The Urantia Book
PAPER 19
THE CO-ORDINATE TRINITY-ORIGIN
BEINGS
Presented by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.
19:0.1 THIS Paradise group, designated the
Co-ordinate Trinity-origin Beings, embraces the Trinity Teacher
Sons, also classed among the Paradise Sons of God, three groups
of high superuniverse administrators, and the somewhat
impersonal category of the Inspired Trinity Spirits. Even the
Havona natives may properly be included in this classification
of Trinity personalities along with numerous groups of beings
resident on Paradise. Those Trinity-origin beings to be
considered in this discussion are:
1. Trinity Teacher Sons.
2. Perfectors of Wisdom.
3. Divine Counselors.
4. Universal Censors.
5. Inspired Trinity Spirits.
6. Havona Natives.
7. Paradise Citizens.
19:0.2 Excepting the Trinity Teacher Sons and
possibly the Inspired Trinity Spirits, these groups are of
definite numbers; their creation is a finished and past event.
1. THE TRINITY TEACHER SONS
19:1.1 Of 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.
19:1.2 While 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.
19:1.3 These 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.
19:1.4 In 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.
19:1.5 For 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.
19:1.6 Even 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.
19:1.7 When 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:
19:1.8 1. It may utterly fail to perceive the
final and completed evolutionary goal of either personal
attainment or cosmic destiny.
19:1.9 2. 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.
19:1.10 3. 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.
19:1.11 4. 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.
19:1.12 Therefore, 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.
2. THE PERFECTORS OF WISDOM
19:2.1 The Perfectors of Wisdom are a
specialized creation of the Paradise Trinity designed to
personify the wisdom of divinity in the superuniverses. There
are exactly seven billion of these beings in existence, and one
billion are assigned to each of the seven superuniverses.
19:2.2 In common with their co-ordinates, the
Divine Counselors and the Universal Censors, the Perfectors of
Wisdom passed through the wisdom of Paradise, of Havona, and
except for Divinington, of the Father's Paradise spheres. After
these experiences the Perfectors of Wisdom were permanently
assigned to the service of the Ancients of Days. They serve
neither on Paradise nor on the worlds of the Paradise-Havona
circuits; they are wholly occupied with the administration of
the superuniverse governments.
19:2.3 Wherever and whenever a Perfector of
Wisdom functions, there and then divine wisdom functions. There
is actuality of presence and perfection of manifestation in the
knowledge and wisdom represented in the doings of these mighty
and majestic personalities. They do not reflect the
wisdom of the Paradise Trinity; they are that wisdom.
They are the sources of wisdom for all teachers in the
application of universe knowledge; they are the fountains of
discretion and the wellsprings of discrimination to the
institutions of learning and discernment in all universes.
19:2.4 Wisdom is twofold in origin, being
derived from the perfection of divine insight inherent in
perfect beings and from the personal experience acquired by
evolutionary creatures. The Perfectors of Wisdom are the
divine wisdom of the Paradise perfection of Deity insight. Their
administrative associates on Uversa, the Mighty Messengers,
Those without Name and Number, and Those High in Authority, when
acting together, are the universe wisdom of experience. A
divine being can have perfection of divine knowledge. An
evolutionary mortal can sometime attain perfection of ascendant
knowledge, but neither of these beings alone exhausts the
potentials of all possible wisdom. Accordingly, whenever in the
conduct of the superuniverse it is desired to achieve the
maximum of administrative wisdom, these perfectors of the wisdom
of divine insight are always associated with those ascendant
personalities who have come up to the high responsibilities of
superuniverse authority through the experiential tribulations of
evolutionary progression.
19:2.5 The Perfectors of Wisdom will always
require this complement of experiential wisdom for the
completion of their administrative sagacity. But it has been
postulated that a high and hitherto unattained level of wisdom
may possibly be achieved by the Paradise finaliters after
they are sometime inducted into the seventh stage of spirit
existence. If this inference is correct, then would such
perfected beings of evolutionary ascent undoubtedly become the
most effective universe administrators ever to be known in all
creation. I believe that such is the high destiny of finaliters.
