finaliters

• destiny › may realize supremacy and ultimacy of God

5:5.11God-con­scious­ness, as it is ex­pe­ri­enced by an evolv­ing mor­tal of the realms, must con­sist of three vary­ing fac­tors, three dif­fer­en­tial lev­els of re­al­ity re­al­iza­tion. There is first the mind con­scious­ness—the com­pre­hen­sion of the idea of God. Then fol­lows the soul con­scious­ness—the re­al­iza­tion of the ideal of God. Last, dawns the spirit con­scious­ness—the re­al­iza­tion of the spirit re­al­ity of God. By the uni­fi­ca­tion of these fac­tors of the di­vine re­al­iza­tion, no mat­ter how in­com­plete, the mor­tal per­son­al­ity at all times over­spreads all con­scious lev­els with a re­al­iza­tion of the per­son­al­ity of God. In those mor­tals who have at­tained the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity all this will in time lead to the re­al­iza­tion of the su­prem­acy of God and may sub­se­quently even­tu­ate in the re­al­iza­tion of the ul­ti­macy of God, some phase of the ab­so­nite super­con­scious­ness of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

• destiny › speculations concerning

10:8.6I once so­journed in a uni­verse where a cer­tain group of be­ings taught that the fi­nal­i­ters, in eter­nity, were even­tu­ally to be­come the chil­dren of the De­ity Ab­so­lute. But I am un­will­ing to ac­cept this so­lu­tion of the mys­tery which en­shrouds the fu­ture of the fi­nal­i­ters.

• nature of finaliters › one-time mortals who have attained perfection in all that pertains to will of God

10:8.7The Corps of the Fi­nal­ity em­brace, among oth­ers, those mor­tals of time and space who have at­tained per­fec­tion in all that per­tains to the will of God. As crea­tures and within the lim­its of crea­ture ca­pac­ity they fully and truly know God. Hav­ing thus found God as the Fa­ther of all crea­tures, these fi­nal­i­ters must some­time be­gin the quest for the super­fi­nite Fa­ther. But this quest in­volves a grasp of the ab­so­nite na­ture of the ul­ti­mate at­tri­butes and char­ac­ter of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. Eter­nity will dis­close whether such an at­tain­ment is pos­si­ble, but we are con­vinced, even if the fi­nal­i­ters do grasp this ul­ti­mate of di­vin­ity, they will prob­a­bly be un­able to at­tain the super­ul­ti­mate lev­els of ab­so­lute De­ity.

10:8.8It may be pos­si­ble that the fi­nal­i­ters will par­tially at­tain the De­ity Ab­so­lute, but even if they should, still in the eter­nity of eter­ni­ties the prob­lem of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute will con­tinue to in­trigue, mys­tify, baf­fle, and chal­lenge the as­cend­ing and pro­gress­ing fi­nal­i­ters, for we per­ceive that the un­fath­oma­bil­ity of the cos­mic re­la­tion­ships of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute will tend to grow in pro­por­tions as the ma­te­rial uni­verses and their spir­i­tual ad­min­is­tra­tion con­tinue to ex­pand.

• destiny › to administer outer space universes

12:2.6Through­out Or­von­ton it is be­lieved that a new type of cre­ation is in pro­cess, an or­der of uni­verses des­tined to be­come the scene of the fu­ture ac­tiv­i­ties of the as­sem­bling Corps of the Fi­nal­ity; and if our con­jec­tures are cor­rect, then the end­less fu­ture may hold for all of you the same en­thralling spec­ta­cles that the end­less past has held for your se­niors and pre­de­ces­sors.

• destiny › as 7th stage spirits › may give up residential status on Paradise
• residence › Ascendington is home address

13:2.1These home worlds of the di­verse or­ders of spir­i­tual be­ings are tremen­dous and stu­pen­dous spheres, and they are equal to Par­a­dise in their match­less beauty and su­perb glory. They are ren­dezvous worlds, re­union spheres, serv­ing as per­ma­nent cos­mic ad­dresses. As fi­nal­i­ters you will be domi­ciled on Par­a­dise, but As­cend­ing­ton will be your home ad­dress at all times, even when you en­ter ser­vice in outer space. Through all eter­nity you will re­gard As­cend­ing­ton as your home of sen­ti­men­tal mem­o­ries and rem­i­nis­cent rec­ol­lec­tions. When you be­come sev­enth-stage spirit be­ings, pos­si­bly you will give up your res­i­den­tial sta­tus on Par­a­dise.

13:2.2If outer uni­verses are in the mak­ing, if they are to be in­hab­ited by time crea­tures of as­cen­sion po­ten­tial, then we in­fer that these chil­dren of the fu­ture will also be des­tined to look upon As­cend­ing­ton as their Par­a­dise home world.

• granted clearance to Sonarington

13:2.6The worlds of the in­ner cir­cuit are re­ally fra­ter­nal or sta­tus worlds more than ac­tual res­i­den­tial spheres. Mor­tals will at­tain some sta­tus on each of the Fa­ther’s worlds save one. For ex­am­ple: When you mor­tals at­tain Ha­vona, you are granted clear­ance for As­cend­ing­ton, where you are most wel­come, but you are not per­mit­ted to visit the other six sa­cred worlds. Sub­se­quent to your pas­sage through the Par­a­dise regime and af­ter your ad­mis­sion to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, you are granted clear­ance for Sonar­ing­ton since you are sons of God as well as as­cend­ers—and you are even more. But there will al­ways re­main one sev­enth of Sonar­ing­ton, the sec­tor of the in­car­na­tion se­crets of the di­vine Sons, which will not be open to your scrutiny. Never will those se­crets be re­vealed to the as­cen­dant sons of God.

• residence › have personal residences on Paradise
• residence › use 1/10 of 1% of Havona worlds

14:3.5At pres­ent, al­though the spheres of the seven cir­cuits are main­tained in all their su­per­nal glory, only about one per cent of all plan­e­tary ca­pac­ity is uti­lized in the work of fur­ther­ing the Fa­ther’s uni­ver­sal plan of mor­tal as­cen­sion. About one tenth of one per cent of the area of these enor­mous worlds is ded­i­cated to the life and ac­tiv­i­ties of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, be­ings eter­nally set­tled in light and life who of­ten so­journ and min­is­ter on the Ha­vona worlds. These ex­alted be­ings have their per­sonal res­i­dences on Par­a­dise.

• destiny › explore infinity of Universal Father

14:6.40The cen­tral uni­verse is not only man’s es­tab­lished des­tiny, but it is also the start­ing place of the eter­nal ca­reer of the fi­nal­i­ters as they shall some­time be started out on the undis­closed and uni­ver­sal ad­ven­ture in the ex­pe­ri­ence of ex­plor­ing the in­fin­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• nature of finaliters › each stamped with traits of native Master Spirit
• service › 1 from each superuniverse portray Trinity attitude

16:5.5The dis­tinc­tive per­son­al­ity trends ex­hib­ited in the life ex­pe­ri­ence of evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals, which are char­ac­ter­is­tic in each super­uni­verse, and which are di­rectly ex­pres­sive of the na­ture of the dom­i­nat­ing Mas­ter Spirit, are never fully ef­faced, not even af­ter such as­cend­ers are sub­jected to the long train­ing and uni­fy­ing dis­ci­pline en­coun­tered on the one bil­lion ed­u­ca­tional spheres of Ha­vona. Even the sub­se­quent in­tense Par­a­dise cul­ture does not suf­fice to erad­i­cate the ear­marks of super­uni­verse ori­gin. Through­out all eter­nity an as­cen­dant mor­tal will ex­hibit traits in­dica­tive of the pre­sid­ing Spirit of his super­uni­verse of na­tiv­ity. Even in the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, when it is de­sired to ar­rive at or to por­tray a com­plete Trin­ity re­la­tion­ship to the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ation, al­ways a group of seven fi­nal­i­ters is as­sem­bled, one from each super­uni­verse.

• destiny › as 7th stage spirits › f. have hitherto unattained wisdom
• destiny › will be superb rulers, most effective of all administrators

19:2.5The Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom will al­ways re­quire this com­ple­ment of ex­pe­ri­en­tial wis­dom for the com­ple­tion of their ad­min­is­tra­tive sagac­ity. But it has been pos­tu­lated that a high and hith­erto un­attained level of wis­dom may pos­si­bly be achieved by the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters af­ter they are some­time in­ducted into the sev­enth stage of spirit ex­is­tence. If this in­fer­ence is cor­rect, then would such per­fected be­ings of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cent un­doubt­edly be­come the most ef­fec­tive uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tors ever to be known in all cre­ation. I be­lieve that such is the high des­tiny of fi­nal­i­ters.

• service › assume duties of most celestials after morontia temple appears

20:9.4The Day­nals may re­turn many times to an in­hab­ited world, and fol­low­ing their fi­nal mis­sion the planet will be ush­ered into the set­tled sta­tus of a sphere of light and life, the evo­lu­tion­ary goal of all the mor­tal-in­hab­ited worlds of the pres­ent uni­verse age. The Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity has much to do with the spheres set­tled in light and life, and their plan­e­tary ac­tiv­i­ties touch upon those of the Teacher Sons. In­deed, the whole or­der of Day­nal son­ship is in­ti­mately con­nected with all phases of fi­nal­i­ter ac­tiv­i­ties in the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ations of time and space.

