The Celestial Artisans

44:0.1Among the cour­tesy colonies of the var­i­ous di­vi­sional and uni­verse head­quar­ters worlds may be found the unique or­der of com­pos­ite per­son­al­i­ties de­nom­i­nated the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans. These be­ings are the mas­ter artists and ar­ti­sans of the mor­ontia and lower spirit realms. They are the spir­its and semispir­its who are en­gaged in mor­ontia em­bel­lish­ment and in spir­i­tual beau­ti­fi­ca­tion. Such ar­ti­sans are dis­tributed through­out the grand uni­verse—on the head­quar­ters worlds of the super­uni­verses, the lo­cal uni­verses, the con­stel­la­tions, and sys­tems, as well as on all spheres set­tled in light and life; but their chief realm of ac­tiv­ity is in the con­stel­la­tions and es­pe­cially on the seven hun­dred sev­enty worlds sur­round­ing each head­quar­ters sphere.

44:0.2Though their work may be al­most in­com­pre­hen­si­ble to the ma­te­rial mind, it should be un­der­stood that the mor­ontia and spirit worlds are not with­out their high arts and su­per­nal cul­tures.

44:0.3The ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans are not cre­ated as such; they are a se­lected and re­cruited corps of be­ings com­posed of cer­tain teacher per­son­al­i­ties na­tive to the cen­tral uni­verse and their vol­un­teer pupils drawn from the as­cend­ing mor­tals and nu­mer­ous other ce­les­tial groups. The orig­i­nal teach­ing corps of these ar­ti­sans was some­time as­signed by the In­fi­nite Spirit in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and con­sisted of seven thou­sand Ha­vona in­struc­tors, one thou­sand to each of the seven di­vi­sions of ar­ti­sans. With such a nu­cleus to start with, there has de­vel­oped through the ages this bril­liant body of skill­ful work­ers in spirit and mor­ontia af­fairs.

44:0.4Any mor­ontia per­son­al­ity or spirit en­tity is el­i­gi­ble for ad­mis­sion to the corps of the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans; that is, any be­ing be­low the rank of in­her­ent di­vine son­ship. As­cend­ing sons of God from the evo­lu­tion­ary spheres may, af­ter their ar­rival on the mor­ontia worlds, ap­ply for ad­mis­sion to the ar­ti­san corps and, if suf­fi­ciently gifted, may choose such a ca­reer for a longer or shorter pe­riod. But no one may en­list with the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans for less than one mil­len­nium, one thou­sand years of super­uni­verse time.

44:0.5All ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans are reg­is­tered on the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters but are di­rected by mor­ontia super­vi­sors on the lo­cal uni­verse cap­i­tals. They are com­mis­sioned in the fol­low­ing seven ma­jor di­vi­sions of ac­tiv­ity by the cen­tral corps of mor­ontia super­vi­sors func­tion­ing on the head­quar­ters world of each lo­cal uni­verse:

44:0.61. Ce­les­tial Mu­si­cians.

44:0.72. Heav­enly Re­pro­duc­ers.

44:0.83. Di­vine Builders.

44:0.94. Thought Re­cord­ers.

44:0.105. En­ergy Ma­nip­u­la­tors.

44:0.116. De­sign­ers and Em­bel­lish­ers.

44:0.127. Har­mony Work­ers.

44:0.13The orig­i­nal teach­ers of these seven groups all hailed from the per­fect worlds of Ha­vona, and Ha­vona con­tains the pat­terns, the pat­tern stud­ies, for all phases and forms of spirit artistry. While it is a gi­gan­tic task to un­der­take to trans­fer these arts of Ha­vona to the worlds of space, the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans have im­proved in tech­nique and ex­e­cu­tion from age to age. As in all other phases of the as­cend­ing ca­reer those who are most ad­vanced in any line of en­deavor are re­quired con­stantly to im­part their su­pe­rior knowl­edge and skill to their less fa­vored fel­lows.

44:0.14You will first be­gin to glimpse these trans­planted arts of Ha­vona on the man­sion worlds, and their beauty and your ap­pre­ci­a­tion of their beauty will heighten and brighten un­til you stand in the spirit halls of Sal­ving­ton and be­hold the in­spir­ing mas­ter­pieces of the su­per­nal artists of the spirit realms.

