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The current order
Combine → Compound → Compare → Correct → Consecrate → Continue → Culminate → Cross → Converge. The three groups are useful reading aids: relationship and development; correction and purpose; maturity and integration. They are not an equation proving that all reality must occur in nines.
Consecrate changes the direction
Consecrate is fifth. It asks what developing capacity, work, resources, and participation are offered to God and to others’ good under legitimate stewardship. Continue becomes sixth.
In this model, consecration and entering Covenants are integral to spiritual lift toward Eternal Expansion. A merely longer list of technical accomplishments would miss the distinction.
Culminate, Cross, Converge
Culminate identifies sufficient maturity or readiness for a relevant transition. Cross identifies entry into changed participation, responsibility, relationship, or conditions. Converge identifies coherent integration that preserves distinction and creates further capacity.
These functions differ. Readiness alone is not permission. Entering a relationship does not establish its health. Integration does not erase the participants or end all future creation.
Grace throughout the journey
The diagram does not make spiritual help wait until Consecrate or make a person finish all correction before serving. Grace may awaken and enable participation before conscious repentance, then continue through it.
The Laws are an explanatory framework within the model. They do not replace Christ, authorized covenants, ordinances, personal discernment, or the other person’s agency.
Read each law in context
Each law has a dedicated page with its current definition, a worked illustration, a distinction, and a reflection question. Follow the nine pages in order or use the comparison tool below.
The historical Seven-Law sequence belongs to the development record. Confirm remains an ordinary act of examination; it is not an extra numbered law inserted into the current Nine.
Combine
Combine brings distinct things into relationship.
↗02Compound
Compound is what the interaction produces and accumulates.
↗03Compare
Compare makes relevant difference visible.
↗04Correct
Correct changes what is misaligned.
↗05Consecrate
Give what can be created to God and another’s good.
↗06Continue
Carry forward; the sequence determines whether an active Consecrate step precedes it.
↗07Culminate
Culminate is local maturity for transition.
↗08Cross
Cross is the threshold transition.
↗09Converge
Converge creates unity without erasure.
↗Five in the loop.
Nine in the fuller journey.
The Five remain active. They can recur without an active Consecrate step.
Editorial exposition grounded in the model’s September reference, working definitions, and reconciliation record. Illustrations explain the relationships; they are not additional ratified laws. See source versions and scope ↗