midwayers, secondary

• all who survive receive Adjusters and eventually join Corps of Mortal Finaliters

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.

• derived from Adams and Eves or their immediate progeny
• more material than primary midwayers

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 electrically, by Adamic technique
• of adjutant mind-spirits, only 6th and 7th minister to
• vary physically, intellectually, and spiritually

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.

• can work with Master Physical Controllers
• nearer men than 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.

• further cause of progressive civilization

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.

• all who survive receive Adjusters and eventually join Corps of Mortal Finaliters

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.

• derived from Adams and Eves or their immediate progeny
• further cause of progressive civilization
• material but ordinarily invisible
• subject insubordinate minorities

51:3.6The sec­ondary mid­way crea­tures are in­dige­nous to the Adamic mis­sions. As with the cor­po­real staff of the Plan­e­tary Prince, the de­scen­dants of the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters are of two or­ders: their phys­i­cal chil­dren and the sec­ondary or­der of mid­way crea­tures. These ma­te­rial but or­di­nar­ily in­vis­i­ble plan­e­tary min­is­ters con­tribute much to the ad­vance­ment of civ­i­liza­tion and even to the sub­jec­tion of in­sub­or­di­nate mi­nori­ties who may seek to sub­vert so­cial de­vel­op­ment and spir­i­tual prog­ress.

• on Urantia › Beelzebub was rebels’ chief executive

53:1.5Abad­don was the chief of the staff of Cali­gas­tia. He fol­lowed his mas­ter into re­bel­lion and has ever since acted as chief ex­ec­u­tive of the Uran­tia rebels. Beelze­bub was the leader of the dis­loyal mid­way crea­tures who al­lied them­selves with the forces of the traitorous Cali­gas­tia.

• visible to humans 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.

• derived from Adams and Eves or their immediate progeny

77:0.2On Uran­tia there func­tion two dis­tinct or­ders of mid­way­ers: the pri­mary or se­nior corps, who came into be­ing back in the days of Dala­ma­tia, and the sec­ondary or younger group, whose ori­gin dates from the times of Adam.

77:2.1While this is the nar­ra­tive of the ori­gin, na­ture, and func­tion of the mid­way crea­tures of Uran­tia, the kin­ship be­tween the two or­ders—pri­mary and sec­ondary—makes it nec­es­sary to in­ter­rupt the story of the pri­mary mid­way­ers at this point in or­der to fol­low out the line of de­scent from the rebel mem­bers of the cor­po­real staff of Prince Cali­gas­tia from the days of the plan­e­tary re­bel­lion to the times of Adam. It was this line of in­her­i­tance which, in the early days of the sec­ond gar­den, fur­nished one half of the an­ces­try for the sec­ondary or­der of mid­way crea­tures.

77:2.2The phys­i­cal mem­bers of the Prince’s staff had been con­sti­tuted sex crea­tures for the pur­pose of par­tic­i­pat­ing in the plan of pro­cre­at­ing off­spring em­body­ing the com­bined qual­i­ties of their spe­cial or­der united with those of the se­lected stock of the An­don tribes, and all of this was in an­tic­i­pa­tion of the sub­se­quent ap­pear­ance of Adam. The Life Car­ri­ers had planned a new type of mor­tal em­brac­ing the union of the con­joint off­spring of the Prince’s staff with the first-gen­er­a­tion off­spring of Adam and Eve. They had thus pro­jected a plan en­vi­sion­ing a new or­der of plan­e­tary crea­tures whom they hoped would be­come the teacher-rulers of hu­man so­ci­ety. Such be­ings were de­signed for so­cial sov­er­eignty, not civil sov­er­eignty. But since this project al­most com­pletely mis­car­ried, we shall never know what an aris­toc­racy of be­nign lead­er­ship and match­less cul­ture Uran­tia was thus de­prived of. For when the cor­po­real staff later re­pro­duced, it was sub­se­quent to the re­bel­lion and af­ter they had been de­prived of their con­nec­tion with the life cur­rents of the sys­tem.

