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Voices of Wisdom

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Every paragraph the index cites under Voices of Wisdom, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

28:5.71. The Voice of Wis­dom. Cer­tain of these se­con­a­phim are in per­pet­ual li­ai­son with the liv­ing li­braries of Par­a­dise, the cus­to­di­ans of knowl­edge be­long­ing to the pri­mary super­na­phim. In spe­cial­ized re­flec­tive ser­vice the Voices of Wis­dom are liv­ing, cur­rent, re­plete, and thor­oughly re­li­able con­cen­tra­tions and fo­cal­iza­tions of the co-or­di­nated wis­dom of the uni­verse of uni­verses. To the well-nigh in­fi­nite vol­ume of in­for­ma­tion cir­cu­lat­ing on the mas­ter cir­cuits of the super­uni­verses, these su­perb be­ings are so re­flec­tive and se­lec­tive, so sen­si­tive, as to be able to seg­re­gate and re­ceive the essence of wis­dom and unerringly to trans­mit these jew­els of men­ta­tion to their su­pe­ri­ors, the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom. And they so func­tion that the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom not only hear the ac­tual and orig­i­nal ex­pres­sions of this wis­dom but also re­flec­tively see the very be­ings, of high or lowly ori­gin, who gave voice to it.

28:5.8It is writ­ten, “If any man lack wis­dom, let him ask.” On Uversa, when it be­comes nec­es­sary to ar­rive at the de­ci­sions of wis­dom in the per­plex­ing sit­u­a­tions of the com­plex af­fairs of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment, when both the wis­dom of per­fec­tion and of prac­ti­ca­bil­ity must be forth­com­ing, then do the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom sum­mon a bat­tery of the Voices of Wis­dom and, by the con­sum­mate skill of their or­der, so at­tune and di­rec­tion­ize these liv­ing re­ceivers of the en­minded and cir­cu­lat­ing wis­dom of the uni­verse of uni­verses that pres­ently, from these sec­o­raphic voices, there en­sues a stream of the wis­dom of di­vin­ity from the uni­verse above and a flood of the wis­dom of prac­ti­cal­ity from the higher minds of the uni­verses be­low.

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.

28:5.10You can just faintly com­pre­hend what all this means to those who are re­spon­si­ble for the con­duct of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments. The im­men­sity and the com­pre­hen­sive­ness of these trans­ac­tions are quite be­yond fi­nite con­cep­tion. When you stand, as I re­peat­edly have, in the spe­cial re­ceiv­ing cham­bers of the tem­ple of wis­dom on Uversa and see all this in ac­tual op­er­a­tion, you will be moved to ado­ra­tion by the per­fec­tion of the com­plex­ity, and by the surety of the work­ing, of the in­ter­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tions of the uni­verses. You will pay homage to the di­vine wis­dom and good­ness of the Gods, who plan and ex­e­cute with such su­perb tech­nique. And these things ac­tu­ally hap­pen just as I have por­trayed them.

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See also seconaphim

Cited alongside: wisdom, Perfectors of Wisdom, reflectivity