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'''Midwayers''' may be regarded as the first [[group]] of the permanent inhabitants to be found on the various orders of worlds throughout the [[universes]] in contrast with evolutionary ascenders like the [[mortal]] [[creatures]] and the [[Angels|angelic hosts]]. Such permanent citizens are encountered at various points in the Paradise ascent.
Unlike the various orders of [[celestial]] beings who are assigned to minister on a [[planet]], the midwayers live on an inhabited world. The [[seraphim]] come and go, but the midway creatures remain and will remain, albeit they are nonetheless ministers for being natives of the planet, and they provide the one continuing regime which [[harmonizes]] and connects the changing administrations of the [Paper 114 - The Seraphic Planetary Government seraphic hosts].
As actual [[citizens]] of [[Urantia]], the midwayers have a kinship interest in the [[destiny]] of this [[sphere]]. They are a determined association, persistently working for the [[progress]] of their native planet. Their [[determination]] is suggested by the motto of their order: "What the United Midwayers undertake, the United Midwayers do."
Although their ability to traverse the [[energy]] circuits makes planetary departure feasible to any midwayer, they have individually pledged themselves not to leave the [[planet]] prior to their sometime release by the universe authorities. Midwayers are anchored on a planet until the ages of settled [[light and life]]. With the exception of 1-2-3 the first, no loyal midway creatures have ever departed from Urantia.
1-2-3 the first, the eldest of the primary order, was released from immediate planetary duties shortly after [[Pentecost]]. This noble midwayer stood steadfast with [[Van]] and [[Amadon]] during the tragic days of [[The Rebellion|the planetary rebellion]], and his fearless leadership was instrumental in reducing the casualties in his order. He serves at present on [[Jerusem]] as a member of the [[Council of 24|twenty-four counselors]], having already functioned as governor general of [[Urantia]] once since Pentecost.
Midwayers are planet bound, but much as [[mortals]] talk with travelers from afar and thus learn about remote places on the planet, so do midwayers converse with celestial travelers to learn about the far places of the universe. So do they become conversant with this [[system]] and [[universe]], even with [[Orvonton]] and its sister [[creation]]s, and so do they prepare themselves for citizenship on the higher levels of [[creature]] [[existence]].
While the midwayers were brought into existence fully developed--experiencing no period of [[growth]] or development from immaturity--they never cease to grow in [[wisdom]] and [[experience]]. Like mortals they are [[evolution]]ary creatures, and they have a [[culture]] which is a bona fide evolutionary attainment. There are many great minds and mighty spirits among the Urantia midway corps.
In the larger aspect the [[civilization]] of Urantia is the joint product of the Urantia mortals and the Urantia midwayers, and this is true despite the present differential between the two levels of [[culture]], a differential which will not be compensated prior to the ages of [[light and life]].
The midway culture, being the product of an immortal planetary citizenry, is relatively immune to those temporal vicissitudes which beset [[human]] [[civilization]]. The generations of men forget; the corps of midwayers remembers, and that [[memory]] is the treasure house of the [[tradition]]s of your inhabited world. Thus does the [[culture]] of a planet remain ever present on that planet, and in proper circumstances such treasured memories of past events are made available, even as the story of the life and teachings of [[Jesus]] has been given by the midwayers of [[Urantia]] to their cousins in the [[flesh]].
Midwayers are the skillful ministers who compensate that gap between the [[material]] and [[spiritual]] affairs of Urantia which appeared upon the death of [[Adam and Eve]]. They are likewise your elder brethren, comrades in the long struggle to attain a settled [[status]] of [[light and life]] on Urantia. The United Midwayers are a [[rebellion]]-tested corps, and they will faithfully enact their part in planetary [[evolution]] until this world attains the goal of the ages, until that distant day when in fact [[peace]] does reign on earth and in [[truth]] is there good will in the [[hearts]] of men.
Because of the valuable [[work]] performed by these midwayers, we have concluded that they are a truly [[essential]] part of the [[spirit]] [[economy]] of the realms. And where rebellion has not marred a planet's affairs, they are of still greater assistance to the [[seraphim]].
The entire organization of high spirits, angelic hosts, and midway fellows is enthusiastically devoted to the furtherance of the [[Paradise]] plan for the progressive [[ascension]] and perfection attainment of evolutionary mortals, one of the supernal businesses of the universe--the superb survival plan of bringing [[God]] down to man and then, by a sublime sort of partnership, carrying man up to God and on to eternity of [[service]] and [[divinity]] of attainment--alike for mortal and midwayer.[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77]
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