reserve corps of destiny

114:7.1The re­serve corps of des­tiny con­sists of liv­ing men and women who have been ad­mit­ted to the spe­cial ser­vice of the super­hu­man ad­min­is­tra­tion of world af­fairs. This corps is made up of the men and women of each gen­er­a­tion who are cho­sen by the spirit di­rec­tors of the realm to as­sist in the con­duct of the min­istry of mercy and wis­dom to the chil­dren of time on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. It is the gen­eral prac­tice in the con­duct of the af­fairs of the as­cen­sion plans to be­gin this li­ai­son uti­liza­tion of mor­tal will crea­tures im­me­di­ately they are com­pe­tent and trust­wor­thy to as­sume such re­spon­si­bil­i­ties. Ac­cord­ingly, as soon as men and women ap­pear on the stage of tem­po­ral ac­tion with suf­fi­cient men­tal ca­pac­ity, ad­e­quate moral sta­tus, and req­ui­site spir­i­tu­al­ity, they are quickly as­signed to the ap­pro­pri­ate ce­les­tial group of plan­e­tary per­son­al­i­ties as hu­man li­aisons, mor­tal as­sis­tants.

114:7.2When hu­man be­ings are cho­sen as pro­tec­tors of plan­e­tary des­tiny, when they be­come piv­otal in­di­vid­u­als in the plans which the world ad­min­is­tra­tors are pros­e­cut­ing, at that time the plan­e­tary chief of ser­a­phim con­firms their tem­po­ral at­tach­ment to the se­raphic corps and ap­points per­sonal des­tiny guard­i­ans to serve with these mor­tal re­servists. All re­servists have self-con­scious Ad­justers, and most of them func­tion in the higher cos­mic cir­cles of in­tel­lec­tual achieve­ment and spir­i­tual at­tain­ment.

114:7.3Mor­tals of the realm are cho­sen for ser­vice in the re­serve corps of des­tiny on the in­hab­ited worlds be­cause of:

114:7.41. Spe­cial ca­pac­ity for be­ing se­cretly re­hearsed for nu­mer­ous pos­si­ble emer­gency mis­sions in the con­duct of var­i­ous ac­tiv­i­ties of world af­fairs.

114:7.52. Whole­hearted ded­i­ca­tion to some spe­cial so­cial, eco­nomic, po­lit­i­cal, spir­i­tual, or other cause, cou­pled with will­ing­ness to serve with­out hu­man rec­og­ni­tion and re­wards.

114:7.63. The pos­ses­sion of a Thought Ad­juster of ex­traor­di­nary ver­sa­til­ity and prob­a­ble pre-Uran­tia ex­pe­ri­ence in cop­ing with plan­e­tary dif­fi­cul­ties and con­tend­ing with im­pend­ing world emer­gency sit­u­a­tions.

114:7.7Each di­vi­sion of plan­e­tary ce­les­tial ser­vice is en­ti­tled to a li­ai­son corps of these mor­tals of des­tiny stand­ing. The av­er­age in­hab­ited world em­ploys sev­enty sep­a­rate corps of des­tiny, which are in­ti­mately con­nected with the super­hu­man cur­rent con­duct of world af­fairs. On Uran­tia there are twelve re­serve corps of des­tiny, one for each of the plan­e­tary groups of se­raphic super­vi­sion.

114:7.8The twelve groups of Uran­tia des­tiny re­servists are com­posed of mor­tal in­hab­i­tants of the sphere who have been re­hearsed for nu­mer­ous cru­cial po­si­tions on earth and are held in readi­ness to act in pos­si­ble plan­e­tary emer­gen­cies. This com­bined corps now con­sists of 962 per­sons. The small­est corps num­bers 41 and the largest 172. With the ex­cep­tion of less than a score of con­tact per­son­al­i­ties, the mem­bers of this unique group are wholly un­con­scious of their prepa­ra­tion for pos­si­ble func­tion in cer­tain plan­e­tary crises. These mor­tal re­servists are cho­sen by the corps to which they are re­spec­tively at­tached and are like­wise trained and re­hearsed in the deep mind by the com­bined tech­nique of Thought Ad­juster and se­raphic guard­ian min­istry. Many times nu­mer­ous other ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties par­tic­i­pate in this un­con­scious train­ing, and in all this spe­cial prepa­ra­tion the mid­way­ers per­form valu­able and in­dis­pens­able ser­vices.

114:7.9On many worlds the bet­ter adapted sec­ondary mid­way crea­tures are able to at­tain vary­ing de­grees of con­tact with the Thought Ad­justers of cer­tain fa­vor­ably con­sti­tuted mor­tals through the skill­ful pen­e­tra­tion of the minds of the lat­ters’ in­dwelling. (And it was by just such a for­tu­itous com­bi­na­tion of cos­mic ad­just­ments that these rev­e­la­tions were ma­te­ri­al­ized in the En­glish lan­guage on Uran­tia.) Such po­ten­tial con­tact mor­tals of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds are mo­bi­lized in the nu­mer­ous re­serve corps, and it is, to a cer­tain ex­tent, through these small groups of for­ward-look­ing per­son­al­i­ties that spir­i­tual civ­i­liza­tion is ad­vanced and the Most Highs are able to rule in the king­doms of men. The men and women of these re­serve corps of des­tiny thus have var­i­ous de­grees of con­tact with their Ad­justers through the in­ter­ven­ing min­istry of the mid­way crea­tures; but these same mor­tals are lit­tle known to their fel­lows ex­cept in those rare so­cial emer­gen­cies and spir­i­tual ex­i­gen­cies wherein these re­serve per­son­al­i­ties func­tion for the pre­ven­tion of the break­down of evo­lu­tion­ary cul­ture or the ex­tinc­tion of the light of liv­ing truth. On Uran­tia these re­servists of des­tiny have sel­dom been em­bla­zoned on the pages of hu­man his­tory.

