recorders

39:2.16Se­raphic re­cord­ers of the su­pe­rior or­der thus ef­fect a close li­ai­son with the in­tel­li­gence corps of their own or­der and with all sub­or­di­nate re­cord­ers, while the broad­casts en­able them to main­tain con­stant com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the higher re­cord­ers of the super­uni­verse and, through this chan­nel, with the re­cord­ers of Ha­vona and the cus­to­di­ans of knowl­edge on Par­a­dise. Many of the su­pe­rior or­der of re­cord­ers are ser­a­phim as­cended from sim­i­lar du­ties in lower sec­tions of the uni­verse.

• conciliating commission recorder

25:2.94. The Re­corder. The re­main­ing mem­ber of the com­mis­sion au­to­mat­i­cally be­comes the re­corder, the clerk of the tri­bu­nal. He makes cer­tain that all rec­ords are prop­erly pre­pared for the ar­chives of the super­uni­verse and for the rec­ords of the lo­cal uni­verse. If the com­mis­sion is serv­ing on an evo­lu­tion­ary world, a third re­port, with the as­sis­tance of the ex­e­cu­tioner, is pre­pared for the phys­i­cal rec­ords of the sys­tem gov­ern­ment of ju­ris­dic­tion.

25:5.1From among the ter­tiary super­na­phim in Ha­vona, cer­tain of the se­nior chief re­cord­ers are cho­sen as Cus­to­di­ans of Rec­ords, as keep­ers of the for­mal ar­chives of the Isle of Light, those ar­chives which stand in con­trast to the liv­ing rec­ords of reg­istry in the minds of the cus­to­di­ans of knowl­edge, some­times des­ig­nated the “liv­ing li­brary of Par­a­dise.”

• seraphic recorders

25:5.2The record­ing an­gels of the in­hab­ited plan­ets are the source of all in­di­vid­ual rec­ords. Through­out the uni­verses other re­cord­ers func­tion re­gard­ing both for­mal rec­ords and liv­ing rec­ords. From Uran­tia to Par­a­dise, both record­ings are en­coun­tered: in a lo­cal uni­verse, more of the writ­ten rec­ords and less of the liv­ing; on Par­a­dise, more of the liv­ing and less of the for­mal; on Uversa, both are equally avail­able.

25:5.3Ev­ery oc­cur­rence of sig­nif­i­cance in the or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ation is a mat­ter of rec­ord. While events of no more than lo­cal im­por­tance find only a lo­cal record­ing, those of wider sig­nif­i­cance are dealt with ac­cord­ingly. From the plan­ets, sys­tems, and con­stel­la­tions of Neb­a­don, ev­ery­thing of uni­verse im­port is posted on Sal­ving­ton; and from such uni­verse cap­i­tals those episodes are ad­vanced to higher record­ing which per­tain to the af­fairs of the sec­tor and super­gov­ern­ments. Par­a­dise also has a rel­e­vant sum­mary of super­uni­verse and Ha­vona data; and this his­toric and cu­mu­la­tive story of the uni­verse of uni­verses is in the cus­tody of these ex­alted ter­tiary super­na­phim.

25:5.4While cer­tain of these be­ings have been dis­patched to the super­uni­verses to serve as Chiefs of Rec­ords di­rect­ing the ac­tiv­i­ties of the Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers, not one has ever been trans­ferred from the per­ma­nent roll call of their or­der.

25:6.1These are the re­cord­ers who ex­e­cute all rec­ords in du­pli­cate, mak­ing an orig­i­nal spirit record­ing and a semi­ma­te­rial coun­ter­part—what might be called a car­bon copy. This they can do be­cause of their pe­cu­liar abil­ity si­mul­ta­ne­ously to ma­nip­u­late both spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial en­ergy. Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers are not cre­ated as such; they are as­cen­dant ser­a­phim from the lo­cal uni­verses. They are re­ceived, clas­si­fied, and as­signed to their spheres of work by the coun­cils of the Chiefs of Rec­ords on the head­quar­ters of the seven super­uni­verses. There also are lo­cated the schools for train­ing Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers. The school on Uversa is con­ducted by the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom and the Di­vine Coun­selors.

25:6.2As the re­cord­ers ad­vance in uni­verse ser­vice, they con­tinue their sys­tem of dual record­ing, thus mak­ing their rec­ords al­ways avail­able to all classes of be­ings, from those of the ma­te­rial or­der to the high spir­its of light. In your tran­si­tion ex­pe­ri­ence, as you as­cend from this ma­te­rial world, you will al­ways be able to con­sult the rec­ords of, and to be oth­er­wise con­ver­sant with, the his­tory and tra­di­tions of your sta­tus sphere.

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.

25:6.4While the ad­vanc­ing re­cord­ers sta­tioned on the sub­or­di­nate spheres of rec­ord in the Or­von­ton uni­verses num­ber tril­lions upon tril­lions, those of at­tained sta­tus on Uversa are not quite eight mil­lion in num­ber. These se­nior or grad­u­ate re­cord­ers are the super­uni­verse cus­to­di­ans and for­warders of the spon­sored rec­ords of time and space. Their per­ma­nent head­quar­ters are in the cir­cu­lar abodes sur­round­ing the area of rec­ords on Uversa. They never leave the cus­tody of these rec­ords to oth­ers; as in­di­vid­u­als they may be ab­sent, but never in large num­bers.

