Custodians of Records

25:5.1From among the ter­tiary super­na­phim in Ha­vona, cer­tain of the se­nior chief re­cord­ers are cho­sen as Cus­to­di­ans of Rec­ords, as keep­ers of the for­mal ar­chives of the Isle of Light, those ar­chives which stand in con­trast to the liv­ing rec­ords of reg­istry in the minds of the cus­to­di­ans of knowl­edge, some­times des­ig­nated the “liv­ing li­brary of Par­a­dise.”

25:5.2The record­ing an­gels of the in­hab­ited plan­ets are the source of all in­di­vid­ual rec­ords. Through­out the uni­verses other re­cord­ers func­tion re­gard­ing both for­mal rec­ords and liv­ing rec­ords. From Uran­tia to Par­a­dise, both record­ings are en­coun­tered: in a lo­cal uni­verse, more of the writ­ten rec­ords and less of the liv­ing; on Par­a­dise, more of the liv­ing and less of the for­mal; on Uversa, both are equally avail­able.

25:5.3Ev­ery oc­cur­rence of sig­nif­i­cance in the or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ation is a mat­ter of rec­ord. While events of no more than lo­cal im­por­tance find only a lo­cal record­ing, those of wider sig­nif­i­cance are dealt with ac­cord­ingly. From the plan­ets, sys­tems, and con­stel­la­tions of Neb­a­don, ev­ery­thing of uni­verse im­port is posted on Sal­ving­ton; and from such uni­verse cap­i­tals those episodes are ad­vanced to higher record­ing which per­tain to the af­fairs of the sec­tor and super­gov­ern­ments. Par­a­dise also has a rel­e­vant sum­mary of super­uni­verse and Ha­vona data; and this his­toric and cu­mu­la­tive story of the uni­verse of uni­verses is in the cus­tody of these ex­alted ter­tiary super­na­phim.

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.

26:3.52. The Chief Re­cord­ers. These an­gels are cre­ated on the sec­ond cir­cuit but op­er­ate ev­ery­where in the cen­tral uni­verse. They re­cord in trip­li­cate, ex­e­cut­ing rec­ords for the lit­eral files of Ha­vona, for the spir­i­tual files of their or­der, and for the for­mal rec­ords of Par­a­dise. In ad­di­tion they au­to­mat­i­cally trans­mit the trans­ac­tions of true-knowl­edge im­port to the liv­ing li­braries of Par­a­dise, the cus­to­di­ans of knowl­edge of the pri­mary or­der of super­na­phim.

30:2.784. Cus­to­di­ans of Rec­ords on Par­a­dise.