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==PAPER 25: THE MESSENGER HOSTS OF SPACE==   

25:0.1 Ranking intermediately in the [[family]] of the [[Infinite Spirit]] are the ''Messenger Hosts of Space''. These [[versatile]] [[beings]] [[function]] as the [[connecting]] links between the higher [[personalities]] and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_38 ministering spirits]. The messenger hosts include the following orders of [[celestial]] [[beings]]:

*1. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:1._THE_HAVONA_SERVITALS Havona Servitals].
*2. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:2._THE_UNIVERSAL_CONCILIATORS Universal Conciliators].
*3. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:4._TECHNICAL_ADVISERS Technical Advisers].
*4. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:5._THE_CUSTODIANS_OF_RECORDS_ON_PARADISE Custodians of Records on Paradise].
*5. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:6._THE_CELESTIAL_RECORDERS Celestial Recorders].
*6. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:7._THE_MORONTIA_COMPANIONS Morontia Companions].
*7. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:8._THE_PARADISE_COMPANIONS Paradise Companions].

25:0.2 Of the seven [[groups]] enumerated, only three— [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:1._THE_HAVONA_SERVITALS servitals], [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:2._THE_UNIVERSAL_CONCILIATORS conciliators], and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:7._THE_MORONTIA_COMPANIONS Morontia Companions]—are [[created]] as such; the remaining four [[represent]] [[attainment]] levels of the [[Angels|angelic orders]]. In accordance with [[inherent]] [[nature]] and attained [[status]], the [[messenger]] hosts variously [[serve]] in the [[universe of universes]] but always subject to the direction of those who rule the realms of their assignment.

==25:1. THE HAVONA SERVITALS==   

25:1.1 Though denominated servitals, these "midway creatures" of the [[central universe]] are not servants in any menial sense of the [[word]]. In the [[spiritual]] world there is no such [[thing]] as menial [[work]]; all [[service]] is [[sacred]] and exhilarating; neither do the higher orders of beings look down upon the lower orders of [[existence]].

25:1.2 The Havona Servitals are the joint [[creative]] work of the [[Seven Master Spirits]] and their [[associates]], the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:1._THE_SEVEN_SUPREME_POWER_DIRECTORS Seven Supreme Power Directors]. This [[creative]] [[collaboration]] comes the nearest to being the [[pattern]] for the long list of reproductions of the dual order in the [[evolutionary]] [[universes]], extending from the [[creation]] of a [[Bright and Morning Star]] by a [[Creator Son]]-[[Creative Spirit]] [[liaison]] down to [[sex]] procreation on worlds like [[Urantia]].

25:1.3 The [[number]] of servitals is prodigious, and more are being created all the time. They appear in [[groups]] of one thousand on the third [[moment]] following the assembly of the [[Master Spirits]] and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:1._THE_SEVEN_SUPREME_POWER_DIRECTORS Supreme Power Directors] at their joint area in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:3._UPPER_PARADISE far northerly sector] of [[Paradise]]. Every fourth servital is more [[physical]] in type than the others; that is, out of each thousand, seven hundred and fifty are apparently true to [[spirit]] [[type]], but two hundred and fifty are semiphysical in [[nature]]. These fourth creatures are somewhat on the order of [[material]] [[beings]] (material in the [[Havona]] sense), resembling the [[physical]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#PAPER_29:_THE_UNIVERSE_POWER_DIRECTORS  power directors] more than the [[Master Spirits]].

25:1.4 In [[personality]] [[relationships]] the [[spiritual]] is dominant over the [[material]], even though it does not now so appear on [[Urantia]]; and in the production of Havona Servitals the [[law]] of [[spirit]] dominance prevails; the established [[ratio]] yields three [[spiritual]] [[beings]] to one semiphysical.

25:1.5 The newly created servitals, together with newly appearing [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_24#24:6._THE_GRADUATE_GUIDES Graduate Guides], all pass through the [[courses]] of [[training]] which the senior guides continuously conduct on each of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_14_-_The_Central_and_Divine_Universe#14:1._THE_PARADISE-HAVONA_SYSTEM seven Havona circuits]. Servitals are then assigned to the [[activities]] for which they are best adapted, and since they are of two [[types]]—[[spiritual]] and semiphysical—there are few [[limits]] to the range of [[work]] these [[versatile]] [[beings]] can do. The higher or [[spirit]] [[groups]] are assigned selectively to the [[services]] of [[the Father]], [[the Son]], and [[the Spirit]], and to the [[work]] of the [[Seven Master Spirits]]. In large [[numbers]] they are dispatched, from time to time, to serve on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:13._THE_SECTOR_GOVERNMENTS study worlds] encircling the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:7._THE_ARCHITECTURAL_SPHERES headquarters spheres] of the [[seven superuniverses]], the worlds devoted to the final [[training]] and [[spiritual]] [[culture]] of the [[ascending]] [[souls]] of [[time]] who are [[preparing]] for advancement to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_14_-_The_Central_and_Divine_Universe#14:1._THE_PARADISE-HAVONA_SYSTEM circuits of Havona]. Both [[spirit]] servitals and their more [[physical]] fellows are also designated assistants and associates of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_24#24:6._THE_GRADUATE_GUIDES Graduate Guides] in helping and instructing the various orders of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending creatures] who have attained [[Havona]], and who seek to [[attain]] [[Paradise]].

25:1.6 The Havona Servitals and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_24#24:6._THE_GRADUATE_GUIDES Graduate Guides] [[manifest]] a [[transcendent]] [[devotion]] to their [[work]] and a [[touching]] [[affection]] for one another, an [[affection]] which, while [[spiritual]], you could only [[understand]] by comparison with the [[phenomenon]] of [[human]] [[love]]. There is [[divine]] [[pathos]] in the separation of the servitals from the guides, as so often occurs when the servitals are dispatched on missions beyond the limits of the [[central universe]]; but they go with [[joy]] and not with [[sorrow]]. The satisfying [[joy]] of high [[duty]] is the [[eclipsing]] [[emotion]] of [[spiritual]] [[beings]]. [[Sorrow]] cannot exist in the face of the [[consciousness]] of [[divine]] [[duty]] [[faithfully]] [[performed]]. And when man's [[ascending]] [[soul]] stands before the Supreme [[Judge]], the [[decision]] of [[eternal]] import will not be determined by [[material]] successes or [[quantitative]] achievements; the [[verdict]] reverberating through the high [[courts]] declares: "Well done, [[good]] and [[faithful]] servant; you have been faithful over a few [[essentials]]; you shall be made ruler over [[universe]] [[realities]]."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Luke#Chapter_19][https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Matthew#Chapter_25]

25:1.7 On [[superuniverse]] [[service]] the Havona Servitals are always assigned to that domain presided over by the [[Master Spirit]] whom they most resemble in general and special [[spirit]] [[Temperament|prerogatives]]. They serve only on the [[educational]] worlds surrounding the capitals of the [[seven superuniverses]], and the last report of [[Uversa]] indicates that almost 138 billion servitals were ministering on its 490 [[satellites]]. They engage in an endless [[variety]] of activities in [[connection]] with the [[work]] of these [[educational]] worlds comprising the superuniversities of the [[superuniverse]] of [[Orvonton]]. Here they are your companions; they have come down from your next [[career]] to [[study]] you and to [[inspire]] you with the [[reality]] and [[certainty]] of your [[eventual]] [[graduation]] from the [[universes]] of [[time]] to the realms of [[eternity]]. And in these contacts the servitals gain that preliminary [[experience]] of ministering to the [[ascending]] [[creatures]] of [[time]] which is so helpful in their subsequent [[work]] on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_14_-_The_Central_and_Divine_Universe#14:1._THE_PARADISE-HAVONA_SYSTEM Havona circuits] as associates of the Graduate Guides or—as translated servitals—as [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_24#24:6._THE_GRADUATE_GUIDES Graduate Guides] themselves.

==25:2. THE UNIVERSAL CONCILIATORS==    

25:2.1 For every [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:1._THE_HAVONA_SERVITALS Havona Servital] [[created]], seven Universal Conciliators are brought into [[being]], one in each [[superuniverse]]. This [[creative]] enactment involves a definite [[superuniverse]] [[technique]] of [[reflective]] [[response]] to [[transactions]] taking place on [[Paradise]].

25:2.2 On the headquarters worlds of the [[seven superuniverses]] there [[function]] the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:3._THE_REFLECTIVE_SPIRITS seven reflections] of the [[Seven Master Spirits]]. It is [[difficult]] to undertake to portray the [[natures]] of these [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:3._THE_REFLECTIVE_SPIRITS Reflective Spirits] to [[material]] [[minds]]. They are true [[personalities]]; still each member of a [[superuniverse]] [[group]] is [[perfectly]] [[reflective]] of just one of the [[Seven Master Spirits]]. And every time the [[Master Spirits]] [[associate]] themselves with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:1._THE_SEVEN_SUPREME_POWER_DIRECTORS power directors] for the [[purpose]] of creating a [[group]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:1._THE_HAVONA_SERVITALS Havona Servitals], there is a [[simultaneous]] [[focalization]] upon one of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:3._THE_REFLECTIVE_SPIRITS Reflective Spirits] in each of the [[superuniverse]] [[groups]], and forthwith and full-fledgedly an [[equal]] number of ''Universal Conciliators'' appear on the headquarters worlds of the supercreations. If, in the [[creation]] of servitals, Master Spirit Number Seven should take the initiative, none but the Reflective Spirits of the seventh order would become pregnant with conciliators; and concurrently with the creation of one thousand Orvontonlike servitals, one thousand of the seventh-order conciliators would appear on each [[superuniverse]] capital. Out of these episodes, [[reflecting]] the sevenfold [[nature]] of the Master Spirits, arise the seven created orders of conciliators serving in each [[superuniverse]].

25:2.3 Conciliators of pre-[[Paradise]] [[status]] do not serve interchangeably between [[superuniverses]], being restricted to their native segments of [[creation]]. Every [[superuniverse]] corps, embracing one seventh of each created order, therefore spends a very long time under the [[influence]] of one of the [[Master Spirits]] to the exclusion of the others, for, while all seven are [[reflected]] on the superuniverse capitals, only one is dominant in each supercreation.

25:2.4 Each of the [[Seven Superuniverses|seven supercreations]] is actually pervaded by that one of the [[Master Spirits]] who presides over its [[destinies]]. Each [[superuniverse]] thus becomes like a gigantic [[mirror]] [[reflecting]] the [[nature]] and [[character]] of the supervising Master Spirit, and all of this is further continued in every subsidiary [[local universe]] by the [[presence]] and [[function]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:6._THE_LOCAL_UNIVERSE_CREATIVE_SPIRITS Creative Mother Spirits]. The [[effect]] of such an [[environment]] upon [[evolutionary]] [[growth]] is so [[profound]] that in their postsuperuniverse [[careers]] the conciliators [[collectively]] manifest forty-nine [[experiential]] [[viewpoints]], or [[insights]], each [[angular]]—hence incomplete—but all [[mutually]] [[compensatory]] and [[together]] tending to [[encompass]] the [[circle]] of [[Supremacy]].

25:2.5 In each [[superuniverse]] the Universal Conciliators find themselves strangely and [[innately]] segregated into groups of four, [[associations]] in which they continue to serve. In each [[group]], three are [[spirit]] [[personalities]], and one, like the fourth creatures of the servitals, is a semi[[material]] [[being]]. This quartet [[constitutes]] a conciliating commission and is made up as follows:

*1. 25:2.6 The Judge-[[Arbiter]]. The one unanimously designated by the other three as the most competent and best qualified to [[act]] as [[judicial]] head of the [[group]].
*2. 25:2.7 The Spirit-[[Advocate]]. The one appointed by the [[judge]]-arbiter to present [[evidence]] and to safeguard the rights of all [[personalities]] involved in any matter assigned to the [[adjudication]] of the conciliating commission.
*3. 25:2.8 The [[Divine]] [[Executioner]]. The conciliator qualified by [[inherent]] nature to make contact with the [[material]] [[beings]] of the realms and to [[execute]] the [[decisions]] of the commission. Divine executioners, being fourth creatures—quasi-[[material]] [[beings]]—are almost, but not quite, visible to the short-range [[vision]] of the [[mortal]] [[races]].
*4. 25:2.9 The Recorder. The remaining member of the commission [[automatically]] becomes the recorder, the [[clerk]] of the [[tribunal]]. He makes certain that all [[records]] are properly [[prepared]] for the [[archives]] of the [[superuniverse]] and for the records of the [[local universe]]. If the commission is serving on an [[evolutionary world]], a third report, with the [[assistance]] of the executioner, is [[prepared]] for the [[physical]] [[records]] of [[the system]] [[government]] of [[jurisdiction]].

25:2.10 When in session a commission [[functions]] as a [[group]] of three since the [[advocate]] is detached during [[adjudication]] and [[participates]] in the formulation of the [[verdict]] only at the conclusion of the hearing. Hence these commissions are sometimes called referee trios.

25:2.11 The conciliators are of great [[value]] in keeping the [[universe of universes]] running smoothly. Traversing [[space]] at the seraphic rate of triple [[velocity]], they serve as the traveling [[courts]] of the worlds, commissions [[devoted]] to the quick [[adjudication]] of minor difficulties. Were it not for these mobile and eminently fair commissions, the [[tribunals]] of the [[spheres]] would be hopelessly overspread with the minor misunderstandings of the realms.

25:2.12 These referee trios do not pass upon matters of [[eternal]] import; the [[soul]], the [[eternal]] prospects of a [[creature]] of [[time]], is never placed in jeopardy by their [[acts]]. Conciliators do not deal with questions extending beyond the [[temporal]] [[existence]] and the [[cosmic]] welfare of the [[creatures]] of [[time]]. But when a commission has once accepted [[jurisdiction]] of a problem, its rulings are final and always unanimous; there is no appeal from the [[decision]] of the [[judge]]-arbiter.

==25:3. THE FAR-REACHING SERVICE OF CONCILIATORS==  

25:3.1 Conciliators maintain [[group]] [[headquarters]] on the capital of their [[superuniverse]], where their primary reserve corps is held. Their secondary reserves are stationed on the capitals of the [[local universes]]. The younger and less [[experienced]] commissioners begin their [[service]] on the lower worlds, worlds like [[Urantia]], and are advanced to the [[adjudication]] of greater [[problems]] after they have acquired riper [[experience]].

25:3.2 The order of conciliators is wholly [[dependable]]; not one has ever gone astray. Though not [[infallible]] in [[wisdom]] and [[judgment]], they are of unquestioned [[reliability]] and unerring in [[faithfulness]]. They take [[origin]] on the headquarters of a [[superuniverse]] and eventually return thereto, advancing through the following levels of [[universe]] [[service]]:

25:3.3 1. ''Conciliators to the Worlds''. Whenever the supervising [[personalities]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 individual worlds] become greatly perplexed or actually deadlocked concerning the proper [[procedure]] under existing circumstances, and if the matter is not of sufficient importance to be brought before the regularly constituted [[tribunals]] of the realm, then, upon the receipt of a [[petition]] of two [[personalities]], one from each [[contention]], a conciliating commission will begin to [[function]] forthwith.

25:3.4 When these [[administrative]] and [[jurisdictional]] [[difficulties]] have been placed in the hands of the conciliators for [[study]] and [[adjudication]], they are [[supreme]] in [[authority]]. But they will not [[formulate]] a [[decision]] until all the [[evidence]] has been heard, and there is [[absolutely]] no limit to their [[authority]] to call witnesses from anywhere and everywhere. And while their [[decisions]] may not be appealed, sometimes matters so develop that the commission closes its records at a given point, concludes its [[opinions]], and transfers the whole question to the higher [[tribunals]] of the realm.

25:3.5 The commissioners' decisions are placed on the [[planetary]] [[records]] and, if [[necessary]], are put into [[effect]] by the [[divine]] [[executioner]]. His [[power]] is very great, and the range of his [[activities]] on an [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited world]] is very wide. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25_-_The_Messenger_Hosts_of_Space#25:2._THE_UNIVERSAL_CONCILIATORS Divine executioners] are masterful [[manipulators]] of that which is in the interests of that which ought to be. Their [[work]] is sometimes carried out for the apparent [[welfare]] of the realm, and sometimes their [[acts]] on the worlds of [[time and space]] are [[difficult]] of explanation. Though executing [[decrees]] in defiance of neither [[natural law]] nor the [[ordained]] usages of the realm, they do ofttimes effect their [[strange]] doings and enforce the [[mandates]] of the conciliators in accordance with the higher laws of [[the system]] [[administration]].

25:3.6 2. ''Conciliators to the System Headquarters''. From [[service]] on the [[evolutionary worlds]] these commissions of four are advanced to [[duty]] on a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_46 system headquarters]. Here they have much [[work]] to do, and they [[prove]] to be the [[understanding]] [[friends]] of men, [[angels]], and other [[spirit]] [[beings]]. The referee trios are not so much concerned with [[personal]] [[differences]] as with [[group]] [[contentions]] and with misunderstandings arising between [[different]] orders of [[creatures]]; and on a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_46 system headquarters] there live both [[spiritual]] and [[material]] [[beings]], as well as the combined [[types]], such as the [[Material Sons]].

25:3.7 The [[moment]] the [[Creators]] bring into [[existence]] [[evolving]] [[individuals]] with the [[power]] of [[choice]], that [[moment]] a departure is made from the smooth working of [[divine]] [[perfection]]; misunderstandings are certain to arise, and provision for the fair [[adjustment]] of these [[honest]] [[differences]] of [[viewpoint]] must be made. We should all [[remember]] that the [[Omniscient|all-wise]] and [[Omnipotent|all-powerful]] Creators could have made the [[local universes]] just as [[perfect]] as [[Havona]]. No conciliating commissions need [[function]] in the [[central universe]]. But the [[Creators]] did not [[choose]] in their all-[[wisdom]] to do this. And while they have produced [[universes]] which abound in [[differences]] and teem with [[difficulties]], they have likewise provided the [[mechanisms]] and the means for [[composing]] all these [[differences]] and for [[harmonizing]] all this seeming [[confusion]].

25:3.8 3. ''The Constellation Conciliators''. From [[service]] in [[the system]]s the conciliators are promoted to the [[adjudication]] of the [[problems]] of a [[constellation]], taking up the minor [[difficulties]] arising between its one hundred systems of [[inhabited worlds]]. Not many problems developing on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_43#43:1._THE_CONSTELLATION_HEADQUARTERS constellation headquarters] fall under their [[jurisdiction]], but they are kept [[busy]] going from system to system gathering [[evidence]] and [[preparing]] preliminary [[statements]]. If the [[contention]] is [[honest]], if the [[difficulties]] arise out of [[sincere]] differences of [[opinion]] and honest [[diversity]] of [[viewpoints]], no matter how few [[persons]] may be involved, no matter how apparently trivial the misunderstanding, a conciliating commission can always be had to pass upon the [[merits]] of the [[controversy]].

25:3.9 4. ''Conciliators to the Local Universes''. In this larger [[work]] of a [[universe]] the commissioners are of great [[assistance]] to both the [[Melchizedeks]] and the [[Magisterial Sons]] and to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_43#43:3._THE_MOST_HIGHS_OF_NORLATIADEK constellation rulers] and the hosts of [[personalities]] concerned with the [[co-ordination]] and [[administration]] of the one hundred constellations. The different orders of [[seraphim]] and other residents of the headquarters [[spheres]] of a [[local universe]] also avail themselves of the help and [[decisions]] of the referee trios.

25:3.10 It is almost impossible to explain the nature of those [[differences]] which may arise in the detailed affairs of a [[the System|system]], a [[constellation]], or a [[universe]]. Difficulties do [[develop]], but they are very unlike the petty [[trials]] and travails of [[material]] [[existence]] as it is lived on the [[evolutionary worlds]].

25:3.11 5. ''Conciliators to the Superuniverse Minor Sectors''. From the [[problems]] of [[local universes]] the commissioners are advanced to the [[study]] of questions arising in the minor sectors of their [[superuniverse]]. The farther they [[ascend]] inward from the [[individual planets]], the fewer are the [[material]] [[duties]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25_-_The_Messenger_Hosts_of_Space#25:2._THE_UNIVERSAL_CONCILIATORS divine executioner]; [[gradually]] he assumes a new role of [[mercy]]-[[justice]] [[interpreter]], at the same time—being quasi-[[material]]—keeping the commission as a whole in [[sympathetic]] [[touch]] with the [[material]] aspects of its [[investigations]].

25:3.12 6. ''Conciliators to the Superuniverse Major Sectors''. The [[character]] of the [[work]] of the commissioners continues to [[change]] as they advance. There is less and less of [[Confusion|misunderstanding]] to [[adjudicate]] and more and more of [[mysterious]] [[phenomena]] to explain and [[interpret]]. From stage to [[stage]] they are evolving from [[arbiters]] of [[differences]] to explainers of [[mysteries]] —[[judges]] evolving into [[interpretative]] [[teachers]]. Arbiters of those who through ignorance permit [[difficulties]] and misunderstandings to arise, they once were; but they are now becoming instructors of those who are sufficiently [[intelligent]] and [[tolerant]] to avoid clashes of [[mind]] and [[wars]] of [[opinions]]. The higher a creature's [[education]], the more [[respect]] he has for the [[knowledge]], [[experience]], and [[opinions]] of others.

25:3.13 7. ''Conciliators to the Superuniverse''. Here the conciliators become ''co-ordinate''—four mutually [[understood]] and [[perfectly]] [[functioning]] [[arbiter]]-[[teachers]]. The divine executioner is divested of [[retributive]] [[power]] and becomes the [[physical]] [[voice]] of the [[spirit]] trio. By this time these [[counselors]] and [[teachers]] have become expertly familiar with most of the [[actual]] [[problems]] and [[difficulties]] encountered in the conduct of [[superuniverse]] affairs. Thus they become [[wonderful]] advisers and [[wise]] [[teachers]] of the [[ascending]] [[pilgrims]] who are in residence on the [[educational]] [[spheres]] surrounding the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:7._THE_ARCHITECTURAL_SPHERES headquarters worlds of the superuniverses].

25:3.14 All conciliators serve under the general supervision of the [[Ancients of Days]] and under the [[immediate]] direction of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:4._THE_REFLECTIVE_IMAGE_AIDS Image Aids] until such [[time]] as they are advanced to [[Paradise]]. During the [[Paradise]] [[sojourn]] they report to the [[Master Spirit]] who presides over the [[superuniverse]] of their [[origin]].

