celestial artisans

• in Uversa personality register

30:2.1512. Ce­les­tial Ar­ti­sans.

• celestial artisans

30:3.62. The Ce­les­tial Ar­ti­sans serve through­out the seven super­uni­verses. As­cend­ing mor­tals have their ini­tial con­tact with these groups in the mor­ontia ca­reer of the lo­cal uni­verse in con­nec­tion with which these ar­ti­sans will be more fully dis­cussed.

• seraphim may attain Paradise through service as

39:8.31. To gain ad­mis­sion to the Par­a­dise se­raphic abode in a per­sonal ca­pac­ity by achiev­ing per­fec­tion of spe­cial­ized ser­vice as a ce­les­tial ar­ti­san, a Tech­ni­cal Ad­viser, or a Ce­les­tial Re­corder. To be­come a Par­a­dise Com­pan­ion and, hav­ing thus at­tained the cen­ter of all things, per­haps then to be­come an eter­nal min­is­ter and ad­viser to the se­raphic or­ders and oth­ers.

• direct spornagia on system capitals
• utilize living materials to represent ideas

43:6.7Be­ing en­dowed with ten di­vi­sions of phys­i­cal life, not to men­tion the mor­ontia vari­a­tions, these ar­chi­tec­tural worlds pro­vide tremen­dous pos­si­bil­i­ties for the bi­o­logic beau­ti­fi­ca­tion of the land­scape and of the ma­te­rial and the mor­ontia struc­tures. The ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans di­rect the na­tive sporna­gia in this ex­ten­sive work of botanic dec­o­ra­tion and bi­o­logic em­bel­lish­ment. Whereas your artists must re­sort to in­ert paint and life­less mar­ble to por­tray their con­cepts, the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans and the uni­v­i­ta­tia more fre­quently uti­lize liv­ing ma­te­ri­als to rep­re­sent their ideas and to cap­ture their ide­als.

• univitatia are largest group associated with

43:7.4In the var­i­ous cour­tesy colonies, as­cend­ing mor­ontia mor­tals pre­dom­i­nate among the re­ver­sion di­rec­tors, but the uni­v­i­ta­tia rep­re­sent the largest group as­so­ci­ated with the Neb­a­don corps of ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans. In all Or­von­ton no ex­tra-Ha­vona be­ings ex­cept­ing the Uversa aban­don­ters can equal the uni­v­i­ta­tia in artis­tic skill, so­cial adapt­abil­ity, and co-or­di­nat­ing clev­er­ness.

43:7.5These cit­i­zens of the con­stel­la­tion are not ac­tu­ally mem­bers of the ar­ti­san corps, but they freely work with all groups and con­tribute much to mak­ing the con­stel­la­tion worlds the chief spheres for the re­al­iza­tion of the mag­nif­i­cent artis­tic pos­si­bil­i­ties of tran­si­tion cul­ture. They do not func­tion be­yond the con­fines of the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters worlds.

• chief realm of activity is in constellations
• master artists of morontia and lower spirit realms

44:0.1Among the cour­tesy colonies of the var­i­ous di­vi­sional and uni­verse head­quar­ters worlds may be found the unique or­der of com­pos­ite per­son­al­i­ties de­nom­i­nated the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans. These be­ings are the mas­ter artists and ar­ti­sans of the mor­ontia and lower spirit realms. They are the spir­its and semispir­its who are en­gaged in mor­ontia em­bel­lish­ment and in spir­i­tual beau­ti­fi­ca­tion. Such ar­ti­sans are dis­tributed through­out the grand uni­verse—on the head­quar­ters worlds of the super­uni­verses, the lo­cal uni­verses, the con­stel­la­tions, and sys­tems, as well as on all spheres set­tled in light and life; but their chief realm of ac­tiv­ity is in the con­stel­la­tions and es­pe­cially on the seven hun­dred sev­enty worlds sur­round­ing each head­quar­ters sphere.

• original 7000 assigned by Infinite Spirit; all hailed from Havona
• selected and recruited corps; not created as such

44:0.3The ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans are not cre­ated as such; they are a se­lected and re­cruited corps of be­ings com­posed of cer­tain teacher per­son­al­i­ties na­tive to the cen­tral uni­verse and their vol­un­teer pupils drawn from the as­cend­ing mor­tals and nu­mer­ous other ce­les­tial groups. The orig­i­nal teach­ing corps of these ar­ti­sans was some­time as­signed by the In­fi­nite Spirit in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and con­sisted of seven thou­sand Ha­vona in­struc­tors, one thou­sand to each of the seven di­vi­sions of ar­ti­sans. With such a nu­cleus to start with, there has de­vel­oped through the ages this bril­liant body of skill­ful work­ers in spirit and mor­ontia af­fairs.

• all ascenders eligible to become
• minimum enlistment one millennium

44:0.4Any mor­ontia per­son­al­ity or spirit en­tity is el­i­gi­ble for ad­mis­sion to the corps of the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans; that is, any be­ing be­low the rank of in­her­ent di­vine son­ship. As­cend­ing sons of God from the evo­lu­tion­ary spheres may, af­ter their ar­rival on the mor­ontia worlds, ap­ply for ad­mis­sion to the ar­ti­san corps and, if suf­fi­ciently gifted, may choose such a ca­reer for a longer or shorter pe­riod. But no one may en­list with the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans for less than one mil­len­nium, one thou­sand years of super­uni­verse time.

