The Seven Master Spirits

16:5.1Each seg­ment of the grand uni­verse, each in­di­vid­ual uni­verse and world, en­joys the ben­e­fits of the united coun­sel and wis­dom of all Seven Mas­ter Spir­its but re­ceives the per­sonal touch and tinge of only one. And the per­sonal na­ture of each Mas­ter Spirit en­tirely per­vades and uniquely con­di­tions his super­uni­verse.

16:5.2Through this per­sonal in­flu­ence of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its ev­ery crea­ture of ev­ery or­der of in­tel­li­gent be­ings, out­side of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona, must bear the char­ac­ter­is­tic stamp of in­di­vid­u­al­ity in­dica­tive of the an­ces­tral na­ture of some one of these Seven Par­a­dise Spir­its. As con­cerns the seven super­uni­verses, each na­tive crea­ture, man or an­gel, will for­ever bear this badge of na­tal iden­ti­fi­ca­tion.

16:5.3The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its do not di­rectly in­vade the ma­te­rial minds of the in­di­vid­ual crea­tures on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space. The mor­tals of Uran­tia do not ex­pe­ri­ence the per­sonal pres­ence of the mind-spirit in­flu­ence of the Mas­ter Spirit of Or­von­ton. If this Mas­ter Spirit does at­tain any sort of con­tact with the in­di­vid­ual mor­tal mind dur­ing the ear­lier evo­lu­tion­ary ages of an in­hab­ited world, it must oc­cur through the min­istry of the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit, the con­sort and as­so­ciate of the Cre­ator Son of God who pre­sides over the des­tinies of each lo­cal cre­ation. But this very Cre­ative Mother Spirit is, in na­ture and char­ac­ter, quite like the Mas­ter Spirit of Or­von­ton.

16:5.4The phys­i­cal stamp of a Mas­ter Spirit is a part of man’s ma­te­rial ori­gin. The en­tire mor­ontia ca­reer is lived un­der the con­tin­u­ing in­flu­ence of this same Mas­ter Spirit. It is hardly strange that the sub­se­quent spirit ca­reer of such an as­cend­ing mor­tal never fully erad­i­cates the char­ac­ter­is­tic stamp of this same super­vis­ing Spirit. The im­press of a Mas­ter Spirit is ba­sic to the very ex­is­tence of ev­ery pre-Ha­vona stage of mor­tal as­cen­sion.

16:5.5The dis­tinc­tive per­son­al­ity trends ex­hib­ited in the life ex­pe­ri­ence of evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals, which are char­ac­ter­is­tic in each super­uni­verse, and which are di­rectly ex­pres­sive of the na­ture of the dom­i­nat­ing Mas­ter Spirit, are never fully ef­faced, not even af­ter such as­cend­ers are sub­jected to the long train­ing and uni­fy­ing dis­ci­pline en­coun­tered on the one bil­lion ed­u­ca­tional spheres of Ha­vona. Even the sub­se­quent in­tense Par­a­dise cul­ture does not suf­fice to erad­i­cate the ear­marks of super­uni­verse ori­gin. Through­out all eter­nity an as­cen­dant mor­tal will ex­hibit traits in­dica­tive of the pre­sid­ing Spirit of his super­uni­verse of na­tiv­ity. Even in the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, when it is de­sired to ar­rive at or to por­tray a com­plete Trin­ity re­la­tion­ship to the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ation, al­ways a group of seven fi­nal­i­ters is as­sem­bled, one from each super­uni­verse.