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1.
The first stage of light and
life. A world in this initial settled stage is being
administered by three rulers:
a. The Planetary
Sovereign, presently to be advised by a counseling Trinity
Teacher Son, in all probability the chief of the terminal
corps of such Sons to function on the planet.
b. The chief of the
planetary corps of finaliters.
c. Adam and Eve,
who function jointly as the unifiers of the dual
leadership of the Prince-Sovereign and the chief of
finaliters.
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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.
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The System Sovereign
has authority to release midway creatures any time after
the first settled stage so that they may humanize in the
morontia by the aid of the Life Carriers and the physical
controllers and, after receiving Thought Adjusters, start
out on their Paradise ascension.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In each succeeding
age of settled existence the finaliters function in
ever-increasing capacities. There exists a close working
connection between the finaliters, the Evening Stars (the
superangels), and the Trinity Teacher Sons.
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During this or the
following age a Teacher Son, assisted by the
ministering-spirit quartette, 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.
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The
ministering-spirit quartettes 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.
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4.
The fourth stage of light
and life. On the 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.
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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.
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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.
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5.
The fifth stage of light and
life. The readjustments of this stage of settled
existence pertain almost entirely to the physical domains
and are of primary concern to the Master Physical
Controllers.
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6. The sixth stage of
light and life witnesses the development of new
functions of the mind circuits of the realm. Cosmic wisdom
seems to become constitutive in the universe ministry of
mind.
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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.
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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.
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Upon obtaining
release from their agelong assignment, a Planetary Adam
and Eve may select careers as follows:
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1. They can secure
planetary release and from the universe headquarters start
out immediately on the Paradise career, receiving Thought
Adjusters at the conclusion of the morontia experience.
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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.
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3. A Planetary Adam
and Eve may elect -- as do Material Sons and Daughters
from the system capital -- to go direct to the midsonite
world for a brief sojourn, there to receive their
Adjusters.
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4. They may decide to
return to the system headquarters, there for a time to
occupy seats on the supreme court, after which service
they will receive Adjusters and begin the Paradise ascent.
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5. They may choose to
go from their administrative duties back to their native
world to serve as teachers for a season and to become
Adjuster indwelt at the time of transfer to the universe
headquarters.
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Throughout all of
these epochs the imported assisting Material Sons and
Daughters exert a tremendous influence on the progressing
social and economic orders. They are potentially immortal,
at least until such time as they elect to humanize,
receive Adjusters, and start for Paradise.
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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.