Celestial Guardians

22:10.8They are touch­ingly af­fec­tion­ate, su­perbly loyal, ex­qui­sitely in­tel­li­gent, su­premely wise—re­gard­ing a sin­gle idea—and tran­scen­dently hum­ble. While they can im­part to you the lore of the uni­verse con­cern­ing their one idea or ideal, it is well-nigh pa­thetic to ob­serve them seek­ing knowl­edge and in­for­ma­tion on hosts of other sub­jects, even from the as­cend­ing mor­tals.

22:9.4The Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans are the of­fi­cers of the courts of the An­cients of Days, func­tion­ing as court mes­sen­gers and as bear­ers of the sum­monses and de­ci­sions of the var­i­ous tri­bu­nals of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments. They are the ap­pre­hend­ing agents of the An­cients of Days; they go forth from Uversa to bring back be­ings whose pres­ence is re­quired be­fore the super­uni­verse judges; they ex­e­cute the man­dates for the de­ten­tion of any per­son­al­ity in the super­uni­verse. They also ac­com­pany Spirit-fused mor­tals of the lo­cal uni­verses when, for any rea­son, their pres­ence is re­quired on Uversa.

22:10.2If, in dis­cussing the Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans, I have seemed to call at­ten­tion to the lim­i­ta­tions and hand­i­caps of these twice-trin­i­tized sons, let me now, in all fair­ness, call at­ten­tion to their one point of great strength, the at­tri­bute which makes them al­most in­valu­able to us. These be­ings owe their very ex­is­tence to the fact that they are the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of a sin­gle and su­preme con­cept. They are the per­son­al­ity em­bod­i­ment of some di­vine idea, some uni­ver­sal ideal, as it has never be­fore been con­ceived, ex­pressed, or trin­i­tized. And they have sub­se­quently been Trin­ity em­braced; thus they show forth and ac­tu­ally em­body the very wis­dom of the di­vine Trin­ity as con­cerns the idea-ideal of their per­son­al­ity ex­is­tence. As far as that par­tic­u­lar con­cept is re­veal­able to the uni­verses, these per­son­al­i­ties em­body all of ev­ery­thing that any crea­ture or Cre­ator in­tel­li­gence could pos­si­bly con­ceive, ex­press, or ex­em­plify. They are that idea per­son­i­fied.

22:9.3Al­most one bil­lion Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans have been com­mis­sioned in Or­von­ton. They are chiefly as­signed to the ad­min­is­tra­tions of the Per­fec­tions of Days on the head­quar­ters of the ma­jor sec­tors and are ably as­sisted by a corps of as­cen­dant Son-fused mor­tals.

40:10.9While the ma­jor­ity of Spirit fusers serve per­ma­nently as cit­i­zens of the lo­cal uni­verses, all do not. If some phase of their uni­verse min­istry should re­quire their per­sonal pres­ence in the super­uni­verse, then would such trans­for­ma­tions of be­ing be wrought in these cit­i­zens as would en­able them to as­cend to the higher uni­verse; and upon the ar­rival of the Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans with or­ders to pre­sent such Spirit-fused mor­tals at the courts of the An­cients of Days, they would so as­cend, never to re­turn. They be­come wards of the super­uni­verse, serv­ing as as­sis­tants to the Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and per­ma­nently, save for those few who are in turn sum­moned to the ser­vice of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona.

18:4.4The Per­fec­tions of Days have a mod­er­ate-sized corps of Di­vine Coun­selors, Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, and Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors at­tached to their gov­ern­ments. They have still larger num­bers of Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber. But much of the rou­tine work of ma­jor sec­tor af­fairs is car­ried on by the Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and the High Son As­sis­tants. These two groups are drawn from among the trin­i­tized off­spring of ei­ther Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties or glo­ri­fied mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters. Cer­tain of these two or­ders of crea­ture-trin­i­tized be­ings are re­trini­tized by the Par­a­dise De­i­ties and then are dis­patched to as­sist in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments.

18:4.5Most of the Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and the High Son As­sis­tants are as­signed to the ser­vice of the ma­jor and the mi­nor sec­tors, but the Trin­i­tized Cus­to­di­ans (Trin­ity-em­braced ser­a­phim and mid­way­ers) are the of­fi­cers of the courts of all three di­vi­sions, func­tion­ing in the tri­bu­nals of the An­cients of Days, the Per­fec­tions of Days, and the Re­cents of Days. The Trin­i­tized Am­bas­sadors (Trin­ity-em­braced as­cen­dant mor­tals of Son- or Spirit-fused na­ture) may be en­coun­tered any­where in a super­uni­verse, but the ma­jor­ity are in the ser­vice of the mi­nor sec­tors.

22:5.6The Trin­i­tized Cus­to­di­ans start out their ca­reers as cus­to­di­ans, and they con­tinue as such in the af­fairs of the super­gov­ern­ments. In a way, they are of­fi­cers of their super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments, but they do not deal with in­di­vid­u­als, as do the Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans. The Trin­i­tized Cus­to­di­ans ad­min­is­ter group af­fairs and fos­ter col­lec­tive projects. They are the cus­to­di­ans of rec­ords, plans, and in­sti­tu­tions; they act as the trustees of un­der­tak­ings, per­son­al­ity groups, as­cen­dant projects, mor­ontia plans, uni­verse pro­jec­tions, and in­nu­mer­able other en­ter­prises.

22:9.7Trin­i­tized Sons of Per­fec­tion are lim­ited in con­trast to other Trin­ity-em­braced sons be­cause their ex­pe­ri­en­tial ca­pac­ity is time-space in­hib­ited. They are ex­pe­ri­ence-de­fi­cient, de­spite long train­ing with the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives and the Teacher Sons, and if this were not the case, ex­pe­ri­en­tial sat­u­ra­tion would pre­clude their be­ing left in re­serve for ac­quir­ing ex­pe­ri­ence in a fu­ture uni­verse age. There is sim­ply noth­ing in all uni­ver­sal ex­is­tence which can take the place of ac­tual per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence, and these crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons are held in re­serve for ex­pe­ri­en­tial func­tion in some fu­ture uni­verse epoch.

30:2.606. Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans.

22:9.5The Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and their as­so­ciates, the High Son As­sis­tants, have never been in­dwelt by Ad­justers. Nei­ther are they Spirit nor Son fused. The em­brace of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity does, how­ever, com­pen­sate for the non­fused sta­tus of the Trin­i­tized Sons of Per­fec­tion. The Trin­ity em­brace may act solely upon the idea which is per­son­i­fied in a crea­ture-trin­i­tized son, leav­ing the em­braced son oth­er­wise un­changed, but such a lim­i­ta­tion oc­curs only when so planned.

22:9.1Crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons are em­braced by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity in classes of seven thou­sand. These trin­i­tized off­spring of per­fected hu­mans and of Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties are all equally em­braced by the De­i­ties, but they are as­signed to the super­uni­verses in ac­cor­dance with the ad­vice of their for­mer in­struc­tors, the Trin­ity Teacher Sons. Those of more ac­cept­able ser­vice are com­mis­sioned High Son As­sis­tants; those of less dis­tin­guished per­for­mance are des­ig­nated Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans.

22:1.12The Trin­i­tized Sons of Per­fec­tion. The Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and their co-or­di­nates, the High Son As­sis­tants, com­prise a unique group of twice-trin­i­tized per­son­al­i­ties. They are the crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons of Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties or of per­fected as­cen­dant mor­tals who have long dis­tin­guished them­selves in the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Some of these crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons, af­ter ser­vice with the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and af­ter serv­ing un­der the Trin­ity Teacher Sons, are re­trini­tized (em­braced) by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and then com­mis­sioned to the courts of the An­cients of Days as Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and as High Son As­sis­tants. Trin­i­tized Sons of Per­fec­tion are as­signed di­rectly to the super­uni­verse ser­vice with­out fur­ther train­ing.