chiefs of assignment

• primary supernaphim
• remand defeated pilgrims to superuniverses

26:8.5The de­feated can­di­dates for the De­ity ad­ven­ture are placed un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the chiefs of as­sign­ment, a group of pri­mary super­na­phim, and are re­manded to the work of the realms of space for a pe­riod of not less than one mil­len­nium. They never re­turn to the super­uni­verse of their na­tiv­ity, al­ways to that super­cre­ation most pro­pi­tious for their re­train­ing in prepa­ra­tion for the sec­ond De­ity ad­ven­ture. Fol­low­ing this ser­vice, on their own mo­tion, they re­turn to the outer cir­cle of Ha­vona, are im­me­di­ately es­corted to the cir­cle of their in­ter­rupted ca­reer, and at once re­sume their prepa­ra­tions for the De­ity ad­ven­ture. Never do the sec­ondary super­na­phim fail to pi­lot their sub­jects suc­cess­fully on the sec­ond at­tempt, and the same super­aphic min­is­ters and other guides al­ways at­tend these can­di­dates dur­ing this sec­ond ad­ven­ture.

• remand defeated pilgrims to superuniverses

26:10.4They are then taken by the coun­selors of the cir­cle be­fore the chiefs of as­sign­ment on Par­a­dise and are re­manded to the ser­vice of time on the worlds of space; and they go with joy and glad­ness to the tasks of for­mer days and ages. In an­other day they will re­turn to the cir­cle of their great­est dis­ap­point­ment and at­tempt anew the De­ity ad­ven­ture.

• primary supernaphim

27:0.2Pri­mary super­na­phim are also placed in com­mand of the se­raphic hosts min­is­ter­ing on worlds iso­lated be­cause of re­bel­lion. When a Par­a­dise Son is be­stowed upon such a world, com­pletes his mis­sion, as­cends to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, is ac­cepted, and re­turns as the ac­cred­ited de­liv­erer of this iso­lated world, a pri­mary super­na­phim is al­ways des­ig­nated by the chiefs of as­sign­ment to as­sume com­mand of the min­is­ter­ing spir­its on duty in the newly re­claimed sphere. Super­na­phim in this spe­cial ser­vice are pe­ri­od­i­cally ro­tated. On Uran­tia the pres­ent “chief of ser­a­phim” is the sec­ond of this or­der to be on duty since the times of the be­stowal of Christ Mi­chael.

27:0.3From eter­nity the pri­mary super­na­phim have served on the Isle of Light and have gone forth on mis­sions of lead­er­ship to the worlds of space, but they have func­tioned as now clas­si­fied only since the ar­rival on Par­a­dise of the Ha­vona pil­grims of time. These high an­gels now min­is­ter chiefly in the fol­low­ing seven or­ders of ser­vice:

27:0.41. Con­duc­tors of Wor­ship.

27:0.52. Mas­ters of Phi­los­o­phy.

27:0.63. Cus­to­di­ans of Knowl­edge.

27:0.74. Di­rec­tors of Con­duct.

27:0.85. In­ter­preters of Ethics.

27:0.96. Chiefs of As­sign­ment.

• primary supernaphim

27:2.1This is the group des­ig­nated from time to time by the chief super­na­phim, “the orig­i­nal pat­tern an­gel,” to pre­side over the or­ga­ni­za­tion of all three or­ders of these an­gels—pri­mary, sec­ondary, and ter­tiary. The super­na­phim, as a body, are wholly self-gov­ern­ing and self-reg­u­la­tory ex­cept for the func­tions of their mu­tual chief, the first an­gel of Par­a­dise, who ever pre­sides over all these spirit per­son­al­i­ties.

27:2.2The an­gels of as­sign­ment have much to do with glo­ri­fied mor­tal res­i­dents of Par­a­dise be­fore they are ad­mit­ted to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Study and in­struc­tion are not the ex­clu­sive oc­cu­pa­tions of Par­a­dise ar­rivals; ser­vice also plays its es­sen­tial part in the pre­fi­naliter ed­u­ca­tional ex­pe­ri­ences of Par­a­dise. And I have ob­served that, when the as­cen­dant mor­tals have pe­ri­ods of leisure, they evince a predilec­tion to frat­er­nize with the re­serve corps of the super­aphic chiefs of as­sign­ment.

27:2.3When you mor­tal as­cend­ers at­tain Par­a­dise, your so­ci­etal re­la­tion­ships in­volve a great deal more than con­tact with a host of ex­alted and di­vine be­ings and with a fa­mil­iar mul­ti­tude of glo­ri­fied fel­low mor­tals. You must also frat­er­nize with up­wards of three thou­sand dif­fer­ent or­ders of Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens, with the var­i­ous groups of the Tran­scen­den­talers, and with nu­mer­ous other types of Par­a­dise in­hab­i­tants, per­ma­nent and tran­sient, who have not been re­vealed on Uran­tia. Af­ter sus­tained con­tact with these mighty in­tel­lects of Par­a­dise, it is very rest­ful to visit with the an­gelic types of mind; they re­mind the mor­tals of time of the ser­a­phim with whom they have had such long con­tact and such re­fresh­ing as­so­ci­a­tion.

• periodically disperse worshipers on Paradise

27:7.3The pe­ri­odic, spon­ta­neous, group, and other spe­cial out­bursts of su­preme ado­ra­tion and spir­i­tual praise en­joyed on Par­a­dise are con­ducted un­der the lead­er­ship of a spe­cial corps of pri­mary super­na­phim. Un­der the di­rec­tion of these con­duc­tors of wor­ship, such homage achieves the crea­ture goal of su­preme plea­sure and at­tains the heights of the per­fec­tion of sub­lime self-ex­pres­sion and per­sonal en­joy­ment. All pri­mary super­na­phim crave to be con­duc­tors of wor­ship; and all as­cen­dant be­ings would en­joy for­ever re­main­ing in the at­ti­tude of wor­ship did not the chiefs of as­sign­ment pe­ri­od­i­cally dis­perse these as­sem­blages. But no as­cen­dant be­ing is ever re­quired to en­ter upon the as­sign­ments of eter­nal ser­vice un­til he has at­tained full sat­is­fac­tion in wor­ship.