recorder-teachers

• recorder-teachers

48:6.306. Re­corder-Teach­ers. These ser­a­phim are the re­cord­ers of the bor­der­land trans­ac­tions of the spir­i­tual and the phys­i­cal, of the re­la­tion­ships of men and an­gels, of the mor­ontia trans­ac­tions of the lower uni­verse realms. They also serve as in­struc­tors re­gard­ing the ef­fi­cient and ef­fec­tive tech­niques of fact record­ing. There is an artistry in the in­tel­li­gent as­sem­bly and co-or­di­na­tion of re­lated data, and this art is height­ened in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans, and even the as­cend­ing mor­tals be­come thus af­fil­i­ated with the record­ing ser­a­phim.

48:6.31The re­cord­ers of all the se­raphic or­ders de­vote a cer­tain amount of time to the ed­u­ca­tion and train­ing of the mor­ontia pro­gres­sors. These an­gelic cus­to­di­ans of the facts of time are the ideal in­struc­tors of all fact seek­ers. Be­fore leav­ing Je­ru­sem, you will be­come quite fa­mil­iar with the his­tory of Sa­ta­nia and its 619 in­hab­ited worlds, and much of this story will be im­parted by the se­raphic re­cord­ers.

48:6.32These an­gels are all in the chain of re­cord­ers ex­tend­ing from the low­est to the high­est cus­to­di­ans of the facts of time and the truths of eter­nity. Some day they will teach you to seek truth as well as fact, to ex­pand your soul as well as your mind. Even now you should learn to wa­ter the gar­den of your heart as well as to seek for the dry sands of knowl­edge. Forms are val­ue­less when lessons are learned. No chick may be had with­out the shell, and no shell is of any worth af­ter the chick is hatched. But some­times er­ror is so great that its rec­ti­fi­ca­tion by rev­e­la­tion would be fa­tal to those slowly emerg­ing truths which are es­sen­tial to its ex­pe­ri­en­tial over­throw. When chil­dren have their ide­als, do not dis­lodge them; let them grow. And while you are learn­ing to think as men, you should also be learn­ing to pray as chil­dren.

48:6.33Law is life it­self and not the rules of its con­duct. Evil is a trans­gres­sion of law, not a vi­o­la­tion of the rules of con­duct per­tain­ing to life, which is the law. False­hood is not a mat­ter of nar­ra­tion tech­nique but some­thing pre­med­i­tated as a per­ver­sion of truth. The cre­ation of new pic­tures out of old facts, the re­state­ment of pa­ren­tal life in the lives of off­spring—these are the artis­tic tri­umphs of truth. The shadow of a hair’s turn­ing, pre­med­i­tated for an un­true pur­pose, the slight­est twist­ing or per­ver­sion of that which is prin­ci­ple—these con­sti­tute false­ness. But the fe­tish of fac­tu­al­ized truth, fos­silized truth, the iron band of so-called un­chang­ing truth, holds one blindly in a closed cir­cle of cold fact. One can be tech­ni­cally right as to fact and ev­er­last­ingly wrong in the truth.

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: