Trinity Teacher Sons

19:1.1Of all the high or­ders of ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties re­vealed to you, the Trin­ity Teacher Sons alone act in a dual ca­pac­ity. By ori­gin of Trin­ity na­ture, in func­tion they are al­most wholly de­voted to the ser­vices of di­vine son­ship. They are the li­ai­son be­ings who bridge the uni­verse gulf be­tween Trin­ity- and dual-ori­gin per­son­al­i­ties.

19:1.2While the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity are of com­pleted num­bers, the Teacher Sons are con­stantly in­creas­ing. What the fi­nal num­ber of Teacher Sons will be I do not know. I can, how­ever, state that, at the last pe­ri­odic re­port to Uversa, the Par­a­dise rec­ords in­di­cated 21,001,624,821 of these Sons in ser­vice.

19:1.3These be­ings are the only group of the Sons of God re­vealed to you whose ori­gin is in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. They range the cen­tral and super­uni­verses, and an enor­mous corps is as­signed to each lo­cal uni­verse. They also serve the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets as do the other Par­a­dise Sons of God. Since the scheme of the grand uni­verse is not fully de­vel­oped, large num­bers of Teacher Sons are held in the re­serves on Par­a­dise, and they vol­un­teer for emer­gency duty and un­usual ser­vice in all di­vi­sions of the grand uni­verse, on the lone worlds of space, in the lo­cal and super­uni­verses, and on the worlds of Ha­vona. They also func­tion on Par­a­dise, but it will be more help­ful to post­pone their de­tailed con­sid­er­a­tion un­til we come to the dis­cus­sion of the Par­a­dise Sons of God.

19:1.4In this con­nec­tion, how­ever, it may be noted that Teacher Sons are the su­preme co-or­di­nat­ing per­son­al­i­ties of Trin­ity ori­gin. In such a far-flung uni­verse of uni­verses there is al­ways great dan­ger of suc­cumb­ing to the er­ror of the cir­cum­scribed view­point, to the evil in­her­ent in a seg­men­tal­ized con­cep­tion of re­al­ity and di­vin­ity.

19:1.5For ex­am­ple: The hu­man mind would or­di­nar­ily crave to ap­proach the cos­mic phi­los­o­phy por­trayed in these rev­e­la­tions by pro­ceed­ing from the sim­ple and the fi­nite to the com­plex and the in­fi­nite, from hu­man ori­gins to di­vine des­tinies. But that path does not lead to spir­i­tual wis­dom. Such a pro­ce­dure is the eas­i­est path to a cer­tain form of ge­netic knowl­edge, but at best it can only re­veal man’s ori­gin; it re­veals lit­tle or noth­ing about his di­vine des­tiny.

19:1.6Even in the study of man’s bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion on Uran­tia, there are grave ob­jec­tions to the ex­clu­sive his­toric ap­proach to his pres­ent-day sta­tus and his cur­rent prob­lems. The true per­spec­tive of any re­al­ity prob­lem—hu­man or di­vine, ter­res­trial or cos­mic—can be had only by the full and un­prej­u­diced study and cor­re­la­tion of three phases of uni­verse re­al­ity: ori­gin, his­tory, and des­tiny. The proper un­der­stand­ing of these three ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­i­ties af­fords the ba­sis for a wise es­ti­mate of the cur­rent sta­tus.

19:1.7When the hu­man mind un­der­takes to fol­low the philo­sophic tech­nique of start­ing from the lower to ap­proach the higher, whether in bi­ol­ogy or the­ol­ogy, it is al­ways in dan­ger of com­mit­ting four er­rors of rea­son­ing:

19:1.81. It may ut­terly fail to per­ceive the fi­nal and com­pleted evo­lu­tion­ary goal of ei­ther per­sonal at­tain­ment or cos­mic des­tiny.

19:1.92. It may com­mit the su­preme phil­o­soph­i­cal blun­der by over­sim­pli­fy­ing cos­mic evo­lu­tion­ary (ex­pe­ri­en­tial) re­al­ity, thus lead­ing to the dis­tor­tion of facts, to the per­ver­sion of truth, and to the mis­con­cep­tion of des­tinies.

19:1.103. The study of cau­sa­tion is the pe­rusal of his­tory. But the knowl­edge of how a be­ing be­comes does not nec­es­sar­ily pro­vide an in­tel­li­gent un­der­stand­ing of the pres­ent sta­tus and true char­ac­ter of such a be­ing.

19:1.114. His­tory alone fails ad­e­quately to re­veal fu­ture de­vel­op­ment—des­tiny. Fi­nite ori­gins are help­ful, but only di­vine causes re­veal fi­nal ef­fects. Eter­nal ends are not shown in time be­gin­nings. The pres­ent can be truly in­ter­preted only in the light of the cor­re­lated past and fu­ture.

19:1.12There­fore, be­cause of these and for still other rea­sons, do we em­ploy the tech­nique of ap­proach­ing man and his plan­e­tary prob­lems by em­barka­tion on the time-space jour­ney from the in­fi­nite, eter­nal, and di­vine Par­a­dise Source and Cen­ter of all per­son­al­ity re­al­ity and all cos­mic ex­is­tence.

20:7.1These highly per­sonal and highly spir­i­tual Par­a­dise Sons are brought into be­ing by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. They are known in Ha­vona as the or­der of Day­nals. In Or­von­ton they are of rec­ord as Trin­ity Teacher Sons, so named be­cause of their parent­age. On Sal­ving­ton they are some­times de­nom­i­nated the Par­a­dise Spir­i­tual Sons.

