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48:6.1 While all [[orders]] of [[angels]], from the [[planetary]] helpers to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Seraphic_hosts#39:1._SUPREME_SERAPHIM supreme seraphim], minister on the [[morontia]] worlds, the [[transition]] ministers are more exclusively assigned to these [[activities]]. These [[angels]] are of the sixth order of seraphic servers, and their [[ministry]] is [[devoted]] to [[facilitating]] the [[transit]] of [[material]] and [[mortal]] [[creatures]] from the [[temporal]] life in the [[flesh]] on into the early [[stages]] of [[morontia]] [[existence]] on the [[seven]] [[mansion worlds]].
48:6.2 You should [[understand]] that the [[morontia]] life of an [[ascending mortal]] is really [[initiated]] on the [[inhabited worlds]] at the [[conception]] of the [[soul]], at that [[moment]] when the [[creature]] [[mind]] of [[moral]] [[status]] is indwelt by the [[spirit]] [[Adjuster]]. And from that [[moment]] on, the [[mortal]] [[soul]] has [[potential]] [[capacity]] for [[supermortal]] [[function]], even for [[recognition]] on the higher levels of the [[morontia]] [[spheres]] of the [[local universe]].
48:6.3 You will not, however, be [[conscious]] of the [[ministry]] of the [[transition]] [[seraphim]] until you [[attain]] the [[mansion worlds]], where they [[labor]] untiringly for the [[advancement]] of their [[mortal]] [[pupils]], being assigned for [[service]] in the following [[seven]] divisions:
48:6.4 1. ''Seraphic Evangels''. The [[moment]] you [[Wake|consciousize]] on the [[mansion worlds]], you are [[classified]] as [[evolving]] [[spirits]] in the [[records]] of [[the system]]. True, you are not yet [[spirits]] in [[reality]], but you are no longer [[mortal]] or [[material]] [[beings]]; you have embarked upon the prespirit [[career]] and have been duly admitted to the [[morontia]] life.
48:6.5 On the [[mansion worlds]] the ''seraphic evangels'' will help you to [[choose]] [[wisely]] among the [[optional]] routes to [[Edentia]], [[Salvington]], [[Uversa]], and [[Havona]]. If there are a [[number]] of equally advisable routes, these will be put before you, and you will be permitted to select the one that most appeals to you. These [[seraphim]] then make [[recommendations]] to the four and twenty advisers on [[Jerusem]] concerning that [[course]] which would be most advantageous for each [[ascending]] [[soul]].
48:6.6 You are not given unrestricted [[choice]] as to your [[future]] [[course]]; but you may [[choose]] within the [[limits]] of that which the [[transition]] ministers and their superiors [[wisely]] determine to be most suitable for your [[future]] [[spirit]] [[attainment]]. The [[spirit]] world is [[governed]] on the principle of respecting your [[freewill]] [[choice]] provided the [[course]] you may [[choose]] is not detrimental to you or injurious to your fellows.
48:6.7 These ''seraphic evangels'' are [[dedicated]] to the [[proclamation]] of the [[gospel]] of [[eternal]] [[progression]], the triumph of [[perfection]] [[attainment]]. On the [[mansion worlds]] they [[proclaim]] the great [[law]] of the [[conservation]] and [[dominance]] of [[goodness]]: No [[act]] of [[good]] is ever wholly lost; it may be long thwarted but never wholly annulled, and it is [[eternally]] [[potent]] in [[proportion]] to the [[divinity]] of its [[motivation]].
48:6.8 Even on [[Urantia]] they [[counsel]] the [[human]] [[teachers]] of [[truth]] and [[righteousness]] to [[adhere]] to the preaching of "the goodness of God, which leads to repentance,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans.2C_II] to [[proclaim]] "the love of God, which casts out all fear."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_John#1st_Letter_of_John.2C_IV] Even so have these [[truths]] been declared on your world:
*1. [[The Gods]] are my caretakers; I shall not stray;
*2. Side by side they lead me in the [[beautiful]] paths and [[glorious]] refreshing of life everlasting.
*3. I shall not, in this [[Divine]] [[Presence]], want for [[food]] nor thirst for [[water]].
*4. Though I go down into the valley of uncertainty or [[ascend]] up into the worlds of [[doubt]]
*5. Though I move in loneliness or with the fellows of my kind,
*6. Though I triumph in the choirs of [[light]] or falter in the [[solitary]] places of the [[spheres]],
*7. Your [[good]] [[spirit]] shall minister to me, and your [[glorious]] [[angel]] will comfort me.
*8. Though I [[descend]] into the depths of [[darkness]] and [[death]] itself,
*9. I shall not [[doubt]] you nor fear you,
*10. For I know that in the fullness of [[time]] and the [[glory]] of your [[name]]
*11. You will raise me up to sit with you on the battlements on high.[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_23]
48:6.9 That is the story whispered in the night season to the shepherd boy. He could not retain it word for word, but to the best of his memory he gave it much as it is recorded today.
48:6.10 These [[seraphim]] are also the evangels of the [[gospel]] of [[perfection]] [[attainment]] for the whole [[the System|system]] as well as for the [[individual]] [[ascender]]. Even now in the young system of [[Satania]] their [[teachings]] and plans [[encompass]] [[provisions]] for the [[future]] [[ages]] when the [[mansion worlds]] will no longer serve the [[mortal]] [[ascenders]] as steppingstones to the [[spheres]] on high.
48:6.11 2. ''Racial Interpreters''. All [[races]] of [[mortal]] [[beings]] are not alike. True, there is a [[planetary]] [[pattern]] running through the [[physical]], [[mental]], and [[spiritual]] [[natures]] and [[tendencies]] of the various [[races]] of a given world; but there are also distinct racial [[types]], and very definite [[social]] [[tendencies]] characterize the [[offspring]] of these [[different]] basic [[types]] of [[human beings]]. On the worlds of [[time]] the [[seraphic]] ''racial interpreters'' further the [[efforts]] of the race commissioners to [[harmonize]] the varied [[viewpoints]] of the [[races]], and they [[continue]] to [[function]] on the [[mansion worlds]], where these same [[differences]] tend to [[persist]] in a [[measure]]. On a [[confused]] [[planet]], such as [[Urantia]], these [[brilliant]] [[beings]] have hardly had a fair [[opportunity]] to [[function]], but they are the [[skillful]] [[sociologists]] and the [[wise]] ethnic advisers of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47#47:3_THE_FIRST_MANSION_WORLD first heaven].
48:6.12 You should [[consider]] the [[statement]] about "heaven" and the "heaven of heavens."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=First_Book_of_Kings#Chapter_8] The [[heaven]] conceived by most of your [[prophets]] was the first of the [[mansion worlds]] of the [[local system]]. When the apostle spoke of being "caught up to the third heaven,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2nd_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Corinthians#2nd_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Corinthians.2C_XII] he referred to that [[experience]] in which his [[Adjuster]] was detached during [[sleep]] and in this unusual [[state]] made a [[projection]] to the third of the [[seven]] [[mansion worlds]]. Some of your [[wise]] men saw the [[vision]] of the greater [[heaven]], "the heaven of heavens,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Deutoronomy#Chapter_.10] of which the sevenfold [[mansion world]] [[experience]] was but the first; the second being [[Jerusem]]; the third, [[Edentia]] and its [[satellites]]; the fourth, [[Salvington]] and the [[surrounding]] [[educational]] [[spheres]]; the fifth, [[Uversa]]; the sixth, [[Havona]]; and the seventh, [[Paradise]].
48:6.13 3. ''Mind Planners''. These [[seraphim]] are [[devoted]] to the [[effective]] [[grouping]] of [[morontia]] [[beings]] and to [[organizing]] their teamwork on the [[mansion worlds]]. They are the [[psychologists]] of the first [[heaven]]. The [[majority]] of this particular division of [[seraphic]] ministers have had previous [[experience]] as [[guardian angels]] to the [[children]] of [[time]], but their wards, for some [[reason]], failed to [[personalize]] on the [[mansion worlds]] or else [[survived]] by the [[technique]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:9._SPIRIT-FUSED_MORTALS Spirit fusion].
48:6.14 It is the [[task]] of the [[mind]] [[planners]] to [[study]] the [[nature]], [[experience]], and [[status]] of the [[Adjuster]] [[souls]] in [[transit]] through the [[mansion worlds]] and to [[facilitate]] their grouping for assignment and [[advancement]]. But these [[mind]] [[planners]] do not [[scheme]], [[manipulate]], or otherwise take advantage of the [[ignorance]] or other [[limitations]] of [[mansion world]] [[students]]. They are wholly fair and eminently [[just]]. They [[respect]] your newborn [[morontia]] will; they regard you as [[independent]] [[volitional]] [[beings]], and they seek to [[encourage]] your [[speed]]y [[development]] and [[advancement]]. Here you are face to face with true [[friends]] and [[understanding]] [[counselors]], [[angels]] who are really able to help you "to see yourself as others see you" and "to know yourself as angels know you."
