Master Spirits, Seven

• attributes and functions › source and convergence of cosmic mind

0:3.142. The mind forces are con­ver­gent in the In­fi­nite Spirit; the dif­fer­en­tial and di­ver­gent cos­mic mind in the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its; the fac­tu­al­iz­ing mind of the Su­preme as a time-space ex­pe­ri­ence in Maj­es­ton.

• positions eternally fixed

0:8.11The Cre­ator Sons in the De­ity as­so­ci­a­tion of God the Sev­en­fold pro­vide the mech­a­nism whereby the mor­tal be­comes im­mor­tal and the fi­nite at­tains the em­brace of the in­fi­nite. The Su­preme Be­ing pro­vides the tech­nique for the power-per­son­al­ity mo­bi­liza­tion, the di­vine syn­the­sis, of all these man­i­fold trans­ac­tions, thus en­abling the fi­nite to at­tain the ab­so­nite and, through other pos­si­ble fu­ture ac­tu­al­iza­tions, to at­tempt the at­tain­ment of the Ul­ti­mate. The Cre­ator Sons and their as­so­ci­ated Di­vine Min­is­ters are par­tic­i­pants in this su­preme mo­bi­liza­tion, but the An­cients of Days and the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are prob­a­bly eter­nally fixed as per­ma­nent ad­min­is­tra­tors in the grand uni­verse.

• attributes and functions › distribute Infinite Spirit to evolutionary universes
• attributes and functions › source and convergence of cosmic mind

3:1.8The mind pres­ence of God is cor­re­lated with the ab­so­lute mind of the Con­joint Ac­tor, the In­fi­nite Spirit, but in the fi­nite cre­ations it is bet­ter dis­cerned in the ev­ery­where func­tion­ing of the cos­mic mind of the Par­a­dise Mas­ter Spir­its. Just as the First Source and Cen­ter is po­ten­tially pres­ent in the mind cir­cuits of the Con­joint Ac­tor, so is he po­ten­tially pres­ent in the ten­sions of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. But mind of the hu­man or­der is a be­stowal of the Daugh­ters of the Con­joint Ac­tor, the Di­vine Min­is­ters of the evolv­ing uni­verses.

• attributes and functions › source and convergence of cosmic mind
• primary personalities of Infinite Spirit

9:4.3The Con­joint Cre­ator is ab­so­lute only in the do­main of mind, in the realms of uni­ver­sal in­tel­li­gence. The mind of the Third Source and Cen­ter is in­fi­nite; it ut­terly tran­scends the ac­tive and func­tion­ing mind cir­cuits of the uni­verse of uni­verses. The mind en­dow­ment of the seven super­uni­verses is de­rived from the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, the pri­mary per­son­al­i­ties of the Con­joint Cre­ator. These Mas­ter Spir­its dis­tribute mind to the grand uni­verse as the cos­mic mind, and your lo­cal uni­verse is per­vaded by the Neb­a­don vari­ant of the Or­von­ton type of cos­mic mind.

• attributes and functions › source and convergence of cosmic mind

9:7.3Much of the tech­nique of re­flec­tiv­ity we com­pre­hend, but there are many phases which truly baf­fle us. We know that the Con­joint Ac­tor is the uni­verse cen­ter of the mind cir­cuit, that he is the an­ces­tor of the cos­mic mind, and that cos­mic mind op­er­ates un­der the dom­i­nance of the ab­so­lute mind grav­ity of the Third Source and Cen­ter. We know fur­ther that the cir­cuits of the cos­mic mind in­flu­ence the in­tel­lec­tual lev­els of all known ex­is­tence; they con­tain the uni­ver­sal space re­ports, and just as cer­tainly they fo­cus in the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and con­verge in the Third Source and Cen­ter.

• attributes and functions › distribute Infinite Spirit to evolutionary universes
• primary personalities of Infinite Spirit

9:8.2The first De­ity-cre­at­ing act of the In­fi­nite Spirit, func­tion­ing apart from the Trin­ity but in some un­re­vealed as­so­ci­a­tion with the Fa­ther and the Son, per­son­al­ized in the ex­is­tence of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise, the dis­trib­u­tors of the In­fi­nite Spirit to the uni­verses.

• Reflective Spirits and seconaphim reflect M.S. to Ancients of Days

9:8.3There is no di­rect rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Third Source and Cen­ter on the head­quar­ters of a super­uni­verse. Each of these seven cre­ations is de­pen­dent on one of the Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise, who acts through the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its sit­u­ated at the cap­i­tal of the super­uni­verse.

• primary personalities of Infinite Spirit

9:8.161. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise.

• attributes and functions › are experiential
• primary personalities of Infinite Spirit

10:2.7The Eter­nal Son alone ex­pe­ri­ences the full­ness of di­vine per­son­al­ity re­la­tion­ship, con­scious­ness of both son­ship with the Fa­ther and pa­ter­nity to the Spirit and of di­vine equal­ity with both Fa­ther-an­ces­tor and Spirit-as­so­ciate. The Fa­ther knows the ex­pe­ri­ence of hav­ing a Son who is his equal, but the Fa­ther knows no an­ces­tral an­tecedents. The Eter­nal Son has the ex­pe­ri­ence of son­ship, rec­og­ni­tion of per­son­al­ity an­ces­try, and at the same time the Son is con­scious of be­ing joint par­ent to the In­fi­nite Spirit. The In­fi­nite Spirit is con­scious of two­fold per­son­al­ity an­ces­try but is not pa­ren­tal to a co-or­di­nate De­ity per­son­al­ity. With the Spirit the ex­is­ten­tial cy­cle of De­ity per­son­al­iza­tion at­tains com­ple­tion; the pri­mary per­son­al­i­ties of the Third Source and Cen­ter are ex­pe­ri­en­tial and are seven in num­ber.

• maintain power focuses that revolve around periphery of Paradise

11:4.2The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its have their per­sonal seats of power and au­thor­ity on the seven spheres of the Spirit, which cir­cle about Par­a­dise in the space be­tween the shin­ing orbs of the Son and the in­ner cir­cuit of the Ha­vona worlds, but they main­tain force-fo­cal head­quar­ters on the Par­a­dise pe­riph­ery. Here the slowly cir­cu­lat­ing pres­ences of the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors in­di­cate the lo­ca­tion of the seven flash sta­tions for cer­tain Par­a­dise en­er­gies go­ing forth to the seven super­uni­verses.

• each conducts operations from one Paradise world of Infinite Spirit

13:0.1Be­tween the cen­tral Isle of Par­a­dise and the in­ner­most of the Ha­vona plan­e­tary cir­cuits there are sit­u­ated in space three lesser cir­cuits of spe­cial spheres. The in­ner­most cir­cuit con­sists of the seven se­cret spheres of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; the sec­ond group is com­posed of the seven lu­mi­nous worlds of the Eter­nal Son; in the out­er­most are the seven im­mense spheres of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the ex­ec­u­tive-head­quar­ters worlds of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

• attributes and functions › indirectly rule the 7 superuniverses
• each conducts operations from one Paradise world of Infinite Spirit

13:0.5The seven worlds of the In­fi­nite Spirit are oc­cu­pied by the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, who pre­side over the des­tinies of the seven super­uni­verses, send­ing forth the spir­i­tual il­lu­mi­na­tion of the Third Per­son of De­ity to these cre­ations of time and space. And all Ha­vona, but not the Isle of Par­a­dise, is bathed in these spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing in­flu­ences.

• forgather on Spiritington

13:1.93. SPIR­IT­ING­TON. This world is the “bo­som of the Spirit,” the Par­a­dise home of the high be­ings that ex­clu­sively rep­re­sent the In­fi­nite Spirit. Here for­gather the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and cer­tain of their off­spring from all uni­verses. At this ce­les­tial abode may also be found nu­mer­ous un­re­vealed or­ders of spirit per­son­al­i­ties, be­ings as­signed to the man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties of the uni­verse not as­so­ci­ated with the plans of up­step­ping the mor­tal crea­tures of time to the Par­a­dise lev­els of eter­nity.

• attributes and functions › mind-spirit balance wheel of universe
• each conducts operations from one Paradise world of Infinite Spirit
• maintain power focuses that revolve around periphery of Paradise
• primary personalities of Infinite Spirit

13:4.2The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are the su­preme and ul­ti­mate rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the In­fi­nite Spirit. They main­tain their per­sonal sta­tions, their power fo­cuses, on the pe­riph­ery of Par­a­dise, but all op­er­a­tions con­cerned with their man­age­ment and di­rec­tion of the grand uni­verse are con­ducted on and from these seven spe­cial ex­ec­u­tive spheres of the In­fi­nite Spirit. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are, in re­al­ity, the mind-spirit bal­ance wheel of the uni­verse of uni­verses, an all-em­brac­ing, all-en­com­pass­ing, and all-co-or­di­nat­ing power of cen­tral lo­ca­tion.

