Universal Censors

• testimony of

10:2.8I am of ori­gin in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. I know the Trin­ity as uni­fied De­ity; I also know that the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit ex­ist and act in their def­i­nite per­sonal ca­pac­i­ties. I pos­i­tively know that they not only act per­son­ally and col­lec­tively, but that they also co-or­di­nate their per­for­mances in var­i­ous group­ings, so that in the end they func­tion in seven dif­fer­ent sin­gu­lar and plu­ral ca­pac­i­ties. And since these seven as­so­ci­a­tions ex­haust the pos­si­bil­i­ties for such di­vin­ity com­bi­na­tion, it is in­ev­i­ta­ble that the re­al­i­ties of the uni­verse shall ap­pear in seven vari­a­tions of val­ues, mean­ings, and per­son­al­ity.

• service › wrote Papers 10, 15, 16, 29

10:8.10[Spon­sored by a Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor act­ing by au­thor­ity from the An­cients of Days res­i­dent on Uversa.]

• service › on major sectors, superuniverses

15:10.3Each super­uni­verse is pre­sided over by three An­cients of Days, the joint chief ex­ec­u­tives of the super­gov­ern­ment. In its ex­ec­u­tive branch the per­son­nel of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment con­sists of seven dif­fer­ent groups:

15:10.41. An­cients of Days.

15:10.52. Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom.

15:10.63. Di­vine Coun­selors.

15:10.74. Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors.

15:10.85. Mighty Mes­sen­gers.

15:10.96. Those High in Au­thor­ity.

15:10.107. Those with­out Name and Num­ber.

• 8 billion in existence; no more being created
• nature › Trinity origin; are judgment of Deity

15:10.11The three An­cients of Days are im­me­di­ately as­sisted by a corps of one bil­lion Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, with whom are as­so­ci­ated three bil­lion Di­vine Coun­selors. One bil­lion Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors are at­tached to each super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. These three groups are Co-or­di­nate Trin­ity Per­son­al­i­ties, tak­ing ori­gin di­rectly and di­vinely in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

15:10.12The re­main­ing three or­ders, Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber, are glo­ri­fied as­cen­dant mor­tals. The first of these or­ders came up through the as­cen­dant regime and passed through Ha­vona in the days of Grand­fanda. Hav­ing at­tained Par­a­dise, they were mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, em­braced by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, and sub­se­quently as­signed to the su­per­nal ser­vice of the An­cients of Days. As a class, these three or­ders are known as Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment, be­ing of dual ori­gin but now of Trin­ity ser­vice. Thus was the ex­ec­u­tive branch of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment en­larged to in­clude the glo­ri­fied and per­fected chil­dren of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

• service › present evidence in superuniverse courts

15:12.1When we speak of ex­ec­u­tive and de­lib­er­a­tive branches of the Uversa gov­ern­ment, you may, from the anal­ogy of cer­tain forms of Uran­tian civil gov­ern­ment, rea­son that we must have a third or ju­di­cial branch, and we do; but it does not have a sep­a­rate per­son­nel. Our courts are con­sti­tuted as fol­lows: There pre­sides, in ac­cor­dance with the na­ture and grav­ity of the case, an An­cient of Days, a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom, or a Di­vine Coun­selor. The ev­i­dence for or against an in­di­vid­ual, a planet, sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, or uni­verse is pre­sented and in­ter­preted by the Cen­sors. The de­fense of the chil­dren of time and the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets is of­fered by the Mighty Mes­sen­gers, the of­fi­cial ob­servers of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment to the lo­cal uni­verses and sys­tems. The at­ti­tude of the higher gov­ern­ment is por­trayed by Those High in Au­thor­ity. And or­di­nar­ily the ver­dict is for­mu­lated by a vary­ing-sized com­mis­sion con­sist­ing equally of Those with­out Name and Num­ber and a group of un­der­stand­ing per­son­al­i­ties cho­sen from the de­lib­er­a­tive as­sem­bly.

• service › wrote Papers 10, 15, 16, 29

15:14.10[Pre­sented by a Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor hail­ing from Uversa.]

• service › wrote Papers 10, 15, 16, 29

16:9.16[Spon­sored by a Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor from Uversa.]

