seraphic, secoraphic, and superaphic transport

• seraphic, secoraphic, and superaphic transport

39:5.105. The Trans­port­ers. The plan­e­tary trans­port­ers serve the in­di­vid­ual worlds. The ma­jor­ity of en­ser­a­phimed be­ings brought to this planet are in tran­sit; they merely stop over; they are in cus­tody of their own spe­cial se­raphic trans­port­ers; but there are a large num­ber of such ser­a­phim sta­tioned on Uran­tia. These are the trans­port per­son­al­i­ties op­er­at­ing from the lo­cal plan­ets, as from Uran­tia to Je­ru­sem.

39:5.11Your con­ven­tional idea of an­gels has been de­rived in the fol­low­ing way: Dur­ing mo­ments just prior to phys­i­cal death a re­flec­tive phe­nom­e­non some­times oc­curs in the hu­man mind, and this dim­ming con­scious­ness seems to vi­su­al­ize some­thing of the form of the at­tend­ing an­gel, and this is im­me­di­ately trans­lated into terms of the ha­bit­ual con­cept of an­gels held in that in­di­vid­ual’s mind.

39:5.12The er­ro­neous idea that an­gels pos­sess wings is not wholly due to olden no­tions that they must have wings to fly through the air. Hu­man be­ings have some­times been per­mit­ted to ob­serve ser­a­phim that were be­ing pre­pared for trans­port ser­vice, and the tra­di­tions of these ex­pe­ri­ences have largely de­ter­mined the Uran­tian con­cept of an­gels. In ob­serv­ing a trans­port ser­a­phim be­ing made ready to re­ceive a pas­sen­ger for in­ter­plan­e­tary tran­sit, there may be seen what are ap­par­ently dou­ble sets of wings ex­tend­ing from the head to the foot of the an­gel. In re­al­ity these wings are en­ergy in­su­la­tors—fric­tion shields.

39:5.13When ce­les­tial be­ings are to be en­ser­a­phimed for trans­fer from one world to an­other, they are brought to the head­quar­ters of the sphere and, af­ter due reg­istry, are in­ducted into the tran­sit sleep. Mean­time, the trans­port ser­a­phim moves into a hor­i­zon­tal po­si­tion im­me­di­ately above the uni­verse en­ergy pole of the planet. While the en­ergy shields are wide open, the sleep­ing per­son­al­ity is skill­fully de­posited, by the of­fi­ci­at­ing se­raphic as­sis­tants, di­rectly on top of the trans­port an­gel. Then both the up­per and lower pairs of shields are care­fully closed and ad­justed.

39:5.14And now, un­der the in­flu­ence of the trans­form­ers and the trans­mit­ters, a strange meta­mor­pho­sis be­gins as the ser­a­phim is made ready to swing into the en­ergy cur­rents of the uni­verse cir­cuits. To out­ward ap­pear­ance the ser­a­phim grows pointed at both ex­trem­i­ties and be­comes so en­shrouded in a queer light of am­ber hue that very soon it is im­pos­si­ble to dis­tin­guish the en­ser­a­phimed per­son­al­ity. When all is in readi­ness for de­par­ture, the chief of trans­port makes the proper in­spec­tion of the car­riage of life, car­ries out the rou­tine tests to as­cer­tain whether or not the an­gel is prop­erly en­cir­cuited, and then an­nounces that the trav­eler is prop­erly en­ser­a­phimed, that the en­er­gies are ad­justed, that the an­gel is in­su­lated, and that ev­ery­thing is in readi­ness for the de­part­ing flash. The me­chan­i­cal con­trol­lers, two of them, next take their po­si­tions. By this time the trans­port ser­a­phim has be­come an al­most trans­par­ent, vi­brat­ing, tor­pedo-shaped out­line of glis­ten­ing lu­mi­nos­ity. Now the trans­port dis­patcher of the realm sum­mons the aux­il­iary bat­ter­ies of the liv­ing en­ergy trans­mit­ters, usu­ally one thou­sand in num­ber; as he an­nounces the des­ti­na­tion of the trans­port, he reaches out and touches the near point of the se­raphic car­riage, which shoots for­ward with light­ning­like speed, leav­ing a trail of ce­les­tial lu­mi­nos­ity as far as the plan­e­tary at­mo­spheric in­vest­ment ex­tends. In less than ten min­utes the mar­velous spec­ta­cle will be lost even to re­in­forced se­raphic vi­sion.

