The Messenger Hosts of Space

25:1.1Though de­nom­i­nated servi­tals, these “mid­way crea­tures” of the cen­tral uni­verse are not ser­vants in any me­nial sense of the word. In the spir­i­tual world there is no such thing as me­nial work; all ser­vice is sa­cred and ex­hil­a­rat­ing; nei­ther do the higher or­ders of be­ings look down upon the lower or­ders of ex­is­tence.

25:1.2The Ha­vona Servi­tals are the joint cre­ative work of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and their as­so­ciates, the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors. This cre­ative col­lab­o­ra­tion comes the near­est to be­ing the pat­tern for the long list of re­pro­duc­tions of the dual or­der in the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses, ex­tend­ing from the cre­ation of a Bright and Morn­ing Star by a Cre­ator Son-Cre­ative Spirit li­ai­son down to sex pro­cre­ation on worlds like Uran­tia.

25:1.3The num­ber of servi­tals is prodi­gious, and more are be­ing cre­ated all the time. They ap­pear in groups of one thou­sand on the third mo­ment fol­low­ing the as­sem­bly of the Mas­ter Spir­its and the Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors at their joint area in the far northerly sec­tor of Par­a­dise. Ev­ery fourth servi­tal is more phys­i­cal in type than the oth­ers; that is, out of each thou­sand, seven hun­dred and fifty are ap­par­ently true to spirit type, but two hun­dred and fifty are semi­phys­i­cal in na­ture. These fourth crea­tures are some­what on the or­der of ma­te­rial be­ings (ma­te­rial in the Ha­vona sense), re­sem­bling the phys­i­cal power di­rec­tors more than the Mas­ter Spir­its.

25:1.4In per­son­al­ity re­la­tion­ships the spir­i­tual is dom­i­nant over the ma­te­rial, even though it does not now so ap­pear on Uran­tia; and in the pro­duc­tion of Ha­vona Servi­tals the law of spirit dom­i­nance pre­vails; the es­tab­lished ra­tio yields three spir­i­tual be­ings to one semi­phys­i­cal.

25:1.5The newly cre­ated servi­tals, to­gether with newly ap­pear­ing Grad­u­ate Guides, all pass through the courses of train­ing which the se­nior guides con­tin­u­ously con­duct on each of the seven Ha­vona cir­cuits. Servi­tals are then as­signed to the ac­tiv­i­ties for which they are best adapted, and since they are of two types—spir­i­tual and semi­phys­i­cal—there are few lim­its to the range of work these ver­sa­tile be­ings can do. The higher or spirit groups are as­signed se­lec­tively to the ser­vices of the Fa­ther, the Son, and the Spirit, and to the work of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. In large num­bers they are dis­patched, from time to time, to serve on the study worlds en­cir­cling the head­quar­ters spheres of the seven super­uni­verses, the worlds de­voted to the fi­nal train­ing and spir­i­tual cul­ture of the as­cend­ing souls of time who are prepar­ing for ad­vance­ment to the cir­cuits of Ha­vona. Both spirit servi­tals and their more phys­i­cal fel­lows are also des­ig­nated as­sis­tants and as­so­ciates of the Grad­u­ate Guides in help­ing and in­struct­ing the var­i­ous or­ders of as­cend­ing crea­tures who have at­tained Ha­vona, and who seek to at­tain Par­a­dise.

25:1.6The Ha­vona Servi­tals and the Grad­u­ate Guides man­i­fest a tran­scen­dent de­vo­tion to their work and a touch­ing af­fec­tion for one an­other, an af­fec­tion which, while spir­i­tual, you could only un­der­stand by com­par­i­son with the phe­nom­e­non of hu­man love. There is di­vine pathos in the sep­a­ra­tion of the servi­tals from the guides, as so of­ten oc­curs when the servi­tals are dis­patched on mis­sions be­yond the lim­its of the cen­tral uni­verse; but they go with joy and not with sor­row. The sat­is­fy­ing joy of high duty is the eclips­ing emo­tion of spir­i­tual be­ings. Sor­row can­not ex­ist in the face of the con­scious­ness of di­vine duty faith­fully per­formed. And when man’s as­cend­ing soul stands be­fore the Su­preme Judge, the de­ci­sion of eter­nal im­port will not be de­ter­mined by ma­te­rial suc­cesses or quan­ti­ta­tive achieve­ments; the ver­dict re­ver­ber­at­ing through the high courts de­clares: “Well done, good and faith­ful ser­vant; you have been faith­ful over a few es­sen­tials; you shall be made ruler over uni­verse re­al­i­ties.”

25:1.7On super­uni­verse ser­vice the Ha­vona Servi­tals are al­ways as­signed to that do­main pre­sided over by the Mas­ter Spirit whom they most re­sem­ble in gen­eral and spe­cial spirit pre­rog­a­tives. They serve only on the ed­u­ca­tional worlds sur­round­ing the cap­i­tals of the seven super­uni­verses, and the last re­port of Uversa in­di­cates that al­most 138 bil­lion servi­tals were min­is­ter­ing on its 490 satel­lites. They en­gage in an end­less va­ri­ety of ac­tiv­i­ties in con­nec­tion with the work of these ed­u­ca­tional worlds com­pris­ing the super­uni­ver­si­ties of the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton. Here they are your com­pan­ions; they have come down from your next ca­reer to study you and to in­spire you with the re­al­ity and cer­tainty of your even­tual grad­u­a­tion from the uni­verses of time to the realms of eter­nity. And in these con­tacts the servi­tals gain that pre­lim­i­nary ex­pe­ri­ence of min­is­ter­ing to the as­cend­ing crea­tures of time which is so help­ful in their sub­se­quent work on the Ha­vona cir­cuits as as­so­ciates of the Grad­u­ate Guides or—as trans­lated servi­tals—as Grad­u­ate Guides them­selves.