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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 44
THE CELESTIAL ARTISANS
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AMONG the courtesy colonies of the various divisional
and universe headquarters worlds, may be found the
unique order of composite personalities denominated the
celestial artisans. These beings are the master artists
and artisans of the morontia and lower spirit realms.
They are the spirits and semispirits who are engaged in
morontia embellishment and in spiritual beautification.
Such artisans are distributed throughout the grand
universe -- on the headquarters worlds of the
superuniverses, the local universes, the constellations,
and systems, as well as on all spheres settled in light
and life; but their chief realm of activity is in the
constellations and especially on the seven hundred
seventy worlds surrounding each headquarters sphere.
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Though their work may be almost incomprehensible to the
material mind, it should be understood that the morontia
and spirit worlds are not without their high arts and
supernal cultures.
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The celestial artisans are not created as such; they are
a selected and recruited corps of beings composed of
certain teacher personalities native to the central
universe and their volunteer pupils drawn from the
ascending mortals and numerous other celestial groups.
The original teaching corps of these artisans was
sometime assigned by the Infinite Spirit in
collaboration with the Seven Master Spirits and
consisted of seven thousand Havona instructors, one
thousand to each of the seven divisions of artisans.
With such a nucleus to start with, there has developed
through the ages this brilliant body of skillful workers
in spirit and morontia affairs.
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Any morontia personality or spirit entity is eligible
for admission to the corps of the celestial artisans;
that is, any being below the rank of inherent divine
sonship. Ascending sons of God from the evolutionary
spheres may, after their arrival on the morontia worlds,
apply for admission to the artisan corps and, if
sufficiently gifted, may choose such a career for a
longer or shorter period. But no one may enlist with the
celestial artisans for less than one millennium, one
thousand years of superuniverse time.
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All celestial artisans are registered on the
superuniverse headquarters but are directed by morontia
supervisors on the local universe capitals. They are
commissioned in the following seven major divisions of
activity by the central corps of morontia supervisors
functioning on the headquarters world of each local
universe:
1. Celestial Musicians.
2. Heavenly Reproducers.
3. Divine Builders.
4. Thought Recorders.
5. Energy Manipulators.
6. Designers and Embellishers.
7. Harmony Workers.
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The original teachers of these seven groups all hailed
from the perfect worlds of Havona, and Havona contains
the patterns, the pattern studies, for all phases and
forms of spirit artistry. While it is a gigantic task to
undertake to transfer these arts of Havona to the worlds
of space, the celestial artisans have improved in
technique and execution from age to age. As in all other
phases of the ascending career those who are most
advanced in any line of endeavor are required constantly
to impart their superior knowledge and skill to their
less favored fellows.
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You will first begin to glimpse these transplanted arts
of Havona on the mansion worlds, and their beauty and
your appreciation of their beauty will heighten and
brighten until you stand in the spirit halls of
Salvington and behold the inspiring masterpieces of the
supernal artists of the spirit realms.
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All these activities of the morontia and spirit worlds
are real. To spirit beings the spirit world is a
reality. To us the material world is the more unreal.
The higher forms of spirits freely pass through ordinary
matter. High spirits are reactive to nothing material
excepting certain of the basic energies. To material
beings the spirit world is more or less unreal; to
spirit beings the material world is almost entirely
unreal, being merely a shadow of the substance of spirit
realities.
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I cannot, with exclusive spirit vision, perceive the
building in which this narrative is being translated and
recorded. A Divine Counselor from Uversa who chances to
stand by my side perceives still less of these purely
material creations. We discern how these material
structures appear to you by viewing a spirit counterpart
presented to our minds by one of our attending energy
transformers. This material building is not exactly real
to me, a spirit being, but it is, of course, very real
and very serviceable to material mortals.
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There are certain types of beings who are capable of
discerning the reality of the creatures of both the
spirit and the material worlds. Belonging to this class
are the so-called fourth creatures of the Havona
Servitals and the fourth creatures of the conciliators.
The angels of time and space are endowed with the
ability to discern both spirit and material beings as
also are the ascending mortals subsequent to deliverance
from the life in the flesh. After attainment of the
higher spirit levels the ascenders are able to recognize
material, morontia, and spirit realities.
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There is also here with me a Mighty Messenger from
Uversa, an ascendant Adjuster-fused, onetime mortal
being, and he perceives you as you are, and at the same
time he visualizes the Solitary Messenger, the
supernaphim, and other celestial beings present. Never
in your long ascendancy will you lose the power to
recognize your associates of former existences. Always,
as you ascend inward in the scale of life, will you
retain the ability to recognize and fraternize with the
fellow beings of your previous and lower levels of
experience. Each new translation or resurrection will
add one more group of spirit beings to your vision range
without in the least depriving you of the ability to
recognize your friends and fellows of former estates.
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All this is made possible in the experience of ascending
mortals by the action of the indwelling Thought
Adjusters. Through their retention of the duplicates of
your entire life's experiences, you are assured of never
losing any true attribute you once had; and these
Adjusters are going through with you, as a part of you,
in reality, as
you.
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But I almost despair of being able to convey to the
material mind the nature of the work of the celestial
artisans. I am under the necessity of constantly
perverting thought and distorting language in an effort
to unfold to the mortal mind the reality of these
morontia transactions and near-spirit phenomena. Your
comprehension is incapable of grasping, and your
language is inadequate for conveying, the meaning,
value, and relationship of these semispirit activities.
And I proceed with this effort to enlighten the human
mind concerning these realities with the full
understanding of the utter impossibility of my being
very successful in such an undertaking.
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I can do no more than attempt to sketch a crude
parallelism between mortal material activities and the
manifold functions of the celestial artisans. If the
Urantia races were more advanced in art and other
cultural accomplishments, then could I go that much
farther in an effort to project the human mind from the
things of matter to those of morontia. About all I can
hope to accomplish is to make emphatic the fact of the
reality of these transactions of the morontia and the
spirit worlds.
1. THE CELESTIAL MUSICIANS
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With the limited range of mortal hearing, you can hardly
conceive of morontia melodies. There is even a material
range of beautiful sound unrecognized by the human sense
of hearing, not to mention the inconceivable scope of
morontia and spirit harmony. Spirit melodies are not
material sound waves but spirit pulsations received by
the spirits of celestial personalities. There is a
vastness of range and a soul of expression, as well as a
grandeur of execution, associated with the melody of the
spheres, that are wholly beyond human comprehension. I
have seen millions of enraptured beings held in sublime
ecstasy while the melody of the realm rolled in upon the
spirit energy of the celestial circuits. These marvelous
melodies can be broadcast to the uttermost parts of a
universe.
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The celestial musicians are occupied with the production
of celestial harmony by the manipulation of the
following spirit forces:
1. Spiritual
sound -- spirit current interruptions.
2. Spiritual
light -- the control and intensification of the
light of the morontia and spiritual realms.
3. Energy
impingements -- melody produced by the skillful
management of the morontia and spirit energies.
4. Color
symphonies -- melody of morontia color tones; this
ranks among the highest accomplishments of the celestial
musicians.
5. Harmony of
associated spirits -- the very arrangement and
association of different orders of morontia and spirit
beings produce majestic melodies.
6. Melody of
thought -- the thinking of spiritual thoughts can be
so perfected as to burst forth in the melodies of
Havona.
7. The music of
space -- by proper attunement the melodies of other
spheres can be picked up on the universe broadcast
circuits.
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There are over one hundred thousand different modes of
sound, color, and energy manipulation, techniques
analogous to the human employment of musical
instruments. Your ensembles of dancing undoubtedly
represent a crude and grotesque attempt of material
creatures to approach the celestial harmony of being
placement and personality arrangement. The other five
forms of morontia melody are unrecognized by the sensory
mechanism of material bodies.
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Harmony, the music of the seven levels of melodious
association, is the one universal code of spirit
communication. Music, such as Urantia mortals
understand, attains its highest expression in the
schools of Jerusem, the system headquarters, where
semimaterial beings are taught the harmonies of sound.
Mortals do not react to the other forms of morontia
melody and celestial harmony.
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Appreciation of music on Urantia is both physical and
spiritual; and your human musicians have done much to
elevate musical taste from the barbarous monotony of
your early ancestors to the higher levels of sound
appreciation. The majority of Urantia mortals react to
music so largely with the material muscles and so
slightly with the mind and spirit; but there has been a
steady improvement in musical appreciation for more than
thirty-five thousand years.
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Tuneful syncopation represents a transition from the
musical monotony of primitive man to the expressionful
harmony and meaningful melodies of your later-day
musicians. These earlier types of rhythm stimulate the
reaction of the music-loving sense without entailing the
exertion of the higher intellectual powers of harmony
appreciation and thus more generally appeal to immature
or spiritually indolent individuals.
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The best music of Urantia is just a fleeting echo of the
magnificent strains heard by the celestial associates of
your musicians, who left but snatches of these harmonies
of morontia forces on record as the musical melodies of
sound harmonics. Spirit-morontia music not infrequently
employs all seven modes of expression and reproduction,
so that the human mind is tremendously handicapped in
any attempt to reduce these melodies of the higher
spheres to mere notes of musical sound. Such an effort
would be something like endeavoring to reproduce the
strains of a great orchestra by means of a single
musical instrument.
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While you have assembled some beautiful melodies on
Urantia, you have not progressed musically nearly so far
as many of your neighboring planets in Satania. If Adam
and Eve had only survived, then would you have had music
in reality; but the gift of harmony, so large in their
natures, has been so diluted by strains of unmusical
tendencies that only once in a thousand mortal lives is
there any great appreciation of harmonics. But be not
discouraged; some day a real musician may appear on
Urantia, and whole peoples will be enthralled by the
magnificent strains of his melodies. One such human
being could forever change the course of a whole nation,
even the entire civilized world. It is literally true,
"melody has power a whole world to transform." Forever,
music will remain the universal language of men, angels,
and spirits. Harmony is the speech of Havona.
2. THE HEAVENLY REPRODUCERS
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Mortal man can hardly hope for more than a meager and
distorted concept of the functions of the heavenly
reproducers, which I must attempt to illustrate through
the gross and limited symbolism of your material
language. The spirit-morontia world has a thousand and
one things of supreme value, things worthy of
reproduction but unknown on Urantia, experiences that
belong in the category of the activities which have
hardly "entered into the mind of man," those realities
which God has in waiting for those who survive the life
in the flesh.
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There are seven groups of the heavenly reproducers, and
I will attempt to illustrate their work by the following
classification:
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1. The singers
-- harmonists who reiterate the specific harmonies of
the past and interpret the melodies of the present. But
all of this is effected on the morontia level.
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2. The color
workers -- those artists of light and shade you
might call sketchers and painters, artists who preserve
passing scenes and transient episodes for future
morontia enjoyment.
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3. The light
picturizers -- the makers of the real
semispirit-phenomena preservations of which motion
pictures would be a very crude illustration.
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4. The historic
pageanteers -- those who dramatically reproduce the
crucial events of universe records and history.
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5. The prophetic
artists -- those who project the meanings of history
into the future.
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6. The life-story
tellers -- those who perpetuate the meaning and
significance of life experience. The projection of
present personal experiences into future attainment
values.
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7. The
administrative enactors -- those who depict the
significance of governmental philosophy and
administrative technique, the celestial dramatists of
sovereignty.
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Very often and effectively the heavenly reproducers
collaborate with the reversion directors in combining
memory recapitulation with certain forms of mind rest
and personality diversion. Before the morontia conclaves
and spirit assemblies these reproducers sometimes
associate themselves in tremendous dramatic spectacles
representative of the purpose of such gatherings. I
recently witnessed such a stupendous presentation in
which more than one million actors produced a succession
of one thousand scenes.
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The higher intellectual teachers and the transition
ministers freely and effectively utilize these various
groups of reproducers in their morontia educational
activities. But not all of their efforts are devoted to
transient illustration; much, very much, of their work
is of a permanent nature and will forever remain as a
legacy to all future time. So versatile are these
artisans that, when they function en masse, they are
able to re-enact an age, and in collaboration with the
seraphic ministers they can actually portray the eternal
values of the spirit world to the mortal seers of time.
3. THE DIVINE BUILDERS
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There are cities "whose builder and maker is God." In
spirit counterpart we have all that you mortals are
familiar with and inexpressibly more. We have homes,
spirit comforts, and morontia necessities. For every
material satisfaction which humans are capable of
enjoying, we have thousands of spiritual realities that
serve to enrich and enlarge our existence. The divine
builders function in seven groups:
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1. The home
designers and builders -- those who construct and
remodel the abodes assigned to individuals and working
groups. These morontia and spirit domiciles are real.
They would be invisible to your short-range vision, but
they are very real and beautiful to us. To a certain
extent, all spirit beings may share with the builders
certain details of the planning and creation of their
morontia or spirit abodes. These homes are fitted up and
embellished in accordance with the needs of the morontia
or of the spirit creatures who are to inhabit them.
There is abundant variety and ample opportunity for
individual expression in all these constructions.
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2. The vocation
builders -- those who function in designing and
assembling the abodes of the regular and routine workers
of the spirit and morontia realms. These builders are
comparable to those who construct the Urantia workshops
and other industrial plants. The transition worlds have
a necessary economy of mutual ministry and specialized
division of labor. We do not all do everything; there is
diversity of function among morontia beings and evolving
spirits, and these vocation builders not only build
better workshops but also contribute to the vocational
enhancement of the worker.
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3. The play
builders. Enormous edifices are utilized during the
seasons of rest, what mortals would call recreation and,
in a certain sense, play. Provision is made for a
suitable setting for the reversion directors, the
humorists of the morontia worlds, those transition
spheres whereon takes place the training of ascendant
beings but recently removed from the evolutionary
planets. Even the higher spirits engage in a certain
form of reminiscent humor during their periods of
spiritual recharging.
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4. The worship
builders -- the experienced architects of the spirit
and the morontia temples. All the worlds of mortal
ascent have temples of worship, and they are the most
exquisite creations of the morontia realms and the
spirit spheres.
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5. The education
builders -- those who build the headquarters of
morontia training and advanced spirit learning. Always
is the way open to acquire more knowledge, to gain
additional information respecting one's present and
future work as well as universal cultural knowledge,
information designed to make ascending mortals more
intelligent and effective citizens of the morontia and
spirit worlds.
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6. Morontia
planners -- those who build for the co-ordinate
association of all the personalities of all realms as
they are at any one time present on any one sphere.
These planners collaborate with the Morontia Power
Supervisors to enrich the co-ordination of the
progressive morontia life.
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7. The public
builders -- the artisans who plan and construct the
designated places of assembly other than those of
worship. Great and magnificent are the places of common
assembly.
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While neither these structures nor their embellishment
would be exactly real to the sensory comprehension of
material mortals, they are very real to us. You would be
unable to see these temples could you be there in the
flesh; nevertheless, all of these supermaterial
creations are actually there, and we clearly discern
them and just as fully enjoy them.
4. THE THOUGHT RECORDERS
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These artisans are devoted to the preservation and
reproduction of the superior thought of the realms, and
they function in seven groups:
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1. Thought
preservers. These are the artisans dedicated to the
preservation of the higher thought of the realms. On the
morontia worlds they truly treasure the gems of
mentation. Before first coming to Urantia, I saw records
and heard broadcasts of the ideation of some of the
great minds of this planet. Thought recorders preserve
such noble ideas in the tongue of Uversa.
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Each superuniverse has its own language, a tongue spoken
by its personalities and prevailing throughout its
sectors. This is known as the tongue of Uversa in our
superuniverse. Each local universe also has its own
language. All of the higher orders of Nebadon are
bilingual, speaking both the language of Nebadon and the
tongue of Uversa. When two individuals from different
local universes meet, they communicate in the tongue of
Uversa; if, however, one of them hails from another
superuniverse, they must have recourse to a translator.
In the central universe there is little need of a
language; there exists perfect and well-nigh complete
understanding; there, only the Gods are not fully
comprehended. We are taught that a chance meeting on
Paradise reveals more of mutual understanding than could
be communicated by a mortal language in a thousand
years. Even on Salvington we "know as we are known."
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The ability to translate thought into language in the
morontia and spirit spheres is beyond mortal
comprehension. Our rate of reducing thought to a
permanent record can be so speeded up by the expert
recorders that the equivalent of over half a million
words, or thought symbols, can be registered in one
minute of Urantia time. These universe languages are far
more replete than the speech of the evolving worlds. The
concept symbols of Uversa embrace more than a billion
characters, although the basic alphabet contains only
seventy symbols. The language of Nebadon is not quite so
elaborate, the basic symbols, or alphabet, being
forty-eight in number.
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2. Concept
recorders. This second group of recorders are
concerned with the preservation of concept pictures,
idea patterns. This is a form of permanent recording
unknown on the material realms, and by this method I
could gain more knowledge in one hour of your time than
you could gain in one hundred years of perusing ordinary
written language.
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3. Ideograph
recorders. We have the equivalent of both your
written and spoken word, but in preserving thought, we
usually employ concept picturization and ideograph
techniques. Those who preserve ideographs are able to
improve one thousandfold upon the work of the concept
recorders.
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4. Promoters of
oratory. This group of recorders are occupied with
the task of preserving thought for reproduction by
oratory. But in the language of Nebadon we could, in a
half hour's address, cover the subject matter of the
entire lifetime of a Urantia mortal. Your only hope of
comprehending these transactions is to pause and
consider the technique of your disordered and garbled
dream life -- how you can in a few seconds traverse
years of experience in these fantasies of the night
season.
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The oratory of the spirit world is one of the rare
treats which await you who have heard only the crude and
stumbling orations of Urantia. There is harmony of music
and euphony of expression in the orations of Salvington
and Edentia which are inspiring beyond description.
These burning concepts are like gems of beauty in
diadems of glory. But I cannot do it! I cannot convey to
the human mind the breadth and depth of these realities
of another world!
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5. The broadcast
directors. The broadcasts of Paradise, the
superuniverses, and the local universes are under the
general supervision of this group of thought conservers.
They serve as censors and editors as well as
co-ordinators of the broadcast material, making a
superuniverse adaptation of all Paradise broadcasts and
adapting and translating the broadcasts of the Ancients
of Days into the individual tongues of the local
universes.
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The local universe broadcasts must also be modified for
reception by the systems and the individual planets. The
transmittal of these space reports is carefully
supervised, and there is always a back registry to
insure the proper reception of every report on every
world in a given circuit. These broadcast directors are
technically expert in the utilization of the currents of
space for all purposes of intelligence communication.
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6. The rhythm
recorders. Urantians would undoubtedly denominate
these artisans poets, although their work is very
different from, and almost infinitely transcends, your
poetic productions. Rhythm is less exhausting to both
morontia and spirit beings, and so an effort is
frequently made to increase efficiency, as well as to
augment pleasure, by executing numerous functions in
rhythmic form. I only wish you might be privileged to
hear some of the poetic broadcasts of the Edentia
assemblies and to enjoy the richness of the color and
tone of the constellation geniuses who are masters of
this exquisite form of self-expression and social
harmonization.
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7. The morontia
recorders. I am at a loss to know how to depict to
the material mind the function of this important group
of thought recorders assigned to the work of preserving
the ensemble pictures of the various groupings of
morontia affairs and spirit transactions; crudely
illustrated, they are the group photographers of the
transition worlds. They save for the future the vital
scenes and associations of these progressive epochs,
preserving them in the archives of the morontia halls of
records.
5. THE ENERGY MANIPULATORS
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These interesting and effective artisans are concerned
with every kind of energy: physical, mindal, and
spiritual.
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1.
Physical-energy manipulators. The physical-energy
manipulators serve for long periods with the power
directors and are experts in the manipulation and
control of many phases of physical energy. They are
conversant with the three basic currents and the thirty
subsidiary energy segregations of the superuniverses.
These beings are of inestimable assistance to the
Morontia Power Supervisors of the transition worlds.
They are the persistent students of the cosmic
projections of Paradise.
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2. Mind-energy
manipulators. These are the experts of
intercommunication between morontia and other types of
intelligent beings. This form of communication between
mortals is practically nonexistent on Urantia. These are
the specialists who promote the ability of the ascending
morontia beings to communicate with one another, and
their work embraces numerous unique adventures in
intellect liaison which are far beyond my power to
portray to the material mind. These artisans are the
keen students of the mind circuits of the Infinite
Spirit.
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3.
Spiritual-energy manipulators. The manipulators of
spiritual energy are an intriguing group. Spiritual
energy acts in accordance with established laws, just as
does physical energy. That is, spirit force, when
studied, yields dependable deductions and can be
precisely dealt with, even as can the physical energies.
There are just as certain and reliable laws in the
spirit world as obtain in the material realms. During
the last few millions of years many improved techniques
for the intake of spiritual energy have been effected by
these students of the fundamental laws of the Eternal
Son governing spirit energy as applied to the morontia
and other orders of celestial beings throughout the
universes.
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4. The compound
manipulators. This is the adventurous group of
well-trained beings who are dedicated to the functional
association of the three original phases of divine
energy manifested throughout the universes as physical,
mindal, and spiritual energies. These are the keen
personalities who are in reality seeking to discover the
universe presence of God the Supreme, for in this Deity
personality there must occur the experiential
unification of all grand universe divinity. And to a
certain extent, these artisans have in recent times met
with some success.
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5. The transport
advisers. This corps of technical advisers to the
transport seraphim are most proficient in collaborating
with the star students in working out routings and in
otherwise assisting the chiefs of transport on the
worlds of space. They are the traffic supervisors of the
spheres and are present on all inhabited planets.
Urantia is served by a corps of seventy transport
advisers.
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6. The experts of
communication. Urantia, likewise, is served by
twelve technicians of interplanetary and interuniverse
communication. These long-experienced beings are expert
in the knowledge of the laws of transmittal and
interference as applied to the communications of the
realms. This corps is concerned with all forms of space
messages except those of Gravity and Solitary
Messengers. On Urantia much of their work must be
accomplished over the archangels' circuit.
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7. The teachers
of rest. Divine rest is associated with the
technique of spiritual-energy intake. Morontia and
spirit energy must be replenished just as certainly as
physical energy, but not for the same reasons. I am,
perforce, compelled to employ crude illustrations in my
attempts to enlighten you; nevertheless, we of the
spirit world must stop our regular activities
periodically and betake ourselves to suitable places of
rendezvous where we enter the divine rest and thus
recuperate our depleting energies.
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You will receive your first lessons in these matters
when you reach the mansion worlds after you have become
morontia beings and have begun to experience the
technique of spirit affairs. You know of the innermost
circle of Havona and that, after the pilgrims of space
have traversed the preceding circles, they must be
inducted into the long and revivifying rest of Paradise.
This is not only a technical requirement of transit from
the career of time to the service of eternity, but it is
also a necessity, a form of rest required to replenish
the energy losses incident to the final steps of the
ascendant experience and to store reserves of spirit
power for the next stage of the endless career.
