Ministry of the Primary Supernaphim

27:2.1This is the group des­ig­nated from time to time by the chief super­na­phim, “the orig­i­nal pat­tern an­gel,” to pre­side over the or­ga­ni­za­tion of all three or­ders of these an­gels—pri­mary, sec­ondary, and ter­tiary. The super­na­phim, as a body, are wholly self-gov­ern­ing and self-reg­u­la­tory ex­cept for the func­tions of their mu­tual chief, the first an­gel of Par­a­dise, who ever pre­sides over all these spirit per­son­al­i­ties.

27:2.2The an­gels of as­sign­ment have much to do with glo­ri­fied mor­tal res­i­dents of Par­a­dise be­fore they are ad­mit­ted to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Study and in­struc­tion are not the ex­clu­sive oc­cu­pa­tions of Par­a­dise ar­rivals; ser­vice also plays its es­sen­tial part in the pre­fi­naliter ed­u­ca­tional ex­pe­ri­ences of Par­a­dise. And I have ob­served that, when the as­cen­dant mor­tals have pe­ri­ods of leisure, they evince a predilec­tion to frat­er­nize with the re­serve corps of the super­aphic chiefs of as­sign­ment.

27:2.3When you mor­tal as­cend­ers at­tain Par­a­dise, your so­ci­etal re­la­tion­ships in­volve a great deal more than con­tact with a host of ex­alted and di­vine be­ings and with a fa­mil­iar mul­ti­tude of glo­ri­fied fel­low mor­tals. You must also frat­er­nize with up­wards of three thou­sand dif­fer­ent or­ders of Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens, with the var­i­ous groups of the Tran­scen­den­talers, and with nu­mer­ous other types of Par­a­dise in­hab­i­tants, per­ma­nent and tran­sient, who have not been re­vealed on Uran­tia. Af­ter sus­tained con­tact with these mighty in­tel­lects of Par­a­dise, it is very rest­ful to visit with the an­gelic types of mind; they re­mind the mor­tals of time of the ser­a­phim with whom they have had such long con­tact and such re­fresh­ing as­so­ci­a­tion.