Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit

24:5.1The As­signed Sen­tinels are co-or­di­nat­ing per­son­al­i­ties and li­ai­son rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives. They were per­son­al­ized on Par­a­dise by the In­fi­nite Spirit and were cre­ated for the spe­cific pur­poses of their as­sign­ment. They are of sta­tion­ary num­bers, and there are ex­actly seven bil­lion in ex­is­tence.

24:5.2Much as an As­so­ciate In­spec­tor rep­re­sents the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives to a whole lo­cal uni­verse, so in each of the ten thou­sand sys­tems of that lo­cal cre­ation there is an As­signed Sen­tinel, who acts as the di­rect rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the far-dis­tant and su­preme board of super­con­trol for the af­fairs of all seven super­uni­verses. The sen­tinels on duty in the lo­cal sys­tem gov­ern­ments of Or­von­ton are act­ing un­der the di­rect au­thor­ity of Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive Num­ber Seven, the co-or­di­na­tor of the sev­enth super­uni­verse. But in their ad­min­is­tra­tive or­ga­ni­za­tion all sen­tinels com­mis­sioned in a lo­cal uni­verse are sub­or­di­nate to the As­so­ciate In­spec­tor sta­tioned at uni­verse head­quar­ters.

24:5.3Within a lo­cal cre­ation the As­signed Sen­tinels serve in ro­ta­tion, be­ing trans­ferred from sys­tem to sys­tem. They are usu­ally changed ev­ery mil­len­nium of lo­cal uni­verse time. They are among the high­est rank­ing per­son­al­i­ties sta­tioned on a sys­tem cap­i­tal, but they never par­tic­i­pate in de­lib­er­a­tions con­cerned with sys­tem af­fairs. In the lo­cal sys­tems they serve as the ex of­fi­cio heads of the four and twenty ad­min­is­tra­tors hail­ing from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds, but oth­er­wise, as­cend­ing mor­tals have lit­tle con­tact with them. The sen­tinels are al­most ex­clu­sively con­cerned in keep­ing the As­so­ciate In­spec­tor of their uni­verse fully in­formed on all mat­ters re­lat­ing to the wel­fare and state of the sys­tems of their as­sign­ment.

24:5.4As­signed Sen­tinels and As­so­ciate In­spec­tors do not re­port to the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives through a super­uni­verse head­quar­ters. They are re­spon­si­ble solely to the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive of the super­uni­verse con­cerned; their ac­tiv­i­ties are dis­tinct from the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the An­cients of Days.

24:5.5The Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives, As­so­ciate In­spec­tors, and As­signed Sen­tinels, to­gether with the om­niaphim and a host of un­re­vealed per­son­al­i­ties, con­sti­tute an ef­fi­cient, di­rect, cen­tral­ized, but far-flung sys­tem of ad­vi­sory and ad­min­is­tra­tive co-or­di­na­tion of all the grand uni­verse of things and be­ings.