유란시아 책
I 부. 중앙우주와 연방우주들
Paper 25
The Messenger Hosts of Space
The Messenger Hosts of Space
25:0.9 (273.9)
Of the seven groups enumerated, only three—servitals, conciliators, and Morontia Companions—are created as such; the remaining four represent attainment levels of the 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.
25:1.1 (273.10)
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 (273.11)
The Havona Servitals are the joint creative work of the Seven Master Spirits and their associates, the 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 (273.12)
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 Supreme Power Directors at their joint area in the 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 power directors more than the Master Spirits.
새로 창조된 하인은 모두, 새로 출현하는 졸업생 안내자들과 함께 훈련 과정을 거치는데, 그 과정을 일곱 하보나 회로 각각에서 선배{先輩} 안내자들이 계속 지도한다. 그다음에 하인들은 자신에게 가장 적합한 활동에 배정되며, --영적이거나 반물리적인-- 두 유형이 있기 때문에, 이 다재다능한 존재들이 할 수 있는 일의 범위에는 거의 제한이 없다. 고등 집단 곧 영{靈} 집단은, 아버지와 아들과 영의 봉사에 그리고 일곱 으뜸 영의 활동에 선택적으로 배정된다. 그들은 일곱 연방우주 본부 구체 주위를 돌고 있는 연구{硏究} 세계들에서 근무하도록, 때때로 큰 무리를 지어 파송되는데, 이 세계들은 하보나 회로들로 나아가기 위해 준비하는 시간세계에서 상승하는 혼들의 최종 훈련과 영적 문화에 헌신돼있다. 영 하인들 및 더 물리적인 그 동료들은, 하보나를 달성하고 나서 낙원을 달성하려고 애쓰는 다양한 계층의 상승하는 피조물을 돕고 가르치는 일에, 졸업생 안내자들의 보좌관이나 동역자로서 지명되기도 한다.
25:1.5 (274.2)
The newly created servitals, together with newly appearing Graduate Guides, all pass through the courses of training which the senior guides continuously conduct on each of the 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 study worlds encircling the 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 circuits of Havona. Both spirit servitals and their more physical fellows are also designated assistants and associates of the Graduate Guides in helping and instructing the various orders of ascending creatures who have attained Havona, and who seek to attain Paradise.
하보나 하인과 졸업생 안내자들은, 자신의 활동에 초월적으로 헌신하고 감동적인 애정을 서로에게 나타내는데, 이 애정이 영적이기는 해도, 너희는 오직 사랑하는 인간 현상과 비교함으로써만 이 애정을 이해할 수 있다. 하인들이 사명을 띠고 중앙우주 한계 밖으로 파송될 때 그렇게 종종 발생하듯이, 안내자들로부터 하인들이 분리될 때 신성한 애절함이 있지만;그들은 슬픔으로가 아니라 기쁨으로 떠난다. 고귀한 임무에 대한 만족스런 기쁨이 영적 존재들의 감정을 무색하게 만든다. 충실하게 수행되는 신성한 임무를 의식{意識}하는 마당에, 슬픔이란 있을 수 없다. 그리고 사람의 상승하는 혼이 최상급 재판관 앞에 설 때, 물질적 성공 또는 양적 성취에 좌우되지 않는 영원한 중요성을 가진 결정이 내려질 것이며;고등 법정을 통해서 울려 퍼지는 평결은:“잘했다, 착하고 충성된 종아;너는 몇 가지 기본적인 것에 충실했으니;우주 실체들을 통치하는 자가 될 것이라”고 선언한다.
25:1.6 (274.3)
The Havona Servitals and the 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.”
