Paradise Citizens

• nontime beings, but aware of sequence

11:2.11Roughly: space seem­ingly orig­i­nates just be­low nether Par­a­dise; time just above up­per Par­a­dise. Time, as you un­der­stand it, is not a fea­ture of Par­a­dise ex­is­tence, though the cit­i­zens of the cen­tral Isle are fully con­scious of non­time se­quence of events. Mo­tion is not in­her­ent on Par­a­dise; it is vo­li­tional. But the con­cept of dis­tance, even ab­so­lute dis­tance, has very much mean­ing as it may be ap­plied to rel­a­tive lo­ca­tions on Par­a­dise. Par­a­dise is non­spa­tial; hence its ar­eas are ab­so­lute and there­fore ser­vice­able in many ways be­yond the con­cept of mor­tal mind.

• no more being created

19:0.9Ex­cept­ing the Trin­ity Teacher Sons and pos­si­bly the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, these groups are of def­i­nite num­bers; their cre­ation is a fin­ished and past event.

• ascenders fraternize with 3000 orders of

19:7.1There are res­i­dent on Par­a­dise nu­mer­ous groups of su­perb be­ings, the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens. They are not di­rectly con­cerned with the scheme of per­fect­ing as­cend­ing will crea­tures and are not, there­fore, fully re­vealed to Uran­tia mor­tals. There are more than three thou­sand or­ders of these su­per­nal in­tel­li­gences, the last group hav­ing been per­son­al­ized si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the man­date of the Trin­ity which pro­mul­gated the cre­ative plan of the seven super­uni­verses of time and space.

19:7.2Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens and Ha­vona na­tives are some­times des­ig­nated col­lec­tively as Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties.

19:7.3This com­pletes the story of those be­ings who are brought into ex­is­tence by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. None of them have ever gone astray. And yet, in the high­est sense, they are all free­will en­dowed.

19:7.4Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings pos­sess pre­rog­a­tives of tran­sit which make them in­de­pen­dent of trans­port per­son­al­i­ties, such as ser­a­phim. We all pos­sess the power of mov­ing about freely and quickly in the uni­verse of uni­verses. Ex­cept­ing the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, we can­not at­tain the al­most un­be­liev­able ve­loc­ity of the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, but we are able so to uti­lize the sum to­tal of the trans­port fa­cil­i­ties in space that we can reach any point in a super­uni­verse, from its head­quar­ters, in less than one year of Uran­tia time. It re­quired 109 days of your time for me to jour­ney from Uversa to Uran­tia.

19:7.5Through these same av­enues we are en­abled to in­ter­com­mu­ni­cate in­stan­ta­neously. Our en­tire or­der of cre­ation finds it­self in touch with ev­ery in­di­vid­ual em­braced within ev­ery di­vi­sion of the chil­dren of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity save only the In­spired Spir­its.

19:7.6[Pre­sented by a Di­vine Coun­selor of Uversa.]

• trinitization by

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.

22:7.11The Su­preme Be­ing is the uni­fi­ca­tion of three phases of De­ity re­al­ity: God the Su­preme, the spir­i­tual uni­fi­ca­tion of cer­tain fi­nite as­pects of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity; the Al­mighty Su­preme, the power uni­fi­ca­tion of the grand uni­verse Cre­ators; and the Su­preme Mind, the in­di­vid­ual con­tri­bu­tion of the Third Source and Cen­ter and his co-or­di­nates to the re­al­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing. In their trin­i­ti­za­tion ad­ven­tures the su­perb crea­tures of the cen­tral uni­verse and Par­a­dise are en­gaged in a three­fold ex­plo­ration of the De­ity of the Su­preme which re­sults in the pro­duc­tion of three or­ders of crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons:

22:7.121. As­cender-trin­i­tized Sons. In their cre­ative ef­forts the fi­nal­i­ters are at­tempt­ing to trini­tize cer­tain con­cep­tual re­al­i­ties of the Al­mighty Su­preme which they have ex­pe­ri­en­tially ac­quired in their as­cen­sion through time and space to Par­a­dise.

22:7.132. Par­a­dise-Ha­vona-trin­i­tized Sons. The cre­ative ef­forts of the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens and the Havon­ers re­sult in the trin­i­ti­za­tion of cer­tain high spir­i­tual as­pects of the Su­preme Be­ing which they have ex­pe­ri­en­tially ac­quired on a super­su­preme back­ground bor­der­ing on the Ul­ti­mate and the Eter­nal.

