Ministering Spirits of the Local Universe

38:9.1The mid­way crea­tures have a three­fold clas­si­fi­ca­tion: They are prop­erly clas­si­fied with the as­cend­ing Sons of God; they are fac­tu­ally grouped with the or­ders of per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship, while they are func­tion­ally reck­oned with the min­is­ter­ing spir­its of time be­cause of their in­ti­mate and ef­fec­tive as­so­ci­a­tion with the an­gelic hosts in the work of serv­ing mor­tal man on the in­di­vid­ual worlds of space.

38:9.2These unique crea­tures ap­pear on the ma­jor­ity of the in­hab­ited worlds and are al­ways found on the dec­i­mal or life-ex­per­i­ment plan­ets, such as Uran­tia. Mid­way­ers are of two types—pri­mary and sec­ondary—and they ap­pear by the fol­low­ing tech­niques:

38:9.31. Pri­mary Mid­way­ers, the more spir­i­tual group, are a some­what stan­dard­ized or­der of be­ings who are uni­formly de­rived from the mod­i­fied as­cen­dant-mor­tal staffs of the Plan­e­tary Princes. The num­ber of pri­mary mid­way crea­tures is al­ways fifty thou­sand, and no planet en­joy­ing their min­istry has a larger group.

38:9.42. Sec­ondary Mid­way­ers, the more ma­te­rial group of these crea­tures, vary greatly in num­bers on the dif­fer­ent worlds, though the av­er­age is around fifty thou­sand. They are var­i­ously de­rived from the plan­e­tary bi­o­logic up­lifters, the Adams and Eves, or from their im­me­di­ate progeny. There are no less than twenty-four di­verse tech­niques in­volved in the pro­duc­tion of these sec­ondary mid­way crea­tures on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space. The mode of ori­gin for this group on Uran­tia was un­usual and ex­traor­di­nary.

38:9.5Nei­ther of these groups is an evo­lu­tion­ary ac­ci­dent; both are es­sen­tial fea­tures in the pre­de­ter­mined plans of the uni­verse ar­chi­tects, and their ap­pear­ance on the evolv­ing worlds at the op­por­tune junc­ture is in ac­cor­dance with the orig­i­nal de­signs and de­vel­op­men­tal plans of the super­vis­ing Life Car­ri­ers.

38:9.6Pri­mary mid­way­ers are en­er­gized in­tel­lec­tu­ally and spir­i­tu­ally by the an­gelic tech­nique and are uni­form in in­tel­lec­tual sta­tus. The seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its make no con­tact with them; and only the sixth and the sev­enth, the spirit of wor­ship and the spirit of wis­dom, are able to min­is­ter to the sec­ondary group.

38:9.7Sec­ondary mid­way­ers are phys­i­cally en­er­gized by the Adamic tech­nique, spir­i­tu­ally en­cir­cuited by the se­raphic, and in­tel­lec­tu­ally en­dowed with the mor­ontia tran­si­tion type of mind. They are di­vided into four phys­i­cal types, seven or­ders spir­i­tu­ally, and twelve lev­els of in­tel­lec­tual re­sponse to the joint min­istry of the last two ad­ju­tant spir­its and the mor­ontia mind. These di­ver­si­ties de­ter­mine their dif­fer­en­tial of ac­tiv­ity and of plan­e­tary as­sign­ment.

38:9.8Pri­mary mid­way­ers re­sem­ble an­gels more than mor­tals; the sec­ondary or­ders are much more like hu­man be­ings. Each ren­ders in­valu­able as­sis­tance to the other in the ex­e­cu­tion of their man­i­fold plan­e­tary as­sign­ments. The pri­mary min­is­ters can achieve li­ai­son co-op­er­a­tion with both mor­ontia- and spirit-en­ergy con­trol­lers and mind cir­cuiters. The sec­ondary group can es­tab­lish work­ing con­nec­tions only with the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and the ma­te­rial-cir­cuit ma­nip­u­la­tors. But since each or­der of mid­wayer can es­tab­lish per­fect syn­chrony of con­tact with the other, ei­ther group is thereby able to achieve prac­ti­cal uti­liza­tion of the en­tire en­ergy gamut ex­tend­ing from the gross phys­i­cal power of the ma­te­rial worlds up through the tran­si­tion phases of uni­verse en­er­gies to the higher spirit-re­al­ity forces of the ce­les­tial realms.

38:9.9The gap be­tween the ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual worlds is per­fectly bridged by the se­rial as­so­ci­a­tion of mor­tal man, sec­ondary mid­wayer, pri­mary mid­wayer, mor­ontia cheru­bim, mid-phase cheru­bim, and ser­a­phim. In the per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence of an in­di­vid­ual mor­tal these di­verse lev­els are un­doubt­edly more or less uni­fied and made per­son­ally mean­ing­ful by the un­ob­served and mys­te­ri­ous op­er­a­tions of the di­vine Thought Ad­juster.

38:9.10On nor­mal worlds the pri­mary mid­way­ers main­tain their ser­vice as the in­tel­li­gence corps and as ce­les­tial en­ter­tain­ers in be­half of the Plan­e­tary Prince, while the sec­ondary min­is­ters con­tinue their co-op­er­a­tion with the Adamic regime of fur­ther­ing the cause of pro­gres­sive plan­e­tary civ­i­liza­tion. In case of the de­fec­tion of the Plan­e­tary Prince and the fail­ure of the Ma­te­rial Son, as oc­curred on Uran­tia, the mid­way crea­tures be­come the wards of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign and serve un­der the di­rect­ing guid­ance of the act­ing cus­to­dian of the planet. But on only three other worlds in Sa­ta­nia do these be­ings func­tion as one group un­der uni­fied lead­er­ship as do the united mid­way min­is­ters of Uran­tia.

38:9.11The plan­e­tary work of both pri­mary and sec­ondary mid­way­ers is var­ied and di­verse on the nu­mer­ous in­di­vid­ual worlds of a uni­verse, but on the nor­mal and av­er­age plan­ets their ac­tiv­i­ties are very dif­fer­ent from the du­ties which oc­cupy their time on iso­lated spheres, such as Uran­tia.

38:9.12The pri­mary mid­way­ers are the plan­e­tary his­to­ri­ans who, from the time of the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince to the age of set­tled light and life, for­mu­late the pageants and de­sign the por­tray­als of plan­e­tary his­tory for the ex­hibits of the plan­ets on the sys­tem head­quar­ters worlds.

38:9.13Mid­way­ers re­main for long pe­ri­ods on an in­hab­ited world, but if faith­ful to their trust, they will even­tu­ally and most cer­tainly be rec­og­nized for their age­long ser­vice in main­tain­ing the sov­er­eignty of the Cre­ator Son; they will be duly re­warded for their pa­tient min­istry to the ma­te­rial mor­tals on their world of time and space. Sooner or later all ac­cred­ited mid­way crea­tures will be mus­tered into the ranks of the as­cend­ing Sons of God and will be duly ini­ti­ated into the long ad­ven­ture of the Par­a­dise as­cent in com­pany with those very mor­tals of an­i­mal ori­gin, their earth breth­ren, whom they so jeal­ously guarded and so ef­fec­tively served dur­ing the long plan­e­tary so­journ.

38:9.14[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek act­ing by re­quest of the Chief of the Se­raphic Hosts of Neb­a­don.]