Creator Sons

7:6.1The lack of a knowl­edge of the mul­ti­ple Sons of God is a source of great con­fu­sion on Uran­tia. And this ig­no­rance per­sists in the face of such state­ments as the rec­ord of a con­clave of these di­vine per­son­al­i­ties: “When the Sons of God pro­claimed joy, and all of the Morn­ing Stars sang to­gether.” Ev­ery mil­len­nium of sec­tor stan­dard time the var­i­ous or­ders of the di­vine Sons for­gather for their pe­ri­odic con­claves.

7:6.2The Eter­nal Son is the per­sonal source of the adorable at­tri­butes of mercy and ser­vice which so abun­dantly char­ac­ter­ize all or­ders of the de­scend­ing Sons of God as they func­tion through­out cre­ation. All the di­vine na­ture, if not all the in­fin­ity of at­tri­butes, the Eter­nal Son un­fail­ingly trans­mits to the Par­a­dise Sons who go out from the eter­nal Isle to re­veal his di­vine char­ac­ter to the uni­verse of uni­verses.

7:6.3The Orig­i­nal and Eter­nal Son is the off­spring-per­son of the “first” com­pleted and in­fi­nite thought of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Ev­ery time the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son jointly project a new, orig­i­nal, iden­ti­cal, unique, and ab­so­lute per­sonal thought, that very in­stant this cre­ative idea is per­fectly and fi­nally per­son­al­ized in the be­ing and per­son­al­ity of a new and orig­i­nal Cre­ator Son. In spirit na­ture, di­vine wis­dom, and co-or­di­nate cre­ative power, these Cre­ator Sons are po­ten­tially equal with God the Fa­ther and God the Son.

7:6.4The Cre­ator Sons go out from Par­a­dise into the uni­verses of time and, with the co-op­er­a­tion of the con­trol­ling and cre­ative agen­cies of the Third Source and Cen­ter, com­plete the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the lo­cal uni­verses of pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion. These Sons are not at­tached to, nor are they con­cerned with, the cen­tral and uni­ver­sal con­trols of mat­ter, mind, and spirit. Hence are they lim­ited in their cre­ative acts by the pre-ex­is­tence, pri­or­ity, and pri­macy of the First Source and Cen­ter and his co-or­di­nate Ab­so­lutes. These Sons are able to ad­min­is­ter only that which they bring into ex­is­tence. Ab­so­lute ad­min­is­tra­tion is in­her­ent in pri­or­ity of ex­is­tence and is in­sep­a­ra­ble from eter­nity of pres­ence. The Fa­ther re­mains pri­mal in the uni­verses.

7:6.5Much as the Cre­ator Sons are per­son­al­ized by the Fa­ther and the Son, so are the Mag­is­te­rial Sons per­son­al­ized by the Son and the Spirit. These are the Sons who, in the ex­pe­ri­ences of crea­ture in­car­na­tion, earn the right to serve as the judges of sur­vival in the cre­ations of time and space.

7:6.6The Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit also unite to per­son­al­ize the ver­sa­tile Trin­ity Teacher Sons, who range the grand uni­verse as the su­per­nal teach­ers of all per­son­al­i­ties, hu­man and di­vine. And there are nu­mer­ous other or­ders of Par­a­dise son­ship that have not been brought to the at­ten­tion of Uran­tia mor­tals.

7:6.7Be­tween the Orig­i­nal Mother Son and these hosts of Par­a­dise Sons scat­tered through­out all cre­ation, there is a di­rect and ex­clu­sive chan­nel of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, a chan­nel whose func­tion is in­her­ent in the qual­ity of spir­i­tual kin­ship which unites them in bonds of near-ab­so­lute spir­i­tual as­so­ci­a­tion. This in­ter­son­ship cir­cuit is en­tirely dif­fer­ent from the uni­ver­sal cir­cuit of spirit grav­ity, which also cen­ters in the per­son of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. All Sons of God who take ori­gin in the per­sons of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties are in di­rect and con­stant com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the Eter­nal Mother Son. And such com­mu­ni­ca­tion is in­stan­ta­neous; it is in­de­pen­dent of time though some­times con­di­tioned by space.

7:6.8The Eter­nal Son not only has at all times per­fect knowl­edge con­cern­ing the sta­tus, thoughts, and man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties of all or­ders of Par­a­dise son­ship, but he also has per­fec­tion of knowl­edge at all times re­gard­ing ev­ery­thing of spir­i­tual value which ex­ists in the hearts of all crea­tures in the pri­mary cen­tral cre­ation of eter­nity and in the sec­ondary time cre­ations of the co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Sons.

35:6.2The one hun­dred Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, the ac­tual pre­sid­ing heads of the con­stel­la­tion gov­ern­ments, con­sti­tute the su­preme ad­vi­sory cab­i­net of the Cre­ator Son. This coun­cil is in fre­quent ses­sion at uni­verse head­quar­ters and is un­lim­ited in the scope and range of its de­lib­er­a­tions but is chiefly con­cerned with the wel­fare of the con­stel­la­tions and with the uni­fi­ca­tion of the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the en­tire lo­cal uni­verse.

21:2.10Not­with­stand­ing that all Cre­ator Sons are di­vinely like their Par­a­dise par­ents, none ex­actly re­sem­bles an­other; each is unique, di­verse, ex­clu­sive, and orig­i­nal in na­ture as well as in per­son­al­ity. And since they are the ar­chi­tects and mak­ers of the life plans of their re­spec­tive realms, this very di­ver­sity in­sures that their do­mains will also be di­verse in ev­ery form and phase of Mi­chael-de­rived liv­ing ex­is­tence which may be cre­ated or sub­se­quently evolved therein. Hence the or­ders of crea­tures na­tive to the lo­cal uni­verses are quite var­ied. No two are ad­min­is­tered or in­hab­ited by dual-ori­gin na­tive be­ings who are in all re­spects iden­ti­cal. Within any super­uni­verse, one half of their in­her­ent at­tri­butes are quite alike, be­ing de­rived from the uni­form Cre­ative Spir­its; the other half vary, be­ing de­rived from the di­ver­si­fied Cre­ator Sons. But such di­ver­sity does not char­ac­ter­ize those crea­tures of sole ori­gin in the Cre­ative Spirit nor those im­ported be­ings who are na­tive to the cen­tral or super­uni­verses.

32:3.3Ex­cept in the cen­tral uni­verse, per­fec­tion is a pro­gres­sive at­tain­ment. In the cen­tral cre­ation we have a pat­tern of per­fec­tion, but all other realms must at­tain that per­fec­tion by the meth­ods es­tab­lished for the ad­vance­ment of those par­tic­u­lar worlds or uni­verses. And an al­most in­fi­nite va­ri­ety char­ac­ter­izes the plans of the Cre­ator Sons for or­ga­niz­ing, evolv­ing, dis­ci­plin­ing, and set­tling their re­spec­tive lo­cal uni­verses.

149:1.62. The ex­is­tence, con­comi­tant with such hu­man faith, of the great sym­pa­thy and com­pas­sion of the in­car­nated and mercy-dom­i­nated Cre­ator Son of God, who ac­tu­ally pos­sessed in his per­son al­most un­lim­ited and time­less cre­ative heal­ing pow­ers and pre­rog­a­tives.

• co-ordinate Creator Sons
• Paradise Michaels

14:6.275. The Co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Sons. Ha­vona is the ed­u­ca­tional train­ing ground where the Par­a­dise Mi­cha­els are pre­pared for their sub­se­quent ad­ven­tures in uni­verse cre­ation. This di­vine and per­fect cre­ation is a pat­tern for ev­ery Cre­ator Son. He strives to make his own uni­verse even­tu­ally at­tain to these Par­a­dise-Ha­vona lev­els of per­fec­tion.

• Michael Sons

14:6.30Ha­vona and Par­a­dise are the source of a Mi­chael Son’s cre­ative power. Here dwell the be­ings who co-op­er­ate with him in uni­verse cre­ation. From Par­a­dise come the Uni­verse Mother Spir­its, the cocre­ators of lo­cal uni­verses.

• primary Paradise Sons

14:6.31The Par­a­dise Sons re­gard the cen­tral cre­ation as the home of their di­vine par­ents—their home. It is the place they en­joy re­turn­ing to ever and anon.

• primary Paradise Sons

21:0.3These pri­mary Par­a­dise Sons are per­son­al­ized as Mi­cha­els. As they go forth from Par­a­dise to found their uni­verses, they are known as Cre­ator Mi­cha­els. When set­tled in su­preme au­thor­ity, they are called Mas­ter Mi­cha­els. Some­times we re­fer to the sov­er­eign of your uni­verse of Neb­a­don as Christ Mi­chael. Al­ways and for­ever do they reign af­ter the “or­der of Mi­chael,” that be­ing the des­ig­na­tion of the first Son of their or­der and na­ture.

• primary Paradise Sons

21:2.1The Par­a­dise Sons of the pri­mary or­der are the de­sign­ers, cre­ators, builders, and ad­min­is­tra­tors of their re­spec­tive do­mains, the lo­cal uni­verses of time and space, the ba­sic cre­ative units of the seven evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses. A Cre­ator Son is per­mit­ted to choose the space site of his fu­ture cos­mic ac­tiv­ity, but be­fore he may be­gin even the phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion of his uni­verse, he must spend a long pe­riod of ob­ser­va­tion de­voted to the study of the ef­forts of his older broth­ers in var­i­ous cre­ations lo­cated in the super­uni­verse of his pro­jected ac­tion. And prior to all this, the Mi­chael Son will have com­pleted his long and unique ex­pe­ri­ence of Par­a­dise ob­ser­va­tion and Ha­vona train­ing.

• Universe Sons

21:2.9When such a per­fect and di­vine Son has taken pos­ses­sion of the space site of his cho­sen uni­verse; when the ini­tial prob­lems of uni­verse ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion and of gross equi­lib­rium have been re­solved; when he has formed an ef­fec­tive and co-op­er­a­tive work­ing union with the com­ple­men­tal Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit—then do this Uni­verse Son and this Uni­verse Spirit ini­ti­ate that li­ai­son which is de­signed to give ori­gin to the in­nu­mer­able hosts of their lo­cal uni­verse chil­dren. In con­nec­tion with this event the Cre­ative Spirit fo­cal­iza­tion of the Par­a­dise In­fi­nite Spirit be­comes changed in na­ture, tak­ing on the per­sonal qual­i­ties of the Mother Spirit of a lo­cal uni­verse.

• primary Paradise Sons

21:3.24In set­tling the ques­tion of sov­er­eignty in a lo­cal uni­verse, the Cre­ator Son is not only demon­strat­ing his own fit­ness to rule but is also re­veal­ing the na­ture and por­tray­ing the sev­en­fold at­ti­tude of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. The fi­nite un­der­stand­ing and crea­ture ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the Fa­ther’s pri­macy is con­cerned in the ad­ven­ture of a Cre­ator Son when he con­de­scends to take upon him­self the form and ex­pe­ri­ences of his crea­tures. These pri­mary Par­a­dise Sons are the real re­veal­ers of the Fa­ther’s lov­ing na­ture and benef­i­cent au­thor­ity, the same Fa­ther who, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Son and the Spirit, is the uni­ver­sal head of all power, per­son­al­ity, and gov­ern­ment through­out all the uni­ver­sal realms.

• Universe Sons

34:0.3These Daugh­ter Spir­its are of the essence of the In­fi­nite Spirit, but they can­not func­tion in the work of phys­i­cal cre­ation and spir­i­tual min­istry si­mul­ta­ne­ously. In phys­i­cal cre­ation the Uni­verse Son pro­vides the pat­tern while the Uni­verse Spirit ini­ti­ates the ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion of phys­i­cal re­al­i­ties. The Son op­er­ates in the power de­signs, but the Spirit trans­forms these en­ergy cre­ations into phys­i­cal sub­stances. Al­though it is some­what dif­fi­cult to por­tray this early uni­verse pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit as a per­son, nev­er­the­less, to the Cre­ator Son the Spirit as­so­ciate is per­sonal and has al­ways func­tioned as a dis­tinct in­di­vid­ual.

• Universe Sons

34:3.4Only as re­gards the el­e­ment of time is a Cre­ative Spirit ever lim­ited in her uni­verse min­is­tra­tions. A Cre­ator Son acts in­stan­ta­neously through­out his uni­verse; but the Cre­ative Spirit must reckon with time in the min­is­tra­tion of the uni­ver­sal mind ex­cept as she con­sciously and de­signedly avails her­self of the per­sonal pre­rog­a­tives of the Uni­verse Son. In pure-spirit func­tion the Cre­ative Spirit also acts in­de­pen­dently of time as well as in her col­lab­o­ra­tion with the mys­te­ri­ous func­tion of uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity.

• Michael Sons

34:3.5Though the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Eter­nal Son op­er­ates in­de­pen­dently of both time and space, all func­tions of the Cre­ator Sons are not ex­empt from space lim­i­ta­tions. If the trans­ac­tions of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds are ex­cepted, these Mi­chael Sons seem to be able to op­er­ate rel­a­tively in­de­pen­dent of time. A Cre­ator Son is not hand­i­capped by time, but he is con­di­tioned by space; he can­not per­son­ally be in two places at the same time. Mi­chael of Neb­a­don acts time­lessly within his own uni­verse and by re­flec­tiv­ity prac­ti­cally so in the super­uni­verse. He com­mu­ni­cates time­lessly with the Eter­nal Son di­rectly.

• Creator Father-Son

34:4.8The Cre­ator Fa­ther-Son and the Cre­ative Mother Spirit both con­tribute var­i­ously to the mind en­dow­ment of their lo­cal uni­verse chil­dren. But the Cre­ative Spirit does not be­stow mind un­til she is en­dowed with per­sonal pre­rog­a­tives.

• Universe Sons

34:5.7The pres­ence of the Holy Spirit of the Uni­verse Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit, of the Spirit of Truth of the Uni­verse Son of the Eter­nal Son, and of the Ad­juster-spirit of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther in or with an evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tal, de­notes sym­me­try of spir­i­tual en­dow­ment and min­istry and qual­i­fies such a mor­tal con­sciously to re­al­ize the faith-fact of son­ship with God.

56:5.3The pres­ent func­tion­ing of di­vin­ity in the super­uni­verses is ac­tively man­i­fest in the op­er­a­tions of the Su­preme Cre­ators—the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ator Sons and Spir­its, the super­uni­verse An­cients of Days, and the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise. These be­ings con­sti­tute the first three lev­els of God the Sev­en­fold lead­ing in­ward to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and this en­tire do­main of God the Sev­en­fold is co-or­di­nat­ing on the first level of ex­pe­ri­en­tial de­ity in the evolv­ing Su­preme Be­ing.

116:2.4And this is the ori­gin of God the Sev­en­fold, whose suc­ces­sive lev­els are en­coun­tered by mor­tal man in the fol­low­ing or­der:

116:2.51. The Cre­ator Sons (and Cre­ative Spir­its).

116:2.62. The An­cients of Days.

116:2.73. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

116:2.84. The Su­preme Be­ing.

116:2.95. The Con­joint Ac­tor.

116:2.106. The Eter­nal Son.

116:2.117. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

116:2.12The first three lev­els are the Su­preme Cre­ators; the last three lev­els are the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. The Su­preme ever in­ter­venes as the ex­pe­ri­en­tial spirit per­son­al­iza­tion of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and as the ex­pe­ri­en­tial fo­cus of the evo­lu­tion­ary al­mighty power of the cre­ator chil­dren of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. The Su­preme Be­ing is the max­i­mum rev­e­la­tion of De­ity to the seven super­uni­verses and for the pres­ent uni­verse age.

31:9.14The Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects con­tribute tech­ni­cal ap­proval of the as­sign­ment of the Cre­ator Sons to their space sites for the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the lo­cal uni­verses. There is a very close as­so­ci­a­tion be­tween the Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects and the Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons, and while this re­la­tion­ship is un­re­vealed, you have been in­formed of the as­so­ci­a­tion of the Ar­chi­tects and the grand uni­verse Su­preme Cre­ators in the re­la­tion­ship of the first ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity. These two groups, to­gether with the evolv­ing and ex­pe­ri­en­tial Su­preme Be­ing, con­sti­tute the Trin­ity Ul­ti­mate of tran­scen­den­tal val­ues and mas­ter uni­verse mean­ings.

• one with Father

1:5.5In the lo­cal cre­ations (ex­cept­ing the per­son­nel of the super­uni­verses) God has no per­sonal or res­i­den­tial man­i­fes­ta­tion aside from the Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons who are the fa­thers of the in­hab­ited worlds and the sov­er­eigns of the lo­cal uni­verses. If the faith of the crea­ture were per­fect, he would as­suredly know that when he had seen a Cre­ator Son he had seen the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; in seek­ing for the Fa­ther, he would not ask nor ex­pect to see other than the Son. Mor­tal man sim­ply can­not see God un­til he achieves com­pleted spirit trans­for­ma­tion and ac­tu­ally at­tains Par­a­dise.

• pattern for all local universe personality

1:5.6The na­tures of the Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons do not en­com­pass all the un­qual­i­fied po­ten­tials of the uni­ver­sal ab­so­lute­ness of the in­fi­nite na­ture of the First Great Source and Cen­ter, but the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is in ev­ery way di­vinely pres­ent in the Cre­ator Sons. The Fa­ther and his Sons are one. These Par­a­dise Sons of the or­der of Mi­chael are per­fect per­son­al­i­ties, even the pat­tern for all lo­cal uni­verse per­son­al­ity from that of the Bright and Morn­ing Star down to the low­est hu­man crea­ture of pro­gress­ing an­i­mal evo­lu­tion.

• devoted to plan of progressive mortal ascension and rehabilitation of rebels

2:3.6The rule of the Cre­ator Sons in the lo­cal uni­verses is one of cre­ation and spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion. These Sons de­vote them­selves to the ef­fec­tive ex­e­cu­tion of the Par­a­dise plan of pro­gres­sive mor­tal as­cen­sion, to the re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion of rebels and wrong thinkers, but when all such lov­ing ef­forts are fi­nally and for­ever re­jected, the fi­nal de­cree of dis­so­lu­tion is ex­e­cuted by forces act­ing un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the An­cients of Days.

• God to mortals

3:0.1God is ev­ery­where pres­ent; the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther rules the cir­cle of eter­nity. But he rules in the lo­cal uni­verses in the per­sons of his Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons, even as he be­stows life through these Sons. “God has given us eter­nal life, and this life is in his Sons.” These Cre­ator Sons of God are the per­sonal ex­pres­sion of him­self in the sec­tors of time and to the chil­dren of the whirling plan­ets of the evolv­ing uni­verses of space.

• revelation of otherwise invisible Father

3:0.2The highly per­son­al­ized Sons of God are clearly dis­cern­i­ble by the lower or­ders of cre­ated in­tel­li­gences, and so do they com­pen­sate for the in­vis­i­bil­ity of the in­fi­nite and there­fore less dis­cern­i­ble Fa­ther. The Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther are a rev­e­la­tion of an oth­er­wise in­vis­i­ble be­ing, in­vis­i­ble be­cause of the ab­so­lute­ness and in­fin­ity in­her­ent in the cir­cle of eter­nity and in the per­son­al­i­ties of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

• God to mortals
• local universe personification of Father and Son

5:3.6The Cre­ator or Sov­er­eign Sons who pre­side over the des­tinies of the lo­cal uni­verses stand in the place of both the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise. These Uni­verse Sons re­ceive, in the name of the Fa­ther, the ado­ra­tion of wor­ship and give ear to the pleas of their pe­ti­tion­ing sub­jects through­out their re­spec­tive cre­ations. To the chil­dren of a lo­cal uni­verse a Mi­chael Son is, to all prac­ti­cal in­tents and pur­poses, God. He is the lo­cal uni­verse per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son. The In­fi­nite Spirit main­tains per­sonal con­tact with the chil­dren of these realms through the Uni­verse Spir­its, the ad­min­is­tra­tive and cre­ative as­so­ciates of the Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons.

