Gravity Messengers

31:2.1Wher­ever and when­ever Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers are func­tion­ing, the fi­nal­i­ters are in com­mand. All Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers are un­der the ex­clu­sive ju­ris­dic­tion of Grand­fanda, and they are as­signed only to the pri­mary Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. They are in­valu­able to the fi­nal­i­ters even now, and they will be all-ser­vice­able in the eter­nal fu­ture. No other group of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures pos­sesses such a per­son­al­ized mes­sen­ger corps able to tran­scend time and space. Sim­i­lar types of mes­sen­ger-re­cord­ers at­tached to other fi­nal­i­ter corps are not per­son­al­ized; they are ab­soni­tized.

31:2.2Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers hail from Di­vin­ing­ton, and they are mod­i­fied and per­son­al­ized Ad­justers, but no one of our Uversa group will un­der­take to ex­plain the na­ture of one of these mes­sen­gers. We know they are highly per­sonal be­ings, di­vine, in­tel­li­gent, and touch­ingly un­der­stand­ing, but we do not com­pre­hend their time­less tech­nique of travers­ing space. They seem to be com­pe­tent to uti­lize any and all en­er­gies, cir­cuits, and even grav­ity. Fi­nal­i­ters of the mor­tal corps can­not defy time and space, but they have as­so­ci­ated with them and sub­ject to their com­mand all but in­fi­nite spirit per­son­al­i­ties who can. We pre­sume to call Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers per­son­al­i­ties, but in re­al­ity they are super­spirit be­ings, un­lim­ited and bound­less per­son­al­i­ties. They are of an en­tirely dif­fer­ent or­der of per­son­al­ity as com­pared with Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers.

31:2.3Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers may be at­tached to a fi­nal­i­ter com­pany in un­lim­ited num­bers, but only one mes­sen­ger, the chief of his fel­lows, is mus­tered into the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. This chief how­ever has as­signed to him a per­ma­nent staff of 999 fel­low mes­sen­gers, and as oc­ca­sion may re­quire, he may call upon the re­serves of the or­der for as­sis­tants in un­lim­ited num­bers.

31:2.4Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers and glo­ri­fied mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters achieve a touch­ing and pro­found af­fec­tion for one an­other; they have much in com­mon: One is a di­rect per­son­al­iza­tion of a frag­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the other a crea­ture per­son­al­ity ex­is­tent in the sur­viv­ing im­mor­tal soul fused with a frag­ment of the same Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the spirit Thought Ad­juster.

108:4.5We are cog­nizant of many spirit phe­nom­ena in the far-flung uni­verse which we are at a loss fully to un­der­stand. We are not yet mas­ters of all that is tran­spir­ing about us; and I be­lieve that much of this in­scrutable work is wrought by the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers and cer­tain types of Mys­tery Mon­i­tors. I do not be­lieve that Ad­justers are de­voted solely to the re­mak­ing of mor­tal minds. I am per­suaded that the Per­son­al­ized Mon­i­tors and other or­ders of un­re­vealed preper­sonal spir­its are rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther’s di­rect and un­ex­plained con­tact with the crea­tures of the realms.

13:1.6This sphere also holds the se­crets of the na­ture, pur­pose, and ac­tiv­i­ties of all other forms of Fa­ther frag­ments, of the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers, and of hosts of other be­ings un­re­vealed to you. It is highly prob­a­ble that those truths per­tain­ing to Di­vin­ing­ton which are with­held from me, if re­vealed, would merely con­fuse and hand­i­cap me in my pres­ent work, and still again, per­haps they are be­yond the con­cep­tual ca­pac­ity of my or­der of be­ing.

30:1.571. Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers.

37:2.11The satel­lites of the first three worlds are de­voted to the schools of the Teacher Sons and the Evening Stars ded­i­cated to the spirit per­son­al­i­ties of the lo­cal uni­verse. The next three groups are oc­cu­pied by sim­i­lar joint schools de­voted to the train­ing of as­cend­ing mor­tals. The sev­enth-world satel­lites are re­served for the tri­une de­lib­er­a­tions of the Teacher Sons, the Evening Stars, and the fi­nal­i­ters. Dur­ing re­cent times these super­an­gels have been closely iden­ti­fied with the lo­cal uni­verse work of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, and they have long been as­so­ci­ated with the Teacher Sons. There ex­ists a li­ai­son of tremen­dous power and im­port be­tween the Evening Stars and the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers at­tached to the fi­nal­i­ter work­ing groups. The sev­enth pri­mary world it­self is re­served for those un­re­vealed mat­ters which per­tain to the fu­ture re­la­tion­ship that will ob­tain be­tween the Teacher Sons, the fi­nal­i­ters, and the Evening Stars con­se­quent upon the com­pleted emer­gence of the super­uni­verse man­i­fes­ta­tion of the per­son­al­ity of God the Su­preme.

23:3.2The uni­verse is well sup­plied with spir­its who uti­lize grav­ity for pur­poses of tran­sit; they can go any­where any time—in­stan­ter—but they are not per­sons. Cer­tain other grav­ity tra­versers are per­sonal be­ings, such as Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers and Tran­scen­den­tal Re­cord­ers, but they are not avail­able to the su­per- and the lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tors. The worlds teem with an­gels and men and other highly per­sonal be­ings, but they are hand­i­capped by time and space: The limit of ve­loc­ity for most nonenseraphimed be­ings is 186,280 miles of your world per sec­ond of your time; the mid­way crea­tures and cer­tain oth­ers can, of­ten do, at­tain dou­ble ve­loc­ity—372,560 miles per sec­ond—while the ser­a­phim and oth­ers can tra­verse space at triple ve­loc­ity, about 558,840 miles per sec­ond. There are, how­ever, no tran­sit or mes­sen­ger per­son­al­i­ties who func­tion be­tween the in­stan­ta­neous ve­loc­i­ties of the grav­ity tra­versers and the com­par­a­tively slow speeds of the ser­a­phim, ex­cept the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers.

23:2.23When it de­vel­ops that it will re­quire hun­dreds of years for a na­tive am­bas­sador to reach a far-dis­tant lo­cal uni­verse, a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger is of­ten asked to pro­ceed there im­me­di­ately to act as am­bas­sador ad in­terim. Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers can go in very short or­der, not in­de­pen­dently of time and space as do the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers, but nearly so. They also serve in other cir­cum­stances as emis­saries of spe­cial as­sign­ment.

44:5.76. The ex­perts of com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Uran­tia, like­wise, is served by twelve tech­ni­cians of in­ter­plan­e­tary and in­teruni­verse com­mu­ni­ca­tion. These long-ex­pe­ri­enced be­ings are ex­pert in the knowl­edge of the laws of trans­mit­tal and in­ter­fer­ence as ap­plied to the com­mu­ni­ca­tions of the realms. This corps is con­cerned with all forms of space mes­sages ex­cept those of Grav­ity and Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers. On Uran­tia much of their work must be ac­com­plished over the arch­an­gels’ cir­cuit.

42:12.10Even spirit be­ings have form, and these spirit forms (pat­terns) are real. Even the high­est type of spirit per­son­al­i­ties have forms—per­son­al­ity pres­ences in ev­ery sense anal­o­gous to Uran­tia mor­tal bod­ies. Nearly all be­ings en­coun­tered in the seven super­uni­verses are pos­sessed of forms. But there are a few ex­cep­tions to this gen­eral rule: Thought Ad­justers ap­pear to be with­out form un­til af­ter fu­sion with the sur­viv­ing souls of their mor­tal as­so­ciates. Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, Per­sonal Aids of the In­fi­nite Spirit, Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers, Tran­scen­den­tal Re­cord­ers, and cer­tain oth­ers are also with­out dis­cov­er­able form. But these are typ­i­cal of the ex­cep­tional few; the great ma­jor­ity have bona fide per­son­al­ity forms, forms which are in­di­vid­u­ally char­ac­ter­is­tic, and which are rec­og­niz­able and per­son­ally dis­tin­guish­able.