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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 25
THE MESSENGER HOSTS OF SPACE
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RANKING intermediately in the family of the Infinite
Spirit are the Messenger Hosts of Space. These versatile
beings function as the connecting links between the
higher personalities and the ministering spirits. The
messenger hosts include the following orders of
celestial beings:
1. Havona Servitals.
2. Universal Conciliators.
3. Technical Advisers.
4. Custodians of Records on Paradise.
5. Celestial Recorders.
6. Morontia Companions.
7. Paradise Companions.
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Of the seven groups enumerated, only three -- servitals,
conciliators, and Morontia Companions -- are created as
such; the remaining four represent attainment levels of
the angelic orders. In accordance with inherent nature
and attained status, the messenger hosts variously serve
in the universe of universes but always subject to the
direction of those who rule the realms of their
assignment.
1. THE HAVONA SERVITALS
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Though denominated servitals, these "midway creatures"
of the central universe are not servants in any menial
sense of the word. In the spiritual world there is no
such thing as menial work; all service is sacred and
exhilarating; neither do the higher orders of beings
look down upon the lower orders of existence.
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The Havona Servitals are the joint creative work of the
Seven Master Spirits and their associates, the Seven
Supreme Power Directors. This creative collaboration
comes the nearest to being the pattern for the long list
of reproductions of the dual order in the evolutionary
universes, extending from the creation of a Bright and
Morning Star by a Creator Son-Creative Spirit liaison
down to sex procreation on worlds like Urantia.
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The number of servitals is prodigious, and more are
being created all the time. They appear in groups of one
thousand on the third moment following the assembly of
the Master Spirits and the Supreme Power Directors at
their joint area in the far northerly sector of
Paradise. Every fourth servital is more physical in type
than the others; that is, out of each thousand, seven
hundred and fifty are apparently true to spirit type,
but two hundred and fifty are semiphysical in nature.
These fourth
creatures are somewhat on the order of material
beings (material in the Havona sense), resembling the
physical power directors more than the Master Spirits.
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In personality relationships the spiritual is dominant
over the material, even though it does not now so appear
on Urantia; and in the production of Havona Servitals
the law of spirit dominance prevails; the established
ratio yields three spiritual beings to one semiphysical.
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The newly created servitals, together with newly
appearing Graduate Guides, all pass through the courses
of training which the senior guides continuously conduct
on each of the seven Havona circuits. Servitals are then
assigned to the activities for which they are best
adapted, and since they are of two types -- spiritual
and semiphysical -- there are few limits to the range of
work these versatile beings can do. The higher or spirit
groups are assigned selectively to the services of the
Father, the Son, and the Spirit, and to the work of the
Seven Master Spirits. In large numbers they are
dispatched, from time to time, to serve on the study
worlds encircling the headquarters spheres of the seven
superuniverses, the worlds devoted to the final training
and spiritual culture of the ascending souls of time who
are preparing for advancement to the circuits of Havona.
Both spirit servitals and their more physical fellows
are also designated assistants and associates of the
Graduate Guides in helping and instructing the various
orders of ascending creatures who have attained Havona,
and who seek to attain Paradise.
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The Havona Servitals and the Graduate Guides manifest a
transcendent devotion to their work and a touching
affection for one another, an affection which, while
spiritual, you could only understand by comparison with
the phenomenon of human love. There is divine pathos in
the separation of the servitals from the guides, as so
often occurs when the servitals are dispatched on
missions beyond the limits of the central universe; but
they go with joy and not with sorrow. The satisfying joy
of high duty is the eclipsing emotion of spiritual
beings. Sorrow cannot exist in the face of the
consciousness of divine duty faithfully performed. And
when man's ascending soul stands before the Supreme
Judge, the decision of eternal import will not be
determined by material successes or quantitative
achievements; the verdict reverberating through the high
courts declares: "Well done, good and
faithful
servant; you have been faithful over a few essentials;
you shall be made ruler over universe realities."
