Personalities of the Local Universe

37:4.1The Most High As­sis­tants are a group of vol­un­teer­ing be­ings, of ori­gin out­side the lo­cal uni­verse, who are tem­porar­ily as­signed as cen­tral and super­uni­verse rep­re­sen­ta­tives to, or ob­servers of, the lo­cal cre­ations. Their num­ber varies con­stantly but is al­ways far up in the mil­lions.

37:4.2From time to time we thus ben­e­fit from the min­istry and as­sis­tance of such Par­a­dise-ori­gin be­ings as Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, Di­vine Coun­selors, Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors, In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, Trin­i­tized Sons, Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, super­na­phim, se­con­a­phim, ter­tiaphim, and other gra­cious min­is­ters, who so­journ with us for the pur­pose of help­ing our na­tive per­son­al­i­ties in the ef­fort to bring all Neb­a­don into fuller har­mony with the ideas of Or­von­ton and the ide­als of Par­a­dise.

37:4.3Any of these be­ings may be vol­un­tar­ily serv­ing in Neb­a­don and hence be tech­ni­cally out­side our ju­ris­dic­tion, but when func­tion­ing by as­sign­ment, such per­son­al­i­ties of the su­per- and cen­tral uni­verses are not wholly ex­empt from the reg­u­la­tions of the lo­cal uni­verse of their so­journ, though they con­tinue to func­tion as rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the higher uni­verses and to work in ac­cor­dance with the in­struc­tions which con­sti­tute their mis­sion in our realm. Their gen­eral head­quar­ters is sit­u­ated in the Sal­ving­ton sec­tor of the Union of Days, and they op­er­ate in Neb­a­don sub­ject to the over­super­vi­sion of this am­bas­sador of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. When serv­ing in un­at­tached groups, these per­son­al­i­ties from the higher realms are usu­ally self-di­rect­ing, but when serv­ing on re­quest, they of­ten vol­un­tar­ily place them­selves wholly un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the super­vis­ing di­rec­tors of the realms of as­signed func­tion.

37:4.4Most High As­sis­tants serve in lo­cal uni­verse and in con­stel­la­tion ca­pac­i­ties but are not di­rectly at­tached to the sys­tem or plan­e­tary gov­ern­ments. They may, how­ever, func­tion any­where in the lo­cal uni­verse and may be as­signed to any phase of Neb­a­don ac­tiv­ity—ad­min­is­tra­tive, ex­ec­u­tive, ed­u­ca­tional, and oth­ers.

37:4.5Most of this corps is en­listed in as­sist­ing the Neb­a­don Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties—the Union of Days, the Cre­ator Son, the Faith­fuls of Days, the Mag­is­te­rial Sons, and the Trin­ity Teacher Sons. Now and then in the trans­ac­tion of the af­fairs of a lo­cal cre­ation it be­comes wise to with­hold cer­tain de­tails, tem­porar­ily, from the knowl­edge of prac­ti­cally all of the na­tive per­son­al­i­ties of that lo­cal uni­verse. Cer­tain ad­vanced plans and com­plex rul­ings are also bet­ter grasped and more fully un­der­stood by the more ma­ture and farsee­ing corps of Most High As­sis­tants, and it is in such sit­u­a­tions, and many oth­ers, that they are so highly ser­vice­able to the uni­verse rulers and ad­min­is­tra­tors.