supernaphim

26:1.1An­gels are the min­is­ter­ing-spirit as­so­ciates of the evo­lu­tion­ary and as­cend­ing will crea­tures of all space; they are also the col­leagues and work­ing as­so­ciates of the higher hosts of the di­vine per­son­al­i­ties of the spheres. The an­gels of all or­ders are dis­tinct per­son­al­i­ties and are highly in­di­vid­u­al­ized. They all have a large ca­pac­ity for ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the min­is­tra­tions of the re­ver­sion di­rec­tors. To­gether with the Mes­sen­ger Hosts of Space, the min­is­ter­ing spir­its en­joy sea­sons of rest and change; they pos­sess very so­cial na­tures and have an as­so­cia­tive ca­pac­ity far tran­scend­ing that of hu­man be­ings.

27:2.1This is the group des­ig­nated from time to time by the chief super­na­phim, “the orig­i­nal pat­tern an­gel,” to pre­side over the or­ga­ni­za­tion of all three or­ders of these an­gels—pri­mary, sec­ondary, and ter­tiary. The super­na­phim, as a body, are wholly self-gov­ern­ing and self-reg­u­la­tory ex­cept for the func­tions of their mu­tual chief, the first an­gel of Par­a­dise, who ever pre­sides over all these spirit per­son­al­i­ties.

113:3.4And herein is re­vealed the rea­son why the se­raphic guard­ian even­tu­ally be­comes the per­sonal cus­to­dian of the mind pat­terns, mem­ory for­mu­las, and soul re­al­i­ties of the mor­tal sur­vivor dur­ing that in­ter­val be­tween phys­i­cal death and mor­ontia res­ur­rec­tion. None but the min­is­ter­ing chil­dren of the In­fi­nite Spirit could thus func­tion in be­half of the hu­man crea­ture dur­ing this phase of tran­si­tion from one level of the uni­verse to an­other and higher level. Even when you en­gage in your ter­mi­nal tran­si­tion slum­ber, when you pass from time to eter­nity, a high super­na­phim like­wise shares the tran­sit with you as the cus­to­dian of crea­ture iden­tity and the surety of per­sonal in­tegrity.

30:1.8111. Super­na­phim.

30:2.831. Super­na­phim.

26:1.16Super­na­phim are lim­ited in “spirit po­lar­ity” re­gard­ing only one phase of ac­tion, that with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. They can work singly ex­cept when di­rectly em­ploy­ing the ex­clu­sive cir­cuits of the Fa­ther. When they are in power re­cep­tion on the Fa­ther’s di­rect min­istry, super­na­phim must vol­un­tar­ily as­so­ciate in pairs to be able to func­tion. Se­con­a­phim are like­wise lim­ited and in ad­di­tion must work in pairs in or­der to syn­chro­nize with the cir­cuits of the Eter­nal Son. Ser­a­phim can work singly as dis­crete and lo­cal­ized per­son­al­i­ties, but they are able to en­cir­cuit only when po­lar­ized as li­ai­son pairs. When such spirit be­ings are as­so­ci­ated as pairs, the one is spo­ken of as com­ple­men­tal to the other. Com­ple­men­tal re­la­tion­ships may be tran­sient; they are not nec­es­sar­ily of a per­ma­nent na­ture.

• C. tertiary supernaphim › transporters operate among Havona circuits; land on peripheral Paradise

11:4.1The cen­tral Isle ends abruptly at the pe­riph­ery, but its size is so enor­mous that this ter­mi­nal an­gle is rel­a­tively in­dis­cernible within any cir­cum­scribed area. The pe­riph­eral sur­face of Par­a­dise is oc­cu­pied, in part, by the land­ing and dis­patch­ing fields for var­i­ous groups of spirit per­son­al­i­ties. Since the non­per­vaded-space zones nearly im­pinge upon the pe­riph­ery, all per­son­al­ity trans­ports des­tined to Par­a­dise land in these re­gions. Nei­ther up­per nor nether Par­a­dise is ap­proach­able by trans­port super­na­phim or other types of space tra­versers.

• C. tertiary supernaphim › transporters operate among Havona circuits; land on peripheral Paradise

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.

• C. tertiary supernaphim › offspring of Seven Spirits of Havona Circuits

17:5.3These Spir­its of the Cir­cuits make con­tact with those who so­journ in Ha­vona through their per­sonal off­spring, the ter­tiary super­na­phim. While the Cir­cuit Spir­its are co­ex­is­tent with the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, their func­tion in the cre­ation of ter­tiary super­na­phim did not at­tain ma­jor im­por­tance un­til the first pil­grims of time ar­rived on the outer cir­cuit of Ha­vona in the days of Grand­fanda.

• A. primary supernaphim › offspring of Infinite Spirit
• B. secondary supernaphim › offspring of individual Master Spirits
• C. tertiary supernaphim › offspring of Seven Spirits of Havona Circuits

17:8.2To­gether with their In­fi­nite Mother Spirit, the Su­preme Spirit groups are the im­me­di­ate cre­ators of the vast crea­ture fam­ily of the Third Source and Cen­ter. All or­ders of the min­is­ter­ing spir­its spring from this as­so­ci­a­tion. Pri­mary super­na­phim orig­i­nate in the In­fi­nite Spirit; sec­ondary be­ings of this or­der are cre­ated by the Mas­ter Spir­its; ter­tiary super­na­phim by the Seven Spir­its of the Cir­cuits. The Re­flec­tive Spir­its, col­lec­tively, are the mother-mak­ers of a mar­velous or­der of the an­gelic hosts, the mighty se­con­a­phim of the super­uni­verse ser­vices. A Cre­ative Spirit is the mother of the an­gelic or­ders of a lo­cal cre­ation; such se­raphic min­is­ters are orig­i­nal in each lo­cal uni­verse, though they are fash­ioned af­ter the pat­terns of the cen­tral uni­verse. All these cre­ators of min­is­ter­ing spir­its are only in­di­rectly as­sisted by the cen­tral lodg­ment of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the orig­i­nal and eter­nal mother of all the an­gelic min­is­ters.

• C. tertiary supernaphim › creation indicative of God the Supreme

24:7.9The Ha­vona now tra­versed by as­cend­ing mor­tals dif­fers in many re­spects from the cen­tral uni­verse as it was be­fore the times of Grand­fanda. The ar­rival of mor­tal as­cend­ers on the Ha­vona cir­cuits in­au­gu­rated sweep­ing mod­i­fi­ca­tions in the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the cen­tral and di­vine cre­ation, mod­i­fi­ca­tions un­doubt­edly ini­ti­ated by the Su­preme Be­ing—the God of evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures—in re­sponse to the ar­rival of the first of his ex­pe­ri­en­tial chil­dren from the seven super­uni­verses. The ap­pear­ance of the Grad­u­ate Guides, to­gether with the cre­ation of the ter­tiary super­na­phim, is in­dica­tive of these per­for­mances of God the Su­preme.

• C. tertiary supernaphim › Custodians of Records chosen from

25:5.1From among the ter­tiary super­na­phim in Ha­vona, cer­tain of the se­nior chief re­cord­ers are cho­sen as Cus­to­di­ans of Rec­ords, as keep­ers of the for­mal ar­chives of the Isle of Light, those ar­chives which stand in con­trast to the liv­ing rec­ords of reg­istry in the minds of the cus­to­di­ans of knowl­edge, some­times des­ig­nated the “liv­ing li­brary of Par­a­dise.”

• A. primary supernaphim › angels of Paradise
• A. primary supernaphim › offspring of Infinite Spirit
• B. secondary supernaphim › angels of Havona
• B. secondary supernaphim › offspring of individual Master Spirits
• C. tertiary supernaphim
• C. tertiary supernaphim › offspring of Seven Spirits of Havona Circuits

26:1.121. The Min­is­ter­ing Spir­its of the Cen­tral Uni­verse. The three or­ders of super­na­phim serve in the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem. Pri­mary or Par­a­dise super­na­phim are cre­ated by the In­fi­nite Spirit. The sec­ondary and ter­tiary or­ders, serv­ing in Ha­vona, are re­spec­tively the off­spring of the Mas­ter Spir­its and of the Spir­its of the Cir­cuits.

• A. primary supernaphim

26:2.1The super­na­phim are the skilled min­is­ters to all types of be­ings who so­journ on Par­a­dise and in the cen­tral uni­verse. These high an­gels are cre­ated in three ma­jor or­ders: pri­mary, sec­ondary, and ter­tiary.

