midwayers

38:9.1The mid­way crea­tures have a three­fold clas­si­fi­ca­tion: They are prop­erly clas­si­fied with the as­cend­ing Sons of God; they are fac­tu­ally grouped with the or­ders of per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship, while they are func­tion­ally reck­oned with the min­is­ter­ing spir­its of time be­cause of their in­ti­mate and ef­fec­tive as­so­ci­a­tion with the an­gelic hosts in the work of serv­ing mor­tal man on the in­di­vid­ual worlds of space.

38:9.2These unique crea­tures ap­pear on the ma­jor­ity of the in­hab­ited worlds and are al­ways found on the dec­i­mal or life-ex­per­i­ment plan­ets, such as Uran­tia. Mid­way­ers are of two types—pri­mary and sec­ondary—and they ap­pear by the fol­low­ing tech­niques:

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.

38:9.5Nei­ther of these groups is an evo­lu­tion­ary ac­ci­dent; both are es­sen­tial fea­tures in the pre­de­ter­mined plans of the uni­verse ar­chi­tects, and their ap­pear­ance on the evolv­ing worlds at the op­por­tune junc­ture is in ac­cor­dance with the orig­i­nal de­signs and de­vel­op­men­tal plans of the super­vis­ing Life Car­ri­ers.

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.

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.

38:9.9The gap be­tween the ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual worlds is per­fectly bridged by the se­rial as­so­ci­a­tion of mor­tal man, sec­ondary mid­wayer, pri­mary mid­wayer, mor­ontia cheru­bim, mid-phase cheru­bim, and ser­a­phim. In the per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence of an in­di­vid­ual mor­tal these di­verse lev­els are un­doubt­edly more or less uni­fied and made per­son­ally mean­ing­ful by the un­ob­served and mys­te­ri­ous op­er­a­tions of the di­vine Thought Ad­juster.

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.

38:9.11The plan­e­tary work of both pri­mary and sec­ondary mid­way­ers is var­ied and di­verse on the nu­mer­ous in­di­vid­ual worlds of a uni­verse, but on the nor­mal and av­er­age plan­ets their ac­tiv­i­ties are very dif­fer­ent from the du­ties which oc­cupy their time on iso­lated spheres, such as Uran­tia.

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.

38:9.13Mid­way­ers re­main for long pe­ri­ods on an in­hab­ited world, but if faith­ful to their trust, they will even­tu­ally and most cer­tainly be rec­og­nized for their age­long ser­vice in main­tain­ing the sov­er­eignty of the Cre­ator Son; they will be duly re­warded for their pa­tient min­istry to the ma­te­rial mor­tals on their world of time and space. Sooner or later all ac­cred­ited mid­way crea­tures will be mus­tered into the ranks of the as­cend­ing Sons of God and will be duly ini­ti­ated into the long ad­ven­ture of the Par­a­dise as­cent in com­pany with those very mor­tals of an­i­mal ori­gin, their earth breth­ren, whom they so jeal­ously guarded and so ef­fec­tively served dur­ing the long plan­e­tary so­journ.

38:9.14[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek act­ing by re­quest of the Chief of the Se­raphic Hosts of Neb­a­don.]

• midwayers

45:3.2011. The act­ing di­rec­tor of sys­tem mid­way crea­tures.

76:4.5Both the phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual vi­sions of Adam and Eve were far su­pe­rior to those of the pres­ent-day peo­ples. Their spe­cial senses were much more acute, and they were able to see the mid­way­ers and the an­gelic hosts, the Mel­chiz­e­deks, and the fallen Prince Cali­gas­tia, who sev­eral times came to con­fer with his no­ble suc­ces­sor. They re­tained the abil­ity to see these ce­les­tial be­ings for over one hun­dred years af­ter the de­fault. These spe­cial senses were not so acutely pres­ent in their chil­dren and tended to di­min­ish with each suc­ceed­ing gen­er­a­tion.

• Trinitized Sons of Selection

22:1.11The Trin­i­tized Sons of Se­lec­tion em­brace the Trin­i­tized Cus­to­di­ans and the Trin­i­tized Am­bas­sadors. They are re­cruited from cer­tain of the evo­lu­tion­ary ser­a­phim and trans­lated mid­way crea­tures who have tra­versed Ha­vona and have at­tained Par­a­dise, as well as from cer­tain of the Spirit-fused and the Son-fused mor­tals who have like­wise as­cended to the cen­tral Isle of Light and Life. Sub­se­quent to their em­brace by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and af­ter a brief train­ing in Ha­vona, the Trin­i­tized Sons of Se­lec­tion are as­signed to the courts of the An­cients of Days.

• Trinitized Custodians

22:5.2Trin­i­tized Cus­to­di­ans are as­cen­dant ser­a­phim and trans­lated mid­way crea­tures who have passed through Ha­vona and have at­tained Par­a­dise and the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Sub­se­quently they were em­braced by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and were as­signed to the ser­vice of the An­cients of Days.

• Technical Advisers (temporary members)

25:4.2The Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers are re­cruited from the ranks of the fol­low­ing per­son­al­ity or­ders:

• Technical Advisers (temporary members)

25:4.11Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers fre­quently func­tion as in­di­vid­u­als but are or­ga­nized for ser­vice and main­tain com­mon head­quar­ters on the spheres of as­sign­ment in groups of seven. In each group at least five must be of per­ma­nent sta­tus, while two may be of tem­po­rary as­so­ci­a­tion. As­cend­ing mor­tals and as­cend­ing mid­way crea­tures serve on these ad­vi­sory com­mis­sions while pur­su­ing the Par­a­dise as­cent, but they do not en­ter the reg­u­lar courses of train­ing for Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers, nor do they ever be­come per­ma­nent mem­bers of the or­der.

25:4.12Those mor­tals and mid­way­ers who serve tran­siently with the ad­vis­ers are cho­sen for such work be­cause of their ex­pert­ness in the con­cept of uni­ver­sal law and su­preme jus­tice. As you jour­ney to­ward your Par­a­dise goal, con­stantly ac­quir­ing added knowl­edge and en­hanced skill, you are con­tin­u­ously af­forded the op­por­tu­nity to give out to oth­ers the wis­dom and ex­pe­ri­ence you have al­ready ac­cu­mu­lated; all the way in to Ha­vona you en­act the role of a pupil-teacher. You will work your way through the as­cend­ing lev­els of this vast ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­ver­sity by im­part­ing to those just be­low you the new-found knowl­edge of your ad­vanc­ing ca­reer. In the uni­ver­sal regime you are not reck­oned as hav­ing pos­sessed your­self of knowl­edge and truth un­til you have demon­strated your abil­ity and your will­ing­ness to im­part this knowl­edge and truth to oth­ers.

• receive Adjusters and begin Paradise ascent in light and life

30:1.534. Trans­lated Mid­way­ers.

31:6.1On many plan­ets the mid­way crea­tures are pro­duced in large num­bers, but they sel­dom tarry on their na­tive world sub­se­quent to its be­ing set­tled in light and life. Then, or soon there­after, they are re­leased from per­ma­nent-cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus and start on the as­cen­sion to Par­a­dise, pass­ing through the mor­ontia worlds, the super­uni­verse, and Ha­vona in com­pany with the mor­tals of time and space.

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.

• 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.

• receive Adjusters and begin Paradise ascent in light and life

55:3.174. Ma­te­ri­al­ized and hu­man­ized mid­way crea­tures.

• receive Adjusters and begin Paradise ascent 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.

55:4.9The Sys­tem Sov­er­eign has au­thor­ity to re­lease mid­way crea­tures any time af­ter the first set­tled stage so that they may hu­man­ize in the mor­ontia by the aid of the Life Car­ri­ers and the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and, af­ter re­ceiv­ing Thought Ad­justers, start out on their Par­a­dise as­cen­sion.

• receive Adjusters and begin Paradise ascent in light and life

55:4.23Dur­ing this epoch, if not be­fore, Adam and Eve are al­ways re­lieved of plan­e­tary du­ties. If there is a Ma­te­rial Son in the fi­nal­i­ter corps, he may be­come as­so­ci­ated with the mor­tal chief ex­ec­u­tive, and some­times it is a Mel­chiz­e­dek who vol­un­teers to func­tion in this ca­pac­ity. If a mid­wayer is among the fi­nal­i­ters, all of that or­der re­main­ing on the planet are im­me­di­ately re­leased.

• receive Adjusters and begin Paradise ascent in light and life

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.

25:1.1Though de­nom­i­nated servi­tals, these “mid­way crea­tures” of the cen­tral uni­verse are not ser­vants in any me­nial sense of the word. In the spir­i­tual world there is no such thing as me­nial work; all ser­vice is sa­cred and ex­hil­a­rat­ing; nei­ther do the higher or­ders of be­ings look down upon the lower or­ders of ex­is­tence.

30:2.897. Mid­way­ers.

30:2.1171. The Plan­e­tary Mid­way­ers.

114:3.2The res­i­dent gov­er­nor gen­eral has no ac­tual per­sonal au­thor­ity in the man­age­ment of world af­fairs ex­cept as the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the twenty-four Je­ru­sem coun­selors. He acts as the co-or­di­na­tor of super­hu­man ad­min­is­tra­tion and is the re­spected head and uni­ver­sally rec­og­nized leader of the ce­les­tial be­ings func­tion­ing on Uran­tia. All or­ders of an­gelic hosts re­gard him as their co-or­di­nat­ing di­rec­tor, while the United Mid­way­ers, since the de­par­ture of 1-2-3 the first to be­come one of the twenty-four coun­selors, re­ally look upon the suc­ces­sive gov­er­nors gen­eral as their plan­e­tary fa­thers.

• top speed is 372,560 miles per second

23:3.2The uni­verse is well sup­plied with spir­its who uti­lize grav­ity for pur­poses of tran­sit; they can go any­where any time—in­stan­ter—but they are not per­sons. Cer­tain other grav­ity tra­versers are per­sonal be­ings, such as Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers and Tran­scen­den­tal Re­cord­ers, but they are not avail­able to the su­per- and the lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tors. The worlds teem with an­gels and men and other highly per­sonal be­ings, but they are hand­i­capped by time and space: The limit of ve­loc­ity for most nonenseraphimed be­ings is 186,280 miles of your world per sec­ond of your time; the mid­way crea­tures and cer­tain oth­ers can, of­ten do, at­tain dou­ble ve­loc­ity—372,560 miles per sec­ond—while the ser­a­phim and oth­ers can tra­verse space at triple ve­loc­ity, about 558,840 miles per sec­ond. There are, how­ever, no tran­sit or mes­sen­ger per­son­al­i­ties who func­tion be­tween the in­stan­ta­neous ve­loc­i­ties of the grav­ity tra­versers and the com­par­a­tively slow speeds of the ser­a­phim, ex­cept the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers.

• not properly of angelic orders

26:1.143. The Min­is­ter­ing Spir­its of the Lo­cal Uni­verses em­brace the ser­a­phim and their as­sis­tants, the cheru­bim. With these off­spring of a Uni­verse Mother Spirit mor­tal as­cend­ers have ini­tial con­tact. The mid­way crea­tures, of na­tiv­ity on the in­hab­ited worlds, are not re­ally of the an­gelic or­ders proper, though of­ten func­tion­ally grouped with the min­is­ter­ing spir­its. Their story, with an ac­count of the ser­a­phim and cheru­bim, is pre­sented in those pa­pers deal­ing with the af­fairs of your lo­cal uni­verse.

• use energies controlled by Master Physical Controllers

29:4.14The phys­i­cal con­trol­lers are chiefly oc­cu­pied in the ad­just­ment of ba­sic en­er­gies undis­cov­ered on Uran­tia. These un­known en­er­gies are very es­sen­tial to the in­ter­plan­e­tary sys­tem of trans­port and to cer­tain tech­niques of com­mu­ni­ca­tion. When we lay lines of en­ergy for the pur­pose of con­vey­ing sound equiv­a­lents or of ex­tend­ing vi­sion, these undis­cov­ered forms of en­ergy are uti­lized by the liv­ing phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and their as­so­ciates. These same en­er­gies are also, on oc­ca­sion, used by the mid­way crea­tures in their rou­tine work.

• permanent citizens of evolutionary worlds

37:9.11The Mid­way Crea­tures. In the early days of most in­hab­ited worlds, cer­tain super­hu­man but ma­te­ri­al­ized be­ings are of as­sign­ment, but they usu­ally re­tire upon the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Adams. The trans­ac­tions of such be­ings and the ef­forts of the Ma­te­rial Sons to im­prove the evo­lu­tion­ary races of­ten re­sult in the ap­pear­ance of a lim­ited num­ber of crea­tures who are dif­fi­cult to clas­sify. These unique be­ings are of­ten mid­way be­tween the Ma­te­rial Sons and the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures; hence their des­ig­na­tion, mid­way crea­tures. In a com­par­a­tive sense these mid­way­ers are the per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. From the early days of the ar­rival of a Plan­e­tary Prince to the far-dis­tant time of the set­tling of the planet in light and life, they are the only group of in­tel­li­gent be­ings to re­main con­tin­u­ously on the sphere. On Uran­tia the mid­way min­is­ters are in re­al­ity the ac­tual cus­to­di­ans of the planet; they are, prac­ti­cally speak­ing, the cit­i­zens of Uran­tia. Mor­tals are in­deed the phys­i­cal and ma­te­rial in­hab­i­tants of an evo­lu­tion­ary world, but you are all so short-lived; you tarry on your na­tiv­ity planet such a short time. You are born, live, die, and pass on to other worlds of evo­lu­tion­ary pro­gres­sion. Even the super­hu­man be­ings who serve on the plan­ets as ce­les­tial min­is­ters are of tran­sient as­sign­ment; few of them are long at­tached to a given sphere. The mid­way crea­tures, how­ever, pro­vide con­ti­nu­ity of plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion in the face of ever-chang­ing ce­les­tial min­istries and con­stantly shift­ing mor­tal in­hab­i­tants. Through­out all of this never-ceas­ing chang­ing and shift­ing, the mid­way crea­tures re­main on the planet un­in­ter­rupt­edly car­ry­ing on their work.

