The Seven Supreme Spirit Groups

17:3.1The forty-nine Re­flec­tive Spir­its are of Trin­ity ori­gin, but each of the seven cre­ative episodes at­ten­dant upon their ap­pear­ance was pro­duc­tive of a type of be­ing in na­ture re­sem­bling the char­ac­ter­is­tics of the coances­tral Mas­ter Spirit. Thus they var­i­ously re­flect the na­tures and char­ac­ters of the seven pos­si­ble com­bi­na­tions of the as­so­ci­a­tion of the di­vin­ity char­ac­ter­is­tics of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, and the In­fi­nite Spirit. For this rea­son it is nec­es­sary to have seven of these Re­flec­tive Spir­its on the head­quar­ters of each super­uni­verse. One of each of the seven types is re­quired in or­der to achieve the per­fect re­flec­tion of all phases of ev­ery pos­si­ble man­i­fes­ta­tion of the three Par­a­dise De­i­ties as such phe­nom­ena might oc­cur in any part of the seven super­uni­verses. One of each type was ac­cord­ingly as­signed to ser­vice in each of the super­uni­verses. These groups of seven dis­sim­i­lar Re­flec­tive Spir­its main­tain head­quar­ters on the cap­i­tals of the super­uni­verses at the re­flec­tive fo­cus of each realm, and this is not iden­ti­cal with the point of spir­i­tual po­lar­ity.

17:3.2The Re­flec­tive Spir­its have names, but these des­ig­na­tions are not re­vealed on the worlds of space. They per­tain to the na­ture and char­ac­ter of these be­ings and are a part of one of the seven uni­ver­sal mys­ter­ies of the se­cret spheres of Par­a­dise.

17:3.3The at­tri­bute of re­flec­tiv­ity, the phe­nom­e­non of the mind lev­els of the Con­joint Ac­tor, the Su­preme Be­ing, and the Mas­ter Spir­its, is trans­mis­si­ble to all be­ings con­cerned in the work­ing of this vast scheme of uni­ver­sal in­tel­li­gence. And herein is a great mys­tery: Nei­ther the Mas­ter Spir­its nor the Par­a­dise De­i­ties, singly or col­lec­tively, dis­close these pow­ers of co-or­di­nate uni­ver­sal re­flec­tiv­ity just as they are man­i­fested in these forty-nine li­ai­son per­son­al­i­ties of Maj­es­ton, and yet they are the cre­ators of all these mar­velously en­dowed be­ings. Di­vine hered­ity does some­times dis­close in the crea­ture cer­tain at­tri­butes which are not dis­cern­i­ble in the Cre­ator.

17:3.4The per­son­nel of the re­flec­tiv­ity ser­vice, with the ex­cep­tion of Maj­es­ton and the Re­flec­tive Spir­its, are all the crea­tures of the In­fi­nite Spirit and his im­me­di­ate as­so­ciates and sub­or­di­nates. The Re­flec­tive Spir­its of each super­uni­verse are the cre­ators of their Re­flec­tive Im­age Aids, their per­sonal voices to the courts of the An­cients of Days.

17:3.5The Re­flec­tive Spir­its are not merely trans­mit­ting agents; they are re­ten­tive per­son­al­i­ties as well. Their off­spring, the se­con­a­phim, are also re­ten­tive or rec­ord per­son­al­i­ties. Ev­ery­thing of true spir­i­tual value is reg­is­tered in du­pli­cate, and one im­pres­sion is pre­served in the per­sonal equip­ment of some mem­ber of one of the nu­mer­ous or­ders of sec­o­raphic per­son­al­i­ties be­long­ing to the vast staff of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its.

17:3.6The for­mal rec­ords of the uni­verses are passed up by and through the an­gelic re­cord­ers, but the true spir­i­tual rec­ords are as­sem­bled by re­flec­tiv­ity and are pre­served in the minds of suit­able and ap­pro­pri­ate per­son­al­i­ties be­long­ing to the fam­ily of the In­fi­nite Spirit. These are the live rec­ords in con­trast with the for­mal and dead rec­ords of the uni­verse, and they are per­fectly pre­served in the liv­ing minds of the record­ing per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

17:3.7The re­flec­tiv­ity or­ga­ni­za­tion is also the news-gath­er­ing and the de­cree-dis­sem­i­nat­ing mech­a­nism of all cre­ation. It is in con­stant op­er­a­tion in con­trast with the pe­ri­odic func­tion­ing of the var­i­ous broad­cast ser­vices.

17:3.8Ev­ery­thing of im­port tran­spir­ing on a lo­cal uni­verse head­quar­ters is in­her­ently re­flected to the cap­i­tal of its super­uni­verse. And con­versely, ev­ery­thing of lo­cal uni­verse sig­nif­i­cance is re­flected out­ward to the lo­cal uni­verse cap­i­tals from the head­quar­ters of their super­uni­verse. The re­flec­tiv­ity ser­vice from the uni­verses of time up to the super­uni­verses is ap­par­ently au­to­matic or self-op­er­at­ing, but it is not. It is all very per­sonal and in­tel­li­gent; its pre­ci­sion re­sults from per­fec­tion of per­son­al­ity co-op­er­a­tion and there­fore can hardly be at­tributed to the im­per­sonal pres­ence-per­for­mances of the Ab­so­lutes.

17:3.9While Thought Ad­justers do not par­tic­i­pate in the op­er­a­tion of the uni­ver­sal re­flec­tiv­ity sys­tem, we have ev­ery rea­son to be­lieve that all Fa­ther frag­ments are fully cog­nizant of these trans­ac­tions and are able to avail them­selves of their con­tent.

17:3.10Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age the space range of the ex­tra-Par­a­dise re­flec­tiv­ity ser­vice seems to be lim­ited by the pe­riph­ery of the seven super­uni­verses. Oth­er­wise, the func­tion of this ser­vice seems to be in­de­pen­dent of time and space. It ap­pears to be in­de­pen­dent of all known sub­ab­so­lute uni­verse cir­cuits.

17:3.11On the head­quar­ters of each super­uni­verse the re­flec­tive or­ga­ni­za­tion acts as a seg­re­gated unit; but on cer­tain spe­cial oc­ca­sions, un­der the di­rec­tion of Maj­es­ton, all seven may and do act in uni­ver­sal uni­son, as in the event of the ju­bilee oc­ca­sioned by the set­tling of an en­tire lo­cal uni­verse in light and life and at the times of the mil­len­nial greet­ings of the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives.