extinction

• alone may decree e.

2:3.3Ces­sa­tion of ex­is­tence is usu­ally de­creed at the dis­pen­sa­tional or ep­ochal ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the realm or realms. On a world such as Uran­tia it comes at the end of a plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tion. Ces­sa­tion of ex­is­tence can be de­creed at such times by co-or­di­nate ac­tion of all tri­bu­nals of ju­ris­dic­tion, ex­tend­ing from the plan­e­tary coun­cil up through the courts of the Cre­ator Son to the judg­ment tri­bu­nals of the An­cients of Days. The man­date of dis­so­lu­tion orig­i­nates in the higher courts of the super­uni­verse fol­low­ing an un­bro­ken con­fir­ma­tion of the in­dict­ment orig­i­nat­ing on the sphere of the wrong­doer’s res­i­dence; and then, when sen­tence of ex­tinc­tion has been con­firmed on high, the ex­e­cu­tion is by the di­rect act of those judges res­i­den­tial on, and op­er­at­ing from, the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse.

• executioners of Ancients of Days

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.

• alone may decree e.

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.

• alone may decree e.

18:3.7In power, scope of au­thor­ity, and ex­tent of ju­ris­dic­tion the An­cients of Days are the most pow­er­ful and mighty of any of the di­rect rulers of the time-space cre­ations. In all the vast uni­verse of uni­verses they alone are in­vested with the high pow­ers of fi­nal ex­ec­u­tive judg­ment con­cern­ing the eter­nal ex­tinc­tion of will crea­tures. And all three An­cients of Days must par­tic­i­pate in the fi­nal de­crees of the su­preme tri­bu­nal of a super­uni­verse.

• alone may decree e.

20:3.2When they sit in judg­ment on the des­tinies of an age, the Avo­nals de­cree the fate of the evo­lu­tion­ary races, but though they may ren­der judg­ments ex­tin­guish­ing the iden­tity of per­sonal crea­tures, they do not ex­e­cute such sen­tences. Ver­dicts of this na­ture are ex­e­cuted by none but the au­thor­i­ties of a super­uni­verse.

• alone may decree e.

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.

• executioners of Ancients of Days

53:3.5He con­tended that the ex­e­cu­tion­ers of the An­cients of Days could be de­barred from func­tion­ing in the lo­cal sys­tems if the na­tive be­ings would only as­sert their in­de­pen­dence. He main­tained that im­mor­tal­ity was in­her­ent in the sys­tem per­son­al­i­ties, that res­ur­rec­tion was nat­u­ral and au­to­matic, and that all be­ings would live eter­nally ex­cept for the ar­bi­trary and un­just acts of the ex­e­cu­tion­ers of the An­cients of Days.

• mandated new rebels’ instantaneous e. during Michael’s bestowal

54:4.5There are many rea­sons known to us why the Su­preme Rulers did not im­me­di­ately de­stroy or in­tern the lead­ers of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. There are no doubt still other and pos­si­bly bet­ter rea­sons un­known to us. The mercy fea­tures of this de­lay in the ex­e­cu­tion of jus­tice were ex­tended per­son­ally by Mi­chael of Neb­a­don. Ex­cept for the af­fec­tion of this Cre­ator-fa­ther for his erring Sons, the su­preme jus­tice of the super­uni­verse would have acted. If such an episode as the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion had oc­curred in Neb­a­don while Mi­chael was in­car­nated on Uran­tia, the in­sti­ga­tors of such evil might have been in­stantly and ab­so­lutely an­ni­hi­lated.

• seldom execute wrongdoers without full hearing

54:5.76. The An­cients of Days could have im­me­di­ately an­ni­hi­lated these rebels, but they sel­dom ex­e­cute wrong­do­ers with­out a full hear­ing. In this in­stance they re­fused to over­rule the Mi­chael de­ci­sions.

