Paper 25 — The Messeenger Hosts of Space

P.273 – §1 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:

P.273 – §2 1. Havona Servitals.

P.273 – §3 2. Universal Conciliators.

P.273 – §4 3. Technical Advisers.

P.273 – §5 4. Custodians of Records on Paradise.

P.273 – §6 5. Celestial Recorders.

P.273 – §7 6. Morontia Companions.

P.273 – §8 7. Paradise Companions.

P.273 – §9 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 – P.273

P.273 – §10 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.

P.273 – §11 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.

P.273 – §12 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

P.274 – §0 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.

P.274 – §1 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.

P.274 – §2 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.

P.274 – §3 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."

P.274 – §4 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 – P.275

P.275 – §1 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.

P.275 – §2 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.

P.275 – §3 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.

P.275 – §4 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.

P.275 – §5 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:

P.275 – §6 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.

P.275 – §7 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.

P.276 – §1 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.

P.276 – §2 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.

P.276 – §3 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.

P.276 – §4 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.

P.276 – §5 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 – P.276

P.276 – §6 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.

P.276 – §7 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:

P.276 – §8 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.

P.277 – §1 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.

P.277 – §2 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.

P.277 – §3 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.

P.277 – §4 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.

P.277 – §5 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.

P.277 – §6 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

P.278 – §0 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.

P.278 – §1 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.

P.278 – §2 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.

P.278 – §3 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.

P.278 – §4 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.

P.278 – §5 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.

P.278 – §6 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.

P.278 – §7 From time to time, as the numbers of the
superuniverse conciliators increase, they are translated to the council
of perfection on Paradise, from which

P.279 – §0 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.

P.279 – §1 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 – P.279

P.279 – §2 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.

P.279 – §3 The Technical Advisers are recruited from
the ranks of the following personality orders:

P.279 – §4 1. The Supernaphim.

P.279 – §5 2. The Seconaphim.

P.279 – §6 3. The Tertiaphim.

P.279 – §7 4. The Omniaphim.

P.279 – §8 5. The Seraphim.

P.279 – §9 6. Certain Types of Ascending Mortals.

P.279 – §10 7. Certain Types of Ascending Midwayers.

P.279 – §11 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.

P.279 – §12 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.

P.279 – §13 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

P.280 – §0 possessed yourself of knowledge and truth
until you have demonstrated your ability and your willingness to impart
this knowledge and truth to others.

P.280 – §1 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.

P.280 – §2 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.

P.280 – §3 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.

P.280 – §4 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.

P.280 – §5 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.

P.280 – §6 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.

P.280 – §7 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.

P.281 – §1 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 – P.281

P.281 – §2 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."

P.281 – §3 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.

P.281 – §4 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.

P.281 – §5 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 – P.281

P.281 – §6 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.

P.281 – §7 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

P.282 – §0 to consult the records of, and to be otherwise
conversant with, the history and traditions of your status sphere.

P.282 – §1 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.

P.282 – §2 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.

P.282 – §3 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.

P.282 – §4 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 – P.282

P.282 – §5 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.

P.282 – §6 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.

P.282 – §7 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.

P.283 – §1 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 – P.283

P.283 – §2 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.

P.283 – §3 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.

P.283 – §4 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.

P.283 – §5 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.

P.283 – §6 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.

P.283 – §7 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.

P.283 – §8 During your prefinaliter sojourn on Paradise,
if for any reason you should be temporarily separated from your associate
of the ascending career–mortal

P.284 – §0 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.

P.284 – §1 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.

P.284 – §2 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.

P.284 – §3 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.

P.284 – §4 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.

P.284 – §5 [Sponsored by One High in Authority from
Uversa.]