sacred spheres of Paradise

• personal communion with Father on

5:2.2God lives in ev­ery one of his spirit-born sons. The Par­a­dise Sons al­ways have ac­cess to the pres­ence of God, “the right hand of the Fa­ther,” and all of his crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties have ac­cess to the “bo­som of the Fa­ther.” This refers to the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit, when­ever, wher­ever, and how­ever con­tacted, or oth­er­wise en­tails per­sonal, self-con­scious con­tact and com­mu­nion with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, whether at the cen­tral abode or at some other des­ig­nated place, as on one of the seven sa­cred spheres of Par­a­dise.

• innermost of 3 circuits

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.

• each world different in physical constitution

13:0.2These three seven-world cir­cuits of the Fa­ther, the Son, and the Spirit are spheres of un­ex­celled grandeur and unimag­ined glory. Even their ma­te­rial or phys­i­cal con­struc­tion is of an or­der un­re­vealed to you. Each cir­cuit is di­verse in ma­te­rial, and each world of each cir­cuit is dif­fer­ent ex­cept­ing the seven worlds of the Son, which are alike in phys­i­cal con­sti­tu­tion. All twenty-one are enor­mous spheres, and each group of seven is dif­fer­ently eter­nal­ized. As far as we know they have al­ways been; like Par­a­dise they are eter­nal. There ex­ists nei­ther rec­ord nor tra­di­tion of their ori­gin.

• reflect spiritual luminosity throughout Paradise and Havona

13:0.3The seven se­cret spheres of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, cir­cu­lat­ing about Par­a­dise in close prox­im­ity to the eter­nal Isle, are highly re­flec­tive of the spir­i­tual lu­mi­nos­ity of the cen­tral shin­ing of the eter­nal De­i­ties, shed­ding this light of di­vine glory through­out Par­a­dise and even upon the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona.

• ultimate status spheres for all Father-endowed personalities

13:0.6Al­though the worlds of the Fa­ther are ul­ti­mate sta­tus spheres for all Fa­ther-en­dowed per­son­al­i­ties, this is not their ex­clu­sive func­tion. Many be­ings and en­ti­ties other than per­sonal so­journ on these worlds. Each world in the cir­cuit of the Fa­ther and the cir­cuit of the Spirit has a dis­tinct type of per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship, but we think the Son’s worlds are in­hab­ited by uni­form types of other-than-per­sonal be­ings. Fa­ther frag­ments are among the na­tives of Di­vin­ing­ton; the other or­ders of per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship are un­re­vealed to you.

• contain personality secrets
• only forbidden domains concerned with personality

13:1.1The Fa­ther’s cir­cuit of sa­cred life spheres con­tains the only in­her­ent per­son­al­ity se­crets in the uni­verse of uni­verses. These satel­lites of Par­a­dise, the in­ner­most of the three cir­cuits, are the only for­bid­den do­mains con­cerned with per­son­al­ity in the cen­tral uni­verse. Nether Par­a­dise and the worlds of the Son are like­wise closed to per­son­al­i­ties, but nei­ther of those realms is in any way di­rectly con­cerned with per­son­al­ity.

• 7 worlds, each directed by 10 Trinitized Secrets of Supremacy

13:1.2The Par­a­dise worlds of the Fa­ther are di­rected by the high­est or­der of the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity, the Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy. Of these worlds I can tell lit­tle; of their man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties I may tell less. Such in­for­ma­tion con­cerns only those be­ings who func­tion thereon and go forth there­from. And though I am some­what fa­mil­iar with six of these spe­cial worlds, never have I landed on Di­vin­ing­ton; that world is wholly for­bid­den to me.

• each sphere has specialized manifestation of Deities

13:1.3One of the rea­sons for the se­crecy of these worlds is be­cause each of these sa­cred spheres en­joys a spe­cial­ized rep­re­sen­ta­tion, or man­i­fes­ta­tion, of the De­i­ties com­pos­ing the Par­a­dise Trin­ity; not a per­son­al­ity, but a unique pres­ence of Di­vin­ity which can only be ap­pre­ci­ated and com­pre­hended by those par­tic­u­lar groups of in­tel­li­gences res­i­dent on, or ad­mis­si­ble to, that par­tic­u­lar sphere. The Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy are the per­sonal agents of these spe­cial­ized and im­per­sonal pres­ences of Di­vin­ity. And the Se­crets of Su­prem­acy are highly per­sonal be­ings, su­perbly en­dowed and mar­velously adapted to their ex­alted and ex­act­ing work.

