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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 26
MINISTERING SPIRITS OF THE CENTRAL UNIVERSE
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SUPERNAPHIM are the ministering spirits of Paradise and
the central universe; they are the highest order of the
lowest group of the children of the Infinite Spirit --
the angelic hosts. Such ministering spirits are to be
encountered from the Isle of Paradise to the worlds of
time and space. No major part of the organized and
inhabited creation is without their services.
1. THE MINISTERING SPIRITS
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Angels are the ministering-spirit associates of the
evolutionary and ascending will creatures of all space;
they are also the colleagues and working associates of
the higher hosts of the divine personalities of the
spheres. The angels of all orders are distinct
personalities and are highly individualized. They all
have a large capacity for appreciation of the
ministrations of the reversion directors. Together with
the Messenger Hosts of Space, the ministering spirits
enjoy seasons of rest and change; they possess very
social natures and have an associative capacity far
transcending that of human beings.
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The ministering spirits of the grand universe are
classified as follows:
1. Supernaphim.
2. Seconaphim.
3. Tertiaphim.
4. Omniaphim.
5. Seraphim.
6. Cherubim and Sanobim.
7. Midway Creatures.
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The individual members of the angelic orders are not
altogether stationary as to personal status in the
universe. Angels of certain orders may become Paradise
Companions for a season; some become Celestial
Recorders; others ascend to the ranks of the Technical
Advisers. Certain of the cherubim may aspire to seraphic
status and destiny, while evolutionary seraphim can
achieve the spiritual levels of the ascending Sons of
God.
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The seven orders of ministering spirits, as revealed,
are grouped for presentation in accordance with their
functions of greatest importance to ascending creatures:
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1. The
Ministering Spirits of the Central Universe. The
three orders of
supernaphim serve in the Paradise-Havona system.
Primary or Paradise supernaphim are created by the
Infinite Spirit. The secondary and tertiary orders,
serving in Havona, are respectively the offspring of the
Master Spirits and of the Spirits of the Circuits.
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2. The
Ministering Spirits of the Superuniverses -- the
seconaphim, the tertiaphim, and the omniaphim.
Seconaphim,
the children of the Reflective Spirits, variously serve
in the seven superuniverses.
Tertiaphim,
of origin in the Infinite Spirit, are eventually
dedicated to the liaison service of the Creator Sons and
the Ancients of Days.
Omniaphim are
created concertedly by the Infinite Spirit and the Seven
Supreme Executives, and they are the exclusive servants
of the latter. The discussion of these three orders
forms the subject of a succeeding narrative in this
series.
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3. The
Ministering Spirits of the Local Universes embrace
the seraphim
and their assistants, the
cherubim.
With these offspring of a Universe Mother Spirit mortal
ascenders have initial contact. The
midway creatures,
of nativity on the inhabited worlds, are not really of
the angelic orders proper, though often functionally
grouped with the ministering spirits. Their story, with
an account of the seraphim and cherubim, is presented in
those papers dealing with the affairs of your local
universe.
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All orders of the angelic hosts are devoted to the
various universe services, and they minister in one way
or another to the higher orders of celestial beings; but
it is the supernaphim, seconaphim, and seraphim who, in
large numbers, are employed in the furtherance of the
ascending scheme of progressive perfection for the
children of time. Functioning in the central, super-,
and local universes, they form that unbroken chain of
spirit ministers which has been provided by the Infinite
Spirit for the help and guidance of all who seek to
attain the Universal Father through the Eternal Son.
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Supernaphim are limited in "spirit polarity" regarding
only one phase of action, that with the Universal
Father. They can work singly except when directly
employing the exclusive circuits of the Father. When
they are in power reception on the Father's direct
ministry, supernaphim must voluntarily associate in
pairs to be able to function. Seconaphim are likewise
limited and in addition must work in pairs in order to
synchronize with the circuits of the Eternal Son.
Seraphim can work singly as discrete and localized
personalities, but they are able to encircuit only when
polarized as liaison pairs. When such spirit beings are
associated as pairs, the one is spoken of as
complemental to the other. Complemental relationships
may be transient; they are not necessarily of a
permanent nature.
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These brilliant creatures of light are sustained
directly by the intake of the spiritual energy of the
primary circuits of the universe. Urantia mortals must
obtain light-energy through the vegetative incarnation,
but the angelic hosts are encircuited; they "have food
that you know not." They also partake of the circulating
teachings of the marvelous Trinity Teacher Sons; they
have a reception of knowledge and an intake of wisdom
much resembling their technique of assimilating the life
energies.