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On superuniverse service the Havona Servitals are always
assigned to that domain presided over by the Master
Spirit whom they most resemble in general and special
spirit prerogatives. They serve only on the educational
worlds surrounding the capitals of the seven
superuniverses, and the last report of Uversa indicates
that almost 138 billion servitals were ministering on
its 490 satellites. They engage in an endless variety of
activities in connection with the work of these
educational worlds comprising the superuniversities of
the superuniverse of Orvonton. Here they are your
companions; they have come down from your next career to
study you and to inspire you with the reality and
certainty of your eventual graduation from the universes
of time to the realms of eternity. And in these contacts
the servitals gain that preliminary experience of
ministering to the ascending creatures of time which is
so helpful in their subsequent work on the Havona
circuits as associates of the Graduate Guides or -- as
translated servitals -- as Graduate Guides themselves.
2. THE UNIVERSAL CONCILIATORS
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For every Havona Servital created, seven Universal
Conciliators are brought into being, one in each
superuniverse. This creative enactment involves a
definite superuniverse technique of reflective response
to transactions taking place on Paradise.
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On the headquarters worlds of the seven superuniverses
there function the seven reflections of the Seven Master
Spirits. It is difficult to undertake to portray the
natures of these Reflective Spirits to material minds.
They are true personalities; still each member of a
superuniverse group is perfectly reflective of just one
of the Seven Master Spirits. And every time the Master
Spirits associate themselves with the power directors
for the purpose of creating a group of Havona Servitals,
there is a simultaneous focalization upon one of the
Reflective Spirits in each of the superuniverse groups,
and forthwith and full-fledgedly an equal number of
Universal Conciliators appear on the headquarters worlds
of the supercreations. If, in the creation of servitals,
Master Spirit Number Seven should take the initiative,
none but the Reflective Spirits of the seventh order
would become pregnant with conciliators; and
concurrently with the creation of one thousand
Orvontonlike servitals, one thousand of the
seventh-order conciliators would appear on each
superuniverse capital. Out of these episodes, reflecting
the sevenfold nature of the Master Spirits, arise the
seven created orders of conciliators serving in each
superuniverse.
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Conciliators of pre-Paradise status do not serve
interchangeably between superuniverses, being restricted
to their native segments of creation. Every
superuniverse corps, embracing one seventh of each
created order, therefore spends a very long time under
the influence of one of the Master Spirits to the
exclusion of the others, for, while all seven are
reflected on
the superuniverse capitals, only one is
dominant in
each supercreation.
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Each of the seven supercreations is actually pervaded by
that one of the Master Spirits who presides over its
destinies. Each superuniverse thus becomes like a
gigantic mirror reflecting the nature and character of
the supervising Master Spirit, and all of this is
further continued in every subsidiary local universe by
the presence and function of the Creative Mother
Spirits. The effect of such an environment upon
evolutionary growth is so profound that in their
postsuperuniverse careers the conciliators collectively
manifest forty-nine experiential viewpoints, or
insights, each angular -- hence incomplete -- but all
mutually compensatory and together tending to encompass
the circle of Supremacy.
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In each superuniverse the Universal Conciliators find
themselves strangely and innately segregated into groups
of four, associations in which they continue to serve.
In each group, three are spirit personalities, and one,
like the fourth creatures of the servitals, is a
semimaterial being. This quartet constitutes a
conciliating commission and is made up as follows:
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1. The
Judge-Arbiter. The one unanimously designated by the
other three as the most competent and best qualified to
act as judicial head of the group.
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2. The
Spirit-Advocate. The one appointed by the
judge-arbiter to present evidence and to safeguard the
rights of all personalities involved in any matter
assigned to the adjudication of the conciliating
commission.
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3. The Divine
Executioner. The conciliator qualified by inherent
nature to make contact with the material beings of the
realms and to execute the decisions of the commission.
Divine executioners, being fourth creatures --
quasi-material beings -- are almost, but not quite,
visible to the short-range vision of the mortal races.
