PAPER 40
THE ASCENDING SONS OF GOD
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.