2. THE MIGHTY SUPERNAPHIM
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The supernaphim are the skilled ministers to all types
of beings who sojourn on Paradise and in the central
universe. These high angels are created in three major
orders: primary, secondary, and tertiary.
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Primary
supernaphim are the exclusive offspring of the
Conjoint Creator. They divide their ministry about
equally between certain groups of the Paradise Citizens
and the ever-enlarging corps of ascendant pilgrims.
These angels of the eternal Isle are highly efficacious
in furthering the essential training of both groups of
Paradise dwellers. They contribute much that is helpful
to the mutual understanding of these two unique orders
of universe creatures -- the one being the highest type
of divine and perfect will creature, and the other, the
perfected evolution of the lowest type of will creature
in all the universe of universes.
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The work of the primary supernaphim is so unique and
distinctive that it will be separately considered in the
succeeding narrative.
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Secondary
supernaphim are the directors of the affairs of
ascending beings on the seven circuits of Havona. They
are equally concerned in ministering to the educational
training of numerous orders of Paradise Citizens who
sojourn for long periods on the world circuits of the
central creation, but we may not discuss this phase of
their service.
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There are seven types of these high angels, each of
origin in one of the Seven Master Spirits and in nature
patterned accordingly. Collectively, the Seven Master
Spirits create many different groups of unique beings
and entities, and the individual members of each order
are comparatively uniform in nature. But when these same
Seven Spirits create individually, the resulting orders
are always sevenfold in nature; the children of each
Master Spirit partake of the nature of their creator and
are accordingly diverse from the others. Such is the
origin of the secondary supernaphim, and the angels of
all seven created types function in all channels of
activity open to their entire order, chiefly on the
seven circuits of the central and divine universe.
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Each of the seven planetary circuits of Havona is under
the direct supervision of one of the Seven Spirits of
the Circuits, themselves the collective -- hence uniform
-- creation of the Seven Master Spirits. Though
partaking of the nature of the Third Source and Center,
these seven subsidiary Spirits of Havona were not a part
of the original pattern universe. They were in function
after the original (eternal) creation but long before
the times of Grandfanda. They undoubtedly appeared as a
creative response of the Master Spirits to the emerging
purpose of the Supreme Being, and they were discovered
in function upon the organization of the grand universe.
The Infinite Spirit and all his creative associates, as
universal co-ordinators, seem abundantly endowed with
the ability to make suitable creative responses to the
simultaneous developments in the experiential Deities
and in the evolving universes.
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Tertiary
supernaphim take origin in these Seven Spirits of
the Circuits. Each one of them, on the separate Havona
circles, is empowered by the Infinite Spirit to create a
sufficient number of high superaphic ministers of the
tertiary order to meet the needs of the central
universe. While the Circuit Spirits produced
comparatively few of these angelic ministers prior to
the arrival in Havona of the pilgrims of time, the Seven
Master Spirits did not even begin the creation of
secondary supernaphim until the landing of Grandfanda.
As the older of the two orders, the tertiary supernaphim
will therefore receive first consideration.
3. THE TERTIARY SUPERNAPHIM
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These servants of the Seven Master Spirits are the
angelic specialists of the various circuits of Havona,
and their ministry extends to both the ascending
pilgrims of time and the descending pilgrims of
eternity. On the billion study worlds of the perfect
central creation, your superaphic associates of all
orders will be fully visible to you. There you will all
be, in the highest sense, fraternal and understanding
beings of mutual contact and sympathy. You will also
fully recognize and exquisitely fraternize with the
descending pilgrims, the Paradise Citizens, who traverse
these circuits from within outward, entering Havona
through the pilot world of the first circuit and
proceeding outward to the seventh.
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The ascending pilgrims from the seven superuniverses
pass through Havona in the opposite direction, entering
by way of the pilot world of the seventh circuit and
proceeding inward. There is no time limit set on the
progress of the ascending creatures from world to world
and from circuit to circuit, just as no fixed span of
time is arbitrarily assigned to residence on the
morontia worlds. But, whereas adequately developed
individuals may be exempted from sojourn on one or more
of the local universe training worlds, no pilgrim may
avoid passing through all seven of the Havona circuits
of progressive spiritualization.
