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48:3.2 ''Morontia Companions'' are [[trained]] for [[service]] by the [[Melchizedeks]] on a special [[planet]] near [[Salvington]]; they do not pass through the central [[Melchizedek schools]]. In [[service]] they range from the lowest [[mansion worlds]] of [[the systems]] to the highest [[study]] [[spheres]] of [[Salvington]], but they are seldom encountered on the [[inhabited worlds]]. They serve under the general supervision of the [[Sons of God]] and under the [[immediate]] direction of the [[Melchizedeks]].

48:3.2 ''Morontia Companions'' are [[trained]] for [[service]] by the [[Melchizedeks]] on a special [[planet]] near [[Salvington]]; they do not pass through the central [[Melchizedek schools]]. In [[service]] they range from the lowest [[mansion worlds]] of [[the systems]] to the highest [[study]] [[spheres]] of [[Salvington]], but they are seldom encountered on the [[inhabited worlds]]. They serve under the general supervision of the [[Sons of God]] and under the [[immediate]] direction of the [[Melchizedeks]].

48:3.3 The ''Morontia Companions'' [[maintain]] ten thousand [[headquarters]] in a [[local universe]]—on each of the first [[mansion worlds]] of the [[local systems]]. They are almost wholly a [[self-governing]] order and are, in general, an [[intelligent]] and [[loyal]] [[group]] of [[beings]]; but every now and then, in [[connection]] with certain unfortunate [[celestial]] [[upheavals]], they have been known to go astray. Thousands of these useful [[creatures]] were lost during the times of the [[Lucifer rebellion]] in [[Satania]]. Your [[local system]] now has its full [[quota]] of these [[beings]], the loss of the [[Lucifer rebellion]] having only recently been made up.

48:3.3 The ''Morontia Companions'' [[maintain]] ten thousand [[headquarters]] in a [[local universe]]—on each of the first [[mansion worlds]] of the [[local systems]]. They are almost wholly a [[self-governing]] order and are, in general, an [[intelligent]] and [[loyal]] [[group]] of [[beings]]; but every now and then, in [[connection]] with certain unfortunate [[celestial]] [[upheavals]], they have been known to go astray. Thousands of these useful [[creatures]] were lost during the times of the [[Lucifer rebellion]] in [[Satania]]. Your [[local system]] now has its full quota of these [[beings]], the loss of the [[Lucifer rebellion]] having only recently been made up.

48:3.4 There are two distinct [[types]] of ''Morontia Companions''; one type is [[Active|aggressive]], the other [[Passive|retiring]], but otherwise they are [[equal]] in [[status]]. They are not [[sex]] [[creatures]], but they [[manifest]] a [[touchingly]] [[beautiful]] [[affection]] for one another. And while they are hardly companionate in the [[material]] ([[human]]) sense, they are very close of kin to the [[human]] [[races]] in the order of [[creature]] [[existence]]. The [[midway creatures]] of the worlds are your nearest of kin; then come the [[morontia]] [[cherubim]], and after them the ''Morontia Companions''.

48:3.4 There are two distinct [[types]] of ''Morontia Companions''; one type is [[Active|aggressive]], the other [[Passive|retiring]], but otherwise they are [[equal]] in [[status]]. They are not [[sex]] [[creatures]], but they [[manifest]] a [[touchingly]] [[beautiful]] [[affection]] for one another. And while they are hardly companionate in the [[material]] ([[human]]) sense, they are very close of kin to the [[human]] [[races]] in the order of [[creature]] [[existence]]. The [[midway creatures]] of the worlds are your nearest of kin; then come the [[morontia]] [[cherubim]], and after them the ''Morontia Companions''.