13:4.3From these seven spe­cial spheres the Mas­ter Spir­its op­er­ate to equal­ize and sta­bi­lize the cos­mic-mind cir­cuits of the grand uni­verse. They also have to do with the dif­fer­en­tial spir­i­tual at­ti­tude and pres­ence of the De­i­ties through­out the grand uni­verse. Phys­i­cal re­ac­tions are uni­form, un­vary­ing, and al­ways in­stan­ta­neous and au­to­matic. But ex­pe­ri­en­tial spir­i­tual pres­ence is in ac­cor­dance with the un­der­ly­ing con­di­tions or states of spir­i­tual re­cep­tiv­ity in­her­ent in the in­di­vid­ual minds of the realms.

• attributes and functions › each dominates and pervades one superuniverse
• each conducts operations from one Paradise world of Infinite Spirit

13:4.6The ex­ec­u­tive abodes of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are, in re­al­ity, the Par­a­dise head­quar­ters of the seven super­uni­verses and their cor­re­lated seg­ments in outer space. Each Mas­ter Spirit pre­sides over one super­uni­verse, and each of these seven worlds is ex­clu­sively as­signed to one of the Mas­ter Spir­its. There is lit­er­ally no phase of the sub-Par­a­dise ad­min­is­tra­tion of the seven super­uni­verses which is not pro­vided for on these ex­ec­u­tive worlds. They are not so ex­clu­sive as the spheres of the Fa­ther or those of the Son, and though res­i­den­tial sta­tus is lim­ited to na­tive be­ings and those who work thereon, these seven ad­min­is­tra­tive plan­ets are al­ways open to all be­ings who de­sire to visit them, and who can com­mand the nec­es­sary means of tran­sit.

• attributes and functions › distribute Infinite Spirit to evolutionary universes

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.

• attributes and functions › indirectly rule the 7 superuniverses

15:2.97. The Grand Uni­verse. Seven super­uni­verses make up the pres­ent or­ga­nized grand uni­verse, con­sist­ing of ap­prox­i­mately seven tril­lion in­hab­it­able worlds plus the ar­chi­tec­tural spheres and the one bil­lion in­hab­ited spheres of Ha­vona. The super­uni­verses are ruled and ad­min­is­tered in­di­rectly and re­flec­tively from Par­a­dise by the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. The bil­lion worlds of Ha­vona are di­rectly ad­min­is­tered by the Eter­nals of Days, one such Su­preme Trin­ity Per­son­al­ity pre­sid­ing over each of these per­fect spheres.

• attributes and functions › source and convergence of cosmic mind

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.

• attributes and functions › each dominates and pervades one superuniverse
• attributes and functions › indirectly rule the 7 superuniverses
• contact superuniverse governments through Seven Supreme Executives
• maintain power focuses that revolve around periphery of Paradise

15:10.1The head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verses are the seats of the high spir­i­tual gov­ern­ment of the time-space do­mains. The ex­ec­u­tive branch of the super­gov­ern­ment, tak­ing ori­gin in the Coun­cils of the Trin­ity, is im­me­di­ately di­rected by one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of su­preme super­vi­sion, be­ings who sit upon seats of Par­a­dise au­thor­ity and ad­min­is­ter the super­uni­verses through the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives sta­tioned on the seven spe­cial worlds of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the out­er­most satel­lites of Par­a­dise.

• superuniverses know of mutual affairs only through

15:10.23The super­uni­verses do not main­tain any sort of am­bas­sado­rial rep­re­sen­ta­tion; they are com­pletely iso­lated from each other. They know of mu­tual af­fairs only through the Par­a­dise clear­ing­house main­tained by the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. Their rulers work in the coun­cils of di­vine wis­dom for the wel­fare of their own super­uni­verses re­gard­less of what may be tran­spir­ing in other sec­tions of the uni­ver­sal cre­ation. This iso­la­tion of the super­uni­verses will per­sist un­til such time as their co-or­di­na­tion is achieved by the more com­plete fac­tu­al­iza­tion of the per­son­al­ity-sov­er­eignty of the evolv­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial Su­preme Be­ing.

• attributes and functions › concur in opinions of Ancients of Days

15:12.4With cer­tain few ex­cep­tions the super­gov­ern­ments ex­er­cise ju­ris­dic­tion over all things and all be­ings in their re­spec­tive do­mains. There is no ap­peal from the rul­ings and de­ci­sions of the super­uni­verse au­thor­i­ties since they rep­re­sent the con­curred opin­ions of the An­cients of Days and that Mas­ter Spirit who, from Par­a­dise, pre­sides over the des­tiny of the super­uni­verse con­cerned.

• primary personalities of Infinite Spirit

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.

• portray sevenfold Deity

16:0.2The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its thus have their ori­gin in, and de­rive their in­di­vid­ual char­ac­ter­is­tics from, the fol­low­ing seven like­nesses:

16:0.31. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

16:0.42. The Eter­nal Son.

16:0.53. The In­fi­nite Spirit.

16:0.64. The Fa­ther and the Son.

16:0.75. The Fa­ther and the Spirit.

16:0.86. The Son and the Spirit.

16:0.97. The Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit.

• attributes and functions › each is distinctly personal, unmistakably unlike the others

16:0.11In spirit char­ac­ter and na­ture these Seven Spir­its of Par­a­dise are as one, but in all other as­pects of iden­tity they are very un­like, and the re­sults of their func­tion­ing in the super­uni­verses are such that the in­di­vid­ual dif­fer­ences of each are un­mis­tak­ably dis­cern­i­ble. All the af­ter­plans of the seven seg­ments of the grand uni­verse—and even the cor­rel­a­tive seg­ments of outer space—have been con­di­tioned by the other-than-spir­i­tual di­ver­sity of these Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of su­preme and ul­ti­mate super­vi­sion.

• attributes and functions › each dominates and pervades one superuniverse
• each conducts operations from one Paradise world of Infinite Spirit
• maintain power focuses that revolve around periphery of Paradise
• radial boundaries of superuniverses converge at respective headquarters of

16:0.12The Mas­ter Spir­its have many func­tions, but at the pres­ent time their par­tic­u­lar do­main is the cen­tral super­vi­sion of the seven super­uni­verses. Each Mas­ter Spirit main­tains an enor­mous force-fo­cal head­quar­ters, which slowly cir­cu­lates around the pe­riph­ery of Par­a­dise, al­ways main­tain­ing a po­si­tion op­po­site the super­uni­verse of im­me­di­ate super­vi­sion and at the Par­a­dise fo­cal point of its spe­cial­ized power con­trol and seg­men­tal en­ergy dis­tri­bu­tion. The ra­dial bound­ary lines of any one of the super­uni­verses do ac­tu­ally con­verge at the Par­a­dise head­quar­ters of the super­vis­ing Mas­ter Spirit.

• appearance was subabsolute inevitability

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.

• attributes and functions › indirectly rule the 7 superuniverses
• portray sevenfold Deity

16:1.2While the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are hardly ex­pres­sive of three­fold De­ity, they are the eter­nal por­trayal of sev­en­fold De­ity, the ac­tive and as­so­cia­tive func­tions of the three ever-ex­is­tent per­sons of De­ity. By and in and through these Seven Spir­its, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, or the In­fi­nite Spirit, or any dual as­so­ci­a­tion, is able to func­tion as such. When the Fa­ther, the Son, and the Spirit act to­gether, they can and do func­tion through Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Seven, but not as the Trin­ity. The Mas­ter Spir­its singly and col­lec­tively rep­re­sent any and all pos­si­ble De­ity func­tions, sin­gle and sev­eral, but not col­lec­tive, not the Trin­ity. Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Seven is per­son­ally non­func­tional with re­gard to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, and that is just why he can func­tion per­son­ally for the Su­preme Be­ing.

• attributes and functions › collectively represent Deity in the finite

16:1.3But when the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its va­cate their in­di­vid­ual seats of per­sonal power and super­uni­verse au­thor­ity and as­sem­ble about the Con­joint Ac­tor in the tri­une pres­ence of Par­a­dise De­ity, then and there are they col­lec­tively rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the func­tional power, wis­dom, and au­thor­ity of un­di­vided De­ity—the Trin­ity—to and in the evolv­ing uni­verses. Such a Par­a­dise union of the pri­mal sev­en­fold ex­pres­sion of De­ity does ac­tu­ally em­brace, lit­er­ally en­com­pass, all of ev­ery at­tri­bute and at­ti­tude of the three eter­nal De­i­ties in Su­prem­acy and in Ul­ti­macy. To all prac­ti­cal in­tents and pur­poses the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its do, then and there, en­com­pass the func­tional do­main of the Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate to and in the mas­ter uni­verse.

• do not directly associate with 3 Absolutes

16:1.4As far as we can dis­cern, these Seven Spir­its are as­so­ci­ated with the di­vine ac­tiv­i­ties of the three eter­nal per­sons of De­ity; we de­tect no ev­i­dence of di­rect as­so­ci­a­tion with the func­tion­ing pres­ences of the three eter­nal phases of the Ab­so­lute. When as­so­ci­ated, the Mas­ter Spir­its rep­re­sent the Par­a­dise De­i­ties in what may be roughly con­ceived as the fi­nite do­main of ac­tion. It might em­brace much that is ul­ti­mate but not ab­so­lute.

• ascenders commune with superuniverse Master Spirit in Havona

16:2.1Just as the Eter­nal and Orig­i­nal Son is re­vealed through the per­sons of the con­stantly in­creas­ing num­ber of di­vine Sons, so is the In­fi­nite and Di­vine Spirit re­vealed through the chan­nels of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and their as­so­ci­ated spirit groups. At the cen­ter of cen­ters the In­fi­nite Spirit is ap­proach­able, but not all who at­tain Par­a­dise are im­me­di­ately able to dis­cern his per­son­al­ity and dif­fer­en­ti­ated pres­ence; but all who at­tain the cen­tral uni­verse can and do im­me­di­ately com­mune with one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, the one pre­sid­ing over the super­uni­verse from which the newly ar­rived space pil­grim hails.

• attributes and functions › Infinite Spirit speaks to superuniverses through

16:2.2To the uni­verse of uni­verses the Par­a­dise Fa­ther speaks only through his Son, while he and the Son con­jointly act only through the In­fi­nite Spirit. Out­side of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona the In­fi­nite Spirit speaks only by the voices of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

• attributes and functions › distribute Infinite Spirit to evolutionary universes
• attributes and functions › Infinite Spirit speaks to superuniverses through

16:2.3The In­fi­nite Spirit ex­erts an in­flu­ence of per­sonal pres­ence within the con­fines of the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem; else­where his per­sonal spirit pres­ence is ex­erted by and through one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. There­fore is the super­uni­verse spirit pres­ence of the Third Source and Cen­ter on any world or in any in­di­vid­ual con­di­tioned by the unique na­ture of the super­vi­sory Mas­ter Spirit of that seg­ment of cre­ation. Con­versely, the com­bined lines of spirit force and in­tel­li­gence pass in­ward to the Third Per­son of De­ity by way of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

• attributes and functions › collectively disclose omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence
• attributes and functions › each dominates and pervades one superuniverse

16:2.4The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are col­lec­tively en­dowed with the su­preme-ul­ti­mate at­tri­butes of the Third Source and Cen­ter. While each one in­di­vid­u­ally par­takes of this en­dow­ment, only col­lec­tively do they dis­close the at­tri­butes of om­nipo­tence, om­ni­science, and om­nipres­ence. No one of them can so func­tion uni­ver­sally; as in­di­vid­u­als and in the ex­er­cise of these pow­ers of su­prem­acy and ul­ti­macy each is per­son­ally lim­ited to the super­uni­verse of im­me­di­ate super­vi­sion.

• attributes and functions › distribute Infinite Spirit to evolutionary universes

16:2.5All of ev­ery­thing which has been told you con­cern­ing the di­vin­ity and per­son­al­ity of the Con­joint Ac­tor ap­plies equally and fully to the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, who so ef­fec­tively dis­tribute the In­fi­nite Spirit to the seven seg­ments of the grand uni­verse in ac­cor­dance with their di­vine en­dow­ment and in the man­ner of their dif­fer­ing and in­di­vid­u­ally unique na­tures. It would there­fore be proper to ap­ply to the col­lec­tive group of seven any or all of the names of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Col­lec­tively they are one with the Con­joint Cre­ator on all sub­ab­so­lute lev­els.

• attributes and functions › each is distinctly personal, unmistakably unlike the others
• portray sevenfold Deity
• primary personalities of Infinite Spirit

16:3.1The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are in­de­scrib­able be­ings, but they are dis­tinctly and def­i­nitely per­sonal. They have names, but we elect to in­tro­duce them by num­ber. As pri­mary per­son­al­iza­tions of the In­fi­nite Spirit, they are akin, but as pri­mary ex­pres­sions of the seven pos­si­ble as­so­ci­a­tions of tri­une De­ity, they are es­sen­tially di­verse in na­ture, and this di­ver­sity of na­ture de­ter­mines their dif­fer­en­tial of super­uni­verse con­duct. These Seven Mas­ter Spir­its may be de­scribed as fol­lows:

16:3.2Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber One. In a spe­cial man­ner this Spirit is the di­rect rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. He is a pe­cu­liar and ef­fi­cient man­i­fes­ta­tion of the power, love, and wis­dom of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. He is the close as­so­ciate and su­per­nal ad­viser of the chief of Mys­tery Mon­i­tors, that be­ing who pre­sides over the Col­lege of Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers on Di­vin­ing­ton. In all as­so­ci­a­tions of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, it is al­ways Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber One who speaks for the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

16:3.3This Spirit pre­sides over the first super­uni­verse and, while un­fail­ingly ex­hibit­ing the di­vine na­ture of a pri­mary per­son­al­iza­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit, seems more es­pe­cially to re­sem­ble the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in char­ac­ter. He is al­ways in per­sonal li­ai­son with the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its at the head­quar­ters of the first super­uni­verse.

16:3.4Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Two. This Spirit ad­e­quately por­trays the match­less na­ture and charm­ing char­ac­ter of the Eter­nal Son, the first-born of all cre­ation. He is al­ways in close as­so­ci­a­tion with all or­ders of the Sons of God when­ever they may hap­pen to be in the res­i­den­tial uni­verse as in­di­vid­u­als or in joy­ous con­clave. In all the as­sem­blies of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its he al­ways speaks for, and in be­half of, the Eter­nal Son.

16:3.5This Spirit di­rects the des­tinies of super­uni­verse num­ber two and rules this vast do­main much as would the Eter­nal Son. He is al­ways in li­ai­son with the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its sit­u­ated at the cap­i­tal of the sec­ond super­uni­verse.

16:3.6Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Three. This Spirit per­son­al­ity es­pe­cially re­sem­bles the In­fi­nite Spirit, and he di­rects the move­ments and work of many of the high per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit. He pre­sides over their as­sem­blies and is closely as­so­ci­ated with all per­son­al­i­ties who take ex­clu­sive ori­gin in the Third Source and Cen­ter. When the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are in coun­cil, it is Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Three who al­ways speaks for the In­fi­nite Spirit.

16:3.7This Spirit is in charge of super­uni­verse num­ber three, and he ad­min­is­ters the af­fairs of this seg­ment much as would the In­fi­nite Spirit. He is al­ways in li­ai­son with the Re­flec­tive Spir­its at the head­quar­ters of the third super­uni­verse.

16:3.8Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Four. Par­tak­ing of the com­bined na­tures of the Fa­ther and the Son, this Mas­ter Spirit is the de­ter­min­ing in­flu­ence re­gard­ing Fa­ther-Son poli­cies and pro­ce­dures in the coun­cils of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. This Spirit is the chief di­rec­tor and ad­viser of those as­cen­dant be­ings who have at­tained the In­fi­nite Spirit and thus have be­come can­di­dates for see­ing the Son and the Fa­ther. He fos­ters that enor­mous group of per­son­al­i­ties tak­ing ori­gin in the Fa­ther and the Son. When it be­comes nec­es­sary to rep­re­sent the Fa­ther and the Son in the as­so­ci­a­tion of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, it is al­ways Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Four who speaks.

16:3.9This Spirit fos­ters the fourth seg­ment of the grand uni­verse in ac­cor­dance with his pe­cu­liar as­so­ci­a­tion of the at­tri­butes of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son. He is al­ways in per­sonal li­ai­son with the Re­flec­tive Spir­its of the head­quar­ters of the fourth super­uni­verse.

16:3.10Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Five. This di­vine per­son­al­ity who ex­qui­sitely blends the char­ac­ter of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the In­fi­nite Spirit is the ad­viser of that enor­mous group of be­ings known as the power di­rec­tors, power cen­ters, and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers. This Spirit also fos­ters all per­son­al­i­ties tak­ing ori­gin in the Fa­ther and the Con­joint Ac­tor. In the coun­cils of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, when the Fa­ther-Spirit at­ti­tude is in ques­tion, it is al­ways Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Five who speaks.

16:3.11This Spirit di­rects the wel­fare of the fifth super­uni­verse in such a way as to sug­gest the com­bined ac­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the In­fi­nite Spirit. He is al­ways in li­ai­son with the Re­flec­tive Spir­its at the head­quar­ters of the fifth super­uni­verse.

16:3.12Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Six. This di­vine be­ing seems to por­tray the com­bined char­ac­ter of the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit. When­ever the crea­tures jointly cre­ated by the Son and the Spirit for­gather in the cen­tral uni­verse, it is this Mas­ter Spirit who is their ad­viser; and when­ever, in the coun­cils of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, it be­comes nec­es­sary to speak con­jointly for the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit, it is Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Six who re­sponds.

16:3.13This Spirit di­rects the af­fairs of the sixth super­uni­verse much as would the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit. He is al­ways in li­ai­son with the Re­flec­tive Spir­its at the head­quar­ters of the sixth super­uni­verse.

16:3.14Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Seven. The pre­sid­ing Spirit of the sev­enth super­uni­verse is a uniquely equal por­trayal of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, and the In­fi­nite Spirit. The Sev­enth Spirit, the fos­ter­ing ad­viser of all tri­une-ori­gin be­ings, is also the ad­viser and di­rec­tor of all the as­cend­ing pil­grims of Ha­vona, those lowly be­ings who have at­tained the courts of glory through the com­bined min­istry of the Fa­ther, the Son, and the Spirit.

