Meredith Sprunger's Synopsis of The Urantia Book
Synopsis of Paper 22
THE TRINITIZED SONS OF GOD
1. The Trinitized Sons of Attainment —the Mighty Messengers, Those High in Authority, and Those without Name and Number—are all Adjuster‑fused ascendant mortals who have attained Paradise and the Corps of the Finality. But they are not finaliters; when they have been Trinity embraced, their names are removed from the finaliter roll call...;The Trinitized Sons of Selection embrace the Trinitized Custodians and the Trinitized Ambassadors. They are recruited from certain of the evolutionary seraphim and translated midway creatures who have traversed Havona and have attained Paradise, as well as from certain of the Spirit‑fused and the Son‑fused mortals who have likewise ascended to the central Isle of Light and Life ... The Trinitized Sons of Perfection: The Celestial Guardians and their co‑ordinates, the High Son Assistants, comprise a unique group of twice‑trinitized personalities. They are the creature‑trinitized sons of Paradise‑Havona personalities or of perfected ascendant mortals who have long distinguished themselves in the Corps of the Finality.
2. Trinity‑embraced beings have never gone astray...The Sons of Attainment and the Sons of Selection have never faltered in the service of Orvonton, but the Trinitized Sons of Perfection have sometimes erred in judgment and thereby caused transient confusion.
3. Trinitized Sons of Perfection do not leave the superuniverse of assignment, but their trinitized associates range the grand universe ... Apparently the Trinity‑embraced sons have been permanently assigned to the service of the seven superuniverses; certainly this assignment is for the duration of the present universe age, but we have never been informed that it is to be eternal.
4. Mighty Messengers ... are a class of perfected mortals who have been rebellion tested or otherwise equally proved as to their personal loyalty ... they are trinitized...and subsequently are commissioned to become associated with the Ancients of Days in the administration of the governments of the seven superuniverses.
5. Every ascendant mortal of insurrectionary experience who functions loyally in the face of rebellion is eventually destined to become a Mighty Messenger of the superuniverse service. Likewise is any ascendant creature who effectively prevents such upheavals of error, evil, or sin; for action designed to prevent rebellion or to effect higher types of loyalty in a universe crisis is regarded as of even greater value than loyalty in the face of actual rebellion.
6. I am a Mighty Messenger, and it may interest Urantians to know that the companion and associate of my mortal experience was also triumphant in the great test.. and that, though vie were many times and for long periods separated in the agelong inward ascent to Havona, we were embraced in the same seven‑hundred‑thousand group, and that we spent our time passing through Vicegerington in close and loving association. We were finally commissioned and together assigned to Uversa of Orvonton, and we are often dispatched in company for the execution of assignments requiring the services of two Messengers.
7. In the superuniverse courts, Mighty Messengers act as defenders of both individuals and planets when they come up for adjudication ... They are stationed on the various headquarters worlds and on individual planets of importance as the official observers of the Ancients of Days ... The Messengers take active part in all phases of the ascendant scheme of mortal progression.
8. Mighty Messengers are fully conscious of their entire ascendant careers, and that is why they are such useful and sympathetic minister, understanding messengers, for service on any world of space and to any creature of time. As soon as you are delivered from the flesh, you will communicate freely and understandingly with us since we spring from all the races on all the evolutionary worlds of space, that is, from those mortal races that are indwelt by, and subsequently fused with, Thought Adjusters.
9. Those High in Authority...are all Adjuster‑fused beings of mortal origin. These are the perfected mortals who have exhibited superior administrative ability and have shown extraordinary executive genius throughout their long ascending careers...Those High in Authority are administrators without limitation. They are the everywhere‑present and always‑efficient executives of the Ancients of Days.
10. Having superb administrative wisdom and unusual executive skill, these brilliant beings assume to present the cause of justice in behalf of the superuniverse tribunals...Therefore, if you should ever be cited for errors of judgment while you are ascending the worlds and spheres of your ordained cosmic progression, it is hardly likely that you would suffer injustice since your prosecutors would be onetime ascendant creatures who are personally familiar with every step of the career you have traversed and are traversing.
11. Those without Name and Number ... are the ascendant souls who have developed the ability to worship beyond the skill of all the sons and daughters of the evolutionary races from the worlds of time and space ... They are the supreme jurors of Orvonton...Adjudication is the highest function of any government, and those who are entrusted with verdict rendering should be chosen from the highest and most noble types of the most experienced and understanding individuals.
12. You mortals who read this message may yourselves ascend to Paradise, attain the Trinity embrace, and in remote future ages be attached to the service of the Ancients of Days in one of the seven superuniverses, and sometime be assigned to enlarge the revelation of truth to some evolving inhabited planet, even as 1 am now functioning on Urantia.
13. Trinitized Custodians are ascendant seraphim and translated midway creatures who have passed through Havona and have attained Paradise and the Corps of the Finality ... The candidates for the Trinity embrace from among the ascendant seraphim are accorded this recognition because of their valiant co‑operation with some ascendant mortal who attained the Corps of the Finality and was subsequently trinitized...The Trinitized Custodians start out their careers as custodians, and they continue as such in the affairs of the supergovernrents.
14. Trinitized Ambassadors are selected for the Trinity embrace upon the advices of their Havona teachers ... Trinitized Ambassadors are the emissaries of the Ancients of Days for any and all purposes, to any and all worlds or universes within the superuniverse of their assignment.
15. The techniques of trinitization are among the secrets of Vicegerington and Solitarington and are revealable to, and understandable by, none save those who have passed through these unique experiences ... Aside from the Deities, only Paradise‑Havona personalities and certain members of each of the finaliter corps engage in trinitization ... The glorified creatures who engage in such adventure of trinitization may participate in only one such experience, whereas with the Paradise Deities there seems to be no limit to the continued enactment of trinitization episodes.
16. The ascendant Adjuster‑fused mortal finaliters who have attained certain levels of Paradise culture and spiritual development are among those who can essay to trinitize a creature being ... Unbelievably long periods of time are sometimes consumed in these adventures ... And not always do these devoted couples meet with success; many times they fail, and that through no discoverable error on their part. Candidates for trinitization who thus fail are admitted to a special group of finaliters who are designated as beings who have made the supreme effort and sustained the supreme disappointment.
17. The two ancestors of a creature‑trinitized son become in a certain sense spiritually as one ... No created being in the universe can fully explain this amazing phenomenon; it is a near‑divine experience ... During the current universe age, all trinitization‑united parents are inseparable in assignment and function; where one goes the other goes, what one does the other does.
18. The Seven Master Spirits have authority to sanction the trinitizing union of finaliters and Paradise‑Havona personalities, and such mixed liaisons are always successful...These trinitized sons of destiny embody ideas, ideals, and experience which apparently pertain to a future universe age and are therefore of no immediate practical value to either the super ‑ or central universe administrations...they are engaged in the study of the concepts of time and the realities of eternity in a special sector of the sphere occupied by the secret colleges of the corps of the Creator Sons.
19. The Celestial Guardians are the officers of the courts of the Ancients of Days, functioning as court messengers and as bearers of the summonses and decisions of the various tribunals of the superuniverse governments ... they go forth from Uversa to bring back beings whose presence is required before the superuniverse judges; they execute the mandates for the detention of any personality in the superuniverse.
20. The Celestial Guardians and their associates, the High Son Assistants, have never been indwelt by Adjusters ... These twice‑trinitized sons are marvelous beings, but they are neither as versatile nor dependable as their ascendant associates; they lack that tremendous and profound personal experience which the rest of the sons belonging to this group have acquired by actually climbing up to glory from the dark domains of space ... There is simply nothing in all universal existence which can take the place of actual personal experience, and these creature‑trinitized sons are held in reserve for experiential function in some future universe epoch.
21. On the mansion worlds I have often seen these dignified officers of the high courts of the superuniverse look so longingly and appealingly at even the recent arrivals from the evolutionary worlds of space that one could not help realizing that these possessors of nonexperiential trinitization really envied their supposedly less fortunate brethren who ascend the universal path by steps of bona fide experience and actual living.
22. The High Son Assistants are the superior group of the retrinitized trinitized sons of glorified ascendant beings of the Mortal Corps of the Finality and of their eternal associates, the Paradise‑Havona personalities. They are assigned to the superuniverse service and function as personal aids to the high sons of the government of the Ancients of Days. They might fittingly be denominated private secretaries.
23. These beings owe their very existence to the fact that they are the personification of a single and supreme concept ... Can you not see that such living concentrations of a single supreme concept of universe reality would be of untold service to those who are entrusted with the administration of the superuniverses?
24. High Son Assistants are unique and original personalizations of tremendous concepts and stupendous ideals ... They are touchingly affectionate, superbly loyal, exquisitely intelligent, supremely wise—regarding a single idea—and transcendently humble. While they can impart to you the lore of the universe concerning their one idea or ideal, it is well‑nigh pathetic to observe them seeking knowledge and information on hosts of other subjects, even from the ascending mortals.
Discussion Questions
1. Do you think that like-spirited persons who have worked together in their mortal lives will be re-associated in work on the Mansion Worlds?
2. What type of experience on our world might qualify people to become Mighty Messengers?
3. What kind of experience on our world might qualify people to become Those High in Authority?
4. What criteria points to a superior spiritual mind and the ability to worship more effectively than most people?
5. Do you think creature trinitization is more analogous to human marital relationships, companion relationships, or research relationships?
6. What is it about evolutionary experience that makes mortals is some ways superior to twice-trinitized beings like Celestial Guardians and High Son Assistants?
7. Why are new concepts associated with trinitization?
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