유란시아 책
II 부. 지방우주
Paper 44
The Celestial Artisans
The Celestial Artisans
다양한 분과{分科} 본부 세계와 우주 본부 세계에서 우대받는 거류민{居留民} 가운데, 천상{天上}의 기능공이라 불리는 독특한 계층의 혼합 인격체들을 발견할 수 있다. 이 존재들은 모론시아 영역 및 하급 영 영역의 으뜸 예술가요 기능공이다. 이들은 모론시아 장식과 영적 미화{美化}에 참여하는 영 및 준영{準靈}이다. 이런 기능공들은 광우주--곧 빛과 생명에 정착한 모든 구체뿐 아니라, 연방우주와 지방우주와 성좌 및 체계의 본부 세계--에 두루 퍼져있지만;이들의 주요 활동 영역은 성좌에 있고, 특히 각 본부 구체를 둘러싼 770개의 세계에 있다.
44:0.1 (497.1)
AMONG the courtesy colonies of the various divisional and universe headquarters worlds may be found the unique order of composite personalities denominated the celestial artisans. These beings are the master artists and artisans of the morontia and lower spirit realms. They are the spirits and semispirits who are engaged in morontia embellishment and in spiritual beautification. Such artisans are distributed throughout the grand universe—on the headquarters worlds of the superuniverses, the local universes, the constellations, and systems, as well as on all spheres settled in light and life; but their chief realm of activity is in the constellations and especially on the seven hundred seventy worlds surrounding each headquarters sphere.
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The celestial artisans are not created as such; they are a selected and recruited corps of beings composed of certain teacher personalities native to the central universe and their volunteer pupils drawn from the ascending mortals and numerous other celestial groups. The original teaching corps of these artisans was sometime assigned by the Infinite Spirit in collaboration with the Seven Master Spirits and consisted of seven thousand Havona instructors, one thousand to each of the seven divisions of artisans. With such a nucleus to start with, there has developed through the ages this brilliant body of skillful workers in spirit and morontia affairs.
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Any morontia personality or spirit entity is eligible for admission to the corps of the celestial artisans; that is, any being below the rank of inherent divine sonship. Ascending sons of God from the evolutionary spheres may, after their arrival on the morontia worlds, apply for admission to the artisan corps and, if sufficiently gifted, may choose such a career for a longer or shorter period. But no one may enlist with the celestial artisans for less than one millennium, one thousand years of superuniverse time.
44:0.5 (497.5)
All celestial artisans are registered on the superuniverse headquarters but are directed by morontia supervisors on the local universe capitals. They are commissioned in the following seven major divisions of activity by the central corps of morontia supervisors functioning on the headquarters world of each local universe:
44:0.13 (498.4)
The original teachers of these seven groups all hailed from the perfect worlds of Havona, and Havona contains the patterns, the pattern studies, for all phases and forms of spirit artistry. While it is a gigantic task to undertake to transfer these arts of Havona to the worlds of space, the celestial artisans have improved in technique and execution from age to age. As in all other phases of the ascending career those who are most advanced in any line of endeavor are required constantly to impart their superior knowledge and skill to their less favored fellows.
44:0.14 (498.5)
You will first begin to glimpse these transplanted arts of Havona on the mansion worlds, and their beauty and your appreciation of their beauty will heighten and brighten until you stand in the spirit halls of Salvington and behold the inspiring masterpieces of the supernal artists of the spirit realms.
44:0.15 (498.6)
All these activities of the morontia and spirit worlds are real. To spirit beings the spirit world is a reality. To us the material world is the more unreal. The higher forms of spirits freely pass through ordinary matter. High spirits are reactive to nothing material excepting certain of the basic energies. To material beings the spirit world is more or less unreal; to spirit beings the material world is almost entirely unreal, being merely a shadow of the substance of spirit realities.
44:0.16 (498.7)
I cannot, with exclusive spirit vision, perceive the building in which this narrative is being translated and recorded. A Divine Counselor from Uversa who chances to stand by my side perceives still less of these purely material creations. We discern how these material structures appear to you by viewing a spirit counterpart presented to our minds by one of our attending energy transformers. This material building is not exactly real to me, a spirit being, but it is, of course, very real and very serviceable to material mortals.
44:0.17 (498.8)
There are certain types of beings who are capable of discerning the reality of the creatures of both the spirit and the material worlds. Belonging to this class are the so-called fourth creatures of the Havona Servitals and the fourth creatures of the conciliators. The angels of time and space are endowed with the ability to discern both spirit and material beings as also are the ascending mortals subsequent to deliverance from the life in the flesh. After attainment of the higher spirit levels the ascenders are able to recognize material, morontia, and spirit realities.
한때 필사 존재였고 섭리사와-융합된 상승자인, 우버사에서 온 강력한 사자 또한 여기에 나와 함께 있으며, 그는 너희를 지금 있는 그대로 감지하는 동시에, 단독 사자와 최고스라빔과 기타 천상의 존재들이 현존하는 것을 눈으로 본다. 긴 상승 과정에서, 너희가 전에 실존했을 때 동역자였던 그들을 알아볼 수 있는 능력을, 너희는 결코 잃어버리지 않는다. 너희가 생애의 사다리에서 안쪽으로 상승할 때, 예전에 낮은 수준에서 체험하는 동안 만났던 동료 존재들을 알아보고 사귀는 역량을 항상 유지할 것이다. 새 전환 또는 부활이 있을 때마다 너희 시력 범위에 영 존재 집단이 하나 더 추가되겠지만, 지나온 생애에서 만났던 친구와 동료를 알아보는 역량은 조금도 잃어버리지 않을 것이다.