13:1.41. DI­VIN­ING­TON. This world is, in a unique sense, the “bo­som of the Fa­ther,” the per­sonal-com­mu­nion sphere of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and thereon is a spe­cial man­i­fes­ta­tion of his di­vin­ity. Di­vin­ing­ton is the Par­a­dise ren­dezvous of the Thought Ad­justers, but it is also the home of nu­mer­ous other en­ti­ties, per­son­al­i­ties, and other be­ings tak­ing ori­gin in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Many per­son­al­i­ties be­sides the Eter­nal Son are of di­rect ori­gin by the soli­tary acts of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Only the Fa­ther frag­ments and those per­son­al­i­ties and other be­ings of di­rect and ex­clu­sive ori­gin in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther frat­er­nize and func­tion on this abode.

13:1.5The se­crets of Di­vin­ing­ton in­clude the se­cret of the be­stowal and mis­sion of Thought Ad­justers. Their na­ture, ori­gin, and the tech­nique of their con­tact with the lowly crea­tures of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds is a se­cret of this Par­a­dise sphere. These amaz­ing trans­ac­tions do not per­son­ally con­cern the rest of us, and there­fore do the De­i­ties deem it proper to with­hold cer­tain fea­tures of this great and di­vine min­istry from our full un­der­stand­ing. In so far as we come in con­tact with this phase of di­vine ac­tiv­ity, we are per­mit­ted full knowl­edge of these trans­ac­tions, but con­cern­ing the in­ti­mate de­tails of this great be­stowal we are not fully in­formed.

13:1.6This sphere also holds the se­crets of the na­ture, pur­pose, and ac­tiv­i­ties of all other forms of Fa­ther frag­ments, of the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers, and of hosts of other be­ings un­re­vealed to you. It is highly prob­a­ble that those truths per­tain­ing to Di­vin­ing­ton which are with­held from me, if re­vealed, would merely con­fuse and hand­i­cap me in my pres­ent work, and still again, per­haps they are be­yond the con­cep­tual ca­pac­ity of my or­der of be­ing.

13:1.72. SONAR­ING­TON. This sphere is the “bo­som of the Son,” the per­sonal re­ceiv­ing world of the Eter­nal Son. It is the Par­a­dise head­quar­ters of the de­scend­ing and as­cend­ing Sons of God when, and af­ter, they are fully ac­cred­ited and fi­nally ap­proved. This world is the Par­a­dise home for all Sons of the Eter­nal Son and of his co-or­di­nate and as­so­ciate Sons. There are nu­mer­ous or­ders of di­vine son­ship at­tached to this su­per­nal abode which have not been re­vealed to mor­tals since they are not con­cerned with the plans of the as­cen­sion scheme of hu­man spir­i­tual pro­gres­sion through the uni­verses and on to Par­a­dise.

13:1.8The se­crets of Sonar­ing­ton in­clude the se­cret of the in­car­na­tion of the di­vine Sons. When a Son of God be­comes a Son of Man, is lit­er­ally born of woman, as oc­curred on your world nine­teen hun­dred years ago, it is a uni­ver­sal mys­tery. It is oc­cur­ring right along through­out the uni­verses, and it is a Sonar­ing­ton se­cret of di­vine son­ship. The Ad­justers are a mys­tery of God the Fa­ther. The in­car­na­tion of the di­vine Sons is a mys­tery of God the Son; it is a se­cret locked up in the sev­enth sec­tor of Sonar­ing­ton, a realm pen­e­trated by none save those who have per­son­ally passed through this unique ex­pe­ri­ence. Only those phases of in­car­na­tion hav­ing to do with your as­cen­sion ca­reer have been brought to your no­tice. There are many other phases of the mys­tery of the in­car­na­tion of the Par­a­dise Sons of un­re­vealed types on mis­sions of uni­verse ser­vice which are undis­closed to you. And there are still other Sonar­ing­ton mys­ter­ies.

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.

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.

