spirits

• 6th stage spirit mortals have not attained finality of status

31:3.3Not­with­stand­ing that these as­cen­dant mor­tals have at­tained Par­a­dise, have been mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, and have been sent back in large num­bers to par­tic­i­pate in the con­duct of lo­cal uni­verses and to as­sist in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of super­uni­verse af­fairs—in the face of even this ap­par­ent des­tiny, there re­mains the sig­nif­i­cant fact that they are of rec­ord as only sixth-stage spir­its. There un­doubt­edly re­mains one more step in the ca­reer of the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. We do not know the na­ture of that step, but we have taken cog­nizance of, and here call at­ten­tion to, three facts:

31:3.41. We know from the rec­ords that mor­tals are spir­its of the first or­der dur­ing their so­journ in the mi­nor sec­tors, and that they ad­vance to the sec­ond or­der when trans­lated to the ma­jor sec­tors, and to the third when they go for­ward to the cen­tral train­ing worlds of the super­uni­verse. Mor­tals be­come quar­tan or grad­u­ate spir­its af­ter reach­ing the sixth cir­cle of Ha­vona and be­come spir­its of the fifth or­der when they find the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. They sub­se­quently at­tain the sixth stage of spirit ex­is­tence upon tak­ing the oath that musters them for­ever into the eter­nity as­sign­ment of the Corps of the Mor­tal Fi­nal­ity.

31:3.5We ob­serve that spirit clas­si­fi­ca­tion, or des­ig­na­tion, has been de­ter­mined by ac­tual ad­vance­ment from one realm of uni­verse ser­vice to an­other realm of uni­verse ser­vice or from one uni­verse to an­other uni­verse; and we sur­mise that the be­stowal of sev­enth-spirit clas­si­fi­ca­tion upon the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity will be si­mul­ta­ne­ous with their ad­vance­ment to eter­nal as­sign­ment for ser­vice on hith­erto un­recorded and un­re­vealed spheres and con­comi­tant with their at­tain­ment of God the Su­preme. But aside from these bold con­jec­tures, we re­ally know no more about all this than you do; our knowl­edge of the mor­tal ca­reer does not go be­yond pres­ent Par­a­dise des­tiny.

31:3.62. The mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters have fully com­plied with the in­junc­tion of the ages, “Be you per­fect”; they have as­cended the uni­ver­sal path of mor­tal at­tain­ment; they have found God, and they have been duly in­ducted into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Such be­ings have at­tained the pres­ent limit of spirit pro­gres­sion but not fi­nal­ity of ul­ti­mate spirit sta­tus. They have achieved the pres­ent limit of crea­ture per­fec­tion but not fi­nal­ity of crea­ture ser­vice. They have ex­pe­ri­enced the full­ness of De­ity wor­ship but not fi­nal­ity of ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity at­tain­ment.

• 6th stage spirit mortals have not attained finality of status

40:10.12When a mor­tal fi­nal­i­ter is Trin­ity em­braced—be­comes a Trin­i­tized Son, such as a Mighty Mes­sen­ger—then has that fi­nal­i­ter at­tained des­tiny, at least for the pres­ent uni­verse age. Mighty Mes­sen­gers and their fel­lows may not in the ex­act sense be sev­enth-stage spir­its, but in ad­di­tion to other things the Trin­ity em­brace en­dows them with ev­ery­thing which a fi­nal­i­ter will some­time achieve as a sev­enth-stage spirit. Af­ter Spirit-fused or Son-fused mor­tals are trin­i­tized, they pass through the Par­a­dise ex­pe­ri­ence with the Ad­juster-fused as­cend­ers, with whom they are then iden­ti­cal in all mat­ters per­tain­ing to super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. These Trin­i­tized Sons of Se­lec­tion or of At­tain­ment at least for now are fin­ished crea­tures, in con­trast to the fi­nal­i­ters, who are at pres­ent un­fin­ished crea­tures.

• 6th stage spirit mortals have not attained finality of status

107:5.6Upon the at­tain­ment of the fi­nal­i­ter lev­els of as­cen­dant ex­pe­ri­ence, these spir­its of the sixth stage ap­pear to trans­mute some mind fac­tor rep­re­sent­ing a union of cer­tain phases of the mor­tal and Ad­juster minds which had pre­vi­ously func­tioned as li­ai­son be­tween the di­vine and hu­man phases of such as­cend­ing per­son­al­i­ties. This ex­pe­ri­en­tial mind qual­ity prob­a­bly “suprema­cizes” and sub­se­quently aug­ments the ex­pe­ri­en­tial en­dow­ment of evo­lu­tion­ary De­ity—the Su­preme Be­ing.