20:7.2In num­bers the Teacher Sons are con­stantly in­creas­ing. The last uni­ver­sal cen­sus broad­cast gave the num­ber of these Trin­ity Sons func­tion­ing in the cen­tral and super­uni­verses as a lit­tle more than twenty-one bil­lion, and this is ex­clu­sive of the Par­a­dise re­serves, which in­clude more than one third of all Trin­ity Teacher Sons in ex­is­tence.

20:7.3The Day­nal or­der of son­ship is not an or­ganic part of the lo­cal or super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tions. Its mem­bers are nei­ther cre­ators nor re­triev­ers, nei­ther judges nor rulers. They are not so much con­cerned with uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion as with moral en­light­en­ment and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment. They are the uni­ver­sal ed­u­ca­tors, be­ing ded­i­cated to the spir­i­tual awak­en­ing and moral guid­ance of all realms. Their min­istry is in­ti­mately in­ter­re­lated with that of the per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit and is closely as­so­ci­ated with the Par­a­dise as­cen­sion of crea­ture be­ings.

20:7.4These Sons of the Trin­ity par­take of the com­bined na­tures of the three Par­a­dise De­i­ties, but in Ha­vona they seem more to re­flect the na­ture of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. In the super­uni­verses they seem to por­tray the na­ture of the Eter­nal Son, while in the lo­cal cre­ations they ap­pear to show forth the char­ac­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit. In all uni­verses they are the em­bod­i­ment of ser­vice and the dis­cre­tion of wis­dom.

20:7.5Un­like their Par­a­dise breth­ren, Mi­cha­els and Avo­nals, Trin­ity Teacher Sons re­ceive no pre­lim­i­nary train­ing in the cen­tral uni­verse. They are dis­patched di­rectly to the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verses and from there are com­mis­sioned for ser­vice in some lo­cal uni­verse. In their min­istry to these evo­lu­tion­ary realms they uti­lize the com­bined spir­i­tual in­flu­ence of a Cre­ator Son and the as­so­ci­ated Mag­is­te­rial Sons, for the Day­nals do not pos­sess a spir­i­tual draw­ing power in and of them­selves.

20:8.1The Par­a­dise Spir­i­tual Sons are unique Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings and the only Trin­ity crea­tures to be so com­pletely as­so­ci­ated with the con­duct of the dual-ori­gin uni­verses. They are af­fec­tion­ately de­voted to the ed­u­ca­tional min­istry to mor­tal crea­tures and the lower or­ders of spir­i­tual be­ings. They be­gin their labors in the lo­cal sys­tems and, in ac­cor­dance with ex­pe­ri­ence and achieve­ment, are ad­vanced in­ward through the con­stel­la­tion ser­vice to the high­est work of the lo­cal cre­ation. Upon cer­ti­fi­ca­tion they may be­come spir­i­tual am­bas­sadors rep­re­sent­ing the lo­cal uni­verses of their ser­vice.

20:8.2The ex­act num­ber of Teacher Sons in Neb­a­don I do not know; there are many thou­sands of them. Many of the heads of de­part­ments in the Mel­chiz­e­dek schools be­long to this or­der, while the com­bined staff of the reg­u­larly con­sti­tuted Uni­ver­sity of Sal­ving­ton em­braces over one hun­dred thou­sand in­clud­ing these Sons. Large num­bers are sta­tioned on the var­i­ous mor­ontia-train­ing worlds, but they are not wholly oc­cu­pied with the spir­i­tual and in­tel­lec­tual ad­vance­ment of mor­tal crea­tures; they are equally con­cerned with the in­struc­tion of se­raphic be­ings and other na­tives of the lo­cal cre­ations. Many of their as­sis­tants are drawn from the ranks of the crea­ture-trin­i­tized be­ings.

20:8.3The Teacher Sons com­pose the fac­ul­ties who ad­min­is­ter all ex­am­i­na­tions and con­duct all tests for the qual­i­fi­ca­tion and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of all sub­or­di­nate phases of uni­verse ser­vice, from the du­ties of out­post sen­tinels to those of star stu­dents. They con­duct an age­long course of train­ing, rang­ing from the plan­e­tary courses up to the high Col­lege of Wis­dom lo­cated on Sal­ving­ton. Rec­og­ni­tion in­dica­tive of ef­fort and at­tain­ment is granted to all, as­cend­ing mor­tal or am­bi­tious cheru­bim, who com­plete these ad­ven­tures in wis­dom and truth.

20:8.4In all uni­verses all the Sons of God are be­holden to these ever-faith­ful and uni­ver­sally ef­fi­cient Trin­ity Teacher Sons. They are the ex­alted teach­ers of all spirit per­son­al­i­ties, even the tried and true teach­ers of the Sons of God them­selves. But of the end­less de­tails of the du­ties and func­tions of the Teacher Sons I can hardly in­struct you. The vast do­main of Day­nal-son­ship ac­tiv­i­ties will be bet­ter un­der­stood on Uran­tia when you are more ad­vanced in in­tel­li­gence, and af­ter the spir­i­tual iso­la­tion of your planet has been ter­mi­nated.

20:9.1When the prog­ress of events on an evo­lu­tion­ary world in­di­cates that the time is ripe to ini­ti­ate a spir­i­tual age, the Trin­ity Teacher Sons al­ways vol­un­teer for this ser­vice. You are not fa­mil­iar with this or­der of son­ship be­cause Uran­tia has never ex­pe­ri­enced a spir­i­tual age, a mil­len­nium of cos­mic en­light­en­ment. But the Teacher Sons even now visit your world for the pur­pose of for­mu­lat­ing plans con­cern­ing their pro­jected so­journ on your sphere. They will be due to ap­pear on Uran­tia af­ter its in­hab­i­tants have gained com­par­a­tive de­liv­er­ance from the shack­les of an­i­mal­ism and from the fet­ters of ma­te­ri­al­ism.

