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39:3.6These an­gels con­tinue their min­istry on the man­sion and higher mor­ontia worlds. They are con­cerned with any un­der­tak­ing hav­ing to do with prog­ress on the mor­ontia worlds and which con­cerns three or more per­sons. Two be­ings are re­garded as op­er­at­ing on the mat­ing, com­ple­men­tal, or part­ner­ship ba­sis, but when three or more are grouped for ser­vice, they con­sti­tute a so­cial prob­lem and there­fore fall within the ju­ris­dic­tion of the so­cial ar­chi­tects. These ef­fi­cient ser­a­phim are or­ga­nized in sev­enty di­vi­sions on Eden­tia, and these di­vi­sions min­is­ter on the sev­enty mor­ontia prog­ress worlds en­cir­cling the head­quar­ters sphere.

112:1.17But the con­cept of the per­son­al­ity as the mean­ing of the whole of the liv­ing and func­tion­ing crea­ture means much more than the in­te­gra­tion of re­la­tion­ships; it sig­ni­fies the uni­fi­ca­tion of all fac­tors of re­al­ity as well as co-or­di­na­tion of re­la­tion­ships. Re­la­tion­ships ex­ist be­tween two ob­jects, but three or more ob­jects even­tu­ate a sys­tem, and such a sys­tem is much more than just an en­larged or com­plex re­la­tion­ship. This dis­tinc­tion is vi­tal, for in a cos­mic sys­tem the in­di­vid­ual mem­bers are not con­nected with each other ex­cept in re­la­tion to the whole and through the in­di­vid­u­al­ity of the whole.

105:4.3It has been some­time stated that unity begets du­al­ity, that du­al­ity begets tri­unity, and that tri­unity is the eter­nal an­ces­tor of all things. There are, in­deed, three great classes of pri­mor­dial re­la­tion­ships, and they are:

105:4.41. Unity re­la­tion­ships. Re­la­tions ex­is­tent within the I AM as the unity thereof is con­ceived as a three­fold and then as a sev­en­fold self-dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion.

105:4.52. Du­al­ity re­la­tion­ships. Re­la­tions ex­is­tent be­tween the I AM as sev­en­fold and the Seven Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity.

105:4.63. Tri­unity re­la­tion­ships. These are the func­tional as­so­ci­a­tions of the Seven Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity.

105:4.7Tri­unity re­la­tion­ships arise upon du­al­ity foun­da­tions be­cause of the in­evitabil­ity of Ab­so­lute in­teras­so­ci­a­tion. Such tri­unity as­so­ci­a­tions eter­nal­ize the po­ten­tial of all re­al­ity; they en­com­pass both de­i­fied and un­de­i­fied re­al­ity.

105:4.8The I AM is un­qual­i­fied in­fin­ity as unity. The du­al­i­ties eter­nal­ize re­al­ity foun­da­tions. The tri­uni­ties even­tu­ate the re­al­iza­tion of in­fin­ity as uni­ver­sal func­tion.

27:3.4All these ce­les­tial com­pan­ion­ships are in­vari­ably mu­tual. As as­cend­ing mor­tals you not only de­rive ben­e­fit from these suc­ces­sive uni­verse com­pan­ions and such nu­mer­ous or­ders of in­creas­ingly di­vine as­so­ciates, but you also im­part to each of these fra­ter­nal be­ings some­thing from your own per­son­al­ity and ex­pe­ri­ence which for­ever makes ev­ery one of them dif­fer­ent and bet­ter for hav­ing been as­so­ci­ated with an as­cend­ing mor­tal from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space.

25:8.4Mor­tals come from races that are very so­cial. The Cre­ators well know that it is “not good for man to be alone,” and pro­vi­sion is ac­cord­ingly made for com­pan­ion­ship, even on Par­a­dise.

32:4.3As re­gards the poli­cies, con­duct, and ad­min­is­tra­tion of a lo­cal uni­verse, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther acts in the per­son of his Cre­ator Son. In the in­ter­re­la­tion­ships of the Sons of God, in the group as­so­ci­a­tions of the per­son­al­i­ties of ori­gin in the Third Source and Cen­ter, or in the re­la­tion­ship be­tween any other crea­tures, such as hu­man be­ings—as con­cerns such as­so­ci­a­tions the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther never in­ter­venes. The law of the Cre­ator Son, the rule of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, and the Plan­e­tary Princes—the or­dained poli­cies and pro­ce­dures for that uni­verse—al­ways pre­vail. There is no di­vi­sion of au­thor­ity; never is there a cross work­ing of di­vine power and pur­pose. The De­i­ties are in per­fect and eter­nal una­nim­ity.

84:7.10Love of off­spring is al­most uni­ver­sal and is of dis­tinct sur­vival value. The an­cients al­ways sac­ri­ficed the mother’s in­ter­ests for the wel­fare of the child; an Es­kimo mother even yet licks her baby in lieu of wash­ing. But prim­i­tive moth­ers only nour­ished and cared for their chil­dren when very young; like the an­i­mals, they dis­carded them as soon as they grew up. En­dur­ing and con­tin­u­ous hu­man as­so­ci­a­tions have never been founded on bi­o­logic af­fec­tion alone. The an­i­mals love their chil­dren; man—civ­i­lized man—loves his chil­dren’s chil­dren. The higher the civ­i­liza­tion, the greater the joy of par­ents in the chil­dren’s ad­vance­ment and suc­cess; thus the new and higher re­al­iza­tion of name pride comes into ex­is­tence.

