Teacher-Brother Dave's Compilation of TOPICAL STUDIES from THE NEW EPOCHAL REVELATION OF TRUTH. Topical Study number 84 "Ministry On All Levels" [Part 48 of many] Teacher-Brother Dave's initial comments: I am presenting some of my Topical Studies from the fully public domain, 2097 page, Fifth Epochal Revelation of Truth and with my added comments. The Revealed text is free of copyright, so you may freely share individually these supernal quotes with your friends and relatives. But my order of selections, font types for emphasis and my added comments in square brackets [ ] are Copyright 2012, 2013 and 2014 by Dave@PureChristians.org All Rights Reserved Contact me first about using the whole Study or group of Studies. These will be published here each Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:00 PM CST. [This is an expansion of my earlier Topical Study 28 in two parts. See here: Study 28 Divine and Human Service Ministry (Scroll 60% down that page) ] How does the Divine Ministry to humans, of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit, differ? How are they alike? How are they applied in our local universe? PAPER 114 SERAPHIC PLANETARY GOVERNMENT, Cont. 6. THE MASTER SERAPHIM OF PLANETARY SUPERVISION [Paper:Section.Paragraph] 114:6.1 When the first governor general arrived on Earth, concurrent with the outpouring of the Spirit of Truth, [A.D. 30-on, Jesus Christ Michael is here as He the Spirit of Truth !!] he was accompanied by twelve corps of special seraphim, Seraphington graduates, who were immediately assigned to certain special planetary services. These exalted angels are known as the master seraphim of planetary supervision and are, aside from the overcontrol of the planetary Most High observer, under the immediate direction of the resident governor general. 114:6.2 These twelve groups of angels, while functioning under the general supervision of the resident governor general, are immediately directed by the seraphic council of twelve, the acting chiefs of each group. This council also serves as the volunteer cabinet of the resident governor general. 114:6.3 As planetary chief of seraphim, I preside over this council of seraphic chiefs, and I am a volunteer [Paradise-level] supernaphim of the primary order serving on Earth as the successor of the onetime chief of the angelic hosts of the planet who defaulted at the time of the Caligastia secession. 114:6.4 The twelve corps of the master seraphim of planetary supervision are functional on Earth as follows: 114:6.5 1. The epochal angels. These are the angels of the current age, the dispensational group. These celestial ministers are intrusted with the oversight and direction of the affairs of each generation as they are designed to fit into the mosaic of the age in which they occur. The present corps of epochal angels serving on Earth is the third group assigned to the planet during the current dispensation. 114:6.6 2 . The progress angels. These seraphim are intrusted with the task of initiating the evolutionary progress of the successive social ages. They foster the development of the inherent progressive trend of evolutionary creatures;they labor incessantly to make things what they ought to be. The group now on duty is the second to be assigned to the planet. 114:6.7 3. The religious guardians. These are the "angels of the churches," the earnest contenders for that which is and has been. They endeavor to maintain the ideals of that which has survived for the sake of the safe transit of moral values from one epoch to another. They are the checkmates of the angels of progress, all the while seeking to translate from one generation to another the imperishable values of the old and passing forms into the new and therefore less stabilized patterns of thought and conduct. These angels do contend for spiritual forms, but they are not the source of ultrasectarianism and meaningless controversial divisions of professed religionists. The corps now functioning on Earth is the fifth thus to serve. 114:6.8 4. The angels of nation life.These are the "angels of the trumpets," directors of the political performances of Earth national life. The group now functioning in the overcontrol of international relations is the fourth corps to serve on the planet. It is particularly through the ministry of this seraphic division that "the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men." 114:6.9 5. The angels of the races. Those who work for the conservation of the evolutionary races of time, regardless of their political entanglements and religious groupings. On Earth there are remnants of nine human races which have commingled and combined into the people of modern times. These seraphim are closely associated with the ministry of the race commissioners, and the group now on Earth is the original corps assigned to the planet soon after the day of Pentecost. [in A.D. 30] 114:6.10 6. The angels of the future. These are the projection angels, who forecast a future age and plan for the realization of the better things of a new and advancing dispensation; they are the architects of the successive eras. The group now on the planet has thus functioned since the beginning of the current dispensation. 