2. ASSIGNMENTS OF SOLITARY MESSENGERS – P.257
P.257 – §6 Solitary Messengers are not permanently
attached to any individual or group of celestial personalities. They are
on duty, always by assignment, and during
P.258 – §0 such service they work under the immediate
supervision of those who direct the realms of their attachment. Among
themselves they have neither organization nor government of any kind;
they are Solitary Messengers.
P.258 – §1 Solitary Messengers are assigned by the
Infinite Spirit to the following seven divisions of service:
P.258 – §2 1. Messengers of the Paradise Trinity.
P.258 – §3 2. Messengers of the Havona Circuits.
P.258 – §4 3. Messengers of the Superuniverses.
P.258 – §5 4. Messengers of the Local Universes.
P.258 – §6 5. Explorers of Undirected Assignment.
P.258 – §7 6. Ambassadors and Emissaries of Special
Assignment.
P.258 – §8 7. Revelators of Truth.
P.258 – §9 These spirit messengers are in every sense
interchangeable from one type of service to another; such transfers are
constantly taking place. There are no separate orders of Solitary Messengers;
they are spiritually alike and in every sense equal. While they are generally
designated by number, they are known to the Infinite Spirit by personal
names. They are known to the rest of us by the name or number designative
of their current assignment.
P.258 – §10 1. Messengers of the Paradise Trinity.
I am not permitted to reveal much of the work of the group of messengers
assigned to the Trinity. They are the trusted and secret servants of the
Deities, and when intrusted with special messages which involve the unrevealed
policies and future conduct of the Gods, they have never been known to
divulge a secret or betray the confidence reposed in their order. And
all this is related in this connection, not to appear boastful of their
perfection, but rather to point out that the Deities can and do create
perfect beings.
P.258 – §11 The confusion and turmoil of Urantia
do not signify that the Paradise Rulers lack either interest or ability
to manage affairs differently. The Creators are possessed of full power
to make Urantia a veritable paradise, but such an Eden would not contribute
to the development of those strong, noble, and experienced characters
which the Gods are so surely forging out on your world between the anvils
of necessity and the hammers of anguish. Your anxieties and sorrows, your
trials and disappointments, are just as much a part of the divine plan
on your sphere as are the exquisite perfection and infinite adaptation
of all things to their supreme purpose on the worlds of the central and
perfect universe.
P.258 – §12 2. Messengers of the Havona Circuits.
Throughout the ascendant career you will be vaguely, but increasingly,
able to detect the presence of the Solitary Messengers, but not until
you reach Havona will you recognize them unmistakably. The first of the
messengers you will see face to face will be those of the Havona circuits.
P.258 – §13 Solitary Messengers enjoy special relations
with the natives of the Havona worlds. These messengers, who are so functionally
handicapped when associating with one another, can and do have a very
close and personal communion with the Havona natives. But it is quite
impossible to convey to human minds the supreme satisfactions consequent
upon the contact of the minds of these divinely perfect beings with the
spirits of such near-transcendent personalities.
P.259 – §1 3. Messengers of the Superuniverses. The
Ancients of Days, those personalities of Trinity origin who preside over
the destinies of the seven superuniverses, those trios of divine power
and administrative wisdom, are bountifully supplied with Solitary Messengers.
It is only through this order of messengers that the triune rulers of
one superuniverse can directly and personally communicate with the rulers
of another. Solitary Messengers are the only available type of spirit
intelligence–aside, possibly, from the Inspired Trinity Spirits–that
can be dispatched from the headquarters of one superuniverse directly
to the headquarters of another. All other personalities must make such
excursions by way of Havona and the executive worlds of the Master Spirits.
P.259 – §2 There are some kinds of information which
cannot be obtained either by Gravity Messengers, reflectivity, or broadcast.