• mandated new rebels’ instantaneous e. during Michael’s bestowal

120:1.5“And that you may know with as­sur­ance that I am em­pow­ered to do all that I am now promis­ing (know­ing full well that I am the as­sur­ance of all Par­a­dise for the faith­ful per­for­mance of my word), I an­nounce to you that there has just been com­mu­ni­cated to me a man­date of the An­cients of Days on Uversa which will pre­vent all spir­i­tual jeop­ardy in Neb­a­don through­out the pe­riod of your vol­un­tary be­stowal. From the mo­ment you sur­ren­der con­scious­ness, upon the be­gin­ning of the mor­tal in­car­na­tion, un­til you re­turn to us as su­preme and un­con­di­tional sov­er­eign of this uni­verse of your own cre­ation and or­ga­ni­za­tion, noth­ing of se­ri­ous im­port can hap­pen in all Neb­a­don. In this in­terim of your in­car­na­tion, I hold the or­ders of the An­cients of Days which un­qual­i­fiedly man­date the in­stan­ta­neous and au­to­matic ex­tinc­tion of any be­ing guilty of re­bel­lion or pre­sum­ing to in­sti­gate in­sur­rec­tion in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don while you are ab­sent on this be­stowal. My brother, in view of the au­thor­ity of Par­a­dise in­her­ent in my pres­ence and aug­mented by the ju­di­cial man­date of Uversa, your uni­verse and all its loyal crea­tures will be se­cure dur­ing your be­stowal. You may pro­ceed upon your mis­sion with but a sin­gle thought—the en­hanced rev­e­la­tion of our Fa­ther to the in­tel­li­gent be­ings of your uni­verse.

120:1.6“As in each of your pre­vi­ous be­stowals, I would re­mind you that I am re­cip­i­ent of your uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion as brother-trus­tee. I ex­er­cise all au­thor­ity and wield all power in your name. I func­tion as would our Par­a­dise Fa­ther and in ac­cor­dance with your ex­plicit re­quest that I thus act in your stead. And such be­ing the fact, all this del­e­gated au­thor­ity is yours again to ex­er­cise at any mo­ment you may see fit to req­ui­si­tion its re­turn. Your be­stowal is, through­out, wholly vol­un­tary. As a mor­tal in­car­nate in the realm you are with­out ce­les­tial en­dow­ments, but all your re­lin­quished power may be had at any time you may choose to rein­vest your­self with uni­verse au­thor­ity. If you should choose to re­in­state your­self in power and au­thor­ity, re­mem­ber, it will be wholly for per­sonal rea­sons since I am the liv­ing and su­preme pledge whose pres­ence and prom­ise guar­an­tee the safe ad­min­is­tra­tion of your uni­verse in ac­cor­dance with your Fa­ther’s will. Re­bel­lion, such as has three times oc­curred in Neb­a­don, can­not oc­cur dur­ing your ab­sence from Sal­ving­ton on this be­stowal. For the pe­riod of the Uran­tia be­stowal the An­cients of Days have de­creed that re­bel­lion in Neb­a­don shall be in­vested with the au­to­matic seed of its own an­ni­hi­la­tion.

• automatic result of conscious and wholehearted embrace of evil
• sin-identified individuals’ self-destruction through becoming unreal

2:3.2How fu­tile to make puerile ap­peals to such a God to mod­ify his change­less de­crees so that we can avoid the just con­se­quences of the op­er­a­tion of his wise nat­u­ral laws and righ­teous spir­i­tual man­dates! “Be not de­ceived; God is not mocked, for what­so­ever a man sows that shall he also reap.” True, even in the jus­tice of reap­ing the har­vest of wrong­do­ing, this di­vine jus­tice is al­ways tem­pered with mercy. In­fi­nite wis­dom is the eter­nal ar­biter which de­ter­mines the pro­por­tions of jus­tice and mercy which shall be meted out in any given cir­cum­stance. The great­est pun­ish­ment (in re­al­ity an in­ev­i­ta­ble con­se­quence) for wrong­do­ing and de­lib­er­ate re­bel­lion against the gov­ern­ment of God is loss of ex­is­tence as an in­di­vid­ual sub­ject of that gov­ern­ment. The fi­nal re­sult of whole­hearted sin is an­ni­hi­la­tion. In the last anal­y­sis, such sin-iden­ti­fied in­di­vid­u­als have de­stroyed them­selves by be­com­ing wholly un­real through their em­brace of in­iq­uity. The fac­tual dis­ap­pear­ance of such a crea­ture is, how­ever, al­ways de­layed un­til the or­dained or­der of jus­tice cur­rent in that uni­verse has been fully com­plied with.

