spornagia

• animal caretakers of architectural spheres

37:10.3The Sporna­gia. The ar­chi­tec­tural head­quar­ters worlds of the lo­cal uni­verse are real worlds—phys­i­cal cre­ations. There is much work con­nected with their phys­i­cal up­keep, and herein we have the as­sis­tance of a group of phys­i­cal crea­tures called sporna­gia. They are de­voted to the care and cul­ture of the ma­te­rial phases of these head­quar­ters worlds, from Je­ru­sem to Sal­ving­ton. Sporna­gia are nei­ther spir­its nor per­sons; they are an an­i­mal or­der of ex­is­tence, but if you could see them, you would agree that they seem to be per­fect an­i­mals.

• beautiful s. inhabit constellations, local systems

43:0.4The super­vi­sor ser­a­phim, the third or­der of lo­cal uni­verse an­gels, are as­signed to the ser­vice of the con­stel­la­tions. They make their head­quar­ters on the cap­i­tal spheres and min­is­ter ex­ten­sively to the en­cir­cling mor­ontia-train­ing worlds. In Nor­la­ti­adek the sev­enty ma­jor spheres, to­gether with the seven hun­dred mi­nor satel­lites, are in­hab­ited by the uni­v­i­ta­tia, the per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of the con­stel­la­tion. All these ar­chi­tec­tural worlds are fully ad­min­is­tered by the var­i­ous groups of na­tive life, for the greater part un­re­vealed but in­clud­ing the ef­fi­cient spironga and the beau­ti­ful sporna­gia. Be­ing the mid-point in the mor­ontia-train­ing regime, as you might sus­pect, the mor­ontia life of the con­stel­la­tions is both typ­i­cal and ideal.

• work of botanic decoration directed by celestial artisans, ascending midway creatures

43:6.7Be­ing en­dowed with ten di­vi­sions of phys­i­cal life, not to men­tion the mor­ontia vari­a­tions, these ar­chi­tec­tural worlds pro­vide tremen­dous pos­si­bil­i­ties for the bi­o­logic beau­ti­fi­ca­tion of the land­scape and of the ma­te­rial and the mor­ontia struc­tures. The ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans di­rect the na­tive sporna­gia in this ex­ten­sive work of botanic dec­o­ra­tion and bi­o­logic em­bel­lish­ment. Whereas your artists must re­sort to in­ert paint and life­less mar­ble to por­tray their con­cepts, the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans and the uni­v­i­ta­tia more fre­quently uti­lize liv­ing ma­te­ri­als to rep­re­sent their ideas and to cap­ture their ide­als.

• animal caretakers of architectural spheres

45:0.3This en­tire sys­tem of fifty-seven ar­chi­tec­tural worlds is in­de­pen­dently lighted, heated, wa­tered, and en­er­gized by the co-or­di­na­tion of the Sa­ta­nia Power Cen­ter and the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers in ac­cor­dance with the es­tab­lished tech­nique of the phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion and ar­range­ment of these spe­cially cre­ated spheres. They are also phys­i­cally cared for and oth­er­wise main­tained by the na­tive sporna­gia.

• work of botanic decoration directed by celestial artisans, ascending midway creatures

46:5.31The ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans di­rect the sporna­gia and pro­vide the host of cre­ative dec­o­ra­tions and mon­u­men­tal memo­ri­als which abound in ev­ery place of pub­lic as­sem­bly. The stu­dios of these ar­ti­sans are among the largest and most beau­ti­ful of all the match­less struc­tures of this won­der­ful world. The other cour­tesy colonies main­tain ex­ten­sive and beau­ti­ful head­quar­ters. Many of these build­ings are con­structed wholly of crys­tal gems. All the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds abound in crys­tals and the so-called pre­cious met­als.

46:7.1The one thou­sand rect­an­gles of Je­ru­sem are oc­cu­pied by the lower na­tive life of the head­quar­ters planet, and at their cen­ter is sit­u­ated the vast cir­cu­lar head­quar­ters of the sporna­gia.

• artistic landscape gardeners
• work of botanic decoration directed by celestial artisans, ascending midway creatures

46:7.2On Je­ru­sem you will be amazed by the ag­ri­cul­tural achieve­ments of the won­der­ful sporna­gia. There the land is cul­ti­vated largely for aes­thetic and or­na­men­tal ef­fects. The sporna­gia are the land­scape gar­den­ers of the head­quar­ters worlds, and they are both orig­i­nal and artis­tic in their treat­ment of the open spaces of Je­ru­sem. They uti­lize both an­i­mals and nu­mer­ous me­chan­i­cal con­trivances in the cul­ture of the soil. They are in­tel­li­gently ex­pert in the em­ploy­ment of the power agen­cies of their realms as well as in the uti­liza­tion of nu­mer­ous or­ders of their lesser breth­ren of the lower an­i­mal cre­ations, many of which are pro­vided them on these spe­cial worlds. This or­der of an­i­mal life is now largely di­rected by the as­cend­ing mid­way crea­tures from the evo­lu­tion­ary spheres.