39:5.15While plan­e­tary space re­ports are re­ceived at noon at the merid­ian of the des­ig­nated spir­i­tual head­quar­ters, the trans­port­ers are dis­patched from this same place at mid­night. That is the most fa­vor­able time for de­par­ture and is the stan­dard hour when not oth­er­wise spec­i­fied.

29:4.1These be­ings are the mo­bile sub­or­di­nates of the Su­preme Power Cen­ters. The phys­i­cal con­trol­lers are en­dowed with ca­pa­bil­i­ties of in­di­vid­u­al­ity meta­mor­pho­sis of such a na­ture that they can en­gage in a re­mark­able va­ri­ety of au­to­trans­port, be­ing able to tra­verse lo­cal space at ve­loc­i­ties ap­proach­ing the flight of Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers. But like all other space tra­versers they re­quire the as­sis­tance of both their fel­lows and cer­tain other types of be­ings in over­com­ing the ac­tion of grav­ity and the re­sis­tance of in­er­tia in de­part­ing from a ma­te­rial sphere.

39:2.13The an­gels can­not trans­port com­bus­tion bod­ies—flesh and blood—such as you now have, but they can trans­port all oth­ers, from the low­est mor­ontia to the higher spirit forms. They do not func­tion in the event of nat­u­ral death. When you fin­ish your earthly ca­reer, your body re­mains on this planet. Your Thought Ad­juster pro­ceeds to the bo­som of the Fa­ther, and these an­gels are not di­rectly con­cerned in your sub­se­quent per­son­al­ity re­assem­bly on the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion man­sion world. There your new body is a mor­ontia form, one that can en­seraphim. You “sow a mor­tal body” in the grave; you “reap a mor­ontia form” on the man­sion worlds.

• tertiary supernaphim take away candidates failing Deity adventure

26:3.96. The Trans­port Per­son­al­i­ties. These be­ings, of ori­gin on cir­cuit num­ber six, usu­ally op­er­ate from planet num­ber forty in the out­er­most cir­cuit. It is they who take away the dis­ap­pointed can­di­dates who tran­siently fail in the De­ity ad­ven­ture. They stand ready to serve all who must come and go in the ser­vice of Ha­vona, and who are not space tra­versers.

• primary seconaphim operate between Havona and superuniverses

28:4.136. Trans­port Per­son­al­i­ties. These are the se­con­a­phim who carry the pil­grims of time from the head­quar­ters worlds of the super­uni­verses to the outer cir­cle of Ha­vona. They are the trans­port corps of the super­uni­verses, op­er­at­ing in­ward to Par­a­dise and out­ward to the worlds of their re­spec­tive sec­tors. This corps is com­posed of the sixth pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth one sub­se­quently cre­ated.

• primary seconaphim operate between Havona and superuniverses

30:4.28The first act of your Ha­vona ca­reer will be to rec­og­nize and thank your trans­port se­con­a­phim for the long and safe jour­ney. Then you are pre­sented to those be­ings who will spon­sor your early Ha­vona ac­tiv­i­ties. Next you go to reg­is­ter your ar­rival and pre­pare your mes­sage of thanks­giv­ing and ado­ra­tion for dis­patch to the Cre­ator Son of your lo­cal uni­verse, the uni­verse Fa­ther who made pos­si­ble your son­ship ca­reer. This con­cludes the for­mal­i­ties of the Ha­vona ar­rival; where­upon you are ac­corded a long pe­riod of leisure for free ob­ser­va­tion, and this af­fords op­por­tu­nity for look­ing up your friends, fel­lows, and as­so­ciates of the long as­cen­sion ex­pe­ri­ence. You may also con­sult the broad­casts to as­cer­tain who of your fel­low pil­grims have de­parted for Ha­vona since the time of your leav­ing Uversa.

• removes midsoniters after 1000 years

36:4.3The mid­sonite crea­tures live and func­tion as re­pro­duc­ing be­ings on their mag­nif­i­cent worlds un­til they are one thou­sand stan­dard years of age; where­upon they are trans­lated by se­raphic trans­port. Mid­soniters are non­re­pro­duc­ing be­ings there­after be­cause the tech­nique of de­ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion which they pass through in prepa­ra­tion for en­seraphim­ing for­ever de­prives them of re­pro­duc­tive pre­rog­a­tives.

• until Paradise, ascenders must depend upon

39:2.10Even on Sal­ving­ton as­cend­ing mor­tals do not pos­sess per­sonal tran­sit forms. As­cend­ers must de­pend upon se­raphic trans­port in ad­vanc­ing from world to world un­til af­ter the last rest of sleep on the in­ner cir­cle of Ha­vona and the eter­nal awak­en­ing on Par­a­dise. Sub­se­quently you will not be de­pen­dent on an­gels for trans­port from uni­verse to uni­verse.

• mortals advance through mansion worlds by

47:4.4A newly de­vel­oped and suit­ably ad­justed mor­ontia body is ac­quired at the time of each ad­vance from one man­sion world to an­other. You go to sleep with the se­raphic trans­port and awake with the new but un­de­vel­oped body in the res­ur­rec­tion halls, much as when you first ar­rived on man­sion world num­ber one ex­cept that the Thought Ad­juster does not leave you dur­ing these tran­sit sleeps be­tween the man­sion worlds. Your per­son­al­ity re­mains in­tact af­ter you once pass from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds to the ini­tial man­sion world.

• mortals advance through mansion worlds by

48:2.17When man­sion world as­cend­ers pass from one sphere to an­other, they are de­liv­ered by the trans­port ser­a­phim to the re­ceivers of the sys­tem co-or­di­na­tors on the ad­vanced world. Here in those unique tem­ples at the cen­ter of the sev­enty ra­di­at­ing wings wherein are the cham­bers of tran­si­tion sim­i­lar to the res­ur­rec­tion halls on the ini­tial world of re­cep­tion for earth-ori­gin mor­tals, the nec­es­sary changes in crea­ture form are skill­fully ef­fected by the sys­tem co-or­di­na­tors. These early mor­ontia-form changes re­quire about seven days of stan­dard time for their ac­com­plish­ment.

• Material Sons enseraphimed for transport

51:2.1Upon re­ceipt of the news that an­other in­hab­ited world has at­tained the height of phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign con­venes the corps of Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters on the sys­tem cap­i­tal; and fol­low­ing the dis­cus­sion of the needs of such an evo­lu­tion­ary world, two of the vol­un­teer­ing group—an Adam and an Eve of the se­nior corps of Ma­te­rial Sons—are se­lected to un­der­take the ad­ven­ture, to sub­mit to the deep sleep prepara­tory to be­ing en­ser­a­phimed and trans­ported from their home of as­so­ci­ated ser­vice to the new realm of new op­por­tu­ni­ties and new dan­gers.

51:2.2Adams and Eves are semi­ma­te­rial crea­tures and, as such, are not trans­portable by ser­a­phim. They must un­dergo de­ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion on the sys­tem cap­i­tal be­fore they can be en­ser­a­phimed for trans­port to the world of as­sign­ment. The trans­port ser­a­phim are able to ef­fect such changes in the Ma­te­rial Sons and in other semi­ma­te­rial be­ings as en­able them to be en­ser­a­phimed and thus to be trans­ported through space from one world or sys­tem to an­other. About three days of stan­dard time are con­sumed in this trans­port prepa­ra­tion, and it re­quires the co-op­er­a­tion of a Life Car­rier to re­store such a de­ma­te­ri­al­ized crea­ture to nor­mal ex­is­tence upon ar­rival at the end of the se­raphic-trans­port jour­ney.

