guardians of destiny

• after subjects’ death › hold survivors’ souls as sacred trust
• after subjects’ death › sponsor subjects’ new morontia form

30:4.15The phys­i­cal body of mor­tal flesh is not a part of the re­assem­bly of the sleep­ing sur­vivor; the phys­i­cal body has re­turned to dust. The ser­a­phim of as­sign­ment spon­sors the new body, the mor­ontia form, as the new life ve­hi­cle for the im­mor­tal soul and for the in­dwelling of the re­turned Ad­juster. The Ad­juster is the cus­to­dian of the spirit tran­script of the mind of the sleep­ing sur­vivor. The as­signed ser­a­phim is the keeper of the sur­viv­ing iden­tity—the im­mor­tal soul—as far as it has evolved. And when these two, the Ad­juster and the ser­a­phim, re­unite their per­son­al­ity trusts, the new in­di­vid­ual con­sti­tutes the res­ur­rec­tion of the old per­son­al­ity, the sur­vival of the evolv­ing mor­ontia iden­tity of the soul. Such a re­as­so­ci­a­tion of soul and Ad­juster is quite prop­erly called a res­ur­rec­tion, a re­assem­bly of per­son­al­ity fac­tors; but even this does not en­tirely ex­plain the reap­pear­ance of the sur­viv­ing per­son­al­ity. Though you will prob­a­bly never un­der­stand the fact of such an in­ex­pli­ca­ble trans­ac­tion, you will some­time ex­pe­ri­en­tially know the truth of it if you do not re­ject the plan of mor­tal sur­vival.

• destiny › surest seraphic passport to Paradise is service as guardian of destiny

39:1.6Ser­a­phim equally crave as­sign­ment to the mis­sions of the in­car­nated Sons and at­tach­ment as des­tiny guard­i­ans to the mor­tals of the realms; the lat­ter is the surest se­raphic pass­port to Par­a­dise, while the be­stowal at­ten­dants have achieved the high­est lo­cal uni­verse ser­vice of the com­ple­tion ser­a­phim of Par­a­dise at­tain­ment.

• destiny › surest seraphic passport to Paradise is service as guardian of destiny

39:8.42. To be sum­moned to Seraph­ing­ton. Un­der cer­tain con­di­tions ser­a­phim are com­manded on high; in other cir­cum­stances an­gels some­times achieve Par­a­dise in a much shorter time than mor­tals. But no mat­ter how fit­ted any se­raphic pair may be, they can­not ini­ti­ate de­par­ture for Seraph­ing­ton or else­where. None but suc­cess­ful des­tiny guard­i­ans can be sure of pro­ceed­ing to Par­a­dise by a pro­gres­sive path of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cent. All oth­ers must pa­tiently await the ar­rival of the Par­a­dise mes­sen­gers of the ter­tiary super­na­phim who come with the sum­mons com­mand­ing them to ap­pear on high.

• guardians of destiny
• assignment › to all surviving Adjuster-fusion mortals

39:8.53. To at­tain Par­a­dise by the evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tal tech­nique. The su­preme choice of ser­a­phim in the ca­reer of time is the post of guard­ian an­gel in or­der that they may at­tain the ca­reer of fi­nal­ity and be qual­i­fied for as­sign­ment to the eter­nal spheres of se­raphic ser­vice. Such per­sonal guides of the chil­dren of time are called guard­i­ans of des­tiny, sig­ni­fy­ing that they guard mor­tal crea­tures in the path of di­vine des­tiny, and that in so do­ing they are de­ter­min­ing their own high des­tiny.

39:8.6Guard­i­ans of des­tiny are drawn from the ranks of the more ex­pe­ri­enced an­gelic per­son­al­i­ties of all or­ders of ser­a­phim who have qual­i­fied for this ser­vice. All sur­viv­ing mor­tals of Ad­juster-fu­sion des­tiny have tem­po­rary guard­i­ans as­signed, and these as­so­ciates may be­come per­ma­nently at­tached when mor­tal sur­vivors at­tain the req­ui­site in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment. Be­fore mor­tal as­cend­ers leave the man­sion worlds, they all have per­ma­nent se­raphic as­so­ciates. This group of min­is­ter­ing spir­its is dis­cussed in con­nec­tion with the Uran­tia nar­ra­tives.

• majority detach from subjects during Havona

39:8.7It is not pos­si­ble for an­gels to at­tain God from the hu­man level of ori­gin, for they are cre­ated a “lit­tle higher than you”; but it has been wisely ar­ranged that, while they can­not pos­si­bly start up from the very bot­tom, the spir­i­tual low­lands of mor­tal ex­is­tence, they may go down to those who do start from the bot­tom and pi­lot such crea­tures, step by step, world by world, to the por­tals of Ha­vona. When mor­tal as­cend­ers leave Uversa to be­gin the cir­cles of Ha­vona, those guard­i­ans of at­tach­ment sub­se­quent to the life in the flesh will bid their pil­grim as­so­ciates a tem­po­rary farewell while they jour­ney to Seraph­ing­ton, the an­gelic des­ti­na­tion of the grand uni­verse. Here will these guard­i­ans at­tempt, and un­doubt­edly achieve, the seven cir­cles of se­raphic light.

39:8.8Many, but not all, of those ser­a­phim as­signed as des­tiny guard­i­ans dur­ing the ma­te­rial life ac­com­pany their mor­tal as­so­ciates through the Ha­vona cir­cles, and cer­tain other ser­a­phim pass through the cir­cuits of the cen­tral uni­verse in a way that is wholly dif­fer­ent from the mor­tal as­cent. But ir­re­spec­tive of the route of as­cent, all evo­lu­tion­ary ser­a­phim tra­verse Seraph­ing­ton, and the ma­jor­ity pass through this ex­pe­ri­ence in­stead of the Ha­vona cir­cuits.

• destiny › most enter Corps of Mortal Finaliters

39:8.10The grad­u­ates of Seraph­ing­ton are var­i­ously as­signed: Des­tiny guard­i­ans of Ha­vona-cir­cle ex­pe­ri­ence usu­ally en­ter the Mor­tal Fi­nal­i­ter Corps. Other guard­i­ans, hav­ing passed their Ha­vona sep­a­ra­tion tests, fre­quently re­join their mor­tal as­so­ciates on Par­a­dise, and some be­come the ev­er­last­ing as­so­ciates of the mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters, while oth­ers en­ter the var­i­ous non­mor­tal fi­nal­i­ter corps, and many are mus­tered into the Corps of Se­raphic Com­ple­tion.

• destiny › some become mind planners if wards fail to survive

48:6.243. Mind Plan­ners. These ser­a­phim are de­voted to the ef­fec­tive group­ing of mor­ontia be­ings and to or­ga­niz­ing their team­work on the man­sion worlds. They are the psy­chol­o­gists of the first heaven. The ma­jor­ity of this par­tic­u­lar di­vi­sion of se­raphic min­is­ters have had pre­vi­ous ex­pe­ri­ence as guard­ian an­gels to the chil­dren of time, but their wards, for some rea­son, failed to per­son­al­ize on the man­sion worlds or else sur­vived by the tech­nique of Spirit fu­sion.

• after subjects’ death › hold survivors’ souls as sacred trust

49:6.41. Mor­tals of the dis­pen­sa­tional or group or­der of sur­vival. With the ar­rival of the first Ad­juster on an in­hab­ited world the guard­ian ser­a­phim also make their ap­pear­ance; they are in­dis­pens­able to ter­res­trial es­cape. Through­out the life-lapse pe­riod of the sleep­ing sur­vivors the spir­i­tual val­ues and eter­nal re­al­i­ties of their newly evolved and im­mor­tal souls are held as a sa­cred trust by the per­sonal or by the group guard­ian ser­a­phim.

• assignment › to all 3rd psychic circlers

49:6.82. Mor­tals of the in­di­vid­ual or­ders of as­cen­sion. The in­di­vid­ual prog­ress of hu­man be­ings is mea­sured by their suc­ces­sive at­tain­ment and traver­sal (mas­tery) of the seven cos­mic cir­cles. These cir­cles of mor­tal pro­gres­sion are lev­els of as­so­ci­ated in­tel­lec­tual, so­cial, spir­i­tual, and cos­mic-in­sight val­ues. Start­ing out in the sev­enth cir­cle, mor­tals strive for the first, and all who have at­tained the third im­me­di­ately have per­sonal guard­i­ans of des­tiny as­signed to them. These mor­tals may be reper­son­al­ized in the mor­ontia life in­de­pen­dent of dis­pen­sa­tional or other ad­ju­di­ca­tions.

• assignment › to all 3rd psychic circlers

49:6.13In due course Thought Ad­justers come to in­dwell these lit­tle ones, while the se­raphic min­istry to both groups of the pro­ba­tion­ary-de­pen­dent or­ders of sur­vival is in gen­eral sim­i­lar to that of the more ad­vanced par­ent or is equiv­a­lent to that of the par­ent in case only one sur­vives. Those at­tain­ing the third cir­cle, re­gard­less of the sta­tus of their par­ents, are ac­corded per­sonal guard­i­ans.

• assignment › to all 3rd psychic circlers
• technique of service › ministry more effective in light and life

55:4.2Upon the for­mal in­au­gu­ra­tion of the plan­e­tary min­istry of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, the ma­jor­ity of the ce­les­tial hosts with­draw. But the se­raphic guard­i­ans of des­tiny con­tinue their per­sonal min­istry to the pro­gress­ing mor­tals in light; in­deed such an­gels come in ever-in­creas­ing num­bers through­out the set­tled ages since larger and larger groups of hu­man be­ings reach the third cos­mic cir­cle of co-or­di­nate mor­tal at­tain­ment dur­ing the plan­e­tary life span.

• midwayers are interpreters for g. of d. in light and life

55:4.8Act­ing as in­ter­preters for the se­raphic guard­i­ans and the fi­nal­i­ters are the ex­alted and lib­er­ated mid­way crea­tures. One of the last acts of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons on their ter­mi­nal mis­sion is to lib­er­ate the mid­way­ers of the realm and to pro­mote (or re­store) them to ad­vanced plan­e­tary sta­tus, as­sign­ing them to re­spon­si­ble places in the new ad­min­is­tra­tion of the set­tled sphere. Such changes have al­ready been made in the range of hu­man vi­sion as en­able mor­tals to rec­og­nize these here­to­fore in­vis­i­ble cousins of the early Adamic regime. This is made pos­si­ble by the fi­nal dis­cov­er­ies of phys­i­cal sci­ence in li­ai­son with the en­larged plan­e­tary func­tions of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

• technique of service › ministry more effective in light and life

55:6.4The Ad­justers con­tinue to come as in for­mer evo­lu­tion­ary eras, and as the epochs pass, these mor­tals are in­creas­ingly able to com­mune with the in­dwelling Fa­ther frag­ment. Dur­ing the em­bry­onic and prespir­i­tual stages of de­vel­op­ment the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are still func­tion­ing. The Holy Spirit and the min­istry of an­gels are even more ef­fec­tive as the suc­ces­sive epochs of set­tled life are ex­pe­ri­enced. In the fourth stage of light and life the ad­vanced mor­tals seem to ex­pe­ri­ence con­sid­er­able con­scious con­tact with the spirit pres­ence of the Mas­ter Spirit of super­uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion, while the phi­los­o­phy of such a world is fo­cused upon the at­tempt to com­pre­hend the new rev­e­la­tions of God the Su­preme. More than one half of the hu­man in­hab­i­tants on plan­ets of this ad­vanced sta­tus ex­pe­ri­ence trans­la­tion to the mor­ontia state from among the liv­ing. Even so, “old things are pass­ing away; be­hold, all things are be­com­ing new.”

