The Urantia Book
PAPER 26
MINISTERING SPIRITS OF THE CENTRAL UNIVERSE
Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom from Uversa.
26:0.1 SUPERNAPHIM are the ministering spirits
of Paradise and the central universe; they are the highest order
of the lowest group of the children of the Infinite Spirit --
the angelic hosts. Such ministering spirits are to be
encountered from the Isle of Paradise to the worlds of time and
space. No major part of the organized and inhabited creation is
without their services.
1. THE MINISTERING SPIRITS
26:1.1 Angels are the ministering-spirit
associates of the evolutionary and ascending will creatures of
all space; they are also the colleagues and working associates
of the higher hosts of the divine personalities of the spheres.
The angels of all orders are distinct personalities and are
highly individualized. They all have a large capacity for
appreciation of the ministrations of the reversion directors.
Together with the Messenger Hosts of Space, the ministering
spirits enjoy seasons of rest and change; they possess very
social natures and have an associative capacity far transcending
that of human beings.
26:1.2 The ministering spirits of the grand
universe are classified as follows:
1. Supernaphim.
2. Seconaphim.
3. Tertiaphim.
4. Omniaphim.
5. Seraphim.
6. Cherubim and Sanobim.
7. Midway Creatures.
26:1.3 The individual members of the angelic
orders are not altogether stationary as to personal status in
the universe. Angels of certain orders may become Paradise
Companions for a season; some become Celestial Recorders; others
ascend to the ranks of the Technical Advisers. Certain of the
cherubim may aspire to seraphic status and destiny, while
evolutionary seraphim can achieve the spiritual levels of the
ascending Sons of God.
26:1.4 The seven orders of ministering
spirits, as revealed, are grouped for presentation in accordance
with their functions of greatest importance to ascending
creatures:
26:1.5 1. The Ministering Spirits of the
Central Universe. The three orders of supernaphim
serve in the Paradise-Havona system. Primary or Paradise
supernaphim are created by the Infinite Spirit. The secondary
and tertiary orders, serving in Havona, are respectively the
offspring of the Master Spirits and of the Spirits of the
Circuits.
26:1.6 2. The Ministering Spirits of the
Superuniverses -- the seconaphim, the tertiaphim, and the
omniaphim. Seconaphim, the children of the Reflective
Spirits, variously serve in the seven superuniverses.
Tertiaphim, of origin in the Infinite Spirit, are eventually
dedicated to the liaison service of the Creator Sons and the
Ancients of Days. Omniaphim are created concertedly by
the Infinite Spirit and the Seven Supreme Executives, and they
are the exclusive servants of the latter. The discussion of
these three orders forms the subject of a succeeding narrative
in this series.
26:1.7 3. The Ministering Spirits of the
Local Universes embrace the seraphim and their
assistants, the cherubim. With these offspring of a
Universe Mother Spirit mortal ascenders have initial contact.
The midway creatures, of nativity on the inhabited
worlds, are not really of the angelic orders proper, though
often functionally grouped with the ministering spirits. Their
story, with an account of the seraphim and cherubim, is
presented in those papers dealing with the affairs of your local
universe.
26:1.8 All orders of the angelic hosts are
devoted to the various universe services, and they minister in
one way or another to the higher orders of celestial beings; but
it is the supernaphim, seconaphim, and seraphim who, in large
numbers, are employed in the furtherance of the ascending scheme
of progressive perfection for the children of time. Functioning
in the central, super-, and local universes, they form that
unbroken chain of spirit ministers which has been provided by
the Infinite Spirit for the help and guidance of all who seek to
attain the Universal Father through the Eternal Son.
26:1.9 Supernaphim are limited in "spirit
polarity" regarding only one phase of action, that with the
Universal Father. They can work singly except when directly
employing the exclusive circuits of the Father. When they are in
power reception on the Father's direct ministry, supernaphim
must voluntarily associate in pairs to be able to function.
Seconaphim are likewise limited and in addition must work in
pairs in order to synchronize with the circuits of the Eternal
Son. Seraphim can work singly as discrete and localized
personalities, but they are able to encircuit only when
polarized as liaison pairs. When such spirit beings are
associated as pairs, the one is spoken of as complemental to the
other. Complemental relationships may be transient; they are not
necessarily of a permanent nature.
26:1.10 These brilliant creatures of light are
sustained directly by the intake of the spiritual energy of the
primary circuits of the universe. Urantia mortals must obtain
light-energy through the vegetative incarnation, but the angelic
hosts are encircuited; they "have food that you know not." They
also partake of the circulating teachings of the marvelous
Trinity Teacher Sons; they have a reception of knowledge and an
intake of wisdom much resembling their technique of assimilating
the life energies.
