유란시아 책
II 부. 지방우주
Paper 55
The Spheres of Light and Life
The Spheres of Light and Life
Sections
- Introduction
- § 1. The Morontia Temple
- § 2. Death and Translation
- § 3. The Golden Ages
- § 4. Administrative Readjustments
- § 5. The Acme of Material Development
- § 6. The Individual Mortal
- § 7. The First or Planetary Stage
- § 8. The Second or System Stage
- § 9. The Third or Constellation Stage
- § 10. The Fourth or Local Universe Stage
- § 11. The Minor and Major Sector Stages
- § 12. The Seventh or Superuniverse Stage
빛과 생명의 시대는, 시공간 세계에서 진화로 달성하는 마지막 시대다. 원시인이 살던 초기 시대 이후로, 그런 인간거주 세계는 이어지는 여러 행성 시대--곧 행성 왕자 이전 시대와 이후 시대, 아담 이후 시대, 집정관 아들 이후 시대, 그리고 증여 아들 이후 시대--를 지나왔다. 그다음에 그런 세계는 최고조의 진화 달성, 즉 정착된 빛과 생명의 지위를 위해 준비되는데, 이는 삼위일체 교사 아들들이 신성한 진리와 시공우주 지혜를 계속-확장해서 계시하는 것과 더불어, 연달아 행성 사명에 이바지함으로써 이뤄진다. 이렇게 수고하면서 최종 행성 시대를 안정시킬 때, 교사 아들은 반드시 찬란한 저녁별의 도움을 받고, 멜기세덱의 도움도 가끔 받는다.
55:0.1 (621.1)
THE age of light and life is the final evolutionary attainment of a world of time and space. From the early times of primitive man, such an inhabited world has passed through the successive planetary ages—the pre- and the post-Planetary Prince ages, the post-Adamic age, the post-Magisterial Son age, and the postbestowal Son age. And then is such a world made ready for the culminating evolutionary attainment, the settled status of light and life, by the ministry of the successive planetary missions of the Trinity Teacher Sons with their ever-advancing revelations of divine truth and cosmic wisdom. In these endeavors the Teacher Sons enjoy the assistance of the Brilliant Evening Stars always, and the Melchizedeks sometimes, in establishing the final planetary age.
55:0.2 (621.2)
This era of light and life, inaugurated by the Teacher Sons at the conclusion of their final planetary mission, continues indefinitely on the inhabited worlds. Each advancing stage of settled status may be segregated by the judicial actions of the Magisterial Sons into a succession of dispensations; but all such judicial actions are purely technical, in no way modifying the course of planetary events.
55:0.4 (621.4)
There are seven stages in the unfoldment of the era of light and life on an evolutionary world, and in this connection it should be noted that the worlds of the Spirit-fused mortals evolve along lines identical with those of the Adjuster-fusion series. These seven stages of light and life are:
55:0.12 (621.12)
At the conclusion of this narrative these stages of advancing development are described as they relate to the universe organization, but the planetary values of any stage may be attained by any world quite independent of the development of other worlds or of the superplanetary levels of universe administration.
인간거주 세계의 수도에 모론시아 성전이 현존한다는 것은, 그런 구체가 빛과 생명에 정착된 시대로 들어갔다는 증명서다. 한 세계에서 마지막 사명을 완료하고 떠나기 전에, 교사 아들은 진화로 달성하는 이 마지막 시기의 막을 열면서;“거룩한 성전이 땅으로 내려오는” 그날을 주관한다. 빛과 생명의 시대가 다가옴을 알려주는 이 행사는 반드시, 이 위대한 날을 직접 목격하려고 오는, 그 행성의 낙원 증여 아들이 몸소 참석함으로써 영광을 받는다. 비할 바 없이 아름다운 이 성전에서, 낙원의 이 증여 아들은 오래-근무한 행성 왕자가 새 행성 주권자임을 선포하고, 그런 충실한 라노난덱 아들에게 새 권능을 부여하고, 행성 직무에 대한 권한을 확장시킨다. 체계 주권자도 참석하여 이 선언{宣言}을 확증하는 연설을 한다.
55:1.1 (622.1)
The presence of a morontia temple at the capital of an inhabited world is the certificate of the admission of such a sphere to the settled ages of light and life. Before the Teacher Sons leave a world at the conclusion of their terminal mission, they inaugurate this final epoch of evolutionary attainment; they preside on that day when the “holy temple comes down upon earth.” This event, signalizing the dawn of the era of light and life, is always honored by the personal presence of the Paradise bestowal Son of that planet, who comes to witness this great day. There in this temple of unparalleled beauty, this bestowal Son of Paradise proclaims the long-time Planetary Prince as the new Planetary Sovereign and invests such a faithful Lanonandek Son with new powers and extended authority over planetary affairs. The System Sovereign is also present and speaks in confirmation of these pronouncements.
55:1.2 (622.2)
A morontia temple has three parts: Centermost is the sanctuary of the Paradise bestowal Son. On the right is the seat of the former Planetary Prince, now Planetary Sovereign; and when present in the temple, this Lanonandek Son is visible to the more spiritual individuals of the realm. On the left is the seat of the acting chief of finaliters attached to the planet.
55:1.3 (622.3)
Although the planetary temples have been spoken of as “coming down from heaven,” in reality no actual material is transported from the system headquarters. The architecture of each is worked out in miniature on the system capital, and the Morontia Power Supervisors subsequently bring these approved plans to the planet. Here, in association with the Master Physical Controllers, they proceed to build the morontia temple according to specifications.
55:1.4 (622.4)
The average morontia temple seats about three hundred thousand spectators. These edifices are not used for worship, play, or for receiving broadcasts; they are devoted to the special ceremonies of the planet, such as: communications with the System Sovereign or with the Most Highs, special visualization ceremonies designed to reveal the personality presence of spirit beings, and silent cosmic contemplation. The schools of cosmic philosophy here conduct their graduation exercises, and here also do the mortals of the realm receive planetary recognition for achievements of high social service and for other outstanding attainments.
이런 모론시아 성전은 또한, 살아있는 필사자들을 모론시아 실존으로 전환시키는 것을 목격하기 위한 집회 장소로 사용되기도 한다. 번쩍이면서 다 태워버리는 영광의 불꽃에도 파괴되지 않는 것은, 전환시키는 이 성전이 모론시아 물질로 구성돼있기 때문인데, 이 불꽃은 신성한 섭리사와 최종 융합을 여기서 체험하는 그런 필사자 육체를 아주 철저하게 없애버린다. 넓은 세계에서 이 이별{離別}의 섬광이 거의 연속으로 발생되며, 전환되는 숫자가 늘어남에 따라서, 모론시아 생명 보조 성소{聖所}들이 그 행성의 여러 다른 지역에 마련된다. 나는 얼마 전에, 25개의 모론시아 성소가 있는, 먼 북쪽에 있는 어떤 세계에 머문 적이 있다.
55:1.5 (622.5)
Such a morontia temple also serves as the place of assembly for witnessing the translation of living mortals to the morontia existence. It is because the translation temple is composed of morontia material that it is not destroyed by the blazing glory of the consuming fire which so completely obliterates the physical bodies of those mortals who therein experience final fusion with their divine Adjusters. On a large world these departure flares are almost continuous, and as the number of translations increases, subsidiary morontia life shrines are provided in different areas of the planet. Not long since I sojourned on a world in the far north whereon twenty-five morontia shrines were functioning.
55:2.2 (623.2)
This experience of translation from the material life to the morontia state—fusion of the immortal soul with the indwelling Adjuster—increases in frequency commensurate with the evolutionary progress of the planet. At first only a few mortals in each age attain translation levels of spiritual progress, but with the onset of the successive ages of the Teacher Sons, more and more Adjuster fusions occur before the termination of the lengthening lives of these progressing mortals; and by the time of the terminal mission of the Teacher Sons, approximately one quarter of these superb mortals are exempt from natural death.
빛과 생명의 시대 속에서 오래 지날수록, 중도 피조물 또는 그 동역자들은, 혼과-섭리사의 결합 가능성이 가까워지고 있는 상태를 감지하고, 이를 운명 수호자들에게 알려주는데, 그들은 다시, 이 필사자가 활동할지도 모를 관할권 아래에 있는 완결성취자 집단에 이 문제를 전달하며;그다음에는 그런 필사자에게, 모든 행성 임무에서 물러나고, 그가 기원된 세계에 작별을 고하고, 행성 주권자의 내부 성전으로 가서, 진화하는 물질 영역으로부터 모론시아 수준의 영-이전 진행과정으로 이동시키는 모론시아 변환 곧 전환 섬광을 거기서 기다리라는, 행성 주권자의 소집명령이 떨어진다.
55:2.3 (623.3)
Farther along in the era of light and life the midway creatures or their associates sense the approaching status of probable soul-Adjuster union and signify this to the destiny guardians, who in turn communicate these matters to the finaliter group under whose jurisdiction this mortal may be functioning; then there is issued the summons of the Planetary Sovereign for such a mortal to resign all planetary duties, bid farewell to the world of his origin, and repair to the inner temple of the Planetary Sovereign, there to await morontia transit, the translation flash, from the material domain of evolution to the morontia level of prespirit progression.
55:2.4 (623.4)
When the family, friends, and working group of such a fusion candidate have forgathered in the morontia temple, they are distributed around the central stage whereon the fusion candidates are resting, meantime freely conversing with their assembled friends. A circle of intervening celestial personalities is arranged to protect the material mortals from the action of the energies manifest at the instant of the “life flash” which delivers the ascension candidate from the bonds of material flesh, thereby doing for such an evolutionary mortal everything that natural death does for those who are thereby delivered from the flesh.
많은 융합 후보자들이 넓은 성전에 동시에 모일 수 있다. 사랑하는 자들이 영적 불길 속에서 상승하는 것을 목격하려고 필사자들이 그렇게 함께 모일 때, 그 광경이 얼마나 아름다운지, 그리고 필사자들이 자신의 시신을 지상의 원소 세계로 내줘야만 했던 초기 시대와 얼마나 대조가 되는지! 인간의 진화에서 초기 시대의 특징인, 눈물로 얼룩지고 비탄에 잠긴 광경들은, 장엄하게 타오르고 영광스럽게 솟아오르는 영적 불꽃으로 말미암아 저희들과의 물질적 관계를 벗어날 때, 하나님을-아는 이 필사자들이 사랑하는 자들에게 일시적 작별을 고할 때, 이제 무아지경의 기쁨과 가장 장엄한 열광으로 대치된다. 빛과 생명에 정착된 세계에서는, “장례식”이 최고의 기쁨과 심오한 만족감 그리고 형용할 수 없는 희망이 넘치는 행사다.
55:2.5 (623.5)
Many fusion candidates may be assembled in the spacious temple at the same time. And what a beautiful occasion when mortals thus forgather to witness the ascension of their loved ones in spiritual flames, and what a contrast to those earlier ages when mortals must commit their dead to the embrace of the terrestrial elements! The scenes of weeping and wailing characteristic of earlier epochs of human evolution are now replaced by ecstatic joy and the sublimest enthusiasm as these God-knowing mortals bid their loved ones a transient farewell as they are removed from their material associations by the spiritual fires of consuming grandeur and ascending glory. On worlds settled in light and life, “funerals” are occasions of supreme joy, profound satisfaction, and inexpressible hope.
55:2.6 (623.6)
The souls of these progressing mortals are increasingly filled with faith, hope, and assurance. The spirit permeating those gathered around the translation shrine resembles that of the joyful friends and relatives who might assemble at a graduating exercise for one of their group, or who might come together to witness the conferring of some great honor upon one of their number. And it would be decidedly helpful if less advanced mortals could only learn to view natural death with something of this same cheerfulness and lightheartedness.
55:2.7 (624.1)
Mortal observers can see nothing of their translated associates subsequent to the fusion flash. Such translated souls proceed by Adjuster transit direct to the resurrection hall of the appropriate morontia-training world. These transactions concerned with the translation of living human beings to the morontia world are supervised by an archangel who was assigned to such a world on the day when it was first settled in light and life.
한 세계가 빛과 생명의 넷째 단계를 달성할 때가 되면, 절반 이상의 필사자가, 살아있는 자들 가운데서 전환됨으로 행성을 떠난다. 죽음의 이런 감소는 연이어 계속되지만, 나는 인간거주 세계들이 포함된 어떤 체계든지, 심지어 생명 속에 오랫동안 정착됐더라도, 육신의 족쇄에서 탈출하는 방법으로서 자연사를 아무도 거치지 않는 경우는 보지 못했다. 그리고 행성의 진화가 그런 높은 상태로 균일하게 도달하기까지, 지방우주의 모론시아-훈련 세계들은, 진화하는 모론시아 진보자를 위한 교육 및 문화 구체로서 계속 이바지해야한다. 죽음이 없어지는 것이 이론적으로는 가능하더라도, 내가 관찰한 바로는 아직 발생되지 않았다. 아마 그런 상태는, 정착된 행성 생명의 일곱째 단계를 뒤따르는 시대에, 까마득히 먼 훗날에 달성될지도 모르겠다.
