Seraphim of the morontia worlds - transitional servants

Seraphim of the morontia worlds - transitional servants

48:6.1 (551.6)Although all orders of angels, from the planetary helpers to the supreme seraphim, serve on the morontia worlds, the transitional servants are charged more exclusively with these activities. These angels belong to the sixth order of seraphim servants, and their service consists in facilitating the transition of material, mortal creatures from temporal life in the flesh to the first stages of morontia existence on the seven dwelling worlds.

48:6.2 (551.7)It should be understood that the morontia life of an ascending mortal really begins on the inhabited worlds at the conception of the soul, at the moment when in the creature-consciousness with moral status comes to inhabit the spirit-Richter. From that moment on, the mortal soul has the potential capacity to function in super-mortal ways, even to be recognized at the higher levels of the morontia worlds in the local universe.

48:6.3 (552.1)However, you will only become aware of the service of the transitional seraphim upon reaching the dwelling worlds, where they work tirelessly to advance their mortal pupils. They are appointed to serve in the following seven divisions:

48:6.4 (552.2)1. Seraphic Evangelists. The moment you come to consciousness on the dwelling worlds, you are classified in the archives of the system as an evolving spirit. True, you are not yet a spirit in reality, but you are no longer a mortal or material being; you have begun the pre-spiritual career and are duly admitted to morontia life.

48:6.5 (552.3)On the dwelling worlds, the seraphic evangelists will help you choose wisely among the optional routes to Edentia, Salvington, Uversa and Havona. If a number of these routes are equally recommendable, they will be presented to you and you will be given permission to choose the one that attracts you the most. These seraphim then make recommendations to the twenty-four counsellors on Jerusem as to the course which will most benefit each ascending soul.

48:6.6 (552.4)You shall not have unlimited freedom in your choice concerning your future course, but you may choose within the limits of what the transitional servants and their superiors in their wisdom determine is most suitable for your future spiritual level. The spirit world is governed on the principle that your free will choice is res- pected, provided the course you choose is not detrimental to yourself or harmful to your companions.

48:6.7 (552.5)These seraphic evangelists devote themselves to proclaiming the gospel of eternal progression, the triumph of attaining perfection. On the dwelling worlds they proclaim the great law that goodness preserves and dominates: no act that is good is ever completely lost. Such an act may be opposed for a long time, but it is never entirely nullified, and has eternal power according to the divinity of the motivation from which it was performed.

48:6.8 (552.6)Even on Urantia, they advise human teachers of truth and righteousness to adhere to the preaching of “the goodness of God, which leads to repentance,” to the proclamation of “the love of God, which drives out all fear. This is exactly how the following truths have been proclaimed on your world:

48:6.9 (552.7)The gods are my keepers; I will not go astray;

48:6.10 (552.8)Side by side they lead me along the clean paths and through the glorious refreshment of eternal life.

48:6.11 (552.9)In this Divine Presence I shall not hunger for food nor thirst for water.

48:6.12 (552.10)Though I descend into the valley of uncertainty or ascend into the worlds of doubt,

48:6.13 (552.11)Though I move in solitude or with my peers,

48:6.14 (552.12)Though I triumph in the corn of light or stumble in the lonely places of the worlds,

48:6.15 (552.13)Your good spirit will serve me, and your glorious angel will comfort me.

48:6.16 (552.14)Though I descend into the depths of darkness and death itself,

48:6.17 (552.15)I will not doubt you nor fear you,

48:6.18 (552.16)For I know that in the fullness of time and the glory of thy name

48:6.19 (552.17)Raise up and make me sit down with you on the pinnacles in the high.

48:6.20 (553.1)This is the story that was whispered to the shepherd boy in the night. He could not remember it word for word, but rendered it as best he could remember it, almost in the words in which it is recorded today.

48:6.21 (553.2)These seraphim are also those who proclaim to the entire system, as well as to the individual ascendants, the gospel of the attainment of perfection. Even now, in the young system Satania, their teachings and plans already include provisions for the future ages, when the dwelling worlds will no longer serve as steps by which one reaches the worlds on high.