25:6.5Like those super­na­phim who have be­come Cus­to­di­ans of Rec­ords, the corps of Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers is of per­ma­nent as­sign­ment. Once ser­a­phim and super­na­phim are mus­tered into these ser­vices, they will re­spec­tively re­main Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers and Cus­to­di­ans of Rec­ords un­til the day of the new and mod­i­fied ad­min­is­tra­tion of the full per­son­al­iza­tion of God the Su­preme.

25:6.6On Uversa these se­nior Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers can show the rec­ords of ev­ery­thing of cos­mic im­port in all Or­von­ton since the far-dis­tant times of the ar­rival of the An­cients of Days, while on the eter­nal Isle the Cus­to­di­ans of Rec­ords guard the ar­chives of that realm which tes­tify to the trans­ac­tions of Par­a­dise since the times of the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• chief recorders of tertiary supernaphim

26:3.52. The Chief Re­cord­ers. These an­gels are cre­ated on the sec­ond cir­cuit but op­er­ate ev­ery­where in the cen­tral uni­verse. They re­cord in trip­li­cate, ex­e­cut­ing rec­ords for the lit­eral files of Ha­vona, for the spir­i­tual files of their or­der, and for the for­mal rec­ords of Par­a­dise. In ad­di­tion they au­to­mat­i­cally trans­mit the trans­ac­tions of true-knowl­edge im­port to the liv­ing li­braries of Par­a­dise, the cus­to­di­ans of knowl­edge of the pri­mary or­der of super­na­phim.

• Lanonandek

35:8.13Cus­to­di­ans and Re­cord­ers 100,000

• primary midwayers

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.

• supreme seraphim

39:1.176. The Re­cord­ers. These are the of­fi­cial re­cord­ers for the su­preme ser­a­phim. Many of these high an­gels were born with their gifts fully de­vel­oped; oth­ers have qual­i­fied for their po­si­tions of trust and re­spon­si­bil­ity by dili­gent ap­pli­ca­tion to study and faith­ful per­for­mance of sim­i­lar du­ties while at­tached to lower or less re­spon­si­ble or­ders.

• superior seraphim

39:2.146. The Re­cord­ers. These per­son­al­i­ties are es­pe­cially con­cerned with the re­cep­tion, fil­ing, and re­dis­patch of the rec­ords of Sal­ving­ton and its as­so­ci­ated worlds. They also serve as spe­cial re­cord­ers for res­i­dent groups of super­uni­verse and higher per­son­al­i­ties and as clerks of the courts of Sal­ving­ton and sec­re­taries to the rulers thereof.

39:2.15Broad­cast­ers—re­ceivers and dis­patch­ers—are a spe­cial­ized sub­di­vi­sion of the se­raphic re­cord­ers, be­ing con­cerned with the dis­patch of rec­ords and with the dis­sem­i­na­tion of es­sen­tial in­for­ma­tion. Their work is of a high or­der, be­ing so mul­ti­cir­cuited that 144,000 mes­sages can si­mul­ta­ne­ously tra­verse the same lines of en­ergy. They adapt the higher ideo­graphic tech­niques of the super­aphic chief re­cord­ers and with these com­mon sym­bols main­tain re­cip­ro­cal con­tact with both the in­tel­li­gence co-or­di­na­tors of the ter­tiary super­na­phim and the glo­ri­fied in­tel­li­gence co-or­di­na­tors of the Se­raphic Corps of Com­ple­tion.

• supervisor seraphim

39:3.106. The Re­cord­ers. The sixth or­der of super­vis­ing ser­a­phim act as the spe­cial re­cord­ers of con­stel­la­tion af­fairs. A large and ef­fi­cient corps func­tions on Eden­tia, the head­quar­ters of the con­stel­la­tion of Nor­la­ti­adek, to which your sys­tem and planet be­long.

• administrator seraphim

39:4.166. The Re­cord­ers. These ser­a­phim are the keep­ers of the three­fold rec­ords of the lo­cal sys­tems. The tem­ple of rec­ords on a sys­tem cap­i­tal is a unique struc­ture, one third ma­te­rial, con­structed of lu­mi­nous met­als and crys­tals; one third mor­ontial, fab­ri­cated of the li­ai­son of spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial en­ergy but be­yond the range of mor­tal vi­sion; and one third spir­i­tual. The re­cord­ers of this or­der pre­side over and main­tain this three­fold sys­tem of rec­ords. As­cend­ing mor­tals will at first con­sult the ma­te­rial ar­chives, Ma­te­rial Sons and the higher tran­si­tion be­ings con­sult those of the mor­ontia halls, while ser­a­phim and the higher spirit per­son­al­i­ties of the realm pe­ruse the rec­ords of the spirit sec­tion.

• seraphic recorders

39:5.166. The Re­cord­ers. These are the cus­to­di­ans of the ma­jor af­fairs of the planet as it func­tions as a part of the sys­tem, and as it is re­lated to, and con­cerned in, the uni­verse gov­ern­ment. They func­tion in the record­ing of plan­e­tary af­fairs but are not con­cerned with mat­ters of in­di­vid­ual life and ex­is­tence.

• associate registrars of Morontia Power Supervisors

48:2.257. As­so­ciate Reg­is­trars. The mor­ontia world has its own re­cord­ers, who serve in as­so­ci­a­tion with the spirit re­cord­ers in the super­vi­sion and cus­tody of the rec­ords and other data in­dige­nous to the mor­ontia cre­ations. The mor­ontia rec­ords are avail­able to all or­ders of per­son­al­i­ties.

• recorder-teachers of morontia world seraphim

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.