55:2.8 (624.2)
By the time a world attains the fourth stage of light and life, more than half the mortals leave the planet by translation from among the living. Such diminishment of death continues on and on, but I know of no system whose inhabited worlds, even though long settled in life, are entirely free from natural death as the technique of escape from the bonds of flesh. And until such a high state of planetary evolution is uniformly attained, the morontia-training worlds of the local universe must continue in service as educational and cultural spheres for the evolving morontia progressors. The elimination of death is theoretically possible, but it has not yet occurred according to my observation. Perhaps such a status may be attained during the faraway stretches of the succeeding epochs of the seventh stage of settled planetary life.
정착된 구체의 개화기{開花期}에 전환되는 혼들은 맨션 세계들을 거치지 않는다. 또한 체계 또는 성좌의 모론시아 세계에 학생으로서 머물지도 않는다. 그들은 모론시아 생애의 어떤 초기 국면도 거치지 않는다. 물질 실존으로부터 준영{準靈} 상태까지, 모론시아 과도기를 아주 거의 면제받는 상승 필사자일 뿐이다. 상승하는 생애에서 아들에게-점유된 그런 필사자들의 초기 체험은, 우주 본부의 진행과정 세계에서 근무하는 체험이다. 그리고 그들은, 살빙톤의 이 학습 세계들로부터, 자신이 그냥 지나쳐온 바로 그 세계들로 선생으로서 돌아가는데, 나중에는 확립된 필사자 상승 노선을 따라서 낙원을 향해 안쪽으로 나아간다.
55:2.9 (624.3)
The translated souls of the flowering ages of the settled spheres do not pass through the mansion worlds. Neither do they sojourn, as students, on the morontia worlds of the system or constellation. They do not pass through any of the earlier phases of morontia life. They are the only ascending mortals who so nearly escape the morontia transition from material existence to semispirit status. The initial experience of such Son-seized mortals in the ascension career is in the services of the progression worlds of the universe headquarters. And from these study worlds of Salvington they go back as teachers to the very worlds they passed by, subsequently going on inward to Paradise by the established route of mortal ascension.
55:2.10 (624.4)
Could you but visit a planet in an advanced stage of development, you would quickly grasp the reasons for providing for the differential reception of ascending mortals on the mansion and higher morontia worlds. You would readily understand that beings passing on from such highly evolved spheres are prepared to resume their Paradise ascent far in advance of the average mortal arriving from a disordered and backward world like Urantia.
55:2.11 (624.5)
No matter from what level of planetary attainment human beings may ascend to the morontia worlds, the seven mansion spheres afford them ample opportunity to gain in experience as teacher-students all of everything which they failed to pass through because of the advanced status of their native planets.
이 빛과 생명의 시대에, 세계는 행성 주권자의 아버지다운 통치 아래서 더욱 번영한다. 이때가 되면, 세상은 한 언어와 한 종교, 그리고 보통 구체의 경우에는 한 인종의 추진력 아래서 진보한다. 그러나 이 시대는 완전하지 않다. 이런 세상에는 준비가 잘된 병원 곧 환자를 돌보기 위한 건물들이 여전히 있다. 사고로 인한 부상을 돌보는 문제, 그리고 나이 들어 생기는 노쇠함과 고령의 부조화에 따르는 불가피한 질병 문제가 여전히 있다. 질병이 전부 사라지지는 않고, 또한 육상 동물도 완전히 정복되지 않지만;그런 세상은, 행성 왕자-이전{以前} 시대에 원시인이 살던 초기 시절과 비교하면 낙원 같다. 너희가 이런 발달 단계에 있는 어떤 행성으로 갑자기 옮겨질 수 있다면--너희는 본능적으로 그 세계를 땅에 이뤄진 천국으로 묘사할 것이다.
55:3.1 (624.7)
During this age of light and life the world increasingly prospers under the fatherly rule of the Planetary Sovereign. By this time the worlds are progressing under the momentum of one language, one religion, and, on normal spheres, one race. But this age is not perfect. These worlds still have well-appointed hospitals, homes for the care of the sick. There still remain the problems of caring for accidental injuries and the inescapable infirmities attendant upon the decrepitude of old age and the disorders of senility. Disease has not been entirely vanquished, neither have the earth animals been subdued in perfection; but such worlds are like Paradise in comparison with the early times of primitive man during the pre-Planetary Prince age. You would instinctively describe such a realm—could you be suddenly transported to a planet in this stage of development—as heaven on earth.
55:3.2 (625.1)
Human government in the conduct of material affairs continues to function throughout this age of relative progress and perfection. The public activities of a world in the first stage of light and life which I recently visited were financed by the tithing technique. Every adult worker—and all able-bodied citizens worked at something—paid ten per cent of his income or increase to the public treasury, and it was disbursed as follows:
55:3.8 (625.7)
On this world the highest honor conferred upon a citizen was the order of “supreme service,” being the only degree of recognition ever to be granted in the morontia temple. This recognition was bestowed upon those who had long distinguished themselves in some phase of supermaterial discovery or planetary social service.
55:3.10 (625.9)
On these superb worlds the childbearing period is not greatly prolonged. It is not best for too many years to intervene between the ages of a family of children. When close together in age, children are able to contribute much more to their mutual training. And on these worlds they are magnificently trained by the competitive systems of keen striving in the advanced domains and divisions of diverse achievement in the mastery of truth, beauty, and goodness. Never fear but that even such glorified spheres present plenty of evil, real and potential, which is stimulative of the choosing between truth and error, good and evil, sin and righteousness.
55:3.11 (625.10)
Nevertheless, there is a certain, inevitable penalty attaching to mortal existence on such advanced evolutionary planets. When a settled world progresses beyond the third stage of light and life, all ascenders are destined, before attaining the minor sector, to receive some sort of transient assignment on a planet passing through the earlier stages of evolution.
55:3.12 (626.1)
Each of these successive ages represents advancing achievements in all phases of planetary attainment. In the initial age of light the revelation of truth was enlarged to embrace the workings of the universe of universes, while the Deity study of the second age is the attempt to master the protean concept of the nature, mission, ministry, associations, origin, and destiny of the Creator Sons, the first level of God the Sevenfold.
55:3.22 (626.11)
No evolutionary world can hope to progress beyond the first stage of settledness in light until it has achieved one language, one religion, and one philosophy. Being of one race greatly facilitates such achievement, but the many peoples of Urantia do not preclude the attainment of higher stages.
