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Havona pilgrims

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Every paragraph the index cites under Havona pilgrims, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

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.

14:2.9Ha­vona is a spir­i­tu­ally per­fect and phys­i­cally sta­ble uni­verse. The con­trol and bal­anced sta­bil­ity of the cen­tral uni­verse ap­pear to be per­fect. Ev­ery­thing phys­i­cal or spir­i­tual is per­fectly pre­dictable, but mind phe­nom­ena and per­son­al­ity vo­li­tion are not. We do in­fer that sin can be reck­oned as im­pos­si­ble of oc­cur­rence, but we do this on the ground that the na­tive free­will crea­tures of Ha­vona have never been guilty of trans­gress­ing the will of De­ity. Through all eter­nity these su­per­nal be­ings have been con­sis­tently loyal to the Eter­nals of Days. Nei­ther has sin ap­peared in any crea­ture who has en­tered Ha­vona as a pil­grim. There has never been an in­stance of mis­con­duct by any crea­ture of any group of per­son­al­i­ties ever cre­ated in, or ad­mit­ted to, the cen­tral Ha­vona uni­verse. So per­fect and so di­vine are the meth­ods and means of se­lec­tion in the uni­verses of time that never in the rec­ords of Ha­vona has an er­ror oc­curred; no mis­takes have ever been made; no as­cen­dant soul has ever been pre­ma­turely ad­mit­ted to the cen­tral uni­verse.

14:3.4The bil­lion spheres of the cen­tral uni­verse con­sti­tute the train­ing worlds of the high per­son­al­i­ties na­tive to Par­a­dise and Ha­vona and fur­ther serve as the fi­nal prov­ing grounds for as­cend­ing crea­tures from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time. In the ex­e­cu­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther’s great plan of crea­ture as­cen­sion the pil­grims of time are landed on the re­ceiv­ing worlds of the outer or sev­enth cir­cuit, and sub­se­quent to in­creased train­ing and en­larged ex­pe­ri­ence, they are pro­gres­sively ad­vanced in­ward, planet by planet and cir­cle by cir­cle, un­til they fi­nally at­tain the De­i­ties and achieve res­i­dence on Par­a­dise.

14:4.19Then there are those be­ings who have at­tained the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and who are en­ti­tled to go and come, who are as­signed here and there in the uni­verses on mis­sions of spe­cial ser­vice. And on ev­ery Ha­vona world will be found the at­tain­ment can­di­dates, those who have phys­i­cally at­tained the cen­tral uni­verse, but who have not yet achieved that spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment which will en­able them to claim Par­a­dise res­i­dence.

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

14:5.2–3 · two paragraphs not cited here ·

14:5.2Life on the di­vine worlds of the cen­tral uni­verse is so rich and full, so com­plete and re­plete, that it wholly tran­scends the hu­man con­cept of any­thing a cre­ated be­ing could pos­si­bly ex­pe­ri­ence. The so­cial and eco­nomic ac­tiv­i­ties of this eter­nal cre­ation are en­tirely dis­sim­i­lar to the oc­cu­pa­tions of ma­te­rial crea­tures liv­ing on evo­lu­tion­ary worlds like Uran­tia. Even the tech­nique of Ha­vona thought is un­like the pro­cess of think­ing on Uran­tia.

14:5.3The reg­u­la­tions of the cen­tral uni­verse are fit­tingly and in­her­ently nat­u­ral; the rules of con­duct are not ar­bi­trary. In ev­ery re­quire­ment of Ha­vona there is dis­closed the rea­son of righ­teous­ness and the rule of jus­tice. And these two fac­tors, com­bined, equal what on Uran­tia would be de­nom­i­nated fair­ness. When you ar­rive in Ha­vona, you will nat­u­rally en­joy do­ing things the way they should be done.

