reflectivity

9:7.1The Con­joint Ac­tor is able to co-or­di­nate all lev­els of uni­verse ac­tu­al­ity in such man­ner as to make pos­si­ble the si­mul­ta­ne­ous rec­og­ni­tion of the men­tal, the ma­te­rial, and the spir­i­tual. This is the phe­nom­e­non of uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity, that unique and in­ex­pli­ca­ble power to see, hear, sense, and know all things as they tran­spire through­out a super­uni­verse, and to fo­cal­ize, by re­flec­tiv­ity, all this in­for­ma­tion and knowl­edge at any de­sired point. The ac­tion of re­flec­tiv­ity is shown in per­fec­tion on each of the head­quar­ters worlds of the seven super­uni­verses. It is also op­er­a­tive through­out all sec­tors of the super­uni­verses and within the bound­aries of the lo­cal uni­verses. Re­flec­tiv­ity fi­nally fo­cal­izes on Par­a­dise.

9:7.2The phe­nom­e­non of re­flec­tiv­ity, as it is dis­closed on the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters worlds in the amaz­ing per­for­mances of the re­flec­tive per­son­al­i­ties there sta­tioned, rep­re­sents the most com­plex in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of all phases of ex­is­tence to be found in all cre­ation. Lines of spirit can be traced back to the Son, phys­i­cal en­ergy to Par­a­dise, and mind to the Third Source; but in the ex­traor­di­nary phe­nom­e­non of uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity there is a unique and ex­cep­tional uni­fi­ca­tion of all three, so as­so­ci­ated as to en­able the uni­verse rulers to know about re­mote con­di­tions in­stan­ta­neously, si­mul­ta­ne­ously with their oc­cur­rence.

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.

9:7.4The re­la­tion­ship be­tween the fi­nite cos­mic mind and the di­vine ab­so­lute mind ap­pears to be evolv­ing in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial mind of the Su­preme. We are taught that, in the dawn of time, this ex­pe­ri­en­tial mind was be­stowed upon the Su­preme by the In­fi­nite Spirit, and we con­jec­ture that cer­tain fea­tures of the phe­nom­e­non of re­flec­tiv­ity can be ac­counted for only by pos­tu­lat­ing the ac­tiv­ity of the Su­preme Mind. If the Su­preme is not con­cerned in re­flec­tiv­ity, we are at a loss to ex­plain the in­tri­cate trans­ac­tions and unerring op­er­a­tions of this con­scious­ness of the cos­mos.

9:7.5Re­flec­tiv­ity ap­pears to be om­ni­science within the lim­its of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial fi­nite and may rep­re­sent the emer­gence of the pres­ence-con­scious­ness of the Su­preme Be­ing. If this as­sump­tion is true, then the uti­liza­tion of re­flec­tiv­ity in any of its phases is equiv­a­lent to par­tial con­tact with the con­scious­ness of the Su­preme.

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.

24:2.2The Cen­sus Di­rec­tors are a spe­cial and com­pleted cre­ation of the In­fi­nite Spirit, and they ex­ist in num­bers un­known to us. They are so cre­ated as to be able to main­tain per­fect syn­chrony with the re­flec­tiv­ity tech­nique of the super­uni­verses, while at the same time they are per­son­ally sen­si­tive and re­spon­sive to in­tel­li­gent will. These di­rec­tors, by a not-fully-un­der­stood tech­nique, are made im­me­di­ately aware of the birth of will in any part of the grand uni­verse. They are, there­fore, al­ways com­pe­tent to give us the num­ber, na­ture, and where­abouts of all will crea­tures in any part of the cen­tral cre­ation and the seven super­uni­verses. But they do not func­tion on Par­a­dise; there is no need for them there. On Par­a­dise knowl­edge is in­her­ent; the De­i­ties know all things.

28:7.4We are de­nied the full priv­i­lege of us­ing these an­gels of the re­flec­tive or­der on Uran­tia. They are fre­quent vis­i­tors on your world, ac­com­pa­ny­ing as­signed per­son­al­i­ties, but here they can­not freely func­tion. This sphere is still un­der par­tial spir­i­tual quar­an­tine, and some of the cir­cuits es­sen­tial to their ser­vices are not here at pres­ent. When your world is once more re­stored to the re­flec­tive cir­cuits con­cerned, much of the work of in­ter­plan­e­tary and in­teruni­verse com­mu­ni­ca­tion will be greatly sim­pli­fied and ex­pe­dited. Ce­les­tial work­ers on Uran­tia en­counter many dif­fi­cul­ties be­cause of this func­tional cur­tail­ment of their re­flec­tive as­so­ciates. But we go on joy­fully con­duct­ing our af­fairs with the in­stru­men­tal­i­ties at hand, not­with­stand­ing our lo­cal de­pri­va­tion of many of the ser­vices of these mar­velous be­ings, the liv­ing mir­rors of space and the pres­ence pro­jec­tors of time.

108:1.2Al­though we do not def­i­nitely know, we firmly be­lieve that all Thought Ad­justers are vol­un­teers. But be­fore ever they vol­un­teer, they are in pos­ses­sion of full data re­spect­ing the can­di­date for in­dwelling. The se­raphic drafts of an­ces­try and pro­jected pat­terns of life con­duct are trans­mit­ted via Par­a­dise to the re­serve corps of Ad­justers on Di­vin­ing­ton by the re­flec­tiv­ity tech­nique ex­tend­ing in­ward from the cap­i­tals of the lo­cal uni­verses to the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verses. This fore­cast cov­ers not only the hered­i­tary an­tecedents of the mor­tal can­di­date but also the es­ti­mate of prob­a­ble in­tel­lec­tual en­dow­ment and spir­i­tual ca­pac­ity. The Ad­justers thus vol­un­teer to in­dwell minds of whose in­ti­mate na­tures they have been fully ap­prised.

108:1.8The short time in­ter­ven­ing be­tween the vol­un­teer­ing and the ac­tual dis­patch of the Ad­juster is pre­sum­ably spent in the Di­vin­ing­ton schools of the Per­son­al­ized Mon­i­tors where a work­ing pat­tern of the wait­ing mor­tal mind is uti­lized in in­struct­ing the as­signed Ad­juster as to the most ef­fec­tive plans for per­son­al­ity ap­proach and mind spir­i­ti­za­tion. This mind model is for­mu­lated through a com­bi­na­tion of data sup­plied by the super­uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity ser­vice. At least this is our un­der­stand­ing, a be­lief which we hold as the re­sult of putting to­gether in­for­ma­tion se­cured by con­tact with many Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers through­out the long uni­verse ca­reers of the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers.

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.

• indispensable feature of normal universe work
• secret of Spiritington

13:1.10The se­crets of Spir­it­ing­ton in­volve the im­pen­e­tra­ble mys­ter­ies of re­flec­tiv­ity. We tell you of the vast and uni­ver­sal phe­nom­e­non of re­flec­tiv­ity, more par­tic­u­larly as it is op­er­a­tive on the head­quar­ters worlds of the seven super­uni­verses, but we never fully ex­plain this phe­nom­e­non, for we do not fully un­der­stand it. Much, very much, we do com­pre­hend, but many ba­sic de­tails are still mys­te­ri­ous to us. Re­flec­tiv­ity is a se­cret of God the Spirit. You have been in­structed con­cern­ing re­flec­tiv­ity func­tions in re­la­tion to the as­cen­sion scheme of mor­tal sur­vival, and it does so op­er­ate, but re­flec­tiv­ity is also an in­dis­pens­able fea­ture of the nor­mal work­ing of nu­mer­ous other phases of uni­verse oc­cu­pa­tion. This en­dow­ment of the In­fi­nite Spirit is also uti­lized in chan­nels other than those of in­tel­li­gence gath­er­ing and in­for­ma­tion dis­sem­i­na­tion. And there are other se­crets of Spir­it­ing­ton.

• mind level of Infinite Spirit, Master Spirits, and Supreme Being
• news-gathering, decree-disseminating mechanism
• transmissible attribute

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.

• in constant, not periodic, function

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.

• appears to be, but is not, automatic

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.

• independent of time and space

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.

• power to see, hear, sense, and know all things wherever and as they transpire

28:4.1The pri­mary se­con­a­phim, of as­sign­ment to the An­cients of Days, are liv­ing mir­rors in the ser­vice of these tri­une rulers. Think what it means in the econ­omy of a super­uni­verse to be able to turn, as it were, to a liv­ing mir­ror and therein to see and there­with to hear the cer­tain re­sponses of an­other be­ing a thou­sand or a hun­dred thou­sand light-years dis­tant and to do all this in­stantly and unerringly. Rec­ords are es­sen­tial to the con­duct of the uni­verses, broad­casts are ser­vice­able, the work of the Soli­tary and other mes­sen­gers is very help­ful, but the An­cients of Days from their po­si­tion mid­way be­tween the in­hab­ited worlds and Par­a­dise—be­tween man and God—can in­stantly look both ways, hear both ways, and know both ways.

28:4.2This abil­ity—to hear and see, as it were, all things—can be per­fectly re­al­ized in the super­uni­verses only by the An­cients of Days and only on their re­spec­tive head­quar­ters worlds. Even there lim­its are en­coun­tered: From Uversa, such com­mu­ni­ca­tion is lim­ited to the worlds and uni­verses of Or­von­ton, and while in­op­er­a­tive be­tween the super­uni­verses, this same re­flec­tive tech­nique keeps each one of them in close touch with the cen­tral uni­verse and with Par­a­dise. The seven super­gov­ern­ments, though in­di­vid­u­ally seg­re­gated, are thus per­fectly re­flec­tive of the au­thor­ity above and are wholly sym­pa­thetic, as well as per­fectly con­ver­sant, with the needs be­low.

• ability to see expression of wisdom and its source

28:5.71. The Voice of Wis­dom. Cer­tain of these se­con­a­phim are in per­pet­ual li­ai­son with the liv­ing li­braries of Par­a­dise, the cus­to­di­ans of knowl­edge be­long­ing to the pri­mary super­na­phim. In spe­cial­ized re­flec­tive ser­vice the Voices of Wis­dom are liv­ing, cur­rent, re­plete, and thor­oughly re­li­able con­cen­tra­tions and fo­cal­iza­tions of the co-or­di­nated wis­dom of the uni­verse of uni­verses. To the well-nigh in­fi­nite vol­ume of in­for­ma­tion cir­cu­lat­ing on the mas­ter cir­cuits of the super­uni­verses, these su­perb be­ings are so re­flec­tive and se­lec­tive, so sen­si­tive, as to be able to seg­re­gate and re­ceive the essence of wis­dom and unerringly to trans­mit these jew­els of men­ta­tion to their su­pe­ri­ors, the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom. And they so func­tion that the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom not only hear the ac­tual and orig­i­nal ex­pres­sions of this wis­dom but also re­flec­tively see the very be­ings, of high or lowly ori­gin, who gave voice to it.

• power to see, hear, sense, and know all things wherever and as they transpire

46:3.3At this broad­cast-re­ceiv­ing am­phithe­ater the Sal­ving­ton mes­sages are com­ing in con­tin­u­ously. Near by, the Eden­tia word of the Most High Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers is re­ceived at least once a day. Pe­ri­od­i­cally the reg­u­lar and spe­cial broad­casts of Uversa are re­layed through Sal­ving­ton, and when Par­a­dise mes­sages are in re­cep­tion, the en­tire pop­u­la­tion is as­sem­bled around the sea of glass, and the Uversa friends add the re­flec­tiv­ity phe­nom­ena to the tech­nique of the Par­a­dise broad­cast so that ev­ery­thing heard be­comes vis­i­ble. And it is in this man­ner that con­tin­ual fore­tastes of ad­vanc­ing beauty and grandeur are af­forded the mor­tal sur­vivors as they jour­ney in­ward on the eter­nal ad­ven­ture.

18:3.5These high be­ings al­ways gov­ern in groups of three. There are many phases of ac­tiv­ity in which they work as in­di­vid­u­als, still oth­ers in which any two can func­tion, but in the higher spheres of their ad­min­is­tra­tion they must act jointly. They never per­son­ally leave their res­i­den­tial worlds, but then they do not have to, for these worlds are the super­uni­verse fo­cal points of the far-flung re­flec­tiv­ity sys­tem.

28:5.10You can just faintly com­pre­hend what all this means to those who are re­spon­si­ble for the con­duct of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments. The im­men­sity and the com­pre­hen­sive­ness of these trans­ac­tions are quite be­yond fi­nite con­cep­tion. When you stand, as I re­peat­edly have, in the spe­cial re­ceiv­ing cham­bers of the tem­ple of wis­dom on Uversa and see all this in ac­tual op­er­a­tion, you will be moved to ado­ra­tion by the per­fec­tion of the com­plex­ity, and by the surety of the work­ing, of the in­ter­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tions of the uni­verses. You will pay homage to the di­vine wis­dom and good­ness of the Gods, who plan and ex­e­cute with such su­perb tech­nique. And these things ac­tu­ally hap­pen just as I have por­trayed them.

• Majeston, in whom r. is personalized
• Supreme Being

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

• Infinite Spirit, cause of r.
• Master Spirits
• Supreme Being

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.

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.

17:2.2This mo­men­tous trans­ac­tion, oc­cur­ring in the dawn of time, rep­re­sents the ini­tial ef­fort of the Su­preme Cre­ator Per­son­al­i­ties, rep­re­sented by the Mas­ter Spir­its, to func­tion as cocre­ators with the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. This union of the cre­ative power of the Su­preme Cre­ators with the cre­ative po­ten­tials of the Trin­ity is the very source of the ac­tu­al­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing. There­fore, when the cy­cle of re­flec­tive cre­ation had run its course, when each of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its had found per­fect cre­ative syn­chrony with the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, when the forty-ninth Re­flec­tive Spirit had per­son­al­ized, then a new and far-reach­ing re­ac­tion oc­curred in the De­ity Ab­so­lute which im­parted new per­son­al­ity pre­rog­a­tives to the Su­preme Be­ing and cul­mi­nated in the per­son­al­iza­tion of Maj­es­ton, the re­flec­tiv­ity chief and Par­a­dise cen­ter of all the work of the forty-nine Re­flec­tive Spir­its and their as­so­ciates through­out the uni­verse of uni­verses.

