PAPER 19
THE CO-ORDINATE TRINITY-ORIGIN BEINGS
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.