48:6.15 Even on [[Urantia]], these [[seraphim]] [[teach]] the everlasting [[truth]]: If your own [[mind]] does not serve you well, you can exchange it for the [[mind]] of [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]], who always serves you well.[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Philippians#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Philippians.2C_II]
48:6.16 4. ''Morontia Counselors''. These ministers [[receive]] their [[name]] because they are assigned to [[teach]], direct, and [[counsel]] the [[surviving]] [[mortals]] from the worlds of [[human]] [[origin]], [[souls]] in [[transit]] to the higher schools of [[the system headquarters]]. They are the [[teachers]] of those who seek [[insight]] into the [[experiential]] [[unity]] of [[divergent]] life [[levels]], those who are attempting the [[integration]] of [[meanings]] and the [[unification]] of [[values]]. This is the [[function]] of [[philosophy]] in [[mortal]] life, of [[mota]] on the [[morontia]] [[spheres]].
48:6.17 [[Mota]] is more than a superior [[philosophy]]; it is to [[philosophy]] as two eyes are to one; it has a [[stereoscopic]] [[effect]] on [[meanings]] and [[values]]. [[Material]] [[man]] sees the [[universe]], as it were, with but one eye—[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland flat]. [[Mansion world]] [[students]] [[achieve]] [[cosmic]] [[perspective]]—[[depth]]—by [[superimposing]] the [[perceptions]] of the [[morontia]] life upon the [[perceptions]] of the [[physical]] life. And they are enabled to bring these [[material]] and [[morontial]] [[viewpoints]] into true [[focus]] largely through the untiring [[ministry]] of their [[seraphic]] [[counselors]], who so [[patiently]] [[teach]] the [[mansion world]] [[students]] and the [[morontia]] [[progressors]]. Many of the teaching [[counselors]] of the [[supreme order of seraphim]] began their [[careers]] as advisers of the newly [[liberated]] [[souls]] of the [[mortals]] of [[time]].
48:6.18 5. ''Technicians''. These are the [[seraphim]] who help new [[ascenders]] [[adjust]] themselves to the new and [[comparatively]] [[strange]] [[environment]] of the [[morontia]] [[spheres]]. Life on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45#45:1._TRANSITIONAL_CULTURE_WORLDS transition worlds] entails real [[contact]] with the [[energies]] and [[materials]] of both the [[physical]] and [[morontia]] [[levels]] and to a certain extent with [[spiritual]] [[realities]]. [[Ascenders]] must acclimatize to every new [[morontia]] [[level]], and in all of this they are greatly helped by the ''seraphic technicians''. These [[seraphim]] [[act]] as [[liaisons]] with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48#48:2._MORONTIA_POWER_SUPERVISORS Morontia Power Supervisors] and with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS Master Physical Controllers] and [[function]] extensively as [[instructors]] of the [[ascending]] [[pilgrims]] concerning the [[nature]] of those [[energies]] which are utilized on the [[transition]] [[spheres]]. They serve as [[emergency]] [[space]] [[traverse]]rs and [[perform]] numerous other regular and special [[duties]].
48:6.19 6. ''Recorder-Teachers''. These [[seraphim]] are the [[recorders]] of the borderland [[transactions]] of the [[spiritual]] and the [[physical]], of the [[relationships]] of [[men]] and [[angels]], of the [[morontia]] [[transactions]] of the lower [[universe]] realms. They also serve as [[instructors]] regarding the [[efficient]] and [[effective]] [[techniques]] of [[fact]] [[recording]]. There is an [[artistry]] in the [[intelligent]] assembly and [[co-ordination]] of [[related]] [[data]], and this [[art]] is heightened in [[collaboration]] with the [[celestial artisans]], and even the [[ascending mortals]] become thus affiliated with the recording [[seraphim]].
48:6.20 The recorders of all the [[Seraphic Hosts|seraphic orders]] [[devote]] a certain amount of [[time]] to the [[education]] and [[training]] of the [[morontia]] progressors. These angelic custodians of the [[facts]] of [[time]] are the [[ideal]] [[instructors]] of all [[fact]] [[seekers]]. Before leaving [[Jerusem]], you will become quite familiar with the [[history]] of [[Satania]] and its 619 [[inhabited worlds]], and much of this [[story]] will be imparted by the ''seraphic recorders''.