2. THE MIGHTY SUPERNAPHIM
26:2.1 The supernaphim are the skilled
ministers to all types of beings who sojourn on Paradise and in
the central universe. These high angels are created in three
major orders: primary, secondary, and tertiary.
26:2.2 Primary supernaphim are the
exclusive offspring of the Conjoint Creator. They divide their
ministry about equally between certain groups of the Paradise
Citizens and the ever-enlarging corps of ascendant pilgrims.
These angels of the eternal Isle are highly efficacious in
furthering the essential training of both groups of Paradise
dwellers. They contribute much that is helpful to the mutual
understanding of these two unique orders of universe creatures
-- the one being the highest type of divine and perfect will
creature, and the other, the perfected evolution of the lowest
type of will creature in all the universe of universes.
26:2.3 The work of the primary supernaphim is
so unique and distinctive that it will be separately considered
in the succeeding narrative.
26:2.4 Secondary supernaphim are the
directors of the affairs of ascending beings on the seven
circuits of Havona. They are equally concerned in ministering to
the educational training of numerous orders of Paradise Citizens
who sojourn for long periods on the world circuits of the
central creation, but we may not discuss this phase of their
service.
26:2.5 There are seven types of these high
angels, each of origin in one of the Seven Master Spirits and in
nature patterned accordingly. Collectively, the Seven Master
Spirits create many different groups of unique beings and
entities, and the individual members of each order are
comparatively uniform in nature. But when these same Seven
Spirits create individually, the resulting orders are always
sevenfold in nature; the children of each Master Spirit partake
of the nature of their creator and are accordingly diverse from
the others. Such is the origin of the secondary supernaphim, and
the angels of all seven created types function in all channels
of activity open to their entire order, chiefly on the seven
circuits of the central and divine universe.
26:2.6 Each of the seven planetary circuits of
Havona is under the direct supervision of one of the Seven
Spirits of the Circuits, themselves the collective -- hence
uniform -- creation of the Seven Master Spirits. Though
partaking of the nature of the Third Source and Center, these
seven subsidiary Spirits of Havona were not a part of the
original pattern universe. They were in function after the
original (eternal) creation but long before the times of
Grandfanda. They undoubtedly appeared as a creative response of
the Master Spirits to the emerging purpose of the Supreme Being,
and they were discovered in function upon the organization of
the grand universe. The Infinite Spirit and all his creative
associates, as universal co-ordinators, seem abundantly endowed
with the ability to make suitable creative responses to the
simultaneous developments in the experiential Deities and in the
evolving universes.
26:2.7 Tertiary supernaphim take origin
in these Seven Spirits of the Circuits. Each one of them, on the
separate Havona circles, is empowered by the Infinite Spirit to
create a sufficient number of high superaphic ministers of the
tertiary order to meet the needs of the central universe. While
the Circuit Spirits produced comparatively few of these angelic
ministers prior to the arrival in Havona of the pilgrims of
time, the Seven Master Spirits did not even begin the creation
of secondary supernaphim until the landing of Grandfanda. As the
older of the two orders, the tertiary supernaphim will therefore
receive first consideration.
3. THE TERTIARY SUPERNAPHIM
26:3.1 These servants of the Seven Master
Spirits are the angelic specialists of the various circuits of
Havona, and their ministry extends to both the ascending
pilgrims of time and the descending pilgrims of eternity. On the
billion study worlds of the perfect central creation, your
superaphic associates of all orders will be fully visible to
you. There you will all be, in the highest sense, fraternal and
understanding beings of mutual contact and sympathy. You will
also fully recognize and exquisitely fraternize with the
descending pilgrims, the Paradise Citizens, who traverse these
circuits from within outward, entering Havona through the pilot
world of the first circuit and proceeding outward to the
seventh.
26:3.2 The ascending pilgrims from the seven
superuniverses pass through Havona in the opposite direction,
entering by way of the pilot world of the seventh circuit and
proceeding inward. There is no time limit set on the progress of
the ascending creatures from world to world and from circuit to
circuit, just as no fixed span of time is arbitrarily assigned
to residence on the morontia worlds. But, whereas adequately
developed individuals may be exempted from sojourn on one or
more of the local universe training worlds, no pilgrim may avoid
passing through all seven of the Havona circuits of progressive
spiritualization.
