Meredith Sprunger's Synopsis of The Urantia Book
Synopsis of Paper 31
THE CORPS OF THE FINALITY
1. The Corps of Mortal Finaliters represents the present known destination of the ascending Adjuster‑fused mortals of time...The primary finaliter corps is composed of the following:
1. Havona Natives.
2. Gravity Messengers.
3. Glorified Mortals
4. Adopted Seraphim.
5. Glorified Material Sons.
6. Glorified Midway Creatures.
All the ascendant creatures admitted to this corps are received in exalted equality, but this equality in no way abrogates individuality or destroys personal identity. We can immediately discern, in communicating with a finaliter, whether he is an ascendant mortal, Havona native, adopted seraphim, midway creature, or Material Son.
2. During the present universe age the finaliters return to serve in the universes of time. They are assigned to labor successively in the different superuniverses and never in their native superuniverses until after they have served in all the other six supercreations. Thus may they acquire the sevenfold concept of the Supreme Being. There is no domain of universe service to which they are not assigned; they function universally and with alternating and equal periods of assigned duty and free service...the finaliters are now wholly a self‑governing body ... No outside influence can ever be brought to bear upon their policies, and their path of allegiance is only to the Paradise Trinity.
3. We do not directly manage them or control them, and yet they are absolutely loyal and always co‑operative with all our plans. They are indeed the accumulating tried and true souls of time and space—the evolutionary salt of the universe—and they are forever proof against evil and secure against sin.
4. The corps is organized for temporary service in companies of one thousand, the ascendant creatures numbering 997 to one Havona native and one Gravity Messenger...The Havona recruits follow the company of their assignment; wherever the group goes, they go. And you should see their enthusiasm in the new work of the finaliters. The possibility of attaining the Corps of the Finality is one of the superb thrills of Havona; the possibility of becoming a finaliter is one of the supreme adventures of these perfect races.
5. Wherever and whenever Gravity Messengers are functioning, the finaliters are in command ... They are invaluable to the finaliters even now, and they will be all-serviceable in the eternal future. No other group of intelligent creatures possesses such a personalized messenger corps able to transcend time and space. Similar types of messenger‑recorders attached to other finaliter corps are not personalized; they are absonitized.
6. Gravity Messengers hail from Divinington, and they are modified and personalized Adjusters, but no one of our Uversa group will undertake to explain the nature of one of these messengers. We know they are highly personal beings, divine, intelligent, and touchingly understanding, but we do not comprehend their timeless technique of traversing space. They seem to be competent to utilize any and all energies, circuits, and even gravity.
7. Gravity Messengers may be attached to a finaliter company in unlimited numbers, but only one messenger, the chief of his fellows, is mustered into the Mortal Corps of the Finality. This chief however has assigned to him a permanent staff of 999 fellow messengers, and as occasion may require, he may call upon the reserves of the order for assistants in unlimited numbers.
8. There undoubtedly remains one more step in the career of the Mortal Corps of the Finality ... we surmise that the bestowal of seventh‑spirit classification upon the Mortal Corps of the Finality will be simultaneous with their advancement to eternal assignment for service on hitherto unrecorded and unrevealed spheres and concomitant with their attainment of God the Supreme.
9. The mortal finaliters ... have attained the present limit of spirit progression but not finality of ultimate spirit status. They have achieved the present limit of creature perfection but not finality of creature service. They have experienced the fullness of Deity worship but not finality of experiential Deity attainment… It seems evident to us that the present assignments of the perfected evolutionary creatures partake of the nature of post‑graduate courses in universe understanding and superuniverse administration; and we all ask, "Why should the Gods be so concerned in so thoroughly training surviving mortals in the technique of universe management?”
10. Many of the faithful seraphic guardians of mortals are permitted to go through the ascendant career with their human wards, and many of these guardian angels, after becoming Father fused, join their subjects in taking the finaliter oath of eternity and forever accept the destiny of their mortal associates.
11. There is provision in the universes of time and space whereby the Adamic citizens of the local systems, when long delayed in receiving planetary assignment, may initiate a petition for release from permanent‑citizenship status. And if granted, they join the ascending pilgrims on the universe capitals and thence proceed onward to Paradise and the Corps of the Finality.
When an advanced evolutionary world attains the later eras of the age of light and life, the Material Sons, the Planetary Adam and Eve, may elect to humanize, receive Adjusters, and embark upon the evolutionary course of universe ascent leading to the Corps of Mortal Finaliters. Certain of these Material Sons have partially failed or technically defaulted in their mission as biologic accelerators, as Adam did on Urantia; and then are they compelled to take the natural course, of the peoples of the realm, receive Adjusters, pass through death, and progress by faith through the ascendant regime, subsequently attaining Paradise and the Corps of the Finality.
These Material Sons are not to be found in many finaliter companies. Their presence lends great potential to the possibilities of high service for such a group, and they are invariably chosen as its leaders.
12. On many planets the midway creatures are produced in large numbers, but they seldom tarry on their native world subsequent to its being settled in light and life. Then, or soon thereafter, they are released from permanent‑citizenship status and start on the ascension to Paradise, passing through the morontia worlds, the superuniverse, and Havona in company with the mortals of time and space.
13. At the present time every finaliter company numbers 999 personalities of oath status, permanent members. The vacant place is occupied by the chief of attached Evangels of Light assigned on any single mission. But these beings are only transient members of the corps. Any celestial personality assigned to the service of any finaliter corps is denominated an Evangel of Light.
14. As the Mortal Corps of the Finality is at present constituted, there are just six classes of permanent members ... We of Uversa often conjecture respecting the identity of the seventh group of finaliters...But we will most likely await the entrance of the finaliters upon their seventh stage of spirit attainment before we really know.
15. Part of the perfected mortal's experience on Paradise as a finaliter consists in the effort to achieve comprehension of the nature and function of more than one thousand groups of the transcendental supercitizens of Paradise, eventuated beings of absonite attributes...man's first serious contact with a Transcendentaler occurs on that eventful occasion when, as a member of a new finaliter group, the mortal ascender stands in the finaliter receiving circle as the Trinity oath of eternity is administered by the chief of Transcendentalers, the presiding head of the Architects of the Master Universe.
16. The Architects of the Master Universe are the governing corps of the Paradise Transcendentalers. This governing corps numbers 28,011 personalities possessing master minds, superb spirits, and supernal absonites. The presiding officer of this magnificent group, the senior Master Architect, is the co‑ordinating head of all Paradise intelligences below the level of Deity.
17. The senior Master Architect has the oversight of the seven Corps of the Finality. and they are:
1. The Corps of Mortal Finaliters.
2. The Corps of Paradise Finaliters.
3. The Corps of Trinitized Finaliters.
4. The Corps of Conjoint Trinitized Finaliters.
5. The Corps of Havona Finaliters.
6. The Corps of Transcendental Finaliters.
7. The Corps of Unrevealed Sons of Destiny.
The gathering together of these seven finaliter corps signifies reality mobilization of potentials, personalities, minds, spirits, absonites, and experiential actualities that probably transcend even the future master universe functions of the Supreme Being.
18. We venture the forecast of future and greater outer universes of inhabited worlds, new spheres peopled with new orders of exquisite and unique beings, a material universe sublime in its ultimacy, a vast creation lacking in only one important detail—the presence of actual finite experience in the universal life of ascendant existence...And many of us speculate that it may be the mission of the gradually accumulating reserves of the ascendant and perfected mortals of the Corps of the Finality, in association with the other six similarly recruiting corps, to administer these outer universes in an effort to compensate their experiential deficiencies in not having participated in the time‑space evolution of the Supreme Being.
19. It is increasingly the belief of all Uversa that the assembling Corps of the Finality are destined to some future service in the universes of outer space, where we already are able to identify the clustering of at least seventy thousand aggregations of matter, each of which is greater than any one of the present superuniverses.
Discussion Questions
1. Contrast human destiny in the Corps of the Finality with the Christian vision of heaven. How will the more complex and distant goal of the Corps of the Finality effect human motivation?
2. What is it about the training of the glorified mortals that makes them received in equality with Havona natives, Seraphim, or Material Sons?
3. Why is service in the Corps of Mortal Finaliters one of the supreme adventures of the Havona natives?
4. What is the purpose of telling mortals about Transcendentalers who are superpersonalities eventuated with absonite attributes?
5. Do you think the inability of the exalted beings of Uversa to understand the Gravity Messengers ability to transcend time and space is due to a lack of available knowledge or a planned universe mystery?
6. Why are human beings being so thoroughly trained in the techniques of universe management?
7. The entire ascendant career shows that the attainment of goals is only the beginning of larger opportunities. What larger potentials do you see confronting us as the result of receiving the larger perspectives of the Fifth Epochal Revelation?
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