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P.214 – §1 This Paradise group, designated
the Co-ordinate Trinity-origin Beings, embraces the Trinity Teacher Sons,
also classed among the Paradise Sons of God, three groups of high superuniverse
administrators, and the somewhat impersonal category of the Inspired Trinity
Spirits. Even the Havona natives may properly be included in this classification
of Trinity personalities along with numerous groups of beings resident
on Paradise. Those Trinity-origin beings to be considered in this discussion
are:
P.214 – §2 1. Trinity Teacher Sons.
P.214 – §3 2. Perfectors of Wisdom.
P.214 – §4 3. Divine Counselors.
P.214 – §5 4. Universal Censors.
P.214 – §6 5. Inspired Trinity Spirits.
P.214 – §7 6. Havona Natives.
P.214 – §8 7. Paradise Citizens.
P.214 – §9 Excepting the Trinity Teacher Sons and
possibly the Inspired Trinity Spirits, these groups are of definite numbers;
their creation is a finished and past event.
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1. THE TRINITY TEACHER SONS – P.214
P.214 – §10 Of all the high orders of celestial personalities
revealed to you, the Trinity Teacher Sons alone act in a dual capacity.
By origin of Trinity nature, in function they are almost wholly devoted
to the services of divine sonship. They are the liaison beings who bridge
the universe gulf between Trinity- and dual-origin personalities.
P.214 – §11 While the Stationary Sons of the Trinity
are of completed numbers, the Teacher Sons are constantly increasing.
What the final number of Teacher Sons will be I do not know. I can, however,
state that, at the last periodic report to Uversa, the Paradise records
indicated 21,001,624,821 of these Sons in service.
P.214 – §12 These beings are the only group of the
Sons of God revealed to you whose origin is in the Paradise Trinity. They
range the central and superuniverses, and an enormous corps is assigned
to each local universe. They also serve the individual planets as do the
other Paradise Sons of God. Since the scheme of the grand universe is
not fully developed, large numbers of Teacher Sons are held in the reserves
on Paradise, and they volunteer for emergency duty and unusual service
in all divisions of the grand universe, on the lone worlds of space, in
the local and superuniverses, and on the worlds of Havona. They also function
on Paradise, but it will be more helpful to postpone their detailed consideration
until we come to the discussion of the Paradise Sons of God.
P.215 – §1 In this connection, however, it may be
noted that Teacher Sons are the supreme co-ordinating personalities of
Trinity origin. In such a far-flung universe of universes there is always
great danger of succumbing to the error of the circumscribed viewpoint,
to the evil inherent in a segmentalized conception of reality and divinity.
P.215 – §2 For example: The human mind would ordinarily
crave to approach the cosmic philosophy portrayed in these revelations
by proceeding from the simple and the finite to the complex and the infinite,
from human origins to divine destinies. But that path does not lead to
spiritual wisdom. Such a procedure is the easiest path to a certain form
of genetic knowledge, but at best it can only reveal man’s origin; it
reveals little or nothing about his divine destiny.
P.215 – §3 Even in the study of man’s biologic evolution
on Urantia, there are grave objections to the exclusive historic approach
to his present-day status and his current problems. The true perspective
of any reality problem–human or divine, terrestrial or cosmic–can be
had only by the full and unprejudiced study and correlation of three phases
of universe reality: origin, history, and destiny. The proper understanding
of these three experiential realities affords the basis for a wise estimate
of the current status.
P.215 – §4 When the human mind undertakes to follow
the philosophic technique of starting from the lower to approach the higher,
whether in biology or theology, it is always in danger of committing four
errors of reasoning:
P.215 – §5 1. It may utterly fail to perceive the
final and completed evolutionary goal of either personal attainment or
cosmic destiny.
P.215 – §6 2. It may commit the supreme philosophical
blunder by oversimplifying cosmic evolutionary (experiential) reality,
thus leading to the distortion of facts, to the perversion of truth, and
to the misconception of destinies.
P.215 – §7 3. The study of causation is the perusal
of history. But the knowledge of how a being becomes does not necessarily
provide an intelligent understanding of the present status and true character
of such a being.
P.215 – §8 4. History alone fails adequately to reveal
future development–destiny. Finite origins are helpful, but only divine
causes reveal final effects. Eternal ends are not shown in time beginnings.
The present can be truly interpreted only in the light of the correlated
past and future.
P.215 – §9 Therefore, because of these and for still
other reasons, do we employ the technique of approaching man and his planetary
problems by embarkation on the time-space journey from the infinite, eternal,
and divine Paradise Source and Center of all personality reality and all
cosmic existence.
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2. THE PERFECTORS OF WISDOM – P.215
P.215 – §10 The Perfectors of Wisdom are a specialized
creation of the Paradise Trinity designed to personify the wisdom of divinity
in the superuniverses. There are exactly seven billion of these beings
in existence, and one billion are assigned to each of the seven superuniverses.
P.215 – §11 In common with their co-ordinates, the
Divine Counselors and the Universal Censors, the Perfectors of Wisdom
passed through the wisdom of Paradise, of Havona, and except for Divinington,
of the Father’s Paradise spheres. After these experiences the Perfectors
of Wisdom were permanently assigned to the
P.216 – §0 service of the Ancients of Days. They
serve neither on Paradise nor on the worlds of the Paradise-Havona circuits;
they are wholly occupied with the administration of the superuniverse
governments.
P.216 – §1 Wherever and whenever a Perfector of Wisdom
functions, there and then divine wisdom functions. There is actuality
of presence and perfection of manifestation in the knowledge and wisdom
represented in the doings of these mighty and majestic personalities.
They do not reflect the wisdom of the Paradise Trinity; they are that
wisdom. They are the sources of wisdom for all teachers in the application
of universe knowledge; they are the fountains of discretion and the wellsprings
of discrimination to the institutions of learning and discernment in all
universes.
P.216 – §2 Wisdom is twofold in origin, being derived
from the perfection of divine insight inherent in perfect beings and from
the personal experience acquired by evolutionary creatures. The Perfectors
of Wisdom are the divine wisdom of the Paradise perfection of Deity insight.
Their administrative associates on Uversa, the Mighty Messengers, Those
without Name and Number, and Those High in Authority, when acting together,
are the universe wisdom of experience. A divine being can have perfection
of divine knowledge. An evolutionary mortal can sometime attain perfection
of ascendant knowledge, but neither of these beings alone exhausts the
potentials of all possible wisdom. Accordingly, whenever in the conduct
of the superuniverse it is desired to achieve the maximum of administrative
wisdom, these perfectors of the wisdom of divine insight are always associated
with those ascendant personalities who have come up to the high responsibilities
of superuniverse authority through the experiential tribulations of evolutionary
progression.
P.216 – §3 The Perfectors of Wisdom will always require
this complement of experiential wisdom for the completion of their administrative
sagacity. But it has been postulated that a high and hitherto unattained
level of wisdom may possibly be achieved by the Paradise finaliters after
they are sometime inducted into the seventh stage of spirit existence.
If this inference is correct, then would such perfected beings of evolutionary
ascent undoubtedly become the most effective universe administrators ever
to be known in all creation. I believe that such is the high destiny of
finaliters.
P.216 – §4 The versatility of the Perfectors of Wisdom
enables them to participate in practically all of the celestial services
of the ascendant creatures. The Perfectors of Wisdom and my order of personality,
the Divine Counselors, together with the Universal Censors, constitute
the highest orders of beings who may and do engage in the work of revealing
truth to the individual planets and systems, whether in their earlier
epochs or when settled in light and life. From time to time we all make
contact with the service of the ascending mortals, from an initial-life
planet on up through a local universe and the superuniverse, particularly
the latter.
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3. THE DIVINE COUNSELORS – P.216
P.216 – §5 These Trinity-origin beings are the counsel
of Deity to the realms of the seven superuniverses. They are not reflective
of the divine counsel of the Trinity; they are that counsel. There are
twenty-one billion Counselors in service, and three billion are assigned
to each superuniverse.
P.217 – §1 Divine Counselors are the associates and
equals of the Universal Censors and the Perfectors of Wisdom, from one
to seven Counselors being associated with each of these latter personalities.
All three orders participate in the government of the Ancients of Days,
including major and minor sectors, in the local universes and constellations,
and in the councils of the local system sovereigns.
P.217 – §2 We act as individuals, as I do in inditing
this statement, but we also function as a trio whenever the occasion requires.
When we act in an executive capacity, always there are associated together
a Perfector of Wisdom, a Universal Censor, and from one to seven Divine
Counselors.
P.217 – §3 One Perfector of Wisdom, seven Divine
Counselors, and one Universal Censor constitute a tribunal of Trinity
divinity, the highest mobile advisory body in the universes of time and
space. Such a group of nine is known either as a fact-finding or as a
truth-revealing tribunal, and when it sits in judgment upon a problem
and renders a decision, it is just as if an Ancient of Days had adjudicated
the matter, for in all the annals of the superuniverses such a verdict
has never been reversed by the Ancients of Days.
P.217 – §4 When the three Ancients of Days function,
the Paradise Trinity functions. When the tribunal of nine arrives at a
decision following its united deliberations, to all intents and purposes
the Ancients of Days have spoken. And it is in this manner that the Paradise
Rulers make personal contact, in administrative matters and governmental
regulation, with the individual worlds, systems, and universes.
P.217 – §5 Divine Counselors are the perfection of
the divine counsel of the Paradise Trinity. We represent, in fact are,
the counsel of perfection. When we are supplemented by the experiential
counsel of our associates, the perfected and Trinity-embraced beings of
evolutionary ascent, our combined conclusions are not only complete but
replete. When our united counsel has been associated, adjudicated, confirmed,
and promulgated by a Universal Censor, it is very probable that it approaches
the threshold of universal totality. Such verdicts represent the nearest
possible approach to the absolute attitude of Deity within the time-space
limits of the situation involved and the problem concerned.
P.217 – §6 Seven Divine Counselors in liaison with
a trinitized evolutionary trio–a Mighty Messenger, One High in Authority,
and One without Name and Number–represent the nearest superuniverse approach
to the union of the human viewpoint and the divine attitude on near-paradisiacal
levels of spiritual meanings and reality values. Such close approximation
of the united cosmic attitudes of the creature and the Creator is only
surpassed in the Paradise bestowal Sons, who are, in every phase of personality
experience, God and man.
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4. THE UNIVERSAL CENSORS – P.217
P.217 – §7 There are exactly eight billion Universal
Censors in existence. These unique beings are the judgment of Deity. They
are not merely reflective of the decisions of perfection; they are the
judgment of the Paradise Trinity. Even the Ancients of Days do not sit
in judgment except in association with the Universal Censors.
P.217 – §8 One Censor is commissioned on each of
the billion worlds of the central universe, being attached to the planetary
administration of the resident Eternal of Days. Neither Perfectors of
Wisdom nor Divine Counselors are thus permanently attached to the Havona
administrations, nor do we altogether understand
P.218 – §0 why Universal Censors are stationed in
the central universe. Their present activities hardly account for their
assignment in Havona, and we therefore suspect that they are there in
anticipation of the needs of some future universe age in which the Havona
population may partially change.
P.218 – §1 One billion Censors are assigned to each
of the seven superuniverses. Both in an individual capacity and in association
with Perfectors of Wisdom and Divine Counselors, they operate throughout
all divisions of the seven superuniverses. Thus the Censors act on all
levels of the grand universe, from the perfect worlds of Havona to the
councils of the System Sovereigns, and they are an organic part of all
dispensational adjudications of the evolutionary worlds.
P.218 – §2 Whenever and wherever a Universal Censor
is present, then and there is the judgment of Deity. And since the Censors
always render their verdicts in liaison with Perfectors of Wisdom and
Divine Counselors, such decisions embrace the united wisdom, counsel,
and judgment of the Paradise Trinity. In this juridical trio the Perfector
of Wisdom would be the "I was," the Divine Counselor the "I
will be," but the Universal Censor is always "I am."
P.218 – §3 The Censors are universe totaling personalities.
When a thousand witnesses have given testimony–or a million–when the
voice of wisdom has spoken and the counsel of divinity has recorded, when
the testimony of ascendant perfection has been added, then the Censor
functions, and there is immediately revealed an unerring and divine totaling
of all that has transpired; and such a disclosure represents the divine
conclusion, the sum and substance of a final and perfect decision. Therefore,
when a Censor has spoken, no one else may speak, for the Censor has depicted
the true and unmistakable total of all that has gone before. When he speaks,
there is no appeal.
P.218 – §4 Most fully do I understand the operation
of the mind of a Perfector of Wisdom, but I certainly do not fully comprehend
the working of the adjudicating mind of a Universal Censor. It appears
to me that the Censors formulate new meanings and originate new values
from the association of the facts, truths, and findings presented to them
in the course of an investigation of universe affairs. It seems probable
that the Universal Censors are able to bring forth original interpretations
of the combination of perfect Creator insight and the perfected creature
experience. This association of Paradise perfection and universe experience
undoubtedly eventuates a new value in ultimates.
P.218 – §5 But this is not the end of our difficulties
regarding the working of the minds of the Universal Censors. Having made
due allowances for all that we know or conjecture about the functioning
of a Censor in any given universe situation, we find that we are still
unable to predict decisions or to forecast verdicts. We very accurately
determine the probable result of the association of Creator attitude and
creature experience, but such conclusions are not always accurate forecasts
of Censor disclosures. It seems likely that the Censors are in some manner
in liaison with the Deity Absolute; we are otherwise unable to explain
many of their decisions and rulings.
P.218 – §6 Perfectors of Wisdom, Divine Counselors,
and Universal Censors, together with the seven orders of Supreme Trinity
Personalities, constitute those ten groups which have been sometimes designated
Stationary Sons of the Trinity. Together they comprise the grand corps
of Trinity administrators, rulers, executives, advisers, counselors, and
judges. Their numbers slightly exceed thirty-
P.219 – §0 seven billion. Two billion and seventy
are stationed in the central universe and just over five billion in each
superuniverse.
P.219 – §1 It is very difficult to portray the functional
limits of the Stationary Sons of the Trinity. It would be incorrect to
state that their acts are finite limited, for there are transactions of
superuniverse record which indicate otherwise. They act on any level of
universe administration or adjudication that may be required by time-space
conditions and that pertains to the past, present, and future evolution
of the master universe.
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5. INSPIRED TRINITY SPIRITS – P.219
P.219 – §2 I will be able to tell you very little
concerning the Inspired Trinity Spirits, for they are one of the few wholly
secret orders of beings in existence, secret, no doubt, because it is
impossible for them fully to reveal themselves even to those of us whose
origin is so near the source of their creation. They come into being by
the act of the Paradise Trinity and may be utilized by any one or two
of the Deities as well as by all three. We do not know whether these Spirits
are of completed numbers or are constantly increasing, but we incline
to the belief that their number is not fixed.
P.219 – §3 We fully understand neither the nature
nor the conduct of the Inspired Spirits. They may possibly belong to the
category of superpersonal spirits. They seem to operate over all known
circuits and appear to act well-nigh independently of time and space.
But we know little about them except as we deduce their character from
the nature of their activities, the results of which we certainly observe
here and there in the universes.
P.219 – §4 Under certain conditions these Inspired
Spirits can individualize themselves sufficiently for recognition by beings
of Trinity origin. I have seen them; but it would never be possible for
the lower orders of celestial beings to recognize one of them. Certain
circumstances also arise from time to time in the conduct of the evolving
universes in which any being of Trinity origin may directly employ these
Spirits in the furtherance of his assignments. We therefore know that
they exist, and that under certain conditions we may command and receive
their assistance, sometimes recognize their presence. But they are not
a part of the manifest and definitely revealed organization intrusted
with the conduct of the time-space universes before such material creations
are settled in light and life. They have no clearly discernible place
in the present economy or administration of the evolving seven superuniverses.
They are a secret of the Paradise Trinity.
P.219 – §5 The Melchizedeks of Nebadon teach that
Inspired Trinity Spirits are destined, sometime in the eternal future,
to function in the places of the Solitary Messengers, whose ranks are
slowly but certainly being depleted by their assignment as associates
of certain types of trinitized sons.
P.219 – §6 The Inspired Spirits are the solitary
Spirits of the universe of universes. As Spirits they are very much like
the Solitary Messengers except that the latter are distinct personalities.
We obtain much of our knowledge of the Inspired Spirits from the Solitary
Messengers, who detect their nearness by virtue of an inherent sensitivity
to the presence of the Inspired Spirits which functions just as unfailingly
as a magnetic needle points to a magnetic pole. When a Solitary Messenger
is near an Inspired Trinity Spirit, he is conscious of a qualitative indication
of such a divine presence and also of a very definite quantitative
P.220 – §0 registration which enables him actually
to know the classification or number of the Spirit presence or presences.
P.220 – §1 I may relate a further interesting fact:
When a Solitary Messenger is on a planet whose inhabitants are indwelt
by Thought Adjusters, as on Urantia, he is aware of a qualitative excitation
in his detection-sensitivity to spirit presence. In such instances there
is no quantitative excitation, only a qualitative agitation. When on a
planet to which Adjusters do not come, contact with the natives does not
produce any such reaction. This suggests that Thought Adjusters are in
some manner related to, or are connected with, the Inspired Spirits of
the Paradise Trinity. In some way they may possibly be associated in certain
phases of their work; but we do not really know. They both originate near
the center and source of all things, but they are not the same order of
being. Thought Adjusters spring from the Father alone; Inspired Spirits
are the offspring of the Paradise Trinity.
P.220 – §2 The Inspired Spirits do not apparently
belong to the evolutionary scheme of the individual planets or universes,
and yet they seem to be almost everywhere. Even as I am engaged in the
formulation of this statement, my associated Solitary Messenger’s personal
sensitivity to the presence of this order of Spirit indicates that there
is with us at this very moment, not over twenty-five feet away, a Spirit
of the Inspired order and of the third volume of power presence. The third
volume of power presence suggests to us the probability that three Inspired
Spirits are functioning in liaison.
P.220 – §3 Of more than twelve orders of beings associated
with me at this time, the Solitary Messenger is the only one aware of
the presence of these mysterious entities of the Trinity. And further,
while we are thus apprised of the nearness of these divine Spirits, we
are all equally ignorant of their mission. We really do not know whether
they are merely interested observers of our doings, or whether they are,
in some manner unknown to us, actually contributing to the success of
our undertaking.
P.220 – §4 We know that the Trinity Teacher Sons
are devoted to the conscious enlightenment of universe creatures. I have
arrived at the settled conclusion that the Inspired Trinity Spirits, by
superconscious techniques, are also functioning as teachers of the realms.
I am persuaded that there is a vast body of essential spiritual knowledge,
truth indispensable to high spiritual attainment, which cannot be consciously
received; self-consciousness would effectively jeopardize the certainty
of reception. If we are right in this concept, and my entire order of
being shares it, it may be the mission of these Inspired Spirits to overcome
this difficulty, to bridge this gap in the universal scheme of moral enlightenment
and spiritual advancement. We think that these two types of Trinity-origin
teachers effect some kind of liaison in their activities, but we do not
really know.
P.220 – §5 On the superuniverse training worlds and
on the eternal circuits of Havona, I have fraternized with the perfecting
mortals–spiritualized and ascendant souls from the evolutionary realms–but
never have they been aware of the Inspired Spirits, which ever and anon
the powers of detection resident in the Solitary Messengers would indicate
were very near us. I have freely conversed with all orders of the Sons
of God, high and low, and they likewise are unconscious of the admonitions
of the Inspired Trinity Spirits. They can and do look back in their experiences
and recount happenings which are difficult to explain if the action of
such Spirits is not taken into account. But excepting Solitary Messengers,
P.221 – §0 and sometimes Trinity-origin beings, none
of the celestial family have ever been conscious of the nearness of the
Inspired Spirits.
P.221 – §1 I do not believe the Inspired Trinity
Spirits are playing hide and seek with me. They are probably trying just
as hard to disclose themselves to me as I am to communicate with them;
our difficulties and limitations must be mutual and inherent. I am satisfied
that there are no arbitrary secrets in the universe; therefore will I
never cease in my efforts to solve the mystery of the isolation of these
Spirits belonging to my order of creation.
P.221 – §2 And from all this, you mortals, just now
taking your first step on the eternal journey, can well see that you must
advance a long way before you will progress by "sight" and "material"
assurance. You will long use faith and be dependent on revelation if you
hope to progress quickly and safely.
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6. HAVONA NATIVES – P.221
P.221 – §3 The Havona natives are the direct creation
of the Paradise Trinity, and their number is beyond the concept of your
circumscribed minds. Neither is it possible for Urantians to conceive
of the inherent endowments of such divinely perfect creatures as these
Trinity-origin races of the eternal universe. You can never truly envisage
these glorious creatures; you must await your arrival in Havona, when
you can greet them as spirit comrades.
P.221 – §4 During your long sojourn on the billion
worlds of Havona culture you will develop an eternal friendship for these
superb beings. And how deep is that friendship which grows up between
the lowest personal creature from the worlds of space and these high personal
beings native to the perfect spheres of the central universe! Ascending
mortals, in their long and loving association with the Havona natives,
do much to compensate for the spiritual impoverishment of the earlier
stages of mortal progression. At the same time, through their contacts
with ascending pilgrims, the Havoners gain an experience which to no small
extent overcomes the experiential handicap of having always lived a life
of divine perfection. The good to both ascending mortal and Havona native
is great and mutual.
P.221 – §5 Havona natives, like all other Trinity-origin
personalities, are projected in divine perfection, and as with other Trinity-origin
personalities, the passing of time may add to their stores of experiential
endowments. But unlike the Stationary Sons of the Trinity, Havoners may
evolve in status, may have an unrevealed future eternity-destiny. This
is illustrated by those Havoners who service-factualize capacity for fusion
with a non-Adjuster Father fragment and so qualify for membership in the
Mortal Corps of the Finality. And there are other finaliter corps open
to these natives of the central universe.
P.221 – §6 The status evolution of Havona natives
has occasioned much speculation on Uversa. Since they are constantly filtering
into the several Paradise Corps of the Finality, and since no more are
being created, it is apparent that the number of natives remaining in
Havona is constantly diminishing. The ultimate consequences of these transactions
have never been revealed to us, but we do not believe that Havona will
ever be entirely depleted of its natives. We have entertained the theory
that Havoners will possibly cease entering the finaliter corps sometime
during the ages of the successive creations of the outer space levels.
P.222 – §0 We have also entertained the thought that
in these subsequent universe ages the central universe may be peopled
by a mixed group of resident beings, a citizenship consisting only in
part of the original Havona natives. We do not know what order or type
of creature may be thus destined to residential status in the future Havona,
but we have thought of:
P.222 – §1 1. The univitatia, who are at present
the permanent citizens of the local universe constellations.
P.222 – §2 2. Future types of mortals who may be
born on the inhabited spheres of the superuniverses in the flowering of
the ages of light and life.
P.222 – §3 3. The incoming spiritual aristocracy
of the successive outer universes.
P.222 – §4 We know that the Havona of the previous
universe age was somewhat different from the Havona of the present age.
We deem it no more than reasonable to assume that we are now witnessing
those slow changes in the central universe that are anticipatory of the
ages to come. One thing is certain: The universe is nonstatic; only God
is changeless.
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7. PARADISE CITIZENS – P.222
P.222 – §5 There are resident on Paradise numerous
groups of superb beings, the Paradise Citizens. They are not directly
concerned with the scheme of perfecting ascending will creatures and are
not, therefore, fully revealed to Urantia mortals. There are more than
three thousand orders of these supernal intelligences, the last group
having been personalized simultaneously with the mandate of the Trinity
which promulgated the creative plan of the seven superuniverses of time
and space.
P.222 – §6 Paradise Citizens and Havona natives are
sometimes designated collectively as Paradise-Havona personalities.
P.222 – §7 This completes the story of those beings
who are brought into existence by the Paradise Trinity. None of them have
ever gone astray. And yet, in the highest sense, they are all freewill
endowed.
P.222 – §8 Trinity-origin beings possess prerogatives
of transit which make them independent of transport personalities, such
as seraphim. We all possess the power of moving about freely and quickly
in the universe of universes. Excepting the Inspired Trinity Spirits,
we cannot attain the almost unbelievable velocity of the Solitary Messengers,
but we are able so to utilize the sum total of the transport facilities
in space that we can reach any point in a superuniverse, from its headquarters,
in less than one year of Urantia time. It required 109 days of your time
for me to journey from Uversa to Urantia.
P.222 – §9 Through these same avenues we are enabled to intercommunicate
instantaneously. Our entire order of creation finds itself in touch with
every individual embraced within every division of the children of the
Paradise Trinity save only the Inspired Spirits.
P.222 – §10 [Presented by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.]
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