26:3.3 That corps of tertiary supernaphim
which is chiefly assigned to the service of the pilgrims of time
is classified as follows:
26:3.4 1. The Harmony Supervisors. It
must be apparent that some sort of co-ordinating influence would
be required, even in perfect Havona, to maintain system and to
insure harmony in all the work of preparing the pilgrims of time
for their subsequent Paradise achievements. Such is the real
mission of the harmony supervisors -- to keep everything moving
along smoothly and expeditiously. Originating on the first
circuit, they serve throughout Havona, and their presence on the
circuits means that nothing can possibly go amiss. A great
ability to co-ordinate a diversity of activities involving
personalities of differing orders -- even multiple levels --
enables these supernaphim to give assistance wherever and
whenever required. They contribute enormously to the mutual
understanding of the pilgrims of time and the pilgrims of
eternity.
26:3.5 2. The Chief Recorders. These
angels are created on the second circuit but operate everywhere
in the central universe. They record in triplicate, executing
records for the literal files of Havona, for the spiritual files
of their order, and for the formal records of Paradise. In
addition they automatically transmit the transactions of
true-knowledge import to the living libraries of Paradise, the
custodians of knowledge of the primary order of supernaphim.
26:3.6 3. The Broadcasters. The
children of the third Circuit Spirit function throughout Havona,
although their official station is located on planet number
seventy in the outermost circle. These master technicians are
the broadcast receivers and senders of the central creation and
the directors of the space reports of all Deity phenomena on
Paradise. They can operate all of the basic circuits of space.
26:3.7 4. The Messengers take origin on
circuit number four. They range the Paradise-Havona system as
bearers of all messages requiring personal transmission. They
serve their fellows, the celestial personalities, the Paradise
pilgrims, and even the ascendant souls of time.
26:3.8 5. The Intelligence Co-ordinators.
These tertiary supernaphim, the children of the fifth Circuit
Spirit, are always the wise and sympathetic promoters of
fraternal association between the ascending and the descending
pilgrims. They minister to all the inhabitants of Havona, and
especially to the ascenders, by keeping them currently informed
regarding the affairs of the universe of universes. By virtue of
personal contacts with the broadcasters and the reflectors,
these "living newspapers" of Havona are instantly conversant
with all information passing over the vast news circuits of the
central universe. They secure intelligence by the Havona graph
method, which enables them automatically to assimilate as much
information in one hour of Urantia time as would require a
thousand years for your most rapid telegraphic technique to
record.
26:3.9 6. The Transport Personalities.
These beings, of origin on circuit number six, usually operate
from planet number forty in the outermost circuit. It is they
who take away the disappointed candidates who transiently fail
in the Deity adventure. They stand ready to serve all who must
come and go in the service of Havona, and who are not space
traversers.
26:3.10 7. The Reserve Corps. The
fluctuations in the work with the ascendant beings, the Paradise
pilgrims, and other orders of beings sojourning in Havona, make
it necessary to maintain these reserves of supernaphim on the
pilot world of the seventh circle, where they take origin. They
are created without special design and are competent to take up
service in the less exacting phases of any of the duties of
their superaphic associates of the tertiary order.
4. THE SECONDARY SUPERNAPHIM
26:4.1 The secondary supernaphim are ministers
to the seven planetary circuits of the central universe. Part
are devoted to the service of the pilgrims of time, and one half
of the entire order is assigned to the training of the Paradise
pilgrims of eternity. These Paradise Citizens, in their
pilgrimage through the Havona circuits, are also attended by
volunteers from the Mortal Finality Corps, an arrangement that
has prevailed since the completion of the first finaliter group.
26:4.2 According to their periodic assignment
to the ministry of the ascending pilgrims, secondary supernaphim
work in the following seven groups:
1. Pilgrim Helpers.
2. Supremacy Guides.
3. Trinity Guides.
4. Son Finders.
5. Father Guides.
6. Counselors and Advisers.
7. Complements of Rest.
26:4.3 Each of these working groups contains
angels of all seven created types, and a pilgrim of space is
always tutored by secondary supernaphim of origin in the Master
Spirit who presides over that pilgrim's superuniverse of
nativity. When you mortals of Urantia attain Havona, you will
certainly be piloted by supernaphim whose created natures --
like your own evolved natures -- are derived from the Master
Spirit of Orvonton. And since your tutors spring from the Master
Spirit of your own superuniverse, they are especially qualified
to understand, comfort, and assist you in all your efforts to
attain Paradise perfection.
