Technical Advisers

25:4.1These le­gal and tech­ni­cal minds of the spirit world were not cre­ated as such. From the early super­na­phim and om­niaphim, one mil­lion of the most or­derly minds were cho­sen by the In­fi­nite Spirit as the nu­cleus of this vast and ver­sa­tile group. And ever since that far-dis­tant time, ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in the ap­pli­ca­tion of the laws of per­fec­tion to the plans of evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ation has been re­quired of all who as­pire to be­come Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers.

25:4.2The Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers are re­cruited from the ranks of the fol­low­ing per­son­al­ity or­ders:

25:4.31. The Super­na­phim.

25:4.42. The Se­con­a­phim.

25:4.53. The Ter­tiaphim.

25:4.64. The Om­niaphim.

25:4.75. The Ser­a­phim.

25:4.86. Cer­tain Types of As­cend­ing Mor­tals.

25:4.97. Cer­tain Types of As­cend­ing Mid­way­ers.

25:4.10At the pres­ent time, not count­ing the mor­tals and mid­way­ers who are all of tran­sient at­tach­ment, the num­ber of Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers reg­is­tered on Uversa and op­er­at­ing in Or­von­ton is slightly in ex­cess of sixty-one tril­lion.

25:4.11Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers fre­quently func­tion as in­di­vid­u­als but are or­ga­nized for ser­vice and main­tain com­mon head­quar­ters on the spheres of as­sign­ment in groups of seven. In each group at least five must be of per­ma­nent sta­tus, while two may be of tem­po­rary as­so­ci­a­tion. As­cend­ing mor­tals and as­cend­ing mid­way crea­tures serve on these ad­vi­sory com­mis­sions while pur­su­ing the Par­a­dise as­cent, but they do not en­ter the reg­u­lar courses of train­ing for Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers, nor do they ever be­come per­ma­nent mem­bers of the or­der.

25:4.12Those mor­tals and mid­way­ers who serve tran­siently with the ad­vis­ers are cho­sen for such work be­cause of their ex­pert­ness in the con­cept of uni­ver­sal law and su­preme jus­tice. As you jour­ney to­ward your Par­a­dise goal, con­stantly ac­quir­ing added knowl­edge and en­hanced skill, you are con­tin­u­ously af­forded the op­por­tu­nity to give out to oth­ers the wis­dom and ex­pe­ri­ence you have al­ready ac­cu­mu­lated; all the way in to Ha­vona you en­act the role of a pupil-teacher. You will work your way through the as­cend­ing lev­els of this vast ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­ver­sity by im­part­ing to those just be­low you the new-found knowl­edge of your ad­vanc­ing ca­reer. In the uni­ver­sal regime you are not reck­oned as hav­ing pos­sessed your­self of knowl­edge and truth un­til you have demon­strated your abil­ity and your will­ing­ness to im­part this knowl­edge and truth to oth­ers.

25:4.13Af­ter long train­ing and ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence, any of the min­is­ter­ing spir­its above the sta­tus of cheru­bim are per­mit­ted to re­ceive per­ma­nent ap­point­ment as Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers. All can­di­dates vol­un­tar­ily en­ter this or­der of ser­vice; but hav­ing once as­sumed such re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, they may not re­lin­quish them. Only the An­cients of Days can trans­fer these ad­vis­ers to other ac­tiv­i­ties.

25:4.14The train­ing of Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers, be­gun in the Mel­chiz­e­dek col­leges of the lo­cal uni­verses, con­tin­ues to the courts of the An­cients of Days. From this super­uni­verse train­ing they pro­ceed to the “schools of the seven cir­cles” lo­cated on the pi­lot worlds of the Ha­vona cir­cuits. And from the pi­lot worlds they are re­ceived into the “col­lege of the ethics of law and the tech­nique of Su­prem­acy,” the Par­a­dise train­ing school for the per­fect­ing of Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers.

25:4.15These ad­vis­ers are more than le­gal ex­perts; they are stu­dents and teach­ers of ap­plied law, the laws of the uni­verse ap­plied to the lives and des­tinies of all who in­habit the vast do­mains of the far-flung cre­ation. As time passes, they be­come the liv­ing law li­braries of time and space, pre­vent­ing end­less trou­ble and need­less de­lays by in­struct­ing the per­son­al­i­ties of time re­gard­ing the forms and modes of pro­ce­dure most ac­cept­able to the rulers of eter­nity. They are able so to coun­sel the work­ers of space as to en­able them to func­tion in har­mony with the re­quire­ments of Par­a­dise; they are the teach­ers of all crea­tures con­cern­ing the tech­nique of the Cre­ators.