• Master Spirit #7 is presiding head of

16:3.15The Sev­enth Mas­ter Spirit is not or­gan­i­cally rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity; but it is a known fact that his per­sonal and spir­i­tual na­ture is the Con­joint Ac­tor’s por­trai­ture in equal pro­por­tions of the three in­fi­nite per­sons whose De­ity union is the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, and whose func­tion as such is the source of the per­sonal and spir­i­tual na­ture of God the Su­preme. Hence the Sev­enth Mas­ter Spirit dis­closes a per­sonal and or­ganic re­la­tion­ship to the spirit per­son of the evolv­ing Su­preme. There­fore in the Mas­ter Spirit coun­cils on high, when it be­comes nec­es­sary to cast the bal­lot for the com­bined per­sonal at­ti­tude of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit or to de­pict the spir­i­tual at­ti­tude of the Su­preme Be­ing, it is Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Seven who func­tions. He thus in­her­ently be­comes the pre­sid­ing head of the Par­a­dise coun­cil of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

• attributes and functions › collectively represent Deity in the finite

16:3.16No one of the Seven Spir­its is or­gan­i­cally rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, but when they unite as sev­en­fold De­ity, this union in a de­ity sense—not in a per­sonal sense—equiv­alates to a func­tional level as­so­cia­ble with Trin­ity func­tions. In this sense the “Sev­en­fold Spirit” is func­tion­ally as­so­cia­ble with the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. It is also in this sense that Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Seven some­times speaks in con­fir­ma­tion of Trin­ity at­ti­tudes or, rather, acts as spokesman for the at­ti­tude of the Sev­en­fold-Spirit-union re­gard­ing the at­ti­tude of the Three­fold-De­ity-union, the at­ti­tude of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

16:3.17The mul­ti­ple func­tions of the Sev­enth Mas­ter Spirit thus range from a com­bined por­trai­ture of the per­sonal na­tures of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit, through a rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the per­sonal at­ti­tude of God the Su­preme, to a dis­clo­sure of the de­ity at­ti­tude of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. And in cer­tain re­spects this pre­sid­ing Spirit is sim­i­larly ex­pres­sive of the at­ti­tudes of the Ul­ti­mate and of the Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate.

16:3.18It is Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Seven who, in his mul­ti­ple ca­pac­i­ties, per­son­ally spon­sors the prog­ress of the as­cen­sion can­di­dates from the worlds of time in their at­tempts to achieve com­pre­hen­sion of the un­di­vided De­ity of Su­prem­acy. Such com­pre­hen­sion in­volves a grasp of the ex­is­ten­tial sov­er­eignty of the Trin­ity of Su­prem­acy so co-or­di­nated with a con­cept of the grow­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme Be­ing as to con­sti­tute the crea­ture grasp of the unity of Su­prem­acy. Crea­ture re­al­iza­tion of these three fac­tors equals Ha­vona com­pre­hen­sion of Trin­ity re­al­ity and en­dows the pil­grims of time with the abil­ity even­tu­ally to pen­e­trate the Trin­ity, to dis­cover the three in­fi­nite per­sons of De­ity.

16:3.19The in­abil­ity of the Ha­vona pil­grims fully to find God the Su­preme is com­pen­sated by the Sev­enth Mas­ter Spirit, whose tri­une na­ture in such a pe­cu­liar man­ner is rev­e­la­tory of the spirit per­son of the Su­preme. Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age of the non­con­tactabil­ity of the per­son of the Su­preme, Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Seven func­tions in the place of the God of as­cen­dant crea­tures in the mat­ter of per­sonal re­la­tion­ships. He is the one high spirit be­ing that all as­cend­ers are cer­tain to rec­og­nize and some­what com­pre­hend when they reach the cen­ters of glory.

16:3.20This Mas­ter Spirit is al­ways in li­ai­son with the Re­flec­tive Spir­its of Uversa, the head­quar­ters of the sev­enth super­uni­verse, our own seg­ment of cre­ation. His ad­min­is­tra­tion of Or­von­ton dis­closes the mar­velous sym­me­try of the co-or­di­nate blend­ing of the di­vine na­tures of Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit.

• also known as Seven Spirits; Seven Paradise Spirits; Seven Center Supervisors
• attributes and functions › distribute Infinite Spirit to evolutionary universes
• attributes and functions › personalize physical power, cosmic mind, and spiritual presence of triune Deity

16:4.1The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are the full rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit to the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses. They rep­re­sent the Third Source and Cen­ter in the re­la­tion­ships of en­ergy, mind, and spirit. While they func­tion as the co-or­di­nat­ing heads of the uni­ver­sal ad­min­is­tra­tive con­trol of the Con­joint Ac­tor, do not for­get that they have their ori­gin in the cre­ative acts of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. It is lit­er­ally true that these Seven Spir­its are the per­son­al­ized phys­i­cal power, cos­mic mind, and spir­i­tual pres­ence of the tri­une De­ity, “the Seven Spir­its of God sent forth to all the uni­verse.”

• attributes and functions › function on all universe levels except the absolute
• attributes and functions › source and convergence of cosmic mind
• created › Universe Power Directors

16:4.2The Mas­ter Spir­its are unique in that they func­tion on all uni­verse lev­els of re­al­ity ex­cept­ing the ab­so­lute. They are, there­fore, ef­fi­cient and per­fect super­vi­sors of all phases of ad­min­is­tra­tive af­fairs on all lev­els of super­uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties. It is dif­fi­cult for the mor­tal mind to un­der­stand very much about the Mas­ter Spir­its be­cause their work is so highly spe­cial­ized yet all-em­brac­ing, so ex­cep­tion­ally ma­te­rial and at the same time so ex­qui­sitely spir­i­tual. These ver­sa­tile cre­ators of the cos­mic mind are the an­ces­tors of the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors and are, them­selves, su­preme di­rec­tors of the vast and far-flung spirit-crea­ture cre­ation.

16:4.3The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are the cre­ators of the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors and their as­so­ciates, en­ti­ties who are in­dis­pens­able to the or­ga­ni­za­tion, con­trol, and reg­u­la­tion of the phys­i­cal en­er­gies of the grand uni­verse. And these same Mas­ter Spir­its very ma­te­ri­ally as­sist the Cre­ator Sons in the work of shap­ing and or­ga­niz­ing the lo­cal uni­verses.

• not involved with force issuing from nether Paradise, Thought Adjusters, or Unqualified Absolute

16:4.4We are un­able to trace any per­sonal con­nec­tion be­tween the cos­mic-en­ergy work of the Mas­ter Spir­its and the force func­tions of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. The en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the Mas­ter Spir­its are all di­rected from the pe­riph­ery of Par­a­dise; they do not ap­pear to be in any di­rect man­ner as­so­ci­ated with the force phe­nom­ena iden­ti­fied with the nether sur­face of Par­a­dise.

• attributes and functions › unrevealed work with Morontia Power Supervisors

16:4.5Un­ques­tion­ably, when we en­counter the func­tional ac­tiv­i­ties of the var­i­ous Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors, we are face to face with cer­tain of the un­re­vealed ac­tiv­i­ties of the Mas­ter Spir­its. Who, aside from these an­ces­tors of both phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and spirit min­is­ters, could have con­trived so to com­bine and as­so­ciate ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual en­er­gies as to pro­duce a hith­erto nonex­is­tent phase of uni­verse re­al­ity—mor­ontia sub­stance and mor­ontia mind?

16:4.6Much of the re­al­ity of the spir­i­tual worlds is of the mor­ontia or­der, a phase of uni­verse re­al­ity wholly un­known on Uran­tia. The goal of per­son­al­ity ex­is­tence is spir­i­tual, but the mor­ontia cre­ations al­ways in­ter­vene, bridg­ing the gulf be­tween the ma­te­rial realms of mor­tal ori­gin and the super­uni­verse spheres of ad­vanc­ing spir­i­tual sta­tus. It is in this realm that the Mas­ter Spir­its make their great con­tri­bu­tion to the plan of man’s Par­a­dise as­cen­sion.

16:4.7The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its have per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives who func­tion through­out the grand uni­verse; but since a large ma­jor­ity of these sub­or­di­nate be­ings are not di­rectly con­cerned with the as­cen­dant scheme of mor­tal pro­gres­sion in the path of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion, lit­tle or noth­ing has been re­vealed about them. Much, very much, of the ac­tiv­ity of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its re­mains hid­den from hu­man un­der­stand­ing be­cause in no way does it di­rectly per­tain to your prob­lem of Par­a­dise as­cent.

• attributes and functions › in local universes

16:4.8It is highly prob­a­ble, though we can­not of­fer def­i­nite proof, that the Mas­ter Spirit of Or­von­ton ex­erts a de­cided in­flu­ence in the fol­low­ing spheres of ac­tiv­ity:

• attributes and functions › participate in life initiation by Life Carriers

16:4.91. The life-ini­ti­a­tion pro­ce­dures of the lo­cal uni­verse Life Car­ri­ers.

• attributes and functions › bestowal of adjutant mind-spirits

16:4.102. The life ac­ti­va­tions of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its be­stowed upon the worlds by a lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit.