• similar to cherubic fourth creatures

38:7.7These an­gelic fourth crea­tures are of great as­sis­tance to the ser­a­phim in the more lit­eral phases of their uni­verse and plan­e­tary ac­tiv­i­ties. Such mor­ontia cheru­bim also per­form many in­dis­pens­able bor­der­line tasks on the mor­ontia train­ing worlds and are as­signed to the ser­vice of the Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions in large num­bers. They are to the mor­ontia spheres about what the mid­way crea­tures are to the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets. On the in­hab­ited worlds these mor­ontia cheru­bim fre­quently work in li­ai­son with the mid­way crea­tures. Cheru­bim and mid­way crea­tures are dis­tinctly sep­a­rate or­ders of be­ings; they have dis­sim­i­lar ori­gins, but they dis­close great sim­i­lar­ity in na­ture and func­tion.

• do not sleep or reproduce

45:6.5The as­cend­ing mid­way crea­tures and the evo­lu­tion­ary ser­a­phim must pass through this par­ent­hood ex­pe­ri­ence in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters of the sys­tem head­quar­ters. Thus do such non­re­pro­duc­ing as­cend­ers ob­tain the ex­pe­ri­ence of par­ent­hood by as­sist­ing the Je­ru­sem Adams and Eves in rear­ing and train­ing their progeny.

• mortals’ nearest of kin

48:3.4There are two dis­tinct types of Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions; one type is ag­gres­sive, the other re­tir­ing, but oth­er­wise they are equal in sta­tus. They are not sex crea­tures, but they man­i­fest a touch­ingly beau­ti­ful af­fec­tion for one an­other. And while they are hardly com­pan­ion­ate in the ma­te­rial (hu­man) sense, they are very close of kin to the hu­man races in the or­der of crea­ture ex­is­tence. The mid­way crea­tures of the worlds are your near­est of kin; then come the mor­ontia cheru­bim, and af­ter them the Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions.

• use energies controlled by Master Physical Controllers

49:2.246. The en­er­giz­ing types. Not all worlds are alike in the man­ner of tak­ing in en­ergy. Not all in­hab­ited worlds have an at­mo­spheric ocean suited to res­pi­ra­tory ex­change of gases, such as is pres­ent on Uran­tia. Dur­ing the ear­lier and the later stages of many plan­ets, be­ings of your pres­ent or­der could not ex­ist; and when the res­pi­ra­tory fac­tors of a planet are very high or very low, but when all other pre­req­ui­sites to in­tel­li­gent life are ad­e­quate, the Life Car­ri­ers of­ten es­tab­lish on such worlds a mod­i­fied form of mor­tal ex­is­tence, be­ings who are com­pe­tent to ef­fect their life-pro­cess ex­changes di­rectly by means of light-en­ergy and the first­hand power trans­mu­ta­tions of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

49:2.25There are six dif­fer­ing types of an­i­mal and mor­tal nu­tri­tion: The sub­breathers em­ploy the first type of nu­tri­tion, the ma­rine dwellers the sec­ond, the mid-breathers the third, as on Uran­tia. The super­breathers em­ploy the fourth type of en­ergy in­take, while the non­breathers uti­lize the fifth or­der of nu­tri­tion and en­ergy. The sixth tech­nique of en­er­giz­ing is lim­ited to the mid­way crea­tures.

• sometimes reveal themselves to mortals

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.

• do not sleep or reproduce
• partake of many human traits; enjoy our humor

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.

• midway messengers bear names

77:8.61. Mid­way mes­sen­gers. This group bear names; they are a small corps and are of great as­sis­tance on an evo­lu­tion­ary world in the ser­vice of quick and re­li­able per­sonal com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

77:9.1Mid­way­ers may be re­garded as the first group of the per­ma­nent in­hab­i­tants to be found on the var­i­ous or­ders of worlds through­out the uni­verses in con­trast with evo­lu­tion­ary as­cend­ers like the mor­tal crea­tures and the an­gelic hosts. Such per­ma­nent cit­i­zens are en­coun­tered at var­i­ous points in the Par­a­dise as­cent.

77:9.2Un­like the var­i­ous or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings who are as­signed to min­is­ter on a planet, the mid­way­ers live on an in­hab­ited world. The ser­a­phim come and go, but the mid­way crea­tures re­main and will re­main, al­beit they are nonethe­less min­is­ters for be­ing na­tives of the planet, and they pro­vide the one con­tin­u­ing regime which har­mo­nizes and con­nects the chang­ing ad­min­is­tra­tions of the se­raphic hosts.

77:9.3As ac­tual cit­i­zens of Uran­tia, the mid­way­ers have a kin­ship in­ter­est in the des­tiny of this sphere. They are a de­ter­mined as­so­ci­a­tion, per­sis­tently work­ing for the prog­ress of their na­tive planet. Their de­ter­mi­na­tion is sug­gested by the motto of their or­der: “What the United Mid­way­ers un­der­take, the United Mid­way­ers do.”

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.

77:9.6Mid­way­ers are planet bound, but much as mor­tals talk with trav­el­ers from afar and thus learn about re­mote places on the planet, so do mid­way­ers con­verse with ce­les­tial trav­el­ers to learn about the far places of the uni­verse. So do they be­come con­ver­sant with this sys­tem and uni­verse, even with Or­von­ton and its sis­ter cre­ations, and so do they pre­pare them­selves for cit­i­zen­ship on the higher lev­els of crea­ture ex­is­tence.

• evolutionary creatures, but brought into existence fully developed

77:9.7While the mid­way­ers were brought into ex­is­tence fully de­vel­oped—ex­pe­ri­enc­ing no pe­riod of growth or de­vel­op­ment from im­ma­tu­rity—they never cease to grow in wis­dom and ex­pe­ri­ence. Like mor­tals they are evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures, and they have a cul­ture which is a bona fide evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment. There are many great minds and mighty spir­its among the Uran­tia mid­way corps.

77:9.8In the larger as­pect the civ­i­liza­tion of Uran­tia is the joint prod­uct of the Uran­tia mor­tals and the Uran­tia mid­way­ers, and this is true de­spite the pres­ent dif­fer­en­tial be­tween the two lev­els of cul­ture, a dif­fer­en­tial which will not be com­pen­sated prior to the ages of light and life.

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.

77:9.10Mid­way­ers are the skill­ful min­is­ters who com­pen­sate that gap be­tween the ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual af­fairs of Uran­tia which ap­peared upon the death of Adam and Eve. They are like­wise your el­der breth­ren, com­rades in the long strug­gle to at­tain a set­tled sta­tus of light and life on Uran­tia. The United Mid­way­ers are a re­bel­lion-tested corps, and they will faith­fully en­act their part in plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion un­til this world at­tains the goal of the ages, un­til that dis­tant day when in fact peace does reign on earth and in truth is there good will in the hearts of men.

77:9.11Be­cause of the valu­able work per­formed by these mid­way­ers, we have con­cluded that they are a truly es­sen­tial part of the spirit econ­omy of the realms. And where re­bel­lion has not marred a planet’s af­fairs, they are of still greater as­sis­tance to the ser­a­phim.

