The Midway Creatures

77:0.1Most of the in­hab­ited worlds of Neb­a­don har­bor one or more groups of unique be­ings ex­ist­ing on a life-func­tion­ing level about mid­way be­tween those of the mor­tals of the realms and of the an­gelic or­ders; hence are they called mid­way crea­tures. They ap­pear to be an ac­ci­dent of time, but they oc­cur so widespreadly and are so valu­able as helpers that we have all long since ac­cepted them as one of the es­sen­tial or­ders of our com­bined plan­e­tary min­istry.

77:0.2On Uran­tia there func­tion two dis­tinct or­ders of mid­way­ers: the pri­mary or se­nior corps, who came into be­ing back in the days of Dala­ma­tia, and the sec­ondary or younger group, whose ori­gin dates from the times of Adam.