77:2.3The postre­bel­lion era on Uran­tia wit­nessed many un­usual hap­pen­ings. A great civ­i­liza­tion—the cul­ture of Dala­ma­tia—was go­ing to pieces. “The Nephilim (Nod­ites) were on earth in those days, and when these sons of the gods went in to the daugh­ters of men and they bore to them, their chil­dren were the ‘mighty men of old,’ the ‘men of renown.’” While hardly “sons of the gods,” the staff and their early de­scen­dants were so re­garded by the evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals of those dis­tant days; even their stature came to be mag­ni­fied by tra­di­tion. This, then, is the ori­gin of the well-nigh uni­ver­sal folk tale of the gods who came down to earth and there with the daugh­ters of men be­got an an­cient race of heroes. And all this leg­end be­came fur­ther con­fused with the race mix­tures of the later ap­pear­ing Adamites in the sec­ond gar­den.

77:2.4Since the one hun­dred cor­po­real mem­bers of the Prince’s staff car­ried germ plasm of the An­donic hu­man strains, it would nat­u­rally be ex­pected that, if they en­gaged in sex­ual re­pro­duc­tion, their progeny would al­to­gether re­sem­ble the off­spring of other An­don­ite par­ents. But when the sixty rebels of the staff, the fol­low­ers of Nod, ac­tu­ally en­gaged in sex­ual re­pro­duc­tion, their chil­dren proved to be far su­pe­rior in al­most ev­ery way to both the An­don­ite and the San­gik peo­ples. This un­ex­pected ex­cel­lence char­ac­ter­ized not only phys­i­cal and in­tel­lec­tual qual­i­ties but also spir­i­tual ca­pac­i­ties.

77:2.5These mu­tant traits ap­pear­ing in the first Nod­ite gen­er­a­tion re­sulted from cer­tain changes which had been wrought in the con­fig­u­ra­tion and in the chem­i­cal con­stituents of the in­her­i­tance fac­tors of the An­donic germ plasm. These changes were caused by the pres­ence in the bod­ies of the staff mem­bers of the pow­er­ful life-main­te­nance cir­cuits of the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem. These life cir­cuits caused the chro­mo­somes of the spe­cial­ized Uran­tia pat­tern to re­or­ga­nize more af­ter the pat­terns of the stan­dard­ized Sa­ta­nia spe­cial­iza­tion of the or­dained Neb­a­don life man­i­fes­ta­tion. The tech­nique of this germ plasm meta­mor­pho­sis by the ac­tion of the sys­tem life cur­rents is not un­like those pro­ce­dures whereby Uran­tia sci­en­tists mod­ify the germ plasm of plants and an­i­mals by the use of X rays.

77:2.6Thus did the Nod­ite peo­ples arise out of cer­tain pe­cu­liar and un­ex­pected mod­i­fi­ca­tions oc­cur­ring in the life plasm which had been trans­ferred from the bod­ies of the An­don­ite con­trib­u­tors to those of the cor­po­real staff mem­bers by the Avalon sur­geons.

77:2.7It will be re­called that the one hun­dred An­don­ite germ plasm con­trib­u­tors were in turn made pos­ses­sors of the or­ganic com­ple­ment of the tree of life so that the Sa­ta­nia life cur­rents like­wise in­vested their bod­ies. The forty-four mod­i­fied An­don­ites who fol­lowed the staff into re­bel­lion also mated among them­selves and made a great con­tri­bu­tion to the bet­ter strains of the Nod­ite peo­ple.

77:2.8These two groups, em­brac­ing 104 in­di­vid­u­als who car­ried the mod­i­fied An­don­ite germ plasm, con­sti­tute the an­ces­try of the Nod­ites, the eighth race to ap­pear on Uran­tia. And this new fea­ture of hu­man life on Uran­tia rep­re­sents an­other phase of the out­work­ing of the orig­i­nal plan of uti­liz­ing this planet as a life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion world, ex­cept that this was one of the un­fore­seen de­vel­op­ments.