26:4.4 The pilgrims of time are transported
past the dark gravity bodies of Havona to the outer planetary
circuit by the transport personalities of the primary order of
seconaphim, operating from the headquarters of the seven
superuniverses. A majority, but not all, of the seraphim of
planetary and local universe service who have been accredited
for the Paradise ascent will part with their mortal associates
before the long flight to Havona and will at once begin a long
and intense training for supernal assignment, expecting to
achieve, as seraphim, perfection of existence and supremacy of
service. And this they do, hoping to rejoin the pilgrims of
time, to be reckoned among those who forever follow the course
of such mortals as have attained the Universal Father and have
received assignment to the undisclosed service of the Corps of
the Finality.
26:4.5 The pilgrim lands on the receiving
planet of Havona, the pilot world of the seventh circuit, with
only one endowment of perfection, perfection of purpose. The
Universal Father has decreed: "Be you perfect, even as I am
perfect." That is the astounding invitation-command broadcast to
the finite children of the worlds of space. The promulgation of
that injunction has set all creation astir in the co-operative
effort of the celestial beings to assist in bringing about the
fulfillment and realization of that tremendous command of the
First Great Source and Center.
26:4.6 When, through and by the ministry of
all the helper hosts of the universal scheme of survival, you
are finally deposited on the receiving world of Havona, you
arrive with only one sort of perfection -- perfection of
purpose. Your purpose has been thoroughly proved; your faith
has been tested. You are known to be disappointment proof. Not
even the failure to discern the Universal Father can shake the
faith or seriously disturb the trust of an ascendant mortal who
has passed through the experience that all must traverse in
order to attain the perfect spheres of Havona. By the time you
reach Havona, your sincerity has become sublime. Perfection of
purpose and divinity of desire, with steadfastness of faith,
have secured your entrance to the settled abodes of eternity;
your deliverance from the uncertainties of time is full and
complete; and now must you come face to face with the problems
of Havona and the immensities of Paradise, to meet which you
have so long been in training in the experiential epochs of time
on the world schools of space.
26:4.7 Faith has won for the ascendant pilgrim
a perfection of purpose which admits the children of time to the
portals of eternity. Now must the pilgrim helpers begin the work
of developing that perfection of understanding and that
technique of comprehension which are so indispensable to
Paradise perfection of personality.
26:4.8 Ability to comprehend is the mortal
passport to Paradise. Willingness to believe is the key to
Havona. The acceptance of sonship, co-operation with the
indwelling Adjuster, is the price of evolutionary survival.
5. THE PILGRIM HELPERS
26:5.1 The first of the seven groups of
secondary supernaphim to be encountered are the pilgrim helpers,
those beings of quick understanding and broad sympathy who
welcome the much-traveled ascenders of space to the stabilized
worlds and settled economy of the central universe.
Simultaneously these high ministers begin their work for the
Paradise pilgrims of eternity, the first of whom arrived on the
pilot world of the inner Havona circuit concomitantly with the
landing of Grandfanda on the pilot world of the outer circuit.
Back in those far-distant days the pilgrims from Paradise and
the pilgrims of time first met on the receiving world of circuit
number four.
26:5.2 These pilgrim helpers, functioning on
the seventh circle of Havona worlds, conduct their work for the
ascending mortals in three major divisions: first, the supreme
understanding of the Paradise Trinity; second, the spiritual
comprehension of the Father-Son partnership; and third, the
intellectual recognition of the Infinite Spirit. Each of these
phases of instruction is divided into seven branches of twelve
minor divisions of seventy subsidiary groups; and each of these
seventy subsidiary groupings of instruction is presented in one
thousand classifications. More detailed instruction is provided
on subsequent circles, but an outline of every Paradise
requirement is taught by the pilgrim helpers.
26:5.3 That, then, is the primary or
elementary course which confronts the faith-tested and
much-traveled pilgrims of space. But long before reaching
Havona, these ascendant children of time have learned to feast
upon uncertainty, to fatten upon disappointment, to enthuse over
apparent defeat, to invigorate in the presence of difficulties,
to exhibit indomitable courage in the face of immensity, and to
exercise unconquerable faith when confronted with the challenge
of the inexplicable. Long since, the battle cry of these
pilgrims became: "In liaison with God, nothing -- absolutely
nothing -- is impossible."
26:5.4 There is a definite requirement of the
pilgrims of time on each of the Havona circles; and while every
pilgrim continues under the tutelage of supernaphim by nature
adapted to helping that particular type of ascendant creature,
the course that must be mastered is fairly uniform for all
ascenders who reach the central universe. This course of
achievement is quantitative, qualitative, and experiential --
intellectual, spiritual, and supreme.
