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Grandfanda

12 paragraphs · about 4 minutes · 6 chapters

The paragraphs in the index’s own groups, a chapter to each, in the order the index prints them, and in the order of the book within each. A paragraph read in an earlier chapter is named in one line.

acting head of Corps of the Finality 1 paragraph

112:7.13When once an Ad­juster fuses with an as­cend­ing mor­tal, the num­ber of that Ad­juster is stricken from the rec­ords of the super­uni­verse. What hap­pens on the rec­ords of Di­vin­ing­ton, I do not know, but I sur­mise that the reg­istry of that Ad­juster is re­moved to the se­cret cir­cles of the in­ner courts of Grand­fanda, the act­ing head of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

chief of Supreme Council of Destiny 3 paragraphs

31:10.9Each of these des­tiny corps has a pre­sid­ing head, and the seven con­sti­tute the Su­preme Coun­cil of Des­tiny on Par­a­dise; and dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age Grand­fanda is the chief of this su­preme body of uni­verse as­sign­ment for the chil­dren of ul­ti­mate des­tiny.

31:10.10The gath­er­ing to­gether of these seven fi­nal­i­ter corps sig­ni­fies re­al­ity mo­bi­liza­tion of po­ten­tials, per­son­al­i­ties, minds, spir­its, ab­sonites, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial ac­tu­al­i­ties that prob­a­bly tran­scend even the fu­ture mas­ter uni­verse func­tions of the Su­preme Be­ing. These seven fi­nal­i­ter corps prob­a­bly sig­nify the pres­ent ac­tiv­ity of the Ul­ti­mate Trin­ity en­gaged in mus­ter­ing the forces of the fi­nite and the ab­so­nite in prepa­ra­tion for in­con­ceiv­able de­vel­op­ments in the uni­verses of outer space. Noth­ing like this mo­bi­liza­tion has taken place since the near times of eter­nity when the Par­a­dise Trin­ity sim­i­larly mo­bi­lized the then ex­ist­ing per­son­al­i­ties of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona and com­mis­sioned them as ad­min­is­tra­tors and rulers of the pro­jected seven super­uni­verses of time and space. The seven fi­nal­i­ter corps rep­re­sent the di­vin­ity re­sponse of the grand uni­verse to the fu­ture needs of the un­de­vel­oped po­ten­tials in the outer uni­verses of fu­ture-eter­nal ac­tiv­i­ties.

31:10.11–19 · nine paragraphs not cited here ·

31:10.11We ven­ture the fore­cast of fu­ture and greater outer uni­verses of in­hab­ited worlds, new spheres peo­pled with new or­ders of ex­qui­site and unique be­ings, a ma­te­rial uni­verse sub­lime in its ul­ti­macy, a vast cre­ation lack­ing in only one im­por­tant de­tail—the pres­ence of ac­tual fi­nite ex­pe­ri­ence in the uni­ver­sal life of as­cen­dant ex­is­tence. Such a uni­verse will come into be­ing un­der a tremen­dous ex­pe­ri­en­tial hand­i­cap: the de­pri­va­tion of par­tic­i­pa­tion in the evo­lu­tion of the Al­mighty Su­preme. These outer uni­verses will all en­joy the match­less min­istry and su­per­nal over­con­trol of the Su­preme Be­ing, but the very fact of his ac­tive pres­ence pre­cludes their par­tic­i­pa­tion in the ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme De­ity.

31:10.12Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age the evolv­ing per­son­al­i­ties of the grand uni­verse suf­fer many dif­fi­cul­ties due to the in­com­plete ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the sov­er­eignty of God the Su­preme, but we are all shar­ing the unique ex­pe­ri­ence of his evo­lu­tion. We evolve in him and he evolves in us. Some­time in the eter­nal fu­ture the evo­lu­tion of Su­preme De­ity will be­come a com­pleted fact of uni­verse his­tory, and the op­por­tu­nity to par­tic­i­pate in this won­der­ful ex­pe­ri­ence will have passed from the stage of cos­mic ac­tion.

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.

31:10.14These de­fi­cien­cies are in­ev­i­ta­ble on all lev­els of uni­verse ex­is­tence. Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age we of the higher lev­els of spir­i­tual ex­is­tences now come down to ad­min­is­ter the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses and min­is­ter to the as­cend­ing mor­tals, thus en­deav­or­ing to atone for their de­fi­cien­cies in the re­al­i­ties of the higher spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence.

31:10.15But though we re­ally know noth­ing about the plans of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse re­spect­ing these outer cre­ations, nev­er­the­less, of three things we are cer­tain:

31:10.161. There ac­tu­ally is a vast and new sys­tem of uni­verses grad­u­ally or­ga­niz­ing in the do­mains of outer space. New or­ders of phys­i­cal cre­ations, enor­mous and gi­gan­tic cir­cles of swarm­ing uni­verses upon uni­verses far out be­yond the pres­ent bounds of the peo­pled and or­ga­nized cre­ations, are ac­tu­ally vis­i­ble through your tele­scopes. At pres­ent, these outer cre­ations are wholly phys­i­cal; they are ap­par­ently un­in­hab­ited and seem to be de­void of crea­ture ad­min­is­tra­tion.

31:10.172. For ages upon ages there con­tin­ues the un­ex­plained and wholly mys­te­ri­ous Par­a­dise mo­bi­liza­tion of the per­fected and as­cen­dant be­ings of time and space, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the six other fi­nal­i­ter corps.

31:10.183. Con­comi­tantly with these trans­ac­tions the Su­preme Per­son of De­ity is pow­er­iz­ing as the al­mighty sov­er­eign of the super­cre­ations.

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.

