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Paper 28

Ministering Spirits of the Superuniverses

Mighty Messenger

1. The Tertiaphim

28:1.1These high an­gels are of rec­ord on the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters, and de­spite ser­vice in the lo­cal cre­ations, tech­ni­cally they are res­i­dents of these super­uni­verse cap­i­tals inas­much as they are not na­tive to the lo­cal uni­verses. Ter­tiaphim are chil­dren of the In­fi­nite Spirit and are per­son­al­ized on Par­a­dise in groups of one thou­sand. These su­per­nal be­ings of di­vine orig­i­nal­ity and near-su­preme ver­sa­til­ity are the gift of the In­fi­nite Spirit to the Cre­ator Sons of God.

28:1.2When a Mi­chael Son is de­tached from the pa­ren­tal regime of Par­a­dise and is made ready to go forth on the uni­verse ad­ven­ture of space, the In­fi­nite Spirit is de­liv­ered of a group of one thou­sand of these com­pan­ion spir­its. And these ma­jes­tic ter­tiaphim ac­com­pany this Cre­ator Son when he em­barks upon the ad­ven­ture of uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion.

28:1.3Through­out the early times of uni­verse build­ing, these one thou­sand ter­tiaphim are the only per­sonal staff of a Cre­ator Son. They ac­quire a mighty ex­pe­ri­ence as Son as­sis­tants dur­ing these stir­ring ages of uni­verse as­sem­bling and other as­tro­nom­i­cal ma­nip­u­la­tions. They serve by the side of the Cre­ator Son un­til the day of the per­son­al­iza­tion of the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the first-born of a lo­cal uni­verse. There­upon the for­mal res­ig­na­tions of the ter­tiaphim are ten­dered and ac­cepted. And with the ap­pear­ance of the ini­tial or­ders of na­tive an­gelic life, they re­tire from ac­tive ser­vice in the lo­cal uni­verse and be­come the li­ai­son min­is­ters be­tween the Cre­ator Son of for­mer at­tach­ment and the An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse con­cerned.