• do not possess survival souls, but live very long lives and reincarnate

46:7.3Sporna­gia are not Ad­juster in­dwelt. They do not pos­sess sur­vival souls, but they do en­joy long lives, some­times to the ex­tent of forty to fifty thou­sand stan­dard years. Their num­ber is le­gion, and they af­ford phys­i­cal min­istry to all or­ders of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties re­quir­ing ma­te­rial ser­vice.

• have individuality but not personality; react to first 5 adjutant mind-spirits only

46:7.4Al­though sporna­gia nei­ther pos­sess nor evolve sur­vival souls, though they do not have per­son­al­ity, nev­er­the­less, they do evolve an in­di­vid­u­al­ity which can ex­pe­ri­ence rein­car­na­tion. When, with the pass­ing of time, the phys­i­cal bod­ies of these unique crea­tures de­te­ri­o­rate from us­age and age, their cre­ators, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Life Car­ri­ers, fab­ri­cate new bod­ies in which the old sporna­gia re-es­tab­lish their res­i­dences.

46:7.5Sporna­gia are the only crea­tures in all the uni­verse of Neb­a­don who ex­pe­ri­ence this or any other sort of rein­car­na­tion. They are only re­ac­tive to the first five of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its; they are not re­spon­sive to the spir­its of wor­ship and wis­dom. But the five-ad­ju­tant mind equiv­alates to a to­tal­ity or sixth re­al­ity level, and it is this fac­tor which per­sists as an ex­pe­ri­en­tial iden­tity.

• not evolutionary beings; possible spiritual destiny
• procreate; traits of a horse, dog, and chimpanzee

46:7.6I am quite with­out com­par­isons in un­der­tak­ing to de­scribe these use­ful and un­usual crea­tures as there are no an­i­mals on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds com­pa­ra­ble to them. They are not evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings, hav­ing been pro­jected by the Life Car­ri­ers in their pres­ent form and sta­tus. They are bi­sex­ual and pro­cre­ate as they are re­quired to meet the needs of a grow­ing pop­u­la­tion.

• visualize morontia, angelic, and lower spirit personalities, but not finaliters

46:7.7Per­haps I can best sug­gest to Uran­tia minds some­thing of the na­ture of these beau­ti­ful and ser­vice­able crea­tures by say­ing that they em­brace the com­bined traits of a faith­ful horse and an af­fec­tion­ate dog and man­i­fest an in­tel­li­gence ex­ceed­ing that of the high­est type of chim­panzee. And they are very beau­ti­ful, as judged by the phys­i­cal stan­dards of Uran­tia. They are most ap­pre­cia­tive of the at­ten­tions shown them by the ma­te­rial and semi­ma­te­rial so­journ­ers on these ar­chi­tec­tural worlds. They have a vi­sion which per­mits them to rec­og­nize—in ad­di­tion to ma­te­rial be­ings—the mor­ontia cre­ations, the lower an­gelic or­ders, mid­way crea­tures, and some of the lower or­ders of spirit per­son­al­i­ties. They do not com­pre­hend wor­ship of the In­fi­nite, nor do they grasp the im­port of the Eter­nal, but they do, through af­fec­tion for their mas­ters, join in the out­ward spir­i­tual de­vo­tions of their realms.

46:7.8There are those who be­lieve that, in a fu­ture uni­verse age, these faith­ful sporna­gia will es­cape from their an­i­mal level of ex­is­tence and at­tain a wor­thy evo­lu­tional des­tiny of pro­gres­sive in­tel­lec­tual growth and even spir­i­tual achieve­ment.

• hospitable hosts to all beings they recognize
• visualize morontia, angelic, and lower spirit personalities, but not finaliters

47:1.1Al­though only fi­nal­i­ters and cer­tain groups of sal­vaged chil­dren and their care­tak­ers are res­i­dent on tran­si­tional world num­ber one, pro­vi­sion is made for the en­ter­tain­ment of all classes of spirit be­ings, tran­si­tion mor­tals, and stu­dent vis­i­tors. The sporna­gia, who func­tion on all of these worlds, are hos­pitable hosts to all be­ings whom they can rec­og­nize. They have a vague feel­ing con­cern­ing the fi­nal­i­ters but can­not vi­su­al­ize them. They must re­gard them much as you do the an­gels in your pres­ent phys­i­cal state.

• minister to physical needs of probationary nursery children

47:2.6The guard­ian ser­a­phim at­tend these youths in the pro­ba­tion­ary nurs­ery on the fi­nal­i­ter world just as they spir­i­tu­ally min­is­ter to mor­tals on the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets, while the faith­ful sporna­gia min­is­ter to their phys­i­cal ne­ces­si­ties. And so do these chil­dren grow up on the tran­si­tion world un­til such time as they make their fi­nal choice.

• enjoy arrival of ascenders

47:10.1The re­cep­tion of a new class of man­sion world grad­u­ates is the sig­nal for all Je­ru­sem to as­sem­ble as a com­mit­tee of wel­come. Even the sporna­gia en­joy the ar­rival of these tri­umphant as­cend­ers of evo­lu­tion­ary ori­gin, those who have run the plan­e­tary race and fin­ished the man­sion world pro­gres­sion. Only the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors are ab­sent from these oc­ca­sions of re­joic­ing.