• attributes and functions › influence emergent energy, once liberated from Unqualified Absolute

16:4.113. The fluc­tu­a­tions in en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions ex­hib­ited by the lin­ear-grav­ity-re­spond­ing units of or­ga­nized mat­ter.

16:4.124. The be­hav­ior of emer­gent en­ergy when fully lib­er­ated from the grasp of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, thus be­com­ing re­spon­sive to the di­rect in­flu­ence of lin­ear grav­ity and to the ma­nip­u­la­tions of the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors and their as­so­ciates.

• attributes and functions › bestowal of local universe Holy Spirit

16:4.135. The be­stowal of the min­istry spirit of a lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit, known on Uran­tia as the Holy Spirit.

• attributes and functions › bestowal of local universe Spirit of Truth

16:4.146. The sub­se­quent be­stowal of the spirit of the be­stowal Sons, on Uran­tia called the Com­forter or the Spirit of Truth.

• attributes and functions › reflectivity

16:4.157. The re­flec­tiv­ity mech­a­nism of the lo­cal uni­verses and the super­uni­verse. Many fea­tures con­nected with this ex­traor­di­nary phe­nom­e­non can hardly be rea­son­ably ex­plained or ra­tio­nally un­der­stood with­out pos­tu­lat­ing the ac­tiv­ity of the Mas­ter Spir­its in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Con­joint Ac­tor and the Su­preme Be­ing.

• not involved with force issuing from nether Paradise, Thought Adjusters, or Unqualified Absolute

16:4.16Not­with­stand­ing our fail­ure ad­e­quately to com­pre­hend the man­i­fold work­ings of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, we are con­fi­dent there are two realms in the vast range of uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties with which they have noth­ing what­ever to do: the be­stowal and min­istry of the Thought Ad­justers and the in­scrutable func­tions of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

• attributes and functions › each dominates and pervades one superuniverse

16:5.1Each seg­ment of the grand uni­verse, each in­di­vid­ual uni­verse and world, en­joys the ben­e­fits of the united coun­sel and wis­dom of all Seven Mas­ter Spir­its but re­ceives the per­sonal touch and tinge of only one. And the per­sonal na­ture of each Mas­ter Spirit en­tirely per­vades and uniquely con­di­tions his super­uni­verse.

• also known as Seven Spirits; Seven Paradise Spirits; Seven Center Supervisors

16:5.2Through this per­sonal in­flu­ence of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its ev­ery crea­ture of ev­ery or­der of in­tel­li­gent be­ings, out­side of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona, must bear the char­ac­ter­is­tic stamp of in­di­vid­u­al­ity in­dica­tive of the an­ces­tral na­ture of some one of these Seven Par­a­dise Spir­its. As con­cerns the seven super­uni­verses, each na­tive crea­ture, man or an­gel, will for­ever bear this badge of na­tal iden­ti­fi­ca­tion.

• do not directly invade material minds

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.

16:5.4The phys­i­cal stamp of a Mas­ter Spirit is a part of man’s ma­te­rial ori­gin. The en­tire mor­ontia ca­reer is lived un­der the con­tin­u­ing in­flu­ence of this same Mas­ter Spirit. It is hardly strange that the sub­se­quent spirit ca­reer of such an as­cend­ing mor­tal never fully erad­i­cates the char­ac­ter­is­tic stamp of this same super­vis­ing Spirit. The im­press of a Mas­ter Spirit is ba­sic to the very ex­is­tence of ev­ery pre-Ha­vona stage of mor­tal as­cen­sion.

16:5.5The dis­tinc­tive per­son­al­ity trends ex­hib­ited in the life ex­pe­ri­ence of evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals, which are char­ac­ter­is­tic in each super­uni­verse, and which are di­rectly ex­pres­sive of the na­ture of the dom­i­nat­ing Mas­ter Spirit, are never fully ef­faced, not even af­ter such as­cend­ers are sub­jected to the long train­ing and uni­fy­ing dis­ci­pline en­coun­tered on the one bil­lion ed­u­ca­tional spheres of Ha­vona. Even the sub­se­quent in­tense Par­a­dise cul­ture does not suf­fice to erad­i­cate the ear­marks of super­uni­verse ori­gin. Through­out all eter­nity an as­cen­dant mor­tal will ex­hibit traits in­dica­tive of the pre­sid­ing Spirit of his super­uni­verse of na­tiv­ity. Even in the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, when it is de­sired to ar­rive at or to por­tray a com­plete Trin­ity re­la­tion­ship to the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ation, al­ways a group of seven fi­nal­i­ters is as­sem­bled, one from each super­uni­verse.

• attributes and functions › source and convergence of cosmic mind

16:6.1The Mas­ter Spir­its are the sev­en­fold source of the cos­mic mind, the in­tel­lec­tual po­ten­tial of the grand uni­verse. This cos­mic mind is a sub­ab­so­lute man­i­fes­ta­tion of the mind of the Third Source and Cen­ter and, in cer­tain ways, is func­tion­ally re­lated to the mind of the evolv­ing Su­preme Be­ing.

• contact superuniverse governments through Seven Supreme Executives

17:0.11The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are the co-or­di­nat­ing di­rec­tors of this far-flung ad­min­is­tra­tive realm. In some mat­ters per­tain­ing to the ad­min­is­tra­tive reg­u­la­tion of or­ga­nized phys­i­cal power, mind en­ergy, and im­per­sonal spirit min­istry, they act per­son­ally and di­rectly, and in oth­ers they func­tion through their mul­ti­far­i­ous as­so­ciates. In all mat­ters of an ex­ec­u­tive na­ture—rul­ings, reg­u­la­tions, ad­just­ments, and ad­min­is­tra­tive de­ci­sions—the Mas­ter Spir­its act in the per­sons of the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives. In the cen­tral uni­verse the Mas­ter Spir­its may func­tion through the Seven Spir­its of the Ha­vona Cir­cuits; on the head­quar­ters of the seven super­uni­verses they re­veal them­selves through the chan­nel of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its and act through the per­sons of the An­cients of Days, with whom they are in per­sonal com­mu­ni­ca­tion through the Re­flec­tive Im­age Aids.

• personal contact ends with superuniverse governments

17:0.12The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its do not di­rectly and per­son­ally con­tact uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion be­low the courts of the An­cients of Days. Your lo­cal uni­verse is ad­min­is­tered as a part of our super­uni­verse by the Mas­ter Spirit of Or­von­ton, but his func­tion in re­la­tion to the na­tive be­ings of Neb­a­don is im­me­di­ately dis­charged and per­son­ally di­rected by the Cre­ative Mother Spirit res­i­dent on Sal­ving­ton, the head­quar­ters of your lo­cal uni­verse.

• contact superuniverse governments through Seven Supreme Executives

17:1.2The Mas­ter Spir­its main­tain con­tact with the var­i­ous di­vi­sions of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments through these Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives. It is they who very largely de­ter­mine the ba­sic con­sti­tu­tive trends of the seven super­uni­verses. They are uni­formly and di­vinely per­fect, but they also pos­sess di­ver­sity of per­son­al­ity. They have no pre­sid­ing head; each time they meet to­gether, they choose one of their num­ber to pre­side over that joint coun­cil. Pe­ri­od­i­cally they jour­ney to Par­a­dise to sit in coun­cil with the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

• created › Reflective Spirits

17:2.1The Re­flec­tive Spir­its are of di­vine Trin­ity ori­gin. There are fifty of these unique and some­what mys­te­ri­ous be­ings. Seven of these ex­traor­di­nary per­son­al­i­ties were cre­ated at a time, and each such cre­ative episode was ef­fected by a li­ai­son of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

• created › Reflective Spirits

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.

• attributes and functions › role in individualization of local universe Mother Spirits

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.

• created › secondary supernaphim

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.

• attributes and functions › indirectly rule the 7 superuniverses

17:8.3The seven Su­preme Spirit groups are the co-or­di­na­tors of the in­hab­ited cre­ation. The as­so­ci­a­tion of their di­rect­ing heads, the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, ap­pears to co-or­di­nate the far-flung ac­tiv­i­ties of God the Sev­en­fold:

• attributes and functions › collectively equivalate to divinity of Trinity

17:8.41. Col­lec­tively the Mas­ter Spir­its near-equiv­alate to the di­vin­ity level of the Trin­ity of Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

17:8.52. In­di­vid­u­ally they ex­haust the pri­mary as­so­cia­ble pos­si­bil­i­ties of tri­une De­ity.

• attributes and functions › repositories of unexercised sovereignty and mind potential of Supreme Being

17:8.63. As di­ver­si­fied rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Con­joint Ac­tor they are the repos­i­to­ries of that spirit-mind-power sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme Be­ing which he does not yet per­son­ally ex­er­cise.

17:8.74. Through the Re­flec­tive Spir­its they syn­chro­nize the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments of the An­cients of Days with Maj­es­ton, the Par­a­dise cen­ter of uni­ver­sal re­flec­tiv­ity.