44:0.18 (498.9)
There is also here with me a Mighty Messenger from Uversa, an ascendant Adjuster-fused, onetime mortal being, and he perceives you as you are, and at the same time he visualizes the Solitary Messenger, the supernaphim, and other celestial beings present. Never in your long ascendancy will you lose the power to recognize your associates of former existences. Always, as you ascend inward in the scale of life, will you retain the ability to recognize and fraternize with the fellow beings of your previous and lower levels of experience. Each new translation or resurrection will add one more group of spirit beings to your vision range without in the least depriving you of the ability to recognize your friends and fellows of former estates.
44:0.19 (498.10)
All this is made possible in the experience of ascending mortals by the action of the indwelling Thought Adjusters. Through their retention of the duplicates of your entire life’s experiences, you are assured of never losing any true attribute you once had; and these Adjusters are going through with you, as a part of you, in reality, as you.
그러나 나는, 천상의 기능공들이 하는 일의 본성을 물질 정신에게 전할 수 없어서 거의 포기한 상태다. 이 모론시아 진행사항과 영에-가까운 현상의 실체를 필사 정신에게 나타내려고 애쓰는 중에, 나는 사고{思考}를 계속 잘못 이끌고 언어를 왜곡시킬 수밖에 없는 상황에 놓여있다. 너희의 납득 능력으로는 파악할 수 없으며, 너희의 언어는 반{半}영적인 이 활동의 의미와 가치와 관계를 전달하기에 부적합하다. 나는 이 실체들에 관하여 인간 정신을 일깨우려고 이렇게 계속 애쓰고 있지만, 이런 이행업무에서 나 같은 존재가 크게 성공하기는 심각할 정도로 불가능하다는 사실을 충분히 이해하고 있다.
44:0.20 (499.1)
But I almost despair of being able to convey to the material mind the nature of the work of the celestial artisans. I am under the necessity of constantly perverting thought and distorting language in an effort to unfold to the mortal mind the reality of these morontia transactions and near-spirit phenomena. Your comprehension is incapable of grasping, and your language is inadequate for conveying, the meaning, value, and relationship of these semispirit activities. And I proceed with this effort to enlighten the human mind concerning these realities with the full understanding of the utter impossibility of my being very successful in such an undertaking.
44:0.21 (499.2)
I can do no more than attempt to sketch a crude parallelism between mortal material activities and the manifold functions of the celestial artisans. If the Urantia races were more advanced in art and other cultural accomplishments, then could I go that much farther in an effort to project the human mind from the things of matter to those of morontia. About all I can hope to accomplish is to make emphatic the fact of the reality of these transactions of the morontia and the spirit worlds.
필사자가 들을 수 있는 범위가 제한돼있으므로, 너희는 모론시아 곡조를 거의 알아챌 수 없다. 인간 청력{聽力}으로는 인식할 수 없는 아름다운 소리의 물질적 음역{音域}은 말할 것도 없고, 모론시아 및 영 화음은 상상할 수 없는 범위까지 존재한다. 영 곡조는 물질적 음파가 아니라, 천상의 인격체 영들이 청취하는 영 진동이다. 구체들의 선율{멜로디}과 관련하여, 연주가 웅장할 뿐만 아니라, 범위가 광대하고 그 표현은 고결한데, 인간은 이를 전적으로 납득할 수 없다. 나는 천상의 회로에서 영 에너지를 타고 그 영역의 선율이 흘러나오는 동안, 수백만의 존재가 숭고한 황홀경에 빠져있는 것을 봤다. 경이로운 이 선율은 우주 구석구석까지 전파될 수 있다.
44:1.1 (499.3)
With the limited range of mortal hearing, you can hardly conceive of morontia melodies. There is even a material range of beautiful sound unrecognized by the human sense of hearing, not to mention the inconceivable scope of morontia and spirit harmony. Spirit melodies are not material sound waves but spirit pulsations received by the spirits of celestial personalities. There is a vastness of range and a soul of expression, as well as a grandeur of execution, associated with the melody of the spheres, that are wholly beyond human comprehension. I have seen millions of enraptured beings held in sublime ecstasy while the melody of the realm rolled in upon the spirit energy of the celestial circuits. These marvelous melodies can be broadcast to the uttermost parts of a universe.
44:1.10 (500.1)
There are over one hundred thousand different modes of sound, color, and energy manipulation, techniques analogous to the human employment of musical instruments. Your ensembles of dancing undoubtedly represent a crude and grotesque attempt of material creatures to approach the celestial harmony of being placement and personality arrangement. The other five forms of morontia melody are unrecognized by the sensory mechanism of material bodies.
