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#REDIRECT [[Paper 44 - The Celestial Artisans]]
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Among the courtesy colonies of the various [[division]]al and [[Salvington|universe headquarters worlds]], may be found the [[unique]] order of [[composite]] [[personalities]] denominated the ''celestial artisans''. These [[beings]] are the master artists and artisans of the [[morontia]] and lower [[spirit]] realms. They are the spirits and semispirits who are engaged in [[morontia]] embellishment and in [[spiritual]] [[beautification]]. Such artisans are [[distributed]] throughout the [[grand universe]]—on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Seven_superuniverse#15:7._THE_ARCHITECTURAL_SPHERES headquarters worlds] of the [[superuniverses]], the [[local universes]], the [[constellations]], and [[the System|systems]], as well as on all [[spheres]] settled in [[light and life]]; but their chief realm of [[activity]] is in the [[constellations]] and especially on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Constellation#PAPER_43:_THE_CONSTELLATIONS seven hundred seventy worlds] surrounding each [[Edentia|headquarters sphere]].
Though their [[work]] may be almost incomprehensible to the [[material]] [[mind]], it should be [[understood]] that the [[morontia]] and [[spirit]] worlds are not without their high [[arts]] and [[supernal]] [[cultures]].
The ''celestial artisans'' are not [[created]] as such; they are a selected and recruited corps of [[beings]] composed of certain [[teacher]] [[personalities]] [[native]] to the [[central universe]] and their [[volunteer]] [[pupils]] drawn from the [[ascending mortals]] and numerous other [[celestial]] [[groups]]. The [[original]] teaching corps of these [[artisans]] was sometime assigned by the [[Infinite Spirit]] in [[collaboration]] with the [[Seven Master Spirits]] and consisted of seven thousand [[Havona]] instructors, one thousand to each of the seven divisions of artisans. With such a [[nucleus]] to start with, there has [[developed]] through the ages this [[brilliant]] [[body]] of [[skill]]ful workers in [[spirit]] and [[morontia]] affairs.
Any [[morontia]] [[personality]] or [[spirit]] [[entity]] is eligible for admission to the corps of the celestial artisans; that is, any being below the rank of [[inherent]] divine sonship. [[Ascending sons of God]] from the [[evolutionary]] [[spheres]] may, after their arrival on the [[morontia worlds]], apply for admission to the artisan corps and, if sufficiently gifted, may choose such a [[career]] for a longer or shorter period. But no one may enlist with the celestial artisans for less than one [[millennium]], one thousand years of [[superuniverse]] [[time]].
All celestial artisans are registered on the [[superuniverse]] [[headquarters]] but are directed by [[morontia]] supervisors on the [[local universe]] capitals. They are commissioned in the following [[seven]] major [[divisions]] of [[activity]] by the central corps of [[morontia]] supervisors [[functioning]] on the [[headquarters]] world of each [[local universe]]:
*1. ''[[44:1|Celestial Musicians]]''.
*2. ''[[44:2|Heavenly Reproducers]]''.
*3. ''[[44:3|Divine Builders]]''.
*4. ''[[44:4|Thought Recorders]]''.
*5. ''[[44:5|Energy Manipulators]]''.
*6. ''[[44:6|Designers and Embellishers]]''.
*7. ''[[44:7|Harmony Workers]]''.
The [[original]] [[teachers]] of these [[seven]] [[groups]] all hailed from the [[perfect]] worlds of [[Havona]], and Havona contains the [[patterns]], the pattern [[studies]], for all [[phases]] and [[forms]] of [[spirit]] [[artistry]]. While it is a gigantic task to undertake to [[transfer]] these [[arts]] of [[Havona]] to the [[worlds of space]], the celestial artisans have improved in [[technique]] and [[execution]] from [[age]] to age. As in all other [[phases]] of the [[ascending career]] those who are most advanced in any line of endeavor are required constantly to impart their superior [[knowledge]] and [[skill]] to their less favored fellows.
You will first begin to glimpse these transplanted [[arts]] of [[Havona]] on the [[mansion worlds]], and their [[beauty]] and your [[appreciation]] of their beauty will heighten and brighten until you stand in the [[spirit]] halls of [[Salvington]] and behold the [[inspiring]] [[masterpieces]] of the [[supernal]] artists of the [[spirit]] realms.
