destiny

• mortal destiny › creation of, and response to, spirit goals

12:9.1Spirit is the ba­sic per­sonal re­al­ity in the uni­verses, and per­son­al­ity is ba­sic to all pro­gress­ing ex­pe­ri­ence with spir­i­tual re­al­ity. Ev­ery phase of per­son­al­ity ex­pe­ri­ence on ev­ery suc­ces­sive level of uni­verse pro­gres­sion swarms with clues to the dis­cov­ery of al­lur­ing per­sonal re­al­i­ties. Man’s true des­tiny con­sists in the cre­ation of new and spirit goals and then in re­spond­ing to the cos­mic al­lure­ments of such su­per­nal goals of non­ma­te­rial value.

• mortal destiny › progression of survivors from here on

14:5.1On Uran­tia you pass through a short and in­tense test dur­ing your ini­tial life of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence. On the man­sion worlds and up through your sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, and lo­cal uni­verse, you tra­verse the mor­ontia phases of as­cen­sion. On the train­ing worlds of the super­uni­verse you pass through the true spirit stages of pro­gres­sion and are pre­pared for even­tual tran­sit to Ha­vona. On the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona your at­tain­ment is in­tel­lec­tual, spir­i­tual, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial. And there is a def­i­nite task to be achieved on each of the worlds of each of these cir­cuits.

• mortal destiny › progression of survivors from here on

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

• mortal destiny › study from standpoint of Paradise source

19:1.5For ex­am­ple: The hu­man mind would or­di­nar­ily crave to ap­proach the cos­mic phi­los­o­phy por­trayed in these rev­e­la­tions by pro­ceed­ing from the sim­ple and the fi­nite to the com­plex and the in­fi­nite, from hu­man ori­gins to di­vine des­tinies. But that path does not lead to spir­i­tual wis­dom. Such a pro­ce­dure is the eas­i­est path to a cer­tain form of ge­netic knowl­edge, but at best it can only re­veal man’s ori­gin; it re­veals lit­tle or noth­ing about his di­vine des­tiny.

19:1.6Even in the study of man’s bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion on Uran­tia, there are grave ob­jec­tions to the ex­clu­sive his­toric ap­proach to his pres­ent-day sta­tus and his cur­rent prob­lems. The true per­spec­tive of any re­al­ity prob­lem—hu­man or di­vine, ter­res­trial or cos­mic—can be had only by the full and un­prej­u­diced study and cor­re­la­tion of three phases of uni­verse re­al­ity: ori­gin, his­tory, and des­tiny. The proper un­der­stand­ing of these three ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­i­ties af­fords the ba­sis for a wise es­ti­mate of the cur­rent sta­tus.

19:1.7When the hu­man mind un­der­takes to fol­low the philo­sophic tech­nique of start­ing from the lower to ap­proach the higher, whether in bi­ol­ogy or the­ol­ogy, it is al­ways in dan­ger of com­mit­ting four er­rors of rea­son­ing:

19:1.81. It may ut­terly fail to per­ceive the fi­nal and com­pleted evo­lu­tion­ary goal of ei­ther per­sonal at­tain­ment or cos­mic des­tiny.

19:1.92. It may com­mit the su­preme phil­o­soph­i­cal blun­der by over­sim­pli­fy­ing cos­mic evo­lu­tion­ary (ex­pe­ri­en­tial) re­al­ity, thus lead­ing to the dis­tor­tion of facts, to the per­ver­sion of truth, and to the mis­con­cep­tion of des­tinies.

19:1.103. The study of cau­sa­tion is the pe­rusal of his­tory. But the knowl­edge of how a be­ing be­comes does not nec­es­sar­ily pro­vide an in­tel­li­gent un­der­stand­ing of the pres­ent sta­tus and true char­ac­ter of such a be­ing.

• inadequately revealed by history

19:1.114. His­tory alone fails ad­e­quately to re­veal fu­ture de­vel­op­ment—des­tiny. Fi­nite ori­gins are help­ful, but only di­vine causes re­veal fi­nal ef­fects. Eter­nal ends are not shown in time be­gin­nings. The pres­ent can be truly in­ter­preted only in the light of the cor­re­lated past and fu­ture.

