Personalities of the Local Universe

37:8.1Be­sides the power cen­ters and the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, cer­tain of the higher-ori­gin spirit be­ings of the fam­ily of the In­fi­nite Spirit are of per­ma­nent as­sign­ment to the lo­cal uni­verse. Of the higher spirit or­ders of the fam­ily of the In­fi­nite Spirit the fol­low­ing are so as­signed:

37:8.2The Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, when func­tion­ally at­tached to the lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, ren­der in­valu­able ser­vice to us in our ef­forts to over­come the hand­i­caps of time and space. When they are not thus as­signed, we of the lo­cal uni­verses have ab­so­lutely no au­thor­ity over them, but even then these unique be­ings are al­ways will­ing to help us with the so­lu­tion of our prob­lems and with the ex­e­cu­tion of our man­dates.

37:8.3An­dovon­tia is the name of the ter­tiary Uni­verse Cir­cuit Super­vi­sor sta­tioned in our lo­cal uni­verse. He is con­cerned only with spirit and mor­ontia cir­cuits, not with those un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the power di­rec­tors. It was he who iso­lated Uran­tia at the time of the Cali­gas­tia be­trayal of the planet dur­ing the test­ing sea­sons of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. In send­ing greet­ings to the mor­tals of Uran­tia, he ex­presses plea­sure in the an­tic­i­pa­tion of your some­time restora­tion to the uni­verse cir­cuits of his super­vi­sion.

37:8.4The Neb­a­don Cen­sus Di­rec­tor, Sal­sa­tia, main­tains head­quar­ters within the Ga­briel sec­tor of Sal­ving­ton. He is au­to­mat­i­cally cog­nizant of the birth and death of will and cur­rently reg­is­ters the ex­act num­ber of will crea­tures func­tion­ing in the lo­cal uni­verse. He works in close as­so­ci­a­tion with the per­son­al­ity re­cord­ers domi­ciled on the rec­ord worlds of the arch­an­gels.

37:8.5An As­so­ciate In­spec­tor is res­i­dent on Sal­ving­ton. He is the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive of Or­von­ton. His as­so­ciates, the As­signed Sen­tinels in the lo­cal sys­tems, are also rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive of Or­von­ton.

37:8.6The Uni­ver­sal Con­cil­ia­tors are the trav­el­ing courts of the uni­verses of time and space, func­tion­ing from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds up through ev­ery sec­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse and on be­yond. These ref­er­ees are reg­is­tered on Uversa; the ex­act num­ber op­er­at­ing in Neb­a­don is not of rec­ord, but I es­ti­mate that there are in the neigh­bor­hood of one hun­dred mil­lion con­cil­i­at­ing com­mis­sions in our lo­cal uni­verse.

37:8.7Of the Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers, the le­gal minds of the realm, we have our quota, about one-half bil­lion. These be­ings are the liv­ing and cir­cu­lat­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial law li­braries of all space.

37:8.8Of the Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers, the as­cen­dant ser­a­phim, we have in Neb­a­don sev­enty-five. These are the se­nior or super­vis­ing re­cord­ers. The ad­vanc­ing stu­dents of this or­der in train­ing num­ber al­most four bil­lion.

37:8.9The min­istry of the sev­enty bil­lion Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions in Neb­a­don is de­scribed in those nar­ra­tives deal­ing with the tran­si­tion plan­ets of the pil­grims of time.

37:8.10Each uni­verse has its own na­tive an­gelic corps; nev­er­the­less, there are oc­ca­sions on which it is very help­ful to have the as­sis­tance of those higher spir­its of ori­gin out­side the lo­cal cre­ation. Super­na­phim per­form cer­tain rare and unique ser­vices; the pres­ent chief of Uran­tia ser­a­phim is a pri­mary super­na­phim of Par­a­dise. The re­flec­tive se­con­a­phim are en­coun­tered wher­ever the super­uni­verse per­son­nel is func­tion­ing, and a great many ter­tiaphim are of tem­po­rary ser­vice as Most High As­sis­tants.