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Paper 15

The Seven Superuniverses

Universal Censor

10. Rulers of the Superuniverses

15:10.1The head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verses are the seats of the high spir­i­tual gov­ern­ment of the time-space do­mains. The ex­ec­u­tive branch of the super­gov­ern­ment, tak­ing ori­gin in the Coun­cils of the Trin­ity, is im­me­di­ately di­rected by one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of su­preme super­vi­sion, be­ings who sit upon seats of Par­a­dise au­thor­ity and ad­min­is­ter the super­uni­verses through the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives sta­tioned on the seven spe­cial worlds of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the out­er­most satel­lites of Par­a­dise.

15:10.2The super­uni­verse head­quar­ters are the abid­ing places of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its and the Re­flec­tive Im­age Aids. From this mid­way po­si­tion these mar­velous be­ings con­duct their tremen­dous re­flec­tiv­ity op­er­a­tions, thus min­is­ter­ing to the cen­tral uni­verse above and to the lo­cal uni­verses be­low.

15:10.3Each super­uni­verse is pre­sided over by three An­cients of Days, the joint chief ex­ec­u­tives of the super­gov­ern­ment. In its ex­ec­u­tive branch the per­son­nel of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment con­sists of seven dif­fer­ent groups:

15:10.41. An­cients of Days.

15:10.52. Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom.

15:10.63. Di­vine Coun­selors.

15:10.74. Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors.

15:10.85. Mighty Mes­sen­gers.

15:10.96. Those High in Au­thor­ity.

15:10.107. Those with­out Name and Num­ber.

15:10.11The three An­cients of Days are im­me­di­ately as­sisted by a corps of one bil­lion Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, with whom are as­so­ci­ated three bil­lion Di­vine Coun­selors. One bil­lion Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors are at­tached to each super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. These three groups are Co-or­di­nate Trin­ity Per­son­al­i­ties, tak­ing ori­gin di­rectly and di­vinely in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

15:10.12The re­main­ing three or­ders, Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber, are glo­ri­fied as­cen­dant mor­tals. The first of these or­ders came up through the as­cen­dant regime and passed through Ha­vona in the days of Grand­fanda. Hav­ing at­tained Par­a­dise, they were mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, em­braced by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, and sub­se­quently as­signed to the su­per­nal ser­vice of the An­cients of Days. As a class, these three or­ders are known as Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment, be­ing of dual ori­gin but now of Trin­ity ser­vice. Thus was the ex­ec­u­tive branch of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment en­larged to in­clude the glo­ri­fied and per­fected chil­dren of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

15:10.13The co-or­di­nate coun­cil of the super­uni­verse is com­posed of the seven ex­ec­u­tive groups pre­vi­ously named and the fol­low­ing sec­tor rulers and other re­gional over­seers:

15:10.141. Per­fec­tions of Days—the rulers of the super­uni­verse ma­jor sec­tors.

15:10.152. Re­cents of Days—the di­rec­tors of the super­uni­verse mi­nor sec­tors.

15:10.163. Unions of Days—the Par­a­dise ad­vis­ers to the rulers of the lo­cal uni­verses.

15:10.174. Faith­fuls of Days—the Par­a­dise coun­selors to the Most High rulers of the con­stel­la­tion gov­ern­ments.

15:10.185. Trin­ity Teacher Sons who may chance to be on duty at super­uni­verse head­quar­ters.

15:10.196. Eter­nals of Days who may hap­pen to be pres­ent at super­uni­verse head­quar­ters.

15:10.207. The seven Re­flec­tive Im­age Aids—the spokes­men of the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its and through them rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise.

15:10.21The Re­flec­tive Im­age Aids also func­tion as the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of nu­mer­ous groups of be­ings who are in­flu­en­tial in the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments, but who are not, at pres­ent, for var­i­ous rea­sons, fully ac­tive in their in­di­vid­ual ca­pac­i­ties. Em­braced within this group are: the evolv­ing super­uni­verse per­son­al­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing, the Un­qual­i­fied Super­vi­sors of the Su­preme, the Qual­i­fied Vicegerents of the Ul­ti­mate, the un­named li­ai­son re­flec­ti­va­tors of Maj­es­ton, and the super­per­sonal spirit rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Eter­nal Son.

15:10.22At al­most all times it is pos­si­ble to find rep­re­sen­ta­tives of all groups of cre­ated be­ings on the head­quar­ters worlds of the super­uni­verses. The rou­tine min­is­ter­ing work of the super­uni­verses is per­formed by the mighty se­con­a­phim and by other mem­bers of the vast fam­ily of the In­fi­nite Spirit. In the work of these mar­velous cen­ters of super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, con­trol, min­istry, and ex­ec­u­tive judg­ment, the in­tel­li­gences of ev­ery sphere of uni­ver­sal life are min­gled in ef­fec­tive ser­vice, wise ad­min­is­tra­tion, lov­ing min­istry, and just judg­ment.

15:10.23The super­uni­verses do not main­tain any sort of am­bas­sado­rial rep­re­sen­ta­tion; they are com­pletely iso­lated from each other. They know of mu­tual af­fairs only through the Par­a­dise clear­ing­house main­tained by the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. Their rulers work in the coun­cils of di­vine wis­dom for the wel­fare of their own super­uni­verses re­gard­less of what may be tran­spir­ing in other sec­tions of the uni­ver­sal cre­ation. This iso­la­tion of the super­uni­verses will per­sist un­til such time as their co-or­di­na­tion is achieved by the more com­plete fac­tu­al­iza­tion of the per­son­al­ity-sov­er­eignty of the evolv­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial Su­preme Be­ing.