48:6.21 These [[angels]] are all in the chain of recorders extending from the lowest to the highest custodians of the [[facts]] of time and the [[truths]] of [[eternity]]. Some day they will teach you to seek [[truth]] as well as [[fact]], to expand your [[soul]] as well as your [[mind]]. Even now you should [[learn]] to [[water]] the [[garden]] of your [[heart]] as well as to [[seek]] for the dry sands of [[knowledge]][http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Desert_Flower]. [[Forms]] are valueless when lessons are [[learned]]. No chick may be had without the shell, and no shell is of any worth after the chick is hatched. But sometimes [[error]] is so great that its [[rectification]] by [[revelation]] would be fatal to those slowly [[emerging]] [[truths]] which are [[essential]] to its [[experiential]] overthrow. When [[children]] have their [[ideals]], do not dislodge them; let them [[grow]]. And while you are [[learning]] to [[think]] as men, you should also be [[learning]] to [[pray]] as [[children]].
48:6.22 [[Law]] is life itself and not the rules of its [[conduct]]. [[Evil]] is a [[transgression]] of [[law]], not a violation of the rules of conduct pertaining to life, which is the [[law]]. [[Falsehood]] is not a matter of [[narration]] [[technique]] but something premeditated as a [[perversion]] of [[truth]]. The [[creation]] of new [[pictures]] out of old [[facts]], the restatement of [[parental]] life in the lives of [[offspring]]—these are the [[artistic]] triumphs of [[truth]]. The [[shadow]] of a hair's turning, premeditated for an untrue [[purpose]], the slightest twisting or [[perversion]] of that which is [[principle]]—these [[constitute]] falseness. But the [[fetish]] of [[Facticity|factualized]] [[truth]], [[fossilized]] [[truth]], the iron band of so-called unchanging [[truth]], holds one blindly in a closed [[circle]] of cold [[fact]]. One can be [[technically]] right as to [[fact]] and everlastingly wrong in the [[truth]].
48:6.23 7. ''Ministering Reserves''. A large corps of all [[orders]] of the [[transition]] [[seraphim]] is held on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47#47:3_THE_FIRST_MANSION_WORLD first mansion world]. Next to the [[destiny guardians]], these transition ministers draw the nearest to [[humans]] of all [[orders]] of [[seraphim]], and many of your [[leisure]] [[moments]] will be spent with them. [[Angels]] take delight in [[service]] and, when unassigned, often minister as [[volunteers]]. The [[soul]] of many an [[ascending mortal]] has for the first time been kindled by the [[divine]] fire of the will-to-[[service]] through [[personal]] [[friendship]] with the [[volunteer]] servers of the [[seraphic]] reserves.
48:6.24 From them you will learn to let [[pressure]] [[develop]] [[stability]] and [[certainty]]; to be [[faithful]] and [[earnest]] and, withal, cheerful; to [[accept]] [[challenges]] without complaint and to face [[difficulties]] and uncertainties without [[fear]]. They will ask: If you fail, will you rise indomitably to try anew? If you succeed, will you [[maintain]] a well-[[balanced]] [[poise]]—a [[stabilized]] and [[spiritualized]] [[attitude]]—throughout every [[effort]] in the long [[struggle]] to break the fetters of [[material]] [[inertia]], to [[attain]] the [[freedom]] of [[spirit]] [[existence]]?
48:6.25 Even as [[mortals]], so have these [[angels]] been father to many [[disappointments]], and they will point out that sometimes your most disappointing disappointments have become your greatest [[blessings]]. Sometimes the planting of a [[seed]] [[necessitates]] its [[death]], the death of your fondest [[hopes]], before it can be reborn to bear the fruits of new life and new [[opportunity]]. And from them you will learn to [[suffer]] less through [[sorrow]] and disappointment, first, by making fewer [[personal]] [[plans]] concerning other [[personalities]], and then, by accepting your lot when you have [[faithfully]] [[performed]] your [[duty]].
48:6.26 You will [[learn]] that you increase your burdens and decrease the likelihood of success by taking yourself too seriously. Nothing can take precedence over the [[work]] of your [[status]] [[sphere]]—this world or the next. Very important is the [[work]] of [[preparation]] for the next higher [[sphere]], but nothing [[equals]] the importance of the [[work]] of the world in which you are actually living. But though the [[work]] is important, the [[self]] is not. When you feel important, you lose [[energy]] to the wear and tear of [[ego]] [[dignity]] so that there is little [[energy]] left to do the [[work]]. Self-importance, not work-importance, exhausts immature creatures; it is the self element that exhausts, not the effort to achieve. You can do important work if you do not become [[self]]-important; you can do several [[things]] as easily as one if you leave yourself out. [[Variety]] is restful; monotony is what wears and [[exhausts]]. Day after day is alike—just life or the [[alternative]] of [[death]].
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[[Category:Paper 48 - The Morontia Life]]
48:6.1 While all [[orders]] of [[angels]], from the [[planetary]] helpers to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Seraphic_hosts#39:1._SUPREME_SERAPHIM supreme seraphim], minister on the [[morontia]] worlds, the [[transition]] ministers are more exclusively assigned to these [[activities]]. These [[angels]] are of the sixth order of seraphic servers, and their [[ministry]] is [[devoted]] to [[facilitating]] the [[transit]] of [[material]] and [[mortal]] [[creatures]] from the [[temporal]] life in the [[flesh]] on into the early [[stages]] of [[morontia]] [[existence]] on the [[seven]] [[mansion worlds]].
48:6.2 You should [[understand]] that the [[morontia]] life of an [[ascending mortal]] is really [[initiated]] on the [[inhabited worlds]] at the [[conception]] of the [[soul]], at that [[moment]] when the [[creature]] [[mind]] of [[moral]] [[status]] is indwelt by the [[spirit]] [[Adjuster]]. And from that [[moment]] on, the [[mortal]] [[soul]] has [[potential]] [[capacity]] for [[supermortal]] [[function]], even for [[recognition]] on the higher levels of the [[morontia]] [[spheres]] of the [[local universe]].
48:6.3 You will not, however, be [[conscious]] of the [[ministry]] of the [[transition]] [[seraphim]] until you [[attain]] the [[mansion worlds]], where they [[labor]] untiringly for the [[advancement]] of their [[mortal]] [[pupils]], being assigned for [[service]] in the following [[seven]] divisions:
48:6.4 1. ''Seraphic Evangels''. The [[moment]] you [[Wake|consciousize]] on the [[mansion worlds]], you are [[classified]] as [[evolving]] [[spirits]] in the [[records]] of [[the system]]. True, you are not yet [[spirits]] in [[reality]], but you are no longer [[mortal]] or [[material]] [[beings]]; you have embarked upon the prespirit [[career]] and have been duly admitted to the [[morontia]] life.
48:6.5 On the [[mansion worlds]] the ''seraphic evangels'' will help you to [[choose]] [[wisely]] among the [[optional]] routes to [[Edentia]], [[Salvington]], [[Uversa]], and [[Havona]]. If there are a [[number]] of equally advisable routes, these will be put before you, and you will be permitted to select the one that most appeals to you. These [[seraphim]] then make [[recommendations]] to the four and twenty advisers on [[Jerusem]] concerning that [[course]] which would be most advantageous for each [[ascending]] [[soul]].
48:6.6 You are not given unrestricted [[choice]] as to your [[future]] [[course]]; but you may [[choose]] within the [[limits]] of that which the [[transition]] ministers and their superiors [[wisely]] determine to be most suitable for your [[future]] [[spirit]] [[attainment]]. The [[spirit]] world is [[governed]] on the principle of respecting your [[freewill]] [[choice]] provided the [[course]] you may [[choose]] is not detrimental to you or injurious to your fellows.
48:6.7 These ''seraphic evangels'' are [[dedicated]] to the [[proclamation]] of the [[gospel]] of [[eternal]] [[progression]], the triumph of [[perfection]] [[attainment]]. On the [[mansion worlds]] they [[proclaim]] the great [[law]] of the [[conservation]] and [[dominance]] of [[goodness]]: No [[act]] of [[good]] is ever wholly lost; it may be long thwarted but never wholly annulled, and it is [[eternally]] [[potent]] in [[proportion]] to the [[divinity]] of its [[motivation]].
48:6.8 Even on [[Urantia]] they [[counsel]] the [[human]] [[teachers]] of [[truth]] and [[righteousness]] to [[adhere]] to the preaching of "the goodness of God, which leads to repentance,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans.2C_II] to [[proclaim]] "the love of God, which casts out all fear."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_John#1st_Letter_of_John.2C_IV] Even so have these [[truths]] been declared on your world:
*1. [[The Gods]] are my caretakers; I shall not stray;
*2. Side by side they lead me in the [[beautiful]] paths and [[glorious]] refreshing of life everlasting.
*3. I shall not, in this [[Divine]] [[Presence]], want for [[food]] nor thirst for [[water]].
*4. Though I go down into the valley of uncertainty or [[ascend]] up into the worlds of [[doubt]]
*5. Though I move in loneliness or with the fellows of my kind,
*6. Though I triumph in the choirs of [[light]] or falter in the [[solitary]] places of the [[spheres]],
*7. Your [[good]] [[spirit]] shall minister to me, and your [[glorious]] [[angel]] will comfort me.
*8. Though I [[descend]] into the depths of [[darkness]] and [[death]] itself,
*9. I shall not [[doubt]] you nor fear you,
*10. For I know that in the fullness of [[time]] and the [[glory]] of your [[name]]
*11. You will raise me up to sit with you on the battlements on high.[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_23]
48:6.9 That is the story whispered in the night season to the shepherd boy. He could not retain it word for word, but to the best of his memory he gave it much as it is recorded today.
48:6.10 These [[seraphim]] are also the evangels of the [[gospel]] of [[perfection]] [[attainment]] for the whole [[the System|system]] as well as for the [[individual]] [[ascender]]. Even now in the young system of [[Satania]] their [[teachings]] and plans [[encompass]] [[provisions]] for the [[future]] [[ages]] when the [[mansion worlds]] will no longer serve the [[mortal]] [[ascenders]] as steppingstones to the [[spheres]] on high.
48:6.11 2. ''Racial Interpreters''. All [[races]] of [[mortal]] [[beings]] are not alike. True, there is a [[planetary]] [[pattern]] running through the [[physical]], [[mental]], and [[spiritual]] [[natures]] and [[tendencies]] of the various [[races]] of a given world; but there are also distinct racial [[types]], and very definite [[social]] [[tendencies]] characterize the [[offspring]] of these [[different]] basic [[types]] of [[human beings]]. On the worlds of [[time]] the [[seraphic]] ''racial interpreters'' further the [[efforts]] of the race commissioners to [[harmonize]] the varied [[viewpoints]] of the [[races]], and they [[continue]] to [[function]] on the [[mansion worlds]], where these same [[differences]] tend to [[persist]] in a [[measure]]. On a [[confused]] [[planet]], such as [[Urantia]], these [[brilliant]] [[beings]] have hardly had a fair [[opportunity]] to [[function]], but they are the [[skillful]] [[sociologists]] and the [[wise]] ethnic advisers of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47#47:3_THE_FIRST_MANSION_WORLD first heaven].
48:6.12 You should [[consider]] the [[statement]] about "heaven" and the "heaven of heavens."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=First_Book_of_Kings#Chapter_8] The [[heaven]] conceived by most of your [[prophets]] was the first of the [[mansion worlds]] of the [[local system]]. When the apostle spoke of being "caught up to the third heaven,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2nd_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Corinthians#2nd_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Corinthians.2C_XII] he referred to that [[experience]] in which his [[Adjuster]] was detached during [[sleep]] and in this unusual [[state]] made a [[projection]] to the third of the [[seven]] [[mansion worlds]]. Some of your [[wise]] men saw the [[vision]] of the greater [[heaven]], "the heaven of heavens,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Deutoronomy#Chapter_.10] of which the sevenfold [[mansion world]] [[experience]] was but the first; the second being [[Jerusem]]; the third, [[Edentia]] and its [[satellites]]; the fourth, [[Salvington]] and the [[surrounding]] [[educational]] [[spheres]]; the fifth, [[Uversa]]; the sixth, [[Havona]]; and the seventh, [[Paradise]].
48:6.13 3. ''Mind Planners''. These [[seraphim]] are [[devoted]] to the [[effective]] [[grouping]] of [[morontia]] [[beings]] and to [[organizing]] their teamwork on the [[mansion worlds]]. They are the [[psychologists]] of the first [[heaven]]. The [[majority]] of this particular division of [[seraphic]] ministers have had previous [[experience]] as [[guardian angels]] to the [[children]] of [[time]], but their wards, for some [[reason]], failed to [[personalize]] on the [[mansion worlds]] or else [[survived]] by the [[technique]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:9._SPIRIT-FUSED_MORTALS Spirit fusion].
48:6.14 It is the [[task]] of the [[mind]] [[planners]] to [[study]] the [[nature]], [[experience]], and [[status]] of the [[Adjuster]] [[souls]] in [[transit]] through the [[mansion worlds]] and to [[facilitate]] their grouping for assignment and [[advancement]]. But these [[mind]] [[planners]] do not [[scheme]], [[manipulate]], or otherwise take advantage of the [[ignorance]] or other [[limitations]] of [[mansion world]] [[students]]. They are wholly fair and eminently [[just]]. They [[respect]] your newborn [[morontia]] will; they regard you as [[independent]] [[volitional]] [[beings]], and they seek to [[encourage]] your [[speed]]y [[development]] and [[advancement]]. Here you are face to face with true [[friends]] and [[understanding]] [[counselors]], [[angels]] who are really able to help you "to see yourself as others see you" and "to know yourself as angels know you."
