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Paper 17

The Seven Supreme Spirit Groups

Divine Counselor

8. Functions of the Supreme Spirits

17:8.1The seven groups of Su­preme Spir­its con­sti­tute the nu­cleus of the func­tional fam­ily of the Third Source and Cen­ter both as the In­fi­nite Spirit and as the Con­joint Ac­tor. The do­main of the Su­preme Spir­its ex­tends from the pres­ence of the Trin­ity on Par­a­dise to the func­tion­ing of mind of the evo­lu­tion­ary-mor­tal or­der on the plan­ets of space. Thus do they unify the de­scend­ing ad­min­is­tra­tive lev­els and co-or­di­nate the man­i­fold func­tions of the per­son­nel thereof. Whether it is a Re­flec­tive Spirit group in li­ai­son with the An­cients of Days, a Cre­ative Spirit act­ing in con­cert with a Mi­chael Son, or the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its en­cir­cuited around the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, the ac­tiv­ity of the Su­preme Spir­its is en­coun­tered ev­ery­where in the cen­tral, su­per-, and lo­cal uni­verses. They func­tion alike with the Trin­ity per­son­al­i­ties of the or­der of “Days” and with the Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties of the or­der of “Sons.”

17:8.2To­gether with their In­fi­nite Mother Spirit, the Su­preme Spirit groups are the im­me­di­ate cre­ators of the vast crea­ture fam­ily of the Third Source and Cen­ter. All or­ders of the min­is­ter­ing spir­its spring from this as­so­ci­a­tion. Pri­mary super­na­phim orig­i­nate in the In­fi­nite Spirit; sec­ondary be­ings of this or­der are cre­ated by the Mas­ter Spir­its; ter­tiary super­na­phim by the Seven Spir­its of the Cir­cuits. The Re­flec­tive Spir­its, col­lec­tively, are the mother-mak­ers of a mar­velous or­der of the an­gelic hosts, the mighty se­con­a­phim of the super­uni­verse ser­vices. A Cre­ative Spirit is the mother of the an­gelic or­ders of a lo­cal cre­ation; such se­raphic min­is­ters are orig­i­nal in each lo­cal uni­verse, though they are fash­ioned af­ter the pat­terns of the cen­tral uni­verse. All these cre­ators of min­is­ter­ing spir­its are only in­di­rectly as­sisted by the cen­tral lodg­ment of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the orig­i­nal and eter­nal mother of all the an­gelic min­is­ters.

17:8.3The seven Su­preme Spirit groups are the co-or­di­na­tors of the in­hab­ited cre­ation. The as­so­ci­a­tion of their di­rect­ing heads, the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, ap­pears to co-or­di­nate the far-flung ac­tiv­i­ties of God the Sev­en­fold:

17:8.41. Col­lec­tively the Mas­ter Spir­its near-equiv­alate to the di­vin­ity level of the Trin­ity of Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

17:8.52. In­di­vid­u­ally they ex­haust the pri­mary as­so­cia­ble pos­si­bil­i­ties of tri­une De­ity.

17:8.63. As di­ver­si­fied rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Con­joint Ac­tor they are the repos­i­to­ries of that spirit-mind-power sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme Be­ing which he does not yet per­son­ally ex­er­cise.

17:8.74. Through the Re­flec­tive Spir­its they syn­chro­nize the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments of the An­cients of Days with Maj­es­ton, the Par­a­dise cen­ter of uni­ver­sal re­flec­tiv­ity.

17:8.85. In their par­tic­i­pa­tion in the in­di­vid­u­al­iza­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse Di­vine Min­is­ters, the Mas­ter Spir­its con­tribute to the last level of God the Sev­en­fold, the Cre­ator Son-Cre­ative Spirit union of the lo­cal uni­verses.

17:8.9Func­tional unity, in­her­ent in the Con­joint Ac­tor, is dis­closed to the evolv­ing uni­verses in the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, his pri­mary per­son­al­i­ties. But in the per­fected super­uni­verses of the fu­ture this unity will un­doubt­edly be in­sep­a­ra­ble from the ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme.

17:8.10[Pre­sented by a Di­vine Coun­selor of Uversa.]