local universe Mother Spirits

• local universe Mother Spirits

9:8.4The next and con­tin­u­ing cre­ative act of the In­fi­nite Spirit is dis­closed, from time to time, in the pro­duc­tion of the Cre­ative Spir­its. Ev­ery time the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son be­come par­ent to a Cre­ator Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit be­comes an­ces­tor to a lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit who be­comes the close as­so­ciate of that Cre­ator Son in all sub­se­quent uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence.

9:8.5Just as it is nec­es­sary to dis­tin­guish be­tween the Eter­nal Son and the Cre­ator Sons, so it is nec­es­sary to dif­fer­en­ti­ate be­tween the In­fi­nite Spirit and the Cre­ative Spir­its, the lo­cal uni­verse co-or­di­nates of the Cre­ator Sons. What the In­fi­nite Spirit is to the to­tal cre­ation, a Cre­ative Spirit is to a lo­cal uni­verse.

17:6.1Much that per­tains to the na­ture and func­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spir­its prop­erly be­longs to the nar­ra­tive of their as­so­ci­a­tion with the Cre­ator Sons in the or­ga­ni­za­tion and man­age­ment of the lo­cal cre­ations; but there are many fea­tures of the pre­lo­cal uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ences of these mar­velous be­ings which may be nar­rated as a part of this dis­cus­sion of the seven Su­preme Spirit groups.

17:6.2We are con­ver­sant with six phases of the ca­reer of a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit, and we spec­u­late much con­cern­ing the prob­a­bil­ity of a sev­enth stage of ac­tiv­ity. These dif­fer­ent stages of ex­is­tence are:

17:6.31. Ini­tial Par­a­dise Dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion. When a Cre­ator Son is per­son­al­ized by the joint ac­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son, si­mul­ta­ne­ously there oc­curs in the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit what is known as the “su­preme re­ac­tion of com­ple­ment.” We do not com­pre­hend the na­ture of this re­ac­tion, but we un­der­stand that it des­ig­nates an in­her­ent mod­i­fi­ca­tion of those per­son­al­iz­able pos­si­bil­i­ties which are em­braced within the cre­ative po­ten­tial of the Con­joint Cre­ator. The birth of a co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Son sig­nal­izes the birth within the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit of the po­ten­tial of the fu­ture lo­cal uni­verse con­sort of this Par­a­dise Son. We are not cog­nizant of this new preper­sonal iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of en­tity, but we know that this fact finds place on the Par­a­dise rec­ords of the ca­reer of such a Cre­ator Son.

17:6.42. Pre­lim­i­nary Cre­ator­ship Train­ing. Dur­ing the long pe­riod of the pre­lim­i­nary train­ing of a Mi­chael Son in the or­ga­ni­za­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion of uni­verses, his fu­ture con­sort un­der­goes fur­ther de­vel­op­ment of en­tity and be­comes group con­scious of des­tiny. We do not know, but we sus­pect that such a group-con­scious en­tity be­comes space cog­nizant and be­gins that pre­lim­i­nary train­ing req­ui­site to the ac­quire­ment of spirit skill in her fu­ture work of col­lab­o­ra­tion with the com­ple­men­tal Mi­chael in uni­verse cre­ation and ad­min­is­tra­tion.

17:6.53. The Stage of Phys­i­cal Cre­ation. At the time the cre­ator­ship charge is ad­min­is­tered to a Mi­chael Son by the Eter­nal Son, the Mas­ter Spirit who di­rects the super­uni­verse to which this new Cre­ator Son is des­tined gives ex­pres­sion to the “prayer of iden­ti­fi­ca­tion” in the pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit; and for the first time, the en­tity of the sub­se­quent Cre­ative Spirit ap­pears as dif­fer­en­ti­ated from the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit. And pro­ceed­ing di­rectly to the per­son of the pe­ti­tion­ing Mas­ter Spirit, this en­tity is im­me­di­ately lost to our rec­og­ni­tion, be­com­ing ap­par­ently a part of the per­son of this Mas­ter Spirit. The newly iden­ti­fied Cre­ative Spirit re­mains with the Mas­ter Spirit un­til the mo­ment of the de­par­ture of the Cre­ator Son for the ad­ven­ture of space; where­upon the Mas­ter Spirit com­mits the new Spirit con­sort to the keep­ing of the Cre­ator Son, at the same time ad­min­is­ter­ing to the Spirit con­sort the charge of eter­nal fi­delity and un­end­ing loy­alty. And then oc­curs one of the most pro­foundly touch­ing episodes which ever take place on Par­a­dise. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther speaks in ac­knowl­edg­ment of the eter­nal union of the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit and in con­fir­ma­tion of the be­stowal of cer­tain joint pow­ers of ad­min­is­tra­tion by the Mas­ter Spirit of super­uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion.

17:6.6The Fa­ther-united Cre­ator Son and Cre­ative Spirit then go forth on their ad­ven­ture of uni­verse cre­ation. And they work to­gether in this form of as­so­ci­a­tion through­out the long and ar­du­ous pe­riod of the ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tion of their uni­verse.

17:6.74. The Life-Cre­ation Era. Upon the dec­la­ra­tion of in­ten­tion to cre­ate life by the Cre­ator Son, there en­sue on Par­a­dise the “per­son­al­iza­tion cer­e­monies,” par­tic­i­pated in by the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and per­son­ally ex­pe­ri­enced by the super­vis­ing Mas­ter Spirit. This is a Par­a­dise De­ity con­tri­bu­tion to the in­di­vid­u­al­ity of the Spirit con­sort of the Cre­ator Son and be­comes man­i­fest to the uni­verse in the phe­nom­e­non of “the pri­mary erup­tion” in the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Si­mul­ta­ne­ously with this phe­nom­e­non on Par­a­dise, the here­to­fore im­per­sonal Spirit con­sort of the Cre­ator Son be­comes, to all prac­ti­cal in­tents and pur­poses, a bona fide per­son. Hence­forth and forever­more, this same lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit will be re­garded as a per­son and will main­tain per­sonal re­la­tions with all the per­son­al­ity hosts of the en­su­ing life cre­ation.

17:6.85. The Postbestowal Ages. An­other and great change oc­curs in the never-end­ing ca­reer of a Cre­ative Spirit when the Cre­ator Son re­turns to uni­verse head­quar­ters af­ter the com­ple­tion of his sev­enth be­stowal and sub­se­quent to his ac­quire­ment of full uni­verse sov­er­eignty. On that oc­ca­sion, be­fore the as­sem­bled ad­min­is­tra­tors of the uni­verse, the tri­umphant Cre­ator Son el­e­vates the Uni­verse Mother Spirit to cosovereignty and ac­knowl­edges the Spirit con­sort as his equal.

17:6.96. The Ages of Light and Life. Upon the es­tab­lish­ment of the era of light and life the lo­cal uni­verse cosovereign en­ters upon the sixth phase of a Cre­ative Spirit’s ca­reer. But we may not por­tray the na­ture of this great ex­pe­ri­ence. Such things per­tain to a fu­ture stage of evo­lu­tion in Neb­a­don.

17:6.107. The Un­re­vealed Ca­reer. We know of these six phases of the ca­reer of a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. It is in­ev­i­ta­ble that we should ask: Is there a sev­enth ca­reer? We are mind­ful that, when fi­nal­i­ters at­tain what ap­pears to be their fi­nal des­tiny of mor­tal as­cen­sion, they are of rec­ord as en­ter­ing upon the ca­reer of sixth-stage spir­its. We con­jec­ture that there awaits the fi­nal­i­ters still an­other and un­re­vealed ca­reer in uni­verse as­sign­ment. It is only to be ex­pected that we would like­wise re­gard the Uni­verse Mother Spir­its as hav­ing ahead of them some undis­closed ca­reer which will con­sti­tute their sev­enth phase of per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence in uni­verse ser­vice and loyal co-op­er­a­tion with the or­der of the Cre­ator Mi­cha­els.

9:8.183. The Cre­ative Spir­its of the Lo­cal Uni­verses.

33:3.2The Uni­verse Mother Spirit of Sal­ving­ton, the as­so­ciate of Mi­chael in the con­trol and ad­min­is­tra­tion of Neb­a­don, is of the sixth group of Su­preme Spir­its, be­ing the 611,121^st of that or­der. She vol­un­teered to ac­com­pany Mi­chael on the oc­ca­sion of his lib­er­a­tion from Par­a­dise obli­ga­tions and has ever since func­tioned with him in cre­at­ing and gov­ern­ing his uni­verse.

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• Universe Mother Spirits

14:6.326. The Co-or­di­nate Min­is­ter­ing Daugh­ters. The Uni­verse Mother Spir­its, cocre­ators of the lo­cal uni­verses, se­cure their preper­sonal train­ing on the worlds of Ha­vona in close as­so­ci­a­tion with the Spir­its of the Cir­cuits. In the cen­tral uni­verse the Spirit Daugh­ters of the lo­cal uni­verses were duly trained in the meth­ods of co-op­er­a­tion with the Sons of Par­a­dise, all the while sub­ject to the will of the Fa­ther.

• Daughters of the Spirit

14:6.33On the worlds of Ha­vona the Spirit and the Daugh­ters of the Spirit find the mind pat­terns for all their groups of spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial in­tel­li­gences, and this cen­tral uni­verse is the some­time des­tiny of those crea­tures which a Uni­verse Mother Spirit jointly spon­sors with an as­so­ci­ated Cre­ator Son.

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14:6.34The Uni­verse Mother Cre­ator re­mem­bers Par­a­dise and Ha­vona as the place of her ori­gin and the home of the In­fi­nite Mother Spirit, the abode of the per­son­al­ity pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Mind.

