Seraphic Guardians of Destiny

113:4.1The guard­ian ser­a­phim are not mind, though they do spring from the same source that also gives ori­gin to mor­tal mind, the Cre­ative Spirit. Ser­a­phim are mind stim­u­la­tors; they con­tin­u­ally seek to pro­mote cir­cle-mak­ing de­ci­sions in hu­man mind. They do this, not as does the Ad­juster, op­er­at­ing from within and through the soul, but rather from the out­side in­ward, work­ing through the so­cial, eth­i­cal, and moral en­vi­ron­ment of hu­man be­ings. Ser­a­phim are not the di­vine Ad­juster lure of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, but they do func­tion as the per­sonal agency of the min­istry of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

113:4.2Mor­tal man, sub­ject to Ad­juster lead­ing, is also amenable to se­raphic guid­ance. The Ad­juster is the essence of man’s eter­nal na­ture; the ser­a­phim is the teacher of man’s evolv­ing na­ture—in this life the mor­tal mind, in the next the mor­ontia soul. On the man­sion worlds you will be con­scious and aware of se­raphic in­struc­tors, but in the first life men are usu­ally un­aware of them.

113:4.3Ser­a­phim func­tion as teach­ers of men by guid­ing the foot­steps of the hu­man per­son­al­ity into paths of new and pro­gres­sive ex­pe­ri­ences. To ac­cept the guid­ance of a ser­a­phim rarely means at­tain­ing a life of ease. In fol­low­ing this lead­ing you are sure to en­counter, and if you have the cour­age, to tra­verse, the rugged hills of moral choos­ing and spir­i­tual prog­ress.

113:4.4The im­pulse of wor­ship largely orig­i­nates in the spirit prompt­ings of the higher mind ad­ju­tants, re­in­forced by the lead­ings of the Ad­juster. But the urge to pray so of­ten ex­pe­ri­enced by God-con­scious mor­tals very of­ten arises as the re­sult of se­raphic in­flu­ence. The guard­ing ser­a­phim is con­stantly ma­nip­u­lat­ing the mor­tal en­vi­ron­ment for the pur­pose of aug­ment­ing the cos­mic in­sight of the hu­man as­cender to the end that such a sur­vival can­di­date may ac­quire en­hanced re­al­iza­tion of the pres­ence of the in­dwelling Ad­juster and thus be en­abled to yield in­creased co-op­er­a­tion with the spir­i­tual mis­sion of the di­vine pres­ence.

113:4.5While there is ap­par­ently no com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween the in­dwelling Ad­justers and the en­com­pass­ing ser­a­phim, they al­ways seem to work in per­fect har­mony and ex­qui­site ac­cord. The guard­i­ans are most ac­tive at those times when the Ad­justers are least ac­tive, but their min­istry is in some man­ner strangely cor­re­lated. Such su­perb co-op­er­a­tion could hardly be ei­ther ac­ci­den­tal or in­ci­den­tal.

113:4.6The min­is­ter­ing per­son­al­ity of the guard­ian ser­a­phim, the God pres­ence of the in­dwelling Ad­juster, the en­cir­cuited ac­tion of the Holy Spirit, and the Son-con­scious­ness of the Spirit of Truth are all di­vinely cor­re­lated into a mean­ing­ful unity of spir­i­tual min­istry in and to a mor­tal per­son­al­ity. Though hail­ing from dif­fer­ent sources and dif­fer­ent lev­els, these ce­les­tial in­flu­ences are all in­te­grated in the en­velop­ing and evolv­ing pres­ence of the Su­preme Be­ing.