Glossary Archive

Capernaum is an ancient town on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee. In Jesus' time, it had a Roman military post and was on a main route from Damascus to regions south. It also had a caravan station where young Jesus went to gather news. Jesus was later known as a boat-builder of...

Celestial Artisans are the artists and artisans of the morontia and lower spirit realms. They are distributed throughout the grand universe, but their chief realm of activity is in the constellations. Any morontia personality or spirit entity is eligible for admission to the corps of celestial artisans.

The Celestial Guardians are officers of the courts of the Ancients of Days, functioning primarily as court messengers in the minor and major sectors. They are the apprehending agents of the Ancients of Days, bringing beings before the superuniverse judges and detaining any personality in the superuniverse. They are creature-trinitized sons.

Celestial Recorders are ascendant seraphim from the local universes who execute all superuniverse records in duplicate, making an original spirit recording and a semimaterial counterpart. They have kept records of everything of cosmic import in all Orvonton since the far-distant times of the arrival of the Ancients of Days. These records are available to all...

Census Directors are immediately aware of the birth and death of will creatures in any part of the grand universe. They are only concerned with recording the fact of will function—not the records of your life; they are not recording personalities, although they work with recording angels. The partial will of higher animals does not...

Cherubim and sanobim are the lowest order of angels in a local universe. They are functionally united and usually work in pairs. They serve as assistants to the seraphim, being routine spirit workers on the inhabited planets. Every 4th cherubim and sanobim are quasi-material, resembling the morontia existence and near of kin to the more...

Chief recorders are tertiary supernaphim who keep records of the literal files of Havona and the spiritual files of their order, as well the formal records of Paradise. Senior chief recorders can advance to be Custodians of Records.

Chiefs of Assignment are primary supernaphim who preside over the organization of all three orders of supernaphim—primary, secondary, and tertiary. They also manage assignments for all ascendant beings on Paradise and have much to do with glorified mortals of Paradise before they are admitted to the Corps of the Finality.

Chronoldeks are an order of the frandalanks. They register time in addition to quantitative and qualitative energy presence. They are the least of the Master Physical Controllers.

The circle of eternity is another name for the Isle of Paradise, which is the eternal, infinite, and absolute center of all creation, the source of all energy, and the place of origin of all personalities. Paradise is a stationary, material sphere where time and space are nonexistent. It is the most gigantic organized body...