Paper 27 Overview: Ministry of the Primary Supernaphim

Primary supernaphim are perfect spirit beings who serve the Deities on Paradise. They are organized into seven service groups and help beings who are finishing their journey to Paradise. They teach and guide those who have traveled from the worlds of time and space as they complete their training.

The seven orders of primary supernaphim include Conductors of Worship, Masters of Philosophy, Custodians of Knowledge, Directors of Conduct, Interpreters of Ethics, Chiefs of Assignment, and Instigators of Rest. These angels help travelers adjust to Paradise and prepare them for their eternal future service. Their work is important because they help connect people who come from worlds of time with the eternal world of Paradise.

Primary supernaphim are the highest order of angels who serve the Deities on Paradise. They are perfect beings who have never strayed from the paths of light and righteousness, and none of them has ever been lost. These angels can work in all aspects of their duties and mainly function on Paradise, though they sometimes serve elsewhere in the universe.

Primary supernaphim are assigned to worlds that have experienced rebellion, like Urantia. They serve in seven main orders, and they work mainly with pilgrims who have reached Paradise. When travelers arrive on Paradise, they study with these angels in reverse order, starting with the Instigators of Rest and finishing with the Conductors of Worship, before beginning their eternal service.

The Instigators of Rest are inspectors who travel from Paradise to the inner circuit of Havona. They work with the secondary supernaphim to prepare pilgrims of time for their introduction to eternity. These angels are the final instructors who help space travelers get ready for the "last transition sleep," which takes them from time into eternity.

Rest comes in seven different forms, including the rest of sleep, play, energy recharging, and the deep sleep of moving from one life to another. The last metamorphic sleep is special because it helps creatures of time cross from temporal and spatial existence to timeless Paradise. The Instigators of Rest are essential to this important change, just like seraphim are essential to human survival of death.

This group is led by the "original pattern angel," the chief supernaphim, who organizes all three orders of these angels. The supernaphim are completely self-governing except for the leadership of the first angel of Paradise. Chiefs of Assignment have a lot to do with the glorified mortal residents of Paradise before they join the Corps of the Finality.

When mortal ascenders reach Paradise, they experience many types of relationships. They interact with divine beings, glorified fellow mortals, and almost three thousand different types of Paradise Citizens, Transcendentalers, and many other Paradise inhabitants. After spending time with these mighty intellects of Paradise, it can be refreshing to visit with angels because they remind mortals of the seraphim they knew during their long journey.

As beings climb higher in the scale of life, they must pay more attention to universe ethics. Ethical awareness means recognizing the rights that come with the existence of other individuals. Spiritual ethics goes far beyond mortal and morontia concepts of personal and group relationships.

Ethics has been taught and learned by time pilgrims during their long climb to Paradise. As they have traveled upward, they have added more and more groups to their circle of universe friends. By the time mortals reach Paradise, they need help understanding ethical interpretations, even though they don't need to be taught ethics. The Interpreters of Ethics help Paradise arrivals adjust to their many new relationships during the time between becoming residents and joining the Corps of Mortal Finaliters.

The ascending mortals have already been fully instructed in the ethics of Paradise relationships. Now they benefit from receiving counsel from the Directors of Conduct, who teach the new members of Paradise society about the perfect conduct of the high beings who live on the central Isle of Light and Life. The spiritual tests of greatness can be applied only after pilgrims reach Paradise.

Harmony is the key theme of the central universe, and proper conduct is essential to progress through knowledge and philosophy to spiritual worship. There is a divine way to approach Divinity, and while the spirit of this approach is taught in Havona, the final touches of training can only be applied on Paradise. Even though Paradise conduct is completely natural and free, there is still a proper and perfect way of doing things on the eternal Isle.

The superaphic custodians of knowledge are living books of truth. They are divine records, the perfect books of real knowledge. The facts of the universes are recorded in these angels, and it is impossible for an untruth to be stored in their perfect minds. These custodians teach informal courses for residents of Paradise, but their main job is to provide information when requested.

At the northern part of Paradise, there are available the living finders of knowledge. If someone wants to know something, they can ask these beings who will direct them to the custodian who holds that information. This allows people to communicate directly with living intelligence rather than having to read from books. These custodians are the final and living summaries of all the records kept by angels throughout the universes.

Next to the supreme joy of worship is the excitement of philosophy. Even at the highest levels of advancement, there are still thousands of mysteries that require philosophy to solve. The master philosophers of Paradise enjoy leading residents in the thrilling search for answers to universe problems.

The master philosophers conduct detailed courses in the seventy divisions of wisdom at the southern end of Paradise. They teach using every possible method, including the higher graph technique of Havona and special Paradise methods of sharing information. These methods are beyond human understanding and would take thousands of years to explain using human words. The philosophy of perfection is only available to those who are personally present on Paradise.

Worship is the highest privilege and first duty of all created intelligent beings. Worship is the conscious and joyful act of recognizing the truth of the personal relationships between the Creators and their creatures. As knowledge of the infinite nature of the Gods increases, the act of worship becomes more all-encompassing and reaches the heights of experiential delight.

The Isle of Paradise contains specific places for worship, but the entire isle is like one vast sanctuary of divine service. Worship is the first passion of all who climb to Paradise's shores. Under the direction of the Conductors of Worship, worship reaches the creature goal of supreme pleasure and the heights of self-expression and personal enjoyment. They teach ascendant creatures how to worship properly so they can express themselves fully while still paying attention to Paradise activities.