superior seraphim

32:2.1The Cre­ator Sons are pre­ceded in uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion by the power di­rec­tors and other be­ings orig­i­nat­ing in the Third Source and Cen­ter. From the en­er­gies of space, thus pre­vi­ously or­ga­nized, Mi­chael, your Cre­ator Son, es­tab­lished the in­hab­ited realms of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don and ever since has been painstak­ingly de­voted to their ad­min­is­tra­tion. From pre-ex­is­tent en­ergy these di­vine Sons ma­te­ri­al­ize vis­i­ble mat­ter, project liv­ing crea­tures, and with the co-op­er­a­tion of the uni­verse pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit, cre­ate a di­verse ret­inue of spirit per­son­al­i­ties.

32:2.2These power di­rec­tors and en­ergy con­trol­lers who long pre­ceded the Cre­ator Son in the pre­lim­i­nary phys­i­cal work of uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion later serve in mag­nif­i­cent li­ai­son with this Uni­verse Son, for­ever re­main­ing in as­so­ci­ated con­trol of those en­er­gies which they orig­i­nally or­ga­nized and cir­cuitized. On Sal­ving­ton there now func­tion the same one hun­dred power cen­ters who co-op­er­ated with your Cre­ator Son in the orig­i­nal for­ma­tion of this lo­cal uni­verse.

32:2.3The first com­pleted act of phys­i­cal cre­ation in Neb­a­don con­sisted in the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the head­quar­ters world, the ar­chi­tec­tural sphere of Sal­ving­ton, with its satel­lites. From the time of the ini­tial moves of the power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers to the ar­rival of the liv­ing staff on the com­pleted spheres of Sal­ving­ton, there in­ter­vened a lit­tle over one bil­lion years of your pres­ent plan­e­tary time. The con­struc­tion of Sal­ving­ton was im­me­di­ately fol­lowed by the cre­ation of the one hun­dred head­quar­ters worlds of the pro­jected con­stel­la­tions and the ten thou­sand head­quar­ters spheres of the pro­jected lo­cal sys­tems of plan­e­tary con­trol and ad­min­is­tra­tion, to­gether with their ar­chi­tec­tural satel­lites. Such ar­chi­tec­tural worlds are de­signed to ac­com­mo­date both phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties as well as the in­ter­ven­ing mor­ontia or tran­si­tion stages of be­ing.

32:2.4Sal­ving­ton, the head­quar­ters of Neb­a­don, is sit­u­ated at the ex­act en­ergy-mass cen­ter of the lo­cal uni­verse. But your lo­cal uni­verse is not a sin­gle as­tro­nomic sys­tem, though a large sys­tem does ex­ist at its phys­i­cal cen­ter.

32:2.5Sal­ving­ton is the per­sonal head­quar­ters of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, but he will not al­ways be found there. While the smooth func­tion­ing of your lo­cal uni­verse no longer re­quires the fixed pres­ence of the Cre­ator Son at the cap­i­tal sphere, this was not true of the ear­lier epochs of phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion. A Cre­ator Son is un­able to leave his head­quar­ters world un­til such a time as grav­ity sta­bi­liza­tion of the realm has been ef­fected through the ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion of suf­fi­cient en­ergy to en­able the var­i­ous cir­cuits and sys­tems to coun­ter­bal­ance one an­other by mu­tual ma­te­rial at­trac­tion.

32:2.6Pres­ently, the phys­i­cal plan of a uni­verse is com­pleted, and the Cre­ator Son, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Cre­ative Spirit, projects his plan of life cre­ation; where­upon does this rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit be­gin her uni­verse func­tion as a dis­tinct cre­ative per­son­al­ity. When this first cre­ative act is for­mu­lated and ex­e­cuted, there springs into be­ing the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of this ini­tial cre­ative con­cept of iden­tity and ideal of di­vin­ity. This is the chief ex­ec­u­tive of the uni­verse, the per­sonal as­so­ciate of the Cre­ator Son, one like him in all as­pects of char­ac­ter, though markedly lim­ited in the at­tri­butes of di­vin­ity.

32:2.7And now that the right-hand helper and chief ex­ec­u­tive of the Cre­ator Son has been pro­vided, there en­sues the bring­ing into ex­is­tence of a vast and won­der­ful ar­ray of di­verse crea­tures. The sons and daugh­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse are forth­com­ing, and soon there­after the gov­ern­ment of such a cre­ation is pro­vided, ex­tend­ing from the su­preme coun­cils of the uni­verse to the fa­thers of the con­stel­la­tions and the sov­er­eigns of the lo­cal sys­tems—the ag­gre­ga­tions of those worlds which are de­signed sub­se­quently to be­come the homes of the var­ied mor­tal races of will crea­tures; and each of these worlds will be pre­sided over by a Plan­e­tary Prince.

32:2.8And then, when such a uni­verse has been so com­pletely or­ga­nized and so re­pletely manned, does the Cre­ator Son en­ter into the Fa­ther’s pro­posal to cre­ate mor­tal man in their di­vine im­age.

32:2.9The or­ga­ni­za­tion of plan­e­tary abodes is still pro­gress­ing in Neb­a­don, for this uni­verse is, in­deed, a young clus­ter in the starry and plan­e­tary realms of Or­von­ton. At the last reg­istry there were 3,840,101 in­hab­ited plan­ets in Neb­a­don, and Sa­ta­nia, the lo­cal sys­tem of your world, is fairly typ­i­cal of other sys­tems.

32:2.10Sa­ta­nia is not a uni­form phys­i­cal sys­tem, a sin­gle as­tro­nomic unit or or­ga­ni­za­tion. Its 619 in­hab­ited worlds are lo­cated in over five hun­dred dif­fer­ent phys­i­cal sys­tems. Only five have more than two in­hab­ited worlds, and of these only one has four peo­pled plan­ets, while there are forty-six hav­ing two in­hab­ited worlds.

