Personalities of the Local Universe

37:3.1Arch­an­gels are the off­spring of the Cre­ator Son and the Uni­verse Mother Spirit. They are the high­est type of high spirit be­ing pro­duced in large num­bers in a lo­cal uni­verse, and at the time of the last reg­istry there were al­most eight hun­dred thou­sand in Neb­a­don.

37:3.2Arch­an­gels are one of the few groups of lo­cal uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties who are not nor­mally un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of Ga­briel. They are not in any man­ner con­cerned with the rou­tine ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­verse, be­ing ded­i­cated to the work of crea­ture sur­vival and to the fur­ther­ance of the as­cend­ing ca­reer of the mor­tals of time and space. While not or­di­nar­ily sub­ject to the di­rec­tion of the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the arch­an­gels do some­times func­tion by his au­thor­ity. They also col­lab­o­rate with oth­ers of the Uni­verse Aids, such as the Evening Stars, as is il­lus­trated by cer­tain trans­ac­tions de­picted in the nar­ra­tive of life trans­plan­ta­tion on your world.

37:3.3The arch­an­gel corps of Neb­a­don is di­rected by the first-born of this or­der, and in more re­cent times a di­vi­sional head­quar­ters of the arch­an­gels has been main­tained on Uran­tia. It is this un­usual fact that soon ar­rests the at­ten­tion of ex­tra-Neb­a­don stu­dent vis­i­tors. Among their early ob­ser­va­tions of in­trau­ni­verse trans­ac­tions is the dis­cov­ery that many as­cen­dant ac­tiv­i­ties of the Bril­liant Evening Stars are di­rected from the cap­i­tal of a lo­cal sys­tem, Sa­ta­nia. On fur­ther ex­am­i­na­tion they dis­cover that cer­tain arch­an­gel ac­tiv­i­ties are di­rected from a small and ap­par­ently in­signif­i­cant in­hab­ited world called Uran­tia. And then en­sues the rev­e­la­tion of Mi­chael’s be­stowal on Uran­tia and their im­me­di­ately quick­ened in­ter­est in you and your lowly sphere.

37:3.4Do you grasp the sig­nif­i­cance of the fact that your lowly and con­fused planet has be­come a di­vi­sional head­quar­ters for the uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion and di­rec­tion of cer­tain arch­an­gel ac­tiv­i­ties hav­ing to do with the Par­a­dise as­cen­sion scheme? This un­doubt­edly presages the fu­ture con­cen­tra­tion of other as­cen­dant ac­tiv­i­ties on the be­stowal world of Mi­chael and lends a tremen­dous and solemn im­port to the Mas­ter’s per­sonal prom­ise, “I will come again.”

37:3.5In gen­eral, the arch­an­gels are as­signed to the ser­vice and min­istry of the Avo­nal or­der of son­ship, but not un­til they have passed through ex­ten­sive pre­lim­i­nary train­ing in all phases of the work of the var­i­ous min­is­ter­ing spir­its. A corps of one hun­dred ac­com­pa­nies ev­ery Par­a­dise be­stowal Son to an in­hab­ited world, be­ing tem­porar­ily as­signed to him for the du­ra­tion of such a be­stowal. If the Mag­is­te­rial Son should be­come tem­po­rary ruler of the planet, these arch­an­gels would act as the di­rect­ing heads of all ce­les­tial life on that sphere.

37:3.6Two se­nior arch­an­gels are al­ways as­signed as the per­sonal aids of a Par­a­dise Avo­nal on all plan­e­tary mis­sions, whether in­volv­ing ju­di­cial ac­tions, mag­is­te­rial mis­sions, or be­stowal in­car­na­tions. When this Par­a­dise Son has fin­ished the judg­ment of a realm and the dead are called to rec­ord (the so-called res­ur­rec­tion), it is lit­er­ally true that the se­raphic guard­i­ans of the slum­ber­ing per­son­al­i­ties re­spond to “the voice of the arch­an­gel.” The roll call of a dis­pen­sa­tion ter­mi­na­tion is pro­mul­gated by an at­ten­dant arch­an­gel. This is the arch­an­gel of the res­ur­rec­tion, some­times re­ferred to as the “arch­an­gel of Mi­chael.”

37:3.7The Worlds of the Arch­an­gels. The sev­enth group of the en­cir­cling Sal­ving­ton worlds, with their as­so­ci­ated satel­lites, is as­signed to the arch­an­gels. Sphere num­ber one and all of its six trib­u­tary satel­lites are oc­cu­pied by the per­son­al­ity rec­ord keep­ers. This enor­mous corps of re­cord­ers busy them­selves with keep­ing straight the rec­ord of each mor­tal of time from the mo­ment of birth up through the uni­verse ca­reer un­til such an in­di­vid­ual ei­ther leaves Sal­ving­ton for the super­uni­verse regime or is “blot­ted out of re­corded ex­is­tence” by the man­date of the An­cients of Days.

37:3.8It is on these worlds that per­son­al­ity rec­ords and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion sureties are clas­si­fied, filed, and pre­served dur­ing that time which in­ter­venes be­tween mor­tal death and the hour of reper­son­al­iza­tion, the res­ur­rec­tion from death.