Meredith Sprunger's Synopsis of The Urantia Book
Synopsis of Paper 19
THE CO-ORDINATE TRINITY-ORIGIN BEINGS
1. Those Trinity‑origin beings to be considered in this discussion are:
1. Trinity Teacher Sons.
2. Perfectors of Wisdom.
3. Divine Counselors.
4. Universal Censors.
5. Inspired Trinity Spirits.
6. Havona Natives.
7. Paradise Citizens.
Excepting the Trinity Teacher Sons and possibly the Inspired Trinity Spirits, these groups are of definite numbers; their creation is a finished and past event.
2. Of all the high orders of celestial personalities revealed to you, the Trinity Teacher Sons alone act in a dual capacity. By origin of Trinity nature, in function they are almost wholly devoted to the services of divine sonship. They are the liaison beings who bridge the universe gulf between Trinity—and dual‑origin personalities ... Teacher Sons are the supreme co‑ordinating personalities of Trinity origin. In such a far-flung universe of universes there is always great danger of succumbing to the error of the circumscribed viewpoint, to the evil inherent in a segmentalized conception of reality and divinity.
3. The human mind would ordinarily crave to approach the cosmic philosophy portrayed in these revelations by proceeding from the simple and the finite to the complex and the infinite, from human origins to divine destinies. But that path does not lead to spiritual wisdom ... The true perspective of any reality problem—human or divine, terrestrial or cosmic—can be had only by the full and unprejudiced study and correlation of three phases of universe reality; origin, history, and destiny. The proper understanding of these three experiential realities affords the basis for a wise estimate of the current status.
4. When the human mind undertakes to follow the philosophic technique of starting from the lower to approach the higher, whether in biology or theology, it is always in danger of committing four errors of reasoning:
1. It may utterly fail to perceive the final and completed evolutionary goal of either personal attainment or cosmic destiny.
2. It may commit the supreme philosophical blunder by oversimplifying cosmic evolutionary (experiential) reality, thus leading to the distortion of facts, to the perversion of truth, and to the misconception of destinies.
3. The study of causation is the perusal of history. But the knowledge of how a being becomes does not necessarily provide an intelligent understanding of the present status and true character of such a being.
4. History alone fails adequately to reveal future development—destiny ... The present can be truly interpreted only in the light of the correlated past and future.
5. The Perfectors of Wisdom are a specialized creation of the Paradise Trinity designed to personify the wisdom of divinity in the superuniverses ... they are wholly occupied with the administration of the superuniverse governments ... They are the sources of wisdom for all teachers in the application of universe knowledge; they are the fountains of discretion and the wellsprings of discrimination to the institutions of learning and discernment in all universes.
6. Wisdom is twofold in origin, being derived from the perfection of divine insight inherent in perfect beings and from the personal experience acquired by evolutionary creatures… Accordingly, whenever in the conduct of the superuniverse it is desired to achieve the maximum of administrative wisdom, these perfectors of the wisdom of divine insight are always associated. with those ascendant personalities who have come up to the high responsibilities of superuniverse authority through the experiential tribulations of evolutionary progression.
7. The Perfectors of Wisdom will always require this complement of experiential wisdom for the completion of their administrative sagacity. But it has been postulated that a high and hitherto unattained level of wisdom may possibly be achieved by the Paradise finaliters after they are sometime inducted into the seventh stage of spirit existence.. If this inference is correct, then would such perfected beings of evolutionary ascent undoubtedly become the most effective universe administrators to be known in all creation. I believe that such is the high destiny of finaliters..
8. The Perfectors of Wisdom and my order of personality, the Divine Counselors, together with the Universal Censors, constitute the highest orders of beings who may and do engage in the work of revealing truth to the individual planets and systems, whether in their earlier epochs or when settled in light and life.
9. One Perfector of Wisdom, seven Divine Counselors, and one Universal Censor constitute a tribunal of Trinity divinity, the highest mobile advisory body in the universe of time and space...When the tribunal of nine arrives at a decision following its united deliberations, to all intents and purposes the Ancients of Days have spoken.
10. Divine Counselors are the perfection of the divine counsel of the Paradise Trinity. We represent, in fact are, the counsel of perfection ... Seven Divine Counselors in liaison with a trinitized evolutionary trio ... represent the nearest superuniverse approach to the union of the human viewpoint and the divine attitude on near‑paradisiacal levels of spiritual meanings and reality values. Such close approximation of the united cosmic attitudes, of the creature and the Creator is only surpassed in the Paradise bestowal Sons, who are, in every phase of personality experience, God and man,
11. Universal Censors ... are the judgment of the Paradise Trinity. Even the Ancients of Days do not sit in judgment except in association with the Universal Censors. One Censor is commissioned on each of the billion worlds of the central universe…we ... suspect that they are there in anticipation of the needs of some future universe age in which the Havona population may partially change.
12. The Censors are universe totaling personalities. When a thousand witnesses have given testimony—or a million ... then the Censor functions, and there is immediately revealed an unerring and divine totaling of all that has transpired; and such a disclosure represents the divine conclusion, the sum and substance of a final and perfect decision. Therefore, when a Censor has spoken, no one else may speak ... there is no appeal.
13. It appears to me that the Censors formulate new meanings and originate new values from the association of the facts, truths, and findings presented to them in the course of an investigation of universe affairs...Having made due allowances for all that we know or conjecture about the functioning of a censor in any given universe situation, we find that we are still unable to predict decisions or to forecast verdicts ... It seems likely that the Censors are in some manner in liaison with the Deity Absolute; we are otherwise unable to explain many of their decisions and rulings.
14. 1 will be able to tell you very little concerning the Inspired Trinity Spirits, for they are one of the few wholly secret orders of beings in existence ... Under certain conditions these Inspired Spirits can individualize themselves sufficiently for recognition by beings of Trinity origin...They have no clearly discernible place in the present economy or administration of the evolving seven superuniverses ... The Melchizedeks of Nebadon teach that Inspired Trinity Spirits are destined, sometime in the eternal future, to function in the places of the Solitary Messengers, whose ranks are slowly but certainly being depleted by their assignment as associates of certain types of trinitized sons.
15. When a Solitary Messenger is on a planet whose inhabitants are indwelt by Thought Adjusters, as on Urantia, he is aware of a qualitative excitation in his detection-sensitivity to spirit presence…This suggests that Thought Adjusters are in some manner related to, or are connected with, the Inspired Spirits of the Paradise Trinity.
16. We know that the Trinity Teacher Sons are devoted to the conscious enlightenment of universe creatures. I have arrived at the settled conclusion that the Inspired Trinity Spirits, by superconscious techniques, are also functioning as teachers of the realms. I am persuaded that there is a vast body of essential spiritual knowledge, truth indispensable to high spiritual attainment, which cannot be consciously received.
17. 1 am satisfied that there are no arbitrary secrets in the universe; therefore will I never cease in my efforts to solve the mystery of the isolation of these Spirits belonging to my order of creation. And from all this, you mortals, just now taking your first step on the eternal journey, can well see that you must advance a long way before you will progress by "sight" and "material" assurance. You will long use faith and be dependent on revelation if you hope to progress quickly and safely.
18. The Havona natives are the direct creation of the Paradise Trinity, and their number is beyond the concept of your circumscribed minds ... You can never truly envisage these glorious creatures; you must await your arrival in Havona, when you can greet them as spirit comrades. During your long sojourn on the billion worlds of Havona culture you will develop an eternal friendship for these superb beings. And how deep is that friendship which grows up between the lowest personal creature from the worlds of space and these high personal beings native to the perfect spheres of the central universe ... The good to both ascending mortal and Havona native is great and mutual.
19. Havoners may evolve in status ... This is illustrated by those Havoners who service‑factualize capacity for fusion with a non‑Adjuster Father fragment and so qualify for membership in the Mortal Corps of the Finality. And there are other finaliter corps open to these natives of the central universe. The status evolution of Havona natives has occasioned much speculation on Uversa…we do not believe that Havona will ever be entirely depleted of its natives. We have entertained the theory that Havoners will possibly cease entering the finaliter corps sometime during the ages of the successive creations of the outer space levels.
20. There are resident on Paradise numerous groups of superb beings, the Paradise Citizens. They are not directly concerned with the scheme of perfecting ascending will creatures and are not, therefore, fully revealed to Urantia mortals.
21. Trinity‑origin beings possess prerogatives of transit which make them independent of transport personalities, such as seraphim...we can reach any point in a superuniverse, from its headquarters, in less than one year of Urantia time. It required 109 days of your time for me to journey from Uversa to Urantia.
Through these same avenues we are enabled to intercommunicate instantaneously.
Discussion Questions
1. What circumscribed views of reality and divinity will the Urantia Synopsis of Papers help to change on our world?
2. Why does going from the simple and finite to the complex and infinite not lead to spiritual wisdom?
3. Usually our society regards a knowledge of history as the best way to anticipate the future; why is this historical approach inadequate?
4. What is the best way to present the deductive approach of the Urantia Synopsis of Papers to the average person of our world?
5. Why do you suppose there may be “a vast body of essential spiritual knowledge” which cannot be consciously received? How should we regard the unconscious aspects of our lives?
6. How does one integrate the divine insight of revelation with the wisdom of human experience?
7. What is the significance of the Divine Counselor’s prediction that we may become “the most effective universe administrators to be known in all creation?”
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