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Urantia Book Paper 113 Seraphic Guardians Of Destiny
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART III: The History of Urantia
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: The Origin Of Urantia Life Establishment On Urantia The Marine-life Era On
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Urantia Urantia During The Early Land-life Era The Mammalian Era On Urantia The
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Dawn Races Of Early Man The First Human Family The Evolutionary Races Of Color
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The Overcontrol Of Evolution The Planetary Prince Of Urantia The Planetary
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Rebellion The Dawn Of Civilization Primitive Human Institutions The Evolution
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Of Human Government Development Of The State Government On A Neighboring Planet
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The Garden Of Eden Adam And Eve The Default Of Adam And Eve The Second Garden
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The Midway Creatures The Violet Race After The Days Of Adam Andite Expansion In
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The Orient Andite Expansion In The Occident Development Of Modern Civilization
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The Evolution Of Marriage The Marriage Institution Marriage And Family Life The
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Origins Of Worship Early Evolution Of Religion The Ghost Cults Fetishes,
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Charms, And Magic Sin, Sacrifice, And Atonement Shamanism--medicine Men And
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Priests The Evolution Of Prayer The Later Evolution Of Religion Machiventa
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Melchizedek The Melchizedek Teachings In The Orient The Melchizedek Teachings
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In The Levant Yahweh--god Of The Hebrews Evolution Of The God Concept Among The
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Hebrews The Melchizedek Teachings In The Occident The Social Problems Of
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Religion Religion In Human Experience The Real Nature Of Religion The
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Foundations Of Religious Faith The Reality Of Religious Experience Growth Of
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The Trinity Concept Deity And Reality Universe Levels Of Reality Origin And
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Nature Of Thought Adjusters Mission And Ministry Of Thought Adjusters Relation
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Of Adjusters To Universe Creatures Relation Of Adjusters To Individual Mortals
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Paper 113 Seraphic Guardians Of Destiny
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Introduction
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HAVING presented the narratives of the Ministering Spirits of Time and the
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Messenger Hosts of Space, we come to the consideration of the guardian angels,
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seraphim devoted to the ministry to individual mortals, for whose elevation and
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perfection all of the vast survival scheme of spiritual progression has been
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provided. In past ages on Urantia, these destiny guardians were about the only
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group of angels that had recognition. The planetary seraphim are indeed
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ministering spirits sent forth to do service for those who shall survive. These
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attending seraphim have functioned as the spiritual helpers of mortal man in
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all the great events of the past and the present. In many a revelation "the
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word was spoken by angels"; many of the mandates of heaven have been "received
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by the ministry of angels."
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Seraphim are the traditional angels of heaven; they are the ministering spirits
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who live so near you and do so much for you. They have ministered on Urantia
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since the earliest times of human intelligence.
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1. THE GUARDIAN ANGELS
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The teaching about guardian angels is not a myth; certain groups of human
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beings do actually have personal angels. It was in recognition of this that
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Jesus, in speaking of the children of the heavenly kingdom, said: "Take heed
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that you despise not one of these little ones, for I say to you, their angels
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do always behold the presence of the spirit of my Father."
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Originally, the seraphim were definitely assigned to the separate Urantia
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races. But since the bestowal of Michael, they are assigned in accordance with
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human intelligence, spirituality, and destiny. Intellectually, mankind is
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divided into three classes:
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1. The subnormal minded--those who do not exercise normal will power; those who
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do not make average decisions. This class embraces those who cannot comprehend
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God; they lack capacity for the intelligent worship of Deity. The subnormal
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beings of Urantia have a corps of seraphim, one company, with one battalion of
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cherubim, assigned to minister to them and to witness that justice and mercy
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are extended to them in the life struggles of the sphere.
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2. The average, normal type of human mind. From the standpoint of seraphic
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ministry, most men and women are grouped in seven classes in accordance with
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their status in making the circles of human progress and spiritual development.
