Ministering Spirits of the Central Universe

26:7.1Trin­ity guides are the tire­less min­is­ters of the fifth cir­cle of the Ha­vona train­ing of the ad­vanc­ing pil­grims of time and space. The spir­i­tual grad­u­ates are here des­ig­nated “can­di­dates for the De­ity ad­ven­ture” since it is on this cir­cle, un­der the di­rec­tion of the Trin­ity guides, that the pil­grims re­ceive ad­vanced in­struc­tion con­cern­ing the di­vine Trin­ity in prepa­ra­tion for the at­tempt to achieve the per­son­al­ity rec­og­ni­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit. And here the as­cend­ing pil­grims dis­cover what true study and real men­tal ef­fort mean as they be­gin to dis­cern the na­ture of the still-more-tax­ing and far-more-ar­du­ous spir­i­tual ex­er­tion that will be re­quired to meet the de­mands of the high goal set for their achieve­ment on the worlds of this cir­cuit.

26:7.2Most faith­ful and ef­fi­cient are the Trin­ity guides; and each pil­grim re­ceives the un­di­vided at­ten­tion, and en­joys the whole af­fec­tion, of a sec­ondary super­na­phim be­long­ing to this or­der. Never would a pil­grim of time find the first ap­proach­able per­son of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity were it not for the help and as­sis­tance of these guides and the host of other spir­i­tual be­ings en­gaged in in­struct­ing the as­cend­ers re­spect­ing the na­ture and tech­nique of the forth­com­ing De­ity ad­ven­ture.

26:7.3Af­ter the com­ple­tion of the course of train­ing on this cir­cuit the Trin­ity guides take their pupils to its pi­lot world and pre­sent them be­fore one of the many tri­une com­mis­sions func­tion­ing as ex­am­in­ers and cer­ti­fiers of can­di­dates for the De­ity ad­ven­ture. These com­mis­sions con­sist of one fel­low of the fi­nal­i­ters, one of the di­rec­tors of con­duct of the or­der of pri­mary super­na­phim, and ei­ther a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger of space or a Trin­i­tized Son of Par­a­dise.

26:7.4When an as­cen­dant soul ac­tu­ally starts for Par­a­dise, he is ac­com­pa­nied only by the tran­sit trio: the super­aphic cir­cle as­so­ciate, the Grad­u­ate Guide, and the ever-pres­ent servi­tal as­so­ciate of the lat­ter. These ex­cur­sions from the Ha­vona cir­cles to Par­a­dise are trial trips; the as­cend­ers are not yet of Par­a­dise sta­tus. They do not achieve res­i­den­tial sta­tus on Par­a­dise un­til they have passed through the ter­mi­nal rest of time sub­se­quent to the at­tain­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the fi­nal clear­ance of the Ha­vona cir­cuits. Not un­til af­ter the di­vine rest do they par­take of the “essence of di­vin­ity” and the “spirit of su­prem­acy” and thus re­ally be­gin to func­tion in the cir­cle of eter­nity and in the pres­ence of the Trin­ity.

26:7.5The as­cender’s com­pan­ions of the tran­sit trio are not re­quired to en­able him to lo­cate the ge­o­graphic pres­ence of the spir­i­tual lu­mi­nos­ity of the Trin­ity, rather to af­ford all pos­si­ble as­sis­tance to a pil­grim in his dif­fi­cult task of rec­og­niz­ing, dis­cern­ing, and com­pre­hend­ing the In­fi­nite Spirit suf­fi­ciently to con­sti­tute per­son­al­ity rec­og­ni­tion. Any as­cen­dant pil­grim on Par­a­dise can dis­cern the ge­o­graphic or lo­ca­tional pres­ence of the Trin­ity, the great ma­jor­ity are able to con­tact the in­tel­lec­tual re­al­ity of the De­i­ties, es­pe­cially the Third Per­son, but not all can rec­og­nize or even par­tially com­pre­hend the re­al­ity of the spir­i­tual pres­ence of the Fa­ther and the Son. Still more dif­fi­cult is even the min­i­mum spir­i­tual com­pre­hen­sion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

26:7.6Sel­dom does the quest for the In­fi­nite Spirit fail of con­sum­ma­tion, and when their sub­jects have suc­ceeded in this phase of the De­ity ad­ven­ture, the Trin­ity guides pre­pare to trans­fer them to the min­istry of the Son find­ers on the fourth cir­cle of Ha­vona.