And when the Ancients of Days would certainly know these things, they
must dispatch a Solitary Messenger to the source of knowledge. Long before
the presence of life on Urantia the messenger now associated with me was
assigned on a mission out of Uversa to the central universe–was absent
from the roll calls of Orvonton for almost a million years but returned
in due time with the desired information.
P.259 – §3 There is no limitation upon the service
of Solitary Messengers in the superuniverses; they may function as executioners
of the high tribunals or as intelligence gatherers for the good of the
realm. Of all the supercreations they most delight to serve in Orvonton
because here the need is greatest and the opportunities for heroic effort
are greatly multiplied. In the more needy realms we all enjoy the satisfaction
of a more replete function.
P.259 – §4 4. Messengers of the Local Universes.
In the services of a local universe there is no limit upon the functioning
of the Solitary Messengers. They are the faithful revealers of the motives
and intent of the local universe Mother Spirit, although they are under
the full jurisdiction of the reigning Master Son. And this is true of
all messengers operating in a local universe, whether they are traveling
out directly from universe headquarters, or whether they are acting temporarily
in liaison with Constellation Fathers, System Sovereigns, or Planetary
Princes. Before the concentration of all power in the hands of a Creator
Son at the time of his elevation as sovereign ruler of his universe, these
messengers of the local universes function under the general direction
of the Ancients of Days and are immediately responsible to their resident
representative, the Union of Days.
P.259 – §5 5. Explorers of Undirected Assignment.
When the reserve corps of the Solitary Messengers is overrecruited, there
issues from one of the Seven Supreme Power Directors a call for exploration
volunteers; and there is never a lack of volunteers, for they delight
to be dispatched as free and untrammeled explorers, to experience the
thrill of finding the organizing nucleuses of new worlds and universes.
P.259 – §6 They go forth to investigate the clues
furnished by the space contemplators of the realms. Undoubtedly the Paradise
Deities know of the existence of these undiscovered energy systems of
space, but they never divulge such information. If the Solitary Messengers
did not explore and chart these newly organizing energy centers, such
phenomena would long remain unnoticed even by the intelligences of adjacent
realms. Solitary Messengers, as a class, are highly sensitive to gravity;
accordingly they can sometimes detect the probable presence of very small
dark planets, the very worlds which are best adapted to life experiments.
P.260 – §1 These messenger-explorers of undirected
assignment patrol the master universe. They are constantly out on exploring
expeditions to the uncharted regions of all outer space. Very much of
the information which we possess of transactions in the realms of outer
space, we owe to the explorations of the Solitary Messengers as they often
work and study with the celestial astronomers.
P.260 – §2 6. Ambassadors and Emissaries of Special
Assignment. Local universes situated within the same superuniverse customarily
exchange ambassadors selected from their native orders of sonship. But
to avoid delay, Solitary Messengers are frequently asked to go as ambassadors
from one local creation to another, to represent and interpret one realm
to another. For example: When a newly inhabited realm is discovered, it
may prove to be so remote in space that a long time will pass before an
enseraphimed ambassador can reach this far-distant universe. An enseraphimed
being cannot possibly exceed the velocity of 558,840 Urantia miles in
one second of your time. Massive stars, crosscurrents, and detours, as
well as attraction tangents, will all tend to retard such speed so that
on a long journey the velocity will average about 550,000 miles per second.
P.260 – §3 When it develops that it will require
hundreds of years for a native ambassador to reach a far-distant local
universe, a Solitary Messenger is often asked to proceed there immediately
to act as ambassador ad interim. Solitary Messengers can go in very short
order, not independently of time and space as do the Gravity Messengers,
but nearly so. They also serve in other circumstances as emissaries of
special assignment.
P.260 – §4 7. Revelators of Truth. The Solitary Messengers
regard the assignment to reveal truth as the highest trust of their order.
And they function ever and anon in this capacity, from the superuniverses
to the individual planets of space. They are frequently attached to commissions
which are sent to enlarge the revelation of truth to the worlds and systems.
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