Ministering Spirits of the Central Universe

26:2.1The super­na­phim are the skilled min­is­ters to all types of be­ings who so­journ on Par­a­dise and in the cen­tral uni­verse. These high an­gels are cre­ated in three ma­jor or­ders: pri­mary, sec­ondary, and ter­tiary.

26:2.2Pri­mary super­na­phim are the ex­clu­sive off­spring of the Con­joint Cre­ator. They di­vide their min­istry about equally be­tween cer­tain groups of the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens and the ever-en­larg­ing corps of as­cen­dant pil­grims. These an­gels of the eter­nal Isle are highly ef­fi­ca­cious in fur­ther­ing the es­sen­tial train­ing of both groups of Par­a­dise dwellers. They con­tribute much that is help­ful to the mu­tual un­der­stand­ing of these two unique or­ders of uni­verse crea­tures—the one be­ing the high­est type of di­vine and per­fect will crea­ture, and the other, the per­fected evo­lu­tion of the low­est type of will crea­ture in all the uni­verse of uni­verses.

26:2.3The work of the pri­mary super­na­phim is so unique and dis­tinc­tive that it will be sep­a­rately con­sid­ered in the suc­ceed­ing nar­ra­tive.

26:2.4Sec­ondary super­na­phim are the di­rec­tors of the af­fairs of as­cend­ing be­ings on the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona. They are equally con­cerned in min­is­ter­ing to the ed­u­ca­tional train­ing of nu­mer­ous or­ders of Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens who so­journ for long pe­ri­ods on the world cir­cuits of the cen­tral cre­ation, but we may not dis­cuss this phase of their ser­vice.

26:2.5There are seven types of these high an­gels, each of ori­gin in one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and in na­ture pat­terned ac­cord­ingly. Col­lec­tively, the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its cre­ate many dif­fer­ent groups of unique be­ings and en­ti­ties, and the in­di­vid­ual mem­bers of each or­der are com­par­a­tively uni­form in na­ture. But when these same Seven Spir­its cre­ate in­di­vid­u­ally, the re­sult­ing or­ders are al­ways sev­en­fold in na­ture; the chil­dren of each Mas­ter Spirit par­take of the na­ture of their cre­ator and are ac­cord­ingly di­verse from the oth­ers. Such is the ori­gin of the sec­ondary super­na­phim, and the an­gels of all seven cre­ated types func­tion in all chan­nels of ac­tiv­ity open to their en­tire or­der, chiefly on the seven cir­cuits of the cen­tral and di­vine uni­verse.

26:2.6Each of the seven plan­e­tary cir­cuits of Ha­vona is un­der the di­rect super­vi­sion of one of the Seven Spir­its of the Cir­cuits, them­selves the col­lec­tive—hence uni­form—cre­ation of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. Though par­tak­ing of the na­ture of the Third Source and Cen­ter, these seven sub­sidiary Spir­its of Ha­vona were not a part of the orig­i­nal pat­tern uni­verse. They were in func­tion af­ter the orig­i­nal (eter­nal) cre­ation but long be­fore the times of Grand­fanda. They un­doubt­edly ap­peared as a cre­ative re­sponse of the Mas­ter Spir­its to the emerg­ing pur­pose of the Su­preme Be­ing, and they were dis­cov­ered in func­tion upon the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the grand uni­verse. The In­fi­nite Spirit and all his cre­ative as­so­ciates, as uni­ver­sal co-or­di­na­tors, seem abun­dantly en­dowed with the abil­ity to make suit­able cre­ative re­sponses to the si­mul­ta­ne­ous de­vel­op­ments in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties and in the evolv­ing uni­verses.

26:2.7Ter­tiary super­na­phim take ori­gin in these Seven Spir­its of the Cir­cuits. Each one of them, on the sep­a­rate Ha­vona cir­cles, is em­pow­ered by the In­fi­nite Spirit to cre­ate a suf­fi­cient num­ber of high super­aphic min­is­ters of the ter­tiary or­der to meet the needs of the cen­tral uni­verse. While the Cir­cuit Spir­its pro­duced com­par­a­tively few of these an­gelic min­is­ters prior to the ar­rival in Ha­vona of the pil­grims of time, the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its did not even be­gin the cre­ation of sec­ondary super­na­phim un­til the land­ing of Grand­fanda. As the older of the two or­ders, the ter­tiary super­na­phim will there­fore re­ceive first con­sid­er­a­tion.