• technique of service › midwayers indispensable

77:8.4Mid­way­ers are not men, nei­ther are they an­gels, but sec­ondary mid­way­ers are, in na­ture, nearer man than an­gel; they are, in a way, of your races and are, there­fore, very un­der­stand­ing and sym­pa­thetic in their con­tact with hu­man be­ings; they are in­valu­able to the ser­a­phim in their work for and with the var­i­ous races of man­kind, and both or­ders are in­dis­pens­able to the ser­a­phim who serve as per­sonal guard­i­ans to mor­tals.

• assignment › brought Adjusters prior to Spirit of Truth

108:2.61. The as­sign­ment of per­sonal se­raphic guard­i­ans. If a mor­tal has not been pre­vi­ously in­dwelt by an Ad­juster, the as­sign­ment of a per­sonal guard­ian brings the Ad­juster forth­with. There ex­ists some very def­i­nite but un­known re­la­tion be­tween the min­istry of Ad­justers and the min­istry of per­sonal se­raphic guard­i­ans.

• after subjects’ death › tribunals must absolve from blame if subjects fail to survive

108:5.10If you have a per­sonal guard­ian of des­tiny and should fail of sur­vival, that guard­ian an­gel must be ad­ju­di­cated in or­der to re­ceive vin­di­ca­tion as to the faith­ful ex­e­cu­tion of her trust. But Thought Ad­justers are not thus sub­jected to ex­am­i­na­tion when their sub­jects fail to sur­vive. We all know that, while an an­gel might pos­si­bly fall short of the per­fec­tion of min­istry, Thought Ad­justers work in the man­ner of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion; their min­istry is char­ac­ter­ized by a flaw­less tech­nique which is be­yond the pos­si­bil­ity of crit­i­cism by any be­ing out­side of Di­vin­ing­ton. You have per­fect guides; there­fore is the goal of per­fec­tion cer­tainly at­tain­able.

• assignment › to all 3rd psychic circlers

110:6.14The third cir­cle. The Ad­juster’s work is much more ef­fec­tive af­ter the hu­man as­cender at­tains the third cir­cle and re­ceives a per­sonal se­raphic guard­ian of des­tiny. While there is no ap­par­ent con­cert of ef­fort be­tween the Ad­juster and the se­raphic guard­ian, nonethe­less there is to be ob­served an un­mis­tak­able im­prove­ment in all phases of cos­mic achieve­ment and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment sub­se­quent to the as­sign­ment of the per­sonal se­raphic at­ten­dant. When the third cir­cle is at­tained, the Ad­juster en­deav­ors to mor­ontiaize the mind of man dur­ing the re­main­der of the mor­tal life span, to make the re­main­ing cir­cles, and achieve the fi­nal stage of the di­vine-hu­man as­so­ci­a­tion be­fore nat­u­ral death dis­solves the unique part­ner­ship.

• technique of service › statement in extenuation of difficulties

111:7.4The higher hu­man races of Uran­tia are com­plexly ad­mixed; they are a blend of many races and stocks of dif­fer­ent ori­gin. This com­pos­ite na­ture ren­ders it ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult for the Mon­i­tors to work ef­fi­ciently dur­ing life and adds def­i­nitely to the prob­lems of both the Ad­juster and the guard­ian ser­a­phim af­ter death. Not long since I was pres­ent on Sal­ving­ton and heard a guard­ian of des­tiny pre­sent a for­mal state­ment in ex­ten­u­a­tion of the dif­fi­cul­ties of min­is­ter­ing to her mor­tal sub­ject. This ser­a­phim said:

111:7.5“Much of my dif­fi­culty was due to the un­end­ing con­flict be­tween the two na­tures of my sub­ject: the urge of am­bi­tion op­posed by an­i­mal in­do­lence; the ide­als of a su­pe­rior peo­ple crossed by the in­stincts of an in­fe­rior race; the high pur­poses of a great mind an­tag­o­nized by the urge of a prim­i­tive in­her­i­tance; the long-dis­tance view of a far-see­ing Mon­i­tor coun­ter­acted by the near­sight­ed­ness of a crea­ture of time; the pro­gres­sive plans of an as­cend­ing be­ing mod­i­fied by the de­sires and long­ings of a ma­te­rial na­ture; the flashes of uni­verse in­tel­li­gence can­celled by the chem­i­cal-en­ergy man­dates of the evolv­ing race; the urge of an­gels op­posed by the emo­tions of an an­i­mal; the train­ing of an in­tel­lect an­nulled by the ten­den­cies of in­stinct; the ex­pe­ri­ence of the in­di­vid­ual op­posed by the ac­cu­mu­lated propen­si­ties of the race; the aims of the best over­shad­owed by the drift of the worst; the flight of ge­nius neu­tral­ized by the grav­ity of medi­ocrity; the prog­ress of the good re­tarded by the in­er­tia of the bad; the art of the beau­ti­ful be­smirched by the pres­ence of evil; the buoy­ancy of health neu­tral­ized by the de­bil­ity of dis­ease; the foun­tain of faith pol­luted by the poi­sons of fear; the spring of joy em­bit­tered by the wa­ters of sor­row; the glad­ness of an­tic­i­pa­tion dis­il­lu­sioned by the bit­ter­ness of re­al­iza­tion; the joys of liv­ing ever threat­ened by the sor­rows of death. Such a life on such a planet! And yet, be­cause of the ever-pres­ent help and urge of the Thought Ad­juster, this soul did achieve a fair de­gree of hap­pi­ness and suc­cess and has even now as­cended to the judg­ment halls of man­so­nia.”

