The Messenger Hosts of Space

25:2.1For ev­ery Ha­vona Servi­tal cre­ated, seven Uni­ver­sal Con­cil­ia­tors are brought into be­ing, one in each super­uni­verse. This cre­ative en­act­ment in­volves a def­i­nite super­uni­verse tech­nique of re­flec­tive re­sponse to trans­ac­tions tak­ing place on Par­a­dise.

25:2.2On the head­quar­ters worlds of the seven super­uni­verses there func­tion the seven re­flec­tions of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. It is dif­fi­cult to un­der­take to por­tray the na­tures of these Re­flec­tive Spir­its to ma­te­rial minds. They are true per­son­al­i­ties; still each mem­ber of a super­uni­verse group is per­fectly re­flec­tive of just one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. And ev­ery time the Mas­ter Spir­its as­so­ciate them­selves with the power di­rec­tors for the pur­pose of cre­at­ing a group of Ha­vona Servi­tals, there is a si­mul­ta­ne­ous fo­cal­iza­tion upon one of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its in each of the super­uni­verse groups, and forth­with and full-fledgedly an equal num­ber of Uni­ver­sal Con­cil­ia­tors ap­pear on the head­quar­ters worlds of the super­cre­ations. If, in the cre­ation of servi­tals, Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Seven should take the ini­tia­tive, none but the Re­flec­tive Spir­its of the sev­enth or­der would be­come preg­nant with con­cil­ia­tors; and con­cur­rently with the cre­ation of one thou­sand Or­von­ton­like servi­tals, one thou­sand of the sev­enth-or­der con­cil­ia­tors would ap­pear on each super­uni­verse cap­i­tal. Out of these episodes, re­flect­ing the sev­en­fold na­ture of the Mas­ter Spir­its, arise the seven cre­ated or­ders of con­cil­ia­tors serv­ing in each super­uni­verse.

25:2.3Con­cil­ia­tors of pre-Par­a­dise sta­tus do not serve in­ter­change­ably be­tween super­uni­verses, be­ing re­stricted to their na­tive seg­ments of cre­ation. Ev­ery super­uni­verse corps, em­brac­ing one sev­enth of each cre­ated or­der, there­fore spends a very long time un­der the in­flu­ence of one of the Mas­ter Spir­its to the ex­clu­sion of the oth­ers, for, while all seven are re­flected on the super­uni­verse cap­i­tals, only one is dom­i­nant in each super­cre­ation.

25:2.4Each of the seven super­cre­ations is ac­tu­ally per­vaded by that one of the Mas­ter Spir­its who pre­sides over its des­tinies. Each super­uni­verse thus be­comes like a gi­gan­tic mir­ror re­flect­ing the na­ture and char­ac­ter of the super­vis­ing Mas­ter Spirit, and all of this is fur­ther con­tin­ued in ev­ery sub­sidiary lo­cal uni­verse by the pres­ence and func­tion of the Cre­ative Mother Spir­its. The ef­fect of such an en­vi­ron­ment upon evo­lu­tion­ary growth is so pro­found that in their post­super­uni­verse ca­reers the con­cil­ia­tors col­lec­tively man­i­fest forty-nine ex­pe­ri­en­tial view­points, or in­sights, each an­gu­lar—hence in­com­plete—but all mu­tu­ally com­pen­satory and to­gether tend­ing to en­com­pass the cir­cle of Su­prem­acy.

25:2.5In each super­uni­verse the Uni­ver­sal Con­cil­ia­tors find them­selves strangely and in­nately seg­re­gated into groups of four, as­so­ci­a­tions in which they con­tinue to serve. In each group, three are spirit per­son­al­i­ties, and one, like the fourth crea­tures of the servi­tals, is a semi­ma­te­rial be­ing. This quar­tet con­sti­tutes a con­cil­i­at­ing com­mis­sion and is made up as fol­lows:

25:2.61. The Judge-Ar­biter. The one unan­i­mously des­ig­nated by the other three as the most com­pe­tent and best qual­i­fied to act as ju­di­cial head of the group.

25:2.72. The Spirit-Ad­vo­cate. The one ap­pointed by the judge-ar­biter to pre­sent ev­i­dence and to safe­guard the rights of all per­son­al­i­ties in­volved in any mat­ter as­signed to the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the con­cil­i­at­ing com­mis­sion.

25:2.83. The Di­vine Ex­e­cu­tioner. The con­cil­ia­tor qual­i­fied by in­her­ent na­ture to make con­tact with the ma­te­rial be­ings of the realms and to ex­e­cute the de­ci­sions of the com­mis­sion. Di­vine ex­e­cu­tion­ers, be­ing fourth crea­tures—quasi-ma­te­rial be­ings—are al­most, but not quite, vis­i­ble to the short-range vi­sion of the mor­tal races.

25:2.94. The Re­corder. The re­main­ing mem­ber of the com­mis­sion au­to­mat­i­cally be­comes the re­corder, the clerk of the tri­bu­nal. He makes cer­tain that all rec­ords are prop­erly pre­pared for the ar­chives of the super­uni­verse and for the rec­ords of the lo­cal uni­verse. If the com­mis­sion is serv­ing on an evo­lu­tion­ary world, a third re­port, with the as­sis­tance of the ex­e­cu­tioner, is pre­pared for the phys­i­cal rec­ords of the sys­tem gov­ern­ment of ju­ris­dic­tion.

25:2.10When in ses­sion a com­mis­sion func­tions as a group of three since the ad­vo­cate is de­tached dur­ing ad­ju­di­ca­tion and par­tic­i­pates in the for­mu­la­tion of the ver­dict only at the con­clu­sion of the hear­ing. Hence these com­mis­sions are some­times called ref­eree trios.

25:2.11The con­cil­ia­tors are of great value in keep­ing the uni­verse of uni­verses run­ning smoothly. Travers­ing space at the se­raphic rate of triple ve­loc­ity, they serve as the trav­el­ing courts of the worlds, com­mis­sions de­voted to the quick ad­ju­di­ca­tion of mi­nor dif­fi­cul­ties. Were it not for these mo­bile and em­i­nently fair com­mis­sions, the tri­bu­nals of the spheres would be hope­lessly over­spread with the mi­nor mis­un­der­stand­ings of the realms.

25:2.12These ref­eree trios do not pass upon mat­ters of eter­nal im­port; the soul, the eter­nal prospects of a crea­ture of time, is never placed in jeop­ardy by their acts. Con­cil­ia­tors do not deal with ques­tions ex­tend­ing be­yond the tem­po­ral ex­is­tence and the cos­mic wel­fare of the crea­tures of time. But when a com­mis­sion has once ac­cepted ju­ris­dic­tion of a prob­lem, its rul­ings are fi­nal and al­ways unan­i­mous; there is no ap­peal from the de­ci­sion of the judge-ar­biter.