master seraphim of planetary supervision

• Seraphington graduates; serve in 12 corps

39:9.2Large num­bers of the com­ple­tion ser­a­phim re­turn to their na­tive uni­verses, there to com­ple­ment the min­istry of di­vine en­dow­ment by the min­istry of ex­pe­ri­en­tial per­fec­tion. Neb­a­don is, com­par­a­tively speak­ing, one of the younger uni­verses and there­fore does not have so many of these re­turned Seraph­ing­ton grad­u­ates as would be found in an older realm; nonethe­less our lo­cal uni­verse is ad­e­quately sup­plied with the com­ple­tion ser­a­phim, for it is sig­nif­i­cant that the evo­lu­tion­ary realms dis­close in­creas­ing need for their ser­vices as they near the sta­tus of light and life. Com­ple­tion ser­a­phim now serve more ex­ten­sively with the su­preme or­ders of ser­a­phim, but some serve with each of the other an­gelic or­ders. Even your world en­joys the ex­ten­sive min­istry of twelve spe­cial­ized groups of the Se­raphic Corps of Com­ple­tion; these mas­ter ser­a­phim of plan­e­tary super­vi­sion ac­com­pany each newly com­mis­sioned Plan­e­tary Prince to the in­hab­ited worlds.

• types › 2. angels of progress › celestial artisans on Urantia work under

44:8.1Al­though ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans do not per­son­ally work on ma­te­rial plan­ets, such as Uran­tia, they do come, from time to time, from the head­quar­ters of the sys­tem to prof­fer help to the nat­u­rally gifted in­di­vid­u­als of the mor­tal races. When thus as­signed, these ar­ti­sans tem­porar­ily work un­der the super­vi­sion of the plan­e­tary an­gels of prog­ress. The se­raphic hosts co-op­er­ate with these ar­ti­sans in at­tempt­ing to as­sist those mor­tal artists who pos­sess in­her­ent en­dow­ments, and who also pos­sess Ad­justers of spe­cial and pre­vi­ous ex­pe­ri­ence.

114:6.1When the first gov­er­nor gen­eral ar­rived on Uran­tia, con­cur­rent with the out­pour­ing of the Spirit of Truth, he was ac­com­pa­nied by twelve corps of spe­cial ser­a­phim, Seraph­ing­ton grad­u­ates, who were im­me­di­ately as­signed to cer­tain spe­cial plan­e­tary ser­vices. These ex­alted an­gels are known as the mas­ter ser­a­phim of plan­e­tary super­vi­sion and are, aside from the over­con­trol of the plan­e­tary Most High ob­server, un­der the im­me­di­ate di­rec­tion of the res­i­dent gov­er­nor gen­eral.

114:6.2These twelve groups of an­gels, while func­tion­ing un­der the gen­eral super­vi­sion of the res­i­dent gov­er­nor gen­eral, are im­me­di­ately di­rected by the se­raphic coun­cil of twelve, the act­ing chiefs of each group. This coun­cil also serves as the vol­un­teer cab­i­net of the res­i­dent gov­er­nor gen­eral.

114:6.3As plan­e­tary chief of ser­a­phim, I pre­side over this coun­cil of se­raphic chiefs, and I am a vol­un­teer super­na­phim of the pri­mary or­der serv­ing on Uran­tia as the suc­ces­sor of the one­time chief of the an­gelic hosts of the planet who de­faulted at the time of the Cali­gas­tia se­ces­sion.

114:6.4The twelve corps of the mas­ter ser­a­phim of plan­e­tary super­vi­sion are func­tional on Uran­tia as fol­lows:

• types › 1. angels of the epochs › angels of the current age

114:6.51. The ep­ochal an­gels. These are the an­gels of the cur­rent age, the dis­pen­sa­tional group. These ce­les­tial min­is­ters are in­trusted with the over­sight and di­rec­tion of the af­fairs of each gen­er­a­tion as they are de­signed to fit into the mo­saic of the age in which they oc­cur. The pres­ent corps of ep­ochal an­gels serv­ing on Uran­tia is the third group as­signed to the planet dur­ing the cur­rent dis­pen­sa­tion.

• types › 2. angels of progress › labor incessantly to make things what they ought to be; checkmates of angels of churches

114:6.62. The prog­ress an­gels. These ser­a­phim are in­trusted with the task of ini­ti­at­ing the evo­lu­tion­ary prog­ress of the suc­ces­sive so­cial ages. They fos­ter the de­vel­op­ment of the in­her­ent pro­gres­sive trend of evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures; they la­bor in­ces­santly to make things what they ought to be. The group now on duty is the sec­ond to be as­signed to the planet.

• types › 3. angels of the churches › religious guardians; checkmates of angels of progress

114:6.73. The re­li­gious guard­i­ans. These are the “an­gels of the churches,” the earnest con­tenders for that which is and has been. They en­deavor to main­tain the ide­als of that which has sur­vived for the sake of the safe tran­sit of moral val­ues from one epoch to an­other. They are the check­mates of the an­gels of prog­ress, all the while seek­ing to trans­late from one gen­er­a­tion to an­other the im­per­ish­able val­ues of the old and pass­ing forms into the new and there­fore less sta­bi­lized pat­terns of thought and con­duct. These an­gels do con­tend for spir­i­tual forms, but they are not the source of ul­tra­sec­tar­i­an­ism and mean­ing­less con­tro­ver­sial di­vi­sions of pro­fessed re­li­gion­ists. The corps now func­tion­ing on Uran­tia is the fifth thus to serve.

• types › 4. angels of nation life › angels of the trumpets; directors of national political life; Most Highs rule in kingdoms of men through

114:6.84. The an­gels of na­tion life. These are the “an­gels of the trum­pets,” di­rec­tors of the po­lit­i­cal per­for­mances of Uran­tia na­tional life. The group now func­tion­ing in the over­con­trol of in­ter­na­tional re­la­tions is the fourth corps to serve on the planet. It is par­tic­u­larly through the min­istry of this se­raphic di­vi­sion that “the Most Highs rule in the king­doms of men.”

• types › 5. angels of the races › work for conservation of mortal races

114:6.95. The an­gels of the races. Those who work for the con­ser­va­tion of the evo­lu­tion­ary races of time, re­gard­less of their po­lit­i­cal en­tan­gle­ments and re­li­gious group­ings. On Uran­tia there are rem­nants of nine hu­man races which have com­min­gled and com­bined into the peo­ple of mod­ern times. These ser­a­phim are closely as­so­ci­ated with the min­istry of the race com­mis­sion­ers, and the group now on Uran­tia is the orig­i­nal corps as­signed to the planet soon af­ter the day of Pen­te­cost.

• types › 6. angels of the future › architects of successive eras

114:6.106. The an­gels of the fu­ture. These are the pro­jec­tion an­gels, who fore­cast a fu­ture age and plan for the re­al­iza­tion of the bet­ter things of a new and ad­vanc­ing dis­pen­sa­tion; they are the ar­chi­tects of the suc­ces­sive eras. The group now on the planet has thus func­tioned since the be­gin­ning of the cur­rent dis­pen­sa­tion.

• types › 7. angels of enlightenment › occupied with mental and moral training

114:6.117. The an­gels of en­light­en­ment. Uran­tia is now re­ceiv­ing the help of the third corps of ser­a­phim ded­i­cated to the fos­ter­ing of plan­e­tary ed­u­ca­tion. These an­gels are oc­cu­pied with men­tal and moral train­ing as it con­cerns in­di­vid­u­als, fam­i­lies, groups, schools, com­mu­ni­ties, na­tions, and whole races.

• types › 8. angels of health › promote health, prevention of disease

114:6.128. The an­gels of health. These are the se­raphic min­is­ters as­signed to the as­sis­tance of those mor­tal agen­cies ded­i­cated to the pro­mo­tion of health and the pre­ven­tion of dis­ease. The pres­ent corps is the sixth group to serve dur­ing this dis­pen­sa­tion.

• types › 9. angels of the home › dedicated to preservation and advancement of home

114:6.139. The home ser­a­phim. Uran­tia now en­joys the ser­vices of the fifth group of an­gelic min­is­ters ded­i­cated to the preser­va­tion and ad­vance­ment of the home, the ba­sic in­sti­tu­tion of hu­man civ­i­liza­tion.

• types › 10. angels of industry › work to improve economic conditions

114:6.1410. The an­gels of in­dus­try. This se­raphic group is con­cerned with fos­ter­ing in­dus­trial de­vel­op­ment and im­prov­ing eco­nomic con­di­tions among the Uran­tia peo­ples. This corps has been seven times changed since the be­stowal of Mi­chael.

