Graduate Guides

• never leave Havona

24:0.10Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, Cir­cuit Super­vi­sors, Cen­sus Di­rec­tors, and the Per­sonal Aids are char­ac­ter­ized by the pos­ses­sion of tremen­dous en­dow­ments of anti­grav­ity. The Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers are with­out known gen­eral head­quar­ters; they roam the uni­verse of uni­verses. The Uni­verse Cir­cuit Super­vi­sors and the Cen­sus Di­rec­tors main­tain head­quar­ters on the cap­i­tals of the super­uni­verses. The Per­sonal Aids of the In­fi­nite Spirit are sta­tioned on the cen­tral Isle of Light. The As­so­ciate In­spec­tors and the As­signed Sen­tinels are re­spec­tively sta­tioned on the cap­i­tals of the lo­cal uni­verses and on the cap­i­tals of their com­po­nent sys­tems. The Grad­u­ate Guides are res­i­dent in the Ha­vona uni­verse and func­tion on all its bil­lion worlds. Most of these higher per­son­al­i­ties have sta­tions in the lo­cal uni­verses, but they are not or­gan­i­cally at­tached to the ad­min­is­tra­tions of the evo­lu­tion­ary realms.

• pilot pilgrims through Havona worlds; stay with same pilgrim throughout

24:6.1The Grad­u­ate Guides, as a group, spon­sor and con­duct the high uni­ver­sity of tech­ni­cal in­struc­tion and spir­i­tual train­ing which is so es­sen­tial to mor­tal at­tain­ment of the goal of the ages: God, rest, and then eter­nity of per­fected ser­vice. These highly per­sonal be­ings take their name from the na­ture and pur­pose of their work. They are ex­clu­sively de­voted to the tasks of guid­ing the mor­tal grad­u­ates from the super­uni­verses of time through the Ha­vona course of in­struc­tion and train­ing which serves to pre­pare the as­cend­ing pil­grims for ad­mis­sion to Par­a­dise and the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

24:6.2I am not for­bid­den to un­der­take to tell you of the work of these Grad­u­ate Guides, but it is so ul­tra­spir­i­tual that I de­spair of be­ing able to ad­e­quately por­tray to the ma­te­rial mind a con­cept of their man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties. On the man­sion worlds, af­ter your vi­sion range is ex­tended and you are freed from the fet­ters of ma­te­rial com­par­isons, you can be­gin to com­pre­hend the mean­ing of those re­al­i­ties which “eye can­not see nor ear hear, and which have never en­tered the con­cept of hu­man minds,” even those things which “God has pre­pared for those who love such eter­nal ver­i­ties.” You are not al­ways to be so lim­ited in the range of your vi­sion and spir­i­tual com­pre­hen­sion.

• pilot pilgrims through Havona worlds; stay with same pilgrim throughout

24:6.3The Grad­u­ate Guides are en­gaged in pi­lot­ing the pil­grims of time through the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona worlds. The guide who greets you upon your ar­rival on the re­ceiv­ing world of the outer Ha­vona cir­cuit will re­main with you through­out your en­tire ca­reer on the heav­enly cir­cuits. Though you will as­so­ciate with count­less other per­son­al­i­ties dur­ing your so­journ on a bil­lion worlds, your Grad­u­ate Guide will fol­low you to the end of your Ha­vona pro­gres­sion and will wit­ness your en­trance into the ter­mi­nal slum­ber of time, the sleep of eter­nity tran­sit to the Par­a­dise goal, where, upon awak­en­ing, you will be greeted by the Par­a­dise Com­pan­ion as­signed to wel­come you and per­haps to re­main with you un­til you are ini­ti­ated as a mem­ber of the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

• Malvorian was the first

24:6.4The num­ber of Grad­u­ate Guides is be­yond the power of hu­man minds to grasp, and they con­tinue to ap­pear. Their ori­gin is some­thing of a mys­tery. They have not ex­isted from eter­nity; they mys­te­ri­ously ap­pear as they are needed. There is no rec­ord of a Grad­u­ate Guide in all the realms of the cen­tral uni­verse un­til that far-dis­tant day when the first mor­tal pil­grim of all time made his way to the outer belt of the cen­tral cre­ation. The in­stant he ar­rived on the pi­lot world of the outer cir­cuit, he was met with friendly greet­ings by Malvo­rian, the first of the Grad­u­ate Guides and now the chief of their su­preme coun­cil and the di­rec­tor of their vast ed­u­ca­tional or­ga­ni­za­tion.

24:6.5On the Par­a­dise rec­ords of Ha­vona, in the sec­tion de­nom­i­nated “Grad­u­ate Guides,” there ap­pears this ini­tial en­try:

24:6.6“And Malvo­rian, the first of this or­der, did greet and in­struct the pil­grim dis­cov­erer of Ha­vona and did con­duct him from the outer cir­cuits of ini­tial ex­pe­ri­ence, step by step and cir­cuit by cir­cuit, un­til he stood in the very pres­ence of the Source and Des­tiny of all per­son­al­ity, sub­se­quently cross­ing the thresh­old of eter­nity to Par­a­dise.”

24:6.7At that far-dis­tant time I was at­tached to the ser­vice of the An­cients of Days on Uversa, and we all re­joiced in the as­sur­ance that, even­tu­ally, pil­grims from our super­uni­verse would reach Ha­vona. For ages we had been taught that the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures of space would at­tain Par­a­dise, and the thrill of all time swept through the heav­enly courts when the first pil­grim ac­tu­ally ar­rived.

24:6.8The name of this pil­grim dis­cov­erer of Ha­vona is Grand­fanda, and he hailed from planet 341 of sys­tem 84 in con­stel­la­tion 62 of lo­cal uni­verse 1,131 sit­u­ated in super­uni­verse num­ber one. His ar­rival was the sig­nal for the es­tab­lish­ment of the broad­cast ser­vice of the uni­verse of uni­verses. Thereto­fore only the broad­casts of the super­uni­verses and the lo­cal uni­verses had been in op­er­a­tion, but the an­nounce­ment of the ar­rival of Grand­fanda at the por­tals of Ha­vona sig­nal­ized the in­au­gu­ra­tion of the “space re­ports of glory,” so named be­cause the ini­tial uni­verse broad­cast re­ported the Ha­vona ar­rival of the first of the evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings to at­tain en­trance upon the goal of as­cen­dant ex­is­tence.

• never leave Havona

24:6.9Grad­u­ate Guides never leave the Ha­vona worlds; they are ded­i­cated to the ser­vice of the grad­u­ate pil­grims of time and space. And you will some­time meet these no­ble be­ings face to face if you do not re­ject the cer­tain and all-per­fected plan de­signed to ef­fect your sur­vival and as­cen­sion.

• transformed Havona Servitals

24:7.1Though evo­lu­tion is not the or­der of the cen­tral uni­verse, we be­lieve that the Grad­u­ate Guides are the per­fected or more ex­pe­ri­enced mem­bers of an­other or­der of cen­tral uni­verse crea­tures, the Ha­vona Servi­tals. Grad­u­ate Guides show such a breadth of sym­pa­thy and such a ca­pac­ity for un­der­stand­ing the as­cen­dant crea­tures that we are con­vinced they have gained this cul­ture by ac­tual ser­vice in the super­uni­verse realms as the Ha­vona Servi­tals of uni­ver­sal min­istry. If this view is not cor­rect, how then can we ac­count for the con­tin­u­ous dis­ap­pear­ance of the se­nior or more ex­pe­ri­enced servi­tals?

• are transformed in divine embrace

24:7.2A servi­tal will be long ab­sent from Ha­vona on super­uni­verse as­sign­ment, hav­ing been on many such mis­sions pre­vi­ously, will re­turn home, be granted the priv­i­lege of “per­sonal con­tact” with the Par­a­dise Cen­tral Shin­ing, will be em­braced by the Lu­mi­nous Per­sons, and dis­ap­pear from the rec­og­ni­tion of his spirit fel­lows, never more to reap­pear among those of his kind.

24:7.3On re­turn­ing from super­uni­verse ser­vice, a Ha­vona Servi­tal may en­joy nu­mer­ous di­vine em­braces and emerge there­from merely an ex­alted servi­tal. Ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the lu­mi­nous em­brace does not nec­es­sar­ily sig­nify that the servi­tal must trans­late into a Grad­u­ate Guide, but al­most one quar­ter of those who achieve the di­vine em­brace never re­turn to the ser­vice of the realms.

24:7.4There ap­pears on the high rec­ords a suc­ces­sion of such en­tries as this:

• example of Sudna

24:7.5“And servi­tal num­ber 842,842,682,846,782 of Ha­vona, named Sudna, came over from the super­uni­verse ser­vice, was re­ceived on Par­a­dise, knew the Fa­ther, en­tered the di­vine em­brace, and is not.”

24:7.6When such an en­try ap­pears on the rec­ords, the ca­reer of such a servi­tal is closed. But in just three mo­ments (a lit­tle less than three days of your time) a new­born Grad­u­ate Guide “spon­ta­neously” ap­pears on the outer cir­cuit of the Ha­vona uni­verse. And the num­ber of Grad­u­ate Guides, al­low­ing for a slight dif­fer­ence, due no doubt to those in tran­si­tion, ex­actly equals the num­ber of van­ished servi­tals.