19:2.6 The versatility of the Perfectors of
Wisdom enables them to participate in practically all of the
celestial services of the ascendant creatures. The Perfectors of
Wisdom and my order of personality, the Divine Counselors,
together with the Universal Censors, constitute the highest
orders of beings who may and do engage in the work of revealing
truth to the individual planets and systems, whether in their
earlier epochs or when settled in light and life. From time to
time we all make contact with the service of the ascending
mortals, from an initial-life planet on up through a local
universe and the superuniverse, particularly the latter.
3. THE DIVINE COUNSELORS
19:3.1 These Trinity-origin beings are the
counsel of Deity to the realms of the seven superuniverses. They
are not reflective of the divine counsel of the Trinity;
they are that counsel. There are twenty-one billion
Counselors in service, and three billion are assigned to each
superuniverse.
19:3.2 Divine Counselors are the associates
and equals of the Universal Censors and the Perfectors of
Wisdom, from one to seven Counselors being associated with each
of these latter personalities. All three orders participate in
the government of the Ancients of Days, including major and
minor sectors, in the local universes and constellations, and in
the councils of the local system sovereigns.
19:3.3 We act as individuals, as I do in
inditing this statement, but we also function as a trio whenever
the occasion requires. When we act in an executive capacity,
always there are associated together a Perfector of Wisdom, a
Universal Censor, and from one to seven Divine Counselors.
19:3.4 One Perfector of Wisdom, seven Divine
Counselors, and one Universal Censor constitute a tribunal of
Trinity divinity, the highest mobile advisory body in the
universes of time and space. Such a group of nine is known
either as a fact-finding or as a truth-revealing tribunal, and
when it sits in judgment upon a problem and renders a decision,
it is just as if an Ancient of Days had adjudicated the matter,
for in all the annals of the superuniverses such a verdict has
never been reversed by the Ancients of Days.
19:3.5 When the three Ancients of Days
function, the Paradise Trinity functions. When the tribunal of
nine arrives at a decision following its united deliberations,
to all intents and purposes the Ancients of Days have spoken.
And it is in this manner that the Paradise Rulers make personal
contact, in administrative matters and governmental regulation,
with the individual worlds, systems, and universes.
19:3.6 Divine Counselors are the perfection of
the divine counsel of the Paradise Trinity. We represent, in
fact are, the counsel of perfection. When we are
supplemented by the experiential counsel of our associates, the
perfected and Trinity-embraced beings of evolutionary ascent,
our combined conclusions are not only complete but replete. When
our united counsel has been associated, adjudicated, confirmed,
and promulgated by a Universal Censor, it is very probable that
it approaches the threshold of universal totality. Such verdicts
represent the nearest possible approach to the absolute attitude
of Deity within the time-space limits of the situation involved
and the problem concerned.
19:3.7 Seven Divine Counselors in liaison with
a trinitized evolutionary trio -- a Mighty Messenger, One High
in Authority, and One without Name and Number -- represent the
nearest superuniverse approach to the union of the human
viewpoint and the divine attitude on near-paradisiacal levels of
spiritual meanings and reality values. Such close approximation
of the united cosmic attitudes of the creature and the Creator
is only surpassed in the Paradise bestowal Sons, who are, in
every phase of personality experience, God and man.
4. THE UNIVERSAL CENSORS
19:4.1 There are exactly eight billion
Universal Censors in existence. These unique beings are
the judgment of Deity. They are not merely reflective of the
decisions of perfection; they are the judgment of the
Paradise Trinity. Even the Ancients of Days do not sit in
judgment except in association with the Universal Censors.
19:4.2 One Censor is commissioned on each of
the billion worlds of the central universe, being attached to
the planetary administration of the resident Eternal of Days.
Neither Perfectors of Wisdom nor Divine Counselors are thus
permanently attached to the Havona administrations, nor do we
altogether understand why Universal Censors are stationed in the
central universe. Their present activities hardly account for
their assignment in Havona, and we therefore suspect that they
are there in anticipation of the needs of some future universe
age in which the Havona population may partially change.
19:4.3 One billion Censors are assigned to
each of the seven superuniverses. Both in an individual capacity
and in association with Perfectors of Wisdom and Divine
Counselors, they operate throughout all divisions of the seven
superuniverses. Thus the Censors act on all levels of the grand
universe, from the perfect worlds of Havona to the councils of
the System Sovereigns, and they are an organic part of all
dispensational adjudications of the evolutionary worlds.
19:4.4 Whenever and wherever a Universal
Censor is present, then and there is the judgment of Deity. And
since the Censors always render their verdicts in liaison with
Perfectors of Wisdom and Divine Counselors, such decisions
embrace the united wisdom, counsel, and judgment of the Paradise
Trinity. In this juridical trio the Perfector of Wisdom would be
the "I was," the Divine Counselor the "I will be," but the
Universal Censor is always "I am."
19:4.5 The Censors are universe totaling
personalities. When a thousand witnesses have given testimony --
or a million -- when the voice of wisdom has spoken and the
counsel of divinity has recorded, when the testimony of
ascendant perfection has been added, then the Censor functions,
and there is immediately revealed an unerring and divine
totaling of all that has transpired; and such a disclosure
represents the divine conclusion, the sum and substance of a
final and perfect decision. Therefore, when a Censor has spoken,
no one else may speak, for the Censor has depicted the true and
unmistakable total of all that has gone before. When he speaks,
there is no appeal.
19:4.6 Most fully do I understand the
operation of the mind of a Perfector of Wisdom, but I certainly
do not fully comprehend the working of the adjudicating mind of
a Universal Censor. It appears to me that the Censors formulate
new meanings and originate new values from the association of
the facts, truths, and findings presented to them in the course
of an investigation of universe affairs. It seems probable that
the Universal Censors are able to bring forth original
interpretations of the combination of perfect Creator insight
and the perfected creature experience. This association of
Paradise perfection and universe experience undoubtedly
eventuates a new value in ultimates.
19:4.7 But this is not the end of our
difficulties regarding the working of the minds of the Universal
Censors. Having made due allowances for all that we know or
conjecture about the functioning of a Censor in any given
universe situation, we find that we are still unable to predict
decisions or to forecast verdicts. We very accurately determine
the probable result of the association of Creator attitude and
creature experience, but such conclusions are not always
accurate forecasts of Censor disclosures. It seems likely that
the Censors are in some manner in liaison with the Deity
Absolute; we are otherwise unable to explain many of their
decisions and rulings.
19:4.8 Perfectors of Wisdom, Divine
Counselors, and Universal Censors, together with the seven
orders of Supreme Trinity Personalities, constitute those ten
groups which have been sometimes designated Stationary Sons
of the Trinity. Together they comprise the grand corps of
Trinity administrators, rulers, executives, advisers,
counselors, and judges. Their numbers slightly exceed
thirty-seven billion. Two billion and seventy are stationed in
the central universe and just over five billion in each
superuniverse.
19:4.9 It is very difficult to portray the
functional limits of the Stationary Sons of the Trinity. It
would be incorrect to state that their acts are finite limited,
for there are transactions of superuniverse record which
indicate otherwise. They act on any level of universe
administration or adjudication that may be required by
time-space conditions and that pertains to the past, present,
and future evolution of the master universe.
5. INSPIRED TRINITY SPIRITS
19:5.1 I will be able to tell you very little
concerning the Inspired Trinity Spirits, for they are one of the
few wholly secret orders of beings in existence, secret, no
doubt, because it is impossible for them fully to reveal
themselves even to those of us whose origin is so near the
source of their creation. They come into being by the act of the
Paradise Trinity and may be utilized by any one or two of the
Deities as well as by all three. We do not know whether these
Spirits are of completed numbers or are constantly increasing,
but we incline to the belief that their number is not fixed.
19:5.2 We fully understand neither the nature
nor the conduct of the Inspired Spirits. They may possibly
belong to the category of superpersonal spirits. They seem to
operate over all known circuits and appear to act well-nigh
independently of time and space. But we know little about them
except as we deduce their character from the nature of their
activities, the results of which we certainly observe here and
there in the universes.
19:5.3 Under certain conditions these Inspired
Spirits can individualize themselves sufficiently for
recognition by beings of Trinity origin. I have seen them; but
it would never be possible for the lower orders of celestial
beings to recognize one of them. Certain circumstances also
arise from time to time in the conduct of the evolving universes
in which any being of Trinity origin may directly employ these
Spirits in the furtherance of his assignments. We therefore know
that they exist, and that under certain conditions we may
command and receive their assistance, sometimes recognize their
presence. But they are not a part of the manifest and definitely
revealed organization intrusted with the conduct of the
time-space universes before such material creations are settled
in light and life. They have no clearly discernible place in the
present economy or administration of the evolving seven
superuniverses. They are a secret of the Paradise Trinity.
