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20:0.1 As they function in the superuniverse of Orvonton, the Sons of God are classified under three general heads:
 
20:0.1 As they function in the superuniverse of Orvonton, the Sons of God are classified under three general heads:
  
*1. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:1._THE_DESCENDING_SONS_OF_GOD The Descending Sons of God].
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*1. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:1._THE_DESCENDING_SONS_OF_GOD The Descending Sons of God].
*2. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 The Ascending Sons of God].
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*2. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 The Ascending Sons of God].
*3. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_22 The Trinitized Sons of God].
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*3. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_22 The Trinitized Sons of God].
  
20:0.2 [[Descending]] orders of sonship include [[personalities]] who are of direct and [[divine]] [[creation]]. [[Ascending]] sons, such as [[mortal]] [[creatures]], achieve this [[status]] by [[experiential]] [[participation]] in the [[creative]] [[technique]] known as [[evolution]]. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_22 Trinitized Sons] are a [[group]] of [[composite]] [[origin]] which includes all [[beings]] [[embraced]] by the [[Paradise Trinity]] even though not of direct Trinity origin.
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20:0.2 [[Descending]] orders of sonship include [[personalities]] who are of direct and [[divine]] [[creation]]. [[Ascending]] sons, such as [[mortal]] [[creatures]], achieve this [[status]] by [[experiential]] [[participation]] in the [[creative]] [[technique]] known as [[evolution]]. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_22 Trinitized Sons] are a [[group]] of [[composite]] [[origin]] which includes all [[beings]] [[embraced]] by the [[Paradise Trinity]] even though not of direct Trinity origin.
  
 
==20:1. THE DESCENDING SONS OF GOD==     
 
==20:1. THE DESCENDING SONS OF GOD==     
  
20:1.1 All [[descending]] Sons of God have high and [[divine]] [[origins]]. They are [[dedicated]] to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:6._THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD descending ministry] of [[service]] on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 worlds] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45 systems] of [[time and space]], there to [[facilitate]] the [[progress]] in the [[Paradise]] climb of the lowly [[creatures]] of [[evolutionary]] [[origin]]—the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending sons of God]. Of the numerous orders of descending Sons, seven will be depicted in these [[narratives]]. Those Sons who come forth from [[the Deities]] on the [[Paradise|central Isle of Light and Life]] are called the ''Paradise Sons of God'' and [[embrace]] the following three orders:
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20:1.1 All [[descending]] Sons of God have high and [[divine]] [[origins]]. They are [[dedicated]] to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:6._THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD descending ministry] of [[service]] on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 worlds] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45 systems] of [[time and space]], there to [[facilitate]] the [[progress]] in the [[Paradise]] climb of the lowly [[creatures]] of [[evolutionary]] [[origin]]—the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending sons of God]. Of the numerous orders of descending Sons, seven will be depicted in these [[narratives]]. Those Sons who come forth from [[the Deities]] on the [[Paradise|central Isle of Light and Life]] are called the ''Paradise Sons of God'' and [[embrace]] the following three orders:
  
 
*1. [[Creator Sons]]—the Michaels.
 
*1. [[Creator Sons]]—the Michaels.
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*3. [[Trinity Teacher Sons]]—the Daynals.
 
*3. [[Trinity Teacher Sons]]—the Daynals.
  
20:1.2 The remaining four orders of descending sonship are known as the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35 Local Universe Sons of God]:
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20:1.2 The remaining four orders of descending sonship are known as the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35 Local Universe Sons of God]:
 
   
 
   
 
*4. [[Melchizedeks|Melchizedek]] Sons.
 
*4. [[Melchizedeks|Melchizedek]] Sons.
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*7. The [[Life Carriers]].
 
*7. The [[Life Carriers]].
  
20:1.3 [[Melchizedeks]] are the joint offspring of a [[local universe]] [[Creator Son]], [[Creative Spirit]], and [[Father Melchizedek]]. Both [[Vorondadeks]] and [[Lanonandeks]] are brought into being by a [[Creator Son]] and his [[Creative Spirit]] associate. ''Vorondadeks'' are best known as the [[Most Highs]], the Constellation Fathers; ''Lanonandeks'' as [[System Sovereigns]] and as [[Planetary Princes]]. The threefold order of [[Life Carriers]] is brought into being by a [[Creator Son]] and [[Creative Spirit]] [[associated]] with one of the three [[Ancients of Days]] of the [[superuniverse]] of [[jurisdiction]]. But the [[natures]] and [[activities]] of these [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35 Local Universe Sons of God] are more properly portrayed in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_II._The_Local_Universe those papers dealing with the affairs of the local creations].
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20:1.3 [[Melchizedeks]] are the joint offspring of a [[local universe]] [[Creator Son]], [[Creative Spirit]], and [[Father Melchizedek]]. Both [[Vorondadeks]] and [[Lanonandeks]] are brought into being by a [[Creator Son]] and his [[Creative Spirit]] associate. ''Vorondadeks'' are best known as the [[Most Highs]], the Constellation Fathers; ''Lanonandeks'' as [[System Sovereigns]] and as [[Planetary Princes]]. The threefold order of [[Life Carriers]] is brought into being by a [[Creator Son]] and [[Creative Spirit]] [[associated]] with one of the three [[Ancients of Days]] of the [[superuniverse]] of [[jurisdiction]]. But the [[natures]] and [[activities]] of these [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35 Local Universe Sons of God] are more properly portrayed in [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_II._The_Local_Universe those papers dealing with the affairs of the local creations].
  
 
20:1.4 The Paradise Sons of God are of threefold origin: The primary or [[Creator Sons]] are brought into being by the [[Universal Father]] and the [[Eternal Son]]; the secondary or [[Magisterial Sons]] are children of the [[Eternal Son]] and the [[Infinite Spirit]]; the [[Trinity Teacher Sons]] are the offspring of the [[Paradise Trinity|Father, Son, and Spirit]]. From the [[standpoint]] of [[service]], [[worship]], and [[Prayer|supplication]] the Paradise Sons are as one; their spirit is one, and their [[work]] is identical in [[quality]] and completeness.
 
20:1.4 The Paradise Sons of God are of threefold origin: The primary or [[Creator Sons]] are brought into being by the [[Universal Father]] and the [[Eternal Son]]; the secondary or [[Magisterial Sons]] are children of the [[Eternal Son]] and the [[Infinite Spirit]]; the [[Trinity Teacher Sons]] are the offspring of the [[Paradise Trinity|Father, Son, and Spirit]]. From the [[standpoint]] of [[service]], [[worship]], and [[Prayer|supplication]] the Paradise Sons are as one; their spirit is one, and their [[work]] is identical in [[quality]] and completeness.
  
20:1.5 As the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_18 Paradise orders of Days] proved to be [[divine]] [[administrators]], so have the orders of Paradise Sons [[revealed]] themselves as [[divine]] ministers—[[creators]], servers, bestowers, [[judges]], [[teachers]], and [[truth]] revealers. They range the [[universe of universes]] from the shores of the [[Paradise|eternal Isle]] to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds] of [[time and space]], [[performing]] manifold [[services]] in the [[Havona|central]] and [[superuniverses]] not disclosed in these [[narratives]]. They are variously [[organized]], dependent on the [[nature]] and whereabouts of their [[service]], but in a [[local universe]] both [[Magisterial Sons|Magisterial]] and [[Teacher Sons]] serve under the direction of the [[Creator Son]] who presides over that domain.
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20:1.5 As the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_18 Paradise orders of Days] proved to be [[divine]] [[administrators]], so have the orders of Paradise Sons [[revealed]] themselves as [[divine]] ministers—[[creators]], servers, bestowers, [[judges]], [[teachers]], and [[truth]] revealers. They range the [[universe of universes]] from the shores of the [[Paradise|eternal Isle]] to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds] of [[time and space]], [[performing]] manifold [[services]] in the [[Havona|central]] and [[superuniverses]] not disclosed in these [[narratives]]. They are variously [[organized]], dependent on the [[nature]] and whereabouts of their [[service]], but in a [[local universe]] both [[Magisterial Sons|Magisterial]] and [[Teacher Sons]] serve under the direction of the [[Creator Son]] who presides over that domain.
  
20:1.6 The [[Creator Sons]] seem to possess a [[spiritual]] [[endowment]] [[centering]] in their [[persons]], which they [[control]] and which they can bestow, as did your own Creator Son when he poured out [[Spirit of Truth|his spirit]] upon all [[mortal]] [[flesh]] on [[Urantia]]. Each Creator Son is endowed with this spiritual [[Gravity|drawing power]] in his own realm; he is [[personally]] [[conscious]] of every [[act]] and [[emotion]] of every [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35 descending Son of God] serving in his domain. Here is a [[divine]] [[reflection]], a [[local universe]] duplication, of that [[absolute]] [[spiritual]] drawing [[power]] of the [[Eternal Son]] which enables him to reach out to make and maintain contact with all his Paradise Sons, no matter where they may be in all the [[universe of universes]].
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20:1.6 The [[Creator Sons]] seem to possess a [[spiritual]] [[endowment]] [[centering]] in their [[persons]], which they [[control]] and which they can bestow, as did your own Creator Son when he poured out [[Spirit of Truth|his spirit]] upon all [[mortal]] [[flesh]] on [[Urantia]]. Each Creator Son is endowed with this spiritual [[Gravity|drawing power]] in his own realm; he is [[personally]] [[conscious]] of every [[act]] and [[emotion]] of every [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35 descending Son of God] serving in his domain. Here is a [[divine]] [[reflection]], a [[local universe]] duplication, of that [[absolute]] [[spiritual]] drawing [[power]] of the [[Eternal Son]] which enables him to reach out to make and maintain contact with all his Paradise Sons, no matter where they may be in all the [[universe of universes]].
  
20:1.7 The [[Paradise]] [[Creator Sons]] serve not only as Sons in their descending ministrations of service and bestowal, but when they have completed their [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal careers], each [[functions]] as a universe [[Father]] in his own [[creation]], while the other Sons of God continue the [[service]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:5._THE_SPIRIT_OF_BESTOWAL bestowal] and spiritual uplifting designed to win the [[planets]], one by one, to the willing [[recognition]] of the loving rule of the [[Universal Father]], culminating in [[creature]] [[consecration]] to the [[will]] of the [[Universal Father|Paradise Father]] and in planetary [[loyalty]] to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY universe sovereignty] of his [[Creator Son]].
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20:1.7 The [[Paradise]] [[Creator Sons]] serve not only as Sons in their descending ministrations of service and bestowal, but when they have completed their [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal careers], each [[functions]] as a universe [[Father]] in his own [[creation]], while the other Sons of God continue the [[service]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:5._THE_SPIRIT_OF_BESTOWAL bestowal] and spiritual uplifting designed to win the [[planets]], one by one, to the willing [[recognition]] of the loving rule of the [[Universal Father]], culminating in [[creature]] [[consecration]] to the [[will]] of the [[Universal Father|Paradise Father]] and in planetary [[loyalty]] to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY universe sovereignty] of his [[Creator Son]].
  
20:1.8 In a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:5._RELATION_OF_MASTER_SONS_TO_THE_UNIVERSE sevenfold Creator Son], [[Creator]] and [[creature]] are [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120#120:4._THE_INCARNATION.E2.80.94MAKING_TWO_ONE forever blended] in [[understanding]], [[sympathetic]], and [[merciful]] [[association]]. The entire order of Michael, the Creator Sons, is so [[unique]] that the consideration of their natures and activities will be reserved to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 next paper in this series], while this narrative will be chiefly concerned with the two remaining orders of Paradise sonship: the Magisterial Sons and the Trinity Teacher Sons.
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20:1.8 In a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:5._RELATION_OF_MASTER_SONS_TO_THE_UNIVERSE sevenfold Creator Son], [[Creator]] and [[creature]] are [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120#120:4._THE_INCARNATION.E2.80.94MAKING_TWO_ONE forever blended] in [[understanding]], [[sympathetic]], and [[merciful]] [[association]]. The entire order of Michael, the Creator Sons, is so [[unique]] that the consideration of their natures and activities will be reserved to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 next paper in this series], while this narrative will be chiefly concerned with the two remaining orders of Paradise sonship: the Magisterial Sons and the Trinity Teacher Sons.
  
 
==20:2. THE MAGISTERIAL SONS==   
 
==20:2. THE MAGISTERIAL SONS==   
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20:2.2 We have [[reasons]] for believing that the [[total]] [[number]] of ''Magisterial Sons'' in the [[grand universe]] is about one billion. They are a self-governing order, being directed by their supreme council on [[Paradise]], which is made up of [[experienced]] Avonals drawn from the [[services]] of all [[universes]]. But when assigned to, and commissioned in, a [[local universe]], they serve under the direction of the [[Creator Son]] of that [[Jurisdiction|domain]].
 
20:2.2 We have [[reasons]] for believing that the [[total]] [[number]] of ''Magisterial Sons'' in the [[grand universe]] is about one billion. They are a self-governing order, being directed by their supreme council on [[Paradise]], which is made up of [[experienced]] Avonals drawn from the [[services]] of all [[universes]]. But when assigned to, and commissioned in, a [[local universe]], they serve under the direction of the [[Creator Son]] of that [[Jurisdiction|domain]].
  
20:2.3 Avonals are the [[Paradise Sons]] of [[service]] and [[Paradise Bestowal Son|bestowal]] to the [[individual]] [[planets]] of the [[local universes]]. And since each Avonal Son has an exclusive [[personality]], since no two are alike, their [[work]] is individually [[unique]] in the realms of their sojourn, where they are often [[incarnated]] in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]] and sometimes are born of [[earthly]] [[mothers]] on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary worlds].
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20:2.3 Avonals are the [[Paradise Sons]] of [[service]] and [[Paradise Bestowal Son|bestowal]] to the [[individual]] [[planets]] of the [[local universes]]. And since each Avonal Son has an exclusive [[personality]], since no two are alike, their [[work]] is individually [[unique]] in the realms of their sojourn, where they are often [[incarnated]] in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]] and sometimes are born of [[earthly]] [[mothers]] on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary worlds].
  
 
20:2.4 In addition to their [[services]] on the higher [[administrative]] levels, the Avonals have a threefold [[function]] on the inhabited worlds:
 
20:2.4 In addition to their [[services]] on the higher [[administrative]] levels, the Avonals have a threefold [[function]] on the inhabited worlds:
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*1. 20:2.5 ''[[Judicial]] Actions''. They [[act]] at the close of the planetary [[dispensations]]. In time, scores—hundreds—of such missions may be [[executed]] on each [[individual]] world, and they may go to the same or to other worlds times without [[number]] as dispensation terminators, liberators of the sleeping survivors.
 
*1. 20:2.5 ''[[Judicial]] Actions''. They [[act]] at the close of the planetary [[dispensations]]. In time, scores—hundreds—of such missions may be [[executed]] on each [[individual]] world, and they may go to the same or to other worlds times without [[number]] as dispensation terminators, liberators of the sleeping survivors.
 
*2. 20:2.6  ''Magisterial Missions''. A [[planetary]] visitation of this [[type]] usually occurs prior to the arrival of a [[bestowal Son]]. On such a mission an Avonal appears as an adult of the realm by a [[technique]] of [[incarnation]] not involving [[mortal]] [[birth]]. Subsequent to this first and usual magisterial visit, Avonals may repeatedly serve in a [[magisterial]] capacity on the same [[planet]] both before and after the [[appearance]] of the [[bestowal Son]]. On these additional magisterial missions an Avonal may or may not appear in [[material]] and visible [[form]], but on none of them will he be born into the world as a helpless babe.
 
*2. 20:2.6  ''Magisterial Missions''. A [[planetary]] visitation of this [[type]] usually occurs prior to the arrival of a [[bestowal Son]]. On such a mission an Avonal appears as an adult of the realm by a [[technique]] of [[incarnation]] not involving [[mortal]] [[birth]]. Subsequent to this first and usual magisterial visit, Avonals may repeatedly serve in a [[magisterial]] capacity on the same [[planet]] both before and after the [[appearance]] of the [[bestowal Son]]. On these additional magisterial missions an Avonal may or may not appear in [[material]] and visible [[form]], but on none of them will he be born into the world as a helpless babe.
*3. 20:2.7 ''[[Bestowal Missions]]''. The Avonal Sons do all, at least once, bestow themselves upon some [[mortal]] [[race]] on some [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary world]. Judicial visits are numerous, magisterial missions may be plural, but on each [[planet]] there appears but one [[bestowal Son]]. Bestowal Avonals are born of [[woman]] as [[Michael]] of [[Nebadon]] was [[incarnated]] on [[Urantia]].
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*3. 20:2.7 ''[[Bestowal Missions]]''. The Avonal Sons do all, at least once, bestow themselves upon some [[mortal]] [[race]] on some [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary world]. Judicial visits are numerous, magisterial missions may be plural, but on each [[planet]] there appears but one [[bestowal Son]]. Bestowal Avonals are born of [[woman]] as [[Michael]] of [[Nebadon]] was [[incarnated]] on [[Urantia]].
  
20:2.8 There is no [[limit]] to the number of times the Avonal Sons may serve on magisterial and on bestowal missions, but usually, when the [[experience]] has been [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven seven] times traversed, there is suspension in favor of those who have had less of such [[service]]. These Sons of multiple bestowal experience are then assigned to the high [[personal]] council of a [[Creator Son]], thus becoming [[participants]] in the [[administration]] of [[universe]] affairs.
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20:2.8 There is no [[limit]] to the number of times the Avonal Sons may serve on magisterial and on bestowal missions, but usually, when the [[experience]] has been [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven seven] times traversed, there is suspension in favor of those who have had less of such [[service]]. These Sons of multiple bestowal experience are then assigned to the high [[personal]] council of a [[Creator Son]], thus becoming [[participants]] in the [[administration]] of [[universe]] affairs.
  
20:2.9 In all their [[work]] for and on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds], the ''Magisterial Sons'' are assisted by two orders of [[local universe]] [[creatures]], the [[Melchizedeks]] and the [[archangels]], while on [[bestowal missions]] they are also accompanied by the [[Brilliant Evening Stars]], likewise of [[origin]] in the local creations. In every planetary effort the secondary [[Paradise Sons]], the ''Avonals'', are supported by the full [[power]] and [[authority]] of a primary Paradise Son, the [[Creator Son]] of their [[local universe]] of [[service]]. To all [[intents]] and [[purposes]] their [[work]] on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited spheres] is just as [[effective]] and acceptable as would have been the [[service]] of a [[Creator Son]] upon such worlds of mortal habitation.
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20:2.9 In all their [[work]] for and on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds], the ''Magisterial Sons'' are assisted by two orders of [[local universe]] [[creatures]], the [[Melchizedeks]] and the [[archangels]], while on [[bestowal missions]] they are also accompanied by the [[Brilliant Evening Stars]], likewise of [[origin]] in the local creations. In every planetary effort the secondary [[Paradise Sons]], the ''Avonals'', are supported by the full [[power]] and [[authority]] of a primary Paradise Son, the [[Creator Son]] of their [[local universe]] of [[service]]. To all [[intents]] and [[purposes]] their [[work]] on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited spheres] is just as [[effective]] and acceptable as would have been the [[service]] of a [[Creator Son]] upon such worlds of mortal habitation.
  
 
==20:3. JUDICIAL ACTIONS==   
 
==20:3. JUDICIAL ACTIONS==   
  
20:3.1 The [[Avonals]] are known as [[Magisterial Sons]] because they are the high [[magistrates]] of the realms, the [[adjudicators]] of the successive [[dispensations]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 worlds of time]. They preside over the [[awakening]] of the [[sleeping survivors]], sit in [[judgment]] on the realm, bring to an end a [[dispensation]] of suspended [[justice]], [[execute]] the [[mandates]] of an age of probationary [[mercy]], reassign the [[space]] [[creatures]] of planetary [[ministry]] to the tasks of the new [[dispensation]], and return to the headquarters of their [[local universe]] upon the completion of their mission.
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20:3.1 The [[Avonals]] are known as [[Magisterial Sons]] because they are the high [[magistrates]] of the realms, the [[adjudicators]] of the successive [[dispensations]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 worlds of time]. They preside over the [[awakening]] of the [[sleeping survivors]], sit in [[judgment]] on the realm, bring to an end a [[dispensation]] of suspended [[justice]], [[execute]] the [[mandates]] of an age of probationary [[mercy]], reassign the [[space]] [[creatures]] of planetary [[ministry]] to the tasks of the new [[dispensation]], and return to the headquarters of their [[local universe]] upon the completion of their mission.
  
20:3.2 When they sit in [[judgment]] on the [[destinies]] of an [[Epoch|age]], the [[Avonals]] [[decree]] the fate of the [[evolutionary]] [[races]], but though they may render [[judgments]] extinguishing the [[identity]] of [[personal]] [[creatures]], they do not [[execute]] such sentences. [[Verdicts]] of this [[nature]] are executed by none but the [[authorities]] of a [[superuniverse]][http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ancients_of_days].
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20:3.2 When they sit in [[judgment]] on the [[destinies]] of an [[Epoch|age]], the [[Avonals]] [[decree]] the fate of the [[evolutionary]] [[races]], but though they may render [[judgments]] extinguishing the [[identity]] of [[personal]] [[creatures]], they do not [[execute]] such sentences. [[Verdicts]] of this [[nature]] are executed by none but the [[authorities]] of a [[superuniverse]][https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ancients_of_days].
  
20:3.3 The arrival of a [[Paradise]] [[Avonal]] on an [[evolutionary]] world for the [[purpose]] of terminating a [[dispensation]] and of inaugurating a [[New Age|new era]] of planetary [[progression]] is not [[necessarily]] either a [[magisterial mission]] or a [[bestowal mission]]. Magisterial missions sometimes, and bestowal missions always, are [[incarnations]]; that is, on such assignments the Avonals serve on a planet in [[material]] form—[[literally]]. Their other visits are " technical, " and in this capacity an Avonal is not incarnated for [[planetary]] [[service]]. If a Magisterial Son comes solely as a dispensational adjudicator, he arrives on a [[planet]] as a [[spiritual]] [[being]], invisible to the [[material]] [[creatures]] of the realm. Such technical visits occur repeatedly in the long [[history]] of an [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited world].
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20:3.3 The arrival of a [[Paradise]] [[Avonal]] on an [[evolutionary]] world for the [[purpose]] of terminating a [[dispensation]] and of inaugurating a [[New Age|new era]] of planetary [[progression]] is not [[necessarily]] either a [[magisterial mission]] or a [[bestowal mission]]. Magisterial missions sometimes, and bestowal missions always, are [[incarnations]]; that is, on such assignments the Avonals serve on a planet in [[material]] form—[[literally]]. Their other visits are " technical, " and in this capacity an Avonal is not incarnated for [[planetary]] [[service]]. If a Magisterial Son comes solely as a dispensational adjudicator, he arrives on a [[planet]] as a [[spiritual]] [[being]], invisible to the [[material]] [[creatures]] of the realm. Such technical visits occur repeatedly in the long [[history]] of an [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited world].
  
 
20:3.4 Avonal Sons may act as [[planetary]] [[judges]] prior to both the [[magisterial]] and [[Paradise Bestowal Son|bestowal]] [[experiences]]. On either of these missions, however, the incarnated Son will judge the passing [[Epoch|planetary age]]; likewise does a [[Creator Son]] when incarnated on a mission of bestowal in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]]. When a Paradise Son visits an evolutionary world and becomes like one of its people, his [[presence]] terminates a dispensation and constitutes a [[judgment]] of the realm.
 
20:3.4 Avonal Sons may act as [[planetary]] [[judges]] prior to both the [[magisterial]] and [[Paradise Bestowal Son|bestowal]] [[experiences]]. On either of these missions, however, the incarnated Son will judge the passing [[Epoch|planetary age]]; likewise does a [[Creator Son]] when incarnated on a mission of bestowal in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]]. When a Paradise Son visits an evolutionary world and becomes like one of its people, his [[presence]] terminates a dispensation and constitutes a [[judgment]] of the realm.
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20:4.2 A [[planet]] may [[experience]] many magisterial visitations both before and after the [[appearance]] of a [[bestowal Son]]. It may be visited many times by the same or other [[Avonals]], acting as [[dispensational]] [[adjudicators]], but such technical missions of [[judgment]] are neither bestowal nor magisterial, and the Avonals are never [[incarnated]] at such times. Even when a [[planet]] is blessed with repeated [[magisterial mission]]s, the Avonals do not always submit to [[mortal]] [[incarnation]]; and when they do serve in the likeness of mortal [[flesh]], they always [[appear]] as adult [[beings]] of the realm; they are not born of [[woman]].
 
20:4.2 A [[planet]] may [[experience]] many magisterial visitations both before and after the [[appearance]] of a [[bestowal Son]]. It may be visited many times by the same or other [[Avonals]], acting as [[dispensational]] [[adjudicators]], but such technical missions of [[judgment]] are neither bestowal nor magisterial, and the Avonals are never [[incarnated]] at such times. Even when a [[planet]] is blessed with repeated [[magisterial mission]]s, the Avonals do not always submit to [[mortal]] [[incarnation]]; and when they do serve in the likeness of mortal [[flesh]], they always [[appear]] as adult [[beings]] of the realm; they are not born of [[woman]].
  
20:4.3 When [[incarnated]] on either [[Paradise Bestowal Son|bestowal]] or [[magisterial missions]], the [[Paradise Sons]] have experienced [[Adjusters]], and these Adjusters are [[different]] for each [[incarnation]]. The Adjusters that occupy the [[minds]] of the incarnated Sons of God can never [[hope]] for [[personality]] through [[fusion]] with the [[human]]-[[divine]] [[beings]] of their indwelling, but they are often [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:4._PERSONALIZED_ADJUSTERS personalized] by [[fiat]] of the [[Universal Father]]. Such Adjusters form the supreme [[Divinington]] council of direction for the [[administration]], identification, and dispatch of [[Mystery Monitors]] to the [[inhabited realms]]. They also receive and accredit [[Adjusters]] on their return to the "bosom of the Father"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter] upon the [[mortal]] [[Death|dissolution]] of their earthly tabernacles. In this way the [[faithful]] [[Adjusters]] of the world [[judges]] become the exalted chiefs of their kind.
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20:4.3 When [[incarnated]] on either [[Paradise Bestowal Son|bestowal]] or [[magisterial missions]], the [[Paradise Sons]] have experienced [[Adjusters]], and these Adjusters are [[different]] for each [[incarnation]]. The Adjusters that occupy the [[minds]] of the incarnated Sons of God can never [[hope]] for [[personality]] through [[fusion]] with the [[human]]-[[divine]] [[beings]] of their indwelling, but they are often [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:4._PERSONALIZED_ADJUSTERS personalized] by [[fiat]] of the [[Universal Father]]. Such Adjusters form the supreme [[Divinington]] council of direction for the [[administration]], identification, and dispatch of [[Mystery Monitors]] to the [[inhabited realms]]. They also receive and accredit [[Adjusters]] on their return to the "bosom of the Father"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter] upon the [[mortal]] [[Death|dissolution]] of their earthly tabernacles. In this way the [[faithful]] [[Adjusters]] of the world [[judges]] become the exalted chiefs of their kind.
  
20:4.4 [[Urantia]] has never been host to an [[Avonal Son]] on a magisterial mission. Had [[Urantia]] followed the general plan of [[inhabited worlds]], it would have been blessed with a magisterial mission sometime between the days of [[Adam]] and the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 bestowal of Christ Michael]. But the regular [[sequence]] of Paradise Sons on your [[planet]] was wholly deranged by the [[appearance]] of your [[Creator Son]] on his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:7._THE_SEVENTH_AND_FINAL_BESTOWAL terminal bestowal] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Century nineteen hundred years ago].
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20:4.4 [[Urantia]] has never been host to an [[Avonal Son]] on a magisterial mission. Had [[Urantia]] followed the general plan of [[inhabited worlds]], it would have been blessed with a magisterial mission sometime between the days of [[Adam]] and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 bestowal of Christ Michael]. But the regular [[sequence]] of Paradise Sons on your [[planet]] was wholly deranged by the [[appearance]] of your [[Creator Son]] on his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:7._THE_SEVENTH_AND_FINAL_BESTOWAL terminal bestowal] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Century nineteen hundred years ago].
  
20:4.5 [[Urantia]] may yet be visited by an [[Avonal]] commissioned to [[incarnate]] on a magisterial mission, but regarding the [[future]] [[appearance]] of Paradise Sons, not even "the angels in heaven know the time or manner of such visitations,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Mark#Chapter_13][http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Matthew#Chapter_24] for a Michael-bestowal world becomes the [[individual]] and [[personal]] ward of a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:5._RELATION_OF_MASTER_SONS_TO_THE_UNIVERSE Master Son] and, as such, is wholly subject to his own plans and rulings. And with your world, this is further complicated by [[Second Coming|Michael's promise to return]]. Regardless of the misunderstandings about the Urantian [[sojourn]] of [[Michael]] of [[Nebadon]], one [[thing]] is certainly [[authentic]]—his [[promise]] to come back to your world. In view of this prospect, only [[time]] can [[reveal]] the [[future]] order of the visitations of the Paradise Sons of God on [[Urantia]].
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20:4.5 [[Urantia]] may yet be visited by an [[Avonal]] commissioned to [[incarnate]] on a magisterial mission, but regarding the [[future]] [[appearance]] of Paradise Sons, not even "the angels in heaven know the time or manner of such visitations,"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Mark#Chapter_13][https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Matthew#Chapter_24] for a Michael-bestowal world becomes the [[individual]] and [[personal]] ward of a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:5._RELATION_OF_MASTER_SONS_TO_THE_UNIVERSE Master Son] and, as such, is wholly subject to his own plans and rulings. And with your world, this is further complicated by [[Second Coming|Michael's promise to return]]. Regardless of the misunderstandings about the Urantian [[sojourn]] of [[Michael]] of [[Nebadon]], one [[thing]] is certainly [[authentic]]—his [[promise]] to come back to your world. In view of this prospect, only [[time]] can [[reveal]] the [[future]] order of the visitations of the Paradise Sons of God on [[Urantia]].
  
 
==20:5. BESTOWAL OF THE PARADISE SONS OF GOD==  
 
==20:5. BESTOWAL OF THE PARADISE SONS OF GOD==  
  
20:5.1 The [[Eternal Son]] is the [[eternal]] [[Logos|Word of God]]. The Eternal Son is the perfect expression of the "first" absolute and infinite thought of his eternal Father. When a personal duplication or divine extension of this Original Son starts on a bestowal mission of mortal incarnation, it becomes literally true that the divine "Word is made flesh,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter] and that the Word thus dwells among the lowly [[beings]] of [[animal]] [[origin]].
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20:5.1 The [[Eternal Son]] is the [[eternal]] [[Logos|Word of God]]. The Eternal Son is the perfect expression of the "first" absolute and infinite thought of his eternal Father. When a personal duplication or divine extension of this Original Son starts on a bestowal mission of mortal incarnation, it becomes literally true that the divine "Word is made flesh,"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter] and that the Word thus dwells among the lowly [[beings]] of [[animal]] [[origin]].
  
20:5.2 On [[Urantia]] there is a widespread [[belief]] that the [[purpose]] of a [[Paradise Bestowal Son|Son's bestowal]] is, in some [[manner]], to [[influence]] the [[attitude]] of the [[Universal Father]]. But your [[enlightenment]] should indicate that this is not true. The bestowals of the [[Avonal]] and the [[Michael Sons]] are a [[necessary]] part of the [[experiential]] [[process]] designed to make these Sons safe and [[sympathetic]] [[magistrates]] and rulers of the peoples and [[planets]] of [[time and space]]. The [[career]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS sevenfold bestowal] is the [[supreme]] goal of all Paradise [[Creator Sons]]. And all [[Magisterial Sons]] are [[motivated]] by this same [[spirit]] of [[service]] which so [[abundantly]] characterizes the primary [[Creator Sons]] and the [[Eternal Son]] of [[Paradise]].
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20:5.2 On [[Urantia]] there is a widespread [[belief]] that the [[purpose]] of a [[Paradise Bestowal Son|Son's bestowal]] is, in some [[manner]], to [[influence]] the [[attitude]] of the [[Universal Father]]. But your [[enlightenment]] should indicate that this is not true. The bestowals of the [[Avonal]] and the [[Michael Sons]] are a [[necessary]] part of the [[experiential]] [[process]] designed to make these Sons safe and [[sympathetic]] [[magistrates]] and rulers of the peoples and [[planets]] of [[time and space]]. The [[career]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS sevenfold bestowal] is the [[supreme]] goal of all Paradise [[Creator Sons]]. And all [[Magisterial Sons]] are [[motivated]] by this same [[spirit]] of [[service]] which so [[abundantly]] characterizes the primary [[Creator Sons]] and the [[Eternal Son]] of [[Paradise]].
  
20:5.3 Some order of Paradise Son must be bestowed upon each [[mortal]]-[[inhabited world]] in order to make it possible for [[Thought Adjusters]] to indwell the [[minds]] of all [[normal]] [[human beings]] on that [[sphere]], for the [[Adjusters]] do not come to all bona fide human beings until the [[Spirit of Truth]] has been poured out upon all [[flesh]]; and the sending of the [[Spirit of Truth]] is dependent upon the return to universe headquarters of a Paradise Son who has successfully [[executed]] a mission of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD mortal bestowal upon an evolving world].
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20:5.3 Some order of Paradise Son must be bestowed upon each [[mortal]]-[[inhabited world]] in order to make it possible for [[Thought Adjusters]] to indwell the [[minds]] of all [[normal]] [[human beings]] on that [[sphere]], for the [[Adjusters]] do not come to all bona fide human beings until the [[Spirit of Truth]] has been poured out upon all [[flesh]]; and the sending of the [[Spirit of Truth]] is dependent upon the return to universe headquarters of a Paradise Son who has successfully [[executed]] a mission of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD mortal bestowal upon an evolving world].
  
20:5.4 During the [[course]] of the long [[history]] of an [[inhabited planet]], many [[dispensational]] [[adjudications]] will take place, and more than one [[magisterial mission]] may occur, but ordinarily only once will a [[bestowal Son]] serve on the [[sphere]]. It is only required that each [[inhabited world]] have one [[bestowal Son]] come to live the full [[mortal]] life from [[birth]] to [[death]]. Sooner or later, regardless of [[spiritual]] [[status]], every [[mortal]]-[[inhabited world]] is [[destined]] to become [[host]] to a [[Magisterial Son]] on a [[bestowal mission]] except the one [[planet]] in each [[local universe]] whereon a [[Creator Son]] elects to make his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:6._THE_MORTAL-BESTOWAL_CAREERS mortal bestowal].
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20:5.4 During the [[course]] of the long [[history]] of an [[inhabited planet]], many [[dispensational]] [[adjudications]] will take place, and more than one [[magisterial mission]] may occur, but ordinarily only once will a [[bestowal Son]] serve on the [[sphere]]. It is only required that each [[inhabited world]] have one [[bestowal Son]] come to live the full [[mortal]] life from [[birth]] to [[death]]. Sooner or later, regardless of [[spiritual]] [[status]], every [[mortal]]-[[inhabited world]] is [[destined]] to become [[host]] to a [[Magisterial Son]] on a [[bestowal mission]] except the one [[planet]] in each [[local universe]] whereon a [[Creator Son]] elects to make his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:6._THE_MORTAL-BESTOWAL_CAREERS mortal bestowal].
  
20:5.5 [[Understanding]] more about the [[bestowal Sons]], you [[discern]] why so much interest attaches to [[Urantia]] in the [[history]] of [[Nebadon]]. Your small and insignificant [[planet]] is of [[local universe]] concern [[simply]] because it is the [[mortal]] [[home]] world of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_IV._The_Life_and_Teachings_of_Jesus Jesus of Nazareth]. It was the scene of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:7._THE_SEVENTH_AND_FINAL_BESTOWAL final and triumphant bestowal] of your [[Creator Son]], the arena in which [[Michael]] won the [[supreme]] [[personal]] [[sovereignty]] of the [[universe]] of [[Nebadon]].[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:8._MICHAEL.27S_POSTBESTOWAL_STATUS]
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20:5.5 [[Understanding]] more about the [[bestowal Sons]], you [[discern]] why so much interest attaches to [[Urantia]] in the [[history]] of [[Nebadon]]. Your small and insignificant [[planet]] is of [[local universe]] concern [[simply]] because it is the [[mortal]] [[home]] world of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_IV._The_Life_and_Teachings_of_Jesus Jesus of Nazareth]. It was the scene of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:7._THE_SEVENTH_AND_FINAL_BESTOWAL final and triumphant bestowal] of your [[Creator Son]], the arena in which [[Michael]] won the [[supreme]] [[personal]] [[sovereignty]] of the [[universe]] of [[Nebadon]].[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:8._MICHAEL.27S_POSTBESTOWAL_STATUS]
  
20:5.6 At the [[Salvington|headquarters]] of his [[local universe]], a [[Creator Son]], especially after the completion of his own [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#PAPER_119:_THE_BESTOWALS_OF_CHRIST_MICHAEL mortal bestowal], spends much of his [[time]] in [[counseling]] and instructing the college of associate Sons, the [[Magisterial Sons]] and others. In [[love]] and [[devotion]], with tender [[mercy]] and [[affectionate]] consideration, these [[Magisterial Sons]] bestow themselves upon the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 worlds of space]. And in no way are these planetary [[services]] inferior to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS mortal bestowals of the Michaels]. It is true that your [[Creator Son]] selected for the realm of his final [[adventure]] in [[creature]] [[experience]] one which had had unusual misfortunes. But no [[planet]] could ever be in such a condition that it would require the bestowal of a [[Creator Son]] to [[effect]] its [[spiritual]] [[rehabilitation]]. Any Son of the bestowal group would have equally sufficed, for in all their [[work]] on the worlds of a [[local universe]] the [[Magisterial Sons]] are just as [[divinely]] [[effective]] and all [[wise]] as would have been their [[Paradise]] [[brother]], the [[Creator Son]].
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20:5.6 At the [[Salvington|headquarters]] of his [[local universe]], a [[Creator Son]], especially after the completion of his own [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#PAPER_119:_THE_BESTOWALS_OF_CHRIST_MICHAEL mortal bestowal], spends much of his [[time]] in [[counseling]] and instructing the college of associate Sons, the [[Magisterial Sons]] and others. In [[love]] and [[devotion]], with tender [[mercy]] and [[affectionate]] consideration, these [[Magisterial Sons]] bestow themselves upon the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 worlds of space]. And in no way are these planetary [[services]] inferior to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS mortal bestowals of the Michaels]. It is true that your [[Creator Son]] selected for the realm of his final [[adventure]] in [[creature]] [[experience]] one which had had unusual misfortunes. But no [[planet]] could ever be in such a condition that it would require the bestowal of a [[Creator Son]] to [[effect]] its [[spiritual]] [[rehabilitation]]. Any Son of the bestowal group would have equally sufficed, for in all their [[work]] on the worlds of a [[local universe]] the [[Magisterial Sons]] are just as [[divinely]] [[effective]] and all [[wise]] as would have been their [[Paradise]] [[brother]], the [[Creator Son]].
  
 
20:5.7 Though the [[possibility]] of [[disaster]] always attends these Paradise Sons during their [[Paradise Bestowal Son|bestowal]] [[incarnations]], I have yet to see the record of the failure or [[default]] of either a [[Magisterial Son|Magisterial]] or a [[Creator Son]] on a mission of bestowal. Both are of [[origin]] too close to [[absolute]] [[perfection]] to fail. They indeed [[assume]] the [[risk]], really become like the [[mortal]] [[creatures]] of [[Body|flesh and blood]] and thereby gain the [[unique]] [[creature]] [[experience]], but within the range of my [[observation]] they always succeed. They never fail to achieve the goal of the [[bestowal mission]]. The [[story]] of their bestowal and [[planetary]] [[service]] throughout [[Nebadon]] [[constitutes]] the most [[noble]] and fascinating chapter in the [[history]] of your [[local universe]].
 
20:5.7 Though the [[possibility]] of [[disaster]] always attends these Paradise Sons during their [[Paradise Bestowal Son|bestowal]] [[incarnations]], I have yet to see the record of the failure or [[default]] of either a [[Magisterial Son|Magisterial]] or a [[Creator Son]] on a mission of bestowal. Both are of [[origin]] too close to [[absolute]] [[perfection]] to fail. They indeed [[assume]] the [[risk]], really become like the [[mortal]] [[creatures]] of [[Body|flesh and blood]] and thereby gain the [[unique]] [[creature]] [[experience]], but within the range of my [[observation]] they always succeed. They never fail to achieve the goal of the [[bestowal mission]]. The [[story]] of their bestowal and [[planetary]] [[service]] throughout [[Nebadon]] [[constitutes]] the most [[noble]] and fascinating chapter in the [[history]] of your [[local universe]].
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==20:6. THE MORTAL-BESTOWAL CAREERS==   
 
==20:6. THE MORTAL-BESTOWAL CAREERS==   
  
20:6.1 The [[method]] whereby a Paradise Son becomes ready for [[mortal]] [[incarnation]] as a [[bestowal Son]], becomes [[Motherhood|enmothered]] on the bestowal planet, is a [[universal]] [[mystery]]; and any effort to detect the working of this [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER Sonarington] [[technique]] is doomed to meet with certain failure. Let the [[sublime]] [[knowledge]] of the [[mortal]] life of [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] sink into your [[souls]], but waste no [[thought]] in useless [[speculation]] as to how this [[mysterious]] [[incarnation]] of [[Michael]] of [[Nebadon]] was effected. Let us all rejoice in the [[knowledge]] and [[assurance]] that such achievements are possible to the [[divine]] [[nature]] and waste no [[time]] on futile conjectures about the [[technique]] employed by [[divine]] [[wisdom]] to [[effect]] such [[phenomena]].
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20:6.1 The [[method]] whereby a Paradise Son becomes ready for [[mortal]] [[incarnation]] as a [[bestowal Son]], becomes [[Motherhood|enmothered]] on the bestowal planet, is a [[universal]] [[mystery]]; and any effort to detect the working of this [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER Sonarington] [[technique]] is doomed to meet with certain failure. Let the [[sublime]] [[knowledge]] of the [[mortal]] life of [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] sink into your [[souls]], but waste no [[thought]] in useless [[speculation]] as to how this [[mysterious]] [[incarnation]] of [[Michael]] of [[Nebadon]] was effected. Let us all rejoice in the [[knowledge]] and [[assurance]] that such achievements are possible to the [[divine]] [[nature]] and waste no [[time]] on futile conjectures about the [[technique]] employed by [[divine]] [[wisdom]] to [[effect]] such [[phenomena]].
  
 
20:6.2 On a [[mortal]]-[[bestowal mission]], a Paradise Son is always [[born]] of [[woman]] and [[grows]] up as a [[male]] [[child]] of the realm, as [[Jesus]] did on [[Urantia]]. These Sons of [[supreme]] [[service]] all pass from infancy through youth to [[manhood]] just as does a [[human being]]. In every respect they become like the [[mortals]] of the [[race]] into which they are [[born]]. They make [[Prayer|petitions]] to [[the Father]] as do the [[children]] of the realms in which they serve. From a [[material]] [[viewpoint]], these [[human]]-[[divine]] Sons live [[ordinary]] lives with just one exception: They do not beget [[offspring]] on the worlds of their [[sojourn]]; that is a [[universal]] restriction imposed on all orders of the [[Paradise bestowal Sons]].
 
20:6.2 On a [[mortal]]-[[bestowal mission]], a Paradise Son is always [[born]] of [[woman]] and [[grows]] up as a [[male]] [[child]] of the realm, as [[Jesus]] did on [[Urantia]]. These Sons of [[supreme]] [[service]] all pass from infancy through youth to [[manhood]] just as does a [[human being]]. In every respect they become like the [[mortals]] of the [[race]] into which they are [[born]]. They make [[Prayer|petitions]] to [[the Father]] as do the [[children]] of the realms in which they serve. From a [[material]] [[viewpoint]], these [[human]]-[[divine]] Sons live [[ordinary]] lives with just one exception: They do not beget [[offspring]] on the worlds of their [[sojourn]]; that is a [[universal]] restriction imposed on all orders of the [[Paradise bestowal Sons]].
  
20:6.3 As [[Jesus]] [[worked]] on your world as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpentry carpenter's] son, so do other Paradise Sons [[labor]] in various capacities on their bestowal [[planets]]. You could hardly [[think]] of a [[vocation]] that has not been followed by some Paradise Son in the [[course]] of his bestowal on some one of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary planets of time].
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20:6.3 As [[Jesus]] [[worked]] on your world as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpentry carpenter's] son, so do other Paradise Sons [[labor]] in various capacities on their bestowal [[planets]]. You could hardly [[think]] of a [[vocation]] that has not been followed by some Paradise Son in the [[course]] of his bestowal on some one of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary planets of time].
  
 
20:6.4 When a [[bestowal Son]] has mastered the [[experience]] of living the [[mortal]] life, when he has [[achieved]] [[perfection]] of [[attunement]] with his [[indwelling Adjuster]], thereupon he begins that part of his planetary mission designed to [[illuminate]] the [[minds]] and to [[inspire]] the [[souls]] of his [[brethren]] in the [[flesh]]. As [[teachers]], these Sons are exclusively [[devoted]] to the [[spiritual]] [[enlightenment]] of the [[mortal]] [[races]] on the worlds of their sojourn.
 
20:6.4 When a [[bestowal Son]] has mastered the [[experience]] of living the [[mortal]] life, when he has [[achieved]] [[perfection]] of [[attunement]] with his [[indwelling Adjuster]], thereupon he begins that part of his planetary mission designed to [[illuminate]] the [[minds]] and to [[inspire]] the [[souls]] of his [[brethren]] in the [[flesh]]. As [[teachers]], these Sons are exclusively [[devoted]] to the [[spiritual]] [[enlightenment]] of the [[mortal]] [[races]] on the worlds of their sojourn.
  
20:6.5 The [[mortal]]-[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal careers] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 Michaels] and the [[Avonals]], while comparable in most respects, are not identical in all: Never does a [[Magisterial Son]] proclaim, "Whosoever has seen the Son has seen the Father,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_john#Chapter_14] as did your [[Creator Son]] when on [[Urantia]] and in the [[flesh]]. But a bestowed Avonal does declare, "Whosoever has seen me has seen the Eternal Son of God."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_John#1st_Letter_of_John.2C_IV] The [[Magisterial Sons]] are not of [[immediate]] [[descent]] from the [[Universal Father]], nor do they [[incarnate]] subject to the Father's will; always do they bestow themselves as Paradise Sons subject to the will of the [[Eternal Son]] of [[Paradise]].
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20:6.5 The [[mortal]]-[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal careers] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 Michaels] and the [[Avonals]], while comparable in most respects, are not identical in all: Never does a [[Magisterial Son]] proclaim, "Whosoever has seen the Son has seen the Father,"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_john#Chapter_14] as did your [[Creator Son]] when on [[Urantia]] and in the [[flesh]]. But a bestowed Avonal does declare, "Whosoever has seen me has seen the Eternal Son of God."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_John#1st_Letter_of_John.2C_IV] The [[Magisterial Sons]] are not of [[immediate]] [[descent]] from the [[Universal Father]], nor do they [[incarnate]] subject to the Father's will; always do they bestow themselves as Paradise Sons subject to the will of the [[Eternal Son]] of [[Paradise]].
  
20:6.6 When the [[bestowal Sons]], Creator or Magisterial, enter the [[portals]] of [[death]], they reappear on the third day. But you should not [[entertain]] the [[idea]] that they always meet with the [[tragic]] end encountered by the [[Creator Son]] who [[sojourned]] on your world [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Century nineteen hundred years ago]. The extraordinary and unusually cruel [[experience]] through which [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] passed has caused [[Urantia]] to become locally known as "the world of the cross." It is not [[necessary]] that such inhuman treatment be accorded a Son of God, and the vast majority of [[planets]] have afforded them a more [[Hospitality|considerate reception]], allowing them to finish their [[mortal]] [[careers]], terminate the age, [[adjudicate]] the [[sleeping survivors]], and inaugurate a new [[dispensation]], without imposing a [[violent]] [[death]]. A [[bestowal Son]] must encounter [[death]], must pass through the whole of the [[actual]] [[experience]] of [[mortals]] of the realms, but it is not a requirement of the [[divine]] plan that this [[death]] be either [[violent]] or unusual.
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20:6.6 When the [[bestowal Sons]], Creator or Magisterial, enter the [[portals]] of [[death]], they reappear on the third day. But you should not [[entertain]] the [[idea]] that they always meet with the [[tragic]] end encountered by the [[Creator Son]] who [[sojourned]] on your world [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Century nineteen hundred years ago]. The extraordinary and unusually cruel [[experience]] through which [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] passed has caused [[Urantia]] to become locally known as "the world of the cross." It is not [[necessary]] that such inhuman treatment be accorded a Son of God, and the vast majority of [[planets]] have afforded them a more [[Hospitality|considerate reception]], allowing them to finish their [[mortal]] [[careers]], terminate the age, [[adjudicate]] the [[sleeping survivors]], and inaugurate a new [[dispensation]], without imposing a [[violent]] [[death]]. A [[bestowal Son]] must encounter [[death]], must pass through the whole of the [[actual]] [[experience]] of [[mortals]] of the realms, but it is not a requirement of the [[divine]] plan that this [[death]] be either [[violent]] or unusual.
  
20:6.7 When [[bestowal Sons]] are not put to [[death]] by [[violence]], they voluntarily relinquish their lives and pass through the portals of death, not to satisfy the demands of "stern justice"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Leviticus#Chapter_.26] or "divine wrath,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Exodus#Chapter_.15] but rather to complete the bestowal, "to drink the cup"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_20] of the [[career]] of [[incarnation]] and [[personal]] [[experience]] in all that [[constitutes]] a [[creature]]'s life as it is lived on the [[planets]] of [[mortal]] [[existence]]. Bestowal is a planetary and a [[universe]] [[necessity]], and [[physical]] [[death]] is nothing more than a [[necessary]] part of a [[bestowal mission]].
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20:6.7 When [[bestowal Sons]] are not put to [[death]] by [[violence]], they voluntarily relinquish their lives and pass through the portals of death, not to satisfy the demands of "stern justice"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Leviticus#Chapter_.26] or "divine wrath,"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Exodus#Chapter_.15] but rather to complete the bestowal, "to drink the cup"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_20] of the [[career]] of [[incarnation]] and [[personal]] [[experience]] in all that [[constitutes]] a [[creature]]'s life as it is lived on the [[planets]] of [[mortal]] [[existence]]. Bestowal is a planetary and a [[universe]] [[necessity]], and [[physical]] [[death]] is nothing more than a [[necessary]] part of a [[bestowal mission]].
  
20:6.8 When the [[mortal]] [[incarnation]] is finished, the [[Avonal]] of [[service]] [[proceeds]] to [[Paradise]], is accepted by the [[Universal Father]], returns to the [[local universe]] of assignment, and is acknowledged by the [[Creator Son]]. Thereupon the bestowal Avonal and the Creator Son send their conjoint [[Spirit of Truth]] to [[function]] in the [[hearts]] of the [[mortal]] [[races]] dwelling on the bestowal world. In the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY presovereignty ages] of a [[local universe]], this is the joint spirit of both Sons, implemented by the [[Creative Spirit]]. It differs somewhat from the Spirit of Truth which characterizes the local universe ages following a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS Michael's seventh bestowal].
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20:6.8 When the [[mortal]] [[incarnation]] is finished, the [[Avonal]] of [[service]] [[proceeds]] to [[Paradise]], is accepted by the [[Universal Father]], returns to the [[local universe]] of assignment, and is acknowledged by the [[Creator Son]]. Thereupon the bestowal Avonal and the Creator Son send their conjoint [[Spirit of Truth]] to [[function]] in the [[hearts]] of the [[mortal]] [[races]] dwelling on the bestowal world. In the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY presovereignty ages] of a [[local universe]], this is the joint spirit of both Sons, implemented by the [[Creative Spirit]]. It differs somewhat from the Spirit of Truth which characterizes the local universe ages following a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS Michael's seventh bestowal].
  
20:6.9 Upon the completion of a [[Creator Son]]'s [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS final bestowal] the [[Spirit of Truth]] previously sent into all [[Avonal]]-bestowal worlds of that [[local universe]] [[changes]] in [[nature]], becoming more [[literally]] the [[spirit]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:5._RELATION_OF_MASTER_SONS_TO_THE_UNIVERSE sovereign Michael]. This [[phenomenon]] takes place concurrently with the [[liberation]] of the [[Spirit of Truth]] for [[service]] on the Michael-[[mortal]]-bestowal [[planet]]. Thereafter, each world honored by a Magisterial bestowal will receive the same spirit [[Comforter]] from the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:5._RELATION_OF_MASTER_SONS_TO_THE_UNIVERSE sevenfold Creator Son], in [[association]] with that [[Magisterial Son]], which it would have received had the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY local universe Sovereign] [[personally]] [[incarnated]] as its [[bestowal Son]].
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20:6.9 Upon the completion of a [[Creator Son]]'s [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS final bestowal] the [[Spirit of Truth]] previously sent into all [[Avonal]]-bestowal worlds of that [[local universe]] [[changes]] in [[nature]], becoming more [[literally]] the [[spirit]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:5._RELATION_OF_MASTER_SONS_TO_THE_UNIVERSE sovereign Michael]. This [[phenomenon]] takes place concurrently with the [[liberation]] of the [[Spirit of Truth]] for [[service]] on the Michael-[[mortal]]-bestowal [[planet]]. Thereafter, each world honored by a Magisterial bestowal will receive the same spirit [[Comforter]] from the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:5._RELATION_OF_MASTER_SONS_TO_THE_UNIVERSE sevenfold Creator Son], in [[association]] with that [[Magisterial Son]], which it would have received had the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY local universe Sovereign] [[personally]] [[incarnated]] as its [[bestowal Son]].
  
 
==20:7. THE TRINITY TEACHER SONS==   
 
==20:7. THE TRINITY TEACHER SONS==   
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20:7.2 In [[numbers]], the [[Teacher Sons]] are constantly increasing. The last [[universal]] [[census]] [[broadcast]] gave the number of these [[Trinity]] Sons [[functioning]] in the [[Havona|central]] and [[superuniverses]] as a little more than twenty-one billion, and this is exclusive of the [[Paradise]] reserves, which include more than one third of all [[Trinity Teacher Sons]] in [[existence]].
 
20:7.2 In [[numbers]], the [[Teacher Sons]] are constantly increasing. The last [[universal]] [[census]] [[broadcast]] gave the number of these [[Trinity]] Sons [[functioning]] in the [[Havona|central]] and [[superuniverses]] as a little more than twenty-one billion, and this is exclusive of the [[Paradise]] reserves, which include more than one third of all [[Trinity Teacher Sons]] in [[existence]].
  
20:7.3 The Daynal order of sonship is not an [[organic]] [[part]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33 local] or [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:10._RULERS_OF_THE_SUPERUNIVERSES superuniverse administrations]. Its members are neither [[creators]] nor retrievers, neither [[judges]] nor rulers. They are not so much concerned with [[universe]] [[administration]] as with [[moral]] [[enlightenment]] and [[spiritual]] [[development]]. They are the [[universal]] [[educators]], being [[dedicated]] to the [[spiritual]] [[awakening]] and [[moral]] [[guidance]] of all realms. Their [[ministry]] is [[intimately]] interrelated with that of the [[personalities]] of the [[Infinite Spirit]] and is closely [[associated]] with the [[Paradise]] [[ascension]] of [[creature]] [[beings]][http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ascension_career].
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20:7.3 The Daynal order of sonship is not an [[organic]] [[part]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33 local] or [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:10._RULERS_OF_THE_SUPERUNIVERSES superuniverse administrations]. Its members are neither [[creators]] nor retrievers, neither [[judges]] nor rulers. They are not so much concerned with [[universe]] [[administration]] as with [[moral]] [[enlightenment]] and [[spiritual]] [[development]]. They are the [[universal]] [[educators]], being [[dedicated]] to the [[spiritual]] [[awakening]] and [[moral]] [[guidance]] of all realms. Their [[ministry]] is [[intimately]] interrelated with that of the [[personalities]] of the [[Infinite Spirit]] and is closely [[associated]] with the [[Paradise]] [[ascension]] of [[creature]] [[beings]][https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ascension_career].
  
20:7.4 These Sons of the [[Trinity]] partake of the combined [[natures]] of the three [[Paradise Deities]], but in [[Havona]] they seem more to [[reflect]] the [[nature]] of the [[Universal Father]]. In the [[superuniverses]] they seem to portray the [[nature]] of the [[Eternal Son]], while in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_32 local creations] they [[appear]] to show forth the [[character]] of the [[Infinite Spirit]]. In all [[Universe of Universes|universes]] they are the [[embodiment]] of [[service]] and the discretion of [[wisdom]].
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20:7.4 These Sons of the [[Trinity]] partake of the combined [[natures]] of the three [[Paradise Deities]], but in [[Havona]] they seem more to [[reflect]] the [[nature]] of the [[Universal Father]]. In the [[superuniverses]] they seem to portray the [[nature]] of the [[Eternal Son]], while in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_32 local creations] they [[appear]] to show forth the [[character]] of the [[Infinite Spirit]]. In all [[Universe of Universes|universes]] they are the [[embodiment]] of [[service]] and the discretion of [[wisdom]].
  
20:7.5 Unlike their Paradise [[brethren]], [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 Michaels] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:2._THE_MAGISTERIAL_SONS 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 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]] [[Gravity|drawing power]] in and of themselves.
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20:7.5 Unlike their Paradise [[brethren]], [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 Michaels] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:2._THE_MAGISTERIAL_SONS 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 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]] [[Gravity|drawing power]] in and of themselves.
  
 
==20:8. LOCAL UNIVERSE MINISTRY OF THE DAYNALS==   
 
==20:8. LOCAL UNIVERSE MINISTRY OF THE DAYNALS==   
  
20:8.1 The ''Paradise Spiritual Sons'' are [[unique]] [[Trinity]]-[[origin]] [[beings]][http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_19#PAPER_19:_THE_CO-ORDINATE_TRINITY-ORIGIN_BEINGS] and the only [[Trinity]] [[creatures]] to be so completely [[associated]] with the conduct of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#PAPER_15:_THE_SEVEN_SUPERUNIVERSES 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45 local systems] and, in accordance with [[experience]] and [[achievement]], are advanced inward through the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_43 constellation] [[service]] to the highest [[work]] of the [[local creation]]. Upon certification they may become [[spiritual]] [[ambassadors]] [[representing]] the [[local universes]] of their [[service]].
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20:8.1 The ''Paradise Spiritual Sons'' are [[unique]] [[Trinity]]-[[origin]] [[beings]][https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_19#PAPER_19:_THE_CO-ORDINATE_TRINITY-ORIGIN_BEINGS] and the only [[Trinity]] [[creatures]] to be so completely [[associated]] with the conduct of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#PAPER_15:_THE_SEVEN_SUPERUNIVERSES 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45 local systems] and, in accordance with [[experience]] and [[achievement]], are advanced inward through the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_43 constellation] [[service]] to the highest [[work]] of the [[local creation]]. Upon certification they may become [[spiritual]] [[ambassadors]] [[representing]] the [[local universes]] of their [[service]].
  
20:8.2 The exact [[number]] of [[Teacher Sons]] in Nebadon I do not know; there are many thousands of them. Many of the heads of departments in the [[Melchizedek schools]] belong to this order, while the combined staff of the regularly constituted [[University]] of [[Salvington]] [[embraces]] over one hundred thousand including these Sons. Large numbers are stationed on the various [[Morontia Worlds|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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39 seraphic beings] and other natives of the local creations. Many of their assistants are drawn from the ranks of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_22#22:8._THE_CREATURE-TRINITIZED_SONS creature-trinitized] [[beings]].
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20:8.2 The exact [[number]] of [[Teacher Sons]] in Nebadon I do not know; there are many thousands of them. Many of the heads of departments in the [[Melchizedek schools]] belong to this order, while the combined staff of the regularly constituted [[University]] of [[Salvington]] [[embraces]] over one hundred thousand including these Sons. Large numbers are stationed on the various [[Morontia Worlds|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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39 seraphic beings] and other natives of the local creations. Many of their assistants are drawn from the ranks of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_22#22:8._THE_CREATURE-TRINITIZED_SONS creature-trinitized] [[beings]].
  
20:8.3 The [[Teacher Sons]] compose the faculties who [[administer]] all [[examinations]] and conduct all tests for the qualification and certification of all subordinate [[phases]] of [[universe]] [[service]], from the [[duties]] of outpost sentinels to those of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_30#30:3._THE_COURTESY_COLONIES 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, [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_30#30:4._THE_ASCENDING_MORTALS ascending mortal] or [[ambitious]] [[cherubim]], who complete these [[adventures]] in [[wisdom]] and [[truth]].
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20:8.3 The [[Teacher Sons]] compose the faculties who [[administer]] all [[examinations]] and conduct all tests for the qualification and certification of all subordinate [[phases]] of [[universe]] [[service]], from the [[duties]] of outpost sentinels to those of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_30#30:3._THE_COURTESY_COLONIES 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, [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_30#30:4._THE_ASCENDING_MORTALS ascending mortal] or [[ambitious]] [[cherubim]], who complete these [[adventures]] in [[wisdom]] and [[truth]].
  
 
20:8.4 In all [[universes]], all the Sons of God are beholden to these ever-[[faithful]] and [[universally]] [[efficient]] [[Trinity Teacher Sons]]. They are the exalted [[teachers]] of all [[spirit]] [[personalities]], even the tried and true teachers of the Sons of God themselves. But of the endless details of the [[duties]] and [[functions]] of the [[Teacher Sons]] I can hardly instruct you. The vast domain of Daynal-sonship [[activities]] will be better [[understood]] on [[Urantia]] when you are more [[advanced]] in [[intelligence]], and after the [[spiritual]] [[isolation]] of your [[planet]] has been terminated.
 
20:8.4 In all [[universes]], all the Sons of God are beholden to these ever-[[faithful]] and [[universally]] [[efficient]] [[Trinity Teacher Sons]]. They are the exalted [[teachers]] of all [[spirit]] [[personalities]], even the tried and true teachers of the Sons of God themselves. But of the endless details of the [[duties]] and [[functions]] of the [[Teacher Sons]] I can hardly instruct you. The vast domain of Daynal-sonship [[activities]] will be better [[understood]] on [[Urantia]] when you are more [[advanced]] in [[intelligence]], and after the [[spiritual]] [[isolation]] of your [[planet]] has been terminated.
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==20:9. PLANETARY SERVICE OF THE DAYNALS==   
 
==20:9. PLANETARY SERVICE OF THE DAYNALS==   
  
20:9.1 When the [[progress]] of [[events]] on an [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary world] indicates that the [[time]] is ripe to initiate a [[spiritual]] [[Epoch|age]], the [[Trinity Teacher Sons]] always volunteer for this [[service]]. You are not familiar with this order of sonship because [[Urantia]] has never [[experienced]] a spiritual age, a [[millennium]] of [[cosmic]] [[enlightenment]]. But the [[Teacher Sons]] even now visit your world for the [[purpose]] of formulating plans concerning their projected [[sojourn]] on your [[sphere]]. They will be due to appear on [[Urantia]] after its inhabitants have gained [[comparative]] [[deliverance]] from the shackles of [[animalism]] and from the fetters of [[materialism]].
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20:9.1 When the [[progress]] of [[events]] on an [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary world] indicates that the [[time]] is ripe to initiate a [[spiritual]] [[Epoch|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]].
  
 
20:9.2 [[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]]. <u>They make real the [[spiritual]] [[counterparts]] of [[material]] [[knowledge]] and [[temporal]] [[wisdom]]</u>.
 
20:9.2 [[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]]. <u>They make real the [[spiritual]] [[counterparts]] of [[material]] [[knowledge]] and [[temporal]] [[wisdom]]</u>.
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20:9.3 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]].
 
20:9.3 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]].
  
20:9.4 The Daynals may return many times to an [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 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-[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2:_The_Evolutionary_Antithesis present universe age]. The Mortal [[Corps of the Finality]] has much to do with the [[spheres]] settled in [[light and life]], and their planetary [[activities]] [[touch]] upon those of the [[Teacher Sons]]. Indeed, the whole order of Daynal sonship is [[intimately]] [[connected]] with all [[phases]] of [[finaliter]] [[activities]] in the [[evolutionary]] [[creations]] of [[time and space]].
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20:9.4 The Daynals may return many times to an [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 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-[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2:_The_Evolutionary_Antithesis 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]].
  
20:9.5 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]].[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Outer_space][http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_4:_Nuclear_and_Cytoplasmic_Universes] We [[observe]] that the [[administrators]] of the [[superuniverses]] are part [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_18 Trinity-origin] [[personalities]] and part [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_22 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 [[Secret|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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary worlds] and have been so long [[associated]] with the [[Ascension Career|career]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE evolutionary mortals], will probably be transferred to [[eternal]] [[association]] with the Paradise [[Corps of the Finality]].
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20:9.5 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]].[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Outer_space][https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_4:_Nuclear_and_Cytoplasmic_Universes] We [[observe]] that the [[administrators]] of the [[superuniverses]] are part [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_18 Trinity-origin] [[personalities]] and part [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_22 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 [[Secret|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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary worlds] and have been so long [[associated]] with the [[Ascension Career|career]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE evolutionary mortals], will probably be transferred to [[eternal]] [[association]] with the Paradise [[Corps of the Finality]].
  
 
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20:10.2 The Paradise Sons are the [[divine]] presentation of the [[acting]] [[natures]] of the [[the Deities|three persons of Deity]] to the domains of [[time and space]]. The [[Creator Sons|Creator]], [[Magisterial Sons|Magisterial]], and [[Teacher Sons]] are the gifts of the [[eternal]] Deities to the [[children]] of men and to all other [[universe]] [[creatures]] of [[ascension]] [[potential]]. These Sons of God are the divine ministers who are unceasingly [[devoted]] to the [[work]] of helping the [[creatures]] of [[time]] [[attain]] the high [[spiritual]] goal of [[eternity]].
 
20:10.2 The Paradise Sons are the [[divine]] presentation of the [[acting]] [[natures]] of the [[the Deities|three persons of Deity]] to the domains of [[time and space]]. The [[Creator Sons|Creator]], [[Magisterial Sons|Magisterial]], and [[Teacher Sons]] are the gifts of the [[eternal]] Deities to the [[children]] of men and to all other [[universe]] [[creatures]] of [[ascension]] [[potential]]. These Sons of God are the divine ministers who are unceasingly [[devoted]] to the [[work]] of helping the [[creatures]] of [[time]] [[attain]] the high [[spiritual]] goal of [[eternity]].
  
20:10.3 In the [[Creator Sons]] the [[love]] of the [[Universal Father]] is blended with the [[mercy]] of the [[Eternal Son]] and is disclosed to the [[local universes]] in the [[creative]] [[power]], loving [[ministry]], and [[understanding]] [[sovereignty]] of [[the Michaels]]. In the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:2._THE_MAGISTERIAL_SONS 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:6._THE_MORTAL-BESTOWAL_CAREERS bestowal]. In the [[Trinity Teacher Sons]] the [[love]], [[mercy]], and [[ministry]] of the three [[Paradise Deities]] are [[co-ordinated]] on the highest [[time-space]] [[value]]-levels and are presented to the [[universes]] as [[Dynamic|living]] [[truth]], [[divine]] [[goodness]], and true [[spiritual]] [[beauty]].
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20:10.3 In the [[Creator Sons]] the [[love]] of the [[Universal Father]] is blended with the [[mercy]] of the [[Eternal Son]] and is disclosed to the [[local universes]] in the [[creative]] [[power]], loving [[ministry]], and [[understanding]] [[sovereignty]] of [[the Michaels]]. In the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:2._THE_MAGISTERIAL_SONS 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:6._THE_MORTAL-BESTOWAL_CAREERS bestowal]. In the [[Trinity Teacher Sons]] the [[love]], [[mercy]], and [[ministry]] of the three [[Paradise Deities]] are [[co-ordinated]] on the highest [[time-space]] [[value]]-levels and are presented to the [[universes]] as [[Dynamic|living]] [[truth]], [[divine]] [[goodness]], and true [[spiritual]] [[beauty]].
  
20:10.4 In the [[local universes]] these orders of sonship [[collaborate]] to [[effect]] the [[revelation]] of [[the Deities]] of [[Paradise]] to the [[creatures]] of [[space]]: As [[the Father]] of a [[local universe]], a [[Creator Son]] portrays the [[infinite]] [[character]] of the [[Universal Father]]. As the [[bestowal Sons]] of [[mercy]], the [[Avonals]] reveal the matchless [[nature]] of the [[Eternal Son]] of [[infinite]] [[compassion]]. As the true [[teachers]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 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 [[Eternal|never-ending]] [[expansion]] of the [[divinity]] of the [[First Great Source and Center]] from the everlasting [[Isle of Paradise]] into the [[unknown]] [[Outer Space|depths of space]].
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20:10.4 In the [[local universes]] these orders of sonship [[collaborate]] to [[effect]] the [[revelation]] of [[the Deities]] of [[Paradise]] to the [[creatures]] of [[space]]: As [[the Father]] of a [[local universe]], a [[Creator Son]] portrays the [[infinite]] [[character]] of the [[Universal Father]]. As the [[bestowal Sons]] of [[mercy]], the [[Avonals]] reveal the matchless [[nature]] of the [[Eternal Son]] of [[infinite]] [[compassion]]. As the true [[teachers]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 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 [[Eternal|never-ending]] [[expansion]] of the [[divinity]] of the [[First Great Source and Center]] from the everlasting [[Isle of Paradise]] into the [[unknown]] [[Outer Space|depths of space]].
  
 
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PAPER 20: THE PARADISE SONS OF GOD

20:0.1 As they function in the superuniverse of Orvonton, the Sons of God are classified under three general heads:

20:0.2 Descending orders of sonship include personalities who are of direct and divine creation. Ascending sons, such as mortal creatures, achieve this status by experiential participation in the creative technique known as evolution. Trinitized Sons are a group of composite origin which includes all beings embraced by the Paradise Trinity even though not of direct Trinity origin.

20:1. THE DESCENDING SONS OF GOD

20:1.1 All descending Sons of God have high and divine origins. They are dedicated to the descending ministry of service on the worlds and systems of time and space, there to facilitate the progress in the Paradise climb of the lowly creatures of evolutionary origin—the ascending sons of God. Of the numerous orders of descending Sons, seven will be depicted in these narratives. Those Sons who come forth from the Deities on the central Isle of Light and Life are called the Paradise Sons of God and embrace the following three orders:

20:1.2 The remaining four orders of descending sonship are known as the Local Universe Sons of God:

20:1.3 Melchizedeks are the joint offspring of a local universe Creator Son, Creative Spirit, and Father Melchizedek. Both Vorondadeks and Lanonandeks are brought into being by a Creator Son and his Creative Spirit associate. Vorondadeks are best known as the Most Highs, the Constellation Fathers; Lanonandeks as System Sovereigns and as Planetary Princes. The threefold order of Life Carriers is brought into being by a Creator Son and Creative Spirit associated with one of the three Ancients of Days of the superuniverse of jurisdiction. But the natures and activities of these Local Universe Sons of God are more properly portrayed in those papers dealing with the affairs of the local creations.

20:1.4 The Paradise Sons of God are of threefold origin: The primary or Creator Sons are brought into being by the Universal Father and the Eternal Son; the secondary or Magisterial Sons are children of the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit; the Trinity Teacher Sons are the offspring of the Father, Son, and Spirit. From the standpoint of service, worship, and supplication the Paradise Sons are as one; their spirit is one, and their work is identical in quality and completeness.

20:1.5 As the Paradise orders of Days proved to be divine administrators, so have the orders of Paradise Sons revealed themselves as divine ministers—creators, servers, bestowers, judges, teachers, and truth revealers. They range the universe of universes from the shores of the eternal Isle to the inhabited worlds of time and space, performing manifold services in the central and superuniverses not disclosed in these narratives. They are variously organized, dependent on the nature and whereabouts of their service, but in a local universe both Magisterial and Teacher Sons serve under the direction of the Creator Son who presides over that domain.

20:1.6 The Creator Sons seem to possess a spiritual endowment centering in their persons, which they control and which they can bestow, as did your own Creator Son when he poured out his spirit upon all mortal flesh on Urantia. Each Creator Son is endowed with this spiritual drawing power in his own realm; he is personally conscious of every act and emotion of every descending Son of God serving in his domain. Here is a divine reflection, a local universe duplication, of that absolute spiritual drawing power of the Eternal Son which enables him to reach out to make and maintain contact with all his Paradise Sons, no matter where they may be in all the universe of universes.

20:1.7 The Paradise Creator Sons serve not only as Sons in their descending ministrations of service and bestowal, but when they have completed their bestowal careers, each functions as a universe Father in his own creation, while the other Sons of God continue the service of bestowal and spiritual uplifting designed to win the planets, one by one, to the willing recognition of the loving rule of the Universal Father, culminating in creature consecration to the will of the Paradise Father and in planetary loyalty to the universe sovereignty of his Creator Son.

20:1.8 In a sevenfold Creator Son, Creator and creature are forever blended in understanding, sympathetic, and merciful association. The entire order of Michael, the Creator Sons, is so unique that the consideration of their natures and activities will be reserved to the next paper in this series, while this narrative will be chiefly concerned with the two remaining orders of Paradise sonship: the Magisterial Sons and the Trinity Teacher Sons.

20:2. THE MAGISTERIAL SONS

20:2.1 Every time an original and absolute concept of being formulated by the Eternal Son unites with a new and divine ideal of loving service conceived by the Infinite Spirit, a new and original Son of God, a Paradise Magisterial Son, is produced. These Sons constitute the order of Avonals in contradistinction to the order of Michael, the Creator Sons. Though not creators in the personal sense, they are closely associated with the Michaels in all their work. The Avonals are planetary ministers and judges, the magistrates of the time-space realms—of all races, to all worlds, and in all universes.

20:2.2 We have reasons for believing that the total number of Magisterial Sons in the grand universe is about one billion. They are a self-governing order, being directed by their supreme council on Paradise, which is made up of experienced Avonals drawn from the services of all universes. But when assigned to, and commissioned in, a local universe, they serve under the direction of the Creator Son of that domain.

20:2.3 Avonals are the Paradise Sons of service and bestowal to the individual planets of the local universes. And since each Avonal Son has an exclusive personality, since no two are alike, their work is individually unique in the realms of their sojourn, where they are often incarnated in the likeness of mortal flesh and sometimes are born of earthly mothers on the evolutionary worlds.

20:2.4 In addition to their services on the higher administrative levels, the Avonals have a threefold function on the inhabited worlds:

20:2.8 There is no limit to the number of times the Avonal Sons may serve on magisterial and on bestowal missions, but usually, when the experience has been seven times traversed, there is suspension in favor of those who have had less of such service. These Sons of multiple bestowal experience are then assigned to the high personal council of a Creator Son, thus becoming participants in the administration of universe affairs.

20:2.9 In all their work for and on the inhabited worlds, the Magisterial Sons are assisted by two orders of local universe creatures, the Melchizedeks and the archangels, while on bestowal missions they are also accompanied by the Brilliant Evening Stars, likewise of origin in the local creations. In every planetary effort the secondary Paradise Sons, the Avonals, are supported by the full power and authority of a primary Paradise Son, the Creator Son of their local universe of service. To all intents and purposes their work on the inhabited spheres is just as effective and acceptable as would have been the service of a Creator Son upon such worlds of mortal habitation.

20:3. JUDICIAL ACTIONS

20:3.1 The Avonals are known as Magisterial Sons because they are the high magistrates of the realms, the adjudicators of the successive dispensations of the worlds of time. They preside over the awakening of the sleeping survivors, sit in judgment on the realm, bring to an end a dispensation of suspended justice, execute the mandates of an age of probationary mercy, reassign the space creatures of planetary ministry to the tasks of the new dispensation, and return to the headquarters of their local universe upon the completion of their mission.

20:3.2 When they sit in judgment on the destinies of an age, the Avonals decree the fate of the evolutionary races, but though they may render judgments extinguishing the identity of personal creatures, they do not execute such sentences. Verdicts of this nature are executed by none but the authorities of a superuniverse[1].

20:3.3 The arrival of a Paradise Avonal on an evolutionary world for the purpose of terminating a dispensation and of inaugurating a new era of planetary progression is not necessarily either a magisterial mission or a bestowal mission. Magisterial missions sometimes, and bestowal missions always, are incarnations; that is, on such assignments the Avonals serve on a planet in material form—literally. Their other visits are " technical, " and in this capacity an Avonal is not incarnated for planetary service. If a Magisterial Son comes solely as a dispensational adjudicator, he arrives on a planet as a spiritual being, invisible to the material creatures of the realm. Such technical visits occur repeatedly in the long history of an inhabited world.

20:3.4 Avonal Sons may act as planetary judges prior to both the magisterial and bestowal experiences. On either of these missions, however, the incarnated Son will judge the passing planetary age; likewise does a Creator Son when incarnated on a mission of bestowal in the likeness of mortal flesh. When a Paradise Son visits an evolutionary world and becomes like one of its people, his presence terminates a dispensation and constitutes a judgment of the realm.

20:4. MAGISTERIAL MISSIONS

20:4.1 Prior to the planetary appearance of a bestowal Son, an inhabited world is usually visited by a Paradise Avonal on a magisterial mission. If it is an initial magisterial visitation, the Avonal is always incarnated as a material being. He appears on the planet of assignment as a full-fledged male of the mortal races, a being fully visible to, and in physical contact with, the mortal creatures of his day and generation. Throughout a magisterial incarnation the connection of the Avonal Son with the local and the universal spiritual forces is complete and unbroken.

20:4.2 A planet may experience many magisterial visitations both before and after the appearance of a bestowal Son. It may be visited many times by the same or other Avonals, acting as dispensational adjudicators, but such technical missions of judgment are neither bestowal nor magisterial, and the Avonals are never incarnated at such times. Even when a planet is blessed with repeated magisterial missions, the Avonals do not always submit to mortal incarnation; and when they do serve in the likeness of mortal flesh, they always appear as adult beings of the realm; they are not born of woman.

20:4.3 When incarnated on either bestowal or magisterial missions, the Paradise Sons have experienced Adjusters, and these Adjusters are different for each incarnation. The Adjusters that occupy the minds of the incarnated Sons of God can never hope for personality through fusion with the human-divine beings of their indwelling, but they are often personalized by fiat of the Universal Father. Such Adjusters form the supreme Divinington council of direction for the administration, identification, and dispatch of Mystery Monitors to the inhabited realms. They also receive and accredit Adjusters on their return to the "bosom of the Father"[2] upon the mortal dissolution of their earthly tabernacles. In this way the faithful Adjusters of the world judges become the exalted chiefs of their kind.

20:4.4 Urantia has never been host to an Avonal Son on a magisterial mission. Had Urantia followed the general plan of inhabited worlds, it would have been blessed with a magisterial mission sometime between the days of Adam and the bestowal of Christ Michael. But the regular sequence of Paradise Sons on your planet was wholly deranged by the appearance of your Creator Son on his terminal bestowal nineteen hundred years ago.

20:4.5 Urantia may yet be visited by an Avonal commissioned to incarnate on a magisterial mission, but regarding the future appearance of Paradise Sons, not even "the angels in heaven know the time or manner of such visitations,"[3][4] for a Michael-bestowal world becomes the individual and personal ward of a Master Son and, as such, is wholly subject to his own plans and rulings. And with your world, this is further complicated by Michael's promise to return. Regardless of the misunderstandings about the Urantian sojourn of Michael of Nebadon, one thing is certainly authentic—his promise to come back to your world. In view of this prospect, only time can reveal the future order of the visitations of the Paradise Sons of God on Urantia.

20:5. BESTOWAL OF THE PARADISE SONS OF GOD

20:5.1 The Eternal Son is the eternal Word of God. The Eternal Son is the perfect expression of the "first" absolute and infinite thought of his eternal Father. When a personal duplication or divine extension of this Original Son starts on a bestowal mission of mortal incarnation, it becomes literally true that the divine "Word is made flesh,"[5] and that the Word thus dwells among the lowly beings of animal origin.

20:5.2 On Urantia there is a widespread belief that the purpose of a Son's bestowal is, in some manner, to influence the attitude of the Universal Father. But your enlightenment should indicate that this is not true. The bestowals of the Avonal and the Michael Sons are a necessary part of the experiential process designed to make these Sons safe and sympathetic magistrates and rulers of the peoples and planets of time and space. The career of sevenfold bestowal is the supreme goal of all Paradise Creator Sons. And all Magisterial Sons are motivated by this same spirit of service which so abundantly characterizes the primary Creator Sons and the Eternal Son of Paradise.

20:5.3 Some order of Paradise Son must be bestowed upon each mortal-inhabited world in order to make it possible for Thought Adjusters to indwell the minds of all normal human beings on that sphere, for the Adjusters do not come to all bona fide human beings until the Spirit of Truth has been poured out upon all flesh; and the sending of the Spirit of Truth is dependent upon the return to universe headquarters of a Paradise Son who has successfully executed a mission of mortal bestowal upon an evolving world.

20:5.4 During the course of the long history of an inhabited planet, many dispensational adjudications will take place, and more than one magisterial mission may occur, but ordinarily only once will a bestowal Son serve on the sphere. It is only required that each inhabited world have one bestowal Son come to live the full mortal life from birth to death. Sooner or later, regardless of spiritual status, every mortal-inhabited world is destined to become host to a Magisterial Son on a bestowal mission except the one planet in each local universe whereon a Creator Son elects to make his mortal bestowal.

20:5.5 Understanding more about the bestowal Sons, you discern why so much interest attaches to Urantia in the history of Nebadon. Your small and insignificant planet is of local universe concern simply because it is the mortal home world of Jesus of Nazareth. It was the scene of the final and triumphant bestowal of your Creator Son, the arena in which Michael won the supreme personal sovereignty of the universe of Nebadon.[6]

20:5.6 At the headquarters of his local universe, a Creator Son, especially after the completion of his own mortal bestowal, spends much of his time in counseling and instructing the college of associate Sons, the Magisterial Sons and others. In love and devotion, with tender mercy and affectionate consideration, these Magisterial Sons bestow themselves upon the worlds of space. And in no way are these planetary services inferior to the mortal bestowals of the Michaels. It is true that your Creator Son selected for the realm of his final adventure in creature experience one which had had unusual misfortunes. But no planet could ever be in such a condition that it would require the bestowal of a Creator Son to effect its spiritual rehabilitation. Any Son of the bestowal group would have equally sufficed, for in all their work on the worlds of a local universe the Magisterial Sons are just as divinely effective and all wise as would have been their Paradise brother, the Creator Son.

20:5.7 Though the possibility of disaster always attends these Paradise Sons during their bestowal incarnations, I have yet to see the record of the failure or default of either a Magisterial or a Creator Son on a mission of bestowal. Both are of origin too close to absolute perfection to fail. They indeed assume the risk, really become like the mortal creatures of flesh and blood and thereby gain the unique creature experience, but within the range of my observation they always succeed. They never fail to achieve the goal of the bestowal mission. The story of their bestowal and planetary service throughout Nebadon constitutes the most noble and fascinating chapter in the history of your local universe.

20:6. THE MORTAL-BESTOWAL CAREERS

20:6.1 The method whereby a Paradise Son becomes ready for mortal incarnation as a bestowal Son, becomes enmothered on the bestowal planet, is a universal mystery; and any effort to detect the working of this Sonarington technique is doomed to meet with certain failure. Let the sublime knowledge of the mortal life of Jesus of Nazareth sink into your souls, but waste no thought in useless speculation as to how this mysterious incarnation of Michael of Nebadon was effected. Let us all rejoice in the knowledge and assurance that such achievements are possible to the divine nature and waste no time on futile conjectures about the technique employed by divine wisdom to effect such phenomena.

20:6.2 On a mortal-bestowal mission, a Paradise Son is always born of woman and grows up as a male child of the realm, as Jesus did on Urantia. These Sons of supreme service all pass from infancy through youth to manhood just as does a human being. In every respect they become like the mortals of the race into which they are born. They make petitions to the Father as do the children of the realms in which they serve. From a material viewpoint, these human-divine Sons live ordinary lives with just one exception: They do not beget offspring on the worlds of their sojourn; that is a universal restriction imposed on all orders of the Paradise bestowal Sons.

20:6.3 As Jesus worked on your world as the carpenter's son, so do other Paradise Sons labor in various capacities on their bestowal planets. You could hardly think of a vocation that has not been followed by some Paradise Son in the course of his bestowal on some one of the evolutionary planets of time.

20:6.4 When a bestowal Son has mastered the experience of living the mortal life, when he has achieved perfection of attunement with his indwelling Adjuster, thereupon he begins that part of his planetary mission designed to illuminate the minds and to inspire the souls of his brethren in the flesh. As teachers, these Sons are exclusively devoted to the spiritual enlightenment of the mortal races on the worlds of their sojourn.

20:6.5 The mortal-bestowal careers of the Michaels and the Avonals, while comparable in most respects, are not identical in all: Never does a Magisterial Son proclaim, "Whosoever has seen the Son has seen the Father,"[7] as did your Creator Son when on Urantia and in the flesh. But a bestowed Avonal does declare, "Whosoever has seen me has seen the Eternal Son of God."[8] The Magisterial Sons are not of immediate descent from the Universal Father, nor do they incarnate subject to the Father's will; always do they bestow themselves as Paradise Sons subject to the will of the Eternal Son of Paradise.

20:6.6 When the bestowal Sons, Creator or Magisterial, enter the portals of death, they reappear on the third day. But you should not entertain the idea that they always meet with the tragic end encountered by the Creator Son who sojourned on your world nineteen hundred years ago. The extraordinary and unusually cruel experience through which Jesus of Nazareth passed has caused Urantia to become locally known as "the world of the cross." It is not necessary that such inhuman treatment be accorded a Son of God, and the vast majority of planets have afforded them a more considerate reception, allowing them to finish their mortal careers, terminate the age, adjudicate the sleeping survivors, and inaugurate a new dispensation, without imposing a violent death. A bestowal Son must encounter death, must pass through the whole of the actual experience of mortals of the realms, but it is not a requirement of the divine plan that this death be either violent or unusual.

20:6.7 When bestowal Sons are not put to death by violence, they voluntarily relinquish their lives and pass through the portals of death, not to satisfy the demands of "stern justice"[9] or "divine wrath,"[10] but rather to complete the bestowal, "to drink the cup"[11] of the career of incarnation and personal experience in all that constitutes a creature's life as it is lived on the planets of mortal existence. Bestowal is a planetary and a universe necessity, and physical death is nothing more than a necessary part of a bestowal mission.

20:6.8 When the mortal incarnation is finished, the Avonal of service proceeds to Paradise, is accepted by the Universal Father, returns to the local universe of assignment, and is acknowledged by the Creator Son. Thereupon the bestowal Avonal and the Creator Son send their conjoint Spirit of Truth to function in the hearts of the mortal races dwelling on the bestowal world. In the presovereignty ages of a local universe, this is the joint spirit of both Sons, implemented by the Creative Spirit. It differs somewhat from the Spirit of Truth which characterizes the local universe ages following a Michael's seventh bestowal.

20:6.9 Upon the completion of a Creator Son's final bestowal the Spirit of Truth previously sent into all Avonal-bestowal worlds of that local universe changes in nature, becoming more literally the spirit of the sovereign Michael. This phenomenon takes place concurrently with the liberation of the Spirit of Truth for service on the Michael-mortal-bestowal planet. Thereafter, each world honored by a Magisterial bestowal will receive the same spirit Comforter from the sevenfold Creator Son, in association with that Magisterial Son, which it would have received had the local universe Sovereign personally incarnated as its bestowal Son.

20:7. THE TRINITY TEACHER SONS

20:7.1 These highly personal and highly spiritual Paradise Sons are brought into being by the Paradise Trinity. They are known in Havona as the order of Daynals. In Orvonton they are of record as Trinity Teacher Sons, so named because of their parentage. On Salvington they are sometimes denominated the Paradise Spiritual Sons.

20:7.2 In numbers, the Teacher Sons are constantly increasing. The last universal census broadcast gave the number of these Trinity Sons functioning in the central and superuniverses as a little more than twenty-one billion, and this is exclusive of the Paradise reserves, which include more than one third of all Trinity Teacher Sons in existence.

20:7.3 The Daynal order of sonship is not an organic part of the local or superuniverse administrations. Its members are neither creators nor retrievers, neither judges nor rulers. They are not so much concerned with universe administration as with moral enlightenment and spiritual development. They are the universal educators, being dedicated to the spiritual awakening and moral guidance of all realms. Their ministry is intimately interrelated with that of the personalities of the Infinite Spirit and is closely associated with the Paradise ascension of creature beings[12].

20:7.4 These Sons of the Trinity partake of the combined natures of the three Paradise Deities, but in Havona they seem more to reflect the nature of the Universal Father. In the superuniverses they seem to portray the nature of the Eternal Son, while in the local creations they appear to show forth the character of the Infinite Spirit. In all universes they are the embodiment of service and the discretion of wisdom.

20:7.5 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.

20:8. LOCAL UNIVERSE MINISTRY OF THE DAYNALS

20:8.1 The Paradise Spiritual Sons are unique Trinity-origin beings[13] 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.

20:8.2 The exact number of Teacher Sons in Nebadon I do not know; there are many thousands of them. Many of the heads of departments in the Melchizedek schools belong to this order, while the combined staff of the regularly constituted University of Salvington embraces over one hundred thousand including these Sons. Large numbers are stationed on the various morontia-training worlds, but they are not wholly occupied with the spiritual and intellectual advancement of mortal creatures; they are equally concerned with the instruction of seraphic beings and other natives of the local creations. Many of their assistants are drawn from the ranks of the creature-trinitized beings.

20:8.3 The Teacher Sons compose the faculties who administer all examinations and conduct all tests for the qualification and certification of all subordinate phases of universe service, from the duties of outpost sentinels to those of star students. They conduct an agelong course of training, ranging from the planetary courses up to the high College of Wisdom located on Salvington. Recognition indicative of effort and attainment is granted to all, ascending mortal or ambitious cherubim, who complete these adventures in wisdom and truth.

20:8.4 In all universes, all the Sons of God are beholden to these ever-faithful and universally efficient Trinity Teacher Sons. They are the exalted teachers of all spirit personalities, even the tried and true teachers of the Sons of God themselves. But of the endless details of the duties and functions of the Teacher Sons I can hardly instruct you. The vast domain of Daynal-sonship activities will be better understood on Urantia when you are more advanced in intelligence, and after the spiritual isolation of your planet has been terminated.

20:9. PLANETARY SERVICE OF THE DAYNALS

20:9.1 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.

20:9.2 Trinity Teacher Sons have nothing to do with terminating planetary dispensations. They neither judge the dead nor translate the living, but on each planetary mission they are accompanied by a Magisterial Son who performs these services. Teacher Sons are wholly concerned with the initiation of a spiritual age, with the dawn of the era of spiritual realities on an evolutionary planet. They make real the spiritual counterparts of material knowledge and temporal wisdom.

20:9.3 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.

20:9.4 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.

20:9.5 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.[14][15] 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.

20:10. UNITED MINISTRY OF THE PARADISE SONS

20:10.1 All the Paradise Sons of God are divine in origin and in nature. The work of each Paradise Son in behalf of each world is just as if the Son of service were the first and only Son of God.

20:10.2 The Paradise Sons are the divine presentation of the acting natures of the three persons of Deity to the domains of time and space. The Creator, Magisterial, and Teacher Sons are the gifts of the eternal Deities to the children of men and to all other universe creatures of ascension potential. These Sons of God are the divine ministers who are unceasingly devoted to the work of helping the creatures of time attain the high spiritual goal of eternity.

20:10.3 In the Creator Sons the love of the Universal Father is blended with the mercy of the Eternal Son and is disclosed to the local universes in the creative power, loving ministry, and understanding sovereignty of the Michaels. In the Magisterial Sons the mercy of the Eternal Son, united with the ministry of the Infinite Spirit, is revealed to the evolutionary domains in the careers of these Avonals of judgment, service, and bestowal. In the Trinity Teacher Sons the love, mercy, and ministry of the three Paradise Deities are co-ordinated on the highest time-space value-levels and are presented to the universes as living truth, divine goodness, and true spiritual beauty.

20:10.4 In the local universes these orders of sonship collaborate to effect the revelation of the Deities of Paradise to the creatures of space: As the Father of a local universe, a Creator Son portrays the infinite character of the Universal Father. As the bestowal Sons of mercy, the Avonals reveal the matchless nature of the Eternal Son of infinite compassion. As the true teachers of ascending personalities, the Trinity Daynal Sons disclose the teacher personality of the Infinite Spirit. In their divinely perfect co-operation, Michaels, Avonals, and Daynals are contributing to the actualization and revelation of the personality and sovereignty of God the Supreme in and to the time-space universes. In the harmony of their triune activities these Paradise Sons of God ever function in the vanguard of the personalities of Deity as they follow the never-ending expansion of the divinity of the First Great Source and Center from the everlasting Isle of Paradise into the unknown depths of space.

20:10.5 Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom from Uversa.

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