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

14:5.5Dur­ing your so­journ in Ha­vona as a pil­grim of as­cent, you will be al­lowed to visit freely among the worlds of the cir­cuit of your as­sign­ment. You will also be per­mit­ted to go back to the plan­ets of those cir­cuits you have pre­vi­ously tra­versed. And all this is pos­si­ble to those who so­journ on the cir­cles of Ha­vona with­out the ne­ces­sity of be­ing en­super­na­phimed. The pil­grims of time are able to equip them­selves to tra­verse “achieved” space but must de­pend on the or­dained tech­nique to ne­go­ti­ate “un­achieved” space; a pil­grim can­not leave Ha­vona nor go for­ward be­yond his as­signed cir­cuit with­out the aid of a trans­port super­na­phim.

17:5.4As you ad­vance from cir­cuit to cir­cuit in Ha­vona, you will learn of the Spir­its of the Cir­cuits, but you will not be able to hold per­sonal com­mu­nion with them, even though you may per­son­ally en­joy, and rec­og­nize the im­per­sonal pres­ence of, their spir­i­tual in­flu­ence.

24:6.3The Grad­u­ate Guides are en­gaged in pi­lot­ing the pil­grims of time through the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona worlds. The guide who greets you upon your ar­rival on the re­ceiv­ing world of the outer Ha­vona cir­cuit will re­main with you through­out your en­tire ca­reer on the heav­enly cir­cuits. Though you will as­so­ciate with count­less other per­son­al­i­ties dur­ing your so­journ on a bil­lion worlds, your Grad­u­ate Guide will fol­low you to the end of your Ha­vona pro­gres­sion and will wit­ness your en­trance into the ter­mi­nal slum­ber of time, the sleep of eter­nity tran­sit to the Par­a­dise goal, where, upon awak­en­ing, you will be greeted by the Par­a­dise Com­pan­ion as­signed to wel­come you and per­haps to re­main with you un­til you are ini­ti­ated as a mem­ber of the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

25:8.9Many ad­di­tional ser­vices are per­formed by the Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions: If an as­cend­ing mor­tal should reach the cen­tral uni­verse alone and, while travers­ing Ha­vona, should fail in some phase of the De­ity ad­ven­ture, in due course he would be re­manded to the uni­verses of time, and forth­with a call would be made to the re­serves of the Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions. One of this or­der would be as­signed to fol­low the de­feated pil­grim, to be with him and to com­fort and cheer him, and to re­main with him un­til he re­turned to the cen­tral uni­verse to re­sume the Par­a­dise as­cent.

25:8.10If an as­cend­ing pil­grim met de­feat in the De­ity ad­ven­ture while travers­ing Ha­vona in the com­pany of an as­cend­ing ser­a­phim, the guard­ian an­gel of the mor­tal ca­reer, she would elect to ac­com­pany her mor­tal as­so­ciate. These ser­a­phim al­ways vol­un­teer and are per­mit­ted to ac­com­pany their long-time mor­tal com­rades back to the ser­vice of time and space.

25:8.11But not so with two closely as­so­ci­ated mor­tal as­cend­ers: If one at­tains God while the other tem­porar­ily fails, the suc­cess­ful in­di­vid­ual in­vari­ably chooses to go back to the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ations with the dis­ap­pointed per­son­al­ity, but this is not per­mit­ted. In­stead, a call is made to the re­serves of the Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions, and one of the vol­un­teers is se­lected to ac­com­pany the dis­ap­pointed pil­grim. A vol­un­teer Par­a­dise Cit­i­zen then be­comes as­so­ci­ated with the suc­cess­ful mor­tal, who tar­ries on the cen­tral Isle await­ing the Ha­vona re­turn of the de­feated com­rade and in the mean­time teaches in cer­tain Par­a­dise schools, pre­sent­ing the ad­ven­tur­ous story of the evo­lu­tion­ary as­cent.

26:3.2The as­cend­ing pil­grims from the seven super­uni­verses pass through Ha­vona in the op­po­site di­rec­tion, en­ter­ing by way of the pi­lot world of the sev­enth cir­cuit and pro­ceed­ing in­ward. There is no time limit set on the prog­ress of the as­cend­ing crea­tures from world to world and from cir­cuit to cir­cuit, just as no fixed span of time is ar­bi­trar­ily as­signed to res­i­dence on the mor­ontia worlds. But, whereas ad­e­quately de­vel­oped in­di­vid­u­als may be ex­empted from so­journ on one or more of the lo­cal uni­verse train­ing worlds, no pil­grim may avoid pass­ing through all seven of the Ha­vona cir­cuits of pro­gres­sive spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion.

26:3.3–8 · six paragraphs not cited here ·

26:3.3That corps of ter­tiary super­na­phim which is chiefly as­signed to the ser­vice of the pil­grims of time is clas­si­fied as fol­lows:

26:3.41. The Har­mony Super­vi­sors. It must be ap­par­ent that some sort of co-or­di­nat­ing in­flu­ence would be re­quired, even in per­fect Ha­vona, to main­tain sys­tem and to in­sure har­mony in all the work of prepar­ing the pil­grims of time for their sub­se­quent Par­a­dise achieve­ments. Such is the real mis­sion of the har­mony super­vi­sors—to keep ev­ery­thing mov­ing along smoothly and ex­pe­di­tiously. Orig­i­nat­ing on the first cir­cuit, they serve through­out Ha­vona, and their pres­ence on the cir­cuits means that noth­ing can pos­si­bly go amiss. A great abil­ity to co-or­di­nate a di­ver­sity of ac­tiv­i­ties in­volv­ing per­son­al­i­ties of dif­fer­ing or­ders—even mul­ti­ple lev­els—en­ables these super­na­phim to give as­sis­tance wher­ever and when­ever re­quired. They con­tribute enor­mously to the mu­tual un­der­stand­ing of the pil­grims of time and the pil­grims of eter­nity.

26:3.52. The Chief Re­cord­ers. These an­gels are cre­ated on the sec­ond cir­cuit but op­er­ate ev­ery­where in the cen­tral uni­verse. They re­cord in trip­li­cate, ex­e­cut­ing rec­ords for the lit­eral files of Ha­vona, for the spir­i­tual files of their or­der, and for the for­mal rec­ords of Par­a­dise. In ad­di­tion they au­to­mat­i­cally trans­mit the trans­ac­tions of true-knowl­edge im­port to the liv­ing li­braries of Par­a­dise, the cus­to­di­ans of knowl­edge of the pri­mary or­der of super­na­phim.

26:3.63. The Broad­cast­ers. The chil­dren of the third Cir­cuit Spirit func­tion through­out Ha­vona, al­though their of­fi­cial sta­tion is lo­cated on planet num­ber sev­enty in the out­er­most cir­cle. These mas­ter tech­ni­cians are the broad­cast re­ceivers and senders of the cen­tral cre­ation and the di­rec­tors of the space re­ports of all De­ity phe­nom­ena on Par­a­dise. They can op­er­ate all of the ba­sic cir­cuits of space.

26:3.74. The Mes­sen­gers take ori­gin on cir­cuit num­ber four. They range the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem as bear­ers of all mes­sages re­quir­ing per­sonal trans­mis­sion. They serve their fel­lows, the ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties, the Par­a­dise pil­grims, and even the as­cen­dant souls of time.

26:3.85. The In­tel­li­gence Co-or­di­na­tors. These ter­tiary super­na­phim, the chil­dren of the fifth Cir­cuit Spirit, are al­ways the wise and sym­pa­thetic pro­mot­ers of fra­ter­nal as­so­ci­a­tion be­tween the as­cend­ing and the de­scend­ing pil­grims. They min­is­ter to all the in­hab­i­tants of Ha­vona, and es­pe­cially to the as­cend­ers, by keep­ing them cur­rently in­formed re­gard­ing the af­fairs of the uni­verse of uni­verses. By virtue of per­sonal con­tacts with the broad­cast­ers and the re­flec­tors, these “liv­ing news­pa­pers” of Ha­vona are in­stantly con­ver­sant with all in­for­ma­tion pass­ing over the vast news cir­cuits of the cen­tral uni­verse. They se­cure in­tel­li­gence by the Ha­vona graph method, which en­ables them au­to­mat­i­cally to as­sim­i­late as much in­for­ma­tion in one hour of Uran­tia time as would re­quire a thou­sand years for your most rapid tele­graphic tech­nique to re­cord.