17:2.3Maj­es­ton is a true per­son, the per­sonal and in­fal­li­ble cen­ter of re­flec­tiv­ity phe­nom­ena in all seven super­uni­verses of time and space. He main­tains per­ma­nent Par­a­dise head­quar­ters near the cen­ter of all things at the ren­dezvous of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. He is con­cerned solely with the co-or­di­na­tion and main­te­nance of the re­flec­tiv­ity ser­vice in the far-flung cre­ation; he is not oth­er­wise in­volved in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of uni­verse af­fairs.

17:2.4Maj­es­ton is not in­cluded in our cat­a­logue of Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties be­cause he is the only ex­ist­ing per­son­al­ity of di­vin­ity cre­ated by the Su­preme Be­ing in func­tional li­ai­son with the De­ity Ab­so­lute. He is a per­son, but he is ex­clu­sively and ap­par­ently au­to­mat­i­cally con­cerned with this one phase of uni­verse econ­omy; he does not now func­tion in any per­sonal ca­pac­ity with re­la­tion to other (non­re­flec­tive) or­ders of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties.

17:2.5The cre­ation of Maj­es­ton sig­nal­ized the first su­preme cre­ative act of the Su­preme Be­ing. This will to ac­tion was vo­li­tional in the Su­preme Be­ing, but the stu­pen­dous re­ac­tion of the De­ity Ab­so­lute was not fore­known. Not since the eter­nity-ap­pear­ance of Ha­vona had the uni­verse wit­nessed such a tremen­dous fac­tu­al­iza­tion of such a gi­gan­tic and far-flung align­ment of power and co-or­di­na­tion of func­tional spirit ac­tiv­i­ties. The De­ity re­sponse to the cre­ative wills of the Su­preme Be­ing and his as­so­ciates was vastly be­yond their pur­pose­ful in­tent and greatly in ex­cess of their con­cep­tual fore­casts.

17:2.6We stand in awe of the pos­si­bil­ity of what the fu­ture ages, wherein the Su­preme and the Ul­ti­mate may at­tain new lev­els of di­vin­ity and as­cend to new do­mains of per­son­al­ity func­tion, may wit­ness in the realms of the deiti­za­tion of still other un­ex­pected and un­dreamed of be­ings who will pos­sess unimag­ined pow­ers of en­hanced uni­verse co-or­di­na­tion. There would seem to be no limit to the De­ity Ab­so­lute’s po­ten­tial of re­sponse to such uni­fi­ca­tion of re­la­tion­ships be­tween ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity and the ex­is­ten­tial Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

• Trinity, in creation of 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.

• local universe Mother Spirits

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

• Unqualified Supervisors of the Supreme

55:12.4The Un­qual­i­fied Super­vi­sors of the Su­preme, who func­tion more ex­ten­sively dur­ing this epoch, are not fi­nite, ab­so­nite, ul­ti­mate, or in­fi­nite; they are su­prem­acy and only rep­re­sent God the Su­preme. They are the per­son­al­iza­tion of time-space su­prem­acy and there­fore do not func­tion in Ha­vona. They func­tion only as su­preme uni­fiers. They may pos­si­bly be in­volved in the tech­nique of uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity, but we are not cer­tain.

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

43:0.1Uran­tia is com­monly re­ferred to as 606 of Sa­ta­nia in Nor­la­ti­adek of Neb­a­don, mean­ing the six hun­dred sixth in­hab­ited world in the lo­cal sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia, sit­u­ated in the con­stel­la­tion of Nor­la­ti­adek, one of the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tions of the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. Con­stel­la­tions be­ing the pri­mary di­vi­sions of a lo­cal uni­verse, their rulers link the lo­cal sys­tems of in­hab­ited worlds to the cen­tral ad­min­is­tra­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse on Sal­ving­ton and by re­flec­tiv­ity to the super­ad­min­is­tra­tion of the An­cients of Days on Uversa.

27:5.5These pri­mary super­na­phim who are in­her­ently in pos­ses­sion of uni­verse knowl­edge are also re­spon­si­ble for its or­ga­ni­za­tion and clas­si­fi­ca­tion. In con­sti­tut­ing them­selves the liv­ing ref­er­ence li­brary of the uni­verse of uni­verses, they have clas­si­fied knowl­edge into seven grand or­ders, each hav­ing about one mil­lion sub­di­vi­sions. The fa­cil­ity with which the res­i­dents of Par­a­dise can con­sult this vast store of knowl­edge is solely due to the vol­un­tary and wise ef­forts of the cus­to­di­ans of knowl­edge. The cus­to­di­ans are also the ex­alted teach­ers of the cen­tral uni­verse, freely giv­ing out their liv­ing trea­sures to all be­ings on any of the Ha­vona cir­cuits, and they are ex­ten­sively, though in­di­rectly, uti­lized by the courts of the An­cients of Days. But this liv­ing li­brary, which is avail­able to the cen­tral and super­uni­verses, is not ac­ces­si­ble to the lo­cal cre­ations. Only by in­di­rec­tion and re­flec­tively are the ben­e­fits of Par­a­dise knowl­edge se­cured in the lo­cal uni­verses.

39:5.11Your con­ven­tional idea of an­gels has been de­rived in the fol­low­ing way: Dur­ing mo­ments just prior to phys­i­cal death a re­flec­tive phe­nom­e­non some­times oc­curs in the hu­man mind, and this dim­ming con­scious­ness seems to vi­su­al­ize some­thing of the form of the at­tend­ing an­gel, and this is im­me­di­ately trans­lated into terms of the ha­bit­ual con­cept of an­gels held in that in­di­vid­ual’s mind.

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.

43:1.11A crys­tal field on this or­der is found on al­most all ar­chi­tec­tural worlds; and it serves many pur­poses aside from its dec­o­ra­tive value, be­ing uti­lized for por­tray­ing super­uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity to as­sem­bled groups and as a fac­tor in the en­ergy-trans­for­ma­tion tech­nique for mod­i­fy­ing the cur­rents of space and for adapt­ing other in­com­ing phys­i­cal-en­ergy streams.

28:3.1The sec­o­raphic hosts are pro­duced by the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its as­signed to the head­quar­ters of each super­uni­verse. There is a def­i­nite Par­a­dise-re­spon­sive tech­nique as­so­ci­ated with the cre­ation of these an­gels in groups of seven. In each seven there are al­ways one pri­mary, three sec­ondary, and three ter­tiary se­con­a­phim; they al­ways per­son­al­ize in this ex­act pro­por­tion. When seven such se­con­a­phim are cre­ated, one, the pri­mary, be­comes at­tached to the ser­vice of the An­cients of Days. The three sec­ondary an­gels are as­so­ci­ated with three groups of Par­a­dise-ori­gin ad­min­is­tra­tors in the super­gov­ern­ments: the Di­vine Coun­selors, the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, and the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors. The three ter­tiary an­gels are at­tached to the as­cen­dant trin­i­tized as­so­ciates of the super­uni­verse rulers: the Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber.

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

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

28:4.52. 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.