55:4.1 (626.12)
In the successive stages of settled existence the inhabited worlds make marvelous progress under the wise and sympathetic administration of the volunteer Corps of the Finality, ascenders of Paradise attainment who have come back to minister to their brethren in the flesh. These finaliters are active in co-operation with the Trinity Teacher Sons, but they do not begin their real participation in world affairs until the morontia temple appears on earth.
55:4.2 (626.13)
Upon the formal inauguration of the planetary ministry of the Corps of the Finality, the majority of the celestial hosts withdraw. But the seraphic guardians of destiny continue their personal ministry to the progressing mortals in light; indeed such angels come in ever-increasing numbers throughout the settled ages since larger and larger groups of human beings reach the third cosmic circle of co-ordinate mortal attainment during the planetary life span.
고귀하고 해방된 중도 피조물이 스랍 수호자와 완결성취자들을 위해 통역관으로서 활동한다. 삼위일체 교사 아들들이 마지막 사명에서 행하는 마지막 조치 가운데 하나는, 그 영역의 중도자들을 해방시키고 행성에서 진보된 지위로 진급(또는 회복)시키는 것인데, 정착된 구체의 새 경영 체제에서 책임 있는 자리에 그들을 배치한다. 초기 아담 체제에 속한, 지금까지 눈에 보이지 않던 이 사촌들을, 필사자가 알아볼 수 있도록 만드는 그런 변화가, 인간 시력 범위 내에서 이미 조성됐다. 이는 으뜸 물리 통제관들의 행성 기능이 증대된 것과 관련하여, 자연 과학의 최종 발견으로 가능하게 된다.
55:4.8 (627.6)
Acting as interpreters for the seraphic guardians and the finaliters are the exalted and liberated midway creatures. One of the last acts of the Trinity Teacher Sons on their terminal mission is to liberate the midwayers of the realm and to promote (or restore) them to advanced planetary status, assigning them to responsible places in the new administration of the settled sphere. Such changes have already been made in the range of human vision as enable mortals to recognize these heretofore invisible cousins of the early Adamic regime. This is made possible by the final discoveries of physical science in liaison with the enlarged planetary functions of the Master Physical Controllers.
55:4.10 (627.8)
In the third and subsequent stages, some of the midwayers are still functioning, chiefly as contact personalities for the finaliters, but as each stage of light and life is entered, new orders of liaison ministers largely replace the midwayers; very few of them ever remain beyond the fourth stage of light. The seventh stage will witness the coming of the first absonite ministers from Paradise to serve in the places of certain universe creatures.
2. 빛과 생명의 둘째 단계. 필사자 인종을 정화시키고 안정시키려고 추가적으로 수고한다는 점에서 행성 통치자들에게 자발적 충고자가 될 한 생명 운반자가 도착하는 것은, 이 시기가 세계들에 임했음을 알려주는 신호다. 그리하여 생명 운반자들은 --육신적, 사회적, 및 경제적 면에서-- 더 많은 인간 종족 진화에 능동적으로 참여한다. 그리고 나서 이들의 감독 범위는, 지적 본성과 철학적 본성과 시공우주 본성 그리고 영적 본성의 잠재력이 열등한, 뒤처지고 지속하는 잔재들을 과감히 제거시킴으로써, 필사자의 혈통을 더욱 정화시키는 일로 확장한다. 인간거주 세계에서 생명을 계획하고 심는 자들은, 물질 아들과 딸들에게 충고할 자격이 충분하며, 모든 해로운 영향을 미치는 진화 인종을 멸절시킬 수 있는, 충분하고도 의심할 바 없는 권세를 갖고 있다.
55:4.11 (627.9)
2. The second stage of light and life. This epoch is signalized on the worlds by the arrival of a Life Carrier who becomes the volunteer adviser of the planetary rulers regarding the further efforts to purify and stabilize the mortal race. Thus do the Life Carriers actively participate in the further evolution of the human race—physically, socially, and economically. And then they extend their supervision to the further purification of the mortal stock by the drastic elimination of the retarded and persisting remnants of inferior potential of an intellectual, philosophic, cosmic, and spiritual nature. Those who design and plant life on an inhabited world are fully competent to advise the Material Sons and Daughters, who have full and unquestioned authority to purge the evolving race of all detrimental influences.
55:4.12 (627.10)
From the second stage on throughout the career of a settled planet the Teacher Sons serve as counselors to the finaliters. During such missions they serve as volunteers and not by assignment; and they serve exclusively with the finaliter corps except that, upon the consent of the System Sovereign, they may be had as advisers to the Planetary Adam and Eve.
55:4.13 (628.1)
3. The third stage of light and life. During this epoch the inhabited worlds arrive at a new appreciation of the Ancients of Days, the second phase of God the Sevenfold, and the representatives of these superuniverse rulers enter into new relationships with the planetary administration.
55:4.15 (628.3)
During this or the following age a Teacher Son, assisted by the ministering-spirit quartet, becomes attached to the elective mortal chief executive, who now becomes associated with the Planetary Sovereign as joint administrator of world affairs. These mortal chief executives serve for twenty-five years of planetary time, and it is this new development that makes it easy for the Planetary Adam and Eve to secure release from their world of long-time assignment during the following ages.
55:4.16 (628.4)
The ministering-spirit quartets consist of: the seraphic chief of the sphere, the superuniverse secoraphic counselor, the archangel of translations, and the omniaphim who functions as the personal representative of the Assigned Sentinel stationed on the system headquarters. But these advisers never proffer counsel unless it is asked for.
55:4.17 (628.5)
4. The fourth stage of light and life. On these worlds the Trinity Teacher Sons appear in new roles. Assisted by the creature-trinitized sons so long associated with their order, they now come to the worlds as volunteer counselors and advisers to the Planetary Sovereign and his associates. Such couples—Paradise-Havona-trinitized sons and ascender-trinitized sons—represent differing universe viewpoints and diverse personal experiences which are highly serviceable to the planetary rulers.
55:4.18 (628.6)
At any time after this age the Planetary Adam and Eve can petition the Sovereign Creator Son for release from planetary duties in order to begin their Paradise ascent; or they can remain on the planet as directors of the newly appearing order of increasingly spiritual society composed of advanced mortals striving to comprehend the philosophic teachings of the finaliters portrayed by the Brilliant Evening Stars, who are now assigned to these worlds to collaborate in pairs with the seconaphim from the headquarters of the superuniverse.
55:4.19 (628.7)
The finaliters are chiefly engaged in initiating the new and supermaterial activities of society—social, cultural, philosophic, cosmic, and spiritual. As far as we can discern, they will continue this ministry far into the seventh epoch of evolutionary stability, when, possibly, they may go forth to minister in outer space; whereupon we conjecture their places may be taken by absonite beings from Paradise.
55:4.22 (628.10)
7. The seventh stage of light and life. Early in the seventh epoch the Trinity Teacher counselor of the Planetary Sovereign is joined by a volunteer adviser sent by the Ancients of Days, and later on they will be augmented by a third counselor coming from the superuniverse Supreme Executive.
55:4.23 (629.1)
During this epoch, if not before, Adam and Eve are always relieved of planetary duties. If there is a Material Son in the finaliter corps, he may become associated with the mortal chief executive, and sometimes it is a Melchizedek who volunteers to function in this capacity. If a midwayer is among the finaliters, all of that order remaining on the planet are immediately released.
55:4.26 (629.4)
2. Very often a Planetary Adam and Eve will receive Adjusters while yet serving on a world settled in light concomitant with the receiving of Adjusters by some of their imported pure-line children who have volunteered for a term of planetary service. Subsequently they may all go to universe headquarters and there begin the Paradise career.
55:4.31 (629.9)
On the evolutionary worlds a being must humanize to receive a Thought Adjuster. All ascendant members of the Mortal Corps of Finaliters have been Adjuster indwelt and fused except seraphim, and they are Father indwelt by another type of spirit at the time of being mustered into this corps.
55:5.1 (629.10)
Mortal creatures living on a sin-stricken, evil-dominated, self-seeking, isolated world, such as Urantia, can hardly conceive of the physical perfection, the intellectual attainment, and the spiritual development which characterize these advanced epochs of evolution on a sinless sphere.
55:5.2 (629.11)
The advanced stages of a world settled in light and life represent the acme of evolutionary material development. On these cultured worlds, gone are the idleness and friction of the earlier primitive ages. Poverty and social inequality have all but vanished, degeneracy has disappeared, and delinquency is rarely observed. Insanity has practically ceased to exist, and feeble-mindedness is a rarity.
55:5.3 (629.12)
The economic, social, and administrative status of these worlds is of a high and perfected order. Science, art, and industry flourish, and society is a smoothly working mechanism of high material, intellectual, and cultural achievement. Industry has been largely diverted to serving the higher aims of such a superb civilization. The economic life of such a world has become ethical.
55:5.4 (630.1)
War has become a matter of history, and there are no more armies or police forces. Government is gradually disappearing. Self-control is slowly rendering laws of human enactment obsolete. The extent of civil government and statutory regulation, in an intermediate state of advancing civilization, is in inverse proportion to the morality and spirituality of the citizenship.
55:5.5 (630.2)
Schools are vastly improved and are devoted to the training of mind and the expansion of soul. The art centers are exquisite and the musical organizations superb. The temples of worship with their associated schools of philosophy and experiential religion are creations of beauty and grandeur. The open-air arenas of worship assembly are equally sublime in the simplicity of their artistic appointment.
경쟁하는 놀이와 유머 그리고 다른 국면의 개인적 및 집단적 성취를 위한 설비는 충분하고 적절하다. 고도로 문화화된 그런 세계에서 경쟁 활동의 특별히 두드러진 점은, 과학과 우주론{宇宙論} 철학에서 탁월한 성과를 거두려는 개인과 집단이 기울이는 노력과 관계된다. 문학과 웅변술이 번창하고, 언어는 생각을 표현할 뿐만 아니라 개념을 잘 상징하도록 무척 개선된다. 삶은 상쾌하고 단순하며;사람은 마침내 고도의 기계 발달과 영감 주는 어떤 지적 달성을 조화시켰고, 절묘한 영적 성취는 이 두 가지를 무색하게 만든다. 행복을 추구하는 것은 기쁘고도 만족스런 체험이다.
55:5.6 (630.3)
The provisions for competitive play, humor, and other phases of personal and group achievement are ample and appropriate. A special feature of the competitive activities on such a highly cultured world concerns the efforts of individuals and groups to excel in the sciences and philosophies of cosmology. Literature and oratory flourish, and language is so improved as to be symbolic of concepts as well as to be expressive of ideas. Life is refreshingly simple; man has at last co-ordinated a high state of mechanical development with an inspiring intellectual attainment and has overshadowed both with an exquisite spiritual achievement. The pursuit of happiness is an experience of joy and satisfaction.
55:6.2 (630.5)
On Urantia, and as you are, you can have little appreciation of the advanced status and progressive nature of the enlightened races of these perfected worlds. These people are the flowering of the evolutionary races. But such beings are still mortal; they continue to breathe, eat, sleep, and drink. This great evolution is not heaven, but it is a sublime foreshadowing of the divine worlds of the Paradise ascent.
정상{正常} 세계에서, 필사자 인종의 생물학적 건강은, 아담-이후 시기들 동안 높은 수준에 도달한지 오래 됐으며;사람의 육신적 진화는 이제 안정된 여러 시대 전반에 걸쳐서 계속된다. 보는 것과 듣는 것이 모두 확장됐다. 이제는 인구가 고정된 숫자로 안정된다. 출산은 행성의 요구와 타고난 유전적 자질에 따라서 규제를 받는데:이 시기 동안, 행성 필사자들은 다섯 내지 열 집단으로 구분되고, 하류 집단은 상류 집단보다 절반 정도의 자녀만 두도록 허용된다. 빛과 생명의 시대 전반에 걸친 그런 훌륭한 인종의 계속된 개선은 대체로, 우수한 양질의 사회적 본성과 철학적 본성과 시공우주 본성 그리고 영적 본성을 나타내는 인종 혈통을 선택적으로 번식시키는 문제다.
55:6.3 (630.6)
On a normal world the biologic fitness of the mortal race was long since brought up to a high level during the post-Adamic epochs; and now, from age to age throughout the settled eras the physical evolution of man continues. Both vision and hearing are extended. By now the population has become stationary in numbers. Reproduction is regulated in accordance with planetary requirements and innate hereditary endowments: The mortals on a planet during this age are divided into from five to ten groups, and the lower groups are permitted to produce only one half as many children as the higher. The continued improvement of such a magnificent race throughout the era of light and life is largely a matter of the selective reproduction of those racial strains which exhibit superior qualities of a social, philosophic, cosmic, and spiritual nature.
이전{以前}의 진화 시대들과 마찬가지로 섭리사가 계속 도래하며, 시기들이 지남에 따라, 이 필사자들은 내주하는 아버지 단편과 더욱 친밀하게 교제할 수 있다. 영적 발달 단계 이전의 배아기{胚芽期}에는 보조 정신-영들이 여전히 작용하고 있다. 이어지는 정착된 여러 생명 시기를 체험함에 따라서, 거룩한 영과 천사들의 섬김은 더욱 효과를 나타낸다. 빛과 생명의 넷째 단계에서, 진보된 필사자들은 연방우주가 관할하는 으뜸 영의 영 현존과 상당히 큰 의식적{意識的} 접촉을 체험하게 되는 것처럼 보이며, 한편 그런 세계의 철학은, 지존자 하나님의 새 계시를 이해하려는 시도에 집중된다. 이런 진보된 상태의 행성에서는, 인간 거주자 가운데 절반 이상이, 살아있는 상태에서 모론시아 상태로 전환되는 것을 체험한다. 그렇더라도, “옛 것은 지나가고 있으니, 보라, 모든 것이 새롭게 되고 있다.”
55:6.4 (630.7)
The Adjusters continue to come as in former evolutionary eras, and as the epochs pass, these mortals are increasingly able to commune with the indwelling Father fragment. During the embryonic and prespiritual stages of development the adjutant mind-spirits are still functioning. The Holy Spirit and the ministry of angels are even more effective as the successive epochs of settled life are experienced. In the fourth stage of light and life the advanced mortals seem to experience considerable conscious contact with the spirit presence of the Master Spirit of superuniverse jurisdiction, while the philosophy of such a world is focused upon the attempt to comprehend the new revelations of God the Supreme. More than one half of the human inhabitants on planets of this advanced status experience translation to the morontia state from among the living. Even so, “old things are passing away; behold, all things are becoming new.”
빛-과-생명의 시대 가운데 다섯째 시기가 끝날 무렵에, 육체의 진화가 충분한 발달을 달성하게 되리라고 우리는 생각한다. 진화하는 인간 정신과 관련된 영적 발달의 최고한계는, 모론시아 가치기준과 시공우주 의미가 결합된 수준 곧 섭리사-융합 수준에 따라서 결정되는 것을 우리는 목격한다. 그러나 지혜에 관해서는:우리가 정말로 알지 못하지만, 지적 진화와 지혜의 달성에 한계가 결코 있을 수 없다고 추측한다. 일곱째 단계의 세계에서, 지혜는 물질 잠재력을 다 나타내고, 모타 통찰력으로 들어갈 수 있고, 결국 유한절대의 위대함도 맛볼 수 있다.
55:6.5 (631.1)
We conceive that physical evolution will have attained its full development by the end of the fifth epoch of the light-and-life era. We observe that the upper limits of spiritual development associated with evolving human mind are determined by the Adjuster-fusion level of conjoint morontia values and cosmic meanings. But concerning wisdom: While we do not really know, we conjecture that there can never be a limit to intellectual evolution and the attainment of wisdom. On a seventh-stage world, wisdom can exhaust the material potentials, enter upon mota insight, and eventually even taste of absonite grandeur.
55:6.6 (631.2)
We observe that on these highly evolved and long seventh-stage worlds human beings fully learn the local universe language before they are translated; and I have visited a few very old planets where abandonters were teaching the older mortals the tongue of the superuniverse. And on these worlds I have observed the technique whereby the absonite personalities reveal the presence of the finaliters in the morontia temple.
55:6.7 (631.3)
This is the story of the magnificent goal of mortal striving on the evolutionary worlds; and it all takes place even before human beings enter upon their morontia careers; all of this splendid development is attainable by material mortals on the inhabited worlds, the very first stage of that endless and incomprehensible career of Paradise ascension and divinity attainment.
55:6.9 (631.5)
If the mortals of distraught Urantia could only view one of these more advanced worlds long settled in light and life, they would nevermore question the wisdom of the evolutionary scheme of creation. Were there no future of eternal creature progression, still the superb evolutionary attainments of the mortal races on such settled worlds of perfected achievement would amply justify man’s creation on the worlds of time and space.
55:7.1 (631.7)
This epoch extends from the appearance of the morontia temple at the new planetary headquarters to the time of the settling of the entire system in light and life. This age is inaugurated by the Trinity Teacher Sons at the close of their successive world missions when the Planetary Prince is elevated to the status of Planetary Sovereign by the mandate and personal presence of the Paradise bestowal Son of that sphere. Concomitant therewith the finaliters inaugurate their active participation in planetary affairs.
겉으로 드러나는 상황으로 보자면, 빛과 생명에 정착된 그런 세계의 실제 통치자 또는 지휘자는, 물질 아들과 딸 곧 행성 아담과 이브다. 완결성취자들은 눈에 보이지 않으며, 모론시아 성전에 있을 경우를 제외하면 왕자-주권자 역시 그렇다. 그러므로 행성 체제의 실제적이고 엄밀한 의미의 우두머리는 물질 아들과 딸이다. 이런 제도를 알았기 때문에, 우주 영역들에 두루, 왕과 왕비 관념에 명성이 부여됐다. 그리고 왕과 왕비는 이런 이상적 상황, 즉 더 높지만 눈에 보이지 않는 통치자들을 대신하여 활동하도록 그런 고귀한 인격체들에게 세계가 명령할 수 있는 상황 아래서 대단한 성공을 이룩했다.
55:7.2 (632.1)
To outward and visible appearances the actual rulers, or directors, of such a world settled in light and life are the Material Son and Daughter, the Planetary Adam and Eve. The finaliters are invisible, as also is the Prince-Sovereign except when in the morontia temple. The actual and literal heads of the planetary regime are therefore the Material Son and Daughter. It is the knowledge of these arrangements that has given prestige to the idea of kings and queens throughout the universe realms. And kings and queens are a great success under these ideal circumstances, when a world can command such high personalities to act in behalf of still higher but invisible rulers.
55:7.3 (632.2)
When such an era is attained on your world, no doubt Machiventa Melchizedek, now the vicegerent Planetary Prince of Urantia, will occupy the seat of the Planetary Sovereign; and it has long been conjectured on Jerusem that he will be accompanied by a son and daughter of the Urantia Adam and Eve who are now held on Edentia as wards of the Most Highs of Norlatiadek. These children of Adam might so serve on Urantia in association with the Melchizedek-Sovereign since they were deprived of procreative powers almost 37,000 years ago at the time they gave up their material bodies on Urantia in preparation for transit to Edentia.
55:7.4 (632.3)
This settled age continues on and on until every inhabited planet in the system attains the era of stabilization; and then, when the youngest world—the last to achieve light and life—has experienced such settledness for one millennium of system time, the entire system enters the stabilized status, and the individual worlds are ushered into the system epoch of the era of light and life.
55:8.1 (632.4)
When an entire system becomes settled in life, a new order of government is inaugurated. The Planetary Sovereigns become members of the system conclave, and this new administrative body, subject to the veto of the Constellation Fathers, is supreme in authority. Such a system of inhabited worlds becomes virtually self-governing. The system legislative assembly is constituted on the headquarters world, and each planet sends its ten representatives thereto. Courts are now established on the system capitals, and only appeals are taken to the universe headquarters.
안정되는 이 시기 동안에, 머물렀던 우주 본부 세계들로부터 처음으로 중간유한절대자들이 오는데, 입법 집회에 대해 조언하는 자로서, 그리고 판결 법정에 대한 자문가로서 활동하기 위해서다. 또한 이 중간유한절대자들은, 완결성취자들과 함께 공동으로 후원하는 교육 기관들에서 최고 가치를 지니는 새 모타 의미들을 가르치려고 어떤 노력을 계속한다. 물질 아들들이 필사자 인종들을 위하여 생물학적으로 행했던 것을, 이제 중간유한절대 피조물이, 철학 및 영성화된 사고{思考}의 계속-발전하는 분야들에서 통합되고 영화롭게 된 이 인간들을 위하여 행한다.
55:8.4 (632.7)
During this epoch of stabilization, for the first time midsoniters come from the universe headquarters worlds of their sojourn to act as counselors to the legislative assemblies and advisers to the adjudicational tribunals. These midsoniters also carry on certain efforts to inculcate new mota meanings of supreme value into the teaching enterprises which they sponsor jointly with the finaliters. What the Material Sons did for the mortal races biologically, the midsonite creatures now do for these unified and glorified humans in the ever-advancing realms of philosophy and spiritualized thinking.
55:8.5 (633.1)
On the inhabited worlds the Teacher Sons become voluntary collaborators with the finaliters, and these same Teacher Sons also accompany the finaliters to the mansion worlds when those spheres are no longer to be utilized as differential receiving worlds after an entire system is settled in light and life; at least this is true by the time the entire constellation has thus evolved. But there are no groups that far advanced in Nebadon.
55:8.7 (633.3)
And now, as the systems one by one become settled in light by virtue of the progress of their component worlds, the time comes when the last system in a given constellation attains stabilization, and the universe administrators—the Master Son, the Union of Days, and the Bright and Morning Star—arrive on the capital of the constellation to proclaim the Most Highs the unqualified rulers of the newly perfected family of one hundred settled systems of inhabited worlds.
정착된 체계들로 이뤄진 한 성좌 전체가 통합되면, 행정 권한을 새롭게 배분하고 추가로 우주 경영을 재조정하는 일이 뒤따른다. 이 시기에는 증진된 달성이 각 인간거주 세계에서 이뤄지는 것을 목격하지만, 체계 감독 및 지방우주 정부 양쪽과 맺는 관계가 두드러지게 수정됨과 아울러, 특히 성좌 본부에서 재조정이 일어나는 것이 그 특징이다. 이 시기 동안에 많은 성좌와 우주의 활동이 체계 본부로 양도되고, 연방우주 대표자들은, 행성과 체계와 우주의 통치자들과 새롭고 더 긴밀한 관계를 갖게 된다. 이렇게 새롭게 연합함과 동시에, 특정 연방우주 경영자들이, 지고자 아버지들에게 자원하는 충고자로서 성좌 본부에 자리를 잡는다.
55:9.1 (633.4)
The unification of a whole constellation of settled systems is attended by new distributions of executive authority and additional readjustments of universe administration. This epoch witnesses advanced attainment on every inhabited world but is particularly characterized by readjustments on the constellation headquarters, with marked modification of relationships with both the system supervision and the local universe government. During this age many constellation and universe activities are transferred to the system capitals, and the representatives of the superuniverse assume new and more intimate relations with the planetary, system, and universe rulers. Concomitant with these new associations, certain superuniverse administrators establish themselves on the constellation capitals as volunteer advisers to the Most High Fathers.
55:9.2 (633.5)
When a constellation is thus settled in light, the legislative function ceases, and the house of System Sovereigns, presided over by the Most Highs, functions instead. Now, for the first time, such administrative groups deal directly with the superuniverse government in matters pertaining to Havona and Paradise relationships. Otherwise the constellation remains related to the local universe as before. From stage to stage in the settled life the univitatia continue to administer the constellation morontia worlds.
55:9.3 (633.6)
As the ages pass, the Constellation Fathers take over more and more of the detailed administrative or supervising functions which were formerly centered on the universe headquarters. By the attainment of the sixth stage of stabilization these unified constellations will have reached the position of well-nigh complete autonomy. Entrance upon the seventh stage of settledness will no doubt witness the exaltation of these rulers to the true dignity signified by their names, the Most Highs. To all intents and purposes the constellations will then deal directly with the superuniverse rulers, while the local universe government will expand to grasp the responsibilities of new grand universe obligations.
55:10.1 (634.1)
When a universe becomes settled in light and life, it soon swings into the established superuniverse circuits, and the Ancients of Days proclaim the establishment of the supreme council of unlimited authority. This new governing body consists of the one hundred Faithfuls of Days, presided over by the Union of Days, and the first act of this supreme council is to acknowledge the continued sovereignty of the Master Creator Son.
55:10.3 (634.3)
The Associate Inspector now mobilizes all Assigned Sentinels to constitute the stabilization corps of the local universe and asks the Father Melchizedek to share its supervision with him. And now, for the first time, a corps of the Inspired Trinity Spirits are assigned to the service of the Union of Days.
55:10.4 (634.4)
The settling of an entire local universe in light and life inaugurates profound readjustments in the entire scheme of administration, from the individual inhabited worlds to the universe headquarters. New relationships extend down to the constellations and systems. The local universe Mother Spirit experiences new liaison relations with the Master Spirit of the superuniverse, and Gabriel establishes direct contact with the Ancients of Days to be effective when and as the Master Son may be absent from the headquarters world.
55:10.5 (634.5)
During this and subsequent ages the Magisterial Sons continue to function as dispensational adjudicators, while one hundred of these Avonal Sons of Paradise constitute the new high council of the Bright and Morning Star on the universe capital. Later on, and as requested by the System Sovereigns, one of these Magisterial Sons will become the supreme counselor stationed on the headquarters world of each local system until the seventh stage of unity is attained.
55:10.6 (634.6)
During this epoch the Trinity Teacher Sons are volunteer advisers, not only to the Planetary Sovereigns, but in groups of three they similarly serve the Constellation Fathers. And at last these Sons find their place in the local universe, for at this time they are removed from the jurisdiction of the local creation and are assigned to the service of the supreme council of unlimited authority.
55:10.8 (634.8)
The Creator Sons of such settled universes spend much of their time on Paradise and its associated worlds and in counseling the numerous finaliter groups serving throughout the local creation. In this way the man of Michael will find a fuller fraternity of association with the glorified finaliter mortals.
55:10.9 (634.9)
Speculation concerning the function of these Creator Sons in connection with the outer universes now in process of preliminary assembly is wholly futile. But we all engage in such postulations from time to time. On attaining this fourth stage of development the Creator Son becomes administratively free; the Divine Minister is progressively blending her ministry with that of the superuniverse Master Spirit and the Infinite Spirit. There seems to be evolving a new and sublime relationship between the Creator Son, the Creative Spirit, the Evening Stars, the Teacher Sons, and the ever-increasing finaliter corps.
55:10.10 (635.1)
If Michael should ever leave Nebadon, Gabriel would undoubtedly become chief administrator with the Father Melchizedek as his associate. At the same time new status would be imparted to all orders of permanent citizenship, such as Material Sons, univitatia, midsoniters, susatia, and Spirit-fused mortals. But as long as evolution continues, the seraphim and the archangels will be required in universe administration.
55:10.11 (635.2)
We are, however, satisfied regarding two features of our speculations: If the Creator Sons are destined to the outer universes, the Divine Ministers will undoubtedly accompany them. We are equally sure that the Melchizedeks are to remain with the universes of their origin. We hold that the Melchizedeks are destined to play ever-increasingly responsible parts in local universe government and administration.
55:11.1 (635.3)
Minor and major sectors of the superuniverse do not figure directly in the plan of being settled in light and life. Such an evolutionary progression pertains primarily to the local universe as a unit and concerns only the components of a local universe. A superuniverse is settled in light and life when all of its component local universes are thus perfected. But not one of the seven superuniverses has attained a level of progression even approaching this.
55:11.2 (635.4)
The minor sector age. As far as observations can penetrate, the fifth or minor sector stage of stabilization has exclusively to do with physical status and with the co-ordinate settling of the one hundred associated local universes in the established circuits of the superuniverse. Apparently none but the power centers and their associates are concerned in these realignments of the material creation.
55:11.3 (635.5)
The major sector age. Concerning the sixth stage, or major sector stabilization, we can only conjecture since none of us have witnessed such an event. Nevertheless, we can postulate much concerning the administrative and other readjustments which would probably accompany such an advanced status of inhabited worlds and their universe groupings.
55:11.5 (635.7)
We arrive at conclusions regarding the readjustments which would probably attend the realization of hitherto unattained levels of evolutionary progress by observing the results of such achievements on the individual worlds and in the experiences of individual mortals living on these older and highly developed spheres.
55:11.6 (635.8)
Let it be made clear that the administrative mechanisms and governmental techniques of a universe or a superuniverse cannot in any manner limit or retard the evolutionary development or spiritual progress of an individual inhabited planet or of any individual mortal on such a sphere.
더 오래된 일부 우주에는, 빛과 생명의 다섯째와 여섯째 단계에 정착한--곧 심지어 일곱째 시기 속으로 깊숙이 들어간-- 세계들이 있으나, 그 지역 체계들이 아직 빛 속에 정착되지 않았음을 우리는 발견한다. 비교적 젊은 행성들이 그 체계의 통합을 지연시킬지 모르지만, 이것은 더 오래되고 진척된 세계의 진보를 조금도 방해하지 않는다. 또한 격리된 세계에서조차, 환경의 한계가 개별 필사자의 개인적 달성을 막을 수 없으며;나사렛 예수는, 사람들 가운데 한 사람으로서, 유란시아에서 1,900여년 전에 빛과 생명의 신분을 개인적으로 성취했다.
55:11.7 (635.9)
In some of the older universes we find worlds settled in the fifth and the sixth stages of light and life—even far extended into the seventh epoch—whose local systems are not yet settled in light. Younger planets may delay system unification, but this does not in the least handicap the progress of an older and advanced world. Neither can environmental limitations, even on an isolated world, thwart the personal attainment of the individual mortal; Jesus of Nazareth, as a man among men, personally achieved the status of light and life over nineteen hundred years ago on Urantia.
55:12.1 (636.2)
We cannot positively forecast what would occur when a superuniverse became settled in light because such an event has never factualized. From the teachings of the Melchizedeks, which have never been contradicted, we infer that sweeping changes would be made in the entire organization and administration of every unit of the creations of time and space extending from the inhabited worlds to the superuniverse headquarters.
55:12.2 (636.3)
It is generally believed that large numbers of the otherwise unattached creature-trinitized sons are to be assembled on the headquarters and divisional capitals of the settled superuniverses. This may be in anticipation of the sometime arrival of outer-spacers on their way in to Havona and Paradise; but we really do not know.
55:12.3 (636.4)
If and when a superuniverse should be settled in light and life, we believe that the now advisory Unqualified Supervisors of the Supreme would become the high administrative body on the headquarters world of the superuniverse. These are the personalities who are able to contact directly with the absonite administrators, who will forthwith become active in the settled superuniverse. Although these Unqualified Supervisors have long functioned as advisers and counselors in advanced evolutionary units of creation, they do not assume administrative responsibilities until the authority of the Supreme Being becomes sovereign.
55:12.4 (636.5)
The Unqualified Supervisors of the Supreme, who function more extensively during this epoch, are not finite, absonite, ultimate, or infinite; they are supremacy and only represent God the Supreme. They are the personalization of time-space supremacy and therefore do not function in Havona. They function only as supreme unifiers. They may possibly be involved in the technique of universe reflectivity, but we are not certain.
55:12.5 (636.6)
None of us entertain a satisfactory concept of what will happen when the grand universe (the seven superuniverses as dependent on Havona) becomes entirely settled in light and life. That event will undoubtedly be the most profound occurrence in the annals of eternity since the appearance of the central universe. There are those who hold that the Supreme Being himself will emerge from the Havona mystery enshrouding his spirit person and will become residential on the headquarters of the seventh superuniverse as the almighty and experiential sovereign of the perfected creations of time and space. But we really do not know.