26:3.96. The Trans­port Per­son­al­i­ties. These be­ings, of ori­gin on cir­cuit num­ber six, usu­ally op­er­ate from planet num­ber forty in the out­er­most cir­cuit. It is they who take away the dis­ap­pointed can­di­dates who tran­siently fail in the De­ity ad­ven­ture. They stand ready to serve all who must come and go in the ser­vice of Ha­vona, and who are not space tra­versers.

26:4.12The pil­grim lands on the re­ceiv­ing planet of Ha­vona, the pi­lot world of the sev­enth cir­cuit, with only one en­dow­ment of per­fec­tion, per­fec­tion of pur­pose. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has de­creed: “Be you per­fect, even as I am per­fect.” That is the as­tound­ing in­vi­ta­tion-com­mand broad­cast to the fi­nite chil­dren of the worlds of space. The pro­mul­ga­tion of that in­junc­tion has set all cre­ation astir in the co-op­er­a­tive ef­fort of the ce­les­tial be­ings to as­sist in bring­ing about the ful­fill­ment and re­al­iza­tion of that tremen­dous com­mand of the First Great Source and Cen­ter.

26:4.13When, through and by the min­istry of all the helper hosts of the uni­ver­sal scheme of sur­vival, you are fi­nally de­posited on the re­ceiv­ing world of Ha­vona, you ar­rive with only one sort of per­fec­tion—per­fec­tion of pur­pose. Your pur­pose has been thor­oughly proved; your faith has been tested. You are known to be dis­ap­point­ment proof. Not even the fail­ure to dis­cern the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther can shake the faith or se­ri­ously dis­turb the trust of an as­cen­dant mor­tal who has passed through the ex­pe­ri­ence that all must tra­verse in or­der to at­tain the per­fect spheres of Ha­vona. By the time you reach Ha­vona, your sin­cer­ity has be­come sub­lime. Per­fec­tion of pur­pose and di­vin­ity of de­sire, with stead­fast­ness of faith, have se­cured your en­trance to the set­tled abodes of eter­nity; your de­liv­er­ance from the un­cer­tain­ties of time is full and com­plete; and now must you come face to face with the prob­lems of Ha­vona and the im­men­si­ties of Par­a­dise, to meet which you have so long been in train­ing in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial epochs of time on the world schools of space.

26:4.14Faith has won for the as­cen­dant pil­grim a per­fec­tion of pur­pose which ad­mits the chil­dren of time to the por­tals of eter­nity. Now must the pil­grim helpers be­gin the work of de­vel­op­ing that per­fec­tion of un­der­stand­ing and that tech­nique of com­pre­hen­sion which are so in­dis­pens­able to Par­a­dise per­fec­tion of per­son­al­ity.

26:4.15Abil­ity to com­pre­hend is the mor­tal pass­port to Par­a­dise. Will­ing­ness to be­lieve is the key to Ha­vona. The ac­cep­tance of son­ship, co-op­er­a­tion with the in­dwelling Ad­juster, is the price of evo­lu­tion­ary sur­vival.

26:5.4There is a def­i­nite re­quire­ment of the pil­grims of time on each of the Ha­vona cir­cles; and while ev­ery pil­grim con­tin­ues un­der the tute­lage of super­na­phim by na­ture adapted to help­ing that par­tic­u­lar type of as­cen­dant crea­ture, the course that must be mas­tered is fairly uni­form for all as­cend­ers who reach the cen­tral uni­verse. This course of achieve­ment is quan­ti­ta­tive, qual­i­ta­tive, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial—in­tel­lec­tual, spir­i­tual, and su­preme.

