conductors of worship

27:7.1Wor­ship is the high­est priv­i­lege and the first duty of all cre­ated in­tel­li­gences. Wor­ship is the con­scious and joy­ous act of rec­og­niz­ing and ac­knowl­edg­ing the truth and fact of the in­ti­mate and per­sonal re­la­tion­ships of the Cre­ators with their crea­tures. The qual­ity of wor­ship is de­ter­mined by the depth of crea­ture per­cep­tion; and as the knowl­edge of the in­fi­nite char­ac­ter of the Gods pro­gresses, the act of wor­ship be­comes in­creas­ingly all-en­com­pass­ing un­til it even­tu­ally at­tains the glory of the high­est ex­pe­ri­en­tial de­light and the most ex­qui­site plea­sure known to cre­ated be­ings.

27:7.2While the Isle of Par­a­dise con­tains cer­tain places of wor­ship, it is more nearly one vast sanc­tu­ary of di­vine ser­vice. Wor­ship is the first and dom­i­nant pas­sion of all who climb to its bliss­ful shores—the spon­ta­neous ebul­li­tion of the be­ings who have learned enough of God to at­tain his pres­ence. Cir­cle by cir­cle, dur­ing the in­ward jour­ney through Ha­vona, wor­ship is a grow­ing pas­sion un­til on Par­a­dise it be­comes nec­es­sary to di­rect and oth­er­wise con­trol its ex­pres­sion.

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.

27:7.4It is the task of the con­duc­tors of wor­ship so to teach the as­cen­dant crea­tures how to wor­ship that they may be en­abled to gain this sat­is­fac­tion of self-ex­pres­sion and at the same time be able to give at­ten­tion to the es­sen­tial ac­tiv­i­ties of the Par­a­dise regime. With­out im­prove­ment in the tech­nique of wor­ship it would re­quire hun­dreds of years for the av­er­age mor­tal who reaches Par­a­dise to give full and sat­is­fac­tory ex­pres­sion to his emo­tions of in­tel­li­gent ap­pre­ci­a­tion and as­cen­dant grat­i­tude. The con­duc­tors of wor­ship open up new and hith­erto un­known av­enues of ex­pres­sion so that these won­der­ful chil­dren of the womb of space and the tra­vail of time are en­abled to gain the full sat­is­fac­tions of wor­ship in much less time.

27:7.5All the arts of all the be­ings of the en­tire uni­verse which are ca­pa­ble of in­ten­si­fy­ing and ex­alt­ing the abil­i­ties of self-ex­pres­sion and the con­veyance of ap­pre­ci­a­tion, are em­ployed to their high­est ca­pac­ity in the wor­ship of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. Wor­ship is the high­est joy of Par­a­dise ex­is­tence; it is the re­fresh­ing play of Par­a­dise. What play does for your jaded minds on earth, wor­ship will do for your per­fected souls on Par­a­dise. The mode of wor­ship on Par­a­dise is ut­terly be­yond mor­tal com­pre­hen­sion, but the spirit of it you can be­gin to ap­pre­ci­ate even down here on Uran­tia, for the spir­its of the Gods even now in­dwell you, hover over you, and in­spire you to true wor­ship.

27:7.6There are ap­pointed times and places for wor­ship on Par­a­dise, but these are not ad­e­quate to ac­com­mo­date the ever-in­creas­ing over­flow of the spir­i­tual emo­tions of the grow­ing in­tel­li­gence and ex­pand­ing di­vin­ity rec­og­ni­tion of the bril­liant be­ings of ex­pe­ri­en­tial as­cen­sion to the eter­nal Isle. Never since the times of Grand­fanda have the super­na­phim been able fully to ac­com­mo­date the spirit of wor­ship on Par­a­dise. Al­ways is there an ex­cess of wor­ship­ful­ness as gauged by the prepa­ra­tion there­for. And this is be­cause per­son­al­i­ties of in­her­ent per­fec­tion never can fully ap­pre­ci­ate the tremen­dous re­ac­tions of the spir­i­tual emo­tions of be­ings who have slowly and la­bo­ri­ously made their way up­ward to Par­a­dise glory from the depths of the spir­i­tual dark­ness of the lower worlds of time and space. When such an­gels and mor­tals of time at­tain the pres­ence of the Pow­ers of Par­a­dise, there oc­curs the ex­pres­sion of the ac­cu­mu­lated emo­tions of the ages, a spec­ta­cle as­tound­ing to the an­gels of Par­a­dise and pro­duc­tive of the su­preme joy of di­vine sat­is­fac­tion in the Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

27:7.7Some­times all Par­a­dise be­comes en­gulfed in a dom­i­nat­ing tide of spir­i­tual and wor­ship­ful ex­pres­sion. Of­ten the con­duc­tors of wor­ship can­not con­trol such phe­nom­ena un­til the ap­pear­ance of the three­fold fluc­tu­a­tion of the light of the De­ity abode, sig­ni­fy­ing that the di­vine heart of the Gods has been fully and com­pletely sat­is­fied by the sin­cere wor­ship of the res­i­dents of Par­a­dise, the per­fect cit­i­zens of glory and the as­cen­dant crea­tures of time. What a tri­umph of tech­nique! What a fruition of the eter­nal plan and pur­pose of the Gods that the in­tel­li­gent love of the crea­ture child should give full sat­is­fac­tion to the in­fi­nite love of the Cre­ator Fa­ther!

27:7.8Af­ter the at­tain­ment of the su­preme sat­is­fac­tion of the full­ness of wor­ship, you are qual­i­fied for ad­mis­sion to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. The as­cen­dant ca­reer is well-nigh fin­ished, and the sev­enth ju­bilee pre­pares for cel­e­bra­tion. The first ju­bilee marked the mor­tal agree­ment with the Thought Ad­juster when the pur­pose to sur­vive was sealed; the sec­ond was the awak­en­ing in the mor­ontia life; the third was the fu­sion with the Thought Ad­juster; the fourth was the awak­en­ing in Ha­vona; the fifth cel­e­brated the find­ing of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and the sixth ju­bilee was the oc­ca­sion of the Par­a­dise awak­en­ing from the fi­nal tran­sit slum­ber of time. The sev­enth ju­bilee marks en­trance into the mor­tal fi­nal­i­ter corps and the be­gin­ning of the eter­nity ser­vice. The at­tain­ment of the sev­enth stage of spirit re­al­iza­tion by a fi­nal­i­ter will prob­a­bly sig­nal­ize the cel­e­bra­tion of the first of the ju­bilees of eter­nity.

27:7.9And thus ends the story of the Par­a­dise super­na­phim, the high­est or­der of all the min­is­ter­ing spir­its, those be­ings who, as a uni­ver­sal class, ever at­tend you from the world of your ori­gin un­til you are fi­nally bid­den farewell by the con­duc­tors of wor­ship as you take the Trin­ity oath of eter­nity and are mus­tered into the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

27:7.10The end­less ser­vice of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity is about to be­gin; and now the fi­nal­i­ter is face to face with the chal­lenge of God the Ul­ti­mate.

27:7.11[Pre­sented by a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom from Uversa.]

27:0.41. Con­duc­tors of Wor­ship.