114:6.11 7. The angels of enlightenment. Earth is now receiving the help of the third corps of seraphim dedicated to the fostering of planetary education. These angels are occupied with mental and moral training as it concerns individuals, families, groups, schools, communities, nations, and whole races. 114:6.12 8. The angels of health. These are the seraphic ministers assigned to the assistance of those mortal agencies dedicated to the promotion of health and the prevention of disease. The present corps is the sixth group to serve during this dispensation. 114:6.13 9. The home seraphim. Earth now enjoys the services of the fifth group of angelic ministers dedicated to the preservation and advancement of the home, the basic institution of human civilization. [Marriage of one man to one woman to co-create more sons of God for our Father God must be a universal law ! This is vital to the survival of progressive human society !] 114:6.14 10. The angels of industry. This seraphic group is concerned with fostering industrial development and improving economic conditions among the Earth peoples. This corps has been seven times changed since the bestowal of [Jesus Christ] Michael. 114:6.15 11. The angels of diversion. These are the seraphim who foster the values of play, humor, and rest. They ever seek to uplift man's recreational diversions and thus to promote the more profitable utilization of human leisure. The present corps is the third of that order to minister on Earth. 114:6.16 12. The angels of superhuman ministry. These are the angels of the angels, those seraphim who are assigned to the ministry of all other superhuman life on the planet, temporary or permanent. This corps has served since the beginning of the current dispensation. 114:6.17 When these groups of master seraphim disagree in matters of planetary policy or procedure, their differences are usually composed by the governor general, but all his rulings are subject to appeal in accordance with the nature and gravity of the issues involved in the disagreement. 114:6.18 None of these angelic groups exercise direct or arbitrary control over the domains of their assignment. They cannot fully control the affairs of their respective realms of action, but they can and do so manipulate planetary conditions and so associate circumstances as favorably to influence the spheres of human activity to which they are attached. 114:6.19 The master seraphim of planetary supervision utilize many agencies for the prosecution of their missions. They function as ideational clearinghouses, mind focalizers, and project promoters. While unable to inject new and higher conceptions into human minds, they often act to intensify some higher ideal which has already appeared within a human intellect. [Wonderful !!] 114:6.20 But aside from these many means of positive action, the master seraphim insure planetary progress against vital jeopardy through the mobilization, training, and maintenance of the reserve corps of destiny. The chief function of these reservists [selected humans living on earth] is to insure against breakdown of evolutionary progress; they are the provisions which the celestial forces have made against surprise; they are the guarantees against disaster. 7. THE RESERVE CORPS OF DESTINY 114:7.14 Earth mortals should not allow the comparative spiritual isolation of their world from certain of the local universe circuits to produce a feeling of cosmic desertion or planetary orphanage. There is operative on the planet a very definite and effective superhuman supervision of world affairs and human destinies. 114:7.16 No one in the local universe seems to know when the unsettled status of the planetary administration will terminate. The Nebadon Melchizedeks are inclined to the opinion that little change will occur in the planetary government and administration until [Jesus Christ] Michael's second personal arrival on Earth. Undoubtedly at this time, if not before, sweeping changes will be effected in planetary management. But as to the nature of such modifications of world administration, no one seems to be able even to conjecture. There is no precedent for such an episode in all the history of the inhabited worlds of the universe of Nebadon. Among the many things difficult to understand concerning the future government of Earth, a prominent one is the location on the planet of a circuit and divisional headquarters of the archangels. [!!] 114:7.17 Your isolated world is not forgotten in the counsels of the universe. Earth is not a cosmic orphan stigmatized by sin and shut away from divine watchcare by rebellion. From Uversa to Salvington and on down to Jerusem, even in Havona and on Paradise, they all know we are here; and you mortals now dwelling on Earth are just as lovingly cherished and just as faithfully watched over as if the sphere had never been betrayed by a faithless Planetary Prince, even more so. It is eternally true, "the Father himself loves you." 114:7.18 {Presented by the Chief of Seraphim stationed on Earth.} PAPER 115 THE SUPREME BEING [Note: In this topical study, only a few paragraphs from Papers 115, 116 and 117 on the evolving God the Supreme will be presented. Other pages on this website cover this in greater depth. You may start by perusing THE SUPREME BEING at http://www.purechristians.org/Inspir83.html about 50% down that page.] Introduction 115:0.1 With God the Father, sonship is the great relationship. With God the Supreme, achievement is the prerequisite to status -- one must do something as well as be something. [ I am a divinely beloved son of I AM by the Grace of God ! and I am striving to eventually achieve Supreme perfection in all of my Spirit-led service work in our perfecting universe ! (Use your own words, of course to our loving Father and in the evolving Supreme Being.) ] 1. RELATIVITY OF CONCEPT FRAMES 115:1.4 The realms of the finite exist by virtue of the eternal purpose of God. Finite creatures, high and low, may propound theories, and have done so, as to the necessity of the finite in the cosmic economy, but in the last analysis it exists because God so willed. [ Thank You, our loving Father in Jesus Christ in Spirit ! ] The universe cannot be explained, neither can a finite creature offer a rational reason for his own individual [I am of I AM] existence without appealing to the prior acts and pre-existent volition [will] of ancestral beings, Creators or procreators. 3. ORIGINAL, ACTUAL, AND POTENTIAL 115:3.4 It is only man's distance from infinity that causes this concept to be expressed as one word. While infinity is on the one hand UNITY, on the other it is DIVERSITY without end or limit. Infinity, as it is observed by finite intelligences, is the maximum paradox of creature philosophy and finite metaphysics. Though man's spiritual nature reaches up in the worship experience to the Father who is infinite, man's intellectual comprehension capacity is exhausted by the maximum conception of the Supreme Being. Beyond the Supreme, concepts are increasingly names; less and less are they true designations of reality; more and more do they become the creature's projection of finite understanding toward the superfinite. [Your projection ! as if you are a free-willed moving mirrored disco-ball, in my rough analogy of the above, putting your moving, Deity-reflected patterns on the screen called Earth. Each of your mirrored flat surfaces has an opaque shade to pull down if you choose to do evil and block God's Light from being reflected by you. We should also use our God-given creative imagination to attempt to visualize and partly understand the higher super-conscious, Ultimate and Absolute levels of the cosmos and the Father-Infinite I AM ...] 115:3.15 Actuality (of Deity) is what man seeks in the Paradise ascent. Potentiality (of human divinity) is what man evolves in that search. The Original is what makes possible the coexistence and integration of man the actual, man the potential, and man the eternal. [ I am a perfecting Divine-Human Son of God in Spirit in Jesus Christ in/as I AM !] 115:3.16 The final dynamics of the cosmos have to do with the continual transfer of reality from potentiality to actuality. In theory, there may be an end to this metamorphosis, but in fact, such is impossible since the Potential and the Actual are both encircuited in the Original (the I AM), and this identification makes it forever impossible to place a limit on the developmental progression of the universe. Whatsoever is identified with the I AM can never find an end to progression since the actuality of the potentials of the I AM is absolute, and the potentiality of the actuals of the I AM is also absolute. Always will actuals be opening up new avenues of the realization of hitherto impossible potentials--every human decision not only actualizes a new reality in human experience but also opens up a new capacity for human growth. The man lives in every child, and the morontia progressor is resident in the mature God-knowing man. [!!! The mature man lives in each sperm-egg union !! Much more to reflect upon here !] 115:3.17 Statics in growth can never appear in the total cosmos since the basis for growth--the absolute actuals--is unqualified, and since the possibilities for growth--the absolute potentials--are unlimited. From a practical viewpoint the philosophers of the universe have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as an end. [Bummer to the "end times" preachers of doom ! The END of "end times" is now at hand !! ? Ha ha] 115:3.18 From a circumscribed [small, finite, distorted, human] view there are, indeed, many ends, many terminations of activities, but from a larger viewpoint on a higher universe level, there are no endings, merely transitions from one phase of development to another. The major chronicity of the master universe is concerned with the several universe ages, the Havona, the superuniverse, and the outer universe ages. But even these basic divisions of sequence relationships cannot be more than relative landmarks on the unending highway of eternity. [That mighty statement is conducive to worship of our loving Father ! Thank You ...] 