The Solitary Messengers

23:1.1Im­me­di­ately fol­low­ing the cre­ation of the Seven Spir­its of the Ha­vona Cir­cuits the In­fi­nite Spirit brought into be­ing the vast corps of Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers. There is no part of the uni­ver­sal cre­ation which is pre-ex­is­tent to the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers ex­cept Par­a­dise and the Ha­vona cir­cuits; they have func­tioned through­out the grand uni­verse from near eter­nity. They are fun­da­men­tal to the di­vine tech­nique of the In­fi­nite Spirit for self-rev­e­la­tion to, and per­sonal con­tact with, the far-flung cre­ations of time and space.

23:1.2Not­with­stand­ing that these mes­sen­gers are ex­is­tent from the near times of eter­nity, they are all aware of a be­gin­ning of self­hood. They are con­scious of time, be­ing the first of the cre­ation of the In­fi­nite Spirit to pos­sess such a time con­scious­ness. They are the first-born crea­tures of the In­fi­nite Spirit to be per­son­al­ized in time and spir­i­tu­al­ized in space.

23:1.3These soli­tary spir­its came forth in the dawn of time as full-fledged and per­fectly en­dowed spirit be­ings. They are all equal, and there are no classes or sub­di­vi­sions founded on per­sonal vari­a­tion. Their clas­si­fi­ca­tions are based wholly on the type of work to which they are as­signed from time to time.

23:1.4Mor­tals start out as well-nigh ma­te­rial be­ings on the worlds of space and as­cend in­ward to­wards the Great Cen­ters; these soli­tary spir­its start out at the cen­ter of all things and crave as­sign­ment to the re­mote cre­ations, even to the in­di­vid­ual worlds of the out­er­most lo­cal uni­verses and even on be­yond.

23:1.5Though de­nom­i­nated Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, they are not lone­some spir­its, for they truly like to work alone. They are the only be­ings in all cre­ation who can and do en­joy a soli­tary ex­is­tence, al­beit they equally en­joy as­so­ci­a­tion with the very few or­ders of uni­verse in­tel­li­gence with whom they can frat­er­nize.

23:1.6Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers are not iso­lated in their ser­vice; they are con­stantly in touch with the wealth of the in­tel­lect of all cre­ation as they are ca­pa­ble of “lis­ten­ing in” on all the broad­casts of the realms of their so­journ. They can also in­ter­com­mu­ni­cate with mem­bers of their own im­me­di­ate corps, those be­ings do­ing the same kind of work in the same super­uni­verse. They could com­mu­ni­cate with oth­ers of their num­ber, but they have been di­rected by the coun­cil of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its not to do so, and they are a loyal group; they do not dis­obey or de­fault. There is no rec­ord that a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger ever stum­bled into dark­ness.

23:1.7The Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, like the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors, are among the very few types of be­ings op­er­at­ing through­out the realms who are ex­empt from ap­pre­hen­sion or de­ten­tion by the tri­bu­nals of time and space. They could be cited to ap­pear be­fore no one ex­cept the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, but not in all the an­nals of the mas­ter uni­verse has this Par­a­dise coun­cil ever been called upon to ad­ju­di­cate the case of a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger.

23:1.8These mes­sen­gers of soli­tary as­sign­ment are a de­pend­able, self-re­liant, ver­sa­tile, thor­oughly spir­i­tual, and broadly sym­pa­thetic group of cre­ated be­ings de­rived from the Third Source and Cen­ter; they op­er­ate by the au­thor­ity of the In­fi­nite Spirit res­i­dent on the cen­tral Isle of Par­a­dise and as per­son­al­ized on the head­quar­ters spheres of the lo­cal uni­verses. They are con­stant par­tak­ers of the di­rect cir­cuit em­a­nat­ing from the In­fi­nite Spirit, even when they func­tion in the lo­cal cre­ations un­der the im­me­di­ate in­flu­ence of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spir­its.

23:1.9There is a tech­ni­cal rea­son why these Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers must travel and work alone. For short pe­ri­ods and when sta­tion­ary, they can col­lab­o­rate in a group, but when thus en­sem­bled, they are al­to­gether cut off from the sus­te­nance and di­rec­tion of their Par­a­dise cir­cuit; they are wholly iso­lated. When in tran­sit, or when op­er­at­ing in the cir­cuits of space and the cur­rents of time, if two or more of this or­der are in close prox­im­ity, both or all are thrown out of li­ai­son with the higher cir­cu­lat­ing forces. They are “short cir­cuited” as you might de­scribe it in il­lus­tra­tive sym­bols. There­fore they have in­her­ent within them a power of au­to­matic alarm, a warn­ing sig­nal, which unerringly op­er­ates to ap­prise them of ap­proach­ing con­flicts and un­fail­ingly keeps them suf­fi­ciently sep­a­rated as not to in­ter­fere with their proper and ef­fec­tive func­tion­ing. They also pos­sess in­her­ent and au­to­matic pow­ers which de­tect and in­di­cate the prox­im­ity of both the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its and the di­vine Thought Ad­justers.

23:1.10These mes­sen­gers pos­sess no power of per­son­al­ity ex­ten­sion or re­pro­duc­tion, but there is prac­ti­cally no work of the uni­verses in which they can­not en­gage, and to which they can­not con­tribute some­thing es­sen­tial and help­ful. Es­pe­cially are they the great time­savers for those who are con­cerned in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of uni­verse af­fairs; and they as­sist us all, from the high­est to the low­est.