• after subjects’ death › retain soul, static formulas of identity, essential to repersonalization

112:3.5Af­ter death the ma­te­rial body re­turns to the el­e­men­tal world from which it was de­rived, but two non­ma­te­rial fac­tors of sur­viv­ing per­son­al­ity per­sist: The pre-ex­is­tent Thought Ad­juster, with the mem­ory tran­scrip­tion of the mor­tal ca­reer, pro­ceeds to Di­vin­ing­ton; and there also re­mains, in the cus­tody of the des­tiny guard­ian, the im­mor­tal mor­ontia soul of the de­ceased hu­man. These phases and forms of soul, these once ki­netic but now static for­mu­las of iden­tity, are es­sen­tial to reper­son­al­iza­tion on the mor­ontia worlds; and it is the re­union of the Ad­juster and the soul that re­assem­bles the sur­viv­ing per­son­al­ity, that re­con­sciou­sizes you at the time of the mor­ontia awak­en­ing.

• after subjects’ death › possible immediate resurrection for mortals with

112:4.12If, when death over­takes you, you have at­tained the third cir­cle or a higher realm and there­fore have had as­signed to you a per­sonal guard­ian of des­tiny, and if the fi­nal tran­script of the sum­mary of sur­vival char­ac­ter sub­mit­ted by the Ad­juster is un­con­di­tion­ally cer­ti­fied by the des­tiny guard­ian—if both ser­a­phim and Ad­juster es­sen­tially agree in ev­ery item of their life rec­ords and rec­om­men­da­tions—if the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors and their re­flec­tive as­so­ciates on Uversa con­firm this data and do so with­out equiv­o­ca­tion or reser­va­tion, in that event the An­cients of Days flash forth the man­date of ad­vanced stand­ing over the com­mu­ni­ca­tion cir­cuits to Sal­ving­ton, and, thus re­leased, the tri­bu­nals of the Sov­er­eign of Neb­a­don will de­cree the im­me­di­ate pas­sage of the sur­viv­ing soul to the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the man­sion worlds.

• after subjects’ death › possible immediate resurrection for mortals with

112:5.10When the more spir­i­tu­ally and cos­mi­cally ad­vanced mor­tals die, they pro­ceed im­me­di­ately to the man­sion worlds; in gen­eral, this pro­vi­sion op­er­ates with those who have had as­signed to them per­sonal se­raphic guard­i­ans. Other mor­tals may be de­tained un­til such time as the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of their af­fairs has been com­pleted, af­ter which they may pro­ceed to the man­sion worlds, or they may be as­signed to the ranks of the sleep­ing sur­vivors who will be reper­son­al­ized en masse at the end of the cur­rent plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tion.

• after subjects’ death › retain soul, static formulas of identity, essential to repersonalization

112:5.13This child of per­sist­ing mean­ing and sur­viv­ing value is wholly un­con­scious dur­ing the pe­riod from death to reper­son­al­iza­tion and is in the keep­ing of the se­raphic des­tiny guard­ian through­out this sea­son of wait­ing. You will not func­tion as a con­scious be­ing, fol­low­ing death, un­til you at­tain the new con­scious­ness of mor­ontia on the man­sion worlds of Sa­ta­nia.

• assignment › in accordance with human intelligence, spirituality, and destiny

113:1.2Orig­i­nally, the ser­a­phim were def­i­nitely as­signed to the sep­a­rate Uran­tia races. But since the be­stowal of Mi­chael, they are as­signed in ac­cor­dance with hu­man in­tel­li­gence, spir­i­tu­al­ity, and des­tiny. In­tel­lec­tu­ally, man­kind is di­vided into three classes:

• assignment › according to circle attainment, spiritual consecration, enrollment in reserve corps

113:1.53. The super­nor­mal minded—those of great de­ci­sion and un­doubted po­ten­tial of spir­i­tual achieve­ment; men and women who en­joy more or less con­tact with their in­dwelling Ad­justers; mem­bers of the var­i­ous re­serve corps of des­tiny. No mat­ter in what cir­cle a hu­man hap­pens to be, if such an in­di­vid­ual be­comes en­rolled in any of the sev­eral re­serve corps of des­tiny, right then and there, per­sonal ser­a­phim are as­signed, and from that time un­til the earthly ca­reer is fin­ished, that mor­tal will en­joy the con­tin­u­ous min­istry and un­ceas­ing watch­care of a guard­ian an­gel. Also, when any hu­man be­ing makes the su­preme de­ci­sion, when there is a real be­trothal with the Ad­juster, a per­sonal guard­ian is im­me­di­ately as­signed to that soul.

113:1.6In the min­istry to so-called nor­mal be­ings, se­raphic as­sign­ments are made in ac­cor­dance with the hu­man at­tain­ment of the cir­cles of in­tel­lec­tu­al­ity and spir­i­tu­al­ity. You start out in your mind of mor­tal in­vest­ment in the sev­enth cir­cle and jour­ney in­ward in the task of self-un­der­stand­ing, self-con­quest, and self-mas­tery; and cir­cle by cir­cle you ad­vance un­til (if nat­u­ral death does not ter­mi­nate your ca­reer and trans­fer your strug­gles to the man­sion worlds) you reach the first or in­ner cir­cle of rel­a­tive con­tact and com­mu­nion with the in­dwelling Ad­juster.

113:1.7Hu­man be­ings in the ini­tial or sev­enth cir­cle have one guard­ian an­gel with one com­pany of as­sist­ing cheru­bim as­signed to the watch­care and cus­tody of one thou­sand mor­tals. In the sixth cir­cle, a se­raphic pair with one com­pany of cheru­bim is as­signed to guide these as­cend­ing mor­tals in groups of five hun­dred. When the fifth cir­cle is at­tained, hu­man be­ings are grouped in com­pa­nies of ap­prox­i­mately one hun­dred, and a pair of guard­ian ser­a­phim with a group of cheru­bim is placed in charge. Upon at­tain­ment of the fourth cir­cle, mor­tal be­ings are as­sem­bled in groups of ten, and again charge is given to a pair of ser­a­phim, as­sisted by one com­pany of cheru­bim.

• assignment › 2 assigned to each mortal; complement of being is recorder
• assignment › to all 3rd psychic circlers

113:1.8When a mor­tal mind breaks through the in­er­tia of an­i­mal legacy and at­tains the third cir­cle of hu­man in­tel­lec­tu­al­ity and ac­quired spir­i­tu­al­ity, a per­sonal an­gel (in re­al­ity two) will hence­forth be wholly and ex­clu­sively de­voted to this as­cend­ing mor­tal. And thus these hu­man souls, in ad­di­tion to the ever-pres­ent and in­creas­ingly ef­fi­cient in­dwelling Thought Ad­justers, re­ceive the un­di­vided as­sis­tance of these per­sonal guard­i­ans of des­tiny in all their ef­forts to fin­ish the third cir­cle, tra­verse the sec­ond, and at­tain the first.

• assignment › according to circle attainment, spiritual consecration, enrollment in reserve corps
• assignment › to all 3rd psychic circlers
• assignment › to all surviving Adjuster-fusion mortals

113:2.1Ser­a­phim are not known as guard­i­ans of des­tiny un­til such time as they are as­signed to the as­so­ci­a­tion of a hu­man soul who has re­al­ized one or more of three achieve­ments: has made a su­preme de­ci­sion to be­come God­like, has en­tered the third cir­cle, or has been mus­tered into one of the re­serve corps of des­tiny.

• Rantowoc first to receive

113:2.2In the evo­lu­tion of races a guard­ian of des­tiny is as­signed to the very first be­ing who at­tains the req­ui­site cir­cle of con­quest. On Uran­tia the first mor­tal to se­cure a per­sonal guard­ian was Rantowoc, a wise man of the red race of long ago.

• technique of service › gain experience on non-Adjuster fusion worlds

113:2.3All an­gelic as­sign­ments are made from a group of vol­un­teer­ing ser­a­phim, and these ap­point­ments are al­ways in ac­cor­dance with hu­man needs and with re­gard to the sta­tus of the an­gelic pair—in the light of se­raphic ex­pe­ri­ence, skill, and wis­dom. Only ser­a­phim of long ser­vice, the more ex­pe­ri­enced and tested types, are as­signed as des­tiny guards. Many guard­i­ans have gained much valu­able ex­pe­ri­ence on those worlds which are of the non-Ad­juster fu­sion se­ries. Like the Ad­justers, the ser­a­phim at­tend these be­ings for a sin­gle life­time and then are lib­er­ated for new as­sign­ment. Many guard­i­ans on Uran­tia have had this pre­vi­ous prac­ti­cal ex­pe­ri­ence on other worlds.

• develop abiding affection for their human associates

113:2.5The an­gels de­velop an abid­ing af­fec­tion for their hu­man as­so­ciates; and you would, if you could only vi­su­al­ize the ser­a­phim, de­velop a warm af­fec­tion for them. Di­vested of ma­te­rial bod­ies, given spirit forms, you would be very near the an­gels in many at­tri­butes of per­son­al­ity. They share most of your emo­tions and ex­pe­ri­ence some ad­di­tional ones. The only emo­tion ac­tu­at­ing you which is some­what dif­fi­cult for them to com­pre­hend is the legacy of an­i­mal fear that bulks so large in the men­tal life of the av­er­age in­hab­i­tant of Uran­tia. The an­gels re­ally find it hard to un­der­stand why you will so per­sis­tently al­low your higher in­tel­lec­tual pow­ers, even your re­li­gious faith, to be so dom­i­nated by fear, so thor­oughly de­mor­al­ized by the thought­less panic of dread and anx­i­ety.

• assignment › 2 assigned to each mortal; complement of being is recorder

113:2.7In the min­istry of per­sonal guardian­ship, the as­sign­ment of an­gels as des­tiny guard­i­ans, ser­a­phim al­ways vol­un­teer their ser­vices. In the city of this vis­i­ta­tion a cer­tain mor­tal was re­cently ad­mit­ted to the re­serve corps of des­tiny, and since all such hu­mans are per­son­ally at­tended by guard­ian an­gels, more than one hun­dred qual­i­fied ser­a­phim sought the as­sign­ment. The plan­e­tary di­rec­tor se­lected twelve of the more ex­pe­ri­enced in­di­vid­u­als and sub­se­quently ap­pointed the ser­a­phim whom they se­lected as best adapted to guide this hu­man be­ing through his life jour­ney. That is, they se­lected a cer­tain pair of equally qual­i­fied ser­a­phim; one of this se­raphic pair will al­ways be on duty.

• assignment › 2 assigned to each mortal; complement of being is recorder

113:2.9When a se­raphic pair ac­cept guard­ian as­sign­ment, they serve for the re­main­der of the life of that hu­man be­ing. The com­ple­ment of be­ing (one of the two an­gels) be­comes the re­corder of the un­der­tak­ing. These com­ple­men­tal ser­a­phim are the record­ing an­gels of the mor­tals of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. The rec­ords are kept by the pair of cheru­bim (a cheru­bim and a sa­no­bim) who are al­ways as­so­ci­ated with the se­raphic guard­i­ans, but these rec­ords are al­ways spon­sored by one of the ser­a­phim.

• technique of service › correlate, unify, and personalize impersonal spirit influences for subject

113:3.1One of the most im­por­tant things a des­tiny guard­ian does for her mor­tal sub­ject is to ef­fect a per­sonal co-or­di­na­tion of the nu­mer­ous im­per­sonal spirit in­flu­ences which in­dwell, sur­round, and im­pinge upon the mind and soul of the evolv­ing ma­te­rial crea­ture. Hu­man be­ings are per­son­al­i­ties, and it is ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult for non­per­sonal spir­its and preper­sonal en­ti­ties to make di­rect con­tact with such highly ma­te­rial and dis­cretely per­sonal minds. In the min­istry of the guard­ing an­gel all of these in­flu­ences are more or less uni­fied and made more nearly ap­pre­cia­ble by the ex­pand­ing moral na­ture of the evolv­ing hu­man per­son­al­ity.

113:3.2More es­pe­cially can and does this se­raphic guard­ian cor­re­late the man­i­fold agen­cies and in­flu­ences of the In­fi­nite Spirit, rang­ing from the do­mains of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its up to the Holy Spirit of the Di­vine Min­is­ter and to the Om­ni­pres­ent Spirit pres­ence of the Par­a­dise Third Source and Cen­ter. Hav­ing thus uni­fied and made more per­sonal these vast min­istries of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the ser­a­phim then un­der­takes to cor­re­late this in­te­grated in­flu­ence of the Con­joint Ac­tor with the spirit pres­ences of the Fa­ther and the Son.

113:3.3The Ad­juster is the pres­ence of the Fa­ther; the Spirit of Truth, the pres­ence of the Sons. These di­vine en­dow­ments are uni­fied and co-or­di­nated on the lower lev­els of hu­man spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence by the min­istry of the guard­ian ser­a­phim. The an­gelic servers are gifted in com­bin­ing the love of the Fa­ther and the mercy of the Son in their min­istry to mor­tal crea­tures.

• after subjects’ death › custodians of mind patterns and soul realities between death and resurrection
• after subjects’ death › hold survivors’ souls as sacred trust

113:3.4And herein is re­vealed the rea­son why the se­raphic guard­ian even­tu­ally be­comes the per­sonal cus­to­dian of the mind pat­terns, mem­ory for­mu­las, and soul re­al­i­ties of the mor­tal sur­vivor dur­ing that in­ter­val be­tween phys­i­cal death and mor­ontia res­ur­rec­tion. None but the min­is­ter­ing chil­dren of the In­fi­nite Spirit could thus func­tion in be­half of the hu­man crea­ture dur­ing this phase of tran­si­tion from one level of the uni­verse to an­other and higher level. Even when you en­gage in your ter­mi­nal tran­si­tion slum­ber, when you pass from time to eter­nity, a high super­na­phim like­wise shares the tran­sit with you as the cus­to­dian of crea­ture iden­tity and the surety of per­sonal in­tegrity.

113:3.5On the spir­i­tual level, ser­a­phim make per­sonal many oth­er­wise im­per­sonal and preper­sonal min­istries of the uni­verse; they are co-or­di­na­tors. On the in­tel­lec­tual level they are the cor­re­la­tors of mind and mor­ontia; they are in­ter­preters. And on the phys­i­cal level they ma­nip­u­late ter­res­trial en­vi­ron­ment through their li­ai­son with the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers and through the co-op­er­a­tive min­istry of the mid­way crea­tures.

• technique of service › influence mortals in every manner consistent with dignity of personality

113:5.1An­gels do not in­vade the sanc­tity of the hu­man mind; they do not ma­nip­u­late the will of mor­tals; nei­ther do they di­rectly con­tact with the in­dwelling Ad­justers. The guard­ian of des­tiny in­flu­ences you in ev­ery pos­si­ble man­ner con­sis­tent with the dig­nity of your per­son­al­ity; un­der no cir­cum­stances do these an­gels in­ter­fere with the free ac­tion of the hu­man will. Nei­ther an­gels nor any other or­der of uni­verse per­son­al­ity have power or au­thor­ity to cur­tail or abridge the pre­rog­a­tives of hu­man choos­ing.

• after subjects’ death › custodians of mind patterns and soul realities between death and resurrection

113:6.1Hav­ing told you some­thing of the min­istry of ser­a­phim dur­ing nat­u­ral life, I will en­deavor to in­form you about the con­duct of the guard­i­ans of des­tiny at the time of the mor­tal dis­so­lu­tion of their hu­man as­so­ciates. Upon your death, your rec­ords, iden­tity spec­i­fi­ca­tions, and the mor­ontia en­tity of the hu­man soul—con­jointly evolved by the min­istry of mor­tal mind and the di­vine Ad­juster—are faith­fully con­served by the des­tiny guard­ian to­gether with all other val­ues re­lated to your fu­ture ex­is­tence, ev­ery­thing that con­sti­tutes you, the real you, ex­cept the iden­tity of con­tin­u­ing ex­is­tence rep­re­sented by the de­part­ing Ad­juster and the ac­tu­al­ity of per­son­al­ity.

