The Seven Supreme Spirit Groups

17:1.1The ex­ec­u­tive head­quar­ters of the Mas­ter Spir­its oc­cupy the seven Par­a­dise satel­lites of the In­fi­nite Spirit, which swing around the cen­tral Isle be­tween the shin­ing spheres of the Eter­nal Son and the in­ner­most Ha­vona cir­cuit. These ex­ec­u­tive spheres are un­der the di­rec­tion of the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives, a group of seven who were trin­i­tized by the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit in ac­cor­dance with the spec­i­fi­ca­tions of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its for be­ings of a type that could func­tion as their uni­ver­sal rep­re­sen­ta­tives.

17:1.2The Mas­ter Spir­its main­tain con­tact with the var­i­ous di­vi­sions of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments through these Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives. It is they who very largely de­ter­mine the ba­sic con­sti­tu­tive trends of the seven super­uni­verses. They are uni­formly and di­vinely per­fect, but they also pos­sess di­ver­sity of per­son­al­ity. They have no pre­sid­ing head; each time they meet to­gether, they choose one of their num­ber to pre­side over that joint coun­cil. Pe­ri­od­i­cally they jour­ney to Par­a­dise to sit in coun­cil with the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

17:1.3The Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives func­tion as the ad­min­is­tra­tive co-or­di­na­tors of the grand uni­verse; they might be termed the board of man­ag­ing di­rec­tors of the post-Ha­vona cre­ation. They are not con­cerned with the in­ter­nal af­fairs of Par­a­dise, and they di­rect their lim­ited spheres of Ha­vona ac­tiv­ity through the Seven Spir­its of the Cir­cuits. Oth­er­wise there are few lim­its to the scope of their super­vi­sion; they en­gage in the di­rec­tion of things phys­i­cal, in­tel­lec­tual, and spir­i­tual; they see all, hear all, feel all, even know all, that tran­spires in the seven super­uni­verses and in Ha­vona.

17:1.4These Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives do not orig­i­nate poli­cies, nor do they mod­ify uni­verse pro­ce­dures; they are con­cerned with the ex­e­cu­tion of the plans of di­vin­ity pro­mul­gated by the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. Nei­ther do they in­ter­fere with the rule of the An­cients of Days in the super­uni­verses nor with the sov­er­eignty of the Cre­ator Sons in the lo­cal uni­verses. They are the co-or­di­nat­ing ex­ec­u­tives whose func­tion it is to carry out the com­bined poli­cies of all duly con­sti­tuted rulers in the grand uni­verse.

17:1.5Each of the ex­ec­u­tives and the fa­cil­i­ties of his sphere are de­voted to the ef­fi­cient ad­min­is­tra­tion of a sin­gle super­uni­verse. Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive Num­ber One, func­tion­ing on ex­ec­u­tive sphere num­ber one, is wholly oc­cu­pied with the af­fairs of super­uni­verse num­ber one, and so on to Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive Num­ber Seven, work­ing from the sev­enth Par­a­dise satel­lite of the Spirit and de­vot­ing his en­er­gies to the man­age­ment of the sev­enth super­uni­verse. The name of this sev­enth sphere is Or­von­ton, for the Par­a­dise satel­lites of the Spirit have the same names as their re­lated super­uni­verses; in fact, the super­uni­verses were named af­ter them.

17:1.6On the ex­ec­u­tive sphere of the sev­enth super­uni­verse the staff en­gaged in keep­ing straight the af­fairs of Or­von­ton runs into num­bers be­yond hu­man com­pre­hen­sion and em­braces prac­ti­cally ev­ery or­der of ce­les­tial in­tel­li­gence. All super­uni­verse ser­vices of per­son­al­ity dis­patch (ex­cept In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its and Thought Ad­justers) pass through one of these seven ex­ec­u­tive worlds on their uni­verse jour­neys to and from Par­a­dise, and here are main­tained the cen­tral reg­istries for all per­son­al­i­ties cre­ated by the Third Source and Cen­ter who func­tion in the super­uni­verses. The sys­tem of ma­te­rial, mor­ontial, and spir­i­tual rec­ords on one of these ex­ec­u­tive worlds of the Spirit amazes even a be­ing of my or­der.

17:1.7The im­me­di­ate sub­or­di­nates of the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives con­sist for the greater part of the trin­i­tized sons of Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties and of the trin­i­tized off­spring of the glo­ri­fied mor­tal grad­u­ates from the age­long train­ing of the as­cen­dant scheme of time and space. These trin­i­tized sons are des­ig­nated for ser­vice with the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives by the chief of the Su­preme Coun­cil of the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

17:1.8Each Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive has two ad­vi­sory cab­i­nets: The chil­dren of the In­fi­nite Spirit on the head­quar­ters of each super­uni­verse choose rep­re­sen­ta­tives from their ranks to serve for one mil­len­nium in the pri­mary ad­vi­sory cab­i­net of their Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive. In all mat­ters af­fect­ing the as­cend­ing mor­tals of time, there is a sec­ondary cab­i­net, con­sist­ing of mor­tals of Par­a­dise at­tain­ment and of the trin­i­tized sons of glo­ri­fied mor­tals; this body is cho­sen by the per­fect­ing and as­cend­ing be­ings who tran­siently dwell on the seven super­uni­verse head­quar­ters. All other chiefs of af­fairs are ap­pointed by the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives.

17:1.9From time to time, great con­claves take place on these Par­a­dise satel­lites of the Spirit. Trin­i­tized sons as­signed to these worlds, to­gether with the as­cend­ers who have at­tained Par­a­dise, as­sem­ble with the spirit per­son­al­i­ties of the Third Source and Cen­ter in the re­unions of the strug­gles and tri­umphs of the as­cen­dant ca­reer. The Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives al­ways pre­side over such fra­ter­nal gath­er­ings.

17:1.10Once in each Par­a­dise mil­len­nium the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives va­cate their seats of au­thor­ity and go to Par­a­dise, where they hold their mil­len­nial con­clave of uni­ver­sal greet­ing and well-wish­ing to the in­tel­li­gent hosts of cre­ation. This event­ful oc­ca­sion takes place in the im­me­di­ate pres­ence of Maj­es­ton, the chief of all re­flec­tive spirit groups. And they are thus able to com­mu­ni­cate si­mul­ta­ne­ously with all their as­so­ciates in the grand uni­verse through the unique func­tion­ing of uni­ver­sal re­flec­tiv­ity.