24:7.7There is an ad­di­tional rea­son for sup­pos­ing the Grad­u­ate Guides to be evolved Ha­vona Servi­tals, and that is the un­fail­ing ten­dency of these guides and their as­so­ci­ated servi­tals to form such ex­traor­di­nary at­tach­ments. The man­ner in which these sup­pos­edly sep­a­rate or­ders of be­ings un­der­stand and sym­pa­thize with one an­other is wholly in­ex­pli­ca­ble. It is re­fresh­ing and in­spir­ing to wit­ness their mu­tual de­vo­tion.

24:7.8The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and the as­so­ci­ated Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors, re­spec­tively, are the per­sonal repos­i­to­ries of the mind po­ten­tial and of the power po­ten­tial of the Su­preme Be­ing which he does not, as yet, op­er­ate per­son­ally. And when these Par­a­dise as­so­ciates col­lab­o­rate to cre­ate the Ha­vona Servi­tals, the lat­ter are in­her­ently in­volved in cer­tain phases of Su­prem­acy. Ha­vona Servi­tals are thus, in ac­tu­al­ity, a re­flec­tion in the per­fect cen­tral uni­verse of cer­tain evo­lu­tion­ary po­ten­tial­i­ties of the time-space do­mains, all of which is dis­closed when a servi­tal un­der­goes trans­for­ma­tion and re-cre­ation. We be­lieve that this trans­for­ma­tion takes place in re­sponse to the will of the In­fi­nite Spirit, un­doubt­edly act­ing in be­half of the Su­preme. Grad­u­ate Guides are not cre­ated by the Su­preme Be­ing, but we all con­jec­ture that ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity is in some way con­cerned in those trans­ac­tions which bring these be­ings into ex­is­tence.

24:7.9The Ha­vona now tra­versed by as­cend­ing mor­tals dif­fers in many re­spects from the cen­tral uni­verse as it was be­fore the times of Grand­fanda. The ar­rival of mor­tal as­cend­ers on the Ha­vona cir­cuits in­au­gu­rated sweep­ing mod­i­fi­ca­tions in the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the cen­tral and di­vine cre­ation, mod­i­fi­ca­tions un­doubt­edly ini­ti­ated by the Su­preme Be­ing—the God of evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures—in re­sponse to the ar­rival of the first of his ex­pe­ri­en­tial chil­dren from the seven super­uni­verses. The ap­pear­ance of the Grad­u­ate Guides, to­gether with the cre­ation of the ter­tiary super­na­phim, is in­dica­tive of these per­for­mances of God the Su­preme.

24:7.10[Pre­sented by a Di­vine Coun­selor of Uversa.]

• Havona Servitals assist
• training program for

25:1.5The newly cre­ated servi­tals, to­gether with newly ap­pear­ing Grad­u­ate Guides, all pass through the courses of train­ing which the se­nior guides con­tin­u­ously con­duct on each of the seven Ha­vona cir­cuits. Servi­tals are then as­signed to the ac­tiv­i­ties for which they are best adapted, and since they are of two types—spir­i­tual and semi­phys­i­cal—there are few lim­its to the range of work these ver­sa­tile be­ings can do. The higher or spirit groups are as­signed se­lec­tively to the ser­vices of the Fa­ther, the Son, and the Spirit, and to the work of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. In large num­bers they are dis­patched, from time to time, to serve on the study worlds en­cir­cling the head­quar­ters spheres of the seven super­uni­verses, the worlds de­voted to the fi­nal train­ing and spir­i­tual cul­ture of the as­cend­ing souls of time who are prepar­ing for ad­vance­ment to the cir­cuits of Ha­vona. Both spirit servi­tals and their more phys­i­cal fel­lows are also des­ig­nated as­sis­tants and as­so­ciates of the Grad­u­ate Guides in help­ing and in­struct­ing the var­i­ous or­ders of as­cend­ing crea­tures who have at­tained Ha­vona, and who seek to at­tain Par­a­dise.