19:1.12There­fore, be­cause of these and for still other rea­sons, do we em­ploy the tech­nique of ap­proach­ing man and his plan­e­tary prob­lems by em­barka­tion on the time-space jour­ney from the in­fi­nite, eter­nal, and di­vine Par­a­dise Source and Cen­ter of all per­son­al­ity re­al­ity and all cos­mic ex­is­tence.

• mortal destiny › progression of survivors from here on

31:10.20Evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals are born on the plan­ets of space, pass through the mor­ontia worlds, as­cend the spirit uni­verses, tra­verse the Ha­vona spheres, find God, at­tain Par­a­dise, and are mus­tered into the pri­mary Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, therein to await the next as­sign­ment of uni­verse ser­vice. There are six other as­sem­bling fi­nal­ity corps, but Grand­fanda, the first mor­tal as­cender, pre­sides as Par­a­dise chief of all or­ders of fi­nal­i­ters. And as we view this sub­lime spec­ta­cle, we all ex­claim: What a glo­ri­ous des­tiny for the an­i­mal-ori­gin chil­dren of time, the ma­te­rial sons of space!

• mortal destiny › no limit upon d. for fused ascenders

32:3.8Ex­cept­ing per­fect be­ings of De­ity ori­gin, all will crea­tures in the super­uni­verses are of evo­lu­tion­ary na­ture, be­gin­ning in lowly es­tate and climb­ing ever up­ward, in re­al­ity in­ward. Even highly spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties con­tinue to as­cend the scale of life by pro­gres­sive trans­la­tions from life to life and from sphere to sphere. And in the case of those who en­ter­tain the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors, there is in­deed no limit to the pos­si­ble heights of their spir­i­tual as­cent and uni­verse at­tain­ment.

• mortal destiny › established by spirit identification

40:5.4Spirit iden­ti­fi­ca­tion con­sti­tutes the se­cret of per­sonal sur­vival and de­ter­mines the des­tiny of spir­i­tual as­cen­sion. And since the Thought Ad­justers are the only spir­its of fu­sion po­ten­tial to be iden­ti­fied with man dur­ing the life in the flesh, the mor­tals of time and space are pri­mar­ily clas­si­fied in ac­cor­dance with their re­la­tion to these di­vine gifts, the in­dwelling Mys­tery Mon­i­tors. This clas­si­fi­ca­tion is as fol­lows:

40:10.1Spirit-fused mor­tals are, gen­er­ally speak­ing, con­fined to a lo­cal uni­verse; Son-fused sur­vivors are re­stricted to a super­uni­verse; Ad­juster-fused mor­tals are des­tined to pen­e­trate the uni­verse of uni­verses. The spir­its of mor­tal fu­sion al­ways as­cend to the level of ori­gin; such spirit en­ti­ties un­fail­ingly re­turn to the sphere of pri­mal source.

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.

40:10.3The mys­te­ri­ous vari­able in as­so­cia­tive tech­nique whereby a mor­tal be­ing does not or can­not be­come eter­nally fused with the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster may seem to dis­close a flaw in the as­cen­sion scheme; Son and Spirit fu­sion do, su­per­fi­cially, re­sem­ble com­pen­sa­tions of un­ex­plained fail­ures in some de­tail of the Par­a­dise-at­tain­ment plan; but all such con­clu­sions stand in er­ror; we are taught that all these hap­pen­ings un­fold in obe­di­ence to the es­tab­lished laws of the Su­preme Uni­verse Rulers.

40:10.4We have an­a­lyzed this prob­lem and have reached the un­doubted con­clu­sion that the con­sign­ment of all mor­tals to an ul­ti­mate Par­a­dise des­tiny would be un­fair to the time-space uni­verses inas­much as the courts of the Cre­ator Sons and of the An­cients of Days would then be wholly de­pen­dent on the ser­vices of those who were in tran­sit to higher realms. And it does seem to be no more than fit­ting that the lo­cal and the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments should each be pro­vided with a per­ma­nent group of as­cen­dant cit­i­zen­ship; that the func­tions of these ad­min­is­tra­tions should be en­riched by the ef­forts of cer­tain groups of glo­ri­fied mor­tals who are of per­ma­nent sta­tus, evo­lu­tion­ary com­ple­ments of the aban­don­ters and of the susa­tia. Now it is quite ob­vi­ous that the pres­ent as­cen­sion scheme ef­fec­tively pro­vides the time-space ad­min­is­tra­tions with just such groups of as­cen­dant crea­tures; and we have many times won­dered: Does all this rep­re­sent an in­tended part of the all-wise plans of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse de­signed to pro­vide the Cre­ator Sons and the An­cients of Days with a per­ma­nent as­cen­dant pop­u­la­tion? with evolved or­ders of cit­i­zen­ship that will be­come in­creas­ingly com­pe­tent to carry for­ward the af­fairs of these realms in the uni­verse ages to come?

