Significances of Origins

28:6.1In the same man­ner as their fel­lows, these an­gels are cre­ated se­ri­ally and in seven re­flec­tive types, but these types are not as­signed in­di­vid­u­ally to the sep­a­rate ser­vices of the super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tors. All ter­tiary se­con­a­phim are col­lec­tively as­signed to the Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment, and these as­cen­dant sons use them in­ter­change­ably; that is, the Mighty Mes­sen­gers can and do uti­lize any of the ter­tiary types, and so do their co-or­di­nates, Those High in Au­thor­ity and Those with­out Name and Num­ber. These seven types of ter­tiary se­con­a­phim are:

28:6.8The mercy re­flec­tors, with their ter­tiary as­so­ciates, en­gage in nu­mer­ous super­uni­verse min­istries, in­clud­ing the teach­ing of the as­cend­ing crea­tures. Among many other things the Sig­nif­i­cances of Ori­gins teach these as­cend­ers how to ap­ply spirit ethics, and fol­low­ing such train­ing, the Mem­o­ries of Mercy teach them how to be truly mer­ci­ful. While the spirit tech­niques of mercy min­istry are be­yond your con­cept, you should even now un­der­stand that mercy is a qual­ity of growth. You should re­al­ize that there is a great re­ward of per­sonal sat­is­fac­tion in be­ing first just, next fair, then pa­tient, then kind. And then, on that foun­da­tion, if you choose and have it in your heart, you can take the next step and re­ally show mercy; but you can­not ex­hibit mercy in and of it­self. These steps must be tra­versed; oth­er­wise there can be no gen­uine mercy. There may be pa­tron­age, con­de­scen­sion, or char­ity—even pity—but not mercy. True mercy comes only as the beau­ti­ful cli­max to these pre­ced­ing ad­juncts to group un­der­stand­ing, mu­tual ap­pre­ci­a­tion, fra­ter­nal fel­low­ship, spir­i­tual com­mu­nion, and di­vine har­mony.

28:6.21. The Sig­nif­i­cance of Ori­gins. The as­cen­dant Trin­i­tized Sons of a super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment are charged with the re­spon­si­bil­ity of deal­ing with all is­sues grow­ing out of the ori­gin of any in­di­vid­ual, race, or world; and the sig­nif­i­cance of ori­gin is the paramount ques­tion in all our plans for the cos­mic ad­vance­ment of the liv­ing crea­tures of the realm. All re­la­tion­ships and the ap­pli­ca­tion of ethics grow out of the fun­da­men­tal facts of ori­gin. Ori­gin is the ba­sis of the re­la­tional re­ac­tion of the Gods. Al­ways does the Con­joint Ac­tor “take note of the man, in what man­ner he was born.”

28:6.3With the higher de­scen­dant be­ings, ori­gin is sim­ply a fact to be as­cer­tained; but with the as­cend­ing be­ings, in­clud­ing the lower or­ders of an­gels, the na­ture and cir­cum­stances of ori­gin are not al­ways so clear, though of equally vi­tal im­por­tance at al­most ev­ery turn of uni­verse af­fairs—hence the value of hav­ing at our dis­posal a se­ries of re­flec­tive se­con­a­phim who can in­stantly por­tray any­thing re­quired re­spect­ing the gen­e­sis of any be­ing in ei­ther the cen­tral uni­verse or through­out the en­tire realm of a super­uni­verse.

28:6.4The Sig­nif­i­cances of Ori­gins are the liv­ing ready-ref­er­ence ge­nealo­gies of the vast hosts of be­ings—men, an­gels, and oth­ers—who in­habit the seven super­uni­verses. They are al­ways ready to sup­ply their su­pe­ri­ors with an up-to-date, re­plete, and trust­wor­thy es­ti­mate of the an­ces­tral fac­tors and the cur­rent ac­tual sta­tus of any in­di­vid­ual on any world of their re­spec­tive super­uni­verses; and their com­pu­ta­tion of pos­sessed facts is al­ways up to the minute.