• attributes and functions › role in individualization of local universe Mother Spirits

17:8.85. In their par­tic­i­pa­tion in the in­di­vid­u­al­iza­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse Di­vine Min­is­ters, the Mas­ter Spir­its con­tribute to the last level of God the Sev­en­fold, the Cre­ator Son-Cre­ative Spirit union of the lo­cal uni­verses.

• primary personalities of Infinite Spirit

17:8.9Func­tional unity, in­her­ent in the Con­joint Ac­tor, is dis­closed to the evolv­ing uni­verses in the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, his pri­mary per­son­al­i­ties. But in the per­fected super­uni­verses of the fu­ture this unity will un­doubt­edly be in­sep­a­ra­ble from the ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme.

• determine nature of respective superuniverses

18:3.3The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its on high de­ter­mine the na­ture of their re­spec­tive super­uni­verses, but the An­cients of Days dic­tate the ad­min­is­tra­tion of these same super­uni­verses. They super­im­pose ad­min­is­tra­tive uni­for­mity on cre­ative di­ver­sity and in­sure the har­mony of the whole in the face of the un­der­ly­ing cre­ational dif­fer­ences of the seven seg­men­tal group­ings of the grand uni­verse.

• attributes and functions › sanction trinitization by finaliters and Paradise-Havoners

22:7.5If two mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters, on go­ing be­fore the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse, demon­strate that they have in­de­pen­dently cho­sen an iden­ti­cal con­cept for trin­i­ti­za­tion, the Ar­chi­tects are em­pow­ered, on their own dis­cre­tion, to pro­mul­gate man­dates per­mit­ting these glo­ri­fied mor­tal as­cend­ers to ex­tend their re­cess and to re­move them­selves for a time to the trini­tiz­ing sec­tor of the Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens. At the end of this as­signed re­treat, if they re­port that they have singly and jointly elected to make the par­a­di­si­a­cal ef­fort to spir­i­tu­al­ize, ide­al­ize, and ac­tu­al­ize a se­lected and orig­i­nal con­cept which has not thereto­fore been trin­i­tized, then does Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Seven is­sue or­ders au­tho­riz­ing such an ex­traor­di­nary un­der­tak­ing.

• attributes and functions › sanction trinitization by finaliters and Paradise-Havoners

22:7.10The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its have au­thor­ity to sanc­tion the trini­tiz­ing union of fi­nal­i­ters and Par­a­dise-Ha­vona per­son­al­i­ties, and such mixed li­aisons are al­ways suc­cess­ful. The re­sul­tant mag­nif­i­cent crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons are rep­re­sen­ta­tive of con­cepts un­suited to the com­pre­hen­sion of ei­ther the eter­nal crea­tures of Par­a­dise or the time crea­tures of space; hence they be­come the wards of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse. These trin­i­tized sons of des­tiny em­body ideas, ide­als, and ex­pe­ri­ence which ap­par­ently per­tain to a fu­ture uni­verse age and are there­fore of no im­me­di­ate prac­ti­cal value to ei­ther the su­per- or cen­tral uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tions. These unique sons of the chil­dren of time and the cit­i­zens of eter­nity are all held in re­serve on Vicegering­ton, where they are en­gaged in the study of the con­cepts of time and the re­al­i­ties of eter­nity in a spe­cial sec­tor of the sphere oc­cu­pied by the se­cret col­leges of the corps of the Cre­ator Sons.

• attributes and functions › repositories of unexercised sovereignty and mind potential of Supreme Being

24:7.8The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and the as­so­ci­ated Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors, re­spec­tively, are the per­sonal repos­i­to­ries of the mind po­ten­tial and of the power po­ten­tial of the Su­preme Be­ing which he does not, as yet, op­er­ate per­son­ally. And when these Par­a­dise as­so­ciates col­lab­o­rate to cre­ate the Ha­vona Servi­tals, the lat­ter are in­her­ently in­volved in cer­tain phases of Su­prem­acy. Ha­vona Servi­tals are thus, in ac­tu­al­ity, a re­flec­tion in the per­fect cen­tral uni­verse of cer­tain evo­lu­tion­ary po­ten­tial­i­ties of the time-space do­mains, all of which is dis­closed when a servi­tal un­der­goes trans­for­ma­tion and re-cre­ation. We be­lieve that this trans­for­ma­tion takes place in re­sponse to the will of the In­fi­nite Spirit, un­doubt­edly act­ing in be­half of the Su­preme. Grad­u­ate Guides are not cre­ated by the Su­preme Be­ing, but we all con­jec­ture that ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity is in some way con­cerned in those trans­ac­tions which bring these be­ings into ex­is­tence.

• created › Havona Servitals with Supreme Power Directors

25:1.2The Ha­vona Servi­tals are the joint cre­ative work of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and their as­so­ciates, the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors. This cre­ative col­lab­o­ra­tion comes the near­est to be­ing the pat­tern for the long list of re­pro­duc­tions of the dual or­der in the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses, ex­tend­ing from the cre­ation of a Bright and Morn­ing Star by a Cre­ator Son-Cre­ative Spirit li­ai­son down to sex pro­cre­ation on worlds like Uran­tia.

• created › Universal Conciliators

25:2.2On the head­quar­ters worlds of the seven super­uni­verses there func­tion the seven re­flec­tions of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. It is dif­fi­cult to un­der­take to por­tray the na­tures of these Re­flec­tive Spir­its to ma­te­rial minds. They are true per­son­al­i­ties; still each mem­ber of a super­uni­verse group is per­fectly re­flec­tive of just one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. And ev­ery time the Mas­ter Spir­its as­so­ciate them­selves with the power di­rec­tors for the pur­pose of cre­at­ing a group of Ha­vona Servi­tals, there is a si­mul­ta­ne­ous fo­cal­iza­tion upon one of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its in each of the super­uni­verse groups, and forth­with and full-fledgedly an equal num­ber of Uni­ver­sal Con­cil­ia­tors ap­pear on the head­quar­ters worlds of the super­cre­ations. If, in the cre­ation of servi­tals, Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Seven should take the ini­tia­tive, none but the Re­flec­tive Spir­its of the sev­enth or­der would be­come preg­nant with con­cil­ia­tors; and con­cur­rently with the cre­ation of one thou­sand Or­von­ton­like servi­tals, one thou­sand of the sev­enth-or­der con­cil­ia­tors would ap­pear on each super­uni­verse cap­i­tal. Out of these episodes, re­flect­ing the sev­en­fold na­ture of the Mas­ter Spir­its, arise the seven cre­ated or­ders of con­cil­ia­tors serv­ing in each super­uni­verse.

• attributes and functions › each dominates and pervades one superuniverse

25:2.3Con­cil­ia­tors of pre-Par­a­dise sta­tus do not serve in­ter­change­ably be­tween super­uni­verses, be­ing re­stricted to their na­tive seg­ments of cre­ation. Ev­ery super­uni­verse corps, em­brac­ing one sev­enth of each cre­ated or­der, there­fore spends a very long time un­der the in­flu­ence of one of the Mas­ter Spir­its to the ex­clu­sion of the oth­ers, for, while all seven are re­flected on the super­uni­verse cap­i­tals, only one is dom­i­nant in each super­cre­ation.

25:2.4Each of the seven super­cre­ations is ac­tu­ally per­vaded by that one of the Mas­ter Spir­its who pre­sides over its des­tinies. Each super­uni­verse thus be­comes like a gi­gan­tic mir­ror re­flect­ing the na­ture and char­ac­ter of the super­vis­ing Mas­ter Spirit, and all of this is fur­ther con­tin­ued in ev­ery sub­sidiary lo­cal uni­verse by the pres­ence and func­tion of the Cre­ative Mother Spir­its. The ef­fect of such an en­vi­ron­ment upon evo­lu­tion­ary growth is so pro­found that in their post­super­uni­verse ca­reers the con­cil­ia­tors col­lec­tively man­i­fest forty-nine ex­pe­ri­en­tial view­points, or in­sights, each an­gu­lar—hence in­com­plete—but all mu­tu­ally com­pen­satory and to­gether tend­ing to en­com­pass the cir­cle of Su­prem­acy.

• created › secondary supernaphim

26:1.121. The Min­is­ter­ing Spir­its of the Cen­tral Uni­verse. The three or­ders of super­na­phim serve in the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem. Pri­mary or Par­a­dise super­na­phim are cre­ated by the In­fi­nite Spirit. The sec­ondary and ter­tiary or­ders, serv­ing in Ha­vona, are re­spec­tively the off­spring of the Mas­ter Spir­its and of the Spir­its of the Cir­cuits.

• all creatures resemble Master Spirit of superuniverse nativity

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

• attributes and functions › each dominates and pervades one superuniverse

26:4.10Each of these work­ing groups con­tains an­gels of all seven cre­ated types, and a pil­grim of space is al­ways tu­tored by sec­ondary super­na­phim of ori­gin in the Mas­ter Spirit who pre­sides over that pil­grim’s super­uni­verse of na­tiv­ity. When you mor­tals of Uran­tia at­tain Ha­vona, you will cer­tainly be pi­loted by super­na­phim whose cre­ated na­tures—like your own evolved na­tures—are de­rived from the Mas­ter Spirit of Or­von­ton. And since your tu­tors spring from the Mas­ter Spirit of your own super­uni­verse, they are es­pe­cially qual­i­fied to un­der­stand, com­fort, and as­sist you in all your ef­forts to at­tain Par­a­dise per­fec­tion.

