midwayers, primary

• destiny is to join a Paradise finaliter corps

31:6.2The mid­way crea­tures from var­i­ous uni­verses dif­fer greatly in ori­gin and na­ture, but they are all des­tined to one or an­other of the Par­a­dise fi­nal­ity corps. The sec­ondary mid­way­ers are all even­tu­ally Ad­juster fused and are mus­tered into the mor­tal corps. Many fi­nal­i­ter com­pa­nies have one of these glo­ri­fied be­ings in their group.

• 50,000 per planet brought into being over 500 years
• on Urantia › resulted from nonsexual liaison of Planetary Prince’s staff

38:9.31. Pri­mary Mid­way­ers, the more spir­i­tual group, are a some­what stan­dard­ized or­der of be­ings who are uni­formly de­rived from the mod­i­fied as­cen­dant-mor­tal staffs of the Plan­e­tary Princes. The num­ber of pri­mary mid­way crea­tures is al­ways fifty thou­sand, and no planet en­joy­ing their min­istry has a larger group.

38:9.42. Sec­ondary Mid­way­ers, the more ma­te­rial group of these crea­tures, vary greatly in num­bers on the dif­fer­ent worlds, though the av­er­age is around fifty thou­sand. They are var­i­ously de­rived from the plan­e­tary bi­o­logic up­lifters, the Adams and Eves, or from their im­me­di­ate progeny. There are no less than twenty-four di­verse tech­niques in­volved in the pro­duc­tion of these sec­ondary mid­way crea­tures on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space. The mode of ori­gin for this group on Uran­tia was un­usual and ex­traor­di­nary.

• energized by angelic technique
• intellectually uniform
• no contact with adjutant mind-spirits
• uniform in intellectual status

38:9.6Pri­mary mid­way­ers are en­er­gized in­tel­lec­tu­ally and spir­i­tu­ally by the an­gelic tech­nique and are uni­form in in­tel­lec­tual sta­tus. The seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its make no con­tact with them; and only the sixth and the sev­enth, the spirit of wor­ship and the spirit of wis­dom, are able to min­is­ter to the sec­ondary group.

38:9.7Sec­ondary mid­way­ers are phys­i­cally en­er­gized by the Adamic tech­nique, spir­i­tu­ally en­cir­cuited by the se­raphic, and in­tel­lec­tu­ally en­dowed with the mor­ontia tran­si­tion type of mind. They are di­vided into four phys­i­cal types, seven or­ders spir­i­tu­ally, and twelve lev­els of in­tel­lec­tual re­sponse to the joint min­istry of the last two ad­ju­tant spir­its and the mor­ontia mind. These di­ver­si­ties de­ter­mine their dif­fer­en­tial of ac­tiv­ity and of plan­e­tary as­sign­ment.

• resemble angels

38:9.8Pri­mary mid­way­ers re­sem­ble an­gels more than mor­tals; the sec­ondary or­ders are much more like hu­man be­ings. Each ren­ders in­valu­able as­sis­tance to the other in the ex­e­cu­tion of their man­i­fold plan­e­tary as­sign­ments. The pri­mary min­is­ters can achieve li­ai­son co-op­er­a­tion with both mor­ontia- and spirit-en­ergy con­trol­lers and mind cir­cuiters. The sec­ondary group can es­tab­lish work­ing con­nec­tions only with the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and the ma­te­rial-cir­cuit ma­nip­u­la­tors. But since each or­der of mid­wayer can es­tab­lish per­fect syn­chrony of con­tact with the other, ei­ther group is thereby able to achieve prac­ti­cal uti­liza­tion of the en­tire en­ergy gamut ex­tend­ing from the gross phys­i­cal power of the ma­te­rial worlds up through the tran­si­tion phases of uni­verse en­er­gies to the higher spirit-re­al­ity forces of the ce­les­tial realms.