• destiny › may join Mighty Messengers

22:2.1Mighty Mes­sen­gers be­long to the as­cen­dant group of the Trin­i­tized Sons. They are a class of per­fected mor­tals who have been re­bel­lion tested or oth­er­wise equally proved as to their per­sonal loy­alty; all have passed through some def­i­nite test of uni­verse al­le­giance. At some time in their Par­a­dise as­cent they stood firm and loyal in the face of the dis­loy­alty of their su­pe­ri­ors, and some did ac­tively and loy­ally func­tion in the places of such un­faith­ful lead­ers.

22:2.2With such per­sonal rec­ords of fi­delity and de­vo­tion, these as­cend­ing mor­tals pass on through Ha­vona with the stream of the pil­grims of time, at­tain Par­a­dise, grad­u­ate there­from, and are mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. There­upon they are trin­i­tized in the se­cret em­brace of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and sub­se­quently are com­mis­sioned to be­come as­so­ci­ated with the An­cients of Days in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the gov­ern­ments of the seven super­uni­verses.

• destiny › may join Those High in Authority

22:3.1Those High in Au­thor­ity, the sec­ond group of the Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment, are all Ad­juster-fused be­ings of mor­tal ori­gin. These are the per­fected mor­tals who have ex­hib­ited su­pe­rior ad­min­is­tra­tive abil­ity and have shown ex­traor­di­nary ex­ec­u­tive ge­nius through­out their long as­cend­ing ca­reers. They are the cream of gov­ern­ing abil­ity de­rived from the sur­viv­ing mor­tals of space.

• destiny › may join Those without Name and Number

22:4.1Those with­out Name and Num­ber con­sti­tute the third and last group of the Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment; they are the as­cen­dant souls who have de­vel­oped the abil­ity to wor­ship be­yond the skill of all the sons and daugh­ters of the evo­lu­tion­ary races from the worlds of time and space. They have ac­quired a spir­i­tual con­cept of the eter­nal pur­pose of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther which com­par­a­tively tran­scends the com­pre­hen­sion of the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures of name or num­ber; there­fore are they de­nom­i­nated Those with­out Name and Num­ber. More strictly trans­lated, their name would be “Those above Name and Num­ber.”

• recess every millennium of Havona time
• service › may attempt trinitization

22:7.4The as­cen­dant Ad­juster-fused mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters who have at­tained cer­tain lev­els of Par­a­dise cul­ture and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment are among those who can es­say to trini­tize a crea­ture be­ing. Mor­tal-fi­nal­i­ter com­pa­nies, when sta­tioned on Par­a­dise, are granted a re­cess ev­ery mil­len­nium of Ha­vona time. There are seven dif­fer­ent ways such fi­nal­i­ters may elect to spend this duty-free pe­riod, and one of these is, in as­so­ci­a­tion with some fel­low fi­nal­i­ter or some Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­ity, to at­tempt the en­act­ment of crea­ture trin­i­ti­za­tion.

22:7.5If two mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters, on go­ing be­fore the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse, demon­strate that they have in­de­pen­dently cho­sen an iden­ti­cal con­cept for trin­i­ti­za­tion, the Ar­chi­tects are em­pow­ered, on their own dis­cre­tion, to pro­mul­gate man­dates per­mit­ting these glo­ri­fied mor­tal as­cend­ers to ex­tend their re­cess and to re­move them­selves for a time to the trini­tiz­ing sec­tor of the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens. At the end of this as­signed re­treat, if they re­port that they have singly and jointly elected to make the par­a­di­si­a­cal ef­fort to spir­i­tu­al­ize, ide­al­ize, and ac­tu­al­ize a se­lected and orig­i­nal con­cept which has not thereto­fore been trin­i­tized, then does Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Seven is­sue or­ders au­tho­riz­ing such an ex­traor­di­nary un­der­tak­ing.

22:7.6Un­be­liev­ably long pe­ri­ods of time are some­times con­sumed in these ad­ven­tures; an age seems to pass be­fore these faith­ful and de­ter­mined one­time mor­tals—and some­times Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties—fi­nally achieve their goal, re­ally suc­ceed in bring­ing their cho­sen con­cept of uni­ver­sal truth into ac­tual be­ing. And not al­ways do these de­voted cou­ples meet with suc­cess; many times they fail, and that through no dis­cov­er­able er­ror on their part. Can­di­dates for trin­i­ti­za­tion who thus fail are ad­mit­ted to a spe­cial group of fi­nal­i­ters who are des­ig­nated as be­ings who have made the su­preme ef­fort and sus­tained the su­preme dis­ap­point­ment. When the Par­a­dise De­i­ties unite to trini­tize, they al­ways suc­ceed, but not so with a ho­mo­ge­neous pair of crea­tures, the at­tempted union of two mem­bers of the same or­der of be­ing.

22:7.7When a new and orig­i­nal be­ing is trin­i­tized by the Gods, the di­vine par­ents are in de­ity po­ten­tial un­changed; but when ex­alted crea­ture be­ings en­act such a cre­ative episode, one of the con­tract­ing and par­tic­i­pat­ing in­di­vid­u­als un­der­goes a unique per­son­al­ity mod­i­fi­ca­tion. The two an­ces­tors of a crea­ture-trin­i­tized son be­come in a cer­tain sense spir­i­tu­ally as one. We be­lieve that this sta­tus of bi-uni­fi­ca­tion of cer­tain spir­i­tual phases of per­son­al­ity will prob­a­bly pre­vail un­til such time as the Su­preme Be­ing shall have at­tained full and com­pleted man­i­fes­ta­tion of per­son­al­ity in the grand uni­verse.

22:7.8Si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the ap­pear­ance of a new crea­ture-trin­i­tized son, there oc­curs this func­tional spir­i­tual union of the two an­ces­tors; the two trini­tiz­ing par­ents be­come one on the ul­ti­mate func­tional level. No cre­ated be­ing in the uni­verse can fully ex­plain this amaz­ing phe­nom­e­non; it is a near-di­vine ex­pe­ri­ence. When the Fa­ther and the Son united to eter­nal­ize the In­fi­nite Spirit, upon the ac­com­plish­ment of their pur­pose they im­me­di­ately be­came as one and ever since have been one. And while the trin­i­ti­za­tion union of two crea­tures is on the or­der of the in­fi­nite scope of the per­fect De­ity union of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son, the reper­cus­sions of crea­ture trin­i­ti­za­tion are not eter­nal in na­ture; they will ter­mi­nate upon the com­pleted fac­tu­al­iza­tion of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties.

22:7.9While these par­ents of crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons be­come as one in their uni­verse as­sign­ments, they con­tinue to be reck­oned as two per­son­al­i­ties in the make-up and roll calls of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity and of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse. Dur­ing the cur­rent uni­verse age, all trin­i­ti­za­tion-united par­ents are in­sep­a­ra­ble in as­sign­ment and func­tion; where one goes the other goes, what one does the other does. If pa­ren­tal bi-uni­fi­ca­tion in­volves a mor­tal (or other) fi­nal­i­ter and a Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­ity, the united pa­ren­tal be­ings func­tion nei­ther with the Par­adis­ers, Havon­ers, nor fi­nal­i­ters. Such mixed unions for­gather in a spe­cial corps made up of sim­i­lar be­ings. And in all trin­i­ti­za­tion unions, mixed or oth­er­wise, the pa­ren­tal be­ings are con­scious of, and can com­mu­ni­cate with, each other, and they can per­form du­ties that nei­ther could have pre­vi­ously dis­charged.

22:7.10The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its have au­thor­ity to sanc­tion the trini­tiz­ing union of fi­nal­i­ters and Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties, and such mixed li­aisons are al­ways suc­cess­ful. The re­sul­tant mag­nif­i­cent crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons are rep­re­sen­ta­tive of con­cepts un­suited to the com­pre­hen­sion of ei­ther the eter­nal crea­tures of Par­a­dise or the time crea­tures of space; hence they be­come the wards of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse. These trin­i­tized sons of des­tiny em­body ideas, ide­als, and ex­pe­ri­ence which ap­par­ently per­tain to a fu­ture uni­verse age and are there­fore of no im­me­di­ate prac­ti­cal value to ei­ther the su­per- or cen­tral uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tions. These unique sons of the chil­dren of time and the cit­i­zens of eter­nity are all held in re­serve on Vicegering­ton, where they are en­gaged in the study of the con­cepts of time and the re­al­i­ties of eter­nity in a spe­cial sec­tor of the sphere oc­cu­pied by the se­cret col­leges of the corps of the Cre­ator Sons.

• service › attend Paradise Citizens in Havona

26:4.1The sec­ondary super­na­phim are min­is­ters to the seven plan­e­tary cir­cuits of the cen­tral uni­verse. Part are de­voted to the ser­vice of the pil­grims of time, and one half of the en­tire or­der is as­signed to the train­ing of the Par­a­dise pil­grims of eter­nity. These Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens, in their pil­grim­age through the Ha­vona cir­cuits, are also at­tended by vol­un­teers from the Mor­tal Fi­nal­ity Corps, an ar­range­ment that has pre­vailed since the com­ple­tion of the first fi­nal­i­ter group.

