The Celestial Artisans

44:6.1How I wish I knew how to por­tray the ex­qui­site work of these unique ar­ti­sans! Ev­ery at­tempt on my part to ex­plain the work of spirit em­bel­lish­ment would only re­call to ma­te­rial minds your own piti­ful but wor­thy ef­forts to do these things on your world of mind and mat­ter.

44:6.2This corps, while em­brac­ing over one thou­sand sub­di­vi­sions of ac­tiv­ity, is grouped un­der the fol­low­ing seven ma­jor heads:

44:6.31. The craft­work­ers of color. These are they who make the ten thou­sand color tones of spirit re­flec­tion peal forth their ex­qui­site mes­sages of har­mo­nious beauty. Aside from color per­cep­tion there is noth­ing in hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence to which these ac­tiv­i­ties may be com­pared.

44:6.42. The sound de­sign­ers. Spirit waves of di­verse iden­tity and mor­ontia ap­pre­ci­a­tion are de­picted by these de­sign­ers of what you would call sound. These im­pulses are in re­al­ity the su­perb re­flec­tions of the naked and glo­ri­ous spirit-souls of the ce­les­tial hosts.

44:6.53. The emo­tion de­sign­ers. These en­hancers and con­ser­va­tors of feel­ing are those who pre­serve the sen­ti­ments of mor­ontia and the emo­tions of di­vin­ity for the study and ed­i­fi­ca­tion of the chil­dren of time and for the in­spi­ra­tion and beau­ti­fi­ca­tion of mor­ontia pro­gres­sors and ad­vanc­ing spir­its.

44:6.64. The artists of odor. This com­par­i­son of su­per­nal spirit ac­tiv­i­ties to the phys­i­cal rec­og­ni­tion of chem­i­cal odors is, in­deed, un­for­tu­nate, but Uran­tia mor­tals could hardly rec­og­nize this min­istry by any other name. These ar­ti­sans cre­ate their var­ied sym­phonies for the ed­i­fi­ca­tion and de­light of the ad­vanc­ing chil­dren of light. You have noth­ing on earth to which this type of spir­i­tual grandeur can be even re­motely com­pared.

44:6.75. The pres­ence em­bel­lish­ers. These ar­ti­sans are not oc­cu­pied with the arts of self-adorn­ment or the tech­nique of crea­ture beau­ti­fi­ca­tion. They are de­voted to the pro­duc­tion of mul­ti­tudi­nous and joy­ous re­ac­tions in in­di­vid­ual mor­ontia and spirit crea­tures by dra­ma­tiz­ing the sig­nif­i­cance of re­la­tion­ship through the po­si­tional val­ues as­signed to dif­fer­ent mor­ontia and spirit or­ders in the com­pos­ite en­sem­bles of these di­ver­si­fied be­ings. These artists ar­range super­ma­te­rial be­ings as you would liv­ing mu­si­cal notes, odors, sights, and then blend them into the an­thems of glory.

44:6.86. The taste de­sign­ers. And how can you be told of these artists! Faintly I might sug­gest that they are im­provers of mor­ontia taste, and they also en­deavor to in­crease the ap­pre­ci­a­tion of beauty through the sharp­en­ing of the evolv­ing spirit senses.

44:6.97. The mor­ontia syn­the­siz­ers. These are the mas­ter crafts­men who, when all oth­ers have made their re­spec­tive con­tri­bu­tions, then add the cul­mi­nat­ing and fin­ish­ing touches to the mor­ontia en­sem­ble, thus achiev­ing an in­spir­ing por­trayal of the di­vinely beau­ti­ful, an en­dur­ing in­spi­ra­tion to spirit be­ings and their mor­ontia as­so­ciates. But you must await your de­liv­er­ance from the an­i­mal body be­fore you can be­gin to con­ceive of the artis­tic glo­ries and aes­thetic beau­ties of the mor­ontia and spirit worlds.