77:9.12The en­tire or­ga­ni­za­tion of high spir­its, an­gelic hosts, and mid­way fel­lows is en­thu­si­as­ti­cally de­voted to the fur­ther­ance of the Par­a­dise plan for the pro­gres­sive as­cen­sion and per­fec­tion at­tain­ment of evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals, one of the su­per­nal busi­nesses of the uni­verse—the su­perb sur­vival plan of bring­ing God down to man and then, by a sub­lime sort of part­ner­ship, car­ry­ing man up to God and on to eter­nity of ser­vice and di­vin­ity of at­tain­ment—alike for mor­tal and mid­wayer.

77:9.13[Pre­sented by an Arch­an­gel of Neb­a­don.]

• aware of humans’ thoughts

161:3.3We are ut­terly at a loss to dif­fer­en­ti­ate be­tween his prac­tice of self-lim­it­ing his di­vine con­scious­ness and his tech­nique of con­ceal­ing his pre­knowl­edge and thought dis­cern­ment from his hu­man as­so­ciates. We are con­vinced that he used both of these tech­niques, but we are not al­ways able, in a given in­stance, to spec­ify which method he may have em­ployed. We fre­quently ob­served him act­ing with only the hu­man con­tent of con­scious­ness; then would we be­hold him in con­fer­ence with the di­rec­tors of the ce­les­tial hosts of the uni­verse and dis­cern the un­doubted func­tion­ing of the di­vine mind. And then on al­most num­ber­less oc­ca­sions did we wit­ness the work­ing of this com­bined per­son­al­ity of man and God as it was ac­ti­vated by the ap­par­ent per­fect union of the hu­man and the di­vine minds. This is the limit of our knowl­edge of such phe­nom­ena; we re­ally do not ac­tu­ally know the full truth about this mys­tery.

172:5.1This Sun­day evening as they re­turned to Beth­any, Je­sus walked in front of the apos­tles. Not a word was spo­ken un­til they sep­a­rated af­ter ar­riv­ing at Si­mon’s house. No twelve hu­man be­ings ever ex­pe­ri­enced such di­verse and in­ex­pli­ca­ble emo­tions as now surged through the minds and souls of these am­bas­sadors of the king­dom. These sturdy Galileans were con­fused and dis­con­certed; they did not know what to ex­pect next; they were too sur­prised to be much afraid. They knew noth­ing of the Mas­ter’s plans for the next day, and they asked no ques­tions. They went to their lodg­ings, though they did not sleep much, save the twins. But they did not keep armed watch over Je­sus at Si­mon’s house.

172:5.2An­drew was thor­oughly be­wil­dered, well-nigh con­fused. He was the one apos­tle who did not se­ri­ously un­der­take to eval­u­ate the pop­u­lar out­burst of ac­claim. He was too pre­oc­cu­pied with the thought of his re­spon­si­bil­ity as chief of the apos­tolic corps to give se­ri­ous con­sid­er­a­tion to the mean­ing or sig­nif­i­cance of the loud hosan­nas of the mul­ti­tude. An­drew was busy watch­ing some of his as­so­ciates who he feared might be led away by their emo­tions dur­ing the ex­cite­ment, par­tic­u­larly Pe­ter, James, John, and Si­mon Ze­lo­tes. Through­out this day and those which im­me­di­ately fol­lowed, An­drew was trou­bled with se­ri­ous doubts, but he never ex­pressed any of these mis­giv­ings to his apos­tolic as­so­ciates. He was con­cerned about the at­ti­tude of some of the twelve who he knew were armed with swords; but he did not know that his own brother, Pe­ter, was car­ry­ing such a weapon. And so the pro­ces­sion into Je­ru­sa­lem made a com­par­a­tively su­per­fi­cial im­pres­sion upon An­drew; he was too busy with the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of his of­fice to be oth­er­wise af­fected.

172:5.3Si­mon Pe­ter was at first al­most swept off his feet by this pop­u­lar man­i­fes­ta­tion of en­thu­si­asm; but he was con­sid­er­ably sobered by the time they re­turned to Beth­any that night. Pe­ter sim­ply could not fig­ure out what the Mas­ter was about. He was ter­ri­bly dis­ap­pointed that Je­sus did not fol­low up this wave of pop­u­lar fa­vor with some kind of a pro­nounce­ment. Pe­ter could not un­der­stand why Je­sus did not speak to the mul­ti­tude when they ar­rived at the tem­ple, or at least per­mit one of the apos­tles to ad­dress the crowd. Pe­ter was a great preacher, and he dis­liked to see such a large, re­cep­tive, and en­thu­si­as­tic au­di­ence go to waste. He would so much have liked to preach the gospel of the king­dom to that throng right there in the tem­ple; but the Mas­ter had specif­i­cally charged them that they were to do no teach­ing or preach­ing while in Je­ru­sa­lem this Pass­over week. The re­ac­tion from the spec­tac­u­lar pro­ces­sion into the city was dis­as­trous to Si­mon Pe­ter; by night he was sobered and in­ex­press­ibly sad­dened.

172:5.4To James Zeb­e­dee, this Sun­day was a day of per­plex­ity and pro­found con­fu­sion; he could not grasp the pur­port of what was go­ing on; he could not com­pre­hend the Mas­ter’s pur­pose in per­mit­ting this wild ac­claim and then in re­fus­ing to say a word to the peo­ple when they ar­rived at the tem­ple. As the pro­ces­sion moved down Oli­vet to­ward Je­ru­sa­lem, more es­pe­cially when they were met by the thou­sands of pil­grims who poured forth to wel­come the Mas­ter, James was cru­elly torn by his con­flict­ing emo­tions of ela­tion and grat­i­fi­ca­tion at what he saw and by his pro­found feel­ing of fear as to what would hap­pen when they reached the tem­ple. And then was he down­cast and over­come by dis­ap­point­ment when Je­sus climbed off the don­key and pro­ceeded to walk leisurely about the tem­ple courts. James could not un­der­stand the rea­son for throw­ing away such a mag­nif­i­cent op­por­tu­nity to pro­claim the king­dom. By night, his mind was held firmly in the grip of a dis­tress­ing and dread­ful un­cer­tainty.

172:5.5John Zeb­e­dee came some­where near un­der­stand­ing why Je­sus did this; at least he grasped in part the spir­i­tual sig­nif­i­cance of this so-called tri­umphal en­try into Je­ru­sa­lem. As the mul­ti­tude moved on to­ward the tem­ple, and as John be­held his Mas­ter sit­ting there astride the colt, he re­called hear­ing Je­sus one­time quote the pas­sage of Scrip­ture, the ut­ter­ance of Zechariah, which de­scribed the com­ing of the Mes­siah as a man of peace and rid­ing into Je­ru­sa­lem on an ass. As John turned this Scrip­ture over in his mind, he be­gan to com­pre­hend the sym­bolic sig­nif­i­cance of this Sun­day-af­ter­noon pageant. At least, he grasped enough of the mean­ing of this Scrip­ture to en­able him some­what to en­joy the episode and to pre­vent his be­com­ing over­much de­pressed by the ap­par­ent pur­pose­less end­ing of the tri­umphal pro­ces­sion. John had a type of mind which nat­u­rally tended to think and feel in sym­bols.