77:2.9The pure-line Nod­ites were a mag­nif­i­cent race, but they grad­u­ally min­gled with the evo­lu­tion­ary peo­ples of earth, and be­fore long great de­te­ri­o­ra­tion had oc­curred. Ten thou­sand years af­ter the re­bel­lion they had lost ground to the point where their av­er­age length of life was lit­tle more than that of the evo­lu­tion­ary races.

77:2.10When ar­chae­ol­o­gists dig up the clay-tablet rec­ords of the later-day Sume­rian de­scen­dants of the Nod­ites, they dis­cover lists of Sume­rian kings run­ning back for sev­eral thou­sand years; and as these rec­ords go fur­ther back, the reigns of the in­di­vid­ual kings lengthen from around twenty-five or thirty years up to one hun­dred and fifty years and more. This length­en­ing of the reigns of these older kings sig­ni­fies that some of the early Nod­ite rulers (im­me­di­ate de­scen­dants of the Prince’s staff) did live longer than their later-day suc­ces­sors and also in­di­cates an ef­fort to stretch the dy­nas­ties back to Dala­ma­tia.

77:2.11The rec­ords of such long-lived in­di­vid­u­als are also due to the con­fu­sion of months and years as time pe­ri­ods. This may also be ob­served in the Bib­li­cal ge­neal­ogy of Abra­ham and in the early rec­ords of the Chi­nese. The con­fu­sion of the twenty-eight-day month, or sea­son, with the later in­tro­duced year of more than three hun­dred and fifty days is re­spon­si­ble for the tra­di­tions of such long hu­man lives. There are rec­ords of a man who lived over nine hun­dred “years.” This pe­riod rep­re­sents not quite sev­enty years, and such lives were re­garded for ages as very long, “three­score years and ten” as such a life span was later des­ig­nated.

77:2.12The reck­on­ing of time by the twenty-eight-day month per­sisted long af­ter the days of Adam. But when the Egyp­tians un­der­took to re­form the cal­en­dar, about seven thou­sand years ago, they did it with great ac­cu­racy, in­tro­duc­ing the year of 365 days.

• on Urantia › 16 often invisible children of Adamson and Ratta were progenitors of

77:5.1Hav­ing de­lin­eated the Nod­ite an­tecedents of the an­ces­try of the sec­ondary mid­way­ers, this nar­ra­tive should now give con­sid­er­a­tion to the Adamic half of their an­ces­try, for the sec­ondary mid­way­ers are also the grand­chil­dren of Adam­son, the first-born of the vi­o­let race of Uran­tia.

• on Urantia › 16 often invisible children of Adamson and Ratta were progenitors of

77:5.6Adam­son and Ratta had a fam­ily of sixty-seven chil­dren. They gave ori­gin to a great line of the world’s lead­er­ship, but they did some­thing more. It should be re­mem­bered that both of these be­ings were re­ally super­hu­man. Ev­ery fourth child born to them was of a unique or­der. It was of­ten in­vis­i­ble. Never in the world’s his­tory had such a thing oc­curred. Ratta was greatly per­turbed—even su­per­sti­tious—but Adam­son well knew of the ex­is­tence of the pri­mary mid­way­ers, and he con­cluded that some­thing sim­i­lar was tran­spir­ing be­fore his eyes. When the sec­ond strangely be­hav­ing off­spring ar­rived, he de­cided to mate them, since one was male and the other fe­male, and this is the ori­gin of the sec­ondary or­der of mid­way­ers. Within one hun­dred years, be­fore this phe­nom­e­non ceased, al­most two thou­sand were brought into be­ing.

77:6.1While the pri­mary mid­way­ers had a well-nigh super­hu­man ori­gin, the sec­ondary or­der are the off­spring of the pure Adamic stock united with a hu­man­ized de­scen­dant of an­ces­tors com­mon to the parent­age of the se­nior corps.