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4. The Recorder.
The remaining member of the commission automatically
becomes the recorder, the clerk of the tribunal. He
makes certain that all records are properly prepared for
the archives of the superuniverse and for the records of
the local universe. If the commission is serving on an
evolutionary world, a third report, with the assistance
of the executioner, is prepared for the physical records
of the system government of jurisdiction.
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When in session a commission functions as a group of
three since the advocate is detached during adjudication
and participates in the formulation of the verdict only
at the conclusion of the hearing. Hence these
commissions are sometimes called referee trios.
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The conciliators are of great value in keeping the
universe of universes running smoothly. Traversing space
at the seraphic rate of triple velocity, they serve as
the traveling courts of the worlds, commissions devoted
to the quick adjudication of minor difficulties. Were it
not for these mobile and eminently fair commissions, the
tribunals of the spheres would be hopelessly overspread
with the minor misunderstandings of the realms.
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These referee trios do not pass upon matters of eternal
import; the soul, the eternal prospects of a creature of
time, is never placed in jeopardy by their acts.
Conciliators do not deal with questions extending beyond
the temporal existence and the cosmic welfare of the
creatures of time. But when a commission has once
accepted jurisdiction of a problem, its rulings are
final and always unanimous; there is no appeal from the
decision of the judge-arbiter.
3. THE FAR-REACHING SERVICE OF CONCILIATORS
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Conciliators maintain group headquarters on the capital
of their superuniverse, where their primary reserve
corps is held. Their secondary reserves are stationed on
the capitals of the local universes. The younger and
less experienced commissioners begin their service on
the lower worlds, worlds like Urantia, and are advanced
to the adjudication of greater problems after they have
acquired riper experience.
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The order of conciliators is wholly dependable; not one
has ever gone astray. Though not infallible in wisdom
and judgment, they are of unquestioned reliability and
unerring in faithfulness. They take origin on the
headquarters of a superuniverse and eventually return
thereto, advancing through the following levels of
universe service:
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1. Conciliators
to the Worlds. Whenever the supervising
personalities of the individual worlds become greatly
perplexed or actually deadlocked concerning the proper
procedure under existing circumstances, and if the
matter is not of sufficient importance to be brought
before the regularly constituted tribunals of the realm,
then, upon the receipt of a petition of two
personalities, one from each contention, a conciliating
commission will begin to function forthwith.
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When these administrative and jurisdictional
difficulties have been placed in the hands of the
conciliators for study and adjudication, they are
supreme in authority. But they will not formulate a
decision until all the evidence has been heard, and
there is absolutely no limit to their authority to call
witnesses from anywhere and everywhere. And while their
decisions may not be appealed, sometimes matters so
develop that the commission closes its records at a
given point, concludes its opinions, and transfers the
whole question to the higher tribunals of the realm.
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The commissioners' decisions are placed on the planetary
records and, if necessary, are put into effect by the
divine executioner. His power is very great, and the
range of his activities on an inhabited world is very
wide. Divine executioners are masterful manipulators of
that which is in the interests of that which ought to
be. Their work is sometimes carried out for the apparent
welfare of the realm, and sometimes their acts on the
worlds of time and space are difficult of explanation.
Though executing decrees in defiance of neither natural
law nor the ordained usages of the realm, they do
ofttimes effect their strange doings and enforce the
mandates of the conciliators in accordance with the
higher laws of the system administration.
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2. Conciliators
to the System Headquarters. From service on the
evolutionary worlds these commissions of four are
advanced to duty on a system headquarters. Here they
have much work to do, and they prove to be the
understanding friends of men, angels, and other spirit
beings. The referee trios are not so much concerned with
personal differences as with group contentions and with
misunderstandings arising between different orders of
creatures; and on a system headquarters there live both
spiritual and material beings, as well as the combined
types, such as the Material Sons.
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The moment the Creators bring into existence evolving
individuals with the power of choice, that moment a
departure is made from the smooth working of divine
perfection; misunderstandings are certain to arise, and
provision for the fair adjustment of these honest
differences of viewpoint must be made. We should all
remember that the all-wise and all-powerful Creators
could have made the local universes just as perfect as
Havona. No conciliating commissions need function in the
central universe. But the Creators did not choose in
their all-wisdom to do this. And while they have
produced universes which abound in differences and teem
with difficulties, they have likewise provided the
mechanisms and the means for composing all these
differences and for harmonizing all this seeming
confusion.
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3. The
Constellation Conciliators. From service in the
systems the conciliators are promoted to the
adjudication of the problems of a constellation, taking
up the minor difficulties arising between its one
hundred systems of inhabited worlds. Not many problems
developing on the constellation headquarters fall under
their jurisdiction, but they are kept busy going from
system to system gathering evidence and preparing
preliminary statements. If the contention is honest, if
the difficulties arise out of sincere differences of
opinion and honest diversity of viewpoints, no matter
how few persons may be involved, no matter how
apparently trivial the misunderstanding, a conciliating
commission can always be had to pass upon the merits of
the controversy.
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4. Conciliators
to the Local Universes. In this larger work of a
universe the commissioners are of great assistance to
both the Melchizedeks and the Magisterial Sons and to
the constellation rulers and the hosts of personalities
concerned with the co-ordination and administration of
the one hundred constellations. The different orders of
seraphim and other residents of the headquarters spheres
of a local universe also avail themselves of the help
and decisions of the referee trios.
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It is almost impossible to explain the nature of those
differences which may arise in the detailed affairs of a
system, a constellation, or a universe. Difficulties do
develop, but they are very unlike the petty trials and
travails of material existence as it is lived on the
evolutionary worlds.
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5. Conciliators
to the Superuniverse Minor Sectors. From the
problems of local universes the commissioners are
advanced to the study of questions arising in the minor
sectors of their superuniverse. The farther they ascend
inward from the individual planets, the fewer are the
material duties of the divine executioner; gradually he
assumes a new role of mercy-justice interpreter, at the
same time -- being quasi-material -- keeping the
commission as a whole in sympathetic touch with the
material aspects of its investigations.
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6. Conciliators
to the Superuniverse Major Sectors. The character of
the work of the commissioners continues to change as
they advance. There is less and less of misunderstanding
to adjudicate and more and more of mysterious phenomena
to explain and interpret. From stage to stage they are
evolving from arbiters of differences to
explainers of
mysteries -- judges evolving into interpretative
teachers. Arbiters of those who through ignorance permit
difficulties and misunderstandings to arise, they once
were; but they are now becoming instructors of those who
are sufficiently intelligent and tolerant to avoid
clashes of mind and wars of opinions. The higher a
creature's education, the more respect he has for the
knowledge, experience, and opinions of others.
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7. Conciliators
to the Superuniverse. Here the conciliators become
co-ordinate -- four mutually understood and perfectly
functioning arbiter-teachers. The divine executioner is
divested of retributive power and becomes the physical
voice of the spirit trio. By this time these counselors
and teachers have become expertly familiar with most of
the actual problems and difficulties encountered in the
conduct of superuniverse affairs. Thus they become
wonderful advisers and wise teachers of the ascending
pilgrims who are in residence on the educational spheres
surrounding the headquarters worlds of the
superuniverses.
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All conciliators serve under the general supervision of
the Ancients of Days and under the immediate direction
of the Image Aids until such time as they are advanced
to Paradise. During the Paradise sojourn they report to
the Master Spirit who presides over the superuniverse of
their origin.
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The superuniverse registries do not enumerate those
conciliators who have passed beyond their jurisdiction,
and such commissions are widely scattered through the
grand universe. The last report of registry on Uversa
gives the number operating in Orvonton as almost
eighteen trillion commissions -- over seventy trillion
individuals. But these are only a very small fraction of
the multitude of conciliators that have been created in
Orvonton; that number is of an altogether higher
magnitude and is the equivalent of the total number of
Havona Servitals, with allowances for the transmutation
into Graduate Guides.
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From time to time, as the numbers of the superuniverse
conciliators increase, they are translated to the
council of perfection on Paradise, from which they
subsequently emerge as the co-ordinating corps evolved
by the Infinite Spirit for the universe of universes, a
marvelous group of beings which is constantly increasing
in numbers and efficiency. By experiential ascent and
Paradise training they have acquired a unique grasp of
the emerging reality of the Supreme Being, and they roam
the universe of universes on special assignment.
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The members of a conciliating commission are never
separated. A group of four forever serve together just
as they were originally associated. Even in their
glorified service they continue to function as quartets
of accumulated cosmic experience and perfected
experiential wisdom. They are eternally associated as
the embodiment of the supreme justice of time and space.
4. TECHNICAL ADVISERS
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These legal and technical minds of the spirit world were
not created as such. From the early supernaphim and
omniaphim, one million of the most orderly minds were
chosen by the Infinite Spirit as the nucleus of this
vast and versatile group. And ever since that
far-distant time, actual experience in the application
of the laws of perfection to the plans of evolutionary
creation has been required of all who aspire to become
Technical Advisers.
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The Technical Advisers are recruited from the ranks of
the following personality orders:
1. The Supernaphim.
2. The Seconaphim.
3. The Tertiaphim.
4. The Omniaphim.
5. The Seraphim.
6. Certain Types of Ascending Mortals.
7. Certain Types of Ascending Midwayers.
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At the present time, not counting the mortals and
midwayers who are all of transient attachment, the
number of Technical Advisers registered on Uversa and
operating in Orvonton is slightly in excess of sixty-one
trillion.
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Technical Advisers frequently function as individuals
but are organized for service and maintain common
headquarters on the spheres of assignment in groups of
seven. In each group at least five must be of permanent
status, while two may be of temporary association.
Ascending mortals and ascending midway creatures serve
on these advisory commissions while pursuing the
Paradise ascent, but they do not enter the regular
courses of training for Technical Advisers, nor do they
ever become permanent members of the order.
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Those mortals and midwayers who serve transiently with
the advisers are chosen for such work because of their
expertness in the concept of universal law and supreme
justice. As you journey toward your Paradise goal,
constantly acquiring added knowledge and enhanced skill,
you are continuously afforded the opportunity to give
out to others the wisdom and experience you have already
accumulated; all the way in to Havona you enact the role
of a pupil-teacher. You will work your way through the
ascending levels of this vast experiential university by
imparting to those just below you the new-found
knowledge of your advancing career. In the universal
regime you are not reckoned as having possessed yourself
of knowledge and truth until you have demonstrated your
ability and your willingness to impart this knowledge
and truth to others.
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After long training and actual experience, any of the
ministering spirits above the status of cherubim are
permitted to receive permanent appointment as Technical
Advisers. All candidates voluntarily enter this order of
service; but having once assumed such responsibilities,
they may not relinquish them. Only the Ancients of Days
can transfer these advisers to other activities.
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The training of Technical Advisers, begun in the
Melchizedek colleges of the local universes, continues
to the courts of the Ancients of Days. From this
superuniverse training they proceed to the "schools of
the seven circles" located on the pilot worlds of the
Havona circuits. And from the pilot worlds they are
received into the "college of the ethics of law and the
technique of Supremacy," the Paradise training school
for the perfecting of Technical Advisers.
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These advisers are more than legal experts; they are
students and teachers of
applied law,
the laws of the universe applied to the lives and
destinies of all who inhabit the vast domains of the
far-flung creation. As time passes, they become the
living law libraries of time and space, preventing
endless trouble and needless delays by instructing the
personalities of time regarding the forms and modes of
procedure most acceptable to the rulers of eternity.
