creatures

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

25:7.3These Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions are such friendly as­so­ciates that, when you fi­nally leave the last phase of the mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence, as you pre­pare to em­bark upon the super­uni­verse spirit ad­ven­ture, you will truly re­gret that these com­pan­ion­able crea­tures can­not ac­com­pany you, but they serve ex­clu­sively in the lo­cal uni­verses. At ev­ery stage of the as­cend­ing ca­reer all con­tactable per­son­al­i­ties will be friendly and com­pan­ion­able, but not un­til you meet the Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions will you find an­other group so de­voted to friend­ship and com­pan­ion­ship.

47:4.2Spirit-fused sur­vivors oc­cupy the man­sion worlds in com­mon with the Ad­juster-fused as­cend­ing mor­tals. While the var­i­ous or­ders of ce­les­tial life dif­fer, they are all friendly and fra­ter­nal. In all the worlds of as­cen­sion you will find noth­ing com­pa­ra­ble to hu­man in­tol­er­ance and the dis­crim­i­na­tions of in­con­sid­er­ate caste sys­tems.

106:7.4The im­prob­a­bil­ity of goal at­tain­ment does not, how­ever, pre­vent phil­o­soph­i­cal the­o­riz­ing about such hy­po­thet­i­cal des­tinies. The ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the De­ity Ab­so­lute as an at­tain­able ab­so­lute God may be prac­ti­cally im­pos­si­ble of re­al­iza­tion; nev­er­the­less, such a fi­nal­ity fruition re­mains a the­o­ret­i­cal pos­si­bil­ity. The in­volve­ment of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute in some in­con­ceiv­able cos­mos-in­fi­nite may be mea­sure­lessly re­mote in the fu­tu­rity of end­less eter­nity, but such a hy­poth­e­sis is nonethe­less valid. Mor­tals, mor­ontians, spir­its, fi­nal­i­ters, Tran­scen­den­talers, and oth­ers, to­gether with the uni­verses them­selves and all other phases of re­al­ity, cer­tainly do have a po­ten­tially fi­nal des­tiny that is ab­so­lute in value; but we doubt that any be­ing or uni­verse will ever com­pletely at­tain all of the as­pects of such a des­tiny.

11:0.1Par­a­dise is the eter­nal cen­ter of the uni­verse of uni­verses and the abid­ing place of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit, and their di­vine co-or­di­nates and as­so­ciates. This cen­tral Isle is the most gi­gan­tic or­ga­nized body of cos­mic re­al­ity in all the mas­ter uni­verse. Par­a­dise is a ma­te­rial sphere as well as a spir­i­tual abode. All of the in­tel­li­gent cre­ation of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is domi­ciled on ma­te­rial abodes; hence must the ab­so­lute con­trol­ling cen­ter also be ma­te­rial, lit­eral. And again it should be re­it­er­ated that spirit things and spir­i­tual be­ings are real.

12:8.1“God is spirit,” but Par­a­dise is not. The ma­te­rial uni­verse is al­ways the arena wherein take place all spir­i­tual ac­tiv­i­ties; spirit be­ings and spirit as­cend­ers live and work on phys­i­cal spheres of ma­te­rial re­al­ity.

14:2.1Spirit be­ings do not dwell in neb­u­lous space; they do not in­habit ethe­real worlds; they are domi­ciled on ac­tual spheres of a ma­te­rial na­ture, worlds just as real as those on which mor­tals live. The Ha­vona worlds are ac­tual and lit­eral, al­beit their lit­eral sub­stance dif­fers from the ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tion of the plan­ets of the seven super­uni­verses.

14:4.11The na­tives of Ha­vona live on the bil­lion spheres of the cen­tral uni­verse in the same sense that other or­ders of per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship dwell on their re­spec­tive spheres of na­tiv­ity. As the ma­te­rial or­der of son­ship car­ries on the ma­te­rial, in­tel­lec­tual, and spir­i­tual econ­omy of a bil­lion lo­cal sys­tems in a super­uni­verse, so, in a larger sense, do the Ha­vona na­tives live and func­tion on the bil­lion worlds of the cen­tral uni­verse. You might pos­si­bly re­gard these Havon­ers as ma­te­rial crea­tures in the sense that the word “ma­te­rial” could be ex­panded to de­scribe the phys­i­cal re­al­i­ties of the di­vine uni­verse.

32:4.2God has full un­der­stand­ing of the need of ev­ery in­tel­li­gent crea­ture for func­tion and ex­pe­ri­ence, and there­fore, in ev­ery sit­u­a­tion, be it con­cerned with the des­tiny of a uni­verse or the wel­fare of the hum­blest of his crea­tures, God re­tires from ac­tiv­ity in fa­vor of the galaxy of crea­ture and Cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties who in­her­ently in­ter­vene be­tween him­self and any given uni­verse sit­u­a­tion or cre­ative event. But not­with­stand­ing this re­tire­ment, this ex­hi­bi­tion of in­fi­nite co-or­di­na­tion, there is on God’s part an ac­tual, lit­eral, and per­sonal par­tic­i­pa­tion in these events by and through these or­dained agen­cies and per­son­al­i­ties. The Fa­ther is work­ing in and through all these chan­nels for the wel­fare of all his far-flung cre­ation.