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These energy manipulators also function in hundreds of
other ways too numerous to catalogue, such as counseling
with the seraphim, cherubim, and sanobim regarding the
most efficient modes of energy intake and as to the
maintenance of the most helpful balances of divergent
forces between active cherubim and passive sanobim. In
many other ways do these experts lend assistance to
morontia and spirit creatures in their efforts to
understand the divine rest, which is so essential to the
effective utilization of the basic energies of space.
6. THE DESIGNERS AND EMBELLISHERS
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How I wish I knew how to portray the exquisite work of
these unique artisans! Every attempt on my part to
explain the work of spirit embellishment would only
recall to material minds your own pitiful but worthy
efforts to do these things on your world of mind and
matter.
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This corps, while embracing over one thousand
subdivisions of activity, is grouped under the following
seven major heads:
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1. The
craftworkers of color. These are they who make the
ten thousand color tones of spirit reflection peal forth
their exquisite messages of harmonious beauty. Aside
from color perception there is nothing in human
experience to which these activities may be compared.
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2. The sound
designers. Spirit waves of diverse identity and
morontia appreciation are depicted by these designers of
what you would call sound. These impulses are in reality
the superb reflections of the naked and glorious
spirit-souls of the celestial hosts.
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3. The emotion
designers. These enhancers and conservators of
feeling are those who preserve the sentiments of
morontia and the emotions of divinity for the study and
edification of the children of time and for the
inspiration and beautification of morontia progressors
and advancing spirits.
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4. The artists of
odor. This comparison of supernal spirit activities
to the physical recognition of chemical odors is,
indeed, unfortunate, but Urantia mortals could hardly
recognize this ministry by any other name. These
artisans create their varied symphonies for the
edification and delight of the advancing children of
light. You have nothing on earth to which this type of
spiritual grandeur can be even remotely compared.
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5. The presence
embellishers. These artisans are not occupied with
the arts of self-adornment or the technique of creature
beautification. They are devoted to the production of
multitudinous and joyous reactions in individual
morontia and spirit creatures by dramatizing the
significance of relationship through the positional
values assigned to different morontia and spirit orders
in the composite ensembles of these diversified beings.
These artists arrange supermaterial beings as you would
living musical notes, odors, sights, and then blend them
into the anthems of glory.
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6. The taste
designers. And how can you be told of these artists!
Faintly I might suggest that they are improvers of
morontia taste, and they also endeavor to increase the
appreciation of beauty through the sharpening of the
evolving spirit senses.
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7. The morontia
synthesizers. These are the master craftsmen who,
when all others have made their respective
contributions, then add the culminating and finishing
touches to the morontia ensemble, thus achieving an
inspiring portrayal of the divinely beautiful, an
enduring inspiration to spirit beings and their morontia
associates. But you must await your deliverance from the
animal body before you can begin to conceive of the
artistic glories and aesthetic beauties of the morontia
and spirit worlds.
7. THE HARMONY WORKERS
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These artists are not concerned with music, painting, or
anything similar, as you might be led to surmise. They
are occupied with the manipulation and organization of
specialized forces and energies which are present in the
spirit world, but which are not recognized by mortals.
If I had the least possible basis for comparison, I
would attempt to portray this unique field of spirit
achievement, but I despair -- there is no hope of
conveying to mortal minds this sphere of celestial
artistry. Nevertheless, that which cannot be described
may still be implied:
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Beauty, rhythm, and harmony are intellectually
associated and spiritually akin. Truth, fact, and
relationship are intellectually inseparable and
associated with the philosophic concepts of beauty.
Goodness, righteousness, and justice are philosophically
interrelated and spiritually bound up together with
living truth and divine beauty.
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Cosmic concepts of true philosophy, the portrayal of
celestial artistry, or the mortal attempt to depict the
human recognition of divine beauty can never be truly
satisfying if such attempted creature progression is
ununified. These expressions of the divine urge within
the evolving creature may be intellectually true,
emotionally beautiful, and spiritually good; but the
real soul of expression is absent unless these realities
of truth, meanings of beauty, and values of goodness are
unified in the life experience of the artisan, the
scientist, or the philosopher.
