Seraphic Guardians of Destiny

113:5.1An­gels do not in­vade the sanc­tity of the hu­man mind; they do not ma­nip­u­late the will of mor­tals; nei­ther do they di­rectly con­tact with the in­dwelling Ad­justers. The guard­ian of des­tiny in­flu­ences you in ev­ery pos­si­ble man­ner con­sis­tent with the dig­nity of your per­son­al­ity; un­der no cir­cum­stances do these an­gels in­ter­fere with the free ac­tion of the hu­man will. Nei­ther an­gels nor any other or­der of uni­verse per­son­al­ity have power or au­thor­ity to cur­tail or abridge the pre­rog­a­tives of hu­man choos­ing.

113:5.2An­gels are so near you and care so feel­ingly for you that they fig­u­ra­tively “weep be­cause of your will­ful in­tol­er­ance and stub­born­ness.” Ser­a­phim do not shed phys­i­cal tears; they do not have phys­i­cal bod­ies; nei­ther do they pos­sess wings. But they do have spir­i­tual emo­tions, and they do ex­pe­ri­ence feel­ings and sen­ti­ments of a spir­i­tual na­ture which are in cer­tain ways com­pa­ra­ble to hu­man emo­tions.

113:5.3The ser­a­phim act in your be­half quite in­de­pen­dent of your di­rect ap­peals; they are ex­e­cut­ing the man­dates of their su­pe­ri­ors, and thus they func­tion re­gard­less of your pass­ing whims or chang­ing moods. This does not im­ply that you may not make their tasks ei­ther eas­ier or more dif­fi­cult, but rather that an­gels are not di­rectly con­cerned with your ap­peals or with your prayers.

113:5.4In the life of the flesh the in­tel­li­gence of an­gels is not di­rectly avail­able to mor­tal men. They are not over­lords or di­rec­tors; they are sim­ply guard­i­ans. The ser­a­phim guard you; they do not seek di­rectly to in­flu­ence you; you must chart your own course, but these an­gels then act to make the best pos­si­ble use of the course you have cho­sen. They do not (or­di­nar­ily) ar­bi­trar­ily in­ter­vene in the rou­tine af­fairs of hu­man life. But when they re­ceive in­struc­tions from their su­pe­ri­ors to per­form some un­usual ex­ploit, you may rest as­sured that these guard­i­ans will find some means of car­ry­ing out these man­dates. They do not, there­fore, in­trude into the pic­ture of hu­man drama ex­cept in emer­gen­cies and then usu­ally on the di­rect or­ders of their su­pe­ri­ors. They are the be­ings who are go­ing to fol­low you for many an age, and they are thus re­ceiv­ing an in­tro­duc­tion to their fu­ture work and per­son­al­ity as­so­ci­a­tion.

113:5.5Ser­a­phim are able to func­tion as ma­te­rial min­is­ters to hu­man be­ings un­der cer­tain cir­cum­stances, but their ac­tion in this ca­pac­ity is very rare. They are able, with the as­sis­tance of the mid­way crea­tures and the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, to func­tion in a wide range of ac­tiv­i­ties in be­half of hu­man be­ings, even to make ac­tual con­tact with man­kind, but such oc­cur­rences are very un­usual. In most in­stances the cir­cum­stances of the ma­te­rial realm pro­ceed un­al­tered by se­raphic ac­tion, al­though oc­ca­sions have arisen, in­volv­ing jeop­ardy to vi­tal links in the chain of hu­man evo­lu­tion, in which se­raphic guard­i­ans have acted, and prop­erly, on their own ini­tia­tive.