172:5.6Philip was en­tirely un­set­tled by the sud­den­ness and spon­tane­ity of the out­burst. He could not col­lect his thoughts suf­fi­ciently while on the way down Oli­vet to ar­rive at any set­tled no­tion as to what all the dem­on­stra­tion was about. In a way, he en­joyed the per­for­mance be­cause his Mas­ter was be­ing hon­ored. By the time they reached the tem­ple, he was per­turbed by the thought that Je­sus might pos­si­bly ask him to feed the mul­ti­tude, so that the con­duct of Je­sus in turn­ing leisurely away from the crowds, which so sorely dis­ap­pointed the ma­jor­ity of the apos­tles, was a great re­lief to Philip. Mul­ti­tudes had some­times been a great trial to the stew­ard of the twelve. Af­ter he was re­lieved of these per­sonal fears re­gard­ing the ma­te­rial needs of the crowds, Philip joined with Pe­ter in the ex­pres­sion of dis­ap­point­ment that noth­ing was done to teach the mul­ti­tude. That night Philip got to think­ing over these ex­pe­ri­ences and was tempted to doubt the whole idea of the king­dom; he hon­estly won­dered what all these things could mean, but he ex­pressed his doubts to no one; he loved Je­sus too much. He had great per­sonal faith in the Mas­ter.

172:5.7Na­than­iel, aside from the sym­bolic and pro­phetic as­pects, came the near­est to un­der­stand­ing the Mas­ter’s rea­son for en­list­ing the pop­u­lar sup­port of the Pass­over pil­grims. He rea­soned it out, be­fore they reached the tem­ple, that with­out such a demon­stra­tive en­try into Je­ru­sa­lem Je­sus would have been ar­rested by the San­hedrin of­fi­cials and cast into prison the mo­ment he pre­sumed to en­ter the city. He was not, there­fore, in the least sur­prised that the Mas­ter made no fur­ther use of the cheer­ing crowds when he had once got in­side the walls of the city and had thus so forcibly im­pressed the Jew­ish lead­ers that they would re­frain from plac­ing him un­der im­me­di­ate ar­rest. Un­der­stand­ing the real rea­son for the Mas­ter’s en­ter­ing the city in this man­ner, Na­than­iel nat­u­rally fol­lowed along with more poise and was less per­turbed and dis­ap­pointed by Je­sus’ sub­se­quent con­duct than were the other apos­tles. Na­than­iel had great con­fi­dence in Je­sus’ un­der­stand­ing of men as well as in his sagac­ity and clev­er­ness in han­dling dif­fi­cult sit­u­a­tions.

172:5.8Mat­thew was at first non­plused by this pageant per­for­mance. He did not grasp the mean­ing of what his eyes were see­ing un­til he also re­called the Scrip­ture in Zechariah where the prophet had al­luded to the re­joic­ing of Je­ru­sa­lem be­cause her king had come bring­ing sal­va­tion and rid­ing upon the colt of an ass. As the pro­ces­sion moved in the di­rec­tion of the city and then drew on to­ward the tem­ple, Mat­thew be­came ec­static; he was cer­tain that some­thing ex­traor­di­nary would hap­pen when the Mas­ter ar­rived at the tem­ple at the head of this shout­ing mul­ti­tude. When one of the Phar­isees mocked Je­sus, say­ing, “Look, ev­ery­body, see who comes here, the king of the Jews rid­ing on an ass!” Mat­thew kept his hands off of him only by ex­er­cis­ing great re­straint. None of the twelve was more de­pressed on the way back to Beth­any that evening. Next to Si­mon Pe­ter and Si­mon Ze­lo­tes, he ex­pe­ri­enced the high­est ner­vous ten­sion and was in a state of ex­haus­tion by night. But by morn­ing Mat­thew was much cheered; he was, af­ter all, a cheer­ful loser.

172:5.9Thomas was the most be­wil­dered and puz­zled man of all the twelve. Most of the time he just fol­lowed along, gaz­ing at the spec­ta­cle and hon­estly won­der­ing what could be the Mas­ter’s mo­tive for par­tic­i­pat­ing in such a pe­cu­liar dem­on­stra­tion. Down deep in his heart he re­garded the whole per­for­mance as a lit­tle child­ish, if not down­right fool­ish. He had never seen Je­sus do any­thing like this and was at a loss to ac­count for his strange con­duct on this Sun­day af­ter­noon. By the time they reached the tem­ple, Thomas had de­duced that the pur­pose of this pop­u­lar dem­on­stra­tion was so to frighten the San­hedrin that they would not dare im­me­di­ately to ar­rest the Mas­ter. On the way back to Beth­any Thomas thought much but said noth­ing. By bed­time the Mas­ter’s clev­er­ness in stag­ing the tu­mul­tuous en­try into Je­ru­sa­lem had be­gun to make a some­what hu­mor­ous ap­peal, and he was much cheered up by this re­ac­tion.

172:5.10This Sun­day started off as a great day for Si­mon Ze­lo­tes. He saw vi­sions of won­der­ful do­ings in Je­ru­sa­lem the next few days, and in that he was right, but Si­mon dreamed of the es­tab­lish­ment of the new na­tional rule of the Jews, with Je­sus on the throne of David. Si­mon saw the na­tion­al­ists spring­ing into ac­tion as soon as the king­dom was an­nounced, and him­self in su­preme com­mand of the as­sem­bling mil­i­tary forces of the new king­dom. On the way down Oli­vet he even en­vis­aged the San­hedrin and all of their sym­pa­thiz­ers dead be­fore sun­set of that day. He re­ally be­lieved some­thing great was go­ing to hap­pen. He was the nois­i­est man in the whole mul­ti­tude. By five o’clock that af­ter­noon he was a silent, crushed, and dis­il­lu­sioned apos­tle. He never fully re­cov­ered from the de­pres­sion which set­tled down on him as a re­sult of this day’s shock; at least not un­til long af­ter the Mas­ter’s res­ur­rec­tion.

172:5.11To the Al­pheus twins this was a per­fect day. They re­ally en­joyed it all the way through, and not be­ing pres­ent dur­ing the time of quiet vis­i­ta­tion about the tem­ple, they es­caped much of the an­ti­cli­max of the pop­u­lar up­heaval. They could not pos­si­bly un­der­stand the down­cast be­hav­ior of the apos­tles when they came back to Beth­any that evening. In the mem­ory of the twins this was al­ways their day of be­ing near­est heaven on earth. This day was the sat­is­fy­ing cli­max of their whole ca­reer as apos­tles. And the mem­ory of the ela­tion of this Sun­day af­ter­noon car­ried them on through all of the tragedy of this event­ful week, right up to the hour of the cru­ci­fix­ion. It was the most be­fit­ting en­try of the king the twins could con­ceive; they en­joyed ev­ery mo­ment of the whole pageant. They fully ap­proved of all they saw and long cher­ished the mem­ory.