• Universe Divine Ministers

14:6.35From this cen­tral uni­verse also came the be­stowal of the per­sonal pre­rog­a­tives of cre­ator­ship which a Uni­verse Di­vine Min­is­ter em­ploys as com­ple­men­tal to a Cre­ator Son in the work of cre­at­ing liv­ing will crea­tures.

• Daughter Spirits

14:6.36And lastly, since these Daugh­ter Spir­its of the In­fi­nite Mother Spirit will not likely ever re­turn to their Par­a­dise home, they de­rive great sat­is­fac­tion from the uni­ver­sal re­flec­tiv­ity phe­nom­e­non as­so­ci­ated with the Su­preme Be­ing in Ha­vona and per­son­al­ized in Maj­es­ton on Par­a­dise.

• Creative Spirits

15:0.1As far as the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is con­cerned—as a Fa­ther—the uni­verses are vir­tu­ally nonex­is­tent; he deals with per­son­al­i­ties; he is the Fa­ther of per­son­al­i­ties. As far as the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit are con­cerned—as cre­ator part­ners—the uni­verses are lo­cal­ized and in­di­vid­ual un­der the joint rule of the Cre­ator Sons and the Cre­ative Spir­its. As far as the Par­a­dise Trin­ity is con­cerned, out­side Ha­vona there are just seven in­hab­ited uni­verses, the seven super­uni­verses which hold ju­ris­dic­tion over the cir­cle of the first post-Ha­vona space level. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its ra­di­ate their in­flu­ence out from the cen­tral Isle, thus con­sti­tut­ing the vast cre­ation one gi­gan­tic wheel, the hub be­ing the eter­nal Isle of Par­a­dise, the seven spokes the ra­di­a­tions of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, the rim the outer re­gions of the grand uni­verse.

• Creative Spirits

16:5.3The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its do not di­rectly in­vade the ma­te­rial minds of the in­di­vid­ual crea­tures on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space. The mor­tals of Uran­tia do not ex­pe­ri­ence the per­sonal pres­ence of the mind-spirit in­flu­ence of the Mas­ter Spirit of Or­von­ton. If this Mas­ter Spirit does at­tain any sort of con­tact with the in­di­vid­ual mor­tal mind dur­ing the ear­lier evo­lu­tion­ary ages of an in­hab­ited world, it must oc­cur through the min­istry of the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit, the con­sort and as­so­ciate of the Cre­ator Son of God who pre­sides over the des­tinies of each lo­cal cre­ation. But this very Cre­ative Mother Spirit is, in na­ture and char­ac­ter, quite like the Mas­ter Spirit of Or­von­ton.

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• Divine Ministers

21:2.2When a Cre­ator Son de­parts from Par­a­dise to em­bark upon the ad­ven­ture of uni­verse mak­ing, to be­come the head—vir­tu­ally the God—of the lo­cal uni­verse of his own or­ga­ni­za­tion, then, for the first time, he finds him­self in in­ti­mate con­tact with, and in many re­spects de­pen­dent upon, the Third Source and Cen­ter. The In­fi­nite Spirit, though abid­ing with the Fa­ther and the Son at the cen­ter of all things, is des­tined to func­tion as the ac­tual and ef­fec­tive helper of each Cre­ator Son. There­fore is each Cre­ator Son ac­com­pa­nied by a Cre­ative Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit, that be­ing who is des­tined to be­come the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the Mother Spirit of the new lo­cal uni­verse.

• Creative Spirits
• Daughters of the Spirit
• Universe Mother Spirits
• Universe Spirits

21:2.9When such a per­fect and di­vine Son has taken pos­ses­sion of the space site of his cho­sen uni­verse; when the ini­tial prob­lems of uni­verse ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion and of gross equi­lib­rium have been re­solved; when he has formed an ef­fec­tive and co-op­er­a­tive work­ing union with the com­ple­men­tal Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit—then do this Uni­verse Son and this Uni­verse Spirit ini­ti­ate that li­ai­son which is de­signed to give ori­gin to the in­nu­mer­able hosts of their lo­cal uni­verse chil­dren. In con­nec­tion with this event the Cre­ative Spirit fo­cal­iza­tion of the Par­a­dise In­fi­nite Spirit be­comes changed in na­ture, tak­ing on the per­sonal qual­i­ties of the Mother Spirit of a lo­cal uni­verse.

21:2.10Not­with­stand­ing that all Cre­ator Sons are di­vinely like their Par­a­dise par­ents, none ex­actly re­sem­bles an­other; each is unique, di­verse, ex­clu­sive, and orig­i­nal in na­ture as well as in per­son­al­ity. And since they are the ar­chi­tects and mak­ers of the life plans of their re­spec­tive realms, this very di­ver­sity in­sures that their do­mains will also be di­verse in ev­ery form and phase of Mi­chael-de­rived liv­ing ex­is­tence which may be cre­ated or sub­se­quently evolved therein. Hence the or­ders of crea­tures na­tive to the lo­cal uni­verses are quite var­ied. No two are ad­min­is­tered or in­hab­ited by dual-ori­gin na­tive be­ings who are in all re­spects iden­ti­cal. Within any super­uni­verse, one half of their in­her­ent at­tri­butes are quite alike, be­ing de­rived from the uni­form Cre­ative Spir­its; the other half vary, be­ing de­rived from the di­ver­si­fied Cre­ator Sons. But such di­ver­sity does not char­ac­ter­ize those crea­tures of sole ori­gin in the Cre­ative Spirit nor those im­ported be­ings who are na­tive to the cen­tral or super­uni­verses.

• Universe Mother Spirits

21:3.62. Con­joint vicegerent sov­er­eignty—the joint rule of the Par­a­dise pair sub­se­quent to the per­son­al­ity achieve­ment of the Uni­verse Mother Spirit.

• Creative Spirits

34:0.2A Cre­ative Spirit re­acts to both phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties; so does a Cre­ator Son; and thus are they co-or­di­nate and as­so­ciate in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of a lo­cal uni­verse of time and space.

• Daughter Spirits
• Universe Spirits

34:0.3These Daugh­ter Spir­its are of the essence of the In­fi­nite Spirit, but they can­not func­tion in the work of phys­i­cal cre­ation and spir­i­tual min­istry si­mul­ta­ne­ously. In phys­i­cal cre­ation the Uni­verse Son pro­vides the pat­tern while the Uni­verse Spirit ini­ti­ates the ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion of phys­i­cal re­al­i­ties. The Son op­er­ates in the power de­signs, but the Spirit trans­forms these en­ergy cre­ations into phys­i­cal sub­stances. Al­though it is some­what dif­fi­cult to por­tray this early uni­verse pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit as a per­son, nev­er­the­less, to the Cre­ator Son the Spirit as­so­ciate is per­sonal and has al­ways func­tioned as a dis­tinct in­di­vid­ual.

• Creative Spirits
• Divine Ministers

34:1.1Af­ter the com­ple­tion of the phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion of a starry and plan­e­tary clus­ter and the es­tab­lish­ment of the en­ergy cir­cuits by the super­uni­verse power cen­ters, sub­se­quent to this pre­lim­i­nary work of cre­ation by the agen­cies of the In­fi­nite Spirit, op­er­at­ing through, and un­der the di­rec­tion of, his lo­cal uni­verse cre­ative fo­cal­iza­tion, there goes forth the procla­ma­tion of the Mi­chael Son that life is next to be pro­jected in the newly or­ga­nized uni­verse. Upon the Par­a­dise rec­og­ni­tion of this dec­la­ra­tion of in­ten­tion, there oc­curs a re­ac­tion of ap­proval in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, fol­lowed by the dis­ap­pear­ance in the spir­i­tual shin­ing of the De­i­ties of the Mas­ter Spirit in whose super­uni­verse this new cre­ation is or­ga­niz­ing. Mean­while the other Mas­ter Spir­its draw near this cen­tral lodg­ment of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties, and sub­se­quently, when the De­ity-em­braced Mas­ter Spirit emerges to the rec­og­ni­tion of his fel­lows, there oc­curs what is known as a “pri­mary erup­tion.” This is a tremen­dous spir­i­tual flash, a phe­nom­e­non clearly dis­cern­i­ble as far away as the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse con­cerned; and si­mul­ta­ne­ously with this lit­tle-un­der­stood Trin­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion there oc­curs a marked change in the na­ture of the cre­ative spirit pres­ence and power of the In­fi­nite Spirit res­i­dent in the lo­cal uni­verse con­cerned. In re­sponse to these Par­a­dise phe­nom­ena there im­me­di­ately per­son­al­izes, in the very pres­ence of the Cre­ator Son, a new per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit. This is the Di­vine Min­is­ter. The in­di­vid­u­al­ized Cre­ative Spirit helper of the Cre­ator Son has be­come his per­sonal cre­ative as­so­ciate, the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit.

• Creative Mother Spirits
• Divine Ministers

34:1.4This per­son­al­ized pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Cre­ative Mother Spirit of the lo­cal uni­verse, is known in Sa­ta­nia as the Di­vine Min­is­ter. To all prac­ti­cal in­tents and spir­i­tual pur­poses this man­i­fes­ta­tion of De­ity is a di­vine in­di­vid­ual, a spirit per­son. And she is so rec­og­nized and re­garded by the Cre­ator Son. It is through this lo­cal­iza­tion and per­son­al­iza­tion of the Third Source and Cen­ter in our lo­cal uni­verse that the Spirit could sub­se­quently be­come so fully sub­ject to the Cre­ator Son that of this Son it was truly said, “All power in heaven and on earth has been in­trusted to him.”

• Divine Ministers
• Universe Spirits

34:2.3In each lo­cal uni­verse the Di­vine Min­is­ter func­tions in ac­cor­dance with the na­ture and in­her­ent char­ac­ter­is­tics of the In­fi­nite Spirit as em­bod­ied in one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise. While there is a ba­sic uni­for­mity of char­ac­ter in all Uni­verse Spir­its, there is also a di­ver­sity of func­tion, de­ter­mined by their ori­gin through one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. This dif­fer­en­tial of ori­gin ac­counts for the di­verse tech­niques in the func­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spir­its in dif­fer­ent super­uni­verses. But in all es­sen­tial spir­i­tual at­tri­butes these Spir­its are iden­ti­cal, equally spir­i­tual and wholly di­vine, ir­re­spec­tive of super­uni­verse dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion.

• Creative Spirits

34:2.4The Cre­ative Spirit is core­spon­si­ble with the Cre­ator Son in pro­duc­ing the crea­tures of the worlds and never fails the Son in all ef­forts to up­hold and con­serve these cre­ations. Life is min­is­tered and main­tained through the agency of the Cre­ative Spirit. “You send forth your Spirit, and they are cre­ated. You re­new the face of the earth.”

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• Universe Spirits

34:2.5In the cre­ation of a uni­verse of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures the Cre­ative Mother Spirit func­tions first in the sphere of uni­verse per­fec­tion, col­lab­o­rat­ing with the Son in the pro­duc­tion of the Bright and Morn­ing Star. Sub­se­quently the off­spring of the Spirit in­creas­ingly ap­proach the or­der of cre­ated be­ings on the plan­ets, even as the Sons grade down­ward from the Mel­chiz­e­deks to the Ma­te­rial Sons, who ac­tu­ally con­tact with the mor­tals of the realms. In the later evo­lu­tion of mor­tal crea­tures the Life Car­rier Sons pro­vide the phys­i­cal body, fab­ri­cated out of the ex­ist­ing or­ga­nized ma­te­rial of the realm, while the Uni­verse Spirit con­tributes the “breath of life.”

• Creative Spirits
• Universe Spirits

34:3.3In per­sonal pre­rog­a­tives a Cre­ative Spirit is wholly and en­tirely in­de­pen­dent of space, but not of time. There is no spe­cial­ized per­sonal pres­ence of such a Uni­verse Spirit on ei­ther the con­stel­la­tion or sys­tem head­quar­ters. She is equally and dif­fusely pres­ent through­out her en­tire lo­cal uni­verse and is, there­fore, just as lit­er­ally and per­son­ally pres­ent on one world as on any other.

• Divine Ministers

34:3.6The Di­vine Min­is­ter is the un­der­stand­ing helper of the Cre­ator Son, en­abling him to over­come and atone for his in­her­ent lim­i­ta­tions re­gard­ing space, for when these two func­tion in ad­min­is­tra­tive union, they are prac­ti­cally in­de­pen­dent of time and space within the con­fines of their lo­cal cre­ation. There­fore, as prac­ti­cally ob­served through­out a lo­cal uni­verse, the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit usu­ally func­tion in­de­pen­dently of both time and space since there is al­ways avail­able to each the time and the space lib­er­a­tion of the other.

• Creative Mother Spirits

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.

• Divine Ministers
• Mother Creator
• Universe Spirits

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.

• Divine Ministers

34:5.1The Di­vine Min­is­ter co-op­er­ates with the Cre­ator Son in the for­mu­la­tion of life and the cre­ation of new or­ders of be­ings up to the time of his sev­enth be­stowal and, sub­se­quently, af­ter his el­e­va­tion to the full sov­er­eignty of the uni­verse, con­tin­ues to col­lab­o­rate with the Son and the Son’s be­stowed spirit in the fur­ther work of world min­istry and plan­e­tary pro­gres­sion.

• Universe Daughter

34:5.7The pres­ence of the Holy Spirit of the Uni­verse Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit, of the Spirit of Truth of the Uni­verse Son of the Eter­nal Son, and of the Ad­juster-spirit of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther in or with an evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tal, de­notes sym­me­try of spir­i­tual en­dow­ment and min­istry and qual­i­fies such a mor­tal con­sciously to re­al­ize the faith-fact of son­ship with God.

• Universe Daughter

35:1.1Af­ter bring­ing into ex­is­tence the be­ings of per­sonal aid, such as the Bright and Morn­ing Star and other ad­min­is­tra­tive per­son­al­i­ties, in ac­cor­dance with the di­vine pur­pose and cre­ative plans of a given uni­verse, there oc­curs a new form of cre­ative union be­tween the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit, the lo­cal uni­verse Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit. The per­son­al­ity off­spring re­sult­ing from this cre­ative part­ner­ship is the orig­i­nal Mel­chiz­e­dek—the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek—that unique be­ing who sub­se­quently col­lab­o­rates with the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit to bring into ex­is­tence the en­tire group of that name.

• Creative Daughters
• Universe Mother Spirits

36:3.4The vi­tal spark—the mys­tery of life—is be­stowed through the Life Car­ri­ers, not by them. They do in­deed super­vise such trans­ac­tions, they for­mu­late the life plasm it­self, but it is the Uni­verse Mother Spirit who sup­plies the es­sen­tial fac­tor of the liv­ing plasm. From the Cre­ative Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit comes that en­ergy spark which en­livens the body and presages the mind.

• Universe Mother Spirits

36:5.1It is the pres­ence of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its on the prim­i­tive worlds that con­di­tions the course of or­ganic evo­lu­tion; that ex­plains why evo­lu­tion is pur­pose­ful and not ac­ci­den­tal. These ad­ju­tants rep­re­sent that func­tion of the mind min­istry of the In­fi­nite Spirit which is ex­tended to the lower or­ders of in­tel­li­gent life through the op­er­a­tions of a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. The ad­ju­tants are the chil­dren of the Uni­verse Mother Spirit and con­sti­tute her per­sonal min­istry to the ma­te­rial minds of the realms. Wher­ever and when­ever such mind is man­i­fest, these spir­its are var­i­ously func­tion­ing.

• Divine Ministers
• Universe Mother Spirits

36:5.3The cen­tral lodg­ments of the ad­ju­tant spir­its on the Life Car­rier head­quar­ters world in­di­cate to the Life Car­rier super­vi­sors the ex­tent and qual­ity of the mind func­tion of the ad­ju­tants on any world and in any given liv­ing or­gan­ism of in­tel­lect sta­tus. These life-mind em­place­ments are per­fect in­di­ca­tors of liv­ing mind func­tion for the first five ad­ju­tants. But with re­gard to the sixth and sev­enth ad­ju­tant spir­its—wor­ship and wis­dom—these cen­tral lodg­ments re­cord only a qual­i­ta­tive func­tion. The quan­ti­ta­tive ac­tiv­ity of the ad­ju­tant of wor­ship and the ad­ju­tant of wis­dom is reg­is­tered in the im­me­di­ate pres­ence of the Di­vine Min­is­ter on Sal­ving­ton, be­ing a per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence of the Uni­verse Mother Spirit.

36:5.4The seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its al­ways ac­com­pany the Life Car­ri­ers to a new planet, but they should not be re­garded as en­ti­ties; they are more like cir­cuits. The spir­its of the seven uni­verse ad­ju­tants do not func­tion as per­son­al­i­ties apart from the uni­verse pres­ence of the Di­vine Min­is­ter; they are in fact a level of con­scious­ness of the Di­vine Min­is­ter and are al­ways sub­or­di­nate to the ac­tion and pres­ence of their cre­ative mother.

• Divine Ministers
• Universe Mother Spirits

36:5.16The ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are in no man­ner di­rectly re­lated to the di­verse and highly spir­i­tual func­tion of the spirit of the per­sonal pres­ence of the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the Holy Spirit of the in­hab­ited worlds; but they are func­tion­ally an­te­ced­ent to, and prepara­tory for, the ap­pear­ance of this very spirit in evo­lu­tion­ary man. The ad­ju­tants af­ford the Uni­verse Mother Spirit a var­ied con­tact with, and con­trol over, the ma­te­rial liv­ing crea­tures of a lo­cal uni­verse, but they do not reper­cuss in the Su­preme Be­ing when act­ing on preper­son­al­ity lev­els.

• Universe Spirits

36:6.3Life Car­ri­ers can or­ga­nize the ma­te­rial forms, or phys­i­cal pat­terns, of liv­ing be­ings, but the Spirit pro­vides the ini­tial spark of life and be­stows the en­dow­ment of mind. Even the liv­ing forms of ex­per­i­men­tal life which the Life Car­ri­ers or­ga­nize on their Sal­ving­ton worlds are al­ways de­void of re­pro­duc­tive pow­ers. When the life for­mu­las and the vi­tal pat­terns are cor­rectly as­sem­bled and prop­erly or­ga­nized, the pres­ence of a Life Car­rier is suf­fi­cient to ini­ti­ate life, but all such liv­ing or­gan­isms are lack­ing in two es­sen­tial at­tri­butes—mind en­dow­ment and re­pro­duc­tive pow­ers. An­i­mal mind and hu­man mind are gifts of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit, func­tion­ing through the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its, while crea­ture abil­ity to re­pro­duce is the spe­cific and per­sonal im­par­ta­tion of the Uni­verse Spirit to the an­ces­tral life plasm in­au­gu­rated by the Life Car­ri­ers.

• Universe Mother Spirits

36:6.7There are some things con­nected with the elab­o­ra­tion of life on the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets which are not al­to­gether clear to us. We fully com­pre­hend the phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion of the elec­tro­chem­i­cal for­mu­las of the Life Car­ri­ers, but we do not wholly un­der­stand the na­ture and source of the life-ac­ti­va­tion spark. We know that life flows from the Fa­ther through the Son and by the Spirit. It is more than pos­si­ble that the Mas­ter Spir­its are the sev­en­fold chan­nel of the river of life which is poured out upon all cre­ation. But we do not com­pre­hend the tech­nique whereby the super­vis­ing Mas­ter Spirit par­tic­i­pates in the ini­tial episode of life be­stowal on a new planet. The An­cients of Days, we are con­fi­dent, also have some part in this in­au­gu­ra­tion of life on a new world, but we are wholly ig­no­rant of the na­ture thereof. We do know that the Uni­verse Mother Spirit ac­tu­ally vi­tal­izes the life­less pat­terns and im­parts to such ac­ti­vated plasm the pre­rog­a­tives of or­gan­is­mal re­pro­duc­tion. We ob­serve that these three are the lev­els of God the Sev­en­fold, some­times des­ig­nated as the Su­preme Cre­ators of time and space; but oth­er­wise we know lit­tle more than Uran­tia mor­tals—sim­ply that con­cept is in­her­ent in the Fa­ther, ex­pres­sion in the Son, and life re­al­iza­tion in the Spirit.

• Divine Ministers

37:0.1At the head of all per­son­al­ity in Neb­a­don stands the Cre­ator and Mas­ter Son, Mi­chael, the uni­verse fa­ther and sov­er­eign. Co-or­di­nate in di­vin­ity and com­ple­men­tal in cre­ative at­tri­butes is the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit, the Di­vine Min­is­ter of Sal­ving­ton. And these cre­ators are in a very lit­eral sense the Fa­ther-Son and the Spirit-Mother of all the na­tive crea­tures of Neb­a­don.

• Divine Ministers

40:10.2Spirit-fused mor­tals are of the lo­cal uni­verse; they do not, or­di­nar­ily, as­cend be­yond the con­fines of their na­tive realm, be­yond the bound­aries of the space range of the spirit that per­vades them. Son-fused as­cend­ers like­wise rise to the source of spirit en­dow­ment, for much as the Truth Spirit of a Cre­ator Son fo­cal­izes in the as­so­ci­ated Di­vine Min­is­ter, so is his “fu­sion spirit” im­ple­mented in the Re­flec­tive Spir­its of the higher uni­verses. Such spirit re­la­tion­ship be­tween the lo­cal and the super­uni­verse lev­els of God the Sev­en­fold may be dif­fi­cult of ex­pla­na­tion but not of dis­cern­ment, be­ing un­mis­tak­ably re­vealed in those chil­dren of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its—the sec­o­raphic Voices of the Cre­ator Sons. The Thought Ad­juster, hail­ing from the Fa­ther on Par­a­dise, never stops un­til the mor­tal son stands face to face with the eter­nal God.

• Divine Ministers

41:0.1The char­ac­ter­is­tic space phe­nom­e­non which sets off each lo­cal cre­ation from all oth­ers is the pres­ence of the Cre­ative Spirit. All Neb­a­don is cer­tainly per­vaded by the space pres­ence of the Di­vine Min­is­ter of Sal­ving­ton, and such pres­ence just as cer­tainly ter­mi­nates at the outer bor­ders of our lo­cal uni­verse. That which is per­vaded by our lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit is Neb­a­don; that which ex­tends be­yond her space pres­ence is out­side Neb­a­don, be­ing the ex­tra-Neb­a­don space re­gions of the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton—other lo­cal uni­verses.

• Divine Ministers

50:1.1The Plan­e­tary Prince and his as­sis­tant breth­ren rep­re­sent the near­est per­son­al­ized ap­proach (aside from in­car­na­tion) that the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise can make to the lowly crea­tures of time and space. True, the Cre­ator Son touches the crea­tures of the realms through his spirit, but the Plan­e­tary Prince is the last of the or­ders of per­sonal Sons ex­tend­ing out from Par­a­dise to the chil­dren of men. The In­fi­nite Spirit comes very near in the per­sons of the guard­i­ans of des­tiny and other an­gelic be­ings; the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther lives in man by the preper­sonal pres­ence of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors; but the Plan­e­tary Prince rep­re­sents the last ef­fort of the Eter­nal Son and his Sons to draw near you. On a newly in­hab­ited world the Plan­e­tary Prince is the sole rep­re­sen­ta­tive of com­plete di­vin­ity, spring­ing from the Cre­ator Son (the off­spring of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son) and the Di­vine Min­is­ter (the uni­verse Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit).

• Divine Ministers

56:3.4While mind is more uni­fied on the level of the Mas­ter Spir­its in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Su­preme Be­ing and as the cos­mic mind in sub­or­di­na­tion to the Ab­so­lute Mind, the spirit min­istry to the evolv­ing worlds is more di­rectly uni­fied in the per­son­al­i­ties res­i­dent on the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verses and in the per­sons of the pre­sid­ing Di­vine Min­is­ters, who are in turn well-nigh per­fectly cor­re­lated with the Par­a­dise grav­ity cir­cuit of the Eter­nal Son, wherein oc­curs fi­nal uni­fi­ca­tion of all time-space spirit man­i­fes­ta­tions.

56:5.3The pres­ent func­tion­ing of di­vin­ity in the super­uni­verses is ac­tively man­i­fest in the op­er­a­tions of the Su­preme Cre­ators—the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ator Sons and Spir­its, the super­uni­verse An­cients of Days, and the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise. These be­ings con­sti­tute the first three lev­els of God the Sev­en­fold lead­ing in­ward to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and this en­tire do­main of God the Sev­en­fold is co-or­di­nat­ing on the first level of ex­pe­ri­en­tial de­ity in the evolv­ing Su­preme Be­ing.

116:2.4And this is the ori­gin of God the Sev­en­fold, whose suc­ces­sive lev­els are en­coun­tered by mor­tal man in the fol­low­ing or­der:

116:2.51. The Cre­ator Sons (and Cre­ative Spir­its).

116:2.62. The An­cients of Days.

116:2.73. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

116:2.84. The Su­preme Be­ing.

116:2.95. The Con­joint Ac­tor.

116:2.106. The Eter­nal Son.

116:2.117. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

116:2.12The first three lev­els are the Su­preme Cre­ators; the last three lev­els are the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. The Su­preme ever in­ter­venes as the ex­pe­ri­en­tial spirit per­son­al­iza­tion of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and as the ex­pe­ri­en­tial fo­cus of the evo­lu­tion­ary al­mighty power of the cre­ator chil­dren of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. The Su­preme Be­ing is the max­i­mum rev­e­la­tion of De­ity to the seven super­uni­verses and for the pres­ent uni­verse age.

• inherent capacity of physical control

32:1.3The lo­cal uni­verses are all ap­prox­i­mately of the same en­ergy po­ten­tial, though they dif­fer greatly in phys­i­cal di­men­sions and may vary in vis­i­ble-mat­ter con­tent from time to time. The power charge and po­ten­tial-mat­ter en­dow­ment of a lo­cal uni­verse are de­ter­mined by the ma­nip­u­la­tions of the power di­rec­tors and their pre­de­ces­sors as well as by the Cre­ator Son’s ac­tiv­i­ties and by the en­dow­ment of the in­her­ent phys­i­cal con­trol pos­sessed by his cre­ative as­so­ciate.

• Proclamation of Equality by new Master Sons

33:3.5Upon the com­ple­tion of the Cre­ator Son’s sev­enth and fi­nal crea­ture be­stowal, the un­cer­tain­ties of pe­ri­odic iso­la­tion ter­mi­nate for the Di­vine Min­is­ter, and the Son’s uni­verse helper be­comes for­ever set­tled in surety and con­trol. It is at the en­throne­ment of the Cre­ator Son as a Mas­ter Son, at the ju­bilee of ju­bilees, that the Uni­verse Spirit, be­fore the as­sem­bled hosts, first makes pub­lic and uni­ver­sal ac­knowl­edg­ment of sub­or­di­na­tion to the Son, pledg­ing fi­delity and obe­di­ence. This event oc­curred in Neb­a­don at the time of Mi­chael’s re­turn to Sal­ving­ton af­ter the Uran­tian be­stowal. Never be­fore this mo­men­tous oc­ca­sion did the Uni­verse Spirit ac­knowl­edge sub­or­di­na­tion to the Uni­verse Son, and not un­til af­ter this vol­un­tary re­lin­quish­ment of power and au­thor­ity by the Spirit could it be truth­fully pro­claimed of the Son that “all power in heaven and on earth has been com­mit­ted to his hand.”

• antigravity
• inherent capacity of physical control

34:2.2From the ear­li­est as­so­ci­a­tion with the Cre­ator Son the Uni­verse Spirit pos­sesses all the phys­i­cal-con­trol at­tri­butes of the In­fi­nite Spirit, in­clud­ing the full en­dow­ment of anti­grav­ity. Upon the at­tain­ment of per­sonal sta­tus the Uni­verse Spirit ex­erts just as full and com­plete con­trol of mind grav­ity, in the lo­cal uni­verse, as would the In­fi­nite Spirit if per­son­ally pres­ent.

34:3.4Only as re­gards the el­e­ment of time is a Cre­ative Spirit ever lim­ited in her uni­verse min­is­tra­tions. A Cre­ator Son acts in­stan­ta­neously through­out his uni­verse; but the Cre­ative Spirit must reckon with time in the min­is­tra­tion of the uni­ver­sal mind ex­cept as she con­sciously and de­signedly avails her­self of the per­sonal pre­rog­a­tives of the Uni­verse Son. In pure-spirit func­tion the Cre­ative Spirit also acts in­de­pen­dently of time as well as in her col­lab­o­ra­tion with the mys­te­ri­ous func­tion of uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity.

• each is equally and diffusely present in her universe

34:3.8When a Cre­ative Spirit be­comes “space con­scious,” she is prepar­ing to rec­og­nize a cir­cum­scribed “space do­main” as hers, a realm in which to be space free in con­tradis­tinc­tion to all other space by which she would be con­di­tioned. One is free to choose and act only within the realm of one’s con­scious­ness.

