Vicegerington

22:7.2Aside from the De­i­ties, only Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties and cer­tain mem­bers of each of the fi­nal­i­ter corps en­gage in trin­i­ti­za­tion. Un­der spe­cial­ized con­di­tions of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion, these su­perb be­ings may em­bark upon the unique ad­ven­ture of con­cept-iden­tity, and they are many times suc­cess­ful in the pro­duc­tion of a new be­ing, a crea­ture-trin­i­tized son.

22:7.3The glo­ri­fied crea­tures who en­gage in such ad­ven­tures of trin­i­ti­za­tion may par­tic­i­pate in only one such ex­pe­ri­ence, whereas with the Par­a­dise De­i­ties there seems to be no limit to the con­tin­ued en­act­ment of trin­i­ti­za­tion episodes. De­ity seems to be lim­ited in just one re­spect: There can be only one Orig­i­nal and In­fi­nite Spirit, only one in­fi­nite ex­ec­u­tive of the united will of the Fa­ther-Son.

22:7.4The as­cen­dant Ad­juster-fused mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters who have at­tained cer­tain lev­els of Par­a­dise cul­ture and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment are among those who can es­say to trini­tize a crea­ture be­ing. Mor­tal-fi­nal­i­ter com­pa­nies, when sta­tioned on Par­a­dise, are granted a re­cess ev­ery mil­len­nium of Ha­vona time. There are seven dif­fer­ent ways such fi­nal­i­ters may elect to spend this duty-free pe­riod, and one of these is, in as­so­ci­a­tion with some fel­low fi­nal­i­ter or some Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­ity, to at­tempt the en­act­ment of crea­ture trin­i­ti­za­tion.

22:7.5If two mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters, on go­ing be­fore the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse, demon­strate that they have in­de­pen­dently cho­sen an iden­ti­cal con­cept for trin­i­ti­za­tion, the Ar­chi­tects are em­pow­ered, on their own dis­cre­tion, to pro­mul­gate man­dates per­mit­ting these glo­ri­fied mor­tal as­cend­ers to ex­tend their re­cess and to re­move them­selves for a time to the trini­tiz­ing sec­tor of the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens. At the end of this as­signed re­treat, if they re­port that they have singly and jointly elected to make the par­a­di­si­a­cal ef­fort to spir­i­tu­al­ize, ide­al­ize, and ac­tu­al­ize a se­lected and orig­i­nal con­cept which has not thereto­fore been trin­i­tized, then does Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Seven is­sue or­ders au­tho­riz­ing such an ex­traor­di­nary un­der­tak­ing.

22:7.6Un­be­liev­ably long pe­ri­ods of time are some­times con­sumed in these ad­ven­tures; an age seems to pass be­fore these faith­ful and de­ter­mined one­time mor­tals—and some­times Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties—fi­nally achieve their goal, re­ally suc­ceed in bring­ing their cho­sen con­cept of uni­ver­sal truth into ac­tual be­ing. And not al­ways do these de­voted cou­ples meet with suc­cess; many times they fail, and that through no dis­cov­er­able er­ror on their part. Can­di­dates for trin­i­ti­za­tion who thus fail are ad­mit­ted to a spe­cial group of fi­nal­i­ters who are des­ig­nated as be­ings who have made the su­preme ef­fort and sus­tained the su­preme dis­ap­point­ment. When the Par­a­dise De­i­ties unite to trini­tize, they al­ways suc­ceed, but not so with a ho­mo­ge­neous pair of crea­tures, the at­tempted union of two mem­bers of the same or­der of be­ing.

22:7.7When a new and orig­i­nal be­ing is trin­i­tized by the Gods, the di­vine par­ents are in de­ity po­ten­tial un­changed; but when ex­alted crea­ture be­ings en­act such a cre­ative episode, one of the con­tract­ing and par­tic­i­pat­ing in­di­vid­u­als un­der­goes a unique per­son­al­ity mod­i­fi­ca­tion. The two an­ces­tors of a crea­ture-trin­i­tized son be­come in a cer­tain sense spir­i­tu­ally as one. We be­lieve that this sta­tus of bi-uni­fi­ca­tion of cer­tain spir­i­tual phases of per­son­al­ity will prob­a­bly pre­vail un­til such time as the Su­preme Be­ing shall have at­tained full and com­pleted man­i­fes­ta­tion of per­son­al­ity in the grand uni­verse.

22:7.8Si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the ap­pear­ance of a new crea­ture-trin­i­tized son, there oc­curs this func­tional spir­i­tual union of the two an­ces­tors; the two trini­tiz­ing par­ents be­come one on the ul­ti­mate func­tional level. No cre­ated be­ing in the uni­verse can fully ex­plain this amaz­ing phe­nom­e­non; it is a near-di­vine ex­pe­ri­ence. When the Fa­ther and the Son united to eter­nal­ize the In­fi­nite Spirit, upon the ac­com­plish­ment of their pur­pose they im­me­di­ately be­came as one and ever since have been one. And while the trin­i­ti­za­tion union of two crea­tures is on the or­der of the in­fi­nite scope of the per­fect De­ity union of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son, the reper­cus­sions of crea­ture trin­i­ti­za­tion are not eter­nal in na­ture; they will ter­mi­nate upon the com­pleted fac­tu­al­iza­tion of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties.

22:7.9While these par­ents of crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons be­come as one in their uni­verse as­sign­ments, they con­tinue to be reck­oned as two per­son­al­i­ties in the make-up and roll calls of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity and of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse. Dur­ing the cur­rent uni­verse age, all trin­i­ti­za­tion-united par­ents are in­sep­a­ra­ble in as­sign­ment and func­tion; where one goes the other goes, what one does the other does. If pa­ren­tal bi-uni­fi­ca­tion in­volves a mor­tal (or other) fi­nal­i­ter and a Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­ity, the united pa­ren­tal be­ings func­tion nei­ther with the Par­adis­ers, Havon­ers, nor fi­nal­i­ters. Such mixed unions for­gather in a spe­cial corps made up of sim­i­lar be­ings. And in all trin­i­ti­za­tion unions, mixed or oth­er­wise, the pa­ren­tal be­ings are con­scious of, and can com­mu­ni­cate with, each other, and they can per­form du­ties that nei­ther could have pre­vi­ously dis­charged.