• endowed with spirit gravity in own realms

7:1.5The Son’s spir­i­tual draw­ing power is in­her­ent to a lesser de­gree in many Par­a­dise or­ders of son­ship. For there do ex­ist within the ab­so­lute spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit those lo­cal sys­tems of spir­i­tual at­trac­tion that func­tion in the lesser units of cre­ation. Such sub­ab­so­lute fo­cal­iza­tions of spirit grav­ity are a part of the di­vin­ity of the Cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties of time and space and are cor­re­lated with the emerg­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial over­con­trol of the Su­preme Be­ing.

• way, truth, and life

7:5.1The Eter­nal Son with­out reser­va­tion joined with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in broad­cast­ing that tremen­dous in­junc­tion to all cre­ation: “Be you per­fect, even as your Fa­ther in Ha­vona is per­fect.” And ever since, that in­vi­ta­tion-com­mand has mo­ti­vated all the sur­vival plans and the be­stowal projects of the Eter­nal Son and his vast fam­ily of co-or­di­nate and as­so­ci­ated Sons. And in these very be­stowals the Sons of God have be­come to all evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures “the way, the truth, and the life.”

• divinely perfect portraitures of Eternal Son in spirit and nature, if not in all attributes

7:5.11In spirit and na­ture, if not in all at­tri­butes, each Par­a­dise Son is a di­vinely per­fect por­trai­ture of the Orig­i­nal Son. It is lit­er­ally true, whoso­ever has seen a Par­a­dise Son has seen the Eter­nal Son of God.

• divinely perfect portraitures of Eternal Son in spirit and nature, if not in all attributes

8:4.1Par­al­lel­ing the phys­i­cal uni­verse wherein Par­a­dise grav­ity holds all things to­gether is the spir­i­tual uni­verse wherein the word of the Son in­ter­prets the thought of God and, when “made flesh,” demon­strates the lov­ing mercy of the com­bined na­ture of the as­so­ci­ated Cre­ators. But in and through all this ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual cre­ation there is a vast stage whereon the In­fi­nite Spirit and his spirit off­spring show forth the com­bined mercy, pa­tience, and ev­er­last­ing af­fec­tion of the di­vine par­ents to­wards the in­tel­li­gent chil­dren of their co-op­er­a­tive de­vis­ing and mak­ing. Ev­er­last­ing min­istry to mind is the essence of the Spirit’s di­vine char­ac­ter. And all the spirit off­spring of the Con­joint Ac­tor par­take of this de­sire to min­is­ter, this di­vine urge to ser­vice.

20:1.1All de­scend­ing Sons of God have high and di­vine ori­gins. They are ded­i­cated to the de­scend­ing min­istry of ser­vice on the worlds and sys­tems of time and space, there to fa­cil­i­tate the prog­ress in the Par­a­dise climb of the lowly crea­tures of evo­lu­tion­ary ori­gin—the as­cend­ing sons of God. Of the nu­mer­ous or­ders of de­scend­ing Sons, seven will be de­picted in these nar­ra­tives. Those Sons who come forth from the De­i­ties on the cen­tral Isle of Light and Life are called the Par­a­dise Sons of God and em­brace the fol­low­ing three or­ders:

20:1.21. Cre­ator Sons—the Mi­cha­els.

20:1.32. Mag­is­te­rial Sons—the Avo­nals.

20:1.43. Trin­ity Teacher Sons—the Day­nals.

20:1.5The re­main­ing four or­ders of de­scend­ing son­ship are known as the Lo­cal Uni­verse Sons of God:

20:1.64. Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons.

20:1.75. Vo­ron­da­dek Sons.

20:1.86. La­non­an­dek Sons.

20:1.97. The Life Car­ri­ers.

20:1.10Mel­chiz­e­deks are the joint off­spring of a lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ator Son, Cre­ative Spirit, and Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek. Both Voron­dadeks and La­non­an­deks are brought into be­ing by a Cre­ator Son and his Cre­ative Spirit as­so­ciate. Voron­dadeks are best known as the Most Highs, the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers; La­non­an­deks as Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns and as Plan­e­tary Princes. The three­fold or­der of Life Car­ri­ers is brought into be­ing by a Cre­ator Son and Cre­ative Spirit as­so­ci­ated with one of the three An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse of ju­ris­dic­tion. But the na­tures and ac­tiv­i­ties of these Lo­cal Uni­verse Sons of God are more prop­erly por­trayed in those pa­pers deal­ing with the af­fairs of the lo­cal cre­ations.

• personalizations by Father and Son of new absolute thought

20:1.11The Par­a­dise Sons of God are of three­fold ori­gin: The pri­mary or Cre­ator Sons are brought into be­ing by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son; the sec­ondary or Mag­is­te­rial Sons are chil­dren of the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit; the Trin­ity Teacher Sons are the off­spring of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit. From the stand­point of ser­vice, wor­ship, and sup­pli­ca­tion the Par­a­dise Sons are as one; their spirit is one, and their work is iden­ti­cal in qual­ity and com­plete­ness.

20:1.12As the Par­a­dise or­ders of Days proved to be di­vine ad­min­is­tra­tors, so have the or­ders of Par­a­dise Sons re­vealed them­selves as di­vine min­is­ters—cre­ators, servers, be­stow­ers, judges, teach­ers, and truth re­veal­ers. They range the uni­verse of uni­verses from the shores of the eter­nal Isle to the in­hab­ited worlds of time and space, per­form­ing man­i­fold ser­vices in the cen­tral and super­uni­verses not dis­closed in these nar­ra­tives. They are var­i­ously or­ga­nized, de­pen­dent on the na­ture and where­abouts of their ser­vice, but in a lo­cal uni­verse both Mag­is­te­rial and Teacher Sons serve un­der the di­rec­tion of the Cre­ator Son who pre­sides over that do­main.

• endowed with spirit gravity in own realms
• personally conscious of acts and emotions of descending Sons in own domains

20:1.13The Cre­ator Sons seem to pos­sess a spir­i­tual en­dow­ment cen­ter­ing in their per­sons, which they con­trol and which they can be­stow, as did your own Cre­ator Son when he poured out his spirit upon all mor­tal flesh on Uran­tia. Each Cre­ator Son is en­dowed with this spir­i­tual draw­ing power in his own realm; he is per­son­ally con­scious of ev­ery act and emo­tion of ev­ery de­scend­ing Son of God serv­ing in his do­main. Here is a di­vine re­flec­tion, a lo­cal uni­verse du­pli­ca­tion, of that ab­so­lute spir­i­tual draw­ing power of the Eter­nal Son which en­ables him to reach out to make and main­tain con­tact with all his Par­a­dise Sons, no mat­ter where they may be in all the uni­verse of uni­verses.

20:1.14The Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons serve not only as Sons in their de­scend­ing min­is­tra­tions of ser­vice and be­stowal, but when they have com­pleted their be­stowal ca­reers, each func­tions as a uni­verse Fa­ther in his own cre­ation, while the other Sons of God con­tinue the ser­vice of be­stowal and spir­i­tual up­lift­ing de­signed to win the plan­ets, one by one, to the will­ing rec­og­ni­tion of the lov­ing rule of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, cul­mi­nat­ing in crea­ture con­se­cra­tion to the will of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther and in plan­e­tary loy­alty to the uni­verse sov­er­eignty of his Cre­ator Son.

• Creator and creature forever blended

20:1.15In a sev­en­fold Cre­ator Son, Cre­ator and crea­ture are for­ever blended in un­der­stand­ing, sym­pa­thetic, and mer­ci­ful as­so­ci­a­tion. The en­tire or­der of Mi­chael, the Cre­ator Sons, is so unique that the con­sid­er­a­tion of their na­tures and ac­tiv­i­ties will be re­served to the next pa­per in this se­ries, while this nar­ra­tive will be chiefly con­cerned with the two re­main­ing or­ders of Par­a­dise son­ship: the Mag­is­te­rial Sons and the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

• personalizations by Father and Son of new absolute thought

20:10.3In the Cre­ator Sons the love of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is blended with the mercy of the Eter­nal Son and is dis­closed to the lo­cal uni­verses in the cre­ative power, lov­ing min­istry, and un­der­stand­ing sov­er­eignty of the Mi­cha­els. In the Mag­is­te­rial Sons the mercy of the Eter­nal Son, united with the min­istry of the In­fi­nite Spirit, is re­vealed to the evo­lu­tion­ary do­mains in the ca­reers of these Avo­nals of judg­ment, ser­vice, and be­stowal. In the Trin­ity Teacher Sons the love, mercy, and min­istry of the three Par­a­dise De­i­ties are co-or­di­nated on the high­est time-space value-lev­els and are pre­sented to the uni­verses as liv­ing truth, di­vine good­ness, and true spir­i­tual beauty.

• local universe personification of Father and Son

20:10.4In the lo­cal uni­verses these or­ders of son­ship col­lab­o­rate to ef­fect the rev­e­la­tion of the De­i­ties of Par­a­dise to the crea­tures of space: As the Fa­ther of a lo­cal uni­verse, a Cre­ator Son por­trays the in­fi­nite char­ac­ter of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. As the be­stowal Sons of mercy, the Avo­nals re­veal the match­less na­ture of the Eter­nal Son of in­fi­nite com­pas­sion. As the true teach­ers of as­cend­ing per­son­al­i­ties, the Trin­ity Day­nal Sons dis­close the teacher per­son­al­ity of the In­fi­nite Spirit. In their di­vinely per­fect co-op­er­a­tion, Mi­cha­els, Avo­nals, and Day­nals are con­tribut­ing to the ac­tu­al­iza­tion and rev­e­la­tion of the per­son­al­ity and sov­er­eignty of God the Su­preme in and to the time-space uni­verses. In the har­mony of their tri­une ac­tiv­i­ties these Par­a­dise Sons of God ever func­tion in the van­guard of the per­son­al­i­ties of De­ity as they fol­low the never-end­ing ex­pan­sion of the di­vin­ity of the First Great Source and Cen­ter from the ev­er­last­ing Isle of Par­a­dise into the un­known depths of space.

• each unique in nature and personality; an “only-begotten Son”
• personalizations by Father and Son of new absolute thought

21:0.1The Cre­ator Sons are the mak­ers and rulers of the lo­cal uni­verses of time and space. These uni­verse cre­ators and sov­er­eigns are of dual ori­gin, em­body­ing the char­ac­ter­is­tics of God the Fa­ther and God the Son. But each Cre­ator Son is dif­fer­ent from ev­ery other; each is unique in na­ture as well as in per­son­al­ity; each is the “only-be­got­ten Son” of the per­fect de­ity ideal of his ori­gin.

• Creator and creature forever blended

21:0.4The orig­i­nal or first-born Mi­chael has never ex­pe­ri­enced in­car­na­tion as a ma­te­rial be­ing, but seven times he passed through the ex­pe­ri­ence of spir­i­tual crea­ture as­cent on the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona, ad­vanc­ing from the outer spheres to the in­ner­most cir­cuit of the cen­tral cre­ation. The or­der of Mi­chael knows the grand uni­verse from one end to the other; there is no es­sen­tial ex­pe­ri­ence of any of the chil­dren of time and space in which the Mi­cha­els have not per­son­ally par­tic­i­pated; they are in fact par­tak­ers not only of the di­vine na­ture but also of your na­ture, mean­ing all na­tures, from the high­est to the low­est.

21:0.5The orig­i­nal Mi­chael is the pre­sid­ing head of the pri­mary Par­a­dise Sons when they as­sem­ble for con­fer­ence at the cen­ter of all things. Not long since on Uversa we re­corded a uni­ver­sal broad­cast of a con­clave ex­traor­di­nary on the eter­nal Isle of one hun­dred fifty thou­sand Cre­ator Sons as­sem­bled in the pa­ren­tal pres­ence and en­gaged in de­lib­er­a­tions hav­ing to do with the prog­ress of the uni­fi­ca­tion and sta­bi­liza­tion of the uni­verse of uni­verses. This was a se­lected group of Sov­er­eign Mi­cha­els, sev­en­fold be­stowal Sons.

• each unique in nature and personality; an “only-begotten Son”
• personalizations by Father and Son of new absolute thought

21:1.1When the full­ness of ab­so­lute spir­i­tual ide­a­tion in the Eter­nal Son en­coun­ters the full­ness of ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity con­cept in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, when such a cre­ative union is fi­nally and fully at­tained, when such ab­so­lute iden­tity of spirit and such in­fi­nite one­ness of per­son­al­ity con­cept oc­cur, then, right then and there, with­out the loss of any­thing of per­son­al­ity or pre­rog­a­tive by ei­ther of the in­fi­nite De­i­ties, there flashes into full-fledged be­ing a new and orig­i­nal Cre­ator Son, the only-be­got­ten Son of the per­fect ideal and the pow­er­ful idea whose union pro­duces this new cre­ator per­son­al­ity of power and per­fec­tion.

21:1.2Each Cre­ator Son is the only-be­got­ten and only-beget­table off­spring of the per­fect union of the orig­i­nal con­cepts of the two in­fi­nite and eter­nal and per­fect minds of the ever-ex­is­tent Cre­ators of the uni­verse of uni­verses. There never can be an­other such Son be­cause each Cre­ator Son is the un­qual­i­fied, fin­ished, and fi­nal ex­pres­sion and em­bod­i­ment of all of ev­ery phase of ev­ery fea­ture of ev­ery pos­si­bil­ity of ev­ery di­vine re­al­ity that could, through­out all eter­nity, ever be found in, ex­pressed by, or evolved from, those di­vine cre­ative po­ten­tials which united to bring this Mi­chael Son into ex­is­tence. Each Cre­ator Son is the ab­so­lute of the united de­ity con­cepts which con­sti­tute his di­vine ori­gin.

21:1.3The di­vine na­tures of these Cre­ator Sons are, in prin­ci­ple, de­rived equally from the at­tri­butes of both Par­a­dise par­ents. All par­take of the full­ness of the di­vine na­ture of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and of the cre­ative pre­rog­a­tives of the Eter­nal Son, but as we ob­serve the prac­ti­cal out­work­ing of the Mi­chael func­tions in the uni­verses, we dis­cern ap­par­ent dif­fer­ences. Some Cre­ator Sons ap­pear to be more like God the Fa­ther; oth­ers more like God the Son. For ex­am­ple: The trend of ad­min­is­tra­tion in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don sug­gests that its Cre­ator and rul­ing Son is one whose na­ture and char­ac­ter more re­sem­ble that of the Eter­nal Mother Son. It should be fur­ther stated that some uni­verses are pre­sided over by Par­a­dise Mi­cha­els who ap­pear equally to re­sem­ble God the Fa­ther and God the Son. And these ob­ser­va­tions are in no sense im­plied crit­i­cisms; they are sim­ply a record­ing of fact.

21:1.4I do not know the ex­act num­ber of Cre­ator Sons in ex­is­tence, but I have good rea­sons for be­liev­ing that there are more than seven hun­dred thou­sand. Now, we know that there are ex­actly seven hun­dred thou­sand Unions of Days and no more are be­ing cre­ated. We also ob­serve that the or­dained plans of the pres­ent uni­verse age seem to in­di­cate that one Union of Days is to be sta­tioned in each lo­cal uni­verse as the coun­sel­ing am­bas­sador of the Trin­ity. We note fur­ther that the con­stantly in­creas­ing num­ber of Cre­ator Sons al­ready ex­ceeds the sta­tion­ary num­ber of the Unions of Days. But con­cern­ing the des­tiny of the Mi­cha­els be­yond seven hun­dred thou­sand, we have never been in­formed.

• God to mortals

21:2.2When a Cre­ator Son de­parts from Par­a­dise to em­bark upon the ad­ven­ture of uni­verse mak­ing, to be­come the head—vir­tu­ally the God—of the lo­cal uni­verse of his own or­ga­ni­za­tion, then, for the first time, he finds him­self in in­ti­mate con­tact with, and in many re­spects de­pen­dent upon, the Third Source and Cen­ter. The In­fi­nite Spirit, though abid­ing with the Fa­ther and the Son at the cen­ter of all things, is des­tined to func­tion as the ac­tual and ef­fec­tive helper of each Cre­ator Son. There­fore is each Cre­ator Son ac­com­pa­nied by a Cre­ative Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit, that be­ing who is des­tined to be­come the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the Mother Spirit of the new lo­cal uni­verse.

• God to mortals

21:5.8The Mas­ter Mi­cha­els are su­preme in their own lo­cal uni­verses when once they have been in­stalled as sov­er­eign rulers. The few lim­i­ta­tions upon their rule are those in­her­ent in the cos­mic pre-ex­is­tence of cer­tain forces and per­son­al­i­ties. Oth­er­wise these Mas­ter Sons are su­preme in au­thor­ity, re­spon­si­bil­ity, and ad­min­is­tra­tive power in their re­spec­tive uni­verses; they are as Cre­ators and Gods, su­preme in vir­tu­ally all things. There is no pen­e­tra­tion be­yond their wis­dom re­gard­ing the func­tion­ing of a given uni­verse.

• in direct and constant communication with Eternal Son

21:5.10The Mas­ter Sons seem to be in per­fect com­mu­ni­ca­tion with their be­stowal worlds, not only the worlds of their per­sonal so­journ but all worlds whereon a Mag­is­te­rial Son has be­stowed him­self. This con­tact is main­tained by their own spir­i­tual pres­ence, the Spirit of Truth, which they are able to “pour out upon all flesh.” These Mas­ter Sons also main­tain an un­bro­ken con­nec­tion with the Eter­nal Mother Son at the cen­ter of all things. They pos­sess a sym­pa­thetic reach which ex­tends from the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther on high to the lowly races of plan­e­tary life in the realms of time.

• way, truth, and life

21:6.4Just as the De­ity of the Su­preme is ac­tu­al­iz­ing by virtue of ex­pe­ri­en­tial ser­vice, so are the Cre­ator Sons achiev­ing the per­sonal re­al­iza­tion of the Par­a­dise-di­vin­ity po­ten­tials bound up in their un­fath­omable na­tures. When on Uran­tia, Christ Mi­chael once said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” And we be­lieve that in eter­nity the Mi­cha­els are lit­er­ally des­tined to be “the way, the truth, and the life,” ever blaz­ing the path for all uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties as it leads from su­preme di­vin­ity through ul­ti­mate ab­sonity to eter­nal de­ity fi­nal­ity.

• most powerful divine beings capable of direct administration of evolutionary universes

33:1.2Our Cre­ator Son is not the Eter­nal Son, the ex­is­ten­tial Par­a­dise as­so­ciate of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the In­fi­nite Spirit. Mi­chael of Neb­a­don is not a mem­ber of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. Nev­er­the­less our Mas­ter Son pos­sesses in his realm all of the di­vine at­tri­butes and pow­ers that the Eter­nal Son him­self would man­i­fest were he ac­tu­ally to be pres­ent on Sal­ving­ton and func­tion­ing in Neb­a­don. Mi­chael pos­sesses even ad­di­tional power and au­thor­ity, for he not only per­son­i­fies the Eter­nal Son but also fully rep­re­sents and ac­tu­ally em­bod­ies the per­son­al­ity pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to and in this lo­cal uni­verse. He even rep­re­sents the Fa­ther-Son. These re­la­tion­ships con­sti­tute a Cre­ator Son the most pow­er­ful, ver­sa­tile, and in­flu­en­tial of all di­vine be­ings who are ca­pa­ble of di­rect ad­min­is­tra­tion of evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses and of per­son­al­ity con­tact with im­ma­ture crea­ture be­ings.

• 1st level and final focalizations of God the Sevenfold

33:1.3Our Cre­ator Son ex­erts the same spir­i­tual draw­ing power, spirit grav­ity, from the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse that the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise would ex­ert if he were per­son­ally pres­ent on Sal­ving­ton, and more; this Uni­verse Son is also the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. Cre­ator Sons are per­son­al­ity cen­ters for the spir­i­tual forces of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther-Son. Cre­ator Sons are the fi­nal power-per­son­al­ity fo­cal­iza­tions of the mighty time-space at­tri­butes of God the Sev­en­fold.

• local universe personification of Father and Son

50:1.1The Plan­e­tary Prince and his as­sis­tant breth­ren rep­re­sent the near­est per­son­al­ized ap­proach (aside from in­car­na­tion) that the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise can make to the lowly crea­tures of time and space. True, the Cre­ator Son touches the crea­tures of the realms through his spirit, but the Plan­e­tary Prince is the last of the or­ders of per­sonal Sons ex­tend­ing out from Par­a­dise to the chil­dren of men. The In­fi­nite Spirit comes very near in the per­sons of the guard­i­ans of des­tiny and other an­gelic be­ings; the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther lives in man by the preper­sonal pres­ence of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors; but the Plan­e­tary Prince rep­re­sents the last ef­fort of the Eter­nal Son and his Sons to draw near you. On a newly in­hab­ited world the Plan­e­tary Prince is the sole rep­re­sen­ta­tive of com­plete di­vin­ity, spring­ing from the Cre­ator Son (the off­spring of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son) and the Di­vine Min­is­ter (the uni­verse Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit).

• 1st level and final focalizations of God the Sevenfold

55:3.12Each of these suc­ces­sive ages rep­re­sents ad­vanc­ing achieve­ments in all phases of plan­e­tary at­tain­ment. In the ini­tial age of light the rev­e­la­tion of truth was en­larged to em­brace the work­ings of the uni­verse of uni­verses, while the De­ity study of the sec­ond age is the at­tempt to mas­ter the pro­tean con­cept of the na­ture, mis­sion, min­istry, as­so­ci­a­tions, ori­gin, and des­tiny of the Cre­ator Sons, the first level of God the Sev­en­fold.

• transformative creators

118:4.73. Cre­ation and evo­lu­tion of uni­verse ac­tu­als. It is upon a cos­mos im­preg­nated by the ca­pac­ity-pro­duc­ing pres­ence of the Ul­ti­macy of De­ity that the Su­preme Cre­ators op­er­ate to ef­fect the time trans­mu­ta­tions of ma­tured po­ten­tials into ex­pe­ri­en­tial ac­tu­als. Within the mas­ter uni­verse all ac­tu­al­iza­tion of po­ten­tial re­al­ity is lim­ited by ul­ti­mate ca­pac­ity for de­vel­op­ment and is time-space con­di­tioned in the fi­nal stages of emer­gence. The Cre­ator Sons go­ing out from Par­a­dise are, in ac­tu­al­ity, trans­for­ma­tive cre­ators in the cos­mic sense. But this in no man­ner in­val­i­dates man’s con­cept of them as cre­ators; from the fi­nite view­point they cer­tainly can and do cre­ate.

• direct universes in absence of C.S.

21:2.11When a Mi­chael Son is ab­sent from his uni­verse, its gov­ern­ment is di­rected by the first-born na­tive be­ing, the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the lo­cal uni­verse chief ex­ec­u­tive. The ad­vice and coun­sel of the Union of Days is in­valu­able at such times. Dur­ing these ab­sences a Cre­ator Son is able to in­vest the as­so­ci­ated Mother Spirit with the over­con­trol of his spir­i­tual pres­ence on the in­hab­ited worlds and in the hearts of his mor­tal chil­dren. And the Mother Spirit of a lo­cal uni­verse re­mains al­ways at its head­quar­ters, ex­tend­ing her fos­ter­ing care and spir­i­tual min­istry to the ut­ter­most parts of such an evo­lu­tion­ary do­main.

• are first-born of C.S.

28:1.3Through­out the early times of uni­verse build­ing, these one thou­sand ter­tiaphim are the only per­sonal staff of a Cre­ator Son. They ac­quire a mighty ex­pe­ri­ence as Son as­sis­tants dur­ing these stir­ring ages of uni­verse as­sem­bling and other as­tro­nom­i­cal ma­nip­u­la­tions. They serve by the side of the Cre­ator Son un­til the day of the per­son­al­iza­tion of the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the first-born of a lo­cal uni­verse. There­upon the for­mal res­ig­na­tions of the ter­tiaphim are ten­dered and ac­cepted. And with the ap­pear­ance of the ini­tial or­ders of na­tive an­gelic life, they re­tire from ac­tive ser­vice in the lo­cal uni­verse and be­come the li­ai­son min­is­ters be­tween the Cre­ator Son of for­mer at­tach­ment and the An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse con­cerned.

• C.S. delegate executive power to

32:2.6Pres­ently, the phys­i­cal plan of a uni­verse is com­pleted, and the Cre­ator Son, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Cre­ative Spirit, projects his plan of life cre­ation; where­upon does this rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit be­gin her uni­verse func­tion as a dis­tinct cre­ative per­son­al­ity. When this first cre­ative act is for­mu­lated and ex­e­cuted, there springs into be­ing the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of this ini­tial cre­ative con­cept of iden­tity and ideal of di­vin­ity. This is the chief ex­ec­u­tive of the uni­verse, the per­sonal as­so­ciate of the Cre­ator Son, one like him in all as­pects of char­ac­ter, though markedly lim­ited in the at­tri­butes of di­vin­ity.

• C.S. delegate executive power to

33:0.1While the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther most cer­tainly rules over his vast cre­ation, he func­tions in a lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion through the per­son of the Cre­ator Son. The Fa­ther does not oth­er­wise per­son­ally func­tion in the ad­min­is­tra­tive af­fairs of a lo­cal uni­verse. These mat­ters are in­trusted to the Cre­ator Son and to the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit and to their man­i­fold chil­dren. The plans, poli­cies, and ad­min­is­tra­tive acts of the lo­cal uni­verse are formed and ex­e­cuted by this Son, who, in con­junc­tion with his Spirit as­so­ciate, del­e­gates ex­ec­u­tive power to Ga­briel and ju­ris­dic­tional au­thor­ity to the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, and Plan­e­tary Princes.

• are first-born of C.S.

33:4.1The Bright and Morn­ing Star is the per­son­al­iza­tion of the first con­cept of iden­tity and ideal of per­son­al­ity con­ceived by the Cre­ator Son and the lo­cal uni­verse man­i­fes­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Go­ing back to the early days of the lo­cal uni­verse, be­fore the union of the Cre­ator Son and the Mother Spirit in the bonds of cre­ative as­so­ci­a­tion, back to the times be­fore the be­gin­ning of the cre­ation of their ver­sa­tile fam­ily of sons and daugh­ters, the first con­joint act of this early and free as­so­ci­a­tion of these two di­vine per­sons re­sults in the cre­ation of the high­est spirit per­son­al­ity of the Son and the Spirit, the Bright and Morn­ing Star.

• are first-born of C.S.

34:2.5In the cre­ation of a uni­verse of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures the Cre­ative Mother Spirit func­tions first in the sphere of uni­verse per­fec­tion, col­lab­o­rat­ing with the Son in the pro­duc­tion of the Bright and Morn­ing Star. Sub­se­quently the off­spring of the Spirit in­creas­ingly ap­proach the or­der of cre­ated be­ings on the plan­ets, even as the Sons grade down­ward from the Mel­chiz­e­deks to the Ma­te­rial Sons, who ac­tu­ally con­tact with the mor­tals of the realms. In the later evo­lu­tion of mor­tal crea­tures the Life Car­rier Sons pro­vide the phys­i­cal body, fab­ri­cated out of the ex­ist­ing or­ga­nized ma­te­rial of the realm, while the Uni­verse Spirit con­tributes the “breath of life.”

3:6.6Does the Par­a­dise Fa­ther suf­fer? I do not know. The Cre­ator Sons most cer­tainly can and some­times do, even as do mor­tals. The Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit suf­fer in a mod­i­fied sense. I think the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther does, but I can­not un­der­stand how; per­haps through the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit or through the in­di­vid­u­al­ity of the Thought Ad­justers and other be­stowals of his eter­nal na­ture. He has said of the mor­tal races, “In all your af­flic­tions I am af­flicted.” He un­ques­tion­ably ex­pe­ri­ences a fa­therly and sym­pa­thetic un­der­stand­ing; he may truly suf­fer, but I do not com­pre­hend the na­ture thereof.

4:3.5The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther never does any­thing that causes sub­se­quent sor­row or re­gret, but the will crea­tures of the plan­ning and mak­ing of his Cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties in the out­ly­ing uni­verses, by their un­for­tu­nate choos­ing, some­times oc­ca­sion emo­tions of di­vine sor­row in the per­son­al­i­ties of their Cre­ator par­ents. But though the Fa­ther nei­ther makes mis­takes, har­bors re­grets, nor ex­pe­ri­ences sor­rows, he is a be­ing with a fa­ther’s af­fec­tion, and his heart is un­doubt­edly grieved when his chil­dren fail to at­tain the spir­i­tual lev­els they are ca­pa­ble of reach­ing with the as­sis­tance which has been so freely pro­vided by the spir­i­tual-at­tain­ment plans and the mor­tal-as­cen­sion poli­cies of the uni­verses.

• except for C.S. bestowals and ministry of Infinite Spirit, mortals could hardly hope to attain Eternal Son

6:8.4The Eter­nal Son is in­fi­nite, but he is ap­proach­able through the per­sons of his Par­a­dise Sons and through the pa­tient min­istry of the In­fi­nite Spirit. With­out the be­stowal ser­vice of the Par­a­dise Sons and the lov­ing min­istry of the crea­tures of the In­fi­nite Spirit, be­ings of ma­te­rial ori­gin could hardly hope to at­tain the Eter­nal Son. And it is equally true: With the help and guid­ance of these ce­les­tial agen­cies the God-con­scious mor­tal will cer­tainly at­tain Par­a­dise and some­time stand in the per­sonal pres­ence of this ma­jes­tic Son of Sons.

• compensate for mortal inability to comprehend Eternal Son

6:8.6Never can the con­cept of the Eter­nal Son shine brightly in your ma­te­rial or sub­se­quent mor­ontial mind; not un­til you spir­i­tize and com­mence your spirit as­cen­sion will the com­pre­hen­sion of the per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son be­gin to equal the vivid­ness of your con­cept of the per­son­al­ity of the Cre­ator Son of Par­a­dise ori­gin who, in per­son and as a per­son, one­time in­car­nated and lived on Uran­tia as a man among men.

6:8.7Through­out your lo­cal uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence the Cre­ator Son, whose per­son­al­ity is com­pre­hen­si­ble by man, must com­pen­sate for your in­abil­ity to grasp the full sig­nif­i­cance of the more ex­clu­sively spir­i­tual, but none the less per­sonal, Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise. As you pro­gress through Or­von­ton and Ha­vona, as you leave be­hind you the vivid pic­ture and deep mem­o­ries of the Cre­ator Son of your lo­cal uni­verse, the pass­ing of this ma­te­rial and mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence will be com­pen­sated by ever-en­larg­ing con­cepts and in­ten­si­fy­ing com­pre­hen­sion of the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise, whose re­al­ity and near­ness will ever aug­ment as you pro­gress Par­adis­e­ward.

7:4.52. The Be­stowal Plan. The next uni­ver­sal plan is the great Fa­ther-rev­e­la­tion en­ter­prise of the Eter­nal Son and his co-or­di­nate Sons. This is the pro­posal of the Eter­nal Son and con­sists of his be­stowal of the Sons of God upon the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ations, there to per­son­al­ize and fac­tu­al­ize, to in­car­nate and make real, the love of the Fa­ther and the mercy of the Son to the crea­tures of all uni­verses. In­her­ent in the be­stowal plan, and as a pro­vi­sional fea­ture of this min­is­tra­tion of love, the Par­a­dise Sons act as re­ha­bil­i­ta­tors of that which mis­guided crea­ture will has placed in spir­i­tual jeop­ardy. When­ever and wher­ever there oc­curs a de­lay in the func­tion­ing of the at­tain­ment plan, if re­bel­lion, per­chance, should mar or com­pli­cate this en­ter­prise, then do the emer­gency pro­vi­sions of the be­stowal plan be­come ac­tive forth­with. The Par­a­dise Sons stand pledged and ready to func­tion as re­triev­ers, to go into the very realms of re­bel­lion and there re­store the spir­i­tual sta­tus of the spheres. And such a heroic ser­vice a co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Son did per­form on Uran­tia in con­nec­tion with his ex­pe­ri­en­tial be­stowal ca­reer of sov­er­eignty ac­quire­ment.

• secret of Sonarington

7:5.4The Eter­nal Son comes not to mor­tal man as the di­vine will, the Thought Ad­juster in­dwelling the hu­man mind, but the Eter­nal Son did come to mor­tal man on Uran­tia when the di­vine per­son­al­ity of his Son, Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, in­car­nated in the hu­man na­ture of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth. To share the ex­pe­ri­ence of cre­ated per­son­al­i­ties, the Par­a­dise Sons of God must as­sume the very na­tures of such crea­tures and in­car­nate their di­vine per­son­al­i­ties as the ac­tual crea­tures them­selves. In­car­na­tion, the se­cret of Sonar­ing­ton, is the tech­nique of the Son’s es­cape from the oth­er­wise all-en­com­pass­ing fet­ters of per­son­al­ity ab­so­lutism.

• presence on mortal world terminates dispensation

20:3.4Avo­nal Sons may act as plan­e­tary judges prior to both the mag­is­te­rial and be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ences. On ei­ther of these mis­sions, how­ever, the in­car­nated Son will judge the pass­ing plan­e­tary age; like­wise does a Cre­ator Son when in­car­nated on a mis­sion of be­stowal in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh. When a Par­a­dise Son vis­its an evo­lu­tion­ary world and be­comes like one of its peo­ple, his pres­ence ter­mi­nates a dis­pen­sa­tion and con­sti­tutes a judg­ment of the realm.

• bestowal worlds subject to rulings of C.S.

20:4.5Uran­tia may yet be vis­ited by an Avo­nal com­mis­sioned to in­car­nate on a mag­is­te­rial mis­sion, but re­gard­ing the fu­ture ap­pear­ance of Par­a­dise Sons, not even “the an­gels in heaven know the time or man­ner of such vis­i­ta­tions,” for a Mi­chael-be­stowal world be­comes the in­di­vid­ual and per­sonal ward of a Mas­ter Son and, as such, is wholly sub­ject to his own plans and rul­ings. And with your world, this is fur­ther com­pli­cated by Mi­chael’s prom­ise to re­turn. Re­gard­less of the mis­un­der­stand­ings about the Uran­tian so­journ of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, one thing is cer­tainly au­then­tic—his prom­ise to come back to your world. In view of this prospect, only time can re­veal the fu­ture or­der of the vis­i­ta­tions of the Par­a­dise Sons of God on Uran­tia.

• on mortal bestowals, C.S. are Word made flesh

20:5.1The Eter­nal Son is the eter­nal Word of God. The Eter­nal Son is the per­fect ex­pres­sion of the “first” ab­so­lute and in­fi­nite thought of his eter­nal Fa­ther. When a per­sonal du­pli­ca­tion or di­vine ex­ten­sion of this Orig­i­nal Son starts on a be­stowal mis­sion of mor­tal in­car­na­tion, it be­comes lit­er­ally true that the di­vine “Word is made flesh,” and that the Word thus dwells among the lowly be­ings of an­i­mal ori­gin.

• last step in training

20:5.2On Uran­tia there is a wide­spread be­lief that the pur­pose of a Son’s be­stowal is, in some man­ner, to in­flu­ence the at­ti­tude of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. But your en­light­en­ment should in­di­cate that this is not true. The be­stowals of the Avo­nal and the Mi­chael Sons are a nec­es­sary part of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial pro­cess de­signed to make these Sons safe and sym­pa­thetic mag­is­trates and rulers of the peo­ples and plan­ets of time and space. The ca­reer of sev­en­fold be­stowal is the su­preme goal of all Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons. And all Mag­is­te­rial Sons are mo­ti­vated by this same spirit of ser­vice which so abun­dantly char­ac­ter­izes the pri­mary Cre­ator Sons and the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise.

• once in each local universe, C.S. bestow themselves on some evolutionary world

20:5.4Dur­ing the course of the long his­tory of an in­hab­ited planet, many dis­pen­sa­tional ad­ju­di­ca­tions will take place, and more than one mag­is­te­rial mis­sion may oc­cur, but or­di­nar­ily only once will a be­stowal Son serve on the sphere. It is only re­quired that each in­hab­ited world have one be­stowal Son come to live the full mor­tal life from birth to death. Sooner or later, re­gard­less of spir­i­tual sta­tus, ev­ery mor­tal-in­hab­ited world is des­tined to be­come host to a Mag­is­te­rial Son on a be­stowal mis­sion ex­cept the one planet in each lo­cal uni­verse whereon a Cre­ator Son elects to make his mor­tal be­stowal.

• C.S. may not beget offspring on bestowals

20:6.2On a mor­tal-be­stowal mis­sion a Par­a­dise Son is al­ways born of woman and grows up as a male child of the realm, as Je­sus did on Uran­tia. These Sons of su­preme ser­vice all pass from in­fancy through youth to man­hood just as does a hu­man be­ing. In ev­ery re­spect they be­come like the mor­tals of the race into which they are born. They make pe­ti­tions to the Fa­ther as do the chil­dren of the realms in which they serve. From a ma­te­rial view­point, these hu­man-di­vine Sons live or­di­nary lives with just one ex­cep­tion: They do not beget off­spring on the worlds of their so­journ; that is a uni­ver­sal re­stric­tion im­posed on all or­ders of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Sons.

• C.S. become Master Sons after bestowals

21:3.15Be­fore the com­ple­tion of the be­stowal ca­reer a Cre­ator Son rules with cer­tain self-im­posed lim­i­ta­tions of sov­er­eignty, but sub­se­quent to his fin­ished be­stowal ser­vice he rules by virtue of his ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in the form and like­ness of his man­i­fold crea­tures. When a Cre­ator has seven times so­journed among his crea­tures, when the be­stowal ca­reer is fin­ished, then is he su­premely set­tled in uni­verse au­thor­ity; he has be­come a Mas­ter Son, a sov­er­eign and su­preme ruler.

21:4.1There are seven groups of be­stowal Cre­ator Sons, and they are so clas­si­fied in ac­cor­dance with the num­ber of times they have be­stowed them­selves upon the crea­tures of their realms. They range from the ini­tial ex­pe­ri­ence up through five ad­di­tional spheres of pro­gres­sive be­stowal un­til they at­tain the sev­enth and fi­nal episode of crea­ture-Cre­ator ex­pe­ri­ence.

21:4.2Avo­nal be­stowals are al­ways in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, but the seven be­stowals of a Cre­ator Son in­volve his ap­pear­ing on seven crea­ture lev­els of be­ing and per­tain to the rev­e­la­tion of the seven pri­mary ex­pres­sions of the will and na­ture of De­ity. With­out ex­cep­tion, all Cre­ator Sons pass through this seven times giv­ing of them­selves to their cre­ated chil­dren be­fore they as­sume set­tled and su­preme ju­ris­dic­tion over the uni­verses of their own cre­ation.

• mortal bestowal among racial group with most Adamic blood

21:4.3Though these seven be­stowals vary in the dif­fer­ent sec­tors and uni­verses, they al­ways em­brace the mor­tal-be­stowal ad­ven­ture. In the fi­nal be­stowal a Cre­ator Son ap­pears as a mem­ber of one of the higher mor­tal races on some in­hab­ited world, usu­ally as a mem­ber of that racial group which con­tains the largest hered­i­tary legacy of the Adamic stock which has pre­vi­ously been im­ported to up­step the phys­i­cal sta­tus of the an­i­mal-ori­gin peo­ples. Only once in his sev­en­fold ca­reer as a be­stowal Son is a Par­a­dise Mi­chael born of woman as you have the rec­ord of the babe of Beth­le­hem. Only once does he live and die as a mem­ber of the low­est or­der of evo­lu­tion­ary will crea­tures.

• C.S. become Master Sons after bestowals

21:4.4Af­ter each of his be­stowals a Cre­ator Son pro­ceeds to the “right hand of the Fa­ther,” there to gain the Fa­ther’s ac­cep­tance of the be­stowal and to re­ceive in­struc­tion prepara­tory to the next episode of uni­verse ser­vice. Fol­low­ing the sev­enth and fi­nal be­stowal a Cre­ator Son re­ceives from the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther su­preme au­thor­ity and ju­ris­dic­tion over his uni­verse.