• supply living spark of life through Life Carriers

36:3.3When, in ac­cor­dance with ap­proved for­mu­las, the phys­i­cal pat­terns have been pro­vided, then do the Life Car­ri­ers cat­alyze this life­less ma­te­rial, im­part­ing through their per­sons the vi­tal spirit spark; and forth­with do the in­ert pat­terns be­come liv­ing mat­ter.

36:3.5In the be­stowal of life the Life Car­ri­ers trans­mit noth­ing of their per­sonal na­tures, not even on those spheres where new or­ders of life are pro­jected. At such times they sim­ply ini­ti­ate and trans­mit the spark of life, start the re­quired rev­o­lu­tions of mat­ter in ac­cor­dance with the phys­i­cal, chem­i­cal, and elec­tri­cal spec­i­fi­ca­tions of the or­dained plans and pat­terns. Life Car­ri­ers are liv­ing cat­alytic pres­ences which ag­i­tate, or­ga­nize, and vi­tal­ize the oth­er­wise in­ert el­e­ments of the ma­te­rial or­der of ex­is­tence.

• supply living spark of life through Life Carriers

36:6.2Things ma­te­rial may en­joy an in­de­pen­dent ex­is­tence, but life springs only from life. Mind can be de­rived only from pre-ex­is­tent mind. Spirit takes ori­gin only from spirit an­ces­tors. The crea­ture may pro­duce the forms of life, but only a cre­ator per­son­al­ity or a cre­ative force can sup­ply the ac­ti­vat­ing liv­ing spark.

36:6.4When the Life Car­ri­ers have de­signed the pat­terns of life, af­ter they have or­ga­nized the en­ergy sys­tems, there must oc­cur an ad­di­tional phe­nom­e­non; the “breath of life” must be im­parted to these life­less forms. The Sons of God can con­struct the forms of life, but it is the Spirit of God who re­ally con­tributes the vi­tal spark. And when the life thus im­parted is spent, then again the re­main­ing ma­te­rial body be­comes dead mat­ter. When the be­stowed life is ex­hausted, the body re­turns to the bo­som of the ma­te­rial uni­verse from which it was bor­rowed by the Life Car­ri­ers to serve as a tran­sient ve­hi­cle for that life en­dow­ment which they con­veyed to such a vis­i­ble as­so­ci­a­tion of en­ergy-mat­ter.

• each is equally and diffusely present in her universe
• presence defines extent of each local universe

45:1.8Num­ber 6. The World of the Spirit. This sphere serves as the sys­tem ren­dezvous of the high per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Its seven sur­round­ing satel­lites are as­signed to in­di­vid­ual groups of these di­verse or­ders. But on tran­si­tion world num­ber six there is no rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the Spirit, nei­ther is such a pres­ence to be ob­served on the sys­tem cap­i­tals; the Di­vine Min­is­ter of Sal­ving­ton is ev­ery­where in Neb­a­don.

• source of local universe intellect

112:6.6There are no in­flu­ences in the lo­cal uni­verse ca­reer com­pa­ra­ble to the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its of hu­man ex­is­tence. The mor­ontia mind must evolve by di­rect con­tact with cos­mic mind, as this cos­mic mind has been mod­i­fied and trans­lated by the cre­ative source of lo­cal uni­verse in­tel­lect—the Di­vine Min­is­ter.

• each is equally and diffusely present in her universe
• presence defines extent of each local universe

116:5.13In the early days of uni­verse build­ing even the Par­a­dise Cre­ators are pri­mar­ily con­cerned with ma­te­rial equi­lib­rium. The pat­tern of a lo­cal uni­verse takes shape not only as a re­sult of the ac­tiv­i­ties of the power cen­ters but also be­cause of the space pres­ence of the Cre­ative Spirit. And through­out these early epochs of lo­cal uni­verse build­ing the Cre­ator Son ex­hibits a lit­tle-un­der­stood at­tri­bute of ma­te­rial con­trol, and he does not leave his cap­i­tal planet un­til the gross equi­lib­rium of the lo­cal uni­verse has been es­tab­lished.

• achievement of personality by creative co-operation with Creator Son
• unique personalizations of Infinite Spirit

33:3.1While per­vad­ing all the uni­verses of time and space, the In­fi­nite Spirit func­tions from the head­quar­ters of each lo­cal uni­verse as a spe­cial­ized fo­cal­iza­tion ac­quir­ing full per­son­al­ity qual­i­ties by the tech­nique of cre­ative co-op­er­a­tion with the Cre­ator Son. As con­cerns a lo­cal uni­verse, the ad­min­is­tra­tive au­thor­ity of a Cre­ator Son is su­preme; the In­fi­nite Spirit, as the Di­vine Min­is­ter, is wholly co-op­er­a­tive though per­fectly co-or­di­nate.

• unique personalizations of Infinite Spirit

34:0.1When a Cre­ator Son is per­son­al­ized by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son, then does the In­fi­nite Spirit in­di­vid­u­al­ize a new and unique rep­re­sen­ta­tion of him­self to ac­com­pany this Cre­ator Son to the realms of space, there to be his com­pan­ion, first, in phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion and, later, in cre­ation and min­istry to the crea­tures of the newly pro­jected uni­verse.

34:1.2From and through this new per­sonal seg­re­ga­tion of the Con­joint Cre­ator there pro­ceed the es­tab­lished cur­rents and the or­dained cir­cuits of spirit power and spir­i­tual in­flu­ence des­tined to per­vade all the worlds and be­ings of that lo­cal uni­verse. In re­al­ity, this new and per­sonal pres­ence is but a trans­for­ma­tion of the pre-ex­is­tent and less per­sonal as­so­ciate of the Son in his ear­lier work of phys­i­cal uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion.

• become personal likeness of associated Master Spirit

34:1.3This is the re­la­tion of a stu­pen­dous drama in few words, but it rep­re­sents about all that can be told re­gard­ing these mo­men­tous trans­ac­tions. They are in­stan­ta­neous, in­scrutable, and in­com­pre­hen­si­ble; the se­cret of the tech­nique and pro­ce­dure re­sides in the bo­som of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. Of only one thing are we cer­tain: The Spirit pres­ence in the lo­cal uni­verse dur­ing the time of purely phys­i­cal cre­ation or or­ga­ni­za­tion was in­com­pletely dif­fer­en­ti­ated from the spirit of the Par­a­dise In­fi­nite Spirit; whereas, af­ter the reap­pear­ance of the super­vis­ing Mas­ter Spirit from the se­cret em­brace of the Gods and fol­low­ing the flash of spir­i­tual en­ergy, the lo­cal uni­verse man­i­fes­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit sud­denly and com­pletely changes to the per­sonal like­ness of that Mas­ter Spirit who was in trans­mut­ing li­ai­son with the In­fi­nite Spirit. The lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit thus ac­quires a per­sonal na­ture tinged by that of the Mas­ter Spirit of the super­uni­verse of as­tro­nomic ju­ris­dic­tion.

• achievement of personality by creative co-operation with Creator Son

34:2.1Hav­ing un­der­gone marked per­son­al­ity meta­mor­pho­sis at the time of life cre­ation, the Di­vine Min­is­ter there­after func­tions as a per­son and co-op­er­ates in a very per­sonal man­ner with the Cre­ator Son in the plan­ning and man­age­ment of the ex­ten­sive af­fairs of their lo­cal cre­ation. To many uni­verse types of be­ing, even this rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit may not ap­pear to be wholly per­sonal dur­ing the ages pre­ced­ing the fi­nal Mi­chael be­stowal; but sub­se­quent to the el­e­va­tion of the Cre­ator Son to the sov­er­eign au­thor­ity of a Mas­ter Son, the Cre­ative Mother Spirit be­comes so aug­mented in per­sonal qual­i­ties as to be per­son­ally rec­og­nized by all con­tact­ing in­di­vid­u­als.

• unique personalizations of Infinite Spirit

38:6.3Though serv­ing un­der the di­rect super­vi­sion of the In­fi­nite Spirit as per­son­al­ized on Sal­ving­ton, since the be­stowal of Mi­chael on Uran­tia, ser­a­phim and all other lo­cal uni­verse or­ders have be­come sub­ject to the sov­er­eignty of the Mas­ter Son. Even when Mi­chael was born of the flesh on Uran­tia, there is­sued the super­uni­verse broad­cast to all Neb­a­don which pro­claimed, “And let all the an­gels wor­ship him.” All ranks of an­gels are sub­ject to his sov­er­eignty; they are a part of that group which has been de­nom­i­nated “his mighty an­gels.”

• unique personalizations of Infinite Spirit

39:0.1As far as we are cog­nizant, the In­fi­nite Spirit, as per­son­al­ized on the lo­cal uni­verse head­quar­ters, in­tends to pro­duce uni­formly per­fect ser­a­phim, but for some un­known rea­son these se­raphic off­spring are very di­verse. This di­ver­sity may be a re­sult of the un­known in­ter­po­si­tion of evolv­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity; if so, we can­not prove it. But we do ob­serve that, when ser­a­phim have been sub­jected to ed­u­ca­tional tests and train­ing dis­ci­pline, they un­fail­ingly and dis­tinctly clas­sify into the fol­low­ing seven groups:

• evolves from living power focus to status of divine personality

116:4.8In the lo­cal uni­verses even the Cre­ators evolve: The pres­ence of the Con­joint Ac­tor evolves from a liv­ing power fo­cus to the sta­tus of the di­vine per­son­al­ity of a Uni­verse Mother Spirit; the Cre­ator Son evolves from the na­ture of ex­is­ten­tial Par­a­dise di­vin­ity to the ex­pe­ri­en­tial na­ture of su­preme sov­er­eignty. The lo­cal uni­verses are the start­ing points of true evo­lu­tion, the spawn­ing grounds of bona fide im­per­fect per­son­al­i­ties en­dowed with the free­will choice of be­com­ing cocre­ators of them­selves as they are to be.

28:5.22So it is with mor­tal man: The Mother Spirit of Sal­ving­ton knows you fully, for the Holy Spirit on your world “searches all things,” and what­so­ever the di­vine Spirit knows of you is im­me­di­ately avail­able when­ever the sec­o­raphic dis­cern­ers re­flect with the Spirit con­cern­ing the Spirit’s knowl­edge of you. It should, how­ever, be men­tioned that the knowl­edge and plans of the Fa­ther frag­ments are not re­flectible. The dis­cern­ers can and do re­flect the pres­ence of the Ad­justers (and the Cen­sors pro­nounce them di­vine), but they can­not de­ci­pher the con­tent of the mind­ed­ness of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors.

33:3.6Af­ter this pledge of sub­or­di­na­tion by the Cre­ative Mother Spirit, Mi­chael of Neb­a­don nobly ac­knowl­edged his eter­nal de­pen­dence on his Spirit com­pan­ion, con­sti­tut­ing the Spirit coruler of his uni­verse do­mains and re­quir­ing all their crea­tures to pledge them­selves in loy­alty to the Spirit as they had to the Son; and there is­sued and went forth the fi­nal “Procla­ma­tion of Equal­ity.” Though he was the sov­er­eign of this lo­cal uni­verse, the Son pub­lished to the worlds the fact of the Spirit’s equal­ity with him in all en­dow­ments of per­son­al­ity and at­tri­butes of di­vine char­ac­ter. And this be­comes the tran­scen­dent pat­tern for the fam­ily or­ga­ni­za­tion and gov­ern­ment of even the lowly crea­tures of the worlds of space. This is, in deed and in truth, the high ideal of the fam­ily and the hu­man in­sti­tu­tion of vol­un­tary mar­riage.

• create local universes with Creator Sons

8:3.4A Cre­ator Son of the Eter­nal Son and a Cre­ative Spirit of the In­fi­nite Spirit cre­ated you and your uni­verse; and while the Fa­ther in faith­ful­ness up­holds that which they have or­ga­nized, it de­volves upon this Uni­verse Son and this Uni­verse Spirit to fos­ter and sus­tain their work as well as to min­is­ter to the crea­tures of their own mak­ing.

• ministers and helpers of Michael Sons

8:4.4When a Cre­ator Son of God ac­cepts the cre­ator­ship charge of re­spon­si­bil­ity for a pro­jected lo­cal uni­verse, the per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit pledge them­selves as the tire­less min­is­ters of this Mi­chael Son when he goes forth on his mis­sion of cre­ative ad­ven­ture. Es­pe­cially in the per­sons of the Cre­ative Daugh­ters, the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spir­its, do we find the In­fi­nite Spirit de­voted to the task of fos­ter­ing the as­cen­sion of the ma­te­rial crea­tures to higher and higher lev­els of spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. And all this work of crea­ture min­istry is done in per­fect har­mony with the pur­poses, and in close as­so­ci­a­tion with the per­son­al­i­ties, of the Cre­ator Sons of these lo­cal uni­verses.

• Creator Sons invest their spiritual presence in Mother Spirits when absent

21:2.11When a Mi­chael Son is ab­sent from his uni­verse, its gov­ern­ment is di­rected by the first-born na­tive be­ing, the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the lo­cal uni­verse chief ex­ec­u­tive. The ad­vice and coun­sel of the Union of Days is in­valu­able at such times. Dur­ing these ab­sences a Cre­ator Son is able to in­vest the as­so­ci­ated Mother Spirit with the over­con­trol of his spir­i­tual pres­ence on the in­hab­ited worlds and in the hearts of his mor­tal chil­dren. And the Mother Spirit of a lo­cal uni­verse re­mains al­ways at its head­quar­ters, ex­tend­ing her fos­ter­ing care and spir­i­tual min­istry to the ut­ter­most parts of such an evo­lu­tion­ary do­main.

• nominate Paradise Companions

25:8.2Mem­bers of the an­gelic hosts are nom­i­nated for this ser­vice by the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spir­its, by the super­uni­verse Re­flec­tive Spir­its, and by Maj­es­ton of Par­a­dise. They are sum­moned to the cen­tral Isle and are com­mis­sioned as Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions by one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. Aside from per­ma­nent sta­tus on Par­a­dise, this tem­po­rary ser­vice of Par­a­dise com­pan­ion­ship is the high­est honor ever con­ferred upon the min­is­ter­ing spir­its.

• early function

32:2.6Pres­ently, the phys­i­cal plan of a uni­verse is com­pleted, and the Cre­ator Son, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Cre­ative Spirit, projects his plan of life cre­ation; where­upon does this rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit be­gin her uni­verse func­tion as a dis­tinct cre­ative per­son­al­ity. When this first cre­ative act is for­mu­lated and ex­e­cuted, there springs into be­ing the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of this ini­tial cre­ative con­cept of iden­tity and ideal of di­vin­ity. This is the chief ex­ec­u­tive of the uni­verse, the per­sonal as­so­ciate of the Cre­ator Son, one like him in all as­pects of char­ac­ter, though markedly lim­ited in the at­tri­butes of di­vin­ity.

• as Infinite Spirit to local universes

33:3.3The Mas­ter Cre­ator Son is the per­sonal sov­er­eign of his uni­verse, but in all the de­tails of its man­age­ment the Uni­verse Spirit is codi­rec­tor with the Son. While the Spirit ever ac­knowl­edges the Son as sov­er­eign and ruler, the Son al­ways ac­cords the Spirit a co-or­di­nate po­si­tion and equal­ity of au­thor­ity in all the af­fairs of the realm. In all his work of love and life be­stowal the Cre­ator Son is al­ways and ever per­fectly sus­tained and ably as­sisted by the all-wise and ever-faith­ful Uni­verse Spirit and by all of her di­ver­si­fied ret­inue of an­gelic per­son­al­i­ties. Such a Di­vine Min­is­ter is in re­al­ity the mother of spir­its and spirit per­son­al­i­ties, the ever-pres­ent and all-wise ad­viser of the Cre­ator Son, a faith­ful and true man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Par­a­dise In­fi­nite Spirit.

• do not contest rebellion
• function as mothers

33:3.4The Son func­tions as a fa­ther in his lo­cal uni­verse. The Spirit, as mor­tal crea­tures would un­der­stand, en­acts the role of a mother, al­ways as­sist­ing the Son and be­ing ev­er­last­ingly in­dis­pens­able to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­verse. In the face of in­sur­rec­tion only the Son and his as­so­ci­ated Sons can func­tion as de­liv­er­ers. Never can the Spirit un­der­take to con­test re­bel­lion or de­fend au­thor­ity, but ever does the Spirit sus­tain the Son in all of ev­ery­thing he may be re­quired to ex­pe­ri­ence in his ef­forts to sta­bi­lize gov­ern­ment and up­hold au­thor­ity on worlds tainted with evil or dom­i­nated by sin. Only a Son can re­trieve the work of their joint cre­ation, but no Son could hope for fi­nal suc­cess with­out the in­ces­sant co-op­er­a­tion of the Di­vine Min­is­ter and her vast as­sem­blage of spirit helpers, the daugh­ters of God, who so faith­fully and valiantly strug­gle for the wel­fare of mor­tal men and the glory of their di­vine par­ents.

• function as mothers

33:3.7The Son and the Spirit now pre­side over the uni­verse much as a fa­ther and mother watch over, and min­is­ter to, their fam­ily of sons and daugh­ters. It is not al­to­gether out of place to re­fer to the Uni­verse Spirit as the cre­ative com­pan­ion of the Cre­ator Son and to re­gard the crea­tures of the realms as their sons and daugh­ters—a grand and glo­ri­ous fam­ily but one of un­told re­spon­si­bil­i­ties and end­less watch­care.

• function as mothers

33:5.1The ad­min­is­tra­tion of Trin­ity-ori­gin per­son­al­i­ties ends with the gov­ern­ment of the super­uni­verses. The lo­cal uni­verses are char­ac­ter­ized by dual super­vi­sion, the be­gin­ning of the fa­ther-mother con­cept. The uni­verse fa­ther is the Cre­ator Son; the uni­verse mother is the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit. Ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse is, how­ever, blessed with the pres­ence of cer­tain per­son­al­i­ties from the cen­tral uni­verse and Par­a­dise. At the head of this Par­a­dise group in Neb­a­don is the am­bas­sador of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity—Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton—the Union of Days as­signed to the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. In a cer­tain sense this high Trin­ity Son is also the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to the court of the Cre­ator Son; hence his name, Im­manuel.

• endow life

34:5.2On the in­hab­ited worlds the Spirit be­gins the work of evo­lu­tion­ary pro­gres­sion, start­ing with the life­less ma­te­rial of the realm, first en­dow­ing veg­etable life, then the an­i­mal or­gan­isms, then the first or­ders of hu­man ex­is­tence; and each suc­ceed­ing im­par­ta­tion con­tributes to the fur­ther un­fold­ing of the evo­lu­tion­ary po­ten­tial of plan­e­tary life from the ini­tial and prim­i­tive stages to the ap­pear­ance of will crea­tures. This la­bor of the Spirit is largely ef­fected through the seven ad­ju­tants, the spir­its of prom­ise, the uni­fy­ing and co-or­di­nat­ing spirit-mind of the evolv­ing plan­ets, ever and unit­edly lead­ing the races of men to­wards higher ideas and spir­i­tual ide­als.

• progressively blend ministry with Master Spirit and Infinite Spirit

55:10.9Spec­u­la­tion con­cern­ing the func­tion of these Cre­ator Sons in con­nec­tion with the outer uni­verses now in pro­cess of pre­lim­i­nary as­sem­bly is wholly fu­tile. But we all en­gage in such pos­tu­la­tions from time to time. On at­tain­ing this fourth stage of de­vel­op­ment the Cre­ator Son be­comes ad­min­is­tra­tively free; the Di­vine Min­is­ter is pro­gres­sively blend­ing her min­istry with that of the super­uni­verse Mas­ter Spirit and the In­fi­nite Spirit. There seems to be evolv­ing a new and sub­lime re­la­tion­ship be­tween the Cre­ator Son, the Cre­ative Spirit, the Evening Stars, the Teacher Sons, and the ever-in­creas­ing fi­nal­i­ter corps.

• will accompany Creator Sons if they go to outer universes

55:10.11We are, how­ever, sat­is­fied re­gard­ing two fea­tures of our spec­u­la­tions: If the Cre­ator Sons are des­tined to the outer uni­verses, the Di­vine Min­is­ters will un­doubt­edly ac­com­pany them. We are equally sure that the Mel­chiz­e­deks are to re­main with the uni­verses of their ori­gin. We hold that the Mel­chiz­e­deks are des­tined to play ever-in­creas­ingly re­spon­si­ble parts in lo­cal uni­verse gov­ern­ment and ad­min­is­tra­tion.

30:1.615. Uni­verse Mother Spir­its.

30:2.206. Lo­cal Uni­verse Cre­ative Spir­its.

118:9.8In the eter­nity of the past the Fa­ther and the Son found union in the unity of the ex­pres­sion of the In­fi­nite Spirit. If, in the eter­nity of the fu­ture, the Cre­ator Sons and the Cre­ative Spir­its of the lo­cal uni­verses of time and space should at­tain cre­ative union in the realms of outer space, what would their unity cre­ate as the com­bined ex­pres­sion of their di­vine na­tures? It may well be that we are to wit­ness a hith­erto un­re­vealed man­i­fes­ta­tion of Ul­ti­mate De­ity, a new type of super­ad­min­is­tra­tor. Such be­ings would em­brace unique pre­rog­a­tives of per­son­al­ity, be­ing the union of per­sonal Cre­ator, im­per­sonal Cre­ative Spirit, mor­tal-crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence, and pro­gres­sive per­son­al­iza­tion of the Di­vine Min­is­ter. Such be­ings could be ul­ti­mate in that they would em­brace per­sonal and im­per­sonal re­al­ity, while they would com­bine the ex­pe­ri­ences of Cre­ator and crea­ture. What­ever the at­tri­butes of such third per­sons of these pos­tu­lated func­tion­ing trin­i­ties of the cre­ations of outer space, they will sus­tain some­thing of the same re­la­tion to their Cre­ator Fa­thers and their Cre­ative Moth­ers that the In­fi­nite Spirit does to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son.

• Holy Spirit is spirit of

8:5.3In your sa­cred writ­ings the term Spirit of God seems to be used in­ter­change­ably to des­ig­nate both the In­fi­nite Spirit on Par­a­dise and the Cre­ative Spirit of your lo­cal uni­verse. The Holy Spirit is the spir­i­tual cir­cuit of this Cre­ative Daugh­ter of the Par­a­dise In­fi­nite Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a cir­cuit in­dige­nous to each lo­cal uni­verse and is con­fined to the spir­i­tual realm of that cre­ation; but the In­fi­nite Spirit is om­ni­pres­ent.

• each bestows cosmic mind to her universe

9:5.4Since the Third Per­son of De­ity is the source of mind, it is quite nat­u­ral that the evo­lu­tion­ary will crea­tures find it eas­ier to form com­pre­hen­si­ble con­cepts of the In­fi­nite Spirit than they do of ei­ther the Eter­nal Son or the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The re­al­ity of the Con­joint Cre­ator is dis­closed im­per­fectly in the very ex­is­tence of hu­man mind. The Con­joint Cre­ator is the an­ces­tor of the cos­mic mind, and the mind of man is an in­di­vid­u­al­ized cir­cuit, an im­per­sonal por­tion, of that cos­mic mind as it is be­stowed in a lo­cal uni­verse by a Cre­ative Daugh­ter of the Third Source and Cen­ter.

• Holy Spirit is spirit of

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

• adjutant mind-spirits are bestowal of, level of consciousness of

17:7.1These ad­ju­tant spir­its are the sev­en­fold mind be­stowal of a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit upon the liv­ing crea­tures of the con­joint cre­ation of a Cre­ator Son and such a Cre­ative Spirit. This be­stowal be­comes pos­si­ble at the time of the Spirit’s el­e­va­tion to the sta­tus of per­son­al­ity pre­rog­a­tives. The nar­ra­tion of the na­ture and func­tion­ing of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its be­longs more ap­pro­pri­ately to the story of your lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don.

• Spirit of Truth functionally centered in

20:6.8When the mor­tal in­car­na­tion is fin­ished, the Avo­nal of ser­vice pro­ceeds to Par­a­dise, is ac­cepted by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, re­turns to the lo­cal uni­verse of as­sign­ment, and is ac­knowl­edged by the Cre­ator Son. There­upon the be­stowal Avo­nal and the Cre­ator Son send their con­joint Spirit of Truth to func­tion in the hearts of the mor­tal races dwell­ing on the be­stowal world. In the presovereignty ages of a lo­cal uni­verse, this is the joint spirit of both Sons, im­ple­mented by the Cre­ative Spirit. It dif­fers some­what from the Spirit of Truth which char­ac­ter­izes the lo­cal uni­verse ages fol­low­ing a Mi­chael’s sev­enth be­stowal.

• Solitary Messengers function under

23:1.8These mes­sen­gers of soli­tary as­sign­ment are a de­pend­able, self-re­liant, ver­sa­tile, thor­oughly spir­i­tual, and broadly sym­pa­thetic group of cre­ated be­ings de­rived from the Third Source and Cen­ter; they op­er­ate by the au­thor­ity of the In­fi­nite Spirit res­i­dent on the cen­tral Isle of Par­a­dise and as per­son­al­ized on the head­quar­ters spheres of the lo­cal uni­verses. They are con­stant par­tak­ers of the di­rect cir­cuit em­a­nat­ing from the In­fi­nite Spirit, even when they func­tion in the lo­cal cre­ations un­der the im­me­di­ate in­flu­ence of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spir­its.

• Spirit of Truth functionally centered in

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.

• Holy Spirit is spirit of

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.

36:5.2The seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are called by names which are the equiv­a­lents of the fol­low­ing des­ig­na­tions: in­tu­ition, un­der­stand­ing, cour­age, knowl­edge, coun­sel, wor­ship, and wis­dom. These mind-spir­its send forth their in­flu­ence into all the in­hab­ited worlds as a dif­fer­en­tial urge, each seek­ing re­cep­tiv­ity ca­pac­ity for man­i­fes­ta­tion quite apart from the de­gree to which its fel­lows may find re­cep­tion and op­por­tu­nity for func­tion.

• participate in bestowal of Spirit of Truth

52:5.6Upon the res­ur­rec­tion of a be­stowal Son, on the third day af­ter yield­ing up his in­car­nated life, he as­cends to the right hand of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, re­ceives the as­sur­ance of the ac­cep­tance of the be­stowal mis­sion, and re­turns to the Cre­ator Son at the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse. There­upon the be­stowal Avo­nal and the Cre­ator Mi­chael send their joint spirit, the Spirit of Truth, into the be­stowal world. This is the oc­ca­sion when the “spirit of the tri­umphant Son is poured out upon all flesh.” The Uni­verse Mother Spirit also par­tic­i­pates in this be­stowal of the Spirit of Truth, and con­comi­tant there­with there is­sues the be­stowal edict of the Thought Ad­justers. There­after all nor­mal-minded will crea­tures of that world will re­ceive Ad­justers as soon as they at­tain the age of moral re­spon­si­bil­ity, of spir­i­tual choice.

• Material Sons maintain immortal status through association with mind-gravity circuit of

75:7.51. Adam and Eve, like their fel­lows on Je­ru­sem, main­tained im­mor­tal sta­tus through in­tel­lec­tual as­so­ci­a­tion with the mind-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Spirit. When this vi­tal sus­te­nance is bro­ken by men­tal dis­junc­tion, then, re­gard­less of the spir­i­tual level of crea­ture ex­is­tence, im­mor­tal­ity sta­tus is lost. Mor­tal sta­tus fol­lowed by phys­i­cal dis­so­lu­tion was the in­ev­i­ta­ble con­se­quence of the in­tel­lec­tual de­fault of Adam and Eve.

• adjutant mind-spirits are bestowal of, level of consciousness of

194:2.12In a way, man­kind is sub­ject to the dou­ble in­flu­ence of the sev­en­fold ap­peal of the uni­verse spirit in­flu­ences. The early evo­lu­tion­ary races of mor­tals are sub­ject to the pro­gres­sive con­tact of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. As man pro­gresses up­ward in the scale of in­tel­li­gence and spir­i­tual per­cep­tion, there even­tu­ally come to hover over him and dwell within him the seven higher spirit in­flu­ences. And these seven spir­its of the ad­vanc­ing worlds are:

• adjutant mind-spirits are bestowal of, level of consciousness of

194:2.186. The mind-spirit of the Uni­verse Mother Spirit—the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its of the lo­cal uni­verse.

