Divinington

• Divinington

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

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

107:3.1All uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties re­lated to the dis­patch, man­age­ment, di­rec­tion, and re­turn of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors from ser­vice in all of the seven super­uni­verses seem to be cen­tered on the sa­cred sphere of Di­vin­ing­ton. As far as I know, none but Ad­justers and other en­ti­ties of the Fa­ther have been on that sphere. It seems likely that nu­mer­ous un­re­vealed preper­sonal en­ti­ties share Di­vin­ing­ton as a home sphere with the Ad­justers. We con­jec­ture that these fel­low en­ti­ties may in some man­ner be as­so­ci­ated with the pres­ent and fu­ture min­istry of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors. But we re­ally do not know.

107:3.2When Thought Ad­justers re­turn to the Fa­ther, they go back to the realm of sup­posed ori­gin, Di­vin­ing­ton; and prob­a­bly as a part of this ex­pe­ri­ence, there is ac­tual con­tact with the Fa­ther’s Par­a­dise per­son­al­ity as well as with the spe­cial­ized man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Fa­ther’s di­vin­ity which is re­ported to be sit­u­ated on this se­cret sphere.

107:3.3Al­though we know some­thing of all the seven se­cret spheres of Par­a­dise, we know less of Di­vin­ing­ton than of the oth­ers. Be­ings of high spir­i­tual or­ders re­ceive only three di­vine in­junc­tions, and they are:

107:3.41. Al­ways to show ad­e­quate re­spect for the ex­pe­ri­ence and en­dow­ments of their se­niors and su­pe­ri­ors.

107:3.52. Al­ways to be con­sid­er­ate of the lim­i­ta­tions and in­ex­pe­ri­ence of their ju­niors and sub­or­di­nates.

107:3.63. Never to at­tempt a land­ing on the shores of Di­vin­ing­ton.

107:3.7I have of­ten re­flected that it would be quite use­less for me to go to Di­vin­ing­ton; I prob­a­bly should be un­able to see any res­i­dent be­ings ex­cept such as the Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers, and I have seen them else­where. I am very sure there is noth­ing on Di­vin­ing­ton of real value or profit to me, noth­ing es­sen­tial to my growth and de­vel­op­ment, or I should not have been for­bid­den to go there.

107:3.8Since we can learn lit­tle or noth­ing of the na­ture and ori­gin of Ad­justers from Di­vin­ing­ton, we are com­pelled to gather in­for­ma­tion from a thou­sand and one dif­fer­ent sources, and it is nec­es­sary to as­sem­ble, as­so­ciate, and cor­re­late this ac­cu­mu­lated data in or­der that such knowl­edge may be in­for­ma­tive.

107:3.9The valor and wis­dom ex­hib­ited by Thought Ad­justers sug­gest that they have un­der­gone a train­ing of tremen­dous scope and range. Since they are not per­son­al­i­ties, this train­ing must be im­parted in the ed­u­ca­tional in­sti­tu­tions of Di­vin­ing­ton. The unique Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers no doubt con­sti­tute the per­son­nel of the Ad­juster train­ing schools of Di­vin­ing­ton. And we do know that this cen­tral and super­vis­ing corps is pre­sided over by the now Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of the first Par­a­dise Son of the Mi­chael or­der to com­plete his sev­en­fold be­stowal upon the races and peo­ples of his uni­verse realms.

107:3.10We re­ally know very lit­tle about the non­per­son­al­ized Ad­justers; we only con­tact and com­mu­ni­cate with the per­son­al­ized or­ders. These are chris­tened on Di­vin­ing­ton and are al­ways known by name and not by num­ber. The Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers are per­ma­nently domi­ciled on Di­vin­ing­ton; that sa­cred sphere is their home. They go out from that abode only by the will of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Very few are found in the do­mains of the lo­cal uni­verses, but larger num­bers are pres­ent in the cen­tral uni­verse.

• return to D. after death of subject

20:4.3When in­car­nated on ei­ther be­stowal or mag­is­te­rial mis­sions, the Par­a­dise Sons have ex­pe­ri­enced Ad­justers, and these Ad­justers are dif­fer­ent for each in­car­na­tion. The Ad­justers that oc­cupy the minds of the in­car­nated Sons of God can never hope for per­son­al­ity through fu­sion with the hu­man-di­vine be­ings of their in­dwelling, but they are of­ten per­son­al­ized by fiat of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Such Ad­justers form the su­preme Di­vin­ing­ton coun­cil of di­rec­tion for the ad­min­is­tra­tion, iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, and dis­patch of Mys­tery Mon­i­tors to the in­hab­ited realms. They also re­ceive and ac­credit Ad­justers on their re­turn to the “bo­som of the Fa­ther” upon the mor­tal dis­so­lu­tion of their earthly taber­na­cles. In this way the faith­ful Ad­justers of the world judges be­come the ex­alted chiefs of their kind.

• return to D. after death of subject

40:4.1When the mor­tals of time fail to achieve the eter­nal sur­vival of their souls in plan­e­tary as­so­ci­a­tion with the spirit gifts of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, such fail­ure is never in any way due to ne­glect of duty, min­istry, ser­vice, or de­vo­tion on the part of the Ad­juster. At mor­tal death, such de­serted Mon­i­tors re­turn to Di­vin­ing­ton, and sub­se­quently, fol­low­ing the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the non­sur­vivor, they may be re­as­signed to the worlds of time and space. Some­times, af­ter re­peated ser­vices of this sort or fol­low­ing some un­usual ex­pe­ri­ence, such as func­tion­ing as the in­dwelling Ad­juster of an in­car­nated be­stowal Son, these ef­fi­cient Ad­justers are per­son­al­ized by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• return to D. after death of subject

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

• transit time to Urantia from D. is 117 hours

108:1.9When once the Ad­justers are ac­tu­ally dis­patched from Di­vin­ing­ton, prac­ti­cally no time in­ter­venes be­tween that mo­ment and the hour of their ap­pear­ance in the minds of their cho­sen sub­jects. The av­er­age tran­sit time of an Ad­juster from Di­vin­ing­ton to Uran­tia is 117 hours, 42 min­utes, and 7 sec­onds. Vir­tu­ally all of this time is oc­cu­pied with reg­is­tra­tion on Uversa.

• administered from D.

108:3.7As a re­sult of many sug­ges­tive lines of ev­i­dence, we be­lieve that the Ad­justers are thor­oughly or­ga­nized, that there ex­ists a pro­foundly in­tel­li­gent and ef­fi­cient di­rec­tive ad­min­is­tra­tion of these di­vine gifts from some far-dis­tant and cen­tral source, prob­a­bly Di­vin­ing­ton. We know that they come from Di­vin­ing­ton to the worlds, and un­doubt­edly they re­turn thereto upon the deaths of their sub­jects.

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

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

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

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

13:0.6Al­though 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.