The Urantia Book
PAPER 31
THE CORPS OF THE FINALITY
These thirty-one papers depicting the
nature of Deity, the reality of Paradise, the organization and
working of the central and superuniverses, the personalities of
the grand universe, and the high destiny of evolutionary
mortals, were sponsored, formulated, and put into English by a
high commission consisting of twenty-four Orvonton
administrators acting in accordance with a mandate issued by the
Ancients of Days of Uversa directing that we should do this on
Urantia, 606 of Satania, in Norlatiadek of Nebadon, in the year
A.D. 1934.
31:0.1 THE Corps of Mortal Finaliters
represents the present known destination of the ascending
Adjuster-fused mortals of time. But there are other groups who
are also assigned to this corps. The primary finaliter corps is
composed of the following:
1. Havona Natives.
2. Gravity Messengers.
3. Glorified Mortals.
4. Adopted Seraphim.
5. Glorified Material Sons.
6. Glorified Midway Creatures.
31:0.2 These six groups of glorified beings
compose this unique body of eternal destiny. We think we know
their future work, but we are not certain. While the Corps of
the Mortal Finality is mobilizing on Paradise, and while they
now so extensively minister to the universes of space and
administer the worlds settled in light and life, their future
destination must be the now-organizing universes of outer space.
At least that is the conjecture of Uversa.
31:0.3 The corps is organized in accordance
with the working associations of the worlds of space and in
keeping with the associative experience acquired throughout the
long and eventful ascendant career. All the ascendant creatures
admitted to this corps are received in equality, but this
exalted equality in no way abrogates individuality or destroys
personal identity. We can immediately discern, in communicating
with a finaliter, whether he is an ascendant mortal, Havona
native, adopted seraphim, midway creature, or Material Son.
31:0.4 During the present universe age the
finaliters return to serve in the universes of time. They are
assigned to labor successively in the different superuniverses
and never in their native superuniverses until after they have
served in all the other six supercreations. Thus may they
acquire the sevenfold concept of the Supreme Being.
31:0.5 One or more companies of the mortal
finaliters are constantly in service on Urantia. There is no
domain of universe service to which they are not assigned; they
function universally and with alternating and equal periods of
assigned duty and free service.
31:0.6 We have no idea as to the nature of the
future organization of this extraordinary group, but the
finaliters are now wholly a self-governing body. They choose
their own permanent, periodic, and assignment leaders and
directors. No outside influence can ever be brought to bear upon
their policies, and their oath of allegiance is only to the
Paradise Trinity.
31:0.7 The finaliters maintain their own
headquarters on Paradise, in the superuniverses, in the local
universes, and on all the divisional capitals. They are a
separate order of evolutionary creation. We do not directly
manage them or control them, and yet they are absolutely loyal
and always co-operative with all our plans. They are indeed the
accumulating tried and true souls of time and space -- the
evolutionary salt of the universe -- and they are forever proof
against evil and secure against sin.
1. THE HAVONA NATIVES
31:1.1 Many of the Havona natives who serve as
teachers in the pilgrim-training schools of the central universe
become greatly attached to the ascending mortals and still more
intrigued with the future work and destiny of the Corps of
Mortal Finaliters. On Paradise there is maintained, at the
administrative headquarters of the corps, a registry for Havona
volunteers presided over by the associate of Grandfanda. Today,
you will find millions upon millions of Havona natives upon this
waiting list. These perfect beings of direct and divine creation
are of great assistance to the Mortal Corps of Finality, and
they will undoubtedly be of even greater service in the
far-distant future. They provide the viewpoint of one born in
perfection and divine repleteness. The finaliters thus embrace
both phases of experiential existence -- perfect and perfected.
31:1.2 Havona natives must achieve certain
experiential developments in liaison with evolutionary beings
which will create reception capacity for the bestowal of a
fragment of the spirit of the Universal Father. The Mortal
Finaliter Corps has as permanent members only such beings as
have been fused with the spirit of the First Source and Center,
or who, like the Gravity Messengers, innately embody this spirit
of God the Father.
31:1.3 The inhabitants of the central universe
are received into the corps in the ratio of one in a thousand --
a finaliter company. The corps is organized for temporary
service in companies of one thousand, the ascendant creatures
numbering 997 to one Havona native and one Gravity Messenger.
Finaliters are thus mobilized in companies, but the finality
oath is administered individually. It is an oath of sweeping
implications and eternal import. The Havona native takes the
same oath and becomes forever attached to the corps.