연방우주 봉사에 임할 때 하보나 하인들은 반드시, 일반 특권 및 특별한 영 특권 면에서 자신이 가장 닮은 으뜸 영이 지배하는 그 영토에 배정된다. 그들은 일곱 연방우주 수도를 돌고 있는 교육 세계들에서만 근무하며, 최근 우버사 보고서는, 490개 위성{衛星}에서 거의 1,380억 하인이 섬기고 있음을 보여준다. 오르본톤 연방우주의 초월-대학들을 포함하는 이 교육 세계의 업무와 연결돼있는, 끝없이 다양한 활동에 참여한다. 그들은 이곳에서 너희의 동무가 되며;너희를 연구하고, 영원성 영역들을 향해 시간세계 우주들에서 너희가 결국 졸업하게 되는 그 실체성과 확실성을 너희에게 고취시키려고, 너희의 다음 생애로부터 내려왔다. 그리고 이 하인들은 이렇게 접촉함으로써 시간세계의 상승하는 피조물을 돌보는 예비 체험을 획득하는데, 하보나 회로들에서 그 체험은, 졸업생 안내자들의 동역자로서 또는 졸업생 안내자 자신으로서--곧 전환된 하인으로서-- 나중에 하는 일에 매우 유익하다.
25:1.7 (274.4)
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 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 Havona circuits as associates of the Graduate Guides or—as translated servitals—as Graduate Guides themselves.
일곱 연방우주 본부 세계에서는 일곱 으뜸 영의 일곱 반사가 작용한다. 이 반사 영들의 본성을 물질 정신에게 묘사하기는 어렵다. 그들은 진정한 인격체지만;연방우주 집단의 각 요원{要員}은 여전히 일곱 으뜸 영 가운데 단 하나만을 완전하게 반사한다. 그리고 하보나 하인 가운데 어떤 집단을 창조할 목적으로 으뜸 영들이 힘 지휘자들과 스스로 연합할 때마다, 각 연방우주 집단에서 반사 영들 중 하나에게 동시에 집중되고, 같은 수의 우주 화해자가 연방창조물들의 본부 세계에 다-자란-모습으로 즉시 나타난다. 하인들을 창조할 때 만일 칠{7}번 으뜸 영이 주도권{主導權}을 잡아야한다면, 오직 일곱째 계층의 반사 영만이 화해자들을 잉태할 것이며;오르본톤을-닮은 1,000명의 하인이 창조됨과 동시에, 1,000명의 일곱째-계층 화해자가 각 연방우주 수도{首都}에 나타날 것이다. 으뜸 영들의 칠중{七重} 본성을 반사하는 이 사건들로부터, 각 연방우주에서 근무하는 창조된 일곱 계층의 화해자가 출현한다.
25:2.2 (275.2)
On the headquarters worlds of the seven superuniverses there function the seven reflections of the Seven Master Spirits. It is difficult to undertake to portray the natures of these 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 power directors for the purpose of creating a group of Havona Servitals, there is a simultaneous focalization upon one of the 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 (275.3)
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.
일곱 연방창조물 각각에는, 그 운명을 관장하는 으뜸 영 한 분이 실제로 스며든다. 그래서 각 연방우주는, 감독하는 으뜸 영의 본성과 성품을 반사하는 어떤 거대한 거울처럼 되며, 또한 이 모든 것은, 창조적 어머니 영들의 현존과 기능으로 말미암아 각 하위 지방우주에서 더욱 계속된다. 이런 환경이 진화 성장에 지대한 영향을 미치기 때문에, 연방우주-이후 생애에서 화해자들은 집단으로 마흔아홉 가지의 체험적 관점 또는 통찰력을 나타내는데, 이것은 각각 원활하지 못하고 --따라서 미완성이지만-- 모두가 서로 보완하며, 또한 함께 지존성 궤도를 둘러싸는 경향이 있다.
25:2.4 (275.4)
Each of the 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 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 (275.5)
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 semimaterial being. This quartet constitutes a conciliating commission and is made up as follows:
25:2.8 (276.1)
3. 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.
25:2.9 (276.2)
4. 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.
25:2.11 (276.4)
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 (276.5)
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.
25:3.1 (276.6)
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 (276.7)
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 (276.8)
1. Conciliators to the Worlds. Whenever the supervising personalities of the 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 (277.1)
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.
