circuits

34:4.1There are three dis­tinct spirit cir­cuits in the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don:

34:4.21. The be­stowal spirit of the Cre­ator Son, the Com­forter, the Spirit of Truth.

34:4.32. The spirit cir­cuit of the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the Holy Spirit.

34:4.43. The in­tel­li­gence-min­istry cir­cuit, in­clud­ing the more or less uni­fied ac­tiv­i­ties but di­verse func­tion­ing of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its.

34:4.5The Cre­ator Sons are en­dowed with a spirit of uni­verse pres­ence in many ways anal­o­gous to that of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise. This is the Spirit of Truth which is poured out upon a world by a be­stowal Son af­ter he re­ceives spir­i­tual ti­tle to such a sphere. This be­stowed Com­forter is the spir­i­tual force which ever draws all truth seek­ers to­wards Him who is the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of truth in the lo­cal uni­verse. This spirit is an in­her­ent en­dow­ment of the Cre­ator Son, emerg­ing from his di­vine na­ture just as the mas­ter cir­cuits of the grand uni­verse are de­rived from the per­son­al­ity pres­ences of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

34:4.6The Cre­ator Son may come and go; his per­sonal pres­ence may be in the lo­cal uni­verse or else­where; yet the Spirit of Truth func­tions undis­turbed, for this di­vine pres­ence, while de­rived from the per­son­al­ity of the Cre­ator Son, is func­tion­ally cen­tered in the per­son of the Di­vine Min­is­ter.

34:4.7The Uni­verse Mother Spirit, how­ever, never leaves the lo­cal uni­verse head­quar­ters world. The spirit of the Cre­ator Son may and does func­tion in­de­pen­dently of the per­sonal pres­ence of the Son, but not so with her per­sonal spirit. The Holy Spirit of the Di­vine Min­is­ter would be­come non­func­tional if her per­sonal pres­ence should be re­moved from Sal­ving­ton. Her spirit pres­ence seems to be fixed on the uni­verse head­quar­ters world, and it is this very fact that en­ables the spirit of the Cre­ator Son to func­tion in­de­pen­dently of the where­abouts of the Son. The Uni­verse Mother Spirit acts as the uni­verse fo­cus and cen­ter of the Spirit of Truth as well as of her own per­sonal in­flu­ence, the Holy Spirit.

34:4.8The Cre­ator Fa­ther-Son and the Cre­ative Mother Spirit both con­tribute var­i­ously to the mind en­dow­ment of their lo­cal uni­verse chil­dren. But the Cre­ative Spirit does not be­stow mind un­til she is en­dowed with per­sonal pre­rog­a­tives.

34:4.9The super­evo­lu­tion­ary or­ders of per­son­al­ity in a lo­cal uni­verse are en­dowed with the lo­cal uni­verse type of the super­uni­verse pat­tern of mind. The hu­man and the sub­hu­man or­ders of evo­lu­tion­ary life are en­dowed with the ad­ju­tant spirit types of mind min­is­tra­tion.

34:4.10The seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are the cre­ation of the Di­vine Min­is­ter of a lo­cal uni­verse. These mind-spir­its are sim­i­lar in char­ac­ter but di­verse in power, and all par­take alike of the na­ture of the Uni­verse Spirit, al­though they are hardly re­garded as per­son­al­i­ties apart from their Mother Cre­ator. The seven ad­ju­tants have been given the fol­low­ing names: the spirit of wis­dom, the spirit of wor­ship, the spirit of coun­sel, the spirit of knowl­edge, the spirit of cour­age, the spirit of un­der­stand­ing, the spirit of in­tu­ition—of quick per­cep­tion.

34:4.11These are the “seven spir­its of God,” “like lamps burn­ing be­fore the throne,” which the prophet saw in the sym­bols of vi­sion. But he did not see the seats of the four and twenty sen­tinels about these seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its. This rec­ord rep­re­sents the con­fu­sion of two pre­sen­ta­tions, one per­tain­ing to the uni­verse head­quar­ters and the other to the sys­tem cap­i­tal. The seats of the four and twenty el­ders are on Je­ru­sem, the head­quar­ters of your lo­cal sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds.

34:4.12But it was of Sal­ving­ton that John wrote: “And out of the throne pro­ceeded light­nings and thun­der­ings and voices”—the uni­verse broad­casts to the lo­cal sys­tems. He also en­vis­aged the di­rec­tional con­trol crea­tures of the lo­cal uni­verse, the liv­ing com­passes of the head­quar­ters world. This di­rec­tional con­trol in Neb­a­don is main­tained by the four con­trol crea­tures of Sal­ving­ton, who op­er­ate over the uni­verse cur­rents and are ably as­sisted by the first func­tion­ing mind-spirit, the ad­ju­tant of in­tu­ition, the spirit of “quick un­der­stand­ing.” But the de­scrip­tion of these four crea­tures—called beasts—has been sadly marred; they are of un­par­al­leled beauty and ex­qui­site form.

34:4.13The four points of the com­pass are uni­ver­sal and in­her­ent in the life of Neb­a­don. All liv­ing crea­tures pos­sess bod­ily units which are sen­si­tive and re­spon­sive to these di­rec­tional cur­rents. These crea­ture cre­ations are du­pli­cated on down through the uni­verse to the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets and, in con­junc­tion with the mag­netic forces of the worlds, so ac­ti­vate the hosts of mi­cro­scopic bod­ies in the an­i­mal or­gan­ism that these di­rec­tion cells ever point north and south. Thus is the sense of ori­en­ta­tion for­ever fixed in the liv­ing be­ings of the uni­verse. This sense is not wholly want­ing as a con­scious pos­ses­sion by man­kind. These bod­ies were first ob­served on Uran­tia about the time of this nar­ra­tion.

11:1.4The Fa­ther is al­ways to be found at this cen­tral lo­ca­tion. Did he move, uni­ver­sal pan­de­mo­nium would be pre­cip­i­tated, for there con­verge in him at this res­i­den­tial cen­ter the uni­ver­sal lines of grav­ity from the ends of cre­ation. Whether we trace the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit back through the uni­verses or fol­low the as­cend­ing per­son­al­i­ties as they jour­ney in­ward to the Fa­ther; whether we trace the lines of ma­te­rial grav­ity to nether Par­a­dise or fol­low the in­surg­ing cy­cles of cos­mic force; whether we trace the lines of spir­i­tual grav­ity to the Eter­nal Son or fol­low the in­ward pro­ces­sional of the Par­a­dise Sons of God; whether we trace out the mind cir­cuits or fol­low the tril­lions upon tril­lions of ce­les­tial be­ings who spring from the In­fi­nite Spirit—by any of these ob­ser­va­tions or by all of them we are led di­rectly back to the Fa­ther’s pres­ence, to his cen­tral abode. Here is God per­son­ally, lit­er­ally, and ac­tu­ally pres­ent. And from his in­fi­nite be­ing there flow the flood-streams of life, en­ergy, and per­son­al­ity to all uni­verses.

26:1.17These bril­liant crea­tures of light are sus­tained di­rectly by the in­take of the spir­i­tual en­ergy of the pri­mary cir­cuits of the uni­verse. Uran­tia mor­tals must ob­tain light-en­ergy through the veg­e­ta­tive in­car­na­tion, but the an­gelic hosts are en­cir­cuited; they “have food that you know not.” They also par­take of the cir­cu­lat­ing teach­ings of the mar­velous Trin­ity Teacher Sons; they have a re­cep­tion of knowl­edge and an in­take of wis­dom much re­sem­bling their tech­nique of as­sim­i­lat­ing the life en­er­gies.

