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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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2.
ASCENDING MATERIAL SONS
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.
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
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
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.
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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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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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."
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 Adjuster. When you and your Adjuster
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.
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
While we
understand such techniques of memory reconstruction
fairly well, we do not grasp the technique of
personality recognition. Personalities of one time
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.
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.
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10.
ASCENDANT DESTINIES
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
[Presented
by a Mighty Messenger temporarily attached to the staff
of Gabriel of Salvington.] |