• A. primary supernaphim › angels of Paradise
• A. primary supernaphim › offspring of Infinite Spirit

26:2.2Pri­mary super­na­phim are the ex­clu­sive off­spring of the Con­joint Cre­ator. They di­vide their min­istry about equally be­tween cer­tain groups of the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens and the ever-en­larg­ing corps of as­cen­dant pil­grims. These an­gels of the eter­nal Isle are highly ef­fi­ca­cious in fur­ther­ing the es­sen­tial train­ing of both groups of Par­a­dise dwellers. They con­tribute much that is help­ful to the mu­tual un­der­stand­ing of these two unique or­ders of uni­verse crea­tures—the one be­ing the high­est type of di­vine and per­fect will crea­ture, and the other, the per­fected evo­lu­tion of the low­est type of will crea­ture in all the uni­verse of uni­verses.

• B. secondary supernaphim › angels of Havona
• B. secondary supernaphim › minister to ascenders, Paradise Citizens in Havona

26:2.4Sec­ondary super­na­phim are the di­rec­tors of the af­fairs of as­cend­ing be­ings on the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona. They are equally con­cerned in min­is­ter­ing to the ed­u­ca­tional train­ing of nu­mer­ous or­ders of Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens who so­journ for long pe­ri­ods on the world cir­cuits of the cen­tral cre­ation, but we may not dis­cuss this phase of their ser­vice.

26:2.5There are seven types of these high an­gels, each of ori­gin in one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and in na­ture pat­terned ac­cord­ingly. Col­lec­tively, the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its cre­ate many dif­fer­ent groups of unique be­ings and en­ti­ties, and the in­di­vid­ual mem­bers of each or­der are com­par­a­tively uni­form in na­ture. But when these same Seven Spir­its cre­ate in­di­vid­u­ally, the re­sult­ing or­ders are al­ways sev­en­fold in na­ture; the chil­dren of each Mas­ter Spirit par­take of the na­ture of their cre­ator and are ac­cord­ingly di­verse from the oth­ers. Such is the ori­gin of the sec­ondary super­na­phim, and the an­gels of all seven cre­ated types func­tion in all chan­nels of ac­tiv­ity open to their en­tire or­der, chiefly on the seven cir­cuits of the cen­tral and di­vine uni­verse.

• B. secondary supernaphim › not created until arrival of Grandfanda
• C. tertiary supernaphim › offspring of Seven Spirits of Havona Circuits

26:2.7Ter­tiary super­na­phim take ori­gin in these Seven Spir­its of the Cir­cuits. Each one of them, on the sep­a­rate Ha­vona cir­cles, is em­pow­ered by the In­fi­nite Spirit to cre­ate a suf­fi­cient num­ber of high super­aphic min­is­ters of the ter­tiary or­der to meet the needs of the cen­tral uni­verse. While the Cir­cuit Spir­its pro­duced com­par­a­tively few of these an­gelic min­is­ters prior to the ar­rival in Ha­vona of the pil­grims of time, the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its did not even be­gin the cre­ation of sec­ondary super­na­phim un­til the land­ing of Grand­fanda. As the older of the two or­ders, the ter­tiary super­na­phim will there­fore re­ceive first con­sid­er­a­tion.

• C. tertiary supernaphim › servants of Seven Master Spirits

26:3.1These ser­vants of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are the an­gelic spe­cial­ists of the var­i­ous cir­cuits of Ha­vona, and their min­istry ex­tends to both the as­cend­ing pil­grims of time and the de­scend­ing pil­grims of eter­nity. On the bil­lion study worlds of the per­fect cen­tral cre­ation, your super­aphic as­so­ciates of all or­ders will be fully vis­i­ble to you. There you will all be, in the high­est sense, fra­ter­nal and un­der­stand­ing be­ings of mu­tual con­tact and sym­pa­thy. You will also fully rec­og­nize and ex­qui­sitely frat­er­nize with the de­scend­ing pil­grims, the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens, who tra­verse these cir­cuits from within out­ward, en­ter­ing Ha­vona through the pi­lot world of the first cir­cuit and pro­ceed­ing out­ward to the sev­enth.

26:3.2The as­cend­ing pil­grims from the seven super­uni­verses pass through Ha­vona in the op­po­site di­rec­tion, en­ter­ing by way of the pi­lot world of the sev­enth cir­cuit and pro­ceed­ing in­ward. There is no time limit set on the prog­ress of the as­cend­ing crea­tures from world to world and from cir­cuit to cir­cuit, just as no fixed span of time is ar­bi­trar­ily as­signed to res­i­dence on the mor­ontia worlds. But, whereas ad­e­quately de­vel­oped in­di­vid­u­als may be ex­empted from so­journ on one or more of the lo­cal uni­verse train­ing worlds, no pil­grim may avoid pass­ing through all seven of the Ha­vona cir­cuits of pro­gres­sive spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion.

26:3.3That corps of ter­tiary super­na­phim which is chiefly as­signed to the ser­vice of the pil­grims of time is clas­si­fied as fol­lows:

26:3.41. The Har­mony Super­vi­sors. It must be ap­par­ent that some sort of co-or­di­nat­ing in­flu­ence would be re­quired, even in per­fect Ha­vona, to main­tain sys­tem and to in­sure har­mony in all the work of prepar­ing the pil­grims of time for their sub­se­quent Par­a­dise achieve­ments. Such is the real mis­sion of the har­mony super­vi­sors—to keep ev­ery­thing mov­ing along smoothly and ex­pe­di­tiously. Orig­i­nat­ing on the first cir­cuit, they serve through­out Ha­vona, and their pres­ence on the cir­cuits means that noth­ing can pos­si­bly go amiss. A great abil­ity to co-or­di­nate a di­ver­sity of ac­tiv­i­ties in­volv­ing per­son­al­i­ties of dif­fer­ing or­ders—even mul­ti­ple lev­els—en­ables these super­na­phim to give as­sis­tance wher­ever and when­ever re­quired. They con­tribute enor­mously to the mu­tual un­der­stand­ing of the pil­grims of time and the pil­grims of eter­nity.

26:3.52. The Chief Re­cord­ers. These an­gels are cre­ated on the sec­ond cir­cuit but op­er­ate ev­ery­where in the cen­tral uni­verse. They re­cord in trip­li­cate, ex­e­cut­ing rec­ords for the lit­eral files of Ha­vona, for the spir­i­tual files of their or­der, and for the for­mal rec­ords of Par­a­dise. In ad­di­tion they au­to­mat­i­cally trans­mit the trans­ac­tions of true-knowl­edge im­port to the liv­ing li­braries of Par­a­dise, the cus­to­di­ans of knowl­edge of the pri­mary or­der of super­na­phim.

26:3.63. The Broad­cast­ers. The chil­dren of the third Cir­cuit Spirit func­tion through­out Ha­vona, al­though their of­fi­cial sta­tion is lo­cated on planet num­ber sev­enty in the out­er­most cir­cle. These mas­ter tech­ni­cians are the broad­cast re­ceivers and senders of the cen­tral cre­ation and the di­rec­tors of the space re­ports of all De­ity phe­nom­ena on Par­a­dise. They can op­er­ate all of the ba­sic cir­cuits of space.

26:3.74. The Mes­sen­gers take ori­gin on cir­cuit num­ber four. They range the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem as bear­ers of all mes­sages re­quir­ing per­sonal trans­mis­sion. They serve their fel­lows, the ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties, the Par­a­dise pil­grims, and even the as­cen­dant souls of time.

26:3.85. The In­tel­li­gence Co-or­di­na­tors. These ter­tiary super­na­phim, the chil­dren of the fifth Cir­cuit Spirit, are al­ways the wise and sym­pa­thetic pro­mot­ers of fra­ter­nal as­so­ci­a­tion be­tween the as­cend­ing and the de­scend­ing pil­grims. They min­is­ter to all the in­hab­i­tants of Ha­vona, and es­pe­cially to the as­cend­ers, by keep­ing them cur­rently in­formed re­gard­ing the af­fairs of the uni­verse of uni­verses. By virtue of per­sonal con­tacts with the broad­cast­ers and the re­flec­tors, these “liv­ing news­pa­pers” of Ha­vona are in­stantly con­ver­sant with all in­for­ma­tion pass­ing over the vast news cir­cuits of the cen­tral uni­verse. They se­cure in­tel­li­gence by the Ha­vona graph method, which en­ables them au­to­mat­i­cally to as­sim­i­late as much in­for­ma­tion in one hour of Uran­tia time as would re­quire a thou­sand years for your most rapid tele­graphic tech­nique to re­cord.