22:7.143. Trin­i­tized Sons of Des­tiny. But when a fi­nal­i­ter and a Par­a­dise-Havoner to­gether trini­tize a new crea­ture, this con­joint ef­fort reper­cusses in cer­tain phases of the Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate Mind. The re­sult­ing crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons are super­cre­ational; they rep­re­sent ac­tu­al­i­ties of Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate De­ity which have not been oth­er­wise ex­pe­ri­en­tially at­tained, and which, there­fore, au­to­mat­i­cally fall within the prov­ince of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse, cus­to­di­ans of those things which tran­scend the cre­ational lim­its of the pres­ent uni­verse age. The trin­i­tized sons of des­tiny em­body cer­tain as­pects of the un­re­vealed mas­ter uni­verse func­tion of the Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate. We do not know a great deal about these con­joint chil­dren of time and eter­nity, but we know much more than we are per­mit­ted to re­veal.

• gracious and brilliant
• often assist Paradise Companions

25:8.3These se­lected an­gels are ded­i­cated to the ser­vice of com­pan­ion­ship and are as­signed as as­so­ciates to all classes of be­ings who may chance to be alone on Par­a­dise, chiefly to the as­cen­dant mor­tals but also to all oth­ers who are alone on the cen­tral Isle. Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions have noth­ing es­pe­cial to ac­com­plish in be­half of those with whom they frat­er­nize; they are sim­ply com­pan­ions. Al­most ev­ery other be­ing you mor­tals will en­counter dur­ing your Par­a­dise so­journ—aside from your fel­low pil­grims—will have some­thing def­i­nite to do with you or for you; but these com­pan­ions are as­signed only to be with you and to com­mune with you as per­son­al­ity as­so­ciates. They are of­ten as­sisted in their min­istry by the gra­cious and bril­liant Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens.

• pass through Havona outward from first circuit

26:3.1These ser­vants of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are the an­gelic spe­cial­ists of the var­i­ous cir­cuits of Ha­vona, and their min­istry ex­tends to both the as­cend­ing pil­grims of time and the de­scend­ing pil­grims of eter­nity. On the bil­lion study worlds of the per­fect cen­tral cre­ation, your super­aphic as­so­ciates of all or­ders will be fully vis­i­ble to you. There you will all be, in the high­est sense, fra­ter­nal and un­der­stand­ing be­ings of mu­tual con­tact and sym­pa­thy. You will also fully rec­og­nize and ex­qui­sitely frat­er­nize with the de­scend­ing pil­grims, the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens, who tra­verse these cir­cuits from within out­ward, en­ter­ing Ha­vona through the pi­lot world of the first cir­cuit and pro­ceed­ing out­ward to the sev­enth.

• finaliters accompany P.C. when 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.

• first landed on Havona in times of Grandfanda

26:5.1The first of the seven groups of sec­ondary super­na­phim to be en­coun­tered are the pil­grim helpers, those be­ings of quick un­der­stand­ing and broad sym­pa­thy who wel­come the much-trav­eled as­cend­ers of space to the sta­bi­lized worlds and set­tled econ­omy of the cen­tral uni­verse. Si­mul­ta­ne­ously these high min­is­ters be­gin their work for the Par­a­dise pil­grims of eter­nity, the first of whom ar­rived on the pi­lot world of the in­ner Ha­vona cir­cuit con­comi­tantly with the land­ing of Grand­fanda on the pi­lot world of the outer cir­cuit. Back in those far-dis­tant days the pil­grims from Par­a­dise and the pil­grims of time first met on the re­ceiv­ing world of cir­cuit num­ber four.

• descending P.C. achieve new comprehension of Creator Sons on 4th Havona Circuit

26:8.1The fourth Ha­vona cir­cuit is some­times called the “cir­cuit of the Sons.” From the worlds of this cir­cuit the as­cend­ing pil­grims go to Par­a­dise to achieve an un­der­stand­ing con­tact with the Eter­nal Son, while on the worlds of this cir­cuit the de­scend­ing pil­grims achieve a new com­pre­hen­sion of the na­ture and mis­sion of the Cre­ator Sons of time and space. There are seven worlds in this cir­cuit on which the re­serve corps of the Par­a­dise Mi­cha­els main­tain spe­cial ser­vice schools of mu­tual min­istry to both the as­cend­ing and de­scend­ing pil­grims; and it is on these worlds of the Mi­chael Sons that the pil­grims of time and the pil­grims of eter­nity ar­rive at their first truly mu­tual un­der­stand­ing of one an­other. In many re­spects the ex­pe­ri­ences of this cir­cuit are the most in­trigu­ing of the en­tire Ha­vona so­journ.

