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Paper 16

The Seven Master Spirits

Universal Censor

16:0.1The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise are the pri­mary per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit. In this sev­en­fold cre­ative act of self-du­pli­ca­tion the In­fi­nite Spirit ex­hausted the as­so­cia­tive pos­si­bil­i­ties math­e­mat­i­cally in­her­ent in the fac­tual ex­is­tence of the three per­sons of De­ity. Had it been pos­si­ble to pro­duce a larger num­ber of Mas­ter Spir­its, they would have been cre­ated, but there are just seven as­so­cia­tive pos­si­bil­i­ties, and only seven, in­her­ent in three De­i­ties. And this ex­plains why the uni­verse is op­er­ated in seven grand di­vi­sions, and why the num­ber seven is ba­si­cally fun­da­men­tal in its or­ga­ni­za­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion.

16:0.2The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its thus have their ori­gin in, and de­rive their in­di­vid­ual char­ac­ter­is­tics from, the fol­low­ing seven like­nesses:

16:0.31. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

16:0.42. The Eter­nal Son.

16:0.53. The In­fi­nite Spirit.

16:0.64. The Fa­ther and the Son.

16:0.75. The Fa­ther and the Spirit.

16:0.86. The Son and the Spirit.

16:0.97. The Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit.

16:0.10We know very lit­tle about the ac­tion of the Fa­ther and the Son in the cre­ation of the Mas­ter Spir­its. Ap­par­ently they were brought into ex­is­tence by the per­sonal acts of the In­fi­nite Spirit, but we have been def­i­nitely in­structed that both the Fa­ther and the Son par­tic­i­pated in their ori­gin.

16:0.11In spirit char­ac­ter and na­ture these Seven Spir­its of Par­a­dise are as one, but in all other as­pects of iden­tity they are very un­like, and the re­sults of their func­tion­ing in the super­uni­verses are such that the in­di­vid­ual dif­fer­ences of each are un­mis­tak­ably dis­cern­i­ble. All the af­ter­plans of the seven seg­ments of the grand uni­verse—and even the cor­rel­a­tive seg­ments of outer space—have been con­di­tioned by the other-than-spir­i­tual di­ver­sity of these Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of su­preme and ul­ti­mate super­vi­sion.

16:0.12The Mas­ter Spir­its have many func­tions, but at the pres­ent time their par­tic­u­lar do­main is the cen­tral super­vi­sion of the seven super­uni­verses. Each Mas­ter Spirit main­tains an enor­mous force-fo­cal head­quar­ters, which slowly cir­cu­lates around the pe­riph­ery of Par­a­dise, al­ways main­tain­ing a po­si­tion op­po­site the super­uni­verse of im­me­di­ate super­vi­sion and at the Par­a­dise fo­cal point of its spe­cial­ized power con­trol and seg­men­tal en­ergy dis­tri­bu­tion. The ra­dial bound­ary lines of any one of the super­uni­verses do ac­tu­ally con­verge at the Par­a­dise head­quar­ters of the super­vis­ing Mas­ter Spirit.