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The Urantia Papers
Paper 17
THE SEVEN SUPREME SPIRIT GROUPS
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17:0.1 The seven Supreme Spirit groups are the universal co-
ordinating directors of the seven-segmented administration of the
grand universe. Although all are classed among the functional family
of the Infinite Spirit, the following three groups are usually
classified as children of the Paradise Trinity:
The Seven Master Spirits.
The Seven Supreme Executives.
The Reflective Spirits.
17:0.2 The remaining four groups are brought into being by the
creative acts of the Infinite Spirit or by his associates of creative
status:
The Reflective Image Aids.
The Seven Spirits of the Circuits.
The Local Universe Creative Spirits.
The Adjutant Mind-Spirits.
17:0.3 These seven orders are known on Uversa as the seven Supreme
Spirit groups. Their functional domain extends from the personal
presence of the Seven Master Spirits on the periphery of the eternal
Isle, through the seven Paradise satellites of the Spirit, the Havona
circuits, the governments of the superuniverses, and the
administration and supervision of the local universes, even to the
lowly service of the adjutants bestowed upon the realms of
evolutionary mind on the worlds of time and space.
17:0.4 The Seven Master Spirits are the co-ordinating directors of
this far-flung administrative realm. In some matters pertaining to
the administrative regulation of organized physical power, mind
energy, and impersonal spirit ministry, they act personally and
directly, and in others they function through their multifarious
associates. In all matters of an executive nature -- rulings,
regulations, adjustments, and administrative decisions -- the Master
Spirits act in the persons of the Seven Supreme Executives. In the
central universe the Master Spirits may function through the Seven
Spirits of the Havona Circuits; on the headquarters of the seven
superuniverses they reveal themselves through the channel of the
Reflective Spirits and act through the persons of the Ancients of
Days, with whom they are in personal communication through the
Reflective Image Aids.
17:0.5 The Seven Master Spirits do not directly and personally
contact universe administration below the courts of the Ancients of
Days. Your local universe is administered as a part of our
superuniverse by the Master Spirit of Orvonton, but his function in
relation to the native beings of Nebadon is immediately discharged
and personally directed by the Creative Mother Spirit resident on
Salvington, the headquarters of your local universe.
1. THE SEVEN SUPREME EXECUTIVES
17:1.1 The executive headquarters of the Master Spirits occupy the
seven Paradise satellites of the Infinite Spirit, which swing around
the central Isle between the shining spheres of the Eternal Son and
the innermost Havona circuit. These executive spheres are under the
direction of the Supreme Executives, a group of seven who were
trinitized by the Father, Son, and Spirit in accordance with the
specifications of the Seven Master Spirits for beings of a type that
could function as their universal representatives.
17:1.2 The Master Spirits maintain contact with the various divisions
of the superuniverse governments through these Supreme Executives. It
is they who very largely determine the basic constitutive trends of
the seven superuniverses. They are uniformly and divinely perfect,
but they also possess diversity of personality. They have no
presiding head; each time they meet together, they choose one of
their number to preside over that joint council. Periodically they
journey to Paradise to sit in council with the Seven Master Spirits.
17:1.3 The Seven Supreme Executives function as the administrative co-
ordinators of the grand universe; they might be termed the board of
managing directors of the post-Havona creation. They are not
concerned with the internal affairs of Paradise, and they direct
their limited spheres of Havona activity through the Seven Spirits of
the Circuits. Otherwise there are few limits to the scope of their
supervision; they engage in the direction of things physical,
intellectual, and spiritual; they see all, hear all, feel all, even
know all, that transpires in the seven superuniverses and in Havona.
17:1.4 These Supreme Executives do not originate policies, nor do
they modify universe procedures; they are concerned with the
execution of the plans of divinity promulgated by the Seven Master
Spirits. Neither do they interfere with the rule of the Ancients of
Days in the superuniverses nor with the sovereignty of the Creator
Sons in the local universes. They are the co-ordinating executives
whose function it is to carry out the combined policies of all duly
constituted rulers in the grand universe.
17:1.5 Each of the executives and the facilities of his sphere are
devoted to the efficient administration of a single superuniverse.
Supreme Executive Number One, functioning on executive sphere number
one, is wholly occupied with the affairs of superuniverse number one,
and so on to Supreme Executive Number Seven, working from the seventh
Paradise satellite of the Spirit and devoting his energies to the
management of the seventh superuniverse. The name of this seventh
sphere is Orvonton, for the Paradise satellites of the Spirit have
the same names as their related superuniverses; in fact, the
superuniverses were named after them.
17:1.6 On the executive sphere of the seventh superuniverse the staff
engaged in keeping straight the affairs of Orvonton runs into numbers
beyond human comprehension and embraces practically every order of
celestial intelligence. All superuniverse services of personality
dispatch (except Inspired Trinity Spirits and Thought Adjusters) pass
through one of these seven executive worlds on their universe
journeys to and from Paradise, and here are maintained the central
registries for all personalities created by the Third Source and
Center who function in the superuniverses. The system of material,
morontial, and spiritual records on one of these executive worlds of
the Spirit amazes even a being of my order.
17:1.7 The immediate subordinates of the Supreme Executives consist
for the greater part of the trinitized sons of Paradise-Havona
personalities and of the trinitized offspring of the glorified mortal
graduates from the agelong training of the ascendant scheme of time
and space. These trinitized sons are designated for service with the
Supreme Executives by the chief of the Supreme Council of the
Paradise Corps of the Finality.
17:1.8 Each Supreme Executive has two advisory cabinets: The children
of the Infinite Spirit on the headquarters of each superuniverse
choose representatives from their ranks to serve for one millennium
in the primary advisory cabinet of their Supreme Executive. In all
matters affecting the ascending mortals of time, there is a secondary
cabinet, consisting of mortals of Paradise attainment and of the
trinitized sons of glorified mortals; this body is chosen by the
perfecting and ascending beings who transiently dwell on the seven
superuniverse headquarters. All other chiefs of affairs are appointed
by the Supreme Executives.
17:1.9 From time to time, great conclaves take place on these
Paradise satellites of the Spirit. Trinitized sons assigned to these
worlds, together with the ascenders who have attained Paradise,
assemble with the spirit personalities of the Third Source and Center
in the reunions of the struggles and triumphs of the ascendant
career. The Supreme Executives always preside over such fraternal
gatherings.
17:1.10 Once in each Paradise millennium the Seven Supreme Executives
vacate their seats of authority and go to Paradise, where they hold
their millennial conclave of universal greeting and well-wishing to
the intelligent hosts of creation. This eventful occasion takes place
in the immediate presence of Majeston, the chief of all reflective
spirit groups. And they are thus able to communicate simultaneously
with all their associates in the grand universe through the unique
functioning of universal reflectivity.
2. MAJESTON -- CHIEF OF REFLECTIVITY
17:2.1 The Reflective Spirits are of divine Trinity origin. There are
fifty of these unique and somewhat mysterious beings. Seven of these
extraordinary personalities were created at a time, and each such
creative episode was effected by a liaison of the Paradise Trinity
and one of the Seven Master Spirits.
17:2.2 This momentous transaction, occurring in the dawn of time,
represents the initial effort of the Supreme Creator Personalities,
represented by the Master Spirits, to function as cocreators with the
Paradise Trinity. This union of the creative power of the Supreme
Creators with the creative potentials of the Trinity is the very
source of the actuality of the Supreme Being. Therefore, when the
cycle of reflective creation had run its course, when each of the
Seven Master Spirits had found perfect creative synchrony with the
Paradise Trinity, when the forty-ninth Reflective Spirit had
personalized, then a new and far-reaching reaction occurred in the
Deity Absolute which imparted new personality prerogatives to the
Supreme Being and culminated in the personalization of Majeston, the
reflectivity chief and Paradise center of all the work of the forty-
nine Reflective Spirits and their associates throughout the universe
of universes.
17:2.3 Majeston is a true person, the personal and infallible center
of reflectivity phenomena in all seven superuniverses of time and
space. He maintains permanent Paradise headquarters near the center
of all things at the rendezvous of the Seven Master Spirits. He is
concerned solely with the co-ordination and maintenance of the
reflectivity service in the far-flung creation; he is not otherwise
involved in the administration of universe affairs.
17:2.4 Majeston is not included in our catalogue of Paradise
personalities because he is the only existing personality of divinity
created by the Supreme Being in functional liaison with the Deity
Absolute. He is a person, but he is exclusively and apparently
automatically concerned with this one phase of universe economy; he
does not now function in any personal capacity with relation to other
(nonreflective) orders of universe personalities.
17:2.5 The creation of Majeston signalized the first supreme creative
act of the Supreme Being. This will to action was volitional in the
Supreme Being, but the stupendous reaction of the Deity Absolute was
not foreknown. Not since the eternity-appearance of Havona had the
universe witnessed such a tremendous factualization of such a
gigantic and far-flung alignment of power and co-ordination of
functional spirit activities. The Deity response to the creative
wills of the Supreme Being and his associates was vastly beyond their
purposeful intent and greatly in excess of their conceptual
forecasts.
17:2.6 We stand in awe of the possibility of what the future ages,
wherein the Supreme and the Ultimate may attain new levels of
divinity and ascend to new domains of personality function, may
witness in the realms of the deitization of still other unexpected
and undreamed-of beings who will possess unimagined powers of
enhanced universe co-ordination. There would seem to be no limit to
the Deity Absolute's potential of response to such unification of
relationships between experiential Deity and the existential Paradise
Trinity.
3. THE REFLECTIVE SPIRITS
17:3.1 The forty-nine Reflective Spirits are of Trinity origin, but
each of the seven creative episodes attendant upon their appearance
was productive of a type of being in nature resembling the
characteristics of the coancestral Master Spirit. Thus they variously
reflect the natures and characters of the seven possible combinations
of the association of the divinity characteristics of the Universal
Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit. For this reason it
is necessary to have seven of these Reflective Spirits on the
headquarters of each superuniverse. One of each of the seven types is
required in order to achieve the perfect reflection of all phases of
every possible manifestation of the three Paradise Deities as such
phenomena might occur in any part of the seven superuniverses. One of
each type was accordingly assigned to service in each of the
superuniverses. These groups of seven dissimilar Reflective Spirits
maintain headquarters on the capitals of the superuniverses at the
reflective focus of each realm, and this is not identical with the
point of spiritual polarity.
17:3.2 The Reflective Spirits have names, but these designations are
not revealed on the worlds of space. They pertain to the nature and
character of these beings and are a part of one of the seven
universal mysteries of the secret spheres of Paradise.
17:3.3 The attribute of reflectivity, the phenomenon of the mind
levels of the Conjoint Actor, the Supreme Being, and the Master
Spirits, is transmissible to all beings concerned in the working of
this vast scheme of universal intelligence. And herein is a great
mystery: Neither the Master Spirits nor the Paradise Deities, singly
or collectively, disclose these powers of co-ordinate universal
reflectivity just as they are manifested in these forty-nine liaison
personalities of Majeston, and yet they are the creators of all these
marvelously endowed beings. Divine heredity does sometimes disclose
in the creature certain attributes which are not discernible in the
Creator.
17:3.4 The personnel of the reflectivity service, with the exception
of Majeston and the Reflective Spirits, are all the creatures of the
Infinite Spirit and his immediate associates and subordinates. The
Reflective Spirits of each superuniverse are the creators of their
Reflective Image Aids, their personal voices to the courts of the
Ancients of Days.
17:3.5 The Reflective Spirits are not merely transmitting agents;
they are retentive personalities as well. Their offspring, the
seconaphim, are also retentive or record personalities. Everything of
true spiritual value is registered in duplicate, and one impression
is preserved in the personal equipment of some member of one of the
numerous orders of secoraphic personalities belonging to the vast
staff of the Reflective Spirits.
17:3.6 The formal records of the universes are passed up by and
through the angelic recorders, but the true spiritual records are
assembled by reflectivity and are preserved in the minds of suitable
and appropriate personalities belonging to the family of the Infinite
Spirit. These are the live records in contrast with the formal and
dead records of the universe, and they are perfectly preserved in the
living minds of the recording personalities of the Infinite Spirit.
17:3.7 The reflectivity organization is also the news-gathering and
the decree-disseminating mechanism of all creation. It is in constant
operation in contrast with the periodic functioning of the various
broadcast services.
17:3.8 Everything of import transpiring on a local universe
headquarters is inherently reflected to the capital of its
superuniverse. And conversely, everything of local universe
significance is reflected outward to the local universe capitals from
the headquarters of their superuniverse. The reflectivity service
from the universes of time up to the superuniverses is apparently
automatic or self-operating, but it is not. It is all very personal
and intelligent; its precision results from perfection of personality
co-operation and therefore can hardly be attributed to the impersonal
presence-performances of the Absolutes.
