40:0.1 (443.1) AS IN many of the major groups of universe beings, seven general classes of the Ascending Sons of God have been revealed:
40:0.1 (443.1) 正如宇宙存有的許多主要群體一樣，神之揚升聖子的七大分類揭示如下：
40:0.2 (443.2) 1. Father-fused Mortals.
40:0.2 (443.2) 1. 與上父融合的凡人。
40:0.3 (443.3) 2. Son-fused Mortals.
40:0.3 (443.3) 2. 與上子融合的凡人。
40:0.4 (443.4) 3. Spirit-fused Mortals.
40:0.4 (443.4) 3. 與上靈融合的凡人。
40:0.5 (443.5) 4. Evolutionary Seraphim.
40:0.5 (443.5) 4. 演化的熾天使。
40:0.6 (443.6) 5. Ascending Material Sons.
40:0.6 (443.6) 5. 揚升的物質之子。
40:0.7 (443.7) 6. Translated Midwayers.
40:0.7 (443.7) 6. 昇化的中道者。
40:0.8 (443.8) 7. Personalized Adjusters.
40:0.8 (443.8) 7. 人格化的調整者。
40:0.9 (443.9) The story of these beings, from the lowly animal-origin mortals of the evolutionary worlds to the Personalized Adjusters of the Universal Father, presents a glorious recital of the unstinted bestowal of divine love and gracious condescension throughout all time and in all universes of the far-flung creation of the Paradise Deities.
40:0.9 (443.9) 這些存有——自演化世界低微動物起源的凡人，一直到萬有之父的人格化調整者——的故事，呈現了一部輝煌記述，述說著神性之愛毫無保留的贈予和恩慈俯就，貫穿一切時間，並遍及天堂神靈廣袤造物中的一切宇宙。
40:0.10 (443.10) These presentations began with a description of the Deities, and group by group, the narrative has descended the universal scale of living beings until it has reached the lowest order of life endowed with the potential of immortality; and now am I dispatched from Salvington—onetime a mortal of origin on an evolutionary world of space—to elaborate and continue the recital of the eternal purpose of the Gods respecting the ascending orders of sonship, more particularly with regard to the mortal creatures of time and space.
40:0.10 (443.10) 這些陳述始於對眾神靈的描述，而此敘事已逐群地沿著有生命存有之萬有階梯而下，直到抵達那具備不朽潛能的最低生命類別；而今，我自薩爾文頓被差遣而來——我曾是一個起源於空間之演化世界的凡人——以闡明並延續關於揚升的聖子身份類別——尤其是關於時間與空間之凡人受造物——的諸神永恆旨意之記述。
40:0.11 (443.11) Since the greater part of this narrative will be devoted to a discussion of the three basic orders of ascending mortals, consideration will first be given to the nonmortal ascending orders of sonship—seraphic, Adamic, midwayer, and Adjuster.
40:0.11 (443.11) 由於此一敘事的較大部分將被用於討論揚升凡人的三個基本類別，因此首先予以考量的，將是非凡人的揚升聖子身份類別──熾天使、亞當、中道者及調整者類別。
40:1.1 (443.12) Mortal creatures of animal origin are not the only beings privileged to enjoy sonship; the angelic hosts also share the supernal opportunity to attain Paradise. Guardian seraphim, through experience and service with the ascending mortals of time, also achieve the status of ascendant sonship. Such angels attain Paradise through Seraphington, and many are even mustered into the Corps of Mortal Finality.
40:1.1 (443.12) 有著動物起源的凡人受造物，並不是唯一享受聖子身份特權的存有；天使眾軍也享有達致天堂的超凡機會。守護熾天使藉由與時間之揚升中凡人的經歷和服務，也能達致揚升聖子身份的地位。這些天使經由天使之都達致天堂，許多甚至被編入凡人終局者團隊。
40:1.2 (443.13) To climb to the supernal heights of finaliter sonship with God is a masterly achievement for an angel, an accomplishment far transcending your attainment of eternal survival through the plan of the Eternal Son and the ever-present help of the indwelling Adjuster; but the guardian seraphim, and occasionally others, do actually effect such ascensions.
40:1.2 (443.13) 對天使而言，攀升至與神的那終局者聖子身份之超凡高度，是一項卓越成就， 一項遠遠超越你們藉由永恆之子的計畫，以及內住調整者始終臨在的幫助而達致永恆續存之成就；但守護熾天使，以及偶爾其他天使，確實能實現這種揚升。
40:2.1 (444.1) The Material Sons of God are created in the local universe along with the Melchizedeks and their associates, who are all classified as descending Sons. And indeed, the Planetary Adams—the Material Sons and Daughters of the evolutionary worlds—are descending Sons, coming down to the inhabited worlds from their spheres of origin, the capitals of the local systems.
40:2.1 (444.1) 神的物質之子連同被歸類為臨降聖子的默基瑟德及其相聯者，一起在地方宇宙中被創造。而確實，行星亞當──演化世界的物質之子與物質之子──是臨降聖子，從其起源的天體——地方系統的首府——下降來到有居住者的世界。
40:2.2 (444.2) When such an Adam and Eve are wholly successful in their joint planetary mission as biologic uplifters, they share the destiny of the inhabitants of their world. When such a world is settled in the advanced stages of light and life, this faithful Material Son and Daughter are permitted to resign all planetary administrative duties, and after being thus liberated from the descending adventure, they are permitted to register themselves as perfected Material Sons on the records of the local universe. Likewise, when planetary assignment is long delayed, may the Material Sons of stationary status—the citizens of the local systems—withdraw from the activities of their status spheres and similarly register as perfected Material Sons. After these formalities such liberated Adams and Eves are accredited as ascending Sons of God and may immediately begin the long journey to Havona and Paradise, starting at the exact point of their then present status and spiritual attainment. And they make this journey in company with the mortal and other ascending Sons, continuing until they have found God and have achieved the Corps of Mortal Finality in the eternal service of the Paradise Deities.
40:2.2 (444.2) 當這樣的一對亞當與夏娃，作為生物提升者，在其共同的行星使命中完全成功時，他們便與其世界的居民共享天命。當這樣的世界安住於光與生命的進階階段時，這忠實的物質之子與物質之子便獲准辭去一切行星行政職務，而在如此從臨降冒險中解脫出來後，他們被允許在地方宇宙的記錄中，將自己登記為完美化的物質之子。同樣地，當行星委派長期延遲時，具有駐留地位的物質之子——地方系統公民——可以從其地位天體的活動中退出，並同樣登記為完美化的物質之子。在這些正式手續之後，這些獲得解脫的亞當與夏娃便被認可為揚升的神之聖子，並可從他們那時當前地位及靈性達成的確切位置啟程，立即開始前往哈沃納與天堂的漫長旅程。他們與凡人及其他的揚升聖子同行，繼續此一旅程，直到他們已尋見神，並獲得那處於天堂眾神靈的永恆服務中的凡人終局者團隊。
40:3.1 (444.3) Although deprived of the immediate benefits of the planetary bestowals of the descending Sons of God, though the Paradise ascent is long deferred, nevertheless, soon after an evolutionary planet has attained the intermediate epochs of light and life (if not before), both groups of midway creatures are released from planetary duty. Sometimes the majority of them are translated, along with their human cousins, on the day of the descent of the temple of light and the elevation of the Planetary Prince to the dignity of Planetary Sovereign. Upon being relieved of planetary service, both orders are registered in the local universe as ascending Sons of God and immediately begin the long Paradise ascent by the very routes ordained for the progression of the mortal races of the material worlds. The primary group are destined to various finaliter corps, but the secondary or Adamic midwayers are all routed for enrollment in the Mortal Corps of Finality.
