Seraphic Guardians of Destiny

113:1.1The teach­ing about guard­ian an­gels is not a myth; cer­tain groups of hu­man be­ings do ac­tu­ally have per­sonal an­gels. It was in rec­og­ni­tion of this that Je­sus, in speak­ing of the chil­dren of the heav­enly king­dom, said: “Take heed that you de­spise not one of these lit­tle ones, for I say to you, their an­gels do al­ways be­hold the pres­ence of the spirit of my Fa­ther.”

113:1.2Orig­i­nally, the ser­a­phim were def­i­nitely as­signed to the sep­a­rate Uran­tia races. But since the be­stowal of Mi­chael, they are as­signed in ac­cor­dance with hu­man in­tel­li­gence, spir­i­tu­al­ity, and des­tiny. In­tel­lec­tu­ally, man­kind is di­vided into three classes:

113:1.31. The sub­nor­mal minded—those who do not ex­er­cise nor­mal will power; those who do not make av­er­age de­ci­sions. This class em­braces those who can­not com­pre­hend God; they lack ca­pac­ity for the in­tel­li­gent wor­ship of De­ity. The sub­nor­mal be­ings of Uran­tia have a corps of ser­a­phim, one com­pany, with one bat­tal­ion of cheru­bim, as­signed to min­is­ter to them and to wit­ness that jus­tice and mercy are ex­tended to them in the life strug­gles of the sphere.

113:1.42. The av­er­age, nor­mal type of hu­man mind. From the stand­point of se­raphic min­istry, most men and women are grouped in seven classes in ac­cor­dance with their sta­tus in mak­ing the cir­cles of hu­man prog­ress and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment.

113:1.53. The super­nor­mal minded—those of great de­ci­sion and un­doubted po­ten­tial of spir­i­tual achieve­ment; men and women who en­joy more or less con­tact with their in­dwelling Ad­justers; mem­bers of the var­i­ous re­serve corps of des­tiny. No mat­ter in what cir­cle a hu­man hap­pens to be, if such an in­di­vid­ual be­comes en­rolled in any of the sev­eral re­serve corps of des­tiny, right then and there, per­sonal ser­a­phim are as­signed, and from that time un­til the earthly ca­reer is fin­ished, that mor­tal will en­joy the con­tin­u­ous min­istry and un­ceas­ing watch­care of a guard­ian an­gel. Also, when any hu­man be­ing makes the su­preme de­ci­sion, when there is a real be­trothal with the Ad­juster, a per­sonal guard­ian is im­me­di­ately as­signed to that soul.

113:1.6In the min­istry to so-called nor­mal be­ings, se­raphic as­sign­ments are made in ac­cor­dance with the hu­man at­tain­ment of the cir­cles of in­tel­lec­tu­al­ity and spir­i­tu­al­ity. You start out in your mind of mor­tal in­vest­ment in the sev­enth cir­cle and jour­ney in­ward in the task of self-un­der­stand­ing, self-con­quest, and self-mas­tery; and cir­cle by cir­cle you ad­vance un­til (if nat­u­ral death does not ter­mi­nate your ca­reer and trans­fer your strug­gles to the man­sion worlds) you reach the first or in­ner cir­cle of rel­a­tive con­tact and com­mu­nion with the in­dwelling Ad­juster.

113:1.7Hu­man be­ings in the ini­tial or sev­enth cir­cle have one guard­ian an­gel with one com­pany of as­sist­ing cheru­bim as­signed to the watch­care and cus­tody of one thou­sand mor­tals. In the sixth cir­cle, a se­raphic pair with one com­pany of cheru­bim is as­signed to guide these as­cend­ing mor­tals in groups of five hun­dred. When the fifth cir­cle is at­tained, hu­man be­ings are grouped in com­pa­nies of ap­prox­i­mately one hun­dred, and a pair of guard­ian ser­a­phim with a group of cheru­bim is placed in charge. Upon at­tain­ment of the fourth cir­cle, mor­tal be­ings are as­sem­bled in groups of ten, and again charge is given to a pair of ser­a­phim, as­sisted by one com­pany of cheru­bim.

113:1.8When a mor­tal mind breaks through the in­er­tia of an­i­mal legacy and at­tains the third cir­cle of hu­man in­tel­lec­tu­al­ity and ac­quired spir­i­tu­al­ity, a per­sonal an­gel (in re­al­ity two) will hence­forth be wholly and ex­clu­sively de­voted to this as­cend­ing mor­tal. And thus these hu­man souls, in ad­di­tion to the ever-pres­ent and in­creas­ingly ef­fi­cient in­dwelling Thought Ad­justers, re­ceive the un­di­vided as­sis­tance of these per­sonal guard­i­ans of des­tiny in all their ef­forts to fin­ish the third cir­cle, tra­verse the sec­ond, and at­tain the first.