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Paradise arrivals

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

27:7.6There are ap­pointed times and places for wor­ship on Par­a­dise, but these are not ad­e­quate to ac­com­mo­date the ever-in­creas­ing over­flow of the spir­i­tual emo­tions of the grow­ing in­tel­li­gence and ex­pand­ing di­vin­ity rec­og­ni­tion of the bril­liant be­ings of ex­pe­ri­en­tial as­cen­sion to the eter­nal Isle. Never since the times of Grand­fanda have the super­na­phim been able fully to ac­com­mo­date the spirit of wor­ship on Par­a­dise. Al­ways is there an ex­cess of wor­ship­ful­ness as gauged by the prepa­ra­tion there­for. And this is be­cause per­son­al­i­ties of in­her­ent per­fec­tion never can fully ap­pre­ci­ate the tremen­dous re­ac­tions of the spir­i­tual emo­tions of be­ings who have slowly and la­bo­ri­ously made their way up­ward to Par­a­dise glory from the depths of the spir­i­tual dark­ness of the lower worlds of time and space. When such an­gels and mor­tals of time at­tain the pres­ence of the Pow­ers of Par­a­dise, there oc­curs the ex­pres­sion of the ac­cu­mu­lated emo­tions of the ages, a spec­ta­cle as­tound­ing to the an­gels of Par­a­dise and pro­duc­tive of the su­preme joy of di­vine sat­is­fac­tion in the Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

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.

Onward

See also ascending mortals

Cited alongside: Corps of Mortal Finaliters, finaliters