The Urantia Book
PAPER 25
THE MESSENGER HOSTS OF SPACE
Sponsored by One High in Authority from Uversa.
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
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