115:3.19 The final penetration of the truth, beauty, and goodness of the Supreme Being could only open up to the progressing creature those absonite qualities of ultimate divinity which lie beyond the concept levels of truth, beauty, and goodness. [Absonite is a Transcendental and Ultimate level; roughly, for now, all three terms mean about the same; but Reality apparently becomes to us more complex as we strive for the even higher Absolute and Infinite levels of the I AM unqualified.] 7. THE NATURE OF THE SUPREME 115:7.1 In the Deity of the Supreme the Father-I AM has achieved relatively complete liberation from the limitations inherent in infinity of status, eternity of being, and absoluteness of nature. But God the Supreme has been freed from all existential limitations only by having become subject to experiential qualifications of universal function. In attaining capacity for experience, the finite God also becomes subject to the necessity therefor; in achieving liberation from eternity, the Almighty encounters the barriers of time; and the Supreme could only know growth and development as a consequence of partiality of existence and incompleteness of nature, nonabsoluteness of being. 115:7.2 All this must be according to the Father's plan, which has predicated finite progress upon effort, creature achievement upon perseverance, and personality development upon faith. By thus ordaining the experience-evolution of the Supreme, the Father has made it possible for finite creatures [including us !] to exist in the universes and, by experiential progression, sometime to attain the divinity of Supremacy. [This is a part of the love and grace of our Father God !] 115:7.3 Including the Supreme and even the Ultimate, all reality, excepting the unqualified values of the seven Absolutes, is relative. The fact of Supremacy is predicated on Paradise power, Son personality, and Conjoint action, but the growth of the Supreme is involved in the Deity Absolute, the Unqualified Absolute, and the Universal Absolute. And this synthesizing and unifying Deity -- God the Supreme -- is the personification of the finite shadow cast athwart the grand universe by the infinite unity of the unsearchable nature of the Paradise Father, the First Source and Center. 115:7.4 To the extent that the triodities are directly operative on the finite level, they impinge upon the Supreme, who is the Deity focalization and cosmic summation of the finite qualifications of the natures of the Absolute Actual and the Absolute Potential. 115:7.5 The Paradise Trinity is considered to be the absolute inevitability; the Seven Master Spirits are apparently Trinity inevitabilities; the power-mind-spirit-personality actualization of the Supreme must be the evolutionary inevitability. 115:7.6 God the Supreme does not appear to have been inevitable in unqualified infinity, but he seems to be on all relativity levels. He is the indispensable focalizer, summarizer, and encompasser of evolutionary experience, effectively unifying the results of this mode of reality perception in his Deity nature. And all this he appears to do for the purpose of contributing to the appearance of the inevitable eventuation, the superexperience and superfinite manifestation of God the Ultimate. 115:7.7 The Supreme Being cannot be fully appreciated without taking into consideration source, function, and destiny: relationship to the originating Trinity, the universe of activity, and the Trinity Ultimate of immediate destiny. 115:7.8 By the process of summating evolutionary experience the Supreme connects the finite with the absonite, even as the mind of the Conjoint Actor integrates the divine spirituality of the personal Son with the immutable energies of the Paradise pattern, and as the presence of the Universal Absolute unifies Deity activation with the Unqualified reactivity. And this unity must be a revelation of the undetected working of the original unity of the First Father-Cause and Source-Pattern of all things and all beings. [The Infinite Absolute Original Father I AM] 115:7.9 {Sponsored by a Mighty Messenger temporarily sojourning on Earth.} [Part 49 of this Study will be published here at 8:00 PM CST Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 (new Study material here each Mon. Wed. and Fri. at 8:00 PM CST)] Past TOPICAL STUDIES 83 and 84 Past TOPICAL STUDY 1-on Spiritual High-Lights of Jesus Christ Spiritual High-Lights of the Fifth Epochal Revelation FIFTH EPOCHAL REVELATION (full text and my added comments) INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES (shorter, with some FER)