How may we enhance our cooperation with the
seraphim?
“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.
- Make efforts to know and love the seraphim (419;
1243.2). Study their interrelated orders, their life and interests. Study
papers 8-9, 23-29, 34, 38-39, 48, 113-14. Enter into the spirit of the
mercy ministry (85) functions that are personified by these various orders;
embracing humble tasks, transportation, record keeping, communicating
messages, putting a child to sleep. Understand why they are called “hosts”
(armies) and why military language is used to describe their organization.
This is a lesson on leadership and teamwork.
- Get to the third psychic circle of commitment (not
just a spiritual affair—1209) to the Father’s will to receive a pair of
guardian seraphim for yourself. Progress in unity with the Adjuster. Steep
yourself in the principles of the prayer process (1002; cf. comments at
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~jwattles/summit.htm)
- Cultivate what a reservist can offer: Wholehearted
dedication to some special social, economic, political, spiritual, or other
cause, coupled with willingness to serve without human recognition and
rewards (1257).
- In career planning, thinking of projects that may be
part of the activities of the master seraphim of planetary supervision
(1254ff).
- Learn what you can from suffering—and when things seem
to be going smoothly! “Tempt not the angels of your supervision to lead you
in troublous ways as a loving discipline designed to save your ease-drifting
souls” (1931.1). “God the Spirit possesses all the supernal kindness and
merciful affection of the Original and Eternal Son. The universe of your
origin is being forged out between the anvil of justice and the hammer of
suffering; but those who wield the hammer are the children of mercy, the
spirit offspring of the Infinite Spirit” (100.2) “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” (258).
For the moment, read Paper 113,
##3-5, pp. 1244-46.
JHW
08/12/05