20:9.2Trin­ity Teacher Sons have noth­ing to do with ter­mi­nat­ing plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tions. They nei­ther judge the dead nor trans­late the liv­ing, but on each plan­e­tary mis­sion they are ac­com­pa­nied by a Mag­is­te­rial Son who per­forms these ser­vices. Teacher Sons are wholly con­cerned with the ini­ti­a­tion of a spir­i­tual age, with the dawn of the era of spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties on an evo­lu­tion­ary planet. They make real the spir­i­tual coun­ter­parts of ma­te­rial knowl­edge and tem­po­ral wis­dom.

20:9.3The Teacher Sons usu­ally re­main on their vis­i­ta­tion plan­ets for one thou­sand years of plan­e­tary time. One Teacher Son pre­sides over the plan­e­tary mil­len­nial reign and is as­sisted by sev­enty as­so­ciates of his or­der. The Day­nals do not in­car­nate or oth­er­wise so ma­te­ri­al­ize them­selves as to be vis­i­ble to mor­tal be­ings; there­fore is con­tact with the world of vis­i­ta­tion main­tained through the ac­tiv­i­ties of the Bril­liant Evening Stars, lo­cal uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties who are as­so­ci­ated with the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

20:9.4The Day­nals may re­turn many times to an in­hab­ited world, and fol­low­ing their fi­nal mis­sion the planet will be ush­ered into the set­tled sta­tus of a sphere of light and life, the evo­lu­tion­ary goal of all the mor­tal-in­hab­ited worlds of the pres­ent uni­verse age. The Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity has much to do with the spheres set­tled in light and life, and their plan­e­tary ac­tiv­i­ties touch upon those of the Teacher Sons. In­deed, the whole or­der of Day­nal son­ship is in­ti­mately con­nected with all phases of fi­nal­i­ter ac­tiv­i­ties in the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ations of time and space.

20:9.5The Trin­ity Teacher Sons seem to be so com­pletely iden­ti­fied with the regime of mor­tal pro­gres­sion through the ear­lier stages of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cen­sion that we are of­ten led to spec­u­late re­gard­ing their pos­si­ble as­so­ci­a­tion with the fi­nal­i­ters in the undis­closed ca­reer of the fu­ture uni­verses. We ob­serve that the ad­min­is­tra­tors of the super­uni­verses are part Trin­ity-ori­gin per­son­al­i­ties and part Trin­ity-em­braced as­cen­dant evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures. We firmly be­lieve that the Teacher Sons and the fi­nal­i­ters are now en­gaged in ac­quir­ing the ex­pe­ri­ence of time-as­so­ci­a­tion which may be the pre­lim­i­nary train­ing to pre­pare them for close as­so­ci­a­tion in some un­re­vealed fu­ture des­tiny. On Uversa it is our be­lief that, when the super­uni­verses are fi­nally set­tled in light and life, these Par­a­dise Teacher Sons, who have be­come so thor­oughly fa­mil­iar with the prob­lems of evo­lu­tion­ary worlds and have been so long as­so­ci­ated with the ca­reer of evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals, will prob­a­bly be trans­ferred to eter­nal as­so­ci­a­tion with the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

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.

7:6.6The Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit also unite to per­son­al­ize the ver­sa­tile Trin­ity Teacher Sons, who range the grand uni­verse as the su­per­nal teach­ers of all per­son­al­i­ties, hu­man and di­vine. And there are nu­mer­ous other or­ders of Par­a­dise son­ship that have not been brought to the at­ten­tion of Uran­tia mor­tals.

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.

20:10.3In the Cre­ator Sons the love of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is blended with the mercy of the Eter­nal Son and is dis­closed to the lo­cal uni­verses in the cre­ative power, lov­ing min­istry, and un­der­stand­ing sov­er­eignty of the Mi­cha­els. In the Mag­is­te­rial Sons the mercy of the Eter­nal Son, united with the min­istry of the In­fi­nite Spirit, is re­vealed to the evo­lu­tion­ary do­mains in the ca­reers of these Avo­nals of judg­ment, ser­vice, and be­stowal. In the Trin­ity Teacher Sons the love, mercy, and min­istry of the three Par­a­dise De­i­ties are co-or­di­nated on the high­est time-space value-lev­els and are pre­sented to the uni­verses as liv­ing truth, di­vine good­ness, and true spir­i­tual beauty.

22:1.12The Trin­i­tized Sons of Per­fec­tion. The Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and their co-or­di­nates, the High Son As­sis­tants, com­prise a unique group of twice-trin­i­tized per­son­al­i­ties. They are the crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons of Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties or of per­fected as­cen­dant mor­tals who have long dis­tin­guished them­selves in the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Some of these crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons, af­ter ser­vice with the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and af­ter serv­ing un­der the Trin­ity Teacher Sons, are re­trini­tized (em­braced) by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and then com­mis­sioned to the courts of the An­cients of Days as Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and as High Son As­sis­tants. Trin­i­tized Sons of Per­fec­tion are as­signed di­rectly to the super­uni­verse ser­vice with­out fur­ther train­ing.

22:8.2When new as­cender-trin­i­tized and Par­a­dise-Ha­vona-trin­i­tized sons are young and un­trained, they are usu­ally dis­patched for long pe­ri­ods of ser­vice on the seven Par­a­dise spheres of the In­fi­nite Spirit, where they serve un­der the tute­lage of the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives. Sub­se­quently they may be adopted for fur­ther train­ing in the lo­cal uni­verses by the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

22:8.3These adopted sons of high and glo­ri­fied crea­ture ori­gin are the ap­pren­tices, stu­dent helpers, of the Teacher Sons, and as re­gards clas­si­fi­ca­tion they are of­ten tem­porar­ily num­bered with these Sons. They may and do ex­e­cute many no­ble as­sign­ments in self-de­nial in be­half of their cho­sen realms of ser­vice.

22:8.4The Teacher Sons in the lo­cal uni­verses may nom­i­nate their crea­ture-trin­i­tized wards for em­brace by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. Emerg­ing from this em­brace as Trin­i­tized Sons of Per­fec­tion, they en­ter the ser­vice of the An­cients of Days in the seven super­uni­verses, that be­ing the pres­ent known des­tiny of this unique group of twice-trin­i­tized be­ings.

22:9.1Crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons are em­braced by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity in classes of seven thou­sand. These trin­i­tized off­spring of per­fected hu­mans and of Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties are all equally em­braced by the De­i­ties, but they are as­signed to the super­uni­verses in ac­cor­dance with the ad­vice of their for­mer in­struc­tors, the Trin­ity Teacher Sons. Those of more ac­cept­able ser­vice are com­mis­sioned High Son As­sis­tants; those of less dis­tin­guished per­for­mance are des­ig­nated Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans.

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.

37:2.2As chief ex­ec­u­tive of Neb­a­don, Ga­briel is ex of­fi­cio chair­man of, or ob­server at, most of the Sal­ving­ton con­claves, and as many as one thou­sand of these are of­ten in ses­sion si­mul­ta­ne­ously. The Bril­liant Evening Stars rep­re­sent Ga­briel on these oc­ca­sions; he can­not be in two places at the same time, and these super­an­gels com­pen­sate for this lim­i­ta­tion. They per­form an anal­o­gous ser­vice for the corps of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

37:2.9Sim­i­lar pairs of these super­an­gels are as­signed to the plan­e­tary corps of Trin­ity Teacher Sons that func­tions to es­tab­lish the postbestowal or dawn­ing spir­i­tual age of an in­hab­ited world. On such as­sign­ments the Evening Stars serve as li­aisons be­tween the mor­tals of the realm and the in­vis­i­ble corps of Teacher Sons.

52:7.2The Teacher Sons come in groups to the spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing worlds. A plan­e­tary Teacher Son is as­sisted and sup­ported by sev­enty pri­mary Sons, twelve sec­ondary Sons, and three of the high­est and most ex­pe­ri­enced of the su­preme or­der of Day­nals. This corps will re­main for some time on the world, long enough to ef­fect the tran­si­tion from the evo­lu­tion­ary ages to the era of light and life—not less than one thou­sand years of plan­e­tary time and of­ten con­sid­er­ably longer. This mis­sion is a Trin­ity con­tri­bu­tion to the an­te­ced­ent ef­forts of all the di­vine per­son­al­i­ties who have min­is­tered to an in­hab­ited world.

30:1.191. Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

30:2.308. Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

30:2.413. Trin­ity Teacher Sons—Day­nals.

52:7.8From time to time through­out their dis­pen­sa­tion, Teacher Sons con­tinue to come to these peace­ful worlds. They do not leave a world un­til they ob­serve that the evo­lu­tion­ary plan, as it con­cerns that planet, is work­ing smoothly. A Mag­is­te­rial Son of judg­ment usu­ally ac­com­pa­nies the Teacher Sons on their suc­ces­sive mis­sions, while an­other such Son func­tions at the time of their de­par­ture, and these ju­di­cial ac­tions con­tinue from age to age through­out the du­ra­tion of the mor­tal regime of time and space.

119:4.4Never, through­out the seven years of this as­sign­ment, was this Trin­ity Teacher Son wholly per­suaded as to the iden­tity of his se­raphic as­so­ciate. True, all ser­a­phim dur­ing that age were re­garded with pe­cu­liar in­ter­est and scrutiny. Full well we all knew that our beloved Sov­er­eign was abroad in the uni­verse, dis­guised as a ser­a­phim, but never could we be cer­tain of his iden­tity. Never was he pos­i­tively iden­ti­fied un­til the time of his at­tach­ment to the be­stowal mis­sion of this Trin­ity Teacher Son. But al­ways through­out this era were the su­preme ser­a­phim re­garded with spe­cial so­lic­i­tude, lest any of us should find that we had un­awares been host to the Sov­er­eign of the uni­verse on a mis­sion of crea­ture be­stowal. And so it has be­come for­ever true, con­cern­ing an­gels, that their Cre­ator and Ruler has been “in all points tried and tested in the like­ness of se­raphic per­son­al­ity.”

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.

20:1.12As 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.

46:5.13The sec­ond cir­cle is oc­cu­pied by the Trin­ity Teacher Sons. In this sa­cred do­main the Day­nals and their as­so­ciates carry for­ward the train­ing of the newly ar­rived pri­mary Teacher Sons. And in all of this work they are ably as­sisted by a di­vi­sion of cer­tain co-or­di­nates of the Bril­liant Evening Stars. The crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons oc­cupy a sec­tor of the Day­nal cir­cle. The Trin­ity Teacher Sons come the near­est to be­ing the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in a lo­cal sys­tem; they are at least Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings. This sec­ond cir­cle is a do­main of ex­traor­di­nary in­ter­est to all the peo­ples of Je­ru­sem.

• one rules a Havona sphere when its Eternal of Days is absent

18:2.2The Eter­nals of Days are vis­i­ble to all will crea­tures dwell­ing in their do­mains. They pre­side over the reg­u­lar plan­e­tary con­claves. Pe­ri­od­i­cally, and by ro­ta­tion, they visit the head­quar­ters spheres of the seven super­uni­verses. They are close of kin to, and are the di­vine equals of, the An­cients of Days, who pre­side over the des­tinies of the seven super­gov­ern­ments. When an Eter­nal of Days is ab­sent from his sphere, his world is di­rected by a Trin­ity Teacher Son.

• conscious teachers of all personalities

19:5.9We know that the Trin­ity Teacher Sons are de­voted to the con­scious en­light­en­ment of uni­verse crea­tures. I have ar­rived at the set­tled con­clu­sion that the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, by super­con­scious tech­niques, are also func­tion­ing as teach­ers of the realms. I am per­suaded that there is a vast body of es­sen­tial spir­i­tual knowl­edge, truth in­dis­pens­able to high spir­i­tual at­tain­ment, which can­not be con­sciously re­ceived; self-con­scious­ness would ef­fec­tively jeop­ar­dize the cer­tainty of re­cep­tion. If we are right in this con­cept, and my en­tire or­der of be­ing shares it, it may be the mis­sion of these In­spired Spir­its to over­come this dif­fi­culty, to bridge this gap in the uni­ver­sal scheme of moral en­light­en­ment and spir­i­tual ad­vance­ment. We think that these two types of Trin­ity-ori­gin teach­ers ef­fect some kind of li­ai­son in their ac­tiv­i­ties, but we do not re­ally know.

• angels partake of circulating teachings of

26:1.17These bril­liant crea­tures of light are sus­tained di­rectly by the in­take of the spir­i­tual en­ergy of the pri­mary cir­cuits of the uni­verse. Uran­tia mor­tals must ob­tain light-en­ergy through the veg­e­ta­tive in­car­na­tion, but the an­gelic hosts are en­cir­cuited; they “have food that you know not.” They also par­take of the cir­cu­lat­ing teach­ings of the mar­velous Trin­ity Teacher Sons; they have a re­cep­tion of knowl­edge and an in­take of wis­dom much re­sem­bling their tech­nique of as­sim­i­lat­ing the life en­er­gies.

• sponsor Nebadon educational system

35:4.1A highly spe­cial­ized branch of Mel­chiz­e­dek ac­tiv­i­ties has to do with the super­vi­sion of the pro­gres­sive mor­ontia ca­reer of the as­cend­ing mor­tals. Much of this train­ing is con­ducted by the pa­tient and wise se­raphic min­is­ters, as­sisted by mor­tals who have as­cended to rel­a­tively higher lev­els of uni­verse at­tain­ment, but all of this ed­u­ca­tional work is un­der the gen­eral super­vi­sion of the Mel­chiz­e­deks in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

• on spheres circling Salvington

37:2.10The Worlds of the Evening Stars. The sixth group of seven Sal­ving­ton worlds and their forty-two trib­u­tary satel­lites are as­signed to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Bril­liant Evening Stars. The seven pri­mary worlds are pre­sided over by the cre­ated or­ders of these super­an­gels, while the trib­u­tary satel­lites are ad­min­is­tered by as­cen­dant Evening Stars.

37:2.11The satel­lites of the first three worlds are de­voted to the schools of the Teacher Sons and the Evening Stars ded­i­cated to the spirit per­son­al­i­ties of the lo­cal uni­verse. The next three groups are oc­cu­pied by sim­i­lar joint schools de­voted to the train­ing of as­cend­ing mor­tals. The sev­enth-world satel­lites are re­served for the tri­une de­lib­er­a­tions of the Teacher Sons, the Evening Stars, and the fi­nal­i­ters. Dur­ing re­cent times these super­an­gels have been closely iden­ti­fied with the lo­cal uni­verse work of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, and they have long been as­so­ci­ated with the Teacher Sons. There ex­ists a li­ai­son of tremen­dous power and im­port be­tween the Evening Stars and the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers at­tached to the fi­nal­i­ter work­ing groups. The sev­enth pri­mary world it­self is re­served for those un­re­vealed mat­ters which per­tain to the fu­ture re­la­tion­ship that will ob­tain be­tween the Teacher Sons, the fi­nal­i­ters, and the Evening Stars con­se­quent upon the com­pleted emer­gence of the super­uni­verse man­i­fes­ta­tion of the per­son­al­ity of God the Su­preme.

• sponsor Nebadon educational system

37:6.1The Neb­a­don ed­u­ca­tional sys­tem is jointly ad­min­is­tered by the Trin­ity Teacher Sons and the Mel­chiz­e­dek teach­ing corps, but much of the work de­signed to ef­fect its main­te­nance and up­build­ing is car­ried on by the Ce­les­tial Over­seers. These be­ings are a re­cruited corps em­brac­ing all types of in­di­vid­u­als con­nected with the scheme of ed­u­cat­ing and train­ing the as­cend­ing mor­tals. There are up­ward of three mil­lion of them in Neb­a­don, and they are all vol­un­teers who have qual­i­fied by ex­pe­ri­ence to serve as ed­u­ca­tional ad­vis­ers to the en­tire realm. From their head­quar­ters on the Sal­ving­ton worlds of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, these over­seers range the lo­cal uni­verse as in­spec­tors of the Neb­a­don school tech­nique de­signed to ef­fect the mind train­ing and the spirit ed­u­ca­tion of the as­cend­ing crea­tures.

• sponsor Nebadon educational system

45:7.2The Bril­liant Evening Stars (and their un­named co-or­di­nates) fre­quently serve as teach­ers in the var­i­ous ed­u­ca­tional en­ter­prises of the uni­verse, in­clud­ing those spon­sored by the Mel­chiz­e­deks. Also do the Trin­ity Teacher Sons col­lab­o­rate, and they im­part the touches of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion to these pro­gres­sive train­ing schools. But all these ac­tiv­i­ties are not ex­clu­sively de­voted to the ad­vance­ment of as­cend­ing mor­tals; many are equally oc­cu­pied with the pro­gres­sive train­ing of the na­tive spirit per­son­al­i­ties of Neb­a­don.

• come in groups of 71 to prepare planets for light and life; not materialized; remain at least 1000 years

49:5.27As a re­sult of the min­istry of all the suc­ces­sive or­ders of di­vine son­ship, the in­hab­ited worlds and their ad­vanc­ing races be­gin to ap­proach the apex of plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion. Such worlds now be­come ripe for the cul­mi­nat­ing mis­sion, the ar­rival of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons. This epoch of the Teacher Sons is the vestibule to the fi­nal plan­e­tary age—evo­lu­tion­ary utopia—the age of light and life.

• come in groups of 71 to prepare planets for light and life; not materialized; remain at least 1000 years

52:7.10The Trin­ity Teacher Sons may re­turn many times to the same world. But sooner or later, in con­nec­tion with the ter­mi­na­tion of one of their mis­sions, the Plan­e­tary Prince is el­e­vated to the po­si­tion of Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign, and the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign ap­pears to pro­claim the en­trance of such a world upon the era of light and life.

52:7.11It was of the con­clu­sion of the ter­mi­nal mis­sion of the Teacher Sons (at least that would be the chronol­ogy on a nor­mal world) that John wrote: “I saw a new heaven and a new earth and the new Je­ru­sa­lem com­ing down from God out of heaven, pre­pared as a princess adorned for the prince.”

52:7.12This is the same ren­o­vated earth, the ad­vanced plan­e­tary stage, that the olden seer en­vi­sioned when he wrote: “‘For, as the new heav­ens and the new earth, which I will make, shall re­main be­fore me, so shall you and your chil­dren sur­vive; and it shall come to pass that from one new moon to an­other and from one Sab­bath to an­other all flesh shall come to wor­ship be­fore me,’ says the Lord.”

52:7.13It is the mor­tals of such an age who are de­scribed as “a cho­sen gen­er­a­tion, a royal priest­hood, a holy na­tion, an ex­alted peo­ple; and you shall show forth the praises of Him who has called you out of dark­ness into this mar­velous light.”

• inaugurate light and life, morontia temple on terminal mission

52:7.14No mat­ter what the spe­cial nat­u­ral his­tory of an in­di­vid­ual planet may be, no dif­fer­ence whether a realm has been wholly loyal, tainted with evil, or cursed by sin—no mat­ter what the an­tecedents may be—sooner or later the grace of God and the min­istry of an­gels will usher in the day of the ad­vent of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons; and their de­par­ture, fol­low­ing their fi­nal mis­sion, will in­au­gu­rate this su­perb era of light and life.

52:7.15All the worlds of Sa­ta­nia can join in the hope of the one who wrote: “Nev­er­the­less we, ac­cord­ing to His prom­ise, look for a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwells righ­teous­ness. Where­fore, beloved, see­ing that you look for such things, be dili­gent that you may be found by Him in peace, with­out spot and blame­less.”

• inaugurate light and life, morontia temple on terminal mission

52:7.16The de­par­ture of the Teacher Son corps, at the end of their first or some sub­se­quent reign, ush­ers in the dawn of the era of light and life—the thresh­old of the tran­si­tion from time to the vestibule of eter­nity. The plan­e­tary re­al­iza­tion of this era of light and life far more than equals the fond­est ex­pec­ta­tions of Uran­tia mor­tals who have en­ter­tained no more farsee­ing con­cepts of the fu­ture life than those em­braced within re­li­gious be­liefs which de­pict heaven as the im­me­di­ate des­tiny and fi­nal dwell­ing place of sur­viv­ing mor­tals.

• successive planetary missions in light and life

55:0.1The age of light and life is the fi­nal evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment of a world of time and space. From the early times of prim­i­tive man, such an in­hab­ited world has passed through the suc­ces­sive plan­e­tary ages—the pre- and the post-Plan­e­tary Prince ages, the post-Adamic age, the post-Mag­is­te­rial Son age, and the postbestowal Son age. And then is such a world made ready for the cul­mi­nat­ing evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment, the set­tled sta­tus of light and life, by the min­istry of the suc­ces­sive plan­e­tary mis­sions of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons with their ever-ad­vanc­ing rev­e­la­tions of di­vine truth and cos­mic wis­dom. In these en­deav­ors the Teacher Sons en­joy the as­sis­tance of the Bril­liant Evening Stars al­ways, and the Mel­chiz­e­deks some­times, in es­tab­lish­ing the fi­nal plan­e­tary age.

• inaugurate light and life, morontia temple on terminal mission

55:0.2This era of light and life, in­au­gu­rated by the Teacher Sons at the con­clu­sion of their fi­nal plan­e­tary mis­sion, con­tin­ues in­def­i­nitely on the in­hab­ited worlds. Each ad­vanc­ing stage of set­tled sta­tus may be seg­re­gated by the ju­di­cial ac­tions of the Mag­is­te­rial Sons into a suc­ces­sion of dis­pen­sa­tions; but all such ju­di­cial ac­tions are purely tech­ni­cal, in no way mod­i­fy­ing the course of plan­e­tary events.

• inaugurate light and life, morontia temple on terminal mission

55:1.1The pres­ence of a mor­ontia tem­ple at the cap­i­tal of an in­hab­ited world is the cer­tifi­cate of the ad­mis­sion of such a sphere to the set­tled ages of light and life. Be­fore the Teacher Sons leave a world at the con­clu­sion of their ter­mi­nal mis­sion, they in­au­gu­rate this fi­nal epoch of evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment; they pre­side on that day when the “holy tem­ple comes down upon earth.” This event, sig­nal­iz­ing the dawn of the era of light and life, is al­ways hon­ored by the per­sonal pres­ence of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Son of that planet, who comes to wit­ness this great day. There in this tem­ple of un­par­al­leled beauty, this be­stowal Son of Par­a­dise pro­claims the long-time Plan­e­tary Prince as the new Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign and in­vests such a faith­ful La­non­an­dek Son with new pow­ers and ex­tended au­thor­ity over plan­e­tary af­fairs. The Sys­tem Sov­er­eign is also pres­ent and speaks in con­fir­ma­tion of these pro­nounce­ments.

55:4.1In the suc­ces­sive stages of set­tled ex­is­tence the in­hab­ited worlds make mar­velous prog­ress un­der the wise and sym­pa­thetic ad­min­is­tra­tion of the vol­un­teer Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, as­cend­ers of Par­a­dise at­tain­ment who have come back to min­is­ter to their breth­ren in the flesh. These fi­nal­i­ters are ac­tive in co-op­er­a­tion with the Trin­ity Teacher Sons, but they do not be­gin their real par­tic­i­pa­tion in world af­fairs un­til the mor­ontia tem­ple ap­pears on earth.

55:4.2Upon the for­mal in­au­gu­ra­tion of the plan­e­tary min­istry of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, the ma­jor­ity of the ce­les­tial hosts with­draw. But the se­raphic guard­i­ans of des­tiny con­tinue their per­sonal min­istry to the pro­gress­ing mor­tals in light; in­deed such an­gels come in ever-in­creas­ing num­bers through­out the set­tled ages since larger and larger groups of hu­man be­ings reach the third cos­mic cir­cle of co-or­di­nate mor­tal at­tain­ment dur­ing the plan­e­tary life span.

55:4.3This is merely the first of the suc­ces­sive ad­min­is­tra­tive ad­just­ments which at­tend the un­fold­ing of the suc­ces­sive ages of in­creas­ingly bril­liant at­tain­ment on the in­hab­ited worlds as they pass from the first to the sev­enth stage of set­tled ex­is­tence.

55:4.41. The first stage of light and life. A world in this ini­tial set­tled stage is be­ing ad­min­is­tered by three rulers:

55:4.5a. The Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign, pres­ently to be ad­vised by a coun­sel­ing Trin­ity Teacher Son, in all prob­a­bil­ity the chief of the ter­mi­nal corps of such Sons to func­tion on the planet.

55:4.6b. The chief of the plan­e­tary corps of fi­nal­i­ters.

55:4.7c. Adam and Eve, who func­tion jointly as the uni­fiers of the dual lead­er­ship of the Prince-Sov­er­eign and the chief of fi­nal­i­ters.

• release midwayers from planets in light and life

55:4.8Act­ing as in­ter­preters for the se­raphic guard­i­ans and the fi­nal­i­ters are the ex­alted and lib­er­ated mid­way crea­tures. One of the last acts of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons on their ter­mi­nal mis­sion is to lib­er­ate the mid­way­ers of the realm and to pro­mote (or re­store) them to ad­vanced plan­e­tary sta­tus, as­sign­ing them to re­spon­si­ble places in the new ad­min­is­tra­tion of the set­tled sphere. Such changes have al­ready been made in the range of hu­man vi­sion as en­able mor­tals to rec­og­nize these here­to­fore in­vis­i­ble cousins of the early Adamic regime. This is made pos­si­ble by the fi­nal dis­cov­er­ies of phys­i­cal sci­ence in li­ai­son with the en­larged plan­e­tary func­tions of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

55:4.9The Sys­tem Sov­er­eign has au­thor­ity to re­lease mid­way crea­tures any time af­ter the first set­tled stage so that they may hu­man­ize in the mor­ontia by the aid of the Life Car­ri­ers and the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and, af­ter re­ceiv­ing Thought Ad­justers, start out on their Par­a­dise as­cen­sion.

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.

55:4.112. 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.

• work closely with finaliters

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.

55:4.18At 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.

55:4.205. The fifth stage of light and life. The read­just­ments of this stage of set­tled ex­is­tence per­tain al­most en­tirely to the phys­i­cal do­mains and are of pri­mary con­cern to the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

55:4.216. The sixth stage of light and life wit­nesses the de­vel­op­ment of new func­tions of the mind cir­cuits of the realm. Cos­mic wis­dom seems to be­come con­sti­tu­tive in the uni­verse min­istry of mind.

55:4.227. The sev­enth stage of light and life. Early in the sev­enth epoch the Trin­ity Teacher coun­selor of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign is joined by a vol­un­teer ad­viser sent by the An­cients of Days, and later on they will be aug­mented by a third coun­selor com­ing from the super­uni­verse Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive.

55:4.23Dur­ing this epoch, if not be­fore, Adam and Eve are al­ways re­lieved of plan­e­tary du­ties. If there is a Ma­te­rial Son in the fi­nal­i­ter corps, he may be­come as­so­ci­ated with the mor­tal chief ex­ec­u­tive, and some­times it is a Mel­chiz­e­dek who vol­un­teers to func­tion in this ca­pac­ity. If a mid­wayer is among the fi­nal­i­ters, all of that or­der re­main­ing on the planet are im­me­di­ately re­leased.

55:4.24Upon ob­tain­ing re­lease from their age­long as­sign­ment, a Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve may se­lect ca­reers as fol­lows:

55:4.251. They can se­cure plan­e­tary re­lease and from the uni­verse head­quar­ters start out im­me­di­ately on the Par­a­dise ca­reer, re­ceiv­ing Thought Ad­justers at the con­clu­sion of the mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence.

55:4.262. Very of­ten a Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve will re­ceive Ad­justers while yet serv­ing on a world set­tled in light con­comi­tant with the re­ceiv­ing of Ad­justers by some of their im­ported pure-line chil­dren who have vol­un­teered for a term of plan­e­tary ser­vice. Sub­se­quently they may all go to uni­verse head­quar­ters and there be­gin the Par­a­dise ca­reer.

55:4.273. A Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve may elect—as do Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters from the sys­tem cap­i­tal—to go di­rect to the mid­sonite world for a brief so­journ, there to re­ceive their Ad­justers.

55:4.284. They may de­cide to re­turn to the sys­tem head­quar­ters, there for a time to oc­cupy seats on the su­preme court, af­ter which ser­vice they will re­ceive Ad­justers and be­gin the Par­a­dise as­cent.

55:4.295. They may choose to go from their ad­min­is­tra­tive du­ties back to their na­tive world to serve as teach­ers for a sea­son and to be­come Ad­juster in­dwelt at the time of trans­fer to the uni­verse head­quar­ters.

55:4.30Through­out all of these epochs the im­ported as­sist­ing Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters ex­ert a tremen­dous in­flu­ence on the pro­gress­ing so­cial and eco­nomic or­ders. They are po­ten­tially im­mor­tal, at least un­til such time as they elect to hu­man­ize, re­ceive Ad­justers, and start for Par­a­dise.

55:4.31On the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds a be­ing must hu­man­ize to re­ceive a Thought Ad­juster. All as­cen­dant mem­bers of the Mor­tal Corps of Fi­nal­i­ters have been Ad­juster in­dwelt and fused ex­cept ser­a­phim, and they are Fa­ther in­dwelt by an­other type of spirit at the time of be­ing mus­tered into this corps.

• inaugurate light and life, morontia temple on terminal mission

55:7.1This epoch ex­tends from the ap­pear­ance of the mor­ontia tem­ple at the new plan­e­tary head­quar­ters to the time of the set­tling of the en­tire sys­tem in light and life. This age is in­au­gu­rated by the Trin­ity Teacher Sons at the close of their suc­ces­sive world mis­sions when the Plan­e­tary Prince is el­e­vated to the sta­tus of Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign by the man­date and per­sonal pres­ence of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Son of that sphere. Con­comi­tant there­with the fi­nal­i­ters in­au­gu­rate their ac­tive par­tic­i­pa­tion in plan­e­tary af­fairs.

• successive planetary missions in light and life

55:8.5On the in­hab­ited worlds the Teacher Sons be­come vol­un­tary col­lab­o­ra­tors with the fi­nal­i­ters, and these same Teacher Sons also ac­com­pany the fi­nal­i­ters to the man­sion worlds when those spheres are no longer to be uti­lized as dif­fer­en­tial re­ceiv­ing worlds af­ter an en­tire sys­tem is set­tled in light and life; at least this is true by the time the en­tire con­stel­la­tion has thus evolved. But there are no groups that far ad­vanced in Neb­a­don.

• assigned to supreme council of unlimited authority in local universe light and life

55:10.6Dur­ing this epoch the Trin­ity Teacher Sons are vol­un­teer ad­vis­ers, not only to the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eigns, but in groups of three they sim­i­larly serve the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers. And at last these Sons find their place in the lo­cal uni­verse, for at this time they are re­moved from the ju­ris­dic­tion of the lo­cal cre­ation and are as­signed to the ser­vice of the su­preme coun­cil of un­lim­ited au­thor­ity.

• advised Melchizedek receivers after rebellion

67:6.5The af­fairs of Uran­tia were for a long time ad­min­is­tered by a coun­cil of plan­e­tary re­ceivers, twelve Mel­chiz­e­deks, con­firmed by the man­date of the se­nior con­stel­la­tion ruler, the Most High Fa­ther of Nor­la­ti­adek. As­so­ci­ated with the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers was an ad­vi­sory coun­cil con­sist­ing of: one of the loyal aids of the fallen Prince, the two res­i­dent Life Car­ri­ers, a Trin­i­tized Son in ap­pren­tice­ship train­ing, a vol­un­teer Teacher Son, a Bril­liant Evening Star of Avalon (pe­ri­od­i­cally), the chiefs of ser­a­phim and cheru­bim, ad­vis­ers from two neigh­bor­ing plan­ets, the di­rec­tor gen­eral of sub­or­di­nate an­gelic life, and Van, the com­man­der in chief of the mid­way crea­tures. And thus was Uran­tia gov­erned and ad­min­is­tered un­til the ar­rival of Adam. It is not strange that the coura­geous and loyal Van was as­signed a place on the coun­cil of plan­e­tary re­ceivers which for so long ad­min­is­tered the af­fairs of Uran­tia.