48:6.15 Even on [[Urantia]], these [[seraphim]] [[teach]] the everlasting [[truth]]: If your own [[mind]] does not serve you well, you can exchange it for the [[mind]] of [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]], who always serves you well.[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Philippians#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Philippians.2C_II]
48:6.16 4. ''Morontia Counselors''. These ministers [[receive]] their [[name]] because they are assigned to [[teach]], direct, and [[counsel]] the [[surviving]] [[mortals]] from the worlds of [[human]] [[origin]], [[souls]] in [[transit]] to the higher schools of [[the system headquarters]]. They are the [[teachers]] of those who seek [[insight]] into the [[experiential]] [[unity]] of [[divergent]] life [[levels]], those who are attempting the [[integration]] of [[meanings]] and the [[unification]] of [[values]]. This is the [[function]] of [[philosophy]] in [[mortal]] life, of [[mota]] on the [[morontia]] [[spheres]].
48:6.17 [[Mota]] is more than a superior [[philosophy]]; it is to [[philosophy]] as two eyes are to one; it has a [[stereoscopic]] [[effect]] on [[meanings]] and [[values]]. [[Material]] [[man]] sees the [[universe]], as it were, with but one eye—[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland flat]. [[Mansion world]] [[students]] [[achieve]] [[cosmic]] [[perspective]]—[[depth]]—by [[superimposing]] the [[perceptions]] of the [[morontia]] life upon the [[perceptions]] of the [[physical]] life. And they are enabled to bring these [[material]] and [[morontial]] [[viewpoints]] into true [[focus]] largely through the untiring [[ministry]] of their [[seraphic]] [[counselors]], who so [[patiently]] [[teach]] the [[mansion world]] [[students]] and the [[morontia]] [[progressors]]. Many of the teaching [[counselors]] of the [[supreme order of seraphim]] began their [[careers]] as advisers of the newly [[liberated]] [[souls]] of the [[mortals]] of [[time]].
48:6.18 5. ''Technicians''. These are the [[seraphim]] who help new [[ascenders]] [[adjust]] themselves to the new and [[comparatively]] [[strange]] [[environment]] of the [[morontia]] [[spheres]]. Life on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45#45:1._TRANSITIONAL_CULTURE_WORLDS transition worlds] entails real [[contact]] with the [[energies]] and [[materials]] of both the [[physical]] and [[morontia]] [[levels]] and to a certain extent with [[spiritual]] [[realities]]. [[Ascenders]] must acclimatize to every new [[morontia]] [[level]], and in all of this they are greatly helped by the ''seraphic technicians''. These [[seraphim]] [[act]] as [[liaisons]] with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48#48:2._MORONTIA_POWER_SUPERVISORS Morontia Power Supervisors] and with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS Master Physical Controllers] and [[function]] extensively as [[instructors]] of the [[ascending]] [[pilgrims]] concerning the [[nature]] of those [[energies]] which are utilized on the [[transition]] [[spheres]]. They serve as [[emergency]] [[space]] [[traverse]]rs and [[perform]] numerous other regular and special [[duties]].
48:6.19 6. ''Recorder-Teachers''. These [[seraphim]] are the [[recorders]] of the borderland [[transactions]] of the [[spiritual]] and the [[physical]], of the [[relationships]] of [[men]] and [[angels]], of the [[morontia]] [[transactions]] of the lower [[universe]] realms. They also serve as [[instructors]] regarding the [[efficient]] and [[effective]] [[techniques]] of [[fact]] [[recording]]. There is an [[artistry]] in the [[intelligent]] assembly and [[co-ordination]] of [[related]] [[data]], and this [[art]] is heightened in [[collaboration]] with the [[celestial artisans]], and even the [[ascending mortals]] become thus affiliated with the recording [[seraphim]].
48:6.20 The recorders of all the [[Seraphic Hosts|seraphic orders]] [[devote]] a certain amount of [[time]] to the [[education]] and [[training]] of the [[morontia]] progressors. These angelic custodians of the [[facts]] of [[time]] are the [[ideal]] [[instructors]] of all [[fact]] [[seekers]]. Before leaving [[Jerusem]], you will become quite familiar with the [[history]] of [[Satania]] and its 619 [[inhabited worlds]], and much of this [[story]] will be imparted by the ''seraphic recorders''.