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That corps of tertiary supernaphim which is chiefly
assigned to the service of the pilgrims of time is
classified as follows:
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1. The Harmony
Supervisors. It must be apparent that some sort of
co-ordinating influence would be required, even in
perfect Havona, to maintain system and to insure harmony
in all the work of preparing the pilgrims of time for
their subsequent Paradise achievements. Such is the real
mission of the harmony supervisors -- to keep everything
moving along smoothly and expeditiously. Originating on
the first circuit, they serve throughout Havona, and
their presence on the circuits means that nothing can
possibly go amiss. A great ability to co-ordinate a
diversity of activities involving personalities of
differing orders -- even multiple levels -- enables
these supernaphim to give assistance wherever and
whenever required. They contribute enormously to the
mutual understanding of the pilgrims of time and the
pilgrims of eternity.
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2. The Chief
Recorders. These angels are created on the second
circuit but operate everywhere in the central universe.
They record in triplicate, executing records for the
literal files of Havona, for the spiritual files of
their order, and for the formal records of Paradise. In
addition they automatically transmit the transactions of
true-knowledge import to the living libraries of
Paradise, the custodians of knowledge of the primary
order of supernaphim.
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3. The
Broadcasters. The children of the third Circuit
Spirit function throughout Havona, although their
official station is located on planet number seventy in
the outermost circle. These master technicians are the
broadcast receivers and senders of the central creation
and the directors of the space reports of all Deity
phenomena on Paradise. They can operate all of the basic
circuits of space.
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4. The Messengers
take origin on circuit number four. They range the
Paradise-Havona system as bearers of all messages
requiring personal transmission. They serve their
fellows, the celestial personalities, the Paradise
pilgrims, and even the ascendant souls of time.
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5. The
Intelligence Co-ordinators. These tertiary
supernaphim, the children of the fifth Circuit Spirit,
are always the wise and sympathetic promoters of
fraternal association between the ascending and the
descending pilgrims. They minister to all the
inhabitants of Havona, and especially to the ascenders,
by keeping them currently informed regarding the affairs
of the universe of universes. By virtue of personal
contacts with the broadcasters and the reflectors, these
"living newspapers" of Havona are instantly conversant
with all information passing over the vast news circuits
of the central universe. They secure intelligence by the
Havona graph method, which enables them automatically to
assimilate as much information in one hour of Urantia
time as would require a thousand years for your most
rapid telegraphic technique to record.
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6. The Transport
Personalities. These beings, of origin on circuit
number six, usually operate from planet number forty in
the outermost circuit. It is they who take away the
disappointed candidates who transiently fail in the
Deity adventure. They stand ready to serve all who must
come and go in the service of Havona, and who are not
space traversers.
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7. The Reserve
Corps. The fluctuations in the work with the
ascendant beings, the Paradise pilgrims, and other
orders of beings sojourning in Havona, make it necessary
to maintain these reserves of supernaphim on the pilot
world of the seventh circle, where they take origin.
They are created without special design and are
competent to take up service in the less exacting phases
of any of the duties of their superaphic associates of
the tertiary order.
4. THE SECONDARY SUPERNAPHIM
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The secondary supernaphim are ministers to the seven
planetary circuits of the central universe. Part are
devoted to the service of the pilgrims of time, and one
half of the entire order is assigned to the training of
the Paradise pilgrims of eternity. These Paradise
Citizens, in their pilgrimage through the Havona
circuits, are also attended by volunteers from the
Mortal Finality Corps, an arrangement that has prevailed
since the completion of the first finaliter group.
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According to their periodic assignment to the ministry
of the ascending pilgrims, secondary supernaphim work in
the following seven groups:
1. Pilgrim Helpers.
2. Supremacy Guides.
3. Trinity Guides.
4. Son Finders.
5. Father Guides.
6. Counselors and Advisers.
7. Complements of Rest.
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Each of these working groups contains angels of all
seven created types, and a pilgrim of space is always
tutored by secondary supernaphim of origin in the Master
Spirit who presides over that pilgrim's superuniverse of
nativity. When you mortals of Urantia attain Havona, you
will certainly be piloted by supernaphim whose created
natures -- like your own evolved natures -- are derived
from the Master Spirit of Orvonton. And since your
tutors spring from the Master Spirit of your own
superuniverse, they are especially qualified to
understand, comfort, and assist you in all your efforts
to attain Paradise perfection.
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The pilgrims of time are transported past the dark
gravity bodies of Havona to the outer planetary circuit
by the transport personalities of the primary order of
seconaphim, operating from the headquarters of the seven
superuniverses. A majority, but not all, of the seraphim
of planetary and local universe service who have been
accredited for the Paradise ascent will part with their
mortal associates before the long flight to Havona and
will at once begin a long and intense training for
supernal assignment, expecting to achieve, as seraphim,
perfection of existence and supremacy of service. And
this they do, hoping to rejoin the pilgrims of time, to
be reckoned among those who forever follow the course of
such mortals as have attained the Universal Father and
have received assignment to the undisclosed service of
the Corps of the Finality.
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The pilgrim lands on the receiving planet of Havona, the
pilot world of the seventh circuit, with only one
endowment of perfection, perfection of purpose. The
Universal Father has decreed: "Be you perfect, even as I
am perfect." That is the astounding invitation-command
broadcast to the finite children of the worlds of space.
The promulgation of that injunction has set all creation
astir in the co-operative effort of the celestial beings
to assist in bringing about the fulfillment and
realization of that tremendous command of the First
Great Source and Center.
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When, through and by the ministry of all the helper
hosts of the universal scheme of survival, you are
finally deposited on the receiving world of Havona, you
arrive with only one sort of perfection --
perfection of
purpose. Your purpose has been thoroughly proved;
your faith has been tested. You are known to be
disappointment proof. Not even the failure to discern
the Universal Father can shake the faith or seriously
disturb the trust of an ascendant mortal who has passed
through the experience that all must traverse in order
to attain the perfect spheres of Havona. By the time you
reach Havona, your sincerity has become sublime.
Perfection of purpose and divinity of desire, with
steadfastness of faith, have secured your entrance to
the settled abodes of eternity; your deliverance from
the uncertainties of time is full and complete; and now
must you come face to face with the problems of Havona
and the immensities of Paradise, to meet which you have
so long been in training in the experiential epochs of
time on the world schools of space.
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Faith has won for the ascendant pilgrim a perfection of
purpose which admits the children of time to the portals
of eternity. Now must the pilgrim helpers begin the work
of developing that perfection of understanding and that
technique of comprehension which are so indispensable to
Paradise perfection of personality.
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Ability to
comprehend is the mortal passport to Paradise.
Willingness to believe is the key to Havona. The
acceptance of sonship, co-operation with the indwelling
Adjuster, is the price of evolutionary survival.
5. THE PILGRIM HELPERS
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The first of the seven groups of secondary supernaphim
to be encountered are the pilgrim helpers, those beings
of quick understanding and broad sympathy who welcome
the much-traveled ascenders of space to the stabilized
worlds and settled economy of the central universe.
Simultaneously these high ministers begin their work for
the Paradise pilgrims of eternity, the first of whom
arrived on the pilot world of the inner Havona circuit
concomitantly with the landing of Grandfanda on the
pilot world of the outer circuit. Back in those
far-distant days the pilgrims from Paradise and the
pilgrims of time first met on the receiving world of
circuit number four.
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These pilgrim helpers, functioning on the seventh circle
of Havona worlds, conduct their work for the ascending
mortals in three major divisions: first, the supreme
understanding of the Paradise Trinity; second, the
spiritual comprehension of the Father-Son partnership;
and third, the intellectual recognition of the Infinite
Spirit. Each of these phases of instruction is divided
into seven branches of twelve minor divisions of seventy
subsidiary groups; and each of these seventy subsidiary
groupings of instruction is presented in one thousand
classifications. More detailed instruction is provided
on subsequent circles, but an outline of every Paradise
requirement is taught by the pilgrim helpers.
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That, then, is the primary or elementary course which
confronts the faith-tested and much-traveled pilgrims of
space. But long before reaching Havona, these ascendant
children of time have learned to feast upon uncertainty,
to fatten upon disappointment, to enthuse over apparent
defeat, to invigorate in the presence of difficulties,
to exhibit indomitable courage in the face of immensity,
and to exercise unconquerable faith when confronted with
the challenge of the inexplicable. Long since, the
battle cry of these pilgrims became: "In liaison with
God, nothing -- absolutely nothing -- is impossible."
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There is a definite requirement of the pilgrims of time
on each of the Havona circles; and while every pilgrim
continues under the tutelage of supernaphim by nature
adapted to helping that particular type of ascendant
creature, the course that must be mastered is fairly
uniform for all ascenders who reach the central
universe. This course of achievement is quantitative,
qualitative, and experiential -- intellectual,
spiritual, and supreme.
