morontia counselors

• 4th order transition minister seraphim

39:6.1As their name might sug­gest, ser­a­phim of tran­si­tional min­istry serve wher­ever they can con­tribute to crea­ture tran­si­tion from the ma­te­rial to the spir­i­tual es­tate. These an­gels serve from the in­hab­ited worlds to the sys­tem cap­i­tals, but those in Sa­ta­nia at pres­ent di­rect their great­est ef­forts to­ward the ed­u­ca­tion of the sur­viv­ing mor­tals on the seven man­sion worlds. This min­istry is di­ver­si­fied in ac­cor­dance with the fol­low­ing seven or­ders of as­sign­ment:

• morontia counselors
• teach mota to morontia progressors

48:6.274. Mor­ontia Coun­selors. These min­is­ters re­ceive their name be­cause they are as­signed to teach, di­rect, and coun­sel the sur­viv­ing mor­tals from the worlds of hu­man ori­gin, souls in tran­sit to the higher schools of the sys­tem head­quar­ters. They are the teach­ers of those who seek in­sight into the ex­pe­ri­en­tial unity of di­ver­gent life lev­els, those who are at­tempt­ing the in­te­gra­tion of mean­ings and the uni­fi­ca­tion of val­ues. This is the func­tion of phi­los­o­phy in mor­tal life, of mota on the mor­ontia spheres.

48:6.28Mota is more than a su­pe­rior phi­los­o­phy; it is to phi­los­o­phy as two eyes are to one; it has a stereo­scopic ef­fect on mean­ings and val­ues. Ma­te­rial man sees the uni­verse, as it were, with but one eye—flat. Man­sion world stu­dents achieve cos­mic per­spec­tive—depth—by super­im­pos­ing the per­cep­tions of the mor­ontia life upon the per­cep­tions of the phys­i­cal life. And they are en­abled to bring these ma­te­rial and mor­ontial view­points into true fo­cus largely through the un­tir­ing min­istry of their se­raphic coun­selors, who so pa­tiently teach the man­sion world stu­dents and the mor­ontia pro­gres­sors. Many of the teach­ing coun­selors of the su­preme or­der of ser­a­phim be­gan their ca­reers as ad­vis­ers of the newly lib­er­ated souls of the mor­tals of time.