The Seraphic Hosts

39:3.1This ver­sa­tile or­der of uni­verse an­gels is as­signed to the ex­clu­sive ser­vice of the con­stel­la­tions. These able min­is­ters make their head­quar­ters on the con­stel­la­tion cap­i­tals but func­tion through­out all Neb­a­don in the in­ter­ests of their as­signed realms.

39:3.21. Super­vis­ing As­sis­tants. The first or­der of the super­vis­ing ser­a­phim are as­signed to the col­lec­tive work of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, and they are the ever-ef­fi­cient helpers of the Most Highs. These ser­a­phim are pri­mar­ily con­cerned with the uni­fi­ca­tion and sta­bi­liza­tion of a whole con­stel­la­tion.

39:3.32. Law Fore­cast­ers. The in­tel­lec­tual foun­da­tion of jus­tice is law, and in a lo­cal uni­verse law orig­i­nates in the leg­isla­tive as­sem­blies of the con­stel­la­tions. These de­lib­er­a­tive bod­ies cod­ify and for­mally pro­mul­gate the ba­sic laws of Neb­a­don, laws de­signed to af­ford the great­est pos­si­ble co-or­di­na­tion of a whole con­stel­la­tion con­sis­tent with the fixed pol­icy of non­in­fringe­ment of the moral free will of per­sonal crea­tures. It is the duty of the sec­ond or­der of super­vi­sor ser­a­phim to place be­fore the con­stel­la­tion law­mak­ers a fore­cast of how any pro­posed en­act­ment would af­fect the lives of free­will crea­tures. This ser­vice they are well qual­i­fied to per­form by virtue of long ex­pe­ri­ence in the lo­cal sys­tems and on the in­hab­ited worlds. These ser­a­phim seek no spe­cial fa­vors for one group or an­other, but they do ap­pear be­fore the ce­les­tial law­mak­ers to speak for those who can­not be pres­ent to speak for them­selves. Even mor­tal man may con­tribute to the evo­lu­tion of uni­verse law, for these very ser­a­phim do faith­fully and fully por­tray, not nec­es­sar­ily man’s tran­sient and con­scious de­sires, but rather the true long­ings of the in­ner man, the evolv­ing mor­ontia soul of the ma­te­rial mor­tal on the worlds of space.

39:3.43. So­cial Ar­chi­tects. From the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets up through the mor­ontia train­ing worlds, these ser­a­phim la­bor to en­hance all sin­cere so­cial con­tacts and to fur­ther the so­cial evo­lu­tion of uni­verse crea­tures. These are the an­gels who seek to di­vest the as­so­ci­a­tions of in­tel­li­gent be­ings of all ar­ti­fi­cial­ity while en­deav­or­ing to fa­cil­i­tate the in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of will crea­tures on a ba­sis of real self-un­der­stand­ing and gen­uine mu­tual ap­pre­ci­a­tion.

39:3.5So­cial ar­chi­tects do ev­ery­thing within their prov­ince and power to bring to­gether suit­able in­di­vid­u­als that they may con­sti­tute ef­fi­cient and agree­able work­ing groups on earth; and some­times such groups have found them­selves re­as­so­ci­ated on the man­sion worlds for con­tin­ued fruit­ful ser­vice. But not al­ways do these ser­a­phim at­tain their ends; not al­ways are they able to bring to­gether those who would form the most ideal group to achieve a given pur­pose or to ac­com­plish a cer­tain task; un­der these con­di­tions they must uti­lize the best of the ma­te­rial avail­able.

39:3.6These an­gels con­tinue their min­istry on the man­sion and higher mor­ontia worlds. They are con­cerned with any un­der­tak­ing hav­ing to do with prog­ress on the mor­ontia worlds and which con­cerns three or more per­sons. Two be­ings are re­garded as op­er­at­ing on the mat­ing, com­ple­men­tal, or part­ner­ship ba­sis, but when three or more are grouped for ser­vice, they con­sti­tute a so­cial prob­lem and there­fore fall within the ju­ris­dic­tion of the so­cial ar­chi­tects. These ef­fi­cient ser­a­phim are or­ga­nized in sev­enty di­vi­sions on Eden­tia, and these di­vi­sions min­is­ter on the sev­enty mor­ontia prog­ress worlds en­cir­cling the head­quar­ters sphere.

39:3.74. Eth­i­cal Sen­si­tiz­ers. It is the mis­sion of these ser­a­phim to fos­ter and to pro­mote the growth of crea­ture ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the moral­ity of in­ter­per­sonal re­la­tion­ships, for such is the seed and se­cret of the con­tin­ued and pur­pose­ful growth of so­ci­ety and gov­ern­ment, hu­man or super­hu­man. These en­hancers of eth­i­cal ap­pre­ci­a­tion func­tion any­where and ev­ery­where they may be of ser­vice, as vol­un­teer coun­selors to the plan­e­tary rulers and as ex­change teach­ers on the sys­tem train­ing worlds. You will not, how­ever, come un­der their full guid­ance un­til you reach the broth­er­hood schools on Eden­tia, where they will quicken your ap­pre­ci­a­tion of those very truths of fra­ter­nity which you will even then be so earnestly ex­plor­ing by the ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence of liv­ing with the uni­v­i­ta­tia in the so­cial lab­o­ra­to­ries of Eden­tia, the sev­enty satel­lites of the Nor­la­ti­adek cap­i­tal.

39:3.85. The Trans­port­ers. The fifth group of super­vi­sor ser­a­phim op­er­ate as per­son­al­ity trans­port­ers, car­ry­ing be­ings to and from the head­quar­ters of the con­stel­la­tions. Such trans­port ser­a­phim, while in flight from one sphere to an­other, are fully con­scious of their ve­loc­ity, di­rec­tion, and as­tro­nomic where­abouts. They are not travers­ing space as would an inan­i­mate pro­jec­tile. They may pass near one an­other dur­ing space flight with­out the least dan­ger of col­li­sion. They are fully able to vary speed of pro­gres­sion and to al­ter di­rec­tion of flight, even to change des­ti­na­tions if their di­rec­tors should so in­struct them at any space junc­tion of the uni­verse in­tel­li­gence cir­cuits.

39:3.9These tran­sit per­son­al­i­ties are so or­ga­nized that they can si­mul­ta­ne­ously uti­lize all three of the uni­ver­sally dis­tributed lines of en­ergy, each hav­ing a clear space ve­loc­ity of 186,280 miles per sec­ond. These trans­port­ers are thus able to super­im­pose ve­loc­ity of en­ergy upon ve­loc­ity of power un­til they at­tain an av­er­age speed on their long jour­neys vary­ing any­where from 555,000 to al­most 559,000 of your miles per sec­ond of your time. The ve­loc­ity is af­fected by the mass and prox­im­ity of neigh­bor­ing mat­ter and by the strength and di­rec­tion of the near-by main cir­cuits of uni­verse power. There are nu­mer­ous types of be­ings, sim­i­lar to the ser­a­phim, who are able to tra­verse space, and who also are able to trans­port other be­ings who have been prop­erly pre­pared.

39:3.106. The Re­cord­ers. The sixth or­der of super­vis­ing ser­a­phim act as the spe­cial re­cord­ers of con­stel­la­tion af­fairs. A large and ef­fi­cient corps func­tions on Eden­tia, the head­quar­ters of the con­stel­la­tion of Nor­la­ti­adek, to which your sys­tem and planet be­long.

39:3.117. The Re­serves. Gen­eral re­serves of the super­vi­sor ser­a­phim are held on the head­quar­ters of the con­stel­la­tions. Such an­gelic re­servists are in no sense in­ac­tive; many serve as mes­sen­ger aids to the con­stel­la­tion rulers; oth­ers are at­tached to the Sal­ving­ton re­serves of un­as­signed Voron­dadeks; still oth­ers may be at­tached to Vo­ron­da­dek Sons on spe­cial as­sign­ment, such as the Vo­ron­da­dek ob­server, and some­times Most High re­gent, of Uran­tia.