34:4.13The four points of the com­pass are uni­ver­sal and in­her­ent in the life of Neb­a­don. All liv­ing crea­tures pos­sess bod­ily units which are sen­si­tive and re­spon­sive to these di­rec­tional cur­rents. These crea­ture cre­ations are du­pli­cated on down through the uni­verse to the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets and, in con­junc­tion with the mag­netic forces of the worlds, so ac­ti­vate the hosts of mi­cro­scopic bod­ies in the an­i­mal or­gan­ism that these di­rec­tion cells ever point north and south. Thus is the sense of ori­en­ta­tion for­ever fixed in the liv­ing be­ings of the uni­verse. This sense is not wholly want­ing as a con­scious pos­ses­sion by man­kind. These bod­ies were first ob­served on Uran­tia about the time of this nar­ra­tion.

44:1.75. Har­mony of as­so­ci­ated spir­its—the very ar­range­ment and as­so­ci­a­tion of dif­fer­ent or­ders of mor­ontia and spirit be­ings pro­duce ma­jes­tic mel­o­dies.

44:1.86. Mel­ody of thought—the think­ing of spir­i­tual thoughts can be so per­fected as to burst forth in the mel­o­dies of Ha­vona.

44:1.97. The mu­sic of space—by proper at­tune­ment the mel­o­dies of other spheres can be picked up on the uni­verse broad­cast cir­cuits.

44:1.10There are over one hun­dred thou­sand dif­fer­ent modes of sound, color, and en­ergy ma­nip­u­la­tion, tech­niques anal­o­gous to the hu­man em­ploy­ment of mu­si­cal in­stru­ments. Your en­sem­bles of danc­ing un­doubt­edly rep­re­sent a crude and grotesque at­tempt of ma­te­rial crea­tures to ap­proach the ce­les­tial har­mony of be­ing place­ment and per­son­al­ity ar­range­ment. The other five forms of mor­ontia mel­ody are un­rec­og­nized by the sen­sory mech­a­nism of ma­te­rial bod­ies.

10:1.3Di­vine per­son­al­ity is not self-cen­tered; self-dis­tri­bu­tion and shar­ing of per­son­al­ity char­ac­ter­ize di­vine free­will self­hood. Crea­tures crave as­so­ci­a­tion with other per­sonal crea­tures; Cre­ators are moved to share di­vin­ity with their uni­verse chil­dren; the per­son­al­ity of the In­fi­nite is dis­closed as the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, who shares re­al­ity of be­ing and equal­ity of self with two co-or­di­nate per­son­al­i­ties, the Eter­nal Son and the Con­joint Ac­tor.

56:6.1When the three eter­nal per­sons of De­ity func­tion as un­di­vided De­ity in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, they achieve per­fect unity; like­wise, when they cre­ate, ei­ther as­so­cia­tively or sev­er­ally, their Par­a­dise progeny ex­hibit the char­ac­ter­is­tic unity of di­vin­ity. And this di­vin­ity of pur­pose man­i­fested by the Su­preme Cre­ators and Rulers of the time-space do­mains even­tu­ates in the uni­fy­ing power po­ten­tial of the sov­er­eignty of ex­pe­ri­en­tial su­prem­acy which, in the pres­ence of the im­per­sonal en­ergy unity of the uni­verse, con­sti­tutes a re­al­ity ten­sion that can be re­solved only through ad­e­quate uni­fi­ca­tion with the ex­pe­ri­en­tial per­son­al­ity re­al­i­ties of ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity.

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.

10:1.2The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther all along has di­vested him­self of ev­ery part of him­self that was be­stow­able on any other Cre­ator or crea­ture. He has del­e­gated to his di­vine Sons and their as­so­ci­ated in­tel­li­gences ev­ery power and all au­thor­ity that could be del­e­gated. He has ac­tu­ally trans­ferred to his Sov­er­eign Sons, in their re­spec­tive uni­verses, ev­ery pre­rog­a­tive of ad­min­is­tra­tive au­thor­ity that was trans­fer­able. In the af­fairs of a lo­cal uni­verse, he has made each Sov­er­eign Cre­ator Son just as per­fect, com­pe­tent, and au­thor­i­ta­tive as is the Eter­nal Son in the orig­i­nal and cen­tral uni­verse. He has given away, ac­tu­ally be­stowed, with the dig­nity and sanc­tity of per­son­al­ity pos­ses­sion, all of him­self and all of his at­tri­butes, ev­ery­thing he pos­si­bly could di­vest him­self of, in ev­ery way, in ev­ery age, in ev­ery place, and to ev­ery per­son, and in ev­ery uni­verse ex­cept that of his cen­tral in­dwelling.

44:6.42. The sound de­sign­ers. Spirit waves of di­verse iden­tity and mor­ontia ap­pre­ci­a­tion are de­picted by these de­sign­ers of what you would call sound. These im­pulses are in re­al­ity the su­perb re­flec­tions of the naked and glo­ri­ous spirit-souls of the ce­les­tial hosts.

44:0.15All these ac­tiv­i­ties of the mor­ontia and spirit worlds are real. To spirit be­ings the spirit world is a re­al­ity. To us the ma­te­rial world is the more un­real. The higher forms of spir­its freely pass through or­di­nary mat­ter. High spir­its are re­ac­tive to noth­ing ma­te­rial ex­cept­ing cer­tain of the ba­sic en­er­gies. To ma­te­rial be­ings the spirit world is more or less un­real; to spirit be­ings the ma­te­rial world is al­most en­tirely un­real, be­ing merely a shadow of the sub­stance of spirit re­al­i­ties.

