Personalities of the Local Universe

37:5.1The High Com­mis­sion­ers are Spirit-fused as­cen­dant mor­tals; they are not Ad­juster fused. You quite well un­der­stand about the uni­verse-as­cen­sion ca­reer of a mor­tal can­di­date for Ad­juster fu­sion, that be­ing the high des­tiny in prospect for all Uran­tia mor­tals since the be­stowal of Christ Mi­chael. But this is not the ex­clu­sive des­tiny of all mor­tals in the pre­be­stowal ages of worlds like yours, and there is an­other type of world whose in­hab­i­tants are never per­ma­nently in­dwelt by Thought Ad­justers. Such mor­tals are never per­ma­nently joined in union with a Mys­tery Mon­i­tor of Par­a­dise be­stowal; nev­er­the­less, the Ad­justers do tran­siently in­dwell them, serv­ing as guides and pat­terns for the du­ra­tion of the life in the flesh. Dur­ing this tem­po­rary so­journ they fos­ter the evo­lu­tion of an im­mor­tal soul just as in those be­ings with whom they hope to fuse, but when the mor­tal race is run, they take eter­nal leave of the crea­tures of tem­po­rary as­so­ci­a­tion.

37:5.2Sur­viv­ing souls of this or­der at­tain im­mor­tal­ity by eter­nal fu­sion with an in­di­vid­u­al­ized frag­ment of the spirit of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. They are not a nu­mer­ous group, at least not in Neb­a­don. On the man­sion worlds you will meet and frat­er­nize with these Spirit-fused mor­tals as they as­cend the Par­a­dise path with you as far as Sal­ving­ton, where they stop. Some of them may sub­se­quently as­cend to higher uni­verse lev­els, but the ma­jor­ity will for­ever re­main in the ser­vice of the lo­cal uni­verse; as a class they are not des­tined to at­tain Par­a­dise.

37:5.3Not be­ing Ad­juster fused, they never be­come fi­nal­i­ters, but they do even­tu­ally be­come en­rolled in the lo­cal uni­verse Corps of Per­fec­tion. They have in spirit obeyed the Fa­ther’s com­mand, “Be you per­fect.”

37:5.4Af­ter at­tain­ing the Neb­a­don Corps of Per­fec­tion, Spirit-fused as­cend­ers may ac­cept as­sign­ment as Uni­verse Aids, this be­ing one of the av­enues of con­tin­u­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial growth which is open to them. Thus do they be­come can­di­dates for com­mis­sions to the high ser­vice of in­ter­pret­ing the view­points of the evolv­ing crea­tures of the ma­te­rial worlds to the ce­les­tial au­thor­i­ties of the lo­cal uni­verse.

37:5.5The High Com­mis­sion­ers be­gin their ser­vice on the plan­ets as race com­mis­sion­ers. In this ca­pac­ity they in­ter­pret the view­points and por­tray the needs of the var­i­ous hu­man races. They are su­premely de­voted to the wel­fare of the mor­tal races whose spokes­men they are, ever seek­ing to ob­tain for them mercy, jus­tice, and fair treat­ment in all re­la­tion­ships with other peo­ples. Race com­mis­sion­ers func­tion in an end­less se­ries of plan­e­tary crises and serve as the ar­tic­u­late ex­pres­sion of whole groups of strug­gling mor­tals.

37:5.6Af­ter long ex­pe­ri­ence in prob­lem solv­ing on the in­hab­ited worlds, these race com­mis­sion­ers are ad­vanced to the higher lev­els of func­tion, even­tu­ally at­tain­ing the sta­tus of High Com­mis­sion­ers of and in the lo­cal uni­verse. The last reg­is­tra­tion re­corded slightly over one and one-half bil­lion of these High Com­mis­sion­ers in Neb­a­don. These be­ings are not fi­nal­i­ters, but they are as­cen­dant be­ings of long ex­pe­ri­ence and of great ser­vice to their na­tive realm.

37:5.7We in­vari­ably find these com­mis­sion­ers in all the tri­bu­nals of jus­tice, from the low­est to the high­est. Not that they par­tic­i­pate in the pro­ceed­ings of jus­tice, but they do act as friends of the court, ad­vis­ing the pre­sid­ing mag­is­trates re­spect­ing the an­tecedents, en­vi­ron­ment, and in­her­ent na­ture of those con­cerned in the ad­ju­di­ca­tion.

37:5.8High Com­mis­sion­ers are at­tached to the var­i­ous mes­sen­ger hosts of space and al­ways to the min­is­ter­ing spir­its of time. They are en­coun­tered on the pro­grams of var­i­ous uni­verse as­sem­blies, and these same mor­tal-wise com­mis­sion­ers are al­ways at­tached to the mis­sions of the Sons of God to the worlds of space.

37:5.9When­ever fair­ness and jus­tice re­quire an un­der­stand­ing of how a con­tem­plated pol­icy or pro­ce­dure would af­fect the evo­lu­tion­ary races of time, these com­mis­sion­ers are at hand to pre­sent their rec­om­men­da­tions; they are al­ways pres­ent to speak for those who can­not be pres­ent to speak for them­selves.

37:5.10The Worlds of the Spirit-fused Mor­tals. The eighth group of seven pri­mary worlds and trib­u­tary satel­lites in the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit are the ex­clu­sive pos­ses­sion of the Spirit-fused mor­tals of Neb­a­don. As­cend­ing Ad­juster-fused mor­tals are not con­cerned with these worlds ex­cept to en­joy many pleas­ant and prof­itable so­journs as the in­vited guests of the Spirit-fused res­i­dents.

37:5.11Ex­cept for those few who at­tain Uversa and Par­a­dise, these worlds are the per­ma­nent res­i­dence of the Spirit-fused sur­vivors. Such de­signed lim­i­ta­tion of mor­tal as­cent re­acts to the good of the lo­cal uni­verses by in­sur­ing the re­ten­tion of a per­ma­nent evolved pop­u­la­tion whose aug­ment­ing ex­pe­ri­ence will con­tinue to en­hance the fu­ture sta­bi­liza­tion and di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. These be­ings may not at­tain Par­a­dise, but they achieve an ex­pe­ri­en­tial wis­dom in the mas­tery of Neb­a­don prob­lems that ut­terly sur­passes any­thing at­tained by the tran­sient as­cend­ers. And these sur­viv­ing souls con­tinue as unique com­bi­na­tions of the hu­man and the di­vine, be­ing in­creas­ingly able to unite the view­points of these two widely sep­a­rate lev­els and to pre­sent such a dual view­point with ever-height­en­ing wis­dom.