113:6.2The in­stant the pi­lot light in the hu­man mind dis­ap­pears, the spirit lu­mi­nos­ity which ser­a­phim as­so­ciate with the pres­ence of the Ad­juster, the at­tend­ing an­gel re­ports in per­son to the com­mand­ing an­gels, suc­ces­sively, of the group, com­pany, bat­tal­ion, unit, le­gion, and host; and af­ter be­ing duly reg­is­tered for the fi­nal ad­ven­ture of time and space, such an an­gel re­ceives cer­ti­fi­ca­tion by the plan­e­tary chief of ser­a­phim for re­port­ing to the Evening Star (or other lieu­tenant of Ga­briel) in com­mand of the se­raphic army of this can­di­date for uni­verse as­cen­sion. And upon be­ing granted per­mis­sion from the com­man­der of this high­est or­ga­ni­za­tional unit, such a guard­ian of des­tiny pro­ceeds to the first man­sion world and there awaits the con­sciou­siz­ing of her for­mer ward in the flesh.

• after subjects’ death › tribunals must absolve from blame if subjects fail to survive

113:6.3In case the hu­man soul fails of sur­vival af­ter hav­ing re­ceived the as­sign­ment of a per­sonal an­gel, the at­tend­ing ser­a­phim must pro­ceed to the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse, there to wit­ness to the com­plete rec­ords of her com­ple­ment as pre­vi­ously re­ported. Next she goes be­fore the tri­bu­nals of the arch­an­gels, to be ab­solved from blame in the mat­ter of the sur­vival fail­ure of her sub­ject; and then she goes back to the worlds, again to be as­signed to an­other mor­tal of as­cend­ing po­ten­tial­ity or to some other di­vi­sion of se­raphic min­istry.

113:6.4But an­gels min­is­ter to evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures in many ways aside from the ser­vices of per­sonal and group guardian­ship. Per­sonal guard­i­ans whose sub­jects do not go im­me­di­ately to the man­sion worlds do not tarry there in idle­ness await­ing the dis­pen­sa­tional roll calls of judg­ment; they are re­as­signed to nu­mer­ous min­is­ter­ing mis­sions through­out the uni­verse.

• after subjects’ death › custodians of mind patterns and soul realities between death and resurrection

113:6.5The guard­ian ser­a­phim is the cus­to­dial trus­tee of the sur­vival val­ues of mor­tal man’s slum­ber­ing soul as the ab­sent Ad­juster is the iden­tity of such an im­mor­tal uni­verse be­ing. When these two col­lab­o­rate in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of man­so­nia in con­junc­tion with the newly fab­ri­cated mor­ontia form, there oc­curs the re­assem­bly of the con­stituent fac­tors of the per­son­al­ity of the mor­tal as­cender.

113:6.6The Ad­juster will iden­tify you; the guard­ian ser­a­phim will reper­son­al­ize you and then re-pres­ent you to the faith­ful Mon­i­tor of your earth days.

113:6.7And even so, when a plan­e­tary age ends, when those in the lower cir­cles of mor­tal achieve­ment are for­gath­ered, it is their group guard­i­ans who re­assem­ble them in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the man­sion spheres, even as your rec­ord tells: “And he shall send his an­gels with a great voice and shall gather to­gether his elect from one end of the realm to an­other.”

113:6.8The tech­nique of jus­tice de­mands that per­sonal or group guard­i­ans shall re­spond to the dis­pen­sa­tional roll call in be­half of all non­sur­viv­ing per­son­al­i­ties. The Ad­justers of such non­sur­vivors do not re­turn, and when the rolls are called, the ser­a­phim re­spond, but the Ad­justers make no an­swer. This con­sti­tutes the “res­ur­rec­tion of the un­just,” in re­al­ity the for­mal rec­og­ni­tion of the ces­sa­tion of crea­ture ex­is­tence. This roll call of jus­tice al­ways im­me­di­ately fol­lows the roll call of mercy, the res­ur­rec­tion of the sleep­ing sur­vivors. But these are mat­ters which are of con­cern to none but the su­preme and all-know­ing Judges of sur­vival val­ues. Such prob­lems of ad­ju­di­ca­tion do not re­ally con­cern us.

113:6.9Group guard­i­ans may serve on a planet age af­ter age and even­tu­ally be­come cus­to­di­ans of the slum­ber­ing souls of thou­sands upon thou­sands of sleep­ing sur­vivors. They can so serve on many dif­fer­ent worlds in a given sys­tem since the res­ur­rec­tion re­sponse oc­curs on the man­sion worlds.

113:6.10All per­sonal and group guard­i­ans in the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia who went astray in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, not­with­stand­ing that many sin­cerely re­pented of their folly, are to be de­tained on Je­ru­sem un­til the fi­nal ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the re­bel­lion. Al­ready have the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors ar­bi­trar­ily taken from these dis­obe­di­ent and un­faith­ful guard­i­ans all as­pects of their soul trusts and lodged these mor­ontia re­al­i­ties for safe­keep­ing in the cus­tody of vol­un­teer se­con­a­phim.

