The Urantia Book
PAPER 40
THE ASCENDING SONS OF GOD
Presented by a Mighty Messenger temporarily attached to the
staff of Gabriel of Salvington.
40:0.1 AS IN many of the major groups of
universe beings, seven general classes of the Ascending Sons of
God have been revealed:
1. Father-fused Mortals.
2. Son-fused Mortals.
3. Spirit-fused Mortals.
4. Evolutionary Seraphim.
5. Ascending Material Sons.
6. Translated Midwayers.
7. Personalized Adjusters.
40:0.2 The story of these beings, from the
lowly animal-origin mortals of the evolutionary worlds to the
Personalized Adjusters of the Universal Father, presents a
glorious recital of the unstinted bestowal of divine love and
gracious condescension throughout all time and in all universes
of the far-flung creation of the Paradise Deities.
40:0.3 These presentations began with a
description of the Deities, and group by group, the narrative
has descended the universal scale of living beings until it has
reached the lowest order of life endowed with the potential of
immortality; and now am I dispatched from Salvington -- onetime
a mortal of origin on an evolutionary world of space -- to
elaborate and continue the recital of the eternal purpose of the
Gods respecting the ascending orders of sonship, more
particularly with regard to the mortal creatures of time and
space.
40:0.4 Since the greater part of this
narrative will be devoted to a discussion of the three basic
orders of ascending mortals, consideration will first be given
to the nonmortal ascending orders of sonship -- seraphic,
Adamic, midwayer, and Adjuster.
1. EVOLUTIONARY SERAPHIM
40:1.1 Mortal creatures of animal origin are
not the only beings privileged to enjoy sonship; the angelic
hosts also share the supernal opportunity to attain Paradise.
Guardian seraphim, through experience and service with the
ascending mortals of time, also achieve the status of ascendant
sonship. Such angels attain Paradise through Seraphington, and
many are even mustered into the Corps of Mortal Finality.
40:1.2 To climb to the supernal heights of
finaliter sonship with God is a masterly achievement for an
angel, an accomplishment far transcending your attainment of
eternal survival through the plan of the Eternal Son and the
ever-present help of the indwelling Adjuster; but the guardian
seraphim, and occasionally others, do actually effect such
ascensions.
2. ASCENDING MATERIAL SONS
40:2.1 The Material Sons of God are created in
the local universe along with the Melchizedeks and their
associates, who are all classified as descending Sons. And
indeed, the Planetary Adams -- the Material Sons and Daughters
of the evolutionary worlds -- are descending Sons, coming down
to the inhabited worlds from their spheres of origin, the
capitals of the local systems.
40:2.2 When such an Adam and Eve are wholly
successful in their joint planetary mission as biologic
uplifters, they share the destiny of the inhabitants of their
world. When such a world is settled in the advanced stages of
light and life, this faithful Material Son and Daughter are
permitted to resign all planetary administrative duties, and
after being thus liberated from the descending adventure, they
are permitted to register themselves as perfected Material Sons
on the records of the local universe. Likewise, when planetary
assignment is long delayed, may the Material Sons of stationary
status -- the citizens of the local systems -- withdraw from the
activities of their status spheres and similarly register as
perfected Material Sons. After these formalities such liberated
Adams and Eves are accredited as ascending Sons of God and may
immediately begin the long journey to Havona and Paradise,
starting at the exact point of their then present status and
spiritual attainment. And they make this journey in company with
the mortal and other ascending Sons, continuing until they have
found God and have achieved the Corps of Mortal Finality in the
eternal service of the Paradise Deities.
3. TRANSLATED MIDWAYERS
40:3.1 Although deprived of the immediate
benefits of the planetary bestowals of the descending Sons of
God, though the Paradise ascent is long deferred, nevertheless,
soon after an evolutionary planet has attained the intermediate
epochs of light and life (if not before), both groups of midway
creatures are released from planetary duty. Sometimes the
majority of them are translated, along with their human cousins,
on the day of the descent of the temple of light and the
elevation of the Planetary Prince to the dignity of Planetary
Sovereign. Upon being relieved of planetary service, both orders
are registered in the local universe as ascending Sons of God
and immediately begin the long Paradise ascent by the very
routes ordained for the progression of the mortal races of the
material worlds. The primary group are destined to various
finaliter corps, but the secondary or Adamic midwayers are all
routed for enrollment in the Mortal Corps of Finality.
4. PERSONALIZED ADJUSTERS
40:4.1 When the mortals of time fail to
achieve the eternal survival of their souls in planetary
association with the spirit gifts of the Universal Father, such
failure is never in any way due to neglect of duty, ministry,
service, or devotion on the part of the Adjuster. At mortal
death, such deserted Monitors return to Divinington, and
subsequently, following the adjudication of the nonsurvivor,
they may be reassigned to the worlds of time and space.
Sometimes, after repeated services of this sort or following
some unusual experience, such as functioning as the indwelling
Adjuster of an incarnated bestowal Son, these efficient
Adjusters are personalized by the Universal Father.
40:4.2 Personalized Adjusters are beings of a
unique and unfathomable order. Originally of existential
prepersonal status, they have experientialized by participation
in the lives and careers of the lowly mortals of the material
worlds. And since the personality bestowed upon these
experienced Thought Adjusters takes origin, and has its
wellspring, in the Universal Father's personal and continuing
ministry of the bestowals of experiential personality upon his
creature creation, these Personalized Adjusters are classified
as ascending Sons of God, the highest of all such orders of
sonship.
5. MORTALS OF TIME AND SPACE
40:5.1
Mortals represent the last link in the
chain of those beings who are called sons of God. The personal
touch of the Original and Eternal Son passes on down through a
series of decreasingly divine and increasingly human
personalizations until there arrives a being much like
yourselves, one you can see, hear, and touch. And then you are
made spiritually aware of the great truth which your faith may
grasp -- sonship with the eternal God!
40:5.2 Likewise does the Original and Infinite
Spirit, by a long series of decreasingly divine and increasingly
human orders, draw nearer and nearer to the struggling creatures
of the realms, reaching the limit of expression in the angels --
than whom you were created but a little lower -- who personally
guard and guide you in the life journey of the mortal career of
time.
40:5.3 God the Father does not, cannot, thus
downstep himself to make such near personal contact with the
almost limitless number of ascending creatures throughout the
universe of universes. But the Father is not deprived of
personal contact with his lowly creatures; you are not without
the divine presence. Although God the Father cannot be with you
by direct personality manifestation, he is in you and of you in
the identity of the indwelling Thought Adjusters, the divine
Monitors. Thus does the Father, who is the farthest from you in
personality and in spirit, draw the nearest to you in the
personality circuit and in the spirit touch of inner communion
with the very souls of his mortal sons and daughters.
40:5.4 Spirit identification constitutes the
secret of personal survival and determines the destiny of
spiritual ascension. And since the Thought Adjusters are the
only spirits of fusion potential to be identified with man
during the life in the flesh, the mortals of time and space are
primarily classified in accordance with their relation to these
divine gifts, the indwelling Mystery Monitors. This
classification is as follows:
1. Mortals of the transient or
experiential Adjuster sojourn.
2. Mortals of the
non-Adjuster-fusion types.
3. Mortals of Adjuster-fusion
potential.
40:5.5 Series one -- mortals of the
transient or experiential Adjuster sojourn. This series
designation is temporary for any evolving planet, being used
during the early stages of all inhabited worlds except those of
the second series.
40:5.6 Mortals of series one inhabit the
worlds of space during the earlier epochs of the evolution of
mankind and embrace the most primitive types of human minds. On
many worlds like pre-Adamic Urantia great numbers of the higher
and more advanced types of primitive men acquire survival
capacity but fail to attain Adjuster fusion. For ages upon ages,
before man's ascent to the level of higher spiritual volition,
the Adjusters occupy the minds of these struggling creatures
during their short lives in the flesh, and the moment such will
creatures are indwelt by Adjusters, the group guardian angels
begin to function. While these mortals of the first series do
not have personal guardians, they do have group custodians.
40:5.7 An experiential Adjuster remains with a
primitive human being throughout his entire lifetime in the
flesh. The Adjusters contribute much to the advancement of
primitive men but are unable to form eternal unions with such
mortals. This transient ministry of the Adjusters accomplishes
two things: First, they gain valuable and actual experience in
the nature and working of the evolutionary intellect, an
experience which will be invaluable in connection with later
contacts on other worlds with beings of higher development.
Second, the transient sojourn of the Adjusters contributes much
towards preparing their mortal subjects for possible subsequent
Spirit fusion. All God-seeking souls of this type achieve
eternal life through the spiritual embrace of the Mother Spirit
of the local universe, thus becoming ascending mortals of the
local universe regime. Many persons from pre-Adamic Urantia were
thus advanced to the mansion worlds of Satania.
40:5.8 The Gods who ordained that mortal man
should climb to higher levels of spiritual intelligence through
long ages of evolutionary trials and tribulations, take note of
his status and needs at every stage of the ascent; and always
are they divinely fair and just, even charmingly merciful, in
the final judgments of these struggling mortals of the early
days of the evolving races.
40:5.9 Series two -- mortals of the
non-Adjuster-fusion types. These are specialized types of
human beings who are not able to effect eternal union with their
indwelling Adjusters. Type classification among the one-, two-,
and three-brained races is not a factor in Adjuster fusion; all
such mortals are akin, but these non-Adjuster-fusion types are a
wholly different and markedly modified order of will creatures.
Many of the nonbreathers belong to this series, and there are
numerous other groups who do not ordinarily fuse with Adjusters.
40:5.10 Like series number one, each member of
this group enjoys the ministry of a single Adjuster during
lifetime in the flesh. During temporal life these Adjusters do
everything for their subjects of temporary indwelling that is
done on other worlds where the mortals are of fusion potential.
The mortals of this second series are often indwelt by virgin
Adjusters, but the higher human types are often in liaison with
masterful and experienced Monitors.
40:5.11 In the ascendant plan for upstepping
the animal-origin creatures, these beings enjoy the same devoted
service of the Sons of God as is extended to the Urantia type of
mortals. Seraphic co-operation with Adjusters on the nonfusion
planets is just as fully provided as on the worlds of fusion
potential; the guardians of destiny minister on such spheres
just as on Urantia and similarly function at the time of mortal
survival, at which time the surviving soul becomes Spirit fused.
40:5.12 When you encounter these modified
mortal types on the mansion worlds, you will find no difficulty
in communicating with them. There they speak the same system
language but by a modified technique. These beings are identical
with your order of creature life in spirit and personality
manifestations, differing only in certain physical features and
in the fact that they are nonfusible with Thought Adjusters.
40:5.13 As to just why this type of creature
is never able to fuse with the Adjusters of the Universal
Father, I am unable to say. Some of us incline to the belief
that the Life Carriers, in their efforts to formulate beings
capable of maintaining existence in an unusual planetary
environment, are confronted with the necessity of making such
radical modifications in the universe plan of intelligent will
creatures that it becomes inherently impossible to bring about
permanent union with the Adjusters. Often have we asked: Is this
an intended or an unintended part of the ascension plan? but we
have not found the answer.
40:5.14 Series three -- mortals of
Adjuster-fusion potential. All Father-fused mortals are of
animal origin, just like the Urantia races. They embrace mortals
of the one-brained, two-brained, and three-brained types of
Adjuster-fusion potential. Urantians are of the intermediate or
two-brained type, being in many ways humanly superior to the
one-brained groups but definitely limited in comparison with the
three-brained orders. These three types of physical-brain
endowment are not factors in Adjuster bestowal, in seraphic
service, or in any other phase of spirit ministry. The
intellectual and spiritual differential between the three brain
types characterizes individuals who are otherwise quite alike in
mind endowment and spiritual potential, being greatest in the
temporal life and tending to diminish as the mansion worlds are
traversed one by one. From the system headquarters on, the
progression of these three types is the same, and their eventual
Paradise destiny is identical.
40:5.15 The unnumbered series. These
narratives cannot possibly embrace all of the fascinating
variations in the evolutionary worlds. You know that every tenth
world is a decimal or experimental planet, but you know nothing
of the other variables that punctuate the processional of the
evolutionary spheres. There are differences too numerous to
narrate even between the revealed orders of living creatures as
between planets of the same group, but this presentation makes
clear the essential differences in relation to the ascension
career. And the ascension career is the most important factor in
any consideration of the mortals of time and space.
40:5.16 As to the chances of mortal survival,
let it be made forever clear: All souls of every possible phase
of mortal existence will survive provided they manifest
willingness to co-operate with their indwelling Adjusters and
exhibit a desire to find God and to attain divine perfection,
even though these desires be but the first faint flickers of the
primitive comprehension of that "true light which lights every
man who comes into the world."
6. THE FAITH SONS OF GOD
40:6.1 The mortal races stand as the
representatives of the lowest order of intelligent and personal
creation. You mortals are divinely beloved, and every one of you
may choose to accept the certain destiny of a glorious
experience, but you are not yet by nature of the divine order;
you are wholly mortal. You will be reckoned as ascending sons
the instant fusion takes place, but the status of the mortals of
time and space is that of faith sons prior to the event of the
final amalgamation of the surviving mortal soul with some type
of eternal and immortal spirit.
40:6.2 It is a solemn and supernal fact that
such lowly and material creatures as Urantia human beings are
the sons of God, faith children of the Highest. "Behold, what
manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be
called the sons of God." "As many as received him, to them gave
he the power to recognize that they are the sons of God." While
"it does not yet appear what you shall be," even now "you are
the faith sons of God"; "for you have not received the spirit of
bondage again to fear, but you have received the spirit of
sonship, whereby you cry, `our Father.'" Spoke the prophet of
old in the name of the eternal God: "Even to them will I give in
my house a place and a name better than sons; I will give them
an everlasting name, one that shall not be cut off." "And
because you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his Son
into your hearts."
40:6.3 All evolutionary worlds of mortal
habitation harbor these faith sons of God, sons of grace and
mercy, mortal beings belonging to the divine family and
accordingly called the sons of God. Urantia mortals are entitled
to regard themselves as being the sons of God because:
40:6.4 1. You are sons of spiritual promise,
faith sons; you have accepted the status of sonship. You believe
in the reality of your sonship, and thus does your sonship with
God become eternally real.
40:6.5 2. A Creator Son of God became one of
you; he is your elder brother in fact; and if in spirit you
become truly related brothers of Christ, the victorious Michael,
then in spirit must you also be sons of that Father which you
have in common -- even the Universal Father of all.
40:6.6 3. You are sons because the spirit of a
Son has been poured out upon you, has been freely and certainly
bestowed upon all Urantia races. This spirit ever draws you
toward the divine Son, who is its source, and toward the
Paradise Father, who is the source of that divine Son.
40:6.7 4. Of his divine free-willness, the
Universal Father has given you your creature personalities. You
have been endowed with a measure of that divine spontaneity of
freewill action which God shares with all who may become his
sons.
40:6.8 5. There dwells within you a fragment
of the Universal Father, and you are thus directly related to
the divine Father of all the Sons of God.
7. FATHER-FUSED MORTALS
40:7.1 The sending of Adjusters, their
indwelling, is indeed one of the unfathomable mysteries of God
the Father. These fragments of the divine nature of the
Universal Father carry with them the potential of creature
immortality. Adjusters are immortal spirits, and union with them
confers eternal life upon the soul of the fused mortal.
40:7.2 Your own races of surviving mortals
belong to this group of the ascending Sons of God. You are now
planetary sons, evolutionary creatures derived from the Life
Carrier implantations and modified by the Adamic-life infusion,
hardly yet ascending sons; but you are indeed sons of ascension
potential -- even to the highest heights of glory and divinity
attainment -- and this spiritual status of ascending sonship you
may attain by faith and by freewill co-operation with the
spiritualizing activities of the indwelling Adjusters. When you
and your Adjusters are finally and forever fused, when you two
are made one, even as in Christ Michael the Son of God and the
Son of Man are one, then in fact have you become the ascending
sons of God.
40:7.3 The details of the Adjuster career of
indwelling ministry on a probationary and evolutionary planet
are not a part of my assignment; the elaboration of this great
truth embraces your whole career. I include the mention of
certain Adjuster functions in order to make a replete statement
regarding Adjuster-fused mortals. These indwelling fragments of
God are with your order of being from the early days of physical
existence through all of the ascending career in Nebadon and
Orvonton and on through Havona to Paradise itself. Thereafter,
in the eternal adventure, this same Adjuster is one with you and
of you.
40:7.4 These are the mortals who have been
commanded by the Universal Father, "Be you perfect, even as I am
perfect." The Father has bestowed himself upon you, placed his
own spirit within you; therefore does he demand ultimate
perfection of you. The narrative of human ascent from the mortal
spheres of time to the divine realms of eternity constitutes an
intriguing recital not included in my assignment, but this
supernal adventure should be the supreme study of mortal man.
40:7.5 Fusion with a fragment of the Universal
Father is equivalent to a divine validation of eventual Paradise
attainment, and such Adjuster-fused mortals are the only class
of human beings who all traverse the Havona circuits and find
God on Paradise. To the Adjuster-fused mortal the career of
universal service is wide open. What dignity of destiny and
glory of attainment await every one of you! Do you fully
appreciate what has been done for you? Do you comprehend the
grandeur of the heights of eternal achievement which are spread
out before you? -- even you who now trudge on in the lowly path
of life through your so-called "vale of tears"?
8. SON-FUSED MORTALS
40:8.1 While practically all surviving mortals
are fused with their Adjusters on one of the mansion worlds or
immediately upon their arrival on the higher morontia spheres,
there are certain cases of delayed fusion, some not experiencing
this final surety of survival until they reach the last
educational worlds of the universe headquarters; and a few of
these mortal candidates for never-ending life utterly fail to
attain identity fusion with their faithful Adjusters.
40:8.2 Such mortals have been deemed worthy of
survival by the adjudicational authorities, and even their
Adjusters, by returning from Divinington, have concurred in
their ascension to the mansion worlds. Such beings have ascended
through a system, a constellation, and through the educational
worlds of the Salvington circuit; they have enjoyed the "seventy
times seven" opportunities for fusion and still have been unable
to attain oneness with their Adjusters.
40:8.3 When it becomes apparent that some
synchronizing difficulty is inhibiting Father fusion, the
survival referees of the Creator Son are convened. And when this
court of inquiry, sanctioned by a personal representative of the
Ancients of Days, finally determines that the ascending mortal
is not guilty of any discoverable cause for failure to attain
fusion, they so certify on the records of the local universe and
duly transmit this finding to the Ancients of Days. Thereupon
does the indwelling Adjuster return forthwith to Divinington for
confirmation by the Personalized Monitors, and upon this
leave-taking the morontia mortal is immediately fused with an
individualized gift of the spirit of the Creator Son.
40:8.4 Much as the morontia spheres of Nebadon
are shared with the Spirit-fused mortals, so do these Son-fused
creatures share the services of Orvonton with their
Adjuster-fused brethren who are journeying inward towards the
far-distant Isle of Paradise. They are truly your brethren, and
you will greatly enjoy their association as you pass through the
training worlds of the superuniverse.
40:8.5 Son-fused mortals are not a numerous
group, there being less than one million of them in the
superuniverse of Orvonton. Aside from residential destiny on
Paradise they are in every way the equals of their
Adjuster-fused associates. They frequently journey to Paradise
on superuniverse assignment but seldom permanently reside there,
being, as a class, confined to the superuniverse of their
nativity.
9. SPIRIT-FUSED MORTALS
40:9.1 Ascending Spirit-fused mortals are not
Third Source personalities; they are included in the Father's
personality circuit, but they have fused with individualizations
of the premind spirit of the Third Source and Center. Such
Spirit fusion never occurs during the span of natural life; it
takes place only at the time of mortal reawakening in the
morontia existence on the mansion worlds. In the fusion
experience there is no overlapping; the will creature is either
Spirit fused, Son fused, or Father fused. Those who are Adjuster
or Father fused are never Spirit or Son fused.
40:9.2 The fact that these types of mortal
creatures are not Adjuster-fusion candidates does not prevent
the Adjusters from indwelling them during the life in the flesh.
Adjusters do work in the minds of such beings during the span of
material life but never become everlastingly one with their
pupil souls. During this temporary sojourn the Adjusters
effectively build up the same spirit counterpart of mortal
nature -- the soul -- that they do in the candidates for
Adjuster fusion. Up to the time of mortal death the work of the
Adjusters is wholly akin to their function in your own races,
but upon mortal dissolution the Adjusters take eternal leave of
these Spirit-fusion candidates and, proceeding directly to
Divinington, the headquarters of all divine Monitors, there
await the new assignments of their order.
40:9.3 When such sleeping survivors are
repersonalized on the mansion worlds, the place of the departed
Adjuster is filled by an individualization of the spirit of the
Divine Minister, the representative of the Infinite Spirit in
the local universe concerned. This spirit infusion constitutes
these surviving creatures Spirit-fused mortals. Such beings are
in every way your equals in mind and spirit; and they are indeed
your contemporaries, sharing the mansion and morontia spheres in
common with your order of fusion candidates and with those who
are to be Son fused.
40:9.4 There is, however, one particular in
which Spirit-fused mortals differ from their ascendant brethren:
Mortal memory of human experience on the material worlds of
origin survives death in the flesh because the indwelling
Adjuster has acquired a spirit counterpart, or transcript, of
those events of human life which were of spiritual significance.
But with Spirit-fused mortals there exists no such mechanism
whereby human memory may persist. The Adjuster transcripts of
memory are full and intact, but these acquisitions are
experiential possessions of the departed Adjusters and are not
available to the creatures of their former indwelling, who
therefore awaken in the resurrection halls of the morontia
spheres of Nebadon as if they were newly created beings,
creatures without consciousness of former existence.
40:9.5 Such children of the local universe are
enabled to repossess themselves of much of their former human
memory experience through having it retold by the associated
seraphim and cherubim and by consulting the records of the
mortal career filed by the recording angels. This they can do
with undoubted assurance because the surviving soul, of
experiential origin in the material and mortal life, while
having no memory of mortal events, does have a residual
experiential-recognition-response to these unremembered events
of past experience.
40:9.6 When a Spirit-fused mortal is told
about the events of the unremembered past experience, there is
an immediate response of experiential recognition within the
soul (identity) of such a survivor which instantly invests the
narrated event with the emotional tinge of reality and with the
intellectual quality of fact; and this dual response constitutes
the reconstruction, recognition, and validation of an
unremembered facet of mortal experience.
40:9.7 Even with Adjuster-fusion candidates,
only those human experiences which were of spiritual value are
common possessions of the surviving mortal and the returning
Adjuster and hence are immediately remembered subsequent to
mortal survival. Concerning those happenings which were not of
spiritual significance, even these Adjuster-fusers must depend
upon the attribute of recognition-response in the surviving
soul. And since any one event may have a spiritual connotation
to one mortal but not to another, it becomes possible for a
group of contemporary ascenders from the same planet to pool
their store of Adjuster-remembered events and thus to
reconstruct any experience which they had in common, and which
was of spiritual value in the life of any one of them.
40:9.8 While we understand such techniques of
memory reconstruction fairly well, we do not grasp the technique
of personality recognition. Personalities of onetime association
mutually respond quite independently of the operation of memory,
albeit, memory itself and the techniques of its reconstruction
are necessary to invest such mutual personality response with
the fullness of recognition.
40:9.9 A Spirit-fused survivor is also able to
learn much about the life he lived in the flesh by revisiting
his nativity world subsequent to the planetary dispensation in
which he lived. Such children of Spirit fusion are enabled to
enjoy these opportunities for investigating their human careers
since they are in general confined to the service of the local
universe. They do not share your high and exalted destiny in the
Paradise Corps of the Finality; only Adjuster-fused mortals or
other especially embraced ascendant beings are mustered into the
ranks of those who await the eternal Deity adventure.
Spirit-fused mortals are the permanent citizens of the local
universes; they may aspire to Paradise destiny, but they cannot
be sure of it. In Nebadon their universe home is the eighth
group of worlds encircling Salvington, a destiny-heaven of
nature and location much like the one envisioned by the
planetary traditions of Urantia.
10. ASCENDANT DESTINIES
40:10.1 Spirit-fused mortals are, generally
speaking, confined to a local universe; Son-fused survivors are
restricted to a superuniverse; Adjuster-fused mortals are
destined to penetrate the universe of universes. The spirits of
mortal fusion always ascend to the level of origin; such spirit
entities unfailingly return to the sphere of primal source.
40:10.2 Spirit-fused mortals are of the local
universe; they do not, ordinarily, ascend beyond the confines of
their native realm, beyond the boundaries of the space range of
the spirit that pervades them. Son-fused ascenders likewise rise
to the source of spirit endowment, for much as the Truth Spirit
of a Creator Son focalizes in the associated Divine Minister, so
is his "fusion spirit" implemented in the Reflective Spirits of
the higher universes. Such spirit relationship between the local
and the superuniverse levels of God the Sevenfold may be
difficult of explanation but not of discernment, being
unmistakably revealed in those children of the Reflective
Spirits -- the secoraphic Voices of the Creator Sons. The
Thought Adjuster, hailing from the Father on Paradise, never
stops until the mortal son stands face to face with the eternal
God.
40:10.3 The mysterious variable in associative
technique whereby a mortal being does not or cannot become
eternally fused with the indwelling Thought Adjuster may seem to
disclose a flaw in the ascension scheme; Son and Spirit fusion
do, superficially, resemble compensations of unexplained
failures in some detail of the Paradise-attainment plan; but all
such conclusions stand in error; we are taught that all these
happenings unfold in obedience to the established laws of the
Supreme Universe Rulers.
40:10.4 We have analyzed this problem and have
reached the undoubted conclusion that the consignment of all
mortals to an ultimate Paradise destiny would be unfair to the
time-space universes inasmuch as the courts of the Creator Sons
and of the Ancients of Days would then be wholly dependent on
the services of those who were in transit to higher realms. And
it does seem to be no more than fitting that the local and the
superuniverse governments should each be provided with a
permanent group of ascendant citizenship; that the functions of
these administrations should be enriched by the efforts of
certain groups of glorified mortals who are of permanent status,
evolutionary complements of the abandonters and of the susatia.
Now it is quite obvious that the present ascension scheme
effectively provides the time-space administrations with just
such groups of ascendant creatures; and we have many times
wondered: Does all this represent an intended part of the
all-wise plans of the Architects of the Master Universe designed
to provide the Creator Sons and the Ancients of Days with a
permanent ascendant population? with evolved orders of
citizenship that will become increasingly competent to carry
forward the affairs of these realms in the universe ages to
come?
40:10.5 That mortal destinies do thus vary in
no wise proves that one is necessarily greater or lesser than
another, merely that they differ. Adjuster-fused ascenders do
indeed have a grand and glorious career as finaliters spread out
before them in the eternal future, but this does not mean that
they are preferred above their ascendant brethren. There is no
favoritism, nothing arbitrary, in the selective operation of the
divine plan of mortal survival.
40:10.6 While the Adjuster-fused finaliters
obviously enjoy the widest service opportunity of all, the
attainment of this goal automatically shuts them off from the
chance to participate in the agelong struggle of some one
universe or superuniverse, from the earlier and less settled
epochs to the later and established eras of relative perfection
attainment. Finaliters acquire a marvelous and far-flung
experience of transient service in all seven segments of the
grand universe, but they do not ordinarily acquire that intimate
knowledge of any one universe which even now characterizes the
Spirit-fused veterans of the Nebadon Corps of Completion. These
individuals enjoy an opportunity to witness the ascending
processional of the planetary ages as they unfold one by one on
ten million inhabited worlds. And in the faithful service of
such local universe citizens, experience superimposes upon
experience until the fullness of time ripens that high quality
of wisdom which is engendered by focalized experience --
authoritative wisdom -- and this in itself is a vital factor
in the settling of any local universe.
40:10.7 As it is with the Spirit fusers, so is
it with those Son-fused mortals who have achieved residential
status on Uversa. Some of these beings hail from the earliest
epochs of Orvonton, and they represent a slowly accumulating
body of insight-deepening wisdom which is making ever-augmenting
service contributions to the welfare and eventual settlement of
the seventh superuniverse.
40:10.8 What the ultimate destiny of these
stationary orders of local and of superuniverse citizenship will
be we do not know, but it is quite possible that, when the
Paradise finaliters are pioneering the expanding frontiers of
divinity in the planetary systems of the first outer space
level, their Son- and Spirit-fused brethren of the ascendant
evolutionary struggle will be acceptably contributing to the
maintenance of the experiential equilibrium of the perfected
superuniverses while they stand ready to welcome the incoming
stream of Paradise pilgrims who may, at that distant day, pour
in through Orvonton and its sister creations as a vast
spirit-questing torrent from these now uncharted and uninhabited
galaxies of outer space.
40:10.9 While the majority of Spirit fusers
serve permanently as citizens of the local universes, all do
not. If some phase of their universe ministry should require
their personal presence in the superuniverse, then would such
transformations of being be wrought in these citizens as would
enable them to ascend to the higher universe; and upon the
arrival of the Celestial Guardians with orders to present such
Spirit-fused mortals at the courts of the Ancients of Days, they
would so ascend, never to return. They become wards of the
superuniverse, serving as assistants to the Celestial Guardians
and permanently, save for those few who are in turn summoned to
the service of Paradise and Havona.
40:10.10 Like their Spirit-fused brethren, the
Son fusers neither traverse Havona nor attain Paradise unless
they have undergone certain modifying transformations. For good
and sufficient reasons, such changes have been wrought in
certain Son-fused survivors, and these beings are to be
encountered ever and anon on the seven circuits of the central
universe. Thus it is that certain numbers of both the Son- and
the Spirit-fused mortals do actually ascend to Paradise, do
attain a goal in many ways equal to that which awaits the
Father-fused mortals.
40:10.11 Father-fused mortals are potential
finaliters; their destination is the Universal Father, and him
they do attain, but within the purview of the present universe
age, finaliters, as such, are not destiny attainers. They remain
unfinished creatures -- sixth-stage spirits -- and hence
nonactive in the evolutionary domains of prelight-and-life
status.
40:10.12 When a mortal finaliter is Trinity
embraced -- becomes a Trinitized Son, such as a Mighty Messenger
-- then has that finaliter attained destiny, at least for the
present universe age. Mighty Messengers and their fellows may
not in the exact sense be seventh-stage spirits, but in addition
to other things the Trinity embrace endows them with everything
which a finaliter will sometime achieve as a seventh-stage
spirit. After Spirit-fused or Son-fused mortals are trinitized,
they pass through the Paradise experience with the
Adjuster-fused ascenders, with whom they are then identical in
all matters pertaining to superuniverse administration. These
Trinitized Sons of Selection or of Attainment at least for now
are finished creatures, in contrast to the finaliters, who are
at present unfinished creatures.
40:10.13 Thus, in the final analysis, it would
be hardly proper to use the words "greater" or "lesser" in
contrasting the destinies of the ascending orders of sonship.
Every such son of God shares the fatherhood of God, and God
loves each of his creature sons alike; he is no more a respecter
of ascendant destinies than is he of the creatures who may
attain such destinies. The Father loves each of his sons,
and that affection is not less than true, holy, divine,
unlimited, eternal, and unique -- a love bestowed upon this
son and upon that son, individually, personally, and
exclusively. And such a love utterly eclipses all other facts.
Sonship is the supreme relationship of the creature to the
Creator.
40:10.14 As mortals you can now recognize your
place in the family of divine sonship and begin to sense the
obligation to avail yourselves of the advantages so freely
provided in and by the Paradise plan for mortal survival, which
plan has been so enhanced and illuminated by the life experience
of a bestowal Son. Every facility and all power have been
provided for insuring your ultimate attainment of the Paradise
goal of divine perfection.
40:10.15
Presented by a Mighty Messenger temporarily attached to the
staff of Gabriel of Salvington.