48:6.22 (553.3)2. Racial interpreters. The races of mortals are not all alike. It is true that a planetary pattern runs through the physical, mental and spiritual nature and inclinations of the several races of a given world, but there are also distinct racial types, and the offspring of these various human archetypes are characterized by very particular social inclinations. On the worlds in time, the seraphic interpreters of the races promote the efforts of the racial commissioners to harmonize the divergent viewpoints of the various races with each other, and they are also still active on the dwelling worlds, where the same differences often remain to some degree. On a confused planet like Urantia, these magnificent beings have hardly had a fair opportunity to perform their work, but they are the skilled sociologists and wise ethnic advisors of the first heavens.

48:6.23 (553.4)When you allow the statement about “heaven” and the “heaven of heavens” to circulate within you, heaven as most of your prophets imagined it is the first dwelling world of the local system. When the apostle told of being “lifted up into the third heaven,” he was referring to that experience in which his Richter was detached from him during sleep and in this unusual state made a projection into the third of the seven dwelling worlds. Some of your wise men have seen the vision of the greater heaven, “the heaven of heavens,” of which the seven dwelling-world experience was only the first; the second is Jerusem, the third Edentia and her satellites, the fourth Salvington and the teaching worlds surrounding her, the fifth Uversa, the sixth Havona and the seventh, Paradise.

48:6.24 (553.5)3. Seraphim of consciousness planning. These seraphim devote themselves to effectively bringing morontia beings together in groups and organizing the teamwork of these beings on the dwelling worlds. They are the psychologists of the first heaven. This special division of seraphic servants, for the most part, has had previous experience as guardian angels of the children of the age, but for some reason their pupils on the dwelling worlds have not come to personalization, or else they have come to survival through the technique of fusion with Spirit.

48:6.25 (553.6)The seraphim of consciousness planning are tasked with studying the nature, experience and status of the Richter souls en route through the dwelling worlds and facilitating the appointment and advancement of these in groups. But these seraphim do not intrigue, manipulate or otherwise abuse the ignorance or other limitations of students on the dwelling worlds. They are perfectly fair and highly equitable. They respect your newborn morontia will; they regard you as independent beings of will and they seek to encourage you to develop quickly and make rapid progress. With them you are face to face with true friends and understanding counselors, angels who are truly able to help you “see yourself as others see you,” and “know yourself as the angels know you.

48:6.26 (553.7)Even on Urantia these seraphim teach the eternal truth that if your own consciousness does not serve you well, you can exchange it for the consciousness of Jesus of Nazareth, who always serves you well.

48:6.27 (554.1)4. Morontia Councillors. These servants bear this name because they are appointed to teach, guide and counsel the surviving mortals of the worlds where humans arise - souls on their way to the higher academies at the headquarters of the system. These are the teachers of those who seek insight into the experiential unity of diverse levels of life, those who seek to bring about the integration of meanings and the union of values. This is the function of philosophy in mortal life, and of mota on the morontia worlds.

48:6.28 (554.2)Mota is more than a superior philosophy, it relates to philosophy as two eyes to one: it has a stereoscopic effect on meanings and values. Material man sees the universe, as it were, with a single eye - flat. Students on dwelling worlds acquire a cosmic perspective - depth - by superimposing the perceptions of morontia on the perceptions of physical life. And they are largely enabled to truly focus these material and morontial viewpoints through the tireless service of their seraphic counselors, who very patiently teach the dwelling-world students and the morontia continuants. Many teaching counselors of the supreme order of seraphim began their careers as advisors to the newly liberated souls of mortals of the ages.

48:6.29 (554.3)5. Technicians. These are the seraphim who help new ascendants adjust to the new, relatively alien environment of the morontia worlds. Life on the transitional worlds involves real contact with the energies and materials of both the physical level and the morontia level, and to some extent with spiritual realities. Ascendants must acclimate to each new morontia level, and in this they are always greatly assisted by the seraphic technicians. These seraphim act as liaisons to the Morontia Force Supervisors and to the Master Physical Controllers, and they have comprehensive work as instructors of the ascending pilgrims concerning the nature of the energies used on the transitional worlds. They serve as traversers of space in emergencies and perform numerous other regular and special duties.