• service › on major sectors, superuniverses

18:4.4The Per­fec­tions of Days have a mod­er­ate-sized corps of Di­vine Coun­selors, Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, and Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors at­tached to their gov­ern­ments. They have still larger num­bers of Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber. But much of the rou­tine work of ma­jor sec­tor af­fairs is car­ried on by the Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and the High Son As­sis­tants. These two groups are drawn from among the trin­i­tized off­spring of ei­ther Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties or glo­ri­fied mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters. Cer­tain of these two or­ders of crea­ture-trin­i­tized be­ings are re­trini­tized by the Par­a­dise De­i­ties and then are dis­patched to as­sist in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments.

• 8 billion in existence; no more being created

19:0.9Ex­cept­ing the Trin­ity Teacher Sons and pos­si­bly the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, these groups are of def­i­nite num­bers; their cre­ation is a fin­ished and past event.

• associates › Divine Counselors, Perfectors of Wisdom

19:2.2In com­mon with their co-or­di­nates, the Di­vine Coun­selors and the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors, the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom passed through the wis­dom of Par­a­dise, of Ha­vona, and ex­cept for Di­vin­ing­ton, of the Fa­ther’s Par­a­dise spheres. Af­ter these ex­pe­ri­ences the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom were per­ma­nently as­signed to the ser­vice of the An­cients of Days. They serve nei­ther on Par­a­dise nor on the worlds of the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona cir­cuits; they are wholly oc­cu­pied with the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments.

• service › in highest mobile advisory body

19:2.4Wis­dom is two­fold in ori­gin, be­ing de­rived from the per­fec­tion of di­vine in­sight in­her­ent in per­fect be­ings and from the per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence ac­quired by evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures. The Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom are the di­vine wis­dom of the Par­a­dise per­fec­tion of De­ity in­sight. Their ad­min­is­tra­tive as­so­ciates on Uversa, the Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those with­out Name and Num­ber, and Those High in Au­thor­ity, when act­ing to­gether, are the uni­verse wis­dom of ex­pe­ri­ence. A di­vine be­ing can have per­fec­tion of di­vine knowl­edge. An evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tal can some­time at­tain per­fec­tion of as­cen­dant knowl­edge, but nei­ther of these be­ings alone ex­hausts the po­ten­tials of all pos­si­ble wis­dom. Ac­cord­ingly, when­ever in the con­duct of the super­uni­verse it is de­sired to achieve the max­i­mum of ad­min­is­tra­tive wis­dom, these per­fec­tors of the wis­dom of di­vine in­sight are al­ways as­so­ci­ated with those as­cen­dant per­son­al­i­ties who have come up to the high re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of super­uni­verse au­thor­ity through the ex­pe­ri­en­tial tribu­la­tions of evo­lu­tion­ary pro­gres­sion.

• service › with associates, are highest source of truth on evolutionary planets

19:2.6The ver­sa­til­ity of the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom en­ables them to par­tic­i­pate in prac­ti­cally all of the ce­les­tial ser­vices of the as­cen­dant crea­tures. The Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom and my or­der of per­son­al­ity, the Di­vine Coun­selors, to­gether with the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors, con­sti­tute the high­est or­ders of be­ings who may and do en­gage in the work of re­veal­ing truth to the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets and sys­tems, whether in their ear­lier epochs or when set­tled in light and life. From time to time we all make con­tact with the ser­vice of the as­cend­ing mor­tals, from an ini­tial-life planet on up through a lo­cal uni­verse and the super­uni­verse, par­tic­u­larly the lat­ter.

• service › in highest mobile advisory body

19:3.4One Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom, seven Di­vine Coun­selors, and one Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor con­sti­tute a tri­bu­nal of Trin­ity di­vin­ity, the high­est mo­bile ad­vi­sory body in the uni­verses of time and space. Such a group of nine is known ei­ther as a fact-find­ing or as a truth-re­veal­ing tri­bu­nal, and when it sits in judg­ment upon a prob­lem and ren­ders a de­ci­sion, it is just as if an An­cient of Days had ad­ju­di­cated the mat­ter, for in all the an­nals of the super­uni­verses such a ver­dict has never been re­versed by the An­cients of Days.

19:3.5When the three An­cients of Days func­tion, the Par­a­dise Trin­ity func­tions. When the tri­bu­nal of nine ar­rives at a de­ci­sion fol­low­ing its united de­lib­er­a­tions, to all in­tents and pur­poses the An­cients of Days have spo­ken. And it is in this man­ner that the Par­a­dise Rulers make per­sonal con­tact, in ad­min­is­tra­tive mat­ters and gov­ern­men­tal reg­u­la­tion, with the in­di­vid­ual worlds, sys­tems, and uni­verses.

19:3.6Di­vine Coun­selors are the per­fec­tion of the di­vine coun­sel of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. We rep­re­sent, in fact are, the coun­sel of per­fec­tion. When we are sup­ple­mented by the ex­pe­ri­en­tial coun­sel of our as­so­ciates, the per­fected and Trin­ity-em­braced be­ings of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cent, our com­bined con­clu­sions are not only com­plete but re­plete. When our united coun­sel has been as­so­ci­ated, ad­ju­di­cated, con­firmed, and pro­mul­gated by a Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor, it is very prob­a­ble that it ap­proaches the thresh­old of uni­ver­sal to­tal­ity. Such ver­dicts rep­re­sent the near­est pos­si­ble ap­proach to the ab­so­lute at­ti­tude of De­ity within the time-space lim­its of the sit­u­a­tion in­volved and the prob­lem con­cerned.

19:3.7Seven Di­vine Coun­selors in li­ai­son with a trin­i­tized evo­lu­tion­ary trio—a Mighty Mes­sen­ger, One High in Au­thor­ity, and One with­out Name and Num­ber—rep­re­sent the near­est super­uni­verse ap­proach to the union of the hu­man view­point and the di­vine at­ti­tude on near-par­a­di­si­a­cal lev­els of spir­i­tual mean­ings and re­al­ity val­ues. Such close ap­prox­i­ma­tion of the united cos­mic at­ti­tudes of the crea­ture and the Cre­ator is only sur­passed in the Par­a­dise be­stowal Sons, who are, in ev­ery phase of per­son­al­ity ex­pe­ri­ence, God and man.

• 8 billion in existence; no more being created
• nature › Trinity origin; are judgment of Deity
• service › Ancients of Days never sit in judgment without

19:4.1There are ex­actly eight bil­lion Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors in ex­is­tence. These unique be­ings are the judg­ment of De­ity. They are not merely re­flec­tive of the de­ci­sions of per­fec­tion; they are the judg­ment of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. Even the An­cients of Days do not sit in judg­ment ex­cept in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors.

• service › one assigned to each Havona world

19:4.2One Cen­sor is com­mis­sioned on each of the bil­lion worlds of the cen­tral uni­verse, be­ing at­tached to the plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion of the res­i­dent Eter­nal of Days. Nei­ther Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom nor Di­vine Coun­selors are thus per­ma­nently at­tached to the Ha­vona ad­min­is­tra­tions, nor do we al­to­gether un­der­stand why Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors are sta­tioned in the cen­tral uni­verse. Their pres­ent ac­tiv­i­ties hardly ac­count for their as­sign­ment in Ha­vona, and we there­fore sus­pect that they are there in an­tic­i­pa­tion of the needs of some fu­ture uni­verse age in which the Ha­vona pop­u­la­tion may par­tially change.

• service › on major sectors, superuniverses
• service › organic part of all dispensational adjudications

19:4.3One bil­lion Cen­sors are as­signed to each of the seven super­uni­verses. Both in an in­di­vid­ual ca­pac­ity and in as­so­ci­a­tion with Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom and Di­vine Coun­selors, they op­er­ate through­out all di­vi­sions of the seven super­uni­verses. Thus the Cen­sors act on all lev­els of the grand uni­verse, from the per­fect worlds of Ha­vona to the coun­cils of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, and they are an or­ganic part of all dis­pen­sa­tional ad­ju­di­ca­tions of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

• associates › Divine Counselors, Perfectors of Wisdom
• nature › represent “I am” of justice

19:4.4When­ever and wher­ever a Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor is pres­ent, then and there is the judg­ment of De­ity. And since the Cen­sors al­ways ren­der their ver­dicts in li­ai­son with Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom and Di­vine Coun­selors, such de­ci­sions em­brace the united wis­dom, coun­sel, and judg­ment of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. In this ju­ridi­cal trio the Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom would be the “I was,” the Di­vine Coun­selor the “I will be,” but the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor is al­ways “I am.”

• having spoken, there is no appeal from decisions of
• nature › totaling personalities

19:4.5The Cen­sors are uni­verse to­tal­ing per­son­al­i­ties. When a thou­sand wit­nesses have given tes­ti­mony—or a mil­lion—when the voice of wis­dom has spo­ken and the coun­sel of di­vin­ity has re­corded, when the tes­ti­mony of as­cen­dant per­fec­tion has been added, then the Cen­sor func­tions, and there is im­me­di­ately re­vealed an unerring and di­vine to­tal­ing of all that has tran­spired; and such a dis­clo­sure rep­re­sents the di­vine con­clu­sion, the sum and sub­stance of a fi­nal and per­fect de­ci­sion. There­fore, when a Cen­sor has spo­ken, no one else may speak, for the Cen­sor has de­picted the true and un­mis­tak­able to­tal of all that has gone be­fore. When he speaks, there is no ap­peal.

• nature › decisions unpredictable

19:4.6Most fully do I un­der­stand the op­er­a­tion of the mind of a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom, but I cer­tainly do not fully com­pre­hend the work­ing of the ad­ju­di­cat­ing mind of a Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor. It ap­pears to me that the Cen­sors for­mu­late new mean­ings and orig­i­nate new val­ues from the as­so­ci­a­tion of the facts, truths, and find­ings pre­sented to them in the course of an in­ves­ti­ga­tion of uni­verse af­fairs. It seems prob­a­ble that the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors are able to bring forth orig­i­nal in­ter­pre­ta­tions of the com­bi­na­tion of per­fect Cre­ator in­sight and the per­fected crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence. This as­so­ci­a­tion of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion and uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence un­doubt­edly even­tu­ates a new value in ul­ti­mates.

• associates › liaison with Deity Absolute

19:4.7But this is not the end of our dif­fi­cul­ties re­gard­ing the work­ing of the minds of the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors. Hav­ing made due al­lowances for all that we know or con­jec­ture about the func­tion­ing of a Cen­sor in any given uni­verse sit­u­a­tion, we find that we are still un­able to pre­dict de­ci­sions or to fore­cast ver­dicts. We very ac­cu­rately de­ter­mine the prob­a­ble re­sult of the as­so­ci­a­tion of Cre­ator at­ti­tude and crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence, but such con­clu­sions are not al­ways ac­cu­rate fore­casts of Cen­sor dis­clo­sures. It seems likely that the Cen­sors are in some man­ner in li­ai­son with the De­ity Ab­so­lute; we are oth­er­wise un­able to ex­plain many of their de­ci­sions and rul­ings.

19:4.8Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, Di­vine Coun­selors, and Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors, to­gether with the seven or­ders of Su­preme Trin­ity Per­son­al­i­ties, con­sti­tute those ten groups which have been some­times des­ig­nated Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity. To­gether they com­prise the grand corps of Trin­ity ad­min­is­tra­tors, rulers, ex­ec­u­tives, ad­vis­ers, coun­selors, and judges. Their num­bers slightly ex­ceed thirty-seven bil­lion. Two bil­lion and sev­enty are sta­tioned in the cen­tral uni­verse and just over five bil­lion in each super­uni­verse.

19:4.9It is very dif­fi­cult to por­tray the func­tional lim­its of the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity. It would be in­cor­rect to state that their acts are fi­nite lim­ited, for there are trans­ac­tions of super­uni­verse rec­ord which in­di­cate oth­er­wise. They act on any level of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion or ad­ju­di­ca­tion that may be re­quired by time-space con­di­tions and that per­tains to the past, pres­ent, and fu­ture evo­lu­tion of the mas­ter uni­verse.

• associates › High Son Assistants serve as clerks for

22:10.1The High Son As­sis­tants are the su­pe­rior group of the re­trini­tized trin­i­tized sons of glo­ri­fied as­cen­dant be­ings of the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity and of their eter­nal as­so­ciates, the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties. They are as­signed to the super­uni­verse ser­vice and func­tion as per­sonal aids to the high sons of the gov­ern­ments of the An­cients of Days. They might fit­tingly be de­nom­i­nated pri­vate sec­re­taries. They act, from time to time, as clerks for spe­cial com­mis­sions and other group as­so­ci­a­tions of the high sons. They serve Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, Di­vine Coun­selors, Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors, Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber.

• associates › Technical Advisers aid

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.

• associates › Discerners of Spirits are reflective associates

28:3.1The sec­o­raphic hosts are pro­duced by the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its as­signed to the head­quar­ters of each super­uni­verse. There is a def­i­nite Par­a­dise-re­spon­sive tech­nique as­so­ci­ated with the cre­ation of these an­gels in groups of seven. In each seven there are al­ways one pri­mary, three sec­ondary, and three ter­tiary se­con­a­phim; they al­ways per­son­al­ize in this ex­act pro­por­tion. When seven such se­con­a­phim are cre­ated, one, the pri­mary, be­comes at­tached to the ser­vice of the An­cients of Days. The three sec­ondary an­gels are as­so­ci­ated with three groups of Par­a­dise-ori­gin ad­min­is­tra­tors in the super­gov­ern­ments: the Di­vine Coun­selors, the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, and the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors. The three ter­tiary an­gels are at­tached to the as­cen­dant trin­i­tized as­so­ciates of the super­uni­verse rulers: the Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber.

