divine executioners

25:2.83. The Di­vine Ex­e­cu­tioner. The con­cil­ia­tor qual­i­fied by in­her­ent na­ture to make con­tact with the ma­te­rial be­ings of the realms and to ex­e­cute the de­ci­sions of the com­mis­sion. Di­vine ex­e­cu­tion­ers, be­ing fourth crea­tures—quasi-ma­te­rial be­ings—are al­most, but not quite, vis­i­ble to the short-range vi­sion of the mor­tal races.

25:3.115. Con­cil­ia­tors to the Super­uni­verse Mi­nor Sec­tors. From the prob­lems of lo­cal uni­verses the com­mis­sion­ers are ad­vanced to the study of ques­tions aris­ing in the mi­nor sec­tors of their super­uni­verse. The far­ther they as­cend in­ward from the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets, the fewer are the ma­te­rial du­ties of the di­vine ex­e­cu­tioner; grad­u­ally he as­sumes a new role of mercy-jus­tice in­ter­preter, at the same time—be­ing quasi-ma­te­rial—keep­ing the com­mis­sion as a whole in sym­pa­thetic touch with the ma­te­rial as­pects of its in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

25:3.126. Con­cil­ia­tors to the Super­uni­verse Ma­jor Sec­tors. The char­ac­ter of the work of the com­mis­sion­ers con­tin­ues to change as they ad­vance. There is less and less of mis­un­der­stand­ing to ad­ju­di­cate and more and more of mys­te­ri­ous phe­nom­ena to ex­plain and in­ter­pret. From stage to stage they are evolv­ing from ar­biters of dif­fer­ences to ex­plain­ers of mys­ter­ies—judges evolv­ing into in­ter­pre­ta­tive teach­ers. Ar­biters of those who through ig­no­rance per­mit dif­fi­cul­ties and mis­un­der­stand­ings to arise, they once were; but they are now be­com­ing in­struc­tors of those who are suf­fi­ciently in­tel­li­gent and tol­er­ant to avoid clashes of mind and wars of opin­ions. The higher a crea­ture’s ed­u­ca­tion, the more re­spect he has for the knowl­edge, ex­pe­ri­ence, and opin­ions of oth­ers.

25:3.137. Con­cil­ia­tors to the Super­uni­verse. Here the con­cil­ia­tors be­come co-or­di­nate—four mu­tu­ally un­der­stood and per­fectly func­tion­ing ar­biter-teach­ers. The di­vine ex­e­cu­tioner is di­vested of re­tribu­tive power and be­comes the phys­i­cal voice of the spirit trio. By this time these coun­selors and teach­ers have be­come ex­pertly fa­mil­iar with most of the ac­tual prob­lems and dif­fi­cul­ties en­coun­tered in the con­duct of super­uni­verse af­fairs. Thus they be­come won­der­ful ad­vis­ers and wise teach­ers of the as­cend­ing pil­grims who are in res­i­dence on the ed­u­ca­tional spheres sur­round­ing the head­quar­ters worlds of the super­uni­verses.

53:3.5He con­tended that the ex­e­cu­tion­ers of the An­cients of Days could be de­barred from func­tion­ing in the lo­cal sys­tems if the na­tive be­ings would only as­sert their in­de­pen­dence. He main­tained that im­mor­tal­ity was in­her­ent in the sys­tem per­son­al­i­ties, that res­ur­rec­tion was nat­u­ral and au­to­matic, and that all be­ings would live eter­nally ex­cept for the ar­bi­trary and un­just acts of the ex­e­cu­tion­ers of the An­cients of Days.

25:3.5The com­mis­sion­ers’ de­ci­sions are placed on the plan­e­tary rec­ords and, if nec­es­sary, are put into ef­fect by the di­vine ex­e­cu­tioner. His power is very great, and the range of his ac­tiv­i­ties on an in­hab­ited world is very wide. Di­vine ex­e­cu­tion­ers are mas­ter­ful ma­nip­u­la­tors of that which is in the in­ter­ests of that which ought to be. Their work is some­times car­ried out for the ap­par­ent wel­fare of the realm, and some­times their acts on the worlds of time and space are dif­fi­cult of ex­pla­na­tion. Though ex­e­cut­ing de­crees in de­fi­ance of nei­ther nat­u­ral law nor the or­dained us­ages of the realm, they do oft­times ef­fect their strange do­ings and en­force the man­dates of the con­cil­ia­tors in ac­cor­dance with the higher laws of the sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tion.

29:4.151. As­so­ciate Power Di­rec­tors. These mar­velously ef­fi­cient be­ings are in­trusted with the as­sign­ment and dis­patch of all or­ders of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers in ac­cor­dance with the ever-shift­ing needs of the con­stantly chang­ing en­ergy sta­tus of the realms. The vast re­serves of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers are main­tained on the head­quar­ters worlds of the mi­nor sec­tors, and from these con­cen­tra­tion points they are pe­ri­od­i­cally dis­patched by the as­so­ciate power di­rec­tors to the head­quar­ters of the uni­verses, con­stel­la­tions, and sys­tems, and to the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets. When thus as­signed, the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers are pro­vi­sion­ally sub­ject to the or­ders of the di­vine ex­e­cu­tion­ers of the con­cil­i­at­ing com­mis­sions but are oth­er­wise solely amenable to their as­so­ciate di­rec­tors and to the Su­preme Power Cen­ters.

23:2.17There is no lim­i­ta­tion upon the ser­vice of Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers in the super­uni­verses; they may func­tion as ex­e­cu­tion­ers of the high tri­bu­nals or as in­tel­li­gence gath­er­ers for the good of the realm. Of all the super­cre­ations they most de­light to serve in Or­von­ton be­cause here the need is great­est and the op­por­tu­ni­ties for heroic ef­fort are greatly mul­ti­plied. In the more needy realms we all en­joy the sat­is­fac­tion of a more re­plete func­tion.