• C. tertiary supernaphim › types › 6. transport personalities

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.

• C. tertiary supernaphim › types › 7. reserve corps

26:3.107. The Re­serve Corps. The fluc­tu­a­tions in the work with the as­cen­dant be­ings, the Par­a­dise pil­grims, and other or­ders of be­ings so­journ­ing in Ha­vona, make it nec­es­sary to main­tain these re­serves of super­na­phim on the pi­lot world of the sev­enth cir­cle, where they take ori­gin. They are cre­ated with­out spe­cial de­sign and are com­pe­tent to take up ser­vice in the less ex­act­ing phases of any of the du­ties of their super­aphic as­so­ciates of the ter­tiary or­der.

26:4.1The sec­ondary super­na­phim are min­is­ters to the seven plan­e­tary cir­cuits of the cen­tral uni­verse. Part are de­voted to the ser­vice of the pil­grims of time, and one half of the en­tire or­der is as­signed to the train­ing of the Par­a­dise pil­grims of eter­nity. These Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens, in their pil­grim­age through the Ha­vona cir­cuits, are also at­tended by vol­un­teers from the Mor­tal Fi­nal­ity Corps, an ar­range­ment that has pre­vailed since the com­ple­tion of the first fi­nal­i­ter group.

• B. secondary supernaphim › types

26:4.2Ac­cord­ing to their pe­ri­odic as­sign­ment to the min­istry of the as­cend­ing pil­grims, sec­ondary super­na­phim work in the fol­low­ing seven groups:

26:4.31. Pil­grim Helpers.

26:4.42. Su­prem­acy Guides.

26:4.53. Trin­ity Guides.

26:4.64. Son Find­ers.

26:4.75. Fa­ther Guides.

26:4.86. Coun­selors and Ad­vis­ers.

26:4.97. Com­ple­ments of Rest.

26:4.10Each of these work­ing groups con­tains an­gels of all seven cre­ated types, and a pil­grim of space is al­ways tu­tored by sec­ondary super­na­phim of ori­gin in the Mas­ter Spirit who pre­sides over that pil­grim’s super­uni­verse of na­tiv­ity. When you mor­tals of Uran­tia at­tain Ha­vona, you will cer­tainly be pi­loted by super­na­phim whose cre­ated na­tures—like your own evolved na­tures—are de­rived from the Mas­ter Spirit of Or­von­ton. And since your tu­tors spring from the Mas­ter Spirit of your own super­uni­verse, they are es­pe­cially qual­i­fied to un­der­stand, com­fort, and as­sist you in all your ef­forts to at­tain Par­a­dise per­fec­tion.

26:4.11The pil­grims of time are trans­ported past the dark grav­ity bod­ies of Ha­vona to the outer plan­e­tary cir­cuit by the trans­port per­son­al­i­ties of the pri­mary or­der of se­con­a­phim, op­er­at­ing from the head­quar­ters of the seven super­uni­verses. A ma­jor­ity, but not all, of the ser­a­phim of plan­e­tary and lo­cal uni­verse ser­vice who have been ac­cred­ited for the Par­a­dise as­cent will part with their mor­tal as­so­ciates be­fore the long flight to Ha­vona and will at once be­gin a long and in­tense train­ing for su­per­nal as­sign­ment, ex­pect­ing to achieve, as ser­a­phim, per­fec­tion of ex­is­tence and su­prem­acy of ser­vice. And this they do, hop­ing to re­join the pil­grims of time, to be reck­oned among those who for­ever fol­low the course of such mor­tals as have at­tained the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and have re­ceived as­sign­ment to the undis­closed ser­vice of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

26:4.12The pil­grim lands on the re­ceiv­ing planet of Ha­vona, the pi­lot world of the sev­enth cir­cuit, with only one en­dow­ment of per­fec­tion, per­fec­tion of pur­pose. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has de­creed: “Be you per­fect, even as I am per­fect.” That is the as­tound­ing in­vi­ta­tion-com­mand broad­cast to the fi­nite chil­dren of the worlds of space. The pro­mul­ga­tion of that in­junc­tion has set all cre­ation astir in the co-op­er­a­tive ef­fort of the ce­les­tial be­ings to as­sist in bring­ing about the ful­fill­ment and re­al­iza­tion of that tremen­dous com­mand of the First Great Source and Cen­ter.