• service › serve on commissions approving Havona pilgrims’ circuit advancement

26:7.3Af­ter the com­ple­tion of the course of train­ing on this cir­cuit the Trin­ity guides take their pupils to its pi­lot world and pre­sent them be­fore one of the many tri­une com­mis­sions func­tion­ing as ex­am­in­ers and cer­ti­fiers of can­di­dates for the De­ity ad­ven­ture. These com­mis­sions con­sist of one fel­low of the fi­nal­i­ters, one of the di­rec­tors of con­duct of the or­der of pri­mary super­na­phim, and ei­ther a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger of space or a Trin­i­tized Son of Par­a­dise.

• destiny › unknown future service with Creator Sons

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

• finality oath to Trinity

27:7.9And thus ends the story of the Par­a­dise super­na­phim, the high­est or­der of all the min­is­ter­ing spir­its, those be­ings who, as a uni­ver­sal class, ever at­tend you from the world of your ori­gin un­til you are fi­nally bid­den farewell by the con­duc­tors of wor­ship as you take the Trin­ity oath of eter­nity and are mus­tered into the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

• destiny › to administer outer space universes
• destiny › will be superb rulers, most effective of all administrators

30:4.24Be­fore leav­ing the super­uni­verse for Ha­vona, these as­cend­ing spir­its re­ceive the same thor­ough course in super­uni­verse man­age­ment that they re­ceived dur­ing their mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence in lo­cal uni­verse super­vi­sion. Be­fore spirit mor­tals reach Ha­vona, their chief study, but not ex­clu­sive oc­cu­pa­tion, is the mas­tery of lo­cal and super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. The rea­son for all of this ex­pe­ri­ence is not now fully ap­par­ent, but no doubt such train­ing is wise and nec­es­sary in view of their pos­si­ble fu­ture des­tiny as mem­bers of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

• destiny › to administer outer space universes

30:4.30The as­cen­dant mor­tals have been thor­oughly trained in the af­fairs of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space; now they be­gin their long and prof­itable con­tact with the cre­ated spheres of per­fec­tion. What a prepa­ra­tion for some fu­ture work is af­forded by this com­bined, unique, and ex­traor­di­nary ex­pe­ri­ence! But I can­not tell you about Ha­vona; you must see these worlds to ap­pre­ci­ate their glory or to un­der­stand their grandeur.

• finality oath administered individually by head of Architects of Master Universe
• nature of finaliters › only Adjuster-fused or other Father-fragment-fused beings become

30:4.317. Par­a­dise Ar­rivals. On reach­ing Par­a­dise with res­i­den­tial sta­tus, you be­gin the pro­gres­sive course in di­vin­ity and ab­sonity. Your res­i­dence on Par­a­dise sig­ni­fies that you have found God, and that you are to be mus­tered into the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Of all the crea­tures of the grand uni­verse, only those who are Fa­ther fused are mus­tered into the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Only such in­di­vid­u­als take the fi­nal­i­ter oath. Other be­ings of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion or at­tain­ment may be tem­porar­ily at­tached to this fi­nal­ity corps, but they are not of eter­nal as­sign­ment to the un­known and un­re­vealed mis­sion of this ac­cu­mu­lat­ing host of the evo­lu­tion­ary and per­fected vet­er­ans of time and space.

30:4.32Par­a­dise ar­rivals are ac­corded a pe­riod of free­dom, af­ter which they be­gin their as­so­ci­a­tions with the seven groups of the pri­mary super­na­phim. They are des­ig­nated Par­a­dise grad­u­ates when they have fin­ished their course with the con­duc­tors of wor­ship and then, as fi­nal­i­ters, are as­signed on ob­ser­va­tional and co-op­er­a­tive ser­vice to the ends of the far-flung cre­ation. As yet there seems to be no spe­cific or set­tled em­ploy­ment for the Mor­tal Corps of Fi­nal­i­ters, though they serve in many ca­pac­i­ties on worlds set­tled in light and life.

30:4.33If there should be no fu­ture or un­re­vealed des­tiny for the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, the pres­ent as­sign­ment of these as­cen­dant be­ings would be al­to­gether ad­e­quate and glo­ri­ous. Their pres­ent des­tiny wholly jus­ti­fies the uni­ver­sal plan of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cent. But the fu­ture ages of the evo­lu­tion of the spheres of outer space will un­doubt­edly fur­ther elab­o­rate, and with more re­plete­ness di­vinely il­lu­mi­nate, the wis­dom and lov­ing-kind­ness of the Gods in the ex­e­cu­tion of their di­vine plan of hu­man sur­vival and mor­tal as­cen­sion.

• destiny › to administer outer space universes

31:0.8These six groups of glo­ri­fied be­ings com­pose this unique body of eter­nal des­tiny. We think we know their fu­ture work, but we are not cer­tain. While the Corps of the Mor­tal Fi­nal­ity is mo­bi­liz­ing on Par­a­dise, and while they now so ex­ten­sively min­is­ter to the uni­verses of space and ad­min­is­ter the worlds set­tled in light and life, their fu­ture des­ti­na­tion must be the now-or­ga­niz­ing uni­verses of outer space. At least that is the con­jec­ture of Uversa.

• alternating periods of duty and free service

31:0.11One or more com­pa­nies of the mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters are con­stantly in ser­vice on Uran­tia. There is no do­main of uni­verse ser­vice to which they are not as­signed; they func­tion uni­ver­sally and with al­ter­nat­ing and equal pe­ri­ods of as­signed duty and free ser­vice.

• finality oath to Trinity

31:0.12We have no idea as to the na­ture of the fu­ture or­ga­ni­za­tion of this ex­traor­di­nary group, but the fi­nal­i­ters are now wholly a self-gov­ern­ing body. They choose their own per­ma­nent, pe­ri­odic, and as­sign­ment lead­ers and di­rec­tors. No out­side in­flu­ence can ever be brought to bear upon their poli­cies, and their oath of al­le­giance is only to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

• nature of finaliters › no possibility of casting shadow of evil

31:0.13The fi­nal­i­ters main­tain their own head­quar­ters on Par­a­dise, in the super­uni­verses, in the lo­cal uni­verses, and on all the di­vi­sional cap­i­tals. They are a sep­a­rate or­der of evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ation. We do not di­rectly man­age them or con­trol them, and yet they are ab­so­lutely loyal and al­ways co-op­er­a­tive with all our plans. They are in­deed the ac­cu­mu­lat­ing tried and true souls of time and space—the evo­lu­tion­ary salt of the uni­verse—and they are for­ever proof against evil and se­cure against sin.

• nature of finaliters › only Adjuster-fused or other Father-fragment-fused beings become

31:1.2Ha­vona na­tives must achieve cer­tain ex­pe­ri­en­tial de­vel­op­ments in li­ai­son with evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings which will cre­ate re­cep­tion ca­pac­ity for the be­stowal of a frag­ment of the spirit of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The Mor­tal Fi­nal­i­ter Corps has as per­ma­nent mem­bers only such be­ings as have been fused with the spirit of the First Source and Cen­ter, or who, like the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers, in­nately em­body this spirit of God the Fa­ther.

• finality oath administered individually by head of Architects of Master Universe

31:1.3The in­hab­i­tants of the cen­tral uni­verse are re­ceived into the corps in the ra­tio of one in a thou­sand—a fi­nal­i­ter com­pany. The corps is or­ga­nized for tem­po­rary ser­vice in com­pa­nies of one thou­sand, the as­cen­dant crea­tures num­ber­ing 997 to one Ha­vona na­tive and one Grav­ity Mes­sen­ger. Fi­nal­i­ters are thus mo­bi­lized in com­pa­nies, but the fi­nal­ity oath is ad­min­is­tered in­di­vid­u­ally. It is an oath of sweep­ing im­pli­ca­tions and eter­nal im­port. The Ha­vona na­tive takes the same oath and be­comes for­ever at­tached to the corps.

• destiny › to administer outer space universes

31:3.2We of Uversa do not know the “fi­nal­ity des­tiny” of the as­cen­dant mor­tals of time. At pres­ent they re­side on Par­a­dise and tem­porar­ily serve in the Corps of Light and Life, but such a tremen­dous course of as­cen­dant train­ing and such lengthy uni­verse dis­ci­pline must be de­signed to qual­ify them for even greater tests of trust and more sub­lime ser­vices of re­spon­si­bil­ity.