44:1.11 (500.2)
Harmony, the music of the seven levels of melodious association, is the one universal code of spirit communication. Music, such as Urantia mortals understand, attains its highest expression in the schools of Jerusem, the system headquarters, where semimaterial beings are taught the harmonies of sound. Mortals do not react to the other forms of morontia melody and celestial harmony.
44:1.12 (500.3)
Appreciation of music on Urantia is both physical and spiritual; and your human musicians have done much to elevate musical taste from the barbarous monotony of your early ancestors to the higher levels of sound appreciation. The majority of Urantia mortals react to music so largely with the material muscles and so slightly with the mind and spirit; but there has been a steady improvement in musical appreciation for more than thirty-five thousand years.
44:1.13 (500.4)
Tuneful syncopation represents a transition from the musical monotony of primitive man to the expressionful harmony and meaningful melodies of your later-day musicians. These earlier types of rhythm stimulate the reaction of the music-loving sense without entailing the exertion of the higher intellectual powers of harmony appreciation and thus more generally appeal to immature or spiritually indolent individuals.
44:1.14 (500.5)
The best music of Urantia is just a fleeting echo of the magnificent strains heard by the celestial associates of your musicians, who left but snatches of these harmonies of morontia forces on record as the musical melodies of sound harmonics. Spirit-morontia music not infrequently employs all seven modes of expression and reproduction, so that the human mind is tremendously handicapped in any attempt to reduce these melodies of the higher spheres to mere notes of musical sound. Such an effort would be something like endeavoring to reproduce the strains of a great orchestra by means of a single musical instrument.
유란시아에서 너희가 아름다운 가락을 어느 정도 조립해왔지만, 음악적으로 볼 때, 사타니아에서 여러 이웃 행성의 수준까지는 이르지 못했다. 아담과 이브가 살아만 있었더라도, 너희는 음악을 정말로 소유했겠지만;그들의 본성을 많이 차지했던 화음이라는 은사는, 음악적 소양이 없는 핏줄로 인해서 너무 희석됐으며, 그렇기 때문에, 필사자 생애를 1,000번 산다 해도 겨우 한 번 화성을 깊이 음미할 정도까지 됐다. 그러나 용기를 잃지 말라;언젠가 참된 음악가가 유란시아에 출현할 것이고, 그가 만든 가락의 장엄한 선율에 모든 사람이 매혹될 것이다. 그런 한 인간이 국가 전체, 심지어 개화된 전체 세상의 진로를 영원히 바꿀 수도 있다. “온 세상을 변화시킬 수 있는 힘이 가락에 있다”는 말은 글자 그대로 사실이다. 음악은, 사람과 천사와 영들의 보편적 언어로서 영원히 남아있을 것이다. 화음은 하보나의 언어다.
44:1.15 (500.6)
While you have assembled some beautiful melodies on Urantia, you have not progressed musically nearly so far as many of your neighboring planets in Satania. If Adam and Eve had only survived, then would you have had music in reality; but the gift of harmony, so large in their natures, has been so diluted by strains of unmusical tendencies that only once in a thousand mortal lives is there any great appreciation of harmonics. But be not discouraged; some day a real musician may appear on Urantia, and whole peoples will be enthralled by the magnificent strains of his melodies. One such human being could forever change the course of a whole nation, even the entire civilized world. It is literally true, “melody has power a whole world to transform.” Forever, music will remain the universal language of men, angels, and spirits. Harmony is the speech of Havona.
44:2.1 (500.7)
Mortal man can hardly hope for more than a meager and distorted concept of the functions of the heavenly reproducers, which I must attempt to illustrate through the gross and limited symbolism of your material language. The spirit-morontia world has a thousand and one things of supreme value, things worthy of reproduction but unknown on Urantia, experiences that belong in the category of the activities which have hardly “entered into the mind of man,” those realities which God has in waiting for those who survive the life in the flesh.
44:2.10 (501.9)
Very often and effectively the heavenly reproducers collaborate with the reversion directors in combining memory recapitulation with certain forms of mind rest and personality diversion. Before the morontia conclaves and spirit assemblies these reproducers sometimes associate themselves in tremendous dramatic spectacles representative of the purpose of such gatherings. I recently witnessed such a stupendous presentation in which more than one million actors produced a succession of one thousand scenes.
44:2.11 (501.10)
The higher intellectual teachers and the transition ministers freely and effectively utilize these various groups of reproducers in their morontia educational activities. But not all of their efforts are devoted to transient illustration; much, very much, of their work is of a permanent nature and will forever remain as a legacy to all future time. So versatile are these artisans that, when they function en masse, they are able to re-enact an age, and in collaboration with the seraphic ministers they can actually portray the eternal values of the spirit world to the mortal seers of time.
44:3.1 (501.11)
There are cities “whose builder and maker is God.” In spirit counterpart we have all that you mortals are familiar with and inexpressibly more. We have homes, spirit comforts, and morontia necessities. For every material satisfaction which humans are capable of enjoying, we have thousands of spiritual realities that serve to enrich and enlarge our existence. The divine builders function in seven groups:
1. 주택 설계자 및 개발자 --각 개인 및 작업 집단들에게 배정된 거주지를 건설하고 개조하는 자들. 이 모론시아 거주지와 영 거주지들은 실재한다. 너희의 근시안적 눈에 보이지 않겠지만, 우리에게는 매우 실제적이고 아름다운 곳이다. 모든 영 존재는 어느 정도까지는 자신의 모론시아 거주지 또는 영 거주지를 계획하고 창조하는 어떤 구체적인 일을 이 개발자들과 공동으로 할 수 있다. 거기서 살게 될 모론시아 피조물 또는 영 피조물의 필요에 따라서, 이 집을 조정하고 꾸민다. 이 모든 건축물에 개인적으로 표현할 수 있는 풍성한 다양함과 넉넉한 기회가 있다.
44:3.2 (502.1)
1. The home designers and builders—those who construct and remodel the abodes assigned to individuals and working groups. These morontia and spirit domiciles are real. They would be invisible to your short-range vision, but they are very real and beautiful to us. To a certain extent, all spirit beings may share with the builders certain details of the planning and creation of their morontia or spirit abodes. These homes are fitted up and embellished in accordance with the needs of the morontia or of the spirit creatures who are to inhabit them. There is abundant variety and ample opportunity for individual expression in all these constructions.
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2. The vocation builders—those who function in designing and assembling the abodes of the regular and routine workers of the spirit and morontia realms. These builders are comparable to those who construct the Urantia workshops and other industrial plants. The transition worlds have a necessary economy of mutual ministry and specialized division of labor. We do not all do everything; there is diversity of function among morontia beings and evolving spirits, and these vocation builders not only build better workshops but also contribute to the vocational enhancement of the worker.
44:3.4 (502.3)
3. The play builders. Enormous edifices are utilized during the seasons of rest, what mortals would call recreation and, in a certain sense, play. Provision is made for a suitable setting for the reversion directors, the humorists of the morontia worlds, those transition spheres whereon takes place the training of ascendant beings but recently removed from the evolutionary planets. Even the higher spirits engage in a certain form of reminiscent humor during their periods of spiritual recharging.
44:3.6 (502.5)
5. The education builders—those who build the headquarters of morontia training and advanced spirit learning. Always is the way open to acquire more knowledge, to gain additional information respecting one’s present and future work as well as universal cultural knowledge, information designed to make ascending mortals more intelligent and effective citizens of the morontia and spirit worlds.
44:3.7 (502.6)
6. Morontia planners—those who build for the co-ordinate association of all the personalities of all realms as they are at any one time present on any one sphere. These planners collaborate with the Morontia Power Supervisors to enrich the co-ordination of the progressive morontia life.
44:3.9 (502.8)
While neither these structures nor their embellishment would be exactly real to the sensory comprehension of material mortals, they are very real to us. You would be unable to see these temples could you be there in the flesh; nevertheless, all of these supermaterial creations are actually there, and we clearly discern them and just as fully enjoy them.
44:4.2 (503.2)
1. Thought preservers. These are the artisans dedicated to the preservation of the higher thought of the realms. On the morontia worlds they truly treasure the gems of mentation. Before first coming to Urantia, I saw records and heard broadcasts of the ideation of some of the great minds of this planet. Thought recorders preserve such noble ideas in the tongue of Uversa.
각 연방우주는, 자체 언어, 즉 거기 있는 인격체들이 말하고 그 구역들 전역에서 통용되는 방언을 갖고 있다. 우리 연방우주 언어는 우버사 방언이라고 알려져 있다. 각 지방우주 역시 자체 언어를 갖고 있다. 네바돈의 상류 계층들은 모두 이중 언어를 구사하는데, 네바돈 언어와 우버사 방언 둘 다 사용한다. 서로 다른 두 우주에서 온 두 개인이 만나면, 우버사 방언으로 대화하며;이들 가운데 하나가 다른 연방우주에서 왔다면 통역관에게 의뢰해야한다. 중앙우주에서는 언어가 거의 필요 없으며;거기서는 완전하고 거의 철저하게 서로 이해하며;오직 하나님들만이 충분하게 납득되지 않을 뿐이다. 낙원에서 우연히 만나면, 필사자의 언어로 약 1,000년에 걸쳐서 대화 나누는 것보다 더 많이 서로를 이해하게 된 것을 보여준다고 우리는 배웠다. 심지어 살빙톤에서도 우리는 “알려진 대로 알고 있다”.
44:4.3 (503.3)
Each superuniverse has its own language, a tongue spoken by its personalities and prevailing throughout its sectors. This is known as the tongue of Uversa in our superuniverse. Each local universe also has its own language. All of the higher orders of Nebadon are bilingual, speaking both the language of Nebadon and the tongue of Uversa. When two individuals from different local universes meet, they communicate in the tongue of Uversa; if, however, one of them hails from another superuniverse, they must have recourse to a translator. In the central universe there is little need of a language; there exists perfect and well-nigh complete understanding; there, only the Gods are not fully comprehended. We are taught that a chance meeting on Paradise reveals more of mutual understanding than could be communicated by a mortal language in a thousand years. Even on Salvington we “know as we are known.”
모론시아 구체와 영 구체들에서 사고{思考}를 언어로 옮길 수 있는 역량을, 필사자는 도저히 납득할 수 없다. 사고를 영구 기록으로 압축시키는 속도를, 노련한 기록원들이 크게 가속시킬 수 있으므로, 우리는 50만 이상의 단어 곧 사고 상징들을 유란시아 시간으로 1분 만에 기록할 수 있다. 이 우주 언어는 진화하는 세계의 말보다 훨씬 완비돼있다. 기본 알파벳이 겨우 70가지 상징으로 돼있지만, 우버사의 개념 상징은 10억 이상의 글자를 포함한다. 네바돈 언어는 그다지 정교하지 않은데, 기본 상징 또는 알파벳의 수가 48개이기 때문이다.
44:4.4 (503.4)
The ability to translate thought into language in the morontia and spirit spheres is beyond mortal comprehension. Our rate of reducing thought to a permanent record can be so speeded up by the expert recorders that the equivalent of over half a million words, or thought symbols, can be registered in one minute of Urantia time. These universe languages are far more replete than the speech of the evolving worlds. The concept symbols of Uversa embrace more than a billion characters, although the basic alphabet contains only seventy symbols. The language of Nebadon is not quite so elaborate, the basic symbols, or alphabet, being forty-eight in number.
44:4.5 (503.5)
2. Concept recorders. This second group of recorders are concerned with the preservation of concept pictures, idea patterns. This is a form of permanent recording unknown on the material realms, and by this method I could gain more knowledge in one hour of your time than you could gain in one hundred years of perusing ordinary written language.
44:4.7 (503.7)
4. Promoters of oratory. This group of recorders are occupied with the task of preserving thought for reproduction by oratory. But in the language of Nebadon we could, in a half hour’s address, cover the subject matter of the entire lifetime of a Urantia mortal. Your only hope of comprehending these transactions is to pause and consider the technique of your disordered and garbled dream life—how you can in a few seconds traverse years of experience in these fantasies of the night season.
44:4.8 (503.8)
The oratory of the spirit world is one of the rare treats which await you who have heard only the crude and stumbling orations of Urantia. There is harmony of music and euphony of expression in the orations of Salvington and Edentia which are inspiring beyond description. These burning concepts are like gems of beauty in diadems of glory. But I cannot do it! I cannot convey to the human mind the breadth and depth of these realities of another world!
44:4.9 (504.1)
5. The broadcast directors. The broadcasts of Paradise, the superuniverses, and the local universes are under the general supervision of this group of thought conservers. They serve as censors and editors as well as co-ordinators of the broadcast material, making a superuniverse adaptation of all Paradise broadcasts and adapting and translating the broadcasts of the Ancients of Days into the individual tongues of the local universes.
44:4.10 (504.2)
The local universe broadcasts must also be modified for reception by the systems and the individual planets. The transmittal of these space reports is carefully supervised, and there is always a back registry to insure the proper reception of every report on every world in a given circuit. These broadcast directors are technically expert in the utilization of the currents of space for all purposes of intelligence communication.
6. 리듬 기록원. 유란시아인은 이 기능공들을 틀림없이 시인이라고 부르겠지만, 이들의 업무는 너희가 시{詩}로 쓴 작품과는 매우 다르고, 이를 거의 무한히 초월한다. 리듬은 모론시아 존재와 영 존재, 양쪽의 피곤함을 덜어줄 것이며, 그래서 리듬 형태로 수많은 기능을 발휘함으로써 기쁨을 증대시킬 뿐만 아니라, 효율성을 높이려고 아낌없이 자주 수고한다. 나는 너희가 에덴시아 집회의 시적{詩的}인 방송을 어느 정도 듣고, 성좌 재주꾼들의 풍부한 색조와 곡조를 즐기는 특권을 누리게 되기를 소망할 뿐인데, 그들은 이 절묘한 형태로 자아를-표현하고 사회를 조화시키기에 숙련돼있다.
44:4.11 (504.3)
6. The rhythm recorders. Urantians would undoubtedly denominate these artisans poets, although their work is very different from, and almost infinitely transcends, your poetic productions. Rhythm is less exhausting to both morontia and spirit beings, and so an effort is frequently made to increase efficiency, as well as to augment pleasure, by executing numerous functions in rhythmic form. I only wish you might be privileged to hear some of the poetic broadcasts of the Edentia assemblies and to enjoy the richness of the color and tone of the constellation geniuses who are masters of this exquisite form of self-expression and social harmonization.
44:4.12 (504.4)
7. The morontia recorders. I am at a loss to know how to depict to the material mind the function of this important group of thought recorders assigned to the work of preserving the ensemble pictures of the various groupings of morontia affairs and spirit transactions; crudely illustrated, they are the group photographers of the transition worlds. They save for the future the vital scenes and associations of these progressive epochs, preserving them in the archives of the morontia halls of records.
44:5.2 (504.6)
1. Physical-energy manipulators. The physical-energy manipulators serve for long periods with the power directors and are experts in the manipulation and control of many phases of physical energy. They are conversant with the three basic currents and the thirty subsidiary energy segregations of the superuniverses. These beings are of inestimable assistance to the Morontia Power Supervisors of the transition worlds. They are the persistent students of the cosmic projections of Paradise.
44:5.3 (504.7)
2. Mind-energy manipulators. These are the experts of intercommunication between morontia and other types of intelligent beings. This form of communication between mortals is practically nonexistent on Urantia. These are the specialists who promote the ability of the ascending morontia beings to communicate with one another, and their work embraces numerous unique adventures in intellect liaison which are far beyond my power to portray to the material mind. These artisans are the keen students of the mind circuits of the Infinite Spirit.
3. 영적-에너지 조종자. 영적 에너지 조종자는 흥미로운 집단이다. 영적 에너지는, 물리적 에너지가 하는 것과 똑같이, 확립된 법칙에 따라서 작용한다. 다시 말해서, 영 세력은 이를 연구했을 때 의존할만한 결론을 도출하며, 물리적 에너지와 마찬가지로 정밀하게 취급될 수 있다. 영 세계에는 물질 영역에서 획득할 수 있는 것 같은 확실하고 믿을만한 법칙이 있다. 영 에너지를 다스리는 영원 아들의 근본 법칙을 연구하는 이 연구자들은, 최근 수백만 년 동안, 영적 에너지를 흡수하는 많은 개선된 기법을 실행해왔는데, 그 법칙은 우주들 전역에서 모론시아 계층과 기타 계층에 속하는 천상의 존재들에게 적용된다.
44:5.4 (505.1)
3. Spiritual-energy manipulators. The manipulators of spiritual energy are an intriguing group. Spiritual energy acts in accordance with established laws, just as does physical energy. That is, spirit force, when studied, yields dependable deductions and can be precisely dealt with, even as can the physical energies. There are just as certain and reliable laws in the spirit world as obtain in the material realms. During the last few millions of years many improved techniques for the intake of spiritual energy have been effected by these students of the fundamental laws of the Eternal Son governing spirit energy as applied to the morontia and other orders of celestial beings throughout the universes.
44:5.5 (505.2)
4. The compound manipulators. This is the adventurous group of well-trained beings who are dedicated to the functional association of the three original phases of divine energy manifested throughout the universes as physical, mindal, and spiritual energies. These are the keen personalities who are in reality seeking to discover the universe presence of God the Supreme, for in this Deity personality there must occur the experiential unification of all grand universe divinity. And to a certain extent, these artisans have in recent times met with some success.
44:5.6 (505.3)
5. The transport advisers. This corps of technical advisers to the transport seraphim are most proficient in collaborating with the star students in working out routings and in otherwise assisting the chiefs of transport on the worlds of space. They are the traffic supervisors of the spheres and are present on all inhabited planets. Urantia is served by a corps of seventy transport advisers.
44:5.7 (505.4)
6. The experts of communication. Urantia, likewise, is served by twelve technicians of interplanetary and interuniverse communication. These long-experienced beings are expert in the knowledge of the laws of transmittal and interference as applied to the communications of the realms. This corps is concerned with all forms of space messages except those of Gravity and Solitary Messengers. On Urantia much of their work must be accomplished over the archangels’ circuit.
44:5.8 (505.5)
7. The teachers of rest. Divine rest is associated with the technique of spiritual-energy intake. Morontia and spirit energy must be replenished just as certainly as physical energy, but not for the same reasons. I am, perforce, compelled to employ crude illustrations in my attempts to enlighten you; nevertheless, we of the spirit world must stop our regular activities periodically and betake ourselves to suitable places of rendezvous where we enter the divine rest and thus recuperate our depleting energies.
너희가 모론시아 존재가 되어 영 직무의 기법을 체험하기 시작한 후 맨션 세계에 도달했을 때, 너희는 이 문제에 관한 첫 수업을 받을 것이다. 너희는 하보나에서 가장 안쪽에 있는 궤도에 대해 알며, 공간 순례자들이 이전의 궤도들을 거치고 난 후에, 길지만 활기를 되찾게 하는 낙원 휴식에 들어가도록 안내받아야 함을 안다. 이는 시간세계 생애로부터 영원성 봉사로 옮겨가는 데 요구되는 기술적 조건일 뿐만 아니라, 상승 체험의 마지막 과정에 부수적으로 일어나는 에너지 손실을 채우기 위해 요구되는, 그리고 다음 단계의 끝없는 생애를 위해 요구되는, 여분의 영 능력을 저장하는 데 필요한 휴식의 한 형태이기도 하다.
44:5.9 (505.6)
You will receive your first lessons in these matters when you reach the mansion worlds after you have become morontia beings and have begun to experience the technique of spirit affairs. You know of the innermost circle of Havona and that, after the pilgrims of space have traversed the preceding circles, they must be inducted into the long and revivifying rest of Paradise. This is not only a technical requirement of transit from the career of time to the service of eternity, but it is also a necessity, a form of rest required to replenish the energy losses incident to the final steps of the ascendant experience and to store reserves of spirit power for the next stage of the endless career.
44:5.10 (506.1)
These energy manipulators also function in hundreds of other ways too numerous to catalogue, such as counseling with the seraphim, cherubim, and sanobim regarding the most efficient modes of energy intake and as to the maintenance of the most helpful balances of divergent forces between active cherubim and passive sanobim. In many other ways do these experts lend assistance to morontia and spirit creatures in their efforts to understand the divine rest, which is so essential to the effective utilization of the basic energies of space.
44:6.5 (506.6)
3. The emotion designers. These enhancers and conservators of feeling are those who preserve the sentiments of morontia and the emotions of divinity for the study and edification of the children of time and for the inspiration and beautification of morontia progressors and advancing spirits.
44:6.6 (506.7)
4. The artists of odor. This comparison of supernal spirit activities to the physical recognition of chemical odors is, indeed, unfortunate, but Urantia mortals could hardly recognize this ministry by any other name. These artisans create their varied symphonies for the edification and delight of the advancing children of light. You have nothing on earth to which this type of spiritual grandeur can be even remotely compared.
44:6.7 (506.8)
5. The presence embellishers. These artisans are not occupied with the arts of self-adornment or the technique of creature beautification. They are devoted to the production of multitudinous and joyous reactions in individual morontia and spirit creatures by dramatizing the significance of relationship through the positional values assigned to different morontia and spirit orders in the composite ensembles of these diversified beings. These artists arrange supermaterial beings as you would living musical notes, odors, sights, and then blend them into the anthems of glory.
44:6.9 (507.1)
7. The morontia synthesizers. These are the master craftsmen who, when all others have made their respective contributions, then add the culminating and finishing touches to the morontia ensemble, thus achieving an inspiring portrayal of the divinely beautiful, an enduring inspiration to spirit beings and their morontia associates. But you must await your deliverance from the animal body before you can begin to conceive of the artistic glories and aesthetic beauties of the morontia and spirit worlds.
44:7.1 (507.2)
These artists are not concerned with music, painting, or anything similar, as you might be led to surmise. They are occupied with the manipulation and organization of specialized forces and energies which are present in the spirit world, but which are not recognized by mortals. If I had the least possible basis for comparison, I would attempt to portray this unique field of spirit achievement, but I despair—there is no hope of conveying to mortal minds this sphere of celestial artistry. Nevertheless, that which cannot be described may still be implied:
44:7.2 (507.3)
Beauty, rhythm, and harmony are intellectually associated and spiritually akin. Truth, fact, and relationship are intellectually inseparable and associated with the philosophic concepts of beauty. Goodness, righteousness, and justice are philosophically interrelated and spiritually bound up together with living truth and divine beauty.
44:7.3 (507.4)
Cosmic concepts of true philosophy, the portrayal of celestial artistry, or the mortal attempt to depict the human recognition of divine beauty can never be truly satisfying if such attempted creature progression is ununified. These expressions of the divine urge within the evolving creature may be intellectually true, emotionally beautiful, and spiritually good; but the real soul of expression is absent unless these realities of truth, meanings of beauty, and values of goodness are unified in the life experience of the artisan, the scientist, or the philosopher.
44:7.4 (507.5)
These divine qualities are perfectly and absolutely unified in God. And every God-knowing man or angel possesses the potential of unlimited self-expression on ever-progressive levels of unified self-realization by the technique of the never-ending achievement of Godlikeness—the experiential blending in the evolutionary experience of eternal truth, universal beauty, and divine goodness.
44:8.1 (507.6)
Although celestial artisans do not personally work on material planets, such as Urantia, they do come, from time to time, from the headquarters of the system to proffer help to the naturally gifted individuals of the mortal races. When thus assigned, these artisans temporarily work under the supervision of the planetary angels of progress. The seraphic hosts co-operate with these artisans in attempting to assist those mortal artists who possess inherent endowments, and who also possess Adjusters of special and previous experience.
특별한 인간 역량에는 세 가지 가능한 근원이 있다:밑바닥에는 천부적 소질 곧 타고난 소질이 반드시 존재한다. 특별한 역량은 하나님들의 독단적 선물인 경우가 결코 없으며;모든 빼어난 재주는 항상 선조에 근거한다. 이 천부적 역량에 덧붙여서, 또는 거기에 보충해서, 사고 섭리사의 이끄심이 제공될 수도 있는데, 그런 개인에게 내주하는 섭리사는, 다른 세계들에서 또는 다른 필사 피조물 안에서, 실제적이고 진실된 그런 비슷한 체험을 이미 겪었을지도 모른다. 인간 정신과 내주하는 섭리사, 이 둘이 색다르게 솜씨 있는 그런 경우에, 이 재주를 조화시키는 존재로서 행동하도록, 그리고 그렇지 않은 경우에는 늘-완전해지는 이상{理想}을 추구하면서 그 영역의 교화를 위하여 그들의 설명을 향상시키려고 애쓰도록 이 필사자들을 도와주고 영감을 주도록, 영 기능공들에게 위임될 수도 있다.
44:8.2 (507.7)
There are three possible sources of special human ability: At the bottom always there exists the natural or inherent aptitude. Special ability is never an arbitrary gift of the Gods; there is always an ancestral foundation for every outstanding talent. In addition to this natural ability, or rather supplemental thereto, there may be contributed the leadings of the Thought Adjuster in those individuals whose indwelling Adjusters may have had actual and bona fide experiences along such lines on other worlds and in other mortal creatures. In those cases where both the human mind and the indwelling Adjuster are unusually skillful, the spirit artisans may be delegated to act as harmonizers of these talents and otherwise to assist and inspire these mortals to seek for ever-perfecting ideals and to attempt their enhanced portrayal for the edification of the realm.