25:3.15 The [[superuniverse]] registries do not enumerate those conciliators who have passed beyond their [[jurisdiction]], and such commissions are widely [[Diffusion|scattered]] through the [[grand universe]]. The last report of registry on [[Uversa]] gives the [[number]] operating in [[Orvonton]] as almost eighteen trillion commissions—over seventy trillion [[individuals]]. But these are only a very small [[fraction]] of the multitude of conciliators that have been created in [[Orvonton]]; that number is of an altogether higher [[magnitude]] and is the equivalent of the [[total]] [[number]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:1._THE_HAVONA_SERVITALS Havona Servitals], with allowances for the [[transmutation]] into [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_24#24:6._THE_GRADUATE_GUIDES Graduate Guides].

25:3.16 From [[time]] to time, as the [[numbers]] of the [[superuniverse]] conciliators increase, they are [[translated]] to the council of [[perfection]] on [[Paradise]], from which they subsequently emerge as the [[co-ordinating]] corps evolved by the [[Infinite Spirit]] for the [[universe of universes]], a [[marvelous]] [[group]] of [[beings]] which is constantly increasing in numbers and [[efficiency]]. By [[experiential]] [[ascent]] and [[Paradise]] [[training]] they have acquired a [[unique]] [[Understanding|grasp]] of the [[emerging]] [[reality]] of the [[Supreme Being]], and they roam the [[universe of universes]] on special assignment.

25:3.17 The members of a conciliating commission are never separated. A [[group]] of four forever serve [[together]] just as they were [[originally]] [[associated]]. Even in their [[glorified]] [[service]] they continue to [[function]] as quartets of accumulated [[cosmic]] [[experience]] and perfected [[experiential]] [[wisdom]]. They are [[eternally]] [[associated]] as the [[embodiment]] of the [[supreme]] [[justice]] of [[time and space]].

==25:4. TECHNICAL ADVISERS==    

25:4.1 These [[legal]] and [[technical]] [[minds]] of the [[spirit]] world were not [[created]] as such. From the early [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_26#26:2._THE_MIGHTY_SUPERNAPHIM supernaphim] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:2._THE_OMNIAPHIM omniaphim], one million of the most orderly minds were chosen by the [[Infinite Spirit]] as the [[nucleus]] of this vast and [[versatile]] [[group]]. And ever since that far-distant [[time]], [[actual]] [[experience]] in the application of the [[laws]] of [[perfection]] to the plans of [[evolutionary]] [[creation]] has been required of all who [[aspire]] to become ''Technical Advisers''.

25:4.2 The Technical Advisers are recruited from the ranks of the following personality orders:

*1. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_26#26:2._THE_MIGHTY_SUPERNAPHIM The Supernaphim].
*2. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:3._THE_SECONAPHIM The Seconaphim].
*3. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:1._THE_TERTIAPHIM The Tertiaphim].
*4. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:2._THE_OMNIAPHIM The Omniaphim].
*5. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_38#38:1._ORIGIN_OF_SERAPHIM The Seraphim].
*6. Certain Types of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE Ascending Mortals].
*7. Certain Types of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:3._TRANSLATED_MIDWAYERS Ascending Midwayers].

25:4.3 At the [[present]] [[time]], not counting the [[mortals]] and [[midwayers]] who are all of transient attachment, the [[number]] of Technical Advisers registered on [[Uversa]] and operating in [[Orvonton]] is slightly in excess of sixty-one trillion.

25:4.4 Technical Advisers frequently [[function]] as [[individuals]] but are organized for [[service]] and [[maintain]] common [[headquarters]] on the [[spheres]] of assignment in [[groups]] of [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven seven]. In each [[group]] at least five must be of permanent [[status]], while two may be of temporary [[association]]. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE Ascending mortals] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:3._TRANSLATED_MIDWAYERS ascending midway creatures] serve on these advisory commissions while pursuing the [[Paradise]] [[ascent]], but they do not enter the regular [[courses]] of [[training]] for Technical Advisers, nor do they ever become permanent members of the order.

25:4.5 Those [[mortals]] and [[midwayers]] who serve transiently with the advisers are chosen for such [[work]] because of their expertness in the [[concept]] of [[universal]] [[law]] and [[supreme]] [[justice]]. As you [[journey]] toward your [[Paradise]] goal, constantly acquiring added [[knowledge]] and enhanced [[skill]], you are continuously afforded the [[opportunity]] to give out to others the [[wisdom]] and [[experience]] you have already accumulated; all the way in to [[Havona]] you enact the role of a [[pupil]]-[[teacher]]. You will [[work]] your way through the [[ascending]] levels of this vast [[experiential]] [[university]] by imparting to those just below you the new-found [[knowledge]] of your advancing [[career]]. In the [[universal]] [[regime]] you are not reckoned as having [[possessed]] yourself of [[knowledge]] and [[truth]] until you have [[demonstrated]] your [[ability]] and your willingness to [[Share|impart]] this [[knowledge]] and [[truth]] to others.

25:4.6 After long [[training]] and [[actual]] [[experience]], any of the [[ministering spirits]] above the [[status]] of [[cherubim]] are permitted to receive permanent appointment as Technical Advisers. All [[candidates]] voluntarily enter this order of [[service]]; but having once assumed such [[responsibilities]], they may not relinquish them. Only the [[Ancients of Days]] can transfer these advisers to other activities.

25:4.7 The [[training]] of Technical Advisers, begun in the [[Melchizedek colleges]] of the [[local universes]], continues to the [[courts]] of the [[Ancients of Days]]. From this [[superuniverse]] [[training]] they proceed to the "schools of the seven circles" located on the pilot worlds of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_14_-_The_Central_and_Divine_Universe#14:1._THE_PARADISE-HAVONA_SYSTEM Havona circuits]. And from the pilot worlds they are received into the "college of the [[ethics]] of [[law]] and the [[technique]] of Supremacy," the [[Paradise]] [[training]] school for the perfecting of Technical Advisers.