114:7.10The re­servists un­con­sciously act as con­ser­va­tors of es­sen­tial plan­e­tary in­for­ma­tion. Many times, upon the death of a re­servist, a trans­fer of cer­tain vi­tal data from the mind of the dy­ing re­servist to a younger suc­ces­sor is made by a li­ai­son of the two Thought Ad­justers. The Ad­justers un­doubt­edly func­tion in many other ways un­known to us, in con­nec­tion with these re­serve corps.

114:7.11On Uran­tia the re­serve corps of des­tiny, though hav­ing no per­ma­nent head, does have its own per­ma­nent coun­cils which con­sti­tute its gov­ern­ing or­ga­ni­za­tion. These em­brace the ju­di­ciary coun­cil, the his­toric­ity coun­cil, the coun­cil on po­lit­i­cal sov­er­eignty, and many oth­ers. From time to time, in ac­cor­dance with the corps or­ga­ni­za­tion, tit­u­lar (mor­tal) heads of the whole re­serve corps have been com­mis­sioned by these per­ma­nent coun­cils for spe­cific func­tion. The tenure of such re­servist chiefs is usu­ally a mat­ter of a few hours’ du­ra­tion, be­ing lim­ited to the ac­com­plish­ment of some spe­cific task at hand.

114:7.12The Uran­tia re­serve corps had its largest mem­ber­ship in the days of the Adamites and And­ites, steadily de­clin­ing with the di­lu­tion of the vi­o­let blood and reach­ing its low point around the time of Pen­te­cost, since which time re­serve corps mem­ber­ship has steadily in­creased.

114:7.13(The cos­mic re­serve corps of uni­verse-con­scious cit­i­zens on Uran­tia now num­bers over one thou­sand mor­tals whose in­sight of cos­mic cit­i­zen­ship far tran­scends the sphere of their ter­res­trial abode, but I am for­bid­den to re­veal the real na­ture of the func­tion of this unique group of liv­ing hu­man be­ings.)

114:7.14Uran­tia mor­tals should not al­low the com­par­a­tive spir­i­tual iso­la­tion of their world from cer­tain of the lo­cal uni­verse cir­cuits to pro­duce a feel­ing of cos­mic de­ser­tion or plan­e­tary or­phan­age. There is op­er­a­tive on the planet a very def­i­nite and ef­fec­tive super­hu­man super­vi­sion of world af­fairs and hu­man des­tinies.

114:7.15But it is true that you can have, at best, only a mea­ger idea of an ideal plan­e­tary gov­ern­ment. Since the early times of the Plan­e­tary Prince, Uran­tia has suf­fered from the mis­car­riage of the di­vine plan of world growth and racial de­vel­op­ment. The loyal in­hab­ited worlds of Sa­ta­nia are not gov­erned as is Uran­tia. Nev­er­the­less, com­pared with the other iso­lated worlds, your plan­e­tary gov­ern­ments have not been so in­fe­rior; only one or two worlds may be said to be worse, and a few may be slightly bet­ter, but the ma­jor­ity are on a plane of equal­ity with you.

114:7.16No one in the lo­cal uni­verse seems to know when the un­set­tled sta­tus of the plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion will ter­mi­nate. The Neb­a­don Mel­chiz­e­deks are in­clined to the opin­ion that lit­tle change will oc­cur in the plan­e­tary gov­ern­ment and ad­min­is­tra­tion un­til Mi­chael’s sec­ond per­sonal ar­rival on Uran­tia. Un­doubt­edly at this time, if not be­fore, sweep­ing changes will be ef­fected in plan­e­tary man­age­ment. But as to the na­ture of such mod­i­fi­ca­tions of world ad­min­is­tra­tion, no one seems to be able even to con­jec­ture. There is no prece­dent for such an episode in all the his­tory of the in­hab­ited worlds of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. Among the many things dif­fi­cult to un­der­stand con­cern­ing the fu­ture gov­ern­ment of Uran­tia, a promi­nent one is the lo­ca­tion on the planet of a cir­cuit and di­vi­sional head­quar­ters of the arch­an­gels.

114:7.17Your iso­lated world is not for­got­ten in the coun­sels of the uni­verse. Uran­tia is not a cos­mic or­phan stig­ma­tized by sin and shut away from di­vine watch­care by re­bel­lion. From Uversa to Sal­ving­ton and on down to Je­ru­sem, even in Ha­vona and on Par­a­dise, they all know we are here; and you mor­tals now dwell­ing on Uran­tia are just as lov­ingly cher­ished and just as faith­fully watched over as if the sphere had never been be­trayed by a faith­less Plan­e­tary Prince, even more so. It is eter­nally true, “the Fa­ther him­self loves you.”

114:7.18[Pre­sented by the Chief of Ser­a­phim sta­tioned on Uran­tia.]

114:6.20But aside from these many means of pos­i­tive ac­tion, the mas­ter ser­a­phim in­sure plan­e­tary prog­ress against vi­tal jeop­ardy through the mo­bi­liza­tion, train­ing, and main­te­nance of the re­serve corps of des­tiny. The chief func­tion of these re­servists is to in­sure against break­down of evo­lu­tion­ary prog­ress; they are the pro­vi­sions which the ce­les­tial forces have made against sur­prise; they are the guar­an­tees against dis­as­ter.