Celestial Recorders

25:6.1These are the re­cord­ers who ex­e­cute all rec­ords in du­pli­cate, mak­ing an orig­i­nal spirit record­ing and a semi­ma­te­rial coun­ter­part—what might be called a car­bon copy. This they can do be­cause of their pe­cu­liar abil­ity si­mul­ta­ne­ously to ma­nip­u­late both spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial en­ergy. Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers are not cre­ated as such; they are as­cen­dant ser­a­phim from the lo­cal uni­verses. They are re­ceived, clas­si­fied, and as­signed to their spheres of work by the coun­cils of the Chiefs of Rec­ords on the head­quar­ters of the seven super­uni­verses. There also are lo­cated the schools for train­ing Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers. The school on Uversa is con­ducted by the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom and the Di­vine Coun­selors.

25:6.2As the re­cord­ers ad­vance in uni­verse ser­vice, they con­tinue their sys­tem of dual record­ing, thus mak­ing their rec­ords al­ways avail­able to all classes of be­ings, from those of the ma­te­rial or­der to the high spir­its of light. In your tran­si­tion ex­pe­ri­ence, as you as­cend from this ma­te­rial world, you will al­ways be able to con­sult the rec­ords of, and to be oth­er­wise con­ver­sant with, the his­tory and tra­di­tions of your sta­tus sphere.

25:6.3The re­cord­ers are a tested and tried corps. Never have I known of the de­fec­tion of a Ce­les­tial Re­corder, and never has there been dis­cov­ered a fal­si­fi­ca­tion in their rec­ords. They are sub­jected to a dual in­spec­tion, their rec­ords be­ing scru­ti­nized by their ex­alted fel­lows from Uversa and by the Mighty Mes­sen­gers, who cer­tify to the cor­rect­ness of the quasi-phys­i­cal du­pli­cates of the orig­i­nal spirit rec­ords.

25:6.4While the ad­vanc­ing re­cord­ers sta­tioned on the sub­or­di­nate spheres of rec­ord in the Or­von­ton uni­verses num­ber tril­lions upon tril­lions, those of at­tained sta­tus on Uversa are not quite eight mil­lion in num­ber. These se­nior or grad­u­ate re­cord­ers are the super­uni­verse cus­to­di­ans and for­warders of the spon­sored rec­ords of time and space. Their per­ma­nent head­quar­ters are in the cir­cu­lar abodes sur­round­ing the area of rec­ords on Uversa. They never leave the cus­tody of these rec­ords to oth­ers; as in­di­vid­u­als they may be ab­sent, but never in large num­bers.

25:6.5Like those super­na­phim who have be­come Cus­to­di­ans of Rec­ords, the corps of Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers is of per­ma­nent as­sign­ment. Once ser­a­phim and super­na­phim are mus­tered into these ser­vices, they will re­spec­tively re­main Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers and Cus­to­di­ans of Rec­ords un­til the day of the new and mod­i­fied ad­min­is­tra­tion of the full per­son­al­iza­tion of God the Su­preme.

25:6.6On Uversa these se­nior Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers can show the rec­ords of ev­ery­thing of cos­mic im­port in all Or­von­ton since the far-dis­tant times of the ar­rival of the An­cients of Days, while on the eter­nal Isle the Cus­to­di­ans of Rec­ords guard the ar­chives of that realm which tes­tify to the trans­ac­tions of Par­a­dise since the times of the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

25:5.4While cer­tain of these be­ings have been dis­patched to the super­uni­verses to serve as Chiefs of Rec­ords di­rect­ing the ac­tiv­i­ties of the Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers, not one has ever been trans­ferred from the per­ma­nent roll call of their or­der.

30:2.795. Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers.

53:7.5No be­ings of Par­a­dise ori­gin were in­volved in dis­loy­alty. To­gether with the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers they took up head­quar­ters on the world of the Spirit and re­mained un­der the lead­er­ship of the Faith­ful of Days of Eden­tia. None of the con­cil­ia­tors apo­s­ta­tized, nor did a sin­gle one of the Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers go astray. But a heavy toll was taken of the Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions and the Man­sion World Teach­ers.

37:8.8Of the Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers, the as­cen­dant ser­a­phim, we have in Neb­a­don sev­enty-five. These are the se­nior or super­vis­ing re­cord­ers. The ad­vanc­ing stu­dents of this or­der in train­ing num­ber al­most four bil­lion.

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.

27:5.4The wis­dom of truth takes ori­gin in the di­vin­ity of the cen­tral uni­verse, but knowl­edge, ex­pe­ri­en­tial knowl­edge, largely has its be­gin­nings in the do­mains of time and space—there­fore the ne­ces­sity for the main­te­nance of the far-flung super­uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tions of the record­ing ser­a­phim and super­na­phim spon­sored by the Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers.