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Transcendentalers

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

0:1.12The ab­so­nite level of re­al­ity is char­ac­ter­ized by things and be­ings with­out be­gin­nings or end­ings and by the tran­scen­dence of time and space. Ab­so­niters are not cre­ated; they are even­tu­ated—they sim­ply are. The De­ity level of Ul­ti­macy con­notes a func­tion in re­la­tion to ab­so­nite re­al­i­ties. No mat­ter in what part of the mas­ter uni­verse, when­ever time and space are tran­scended, such an ab­so­nite phe­nom­e­non is an act of the Ul­ti­macy of De­ity.

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.

29:5.1The force or­ga­niz­ers are res­i­dent on Par­a­dise, but they func­tion through­out the mas­ter uni­verse, more par­tic­u­larly in the do­mains of un­or­ga­nized space. These ex­traor­di­nary be­ings are nei­ther cre­ators nor crea­tures, and they com­prise two grand di­vi­sions of ser­vice:

29:5.21. Pri­mary Even­tu­ated Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers.

29:5.32. As­so­ciate Tran­scen­den­tal Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers.

29:5.4These two mighty or­ders of pri­mor­dial-force ma­nip­u­la­tors work ex­clu­sively un­der the super­vi­sion of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse, and at the pres­ent time they do not func­tion ex­ten­sively within the bound­aries of the grand uni­verse.

29:5.5Pri­mary Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers are the ma­nip­u­la­tors of the pri­mor­dial or ba­sic space-forces of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute; they are neb­u­lae cre­ators. They are the liv­ing in­sti­ga­tors of the en­ergy cy­clones of space and the early or­ga­niz­ers and di­rec­tion­iz­ers of these gi­gan­tic man­i­fes­ta­tions. These force or­ga­niz­ers trans­mute pri­mor­dial force (pre-en­ergy not re­spon­sive to di­rect Par­a­dise grav­ity) into pri­mary or puis­sant en­ergy, en­ergy trans­mut­ing from the ex­clu­sive grasp of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute to the grav­ity grasp of the Isle of Par­a­dise. They are there­upon suc­ceeded by the as­so­ciate force or­ga­niz­ers, who con­tinue the pro­cess of en­ergy trans­mu­ta­tion from the pri­mary through the sec­ondary or grav­ity-en­ergy stage.

29:5.6Upon the com­ple­tion of the plans for the cre­ation of a lo­cal uni­verse, sig­nal­ized by the ar­rival of a Cre­ator Son, the As­so­ciate Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers give way to the or­ders of power di­rec­tors act­ing in the super­uni­verse of as­tro­nomic ju­ris­dic­tion. But in the ab­sence of such plans the as­so­ciate force or­ga­niz­ers con­tinue on in­def­i­nitely in charge of these ma­te­rial cre­ations, even as they now op­er­ate in outer space.

29:5.7The Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers with­stand tem­per­a­tures and func­tion un­der phys­i­cal con­di­tions which would be in­tol­er­a­ble even to the ver­sa­tile power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers of Or­von­ton. The only other types of re­vealed be­ings ca­pa­ble of func­tion­ing in these realms of outer space are the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers and the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its.

29:5.8[Spon­sored by a Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor act­ing by au­thor­ity of the An­cients of Days on Uversa.]

30:1.92IV. EVEN­TU­ATED TRAN­SCEN­DEN­TAL BE­INGS. There is to be found on Par­a­dise a vast host of tran­scen­den­tal be­ings whose ori­gin is not or­di­nar­ily dis­closed to the uni­verses of time and space un­til they are set­tled in light and life. These Tran­scen­den­talers are nei­ther cre­ators nor crea­tures; they are the even­tu­ated chil­dren of di­vin­ity, ul­ti­macy, and eter­nity. These “even­tu­a­tors” are nei­ther fi­nite nor in­fi­nite—they are ab­so­nite; and ab­sonity is nei­ther in­fin­ity nor ab­so­lute­ness.

30:1.93These un­cre­ated non­cre­ators are ever loyal to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and obe­di­ent to the Ul­ti­mate. They are ex­is­tent on four ul­ti­mate lev­els of per­son­al­ity ac­tiv­ity and are func­tional on the seven lev­els of the ab­so­nite in twelve grand di­vi­sions con­sist­ing of one thou­sand ma­jor work­ing groups of seven classes each. These even­tu­ated be­ings in­clude the fol­low­ing or­ders:

30:1.941. The Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.

30:1.952. Tran­scen­den­tal Re­cord­ers.

30:1.963. Other Tran­scen­den­talers.

30:1.974. Pri­mary Even­tu­ated Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers.

30:1.985. As­so­ciate Tran­scen­den­tal Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers.

30:1.99God, as a super­per­son, even­tu­ates; God, as a per­son, cre­ates; God, as a preper­son, frag­ments; and such an Ad­juster frag­ment of him­self evolves the spirit soul upon the ma­te­rial and mor­tal mind in ac­cor­dance with the free­will choos­ing of the per­son­al­ity which has been be­stowed upon such a mor­tal crea­ture by the pa­ren­tal act of God as a Fa­ther.

31:8.1Part of the per­fected mor­tal’s ex­pe­ri­ence on Par­a­dise as a fi­nal­i­ter con­sists in the ef­fort to achieve com­pre­hen­sion of the na­ture and func­tion of more than one thou­sand groups of the tran­scen­den­tal super­cit­i­zens of Par­a­dise, even­tu­ated be­ings of ab­so­nite at­tri­butes. In their as­so­ci­a­tion with these super­per­son­al­i­ties, the as­cen­dant fi­nal­i­ters re­ceive great as­sis­tance from the help­ful guid­ance of nu­mer­ous or­ders of tran­scen­den­tal min­is­ters who are as­signed to the task of in­tro­duc­ing the evolved fi­nal­i­ters to their new Par­a­dise breth­ren. The en­tire or­der of the Tran­scen­den­talers live in the west of Par­a­dise in a vast area which they ex­clu­sively oc­cupy.

31:8.2In the dis­cus­sion of Tran­scen­den­talers we are re­stricted, not only by the lim­i­ta­tions of hu­man com­pre­hen­sion, but also by the terms of the man­date gov­ern­ing these dis­clo­sures con­cern­ing the per­son­al­i­ties of Par­a­dise. These be­ings are in no way con­nected with the mor­tal as­cent to Ha­vona. The vast host of the Par­a­dise Tran­scen­den­talers have noth­ing what­ever to do with the af­fairs of ei­ther Ha­vona or the seven super­uni­verses, be­ing con­cerned only with the super­ad­min­is­tra­tion of the af­fairs of the mas­ter uni­verse.

31:8.3You, be­ing a crea­ture, can con­ceive of a Cre­ator, but you can hardly com­pre­hend that there ex­ists an enor­mous and di­ver­si­fied ag­gre­ga­tion of in­tel­li­gent be­ings who are nei­ther Cre­ators nor crea­tures. These Tran­scen­den­talers cre­ate no be­ings, nei­ther were they ever cre­ated. In speak­ing of their ori­gin, in or­der to avoid us­ing a new term—an ar­bi­trary and mean­ing­less des­ig­na­tion—we deem it best to say that Tran­scen­den­talers sim­ply even­tu­ate. The De­ity Ab­so­lute may well have been con­cerned in their ori­gin and may be im­pli­cated in their des­tiny, but these unique be­ings are not now dom­i­nated by the De­ity Ab­so­lute. They are sub­ject to God the Ul­ti­mate, and their pres­ent Par­a­dise so­journ is in ev­ery way Trin­ity super­vised and di­rected.

31:8.4Al­though all mor­tals who at­tain Par­a­dise fre­quently frat­er­nize with the Tran­scen­den­talers as they do with the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens, it de­vel­ops that man’s first se­ri­ous con­tact with a Tran­scen­den­taler oc­curs on that event­ful oc­ca­sion when, as a mem­ber of a new fi­nal­i­ter group, the mor­tal as­cender stands in the fi­nal­i­ter re­ceiv­ing cir­cle as the Trin­ity oath of eter­nity is ad­min­is­tered by the chief of Tran­scen­den­talers, the pre­sid­ing head of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.

31:9.1The Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse are the gov­ern­ing corps of the Par­a­dise Tran­scen­den­talers. This gov­ern­ing corps num­bers 28,011 per­son­al­i­ties pos­sess­ing mas­ter minds, su­perb spir­its, and su­per­nal ab­sonites. The pre­sid­ing of­fi­cer of this mag­nif­i­cent group, the se­nior Mas­ter Ar­chi­tect, is the co-or­di­nat­ing head of all Par­a­dise in­tel­li­gences be­low the level of De­ity.

31:9.2–9 · eight paragraphs not cited here ·

31:9.2The six­teenth pro­scrip­tion of the man­date au­tho­riz­ing these nar­ra­tives says: “If deemed wise, the ex­is­tence of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse and their as­so­ciates may be dis­closed, but their ori­gin, na­ture, and des­tiny may not be fully re­vealed.” We may, how­ever, in­form you that these Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects ex­ist in seven lev­els of the ab­so­nite. These seven groups are clas­si­fied as fol­lows:

31:9.31. The Par­a­dise Level. Only the se­nior or first-even­tu­ated Ar­chi­tect func­tions on this high­est level of the ab­so­nite. This ul­ti­mate per­son­al­ity—nei­ther Cre­ator nor crea­ture—even­tu­ated in the dawn of eter­nity and now func­tions as the ex­qui­site co-or­di­na­tor of Par­a­dise and its twenty-one worlds of as­so­ci­ated ac­tiv­i­ties.

31:9.42. The Ha­vona Level. The sec­ond Ar­chi­tect even­tu­a­tion yielded three mas­ter plan­ners and ab­so­nite ad­min­is­tra­tors, and they have al­ways been de­voted to the co-or­di­na­tion of the one bil­lion per­fect spheres of the cen­tral uni­verse. Par­a­dise tra­di­tion as­serts that these three Ar­chi­tects, with the coun­sel of the pre-even­tu­ated se­nior Ar­chi­tect, con­tributed to the plan­ning of Ha­vona, but we re­ally do not know.

31:9.53. The Super­uni­verse Level. The third ab­so­nite level em­braces the seven Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects of the seven super­uni­verses, who now, as a group, spend about equal time in the com­pany of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its on Par­a­dise and with the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives on the seven spe­cial worlds of the In­fi­nite Spirit. They are the superco-or­di­na­tors of the grand uni­verse.

31:9.64. The Pri­mary Space Level. This group num­bers sev­enty Ar­chi­tects, and we con­jec­ture that they are con­cerned with the ul­ti­mate plans for the first uni­verse of outer space, now mo­bi­liz­ing be­yond the bor­ders of the pres­ent seven super­uni­verses.

31:9.75. The Sec­ondary Space Level. This fifth corps of Ar­chi­tects num­bers 490, and again we con­jec­ture that they must be con­cerned with the sec­ond uni­verse of outer space, where al­ready our physi­cists have de­tected def­i­nite en­ergy mo­bi­liza­tions.

31:9.86. The Ter­tiary Space Level. This sixth group of Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects num­bers 3,430, and we like­wise in­fer that they may be oc­cu­pied with the gi­gan­tic plans for the third uni­verse of outer space.

31:9.97. The Quar­tan Space Level. This, the fi­nal and largest corps, con­sists of 24,010 Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects, and if our for­mer con­jec­tures are valid, it must be re­lated to the fourth and last of the ever-in­creas­ing-sized uni­verses of outer space.

