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In answer to your
question regarding student visitors, I offer the
following:
The Transporters. These are the
transport
seraphim who function in the local systems. In Satania, your system,
they carry passengers back and forth from Jerusem and otherwise serve
as interplanetary transporters. Seldom does a day pass in which a
transport seraphim of Satania does not deposit some student visitor or
some other traveler of spirit or semispirit nature on the shores of
Urantia. These very space traversers will sometime carry you to and
from the various worlds of the system headquarters group, and when you
have finished the Jerusem assignment, they will carry you forward to
Edentia. (39:4.15)
Student visitors may or
may not be human like us, but they are more
than likely ascenders in the Father's plan as we are. Here is a description of
the landing field - the sea of glass - on our system capital world:
Jerusem Receiving Field
Transports arrive on the crystal field, the
so-called sea
of glass. Around this area are the receiving stations for the various
orders of beings who traverse space by seraphic transport. Near the
polar crystal receiving station for student visitors you may ascend the
pearly observatory and view the immense relief map of the entire
headquarters planet. (46:2.9)
And on this subject of
angelic transport, I thought you might like to
read something about these transporters, and their connections with our
ideas of the way angels look:
The erroneous idea that angels
possess wings
is not wholly due to olden notions that they must have wings to fly
through the air. Human beings have sometimes been permitted to observe
seraphim that were being prepared for transport service, and the
traditions of these experiences have largely determined the Urantian
concept of angels. In observing a transport seraphim being made ready
to receive a passenger for interplanetary transit, there may be seen
what are apparently double sets of wings extending from the head to the
foot of the angel. In reality these wings are energy
insulators—friction shields.
When celestial beings are to be enseraphimed
for transfer from one world to another, they are brought to the
headquarters of the sphere and, after due registry, are inducted into
the transit sleep. Meantime, the transport seraphim moves into a
horizontal position immediately above the universe energy pole of the
planet. While the energy shields are wide open, the sleeping
personality is skillfully deposited, by the officiating seraphic
assistants, directly on top of the transport angel. Then both the upper
and lower pairs of shields are carefully closed and adjusted.
And now, under the influence of the
transformers and the transmitters, a strange metamorphosis begins as
the seraphim is made ready to swing into the energy currents of the
universe circuits. To outward appearance the seraphim grows pointed at
both extremities and becomes so enshrouded in a queer light of amber
hue that very soon it is impossible to distinguish the enseraphimed
personality. When all is in readiness for departure, the chief of
transport makes the proper inspection of the carriage of life, carries
out the routine tests to ascertain whether or not the angel is properly
encircuited, and then announces that the traveler is properly
enseraphimed, that the energies are adjusted, that the angel is
insulated, and that everything is in readiness for the departing flash.
The mechanical controllers, two of them, next take their positions. By
this time the transport seraphim has become an almost transparent,
vibrating, torpedo-shaped outline of glistening luminosity. Now the
transport dispatcher of the realm summons the auxiliary batteries of
the living energy transmitters, usually one thousand in number; as he
announces the destination of the transport, he reaches out and touches
the near point of the seraphic carriage, which shoots forward with
lightninglike speed, leaving a trail of celestial luminosity as far as
the planetary atmospheric investment extends. In less than ten minutes
the marvelous spectacle will be lost even to reinforced seraphic
vision. (46:2.9)
Thanks for writing, please write again anytime
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