172:5.12Of all the apos­tles, Ju­das Is­car­iot was the most ad­versely af­fected by this pro­ces­sional en­try into Je­ru­sa­lem. His mind was in a dis­agree­able fer­ment be­cause of the Mas­ter’s re­buke the pre­ced­ing day in con­nec­tion with Mary’s anoint­ing at the feast in Si­mon’s house. Ju­das was dis­gusted with the whole spec­ta­cle. To him it seemed child­ish, if not in­deed ridicu­lous. As this venge­ful apos­tle looked upon the pro­ceed­ings of this Sun­day af­ter­noon, Je­sus seemed to him more to re­sem­ble a clown than a king. He heart­ily re­sented the whole per­for­mance. He shared the views of the Greeks and Ro­mans, who looked down upon any­one who would con­sent to ride upon an ass or the colt of an ass. By the time the tri­umphal pro­ces­sion had en­tered the city, Ju­das had about made up his mind to aban­don the whole idea of such a king­dom; he was al­most re­solved to for­sake all such far­ci­cal at­tempts to es­tab­lish the king­dom of heaven. And then he thought of the res­ur­rec­tion of Laz­a­rus, and many other things, and de­cided to stay on with the twelve, at least for an­other day. Be­sides, he car­ried the bag, and he would not desert with the apos­tolic funds in his pos­ses­sion. On the way back to Beth­any that night his con­duct did not seem strange since all of the apos­tles were equally down­cast and silent.

172:5.13Ju­das was tremen­dously in­flu­enced by the ridicule of his Sad­ducean friends. No other sin­gle fac­tor ex­erted such a pow­er­ful in­flu­ence on him, in his fi­nal de­ter­mi­na­tion to for­sake Je­sus and his fel­low apos­tles, as a cer­tain episode which oc­curred just as Je­sus reached the gate of the city: A promi­nent Sad­ducee (a friend of Ju­das’s fam­ily) rushed up to him in a spirit of glee­ful ridicule and, slap­ping him on the back, said: “Why so trou­bled of coun­te­nance, my good friend; cheer up and join us all while we ac­claim this Je­sus of Naz­a­reth the king of the Jews as he rides through the gates of Je­ru­sa­lem seated on an ass.” Ju­das had never shrunk from per­se­cu­tion, but he could not stand this sort of ridicule. With the long-nour­ished emo­tion of re­venge there was now blended this fa­tal fear of ridicule, that ter­ri­ble and fear­ful feel­ing of be­ing ashamed of his Mas­ter and his fel­low apos­tles. At heart, this or­dained am­bas­sador of the king­dom was al­ready a de­serter; it only re­mained for him to find some plau­si­ble ex­cuse for an open break with the Mas­ter.

• aware of humans’ thoughts

174:5.6As Je­sus stood be­fore them at this time, he per­ceived the end of one dis­pen­sa­tion and the be­gin­ning of an­other. Turn­ing his at­ten­tion to the Greeks, the Mas­ter said:

• aware of humans’ thoughts

179:1.8They were now ready to be­gin the sup­per, ex­cept that their feet were still un­washed, and they were in any­thing but a pleas­ant frame of mind. When the Mas­ter ar­rived, they were still en­gaged in mak­ing un­com­pli­men­tary re­marks about one an­other, to say noth­ing of the thoughts of some who had suf­fi­cient emo­tional con­trol to re­frain from pub­licly ex­press­ing their feel­ings.

• elevate mortal bodies into atmosphere for fusion

55:1.6On pre­set­tled worlds, plan­ets with­out mor­ontia tem­ples, these fu­sion flashes many times oc­cur in the plan­e­tary at­mo­sphere, where the ma­te­rial body of a trans­la­tion can­di­date is el­e­vated by the mid­way crea­tures and the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers.

• sense approaching fusion; inform destiny guardians

55:2.3Far­ther along in the era of light and life the mid­way crea­tures or their as­so­ciates sense the ap­proach­ing sta­tus of prob­a­ble soul-Ad­juster union and sig­nify this to the des­tiny guard­i­ans, who in turn com­mu­ni­cate these mat­ters to the fi­nal­i­ter group un­der whose ju­ris­dic­tion this mor­tal may be func­tion­ing; then there is is­sued the sum­mons of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign for such a mor­tal to re­sign all plan­e­tary du­ties, bid farewell to the world of his ori­gin, and re­pair to the in­ner tem­ple of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign, there to await mor­ontia tran­sit, the trans­la­tion flash, from the ma­te­rial do­main of evo­lu­tion to the mor­ontia level of pre­spirit pro­gres­sion.

• interpreters for finaliters and guardian seraphim in light and life

55:4.10In the third and sub­se­quent stages, some of the mid­way­ers are still func­tion­ing, chiefly as con­tact per­son­al­i­ties for the fi­nal­i­ters, but as each stage of light and life is en­tered, new or­ders of li­ai­son min­is­ters largely re­place the mid­way­ers; very few of them ever re­main be­yond the fourth stage of light. The sev­enth stage will wit­ness the com­ing of the first ab­so­nite min­is­ters from Par­a­dise to serve in the places of cer­tain uni­verse crea­tures.

• assembled 50,000 facts proving evolution nonaccidental

58:2.3And yet some of the less imag­i­na­tive of your mor­tal mech­a­nists in­sist on view­ing ma­te­rial cre­ation and hu­man evo­lu­tion as an ac­ci­dent. The Uran­tia mid­way­ers have as­sem­bled over fifty thou­sand facts of physics and chem­istry which they deem to be in­com­pat­i­ble with the laws of ac­ci­den­tal chance, and which they con­tend un­mis­tak­ably demon­strate the pres­ence of in­tel­li­gent pur­pose in the ma­te­rial cre­ation. And all of this takes no ac­count of their cat­a­logue of more than one hun­dred thou­sand find­ings out­side the do­main of physics and chem­istry which they main­tain prove the pres­ence of mind in the plan­ning, cre­ation, and main­te­nance of the ma­te­rial cos­mos.

• investigated marooned decision sustaining Van

67:6.9It should be re­corded that, when Van ap­pealed to the Most Highs of Eden­tia af­ter Lu­cifer had sus­tained Cali­gas­tia on Uran­tia, the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers dis­patched an im­me­di­ate de­ci­sion sus­tain­ing Van on ev­ery point of his con­tention. This ver­dict failed to reach him be­cause the plan­e­tary cir­cuits of com­mu­ni­ca­tion were sev­ered while it was in tran­sit. Only re­cently was this ac­tual rul­ing dis­cov­ered lodged in the pos­ses­sion of a re­lay en­ergy trans­mit­ter where it had been ma­rooned ever since the iso­la­tion of Uran­tia. With­out this dis­cov­ery, made as the re­sult of the in­ves­ti­ga­tions of the Uran­tia mid­way­ers, the re­lease of this de­ci­sion would have awaited the restora­tion of Uran­tia to the con­stel­la­tion cir­cuits. And this ap­par­ent ac­ci­dent of in­ter­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion was pos­si­ble be­cause en­ergy trans­mit­ters can re­ceive and trans­mit in­tel­li­gence, but they can­not ini­ti­ate com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

• transported Adam and Eve to Father’s temple

74:4.4It was near the dawn of their sev­enth day on earth that Adam and Eve heard the startling news of the pro­posal of these well-mean­ing but mis­guided mor­tals; and then, even while the pas­sen­ger birds were swiftly wing­ing to bring them to the tem­ple, the mid­way­ers, be­ing able to do such things, trans­ported Adam and Eve to the Fa­ther’s tem­ple. It was early on the morn­ing of this sev­enth day and from the mount of their so re­cent re­cep­tion that Adam held forth in ex­pla­na­tion of the or­ders of di­vine son­ship and made clear to these earth minds that only the Fa­ther and those whom he des­ig­nates may be wor­shiped. Adam made it plain that he would ac­cept any honor and re­ceive all re­spect, but wor­ship never!