• intelligence corps of Planetary Prince

38:9.10On nor­mal worlds the pri­mary mid­way­ers main­tain their ser­vice as the in­tel­li­gence corps and as ce­les­tial en­ter­tain­ers in be­half of the Plan­e­tary Prince, while the sec­ondary min­is­ters con­tinue their co-op­er­a­tion with the Adamic regime of fur­ther­ing the cause of pro­gres­sive plan­e­tary civ­i­liza­tion. In case of the de­fec­tion of the Plan­e­tary Prince and the fail­ure of the Ma­te­rial Son, as oc­curred on Uran­tia, the mid­way crea­tures be­come the wards of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign and serve un­der the di­rect­ing guid­ance of the act­ing cus­to­dian of the planet. But on only three other worlds in Sa­ta­nia do these be­ings func­tion as one group un­der uni­fied lead­er­ship as do the united mid­way min­is­ters of Uran­tia.

• planetary historians

38:9.12The pri­mary mid­way­ers are the plan­e­tary his­to­ri­ans who, from the time of the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince to the age of set­tled light and life, for­mu­late the pageants and de­sign the por­tray­als of plan­e­tary his­tory for the ex­hibits of the plan­ets on the sys­tem head­quar­ters worlds.

• destiny is to join a Paradise finaliter corps

40:3.1Al­though de­prived of the im­me­di­ate ben­e­fits of the plan­e­tary be­stowals of the de­scend­ing Sons of God, though the Par­a­dise as­cent is long de­ferred, nev­er­the­less, soon af­ter an evo­lu­tion­ary planet has at­tained the in­ter­me­di­ate epochs of light and life (if not be­fore), both groups of mid­way crea­tures are re­leased from plan­e­tary duty. Some­times the ma­jor­ity of them are trans­lated, along with their hu­man cousins, on the day of the de­scent of the tem­ple of light and the el­e­va­tion of the Plan­e­tary Prince to the dig­nity of Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign. Upon be­ing re­lieved of plan­e­tary ser­vice, both or­ders are reg­is­tered in the lo­cal uni­verse as as­cend­ing Sons of God and im­me­di­ately be­gin the long Par­a­dise as­cent by the very routes or­dained for the pro­gres­sion of the mor­tal races of the ma­te­rial worlds. The pri­mary group are des­tined to var­i­ous fi­nal­i­ter corps, but the sec­ondary or Adamic mid­way­ers are all routed for en­roll­ment in the Mor­tal Corps of Fi­nal­ity.

• on Urantia › resulted from nonsexual liaison of Planetary Prince’s staff

50:3.5These as­sis­tants to the Plan­e­tary Prince sel­dom mate with the world races, but they do al­ways mate among them­selves. Two classes of be­ings re­sult from these unions: the pri­mary type of mid­way crea­tures and cer­tain high types of ma­te­rial be­ings who re­main at­tached to the prince’s staff af­ter their par­ents have been re­moved from the planet at the time of the ar­rival of Adam and Eve. These chil­dren do not mate with the mor­tal races ex­cept in cer­tain emer­gen­cies and then only by di­rec­tion of the Plan­e­tary Prince. In such an event, their chil­dren—the grand­chil­dren of the cor­po­real staff—are in sta­tus as of the su­pe­rior races of their day and gen­er­a­tion. All the off­spring of these semi­ma­te­rial as­sis­tants of the Plan­e­tary Prince are Ad­juster in­dwelt.

• on Urantia › 40,119 out of 50,000 joined Caligastia rebellion; interned

51:3.7The sec­ondary mid­way­ers should not be con­fused with the pri­mary or­der, who date from the near times of the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince. On Uran­tia a ma­jor­ity of these ear­lier mid­way crea­tures went into re­bel­lion with Cali­gas­tia and have, since Pen­te­cost, been in­terned. Many of the Adamic group who did not re­main loyal to the plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion are like­wise in­terned.

• on Urantia › 40,119 out of 50,000 joined Caligastia rebellion; interned

53:7.8The great­est loss oc­curred in the an­gelic ranks, but most of the lower or­ders of in­tel­li­gence were in­volved in dis­loy­alty. Of the 681,217 Ma­te­rial Sons lost in Sa­ta­nia, ninety-five per cent were ca­su­al­ties of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. Large num­bers of mid­way crea­tures were lost on those in­di­vid­ual plan­ets whose Plan­e­tary Princes joined the Lu­cifer cause.

• 50,000 per planet brought into being over 500 years
• on Urantia › resulted from nonsexual liaison of Planetary Prince’s staff

66:4.10In con­for­mity to their in­struc­tions the staff did not en­gage in sex­ual re­pro­duc­tion, but they did painstak­ingly study their per­sonal con­sti­tu­tions, and they care­fully ex­plored ev­ery imag­in­able phase of in­tel­lec­tual (mind) and mor­ontia (soul) li­ai­son. And it was dur­ing the thirty-third year of their so­journ in Dala­ma­tia, long be­fore the wall was com­pleted, that num­ber two and num­ber seven of the Dan­ite group ac­ci­den­tally dis­cov­ered a phe­nom­e­non at­ten­dant upon the li­ai­son of their mor­ontia selves (sup­pos­edly non­sex­ual and non­ma­te­rial); and the re­sult of this ad­ven­ture proved to be the first of the pri­mary mid­way crea­tures. This new be­ing was wholly vis­i­ble to the plan­e­tary staff and to their ce­les­tial as­so­ciates but was not vis­i­ble to the men and women of the var­i­ous hu­man tribes. Upon au­thor­ity of the Plan­e­tary Prince the en­tire cor­po­real staff un­der­took the pro­duc­tion of sim­i­lar be­ings, and all were suc­cess­ful, fol­low­ing the in­struc­tions of the pi­o­neer Dan­ite pair. Thus did the Prince’s staff even­tu­ally bring into be­ing the orig­i­nal corps of 50,000 pri­mary mid­way­ers.

• invisible to human beings

66:4.11These mid-type crea­tures were of great ser­vice in car­ry­ing on the af­fairs of the world’s head­quar­ters. They were in­vis­i­ble to hu­man be­ings, but the prim­i­tive so­journ­ers at Dala­ma­tia were taught about these un­seen semispir­its, and for ages they con­sti­tuted the sum to­tal of the spirit world to these evolv­ing mor­tals.

• on Urantia › 40,119 out of 50,000 joined Caligastia rebellion; interned

67:3.2On Uran­tia forty mem­bers of the cor­po­real staff of one hun­dred (in­clud­ing Van) re­fused to join the in­sur­rec­tion. Many of the staff’s hu­man as­sis­tants (mod­i­fied and oth­er­wise) were also brave and no­ble de­fend­ers of Mi­chael and his uni­verse gov­ern­ment. There was a ter­ri­ble loss of per­son­al­i­ties among ser­a­phim and cheru­bim. Al­most one half of the ad­min­is­tra­tor and tran­si­tion ser­a­phim as­signed to the planet joined their leader and Dali­gas­tia in sup­port of the cause of Lu­cifer. Forty thou­sand one hun­dred and nine­teen of the pri­mary mid­way crea­tures joined hands with Cali­gas­tia, but the re­main­der of these be­ings re­mained true to their trust.

• on Urantia › largely offset evil machinations of Caligastia

73:2.5Al­though Cali­gas­tia and Dali­gas­tia had been de­prived of much of their power for evil, they did ev­ery­thing pos­si­ble to frus­trate and ham­per the work of prepar­ing the Gar­den. But their evil machi­na­tions were largely off­set by the faith­ful ac­tiv­i­ties of the al­most ten thou­sand loyal mid­way crea­tures who so tire­lessly la­bored to ad­vance the en­ter­prise.

