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Paper 16

The Seven Master Spirits

Universal Censor

2. Relation to the Infinite Spirit

16:2.1Just as the Eter­nal and Orig­i­nal Son is re­vealed through the per­sons of the con­stantly in­creas­ing num­ber of di­vine Sons, so is the In­fi­nite and Di­vine Spirit re­vealed through the chan­nels of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and their as­so­ci­ated spirit groups. At the cen­ter of cen­ters the In­fi­nite Spirit is ap­proach­able, but not all who at­tain Par­a­dise are im­me­di­ately able to dis­cern his per­son­al­ity and dif­fer­en­ti­ated pres­ence; but all who at­tain the cen­tral uni­verse can and do im­me­di­ately com­mune with one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, the one pre­sid­ing over the super­uni­verse from which the newly ar­rived space pil­grim hails.

16:2.2To the uni­verse of uni­verses the Par­a­dise Fa­ther speaks only through his Son, while he and the Son con­jointly act only through the In­fi­nite Spirit. Out­side of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona the In­fi­nite Spirit speaks only by the voices of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

16:2.3The In­fi­nite Spirit ex­erts an in­flu­ence of per­sonal pres­ence within the con­fines of the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem; else­where his per­sonal spirit pres­ence is ex­erted by and through one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. There­fore is the super­uni­verse spirit pres­ence of the Third Source and Cen­ter on any world or in any in­di­vid­ual con­di­tioned by the unique na­ture of the super­vi­sory Mas­ter Spirit of that seg­ment of cre­ation. Con­versely, the com­bined lines of spirit force and in­tel­li­gence pass in­ward to the Third Per­son of De­ity by way of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

16:2.4The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are col­lec­tively en­dowed with the su­preme-ul­ti­mate at­tri­butes of the Third Source and Cen­ter. While each one in­di­vid­u­ally par­takes of this en­dow­ment, only col­lec­tively do they dis­close the at­tri­butes of om­nipo­tence, om­ni­science, and om­nipres­ence. No one of them can so func­tion uni­ver­sally; as in­di­vid­u­als and in the ex­er­cise of these pow­ers of su­prem­acy and ul­ti­macy each is per­son­ally lim­ited to the super­uni­verse of im­me­di­ate super­vi­sion.

16:2.5All of ev­ery­thing which has been told you con­cern­ing the di­vin­ity and per­son­al­ity of the Con­joint Ac­tor ap­plies equally and fully to the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, who so ef­fec­tively dis­tribute the In­fi­nite Spirit to the seven seg­ments of the grand uni­verse in ac­cor­dance with their di­vine en­dow­ment and in the man­ner of their dif­fer­ing and in­di­vid­u­ally unique na­tures. It would there­fore be proper to ap­ply to the col­lec­tive group of seven any or all of the names of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Col­lec­tively they are one with the Con­joint Cre­ator on all sub­ab­so­lute lev­els.