그 위원들의 결정은 행성 기록부에 기록되고, 필요하다면 신성한 집행인이 그 결정을 집행한다. 그의 능력은 아주 크고, 인간이 거주하는 세계에서 그의 활동 범위는 매우 넓다. 신성한 집행인들은, 마땅히 돼야만 할 일에 유익이 되는 것을 노련하게 조종하는 자다. 그들의 업무는 때로 그 영역의 명백한 복지를 위하여 수행되지만, 때로는 시공간 세계들에서 그들이 행동하는 것을 설명하기 어렵다. 자연 법칙 또는 그 영역의 정해진 관습에 어긋나지 않게 법령을 집행함에도, 그들은 흔히 체계 경영에 대한 더 높은 법률에 따라서 자신의 비범한 일을 수행하고 화해자들의 명령을 집행한다.
25:3.5 (277.2)
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 inhabited world is very wide. 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 (277.3)
2. Conciliators to the System Headquarters. From service on the evolutionary worlds these commissions of four are advanced to duty on a 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 system headquarters there live both spiritual and material beings, as well as the combined types, such as the Material Sons.
창조주들이, 선택 능력을 지닌 진화하는 개인들을 실존하게 만드는 순간, 그 순간에 신의 완벽성으로 순조롭게 작업하던 것으로부터 이탈{離脫}하게 되며;오해가 분명히 생기고, 이런 정직한 관점의 차이를 공평하게 조정하기 위한 준비가 마련돼야한다. 온전히-지혜롭고 전능{全能}한 창조주들이, 하보나와 똑같이 완전한 지방우주를 만들 수 있었음을, 우리 모두 기억해야한다. 중앙우주에서는 어떤 화해 위원단도 작동할 필요가 없다. 그러나 창조주들은 그렇게 하지 않기로, 자신의 모든-지혜를 동원해서 선택했다. 그리고 그들은, 차이가 많고 어려움이 가득한 우주들을 만들어 왔지만, 마찬가지로 이 모든 차이를 수습하고 이 모든 외견상 혼란을 조화시키는 장치와 수단을 제공해왔다.
25:3.7 (277.4)
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 all-wise and 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.
3. 성좌 화해자. 화해자들은 체계에서 하는 근무로부터, 성좌{星座}의 문제를 판결하는 일로 승진하는데, 인간거주 세계들로 이뤄진 1백 체계 사이에서 발생하는 사소한 문제를 맡는다. 성좌 본부에서 형성되는 문제가 그들의 관할권 아래로 들어가는 경우는 많지 않으나, 그들은 예비 서술문을 준비하고 증거를 수집하면서 체계에서 체계로 바쁘게 계속 움직인다. 그 주장이 정직하다면, 진정한 의견 차이와 정직한 관점의 다양성에서 비롯된 어려움이라면, 아무리 소수 인격자가 관련됐더라도, 오해가 아무리 시시하게 보일지라도, 논쟁의 옳고 그름에 대한 판결을 내리도록 화해 위원단이 모일 수 있다.
25:3.8 (277.5)
3. The Constellation Conciliators. From service in the systems 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 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 (277.6)
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 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 (278.1)
It is almost impossible to explain the nature of those differences which may arise in the detailed affairs of a 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 (278.2)
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 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.
6. 연방우주 대구역 담당 화해자. 위원들의 업무 성격은, 이들이 진보함에 따라서 계속 변화한다. 판결해야 할 오해는 점점 줄어들고, 설명하고 해석해야 할 신비로운 현상은 더욱 늘어난다. 이들은 이 단계에서 저 단계로, 차이를 중재하는 자의 위치로부터 신비 해석가로 진화한다--재판관들이, 해석하는 선생으로 진화한다. 이들은 한때, 무지로 인해 어려움과 오해가 발생되게 하는 자들을 중재하는 자였으나;이제는 정신의 충돌과 견해의 투쟁을 피하기에 충분할 정도로 지성적이고 인내심 있는 자들의 교관{敎官}이 되고 있다. 피조물의 교육 수준이 높을수록, 다른 피조물의 지식과 체험과 견해를 더욱 존중한다.
25:3.12 (278.3)
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 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 (278.4)
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 headquarters worlds of the superuniverses.
25:3.14 (278.5)
All conciliators serve under the general supervision of the Ancients of Days and under the immediate direction of the 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 (278.6)
The superuniverse registries do not enumerate those conciliators who have passed beyond their jurisdiction, and such commissions are widely 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 Havona Servitals, with allowances for the transmutation into Graduate Guides.
