The Co-ordinate Trinity-Origin Beings

19:5.1I will be able to tell you very lit­tle con­cern­ing the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, for they are one of the few wholly se­cret or­ders of be­ings in ex­is­tence, se­cret, no doubt, be­cause it is im­pos­si­ble for them fully to re­veal them­selves even to those of us whose ori­gin is so near the source of their cre­ation. They come into be­ing by the act of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and may be uti­lized by any one or two of the De­i­ties as well as by all three. We do not know whether these Spir­its are of com­pleted num­bers or are con­stantly in­creas­ing, but we in­cline to the be­lief that their num­ber is not fixed.

19:5.2We fully un­der­stand nei­ther the na­ture nor the con­duct of the In­spired Spir­its. They may pos­si­bly be­long to the cat­e­gory of super­per­sonal spir­its. They seem to op­er­ate over all known cir­cuits and ap­pear to act well-nigh in­de­pen­dently of time and space. But we know lit­tle about them ex­cept as we de­duce their char­ac­ter from the na­ture of their ac­tiv­i­ties, the re­sults of which we cer­tainly ob­serve here and there in the uni­verses.

19:5.3Un­der cer­tain con­di­tions these In­spired Spir­its can in­di­vid­u­al­ize them­selves suf­fi­ciently for rec­og­ni­tion by be­ings of Trin­ity ori­gin. I have seen them; but it would never be pos­si­ble for the lower or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings to rec­og­nize one of them. Cer­tain cir­cum­stances also arise from time to time in the con­duct of the evolv­ing uni­verses in which any be­ing of Trin­ity ori­gin may di­rectly em­ploy these Spir­its in the fur­ther­ance of his as­sign­ments. We there­fore know that they ex­ist, and that un­der cer­tain con­di­tions we may com­mand and re­ceive their as­sis­tance, some­times rec­og­nize their pres­ence. But they are not a part of the man­i­fest and def­i­nitely re­vealed or­ga­ni­za­tion in­trusted with the con­duct of the time-space uni­verses be­fore such ma­te­rial cre­ations are set­tled in light and life. They have no clearly dis­cern­i­ble place in the pres­ent econ­omy or ad­min­is­tra­tion of the evolv­ing seven super­uni­verses. They are a se­cret of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

19:5.4The Mel­chiz­e­deks of Neb­a­don teach that In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its are des­tined, some­time in the eter­nal fu­ture, to func­tion in the places of the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, whose ranks are slowly but cer­tainly be­ing de­pleted by their as­sign­ment as as­so­ciates of cer­tain types of trin­i­tized sons.

19:5.5The In­spired Spir­its are the soli­tary Spir­its of the uni­verse of uni­verses. As Spir­its they are very much like the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers ex­cept that the lat­ter are dis­tinct per­son­al­i­ties. We ob­tain much of our knowl­edge of the In­spired Spir­its from the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, who de­tect their near­ness by virtue of an in­her­ent sen­si­tiv­ity to the pres­ence of the In­spired Spir­its which func­tions just as un­fail­ingly as a mag­netic nee­dle points to a mag­netic pole. When a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger is near an In­spired Trin­ity Spirit, he is con­scious of a qual­i­ta­tive in­di­ca­tion of such a di­vine pres­ence and also of a very def­i­nite quan­ti­ta­tive reg­is­tra­tion which en­ables him ac­tu­ally to know the clas­si­fi­ca­tion or num­ber of the Spirit pres­ence or pres­ences.

19:5.6I may re­late a fur­ther in­ter­est­ing fact: When a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger is on a planet whose in­hab­i­tants are in­dwelt by Thought Ad­justers, as on Uran­tia, he is aware of a qual­i­ta­tive ex­ci­ta­tion in his de­tec­tion-sen­si­tiv­ity to spirit pres­ence. In such in­stances there is no quan­ti­ta­tive ex­ci­ta­tion, only a qual­i­ta­tive ag­i­ta­tion. When on a planet to which Ad­justers do not come, con­tact with the na­tives does not pro­duce any such re­ac­tion. This sug­gests that Thought Ad­justers are in some man­ner re­lated to, or are con­nected with, the In­spired Spir­its of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. In some way they may pos­si­bly be as­so­ci­ated in cer­tain phases of their work; but we do not re­ally know. They both orig­i­nate near the cen­ter and source of all things, but they are not the same or­der of be­ing. Thought Ad­justers spring from the Fa­ther alone; In­spired Spir­its are the off­spring of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

19:5.7The In­spired Spir­its do not ap­par­ently be­long to the evo­lu­tion­ary scheme of the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets or uni­verses, and yet they seem to be al­most ev­ery­where. Even as I am en­gaged in the for­mu­la­tion of this state­ment, my as­so­ci­ated Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger’s per­sonal sen­si­tiv­ity to the pres­ence of this or­der of Spirit in­di­cates that there is with us at this very mo­ment, not over twenty-five feet away, a Spirit of the In­spired or­der and of the third vol­ume of power pres­ence. The third vol­ume of power pres­ence sug­gests to us the prob­a­bil­ity that three In­spired Spir­its are func­tion­ing in li­ai­son.

19:5.8Of more than twelve or­ders of be­ings as­so­ci­ated with me at this time, the Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger is the only one aware of the pres­ence of these mys­te­ri­ous en­ti­ties of the Trin­ity. And fur­ther, while we are thus ap­prised of the near­ness of these di­vine Spir­its, we are all equally ig­no­rant of their mis­sion. We re­ally do not know whether they are merely in­ter­ested ob­servers of our do­ings, or whether they are, in some man­ner un­known to us, ac­tu­ally con­tribut­ing to the suc­cess of our un­der­tak­ing.

19:5.9We know that the Trin­ity Teacher Sons are de­voted to the con­scious en­light­en­ment of uni­verse crea­tures. I have ar­rived at the set­tled con­clu­sion that the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, by super­con­scious tech­niques, are also func­tion­ing as teach­ers of the realms. I am per­suaded that there is a vast body of es­sen­tial spir­i­tual knowl­edge, truth in­dis­pens­able to high spir­i­tual at­tain­ment, which can­not be con­sciously re­ceived; self-con­scious­ness would ef­fec­tively jeop­ar­dize the cer­tainty of re­cep­tion. If we are right in this con­cept, and my en­tire or­der of be­ing shares it, it may be the mis­sion of these In­spired Spir­its to over­come this dif­fi­culty, to bridge this gap in the uni­ver­sal scheme of moral en­light­en­ment and spir­i­tual ad­vance­ment. We think that these two types of Trin­ity-ori­gin teach­ers ef­fect some kind of li­ai­son in their ac­tiv­i­ties, but we do not re­ally know.

19:5.10On the super­uni­verse train­ing worlds and on the eter­nal cir­cuits of Ha­vona, I have frat­er­nized with the per­fect­ing mor­tals—spir­i­tu­al­ized and as­cen­dant souls from the evo­lu­tion­ary realms—but never have they been aware of the In­spired Spir­its, which ever and anon the pow­ers of de­tec­tion res­i­dent in the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers would in­di­cate were very near us. I have freely con­versed with all or­ders of the Sons of God, high and low, and they like­wise are un­con­scious of the ad­mo­ni­tions of the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its. They can and do look back in their ex­pe­ri­ences and re­count hap­pen­ings which are dif­fi­cult to ex­plain if the ac­tion of such Spir­its is not taken into ac­count. But ex­cept­ing Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, and some­times Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings, none of the ce­les­tial fam­ily have ever been con­scious of the near­ness of the In­spired Spir­its.

19:5.11I do not be­lieve the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its are play­ing hide and seek with me. They are prob­a­bly try­ing just as hard to dis­close them­selves to me as I am to com­mu­ni­cate with them; our dif­fi­cul­ties and lim­i­ta­tions must be mu­tual and in­her­ent. I am sat­is­fied that there are no ar­bi­trary se­crets in the uni­verse; there­fore will I never cease in my ef­forts to solve the mys­tery of the iso­la­tion of these Spir­its be­long­ing to my or­der of cre­ation.

19:5.12And from all this, you mor­tals, just now tak­ing your first step on the eter­nal jour­ney, can well see that you must ad­vance a long way be­fore you will pro­gress by “sight” and “ma­te­rial” as­sur­ance. You will long use faith and be de­pen­dent on rev­e­la­tion if you hope to pro­gress quickly and safely.