44:0.16I can­not, with ex­clu­sive spirit vi­sion, per­ceive the build­ing in which this nar­ra­tive is be­ing trans­lated and re­corded. A Di­vine Coun­selor from Uversa who chances to stand by my side per­ceives still less of these purely ma­te­rial cre­ations. We dis­cern how these ma­te­rial struc­tures ap­pear to you by view­ing a spirit coun­ter­part pre­sented to our minds by one of our at­tend­ing en­ergy trans­form­ers. This ma­te­rial build­ing is not ex­actly real to me, a spirit be­ing, but it is, of course, very real and very ser­vice­able to ma­te­rial mor­tals.

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

13:3.2Per­son­al­ity is not pres­ent on these Par­a­dise satel­lites; there­fore is there lit­tle con­cern­ing these pure-spirit abodes which can be pre­sented to the mor­tal and ma­te­rial per­son­al­ity. We are taught that these worlds teem with the oth­er­wise-than-per­sonal life of the be­ings of the Eter­nal Son. We in­fer that these en­ti­ties are be­ing as­sem­bled for min­istry in the pro­jected new uni­verses of outer space. The Par­a­dise philoso­phers main­tain that each Par­a­dise cy­cle, about two bil­lion years of Uran­tia time, wit­nesses the cre­ation of ad­di­tional re­serves of these or­ders on the se­cret worlds of the Eter­nal Son.

13:3.3As far as I am in­formed, no per­son­al­ity has ever been on any one of these spheres of the Eter­nal Son. I have never been as­signed to visit one of these worlds in all my long ex­pe­ri­ence in and out of Par­a­dise. Even the per­son­al­i­ties cocre­ated by the Eter­nal Son do not go to these worlds. We in­fer that all types of im­per­sonal spir­its—re­gard­less of parent­age—are ad­mit­ted to these spirit homes. As I am a per­son and have a spirit form, no doubt such a world would seem empty and de­serted even if I were per­mit­ted to pay it a visit. High spirit per­son­al­i­ties are not given to the grat­i­fi­ca­tion of pur­pose­less cu­rios­ity, purely use­less ad­ven­ture. There is at all times al­to­gether too much in­trigu­ing and pur­pose­ful ad­ven­ture to per­mit the de­vel­op­ment of any great in­ter­est in those projects which are ei­ther fu­tile or un­real.

3:2.8The plan­e­tary crea­tures of God’s spirit in­dwelling, scat­tered hither and yon through­out the uni­verses of space, are so nearly in­fi­nite in num­ber and or­der, their in­tel­lects are so di­verse, their minds are so lim­ited and some­times so gross, their vi­sion is so cur­tailed and lo­cal­ized, that it is al­most im­pos­si­ble to for­mu­late gen­er­al­iza­tions of law ad­e­quately ex­pres­sive of the Fa­ther’s in­fi­nite at­tri­butes and at the same time to any de­gree com­pre­hen­si­ble to these cre­ated in­tel­li­gences. There­fore, to you the crea­ture, many of the acts of the all-pow­er­ful Cre­ator seem to be ar­bi­trary, de­tached, and not in­fre­quently heart­less and cruel. But again I as­sure you that this is not true. God’s do­ings are all pur­pose­ful, in­tel­li­gent, wise, kind, and eter­nally con­sid­er­ate of the best good, not al­ways of an in­di­vid­ual be­ing, an in­di­vid­ual race, an in­di­vid­ual planet, or even an in­di­vid­ual uni­verse; but they are for the wel­fare and best good of all con­cerned, from the low­est to the high­est. In the epochs of time the wel­fare of the part may some­times ap­pear to dif­fer from the wel­fare of the whole; in the cir­cle of eter­nity such ap­par­ent dif­fer­ences are nonex­is­tent.

30:0.1The per­son­al­i­ties and other-than-per­sonal en­ti­ties now func­tion­ing on Par­a­dise and in the grand uni­verse con­sti­tute a well-nigh lim­it­less num­ber of liv­ing be­ings. Even the num­ber of ma­jor or­ders and types would stag­ger the hu­man imag­i­na­tion, let alone the count­less sub­types and vari­a­tions. It is, how­ever, de­sir­able to pre­sent some­thing of two ba­sic clas­si­fi­ca­tions of liv­ing be­ings—a sug­ges­tion of the Par­a­dise clas­si­fi­ca­tion and an ab­bre­vi­a­tion of the Uversa Per­son­al­ity Reg­is­ter.

30:1.113There are spir­its: spirit en­ti­ties, spirit pres­ences, per­sonal spir­its, preper­sonal spir­its, super­per­sonal spir­its, spirit ex­is­tences, spirit per­son­al­i­ties—but nei­ther mor­tal lan­guage nor mor­tal in­tel­lect are ad­e­quate. We may how­ever state that there are no per­son­al­i­ties of “pure mind”; no en­tity has per­son­al­ity un­less he is en­dowed with it by God who is spirit. Any mind en­tity that is not as­so­ci­ated with ei­ther spir­i­tual or phys­i­cal en­ergy is not a per­son­al­ity. But in the same sense that there are spirit per­son­al­i­ties who have mind there are mind per­son­al­i­ties who have spirit. Maj­es­ton and his as­so­ciates are fairly good il­lus­tra­tions of mind-dom­i­nated be­ings, but there are bet­ter il­lus­tra­tions of this type of per­son­al­ity un­known to you. There are even whole un­re­vealed or­ders of such mind per­son­al­i­ties, but they are al­ways spirit as­so­ci­ated. Cer­tain other un­re­vealed crea­tures are what might be termed mindal- and phys­i­cal-en­ergy per­son­al­i­ties. This type of be­ing is non­re­spon­sive to spirit grav­ity but is nonethe­less a true per­son­al­ity—is within the Fa­ther’s cir­cuit.

14:4.21There are nu­mer­ous groups of be­ings na­tive to the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem that are in no way di­rectly as­so­ci­ated with the as­cen­sion scheme of crea­ture per­fec­tion at­tain­ment; there­fore are they omit­ted from the per­son­al­ity clas­si­fi­ca­tions pre­sented to the mor­tal races. Only the ma­jor groups of super­hu­man be­ings and those or­ders di­rectly con­nected with your sur­vival ex­pe­ri­ence are herein pre­sented.

14:4.18In ad­di­tion to the Ha­vona na­tives, the in­hab­i­tants of the cen­tral uni­verse em­brace nu­mer­ous classes of pat­tern be­ings for var­i­ous uni­verse groups—ad­vis­ers, di­rec­tors, and teach­ers of their kind and to their kind through­out cre­ation. All be­ings in all uni­verses are fash­ioned along the lines of some one or­der of pat­tern crea­ture liv­ing on some one of the bil­lion worlds of Ha­vona. Even the mor­tals of time have their goal and ide­als of crea­ture ex­is­tence on the outer cir­cuits of these pat­tern spheres on high.

30:1.1Liv­ing be­ings are clas­si­fied on Par­a­dise in ac­cor­dance with in­her­ent and at­tained re­la­tion­ship to the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. Dur­ing the grand gath­er­ings of the cen­tral and super­uni­verses those pres­ent are of­ten grouped in ac­cor­dance with ori­gin: those of tri­une ori­gin, or of Trin­ity at­tain­ment; those of dual ori­gin; and those of sin­gle ori­gin. It is dif­fi­cult to in­ter­pret the Par­a­dise clas­si­fi­ca­tion of liv­ing be­ings to the mor­tal mind, but we are au­tho­rized to pre­sent the fol­low­ing:

30:1.2I. TRI­UNE-ORI­GIN BE­INGS. Be­ings cre­ated by all three Par­a­dise De­i­ties, ei­ther as such or as the Trin­ity, to­gether with the Trin­i­tized Corps, which des­ig­na­tion refers to all groups of trin­i­tized be­ings, re­vealed and un­re­vealed.

30:1.3A. The Su­preme Spir­its.

30:1.41. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

30:1.52. The Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives.

30:1.63. The Seven Or­ders of Re­flec­tive Spir­its.

30:1.7B. The Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity.

30:1.81. Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy.

30:1.92. Eter­nals of Days.

30:1.103. An­cients of Days.

30:1.114. Per­fec­tions of Days.

30:1.125. Re­cents of Days.

30:1.136. Unions of Days.

30:1.147. Faith­fuls of Days.

30:1.158. Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom.

30:1.169. Di­vine Coun­selors.

30:1.1710. Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors.

30:1.18C. Trin­ity-ori­gin and Trin­i­tized Be­ings.

30:1.191. Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

30:1.202. In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its.

30:1.213. Ha­vona Na­tives.

30:1.224. Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens.

30:1.235. Un­re­vealed Trin­ity-ori­gin Be­ings.

30:1.246. Un­re­vealed De­ity-trin­i­tized Be­ings.

30:1.257. Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment.

30:1.268. Trin­i­tized Sons of Se­lec­tion.

30:1.279. Trin­i­tized Sons of Per­fec­tion.

30:1.2810. Crea­ture-trin­i­tized Sons.

30:1.29II. DUAL-ORI­GIN BE­INGS. Those of ori­gin in any two of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties or oth­er­wise cre­ated by any two be­ings of di­rect or in­di­rect de­scent from the Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

30:1.30A. The De­scend­ing Or­ders.

30:1.311. Cre­ator Sons.

30:1.322. Mag­is­te­rial Sons.

30:1.333. Bright and Morn­ing Stars.

30:1.344. Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­deks.

30:1.355. The Mel­chiz­e­deks.

30:1.366. The Voron­dadeks.

30:1.377. The La­non­an­deks.

30:1.388. Bril­liant Evening Stars.

30:1.399. The Arch­an­gels.

30:1.4010. Life Car­ri­ers.

30:1.4111. Un­re­vealed Uni­verse Aids.

30:1.4212. Un­re­vealed Sons of God.

30:1.43B. The Sta­tion­ary Or­ders.

30:1.441. Aban­don­ters.

30:1.452. Susa­tia.

30:1.463. Uni­v­i­ta­tia.

30:1.474. Spironga.

30:1.485. Un­re­vealed Dual-ori­gin Be­ings.

30:1.49C. The As­cend­ing Or­ders.

30:1.501. Ad­juster-fused Mor­tals.

30:1.512. Son-fused Mor­tals.

30:1.523. Spirit-fused Mor­tals.

30:1.534. Trans­lated Mid­way­ers.

30:1.545. Un­re­vealed As­cend­ers.

30:1.55III. SIN­GLE-ORI­GIN BE­INGS. Those of ori­gin in any one of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties or oth­er­wise cre­ated by any one be­ing of di­rect or in­di­rect de­scent from the Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

30:1.56A. The Su­preme Spir­its.

30:1.571. Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers.

30:1.582. The Seven Spir­its of the Ha­vona Cir­cuits.

30:1.593. The Twelve­fold Ad­ju­tants of the Ha­vona Cir­cuits.

30:1.604. The Re­flec­tive Im­age Aids.

30:1.615. Uni­verse Mother Spir­its.

30:1.626. The Sev­en­fold Ad­ju­tant Mind-Spir­its.

30:1.637. Un­re­vealed De­ity-ori­gin Be­ings.

30:1.64B. The As­cend­ing Or­ders.

30:1.651. Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers.

30:1.662. As­cend­ing Ma­te­rial Sons.

30:1.673. Evo­lu­tion­ary Ser­a­phim.

30:1.684. Evo­lu­tion­ary Cheru­bim.

30:1.695. Un­re­vealed As­cend­ers.

30:1.70C. The Fam­ily of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

30:1.711. Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers.

30:1.722. Uni­verse Cir­cuit Super­vi­sors.

30:1.733. Cen­sus Di­rec­tors.

30:1.744. Per­sonal Aids of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

30:1.755. As­so­ciate In­spec­tors.

30:1.766. As­signed Sen­tinels.

30:1.777. Grad­u­ate Guides.

30:1.788. Ha­vona Servi­tals.

30:1.799. Uni­ver­sal Con­cil­ia­tors.

30:1.8010. Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions.

30:1.8111. Super­na­phim.

30:1.8212. Se­con­a­phim.

30:1.8313. Ter­tiaphim.

30:1.8414. Om­niaphim.

30:1.8515. Ser­a­phim.

30:1.8616. Cheru­bim and Sa­no­bim.

30:1.8717. Un­re­vealed Spirit-ori­gin Be­ings.

30:1.8818. The Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors.

30:1.8919. The Su­preme Power Cen­ters.

30:1.9020. The Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

30:1.9121. The Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors.

30:1.92IV. EVEN­TU­ATED TRAN­SCEN­DEN­TAL BE­INGS. There is to be found on Par­a­dise a vast host of tran­scen­den­tal be­ings whose ori­gin is not or­di­nar­ily dis­closed to the uni­verses of time and space un­til they are set­tled in light and life. These Tran­scen­den­talers are nei­ther cre­ators nor crea­tures; they are the even­tu­ated chil­dren of di­vin­ity, ul­ti­macy, and eter­nity. These “even­tu­a­tors” are nei­ther fi­nite nor in­fi­nite—they are ab­so­nite; and ab­sonity is nei­ther in­fin­ity nor ab­so­lute­ness.

30:1.93These un­cre­ated non­cre­ators are ever loyal to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and obe­di­ent to the Ul­ti­mate. They are ex­is­tent on four ul­ti­mate lev­els of per­son­al­ity ac­tiv­ity and are func­tional on the seven lev­els of the ab­so­nite in twelve grand di­vi­sions con­sist­ing of one thou­sand ma­jor work­ing groups of seven classes each. These even­tu­ated be­ings in­clude the fol­low­ing or­ders:

30:1.941. The Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.

30:1.952. Tran­scen­den­tal Re­cord­ers.

30:1.963. Other Tran­scen­den­talers.

30:1.974. Pri­mary Even­tu­ated Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers.

30:1.985. As­so­ciate Tran­scen­den­tal Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers.

30:1.99God, as a super­per­son, even­tu­ates; God, as a per­son, cre­ates; God, as a preper­son, frag­ments; and such an Ad­juster frag­ment of him­self evolves the spirit soul upon the ma­te­rial and mor­tal mind in ac­cor­dance with the free­will choos­ing of the per­son­al­ity which has been be­stowed upon such a mor­tal crea­ture by the pa­ren­tal act of God as a Fa­ther.

30:1.100V. FRAG­MENTED EN­TI­TIES OF DE­ITY. This or­der of liv­ing ex­is­tence, orig­i­nat­ing in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, is best typ­i­fied by the Thought Ad­justers, though these en­ti­ties are by no means the only frag­men­ta­tions of the preper­sonal re­al­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter. The func­tions of the other-than-Ad­juster frag­ments are man­i­fold and lit­tle known. Fu­sion with an Ad­juster or other such frag­ment con­sti­tutes the crea­ture a Fa­ther-fused be­ing.

30:1.101The frag­men­ta­tions of the pre­mind spirit of the Third Source and Cen­ter, though hardly com­pa­ra­ble to the Fa­ther frag­ments, should be here re­corded. Such en­ti­ties dif­fer very greatly from Ad­justers; they do not as such dwell on Spir­it­ing­ton, nor do they as such tra­verse the mind-grav­ity cir­cuits; nei­ther do they in­dwell mor­tal crea­tures dur­ing the life in the flesh. They are not preper­sonal in the sense that the Ad­justers are, but such frag­ments of pre­mind spirit are be­stowed upon cer­tain of the sur­viv­ing mor­tals, and fu­sion there­with con­sti­tutes them Spirit-fused mor­tals in con­tradis­tinc­tion to Ad­juster-fused mor­tals.

