The Life Carriers

36:1.1Though the Life Car­ri­ers be­long to the fam­ily of di­vine son­ship, they are a pe­cu­liar and dis­tinct type of uni­verse Sons, be­ing the only group of in­tel­li­gent life in a lo­cal uni­verse in whose cre­ation the rulers of a super­uni­verse par­tic­i­pate. The Life Car­ri­ers are the off­spring of three pre-ex­is­tent per­son­al­i­ties: the Cre­ator Son, the Uni­verse Mother Spirit, and, by des­ig­na­tion, one of the three An­cients of Days pre­sid­ing over the des­tinies of the super­uni­verse con­cerned. These An­cients of Days, who alone can de­cree the ex­tinc­tion of in­tel­li­gent life, par­tic­i­pate in the cre­ation of the Life Car­ri­ers, who are in­trusted with es­tab­lish­ing phys­i­cal life on the evolv­ing worlds.

36:1.2In the uni­verse of Neb­a­don we have on rec­ord the cre­ation of one hun­dred mil­lion Life Car­ri­ers. This ef­fi­cient corps of life dis­sem­i­na­tors is not a truly self-gov­ern­ing group. They are di­rected by the life-de­ter­min­ing trio, con­sist­ing of Ga­briel, the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek, and Nam­bia, the orig­i­nal and first-born Life Car­rier of Neb­a­don. But in all phases of their di­vi­sional ad­min­is­tra­tion they are self-gov­ern­ing.

36:1.3Life Car­ri­ers are graded into three grand di­vi­sions: The first di­vi­sion is the se­nior Life Car­ri­ers, the sec­ond, as­sis­tants, and the third, cus­to­di­ans. The pri­mary di­vi­sion is sub­di­vided into twelve groups of spe­cial­ists in the var­i­ous forms of life man­i­fes­ta­tion. The seg­re­ga­tion of these three di­vi­sions was ef­fected by the Mel­chiz­e­deks, who con­ducted tests for such pur­poses on the Life Car­ri­ers’ head­quar­ters sphere. The Mel­chiz­e­deks have ever since been closely as­so­ci­ated with the Life Car­ri­ers and al­ways ac­com­pany them when they go forth to es­tab­lish life on a new planet.

36:1.4When an evo­lu­tion­ary planet is fi­nally set­tled in light and life, the Life Car­ri­ers are or­ga­nized into the higher de­lib­er­a­tive bod­ies of ad­vi­sory ca­pac­ity to as­sist in the fur­ther ad­min­is­tra­tion and de­vel­op­ment of the world and its glo­ri­fied be­ings. In the later and set­tled ages of an evolv­ing uni­verse these Life Car­ri­ers are in­trusted with many new du­ties.