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These divine qualities are perfectly and absolutely
unified in God. And every God-knowing man or angel
possesses the potential of unlimited self-expression on
ever-progressive levels of unified self-realization by
the technique of the never-ending achievement of
Godlikeness -- the experiential blending in the
evolutionary experience of eternal truth, universal
beauty, and divine goodness.
8. MORTAL ASPIRATIONS AND MORONTIA ACHIEVEMENTS
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Although celestial artisans do not personally work on
material planets, such as Urantia, they do come, from
time to time, from the headquarters of the system to
proffer help to the naturally gifted individuals of the
mortal races. When thus assigned, these artisans
temporarily work under the supervision of the planetary
angels of progress. The seraphic hosts co-operate with
these artisans in attempting to assist those mortal
artists who possess inherent endowments, and who also
possess Adjusters of special and previous experience.
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There are three possible sources of special human
ability: At the bottom always there exists the natural
or inherent aptitude. Special ability is never an
arbitrary gift of the Gods; there is always an ancestral
foundation for every outstanding talent. In addition to
this natural ability, or rather supplemental thereto,
there may be contributed the leadings of the Thought
Adjuster in those individuals whose indwelling Adjusters
may have had actual and bona fide experiences along such
lines on other worlds and in other mortal creatures. In
those cases where both the human mind and the indwelling
Adjuster are unusually skillful, the spirit artisans may
be delegated to act as harmonizers of these talents and
otherwise to assist and inspire these mortals to seek
for ever-perfecting ideals and to attempt their enhanced
portrayal for the edification of the realm.
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There is no caste in the ranks of spirit artisans. No
matter how lowly your origin, if you have ability and
the gift of expression, you will gain adequate
recognition and receive due appreciation as you ascend
upward in the scale of morontia experience and spiritual
attainment. There can be no handicap of human heredity
or deprivation of mortal environment which the morontia
career will not fully compensate and wholly remove. And
all such satisfactions of artistic achievement and
expressionful self-realization will be effected by your
own personal efforts in progressive advancement. At last
the aspirations of evolutionary mediocrity may be
realized. While the Gods do not arbitrarily bestow
talents and ability upon the children of time, they do
provide for the attainment of the satisfaction of all
their noble longings and for the gratification of all
human hunger for supernal self-expression.
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But every human being should remember: Many ambitions to
excel which tantalize mortals in the flesh will not
persist with these same mortals in the morontia and
spirit careers. The ascending morontians learn to
socialize their former purely selfish longings and
egoistic ambitions. Nevertheless, those things which you
so earnestly longed to do on earth and which
circumstances so persistently denied you, if, after
acquiring true mota insight in the morontia career, you
still desire to do, then will you most certainly be
granted every opportunity fully to satisfy your
long-cherished desires.
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Before ascending mortals leave the local universe to
embark upon their spirit careers, they will be satiated
respecting every intellectual, artistic, and social
longing or true ambition which ever characterized their
mortal or morontia planes of existence. This is the
achievement of equality of the satisfaction of
self-expression and self-realization but not the
attainment of identical experiential status nor the
complete obliteration of characteristic individuality in
skill, technique, and expression. But the new spirit
differential of personal experiential attainment will
not become thus leveled off and equalized until after
you have finished the last circle of the Havona career.
And then will the Paradise residents be confronted with
the necessity of adjusting to that absonite differential
of personal experience which can be leveled off only by
the group attainment of the ultimate of creature status
-- the seventh-stage-spirit destiny of the mortal
finaliters.
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And this is the story of the celestial artisans, that
cosmopolitan body of exquisite workers who do so much to
glorify the architectural spheres with the artistic
portrayals of the divine beauty of the Paradise
Creators.
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Indited by an Archangel of Nebadon.
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