25:4.8 These advisers are more than [[legal]] [[experts]]; they are students and [[teachers]] of applied law, the [[laws]] of the [[universe]] applied to the lives and [[destinies]] of all who inhabit the vast domains of the [[Grand Universe| far-flung creation]]. As [[time]] passes, they become the living law [[libraries]] of [[time and space]], preventing endless trouble and needless delays by instructing the [[personalities]] of time regarding the [[forms]] and modes of [[procedure]] most acceptable to the rulers of [[eternity]]. They are able so to [[counsel]] the workers of [[space]] as to enable them to [[function]] in [[harmony]] with the requirements of [[Paradise]]; they are the [[teachers]] of all [[creatures]] concerning the [[technique]] of the [[Creators]].

25:4.9 Such a living [[library]] of applied [[law]] could not be created; such [[beings]] must be evolved by [[actual]] [[experience]]. [[The infinite Deities]] are [[existential]], hence are [[compensated]] for lack of [[experience]]; they know all even before they [[experience]] all, but they do not impart this nonexperiential [[knowledge]] to their subordinate [[creatures]].

25:4.10 Technical Advisers are [[dedicated]] to the [[work]] of preventing delay, facilitating [[progress]], and [[counseling]] [[achievement]]. There is always a best and right way to do [[things]]; there is always the [[technique]] of [[perfection]], a [[divine]] [[method]], and these advisers know how to direct us all in the finding of this better way.

25:4.11 These 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]], [[Local Universe|universes]], and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:13._THE_SECTOR_GOVERNMENTS 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.

25:4.12 Besides [[counseling]] regarding [[legal]] usages, Technical Advisers are equally [[devoted]] to the [[efficient]] [[interpretation]] of all [[laws]] concerning [[creature]] [[beings]]—[[physical]], [[mindal]], and [[spiritual]]. They are available to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:2._THE_UNIVERSAL_CONCILIATORS Universal Conciliators] and to all others who [[desire]] to know the [[truth]] of [[law]]; in other [[words]], to know how the [[Supremacy]] of [[Deity]] may be depended upon to [[react]] in a given [[situation]] having [[factors]] of an established [[physical]], [[mindal]], and [[spiritual]] order. They even essay to elucidate the [[technique]] of the [[Ultimate]].

25:4.13 Technical Advisers are selected and tested beings; I have never known one of them to go astray. We have no [[records]] on [[Uversa]] of their ever having been adjudged in contempt of the [[divine]] [[laws]] they so [[effectively]] [[interpret]] and so [[eloquently]] [[Expression|expound]]. There is no known [[limit]] to the domain of their [[service]], neither has any been placed upon their [[progress]]. They continue as [[advisers]] even to the [[portals]] of [[Paradise]]; the whole [[universe]] of [[law]] and [[experience]] is open to them.

==25:5. THE CUSTODIANS OF RECORDS ON PARADISE==    

25:5.1 From among the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_26#26:3._THE_TERTIARY_SUPERNAPHIM  tertiary supernaphim] in [[Havona]], certain of the senior chief recorders are chosen as ''Custodians of Records'', as keepers of the [[formal]] [[archives]] of the [[Isle of Light]], those [[archives]] which stand in [[contrast]] to the living [[records]] of registry in the [[minds]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_27#27:5._THE_CUSTODIANS_OF_KNOWLEDGE custodians of knowledge], sometimes designated the "living [[library]] of [[Paradise]]."

25:5.2 The recording [[angels]] of the [[inhabited planets]] are the [[source]] of all [[individual]] [[records]]. Throughout the [[universes]] other recorders [[function]] regarding both [[formal]] records and living records. From [[Urantia]] to [[Paradise]], both recordings are encountered: in a [[local universe]], more of the [[written]] [[records]] and less of the living; on [[Paradise]], more of the living and less of the [[formal]]; on [[Uversa]], both are [[equally]] available.

25:5.3 Every occurrence of significance in the [[organized]] and inhabited [[creation]] is a matter of [[record]]. While [[events]] of no more than local importance find only a local recording, those of wider significance are dealt with accordingly. From the [[planets]], [[the System|systems]], and [[constellations]] of [[Nebadon]], [[everything]] of [[universe]] import is posted on [[Salvington]]; and from such [[universe]] capitals those episodes are advanced to higher recording which pertain to the affairs of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:13._THE_SECTOR_GOVERNMENTS sector] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:10._RULERS_OF_THE_SUPERUNIVERSES supergovernments]. [[Paradise]] also has a relevant summary of [[superuniverse]] and [[Havona]] data; and this [[historic]] and cumulative [[story]] of the [[universe of universes]] is in the custody of these exalted [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_26#26:3._THE_TERTIARY_SUPERNAPHIM tertiary supernaphim].

25:5.4 While certain of these [[beings]] have been dispatched to the [[superuniverses]] to serve as Chiefs of Records directing the [[activities]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:6._THE_CELESTIAL_RECORDERS Celestial Recorders], not one has ever been transferred from the permanent roll call of their order.

==25:6. THE CELESTIAL RECORDERS==    

25:6.1 These are the recorders who [[execute]] all [[records]] in duplicate, making an [[original]] [[spirit]] recording and a semi[[material]] counterpart—what might be called a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_copy carbon copy]. This they can do because of their peculiar [[ability]] [[simultaneously]] to [[manipulate]] both [[spiritual]] and [[material]] [[energy]]. Celestial Recorders are not created as such; they are [[ascendant]] [[seraphim]] from the [[local universes]]. They are received, classified, and assigned to their [[spheres]] of [[work]] by the councils of the Chiefs of Records on the headquarters of the [[seven superuniverses]]. There also are located the schools for [[training]] Celestial Recorders. The school on [[Uversa]] is conducted by the [[Perfectors of Wisdom]] and the [[Divine Counselors]].

25:6.2 As the recorders advance in [[universe]] [[service]], they continue their [[system]] of dual recording, thus making their records always available to all [[Types|classes]] of [[beings]], from those of the [[material]] order to the high [[spirits]] of [[light]]. In your transition [[experience]], as you [[ascend]] from this [[material]] world, you will always be able to consult the [[records]] of, and to be otherwise conversant with, the [[history]] and [[traditions]] of your [[status]] [[sphere]].

25:6.3 The recorders are a tested and tried corps. Never have I known of the defection of a Celestial Recorder, and never has there been [[discovered]] a falsification in their records. They are subjected to a dual inspection, their [[records]] being [[Examination|scrutinized]] by their exalted fellows from [[Uversa]] and by the [[Mighty Messengers]], who certify to the correctness of the quasi-[[physical]] duplicates of the [[original]] [[spirit]] records.

25:6.4 While the advancing recorders stationed on the subordinate [[spheres]] of record in the [[Orvonton]] [[universes]] number trillions upon trillions, those of [[attained]] [[status]] on [[Uversa]] are not quite eight million in [[number]]. These senior or [[graduate]] recorders are the [[superuniverse]] custodians and forwarders of the sponsored records of [[time and space]]. Their permanent [[headquarters]] are in the [[circular]] abodes surrounding the area of records on [[Uversa]]. They never leave the custody of these records to others; as [[individuals]] they may be absent, but never in large numbers.

25:6.5 Like those [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_26#26:2._THE_MIGHTY_SUPERNAPHIM supernaphim] who have become [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25#25:5._THE_CUSTODIANS_OF_RECORDS_ON_PARADISE Custodians of Records], the corps of Celestial Recorders is of permanent assignment. Once [[seraphim]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_26#26:2._THE_MIGHTY_SUPERNAPHIM supernaphim] are mustered into these [[services]], they will respectively remain Celestial Recorders and Custodians of Records until the day of the new and modified [[administration]] of the full [[personalization]] of [[God the Supreme]].

25:6.6 On [[Uversa]] these senior Celestial Recorders can show the [[records]] of [[everything]] of [[cosmic]] import in all [[Orvonton]] since the far-distant times of the arrival of the [[Ancients of Days]], while on the [[eternal Isle]] the Custodians of Records guard the [[archives]] of that realm which testify to the [[transactions]] of [[Paradise]] since the times of the [[personification]] of the [[Infinite Spirit]].

==25:7. THE MORONTIA COMPANIONS==  

25:7.1 These [[children]] of the [[local universe]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:6._THE_LOCAL_UNIVERSE_CREATIVE_SPIRITS Mother Spirits] are the [[friends]] and [[associates]] of all who live the [[ascending]] [[morontia]] life. They are not indispensable to an [[ascender]]'s real [[work]] of [[creature]] [[progression]], neither do they in any sense displace the [[work]] of the [[seraphic guardians]] who often accompany their [[mortal]] [[associates]] on the [[Paradise]] [[journey]]. The ''Morontia Companions'' are simply [[gracious]] [[hosts]] to those who are just beginning the long inward [[ascent]]. They are also [[skillful]] [[play]] sponsors and are ably [[assisted]] in this [[work]] by the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_30#30:3._THE_COURTESY_COLONIES reversion directors].

25:7.2 Though you will have [[earnest]] and [[progressively]] [[difficult]] tasks to [[perform]] on the [[Mansion Worlds|morontia training worlds]] of [[Nebadon]], you will always be provided with regular seasons of rest and reversion. Throughout the [[journey]] to [[Paradise]] there will always be [[time]] for rest and [[spirit]] [[play]]; and in the [[career]] of [[light and life]] there is always time for [[worship]] and new [[achievement]].

25:7.3 These ''Morontia Companions'' are such [[friendly]] [[associates]] that, when you finally leave the last [[phase]] of the [[morontia]] [[experience]], as you [[prepare]] to embark upon the [[superuniverse]] [[spirit]] [[adventure]], you will truly regret that these companionable [[creatures]] cannot accompany you, but they serve exclusively in the [[local universes]]. At every [[stage]] of the [[ascending career]] all contactable [[personalities]] will be friendly and companionable, but not until you meet the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25_-_The_Messenger_Hosts_of_Space#25:8._THE_PARADISE_COMPANIONS Paradise Companions] will you find another [[group]] so [[devoted]] to [[friendship]] and companionship.

25:7.4 The work of the ''Morontia Companions'' is more fully depicted in those [[narratives]][https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48#48:3._MORONTIA_COMPANIONS] dealing with the affairs of your [[local universe]].

==25:8. THE PARADISE COMPANIONS==   

25:8.1 The ''Paradise Companions'' are a [[composite]] or assembled [[group]] recruited from the ranks of the [[seraphim]], [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:3._THE_SECONAPHIM seconaphim], [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_26#26:2._THE_MIGHTY_SUPERNAPHIM supernaphim], and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:2._THE_OMNIAPHIM omniaphim]. Though serving for what you would regard as an extraordinary length of [[time]], they are not of permanent [[status]]. When this ministry has been completed, as a rule (but not invariably) they return to those [[duties]] they [[performed]] when summoned to [[Paradise]] [[service]].

25:8.2 Members of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_38#PAPER_38_MINISTERING_SPIRITS_OF_THE_LOCAL_UNIVERSE angelic hosts] are nominated for this [[service]] by the [[local universe]] [[Mother Spirits]], by the [[superuniverse]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:3._THE_REFLECTIVE_SPIRITS Reflective Spirits], and by [[Majeston]] of [[Paradise]]. They are summoned to the [[Paradise|central Isle]] and are commissioned as Paradise Companions by one of the [[Seven Master Spirits]]. Aside from permanent [[status]] on [[Paradise]], this temporary [[service]] of Paradise companionship is the highest [[honor]] ever conferred upon the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_38 ministering spirits].

25:8.3 These selected [[angels]] are [[dedicated]] to the [[service]] of companionship and are assigned as [[associates]] to all classes of [[beings]] who may [[chance]] to be alone on [[Paradise]], chiefly to the [[ascendant]] [[mortals]] but also to all others who are [[alone]] on the central Isle. Paradise Companions have nothing especial to accomplish in behalf of those with whom they fraternize; they are simply companions. Almost every other [[being]] you mortals will encounter during your [[Paradise]] [[sojourn]]—aside from your fellow [[pilgrims]]—will have something definite to do with you or for you; but these companions are assigned only to be with you and to [[commune]] with you as [[personality]] [[associates]]. They are often [[assisted]] in their [[ministry]] by the [[gracious]] and [[brilliant]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_19#19:7._PARADISE_CITIZENS Paradise Citizens].

25:8.4 [[Mortals]] come from [[races]] that are very [[social]]. The [[Creators]] well know that it is "not [[good]] for man to be [[alone]],"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.2] and provision is accordingly made for companionship, even on [[Paradise]].

25:8.5 If you, as an [[ascendant]] [[mortal]], should reach [[Paradise]] in the company of the companion or close [[associate]] of your earthly [[career]], or if your [[Guardian Angel|seraphic guardian of destiny]] should [[chance]] to arrive with you or were waiting for you, then no permanent companion would be assigned you. But if you arrive [[alone]], a companion will certainly welcome you as you [[awaken]] on the [[Isle of Light]] from the terminal [[sleep]] of [[time]]. Even if it is known that you will be accompanied by someone of [[ascendant]] [[association]], temporary companions will be designated to [[welcome]] you to the [[eternal]] shores and to escort you to the reservation made ready for the reception of you and your [[associates]]. You may be certain of being warmly welcomed when you [[experience]] the [[resurrection]] into [[eternity]] on the everlasting shores of [[Paradise]].

25:8.6 Reception companions are assigned during the terminal days of the [[ascender]]s' [[sojourn]] on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_14#14:1._THE_PARADISE-HAVONA_SYSTEM last circuit of Havona], and they carefully [[examine]] the [[records]] of [[mortal]] [[origin]] and [[eventful]] [[ascent]] through the worlds of [[space]] and the [[circles]] of [[Havona]]. When they greet the [[mortals]] of [[time]], they are already well versed in the [[careers]] of these arriving [[pilgrims]] and [[immediately]] [[prove]] to be [[sympathetic]] and [[intriguing]] companions.

25:8.7 During your [[Corps of the Finality|prefinaliter]] [[sojourn]] on [[Paradise]], if for any [[reason]] you should be temporarily separated from your [[associate]] of the [[ascending career]]—[[mortal]] or [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39 seraphic]—a ''Paradise Companion'' would be forthwith assigned for [[counsel]] and companionship. When once assigned to an [[ascendant]] [[mortal]] of [[solitary]] residence on [[Paradise]], the companion remains with this [[person]] until he either is rejoined by his ascendant [[associates]] or is duly mustered into the [[Corps of the Finality]].

25:8.8 Paradise Companions are assigned in order of waiting except that an [[ascender]] is never placed in the charge of a companion whose [[nature]] is unlike his [[superuniverse]] [[type]]. If a [[Urantia]] [[mortal]] were arriving on [[Paradise]] today, there would be assigned to him the first waiting companion either of [[origin]] in [[Orvonton]] or otherwise of the [[nature]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_16#PAPER_16:_THE_SEVEN_MASTER_SPIRITS Seventh Master Spirit]. Hence the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:2._THE_OMNIAPHIM omniaphim] serve not with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascendant creatures] from the [[seven superuniverses]].

25:8.9 Many additional [[services]] are [[performed]] by the ''Paradise Companions'': If an [[ascending]] [[mortal]] should reach the [[central universe]] [[alone]] and, while traversing [[Havona]], should fail in some [[phase]] of the [[Deity]] [[adventure]], in due [[course]] he would be remanded to the [[universes]] of [[time]], and forthwith a call would be made to the reserves of the Paradise Companions. One of this order would be assigned to follow the defeated [[pilgrim]], to be with him and to comfort and cheer him, and to remain with him until he returned to the [[central universe]] to resume the [[Paradise]] [[ascent]].

25:8.10 If an [[ascending]] [[pilgrim]] met defeat in the [[Deity]] [[adventure]] while traversing [[Havona]] in the company of an [[ascending]] [[seraphim]], the [[guardian angel]] of the [[mortal]] [[career]], she would elect to accompany her [[mortal]] [[associate]]. These [[seraphim]] always volunteer and are permitted to accompany their long-time [[mortal]] comrades back to the [[service]] of [[time and space]].

25:8.11 But not so with two closely [[associated]] [[mortal]] ascenders: If one [[attains]] [[God]] while the other temporarily fails, the successful [[individual]] invariably [[chooses]] to go back to the [[evolutionary]] [[creations]] with the [[disappointed]] [[personality]], but this is not permitted. Instead, a call is made to the reserves of the ''Paradise Companions'', and one of the volunteers is selected to accompany the disappointed [[pilgrim]]. A volunteer Paradise Citizen then becomes [[associated]] with the successful [[mortal]], who tarries on the [[central Isle]] awaiting the [[Havona]] return of the defeated comrade and in the meantime [[teaches]] in certain [[Paradise]] schools, presenting the [[adventurous]] [[story]] of the [[evolutionary]] [[ascent]].

25:8.12 Sponsored by [[One High in Authority]] from [[Uversa]].

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