a lo­cal uni­verse. They are cre­ated in groups of one thou­sand, clas­si­fied as fol­lows:

48:2.41. Cir­cuit Reg­u­la­tors 400

48:2.52. Sys­tem Co-or­di­na­tors 200

48:2.63. Plan­e­tary Cus­to­di­ans 100

48:2.74. Com­bined Con­trol­lers 100

48:2.85. Li­ai­son Sta­bi­liz­ers 100

48:2.96. Se­lec­tive As­sorters 50

48:2.107. As­so­ciate Reg­is­trars 50

48:2.11The power super­vi­sors al­ways serve in their na­tive uni­verse. They are di­rected ex­clu­sively by the joint spirit ac­tiv­ity of the Uni­verse Son and the Uni­verse Spirit but are oth­er­wise a wholly self-gov­ern­ing group. They main­tain head­quar­ters on each of the first man­sion worlds of the lo­cal sys­tems, where they work in close as­so­ci­a­tion with both the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and the ser­a­phim but func­tion in a world of their own as re­gards en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tion and spirit ap­pli­ca­tion.

48:2.12They also some­times work in con­nec­tion with super­ma­te­rial phe­nom­ena on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds as min­is­ters of tem­po­rary as­sign­ment. But they rarely serve on the in­hab­ited plan­ets; nei­ther do they work on the higher train­ing worlds of the super­uni­verse, be­ing chiefly de­voted to the tran­si­tion regime of mor­ontia pro­gres­sion in a lo­cal uni­verse.

48:2.131. Cir­cuit Reg­u­la­tors. These are the unique be­ings who co-or­di­nate phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual en­ergy and reg­u­late its flow into the seg­re­gated chan­nels of the mor­ontia spheres, and these cir­cuits are ex­clu­sively plan­e­tary, lim­ited to a sin­gle world. The mor­ontia cir­cuits are dis­tinct from, and sup­ple­men­tary to, both phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual cir­cuits on the tran­si­tion worlds, and it re­quires mil­lions of these reg­u­la­tors to en­er­gize even a sys­tem of man­sion worlds like that of Sa­ta­nia.

48:2.14Cir­cuit reg­u­la­tors ini­ti­ate those changes in ma­te­rial en­er­gies which ren­der them sub­ject to the con­trol and reg­u­la­tion of their as­so­ciates. These be­ings are mor­ontia power gen­er­a­tors as well as cir­cuit reg­u­la­tors. Much as a dy­namo ap­par­ently gen­er­ates elec­tric­ity out of the at­mo­sphere, so do these liv­ing mor­ontia dy­namos seem to trans­form the ev­ery­where en­er­gies of space into those ma­te­ri­als which the mor­ontia super­vi­sors weave into the bod­ies and life ac­tiv­i­ties of the as­cend­ing mor­tals.

48:2.152. Sys­tem Co-or­di­na­tors. Since each mor­ontia world has a sep­a­rate or­der of mor­ontia en­ergy, it is ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult for hu­mans to vi­su­al­ize these spheres. But on each suc­ces­sive tran­si­tion sphere, mor­tals will find the plant life and ev­ery­thing else per­tain­ing to the mor­ontia ex­is­tence pro­gres­sively mod­i­fied to cor­re­spond with the ad­vanc­ing spir­i­ti­za­tion of the as­cend­ing sur­vivor. And since the en­ergy sys­tem of each world is thus in­di­vid­u­al­ized, these co-or­di­na­tors op­er­ate to har­mo­nize and blend such dif­fer­ing power sys­tems into a work­ing unit for the as­so­ci­ated spheres of any par­tic­u­lar group.

48:2.16As­cend­ing mor­tals grad­u­ally pro­gress from the phys­i­cal to the spir­i­tual as they ad­vance from one mor­ontia world to an­other; hence the ne­ces­sity for pro­vid­ing an as­cend­ing scale of mor­ontia spheres and an as­cend­ing scale of mor­ontia forms.

48:2.17When man­sion world as­cend­ers pass from one sphere to an­other, they are de­liv­ered by the trans­port ser­a­phim to the re­ceivers of the sys­tem co-or­di­na­tors on the ad­vanced world. Here in those unique tem­ples at the cen­ter of the sev­enty ra­di­at­ing wings wherein are the cham­bers of tran­si­tion sim­i­lar to the res­ur­rec­tion halls on the ini­tial world of re­cep­tion for earth-ori­gin mor­tals, the nec­es­sary changes in crea­ture form are skill­fully ef­fected by the sys­tem co-or­di­na­tors. These early mor­ontia-form changes re­quire about seven days of stan­dard time for their ac­com­plish­ment.

