PAPER 25
THE MESSENGER HOSTS OF SPACE
25:0.1 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:
1. Havona Servitals.
2. Universal Conciliators.
3. Technical Advisers.
4. Custodians of Records on Paradise.
5. Celestial Recorders.
6. Morontia Companions.
7. Paradise Companions.
25:0.2 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
25:1.1 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.
25:1.2 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.
25:1.3 The number of servitals is prodigious, and
more are being created all the time. They appear in groups of one thousand on
the third moment following the assembly of the Master Spirits and the Supreme
Power Directors at their joint area in the far northerly sector of Paradise.
Every fourth servital is more physical in type than the others; that is, out
of each thousand, seven hundred and fifty are apparently true to spirit type,
but two hundred and fifty are semiphysical in nature. These fourth
creatures are somewhat on the order of material beings (material in the
Havona sense), resembling the physical power directors more than the Master
Spirits.
25:1.4 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.
25:1.5 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.
25:1.6 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."
25:1.7 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
25:2.1 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.
25:2.2 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.
25:2.3 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.
25:2.4 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.
25:2.5 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:
25:2.6 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.
25:2.7 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.
25:2.8 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.
25:2.9 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.
25:2.10 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.
25:2.11 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.
25:2.12 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
25:3.1 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.
25:3.2 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:
25:3.3 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.
25:3.4 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.
25:3.5 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.
25:3.6 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.
25:3.7 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.
25:3.8 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.
25:3.9 4. Conciliators to the Local
Universes. In this larger work of a universe the commissioners are of
great assistance to both the Melchizedeks and the Magisterial Sons and to the
constellation rulers and the hosts of personalities concerned with the
co-ordination and administration of the one hundred constellations. The
different orders of seraphim and other residents of the headquarters spheres
of a local universe also avail themselves of the help and decisions of the
referee trios.
25:3.10 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.
25:3.11 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.
25:3.12 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.
25:3.13 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.
25:3.14 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.
25:3.15 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.
25:3.16 From time to time, as the numbers of the
superuniverse conciliators increase, they are translated to the council of
perfection on Paradise, from which they subsequently emerge as the
co-ordinating corps evolved by the Infinite Spirit for the universe of
universes, a marvelous group of beings which is constantly increasing in
numbers and efficiency. By experiential ascent and Paradise training they have
acquired a unique grasp of the emerging reality of the Supreme Being, and they
roam the universe of universes on special assignment.
25:3.17 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
25:4.1 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.
25:4.2 The Technical Advisers are recruited from the
ranks of the following personality orders:
1. The Supernaphim.
2. The Seconaphim.
3. The Tertiaphim.
4. The Omniaphim.
5. The Seraphim.
6. Certain Types of Ascending Mortals.
7. Certain Types of Ascending Midwayers.
25:4.3 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.
25:4.4 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.
25:4.5 Those mortals and midwayers who serve
transiently with the advisers are chosen for such work because of their
expertness in the concept of universal law and supreme justice. As you journey
toward your Paradise goal, constantly acquiring added knowledge and enhanced
skill, you are continuously afforded the opportunity to give out to others the
wisdom and experience you have already accumulated; all the way in to Havona
you enact the role of a pupil-teacher. You will work your way through the
ascending levels of this vast experiential university by imparting to those
just below you the new-found knowledge of your advancing career. In the
universal regime you are not reckoned as having possessed yourself of
knowledge and truth until you have demonstrated your ability and your
willingness to impart this knowledge and truth to others.
25:4.6 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.
25:4.7 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.
25:4.8 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.
25:4.9 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.
25:4.10 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.
25:4.11 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.
25:4.12 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.
25:4.13 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
25:5.1 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."
25:5.2 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.
25:5.3 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.
25:5.4 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
25:6.1 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.
25:6.2 As the recorders advance in universe service,
they continue their system of dual recording, thus making their records always
available to all classes of beings, from those of the material order to the
high spirits of light. In your transition experience, as you ascend from this
material world, you will always be able to consult the records of, and to be
otherwise conversant with, the history and traditions of your status
sphere.
25:6.3 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.
25:6.4 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.
25:6.5 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.
25:6.6 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
25:7.1 These children of the local universe Mother
Spirits are the friends and associates of all who live the ascending morontia
life. They are not indispensable to an ascender's real work of creature
progression, neither do they in any sense displace the work of the seraphic
guardians who often accompany their mortal associates on the Paradise journey.
The Morontia Companions are simply gracious hosts to those who are just
beginning the long inward ascent. They are also skillful play sponsors and are
ably assisted in this work by the reversion directors.
25:7.2 Though you will have earnest and
progressively difficult tasks to perform on the morontia training worlds of
Nebadon, you will always be provided with regular seasons of rest and
reversion. Throughout the journey to Paradise there will always be time for
rest and spirit play; and in the career of light and life there is always time
for worship and new achievement.
25:7.3 These Morontia Companions are such friendly
associates that, when you finally leave the last phase of the morontia
experience, as you prepare to embark upon the superuniverse spirit adventure,
you will truly regret that these companionable creatures cannot accompany you,
but they serve exclusively in the local universes. At every stage of the
ascending career all contactable personalities will be friendly and
companionable, but not until you meet the Paradise Companions will you find
another group so devoted to friendship and companionship.
25:7.4 The work of the Morontia Companions is more
fully depicted in those narratives dealing with the affairs of your local
universe.
8. THE PARADISE COMPANIONS
25:8.1 The Paradise Companions are a composite or
assembled group recruited from the ranks of the seraphim, seconaphim,
supernaphim, and omniaphim. Though serving for what you would regard as an
extraordinary length of time, they are not of permanent status. When this
ministry has been completed, as a rule (but not invariably) they return to
those duties they performed when summoned to Paradise service.
25:8.2 Members of the angelic hosts are nominated
for this service by the local universe Mother Spirits, by the superuniverse
Reflective Spirits, and by Majeston of Paradise. They are summoned to the
central Isle and are commissioned as Paradise Companions by one of the Seven
Master Spirits. Aside from permanent status on Paradise, this temporary
service of Paradise companionship is the highest honor ever conferred upon the
ministering spirits.
25:8.3 These selected angels are dedicated to the
service of companionship and are assigned as associates to all classes of
beings who may chance to be alone on Paradise, chiefly to the ascendant
mortals but also to all others who are alone on the central Isle. Paradise
Companions have nothing especial to accomplish in behalf of those with whom
they fraternize; they are simply companions. Almost every other being you
mortals will encounter during your Paradise sojourn -- aside from your fellow
pilgrims -- will have something definite to do with you or for you; but these
companions are assigned only to be with you and to commune with you as
personality associates. They are often assisted in their ministry by the
gracious and brilliant Paradise Citizens.
25:8.4 Mortals come from races that are very social.
The Creators well know that it is "not good for man to be alone," and
provision is accordingly made for companionship, even on Paradise.
25:8.5 If you, as an ascendant mortal, should reach
Paradise in the company of the companion or close associate of your earthly
career, or if your seraphic guardian of destiny should chance to arrive with
you or were waiting for you, then no permanent companion would be assigned
you. But if you arrive alone, a companion will certainly welcome you as you
awaken on the Isle of Light from the terminal sleep of time. Even if it is
known that you will be accompanied by someone of ascendant association,
temporary companions will be designated to welcome you to the eternal shores
and to escort you to the reservation made ready for the reception of you and
your associates. You may be certain of being warmly welcomed when you
experience the resurrection into eternity on the everlasting shores of
Paradise.
25:8.6 Reception companions are assigned during the
terminal days of the ascenders' sojourn on the last circuit of Havona, and
they carefully examine the records of mortal origin and eventful ascent
through the worlds of space and the circles of Havona. When they greet the
mortals of time, they are already well versed in the careers of these arriving
pilgrims and immediately prove to be sympathetic and intriguing
companions.
25:8.7 During your prefinaliter sojourn on Paradise,
if for any reason you should be temporarily separated from your associate of
the ascending career -- mortal or seraphic -- a Paradise Companion would be
forthwith assigned for counsel and companionship. When once assigned to an
ascendant mortal of solitary residence on Paradise, the companion remains with
this person until he either is rejoined by his ascendant associates or is duly
mustered into the Corps of the Finality.
25:8.8 Paradise Companions are assigned in order of
waiting except that an ascender is never placed in the charge of a companion
whose nature is unlike his superuniverse type. If a Urantia mortal were
arriving on Paradise today, there would be assigned to him the first waiting
companion either of origin in Orvonton or otherwise of the nature of the
Seventh Master Spirit. Hence the omniaphim serve not with the ascendant
creatures from the seven superuniverses.
25:8.9 Many additional services are performed by the
Paradise Companions: If an ascending mortal should reach the central universe
alone and, while traversing Havona, should fail in some phase of the Deity
adventure, in due course he would be remanded to the universes of time, and
forthwith a call would be made to the reserves of the Paradise Companions. One
of this order would be assigned to follow the defeated pilgrim, to be with him
and to comfort and cheer him, and to remain with him until he returned to the
central universe to resume the Paradise ascent.
25:8.10 If an ascending pilgrim met defeat in the
Deity adventure while traversing Havona in the company of an ascending
seraphim, the guardian angel of the mortal career, she would elect to
accompany her mortal associate. These seraphim always volunteer and are
permitted to accompany their long-time mortal comrades back to the service of
time and space.
25:8.11 But not so with two closely associated
mortal ascenders: If one attains God while the other temporarily fails, the
successful individual invariably chooses to go back to the evolutionary
creations with the disappointed personality, but this is not permitted.
Instead, a call is made to the reserves of the Paradise Companions, and one of
the volunteers is selected to accompany the disappointed pilgrim. A volunteer
Paradise Citizen then becomes associated with the successful mortal, who
tarries on the central Isle awaiting the Havona return of the defeated comrade
and in the meantime teaches in certain Paradise schools, presenting the
adventurous story of the evolutionary ascent.
25:8.12 Sponsored
by One High in Authority from Uversa.
