seniority

107:3.9The valor and wis­dom ex­hib­ited by Thought Ad­justers sug­gest that they have un­der­gone a train­ing of tremen­dous scope and range. Since they are not per­son­al­i­ties, this train­ing must be im­parted in the ed­u­ca­tional in­sti­tu­tions of Di­vin­ing­ton. The unique Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers no doubt con­sti­tute the per­son­nel of the Ad­juster train­ing schools of Di­vin­ing­ton. And we do know that this cen­tral and super­vis­ing corps is pre­sided over by the now Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of the first Par­a­dise Son of the Mi­chael or­der to com­plete his sev­en­fold be­stowal upon the races and peo­ples of his uni­verse realms.

37:2.6The head of these super­an­gels is Gavalia, the first-born of this or­der in Neb­a­don. Since the re­turn of Christ Mi­chael from his tri­umphant be­stowal on Uran­tia, Gavalia has been as­signed to the as­cen­dant mor­tal min­istry, and for the last nine­teen hun­dred Uran­tia years his as­so­ciate, Galan­tia, has main­tained head­quar­ters on Je­ru­sem, where he spends about half of his time. Galan­tia is the first of the as­cen­dant super­an­gels to at­tain this high es­tate.

46:5.253. The cir­cles of the Uni­verse Aids have the head­quar­ters of the Evening Stars sit­u­ated in the enor­mous cen­tral space. Here is lo­cated the sys­tem head­quar­ters of Galan­tia, the as­so­ciate head of this pow­er­ful group of super­an­gels, be­ing the first com­mis­sioned of all the as­cen­dant Evening Stars. This is one of the most mag­nif­i­cent of all the ad­min­is­tra­tive sec­tors of Je­ru­sem, even though it is among the more re­cent con­struc­tions. This cen­ter is fifty miles in di­am­e­ter. The Galan­tia head­quar­ters is a mono­lithic cast crys­tal, wholly trans­par­ent. These ma­te­rial-mor­ontia crys­tals are greatly ap­pre­ci­ated by both mor­ontia and ma­te­rial be­ings. The cre­ated Evening Stars ex­ert their in­flu­ence all over Je­ru­sem, be­ing pos­sessed of such ex­trap­er­son­al­ity at­tri­butes. The en­tire world has been ren­dered spir­i­tu­ally fra­grant since so many of their ac­tiv­i­ties were trans­ferred here from Sal­ving­ton.

7:5.8What­ever our dif­fi­culty in com­pre­hend­ing the be­stowals of the Sec­ond Per­son of De­ity, we do com­pre­hend the Ha­vona be­stowal of a Son of the Eter­nal Son, who lit­er­ally passed through the cir­cuits of the cen­tral uni­verse and ac­tu­ally shared those ex­pe­ri­ences which con­sti­tute an as­cender’s prepa­ra­tion for De­ity at­tain­ment. This was the orig­i­nal Mi­chael, the first-born Cre­ator Son, and he passed through the life ex­pe­ri­ences of the as­cend­ing pil­grims from cir­cuit to cir­cuit, per­son­ally jour­ney­ing a stage of each cir­cle with them in the days of Grand­fanda, the first of all mor­tals to at­tain Ha­vona.

112:7.13When once an Ad­juster fuses with an as­cend­ing mor­tal, the num­ber of that Ad­juster is stricken from the rec­ords of the super­uni­verse. What hap­pens on the rec­ords of Di­vin­ing­ton, I do not know, but I sur­mise that the reg­istry of that Ad­juster is re­moved to the se­cret cir­cles of the in­ner courts of Grand­fanda, the act­ing head of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

112:7.12From the time of Ad­juster fu­sion the sta­tus of the as­cender is that of the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture. The hu­man mem­ber was the first to en­joy per­son­al­ity and, there­fore, out­ranks the Ad­juster in all mat­ters con­cerned with the rec­og­ni­tion of per­son­al­ity. The Par­a­dise head­quar­ters of this fused be­ing is As­cend­ing­ton, not Di­vin­ing­ton, and this unique com­bi­na­tion of God and man ranks as an as­cend­ing mor­tal all the way up to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

24:6.4The num­ber of Grad­u­ate Guides is be­yond the power of hu­man minds to grasp, and they con­tinue to ap­pear. Their ori­gin is some­thing of a mys­tery. They have not ex­isted from eter­nity; they mys­te­ri­ously ap­pear as they are needed. There is no rec­ord of a Grad­u­ate Guide in all the realms of the cen­tral uni­verse un­til that far-dis­tant day when the first mor­tal pil­grim of all time made his way to the outer belt of the cen­tral cre­ation. The in­stant he ar­rived on the pi­lot world of the outer cir­cuit, he was met with friendly greet­ings by Malvo­rian, the first of the Grad­u­ate Guides and now the chief of their su­preme coun­cil and the di­rec­tor of their vast ed­u­ca­tional or­ga­ni­za­tion.

21:0.5The orig­i­nal Mi­chael is the pre­sid­ing head of the pri­mary Par­a­dise Sons when they as­sem­ble for con­fer­ence at the cen­ter of all things. Not long since on Uversa we re­corded a uni­ver­sal broad­cast of a con­clave ex­traor­di­nary on the eter­nal Isle of one hun­dred fifty thou­sand Cre­ator Sons as­sem­bled in the pa­ren­tal pres­ence and en­gaged in de­lib­er­a­tions hav­ing to do with the prog­ress of the uni­fi­ca­tion and sta­bi­liza­tion of the uni­verse of uni­verses. This was a se­lected group of Sov­er­eign Mi­cha­els, sev­en­fold be­stowal Sons.

38:5.1Ser­a­phim spend their first mil­len­nium as non­com­mis­sioned ob­servers on Sal­ving­ton and its as­so­ci­ated world schools. The sec­ond mil­len­nium is spent on the se­raphic worlds of the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit. Their cen­tral train­ing school is now pre­sided over by the first one hun­dred thou­sand Neb­a­don ser­a­phim, and at their head is the orig­i­nal or first-born an­gel of this lo­cal uni­verse. The first cre­ated group of Neb­a­don ser­a­phim were trained by a corps of one thou­sand ser­a­phim from Avalon; sub­se­quently our an­gels have been taught by their own se­niors. The Mel­chiz­e­deks also have a large part in the ed­u­ca­tion and train­ing of all lo­cal uni­verse an­gels—ser­a­phim, cheru­bim, and sa­no­bim.