Mighty Messengers

22:2.1Mighty Mes­sen­gers be­long to the as­cen­dant group of the Trin­i­tized Sons. They are a class of per­fected mor­tals who have been re­bel­lion tested or oth­er­wise equally proved as to their per­sonal loy­alty; all have passed through some def­i­nite test of uni­verse al­le­giance. At some time in their Par­a­dise as­cent they stood firm and loyal in the face of the dis­loy­alty of their su­pe­ri­ors, and some did ac­tively and loy­ally func­tion in the places of such un­faith­ful lead­ers.

22:2.2With such per­sonal rec­ords of fi­delity and de­vo­tion, these as­cend­ing mor­tals pass on through Ha­vona with the stream of the pil­grims of time, at­tain Par­a­dise, grad­u­ate there­from, and are mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. There­upon they are trin­i­tized in the se­cret em­brace of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and sub­se­quently are com­mis­sioned to be­come as­so­ci­ated with the An­cients of Days in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the gov­ern­ments of the seven super­uni­verses.

22:2.3Ev­ery as­cen­dant mor­tal of in­sur­rec­tionary ex­pe­ri­ence who func­tions loy­ally in the face of re­bel­lion is even­tu­ally des­tined to be­come a Mighty Mes­sen­ger of the super­uni­verse ser­vice. Like­wise is any as­cen­dant crea­ture who ef­fec­tively pre­vents such up­heavals of er­ror, evil, or sin; for ac­tion de­signed to pre­vent re­bel­lion or to ef­fect higher types of loy­alty in a uni­verse cri­sis is re­garded as of even greater value than loy­alty in the face of ac­tual re­bel­lion.

22:2.4The se­nior Mighty Mes­sen­gers were cho­sen from those as­cen­dant mor­tals of time and space who were among the ear­lier Par­a­dise ar­rivals, many hav­ing tra­versed Ha­vona in the times of Grand­fanda. But the first trini­tiz­ing of Mighty Mes­sen­gers was not ef­fected un­til the can­di­date corps con­tained rep­re­sen­ta­tives from each of the seven super­uni­verses. And the last group of this or­der to qual­ify on Par­a­dise em­braced as­cen­dant pil­grims from the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don.

22:2.5Mighty Mes­sen­gers are em­braced by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity in classes of seven hun­dred thou­sand, one hun­dred thou­sand for as­sign­ment to each super­uni­verse. Al­most one tril­lion Mighty Mes­sen­gers are com­mis­sioned on Uversa, and there is ev­ery rea­son to be­lieve that the num­ber serv­ing in each of the seven super­uni­verses is ex­actly the same.

22:2.6I am a Mighty Mes­sen­ger, and it may in­ter­est Uran­tians to know that the com­pan­ion and as­so­ciate of my mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence was also tri­umphant in the great test, and that, though we were many times and for long pe­ri­ods sep­a­rated in the age­long in­ward as­cent to Ha­vona, we were em­braced in the same seven-hun­dred-thou­sand group, and that we spent our time pass­ing through Vicegering­ton in close and lov­ing as­so­ci­a­tion. We were fi­nally com­mis­sioned and to­gether as­signed to Uversa of Or­von­ton, and we are of­ten dis­patched in com­pany for the ex­e­cu­tion of as­sign­ments re­quir­ing the ser­vices of two Mes­sen­gers.

22:2.7Mighty Mes­sen­gers, in com­mon with all Trin­ity-em­braced sons, are as­signed to all phases of super­uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties. They main­tain con­stant con­nec­tion with their head­quar­ters through the super­uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity ser­vice. Mighty Mes­sen­gers serve in all sec­tors of a super­uni­verse and fre­quently ex­e­cute mis­sions to the lo­cal uni­verses and even to the in­di­vid­ual worlds, as I do on this oc­ca­sion.

22:2.8In the super­uni­verse courts, Mighty Mes­sen­gers act as de­fend­ers of both in­di­vid­u­als and plan­ets when they come up for ad­ju­di­ca­tion; they also as­sist the Per­fec­tions of Days in the di­rec­tion of the af­fairs of the ma­jor sec­tors. As a group, their chief as­sign­ment is that of super­uni­verse ob­servers. They are sta­tioned on the var­i­ous head­quar­ters worlds and on in­di­vid­ual plan­ets of im­por­tance as the of­fi­cial ob­servers of the An­cients of Days. When so as­signed, they also serve as ad­vis­ers to the au­thor­i­ties di­rect­ing the af­fairs of the spheres of their so­journ. The Mes­sen­gers take ac­tive part in all phases of the as­cen­dant scheme of mor­tal pro­gres­sion. With their as­so­ciates of mor­tal ori­gin they keep the super­gov­ern­ments in close and per­sonal touch with the sta­tus and pro­gres­sion of the plans of the de­scend­ing Sons of God.

22:2.9Mighty Mes­sen­gers are fully con­scious of their en­tire as­cen­dant ca­reers, and that is why they are such use­ful and sym­pa­thetic min­is­ters, un­der­stand­ing mes­sen­gers, for ser­vice on any world of space and to any crea­ture of time. As soon as you are de­liv­ered from the flesh, you will com­mu­ni­cate freely and un­der­stand­ingly with us since we spring from all the races on all the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space, that is, from those mor­tal races that are in­dwelt by, and sub­se­quently fused with, Thought Ad­justers.

40:10.12When a mor­tal fi­nal­i­ter is Trin­ity em­braced—be­comes a Trin­i­tized Son, such as a Mighty Mes­sen­ger—then has that fi­nal­i­ter at­tained des­tiny, at least for the pres­ent uni­verse age. Mighty Mes­sen­gers and their fel­lows may not in the ex­act sense be sev­enth-stage spir­its, but in ad­di­tion to other things the Trin­ity em­brace en­dows them with ev­ery­thing which a fi­nal­i­ter will some­time achieve as a sev­enth-stage spirit. Af­ter Spirit-fused or Son-fused mor­tals are trin­i­tized, they pass through the Par­a­dise ex­pe­ri­ence with the Ad­juster-fused as­cend­ers, with whom they are then iden­ti­cal in all mat­ters per­tain­ing to super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. These Trin­i­tized Sons of Se­lec­tion or of At­tain­ment at least for now are fin­ished crea­tures, in con­trast to the fi­nal­i­ters, who are at pres­ent un­fin­ished crea­tures.

15:10.11The three An­cients of Days are im­me­di­ately as­sisted by a corps of one bil­lion Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, with whom are as­so­ci­ated three bil­lion Di­vine Coun­selors. One bil­lion Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors are at­tached to each super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. These three groups are Co-or­di­nate Trin­ity Per­son­al­i­ties, tak­ing ori­gin di­rectly and di­vinely in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

22:10.1The High Son As­sis­tants are the su­pe­rior group of the re­trini­tized trin­i­tized sons of glo­ri­fied as­cen­dant be­ings of the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity and of their eter­nal as­so­ciates, the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties. They are as­signed to the super­uni­verse ser­vice and func­tion as per­sonal aids to the high sons of the gov­ern­ments of the An­cients of Days. They might fit­tingly be de­nom­i­nated pri­vate sec­re­taries. They act, from time to time, as clerks for spe­cial com­mis­sions and other group as­so­ci­a­tions of the high sons. They serve Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, Di­vine Coun­selors, Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors, Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber.

30:2.551. Mighty Mes­sen­gers.

15:10.12The re­main­ing three or­ders, Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber, are glo­ri­fied as­cen­dant mor­tals. The first of these or­ders came up through the as­cen­dant regime and passed through Ha­vona in the days of Grand­fanda. Hav­ing at­tained Par­a­dise, they were mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, em­braced by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, and sub­se­quently as­signed to the su­per­nal ser­vice of the An­cients of Days. As a class, these three or­ders are known as Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment, be­ing of dual ori­gin but now of Trin­ity ser­vice. Thus was the ex­ec­u­tive branch of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment en­larged to in­clude the glo­ri­fied and per­fected chil­dren of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

44:0.18There is also here with me a Mighty Mes­sen­ger from Uversa, an as­cen­dant Ad­juster-fused, one­time mor­tal be­ing, and he per­ceives you as you are, and at the same time he vi­su­al­izes the Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger, the super­na­phim, and other ce­les­tial be­ings pres­ent. Never in your long as­cen­dancy will you lose the power to rec­og­nize your as­so­ciates of for­mer ex­is­tences. Al­ways, as you as­cend in­ward in the scale of life, will you re­tain the abil­ity to rec­og­nize and frat­er­nize with the fel­low be­ings of your pre­vi­ous and lower lev­els of ex­pe­ri­ence. Each new trans­la­tion or res­ur­rec­tion will add one more group of spirit be­ings to your vi­sion range with­out in the least de­priv­ing you of the abil­ity to rec­og­nize your friends and fel­lows of for­mer es­tates.