48:6.21 These [[angels]] are all in the chain of recorders extending from the lowest to the highest custodians of the [[facts]] of time and the [[truths]] of [[eternity]]. Some day they will teach you to seek [[truth]] as well as [[fact]], to expand your [[soul]] as well as your [[mind]]. Even now you should [[learn]] to [[water]] the [[garden]] of your [[heart]] as well as to [[seek]] for the dry sands of [[knowledge]][http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Desert_Flower]. [[Forms]] are valueless when lessons are [[learned]]. No chick may be had without the shell, and no shell is of any worth after the chick is hatched. But sometimes [[error]] is so great that its [[rectification]] by [[revelation]] would be fatal to those slowly [[emerging]] [[truths]] which are [[essential]] to its [[experiential]] overthrow. When [[children]] have their [[ideals]], do not dislodge them; let them [[grow]]. And while you are [[learning]] to [[think]] as men, you should also be [[learning]] to [[pray]] as [[children]].
48:6.22 [[Law]] is life itself and not the rules of its [[conduct]]. [[Evil]] is a [[transgression]] of [[law]], not a violation of the rules of conduct pertaining to life, which is the [[law]]. [[Falsehood]] is not a matter of [[narration]] [[technique]] but something premeditated as a [[perversion]] of [[truth]]. The [[creation]] of new [[pictures]] out of old [[facts]], the restatement of [[parental]] life in the lives of [[offspring]]—these are the [[artistic]] triumphs of [[truth]]. The [[shadow]] of a hair's turning, premeditated for an untrue [[purpose]], the slightest twisting or [[perversion]] of that which is [[principle]]—these [[constitute]] falseness. But the [[fetish]] of [[Facticity|factualized]] [[truth]], [[fossilized]] [[truth]], the iron band of so-called unchanging [[truth]], holds one blindly in a closed [[circle]] of cold [[fact]]. One can be [[technically]] right as to [[fact]] and everlastingly wrong in the [[truth]].
48:6.23 7. ''Ministering Reserves''. A large corps of all [[orders]] of the [[transition]] [[seraphim]] is held on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47#47:3_THE_FIRST_MANSION_WORLD first mansion world]. Next to the [[destiny guardians]], these transition ministers draw the nearest to [[humans]] of all [[orders]] of [[seraphim]], and many of your [[leisure]] [[moments]] will be spent with them. [[Angels]] take delight in [[service]] and, when unassigned, often minister as [[volunteers]]. The [[soul]] of many an [[ascending mortal]] has for the first time been kindled by the [[divine]] fire of the will-to-[[service]] through [[personal]] [[friendship]] with the [[volunteer]] servers of the [[seraphic]] reserves.
48:6.24 From them you will learn to let [[pressure]] [[develop]] [[stability]] and [[certainty]]; to be [[faithful]] and [[earnest]] and, withal, cheerful; to [[accept]] [[challenges]] without complaint and to face [[difficulties]] and uncertainties without [[fear]]. They will ask: If you fail, will you rise indomitably to try anew? If you succeed, will you [[maintain]] a well-[[balanced]] [[poise]]—a [[stabilized]] and [[spiritualized]] [[attitude]]—throughout every [[effort]] in the long [[struggle]] to break the fetters of [[material]] [[inertia]], to [[attain]] the [[freedom]] of [[spirit]] [[existence]]?
48:6.25 Even as [[mortals]], so have these [[angels]] been father to many [[disappointments]], and they will point out that sometimes your most disappointing disappointments have become your greatest [[blessings]]. Sometimes the planting of a [[seed]] [[necessitates]] its [[death]], the death of your fondest [[hopes]], before it can be reborn to bear the fruits of new life and new [[opportunity]]. And from them you will learn to [[suffer]] less through [[sorrow]] and disappointment, first, by making fewer [[personal]] [[plans]] concerning other [[personalities]], and then, by accepting your lot when you have [[faithfully]] [[performed]] your [[duty]].
48:6.26 You will [[learn]] that you increase your burdens and decrease the likelihood of success by taking yourself too seriously. Nothing can take precedence over the [[work]] of your [[status]] [[sphere]]—this world or the next. Very important is the [[work]] of [[preparation]] for the next higher [[sphere]], but nothing [[equals]] the importance of the [[work]] of the world in which you are actually living. But though the [[work]] is important, the [[self]] is not. When you feel important, you lose [[energy]] to the wear and tear of [[ego]] [[dignity]] so that there is little [[energy]] left to do the [[work]]. Self-importance, not work-importance, exhausts immature creatures; it is the self element that exhausts, not the effort to achieve. You can do important work if you do not become [[self]]-important; you can do several [[things]] as easily as one if you leave yourself out. [[Variety]] is restful; monotony is what wears and [[exhausts]]. Day after day is alike—just life or the [[alternative]] of [[death]].
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