26:4.13When, through and by the min­istry of all the helper hosts of the uni­ver­sal scheme of sur­vival, you are fi­nally de­posited on the re­ceiv­ing world of Ha­vona, you ar­rive with only one sort of per­fec­tion—per­fec­tion of pur­pose. Your pur­pose has been thor­oughly proved; your faith has been tested. You are known to be dis­ap­point­ment proof. Not even the fail­ure to dis­cern the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther can shake the faith or se­ri­ously dis­turb the trust of an as­cen­dant mor­tal who has passed through the ex­pe­ri­ence that all must tra­verse in or­der to at­tain the per­fect spheres of Ha­vona. By the time you reach Ha­vona, your sin­cer­ity has be­come sub­lime. Per­fec­tion of pur­pose and di­vin­ity of de­sire, with stead­fast­ness of faith, have se­cured your en­trance to the set­tled abodes of eter­nity; your de­liv­er­ance from the un­cer­tain­ties of time is full and com­plete; and now must you come face to face with the prob­lems of Ha­vona and the im­men­si­ties of Par­a­dise, to meet which you have so long been in train­ing in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial epochs of time on the world schools of space.

26:4.14Faith has won for the as­cen­dant pil­grim a per­fec­tion of pur­pose which ad­mits the chil­dren of time to the por­tals of eter­nity. Now must the pil­grim helpers be­gin the work of de­vel­op­ing that per­fec­tion of un­der­stand­ing and that tech­nique of com­pre­hen­sion which are so in­dis­pens­able to Par­a­dise per­fec­tion of per­son­al­ity.

26:4.15Abil­ity to com­pre­hend is the mor­tal pass­port to Par­a­dise. Will­ing­ness to be­lieve is the key to Ha­vona. The ac­cep­tance of son­ship, co-op­er­a­tion with the in­dwelling Ad­juster, is the price of evo­lu­tion­ary sur­vival.

• A. primary supernaphim › general custodians of creature-trinitized sons
• B. secondary supernaphim › general custodians of creature-trinitized sons

26:11.2Among those who dwell on this in­ner cir­cuit are the crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons. The pri­mary and the sec­ondary super­na­phim are the gen­eral cus­to­di­ans of the con­joint corps of these sons, in­clud­ing the trin­i­tized off­spring of the mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters and sim­i­lar progeny of the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens. Cer­tain of these sons are Trin­ity em­braced and com­mis­sioned in the super­gov­ern­ments, oth­ers are var­i­ously as­signed, but the great ma­jor­ity are be­ing gath­ered to­gether in the con­joint corps on the per­fect worlds of the in­ner Ha­vona cir­cuit. Here, un­der the super­vi­sion of the super­na­phim, they are be­ing pre­pared for some fu­ture work by a spe­cial and un­named corps of high Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens who were, prior to the times of Grand­fanda, first ex­ec­u­tive as­sis­tants to the Eter­nals of Days. There are many rea­sons for con­jec­tur­ing that these two unique groups of trin­i­tized be­ings are go­ing to work to­gether in the re­mote fu­ture, not the least of which is their com­mon des­tiny in the re­serves of the Par­a­dise Corps of Trin­i­tized Fi­nal­i­ters.

• A. primary supernaphim › angels of Paradise
• A. primary supernaphim › offspring of Infinite Spirit
• A. primary supernaphim › perfect beings, but not absonite or absolute
• A. primary supernaphim › types work interchangeably

27:0.1Pri­mary super­na­phim are the su­per­nal ser­vants of the De­i­ties on the eter­nal Isle of Par­a­dise. Never have they been known to de­part from the paths of light and righ­teous­ness. The roll calls are com­plete; from eter­nity not one of this mag­nif­i­cent host has been lost. These high super­na­phim are per­fect be­ings, su­preme in per­fec­tion, but they are not ab­so­nite, nei­ther are they ab­so­lute. Be­ing of the essence of per­fec­tion, these chil­dren of the In­fi­nite Spirit work in­ter­change­ably and at will in all phases of their man­i­fold du­ties. They do not func­tion ex­ten­sively out­side Par­a­dise, though they do par­tic­i­pate in the var­i­ous mil­len­nial gath­er­ings and group re­unions of the cen­tral uni­verse. They also go forth as spe­cial mes­sen­gers of the De­i­ties, and in large num­bers they as­cend to be­come Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers.