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.

30:1.103VI. SUPER­PER­SONAL BE­INGS. There is a vast host of other-than-per­sonal be­ings of di­vine ori­gin and of man­i­fold ser­vice in the uni­verse of uni­verses. Cer­tain of these be­ings are res­i­dent on the Par­a­dise worlds of the Son; oth­ers, like the super­per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Eter­nal Son, are en­coun­tered else­where. They are for the most part un­men­tioned in these nar­ra­tives, and it would be quite fu­tile to at­tempt their de­scrip­tion to per­sonal crea­tures.

30:1.104VII. UN­CLAS­SI­FIED AND UN­RE­VEALED OR­DERS. Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age it would not be pos­si­ble to place all be­ings, per­sonal or oth­er­wise, within clas­si­fi­ca­tions per­tain­ing to the pres­ent uni­verse age; nor have all such cat­e­gories been re­vealed in these nar­ra­tives; hence nu­mer­ous or­ders have been omit­ted from these lists. Con­sider the fol­low­ing:

30:1.105The Con­sum­ma­tor of Uni­verse Des­tiny.

30:1.106The Qual­i­fied Vicegerents of the Ul­ti­mate.

30:1.107The Un­qual­i­fied Super­vi­sors of the Su­preme.

30:1.108The Un­re­vealed Cre­ative Agen­cies of the An­cients of Days.

30:1.109Maj­es­ton of Par­a­dise.

30:1.110The Un­named Re­flec­ti­va­tor Li­aisons of Maj­es­ton.

30:1.111The Mid­sonite Or­ders of the Lo­cal Uni­verses.

30:1.112No es­pe­cial sig­nif­i­cance need at­tach to the list­ing of these or­ders to­gether ex­cept that none of them ap­pear in the Par­a­dise clas­si­fi­ca­tion as re­vealed herein. These are the un­clas­si­fied few; you have yet to learn of the un­re­vealed many.

30:1.114These pa­pers do not—can­not—even be­gin to ex­haust the story of the liv­ing crea­tures, cre­ators, even­tu­a­tors, and still-oth­er­wise-ex­is­tent be­ings who live and wor­ship and serve in the swarm­ing uni­verses of time and in the cen­tral uni­verse of eter­nity. You mor­tals are per­sons; hence we can de­scribe be­ings who are per­son­al­ized, but how could an ab­soni­tized be­ing ever be ex­plained to you?

30:2.1The di­vine fam­ily of liv­ing be­ings is reg­is­tered on Uversa in seven grand di­vi­sions:

30:2.21. The Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

30:2.32. The Su­preme Spir­its.

30:2.43. The Trin­ity-ori­gin Be­ings.

30:2.54. The Sons of God.

30:2.65. Per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

30:2.76. The Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors.

30:2.87. The Corps of Per­ma­nent Cit­i­zen­ship.

30:2.9These groups of will crea­tures are di­vided into nu­mer­ous classes and mi­nor sub­di­vi­sions. The pre­sen­ta­tion of this clas­si­fi­ca­tion of the per­son­al­i­ties of the grand uni­verse is how­ever chiefly con­cerned in set­ting forth those or­ders of in­tel­li­gent be­ings who have been re­vealed in these nar­ra­tives, most of whom will be en­coun­tered in the as­cen­dant ex­pe­ri­ence of the mor­tals of time on their pro­gres­sive climb to Par­a­dise. The fol­low­ing list­ings make no men­tion of vast or­ders of uni­verse be­ings who carry for­ward their work apart from the mor­tal as­cen­sion scheme.

30:2.10I. THE PAR­A­DISE DE­I­TIES.

30:2.111. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

30:2.122. The Eter­nal Son.

30:2.133. The In­fi­nite Spirit.

30:2.14II. THE SU­PREME SPIR­ITS.

30:2.151. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

30:2.162. The Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives.

30:2.173. The Seven Groups of Re­flec­tive Spir­its.

30:2.184. The Re­flec­tive Im­age Aids.

30:2.195. The Seven Spir­its of the Cir­cuits.

30:2.206. Lo­cal Uni­verse Cre­ative Spir­its.

30:2.217. Ad­ju­tant Mind-Spir­its.

30:2.22III. THE TRIN­ITY-ORI­GIN BE­INGS.

30:2.231. Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy.

30:2.242. Eter­nals of Days.

30:2.253. An­cients of Days.

30:2.264. Per­fec­tions of Days.

30:2.275. Re­cents of Days.

30:2.286. Unions of Days.

30:2.297. Faith­fuls of Days.

30:2.308. Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

30:2.319. Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom.

30:2.3210. Di­vine Coun­selors.

30:2.3311. Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors.

30:2.3412. In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its.

30:2.3513. Ha­vona Na­tives.

30:2.3614. Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens.

30:2.37IV. THE SONS OF GOD.

30:2.38A. De­scend­ing Sons.

30:2.391. Cre­ator Sons—Mi­cha­els.

