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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 40
THE ASCENDING SONS OF GOD
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AS IN many of the major groups of universe beings, seven
general classes of the Ascending Sons of God have been
revealed:
1. Father-fused Mortals.
2. Son-fused Mortals.
3. Spirit-fused Mortals.
4. Evolutionary Seraphim.
5. Ascending Material Sons.
6. Translated Midwayers.
7. Personalized Adjusters.
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The story of these beings, from the lowly animal-origin
mortals of the evolutionary worlds to the Personalized
Adjusters of the Universal Father, presents a glorious
recital of the unstinted bestowal of divine love and
gracious condescension throughout all time and in all
universes of the far-flung creation of the Paradise
Deities.
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These presentations began with a description of the
Deities, and group by group, the narrative has descended
the universal scale of living beings until it has
reached the lowest order of life endowed with the
potential of immortality; and now am I dispatched from
Salvington -- onetime a mortal of origin on an
evolutionary world of space -- to elaborate and continue
the recital of the eternal purpose of the Gods
respecting the ascending orders of sonship, more
particularly with regard to the mortal creatures of time
and space.
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Since the greater part of this narrative will be devoted
to a discussion of the three basic orders of ascending
mortals, consideration will first be given to the
nonmortal ascending orders of sonship -- seraphic,
Adamic, midwayer, and Adjuster.
1. EVOLUTIONARY SERAPHIM
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Mortal creatures of animal origin are not the only
beings privileged to enjoy sonship; the angelic hosts
also share the supernal opportunity to attain Paradise.
Guardian seraphim, through experience and service with
the ascending mortals of time, also achieve the status
of ascendant sonship. Such angels attain Paradise
through Seraphington, and many are even mustered into
the Corps of Mortal Finality.
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To climb to the supernal heights of finaliter sonship
with God is a masterly achievement for an angel, an
accomplishment far transcending your attainment of
eternal survival through the plan of the Eternal Son and
the ever-present help of the indwelling Adjuster; but
the guardian seraphim, and occasionally others, do
actually effect such ascensions.
2. ASCENDING MATERIAL SONS
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The Material Sons of God are created in the local
universe along with the Melchizedeks and their
associates, who are all classified as descending Sons.
And indeed, the Planetary Adams -- the Material Sons and
Daughters of the evolutionary worlds -- are descending
Sons, coming down to the inhabited worlds from their
spheres of origin, the capitals of the local systems.
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When such an Adam and Eve are wholly successful in their
joint planetary mission as biologic uplifters, they
share the destiny of the inhabitants of their world.
When such a world is settled in the advanced stages of
light and life, this faithful Material Son and Daughter
are permitted to resign all planetary administrative
duties, and after being thus liberated from the
descending adventure, they are permitted to register
themselves as perfected Material Sons on the records of
the local universe. Likewise, when planetary assignment
is long delayed, may the Material Sons of stationary
status -- the citizens of the local systems -- withdraw
from the activities of their status spheres and
similarly register as perfected Material Sons. After
these formalities such liberated Adams and Eves are
accredited as ascending Sons of God and may immediately
begin the long journey to Havona and Paradise, starting
at the exact point of their then present status and
spiritual attainment. And they make this journey in
company with the mortal and other ascending Sons,
continuing until they have found God and have achieved
the Corps of Mortal Finality in the eternal service of
the Paradise Deities.
3. TRANSLATED MIDWAYERS
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Although deprived of the immediate benefits of the
planetary bestowals of the descending Sons of God,
though the Paradise ascent is long deferred,
nevertheless, soon after an evolutionary planet has
attained the intermediate epochs of light and life (if
not before), both groups of midway creatures are
released from planetary duty. Sometimes the majority of
them are translated, along with their human cousins, on
the day of the descent of the temple of light and the
elevation of the Planetary Prince to the dignity of
Planetary Sovereign. Upon being relieved of planetary
service, both orders are registered in the local
universe as ascending Sons of God and immediately begin
the long Paradise ascent by the very routes ordained for
the progression of the mortal races of the material
worlds. The primary group are destined to various
finaliter corps, but the secondary or Adamic midwayers
are all routed for enrollment in the Mortal Corps of
Finality.