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3. The supernormal minded--those of great decision and undoubted potential of
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spiritual achievement; men and women who enjoy more or less con-
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tact with their indwelling Adjusters; members of the various reserve corps of
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destiny. No matter in what circle a human happens to be, if such an individual
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becomes enrolled in any of the several reserve corps of destiny, right then and
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there, personal seraphim are assigned, and from that time until the earthly
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career is finished, that mortal will enjoy the continuous ministry and
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unceasing watchcare of a guardian angel. Also, when any human being makes the
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supreme decision, when there is a real betrothal with the Adjuster, a personal
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guardian is immediately assigned to that soul.
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In the ministry to so-called normal beings, seraphic assignments are made in
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accordance with the human attainment of the circles of intellectuality and
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spirituality. You start out in your mind of mortal investment in the seventh
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circle and journey inward in the task of self-understanding, self-conquest, and
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self-mastery; and circle by circle you advance until (if natural death does not
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terminate your career and transfer your struggles to the mansion worlds) you
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reach the first or inner circle of relative contact and communion with the
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indwelling Adjuster.
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Human beings in the initial or seventh circle have one guardian angel with one
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company of assisting cherubim assigned to the watchcare and custody of one
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thousand mortals. In the sixth circle, a seraphic pair with one company of
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cherubim is assigned to guide these ascending mortals in groups of five
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hundred. When the fifth circle is attained, human beings are grouped in
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companies of approximately one hundred, and a pair of guardian seraphim with a
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group of cherubim is placed in charge. Upon attainment of the fourth circle,
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mortal beings are assembled in groups of ten, and again charge is given to a
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pair of seraphim, assisted by one company of cherubim.
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When a mortal mind breaks through the inertia of animal legacy and attains the
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third circle of human intellectuality and acquired spirituality, a personal
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angel (in reality two) will henceforth be wholly and exclusively devoted to
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this ascending mortal. And thus these human souls, in addition to the
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ever-present and increasingly efficient indwelling Thought Adjusters, receive
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the undivided assistance of these personal guardians of destiny in all their
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efforts to finish the third circle, traverse the second, and attain the first.
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2. THE DESTINY GUARDIANS
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Seraphim are not known as guardians of destiny until such time as they are
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assigned to the association of a human soul who has realized one or more of
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three achievements: has made a supreme decision to become Godlike, has entered
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the third circle, or has been mustered into one of the reserve corps of
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destiny.
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In the evolution of races a guardian of destiny is assigned to the very first
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being who attains the requisite circle of conquest. On Urantia the first mortal
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to secure a personal guardian was Rantowoc, a wise man of the red race of long
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ago.
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All angelic assignments are made from a group of volunteering seraphim, and
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these appointments are always in accordance with human needs and with regard to
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the status of the angelic pair--in the light of seraphic experience, skill, and
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wisdom. Only seraphim of long service, the more experienced and tested types,
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are assigned as destiny guards. Many guardians have gained much valuable
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experience on those worlds which are of the non-Adjuster fusion series. Like
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the Adjusters, the seraphim attend these beings for a single lifetime and then
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are liberated for new assignment. Many guardians on Urantia have had this
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previous practical experience on other worlds.
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When human beings fail to survive, their personal or group guardians may
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repeatedly serve in similar capacities on the same planet. The seraphim develop
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a sentimental regard for individual worlds and entertain a special affection
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for certain races and types of mortal creatures with whom they have been so
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closely and intimately associated.
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The angels develop an abiding affection for their human associates; and you
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would, if you could only visualize the seraphim, develop a warm affection for
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them. Divested of material bodies, given spirit forms, you would be very near
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the angels in many attributes of personality. They share most of your emotions
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and experience some additional ones. The only emotion actuating you which is
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somewhat difficult for them to comprehend is the legacy of animal fear that
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bulks so large in the mental life of the average inhabitant of Urantia. The
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angels really find it hard to understand why you will so persistently allow
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your higher intellectual powers, even your religious faith, to be so dominated
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by fear, so thoroughly demoralized by the thoughtless panic of dread and
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anxiety.
