Seraphic Guardians of Destiny

113:2.1Ser­a­phim are not known as guard­i­ans of des­tiny un­til such time as they are as­signed to the as­so­ci­a­tion of a hu­man soul who has re­al­ized one or more of three achieve­ments: has made a su­preme de­ci­sion to be­come God­like, has en­tered the third cir­cle, or has been mus­tered into one of the re­serve corps of des­tiny.

113:2.2In the evo­lu­tion of races a guard­ian of des­tiny is as­signed to the very first be­ing who at­tains the req­ui­site cir­cle of con­quest. On Uran­tia the first mor­tal to se­cure a per­sonal guard­ian was Rantowoc, a wise man of the red race of long ago.

113:2.3All an­gelic as­sign­ments are made from a group of vol­un­teer­ing ser­a­phim, and these ap­point­ments are al­ways in ac­cor­dance with hu­man needs and with re­gard to the sta­tus of the an­gelic pair—in the light of se­raphic ex­pe­ri­ence, skill, and wis­dom. Only ser­a­phim of long ser­vice, the more ex­pe­ri­enced and tested types, are as­signed as des­tiny guards. Many guard­i­ans have gained much valu­able ex­pe­ri­ence on those worlds which are of the non-Ad­juster fu­sion se­ries. Like the Ad­justers, the ser­a­phim at­tend these be­ings for a sin­gle life­time and then are lib­er­ated for new as­sign­ment. Many guard­i­ans on Uran­tia have had this pre­vi­ous prac­ti­cal ex­pe­ri­ence on other worlds.

113:2.4When hu­man be­ings fail to sur­vive, their per­sonal or group guard­i­ans may re­peat­edly serve in sim­i­lar ca­pac­i­ties on the same planet. The ser­a­phim de­velop a sen­ti­men­tal re­gard for in­di­vid­ual worlds and en­ter­tain a spe­cial af­fec­tion for cer­tain races and types of mor­tal crea­tures with whom they have been so closely and in­ti­mately as­so­ci­ated.

113:2.5The an­gels de­velop an abid­ing af­fec­tion for their hu­man as­so­ciates; and you would, if you could only vi­su­al­ize the ser­a­phim, de­velop a warm af­fec­tion for them. Di­vested of ma­te­rial bod­ies, given spirit forms, you would be very near the an­gels in many at­tri­butes of per­son­al­ity. They share most of your emo­tions and ex­pe­ri­ence some ad­di­tional ones. The only emo­tion ac­tu­at­ing you which is some­what dif­fi­cult for them to com­pre­hend is the legacy of an­i­mal fear that bulks so large in the men­tal life of the av­er­age in­hab­i­tant of Uran­tia. The an­gels re­ally find it hard to un­der­stand why you will so per­sis­tently al­low your higher in­tel­lec­tual pow­ers, even your re­li­gious faith, to be so dom­i­nated by fear, so thor­oughly de­mor­al­ized by the thought­less panic of dread and anx­i­ety.

113:2.6All ser­a­phim have in­di­vid­ual names, but in the rec­ords of as­sign­ment to world ser­vice they are fre­quently des­ig­nated by their plan­e­tary num­bers. At the uni­verse head­quar­ters they are reg­is­tered by name and num­ber. The des­tiny guard­ian of the hu­man sub­ject used in this con­tac­tual com­mu­ni­ca­tion is num­ber 3 of group 17, of com­pany 126, of bat­tal­ion 4, of unit 384, of le­gion 6, of host 37, of the 182,314^th se­raphic army of Neb­a­don. The cur­rent plan­e­tary as­sign­ment num­ber of this ser­a­phim on Uran­tia and to this hu­man sub­ject is 3,641,852.

113:2.7In the min­istry of per­sonal guardian­ship, the as­sign­ment of an­gels as des­tiny guard­i­ans, ser­a­phim al­ways vol­un­teer their ser­vices. In the city of this vis­i­ta­tion a cer­tain mor­tal was re­cently ad­mit­ted to the re­serve corps of des­tiny, and since all such hu­mans are per­son­ally at­tended by guard­ian an­gels, more than one hun­dred qual­i­fied ser­a­phim sought the as­sign­ment. The plan­e­tary di­rec­tor se­lected twelve of the more ex­pe­ri­enced in­di­vid­u­als and sub­se­quently ap­pointed the ser­a­phim whom they se­lected as best adapted to guide this hu­man be­ing through his life jour­ney. That is, they se­lected a cer­tain pair of equally qual­i­fied ser­a­phim; one of this se­raphic pair will al­ways be on duty.

113:2.8Se­raphic tasks may be un­remit­ting, but ei­ther of the an­gelic pair can dis­charge all min­is­ter­ing re­spon­si­bil­i­ties. Like cheru­bim, ser­a­phim usu­ally serve in pairs, but un­like their less ad­vanced as­so­ciates, the ser­a­phim some­times work singly. In prac­ti­cally all their con­tacts with hu­man be­ings they can func­tion as in­di­vid­u­als. Both an­gels are re­quired only for com­mu­ni­ca­tion and ser­vice on the higher cir­cuits of the uni­verses.

113:2.9When a se­raphic pair ac­cept guard­ian as­sign­ment, they serve for the re­main­der of the life of that hu­man be­ing. The com­ple­ment of be­ing (one of the two an­gels) be­comes the re­corder of the un­der­tak­ing. These com­ple­men­tal ser­a­phim are the record­ing an­gels of the mor­tals of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. The rec­ords are kept by the pair of cheru­bim (a cheru­bim and a sa­no­bim) who are al­ways as­so­ci­ated with the se­raphic guard­i­ans, but these rec­ords are al­ways spon­sored by one of the ser­a­phim.

113:2.10For pur­poses of rest and recharg­ing with the life en­ergy of the uni­verse cir­cuits, the guard­ian is pe­ri­od­i­cally re­lieved by her com­ple­ment, and dur­ing her ab­sence the as­so­ci­ated cheru­bim func­tions as the re­corder, as is also the case when the com­ple­men­tal ser­a­phim is sim­i­larly ab­sent.