21:4.5It is of rec­ord that the di­vine Son of last ap­pear­ance on your planet was a Par­a­dise Cre­ator Son who had com­pleted six phases of his be­stowal ca­reer; con­se­quently, when he gave up the con­scious grasp of the in­car­nated life on Uran­tia, he could, and did, truly say, “It is fin­ished”—it was lit­er­ally fin­ished. His death on Uran­tia com­pleted his be­stowal ca­reer; it was the last step in ful­fill­ing the sa­cred oath of a Par­a­dise Cre­ator Son. And when this ex­pe­ri­ence has been ac­quired, such Sons are su­preme uni­verse sov­er­eigns; no longer do they rule as vicegerents of the Fa­ther but in their own right and name as “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” With cer­tain stated ex­cep­tions these sev­en­fold be­stowal Sons are un­qual­i­fiedly su­preme in the uni­verses of their abode. Con­cern­ing his lo­cal uni­verse, “all power in heaven and on earth” was rel­e­gated to this tri­umphant and en­throned Mas­ter Son.

21:4.6Cre­ator Sons, sub­se­quent to the com­ple­tion of their be­stowal ca­reers, are reck­oned as a sep­a­rate or­der, sev­en­fold Mas­ter Sons. In per­son the Mas­ter Sons are iden­ti­cal with the Cre­ator Sons, but they have un­der­gone such a unique be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence that they are com­monly re­garded as a dif­fer­ent or­der. When a Cre­ator deigns to ef­fect a be­stowal, a real and per­ma­nent change is des­tined to take place. True, the be­stowal Son is still and none the less a Cre­ator, but he has added to his na­ture the ex­pe­ri­ence of a crea­ture, which for­ever re­moves him from the di­vine level of a Cre­ator Son and el­e­vates him to the ex­pe­ri­en­tial plane of a Mas­ter Son, one who has fully earned the right to rule a uni­verse and ad­min­is­ter its worlds. Such be­ings em­body all that can be se­cured from di­vine parent­age and em­brace ev­ery­thing to be de­rived from per­fected-crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence. Why should man be­moan his lowly ori­gin and en­forced evo­lu­tion­ary ca­reer when the very Gods must pass through an equiv­a­lent ex­pe­ri­ence be­fore they are ac­counted ex­pe­ri­en­tially wor­thy and com­pe­tent fi­nally and fully to rule over their uni­verse do­mains!

• bestowal worlds subject to rulings of C.S.

21:5.9Af­ter his el­e­va­tion to set­tled sov­er­eignty in a lo­cal uni­verse a Par­a­dise Mi­chael is in full con­trol of all other Sons of God func­tion­ing in his do­main, and he may freely rule in ac­cor­dance with his con­cept of the needs of his realms. A Mas­ter Son may at will vary the or­der of the spir­i­tual ad­ju­di­ca­tion and evo­lu­tion­ary ad­just­ment of the in­hab­ited plan­ets. And such Sons do make and carry out the plans of their own choos­ing in all mat­ters of spe­cial plan­e­tary needs, in par­tic­u­lar re­gard­ing the worlds of their crea­ture so­journ and still more con­cern­ing the realm of ter­mi­nal be­stowal, the planet of in­car­na­tion in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh.

23:4.1The Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers seem to be per­son­al­ity co-or­di­na­tors for all types of spirit be­ings. Their min­istry helps to make all the per­son­al­i­ties of the far-flung spir­i­tual world akin. They con­tribute much to the de­vel­op­ment, in all spirit be­ings, of a con­scious­ness of group iden­tity. Ev­ery type of spirit be­ing is served by spe­cial groups of Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers who fos­ter the abil­ity of such be­ings to un­der­stand and frat­er­nize with all other types and or­ders, how­ever dis­sim­i­lar.

23:4.2The Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers demon­strate such an amaz­ing abil­ity to co-or­di­nate all types and or­ders of fi­nite per­son­al­ity—even to make con­tact with the ab­so­nite regime of the mas­ter uni­verse over­con­trollers—that some of us pos­tu­late that the cre­ation of these mes­sen­gers by the In­fi­nite Spirit is in some man­ner re­lated to the Con­joint Ac­tor’s be­stowal of Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate Mind.

23:4.3When a fi­nal­i­ter and a Par­a­dise Cit­i­zen co-op­er­ate in the trin­i­ti­za­tion of a “child of time and eter­nity”—a trans­ac­tion in­volv­ing the un­re­vealed mind po­ten­tials of the Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate—and when such an un­clas­si­fied per­son­al­ity is dis­patched to Vicegering­ton, a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger (a con­jec­tured per­son­al­ity reper­cus­sion of the be­stowal of such de­ity mind) is al­ways as­signed as guard­ian-com­pan­ion to such a crea­ture-trin­i­tized son. This mes­sen­ger ac­com­pa­nies the new son of des­tiny to the world of his as­sign­ment and nev­er­more leaves Vicegering­ton. When thus at­tached to the des­tinies of a child of time and eter­nity, a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger is for­ever trans­ferred to the sole super­vi­sion of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse. What the fu­ture of such an ex­traor­di­nary as­so­ci­a­tion may be, we do not know. For ages these part­ner­ships of unique per­son­al­i­ties have con­tin­ued to for­gather on Vicegering­ton, but not even a sin­gle pair has ever gone forth there­from.

23:4.4Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers are of sta­tion­ary num­bers, but the trin­i­ti­za­tion of the sons of des­tiny is ap­par­ently an un­lim­ited tech­nique. Since each trin­i­tized son of des­tiny has as­signed to him a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger, it ap­pears to us that at some time in the re­mote fu­ture the sup­ply of mes­sen­gers will be­come ex­hausted. Who will take up their work in the grand uni­verse? Will their ser­vice be as­sumed by some new de­vel­op­ment among the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its? Is the grand uni­verse at some re­mote pe­riod go­ing to be more nearly ad­min­is­tered by Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings while the sin­gle- and dual-ori­gin crea­tures move on into the realms of outer space? If the mes­sen­gers re­turn to their for­mer ser­vice, will these sons of des­tiny ac­com­pany them? Will the trini­ti­za­tions be­tween fi­nal­i­ters and Par­a­dise-Havon­ers cease when the sup­ply of Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers has been ab­sorbed as guard­ian-com­pan­ions of these sons of des­tiny? Are all our ef­fi­cient Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers go­ing to be con­cen­trated on Vicegering­ton? Are these ex­traor­di­nary spirit per­son­al­i­ties go­ing to be eter­nally as­so­ci­ated with these trin­i­tized sons of un­re­vealed des­tiny? What sig­nif­i­cance should we at­tach to the fact that these cou­ples for­gath­er­ing on Vicegering­ton are un­der the ex­clu­sive di­rec­tion of those mighty mys­tery be­ings, the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse? These and many sim­i­lar ques­tions we ask our­selves, and ask nu­mer­ous other or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings, but we do not know the an­swers.

23:4.5This trans­ac­tion, to­gether with many sim­i­lar oc­cur­rences in uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, un­mis­tak­ably in­di­cates that the per­son­nel of the grand uni­verse, even that of Ha­vona and Par­a­dise, is un­der­go­ing a def­i­nite and cer­tain re­or­ga­ni­za­tion in co-or­di­na­tion with, and with ref­er­ence to, the vast en­ergy evo­lu­tions now tak­ing place through­out the realms of outer space.

23:4.6We in­cline to the be­lief that the eter­nal fu­ture will wit­ness phe­nom­ena of uni­verse evo­lu­tion which will far tran­scend all that the eter­nal past has ex­pe­ri­enced. And we an­tic­i­pate such tremen­dous ad­ven­tures, even as you should, with keen rel­ish and ever-height­en­ing ex­pec­ta­tion.

23:4.7[Pre­sented by a Di­vine Coun­selor from Uversa.]

• qualify C.S. to portray Supreme

33:2.4This sub­or­di­na­tion of the Di­vine Min­is­ters to the Cre­ator Sons of the lo­cal uni­verses con­sti­tutes these Mas­ter Sons the per­sonal repos­i­to­ries of the finitely man­i­festable di­vin­ity of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit, while the crea­ture-be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ences of the Mi­cha­els qual­ify them to por­tray the ex­pe­ri­en­tial di­vin­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing. No other be­ings in the uni­verses have thus per­son­ally ex­hausted the po­ten­tials of pres­ent fi­nite ex­pe­ri­ence, and no other be­ings in the uni­verses pos­sess such qual­i­fi­ca­tions for soli­tary sov­er­eignty.

• once in each local universe, C.S. bestow themselves on some evolutionary world

52:5.2When the worlds have be­come ripe for spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion, the be­stowal Son ar­rives. These Sons al­ways be­long to the Mag­is­te­rial or Avo­nal or­der ex­cept in that case, once in each lo­cal uni­verse, when the Cre­ator Son pre­pares for his ter­mi­nal be­stowal on some evo­lu­tion­ary world, as oc­curred when Mi­chael of Neb­a­don ap­peared on Uran­tia to be­stow him­self upon your mor­tal races. Only one world in near ten mil­lion can en­joy such a gift; all other worlds are spir­i­tu­ally ad­vanced by the be­stowal of a Par­a­dise Son of the Avo­nal or­der.

• Adjusters sent universally after mortal bestowal

52:5.6Upon the res­ur­rec­tion of a be­stowal Son, on the third day af­ter yield­ing up his in­car­nated life, he as­cends to the right hand of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, re­ceives the as­sur­ance of the ac­cep­tance of the be­stowal mis­sion, and re­turns to the Cre­ator Son at the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse. There­upon the be­stowal Avo­nal and the Cre­ator Mi­chael send their joint spirit, the Spirit of Truth, into the be­stowal world. This is the oc­ca­sion when the “spirit of the tri­umphant Son is poured out upon all flesh.” The Uni­verse Mother Spirit also par­tic­i­pates in this be­stowal of the Spirit of Truth, and con­comi­tant there­with there is­sues the be­stowal edict of the Thought Ad­justers. There­after all nor­mal-minded will crea­tures of that world will re­ceive Ad­justers as soon as they at­tain the age of moral re­spon­si­bil­ity, of spir­i­tual choice.

• inherent attribute of Paradise Sons

119:0.2The at­tri­bute of be­stowal is in­her­ent in the Par­a­dise Sons of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. In their de­sire to come close to the life ex­pe­ri­ences of their sub­or­di­nate liv­ing crea­tures, the var­i­ous or­ders of the Par­a­dise Sons are re­flect­ing the di­vine na­ture of their Par­a­dise par­ents. The Eter­nal Son of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity led the way in this prac­tice, hav­ing seven times be­stowed him­self upon the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona dur­ing the times of the as­cen­sion of Grand­fanda and the first of the pil­grims from time and space. And the Eter­nal Son con­tin­ues to be­stow him­self upon the lo­cal uni­verses of space in the per­sons of his rep­re­sen­ta­tives, the Mi­chael and Avo­nal Sons.

• last step in training

119:0.4The pur­pose of these crea­ture in­car­na­tions is to en­able such Cre­ators to be­come wise, sym­pa­thetic, just, and un­der­stand­ing sov­er­eigns. These di­vine Sons are in­nately just, but they be­come un­der­stand­ingly mer­ci­ful as a re­sult of these suc­ces­sive be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ences; they are nat­u­rally mer­ci­ful, but these ex­pe­ri­ences make them mer­ci­ful in new and ad­di­tional ways. These be­stowals are the last steps in their ed­u­ca­tion and train­ing for the sub­lime tasks of rul­ing the lo­cal uni­verses in di­vine righ­teous­ness and by just judg­ment.

119:0.5Though nu­mer­ous in­ci­den­tal ben­e­fits ac­crue to the var­i­ous worlds, sys­tems, and con­stel­la­tions, as well as to the dif­fer­ent or­ders of uni­verse in­tel­li­gences af­fected and ben­e­fited by these be­stowals, still they are pri­mar­ily de­signed to com­plete the per­sonal train­ing and uni­verse ed­u­ca­tion of a Cre­ator Son him­self. These be­stowals are not es­sen­tial to the wise, just, and ef­fi­cient man­age­ment of a lo­cal uni­verse, but they are ab­so­lutely nec­es­sary to a fair, mer­ci­ful, and un­der­stand­ing ad­min­is­tra­tion of such a cre­ation, teem­ing with its var­ied forms of life and its myr­i­ads of in­tel­li­gent but im­per­fect crea­tures.

• C.S. gain practical mercy, judgment, and patience by living experience in bestowals

119:0.6The Mi­chael Sons be­gin their work of uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion with a full and just sym­pa­thy for the var­i­ous or­ders of be­ings whom they have cre­ated. They have vast stores of mercy for all these dif­fer­ing crea­tures, even pity for those who err and floun­der in the self­ish mire of their own pro­duc­tion. But such en­dow­ments of jus­tice and righ­teous­ness will not suf­fice in the es­ti­mate of the An­cients of Days. These tri­une rulers of the super­uni­verses will never cer­tify a Cre­ator Son as Uni­verse Sov­er­eign un­til he has re­ally ac­quired the view­point of his own crea­tures by ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in the en­vi­ron­ment of their ex­is­tence and as these very crea­tures them­selves. In this way such Sons be­come in­tel­li­gent and un­der­stand­ing rulers; they come to know the var­i­ous groups over which they rule and ex­er­cise uni­verse au­thor­ity. By liv­ing ex­pe­ri­ence they pos­sess them­selves of prac­ti­cal mercy, fair judg­ment, and the pa­tience born of ex­pe­ri­en­tial crea­ture ex­is­tence.

• are miracles, mysteries

119:3.6The be­stowals of Mi­chael as a Mel­chiz­e­dek Son, then as a La­non­an­dek Son, and next as a Ma­te­rial Son are all equally mys­te­ri­ous and be­yond ex­pla­na­tion. In each in­stance he ap­peared sud­denly and as a fully de­vel­oped in­di­vid­ual of the be­stowal group. The mys­tery of such in­car­na­tions will never be known ex­cept to those who have ac­cess to the in­ner cir­cle of the rec­ords on the sa­cred sphere of Sonar­ing­ton.

• are miracles, mysteries

119:7.5Joshua ben Joseph, the Jew­ish baby, was con­ceived and was born into the world just as all other ba­bies be­fore and since ex­cept that this par­tic­u­lar baby was the in­car­na­tion of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, a di­vine Son of Par­a­dise and the cre­ator of all this lo­cal uni­verse of things and be­ings. And this mys­tery of the in­car­na­tion of De­ity within the hu­man form of Je­sus, oth­er­wise of nat­u­ral ori­gin on the world, will for­ever re­main un­solved. Even in eter­nity you will never know the tech­nique and method of the in­car­na­tion of the Cre­ator in the form and like­ness of his crea­tures. That is the se­cret of Sonar­ing­ton, and such mys­ter­ies are the ex­clu­sive pos­ses­sion of those di­vine Sons who have passed through the be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence.

• last step in training

119:8.2It re­quired al­most one bil­lion years of Uran­tia time to com­plete the be­stowal ca­reer of Mi­chael and to ef­fect the fi­nal es­tab­lish­ment of his su­preme au­thor­ity in the uni­verse of his own cre­ation. Mi­chael was born a cre­ator, ed­u­cated an ad­min­is­tra­tor, trained an ex­ec­u­tive, but he was re­quired to earn his sov­er­eignty by ex­pe­ri­ence. And thus has your lit­tle world be­come known through­out all Neb­a­don as the arena wherein Mi­chael com­pleted the ex­pe­ri­ence which is re­quired of ev­ery Par­a­dise Cre­ator Son be­fore he is given un­lim­ited con­trol and di­rec­tion of the uni­verse of his own mak­ing. As you as­cend the lo­cal uni­verse, you will learn more about the ide­als of the per­son­al­i­ties con­cerned in Mi­chael’s pre­vi­ous be­stowals.

• C.S. become Master Sons after bestowals

120:0.4Mi­chael, there­fore, had a dou­ble pur­pose in the mak­ing of these seven be­stowals upon the var­i­ous or­ders of his uni­verse crea­tures: First, he was com­plet­ing the re­quired ex­pe­ri­ence in crea­ture un­der­stand­ing which is de­manded of all Cre­ator Sons be­fore they as­sume com­plete sov­er­eignty. At any time a Cre­ator Son may rule his uni­verse in his own right, but he can rule as the su­preme rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity only af­ter pass­ing through the seven uni­verse-crea­ture be­stowals. Sec­ond, he was as­pir­ing to the priv­i­lege of rep­re­sent­ing the max­i­mum au­thor­ity of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity which can be ex­er­cised in the di­rect and per­sonal ad­min­is­tra­tion of a lo­cal uni­verse. Ac­cord­ingly, did Mi­chael, dur­ing the ex­pe­ri­ence of each of his uni­verse be­stowals, suc­cess­fully and ac­cept­ably vol­un­tar­ily sub­or­di­nate him­self to the var­i­ously con­sti­tuted wills of the di­verse as­so­ci­a­tions of the per­sons of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. That is, on the first be­stowal he was sub­ject to the com­bined will of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit; on the sec­ond be­stowal to the will of the Fa­ther and the Son; on the third be­stowal to the will of the Fa­ther and the Spirit; on the fourth be­stowal to the will of the Son and the Spirit; on the fifth be­stowal to the will of the In­fi­nite Spirit; on the sixth be­stowal to the will of the Eter­nal Son; and dur­ing the sev­enth and fi­nal be­stowal, on Uran­tia, to the will of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• are miracles, mysteries

120:4.5Uran­tia mor­tals have vary­ing con­cepts of the mirac­u­lous, but to us who live as cit­i­zens of the lo­cal uni­verse there are few mir­a­cles, and of these by far the most in­trigu­ing are the in­car­na­tional be­stowals of the Par­a­dise Sons. The ap­pear­ance in and on your world, by ap­par­ently nat­u­ral pro­cesses, of a di­vine Son, we re­gard as a mir­a­cle—the op­er­a­tion of uni­ver­sal laws be­yond our un­der­stand­ing. Je­sus of Naz­a­reth was a mirac­u­lous per­son.

• are miracles, mysteries

124:6.17As time passed, the mys­tery of the in­car­na­tion be­came, to all of us, more and more un­fath­omable. We could hardly com­pre­hend that this lad of Naz­a­reth was the cre­ator of all Neb­a­don. Nei­ther do we nowa­days un­der­stand how the spirit of this same Cre­ator Son and the spirit of his Par­a­dise Fa­ther are as­so­ci­ated with the souls of man­kind. With the pass­ing of time, we could see that his hu­man mind was in­creas­ingly dis­cern­ing that, while he lived his life in the flesh, in spirit on his shoul­ders rested the re­spon­si­bil­ity of a uni­verse.

• Adjusters sent universally after mortal bestowal

146:3.6“While you can­not ob­serve the di­vine spirit at work in your minds, there is a prac­ti­cal method of dis­cov­er­ing the de­gree to which you have yielded the con­trol of your soul pow­ers to the teach­ing and guid­ance of this in­dwelling spirit of the heav­enly Fa­ther, and that is the de­gree of your love for your fel­low men. This spirit of the Fa­ther par­takes of the love of the Fa­ther, and as it dom­i­nates man, it un­fail­ingly leads in the di­rec­tions of di­vine wor­ship and lov­ing re­gard for one’s fel­lows. At first you be­lieve that you are sons of God be­cause my teach­ing has made you more con­scious of the in­ner lead­ings of our Fa­ther’s in­dwelling pres­ence; but pres­ently the Spirit of Truth shall be poured out upon all flesh, and it will live among men and teach all men, even as I now live among you and speak to you the words of truth. And this Spirit of Truth, speak­ing for the spir­i­tual en­dow­ments of your souls, will help you to know that you are the sons of God. It will un­fail­ingly bear wit­ness with the Fa­ther’s in­dwelling pres­ence, your spirit, then dwell­ing in all men as it now dwells in some, telling you that you are in re­al­ity the sons of God.

• requirements

158:1.4When a boy, Je­sus used to as­cend the hill near his home and dream of the bat­tles which had been fought by the armies of em­pires on the plain of Es­draelon; now he as­cended Mount Her­mon to re­ceive the en­dow­ment which was to pre­pare him to de­scend upon the plains of the Jor­dan to en­act the clos­ing scenes of the drama of his be­stowal on Uran­tia. The Mas­ter could have re­lin­quished the strug­gle this day on Mount Her­mon and re­turned to his rule of the uni­verse do­mains, but he not only chose to meet the re­quire­ments of his or­der of di­vine son­ship em­braced in the man­date of the Eter­nal Son on Par­a­dise, but he also elected to meet the last and full mea­sure of the pres­ent will of his Par­a­dise Fa­ther. On this day in Au­gust three of his apos­tles saw him de­cline to be in­vested with full uni­verse au­thor­ity. They looked on in amaze­ment as the ce­les­tial mes­sen­gers de­parted, leav­ing him alone to fin­ish out his earth life as the Son of Man and the Son of God.