31:3.3Not­with­stand­ing that these as­cen­dant mor­tals have at­tained Par­a­dise, have been mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, and have been sent back in large num­bers to par­tic­i­pate in the con­duct of lo­cal uni­verses and to as­sist in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of super­uni­verse af­fairs—in the face of even this ap­par­ent des­tiny, there re­mains the sig­nif­i­cant fact that they are of rec­ord as only sixth-stage spir­its. There un­doubt­edly re­mains one more step in the ca­reer of the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. We do not know the na­ture of that step, but we have taken cog­nizance of, and here call at­ten­tion to, three facts:

• finality oath administered individually by head of Architects of Master Universe

31:3.41. We know from the rec­ords that mor­tals are spir­its of the first or­der dur­ing their so­journ in the mi­nor sec­tors, and that they ad­vance to the sec­ond or­der when trans­lated to the ma­jor sec­tors, and to the third when they go for­ward to the cen­tral train­ing worlds of the super­uni­verse. Mor­tals be­come quar­tan or grad­u­ate spir­its af­ter reach­ing the sixth cir­cle of Ha­vona and be­come spir­its of the fifth or­der when they find the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. They sub­se­quently at­tain the sixth stage of spirit ex­is­tence upon tak­ing the oath that musters them for­ever into the eter­nity as­sign­ment of the Corps of the Mor­tal Fi­nal­ity.

• destiny › as 7th stage spirits › f. become, with attainment of the Supreme

31:3.5We ob­serve that spirit clas­si­fi­ca­tion, or des­ig­na­tion, has been de­ter­mined by ac­tual ad­vance­ment from one realm of uni­verse ser­vice to an­other realm of uni­verse ser­vice or from one uni­verse to an­other uni­verse; and we sur­mise that the be­stowal of sev­enth-spirit clas­si­fi­ca­tion upon the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity will be si­mul­ta­ne­ous with their ad­vance­ment to eter­nal as­sign­ment for ser­vice on hith­erto un­recorded and un­re­vealed spheres and con­comi­tant with their at­tain­ment of God the Su­preme. But aside from these bold con­jec­tures, we re­ally know no more about all this than you do; our knowl­edge of the mor­tal ca­reer does not go be­yond pres­ent Par­a­dise des­tiny.

31:3.62. The mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters have fully com­plied with the in­junc­tion of the ages, “Be you per­fect”; they have as­cended the uni­ver­sal path of mor­tal at­tain­ment; they have found God, and they have been duly in­ducted into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Such be­ings have at­tained the pres­ent limit of spirit pro­gres­sion but not fi­nal­ity of ul­ti­mate spirit sta­tus. They have achieved the pres­ent limit of crea­ture per­fec­tion but not fi­nal­ity of crea­ture ser­vice. They have ex­pe­ri­enced the full­ness of De­ity wor­ship but not fi­nal­ity of ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity at­tain­ment.

31:3.73. The glo­ri­fied mor­tals of the Par­a­dise Corps of Fi­nal­ity are as­cen­dant be­ings in pos­ses­sion of ex­pe­ri­en­tial knowl­edge of ev­ery step of the ac­tu­al­ity and phi­los­o­phy of the fullest pos­si­ble life of in­tel­li­gent ex­is­tence, while dur­ing the ages of this as­cent from the low­est ma­te­rial worlds to the spir­i­tual heights of Par­a­dise, these sur­viv­ing crea­tures have been trained to the lim­its of their ca­pac­ity re­spect­ing ev­ery de­tail of ev­ery di­vine prin­ci­ple of the just and ef­fi­cient, as well as mer­ci­ful and pa­tient, ad­min­is­tra­tion of all the uni­ver­sal cre­ation of time and space.

31:3.8We deem that hu­man be­ings are en­ti­tled to share our opin­ions, and that you are free to con­jec­ture with us re­spect­ing the mys­tery of the ul­ti­mate des­tiny of the Par­a­dise Corps of Fi­nal­ity. It seems ev­i­dent to us that the pres­ent as­sign­ments of the per­fected evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures par­take of the na­ture of post­grad­u­ate courses in uni­verse un­der­stand­ing and super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion; and we all ask, “Why should the Gods be so con­cerned in so thor­oughly train­ing sur­viv­ing mor­tals in the tech­nique of uni­verse man­age­ment?”

• finality oath administered individually by head of Architects of Master Universe

31:4.1Many of the faith­ful se­raphic guard­i­ans of mor­tals are per­mit­ted to go through the as­cen­dant ca­reer with their hu­man wards, and many of these guard­ian an­gels, af­ter be­com­ing Fa­ther fused, join their sub­jects in tak­ing the fi­nal­i­ter oath of eter­nity and for­ever ac­cept the des­tiny of their mor­tal as­so­ciates. An­gels who pass through the as­cend­ing ex­pe­ri­ence of mor­tal be­ings may share the des­tiny of hu­man na­ture; they may equally and eter­nally be mus­tered into this Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Large num­bers of the adopted and glo­ri­fied ser­a­phim are at­tached to the var­i­ous non­mor­tal fi­nal­i­ter corps.

• destiny › to administer outer space universes

31:7.4We of Uversa of­ten con­jec­ture re­spect­ing the iden­tity of the sev­enth group of fi­nal­i­ters. We en­ter­tain many ideas, em­brac­ing pos­si­ble as­sign­ment of some of the ac­cu­mu­lat­ing corps of the nu­mer­ous trin­i­tized groups on Par­a­dise, Vicegering­ton, and the in­ner Ha­vona cir­cuit. It is even con­jec­tured that the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity may be per­mit­ted to trini­tize many of their as­sis­tants in the work of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion in the event they are des­tined to the ser­vice of uni­verses now in the mak­ing.

31:7.5One of us holds the opin­ion that this va­cant place in the corps will be filled by some type of be­ing of ori­gin in the new uni­verse of their fu­ture ser­vice; the other in­clines to the be­lief that this place will be oc­cu­pied by some type of Par­a­dise per­son­al­ity not yet cre­ated, even­tu­ated, or trin­i­tized. But we will most likely await the en­trance of the fi­nal­i­ters upon their sev­enth stage of spirit at­tain­ment be­fore we re­ally know.

• finality oath administered individually by head of Architects of Master Universe
• finality oath to Trinity

31:8.4Al­though all mor­tals who at­tain Par­a­dise fre­quently frat­er­nize with the Tran­scen­den­talers as they do with the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens, it de­vel­ops that man’s first se­ri­ous con­tact with a Tran­scen­den­taler oc­curs on that event­ful oc­ca­sion when, as a mem­ber of a new fi­nal­i­ter group, the mor­tal as­cender stands in the fi­nal­i­ter re­ceiv­ing cir­cle as the Trin­ity oath of eter­nity is ad­min­is­tered by the chief of Tran­scen­den­talers, the pre­sid­ing head of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.

• destiny › to administer outer space universes

31:10.13But those of us who have ac­quired this unique ex­pe­ri­ence dur­ing the youth of the uni­verse will trea­sure it through­out all fu­ture eter­nity. And many of us spec­u­late that it may be the mis­sion of the grad­u­ally ac­cu­mu­lat­ing re­serves of the as­cen­dant and per­fected mor­tals of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the other six sim­i­larly re­cruit­ing corps, to ad­min­is­ter these outer uni­verses in an ef­fort to com­pen­sate their ex­pe­ri­en­tial de­fi­cien­cies in not hav­ing par­tic­i­pated in the time-space evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing.

• destiny › to administer outer space universes

31:10.19As we view this tri­une de­vel­op­ment, em­brac­ing crea­tures, uni­verses, and De­ity, can we be crit­i­cized for an­tic­i­pat­ing that some­thing new and un­re­vealed is ap­proach­ing cul­mi­na­tion in the mas­ter uni­verse? Is it not nat­u­ral that we should as­so­ciate this age­long mo­bi­liza­tion and or­ga­ni­za­tion of phys­i­cal uni­verses on such a hith­erto un­known scale and the per­son­al­ity emer­gence of the Su­preme Be­ing with this stu­pen­dous scheme of up­step­ping the mor­tals of time to di­vine per­fec­tion and with their sub­se­quent mo­bi­liza­tion on Par­a­dise in the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity—a des­ig­na­tion and des­tiny en­shrouded in uni­verse mys­tery? It is in­creas­ingly the be­lief of all Uversa that the as­sem­bling Corps of the Fi­nal­ity are des­tined to some fu­ture ser­vice in the uni­verses of outer space, where we al­ready are able to iden­tify the clus­ter­ing of at least sev­enty thou­sand ag­gre­ga­tions of mat­ter, each of which is greater than any one of the pres­ent super­uni­verses.

• residence › 5th circuit circling Salvington

36:4.5The Sal­ving­ton Worlds of the Fi­nal­i­ters. The Mel­chiz­e­dek life car­ri­ers, as well as the as­so­ci­ated Mother Eves, go from the sys­tem mid­sonite spheres to the fi­nal­i­ters’ worlds of the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit, where their off­spring are also des­tined to for­gather.

36:4.6It should be ex­plained in this con­nec­tion that the fifth group of seven pri­mary worlds in the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit are the Neb­a­don worlds of the fi­nal­i­ters. The chil­dren of the Mel­chiz­e­dek life car­ri­ers and the Ma­te­rial Daugh­ters are domi­ciled on the sev­enth world of the fi­nal­i­ters, the Sal­ving­ton mid­sonite sphere.

36:4.7The satel­lites of the seven pri­mary worlds of the fi­nal­i­ters are the ren­dezvous of the per­son­al­i­ties of the su­per- and cen­tral uni­verses who may be ex­e­cut­ing as­sign­ments in Neb­a­don. While the as­cend­ing mor­tals go about freely on all of the cul­tural worlds and train­ing spheres of the 490 worlds com­pris­ing the Mel­chiz­e­dek Uni­ver­sity, there are cer­tain spe­cial schools and nu­mer­ous re­stricted zones which they are not per­mit­ted to en­ter. This is es­pe­cially true of the forty-nine spheres un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the fi­nal­i­ters.

• midsoniters are wards of

36:4.8The pur­pose of the mid­sonite crea­tures is not at pres­ent known, but it would ap­pear that these per­son­al­i­ties are for­gath­er­ing on the sev­enth fi­nal­i­ter world in prepa­ra­tion for some fu­ture even­tu­al­ity in uni­verse evo­lu­tion. Our in­quiries con­cern­ing the mid­sonite races are al­ways re­ferred to the fi­nal­i­ters, and al­ways do the fi­nal­i­ters de­cline to dis­cuss the des­tiny of their wards. Re­gard­less of our un­cer­tainty as to the fu­ture of the mid­soniters, we do know that ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse in Or­von­ton har­bors such an ac­cu­mu­lat­ing corps of these mys­te­ri­ous be­ings. It is the be­lief of the Mel­chiz­e­dek life car­ri­ers that their mid­sonite chil­dren will some day be en­dowed with the tran­scen­den­tal and eter­nal spirit of ab­sonity by God the Ul­ti­mate.

• Spirit-fused mortals do not become

37:5.3Not be­ing Ad­juster fused, they never be­come fi­nal­i­ters, but they do even­tu­ally be­come en­rolled in the lo­cal uni­verse Corps of Per­fec­tion. They have in spirit obeyed the Fa­ther’s com­mand, “Be you per­fect.”

• Spirit-fused mortals do not become

37:5.6Af­ter long ex­pe­ri­ence in prob­lem solv­ing on the in­hab­ited worlds, these race com­mis­sion­ers are ad­vanced to the higher lev­els of func­tion, even­tu­ally at­tain­ing the sta­tus of High Com­mis­sion­ers of and in the lo­cal uni­verse. The last reg­is­tra­tion re­corded slightly over one and one-half bil­lion of these High Com­mis­sion­ers in Neb­a­don. These be­ings are not fi­nal­i­ters, but they are as­cen­dant be­ings of long ex­pe­ri­ence and of great ser­vice to their na­tive realm.

• not dependent on seraphic transport

39:2.10Even on Sal­ving­ton as­cend­ing mor­tals do not pos­sess per­sonal tran­sit forms. As­cend­ers must de­pend upon se­raphic trans­port in ad­vanc­ing from world to world un­til af­ter the last rest of sleep on the in­ner cir­cle of Ha­vona and the eter­nal awak­en­ing on Par­a­dise. Sub­se­quently you will not be de­pen­dent on an­gels for trans­port from uni­verse to uni­verse.

• nature of finaliters › experience finality of liberty

39:4.11What is loy­alty? It is the fruit of an in­tel­li­gent ap­pre­ci­a­tion of uni­verse broth­er­hood; one could not take so much and give noth­ing. As you as­cend the per­son­al­ity scale, first you learn to be loyal, then to love, then to be fil­ial, and then may you be free; but not un­til you are a fi­nal­i­ter, not un­til you have at­tained per­fec­tion of loy­alty, can you self-re­al­ize fi­nal­ity of lib­erty.

• nature of finaliters › only Adjuster-fused or other Father-fragment-fused beings become

40:9.9A Spirit-fused sur­vivor is also able to learn much about the life he lived in the flesh by re­vis­it­ing his na­tiv­ity world sub­se­quent to the plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tion in which he lived. Such chil­dren of Spirit fu­sion are en­abled to en­joy these op­por­tu­ni­ties for in­ves­ti­gat­ing their hu­man ca­reers since they are in gen­eral con­fined to the ser­vice of the lo­cal uni­verse. They do not share your high and ex­alted des­tiny in the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity; only Ad­juster-fused mor­tals or other es­pe­cially em­braced as­cen­dant be­ings are mus­tered into the ranks of those who await the eter­nal De­ity ad­ven­ture. Spirit-fused mor­tals are the per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of the lo­cal uni­verses; they may as­pire to Par­a­dise des­tiny, but they can­not be sure of it. In Neb­a­don their uni­verse home is the eighth group of worlds en­cir­cling Sal­ving­ton, a des­tiny-heaven of na­ture and lo­ca­tion much like the one en­vi­sioned by the plan­e­tary tra­di­tions of Uran­tia.

• service › serve successively in superuniverses other than those of nativity

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.

• destiny › to administer outer space universes

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.

• destiny › attain destiny with Trinity embrace
• nature of finaliters › 6th stage spirits; status not final
• service › assume duties of most celestials after morontia temple appears
• service › nonactive in prelight-and-life domains

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.

• residence › on Edentia; in Jerusem circles

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.

• destiny › as 7th stage spirits › group attainment of ultimate status

44:8.5Be­fore as­cend­ing mor­tals leave the lo­cal uni­verse to em­bark upon their spirit ca­reers, they will be sa­ti­ated re­spect­ing ev­ery in­tel­lec­tual, artis­tic, and so­cial long­ing or true am­bi­tion which ever char­ac­ter­ized their mor­tal or mor­ontia planes of ex­is­tence. This is the achieve­ment of equal­ity of the sat­is­fac­tion of self-ex­pres­sion and self-re­al­iza­tion but not the at­tain­ment of iden­ti­cal ex­pe­ri­en­tial sta­tus nor the com­plete oblit­er­a­tion of char­ac­ter­is­tic in­di­vid­u­al­ity in skill, tech­nique, and ex­pres­sion. But the new spirit dif­fer­en­tial of per­sonal ex­pe­ri­en­tial at­tain­ment will not be­come thus lev­eled off and equal­ized un­til af­ter you have fin­ished the last cir­cle of the Ha­vona ca­reer. And then will the Par­a­dise res­i­dents be con­fronted with the ne­ces­sity of ad­just­ing to that ab­so­nite dif­fer­en­tial of per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence which can be lev­eled off only by the group at­tain­ment of the ul­ti­mate of crea­ture sta­tus—the sev­enth-stage-spirit des­tiny of the mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters.

• before spirit vision, f. made visible to survivors by energy transformers, Morontia Power Supervisors
• residence › local system transition world #1

45:1.2Num­ber 1. The Fi­nal­i­ter World. This is the head­quar­ters of the fi­nal­i­ter corps of the lo­cal sys­tem and is sur­rounded by the re­ceiv­ing worlds, the seven man­sion worlds, ded­i­cated so fully to the scheme of mor­tal as­cen­sion. The fi­nal­i­ter world is ac­ces­si­ble to the in­hab­i­tants of all seven man­sion worlds. Trans­port ser­a­phim carry as­cend­ing per­son­al­i­ties back and forth on these pil­grim­ages, which are de­signed to cul­ti­vate their faith in the ul­ti­mate des­tiny of tran­si­tion mor­tals. Al­though the fi­nal­i­ters and their struc­tures are not or­di­nar­ily per­cep­ti­ble to mor­ontia vi­sion, you will be more than thrilled, from time to time, when the en­ergy trans­form­ers and the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors en­able you mo­men­tar­ily to glimpse these high spirit per­son­al­i­ties who have ac­tu­ally com­pleted the Par­a­dise as­cen­sion, and who have re­turned to the very worlds where you are be­gin­ning this long jour­ney, as the pledge of as­sur­ance that you may and can com­plete the stu­pen­dous un­der­tak­ing. All man­sion world so­journ­ers go to the fi­nal­i­ter sphere at least once a year for these as­sem­blies of fi­nal­i­ter vi­su­al­iza­tion.

• service › chief serves on Jerusem executive council

45:3.156. The chief of the Sa­ta­nia fi­nal­i­ters.

• none become f. without having passed through parental relationship

45:6.4No sur­viv­ing mor­tal, mid­wayer, or ser­a­phim may as­cend to Par­a­dise, at­tain the Fa­ther, and be mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity with­out hav­ing passed through that sub­lime ex­pe­ri­ence of achiev­ing pa­ren­tal re­la­tion­ship to an evolv­ing child of the worlds or some other ex­pe­ri­ence anal­o­gous and equiv­a­lent thereto. The re­la­tion­ship of child and par­ent is fun­da­men­tal to the es­sen­tial con­cept of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his uni­verse chil­dren. There­fore does such an ex­pe­ri­ence be­come in­dis­pens­able to the ex­pe­ri­en­tial train­ing of all as­cend­ers.

• residence › on Edentia; in Jerusem circles

46:5.327. The cir­cles of the fi­nal­i­ters have a unique struc­ture at the cen­ter. And this same va­cant tem­ple is found on ev­ery sys­tem head­quar­ters world through­out Neb­a­don. This ed­i­fice on Je­ru­sem is sealed with the in­signia of Mi­chael, and it bears this in­scrip­tion: “Unded­i­cated to the sev­enth stage of spirit—to the eter­nal as­sign­ment.” Ga­briel placed the seal on this tem­ple of mys­tery, and none but Mi­chael can or may break the seal of sov­er­eignty af­fixed by the Bright and Morn­ing Star. Some day you shall look upon this silent tem­ple, even though you may not pen­e­trate its mys­tery.

