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Urantia Book Paper 25 The Messenger Hosts Of Space
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART I: The Central and Super
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Universes : The Universal Father The Nature Of God The Attributes Of God God's
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Relation To The Universe God's Relation To The Individual The Eternal Son
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Relation Of The Eternal Son To The Universe The Infinite Spirit Relation Of The
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Infinite Spirit To The Universe The Paradise Trinity The Eternal Isle Of
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Paradise The Universe Of Universes The Sacred Spheres Of Paradise The Central
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And Divine Universe The Seven Superuniverses The Seven Master Spirits The Seven
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Supreme Spirit Groups The Supreme Trinity Personalities The Co-ordinate
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Trinity-origin Beings The Paradise Sons Of God The Paradise Creator Sons The
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Trinitized Sons Of God The Solitary Messengers Higher Personalities Of The
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Infinite Spirit The Messenger Hosts Of Space Ministering Spirits Of The Central
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Universe Ministry Of The Primary Supernaphim Ministering Spirits Of The
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Superuniverses The Universe Power Directors Personalities Of The Grand Universe
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The Corps Of The Finality
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Paper 25 The Messenger Hosts Of Space
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Introduction
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RANKING intermediately in the family of the Infinite Spirit are the Messenger
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Hosts of Space. These versatile beings function as the connecting links between
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the higher personalities and the ministering spirits. The messenger hosts
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include the following orders of celestial beings:
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1. Havona Servitals.
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2. Universal Conciliators.
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3. Technical Advisers.
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4. Custodians of Records on Paradise.
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5. Celestial Recorders.
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6. Morontia Companions.
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7. Paradise Companions.
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Of the seven groups enumerated, only three--servitals, conciliators, and
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Morontia Companions--are created as such; the remaining four represent
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attainment levels of the angelic orders. In accordance with inherent nature and
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attained status, the messenger hosts variously serve in the universe of
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universes but always subject to the direction of those who rule the realms of
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their assignment.
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1. THE HAVONA SERVITALS
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Though denominated servitals, these "midway creatures" of the central universe
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are not servants in any menial sense of the word. In the spiritual world there
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is no such thing as menial work; all service is sacred and exhilarating;
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neither do the higher orders of beings look down upon the lower orders of
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existence.
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The Havona Servitals are the joint creative work of the Seven Master Spirits
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and their associates, the Seven Supreme Power Directors. This creative
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collaboration comes the nearest to being the pattern for the long list of
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reproductions of the dual order in the evolutionary universes, extending from
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the creation of a Bright and Morning Star by a Creator Son-Creative Spirit
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liaison down to sex procreation on worlds like Urantia.
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The number of servitals is prodigious, and more are being created all the time.
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They appear in groups of one thousand on the third moment following the
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assembly of the Master Spirits and the Supreme Power Directors at their joint
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area in the far northerly sector of Paradise. Every fourth servital is more
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physical in type than the others; that is, out of each thousand, seven hundred
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and fifty are apparently true to spirit type, but two hundred and fifty are
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semi-
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physical in nature. These fourth creatures are somewhat on the order of
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material beings (material in the Havona sense), resembling the physical power
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directors more than the Master Spirits.
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In personality relationships the spiritual is dominant over the material, even
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though it does not now so appear on Urantia; and in the production of Havona
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Servitals the law of spirit dominance prevails; the established ratio yields
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three spiritual beings to one semiphysical.
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The newly created servitals, together with newly appearing Graduate Guides, all
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pass through the courses of training which the senior guides continuously
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conduct on each of the seven Havona circuits. Servitals are then assigned to
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the activities for which they are best adapted, and since they are of two
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types--spiritual and semiphysical--there are few limits to the range of work
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these versatile beings can do. The higher or spirit groups are assigned
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selectively to the services of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, and to the
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work of the Seven Master Spirits. In large numbers they are dispatched, from
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time to time, to serve on the study worlds encircling the headquarters spheres
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of the seven superuniverses, the worlds devoted to the final training and
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spiritual culture of the ascending souls of time who are preparing for
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advancement to the circuits of Havona. Both spirit servitals and their more
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physical fellows are also designated assistants and associates of the Graduate
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Guides in helping and instructing the various orders of ascending creatures who
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have attained Havona, and who seek to attain Paradise.