54:6.5And there is com­pen­sa­tion for these tri­als, de­lays, and dis­ap­point­ments which in­vari­ably ac­com­pany the sin of re­bel­lion. Of the many valu­able reper­cus­sions of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion which might be named, I will only call at­ten­tion to the en­hanced ca­reers of those mor­tal as­cend­ers, the Je­ru­sem cit­i­zens, who, by with­stand­ing the soph­ist­ries of sin, placed them­selves in line for be­com­ing fu­ture Mighty Mes­sen­gers, fel­lows of my own or­der. Ev­ery be­ing who stood the test of that evil episode thereby im­me­di­ately ad­vanced his ad­min­is­tra­tive sta­tus and en­hanced his spir­i­tual worth.

117:2.4My own or­der, the Mighty Mes­sen­gers, be­ing Trin­ity em­braced, are non­par­tic­i­pat­ing in the growth of the pres­ent uni­verse age. In a sense we are in sta­tus as of the pre­ced­ing uni­verse age as in fact are the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity. One thing is cer­tain: Our sta­tus is fixed by the Trin­ity em­brace, and ex­pe­ri­ence no longer even­tu­ates in growth.

54:6.11[Pre­sented by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger of ex­pe­ri­en­tial sur­vival in the first sys­tem re­bel­lion in the uni­verses of time now at­tached to the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment of Or­von­ton and act­ing in this mat­ter by re­quest of Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton.]

22:4.4The se­lec­tion of can­di­dates for the trin­i­ti­za­tion classes of Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber is in­her­ent and au­to­matic. The se­lec­tive tech­niques of Par­a­dise are not in any sense ar­bi­trary. Per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence and spir­i­tual val­ues de­ter­mine the per­son­nel of the Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment. Such be­ings are equal in au­thor­ity and uni­form in ad­min­is­tra­tive sta­tus, but they all pos­sess in­di­vid­u­al­ity and di­verse char­ac­ters; they are not stan­dard­ized be­ings. All are char­ac­ter­is­ti­cally dif­fer­ent, de­pend­ing on the dif­fer­en­tials of their as­cen­dant ca­reers.

• official superuniverse observers to local universes and systems

15:10.3Each super­uni­verse is pre­sided over by three An­cients of Days, the joint chief ex­ec­u­tives of the super­gov­ern­ment. In its ex­ec­u­tive branch the per­son­nel of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment con­sists of seven dif­fer­ent groups:

15:10.41. An­cients of Days.

15:10.52. Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom.

15:10.63. Di­vine Coun­selors.

15:10.74. Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors.

15:10.85. Mighty Mes­sen­gers.

15:10.96. Those High in Au­thor­ity.

15:10.107. Those with­out Name and Num­ber.

• defend individuals and planets in superuniverse courts
• official superuniverse observers to local universes and systems

15:12.1When we speak of ex­ec­u­tive and de­lib­er­a­tive branches of the Uversa gov­ern­ment, you may, from the anal­ogy of cer­tain forms of Uran­tian civil gov­ern­ment, rea­son that we must have a third or ju­di­cial branch, and we do; but it does not have a sep­a­rate per­son­nel. Our courts are con­sti­tuted as fol­lows: There pre­sides, in ac­cor­dance with the na­ture and grav­ity of the case, an An­cient of Days, a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom, or a Di­vine Coun­selor. The ev­i­dence for or against an in­di­vid­ual, a planet, sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, or uni­verse is pre­sented and in­ter­preted by the Cen­sors. The de­fense of the chil­dren of time and the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets is of­fered by the Mighty Mes­sen­gers, the of­fi­cial ob­servers of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment to the lo­cal uni­verses and sys­tems. The at­ti­tude of the higher gov­ern­ment is por­trayed by Those High in Au­thor­ity. And or­di­nar­ily the ver­dict is for­mu­lated by a vary­ing-sized com­mis­sion con­sist­ing equally of Those with­out Name and Num­ber and a group of un­der­stand­ing per­son­al­i­ties cho­sen from the de­lib­er­a­tive as­sem­bly.