51:2.3While there is this de­ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing tech­nique for prepar­ing the Adams for tran­sit from Je­ru­sem to the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds, there is no equiv­a­lent method for tak­ing them away from such worlds un­less the en­tire planet is to be emp­tied, in which event emer­gency in­stal­la­tion of the de­ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion tech­nique is made for the en­tire salv­able pop­u­la­tion. If some phys­i­cal catas­tro­phe should doom the plan­e­tary res­i­dence of an evolv­ing race, the Mel­chiz­e­deks and the Life Car­ri­ers would in­stall the tech­nique of de­ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion for all sur­vivors, and by se­raphic trans­port these be­ings would be car­ried away to the new world pre­pared for their con­tin­u­ing ex­is­tence. The evo­lu­tion of a hu­man race, once ini­ti­ated on a world of space, must pro­ceed quite in­de­pen­dently of the phys­i­cal sur­vival of that planet, but dur­ing the evo­lu­tion­ary ages it is not oth­er­wise in­tended that a Plan­e­tary Adam or Eve shall leave their cho­sen world.

• Prince’s staff brought to Urantia by

66:2.5These Jerusemite vol­un­teers were brought by se­raphic trans­port di­rect from the sys­tem cap­i­tal to Uran­tia, and upon ar­rival they were held en­ser­a­phimed un­til they could be pro­vided with per­son­al­ity forms of the dual na­ture of spe­cial plan­e­tary ser­vice, lit­eral bod­ies con­sist­ing of flesh and blood but also at­tuned to the life cir­cuits of the sys­tem.

• loyal members of Prince’s staff transferred to Jerusem

67:4.1When the fi­nal roll was called, the cor­po­real mem­bers of the Prince’s staff were found to have aligned them­selves as fol­lows: Van and his en­tire court of co-or­di­na­tion had re­mained loyal. Ang and three mem­bers of the food coun­cil had sur­vived. The board of an­i­mal hus­bandry were all swept into re­bel­lion as were all of the an­i­mal-con­quest ad­vis­ers. Fad and five mem­bers of the ed­u­ca­tional fac­ulty were saved. Nod and all of the com­mis­sion on in­dus­try and trade joined Cali­gas­tia. Hap and the en­tire col­lege of re­vealed re­li­gion re­mained loyal with Van and his no­ble band. Lut and the whole board of health were lost. The coun­cil of art and sci­ence re­mained loyal in its en­tirety, but Tut and the com­mis­sion on tribal gov­ern­ment all went astray. Thus were forty out of the one hun­dred saved, later to be trans­ferred to Je­ru­sem, where they re­sumed their Par­a­dise jour­ney.

• Material Sons enseraphimed for transport

74:0.1Adam and Eve ar­rived on Uran­tia, from the year A.D. 1934, 37,848 years ago. It was in mid­sea­son when the Gar­den was in the height of bloom that they ar­rived. At high noon and unan­nounced, the two se­raphic trans­ports, ac­com­pa­nied by the Je­ru­sem per­son­nel in­trusted with the trans­porta­tion of the bi­o­logic up­lifters to Uran­tia, set­tled slowly to the sur­face of the re­volv­ing planet in the vicin­ity of the tem­ple of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. All the work of re­ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing the bod­ies of Adam and Eve was car­ried on within the precincts of this newly cre­ated shrine. And from the time of their ar­rival ten days passed be­fore they were re-cre­ated in dual hu­man form for pre­sen­ta­tion as the world’s new rulers. They re­gained con­scious­ness si­mul­ta­ne­ously. The Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters al­ways serve to­gether. It is the essence of their ser­vice at all times and in all places never to be sep­a­rated. They are de­signed to work in pairs; sel­dom do they func­tion alone.

• Material Sons enseraphimed for transport

74:1.5This Je­ru­sem pair left be­hind them on the cap­i­tal of Sa­ta­nia and else­where, one hun­dred off­spring—fifty sons and fifty daugh­ters—mag­nif­i­cent crea­tures who had es­caped the pit­falls of pro­gres­sion, and who were all in com­mis­sion as faith­ful stew­ards of uni­verse trust at the time of their par­ents’ de­par­ture for Uran­tia. And they were all pres­ent in the beau­ti­ful tem­ple of the Ma­te­rial Sons at­ten­dant upon the farewell ex­er­cises as­so­ci­ated with the last cer­e­monies of the be­stowal ac­cep­tance. These chil­dren ac­com­pa­nied their par­ents to the de­ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion head­quar­ters of their or­der and were the last to bid them farewell and di­vine speed as they fell asleep in the per­son­al­ity lapse of con­scious­ness which pre­cedes the prepa­ra­tion for se­raphic trans­port. The chil­dren spent some time to­gether at the fam­ily ren­dezvous re­joic­ing that their par­ents were soon to be­come the vis­i­ble heads, in re­al­ity the sole rulers, of planet 606 in the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia.

• Material Sons enseraphimed for transport

74:2.1Adam and Eve fell asleep on Je­ru­sem, and when they awak­ened in the Fa­ther’s tem­ple on Uran­tia in the pres­ence of the mighty throng as­sem­bled to wel­come them, they were face to face with two be­ings of whom they had heard much, Van and his faith­ful as­so­ciate Amadon. These two heroes of the Cali­gas­tia se­ces­sion were the first to wel­come them in their new gar­den home.

• Melchizedeks use

74:5.2The farewell of the re­ceivers oc­cu­pied the whole of a day, and dur­ing the evening the in­di­vid­ual Mel­chiz­e­deks gave Adam and Eve their part­ing ad­vice and best wishes. Adam had sev­eral times re­quested his ad­vis­ers to re­main on earth with him, but al­ways were these pe­ti­tions de­nied. The time had come when the Ma­te­rial Sons must as­sume full re­spon­si­bil­ity for the con­duct of world af­fairs. And so, at mid­night, the se­raphic trans­ports of Sa­ta­nia left the planet with four­teen be­ings for Je­ru­sem, the trans­la­tion of Van and Amadon oc­cur­ring si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the de­par­ture of the twelve Mel­chiz­e­deks.

• Melchizedek receivers arrived 70 days after Adam’s default by

75:5.8Time passed, but Adam was not cer­tain of the na­ture of their of­fense un­til sev­enty days af­ter the de­fault of Eve, when the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers re­turned to Uran­tia and as­sumed ju­ris­dic­tion over world af­fairs. And then he knew they had failed.

• returned 3/4 of Adam’s children to Edentia

75:6.3The Edenic car­a­van was halted on the third day out from the Gar­den by the ar­rival of the se­raphic trans­ports from Je­ru­sem. And for the first time Adam and Eve were in­formed of what was to be­come of their chil­dren. While the trans­ports stood by, those chil­dren who had ar­rived at the age of choice (twenty years) were given the op­tion of re­main­ing on Uran­tia with their par­ents or of be­com­ing wards of the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek. Two thirds chose to go to Eden­tia; about one third elected to re­main with their par­ents. All chil­dren of pre­choice age were taken to Eden­tia. No one could have be­held the sor­row­ful part­ing of this Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter and their chil­dren with­out re­al­iz­ing that the way of the trans­gres­sor is hard. These off­spring of Adam and Eve are now on Eden­tia; we do not know what dis­po­si­tion is to be made of them.

75:6.4It was a sad, sad car­a­van that pre­pared to jour­ney on. Could any­thing have been more tragic! To have come to a world in such high hopes, to have been so aus­pi­ciously re­ceived, and then to go forth in dis­grace from Eden, only to lose more than three fourths of their chil­dren even be­fore find­ing a new abid­ing place!

14:5.5Dur­ing your so­journ in Ha­vona as a pil­grim of as­cent, you will be al­lowed to visit freely among the worlds of the cir­cuit of your as­sign­ment. You will also be per­mit­ted to go back to the plan­ets of those cir­cuits you have pre­vi­ously tra­versed. And all this is pos­si­ble to those who so­journ on the cir­cles of Ha­vona with­out the ne­ces­sity of be­ing en­super­na­phimed. The pil­grims of time are able to equip them­selves to tra­verse “achieved” space but must de­pend on the or­dained tech­nique to ne­go­ti­ate “un­achieved” space; a pil­grim can­not leave Ha­vona nor go for­ward be­yond his as­signed cir­cuit with­out the aid of a trans­port super­na­phim.

• all angelic groups have
• superior seraphim

39:2.85. The Trans­port­ers. All groups of min­is­ter­ing spir­its have their trans­port corps, an­gelic or­ders ded­i­cated to the min­istry of trans­port­ing those per­son­al­i­ties who are un­able, of them­selves, to jour­ney from one sphere to an­other. The fifth group of the su­pe­rior ser­a­phim are head­quar­tered on Sal­ving­ton and serve as space tra­versers to and from the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse. Like other sub­di­vi­sions of the su­pe­rior ser­a­phim, some were cre­ated as such while oth­ers have risen from the lower or less en­dowed groups.

39:2.9The “en­ergy range” of ser­a­phim is wholly ad­e­quate for lo­cal uni­verse and even for super­uni­verse re­quire­ments, but they could never with­stand the en­ergy de­mands en­tailed by such a long jour­ney as that from Uversa to Ha­vona. Such an ex­haus­tive jour­ney re­quires the spe­cial pow­ers of a pri­mary se­con­a­phim of trans­port en­dow­ments. Trans­port­ers take on en­ergy for flight while in tran­sit and re­cu­per­ate per­sonal power at the end of the jour­ney.

39:2.11The pro­cess of be­ing en­ser­a­phimed is not un­like the ex­pe­ri­ence of death or sleep ex­cept that there is an au­to­matic time el­e­ment in the tran­sit slum­ber. You are con­sciously un­con­scious dur­ing se­raphic rest. But the Thought Ad­juster is wholly and fully con­scious, in fact, ex­cep­tion­ally ef­fi­cient since you are un­able to op­pose, re­sist, or oth­er­wise hin­der cre­ative and trans­form­ing work.

39:2.12When en­ser­a­phimed, you go to sleep for a spec­i­fied time, and you will awake at the des­ig­nated mo­ment. The length of a jour­ney when in tran­sit sleep is im­ma­te­rial. You are not di­rectly aware of the pass­ing of time. It is as if you went to sleep on a trans­port ve­hi­cle in one city and, af­ter rest­ing in peace­ful slum­ber all night, awak­ened in an­other and dis­tant metropo­lis. You jour­neyed while you slum­bered. And so you take flight through space, en­ser­a­phimed, while you rest—sleep. The tran­sit sleep is in­duced by the li­ai­son be­tween the Ad­justers and the se­raphic trans­port­ers.

• supervisor seraphim

39:3.85. The Trans­port­ers. The fifth group of super­vi­sor ser­a­phim op­er­ate as per­son­al­ity trans­port­ers, car­ry­ing be­ings to and from the head­quar­ters of the con­stel­la­tions. Such trans­port ser­a­phim, while in flight from one sphere to an­other, are fully con­scious of their ve­loc­ity, di­rec­tion, and as­tro­nomic where­abouts. They are not travers­ing space as would an inan­i­mate pro­jec­tile. They may pass near one an­other dur­ing space flight with­out the least dan­ger of col­li­sion. They are fully able to vary speed of pro­gres­sion and to al­ter di­rec­tion of flight, even to change des­ti­na­tions if their di­rec­tors should so in­struct them at any space junc­tion of the uni­verse in­tel­li­gence cir­cuits.

• nonseraphic transporters
• numerous types of beings similar to seraphim

39:3.9These tran­sit per­son­al­i­ties are so or­ga­nized that they can si­mul­ta­ne­ously uti­lize all three of the uni­ver­sally dis­tributed lines of en­ergy, each hav­ing a clear space ve­loc­ity of 186,280 miles per sec­ond. These trans­port­ers are thus able to super­im­pose ve­loc­ity of en­ergy upon ve­loc­ity of power un­til they at­tain an av­er­age speed on their long jour­neys vary­ing any­where from 555,000 to al­most 559,000 of your miles per sec­ond of your time. The ve­loc­ity is af­fected by the mass and prox­im­ity of neigh­bor­ing mat­ter and by the strength and di­rec­tion of the near-by main cir­cuits of uni­verse power. There are nu­mer­ous types of be­ings, sim­i­lar to the ser­a­phim, who are able to tra­verse space, and who also are able to trans­port other be­ings who have been prop­erly pre­pared.