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All seraphim have individual names, but in the records of assignment to world
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service they are frequently designated by their planetary numbers. At the
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universe headquarters they are registered by name and number. The destiny
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guardian of the human subject used in this contactual communication is number 3
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of group 17, of company 126, of battalion 4, of unit 384, of legion 6, of host
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37, of the 182,314th seraphic army of Nebadon. The current planetary assignment
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number of this seraphim on Urantia and to this human subject is 3,641,852.
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In the ministry of personal guardianship, the assignment of angels as destiny
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guardians, seraphim always volunteer their services. In the city of this
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visitation a certain mortal was recently admitted to the reserve corps of
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destiny, and since all such humans are personally attended by guardian angels,
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more than one hundred qualified seraphim sought the assignment. The planetary
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director selected twelve of the more experienced individuals and subsequently
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appointed the seraphim whom they selected as best adapted to guide this human
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being through his life journey. That is, they selected a certain pair of
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equally qualified seraphim; one of this seraphic pair will always be on duty.
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Seraphic tasks may be unremitting, but either of the angelic pair can discharge
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all ministering responsibilities. Like cherubim, seraphim usually serve in
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pairs, but unlike their less advanced associates, the seraphim sometimes work
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singly. In practically all their contacts with human beings they can function
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as individuals. Both angels are required only for communication and service on
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the higher circuits of the universes.
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When a seraphic pair accept guardian assignment, they serve for the remainder
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of the life of that human being. The complement of being (one of the two
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angels) becomes the recorder of the undertaking. These complemental seraphim
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are the recording angels of the mortals of the evolutionary worlds. The records
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are kept by the pair of cherubim (a cherubim and a sanobim) who are always
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associated with the seraphic guardians, but these records are always sponsored
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by one of the seraphim.
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For purposes of rest and recharging with the life energy of the universe
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circuits, the guardian is periodically relieved by her complement, and during
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her absence the associated cherubim functions as the recorder, as is also the
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case when the complemental seraphim is similarly absent.
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3. RELATION TO OTHER SPIRIT INFLUENCES
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One of the most important things a destiny guardian does for her mortal subject
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is to effect a personal co-ordination of the numerous impersonal spirit
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influences which indwell, surround, and impinge upon the mind and soul of the
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evolving material creature. Human beings are personalities, and it is
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exceedingly difficult for nonpersonal spirits and prepersonal entities to make
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direct contact with such highly material and discretely personal minds. In the
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ministry of the guarding angel all of these influences are more or less unified
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and made more nearly appreciable by the expanding moral nature of the evolving
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human personality.
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More especially can and does this seraphic guardian correlate the manifold
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agencies and influences of the Infinite Spirit, ranging from the domains of the
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physical controllers and the adjutant mind-spirits up to the Holy Spirit of the
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Divine Minister and to the Omnipresent Spirit presence of the Paradise Third
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Source and Center. Having thus unified and made more personal these vast
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ministries of the Infinite Spirit, the seraphim then undertakes to correlate
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this integrated influence of the Conjoint Actor with the spirit presences of
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the Father and the Son.
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The Adjuster is the presence of the Father; the Spirit of Truth, the presence
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of the Sons. These divine endowments are unified and co-ordinated on the lower
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levels of human spiritual experience by the ministry of the guardian seraphim.
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The angelic servers are gifted in combining the love of the Father and the
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mercy of the Son in their ministry to mortal creatures.
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And herein is revealed the reason why the seraphic guardian eventually becomes
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the personal custodian of the mind patterns, memory formulas, and soul
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realities of the mortal survivor during that interval between physical death
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and morontia resurrection. None but the ministering children of the Infinite
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Spirit could thus function in behalf of the human creature during this phase of
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transition from one level of the universe to another and higher level. Even
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when you engage in your terminal transition slumber, when you pass from time to
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eternity, a high supernaphim likewise shares the transit with you as the
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custodian of creature identity and the surety of personal integrity.