28:4.63. The Voice of the Cre­ator Sons. The In­fi­nite Spirit must have had some­thing to do with the cre­ation or train­ing of the Par­a­dise Sons of the or­der of Mi­chael, for the third pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth se­rial there­after pos­sess the re­mark­able gift of be­ing re­flec­tive of the minds of these Cre­ator Sons. If the An­cients of Days would like to know—re­ally know—the at­ti­tude of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don re­gard­ing some mat­ter un­der con­sid­er­a­tion, they do not have to call him on the lines of space; they need only call for the Chief of Neb­a­don Voices, who, upon re­quest, will pre­sent the Mi­chael se­con­a­phim of rec­ord; and right then and there the An­cients of Days will per­ceive the voice of the Mas­ter Son of Neb­a­don.

28:4.7No other or­der of son­ship is thus “re­flectible,” and no other or­der of an­gel can thus func­tion. We do not fully un­der­stand just how this is ac­com­plished, and I doubt very much that the Cre­ator Sons them­selves fully un­der­stand it. But of a cer­tainty we know it works, and that it un­fail­ingly works ac­cept­ably we also know, for in all the his­tory of Uversa the sec­o­raphic voices have never erred in their pre­sen­ta­tions.

28:4.8You are here be­gin­ning to see some­thing of the man­ner in which di­vin­ity en­com­passes the space of time and mas­ters the time of space. You are here ob­tain­ing one of your first fleet­ing glimpses of the tech­nique of the eter­nity cy­cle, di­ver­gent for the mo­ment to as­sist the chil­dren of time in their tasks of mas­ter­ing the dif­fi­cult hand­i­caps of space. And these phe­nom­ena are ad­di­tional to the es­tab­lished uni­verse tech­nique of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its.

28:4.9Though ap­par­ently de­prived of the per­sonal pres­ence of the Mas­ter Spir­its above and of the Cre­ator Sons be­low, the An­cients of Days have at their com­mand liv­ing be­ings at­tuned to cos­mic mech­a­nisms of re­flec­tive per­fec­tion and ul­ti­mate pre­ci­sion whereby they may en­joy the re­flec­tive pres­ence of all those ex­alted be­ings whose per­sonal pres­ence is de­nied them. By and through these means, and oth­ers un­known to you, God is po­ten­tially pres­ent on the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verses.

28:4.10The An­cients of Days per­fectly de­duce the Fa­ther’s will by equat­ing the Spirit voice-flash from above and the Mi­chael voice-flashes from be­low. Thus may they be unerringly cer­tain in cal­cu­lat­ing the Fa­ther’s will con­cern­ing the ad­min­is­tra­tive af­fairs of the lo­cal uni­verses. But to de­duce the will of one of the Gods from a knowl­edge of the other two, the three An­cients of Days must act to­gether; two would not be able to achieve the an­swer. And for this rea­son, even were there no oth­ers, the super­uni­verses are al­ways pre­sided over by three An­cients of Days, and not by one or even two.

28:4.114. The Voice of the An­gelic Hosts. The fourth pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth se­rial prove to be an­gels pe­cu­liarly re­spon­sive to the sen­ti­ments of all or­ders of an­gels, in­clud­ing the super­na­phim above and the ser­a­phim be­low. Thus the at­ti­tude of any com­mand­ing or super­vis­ing an­gel is im­me­di­ately avail­able for con­sid­er­a­tion at any coun­cil of the An­cients of Days. Never a day passes on your world that the chief of ser­a­phim on Uran­tia is not made con­scious of the phe­nom­e­non of re­flec­tive trans­fer­ence, of be­ing drawn upon from Uversa for some pur­pose; but un­less fore­warned by a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger, she re­mains wholly ig­no­rant of what is sought and of how it is se­cured. These min­is­ter­ing spir­its of time are con­stantly fur­nish­ing this sort of un­con­scious and cer­tainly, there­fore, un­prej­u­diced tes­ti­mony con­cern­ing the end­less ar­ray of mat­ters en­gag­ing the at­ten­tion and coun­sel of the An­cients of Days and their as­so­ciates.

28:4.125. Broad­cast Re­ceivers. There is a spe­cial class of broad­cast mes­sages which are re­ceived only by these pri­mary se­con­a­phim. While they are not the reg­u­lar broad­cast­ers of Uversa, they work in li­ai­son with the an­gels of the re­flec­tive voices for the pur­pose of syn­chro­niz­ing the re­flec­tive vi­sion of the An­cients of Days with cer­tain ac­tual mes­sages com­ing in over the es­tab­lished cir­cuits of uni­verse com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Broad­cast re­ceivers are the fifth se­ri­als, the fifth pri­mary se­con­a­phim to be cre­ated and ev­ery sev­enth one there­after.

28:4.136. Trans­port Per­son­al­i­ties. These are the se­con­a­phim who carry the pil­grims of time from the head­quar­ters worlds of the super­uni­verses to the outer cir­cle of Ha­vona. They are the trans­port corps of the super­uni­verses, op­er­at­ing in­ward to Par­a­dise and out­ward to the worlds of their re­spec­tive sec­tors. This corps is com­posed of the sixth pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth one sub­se­quently cre­ated.

28:4.147. The Re­serve Corps. A very large group of se­con­a­phim, the sev­enth pri­mary se­ri­als, are held in re­serve for the un­clas­si­fied du­ties and the emer­gency as­sign­ments of the realms. Not be­ing highly spe­cial­ized, they can func­tion fairly well in any of the ca­pac­i­ties of their di­verse as­so­ciates, but such spe­cial­ized work is un­der­taken only in emer­gen­cies. Their usual tasks are the per­for­mance of those gen­er­al­ized du­ties of a super­uni­verse which do not fall within the scope of the an­gels of spe­cific as­sign­ment.

28:5.1Se­con­a­phim of the sec­ondary or­der are no less re­flec­tive than their pri­mary fel­lows. Be­ing classed as pri­mary, sec­ondary, and ter­tiary does not in­di­cate a dif­fer­en­tial of sta­tus or func­tion in the case of se­con­a­phim; it merely de­notes or­ders of pro­ce­dure. Iden­ti­cal qual­i­ties are ex­hib­ited by all three groups in their ac­tiv­i­ties.

28:5.2The seven re­flec­tive types of sec­ondary se­con­a­phim are as­signed to the ser­vices of the co-or­di­nate Trin­ity-ori­gin as­so­ciates of the An­cients of Days as fol­lows:

28:5.3To the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom—the Voices of Wis­dom, the Souls of Phi­los­o­phy, and the Unions of Souls.

28:5.4To the Di­vine Coun­selors—the Hearts of Coun­sel, the Joys of Ex­is­tence, and the Sat­is­fac­tions of Ser­vice.

28:5.5To the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors—the Dis­cern­ers of Spir­its.

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

28:5.8It is writ­ten, “If any man lack wis­dom, let him ask.” On Uversa, when it be­comes nec­es­sary to ar­rive at the de­ci­sions of wis­dom in the per­plex­ing sit­u­a­tions of the com­plex af­fairs of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment, when both the wis­dom of per­fec­tion and of prac­ti­ca­bil­ity must be forth­com­ing, then do the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom sum­mon a bat­tery of the Voices of Wis­dom and, by the con­sum­mate skill of their or­der, so at­tune and di­rec­tion­ize these liv­ing re­ceivers of the en­minded and cir­cu­lat­ing wis­dom of the uni­verse of uni­verses that pres­ently, from these sec­o­raphic voices, there en­sues a stream of the wis­dom of di­vin­ity from the uni­verse above and a flood of the wis­dom of prac­ti­cal­ity from the higher minds of the uni­verses be­low.

28:5.9If con­fu­sion arises re­gard­ing the har­mo­niza­tion of these two ver­sions of wis­dom, im­me­di­ate ap­peal is made to the Di­vine Coun­selors, who forth­with rule as to the proper com­bi­na­tion of pro­ce­dures. If there is any doubt as to the au­then­tic­ity of some­thing com­ing in from realms where re­bel­lion has been rife, ap­peal is made to the Cen­sors, who, with their Dis­cern­ers of Spir­its, are able to rule im­me­di­ately as to “what man­ner of spirit” ac­tu­ated the ad­viser. So are the wis­dom of the ages and the in­tel­lect of the mo­ment ever pres­ent with the An­cients of Days, like an open book be­fore their benef­i­cent gaze.

28:5.112. The Soul of Phi­los­o­phy. These won­der­ful teach­ers are also at­tached to the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom and, when not oth­er­wise di­rec­tion­ized, re­main in fo­cal syn­chrony with the mas­ters of phi­los­o­phy on Par­a­dise. Think of step­ping up to a huge liv­ing mir­ror, as it were, but in­stead of be­hold­ing the like­ness of your fi­nite and ma­te­rial self, of per­ceiv­ing a re­flec­tion of the wis­dom of di­vin­ity and the phi­los­o­phy of Par­a­dise. And if it be­comes de­sir­able to “in­car­nate” this phi­los­o­phy of per­fec­tion, so to di­lute it as to make it prac­ti­cal of ap­pli­ca­tion to, and as­sim­i­la­tion by, the lowly peo­ples of the lower worlds, these liv­ing mir­rors have only to turn their faces down­ward to re­flect the stan­dards and needs of an­other world or uni­verse.

28:5.12By these very tech­niques do the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom adapt de­ci­sions and rec­om­men­da­tions to the real needs and ac­tual sta­tus of the peo­ples and worlds un­der con­sid­er­a­tion, and al­ways do they act in con­cert with the Di­vine Coun­selors and the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors. But the sub­lime re­plete­ness of these trans­ac­tions is be­yond even my abil­ity to com­pre­hend.

28:5.133. The Union of Souls. Com­plet­ing the tri­une staff of at­tach­ment to the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, are these re­flec­tors of the ide­als and sta­tus of eth­i­cal re­la­tion­ships. Of all the prob­lems in the uni­verse re­quir­ing an ex­er­cise of the con­sum­mate wis­dom of ex­pe­ri­ence and adapt­abil­ity, none are more im­por­tant than those aris­ing out of the re­la­tion­ships and as­so­ci­a­tions of in­tel­li­gent be­ings. Whether in hu­man as­so­ci­a­tions of com­merce and trade, friend­ship and mar­riage, or in the li­aisons of the an­gelic hosts, there con­tinue to arise petty fric­tions, mi­nor mis­un­der­stand­ings too triv­ial even to en­gage the at­ten­tion of con­cil­ia­tors but suf­fi­ciently ir­ri­tat­ing and dis­turb­ing to mar the smooth work­ing of the uni­verse if they were al­lowed to mul­ti­ply and con­tinue. There­fore do the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom make avail­able the wise ex­pe­ri­ence of their or­der as the “oil of rec­on­cil­i­a­tion” for an en­tire super­uni­verse. In all this work these wise men of the super­uni­verses are ably sec­onded by their re­flec­tive as­so­ciates, the Unions of Souls, who make avail­able cur­rent in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing the sta­tus of the uni­verse and con­cur­rently por­tray the Par­a­dise ideal of the best ad­just­ment of these per­plex­ing prob­lems. When not specif­i­cally di­rec­tion­ized else­where, these se­con­a­phim re­main in re­flec­tive li­ai­son with the in­ter­preters of ethics on Par­a­dise.

28:5.14These are the an­gels who fos­ter and pro­mote the team­work of all Or­von­ton. One of the most im­por­tant lessons to be learned dur­ing your mor­tal ca­reer is team­work. The spheres of per­fec­tion are manned by those who have mas­tered this art of work­ing with other be­ings. Few are the du­ties in the uni­verse for the lone ser­vant. The higher you as­cend, the more lonely you be­come when tem­porar­ily with­out the as­so­ci­a­tion of your fel­lows.

28:5.154. The Heart of Coun­sel. This is the first group of these re­flec­tive ge­niuses to be placed un­der the super­vi­sion of the Di­vine Coun­selors. Se­con­a­phim of this type are in pos­ses­sion of the facts of space, be­ing se­lec­tive for such data in the cir­cuits of time. Es­pe­cially are they re­flec­tive of the super­aphic in­tel­li­gence co-or­di­na­tors, but they are also se­lec­tively re­flec­tive of the coun­sel of all be­ings, whether of high or low es­tate. When­ever the Di­vine Coun­selors are called upon for im­por­tant ad­vice or de­ci­sions, they im­me­di­ately req­ui­si­tion an en­sem­ble of the Hearts of Coun­sel, and pres­ently there is handed down a rul­ing which ac­tu­ally in­cor­po­rates the co-or­di­nated wis­dom and ad­vice of the most com­pe­tent minds of the en­tire super­uni­verse, all of which has been cen­sored and re­vised in the light of the coun­sel of the high minds of Ha­vona and even of Par­a­dise.

28:5.165. The Joy of Ex­is­tence. By na­ture these be­ings are re­flec­tively at­tuned to the super­aphic har­mony super­vi­sors above and to cer­tain of the ser­a­phim be­low, but it is dif­fi­cult to ex­plain just what the mem­bers of this in­ter­est­ing group re­ally do. Their prin­ci­pal ac­tiv­i­ties are di­rected to­ward pro­mot­ing re­ac­tions of joy among the var­i­ous or­ders of the an­gelic hosts and the lower will crea­tures. The Di­vine Coun­selors, to whom they are at­tached, sel­dom use them for spe­cific joy find­ing. In a more gen­eral man­ner and in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the re­ver­sion di­rec­tors, they func­tion as joy clear­ing­houses, seek­ing to up­step the plea­sure re­ac­tions of the realms while try­ing to im­prove the hu­mor taste, to de­velop a super­hu­mor among mor­tals and an­gels. They en­deavor to demon­strate that there is in­her­ent joy in free­will ex­is­tence, in­de­pen­dent of all ex­tra­ne­ous in­flu­ences; and they are right, al­though they meet with great dif­fi­culty in in­cul­cat­ing this truth in the minds of prim­i­tive men. The higher spirit per­son­al­i­ties and the an­gels are more quickly re­spon­sive to these ed­u­ca­tional ef­forts.

28:5.176. The Sat­is­fac­tion of Ser­vice. These an­gels are highly re­flec­tive of the at­ti­tude of the di­rec­tors of con­duct on Par­a­dise, and func­tion­ing much as do the Joys of Ex­is­tence, they strive to en­hance the value of ser­vice and to aug­ment the sat­is­fac­tions to be de­rived there­from. They have done much to il­lu­mi­nate the de­ferred re­wards in­her­ent in un­selfish ser­vice, ser­vice for the ex­ten­sion of the king­dom of truth.