• everlasting and eternal; no resurrection from

2:3.4When this sen­tence is fi­nally con­firmed, the sin-iden­ti­fied be­ing in­stantly be­comes as though he had not been. There is no res­ur­rec­tion from such a fate; it is ev­er­last­ing and eter­nal. The liv­ing en­ergy fac­tors of iden­tity are re­solved by the trans­for­ma­tions of time and the meta­mor­phoses of space into the cos­mic po­ten­tials whence they once emerged. As for the per­son­al­ity of the in­iq­ui­tous one, it is de­prived of a con­tin­u­ing life ve­hi­cle by the crea­ture’s fail­ure to make those choices and fi­nal de­ci­sions which would have as­sured eter­nal life. When the con­tin­ued em­brace of sin by the as­so­ci­ated mind cul­mi­nates in com­plete self-iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with in­iq­uity, then upon the ces­sa­tion of life, upon cos­mic dis­so­lu­tion, such an iso­lated per­son­al­ity is ab­sorbed into the over­soul of cre­ation, be­com­ing a part of the evolv­ing ex­pe­ri­ence of the Su­preme Be­ing. Never again does it ap­pear as a per­son­al­ity; its iden­tity be­comes as though it had never been. In the case of an Ad­juster-in­dwelt per­son­al­ity, the ex­pe­ri­en­tial spirit val­ues sur­vive in the re­al­ity of the con­tin­u­ing Ad­juster.

• sin-identified individuals’ self-destruction through becoming unreal

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.

• direct act of superuniverse judges

33:7.41. The ad­min­is­tra­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse is con­cerned with cre­ation, evo­lu­tion, main­te­nance, and min­istry. The uni­verse tri­bu­nals are, there­fore, de­nied the right to pass upon those cases in­volv­ing the ques­tion of eter­nal life and death. This has no ref­er­ence to nat­u­ral death as it ob­tains on Uran­tia, but if the ques­tion of the right of con­tin­ued ex­is­tence, life eter­nal, comes up for ad­ju­di­ca­tion, it must be re­ferred to the tri­bu­nals of Or­von­ton, and if de­cided ad­versely to the in­di­vid­ual, all sen­tences of ex­tinc­tion are car­ried out upon the or­ders, and through the agen­cies, of the rulers of the super­gov­ern­ment.

• blotting out of existence

37:3.7The Worlds of the Arch­an­gels. The sev­enth group of the en­cir­cling Sal­ving­ton worlds, with their as­so­ci­ated satel­lites, is as­signed to the arch­an­gels. Sphere num­ber one and all of its six trib­u­tary satel­lites are oc­cu­pied by the per­son­al­ity rec­ord keep­ers. This enor­mous corps of re­cord­ers busy them­selves with keep­ing straight the rec­ord of each mor­tal of time from the mo­ment of birth up through the uni­verse ca­reer un­til such an in­di­vid­ual ei­ther leaves Sal­ving­ton for the super­uni­verse regime or is “blot­ted out of re­corded ex­is­tence” by the man­date of the An­cients of Days.

• effected by Uversa executionary broadcast

53:9.1Early in the days of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, sal­va­tion was of­fered all rebels by Mi­chael. To all who would show proof of sin­cere re­pen­tance, he of­fered, upon his at­tain­ment of com­plete uni­verse sov­er­eignty, for­give­ness and re­in­state­ment in some form of uni­verse ser­vice. None of the lead­ers ac­cepted this mer­ci­ful prof­fer. But thou­sands of the an­gels and the lower or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings, in­clud­ing hun­dreds of the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, ac­cepted the mercy pro­claimed by the Panop­tians and were given re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion at the time of Je­sus’ res­ur­rec­tion nine­teen hun­dred years ago. These be­ings have since been trans­ferred to the Fa­ther’s world of Je­ru­sem, where they must be held, tech­ni­cally, un­til the Uversa courts hand down a de­ci­sion in the mat­ter of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer. But no one doubts that, when the an­ni­hi­la­tion ver­dict is is­sued, these re­pen­tant and sal­vaged per­son­al­i­ties will be ex­empted from the de­cree of ex­tinc­tion. These pro­ba­tion­ary souls now la­bor with the Panop­tians in the work of car­ing for the Fa­ther’s world.

• effected by Uversa executionary broadcast

53:9.7The re­bel­lion has ended on Je­ru­sem. It ends on the fallen worlds as fast as di­vine Sons ar­rive. We be­lieve that all rebels who will ever ac­cept mercy have done so. We await the flash­ing broad­cast that will de­prive these traitors of per­son­al­ity ex­is­tence. We an­tic­i­pate the ver­dict of Uversa will be an­nounced by the ex­e­cu­tion­ary broad­cast which will ef­fect the an­ni­hi­la­tion of these in­terned rebels. Then will you look for their places, but they shall not be found. “And they who know you among the worlds will be as­ton­ished at you; you have been a ter­ror, but never shall you be any more.” And thus shall all of these un­wor­thy traitors “be­come as though they had not been.” All await the Uversa de­cree.

• automatic result of conscious and wholehearted embrace of evil

54:3.2Al­though con­scious and whole­hearted iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with evil (sin) is the equiv­a­lent of nonex­is­tence (an­ni­hi­la­tion), there must al­ways in­ter­vene be­tween the time of such per­sonal iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with sin and the ex­e­cu­tion of the penalty—the au­to­matic re­sult of such a will­ful em­brace of evil—a pe­riod of time of suf­fi­cient length to al­low for such an ad­ju­di­ca­tion of such an in­di­vid­ual’s uni­verse sta­tus as will prove en­tirely sat­is­fac­tory to all re­lated uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties, and which will be so fair and just as to win the ap­proval of the sin­ner him­self.

180:2.1Then Je­sus stood up again and con­tin­ued teach­ing his apos­tles: “I am the true vine, and my Fa­ther is the hus­band­man. I am the vine, and you are the branches. And the Fa­ther re­quires of me only that you shall bear much fruit. The vine is pruned only to in­crease the fruit­ful­ness of its branches. Ev­ery branch com­ing out of me which bears no fruit, the Fa­ther will take away. Ev­ery branch which bears fruit, the Fa­ther will cleanse that it may bear more fruit. Al­ready are you clean through the word I have spo­ken, but you must con­tinue to be clean. You must abide in me, and I in you; the branch will die if it is sep­a­rated from the vine. As the branch can­not bear fruit ex­cept it abides in the vine, so nei­ther can you yield the fruits of lov­ing ser­vice ex­cept you abide in me. Re­mem­ber: I am the real vine, and you are the liv­ing branches. He who lives in me, and I in him, will bear much fruit of the spirit and ex­pe­ri­ence the su­preme joy of yield­ing this spir­i­tual har­vest. If you will main­tain this liv­ing spir­i­tual con­nec­tion with me, you will bear abun­dant fruit. If you abide in me and my words live in you, you will be able to com­mune freely with me, and then can my liv­ing spirit so in­fuse you that you may ask what­so­ever my spirit wills and do all this with the as­sur­ance that the Fa­ther will grant us our pe­ti­tion. Herein is the Fa­ther glo­ri­fied: that the vine has many liv­ing branches, and that ev­ery branch bears much fruit. And when the world sees these fruit-bear­ing branches—my friends who love one an­other, even as I have loved them—all men will know that you are truly my dis­ci­ples.

180:2.6And when the Fa­ther’s hand of dis­ci­pline is laid upon the vine, it is done in love, in or­der that the branches may bear much fruit. And a wise hus­band­man cuts away only the dead and fruit­less branches.

2:5.2It is wrong to think of God as be­ing coaxed into lov­ing his chil­dren be­cause of the sac­ri­fices of his Sons or the in­ter­ces­sion of his sub­or­di­nate crea­tures, “for the Fa­ther him­self loves you.” It is in re­sponse to this pa­ter­nal af­fec­tion that God sends the mar­velous Ad­justers to in­dwell the minds of men. God’s love is uni­ver­sal; “whoso­ever will may come.” He would “have all men be saved by com­ing into the knowl­edge of the truth.” He is “not will­ing that any should per­ish.”

54:3.3But if this uni­verse rebel against the re­al­ity of truth and good­ness re­fuses to ap­prove the ver­dict, and if the guilty one knows in his heart the jus­tice of his con­dem­na­tion but re­fuses to make such con­fes­sion, then must the ex­e­cu­tion of sen­tence be de­layed in ac­cor­dance with the dis­cre­tion of the An­cients of Days. And the An­cients of Days refuse to an­ni­hi­late any be­ing un­til all moral val­ues and all spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties are ex­tinct, both in the evil­doer and in all re­lated sup­port­ers and pos­si­ble sym­pa­thiz­ers.

1:3.7In the in­ner ex­pe­ri­ence of man, mind is joined to mat­ter. Such ma­te­rial-linked minds can­not sur­vive mor­tal death. The tech­nique of sur­vival is em­braced in those ad­just­ments of the hu­man will and those trans­for­ma­tions in the mor­tal mind whereby such a God-con­scious in­tel­lect grad­u­ally be­comes spirit taught and even­tu­ally spirit led. This evo­lu­tion of the hu­man mind from mat­ter as­so­ci­a­tion to spirit union re­sults in the trans­mu­ta­tion of the po­ten­tially spirit phases of the mor­tal mind into the mor­ontia re­al­i­ties of the im­mor­tal soul. Mor­tal mind sub­servient to mat­ter is des­tined to be­come in­creas­ingly ma­te­rial and con­se­quently to suf­fer even­tual per­son­al­ity ex­tinc­tion; mind yielded to spirit is des­tined to be­come in­creas­ingly spir­i­tual and ul­ti­mately to achieve one­ness with the sur­viv­ing and guid­ing di­vine spirit and in this way to at­tain sur­vival and eter­nity of per­son­al­ity ex­is­tence.

23:2.17There is no lim­i­ta­tion upon the ser­vice of Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers in the super­uni­verses; they may func­tion as ex­e­cu­tion­ers of the high tri­bu­nals or as in­tel­li­gence gath­er­ers for the good of the realm. Of all the super­cre­ations they most de­light to serve in Or­von­ton be­cause here the need is great­est and the op­por­tu­ni­ties for heroic ef­fort are greatly mul­ti­plied. In the more needy realms we all en­joy the sat­is­fac­tion of a more re­plete func­tion.

46:8.4There will come an end for rebels and re­bel­lion. The Su­preme Rulers are mer­ci­ful and pa­tient, but the law of de­lib­er­ately nour­ished evil is uni­ver­sally and unerringly ex­e­cuted. “The wages of sin is death”—eter­nal oblit­er­a­tion.

21:5.7The el­e­va­tion of a sev­en­fold be­stowal Son to the un­ques­tioned sov­er­eignty of his uni­verse means the be­gin­ning of the end of age­long un­cer­tainty and rel­a­tive con­fu­sion. Sub­se­quent to this event, that which can­not be some­time spir­i­tu­al­ized will even­tu­ally be dis­or­ga­nized; that which can­not be some­time co-or­di­nated with cos­mic re­al­ity will even­tu­ally be de­stroyed. When the pro­vi­sions of end­less mercy and name­less pa­tience have been ex­hausted in an ef­fort to win the loy­alty and de­vo­tion of the will crea­tures of the realms, jus­tice and righ­teous­ness will pre­vail. That which mercy can­not re­ha­bil­i­tate jus­tice will even­tu­ally an­ni­hi­late.