Manotia

39:0.9To say that any one ser­a­phim is in­fe­rior to an an­gel of any other group would hardly be true. Nev­er­the­less ev­ery an­gel is at first ser­vice-lim­ited to the group of orig­i­nal and in­her­ent clas­si­fi­ca­tion. My se­raphic as­so­ciate in the prepa­ra­tion of this state­ment, Man­otia, is a su­preme ser­a­phim and one­time func­tioned only as a su­preme ser­a­phim. By ap­pli­ca­tion and de­voted ser­vice she has, one by one, achieved all seven of the se­raphic ser­vices, hav­ing func­tioned in well-nigh ev­ery av­enue of ac­tiv­ity open to a ser­a­phim, and now holds the com­mis­sion of as­so­ciate chief of ser­a­phim on Uran­tia.

53:6.5“Hav­ing been au­to­mat­i­cally thrown out of the con­stel­la­tion cir­cuits by the se­ces­sion of Lu­cifer, we were de­pen­dent on the loy­alty of our in­tel­li­gence corps, who for­warded calls for help to Eden­tia from the near-by sys­tem of Rantu­lia; and we found that the king­dom of or­der, the in­tel­lect of loy­alty, and the spirit of truth were in­her­ently tri­umphant over re­bel­lion, self-as­ser­tion, and so-called per­sonal lib­erty; we were able to carry on un­til the ar­rival of the new Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, the wor­thy suc­ces­sor of Lu­cifer. And im­me­di­ately there­after I was as­signed to the corps of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceiver­ship of Uran­tia, as­sum­ing ju­ris­dic­tion over the loyal se­raphic or­ders on the world of the traitorous Cali­gas­tia, who had pro­claimed his sphere a mem­ber of the newly pro­jected sys­tem of ‘lib­er­ated worlds and eman­ci­pated per­son­al­i­ties’ pro­posed in the in­fa­mous Dec­la­ra­tion of Lib­erty is­sued by Lu­cifer in his call to the ‘lib­erty-lov­ing, free-think­ing, and for­ward-look­ing in­tel­li­gences of the mis­ruled and mal­ad­min­is­tered worlds of Sa­ta­nia.’”

53:6.6This an­gel is still in ser­vice on Uran­tia, func­tion­ing as as­so­ciate chief of ser­a­phim.

53:6.1There were many no­ble and in­spir­ing acts of de­vo­tion and loy­alty which were per­formed by nu­mer­ous per­son­al­i­ties dur­ing the in­terim be­tween the out­break of hos­til­i­ties and the ar­rival of the new sys­tem ruler and his staff. But the most thrilling of all these dar­ing feats of de­vo­tion was the coura­geous con­duct of Man­otia, the sec­ond in com­mand of the Sa­ta­nia head­quar­ters’ ser­a­phim.

53:6.2At the out­break of re­bel­lion on Je­ru­sem the head of the se­raphic hosts joined the Lu­cifer cause. This no doubt ex­plains why such a large num­ber of the fourth or­der, the sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tor ser­a­phim, went astray. The se­raphic leader was spir­i­tu­ally blinded by the bril­liant per­son­al­ity of Lu­cifer; his charm­ing ways fas­ci­nated the lower or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings. They sim­ply could not com­pre­hend that it was pos­si­ble for such a daz­zling per­son­al­ity to go wrong.

53:6.3Not long since, in de­scrib­ing the ex­pe­ri­ences as­so­ci­ated with the on­set of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, Man­otia said: “But my most ex­hil­a­rat­ing mo­ment was the thrilling ad­ven­ture con­nected with the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion when, as sec­ond se­raphic com­man­der, I re­fused to par­tic­i­pate in the pro­jected in­sult to Mi­chael; and the pow­er­ful rebels sought my de­struc­tion by means of the li­ai­son forces they had ar­ranged. There was a tremen­dous up­heaval on Je­ru­sem, but not a sin­gle loyal ser­a­phim was harmed.

53:6.4“Upon the de­fault of my im­me­di­ate su­pe­rior it de­volved upon me to as­sume com­mand of the an­gelic hosts of Je­ru­sem as the tit­u­lar di­rec­tor of the con­fused se­raphic af­fairs of the sys­tem. I was morally up­held by the Mel­chiz­e­deks, ably as­sisted by a ma­jor­ity of the Ma­te­rial Sons, de­serted by a tremen­dous group of my own or­der, but mag­nif­i­cently sup­ported by the as­cen­dant mor­tals on Je­ru­sem.

53:7.6Of the su­preme or­der of ser­a­phim, not an an­gel was lost, but a con­sid­er­able group of the next or­der, the su­pe­rior, were de­ceived and en­snared. Like­wise a few of the third or super­vi­sor or­der of an­gels were mis­led. But the ter­ri­ble break­down came in the fourth group, the ad­min­is­tra­tor an­gels, those ser­a­phim who are nor­mally as­signed to the du­ties of the sys­tem cap­i­tals. Man­otia saved al­most two thirds of them, but slightly over one third fol­lowed their chief into the rebel ranks. One third of all the Je­ru­sem cheru­bim at­tached to the ad­min­is­tra­tor an­gels were lost with their dis­loyal ser­a­phim.