The Seven Supreme Spirit Groups

17:4.1The forty-nine Re­flec­tive Im­age Aids were cre­ated by the Re­flec­tive Spir­its, and there are just seven Aids on the head­quar­ters of each super­uni­verse. The first cre­ative act of the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its of Uversa was the pro­duc­tion of their seven Im­age Aids, each Re­flec­tive Spirit cre­at­ing his own Aid. The Im­age Aids are, in cer­tain at­tri­butes and char­ac­ter­is­tics, per­fect re­pro­duc­tions of their Re­flec­tive Mother Spir­its; they are vir­tual du­pli­ca­tions mi­nus the at­tri­bute of re­flec­tiv­ity. They are true im­ages and con­stantly func­tion as the chan­nel of com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween the Re­flec­tive Spir­its and the super­uni­verse au­thor­i­ties. The Im­age Aids are not merely as­sis­tants; they are ac­tual rep­re­sen­ta­tions of their re­spec­tive Spirit an­ces­tors; they are im­ages, and they are true to their name.

17:4.2The Re­flec­tive Spir­its them­selves are true per­son­al­i­ties but of such an or­der as to be in­com­pre­hen­si­ble to ma­te­rial be­ings. Even on a super­uni­verse head­quar­ters sphere they re­quire the as­sis­tance of their Im­age Aids in all per­sonal in­ter­course with the An­cients of Days and their as­so­ciates. In con­tacts be­tween the Im­age Aids and the An­cients of Days, some­times one Aid func­tions ac­cept­ably, while on other oc­ca­sions two, three, four, or even all seven are re­quired for the full and proper pre­sen­ta­tion of the com­mu­ni­ca­tion in­trusted to their trans­mis­sion. Like­wise, the mes­sages of the Im­age Aids are var­i­ously re­ceived by one, two, or all three An­cients of Days, as the con­tent of the com­mu­ni­ca­tion may re­quire.

17:4.3The Im­age Aids serve for­ever by the sides of their an­ces­tral Spir­its, and they have at their dis­posal an un­be­liev­able host of helper se­con­a­phim. The Im­age Aids do not di­rectly func­tion in con­nec­tion with the train­ing worlds of as­cend­ing mor­tals. They are closely as­so­ci­ated with the in­tel­li­gence ser­vice of the uni­ver­sal scheme of mor­tal pro­gres­sion, but you will not per­son­ally come in con­tact with them when you so­journ in the Uversa schools be­cause these seem­ingly per­sonal be­ings are de­void of will; they do not ex­er­cise the power of choice. They are true im­ages, wholly re­flec­tive of the per­son­al­ity and mind of the in­di­vid­ual Spirit an­ces­tor. As a class, as­cend­ing mor­tals do not in­ti­mately con­tact with re­flec­tiv­ity. Al­ways some be­ing of the re­flec­tive na­ture will be in­ter­posed be­tween you and the ac­tual op­er­a­tion of the ser­vice.