19:5.4 The Melchizedeks of Nebadon teach that
Inspired Trinity Spirits are destined, sometime in the eternal
future, to function in the places of the Solitary Messengers,
whose ranks are slowly but certainly being depleted by their
assignment as associates of certain types of trinitized sons.
19:5.5 The Inspired Spirits are the solitary
Spirits of the universe of universes. As Spirits they are very
much like the Solitary Messengers except that the latter are
distinct personalities. We obtain much of our knowledge of the
Inspired Spirits from the Solitary Messengers, who detect their
nearness by virtue of an inherent sensitivity to the presence of
the Inspired Spirits which functions just as unfailingly as a
magnetic needle points to a magnetic pole. When a Solitary
Messenger is near an Inspired Trinity Spirit, he is conscious of
a qualitative indication of such a divine presence and also of a
very definite quantitative registration which enables him
actually to know the classification or number of the Spirit
presence or presences.
19:5.6 I may relate a further interesting
fact: When a Solitary Messenger is on a planet whose inhabitants
are indwelt by Thought Adjusters, as on Urantia, he is aware of
a qualitative excitation in his detection-sensitivity to spirit
presence. In such instances there is no quantitative excitation,
only a qualitative agitation. When on a planet to which
Adjusters do not come, contact with the natives does not produce
any such reaction. This suggests that Thought Adjusters are in
some manner related to, or are connected with, the Inspired
Spirits of the Paradise Trinity. In some way they may possibly
be associated in certain phases of their work; but we do not
really know. They both originate near the center and source of
all things, but they are not the same order of being. Thought
Adjusters spring from the Father alone; Inspired Spirits are the
offspring of the Paradise Trinity.
19:5.7 The Inspired Spirits do not apparently
belong to the evolutionary scheme of the individual planets or
universes, and yet they seem to be almost everywhere. Even as I
am engaged in the formulation of this statement, my associated
Solitary Messenger's personal sensitivity to the presence of
this order of Spirit indicates that there is with us at this
very moment, not over twenty-five feet away, a Spirit of the
Inspired order and of the third volume of power presence. The
third volume of power presence suggests to us the probability
that three Inspired Spirits are functioning in liaison.
19:5.8 Of more than twelve orders of beings
associated with me at this time, the Solitary Messenger is the
only one aware of the presence of these mysterious entities of
the Trinity. And further, while we are thus apprised of the
nearness of these divine Spirits, we are all equally ignorant of
their mission. We really do not know whether they are merely
interested observers of our doings, or whether they are, in some
manner unknown to us, actually contributing to the success of
our undertaking.
19:5.9 We 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.
19:5.10 On the superuniverse training worlds
and on the eternal circuits of Havona, I have fraternized with
the perfecting mortals -- spiritualized and ascendant souls from
the evolutionary realms -- but never have they been aware of the
Inspired Spirits, which ever and anon the powers of detection
resident in the Solitary Messengers would indicate were very
near us. I have freely conversed with all orders of the Sons of
God, high and low, and they likewise are unconscious of the
admonitions of the Inspired Trinity Spirits. They can and do
look back in their experiences and recount happenings which are
difficult to explain if the action of such Spirits is not taken
into account. But excepting Solitary Messengers, and sometimes
Trinity-origin beings, none of the celestial family have ever
been conscious of the nearness of the Inspired Spirits.
19:5.11 I do not believe the Inspired Trinity
Spirits are playing hide and seek with me. They are probably
trying just as hard to disclose themselves to me as I am to
communicate with them; our difficulties and limitations must be
mutual and inherent. I am satisfied that there are no arbitrary
secrets in the universe; therefore will I never cease in my
efforts to solve the mystery of the isolation of these Spirits
belonging to my order of creation.
19:5.12 And from all this, you mortals, just
now taking your first step on the eternal journey, can well see
that you must advance a long way before you will progress by
"sight" and "material" assurance. You will long use faith and be
dependent on revelation if you hope to progress quickly and
safely.
6. HAVONA NATIVES
19:6.1 The Havona natives are the direct
creation of the Paradise Trinity, and their number is beyond the
concept of your circumscribed minds. Neither is it possible for
Urantians to conceive of the inherent endowments of such
divinely perfect creatures as these Trinity-origin races of the
eternal universe. You can never truly envisage these glorious
creatures; you must await your arrival in Havona, when you can
greet them as spirit comrades.
19:6.2 During your long sojourn on the billion
worlds of Havona culture you will develop an eternal friendship
for these superb beings. And how deep is that friendship which
grows up between the lowest personal creature from the worlds of
space and these high personal beings native to the perfect
spheres of the central universe! Ascending mortals, in their
long and loving association with the Havona natives, do much to
compensate for the spiritual impoverishment of the earlier
stages of mortal progression. At the same time, through their
contacts with ascending pilgrims, the Havoners gain an
experience which to no small extent overcomes the experiential
handicap of having always lived a life of divine perfection. The
good to both ascending mortal and Havona native is great and
mutual.
19:6.3 Havona natives, like all other
Trinity-origin personalities, are projected in divine
perfection, and as with other Trinity-origin personalities, the
passing of time may add to their stores of experiential
endowments. But unlike the Stationary Sons of the Trinity,
Havoners may evolve in status, may have an unrevealed future
eternity-destiny. This is illustrated by those Havoners who
service-factualize capacity for fusion with a non-Adjuster
Father fragment and so qualify for membership in the Mortal
Corps of the Finality. And there are other finaliter corps open
to these natives of the central universe.
19:6.4 The status evolution of Havona natives
has occasioned much speculation on Uversa. Since they are
constantly filtering into the several Paradise Corps of the
Finality, and since no more are being created, it is apparent
that the number of natives remaining in Havona is constantly
diminishing. The ultimate consequences of these transactions
have never been revealed to us, but we do not believe that
Havona will ever be entirely depleted of its natives. We have
entertained the theory that Havoners will possibly cease
entering the finaliter corps sometime during the ages of the
successive creations of the outer space levels. We have also
entertained the thought that in these subsequent universe ages
the central universe may be peopled by a mixed group of resident
beings, a citizenship consisting only in part of the original
Havona natives. We do not know what order or type of creature
may be thus destined to residential status in the future Havona,
but we have thought of:
1. The univitatia, who are at
present the permanent citizens of the local universe
constellations.
2. Future types of mortals who may
be born on the inhabited spheres of the superuniverses in the
flowering of the ages of light and life.
3. The incoming spiritual
aristocracy of the successive outer universes.
19:6.5 We know that the Havona of the previous
universe age was somewhat different from the Havona of the
present age. We deem it no more than reasonable to assume that
we are now witnessing those slow changes in the central universe
that are anticipatory of the ages to come. One thing is certain:
The universe is nonstatic; only God is changeless.
7. PARADISE CITIZENS
19:7.1 There are resident on Paradise numerous
groups of superb beings, the Paradise Citizens. They are not
directly concerned with the scheme of perfecting ascending will
creatures and are not, therefore, fully revealed to Urantia
mortals. There are more than three thousand orders of these
supernal intelligences, the last group having been personalized
simultaneously with the mandate of the Trinity which promulgated
the creative plan of the seven superuniverses of time and space.
19:7.2 Paradise Citizens and Havona natives
are sometimes designated collectively as Paradise-Havona
personalities.
19:7.3 This completes the story of those
beings who are brought into existence by the Paradise Trinity.
None of them have ever gone astray. And yet, in the highest
sense, they are all freewill endowed.
19:7.4 Trinity-origin beings possess
prerogatives of transit which make them independent of transport
personalities, such as seraphim. We all possess the power of
moving about freely and quickly in the universe of universes.
Excepting the Inspired Trinity Spirits, we cannot attain the
almost unbelievable velocity of the Solitary Messengers, but we
are able so to utilize the sum total of the transport facilities
in space that we can reach any point in a superuniverse, from
its headquarters, in less than one year of Urantia time. It
required 109 days of your time for me to journey from Uversa to
Urantia.
19:7.5 Through these same avenues we are
enabled to intercommunicate instantaneously. Our entire order of
creation finds itself in touch with every individual embraced
within every division of the children of the Paradise Trinity
save only the Inspired Spirits.
19:7.6
Presented by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.