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Time is of little consequence on the Havona circles. In
a limited manner it enters into the possibilities of
advancement, but achievement is the final and supreme
test. The very moment your superaphic associate deems
you to be competent to pass inward to the next circle,
you will be taken before the twelve adjutants of the
seventh Circuit Spirit. Here you will be required to
pass the tests of the circle determined by the
superuniverse of your origin and by the system of your
nativity. The divinity attainment of this circle takes
place on the pilot world and consists in the spiritual
recognition and realization of the Master Spirit of the
ascending pilgrim's superuniverse.
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When the work of the outer Havona circle is finished and
the course presented is mastered, the pilgrim helpers
take their subjects to the pilot world of the next
circle and commit them to the care of the supremacy
guides. The pilgrim helpers always tarry for a season to
assist in making the transfer both pleasant and
profitable.
6. THE SUPREMACY GUIDES
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Ascenders of space are designated "spiritual graduates"
when translated from the seventh to the sixth circle and
are placed under the immediate supervision of the
supremacy guides. These guides should not be confused
with the Graduate Guides -- belonging to the Higher
Personalities of the Infinite Spirit -- who, with their
servital associates, minister on all circuits of Havona
to both ascending and descending pilgrims. The supremacy
guides function only on the sixth circle of the central
universe.
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It is in this circle that the ascenders achieve a new
realization of Supreme Divinity. Through their long
careers in the evolutionary universes the pilgrims of
time have been experiencing a growing awareness of the
reality of an almighty overcontrol of the time-space
creations. Here, on this Havona circuit, they come near
to encountering the central universe source of
time-space unity -- the spiritual reality of God the
Supreme.
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I am somewhat at a loss to explain what takes place on
this circle. No personalized presence of Supremacy is
perceptible to the ascenders. In certain respects, new
relationships with the Seventh Master Spirit compensate
this noncontactability of the Supreme Being. But
regardless of our inability to grasp the technique, each
ascending creature seems to undergo a transforming
growth, a new integration of consciousness, a new
spiritualization of purpose, a new sensitivity for
divinity, which can hardly be satisfactorily explained
without assuming the unrevealed activity of the Supreme
Being. To those of us who have observed these mysterious
transactions, it appears as if God the Supreme were
affectionately bestowing upon his experiential children,
up to the very limits of their experiential capacities,
those enhancements of intellectual grasp, of spiritual
insight, and of personality outreach which they will so
need, in all their efforts at penetrating the divinity
level of the Trinity of Supremacy, to achieve the
eternal and existential Deities of Paradise.
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When the supremacy guides deem their pupils ripe for
advancement, they bring them before the commission of
seventy, a mixed group serving as examiners on the pilot
world of circuit number six. After satisfying this
commission as to their comprehension of the Supreme
Being and of the Trinity of Supremacy, the pilgrims are
certified for translation to the fifth circuit.
7. THE TRINITY GUIDES
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Trinity guides are the tireless ministers of the fifth
circle of the Havona training of the advancing pilgrims
of time and space. The spiritual graduates are here
designated "candidates for the Deity adventure" since it
is on this circle, under the direction of the Trinity
guides, that the pilgrims receive advanced instruction
concerning the divine Trinity in preparation for the
attempt to achieve the personality recognition of the
Infinite Spirit. And here the ascending pilgrims
discover what true study and real mental effort mean as
they begin to discern the nature of the
still-more-taxing and far-more-arduous spiritual
exertion that will be required to meet the demands of
the high goal set for their achievement on the worlds of
this circuit.
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Most faithful and efficient are the Trinity guides; and
each pilgrim receives the undivided attention, and
enjoys the whole affection, of a secondary supernaphim
belonging to this order. Never would a pilgrim of time
find the first approachable person of the Paradise
Trinity were it not for the help and assistance of these
guides and the host of other spiritual beings engaged in
instructing the ascenders respecting the nature and
technique of the forthcoming Deity adventure.
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After the completion of the course of training on this
circuit the Trinity guides take their pupils to its
pilot world and present them before one of the many
triune commissions functioning as examiners and
certifiers of candidates for the Deity adventure. These
commissions consist of one fellow of the finaliters, one
of the directors of conduct of the order of primary
supernaphim, and either a Solitary Messenger of space or
a Trinitized Son of Paradise.
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When an ascendant soul actually starts for Paradise, he
is accompanied only by the transit trio: the superaphic
circle associate, the Graduate Guide, and the
ever-present servital associate of the latter. These
excursions from the Havona circles to Paradise are trial
trips; the ascenders are not yet of Paradise status.
They do not achieve residential status on Paradise until
they have passed through the terminal rest of time
subsequent to the attainment of the Universal Father and
the final clearance of the Havona circuits. Not until
after the divine rest do they partake of the "essence of
divinity" and the "spirit of supremacy" and thus really
begin to function in the circle of eternity and in the
presence of the Trinity.
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The ascender's companions of the transit trio are not
required to enable him to locate the geographic presence
of the spiritual luminosity of the Trinity, rather to
afford all possible assistance to a pilgrim in his
difficult task of recognizing, discerning, and
comprehending the Infinite Spirit sufficiently to
constitute personality recognition. Any ascendant
pilgrim on Paradise can discern the geographic or
locational presence of the Trinity, the great majority
are able to contact the intellectual reality of the
Deities, especially the Third Person, but not all can
recognize or even partially comprehend the reality of
the spiritual presence of the Father and the Son. Still
more difficult is even the minimum spiritual
comprehension of the Universal Father.
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Seldom does the quest for the Infinite Spirit fail of
consummation, and when their subjects have succeeded in
this phase of the Deity adventure, the Trinity guides
prepare to transfer them to the ministry of the Son
finders on the fourth circle of Havona.
8. THE SON FINDERS
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The fourth Havona circuit is sometimes called the
"circuit of the Sons." From the worlds of this circuit
the ascending pilgrims go to Paradise to achieve an
understanding contact with the Eternal Son, while on the
worlds of this circuit the descending pilgrims achieve a
new comprehension of the nature and mission of the
Creator Sons of time and space. There are seven worlds
in this circuit on which the reserve corps of the
Paradise Michaels maintain special service schools of
mutual ministry to both the ascending and descending
pilgrims; and it is on these worlds of the Michael Sons
that the pilgrims of time and the pilgrims of eternity
arrive at their first truly mutual understanding of one
another. In many respects the experiences of this
circuit are the most intriguing of the entire Havona
sojourn.
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The Son finders are the superaphic ministers to the
ascending mortals of the fourth circuit. In addition to
the general work of preparing their candidates for a
realization of the Trinity relationships of the Eternal
Son, these Son finders must so fully instruct their
subjects that they will be wholly successful: first, in
the adequate spiritual comprehension of the Son; second,
in the satisfactory personality recognition of the Son;
and third, in the proper differentiation of the Son from
the personality of the Infinite Spirit.
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After the attainment of the Infinite Spirit, no more
examinations are conducted. The tests of the inner
circles are the performances of the pilgrim candidates
when in the embrace of the enshroudment of the Deities.
Advancement is determined purely by the spirituality of
the individual, and no one but the Gods presumes to pass
upon this possession. In the event of failure no reasons
are ever assigned, neither are the candidates themselves
nor their various tutors and guides ever chided or
criticized. On Paradise, disappointment is never
regarded as defeat; postponement is never looked upon as
disgrace; the apparent failures of time are never
confused with the significant delays of eternity.
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Not many pilgrims experience the delay of seeming
failure in the Deity adventure. Nearly all attain the
Infinite Spirit, though occasionally a pilgrim from
superuniverse number one does not succeed on the first
attempt. The pilgrims who attain the Spirit seldom fail
in finding the Son; of those who do fail on the first
adventure, almost all hail from superuniverses three and
five. The great majority of those who fail on the first
adventure to attain the Father, after finding both the
Spirit and the Son, hail from superuniverse number six,
though a few from numbers two and three are likewise
unsuccessful. And all this seems clearly to indicate
that there is some good and sufficient reason for these
apparent failures; in reality, simply unescapable
delays.
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The defeated candidates for the Deity adventure are
placed under the jurisdiction of the chiefs of
assignment, a group of primary supernaphim, and are
remanded to the work of the realms of space for a period
of not less than one millennium. They never return to
the superuniverse of their nativity, always to that
supercreation most propitious for their retraining in
preparation for the second Deity adventure. Following
this service, on their own motion, they return to the
outer circle of Havona, are immediately escorted to the
circle of their interrupted career, and at once resume
their preparations for the Deity adventure. Never do the
secondary supernaphim fail to pilot their subjects
successfully on the second attempt, and the same
superaphic ministers and other guides always attend
these candidates during this second adventure.
9. THE FATHER GUIDES
26:9.1
When the pilgrim soul attains the third circle of
Havona, he comes under the tutelage of the Father
guides, the older, highly skilled, and most experienced
of the superaphic ministers. On the worlds of this
circuit the Father guides maintain schools of wisdom and
colleges of technique wherein all the beings inhabiting
the central universe serve as teachers. Nothing is
neglected which would be of service to a creature of
time in this transcendent adventure of eternity
attainment.
26:9.2
The attainment of the Universal Father is the passport
to eternity, notwithstanding the remaining circuits to
be traversed. It is therefore a momentous occasion on
the pilot world of circle number three when the transit
trio announce that the last venture of time is about to
ensue; that another creature of space seeks entry to
Paradise through the portals of eternity.
26:9.3
The test of time is almost over; the race for eternity
has been all but run. The days of uncertainty are
ending; the temptation to doubt is vanishing; the
injunction to be
perfect has been obeyed. From the very bottom of
intelligent existence the creature of time and material
personality has ascended the evolutionary spheres of
space, thus proving the feasibility of the ascension
plan while forever demonstrating the justice and
righteousness of the command of the Universal Father to
his lowly creatures of the worlds: "Be you perfect, even
as I am perfect."
26:9.4
Step by step, life by life, world by world, the
ascendant career has been mastered, and the goal of
Deity has been attained. Survival is complete in
perfection, and perfection is replete in the supremacy
of divinity. Time is lost in eternity; space is
swallowed up in worshipful identity and harmony with the
Universal Father. The broadcasts of Havona flash forth
the space reports of glory, the good news that in very
truth the conscientious creatures of animal nature and
material origin have, through evolutionary ascension,
become in reality and eternally the perfected sons of
God.
10. THE COUNSELORS AND ADVISERS
26:10.1
The superaphic counselors and advisers of the second
circle are the instructors of the children of time
regarding the career of eternity. The attainment of
Paradise entails responsibilities of a new and higher
order, and the sojourn on the second circle affords
ample opportunity to receive the helpful counsel of
these devoted supernaphim.
26:10.2
Those who are unsuccessful in the first effort at Deity
attainment are advanced from the circle of failure
directly to the second circle before they are returned
to superuniverse service. Thus the counselors and
advisers also serve as the counselors and comforters of
these disappointed pilgrims. They have just encountered
their greatest disappointment, in no way differing from
the long list of such experiences whereon they climbed,
as on a ladder, from chaos to glory -- except in its
magnitude. These are they who have drained the
experiential cup to its dregs; and I have observed that
they temporarily return to the services of the
superuniverses as the highest type of loving
ministrators to the children of time and temporal
disappointments.
26:10.3
After a long sojourn on circuit number two the subjects
of disappointment are examined by the councils of
perfection sitting on the pilot world of this circle and
are certified as having passed the Havona test; and
this, so far as nonspiritual status is concerned, grants
them the same standing in the universes of time as if
they had actually succeeded in the Deity adventure. The
spirit of such candidates was wholly acceptable; their
failure was inherent in some phase of the technique of
approach or in some part of their experiential
background.
26:10.4
They are then taken by the counselors of the circle
before the chiefs of assignment on Paradise and are
remanded to the service of time on the worlds of space;
and they go with joy and gladness to the tasks of former
days and ages. In another day they will return to the
circle of their greatest disappointment and attempt anew
the Deity adventure.
26:10.5
For the successful pilgrims on the second circuit the
stimulus of evolutionary uncertainty is over, but the
adventure of the eternal assignment has not yet begun;
and while the sojourn on this circle is wholly
pleasurable and highly profitable, it lacks some of the
anticipative enthusiasm of the former circles. Many are
the pilgrims who, at such a time, look back upon the
long, long struggle with a joyous envy, really wishing
they might somehow go back to the worlds of time and
begin it all over again, just as you mortals, in
approaching advanced age, sometimes look back over the
struggles of youth and early life and truly wish you
might live your lives over once again.
26:10.6
But the traversal of the innermost circle lies just
ahead, and soon thereafter the last transit sleep will
terminate, and the new adventure of the eternal career
will begin. The counselors and advisers on the second
circle begin the preparation of their subjects for this
great and final rest, the inevitable sleep which ever
intervenes between the epochal stages of the ascendant
career.
26:10.7
When those ascendant pilgrims who have attained the
Universal Father complete the second-circle experience,
their ever-attendant Graduate Guides issue the order
admitting them to the final circle. These guides
personally pilot their subjects to the inner circle and
there place them in the custody of the complements of
rest, the last of those orders of secondary supernaphim
assigned to the ministry of the pilgrims of time on the
world circuits of Havona.