25:3.16 (278.7)
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 grasp of the emerging reality of the Supreme Being, and they roam the universe of universes on special assignment.
25:3.17 (279.1)
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.
25:4.1 (279.2)
These legal and technical minds of the spirit world were not created as such. From the early supernaphim and 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.
25:4.11 (279.12)
Technical Advisers frequently function as individuals but are organized for service and maintain common headquarters on the spheres of assignment in groups of seven. In each group at least five must be of permanent status, while two may be of temporary association. Ascending mortals and 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.
자문가들과 함께 일시적으로 근무하는 필사자와 중도자들이 그런 일에 선택되는 것은, 우주의 법칙과 최상의 응보 개념에서 전문가이기 때문이다. 낙원 목표를 향해 여행하면서 추가된 지식과 증진된 솜씨를 변함없이 획득하게 될 때, 너는 자신이 이미 축적해온 지혜와 체험을 다른 이들에게 줄 수 있는 기회를 계속 제공받게 되며;하보나에 이르는 동안 내내 학생-선생 역할을 한다. 이 방대한 체험 대학의 상승하는 수준들을 통해서, 너는 자신의 상승 생애에서 새로-발견한 지식을 너보다 바로 밑에 있는 자들에게 나눠줌으로써 차근차근 올라갈 것이다. 우주 체제에서, 이 지식과 진리를 다른 이들에게 나눠줄 수 있는 너의 역량과 기꺼이 하는 마음을 보여주기 전에는, 지식과 진리를 너의 것으로 만들었다고 평가받지 못한다.
25:4.12 (279.13)
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 impart this knowledge and truth to others.
25:4.13 (280.1)
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.
25:4.14 (280.2)
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 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.
이 자문가들은 법률 전문가 이상{以上}이며;적용된 법칙, 즉 광범한 창조계의 방대한 영토에 거주하는 모든 존재의 생명과 운명에 적용되는 우주 법칙을 배우는 학생인 동시에 가르치는 선생이다. 시간이 지나면서, 이들은 시공간의 살아있는 법률 도서관이 되는데, 영원성 통치자들이 가장 잘 받아들일 수 있는 과정의 형태와 방식들에 관해서 시간세계의 인격체들을 가르침으로써, 끝없는 재난과 쓸모없는 지연을 방지한다. 이들은, 공간의 일꾼들이 낙원의 요구조건에 조화를 이루면서 활동할 수 있도록, 저희에게 그렇게 조언할 수 있으며;창조주들의 기법에 관하여 모든 피조물을 가르치는 선생이다.
25:4.15 (280.3)
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 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.
25:4.16 (280.4)
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.
25:4.17 (280.5)
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.
대단히 현명하고 실용적인 이 존재들은, 우주 검열관들의 근무 및 활동과 항상 긴밀하게 관련돼있다. 멜기세덱들에게는 유능한 단체가 제공돼있다. 체계와 성좌와 우주 그리고 연방우주 구역의 통치자 전원에게는, 영적 세계의 기술적 또는 법률적 참조 정신이 풍부하게 공급된다. 어떤 특별 집단이 생명 운반자들에게 법률 조언자로서 활동하는데, 확립된 생명체 증식 체제로부터 떠날 수 있도록 허용되는 범위에 관하여 충고하고, 그밖에 저희의 특권과 활동 범위에 관하여 가르친다. 모든 영-세계 처리사항의 적당한 용법과 기술에 관하여, 모든 계층의 존재에게 자문하는 자다. 그러나 이들은, 그 영역의 물질 피조물을 개인적으로 직접 대하지는 않는다.
25:4.18 (280.6)
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, universes, and 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.
25:4.19 (280.7)
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 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.
25:4.20 (281.1)
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 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.
25:5.1 (281.2)
From among the 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 custodians of knowledge, sometimes designated the “living library of Paradise.”
25:5.2 (281.3)
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 (281.4)
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, 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 sector and 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 tertiary supernaphim.
25:6.1 (281.6)
These are the recorders who execute all records in duplicate, making an original spirit recording and a semimaterial counterpart—what might be called a 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 (281.7)
As the recorders advance in universe service, they continue their system of dual recording, thus making their records always available to all 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 (282.1)
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 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 (282.2)
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 (282.3)
Like those supernaphim who have become Custodians of Records, the corps of Celestial Recorders is of permanent assignment. Once seraphim and 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 (282.4)
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.