• not necessarily greater or lesser

40:10.5That mor­tal des­tinies do thus vary in no wise proves that one is nec­es­sar­ily greater or lesser than an­other, merely that they dif­fer. Ad­juster-fused as­cend­ers do in­deed have a grand and glo­ri­ous ca­reer as fi­nal­i­ters spread out be­fore them in the eter­nal fu­ture, but this does not mean that they are pre­ferred above their as­cen­dant breth­ren. There is no fa­voritism, noth­ing ar­bi­trary, in the se­lec­tive op­er­a­tion of the di­vine plan of mor­tal sur­vival.

40:10.6While the Ad­juster-fused fi­nal­i­ters ob­vi­ously en­joy the widest ser­vice op­por­tu­nity of all, the at­tain­ment of this goal au­to­mat­i­cally shuts them off from the chance to par­tic­i­pate in the age­long strug­gle of some one uni­verse or super­uni­verse, from the ear­lier and less set­tled epochs to the later and es­tab­lished eras of rel­a­tive per­fec­tion at­tain­ment. Fi­nal­i­ters ac­quire a mar­velous and far-flung ex­pe­ri­ence of tran­sient ser­vice in all seven seg­ments of the grand uni­verse, but they do not or­di­nar­ily ac­quire that in­ti­mate knowl­edge of any one uni­verse which even now char­ac­ter­izes the Spirit-fused vet­er­ans of the Neb­a­don Corps of Com­ple­tion. These in­di­vid­u­als en­joy an op­por­tu­nity to wit­ness the as­cend­ing pro­ces­sional of the plan­e­tary ages as they un­fold one by one on ten mil­lion in­hab­ited worlds. And in the faith­ful ser­vice of such lo­cal uni­verse cit­i­zens, ex­pe­ri­ence super­im­poses upon ex­pe­ri­ence un­til the full­ness of time ripens that high qual­ity of wis­dom which is en­gen­dered by fo­cal­ized ex­pe­ri­ence—au­thor­i­ta­tive wis­dom—and this in it­self is a vi­tal fac­tor in the set­tling of any lo­cal uni­verse.

40:10.7As it is with the Spirit fusers, so is it with those Son-fused mor­tals who have achieved res­i­den­tial sta­tus on Uversa. Some of these be­ings hail from the ear­li­est epochs of Or­von­ton, and they rep­re­sent a slowly ac­cu­mu­lat­ing body of in­sight-deep­en­ing wis­dom which is mak­ing ever-aug­ment­ing ser­vice con­tri­bu­tions to the wel­fare and even­tual set­tle­ment of the sev­enth super­uni­verse.

40:10.8What the ul­ti­mate des­tiny of these sta­tion­ary or­ders of lo­cal and of super­uni­verse cit­i­zen­ship will be we do not know, but it is quite pos­si­ble that, when the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters are pi­o­neer­ing the ex­pand­ing fron­tiers of di­vin­ity in the plan­e­tary sys­tems of the first outer space level, their Son- and Spirit-fused breth­ren of the as­cen­dant evo­lu­tion­ary strug­gle will be ac­cept­ably con­tribut­ing to the main­te­nance of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial equi­lib­rium of the per­fected super­uni­verses while they stand ready to wel­come the in­com­ing stream of Par­a­dise pil­grims who may, at that dis­tant day, pour in through Or­von­ton and its sis­ter cre­ations as a vast spirit-quest­ing tor­rent from these now un­charted and un­in­hab­ited galax­ies of outer space.

40:10.9While the ma­jor­ity of Spirit fusers serve per­ma­nently as cit­i­zens of the lo­cal uni­verses, all do not. If some phase of their uni­verse min­istry should re­quire their per­sonal pres­ence in the super­uni­verse, then would such trans­for­ma­tions of be­ing be wrought in these cit­i­zens as would en­able them to as­cend to the higher uni­verse; and upon the ar­rival of the Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans with or­ders to pre­sent such Spirit-fused mor­tals at the courts of the An­cients of Days, they would so as­cend, never to re­turn. They be­come wards of the super­uni­verse, serv­ing as as­sis­tants to the Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and per­ma­nently, save for those few who are in turn sum­moned to the ser­vice of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona.

