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Sonarington

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

7:5.4The Eter­nal Son comes not to mor­tal man as the di­vine will, the Thought Ad­juster in­dwelling the hu­man mind, but the Eter­nal Son did come to mor­tal man on Uran­tia when the di­vine per­son­al­ity of his Son, Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, in­car­nated in the hu­man na­ture of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth. To share the ex­pe­ri­ence of cre­ated per­son­al­i­ties, the Par­a­dise Sons of God must as­sume the very na­tures of such crea­tures and in­car­nate their di­vine per­son­al­i­ties as the ac­tual crea­tures them­selves. In­car­na­tion, the se­cret of Sonar­ing­ton, is the tech­nique of the Son’s es­cape from the oth­er­wise all-en­com­pass­ing fet­ters of per­son­al­ity ab­so­lutism.

13:1.72. SONAR­ING­TON. This sphere is the “bo­som of the Son,” the per­sonal re­ceiv­ing world of the Eter­nal Son. It is the Par­a­dise head­quar­ters of the de­scend­ing and as­cend­ing Sons of God when, and af­ter, they are fully ac­cred­ited and fi­nally ap­proved. This world is the Par­a­dise home for all Sons of the Eter­nal Son and of his co-or­di­nate and as­so­ciate Sons. There are nu­mer­ous or­ders of di­vine son­ship at­tached to this su­per­nal abode which have not been re­vealed to mor­tals since they are not con­cerned with the plans of the as­cen­sion scheme of hu­man spir­i­tual pro­gres­sion through the uni­verses and on to Par­a­dise.

13:1.8The se­crets of Sonar­ing­ton in­clude the se­cret of the in­car­na­tion of the di­vine Sons. When a Son of God be­comes a Son of Man, is lit­er­ally born of woman, as oc­curred on your world nine­teen hun­dred years ago, it is a uni­ver­sal mys­tery. It is oc­cur­ring right along through­out the uni­verses, and it is a Sonar­ing­ton se­cret of di­vine son­ship. The Ad­justers are a mys­tery of God the Fa­ther. The in­car­na­tion of the di­vine Sons is a mys­tery of God the Son; it is a se­cret locked up in the sev­enth sec­tor of Sonar­ing­ton, a realm pen­e­trated by none save those who have per­son­ally passed through this unique ex­pe­ri­ence. Only those phases of in­car­na­tion hav­ing to do with your as­cen­sion ca­reer have been brought to your no­tice. There are many other phases of the mys­tery of the in­car­na­tion of the Par­a­dise Sons of un­re­vealed types on mis­sions of uni­verse ser­vice which are undis­closed to you. And there are still other Sonar­ing­ton mys­ter­ies.

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.

119:1.6And that is all I am per­mit­ted to tell you of the first be­stowal of Mi­chael. We, of course, fully un­der­stand that this strange Mel­chiz­e­dek who so mys­te­ri­ously served with the Mel­chiz­e­deks a bil­lion years ago was none other than the in­car­nated Mi­chael on the mis­sion of his first be­stowal. The rec­ords do not specif­i­cally state that this unique and ef­fi­cient Mel­chiz­e­dek was Mi­chael, but it is uni­ver­sally be­lieved that he was. Prob­a­bly the ac­tual state­ment of that fact can­not be found out­side of the rec­ords of Sonar­ing­ton, and the rec­ords of that se­cret world are not open to us. Only on this sa­cred world of the di­vine Sons are the mys­ter­ies of in­car­na­tion and be­stowal fully known. We all know of the facts of the Mi­chael be­stowals, but we do not un­der­stand how they are ef­fected. We do not know how the ruler of a uni­verse, the cre­ator of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, can so sud­denly and mys­te­ri­ously be­come one of their num­ber and, as one of them, live among them and work as a Mel­chiz­e­dek Son for one hun­dred years. But it so hap­pened.

119:3.6The be­stowals of Mi­chael as a Mel­chiz­e­dek Son, then as a La­non­an­dek Son, and next as a Ma­te­rial Son are all equally mys­te­ri­ous and be­yond ex­pla­na­tion. In each in­stance he ap­peared sud­denly and as a fully de­vel­oped in­di­vid­ual of the be­stowal group. The mys­tery of such in­car­na­tions will never be known ex­cept to those who have ac­cess to the in­ner cir­cle of the rec­ords on the sa­cred sphere of Sonar­ing­ton.

119:7.5Joshua ben Joseph, the Jew­ish baby, was con­ceived and was born into the world just as all other ba­bies be­fore and since ex­cept that this par­tic­u­lar baby was the in­car­na­tion of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, a di­vine Son of Par­a­dise and the cre­ator of all this lo­cal uni­verse of things and be­ings. And this mys­tery of the in­car­na­tion of De­ity within the hu­man form of Je­sus, oth­er­wise of nat­u­ral ori­gin on the world, will for­ever re­main un­solved. Even in eter­nity you will never know the tech­nique and method of the in­car­na­tion of the Cre­ator in the form and like­ness of his crea­tures. That is the se­cret of Sonar­ing­ton, and such mys­ter­ies are the ex­clu­sive pos­ses­sion of those di­vine Sons who have passed through the be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence.

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See also sacred spheres of Paradise

Cited alongside: Creator Sons, Paradise Sons of God, Eternal Son, mysteries