30:2.402. Mag­is­te­rial Sons—Avo­nals.

30:2.413. Trin­ity Teacher Sons—Day­nals.

30:2.424. Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons.

30:2.435. Vo­ron­da­dek Sons.

30:2.446. La­non­an­dek Sons.

30:2.457. Life Car­rier Sons.

30:2.46B. As­cend­ing Sons.

30:2.471. Fa­ther-fused Mor­tals.

30:2.482. Son-fused Mor­tals.

30:2.493. Spirit-fused Mor­tals.

30:2.504. Evo­lu­tion­ary Ser­a­phim.

30:2.515. As­cend­ing Ma­te­rial Sons.

30:2.526. Trans­lated Mid­way­ers.

30:2.537. Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers.

30:2.54C. Trin­i­tized Sons.

30:2.551. Mighty Mes­sen­gers.

30:2.562. Those High in Au­thor­ity.

30:2.573. Those with­out Name and Num­ber.

30:2.584. Trin­i­tized Cus­to­di­ans.

30:2.595. Trin­i­tized Am­bas­sadors.

30:2.606. Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans.

30:2.617. High Son As­sis­tants.

30:2.628. As­cender-trin­i­tized Sons.

30:2.639. Par­a­dise-Ha­vona-trin­i­tized Sons.

30:2.6410. Trin­i­tized Sons of Des­tiny.

30:2.65V. PER­SON­AL­I­TIES OF THE IN­FI­NITE SPIRIT.

30:2.66A. Higher Per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

30:2.671. Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers.

30:2.682. Uni­verse Cir­cuit Super­vi­sors.

30:2.693. Cen­sus Di­rec­tors.

30:2.704. Per­sonal Aids of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

30:2.715. As­so­ciate In­spec­tors.

30:2.726. As­signed Sen­tinels.

30:2.737. Grad­u­ate Guides.

30:2.74B. The Mes­sen­ger Hosts of Space.

30:2.751. Ha­vona Servi­tals.

30:2.762. Uni­ver­sal Con­cil­ia­tors.

30:2.773. Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers.

30:2.784. Cus­to­di­ans of Rec­ords on Par­a­dise.

30:2.795. Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers.

30:2.806. Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions.

30:2.817. Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions.

30:2.82C. The Min­is­ter­ing Spir­its.

30:2.831. Super­na­phim.

30:2.842. Se­con­a­phim.

30:2.853. Ter­tiaphim.

30:2.864. Om­niaphim.

30:2.875. Ser­a­phim.

30:2.886. Cheru­bim and Sa­no­bim.

30:2.897. Mid­way­ers.

30:2.90VI. THE UNI­VERSE POWER DI­REC­TORS.

30:2.91A. The Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors.

30:2.92B. Su­preme Power Cen­ters.

30:2.931. Su­preme Cen­ter Super­vi­sors.

30:2.942. Ha­vona Cen­ters.

30:2.953. Super­uni­verse Cen­ters.

30:2.964. Lo­cal Uni­verse Cen­ters.

30:2.975. Con­stel­la­tion Cen­ters.

30:2.986. Sys­tem Cen­ters.

30:2.997. Un­clas­si­fied Cen­ters.

30:2.100C. Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

30:2.1011. As­so­ciate Power Di­rec­tors.

30:2.1022. Me­chan­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

30:2.1033. En­ergy Trans­form­ers.

30:2.1044. En­ergy Trans­mit­ters.

30:2.1055. Pri­mary As­so­ci­a­tors.

30:2.1066. Sec­ondary Dis­so­ci­a­tors.

30:2.1077. Fran­dalanks and Chro­nol­deks.

30:2.108D. Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors.

30:2.1091. Cir­cuit Reg­u­la­tors.

30:2.1102. Sys­tem Co-or­di­na­tors.

30:2.1113. Plan­e­tary Cus­to­di­ans.

30:2.1124. Com­bined Con­trol­lers.

30:2.1135. Li­ai­son Sta­bi­liz­ers.

30:2.1146. Se­lec­tive As­sorters.

30:2.1157. As­so­ciate Reg­is­trars.

30:2.116VII. THE CORPS OF PER­MA­NENT CIT­I­ZEN­SHIP.

30:2.1171. The Plan­e­tary Mid­way­ers.

30:2.1182. The Adamic Sons of the Sys­tems.

30:2.1193. The Con­stel­la­tion Uni­v­i­ta­tia.

30:2.1204. The Lo­cal Uni­verse Susa­tia.

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

30:2.1226. The Super­uni­verse Aban­don­ters.

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

30:2.1248. The Ha­vona Na­tives.

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

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

30:2.12711. The Cre­ated Cit­i­zens of Par­a­dise.

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

30:2.129This is the work­ing clas­si­fi­ca­tion of the per­son­al­i­ties of the uni­verses as they are of rec­ord on the head­quar­ters world of Uversa.

30:2.130COM­POS­ITE PER­SON­AL­ITY GROUPS. There are on Uversa the rec­ords of nu­mer­ous ad­di­tional groups of in­tel­li­gent be­ings, be­ings that are also closely re­lated to the or­ga­ni­za­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion of the grand uni­verse. Among such or­ders are the fol­low­ing three com­pos­ite per­son­al­ity groups:

30:2.131A. The Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

30:2.1321. The Corps of Mor­tal Fi­nal­i­ters.

30:2.1332. The Corps of Par­a­dise Fi­nal­i­ters.

30:2.1343. The Corps of Trin­i­tized Fi­nal­i­ters.

30:2.1354. The Corps of Con­joint Trin­i­tized Fi­nal­i­ters.

30:2.1365. The Corps of Ha­vona Fi­nal­i­ters.

30:2.1376. The Corps of Tran­scen­den­tal Fi­nal­i­ters.

30:2.1387. The Corps of Un­re­vealed Sons of Des­tiny.

30:2.139The Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity is dealt with in the next and fi­nal pa­per of this se­ries.

30:2.140B. The Uni­verse Aids.

30:2.1411. Bright and Morn­ing Stars.

30:2.1422. Bril­liant Evening Stars.

30:2.1433. Arch­an­gels.

30:2.1444. Most High As­sis­tants.

30:2.1455. High Com­mis­sion­ers.

30:2.1466. Ce­les­tial Over­seers.

30:2.1477. Man­sion World Teach­ers.

30:2.148On all head­quar­ters worlds of both lo­cal and super­uni­verses, pro­vi­sion is made for these be­ings who are en­gaged in spe­cific mis­sions for the Cre­ator Sons, the lo­cal uni­verse rulers. We wel­come these Uni­verse Aids on Uversa, but we have no ju­ris­dic­tion over them. Such emis­saries pros­e­cute their work and carry on their ob­ser­va­tions un­der au­thor­ity of the Cre­ator Sons. Their ac­tiv­i­ties are more fully de­scribed in the nar­ra­tive of your lo­cal uni­verse.

30:2.149C. The Seven Cour­tesy Colonies.

30:2.1501. Star Stu­dents.

30:2.1512. Ce­les­tial Ar­ti­sans.

30:2.1523. Re­ver­sion Di­rec­tors.

30:2.1534. Ex­ten­sion-school In­struc­tors.

30:2.1545. The Var­i­ous Re­serve Corps.

30:2.1556. Stu­dent Vis­i­tors.

30:2.1567. As­cend­ing Pil­grims.

30:2.157These seven groups of be­ings will be found thus or­ga­nized and gov­erned on all head­quar­ters worlds from the lo­cal sys­tems up to the cap­i­tals of the super­uni­verses, par­tic­u­larly the lat­ter. The cap­i­tals of the seven super­uni­verses are the meet­ing places for al­most all classes and or­ders of in­tel­li­gent be­ings. With the ex­cep­tion of nu­mer­ous groups of Par­a­dise-Havon­ers, here the will crea­tures of ev­ery phase of ex­is­tence may be ob­served and stud­ied.

2:6.8God loves the sin­ner and hates the sin: such a state­ment is true phil­o­soph­i­cally, but God is a tran­scen­dent per­son­al­ity, and per­sons can only love and hate other per­sons. Sin is not a per­son. God loves the sin­ner be­cause he is a per­son­al­ity re­al­ity (po­ten­tially eter­nal), while to­wards sin God strikes no per­sonal at­ti­tude, for sin is not a spir­i­tual re­al­ity; it is not per­sonal; there­fore does only the jus­tice of God take cog­nizance of its ex­is­tence. The love of God saves the sin­ner; the law of God de­stroys the sin. This at­ti­tude of the di­vine na­ture would ap­par­ently change if the sin­ner fi­nally iden­ti­fied him­self wholly with sin just as the same mor­tal mind may also fully iden­tify it­self with the in­dwelling spirit Ad­juster. Such a sin-iden­ti­fied mor­tal would then be­come wholly un­spir­i­tual in na­ture (and there­fore per­son­ally un­real) and would ex­pe­ri­ence even­tual ex­tinc­tion of be­ing. Un­re­al­ity, even in­com­plete­ness of crea­ture na­ture, can­not ex­ist for­ever in a pro­gress­ingly real and in­creas­ingly spir­i­tual uni­verse.

49:5.30These kin­ship fac­tors are man­i­fest on all lev­els, for kin­ship se­ri­als ex­ist among non­hu­man per­son­al­i­ties as well as among mor­tal crea­tures—even be­tween hu­man and super­hu­man or­ders. In­tel­li­gent be­ings are ver­ti­cally re­lated in twelve great groups of seven ma­jor di­vi­sions each. The co-or­di­na­tion of these uniquely re­lated groups of liv­ing be­ings is prob­a­bly ef­fected by some not fully com­pre­hended tech­nique of the Su­preme Be­ing.

46:2.4The trans­porta­tion sys­tem is al­lied with the cir­cu­la­tory streams of en­ergy move­ment, these main en­ergy cur­rents be­ing lo­cated at ten-mile in­ter­vals. By ad­just­ment of phys­i­cal mech­a­nisms the ma­te­rial be­ings of the planet can pro­ceed at a pace vary­ing from two to five hun­dred miles per hour. The trans­port birds fly at about one hun­dred miles an hour. The air mech­a­nisms of the Ma­te­rial Sons travel around five hun­dred miles per hour. Ma­te­rial and early mor­ontia be­ings must uti­lize these me­chan­i­cal means of trans­port, but spirit per­son­al­i­ties pro­ceed by li­ai­son with the su­pe­rior forces and spirit sources of en­ergy.

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