28:5.18The Di­vine Coun­selors, to whom this or­der is at­tached, uti­lize them to re­flect from one world to an­other the ben­e­fits to be de­rived from spir­i­tual ser­vice. And by us­ing the per­for­mances of the best to in­spire and en­cour­age the mediocre, these se­con­a­phim con­tribute im­mensely to the qual­ity of de­voted ser­vice in the super­uni­verses. Ef­fec­tive use is made of the fra­ter­nal com­pet­i­tive spirit by cir­cu­lat­ing to any one world in­for­ma­tion about what the oth­ers, par­tic­u­larly the best, are do­ing. A re­fresh­ing and whole­some ri­valry is pro­moted even among the se­raphic hosts.

28:5.197. The Dis­cerner of Spir­its. A spe­cial li­ai­son ex­ists be­tween the coun­selors and ad­vis­ers of the sec­ond Ha­vona cir­cle and these re­flec­tive an­gels. They are the only se­con­a­phim at­tached to the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors but are prob­a­bly the most uniquely spe­cial­ized of all their fel­lows. Re­gard­less of the source or chan­nel of in­for­ma­tion, no mat­ter how mea­ger the ev­i­dence at hand, when it is sub­jected to their re­flec­tive scrutiny, these dis­cern­ers will forth­with in­form us as to the true mo­tive, the ac­tual pur­pose, and the real na­ture of its ori­gin. I mar­vel at the su­perb func­tion­ing of these an­gels, who so unerringly re­flect the ac­tual moral and spir­i­tual char­ac­ter of any in­di­vid­ual con­cerned in a fo­cal ex­po­sure.

28:5.20The Dis­cern­ers of Spir­its carry on these in­tri­cate ser­vices by virtue of in­her­ent “spir­i­tual in­sight,” if I may use such words in an en­deavor to con­vey to the hu­man mind the thought that these re­flec­tive an­gels thus func­tion in­tu­itively, in­her­ently, and unerringly. When the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors be­hold these pre­sen­ta­tions, they are face to face with the naked soul of the re­flected in­di­vid­ual; and this very cer­tainty and per­fec­tion of por­trai­ture in part ex­plains why the Cen­sors can al­ways func­tion so justly as righ­teous judges. The dis­cern­ers al­ways ac­com­pany the Cen­sors on any mis­sion away from Uversa, and they are just as ef­fec­tive out in the uni­verses as at their Uversa head­quar­ters.

28:5.21I as­sure you that all these trans­ac­tions of the spirit world are real, that they take place in ac­cor­dance with es­tab­lished us­ages and in har­mony with the im­mutable laws of the uni­ver­sal do­mains. The be­ings of ev­ery newly cre­ated or­der, im­me­di­ately upon re­ceiv­ing the breath of life, are in­stantly re­flected on high; a liv­ing por­trayal of the crea­ture na­ture and po­ten­tial is flashed to the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters. Thus, by means of the dis­cern­ers, are the Cen­sors made fully cog­nizant of ex­actly “what man­ner of spirit” has been born on the worlds of space.

28:6.1In the same man­ner as their fel­lows, these an­gels are cre­ated se­ri­ally and in seven re­flec­tive types, but these types are not as­signed in­di­vid­u­ally to the sep­a­rate ser­vices of the super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tors. All ter­tiary se­con­a­phim are col­lec­tively as­signed to the Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment, and these as­cen­dant sons use them in­ter­change­ably; that is, the Mighty Mes­sen­gers can and do uti­lize any of the ter­tiary types, and so do their co-or­di­nates, Those High in Au­thor­ity and Those with­out Name and Num­ber. These seven types of ter­tiary se­con­a­phim are:

28:6.21. The Sig­nif­i­cance of Ori­gins. The as­cen­dant Trin­i­tized Sons of a super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment are charged with the re­spon­si­bil­ity of deal­ing with all is­sues grow­ing out of the ori­gin of any in­di­vid­ual, race, or world; and the sig­nif­i­cance of ori­gin is the paramount ques­tion in all our plans for the cos­mic ad­vance­ment of the liv­ing crea­tures of the realm. All re­la­tion­ships and the ap­pli­ca­tion of ethics grow out of the fun­da­men­tal facts of ori­gin. Ori­gin is the ba­sis of the re­la­tional re­ac­tion of the Gods. Al­ways does the Con­joint Ac­tor “take note of the man, in what man­ner he was born.”

28:6.3With the higher de­scen­dant be­ings, ori­gin is sim­ply a fact to be as­cer­tained; but with the as­cend­ing be­ings, in­clud­ing the lower or­ders of an­gels, the na­ture and cir­cum­stances of ori­gin are not al­ways so clear, though of equally vi­tal im­por­tance at al­most ev­ery turn of uni­verse af­fairs—hence the value of hav­ing at our dis­posal a se­ries of re­flec­tive se­con­a­phim who can in­stantly por­tray any­thing re­quired re­spect­ing the gen­e­sis of any be­ing in ei­ther the cen­tral uni­verse or through­out the en­tire realm of a super­uni­verse.

28:6.4The Sig­nif­i­cances of Ori­gins are the liv­ing ready-ref­er­ence ge­nealo­gies of the vast hosts of be­ings—men, an­gels, and oth­ers—who in­habit the seven super­uni­verses. They are al­ways ready to sup­ply their su­pe­ri­ors with an up-to-date, re­plete, and trust­wor­thy es­ti­mate of the an­ces­tral fac­tors and the cur­rent ac­tual sta­tus of any in­di­vid­ual on any world of their re­spec­tive super­uni­verses; and their com­pu­ta­tion of pos­sessed facts is al­ways up to the minute.

28:6.52. The Mem­ory of Mercy. These are the ac­tual, full and re­plete, liv­ing rec­ords of the mercy which has been ex­tended to in­di­vid­u­als and races by the ten­der min­is­tra­tions of the in­stru­men­tal­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit in the mis­sion of adapt­ing the jus­tice of righ­teous­ness to the sta­tus of the realms, as dis­closed by the por­tray­als of the Sig­nif­i­cance of Ori­gins. The Mem­ory of Mercy dis­closes the moral debt of the chil­dren of mercy—their spir­i­tual li­a­bil­i­ties—to be set down against their as­sets of the sav­ing pro­vi­sion es­tab­lished by the Sons of God. In re­veal­ing the Fa­ther’s pre-ex­is­tent mercy, the Sons of God es­tab­lish the nec­es­sary credit to in­sure the sur­vival of all. And then, in ac­cor­dance with the find­ings of the Sig­nif­i­cance of Ori­gins, a mercy credit is es­tab­lished for the sur­vival of each ra­tio­nal crea­ture, a credit of lav­ish pro­por­tions and one of suf­fi­cient grace to in­sure the sur­vival of ev­ery soul who re­ally de­sires di­vine cit­i­zen­ship.

28:6.6The Mem­ory of Mercy is a liv­ing trial bal­ance, a cur­rent state­ment of your ac­count with the super­nat­u­ral forces of the realms. These are the liv­ing rec­ords of mercy min­is­tra­tion which are read into the tes­ti­mony of the courts of Uversa when each in­di­vid­ual’s right to un­end­ing life comes up for ad­ju­di­ca­tion, when “thrones are cast up and the An­cients of Days are seated. The broad­casts of Uversa is­sue and come forth from be­fore them; thou­sands upon thou­sands min­is­ter to them, and ten thou­sand times ten thou­sand stand be­fore them. The judg­ment is set, and the books are opened.” And the books which are opened on such a mo­men­tous oc­ca­sion are the liv­ing rec­ords of the ter­tiary se­con­a­phim of the super­uni­verses. The for­mal rec­ords are on file to cor­rob­o­rate the tes­ti­mony of the Mem­o­ries of Mercy if they are re­quired.