영 기능공들의 지위에는 신분계층이 없다. 네가 아무리 저급하게 기원됐더라도, 네가 표현하는 역량과 은사를 소유했다면, 위로 상승할 때 모론시아 체험과 영적 달성의 크기에 따라서 적절하게 인정받고 정당한 진가를 인정받을 것이다. 모론시아 생애가 충분히 보상하고 전적으로 제거하지 못할 만큼, 인간이 유전적 장애를 겪을 수 없고 필사자 환경이 결핍될 수도 없다. 예술적 성취 그리고 풍부한 표현의 자아-실현으로 얻는 그런 만족감은 모두, 점진적으로 발전하면서 네가 몸소 수고함으로써 달성될 것이다. 마침내, 진화적으로 평범한 염원이 실현될지도 모른다. 하나님들은 시간세계의 자녀들에게 재주와 역량을 독단적으로 부여하지 않지만, 인간의 고상한 모든 간절함을 만족시키고, 숭고한 자아를-표현하고 싶어 하는 인간의 모든 갈망이 만족되도록 마련해주신다.
44:8.3 (508.1)
There is no caste in the ranks of spirit artisans. No matter how lowly your origin, if you have ability and the gift of expression, you will gain adequate recognition and receive due appreciation as you ascend upward in the scale of morontia experience and spiritual attainment. There can be no handicap of human heredity or deprivation of mortal environment which the morontia career will not fully compensate and wholly remove. And all such satisfactions of artistic achievement and expressionful self-realization will be effected by your own personal efforts in progressive advancement. At last the aspirations of evolutionary mediocrity may be realized. While the Gods do not arbitrarily bestow talents and ability upon the children of time, they do provide for the attainment of the satisfaction of all their noble longings and for the gratification of all human hunger for supernal self-expression.
그러나 모든 인간마다 기억해야한다:육신 속에 있는 필사자를 애타게 만들 정도 이상{以上}의 야망은, 모론시아 생애와 영 생애 동안 바로 이 필사자에게 계속 남아있지는 않을 것이다. 상승하는 모론시아인은, 개인적으로 가졌던 순전히 자기본위의 동경과 이기적 야망을 사회적으로 승화시키기를 배운다. 그럼에도 너희가 이 세상에서 그토록 진지하게 갈망했던, 그리고 환경이 너희를 그토록 계속 거부했던 그것들을, 모론시아 생애에서 참된 모타 통찰력을 획득한 후에도 여전히 하고자 한다면, 자신이 오랫동안 품었던 열망을 충분히 만족시킬 모든 기회를 아주 분명히 부여받을 것이다.
44:8.4 (508.2)
But every human being should remember: Many ambitions to excel which tantalize mortals in the flesh will not persist with these same mortals in the morontia and spirit careers. The ascending morontians learn to socialize their former purely selfish longings and egoistic ambitions. Nevertheless, those things which you so earnestly longed to do on earth and which circumstances so persistently denied you, if, after acquiring true mota insight in the morontia career, you still desire to do, then will you most certainly be granted every opportunity fully to satisfy your long-cherished desires.
상승하는 필사자는, 자신의 영 생애를 개시하려고 지방우주를 떠나기 전에, 모든 지적, 예술적, 및 사회적 동경, 또는 자신의 필사자 실존이나 모론시아 실존 수준의 영원한 특징인 참된 야망에 대해 충분히 만족하게 될 것이다. 이것은 자아를-표현하고 자아를-실현하는 만족감을 평등하게 성취한 것이지, 체험적으로 똑같은 지위에 도달한 것이 아니며, 솜씨와 기법과 표현에서 독자적 개체성이 철저하게 소멸된 것 또한 아니다. 그러나 너희가 최종 하보나 생애 궤도를 마치기 전에는, 개인 체험으로 달성한 것의 새로운 영적 차이는 그렇게 일률적으로 동일하게 되지 않을 것이다. 그후에 낙원 거주자는 개인 체험의 유한절대적 차이에 적응해야 할 필요성에 직면하게 되며, 그 차이는 오직 궁극적인 피조물 신분을--곧 필사 완결성취자들의 일곱째 영 운명 단계를-- 집단으로 달성함으로써만 평준화될 수 있다.
44:8.5 (508.3)
Before ascending mortals leave the local universe to embark upon their spirit careers, they will be satiated respecting every intellectual, artistic, and social longing or true ambition which ever characterized their mortal or morontia planes of existence. This is the achievement of equality of the satisfaction of self-expression and self-realization but not the attainment of identical experiential status nor the complete obliteration of characteristic individuality in skill, technique, and expression. But the new spirit differential of personal experiential attainment will not become thus leveled off and equalized until after you have finished the last circle of the Havona career. And then will the Paradise residents be confronted with the necessity of adjusting to that absonite differential of personal experience which can be leveled off only by the group attainment of the ultimate of creature status—the seventh-stage-spirit destiny of the mortal finaliters.