The Seven Master Spirits

16:4.1The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are the full rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit to the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses. They rep­re­sent the Third Source and Cen­ter in the re­la­tion­ships of en­ergy, mind, and spirit. While they func­tion as the co-or­di­nat­ing heads of the uni­ver­sal ad­min­is­tra­tive con­trol of the Con­joint Ac­tor, do not for­get that they have their ori­gin in the cre­ative acts of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. It is lit­er­ally true that these Seven Spir­its are the per­son­al­ized phys­i­cal power, cos­mic mind, and spir­i­tual pres­ence of the tri­une De­ity, “the Seven Spir­its of God sent forth to all the uni­verse.”

16:4.2The Mas­ter Spir­its are unique in that they func­tion on all uni­verse lev­els of re­al­ity ex­cept­ing the ab­so­lute. They are, there­fore, ef­fi­cient and per­fect super­vi­sors of all phases of ad­min­is­tra­tive af­fairs on all lev­els of super­uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties. It is dif­fi­cult for the mor­tal mind to un­der­stand very much about the Mas­ter Spir­its be­cause their work is so highly spe­cial­ized yet all-em­brac­ing, so ex­cep­tion­ally ma­te­rial and at the same time so ex­qui­sitely spir­i­tual. These ver­sa­tile cre­ators of the cos­mic mind are the an­ces­tors of the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors and are, them­selves, su­preme di­rec­tors of the vast and far-flung spirit-crea­ture cre­ation.

16:4.3The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are the cre­ators of the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors and their as­so­ciates, en­ti­ties who are in­dis­pens­able to the or­ga­ni­za­tion, con­trol, and reg­u­la­tion of the phys­i­cal en­er­gies of the grand uni­verse. And these same Mas­ter Spir­its very ma­te­ri­ally as­sist the Cre­ator Sons in the work of shap­ing and or­ga­niz­ing the lo­cal uni­verses.

16:4.4We are un­able to trace any per­sonal con­nec­tion be­tween the cos­mic-en­ergy work of the Mas­ter Spir­its and the force func­tions of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. The en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the Mas­ter Spir­its are all di­rected from the pe­riph­ery of Par­a­dise; they do not ap­pear to be in any di­rect man­ner as­so­ci­ated with the force phe­nom­ena iden­ti­fied with the nether sur­face of Par­a­dise.

16:4.5Un­ques­tion­ably, when we en­counter the func­tional ac­tiv­i­ties of the var­i­ous Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors, we are face to face with cer­tain of the un­re­vealed ac­tiv­i­ties of the Mas­ter Spir­its. Who, aside from these an­ces­tors of both phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and spirit min­is­ters, could have con­trived so to com­bine and as­so­ciate ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual en­er­gies as to pro­duce a hith­erto nonex­is­tent phase of uni­verse re­al­ity—mor­ontia sub­stance and mor­ontia mind?

16:4.6Much of the re­al­ity of the spir­i­tual worlds is of the mor­ontia or­der, a phase of uni­verse re­al­ity wholly un­known on Uran­tia. The goal of per­son­al­ity ex­is­tence is spir­i­tual, but the mor­ontia cre­ations al­ways in­ter­vene, bridg­ing the gulf be­tween the ma­te­rial realms of mor­tal ori­gin and the super­uni­verse spheres of ad­vanc­ing spir­i­tual sta­tus. It is in this realm that the Mas­ter Spir­its make their great con­tri­bu­tion to the plan of man’s Par­a­dise as­cen­sion.

16:4.7The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its have per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives who func­tion through­out the grand uni­verse; but since a large ma­jor­ity of these sub­or­di­nate be­ings are not di­rectly con­cerned with the as­cen­dant scheme of mor­tal pro­gres­sion in the path of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion, lit­tle or noth­ing has been re­vealed about them. Much, very much, of the ac­tiv­ity of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its re­mains hid­den from hu­man un­der­stand­ing be­cause in no way does it di­rectly per­tain to your prob­lem of Par­a­dise as­cent.

16:4.8It is highly prob­a­ble, though we can­not of­fer def­i­nite proof, that the Mas­ter Spirit of Or­von­ton ex­erts a de­cided in­flu­ence in the fol­low­ing spheres of ac­tiv­ity:

16:4.91. The life-ini­ti­a­tion pro­ce­dures of the lo­cal uni­verse Life Car­ri­ers.

16:4.102. The life ac­ti­va­tions of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its be­stowed upon the worlds by a lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit.

16:4.113. The fluc­tu­a­tions in en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions ex­hib­ited by the lin­ear-grav­ity-re­spond­ing units of or­ga­nized mat­ter.

16:4.124. The be­hav­ior of emer­gent en­ergy when fully lib­er­ated from the grasp of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, thus be­com­ing re­spon­sive to the di­rect in­flu­ence of lin­ear grav­ity and to the ma­nip­u­la­tions of the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors and their as­so­ciates.

16:4.135. The be­stowal of the min­istry spirit of a lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit, known on Uran­tia as the Holy Spirit.

16:4.146. The sub­se­quent be­stowal of the spirit of the be­stowal Sons, on Uran­tia called the Com­forter or the Spirit of Truth.

16:4.157. The re­flec­tiv­ity mech­a­nism of the lo­cal uni­verses and the super­uni­verse. Many fea­tures con­nected with this ex­traor­di­nary phe­nom­e­non can hardly be rea­son­ably ex­plained or ra­tio­nally un­der­stood with­out pos­tu­lat­ing the ac­tiv­ity of the Mas­ter Spir­its in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Con­joint Ac­tor and the Su­preme Be­ing.

16:4.16Not­with­stand­ing our fail­ure ad­e­quately to com­pre­hend the man­i­fold work­ings of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, we are con­fi­dent there are two realms in the vast range of uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties with which they have noth­ing what­ever to do: the be­stowal and min­istry of the Thought Ad­justers and the in­scrutable func­tions of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.