31:9.10These seven groups of Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects to­tal 28,011 uni­verse plan­ners. On Par­a­dise there is a tra­di­tion that far back in eter­nity there was at­tempted the even­tu­a­tion of the 28,012th Mas­ter Ar­chi­tect, but that this be­ing failed to ab­soni­tize, ex­pe­ri­enc­ing per­son­al­ity seizure by the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. It is pos­si­ble that the as­cend­ing se­ries of the Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects at­tained the limit of ab­sonity in the 28,011th Ar­chi­tect, and that the 28,012th at­tempt en­coun­tered the math­e­mat­i­cal level of the pres­ence of the Ab­so­lute. In other words, at the 28,012th even­tu­a­tion level the qual­ity of ab­sonity equiv­alated to the level of the Uni­ver­sal and at­tained the value of the Ab­so­lute.

31:9.11–12 · two paragraphs not cited here ·

31:9.11In their func­tional or­ga­ni­za­tion the three super­vis­ing Ar­chi­tects of Ha­vona act as as­so­ciate as­sis­tants to the soli­tary Par­a­dise Ar­chi­tect. The seven Ar­chi­tects of the super­uni­verses act as co-or­di­nates of the three super­vi­sors of Ha­vona. The sev­enty plan­ners of the uni­verses of the pri­mary outer space level are at pres­ent serv­ing as as­so­ciate as­sis­tants to the seven Ar­chi­tects of the seven super­uni­verses.

31:9.12The Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse have at their dis­posal nu­mer­ous groups of as­sis­tants and helpers, in­clud­ing two vast or­ders of force or­ga­niz­ers, the pri­mary even­tu­ated and the as­so­ciate tran­scen­den­tal. These Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers are not to be con­fused with the power di­rec­tors, who are ger­mane to the grand uni­verse.

31:9.13All be­ings pro­duced by the union of the chil­dren of time and eter­nity, such as the trin­i­tized off­spring of the fi­nal­i­ters and the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens, be­come wards of the Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects. But of all other crea­tures or en­ti­ties re­vealed as func­tion­ing in the pres­ent or­ga­nized uni­verses, only Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers and In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its main­tain any or­ganic as­so­ci­a­tion with the Tran­scen­den­talers and the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.

55:4.10In the third and sub­se­quent stages, some of the mid­way­ers are still func­tion­ing, chiefly as con­tact per­son­al­i­ties for the fi­nal­i­ters, but as each stage of light and life is en­tered, new or­ders of li­ai­son min­is­ters largely re­place the mid­way­ers; very few of them ever re­main be­yond the fourth stage of light. The sev­enth stage will wit­ness the com­ing of the first ab­so­nite min­is­ters from Par­a­dise to serve in the places of cer­tain uni­verse crea­tures.

55:4.11–18 · eight paragraphs not cited here ·

55:4.112. The sec­ond stage of light and life. This epoch is sig­nal­ized on the worlds by the ar­rival of a Life Car­rier who be­comes the vol­un­teer ad­viser of the plan­e­tary rulers re­gard­ing the fur­ther ef­forts to pu­rify and sta­bi­lize the mor­tal race. Thus do the Life Car­ri­ers ac­tively par­tic­i­pate in the fur­ther evo­lu­tion of the hu­man race—phys­i­cally, so­cially, and eco­nom­i­cally. And then they ex­tend their super­vi­sion to the fur­ther pu­rifi­ca­tion of the mor­tal stock by the dras­tic elim­i­na­tion of the re­tarded and per­sist­ing rem­nants of in­fe­rior po­ten­tial of an in­tel­lec­tual, philo­sophic, cos­mic, and spir­i­tual na­ture. Those who de­sign and plant life on an in­hab­ited world are fully com­pe­tent to ad­vise the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, who have full and un­ques­tioned au­thor­ity to purge the evolv­ing race of all detri­men­tal in­flu­ences.