• local universe angelic orders created by

17:8.2To­gether with their In­fi­nite Mother Spirit, the Su­preme Spirit groups are the im­me­di­ate cre­ators of the vast crea­ture fam­ily of the Third Source and Cen­ter. All or­ders of the min­is­ter­ing spir­its spring from this as­so­ci­a­tion. Pri­mary super­na­phim orig­i­nate in the In­fi­nite Spirit; sec­ondary be­ings of this or­der are cre­ated by the Mas­ter Spir­its; ter­tiary super­na­phim by the Seven Spir­its of the Cir­cuits. The Re­flec­tive Spir­its, col­lec­tively, are the mother-mak­ers of a mar­velous or­der of the an­gelic hosts, the mighty se­con­a­phim of the super­uni­verse ser­vices. A Cre­ative Spirit is the mother of the an­gelic or­ders of a lo­cal cre­ation; such se­raphic min­is­ters are orig­i­nal in each lo­cal uni­verse, though they are fash­ioned af­ter the pat­terns of the cen­tral uni­verse. All these cre­ators of min­is­ter­ing spir­its are only in­di­rectly as­sisted by the cen­tral lodg­ment of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the orig­i­nal and eter­nal mother of all the an­gelic min­is­ters.

• Morontia Companions

25:7.1These chil­dren of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spir­its are the friends and as­so­ciates of all who live the as­cend­ing mor­ontia life. They are not in­dis­pens­able to an as­cender’s real work of crea­ture pro­gres­sion, nei­ther do they in any sense dis­place the work of the se­raphic guard­i­ans who of­ten ac­com­pany their mor­tal as­so­ciates on the Par­adise jour­ney. The Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions are sim­ply gra­cious hosts to those who are just be­gin­ning the long in­ward as­cent. They are also skill­ful play spon­sors and are ably as­sisted in this work by the re­ver­sion di­rec­tors.

• local universe angelic orders created by

26:1.143. The Min­is­ter­ing Spir­its of the Lo­cal Uni­verses em­brace the ser­a­phim and their as­sis­tants, the cheru­bim. With these off­spring of a Uni­verse Mother Spirit mor­tal as­cend­ers have ini­tial con­tact. The mid­way crea­tures, of na­tiv­ity on the in­hab­ited worlds, are not re­ally of the an­gelic or­ders proper, though of­ten func­tion­ally grouped with the min­is­ter­ing spir­its. Their story, with an ac­count of the ser­a­phim and cheru­bim, is pre­sented in those pa­pers deal­ing with the af­fairs of your lo­cal uni­verse.

• Bright and Morning Stars are first-born of

28:1.3Through­out the early times of uni­verse build­ing, these one thou­sand ter­tiaphim are the only per­sonal staff of a Cre­ator Son. They ac­quire a mighty ex­pe­ri­ence as Son as­sis­tants dur­ing these stir­ring ages of uni­verse as­sem­bling and other as­tro­nom­i­cal ma­nip­u­la­tions. They serve by the side of the Cre­ator Son un­til the day of the per­son­al­iza­tion of the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the first-born of a lo­cal uni­verse. There­upon the for­mal res­ig­na­tions of the ter­tiaphim are ten­dered and ac­cepted. And with the ap­pear­ance of the ini­tial or­ders of na­tive an­gelic life, they re­tire from ac­tive ser­vice in the lo­cal uni­verse and be­come the li­ai­son min­is­ters be­tween the Cre­ator Son of for­mer at­tach­ment and the An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse con­cerned.

• local universe angelic orders created by

33:3.8The Son ini­ti­ates the cre­ation of cer­tain of the uni­verse chil­dren, while the Spirit is solely re­spon­si­ble for bring­ing into ex­is­tence the nu­mer­ous or­ders of spirit per­son­al­i­ties who min­is­ter and serve un­der the di­rec­tion and guid­ance of this self­same Mother Spirit. In the cre­ation of other types of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties, both the Son and the Spirit func­tion to­gether, and in no cre­ative act does the one do aught with­out the coun­sel and ap­proval of the other.

• Bright and Morning Stars are first-born of

33:4.1The Bright and Morn­ing Star is the per­son­al­iza­tion of the first con­cept of iden­tity and ideal of per­son­al­ity con­ceived by the Cre­ator Son and the lo­cal uni­verse man­i­fes­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Go­ing back to the early days of the lo­cal uni­verse, be­fore the union of the Cre­ator Son and the Mother Spirit in the bonds of cre­ative as­so­ci­a­tion, back to the times be­fore the be­gin­ning of the cre­ation of their ver­sa­tile fam­ily of sons and daugh­ters, the first con­joint act of this early and free as­so­ci­a­tion of these two di­vine per­sons re­sults in the cre­ation of the high­est spirit per­son­al­ity of the Son and the Spirit, the Bright and Morn­ing Star.

• local universe angelic orders created by

38:1.1Ser­a­phim are cre­ated by the Uni­verse Mother Spirit and have been pro­jected in unit for­ma­tion—41,472 at a time—ever since the cre­ation of the “pat­tern an­gels” and cer­tain an­gelic archetypes in the early times of Neb­a­don. The Cre­ator Son and the uni­verse rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit col­lab­o­rate in the cre­ation of a large num­ber of Sons and other uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties. Fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of this united ef­fort, the Son en­gages in the cre­ation of the Ma­te­rial Sons, the first of the sex crea­tures, while the Uni­verse Mother Spirit con­cur­rently en­gages in her ini­tial soli­tary ef­fort at spirit re­pro­duc­tion. Thus be­gins the cre­ation of the se­raphic hosts of a lo­cal uni­verse.

• transform cherubim and sanobim into seraphim, Mansion World Teachers

38:8.5While the sec­ond and third groups are some­what lim­ited in growth po­ten­tial, the as­cen­sion can­di­dates may at­tain the heights of uni­ver­sal se­raphic ser­vice. Many of the more ex­pe­ri­enced of these cheru­bim are at­tached to the se­raphic guard­i­ans of des­tiny and are thus placed in di­rect line for ad­vance­ment to the sta­tus of Man­sion World Teach­ers when de­serted by their se­raphic se­niors. Guard­i­ans of des­tiny do not have cheru­bim and sa­no­bim as helpers when their mor­tal wards at­tain the mor­ontia life. And when other types of evo­lu­tion­ary ser­a­phim are granted clear­ance for Seraph­ing­ton and Par­a­dise, they must for­sake their for­mer sub­or­di­nates when they pass out of the con­fines of Neb­a­don. Such de­serted cheru­bim and sa­no­bim are usu­ally em­braced by the Uni­verse Mother Spirit, thus achiev­ing a level equiv­a­lent to that of a Man­sion World Teacher in the at­tain­ment of se­raphic sta­tus.

38:8.6When, as Man­sion World Teach­ers, the once-em­braced cheru­bim and sa­no­bim have long served on the mor­ontia spheres, from the low­est to the high­est, and when their corps on Sal­ving­ton is over­recruited, the Bright and Morn­ing Star sum­mons these faith­ful ser­vants of the crea­tures of time to ap­pear in his pres­ence. The oath of per­son­al­ity trans­for­ma­tion is ad­min­is­tered; and there­upon, in groups of seven thou­sand, these ad­vanced and se­nior cheru­bim and sa­no­bim are re-em­braced by the Uni­verse Mother Spirit. From this sec­ond em­brace they emerge as full-fledged ser­a­phim. Hence­forth, the full and com­plete ca­reer of a ser­a­phim, with all of its Par­a­dise pos­si­bil­i­ties, is open to such re­born cheru­bim and sa­no­bim. Such an­gels may be as­signed as guard­i­ans of des­tiny to some mor­tal be­ing, and if the mor­tal ward at­tains sur­vival, then do they be­come el­i­gi­ble for ad­vance­ment to Seraph­ing­ton and the seven cir­cles of se­raphic at­tain­ment, even to Par­a­dise and the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

• Morontia Power Supervisors

48:2.2Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors are the off­spring of a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. They are fairly stan­dard in de­sign though dif­fer­ing slightly in na­ture in the var­i­ous lo­cal cre­ations. They are cre­ated for their spe­cific func­tion and re­quire no train­ing be­fore en­ter­ing upon their re­spon­si­bil­i­ties.

• Morontia Companions

48:3.1These hosts of the man­sion and mor­ontia worlds are the off­spring of a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. They are cre­ated from age to age in groups of one hun­dred thou­sand, and in Neb­a­don there are at pres­ent over sev­enty bil­lion of these unique be­ings.

• transform cherubim and sanobim into seraphim, Mansion World Teachers

48:5.2These de­serted as­sis­tants of the min­is­ter­ing ser­a­phim are of­ten sum­moned to uni­verse head­quar­ters, where they pass into the in­ti­mate em­brace of the Uni­verse Mother Spirit and then go forth to the sys­tem train­ing spheres as Man­sion World Teach­ers. These teach­ers of­ten visit the ma­te­rial worlds and func­tion from the low­est man­sion worlds on up to the high­est of the ed­u­ca­tional spheres con­nected with the uni­verse head­quar­ters. Upon their own mo­tion they may re­turn to their for­mer as­so­cia­tive work with the min­is­ter­ing ser­a­phim.

40:5.10An ex­pe­ri­en­tial Ad­juster re­mains with a prim­i­tive hu­man be­ing through­out his en­tire life­time in the flesh. The Ad­justers con­tribute much to the ad­vance­ment of prim­i­tive men but are un­able to form eter­nal unions with such mor­tals. This tran­sient min­istry of the Ad­justers ac­com­plishes two things: First, they gain valu­able and ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in the na­ture and work­ing of the evo­lu­tion­ary in­tel­lect, an ex­pe­ri­ence which will be in­valu­able in con­nec­tion with later con­tacts on other worlds with be­ings of higher de­vel­op­ment. Sec­ond, the tran­sient so­journ of the Ad­justers con­tributes much to­wards prepar­ing their mor­tal sub­jects for pos­si­ble sub­se­quent Spirit fu­sion. All God-seek­ing souls of this type achieve eter­nal life through the spir­i­tual em­brace of the Mother Spirit of the lo­cal uni­verse, thus be­com­ing as­cend­ing mor­tals of the lo­cal uni­verse regime. Many per­sons from pre-Adamic Uran­tia were thus ad­vanced to the man­sion worlds of Sa­ta­nia.