• administrator seraphim

39:4.155. The Trans­port­ers. These are the trans­port ser­a­phim who func­tion in the lo­cal sys­tems. In Sa­ta­nia, your sys­tem, they carry pas­sen­gers back and forth from Je­ru­sem and oth­er­wise serve as in­ter­plan­e­tary trans­port­ers. Sel­dom does a day pass in which a trans­port ser­a­phim of Sa­ta­nia does not de­posit some stu­dent vis­i­tor or some other trav­eler of spirit or semispirit na­ture on the shores of Uran­tia. These very space tra­versers will some­time carry you to and from the var­i­ous worlds of the sys­tem head­quar­ters group, and when you have fin­ished the Je­ru­sem as­sign­ment, they will carry you for­ward to Eden­tia. But un­der no cir­cum­stances will they carry you back­ward to the world of hu­man ori­gin. A mor­tal never re­turns to his na­tive planet dur­ing the dis­pen­sa­tion of his tem­po­ral ex­is­tence, and if he should re­turn dur­ing a sub­se­quent dis­pen­sa­tion, he would be es­corted by a trans­port ser­a­phim of the uni­verse head­quar­ters group.

13:1.20The se­crets of Seraph­ing­ton in­volve a three­fold mys­tery, only one of which I may men­tion—the mys­tery of se­raphic trans­port. The abil­ity of var­i­ous or­ders of ser­a­phim and al­lied spirit be­ings to en­velop within their spirit forms all or­ders of non­ma­te­rial per­son­al­i­ties and to carry them away on lengthy in­ter­plan­e­tary jour­neys, is a se­cret locked up in the sa­cred sec­tors of Seraph­ing­ton. The trans­port ser­a­phim com­pre­hend this mys­tery, but they do not com­mu­ni­cate it to the rest of us, or per­haps they can­not. The other mys­ter­ies of Seraph­ing­ton per­tain to the per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ences of types of spirit servers as yet not re­vealed to mor­tals. And we re­frain from dis­cussing the se­crets of such closely re­lated be­ings be­cause you can al­most com­pre­hend such near or­ders of ex­is­tence, and it would be akin to be­trayal of trust to pre­sent even our par­tial knowl­edge of such phe­nom­ena.

• top speed is 558,840 miles per second

23:2.226. Am­bas­sadors and Emis­saries of Spe­cial As­sign­ment. Lo­cal uni­verses sit­u­ated within the same super­uni­verse cus­tom­ar­ily ex­change am­bas­sadors se­lected from their na­tive or­ders of son­ship. But to avoid de­lay, Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers are fre­quently asked to go as am­bas­sadors from one lo­cal cre­ation to an­other, to rep­re­sent and in­ter­pret one realm to an­other. For ex­am­ple: When a newly in­hab­ited realm is dis­cov­ered, it may prove to be so re­mote in space that a long time will pass be­fore an en­ser­a­phimed am­bas­sador can reach this far-dis­tant uni­verse. An en­ser­a­phimed be­ing can­not pos­si­bly ex­ceed the ve­loc­ity of 558,840 Uran­tia miles in one sec­ond of your time. Mas­sive stars, cross­cur­rents, and de­tours, as well as at­trac­tion tan­gents, will all tend to re­tard such speed so that on a long jour­ney the ve­loc­ity will av­er­age about 550,000 miles per sec­ond.

• mechanical controllers and energy transmitters facilitate departure

29:4.14The phys­i­cal con­trol­lers are chiefly oc­cu­pied in the ad­just­ment of ba­sic en­er­gies undis­cov­ered on Uran­tia. These un­known en­er­gies are very es­sen­tial to the in­ter­plan­e­tary sys­tem of trans­port and to cer­tain tech­niques of com­mu­ni­ca­tion. When we lay lines of en­ergy for the pur­pose of con­vey­ing sound equiv­a­lents or of ex­tend­ing vi­sion, these undis­cov­ered forms of en­ergy are uti­lized by the liv­ing phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and their as­so­ciates. These same en­er­gies are also, on oc­ca­sion, used by the mid­way crea­tures in their rou­tine work.