44:0.15All these ac­tiv­i­ties of the mor­ontia and spirit worlds are real. To spirit be­ings the spirit world is a re­al­ity. To us the ma­te­rial world is the more un­real. The higher forms of spir­its freely pass through or­di­nary mat­ter. High spir­its are re­ac­tive to noth­ing ma­te­rial ex­cept­ing cer­tain of the ba­sic en­er­gies. To ma­te­rial be­ings the spirit world is more or less un­real; to spirit be­ings the ma­te­rial world is al­most en­tirely un­real, be­ing merely a shadow of the sub­stance of spirit re­al­i­ties.

44:0.16I can­not, with ex­clu­sive spirit vi­sion, per­ceive the build­ing in which this nar­ra­tive is be­ing trans­lated and re­corded. A Di­vine Coun­selor from Uversa who chances to stand by my side per­ceives still less of these purely ma­te­rial cre­ations. We dis­cern how these ma­te­rial struc­tures ap­pear to you by view­ing a spirit coun­ter­part pre­sented to our minds by one of our at­tend­ing en­ergy trans­form­ers. This ma­te­rial build­ing is not ex­actly real to me, a spirit be­ing, but it is, of course, very real and very ser­vice­able to ma­te­rial mor­tals.

44:0.17There are cer­tain types of be­ings who are ca­pa­ble of dis­cern­ing the re­al­ity of the crea­tures of both the spirit and the ma­te­rial worlds. Be­long­ing to this class are the so-called fourth crea­tures of the Ha­vona Servi­tals and the fourth crea­tures of the con­cil­ia­tors. The an­gels of time and space are en­dowed with the abil­ity to dis­cern both spirit and ma­te­rial be­ings as also are the as­cend­ing mor­tals sub­se­quent to de­liv­er­ance from the life in the flesh. Af­ter at­tain­ment of the higher spirit lev­els the as­cend­ers are able to rec­og­nize ma­te­rial, mor­ontia, and spirit re­al­i­ties.

44:0.18There is also here with me a Mighty Mes­sen­ger from Uversa, an as­cen­dant Ad­juster-fused, one­time mor­tal be­ing, and he per­ceives you as you are, and at the same time he vi­su­al­izes the Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger, the super­na­phim, and other ce­les­tial be­ings pres­ent. Never in your long as­cen­dancy will you lose the power to rec­og­nize your as­so­ciates of for­mer ex­is­tences. Al­ways, as you as­cend in­ward in the scale of life, will you re­tain the abil­ity to rec­og­nize and frat­er­nize with the fel­low be­ings of your pre­vi­ous and lower lev­els of ex­pe­ri­ence. Each new trans­la­tion or res­ur­rec­tion will add one more group of spirit be­ings to your vi­sion range with­out in the least de­priv­ing you of the abil­ity to rec­og­nize your friends and fel­lows of for­mer es­tates.

44:0.19All this is made pos­si­ble in the ex­pe­ri­ence of as­cend­ing mor­tals by the ac­tion of the in­dwelling Thought Ad­justers. Through their re­ten­tion of the du­pli­cates of your en­tire life’s ex­pe­ri­ences, you are as­sured of never los­ing any true at­tri­bute you once had; and these Ad­justers are go­ing through with you, as a part of you, in re­al­ity, as you.

44:0.20But I al­most de­spair of be­ing able to con­vey to the ma­te­rial mind the na­ture of the work of the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans. I am un­der the ne­ces­sity of con­stantly per­vert­ing thought and dis­tort­ing lan­guage in an ef­fort to un­fold to the mor­tal mind the re­al­ity of these mor­ontia trans­ac­tions and near-spirit phe­nom­ena. Your com­pre­hen­sion is in­ca­pable of grasp­ing, and your lan­guage is in­ad­e­quate for con­vey­ing, the mean­ing, value, and re­la­tion­ship of these semispirit ac­tiv­i­ties. And I pro­ceed with this ef­fort to en­lighten the hu­man mind con­cern­ing these re­al­i­ties with the full un­der­stand­ing of the ut­ter im­pos­si­bil­ity of my be­ing very suc­cess­ful in such an un­der­tak­ing.

44:0.21I can do no more than at­tempt to sketch a crude par­al­lelism be­tween mor­tal ma­te­rial ac­tiv­i­ties and the man­i­fold func­tions of the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans. If the Uran­tia races were more ad­vanced in art and other cul­tural ac­com­plish­ments, then could I go that much far­ther in an ef­fort to project the hu­man mind from the things of mat­ter to those of mor­ontia. About all I can hope to ac­com­plish is to make em­phatic the fact of the re­al­ity of these trans­ac­tions of the mor­ontia and the spirit worlds.