26:5.5Time is of lit­tle con­se­quence on the Ha­vona cir­cles. In a lim­ited man­ner it en­ters into the pos­si­bil­i­ties of ad­vance­ment, but achieve­ment is the fi­nal and su­preme test. The very mo­ment your super­aphic as­so­ciate deems you to be com­pe­tent to pass in­ward to the next cir­cle, you will be taken be­fore the twelve ad­ju­tants of the sev­enth Cir­cuit Spirit. Here you will be re­quired to pass the tests of the cir­cle de­ter­mined by the super­uni­verse of your ori­gin and by the sys­tem of your na­tiv­ity. The di­vin­ity at­tain­ment of this cir­cle takes place on the pi­lot world and con­sists in the spir­i­tual rec­og­ni­tion and re­al­iza­tion of the Mas­ter Spirit of the as­cend­ing pil­grim’s super­uni­verse.

26:7.4When an as­cen­dant soul ac­tu­ally starts for Par­a­dise, he is ac­com­pa­nied only by the tran­sit trio: the super­aphic cir­cle as­so­ciate, the Grad­u­ate Guide, and the ever-pres­ent servi­tal as­so­ciate of the lat­ter. These ex­cur­sions from the Ha­vona cir­cles to Par­a­dise are trial trips; the as­cend­ers are not yet of Par­a­dise sta­tus. They do not achieve res­i­den­tial sta­tus on Par­a­dise un­til they have passed through the ter­mi­nal rest of time sub­se­quent to the at­tain­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the fi­nal clear­ance of the Ha­vona cir­cuits. Not un­til af­ter the di­vine rest do they par­take of the “essence of di­vin­ity” and the “spirit of su­prem­acy” and thus re­ally be­gin to func­tion in the cir­cle of eter­nity and in the pres­ence of the Trin­ity.

26:8.3Af­ter the at­tain­ment of the In­fi­nite Spirit, no more ex­am­i­na­tions are con­ducted. The tests of the in­ner cir­cles are the per­for­mances of the pil­grim can­di­dates when in the em­brace of the en­shroud­ment of the De­i­ties. Ad­vance­ment is de­ter­mined purely by the spir­i­tu­al­ity of the in­di­vid­ual, and no one but the Gods pre­sumes to pass upon this pos­ses­sion. In the event of fail­ure no rea­sons are ever as­signed, nei­ther are the can­di­dates them­selves nor their var­i­ous tu­tors and guides ever chided or crit­i­cized. On Par­a­dise, dis­ap­point­ment is never re­garded as de­feat; post­pone­ment is never looked upon as dis­grace; the ap­par­ent fail­ures of time are never con­fused with the sig­nif­i­cant de­lays of eter­nity.

26:8.4 · one paragraph not cited here ·

26:8.4Not many pil­grims ex­pe­ri­ence the de­lay of seem­ing fail­ure in the De­ity ad­ven­ture. Nearly all at­tain the In­fi­nite Spirit, though oc­ca­sion­ally a pil­grim from super­uni­verse num­ber one does not suc­ceed on the first at­tempt. The pil­grims who at­tain the Spirit sel­dom fail in find­ing the Son; of those who do fail on the first ad­ven­ture, al­most all hail from super­uni­verses three and five. The great ma­jor­ity of those who fail on the first ad­ven­ture to at­tain the Fa­ther, af­ter find­ing both the Spirit and the Son, hail from super­uni­verse num­ber six, though a few from num­bers two and three are like­wise un­suc­cess­ful. And all this seems clearly to in­di­cate that there is some good and suf­fi­cient rea­son for these ap­par­ent fail­ures; in re­al­ity, sim­ply un­escapable de­lays.

26:8.5The de­feated can­di­dates for the De­ity ad­ven­ture are placed un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the chiefs of as­sign­ment, a group of pri­mary super­na­phim, and are re­manded to the work of the realms of space for a pe­riod of not less than one mil­len­nium. They never re­turn to the super­uni­verse of their na­tiv­ity, al­ways to that super­cre­ation most pro­pi­tious for their re­train­ing in prepa­ra­tion for the sec­ond De­ity ad­ven­ture. Fol­low­ing this ser­vice, on their own mo­tion, they re­turn to the outer cir­cle of Ha­vona, are im­me­di­ately es­corted to the cir­cle of their in­ter­rupted ca­reer, and at once re­sume their prepa­ra­tions for the De­ity ad­ven­ture. Never do the sec­ondary super­na­phim fail to pi­lot their sub­jects suc­cess­fully on the sec­ond at­tempt, and the same super­aphic min­is­ters and other guides al­ways at­tend these can­di­dates dur­ing this sec­ond ad­ven­ture.

26:10.2Those who are un­suc­cess­ful in the first ef­fort at De­ity at­tain­ment are ad­vanced from the cir­cle of fail­ure di­rectly to the sec­ond cir­cle be­fore they are re­turned to super­uni­verse ser­vice. Thus the coun­selors and ad­vis­ers also serve as the coun­selors and com­forters of these dis­ap­pointed pil­grims. They have just en­coun­tered their great­est dis­ap­point­ment, in no way dif­fer­ing from the long list of such ex­pe­ri­ences whereon they climbed, as on a lad­der, from chaos to glory—ex­cept in its mag­ni­tude. These are they who have drained the ex­pe­ri­en­tial cup to its dregs; and I have ob­served that they tem­porar­ily re­turn to the ser­vices of the super­uni­verses as the high­est type of lov­ing min­is­tra­tors to the chil­dren of time and tem­po­ral dis­ap­point­ments.

26:10.3Af­ter a long so­journ on cir­cuit num­ber two the sub­jects of dis­ap­point­ment are ex­am­ined by the coun­cils of per­fec­tion sit­ting on the pi­lot world of this cir­cle and are cer­ti­fied as hav­ing passed the Ha­vona test; and this, so far as non­spir­i­tual sta­tus is con­cerned, grants them the same stand­ing in the uni­verses of time as if they had ac­tu­ally suc­ceeded in the De­ity ad­ven­ture. The spirit of such can­di­dates was wholly ac­cept­able; their fail­ure was in­her­ent in some phase of the tech­nique of ap­proach or in some part of their ex­pe­ri­en­tial back­ground.

26:10.4They are then taken by the coun­selors of the cir­cle be­fore the chiefs of as­sign­ment on Par­a­dise and are re­manded to the ser­vice of time on the worlds of space; and they go with joy and glad­ness to the tasks of for­mer days and ages. In an­other day they will re­turn to the cir­cle of their great­est dis­ap­point­ment and at­tempt anew the De­ity ad­ven­ture.

27:3.3The in­ter­preters of ethics are of in­es­timable as­sis­tance to the Par­a­dise ar­rivals in help­ing them to ad­just to nu­mer­ous groups of ma­jes­tic be­ings dur­ing that event­ful pe­riod ex­tend­ing from the at­tain­ment of res­i­den­tial sta­tus to for­mal in­duc­tion into the Corps of Mor­tal Fi­nal­i­ters. Many of the nu­mer­ous types of Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens the as­cen­dant pil­grims have al­ready met on the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona. The glo­ri­fied mor­tals have also en­joyed in­ti­mate con­tact with the crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons of the con­joint corps on the in­ner Ha­vona cir­cuit, where these be­ings are re­ceiv­ing much of their ed­u­ca­tion. And on the other cir­cuits the as­cend­ing pil­grims have met nu­mer­ous un­re­vealed res­i­dents of the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem who are there pur­su­ing group train­ing in prepa­ra­tion for the un­re­vealed as­sign­ments of the fu­ture.

27:7.8Af­ter the at­tain­ment of the su­preme sat­is­fac­tion of the full­ness of wor­ship, you are qual­i­fied for ad­mis­sion to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. The as­cen­dant ca­reer is well-nigh fin­ished, and the sev­enth ju­bilee pre­pares for cel­e­bra­tion. The first ju­bilee marked the mor­tal agree­ment with the Thought Ad­juster when the pur­pose to sur­vive was sealed; the sec­ond was the awak­en­ing in the mor­ontia life; the third was the fu­sion with the Thought Ad­juster; the fourth was the awak­en­ing in Ha­vona; the fifth cel­e­brated the find­ing of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and the sixth ju­bilee was the oc­ca­sion of the Par­a­dise awak­en­ing from the fi­nal tran­sit slum­ber of time. The sev­enth ju­bilee marks en­trance into the mor­tal fi­nal­i­ter corps and the be­gin­ning of the eter­nity ser­vice. The at­tain­ment of the sev­enth stage of spirit re­al­iza­tion by a fi­nal­i­ter will prob­a­bly sig­nal­ize the cel­e­bra­tion of the first of the ju­bilees of eter­nity.

30:4.266. Ha­vona Pil­grims. When spirit de­vel­op­ment is com­plete, even though not re­plete, then the sur­viv­ing mor­tal pre­pares for the long flight to Ha­vona, the haven of evo­lu­tion­ary spir­its. On earth you were a crea­ture of flesh and blood; through the lo­cal uni­verse you were a mor­ontia be­ing; through the super­uni­verse you were an evolv­ing spirit; with your ar­rival on the re­ceiv­ing worlds of Ha­vona your spir­i­tual ed­u­ca­tion be­gins in re­al­ity and in earnest; your even­tual ap­pear­ance on Par­a­dise will be as a per­fected spirit.

30:4.27The jour­ney from the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters to the Ha­vona re­ceiv­ing spheres is al­ways made alone. From now on no more class or group in­struc­tion will be ad­min­is­tered. You are through with the tech­ni­cal and ad­min­is­tra­tive train­ing of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space. Now be­gins your per­sonal ed­u­ca­tion, your in­di­vid­ual spir­i­tual train­ing. From first to last, through­out all Ha­vona, the in­struc­tion is per­sonal and three­fold in na­ture: in­tel­lec­tual, spir­i­tual, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial.

30:4.28The first act of your Ha­vona ca­reer will be to rec­og­nize and thank your trans­port se­con­a­phim for the long and safe jour­ney. Then you are pre­sented to those be­ings who will spon­sor your early Ha­vona ac­tiv­i­ties. Next you go to reg­is­ter your ar­rival and pre­pare your mes­sage of thanks­giv­ing and ado­ra­tion for dis­patch to the Cre­ator Son of your lo­cal uni­verse, the uni­verse Fa­ther who made pos­si­ble your son­ship ca­reer. This con­cludes the for­mal­i­ties of the Ha­vona ar­rival; where­upon you are ac­corded a long pe­riod of leisure for free ob­ser­va­tion, and this af­fords op­por­tu­nity for look­ing up your friends, fel­lows, and as­so­ciates of the long as­cen­sion ex­pe­ri­ence. You may also con­sult the broad­casts to as­cer­tain who of your fel­low pil­grims have de­parted for Ha­vona since the time of your leav­ing Uversa.

30:4.29The fact of your ar­rival on the re­ceiv­ing worlds of Ha­vona will be duly trans­mit­ted to the head­quar­ters of your lo­cal uni­verse and per­son­ally con­veyed to your se­raphic guard­ian, wher­ever that ser­a­phim may chance to be.

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.

106:2.4This ex­pe­ri­en­tial power aris­ing out of the di­vin­ity achieve­ments of God the Sev­en­fold it­self man­i­fests the co­he­sive qual­i­ties of di­vin­ity by syn­the­siz­ing—to­tal­iz­ing—as the al­mighty power of the at­tained ex­pe­ri­en­tial mas­tery of the evolv­ing cre­ations. And this al­mighty power in turn finds spirit-per­son­al­ity co­he­sion on the pi­lot sphere of the outer belt of Ha­vona worlds in union with the spirit per­son­al­ity of the Ha­vona pres­ence of God the Su­preme. Thus does ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity cul­mi­nate the long evo­lu­tion­ary strug­gle by in­vest­ing the power prod­uct of time and space with the spirit pres­ence and di­vine per­son­al­ity res­i­dent in the cen­tral cre­ation.

Onward

See also ascending mortals

Cited alongside: Havona, ascending mortals, Paradise, defeat, disappointment, God, seraphic, secoraphic, and superaphic transport, examinations