32:2.11The Sa­ta­nia sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds is far re­moved from Uversa and that great sun clus­ter which func­tions as the phys­i­cal or as­tro­nomic cen­ter of the sev­enth super­uni­verse. From Je­ru­sem, the head­quar­ters of Sa­ta­nia, it is over two hun­dred thou­sand light-years to the phys­i­cal cen­ter of the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton, far, far away in the dense di­am­e­ter of the Milky Way. Sa­ta­nia is on the pe­riph­ery of the lo­cal uni­verse, and Neb­a­don is now well out to­wards the edge of Or­von­ton. From the out­er­most sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds to the cen­ter of the super­uni­verse is a tri­fle less than two hun­dred and fifty thou­sand light-years.

32:2.12The uni­verse of Neb­a­don now swings far to the south and east in the super­uni­verse cir­cuit of Or­von­ton. The near­est neigh­bor­ing uni­verses are: Avalon, Henselon, Sanselon, Por­talon, Wolver­ing, Fa­nov­ing, and Alvor­ing.

32:2.13But the evo­lu­tion of a lo­cal uni­verse is a long nar­ra­tive. Pa­pers deal­ing with the super­uni­verse in­tro­duce this sub­ject, those of this sec­tion, treat­ing of the lo­cal cre­ations, con­tinue it, while those to fol­low, touch­ing upon the his­tory and des­tiny of Uran­tia, com­plete the story. But you can ad­e­quately com­pre­hend the des­tiny of the mor­tals of such a lo­cal cre­ation only by a pe­rusal of the nar­ra­tives of the life and teach­ings of your Cre­ator Son as he once lived the life of man, in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, on your own evo­lu­tion­ary world.

• types › 5. transporters

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.

39:2.10Even 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.

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.

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.

• types › 6. recorders

39:2.146. The Re­cord­ers. These per­son­al­i­ties are es­pe­cially con­cerned with the re­cep­tion, fil­ing, and re­dis­patch of the rec­ords of Sal­ving­ton and its as­so­ci­ated worlds. They also serve as spe­cial re­cord­ers for res­i­dent groups of super­uni­verse and higher per­son­al­i­ties and as clerks of the courts of Sal­ving­ton and sec­re­taries to the rulers thereof.

• types › 6a. broadcasters

39:2.15Broad­cast­ers—re­ceivers and dis­patch­ers—are a spe­cial­ized sub­di­vi­sion of the se­raphic re­cord­ers, be­ing con­cerned with the dis­patch of rec­ords and with the dis­sem­i­na­tion of es­sen­tial in­for­ma­tion. Their work is of a high or­der, be­ing so mul­ti­cir­cuited that 144,000 mes­sages can si­mul­ta­ne­ously tra­verse the same lines of en­ergy. They adapt the higher ideo­graphic tech­niques of the super­aphic chief re­cord­ers and with these com­mon sym­bols main­tain re­cip­ro­cal con­tact with both the in­tel­li­gence co-or­di­na­tors of the ter­tiary super­na­phim and the glo­ri­fied in­tel­li­gence co-or­di­na­tors of the Se­raphic Corps of Com­ple­tion.

• types › 6. recorders

39:2.16Se­raphic re­cord­ers of the su­pe­rior or­der thus ef­fect a close li­ai­son with the in­tel­li­gence corps of their own or­der and with all sub­or­di­nate re­cord­ers, while the broad­casts en­able them to main­tain con­stant com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the higher re­cord­ers of the super­uni­verse and, through this chan­nel, with the re­cord­ers of Ha­vona and the cus­to­di­ans of knowl­edge on Par­a­dise. Many of the su­pe­rior or­der of re­cord­ers are ser­a­phim as­cended from sim­i­lar du­ties in lower sec­tions of the uni­verse.

• types › 7. reserves

39:2.177. The Re­serves. Large re­serves of all types of the su­pe­rior ser­a­phim are held on Sal­ving­ton, in­stantly avail­able for dis­patch to the far­ther­most worlds of Neb­a­don as they are req­ui­si­tioned by the di­rec­tors of as­sign­ment or upon the re­quest of the uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tors. The re­serves of su­pe­rior ser­a­phim also fur­nish mes­sen­ger aids upon req­ui­si­tion by the chief of the Bril­liant Evening Stars, who is in­trusted with the cus­tody and dis­patch of all per­sonal com­mu­ni­ca­tions. A lo­cal uni­verse is fully pro­vided with ad­e­quate means of in­ter­com­mu­ni­ca­tion, but there is al­ways a residue of mes­sages which re­quires dis­patch by per­sonal mes­sen­gers.

39:2.18The ba­sic re­serves for the en­tire lo­cal uni­verse are held on the se­raphic worlds of Sal­ving­ton. This corps in­cludes all types of all groups of an­gels.

• some deceived in Lucifer rebellion

53:7.6Of the su­preme or­der of ser­a­phim, not an an­gel was lost, but a con­sid­er­able group of the next or­der, the su­pe­rior, were de­ceived and en­snared. Like­wise a few of the third or super­vi­sor or­der of an­gels were mis­led. But the ter­ri­ble break­down came in the fourth group, the ad­min­is­tra­tor an­gels, those ser­a­phim who are nor­mally as­signed to the du­ties of the sys­tem cap­i­tals. Man­otia saved al­most two thirds of them, but slightly over one third fol­lowed their chief into the rebel ranks. One third of all the Je­ru­sem cheru­bim at­tached to the ad­min­is­tra­tor an­gels were lost with their dis­loyal ser­a­phim.