11. THE COMPLEMENTS OF REST
26:11.1
Much of an ascender's time on the last circuit is
devoted to a continuation of the study of the impending
problems of Paradise residence. A vast and diverse host
of beings, the majority unrevealed, are permanent and
transient residents of this inner ring of Havona worlds.
And the commingling of these manifold types provides the
superaphic complements of rest with a rich situational
environment which they effectively utilize in furthering
the education of the ascending pilgrims, especially with
regard to the problems of adjustment to the many groups
of beings soon to be encountered on Paradise.
26:11.2
Among those who dwell on this inner circuit are the
creature-trinitized sons. The primary and the secondary
supernaphim are the general custodians of the conjoint
corps of these sons, including the trinitized offspring
of the mortal finaliters and similar progeny of the
Paradise Citizens. Certain of these sons are Trinity
embraced and commissioned in the supergovernments,
others are variously assigned, but the great majority
are being gathered together in the conjoint corps on the
perfect worlds of the inner Havona circuit. Here, under
the supervision of the supernaphim, they are being
prepared for some future work by a special and unnamed
corps of high Paradise Citizens who were, prior to the
times of Grandfanda, first executive assistants to the
Eternals of Days. There are many reasons for
conjecturing that these two unique groups of trinitized
beings are going to work together in the remote future,
not the least of which is their common destiny in the
reserves of the Paradise Corps of Trinitized Finaliters.
26:11.3
On this innermost circuit, both the ascending and the
descending pilgrims fraternize with each other and with
the creature-trinitized sons. Like their parents, these
sons derive great benefits from interassociation, and it
is the special mission of the supernaphim to facilitate
and to insure the confraternity of the trinitized sons
of the mortal finaliters and the trinitized sons of the
Paradise Citizens. The superaphic complements of rest
are not so much concerned with their training as with
promoting their understanding association with diverse
groups.
26:11.4
Mortals have received the Paradise command: "Be you
perfect, even as your Paradise Father is perfect." To
these trinitized sons of the conjoint corps the
supervising supernaphim never cease to proclaim: "Be you
understanding of your ascendant brethren, even as the
Paradise Creator Sons know and love them."
26:11.5
The mortal creature must find God. The Creator Son never
stops until he finds man -- the lowest will creature.
Beyond doubt, the Creator Sons and their mortal children
are preparing for some future and unknown universe
service. Both traverse the gamut of the experiential
universe and so are educated and trained for their
eternal mission. Throughout the universes there is
occurring this unique blending of the human and the
divine, the commingling of creature and Creator.
Unthinking mortals have referred to the manifestation of
divine mercy and tenderness, especially towards the weak
and in behalf of the needy, as indicative of an
anthropomorphic God. What a mistake! Rather should such
manifestations of mercy and forbearance by human beings
be taken as evidence that mortal man is indwelt by the
spirit of the living God; that the creature is, after
all, divinity motivated.
26:11.6
Near the end of the first-circle sojourn the ascending
pilgrims first meet the instigators of rest of the
primary order of supernaphim. These are the angels of
Paradise coming out to greet those who stand at the
threshold of eternity and to complete their preparation
for the transition slumber of the last resurrection. You
are not really a child of Paradise until you have
traversed the inner circle and have experienced the
resurrection of eternity from the terminal sleep of
time. The perfected pilgrims begin this rest, go to
sleep, on the first circle of Havona, but they awaken on
the shores of Paradise. Of all who ascend to the eternal
Isle, only those who thus arrive are the children of
eternity; the others go as visitors, as guests without
residential status.
26:11.7
And now, at the culmination of the Havona career, as you
mortals go to sleep on the pilot world of the inner
circuit, you go not alone to your rest as you did on the
worlds of your origin when you closed your eyes in the
natural sleep of mortal death, nor as you did when you
entered the long transit trance preparatory for the
journey to Havona. Now, as you prepare for the
attainment rest, there moves over by your side your
long-time associate of the first circle, the majestic
complement of rest, who prepares to enter the rest as
one with you, as the pledge of Havona that your
transition is complete, and that you await only the
final touches of perfection.
26:11.8
Your first transition was indeed death, the second an
ideal sleep, and now the third metamorphosis is the true
rest, the relaxation of the ages.
26:11.9
Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom from Uversa.
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