25:4.16Such a liv­ing li­brary of ap­plied law could not be cre­ated; such be­ings must be evolved by ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence. The in­fi­nite De­i­ties are ex­is­ten­tial, hence are com­pen­sated for lack of ex­pe­ri­ence; they know all even be­fore they ex­pe­ri­ence all, but they do not im­part this non­ex­pe­ri­en­tial knowl­edge to their sub­or­di­nate crea­tures.

25:4.17Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers are ded­i­cated to the work of pre­vent­ing de­lay, fa­cil­i­tat­ing prog­ress, and coun­sel­ing achieve­ment. There is al­ways a best and right way to do things; there is al­ways the tech­nique of per­fec­tion, a di­vine method, and these ad­vis­ers know how to di­rect us all in the find­ing of this bet­ter way.

25:4.18These ex­ceed­ingly wise and prac­ti­cal be­ings are al­ways closely as­so­ci­ated with the ser­vice and work of the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors. The Mel­chiz­e­deks are pro­vided with an able corps. The rulers of the sys­tems, con­stel­la­tions, uni­verses, and super­uni­verse sec­tors are all boun­ti­fully sup­plied with these tech­ni­cal or le­gal ref­er­ence minds of the spir­i­tual world. A spe­cial group act as law coun­selors to the Life Car­ri­ers, ad­vis­ing these Sons con­cern­ing the ex­tent of per­mis­si­ble de­par­ture from the es­tab­lished or­der of life prop­a­ga­tion and oth­er­wise in­struct­ing them re­spect­ing their pre­rog­a­tives and lat­i­tudes of func­tion. They are the ad­vis­ers of all classes of be­ings re­gard­ing the proper us­ages and tech­niques of all spirit-world trans­ac­tions. But they do not di­rectly and per­son­ally deal with the ma­te­rial crea­tures of the realms.

25:4.19Be­sides coun­sel­ing re­gard­ing le­gal us­ages, Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers are equally de­voted to the ef­fi­cient in­ter­pre­ta­tion of all laws con­cern­ing crea­ture be­ings—phys­i­cal, mindal, and spir­i­tual. They are avail­able to the Uni­ver­sal Con­cil­ia­tors and to all oth­ers who de­sire to know the truth of law; in other words, to know how the Su­prem­acy of De­ity may be de­pended upon to re­act in a given sit­u­a­tion hav­ing fac­tors of an es­tab­lished phys­i­cal, mindal, and spir­i­tual or­der. They even es­say to elu­ci­date the tech­nique of the Ul­ti­mate.

25:4.20Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers are se­lected and tested be­ings; I have never known one of them to go astray. We have no rec­ords on Uversa of their ever hav­ing been ad­judged in con­tempt of the di­vine laws they so ef­fec­tively in­ter­pret and so elo­quently ex­pound. There is no known limit to the do­main of their ser­vice, nei­ther has any been placed upon their prog­ress. They con­tinue as ad­vis­ers even to the por­tals of Par­a­dise; the whole uni­verse of law and ex­pe­ri­ence is open to them.

46:5.21The first cir­cle of the an­gels is oc­cu­pied by the Higher Per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit who may be sta­tioned on the head­quar­ters world—Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers and their as­so­ciates. The sec­ond cir­cle is ded­i­cated to the mes­sen­ger hosts, Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers, com­pan­ions, in­spec­tors, and re­cord­ers as they may chance to func­tion on Je­ru­sem from time to time. The third cir­cle is held by the min­is­ter­ing spir­its of the higher or­ders and group­ings.

47:0.4The seven man­sion worlds are in charge of the mor­ontia super­vi­sors and the Mel­chiz­e­deks. There is an act­ing gov­er­nor on each world who is di­rectly re­spon­si­ble to the Je­ru­sem rulers. The Uversa con­cil­ia­tors main­tain head­quar­ters on each of the man­sion worlds, while ad­join­ing is the lo­cal ren­dezvous of the Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers. The re­ver­sion di­rec­tors and ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans main­tain group head­quar­ters on each of these worlds. The spironga func­tion from man­sion world num­ber two on­ward, while all seven, in com­mon with the other tran­si­tional-cul­ture plan­ets and the head­quar­ters world, are abun­dantly pro­vided with sporna­gia of stan­dard cre­ation.

30:2.773. Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers.

37:8.7Of the Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers, the le­gal minds of the realm, we have our quota, about one-half bil­lion. These be­ings are the liv­ing and cir­cu­lat­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial law li­braries of all space.

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.

39:8.31. To gain ad­mis­sion to the Par­a­dise se­raphic abode in a per­sonal ca­pac­ity by achiev­ing per­fec­tion of spe­cial­ized ser­vice as a ce­les­tial ar­ti­san, a Tech­ni­cal Ad­viser, or a Ce­les­tial Re­corder. To be­come a Par­a­dise Com­pan­ion and, hav­ing thus at­tained the cen­ter of all things, per­haps then to be­come an eter­nal min­is­ter and ad­viser to the se­raphic or­ders and oth­ers.