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.

17:3.2The Re­flec­tive Spir­its have names, but these des­ig­na­tions are not re­vealed on the worlds of space. They per­tain to the na­ture and char­ac­ter of these be­ings and are a part of one of the seven uni­ver­sal mys­ter­ies of the se­cret spheres of Par­a­dise.

17:3.3The at­tri­bute of re­flec­tiv­ity, the phe­nom­e­non of the mind lev­els of the Con­joint Ac­tor, the Su­preme Be­ing, and the Mas­ter Spir­its, is trans­mis­si­ble to all be­ings con­cerned in the work­ing of this vast scheme of uni­ver­sal in­tel­li­gence. And herein is a great mys­tery: Nei­ther the Mas­ter Spir­its nor the Par­a­dise De­i­ties, singly or col­lec­tively, dis­close these pow­ers of co-or­di­nate uni­ver­sal re­flec­tiv­ity just as they are man­i­fested in these forty-nine li­ai­son per­son­al­i­ties of Maj­es­ton, and yet they are the cre­ators of all these mar­velously en­dowed be­ings. Di­vine hered­ity does some­times dis­close in the crea­ture cer­tain at­tri­butes which are not dis­cern­i­ble in the Cre­ator.

17:3.4The per­son­nel of the re­flec­tiv­ity ser­vice, with the ex­cep­tion of Maj­es­ton and the Re­flec­tive Spir­its, are all the crea­tures of the In­fi­nite Spirit and his im­me­di­ate as­so­ciates and sub­or­di­nates. The Re­flec­tive Spir­its of each super­uni­verse are the cre­ators of their Re­flec­tive Im­age Aids, their per­sonal voices to the courts of the An­cients of Days.

17:3.5The Re­flec­tive Spir­its are not merely trans­mit­ting agents; they are re­ten­tive per­son­al­i­ties as well. Their off­spring, the se­con­a­phim, are also re­ten­tive or rec­ord per­son­al­i­ties. Ev­ery­thing of true spir­i­tual value is reg­is­tered in du­pli­cate, and one im­pres­sion is pre­served in the per­sonal equip­ment of some mem­ber of one of the nu­mer­ous or­ders of sec­o­raphic per­son­al­i­ties be­long­ing to the vast staff of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its.

17:3.6The for­mal rec­ords of the uni­verses are passed up by and through the an­gelic re­cord­ers, but the true spir­i­tual rec­ords are as­sem­bled by re­flec­tiv­ity and are pre­served in the minds of suit­able and ap­pro­pri­ate per­son­al­i­ties be­long­ing to the fam­ily of the In­fi­nite Spirit. These are the live rec­ords in con­trast with the for­mal and dead rec­ords of the uni­verse, and they are per­fectly pre­served in the liv­ing minds of the record­ing per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

17:3.7The re­flec­tiv­ity or­ga­ni­za­tion is also the news-gath­er­ing and the de­cree-dis­sem­i­nat­ing mech­a­nism of all cre­ation. It is in con­stant op­er­a­tion in con­trast with the pe­ri­odic func­tion­ing of the var­i­ous broad­cast ser­vices.

17:3.8Ev­ery­thing of im­port tran­spir­ing on a lo­cal uni­verse head­quar­ters is in­her­ently re­flected to the cap­i­tal of its super­uni­verse. And con­versely, ev­ery­thing of lo­cal uni­verse sig­nif­i­cance is re­flected out­ward to the lo­cal uni­verse cap­i­tals from the head­quar­ters of their super­uni­verse. The re­flec­tiv­ity ser­vice from the uni­verses of time up to the super­uni­verses is ap­par­ently au­to­matic or self-op­er­at­ing, but it is not. It is all very per­sonal and in­tel­li­gent; its pre­ci­sion re­sults from per­fec­tion of per­son­al­ity co-op­er­a­tion and there­fore can hardly be at­tributed to the im­per­sonal pres­ence-per­for­mances of the Ab­so­lutes.

17:3.9While Thought Ad­justers do not par­tic­i­pate in the op­er­a­tion of the uni­ver­sal re­flec­tiv­ity sys­tem, we have ev­ery rea­son to be­lieve that all Fa­ther frag­ments are fully cog­nizant of these trans­ac­tions and are able to avail them­selves of their con­tent.

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

17:3.11On the head­quar­ters of each super­uni­verse the re­flec­tive or­ga­ni­za­tion acts as a seg­re­gated unit; but on cer­tain spe­cial oc­ca­sions, un­der the di­rec­tion of Maj­es­ton, all seven may and do act in uni­ver­sal uni­son, as in the event of the ju­bilee oc­ca­sioned by the set­tling of an en­tire lo­cal uni­verse in light and life and at the times of the mil­len­nial greet­ings of the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives.

15:10.2The super­uni­verse head­quar­ters are the abid­ing places of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its and the Re­flec­tive Im­age Aids. From this mid­way po­si­tion these mar­velous be­ings con­duct their tremen­dous re­flec­tiv­ity op­er­a­tions, thus min­is­ter­ing to the cen­tral uni­verse above and to the lo­cal uni­verses be­low.

17:4.1The forty-nine Re­flec­tive Im­age Aids were cre­ated by the Re­flec­tive Spir­its, and there are just seven Aids on the head­quar­ters of each super­uni­verse. The first cre­ative act of the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its of Uversa was the pro­duc­tion of their seven Im­age Aids, each Re­flec­tive Spirit cre­at­ing his own Aid. The Im­age Aids are, in cer­tain at­tri­butes and char­ac­ter­is­tics, per­fect re­pro­duc­tions of their Re­flec­tive Mother Spir­its; they are vir­tual du­pli­ca­tions mi­nus the at­tri­bute of re­flec­tiv­ity. They are true im­ages and con­stantly func­tion as the chan­nel of com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween the Re­flec­tive Spir­its and the super­uni­verse au­thor­i­ties. The Im­age Aids are not merely as­sis­tants; they are ac­tual rep­re­sen­ta­tions of their re­spec­tive Spirit an­ces­tors; they are im­ages, and they are true to their name.

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.

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.

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.

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.

9:8.172. The Re­flec­tive Spir­its of the Super­uni­verses.

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.

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.

30:1.63. The Seven Or­ders of Re­flec­tive Spir­its.

30:2.173. The Seven Groups of Re­flec­tive Spir­its.

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.

17:4.2The Re­flec­tive Spir­its them­selves are true per­son­al­i­ties but of such an or­der as to be in­com­pre­hen­si­ble to ma­te­rial be­ings. Even on a super­uni­verse head­quar­ters sphere they re­quire the as­sis­tance of their Im­age Aids in all per­sonal in­ter­course with the An­cients of Days and their as­so­ciates. In con­tacts be­tween the Im­age Aids and the An­cients of Days, some­times one Aid func­tions ac­cept­ably, while on other oc­ca­sions two, three, four, or even all seven are re­quired for the full and proper pre­sen­ta­tion of the com­mu­ni­ca­tion in­trusted to their trans­mis­sion. Like­wise, the mes­sages of the Im­age Aids are var­i­ously re­ceived by one, two, or all three An­cients of Days, as the con­tent of the com­mu­ni­ca­tion may re­quire.

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.

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.

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.

17:4.3The Im­age Aids serve for­ever by the sides of their an­ces­tral Spir­its, and they have at their dis­posal an un­be­liev­able host of helper se­con­a­phim. The Im­age Aids do not di­rectly func­tion in con­nec­tion with the train­ing worlds of as­cend­ing mor­tals. They are closely as­so­ci­ated with the in­tel­li­gence ser­vice of the uni­ver­sal scheme of mor­tal pro­gres­sion, but you will not per­son­ally come in con­tact with them when you so­journ in the Uversa schools be­cause these seem­ingly per­sonal be­ings are de­void of will; they do not ex­er­cise the power of choice. They are true im­ages, wholly re­flec­tive of the per­son­al­ity and mind of the in­di­vid­ual Spirit an­ces­tor. As a class, as­cend­ing mor­tals do not in­ti­mately con­tact with re­flec­tiv­ity. Al­ways some be­ing of the re­flec­tive na­ture will be in­ter­posed be­tween you and the ac­tual op­er­a­tion of the ser­vice.

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.

26:1.132. The Min­is­ter­ing Spir­its of the Super­uni­verses—the se­con­a­phim, the ter­tiaphim, and the om­niaphim. Se­con­a­phim, the chil­dren of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its, var­i­ously serve in the seven super­uni­verses. Ter­tiaphim, of ori­gin in the In­fi­nite Spirit, are even­tu­ally ded­i­cated to the li­ai­son ser­vice of the Cre­ator Sons and the An­cients of Days. Om­niaphim are cre­ated con­cert­edly by the In­fi­nite Spirit and the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives, and they are the ex­clu­sive ser­vants of the lat­ter. The dis­cus­sion of these three or­ders forms the sub­ject of a suc­ceed­ing nar­ra­tive in this se­ries.

28:0.1As the super­na­phim are the an­gelic hosts of the cen­tral uni­verse and the ser­a­phim of the lo­cal uni­verses, so are the se­con­a­phim the min­is­ter­ing spir­its of the super­uni­verses. In de­gree of di­vin­ity and in po­ten­tial of su­prem­acy, how­ever, these chil­dren of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its are much more like super­na­phim than ser­a­phim. They serve not alone in the super­cre­ations, and both nu­mer­ous and in­trigu­ing are the trans­ac­tions spon­sored by their un­re­vealed as­so­ciates.

28:3.2These se­con­a­phim of the super­uni­verses are the off­spring of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its, and there­fore re­flec­tiv­ity is in­her­ent in their na­ture. They are re­flec­tively re­spon­sive to all of each phase of ev­ery crea­ture of ori­gin in the Third Source and Cen­ter and the Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons, but they are not di­rectly re­flec­tive of the be­ings and en­ti­ties, per­sonal or oth­er­wise, of sole ori­gin in the First Source and Cen­ter. We pos­sess many ev­i­dences of the ac­tu­al­ity of the uni­ver­sal in­tel­li­gence cir­cuits of the In­fi­nite Spirit, but even if we had no other proof, the re­flec­tive per­for­mances of the se­con­a­phim would be quite suf­fi­cient to demon­strate the re­al­ity of the uni­ver­sal pres­ence of the in­fi­nite mind of the Con­joint Ac­tor.

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