• assist Perfections of Days

18:4.4The Per­fec­tions of Days have a mod­er­ate-sized corps of Di­vine Coun­selors, Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, and Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors at­tached to their gov­ern­ments. They have still larger num­bers of Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber. But much of the rou­tine work of ma­jor sec­tor af­fairs is car­ried on by the Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and the High Son As­sis­tants. These two groups are drawn from among the trin­i­tized off­spring of ei­ther Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties or glo­ri­fied mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters. Cer­tain of these two or­ders of crea­ture-trin­i­tized be­ings are re­trini­tized by the Par­a­dise De­i­ties and then are dis­patched to as­sist in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments.

• with associates, form highest mobile advisory body

19:2.4Wis­dom is two­fold in ori­gin, be­ing de­rived from the per­fec­tion of di­vine in­sight in­her­ent in per­fect be­ings and from the per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence ac­quired by evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures. The Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom are the di­vine wis­dom of the Par­a­dise per­fec­tion of De­ity in­sight. Their ad­min­is­tra­tive as­so­ciates on Uversa, the Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those with­out Name and Num­ber, and Those High in Au­thor­ity, when act­ing to­gether, are the uni­verse wis­dom of ex­pe­ri­ence. A di­vine be­ing can have per­fec­tion of di­vine knowl­edge. An evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tal can some­time at­tain per­fec­tion of as­cen­dant knowl­edge, but nei­ther of these be­ings alone ex­hausts the po­ten­tials of all pos­si­ble wis­dom. Ac­cord­ingly, when­ever in the con­duct of the super­uni­verse it is de­sired to achieve the max­i­mum of ad­min­is­tra­tive wis­dom, these per­fec­tors of the wis­dom of di­vine in­sight are al­ways as­so­ci­ated with those as­cen­dant per­son­al­i­ties who have come up to the high re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of super­uni­verse au­thor­ity through the ex­pe­ri­en­tial tribu­la­tions of evo­lu­tion­ary pro­gres­sion.

• with associates, form highest mobile advisory body

19:3.6Di­vine Coun­selors are the per­fec­tion of the di­vine coun­sel of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. We rep­re­sent, in fact are, the coun­sel of per­fec­tion. When we are sup­ple­mented by the ex­pe­ri­en­tial coun­sel of our as­so­ciates, the per­fected and Trin­ity-em­braced be­ings of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cent, our com­bined con­clu­sions are not only com­plete but re­plete. When our united coun­sel has been as­so­ci­ated, ad­ju­di­cated, con­firmed, and pro­mul­gated by a Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor, it is very prob­a­ble that it ap­proaches the thresh­old of uni­ver­sal to­tal­ity. Such ver­dicts rep­re­sent the near­est pos­si­ble ap­proach to the ab­so­lute at­ti­tude of De­ity within the time-space lim­its of the sit­u­a­tion in­volved and the prob­lem con­cerned.

19:3.7Seven Di­vine Coun­selors in li­ai­son with a trin­i­tized evo­lu­tion­ary trio—a Mighty Mes­sen­ger, One High in Au­thor­ity, and One with­out Name and Num­ber—rep­re­sent the near­est super­uni­verse ap­proach to the union of the hu­man view­point and the di­vine at­ti­tude on near-par­a­di­si­a­cal lev­els of spir­i­tual mean­ings and re­al­ity val­ues. Such close ap­prox­i­ma­tion of the united cos­mic at­ti­tudes of the crea­ture and the Cre­ator is only sur­passed in the Par­a­dise be­stowal Sons, who are, in ev­ery phase of per­son­al­ity ex­pe­ri­ence, God and man.

• wrote Papers 22, 28, 30, 32, 34, 40, 42, 52, 54-56, 115-118

22:10.10[Nar­rated by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger of the rev­e­la­tory corps of Or­von­ton.]

• certify correctness of Celestial Recorders’ records

25:6.3The re­cord­ers are a tested and tried corps. Never have I known of the de­fec­tion of a Ce­les­tial Re­corder, and never has there been dis­cov­ered a fal­si­fi­ca­tion in their rec­ords. They are sub­jected to a dual in­spec­tion, their rec­ords be­ing scru­ti­nized by their ex­alted fel­lows from Uversa and by the Mighty Mes­sen­gers, who cer­tify to the cor­rect­ness of the quasi-phys­i­cal du­pli­cates of the orig­i­nal spirit rec­ords.