• on Urantia › 16 often invisible children of Adamson and Ratta were progenitors of

77:6.2Among the chil­dren of Adam­son there were just six­teen of the pe­cu­liar pro­gen­i­tors of the sec­ondary mid­way­ers. These unique chil­dren were equally di­vided as re­gards sex, and each cou­ple was ca­pa­ble of pro­duc­ing a sec­ondary mid­wayer ev­ery sev­enty days by a com­bined tech­nique of sex and non­sex li­ai­son. And such a phe­nom­e­non was never pos­si­ble on earth be­fore that time, nor has it ever oc­curred since.

• energized electrically, by Adamic technique
• on Urantia › 16 often invisible children of Adamson and Ratta were progenitors of

77:6.3These six­teen chil­dren lived and died (ex­cept for their pe­cu­liar­i­ties) as mor­tals of the realm, but their elec­tri­cally en­er­gized off­spring live on and on, not be­ing sub­ject to the lim­i­ta­tions of mor­tal flesh.

• on Urantia › 873 of 1,984 failed to align with Michael; were interned at Pentecost
• on Urantia › named alphabetically, such as A-B-C the First

77:6.4Each of the eight cou­ples even­tu­ally pro­duced 248 mid­way­ers, and thus did the orig­i­nal sec­ondary corps—1,984 in num­ber—come into ex­is­tence. There are eight sub­groups of sec­ondary mid­way­ers. They are des­ig­nated as A-B-C the first, sec­ond, third, and so on. And then there are D-E-F the first, sec­ond, and so on.

• on Urantia › 33 chiefs went over to service of Melchizedeks at death of Adamson

77:6.5Af­ter the de­fault of Adam the pri­mary mid­way­ers re­turned to the ser­vice of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers, while the sec­ondary group were at­tached to the Adam­son cen­ter un­til his death. Thirty-three of these sec­ondary mid­way­ers, the chiefs of their or­ga­ni­za­tion at the death of Adam­son, en­deav­ored to swing the whole or­der over to the ser­vice of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, thus ef­fect­ing a li­ai­son with the pri­mary corps. But fail­ing to ac­com­plish this, they de­serted their com­pan­ions and went over in a body to the ser­vice of the plan­e­tary re­ceivers.

• on Urantia › minority made mischief up to times of Jesus

77:6.6Af­ter the death of Adam­son the re­main­der of the sec­ondary mid­way­ers be­came a strange, un­or­ga­nized, and un­at­tached in­flu­ence on Uran­tia. From that time to the days of Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek they led an ir­reg­u­lar and un­or­ga­nized ex­is­tence. They were par­tially brought un­der con­trol by this Mel­chiz­e­dek but were still pro­duc­tive of much mis­chief up to the days of Christ Mi­chael. And dur­ing his so­journ on earth they all made fi­nal de­ci­sions as to their fu­ture des­tiny, the loyal ma­jor­ity then en­list­ing un­der the lead­er­ship of the pri­mary mid­way­ers.

• on Urantia › 873 of 1,984 failed to align with Michael; were interned at Pentecost

77:7.2The orig­i­nal num­ber of sec­ondary mid­way­ers was 1,984, and of these 873 failed to align them­selves with the rule of Mi­chael and were duly in­terned in con­nec­tion with the plan­e­tary ad­ju­di­ca­tion of Uran­tia on the day of Pen­te­cost. No one can fore­cast the fu­ture of these fallen crea­tures.

• on Urantia › 873 of 1,984 failed to align with Michael; were interned at Pentecost

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 › Beelzebub was rebels’ chief executive
• on Urantia › rebels could make themselves visible

77:7.4These dis­loyal mid­way­ers were able to re­veal them­selves to mor­tal eyes un­der cer­tain cir­cum­stances, and es­pe­cially was this true of the as­so­ciates of Beelze­bub, the leader of the apos­tate sec­ondary mid­way­ers. But these unique crea­tures must not be con­fused with cer­tain of the rebel cheru­bim and ser­a­phim who also were on earth up to the time of Christ’s death and res­ur­rec­tion. Some of the older writ­ers des­ig­nated these re­bel­lious mid­way crea­tures as evil spir­its and demons, and the apos­tate ser­a­phim as evil an­gels.

