The Midway Creatures

77:9.1Mid­way­ers may be re­garded as the first group of the per­ma­nent in­hab­i­tants to be found on the var­i­ous or­ders of worlds through­out the uni­verses in con­trast with evo­lu­tion­ary as­cend­ers like the mor­tal crea­tures and the an­gelic hosts. Such per­ma­nent cit­i­zens are en­coun­tered at var­i­ous points in the Par­a­dise as­cent.

77:9.2Un­like the var­i­ous or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings who are as­signed to min­is­ter on a planet, the mid­way­ers live on an in­hab­ited world. The ser­a­phim come and go, but the mid­way crea­tures re­main and will re­main, al­beit they are nonethe­less min­is­ters for be­ing na­tives of the planet, and they pro­vide the one con­tin­u­ing regime which har­mo­nizes and con­nects the chang­ing ad­min­is­tra­tions of the se­raphic hosts.

77:9.3As ac­tual cit­i­zens of Uran­tia, the mid­way­ers have a kin­ship in­ter­est in the des­tiny of this sphere. They are a de­ter­mined as­so­ci­a­tion, per­sis­tently work­ing for the prog­ress of their na­tive planet. Their de­ter­mi­na­tion is sug­gested by the motto of their or­der: “What the United Mid­way­ers un­der­take, the United Mid­way­ers do.”

77:9.4Al­though their abil­ity to tra­verse the en­ergy cir­cuits makes plan­e­tary de­par­ture fea­si­ble to any mid­wayer, they have in­di­vid­u­ally pledged them­selves not to leave the planet prior to their some­time re­lease by the uni­verse au­thor­i­ties. Mid­way­ers are an­chored on a planet un­til the ages of set­tled light and life. With the ex­cep­tion of 1-2-3 the first, no loyal mid­way crea­tures have ever de­parted from Uran­tia.

77:9.51-2-3 the first, the el­dest of the pri­mary or­der, was re­leased from im­me­di­ate plan­e­tary du­ties shortly af­ter Pen­te­cost. This no­ble mid­wayer stood stead­fast with Van and Amadon dur­ing the tragic days of the plan­e­tary re­bel­lion, and his fear­less lead­er­ship was in­stru­men­tal in re­duc­ing the ca­su­al­ties in his or­der. He serves at pres­ent on Je­ru­sem as a mem­ber of the twenty-four coun­selors, hav­ing al­ready func­tioned as gov­er­nor gen­eral of Uran­tia once since Pen­te­cost.

77:9.6Mid­way­ers are planet bound, but much as mor­tals talk with trav­el­ers from afar and thus learn about re­mote places on the planet, so do mid­way­ers con­verse with ce­les­tial trav­el­ers to learn about the far places of the uni­verse. So do they be­come con­ver­sant with this sys­tem and uni­verse, even with Or­von­ton and its sis­ter cre­ations, and so do they pre­pare them­selves for cit­i­zen­ship on the higher lev­els of crea­ture ex­is­tence.

77:9.7While the mid­way­ers were brought into ex­is­tence fully de­vel­oped—ex­pe­ri­enc­ing no pe­riod of growth or de­vel­op­ment from im­ma­tu­rity—they never cease to grow in wis­dom and ex­pe­ri­ence. Like mor­tals they are evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures, and they have a cul­ture which is a bona fide evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment. There are many great minds and mighty spir­its among the Uran­tia mid­way corps.

77:9.8In the larger as­pect the civ­i­liza­tion of Uran­tia is the joint prod­uct of the Uran­tia mor­tals and the Uran­tia mid­way­ers, and this is true de­spite the pres­ent dif­fer­en­tial be­tween the two lev­els of cul­ture, a dif­fer­en­tial which will not be com­pen­sated prior to the ages of light and life.

77:9.9The mid­way cul­ture, be­ing the prod­uct of an im­mor­tal plan­e­tary cit­i­zenry, is rel­a­tively im­mune to those tem­po­ral vi­cis­si­tudes which be­set hu­man civ­i­liza­tion. The gen­er­a­tions of men for­get; the corps of mid­way­ers re­mem­bers, and that mem­ory is the trea­sure house of the tra­di­tions of your in­hab­ited world. Thus does the cul­ture of a planet re­main ever pres­ent on that planet, and in proper cir­cum­stances such trea­sured mem­o­ries of past events are made avail­able, even as the story of the life and teach­ings of Je­sus has been given by the mid­way­ers of Uran­tia to their cousins in the flesh.

77:9.10Mid­way­ers are the skill­ful min­is­ters who com­pen­sate that gap be­tween the ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual af­fairs of Uran­tia which ap­peared upon the death of Adam and Eve. They are like­wise your el­der breth­ren, com­rades in the long strug­gle to at­tain a set­tled sta­tus of light and life on Uran­tia. The United Mid­way­ers are a re­bel­lion-tested corps, and they will faith­fully en­act their part in plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion un­til this world at­tains the goal of the ages, un­til that dis­tant day when in fact peace does reign on earth and in truth is there good will in the hearts of men.

77:9.11Be­cause of the valu­able work per­formed by these mid­way­ers, we have con­cluded that they are a truly es­sen­tial part of the spirit econ­omy of the realms. And where re­bel­lion has not marred a planet’s af­fairs, they are of still greater as­sis­tance to the ser­a­phim.

77:9.12The en­tire or­ga­ni­za­tion of high spir­its, an­gelic hosts, and mid­way fel­lows is en­thu­si­as­ti­cally de­voted to the fur­ther­ance of the Par­a­dise plan for the pro­gres­sive as­cen­sion and per­fec­tion at­tain­ment of evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals, one of the su­per­nal busi­nesses of the uni­verse—the su­perb sur­vival plan of bring­ing God down to man and then, by a sub­lime sort of part­ner­ship, car­ry­ing man up to God and on to eter­nity of ser­vice and di­vin­ity of at­tain­ment—alike for mor­tal and mid­wayer.

77:9.13[Pre­sented by an Arch­an­gel of Neb­a­don.]