court advisers

• supreme seraphim; serve as defenders of mortals

39:1.72. Court Ad­vis­ers. These are the se­raphic ad­vis­ers and helpers at­tached to all or­ders of ad­ju­di­ca­tion, from the con­cil­ia­tors up to the high­est tri­bu­nals of the realm. It is not the pur­pose of such tri­bu­nals to de­ter­mine puni­tive sen­tences but rather to ad­ju­di­cate hon­est dif­fer­ences of opin­ion and to de­cree the ev­er­last­ing sur­vival of as­cend­ing mor­tals. Herein lies the duty of the court ad­vis­ers: to see that all charges against mor­tal crea­tures are stated in jus­tice and ad­ju­di­cated in mercy. In this work they are closely as­so­ci­ated with the High Com­mis­sion­ers, Spirit-fused as­cen­dant mor­tals serv­ing in the lo­cal uni­verse.

39:1.8The se­raphic court ad­vis­ers serve ex­ten­sively as de­fend­ers of mor­tals. Not that there ever ex­ists any dis­po­si­tion to be un­fair to the lowly crea­tures of the realms, but while jus­tice de­mands the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of ev­ery de­fault in the climb to­wards di­vine per­fec­tion, mercy re­quires that ev­ery such mis­step be fairly ad­judged in ac­cor­dance with the crea­ture na­ture and the di­vine pur­pose. These an­gels are the ex­po­nents and ex­em­pli­fi­ca­tion of the el­e­ment of mercy in­her­ent in di­vine jus­tice—of fair­ness based on the knowl­edge of the un­der­ly­ing facts of per­sonal mo­tives and racial ten­den­cies.

39:1.9This or­der of an­gels serves from the coun­cils of the Plan­e­tary Princes to the high­est tri­bu­nals of the lo­cal uni­verse, while their as­so­ciates of the Se­raphic Corps of Com­ple­tion func­tion in the higher realms of Or­von­ton, even to the courts of the An­cients of Days on Uversa.