The Seven Supreme Spirit Groups

17:6.1Much that per­tains to the na­ture and func­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spir­its prop­erly be­longs to the nar­ra­tive of their as­so­ci­a­tion with the Cre­ator Sons in the or­ga­ni­za­tion and man­age­ment of the lo­cal cre­ations; but there are many fea­tures of the pre­lo­cal uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ences of these mar­velous be­ings which may be nar­rated as a part of this dis­cus­sion of the seven Su­preme Spirit groups.

17:6.2We are con­ver­sant with six phases of the ca­reer of a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit, and we spec­u­late much con­cern­ing the prob­a­bil­ity of a sev­enth stage of ac­tiv­ity. These dif­fer­ent stages of ex­is­tence are:

17:6.31. Ini­tial Par­a­dise Dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion. When a Cre­ator Son is per­son­al­ized by the joint ac­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son, si­mul­ta­ne­ously there oc­curs in the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit what is known as the “su­preme re­ac­tion of com­ple­ment.” We do not com­pre­hend the na­ture of this re­ac­tion, but we un­der­stand that it des­ig­nates an in­her­ent mod­i­fi­ca­tion of those per­son­al­iz­able pos­si­bil­i­ties which are em­braced within the cre­ative po­ten­tial of the Con­joint Cre­ator. The birth of a co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Son sig­nal­izes the birth within the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit of the po­ten­tial of the fu­ture lo­cal uni­verse con­sort of this Par­a­dise Son. We are not cog­nizant of this new preper­sonal iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of en­tity, but we know that this fact finds place on the Par­a­dise rec­ords of the ca­reer of such a Cre­ator Son.

17:6.42. Pre­lim­i­nary Cre­ator­ship Train­ing. Dur­ing the long pe­riod of the pre­lim­i­nary train­ing of a Mi­chael Son in the or­ga­ni­za­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion of uni­verses, his fu­ture con­sort un­der­goes fur­ther de­vel­op­ment of en­tity and be­comes group con­scious of des­tiny. We do not know, but we sus­pect that such a group-con­scious en­tity be­comes space cog­nizant and be­gins that pre­lim­i­nary train­ing req­ui­site to the ac­quire­ment of spirit skill in her fu­ture work of col­lab­o­ra­tion with the com­ple­men­tal Mi­chael in uni­verse cre­ation and ad­min­is­tra­tion.

17:6.53. The Stage of Phys­i­cal Cre­ation. At the time the cre­ator­ship charge is ad­min­is­tered to a Mi­chael Son by the Eter­nal Son, the Mas­ter Spirit who di­rects the super­uni­verse to which this new Cre­ator Son is des­tined gives ex­pres­sion to the “prayer of iden­ti­fi­ca­tion” in the pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit; and for the first time, the en­tity of the sub­se­quent Cre­ative Spirit ap­pears as dif­fer­en­ti­ated from the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit. And pro­ceed­ing di­rectly to the per­son of the pe­ti­tion­ing Mas­ter Spirit, this en­tity is im­me­di­ately lost to our rec­og­ni­tion, be­com­ing ap­par­ently a part of the per­son of this Mas­ter Spirit. The newly iden­ti­fied Cre­ative Spirit re­mains with the Mas­ter Spirit un­til the mo­ment of the de­par­ture of the Cre­ator Son for the ad­ven­ture of space; where­upon the Mas­ter Spirit com­mits the new Spirit con­sort to the keep­ing of the Cre­ator Son, at the same time ad­min­is­ter­ing to the Spirit con­sort the charge of eter­nal fi­delity and un­end­ing loy­alty. And then oc­curs one of the most pro­foundly touch­ing episodes which ever take place on Par­a­dise. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther speaks in ac­knowl­edg­ment of the eter­nal union of the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit and in con­fir­ma­tion of the be­stowal of cer­tain joint pow­ers of ad­min­is­tra­tion by the Mas­ter Spirit of super­uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion.

17:6.6The Fa­ther-united Cre­ator Son and Cre­ative Spirit then go forth on their ad­ven­ture of uni­verse cre­ation. And they work to­gether in this form of as­so­ci­a­tion through­out the long and ar­du­ous pe­riod of the ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tion of their uni­verse.

17:6.74. The Life-Cre­ation Era. Upon the dec­la­ra­tion of in­ten­tion to cre­ate life by the Cre­ator Son, there en­sue on Par­a­dise the “per­son­al­iza­tion cer­e­monies,” par­tic­i­pated in by the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and per­son­ally ex­pe­ri­enced by the super­vis­ing Mas­ter Spirit. This is a Par­a­dise De­ity con­tri­bu­tion to the in­di­vid­u­al­ity of the Spirit con­sort of the Cre­ator Son and be­comes man­i­fest to the uni­verse in the phe­nom­e­non of “the pri­mary erup­tion” in the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Si­mul­ta­ne­ously with this phe­nom­e­non on Par­a­dise, the here­to­fore im­per­sonal Spirit con­sort of the Cre­ator Son be­comes, to all prac­ti­cal in­tents and pur­poses, a bona fide per­son. Hence­forth and forever­more, this same lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit will be re­garded as a per­son and will main­tain per­sonal re­la­tions with all the per­son­al­ity hosts of the en­su­ing life cre­ation.

17:6.85. The Postbestowal Ages. An­other and great change oc­curs in the never-end­ing ca­reer of a Cre­ative Spirit when the Cre­ator Son re­turns to uni­verse head­quar­ters af­ter the com­ple­tion of his sev­enth be­stowal and sub­se­quent to his ac­quire­ment of full uni­verse sov­er­eignty. On that oc­ca­sion, be­fore the as­sem­bled ad­min­is­tra­tors of the uni­verse, the tri­umphant Cre­ator Son el­e­vates the Uni­verse Mother Spirit to cosovereignty and ac­knowl­edges the Spirit con­sort as his equal.

17:6.96. The Ages of Light and Life. Upon the es­tab­lish­ment of the era of light and life the lo­cal uni­verse cosovereign en­ters upon the sixth phase of a Cre­ative Spirit’s ca­reer. But we may not por­tray the na­ture of this great ex­pe­ri­ence. Such things per­tain to a fu­ture stage of evo­lu­tion in Neb­a­don.

17:6.107. The Un­re­vealed Ca­reer. We know of these six phases of the ca­reer of a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. It is in­ev­i­ta­ble that we should ask: Is there a sev­enth ca­reer? We are mind­ful that, when fi­nal­i­ters at­tain what ap­pears to be their fi­nal des­tiny of mor­tal as­cen­sion, they are of rec­ord as en­ter­ing upon the ca­reer of sixth-stage spir­its. We con­jec­ture that there awaits the fi­nal­i­ters still an­other and un­re­vealed ca­reer in uni­verse as­sign­ment. It is only to be ex­pected that we would like­wise re­gard the Uni­verse Mother Spir­its as hav­ing ahead of them some undis­closed ca­reer which will con­sti­tute their sev­enth phase of per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence in uni­verse ser­vice and loyal co-op­er­a­tion with the or­der of the Cre­ator Mi­cha­els.