Ministering Spirits of the Central Universe

26:4.1The sec­ondary super­na­phim are min­is­ters to the seven plan­e­tary cir­cuits of the cen­tral uni­verse. Part are de­voted to the ser­vice of the pil­grims of time, and one half of the en­tire or­der is as­signed to the train­ing of the Par­a­dise pil­grims of eter­nity. These Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens, in their pil­grim­age through the Ha­vona cir­cuits, are also at­tended by vol­un­teers from the Mor­tal Fi­nal­ity Corps, an ar­range­ment that has pre­vailed since the com­ple­tion of the first fi­nal­i­ter group.

26:4.2Ac­cord­ing to their pe­ri­odic as­sign­ment to the min­istry of the as­cend­ing pil­grims, sec­ondary super­na­phim work in the fol­low­ing seven groups:

26:4.31. Pil­grim Helpers.

26:4.42. Su­prem­acy Guides.

26:4.53. Trin­ity Guides.

26:4.64. Son Find­ers.

26:4.75. Fa­ther Guides.

26:4.86. Coun­selors and Ad­vis­ers.

26:4.97. Com­ple­ments of Rest.

26:4.10Each of these work­ing groups con­tains an­gels of all seven cre­ated types, and a pil­grim of space is al­ways tu­tored by sec­ondary super­na­phim of ori­gin in the Mas­ter Spirit who pre­sides over that pil­grim’s super­uni­verse of na­tiv­ity. When you mor­tals of Uran­tia at­tain Ha­vona, you will cer­tainly be pi­loted by super­na­phim whose cre­ated na­tures—like your own evolved na­tures—are de­rived from the Mas­ter Spirit of Or­von­ton. And since your tu­tors spring from the Mas­ter Spirit of your own super­uni­verse, they are es­pe­cially qual­i­fied to un­der­stand, com­fort, and as­sist you in all your ef­forts to at­tain Par­a­dise per­fec­tion.

26:4.11The pil­grims of time are trans­ported past the dark grav­ity bod­ies of Ha­vona to the outer plan­e­tary cir­cuit by the trans­port per­son­al­i­ties of the pri­mary or­der of se­con­a­phim, op­er­at­ing from the head­quar­ters of the seven super­uni­verses. A ma­jor­ity, but not all, of the ser­a­phim of plan­e­tary and lo­cal uni­verse ser­vice who have been ac­cred­ited for the Par­a­dise as­cent will part with their mor­tal as­so­ciates be­fore the long flight to Ha­vona and will at once be­gin a long and in­tense train­ing for su­per­nal as­sign­ment, ex­pect­ing to achieve, as ser­a­phim, per­fec­tion of ex­is­tence and su­prem­acy of ser­vice. And this they do, hop­ing to re­join the pil­grims of time, to be reck­oned among those who for­ever fol­low the course of such mor­tals as have at­tained the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and have re­ceived as­sign­ment to the undis­closed ser­vice of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

26:4.12The pil­grim lands on the re­ceiv­ing planet of Ha­vona, the pi­lot world of the sev­enth cir­cuit, with only one en­dow­ment of per­fec­tion, per­fec­tion of pur­pose. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has de­creed: “Be you per­fect, even as I am per­fect.” That is the as­tound­ing in­vi­ta­tion-com­mand broad­cast to the fi­nite chil­dren of the worlds of space. The pro­mul­ga­tion of that in­junc­tion has set all cre­ation astir in the co-op­er­a­tive ef­fort of the ce­les­tial be­ings to as­sist in bring­ing about the ful­fill­ment and re­al­iza­tion of that tremen­dous com­mand of the First Great Source and Cen­ter.

26:4.13When, through and by the min­istry of all the helper hosts of the uni­ver­sal scheme of sur­vival, you are fi­nally de­posited on the re­ceiv­ing world of Ha­vona, you ar­rive with only one sort of per­fec­tion—per­fec­tion of pur­pose. Your pur­pose has been thor­oughly proved; your faith has been tested. You are known to be dis­ap­point­ment proof. Not even the fail­ure to dis­cern the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther can shake the faith or se­ri­ously dis­turb the trust of an as­cen­dant mor­tal who has passed through the ex­pe­ri­ence that all must tra­verse in or­der to at­tain the per­fect spheres of Ha­vona. By the time you reach Ha­vona, your sin­cer­ity has be­come sub­lime. Per­fec­tion of pur­pose and di­vin­ity of de­sire, with stead­fast­ness of faith, have se­cured your en­trance to the set­tled abodes of eter­nity; your de­liv­er­ance from the un­cer­tain­ties of time is full and com­plete; and now must you come face to face with the prob­lems of Ha­vona and the im­men­si­ties of Par­a­dise, to meet which you have so long been in train­ing in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial epochs of time on the world schools of space.

26:4.14Faith has won for the as­cen­dant pil­grim a per­fec­tion of pur­pose which ad­mits the chil­dren of time to the por­tals of eter­nity. Now must the pil­grim helpers be­gin the work of de­vel­op­ing that per­fec­tion of un­der­stand­ing and that tech­nique of com­pre­hen­sion which are so in­dis­pens­able to Par­a­dise per­fec­tion of per­son­al­ity.

26:4.15Abil­ity to com­pre­hend is the mor­tal pass­port to Par­a­dise. Will­ing­ness to be­lieve is the key to Ha­vona. The ac­cep­tance of son­ship, co-op­er­a­tion with the in­dwelling Ad­juster, is the price of evo­lu­tion­ary sur­vival.