• originate by dissimilar techniques

77:1.1The pri­mary mid­way­ers have their gen­e­sis in a unique in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual on Uran­tia. We know of the ex­is­tence of sim­i­lar crea­tures on other worlds and in other sys­tems, but they orig­i­nated by dis­sim­i­lar tech­niques.

• on Urantia › resulted from nonsexual liaison of Planetary Prince’s staff

77:1.2It is well al­ways to bear in mind that the suc­ces­sive be­stowals of the Sons of God on an evolv­ing planet pro­duce marked changes in the spir­i­tual econ­omy of the realm and some­times so mod­ify the work­ings of the in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial agen­cies on a planet as to cre­ate sit­u­a­tions in­deed dif­fi­cult of un­der­stand­ing. The sta­tus of the one hun­dred cor­po­real mem­bers of Prince Cali­gas­tia’s staff il­lus­trates just such a unique in­teras­so­ci­a­tion: As as­cen­dant mor­ontia cit­i­zens of Je­ru­sem they were super­ma­te­rial crea­tures with­out re­pro­duc­tive pre­rog­a­tives. As de­scen­dant plan­e­tary min­is­ters on Uran­tia they were ma­te­rial sex crea­tures ca­pa­ble of pro­cre­at­ing ma­te­rial off­spring (as some of them later did). What we can­not sat­is­fac­to­rily ex­plain is how these one hun­dred could func­tion in the pa­ren­tal role on a super­ma­te­rial level, but that is ex­actly what hap­pened. A super­ma­te­rial (non­sex­ual) li­ai­son of a male and a fe­male mem­ber of the cor­po­real staff re­sulted in the ap­pear­ance of the first-born of the pri­mary mid­way­ers.

77:1.3It was im­me­di­ately dis­cov­ered that a crea­ture of this or­der, mid­way be­tween the mor­tal and an­gelic lev­els, would be of great ser­vice in car­ry­ing on the af­fairs of the Prince’s head­quar­ters, and each cou­ple of the cor­po­real staff was ac­cord­ingly granted per­mis­sion to pro­duce a sim­i­lar be­ing. This ef­fort re­sulted in the first group of fifty mid­way crea­tures.

• 50,000 per planet brought into being over 500 years

77:1.4Af­ter a year of ob­serv­ing the work of this unique group, the Plan­e­tary Prince au­tho­rized the re­pro­duc­tion of mid­way­ers with­out re­stric­tion. This plan was car­ried out as long as the power to cre­ate con­tin­ued, and the orig­i­nal corps of 50,000 was ac­cord­ingly brought into be­ing.

77:1.5A pe­riod of one-half year in­ter­vened be­tween the pro­duc­tion of each mid­wayer, and when one thou­sand such be­ings had been born to each cou­ple, no more were ever forth­com­ing. And there is no ex­pla­na­tion avail­able as to why this power was ex­hausted upon the ap­pear­ance of the one thou­sandth off­spring. No amount of fur­ther ex­per­i­men­ta­tion ever re­sulted in any­thing but fail­ure.

• intelligence corps of Planetary Prince

77:1.6These crea­tures con­sti­tuted the in­tel­li­gence corps of the Prince’s ad­min­is­tra­tion. They ranged far and wide, study­ing and ob­serv­ing the world races and ren­der­ing other in­valu­able ser­vices to the Prince and his staff in the work of in­flu­enc­ing hu­man so­ci­ety re­mote from the plan­e­tary head­quar­ters.

77:1.7This regime con­tin­ued un­til the tragic days of the plan­e­tary re­bel­lion, which en­snared a lit­tle over four fifths of the pri­mary mid­way­ers. The loyal corps en­tered the ser­vice of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers, func­tion­ing un­der the tit­u­lar lead­er­ship of Van un­til the days of Adam.

• on Urantia › 40,119 out of 50,000 joined Caligastia rebellion; interned

77:7.1The ma­jor­ity of the pri­mary mid­way­ers went into sin at the time of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. When the dev­as­ta­tion of the plan­e­tary re­bel­lion was reck­oned up, among other losses it was dis­cov­ered that of the orig­i­nal 50,000, 40,119 had joined the Cali­gas­tia se­ces­sion.

• on Urantia › 40,119 out of 50,000 joined Caligastia rebellion; interned

77:7.3Both groups of rebel mid­way­ers are now held in cus­tody await­ing the fi­nal ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the af­fairs of the sys­tem re­bel­lion. But they did many strange things on earth prior to the in­au­gu­ra­tion of the pres­ent plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tion.

• on Urantia › 40,119 out of 50,000 joined Caligastia rebellion; interned

77:7.7Even prior to Pen­te­cost no rebel spirit could dom­i­nate a nor­mal hu­man mind, and since that day even the weak minds of in­fe­rior mor­tals are free from such pos­si­bil­i­ties. The sup­posed cast­ing out of dev­ils since the ar­rival of the Spirit of Truth has been a mat­ter of con­found­ing a be­lief in de­mo­ni­a­cal pos­ses­sion with hys­te­ria, in­san­ity, and fee­ble-mind­ed­ness. But just be­cause Mi­chael’s be­stowal has for­ever lib­er­ated all hu­man minds on Uran­tia from the pos­si­bil­ity of de­mo­ni­a­cal pos­ses­sion, do not imag­ine that such was not a re­al­ity in for­mer ages.

• generally known by numerals such as 1-2-3 the first

77:8.2The mem­bers of the older or pri­mary or­der are gen­er­ally known by nu­mer­als; they are of­ten given names such as 1-2-3 the first, 4-5-6 the first, and so on. On Uran­tia the Adamic mid­way­ers are des­ig­nated al­pha­bet­i­cally in or­der to dis­tin­guish them from the nu­mer­i­cal des­ig­na­tion of the pri­mary mid­way­ers.

• nearer angelic than mortal state; cannot easily contact material agencies
• work with celestial visitors

77:8.10Mid­way­ers vary greatly in their abil­i­ties to make con­tact with the ser­a­phim above and with their hu­man cousins be­low. It is ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult, for in­stance, for the pri­mary mid­way­ers to make di­rect con­tact with ma­te­rial agen­cies. They are con­sid­er­ably nearer the an­gelic type of be­ing and are there­fore usu­ally as­signed to work­ing with, and min­is­ter­ing to, the spir­i­tual forces res­i­dent on the planet. They act as com­pan­ions and guides for ce­les­tial vis­i­tors and stu­dent so­journ­ers, whereas the sec­ondary crea­tures are al­most ex­clu­sively at­tached to the min­istry of the ma­te­rial be­ings of the realm.

• on Urantia › 1-2-3 the first is eldest

77:9.4Al­though their abil­ity to tra­verse the en­ergy cir­cuits makes plan­e­tary de­par­ture fea­si­ble to any mid­wayer, they have in­di­vid­u­ally pledged them­selves not to leave the planet prior to their some­time re­lease by the uni­verse au­thor­i­ties. Mid­way­ers are an­chored on a planet un­til the ages of set­tled light and life. With the ex­cep­tion of 1-2-3 the first, no loyal mid­way crea­tures have ever de­parted from Uran­tia.

77:9.51-2-3 the first, the el­dest of the pri­mary or­der, was re­leased from im­me­di­ate plan­e­tary du­ties shortly af­ter Pen­te­cost. This no­ble mid­wayer stood stead­fast with Van and Amadon dur­ing the tragic days of the plan­e­tary re­bel­lion, and his fear­less lead­er­ship was in­stru­men­tal in re­duc­ing the ca­su­al­ties in his or­der. He serves at pres­ent on Je­ru­sem as a mem­ber of the twenty-four coun­selors, hav­ing al­ready func­tioned as gov­er­nor gen­eral of Uran­tia once since Pen­te­cost.