• C.S. become Master Sons after bestowals

186:5.5All that the Son of Man said or did on earth greatly em­bel­lished the doc­trines of son­ship with God and of the broth­er­hood of men, but these es­sen­tial re­la­tion­ships of God and men are in­her­ent in the uni­verse facts of God’s love for his crea­tures and the in­nate mercy of the di­vine Sons. These touch­ing and di­vinely beau­ti­ful re­la­tions be­tween man and his Maker, on this world and on all oth­ers through­out the uni­verse of uni­verses, have ex­isted from eter­nity; and they are not in any sense de­pen­dent on these pe­ri­odic be­stowal en­act­ments of the Cre­ator Sons of God, who thus as­sume the na­ture and like­ness of their cre­ated in­tel­li­gences as a part of the price which they must pay for the fi­nal ac­quire­ment of un­lim­ited sov­er­eignty over their re­spec­tive lo­cal uni­verses.

• inherent attribute of Paradise Sons

189:0.2“Not one of you can do aught to as­sist your Cre­ator-fa­ther in the re­turn to life. As a mor­tal of the realm he has ex­pe­ri­enced mor­tal death; as the Sov­er­eign of a uni­verse he still lives. That which you ob­serve is the mor­tal tran­sit of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth from life in the flesh to life in the mor­ontia. The spirit tran­sit of this Je­sus was com­pleted at the time I sep­a­rated my­self from his per­son­al­ity and be­came your tem­po­rary di­rec­tor. Your Cre­ator-fa­ther has elected to pass through the whole of the ex­pe­ri­ence of his mor­tal crea­tures, from birth on the ma­te­rial worlds, on through nat­u­ral death and the res­ur­rec­tion of the mor­ontia, into the sta­tus of true spirit ex­is­tence. A cer­tain phase of this ex­pe­ri­ence you are about to ob­serve, but you may not par­tic­i­pate in it. Those things which you or­di­nar­ily do for the crea­ture, you may not do for the Cre­ator. A Cre­ator Son has within him­self the power to be­stow him­self in the like­ness of any of his cre­ated sons; he has within him­self the power to lay down his ob­serv­able life and to take it up again; and he has this power be­cause of the di­rect com­mand of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, and I know whereof I speak.”

1:4.2The phys­i­cal bod­ies of mor­tals are “the tem­ples of God.” Not­with­stand­ing that the Sov­er­eign Cre­ator Sons come near the crea­tures of their in­hab­ited worlds and “draw all men to them­selves”; though they “stand at the door” of con­scious­ness “and knock” and de­light to come in to all who will “open the doors of their hearts”; al­though there does ex­ist this in­ti­mate per­sonal com­mu­nion be­tween the Cre­ator Sons and their mor­tal crea­tures, nev­er­the­less, mor­tal men have some­thing from God him­self which ac­tu­ally dwells within them; their bod­ies are the tem­ples thereof.

14:0.2This is the one and only set­tled, per­fect, and es­tab­lished ag­gre­ga­tion of worlds. This is a wholly cre­ated and per­fect uni­verse; it is not an evo­lu­tion­ary de­vel­op­ment. This is the eter­nal core of per­fec­tion, about which swirls that end­less pro­ces­sion of uni­verses which con­sti­tute the tremen­dous evo­lu­tion­ary ex­per­i­ment, the au­da­cious ad­ven­ture of the Cre­ator Sons of God, who as­pire to du­pli­cate in time and to re­pro­duce in space the pat­tern uni­verse, the ideal of di­vine com­plete­ness, su­preme fi­nal­ity, ul­ti­mate re­al­ity, and eter­nal per­fec­tion.

14:6.28A Cre­ator Son uses the crea­tures of Ha­vona as per­son­al­ity-pat­tern pos­si­bil­i­ties for his own mor­tal chil­dren and spirit be­ings. The Mi­chael and other Par­a­dise Sons view Par­a­dise and Ha­vona as the di­vine des­tiny of the chil­dren of time.

14:6.29The Cre­ator Sons know that the cen­tral cre­ation is the real source of that in­dis­pens­able uni­verse over­con­trol which sta­bi­lizes and uni­fies their lo­cal uni­verses. They know that the per­sonal pres­ence of the ever-pres­ent in­flu­ence of the Su­preme and of the Ul­ti­mate is in Ha­vona.

54:2.1With the Son and in the Spirit did God project eter­nal Ha­vona, and ever since has there ob­tained the eter­nal pat­tern of co-or­di­nate par­tic­i­pa­tion in cre­ation—shar­ing. This pat­tern of shar­ing is the mas­ter de­sign for ev­ery one of the Sons and Daugh­ters of God who go out into space to en­gage in the at­tempt to du­pli­cate in time the cen­tral uni­verse of eter­nal per­fec­tion.

21:6.1No one may with fi­nal­ity of au­thor­ity pre­sume to dis­cuss ei­ther the na­tures or the des­tinies of the sev­en­fold Mas­ter Sov­er­eigns of the lo­cal uni­verses; nev­er­the­less, we all spec­u­late much re­gard­ing these mat­ters. We are taught, and we be­lieve, that each Par­a­dise Mi­chael is the ab­so­lute of the dual de­ity con­cepts of his ori­gin; thus he em­bod­ies ac­tual phases of the in­fin­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son. The Mi­cha­els must be par­tial in re­la­tion to to­tal in­fin­ity, but they are prob­a­bly ab­so­lute in re­la­tion to that part of in­fin­ity con­cerned in their ori­gin. But as we ob­serve their work in the pres­ent uni­verse age, we de­tect no ac­tion that is more than fi­nite; any con­jec­tured super­fi­nite ca­pac­i­ties must be self-con­tained and as yet un­re­vealed.

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

• provide mechanism for mortal survival

0:8.11The Cre­ator Sons in the De­ity as­so­ci­a­tion of God the Sev­en­fold pro­vide the mech­a­nism whereby the mor­tal be­comes im­mor­tal and the fi­nite at­tains the em­brace of the in­fi­nite. The Su­preme Be­ing pro­vides the tech­nique for the power-per­son­al­ity mo­bi­liza­tion, the di­vine syn­the­sis, of all these man­i­fold trans­ac­tions, thus en­abling the fi­nite to at­tain the ab­so­nite and, through other pos­si­ble fu­ture ac­tu­al­iza­tions, to at­tempt the at­tain­ment of the Ul­ti­mate. The Cre­ator Sons and their as­so­ci­ated Di­vine Min­is­ters are par­tic­i­pants in this su­preme mo­bi­liza­tion, but the An­cients of Days and the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are prob­a­bly eter­nally fixed as per­ma­nent ad­min­is­tra­tors in the grand uni­verse.

• create and rule local universes

1:0.1The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is the God of all cre­ation, the First Source and Cen­ter of all things and be­ings. First think of God as a cre­ator, then as a con­trol­ler, and lastly as an in­fi­nite up­holder. The truth about the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther had be­gun to dawn upon man­kind when the prophet said: “You, God, are alone; there is none be­side you. You have cre­ated the heaven and the heaven of heav­ens, with all their hosts; you pre­serve and con­trol them. By the Sons of God were the uni­verses made. The Cre­ator cov­ers him­self with light as with a gar­ment and stretches out the heav­ens as a cur­tain.” Only the con­cept of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther—one God in the place of many gods—en­abled mor­tal man to com­pre­hend the Fa­ther as di­vine cre­ator and in­fi­nite con­trol­ler.

• create and rule local universes

1:2.9In the­ory you may think of God as the Cre­ator, and he is the per­sonal cre­ator of Par­a­dise and the cen­tral uni­verse of per­fec­tion, but the uni­verses of time and space are all cre­ated and or­ga­nized by the Par­a­dise corps of the Cre­ator Sons. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is not the per­sonal cre­ator of the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don; the uni­verse in which you live is the cre­ation of his Son Mi­chael. Though the Fa­ther does not per­son­ally cre­ate the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses, he does con­trol them in many of their uni­ver­sal re­la­tion­ships and in cer­tain of their man­i­fes­ta­tions of phys­i­cal, mindal, and spir­i­tual en­er­gies. God the Fa­ther is the per­sonal cre­ator of the Par­a­dise uni­verse and, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Eter­nal Son, the cre­ator of all other per­sonal uni­verse Cre­ators.

• answer prayers

5:3.2Sup­pli­ca­tions of all kinds be­long to the realm of the Eter­nal Son and the Son’s spir­i­tual or­ga­ni­za­tion. Prayers, all for­mal com­mu­ni­ca­tions, ev­ery­thing ex­cept ado­ra­tion and wor­ship of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, are mat­ters that con­cern a lo­cal uni­verse; they do not or­di­nar­ily pro­ceed out of the realm of the ju­ris­dic­tion of a Cre­ator Son. But wor­ship is un­doubt­edly en­cir­cuited and dis­patched to the per­son of the Cre­ator by the func­tion of the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity cir­cuit. We fur­ther be­lieve that such reg­istry of the homage of an Ad­juster-in­dwelt crea­ture is fa­cil­i­tated by the Fa­ther’s spirit pres­ence. There ex­ists a tremen­dous amount of ev­i­dence to sub­stan­ti­ate such a be­lief, and I know that all or­ders of Fa­ther frag­ments are em­pow­ered to reg­is­ter the bona fide ado­ra­tion of their sub­jects ac­cept­ably in the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The Ad­justers un­doubt­edly also uti­lize di­rect preper­sonal chan­nels of com­mu­ni­ca­tion with God, and they are like­wise able to uti­lize the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuits of the Eter­nal Son.

• answer prayers

5:3.4The mo­ment the el­e­ment of self-in­ter­est in­trudes upon wor­ship, that in­stant de­vo­tion trans­lates from wor­ship to prayer and more ap­pro­pri­ately should be di­rected to the per­son of the Eter­nal Son or the Cre­ator Son. But in prac­ti­cal re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence there ex­ists no rea­son why prayer should not be ad­dressed to God the Fa­ther as a part of true wor­ship.

5:3.5When you deal with the prac­ti­cal af­fairs of your daily life, you are in the hands of the spirit per­son­al­i­ties hav­ing ori­gin in the Third Source and Cen­ter; you are co-op­er­at­ing with the agen­cies of the Con­joint Ac­tor. And so it is: You wor­ship God; pray to, and com­mune with, the Son; and work out the de­tails of your earthly so­journ in con­nec­tion with the in­tel­li­gences of the In­fi­nite Spirit op­er­at­ing on your world and through­out your uni­verse.

• represent Father and Son in their creations

6:8.3As per­sons you may con­ceive of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son as sep­a­rate in­di­vid­u­als, for they in­deed are; but in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­verses they are so in­ter­twined and in­ter­re­lated that it is not al­ways pos­si­ble to dis­tin­guish be­tween them. When, in the af­fairs of the uni­verses, the Fa­ther and the Son are en­coun­tered in con­fus­ing in­teras­so­ci­a­tions, it is not al­ways prof­itable to at­tempt to seg­re­gate their op­er­a­tions; merely re­call that God is the ini­ti­at­ing thought and the Son is the ex­pres­sion­ful word. In each lo­cal uni­verse this in­sep­a­ra­bil­ity is per­son­al­ized in the di­vin­ity of the Cre­ator Son, who stands for both Fa­ther and Son to the crea­tures of ten mil­lion in­hab­ited worlds.

• represent Father and Son in their creations

7:2.4The ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Eter­nal Son in the super­uni­verses, be­ing ex­clu­sively spir­i­tual and super­per­sonal, is not dis­cern­i­ble by crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties. Nonethe­less, the all-per­vad­ing spir­i­tual urge of the Son’s per­sonal in­flu­ence is en­coun­tered in ev­ery phase of the ac­tiv­i­ties of all sec­tors of the do­mains of the An­cients of Days. In the lo­cal uni­verses, how­ever, we ob­serve the Eter­nal Son per­son­ally pres­ent in the per­sons of the Par­a­dise Sons. Here the in­fi­nite Son spir­i­tu­ally and cre­atively func­tions in the per­sons of the ma­jes­tic corps of the co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Sons.

• represent Father and Son in their creations

7:3.1In the lo­cal uni­verse as­cent the mor­tals of time look to the Cre­ator Son as the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Eter­nal Son. But when they be­gin the as­cent of the super­uni­verse train­ing regime, the pil­grims of time in­creas­ingly de­tect the su­per­nal pres­ence of the in­spir­ing spirit of the Eter­nal Son, and they are able to profit by the in­take of this min­istry of spir­i­tual en­er­giza­tion. In Ha­vona the as­cend­ers be­come still more con­scious of the lov­ing em­brace of the all-per­vad­ing spirit of the Orig­i­nal Son. At no stage of the en­tire mor­tal as­cen­sion does the spirit of the Eter­nal Son in­dwell the mind or soul of the pil­grim of time, but his benef­i­cence is ever near and al­ways con­cerned with the wel­fare and spir­i­tual se­cu­rity of the ad­vanc­ing chil­dren of time.

• make Father’s love real

7:7.1The Eter­nal Son is a com­plete, ex­clu­sive, uni­ver­sal, and fi­nal rev­e­la­tion of the spirit and the per­son­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. All knowl­edge of, and in­for­ma­tion con­cern­ing, the Fa­ther must come from the Eter­nal Son and his Par­a­dise Sons. The Eter­nal Son is from eter­nity and is wholly and with­out spir­i­tual qual­i­fi­ca­tion one with the Fa­ther. In di­vine per­son­al­ity they are co-or­di­nate; in spir­i­tual na­ture they are equal; in di­vin­ity they are iden­ti­cal.

7:7.2The char­ac­ter of God could not pos­si­bly be in­trin­si­cally im­proved upon in the per­son of the Son, for the di­vine Fa­ther is in­finitely per­fect, but that char­ac­ter and per­son­al­ity are am­pli­fied, by di­vest­ment of the non­per­sonal and non­spir­i­tual, for rev­e­la­tion to crea­ture be­ings. The First Source and Cen­ter is much more than a per­son­al­ity, but all of the spirit qual­i­ties of the fa­ther per­son­al­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter are spir­i­tu­ally pres­ent in the ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son.

7:7.3The pri­mal Son and his Sons are en­gaged in mak­ing a uni­ver­sal rev­e­la­tion of the spir­i­tual and per­sonal na­ture of the Fa­ther to all cre­ation. In the cen­tral uni­verse, the super­uni­verses, the lo­cal uni­verses, or on the in­hab­ited plan­ets, it is a Par­a­dise Son who re­veals the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to men and an­gels. The Eter­nal Son and his Sons re­veal the av­enue of crea­ture ap­proach to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. And even we of high ori­gin un­der­stand the Fa­ther much more fully as we study the rev­e­la­tion of his char­ac­ter and per­son­al­ity in the Eter­nal Son and in the Sons of the Eter­nal Son.

7:7.4The Fa­ther comes down to you as a per­son­al­ity only through the di­vine Sons of the Eter­nal Son. And you at­tain the Fa­ther by this same liv­ing way; you as­cend to the Fa­ther by the guid­ance of this group of di­vine Sons. And this re­mains true not­with­stand­ing that your very per­son­al­ity is a di­rect be­stowal of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• create and rule local universes

8:3.4A Cre­ator Son of the Eter­nal Son and a Cre­ative Spirit of the In­fi­nite Spirit cre­ated you and your uni­verse; and while the Fa­ther in faith­ful­ness up­holds that which they have or­ga­nized, it de­volves upon this Uni­verse Son and this Uni­verse Spirit to fos­ter and sus­tain their work as well as to min­is­ter to the crea­tures of their own mak­ing.

• create and rule local universes

15:2.53. The Lo­cal Uni­verse. One hun­dred con­stel­la­tions (about 10,000,000 in­hab­it­able plan­ets) con­sti­tute a lo­cal uni­verse. Each lo­cal uni­verse has a mag­nif­i­cent ar­chi­tec­tural head­quar­ters world and is ruled by one of the co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Sons of God of the or­der of Mi­chael. Each uni­verse is blessed by the pres­ence of a Union of Days, a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

• defend and if needed retrieve personal creation

21:3.14If ever the au­thor­ity or ad­min­is­tra­tion of a Cre­ator Son is chal­lenged, at­tacked, or jeop­ar­dized, he is eter­nally pledged to up­hold, pro­tect, de­fend, and if nec­es­sary re­trieve his per­sonal cre­ation. Such Sons can be trou­bled or ha­rassed only by the crea­tures of their own mak­ing or by higher be­ings of their own choos­ing. It might be in­ferred that “higher be­ings,” those of ori­gin on lev­els above a lo­cal uni­verse, would be un­likely to trou­ble a Cre­ator Son, and this is true. But they could if they chose to. Virtue is vo­li­tional with per­son­al­ity; righ­teous­ness is not au­to­matic in free­will crea­tures.

• maintain schools on Havona’s 4th circuit

26:8.1The fourth Ha­vona cir­cuit is some­times called the “cir­cuit of the Sons.” From the worlds of this cir­cuit the as­cend­ing pil­grims go to Par­a­dise to achieve an un­der­stand­ing con­tact with the Eter­nal Son, while on the worlds of this cir­cuit the de­scend­ing pil­grims achieve a new com­pre­hen­sion of the na­ture and mis­sion of the Cre­ator Sons of time and space. There are seven worlds in this cir­cuit on which the re­serve corps of the Par­a­dise Mi­cha­els main­tain spe­cial ser­vice schools of mu­tual min­istry to both the as­cend­ing and de­scend­ing pil­grims; and it is on these worlds of the Mi­chael Sons that the pil­grims of time and the pil­grims of eter­nity ar­rive at their first truly mu­tual un­der­stand­ing of one an­other. In many re­spects the ex­pe­ri­ences of this cir­cuit are the most in­trigu­ing of the en­tire Ha­vona so­journ.

• create and rule local universes › 1000 tertiaphim are original personal staff

28:1.2When a Mi­chael Son is de­tached from the pa­ren­tal regime of Par­a­dise and is made ready to go forth on the uni­verse ad­ven­ture of space, the In­fi­nite Spirit is de­liv­ered of a group of one thou­sand of these com­pan­ion spir­its. And these ma­jes­tic ter­tiaphim ac­com­pany this Cre­ator Son when he em­barks upon the ad­ven­ture of uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion.

• create and rule local universes

32:0.1A lo­cal uni­verse is the hand­i­work of a Cre­ator Son of the Par­a­dise or­der of Mi­chael. It com­prises one hun­dred con­stel­la­tions, each em­brac­ing one hun­dred sys­tems of in­hab­ited worlds. Each sys­tem will even­tu­ally con­tain ap­prox­i­mately one thou­sand in­hab­ited spheres.

• create and rule local universes › choose space sites for new universes

32:0.4The Sons of God may choose the realms of their cre­ator ac­tiv­i­ties, but these ma­te­rial cre­ations were orig­i­nally pro­jected and planned by the Par­a­dise Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.

• create and rule local universes › headquarters sphere work begun upon arrival

32:1.5When en­ergy-mat­ter has at­tained a cer­tain stage in mass ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion, a Par­a­dise Cre­ator Son ap­pears upon the scene, ac­com­pa­nied by a Cre­ative Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the ar­rival of the Cre­ator Son, work is be­gun upon the ar­chi­tec­tural sphere which is to be­come the head­quar­ters world of the pro­jected lo­cal uni­verse. For long ages such a lo­cal cre­ation evolves, suns be­come sta­bi­lized, plan­ets form and swing into their or­bits, while the work of cre­at­ing the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds which are to serve as con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters and sys­tem cap­i­tals con­tin­ues.

• create and rule local universes › materialize visible matter from pre-existent space energy

32:2.1The Cre­ator Sons are pre­ceded in uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion by the power di­rec­tors and other be­ings orig­i­nat­ing in the Third Source and Cen­ter. From the en­er­gies of space, thus pre­vi­ously or­ga­nized, Mi­chael, your Cre­ator Son, es­tab­lished the in­hab­ited realms of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don and ever since has been painstak­ingly de­voted to their ad­min­is­tra­tion. From pre-ex­is­tent en­ergy these di­vine Sons ma­te­ri­al­ize vis­i­ble mat­ter, project liv­ing crea­tures, and with the co-op­er­a­tion of the uni­verse pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit, cre­ate a di­verse ret­inue of spirit per­son­al­i­ties.

