PAPER 20
- THE PARADISE SONS OF GOD
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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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.
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.
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.
In addition to
their services on the higher administrative levels,
the Avonals have a threefold function on the
inhabited worlds:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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3.
JUDICIAL ACTIONS
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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universe
headquarters of a Paradise Son who has successfully
executed a mission of mortal bestowal upon an
evolving world.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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possible to the
divine nature and waste no time on futile
conjectures about the technique employed by divine
wisdom to effect such phenomena.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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8. LOCAL
UNIVERSE MINISTRY OF THE DAYNALS
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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They make real
the spiritual counterparts of material knowledge and
temporal wisdom.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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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.
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.
[Presented by a
Perfector of Wisdom from Uversa.] |