The Messenger Hosts of Space

25:8.1The Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions are a com­pos­ite or as­sem­bled group re­cruited from the ranks of the ser­a­phim, se­con­a­phim, super­na­phim, and om­niaphim. Though serv­ing for what you would re­gard as an ex­traor­di­nary length of time, they are not of per­ma­nent sta­tus. When this min­istry has been com­pleted, as a rule (but not in­vari­ably) they re­turn to those du­ties they per­formed when sum­moned to Par­a­dise ser­vice.

25:8.2Mem­bers of the an­gelic hosts are nom­i­nated for this ser­vice by the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spir­its, by the super­uni­verse Re­flec­tive Spir­its, and by Maj­es­ton of Par­a­dise. They are sum­moned to the cen­tral Isle and are com­mis­sioned as Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions by one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. Aside from per­ma­nent sta­tus on Par­a­dise, this tem­po­rary ser­vice of Par­a­dise com­pan­ion­ship is the high­est honor ever con­ferred upon the min­is­ter­ing spir­its.

25:8.3These se­lected an­gels are ded­i­cated to the ser­vice of com­pan­ion­ship and are as­signed as as­so­ciates to all classes of be­ings who may chance to be alone on Par­a­dise, chiefly to the as­cen­dant mor­tals but also to all oth­ers who are alone on the cen­tral Isle. Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions have noth­ing es­pe­cial to ac­com­plish in be­half of those with whom they frat­er­nize; they are sim­ply com­pan­ions. Al­most ev­ery other be­ing you mor­tals will en­counter dur­ing your Par­a­dise so­journ—aside from your fel­low pil­grims—will have some­thing def­i­nite to do with you or for you; but these com­pan­ions are as­signed only to be with you and to com­mune with you as per­son­al­ity as­so­ciates. They are of­ten as­sisted in their min­istry by the gra­cious and bril­liant Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens.

25:8.4Mor­tals come from races that are very so­cial. The Cre­ators well know that it is “not good for man to be alone,” and pro­vi­sion is ac­cord­ingly made for com­pan­ion­ship, even on Par­a­dise.

25:8.5If you, as an as­cen­dant mor­tal, should reach Par­a­dise in the com­pany of the com­pan­ion or close as­so­ciate of your earthly ca­reer, or if your se­raphic guard­ian of des­tiny should chance to ar­rive with you or were wait­ing for you, then no per­ma­nent com­pan­ion would be as­signed you. But if you ar­rive alone, a com­pan­ion will cer­tainly wel­come you as you awaken on the Isle of Light from the ter­mi­nal sleep of time. Even if it is known that you will be ac­com­pa­nied by some­one of as­cen­dant as­so­ci­a­tion, tem­po­rary com­pan­ions will be des­ig­nated to wel­come you to the eter­nal shores and to es­cort you to the reser­va­tion made ready for the re­cep­tion of you and your as­so­ciates. You may be cer­tain of be­ing warmly wel­comed when you ex­pe­ri­ence the res­ur­rec­tion into eter­nity on the ev­er­last­ing shores of Par­a­dise.

25:8.6Re­cep­tion com­pan­ions are as­signed dur­ing the ter­mi­nal days of the as­cend­ers’ so­journ on the last cir­cuit of Ha­vona, and they care­fully ex­am­ine the rec­ords of mor­tal ori­gin and event­ful as­cent through the worlds of space and the cir­cles of Ha­vona. When they greet the mor­tals of time, they are al­ready well versed in the ca­reers of these ar­riv­ing pil­grims and im­me­di­ately prove to be sym­pa­thetic and in­trigu­ing com­pan­ions.

25:8.7Dur­ing your pre­fi­naliter so­journ on Par­a­dise, if for any rea­son you should be tem­porar­ily sep­a­rated from your as­so­ciate of the as­cend­ing ca­reer—mor­tal or se­raphic—a Par­a­dise Com­pan­ion would be forth­with as­signed for coun­sel and com­pan­ion­ship. When once as­signed to an as­cen­dant mor­tal of soli­tary res­i­dence on Par­a­dise, the com­pan­ion re­mains with this per­son un­til he ei­ther is re­joined by his as­cen­dant as­so­ciates or is duly mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

25:8.8Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions are as­signed in or­der of wait­ing ex­cept that an as­cender is never placed in the charge of a com­pan­ion whose na­ture is un­like his super­uni­verse type. If a Uran­tia mor­tal were ar­riv­ing on Par­a­dise to­day, there would be as­signed to him the first wait­ing com­pan­ion ei­ther of ori­gin in Or­von­ton or oth­er­wise of the na­ture of the Sev­enth Mas­ter Spirit. Hence the om­niaphim serve not with the as­cen­dant crea­tures from the seven super­uni­verses.

25:8.9Many ad­di­tional ser­vices are per­formed by the Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions: If an as­cend­ing mor­tal should reach the cen­tral uni­verse alone and, while travers­ing Ha­vona, should fail in some phase of the De­ity ad­ven­ture, in due course he would be re­manded to the uni­verses of time, and forth­with a call would be made to the re­serves of the Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions. One of this or­der would be as­signed to fol­low the de­feated pil­grim, to be with him and to com­fort and cheer him, and to re­main with him un­til he re­turned to the cen­tral uni­verse to re­sume the Par­a­dise as­cent.

25:8.10If an as­cend­ing pil­grim met de­feat in the De­ity ad­ven­ture while travers­ing Ha­vona in the com­pany of an as­cend­ing ser­a­phim, the guard­ian an­gel of the mor­tal ca­reer, she would elect to ac­com­pany her mor­tal as­so­ciate. These ser­a­phim al­ways vol­un­teer and are per­mit­ted to ac­com­pany their long-time mor­tal com­rades back to the ser­vice of time and space.

25:8.11But not so with two closely as­so­ci­ated mor­tal as­cend­ers: If one at­tains God while the other tem­porar­ily fails, the suc­cess­ful in­di­vid­ual in­vari­ably chooses to go back to the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ations with the dis­ap­pointed per­son­al­ity, but this is not per­mit­ted. In­stead, a call is made to the re­serves of the Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions, and one of the vol­un­teers is se­lected to ac­com­pany the dis­ap­pointed pil­grim. A vol­un­teer Par­a­dise Cit­i­zen then be­comes as­so­ci­ated with the suc­cess­ful mor­tal, who tar­ries on the cen­tral Isle await­ing the Ha­vona re­turn of the de­feated com­rade and in the mean­time teaches in cer­tain Par­a­dise schools, pre­sent­ing the ad­ven­tur­ous story of the evo­lu­tion­ary as­cent.

25:8.12[Spon­sored by One High in Au­thor­ity from Uversa.]