• residence › occupy mansion worlds in systems in light and life

47:0.3When a sys­tem is set­tled in light and life, and as the man­sion worlds one by one cease to serve as mor­tal-train­ing sta­tions, they are taken over by the in­creas­ing fi­nal­i­ter pop­u­la­tion which ac­cu­mu­lates in these older and more highly per­fected sys­tems.

47:1.1Al­though only fi­nal­i­ters and cer­tain groups of sal­vaged chil­dren and their care­tak­ers are res­i­dent on tran­si­tional world num­ber one, pro­vi­sion is made for the en­ter­tain­ment of all classes of spirit be­ings, tran­si­tion mor­tals, and stu­dent vis­i­tors. The sporna­gia, who func­tion on all of these worlds, are hos­pitable hosts to all be­ings whom they can rec­og­nize. They have a vague feel­ing con­cern­ing the fi­nal­i­ters but can­not vi­su­al­ize them. They must re­gard them much as you do the an­gels in your pres­ent phys­i­cal state.

• temple of f. invisible to material, early morontia vision

47:1.2Though the fi­nal­i­ter world is a sphere of ex­qui­site phys­i­cal beauty and ex­traor­di­nary mor­ontia em­bel­lish­ment, the great spirit abode lo­cated at the cen­ter of ac­tiv­i­ties, the tem­ple of the fi­nal­i­ters, is not vis­i­ble to the un­aided ma­te­rial or early mor­ontia vi­sion. But the en­ergy trans­form­ers are able to vi­su­al­ize many of these re­al­i­ties to as­cend­ing mor­tals, and from time to time they do thus func­tion, as on the oc­ca­sions of the class as­sem­blies of the man­sion world stu­dents on this cul­tural sphere.

• before spirit vision, f. made visible to survivors by energy transformers, Morontia Power Supervisors

47:1.3All through the man­sion world ex­pe­ri­ence you are in a way spir­i­tu­ally aware of the pres­ence of your glo­ri­fied breth­ren of Par­a­dise at­tain­ment, but it is very re­fresh­ing, now and then, ac­tu­ally to per­ceive them as they func­tion in their head­quar­ters abodes. You will not spon­ta­neously vi­su­al­ize fi­nal­i­ters un­til you ac­quire true spirit vi­sion.

47:1.4On the first man­sion world all sur­vivors must pass the re­quire­ments of the pa­ren­tal com­mis­sion from their na­tive plan­ets. The pres­ent Uran­tia com­mis­sion con­sists of twelve pa­ren­tal cou­ples, re­cently ar­rived, who have had mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence in rear­ing three or more chil­dren to the pubescent age. Ser­vice on this com­mis­sion is ro­ta­tional and is for only ten years as a rule. All who fail to sat­isfy these com­mis­sion­ers as to their pa­ren­tal ex­pe­ri­ence must fur­ther qual­ify by ser­vice in the homes of the Ma­te­rial Sons on Je­ru­sem or in part in the pro­ba­tion­ary nurs­ery on the fi­nal­i­ters’ world.

47:1.5But ir­re­spec­tive of pa­ren­tal ex­pe­ri­ence, man­sion world par­ents who have grow­ing chil­dren in the pro­ba­tion nurs­ery are given ev­ery op­por­tu­nity to col­lab­o­rate with the mor­ontia cus­to­di­ans of such chil­dren re­gard­ing their in­struc­tion and train­ing. These par­ents are per­mit­ted to jour­ney there for vis­its as of­ten as four times a year. And it is one of the most touch­ingly beau­ti­ful scenes of all the as­cend­ing ca­reer to ob­serve the man­sion world par­ents em­brace their ma­te­rial off­spring on the oc­ca­sions of their pe­ri­odic pil­grim­ages to the fi­nal­i­ter world. While one or both par­ents may leave a man­sion world ahead of the child, they are quite of­ten con­tem­po­rary for a sea­son.

47:1.6No as­cend­ing mor­tal can es­cape the ex­pe­ri­ence of rear­ing chil­dren—their own or oth­ers—ei­ther on the ma­te­rial worlds or sub­se­quently on the fi­nal­i­ter world or on Je­ru­sem. Fa­thers must pass through this es­sen­tial ex­pe­ri­ence just as cer­tainly as moth­ers. It is an un­for­tu­nate and mis­taken no­tion of mod­ern peo­ples on Uran­tia that child cul­ture is largely the task of moth­ers. Chil­dren need fa­thers as well as moth­ers, and fa­thers need this pa­ren­tal ex­pe­ri­ence as much as do moth­ers.

• destiny › to administer outer space universes

48:8.4In travers­ing the as­cend­ing scale of liv­ing ex­is­tence from mor­tal man to the De­ity em­brace, you ac­tu­ally live the very life of ev­ery pos­si­ble phase and stage of per­fected crea­ture ex­is­tence within the lim­its of the pres­ent uni­verse age. From mor­tal man to Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ter em­braces all that now can be—en­com­passes ev­ery­thing pres­ently pos­si­ble to the liv­ing or­ders of in­tel­li­gent, per­fected fi­nite crea­ture be­ings. If the fu­ture des­tiny of the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters is ser­vice in new uni­verses now in the mak­ing, it is as­sured that in this new and fu­ture cre­ation there will be no cre­ated or­ders of ex­pe­ri­en­tial be­ings whose lives will be wholly dif­fer­ent from those which mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters have lived on some world as a part of their as­cend­ing train­ing, as one of the stages of their age­long prog­ress from an­i­mal to an­gel and from an­gel to spirit and from spirit to God.

• Tabamantia is a veteran

49:5.12In the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, all the life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion worlds are se­ri­ally linked to­gether and con­sti­tute a spe­cial do­main of uni­verse af­fairs which is given at­ten­tion by des­ig­nated ad­min­is­tra­tors; and all of these ex­per­i­men­tal worlds are pe­ri­od­i­cally in­spected by a corps of uni­verse di­rec­tors whose chief is the vet­eran fi­nal­i­ter known in Sa­ta­nia as Taba­man­tia.

• acting planetary chief of f. has seat in morontia temple

55:1.2A mor­ontia tem­ple has three parts: Cen­ter­most is the sanc­tu­ary of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Son. On the right is the seat of the for­mer Plan­e­tary Prince, now Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign; and when pres­ent in the tem­ple, this La­non­an­dek Son is vis­i­ble to the more spir­i­tual in­di­vid­u­als of the realm. On the left is the seat of the act­ing chief of fi­nal­i­ters at­tached to the planet.

• service › mortals serve under f. in light and life

55:2.3Far­ther along in the era of light and life the mid­way crea­tures or their as­so­ciates sense the ap­proach­ing sta­tus of prob­a­ble soul-Ad­juster union and sig­nify this to the des­tiny guard­i­ans, who in turn com­mu­ni­cate these mat­ters to the fi­nal­i­ter group un­der whose ju­ris­dic­tion this mor­tal may be func­tion­ing; then there is is­sued the sum­mons of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign for such a mor­tal to re­sign all plan­e­tary du­ties, bid farewell to the world of his ori­gin, and re­pair to the in­ner tem­ple of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign, there to await mor­ontia tran­sit, the trans­la­tion flash, from the ma­te­rial do­main of evo­lu­tion to the mor­ontia level of pre­spirit pro­gres­sion.

• service › assume duties of most celestials after morontia temple appears

55:4.1In the suc­ces­sive stages of set­tled ex­is­tence the in­hab­ited worlds make mar­velous prog­ress un­der the wise and sym­pa­thetic ad­min­is­tra­tion of the vol­un­teer Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, as­cend­ers of Par­a­dise at­tain­ment who have come back to min­is­ter to their breth­ren in the flesh. These fi­nal­i­ters are ac­tive in co-op­er­a­tion with the Trin­ity Teacher Sons, but they do not be­gin their real par­tic­i­pa­tion in world af­fairs un­til the mor­ontia tem­ple ap­pears on earth.

• service › assume duties of most celestials after morontia temple appears

55:4.2Upon the for­mal in­au­gu­ra­tion of the plan­e­tary min­istry of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, the ma­jor­ity of the ce­les­tial hosts with­draw. But the se­raphic guard­i­ans of des­tiny con­tinue their per­sonal min­istry to the pro­gress­ing mor­tals in light; in­deed such an­gels come in ever-in­creas­ing num­bers through­out the set­tled ages since larger and larger groups of hu­man be­ings reach the third cos­mic cir­cle of co-or­di­nate mor­tal at­tain­ment dur­ing the plan­e­tary life span.

• midwayers are contact personalities for f. in light and life

55:4.10In the third and sub­se­quent stages, some of the mid­way­ers are still func­tion­ing, chiefly as con­tact per­son­al­i­ties for the fi­nal­i­ters, but as each stage of light and life is en­tered, new or­ders of li­ai­son min­is­ters largely re­place the mid­way­ers; very few of them ever re­main be­yond the fourth stage of light. The sev­enth stage will wit­ness the com­ing of the first ab­so­nite min­is­ters from Par­a­dise to serve in the places of cer­tain uni­verse crea­tures.

• service › assume duties of most celestials after morontia temple appears

55:4.14In each suc­ceed­ing age of set­tled ex­is­tence the fi­nal­i­ters func­tion in ever-in­creas­ing ca­pac­i­ties. There ex­ists a close work­ing con­nec­tion be­tween the fi­nal­i­ters, the Evening Stars (the super­an­gels), and the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

• destiny › to administer outer space universes
• service › assume duties of most celestials after morontia temple appears

55:4.19The fi­nal­i­ters are chiefly en­gaged in ini­ti­at­ing the new and super­ma­te­rial ac­tiv­i­ties of so­ci­ety—so­cial, cul­tural, philo­sophic, cos­mic, and spir­i­tual. As far as we can dis­cern, they will con­tinue this min­istry far into the sev­enth epoch of evo­lu­tion­ary sta­bil­ity, when, pos­si­bly, they may go forth to min­is­ter in outer space; where­upon we con­jec­ture their places may be taken by ab­so­nite be­ings from Par­a­dise.

• nature of finaliters › only Adjuster-fused or other Father-fragment-fused beings become

55:4.31On the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds a be­ing must hu­man­ize to re­ceive a Thought Ad­juster. All as­cen­dant mem­bers of the Mor­tal Corps of Fi­nal­i­ters have been Ad­juster in­dwelt and fused ex­cept ser­a­phim, and they are Fa­ther in­dwelt by an­other type of spirit at the time of be­ing mus­tered into this corps.

• invisible to mortals except in morontia temple

55:6.6We ob­serve that on these highly evolved and long sev­enth-stage worlds hu­man be­ings fully learn the lo­cal uni­verse lan­guage be­fore they are trans­lated; and I have vis­ited a few very old plan­ets where aban­don­ters were teach­ing the older mor­tals the tongue of the super­uni­verse. And on these worlds I have ob­served the tech­nique whereby the ab­so­nite per­son­al­i­ties re­veal the pres­ence of the fi­nal­i­ters in the mor­ontia tem­ple.

• service › assume duties of most celestials after morontia temple appears

55:7.1This epoch ex­tends from the ap­pear­ance of the mor­ontia tem­ple at the new plan­e­tary head­quar­ters to the time of the set­tling of the en­tire sys­tem in light and life. This age is in­au­gu­rated by the Trin­ity Teacher Sons at the close of their suc­ces­sive world mis­sions when the Plan­e­tary Prince is el­e­vated to the sta­tus of Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign by the man­date and per­sonal pres­ence of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Son of that sphere. Con­comi­tant there­with the fi­nal­i­ters in­au­gu­rate their ac­tive par­tic­i­pa­tion in plan­e­tary af­fairs.

• invisible to mortals except in morontia temple

55:7.2To out­ward and vis­i­ble ap­pear­ances the ac­tual rulers, or di­rec­tors, of such a world set­tled in light and life are the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter, the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve. The fi­nal­i­ters are in­vis­i­ble, as also is the Prince-Sov­er­eign ex­cept when in the mor­ontia tem­ple. The ac­tual and lit­eral heads of the plan­e­tary regime are there­fore the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter. It is the knowl­edge of these ar­range­ments that has given pres­tige to the idea of kings and queens through­out the uni­verse realms. And kings and queens are a great suc­cess un­der these ideal cir­cum­stances, when a world can com­mand such high per­son­al­i­ties to act in be­half of still higher but in­vis­i­ble rulers.

• first acknowledge extra-Paradise authority in local universe light and life

55:10.7The fi­nal­i­ter corps now, for the first time, ac­knowl­edges the ju­ris­dic­tion of an ex­tra-Par­a­dise au­thor­ity, the su­preme coun­cil. Here­to­fore the fi­nal­i­ters have rec­og­nized no super­vi­sion this side of Par­a­dise.

• nature of finaliters › threefold spirit endowment perfectly unified in

56:3.5Per­fected crea­ture ex­is­tence can be at­tained, sus­tained, and eter­nal­ized by the fu­sion of self-con­scious mind with a frag­ment of the pre-Trin­ity spirit en­dow­ment of some one of the per­sons of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. The mor­tal mind is the cre­ation of the Sons and Daugh­ters of the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit and, when fused with the Thought Ad­juster from the Fa­ther, par­takes of the three­fold spirit en­dow­ment of the evo­lu­tion­ary realms. But these three spirit ex­pres­sions be­come per­fectly uni­fied in the fi­nal­i­ters, even as they were in eter­nity so uni­fied in the Uni­ver­sal I AM ere he ever be­came the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther of the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• come to know the Supreme by experience
• destiny › as 7th stage spirits › f.’s minds unify with then-actualized Supreme
• destiny › may fully comprehend time-space divinity of God the Sevenfold
• service › serve successively in superuniverses other than those of nativity

56:8.2As­cen­dant fi­nal­i­ters, hav­ing been born in the lo­cal uni­verses, nur­tured in the super­uni­verses, and trained in the cen­tral uni­verse, em­brace in their per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ences the full po­ten­tial of the com­pre­hen­sion of the time-space di­vin­ity of God the Sev­en­fold uni­fy­ing in the Su­preme. Fi­nal­i­ters serve suc­ces­sively in super­uni­verses other than those of na­tiv­ity, thereby super­im­pos­ing ex­pe­ri­ence upon ex­pe­ri­ence un­til the full­ness of the sev­en­fold di­ver­sity of pos­si­ble crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence has been en­com­passed. Through the min­istry of the in­dwelling Ad­justers the fi­nal­i­ters are en­abled to find the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, but it is by these tech­niques of ex­pe­ri­ence that such fi­nal­i­ters come re­ally to know the Su­preme Be­ing, and they are des­tined to the ser­vice and the rev­e­la­tion of this Su­preme De­ity in and to the fu­ture uni­verses of outer space.

• nature of finaliters › unique beings consisting in eternal union of perfect Adjusters and perfected creatures

108:0.1The mis­sion of the Thought Ad­justers to the hu­man races is to rep­re­sent, to be, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to the mor­tal crea­tures of time and space; that is the fun­da­men­tal work of the di­vine gifts. Their mis­sion is also that of el­e­vat­ing the mor­tal minds and of trans­lat­ing the im­mor­tal souls of men up to the di­vine heights and spir­i­tual lev­els of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion. And in the ex­pe­ri­ence of thus trans­form­ing the hu­man na­ture of the tem­po­ral crea­ture into the di­vine na­ture of the eter­nal fi­nal­i­ter, the Ad­justers bring into ex­is­tence a unique type of be­ing, a be­ing con­sist­ing in the eter­nal union of the per­fect Ad­juster and the per­fected crea­ture which it would be im­pos­si­ble to du­pli­cate by any other uni­verse tech­nique.

• destiny › to administer outer space universes

112:7.15The pres­ent known des­tiny of sur­viv­ing mor­tals is the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity; this is also the goal of des­tiny for all Thought Ad­justers who be­come joined in eter­nal union with their mor­tal com­pan­ions. At pres­ent the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters are work­ing through­out the grand uni­verse in many un­der­tak­ings, but we all con­jec­ture that they will have other and even more su­per­nal tasks to per­form in the dis­tant fu­ture af­ter the seven super­uni­verses have be­come set­tled in light and life, and when the fi­nite God has fi­nally emerged from the mys­tery which now sur­rounds this Su­preme De­ity.

• nature of finaliters › children of the Supreme

112:7.16You have been in­structed to a cer­tain ex­tent about the or­ga­ni­za­tion and per­son­nel of the cen­tral uni­verse, the super­uni­verses, and the lo­cal uni­verses; you have been told some­thing about the char­ac­ter and ori­gin of some of the var­i­ous per­son­al­i­ties who now rule these far-flung cre­ations. You have also been in­formed that there are in pro­cess of or­ga­ni­za­tion vast galax­ies of uni­verses far out be­yond the pe­riph­ery of the grand uni­verse, in the first outer space level. It has also been in­ti­mated in the course of these nar­ra­tives that the Su­preme Be­ing is to dis­close his un­re­vealed ter­tiary func­tion in these now un­charted re­gions of outer space; and you have also been told that the fi­nal­i­ters of the Par­a­dise corps are the ex­pe­ri­en­tial chil­dren of the Su­preme.

• nature of finaliters › natures blend creatures and Creator

112:7.17We be­lieve that the mor­tals of Ad­juster fu­sion, to­gether with their fi­nal­i­ter as­so­ciates, are des­tined to func­tion in some man­ner in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­verses of the first outer space level. We have not the slight­est doubt that in due time these enor­mous galax­ies will be­come in­hab­ited uni­verses. And we are equally con­vinced that among the ad­min­is­tra­tors thereof will be found the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters whose na­tures are the cos­mic con­se­quence of the blend­ing of crea­ture and Cre­ator.

• destiny › will be superb rulers, most effective of all administrators

112:7.18What an ad­ven­ture! What a ro­mance! A gi­gan­tic cre­ation to be ad­min­is­tered by the chil­dren of the Su­preme, these per­son­al­ized and hu­man­ized Ad­justers, these Ad­jus­ter­ized and eter­nal­ized mor­tals, these mys­te­ri­ous com­bi­na­tions and eter­nal as­so­ci­a­tions of the high­est known man­i­fes­ta­tion of the essence of the First Source and Cen­ter and the low­est form of in­tel­li­gent life ca­pa­ble of com­pre­hend­ing and at­tain­ing the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. We con­ceive that such amal­ga­mated be­ings, such part­ner­ships of Cre­ator and crea­ture, will be­come su­perb rulers, match­less ad­min­is­tra­tors, and un­der­stand­ing and sym­pa­thetic di­rec­tors of any and all forms of in­tel­li­gent life which may come into ex­is­tence through­out these fu­ture uni­verses of the first outer space level.

112:7.19True it is, you mor­tals are of earthly, an­i­mal ori­gin; your frame is in­deed dust. But if you ac­tu­ally will, if you re­ally de­sire, surely the her­itage of the ages is yours, and you shall some­day serve through­out the uni­verses in your true char­ac­ters—chil­dren of the Su­preme God of ex­pe­ri­ence and di­vine sons of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther of all per­son­al­i­ties.

• destiny › as 7th stage spirits › f.’s minds unify with then-actualized Supreme
• nature of finaliters › transcendation allies f. with spirit-gravity circuit of Eternal Son

117:5.3The evolv­ing im­mor­tal soul of man, the joint cre­ation of the ma­te­rial mind and the Ad­juster, as­cends as such to Par­a­dise and sub­se­quently, when mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, be­comes al­lied in some new way with the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Eter­nal Son by a tech­nique of ex­pe­ri­ence known as fi­nal­i­ter tran­scen­da­tion. Such fi­nal­i­ters thus be­come ac­cept­able can­di­dates for ex­pe­ri­en­tial rec­og­ni­tion as per­son­al­i­ties of God the Su­preme. And when these mor­tal in­tel­lects in the un­re­vealed fu­ture as­sign­ments of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity at­tain the sev­enth stage of spirit ex­is­tence, such dual minds will be­come tri­une. These two at­tuned minds, the hu­man and the di­vine, will be­come glo­ri­fied in union with the ex­pe­ri­en­tial mind of the then ac­tu­al­ized Su­preme Be­ing.

117:5.4In the eter­nal fu­ture, God the Su­preme will be ac­tu­al­ized—cre­atively ex­pressed and spir­i­tu­ally por­trayed—in the spir­i­tu­al­ized mind, the im­mor­tal soul, of as­cen­dant man, even as the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther was so re­vealed in the earth life of Je­sus.

• destiny › as 7th stage spirits › f.’s minds unify with then-actualized Supreme

117:6.5The mor­ontia soul of an evolv­ing mor­tal is re­ally the son of the Ad­juster ac­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the child of the cos­mic re­ac­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing, the Uni­ver­sal Mother. The mother in­flu­ence dom­i­nates the hu­man per­son­al­ity through­out the lo­cal uni­verse child­hood of the grow­ing soul. The in­flu­ence of the De­ity par­ents be­comes more equal af­ter the Ad­juster fu­sion and dur­ing the super­uni­verse ca­reer, but when the crea­tures of time be­gin the traver­sal of the cen­tral uni­verse of eter­nity, the Fa­ther na­ture be­comes in­creas­ingly man­i­fest, at­tain­ing its height of fi­nite man­i­fes­ta­tion upon the rec­og­ni­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the ad­mis­sion into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

• destiny › as 7th stage spirits › f. have hitherto unattained wisdom

117:6.6In and through the ex­pe­ri­ence of fi­nal­i­ter at­tain­ment the ex­pe­ri­en­tial mother qual­i­ties of the as­cend­ing self be­come tremen­dously af­fected by con­tact and in­fu­sion with the spirit pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son and the mind pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Then, through­out the realms of fi­nal­i­ter ac­tiv­ity in the grand uni­verse, there ap­pears a new awak­en­ing of the la­tent mother po­ten­tial of the Su­preme, a new re­al­iza­tion of ex­pe­ri­en­tial mean­ings, and a new syn­the­sis of ex­pe­ri­en­tial val­ues of the en­tire as­cen­sion ca­reer. It ap­pears that this re­al­iza­tion of self will con­tinue in the uni­verse ca­reers of the sixth-stage fi­nal­i­ters un­til the mother in­her­i­tance of the Su­preme at­tains to fi­nite syn­chrony with the Ad­juster in­her­i­tance of the Fa­ther. This in­trigu­ing pe­riod of grand uni­verse func­tion rep­re­sents the con­tin­u­ing adult ca­reer of the as­cen­dant and per­fected mor­tal.

117:6.7Upon the com­ple­tion of the sixth stage of ex­is­tence and the en­trance upon the sev­enth and fi­nal stage of spirit sta­tus, there will prob­a­bly en­sue the ad­vanc­ing ages of en­rich­ing ex­pe­ri­ence, ripen­ing wis­dom, and di­vin­ity re­al­iza­tion. In the na­ture of the fi­nal­i­ter this will prob­a­bly equal the com­pleted at­tain­ment of the mind strug­gle for spirit self-re­al­iza­tion, the com­ple­tion of the co-or­di­na­tion of the as­cen­dant man-na­ture with the di­vine Ad­juster-na­ture within the lim­its of fi­nite pos­si­bil­i­ties. Such a mag­nif­i­cent uni­verse self thus be­comes the eter­nal fi­nal­i­ter son of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther as well as the eter­nal uni­verse child of the Mother Su­preme, a uni­verse self qual­i­fied to rep­re­sent both the Fa­ther and Mother of uni­verses and per­son­al­i­ties in any ac­tiv­ity or un­der­tak­ing per­tain­ing to the fi­nite ad­min­is­tra­tion of cre­ated, cre­at­ing, or evolv­ing things and be­ings.

• destiny › as 7th stage spirits › f. have hitherto unattained wisdom

117:6.18Man’s some­time at­tain­ment of the Su­preme is con­se­quent upon his fu­sion with the spirit of Par­a­dise De­ity. With Uran­tians this spirit is the Ad­juster pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and though the Mys­tery Mon­i­tor is from the Fa­ther and like the Fa­ther, we doubt that even such a di­vine gift can achieve the im­pos­si­ble task of re­veal­ing the na­ture of the in­fi­nite God to a fi­nite crea­ture. We sus­pect that what the Ad­justers will re­veal to fu­ture sev­enth-stage fi­nal­i­ters will be the di­vin­ity and na­ture of God the Su­preme. And this rev­e­la­tion will be to a fi­nite crea­ture what the rev­e­la­tion of the In­fi­nite would be to an ab­so­lute be­ing.

• finality oath to Trinity

117:7.7When mor­tal as­cend­ers are ad­mit­ted to the fi­nal­i­ter corps of Par­a­dise, they take an oath to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, and in tak­ing this oath of al­le­giance, they are thereby pledg­ing eter­nal fi­delity to God the Su­preme, who is the Trin­ity as com­pre­hended by all fi­nite crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties. Sub­se­quently, as the fi­nal­i­ter com­pa­nies func­tion through­out the evolv­ing uni­verses, they are solely amenable to the man­dates of Par­a­dise ori­gin un­til the event­ful times of the set­tling of lo­cal uni­verses in light and life. As the new gov­ern­men­tal or­ga­ni­za­tions of these per­fected cre­ations be­gin to be re­flec­tive of the emerg­ing sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme, we ob­serve that the out­ly­ing fi­nal­i­ter com­pa­nies then ac­knowl­edge the ju­ris­dic­tional au­thor­ity of such new gov­ern­ments. It ap­pears that God the Su­preme is evolv­ing as the uni­fier of the evo­lu­tion­ary Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, but it is highly prob­a­ble that the eter­nal des­tiny of these seven corps will be di­rected by the Su­preme as a mem­ber of the Ul­ti­mate Trin­ity.

• nature of finaliters › no possibility of casting shadow of evil

132:2.9By the time of the at­tain­ment of Par­a­dise the as­cend­ing mor­tal’s ca­pac­ity for iden­ti­fy­ing the self with true spirit val­ues has be­come so en­larged as to re­sult in the at­tain­ment of the per­fec­tion of the pos­ses­sion of the light of life. Such a per­fected spirit per­son­al­ity be­comes so wholly, di­vinely, and spir­i­tu­ally uni­fied with the pos­i­tive and su­preme qual­i­ties of good­ness, beauty, and truth that there re­mains no pos­si­bil­ity that such a righ­teous spirit would cast any neg­a­tive shadow of po­ten­tial evil when ex­posed to the search­ing lu­mi­nos­ity of the di­vine light of the in­fi­nite Rulers of Par­a­dise. In all such spirit per­son­al­i­ties, good­ness is no longer par­tial, con­trastive, and com­par­a­tive; it has be­come di­vinely com­plete and spir­i­tu­ally re­plete; it ap­proaches the pu­rity and per­fec­tion of the Su­preme.