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Urantia Book Paper 20 The Paradise Sons Of God
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART I: The Central and Super
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Universes : The Universal Father The Nature Of God The Attributes Of God God's
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Relation To The Universe God's Relation To The Individual The Eternal Son
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Relation Of The Eternal Son To The Universe The Infinite Spirit Relation Of The
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Infinite Spirit To The Universe The Paradise Trinity The Eternal Isle Of
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Paradise The Universe Of Universes The Sacred Spheres Of Paradise The Central
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And Divine Universe The Seven Superuniverses The Seven Master Spirits The Seven
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Supreme Spirit Groups The Supreme Trinity Personalities The Co-ordinate
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Trinity-origin Beings The Paradise Sons Of God The Paradise Creator Sons The
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Trinitized Sons Of God The Solitary Messengers Higher Personalities Of The
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Infinite Spirit The Messenger Hosts Of Space Ministering Spirits Of The Central
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Universe Ministry Of The Primary Supernaphim Ministering Spirits Of The
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Superuniverses The Universe Power Directors Personalities Of The Grand Universe
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The Corps Of The Finality
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Paper 20 The Paradise Sons Of God
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Introduction
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AS THEY function in the superuniverse of Orvonton, the Sons of God are
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classified under three general heads:
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1. The Descending Sons of God.
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2. The Ascending Sons of God.
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3. The Trinitized Sons of God.
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Descending orders of sonship include personalities who are of direct and divine
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creation. Ascending sons, such as mortal creatures, achieve this status by
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experiential participation in the creative technique known as evolution.
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Trinitized Sons are a group of composite origin which includes all beings
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embraced by the Paradise Trinity even though not of direct Trinity origin.
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1. THE DESCENDING SONS OF GOD
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All descending Sons of God have high and divine origins. They are dedicated to
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the descending ministry of service on the worlds and systems of time and space,
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there to facilitate the progress in the Paradise climb of the lowly creatures
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of evolutionary origin--the ascending sons of God. Of the numerous orders of
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descending Sons, seven will be depicted in these narratives. Those Sons who
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come forth from the Deities on the central Isle of Light and Life are called
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the Paradise Sons of God and embrace the following three orders:
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1. Creator Sons--the Michaels.
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2. Magisterial Sons--the Avonals.
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3. Trinity Teacher Sons--the Daynals.
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The remaining four orders of descending sonship are known as the Local Universe
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Sons of God:
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4. Melchizedek Sons.
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5. Vorondadek Sons.
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6. Lanonandek Sons.
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7. The Life Carriers.
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Melchizedeks are the joint offspring of a local universe Creator Son, Creative
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Spirit, and Father Melchizedek. Both Vorondadeks and Lanonandeks are brought
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into being by a Creator Son and his Creative Spirit associate. Vorondadeks are
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best known as the Most Highs, the Constellation Fathers; Lanonandeks as System
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Sovereigns and as Planetary Princes. The threefold order of Life Carriers is
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brought into being by a Creator Son and Creative Spirit as-
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sociated with one of the three Ancients of Days of the superuniverse of
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jurisdiction. But the natures and activities of these local Universe Sons of
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God are more properly portrayed in those papers dealing with the affairs of the
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local creations.
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The Paradise Sons of God are of threefold origin: The primary or Creator Sons
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are brought into being by the Universal Father and the Eternal Son; the
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secondary or Magisterial Sons are children of the Eternal Son and the Infinite
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Spirit; the Trinity Teacher Sons are the offspring of the Father, Son, and
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Spirit. From the standpoint of service, worship, and supplication the Paradise
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Sons are as one; their spirit is one, and their work is identical in quality
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and completeness.
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As the Paradise orders of Days proved to be divine administrators, so have the
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orders of Paradise Sons revealed themselves as divine ministers--creators,
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servers, bestowers, judges, teachers, and truth revealers. They range the
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universe of universes from the shores of the eternal Isle to the inhabited
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worlds of time and space, performing manifold services in the central and
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superuniverses not disclosed in these narratives. They are variously organized,
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dependent on the nature and whereabouts of their service, but in a local
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universe both Magisterial and Teacher Sons serve under the direction of the
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Creator Son who presides over that domain.
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The Creator Sons seem to possess a spiritual endowment centering in their
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persons, which they control and which they can bestow, as did your own Creator
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Son when he poured out his spirit upon all mortal flesh on Urantia. Each
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Creator Son is endowed with this spiritual drawing power in his own realm; he
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is personally conscious of every act and emotion of every descending Son of God
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serving in his domain. Here is a divine reflection, a local universe
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duplication, of that absolute spiritual drawing power of the Eternal Son which
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enables him to reach out to make and maintain contact with all his Paradise
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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
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ministrations of service and bestowal, but when they have completed their
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bestowal careers, each functions as a universe Father in his own creation,
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while the other Sons of God continue the service of bestowal and spiritual
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uplifting designed to win the planets, one by one, to the willing recognition
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of the loving rule of the Universal Father, culminating in creature
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consecration to the will of the Paradise Father and in planetary loyalty to the
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universe sovereignty of his Creator Son.
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In a sevenfold Creator Son, Creator and creature are forever blended in
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understanding, sympathetic, and merciful association. The entire order of
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Michael, the Creator Sons, is so unique that the consideration of their natures
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and activities will be reserved to the next paper in this series, while this
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narrative will be chiefly concerned with the two remaining orders of Paradise
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sonship: the Magisterial Sons and the Trinity Teacher Sons.
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2. THE MAGISTERIAL SONS
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Every time an original and absolute concept of being formulated by the Eternal
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Son unites with a new and divine ideal of loving service conceived by the
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Infinite Spirit, a new and original Son of God, a Paradise Magisterial Son, is
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produced. These Sons constitute the order of Avonals in contradistinction to
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the order of Michael, the Creator Sons. Though not creators in the personal
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sense, they are closely associated with the Michaels in all their work. The
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Avonals are planetary ministers and judges, the magistrates of the time-space
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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
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grand universe is about one billion. They are a self-governing order, being
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directed by their supreme council on Paradise, which is made up of experienced
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Avonals drawn from the services of all universes. But when assigned to, and
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commissioned in, a local universe, they serve under the direction of the
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Creator Son of that domain.
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Avonals are the Paradise Sons of service and bestowal to the individual planets
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of the local universes. And since each Avonal Son has an exclusive personality,
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since no two are alike, their work is individually unique in the realms of
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their sojourn, where they are often incarnated in the likeness of mortal flesh
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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
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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
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time, scores--hundreds--of such missions may be executed on each individual
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world, and they may go to the same or to other worlds times without number as
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dispensation terminators, liberators of the sleeping survivors.
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2. Magisterial Missions. A planetary visitation of this type usually occurs
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prior to the arrival of a bestowal Son. On such a mission an Avonal appears as
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an adult of the realm by a technique of incarnation not involving mortal birth.
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Subsequent to this first and usual magisterial visit, Avonals may repeatedly
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serve in a magisterial capacity on the same planet both before and after the
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appearance of the bestowal Son. On these additional magisterial missions an
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Avonal may or may not appear in material and visible form, but on none of them
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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
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upon some mortal race on some evolutionary world. Judicial visits are numerous,
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magisterial missions may be plural, but on each planet there appears but one
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bestowal Son. Bestowal Avonals are born of woman as Michael of Nebadon was
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incarnated on Urantia.
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There is no limit to the number of times the Avonal Sons may serve on
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magisterial and on bestowal missions, but usually, when the experience has been
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seven times traversed, there is suspension in favor of those who have had less
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of such service. These Sons of multiple bestowal experience are then assigned
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to the high personal council of a Creator Son, thus becoming participants in
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the administration of universe affairs.
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In all their work for and on the inhabited worlds, the Magisterial Sons are
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assisted by two orders of local universe creatures, the Melchizedeks and the
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archangels, while on bestowal missions they are also accompanied by the
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Brilliant Evening Stars, likewise of origin in the local creations. In every
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planetary effort the secondary Paradise Sons, the Avonals, are supported by the
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full power and authority of a primary Paradise Son, the Creator Son of their
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local universe of service. To all intents and purposes their work on the
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inhabited spheres is just as effective and acceptable as would have been the
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service of a Creator Son upon such worlds of mortal habitation.
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3. JUDICIAL ACTIONS
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The Avonals are known as Magisterial Sons because they are the high magistrates
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of the realms, the adjudicators of the successive dispensations of the worlds
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of time. They preside over the awakening of the sleeping survivors, sit in
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judgment on the realm, bring to an end a dispensation of suspended justice,
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execute the mandates of an age of probationary mercy, reassign the space
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creatures of planetary ministry to the tasks of the new dispensation, and
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return to the headquarters of their local universe upon the completion of their
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mission.
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When they sit in judgment on the destinies of an age, the Avonals decree the
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fate of the evolutionary races, but though they may render judgments
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extinguishing the identity of personal creatures, they do not execute such
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sentences. Verdicts of this nature are executed by none but the authorities of
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a superuniverse.
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The arrival of a Paradise Avonal on an evolutionary world for the purpose of
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terminating a dispensation and of inaugurating a new era of planetary
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progression is not necessarily either a magisterial mission or a bestowal
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mission. Magisterial missions sometimes, and bestowal missions always, are
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incarnations; that is, on such assignments the Avonals serve on a planet in
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material form--literally. Their other visits are "technical," and in this
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capacity an Avonal is not incarnated for planetary service. If a Magisterial
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Son comes solely as a dispensational adjudicator, he arrives on a planet as a
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spiritual being, invisible to the material creatures of the realm. Such
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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
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bestowal experiences. On either of these missions, however, the incarnated Son
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will judge the passing planetary age; likewise does a Creator Son when
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incarnated on a mission of bestowal in the likeness of mortal flesh. When a
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Paradise Son visits an evolutionary world and becomes like one of its people,
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his presence terminates a dispensation and constitutes a judgment of the realm.
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4. MAGISTERIAL MISSIONS
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Prior to the planetary appearance of a bestowal Son, an inhabited world is
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usually visited by a Paradise Avonal on a magisterial mission. If it is an
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initial magisterial visitation, the Avonal is always incarnated as a material
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being. He appears on the planet of assignment as a full-fledged male of the
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mortal races, a being fully visible to, and in physical contact with, the
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mortal creatures of his day and generation. Throughout a magisterial
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incarnation the connection of the Avonal Son with the local and the universal
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spiritual forces is complete and unbroken.
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A planet may experience many magisterial visitations both before and after the
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appearance of a bestowal Son. It may be visited many times by the same or other
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Avonals, acting as dispensational adjudicators, but such technical missions of
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judgment are neither bestowal nor magisterial, and the Avonals are never
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incarnated at such times. Even when a planet is blessed with repeated
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magisterial missions, the Avonals do not always submit to mortal incarnation;
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and when they do serve in the likeness of mortal flesh, they always appear as
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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
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have experienced Adjusters, and these Adjusters are different for each
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incarnation. The Adjusters that occupy the minds of the incarnated Sons of God
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can never hope for personality through fusion with the human-divine beings of
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their indwelling, but they are often personalized by fiat of the Universal
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Father. Such Adjusters form the supreme Divinington council of direction for
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the administration, identification, and dispatch of Mystery Monitors to the
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inhabited realms. They also receive and accredit Adjusters on their return to
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the "bosom of the Father" upon the mortal dissolution of their earthly
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tabernacles. In this way the faithful Adjusters of the world judges become the
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exalted chiefs of their kind.
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Urantia has never been host to an Avonal Son on a magisterial mission. Had
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Urantia followed the general plan of inhabited worlds, it would have been
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blessed with a magisterial mission sometime between the days of Adam and the
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bestowal of Christ Michael. But the regular sequence of Paradise Sons on your
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planet was wholly deranged by the appearance of your Creator Son on his
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terminal bestowal nineteen hundred years ago.
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Urantia may yet be visited by an Avonal commissioned to incarnate on a
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magisterial mission, but regarding the future appearance of Paradise Sons, not
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even "the angels in heaven know the time or manner of such visitations," for a
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Michael-bestowal world becomes the individual and personal ward of a Master Son
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and, as such, is wholly subject to his own plans and rulings. And with your
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world, this is further complicated by Michael's promise to return. Regardless
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of the misunderstandings about the Urantian sojourn of Michael of Nebadon, one
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thing is certainly authentic--his promise to come back to your world. In view
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of this prospect, only time can reveal the future order of the visitations of
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the Paradise Sons of God on Urantia.
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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
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expression of the "first" absolute and infinite thought of his eternal Father.
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When a personal duplication or divine extension of this Original Son starts on
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a bestowal mission of mortal incarnation, it becomes literally true that the
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divine "Word is made flesh," and that the Word thus dwells among the lowly
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beings of animal origin.
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On Urantia there is a widespread belief that the purpose of a Son's bestowal
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is, in some manner, to influence the attitude of the Universal Father. But your
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enlightenment should indicate that this is not true. The bestowals of the
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Avonal and the Michael Sons are a necessary part of the experiential process
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designed to make these Sons safe and sympathetic magistrates and rulers of the
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peoples and planets of time and space. The career of sevenfold bestowal is the
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supreme goal of all Paradise Creator Sons. And all Magisterial Sons are
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motivated by this same spirit of service which so abundantly characterizes the
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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
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order to make it possible for Thought Adjusters to indwell the minds of all
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normal human beings on that sphere, for the Adjusters do not come to all bona
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fide human beings until the Spirit of Truth has been poured out upon all flesh;
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and the sending of the Spirit of Truth is dependent upon the return to
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universe headquarters of a Paradise Son who has successfully executed a mission
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of mortal bestowal upon an evolving world.
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During the course of the long history of an inhabited planet, many
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dispensational adjudications will take place, and more than one magisterial
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mission may occur, but ordinarily only once will a bestowal Son serve on the
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sphere. It is only required that each inhabited world have one bestowal Son
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come to live the full mortal life from birth to death. Sooner or later,
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regardless of spiritual status, every mortal-inhabited world is destined to
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become host to a Magisterial Son on a bestowal mission except the one planet in
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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
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attaches to Urantia in the history of Nebadon. Your small and insignificant
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planet is of local universe concern simply because it is the mortal home world
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of Jesus of Nazareth. It was the scene of the final and triumphant bestowal of
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your Creator Son, the arena in which Michael won the supreme personal
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sovereignty of the universe of Nebadon.
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At the headquarters of his local universe a Creator Son, especially after the
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completion of his own mortal bestowal, spends much of his time in counseling
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and instructing the college of associate Sons, the Magisterial Sons and others.
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In love and devotion, with tender mercy and affectionate consideration, these
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Magisterial Sons bestow themselves upon the worlds of space. And in no way are
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these planetary services inferior to the mortal bestowals of the Michaels. It
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is true that your Creator Son selected for the realm of his final adventure in
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creature experience one which had had unusual misfortunes. But no planet could
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ever be in such a condition that it would require the bestowal of a Creator Son
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to effect its spiritual rehabilitation. Any Son of the bestowal group would
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have equally sufficed, for in all their work on the worlds of a local universe
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the Magisterial Sons are just as divinely effective and all wise as would have
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been their Paradise brother, the Creator Son.
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Though the possibility of disaster always attends these Paradise Sons during
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their bestowal incarnations, I have yet to see the record of the failure or
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default of either a Magisterial or a Creator Son on a mission of bestowal. Both
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are of origin too close to absolute perfection to fail. They indeed assume the
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risk, really become like the mortal creatures of flesh and blood and thereby
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gain the unique creature experience, but within the range of my observation
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they always succeed. They never fail to achieve the goal of the bestowal
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mission. The story of their bestowal and planetary service throughout Nebadon
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constitutes the most noble and fascinating chapter in the history of your local
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universe.
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6. THE MORTAL-BESTOWAL CAREERS
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The method whereby a Paradise Son becomes ready for mortal incarnation as a
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bestowal Son, becomes enmothered on the bestowal planet, is a universal
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mystery; and any effort to detect the working of this Sonarington technique is
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doomed to meet with certain failure. Let the sublime knowledge of the mortal
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life of Jesus of Nazareth sink into your souls, but waste no thought in useless
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speculation as to how this mysterious incarnation of Michael of Nebadon was
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effected. Let us all rejoice in the knowledge and assurance that such
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achievements are
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possible to the divine nature and waste no time on futile conjectures about the
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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
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up as a male child of the realm, as Jesus did on Urantia. These Sons of supreme
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service all pass from infancy through youth to manhood just as does a human
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being. In every respect they become like the mortals of the race into which
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they are born. They make petitions to the Father as do the children of the
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realms in which they serve. From a material viewpoint, these human-divine Sons
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live ordinary lives with just one exception: They do not beget offspring on the
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worlds of their sojourn; that is a universal restriction imposed on all orders
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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
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labor in various capacities on their bestowal planets. You could hardly think
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of a vocation that has not been followed by some Paradise Son in the course of
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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
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he has achieved perfection of attunement with his indwelling Adjuster,
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thereupon he begins that part of his planetary mission designed to illuminate
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the minds and to inspire the souls of his brethren in the flesh. As teachers,
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these Sons are exclusively devoted to the spiritual enlightenment of the mortal
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races on the worlds of their sojourn.
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The mortal-bestowal careers of the Michaels and the Avonals, while comparable
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in most respects, are not identical in all: Never does a Magisterial Son
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proclaim, "Whosoever has seen the Son has seen the Father," as did your Creator
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Son when on Urantia and in the flesh. But a bestowed Avonal does declare,
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"Whosoever has seen me has seen the Eternal Son of God." The Magisterial Sons
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are not of immediate descent from the Universal Father, nor do they incarnate
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subject to the Father's will; always do they bestow themselves as Paradise Sons
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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,
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they reappear on the third day. But you should not entertain the idea that they
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always meet with the tragic end encountered by the Creator Son who sojourned on
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your world nineteen hundred years ago. The extraordinary and unusually cruel
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experience through which Jesus of Nazareth passed has caused Urantia to become
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locally known as "the world of the cross." It is not necessary that such
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inhuman treatment be accorded a Son of God, and the vast majority of planets
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have afforded them a more considerate reception, allowing them to finish their
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mortal careers, terminate the age, adjudicate the sleeping survivors, and
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inaugurate a new dispensation, without imposing a violent death. A bestowal Son
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must encounter death, must pass through the whole of the actual experience of
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mortals of the realms, but it is not a requirement of the divine plan that this
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death be either violent or unusual.
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When bestowal Sons are not put to death by violence, they voluntarily
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relinquish their lives and pass through the portals of death, not to satisfy
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the demands of "stern justice" or "divine wrath," but rather to complete the
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bestowal, "to drink the cup" of the career of incarnation and personal
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experience in all that constitutes a creature's life as it is lived on the
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planets of mortal existence. Bestowal is a planetary and a universe necessity,
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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
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Paradise, is accepted by the Universal Father, returns to the local universe of
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assignment, and is acknowledged by the Creator Son. Thereupon the bestowal
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Avonal and the Creator Son send their conjoint Spirit of Truth to function in
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the hearts of the mortal races dwelling on the bestowal world. In the
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presovereignty ages of a local universe, this is the joint spirit of both Sons,
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implemented by the Creative Spirit. It differs somewhat from the Spirit of
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Truth which characterizes the local universe ages following a Michael's seventh
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bestowal.
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Upon the completion of a Creator Son's final bestowal the Spirit of Truth
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previously sent into all Avonal-bestowal worlds of that local universe changes
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in nature, becoming more literally the spirit of the sovereign Michael. This
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phenomenon takes place concurrently with the liberation of the Spirit of Truth
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for service on the Michael-mortal-bestowal planet. Thereafter, each world
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honored by a Magisterial bestowal will receive the same spirit Comforter from
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the sevenfold Creator Son, in association with that Magisterial Son, which it
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would have received had the local universe Sovereign personally incarnated as
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its bestowal Son.
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7. THE TRINITY TEACHER SONS
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These highly personal and highly spiritual Paradise Sons are brought into being
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by the Paradise Trinity. They are known in Havona as the order of Daynals. In
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Orvonton they are of record as Trinity Teacher Sons, so named because of their
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parentage. On Salvington they are sometimes denominated the Paradise Spiritual
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Sons.
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In numbers the Teacher Sons are constantly increasing. The last universal
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census broadcast gave the number of these Trinity Sons functioning in the
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central and superuniverses as a little more than twenty-one billion, and this
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is exclusive of the Paradise reserves, which include more than one third of all
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Trinity Teacher Sons in existence.
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The Daynal order of sonship is not an organic part of the local or
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superuniverse administrations. Its members are neither creators nor retrievers,
|
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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
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||
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
|
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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.
|
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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.
|
||
|
||
The exact number of Teacher Sons in Nebadon I do not know; there are many
|
||
thousands of them. Many of the heads of departments in the Melchizedek schools
|
||
belong to this order, while the combined staff of the regularly constituted
|
||
University of Salvington embraces over one hundred thousand including these
|
||
Sons. Large numbers are stationed on the various morontia-training worlds, but
|
||
they are not wholly occupied with the spiritual and intellectual advancement of
|
||
mortal creatures; they are equally concerned with the instruction of seraphic
|
||
beings and other natives of the local creations. Many of their assistants are
|
||
drawn from the ranks of the creature-trinitized beings.
|
||
|
||
The Teacher Sons compose the faculties who administer all examinations and
|
||
conduct all tests for the qualification and certification of all subordinate
|
||
phases of universe service, from the duties of outpost sentinels to those of
|
||
star students. They conduct an agelong course of training, ranging from the
|
||
planetary courses up to the high College of Wisdom located on Salvington.
|
||
Recognition indicative of effort and attainment is granted to all, ascending
|
||
mortal or ambitious cherubim, who complete these adventures in wisdom and
|
||
truth.
|
||
|
||
In all universes all the Sons of God are beholden to these ever-faithful and
|
||
universally efficient Trinity Teacher Sons. They are the exalted teachers of
|
||
all spirit personalities, even the tried and true teachers of the Sons of God
|
||
themselves. But of the endless details of the duties and functions of the
|
||
Teacher Sons I can hardly instruct you. The vast domain of Daynal-sonship
|
||
activities will be better understood on Urantia when you are more advanced in
|
||
intelligence, and after the spiritual isolation of your planet has been
|
||
terminated.
|
||
|
||
9. PLANETARY SERVICE OF THE DAYNALS
|
||
|
||
When the progress of events on an evolutionary world indicates that the time is
|
||
ripe to initiate a spiritual age, the Trinity Teacher Sons always volunteer for
|
||
this service. You are not familiar with this order of sonship because Urantia
|
||
has never experienced a spiritual age, a millennium of cosmic enlightenment.
|
||
But the Teacher Sons even now visit your world for the purpose of formulating
|
||
plans concerning their projected sojourn on your sphere. They will be due to
|
||
appear on Urantia after its inhabitants have gained comparative deliverance
|
||
from the shackles of animalism and from the fetters of materialism.
|
||
|
||
Trinity Teacher Sons have nothing to do with terminating planetary
|
||
dispensations. They neither judge the dead nor translate the living, but on
|
||
each planetary mission they are accompanied by a Magisterial Son who performs
|
||
these services. Teacher Sons are wholly concerned with the initiation of a
|
||
spiritual age, with the dawn of the era of spiritual realities on an
|
||
evolutionary planet.
|
||
|
||
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|
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|
||
They make real the spiritual counterparts of material knowledge and temporal
|
||
wisdom.
|
||
|
||
The Teacher Sons usually remain on their visitation planets for one thousand
|
||
years of planetary time. One Teacher Son presides over the planetary millennial
|
||
reign and is assisted by seventy associates of his order. The Daynals do not
|
||
incarnate or otherwise so materialize themselves as to be visible to mortal
|
||
beings; therefore is contact with the world of visitation maintained through
|
||
the activities of the Brilliant Evening Stars, local universe personalities who
|
||
are associated with the Trinity Teacher Sons.
|
||
|
||
The Daynals may return many times to an inhabited world, and following their
|
||
final mission the planet will be ushered into the settled status of a sphere of
|
||
light and life, the evolutionary goal of all the mortal-inhabited worlds of the
|
||
present universe age. The Mortal Corps of the Finality has much to do with the
|
||
spheres settled in light and life, and their planetary activities touch upon
|
||
those of the Teacher Sons. Indeed, the whole order of Daynal sonship is
|
||
intimately connected with all phases of finaliter activities in the
|
||
evolutionary creations of time and space.
|
||
|
||
The Trinity Teacher Sons seem to be so completely identified with the regime of
|
||
mortal progression through the earlier stages of evolutionary ascension that we
|
||
are often led to speculate regarding their possible association with the
|
||
finaliters in the undisclosed career of the future universes. We observe that
|
||
the administrators of the superuniverses are part Trinity-origin personalities
|
||
and part Trinity-embraced ascendant evolutionary creatures. We firmly believe
|
||
that the Teacher Sons and the finaliters are now engaged in acquiring the
|
||
experience of time-association which may be the preliminary training to prepare
|
||
them for close association in some unrevealed future destiny. On Uversa it is
|
||
our belief that, when the superuniverses are finally settled in light and life,
|
||
these Paradise Teacher Sons, who have become so thoroughly familiar with the
|
||
problems of evolutionary worlds and have been so long associated with the
|
||
career of evolutionary mortals, will probably be transferred to eternal
|
||
association with the Paradise Corps of the Finality.
|
||
|
||
10. UNITED MINISTRY OF THE PARADISE SONS
|
||
|
||
All the Paradise Sons of God are divine in origin and in nature. The work of
|
||
each Paradise Son in behalf of each world is just as if the Son of service were
|
||
the first and only Son of God.
|
||
|
||
The Paradise Sons are the divine presentation of the acting natures of the
|
||
three persons of Deity to the domains of time and space. The Creator,
|
||
Magisterial, and Teacher Sons are the gifts of the eternal Deities to the
|
||
children of men and to all other universe creatures of ascension potential.
|
||
These Sons of God are the divine ministers who are unceasingly devoted to the
|
||
work of helping the creatures of time attain the high spiritual goal of
|
||
eternity.
|
||
|
||
In the Creator Sons the love of the Universal Father is blended with the mercy
|
||
of the Eternal Son and is disclosed to the local universes in the creative
|
||
power, loving ministry, and understanding sovereignty of the Michaels. In the
|
||
Magisterial Sons the mercy of the Eternal Son, united with the ministry of the
|
||
Infinite Spirit, is revealed to the evolutionary domains in the careers of
|
||
these Avonals of judgment, service, and bestowal. In the Trinity Teacher Sons
|
||
the
|
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|
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|
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love, mercy, and ministry of the three Paradise Deities are co-ordinated on the
|
||
highest time-space value-levels and are presented to the universes as living
|
||
truth, divine goodness, and true spiritual beauty.
|
||
|
||
In the local universes these orders of sonship collaborate to effect the
|
||
revelation of the Deities of Paradise to the creatures of space: As the Father
|
||
of a local universe, a Creator Son portrays the infinite character of the
|
||
Universal Father. As the bestowal Sons of mercy, the Avonals reveal the
|
||
matchless nature of the Eternal Son of infinite compassion. As the true
|
||
teachers of ascending personalities, the Trinity Daynal Sons disclose the
|
||
teacher personality of the Infinite Spirit. In their divinely perfect
|
||
co-operation, Michaels, Avonals, and Daynals are contributing to the
|
||
actualization and revelation of the personality and sovereignty of God the
|
||
Supreme in and to the time-space universes. In the harmony of their triune
|
||
activities these Paradise Sons of God ever function in the vanguard of the
|
||
personalities of Deity as they follow the never-ending expansion of the
|
||
divinity of the First Great Source and Center from the everlasting Isle of
|
||
Paradise into the unknown depths of space.
|
||
|
||
[Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom from Uversa.]
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART I: The Central and Super
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Universes : The Universal Father The Nature Of God The Attributes Of God God's
|
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Relation To The Universe God's Relation To The Individual The Eternal Son
|
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Relation Of The Eternal Son To The Universe The Infinite Spirit Relation Of The
|
||
Infinite Spirit To The Universe The Paradise Trinity The Eternal Isle Of
|
||
Paradise The Universe Of Universes The Sacred Spheres Of Paradise The Central
|
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And Divine Universe The Seven Superuniverses The Seven Master Spirits The Seven
|
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Supreme Spirit Groups The Supreme Trinity Personalities The Co-ordinate
|
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Trinity-origin Beings The Paradise Sons Of God The Paradise Creator Sons The
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Trinitized Sons Of God The Solitary Messengers Higher Personalities Of The
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Infinite Spirit The Messenger Hosts Of Space Ministering Spirits Of The Central
|
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Universe Ministry Of The Primary Supernaphim Ministering Spirits Of The
|
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Superuniverses The Universe Power Directors Personalities Of The Grand Universe
|
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