26:5.5 Time is of little consequence on the
Havona circles. In a limited manner it enters into the
possibilities of advancement, but achievement is the final and
supreme test. The very moment your superaphic associate deems
you to be competent to pass inward to the next circle, you will
be taken before the twelve adjutants of the seventh Circuit
Spirit. Here you will be required to pass the tests of the
circle determined by the superuniverse of your origin and by the
system of your nativity. The divinity attainment of this circle
takes place on the pilot world and consists in the spiritual
recognition and realization of the Master Spirit of the
ascending pilgrim's superuniverse.
26:5.6 When the work of the outer Havona
circle is finished and the course presented is mastered, the
pilgrim helpers take their subjects to the pilot world of the
next circle and commit them to the care of the supremacy guides.
The pilgrim helpers always tarry for a season to assist in
making the transfer both pleasant and profitable.
6. THE SUPREMACY GUIDES
26:6.1 Ascenders of space are designated
"spiritual graduates" when translated from the seventh to the
sixth circle and are placed under the immediate supervision of
the supremacy guides. These guides should not be confused with
the Graduate Guides -- belonging to the Higher Personalities of
the Infinite Spirit -- who, with their servital associates,
minister on all circuits of Havona to both ascending and
descending pilgrims. The supremacy guides function only on the
sixth circle of the central universe.
26:6.2 It is in this circle that the ascenders
achieve a new realization of Supreme Divinity. Through their
long careers in the evolutionary universes the pilgrims of time
have been experiencing a growing awareness of the reality of an
almighty overcontrol of the time-space creations. Here, on this
Havona circuit, they come near to encountering the central
universe source of time-space unity -- the spiritual reality of
God the Supreme.
26:6.3 I am somewhat at a loss to explain what
takes place on this circle. No personalized presence of
Supremacy is perceptible to the ascenders. In certain respects,
new relationships with the Seventh Master Spirit compensate this
noncontactability of the Supreme Being. But regardless of our
inability to grasp the technique, each ascending creature seems
to undergo a transforming growth, a new integration of
consciousness, a new spiritualization of purpose, a new
sensitivity for divinity, which can hardly be satisfactorily
explained without assuming the unrevealed activity of the
Supreme Being. To those of us who have observed these mysterious
transactions, it appears as if God the Supreme were
affectionately bestowing upon his experiential children, up to
the very limits of their experiential capacities, those
enhancements of intellectual grasp, of spiritual insight, and of
personality outreach which they will so need, in all their
efforts at penetrating the divinity level of the Trinity of
Supremacy, to achieve the eternal and existential Deities of
Paradise.
26:6.4 When the supremacy guides deem their
pupils ripe for advancement, they bring them before the
commission of seventy, a mixed group serving as examiners on the
pilot world of circuit number six. After satisfying this
commission as to their comprehension of the Supreme Being and of
the Trinity of Supremacy, the pilgrims are certified for
translation to the fifth circuit.
7. THE TRINITY GUIDES
26:7.1 Trinity guides are the tireless
ministers of the fifth circle of the Havona training of the
advancing pilgrims of time and space. The spiritual graduates
are here designated "candidates for the Deity adventure" since
it is on this circle, under the direction of the Trinity guides,
that the pilgrims receive advanced instruction concerning the
divine Trinity in preparation for the attempt to achieve the
personality recognition of the Infinite Spirit. And here the
ascending pilgrims discover what true study and real mental
effort mean as they begin to discern the nature of the
still-more-taxing and far-more-arduous spiritual exertion that
will be required to meet the demands of the high goal set for
their achievement on the worlds of this circuit.
26:7.2 Most faithful and efficient are the
Trinity guides; and each pilgrim receives the undivided
attention, and enjoys the whole affection, of a secondary
supernaphim belonging to this order. Never would a pilgrim of
time find the first approachable person of the Paradise Trinity
were it not for the help and assistance of these guides and the
host of other spiritual beings engaged in instructing the
ascenders respecting the nature and technique of the forthcoming
Deity adventure.
26:7.3 After the completion of the course of
training on this circuit the Trinity guides take their pupils to
its pilot world and present them before one of the many triune
commissions functioning as examiners and certifiers of
candidates for the Deity adventure. These commissions consist of
one fellow of the finaliters, one of the directors of conduct of
the order of primary supernaphim, and either a Solitary
Messenger of space or a Trinitized Son of Paradise.
26:7.4 When an ascendant soul actually starts
for Paradise, he is accompanied only by the transit trio: the
superaphic circle associate, the Graduate Guide, and the
ever-present servital associate of the latter. These excursions
from the Havona circles to Paradise are trial trips; the
ascenders are not yet of Paradise status. They do not achieve
residential status on Paradise until they have passed through
the terminal rest of time subsequent to the attainment of the
Universal Father and the final clearance of the Havona circuits.
Not until after the divine rest do they partake of the "essence
of divinity" and the "spirit of supremacy" and thus really begin
to function in the circle of eternity and in the presence of the
Trinity.
26:7.5 The ascender's companions of the
transit trio are not required to enable him to locate the
geographic presence of the spiritual luminosity of the Trinity,
rather to afford all possible assistance to a pilgrim in his
difficult task of recognizing, discerning, and comprehending the
Infinite Spirit sufficiently to constitute personality
recognition. Any ascendant pilgrim on Paradise can discern the
geographic or locational presence of the Trinity, the great
majority are able to contact the intellectual reality of the
Deities, especially the Third Person, but not all can recognize
or even partially comprehend the reality of the spiritual
presence of the Father and the Son. Still more difficult is even
the minimum spiritual comprehension of the Universal Father.
26:7.6 Seldom does the quest for the Infinite
Spirit fail of consummation, and when their subjects have
succeeded in this phase of the Deity adventure, the Trinity
guides prepare to transfer them to the ministry of the Son
finders on the fourth circle of Havona.
8. THE SON FINDERS
26:8.1 The fourth Havona circuit is sometimes
called the "circuit of the Sons." From the worlds of this
circuit the ascending pilgrims go to Paradise to achieve an
understanding contact with the Eternal Son, while on the worlds
of this circuit the descending pilgrims achieve a new
comprehension of the nature and mission of the Creator Sons of
time and space. There are seven worlds in this circuit on which
the reserve corps of the Paradise Michaels maintain special
service schools of mutual ministry to both the ascending and
descending pilgrims; and it is on these worlds of the Michael
Sons that the pilgrims of time and the pilgrims of eternity
arrive at their first truly mutual understanding of one another.
In many respects the experiences of this circuit are the most
intriguing of the entire Havona sojourn.
26:8.2 The Son finders are the superaphic
ministers to the ascending mortals of the fourth circuit. In
addition to the general work of preparing their candidates for a
realization of the Trinity relationships of the Eternal Son,
these Son finders must so fully instruct their subjects that
they will be wholly successful: first, in the adequate spiritual
comprehension of the Son; second, in the satisfactory
personality recognition of the Son; and third, in the proper
differentiation of the Son from the personality of the Infinite
Spirit.
26:8.3 After the attainment of the Infinite
Spirit, no more examinations are conducted. The tests of the
inner circles are the performances of the pilgrim candidates
when in the embrace of the enshroudment of the Deities.
Advancement is determined purely by the spirituality of the
individual, and no one but the Gods presumes to pass upon this
possession. In the event of failure no reasons are ever
assigned, neither are the candidates themselves nor their
various tutors and guides ever chided or criticized. On
Paradise, disappointment is never regarded as defeat;
postponement is never looked upon as disgrace; the apparent
failures of time are never confused with the significant delays
of eternity.
26:8.4 Not many pilgrims experience the delay
of seeming failure in the Deity adventure. Nearly all attain the
Infinite Spirit, though occasionally a pilgrim from
superuniverse number one does not succeed on the first attempt.
The pilgrims who attain the Spirit seldom fail in finding the
Son; of those who do fail on the first adventure, almost all
hail from superuniverses three and five. The great majority of
those who fail on the first adventure to attain the Father,
after finding both the Spirit and the Son, hail from
superuniverse number six, though a few from numbers two and
three are likewise unsuccessful. And all this seems clearly to
indicate that there is some good and sufficient reason for these
apparent failures; in reality, simply unescapable delays.
26:8.5 The defeated candidates for the Deity
adventure are placed under the jurisdiction of the chiefs of
assignment, a group of primary supernaphim, and are remanded to
the work of the realms of space for a period of not less than
one millennium. They never return to the superuniverse of their
nativity, always to that supercreation most propitious for their
retraining in preparation for the second Deity adventure.
Following this service, on their own motion, they return to the
outer circle of Havona, are immediately escorted to the circle
of their interrupted career, and at once resume their
preparations for the Deity adventure. Never do the secondary
supernaphim fail to pilot their subjects successfully on the
second attempt, and the same superaphic ministers and other
guides always attend these candidates during this second
adventure.
9. THE FATHER GUIDES
26:9.1 When the pilgrim soul attains the third
circle of Havona, he comes under the tutelage of the Father
guides, the older, highly skilled, and most experienced of the
superaphic ministers. On the worlds of this circuit the Father
guides maintain schools of wisdom and colleges of technique
wherein all the beings inhabiting the central universe serve as
teachers. Nothing is neglected which would be of service to a
creature of time in this transcendent adventure of eternity
attainment.
26:9.2 The attainment of the Universal Father
is the passport to eternity, notwithstanding the remaining
circuits to be traversed. It is therefore a momentous occasion
on the pilot world of circle number three when the transit trio
announce that the last venture of time is about to ensue; that
another creature of space seeks entry to Paradise through the
portals of eternity.
26:9.3 The test of time is almost over; the
race for eternity has been all but run. The days of uncertainty
are ending; the temptation to doubt is vanishing; the injunction
to be perfect has been obeyed. From the very bottom of
intelligent existence the creature of time and material
personality has ascended the evolutionary spheres of space, thus
proving the feasibility of the ascension plan while forever
demonstrating the justice and righteousness of the command of
the Universal Father to his lowly creatures of the worlds: "Be
you perfect, even as I am perfect."
26:9.4 Step by step, life by life, world by
world, the ascendant career has been mastered, and the goal of
Deity has been attained. Survival is complete in perfection, and
perfection is replete in the supremacy of divinity. Time is lost
in eternity; space is swallowed up in worshipful identity and
harmony with the Universal Father. The broadcasts of Havona
flash forth the space reports of glory, the good news that in
very truth the conscientious creatures of animal nature and
material origin have, through evolutionary ascension, become in
reality and eternally the perfected sons of God.
10. THE COUNSELORS AND ADVISERS
26:10.1 The superaphic counselors and advisers
of the second circle are the instructors of the children of time
regarding the career of eternity. The attainment of Paradise
entails responsibilities of a new and higher order, and the
sojourn on the second circle affords ample opportunity to
receive the helpful counsel of these devoted supernaphim.
26:10.2 Those who are unsuccessful in the
first effort at Deity attainment are advanced from the circle of
failure directly to the second circle before they are returned
to superuniverse service. Thus the counselors and advisers also
serve as the counselors and comforters of these disappointed
pilgrims. They have just encountered their greatest
disappointment, in no way differing from the long list of such
experiences whereon they climbed, as on a ladder, from chaos to
glory -- except in its magnitude. These are they who have
drained the experiential cup to its dregs; and I have observed
that they temporarily return to the services of the
superuniverses as the highest type of loving ministrators to the
children of time and temporal disappointments.
26:10.3 After a long sojourn on circuit number
two the subjects of disappointment are examined by the councils
of perfection sitting on the pilot world of this circle and are
certified as having passed the Havona test; and this, so far as
nonspiritual status is concerned, grants them the same standing
in the universes of time as if they had actually succeeded in
the Deity adventure. The spirit of such candidates was wholly
acceptable; their failure was inherent in some phase of the
technique of approach or in some part of their experiential
background.
26:10.4 They are then taken by the counselors
of the circle before the chiefs of assignment on Paradise and
are remanded to the service of time on the worlds of space; and
they go with joy and gladness to the tasks of former days and
ages. In another day they will return to the circle of their
greatest disappointment and attempt anew the Deity adventure.
26:10.5 For the successful pilgrims on the
second circuit the stimulus of evolutionary uncertainty is over,
but the adventure of the eternal assignment has not yet begun;
and while the sojourn on this circle is wholly pleasurable and
highly profitable, it lacks some of the anticipative enthusiasm
of the former circles. Many are the pilgrims who, at such a
time, look back upon the long, long struggle with a joyous envy,
really wishing they might somehow go back to the worlds of time
and begin it all over again, just as you mortals, in approaching
advanced age, sometimes look back over the struggles of youth
and early life and truly wish you might live your lives over
once again.
26:10.6 But the traversal of the innermost
circle lies just ahead, and soon thereafter the last transit
sleep will terminate, and the new adventure of the eternal
career will begin. The counselors and advisers on the second
circle begin the preparation of their subjects for this great
and final rest, the inevitable sleep which ever intervenes
between the epochal stages of the ascendant career.
26:10.7 When those ascendant pilgrims who have
attained the Universal Father complete the second-circle
experience, their ever-attendant Graduate Guides issue the order
admitting them to the final circle. These guides personally
pilot their subjects to the inner circle and there place them in
the custody of the complements of rest, the last of those orders
of secondary supernaphim assigned to the ministry of the
pilgrims of time on the world circuits of Havona.
11. THE COMPLEMENTS OF REST
26:11.1 Much of an ascender's time on the last
circuit is devoted to a continuation of the study of the
impending problems of Paradise residence. A vast and diverse
host of beings, the majority unrevealed, are permanent and
transient residents of this inner ring of Havona worlds. And the
commingling of these manifold types provides the superaphic
complements of rest with a rich situational environment which
they effectively utilize in furthering the education of the
ascending pilgrims, especially with regard to the problems of
adjustment to the many groups of beings soon to be encountered
on Paradise.
26:11.2 Among those who dwell on this inner
circuit are the creature-trinitized sons. The primary and the
secondary supernaphim are the general custodians of the conjoint
corps of these sons, including the trinitized offspring of the
mortal finaliters and similar progeny of the Paradise Citizens.
Certain of these sons are Trinity embraced and commissioned in
the supergovernments, others are variously assigned, but the
great majority are being gathered together in the conjoint corps
on the perfect worlds of the inner Havona circuit. Here, under
the supervision of the supernaphim, they are being prepared for
some future work by a special and unnamed corps of high Paradise
Citizens who were, prior to the times of Grandfanda, first
executive assistants to the Eternals of Days. There are many
reasons for conjecturing that these two unique groups of
trinitized beings are going to work together in the remote
future, not the least of which is their common destiny in the
reserves of the Paradise Corps of Trinitized Finaliters.
26:11.3 On this innermost circuit, both the
ascending and the descending pilgrims fraternize with each other
and with the creature-trinitized sons. Like their parents, these
sons derive great benefits from interassociation, and it is the
special mission of the supernaphim to facilitate and to insure
the confraternity of the trinitized sons of the mortal
finaliters and the trinitized sons of the Paradise Citizens. The
superaphic complements of rest are not so much concerned with
their training as with promoting their understanding association
with diverse groups.
26:11.4 Mortals have received the Paradise
command: "Be you perfect, even as your Paradise Father is
perfect." To these trinitized sons of the conjoint corps the
supervising supernaphim never cease to proclaim: "Be you
understanding of your ascendant brethren, even as the Paradise
Creator Sons know and love them."
26:11.5 The mortal creature must find God. The
Creator Son never stops until he finds man -- the lowest will
creature. Beyond doubt, the Creator Sons and their mortal
children are preparing for some future and unknown universe
service. Both traverse the gamut of the experiential universe
and so are educated and trained for their eternal mission.
Throughout the universes there is occurring this unique blending
of the human and the divine, the commingling of creature and
Creator. Unthinking mortals have referred to the manifestation
of divine mercy and tenderness, especially towards the weak and
in behalf of the needy, as indicative of an anthropomorphic God.
What a mistake! Rather should such manifestations of mercy and
forbearance by human beings be taken as evidence that mortal man
is indwelt by the spirit of the living God; that the creature
is, after all, divinity motivated.
26:11.6 Near the end of the first-circle
sojourn the ascending pilgrims first meet the instigators of
rest of the primary order of supernaphim. These are the angels
of Paradise coming out to greet those who stand at the threshold
of eternity and to complete their preparation for the transition
slumber of the last resurrection. You are not really a child of
Paradise until you have traversed the inner circle and have
experienced the resurrection of eternity from the terminal sleep
of time. The perfected pilgrims begin this rest, go to sleep, on
the first circle of Havona, but they awaken on the shores of
Paradise. Of all who ascend to the eternal Isle, only those who
thus arrive are the children of eternity; the others go as
visitors, as guests without residential status.
26:11.7 And now, at the culmination of the
Havona career, as you mortals go to sleep on the pilot world of
the inner circuit, you go not alone to your rest as you did on
the worlds of your origin when you closed your eyes in the
natural sleep of mortal death, nor as you did when you entered
the long transit trance preparatory for the journey to Havona.
Now, as you prepare for the attainment rest, there moves over by
your side your long-time associate of the first circle, the
majestic complement of rest, who prepares to enter the rest as
one with you, as the pledge of Havona that your transition is
complete, and that you await only the final touches of
perfection.
26:11.8 Your first transition was indeed
death, the second an ideal sleep, and now the third
metamorphosis is the true rest, the relaxation of the ages.
26:11.9
Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom from Uversa.