40:3.1 (444.3) 雖然被剝奪了臨降神之聖子行星贈予的直接益處，儘管天堂揚升被長期推遲，然而，在一顆演化行星已達致光與生命的中間紀元後不久（若非更早），兩個群體的中道受造物都會從行星職責中解放出來。有時，他們中的大多數會和其人類表親一起，在光之聖殿降臨以及行星君王提升至行星主權者之尊位的那一天，獲得昇化。在解除行星服務之際，兩個類別都會在地方宇宙中被登記為揚升的神之聖子，並立即循著為物質世界的凡人種族之進展所制定的同一路徑，開始漫長的天堂揚升。原生群組注定會進入各種終局者團隊，而次生，亦即亞當中道者，則全都依既定路線登記加入凡人終局者團隊。
40:4.1 (444.4) When the mortals of time fail to achieve the eternal survival of their souls in planetary association with the spirit gifts of the Universal Father, such failure is never in any way due to neglect of duty, ministry, service, or devotion on the part of the Adjuster. At mortal death, such deserted Monitors return to Divinington, and subsequently, following the adjudication of the nonsurvivor, they may be reassigned to the worlds of time and space. Sometimes, after repeated services of this sort or following some unusual experience, such as functioning as the indwelling Adjuster of an incarnated bestowal Son, these efficient Adjusters are personalized by the Universal Father.
40:4.1 (444.4) 當時間之凡人未能與萬有之父的靈之恩賜的行星相聯中，達成他們靈魂之永恆續存時，這種失敗絕非起因於調整者在職責、事奉、服務或奉獻上的任何疏忽。在凡人死亡時，這些被遺下的告誡者返回神之聖都，並在對非續存者的裁決之後，他們隨後可能被重新委派到時間與空間之世界。有時候，在重複此類服務，或接在某些不尋常的體驗後，例如履行化身贈與聖子之內駐調整者的職能，這些高效的調整者會由萬有之父予以人格化。
40:4.2 (445.1) Personalized Adjusters are beings of a unique and unfathomable order. Originally of existential prepersonal status, they have experientialized by participation in the lives and careers of the lowly mortals of the material worlds. And since the personality bestowed upon these experienced Thought Adjusters takes origin, and has its wellspring, in the Universal Father’s personal and continuing ministry of the bestowals of experiential personality upon his creature creation, these Personalized Adjusters are classified as ascending Sons of God, the highest of all such orders of sonship.
40:4.2 (445.1) 人格化的調整者是獨特且深不可測類別的存有。原本具有存在性的前人格地位，他們透過參與物質世界低微凡人之生活與生涯而經驗化。並且，由於贈與這些具經驗之思想調整者的人格，起源於——且其源泉亦在於——萬有之父親自且持續將經驗性人格體贈予到其受造物界的事奉，這些人格化的調整者被歸類為揚升的神之聖子，並且是所有這些聖子身份類別中最高的一類。
40:5.1 (445.2) Mortals represent the last link in the chain of those beings who are called sons of God. The personal touch of the Original and Eternal Son passes on down through a series of decreasingly divine and increasingly human personalizations until there arrives a being much like yourselves, one you can see, hear, and touch. And then you are made spiritually aware of the great truth which your faith may grasp—sonship with the eternal God!
40:5.1 (445.2) 凡人代表了那些被稱為神之子的存有長鏈中的最後一環。原初永恆之子的人格接觸，經由一系列神性遞減與人性漸增的人格化，向下傳遞，直到出現一位與你們非常相似的存有，一位你們可以看見、聽見及觸摸的存有。然後你們在靈性上覺知到那你們信仰所能領悟的偉大真理──與永恆神的聖子身份。
40:5.2 (445.3) Likewise does the Original and Infinite Spirit, by a long series of decreasingly divine and increasingly human orders, draw nearer and nearer to the struggling creatures of the realms, reaching the limit of expression in the angels—than whom you were created but a little lower—who personally guard and guide you in the life journey of the mortal career of time.
40:5.2 (445.3) 同樣地，原初無限之靈，經由一長系列神性遞減與人性漸增的類別，越來越接近各領域中奮鬥的受造物，並於天使──你們受造時僅比他們稍低一點──達到其表達的極限，他們在時間之凡人生涯的生命旅程中親自守護並引導著你們。
40:5.3 (445.4) God the Father does not, cannot, thus downstep himself to make such near personal contact with the almost limitless number of ascending creatures throughout the universe of universes. But the Father is not deprived of personal contact with his lowly creatures; you are not without the divine presence. Although God the Father cannot be with you by direct personality manifestation, he is in you and of you in the identity of the indwelling Thought Adjusters, the divine Monitors. Thus does the Father, who is the farthest from you in personality and in spirit, draw the nearest to you in the personality circuit and in the spirit touch of inner communion with the very souls of his mortal sons and daughters.
40:5.3 (445.4) 上父不會，也不能如此降階他自己，以便與遍及由眾多宇宙所組成的宇宙中幾近無限數目的揚升受造物，建立如此近的人格接觸。但上父並被剝奪與其低微受造物人格接觸的權利；你們並非沒有神性的臨在。雖然上父神不能藉由直接的人格顯現與你們同在，他以內駐之思想調整者——神性告誡者——的身份在你們之內，並屬於你們的一部分。如此，在人格與靈之上離你們最遠的上父，卻在人格迴路中，以及在與其凡人子女靈魂本身內在共融的靈之接觸，最為靠近你們。
40:5.4 (445.5) Spirit identification constitutes the secret of personal survival and determines the destiny of spiritual ascension. And since the Thought Adjusters are the only spirits of fusion potential to be identified with man during the life in the flesh, the mortals of time and space are primarily classified in accordance with their relation to these divine gifts, the indwelling Mystery Monitors. This classification is as follows:
40:5.4 (445.5) 靈之認同構成了個人續存的秘密，並決定了靈性揚升的天命。而由於思想調整者是人在肉體生命期間唯一具有融合潛質、能與人形成身分同一的靈，因此時間與空間之凡人，主要是依照其與這些神性恩賜——內住神秘告誡者——的關係而分類。此分類如下：
40:5.5 (445.6) 1. Mortals of the transient or experiential Adjuster sojourn.
40:5.5 (445.6) 1. 經歷短暫或經驗性調整者旅居的凡人。
40:5.6 (445.7) 2. Mortals of the non-Adjuster-fusion types.
40:5.6 (445.7) 2. 非調整者融合類型的凡人。
40:5.7 (445.8) 3. Mortals of Adjuster-fusion potential.
40:5.7 (445.8) 3. 具備調整者融合潛能的凡人。
40:5.8 (445.9) Series one—mortals of the transient or experiential Adjuster sojourn. This series designation is temporary for any evolving planet, being used during the early stages of all inhabited worlds except those of the second series.
40:5.8 (445.9) 第一系列──經歷短暫或經驗性調整者旅居的凡人。對任一演化中行星而言，這一系列的稱號是暫時的，除了第二系列的那些世界以外，它被使用在所有有居住者世界的早期階段期間。
40:5.9 (445.10) Mortals of series one inhabit the worlds of space during the earlier epochs of the evolution of mankind and embrace the most primitive types of human minds. On many worlds like pre-Adamic Urantia great numbers of the higher and more advanced types of primitive men acquire survival capacity but fail to attain Adjuster fusion. For ages upon ages, before man’s ascent to the level of higher spiritual volition, the Adjusters occupy the minds of these struggling creatures during their short lives in the flesh, and the moment such will creatures are indwelt by Adjusters, the group guardian angels begin to function. While these mortals of the first series do not have personal guardians, they do have group custodians.
40:5.9 (445.10) 第一系列的凡人，在人類演化的較早紀元時期，居住於空間世界，擁有著最原始類型的人類心智。在許多像前亞當時代玉苒廈那樣的世界上，大量較高等且較先進類型的原始人，獲得了續存能力，但卻未能達致調整者融合。歷經漫長歲月，在人揚升到較高靈性意志層次之前，調整者在這些奮鬥中受造物短暫肉身生命期間，居於其心智之中，而當調整者內住這些意志受造物的那一刻，群體守護天使便開始履行職能。第一系列的這些凡人雖沒有個人守護者，但他們確實擁有群體監護者。
40:5.10 (446.1) An experiential Adjuster remains with a primitive human being throughout his entire lifetime in the flesh. The Adjusters contribute much to the advancement of primitive men but are unable to form eternal unions with such mortals. This transient ministry of the Adjusters accomplishes two things: First, they gain valuable and actual experience in the nature and working of the evolutionary intellect, an experience which will be invaluable in connection with later contacts on other worlds with beings of higher development. Second, the transient sojourn of the Adjusters contributes much towards preparing their mortal subjects for possible subsequent Spirit fusion. All God-seeking souls of this type achieve eternal life through the spiritual embrace of the Mother Spirit of the local universe, thus becoming ascending mortals of the local universe regime. Many persons from pre-Adamic Urantia were thus advanced to the mansion worlds of Satania.
40:5.10 (446.1) 一位經性調整者在一個原始人類存有整個肉身生命期間與其同在。調整者對原始人們的進步有很多貢獻，但他們無法與這些凡人形成永恆的結合。調整者的這種短暫事奉成就了兩件事：首先，他們在演化智性之本質與運作上獲得寶貴且實際的經驗，這項經驗對於日後在其它世界與更高發展的存有接觸時，將具備無可估量的價值。其次，調整者的短暫旅居，對於使其凡人主體為可能的後續上靈融合做好準備，有著很大的貢獻。所有這類尋求神的靈魂，都是透過地方宇宙母靈的靈性擁抱而獲得永生，從而成為該地方宇宙體制中的揚升凡人。許多來自前亞當時代玉苒廈的個人（persons），以此方式晉升到撒旦尼亞的宅廈世界。
40:5.11 (446.2) The Gods who ordained that mortal man should climb to higher levels of spiritual intelligence through long ages of evolutionary trials and tribulations, take note of his status and needs at every stage of the ascent; and always are they divinely fair and just, even charmingly merciful, in the final judgments of these struggling mortals of the early days of the evolving races.
40:5.11 (446.2) 那些命定凡人應經由漫長歲月的演化試煉與磨難而攀登到更高靈性智能層次的眾神，會在凡人揚升的每一階段留意他的地位與需要；而在對於這些處於演化中種族早期階段的奮鬥中凡人做最終審判時，他們始終在神性上是公平而正義的，甚至帶著令人欣悅的憐憫。
40:5.12 (446.3) Series two—mortals of the non-Adjuster-fusion types. These are specialized types of human beings who are not able to effect eternal union with their indwelling Adjusters. Type classification among the one-, two-, and three-brained races is not a factor in Adjuster fusion; all such mortals are akin, but these non-Adjuster-fusion types are a wholly different and markedly modified order of will creatures. Many of the nonbreathers belong to this series, and there are numerous other groups who do not ordinarily fuse with Adjusters.
40:5.12 (446.3) 第二系列──非調整者融合類型的凡人。這是一些無法實現與其內駐調整者永恆結合的特殊類型人類存有。在單腦、雙腦及三腦種族之間的類型劃分，並非調整者融合的一個因素；所有這些凡人彼此相近，然而這些非調整者融合類型是一種完全不同，且顯著被修改過的意志受造物類別。許多非呼吸者屬於這一系列，並且還有眾多通常不與調整者融合的其他群體。
40:5.13 (446.4) Like series number one, each member of this group enjoys the ministry of a single Adjuster during lifetime in the flesh. During temporal life these Adjusters do everything for their subjects of temporary indwelling that is done on other worlds where the mortals are of fusion potential. The mortals of this second series are often indwelt by virgin Adjusters, but the higher human types are often in liaison with masterful and experienced Monitors.
40:5.13 (446.4) 與第一系列一樣，這一群體中的每一未成員在其肉身生命期間，享有單一調整者的事奉。在時間性的生命期間，這些調整者為其暫時內住的主體做一切，就如同在其它凡人具有融合潛能的世界中所做的一樣。這第二系列的凡人們通常是由初任調整者（virgin Adjusters）所內住，而較高的人類類型則經常與熟練且富有經驗的告誡者相聯結。
40:5.14 (446.5) In the ascendant plan for upstepping the animal-origin creatures, these beings enjoy the same devoted service of the Sons of God as is extended to the Urantia type of mortals. Seraphic co-operation with Adjusters on the nonfusion planets is just as fully provided as on the worlds of fusion potential; the guardians of destiny minister on such spheres just as on Urantia and similarly function at the time of mortal survival, at which time the surviving soul becomes Spirit fused.
40:5.14 (446.5) 在提升動物起源受造物的揚升計畫中，這些存有享有神之聖子同樣盡心的服務，就像提供給玉苒廈類型凡人的服務一樣。在非融合行星上，熾天使與調整者之間的合作，如同在具有融合潛能的世界上一樣，得到充分提供；天命守護者在這些天體上的事奉，就如同在玉苒廈上一樣，並在凡人續存時——此時，續存靈魂成為與上靈融合——同樣地履行職能。
40:5.15 (446.6) When you encounter these modified mortal types on the mansion worlds, you will find no difficulty in communicating with them. There they speak the same system language but by a modified technique. These beings are identical with your order of creature life in spirit and personality manifestations, differing only in certain physical features and in the fact that they are nonfusible with Thought Adjusters.
40:5.15 (446.6) 當你們在宅廈世界上遇到這些經過修改的凡人類型時，你們會發現在與他們的交流上毫無困難。在那裡，他們說著相同的系統語言，但使用一種修改過的技法。這些存有在靈與人格顯現方面，和你們的受造物生命類別完全相同，差異僅在某些物理特徵，以及他們無法與思想調整者融合這一事實。
40:5.16 (447.1) As to just why this type of creature is never able to fuse with the Adjusters of the Universal Father, I am unable to say. Some of us incline to the belief that the Life Carriers, in their efforts to formulate beings capable of maintaining existence in an unusual planetary environment, are confronted with the necessity of making such radical modifications in the universe plan of intelligent will creatures that it becomes inherently impossible to bring about permanent union with the Adjusters. Often have we asked: Is this an intended or an unintended part of the ascension plan? but we have not found the answer.
40:5.16 (447.1) 至於為什麼這種類型的受造物永遠無法與萬有之父的調整者融合，我無法說明。我們之中有些傾向於相信，生命攜帶者在努力制定出能夠在一個不尋常的行星環境中維持存在的存有時，面臨著對智能慧意志受造物的宇宙計畫進行如此徹底修改的必要性，從而使他們在本質上不可能與調整者達成永久的結合。我們經常問道：這是揚升計畫的有意安排的一部分，還是無意造成的一部分？但我們尚未曾找到答案。
40:5.17 (447.2) Series three—mortals of Adjuster-fusion potential. All Father-fused mortals are of animal origin, just like the Urantia races. They embrace mortals of the one-brained, two-brained, and three-brained types of Adjuster-fusion potential. Urantians are of the intermediate or two-brained type, being in many ways humanly superior to the one-brained groups but definitely limited in comparison with the three-brained orders. These three types of physical-brain endowment are not factors in Adjuster bestowal, in seraphic service, or in any other phase of spirit ministry. The intellectual and spiritual differential between the three brain types characterizes individuals who are otherwise quite alike in mind endowment and spiritual potential, being greatest in the temporal life and tending to diminish as the mansion worlds are traversed one by one. From the system headquarters on, the progression of these three types is the same, and their eventual Paradise destiny is identical.
40:5.17 (447.2) 第三系列──具備調整者融合潛能的凡人。所有與上父融合的凡人都具動物起源，就如同玉苒廈各種族一樣。他們包括了具備與調整者融合潛能的單腦、雙腦及三腦類型的凡人。玉苒廈人屬於中間類型或稱雙腦類型，就人類能力而言，在許多方面優於單腦的群體，但與三腦的類別相比則明顯受到限制。這物理大腦稟賦的三個類型，並非是在調整者賜予、熾天使服務，或是在靈之事奉的任何其它方面的因素。這三種大腦類型在智性與靈性上的差異，使那些在心智稟賦與靈性潛能上頗爲相似的個體各具特徵，這種差異在時間性生命中最為巨大，但隨著逐穿越一宅廈世界而趨於縮小。從系統總部開始，這三個類型的進展過程是一樣的，並且他們最終的天堂天命是完全相同的。
40:5.18 (447.3) The unnumbered series. These narratives cannot possibly embrace all of the fascinating variations in the evolutionary worlds. You know that every tenth world is a decimal or experimental planet, but you know nothing of the other variables that punctuate the processional of the evolutionary spheres. There are differences too numerous to narrate even between the revealed orders of living creatures as between planets of the same group, but this presentation makes clear the essential differences in relation to the ascension career. And the ascension career is the most important factor in any consideration of the mortals of time and space.
40:5.18 (447.3) 無編號系列。這些敘述不可能涵蓋演化世界中所有引人入勝的變異。你們知道每第十個世界都是十進制或稱實驗性行星，但你們對於不時打斷演化天體之進程中的其它變數一無所知。甚至在已揭示的有生命受造物類別之間，就像相同群組的行星之間，也存在著多到難以敘述的差異，而本陳述釐清與揚升生涯相關的本質差異。而在任何對時間與空間之凡人的考量中，揚升生涯乃是最重要的因素。
40:5.19 (447.4) As to the chances of mortal survival, let it be made forever clear: All souls of every possible phase of mortal existence will survive provided they manifest willingness to co-operate with their indwelling Adjusters and exhibit a desire to find God and to attain divine perfection, even though these desires be but the first faint flickers of the primitive comprehension of that “true light which lights every man who comes into the world.”
40:5.19 (447.4) 至於凡人續存的機會，務必使這一點永遠清晰明瞭：凡人存在之每一可能階段的所有靈魂都將續存，只要他們表露出與其內住調整者合作的意願，並展現出尋見神與達致神性完美的渴望，即使這些渴望只不過是對那「照亮每個來到世上之人的真光」之原始理解所初現的微弱閃光。
40:6.1 (447.5) The mortal races stand as the representatives of the lowest order of intelligent and personal creation. You mortals are divinely beloved, and every one of you may choose to accept the certain destiny of a glorious experience, but you are not yet by nature of the divine order; you are wholly mortal. You will be reckoned as ascending sons the instant fusion takes place, but the status of the mortals of time and space is that of faith sons prior to the event of the final amalgamation of the surviving mortal soul with some type of eternal and immortal spirit.
40:6.1 (447.5) 凡人種族代表著智能且人格的造物中最低的類別。你們凡人皆蒙神性之愛，而你們每一個人都可以選擇接受那榮耀經歷之必然天命，但從本質上來說你們還不屬於神性類別；你們全然是凡人。在融合發生的那一刻，你們將會被視為揚升之子，但在續存的凡人靈魂與某 一類型的永恆且不朽之靈最終混融之前，時間與空間之凡人的地位還只是信心之子。
40:6.2 (448.1) It is a solemn and supernal fact that such lowly and material creatures as Urantia human beings are the sons of God, faith children of the Highest. “Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God.” “As many as received him, to them gave he the power to recognize that they are the sons of God.” While “it does not yet appear what you shall be,” even now “you are the faith sons of God”; “for you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship, whereby you cry, ‘our Father.’” Spoke the prophet of old in the name of the eternal God: “Even to them will I give in my house a place and a name better than sons; I will give them an everlasting name, one that shall not be cut off.” “And because you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts.”
40:6.2 (448.1) 像玉苒廈人類存有這樣低微且物質性的受造物是神之子——最高者（Highest）之信心子女，這是一個莊嚴且屬天的事實。「看哪！父賜予我們何等的愛，使我們得以被稱為神之子。」 「凡接納他的，他就賜給他們能力，去認識到他們就是神之子。」儘管「你們將會成為何等樣子，還未顯明」，但即便是現在，「你們已是神的信心之子」；「因為你們並未領受使你們再度害怕的奴役之靈，而是領受了聖子身份之靈，藉此你們呼叫『我們的父』。」古時的先知奉永恆神之名說道：「甚至對他們，我必在我的殿中賜給他們一個地方和一個勝過兒子的名號；我將賜予他們一個永久之名，一個不會被斷絕之名。」「而因為你們是兒子，神已差遣其聖子之靈進入你們心中。」
40:6.3 (448.2) All evolutionary worlds of mortal habitation harbor these faith sons of God, sons of grace and mercy, mortal beings belonging to the divine family and accordingly called the sons of God. Urantia mortals are entitled to regard themselves as being the sons of God because:
40:6.3 (448.2) 所有凡人居住的演化世界，都孕育著這些神的信心之子——恩典與憐憫之子，屬於神性家族的凡人存有，因此被稱為神之子。玉苒廈凡人有權視自己為神之子，因為：
40:6.4 (448.3) 1. You are sons of spiritual promise, faith sons; you have accepted the status of sonship. You believe in the reality of your sonship, and thus does your sonship with God become eternally real.
40:6.4 (448.3) 1. 你們是靈性應許之子，是信心之子；你們已經領受了聖子身份的地位。你們相信自己聖子身份的實相，而由此你們與神的聖子身份關係成為永恆的真實。
40:6.5 (448.4) 2. A Creator Son of God became one of you; he is your elder brother in fact; and if in spirit you become truly related brothers of Christ, the victorious Michael, then in spirit must you also be sons of that Father which you have in common—even the Universal Father of all.
40:6.5 (448.4) 2. 神的一位造物聖子成為你們當中的一員；事實上，他是你們的兄長；如果你們就靈而言成為真正與基督——凱旋的邁克爾——有親屬關係的兄弟，那麼就靈而言，你們必然也是你們共同擁有的那位上父──甚至就是一切的萬有之父——之子。
40:6.6 (448.5) 3. You are sons because the spirit of a Son has been poured out upon you, has been freely and certainly bestowed upon all Urantia races. This spirit ever draws you toward the divine Son, who is its source, and toward the Paradise Father, who is the source of that divine Son.
40:6.6 (448.5) 3. 你們是子，因為聖子之靈已傾注在你們身上，毫無保留且確切地賜予所有玉苒廈的種族。該靈始終吸引你們趨向其源頭──神性聖子，並趨向那一神性聖子的源頭──天堂父親。
40:6.7 (448.6) 4. Of his divine free-willness, the Universal Father has given you your creature personalities. You have been endowed with a measure of that divine spontaneity of freewill action which God shares with all who may become his sons.
40:6.7 (448.6) 4. 出於其神性的自由意志，萬有之父已將你們的受造物人格賜予你們。你們已被賦予某種程度的自由意志行動之神聖自發性，那是神與所有可能成為其子的存有所共享的。
40:6.8 (448.7) 5. There dwells within you a fragment of the Universal Father, and you are thus directly related to the divine Father of all the Sons of God.
40:6.8 (448.7) 5. 萬有之父的一個片段居住於你們之內，由此你們便與所有神之子的神性上父有著直接的關係。
40:7.1 (448.8) The sending of Adjusters, their indwelling, is indeed one of the unfathomable mysteries of God the Father. These fragments of the divine nature of the Universal Father carry with them the potential of creature immortality. Adjusters are immortal spirits, and union with them confers eternal life upon the soul of the fused mortal.
40:7.1 (448.8) 調整者的派遣——他們的內駐——確實是上父神深不可測的奧秘之一。萬有之父神性本質的這些片段，本身帶有使受造物不朽的潛能。調整者是不朽之靈，與他們的結合，賦予融合凡人的靈魂永恆的生命。
40:7.2 (448.9) Your own races of surviving mortals belong to this group of the ascending Sons of God. You are now planetary sons, evolutionary creatures derived from the Life Carrier implantations and modified by the Adamic-life infusion, hardly yet ascending sons; but you are indeed sons of ascension potential—even to the highest heights of glory and divinity attainment—and this spiritual status of ascending sonship you may attain by faith and by freewill co-operation with the spiritualizing activities of the indwelling Adjuster. When you and your Adjusters are finally and forever fused, when you two are made one, even as in Christ Michael the Son of God and the Son of Man are one, then in fact have you become the ascending sons of God.
40:7.2 (448.9) 你們自身續存凡人的種族，屬於這一群體的揚升的神之聖子。你們現在是行星之子，是源於生命攜帶者的植入，並經過亞當-生命（Adamic-life）注入所修改的進化受造物，幾乎還不是揚升之子；但你們的確是具有揚升潛能之子──甚至到榮耀與神性達致的最高峰——而這種揚升聖子身份的靈性地位，你們可透過信心，以及與內住調整者之靈性化活動的自由意志合作而達致。當你們與自己的調整者最終且永遠融合，當你們二者合而為一，正如在基督邁克爾身上神子與人子合而為一，那麼，你們在事實上就成為了揚升的神之子。
40:7.3 (449.1) The details of the Adjuster career of indwelling ministry on a probationary and evolutionary planet are not a part of my assignment; the elaboration of this great truth embraces your whole career. I include the mention of certain Adjuster functions in order to make a replete statement regarding Adjuster-fused mortals. These indwelling fragments of God are with your order of being from the early days of physical existence through all of the ascending career in Nebadon and Orvonton and on through Havona to Paradise itself. Thereafter, in the eternal adventure, this same Adjuster is one with you and of you.
40:7.3 (449.1) 關於調整者在一個考驗性且演化的行星上內住事奉的生涯細節，並不屬於我受委派的部分；這偉大真理的闡述，涵蓋你的整個生涯。我之所以提及某些調整者的職能，為的是對與調整者融合的凡人做出一個完整的陳述。這些內駐的神之片段，伴隨著你們這類別存有，從物質性存在的早期，通過所有在內巴頓及奧溫頓的揚升生涯，並繼續經由哈沃納，一直到達天堂本身。此後，在永恆的冒險中，這同一個調整者將與你同在，並成為你的一部分。
40:7.4 (449.2) These are the mortals who have been commanded by the Universal Father, “Be you perfect, even as I am perfect.” The Father has bestowed himself upon you, placed his own spirit within you; therefore does he demand ultimate perfection of you. The narrative of human ascent from the mortal spheres of time to the divine realms of eternity constitutes an intriguing recital not included in my assignment, but this supernal adventure should be the supreme study of mortal man.
40:7.4 (449.2) 這些是曾受到萬有之父「你們要完全，一如我之完全。」命令的凡人。上父已把自身賜予你們，將他自己的靈置於你們之中；因此，他向你們要求終極的完全。人類從時間之凡人天體揚升到永恆之神性領域的敘述，構成了一段不在我委派範圍內的引人入勝記述，但這場超凡的冒險，應當成為凡人至高無上的研習。
40:7.5 (449.3) Fusion with a fragment of the Universal Father is equivalent to a divine validation of eventual Paradise attainment, and such Adjuster-fused mortals are the only class of human beings who all traverse the Havona circuits and find God on Paradise. To the Adjuster-fused mortal the career of universal service is wide open. What dignity of destiny and glory of attainment await every one of you! Do you fully appreciate what has been done for you? Do you comprehend the grandeur of the heights of eternal achievement which are spread out before you?—even you who now trudge on in the lowly path of life through your so-called “vale of tears”?
40:7.5 (449.3) 與萬有之父的片段融合，等同於對終將天堂達致的神性認證，而這些與調整者融合的凡人是唯一一類全部穿越哈沃納迴路，並在天堂尋見神的人類存有。對與調整者融合的凡人而言，宇宙服務之生涯是完全敞開的。等待著你們每一個人的是何等尊貴的天命與何等榮耀的達致！你們是否完全感謝為你們所做的這一切？你們是否理解在你們面前展開的永恆成就高峰的宏偉壯麗？——甚至如今仍在低微的生命道路上，穿越你們所謂「淚之谷」而艱難前行的你們？
40:8.1 (449.4) While practically all surviving mortals are fused with their Adjusters on one of the mansion worlds or immediately upon their arrival on the higher morontia spheres, there are certain cases of delayed fusion, some not experiencing this final surety of survival until they reach the last educational worlds of the universe headquarters; and a few of these mortal candidates for never-ending life utterly fail to attain identity fusion with their faithful Adjusters.
40:8.1 (449.4) 雖然實際上所有續存凡人，都在某一個宅廈世界上，或立即在他們抵達更高的靈質天體之際，與他們的調整者融合，但仍會有一些延遲融合的情況，有些直到他們抵達宇宙總部的最後一些教育世界，才會經歷這種續存的最終保證；而在這些無盡生命的凡人候選者中，有少數完全無法與他們忠實的調整者達致身分融合。
40:8.2 (449.5) Such mortals have been deemed worthy of survival by the adjudicational authorities, and even their Adjusters, by returning from Divinington, have concurred in their ascension to the mansion worlds. Such beings have ascended through a system, a constellation, and through the educational worlds of the Salvington circuit; they have enjoyed the “seventy times seven” opportunities for fusion and still have been unable to attain oneness with their Adjusters.
40:8.2 (449.5) 這些凡人已經被裁決當局視為值得續存，甚至他們的調整者，也藉由自神之聖都返回，已贊同他們揚升至宅廈世界。這些存有已通過了一個系統、一個星座，以及薩爾文頓迴路的教育世界而揚升；他們已享有「七十個七次」的融合機會，而依然無法與他們的調整者達致一體。
40:8.3 (449.6) When it becomes apparent that some synchronizing difficulty is inhibiting Father fusion, the survival referees of the Creator Son are convened. And when this court of inquiry, sanctioned by a personal representative of the Ancients of Days, finally determines that the ascending mortal is not guilty of any discoverable cause for failure to attain fusion, they so certify on the records of the local universe and duly transmit this finding to the Ancients of Days. Thereupon does the indwelling Adjuster return forthwith to Divinington for confirmation by the Personalized Monitors, and upon this leave-taking the morontia mortal is immediately fused with an individualized gift of the spirit of the Creator Son.
40:8.3 (449.6) 當某種同步性的困難顯然正阻礙上父融合時，便會召集造物聖子的續存裁斷者們。當這由亙古常在者的個人代表所批准的調查法庭，最終判定該揚升凡人對於未能達致融合，並無任何可發現而應歸罪於他的原因時，他們便會在地方宇宙的記錄上如此證明，並這一發現正式傳送給亙古常在者。隨即，內住的調整者立刻返回神之聖都，以由人格化告誡者確認，而在此離去之際，該靈質凡人立即與造物聖子之靈的個體化恩賜相融合。
40:8.4 (450.1) Much as the morontia spheres of Nebadon are shared with the Spirit-fused mortals, so do these Son-fused creatures share the services of Orvonton with their Adjuster-fused brethren who are journeying inward towards the far-distant Isle of Paradise. They are truly your brethren, and you will greatly enjoy their association as you pass through the training worlds of the superuniverse.
40:8.4 (450.1) 正如內巴頓的靈質天體由與上靈融合的凡人所共享一樣，這些與上子融合的受造物，也與那些正朝著遙遠的天堂島往內旅行的與調整者融合的弟兄們，共享奧溫頓的服務。他們確實是你們的弟兄，當你們穿越超級宇宙的訓練世界時，你們將極大地享受他們的相伴。
40:8.5 (450.2) Son-fused mortals are not a numerous group, there being less than one million of them in the superuniverse of Orvonton. Aside from residential destiny on Paradise they are in every way the equals of their Adjuster-fused associates. They frequently journey to Paradise on superuniverse assignment but seldom permanently reside there, being, as a class, confined to the superuniverse of their nativity.
40:8.5 (450.2) 與聖子融合的凡人並不是一個為數眾多的群體，在奧溫頓超級宇宙中不到一百萬。除了在天堂上的居住天命之外，他們在各方面都和其與調整者融合的相聯者平等。他們經常受超級宇宙委派前往天堂，但很少永久居住在那裡，作為這一類，他們被限制在其出身的超級宇宙之內。
40:9.1 (450.3) Ascending Spirit-fused mortals are not Third Source personalities; they are included in the Father’s personality circuit, but they have fused with individualizations of the premind spirit of the Third Source and Center. Such Spirit fusion never occurs during the span of natural life; it takes place only at the time of mortal reawakening in the morontia existence on the mansion worlds. In the fusion experience there is no overlapping; the will creature is either Spirit fused, Son fused, or Father fused. Those who are Adjuster or Father fused are never Spirit or Son fused.
40:9.1 (450.3) 揚升的與上靈融合的凡人並非第三本源人格體；他們被包括在上父的人格迴路之內，但他們已經與第三本源與中心之前心智之靈的個體化相融合。這種上靈融合從未發生在自然生命範圍期間；它只發生在凡人於宅廈世界上以靈質存在形式重新甦醒之時。在融合的經歷中不存在任何重疊；意志受造物不是與上靈融合，就是與上子融合，或是與上父融合。那些與調整者融合，亦即與上父融合的凡人，永不會與上靈或上子融合。
40:9.2 (450.4) The fact that these types of mortal creatures are not Adjuster-fusion candidates does not prevent the Adjusters from indwelling them during the life in the flesh. Adjusters do work in the minds of such beings during the span of material life but never become everlastingly one with their pupil souls. During this temporary sojourn the Adjusters effectively build up the same spirit counterpart of mortal nature—the soul—that they do in the candidates for Adjuster fusion. Up to the time of mortal death the work of the Adjusters is wholly akin to their function in your own races, but upon mortal dissolution the Adjusters take eternal leave of these Spirit-fusion candidates and, proceeding directly to Divinington, the headquarters of all divine Monitors, there await the new assignments of their order.
40:9.2 (450.4) 這些類型的凡人受造物並非調整者融合的候選者，這一事實並不妨礙調整者在其肉身生命期間內住於他們。調整者確實在這類存有的物質生命期間，於其心智中工作，但從不會與其受教者靈魂永久成為一體。在這暫時的旅居期間，調整者有效地建立起相同的、凡人本性的靈之對應物──靈魂——就如同他們在調整者融合候選者中所建立的一樣。直到凡人死亡之時，調整者的工作與其在你們自己種族中的職能完全相近，但在凡人解體之時，調整者會永遠離開這些上靈融合候選者，並直接前往神之聖都，即所有神性告誡者的總部，在那裡等待其類別新的委派。
40:9.3 (450.5) When such sleeping survivors are repersonalized on the mansion worlds, the place of the departed Adjuster is filled by an individualization of the spirit of the Divine Minister, the representative of the Infinite Spirit in the local universe concerned. This spirit infusion constitutes these surviving creatures Spirit-fused mortals. Such beings are in every way your equals in mind and spirit; and they are indeed your contemporaries, sharing the mansion and morontia spheres in common with your order of fusion candidates and with those who are to be Son fused.
40:9.3 (450.5) 當這些沉睡續存者在宅廈世界上再度人格化時，離去的調整者位置，便由神性職司——無限之靈在地方宇宙的代表——之靈的一個個體化來填補。這種靈的注入，構成了這些上靈融合凡人續存受造物。這些存有在心智與靈的每一方面都與你們平等；他們確實是你們的同時代者，與你們類別的融合候選者，以及那些將與上子融合候選者一樣，共享宅廈與靈質天體。
40:9.4 (450.6) There is, however, one particular in which Spirit-fused mortals differ from their ascendant brethren: Mortal memory of human experience on the material worlds of origin survives death in the flesh because the indwelling Adjuster has acquired a spirit counterpart, or transcript, of those events of human life which were of spiritual significance. But with Spirit-fused mortals there exists no such mechanism whereby human memory may persist. The Adjuster transcripts of memory are full and intact, but these acquisitions are experiential possessions of the departed Adjusters and are not available to the creatures of their former indwelling, who therefore awaken in the resurrection halls of the morontia spheres of Nebadon as if they were newly created beings, creatures without consciousness of former existence.
40:9.4 (450.6) 然而，與上靈融合的凡人在一個特定方面，與其揚升弟兄有所不同：凡人在起源之物質世界上的人類經驗的記憶，會在肉身死亡後續存，因為內住調整者已獲取了人類生命中那些具有靈性意義事件的靈之對應物，或稱副本。但與上靈融合的凡人，並不存在這樣一種能使人類記憶留存的機制。調整者的記憶副本是完整無缺的，但這些獲得是已離開的調整者之經驗性所有，並不能由其先前所內住的受造物所用，因此當這些受造物在內巴頓靈質天體的復活大廳中甦醒時，他們宛如新受造的存有，是不具先前存在之意識的受造物。
40:9.5 (451.1) Such children of the local universe are enabled to repossess themselves of much of their former human memory experience through having it retold by the associated seraphim and cherubim and by consulting the records of the mortal career filed by the recording angels. This they can do with undoubted assurance because the surviving soul, of experiential origin in the material and mortal life, while having no memory of mortal events, does have a residual experiential-recognition-response to these unremembered events of past experience.
40:9.5 (451.1) 這些地方宇宙的子女，藉由相聯的熾天使與基路伯對他們重述，並藉由查閱記錄天使所歸檔的凡人生涯記錄，得以重新擁有許多他們先前的人類記憶經驗。他們可以帶著毋庸置疑的確信做到這一點，因為在物質性的凡人生命中具經驗性起源的續存靈魂，雖然沒有對凡人事件的記憶，但對這些過往經歷中未被記住的事件，確實有一種殘存的經驗性-再認-回應（experiential-recognition-response）。
40:9.6 (451.2) When a Spirit-fused mortal is told about the events of the unremembered past experience, there is an immediate response of experiential recognition within the soul (identity) of such a survivor which instantly invests the narrated event with the emotional tinge of reality and with the intellectual quality of fact; and this dual response constitutes the reconstruction, recognition, and validation of an unremembered facet of mortal experience.
40:9.6 (451.2) 當上靈融合型凡人被告知了關於未被記住的過往經歷事件時，在這樣一位續存者的靈魂（身分）中會有一種經驗性認知的立即回應，這會立即賦予了被講述事件一種實現的情感色彩，以及事實的智性品質；而這種雙重回應，構成了對凡人經驗中未被記住面向的重建、再認與確認。
40:9.7 (451.3) Even with Adjuster-fusion candidates, only those human experiences which were of spiritual value are common possessions of the surviving mortal and the returning Adjuster and hence are immediately remembered subsequent to mortal survival. Concerning those happenings which were not of spiritual significance, even these Adjuster-fusers must depend upon the attribute of recognition-response in the surviving soul. And since any one event may have a spiritual connotation to one mortal but not to another, it becomes possible for a group of contemporary ascenders from the same planet to pool their store of Adjuster-remembered events and thus to reconstruct any experience which they had in common, and which was of spiritual value in the life of any one of them.
40:9.7 (451.3) 即使是對於調整者融合的候選者，也只有那些具有靈性價值的人類經驗，才是續存凡人與返回調整者的共同所有物，並因此在凡人續存後立即被記起。至於那些不具靈性意義的發生，即使是這些與調整者融合者，也必須取決於續存靈魂中再認-回應之屬性。而既然任何一個事件可能對某個凡人具有靈性意涵，而對另一凡人則並非如此，因此，一群來自同一個行星的同時代揚升者，就有可能匯集他們調整者所記得事件的累積，而由此重建任何他們共同擁有的、且在他們其中任何一人的生命中具有靈性價值的經驗。
40:9.8 (451.4) While we understand such techniques of memory reconstruction fairly well, we do not grasp the technique of personality recognition. Personalities of onetime association mutually respond quite independently of the operation of memory, albeit, memory itself and the techniques of its reconstruction are necessary to invest such mutual personality response with the fullness of recognition.
40:9.8 (451.4) 雖然我們相當瞭解這種記憶重建的技術，但我們並未掌握人格再認的技術。曾經彼此相聯的人格相互做出回應，而這種回應相當獨立於記憶的運作，儘管記憶本身及其重建技術，對於將充分的再認賦予這種相互的人格回應，是十分必要的。
40:9.9 (451.5) A Spirit-fused survivor is also able to learn much about the life he lived in the flesh by revisiting his nativity world subsequent to the planetary dispensation in which he lived. Such children of Spirit fusion are enabled to enjoy these opportunities for investigating their human careers since they are in general confined to the service of the local universe. They do not share your high and exalted destiny in the Paradise Corps of the Finality; only Adjuster-fused mortals or other especially embraced ascendant beings are mustered into the ranks of those who await the eternal Deity adventure. Spirit-fused mortals are the permanent citizens of the local universes; they may aspire to Paradise destiny, but they cannot be sure of it. In Nebadon their universe home is the eighth group of worlds encircling Salvington, a destiny-heaven of nature and location much like the one envisioned by the planetary traditions of Urantia.
40:9.9 (451.5) 與上靈融合的續存者，也能夠在其生活過的那個行星天命時期之後，藉由重訪其出身世界，來瞭解許多關於他在肉身中所度過的一生。這些上靈融合之子女，能夠享有調查其人類生涯的機會，因為他們通常被局限於地方宇宙的服務中。他們並不分享你在天堂終局者團隊的高遠而尊崇的天命；只有與調整者融合的凡人，或其他被特別接納的揚升者，才會被編入那些等待永恆神靈冒險者的行列。與上靈融合的凡人是地方宇宙的永久公民；他們可以企求天堂天命，但他們對此無法確定。在內巴頓，他們的宇宙家園是環繞薩爾文頓的第八組世界，一個在性質與位置上甚似於玉苒廈的行星傳統所設想者的天命之天（destiny-heaven）。
40:10.1 (452.1) Spirit-fused mortals are, generally speaking, confined to a local universe; Son-fused survivors are restricted to a superuniverse; Adjuster-fused mortals are destined to penetrate the universe of universes. The spirits of mortal fusion always ascend to the level of origin; such spirit entities unfailingly return to the sphere of primal source.
40:10.1 (452.1) 一般而言，與上靈融合的凡人被局限於一個地方宇宙；與上子融合的續存者被限制在一個超級宇宙；與調整者融合的凡人注定要穿越由眾多宇宙所組成的宇宙。凡人融合的靈，總是會揚升到起源的層次；這類的靈實體必定返回其原初本源的領域。
40:10.2 (452.2) Spirit-fused mortals are of the local universe; they do not, ordinarily, ascend beyond the confines of their native realm, beyond the boundaries of the space range of the spirit that pervades them. Son-fused ascenders likewise rise to the source of spirit endowment, for much as the Truth Spirit of a Creator Son focalizes in the associated Divine Minister, so is his “fusion spirit” implemented in the Reflective Spirits of the higher universes. Such spirit relationship between the local and the superuniverse levels of God the Sevenfold may be difficult of explanation but not of discernment, being unmistakably revealed in those children of the Reflective Spirits—the secoraphic Voices of the Creator Sons. The Thought Adjuster, hailing from the Father on Paradise, never stops until the mortal son stands face to face with the eternal God.
40:10.2 (452.2) 與上靈融合的凡人屬於地方宇宙；通常，他們的揚升不會超越其原生領域的領域疆界，亦即不會超出遍佈於他們之內的那靈之空間範圍的邊界。與上子融合的揚升者同樣揚升至靈之稟賦的本源，因為正如造物聖子的的真理之靈聚焦於與之相聯的神性職司，他的「融合之靈」同樣在更高諸宇宙的反射之靈之中得到實行。七重神之地方宇宙層次與超宇宙層次間的此種靈之關係，或許難於解釋，卻不難於辨識，它明確無誤地揭示於反射之靈的那些子女──二級熾天使的造物聖子之聲。來自天堂上之上父的思想調整者絕不止步，直至凡人之子與永恆的神面對面而立。
40:10.3 (452.3) The mysterious variable in associative technique whereby a mortal being does not or cannot become eternally fused with the indwelling Thought Adjuster may seem to disclose a flaw in the ascension scheme; Son and Spirit fusion do, superficially, resemble compensations of unexplained failures in some detail of the Paradise-attainment plan; but all such conclusions stand in error; we are taught that all these happenings unfold in obedience to the established laws of the Supreme Universe Rulers.
40:10.3 (452.3) 相聯技術中那使一位凡人存有不會或不能與內住的思想調整者永恆融合的神秘變數，或許看似揭露了揚升方案中的一處缺陷；從表面上來看，上子融合以及上靈融合確實類似於對天堂-達致計畫之某個細節中未經解釋之失敗的補償；然而所有這些結論皆屬錯誤；我們被教導，所有這些發生之事皆遵從至上宇宙統治者（Supreme Universe Rulers）的既定律法而展開。
40:10.4 (452.4) We have analyzed this problem and have reached the undoubted conclusion that the consignment of all mortals to an ultimate Paradise destiny would be unfair to the time-space universes inasmuch as the courts of the Creator Sons and of the Ancients of Days would then be wholly dependent on the services of those who were in transit to higher realms. And it does seem to be no more than fitting that the local and the superuniverse governments should each be provided with a permanent group of ascendant citizenship; that the functions of these administrations should be enriched by the efforts of certain groups of glorified mortals who are of permanent status, evolutionary complements of the abandonters and of the susatia. Now it is quite obvious that the present ascension scheme effectively provides the time-space administrations with just such groups of ascendant creatures; and we have many times wondered: Does all this represent an intended part of the all-wise plans of the Architects of the Master Universe designed to provide the Creator Sons and the Ancients of Days with a permanent ascendant population? with evolved orders of citizenship that will become increasingly competent to carry forward the affairs of these realms in the universe ages to come?
40:10.4 (452.4) 我們已經分析了這個問題，並達成了毫無疑問的結論：將所有凡人都交付於終極的天堂天命，對各時空宇宙而言是不公平的，因為如此一來，造物聖子與亙古常在者的法庭便將完全依賴那些正移行至更高領域中凡人的服務。而地方宇宙與超級宇宙的管理機構應各自獲配一個永久的揚升公民群體，似乎也正是合宜的；這些行政機構的職能，應藉由某些具永久地位的榮耀化凡人群體之努力而得到充實，他們是是阿班當特及蘇薩莎的演化互補者。現在，顯而易見地，現行的揚升方案有效地為時空時空行政機構提供了這樣的揚升受造物群體；而我們也曾多次思索：這一切是否代表了主宇宙設計者全然-智慧計畫中的一個有意安排的部分，旨在為造物聖子與亙古常在者提供一個永久的揚升人口？並提供那些在未來的宇宙時代中，將愈益有能力推展這些領域事務的演化公民類別？
40:10.5 (452.5) That mortal destinies do thus vary in no wise proves that one is necessarily greater or lesser than another, merely that they differ. Adjuster-fused ascenders do indeed have a grand and glorious career as finaliters spread out before them in the eternal future, but this does not mean that they are preferred above their ascendant brethren. There is no favoritism, nothing arbitrary, in the selective operation of the divine plan of mortal survival.
40:10.5 (452.5) 凡人天命確是如此各異，這絕不證明其中一種必然大於或小於另一種，僅僅證明它們彼此不同。與調整者融合的揚升者，確實有一個作為終極者的宏偉且榮耀的生涯，在永恆的未來中鋪展於他們面前，但這並不意味著他們比其揚升弟兄更受偏愛。在凡人續存之神性計畫的選擇性運作中，沒有偏袒，也沒有任何專斷之事。
40:10.6 (453.1) While the Adjuster-fused finaliters obviously enjoy the widest service opportunity of all, the attainment of this goal automatically shuts them off from the chance to participate in the agelong struggle of some one universe or superuniverse, from the earlier and less settled epochs to the later and established eras of relative perfection attainment. Finaliters acquire a marvelous and far-flung experience of transient service in all seven segments of the grand universe, but they do not ordinarily acquire that intimate knowledge of any one universe which even now characterizes the Spirit-fused veterans of the Nebadon Corps of Completion. These individuals enjoy an opportunity to witness the ascending processional of the planetary ages as they unfold one by one on ten million inhabited worlds. And in the faithful service of such local universe citizens, experience superimposes upon experience until the fullness of time ripens that high quality of wisdom which is engendered by focalized experience—authoritative wisdom—and this in itself is a vital factor in the settling of any local universe.
40:10.6 (453.1) 雖然與調整者融合的終局者顯然在所有凡人之中享有最廣泛的服務機會，但這一目標之達致，自動將他們隔絕於參與某個宇宙或超級宇宙漫長歲月奮鬥的機會，從早期較未安定的紀元，到後來已確立之相對完美達致的紀代。終局者在大宇宙所有七個區段中，獲得短暫服務之奇妙且廣袤的經驗，但他們通常不會獲得對任何一個宇宙的那種深入認識，而這種認識如今甚至已成為內巴頓完成團隊中那些與靈融合的資深歷練者者的特徵。這些個體享有見證行星時代之揚升行列的機會，見證行星時代之揚升行列如何在一千萬個有居住者世界中逐一展開。而在為這些地方宇宙公民的忠誠服務中，經驗不斷疊加於經驗之上，直到時間的圓滿使那由聚焦經驗所孕生的高品質智慧——權威性智慧——臻於成熟，而這本身就是任何一個地方宇宙之安定的一項重要因素。
40:10.7 (453.2) As it is with the Spirit fusers, so is it with those Son-fused mortals who have achieved residential status on Uversa. Some of these beings hail from the earliest epochs of Orvonton, and they represent a slowly accumulating body of insight-deepening wisdom which is making ever-augmenting service contributions to the welfare and eventual settlement of the seventh superuniverse.
40:10.7 (453.2) 與上靈融合者如此，那些已在尤沃薩達成定居地位的與上子融合的凡人也是如此。這些存有中，有些來自奧溫頓最早的紀元，而他們代表著一種緩慢累積的深化洞察（insight-deepening）智慧體，它正為第七超級宇宙的福祉與最終安定，做日益增長的服務貢獻。
40:10.8 (453.3) What the ultimate destiny of these stationary orders of local and of superuniverse citizenship will be we do not know, but it is quite possible that, when the Paradise finaliters are pioneering the expanding frontiers of divinity in the planetary systems of the first outer space level, their Son- and Spirit-fused brethren of the ascendant evolutionary struggle will be acceptably contributing to the maintenance of the experiential equilibrium of the perfected superuniverses while they stand ready to welcome the incoming stream of Paradise pilgrims who may, at that distant day, pour in through Orvonton and its sister creations as a vast spirit-questing torrent from these now uncharted and uninhabited galaxies of outer space.
40:10.8 (453.3) 這些地方宇宙和超級宇宙公民的定駐類別，其終極天命如何我們尚不清楚，但極有可能，當天堂終局者在第一外部空間層的行星系統中，開拓不斷擴展的神性疆域時，他們那些同屬揚升演化奮鬥的與上子融合以及與上靈融合的弟兄，將令人滿意地為維持已完美化的超級宇宙的經驗性平衡做出貢獻，同時他們隨時準備迎接那股前來的天堂朝聖者之流，在那遙遠的日子，這些朝聖者或許會作為一道巨大的尋靈洪流，從這些目前尚未測繪且無居住者的外部空間星系，經由奧溫頓及其姐妹造物湧入。
40:10.9 (453.4) While the majority of Spirit fusers serve permanently as citizens of the local universes, all do not. If some phase of their universe ministry should require their personal presence in the superuniverse, then would such transformations of being be wrought in these citizens as would enable them to ascend to the higher universe; and upon the arrival of the Celestial Guardians with orders to present such Spirit-fused mortals at the courts of the Ancients of Days, they would so ascend, never to return. They become wards of the superuniverse, serving as assistants to the Celestial Guardians and permanently, save for those few who are in turn summoned to the service of Paradise and Havona.
40:10.9 (453.4) 雖然大多數上靈融合者永久擔任各地方宇宙的公民，但並非全都如此。如果其宇宙事奉的某一階段，需要他們親身臨在於超級宇宙，那麼這些公民便會經歷足以使他們揚升至更高宇宙的存有之轉化；當天界守護者帶著將這些與上靈融合的凡人引薦至亙古常在者法庭的命令抵達時，他們會就如此揚升，且永不返回。他們成為超級宇宙的受監護者，擔任天界守護者的助理，並且是永久地擔任，只有少數繼而奉召為天堂與哈沃納服務者除外。
40:10.10 (453.5) Like their Spirit-fused brethren, the Son fusers neither traverse Havona nor attain Paradise unless they have undergone certain modifying transformations. For good and sufficient reasons, such changes have been wrought in certain Son-fused survivors, and these beings are to be encountered ever and anon on the seven circuits of the central universe. Thus it is that certain numbers of both the Son- and the Spirit-fused mortals do actually ascend to Paradise, do attain a goal in many ways equal to that which awaits the Father-fused mortals.
40:10.10 (453.5) 像其與上靈融合的弟兄一樣，與上子融合者除非經歷某些修改性的轉化，否則既不會穿越穿越哈沃納，也不會達致天堂。出於良好且充分的理由，這類改變已被施行於某些與上子融合的續存者身上，而這些存有不時可在中央宇宙的七個迴路上遇到。因此，有一定數量的與上聖子融合以及與上靈融合的凡人的確實際上揚升至天堂，的確達致一個在許多方面和那等待著與上父融合的凡人之目標相同的目標。
40:10.11 (453.6) Father-fused mortals are potential finaliters; their destination is the Universal Father, and him they do attain, but within the purview of the present universe age, finaliters, as such, are not destiny attainers. They remain unfinished creatures—sixth-stage spirits—and hence nonactive in the evolutionary domains of prelight-and-life status.
40:10.11 (453.6) 與上父融合的凡人是潛在的終局者；他們的目的地是萬有之父，而他們也的確達致他，但在目前的宇宙時代所涵蓋的範疇內，終局者，就此身分而言，並非天命達致者。他們依舊是未完成的受造物──第六階段靈——因此在前光與生命（prelight-and-life）地位的演化領域中是不活躍的。
40:10.12 (454.1) When a mortal finaliter is Trinity embraced—becomes a Trinitized Son, such as a Mighty Messenger—then has that finaliter attained destiny, at least for the present universe age. Mighty Messengers and their fellows may not in the exact sense be seventh-stage spirits, but in addition to other things the Trinity embrace endows them with everything which a finaliter will sometime achieve as a seventh-stage spirit. After Spirit-fused or Son-fused mortals are trinitized, they pass through the Paradise experience with the Adjuster-fused ascenders, with whom they are then identical in all matters pertaining to superuniverse administration. These Trinitized Sons of Selection or of Attainment at least for now are finished creatures, in contrast to the finaliters, who are at present unfinished creatures.
40:10.12 (454.1) 當一個凡人終局者被三位一體擁抱──成為三一化聖子，例如強大使者——那時，該終局者便已達致天命，至少就現今宇宙時代而言。在意義上，強大使者與其同屬者或許並非嚴格意義上的第七階段靈，然而除其他事物之外，三位一體擁抱賦予他們一位終局者有朝一日作為第七階段靈將能獲得的一切。在與上靈融合以及與上子融合的凡人三位一體化後，他們便和與調整者融合的揚升者一起通過天堂經歷，此後，在一切與超級宇宙行政有關的事務上，他們與這些揚升者完全相同。這些三位一體化甄選聖子或三位一體化達致聖子，至少就目前而言，是已完成的受造物，這與那些現今仍是未完成受造物的終局者形成對比。。
40:10.13 (454.2) Thus, in the final analysis, it would be hardly proper to use the words “greater” or “lesser” in contrasting the destinies of the ascending orders of sonship. Every such son of God shares the fatherhood of God, and God loves each of his creature sons alike; he is no more a respecter of ascendant destinies than is he of the creatures who may attain such destinies. The Father loves each of his sons, and that affection is not less than true, holy, divine, unlimited, eternal, and unique—a love bestowed upon this son and upon that son, individually, personally, and exclusively. And such a love utterly eclipses all other facts. Sonship is the supreme relationship of the creature to the Creator.
40:10.13 (454.2) 因此，歸根究底，在對比揚升聖子身分類別的天命時，用「更偉大」或「更渺小」這樣的詞語是極不恰當的。每一位這樣的神之子都同享神之為父身分，而神同等地愛著他的每一位受造之子；他既不偏袒揚升天命，也不偏袒可能達致這些天命的受造物。上父愛他的每一個孩子，而那份愛意是真實、聖潔、神性、無限制、永恆且獨特的──是一份個別地、人格性地、專屬地賜予這一位子、也賜予那一位子的愛。而這樣的愛，使其它一切事實全然黯然失色。聖子身份是受造物對造物者的至上關係。
40:10.14 (454.3) As mortals you can now recognize your place in the family of divine sonship and begin to sense the obligation to avail yourselves of the advantages so freely provided in and by the Paradise plan for mortal survival, which plan has been so enhanced and illuminated by the life experience of a bestowal Son. Every facility and all power have been provided for insuring your ultimate attainment of the Paradise goal of divine perfection.
40:10.14 (454.3) 身為凡人，你們如今能夠認知到自己在神性聖子身份家族中的位置，並開始感到有義務去利用在為凡人續存之天堂計劃中、並藉由此計劃所如此毫無保留地提供之種種益處，此一計劃已為一位贈予聖子的生命經歷所如此提升並照亮。為確保你們最終達致神性完美之天堂目標，每一項便利與一切力量，皆已被提供。
40:10.15 (454.4) [Presented by a Mighty Messenger temporarily attached to the staff of Gabriel of Salvington.]
40:10.15 (454.4)［由暫時隸屬於薩爾文頓加百列幕僚中的一位強大使者所呈獻。］