The Seraphic Hosts

39:8.1Ser­a­phim are of ori­gin in the lo­cal uni­verses, and in these very realms of their na­tiv­ity some achieve ser­vice des­tiny. With the help and coun­sel of the se­nior arch­an­gels some ser­a­phim may be el­e­vated to the ex­alted du­ties of Bril­liant Evening Stars, while oth­ers at­tain the sta­tus and ser­vice of the un­re­vealed co-or­di­nates of the Evening Stars. Still other ad­ven­tures in lo­cal uni­verse des­tiny may be at­tempted, but Seraph­ing­ton ever re­mains the eter­nal goal of all an­gels. Seraph­ing­ton is the an­gelic thresh­old to Par­a­dise and De­ity at­tain­ment, the tran­si­tion sphere from the min­istry of time to the ex­alted ser­vice of eter­nity.

39:8.2Ser­a­phim may at­tain Par­a­dise in scores—hun­dreds—of ways, but the most im­por­tant as elab­o­rated in these nar­ra­tives are the fol­low­ing:

39:8.31. To gain ad­mis­sion to the Par­a­dise se­raphic abode in a per­sonal ca­pac­ity by achiev­ing per­fec­tion of spe­cial­ized ser­vice as a ce­les­tial ar­ti­san, a Tech­ni­cal Ad­viser, or a Ce­les­tial Re­corder. To be­come a Par­a­dise Com­pan­ion and, hav­ing thus at­tained the cen­ter of all things, per­haps then to be­come an eter­nal min­is­ter and ad­viser to the se­raphic or­ders and oth­ers.

39:8.42. To be sum­moned to Seraph­ing­ton. Un­der cer­tain con­di­tions ser­a­phim are com­manded on high; in other cir­cum­stances an­gels some­times achieve Par­a­dise in a much shorter time than mor­tals. But no mat­ter how fit­ted any se­raphic pair may be, they can­not ini­ti­ate de­par­ture for Seraph­ing­ton or else­where. None but suc­cess­ful des­tiny guard­i­ans can be sure of pro­ceed­ing to Par­a­dise by a pro­gres­sive path of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cent. All oth­ers must pa­tiently await the ar­rival of the Par­a­dise mes­sen­gers of the ter­tiary super­na­phim who come with the sum­mons com­mand­ing them to ap­pear on high.

39:8.53. To at­tain Par­a­dise by the evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tal tech­nique. The su­preme choice of ser­a­phim in the ca­reer of time is the post of guard­ian an­gel in or­der that they may at­tain the ca­reer of fi­nal­ity and be qual­i­fied for as­sign­ment to the eter­nal spheres of se­raphic ser­vice. Such per­sonal guides of the chil­dren of time are called guard­i­ans of des­tiny, sig­ni­fy­ing that they guard mor­tal crea­tures in the path of di­vine des­tiny, and that in so do­ing they are de­ter­min­ing their own high des­tiny.

39:8.6Guard­i­ans of des­tiny are drawn from the ranks of the more ex­pe­ri­enced an­gelic per­son­al­i­ties of all or­ders of ser­a­phim who have qual­i­fied for this ser­vice. All sur­viv­ing mor­tals of Ad­juster-fu­sion des­tiny have tem­po­rary guard­i­ans as­signed, and these as­so­ciates may be­come per­ma­nently at­tached when mor­tal sur­vivors at­tain the req­ui­site in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment. Be­fore mor­tal as­cend­ers leave the man­sion worlds, they all have per­ma­nent se­raphic as­so­ciates. This group of min­is­ter­ing spir­its is dis­cussed in con­nec­tion with the Uran­tia nar­ra­tives.

39:8.7It is not pos­si­ble for an­gels to at­tain God from the hu­man level of ori­gin, for they are cre­ated a “lit­tle higher than you”; but it has been wisely ar­ranged that, while they can­not pos­si­bly start up from the very bot­tom, the spir­i­tual low­lands of mor­tal ex­is­tence, they may go down to those who do start from the bot­tom and pi­lot such crea­tures, step by step, world by world, to the por­tals of Ha­vona. When mor­tal as­cend­ers leave Uversa to be­gin the cir­cles of Ha­vona, those guard­i­ans of at­tach­ment sub­se­quent to the life in the flesh will bid their pil­grim as­so­ciates a tem­po­rary farewell while they jour­ney to Seraph­ing­ton, the an­gelic des­ti­na­tion of the grand uni­verse. Here will these guard­i­ans at­tempt, and un­doubt­edly achieve, the seven cir­cles of se­raphic light.

39:8.8Many, but not all, of those ser­a­phim as­signed as des­tiny guard­i­ans dur­ing the ma­te­rial life ac­com­pany their mor­tal as­so­ciates through the Ha­vona cir­cles, and cer­tain other ser­a­phim pass through the cir­cuits of the cen­tral uni­verse in a way that is wholly dif­fer­ent from the mor­tal as­cent. But ir­re­spec­tive of the route of as­cent, all evo­lu­tion­ary ser­a­phim tra­verse Seraph­ing­ton, and the ma­jor­ity pass through this ex­pe­ri­ence in­stead of the Ha­vona cir­cuits.

39:8.9Seraph­ing­ton is the des­tiny sphere for an­gels, and their at­tain­ment of this world is quite dif­fer­ent from the ex­pe­ri­ences of the mor­tal pil­grims on As­cend­ing­ton. An­gels are not ab­so­lutely sure of their eter­nal fu­ture un­til they have at­tained Seraph­ing­ton. No an­gel at­tain­ing Seraph­ing­ton has ever been known to go astray; sin will never find re­sponse in the heart of a ser­a­phim of com­ple­tion.

39:8.10The grad­u­ates of Seraph­ing­ton are var­i­ously as­signed: Des­tiny guard­i­ans of Ha­vona-cir­cle ex­pe­ri­ence usu­ally en­ter the Mor­tal Fi­nal­i­ter Corps. Other guard­i­ans, hav­ing passed their Ha­vona sep­a­ra­tion tests, fre­quently re­join their mor­tal as­so­ciates on Par­a­dise, and some be­come the ev­er­last­ing as­so­ciates of the mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters, while oth­ers en­ter the var­i­ous non­mor­tal fi­nal­i­ter corps, and many are mus­tered into the Corps of Se­raphic Com­ple­tion.