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16:0.1The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise are the pri­mary per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit. In this sev­en­fold cre­ative act of self-du­pli­ca­tion the In­fi­nite Spirit ex­hausted the as­so­cia­tive pos­si­bil­i­ties math­e­mat­i­cally in­her­ent in the fac­tual ex­is­tence of the three per­sons of De­ity. Had it been pos­si­ble to pro­duce a larger num­ber of Mas­ter Spir­its, they would have been cre­ated, but there are just seven as­so­cia­tive pos­si­bil­i­ties, and only seven, in­her­ent in three De­i­ties. And this ex­plains why the uni­verse is op­er­ated in seven grand di­vi­sions, and why the num­ber seven is ba­si­cally fun­da­men­tal in its or­ga­ni­za­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion.

16:1.1The Con­joint Cre­ator, the In­fi­nite Spirit, is nec­es­sary to the com­ple­tion of the tri­une per­son­al­iza­tion of un­di­vided De­ity. This three­fold De­ity per­son­al­iza­tion is in­her­ently sev­en­fold in pos­si­bil­ity of in­di­vid­ual and as­so­cia­tive ex­pres­sion; hence the sub­se­quent plan to cre­ate uni­verses in­hab­ited by in­tel­li­gent and po­ten­tially spir­i­tual be­ings, duly ex­pres­sive of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit, made the per­son­al­iza­tion of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its in­es­cap­able. We have come to speak of the three­fold per­son­al­iza­tion of De­ity as the ab­so­lute in­evitabil­ity, while we have come to look upon the ap­pear­ance of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its as the sub­ab­so­lute in­evitabil­ity.

17:3.1The forty-nine Re­flec­tive Spir­its are of Trin­ity ori­gin, but each of the seven cre­ative episodes at­ten­dant upon their ap­pear­ance was pro­duc­tive of a type of be­ing in na­ture re­sem­bling the char­ac­ter­is­tics of the coances­tral Mas­ter Spirit. Thus they var­i­ously re­flect the na­tures and char­ac­ters of the seven pos­si­ble com­bi­na­tions of the as­so­ci­a­tion of the di­vin­ity char­ac­ter­is­tics of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, and the In­fi­nite Spirit. For this rea­son it is nec­es­sary to have seven of these Re­flec­tive Spir­its on the head­quar­ters of each super­uni­verse. One of each of the seven types is re­quired in or­der to achieve the per­fect re­flec­tion of all phases of ev­ery pos­si­ble man­i­fes­ta­tion of the three Par­a­dise De­i­ties as such phe­nom­ena might oc­cur in any part of the seven super­uni­verses. One of each type was ac­cord­ingly as­signed to ser­vice in each of the super­uni­verses. These groups of seven dis­sim­i­lar Re­flec­tive Spir­its main­tain head­quar­ters on the cap­i­tals of the super­uni­verses at the re­flec­tive fo­cus of each realm, and this is not iden­ti­cal with the point of spir­i­tual po­lar­ity.

18:1.3Al­though there is a def­i­nite class re­sem­blance which typ­i­fies the Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy, they also dis­close seven dis­tinct group char­ac­ter­is­tics. The ten su­preme di­rec­tors of Di­vin­ing­ton af­fairs are re­flec­tive of the per­sonal char­ac­ter and na­ture of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and so it is with each of these seven spheres: Each group of ten re­sem­bles that De­ity or De­ity as­so­ci­a­tion which is char­ac­ter­is­tic of their do­main. The ten di­rec­tors who rule As­cend­ing­ton are re­flec­tive of the com­bined na­ture of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit.

42:9.2The num­ber seven is ba­sic to the cen­tral uni­verse and the spir­i­tual sys­tem of in­her­ent trans­mis­sions of char­ac­ter, but the num­ber ten, the dec­i­mal sys­tem, is in­her­ent in en­ergy, mat­ter, and the ma­te­rial cre­ation. Nev­er­the­less the atomic world does dis­play a cer­tain pe­ri­odic char­ac­ter­i­za­tion which re­curs in groups of seven—a birth­mark car­ried by this ma­te­rial world in­dica­tive of its far-dis­tant spir­i­tual ori­gin.

42:9.3This sev­en­fold per­sis­tence of cre­ative con­sti­tu­tion is ex­hib­ited in the chem­i­cal do­mains as a re­cur­rence of sim­i­lar phys­i­cal and chem­i­cal prop­er­ties in seg­re­gated pe­ri­ods of seven when the ba­sic el­e­ments are ar­ranged in the or­der of their atomic weights. When the Uran­tia chem­i­cal el­e­ments are thus ar­ranged in a row, any given qual­ity or prop­erty tends to re­cur by sev­ens. This pe­ri­odic change by sev­ens re­curs di­min­ish­ingly and with vari­a­tions through­out the en­tire chem­i­cal ta­ble, be­ing most markedly ob­serv­able in the ear­lier or lighter atomic group­ings. Start­ing from any one el­e­ment, af­ter not­ing some one prop­erty, such a qual­ity will change for six con­sec­u­tive el­e­ments, but on reach­ing the eighth, it tends to reap­pear, that is, the eighth chem­i­cally ac­tive el­e­ment re­sem­bles the first, the ninth the sec­ond, and so on. Such a fact of the phys­i­cal world un­mis­tak­ably points to the sev­en­fold con­sti­tu­tion of an­ces­tral en­ergy and is in­dica­tive of the fun­da­men­tal re­al­ity of the sev­en­fold di­ver­sity of the cre­ations of time and space. Man should also note that there are seven col­ors in the nat­u­ral spec­trum.