• create and rule local universes › initiate new creature designs

33:2.2Mi­chael elected to or­ga­nize this lo­cal uni­verse, and herein he now reigns su­preme. His per­sonal power is lim­ited by the pre-ex­is­tent grav­ity cir­cuits cen­ter­ing at Par­a­dise and by the reser­va­tion on the part of the An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment of all fi­nal ex­ec­u­tive judg­ments re­gard­ing the ex­tinc­tion of per­son­al­ity. Per­son­al­ity is the sole be­stowal of the Fa­ther, but the Cre­ator Sons, with the ap­proval of the Eter­nal Son, do ini­ti­ate new crea­ture de­signs, and with the work­ing co-op­er­a­tion of their Spirit as­so­ciates they may at­tempt new trans­for­ma­tions of en­ergy-mat­ter.

• represent Father and Son in their creations

33:2.3Mi­chael is the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther-Son to and in the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don; there­fore, when the Cre­ative Mother Spirit, the lo­cal uni­verse rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit, sub­or­di­nated her­self to Christ Mi­chael upon the re­turn from his fi­nal be­stowal on Uran­tia, the Mas­ter Son thereby ac­quired ju­ris­dic­tion over “all power in heaven and on earth.”

• as fathers
• defend and if needed retrieve personal creation

33:3.4The Son func­tions as a fa­ther in his lo­cal uni­verse. The Spirit, as mor­tal crea­tures would un­der­stand, en­acts the role of a mother, al­ways as­sist­ing the Son and be­ing ev­er­last­ingly in­dis­pens­able to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­verse. In the face of in­sur­rec­tion only the Son and his as­so­ci­ated Sons can func­tion as de­liv­er­ers. Never can the Spirit un­der­take to con­test re­bel­lion or de­fend au­thor­ity, but ever does the Spirit sus­tain the Son in all of ev­ery­thing he may be re­quired to ex­pe­ri­ence in his ef­forts to sta­bi­lize gov­ern­ment and up­hold au­thor­ity on worlds tainted with evil or dom­i­nated by sin. Only a Son can re­trieve the work of their joint cre­ation, but no Son could hope for fi­nal suc­cess with­out the in­ces­sant co-op­er­a­tion of the Di­vine Min­is­ter and her vast as­sem­blage of spirit helpers, the daugh­ters of God, who so faith­fully and valiantly strug­gle for the wel­fare of mor­tal men and the glory of their di­vine par­ents.

• as fathers

33:3.7The Son and the Spirit now pre­side over the uni­verse much as a fa­ther and mother watch over, and min­is­ter to, their fam­ily of sons and daugh­ters. It is not al­to­gether out of place to re­fer to the Uni­verse Spirit as the cre­ative com­pan­ion of the Cre­ator Son and to re­gard the crea­tures of the realms as their sons and daugh­ters—a grand and glo­ri­ous fam­ily but one of un­told re­spon­si­bil­i­ties and end­less watch­care.

• create and rule local universes › initiate new creature designs

33:3.8The Son ini­ti­ates the cre­ation of cer­tain of the uni­verse chil­dren, while the Spirit is solely re­spon­si­ble for bring­ing into ex­is­tence the nu­mer­ous or­ders of spirit per­son­al­i­ties who min­is­ter and serve un­der the di­rec­tion and guid­ance of this self­same Mother Spirit. In the cre­ation of other types of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties, both the Son and the Spirit func­tion to­gether, and in no cre­ative act does the one do aught with­out the coun­sel and ap­proval of the other.

• as fathers

33:5.1The ad­min­is­tra­tion of Trin­ity-ori­gin per­son­al­i­ties ends with the gov­ern­ment of the super­uni­verses. The lo­cal uni­verses are char­ac­ter­ized by dual super­vi­sion, the be­gin­ning of the fa­ther-mother con­cept. The uni­verse fa­ther is the Cre­ator Son; the uni­verse mother is the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit. Ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse is, how­ever, blessed with the pres­ence of cer­tain per­son­al­i­ties from the cen­tral uni­verse and Par­a­dise. At the head of this Par­a­dise group in Neb­a­don is the am­bas­sador of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity—Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton—the Union of Days as­signed to the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. In a cer­tain sense this high Trin­ity Son is also the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to the court of the Cre­ator Son; hence his name, Im­manuel.

• create and rule local universes › create Material Sons

38:1.1Ser­a­phim are cre­ated by the Uni­verse Mother Spirit and have been pro­jected in unit for­ma­tion—41,472 at a time—ever since the cre­ation of the “pat­tern an­gels” and cer­tain an­gelic archetypes in the early times of Neb­a­don. The Cre­ator Son and the uni­verse rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit col­lab­o­rate in the cre­ation of a large num­ber of Sons and other uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties. Fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of this united ef­fort, the Son en­gages in the cre­ation of the Ma­te­rial Sons, the first of the sex crea­tures, while the Uni­verse Mother Spirit con­cur­rently en­gages in her ini­tial soli­tary ef­fort at spirit re­pro­duc­tion. Thus be­gins the cre­ation of the se­raphic hosts of a lo­cal uni­verse.

• create and rule local universes › Power Centers co-ordinate with C.S.’s plans

41:1.1The spi­ral and other neb­u­lae, the mother wheels of the spheres of space, are ini­ti­ated by Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers; and fol­low­ing neb­u­lar evo­lu­tion of grav­ity re­sponse, they are su­per­seded in super­uni­verse func­tion by the power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, who there­upon as­sume full re­spon­si­bil­ity for di­rect­ing the phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion of the en­su­ing gen­er­a­tions of stel­lar and plan­e­tary off­spring. This phys­i­cal super­vi­sion of the Neb­a­don pre­uni­verse was, upon the ar­rival of our Cre­ator Son, im­me­di­ately co-or­di­nated with his plan for uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion. Within the do­main of this Par­a­dise Son of God, the Su­preme Power Cen­ters and the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers col­lab­o­rated with the later ap­pear­ing Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors and oth­ers to pro­duce that vast com­plex of com­mu­ni­ca­tion lines, en­ergy cir­cuits, and power lanes which firmly bind the man­i­fold space bod­ies of Neb­a­don into one in­te­grated ad­min­is­tra­tive unit.

• create and rule local universes › create Material Sons

51:1.1The ma­te­rial or sex Sons and Daugh­ters are the off­spring of the Cre­ator Son; the Uni­verse Mother Spirit does not par­tic­i­pate in the pro­duc­tion of these be­ings who are des­tined to func­tion as phys­i­cal up­lifters on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

• destined to function in outer universes with Mother Spirits

55:10.9Spec­u­la­tion con­cern­ing the func­tion of these Cre­ator Sons in con­nec­tion with the outer uni­verses now in pro­cess of pre­lim­i­nary as­sem­bly is wholly fu­tile. But we all en­gage in such pos­tu­la­tions from time to time. On at­tain­ing this fourth stage of de­vel­op­ment the Cre­ator Son be­comes ad­min­is­tra­tively free; the Di­vine Min­is­ter is pro­gres­sively blend­ing her min­istry with that of the super­uni­verse Mas­ter Spirit and the In­fi­nite Spirit. There seems to be evolv­ing a new and sub­lime re­la­tion­ship be­tween the Cre­ator Son, the Cre­ative Spirit, the Evening Stars, the Teacher Sons, and the ever-in­creas­ing fi­nal­i­ter corps.

55:10.10If Mi­chael should ever leave Neb­a­don, Ga­briel would un­doubt­edly be­come chief ad­min­is­tra­tor with the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek as his as­so­ciate. At the same time new sta­tus would be im­parted to all or­ders of per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship, such as Ma­te­rial Sons, uni­v­i­ta­tia, mid­soniters, susa­tia, and Spirit-fused mor­tals. But as long as evo­lu­tion con­tin­ues, the ser­a­phim and the arch­an­gels will be re­quired in uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion.

55:10.11We are, how­ever, sat­is­fied re­gard­ing two fea­tures of our spec­u­la­tions: If the Cre­ator Sons are des­tined to the outer uni­verses, the Di­vine Min­is­ters will un­doubt­edly ac­com­pany them. We are equally sure that the Mel­chiz­e­deks are to re­main with the uni­verses of their ori­gin. We hold that the Mel­chiz­e­deks are des­tined to play ever-in­creas­ingly re­spon­si­ble parts in lo­cal uni­verse gov­ern­ment and ad­min­is­tra­tion.

• destined to function in outer universes with Mother Spirits

56:7.6It is a fact that, as the cre­ations of time and space are pro­gres­sively set­tled in evo­lu­tion­ary sta­tus, there is ob­served a new and fuller func­tion­ing of God the Su­preme con­comi­tant with a cor­re­spond­ing with­draw­ing of the first three man­i­fes­ta­tions of God the Sev­en­fold. If and when the grand uni­verse be­comes set­tled in light and life, what then will be the fu­ture func­tion of the Cre­ator-Cre­ative man­i­fes­ta­tions of God the Sev­en­fold if God the Su­preme as­sumes di­rect con­trol of these cre­ations of time and space? Are these or­ga­niz­ers and pi­o­neers of the time-space uni­verses to be lib­er­ated for sim­i­lar ac­tiv­i­ties in outer space? We do not know, but we spec­u­late much con­cern­ing these and re­lated mat­ters.

56:7.7As the fron­tiers of ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity are ex­tended out into the do­mains of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, we en­vi­sion the ac­tiv­ity of God the Sev­en­fold dur­ing the ear­lier evo­lu­tion­ary epochs of these cre­ations of the fu­ture. We are not all in agree­ment re­spect­ing the fu­ture sta­tus of the An­cients of Days and the super­uni­verse Mas­ter Spir­its. Nei­ther do we know whether or not the Su­preme Be­ing will therein func­tion as in the seven super­uni­verses. But we all con­jec­ture that the Mi­cha­els, the Cre­ator Sons, are des­tined to func­tion in these outer uni­verses. Some hold that the fu­ture ages will wit­ness some closer form of union be­tween the as­so­ci­ated Cre­ator Sons and Di­vine Min­is­ters; it is even pos­si­ble that such a cre­ator union might even­tu­ate in some new ex­pres­sion of as­so­ciate-cre­ator iden­tity of an ul­ti­mate na­ture. But we re­ally know noth­ing about these pos­si­bil­i­ties of the un­re­vealed fu­ture.

• create and rule local universes › materialize visible matter from pre-existent space energy

56:9.12The Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers go out into space and mo­bi­lize its en­er­gies to be­come grav­ity re­spon­sive to the Par­a­dise pull of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and sub­se­quently there come the Cre­ator Sons, who or­ga­nize these grav­ity-re­spond­ing forces into in­hab­ited uni­verses and therein evolve in­tel­li­gent crea­tures who re­ceive unto them­selves the spirit of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther and sub­se­quently as­cend to the Fa­ther to be­come like him in all pos­si­ble di­vin­ity at­tri­butes.

• create and rule local universes › materialize visible matter from pre-existent space energy

116:5.13In the early days of uni­verse build­ing even the Par­a­dise Cre­ators are pri­mar­ily con­cerned with ma­te­rial equi­lib­rium. The pat­tern of a lo­cal uni­verse takes shape not only as a re­sult of the ac­tiv­i­ties of the power cen­ters but also be­cause of the space pres­ence of the Cre­ative Spirit. And through­out these early epochs of lo­cal uni­verse build­ing the Cre­ator Son ex­hibits a lit­tle-un­der­stood at­tri­bute of ma­te­rial con­trol, and he does not leave his cap­i­tal planet un­til the gross equi­lib­rium of the lo­cal uni­verse has been es­tab­lished.

• destined to function in outer universes with Mother Spirits

119:8.7In pass­ing through the ex­pe­ri­ence of re­veal­ing the Seven Mas­ter Spirit wills of the Trin­ity, the Cre­ator Son has passed through the ex­pe­ri­ence of re­veal­ing the will of the Su­preme. In func­tion­ing as a rev­e­la­tor of the will of Su­prem­acy, Mi­chael, to­gether with all other Mas­ter Sons, has iden­ti­fied him­self eter­nally with the Su­preme. In this uni­verse age he re­veals the Su­preme and par­tic­i­pates in the ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the sov­er­eignty of Su­prem­acy. But in the next uni­verse age we be­lieve he will be col­lab­o­rat­ing with the Su­preme Be­ing in the first ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity for and in the uni­verses of outer space.

• provide mechanism for mortal survival

180:3.7When Je­sus heard Thomas, he an­swered: “Thomas, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man goes to the Fa­ther ex­cept through me. All who find the Fa­ther, first find me. If you know me, you know the way to the Fa­ther. And you do know me, for you have lived with me and you now see me.”

40:10.2Spirit-fused mor­tals are of the lo­cal uni­verse; they do not, or­di­nar­ily, as­cend be­yond the con­fines of their na­tive realm, be­yond the bound­aries of the space range of the spirit that per­vades them. Son-fused as­cend­ers like­wise rise to the source of spirit en­dow­ment, for much as the Truth Spirit of a Cre­ator Son fo­cal­izes in the as­so­ci­ated Di­vine Min­is­ter, so is his “fu­sion spirit” im­ple­mented in the Re­flec­tive Spir­its of the higher uni­verses. Such spirit re­la­tion­ship be­tween the lo­cal and the super­uni­verse lev­els of God the Sev­en­fold may be dif­fi­cult of ex­pla­na­tion but not of dis­cern­ment, be­ing un­mis­tak­ably re­vealed in those chil­dren of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its—the sec­o­raphic Voices of the Cre­ator Sons. The Thought Ad­juster, hail­ing from the Fa­ther on Par­a­dise, never stops un­til the mor­tal son stands face to face with the eter­nal God.

193:0.5“Among your­selves, here, you share the knowl­edge that I have risen from the dead, but that is not strange. I have the power to lay down my life and to take it up again; the Fa­ther gives such power to his Par­a­dise Sons. You should the rather be stirred in your hearts by the knowl­edge that the dead of an age en­tered upon the eter­nal as­cent soon af­ter I left Joseph’s new tomb. I lived my life in the flesh to show how you can, through lov­ing ser­vice, be­come God-re­veal­ing to your fel­low men even as, by lov­ing you and serv­ing you, I have be­come God-re­veal­ing to you. I have lived among you as the Son of Man that you, and all other men, might know that you are all in­deed the sons of God. There­fore, go you now into all the world preach­ing this gospel of the king­dom of heaven to all men. Love all men as I have loved you; serve your fel­low mor­tals as I have served you. Freely you have re­ceived, freely give. Only tarry here in Je­ru­sa­lem while I go to the Fa­ther, and un­til I send you the Spirit of Truth. He shall lead you into the en­larged truth, and I will go with you into all the world. I am with you al­ways, and my peace I leave with you.”

6:2.2The Eter­nal Son is the eter­nal Word of God. He is wholly like the Fa­ther; in fact, the Eter­nal Son is God the Fa­ther per­son­ally man­i­fest to the uni­verse of uni­verses. And thus it was and is and for­ever will be true of the Eter­nal Son and of all the co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Sons: “He who has seen the Son has seen the Fa­ther.”

20:6.5The mor­tal-be­stowal ca­reers of the Mi­cha­els and the Avo­nals, while com­pa­ra­ble in most re­spects, are not iden­ti­cal in all: Never does a Mag­is­te­rial Son pro­claim, “Whoso­ever has seen the Son has seen the Fa­ther,” as did your Cre­ator Son when on Uran­tia and in the flesh. But a be­stowed Avo­nal does de­clare, “Whoso­ever has seen me has seen the Eter­nal Son of God.” The Mag­is­te­rial Sons are not of im­me­di­ate de­scent from the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, nor do they in­car­nate sub­ject to the Fa­ther’s will; al­ways do they be­stow them­selves as Par­a­dise Sons sub­ject to the will of the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise.

32:3.6The far­ther down the scale of life we go, the more dif­fi­cult it be­comes to lo­cate, with the eye of faith, the in­vis­i­ble Fa­ther. The lower crea­tures—and some­times even the higher per­son­al­i­ties—find it dif­fi­cult al­ways to en­vis­age the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in his Cre­ator Sons. And so, pend­ing the time of their spir­i­tual ex­al­ta­tion, when per­fec­tion of de­vel­op­ment will en­able them to see God in per­son, they grow weary in pro­gres­sion, en­ter­tain spir­i­tual doubts, stum­ble into con­fu­sion, and thus iso­late them­selves from the pro­gres­sive spir­i­tual aims of their time and uni­verse. In this way they lose the abil­ity to see the Fa­ther when be­hold­ing the Cre­ator Son. The surest safe­guard for the crea­ture through­out the long strug­gle to at­tain the Fa­ther, dur­ing this time when in­her­ent con­di­tions make such at­tain­ment im­pos­si­ble, is tena­ciously to hold on to the truth-fact of the Fa­ther’s pres­ence in his Sons. Lit­er­ally and fig­u­ra­tively, spir­i­tu­ally and per­son­ally, the Fa­ther and the Sons are one. It is a fact: He who has seen a Cre­ator Son has seen the Fa­ther.

107:0.4Any mor­tal who has seen a Cre­ator Son has seen the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and he who is in­dwelt by a di­vine Ad­juster is in­dwelt by the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. Ev­ery mor­tal who is con­sciously or un­con­sciously fol­low­ing the lead­ing of his in­dwelling Ad­juster is liv­ing in ac­cor­dance with the will of God. Con­scious­ness of Ad­juster pres­ence is con­scious­ness of God’s pres­ence. Eter­nal fu­sion of the Ad­juster with the evo­lu­tion­ary soul of man is the fac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence of eter­nal union with God as a uni­verse as­so­ciate of De­ity.

157:6.13“Nev­er­the­less, I tell you that the Fa­ther and I are one. He who has seen me has seen the Fa­ther. My Fa­ther is work­ing with me in all these things, and he will never leave me alone in my mis­sion, even as I will never for­sake you when you pres­ently go forth to pro­claim this gospel through­out the world.

180:3.9And when Philip had spo­ken, Je­sus said: “Philip, have I been so long with you and yet you do not even now know me? Again do I de­clare: He who has seen me has seen the Fa­ther. How can you then say, Show us the Fa­ther? Do you not be­lieve that I am in the Fa­ther and the Fa­ther in me? Have I not taught you that the words which I speak are not my words but the words of the Fa­ther? I speak for the Fa­ther and not of my­self. I am in this world to do the Fa­ther’s will, and that I have done. My Fa­ther abides in me and works through me. Be­lieve me when I say that the Fa­ther is in me, and that I am in the Fa­ther, or else be­lieve me for the sake of the very life I have lived—for the work’s sake.”

182:1.9The Mas­ter, dur­ing the course of this fi­nal prayer with his apos­tles, al­luded to the fact that he had man­i­fested the Fa­ther’s name to the world. And that is truly what he did by the rev­e­la­tion of God through his per­fected life in the flesh. The Fa­ther in heaven had sought to re­veal him­self to Moses, but he could pro­ceed no fur­ther than to cause it to be said, “I AM.” And when pressed for fur­ther rev­e­la­tion of him­self, it was only dis­closed, “I AM that I AM.” But when Je­sus had fin­ished his earth life, this name of the Fa­ther had been so re­vealed that the Mas­ter, who was the Fa­ther in­car­nate, could truly say:

30:1.311. Cre­ator Sons.

30:2.391. Cre­ator Sons—Mi­cha­els.

• not altogether limited by Father’s finality of wisdom

4:4.4The Fa­ther-Ab­so­lute is the cre­ator of the cen­tral and per­fect uni­verse and the Fa­ther of all other Cre­ators. Per­son­al­ity, good­ness, and nu­mer­ous other char­ac­ter­is­tics, God shares with man and other be­ings, but in­fin­ity of will is his alone. God is lim­ited in his cre­ative acts only by the sen­ti­ments of his eter­nal na­ture and by the dic­tates of his in­fi­nite wis­dom. God per­son­ally chooses only that which is in­finitely per­fect, hence the su­per­nal per­fec­tion of the cen­tral uni­verse; and while the Cre­ator Sons fully share his di­vin­ity, even phases of his ab­so­lute­ness, they are not al­to­gether lim­ited by that fi­nal­ity of wis­dom which di­rects the Fa­ther’s in­fin­ity of will. Hence, in the Mi­chael or­der of son­ship, cre­ative free will be­comes even more ac­tive, wholly di­vine and well-nigh ul­ti­mate, if not ab­so­lute. The Fa­ther is in­fi­nite and eter­nal, but to deny the pos­si­bil­ity of his vo­li­tional self-lim­i­ta­tion amounts to a de­nial of this very con­cept of his vo­li­tional ab­so­lute­ness.

• to Creator prerogatives

6:5.4The Eter­nal Son is lim­ited in trans­mit­tal of cre­ator pre­rog­a­tives. The Fa­ther, in eter­nal­iz­ing the Orig­i­nal Son, be­stowed upon him the power and priv­i­lege of sub­se­quently join­ing with the Fa­ther in the di­vine act of pro­duc­ing ad­di­tional Sons pos­sess­ing cre­ative at­tri­butes, and this they have done and now do. But when these co-or­di­nate Sons have been pro­duced, the pre­rog­a­tives of cre­ator­ship are ap­par­ently not fur­ther trans­mis­si­ble. The Eter­nal Son trans­mits cre­ator­ship pow­ers only to the first or di­rect per­son­al­iza­tion. There­fore, when the Fa­ther and the Son unite to per­son­al­ize a Cre­ator Son, they achieve their pur­pose; but the Cre­ator Son thus brought into ex­is­tence is never able to trans­mit or del­e­gate the pre­rog­a­tives of cre­ator­ship to the var­i­ous or­ders of Sons which he may sub­se­quently cre­ate, not­with­stand­ing that, in the high­est lo­cal uni­verse Sons, there does ap­pear a very lim­ited re­flec­tion of the cre­ative at­tri­butes of a Cre­ator Son.

• may decree survival but not extinction

15:12.2The courts of the An­cients of Days are the high re­view tri­bu­nals for the spir­i­tual ad­ju­di­ca­tion of all com­po­nent uni­verses. The Sov­er­eign Sons of the lo­cal uni­verses are su­preme in their own do­mains; they are sub­ject to the super­gov­ern­ment only in so far as they vol­un­tar­ily sub­mit mat­ters for coun­sel or ad­ju­di­ca­tion by the An­cients of Days ex­cept in mat­ters in­volv­ing the ex­tinc­tion of will crea­tures. Man­dates of judg­ment orig­i­nate in the lo­cal uni­verses, but sen­tences in­volv­ing the ex­tinc­tion of will crea­tures are al­ways for­mu­lated on, and ex­e­cuted from, the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse. The Sons of the lo­cal uni­verses can de­cree the sur­vival of mor­tal man, but only the An­cients of Days may sit in ex­ec­u­tive judg­ment on the is­sues of eter­nal life and death.

• to Creator prerogatives

21:2.3The de­par­ture of a Mi­chael Son on this oc­ca­sion for­ever lib­er­ates his cre­ator pre­rog­a­tives from the Par­a­dise Sources and Cen­ters, sub­ject only to cer­tain lim­i­ta­tions in­her­ent in the pre-ex­is­tence of these Sources and Cen­ters and to cer­tain other an­te­ced­ent pow­ers and pres­ences. Among these lim­i­ta­tions to the oth­er­wise all-pow­er­ful cre­ator pre­rog­a­tives of a lo­cal uni­verse Fa­ther are the fol­low­ing:

• Infinite Spirit must agree to new forms of energy-matter

21:2.41. En­ergy-mat­ter is dom­i­nated by the In­fi­nite Spirit. Be­fore any new forms of things, great or small, may be cre­ated, be­fore any new trans­for­ma­tions of en­ergy-mat­ter may be at­tempted, a Cre­ator Son must se­cure the con­sent and work­ing co-op­er­a­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• Eternal Son consents to new types of beings

21:2.52. Crea­ture de­signs and types are con­trolled by the Eter­nal Son. Be­fore a Cre­ator Son may en­gage in the cre­ation of any new type of be­ing, any new de­sign of crea­ture, he must se­cure the con­sent of the Eter­nal and Orig­i­nal Mother Son.

• cannot bestow personality

21:2.63. Per­son­al­ity is de­signed and be­stowed by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

21:2.7The types and pat­terns of mind are de­ter­mined by the precrea­ture fac­tors of be­ing. Af­ter these have been as­so­ci­ated to con­sti­tute a crea­ture (per­sonal or oth­er­wise), mind is the en­dow­ment of the Third Source and Cen­ter, the uni­ver­sal source of mind min­istry to all be­ings be­low the level of Par­a­dise Cre­ators.

21:2.8The con­trol of spirit de­signs and types de­pends on the level of their man­i­fes­ta­tion. In the last anal­y­sis, spir­i­tual de­sign is con­trolled by the Trin­ity or by the pre-Trin­ity spirit en­dow­ments of the Trin­ity per­son­al­i­ties—Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit.

21:3.1A Cre­ator Son is given the range of a uni­verse by the con­sent of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and with the con­fir­ma­tion of the super­vis­ing Mas­ter Spirit of the super­uni­verse con­cerned. Such ac­tion con­sti­tutes ti­tle of phys­i­cal pos­ses­sion, a cos­mic lease­hold. But the el­e­va­tion of a Mi­chael Son from this ini­tial and self-lim­ited stage of ruler­ship to the ex­pe­ri­en­tial su­prem­acy of self-earned sov­er­eignty comes as a re­sult of his own per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ences in the work of uni­verse cre­ation and in­car­nated be­stowal. Un­til the achieve­ment of be­stowal-earned sov­er­eignty, he rules as vicegerent of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

21:3.2A Cre­ator Son could as­sert full sov­er­eignty over his per­sonal cre­ation at any time, but he wisely chooses not to. If, prior to pass­ing through the crea­ture be­stowals, he as­sumed an un­earned su­preme sov­er­eignty, the Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties res­i­dent in his lo­cal uni­verse would with­draw. But this has never hap­pened through­out all the cre­ations of time and space.

21:3.3The fact of cre­ator­ship im­plies the full­ness of sov­er­eignty, but the Mi­cha­els choose to ex­pe­ri­en­tially earn it, thereby re­tain­ing the full co-op­er­a­tion of all Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties at­tached to the lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. We know of no Mi­chael who ever did oth­er­wise; but they all could, they are truly free­will Sons.

21:3.4The sov­er­eignty of a Cre­ator Son in a lo­cal uni­verse passes through six, per­haps seven, stages of ex­pe­ri­en­tial man­i­fes­ta­tion. These ap­pear in the fol­low­ing or­der:

21:3.51. Ini­tial vicegerent sov­er­eignty—the soli­tary pro­vi­sional au­thor­ity ex­er­cised by a Cre­ator Son be­fore the ac­quire­ment of per­sonal qual­i­ties by the as­so­ci­ated Cre­ative Spirit.

21:3.62. Con­joint vicegerent sov­er­eignty—the joint rule of the Par­a­dise pair sub­se­quent to the per­son­al­ity achieve­ment of the Uni­verse Mother Spirit.

21:3.73. Aug­ment­ing vicegerent sov­er­eignty—the ad­vanc­ing au­thor­ity of a Cre­ator Son dur­ing the pe­riod of his seven crea­ture be­stowals.

21:3.84. Su­preme sov­er­eignty—the set­tled au­thor­ity fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of the sev­enth be­stowal. In Neb­a­don, su­preme sov­er­eignty dates from the com­ple­tion of Mi­chael’s be­stowal on Uran­tia. It has ex­isted just slightly over nine­teen hun­dred years of your plan­e­tary time.

21:3.95. Aug­ment­ing su­preme sov­er­eignty—the ad­vanced re­la­tion­ship grow­ing out of the set­tling of a ma­jor­ity of the crea­ture do­mains in light and life. This stage per­tains to the un­achieved fu­ture of your lo­cal uni­verse.

21:3.106. Trini­tar­ian sov­er­eignty—ex­er­cised sub­se­quent to the set­tling of the en­tire lo­cal uni­verse in light and life.

21:3.117. Un­re­vealed sov­er­eignty—the un­known re­la­tion­ships of a fu­ture uni­verse age.

21:3.12In ac­cept­ing the ini­tial vicegerent sov­er­eignty of a pro­jected lo­cal uni­verse, a Cre­ator Mi­chael takes an oath to the Trin­ity not to as­sume su­preme sov­er­eignty un­til the seven crea­ture be­stowals have been com­pleted and cer­ti­fied by the super­uni­verse rulers. But if a Mi­chael Son could not, at will, as­sert such un­earned sov­er­eignty, there would be no mean­ing in tak­ing an oath not to do so.

21:3.13Even in the pre­be­stowal ages a Cre­ator Son rules his do­main well-nigh su­premely when there is no dis­sent in any of its parts. Lim­ited ruler­ship would hardly be man­i­fest if sov­er­eignty were never chal­lenged. The sov­er­eignty ex­er­cised by a pre­be­stowal Cre­ator Son in a uni­verse with­out re­bel­lion is no greater than in a uni­verse with re­bel­lion; but in the first in­stance sov­er­eignty lim­i­ta­tions are not ap­par­ent; in the sec­ond, they are.

21:3.16The tech­nique of ob­tain­ing su­preme sov­er­eignty over a lo­cal uni­verse in­volves the fol­low­ing seven ex­pe­ri­en­tial steps:

21:3.171. Ex­pe­ri­en­tially to pen­e­trate seven crea­ture lev­els of be­ing through the tech­nique of in­car­nated be­stowal in the very like­ness of the crea­tures on the level con­cerned.

21:3.182. To make an ex­pe­ri­en­tial con­se­cra­tion to each phase of the sev­en­fold will of Par­a­dise De­ity as it is per­son­i­fied in the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

21:3.193. To tra­verse each of the seven ex­pe­ri­ences on the crea­ture lev­els si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the ex­e­cu­tion of one of the seven con­se­cra­tions to the will of Par­a­dise De­ity.

21:3.204. On each crea­ture level, ex­pe­ri­en­tially to por­tray the acme of crea­ture life to Par­a­dise De­ity and to all uni­verse in­tel­li­gences.

21:3.215. On each crea­ture level, ex­pe­ri­en­tially to re­veal one phase of the sev­en­fold will of De­ity to the be­stowal level and to all the uni­verse.

21:3.226. Ex­pe­ri­en­tially to unify the sev­en­fold crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence with the sev­en­fold ex­pe­ri­ence of con­se­cra­tion to the rev­e­la­tion of the na­ture and will of De­ity.

21:3.237. To achieve new and higher re­la­tion­ship with the Su­preme Be­ing. The reper­cus­sion of the to­tal­ity of this Cre­ator-crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence aug­ments the super­uni­verse re­al­ity of God the Su­preme and the time-space sov­er­eignty of the Al­mighty Su­preme and fac­tu­al­izes the su­preme lo­cal uni­verse sov­er­eignty of a Par­a­dise Mi­chael.

• unable to leave universe headquarters until gravity stabilizes

32:2.5Sal­ving­ton is the per­sonal head­quar­ters of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, but he will not al­ways be found there. While the smooth func­tion­ing of your lo­cal uni­verse no longer re­quires the fixed pres­ence of the Cre­ator Son at the cap­i­tal sphere, this was not true of the ear­lier epochs of phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion. A Cre­ator Son is un­able to leave his head­quar­ters world un­til such a time as grav­ity sta­bi­liza­tion of the realm has been ef­fected through the ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion of suf­fi­cient en­ergy to en­able the var­i­ous cir­cuits and sys­tems to coun­ter­bal­ance one an­other by mu­tual ma­te­rial at­trac­tion.

• after sovereignty, no entirely new types of creatures

34:5.1The Di­vine Min­is­ter co-op­er­ates with the Cre­ator Son in the for­mu­la­tion of life and the cre­ation of new or­ders of be­ings up to the time of his sev­enth be­stowal and, sub­se­quently, af­ter his el­e­va­tion to the full sov­er­eignty of the uni­verse, con­tin­ues to col­lab­o­rate with the Son and the Son’s be­stowed spirit in the fur­ther work of world min­istry and plan­e­tary pro­gres­sion.

• oath to Trinity not to assume sovereignty until bestowals completed

119:0.3When the Eter­nal Son be­stows a Cre­ator Son upon a pro­jected lo­cal uni­verse, that Cre­ator Son as­sumes full re­spon­si­bil­ity for the com­ple­tion, con­trol, and com­po­sure of that new uni­verse, in­clud­ing the solemn oath to the eter­nal Trin­ity not to as­sume full sov­er­eignty of the new cre­ation un­til his seven crea­ture be­stowals shall have been suc­cess­fully com­pleted and cer­ti­fied by the An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse of ju­ris­dic­tion. This obli­ga­tion is as­sumed by ev­ery Mi­chael Son who vol­un­teers to go out from Par­a­dise to en­gage in uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion and cre­ation.

29:2.164. Lo­cal Uni­verse Cen­ters. On the head­quar­ters of each lo­cal uni­verse are sta­tioned one hun­dred power cen­ters of the fourth or­der. They func­tion to down­step and oth­er­wise to mod­ify the seven power cir­cuits em­a­nat­ing from super­uni­verse head­quar­ters, thus mak­ing them ap­pli­ca­ble to the ser­vices of the con­stel­la­tions and sys­tems. The lo­cal as­tro­nom­i­cal catas­tro­phes of space are of pass­ing con­cern to these power cen­ters; they are en­gaged in the or­derly dis­patch of ef­fec­tive en­ergy to the sub­sidiary con­stel­la­tions and sys­tems. They are of great as­sis­tance to the Cre­ator Sons dur­ing the later times of uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion and en­ergy mo­bi­liza­tion. These cen­ters are able to pro­vide in­ten­si­fied lanes of en­ergy use­ful for in­ter­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween im­por­tant in­hab­ited points. Such a lane or line of en­ergy, some­times also called an en­ergy path, is a di­rect cir­cuit of en­ergy from one power cen­ter to an­other power cen­ter or from one phys­i­cal con­trol­ler to an­other con­trol­ler. It is an in­di­vid­u­al­ized stream of power and stands in con­trast to the free space move­ments of un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated en­ergy.

29:3.3These power cen­ters and di­rec­tors are brought into be­ing by the chil­dren of the In­fi­nite Spirit. They are not ger­mane to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Sons of God, though they af­fil­i­ate with the Cre­ator Sons dur­ing the later epochs of uni­verse ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tion. But the power cen­ters are in some way closely as­so­ci­ated with the cos­mic over­con­trol of the Su­preme Be­ing.

• are effective helpers and ministers of C.S.

8:4.4When a Cre­ator Son of God ac­cepts the cre­ator­ship charge of re­spon­si­bil­ity for a pro­jected lo­cal uni­verse, the per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit pledge them­selves as the tire­less min­is­ters of this Mi­chael Son when he goes forth on his mis­sion of cre­ative ad­ven­ture. Es­pe­cially in the per­sons of the Cre­ative Daugh­ters, the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spir­its, do we find the In­fi­nite Spirit de­voted to the task of fos­ter­ing the as­cen­sion of the ma­te­rial crea­tures to higher and higher lev­els of spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. And all this work of crea­ture min­istry is done in per­fect har­mony with the pur­poses, and in close as­so­ci­a­tion with the per­son­al­i­ties, of the Cre­ator Sons of these lo­cal uni­verses.

• elevated to cosovereignty with C.S.

17:6.85. The Postbestowal Ages. An­other and great change oc­curs in the never-end­ing ca­reer of a Cre­ative Spirit when the Cre­ator Son re­turns to uni­verse head­quar­ters af­ter the com­ple­tion of his sev­enth be­stowal and sub­se­quent to his ac­quire­ment of full uni­verse sov­er­eignty. On that oc­ca­sion, be­fore the as­sem­bled ad­min­is­tra­tors of the uni­verse, the tri­umphant Cre­ator Son el­e­vates the Uni­verse Mother Spirit to cosovereignty and ac­knowl­edges the Spirit con­sort as his equal.

• may attain union with C.S. in eternity

118:9.8In the eter­nity of the past the Fa­ther and the Son found union in the unity of the ex­pres­sion of the In­fi­nite Spirit. If, in the eter­nity of the fu­ture, the Cre­ator Sons and the Cre­ative Spir­its of the lo­cal uni­verses of time and space should at­tain cre­ative union in the realms of outer space, what would their unity cre­ate as the com­bined ex­pres­sion of their di­vine na­tures? It may well be that we are to wit­ness a hith­erto un­re­vealed man­i­fes­ta­tion of Ul­ti­mate De­ity, a new type of super­ad­min­is­tra­tor. Such be­ings would em­brace unique pre­rog­a­tives of per­son­al­ity, be­ing the union of per­sonal Cre­ator, im­per­sonal Cre­ative Spirit, mor­tal-crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence, and pro­gres­sive per­son­al­iza­tion of the Di­vine Min­is­ter. Such be­ings could be ul­ti­mate in that they would em­brace per­sonal and im­per­sonal re­al­ity, while they would com­bine the ex­pe­ri­ences of Cre­ator and crea­ture. What­ever the at­tri­butes of such third per­sons of these pos­tu­lated func­tion­ing trin­i­ties of the cre­ations of outer space, they will sus­tain some­thing of the same re­la­tion to their Cre­ator Fa­thers and their Cre­ative Moth­ers that the In­fi­nite Spirit does to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son.

21:2.12The per­sonal pres­ence of a Cre­ator Son in his lo­cal uni­verse is not nec­es­sary to the smooth run­ning of an es­tab­lished ma­te­rial cre­ation. Such Sons may jour­ney to Par­a­dise, and still their uni­verses swing on through space. They may lay down their lines of power to in­car­nate as the chil­dren of time; still their realms whirl on about their re­spec­tive cen­ters. No ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tion is in­de­pen­dent of the ab­so­lute-grav­ity grasp of Par­a­dise or of the cos­mic over­con­trol in­her­ent in the space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

• of Master Michaels is like future sovereignty of Supreme

21:5.5This ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eignty is thus all-in­clu­sive of the di­vin­ity of God the Sev­en­fold cul­mi­nat­ing in the Su­preme Be­ing. And the per­sonal sov­er­eignty of a sev­en­fold Son is like the fu­ture sov­er­eignty of the some­time-to-be-com­pleted Su­preme Be­ing, em­brac­ing as it does the fullest pos­si­ble con­tent of the power and au­thor­ity of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity man­i­festable within the time-space lim­its con­cerned.

• all power concentrated in hands of C.S. upon achievement of sovereignty

23:2.184. Mes­sen­gers of the Lo­cal Uni­verses. In the ser­vices of a lo­cal uni­verse there is no limit upon the func­tion­ing of the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers. They are the faith­ful re­veal­ers of the mo­tives and in­tent of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit, al­though they are un­der the full ju­ris­dic­tion of the reign­ing Mas­ter Son. And this is true of all mes­sen­gers op­er­at­ing in a lo­cal uni­verse, whether they are trav­el­ing out di­rectly from uni­verse head­quar­ters, or whether they are act­ing tem­porar­ily in li­ai­son with Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, or Plan­e­tary Princes. Be­fore the con­cen­tra­tion of all power in the hands of a Cre­ator Son at the time of his el­e­va­tion as sov­er­eign ruler of his uni­verse, these mes­sen­gers of the lo­cal uni­verses func­tion un­der the gen­eral di­rec­tion of the An­cients of Days and are im­me­di­ately re­spon­si­ble to their res­i­dent rep­re­sen­ta­tive, the Union of Days.

• all power concentrated in hands of C.S. upon achievement of sovereignty

34:1.4This per­son­al­ized pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Cre­ative Mother Spirit of the lo­cal uni­verse, is known in Sa­ta­nia as the Di­vine Min­is­ter. To all prac­ti­cal in­tents and spir­i­tual pur­poses this man­i­fes­ta­tion of De­ity is a di­vine in­di­vid­ual, a spirit per­son. And she is so rec­og­nized and re­garded by the Cre­ator Son. It is through this lo­cal­iza­tion and per­son­al­iza­tion of the Third Source and Cen­ter in our lo­cal uni­verse that the Spirit could sub­se­quently be­come so fully sub­ject to the Cre­ator Son that of this Son it was truly said, “All power in heaven and on earth has been in­trusted to him.”

