PAPER 20
THE PARADISE SONS OF GOD
20:0.1 AS THEY function in the superuniverse of
Orvonton, the Sons of God are classified under three general heads:
1. The Descending Sons of God.
2. The Ascending Sons of God.
3. The Trinitized Sons of God.
20:0.2 Descending orders of sonship include
personalities who are of direct and divine creation. Ascending sons, such as
mortal creatures, achieve this status by experiential participation in the
creative technique known as evolution. Trinitized Sons are a group of
composite origin which includes all beings embraced by the Paradise Trinity
even though not of direct Trinity origin.
1. THE DESCENDING SONS OF GOD
20:1.1 All descending Sons of God have high and
divine origins. They are dedicated to the descending ministry of service on
the worlds and systems of time and space, there to facilitate the progress in
the Paradise climb of the lowly creatures of evolutionary origin -- the
ascending sons of God. Of the numerous orders of descending Sons, seven will
be depicted in these narratives. Those Sons who come forth from the Deities on
the central Isle of Light and Life are called the Paradise Sons of God
and embrace the following three orders:
1. Creator Sons -- the Michaels.
2. Magisterial Sons -- the Avonals.
3. Trinity Teacher Sons -- the Daynals.
20:1.2 The remaining four orders of descending
sonship are known as the Local Universe Sons of God:
4. Melchizedek Sons.
5. Vorondadek Sons.
6. Lanonandek Sons.
7. The Life Carriers.
20:1.3 Melchizedeks are the joint offspring of a
local universe Creator Son, Creative Spirit, and Father Melchizedek. Both
Vorondadeks and Lanonandeks are brought into being by a Creator Son and his
Creative Spirit associate. Vorondadeks are best known as the Most Highs, the
Constellation Fathers; Lanonandeks as System Sovereigns and as Planetary
Princes. The threefold order of Life Carriers is brought into being by a
Creator Son and Creative Spirit associated with one of the three Ancients of
Days of the superuniverse of jurisdiction. But the natures and activities of
these Local Universe Sons of God are more properly portrayed in those papers
dealing with the affairs of the local creations.
20:1.4 The Paradise Sons of God are of threefold
origin: The primary or Creator Sons are brought into being by the Universal
Father and the Eternal Son; the secondary or Magisterial Sons are children of
the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit; the Trinity Teacher Sons are the
offspring of the Father, Son, and Spirit. From the standpoint of service,
worship, and supplication the Paradise Sons are as one; their spirit is one,
and their work is identical in quality and completeness.
20:1.5 As the Paradise orders of Days proved to be
divine administrators, so have the orders of Paradise Sons revealed themselves
as divine ministers -- creators, servers, bestowers, judges, teachers, and
truth revealers. They range the universe of universes from the shores of the
eternal Isle to the inhabited worlds of time and space, performing manifold
services in the central and superuniverses not disclosed in these narratives.
They are variously organized, dependent on the nature and whereabouts of their
service, but in a local universe both Magisterial and Teacher Sons serve under
the direction of the Creator Son who presides over that domain.
20:1.6 The Creator Sons seem to possess a spiritual
endowment centering in their persons, which they control and which they can
bestow, as did your own Creator Son when he poured out his spirit upon all
mortal flesh on Urantia. Each Creator Son is endowed with this spiritual
drawing power in his own realm; he is personally conscious of every act and
emotion of every descending Son of God serving in his domain. Here is a divine
reflection, a local universe duplication, of that absolute spiritual drawing
power of the Eternal Son which enables him to reach out to make and maintain
contact with all his Paradise Sons, no matter where they may be in all the
universe of universes.
20:1.7 The Paradise Creator Sons serve not only as
Sons in their descending ministrations of service and bestowal, but when they
have completed their bestowal careers, each functions as a universe Father in
his own creation, while the other Sons of God continue the service of bestowal
and spiritual uplifting designed to win the planets, one by one, to the
willing recognition of the loving rule of the Universal Father, culminating in
creature consecration to the will of the Paradise Father and in planetary
loyalty to the universe sovereignty of his Creator Son.
20:1.8 In a sevenfold Creator Son, Creator and
creature are forever blended in understanding, sympathetic, and merciful
association. The entire order of Michael, the Creator Sons, is so unique that
the consideration of their natures and activities will be reserved to the next
paper in this series, while this narrative will be chiefly concerned with the
two remaining orders of Paradise sonship: the Magisterial Sons and the Trinity
Teacher Sons.
2. THE MAGISTERIAL SONS
20:2.1 Every time an original and absolute concept
of being formulated by the Eternal Son unites with a new and divine ideal of
loving service conceived by the Infinite Spirit, a new and original Son of
God, a Paradise Magisterial Son, is produced. These Sons constitute the order
of Avonals in contradistinction to the order of Michael, the Creator Sons.
Though not creators in the personal sense, they are closely associated with
the Michaels in all their work. The Avonals are planetary ministers and
judges, the magistrates of the time-space realms -- of all races, to all
worlds, and in all universes.
20:2.2 We have reasons for believing that the total
number of Magisterial Sons in the grand universe is about one billion. They
are a self-governing order, being directed by their supreme council on
Paradise, which is made up of experienced Avonals drawn from the services of
all universes. But when assigned to, and commissioned in, a local universe,
they serve under the direction of the Creator Son of that domain.
20:2.3 Avonals are the Paradise Sons of service and
bestowal to the individual planets of the local universes. And since each
Avonal Son has an exclusive personality, since no two are alike, their work is
individually unique in the realms of their sojourn, where they are often
incarnated in the likeness of mortal flesh and sometimes are born of earthly
mothers on the evolutionary worlds.
20:2.4 In addition to their services on the higher
administrative levels, the Avonals have a threefold function on the inhabited
worlds:
20:2.5 1. Judicial Actions. They act at the
close of the planetary dispensations. In time, scores -- hundreds -- of such
missions may be executed on each individual world, and they may go to the same
or to other worlds times without number as dispensation terminators,
liberators of the sleeping survivors.
20:2.6 2. Magisterial Missions. A planetary
visitation of this type usually occurs prior to the arrival of a bestowal Son.
On such a mission an Avonal appears as an adult of the realm by a technique of
incarnation not involving mortal birth. Subsequent to this first and usual
magisterial visit, Avonals may repeatedly serve in a magisterial capacity on
the same planet both before and after the appearance of the bestowal Son. On
these additional magisterial missions an Avonal may or may not appear in
material and visible form, but on none of them will he be born into the world
as a helpless babe.
20:2.7 3. Bestowal Missions. The Avonal Sons
do all, at least once, bestow themselves upon some mortal race on some
evolutionary world. Judicial visits are numerous, magisterial missions may be
plural, but on each planet there appears but one bestowal Son. Bestowal
Avonals are born of woman as Michael of Nebadon was incarnated on Urantia.
20:2.8 There is no limit to the number of times the
Avonal Sons may serve on magisterial and on bestowal missions, but usually,
when the experience has been seven times traversed, there is suspension in
favor of those who have had less of such service. These Sons of multiple
bestowal experience are then assigned to the high personal council of a
Creator Son, thus becoming participants in the administration of universe
affairs.
20:2.9 In all their work for and on the inhabited
worlds, the Magisterial Sons are assisted by two orders of local universe
creatures, the Melchizedeks and the archangels, while on bestowal missions
they are also accompanied by the Brilliant Evening Stars, likewise of origin
in the local creations. In every planetary effort the secondary Paradise Sons,
the Avonals, are supported by the full power and authority of a primary
Paradise Son, the Creator Son of their local universe of service. To all
intents and purposes their work on the inhabited spheres is just as effective
and acceptable as would have been the service of a Creator Son upon such
worlds of mortal habitation.
3. JUDICIAL ACTIONS
20:3.1 The Avonals are known as Magisterial Sons
because they are the high magistrates of the realms, the adjudicators of the
successive dispensations of the worlds of time. They preside over the
awakening of the sleeping survivors, sit in judgment on the realm, bring to an
end a dispensation of suspended justice, execute the mandates of an age of
probationary mercy, reassign the space creatures of planetary ministry to the
tasks of the new dispensation, and return to the headquarters of their local
universe upon the completion of their mission.
20:3.2 When they sit in judgment on the destinies of
an age, the Avonals decree the fate of the evolutionary races, but though they
may render judgments extinguishing the identity of personal creatures, they do
not execute such sentences. Verdicts of this nature are executed by none but
the authorities of a superuniverse.
20:3.3 The arrival of a Paradise Avonal on an
evolutionary world for the purpose of terminating a dispensation and of
inaugurating a new era of planetary progression is not necessarily either a
magisterial mission or a bestowal mission. Magisterial missions sometimes, and
bestowal missions always, are incarnations; that is, on such assignments the
Avonals serve on a planet in material form -- literally. Their other visits
are "technical," and in this capacity an Avonal is not incarnated for
planetary service. If a Magisterial Son comes solely as a dispensational
adjudicator, he arrives on a planet as a spiritual being, invisible to the
material creatures of the realm. Such technical visits occur repeatedly in the
long history of an inhabited world.
20:3.4 Avonal Sons may act as planetary judges prior
to both the magisterial and bestowal experiences. On either of these missions,
however, the incarnated Son will judge the passing planetary age; likewise
does a Creator Son when incarnated on a mission of bestowal in the likeness of
mortal flesh. When a Paradise Son visits an evolutionary world and becomes
like one of its people, his presence terminates a dispensation and constitutes
a judgment of the realm.
4. MAGISTERIAL MISSIONS
20:4.1 Prior to the planetary appearance of a
bestowal Son, an inhabited world is usually visited by a Paradise Avonal on a
magisterial mission. If it is an initial magisterial visitation, the Avonal is
always incarnated as a material being. He appears on the planet of assignment
as a full-fledged male of the mortal races, a being fully visible to, and in
physical contact with, the mortal creatures of his day and generation.
Throughout a magisterial incarnation the connection of the Avonal Son with the
local and the universal spiritual forces is complete and unbroken.
20:4.2 A planet may experience many magisterial
visitations both before and after the appearance of a bestowal Son. It may be
visited many times by the same or other Avonals, acting as dispensational
adjudicators, but such technical missions of judgment are neither bestowal nor
magisterial, and the Avonals are never incarnated at such times. Even when a
planet is blessed with repeated magisterial missions, the Avonals do not
always submit to mortal incarnation; and when they do serve in the likeness of
mortal flesh, they always appear as adult beings of the realm; they are not
born of woman.
20:4.3 When incarnated on either bestowal or
magisterial missions, the Paradise Sons have experienced Adjusters, and these
Adjusters are different for each incarnation. The Adjusters that occupy the
minds of the incarnated Sons of God can never hope for personality through
fusion with the human-divine beings of their indwelling, but they are often
personalized by fiat of the Universal Father. Such Adjusters form the supreme
Divinington council of direction for the administration, identification, and
dispatch of Mystery Monitors to the inhabited realms. They also receive and
accredit Adjusters on their return to the "bosom of the Father" upon the
mortal dissolution of their earthly tabernacles. In this way the faithful
Adjusters of the world judges become the exalted chiefs of their kind.
20:4.4 Urantia has never been host to an Avonal Son
on a magisterial mission. Had Urantia followed the general plan of inhabited
worlds, it would have been blessed with a magisterial mission sometime between
the days of Adam and the bestowal of Christ Michael. But the regular sequence
of Paradise Sons on your planet was wholly deranged by the appearance of your
Creator Son on his terminal bestowal nineteen hundred years ago.
20:4.5 Urantia may yet be visited by an Avonal
commissioned to incarnate on a magisterial mission, but regarding the future
appearance of Paradise Sons, not even "the angels in heaven know the time or
manner of such visitations," for a Michael-bestowal world becomes the
individual and personal ward of a Master Son and, as such, is wholly subject
to his own plans and rulings. And with your world, this is further complicated
by Michael's promise to return. Regardless of the misunderstandings about the
Urantian sojourn of Michael of Nebadon, one thing is certainly authentic --
his promise to come back to your world. In view of this prospect, only time
can reveal the future order of the visitations of the Paradise Sons of God on
Urantia.
5. BESTOWAL OF THE PARADISE SONS OF GOD
20:5.1 The Eternal Son is the eternal Word of God.
The Eternal Son is the perfect expression of the "first" absolute and infinite
thought of his eternal Father. When a personal duplication or divine extension
of this Original Son starts on a bestowal mission of mortal incarnation, it
becomes literally true that the divine "Word is made flesh," and that the Word
thus dwells among the lowly beings of animal origin.
20:5.2 On Urantia there is a widespread belief that
the purpose of a Son's bestowal is, in some manner, to influence the attitude
of the Universal Father. But your enlightenment should indicate that this is
not true. The bestowals of the Avonal and the Michael Sons are a necessary
part of the experiential process designed to make these Sons safe and
sympathetic magistrates and rulers of the peoples and planets of time and
space. The career of sevenfold bestowal is the supreme goal of all Paradise
Creator Sons. And all Magisterial Sons are motivated by this same spirit of
service which so abundantly characterizes the primary Creator Sons and the
Eternal Son of Paradise.
20:5.3 Some order of Paradise Son must be bestowed
upon each mortal-inhabited world in order to make it possible for Thought
Adjusters to indwell the minds of all normal human beings on that sphere, for
the Adjusters do not come to all bona fide human beings until the Spirit of
Truth has been poured out upon all flesh; and the sending of the Spirit of
Truth is dependent upon the return to universe headquarters of a Paradise Son
who has successfully executed a mission of mortal bestowal upon an evolving
world.
20:5.4 During the course of the long history of an
inhabited planet, many dispensational adjudications will take place, and more
than one magisterial mission may occur, but ordinarily only once will a
bestowal Son serve on the sphere. It is only required that each inhabited
world have one bestowal Son come to live the full mortal life from birth to
death. Sooner or later, regardless of spiritual status, every mortal-inhabited
world is destined to become host to a Magisterial Son on a bestowal mission
except the one planet in each local universe whereon a Creator Son elects to
make his mortal bestowal.
20:5.5 Understanding more about the bestowal Sons,
you discern why so much interest attaches to Urantia in the history of
Nebadon. Your small and insignificant planet is of local universe concern
simply because it is the mortal home world of Jesus of Nazareth. It was the
scene of the final and triumphant bestowal of your Creator Son, the arena in
which Michael won the supreme personal sovereignty of the universe of
Nebadon.
20:5.6 At the headquarters of his local universe a
Creator Son, especially after the completion of his own mortal bestowal,
spends much of his time in counseling and instructing the college of associate
Sons, the Magisterial Sons and others. In love and devotion, with tender mercy
and affectionate consideration, these Magisterial Sons bestow themselves upon
the worlds of space. And in no way are these planetary services inferior to
the mortal bestowals of the Michaels. It is true that your Creator Son
selected for the realm of his final adventure in creature experience one which
had had unusual misfortunes. But no planet could ever be in such a condition
that it would require the bestowal of a Creator Son to effect its spiritual
rehabilitation. Any Son of the bestowal group would have equally sufficed, for
in all their work on the worlds of a local universe the Magisterial Sons are
just as divinely effective and all wise as would have been their Paradise
brother, the Creator Son.
20:5.7 Though the possibility of disaster always
attends these Paradise Sons during their bestowal incarnations, I have yet to
see the record of the failure or default of either a Magisterial or a Creator
Son on a mission of bestowal. Both are of origin too close to absolute
perfection to fail. They indeed assume the risk, really become like the mortal
creatures of flesh and blood and thereby gain the unique creature experience,
but within the range of my observation they always succeed. They never fail to
achieve the goal of the bestowal mission. The story of their bestowal and
planetary service throughout Nebadon constitutes the most noble and
fascinating chapter in the history of your local universe.
6. THE MORTAL-BESTOWAL CAREERS
20:6.1 The method whereby a Paradise Son becomes
ready for mortal incarnation as a bestowal Son, becomes enmothered on the
bestowal planet, is a universal mystery; and any effort to detect the working
of this Sonarington technique is doomed to meet with certain failure. Let the
sublime knowledge of the mortal life of Jesus of Nazareth sink into your
souls, but waste no thought in useless speculation as to how this mysterious
incarnation of Michael of Nebadon was effected. Let us all rejoice in the
knowledge and assurance that such achievements are possible to the divine
nature and waste no time on futile conjectures about the technique employed by
divine wisdom to effect such phenomena.
20:6.2 On a mortal-bestowal mission a Paradise Son
is always born of woman and grows up as a male child of the realm, as Jesus
did on Urantia. These Sons of supreme service all pass from infancy through
youth to manhood just as does a human being. In every respect they become like
the mortals of the race into which they are born. They make petitions to the
Father as do the children of the realms in which they serve. From a material
viewpoint, these human-divine Sons live ordinary lives with just one
exception: They do not beget offspring on the worlds of their sojourn; that is
a universal restriction imposed on all orders of the Paradise bestowal
Sons.
20:6.3 As Jesus worked on your world as the
carpenter's son, so do other Paradise Sons labor in various capacities on
their bestowal planets. You could hardly think of a vocation that has not been
followed by some Paradise Son in the course of his bestowal on some one of the
evolutionary planets of time.
20:6.4 When a bestowal Son has mastered the
experience of living the mortal life, when he has achieved perfection of
attunement with his indwelling Adjuster, thereupon he begins that part of his
planetary mission designed to illuminate the minds and to inspire the souls of
his brethren in the flesh. As teachers, these Sons are exclusively devoted to
the spiritual enlightenment of the mortal races on the worlds of their
sojourn.
20:6.5 The mortal-bestowal careers of the Michaels
and the Avonals, while comparable in most respects, are not identical in all:
Never does a Magisterial Son proclaim, "Whosoever has seen the Son has seen
the Father," as did your Creator Son when on Urantia and in the flesh. But a
bestowed Avonal does declare, "Whosoever has seen me has seen the Eternal Son
of God." The Magisterial Sons are not of immediate descent from the Universal
Father, nor do they incarnate subject to the Father's will; always do they
bestow themselves as Paradise Sons subject to the will of the Eternal Son of
Paradise.
20:6.6 When the bestowal Sons, Creator or
Magisterial, enter the portals of death, they reappear on the third day. But
you should not entertain the idea that they always meet with the tragic end
encountered by the Creator Son who sojourned on your world nineteen hundred
years ago. The extraordinary and unusually cruel experience through which
Jesus of Nazareth passed has caused Urantia to become locally known as "the
world of the cross." It is not necessary that such inhuman treatment be
accorded a Son of God, and the vast majority of planets have afforded them a
more considerate reception, allowing them to finish their mortal careers,
terminate the age, adjudicate the sleeping survivors, and inaugurate a new
dispensation, without imposing a violent death. A bestowal Son must encounter
death, must pass through the whole of the actual experience of mortals of the
realms, but it is not a requirement of the divine plan that this death be
either violent or unusual.
20:6.7 When bestowal Sons are not put to death by
violence, they voluntarily relinquish their lives and pass through the portals
of death, not to satisfy the demands of "stern justice" or "divine wrath," but
rather to complete the bestowal, "to drink the cup" of the career of
incarnation and personal experience in all that constitutes a creature's life
as it is lived on the planets of mortal existence. Bestowal is a planetary and
a universe necessity, and physical death is nothing more than a necessary part
of a bestowal mission.
20:6.8 When the mortal incarnation is finished, the
Avonal of service proceeds to Paradise, is accepted by the Universal Father,
returns to the local universe of assignment, and is acknowledged by the
Creator Son. Thereupon the bestowal Avonal and the Creator Son send their
conjoint Spirit of Truth to function in the hearts of the mortal races
dwelling on the bestowal world. In the presovereignty ages of a local
universe, this is the joint spirit of both Sons, implemented by the Creative
Spirit. It differs somewhat from the Spirit of Truth which characterizes the
local universe ages following a Michael's seventh bestowal.
20:6.9 Upon the completion of a Creator Son's final
bestowal the Spirit of Truth previously sent into all Avonal-bestowal worlds
of that local universe changes in nature, becoming more literally the spirit
of the sovereign Michael. This phenomenon takes place concurrently with the
liberation of the Spirit of Truth for service on the Michael-mortal-bestowal
planet. Thereafter, each world honored by a Magisterial bestowal will receive
the same spirit Comforter from the sevenfold Creator Son, in association with
that Magisterial Son, which it would have received had the local universe
Sovereign personally incarnated as its bestowal Son.
7. THE TRINITY TEACHER SONS
20:7.1 These highly personal and highly spiritual
Paradise Sons are brought into being by the Paradise Trinity. They are known
in Havona as the order of Daynals. In Orvonton they are of record as Trinity
Teacher Sons, so named because of their parentage. On Salvington they are
sometimes denominated the Paradise Spiritual Sons.
20:7.2 In numbers the Teacher Sons are constantly
increasing. The last universal census broadcast gave the number of these
Trinity Sons functioning in the central and superuniverses as a little more
than twenty-one billion, and this is exclusive of the Paradise reserves, which
include more than one third of all Trinity Teacher Sons in
existence.
20:7.3 The Daynal order of sonship is not an organic
part of the local or superuniverse administrations. Its members are neither
creators nor retrievers, neither judges nor rulers. They are not so much
concerned with universe administration as with moral enlightenment and
spiritual development. They are the universal educators, being dedicated to
the spiritual awakening and moral guidance of all realms. Their ministry is
intimately interrelated with that of the personalities of the Infinite Spirit
and is closely associated with the Paradise ascension of creature
beings.
20:7.4 These Sons of the Trinity partake of the
combined natures of the three Paradise Deities, but in Havona they seem more
to reflect the nature of the Universal Father. In the superuniverses they seem
to portray the nature of the Eternal Son, while in the local creations they
appear to show forth the character of the Infinite Spirit. In all universes
they are the embodiment of service and the discretion of wisdom.
20:7.5 Unlike their Paradise brethren, Michaels and
Avonals, Trinity Teacher Sons receive no preliminary training in the central
universe. They are dispatched directly to the headquarters of the
superuniverses and from there are commissioned for service in some local
universe. In their ministry to these evolutionary realms they utilize the
combined spiritual influence of a Creator Son and the associated Magisterial
Sons, for the Daynals do not possess a spiritual drawing power in and of
themselves.
8. LOCAL UNIVERSE MINISTRY OF THE DAYNALS
20:8.1 The Paradise Spiritual Sons are unique
Trinity-origin beings and the only Trinity creatures to be so completely
associated with the conduct of the dual-origin universes. They are
affectionately devoted to the educational ministry to mortal creatures and the
lower orders of spiritual beings. They begin their labors in the local systems
and, in accordance with experience and achievement, are advanced inward
through the constellation service to the highest work of the local creation.
Upon certification they may become spiritual ambassadors representing the
local universes of their service.
20:8.2 The exact number of Teacher Sons in Nebadon I
do not know; there are many thousands of them. Many of the heads of
departments in the Melchizedek schools belong to this order, while the
combined staff of the regularly constituted University of Salvington embraces
over one hundred thousand including these Sons. Large numbers are stationed on
the various morontia-training worlds, but they are not wholly occupied with
the spiritual and intellectual advancement of mortal creatures; they are
equally concerned with the instruction of seraphic beings and other natives of
the local creations. Many of their assistants are drawn from the ranks of the
creature-trinitized beings.
20:8.3 The Teacher Sons compose the faculties who
administer all examinations and conduct all tests for the qualification and
certification of all subordinate phases of universe service, from the duties
of outpost sentinels to those of star students. They conduct an agelong course
of training, ranging from the planetary courses up to the high College of
Wisdom located on Salvington. Recognition indicative of effort and attainment
is granted to all, ascending mortal or ambitious cherubim, who complete these
adventures in wisdom and truth.
20:8.4 In all universes all the Sons of God are
beholden to these ever-faithful and universally efficient Trinity Teacher
Sons. They are the exalted teachers of all spirit personalities, even the
tried and true teachers of the Sons of God themselves. But of the endless
details of the duties and functions of the Teacher Sons I can hardly instruct
you. The vast domain of Daynal-sonship activities will be better understood on
Urantia when you are more advanced in intelligence, and after the spiritual
isolation of your planet has been terminated.
9. PLANETARY SERVICE OF THE DAYNALS
20:9.1 When the progress of events on an
evolutionary world indicates that the time is ripe to initiate a spiritual
age, the Trinity Teacher Sons always volunteer for this service. You are not
familiar with this order of sonship because Urantia has never experienced a
spiritual age, a millennium of cosmic enlightenment. But the Teacher Sons even
now visit your world for the purpose of formulating plans concerning their
projected sojourn on your sphere. They will be due to appear on Urantia after
its inhabitants have gained comparative deliverance from the shackles of
animalism and from the fetters of materialism.
20:9.2 Trinity Teacher Sons have nothing to do with
terminating planetary dispensations. They neither judge the dead nor translate
the living, but on each planetary mission they are accompanied by a
Magisterial Son who performs these services. Teacher Sons are wholly concerned
with the initiation of a spiritual age, with the dawn of the era of spiritual
realities on an evolutionary planet. They make real the spiritual counterparts
of material knowledge and temporal wisdom.
20:9.3 The Teacher Sons usually remain on their
visitation planets for one thousand years of planetary time. One Teacher Son
presides over the planetary millennial reign and is assisted by seventy
associates of his order. The Daynals do not incarnate or otherwise so
materialize themselves as to be visible to mortal beings; therefore is contact
with the world of visitation maintained through the activities of the
Brilliant Evening Stars, local universe personalities who are associated with
the Trinity Teacher Sons.
20:9.4 The Daynals may return many times to an
inhabited world, and following their final mission the planet will be ushered
into the settled status of a sphere of light and life, the evolutionary goal
of all the mortal-inhabited worlds of the present universe age. The Mortal
Corps of the Finality has much to do with the spheres settled in light and
life, and their planetary activities touch upon those of the Teacher Sons.
Indeed, the whole order of Daynal sonship is intimately connected with all
phases of finaliter activities in the evolutionary creations of time and
space.
20:9.5 The Trinity Teacher Sons seem to be so
completely identified with the regime of mortal progression through the
earlier stages of evolutionary ascension that we are often led to speculate
regarding their possible association with the finaliters in the undisclosed
career of the future universes. We observe that the administrators of the
superuniverses are part Trinity-origin personalities and part Trinity-embraced
ascendant evolutionary creatures. We firmly believe that the Teacher Sons and
the finaliters are now engaged in acquiring the experience of time-association
which may be the preliminary training to prepare them for close association in
some unrevealed future destiny. On Uversa it is our belief that, when the
superuniverses are finally settled in light and life, these Paradise Teacher
Sons, who have become so thoroughly familiar with the problems of evolutionary
worlds and have been so long associated with the career of evolutionary
mortals, will probably be transferred to eternal association with the Paradise
Corps of the Finality.
10. UNITED MINISTRY OF THE PARADISE SONS
20:10.1 All the Paradise Sons of God are divine in
origin and in nature. The work of each Paradise Son in behalf of each world is
just as if the Son of service were the first and only Son of God.
20:10.2 The Paradise Sons are the divine
presentation of the acting natures of the three persons of Deity to the
domains of time and space. The Creator, Magisterial, and Teacher Sons are the
gifts of the eternal Deities to the children of men and to all other universe
creatures of ascension potential. These Sons of God are the divine ministers
who are unceasingly devoted to the work of helping the creatures of time
attain the high spiritual goal of eternity.
20:10.3 In the Creator Sons the love of the
Universal Father is blended with the mercy of the Eternal Son and is disclosed
to the local universes in the creative power, loving ministry, and
understanding sovereignty of the Michaels. In the Magisterial Sons the mercy
of the Eternal Son, united with the ministry of the Infinite Spirit, is
revealed to the evolutionary domains in the careers of these Avonals of
judgment, service, and bestowal. In the Trinity Teacher Sons the love, mercy,
and ministry of the three Paradise Deities are co-ordinated on the highest
time-space value-levels and are presented to the universes as living truth,
divine goodness, and true spiritual beauty.
20:10.4 In the local universes these orders of
sonship collaborate to effect the revelation of the Deities of Paradise to the
creatures of space: As the Father of a local universe, a Creator Son portrays
the infinite character of the Universal Father. As the bestowal Sons of mercy,
the Avonals reveal the matchless nature of the Eternal Son of infinite
compassion. As the true teachers of ascending personalities, the Trinity
Daynal Sons disclose the teacher personality of the Infinite Spirit. In their
divinely perfect co-operation, Michaels, Avonals, and Daynals are contributing
to the actualization and revelation of the personality and sovereignty of God
the Supreme in and to the time-space universes. In the harmony of their triune
activities these Paradise Sons of God ever function in the vanguard of the
personalities of Deity as they follow the never-ending expansion of the
divinity of the First Great Source and Center from the everlasting Isle of
Paradise into the unknown depths of space.
20:10.5 Presented
by a Perfector of Wisdom from Uversa.