25:1.6The Ha­vona Servi­tals and the Grad­u­ate Guides man­i­fest a tran­scen­dent de­vo­tion to their work and a touch­ing af­fec­tion for one an­other, an af­fec­tion which, while spir­i­tual, you could only un­der­stand by com­par­i­son with the phe­nom­e­non of hu­man love. There is di­vine pathos in the sep­a­ra­tion of the servi­tals from the guides, as so of­ten oc­curs when the servi­tals are dis­patched on mis­sions be­yond the lim­its of the cen­tral uni­verse; but they go with joy and not with sor­row. The sat­is­fy­ing joy of high duty is the eclips­ing emo­tion of spir­i­tual be­ings. Sor­row can­not ex­ist in the face of the con­scious­ness of di­vine duty faith­fully per­formed. And when man’s as­cend­ing soul stands be­fore the Su­preme Judge, the de­ci­sion of eter­nal im­port will not be de­ter­mined by ma­te­rial suc­cesses or quan­ti­ta­tive achieve­ments; the ver­dict re­ver­ber­at­ing through the high courts de­clares: “Well done, good and faith­ful ser­vant; you have been faith­ful over a few es­sen­tials; you shall be made ruler over uni­verse re­al­i­ties.”

• transformed Havona Servitals

25:1.7On super­uni­verse ser­vice the Ha­vona Servi­tals are al­ways as­signed to that do­main pre­sided over by the Mas­ter Spirit whom they most re­sem­ble in gen­eral and spe­cial spirit pre­rog­a­tives. They serve only on the ed­u­ca­tional worlds sur­round­ing the cap­i­tals of the seven super­uni­verses, and the last re­port of Uversa in­di­cates that al­most 138 bil­lion servi­tals were min­is­ter­ing on its 490 satel­lites. They en­gage in an end­less va­ri­ety of ac­tiv­i­ties in con­nec­tion with the work of these ed­u­ca­tional worlds com­pris­ing the super­uni­ver­si­ties of the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton. Here they are your com­pan­ions; they have come down from your next ca­reer to study you and to in­spire you with the re­al­ity and cer­tainty of your even­tual grad­u­a­tion from the uni­verses of time to the realms of eter­nity. And in these con­tacts the servi­tals gain that pre­lim­i­nary ex­pe­ri­ence of min­is­ter­ing to the as­cend­ing crea­tures of time which is so help­ful in their sub­se­quent work on the Ha­vona cir­cuits as as­so­ciates of the Grad­u­ate Guides or—as trans­lated servi­tals—as Grad­u­ate Guides them­selves.

• among Higher Personalities of Infinite Spirit
• minister on all circuits of Havona

26:6.1As­cend­ers of space are des­ig­nated “spir­i­tual grad­u­ates” when trans­lated from the sev­enth to the sixth cir­cle and are placed un­der the im­me­di­ate super­vi­sion of the su­prem­acy guides. These guides should not be con­fused with the Grad­u­ate Guides—be­long­ing to the Higher Per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit—who, with their servi­tal as­so­ciates, min­is­ter on all cir­cuits of Ha­vona to both as­cend­ing and de­scend­ing pil­grims. The su­prem­acy guides func­tion only on the sixth cir­cle of the cen­tral uni­verse.

• Havona Servitals assist

26:7.4When an as­cen­dant soul ac­tu­ally starts for Par­a­dise, he is ac­com­pa­nied only by the tran­sit trio: the super­aphic cir­cle as­so­ciate, the Grad­u­ate Guide, and the ever-pres­ent servi­tal as­so­ciate of the lat­ter. These ex­cur­sions from the Ha­vona cir­cles to Par­a­dise are trial trips; the as­cend­ers are not yet of Par­a­dise sta­tus. They do not achieve res­i­den­tial sta­tus on Par­a­dise un­til they have passed through the ter­mi­nal rest of time sub­se­quent to the at­tain­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the fi­nal clear­ance of the Ha­vona cir­cuits. Not un­til af­ter the di­vine rest do they par­take of the “essence of di­vin­ity” and the “spirit of su­prem­acy” and thus re­ally be­gin to func­tion in the cir­cle of eter­nity and in the pres­ence of the Trin­ity.

• pilot pilgrims through Havona worlds; stay with same pilgrim throughout

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.

• pilot pilgrims through Havona worlds; stay with same pilgrim throughout

26:10.7When those as­cen­dant pil­grims who have at­tained the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther com­plete the sec­ond-cir­cle ex­pe­ri­ence, their ever-at­ten­dant Grad­u­ate Guides is­sue the or­der ad­mit­ting them to the fi­nal cir­cle. These guides per­son­ally pi­lot their sub­jects to the in­ner cir­cle and there place them in the cus­tody of the com­ple­ments of rest, the last of those or­ders of sec­ondary super­na­phim as­signed to the min­istry of the pil­grims of time on the world cir­cuits of Ha­vona.

• in personality registers

30:1.777. Grad­u­ate Guides.

• in personality registers

30:2.737. Grad­u­ate Guides.