• ascenders recognize native Master Spirit on 7th circuit of Havona

26:5.5Time is of lit­tle con­se­quence on the Ha­vona cir­cles. In a lim­ited man­ner it en­ters into the pos­si­bil­i­ties of ad­vance­ment, but achieve­ment is the fi­nal and su­preme test. The very mo­ment your super­aphic as­so­ciate deems you to be com­pe­tent to pass in­ward to the next cir­cle, you will be taken be­fore the twelve ad­ju­tants of the sev­enth Cir­cuit Spirit. Here you will be re­quired to pass the tests of the cir­cle de­ter­mined by the super­uni­verse of your ori­gin and by the sys­tem of your na­tiv­ity. The di­vin­ity at­tain­ment of this cir­cle takes place on the pi­lot world and con­sists in the spir­i­tual rec­og­ni­tion and re­al­iza­tion of the Mas­ter Spirit of the as­cend­ing pil­grim’s super­uni­verse.

• Reflective Spirits and seconaphim reflect M.S. to 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.

28:4.52. The Voice of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. The sec­ond pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth one there­after cre­ated in­cline to­wards por­tray­ing the col­lec­tive na­tures and re­ac­tions of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. Though each Mas­ter Spirit is al­ready rep­re­sented on a super­uni­verse cap­i­tal by some one of the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its of as­sign­ment, such rep­re­sen­ta­tion is in­di­vid­ual, not col­lec­tive. Col­lec­tively, they are only re­flec­tively pres­ent; there­fore do the Mas­ter Spir­its wel­come the ser­vices of these highly per­sonal an­gels, the sec­ond se­ri­als of the pri­mary se­con­a­phim, who are so com­pe­tent to rep­re­sent them be­fore the An­cients of Days.

• created › Supreme Power Directors
• created › Universe Power Directors

29:0.10The Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors and Cen­ters have ex­isted from the near times of eter­nity, and as far as we know, no more be­ings of these or­ders have been cre­ated. The Seven Su­preme Di­rec­tors were per­son­al­ized by the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, and then they col­lab­o­rated with their par­ents in the pro­duc­tion of more than ten bil­lion as­so­ciates. Be­fore the days of the power di­rec­tors the en­ergy cir­cuits of space out­side of the cen­tral uni­verse were un­der the in­tel­li­gent super­vi­sion of the Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers of Par­a­dise.

• created › Supreme Power Directors

29:1.1The Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors are the phys­i­cal-en­ergy reg­u­la­tors of the grand uni­verse. Their cre­ation by the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its is the first re­corded in­stance of the deriva­tion of semi­ma­te­rial progeny from true spirit an­ces­try. When the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its cre­ate in­di­vid­u­ally, they bring forth highly spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties on the an­gelic or­der; when they cre­ate col­lec­tively, they some­times pro­duce these high types of semi­ma­te­rial be­ings. But even these quasi-phys­i­cal be­ings would be in­vis­i­ble to the short-range vi­sion of Uran­tia mor­tals.

• attributes and functions › each eternally served by 1 Supreme Power Director

29:1.2The Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors are seven in num­ber, and they are iden­ti­cal in ap­pear­ance and func­tion. One can­not be dis­tin­guished from an­other ex­cept by that Mas­ter Spirit with whom each is in im­me­di­ate as­so­ci­a­tion, and to whom each is in com­plete func­tional sub­servience. Each of the Mas­ter Spir­its is thus in eter­nal union with one of their col­lec­tive off­spring. The same di­rec­tor is al­ways in as­so­ci­a­tion with the same Spirit, and their work­ing part­ner­ship re­sults in a unique as­so­ci­a­tion of phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual en­er­gies, of a semi­phys­i­cal be­ing and a spirit per­son­al­ity.

• maintain power focuses that revolve around periphery of Paradise

29:1.3The Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors are sta­tioned on pe­riph­eral Par­a­dise, where their slowly cir­cu­lat­ing pres­ences in­di­cate the where­abouts of the force-fo­cal head­quar­ters of the Mas­ter Spir­its. These power di­rec­tors func­tion singly in the power-en­ergy reg­u­la­tion of the super­uni­verses but col­lec­tively in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the cen­tral cre­ation. They op­er­ate from Par­a­dise but main­tain them­selves as ef­fec­tive power cen­ters in all di­vi­sions of the grand uni­verse.

• attributes and functions › power control of grand universe intrusted to
• created › Supreme Power Directors

29:3.1The Su­preme Power Cen­ters dis­tributed through­out the super­uni­verses num­ber, with their as­so­ciates and sub­or­di­nates, up­ward of ten bil­lion. And they are all in per­fect syn­chrony and com­plete li­ai­son with their Par­a­dise pro­gen­i­tors, the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors. The power con­trol of the grand uni­verse is thus in­trusted to the keep­ing and di­rec­tion of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, the cre­ators of the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors.

• attributes and functions › each dominates and pervades one superuniverse

29:4.3While the pres­ence of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties en­cir­cles the grand uni­verse and sweeps around the cir­cle of eter­nity, the in­flu­ence of any one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its is lim­ited to a sin­gle super­uni­verse. There is a dis­tinct seg­re­ga­tion of en­ergy and a sep­a­ra­tion of the cir­cuits of power be­tween each of the seven super­cre­ations; hence in­di­vid­u­al­ized con­trol meth­ods must and do pre­vail.

• created › Universe Power Directors

29:4.23The en­ergy trans­form­ers are the con­joint cre­ation of the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors and the Seven Cen­ter Super­vi­sors. They are among the more per­sonal or­ders of phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, and ex­cept when an as­so­ciate power di­rec­tor is pres­ent on an in­hab­ited world, the trans­form­ers are in com­mand. They are the plan­e­tary in­spec­tors of all de­part­ing se­raphic trans­ports. All classes of ce­les­tial life can uti­lize the less per­sonal or­ders of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers only by li­ai­son with the more per­sonal or­ders of the as­so­ciate di­rec­tors and the en­ergy trans­form­ers.

• in personality registers

30:1.41. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

• in personality registers

30:2.151. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

• 7 superuniverse Architects of Master Universe associate with

31:9.53. The Super­uni­verse Level. The third ab­so­nite level em­braces the seven Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects of the seven super­uni­verses, who now, as a group, spend about equal time in the com­pany of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its on Par­a­dise and with the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives on the seven spe­cial worlds of the In­fi­nite Spirit. They are the superco-or­di­na­tors of the grand uni­verse.

• attributes and functions › Father is spiritually present in our hearts by our Master Spirit

32:4.9In your uni­verse and in your heart the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is pres­ent, spir­i­tu­ally speak­ing, by one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of cen­tral abode and, specif­i­cally, by the di­vine Ad­juster who lives and works and waits in the depths of the mor­tal mind.

• attributes and functions › role in individualization of local universe Mother Spirits

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.

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.

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.

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.”

• attributes and functions › superuniverse presence analogous to Spirit of Truth

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.

• attributes and functions › channel of life to creation

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.

• attributes and functions › source and convergence of cosmic mind

42:10.6The cos­mic mind. This is the sev­en­fold di­ver­si­fied mind of time and space, one phase of which is min­is­tered by each of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its to one of the seven super­uni­verses. The cos­mic mind en­com­passes all fi­nite-mind lev­els and co-or­di­nates ex­pe­ri­en­tially with the evo­lu­tion­ary-de­ity lev­els of the Su­preme Mind and tran­scen­den­tally with the ex­is­ten­tial lev­els of ab­so­lute mind—the di­rect cir­cuits of the Con­joint Ac­tor.

• attributes and functions › selected original 7000 celestial artisans

44:0.3The ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans are not cre­ated as such; they are a se­lected and re­cruited corps of be­ings com­posed of cer­tain teacher per­son­al­i­ties na­tive to the cen­tral uni­verse and their vol­un­teer pupils drawn from the as­cend­ing mor­tals and nu­mer­ous other ce­les­tial groups. The orig­i­nal teach­ing corps of these ar­ti­sans was some­time as­signed by the In­fi­nite Spirit in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and con­sisted of seven thou­sand Ha­vona in­struc­tors, one thou­sand to each of the seven di­vi­sions of ar­ti­sans. With such a nu­cleus to start with, there has de­vel­oped through the ages this bril­liant body of skill­ful work­ers in spirit and mor­ontia af­fairs.

• mortals experience conscious contact with Master Spirit of superuniverse nativity in light and life

55:6.4The Ad­justers con­tinue to come as in for­mer evo­lu­tion­ary eras, and as the epochs pass, these mor­tals are in­creas­ingly able to com­mune with the in­dwelling Fa­ther frag­ment. Dur­ing the em­bry­onic and prespir­i­tual stages of de­vel­op­ment the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are still func­tion­ing. The Holy Spirit and the min­istry of an­gels are even more ef­fec­tive as the suc­ces­sive epochs of set­tled life are ex­pe­ri­enced. In the fourth stage of light and life the ad­vanced mor­tals seem to ex­pe­ri­ence con­sid­er­able con­scious con­tact with the spirit pres­ence of the Mas­ter Spirit of super­uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion, while the phi­los­o­phy of such a world is fo­cused upon the at­tempt to com­pre­hend the new rev­e­la­tions of God the Su­preme. More than one half of the hu­man in­hab­i­tants on plan­ets of this ad­vanced sta­tus ex­pe­ri­ence trans­la­tion to the mor­ontia state from among the liv­ing. Even so, “old things are pass­ing away; be­hold, all things are be­com­ing new.”