28:6.7The Mem­ory of Mercy must show that the sav­ing credit es­tab­lished by the Sons of God has been fully and faith­fully paid out in the lov­ing min­istry of the pa­tient per­son­al­i­ties of the Third Source and Cen­ter. But when mercy is ex­hausted, when the “mem­ory” thereof tes­ti­fies to its de­ple­tion, then does jus­tice pre­vail and righ­teous­ness de­cree. For mercy is not to be thrust upon those who de­spise it; mercy is not a gift to be tram­pled un­der foot by the per­sis­tent rebels of time. Nev­er­the­less, though mercy is thus pre­cious and dearly be­stowed, your in­di­vid­ual draw­ing cred­its are al­ways far in ex­cess of your abil­ity to ex­haust the re­serve if you are sin­cere of pur­pose and hon­est of heart.

28:6.8The mercy re­flec­tors, with their ter­tiary as­so­ciates, en­gage in nu­mer­ous super­uni­verse min­istries, in­clud­ing the teach­ing of the as­cend­ing crea­tures. Among many other things the Sig­nif­i­cances of Ori­gins teach these as­cend­ers how to ap­ply spirit ethics, and fol­low­ing such train­ing, the Mem­o­ries of Mercy teach them how to be truly mer­ci­ful. While the spirit tech­niques of mercy min­istry are be­yond your con­cept, you should even now un­der­stand that mercy is a qual­ity of growth. You should re­al­ize that there is a great re­ward of per­sonal sat­is­fac­tion in be­ing first just, next fair, then pa­tient, then kind. And then, on that foun­da­tion, if you choose and have it in your heart, you can take the next step and re­ally show mercy; but you can­not ex­hibit mercy in and of it­self. These steps must be tra­versed; oth­er­wise there can be no gen­uine mercy. There may be pa­tron­age, con­de­scen­sion, or char­ity—even pity—but not mercy. True mercy comes only as the beau­ti­ful cli­max to these pre­ced­ing ad­juncts to group un­der­stand­ing, mu­tual ap­pre­ci­a­tion, fra­ter­nal fel­low­ship, spir­i­tual com­mu­nion, and di­vine har­mony.

28:6.93. The Im­port of Time. Time is the one uni­ver­sal en­dow­ment of all will crea­tures; it is the “one tal­ent” in­trusted to all in­tel­li­gent be­ings. You all have time in which to in­sure your sur­vival; and time is fa­tally squan­dered only when it is buried in ne­glect, when you fail so to uti­lize it as to make cer­tain the sur­vival of your soul. Fail­ure to im­prove one’s time to the fullest ex­tent pos­si­ble does not im­pose fa­tal penal­ties; it merely re­tards the pil­grim of time in his jour­ney of as­cent. If sur­vival is gained, all other losses can be re­trieved.

28:6.10In the as­sign­ment of trusts the coun­sel of the Im­ports of Time is in­valu­able. Time is a vi­tal fac­tor in ev­ery­thing this side of Ha­vona and Par­a­dise. In the fi­nal judg­ment be­fore the An­cients of Days, time is an el­e­ment of ev­i­dence. The Im­ports of Time must al­ways af­ford tes­ti­mony to show that ev­ery de­fen­dant has had am­ple time for mak­ing de­ci­sions, achiev­ing choice.

28:6.11These time eval­u­a­tors are also the se­cret of prophecy; they por­tray the el­e­ment of time which will be re­quired in the com­ple­tion of any un­der­tak­ing, and they are just as de­pend­able as in­di­ca­tors as are the fran­dalanks and chro­nol­deks of other liv­ing or­ders. The Gods fore­see, hence fore­know; but the as­cen­dant au­thor­i­ties of the uni­verses of time must con­sult the Im­ports of Time to be able to fore­cast events of the fu­ture.

28:6.12You will first en­counter these be­ings on the man­sion worlds, and they will there in­struct you in the ad­van­ta­geous use of that which you call “time,” both in its pos­i­tive em­ploy­ment, work, and in its neg­a­tive uti­liza­tion, rest. Both uses of time are im­por­tant.

28:6.134. The Solem­nity of Trust. Trust is the cru­cial test of will crea­tures. Trust­wor­thi­ness is the true mea­sure of self-mas­tery, char­ac­ter. These se­con­a­phim ac­com­plish a dou­ble pur­pose in the econ­omy of the super­uni­verses: They por­tray to all will crea­tures the sense of the obli­ga­tion, sa­cred­ness, and solem­nity of trust. At the same time they unerringly re­flect to the gov­ern­ing au­thor­i­ties the ex­act trust­wor­thi­ness of any can­di­date for con­fi­dence or trust.

28:6.14On Uran­tia, you grotesquely es­say to read char­ac­ter and to es­ti­mate spe­cific abil­i­ties, but on Uversa we ac­tu­ally do these things in per­fec­tion. These se­con­a­phim weigh trust­wor­thi­ness in the liv­ing scales of unerring char­ac­ter ap­praisal, and when they have looked at you, we have only to look at them to know the lim­i­ta­tions of your abil­ity to dis­charge re­spon­si­bil­ity, ex­e­cute trust, and ful­fill mis­sions. Your as­sets of trust­wor­thi­ness are clearly set forth along­side your li­a­bil­i­ties of pos­si­ble de­fault or be­trayal.

28:6.15It is the plan of your su­pe­ri­ors to ad­vance you by aug­mented trusts just as fast as your char­ac­ter is suf­fi­ciently de­vel­oped to grace­fully bear these added re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, but to over­load the in­di­vid­ual only courts dis­as­ter and in­sures dis­ap­point­ment. And the mis­take of plac­ing re­spon­si­bil­ity pre­ma­turely upon ei­ther man or an­gel may be avoided by uti­liz­ing the min­istry of these in­fal­li­ble es­ti­ma­tors of the trust ca­pac­ity of the in­di­vid­u­als of time and space. These se­con­a­phim ever ac­com­pany Those High in Au­thor­ity, and never do these ex­ec­u­tives make as­sign­ments un­til their can­di­dates have been weighed in the sec­o­raphic bal­ances and pro­nounced “not want­ing.”

28:6.165. The Sanc­tity of Ser­vice. The priv­i­lege of ser­vice im­me­di­ately fol­lows the dis­cov­ery of trust­wor­thi­ness. Noth­ing can stand be­tween you and op­por­tu­nity for in­creased ser­vice ex­cept your own un­trust­wor­thi­ness, your lack of ca­pac­ity for ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the solem­nity of trust.