They are able so to counsel the workers of space as to
enable them to function in harmony with the requirements
of Paradise; they are the teachers of all creatures
concerning the technique of the Creators.
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Such a living library of applied law could not be
created; such beings must be evolved by actual
experience. The infinite Deities are existential, hence
are compensated for lack of experience; they know all
even before they experience all, but they do not impart
this nonexperiential knowledge to their subordinate
creatures.
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Technical Advisers are dedicated to the work of
preventing delay, facilitating progress, and counseling
achievement. There is always a
best and
right way to
do things; there is always the technique of perfection,
a divine method, and these advisers know how to direct
us all in the finding of this better way.
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These exceedingly wise and practical beings are always
closely associated with the service and work of the
Universal Censors. The Melchizedeks are provided with an
able corps. The rulers of the systems, constellations,
universes, and superuniverse sectors are all bountifully
supplied with these technical or legal reference minds
of the spiritual world. A special group act as law
counselors to the Life Carriers, advising these Sons
concerning the extent of permissible departure from the
established order of life propagation and otherwise
instructing them respecting their prerogatives and
latitudes of function. They are the advisers of all
classes of beings regarding the proper usages and
techniques of all spirit-world transactions. But they do
not directly and personally deal with the material
creatures of the realms.
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Besides counseling regarding legal usages, Technical
Advisers are equally devoted to the efficient
interpretation of all laws concerning creature beings --
physical, mindal, and spiritual. They are available to
the Universal Conciliators and to all others who desire
to know the truth of law; in other words, to know how
the Supremacy of Deity may be depended upon to react in
a given situation having factors of an established
physical, mindal, and spiritual order. They even essay
to elucidate the technique of the Ultimate.
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Technical Advisers are selected and tested beings; I
have never known one of them to go astray. We have no
records on Uversa of their ever having been adjudged in
contempt of the divine laws they so effectively
interpret and so eloquently expound. There is no known
limit to the domain of their service, neither has any
been placed upon their progress. They continue as
advisers even to the portals of Paradise; the whole
universe of law and experience is open to them.
5. THE CUSTODIANS OF RECORDS ON PARADISE
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From among the tertiary supernaphim in Havona, certain
of the senior chief recorders are chosen as Custodians
of Records, as keepers of the formal archives of the
Isle of Light, those archives which stand in contrast to
the living records of registry in the minds of the
custodians of knowledge, sometimes designated the
"living library of Paradise."
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The recording angels of the inhabited planets are the
source of all individual records. Throughout the
universes other recorders function regarding both formal
records and living records. From Urantia to Paradise,
both recordings are encountered: in a local universe,
more of the written records and less of the living; on
Paradise, more of the living and less of the formal; on
Uversa, both are equally available.
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Every occurrence of significance in the organized and
inhabited creation is a matter of record. While events
of no more than local importance find only a local
recording, those of wider significance are dealt with
accordingly. From the planets, systems, and
constellations of Nebadon, everything of universe import
is posted on Salvington; and from such universe capitals
those episodes are advanced to higher recording which
pertain to the affairs of the sector and
supergovernments. Paradise also has a relevant summary
of superuniverse and Havona data; and this historic and
cumulative story of the universe of universes is in the
custody of these exalted tertiary supernaphim.
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While certain of these beings have been dispatched to
the superuniverses to serve as Chiefs of Records
directing the activities of the Celestial Recorders, not
one has ever been transferred from the permanent roll
call of their order.
6. THE CELESTIAL RECORDERS
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These are the recorders who execute all records in
duplicate, making an original spirit recording and a
semimaterial counterpart -- what might be called a
carbon copy. This they can do because of their peculiar
ability simultaneously to manipulate both spiritual and
material energy. Celestial Recorders are not created as
such; they are ascendant seraphim from the local
universes. They are received, classified, and assigned
to their spheres of work by the councils of the Chiefs
of Records on the headquarters of the seven
superuniverses. There also are located the schools for
training Celestial Recorders. The school on Uversa is
conducted by the Perfectors of Wisdom and the Divine
Counselors.