• after subjects’ death › forever in communication with former wards

113:7.6Man and an­gel may or may not be re­united in eter­nal ser­vice, but wher­ever se­raphic as­sign­ment may take them, the ser­a­phim are al­ways in com­mu­ni­ca­tion with their for­mer wards of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds, the as­cen­dant mor­tals of time. The in­ti­mate as­so­ci­a­tions and the af­fec­tion­ate at­tach­ments of the realms of hu­man ori­gin are never for­got­ten nor ever com­pletely sev­ered. In the eter­nal ages men and an­gels will co-op­er­ate in the di­vine ser­vice as they did in the ca­reer of time.

• destiny › surest seraphic passport to Paradise is service as guardian of destiny

113:7.7For ser­a­phim, the surest way of achiev­ing the Par­a­dise De­i­ties is by suc­cess­fully guid­ing a soul of evo­lu­tion­ary ori­gin to the por­tals of Par­a­dise. There­fore is the as­sign­ment of guard­ian of des­tiny the most highly prized se­raphic duty.

• destiny › pair achieves spiritual bi-unification on Seraphington; fuse with non-Adjuster Father fragment

113:7.8Only des­tiny guard­i­ans are mus­tered into the pri­mary or mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, and such pairs have en­gaged in the su­preme ad­ven­ture of iden­tity at-one­ness; the two be­ings have achieved spir­i­tual bi-uni­fi­ca­tion on Seraph­ing­ton prior to their re­cep­tion into the fi­nal­i­ter corps. In this ex­pe­ri­ence the two an­gelic na­tures, so com­ple­men­tal in all uni­verse func­tions, achieve ul­ti­mate spirit two-in-one­ness, reper­cussing in a new ca­pac­ity for the re­cep­tion of, and fu­sion with, a non-Ad­juster frag­ment of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. And so do some of your lov­ing se­raphic as­so­ciates in time also be­come your fi­nal­i­ter as­so­ciates in eter­nity, chil­dren of the Su­preme and per­fected sons of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

• assignment › to reservists

114:7.2When hu­man be­ings are cho­sen as pro­tec­tors of plan­e­tary des­tiny, when they be­come piv­otal in­di­vid­u­als in the plans which the world ad­min­is­tra­tors are pros­e­cut­ing, at that time the plan­e­tary chief of ser­a­phim con­firms their tem­po­ral at­tach­ment to the se­raphic corps and ap­points per­sonal des­tiny guard­i­ans to serve with these mor­tal re­servists. All re­servists have self-con­scious Ad­justers, and most of them func­tion in the higher cos­mic cir­cles of in­tel­lec­tual achieve­ment and spir­i­tual at­tain­ment.

• Jesus sent his personal guardian away while on Mount Hermon; had no personal guardian after his baptism

123:2.2On this day in Febru­ary the di­rect and per­sonal super­vi­sion of the Uni­verse Rulers, as it was re­lated to the in­tegrity of the child­like in­car­na­tion of Mi­chael, ter­mi­nated. From that time on through­out the hu­man un­fold­ing of the in­car­na­tion, the guardian­ship of Je­sus was des­tined to rest in the keep­ing of this in­dwelling Ad­juster and the as­so­ci­ated se­raphic guard­i­ans, sup­ple­mented from time to time by the min­istry of mid­way crea­tures as­signed for the per­for­mance of cer­tain def­i­nite du­ties in ac­cor­dance with the in­struc­tion of their plan­e­tary su­pe­ri­ors.

• Jesus sent his personal guardian away while on Mount Hermon; had no personal guardian after his baptism

134:8.2The first day, af­ter he had left Tiglath, Je­sus had as­cended the moun­tain only a short way when he paused to pray. Among other things he asked his Fa­ther to send back the guard­ian ser­a­phim to “be with Tiglath.” He re­quested that he be per­mit­ted to go up to his last strug­gle with the re­al­i­ties of mor­tal ex­is­tence alone. And his re­quest was granted. He went into the great test with only his in­dwelling Ad­juster to guide and sus­tain him.

• Jesus sent his personal guardian away while on Mount Hermon; had no personal guardian after his baptism

134:8.8To all the Lu­cifer-sug­gested com­pro­mises and make­shifts, to all such specious pro­pos­als about the in­car­na­tion be­stowal, Je­sus only made re­ply, “The will of my Fa­ther in Par­a­dise be done.” And when the try­ing or­deal was fin­ished, the de­tached guard­ian ser­a­phim re­turned to Je­sus’ side and min­is­tered to him.

• Jesus sent his personal guardian away while on Mount Hermon; had no personal guardian after his baptism

136:4.10The forty days in the moun­tain wilder­ness were not a pe­riod of great temp­ta­tion but rather the pe­riod of the Mas­ter’s great de­ci­sions. Dur­ing these days of lone com­mu­nion with him­self and his Fa­ther’s im­me­di­ate pres­ence—the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster (he no longer had a per­sonal se­raphic guard­ian)—he ar­rived, one by one, at the great de­ci­sions which were to con­trol his poli­cies and con­duct for the re­main­der of his earth ca­reer. Sub­se­quently the tra­di­tion of a great temp­ta­tion be­came at­tached to this pe­riod of iso­la­tion through con­fu­sion with the frag­men­tary nar­ra­tives of the Mount Her­mon strug­gles, and fur­ther be­cause it was the cus­tom to have all great proph­ets and hu­man lead­ers be­gin their pub­lic ca­reers by un­der­go­ing these sup­posed sea­sons of fast­ing and prayer. It had al­ways been Je­sus’ prac­tice, when fac­ing any new or se­ri­ous de­ci­sions, to with­draw for com­mu­nion with his own spirit that he might seek to know the will of God.