36:2.11The num­ber ten—the dec­i­mal sys­tem—is in­her­ent in the phys­i­cal uni­verse but not in the spir­i­tual. The do­main of life is char­ac­ter­ized by three, seven, and twelve or by mul­ti­ples and com­bi­na­tions of these ba­sic num­bers. There are three pri­mal and es­sen­tially dif­fer­ent life plans, af­ter the or­der of the three Par­a­dise Sources and Cen­ters, and in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don these three ba­sic forms of life are seg­re­gated on three dif­fer­ent types of plan­ets. There were, orig­i­nally, twelve dis­tinct and di­vine con­cepts of trans­mis­si­ble life. This num­ber twelve, with its sub­di­vi­sions and mul­ti­ples, runs through­out all ba­sic life pat­terns of all seven super­uni­verses. There are also seven ar­chi­tec­tural types of life de­sign, fun­da­men­tal ar­range­ments of the re­pro­duc­ing con­fig­u­ra­tions of liv­ing mat­ter. The Or­von­ton life pat­terns are con­fig­ured as twelve in­her­i­tance car­ri­ers. The dif­fer­ing or­ders of will crea­tures are con­fig­ured as 12, 24, 48, 96, 192, 384, and 768. On Uran­tia there are forty-eight units of pat­tern con­trol—trait de­ter­min­ers—in the sex cells of hu­man re­pro­duc­tion.

10:2.8I am of ori­gin in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. I know the Trin­ity as uni­fied De­ity; I also know that the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit ex­ist and act in their def­i­nite per­sonal ca­pac­i­ties. I pos­i­tively know that they not only act per­son­ally and col­lec­tively, but that they also co-or­di­nate their per­for­mances in var­i­ous group­ings, so that in the end they func­tion in seven dif­fer­ent sin­gu­lar and plu­ral ca­pac­i­ties. And since these seven as­so­ci­a­tions ex­haust the pos­si­bil­i­ties for such di­vin­ity com­bi­na­tion, it is in­ev­i­ta­ble that the re­al­i­ties of the uni­verse shall ap­pear in seven vari­a­tions of val­ues, mean­ings, and per­son­al­ity.

42:9.1Re­li­gion is not alone dog­matic; nat­u­ral phi­los­o­phy equally tends to dog­ma­tize. When a renowned re­li­gious teacher rea­soned that the num­ber seven was fun­da­men­tal to na­ture be­cause there are seven open­ings in the hu­man head, if he had known more of chem­istry, he might have ad­vo­cated such a be­lief founded on a true phe­nom­e­non of the phys­i­cal world. There is in all the phys­i­cal uni­verses of time and space, not­with­stand­ing the uni­ver­sal man­i­fes­ta­tion of the dec­i­mal con­sti­tu­tion of en­ergy, the ever-pres­ent re­minder of the re­al­ity of the sev­en­fold elec­tronic or­ga­ni­za­tion of pre­mat­ter.

28:4.3The pri­mary se­con­a­phim are found to in­cline by in­her­ent na­ture to­wards seven types of ser­vice, and it is be­fit­ting that the first se­ri­als of this or­der should be so en­dowed as in­her­ently to in­ter­pret the mind of the Spirit to the An­cients of Days:

28:4.41. The Voice of the Con­joint Ac­tor. In each super­uni­verse the first pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth one of that or­der sub­se­quently cre­ated ex­hibit a high or­der of adapt­abil­ity for un­der­stand­ing and in­ter­pret­ing the mind of the In­fi­nite Spirit to the An­cients of Days and their as­so­ciates in the super­gov­ern­ments. This is of great value on the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verses, for, un­like the lo­cal cre­ations with their Di­vine Min­is­ters, the seat of a super­gov­ern­ment does not have a spe­cial­ized per­son­al­iza­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Hence these sec­o­raphic voices come the near­est to be­ing the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Third Source and Cen­ter on such a cap­i­tal sphere. True, the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its are there, but these moth­ers of the sec­o­raphic hosts are less truly and au­to­mat­i­cally re­flec­tive of the Con­joint Ac­tor than of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

28:5.6Like the pri­mary or­der, this group is cre­ated se­ri­ally; that is, the first-born was a Voice of Wis­dom, and the sev­enth there­after was sim­i­lar, and so with the six other types of these re­flec­tive an­gels.