• essential order of planetary ministry
• function midway between mortals and angels

77:0.1Most of the in­hab­ited worlds of Neb­a­don har­bor one or more groups of unique be­ings ex­ist­ing on a life-func­tion­ing level about mid­way be­tween those of the mor­tals of the realms and of the an­gelic or­ders; hence are they called mid­way crea­tures. They ap­pear to be an ac­ci­dent of time, but they oc­cur so widespreadly and are so valu­able as helpers that we have all long since ac­cepted them as one of the es­sen­tial or­ders of our com­bined plan­e­tary min­istry.

• indispensable to guardian seraphim

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.

• organized for service with seraphim in 4 groups

77:8.5The United Mid­way­ers of Uran­tia are or­ga­nized for ser­vice with the plan­e­tary ser­a­phim in ac­cor­dance with in­nate en­dow­ments and ac­quired skills, in the fol­low­ing groups:

77:8.72. Plan­e­tary sen­tinels. Mid­way­ers are the guard­i­ans, the sen­tinels, of the worlds of space. They per­form the im­por­tant du­ties of ob­servers for all the nu­mer­ous phe­nom­ena and types of com­mu­ni­ca­tion which are of im­port to the super­nat­u­ral be­ings of the realm. They pa­trol the in­vis­i­ble spirit realm of the planet.

77:8.83. Con­tact per­son­al­i­ties. In the con­tacts made with the mor­tal be­ings of the ma­te­rial worlds, such as with the sub­ject through whom these com­mu­ni­ca­tions were trans­mit­ted, the mid­way crea­tures are al­ways em­ployed. They are an es­sen­tial fac­tor in such li­aisons of the spir­i­tual and the ma­te­rial lev­els.

77:8.94. Prog­ress helpers. These are the more spir­i­tual of the mid­way crea­tures, and they are dis­tributed as as­sis­tants to the var­i­ous or­ders of ser­a­phim who func­tion in spe­cial groups on the planet.

• not connected with so-called mediumship
• rarely, permit humans to witness their activities

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.

• execute mandates of resident governor general

114:0.2At noon to­day the roll call of plan­e­tary an­gels, guard­i­ans, and oth­ers on Uran­tia was 501,234,619 pairs of ser­a­phim. There were as­signed to my com­mand two hun­dred se­raphic hosts—597,196,800 pairs of ser­a­phim, or 1,194,393,600 in­di­vid­ual an­gels. The reg­istry, how­ever, shows 1,002,469,238 in­di­vid­u­als; it fol­lows there­fore that 191,924,362 an­gels were ab­sent from this world on trans­port, mes­sen­ger, and death duty. (On Uran­tia there are about the same num­ber of cheru­bim as ser­a­phim, and they are sim­i­larly or­ga­nized.)

• in connection with Jesus’ bestowal › announced Jesus’ birth to Chaldean priests

119:7.6Cer­tain wise men of earth knew of Mi­chael’s im­pend­ing ar­rival. Through the con­tacts of one world with an­other, these wise men of spir­i­tual in­sight learned of the forth­com­ing be­stowal of Mi­chael on Uran­tia. And the ser­a­phim did, through the mid­way crea­tures, make an­nounce­ment to a group of Chaldean priests whose leader was Ard­non. These men of God vis­ited the new­born child in the manger. The only super­nat­u­ral event as­so­ci­ated with the birth of Je­sus was this an­nounce­ment to Ard­non and his as­so­ciates by the ser­a­phim of for­mer at­tach­ment to Adam and Eve in the first gar­den.

• in connection with Jesus’ bestowal › exercised limited guardianship over Jesus

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.

• in connection with Jesus’ bestowal › Jesus’ accidental fall not chargeable to

123:4.6There was no way in which this ac­ci­dent could have been pre­vented. It was not charge­able to ne­glect by the mid­way tem­po­ral guard­i­ans, one pri­mary and one sec­ondary mid­wayer hav­ing been as­signed to the watch­care of the lad; nei­ther was it charge­able to the guard­ian ser­a­phim. It sim­ply could not have been avoided. But this slight ac­ci­dent, oc­cur­ring while Joseph was ab­sent in En­dor, caused such great anx­i­ety to de­velop in Mary’s mind that she un­wisely tried to keep Je­sus very close to her side for some months.

• can intervene to safeguard persons of destiny

123:4.7Ma­te­rial ac­ci­dents, com­mon­place oc­cur­rences of a phys­i­cal na­ture, are not ar­bi­trar­ily in­ter­fered with by ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties. Un­der or­di­nary cir­cum­stances only mid­way crea­tures can in­ter­vene in ma­te­rial con­di­tions to safe­guard the per­sons of men and women of des­tiny, and even in spe­cial sit­u­a­tions these be­ings can so act only in obe­di­ence to the spe­cific man­dates of their su­pe­ri­ors.

• in connection with Jesus’ bestowal › helped turn water into wine

137:4.12It was grad­u­ally dawn­ing upon Je­sus what had hap­pened. Of all per­sons pres­ent at the mar­riage feast of Cana, Je­sus was the most sur­prised. Oth­ers had ex­pected him to work a won­der, but that was just what he had pur­posed not to do. And then the Son of Man re­called the ad­mo­ni­tion of his Per­son­al­ized Thought Ad­juster in the hills. He re­counted how the Ad­juster had warned him about the in­abil­ity of any power or per­son­al­ity to de­prive him of the cre­ator pre­rog­a­tive of in­de­pen­dence of time. On this oc­ca­sion power trans­form­ers, mid­way­ers, and all other re­quired per­son­al­i­ties were as­sem­bled near the wa­ter and other nec­es­sary el­e­ments, and in the face of the ex­pressed wish of the Uni­verse Cre­ator Sov­er­eign, there was no es­cap­ing the in­stan­ta­neous ap­pear­ance of wine. And this oc­cur­rence was made dou­bly cer­tain since the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster had sig­ni­fied that the ex­e­cu­tion of the Son’s de­sire was in no way a con­tra­ven­tion of the Fa­ther’s will.

• in connection with Jesus’ bestowal › participated in healing at sundown

145:3.8A voice from the front yard ex­claimed: “Mas­ter, speak the word, re­store our health, heal our dis­eases, and save our souls.” No sooner had these words been ut­tered than a vast ret­inue of ser­a­phim, phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, Life Car­ri­ers, and mid­way­ers, such as al­ways at­tended this in­car­nated Cre­ator of a uni­verse, made them­selves ready to act with cre­ative power should their Sov­er­eign give the sig­nal. This was one of those mo­ments in the earth ca­reer of Je­sus in which di­vine wis­dom and hu­man com­pas­sion were so in­ter­locked in the judg­ment of the Son of Man that he sought refuge in ap­peal to his Fa­ther’s will.