4. PERSONALIZED ADJUSTERS
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When the mortals of time fail to achieve the eternal
survival of their souls in planetary association with
the spirit gifts of the Universal Father, such failure
is never in any way due to neglect of duty, ministry,
service, or devotion on the part of the Adjuster. At
mortal death, such deserted Monitors return to
Divinington, and subsequently, following the
adjudication of the nonsurvivor, they may be reassigned
to the worlds of time and space. Sometimes, after
repeated services of this sort or following some unusual
experience, such as functioning as the indwelling
Adjuster of an incarnated bestowal Son, these efficient
Adjusters are personalized by the Universal Father.
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Personalized Adjusters are beings of a unique and
unfathomable order. Originally of existential
prepersonal status, they have experientialized by
participation in the lives and careers of the lowly
mortals of the material worlds. And since the
personality bestowed upon these experienced Thought
Adjusters takes origin, and has its wellspring, in the
Universal Father's personal and continuing ministry of
the bestowals of experiential personality upon his
creature creation, these Personalized Adjusters are
classified as ascending Sons of God, the highest of all
such orders of sonship.
5. MORTALS OF TIME AND SPACE
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Mortals represent the last link in the chain of those
beings who are called sons of God. The personal touch of
the Original and Eternal Son passes on down through a
series of decreasingly divine and increasingly human
personalizations until there arrives a being much like
yourselves, one you can see, hear, and touch. And then
you are made spiritually aware of the great truth which
your faith may grasp -- sonship with the eternal God!
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Likewise does the Original and Infinite Spirit, by a
long series of decreasingly divine and increasingly
human orders, draw nearer and nearer to the struggling
creatures of the realms, reaching the limit of
expression in the angels -- than whom you were created
but a little lower -- who personally guard and guide you
in the life journey of the mortal career of time.
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God the Father does not, cannot, thus downstep himself
to make such near personal contact with the almost
limitless number of ascending creatures throughout the
universe of universes. But the Father is not deprived of
personal contact with his lowly creatures; you are not
without the divine presence. Although God the Father
cannot be with you by direct personality manifestation,
he is in you and of you in the identity of the
indwelling Thought Adjusters, the divine Monitors. Thus
does the Father, who is the farthest from you in
personality and in spirit, draw the nearest to you in
the personality circuit and in the spirit touch of inner
communion with the very souls of his mortal sons and
daughters.
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Spirit identification constitutes the secret of personal
survival and determines the destiny of spiritual
ascension. And since the Thought Adjusters are the only
spirits of fusion potential to be identified with man
during the life in the flesh, the mortals of time and
space are primarily classified in accordance with their
relation to these divine gifts, the indwelling Mystery
Monitors. This classification is as follows:
1. Mortals of the transient or experiential Adjuster
sojourn.
2. Mortals of the non-Adjuster-fusion types.
3. Mortals of Adjuster-fusion potential.
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Series one --
mortals of the transient or experiential Adjuster
sojourn. This series designation is temporary for
any evolving planet, being used during the early stages
of all inhabited worlds except those of the second
series.
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Mortals of series one inhabit the worlds of space during
the earlier epochs of the evolution of mankind and
embrace the most primitive types of human minds. On many
worlds like pre-Adamic Urantia great numbers of the
higher and more advanced types of primitive men acquire
survival capacity but fail to attain Adjuster fusion.
For ages upon ages, before man's ascent to the level of
higher spiritual volition, the Adjusters occupy the
minds of these struggling creatures during their short
lives in the flesh, and the moment such will creatures
are indwelt by Adjusters, the group guardian angels
begin to function. While these mortals of the first
series do not have personal guardians, they do have
group custodians.
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An experiential Adjuster remains with a primitive human
being throughout his entire lifetime in the flesh. The
Adjusters contribute much to the advancement of
primitive men but are unable to form eternal unions with
such mortals. This transient ministry of the Adjusters
accomplishes two things: First, they gain valuable and
actual experience in the nature and working of the
evolutionary intellect, an experience which will be
invaluable in connection with later contacts on other
worlds with beings of higher development. Second, the
transient sojourn of the Adjusters contributes much
towards preparing their mortal subjects for possible
subsequent Spirit fusion. All God-seeking souls of this
type achieve eternal life through the spiritual embrace
of the Mother Spirit of the local universe, thus
becoming ascending mortals of the local universe regime.
Many persons from pre-Adamic Urantia were thus advanced
to the mansion worlds of Satania.
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The Gods who ordained that mortal man should climb to
higher levels of spiritual intelligence through long
ages of evolutionary trials and tribulations, take note
of his status and needs at every stage of the ascent;
and always are they divinely fair and just, even
charmingly merciful, in the final judgments of these
struggling mortals of the early days of the evolving
races.
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Series two --
mortals of the non-Adjuster-fusion types. These are
specialized types of human beings who are not able to
effect eternal union with their indwelling Adjusters.
Type classification among the one-, two-, and
three-brained races is not a factor in Adjuster fusion;
all such mortals are akin, but these non-Adjuster-fusion
types are a wholly different and markedly modified order
of will creatures. Many of the nonbreathers belong to
this series, and there are numerous other groups who do
not ordinarily fuse with Adjusters.
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Like series number one, each member of this group enjoys
the ministry of a single Adjuster during lifetime in the
flesh. During temporal life these Adjusters do
everything for their subjects of temporary indwelling
that is done on other worlds where the mortals are of
fusion potential. The mortals of this second series are
often indwelt by virgin Adjusters, but the higher human
types are often in liaison with masterful and
experienced Monitors.
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In the ascendant plan for upstepping the animal-origin
creatures, these beings enjoy the same devoted service
of the Sons of God as is extended to the Urantia type of
mortals. Seraphic co-operation with Adjusters on the
nonfusion planets is just as fully provided as on the
worlds of fusion potential; the guardians of destiny
minister on such spheres just as on Urantia and
similarly function at the time of mortal survival, at
which time the surviving soul becomes Spirit fused.
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When you encounter these modified mortal types on the
mansion worlds, you will find no difficulty in
communicating with them. There they speak the same
system language but by a modified technique. These
beings are identical with your order of creature life in
spirit and personality manifestations, differing only in
certain physical features and in the fact that they are
nonfusible with Thought Adjusters.
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As to just why this type of creature is never able to
fuse with the Adjusters of the Universal Father, I am
unable to say. Some of us incline to the belief that the
Life Carriers, in their efforts to formulate beings
capable of maintaining existence in an unusual planetary
environment, are confronted with the necessity of making
such radical modifications in the universe plan of
intelligent will creatures that it becomes inherently
impossible to bring about permanent union with the
Adjusters. Often have we asked: Is this an intended or
an unintended part of the ascension plan? but we have
not found the answer.
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Series three --
mortals of Adjuster-fusion potential. All
Father-fused mortals are of animal origin, just like the
Urantia races. They embrace mortals of the one-brained,
two-brained, and three-brained types of Adjuster-fusion
potential. Urantians are of the intermediate or
two-brained type, being in many ways humanly superior to
the one-brained groups but definitely limited in
comparison with the three-brained orders. These three
types of physical-brain endowment are not factors in
Adjuster bestowal, in seraphic service, or in any other
phase of spirit ministry. The intellectual and spiritual
differential between the three brain types characterizes
individuals who are otherwise quite alike in mind
endowment and spiritual potential, being greatest in the
temporal life and tending to diminish as the mansion
worlds are traversed one by one. From the system
headquarters on, the progression of these three types is
the same, and their eventual Paradise destiny is
identical.
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The unnumbered
series. These narratives cannot possibly embrace all
of the fascinating variations in the evolutionary
worlds. You know that every tenth world is a decimal or
experimental planet, but you know nothing of the other
variables that punctuate the processional of the
evolutionary spheres. There are differences too numerous
to narrate even between the revealed orders of living
creatures as between planets of the same group, but this
presentation makes clear the essential differences in
relation to the ascension career. And the ascension
career is the most important factor in any consideration
of the mortals of time and space.
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As to the chances of mortal survival, let it be made
forever clear: All souls of every possible phase of
mortal existence will survive provided they manifest
willingness to co-operate with their indwelling
Adjusters and exhibit a desire to find God and to attain
divine perfection, even though these desires be but the
first faint flickers of the primitive comprehension of
that "true light which lights every man who comes into
the world."
6. THE FAITH SONS OF GOD
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The mortal races stand as the representatives of the
lowest order of intelligent and personal creation. You
mortals are divinely beloved, and every one of you may
choose to accept the certain destiny of a glorious
experience, but you are not yet by nature of the divine
order; you are wholly mortal. You will be reckoned as
ascending sons the instant fusion takes place, but the
status of the mortals of time and space is that of faith
sons prior to the event of the final amalgamation of the
surviving mortal soul with some type of eternal and
immortal spirit.
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It is a solemn and supernal fact that such lowly and
material creatures as Urantia human beings are the sons
of God, faith children of the Highest. "Behold, what
manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we
should be called the sons of God." "As many as received
him, to them gave he the power to recognize that they
are the sons of God." While "it does not yet appear what
you shall be," even now "you are the faith sons of God";
"for you have not received the spirit of bondage again
to fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship,
whereby you cry, `our Father.'" Spoke the prophet of old
in the name of the eternal God: "Even to them will I
give in my house a place and a name better than sons; I
will give them an everlasting name, one that shall not
be cut off." "And because you are sons, God has sent
forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts."
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All evolutionary worlds of mortal habitation harbor
these faith sons of God, sons of grace and mercy, mortal
beings belonging to the divine family and accordingly
called the sons of God. Urantia mortals are entitled to
regard themselves as being the sons of God because:
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1. You are sons of spiritual promise, faith sons; you
have accepted the status of sonship. You believe in the
reality of your sonship, and thus does your sonship with
God become eternally real.
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2. A Creator Son of God became one of you; he is your
elder brother in fact; and if in spirit you become truly
related brothers of Christ, the victorious Michael, then
in spirit must you also be sons of that Father which you
have in common -- even the Universal Father of all.
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3. You are sons because the spirit of a Son has been
poured out upon you, has been freely and certainly
bestowed upon all Urantia races. This spirit ever draws
you toward the divine Son, who is its source, and toward
the Paradise Father, who is the source of that divine
Son.
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4. Of his divine free-willness, the Universal Father has
given you your creature personalities. You have been
endowed with a measure of that divine spontaneity of
freewill action which God shares with all who may become
his sons.
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5. There dwells within you a fragment of the Universal
Father, and you are thus directly related to the divine
Father of all the Sons of God.
7. FATHER-FUSED MORTALS
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The sending of Adjusters, their indwelling, is indeed
one of the unfathomable mysteries of God the Father.
These fragments of the divine nature of the Universal
Father carry with them the potential of creature
immortality. Adjusters are immortal spirits, and union
with them confers eternal life upon the soul of the
fused mortal.
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Your own races of surviving mortals belong to this group
of the ascending Sons of God. You are now planetary
sons, evolutionary creatures derived from the Life
Carrier implantations and modified by the Adamic-life
infusion, hardly yet ascending sons; but you are indeed
sons of ascension potential -- even to the highest
heights of glory and divinity attainment -- and this
spiritual status of ascending sonship you may attain by
faith and by freewill co-operation with the
spiritualizing activities of the indwelling Adjusters.
When you and your Adjusters are finally and forever
fused, when you two are made one, even as in Christ
Michael the Son of God and the Son of Man are one, then
in fact have you become the ascending sons of God.
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The details of the Adjuster career of indwelling
ministry on a probationary and evolutionary planet are
not a part of my assignment; the elaboration of this
great truth embraces your whole career. I include the
mention of certain Adjuster functions in order to make a
replete statement regarding Adjuster-fused mortals.