48:2.183. Plan­e­tary Cus­to­di­ans. Each mor­ontia world, from the man­sion spheres up to the uni­verse head­quar­ters, is in the cus­tody—as re­gards mor­ontia af­fairs—of sev­enty guard­i­ans. They con­sti­tute the lo­cal plan­e­tary coun­cil of su­preme mor­ontia au­thor­ity. This coun­cil grants ma­te­rial for mor­ontia forms to all as­cend­ing crea­tures who land on the spheres and au­tho­rizes those changes in crea­ture form which make it pos­si­ble for an as­cender to pro­ceed to the suc­ceed­ing sphere. Af­ter the man­sion worlds have been tra­versed, you will trans­late from one phase of mor­ontia life to an­other with­out hav­ing to sur­ren­der con­scious­ness. Un­con­scious­ness at­tends only the ear­lier meta­mor­phoses and the later tran­si­tions from one uni­verse to an­other and from Ha­vona to Par­a­dise.

48:2.194. Com­bined Con­trol­lers. One of these highly me­chan­i­cal be­ings is al­ways sta­tioned at the cen­ter of each ad­min­is­tra­tive unit of a mor­ontia world. A com­bined con­trol­ler is sen­si­tive to, and func­tional with, phys­i­cal, spir­i­tual, and mor­ontial en­er­gies; and with this be­ing there are al­ways as­so­ci­ated two sys­tem co-or­di­na­tors, four cir­cuit reg­u­la­tors, one plan­e­tary cus­to­dian, one li­ai­son sta­bi­lizer, and ei­ther an as­so­ciate reg­is­trar or a se­lec­tive as­sorter.

48:2.205. Li­ai­son Sta­bi­liz­ers. These are the reg­u­la­tors of the mor­ontia en­ergy in as­so­ci­a­tion with the phys­i­cal and spirit forces of the realm. They make pos­si­ble the con­ver­sion of mor­ontia en­ergy into mor­ontia ma­te­rial. The whole mor­ontia or­ga­ni­za­tion of ex­is­tence is de­pen­dent on the sta­bi­liz­ers. They slow down the en­ergy rev­o­lu­tions to that point where phys­i­cal­iza­tion can oc­cur. But I have no terms with which I can com­pare or il­lus­trate the min­istry of such be­ings. It is quite be­yond hu­man imag­i­na­tion.

48:2.216. Se­lec­tive As­sorters. As you pro­gress from one class or phase of a mor­ontia world to an­other, you must be re-keyed or ad­vance-tuned, and it is the task of the se­lec­tive as­sorters to keep you in pro­gres­sive syn­chrony with the mor­ontia life.

48:2.22While the ba­sic mor­ontia forms of life and mat­ter are iden­ti­cal from the first man­sion world to the last uni­verse tran­si­tion sphere, there is a func­tional pro­gres­sion which grad­u­ally ex­tends from the ma­te­rial to the spir­i­tual. Your adap­ta­tion to this ba­si­cally uni­form but suc­ces­sively ad­vanc­ing and spir­i­tiz­ing cre­ation is ef­fected by this se­lec­tive re-key­ing. Such an ad­just­ment in the mech­a­nism of per­son­al­ity is tan­ta­mount to a new cre­ation, not­with­stand­ing that you re­tain the same mor­ontia form.

48:2.23You may re­peat­edly sub­ject your­self to the test of these ex­am­in­ers, and as soon as you reg­is­ter ad­e­quate spir­i­tual achieve­ment, they will gladly cer­tify you for ad­vanced stand­ing. These pro­gres­sive changes re­sult in al­tered re­ac­tions to the mor­ontia en­vi­ron­ment, such as mod­i­fi­ca­tions in food re­quire­ments and nu­mer­ous other per­sonal prac­tices.

48:2.24The se­lec­tive as­sorters are also of great ser­vice in the group­ing of mor­ontia per­son­al­i­ties for pur­poses of study, teach­ing, and other projects. They nat­u­rally in­di­cate those who will best func­tion in tem­po­rary as­so­ci­a­tion.

48:2.257. As­so­ciate Reg­is­trars. The mor­ontia world has its own re­cord­ers, who serve in as­so­ci­a­tion with the spirit re­cord­ers in the super­vi­sion and cus­tody of the rec­ords and other data in­dige­nous to the mor­ontia cre­ations. The mor­ontia rec­ords are avail­able to all or­ders of per­son­al­i­ties.

48:2.26All mor­ontia tran­si­tion realms are ac­ces­si­ble alike to ma­te­rial and spirit be­ings. As mor­ontia pro­gres­sors you will re­main in full con­tact with the ma­te­rial world and with ma­te­rial per­son­al­i­ties, while you will in­creas­ingly dis­cern and frat­er­nize with spirit be­ings; and by the time of de­par­ture from the mor­ontia regime, you will have seen all or­ders of spir­its with the ex­cep­tion of a few of the higher types, such as Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers.