Sons of God

• mortals as sons of God

2:5.4God is di­vinely kind to sin­ners. When rebels re­turn to righ­teous­ness, they are mer­ci­fully re­ceived, “for our God will abun­dantly par­don.” “I am he who blots out your trans­gres­sions for my own sake, and I will not re­mem­ber your sins.” “Be­hold what man­ner of love the Fa­ther has be­stowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God.”

• divine entities going out from God are part of him

3:3.1“God knows all things.” The di­vine mind is con­scious of, and con­ver­sant with, the thought of all cre­ation. His knowl­edge of events is uni­ver­sal and per­fect. The di­vine en­ti­ties go­ing out from him are a part of him; he who “bal­ances the clouds” is also “per­fect in knowl­edge.” “The eyes of the Lord are in ev­ery place.” Said your great teacher of the in­signif­i­cant spar­row, “One of them shall not fall to the ground with­out my Fa­ther’s knowl­edge,” and also, “The very hairs of your head are num­bered.” “He tells the num­ber of the stars; he calls them all by their names.”

• Sonarington is Paradise headquarters of

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.

• orders of Sons of God › D. trinitized orders › includes all beings embraced by Trinity

20:0.1As they func­tion in the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton, the Sons of God are clas­si­fied un­der three gen­eral heads:

20:0.21. The De­scend­ing Sons of God.

20:0.32. The As­cend­ing Sons of God.

20:0.43. The Trin­i­tized Sons of God.

• orders of Sons of God › A. descending orders › of direct and divine creation
• orders of Sons of God › B. ascending orders › achieve status by experiential participation

20:0.5De­scend­ing or­ders of son­ship in­clude per­son­al­i­ties who are of di­rect and di­vine cre­ation. As­cend­ing sons, such as mor­tal crea­tures, achieve this sta­tus by ex­pe­ri­en­tial par­tic­i­pa­tion in the cre­ative tech­nique known as evo­lu­tion. Trin­i­tized Sons are a group of com­pos­ite ori­gin which in­cludes all be­ings em­braced by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity even though not of di­rect Trin­ity ori­gin.

• orders of Sons of God › A. descending orders › of direct and divine creation

20:1.1All de­scend­ing Sons of God have high and di­vine ori­gins. They are ded­i­cated to the de­scend­ing min­istry of ser­vice on the worlds and sys­tems of time and space, there to fa­cil­i­tate the prog­ress in the Par­a­dise climb of the lowly crea­tures of evo­lu­tion­ary ori­gin—the as­cend­ing sons of God. Of the nu­mer­ous or­ders of de­scend­ing Sons, seven will be de­picted in these nar­ra­tives. Those Sons who come forth from the De­i­ties on the cen­tral Isle of Light and Life are called the Par­a­dise Sons of God and em­brace the fol­low­ing three or­ders:

20:1.21. Cre­ator Sons—the Mi­cha­els.

20:1.32. Mag­is­te­rial Sons—the Avo­nals.

20:1.43. Trin­ity Teacher Sons—the Day­nals.

20:1.5The re­main­ing four or­ders of de­scend­ing son­ship are known as the Lo­cal Uni­verse Sons of God:

20:1.64. Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons.

20:1.75. Vo­ron­da­dek Sons.

20:1.86. La­non­an­dek Sons.

20:1.97. The Life Car­ri­ers.

20:1.10Mel­chiz­e­deks are the joint off­spring of a lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ator Son, Cre­ative Spirit, and Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek. Both Voron­dadeks and La­non­an­deks are brought into be­ing by a Cre­ator Son and his Cre­ative Spirit as­so­ciate. Voron­dadeks are best known as the Most Highs, the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers; La­non­an­deks as Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns and as Plan­e­tary Princes. The three­fold or­der of Life Car­ri­ers is brought into be­ing by a Cre­ator Son and Cre­ative Spirit as­so­ci­ated with one of the three An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse of ju­ris­dic­tion. But the na­tures and ac­tiv­i­ties of these Lo­cal Uni­verse Sons of God are more prop­erly por­trayed in those pa­pers deal­ing with the af­fairs of the lo­cal cre­ations.

20:1.11The Par­a­dise Sons of God are of three­fold ori­gin: The pri­mary or Cre­ator Sons are brought into be­ing by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son; the sec­ondary or Mag­is­te­rial Sons are chil­dren of the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit; the Trin­ity Teacher Sons are the off­spring of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit. From the stand­point of ser­vice, wor­ship, and sup­pli­ca­tion the Par­a­dise Sons are as one; their spirit is one, and their work is iden­ti­cal in qual­ity and com­plete­ness.

20:1.12As the Par­a­dise or­ders of Days proved to be di­vine ad­min­is­tra­tors, so have the or­ders of Par­a­dise Sons re­vealed them­selves as di­vine min­is­ters—cre­ators, servers, be­stow­ers, judges, teach­ers, and truth re­veal­ers. They range the uni­verse of uni­verses from the shores of the eter­nal Isle to the in­hab­ited worlds of time and space, per­form­ing man­i­fold ser­vices in the cen­tral and super­uni­verses not dis­closed in these nar­ra­tives. They are var­i­ously or­ga­nized, de­pen­dent on the na­ture and where­abouts of their ser­vice, but in a lo­cal uni­verse both Mag­is­te­rial and Teacher Sons serve un­der the di­rec­tion of the Cre­ator Son who pre­sides over that do­main.

20:1.13The Cre­ator Sons seem to pos­sess a spir­i­tual en­dow­ment cen­ter­ing in their per­sons, which they con­trol and which they can be­stow, as did your own Cre­ator Son when he poured out his spirit upon all mor­tal flesh on Uran­tia. Each Cre­ator Son is en­dowed with this spir­i­tual draw­ing power in his own realm; he is per­son­ally con­scious of ev­ery act and emo­tion of ev­ery de­scend­ing Son of God serv­ing in his do­main. Here is a di­vine re­flec­tion, a lo­cal uni­verse du­pli­ca­tion, of that ab­so­lute spir­i­tual draw­ing power of the Eter­nal Son which en­ables him to reach out to make and main­tain con­tact with all his Par­a­dise Sons, no mat­ter where they may be in all the uni­verse of uni­verses.

20:1.14The Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons serve not only as Sons in their de­scend­ing min­is­tra­tions of ser­vice and be­stowal, but when they have com­pleted their be­stowal ca­reers, each func­tions as a uni­verse Fa­ther in his own cre­ation, while the other Sons of God con­tinue the ser­vice of be­stowal and spir­i­tual up­lift­ing de­signed to win the plan­ets, one by one, to the will­ing rec­og­ni­tion of the lov­ing rule of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, cul­mi­nat­ing in crea­ture con­se­cra­tion to the will of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther and in plan­e­tary loy­alty to the uni­verse sov­er­eignty of his Cre­ator Son.

20:1.15In a sev­en­fold Cre­ator Son, Cre­ator and crea­ture are for­ever blended in un­der­stand­ing, sym­pa­thetic, and mer­ci­ful as­so­ci­a­tion. The en­tire or­der of Mi­chael, the Cre­ator Sons, is so unique that the con­sid­er­a­tion of their na­tures and ac­tiv­i­ties will be re­served to the next pa­per in this se­ries, while this nar­ra­tive will be chiefly con­cerned with the two re­main­ing or­ders of Par­a­dise son­ship: the Mag­is­te­rial Sons and the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

• orders of Sons of God › A. descending orders › types

30:1.30A. The De­scend­ing Or­ders.

30:1.311. Cre­ator Sons.

30:1.322. Mag­is­te­rial Sons.

30:1.333. Bright and Morn­ing Stars.

30:1.344. Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­deks.

30:1.355. The Mel­chiz­e­deks.

30:1.366. The Voron­dadeks.

30:1.377. The La­non­an­deks.

30:1.388. Bril­liant Evening Stars.

30:1.399. The Arch­an­gels.

30:1.4010. Life Car­ri­ers.

• orders of Sons of God › A. descending orders › types › unrevealed Sons of God and Universe Aids

30:1.4111. Un­re­vealed Uni­verse Aids.

30:1.4212. Un­re­vealed Sons of God.

• orders of Sons of God › C. stationary orders (dual origin) › types

30:1.43B. The Sta­tion­ary Or­ders.

30:1.441. Aban­don­ters.

30:1.452. Susa­tia.

30:1.463. Uni­v­i­ta­tia.

30:1.474. Spironga.

• orders of Sons of God › C. stationary orders (dual origin) › types › 5. unrevealed orders

30:1.485. Un­re­vealed Dual-ori­gin Be­ings.

• orders of Sons of God › B. ascending orders › types › unrevealed ascenders

30:1.545. Un­re­vealed As­cend­ers.

• in Uversa personality register

30:2.37IV. THE SONS OF GOD.

• orders of Sons of God › A. descending orders › types

30:2.38A. De­scend­ing Sons.

30:2.391. Cre­ator Sons—Mi­cha­els.

30:2.402. Mag­is­te­rial Sons—Avo­nals.

30:2.413. Trin­ity Teacher Sons—Day­nals.

30:2.424. Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons.

30:2.435. Vo­ron­da­dek Sons.

30:2.446. La­non­an­dek Sons.

30:2.457. Life Car­rier Sons.

• orders of Sons of God › B. ascending orders
• orders of Sons of God › B. ascending orders › types

30:2.46B. As­cend­ing Sons.

30:2.471. Fa­ther-fused Mor­tals.

30:2.482. Son-fused Mor­tals.

30:2.493. Spirit-fused Mor­tals.

30:2.504. Evo­lu­tion­ary Ser­a­phim.

30:2.515. As­cend­ing Ma­te­rial Sons.

30:2.526. Trans­lated Mid­way­ers.

30:2.537. Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers.

30:2.54C. Trin­i­tized Sons.

30:2.551. Mighty Mes­sen­gers.

30:2.562. Those High in Au­thor­ity.

30:2.573. Those with­out Name and Num­ber.

30:2.584. Trin­i­tized Cus­to­di­ans.

30:2.595. Trin­i­tized Am­bas­sadors.

30:2.606. Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans.

30:2.617. High Son As­sis­tants.

30:2.628. As­cender-trin­i­tized Sons.

30:2.639. Par­a­dise-Ha­vona-trin­i­tized Sons.

30:2.6410. Trin­i­tized Sons of Des­tiny.

• mortals as sons of God › all led by spirit of God are

34:6.10The pur­pose of all this min­is­tra­tion is, “That you may be strength­ened with power through His spirit in the in­ner man.” And all this rep­re­sents but the pre­lim­i­nary steps to the fi­nal at­tain­ment of the per­fec­tion of faith and ser­vice, that ex­pe­ri­ence wherein you shall be “filled with all the full­ness of God,” “for all those who are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God.”

• mortals as sons of God › Spirit bears witness with our spirits that we are

34:6.12And when such a life of spirit guid­ance is freely and in­tel­li­gently ac­cepted, there grad­u­ally de­vel­ops within the hu­man mind a pos­i­tive con­scious­ness of di­vine con­tact and as­sur­ance of spirit com­mu­nion; sooner or later “the Spirit bears wit­ness with your spirit (the Ad­juster) that you are a child of God.” Al­ready has your own Thought Ad­juster told you of your kin­ship to God so that the rec­ord tes­ti­fies that the Spirit bears wit­ness “with your spirit,” not to your spirit.

35:0.1The Sons of God pre­vi­ously in­tro­duced have had a Par­a­dise ori­gin. They are the off­spring of the di­vine Rulers of the uni­ver­sal do­mains. Of the first Par­a­dise or­der of son­ship, the Cre­ator Sons, there is in Neb­a­don only one, Mi­chael, the uni­verse fa­ther and sov­er­eign. Of the sec­ond or­der of Par­a­dise son­ship, the Avo­nal or Mag­is­te­rial Sons, Neb­a­don has its full quota—1,062. And these “lesser Christs” are just as ef­fec­tive and all-pow­er­ful in their plan­e­tary be­stowals as was the Cre­ator and Mas­ter Son on Uran­tia. The third or­der, be­ing of Trin­ity ori­gin, do not reg­is­ter in a lo­cal uni­verse, but I es­ti­mate there are in Neb­a­don be­tween fif­teen and twenty thou­sand Trin­ity Teacher Sons ex­clu­sive of 9,642 crea­ture-trin­i­tized as­sis­tants of rec­ord. These Par­a­dise Day­nals are nei­ther mag­is­trates nor ad­min­is­tra­tors; they are super­teach­ers.

35:0.2The types of Sons about to be con­sid­ered are of lo­cal uni­verse ori­gin; they are the off­spring of a Par­a­dise Cre­ator Son in var­ied as­so­ci­a­tion with the com­ple­men­tal Uni­verse Mother Spirit. The fol­low­ing or­ders of lo­cal uni­verse son­ship find men­tion in these nar­ra­tives:

35:0.31. Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons.

35:0.42. Vo­ron­da­dek Sons.

35:0.53. La­non­an­dek Sons.

35:0.64. Life Car­rier Sons.

35:0.7Tri­une Par­a­dise De­ity func­tions for the cre­ation of three or­ders of son­ship: the Mi­cha­els, the Avo­nals, and the Day­nals. Dual De­ity in the lo­cal uni­verse, the Son and the Spirit, also func­tions in the cre­ation of three high or­ders of Sons: the Mel­chiz­e­deks, the Voron­dadeks, and the La­non­an­deks; and hav­ing achieved this three­fold ex­pres­sion, they col­lab­o­rate with the next level of God the Sev­en­fold in the pro­duc­tion of the ver­sa­tile or­der of Life Car­ri­ers. These be­ings are clas­si­fied with the de­scend­ing Sons of God, but they are a unique and orig­i­nal form of uni­verse life. Their con­sid­er­a­tion will oc­cupy the whole of the next pa­per.

• beings descending from Father and Son

38:2.2Though ser­a­phim are very af­fec­tion­ate and sym­pa­thetic be­ings, they are not sex-emo­tion crea­tures. They are much as you will be on the man­sion worlds, where you will “nei­ther marry nor be given in mar­riage but will be as the an­gels of heaven.” For all who “shall be ac­counted wor­thy to at­tain the man­sion worlds nei­ther marry nor are given in mar­riage; nei­ther do they die any more, for they are equal to the an­gels.” Nev­er­the­less, in deal­ing with sex crea­tures it is our cus­tom to speak of those be­ings of more di­rect de­scent from the Fa­ther and the Son as the sons of God, while re­fer­ring to the chil­dren of the Spirit as the daugh­ters of God. An­gels are, there­fore, com­monly des­ig­nated by fem­i­nine pro­nouns on the sex plan­ets.

• orders of Sons of God › B. ascending orders › types › 6. translated midwayers

38:9.1The mid­way crea­tures have a three­fold clas­si­fi­ca­tion: They are prop­erly clas­si­fied with the as­cend­ing Sons of God; they are fac­tu­ally grouped with the or­ders of per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship, while they are func­tion­ally reck­oned with the min­is­ter­ing spir­its of time be­cause of their in­ti­mate and ef­fec­tive as­so­ci­a­tion with the an­gelic hosts in the work of serv­ing mor­tal man on the in­di­vid­ual worlds of space.

