records

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.

44:4.4The abil­ity to trans­late thought into lan­guage in the mor­ontia and spirit spheres is be­yond mor­tal com­pre­hen­sion. Our rate of re­duc­ing thought to a per­ma­nent rec­ord can be so speeded up by the ex­pert re­cord­ers that the equiv­a­lent of over half a mil­lion words, or thought sym­bols, can be reg­is­tered in one minute of Uran­tia time. These uni­verse lan­guages are far more re­plete than the speech of the evolv­ing worlds. The con­cept sym­bols of Uversa em­brace more than a bil­lion char­ac­ters, al­though the ba­sic al­pha­bet con­tains only sev­enty sym­bols. The lan­guage of Neb­a­don is not quite so elab­o­rate, the ba­sic sym­bols, or al­pha­bet, be­ing forty-eight in num­ber.

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.

28:4.1The pri­mary se­con­a­phim, of as­sign­ment to the An­cients of Days, are liv­ing mir­rors in the ser­vice of these tri­une rulers. Think what it means in the econ­omy of a super­uni­verse to be able to turn, as it were, to a liv­ing mir­ror and therein to see and there­with to hear the cer­tain re­sponses of an­other be­ing a thou­sand or a hun­dred thou­sand light-years dis­tant and to do all this in­stantly and unerringly. Rec­ords are es­sen­tial to the con­duct of the uni­verses, broad­casts are ser­vice­able, the work of the Soli­tary and other mes­sen­gers is very help­ful, but the An­cients of Days from their po­si­tion mid­way be­tween the in­hab­ited worlds and Par­a­dise—be­tween man and God—can in­stantly look both ways, hear both ways, and know both ways.

17:3.6The for­mal rec­ords of the uni­verses are passed up by and through the an­gelic re­cord­ers, but the true spir­i­tual rec­ords are as­sem­bled by re­flec­tiv­ity and are pre­served in the minds of suit­able and ap­pro­pri­ate per­son­al­i­ties be­long­ing to the fam­ily of the In­fi­nite Spirit. These are the live rec­ords in con­trast with the for­mal and dead rec­ords of the uni­verse, and they are per­fectly pre­served in the liv­ing minds of the record­ing per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

28:6.6The Mem­ory of Mercy is a liv­ing trial bal­ance, a cur­rent state­ment of your ac­count with the super­nat­u­ral forces of the realms. These are the liv­ing rec­ords of mercy min­is­tra­tion which are read into the tes­ti­mony of the courts of Uversa when each in­di­vid­ual’s right to un­end­ing life comes up for ad­ju­di­ca­tion, when “thrones are cast up and the An­cients of Days are seated. The broad­casts of Uversa is­sue and come forth from be­fore them; thou­sands upon thou­sands min­is­ter to them, and ten thou­sand times ten thou­sand stand be­fore them. The judg­ment is set, and the books are opened.” And the books which are opened on such a mo­men­tous oc­ca­sion are the liv­ing rec­ords of the ter­tiary se­con­a­phim of the super­uni­verses. The for­mal rec­ords are on file to cor­rob­o­rate the tes­ti­mony of the Mem­o­ries of Mercy if they are re­quired.

8:1.9In brief, the In­fi­nite Spirit tes­ti­fies that, since he is eter­nal, so also is the cen­tral uni­verse eter­nal. And this is the tra­di­tional start­ing point of the his­tory of the uni­verse of uni­verses. Ab­so­lutely noth­ing is known, and no rec­ords are in ex­is­tence, re­gard­ing any event or trans­ac­tion prior to this stu­pen­dous erup­tion of cre­ative en­ergy and ad­min­is­tra­tive wis­dom that crys­tal­lized the vast uni­verse which ex­ists, and so ex­qui­sitely func­tions, at the cen­ter of all things. Be­yond this event lie the un­search­able trans­ac­tions of eter­nity and the depths of in­fin­ity—ab­so­lute mys­tery.

• kept on archangels’ worlds

37:3.7The Worlds of the Arch­an­gels. The sev­enth group of the en­cir­cling Sal­ving­ton worlds, with their as­so­ci­ated satel­lites, is as­signed to the arch­an­gels. Sphere num­ber one and all of its six trib­u­tary satel­lites are oc­cu­pied by the per­son­al­ity rec­ord keep­ers. This enor­mous corps of re­cord­ers busy them­selves with keep­ing straight the rec­ord of each mor­tal of time from the mo­ment of birth up through the uni­verse ca­reer un­til such an in­di­vid­ual ei­ther leaves Sal­ving­ton for the super­uni­verse regime or is “blot­ted out of re­corded ex­is­tence” by the man­date of the An­cients of Days.

37:3.8It is on these worlds that per­son­al­ity rec­ords and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion sureties are clas­si­fied, filed, and pre­served dur­ing that time which in­ter­venes be­tween mor­tal death and the hour of reper­son­al­iza­tion, the res­ur­rec­tion from death.

• kept by pair of cherubim
• sponsored by one of destiny guardian pair

113:2.9When a se­raphic pair ac­cept guard­ian as­sign­ment, they serve for the re­main­der of the life of that hu­man be­ing. The com­ple­ment of be­ing (one of the two an­gels) be­comes the re­corder of the un­der­tak­ing. These com­ple­men­tal ser­a­phim are the record­ing an­gels of the mor­tals of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. The rec­ords are kept by the pair of cheru­bim (a cheru­bim and a sa­no­bim) who are al­ways as­so­ci­ated with the se­raphic guard­i­ans, but these rec­ords are al­ways spon­sored by one of the ser­a­phim.

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.

25:6.6On 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.

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.

18:3.4The An­cients of Days were all trin­i­tized at the same time. They rep­re­sent the be­gin­ning of the per­son­al­ity rec­ords of the uni­verse of uni­verses, hence their name—An­cients of Days. When you reach Par­a­dise and search the writ­ten rec­ords of the be­gin­ning of things, you will find that the first en­try ap­pear­ing in the per­son­al­ity sec­tion is the recital of the trin­i­ti­za­tion of these twenty-one An­cients of Days.

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.

46:5.22The fourth cir­cle is held by the ad­min­is­tra­tor ser­a­phim, and the ser­a­phim serv­ing in a lo­cal sys­tem like Sa­ta­nia are an “in­nu­mer­able host of an­gels.” The fifth cir­cle is oc­cu­pied by the plan­e­tary ser­a­phim, while the sixth is the home of the tran­si­tion min­is­ters. The sev­enth cir­cle is the tar­ry­ing sphere of cer­tain un­re­vealed or­ders of ser­a­phim. The re­cord­ers of all these groups of an­gels do not so­journ with their fel­lows, be­ing domi­ciled in the Je­ru­sem tem­ple of rec­ords. All rec­ords are pre­served in trip­li­cate in this three­fold hall of ar­chives. On a sys­tem head­quar­ters, rec­ords are al­ways pre­served in ma­te­rial, in mor­ontia, and in spirit form.

17:3.5The Re­flec­tive Spir­its are not merely trans­mit­ting agents; they are re­ten­tive per­son­al­i­ties as well. Their off­spring, the se­con­a­phim, are also re­ten­tive or rec­ord per­son­al­i­ties. Ev­ery­thing of true spir­i­tual value is reg­is­tered in du­pli­cate, and one im­pres­sion is pre­served in the per­sonal equip­ment of some mem­ber of one of the nu­mer­ous or­ders of sec­o­raphic per­son­al­i­ties be­long­ing to the vast staff of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its.

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.