Ministry of the Primary Supernaphim

27:0.1Pri­mary super­na­phim are the su­per­nal ser­vants of the De­i­ties on the eter­nal Isle of Par­a­dise. Never have they been known to de­part from the paths of light and righ­teous­ness. The roll calls are com­plete; from eter­nity not one of this mag­nif­i­cent host has been lost. These high super­na­phim are per­fect be­ings, su­preme in per­fec­tion, but they are not ab­so­nite, nei­ther are they ab­so­lute. Be­ing of the essence of per­fec­tion, these chil­dren of the In­fi­nite Spirit work in­ter­change­ably and at will in all phases of their man­i­fold du­ties. They do not func­tion ex­ten­sively out­side Par­a­dise, though they do par­tic­i­pate in the var­i­ous mil­len­nial gath­er­ings and group re­unions of the cen­tral uni­verse. They also go forth as spe­cial mes­sen­gers of the De­i­ties, and in large num­bers they as­cend to be­come Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers.

27:0.2Pri­mary super­na­phim are also placed in com­mand of the se­raphic hosts min­is­ter­ing on worlds iso­lated be­cause of re­bel­lion. When a Par­a­dise Son is be­stowed upon such a world, com­pletes his mis­sion, as­cends to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, is ac­cepted, and re­turns as the ac­cred­ited de­liv­erer of this iso­lated world, a pri­mary super­na­phim is al­ways des­ig­nated by the chiefs of as­sign­ment to as­sume com­mand of the min­is­ter­ing spir­its on duty in the newly re­claimed sphere. Super­na­phim in this spe­cial ser­vice are pe­ri­od­i­cally ro­tated. On Uran­tia the pres­ent “chief of ser­a­phim” is the sec­ond of this or­der to be on duty since the times of the be­stowal of Christ Mi­chael.

27:0.3From eter­nity the pri­mary super­na­phim have served on the Isle of Light and have gone forth on mis­sions of lead­er­ship to the worlds of space, but they have func­tioned as now clas­si­fied only since the ar­rival on Par­a­dise of the Ha­vona pil­grims of time. These high an­gels now min­is­ter chiefly in the fol­low­ing seven or­ders of ser­vice:

27:0.41. Con­duc­tors of Wor­ship.

27:0.52. Mas­ters of Phi­los­o­phy.

27:0.63. Cus­to­di­ans of Knowl­edge.

27:0.74. Di­rec­tors of Con­duct.

27:0.85. In­ter­preters of Ethics.

27:0.96. Chiefs of As­sign­ment.

27:0.107. In­sti­ga­tors of Rest.

27:0.11Not un­til the as­cend­ing pil­grims ac­tu­ally at­tain Par­a­dise res­i­dence do they come un­der the di­rect in­flu­ence of these super­na­phim, and then they pass through a train­ing ex­pe­ri­ence un­der the di­rec­tion of these an­gels in the re­verse or­der of their nam­ing. That is, you en­ter upon your Par­a­dise ca­reer un­der the tute­lage of the in­sti­ga­tors of rest and, af­ter suc­ces­sive sea­sons with the in­ter­ven­ing or­ders, fin­ish this train­ing pe­riod with the con­duc­tors of wor­ship. There­upon are you ready to be­gin the end­less ca­reer of a fi­nal­i­ter.