48:6.30 (554.4)6. Registrar-Teachers. These seraphim are the registrars of operations in the borderland between the spiritual and the physical, of relations between humans and angels, of morontia operations in the lower regions of the universe. They also serve as instructors on the efficient and effective techniques of recording facts. There is a certain artistry in the intelligent collection and coordination of interrelated data, and this art deepens in cooperation with the celestial artists; even the ascending mortals thus find connection with the recording seraphim.

48:6.31 (554.5)The registrars of all seraphic orders devote a certain amount of time to the instruction and training of the morontia continuants. These angels, who are the keepers of the facts of the times, are ideal instructors of all who seek facts. Before you leave Jerusem, the history of Satania and its 619 inhabited worlds will be very well known to you, and this story will be told to you largely by the seraphic registrars.

48:6.32 (554.6)These angels are all links in the chain of registrars that reaches from the lowest to the highest keepers of the facts of time and the truths of eternity. One day they will teach you to seek both truth and facts, and to expand both your soul and your consciousness. Even now thou must learn to water the garden of thy heart as well as to search for the dry ground of knowledge. Outward appearances are without value when lessons are learned. No chick can emerge without the eggshell, and no eggshell is of any value when the chick is hatched. But sometimes error is so great that if it were rectified by revelation, it would be fatal to those slowly emerging truths that are indispensable to overthrow it experientially. When children have their own ideals, do not pry them loose, but let them grow. And as you learn to think like adults, you should also learn to pray like children.

48:6.33 (555.1)The law is life itself and does not consist of the rules according to which one should lead it. Evil is a violation of the law, not a violation of the rules of conduct concerning life, which is the law . Untruth is not a matter of narrative technique, but something deliberately contrived as a distortion of the truth. The creation of new images from old facts, the reformulation of the lives of parents in the lives of children - these are the artistic triumphs of truth. The slightest distortion contrived with untrue intent, the slightest distortion or perversion of that which is principle - that is falsehood. But the fetish of factualized truth, petrified truth, the iron ring of so-called immutable truth, traps man like a blind man in a closed circle of cold facts. One can be technically right regarding facts, and at the same time forever wrong regarding truth.

48:6.34 (555.2)7. Auxiliary Reservists. On the first dwelling world, a large corps of transitional seraphs of all orders is kept in readiness. After the destination servants, these transitional servants are seraphim of the order closest to man, and many of your free hours you will spend with them. Angels take pleasure in service, and when not assigned they often serve as volunteers. The soul of many an ascending mortal is first ignited by the divine fire of will-to-serve, by personal friendship with the voluntary servants who belong to the seraphic reservists.

48:6.35 (555.3)From them you will learn to bring stability and security through pressure, to be faithful and honest, and above all cheerful; to accept challenges without complaining and face difficulties and uncertainties without fear. They will ask you: if you fail, will you rise undaunted to make another attempt? If you succeed, will you always remain balanced - maintain a stabilized, spiritualized attitude - in every effort in the long struggle to break the shackles of material inertia, and achieve the freedom of spirit existence?

48:6.36 (555.4)Like mortals, these angels have many disappointments to their credit, and they will make it clear to you that your most disappointing disappointments have sometimes become your greatest blessings. When a seed is sown, sometimes it must first die - the death of your most ardent hopes - before it can be reborn in order to bring forth the fruits of new life and new opportunities. From them you will also learn to suffer less grief and disappointment, first by making fewer personal plans involving other personalities, and then by accepting your fate when you have faithfully done your duty.

48:6.37 (555.5)You will learn that you weigh down your burdens and reduce the chances of success when you take yourself too seriously. The work of the world of your status - this world or the next - comes before everything else. Very important is the preparatory work for the next, higher world, but nothing is as important as the work of the world where you actually live. But although the work is important, the work itself is not. When you feel important, you lose energy to the wear and tear of the ego's dignity, leaving little energy for the work. It is the feeling of one's own importance that exhausts immature creatures, not the importance of their work; it is the element of the self that exhausts, not the effort of accomplishment. You can do weighty work if you do not develop a sense of your own weightiness; you can do several things as easily as one thing if you leave yourself out of it. Variety gives relaxation; monotony is what tires and exhausts. Day after day then is the same thing - nothing more than life, or the alternative of death.

A Thought for Consideration from The Urantia Book