• attributes and functions › source and convergence of cosmic mind

56:2.3This in­fi­nite and uni­ver­sal mind is min­is­tered in the uni­verses of time and space as the cos­mic mind; and though ex­tend­ing from the prim­i­tive min­istry of the ad­ju­tant spir­its up to the mag­nif­i­cent mind of the chief ex­ec­u­tive of a uni­verse, even this cos­mic mind is ad­e­quately uni­fied in the super­vi­sion of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, who are in turn co-or­di­nated with the Su­preme Mind of time and space and per­fectly cor­re­lated with the all-em­brac­ing mind of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• among Supreme Creators

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.

• attributes and functions › participate in life initiation by Life Carriers

65:0.1Ba­sic evo­lu­tion­ary ma­te­rial life—pre­mind life—is the for­mu­la­tion of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers and the life-im­par­ta­tion min­istry of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its in con­junc­tion with the ac­tive min­is­tra­tion of the or­dained Life Car­ri­ers. As a re­sult of the co-or­di­nate func­tion of this three­fold cre­ativ­ity there de­vel­ops or­gan­is­mal phys­i­cal ca­pac­ity for mind—ma­te­rial mech­a­nisms for in­tel­li­gent re­ac­tion to ex­ter­nal en­vi­ron­men­tal stim­uli and, later on, to in­ter­nal stim­uli, in­flu­ences tak­ing ori­gin in the or­gan­is­mal mind it­self.

• tradition of M.S. in Ur

95:6.2This founder of a new re­li­gion was a vir­ile and ad­ven­tur­ous youth, who, on his first pil­grim­age to Ur in Mes­o­po­ta­mia, had learned of the tra­di­tions of the Cali­gas­tia and the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion—along with many other tra­di­tions—all of which had made a strong ap­peal to his re­li­gious na­ture. Ac­cord­ingly, as the re­sult of a dream while in Ur, he set­tled upon a pro­gram of re­turn­ing to his north­ern home to un­der­take the re­mod­el­ing of the re­li­gion of his peo­ple. He had im­bibed the He­braic idea of a God of jus­tice, the Mo­saic con­cept of di­vin­ity. The idea of a su­preme God was clear in his mind, and he set down all other gods as dev­ils, con­signed them to the ranks of the demons of which he had heard in Mes­o­po­ta­mia. He had learned of the story of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its as the tra­di­tion lin­gered in Ur, and, ac­cord­ingly, he cre­ated a galaxy of seven su­preme gods with Ahura-Mazda at its head. These sub­or­di­nate gods he as­so­ci­ated with the ide­al­iza­tion of Right Law, Good Thought, No­ble Gov­ern­ment, Holy Char­ac­ter, Health, and Im­mor­tal­ity.

• tradition of M.S. in Ur

95:6.7Even the re­li­gion which suc­ceeded Zoroas­tri­an­ism in Per­sia was markedly in­flu­enced by it. When the Ira­nian priests sought to over­throw the teach­ings of Zoroaster, they res­ur­rected the an­cient wor­ship of Mithra. And Mith­ra­ism spread through­out the Lev­ant and Med­i­ter­ra­nean re­gions, be­ing for some time a con­tem­po­rary of both Ju­daism and Chris­tian­ity. The teach­ings of Zoroaster thus came suc­ces­sively to im­press three great re­li­gions: Ju­daism and Chris­tian­ity and, through them, Mo­hammedanism.

• attributes and functions › harmonize energy-spirit divergence

103:7.12Sci­ence be­comes the thought do­main of math­e­mat­ics, of the en­ergy and ma­te­rial of time in space. Re­li­gion as­sumes to deal not only with fi­nite and tem­po­ral spirit but also with the spirit of eter­nity and su­prem­acy. Only through a long ex­pe­ri­ence in mota can these two ex­tremes of uni­verse per­cep­tion be made to yield anal­o­gous in­ter­pre­ta­tions of ori­gins, func­tions, re­la­tions, re­al­i­ties, and des­tinies. The max­i­mum har­mo­niza­tion of the en­ergy-spirit di­ver­gence is in the en­cir­cuit­ment of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its; the first uni­fi­ca­tion thereof, in the De­ity of the Su­preme; the fi­nal­ity unity thereof, in the in­fin­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter, the I AM.

• are Trinity inevitabilities

115:7.5The Par­a­dise Trin­ity is con­sid­ered to be the ab­so­lute in­evitabil­ity; the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are ap­par­ently Trin­ity in­evitabil­i­ties; the power-mind-spirit-per­son­al­ity ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme must be the evo­lu­tion­ary in­evitabil­ity.

• attributes and functions › repositories of unexercised sovereignty and mind potential of Supreme Being

116:1.3Through­out the evo­lu­tion­ary ages the phys­i­cal power po­ten­tial of the Su­preme is vested in the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors, and the mind po­ten­tial re­poses in the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. The In­fi­nite Mind is the func­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit; the cos­mic mind, the min­istry of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its; the Su­preme Mind is in pro­cess of ac­tu­al­iz­ing in the co-or­di­na­tion of the grand uni­verse and in func­tional as­so­ci­a­tion with the rev­e­la­tion and at­tain­ment of God the Sev­en­fold.

• among Supreme Creators

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.

• created › Reflective Spirits

116:4.3Early in the pro­jec­tion of the super­uni­verse scheme of cre­ation, the Mas­ter Spir­its joined with the an­ces­tral Trin­ity in the cocre­ation of the forty-nine Re­flec­tive Spir­its, and con­comi­tantly the Su­preme Be­ing func­tioned cre­atively as the cul­mi­na­tor of the con­joined acts of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and the cre­ative chil­dren of Par­a­dise De­ity. Maj­es­ton ap­peared and ever since has fo­cal­ized the cos­mic pres­ence of the Su­preme Mind, while the Mas­ter Spir­its con­tinue as source-cen­ters for the far-flung min­istry of the cos­mic mind.

116:4.4But the Mas­ter Spir­its con­tinue in super­vi­sion of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its. The Sev­enth Mas­ter Spirit is (in his over­all super­vi­sion of Or­von­ton from the cen­tral uni­verse) in per­sonal con­tact with (and has over­con­trol of) the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its lo­cated on Uversa. In his in­ter- and in­tra­super­uni­verse con­trols and ad­min­is­tra­tions he is in re­flec­tive con­tact with the Re­flec­tive Spir­its of his own type lo­cated on each super­uni­verse cap­i­tal.

• created › quasi-material and spiritual beings

116:4.5These Mas­ter Spir­its are not only the sup­port­ers and aug­menters of the sov­er­eignty of Su­prem­acy, but they are in turn af­fected by the cre­ative pur­poses of the Su­preme. Or­di­nar­ily, the col­lec­tive cre­ations of the Mas­ter Spir­its are of the quasi-ma­te­rial or­der (power di­rec­tors, etc.), while their in­di­vid­ual cre­ations are of the spir­i­tual or­der (super­na­phim, etc.). But when the Mas­ter Spir­its col­lec­tively pro­duced the Seven Cir­cuit Spir­its in re­sponse to the will and pur­pose of the Su­preme Be­ing, it is to be noted that the off­spring of this cre­ative act are spir­i­tual, not ma­te­rial or quasi-ma­te­rial.

• created › Supreme Power Directors

116:5.10The bi­fur­ca­tion of en­ergy and spirit (stem­ming from the con­joint pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son and the Par­a­dise Isle) was sym­bol­ized in the super­uni­verse sense when the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its unit­edly en­gaged in their first act of col­lec­tive cre­ation. This episode wit­nessed the ap­pear­ance of the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors. Con­comi­tant there­with the spir­i­tual cir­cuits of the Mas­ter Spir­its con­trastively dif­fer­en­ti­ated from the phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties of power di­rec­tor super­vi­sion, and im­me­di­ately did the cos­mic mind ap­pear as a new fac­tor co-or­di­nat­ing mat­ter and spirit.

• attributes and functions › 7 great approaches to Father

117:6.15To evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures there are seven great ap­proaches to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and each of these Par­a­dise as­cen­sions passes through the di­vin­ity of one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its; and each such ap­proach is made pos­si­ble by an en­large­ment of ex­pe­ri­ence re­cep­tiv­ity con­se­quent upon the crea­ture’s hav­ing served in the super­uni­verse re­flec­tive of the na­ture of that Mas­ter Spirit. The sum to­tal of these seven ex­pe­ri­ences con­sti­tutes the pres­ent-known lim­its of a crea­ture’s con­scious­ness of the re­al­ity and ac­tu­al­ity of God the Su­preme.