• on Urantia › serve as contact guardians for reservists when Adjusters detached

77:7.5On no world can evil spir­its pos­sess any mor­tal mind sub­se­quent to the life of a Par­a­dise be­stowal Son. But be­fore the days of Christ Mi­chael on Uran­tia—be­fore the uni­ver­sal com­ing of the Thought Ad­justers and the pour­ing out of the Mas­ter’s spirit upon all flesh—these rebel mid­way­ers were ac­tu­ally able to in­flu­ence the minds of cer­tain in­fe­rior mor­tals and some­what to con­trol their ac­tions. This was ac­com­plished in much the same way as the loyal mid­way crea­tures func­tion when they serve as ef­fi­cient con­tact guard­i­ans of the hu­man minds of the Uran­tia re­serve corps of des­tiny at those times when the Ad­juster is, in ef­fect, de­tached from the per­son­al­ity dur­ing a sea­son of con­tact with super­hu­man in­tel­li­gences.

• on Urantia › named alphabetically, such as A-B-C 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.

• male and female types

77:8.3Both or­ders are non­ma­te­rial be­ings as re­gards nu­tri­tion and en­ergy in­take, but they par­take of many hu­man traits and are able to en­joy and fol­low your hu­mor as well as your wor­ship. When at­tached to mor­tals, they en­ter into the spirit of hu­man work, rest, and play. But mid­way­ers do not sleep, nei­ther do they pos­sess pow­ers of pro­cre­ation. In a cer­tain sense the sec­ondary group are dif­fer­en­ti­ated along the lines of male­ness and fe­male­ness, of­ten be­ing spo­ken of as “he” or “she.” They of­ten work to­gether in such pairs.

• nearer men than angels

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.

• exclusively attached to human ministry

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.

• exist just outside range of mortal vision; can make physical contact with material things
• more material than primary midwayers
• nearer men than angels
• on Urantia › 873 of 1,984 failed to align with Michael; were interned at Pentecost
• on Urantia › loyal members now number 1,111

77:8.11The 1,111 loyal sec­ondary mid­way­ers are en­gaged in im­por­tant mis­sions on earth. As com­pared with their pri­mary as­so­ciates, they are de­cid­edly ma­te­rial. They ex­ist just out­side the range of mor­tal vi­sion and pos­sess suf­fi­cient lat­i­tude of adap­ta­tion to make, at will, phys­i­cal con­tact with what hu­mans call “ma­te­rial things.” These unique crea­tures have cer­tain def­i­nite pow­ers over the things of time and space, not ex­cept­ing the beasts of the realm.

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77:8.12Many of the more lit­eral phe­nom­ena as­cribed to an­gels have been per­formed by the sec­ondary mid­way crea­tures. When the early teach­ers of the gospel of Je­sus were thrown into prison by the ig­no­rant re­li­gious lead­ers of that day, an ac­tual “an­gel of the Lord” “by night opened the prison doors and brought them forth.” But in the case of Pe­ter’s de­liv­er­ance af­ter the killing of James by Herod’s or­der, it was a sec­ondary mid­wayer who per­formed the work as­cribed to an an­gel.

• exclusively attached to human ministry
• on Urantia › serve as contact guardians for reservists when Adjusters detached

77:8.13Their chief work to­day is that of un­per­ceived per­sonal-li­ai­son as­so­ciates of those men and women who con­sti­tute the plan­e­tary re­serve corps of des­tiny. It was the work of this sec­ondary group, ably sec­onded by cer­tain of the pri­mary corps, that brought about the co-or­di­na­tion of per­son­al­i­ties and cir­cum­stances on Uran­tia which fi­nally in­duced the plan­e­tary ce­les­tial super­vi­sors to ini­ti­ate those pe­ti­tions that re­sulted in the grant­ing of the man­dates mak­ing pos­si­ble the se­ries of rev­e­la­tions of which this pre­sen­ta­tion is a part. But it should be made clear that the mid­way crea­tures are not in­volved in the sor­did per­for­mances tak­ing place un­der the gen­eral des­ig­na­tion of “spir­i­tu­al­ism.” The mid­way­ers at pres­ent on Uran­tia, all of whom are of hon­or­able stand­ing, are not con­nected with the phe­nom­ena of so-called “medi­umship”; and they do not, or­di­nar­ily, per­mit hu­mans to wit­ness their some­times nec­es­sary phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties or other con­tacts with the ma­te­rial world, as they are per­ceived by hu­man senses.

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77:9.9The mid­way cul­ture, be­ing the prod­uct of an im­mor­tal plan­e­tary cit­i­zenry, is rel­a­tively im­mune to those tem­po­ral vi­cis­si­tudes which be­set hu­man civ­i­liza­tion. The gen­er­a­tions of men for­get; the corps of mid­way­ers re­mem­bers, and that mem­ory is the trea­sure house of the tra­di­tions of your in­hab­ited world. Thus does the cul­ture of a planet re­main ever pres­ent on that planet, and in proper cir­cum­stances such trea­sured mem­o­ries of past events are made avail­able, even as the story of the life and teach­ings of Je­sus has been given by the mid­way­ers of Uran­tia to their cousins in the flesh.

• some attain contact with Adjusters of favorably constituted mortals

114:7.9On many worlds the bet­ter adapted sec­ondary mid­way crea­tures are able to at­tain vary­ing de­grees of con­tact with the Thought Ad­justers of cer­tain fa­vor­ably con­sti­tuted mor­tals through the skill­ful pen­e­tra­tion of the minds of the lat­ters’ in­dwelling. (And it was by just such a for­tu­itous com­bi­na­tion of cos­mic ad­just­ments that these rev­e­la­tions were ma­te­ri­al­ized in the En­glish lan­guage on Uran­tia.) Such po­ten­tial con­tact mor­tals of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds are mo­bi­lized in the nu­mer­ous re­serve corps, and it is, to a cer­tain ex­tent, through these small groups of for­ward-look­ing per­son­al­i­ties that spir­i­tual civ­i­liza­tion is ad­vanced and the Most Highs are able to rule in the king­doms of men. The men and women of these re­serve corps of des­tiny thus have var­i­ous de­grees of con­tact with their Ad­justers through the in­ter­ven­ing min­istry of the mid­way crea­tures; but these same mor­tals are lit­tle known to their fel­lows ex­cept in those rare so­cial emer­gen­cies and spir­i­tual ex­i­gen­cies wherein these re­serve per­son­al­i­ties func­tion for the pre­ven­tion of the break­down of evo­lu­tion­ary cul­ture or the ex­tinc­tion of the light of liv­ing truth. On Uran­tia these re­servists of des­tiny have sel­dom been em­bla­zoned on the pages of hu­man his­tory.

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121:0.1Act­ing un­der the super­vi­sion of a com­mis­sion of twelve mem­bers of the United Broth­er­hood of Uran­tia Mid­way­ers, con­jointly spon­sored by the pre­sid­ing head of our or­der and the Mel­chiz­e­dek of rec­ord, I am the sec­ondary mid­wayer of one­time at­tach­ment to the Apos­tle An­drew, and I am au­tho­rized to place on rec­ord the nar­ra­tive of the life trans­ac­tions of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth as they were ob­served by my or­der of earth crea­tures, and as they were sub­se­quently par­tially re­corded by the hu­man sub­ject of my tem­po­ral guardian­ship. Know­ing how his Mas­ter so scrupu­lously avoided leav­ing writ­ten rec­ords be­hind him, An­drew stead­fastly re­fused to mul­ti­ply copies of his writ­ten nar­ra­tive. A sim­i­lar at­ti­tude on the part of the other apos­tles of Je­sus greatly de­layed the writ­ing of the Gospels.

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121:8.12[Ac­knowl­edg­ment: In car­ry­ing out my com­mis­sion to re­state the teach­ings and retell the do­ings of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth, I have drawn freely upon all sources of rec­ord and plan­e­tary in­for­ma­tion. My rul­ing mo­tive has been to pre­pare a rec­ord which will not only be en­light­en­ing to the gen­er­a­tion of men now liv­ing, but which may also be help­ful to all fu­ture gen­er­a­tions. From the vast store of in­for­ma­tion made avail­able to me, I have cho­sen that which is best suited to the ac­com­plish­ment of this pur­pose. As far as pos­si­ble I have de­rived my in­for­ma­tion from purely hu­man sources. Only when such sources failed, have I re­sorted to those rec­ords which are super­hu­man. When ideas and con­cepts of Je­sus’ life and teach­ings have been ac­cept­ably ex­pressed by a hu­man mind, I in­vari­ably gave pref­er­ence to such ap­par­ently hu­man thought pat­terns. Al­though I have sought to ad­just the ver­bal ex­pres­sion the bet­ter to con­form to our con­cept of the real mean­ing and the true im­port of the Mas­ter’s life and teach­ings, as far as pos­si­ble, I have ad­hered to the ac­tual hu­man con­cept and thought pat­tern in all my nar­ra­tives. I well know that those con­cepts which have had ori­gin in the hu­man mind will prove more ac­cept­able and help­ful to all other hu­man minds. When un­able to find the nec­es­sary con­cepts in the hu­man rec­ords or in hu­man ex­pres­sions, I have next re­sorted to the mem­ory re­sources of my own or­der of earth crea­tures, the mid­way­ers. And when that sec­ondary source of in­for­ma­tion proved in­ad­e­quate, I have un­hesi­tat­ingly re­sorted to the super­plan­e­tary sources of in­for­ma­tion.

121:8.13The mem­o­randa which I have col­lected, and from which I have pre­pared this nar­ra­tive of the life and teach­ings of Je­sus—aside from the mem­ory of the rec­ord of the Apos­tle An­drew—em­brace thought gems and su­pe­rior con­cepts of Je­sus’ teach­ings as­sem­bled from more than two thou­sand hu­man be­ings who have lived on earth from the days of Je­sus down to the time of the in­dit­ing of these rev­e­la­tions, more cor­rectly re­state­ments. The rev­e­la­tory per­mis­sion has been uti­lized only when the hu­man rec­ord and hu­man con­cepts failed to sup­ply an ad­e­quate thought pat­tern. My rev­e­la­tory com­mis­sion for­bade me to re­sort to ex­trahu­man sources of ei­ther in­for­ma­tion or ex­pres­sion un­til such a time as I could tes­tify that I had failed in my ef­forts to find the re­quired con­cep­tual ex­pres­sion in purely hu­man sources.

121:8.14While I, with the col­lab­o­ra­tion of my eleven as­so­ciate fel­low mid­way­ers and un­der the super­vi­sion of the Mel­chiz­e­dek of rec­ord, have por­trayed this nar­ra­tive in ac­cor­dance with my con­cept of its ef­fec­tive ar­range­ment and in re­sponse to my choice of im­me­di­ate ex­pres­sion, nev­er­the­less, the ma­jor­ity of the ideas and even some of the ef­fec­tive ex­pres­sions which I have thus uti­lized had their ori­gin in the minds of the men of many races who have lived on earth dur­ing the in­ter­ven­ing gen­er­a­tions, right on down to those who are still alive at the time of this un­der­tak­ing. In many ways I have served more as a col­lec­tor and ed­i­tor than as an orig­i­nal nar­ra­tor. I have un­hesi­tat­ingly ap­pro­pri­ated those ideas and con­cepts, prefer­ably hu­man, which would en­able me to cre­ate the most ef­fec­tive por­trai­ture of Je­sus’ life, and which would qual­ify me to re­state his match­less teach­ings in the most strik­ingly help­ful and uni­ver­sally up­lift­ing phrase­ol­ogy. In be­half of the Broth­er­hood of the United Mid­way­ers of Uran­tia, I most grate­fully ac­knowl­edge our in­debt­ed­ness to all sources of rec­ord and con­cept which have been here­inafter uti­lized in the fur­ther elab­o­ra­tion of our re­state­ment of Je­sus’ life on earth.]

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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.]