40:10.10Like their Spirit-fused breth­ren, the Son fusers nei­ther tra­verse Ha­vona nor at­tain Par­a­dise un­less they have un­der­gone cer­tain mod­i­fy­ing trans­for­ma­tions. For good and suf­fi­cient rea­sons, such changes have been wrought in cer­tain Son-fused sur­vivors, and these be­ings are to be en­coun­tered ever and anon on the seven cir­cuits of the cen­tral uni­verse. Thus it is that cer­tain num­bers of both the Son- and the Spirit-fused mor­tals do ac­tu­ally as­cend to Par­a­dise, do at­tain a goal in many ways equal to that which awaits the Fa­ther-fused mor­tals.

40:10.11Fa­ther-fused mor­tals are po­ten­tial fi­nal­i­ters; their des­ti­na­tion is the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and him they do at­tain, but within the purview of the pres­ent uni­verse age, fi­nal­i­ters, as such, are not des­tiny at­tain­ers. They re­main un­fin­ished crea­tures—sixth-stage spir­its—and hence non­ac­tive in the evo­lu­tion­ary do­mains of pre­light-and-life sta­tus.

40:10.12When a mor­tal fi­nal­i­ter is Trin­ity em­braced—be­comes a Trin­i­tized Son, such as a Mighty Mes­sen­ger—then has that fi­nal­i­ter at­tained des­tiny, at least for the pres­ent uni­verse age. Mighty Mes­sen­gers and their fel­lows may not in the ex­act sense be sev­enth-stage spir­its, but in ad­di­tion to other things the Trin­ity em­brace en­dows them with ev­ery­thing which a fi­nal­i­ter will some­time achieve as a sev­enth-stage spirit. Af­ter Spirit-fused or Son-fused mor­tals are trin­i­tized, they pass through the Par­a­dise ex­pe­ri­ence with the Ad­juster-fused as­cend­ers, with whom they are then iden­ti­cal in all mat­ters per­tain­ing to super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. These Trin­i­tized Sons of Se­lec­tion or of At­tain­ment at least for now are fin­ished crea­tures, in con­trast to the fi­nal­i­ters, who are at pres­ent un­fin­ished crea­tures.

40:10.13Thus, in the fi­nal anal­y­sis, it would be hardly proper to use the words “greater” or “lesser” in con­trast­ing the des­tinies of the as­cend­ing or­ders of son­ship. Ev­ery such son of God shares the fa­ther­hood of God, and God loves each of his crea­ture sons alike; he is no more a re­specter of as­cen­dant des­tinies than is he of the crea­tures who may at­tain such des­tinies. The Fa­ther loves each of his sons, and that af­fec­tion is not less than true, holy, di­vine, un­lim­ited, eter­nal, and unique—a love be­stowed upon this son and upon that son, in­di­vid­u­ally, per­son­ally, and ex­clu­sively. And such a love ut­terly eclipses all other facts. Son­ship is the su­preme re­la­tion­ship of the crea­ture to the Cre­ator.

40:10.14As mor­tals you can now rec­og­nize your place in the fam­ily of di­vine son­ship and be­gin to sense the obli­ga­tion to avail your­selves of the ad­van­tages so freely pro­vided in and by the Par­a­dise plan for mor­tal sur­vival, which plan has been so en­hanced and il­lu­mi­nated by the life ex­pe­ri­ence of a be­stowal Son. Ev­ery fa­cil­ity and all power have been pro­vided for in­sur­ing your ul­ti­mate at­tain­ment of the Par­a­dise goal of di­vine per­fec­tion.

40:10.15[Pre­sented by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily at­tached to the staff of Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton.]

• mortal destiny › day by day living determines eternal d.

48:7.2624. The des­tiny of eter­nity is de­ter­mined mo­ment by mo­ment by the achieve­ments of the day by day liv­ing. The acts of to­day are the des­tiny of to­mor­row.

• mortal destiny › man is architect of his own eternal d.