• in connection with Jesus’ bestowal › helped in dissolution of Jesus’ mortal body

189:2.3Af­ter the chief of arch­an­gels had been granted this re­quest, he sum­moned to his as­sis­tance many of his fel­lows, to­gether with a nu­mer­ous host of the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of all or­ders of ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties, and then, with the aid of the Uran­tia mid­way­ers, pro­ceeded to take pos­ses­sion of Je­sus’ phys­i­cal body. This body of death was a purely ma­te­rial cre­ation; it was phys­i­cal and lit­eral; it could not be re­moved from the tomb as the mor­ontia form of the res­ur­rec­tion had been able to es­cape the sealed sepul­chre. By the aid of cer­tain mor­ontia aux­il­iary per­son­al­i­ties, the mor­ontia form can be made at one time as of the spirit so that it can be­come in­dif­fer­ent to or­di­nary mat­ter, while at an­other time it can be­come dis­cern­i­ble and con­tactable to ma­te­rial be­ings, such as the mor­tals of the realm.

• in connection with Jesus’ bestowal › rolled away stones from Jesus’ tomb

189:2.4As they made ready to re­move the body of Je­sus from the tomb prepara­tory to ac­cord­ing it the dig­ni­fied and rev­er­ent dis­posal of near-in­stan­ta­neous dis­so­lu­tion, it was as­signed the sec­ondary Uran­tia mid­way­ers to roll away the stones from the en­trance of the tomb. The larger of these two stones was a huge cir­cu­lar af­fair, much like a mill­stone, and it moved in a groove chis­eled out of the rock, so that it could be rolled back and forth to open or close the tomb. When the watch­ing Jew­ish guards and the Ro­man sol­diers, in the dim light of the morn­ing, saw this huge stone be­gin to roll away from the en­trance of the tomb, ap­par­ently of its own ac­cord—with­out any vis­i­ble means to ac­count for such mo­tion—they were seized with fear and panic, and they fled in haste from the scene. The Jews fled to their homes, af­ter­ward go­ing back to re­port these do­ings to their cap­tain at the tem­ple. The Ro­mans fled to the fortress of An­to­nia and re­ported what they had seen to the cen­tu­rion as soon as he ar­rived on duty.

• in connection with Jesus’ bestowal › enabled humans to see resurrected Jesus

189:4.11These hu­man eyes were en­abled to see the mor­ontia form of Je­sus be­cause of the spe­cial min­istry of the trans­form­ers and the mid­way­ers in as­so­ci­a­tion with cer­tain of the mor­ontia per­son­al­i­ties then ac­com­pa­ny­ing Je­sus.

46:4.7Our nar­ra­tive of these res­i­den­tial and ad­min­is­tra­tive ar­eas takes no ac­count of the vast and beau­ti­ful es­tates of the Ma­te­rial Sons of God, the per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of Je­ru­sem, nei­ther do we men­tion nu­mer­ous other fas­ci­nat­ing or­ders of spirit and near-spirit crea­tures. For ex­am­ple: Je­ru­sem en­joys the ef­fi­cient ser­vices of the spironga of de­sign for sys­tem func­tion. These be­ings are de­voted to spir­i­tual min­istry in be­half of the super­ma­te­rial res­i­dents and vis­i­tors. They are a won­der­ful group of in­tel­li­gent and beau­ti­ful be­ings who are the tran­si­tion ser­vants of the higher mor­ontia crea­tures and of the mor­ontia helpers who la­bor for the up­keep and em­bel­lish­ment of all mor­ontia cre­ations. They are on Je­ru­sem what the mid­way crea­tures are on Uran­tia, mid­way helpers func­tion­ing be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual.

• ascending midwayers › translated midwayers

30:2.526. Trans­lated Mid­way­ers.

• ascending midwayers › direct animal life on Jerusem

46:7.2On Je­ru­sem you will be amazed by the ag­ri­cul­tural achieve­ments of the won­der­ful sporna­gia. There the land is cul­ti­vated largely for aes­thetic and or­na­men­tal ef­fects. The sporna­gia are the land­scape gar­den­ers of the head­quar­ters worlds, and they are both orig­i­nal and artis­tic in their treat­ment of the open spaces of Je­ru­sem. They uti­lize both an­i­mals and nu­mer­ous me­chan­i­cal con­trivances in the cul­ture of the soil. They are in­tel­li­gently ex­pert in the em­ploy­ment of the power agen­cies of their realms as well as in the uti­liza­tion of nu­mer­ous or­ders of their lesser breth­ren of the lower an­i­mal cre­ations, many of which are pro­vided them on these spe­cial worlds. This or­der of an­i­mal life is now largely di­rected by the as­cend­ing mid­way crea­tures from the evo­lu­tion­ary spheres.

• rebel midwayers › all now 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.

• rebel midwayers › many midwayers lost on rebel worlds

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

77:7.6It is no mere fig­ure of speech when the rec­ord states: “And they brought to Him all sorts of sick peo­ple, those who were pos­sessed by dev­ils and those who were lu­natics.” Je­sus knew and rec­og­nized the dif­fer­ence be­tween in­san­ity and de­mo­ni­a­cal pos­ses­sion, al­though these states were greatly con­fused in the minds of those who lived in his day and gen­er­a­tion.

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.

• rebel midwayers › all now interned

77:7.8The en­tire group of rebel mid­way­ers is at pres­ent held pris­oner by or­der of the Most Highs of Eden­tia. No more do they roam this world on mis­chief bent. Re­gard­less of the pres­ence of the Thought Ad­justers, the pour­ing out of the Spirit of Truth upon all flesh for­ever made it im­pos­si­ble for dis­loyal spir­its of any sort or de­scrip­tion ever again to in­vade even the most fee­ble of hu­man minds. Since the day of Pen­te­cost there never again can be such a thing as de­mo­ni­a­cal pos­ses­sion.

• loyal primary and secondary midwayers united on Pentecost to form

51:3.8On the day of Pen­te­cost the loyal pri­mary and the sec­ondary mid­way­ers ef­fected a vol­un­tary union and have func­tioned as one unit in world af­fairs ever since. They serve un­der the lead­er­ship of loyal mid­way­ers al­ter­nately cho­sen from the two groups.

• number 10,992

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.

• loyal primary and secondary midwayers united on Pentecost to form
• number 10,992

77:8.1At the last ad­ju­di­ca­tion of this world, when Mi­chael re­moved the slum­ber­ing sur­vivors of time, the mid­way crea­tures were left be­hind, left to as­sist in the spir­i­tual and semispir­i­tual work on the planet. They now func­tion as a sin­gle corps, em­brac­ing both or­ders and num­ber­ing 10,992. The United Mid­way­ers of Uran­tia are at pres­ent gov­erned al­ter­nately by the se­nior mem­ber of each or­der. This regime has ob­tained since their amal­ga­ma­tion into one group shortly af­ter Pen­te­cost.

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.

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.

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.

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.