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The teaching about '''guardian angels''' is not a [[myth]]; certain [[groups]] of [[human beings]] do actually have [[personal]] [[angels]]. It was in [[recognition]] of this that [[Jesus]], in speaking of the [[children]] of the heavenly kingdom, said: " Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones, for I say to you, their [[angels]] do always behold the [[presence]] of the [[spirit]] of [[my Father]]. "
Originally, the [[seraphim]] were definitely assigned to the separate [[Urantia]] [[races]]. But since the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 bestowal of Michael], they are assigned in accordance with human [[intelligence]], [[spirituality]], and [[destiny]]. [[Intellect|Intellectually]], mankind is divided into three classes:
*''The subnormal minded''—those who do not [[exercise]] [[normal]] [[will]] [[power]]; those who do not make average [[decisions]]. This class [[embraces]] those who cannot [[comprehend]] [[God]]; they lack capacity for the [[intelligent]] [[worship]] of [[Deity]]. The subnormal beings of Urantia have a corps of [[seraphim]], one company, with one battalion of [[cherubim]], assigned to minister to them and to [[witness]] that [[justice]] and [[mercy]] are extended to them in the life struggles of the [[sphere]].
*''The average, normal type of human mind''. From the [[standpoint]] of seraphic [[ministry]], most men and women are grouped in seven classes in accordance with their [[status]] in making the [[Seven Psychic Circles|circles of human progress and spiritual development]].
*''The supernormal minded''—those of great [[decision]] and undoubted [[potential]] of [[spiritual]] [[achievement]]; men and women who enjoy more or less contact with their indwelling [[Adjusters]]; members of the various [[reserve corps of destiny]]. No matter in what [[Seven Psychic Circles|circle]] a human happens to be, if such an [[individual]] becomes enrolled in any of the several [[reserve corps of destiny]], right then and there, [[personal]] [[seraphim]] are assigned, and from that time until the [[earth]]ly [[career]] is finished, that [[mortal]] will enjoy the continuous [[ministry]] and unceasing watchcare of a guardian angel. Also, when any human being makes the supreme decision, when there is a real betrothal with [[the Adjuster]], a personal guardian is [[immediately]] assigned to that [[soul]].
In the ministry to so-called [[normal]] beings, seraphic assignments are made in accordance with the human attainment of the [[Seven Psychic Circles|circles]] of [[intellectuality]] and [[spirituality]]. You start out in your [[mind]] of [[mortal]] investment in the seventh circle and [[journey]] inward in the task of self-understanding, self-conquest, and [[self-mastery]]; and circle by circle you advance until (if natural [[death]] does not terminate your [[career]] and transfer your struggles to the [[mansion worlds]]) you reach the first or inner circle of [[relative]] contact and [[communion]] with the [[indwelling Adjuster]].
Human beings in the initial or seventh circle have one guardian angel with one company of assisting cherubim assigned to the watchcare and custody of one thousand mortals. In the sixth circle, a seraphic pair with one company of cherubim is assigned to guide these ascending mortals in groups of five hundred. When the fifth circle is attained, human beings are grouped in companies of approximately one hundred, and a pair of guardian seraphim with a group of cherubim is placed in charge. Upon attainment of the fourth circle, mortal beings are assembled in groups of ten, and again charge is given to a pair of seraphim, assisted by one company of cherubim.
When a [[mortal]] [[mind]] breaks through the [[inertia]] of [[animal]] [[legacy]] and [[attains]] the third circle of human intellectuality and acquired [[spirituality]], a personal angel (in reality two) will henceforth be wholly and exclusively devoted to this [[ascending]] mortal. And thus these [[human]] [[souls]], in addition to the ever-present and increasingly efficient indwelling [[Thought Adjusters]], receive the undivided [[assistance]] of these personal guardians of destiny in all their efforts to finish the third circle, traverse the second, and attain the first.[Paper 113 - Seraphic Guardians of Destiny]
==See Also==
*'''''[[Paper 113 - Seraphic Guardians of Destiny]]'''''
[[Category: Cosmology]]
[[Category: Spirituality]]
[[Category: Religion]]