25:7.1 (282.5)
These children of the local universe 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 reversion directors.
25:7.2 (282.6)
Though you will have earnest and progressively difficult tasks to perform on the 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 (282.7)
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 Paradise Companions will you find another group so devoted to friendship and companionship.
25:8.1 (283.2)
The Paradise Companions are a composite or assembled group recruited from the ranks of the seraphim, seconaphim, supernaphim, and 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 (283.3)
Members of the angelic hosts are nominated for this service by the local universe Mother Spirits, by the superuniverse Reflective Spirits, and by Majeston of Paradise. They are summoned to the 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 ministering spirits.
선택된 이 천사들은 동무관계 봉사에 헌신하고, 홀로 낙원에 있을 기회가 있는 모든 계층의 존재에게, 즉 주로 상승한 필사자들에게 뿐만 아니라 중앙 섬에 홀로 있는 모든 다른 존재에게 동역자로서 배정된다. 낙원 동무는 자신이 친하게 사귀는 자들을 위해 특별히 이뤄야 할 일은 하나도 없으며;다만 동무일 뿐이다. 너희 필사자들이 낙원에 머무는 동안 만나게 될, --너희의 동료 순례자들은 제외하고-- 거의 모든 다른 존재는 너희와 함께 또는 너희를 위하여 할 일이 분명히 있겠지만;이 동무들은 오직 너희와 함께 있으라고, 인격체 동역자로서 너희와 사귀라고 배정된다. 상냥하고 총명한 낙원 시민이 그들의 직무를 종종 돕는다.
25:8.3 (283.4)
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 Paradise Citizens.
네가 이 세상 생애 중에 사귄 동무 또는 가까운 동역자와 함께 상승한 필사자로서 낙원에 도착하면, 또는 너의 운명 스랍 수호자가 우연히 너와 함께 도착하거나 너를 기다리고 있다면, 어느 영원한 동무도 너에게 배정되지 않을 것이다. 그러나 네가 홀로 도착한다면, 네가 시간세계에서 마지막으로 잠들었다가 빛의 섬에서 깨어날 때, 한 동무가 분명히 너를 환영할 것이다. 상승 연합체 가운데 누군가가 너와 함께 갈 것이라고 알려진다 하더라도, 너를 영원한 기슭으로 환영하도록, 그리고 너와 동역자들을 접대하기 위해 준비된 예약석{豫約席}으로 너를 안내하도록, 일시적인 동무가 지명돼있을 것이다. 낙원의 영원한 나라에서 영원성 안으로 부활하는 체험을 할 때 따뜻하게 환영받을 것임을, 너는 굳게 믿어도 좋다.
25:8.5 (283.6)
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 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 (283.7)
Reception companions are assigned during the terminal days of the ascenders’ sojourn on the 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 (283.8)
During your prefinaliter sojourn on Paradise, if for any reason you should be temporarily separated from your associate of the ascending career—mortal or 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 (284.1)
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 Seventh Master Spirit. Hence the omniaphim serve not with the ascendant creatures from the seven superuniverses.
25:8.9 (284.2)
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 (284.3)
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.
그러나 긴밀하게 연합된 두 필사 상승자의 경우는 그렇지 않다:한 편이 하나님을 성취한 반면 다른 편이 일시적으로 실패하면, 성공한 개인은 낙담한 인격체와 함께 진화 창조계로 돌아가기로 늘 선택하지만, 이것은 허용되지 않는다. 그 대신, 낙원 동무 예비군을 호출하고, 자원자 가운데 한 명이 실망한 그 순례자와 동행하도록 선택된다. 그때 자원하는 낙원 시민 하나가, 성공한 필사자와 연합하게 되는데, 성공한 자는 실패한 동료가 하보나에 돌아오기를 기다리면서 중앙 섬에 머물며, 그동안 그는 특정한 낙원 학교에서 가르치고, 진화로 상승하던 모험 이야기를 제시한다.
25:8.11 (284.4)
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.