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Paper 24

Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit

Divine Counselor

7. Origin of the Graduate Guides

24:7.1Though evo­lu­tion is not the or­der of the cen­tral uni­verse, we be­lieve that the Grad­u­ate Guides are the per­fected or more ex­pe­ri­enced mem­bers of an­other or­der of cen­tral uni­verse crea­tures, the Ha­vona Servi­tals. Grad­u­ate Guides show such a breadth of sym­pa­thy and such a ca­pac­ity for un­der­stand­ing the as­cen­dant crea­tures that we are con­vinced they have gained this cul­ture by ac­tual ser­vice in the super­uni­verse realms as the Ha­vona Servi­tals of uni­ver­sal min­istry. If this view is not cor­rect, how then can we ac­count for the con­tin­u­ous dis­ap­pear­ance of the se­nior or more ex­pe­ri­enced servi­tals?

24:7.2A servi­tal will be long ab­sent from Ha­vona on super­uni­verse as­sign­ment, hav­ing been on many such mis­sions pre­vi­ously, will re­turn home, be granted the priv­i­lege of “per­sonal con­tact” with the Par­a­dise Cen­tral Shin­ing, will be em­braced by the Lu­mi­nous Per­sons, and dis­ap­pear from the rec­og­ni­tion of his spirit fel­lows, never more to reap­pear among those of his kind.

24:7.3On re­turn­ing from super­uni­verse ser­vice, a Ha­vona Servi­tal may en­joy nu­mer­ous di­vine em­braces and emerge there­from merely an ex­alted servi­tal. Ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the lu­mi­nous em­brace does not nec­es­sar­ily sig­nify that the servi­tal must trans­late into a Grad­u­ate Guide, but al­most one quar­ter of those who achieve the di­vine em­brace never re­turn to the ser­vice of the realms.

24:7.4There ap­pears on the high rec­ords a suc­ces­sion of such en­tries as this:

24:7.5“And servi­tal num­ber 842,842,682,846,782 of Ha­vona, named Sudna, came over from the super­uni­verse ser­vice, was re­ceived on Par­a­dise, knew the Fa­ther, en­tered the di­vine em­brace, and is not.”

24:7.6When such an en­try ap­pears on the rec­ords, the ca­reer of such a servi­tal is closed. But in just three mo­ments (a lit­tle less than three days of your time) a new­born Grad­u­ate Guide “spon­ta­neously” ap­pears on the outer cir­cuit of the Ha­vona uni­verse. And the num­ber of Grad­u­ate Guides, al­low­ing for a slight dif­fer­ence, due no doubt to those in tran­si­tion, ex­actly equals the num­ber of van­ished servi­tals.

24:7.7There is an ad­di­tional rea­son for sup­pos­ing the Grad­u­ate Guides to be evolved Ha­vona Servi­tals, and that is the un­fail­ing ten­dency of these guides and their as­so­ci­ated servi­tals to form such ex­traor­di­nary at­tach­ments. The man­ner in which these sup­pos­edly sep­a­rate or­ders of be­ings un­der­stand and sym­pa­thize with one an­other is wholly in­ex­pli­ca­ble. It is re­fresh­ing and in­spir­ing to wit­ness their mu­tual de­vo­tion.

24:7.8The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and the as­so­ci­ated Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors, re­spec­tively, are the per­sonal repos­i­to­ries of the mind po­ten­tial and of the power po­ten­tial of the Su­preme Be­ing which he does not, as yet, op­er­ate per­son­ally. And when these Par­a­dise as­so­ciates col­lab­o­rate to cre­ate the Ha­vona Servi­tals, the lat­ter are in­her­ently in­volved in cer­tain phases of Su­prem­acy. Ha­vona Servi­tals are thus, in ac­tu­al­ity, a re­flec­tion in the per­fect cen­tral uni­verse of cer­tain evo­lu­tion­ary po­ten­tial­i­ties of the time-space do­mains, all of which is dis­closed when a servi­tal un­der­goes trans­for­ma­tion and re-cre­ation. We be­lieve that this trans­for­ma­tion takes place in re­sponse to the will of the In­fi­nite Spirit, un­doubt­edly act­ing in be­half of the Su­preme. Grad­u­ate Guides are not cre­ated by the Su­preme Be­ing, but we all con­jec­ture that ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity is in some way con­cerned in those trans­ac­tions which bring these be­ings into ex­is­tence.

24:7.9The Ha­vona now tra­versed by as­cend­ing mor­tals dif­fers in many re­spects from the cen­tral uni­verse as it was be­fore the times of Grand­fanda. The ar­rival of mor­tal as­cend­ers on the Ha­vona cir­cuits in­au­gu­rated sweep­ing mod­i­fi­ca­tions in the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the cen­tral and di­vine cre­ation, mod­i­fi­ca­tions un­doubt­edly ini­ti­ated by the Su­preme Be­ing—the God of evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures—in re­sponse to the ar­rival of the first of his ex­pe­ri­en­tial chil­dren from the seven super­uni­verses. The ap­pear­ance of the Grad­u­ate Guides, to­gether with the cre­ation of the ter­tiary super­na­phim, is in­dica­tive of these per­for­mances of God the Su­preme.

24:7.10[Pre­sented by a Di­vine Coun­selor of Uversa.]