Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit

24:6.1The Grad­u­ate Guides, as a group, spon­sor and con­duct the high uni­ver­sity of tech­ni­cal in­struc­tion and spir­i­tual train­ing which is so es­sen­tial to mor­tal at­tain­ment of the goal of the ages: God, rest, and then eter­nity of per­fected ser­vice. These highly per­sonal be­ings take their name from the na­ture and pur­pose of their work. They are ex­clu­sively de­voted to the tasks of guid­ing the mor­tal grad­u­ates from the super­uni­verses of time through the Ha­vona course of in­struc­tion and train­ing which serves to pre­pare the as­cend­ing pil­grims for ad­mis­sion to Par­a­dise and the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

24:6.2I am not for­bid­den to un­der­take to tell you of the work of these Grad­u­ate Guides, but it is so ul­tra­spir­i­tual that I de­spair of be­ing able to ad­e­quately por­tray to the ma­te­rial mind a con­cept of their man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties. On the man­sion worlds, af­ter your vi­sion range is ex­tended and you are freed from the fet­ters of ma­te­rial com­par­isons, you can be­gin to com­pre­hend the mean­ing of those re­al­i­ties which “eye can­not see nor ear hear, and which have never en­tered the con­cept of hu­man minds,” even those things which “God has pre­pared for those who love such eter­nal ver­i­ties.” You are not al­ways to be so lim­ited in the range of your vi­sion and spir­i­tual com­pre­hen­sion.

24:6.3The Grad­u­ate Guides are en­gaged in pi­lot­ing the pil­grims of time through the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona worlds. The guide who greets you upon your ar­rival on the re­ceiv­ing world of the outer Ha­vona cir­cuit will re­main with you through­out your en­tire ca­reer on the heav­enly cir­cuits. Though you will as­so­ciate with count­less other per­son­al­i­ties dur­ing your so­journ on a bil­lion worlds, your Grad­u­ate Guide will fol­low you to the end of your Ha­vona pro­gres­sion and will wit­ness your en­trance into the ter­mi­nal slum­ber of time, the sleep of eter­nity tran­sit to the Par­a­dise goal, where, upon awak­en­ing, you will be greeted by the Par­a­dise Com­pan­ion as­signed to wel­come you and per­haps to re­main with you un­til you are ini­ti­ated as a mem­ber of the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

24:6.4The num­ber of Grad­u­ate Guides is be­yond the power of hu­man minds to grasp, and they con­tinue to ap­pear. Their ori­gin is some­thing of a mys­tery. They have not ex­isted from eter­nity; they mys­te­ri­ously ap­pear as they are needed. There is no rec­ord of a Grad­u­ate Guide in all the realms of the cen­tral uni­verse un­til that far-dis­tant day when the first mor­tal pil­grim of all time made his way to the outer belt of the cen­tral cre­ation. The in­stant he ar­rived on the pi­lot world of the outer cir­cuit, he was met with friendly greet­ings by Malvo­rian, the first of the Grad­u­ate Guides and now the chief of their su­preme coun­cil and the di­rec­tor of their vast ed­u­ca­tional or­ga­ni­za­tion.

24:6.5On the Par­a­dise rec­ords of Ha­vona, in the sec­tion de­nom­i­nated “Grad­u­ate Guides,” there ap­pears this ini­tial en­try:

24:6.6“And Malvo­rian, the first of this or­der, did greet and in­struct the pil­grim dis­cov­erer of Ha­vona and did con­duct him from the outer cir­cuits of ini­tial ex­pe­ri­ence, step by step and cir­cuit by cir­cuit, un­til he stood in the very pres­ence of the Source and Des­tiny of all per­son­al­ity, sub­se­quently cross­ing the thresh­old of eter­nity to Par­a­dise.”

24:6.7At that far-dis­tant time I was at­tached to the ser­vice of the An­cients of Days on Uversa, and we all re­joiced in the as­sur­ance that, even­tu­ally, pil­grims from our super­uni­verse would reach Ha­vona. For ages we had been taught that the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures of space would at­tain Par­a­dise, and the thrill of all time swept through the heav­enly courts when the first pil­grim ac­tu­ally ar­rived.

24:6.8The name of this pil­grim dis­cov­erer of Ha­vona is Grand­fanda, and he hailed from planet 341 of sys­tem 84 in con­stel­la­tion 62 of lo­cal uni­verse 1,131 sit­u­ated in super­uni­verse num­ber one. His ar­rival was the sig­nal for the es­tab­lish­ment of the broad­cast ser­vice of the uni­verse of uni­verses. Thereto­fore only the broad­casts of the super­uni­verses and the lo­cal uni­verses had been in op­er­a­tion, but the an­nounce­ment of the ar­rival of Grand­fanda at the por­tals of Ha­vona sig­nal­ized the in­au­gu­ra­tion of the “space re­ports of glory,” so named be­cause the ini­tial uni­verse broad­cast re­ported the Ha­vona ar­rival of the first of the evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings to at­tain en­trance upon the goal of as­cen­dant ex­is­tence.

24:6.9Grad­u­ate Guides never leave the Ha­vona worlds; they are ded­i­cated to the ser­vice of the grad­u­ate pil­grims of time and space. And you will some­time meet these no­ble be­ings face to face if you do not re­ject the cer­tain and all-per­fected plan de­signed to ef­fect your sur­vival and as­cen­sion.