70:1.16This is a nar­ra­tive of the evo­lu­tion of so­ci­ety—the nat­u­ral out­work­ing of the prob­lems of the races—man work­ing out his own des­tiny on earth. Such atroc­i­ties are not in­sti­gated by De­ity, not­with­stand­ing the ten­dency of man to place the re­spon­si­bil­ity on his gods.

• mortal destiny › man is architect of his own eternal d.

103:5.10Man, in his spir­i­tual do­main, does have a free will. Mor­tal man is nei­ther a help­less slave of the in­flex­i­ble sov­er­eignty of an all-pow­er­ful God nor the vic­tim of the hope­less fa­tal­ity of a mech­a­nis­tic cos­mic de­ter­min­ism. Man is most truly the ar­chi­tect of his own eter­nal des­tiny.

• universe destiny › age of first outer space levels will release superuniverses from limitations of present age

106:0.18Re­al­ity growth is con­di­tioned by the cir­cum­stances of the suc­ces­sive uni­verse ages. The cen­tral uni­verse un­der­went no evo­lu­tion­ary change in the Ha­vona age, but in the pres­ent epochs of the super­uni­verse age it is un­der­go­ing cer­tain pro­gres­sive changes in­duced by co-or­di­na­tion with the evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses. The seven super­uni­verses, now evolv­ing, will some­time at­tain the set­tled sta­tus of light and life, will at­tain the growth limit for the pres­ent uni­verse age. But be­yond doubt, the next age, the age of the first outer space level, will re­lease the super­uni­verses from the des­tiny lim­i­ta­tions of the pres­ent age. Re­ple­tion is con­tin­u­ally be­ing super­im­posed upon com­ple­tion.

• universe destiny › expansion as gravity and love reach out into time-organizing space

106:3.5Through­out all the gi­gan­tic uni­verse de­vel­op­ments of past and fu­ture eter­nity, we de­tect the ex­pan­sion of the com­pre­hen­si­ble el­e­ments of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. As the I AM, we phil­o­soph­i­cally pos­tu­late his per­me­ation of to­tal in­fin­ity, but no crea­ture is able ex­pe­ri­en­tially to en­com­pass such a pos­tu­late. As the uni­verses ex­pand, and as grav­ity and love reach out into time-or­ga­niz­ing space, we are able to un­der­stand more and more of the First Source and Cen­ter. We ob­serve grav­ity ac­tion pen­e­trat­ing the space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, and we de­tect spirit crea­tures evolv­ing and ex­pand­ing within the di­vin­ity pres­ence of the De­ity Ab­so­lute while both cos­mic and spirit evo­lu­tion are by mind and ex­pe­ri­ence uni­fy­ing on fi­nite de­ity lev­els as the Su­preme Be­ing and are co-or­di­nat­ing on tran­scen­den­tal lev­els as the Trin­ity Ul­ti­mate.

• universe destiny › consummated by Consummator of Universe Destiny
• universe destiny › established by volitional act of Deities

106:7.3Des­tiny is es­tab­lished by the vo­li­tional act of the De­i­ties who con­sti­tute the Par­a­dise Trin­ity; des­tiny is es­tab­lished in the vast­ness of the three great po­ten­tials whose ab­so­lute­ness en­com­passes the pos­si­bil­i­ties of all fu­ture de­vel­op­ment; des­tiny is prob­a­bly con­sum­mated by the act of the Con­sum­ma­tor of Uni­verse Des­tiny, and this act is prob­a­bly in­volved with the Su­preme and the Ul­ti­mate in the Trin­ity Ab­so­lute. Any ex­pe­ri­en­tial des­tiny can be at least par­tially com­pre­hended by ex­pe­ri­enc­ing crea­tures; but a des­tiny which im­pinges on in­fi­nite ex­is­ten­tials is hardly com­pre­hen­si­ble. Fi­nal­ity des­tiny is an ex­is­ten­tial-ex­pe­ri­en­tial at­tain­ment which ap­pears to in­volve the De­ity Ab­so­lute. But the De­ity Ab­so­lute stands in eter­nity re­la­tion­ship with the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute by virtue of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. And these three Ab­so­lutes, ex­pe­ri­en­tial in pos­si­bil­ity, are ac­tu­ally ex­is­ten­tial and more, be­ing lim­it­less, time­less, space­less, bound­less, and mea­sure­less—truly in­fi­nite.

• mortal destiny › potentially final d. absolute in value

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.

• universe destiny › reuniting the 7 absolute phases of Father-I AM

106:7.10Such even­tu­al­i­ties are rather re­mote to say the least; nev­er­the­less, in the mech­a­nisms, per­son­al­i­ties, and as­so­ci­a­tions of the three Trin­i­ties we be­lieve we de­tect the the­o­ret­i­cal pos­si­bil­ity of the re­unit­ing of the seven ab­so­lute phases of the Fa­ther-I AM. And this brings us face to face with the con­cept of the three­fold Trin­ity en­com­pass­ing the Par­a­dise Trin­ity of ex­is­ten­tial sta­tus and the two sub­se­quently ap­pear­ing Trin­i­ties of ex­pe­ri­en­tial na­ture and ori­gin.

• universe destiny › completion of cycle of reality

106:8.12The as­so­ci­a­tion of these three Trin­i­ties in the Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties pro­vides for a pos­si­ble un­lim­ited in­te­gra­tion of re­al­ity. This group­ing con­tains causes, in­ter­me­di­ates, and fi­nals; in­cep­tors, re­al­iz­ers, and con­sum­ma­tors; be­gin­nings, ex­is­tences, and des­tinies. The Fa­ther-Son part­ner­ship has be­come Son-Spirit and then Spirit-Su­preme and on to Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate and Ul­ti­mate-Ab­so­lute, even to Ab­so­lute and Fa­ther-In­fi­nite—the com­ple­tion of the cy­cle of re­al­ity. Like­wise, in other phases not so im­me­di­ately con­cerned with di­vin­ity and per­son­al­ity, does the First Great Source and Cen­ter self-re­al­ize the lim­it­less­ness of re­al­ity around the cir­cle of eter­nity, from the ab­so­lute­ness of self-ex­is­tence, through the end­less­ness of self-rev­e­la­tion, to the fi­nal­ity of self-re­al­iza­tion—from the ab­so­lute of ex­is­ten­tials to the fi­nal­ity of ex­pe­ri­en­tials.

• mortal destiny › final knowing of Father
• universe destiny › full self-realization of I AM

106:8.22In the union of the Su­preme, Ul­ti­mate, and the com­plete Ab­so­lute, there could oc­cur the func­tional re­assem­bly of those as­pects of in­fin­ity which were orig­i­nally seg­men­tal­ized by the I AM, and which re­sulted in the ap­pear­ance of the Seven Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity. Though the uni­verse philoso­phers deem this to be a most re­mote prob­a­bil­ity, still, we of­ten ask this ques­tion: If the sec­ond level of the Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties could ever achieve trin­ity unity, what then would tran­spire as a con­se­quence of such de­ity unity? We do not know, but we are con­fi­dent that it would lead di­rectly to the re­al­iza­tion of the I AM as an ex­pe­ri­en­tial at­tain­able. From the stand­point of per­sonal be­ings it could mean that the un­know­able I AM had be­come ex­pe­ri­en­ci­ble as the Fa­ther-In­fi­nite. What these ab­so­lute des­tinies might mean from a non­per­sonal stand­point is an­other mat­ter and one which only eter­nity could pos­si­bly clar­ify. But as we view these re­mote even­tu­al­i­ties as per­sonal crea­tures, we de­duce that the fi­nal des­tiny of all per­son­al­i­ties is the fi­nal know­ing of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther of these self­same per­son­al­i­ties.

• mortal destiny › no limit upon d. for fused ascenders

107:4.7Can you re­ally re­al­ize the true sig­nif­i­cance of the Ad­juster’s in­dwelling? Do you re­ally fathom what it means to have an ab­so­lute frag­ment of the ab­so­lute and in­fi­nite De­ity, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, in­dwelling and fus­ing with your fi­nite mor­tal na­tures? When mor­tal man fuses with an ac­tual frag­ment of the ex­is­ten­tial Cause of the to­tal cos­mos, no limit can ever be placed upon the des­tiny of such an un­prece­dented and unimag­in­able part­ner­ship. In eter­nity, man will be dis­cov­er­ing not only the in­fin­ity of the ob­jec­tive De­ity but also the un­end­ing po­ten­tial­ity of the sub­jec­tive frag­ment of this same God. Al­ways will the Ad­juster be re­veal­ing to the mor­tal per­son­al­ity the won­der of God, and never can this su­per­nal rev­e­la­tion come to an end, for the Ad­juster is of God and as God to mor­tal man.

