Archangels

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Urantia Book [|Paper 37]:[|3. THE ARCHANGELS]
37:3.1 //Archangels// are the [|offspring] of the [|Creator Son] and the [|Universe Mother Spirit]. They are the highest [|type] of high [|spirit] [|being] produced in large [|numbers] in a [|local universe], and at the [|time] of the last registry there were almost eight hundred thousand in [|Nebadon]. 37:3.2 Archangels are one of the few [|groups] of [|local universe personalities] who are not [|normally] under the [|jurisdiction] of [|Gabriel]. They are not in any [|manner] concerned with the routine [|administration] of the [|universe], being [|dedicated] to the [|work] of [|creature] [|survival] and to the furtherance of the [|ascending career] of the [|mortals] of [|time and space]. While not ordinarily subject to the direction of the [|Bright and Morning Star], the archangels do sometimes [|function] by his [|authority]. They also [|collaborate] with others of the [|Universe Aids], such as the [|Evening Stars], as is [|illustrated] by certain [|transactions] depicted in the [|narrative] of [|life transplantation on your world]. 37:3.3 The archangel corps of [|Nebadon] is directed by the first-born of this order, and in more recent times a divisional [|headquarters] of the archangels has been [|maintained] on [|Urantia]. It is this [|unusual] [|fact] that soon arrests the [|attention] of extra-Nebadon student visitors. Among their early [|observations] of intrauniverse [|transactions] is the [|discovery] that many [|ascendant] [|activities] of the [|Brilliant Evening Stars] are directed from the [|capital] of a [|local system], [|Satania]. On further [|examination] they [|discover] that certain archangel [|activities] are directed from a small and apparently insignificant [|inhabited world] called [|Urantia]. And then ensues the [|revelation] of [|Michael's bestowal on Urantia] and their [|immediately] quickened interest in you and your lowly [|sphere]. 37:3.4 Do you grasp the significance of the [|fact] that your lowly and [|confused] [|planet] has become a divisional [|headquarters] for the [|universe] [|administration] and direction of certain archangel [|activities] having to do with the [|Paradise] [|ascension scheme]? This undoubtedly presages the [|future] [|concentration] of other [|ascendant] [|activities] on the [|bestowal world] of [|Michael] and lends a tremendous and [|solemn] import to [|the Master]'s [|personal] [|promise], "[|I will come again]."[|[3]] 37:3.5 In general, the archangels are assigned to the [|service] and ministry of the [|Avonal] order of sonship, but not until they have passed through extensive preliminary [|training] in all [|phases] of the [|work] of the various [|ministering spirits]. A corps of one hundred accompanies every [|Paradise] [|bestowal Son] to an [|inhabited world], being temporarily assigned to him for the duration of such a [|bestowal]. If the [|Magisterial Son] should become temporary ruler of the [|planet], these archangels would act as the directing heads of all [|celestial] life on that [|sphere]. 37:3.6 Two senior archangels are always assigned as the [|personal] aids of a [|Paradise] [|Avonal] on all [|planetary] missions, whether involving [|judicial] [|actions], [|magisterial missions], or [|bestowal incarnations]. When this [|Paradise Son] has finished the [|judgment] of a realm and the [|dead] are called to record (the so-called [|resurrection]), it is [|literally] true that the [|seraphic guardians] of the slumbering [|personalities] respond to "the voice of the archangel."[|[4]][|[5]] The roll call of a [|dispensation] termination is promulgated by an attendant archangel. This is the archangel of the [|resurrection], sometimes referred to as the "archangel of Michael."[|[6]] 37:3.7 //The Worlds of the Archangels//. The [|seventh] [|group] of the encircling [|Salvington] worlds, with their associated [|satellites], is assigned to the archangels. [|Sphere] number [|one] and all of its six tributary [|satellites] are occupied by the [|personality] [|record] keepers. This enormous corps of recorders busy themselves with keeping straight the [|record] of each [|mortal] of time from the [|moment] of [|birth] up through the [|universe] [|career] until such an [|individual] either leaves [|Salvington] for the [|superuniverse] [|regime] or is "blotted out of recorded existence"[|[7]] by the [|mandate] of the [|Ancients of Days]. 37:3.8 It is on these worlds that [|records] and identification sureties are [|classified], filed, and preserved during that [|time] which intervenes between [|mortal] [|death] and the hour of [|repersonalization], the [|resurrection] from [|death].