• mechanical controllers and energy transmitters facilitate departure

29:4.19Of all the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers as­signed to the in­hab­ited worlds, the me­chan­i­cal con­trol­lers are by far the most pow­er­ful. Pos­sess­ing the liv­ing en­dow­ment of anti­grav­ity in ex­cess of all other be­ings, each con­trol­ler has a grav­ity re­sis­tance equaled only by enor­mous spheres re­volv­ing at tremen­dous ve­loc­ity. Ten of these con­trol­lers are now sta­tioned on Uran­tia, and one of their most im­por­tant plan­e­tary ac­tiv­i­ties is to fa­cil­i­tate the de­par­ture of se­raphic trans­ports. In so func­tion­ing, all ten of the me­chan­i­cal con­trol­lers act in uni­son while a bat­tery of one thou­sand en­ergy trans­mit­ters pro­vides the ini­tial mo­men­tum for the se­raphic de­par­ture.

• sea of glass greatly facilitates landings

43:1.10The Eden­tia sea of glass is one enor­mous cir­cu­lar crys­tal about one hun­dred miles in cir­cum­fer­ence and about thirty miles in depth. This mag­nif­i­cent crys­tal serves as the re­ceiv­ing field for all trans­port ser­a­phim and other be­ings ar­riv­ing from points out­side the sphere; such a sea of glass greatly fa­cil­i­tates the land­ing of trans­port ser­a­phim.

• celestial artisans are technical advisers to

44:5.65. The trans­port ad­vis­ers. This corps of tech­ni­cal ad­vis­ers to the trans­port ser­a­phim are most pro­fi­cient in col­lab­o­rat­ing with the star stu­dents in work­ing out rout­ings and in oth­er­wise as­sist­ing the chiefs of trans­port on the worlds of space. They are the traf­fic super­vi­sors of the spheres and are pres­ent on all in­hab­ited plan­ets. Uran­tia is served by a corps of sev­enty trans­port ad­vis­ers.

• mechanical devices provide energy for departure
• take off at 175 miles/second from Mount Seraph on Jerusem

46:2.8Mount Ser­aph is the high­est el­e­va­tion on Je­ru­sem, al­most fif­teen thou­sand feet, and is the point of de­par­ture for all trans­port ser­a­phim. Nu­mer­ous me­chan­i­cal de­vel­op­ments are used in pro­vid­ing ini­tial en­ergy for es­cap­ing the plan­e­tary grav­ity and over­com­ing the air re­sis­tance. A se­raphic trans­port de­parts ev­ery three sec­onds of Uran­tia time through­out the light pe­riod and, some­times, far into the re­ces­sion. The trans­port­ers take off at about twenty-five stan­dard miles per sec­ond of Uran­tia time and do not at­tain stan­dard ve­loc­ity un­til they are over two thou­sand miles away from Je­ru­sem.

46:2.9Trans­ports ar­rive on the crys­tal field, the so-called sea of glass. Around this area are the re­ceiv­ing sta­tions for the var­i­ous or­ders of be­ings who tra­verse space by se­raphic trans­port. Near the po­lar crys­tal re­ceiv­ing sta­tion for stu­dent vis­i­tors you may as­cend the pearly ob­ser­va­tory and view the im­mense re­lief map of the en­tire head­quar­ters planet.

• transform material beings into morontia-like state

46:5.264. The cir­cles of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers. The var­i­ous or­ders of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers are con­cen­tri­cally ar­ranged around the vast tem­ple of power, wherein pre­sides the power chief of the sys­tem in as­so­ci­a­tion with the chief of the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors. This tem­ple of power is one of two sec­tors on Je­ru­sem where as­cend­ing mor­tals and mid­way crea­tures are not per­mit­ted. The other one is the de­ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing sec­tor in the area of the Ma­te­rial Sons, a se­ries of lab­o­ra­to­ries wherein the trans­port ser­a­phim trans­form ma­te­rial be­ings into a state quite like that of the mor­ontia or­der of ex­is­tence.

19:7.4Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings pos­sess pre­rog­a­tives of tran­sit which make them in­de­pen­dent of trans­port per­son­al­i­ties, such as ser­a­phim. We all pos­sess the power of mov­ing about freely and quickly in the uni­verse of uni­verses. Ex­cept­ing the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, we can­not at­tain the al­most un­be­liev­able ve­loc­ity of the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, but we are able so to uti­lize the sum to­tal of the trans­port fa­cil­i­ties in space that we can reach any point in a super­uni­verse, from its head­quar­ters, in less than one year of Uran­tia time. It re­quired 109 days of your time for me to jour­ney from Uversa to Uran­tia.