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On the spiritual level, seraphim make personal many otherwise impersonal and
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prepersonal ministries of the universe; they are co-ordinators. On the
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intellectual level they are the correlators of mind and morontia; they are
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interpreters. And on the physical level they manipulate terrestrial environment
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through their liaison with the Master Physical Controllers and through the
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co-operative ministry of the midway creatures.
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This is a recital of the manifold and intricate function of an attending
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seraphim; but how does such a subordinate angelic personality, created but a
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little above the universe level of humanity, do such difficult and complex
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things? We do not really know, but we conjecture that this phenomenal ministry
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is in some undisclosed manner facilitated by the unrecognized and unrevealed
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working of the Supreme Being, the actualizing Deity of the evolving universes
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of time and
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space. Throughout the entire realm of progressive survival in and through the
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Supreme Being, seraphim are an essential part of continuing mortal progression.
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4. SERAPHIC DOMAINS OF ACTION
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The guardian seraphim are not mind, though they do spring from the same source
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that also gives origin to mortal mind, the Creative Spirit. Seraphim are mind
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stimulators; they continually seek to promote circle-making decisions in human
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mind. They do this, not as does the Adjuster, operating from within and through
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the soul, but rather from the outside inward, working through the social,
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ethical, and moral environment of human beings. Seraphim are not the divine
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Adjuster lure of the Universal Father, but they do function as the personal
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agency of the ministry of the Infinite Spirit.
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Mortal man, subject to Adjuster leading, is also amenable to seraphic guidance.
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The Adjuster is the essence of man's eternal nature; the seraphim is the
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teacher of man's evolving nature--in this life the mortal mind, in the next the
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morontia soul. On the mansion worlds you will be conscious and aware of
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seraphic instructors, but in the first life men are usually unaware of them.
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Seraphim function as teachers of men by guiding the footsteps of the human
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personality into paths of new and progressive experiences. To accept the
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guidance of a seraphim rarely means attaining a life of ease. In following this
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leading you are sure to encounter, and if you have the courage, to traverse,
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the rugged hills of moral choosing and spiritual progress.
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The impulse of worship largely originates in the spirit promptings of the
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higher mind adjutants, reinforced by the leadings of the Adjuster. But the urge
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to pray so often experienced by God-conscious mortals very often arises as the
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result of seraphic influence. The guarding seraphim is constantly manipulating
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the mortal environment for the purpose of augmenting the cosmic insight of the
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human ascender to the end that such a survival candidate may acquire enhanced
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realization of the presence of the indwelling Adjuster and thus be enabled to
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yield increased co-operation with the spiritual mission of the divine presence.
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While there is apparently no communication between the indwelling Adjusters and
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the encompassing seraphim, they always seem to work in perfect harmony and
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exquisite accord. The guardians are most active at those times when the
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Adjusters are least active, but their ministry is in some manner strangely
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correlated. Such superb co-operation could hardly be either accidental or
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incidental.
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The ministering personality of the guardian seraphim, the God presence of the
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indwelling Adjuster, the encircuited action of the Holy Spirit, and the
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Son-consciousness of the Spirit of Truth are all divinely correlated into a
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meaningful unity of spiritual ministry in and to a mortal personality. Though
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hailing from different sources and different levels, these celestial influences
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are all integrated in the enveloping and evolving presence of the Supreme
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Being.
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5. SERAPHIC MINISTRY TO MORTALS
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Angels do not invade the sanctity of the human mind; they do not manipulate the
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will of mortals; neither do they directly contact with the indwelling
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Adjusters. The guardian of destiny influences you in every possible manner
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consistent with the dignity of your personality; under no circumstances do
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these
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angels interfere with the free action of the human will. Neither angels nor any
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other order of universe personality have power or authority to curtail or
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abridge the prerogatives of human choosing.
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Angels are so near you and care so feelingly for you that they figuratively
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"weep because of your willful intolerance and stubbornness." Seraphim do not
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shed physical tears; they do not have physical bodies; neither do they possess
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wings. But they do have spiritual emotions, and they do experience feelings and
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sentiments of a spiritual nature which are in certain ways comparable to human
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emotions.
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The seraphim act in your behalf quite independent of your direct appeals; they
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are executing the mandates of their superiors, and thus they function
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regardless of your passing whims or changing moods. This does not imply that
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you may not make their tasks either easier or more difficult, but rather that
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angels are not directly concerned with your appeals or with your prayers.
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In the life of the flesh the intelligence of angels is not directly available
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to mortal men. They are not overlords or directors; they are simply guardians.
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The seraphim guard you; they do not seek directly to influence you; you must
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chart your own course, but these angels then act to make the best possible use
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of the course you have chosen. They do not (ordinarily) arbitrarily intervene
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in the routine affairs of human life. But when they receive instructions from
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their superiors to perform some unusual exploit, you may rest assured that
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these guardians will find some means of carrying out these mandates. They do
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not, therefore, intrude into the picture of human drama except in emergencies
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and then usually on the direct orders of their superiors. They are the beings
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who are going to follow you for many an age, and they are thus receiving an
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introduction to their future work and personality association.
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Seraphim are able to function as material ministers to human beings under
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certain circumstances, but their action in this capacity is very rare. They are
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able, with the assistance of the midway creatures and the physical controllers,
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to function in a wide range of activities in behalf of human beings, even to
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make actual contact with mankind, but such occurrences are very unusual. In
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most instances the circumstances of the material realm proceed unaltered by
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seraphic action, although occasions have arisen, involving jeopardy to vital
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links in the chain of human evolution, in which seraphic guardians have acted,
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and properly, on their own initiative.
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6. GUARDIAN ANGELS AFTER DEATH
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Having told you something of the ministry of seraphim during natural life, I
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will endeavor to inform you about the conduct of the guardians of destiny at
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the time of the mortal dissolution of their human associates. Upon your death,
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your records, identity specifications, and the morontia entity of the human
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soul--conjointly evolved by the ministry of mortal mind and the divine
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Adjuster--are faithfully conserved by the destiny guardian together with all
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other values related to your future existence, everything that constitutes you,
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the real you, except the identity of continuing existence represented by the
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departing Adjuster and the actuality of personality.
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The instant the pilot light in the human mind disappears, the spirit luminosity
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which seraphim associate with the presence of the Adjuster, the attending angel
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reports in person to the commanding angels, successively, of the group,
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company, battalion, unit, legion, and host; and after being duly registered for
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the final adventure of time and space, such an angel receives certification by
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the planetary chief of seraphim for reporting to the Evening Star (or other
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lieutenant of Gabriel) in command of the seraphic army of this candidate for
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universe ascension. And upon being granted permission from the commander of
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this highest organizational unit, such a guardian of destiny proceeds to the
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first mansion world and there awaits the consciousizing of her former ward in
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the flesh.
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In case the human soul fails of survival after having received the assignment
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of a personal angel, the attending seraphim must proceed to the headquarters of
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the local universe, there to witness to the complete records of her complement
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as previously reported. Next she goes before the tribunals of the archangels,
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to be absolved from blame in the matter of the survival failure of her subject;
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and then she goes back to the worlds, again to be assigned to another mortal of
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ascending potentiality or to some other division of seraphic ministry.
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But angels minister to evolutionary creatures in many ways aside from the
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services of personal and group guardianship. Personal guardians whose subjects
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do not go immediately to the mansion worlds do not tarry there in idleness
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awaiting the dispensational roll calls of judgment; they are reassigned to
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numerous ministering missions throughout the universe.
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The guardian seraphim is the custodial trustee of the survival values of mortal
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man's slumbering soul as the absent Adjuster is the identity of such an
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immortal universe being. When these two collaborate in the resurrection halls
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of mansonia in conjunction with the newly fabricated morontia form, there
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occurs the reassembly of the constituent factors of the personality of the
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mortal ascender.
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The Adjuster will identify you; the guardian seraphim will repersonalize you
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and then re-present you to the faithful Monitor of your earth days.
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And even so, when a planetary age ends, when those in the lower circles of
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mortal achievement are forgathered, it is their group guardians who reassemble
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them in the resurrection halls of the mansion spheres, even as your record
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tells: "And he shall send his angels with a great voice and shall gather
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together his elect from one end of the realm to another."
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The technique of justice demands that personal or group guardians shall respond
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to the dispensational roll call in behalf of all nonsurviving personalities.
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The Adjusters of such nonsurvivors do not return, and when the rolls are
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called, the seraphim respond, but the Adjusters make no answer. This
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constitutes the "resurrection of the unjust," in reality the formal recognition
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of the cessation of creature existence. This roll call of justice always
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immediately follows the roll call of mercy, the resurrection of the sleeping
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survivors. But these are matters which are of concern to none but the supreme
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and all-knowing Judges of survival values. Such problems of adjudication do not
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really concern us.
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Group guardians may serve on a planet age after age and eventually become
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custodians of the slumbering souls of thousands upon thousands of sleeping
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survivors. They can so serve on many different worlds in a given system since
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the resurrection response occurs on the mansion worlds.
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All personal and group guardians in the system of Satania who went astray in
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the Lucifer rebellion, notwithstanding that many sincerely repented of their
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folly, are to be detained on Jerusem until the final adjudication of the
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rebellion. Already have the Universal Censors arbitrarily taken from these
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disobedient and unfaithful guardians all aspects of their soul trusts and
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lodged these morontia realities for safekeeping in the custody of volunteer
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seconaphim.
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7. SERAPHIM AND THE ASCENDANT CAREER
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It is indeed an epoch in the career of an ascending mortal, this first
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awakening on the shores of the mansion world; there, for the first time,
|
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actually to see your long-loved and ever-present angelic companions of earth
|
||
days; there also to become truly conscious of the identity and presence of the
|
||
divine Monitor who so long indwelt your mind on earth. Such an experience
|
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constitutes a glorious awakening, a real resurrection.
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On the morontia spheres the attending seraphim (there are two of them) are your
|
||
open companions. These angels not only consort with you as you progress through
|
||
the career of the transition worlds, in every way possible assisting you in the
|
||
acquirement of morontia and spirit status, but they also avail themselves of
|
||
the opportunity to advance by study in the extension schools for evolutionary
|
||
seraphim maintained on the mansion worlds.
|
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|
||
The human race was created just a little lower than the more simple types of
|
||
the angelic orders. Therefore will your first assignment of the morontia life
|
||
be as assistants to the seraphim in the immediate work awaiting at the time you
|
||
attain personality consciousness subsequent to your liberation from the bonds
|
||
of the flesh.
|
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|
||
Before leaving the mansion worlds, all mortals will have permanent seraphic
|
||
associates or guardians. And as you ascend the morontia spheres, eventually it
|
||
is the seraphic guardians who witness and certify the decrees of your eternal
|
||
union with the Thought Adjusters. Together they have established your
|
||
personality identities as children of the flesh from the worlds of time. Then,
|
||
with your attainment of the mature morontia estate, they accompany you through
|
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Jerusem and the associated worlds of system progress and culture. After that
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||
they go with you to Edentia and its seventy spheres of advanced socialization,
|
||
and subsequently will they pilot you to the Melchizedeks and follow you through
|
||
the superb career of the universe headquarters worlds. And when you have
|
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learned the wisdom and culture of the Melchizedeks, they will take you on to
|
||
Salvington, where you will stand face to face with the Sovereign of all
|
||
Nebadon. And still will these seraphic guides follow you through the minor and
|
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major sectors of the superuniverse and on to the receiving worlds of Uversa,
|
||
remaining with you until you finally enseconaphim for the long Havona flight.
|
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|
||
Some of the destiny guardians of attachment during the mortal career follow the
|
||
course of the ascending pilgrims through Havona. The others bid their long-time
|
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mortal associates a temporary farewell, and then, while these mortals traverse
|
||
the circles of the central universe, these guardians of destiny achieve the
|
||
circles of Seraphington. And they will be in waiting on the shores of Paradise
|
||
when their mortal associates awaken from the last transit sleep of time into
|
||
the new experiences of eternity. Such ascending seraphim subsequently enter
|
||
upon divergent services in the finaliter corps and in the Seraphic Corps of
|
||
Completion.
|
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|
||
Man and angel may or may not be reunited in eternal service, but wherever
|
||
seraphic assignment may take them, the seraphim are always in communication
|
||
with their former wards of the evolutionary worlds, the ascendant mortals of
|
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|
||
time. The intimate associations and the affectionate attachments of the realms
|
||
of human origin are never forgotten nor ever completely severed. In the eternal
|
||
ages men and angels will co-operate in the divine service as they did in the
|
||
career of time.
|
||
|
||
For seraphim, the surest way of achieving the Paradise Deities is by
|
||
successfully guiding a soul of evolutionary origin to the portals of Paradise.
|
||
Therefore is the assignment of guardian of destiny the most highly prized
|
||
seraphic duty.
|
||
|
||
Only destiny guardians are mustered into the primary or mortal Corps of the
|
||
Finality, and such pairs have engaged in the supreme adventure of identity
|
||
at-oneness; the two beings have achieved spiritual bi-unification on
|
||
Seraphington prior to their reception into the finaliter corps. In this
|
||
experience the two angelic natures, so complemental in all universe functions,
|
||
achieve ultimate spirit two-in-oneness, repercussing in a new capacity for the
|
||
reception of, and fusion with, a non-Adjuster fragment of the Paradise Father.
|
||
And so do some of your loving seraphic associates in time also become your
|
||
finaliter associates in eternity, children of the Supreme and perfected sons of
|
||
the Paradise Father.
|
||
|
||
[Presented by the Chief of Seraphim stationed on Urantia.]
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART III: The History of Urantia
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: The Origin Of Urantia Life Establishment On Urantia The Marine-life Era On
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Urantia Urantia During The Early Land-life Era The Mammalian Era On Urantia The
|
||
Dawn Races Of Early Man The First Human Family The Evolutionary Races Of Color
|
||
The Overcontrol Of Evolution The Planetary Prince Of Urantia The Planetary
|
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Rebellion The Dawn Of Civilization Primitive Human Institutions The Evolution
|
||
Of Human Government Development Of The State Government On A Neighboring Planet
|
||
The Garden Of Eden Adam And Eve The Default Of Adam And Eve The Second Garden
|
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The Midway Creatures The Violet Race After The Days Of Adam Andite Expansion In
|
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The Orient Andite Expansion In The Occident Development Of Modern Civilization
|
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The Evolution Of Marriage The Marriage Institution Marriage And Family Life The
|
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Origins Of Worship Early Evolution Of Religion The Ghost Cults Fetishes,
|
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Charms, And Magic Sin, Sacrifice, And Atonement Shamanism--medicine Men And
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|
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Melchizedek The Melchizedek Teachings In The Orient The Melchizedek Teachings
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Hebrews The Melchizedek Teachings In The Occident The Social Problems Of
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Religion Religion In Human Experience The Real Nature Of Religion The
|
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Foundations Of Religious Faith The Reality Of Religious Experience Growth Of
|
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The Trinity Concept Deity And Reality Universe Levels Of Reality Origin And
|
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Nature Of Thought Adjusters Mission And Ministry Of Thought Adjusters Relation
|
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Of Adjusters To Universe Creatures Relation Of Adjusters To Individual Mortals
|
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The Adjuster And The Soul Personality Survival Seraphic Guardians Of Destiny
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Seraphic Planetary Government The Supreme Being The Almighty Supreme God The
|
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Supreme Supreme And Ultimate--time And Space The Bestowals Of Christ Michael
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