• associates › Discerners of Spirits are reflective associates

28:5.5To the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors—the Dis­cern­ers of Spir­its.

• service › rule as to motivation of person offering advice

28:5.9If con­fu­sion arises re­gard­ing the har­mo­niza­tion of these two ver­sions of wis­dom, im­me­di­ate ap­peal is made to the Di­vine Coun­selors, who forth­with rule as to the proper com­bi­na­tion of pro­ce­dures. If there is any doubt as to the au­then­tic­ity of some­thing com­ing in from realms where re­bel­lion has been rife, ap­peal is made to the Cen­sors, who, with their Dis­cern­ers of Spir­its, are able to rule im­me­di­ately as to “what man­ner of spirit” ac­tu­ated the ad­viser. So are the wis­dom of the ages and the in­tel­lect of the mo­ment ever pres­ent with the An­cients of Days, like an open book be­fore their benef­i­cent gaze.

• associates › Discerners of Spirits are reflective associates

28:5.197. The Dis­cerner of Spir­its. A spe­cial li­ai­son ex­ists be­tween the coun­selors and ad­vis­ers of the sec­ond Ha­vona cir­cle and these re­flec­tive an­gels. They are the only se­con­a­phim at­tached to the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors but are prob­a­bly the most uniquely spe­cial­ized of all their fel­lows. Re­gard­less of the source or chan­nel of in­for­ma­tion, no mat­ter how mea­ger the ev­i­dence at hand, when it is sub­jected to their re­flec­tive scrutiny, these dis­cern­ers will forth­with in­form us as to the true mo­tive, the ac­tual pur­pose, and the real na­ture of its ori­gin. I mar­vel at the su­perb func­tion­ing of these an­gels, who so unerringly re­flect the ac­tual moral and spir­i­tual char­ac­ter of any in­di­vid­ual con­cerned in a fo­cal ex­po­sure.

28:5.20The Dis­cern­ers of Spir­its carry on these in­tri­cate ser­vices by virtue of in­her­ent “spir­i­tual in­sight,” if I may use such words in an en­deavor to con­vey to the hu­man mind the thought that these re­flec­tive an­gels thus func­tion in­tu­itively, in­her­ently, and unerringly. When the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors be­hold these pre­sen­ta­tions, they are face to face with the naked soul of the re­flected in­di­vid­ual; and this very cer­tainty and per­fec­tion of por­trai­ture in part ex­plains why the Cen­sors can al­ways func­tion so justly as righ­teous judges. The dis­cern­ers al­ways ac­com­pany the Cen­sors on any mis­sion away from Uversa, and they are just as ef­fec­tive out in the uni­verses as at their Uversa head­quar­ters.

28:5.21I as­sure you that all these trans­ac­tions of the spirit world are real, that they take place in ac­cor­dance with es­tab­lished us­ages and in har­mony with the im­mutable laws of the uni­ver­sal do­mains. The be­ings of ev­ery newly cre­ated or­der, im­me­di­ately upon re­ceiv­ing the breath of life, are in­stantly re­flected on high; a liv­ing por­trayal of the crea­ture na­ture and po­ten­tial is flashed to the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters. Thus, by means of the dis­cern­ers, are the Cen­sors made fully cog­nizant of ex­actly “what man­ner of spirit” has been born on the worlds of space.

28:5.22So it is with mor­tal man: The Mother Spirit of Sal­ving­ton knows you fully, for the Holy Spirit on your world “searches all things,” and what­so­ever the di­vine Spirit knows of you is im­me­di­ately avail­able when­ever the sec­o­raphic dis­cern­ers re­flect with the Spirit con­cern­ing the Spirit’s knowl­edge of you. It should, how­ever, be men­tioned that the knowl­edge and plans of the Fa­ther frag­ments are not re­flectible. The dis­cern­ers can and do re­flect the pres­ence of the Ad­justers (and the Cen­sors pro­nounce them di­vine), but they can­not de­ci­pher the con­tent of the mind­ed­ness of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors.

• service › wrote Papers 10, 15, 16, 29

29:5.8[Spon­sored by a Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor act­ing by au­thor­ity of the An­cients of Days on Uversa.]

• in personality registers

30:1.1710. Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors.

• in personality registers

30:2.3311. Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors.

• service › 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.

• residence in Jerusem circles

46:5.15The fourth cir­cle is the home of the Voron­dadeks and all other or­ders of the vis­it­ing and ob­server Sons who are not oth­er­wise pro­vided for. The Most High Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers take up their abode in this cir­cle when on vis­its of in­spec­tion to the lo­cal sys­tem. Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, Di­vine Coun­selors, and Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors all re­side in this cir­cle when on duty in the sys­tem.

• service › gain epitome of subject’s life from Adjuster; confirm opinion of Adjuster and seraphim

112:4.2In some way not fully un­der­stood, the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors are able to gain pos­ses­sion of an epit­ome of the hu­man life as it is em­bod­ied in the Ad­juster’s du­pli­cate tran­scrip­tion of the spir­i­tual val­ues and mor­ontia mean­ings of the in­dwelt mind. The Cen­sors are able to ap­pro­pri­ate the Ad­juster’s ver­sion of the de­ceased hu­man’s sur­vival char­ac­ter and spir­i­tual qual­i­ties, and all this data, to­gether with the se­raphic rec­ords, is avail­able for pre­sen­ta­tion at the time of the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the in­di­vid­ual con­cerned. This in­for­ma­tion is also used to con­firm those super­uni­verse man­dates which make it pos­si­ble for cer­tain as­cend­ers im­me­di­ately to be­gin their mor­ontia ca­reers, upon mor­tal dis­so­lu­tion to pro­ceed to the man­sion worlds ahead of the for­mal ter­mi­na­tion of a plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tion.

• service › gain epitome of subject’s life from Adjuster; confirm opinion of Adjuster and seraphim

112:4.12If, when death over­takes you, you have at­tained the third cir­cle or a higher realm and there­fore have had as­signed to you a per­sonal guard­ian of des­tiny, and if the fi­nal tran­script of the sum­mary of sur­vival char­ac­ter sub­mit­ted by the Ad­juster is un­con­di­tion­ally cer­ti­fied by the des­tiny guard­ian—if both ser­a­phim and Ad­juster es­sen­tially agree in ev­ery item of their life rec­ords and rec­om­men­da­tions—if the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors and their re­flec­tive as­so­ciates on Uversa con­firm this data and do so with­out equiv­o­ca­tion or reser­va­tion, in that event the An­cients of Days flash forth the man­date of ad­vanced stand­ing over the com­mu­ni­ca­tion cir­cuits to Sal­ving­ton, and, thus re­leased, the tri­bu­nals of the Sov­er­eign of Neb­a­don will de­cree the im­me­di­ate pas­sage of the sur­viv­ing soul to the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the man­sion worlds.

• service › retain records of human life as it was lived

112:6.4In the mor­ontia es­tate the as­cend­ing mor­tal is en­dowed with the Neb­a­don mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the cos­mic-mind en­dow­ment of the Mas­ter Spirit of Or­von­ton. The mor­tal in­tel­lect, as such, has per­ished, has ceased to ex­ist as a fo­cal­ized uni­verse en­tity apart from the un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated mind cir­cuits of the Cre­ative Spirit. But the mean­ings and val­ues of the mor­tal mind have not per­ished. Cer­tain phases of mind are con­tin­ued in the sur­viv­ing soul; cer­tain ex­pe­ri­en­tial val­ues of the for­mer hu­man mind are held by the Ad­juster; and there per­sist in the lo­cal uni­verse the rec­ords of the hu­man life as it was lived in the flesh, to­gether with cer­tain liv­ing reg­is­tra­tions in the nu­mer­ous be­ings who are con­cerned with the fi­nal eval­u­a­tion of the as­cend­ing mor­tal, be­ings ex­tend­ing in range from ser­a­phim to Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors and prob­a­bly on be­yond to the Su­preme.

• service › took from rebel guardian angels all soul trusts

113:6.10All per­sonal and group guard­i­ans in the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia who went astray in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, not­with­stand­ing that many sin­cerely re­pented of their folly, are to be de­tained on Je­ru­sem un­til the fi­nal ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the re­bel­lion. Al­ready have the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors ar­bi­trar­ily taken from these dis­obe­di­ent and un­faith­ful guard­i­ans all as­pects of their soul trusts and lodged these mor­ontia re­al­i­ties for safe­keep­ing in the cus­tody of vol­un­teer se­con­a­phim.