31:1.4 The Havona recruits follow the company
of their assignment; wherever the group goes, they go. And you
should see their enthusiasm in the new work of the finaliters.
The possibility of attaining the Corps of the Finality is one of
the superb thrills of Havona; the possibility of becoming a
finaliter is one of the supreme adventures of these perfect
races.
31:1.5 The Havona natives are also received,
in the same ratio, into the Corps of Conjoint Trinitized
Finaliters on Vicegerington and into the Corps of Transcendental
Finaliters on Paradise. The Havona citizens regard these three
destinies as constituting the supreme goals of their supernal
careers, together with their possible admission to the Corps of
Havona Finaliters.
2. GRAVITY MESSENGERS
31:2.1 Wherever and whenever Gravity
Messengers are functioning, the finaliters are in command. All
Gravity Messengers are under the exclusive jurisdiction of
Grandfanda, and they are assigned only to the primary Corps of
the Finality. They are invaluable to the finaliters even now,
and they will be all-serviceable in the eternal future. No other
group of intelligent creatures possesses such a personalized
messenger corps able to transcend time and space. Similar types
of messenger-recorders attached to other finaliter corps are not
personalized; they are absonitized.
31:2.2 Gravity Messengers hail from
Divinington, and they are modified and personalized Adjusters,
but no one of our Uversa group will undertake to explain the
nature of one of these messengers. We know they are highly
personal beings, divine, intelligent, and touchingly
understanding, but we do not comprehend their timeless technique
of traversing space. They seem to be competent to utilize any
and all energies, circuits, and even gravity. Finaliters of the
mortal corps cannot defy time and space, but they have
associated with them and subject to their command all but
infinite spirit personalities who can. We presume to call
Gravity Messengers personalities, but in reality they are
superspirit beings, unlimited and boundless personalities. They
are of an entirely different order of personality as compared
with Solitary Messengers.
31:2.3 Gravity Messengers may be attached to a
finaliter company in unlimited numbers, but only one messenger,
the chief of his fellows, is mustered into the Mortal Corps of
the Finality. This chief however has assigned to him a permanent
staff of 999 fellow messengers, and as occasion may require, he
may call upon the reserves of the order for assistants in
unlimited numbers.
31:2.4 Gravity Messengers and glorified mortal
finaliters achieve a touching and profound affection for one
another; they have much in common: One is a direct
personalization of a fragment of the Universal Father, the other
a creature personality existent in the surviving immortal soul
fused with a fragment of the same Universal Father, the spirit
Thought Adjuster.
3. GLORIFIED MORTALS
31:3.1 Ascendant Adjuster-fused mortals
compose the bulk of the primary Corps of the Finality. Together
with the adopted and glorified seraphim they usually constitute
990 in each finaliter company. The proportion of mortals and
angels in any one group varies, though the mortals far outnumber
the seraphim. The Havona natives, glorified Material Sons,
glorified midway creatures, the Gravity Messengers, and the
unknown and missing member make up only one per cent of the
corps; each company of one thousand finaliters has places for
just ten of these nonmortal and nonseraphic personalities.
31:3.2 We of Uversa do not know the "finality
destiny" of the ascendant mortals of time. At present they
reside on Paradise and temporarily serve in the Corps of Light
and Life, but such a tremendous course of ascendant training and
such lengthy universe discipline must be designed to qualify
them for even greater tests of trust and more sublime services
of responsibility.
31:3.3 Notwithstanding that these ascendant
mortals have attained Paradise, have been mustered into the
Corps of the Finality, and have been sent back in large numbers
to participate in the conduct of local universes and to assist
in the administration of superuniverse affairs -- in the face of
even this apparent destiny, there remains the significant
fact that they are of record as only sixth-stage spirits. There
undoubtedly remains one more step in the career of the Mortal
Corps of the Finality. We do not know the nature of that step,
but we have taken cognizance of, and here call attention to,
three facts:
31:3.4 1. We know from the records that
mortals are spirits of the first order during their sojourn in
the minor sectors, and that they advance to the second order
when translated to the major sectors, and to the third when they
go forward to the central training worlds of the superuniverse.
Mortals become quartan or graduate spirits after reaching the
sixth circle of Havona and become spirits of the fifth order
when they find the Universal Father. They subsequently attain
the sixth stage of spirit existence upon taking the oath that
musters them forever into the eternity assignment of the Corps
of the Mortal Finality.
31:3.5 We observe that spirit classification,
or designation, has been determined by actual advancement from
one realm of universe service to another realm of universe
service or from one universe to another universe; and we surmise
that the bestowal of seventh-spirit classification upon the
Mortal Corps of the Finality will be simultaneous with their
advancement to eternal assignment for service on hitherto
unrecorded and unrevealed spheres and concomitant with their
attainment of God the Supreme. But aside from these bold
conjectures, we really know no more about all this than you do;
our knowledge of the mortal career does not go beyond present
Paradise destiny.
31:3.6 2. The mortal finaliters have fully
complied with the injunction of the ages, "Be you perfect"; they
have ascended the universal path of mortal attainment; they have
found God, and they have been duly inducted into the Corps of
the Finality. Such beings have attained the present limit of
spirit progression but not finality of ultimate spirit status.
They have achieved the present limit of creature perfection but
not finality of creature service. They have experienced
the fullness of Deity worship but not finality of
experiential Deity attainment.
31:3.7 3. The glorified mortals of the
Paradise Corps of Finality are ascendant beings in possession of
experiential knowledge of every step of the actuality and
philosophy of the fullest possible life of intelligent
existence, while during the ages of this ascent from the lowest
material worlds to the spiritual heights of Paradise, these
surviving creatures have been trained to the limits of their
capacity respecting every detail of every divine principle of
the just and efficient, as well as merciful and patient,
administration of all the universal creation of time and space.
31:3.8 We deem that human beings are entitled
to share our opinions, and that you are free to conjecture with
us respecting the mystery of the ultimate destiny of the
Paradise Corps of Finality. It seems evident to us that the
present assignments of the perfected evolutionary creatures
partake of the nature of postgraduate courses in universe
understanding and superuniverse administration; and we all ask,
"Why should the Gods be so concerned in so thoroughly training
surviving mortals in the technique of universe management?"
4. ADOPTED SERAPHIM
31:4.1 Many of the faithful seraphic guardians
of mortals are permitted to go through the ascendant career with
their human wards, and many of these guardian angels, after
becoming Father fused, join their subjects in taking the
finaliter oath of eternity and forever accept the destiny of
their mortal associates. Angels who pass through the ascending
experience of mortal beings may share the destiny of human
nature; they may equally and eternally be mustered into this
Corps of the Finality. Large numbers of the adopted and
glorified seraphim are attached to the various nonmortal
finaliter corps.
5. GLORIFIED MATERIAL SONS
31:5.1 There is provision in the universes of
time and space whereby the Adamic citizens of the local systems,
when long delayed in receiving planetary assignment, may
initiate a petition for release from permanent-citizenship
status. And if granted, they join the ascending pilgrims on the
universe capitals and thence proceed onward to Paradise and the
Corps of the Finality.
31:5.2 When an advanced evolutionary world
attains the later eras of the age of light and life, the
Material Sons, the Planetary Adam and Eve, may elect to
humanize, receive Adjusters, and embark upon the evolutionary
course of universe ascent leading to the Corps of Mortal
Finaliters. Certain of these Material Sons have partially failed
or technically defaulted in their mission as biologic
accelerators, as Adam did on Urantia; and then are they
compelled to take the natural course of the peoples of the
realm, receive Adjusters, pass through death, and progress by
faith through the ascendant regime, subsequently attaining
Paradise and the Corps of the Finality.
31:5.3 These Material Sons are not to be found
in many finaliter companies. Their presence lends great
potential to the possibilities of high service for such a group,
and they are invariably chosen as its leaders. If both of the
Edenic pair are attached to the same group, they are usually
permitted to function jointly, as one personality. Such
ascendant pairs are far more successful in the adventure of
trinitizing than are the ascendant mortals.
6. GLORIFIED MIDWAY CREATURES
31:6.1 On many planets the midway creatures
are produced in large numbers, but they seldom tarry on their
native world subsequent to its being settled in light and life.
Then, or soon thereafter, they are released from
permanent-citizenship status and start on the ascension to
Paradise, passing through the morontia worlds, the
superuniverse, and Havona in company with the mortals of time
and space.
31:6.2 The midway creatures from various
universes differ greatly in origin and nature, but they are all
destined to one or another of the Paradise finality corps. The
secondary midwayers are all eventually Adjuster fused and are
mustered into the mortal corps. Many finaliter companies have
one of these glorified beings in their group.
7. THE EVANGELS OF LIGHT
31:7.1 At the present time every finaliter
company numbers 999 personalities of oath status, permanent
members. The vacant place is occupied by the chief of attached
Evangels of Light assigned on any single mission. But these
beings are only transient members of the corps.
31:7.2 Any celestial personality assigned to
the service of any finaliter corps is denominated an Evangel of
Light. These beings do not take the finaliter oath, and though
subject to the corps organization they are not of permanent
attachment. This group may embrace Solitary Messengers,
supernaphim, seconaphim, Paradise Citizens, or their trinitized
offspring -- any being required in the prosecution of a
transient finaliter assignment. Whether or not the corps is to
have these beings attached to the eternal mission, we do not
know. At the conclusion of attachment these Evangels of Light
resume their former status.
31:7.3 As the Mortal Corps of the Finality is
at present constituted, there are just six classes of permanent
members. The finaliters, as might be expected, engage in much
speculation as to the identity of their future comrades, but
there is little agreement among them.
31:7.4 We of Uversa often conjecture
respecting the identity of the seventh group of finaliters. We
entertain many ideas, embracing possible assignment of some of
the accumulating corps of the numerous trinitized groups on
Paradise, Vicegerington, and the inner Havona circuit. It is
even conjectured that the Corps of the Finality may be permitted
to trinitize many of their assistants in the work of universe
administration in the event they are destined to the service of
universes now in the making.
31:7.5 One of us holds the opinion that this
vacant place in the corps will be filled by some type of being
of origin in the new universe of their future service; the other
inclines to the belief that this place will be occupied by some
type of Paradise personality not yet created, eventuated, or
trinitized. But we will most likely await the entrance of the
finaliters upon their seventh stage of spirit attainment before
we really know.
8. THE TRANSCENDENTALERS
31:8.1 Part 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.
31:8.2 In 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.
31:8.3 You, 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.
31:8.4 Although 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.
9. ARCHITECTS OF THE MASTER UNIVERSE
31:9.1 The 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 The 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:
31:9.3 1. 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.
31:9.4 2. 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.
31:9.5 3. 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.
31:9.6 4. 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.
31:9.7 5. 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.
31:9.8 6. 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.
31:9.9 7. 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.
31:9.10 These 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 In 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.
31:9.12 The 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.
31:9.13 All 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.
31:9.14 The Master Architects contribute
technical approval of the assignment of the Creator Sons to
their space sites for the organization of the local universes.
There is a very close association between the Master Architects
and the Paradise Creator Sons, and while this relationship is
unrevealed, you have been informed of the association of the
Architects and the grand universe Supreme Creators in the
relationship of the first experiential Trinity. These two
groups, together with the evolving and experiential Supreme
Being, constitute the Trinity Ultimate of transcendental values
and master universe meanings.
10. THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE
31:10.1 The senior Master Architect has the
oversight of the seven Corps of the Finality, and they are:
1. The Corps of Mortal Finaliters.
2. The Corps of Paradise Finaliters.
3. The Corps of Trinitized
Finaliters.
4. The Corps of Conjoint Trinitized
Finaliters.
5. The Corps of Havona Finaliters.
6. The Corps of Transcendental
Finaliters.
7. The Corps of Unrevealed Sons of
Destiny.
31:10.2 Each of these destiny corps has a
presiding head, and the seven constitute the Supreme Council of
Destiny on Paradise; and during the present universe age
Grandfanda is the chief of this supreme body of universe
assignment for the children of ultimate destiny.
31:10.3 The gathering together of these seven
finaliter corps signifies reality mobilization of potentials,
personalities, minds, spirits, absonites, and experiential
actualities that probably transcend even the future master
universe functions of the Supreme Being. These seven finaliter
corps probably signify the present activity of the Ultimate
Trinity engaged in mustering the forces of the finite and the
absonite in preparation for inconceivable developments in the
universes of outer space. Nothing like this mobilization has
taken place since the near times of eternity when the Paradise
Trinity similarly mobilized the then existing personalities of
Paradise and Havona and commissioned them as administrators and
rulers of the projected seven superuniverses of time and space.
The seven finaliter corps represent the divinity response of the
grand universe to the future needs of the undeveloped potentials
in the outer universes of future-eternal activities.
31:10.4 We venture the forecast of future and
greater outer universes of inhabited worlds, new spheres peopled
with new orders of exquisite and unique beings, a material
universe sublime in its ultimacy, a vast creation lacking in
only one important detail -- the presence of actual finite
experience in the universal life of ascendant existence.
Such a universe will come into being under a tremendous
experiential handicap: the deprivation of participation in the
evolution of the Almighty Supreme. These outer universes will
all enjoy the matchless ministry and supernal overcontrol of the
Supreme Being, but the very fact of his active presence
precludes their participation in the actualization of the
Supreme Deity.
31:10.5 During the present universe age the
evolving personalities of the grand universe suffer many
difficulties due to the incomplete actualization of the
sovereignty of God the Supreme, but we are all sharing the
unique experience of his evolution. We evolve in him and he
evolves in us. Sometime in the eternal future the evolution of
Supreme Deity will become a completed fact of universe history,
and the opportunity to participate in this wonderful experience
will have passed from the stage of cosmic action.
31:10.6 But those of us who have acquired this
unique experience during the youth of the universe will treasure
it throughout all future eternity. And many of us speculate that
it may be the mission of the gradually accumulating reserves of
the ascendant and perfected mortals of the Corps of the
Finality, in association with the other six similarly recruiting
corps, to administer these outer universes in an effort to
compensate their experiential deficiencies in not having
participated in the time-space evolution of the Supreme Being.
31:10.7 These deficiencies are inevitable on
all levels of universe existence. During the present universe
age we of the higher levels of spiritual existences now come
down to administer the evolutionary universes and minister to
the ascending mortals, thus endeavoring to atone for their
deficiencies in the realities of the higher spiritual
experience.
31:10.8 But though we really know nothing
about the plans of the Architects of the Master Universe
respecting these outer creations, nevertheless, of three things
we are certain:
31:10.9 1. There actually is a vast and new
system of universes gradually organizing in the domains of outer
space. New orders of physical creations, enormous and gigantic
circles of swarming universes upon universes far out beyond the
present bounds of the peopled and organized creations, are
actually visible through your telescopes. At present, these
outer creations are wholly physical; they are apparently
uninhabited and seem to be devoid of creature administration.
31:10.10 2. For ages upon ages there continues
the unexplained and wholly mysterious Paradise mobilization of
the perfected and ascendant beings of time and space, in
association with the six other finaliter corps.
31:10.11 3. Concomitantly with these
transactions the Supreme Person of Deity is powerizing as the
almighty sovereign of the supercreations.
31:10.12 As we view this triune development,
embracing creatures, universes, and Deity, can we be criticized
for anticipating that something new and unrevealed is
approaching culmination in the master universe? Is it not
natural that we should associate this agelong mobilization and
organization of physical universes on such a hitherto unknown
scale and the personality emergence of the Supreme Being with
this stupendous scheme of upstepping the mortals of time to
divine perfection and with their subsequent mobilization on
Paradise in the Corps of the Finality -- a designation and
destiny enshrouded in universe mystery? It is increasingly the
belief of all Uversa that the assembling Corps of the Finality
are destined to some future service in the universes of outer
space, where we already are able to identify the clustering of
at least seventy thousand aggregations of matter, each of which
is greater than any one of the present superuniverses.
31:10.13 Evolutionary mortals are born on the
planets of space, pass through the morontia worlds, ascend the
spirit universes, traverse the Havona spheres, find God, attain
Paradise, and are mustered into the primary Corps of the
Finality, therein to await the next assignment of universe
service. There are six other assembling finality corps, but
Grandfanda, the first mortal ascender, presides as Paradise
chief of all orders of finaliters. And as we view this sublime
spectacle, we all exclaim: What a glorious destiny for the
animal-origin children of time, the material sons of space!
31:10.14
Jointly sponsored by a Divine Counselor and One without Name and
Number authorized so to function by the Ancients of Days on
Uversa.
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31:10.15 These thirty-one papers depicting the
nature of Deity, the reality of Paradise, the organization and
working of the central and superuniverses, the personalities of
the grand universe, and the high destiny of evolutionary
mortals, were sponsored, formulated, and put into English by a
high commission consisting of twenty-four Orvonton
administrators acting in accordance with a mandate issued by the
Ancients of Days of Uversa directing that we should do this on
Urantia, 606 of Satania, in Norlatiadek of Nebadon, in the year
A.D. 1934.