• destiny of some is Paradise Corps of Trinitized Finaliters
• some were executive assistants to Eternals of Days before Grandfanda

26:11.2Among those who dwell on this in­ner cir­cuit are the crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons. The pri­mary and the sec­ondary super­na­phim are the gen­eral cus­to­di­ans of the con­joint corps of these sons, in­clud­ing the trin­i­tized off­spring of the mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters and sim­i­lar progeny of the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens. Cer­tain of these sons are Trin­ity em­braced and com­mis­sioned in the super­gov­ern­ments, oth­ers are var­i­ously as­signed, but the great ma­jor­ity are be­ing gath­ered to­gether in the con­joint corps on the per­fect worlds of the in­ner Ha­vona cir­cuit. Here, un­der the super­vi­sion of the super­na­phim, they are be­ing pre­pared for some fu­ture work by a spe­cial and un­named corps of high Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens who were, prior to the times of Grand­fanda, first ex­ec­u­tive as­sis­tants to the Eter­nals of Days. There are many rea­sons for con­jec­tur­ing that these two unique groups of trin­i­tized be­ings are go­ing to work to­gether in the re­mote fu­ture, not the least of which is their com­mon des­tiny in the re­serves of the Par­a­dise Corps of Trin­i­tized Fi­nal­i­ters.

• ascenders fraternize with 3000 orders of

27:2.3When you mor­tal as­cend­ers at­tain Par­a­dise, your so­ci­etal re­la­tion­ships in­volve a great deal more than con­tact with a host of ex­alted and di­vine be­ings and with a fa­mil­iar mul­ti­tude of glo­ri­fied fel­low mor­tals. You must also frat­er­nize with up­wards of three thou­sand dif­fer­ent or­ders of Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens, with the var­i­ous groups of the Tran­scen­den­talers, and with nu­mer­ous other types of Par­a­dise in­hab­i­tants, per­ma­nent and tran­sient, who have not been re­vealed on Uran­tia. Af­ter sus­tained con­tact with these mighty in­tel­lects of Par­a­dise, it is very rest­ful to visit with the an­gelic types of mind; they re­mind the mor­tals of time of the ser­a­phim with whom they have had such long con­tact and such re­fresh­ing as­so­ci­a­tion.

• cannot understand spiritual emotions of ascenders

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.

• in personality registers

30:1.224. Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens.

• in personality registers

30:2.3614. Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens.

• trinitization by

30:2.639. Par­a­dise-Ha­vona-trin­i­tized Sons.

• in personality registers

30:2.12711. The Cre­ated Cit­i­zens of Par­a­dise.

• may serve as Evangels of Light attached to mortal finaliter companies

31:7.2Any ce­les­tial per­son­al­ity as­signed to the ser­vice of any fi­nal­i­ter corps is de­nom­i­nated an Evan­gel of Light. These be­ings do not take the fi­nal­i­ter oath, and though sub­ject to the corps or­ga­ni­za­tion they are not of per­ma­nent at­tach­ment. This group may em­brace Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, super­na­phim, se­con­a­phim, Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens, or their trin­i­tized off­spring—any be­ing re­quired in the pros­e­cu­tion of a tran­sient fi­nal­i­ter as­sign­ment. Whether or not the corps is to have these be­ings at­tached to the eter­nal mis­sion, we do not know. At the con­clu­sion of at­tach­ment these Evan­gels of Light re­sume their for­mer sta­tus.

• acquire capacity for Supremacy

117:6.121. The Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens de­scend from the eter­nal Isle through Ha­vona, where they ac­quire ca­pac­ity for Su­prem­acy com­pre­hen­sion through ob­ser­va­tion of the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona re­al­ity dif­fer­en­tial and by ex­ploratory dis­cov­ery of the man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties of the Su­preme Cre­ator Per­son­al­i­ties, rang­ing from the Mas­ter Spir­its to the Cre­ator Sons.