• mortal destiny › endless unfolding of an almost infinite panorama

108:6.8You hu­mans have be­gun an end­less un­fold­ing of an al­most in­fi­nite pan­o­rama, a lim­it­less ex­pand­ing of never-end­ing, ever-widen­ing spheres of op­por­tu­nity for ex­hil­a­rat­ing ser­vice, match­less ad­ven­ture, sub­lime un­cer­tainty, and bound­less at­tain­ment. When the clouds gather over­head, your faith should ac­cept the fact of the pres­ence of the in­dwelling Ad­juster, and thus you should be able to look be­yond the mists of mor­tal un­cer­tainty into the clear shin­ing of the sun of eter­nal righ­teous­ness on the beck­on­ing heights of the man­sion worlds of Sa­ta­nia.

• mortal destiny › be inspired by Adjuster’s picturizations of

110:6.5The Ad­justers are al­ways near you and of you, but rarely can they speak di­rectly, as an­other be­ing, to you. Cir­cle by cir­cle your in­tel­lec­tual de­ci­sions, moral choos­ings, and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment add to the abil­ity of the Ad­juster to func­tion in your mind; cir­cle by cir­cle you thereby as­cend from the lower stages of Ad­juster as­so­ci­a­tion and mind at­tune­ment, so that the Ad­juster is in­creas­ingly en­abled to reg­is­ter his pic­tur­iza­tions of des­tiny with aug­ment­ing vivid­ness and con­vic­tion upon the evolv­ing con­scious­ness of this God-seek­ing mind-soul.

• mortal destiny › be inspired by Adjuster’s picturizations of

111:7.2May I ad­mon­ish you to heed the dis­tant echo of the Ad­juster’s faith­ful call to your soul? The in­dwelling Ad­juster can­not stop or even ma­te­ri­ally al­ter your ca­reer strug­gle of time; the Ad­juster can­not lessen the hard­ships of life as you jour­ney on through this world of toil. The di­vine in­dweller can only pa­tiently for­bear while you fight the bat­tle of life as it is lived on your planet; but you could, if you only would—as you work and worry, as you fight and toil—per­mit the valiant Ad­juster to fight with you and for you. You could be so com­forted and in­spired, so en­thralled and in­trigued, if you would only al­low the Ad­juster con­stantly to bring forth the pic­tures of the real mo­tive, the fi­nal aim, and the eter­nal pur­pose of all this dif­fi­cult, up­hill strug­gle with the com­mon­place prob­lems of your pres­ent ma­te­rial world.

• personal beings may accept or reject

112:5.1Self­hood is a cos­mic re­al­ity whether ma­te­rial, mor­ontial, or spir­i­tual. The ac­tu­al­ity of the per­sonal is the be­stowal of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther act­ing in and of him­self or through his man­i­fold uni­verse agen­cies. To say that a be­ing is per­sonal is to rec­og­nize the rel­a­tive in­di­vid­u­a­tion of such a be­ing within the cos­mic or­gan­ism. The liv­ing cos­mos is an all but in­finitely in­te­grated ag­gre­ga­tion of real units, all of which are rel­a­tively sub­ject to the des­tiny of the whole. But those that are per­sonal have been en­dowed with the ac­tual choice of des­tiny ac­cep­tance or of des­tiny re­jec­tion.

• no such thing as an end

115:3.17Stat­ics in growth can never ap­pear in the to­tal cos­mos since the ba­sis for growth—the ab­so­lute ac­tu­als—is un­qual­i­fied, and since the pos­si­bil­i­ties for growth—the ab­so­lute po­ten­tials—are un­lim­ited. From a prac­ti­cal view­point the philoso­phers of the uni­verse have come to the con­clu­sion that there is no such thing as an end.

115:3.18From a cir­cum­scribed view there are, in­deed, many ends, many ter­mi­na­tions of ac­tiv­i­ties, but from a larger view­point on a higher uni­verse level, there are no end­ings, merely tran­si­tions from one phase of de­vel­op­ment to an­other. The ma­jor chronic­ity of the mas­ter uni­verse is con­cerned with the sev­eral uni­verse ages, the Ha­vona, the super­uni­verse, and the outer uni­verse ages. But even these ba­sic di­vi­sions of se­quence re­la­tion­ships can­not be more than rel­a­tive land­marks on the un­end­ing high­way of eter­nity.

• universe destiny › subjugation of energy-matter by mind, co-ordination with spirit, by personality

116:5.15The spirit strug­gles of time and space have to do with the evo­lu­tion of spirit dom­i­nance over mat­ter by the me­di­a­tion of (per­sonal) mind; the phys­i­cal (non­per­sonal) evo­lu­tion of the uni­verses has to do with bring­ing cos­mic en­ergy into har­mony with the equi­lib­rium con­cepts of mind sub­ject to the over­con­trol of spirit. The to­tal evo­lu­tion of the en­tire grand uni­verse is a mat­ter of the per­son­al­ity uni­fi­ca­tion of the en­ergy-con­trol­ling mind with the spirit-co-or­di­nated in­tel­lect and will be re­vealed in the full ap­pear­ance of the al­mighty power of the Su­preme.

• universe destiny › subjugation of energy-matter by mind, co-ordination with spirit, by personality

116:6.1In the evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses en­ergy-mat­ter is dom­i­nant ex­cept in per­son­al­ity, where spirit through the me­di­a­tion of mind is strug­gling for the mas­tery. The goal of the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses is the sub­ju­ga­tion of en­ergy-mat­ter by mind, the co-or­di­na­tion of mind with spirit, and all of this by virtue of the cre­ative and uni­fy­ing pres­ence of per­son­al­ity. Thus, in re­la­tion to per­son­al­ity, do phys­i­cal sys­tems be­come sub­or­di­nate; mind sys­tems, co-or­di­nate; and spirit sys­tems, di­rec­tive.

• universe destiny › subjugation of energy-matter by mind, co-ordination with spirit, by personality

116:6.4That en­ergy can be di­rec­tion­ized by the ac­tion of con­trol­ler per­son­al­i­ties dis­closes the re­spon­sive­ness of en­ergy to mind ac­tion. That mass can be sta­bi­lized through the ac­tion of these same con­trol­ling en­ti­ties in­di­cates the re­spon­sive­ness of mass to the or­der-pro­duc­ing pres­ence of mind. And that spirit it­self in vo­li­tional per­son­al­ity can strive through mind for the mas­tery of en­ergy-mat­ter dis­closes the po­ten­tial unity of all fi­nite cre­ation.

• universe destiny › subjugation of energy-matter by mind, co-ordination with spirit, by personality

117:2.1The Su­preme is God-in-time; his is the se­cret of crea­ture growth in time; his also is the con­quest of the in­com­plete pres­ent and the con­sum­ma­tion of the per­fect­ing fu­ture. And the fi­nal fruits of all fi­nite growth are: power con­trolled through mind by spirit by virtue of the uni­fy­ing and cre­ative pres­ence of per­son­al­ity. The cul­mi­nat­ing con­se­quence of all this growth is the Su­preme Be­ing.

• universe destiny › creation interdependent in realization of

117:6.20All ex­pe­ri­en­tial cre­ations are in­ter­de­pen­dent in their re­al­iza­tion of des­tiny. Only ex­is­ten­tial re­al­ity is self-con­tained and self-ex­is­tent. Ha­vona and the seven super­uni­verses re­quire each other to achieve the max­i­mum of fi­nite at­tain­ment; like­wise will they be some­time de­pen­dent on the fu­ture uni­verses of outer space for fi­nite tran­scen­dence.

• universe destiny › perfection, even as is Havona

117:7.13The pres­ent goal of the super­uni­verses is to be­come, as they are and within their po­ten­tials, per­fect, even as is Ha­vona. This per­fec­tion per­tains to phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual at­tain­ment, even to ad­min­is­tra­tive, gov­ern­men­tal, and fra­ter­nal de­vel­op­ment. It is be­lieved that, in the ages to come, the pos­si­bil­i­ties for dishar­mony, mal­ad­just­ment, and mis­adap­ta­tion will be even­tu­ally ex­hausted in the super­uni­verses. The en­ergy cir­cuits will be in per­fect bal­ance and in com­plete sub­ju­ga­tion to mind, while spirit, in the pres­ence of per­son­al­ity, will have achieved the dom­i­nance of mind.