Ministering Spirits of the Local Universe

38:5.1Ser­a­phim spend their first mil­len­nium as non­com­mis­sioned ob­servers on Sal­ving­ton and its as­so­ci­ated world schools. The sec­ond mil­len­nium is spent on the se­raphic worlds of the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit. Their cen­tral train­ing school is now pre­sided over by the first one hun­dred thou­sand Neb­a­don ser­a­phim, and at their head is the orig­i­nal or first-born an­gel of this lo­cal uni­verse. The first cre­ated group of Neb­a­don ser­a­phim were trained by a corps of one thou­sand ser­a­phim from Avalon; sub­se­quently our an­gels have been taught by their own se­niors. The Mel­chiz­e­deks also have a large part in the ed­u­ca­tion and train­ing of all lo­cal uni­verse an­gels—ser­a­phim, cheru­bim, and sa­no­bim.

38:5.2At the ter­mi­na­tion of this pe­riod of train­ing on the se­raphic worlds of Sal­ving­ton, ser­a­phim are mo­bi­lized in the con­ven­tional groups and units of the an­gelic or­ga­ni­za­tion and are as­signed to some one of the con­stel­la­tions. They are not yet com­mis­sioned as min­is­ter­ing spir­its, al­though they have well en­tered upon the pre­com­mis­sioned phases of an­gelic train­ing.

38:5.3Ser­a­phim are ini­ti­ated as min­is­ter­ing spir­its by serv­ing as ob­servers on the low­est of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. Af­ter this ex­pe­ri­ence they re­turn to the as­so­ciate worlds of the head­quar­ters of the as­signed con­stel­la­tion to be­gin their ad­vanced stud­ies and more def­i­nitely to pre­pare for ser­vice in some par­tic­u­lar lo­cal sys­tem. Fol­low­ing this gen­eral ed­u­ca­tion they are ad­vanced to the ser­vice of some one of the lo­cal sys­tems. On the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds as­so­ci­ated with the cap­i­tal of some Neb­a­don sys­tem our ser­a­phim com­plete their train­ing and are com­mis­sioned as min­is­ter­ing spir­its of time.

38:5.4When once ser­a­phim are com­mis­sioned, they may range all Neb­a­don, even Or­von­ton, on as­sign­ment. Their work in the uni­verse is with­out bounds and lim­i­ta­tions; they are closely as­so­ci­ated with the ma­te­rial crea­tures of the worlds and are ever in the ser­vice of the lower or­ders of spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties, mak­ing con­tact be­tween these be­ings of the spirit world and the mor­tals of the ma­te­rial realms.