Guardians of destiny are the custodians of mind patterns and soul realities between death and resurrection. [1]
Man and angel may or may not be reunited in eternal service, but wherever seraphic assignment may take them, the seraphim are always in communication with their former wards of the evolutionary worlds, the ascendant mortals of time. [2]
Throughout the life-lapse period of the sleeping survivors the spiritual values and eternal realities of their newly evolved and immortal souls are held as a sacred trust by the personal or by the group guardian seraphim. [3]
If, when death overtakes us, we have attained the third circle or a higher realm and therefore have had assigned to us a personal guardian of destiny there is a chance for an immediate resurrection in the mansion worlds. [4] The guardian of destiny retain immortal morontia soul, the static formulas of identity, and are essential to repersonalization. [5]
The guardian of assignment sponsors the new body, the morontia form, as the new life vehicle for the immortal soul and for the indwelling of the returned Adjuster. [6] Tribunals must absolve guardians from blame if subjects fail to survive. [7]
Develop abiding affection for their human associates. [8] Two guardians are assigned to each mortal; the complement of being, one of the two angles, is the recorder. [9]
In the attainment of the third circle of human intellectuality and acquired spirituality, or in enrollment in reserve corps, a guardian of destiny is acquired. [10] The assignment of a personal guardian brings the Adjuster forthwith prior to Spirit of Truth times. [11]
Originally, the seraphim were definitely assigned to the separate Urantia races. But since the bestowal of Michael, they are assigned in accordance with human intelligence, spirituality, and destiny. [12] Guardians of destiny are assigned to all that attain the third psychic circle. [13]
All surviving mortals of Adjuster-fusion destiny have temporary guardians assigned, and these associates may become permanently attached when mortal survivors attain the requisite intellectual and spiritual development. [14]
When human beings are chosen as protectors of planetary destiny, when they become pivotal individuals in the plans which the world administrators are prosecuting, at that time the planetary chief of seraphim confirms their temporal attachment to the seraphic corps and appoints personal destiny guardians to serve with these mortal reservists. [15]
Most enter Corps of Mortal Finaliters. [16] Angelic pair can achieve spiritual bi-unification on Seraphington and can receive a non-Adjuster fragment of the Father and fuse with him. [17] Some become mind planners if wards fail to survive. [18] Surest seraphic passport to Paradise is service as guardian of destiny. [19] Majority detach from subjects during Havona. [20] Midwayers act as interpreters for guardians of destiny in light and life eras. [21]
Jesus sent his personal guardian away from the mountain while on Mount Hermon; he had no more a personal guardian after his baptism. [22] On Urantia the first mortal to secure a personal guardian was Rantowoc, a wise man of the red race of long ago. [23]
One of the most important things a destiny guardian does for her mortal subject is to effect a personal co-ordination of the numerous impersonal spirit influences which indwell, surround, and impinge upon the mind and soul of the evolving material creature. [24] Many guardians have gained much valuable experience on those worlds which are of the non-Adjuster fusion series. [25]
The guardian of destiny influences you in every possible manner consistent with the dignity of your personality; under no circumstances do these angels interfere with the free action of the human will. [26] Midwayers are indispensable to the seraphim who serve as personal guardians to mortals. [27]
The seraphic guardians of destiny continue their personal ministry to the progressing mortals in light; indeed such angels come in ever-increasing numbers throughout the settled ages since larger and larger groups of human beings reach the third cosmic circle of co-ordinate mortal attainment during the planetary life span. The Holy Spirit and the ministry of angels are even more effective as the successive epochs of settled life are experienced. [28]
Human races of Urantia are very hard to work with. It is not uncommon to hear a guardian of destiny make a formal statement excusing the hardships he had encountered while serving his mortal subject. [29]
See also: UB 113; UB 39:8.5-8.