• orders of Sons of God › B. ascending orders › types

40:0.1As in many of the ma­jor groups of uni­verse be­ings, seven gen­eral classes of the As­cend­ing Sons of God have been re­vealed:

40:3.1Al­though de­prived of the im­me­di­ate ben­e­fits of the plan­e­tary be­stowals of the de­scend­ing Sons of God, though the Par­a­dise as­cent is long de­ferred, nev­er­the­less, soon af­ter an evo­lu­tion­ary planet has at­tained the in­ter­me­di­ate epochs of light and life (if not be­fore), both groups of mid­way crea­tures are re­leased from plan­e­tary duty. Some­times the ma­jor­ity of them are trans­lated, along with their hu­man cousins, on the day of the de­scent of the tem­ple of light and the el­e­va­tion of the Plan­e­tary Prince to the dig­nity of Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign. Upon be­ing re­lieved of plan­e­tary ser­vice, both or­ders are reg­is­tered in the lo­cal uni­verse as as­cend­ing Sons of God and im­me­di­ately be­gin the long Par­a­dise as­cent by the very routes or­dained for the pro­gres­sion of the mor­tal races of the ma­te­rial worlds. The pri­mary group are des­tined to var­i­ous fi­nal­i­ter corps, but the sec­ondary or Adamic mid­way­ers are all routed for en­roll­ment in the Mor­tal Corps of Fi­nal­ity.

• orders of Sons of God › B. ascending orders › mortals are known as ascending sons after fusion

40:6.1The mor­tal races stand as the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the low­est or­der of in­tel­li­gent and per­sonal cre­ation. You mor­tals are di­vinely beloved, and ev­ery one of you may choose to ac­cept the cer­tain des­tiny of a glo­ri­ous ex­pe­ri­ence, but you are not yet by na­ture of the di­vine or­der; you are wholly mor­tal. You will be reck­oned as as­cend­ing sons the in­stant fu­sion takes place, but the sta­tus of the mor­tals of time and space is that of faith sons prior to the event of the fi­nal amal­ga­ma­tion of the sur­viv­ing mor­tal soul with some type of eter­nal and im­mor­tal spirit.

• mortals as sons of God › why mortals are

40:6.3All evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of mor­tal habi­ta­tion har­bor these faith sons of God, sons of grace and mercy, mor­tal be­ings be­long­ing to the di­vine fam­ily and ac­cord­ingly called the sons of God. Uran­tia mor­tals are en­ti­tled to re­gard them­selves as be­ing the sons of God be­cause:

• orders of Sons of God › B. ascending orders › mortals are known as ascending sons after fusion

40:7.2Your own races of sur­viv­ing mor­tals be­long to this group of the as­cend­ing Sons of God. You are now plan­e­tary sons, evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures de­rived from the Life Car­rier im­plan­ta­tions and mod­i­fied by the Adamic-life in­fu­sion, hardly yet as­cend­ing sons; but you are in­deed sons of as­cen­sion po­ten­tial—even to the high­est heights of glory and di­vin­ity at­tain­ment—and this spir­i­tual sta­tus of as­cend­ing son­ship you may at­tain by faith and by free­will co-op­er­a­tion with the spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing ac­tiv­i­ties of the in­dwelling Ad­juster. When you and your Ad­justers are fi­nally and for­ever fused, when you two are made one, even as in Christ Mi­chael the Son of God and the Son of Man are one, then in fact have you be­come the as­cend­ing sons of God.

• mortals as sons of God › those receiving Jesus know they are

122:4.1Joseph did not be­come rec­on­ciled to the idea that Mary was to be­come the mother of an ex­traor­di­nary child un­til af­ter he had ex­pe­ri­enced a very im­pres­sive dream. In this dream a bril­liant ce­les­tial mes­sen­ger ap­peared to him and, among other things, said: “Joseph, I ap­pear by com­mand of Him who now reigns on high, and I am di­rected to in­struct you con­cern­ing the son whom Mary shall bear, and who shall be­come a great light in the world. In him will be life, and his life shall be­come the light of man­kind. He shall first come to his own peo­ple, but they will hardly re­ceive him; but to as many as shall re­ceive him to them will he re­veal that they are the chil­dren of God.” Af­ter this ex­pe­ri­ence Joseph never again wholly doubted Mary’s story of Ga­briel’s visit and of the prom­ise that the un­born child was to be­come a di­vine mes­sen­ger to the world.

• mortals as sons of God › all led by spirit of God are

137:8.16“This king­dom is an ev­er­last­ing do­min­ion. Those who en­ter the king­dom shall as­cend to my Fa­ther; they will cer­tainly at­tain the right hand of his glory in Par­a­dise. And all who en­ter the king­dom of heaven shall be­come the sons of God, and in the age to come so shall they as­cend to the Fa­ther. And I have not come to call the would-be righ­teous but sin­ners and all who hunger and thirst for the righ­teous­ness of di­vine per­fec­tion.

• mortals as sons of God › Spirit bears witness with our spirits that we are

142:5.3“The Su­preme Spirit shall bear wit­ness with your spir­its that you are truly the chil­dren of God. And if you are the sons of God, then have you been born of the spirit of God; and whoso­ever has been born of the spirit has in him­self the power to over­come all doubt, and this is the vic­tory that over­comes all un­cer­tainty, even your faith.

• mortals as sons of God › mortals are sons of God prior to spiritual rebirth

148:4.8“Men are, in­deed, by na­ture evil, but not nec­es­sar­ily sin­ful. The new birth—the bap­tism of the spirit—is es­sen­tial to de­liv­er­ance from evil and nec­es­sary for en­trance into the king­dom of heaven, but none of this de­tracts from the fact that man is the son of God. Nei­ther does this in­her­ent pres­ence of po­ten­tial evil mean that man is in some mys­te­ri­ous way es­tranged from the Fa­ther in heaven so that, as an alien, for­eigner, or stepchild, he must in some man­ner seek for le­gal adop­tion by the Fa­ther. All such no­tions are born, first, of your mis­un­der­stand­ing of the Fa­ther and, sec­ond, of your ig­no­rance of the ori­gin, na­ture, and des­tiny of man.

148:4.9“The Greeks and oth­ers have taught you that man is de­scend­ing from godly per­fec­tion steadily down to­ward obliv­ion or de­struc­tion; I have come to show that man, by en­trance into the king­dom, is as­cend­ing cer­tainly and surely up to God and di­vine per­fec­tion. Any be­ing who in any man­ner falls short of the di­vine and spir­i­tual ide­als of the eter­nal Fa­ther’s will is po­ten­tially evil, but such be­ings are in no sense sin­ful, much less in­iq­ui­tous.

148:4.10“Thomas, have you not read about this in the Scrip­tures, where it is writ­ten: ‘You are the chil­dren of the Lord your God.’ ‘I will be his Fa­ther and he shall be my son.’ ‘I have cho­sen him to be my son—I will be his Fa­ther.’ ‘Bring my sons from far and my daugh­ters from the ends of the earth; even ev­ery one who is called by my name, for I have cre­ated them for my glory.’ ‘You are the sons of the liv­ing God.’ ‘They who have the spirit of God are in­deed the sons of God.’ While there is a ma­te­rial part of the hu­man fa­ther in the nat­u­ral child, there is a spir­i­tual part of the heav­enly Fa­ther in ev­ery faith son of the king­dom.”

• mortals as sons of God › all led by spirit of God are

181:2.12When Je­sus had fin­ished speak­ing to Si­mon Ze­lo­tes, he stepped over to Mat­thew Levi and said: “No longer will it de­volve upon you to pro­vide for the trea­sury of the apos­tolic group. Soon, very soon, you will all be scat­tered; you will not be per­mit­ted to en­joy the com­fort­ing and sus­tain­ing as­so­ci­a­tion of even one of your breth­ren. As you go on­ward preach­ing this gospel of the king­dom, you will have to find for your­selves new as­so­ciates. I have sent you forth two and two dur­ing the times of your train­ing, but now that I am leav­ing you, af­ter you have re­cov­ered from the shock, you will go out alone, and to the ends of the earth, pro­claim­ing this good news: That faith-quick­ened mor­tals are the sons of God.”