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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 20
THE PARADISE SONS OF GOD
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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In addition to their services on the higher
administrative levels, the Avonals have a threefold
function on the inhabited worlds:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
3. JUDICIAL ACTIONS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 universe headquarters of a Paradise Son who
has successfully executed a mission of mortal bestowal
upon an evolving world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
8. LOCAL UNIVERSE MINISTRY OF THE DAYNALS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. They
make real the spiritual counterparts of material
knowledge and temporal wisdom.
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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.
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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.
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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
20:10.1
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.
20:10.2
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.
20:10.3
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 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.
20:10.4
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.
20:10.5
Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom from Uversa.
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