55:4.12From the sec­ond stage on through­out the ca­reer of a set­tled planet the Teacher Sons serve as coun­selors to the fi­nal­i­ters. Dur­ing such mis­sions they serve as vol­un­teers and not by as­sign­ment; and they serve ex­clu­sively with the fi­nal­i­ter corps ex­cept that, upon the con­sent of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, they may be had as ad­vis­ers to the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve.

55:4.133. The third stage of light and life. Dur­ing this epoch the in­hab­ited worlds ar­rive at a new ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the An­cients of Days, the sec­ond phase of God the Sev­en­fold, and the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of these super­uni­verse rulers en­ter into new re­la­tion­ships with the plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion.

55:4.14In each suc­ceed­ing age of set­tled ex­is­tence the fi­nal­i­ters func­tion in ever-in­creas­ing ca­pac­i­ties. There ex­ists a close work­ing con­nec­tion be­tween the fi­nal­i­ters, the Evening Stars (the super­an­gels), and the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

55:4.15Dur­ing this or the fol­low­ing age a Teacher Son, as­sisted by the min­is­ter­ing-spirit quar­tet, be­comes at­tached to the elec­tive mor­tal chief ex­ec­u­tive, who now be­comes as­so­ci­ated with the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign as joint ad­min­is­tra­tor of world af­fairs. These mor­tal chief ex­ec­u­tives serve for twenty-five years of plan­e­tary time, and it is this new de­vel­op­ment that makes it easy for the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve to se­cure re­lease from their world of long-time as­sign­ment dur­ing the fol­low­ing ages.

55:4.16The min­is­ter­ing-spirit quar­tets con­sist of: the se­raphic chief of the sphere, the super­uni­verse sec­o­raphic coun­selor, the arch­an­gel of trans­la­tions, and the om­niaphim who func­tions as the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the As­signed Sen­tinel sta­tioned on the sys­tem head­quar­ters. But these ad­vis­ers never prof­fer coun­sel un­less it is asked for.

55:4.174. The fourth stage of light and life. On these worlds the Trin­ity Teacher Sons ap­pear in new roles. As­sisted by the crea­ture-trini­tized sons so long as­so­ci­ated with their or­der, they now come to the worlds as vol­un­teer coun­selors and ad­vis­ers to the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign and his as­so­ciates. Such cou­ples—Par­adise-Ha­vona-trini­tized sons and as­cender-trini­tized sons—rep­re­sent dif­fer­ing uni­verse view­points and di­verse per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ences which are highly ser­vice­able to the plan­e­tary rulers.

55:4.18At any time af­ter this age the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve can pe­ti­tion the Sov­er­eign Cre­ator Son for re­lease from plan­e­tary du­ties in or­der to be­gin their Par­a­dise as­cent; or they can re­main on the planet as di­rec­tors of the newly ap­pear­ing or­der of in­creas­ingly spir­i­tual so­ci­ety com­posed of ad­vanced mor­tals striv­ing to com­pre­hend the philo­sophic teach­ings of the fi­nal­i­ters por­trayed by the Bril­liant Evening Stars, who are now as­signed to these worlds to col­lab­o­rate in pairs with the se­con­a­phim from the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse.

55:4.19The fi­nal­i­ters are chiefly en­gaged in ini­ti­at­ing the new and super­ma­te­rial ac­tiv­i­ties of so­ci­ety—so­cial, cul­tural, philo­sophic, cos­mic, and spir­i­tual. As far as we can dis­cern, they will con­tinue this min­istry far into the sev­enth epoch of evo­lu­tion­ary sta­bil­ity, when, pos­si­bly, they may go forth to min­is­ter in outer space; where­upon we con­jec­ture their places may be taken by ab­so­nite be­ings from Par­a­dise.

Onward

See also reality: levels of reality: absonite reality

Cited alongside: reality, eventuation, Architects of the Master Universe, finaliters, Urantia Papers, absonity, light and life, Master Force Organizers