Ministering Spirits of the Superuniverses

28:4.1The pri­mary se­con­a­phim, of as­sign­ment to the An­cients of Days, are liv­ing mir­rors in the ser­vice of these tri­une rulers. Think what it means in the econ­omy of a super­uni­verse to be able to turn, as it were, to a liv­ing mir­ror and therein to see and there­with to hear the cer­tain re­sponses of an­other be­ing a thou­sand or a hun­dred thou­sand light-years dis­tant and to do all this in­stantly and unerringly. Rec­ords are es­sen­tial to the con­duct of the uni­verses, broad­casts are ser­vice­able, the work of the Soli­tary and other mes­sen­gers is very help­ful, but the An­cients of Days from their po­si­tion mid­way be­tween the in­hab­ited worlds and Par­a­dise—be­tween man and God—can in­stantly look both ways, hear both ways, and know both ways.

28:4.2This abil­ity—to hear and see, as it were, all things—can be per­fectly re­al­ized in the super­uni­verses only by the An­cients of Days and only on their re­spec­tive head­quar­ters worlds. Even there lim­its are en­coun­tered: From Uversa, such com­mu­ni­ca­tion is lim­ited to the worlds and uni­verses of Or­von­ton, and while in­op­er­a­tive be­tween the super­uni­verses, this same re­flec­tive tech­nique keeps each one of them in close touch with the cen­tral uni­verse and with Par­a­dise. The seven super­gov­ern­ments, though in­di­vid­u­ally seg­re­gated, are thus per­fectly re­flec­tive of the au­thor­ity above and are wholly sym­pa­thetic, as well as per­fectly con­ver­sant, with the needs be­low.

28:4.3The pri­mary se­con­a­phim are found to in­cline by in­her­ent na­ture to­wards seven types of ser­vice, and it is be­fit­ting that the first se­ri­als of this or­der should be so en­dowed as in­her­ently to in­ter­pret the mind of the Spirit to the An­cients of Days:

28:4.41. The Voice of the Con­joint Ac­tor. In each super­uni­verse the first pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth one of that or­der sub­se­quently cre­ated ex­hibit a high or­der of adapt­abil­ity for un­der­stand­ing and in­ter­pret­ing the mind of the In­fi­nite Spirit to the An­cients of Days and their as­so­ciates in the super­gov­ern­ments. This is of great value on the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verses, for, un­like the lo­cal cre­ations with their Di­vine Min­is­ters, the seat of a super­gov­ern­ment does not have a spe­cial­ized per­son­al­iza­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Hence these sec­o­raphic voices come the near­est to be­ing the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Third Source and Cen­ter on such a cap­i­tal sphere. True, the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its are there, but these moth­ers of the sec­o­raphic hosts are less truly and au­to­mat­i­cally re­flec­tive of the Con­joint Ac­tor than of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

28:4.52. The Voice of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. The sec­ond pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth one there­after cre­ated in­cline to­wards por­tray­ing the col­lec­tive na­tures and re­ac­tions of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. Though each Mas­ter Spirit is al­ready rep­re­sented on a super­uni­verse cap­i­tal by some one of the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its of as­sign­ment, such rep­re­sen­ta­tion is in­di­vid­ual, not col­lec­tive. Col­lec­tively, they are only re­flec­tively pres­ent; there­fore do the Mas­ter Spir­its wel­come the ser­vices of these highly per­sonal an­gels, the sec­ond se­ri­als of the pri­mary se­con­a­phim, who are so com­pe­tent to rep­re­sent them be­fore the An­cients of Days.

28:4.63. The Voice of the Cre­ator Sons. The In­fi­nite Spirit must have had some­thing to do with the cre­ation or train­ing of the Par­a­dise Sons of the or­der of Mi­chael, for the third pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth se­rial there­after pos­sess the re­mark­able gift of be­ing re­flec­tive of the minds of these Cre­ator Sons. If the An­cients of Days would like to know—re­ally know—the at­ti­tude of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don re­gard­ing some mat­ter un­der con­sid­er­a­tion, they do not have to call him on the lines of space; they need only call for the Chief of Neb­a­don Voices, who, upon re­quest, will pre­sent the Mi­chael se­con­a­phim of rec­ord; and right then and there the An­cients of Days will per­ceive the voice of the Mas­ter Son of Neb­a­don.

28:4.7No other or­der of son­ship is thus “re­flectible,” and no other or­der of an­gel can thus func­tion. We do not fully un­der­stand just how this is ac­com­plished, and I doubt very much that the Cre­ator Sons them­selves fully un­der­stand it. But of a cer­tainty we know it works, and that it un­fail­ingly works ac­cept­ably we also know, for in all the his­tory of Uversa the sec­o­raphic voices have never erred in their pre­sen­ta­tions.

28:4.8You are here be­gin­ning to see some­thing of the man­ner in which di­vin­ity en­com­passes the space of time and mas­ters the time of space. You are here ob­tain­ing one of your first fleet­ing glimpses of the tech­nique of the eter­nity cy­cle, di­ver­gent for the mo­ment to as­sist the chil­dren of time in their tasks of mas­ter­ing the dif­fi­cult hand­i­caps of space. And these phe­nom­ena are ad­di­tional to the es­tab­lished uni­verse tech­nique of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its.

28:4.9Though ap­par­ently de­prived of the per­sonal pres­ence of the Mas­ter Spir­its above and of the Cre­ator Sons be­low, the An­cients of Days have at their com­mand liv­ing be­ings at­tuned to cos­mic mech­a­nisms of re­flec­tive per­fec­tion and ul­ti­mate pre­ci­sion whereby they may en­joy the re­flec­tive pres­ence of all those ex­alted be­ings whose per­sonal pres­ence is de­nied them. By and through these means, and oth­ers un­known to you, God is po­ten­tially pres­ent on the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verses.

28:4.10The An­cients of Days per­fectly de­duce the Fa­ther’s will by equat­ing the Spirit voice-flash from above and the Mi­chael voice-flashes from be­low. Thus may they be unerringly cer­tain in cal­cu­lat­ing the Fa­ther’s will con­cern­ing the ad­min­is­tra­tive af­fairs of the lo­cal uni­verses. But to de­duce the will of one of the Gods from a knowl­edge of the other two, the three An­cients of Days must act to­gether; two would not be able to achieve the an­swer. And for this rea­son, even were there no oth­ers, the super­uni­verses are al­ways pre­sided over by three An­cients of Days, and not by one or even two.

28:4.114. The Voice of the An­gelic Hosts. The fourth pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth se­rial prove to be an­gels pe­cu­liarly re­spon­sive to the sen­ti­ments of all or­ders of an­gels, in­clud­ing the super­na­phim above and the ser­a­phim be­low. Thus the at­ti­tude of any com­mand­ing or super­vis­ing an­gel is im­me­di­ately avail­able for con­sid­er­a­tion at any coun­cil of the An­cients of Days. Never a day passes on your world that the chief of ser­a­phim on Uran­tia is not made con­scious of the phe­nom­e­non of re­flec­tive trans­fer­ence, of be­ing drawn upon from Uversa for some pur­pose; but un­less fore­warned by a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger, she re­mains wholly ig­no­rant of what is sought and of how it is se­cured. These min­is­ter­ing spir­its of time are con­stantly fur­nish­ing this sort of un­con­scious and cer­tainly, there­fore, un­prej­u­diced tes­ti­mony con­cern­ing the end­less ar­ray of mat­ters en­gag­ing the at­ten­tion and coun­sel of the An­cients of Days and their as­so­ciates.

28:4.125. Broad­cast Re­ceivers. There is a spe­cial class of broad­cast mes­sages which are re­ceived only by these pri­mary se­con­a­phim. While they are not the reg­u­lar broad­cast­ers of Uversa, they work in li­ai­son with the an­gels of the re­flec­tive voices for the pur­pose of syn­chro­niz­ing the re­flec­tive vi­sion of the An­cients of Days with cer­tain ac­tual mes­sages com­ing in over the es­tab­lished cir­cuits of uni­verse com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Broad­cast re­ceivers are the fifth se­ri­als, the fifth pri­mary se­con­a­phim to be cre­ated and ev­ery sev­enth one there­after.

28:4.136. Trans­port Per­son­al­i­ties. These are the se­con­a­phim who carry the pil­grims of time from the head­quar­ters worlds of the super­uni­verses to the outer cir­cle of Ha­vona. They are the trans­port corps of the super­uni­verses, op­er­at­ing in­ward to Par­a­dise and out­ward to the worlds of their re­spec­tive sec­tors. This corps is com­posed of the sixth pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth one sub­se­quently cre­ated.

28:4.147. The Re­serve Corps. A very large group of se­con­a­phim, the sev­enth pri­mary se­ri­als, are held in re­serve for the un­clas­si­fied du­ties and the emer­gency as­sign­ments of the realms. Not be­ing highly spe­cial­ized, they can func­tion fairly well in any of the ca­pac­i­ties of their di­verse as­so­ciates, but such spe­cial­ized work is un­der­taken only in emer­gen­cies. Their usual tasks are the per­for­mance of those gen­er­al­ized du­ties of a super­uni­verse which do not fall within the scope of the an­gels of spe­cific as­sign­ment.