The Midway Creatures

77:8.1At the last ad­ju­di­ca­tion of this world, when Mi­chael re­moved the slum­ber­ing sur­vivors of time, the mid­way crea­tures were left be­hind, left to as­sist in the spir­i­tual and semispir­i­tual work on the planet. They now func­tion as a sin­gle corps, em­brac­ing both or­ders and num­ber­ing 10,992. The United Mid­way­ers of Uran­tia are at pres­ent gov­erned al­ter­nately by the se­nior mem­ber of each or­der. This regime has ob­tained since their amal­ga­ma­tion into one group shortly af­ter Pen­te­cost.

77:8.2The mem­bers of the older or pri­mary or­der are gen­er­ally known by nu­mer­als; they are of­ten given names such as 1-2-3 the first, 4-5-6 the first, and so on. On Uran­tia the Adamic mid­way­ers are des­ig­nated al­pha­bet­i­cally in or­der to dis­tin­guish them from the nu­mer­i­cal des­ig­na­tion of the pri­mary mid­way­ers.

77:8.3Both or­ders are non­ma­te­rial be­ings as re­gards nu­tri­tion and en­ergy in­take, but they par­take of many hu­man traits and are able to en­joy and fol­low your hu­mor as well as your wor­ship. When at­tached to mor­tals, they en­ter into the spirit of hu­man work, rest, and play. But mid­way­ers do not sleep, nei­ther do they pos­sess pow­ers of pro­cre­ation. In a cer­tain sense the sec­ondary group are dif­fer­en­ti­ated along the lines of male­ness and fe­male­ness, of­ten be­ing spo­ken of as “he” or “she.” They of­ten work to­gether in such pairs.

77:8.4Mid­way­ers are not men, nei­ther are they an­gels, but sec­ondary mid­way­ers are, in na­ture, nearer man than an­gel; they are, in a way, of your races and are, there­fore, very un­der­stand­ing and sym­pa­thetic in their con­tact with hu­man be­ings; they are in­valu­able to the ser­a­phim in their work for and with the var­i­ous races of man­kind, and both or­ders are in­dis­pens­able to the ser­a­phim who serve as per­sonal guard­i­ans to mor­tals.

77:8.5The United Mid­way­ers of Uran­tia are or­ga­nized for ser­vice with the plan­e­tary ser­a­phim in ac­cor­dance with in­nate en­dow­ments and ac­quired skills, in the fol­low­ing groups:

77:8.61. Mid­way mes­sen­gers. This group bear names; they are a small corps and are of great as­sis­tance on an evo­lu­tion­ary world in the ser­vice of quick and re­li­able per­sonal com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

77:8.72. Plan­e­tary sen­tinels. Mid­way­ers are the guard­i­ans, the sen­tinels, of the worlds of space. They per­form the im­por­tant du­ties of ob­servers for all the nu­mer­ous phe­nom­ena and types of com­mu­ni­ca­tion which are of im­port to the super­nat­u­ral be­ings of the realm. They pa­trol the in­vis­i­ble spirit realm of the planet.

77:8.83. Con­tact per­son­al­i­ties. In the con­tacts made with the mor­tal be­ings of the ma­te­rial worlds, such as with the sub­ject through whom these com­mu­ni­ca­tions were trans­mit­ted, the mid­way crea­tures are al­ways em­ployed. They are an es­sen­tial fac­tor in such li­aisons of the spir­i­tual and the ma­te­rial lev­els.

77:8.94. Prog­ress helpers. These are the more spir­i­tual of the mid­way crea­tures, and they are dis­tributed as as­sis­tants to the var­i­ous or­ders of ser­a­phim who func­tion in spe­cial groups on the planet.

77:8.10Mid­way­ers vary greatly in their abil­i­ties to make con­tact with the ser­a­phim above and with their hu­man cousins be­low. It is ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult, for in­stance, for the pri­mary mid­way­ers to make di­rect con­tact with ma­te­rial agen­cies. They are con­sid­er­ably nearer the an­gelic type of be­ing and are there­fore usu­ally as­signed to work­ing with, and min­is­ter­ing to, the spir­i­tual forces res­i­dent on the planet. They act as com­pan­ions and guides for ce­les­tial vis­i­tors and stu­dent so­journ­ers, whereas the sec­ondary crea­tures are al­most ex­clu­sively at­tached to the min­istry of the ma­te­rial be­ings of the realm.

77:8.11The 1,111 loyal sec­ondary mid­way­ers are en­gaged in im­por­tant mis­sions on earth. As com­pared with their pri­mary as­so­ciates, they are de­cid­edly ma­te­rial. They ex­ist just out­side the range of mor­tal vi­sion and pos­sess suf­fi­cient lat­i­tude of adap­ta­tion to make, at will, phys­i­cal con­tact with what hu­mans call “ma­te­rial things.” These unique crea­tures have cer­tain def­i­nite pow­ers over the things of time and space, not ex­cept­ing the beasts of the realm.

77:8.12Many of the more lit­eral phe­nom­ena as­cribed to an­gels have been per­formed by the sec­ondary mid­way crea­tures. When the early teach­ers of the gospel of Je­sus were thrown into prison by the ig­no­rant re­li­gious lead­ers of that day, an ac­tual “an­gel of the Lord” “by night opened the prison doors and brought them forth.” But in the case of Pe­ter’s de­liv­er­ance af­ter the killing of James by Herod’s or­der, it was a sec­ondary mid­wayer who per­formed the work as­cribed to an an­gel.

77:8.13Their chief work to­day is that of un­per­ceived per­sonal-li­ai­son as­so­ciates of those men and women who con­sti­tute the plan­e­tary re­serve corps of des­tiny. It was the work of this sec­ondary group, ably sec­onded by cer­tain of the pri­mary corps, that brought about the co-or­di­na­tion of per­son­al­i­ties and cir­cum­stances on Uran­tia which fi­nally in­duced the plan­e­tary ce­les­tial super­vi­sors to ini­ti­ate those pe­ti­tions that re­sulted in the grant­ing of the man­dates mak­ing pos­si­ble the se­ries of rev­e­la­tions of which this pre­sen­ta­tion is a part. But it should be made clear that the mid­way crea­tures are not in­volved in the sor­did per­for­mances tak­ing place un­der the gen­eral des­ig­na­tion of “spir­i­tu­al­ism.” The mid­way­ers at pres­ent on Uran­tia, all of whom are of hon­or­able stand­ing, are not con­nected with the phe­nom­ena of so-called “medi­umship”; and they do not, or­di­nar­ily, per­mit hu­mans to wit­ness their some­times nec­es­sary phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties or other con­tacts with the ma­te­rial world, as they are per­ceived by hu­man senses.