The Celestial Artisans

44:5.1These in­ter­est­ing and ef­fec­tive ar­ti­sans are con­cerned with ev­ery kind of en­ergy: phys­i­cal, mindal, and spir­i­tual.

44:5.21. Phys­i­cal-en­ergy ma­nip­u­la­tors. The phys­i­cal-en­ergy ma­nip­u­la­tors serve for long pe­ri­ods with the power di­rec­tors and are ex­perts in the ma­nip­u­la­tion and con­trol of many phases of phys­i­cal en­ergy. They are con­ver­sant with the three ba­sic cur­rents and the thirty sub­sidiary en­ergy seg­re­ga­tions of the super­uni­verses. These be­ings are of in­es­timable as­sis­tance to the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors of the tran­si­tion worlds. They are the per­sis­tent stu­dents of the cos­mic pro­jec­tions of Par­a­dise.

44:5.32. Mind-en­ergy ma­nip­u­la­tors. These are the ex­perts of in­ter­com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween mor­ontia and other types of in­tel­li­gent be­ings. This form of com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween mor­tals is prac­ti­cally nonex­is­tent on Uran­tia. These are the spe­cial­ists who pro­mote the abil­ity of the as­cend­ing mor­ontia be­ings to com­mu­ni­cate with one an­other, and their work em­braces nu­mer­ous unique ad­ven­tures in in­tel­lect li­ai­son which are far be­yond my power to por­tray to the ma­te­rial mind. These ar­ti­sans are the keen stu­dents of the mind cir­cuits of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

44:5.43. Spir­i­tual-en­ergy ma­nip­u­la­tors. The ma­nip­u­la­tors of spir­i­tual en­ergy are an in­trigu­ing group. Spir­i­tual en­ergy acts in ac­cor­dance with es­tab­lished laws, just as does phys­i­cal en­ergy. That is, spirit force, when stud­ied, yields de­pend­able de­duc­tions and can be pre­cisely dealt with, even as can the phys­i­cal en­er­gies. There are just as cer­tain and re­li­able laws in the spirit world as ob­tain in the ma­te­rial realms. Dur­ing the last few mil­lions of years many im­proved tech­niques for the in­take of spir­i­tual en­ergy have been ef­fected by these stu­dents of the fun­da­men­tal laws of the Eter­nal Son gov­ern­ing spirit en­ergy as ap­plied to the mor­ontia and other or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings through­out the uni­verses.

44:5.54. The com­pound ma­nip­u­la­tors. This is the ad­ven­tur­ous group of well-trained be­ings who are ded­i­cated to the func­tional as­so­ci­a­tion of the three orig­i­nal phases of di­vine en­ergy man­i­fested through­out the uni­verses as phys­i­cal, mindal, and spir­i­tual en­er­gies. These are the keen per­son­al­i­ties who are in re­al­ity seek­ing to dis­cover the uni­verse pres­ence of God the Su­preme, for in this De­ity per­son­al­ity there must oc­cur the ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­fi­ca­tion of all grand uni­verse di­vin­ity. And to a cer­tain ex­tent, these ar­ti­sans have in re­cent times met with some suc­cess.

44:5.65. The trans­port ad­vis­ers. This corps of tech­ni­cal ad­vis­ers to the trans­port ser­a­phim are most pro­fi­cient in col­lab­o­rat­ing with the star stu­dents in work­ing out rout­ings and in oth­er­wise as­sist­ing the chiefs of trans­port on the worlds of space. They are the traf­fic super­vi­sors of the spheres and are pres­ent on all in­hab­ited plan­ets. Uran­tia is served by a corps of sev­enty trans­port ad­vis­ers.

44:5.76. The ex­perts of com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Uran­tia, like­wise, is served by twelve tech­ni­cians of in­ter­plan­e­tary and in­teruni­verse com­mu­ni­ca­tion. These long-ex­pe­ri­enced be­ings are ex­pert in the knowl­edge of the laws of trans­mit­tal and in­ter­fer­ence as ap­plied to the com­mu­ni­ca­tions of the realms. This corps is con­cerned with all forms of space mes­sages ex­cept those of Grav­ity and Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers. On Uran­tia much of their work must be ac­com­plished over the arch­an­gels’ cir­cuit.

44:5.87. The teach­ers of rest. Di­vine rest is as­so­ci­ated with the tech­nique of spir­i­tual-en­ergy in­take. Mor­ontia and spirit en­ergy must be re­plen­ished just as cer­tainly as phys­i­cal en­ergy, but not for the same rea­sons. I am, per­force, com­pelled to em­ploy crude il­lus­tra­tions in my at­tempts to en­lighten you; nev­er­the­less, we of the spirit world must stop our reg­u­lar ac­tiv­i­ties pe­ri­od­i­cally and be­take our­selves to suit­able places of ren­dezvous where we en­ter the di­vine rest and thus re­cu­per­ate our de­plet­ing en­er­gies.

44:5.9You will re­ceive your first lessons in these mat­ters when you reach the man­sion worlds af­ter you have be­come mor­ontia be­ings and have be­gun to ex­pe­ri­ence the tech­nique of spirit af­fairs. You know of the in­ner­most cir­cle of Ha­vona and that, af­ter the pil­grims of space have tra­versed the pre­ced­ing cir­cles, they must be in­ducted into the long and re­viv­i­fy­ing rest of Par­a­dise. This is not only a tech­ni­cal re­quire­ment of tran­sit from the ca­reer of time to the ser­vice of eter­nity, but it is also a ne­ces­sity, a form of rest re­quired to re­plen­ish the en­ergy losses in­ci­dent to the fi­nal steps of the as­cen­dant ex­pe­ri­ence and to store re­serves of spirit power for the next stage of the end­less ca­reer.

44:5.10These en­ergy ma­nip­u­la­tors also func­tion in hun­dreds of other ways too nu­mer­ous to cat­a­logue, such as coun­sel­ing with the ser­a­phim, cheru­bim, and sa­no­bim re­gard­ing the most ef­fi­cient modes of en­ergy in­take and as to the main­te­nance of the most help­ful bal­ances of di­ver­gent forces be­tween ac­tive cheru­bim and pas­sive sa­no­bim. In many other ways do these ex­perts lend as­sis­tance to mor­ontia and spirit crea­tures in their ef­forts to un­der­stand the di­vine rest, which is so es­sen­tial to the ef­fec­tive uti­liza­tion of the ba­sic en­er­gies of space.