• could assert full sovereignty at any time

120:0.3In the course of each of these pre­ced­ing be­stowals Mi­chael not only ac­quired the fi­nite ex­pe­ri­ence of one group of his cre­ated be­ings, but he also ac­quired an es­sen­tial ex­pe­ri­ence in Par­a­dise co-op­er­a­tion which would, in and of it­self, fur­ther con­tribute to con­sti­tut­ing him the sov­er­eign of his self-made uni­verse. At any mo­ment through­out all past lo­cal uni­verse time, Mi­chael could have as­serted per­sonal sov­er­eignty as a Cre­ator Son and as a Cre­ator Son could have ruled his uni­verse af­ter the man­ner of his own choos­ing. In such an event, Im­manuel and the as­so­ci­ated Par­a­dise Sons would have taken leave of the uni­verse. But Mi­chael did not wish to rule Neb­a­don merely in his own iso­lated right, as a Cre­ator Son. He de­sired to as­cend through ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in co-op­er­a­tive sub­or­di­na­tion to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity to that high place in uni­verse sta­tus where he would be­come qual­i­fied to rule his uni­verse and ad­min­is­ter its af­fairs with that per­fec­tion of in­sight and wis­dom of ex­e­cu­tion which will some­time be char­ac­ter­is­tic of the ex­alted rule of the Su­preme Be­ing. He as­pired not to per­fec­tion of rule as a Cre­ator Son but to su­prem­acy of ad­min­is­tra­tion as the em­bod­i­ment of the uni­verse wis­dom and the di­vine ex­pe­ri­ence of the Su­preme Be­ing.

17:6.42. Pre­lim­i­nary Cre­ator­ship Train­ing. Dur­ing the long pe­riod of the pre­lim­i­nary train­ing of a Mi­chael Son in the or­ga­ni­za­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion of uni­verses, his fu­ture con­sort un­der­goes fur­ther de­vel­op­ment of en­tity and be­comes group con­scious of des­tiny. We do not know, but we sus­pect that such a group-con­scious en­tity be­comes space cog­nizant and be­gins that pre­lim­i­nary train­ing req­ui­site to the ac­quire­ment of spirit skill in her fu­ture work of col­lab­o­ra­tion with the com­ple­men­tal Mi­chael in uni­verse cre­ation and ad­min­is­tra­tion.

28:1.1These high an­gels are of rec­ord on the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters, and de­spite ser­vice in the lo­cal cre­ations, tech­ni­cally they are res­i­dents of these super­uni­verse cap­i­tals inas­much as they are not na­tive to the lo­cal uni­verses. Ter­tiaphim are chil­dren of the In­fi­nite Spirit and are per­son­al­ized on Par­a­dise in groups of one thou­sand. These su­per­nal be­ings of di­vine orig­i­nal­ity and near-su­preme ver­sa­til­ity are the gift of the In­fi­nite Spirit to the Cre­ator Sons of God.

28:4.63. The Voice of the Cre­ator Sons. The In­fi­nite Spirit must have had some­thing to do with the cre­ation or train­ing of the Par­a­dise Sons of the or­der of Mi­chael, for the third pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth se­rial there­after pos­sess the re­mark­able gift of be­ing re­flec­tive of the minds of these Cre­ator Sons. If the An­cients of Days would like to know—re­ally know—the at­ti­tude of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don re­gard­ing some mat­ter un­der con­sid­er­a­tion, they do not have to call him on the lines of space; they need only call for the Chief of Neb­a­don Voices, who, upon re­quest, will pre­sent the Mi­chael se­con­a­phim of rec­ord; and right then and there the An­cients of Days will per­ceive the voice of the Mas­ter Son of Neb­a­don.

33:7.1The Mas­ter Son, Mi­chael, is su­premely con­cerned with but three things: cre­ation, sus­te­nance, and min­istry. He does not per­son­ally par­tic­i­pate in the ju­di­cial work of the uni­verse. Cre­ators never sit in judg­ment on their crea­tures; that is the ex­clu­sive func­tion of crea­tures of high train­ing and ac­tual crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence.

134:8.7To the many pro­pos­als and coun­ter­pro­pos­als of the emis­saries of Lu­cifer, Je­sus only made re­ply: “May the will of my Par­a­dise Fa­ther pre­vail, and you, my re­bel­lious son, may the An­cients of Days judge you di­vinely. I am your Cre­ator-fa­ther; I can hardly judge you justly, and my mercy you have al­ready spurned. I com­mit you to the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the Judges of a greater uni­verse.”

26:11.5The mor­tal crea­ture must find God. The Cre­ator Son never stops un­til he finds man—the low­est will crea­ture. Be­yond doubt, the Cre­ator Sons and their mor­tal chil­dren are prepar­ing for some fu­ture and un­known uni­verse ser­vice. Both tra­verse the gamut of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­verse and so are ed­u­cated and trained for their eter­nal mis­sion. Through­out the uni­verses there is oc­cur­ring this unique blend­ing of the hu­man and the di­vine, the com­min­gling of crea­ture and Cre­ator. Un­think­ing mor­tals have re­ferred to the man­i­fes­ta­tion of di­vine mercy and ten­der­ness, es­pe­cially to­wards the weak and in be­half of the needy, as in­dica­tive of an an­thro­po­mor­phic God. What a mis­take! Rather should such man­i­fes­ta­tions of mercy and for­bear­ance by hu­man be­ings be taken as ev­i­dence that mor­tal man is in­dwelt by the spirit of the liv­ing God; that the crea­ture is, af­ter all, di­vin­ity mo­ti­vated.

145:3.11But of all the be­ings who were as­ton­ished at this sud­den and un­ex­pected out­break of super­nat­u­ral heal­ing, Je­sus was the most sur­prised. In a mo­ment when his hu­man in­ter­ests and sym­pa­thies were fo­cused upon the scene of suf­fer­ing and af­flic­tion there spread out be­fore him, he ne­glected to bear in his hu­man mind the ad­mon­i­tory warn­ings of his Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster re­gard­ing the im­pos­si­bil­ity of lim­it­ing the time el­e­ment of the cre­ator pre­rog­a­tives of a Cre­ator Son un­der cer­tain con­di­tions and in cer­tain cir­cum­stances. Je­sus de­sired to see these suf­fer­ing mor­tals made whole if his Fa­ther’s will would not thereby be vi­o­lated. The Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of Je­sus in­stantly ruled that such an act of cre­ative en­ergy at that time would not transgress the will of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, and by such a de­ci­sion—in view of Je­sus’ pre­ced­ing ex­pres­sion of heal­ing de­sire—the cre­ative act was. What a Cre­ator Son de­sires and his Fa­ther wills IS. Not in all of Je­sus’ sub­se­quent earth life did an­other such en masse phys­i­cal heal­ing of mor­tals take place.

33:4.2Only one such be­ing of wis­dom and majesty is brought forth in each lo­cal uni­verse. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son can, in fact do, cre­ate an un­lim­ited num­ber of Sons in di­vin­ity equal to them­selves; but such Sons, in union with the Daugh­ters of the In­fi­nite Spirit, can cre­ate only one Bright and Morn­ing Star in each uni­verse, a be­ing like them­selves and par­tak­ing freely of their com­bined na­tures but not of their cre­ative pre­rog­a­tives. Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton is like the Uni­verse Son in di­vin­ity of na­ture though con­sid­er­ably lim­ited in the at­tri­butes of De­ity.

0:8.9This sev­en­fold De­ity per­son­al­iza­tion in time and space and to the seven super­uni­verses en­ables mor­tal man to at­tain the pres­ence of God, who is spirit. This sev­en­fold De­ity, to fi­nite time-space crea­tures some­time power-per­son­al­iz­ing in the Su­preme Be­ing, is the func­tional De­ity of the mor­tal evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures of the Par­a­dise-as­cen­sion ca­reer. Such an ex­pe­ri­en­tial dis­cov­ery-ca­reer of the re­al­iza­tion of God be­gins with the rec­og­ni­tion of the di­vin­ity of the Cre­ator Son of the lo­cal uni­verse and as­cends through the super­uni­verse An­cients of Days and by way of the per­son of one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its to the at­tain­ment of the dis­cov­ery and rec­og­ni­tion of the di­vine per­son­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther on Par­a­dise.

32:4.3As re­gards the poli­cies, con­duct, and ad­min­is­tra­tion of a lo­cal uni­verse, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther acts in the per­son of his Cre­ator Son. In the in­ter­re­la­tion­ships of the Sons of God, in the group as­so­ci­a­tions of the per­son­al­i­ties of ori­gin in the Third Source and Cen­ter, or in the re­la­tion­ship be­tween any other crea­tures, such as hu­man be­ings—as con­cerns such as­so­ci­a­tions the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther never in­ter­venes. The law of the Cre­ator Son, the rule of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, and the Plan­e­tary Princes—the or­dained poli­cies and pro­ce­dures for that uni­verse—al­ways pre­vail. There is no di­vi­sion of au­thor­ity; never is there a cross work­ing of di­vine power and pur­pose. The De­i­ties are in per­fect and eter­nal una­nim­ity.

32:4.4The Cre­ator Son rules su­preme in all mat­ters of eth­i­cal as­so­ci­a­tions, the re­la­tions of any di­vi­sion of crea­tures to any other class of crea­tures or of two or more in­di­vid­u­als within any given group; but such a plan does not mean that the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther may not in his own way in­ter­vene and do aught that pleases the di­vine mind with any in­di­vid­ual crea­ture through­out all cre­ation, as per­tains to that in­di­vid­ual’s pres­ent sta­tus or fu­ture prospects and as con­cerns the Fa­ther’s eter­nal plan and in­fi­nite pur­pose.

33:2.1Ob­ser­va­tion of Cre­ator Sons dis­closes that some re­sem­ble more the Fa­ther, some the Son, while oth­ers are a blend of both their in­fi­nite par­ents. Our Cre­ator Son very def­i­nitely man­i­fests traits and at­tri­butes which more re­sem­ble the Eter­nal Son.

• inherent in C.S.

15:9.121. The be­stowal spirit of the Par­a­dise Sons, the Com­forter of the be­stowal worlds. The Spirit of Truth, the spirit of Mi­chael on Uran­tia.

• sent after mortal bestowal

20:6.8When the mor­tal in­car­na­tion is fin­ished, the Avo­nal of ser­vice pro­ceeds to Par­a­dise, is ac­cepted by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, re­turns to the lo­cal uni­verse of as­sign­ment, and is ac­knowl­edged by the Cre­ator Son. There­upon the be­stowal Avo­nal and the Cre­ator Son send their con­joint Spirit of Truth to func­tion in the hearts of the mor­tal races dwell­ing on the be­stowal world. In the presovereignty ages of a lo­cal uni­verse, this is the joint spirit of both Sons, im­ple­mented by the Cre­ative Spirit. It dif­fers some­what from the Spirit of Truth which char­ac­ter­izes the lo­cal uni­verse ages fol­low­ing a Mi­chael’s sev­enth be­stowal.

20:6.9Upon the com­ple­tion of a Cre­ator Son’s fi­nal be­stowal the Spirit of Truth pre­vi­ously sent into all Avo­nal-be­stowal worlds of that lo­cal uni­verse changes in na­ture, be­com­ing more lit­er­ally the spirit of the sov­er­eign Mi­chael. This phe­nom­e­non takes place con­cur­rently with the lib­er­a­tion of the Spirit of Truth for ser­vice on the Mi­chael-mor­tal-be­stowal planet. There­after, each world hon­ored by a Mag­is­te­rial be­stowal will re­ceive the same spirit Com­forter from the sev­en­fold Cre­ator Son, in as­so­ci­a­tion with that Mag­is­te­rial Son, which it would have re­ceived had the lo­cal uni­verse Sov­er­eign per­son­ally in­car­nated as its be­stowal Son.

• inherent in C.S.

34:4.5The Cre­ator Sons are en­dowed with a spirit of uni­verse pres­ence in many ways anal­o­gous to that of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise. This is the Spirit of Truth which is poured out upon a world by a be­stowal Son af­ter he re­ceives spir­i­tual ti­tle to such a sphere. This be­stowed Com­forter is the spir­i­tual force which ever draws all truth seek­ers to­wards Him who is the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of truth in the lo­cal uni­verse. This spirit is an in­her­ent en­dow­ment of the Cre­ator Son, emerg­ing from his di­vine na­ture just as the mas­ter cir­cuits of the grand uni­verse are de­rived from the per­son­al­ity pres­ences of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

56:10.17Uni­ver­sal beauty is the rec­og­ni­tion of the re­flec­tion of the Isle of Par­a­dise in the ma­te­rial cre­ation, while eter­nal truth is the spe­cial min­istry of the Par­a­dise Sons who not only be­stow them­selves upon the mor­tal races but even pour out their Spirit of Truth upon all peo­ples. Di­vine good­ness is more fully shown forth in the lov­ing min­istry of the man­i­fold per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit. But love, the sum to­tal of these three qual­i­ties, is man’s per­cep­tion of God as his spirit Fa­ther.

• sent after mortal bestowal

108:2.3Thus is the stage of the hu­man mind set for the re­cep­tion of Ad­justers, but as a gen­eral rule they do not im­me­di­ately ap­pear to in­dwell such minds ex­cept on those worlds where the Spirit of Truth is func­tion­ing as a spir­i­tual co-or­di­na­tor of these dif­fer­ent spirit min­istries. If this spirit of the be­stowal Sons is pres­ent, the Ad­justers un­fail­ingly come the in­stant the sev­enth ad­ju­tant mind-spirit be­gins to func­tion and sig­nal­izes to the Uni­verse Mother Spirit that it has achieved in po­ten­tial the co-or­di­na­tion of the as­so­ci­ated six ad­ju­tants of prior min­istry to such a mor­tal in­tel­lect. There­fore have the di­vine Ad­justers been uni­ver­sally be­stowed upon all nor­mal minds of moral sta­tus on Uran­tia ever since the day of Pen­te­cost.

• inherent in C.S.

180:4.3“I am telling you these things while I am still with you that you may be the bet­ter pre­pared to en­dure those tri­als which are even now right upon us. And when this new day comes, you will be in­dwelt by the Son as well as by the Fa­ther. And these gifts of heaven will ever work the one with the other even as the Fa­ther and I have wrought on earth and be­fore your very eyes as one per­son, the Son of Man. And this spirit friend will bring to your re­mem­brance ev­ery­thing I have taught you.”

• inherent in C.S.

194:2.11Since the be­stowal of the Spirit of Truth, man is sub­ject to the teach­ing and guid­ance of a three­fold spirit en­dow­ment: the spirit of the Fa­ther, the Thought Ad­juster; the spirit of the Son, the Spirit of Truth; the spirit of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit.

194:2.12In a way, man­kind is sub­ject to the dou­ble in­flu­ence of the sev­en­fold ap­peal of the uni­verse spirit in­flu­ences. The early evo­lu­tion­ary races of mor­tals are sub­ject to the pro­gres­sive con­tact of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. As man pro­gresses up­ward in the scale of in­tel­li­gence and spir­i­tual per­cep­tion, there even­tu­ally come to hover over him and dwell within him the seven higher spirit in­flu­ences. And these seven spir­its of the ad­vanc­ing worlds are:

26:1.132. The Min­is­ter­ing Spir­its of the Super­uni­verses—the se­con­a­phim, the ter­tiaphim, and the om­niaphim. Se­con­a­phim, the chil­dren of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its, var­i­ously serve in the seven super­uni­verses. Ter­tiaphim, of ori­gin in the In­fi­nite Spirit, are even­tu­ally ded­i­cated to the li­ai­son ser­vice of the Cre­ator Sons and the An­cients of Days. Om­niaphim are cre­ated con­cert­edly by the In­fi­nite Spirit and the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives, and they are the ex­clu­sive ser­vants of the lat­ter. The dis­cus­sion of these three or­ders forms the sub­ject of a suc­ceed­ing nar­ra­tive in this se­ries.

• confirms eternal union of C.S. with Mother Spirit

17:6.53. The Stage of Phys­i­cal Cre­ation. At the time the cre­ator­ship charge is ad­min­is­tered to a Mi­chael Son by the Eter­nal Son, the Mas­ter Spirit who di­rects the super­uni­verse to which this new Cre­ator Son is des­tined gives ex­pres­sion to the “prayer of iden­ti­fi­ca­tion” in the pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit; and for the first time, the en­tity of the sub­se­quent Cre­ative Spirit ap­pears as dif­fer­en­ti­ated from the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit. And pro­ceed­ing di­rectly to the per­son of the pe­ti­tion­ing Mas­ter Spirit, this en­tity is im­me­di­ately lost to our rec­og­ni­tion, be­com­ing ap­par­ently a part of the per­son of this Mas­ter Spirit. The newly iden­ti­fied Cre­ative Spirit re­mains with the Mas­ter Spirit un­til the mo­ment of the de­par­ture of the Cre­ator Son for the ad­ven­ture of space; where­upon the Mas­ter Spirit com­mits the new Spirit con­sort to the keep­ing of the Cre­ator Son, at the same time ad­min­is­ter­ing to the Spirit con­sort the charge of eter­nal fi­delity and un­end­ing loy­alty. And then oc­curs one of the most pro­foundly touch­ing episodes which ever take place on Par­a­dise. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther speaks in ac­knowl­edg­ment of the eter­nal union of the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit and in con­fir­ma­tion of the be­stowal of cer­tain joint pow­ers of ad­min­is­tra­tion by the Mas­ter Spirit of super­uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion.

• acts through C.S.

32:3.4With the ex­cep­tion of the de­ity pres­ence of the Fa­ther, ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse is, in a cer­tain sense, a du­pli­ca­tion of the ad­min­is­tra­tive or­ga­ni­za­tion of the cen­tral or pat­tern cre­ation. Al­though the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is per­son­ally pres­ent in the res­i­den­tial uni­verse, he does not in­dwell the minds of the be­ings orig­i­nat­ing in that uni­verse as he does lit­er­ally dwell with the souls of the mor­tals of time and space. There seems to be an all-wise com­pen­sa­tion in the ad­just­ment and reg­u­la­tion of the spir­i­tual af­fairs of the far-flung cre­ation. In the cen­tral uni­verse the Fa­ther is per­son­ally pres­ent as such but ab­sent in the minds of the chil­dren of that per­fect cre­ation; in the uni­verses of space the Fa­ther is ab­sent in per­son, be­ing rep­re­sented by his Sov­er­eign Sons, while he is in­ti­mately pres­ent in the minds of his mor­tal chil­dren, be­ing spir­i­tu­ally rep­re­sented by the preper­sonal pres­ence of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors that re­side in the minds of these will crea­tures.

• acts through C.S.

32:4.10God is not a self-cen­tered per­son­al­ity; the Fa­ther freely dis­tributes him­self to his cre­ation and to his crea­tures. He lives and acts, not only in the De­i­ties, but also in his Sons, whom he in­trusts with the do­ing of ev­ery­thing that it is di­vinely pos­si­ble for them to do. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has truly di­vested him­self of ev­ery func­tion which it is pos­si­ble for an­other be­ing to per­form. And this is just as true of mor­tal man as of the Cre­ator Son who rules in God’s stead at the head­quar­ters of a lo­cal uni­verse. Thus we be­hold the out­work­ing of the ideal and in­fi­nite love of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• gives life to C.S. without measure

153:2.7“My breth­ren, han­ker not af­ter the meat which per­ishes but rather seek for the spir­i­tual food that nour­ishes even to eter­nal life; and this is the bread of life which the Son gives to all who will take it and eat, for the Fa­ther has given the Son this life with­out mea­sure. And when you asked me, ‘What must we do to per­form the works of God?’ I plainly told you: ‘This is the work of God, that you be­lieve him whom he has sent.’”

149:1.73. Along with the faith of the crea­ture and the life of the Cre­ator it should also be noted that this God-man was the per­son­i­fied ex­pres­sion of the Fa­ther’s will. If, in the con­tact of the hu­man need and the di­vine power to meet it, the Fa­ther did not will oth­er­wise, the two be­came one, and the heal­ing oc­curred un­con­sciously to the hu­man Je­sus but was im­me­di­ately rec­og­nized by his di­vine na­ture. The ex­pla­na­tion, then, of many of these cases of heal­ing must be found in a great law which has long been known to us, namely, What the Cre­ator Son de­sires and the eter­nal Fa­ther wills IS.