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As the recorders advance in universe service, they
continue their system of dual recording, thus making
their records always available to all classes of beings,
from those of the material order to the high spirits of
light. In your transition experience, as you ascend from
this material world, you will always be able to consult
the records of, and to be otherwise conversant with, the
history and traditions of your status sphere.
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The recorders are a tested and tried corps. Never have I
known of the defection of a Celestial Recorder, and
never has there been discovered a falsification in their
records. They are subjected to a dual inspection, their
records being scrutinized by their exalted fellows from
Uversa and by the Mighty Messengers, who certify to the
correctness of the quasi-physical duplicates of the
original spirit records.
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While the advancing recorders stationed on the
subordinate spheres of record in the Orvonton universes
number trillions upon trillions, those of attained
status on Uversa are not quite eight million in number.
These senior or graduate recorders are the superuniverse
custodians and forwarders of the sponsored records of
time and space. Their permanent headquarters are in the
circular abodes surrounding the area of records on
Uversa. They never leave the custody of these records to
others; as individuals they may be absent, but never in
large numbers.
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Like those supernaphim who have become Custodians of
Records, the corps of Celestial Recorders is of
permanent assignment. Once seraphim and supernaphim are
mustered into these services, they will respectively
remain Celestial Recorders and Custodians of Records
until the day of the new and modified administration of
the full personalization of God the Supreme.
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On Uversa these senior Celestial Recorders can show the
records of everything of cosmic import in all Orvonton
since the far-distant times of the arrival of the
Ancients of Days, while on the eternal Isle the
Custodians of Records guard the archives of that realm
which testify to the transactions of Paradise since the
times of the personification of the Infinite Spirit.
7. THE MORONTIA COMPANIONS
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These children of the local universe Mother Spirits are
the friends and associates of all who live the ascending
morontia life. They are not indispensable to an
ascender's real work of creature progression, neither do
they in any sense displace the work of the seraphic
guardians who often accompany their mortal associates on
the Paradise journey. The Morontia Companions are simply
gracious hosts to those who are just beginning the long
inward ascent. They are also skillful play sponsors and
are ably assisted in this work by the reversion
directors.
25:7.2
Though you will have earnest and progressively difficult
tasks to perform on the morontia training worlds of
Nebadon, you will always be provided with regular
seasons of rest and reversion. Throughout the journey to
Paradise there will always be time for rest and spirit
play; and in the career of light and life there is
always time for worship and new achievement.
25:7.3
These Morontia Companions are such friendly associates
that, when you finally leave the last phase of the
morontia experience, as you prepare to embark upon the
superuniverse spirit adventure, you will truly regret
that these companionable creatures cannot accompany you,
but they serve exclusively in the local universes. At
every stage of the ascending career all contactable
personalities will be friendly and companionable, but
not until you meet the Paradise Companions will you find
another group so devoted to friendship and
companionship.
25:7.4
The work of the Morontia Companions is more fully
depicted in those narratives dealing with the affairs of
your local universe.
8. THE PARADISE COMPANIONS
25:8.1
The Paradise Companions are a composite or assembled
group recruited from the ranks of the seraphim,
seconaphim, supernaphim, and omniaphim. Though serving
for what you would regard as an extraordinary length of
time, they are not of permanent status. When this
ministry has been completed, as a rule (but not
invariably) they return to those duties they performed
when summoned to Paradise service.
25:8.2
Members of the angelic hosts are nominated for this
service by the local universe Mother Spirits, by the
superuniverse Reflective Spirits, and by Majeston of
Paradise. They are summoned to the central Isle and are
commissioned as Paradise Companions by one of the Seven
Master Spirits. Aside from permanent status on Paradise,
this temporary service of Paradise companionship is the
highest honor ever conferred upon the ministering
spirits.
25:8.3
These selected angels are dedicated to the service of
companionship and are assigned as associates to all
classes of beings who may chance to be alone on
Paradise, chiefly to the ascendant mortals but also to
all others who are alone on the central Isle. Paradise
Companions have nothing especial to accomplish in behalf
of those with whom they fraternize; they are simply
companions. Almost every other being you mortals will
encounter during your Paradise sojourn -- aside from
your fellow pilgrims -- will have something definite to
do with you or for you; but these companions are
assigned only to be with you and to commune with you as
personality associates. They are often assisted in their
ministry by the gracious and brilliant Paradise
Citizens.
25:8.4
Mortals come from races that are very social. The
Creators well know that it is "not good for man to be
alone," and provision is accordingly made for
companionship, even on Paradise.
25:8.5
If you, as an ascendant mortal, should reach Paradise in
the company of the companion or close associate of your
earthly career, or if your seraphic guardian of destiny
should chance to arrive with you or were waiting for
you, then no permanent companion would be assigned you.
But if you arrive alone, a companion will certainly
welcome you as you awaken on the Isle of Light from the
terminal sleep of time. Even if it is known that you
will be accompanied by someone of ascendant association,
temporary companions will be designated to welcome you
to the eternal shores and to escort you to the
reservation made ready for the reception of you and your
associates. You may be certain of being warmly welcomed
when you experience the resurrection into eternity on
the everlasting shores of Paradise.
25:8.6
Reception companions are assigned during the terminal
days of the ascenders' sojourn on the last circuit of
Havona, and they carefully examine the records of mortal
origin and eventful ascent through the worlds of space
and the circles of Havona. When they greet the mortals
of time, they are already well versed in the careers of
these arriving pilgrims and immediately prove to be
sympathetic and intriguing companions.
25:8.7
During your prefinaliter sojourn on Paradise, if for any
reason you should be temporarily separated from your
associate of the ascending career -- mortal or seraphic
-- a Paradise Companion would be forthwith assigned for
counsel and companionship. When once assigned to an
ascendant mortal of solitary residence on Paradise, the
companion remains with this person until he either is
rejoined by his ascendant associates or is duly mustered
into the Corps of the Finality.
25:8.8
Paradise Companions are assigned in order of waiting
except that an ascender is never placed in the charge of
a companion whose nature is unlike his superuniverse
type. If a Urantia mortal were arriving on Paradise
today, there would be assigned to him the first waiting
companion either of origin in Orvonton or otherwise of
the nature of the Seventh Master Spirit. Hence the
omniaphim serve not with the ascendant creatures from
the seven superuniverses.
25:8.9
Many additional services are performed by the Paradise
Companions: If an ascending mortal should reach the
central universe alone and, while traversing Havona,
should fail in some phase of the Deity adventure, in due
course he would be remanded to the universes of time,
and forthwith a call would be made to the reserves of
the Paradise Companions. One of this order would be
assigned to follow the defeated pilgrim, to be with him
and to comfort and cheer him, and to remain with him
until he returned to the central universe to resume the
Paradise ascent.
25:8.10
If an ascending pilgrim met defeat in the Deity
adventure while traversing Havona in the company of an
ascending seraphim, the guardian angel of the mortal
career, she would elect to accompany her mortal
associate. These seraphim always volunteer and are
permitted to accompany their long-time mortal comrades
back to the service of time and space.
25:8.11
But not so with two closely associated mortal ascenders:
If one attains God while the other temporarily fails,
the successful individual invariably chooses to go back
to the evolutionary creations with the disappointed
personality, but this is not permitted. Instead, a call
is made to the reserves of the Paradise Companions, and
one of the volunteers is selected to accompany the
disappointed pilgrim. A volunteer Paradise Citizen then
becomes associated with the successful mortal, who
tarries on the central Isle awaiting the Havona return
of the defeated comrade and in the meantime teaches in
certain Paradise schools, presenting the adventurous
story of the evolutionary ascent.
25:8.12
Sponsored by One High in Authority from Uversa.
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