28:6.17Ser­vice—pur­pose­ful ser­vice, not slav­ery—is pro­duc­tive of the high­est sat­is­fac­tion and is ex­pres­sive of the di­vinest dig­nity. Ser­vice—more ser­vice, in­creased ser­vice, dif­fi­cult ser­vice, ad­ven­tur­ous ser­vice, and at last di­vine and per­fect ser­vice—is the goal of time and the des­ti­na­tion of space. But ever will the play cy­cles of time al­ter­nate with the ser­vice cy­cles of prog­ress. And af­ter the ser­vice of time there fol­lows the super­ser­vice of eter­nity. Dur­ing the play of time you should en­vi­sion the work of eter­nity, even as you will, dur­ing the ser­vice of eter­nity, rem­i­nisce the play of time.

28:6.18The uni­ver­sal econ­omy is based on in­take and out­put; through­out the eter­nal ca­reer you will never en­counter mo­not­ony of in­ac­tion or stag­na­tion of per­son­al­ity. Prog­ress is made pos­si­ble by in­her­ent mo­tion, ad­vance­ment grows out of the di­vine ca­pac­ity for ac­tion, and achieve­ment is the child of imag­i­na­tive ad­ven­ture. But in­her­ent in this ca­pac­ity for achieve­ment is the re­spon­si­bil­ity of ethics, the ne­ces­sity for rec­og­niz­ing that the world and the uni­verse are filled with a mul­ti­tude of dif­fer­ing types of be­ings. All of this mag­nif­i­cent cre­ation, in­clud­ing your­self, was not made just for you. This is not an ego­cen­tric uni­verse. The Gods have de­creed, “It is more blessed to give than to re­ceive,” and said your Mas­ter Son, “He who would be great­est among you let him be server of all.”

28:6.19The real na­ture of any ser­vice, be it ren­dered by man or an­gel, is fully re­vealed in the faces of these sec­o­raphic ser­vice in­di­ca­tors, the Sanc­ti­ties of Ser­vice. The full anal­y­sis of the true and of the hid­den mo­tives is clearly shown. These an­gels are in­deed the mind read­ers, heart searchers, and soul re­veal­ers of the uni­verse. Mor­tals may em­ploy words to con­ceal their thoughts, but these high se­con­a­phim lay bare the deep mo­tives of the hu­man heart and of the an­gelic mind.

28:6.206 and 7. The Se­cret of Great­ness and the Soul of Good­ness. The as­cend­ing pil­grims hav­ing awak­ened to the im­port of time, the way is pre­pared for the re­al­iza­tion of the solem­nity of trust and for the ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the sanc­tity of ser­vice. While these are the moral el­e­ments of great­ness, there are also se­crets of great­ness. When the spir­i­tual tests of great­ness are ap­plied, the moral el­e­ments are not dis­re­garded, but the qual­ity of un­selfish­ness re­vealed in dis­in­ter­ested la­bor for the wel­fare of one’s earthly fel­lows, par­tic­u­larly wor­thy be­ings in need and in dis­tress, that is the real mea­sure of plan­e­tary great­ness. And the man­i­fes­ta­tion of great­ness on a world like Uran­tia is the ex­hi­bi­tion of self-con­trol. The great man is not he who “takes a city” or “over­throws a na­tion,” but rather “he who sub­dues his own tongue.”

28:6.21Great­ness is syn­ony­mous with di­vin­ity. God is su­premely great and good. Great­ness and good­ness sim­ply can­not be di­vorced. They are for­ever made one in God. This truth is lit­er­ally and strik­ingly il­lus­trated by the re­flec­tive in­ter­de­pen­dence of the Se­cret of Great­ness and the Soul of Good­ness, for nei­ther can func­tion with­out the other. In re­flect­ing other qual­i­ties of di­vin­ity, the super­uni­verse se­con­a­phim can and do act alone, but the re­flec­tive es­ti­mates of great­ness and of good­ness ap­pear to be in­sep­a­ra­ble. Hence, on any world, in any uni­verse, must these re­flec­tors of great­ness and of good­ness work to­gether, al­ways show­ing a dual and mu­tu­ally de­pen­dent re­port of ev­ery be­ing upon whom they fo­cal­ize. Great­ness can­not be es­ti­mated with­out know­ing the con­tent of good­ness, while good­ness can­not be por­trayed with­out ex­hibit­ing its in­her­ent and di­vine great­ness.

28:6.22The es­ti­mate of great­ness varies from sphere to sphere. To be great is to be God­like. And since the qual­ity of great­ness is wholly de­ter­mined by the con­tent of good­ness, it fol­lows that, even in your pres­ent hu­man es­tate, if you can through grace be­come good, you are thereby be­com­ing great. The more stead­fastly you be­hold, and the more per­sis­tently you pur­sue, the con­cepts of di­vine good­ness, the more cer­tainly will you grow in great­ness, in true mag­ni­tude of gen­uine sur­vival char­ac­ter.

28:7.1The se­con­a­phim have their ori­gin and head­quar­ters on the cap­i­tals of the super­uni­verses, but with their li­ai­son fel­lows they range from the shores of Par­a­dise to the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space. They serve as val­ued as­sis­tants to the mem­bers of the de­lib­er­a­tive as­sem­blies of the super­gov­ern­ments and are of great help to the cour­tesy colonies of Uversa: the star stu­dents, mil­len­nial tourists, ce­les­tial ob­servers, and a host of oth­ers, in­clud­ing the as­cen­dant be­ings in wait­ing for Ha­vona trans­port. The An­cients of Days take plea­sure in as­sign­ing cer­tain of the pri­mary se­con­a­phim to as­sist the as­cend­ing crea­tures domi­ciled on the four hun­dred ninety study worlds sur­round­ing Uversa, and here also do many of the sec­ondary and ter­tiary or­ders serve as teach­ers. These Uversa satel­lites are the fin­ish­ing schools of the uni­verses of time, pre­sent­ing the prepara­tory course for the seven-cir­cuited uni­ver­sity of Ha­vona.

28:7.2Of the three or­ders of se­con­a­phim, the ter­tiary group, at­tached to the as­cen­dant au­thor­i­ties, min­is­ter most ex­ten­sively to the as­cend­ing crea­tures of time. You will on oc­ca­sion meet them soon af­ter your de­par­ture from Uran­tia, though you will not freely make use of their ser­vices un­til you reach the tar­ry­ing worlds of Or­von­ton. You will en­joy their com­pan­ion­ship when you be­come fully ac­quainted with them dur­ing your so­journ on the Uversa school worlds.

28:7.3These ter­tiary se­con­a­phim are the time­savers, space abridgers, er­ror de­tec­tors, faith­ful teach­ers, and ev­er­last­ing guide­posts—liv­ing signs of di­vine surety—in mercy placed at the cross­roads of time, there to guide the feet of anx­ious pil­grims in mo­ments of great per­plex­ity and spir­i­tual un­cer­tainty. Long be­fore at­tain­ing the por­tals of per­fec­tion, you will be­gin to gain ac­cess to the tools of di­vin­ity and to make con­tact with the tech­niques of De­ity. In­creas­ingly, from the time you ar­rive on the ini­tial man­sion world un­til you close your eyes in the Ha­vona sleep prepara­tory to your Par­a­dise tran­sit, you will avail your­self of the emer­gency help of these mar­velous be­ings, who are so fully and freely re­flec­tive of the sure knowl­edge and cer­tain wis­dom of those safe and de­pend­able pil­grims who have pre­ceded you on the long jour­ney to the por­tals of per­fec­tion.

28:7.5[Spon­sored by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger of Uversa.]