• directed from local universe capitals

44:0.5All ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans are reg­is­tered on the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters but are di­rected by mor­ontia super­vi­sors on the lo­cal uni­verse cap­i­tals. They are com­mis­sioned in the fol­low­ing seven ma­jor di­vi­sions of ac­tiv­ity by the cen­tral corps of mor­ontia super­vi­sors func­tion­ing on the head­quar­ters world of each lo­cal uni­verse:

• original 7000 assigned by Infinite Spirit; all hailed from Havona

44:0.13The orig­i­nal teach­ers of these seven groups all hailed from the per­fect worlds of Ha­vona, and Ha­vona con­tains the pat­terns, the pat­tern stud­ies, for all phases and forms of spirit artistry. While it is a gi­gan­tic task to un­der­take to trans­fer these arts of Ha­vona to the worlds of space, the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans have im­proved in tech­nique and ex­e­cu­tion from age to age. As in all other phases of the as­cend­ing ca­reer those who are most ad­vanced in any line of en­deavor are re­quired con­stantly to im­part their su­pe­rior knowl­edge and skill to their less fa­vored fel­lows.

• do not personally work on planets such as Urantia
• sometimes help gifted mortals
• work under angels of progress on Urantia

44:8.1Al­though ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans do not per­son­ally work on ma­te­rial plan­ets, such as Uran­tia, they do come, from time to time, from the head­quar­ters of the sys­tem to prof­fer help to the nat­u­rally gifted in­di­vid­u­als of the mor­tal races. When thus as­signed, these ar­ti­sans tem­porar­ily work un­der the super­vi­sion of the plan­e­tary an­gels of prog­ress. The se­raphic hosts co-op­er­ate with these ar­ti­sans in at­tempt­ing to as­sist those mor­tal artists who pos­sess in­her­ent en­dow­ments, and who also pos­sess Ad­justers of spe­cial and pre­vi­ous ex­pe­ri­ence.

44:8.2There are three pos­si­ble sources of spe­cial hu­man abil­ity: At the bot­tom al­ways there ex­ists the nat­u­ral or in­her­ent ap­ti­tude. Spe­cial abil­ity is never an ar­bi­trary gift of the Gods; there is al­ways an an­ces­tral foun­da­tion for ev­ery out­stand­ing tal­ent. In ad­di­tion to this nat­u­ral abil­ity, or rather sup­ple­men­tal thereto, there may be con­tributed the lead­ings of the Thought Ad­juster in those in­di­vid­u­als whose in­dwelling Ad­justers may have had ac­tual and bona fide ex­pe­ri­ences along such lines on other worlds and in other mor­tal crea­tures. In those cases where both the hu­man mind and the in­dwelling Ad­juster are un­usu­ally skill­ful, the spirit ar­ti­sans may be del­e­gated to act as har­mo­niz­ers of these tal­ents and oth­er­wise to as­sist and in­spire these mor­tals to seek for ever-per­fect­ing ide­als and to at­tempt their en­hanced por­trayal for the ed­i­fi­ca­tion of the realm.

• direct spornagia on system capitals

46:5.31The ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans di­rect the sporna­gia and pro­vide the host of cre­ative dec­o­ra­tions and mon­u­men­tal memo­ri­als which abound in ev­ery place of pub­lic as­sem­bly. The stu­dios of these ar­ti­sans are among the largest and most beau­ti­ful of all the match­less struc­tures of this won­der­ful world. The other cour­tesy colonies main­tain ex­ten­sive and beau­ti­ful head­quar­ters. Many of these build­ings are con­structed wholly of crys­tal gems. All the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds abound in crys­tals and the so-called pre­cious met­als.

• maintain headquarters on each mansion world

47:0.4The seven man­sion worlds are in charge of the mor­ontia super­vi­sors and the Mel­chiz­e­deks. There is an act­ing gov­er­nor on each world who is di­rectly re­spon­si­ble to the Je­ru­sem rulers. The Uversa con­cil­ia­tors main­tain head­quar­ters on each of the man­sion worlds, while ad­join­ing is the lo­cal ren­dezvous of the Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers. The re­ver­sion di­rec­tors and ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans main­tain group head­quar­ters on each of these worlds. The spironga func­tion from man­sion world num­ber two on­ward, while all seven, in com­mon with the other tran­si­tional-cul­ture plan­ets and the head­quar­ters world, are abun­dantly pro­vided with sporna­gia of stan­dard cre­ation.

• co-operate with reversion directors

48:4.8But the re­ver­sion di­rec­tors of the realms are not con­cerned ex­clu­sively with de­pict­ing the high hu­mor of the var­i­ous or­ders of in­tel­li­gent be­ings; they are also oc­cu­pied with the lead­er­ship of di­ver­sion, spir­i­tual recre­ation and mor­ontia en­ter­tain­ment. And in this con­nec­tion they have the hearty co-op­er­a­tion of the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans.

• co-operate with recorder-teacher transition seraphim

48:6.306. Re­corder-Teach­ers. These ser­a­phim are the re­cord­ers of the bor­der­land trans­ac­tions of the spir­i­tual and the phys­i­cal, of the re­la­tion­ships of men and an­gels, of the mor­ontia trans­ac­tions of the lower uni­verse realms. They also serve as in­struc­tors re­gard­ing the ef­fi­cient and ef­fec­tive tech­niques of fact record­ing. There is an artistry in the in­tel­li­gent as­sem­bly and co-or­di­na­tion of re­lated data, and this art is height­ened in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans, and even the as­cend­ing mor­tals be­come thus af­fil­i­ated with the record­ing ser­a­phim.