• A. primary supernaphim › command seraphic hosts on rebellion-isolated worlds

27:0.2Pri­mary super­na­phim are also placed in com­mand of the se­raphic hosts min­is­ter­ing on worlds iso­lated be­cause of re­bel­lion. When a Par­a­dise Son is be­stowed upon such a world, com­pletes his mis­sion, as­cends to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, is ac­cepted, and re­turns as the ac­cred­ited de­liv­erer of this iso­lated world, a pri­mary super­na­phim is al­ways des­ig­nated by the chiefs of as­sign­ment to as­sume com­mand of the min­is­ter­ing spir­its on duty in the newly re­claimed sphere. Super­na­phim in this spe­cial ser­vice are pe­ri­od­i­cally ro­tated. On Uran­tia the pres­ent “chief of ser­a­phim” is the sec­ond of this or­der to be on duty since the times of the be­stowal of Christ Mi­chael.

• A. primary supernaphim › have existed since eternity
• A. primary supernaphim › types

27:0.3From eter­nity the pri­mary super­na­phim have served on the Isle of Light and have gone forth on mis­sions of lead­er­ship to the worlds of space, but they have func­tioned as now clas­si­fied only since the ar­rival on Par­a­dise of the Ha­vona pil­grims of time. These high an­gels now min­is­ter chiefly in the fol­low­ing seven or­ders of ser­vice:

• A. primary supernaphim › angels of Paradise
• B. secondary supernaphim › angels of Havona

28:0.1As the super­na­phim are the an­gelic hosts of the cen­tral uni­verse and the ser­a­phim of the lo­cal uni­verses, so are the se­con­a­phim the min­is­ter­ing spir­its of the super­uni­verses. In de­gree of di­vin­ity and in po­ten­tial of su­prem­acy, how­ever, these chil­dren of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its are much more like super­na­phim than ser­a­phim. They serve not alone in the super­cre­ations, and both nu­mer­ous and in­trigu­ing are the trans­ac­tions spon­sored by their un­re­vealed as­so­ciates.

• A. primary supernaphim › Paradise arrivals associate with

30:4.32Par­a­dise ar­rivals are ac­corded a pe­riod of free­dom, af­ter which they be­gin their as­so­ci­a­tions with the seven groups of the pri­mary super­na­phim. They are des­ig­nated Par­a­dise grad­u­ates when they have fin­ished their course with the con­duc­tors of wor­ship and then, as fi­nal­i­ters, are as­signed on ob­ser­va­tional and co-op­er­a­tive ser­vice to the ends of the far-flung cre­ation. As yet there seems to be no spe­cific or set­tled em­ploy­ment for the Mor­tal Corps of Fi­nal­i­ters, though they serve in many ca­pac­i­ties on worlds set­tled in light and life.

• A. primary supernaphim › planetary chief of seraphim on Urantia is a primary s.

37:8.10Each uni­verse has its own na­tive an­gelic corps; nev­er­the­less, there are oc­ca­sions on which it is very help­ful to have the as­sis­tance of those higher spir­its of ori­gin out­side the lo­cal cre­ation. Super­na­phim per­form cer­tain rare and unique ser­vices; the pres­ent chief of Uran­tia ser­a­phim is a pri­mary super­na­phim of Par­a­dise. The re­flec­tive se­con­a­phim are en­coun­tered wher­ever the super­uni­verse per­son­nel is func­tion­ing, and a great many ter­tiaphim are of tem­po­rary ser­vice as Most High As­sis­tants.

• C. tertiary supernaphim › summon seraphim to Seraphington

39:8.42. To be sum­moned to Seraph­ing­ton. Un­der cer­tain con­di­tions ser­a­phim are com­manded on high; in other cir­cum­stances an­gels some­times achieve Par­a­dise in a much shorter time than mor­tals. But no mat­ter how fit­ted any se­raphic pair may be, they can­not ini­ti­ate de­par­ture for Seraph­ing­ton or else­where. None but suc­cess­ful des­tiny guard­i­ans can be sure of pro­ceed­ing to Par­a­dise by a pro­gres­sive path of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cent. All oth­ers must pa­tiently await the ar­rival of the Par­a­dise mes­sen­gers of the ter­tiary super­na­phim who come with the sum­mons com­mand­ing them to ap­pear on high.

• A. primary supernaphim › planetary chief of seraphim on Urantia is a primary s.

114:6.3As plan­e­tary chief of ser­a­phim, I pre­side over this coun­cil of se­raphic chiefs, and I am a vol­un­teer super­na­phim of the pri­mary or­der serv­ing on Uran­tia as the suc­ces­sor of the one­time chief of the an­gelic hosts of the planet who de­faulted at the time of the Cali­gas­tia se­ces­sion.

• as Paradise Companions, Technical Advisers

25:4.31. The Super­na­phim.

• as Paradise Companions, Technical Advisers

25:8.1The Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions are a com­pos­ite or as­sem­bled group re­cruited from the ranks of the ser­a­phim, se­con­a­phim, super­na­phim, and om­niaphim. Though serv­ing for what you would re­gard as an ex­traor­di­nary length of time, they are not of per­ma­nent sta­tus. When this min­istry has been com­pleted, as a rule (but not in­vari­ably) they re­turn to those du­ties they per­formed when sum­moned to Par­a­dise ser­vice.

• throughout grand universe

26:0.1Super­na­phim are the min­is­ter­ing spir­its of Par­a­dise and the cen­tral uni­verse; they are the high­est or­der of the low­est group of the chil­dren of the In­fi­nite Spirit—the an­gelic hosts. Such min­is­ter­ing spir­its are to be en­coun­tered from the Isle of Par­a­dise to the worlds of time and space. No ma­jor part of the or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ation is with­out their ser­vices.

• as Evangels of Light attached to finaliter companies

31:7.2Any ce­les­tial per­son­al­ity as­signed to the ser­vice of any fi­nal­i­ter corps is de­nom­i­nated an Evan­gel of Light. These be­ings do not take the fi­nal­i­ter oath, and though sub­ject to the corps or­ga­ni­za­tion they are not of per­ma­nent at­tach­ment. This group may em­brace Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, super­na­phim, se­con­a­phim, Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens, or their trin­i­tized off­spring—any be­ing re­quired in the pros­e­cu­tion of a tran­sient fi­nal­i­ter as­sign­ment. Whether or not the corps is to have these be­ings at­tached to the eter­nal mis­sion, we do not know. At the con­clu­sion of at­tach­ment these Evan­gels of Light re­sume their for­mer sta­tus.

• as Most High Assistants

37:4.2From time to time we thus ben­e­fit from the min­istry and as­sis­tance of such Par­a­dise-ori­gin be­ings as Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, Di­vine Coun­selors, Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors, In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, Trin­i­tized Sons, Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, super­na­phim, se­con­a­phim, ter­tiaphim, and other gra­cious min­is­ters, who so­journ with us for the pur­pose of help­ing our na­tive per­son­al­i­ties in the ef­fort to bring all Neb­a­don into fuller har­mony with the ideas of Or­von­ton and the ide­als of Par­a­dise.

• accompanied Michael on seraphic bestowal

119:4.2On the third day af­ter this be­stowal dis­ap­pear­ance we ob­served, in the uni­verse broad­casts to Uversa, this sig­nif­i­cant news item from the se­raphic head­quar­ters of Neb­a­don: “Re­port­ing the unan­nounced ar­rival of an un­known ser­a­phim, ac­com­pa­nied by a soli­tary super­na­phim and Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton. This un­reg­is­tered ser­a­phim qual­i­fies as of the Neb­a­don or­der and bears cre­den­tials from the Uversa An­cients of Days, cer­ti­fied by Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton. This ser­a­phim tests out as be­long­ing to the su­preme or­der of the an­gels of a lo­cal uni­verse and has al­ready been as­signed to the corps of the teach­ing coun­selors.”