9:1.1The Third Source and Cen­ter is known by many names, all des­ig­na­tive of re­la­tion­ship and in rec­og­ni­tion of func­tion: As God the Spirit, he is the per­son­al­ity co-or­di­nate and di­vine equal of God the Son and God the Fa­ther. As the In­fi­nite Spirit, he is an om­ni­pres­ent spir­i­tual in­flu­ence. As the Uni­ver­sal Ma­nip­u­la­tor, he is the an­ces­tor of the power-con­trol crea­tures and the ac­ti­va­tor of the cos­mic forces of space. As the Con­joint Ac­tor, he is the joint rep­re­sen­ta­tive and part­ner­ship ex­ec­u­tive of the Fa­ther-Son. As the Ab­so­lute Mind, he is the source of the en­dow­ment of in­tel­lect through­out the uni­verses. As the God of Ac­tion, he is the ap­par­ent an­ces­tor of mo­tion, change, and re­la­tion­ship.

141:7.5Je­sus made it plain that he had come to es­tab­lish per­sonal and eter­nal re­la­tions with men which should for­ever take prece­dence over all other hu­man re­la­tion­ships. And he em­pha­sized that this in­ti­mate spir­i­tual fel­low­ship was to be ex­tended to all men of all ages and of all so­cial con­di­tions among all peo­ples. The only re­ward which he held out for his chil­dren was: in this world—spir­i­tual joy and di­vine com­mu­nion; in the next world—eter­nal life in the prog­ress of the di­vine spirit re­al­i­ties of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

44:6.75. The pres­ence em­bel­lish­ers. These ar­ti­sans are not oc­cu­pied with the arts of self-adorn­ment or the tech­nique of crea­ture beau­ti­fi­ca­tion. They are de­voted to the pro­duc­tion of mul­ti­tudi­nous and joy­ous re­ac­tions in in­di­vid­ual mor­ontia and spirit crea­tures by dra­ma­tiz­ing the sig­nif­i­cance of re­la­tion­ship through the po­si­tional val­ues as­signed to dif­fer­ent mor­ontia and spirit or­ders in the com­pos­ite en­sem­bles of these di­ver­si­fied be­ings. These artists ar­range super­ma­te­rial be­ings as you would liv­ing mu­si­cal notes, odors, sights, and then blend them into the an­thems of glory.

39:3.43. So­cial Ar­chi­tects. From the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets up through the mor­ontia train­ing worlds, these ser­a­phim la­bor to en­hance all sin­cere so­cial con­tacts and to fur­ther the so­cial evo­lu­tion of uni­verse crea­tures. These are the an­gels who seek to di­vest the as­so­ci­a­tions of in­tel­li­gent be­ings of all ar­ti­fi­cial­ity while en­deav­or­ing to fa­cil­i­tate the in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of will crea­tures on a ba­sis of real self-un­der­stand­ing and gen­uine mu­tual ap­pre­ci­a­tion.

112:2.8All mor­tal con­cepts of re­al­ity are based on the as­sump­tion of the ac­tu­al­ity of hu­man per­son­al­ity; all con­cepts of super­hu­man re­al­i­ties are based on the ex­pe­ri­ence of the hu­man per­son­al­ity with and in the cos­mic re­al­i­ties of cer­tain as­so­ci­ated spir­i­tual en­ti­ties and di­vine per­son­al­i­ties. Ev­ery­thing non­spir­i­tual in hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence, ex­cept­ing per­son­al­ity, is a means to an end. Ev­ery true re­la­tion­ship of mor­tal man with other per­sons—hu­man or di­vine—is an end in it­self. And such fel­low­ship with the per­son­al­ity of De­ity is the eter­nal goal of uni­verse as­cen­sion.

112:5.22The Thought Ad­juster will re­call and re­hearse for you only those mem­o­ries and ex­pe­ri­ences which are a part of, and es­sen­tial to, your uni­verse ca­reer. If the Ad­juster has been a part­ner in the evo­lu­tion of aught in the hu­man mind, then will these worth-while ex­pe­ri­ences sur­vive in the eter­nal con­scious­ness of the Ad­juster. But much of your past life and its mem­o­ries, hav­ing nei­ther spir­i­tual mean­ing nor mor­ontia value, will per­ish with the ma­te­rial brain; much of ma­te­rial ex­pe­ri­ence will pass away as one­time scaf­fold­ing which, hav­ing bridged you over to the mor­ontia level, no longer serves a pur­pose in the uni­verse. But per­son­al­ity and the re­la­tion­ships be­tween per­son­al­i­ties are never scaf­fold­ing; mor­tal mem­ory of per­son­al­ity re­la­tion­ships has cos­mic value and will per­sist. On the man­sion worlds you will know and be known, and more, you will re­mem­ber, and be re­mem­bered by, your one­time as­so­ciates in the short but in­trigu­ing life on Uran­tia.