Descending+Sons+of+God

DESCENDING SONS OF GOD
== Urantia Book [|Paper 20]:[|1. THE DESCENDING SONS OF GOD] ==

20:1.1 All [|descending] Sons of God have high and [|divine] [|origins]. They are [|dedicated] to the [|descending ministry] of [|service] on the [|worlds] and [|systems] of [|time and space], there to [|facilitate] the [|progress] in the [|Paradise] climb of the lowly [|creatures] of [|evolutionary] [|origin]—the [|ascending sons of God]. Of the numerous orders of descending Sons, seven will be depicted in these [|narratives]. Those Sons who come forth from [|the Deities] on the [|central Isle of Light and Life] are called the //Paradise Sons of God// and [|embrace] the following three orders:
 * 1. [|Creator Sons]—the Michaels.
 * 2. Magisterial Sons —the Avonals.
 * 3. Trinity Teacher Sons —the Daynals.

20:1.2 The remaining four orders of descending sonship are known as the [|Local Universe Sons of God]:
 * 4. Melchizedek Sons.
 * 5. [|Vorondadek] Sons.
 * 6. [|Lanonandek] Sons.
 * 7. The [|Life Carriers].

20:1.3 [|Melchizedeks] are the joint offspring of a [|local universe] [|Creator Son], [|Creative Spirit], and [|Father Melchizedek]. Both [|Vorondadeks] and [|Lanonandeks] are brought into being by a [|Creator Son] and his [|Creative Spirit] associate. //Vorondadeks// are best known as the [|Most Highs], the Constellation Fathers; //Lanonandeks// as [|System Sovereigns] and as [|Planetary Princes]. The threefold order of [|Life Carriers] is brought into being by a [|Creator Son] and [|Creative Spirit] [|associated] with one of the three [|Ancients of Days] of the [|superuniverse] of [|jurisdiction]. But the [|natures] and [|activities] of these [|Local Universe Sons of God] are more properly portrayed in [|those papers dealing with the affairs of the local creations].

20:1.4 The Paradise Sons of God are of threefold origin: The primary or [|Creator Sons] are brought into being by the [|Universal Father] and the [|Eternal Son]; the secondary or [|Magisterial Sons] are children of the [|Eternal Son] and the [|Infinite Spirit]; the [|Trinity Teacher Sons] are the offspring of the [|Father, Son, and Spirit]. From the [|standpoint] of [|service], [|worship], and [|supplication] the Paradise Sons are as one; their spirit is one, and their [|work] is identical in [|quality] and completeness.

20:1.5 As the [|Paradise orders of Days] proved to be [|divine] [|administrators], so have the orders of Paradise Sons [|revealed] themselves as [|divine] ministers—[|creators], servers, bestowers, [|judges], [|teachers], and [|truth] revealers. They range the [|universe of universes] from the shores of the [|eternal Isle] to the [|inhabited worlds] of [|time and space], [|performing] manifold [|services] in the [|central] and [|superuniverses] not disclosed in these [|narratives]. They are variously [|organized], dependent on the [|nature] and whereabouts of their [|service], but in a [|local universe] both [|Magisterial] and [|Teacher Sons] serve under the direction of the [|Creator Son] who presides over that domain.

20:1.6 The [|Creator Sons] seem to possess a [|spiritual] [|endowment] [|centering] in their [|persons], which they [|control] and which they can bestow, as did your own Creator Son when he poured out [|his spirit] upon all [|mortal] [|flesh] on [|Urantia]. Each Creator Son is endowed with this spiritual [|drawing power] in his own realm; he is [|personally] [|conscious] of every [|act] and [|emotion] of every [|descending Son of God] serving in his domain. Here is a [|divine] [|reflection], a [|local universe] duplication, of that [|absolute] [|spiritual] drawing [|power] of the [|Eternal Son] which enables him to reach out to make and maintain contact with all his Paradise Sons, no matter where they may be in all the [|universe of universes].

20:1.7 The [|Paradise] [|Creator Sons] serve not only as Sons in their descending ministrations of service and bestowal, but when they have completed their [|bestowal careers], each [|functions] as a universe [|Father] in his own [|creation], while the other Sons of God continue the [|service] of [|bestowal] and spiritual uplifting designed to win the [|planets], one by one, to the willing [|recognition] of the loving rule of the [|Universal Father], culminating in [|creature] [|consecration] to the [|will] of the [|Paradise Father] and in planetary [|loyalty] to the [|universe sovereignty] of his [|Creator Son].

20:1.8 In a [|sevenfold Creator Son], [|Creator] and [|creature] are [|forever blended] in [|understanding], [|sympathetic], and [|merciful] [|association]. The entire order of Michael, the Creator Sons, is so [|unique] that the consideration of their natures and activities will be reserved to the [|next paper in this series], while this narrative will be chiefly concerned with the two remaining orders of Paradise sonship: the Magisterial Sons and the Trinity Teacher Sons.