Ministering Spirits of the Superuniverses

28:7.1The se­con­a­phim have their ori­gin and head­quar­ters on the cap­i­tals of the super­uni­verses, but with their li­ai­son fel­lows they range from the shores of Par­a­dise to the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space. They serve as val­ued as­sis­tants to the mem­bers of the de­lib­er­a­tive as­sem­blies of the super­gov­ern­ments and are of great help to the cour­tesy colonies of Uversa: the star stu­dents, mil­len­nial tourists, ce­les­tial ob­servers, and a host of oth­ers, in­clud­ing the as­cen­dant be­ings in wait­ing for Ha­vona trans­port. The An­cients of Days take plea­sure in as­sign­ing cer­tain of the pri­mary se­con­a­phim to as­sist the as­cend­ing crea­tures domi­ciled on the four hun­dred ninety study worlds sur­round­ing Uversa, and here also do many of the sec­ondary and ter­tiary or­ders serve as teach­ers. These Uversa satel­lites are the fin­ish­ing schools of the uni­verses of time, pre­sent­ing the prepara­tory course for the seven-cir­cuited uni­ver­sity of Ha­vona.

28:7.2Of the three or­ders of se­con­a­phim, the ter­tiary group, at­tached to the as­cen­dant au­thor­i­ties, min­is­ter most ex­ten­sively to the as­cend­ing crea­tures of time. You will on oc­ca­sion meet them soon af­ter your de­par­ture from Uran­tia, though you will not freely make use of their ser­vices un­til you reach the tar­ry­ing worlds of Or­von­ton. You will en­joy their com­pan­ion­ship when you be­come fully ac­quainted with them dur­ing your so­journ on the Uversa school worlds.

28:7.3These ter­tiary se­con­a­phim are the time­savers, space abridgers, er­ror de­tec­tors, faith­ful teach­ers, and ev­er­last­ing guide­posts—liv­ing signs of di­vine surety—in mercy placed at the cross­roads of time, there to guide the feet of anx­ious pil­grims in mo­ments of great per­plex­ity and spir­i­tual un­cer­tainty. Long be­fore at­tain­ing the por­tals of per­fec­tion, you will be­gin to gain ac­cess to the tools of di­vin­ity and to make con­tact with the tech­niques of De­ity. In­creas­ingly, from the time you ar­rive on the ini­tial man­sion world un­til you close your eyes in the Ha­vona sleep prepara­tory to your Par­a­dise tran­sit, you will avail your­self of the emer­gency help of these mar­velous be­ings, who are so fully and freely re­flec­tive of the sure knowl­edge and cer­tain wis­dom of those safe and de­pend­able pil­grims who have pre­ceded you on the long jour­ney to the por­tals of per­fec­tion.

28:7.4We are de­nied the full priv­i­lege of us­ing these an­gels of the re­flec­tive or­der on Uran­tia. They are fre­quent vis­i­tors on your world, ac­com­pa­ny­ing as­signed per­son­al­i­ties, but here they can­not freely func­tion. This sphere is still un­der par­tial spir­i­tual quar­an­tine, and some of the cir­cuits es­sen­tial to their ser­vices are not here at pres­ent. When your world is once more re­stored to the re­flec­tive cir­cuits con­cerned, much of the work of in­ter­plan­e­tary and in­teruni­verse com­mu­ni­ca­tion will be greatly sim­pli­fied and ex­pe­dited. Ce­les­tial work­ers on Uran­tia en­counter many dif­fi­cul­ties be­cause of this func­tional cur­tail­ment of their re­flec­tive as­so­ciates. But we go on joy­fully con­duct­ing our af­fairs with the in­stru­men­tal­i­ties at hand, not­with­stand­ing our lo­cal de­pri­va­tion of many of the ser­vices of these mar­velous be­ings, the liv­ing mir­rors of space and the pres­ence pro­jec­tors of time.

28:7.5[Spon­sored by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger of Uversa.]