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The Havona Servitals and the Graduate Guides manifest a transcendent devotion
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to their work and a touching affection for one another, an affection which,
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while spiritual, you could only understand by comparison with the phenomenon of
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human love. There is divine pathos in the separation of the servitals from the
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guides, as so often occurs when the servitals are dispatched on missions beyond
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the limits of the central universe; but they go with joy and not with sorrow.
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The satisfying joy of high duty is the eclipsing emotion of spiritual beings.
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Sorrow cannot exist in the face of the consciousness of divine duty faithfully
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performed. And when man's ascending soul stands before the Supreme Judge, the
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decision of eternal import will not be determined by material successes or
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quantitative achievements; the verdict reverberating through the high courts
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declares: "Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a
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few essentials; you shall be made ruler over universe realities."
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On superuniverse service the Havona Servitals are always assigned to that
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domain presided over by the Master Spirit whom they most resemble in general
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and special spirit prerogatives. They serve only on the educational worlds
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surrounding the capitals of the seven superuniverses, and the last report of
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Uversa indicates that almost 138 billion servitals were ministering on its 490
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satellites. They engage in an endless variety of activities in connection with
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the work of these educational worlds comprising the superuniversities of the
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superuniverse of Orvonton. Here they are your companions; they have come down
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from your next career to study you and to inspire you with the reality and
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certainty of your eventual graduation from the universes of time to the realms
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of eternity. And in these contacts the servitals gain that preliminary
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experience of ministering to the ascending creatures of time which is so
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helpful in their subsequent work on the Havona circuits as associates of the
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Graduate Guides or--as translated servitals--as Graduate Guides themselves.
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2. THE UNIVERSAL CONCILIATORS
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For every Havona Servital created, seven Universal Conciliators are brought
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into being, one in each superuniverse. This creative enactment involves a
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definite superuniverse technique of reflective response to transactions taking
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place on Paradise.
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On the headquarters worlds of the seven superuniverses there function the seven
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reflections of the Seven Master Spirits. It is difficult to undertake to
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portray the natures of these Reflective Spirits to material minds. They are
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true personalities; still each member of a superuniverse group is perfectly
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reflective of just one of the Seven Master Spirits. And every time the Master
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Spirits associate themselves with the power directors for the purpose of
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creating a group of Havona Servitals, there is a simultaneous focalization upon
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one of the Reflective Spirits in each of the superuniverse groups, and
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forthwith and full-fledgedly an equal number of Universal Conciliators appear
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on the headquarters worlds of the supercreations. If, in the creation of
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servitals, Master Spirit Number Seven should take the initiative, none but the
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Reflective Spirits of the seventh order would become pregnant with
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conciliators; and concurrently with the creation of one thousand Orvontonlike
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servitals, one thousand of the seventh-order conciliators would appear on each
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superuniverse capital. Out of these episodes, reflecting the sevenfold nature
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of the Master Spirits, arise the seven created orders of conciliators serving
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in each superuniverse.
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Conciliators of pre-Paradise status do not serve interchangeably between
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superuniverses, being restricted to their native segments of creation. Every
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superuniverse corps, embracing one seventh of each created order, therefore
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spends a very long time under the influence of one of the Master Spirits to the
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exclusion of the others, for, while all seven are reflected on the
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superuniverse capitals, only one is dominant in each supercreation.
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Each of the seven supercreations is actually pervaded by that one of the Master
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Spirits who presides over its destinies. Each superuniverse thus becomes like a
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gigantic mirror reflecting the nature and character of the supervising Master
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Spirit, and all of this is further continued in every subsidiary local universe
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by the presence and function of the Creative Mother Spirits. The effect of such
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an environment upon evolutionary growth is so profound that in their
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postsuperuniverse careers the conciliators collectively manifest forty-nine
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experiential viewpoints, or insights, each angular--hence incomplete--but all
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mutually compensatory and together tending to encompass the circle of
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Supremacy.
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In each superuniverse the Universal Conciliators find themselves strangely and
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innately segregated into groups of four, associations in which they continue to
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serve. In each group, three are spirit personalities, and one, like the fourth
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creatures of the servitals, is a semimaterial being. This quartet constitutes a
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conciliating commission and is made up as follows:
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1. The Judge-Arbiter. The one unanimously designated by the other three as the
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most competent and best qualified to act as judicial head of the group.
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2. The Spirit-Advocate. The one appointed by the judge-arbiter to present
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evidence and to safeguard the rights of all personalities involved in any
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matter assigned to the adjudication of the conciliating commission.
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3. The Divine Executioner. The conciliator qualified by inherent nature to make
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contact with the material beings of the realms and to execute the decisions of
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the commission. Divine executioners, being fourth creatures--quasi-material
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beings--are almost, but not quite, visible to the short-range vision of the
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mortal races.
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4. The Recorder. The remaining member of the commission automatically becomes
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the recorder, the clerk of the tribunal. He makes certain that all records are
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properly prepared for the archives of the superuniverse and for the records of
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the local universe. If the commission is serving on an evolutionary world, a
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third report, with the assistance of the executioner, is prepared for the
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physical records of the system government of jurisdiction.
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When in session a commission functions as a group of three since the advocate
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is detached during adjudication and participates in the formulation of the
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verdict only at the conclusion of the hearing. Hence these commissions are
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sometimes called referee trios.
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The conciliators are of great value in keeping the universe of universes
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running smoothly. Traversing space at the seraphic rate of triple velocity,
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they serve as the traveling courts of the worlds, commissions devoted to the
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quick adjudication of minor difficulties. Were it not for these mobile and
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eminently fair commissions, the tribunals of the spheres would be hopelessly
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overspread with the minor misunderstandings of the realms.
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These referee trios do not pass upon matters of eternal import; the soul, the
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eternal prospects of a creature of time, is never placed in jeopardy by their
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acts. Conciliators do not deal with questions extending beyond the temporal
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existence and the cosmic welfare of the creatures of time. But when a
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commission has once accepted jurisdiction of a problem, its rulings are final
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and always unanimous; there is no appeal from the decision of the
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judge-arbiter.
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3. THE FAR-REACHING SERVICE OF CONCILIATORS
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Conciliators maintain group headquarters on the capital of their superuniverse,
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where their primary reserve corps is held. Their secondary reserves are
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stationed on the capitals of the local universes. The younger and less
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experienced commissioners begin their service on the lower worlds, worlds like
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Urantia, and are advanced to the adjudication of greater problems after they
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have acquired riper experience.
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The order of conciliators is wholly dependable; not one has ever gone astray.
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Though not infallible in wisdom and judgment, they are of unquestioned
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reliability and unerring in faithfulness. They take origin on the headquarters
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of a superuniverse and eventually return thereto, advancing through the
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following levels of universe service:
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1. Conciliators to the Worlds. Whenever the supervising personalities of the
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individual worlds become greatly perplexed or actually deadlocked concerning
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the proper procedure under existing circumstances, and if the matter is not of
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sufficient importance to be brought before the regularly constituted tribunals
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of the realm, then, upon the receipt of a petition of two personalities, one
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from each contention, a conciliating commission will begin to function
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forthwith.
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When these administrative and jurisdictional difficulties have been placed in
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the hands of the conciliators for study and adjudication, they are supreme in
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authority. But they will not formulate a decision until all the evidence has
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been heard, and there is absolutely no limit to their authority to call
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witnesses from anywhere and everywhere. And while their decisions may not be
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appealed, sometimes matters so develop that the commission closes its records
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at a given point, concludes its opinions, and transfers the whole question to
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the higher tribunals of the realm.
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The commissioners' decisions are placed on the planetary records and, if
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necessary, are put into effect by the divine executioner. His power is very
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great, and the range of his activities on an inhabited world is very wide.
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Divine executioners are masterful manipulators of that which is in the
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interests of that which ought to be. Their work is sometimes carried out for
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the apparent welfare of the realm, and sometimes their acts on the worlds of
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time and space are difficult of explanation. Though executing decrees in
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defiance of neither natural law nor the ordained usages of the realm, they do
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ofttimes effect their strange doings and enforce the mandates of the
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conciliators in accordance with the higher laws of the system administration.
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2. Conciliators to the System Headquarters. From service on the evolutionary
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worlds these commissions of four are advanced to duty on a system headquarters.
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Here they have much work to do, and they prove to be the understanding friends
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of men, angels, and other spirit beings. The referee trios are not so much
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concerned with personal differences as with group contentions and with
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misunderstandings arising between different orders of creatures; and on a
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system headquarters there live both spiritual and material beings, as well as
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the combined types, such as the Material Sons.
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The moment the Creators bring into existence evolving individuals with the
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power of choice, that moment a departure is made from the smooth working of
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divine perfection; misunderstandings are certain to arise, and provision for
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the fair adjustment of these honest differences of viewpoint must be made. We
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should all remember that the all-wise and all-powerful Creators could have made
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the local universes just as perfect as Havona. No conciliating commissions need
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function in the central universe. But the Creators did not choose in their
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all-wisdom to do this. And while they have produced universes which abound in
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differences and teem with difficulties, they have likewise provided the
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mechanisms and the means for composing all these differences and for
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harmonizing all this seeming confusion.
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3. The Constellation Conciliators. From service in the systems the conciliators
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are promoted to the adjudication of the problems of a constellation, taking up
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the minor difficulties arising between its one hundred systems of inhabited
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worlds. Not many problems developing on the constellation headquarters fall
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under their jurisdiction, but they are kept busy going from system to system
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gathering evidence and preparing preliminary statements. If the contention is
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honest, if the difficulties arise out of sincere differences of opinion and
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honest diversity of viewpoints, no matter how few persons may be involved, no
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matter how apparently trivial the misunderstanding, a conciliating commission
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can always be had to pass upon the merits of the controversy.
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4. Conciliators to the Local Universes. In this larger work of a universe the
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commissioners are of great assistance to both the Melchizedeks and the Magis-
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terial Sons and to the constellation rulers and the hosts of personalities
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concerned with the co-ordination and administration of the one hundred
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constellations. The different orders of seraphim and other residents of the
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headquarters spheres of a local universe also avail themselves of the help and
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decisions of the referee trios.
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It is almost impossible to explain the nature of those differences which may
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arise in the detailed affairs of a system, a constellation, or a universe.
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Difficulties do develop, but they are very unlike the petty trials and travails
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of material existence as it is lived on the evolutionary worlds.
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5. Conciliators to the Superuniverse Minor Sectors. From the problems of local
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universes the commissioners are advanced to the study of questions arising in
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the minor sectors of their superuniverse. The farther they ascend inward from
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the individual planets, the fewer are the material duties of the divine
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executioner; gradually he assumes a new role of mercy-justice interpreter, at
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the same time--being quasi-material--keeping the commission as a whole in
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sympathetic touch with the material aspects of its investigations.
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6. Conciliators to the Superuniverse Major Sectors. The character of the work
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of the commissioners continues to change as they advance. There is less and
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less of misunderstanding to adjudicate and more and more of mysterious
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phenomena to explain and interpret. From stage to stage they are evolving from
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arbiters of differences to explainers of mysteries--judges evolving into
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interpretative teachers. Arbiters of those who through ignorance permit
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difficulties and misunderstandings to arise, they once were; but they are now
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becoming instructors of those who are sufficiently intelligent and tolerant to
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avoid clashes of mind and wars of opinions. The higher a creature's education,
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the more respect he has for the knowledge, experience, and opinions of others.
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7. Conciliators to the Superuniverse. Here the conciliators become
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co-ordinate--four mutually understood and perfectly functioning
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arbiter-teachers. The divine executioner is divested of retributive power and
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becomes the physical voice of the spirit trio. By this time these counselors
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and teachers have become expertly familiar with most of the actual problems and
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difficulties encountered in the conduct of superuniverse affairs. Thus they
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become wonderful advisers and wise teachers of the ascending pilgrims who are
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in residence on the educational spheres surrounding the headquarters worlds of
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the superuniverses.
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All conciliators serve under the general supervision of the Ancients of Days
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and under the immediate direction of the Image Aids until such time as they are
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advanced to Paradise. During the Paradise sojourn they report to the Master
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Spirit who presides over the superuniverse of their origin.
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The superuniverse registries do not enumerate those conciliators who have
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passed beyond their jurisdiction, and such commissions are widely scattered
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through the grand universe. The last report of registry on Uversa gives the
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number operating in Orvonton as almost eighteen trillion commissions--over
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seventy trillion individuals. But these are only a very small fraction of the
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multitude of conciliators that have been created in Orvonton; that number is of
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an altogether higher magnitude and is the equivalent of the total number of
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Havona Servitals, with allowances for the transmutation into Graduate Guides.
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From time to time, as the numbers of the superuniverse conciliators increase,
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they are translated to the council of perfection on Paradise, from which
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they subsequently emerge as the co-ordinating corps evolved by the Infinite
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Spirit for the universe of universes, a marvelous group of beings which is
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constantly increasing in numbers and efficiency. By experiential ascent and
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Paradise training they have acquired a unique grasp of the emerging reality of
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the Supreme Being, and they roam the universe of universes on special
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assignment.
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The members of a conciliating commission are never separated. A group of four
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forever serve together just as they were originally associated. Even in their
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glorified service they continue to function as quartets of accumulated cosmic
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experience and perfected experiential wisdom. They are eternally associated as
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the embodiment of the supreme justice of time and space.
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4. TECHNICAL ADVISERS
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These legal and technical minds of the spirit world were not created as such.
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From the early supernaphim and omniaphim, one million of the most orderly minds
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were chosen by the Infinite Spirit as the nucleus of this vast and versatile
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group. And ever since that far-distant time, actual experience in the
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application of the laws of perfection to the plans of evolutionary creation has
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been required of all who aspire to become Technical Advisers.
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The Technical Advisers are recruited from the ranks of the following
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personality orders:
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1. The Supernaphim.
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2. The Seconaphim.
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3. The Tertiaphim.
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4. The Omniaphim.
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5. The Seraphim.
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6. Certain Types of Ascending Mortals.
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7. Certain Types of Ascending Midwayers.
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At the present time, not counting the mortals and midwayers who are all of
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transient attachment, the number of Technical Advisers registered on Uversa and
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operating in Orvonton is slightly in excess of sixty-one trillion.
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Technical Advisers frequently function as individuals but are organized for
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service and maintain common headquarters on the spheres of assignment in groups
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of seven. In each group at least five must be of permanent status, while two
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may be of temporary association. Ascending mortals and ascending midway
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creatures serve on these advisory commissions while pursuing the Paradise
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ascent, but they do not enter the regular courses of training for Technical
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Advisers, nor do they ever become permanent members of the order.
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Those mortals and midwayers who serve transiently with the advisers are chosen
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for such work because of their expertness in the concept of universal law and
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supreme justice. As you journey toward your Paradise goal, constantly acquiring
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added knowledge and enhanced skill, you are continuously afforded the
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opportunity to give out to others the wisdom and experience you have already
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accumulated; all the way in to Havona you enact the role of a pupil-teacher.
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You will work your way through the ascending levels of this vast experiential
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university by imparting to those just below you the new-found knowledge of your
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advancing career. In the universal regime you are not reckoned as having
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possessed yourself of knowledge and truth until you have demonstrated your
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ability and your willingness to impart this knowledge and truth to others.
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After long training and actual experience, any of the ministering spirits above
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the status of cherubim are permitted to receive permanent appointment as
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Technical Advisers. All candidates voluntarily enter this order of service; but
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having once assumed such responsibilities, they may not relinquish them. Only
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the Ancients of Days can transfer these advisers to other activities.
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The training of Technical Advisers, begun in the Melchizedek colleges of the
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local universes, continues to the courts of the Ancients of Days. From this
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superuniverse training they proceed to the "schools of the seven circles"
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located on the pilot worlds of the Havona circuits. And from the pilot worlds
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they are received into the "college of the ethics of law and the technique of
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Supremacy," the Paradise training school for the perfecting of Technical
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Advisers.
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These advisers are more than legal experts; they are students and teachers of
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applied law, the laws of the universe applied to the lives and destinies of all
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who inhabit the vast domains of the far-flung creation. As time passes, they
|
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become the living law libraries of time and space, preventing endless trouble
|
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and needless delays by instructing the personalities of time regarding the
|
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forms and modes of procedure most acceptable to the rulers of eternity. They
|
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are able so to counsel the workers of space as to enable them to function in
|
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harmony with the requirements of Paradise; they are the teachers of all
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creatures concerning the technique of the Creators.
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Such a living library of applied law could not be created; such beings must be
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evolved by actual experience. The infinite Deities are existential, hence are
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compensated for lack of experience; they know all even before they experience
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all, but they do not impart this nonexperiential knowledge to their subordinate
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creatures.
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Technical Advisers are dedicated to the work of preventing delay, facilitating
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progress, and counseling achievement. There is always a best and right way to
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do things; there is always the technique of perfection, a divine method, and
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these advisers know how to direct us all in the finding of this better way.
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These exceedingly wise and practical beings are always closely associated with
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the service and work of the Universal Censors. The Melchizedeks are provided
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with an able corps. The rulers of the systems, constellations, universes, and
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superuniverse sectors are all bountifully supplied with these technical or
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legal reference minds of the spiritual world. A special group act as law
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counselors to the Life Carriers, advising these Sons concerning the extent of
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permissible departure from the established order of life propagation and
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otherwise instructing them respecting their prerogatives and latitudes of
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function. They are the advisers of all classes of beings regarding the proper
|
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usages and techniques of all spirit-world transactions. But they do not
|
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directly and personally deal with the material creatures of the realms.
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Besides counseling regarding legal usages, Technical Advisers are equally
|
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devoted to the efficient interpretation of all laws concerning creature
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beings--physical, mindal, and spiritual. They are available to the Universal
|
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Conciliators and to all others who desire to know the truth of law; in other
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words, to know how the Supremacy of Deity may be depended upon to react in a
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given situation having factors of an established physical, mindal, and
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spiritual order. They even essay to elucidate the technique of the Ultimate.
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Technical Advisers are selected and tested beings; I have never known one of
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them to go astray. We have no records on Uversa of their ever having been
|
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adjudged in contempt of the divine laws they so effectively interpret and so
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eloquently expound. There is no known limit to the domain of their service,
|
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neither has any been placed upon their progress. They continue as advisers even
|
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to the portals of Paradise; the whole universe of law and experience is open to
|
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them.
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5. THE CUSTODIANS OF RECORDS ON PARADISE
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From among the tertiary supernaphim in Havona, certain of the senior chief
|
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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
|
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living records of registry in the minds of the custodians of knowledge,
|
||
sometimes designated the "living library of Paradise."
|
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|
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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,
|
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both are equally available.
|
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|
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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
|
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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.
|
||
|
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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.
|
||
|
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6. THE CELESTIAL RECORDERS
|
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|
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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.
|
||
|
||
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
|
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|
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|
||
to consult the records of, and to be otherwise conversant with, the history and
|
||
traditions of your status sphere.
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
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
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
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.
|
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|
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|
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|
||
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
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
During your prefinaliter sojourn on Paradise, if for any reason you should be
|
||
temporarily separated from your associate of the ascending career--mortal
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
[Sponsored by One High in Authority from Uversa.]
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|
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|
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