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P.223 – §1 As they function in the
superuniverse of Orvonton, the Sons of God are classified under three
general heads:
P.223 – §2 1. The Descending Sons of God.
P.223 – §3 2. The Ascending Sons of God.
P.223 – §4 3. The Trinitized Sons of God.
P.223 – §5 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.
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1. THE DESCENDING SONS OF GOD – P.223
P.223 – §6 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:
P.223 – §7 1. Creator Sons–the Michaels.
P.223 – §8 2. Magisterial Sons–the Avonals.
P.223 – §9 3. Trinity Teacher Sons–the Daynals.
P.223 – §10 The remaining four orders of descending
sonship are known as the Local Universe Sons of God:
P.223 – §11 4. Melchizedek Sons.
P.223 – §12 5. Vorondadek Sons.
P.223 – §13 6. Lanonandek Sons.
P.223 – §14 7. The Life Carriers.
P.223 – §15 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
P.224 – §0 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.
P.224 – §1 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.
P.224 – §2 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.
P.224 – §3 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.
P.224 – §4 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.
P.224 – §5 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.
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2. THE MAGISTERIAL SONS – P.224
P.224 – §6 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
P.225 – §0 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.
P.225 – §1 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.
P.225 – §2 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.
P.225 – §3 In addition to their services on the higher
administrative levels, the Avonals have a threefold function on the inhabited
worlds:
P.225 – §4 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.
P.225 – §5 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.
P.225 – §6 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.
P.225 – §7 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.
P.225 – §8 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 – P.226
P.226 – §1 The Avonals are known as Magisterial Sons
because they are the high magistrates of the realms, the adjudicators
of the successive dispensations of the worlds of time. They preside over
the awakening of the sleeping survivors, sit in judgment on the realm,
bring to an end a dispensation of suspended justice, execute the mandates
of an age of probationary mercy, reassign the space creatures of planetary
ministry to the tasks of the new dispensation, and return to the headquarters
of their local universe upon the completion of their mission.
P.226 – §2 When they sit in judgment on the destinies
of an age, the Avonals decree the fate of the evolutionary races, but
though they may render judgments extinguishing the identity of personal
creatures, they do not execute such sentences. Verdicts of this nature
are executed by none but the authorities of a superuniverse.
P.226 – §3 The arrival of a Paradise Avonal on an
evolutionary world for the purpose of terminating a dispensation and of
inaugurating a new era of planetary progression is not necessarily either
a magisterial mission or a bestowal mission. Magisterial missions sometimes,
and bestowal missions always, are incarnations; that is, on such assignments
the Avonals serve on a planet in material form–literally. Their other
visits are "technical," and in this capacity an Avonal is not
incarnated for planetary service. If a Magisterial Son comes solely as
a dispensational adjudicator, he arrives on a planet as a spiritual being,
invisible to the material creatures of the realm. Such technical visits
occur repeatedly in the long history of an inhabited world.
P.226 – §4 Avonal Sons may act as planetary judges
prior to both the magisterial and bestowal experiences. On either of these
missions, however, the incarnated Son will judge the passing planetary
age; likewise does a Creator Son when incarnated on a mission of bestowal
in the likeness of mortal flesh. When a Paradise Son visits an evolutionary
world and becomes like one of its people, his presence terminates a dispensation
and constitutes a judgment of the realm.
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4. MAGISTERIAL MISSIONS – P.226
P.226 – §5 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.
P.226 – §6 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.
P.227 – §1 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.
P.227 – §2 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.
P.227 – §3 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.
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5. BESTOWAL OF THE PARADISE SONS OF GOD – P.227
P.227 – §4 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.
P.227 – §5 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.
P.227 – §6 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
P.228 – §0 universe headquarters of a Paradise Son
who has successfully executed a mission of mortal bestowal upon an evolving
world.
P.228 – §1 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.
P.228 – §2 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.
P.228 – §3 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.
P.228 – §4 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.
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6. THE MORTAL-BESTOWAL CAREERS – P.228
P.228 – §5 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
P.229 – §0 possible to the divine nature and waste
no time on futile conjectures about the technique employed by divine wisdom
to effect such phenomena.
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P.229 – §1 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.
P.229 – §2 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.
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P.229 – §3 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.
P.229 – §4 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.
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P.229 – §5 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.
P.229 – §6 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.
P.230 – §1 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.
P.230 – §2 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.
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7. THE TRINITY TEACHER SONS – P.230
P.230 – §3 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.
P.230 – §4 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.
P.230 – §5 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.
P.230 – §6 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.
P.230 – §7 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 – P.231
P.231 – §1 The Paradise Spiritual Sons are unique
Trinity-origin beings and the only Trinity creatures to be so completely
associated with the conduct of the dual-origin universes. They are affectionately
devoted to the educational ministry to mortal creatures and the lower
orders of spiritual beings. They begin their labors in the local systems
and, in accordance with experience and achievement, are advanced inward
through the constellation service to the highest work of the local creation.
Upon certification they may become spiritual ambassadors representing
the local universes of their service.
P.231 – §2 The exact number of Teacher Sons in Nebadon
I do not know; there are many thousands of them. Many of the heads of
departments in the Melchizedek schools belong to this order, while the
combined staff of the regularly constituted University of Salvington embraces
over one hundred thousand including these Sons. Large numbers are stationed
on the various morontia-training worlds, but they are not wholly occupied
with the spiritual and intellectual advancement of mortal creatures; they
are equally concerned with the instruction of seraphic beings and other
natives of the local creations. Many of their assistants are drawn from
the ranks of the creature-trinitized beings.
P.231 – §3 The Teacher Sons compose the faculties
who administer all examinations and conduct all tests for the qualification
and certification of all subordinate phases of universe service, from
the duties of outpost sentinels to those of star students. They conduct
an agelong course of training, ranging from the planetary courses up to
the high College of Wisdom located on Salvington. Recognition indicative
of effort and attainment is granted to all, ascending mortal or ambitious
cherubim, who complete these adventures in wisdom and truth.
P.231 – §4 In all universes all the Sons of God are
beholden to these ever-faithful and universally efficient Trinity Teacher
Sons. They are the exalted teachers of all spirit personalities, even
the tried and true teachers of the Sons of God themselves. But of the
endless details of the duties and functions of the Teacher Sons I can
hardly instruct you. The vast domain of Daynal-sonship activities will
be better understood on Urantia when you are more advanced in intelligence,
and after the spiritual isolation of your planet has been terminated.
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9. PLANETARY SERVICE OF THE DAYNALS – P.231
P.231 – §5 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.
P.231 – §6 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.
P.232 – §0 They make real the spiritual counterparts
of material knowledge and temporal wisdom.
P.232 – §1 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.
P.232 – §2 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.
P.232 – §3 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.
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10. UNITED MINISTRY OF THE PARADISE SONS – P.232
P.232 – §4 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.
P.232 – §5 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.
P.232 – §6 In the Creator Sons the love of the Universal
Father is blended with the mercy of the Eternal Son and is disclosed to
the local universes in the creative power, loving ministry, and understanding
sovereignty of the Michaels. In the Magisterial Sons the mercy of the
Eternal Son, united with the ministry of the Infinite Spirit, is revealed
to the evolutionary domains in the careers of these Avonals of judgment,
service, and bestowal. In the Trinity Teacher Sons the
P.233 – §0 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.
P.233 – §1 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.
P.233 – §2 [Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom from
Uversa.]
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