All these [[activities]] of the [[morontia]] and [[spirit]] worlds are real. To [[spirit]] [[beings]] the spirit world is a [[reality]]. To us the [[material]] world is the more unreal. The higher [[forms]] of [[spirits]] freely pass through ordinary [[matter]]. High spirits are [[reactive]] to nothing [[material]] excepting certain of the basic [[energies]]. To [[material]] [[beings]] the spirit world is more or less unreal; to spirit beings the material world is almost entirely unreal, being merely a [[shadow]] of the substance of spirit [[realities]].
I cannot, with exclusive [[spirit]] [[vision]], [[perceive]] the building in which this [[narrative]] is being [[translated]] and [[recorded]]. A [[Divine Counselor]] from [[Uversa]] who [[chances]] to stand by my side [[perceives]] still less of these [[purely]] [[material]] [[creations]]. We [[discern]] how these [[material]] [[structures]] appear to you by viewing a [[spirit]] [[counterpart]] presented to our [[minds]] by one of our attending [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS energy transformers]. This [[material]] building is not exactly real to me, a [[spirit]] [[being]], but it is, of course, very real and very serviceable to [[material]] [[mortals]].
There are certain [[types]] of [[beings]] who are capable of [[discerning]] the [[reality]] of the [[creatures]] of both the [[spirit]] and the [[material]] worlds. Belonging to this [[class]] are the so-called fourth creatures of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:1._THE_HAVONA_SERVITALS Havona Servitals] and the fourth creatures of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:2._THE_UNIVERSAL_CONCILIATORS conciliators]. The [[angels]] of [[time and space]] are [[endowed]] with the [[ability]] to [[discern]] both [[spirit]] and [[material]] [[beings]] as also are the [[ascending mortals]] subsequent to [[Death|deliverance from the life in the flesh]]. After [[attainment]] of the higher [[spirit]] [[levels]] the ascenders are able to recognize [[material]], [[morontia]], and [[spirit]] [[realities]].
There is also here with me a [[Mighty Messenger]] from [[Uversa]], an ascendant [[Adjuster-fused]], onetime [[mortal]] [[being]], and he [[perceives]] you as you are, and at the same time he [[visualizes]] the [[Solitary Messenger]], the [[supernaphim]], and other [[celestial]] [[beings]] present. Never in your long [[ascendancy]] will you lose the [[power]] to [[recognize]] your [[associates]] of [[Past|former]] [[existences]]. Always, as you [[ascend]] inward in the [[scale]] of [[life]], will you retain the [[ability]] to recognize and fraternize with the fellow beings of your previous and lower [[levels]] of [[experience]]. Each new [[translation]] or [[resurrection]] will add one more [[group]] of [[spirit]] [[beings]] to your [[vision]] range without in the least depriving you of the [[ability]] to [[recognize]] your [[friends]] and fellows of [[Past|former]] estates.
All this is made [[possible]] in the [[experience]] of [[ascending mortals]] by the [[action]] of the indwelling [[Thought Adjusters]]. Through their retention of the [[duplicates]] of your entire life's [[experiences]], you are [[assured]] of never losing any true [[attribute]] you once had; and these [[Adjusters]] are going through with you, as a part of you, in [[reality]], as you.
But I almost [[despair]] of [[being]] [[able]] to [[Express|convey]] to the [[material]] [[mind]] the [[nature]] of the [[work]] of the celestial artisans. I am under the [[necessity]] of constantly [[perverting]] [[thought]] and distorting [[language]] in an [[effort]] to [[unfold]] to the [[mortal]] [[mind]] the [[reality]] of these [[morontia]] [[transactions]] and near-[[spirit]] [[phenomena]]. Your [[comprehension]] is incapable of grasping, and your [[language]] is inadequate for conveying, the [[meaning]], [[value]], and [[relationship]] of these semispirit [[activities]]. And I [[proceed]] with this [[effort]] to [[enlighten]] the [[human]] [[mind]] concerning these [[realities]] with the full [[understanding]] of the utter impossibility of my being very successful in such an undertaking.
I can do no more than attempt to [[sketch]] a crude [[parallelism]] between [[mortal]] [[material]] [[activities]] and the manifold [[functions]] of the celestial artisans. If the [[Urantia]] [[races]] were more advanced in [[art]] and other cultural accomplishments, then could I go that much farther in an [[effort]] to [[project]] the [[human]] [[mind]] from the [[things]] of [[matter]] to those of [[morontia]]. About all I can [[hope]] to accomplish is to make emphatic the [[fact]] of the [[reality]] of these [[transactions]] of the [[morontia]] and the [[spirit]] worlds.
==See also==
*'''''[[Paper 44 - The Celestial Artisans]]'''''
[[Category: The Arts]]
[[Category: Cosmology]]