• types › 11. angels of diversion › foster play, humor, and rest

114:6.1511. The an­gels of di­ver­sion. These are the ser­a­phim who fos­ter the val­ues of play, hu­mor, and rest. They ever seek to up­lift man’s recre­ational di­ver­sions and thus to pro­mote the more prof­itable uti­liza­tion of hu­man leisure. The pres­ent corps is the third of that or­der to min­is­ter on Uran­tia.

• types › 12. angels of superhuman ministry › minister to superhuman life

114:6.1612. The an­gels of super­hu­man min­istry. These are the an­gels of the an­gels, those ser­a­phim who are as­signed to the min­istry of all other super­hu­man life on the planet, tem­po­rary or per­ma­nent. This corps has served since the be­gin­ning of the cur­rent dis­pen­sa­tion.

114:6.17When these groups of mas­ter ser­a­phim dis­agree in mat­ters of plan­e­tary pol­icy or pro­ce­dure, their dif­fer­ences are usu­ally com­posed by the gov­er­nor gen­eral, but all his rul­ings are sub­ject to ap­peal in ac­cor­dance with the na­ture and grav­ity of the is­sues in­volved in the dis­agree­ment.

114:6.18None of these an­gelic groups ex­er­cise di­rect or ar­bi­trary con­trol over the do­mains of their as­sign­ment. They can­not fully con­trol the af­fairs of their re­spec­tive realms of ac­tion, but they can and do so ma­nip­u­late plan­e­tary con­di­tions and so as­so­ciate cir­cum­stances as fa­vor­ably to in­flu­ence the spheres of hu­man ac­tiv­ity to which they are at­tached.

114:6.19The mas­ter ser­a­phim of plan­e­tary super­vi­sion uti­lize many agen­cies for the pros­e­cu­tion of their mis­sions. They func­tion as ide­a­tional clear­ing­houses, mind fo­cal­iz­ers, and project pro­mot­ers. While un­able to in­ject new and higher con­cep­tions into hu­man minds, they of­ten act to in­ten­sify some higher ideal which has al­ready ap­peared within a hu­man in­tel­lect.

• mobilize reserve corps of destiny

114:6.20But aside from these many means of pos­i­tive ac­tion, the mas­ter ser­a­phim in­sure plan­e­tary prog­ress against vi­tal jeop­ardy through the mo­bi­liza­tion, train­ing, and main­te­nance of the re­serve corps of des­tiny. The chief func­tion of these re­servists is to in­sure against break­down of evo­lu­tion­ary prog­ress; they are the pro­vi­sions which the ce­les­tial forces have made against sur­prise; they are the guar­an­tees against dis­as­ter.

• types › 2. angels of progress › disagreement with angels of churches regarding Urmia lectures
• types › 3. angels of the churches › disagreement regarding Urmia lectures

134:3.8[When we, the mid­way­ers, first pre­pared the sum­mary of Je­sus’ teach­ings at Ur­mia, there arose a dis­agree­ment be­tween the ser­a­phim of the churches and the ser­a­phim of prog­ress as to the wis­dom of in­clud­ing these teach­ings in the Uran­tia Rev­e­la­tion. Con­di­tions of the twen­ti­eth cen­tury, pre­vail­ing in both re­li­gion and hu­man gov­ern­ments, are so dif­fer­ent from those pre­vail­ing in Je­sus’ day that it was in­deed dif­fi­cult to adapt the Mas­ter’s teach­ings at Ur­mia to the prob­lems of the king­dom of God and the king­doms of men as these world func­tions are ex­is­tent in the twen­ti­eth cen­tury. We were never able to for­mu­late a state­ment of the Mas­ter’s teach­ings which was ac­cept­able to both groups of these ser­a­phim of plan­e­tary gov­ern­ment. Fi­nally, the Mel­chiz­e­dek chair­man of the rev­e­la­tory com­mis­sion ap­pointed a com­mis­sion of three of our num­ber to pre­pare our view of the Mas­ter’s Ur­mia teach­ings as adapted to twen­ti­eth-cen­tury re­li­gious and po­lit­i­cal con­di­tions on Uran­tia. Ac­cord­ingly, we three sec­ondary mid­way­ers com­pleted such an adap­ta­tion of Je­sus’ teach­ings, re­stat­ing his pro­nounce­ments as we would ap­ply them to pres­ent-day world con­di­tions, and we now pre­sent these state­ments as they stand af­ter hav­ing been edited by the Mel­chiz­e­dek chair­man of the rev­e­la­tory com­mis­sion.]