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

exclusive jurisdiction over Gravity Messengers 1 paragraph

31:2.1Wher­ever and when­ever Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers are func­tion­ing, the fi­nal­i­ters are in com­mand. All Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers are un­der the ex­clu­sive ju­ris­dic­tion of Grand­fanda, and they are as­signed only to the pri­mary Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. They are in­valu­able to the fi­nal­i­ters even now, and they will be all-ser­vice­able in the eter­nal fu­ture. No other group of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures pos­sesses such a per­son­al­ized mes­sen­ger corps able to tran­scend time and space. Sim­i­lar types of mes­sen­ger-re­cord­ers at­tached to other fi­nal­i­ter corps are not per­son­al­ized; they are ab­soni­tized.

first mortal to attain Havona; space reports of glory inaugurated upon his arrival 7 paragraphs

7:5.8What­ever our dif­fi­culty in com­pre­hend­ing the be­stowals of the Sec­ond Per­son of De­ity, we do com­pre­hend the Ha­vona be­stowal of a Son of the Eter­nal Son, who lit­er­ally passed through the cir­cuits of the cen­tral uni­verse and ac­tu­ally shared those ex­pe­ri­ences which con­sti­tute an as­cender’s prepa­ra­tion for De­ity at­tain­ment. This was the orig­i­nal Mi­chael, the first-born Cre­ator Son, and he passed through the life ex­pe­ri­ences of the as­cend­ing pil­grims from cir­cuit to cir­cuit, per­son­ally jour­ney­ing a stage of each cir­cle with them in the days of Grand­fanda, the first of all mor­tals to at­tain Ha­vona.

24:6.4The num­ber of Grad­u­ate Guides is be­yond the power of hu­man minds to grasp, and they con­tinue to ap­pear. Their ori­gin is some­thing of a mys­tery. They have not ex­isted from eter­nity; they mys­te­ri­ously ap­pear as they are needed. There is no rec­ord of a Grad­u­ate Guide in all the realms of the cen­tral uni­verse un­til that far-dis­tant day when the first mor­tal pil­grim of all time made his way to the outer belt of the cen­tral cre­ation. The in­stant he ar­rived on the pi­lot world of the outer cir­cuit, he was met with friendly greet­ings by Malvo­rian, the first of the Grad­u­ate Guides and now the chief of their su­preme coun­cil and the di­rec­tor of their vast ed­u­ca­tional or­ga­ni­za­tion.

24:6.5On the Par­a­dise rec­ords of Ha­vona, in the sec­tion de­nom­i­nated “Grad­u­ate Guides,” there ap­pears this ini­tial en­try:

24:6.6“And Malvo­rian, the first of this or­der, did greet and in­struct the pil­grim dis­cov­erer of Ha­vona and did con­duct him from the outer cir­cuits of ini­tial ex­pe­ri­ence, step by step and cir­cuit by cir­cuit, un­til he stood in the very pres­ence of the Source and Des­tiny of all per­son­al­ity, sub­se­quently cross­ing the thresh­old of eter­nity to Par­a­dise.”

24:6.7At that far-dis­tant time I was at­tached to the ser­vice of the An­cients of Days on Uversa, and we all re­joiced in the as­sur­ance that, even­tu­ally, pil­grims from our super­uni­verse would reach Ha­vona. For ages we had been taught that the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures of space would at­tain Par­a­dise, and the thrill of all time swept through the heav­enly courts when the first pil­grim ac­tu­ally ar­rived.

24:6.8The name of this pil­grim dis­cov­erer of Ha­vona is Grand­fanda, and he hailed from planet 341 of sys­tem 84 in con­stel­la­tion 62 of lo­cal uni­verse 1,131 sit­u­ated in super­uni­verse num­ber one. His ar­rival was the sig­nal for the es­tab­lish­ment of the broad­cast ser­vice of the uni­verse of uni­verses. Thereto­fore only the broad­casts of the super­uni­verses and the lo­cal uni­verses had been in op­er­a­tion, but the an­nounce­ment of the ar­rival of Grand­fanda at the por­tals of Ha­vona sig­nal­ized the in­au­gu­ra­tion of the “space re­ports of glory,” so named be­cause the ini­tial uni­verse broad­cast re­ported the Ha­vona ar­rival of the first of the evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings to at­tain en­trance upon the goal of as­cen­dant ex­is­tence.

119:0.2The at­tri­bute of be­stowal is in­her­ent in the Par­a­dise Sons of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. In their de­sire to come close to the life ex­pe­ri­ences of their sub­or­di­nate liv­ing crea­tures, the var­i­ous or­ders of the Par­a­dise Sons are re­flect­ing the di­vine na­ture of their Par­a­dise par­ents. The Eter­nal Son of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity led the way in this prac­tice, hav­ing seven times be­stowed him­self upon the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona dur­ing the times of the as­cen­sion of Grand­fanda and the first of the pil­grims from time and space. And the Eter­nal Son con­tin­ues to be­stow him­self upon the lo­cal uni­verses of space in the per­sons of his rep­re­sen­ta­tives, the Mi­chael and Avo­nal Sons.

from superuniverse #1 0 paragraphs, 1 read above

24:6.8 read above, under first mortal to attain Havona; space reports of glory inaugurated upon his arrival

Malvorian was Graduate Guide assigned to 0 paragraphs, 3 read above

24:6.4 read above, under first mortal to attain Havona; space reports of glory inaugurated upon his arrival

24:6.5 read above, under first mortal to attain Havona; space reports of glory inaugurated upon his arrival

24:6.6 read above, under first mortal to attain Havona; space reports of glory inaugurated upon his arrival

Onward

Cited alongside: ascending mortals, Malvorian, seniority, Supreme Council of Destiny, Graduate Guides, Paradise Corps of the Finality