17:3.9 While Thought Adjusters do not participate in the operation of
the universal reflectivity system, we have every reason to believe
that all Father fragments are fully cognizant of these transactions
and are able to avail themselves of their content.
17:3.10 During the present universe age the space range of the extra-
Paradise reflectivity service seems to be limited by the periphery of
the seven superuniverses. Otherwise, the function of this service
seems to be independent of time and space. It appears to be
independent of all known subabsolute universe circuits.
17:3.11 On the headquarters of each superuniverse the reflective
organization acts as a segregated unit; but on certain special
occasions, under the direction of Majeston, all seven may and do act
in universal unison, as in the event of the jubilee occasioned by the
settling of an entire local universe in light and life and at the
times of the millennial greetings of the Seven Supreme Executives.
4. THE REFLECTIVE IMAGE AIDS
17:4.1 The forty-nine Reflective Image Aids were created by the
Reflective Spirits, and there are just seven Aids on the headquarters
of each superuniverse. The first creative act of the seven Reflective
Spirits of Uversa was the production of their seven Image Aids, each
Reflective Spirit creating his own Aid. The Image Aids are, in
certain attributes and characteristics, perfect reproductions of
their Reflective Mother Spirits; they are virtual duplications minus
the attribute of reflectivity. They are true images and constantly
function as the channel of communication between the Reflective
Spirits and the superuniverse authorities. The Image Aids are not
merely assistants; they are actual representations of their
respective Spirit ancestors; they are images, and they are true to
their name.
17:4.2 The Reflective Spirits themselves are true personalities but
of such an order as to be incomprehensible to material beings. Even
on a superuniverse headquarters sphere they require the assistance of
their Image Aids in all personal intercourse with the Ancients of
Days and their associates. In contacts between the Image Aids and the
Ancients of Days, sometimes one Aid functions acceptably, while on
other occasions two, three, four, or even all seven are required for
the full and proper presentation of the communication intrusted to
their transmission. Likewise, the messages of the Image Aids are
variously received by one, two, or all three Ancients of Days, as the
content of the communication may require.
17:4.3 The Image Aids serve forever by the sides of their ancestral
Spirits, and they have at their disposal an unbelievable host of
helper seconaphim. The Image Aids do not directly function in
connection with the training worlds of ascending mortals. They are
closely associated with the intelligence service of the universal
scheme of mortal progression, but you will not personally come in
contact with them when you sojourn in the Uversa schools because
these seemingly personal beings are devoid of will; they do not
exercise the power of choice. They are true images, wholly reflective
of the personality and mind of the individual Spirit ancestor. As a
class, ascending mortals do not intimately contact with reflectivity.
Always some being of the reflective nature will be interposed between
you and the actual operation of the service.
5. THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF THE CIRCUITS
17:5.1 The Seven Spirits of the Havona Circuits are the joint
impersonal representation of the Infinite Spirit and the Seven Master
Spirits to the seven circuits of the central universe. They are the
servants of the Master Spirits, whose collective offspring they are.
The Master Spirits provide a distinct and diversified administrative
individuality in the seven superuniverses. Through these uniform
Spirits of the Havona Circuits they are enabled to provide a unified,
uniform, and co-ordinated spiritual supervision for the central
universe.
17:5.2 The Seven Spirits of the Circuits are each limited to the
permeation of a single Havona circuit. They are not directly
concerned with the regimes of the Eternals of Days, the rulers of the
individual Havona worlds. But they are in liaison with the Seven
Supreme Executives, and they synchronize with the central universe
presence of the Supreme Being. Their work is wholly confined to
Havona.
17:5.3 These Spirits of the Circuits make contact with those who
sojourn in Havona through their personal offspring, the tertiary
supernaphim. While the Circuit Spirits are coexistent with the Seven
Master Spirits, their function in the creation of tertiary
supernaphim did not attain major importance until the first pilgrims
of time arrived on the outer circuit of Havona in the days of
Grandfanda.
17:5.4 As you advance from circuit to circuit in Havona, you will
learn of the Spirits of the Circuits, but you will not be able to
hold personal communion with them, even though you may personally
enjoy, and recognize the impersonal presence of, their spiritual
influence.
17:5.5 The Circuit Spirits are related to the native inhabitants of
Havona much as the Thought Adjusters are related to the mortal
creatures inhabiting the worlds of the evolutionary universes. Like
the Thought Adjusters, the Circuit Spirits are impersonal, and they
consort with the perfect minds of Havona beings much as the
impersonal spirits of the Universal Father indwell the finite minds
of mortal men. But the Spirits of the Circuits never become a
permanent part of Havona personalities.
6. THE LOCAL UNIVERSE CREATIVE SPIRITS
17:6.1 Much that pertains to the nature and function of the local
universe Creative Spirits properly belongs to the narrative of their
association with the Creator Sons in the organization and management
of the local creations; but there are many features of the prelocal
universe experiences of these marvelous beings which may be narrated
as a part of this discussion of the seven Supreme Spirit groups.
17:6.2 We are conversant with six phases of the career of a local
universe Mother Spirit, and we speculate much concerning the
probability of a seventh stage of activity. These different stages of
existence are:
17:6.3 1. Initial Paradise Differentiation. When a Creator Son is
personalized by the joint action of the Universal Father and the
Eternal Son, simultaneously there occurs in the person of the
Infinite Spirit what is known as the "supreme reaction of
complement." We do not comprehend the nature of this reaction, but we
understand that it designates an inherent modification of those
personalizable possibilities which are embraced within the creative
potential of the Conjoint Creator. The birth of a co-ordinate Creator
Son signalizes the birth within the person of the Infinite Spirit of
the potential of the future local universe consort of this Paradise
Son. We are not cognizant of this new prepersonal identification of
entity, but we know that this fact finds place on the Paradise
records of the career of such a Creator Son.
17:6.4 2. Preliminary Creatorship Training. During the long period of
the preliminary training of a Michael Son in the organization and
administration of universes, his future consort undergoes further
development of entity and becomes group conscious of destiny. We do
not know, but we suspect that such a group-conscious entity becomes
space cognizant and begins that preliminary training requisite to the
acquirement of spirit skill in her future work of collaboration with
the complemental Michael in universe creation and administration.
17:6.5 3. The Stage of Physical Creation. At the time the creatorship
charge is administered to a Michael Son by the Eternal Son, the
Master Spirit who directs the superuniverse to which this new Creator
Son is destined gives expression to the "prayer of identification" in
the presence of the Infinite Spirit; and for the first time, the
entity of the subsequent Creative Spirit appears as differentiated
from the person of the Infinite Spirit. And proceeding directly to
the person of the petitioning Master Spirit, this entity is
immediately lost to our recognition, becoming apparently a part of
the person of this Master Spirit. The newly identified Creative
Spirit remains with the Master Spirit until the moment of the
departure of the Creator Son for the adventure of space; whereupon
the Master Spirit commits the new Spirit consort to the keeping of
the Creator Son, at the same time administering to the Spirit consort
the charge of eternal fidelity and unending loyalty. And then occurs
one of the most profoundly touching episodes which ever take place on
Paradise. The Universal Father speaks in acknowledgment of the
eternal union of the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit and in
confirmation of the bestowal of certain joint powers of
administration by the Master Spirit of superuniverse jurisdiction.
17:6.6 The Father-united Creator Son and Creative Spirit then go
forth on their adventure of universe creation. And they work together
in this form of association throughout the long and arduous period of
the material organization of their universe.
17:6.7 4. The Life-Creation Era. Upon the declaration of intention to
create life by the Creator Son, there ensue on Paradise
the "personalization ceremonies," participated in by the Seven Master
Spirits and personally experienced by the supervising Master Spirit.
This is a Paradise Deity contribution to the individuality of the
Spirit consort of the Creator Son and becomes manifest to the
universe in the phenomenon of "the primary eruption" in the person of
the Infinite Spirit. Simultaneously with this phenomenon on Paradise,
the heretofore impersonal Spirit consort of the Creator Son becomes,
to all practical intents and purposes, a bona fide person. Henceforth
and forevermore, this same local universe Mother Spirit will be
regarded as a person and will maintain personal relations with all
the personality hosts of the ensuing life creation.
17:6.8 5. The Postbestowal Ages. Another and great change occurs in
the never-ending career of a Creative Spirit when the Creator Son
returns to universe headquarters after the completion of his seventh
bestowal and subsequent to his acquirement of full universe
sovereignty. On that occasion, before the assembled administrators of
the universe, the triumphant Creator Son elevates the Universe Mother
Spirit to cosovereignty and acknowledges the Spirit consort as his
equal.
17:6.9 6. The Ages of Light and Life. Upon the establishment of the
era of light and life the local universe cosovereign enters upon the
sixth phase of a Creative Spirit's career. But we may not portray the
nature of this great experience. Such things pertain to a future
stage of evolution in Nebadon.
17:6.10 7. The Unrevealed Career. We know of these six phases of the
career of a local universe Mother Spirit. It is inevitable that we
should ask: Is there a seventh career? We are mindful that, when
finaliters attain what appears to be their final destiny of mortal
ascension, they are of record as entering upon the career of sixth-
stage spirits. We conjecture that there awaits the finaliters still
another and unrevealed career in universe assignment. It is only to
be expected that we would likewise regard the Universe Mother Spirits
as having ahead of them some undisclosed career which will constitute
their seventh phase of personal experience in universe service and
loyal co-operation with the order of the Creator Michaels.
7. THE ADJUTANT MIND-SPIRITS
17:7.1 These adjutant spirits are the sevenfold mind bestowal of a
local universe Mother Spirit upon the living creatures of the
conjoint creation of a Creator Son and such a Creative Spirit. This
bestowal becomes possible at the time of the Spirit's elevation to
the status of personality prerogatives. The narration of the nature
and functioning of the seven adjutant mind-spirits belongs more
appropriately to the story of your local universe of Nebadon.
8. FUNCTIONS OF THE SUPREME SPIRITS
17:8.1 The seven groups of Supreme Spirits constitute the nucleus of
the functional family of the Third Source and Center both as the
Infinite Spirit and as the Conjoint Actor. The domain of the Supreme
Spirits extends from the presence of the Trinity on Paradise to the
functioning of mind of the evolutionary-mortal order on the planets
of space. Thus do they unify the descending administrative levels and
co-ordinate the manifold functions of the personnel thereof. Whether
it is a Reflective Spirit group in liaison with the Ancients of Days,
a Creative Spirit acting in concert with a Michael Son, or the Seven
Master Spirits encircuited around the Paradise Trinity, the activity
of the Supreme Spirits is encountered everywhere in the central,
super-, and local universes. They function alike with the Trinity
personalities of the order of "Days" and with the Paradise
personalities of the order of "Sons."
17:8.2 Together with their Infinite Mother Spirit, the Supreme Spirit
groups are the immediate creators of the vast creature family of the
Third Source and Center. All orders of the ministering spirits spring
from this association. Primary supernaphim originate in the Infinite
Spirit; secondary beings of this order are created by the Master
Spirits; tertiary supernaphim by the Seven Spirits of the Circuits.
The Reflective Spirits, collectively, are the mother-makers of a
marvelous order of the angelic hosts, the mighty seconaphim of the
superuniverse services. A Creative Spirit is the mother of the
angelic orders of a local creation; such seraphic ministers are
original in each local universe, though they are fashioned after the
patterns of the central universe. All these creators of ministering
spirits are only indirectly assisted by the central lodgment of the
Infinite Spirit, the original and eternal mother of all the angelic
ministers.
17:8.3 The seven Supreme Spirit groups are the co-ordinators of the
inhabited creation. The association of their directing heads, the
Seven Master Spirits, appears to co-ordinate the far-flung activities
of God the Sevenfold:
17:8.4 1. Collectively the Master Spirits near-equivalate to the
divinity level of the Trinity of Paradise Deities.
17:8.5 2. Individually they exhaust the primary associable
possibilities of triune Deity.
17:8.6 3. As diversified representatives of the Conjoint Actor they
are the repositories of that spirit-mind-power sovereignty of the
Supreme Being which he does not yet personally exercise.
17:8.7 4. Through the Reflective Spirits they synchronize the
superuniverse governments of the Ancients of Days with Majeston, the
Paradise center of universal reflectivity.
17:8.8 5. In their participation in the individualization of the
local universe Divine Ministers, the Master Spirits contribute to the
last level of God the Sevenfold, the Creator Son-Creative Spirit
union of the local universes.
17:8.9 Functional unity, inherent in the Conjoint Actor, is disclosed
to the evolving universes in the Seven Master Spirits, his primary
personalities. But in the perfected superuniverses of the future this
unity will undoubtedly be inseparable from the experiential
sovereignty of the Supreme.
17:8.10 [Presented by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.]
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THE SEVEN SUPREME SPIRIT GROUPS
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17:0.1 The seven Supreme Spirit groups are the universal co-
ordinating directors of the seven-segmented administration of the
grand universe. Although all are classed among the functional family
of the Infinite Spirit, the following three groups are usually
classified as children of the Paradise Trinity:
The Seven Master Spirits.
The Seven Supreme Executives.
The Reflective Spirits.
17:0.2 The remaining four groups are brought into being by the
creative acts of the Infinite Spirit or by his associates of creative
status:
The Reflective Image Aids.
The Seven Spirits of the Circuits.
The Local Universe Creative Spirits.
The Adjutant Mind-Spirits.
17:0.3 These seven orders are known on Uversa as the seven Supreme
Spirit groups. Their functional domain extends from the personal
presence of the Seven Master Spirits on the periphery of the eternal
Isle, through the seven Paradise satellites of the Spirit, the Havona
circuits, the governments of the superuniverses, and the
administration and supervision of the local universes, even to the
lowly service of the adjutants bestowed upon the realms of
evolutionary mind on the worlds of time and space.
17:0.4 The Seven Master Spirits are the co-ordinating directors of
this far-flung administrative realm. In some matters pertaining to
the administrative regulation of organized physical power, mind
energy, and impersonal spirit ministry, they act personally and
directly, and in others they function through their multifarious
associates. In all matters of an executive nature -- rulings,
regulations, adjustments, and administrative decisions -- the Master
Spirits act in the persons of the Seven Supreme Executives. In the
central universe the Master Spirits may function through the Seven
Spirits of the Havona Circuits; on the headquarters of the seven
superuniverses they reveal themselves through the channel of the
Reflective Spirits and act through the persons of the Ancients of
Days, with whom they are in personal communication through the
Reflective Image Aids.
17:0.5 The Seven Master Spirits do not directly and personally
contact universe administration below the courts of the Ancients of
Days. Your local universe is administered as a part of our
superuniverse by the Master Spirit of Orvonton, but his function in
relation to the native beings of Nebadon is immediately discharged
and personally directed by the Creative Mother Spirit resident on
Salvington, the headquarters of your local universe.
1. THE SEVEN SUPREME EXECUTIVES
17:1.1 The executive headquarters of the Master Spirits occupy the
seven Paradise satellites of the Infinite Spirit, which swing around
the central Isle between the shining spheres of the Eternal Son and
the innermost Havona circuit. These executive spheres are under the
direction of the Supreme Executives, a group of seven who were
trinitized by the Father, Son, and Spirit in accordance with the
specifications of the Seven Master Spirits for beings of a type that
could function as their universal representatives.
17:1.2 The Master Spirits maintain contact with the various divisions
of the superuniverse governments through these Supreme Executives. It
is they who very largely determine the basic constitutive trends of
the seven superuniverses. They are uniformly and divinely perfect,
but they also possess diversity of personality. They have no
presiding head; each time they meet together, they choose one of
their number to preside over that joint council. Periodically they
journey to Paradise to sit in council with the Seven Master Spirits.
17:1.3 The Seven Supreme Executives function as the administrative co-
ordinators of the grand universe; they might be termed the board of
managing directors of the post-Havona creation. They are not
concerned with the internal affairs of Paradise, and they direct
their limited spheres of Havona activity through the Seven Spirits of
the Circuits. Otherwise there are few limits to the scope of their
supervision; they engage in the direction of things physical,
intellectual, and spiritual; they see all, hear all, feel all, even
know all, that transpires in the seven superuniverses and in Havona.
17:1.4 These Supreme Executives do not originate policies, nor do
they modify universe procedures; they are concerned with the
execution of the plans of divinity promulgated by the Seven Master
Spirits. Neither do they interfere with the rule of the Ancients of
Days in the superuniverses nor with the sovereignty of the Creator
Sons in the local universes. They are the co-ordinating executives
whose function it is to carry out the combined policies of all duly
constituted rulers in the grand universe.
17:1.5 Each of the executives and the facilities of his sphere are
devoted to the efficient administration of a single superuniverse.
Supreme Executive Number One, functioning on executive sphere number
one, is wholly occupied with the affairs of superuniverse number one,
and so on to Supreme Executive Number Seven, working from the seventh
Paradise satellite of the Spirit and devoting his energies to the
management of the seventh superuniverse. The name of this seventh
sphere is Orvonton, for the Paradise satellites of the Spirit have
the same names as their related superuniverses; in fact, the
superuniverses were named after them.
17:1.6 On the executive sphere of the seventh superuniverse the staff
engaged in keeping straight the affairs of Orvonton runs into numbers
beyond human comprehension and embraces practically every order of
celestial intelligence. All superuniverse services of personality
dispatch (except Inspired Trinity Spirits and Thought Adjusters) pass
through one of these seven executive worlds on their universe
journeys to and from Paradise, and here are maintained the central
registries for all personalities created by the Third Source and
Center who function in the superuniverses. The system of material,
morontial, and spiritual records on one of these executive worlds of
the Spirit amazes even a being of my order.
17:1.7 The immediate subordinates of the Supreme Executives consist
for the greater part of the trinitized sons of Paradise-Havona
personalities and of the trinitized offspring of the glorified mortal
graduates from the agelong training of the ascendant scheme of time
and space. These trinitized sons are designated for service with the
Supreme Executives by the chief of the Supreme Council of the
Paradise Corps of the Finality.
17:1.8 Each Supreme Executive has two advisory cabinets: The children
of the Infinite Spirit on the headquarters of each superuniverse
choose representatives from their ranks to serve for one millennium
in the primary advisory cabinet of their Supreme Executive. In all
matters affecting the ascending mortals of time, there is a secondary
cabinet, consisting of mortals of Paradise attainment and of the
trinitized sons of glorified mortals; this body is chosen by the
perfecting and ascending beings who transiently dwell on the seven
superuniverse headquarters. All other chiefs of affairs are appointed
by the Supreme Executives.
17:1.9 From time to time, great conclaves take place on these
Paradise satellites of the Spirit. Trinitized sons assigned to these
worlds, together with the ascenders who have attained Paradise,
assemble with the spirit personalities of the Third Source and Center
in the reunions of the struggles and triumphs of the ascendant
career. The Supreme Executives always preside over such fraternal
gatherings.
17:1.10 Once in each Paradise millennium the Seven Supreme Executives
vacate their seats of authority and go to Paradise, where they hold
their millennial conclave of universal greeting and well-wishing to
the intelligent hosts of creation. This eventful occasion takes place
in the immediate presence of Majeston, the chief of all reflective
spirit groups. And they are thus able to communicate simultaneously
with all their associates in the grand universe through the unique
functioning of universal reflectivity.
2. MAJESTON -- CHIEF OF REFLECTIVITY
17:2.1 The Reflective Spirits are of divine Trinity origin. There are
fifty of these unique and somewhat mysterious beings. Seven of these
extraordinary personalities were created at a time, and each such
creative episode was effected by a liaison of the Paradise Trinity
and one of the Seven Master Spirits.
17:2.2 This momentous transaction, occurring in the dawn of time,
represents the initial effort of the Supreme Creator Personalities,
represented by the Master Spirits, to function as cocreators with the
Paradise Trinity. This union of the creative power of the Supreme
Creators with the creative potentials of the Trinity is the very
source of the actuality of the Supreme Being. Therefore, when the
cycle of reflective creation had run its course, when each of the
Seven Master Spirits had found perfect creative synchrony with the
Paradise Trinity, when the forty-ninth Reflective Spirit had
personalized, then a new and far-reaching reaction occurred in the
Deity Absolute which imparted new personality prerogatives to the
Supreme Being and culminated in the personalization of Majeston, the
reflectivity chief and Paradise center of all the work of the forty-
nine Reflective Spirits and their associates throughout the universe
of universes.
17:2.3 Majeston is a true person, the personal and infallible center
of reflectivity phenomena in all seven superuniverses of time and
space. He maintains permanent Paradise headquarters near the center
of all things at the rendezvous of the Seven Master Spirits. He is
concerned solely with the co-ordination and maintenance of the
reflectivity service in the far-flung creation; he is not otherwise
involved in the administration of universe affairs.
17:2.4 Majeston is not included in our catalogue of Paradise
personalities because he is the only existing personality of divinity
created by the Supreme Being in functional liaison with the Deity
Absolute. He is a person, but he is exclusively and apparently
automatically concerned with this one phase of universe economy; he
does not now function in any personal capacity with relation to other
(nonreflective) orders of universe personalities.
17:2.5 The creation of Majeston signalized the first supreme creative
act of the Supreme Being. This will to action was volitional in the
Supreme Being, but the stupendous reaction of the Deity Absolute was
not foreknown. Not since the eternity-appearance of Havona had the
universe witnessed such a tremendous factualization of such a
gigantic and far-flung alignment of power and co-ordination of
functional spirit activities. The Deity response to the creative
wills of the Supreme Being and his associates was vastly beyond their
purposeful intent and greatly in excess of their conceptual
forecasts.
17:2.6 We stand in awe of the possibility of what the future ages,
wherein the Supreme and the Ultimate may attain new levels of
divinity and ascend to new domains of personality function, may
witness in the realms of the deitization of still other unexpected
and undreamed-of beings who will possess unimagined powers of
enhanced universe co-ordination. There would seem to be no limit to
the Deity Absolute's potential of response to such unification of
relationships between experiential Deity and the existential Paradise
Trinity.
3. THE REFLECTIVE SPIRITS
17:3.1 The forty-nine Reflective Spirits are of Trinity origin, but
each of the seven creative episodes attendant upon their appearance
was productive of a type of being in nature resembling the
characteristics of the coancestral Master Spirit. Thus they variously
reflect the natures and characters of the seven possible combinations
of the association of the divinity characteristics of the Universal
Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit. For this reason it
is necessary to have seven of these Reflective Spirits on the
headquarters of each superuniverse. One of each of the seven types is
required in order to achieve the perfect reflection of all phases of
every possible manifestation of the three Paradise Deities as such
phenomena might occur in any part of the seven superuniverses. One of
each type was accordingly assigned to service in each of the
superuniverses. These groups of seven dissimilar Reflective Spirits
maintain headquarters on the capitals of the superuniverses at the
reflective focus of each realm, and this is not identical with the
point of spiritual polarity.
17:3.2 The Reflective Spirits have names, but these designations are
not revealed on the worlds of space. They pertain to the nature and
character of these beings and are a part of one of the seven
universal mysteries of the secret spheres of Paradise.
17:3.3 The attribute of reflectivity, the phenomenon of the mind
levels of the Conjoint Actor, the Supreme Being, and the Master
Spirits, is transmissible to all beings concerned in the working of
this vast scheme of universal intelligence. And herein is a great
mystery: Neither the Master Spirits nor the Paradise Deities, singly
or collectively, disclose these powers of co-ordinate universal
reflectivity just as they are manifested in these forty-nine liaison
personalities of Majeston, and yet they are the creators of all these
marvelously endowed beings. Divine heredity does sometimes disclose
in the creature certain attributes which are not discernible in the
Creator.
17:3.4 The personnel of the reflectivity service, with the exception
of Majeston and the Reflective Spirits, are all the creatures of the
Infinite Spirit and his immediate associates and subordinates. The
Reflective Spirits of each superuniverse are the creators of their
Reflective Image Aids, their personal voices to the courts of the
Ancients of Days.
17:3.5 The Reflective Spirits are not merely transmitting agents;
they are retentive personalities as well. Their offspring, the
seconaphim, are also retentive or record personalities. Everything of
true spiritual value is registered in duplicate, and one impression
is preserved in the personal equipment of some member of one of the
numerous orders of secoraphic personalities belonging to the vast
staff of the Reflective Spirits.
17:3.6 The formal records of the universes are passed up by and
through the angelic recorders, but the true spiritual records are
assembled by reflectivity and are preserved in the minds of suitable
and appropriate personalities belonging to the family of the Infinite
Spirit. These are the live records in contrast with the formal and
dead records of the universe, and they are perfectly preserved in the
living minds of the recording personalities of the Infinite Spirit.
17:3.7 The reflectivity organization is also the news-gathering and
the decree-disseminating mechanism of all creation. It is in constant
operation in contrast with the periodic functioning of the various
broadcast services.
17:3.8 Everything of import transpiring on a local universe
headquarters is inherently reflected to the capital of its
superuniverse. And conversely, everything of local universe
significance is reflected outward to the local universe capitals from
the headquarters of their superuniverse. The reflectivity service
from the universes of time up to the superuniverses is apparently
automatic or self-operating, but it is not. It is all very personal
and intelligent; its precision results from perfection of personality
co-operation and therefore can hardly be attributed to the impersonal
presence-performances of the Absolutes.
17:3.9 While Thought Adjusters do not participate in the operation of
the universal reflectivity system, we have every reason to believe
that all Father fragments are fully cognizant of these transactions
and are able to avail themselves of their content.
17:3.10 During the present universe age the space range of the extra-
Paradise reflectivity service seems to be limited by the periphery of
the seven superuniverses. Otherwise, the function of this service
seems to be independent of time and space. It appears to be
independent of all known subabsolute universe circuits.
17:3.11 On the headquarters of each superuniverse the reflective
organization acts as a segregated unit; but on certain special
occasions, under the direction of Majeston, all seven may and do act
in universal unison, as in the event of the jubilee occasioned by the
settling of an entire local universe in light and life and at the
times of the millennial greetings of the Seven Supreme Executives.
4. THE REFLECTIVE IMAGE AIDS
17:4.1 The forty-nine Reflective Image Aids were created by the
Reflective Spirits, and there are just seven Aids on the headquarters
of each superuniverse. The first creative act of the seven Reflective
Spirits of Uversa was the production of their seven Image Aids, each
Reflective Spirit creating his own Aid. The Image Aids are, in
certain attributes and characteristics, perfect reproductions of
their Reflective Mother Spirits; they are virtual duplications minus
the attribute of reflectivity. They are true images and constantly
function as the channel of communication between the Reflective
Spirits and the superuniverse authorities. The Image Aids are not
merely assistants; they are actual representations of their
respective Spirit ancestors; they are images, and they are true to
their name.
17:4.2 The Reflective Spirits themselves are true personalities but
of such an order as to be incomprehensible to material beings. Even
on a superuniverse headquarters sphere they require the assistance of
their Image Aids in all personal intercourse with the Ancients of
Days and their associates. In contacts between the Image Aids and the
Ancients of Days, sometimes one Aid functions acceptably, while on
other occasions two, three, four, or even all seven are required for
the full and proper presentation of the communication intrusted to
their transmission. Likewise, the messages of the Image Aids are
variously received by one, two, or all three Ancients of Days, as the
content of the communication may require.
17:4.3 The Image Aids serve forever by the sides of their ancestral
Spirits, and they have at their disposal an unbelievable host of
helper seconaphim. The Image Aids do not directly function in
connection with the training worlds of ascending mortals. They are
closely associated with the intelligence service of the universal
scheme of mortal progression, but you will not personally come in
contact with them when you sojourn in the Uversa schools because
these seemingly personal beings are devoid of will; they do not
exercise the power of choice. They are true images, wholly reflective
of the personality and mind of the individual Spirit ancestor. As a
class, ascending mortals do not intimately contact with reflectivity.
Always some being of the reflective nature will be interposed between
you and the actual operation of the service.
5. THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF THE CIRCUITS
17:5.1 The Seven Spirits of the Havona Circuits are the joint
impersonal representation of the Infinite Spirit and the Seven Master
Spirits to the seven circuits of the central universe. They are the
servants of the Master Spirits, whose collective offspring they are.
The Master Spirits provide a distinct and diversified administrative
individuality in the seven superuniverses. Through these uniform
Spirits of the Havona Circuits they are enabled to provide a unified,
uniform, and co-ordinated spiritual supervision for the central
universe.
17:5.2 The Seven Spirits of the Circuits are each limited to the
permeation of a single Havona circuit. They are not directly
concerned with the regimes of the Eternals of Days, the rulers of the
individual Havona worlds. But they are in liaison with the Seven
Supreme Executives, and they synchronize with the central universe
presence of the Supreme Being. Their work is wholly confined to
Havona.
17:5.3 These Spirits of the Circuits make contact with those who
sojourn in Havona through their personal offspring, the tertiary
supernaphim. While the Circuit Spirits are coexistent with the Seven
Master Spirits, their function in the creation of tertiary
supernaphim did not attain major importance until the first pilgrims
of time arrived on the outer circuit of Havona in the days of
Grandfanda.
17:5.4 As you advance from circuit to circuit in Havona, you will
learn of the Spirits of the Circuits, but you will not be able to
hold personal communion with them, even though you may personally
enjoy, and recognize the impersonal presence of, their spiritual
influence.
17:5.5 The Circuit Spirits are related to the native inhabitants of
Havona much as the Thought Adjusters are related to the mortal
creatures inhabiting the worlds of the evolutionary universes. Like
the Thought Adjusters, the Circuit Spirits are impersonal, and they
consort with the perfect minds of Havona beings much as the
impersonal spirits of the Universal Father indwell the finite minds
of mortal men. But the Spirits of the Circuits never become a
permanent part of Havona personalities.
6. THE LOCAL UNIVERSE CREATIVE SPIRITS
17:6.1 Much that pertains to the nature and function of the local
universe Creative Spirits properly belongs to the narrative of their
association with the Creator Sons in the organization and management
of the local creations; but there are many features of the prelocal
universe experiences of these marvelous beings which may be narrated
as a part of this discussion of the seven Supreme Spirit groups.
17:6.2 We are conversant with six phases of the career of a local
universe Mother Spirit, and we speculate much concerning the
probability of a seventh stage of activity. These different stages of
existence are:
17:6.3 1. Initial Paradise Differentiation. When a Creator Son is
personalized by the joint action of the Universal Father and the
Eternal Son, simultaneously there occurs in the person of the
Infinite Spirit what is known as the "supreme reaction of
complement." We do not comprehend the nature of this reaction, but we
understand that it designates an inherent modification of those
personalizable possibilities which are embraced within the creative
potential of the Conjoint Creator. The birth of a co-ordinate Creator
Son signalizes the birth within the person of the Infinite Spirit of
the potential of the future local universe consort of this Paradise
Son. We are not cognizant of this new prepersonal identification of
entity, but we know that this fact finds place on the Paradise
records of the career of such a Creator Son.
17:6.4 2. Preliminary Creatorship Training. During the long period of
the preliminary training of a Michael Son in the organization and
administration of universes, his future consort undergoes further
development of entity and becomes group conscious of destiny. We do
not know, but we suspect that such a group-conscious entity becomes
space cognizant and begins that preliminary training requisite to the
acquirement of spirit skill in her future work of collaboration with
the complemental Michael in universe creation and administration.
17:6.5 3. The Stage of Physical Creation. At the time the creatorship
charge is administered to a Michael Son by the Eternal Son, the
Master Spirit who directs the superuniverse to which this new Creator
Son is destined gives expression to the "prayer of identification" in
the presence of the Infinite Spirit; and for the first time, the
entity of the subsequent Creative Spirit appears as differentiated
from the person of the Infinite Spirit. And proceeding directly to
the person of the petitioning Master Spirit, this entity is
immediately lost to our recognition, becoming apparently a part of
the person of this Master Spirit. The newly identified Creative
Spirit remains with the Master Spirit until the moment of the
departure of the Creator Son for the adventure of space; whereupon
the Master Spirit commits the new Spirit consort to the keeping of
the Creator Son, at the same time administering to the Spirit consort
the charge of eternal fidelity and unending loyalty. And then occurs
one of the most profoundly touching episodes which ever take place on
Paradise. The Universal Father speaks in acknowledgment of the
eternal union of the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit and in
confirmation of the bestowal of certain joint powers of
administration by the Master Spirit of superuniverse jurisdiction.
17:6.6 The Father-united Creator Son and Creative Spirit then go
forth on their adventure of universe creation. And they work together
in this form of association throughout the long and arduous period of
the material organization of their universe.
17:6.7 4. The Life-Creation Era. Upon the declaration of intention to
create life by the Creator Son, there ensue on Paradise
the "personalization ceremonies," participated in by the Seven Master
Spirits and personally experienced by the supervising Master Spirit.
This is a Paradise Deity contribution to the individuality of the
Spirit consort of the Creator Son and becomes manifest to the
universe in the phenomenon of "the primary eruption" in the person of
the Infinite Spirit. Simultaneously with this phenomenon on Paradise,
the heretofore impersonal Spirit consort of the Creator Son becomes,
to all practical intents and purposes, a bona fide person. Henceforth
and forevermore, this same local universe Mother Spirit will be
regarded as a person and will maintain personal relations with all
the personality hosts of the ensuing life creation.
17:6.8 5. The Postbestowal Ages. Another and great change occurs in
the never-ending career of a Creative Spirit when the Creator Son
returns to universe headquarters after the completion of his seventh
bestowal and subsequent to his acquirement of full universe
sovereignty. On that occasion, before the assembled administrators of
the universe, the triumphant Creator Son elevates the Universe Mother
Spirit to cosovereignty and acknowledges the Spirit consort as his
equal.
17:6.9 6. The Ages of Light and Life. Upon the establishment of the
era of light and life the local universe cosovereign enters upon the
sixth phase of a Creative Spirit's career. But we may not portray the
nature of this great experience. Such things pertain to a future
stage of evolution in Nebadon.
17:6.10 7. The Unrevealed Career. We know of these six phases of the
career of a local universe Mother Spirit. It is inevitable that we
should ask: Is there a seventh career? We are mindful that, when
finaliters attain what appears to be their final destiny of mortal
ascension, they are of record as entering upon the career of sixth-
stage spirits. We conjecture that there awaits the finaliters still
another and unrevealed career in universe assignment. It is only to
be expected that we would likewise regard the Universe Mother Spirits
as having ahead of them some undisclosed career which will constitute
their seventh phase of personal experience in universe service and
loyal co-operation with the order of the Creator Michaels.
7. THE ADJUTANT MIND-SPIRITS
17:7.1 These adjutant spirits are the sevenfold mind bestowal of a
local universe Mother Spirit upon the living creatures of the
conjoint creation of a Creator Son and such a Creative Spirit. This
bestowal becomes possible at the time of the Spirit's elevation to
the status of personality prerogatives. The narration of the nature
and functioning of the seven adjutant mind-spirits belongs more
appropriately to the story of your local universe of Nebadon.
8. FUNCTIONS OF THE SUPREME SPIRITS
17:8.1 The seven groups of Supreme Spirits constitute the nucleus of
the functional family of the Third Source and Center both as the
Infinite Spirit and as the Conjoint Actor. The domain of the Supreme
Spirits extends from the presence of the Trinity on Paradise to the
functioning of mind of the evolutionary-mortal order on the planets
of space. Thus do they unify the descending administrative levels and
co-ordinate the manifold functions of the personnel thereof. Whether
it is a Reflective Spirit group in liaison with the Ancients of Days,
a Creative Spirit acting in concert with a Michael Son, or the Seven
Master Spirits encircuited around the Paradise Trinity, the activity
of the Supreme Spirits is encountered everywhere in the central,
super-, and local universes. They function alike with the Trinity
personalities of the order of "Days" and with the Paradise
personalities of the order of "Sons."
17:8.2 Together with their Infinite Mother Spirit, the Supreme Spirit
groups are the immediate creators of the vast creature family of the
Third Source and Center. All orders of the ministering spirits spring
from this association. Primary supernaphim originate in the Infinite
Spirit; secondary beings of this order are created by the Master
Spirits; tertiary supernaphim by the Seven Spirits of the Circuits.
The Reflective Spirits, collectively, are the mother-makers of a
marvelous order of the angelic hosts, the mighty seconaphim of the
superuniverse services. A Creative Spirit is the mother of the
angelic orders of a local creation; such seraphic ministers are
original in each local universe, though they are fashioned after the
patterns of the central universe. All these creators of ministering
spirits are only indirectly assisted by the central lodgment of the
Infinite Spirit, the original and eternal mother of all the angelic
ministers.
17:8.3 The seven Supreme Spirit groups are the co-ordinators of the
inhabited creation. The association of their directing heads, the
Seven Master Spirits, appears to co-ordinate the far-flung activities
of God the Sevenfold:
17:8.4 1. Collectively the Master Spirits near-equivalate to the
divinity level of the Trinity of Paradise Deities.
17:8.5 2. Individually they exhaust the primary associable
possibilities of triune Deity.
17:8.6 3. As diversified representatives of the Conjoint Actor they
are the repositories of that spirit-mind-power sovereignty of the
Supreme Being which he does not yet personally exercise.
17:8.7 4. Through the Reflective Spirits they synchronize the
superuniverse governments of the Ancients of Days with Majeston, the
Paradise center of universal reflectivity.
17:8.8 5. In their participation in the individualization of the
local universe Divine Ministers, the Master Spirits contribute to the
last level of God the Sevenfold, the Creator Son-Creative Spirit
union of the local universes.
17:8.9 Functional unity, inherent in the Conjoint Actor, is disclosed
to the evolving universes in the Seven Master Spirits, his primary
personalities. But in the perfected superuniverses of the future this
unity will undoubtedly be inseparable from the experiential
sovereignty of the Supreme.
17:8.10 [Presented by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.]
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