3:1.6The om­nipres­ence of God is in re­al­ity a part of his in­fi­nite na­ture; space con­sti­tutes no bar­rier to De­ity. God is, in per­fec­tion and with­out lim­i­ta­tion, dis­cernibly pres­ent only on Par­a­dise and in the cen­tral uni­verse. He is not thus ob­serv­ably pres­ent in the cre­ations en­cir­cling Ha­vona, for God has lim­ited his di­rect and ac­tual pres­ence in rec­og­ni­tion of the sov­er­eignty and the di­vine pre­rog­a­tives of the co-or­di­nate cre­ators and rulers of the uni­verses of time and space. Hence must the con­cept of the di­vine pres­ence al­low for a wide range of both mode and chan­nel of man­i­fes­ta­tion em­brac­ing the pres­ence cir­cuits of the Eter­nal Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit, and the Isle of Par­a­dise. Nor is it al­ways pos­si­ble to dis­tin­guish be­tween the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the ac­tions of his eter­nal co-or­di­nates and agen­cies, so per­fectly do they ful­fill all the in­fi­nite re­quire­ments of his un­chang­ing pur­pose. But not so with the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit and the Ad­justers; here God acts uniquely, di­rectly, and ex­clu­sively.

29:2.164. Lo­cal Uni­verse Cen­ters. On the head­quar­ters of each lo­cal uni­verse are sta­tioned one hun­dred power cen­ters of the fourth or­der. They func­tion to down­step and oth­er­wise to mod­ify the seven power cir­cuits em­a­nat­ing from super­uni­verse head­quar­ters, thus mak­ing them ap­pli­ca­ble to the ser­vices of the con­stel­la­tions and sys­tems. The lo­cal as­tro­nom­i­cal catas­tro­phes of space are of pass­ing con­cern to these power cen­ters; they are en­gaged in the or­derly dis­patch of ef­fec­tive en­ergy to the sub­sidiary con­stel­la­tions and sys­tems. They are of great as­sis­tance to the Cre­ator Sons dur­ing the later times of uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion and en­ergy mo­bi­liza­tion. These cen­ters are able to pro­vide in­ten­si­fied lanes of en­ergy use­ful for in­ter­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween im­por­tant in­hab­ited points. Such a lane or line of en­ergy, some­times also called an en­ergy path, is a di­rect cir­cuit of en­ergy from one power cen­ter to an­other power cen­ter or from one phys­i­cal con­trol­ler to an­other con­trol­ler. It is an in­di­vid­u­al­ized stream of power and stands in con­trast to the free space move­ments of un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated en­ergy.

15:9.1The uni­ver­sal cir­cuits of Par­a­dise do ac­tu­ally per­vade the realms of the seven super­uni­verses. These pres­ence cir­cuits are: the per­son­al­ity grav­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son, the mind grav­ity of the Con­joint Ac­tor, and the ma­te­rial grav­ity of the eter­nal Isle.

15:9.2In ad­di­tion to the uni­ver­sal Par­a­dise cir­cuits and in ad­di­tion to the pres­ence-per­for­mances of the Ab­so­lutes and the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties, there func­tion within the super­uni­verse space level only two en­ergy-cir­cuit di­vi­sions or power seg­re­ga­tions: the super­uni­verse cir­cuits and the lo­cal uni­verse cir­cuits.

15:9.3The Super­uni­verse Cir­cuits:

15:9.41. The uni­fy­ing in­tel­li­gence cir­cuit of one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise. Such a cos­mic-mind cir­cuit is lim­ited to a sin­gle super­uni­verse.

15:9.52. The re­flec­tive-ser­vice cir­cuit of the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its in each super­uni­verse.

15:9.63. The se­cret cir­cuits of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors, in some man­ner in­teras­so­ci­ated and routed by Di­vin­ing­ton to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther on Par­a­dise.

15:9.74. The cir­cuit of the in­ter­com­mu­nion of the Eter­nal Son with his Par­a­dise Sons.

15:9.85. The flash pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

15:9.96. The broad­casts of Par­a­dise, the space re­ports of Ha­vona.

15:9.107. The en­ergy cir­cuits of the power cen­ters and the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers.

15:9.11The Lo­cal Uni­verse Cir­cuits:

15:9.121. The be­stowal spirit of the Par­a­dise Sons, the Com­forter of the be­stowal worlds. The Spirit of Truth, the spirit of Mi­chael on Uran­tia.

15:9.132. The cir­cuit of the Di­vine Min­is­ters, the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spir­its, the Holy Spirit of your world.

15:9.143. The in­tel­li­gence-min­istry cir­cuit of a lo­cal uni­verse, in­clud­ing the di­versely func­tion­ing pres­ence of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its.

15:9.15When there de­vel­ops such a spir­i­tual har­mony in a lo­cal uni­verse that its in­di­vid­ual and com­bined cir­cuits be­come in­dis­tin­guish­able from those of the super­uni­verse, when such iden­tity of func­tion and one­ness of min­istry ac­tu­ally pre­vail, then does the lo­cal uni­verse im­me­di­ately swing into the set­tled cir­cuits of light and life, be­com­ing at once el­i­gi­ble for ad­mis­sion into the spir­i­tual con­fed­er­a­tion of the per­fected union of the super­cre­ation. The req­ui­sites for ad­mis­sion to the coun­cils of the An­cients of Days, mem­ber­ship in the super­uni­verse con­fed­er­a­tion, are:

15:9.161. Phys­i­cal Sta­bil­ity. The stars and plan­ets of a lo­cal uni­verse must be in equi­lib­rium; the pe­ri­ods of im­me­di­ate stel­lar meta­mor­pho­sis must be over. The uni­verse must be pro­ceed­ing on a clear track; its or­bit must be safely and fi­nally set­tled.

15:9.172. Spir­i­tual Loy­alty. There must ex­ist a state of uni­ver­sal rec­og­ni­tion of, and loy­alty to, the Sov­er­eign Son of God who pre­sides over the af­fairs of such a lo­cal uni­verse. There must have come into be­ing a state of har­mo­nious co-op­er­a­tion be­tween the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets, sys­tems, and con­stel­la­tions of the en­tire lo­cal uni­verse.

15:9.18Your lo­cal uni­verse is not even reck­oned as be­long­ing to the set­tled phys­i­cal or­der of the super­uni­verse, much less as hold­ing mem­ber­ship in the rec­og­nized spir­i­tual fam­ily of the super­gov­ern­ment. Al­though Neb­a­don does not yet have rep­re­sen­ta­tion on Uversa, we of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment are dis­patched to its worlds on spe­cial mis­sions from time to time, even as I have come to Uran­tia di­rectly from Uversa. We lend ev­ery pos­si­ble as­sis­tance to your di­rec­tors and rulers in the so­lu­tion of their dif­fi­cult prob­lems; we are de­sirous of see­ing your uni­verse qual­i­fied for full ad­mis­sion into the as­so­ci­ated cre­ations of the super­uni­verse fam­ily.

17:3.10Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age the space range of the ex­tra-Par­a­dise re­flec­tiv­ity ser­vice seems to be lim­ited by the pe­riph­ery of the seven super­uni­verses. Oth­er­wise, the func­tion of this ser­vice seems to be in­de­pen­dent of time and space. It ap­pears to be in­de­pen­dent of all known sub­ab­so­lute uni­verse cir­cuits.

23:1.1Im­me­di­ately fol­low­ing the cre­ation of the Seven Spir­its of the Ha­vona Cir­cuits the In­fi­nite Spirit brought into be­ing the vast corps of Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers. There is no part of the uni­ver­sal cre­ation which is pre-ex­is­tent to the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers ex­cept Par­a­dise and the Ha­vona cir­cuits; they have func­tioned through­out the grand uni­verse from near eter­nity. They are fun­da­men­tal to the di­vine tech­nique of the In­fi­nite Spirit for self-rev­e­la­tion to, and per­sonal con­tact with, the far-flung cre­ations of time and space.