Ministering Spirits of the Local Universe

38:4.1The ninth group of seven pri­mary spheres in the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit are the worlds of the ser­a­phim. Each of these worlds has six trib­u­tary satel­lites, whereon are the spe­cial schools de­voted to all phases of se­raphic train­ing. While the ser­a­phim have ac­cess to all forty-nine worlds com­pris­ing this group of Sal­ving­ton spheres, they ex­clu­sively oc­cupy only the first clus­ter of seven. The re­main­ing six clus­ters are oc­cu­pied by the six or­ders of an­gelic as­so­ciates un­re­vealed on Uran­tia; each such group main­tains head­quar­ters on one of these six pri­mary worlds and car­ries on spe­cial­ized ac­tiv­i­ties on the six trib­u­tary satel­lites. Each an­gelic or­der has free ac­cess to all the worlds of these seven di­verse groups.

38:4.2These head­quar­ters worlds are among the mag­nif­i­cent realms of Neb­a­don; the se­raphic es­tates are char­ac­ter­ized by both beauty and vast­ness. Here each ser­a­phim has a real home, and “home” means the domi­cile of two ser­a­phim; they live in pairs.

38:4.3Though not male and fe­male as are the Ma­te­rial Sons and the mor­tal races, ser­a­phim are neg­a­tive and pos­i­tive. In the ma­jor­ity of as­sign­ments it re­quires two an­gels to ac­com­plish the task. When they are not en­cir­cuited, they can work alone; nei­ther do they re­quire com­ple­ments of be­ing when sta­tion­ary. Or­di­nar­ily they re­tain their orig­i­nal com­ple­ments of be­ing, but not nec­es­sar­ily. Such as­so­ci­a­tions are pri­mar­ily ne­ces­si­tated by func­tion; they are not char­ac­ter­ized by sex emo­tion, though they are ex­ceed­ingly per­sonal and truly af­fec­tion­ate.

38:4.4Be­sides des­ig­nated homes, ser­a­phim also have group, com­pany, bat­tal­ion, and unit head­quar­ters. They for­gather for re­unions ev­ery mil­len­nium and are all pres­ent in ac­cor­dance with the time of their cre­ation. If a ser­a­phim bears re­spon­si­bil­i­ties which for­bid ab­sence from duty, she al­ter­nates at­ten­dance with her com­ple­ment, be­ing re­lieved by a ser­a­phim of an­other birth date. Each se­raphic part­ner is thereby pres­ent at least ev­ery other re­union.