These indwelling fragments of God are with your order of
being from the early days of physical existence through
all of the ascending career in Nebadon and Orvonton and
on through Havona to Paradise itself. Thereafter, in the
eternal adventure, this same Adjuster is one with you
and of you.
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These are the mortals who have been commanded by the
Universal Father, "Be you perfect, even as I am
perfect." The Father has bestowed himself upon you,
placed his own spirit within you;
therefore
does he demand ultimate perfection of you. The narrative
of human ascent from the mortal spheres of time to the
divine realms of eternity constitutes an intriguing
recital not included in my assignment, but this supernal
adventure should be the supreme study of mortal man.
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Fusion with a fragment of the Universal Father is
equivalent to a divine validation of eventual Paradise
attainment, and such Adjuster-fused mortals are the only
class of human beings who all traverse the Havona
circuits and find God on Paradise. To the Adjuster-fused
mortal the career of universal service is wide open.
What dignity of destiny and glory of attainment await
every one of you! Do you fully appreciate what has been
done for you? Do you comprehend the grandeur of the
heights of eternal achievement which are spread out
before you? -- even you who now trudge on in the lowly
path of life through your so-called "vale of tears"?
8. SON-FUSED MORTALS
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While practically all surviving mortals are fused with
their Adjusters on one of the mansion worlds or
immediately upon their arrival on the higher morontia
spheres, there are certain cases of delayed fusion, some
not experiencing this final surety of survival until
they reach the last educational worlds of the universe
headquarters; and a few of these mortal candidates for
never-ending life utterly fail to attain identity fusion
with their faithful Adjusters.
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Such mortals have been deemed worthy of survival by the
adjudicational authorities, and even their Adjusters, by
returning from Divinington, have concurred in their
ascension to the mansion worlds. Such beings have
ascended through a system, a constellation, and through
the educational worlds of the Salvington circuit; they
have enjoyed the "seventy times seven" opportunities for
fusion and still have been unable to attain oneness with
their Adjusters.
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When it becomes apparent that some synchronizing
difficulty is inhibiting Father fusion, the survival
referees of the Creator Son are convened. And when this
court of inquiry, sanctioned by a personal
representative of the Ancients of Days, finally
determines that the ascending mortal is not guilty of
any discoverable cause for failure to attain fusion,
they so certify on the records of the local universe and
duly transmit this finding to the Ancients of Days.
Thereupon does the indwelling Adjuster return forthwith
to Divinington for confirmation by the Personalized
Monitors, and upon this leave-taking the morontia mortal
is immediately fused with an individualized gift of the
spirit of the Creator Son.
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Much as the morontia spheres of Nebadon are shared with
the Spirit-fused mortals, so do these Son-fused
creatures share the services of Orvonton with their
Adjuster-fused brethren who are journeying inward
towards the far-distant Isle of Paradise. They are truly
your brethren, and you will greatly enjoy their
association as you pass through the training worlds of
the superuniverse.
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Son-fused mortals are not a numerous group, there being
less than one million of them in the superuniverse of
Orvonton. Aside from residential destiny on Paradise
they are in every way the equals of their Adjuster-fused
associates. They frequently journey to Paradise on
superuniverse assignment but seldom permanently reside
there, being, as a class, confined to the superuniverse
of their nativity.
9. SPIRIT-FUSED MORTALS
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Ascending Spirit-fused mortals are not Third Source
personalities; they are included in the Father's
personality circuit, but they have fused with
individualizations of the premind spirit of the Third
Source and Center. Such Spirit fusion never occurs
during the span of natural life; it takes place only at
the time of mortal reawakening in the morontia existence
on the mansion worlds. In the fusion experience there is
no overlapping; the will creature is either Spirit
fused, Son fused, or Father fused. Those who are
Adjuster or Father fused are never Spirit or Son fused.
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The fact that these types of mortal creatures are not
Adjuster-fusion candidates does not prevent the
Adjusters from indwelling them during the life in the
flesh. Adjusters do work in the minds of such beings
during the span of material life but never become
everlastingly one with their pupil souls. During this
temporary sojourn the Adjusters effectively build up the
same spirit counterpart of mortal nature -- the soul --
that they do in the candidates for Adjuster fusion. Up
to the time of mortal death the work of the Adjusters is
wholly akin to their function in your own races, but
upon mortal dissolution the Adjusters take eternal leave
of these Spirit-fusion candidates and, proceeding
directly to Divinington, the headquarters of all divine
Monitors, there await the new assignments of their
order.
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When such sleeping survivors are repersonalized on the
mansion worlds, the place of the departed Adjuster is
filled by an individualization of the spirit of the
Divine Minister, the representative of the Infinite
Spirit in the local universe concerned. This spirit
infusion constitutes these surviving creatures
Spirit-fused mortals. Such beings are in every way your
equals in mind and spirit; and they are indeed your
contemporaries, sharing the mansion and morontia spheres
in common with your order of fusion candidates and with
those who are to be Son fused.
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There is, however, one particular in which Spirit-fused
mortals differ from their ascendant brethren: Mortal
memory of human experience on the material worlds of
origin survives death in the flesh because the
indwelling Adjuster has acquired a spirit counterpart,
or transcript, of those events of human life which were
of spiritual significance. But with Spirit-fused mortals
there exists no such mechanism whereby human memory may
persist. The Adjuster transcripts of memory are full and
intact, but these acquisitions are experiential
possessions of the departed Adjusters and are not
available to the creatures of their former indwelling,
who therefore awaken in the resurrection halls of the
morontia spheres of Nebadon as if they were newly
created beings, creatures without consciousness of
former existence.
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Such children of the local universe are enabled to
repossess themselves of much of their former human
memory experience through having it retold by the
associated seraphim and cherubim and by consulting the
records of the mortal career filed by the recording
angels. This they can do with undoubted assurance
because the surviving soul, of experiential origin in
the material and mortal life, while having no memory of
mortal events, does have a residual
experiential-recognition-response to these unremembered
events of past experience.
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When a Spirit-fused mortal is told about the events of
the unremembered past experience, there is an immediate
response of experiential recognition within the soul
(identity) of such a survivor which instantly invests
the narrated event with the emotional tinge of reality
and with the intellectual quality of fact; and this dual
response constitutes the reconstruction, recognition,
and validation of an unremembered facet of mortal
experience.
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Even with Adjuster-fusion candidates, only those human
experiences which were of spiritual value are common
possessions of the surviving mortal and the returning
Adjuster and hence are immediately remembered subsequent
to mortal survival. Concerning those happenings which
were not of spiritual significance, even these
Adjuster-fusers must depend upon the attribute of
recognition-response in the surviving soul. And since
any one event may have a spiritual connotation to one
mortal but not to another, it becomes possible for a
group of contemporary ascenders from the same planet to
pool their store of Adjuster-remembered events and thus
to reconstruct any experience which they had in common,
and which was of spiritual value in the life of any one
of them.
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While we understand such techniques of memory
reconstruction fairly well, we do not grasp the
technique of personality recognition. Personalities of
onetime association mutually respond quite independently
of the operation of memory, albeit, memory itself and
the techniques of its reconstruction are necessary to
invest such mutual personality response with the
fullness of recognition.
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A Spirit-fused survivor is also able to learn much about
the life he lived in the flesh by revisiting his
nativity world subsequent to the planetary dispensation
in which he lived. Such children of Spirit fusion are
enabled to enjoy these opportunities for investigating
their human careers since they are in general confined
to the service of the local universe. They do not share
your high and exalted destiny in the Paradise Corps of
the Finality; only Adjuster-fused mortals or other
especially embraced ascendant beings are mustered into
the ranks of those who await the eternal Deity
adventure. Spirit-fused mortals are the permanent
citizens of the local universes; they may aspire to
Paradise destiny, but they cannot be sure of it. In
Nebadon their universe home is the eighth group of
worlds encircling Salvington, a destiny-heaven of nature
and location much like the one envisioned by the
planetary traditions of Urantia.
10. ASCENDANT DESTINIES
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Spirit-fused mortals are, generally speaking, confined
to a local universe; Son-fused survivors are restricted
to a superuniverse; Adjuster-fused mortals are destined
to penetrate the universe of universes. The spirits of
mortal fusion always ascend to the level of origin; such
spirit entities unfailingly return to the sphere of
primal source.
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Spirit-fused mortals are of the local universe; they do
not, ordinarily, ascend beyond the confines of their
native realm, beyond the boundaries of the space range
of the spirit that pervades them. Son-fused ascenders
likewise rise to the source of spirit endowment, for
much as the Truth Spirit of a Creator Son focalizes in
the associated Divine Minister, so is his "fusion
spirit" implemented in the Reflective Spirits of the
higher universes. Such spirit relationship between the
local and the superuniverse levels of God the Sevenfold
may be difficult of explanation but not of discernment,
being unmistakably revealed in those children of the
Reflective Spirits -- the secoraphic Voices of the
Creator Sons. The Thought Adjuster, hailing from the
Father on Paradise, never stops until the mortal son
stands face to face with the eternal God.
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The mysterious variable in associative technique whereby
a mortal being does not or cannot become eternally fused
with the indwelling Thought Adjuster may seem to
disclose a flaw in the ascension scheme; Son and Spirit
fusion do, superficially, resemble compensations of
unexplained failures in some detail of the
Paradise-attainment plan; but all such conclusions stand
in error; we are taught that all these happenings unfold
in obedience to the established laws of the Supreme
Universe Rulers.
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We have analyzed this problem and have reached the
undoubted conclusion that the consignment of all mortals
to an ultimate Paradise destiny would be unfair to the
time-space universes inasmuch as the courts of the
Creator Sons and of the Ancients of Days would then be
wholly dependent on the services of those who were in
transit to higher realms. And it does seem to be no more
than fitting that the local and the superuniverse
governments should each be provided with a permanent
group of ascendant citizenship; that the functions of
these administrations should be enriched by the efforts
of certain groups of glorified mortals who are of
permanent status, evolutionary complements of the
abandonters and of the susatia. Now it is quite obvious
that the present ascension scheme effectively provides
the time-space administrations with just such groups of
ascendant creatures; and we have many times wondered:
Does all this represent an intended part of the all-wise
plans of the Architects of the Master Universe designed
to provide the Creator Sons and the Ancients of Days
with a permanent ascendant population? with evolved
orders of citizenship that will become increasingly
competent to carry forward the affairs of these realms
in the universe ages to come?
40:10.5
That mortal destinies do thus vary in no wise proves
that one is necessarily greater or lesser than another,
merely that they differ. Adjuster-fused ascenders do
indeed have a grand and glorious career as finaliters
spread out before them in the eternal future, but this
does not mean that they are preferred above their
ascendant brethren. There is no favoritism, nothing
arbitrary, in the selective operation of the divine plan
of mortal survival.
40:10.6
While the Adjuster-fused finaliters obviously enjoy the
widest service opportunity of all, the attainment of
this goal automatically shuts them off from the chance
to participate in the agelong struggle of some one
universe or superuniverse, from the earlier and less
settled epochs to the later and established eras of
relative perfection attainment. Finaliters acquire a
marvelous and far-flung experience of transient service
in all seven segments of the grand universe, but they do
not ordinarily acquire that intimate knowledge of any
one universe which even now characterizes the
Spirit-fused veterans of the Nebadon Corps of
Completion. These individuals enjoy an opportunity to
witness the ascending processional of the planetary ages
as they unfold one by one on ten million inhabited
worlds. And in the faithful service of such local
universe citizens, experience superimposes upon
experience until the fullness of time ripens that high
quality of wisdom which is engendered by focalized
experience --
authoritative wisdom -- and this in itself is a
vital factor in the settling of any local universe.
40:10.7
As it is with the Spirit fusers, so is it with those
Son-fused mortals who have achieved residential status
on Uversa. Some of these beings hail from the earliest
epochs of Orvonton, and they represent a slowly
accumulating body of insight-deepening wisdom which is
making ever-augmenting service contributions to the
welfare and eventual settlement of the seventh
superuniverse.
40:10.8
What the ultimate destiny of these stationary orders of
local and of superuniverse citizenship will be we do not
know, but it is quite possible that, when the Paradise
finaliters are pioneering the expanding frontiers of
divinity in the planetary systems of the first outer
space level, their Son- and Spirit-fused brethren of the
ascendant evolutionary struggle will be acceptably
contributing to the maintenance of the experiential
equilibrium of the perfected superuniverses while they
stand ready to welcome the incoming stream of Paradise
pilgrims who may, at that distant day, pour in through
Orvonton and its sister creations as a vast
spirit-questing torrent from these now uncharted and
uninhabited galaxies of outer space.
40:10.9
While the majority of Spirit fusers serve permanently as
citizens of the local universes, all do not. If some
phase of their universe ministry should require their
personal presence in the superuniverse, then would such
transformations of being be wrought in these citizens as
would enable them to ascend to the higher universe; and
upon the arrival of the Celestial Guardians with orders
to present such Spirit-fused mortals at the courts of
the Ancients of Days, they would so ascend, never to
return. They become wards of the superuniverse, serving
as assistants to the Celestial Guardians and
permanently, save for those few who are in turn summoned
to the service of Paradise and Havona.
40:10.10
Like their Spirit-fused brethren, the Son fusers neither
traverse Havona nor attain Paradise unless they have
undergone certain modifying transformations. For good
and sufficient reasons, such changes have been wrought
in certain Son-fused survivors, and these beings are to
be encountered ever and anon on the seven circuits of
the central universe. Thus it is that certain numbers of
both the Son- and the Spirit-fused mortals do actually
ascend to Paradise, do attain a goal in many ways equal
to that which awaits the Father-fused mortals.
40:10.11
Father-fused mortals are potential finaliters; their
destination is the Universal Father, and him they do
attain, but within the purview of the present universe
age, finaliters, as such, are not destiny attainers.
They remain unfinished creatures -- sixth-stage spirits
-- and hence nonactive in the evolutionary domains of
prelight-and-life status.
40:10.12
When a mortal finaliter is Trinity embraced -- becomes a
Trinitized Son, such as a Mighty Messenger -- then has
that finaliter attained destiny, at least for the
present universe age. Mighty Messengers and their
fellows may not in the exact sense be seventh-stage
spirits, but in addition to other things the Trinity
embrace endows them with everything which a finaliter
will sometime achieve as a seventh-stage spirit. After
Spirit-fused or Son-fused mortals are trinitized, they
pass through the Paradise experience with the
Adjuster-fused ascenders, with whom they are then
identical in all matters pertaining to superuniverse
administration. These Trinitized Sons of Selection or of
Attainment at least for now are finished creatures, in
contrast to the finaliters, who are at present
unfinished creatures.
40:10.13
Thus, in the final analysis, it would be hardly proper
to use the words "greater" or "lesser" in contrasting
the destinies of the ascending orders of sonship. Every
such son of God shares the fatherhood of God, and God
loves each of his creature sons alike; he is no more a
respecter of ascendant destinies than is he of the
creatures who may attain such destinies. The Father
loves each of
his sons, and that affection is not less than true,
holy, divine, unlimited, eternal, and unique -- a love
bestowed upon
this son and upon
that son,
individually, personally, and exclusively. And such a
love utterly eclipses all other facts. Sonship is the
supreme relationship of the creature to the Creator.
40:10.14
As mortals you can now recognize your place in the
family of divine sonship and begin to sense the
obligation to avail yourselves of the advantages so
freely provided in and by the Paradise plan for mortal
survival, which plan has been so enhanced and
illuminated by the life experience of a bestowal Son.
Every facility and all power have been provided for
insuring your ultimate attainment of the Paradise goal
of divine perfection.
40:10.15
Presented by a Mighty Messenger temporarily attached to
the staff of Gabriel of Salvington.
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