Ministering Spirits of the Central Universe

26:5.1The first of the seven groups of sec­ondary super­na­phim to be en­coun­tered are the pil­grim helpers, those be­ings of quick un­der­stand­ing and broad sym­pa­thy who wel­come the much-trav­eled as­cend­ers of space to the sta­bi­lized worlds and set­tled econ­omy of the cen­tral uni­verse. Si­mul­ta­ne­ously these high min­is­ters be­gin their work for the Par­a­dise pil­grims of eter­nity, the first of whom ar­rived on the pi­lot world of the in­ner Ha­vona cir­cuit con­comi­tantly with the land­ing of Grand­fanda on the pi­lot world of the outer cir­cuit. Back in those far-dis­tant days the pil­grims from Par­a­dise and the pil­grims of time first met on the re­ceiv­ing world of cir­cuit num­ber four.

26:5.2These pil­grim helpers, func­tion­ing on the sev­enth cir­cle of Ha­vona worlds, con­duct their work for the as­cend­ing mor­tals in three ma­jor di­vi­sions: first, the su­preme un­der­stand­ing of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity; sec­ond, the spir­i­tual com­pre­hen­sion of the Fa­ther-Son part­ner­ship; and third, the in­tel­lec­tual rec­og­ni­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Each of these phases of in­struc­tion is di­vided into seven branches of twelve mi­nor di­vi­sions of sev­enty sub­sidiary groups; and each of these sev­enty sub­sidiary group­ings of in­struc­tion is pre­sented in one thou­sand clas­si­fi­ca­tions. More de­tailed in­struc­tion is pro­vided on sub­se­quent cir­cles, but an out­line of ev­ery Par­a­dise re­quire­ment is taught by the pil­grim helpers.

26:5.3That, then, is the pri­mary or el­e­men­tary course which con­fronts the faith-tested and much-trav­eled pil­grims of space. But long be­fore reach­ing Ha­vona, these as­cen­dant chil­dren of time have learned to feast upon un­cer­tainty, to fat­ten upon dis­ap­point­ment, to en­thuse over ap­par­ent de­feat, to in­vig­o­rate in the pres­ence of dif­fi­cul­ties, to ex­hibit in­domitable cour­age in the face of im­men­sity, and to ex­er­cise un­con­quer­able faith when con­fronted with the chal­lenge of the in­ex­pli­ca­ble. Long since, the bat­tle cry of these pil­grims be­came: “In li­ai­son with God, noth­ing—ab­so­lutely noth­ing—is im­pos­si­ble.”

26:5.4There is a def­i­nite re­quire­ment of the pil­grims of time on each of the Ha­vona cir­cles; and while ev­ery pil­grim con­tin­ues un­der the tute­lage of super­na­phim by na­ture adapted to help­ing that par­tic­u­lar type of as­cen­dant crea­ture, the course that must be mas­tered is fairly uni­form for all as­cend­ers who reach the cen­tral uni­verse. This course of achieve­ment is quan­ti­ta­tive, qual­i­ta­tive, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial—in­tel­lec­tual, spir­i­tual, and su­preme.

26:5.5Time is of lit­tle con­se­quence on the Ha­vona cir­cles. In a lim­ited man­ner it en­ters into the pos­si­bil­i­ties of ad­vance­ment, but achieve­ment is the fi­nal and su­preme test. The very mo­ment your super­aphic as­so­ciate deems you to be com­pe­tent to pass in­ward to the next cir­cle, you will be taken be­fore the twelve ad­ju­tants of the sev­enth Cir­cuit Spirit. Here you will be re­quired to pass the tests of the cir­cle de­ter­mined by the super­uni­verse of your ori­gin and by the sys­tem of your na­tiv­ity. The di­vin­ity at­tain­ment of this cir­cle takes place on the pi­lot world and con­sists in the spir­i­tual rec­og­ni­tion and re­al­iza­tion of the Mas­ter Spirit of the as­cend­ing pil­grim’s super­uni­verse.

26:5.6When the work of the outer Ha­vona cir­cle is fin­ished and the course pre­sented is mas­tered, the pil­grim helpers take their sub­jects to the pi­lot world of the next cir­cle and com­mit them to the care of the su­prem­acy guides. The pil­grim helpers al­ways tarry for a sea­son to as­sist in mak­ing the trans­fer both pleas­ant and prof­itable.