• wrote Papers 22, 28, 30, 32, 34, 40, 42, 52, 54-56, 115-118

28:7.5[Spon­sored by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger of Uversa.]

• wrote Papers 22, 28, 30, 32, 34, 40, 42, 52, 54-56, 115-118

30:4.35[Spon­sored by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger from Uversa.]

• wrote Papers 22, 28, 30, 32, 34, 40, 42, 52, 54-56, 115-118

32:5.9[Pre­sented by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily at­tached to the Su­preme Coun­cil of Neb­a­don and as­signed to this mis­sion by Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton.]

• wrote Papers 22, 28, 30, 32, 34, 40, 42, 52, 54-56, 115-118

34:7.9[Pre­sented by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily as­signed to ser­vice on Uran­tia.]

• wrote Papers 22, 28, 30, 32, 34, 40, 42, 52, 54-56, 115-118

40:10.15[Pre­sented by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily at­tached to the staff of Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton.]

• wrote Papers 22, 28, 30, 32, 34, 40, 42, 52, 54-56, 115-118

42:12.16[Pre­sented by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger on duty in Neb­a­don and by the re­quest of Ga­briel.]

• wrote Papers 22, 28, 30, 32, 34, 40, 42, 52, 54-56, 115-118

52:7.17[Spon­sored by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily at­tached to the staff of Ga­briel.]

• wrote Papers 22, 28, 30, 32, 34, 40, 42, 52, 54-56, 115-118

55:12.6[Pre­sented by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily as­signed to the Arch­an­gel Coun­cil on Uran­tia.]

• wrote Papers 22, 28, 30, 32, 34, 40, 42, 52, 54-56, 115-118

56:10.22[Pre­sented by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger vis­it­ing on Uran­tia, by re­quest of the Neb­a­don Rev­e­la­tory Corps and in col­lab­o­ra­tion with a cer­tain Mel­chiz­e­dek, the vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia.]

• wrote Papers 22, 28, 30, 32, 34, 40, 42, 52, 54-56, 115-118

115:7.9[Spon­sored by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily so­journ­ing on Uran­tia.]

• wrote Papers 22, 28, 30, 32, 34, 40, 42, 52, 54-56, 115-118

116:7.7[Spon­sored by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily so­journ­ing on Uran­tia.]

• wrote Papers 22, 28, 30, 32, 34, 40, 42, 52, 54-56, 115-118

117:7.18[Spon­sored by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily so­journ­ing on Uran­tia.]

• wrote Papers 22, 28, 30, 32, 34, 40, 42, 52, 54-56, 115-118

118:10.24[Spon­sored by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily so­journ­ing on Uran­tia.]

28:3.1The sec­o­raphic hosts are pro­duced by the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its as­signed to the head­quar­ters of each super­uni­verse. There is a def­i­nite Par­a­dise-re­spon­sive tech­nique as­so­ci­ated with the cre­ation of these an­gels in groups of seven. In each seven there are al­ways one pri­mary, three sec­ondary, and three ter­tiary se­con­a­phim; they al­ways per­son­al­ize in this ex­act pro­por­tion. When seven such se­con­a­phim are cre­ated, one, the pri­mary, be­comes at­tached to the ser­vice of the An­cients of Days. The three sec­ondary an­gels are as­so­ci­ated with three groups of Par­a­dise-ori­gin ad­min­is­tra­tors in the super­gov­ern­ments: the Di­vine Coun­selors, the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, and the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors. The three ter­tiary an­gels are at­tached to the as­cen­dant trin­i­tized as­so­ciates of the super­uni­verse rulers: the Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber.

28:6.1In the same man­ner as their fel­lows, these an­gels are cre­ated se­ri­ally and in seven re­flec­tive types, but these types are not as­signed in­di­vid­u­ally to the sep­a­rate ser­vices of the super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tors. All ter­tiary se­con­a­phim are col­lec­tively as­signed to the Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment, and these as­cen­dant sons use them in­ter­change­ably; that is, the Mighty Mes­sen­gers can and do uti­lize any of the ter­tiary types, and so do their co-or­di­nates, Those High in Au­thor­ity and Those with­out Name and Num­ber. These seven types of ter­tiary se­con­a­phim are: