race commissioners

37:5.5The High Com­mis­sion­ers be­gin their ser­vice on the plan­ets as race com­mis­sion­ers. In this ca­pac­ity they in­ter­pret the view­points and por­tray the needs of the var­i­ous hu­man races. They are su­premely de­voted to the wel­fare of the mor­tal races whose spokes­men they are, ever seek­ing to ob­tain for them mercy, jus­tice, and fair treat­ment in all re­la­tion­ships with other peo­ples. Race com­mis­sion­ers func­tion in an end­less se­ries of plan­e­tary crises and serve as the ar­tic­u­late ex­pres­sion of whole groups of strug­gling mor­tals.

37:5.6Af­ter long ex­pe­ri­ence in prob­lem solv­ing on the in­hab­ited worlds, these race com­mis­sion­ers are ad­vanced to the higher lev­els of func­tion, even­tu­ally at­tain­ing the sta­tus of High Com­mis­sion­ers of and in the lo­cal uni­verse. The last reg­is­tra­tion re­corded slightly over one and one-half bil­lion of these High Com­mis­sion­ers in Neb­a­don. These be­ings are not fi­nal­i­ters, but they are as­cen­dant be­ings of long ex­pe­ri­ence and of great ser­vice to their na­tive realm.

48:6.222. Racial In­ter­preters. All races of mor­tal be­ings are not alike. True, there is a plan­e­tary pat­tern run­ning through the phys­i­cal, men­tal, and spir­i­tual na­tures and ten­den­cies of the var­i­ous races of a given world; but there are also dis­tinct racial types, and very def­i­nite so­cial ten­den­cies char­ac­ter­ize the off­spring of these dif­fer­ent ba­sic types of hu­man be­ings. On the worlds of time the se­raphic racial in­ter­preters fur­ther the ef­forts of the race com­mis­sion­ers to har­mo­nize the var­ied view­points of the races, and they con­tinue to func­tion on the man­sion worlds, where these same dif­fer­ences tend to per­sist in a mea­sure. On a con­fused planet, such as Uran­tia, these bril­liant be­ings have hardly had a fair op­por­tu­nity to func­tion, but they are the skill­ful so­ci­ol­o­gists and the wise eth­nic ad­vis­ers of the first heaven.

114:4.2There are cer­tain groups of plan­e­tary prob­lems which are still un­der the con­trol of the Most Highs of Eden­tia, ju­ris­dic­tion over them hav­ing been seized at the time of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. Au­thor­ity in these mat­ters is ex­er­cised by a Vo­ron­da­dek Son, the Nor­la­ti­adek ob­server, who main­tains very close ad­vi­sory re­la­tions with the plan­e­tary super­vi­sors. The race com­mis­sion­ers are very ac­tive on Uran­tia, and their var­i­ous group chiefs are in­for­mally at­tached to the res­i­dent Vo­ron­da­dek ob­server, who acts as their ad­vi­sory di­rec­tor.