Paper 113
1. Seraphim are the
traditional angels of heaven; they are the ministering spirits who live so near
you and do so much for you. They have ministered on Urantia since the earliest
times of human intelligence.
2. Originally, the
seraphim were definitely assigned to the separate Urantia races. But since the
bestowal of Michael, they are assigned in accordance with human intelligence,
spirituality, and destiny.
3. 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.
4. Seraphim are not
known as guardians of destiny until such time as they are assigned to the
association of a human soul who has realized one or more of three achievements:
has made a supreme decision to become Godlike, has entered the third circle, or
has been mustered into one of the reserve corps of destiny.
5. When human beings
fail to survive, their personal or group guardians may repeatedly serve in
similar capacities on the same planet. The seraphim develop a sentimental
regard for individual worlds and entertain a special affection for certain
races and types of mortal creatures with whom they have been so closely and
intimately associated.
6. Divested of
material bodies, given spirit forms, you would be very near the angels in many
attributes of personality...The only emotion actuating you which is somewhat
difficult for them to comprehend is the legacy of animal fear that bulks so
large in the mental life of the average inhabitant of Urantia. The angels
really find it hard to understand why you will so persistently allow your
higher intellectual powers, even your religious faith, to be so dominated by
fear, so thoroughly demoralized by the thoughtless panic of dread and anxiety.
7. When a seraphic
pair accept guardian assignment, they serve for the remainder of the life of
that human being. The complement of being (one of the two angels) becomes the
recorder of the undertaking. These complemental seraphim are the recording
angels of the mortals of the evolutionary worlds. The records are kept by the
pair of cherubim (a cherubim and a sanobim) who are always associated with the
seraphic guardians, but these records are always sponsored by one of the
seraphim.
8. One of the most
important things a destiny guardian does for her mortal subject is to effect a
personal co‑ordination of the numerous impersonal spirit influences which
indwell, surround, and impinge upon the mind and soul of the evolving material
creature.
9. The Adjuster is the
presence of the Father; the Spirit of Truth, the presence of the Sons. These
divine endowments are unified and co‑ordinated on the lower levels of
human spiritual experience by the ministry of the guardian seraphim. The
angelic servers are gifted in combining the love of the Father and the mercy of
the Son in their ministry to mortal creatures.
10. On the spiritual level, seraphim make personal many
otherwise impersonal and prepersonal ministries of the universe; they are co‑coordinators.
On the intellectual level they are the correlators of mind and morontia; they
are interpreters. And on the physical level they manipulate terrestrial
environment through their liaison with the Master Physical Controllers and
through the co‑operative ministry of the midway creatures.
11. Mortal man, subject to Adjuster leading, is also
amenable to seraphic guidance. The Adjuster is the essence of man's eternal
nature; the seraphim is the teacher of man's evolving nature—in this life the
mortal mind, in the next the morontia soul. On the mansion worlds you will be
conscious and aware of seraphic instructors, but in the first life men are usually
unaware of them.
12. Seraphim function as teachers of men by guiding the
footsteps of the human personality into paths of new and progressive
experiences. To accept the guidance of a seraphim rarely means attaining a life
of ease. In following this leading you are sure to encounter, and if you have
the courage, to traverse, the rugged hills of moral choosing and spiritual
progress.
13. Angels do not invade the sanctity of the human mind;
they do not manipulate the will of mortals ...The guardian of destiny
influences you in every possible manner consistent with the dignity of your
personality.
14. The seraphim act in your behalf quite independent of
your direct appeals; they are executing the mandates of their superiors, and
thus they function regardless of your passing whims or changing moods. This
does not imply that you may not make their tasks either easier or more
difficult, but rather that angels are not directly concerned with your appeals
or with your prayers.
15. They do not (ordinarily) arbitrarily intervene in the
routine affairs of human life. But when they receive instructions from their
superiors to perform some unusual exploit, you may rest assured that these
guardians will find some means of carrying out these mandates...They are the
beings who are going to follow you for many an age, and they are thus receiving
an introduction to their future work and personality association.
16. The guardian seraphim is the custodial trustee of the
survival values of mortal man's slumbering soul as the absent Adjuster is the
identity of such an immortal universe being. When these two collaborate in the
resurrection halls of mansonia in conjunction with the newly fabricated
morontia form, there occurs the reassembly of the constituent factors of the
personality of the mortal ascender.
17. It is indeed an epoch in the career of an ascending
mortal, this first awakening on the shores of the mansion world; there, for the
first tine, actually to see your long‑loved and ever‑present
angelic companions of earth days; there also to become truly conscious of the
identity and presence of the divine Monitor who so long indwelt your mind on
earth. Such an experience constitutes a glorious awakening, a real
resurrection.
18. Before leaving the mansion worlds, all mortals will have
permanent seraphic associates or guardians. And as you ascend the morontia
spheres, eventually it is the seraphic guardians who witness and certify the
decrees of your eternal union with the Thought Adjusters ...Then, with your
attainment of the mature morontia estate, they accompany you through Jerusem
and the associated worlds of system progress and culture. After that they go
with you to Edentia and its seventy spheres of advanced socialization, and
subsequently will they pilot you to the Melchizedeks and follow you through the
superb career of the universe headquarters worlds. And when you have learned
the wisdom and culture of the Melchizedeks, they will take you on to
Salvington, where you will stand face to face with the Sovereign of all
Nebadon. And still will these seraphic guides follow you through the minor and
major sectors of the superuniverse and on to the receiving worlds of Uversa,
remaining with you until you finally enseconaphim for the long Havona flight.
19. Man and angel may or may not be reunited in eternal
service, but wherever seraphic assignment may take them, the seraphim are
always in communication with their former wards of the evolutionary worlds, the
ascendant mortals of time. The intimate associations and the affectionate
attachments of the realms of human origin are never forgotten nor ever
completely severed. In the eternal ages men and angels will co‑operate in
the divine service as they did in the career of time.
20. For seraphim, the surest way of achieving the Paradise
Deities is by successfully guiding a soul of evolutionary origin to the portals
of Paradise. Therefore is the assignment of guardian of destiny the most highly
prized seraphic duty.
Only destiny guardians are mustered into the primary or mortal Corps of
the Finality
U.B. 113: 1241‑1249-Chief of Seraphim
1. Why have Christian theologians had little to say about
angels?
2. What might Guardian angels and cherubim do to help us
grow spiritually?
3. How do we distinguish between constructive fear and
destructive fear and eradicate the latter?
4. How do we develop a warm and loving relationship with our
Guardian angels?
5. On the mansion worlds will the record of our planetary
life taken by our Guardian angels be available to us?
6. How can we discern what new and progressive experiences
our Guardian angels are suggesting to us?
7. How does our relationship with our Guardian angels change
throughout our ascension career?