13:1.114. VICEGERING­TON. This planet is the “bo­som of the Fa­ther and the Son” and is the se­cret sphere of cer­tain un­re­vealed be­ings who take ori­gin by the acts of the Fa­ther and the Son. This is also the Par­a­dise home of many glo­ri­fied be­ings of com­plex an­ces­try, those whose ori­gin is com­pli­cated be­cause of the many di­verse tech­niques op­er­a­tive in the seven super­uni­verses. Many groups of be­ings for­gather on this world whose iden­tity has not been re­vealed to Uran­tia mor­tals.

13:1.12The se­crets of Vicegering­ton in­clude the se­crets of trin­i­ti­za­tion, and trin­i­ti­za­tion con­sti­tutes the se­cret of au­thor­ity to rep­re­sent the Trin­ity, to act as vicegerents of the Gods. Au­thor­ity to rep­re­sent the Trin­ity at­taches only to those be­ings, re­vealed and un­re­vealed, who are trin­i­tized, cre­ated, even­tu­ated, or eter­nal­ized by any two or all three of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. Per­son­al­i­ties brought into be­ing by the trini­tiz­ing acts of cer­tain types of glo­ri­fied crea­tures rep­re­sent no more than the con­cep­tual po­ten­tial mo­bi­lized in that trin­i­ti­za­tion, al­beit such crea­tures may as­cend the path of De­ity em­brace open to all of their kind.

13:1.13Non­trini­tized be­ings do not fully un­der­stand the tech­nique of trin­i­ti­za­tion by ei­ther two or three Cre­ators or by cer­tain crea­tures. You will never fully un­der­stand such a phe­nom­e­non un­less, in the far-dis­tant fu­ture of your glo­ri­fied ca­reer, you should es­say and suc­ceed in such an ad­ven­ture, be­cause oth­er­wise these se­crets of Vicegering­ton will al­ways be for­bid­den you. But to me, a high Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ing, all sec­tors of Vicegering­ton are open. I fully un­der­stand, and just as fully and sa­credly pro­tect, the se­cret of my ori­gin and des­tiny.

13:1.14There are still other forms and phases of trin­i­ti­za­tion which have not been brought to the no­tice of the Uran­tia peo­ples, and these ex­pe­ri­ences, in their per­sonal as­pects, are duly pro­tected in the se­cret sec­tor of Vicegering­ton.

13:1.155. SOLI­TAR­ING­TON. This world is the “bo­som of the Fa­ther and the Spirit” and is the ren­dezvous of a mag­nif­i­cent host of un­re­vealed be­ings of ori­gin in the con­joint acts of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the In­fi­nite Spirit, be­ings who par­take of the traits of the Fa­ther in ad­di­tion to their Spirit in­her­i­tance.

13:1.16This is also the home of the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers and of other per­son­al­i­ties of the super­an­gelic or­ders. You know of very few of these be­ings; there are vast num­bers of or­ders un­re­vealed on Uran­tia. Be­cause they are domi­ciled on the fifth world, it does not nec­es­sar­ily fol­low that the Fa­ther had aught to do with the cre­ation of Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers or their super­an­gelic as­so­ciates, but in this uni­verse age he does have to do with their func­tion. Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age this is also the sta­tus sphere of the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors.

13:1.17There are nu­mer­ous ad­di­tional or­ders of spirit per­son­al­i­ties, be­ings un­known to mor­tal man, who look upon Soli­tar­ing­ton as their Par­a­dise home sphere. It should be re­mem­bered that all di­vi­sions and lev­els of uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties are just as fully pro­vided with spirit min­is­ters as is the realm con­cerned with help­ing mor­tal man as­cend to his di­vine Par­a­dise des­tiny.

13:1.18The se­crets of Soli­tar­ing­ton. Be­sides cer­tain se­crets of trin­i­ti­za­tion, this world holds the se­crets of the per­sonal re­la­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit with cer­tain of the higher off­spring of the Third Source and Cen­ter. On Soli­tar­ing­ton are held the mys­ter­ies of the in­ti­mate as­so­ci­a­tion of nu­mer­ous un­re­vealed or­ders with the spir­its of the Fa­ther, of the Son, and of the Spirit, with the three­fold spirit of the Trin­ity, and with the spir­its of the Su­preme, the Ul­ti­mate, and the Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate.

13:1.196. SERAPH­ING­TON. This sphere is the “bo­som of the Son and the Spirit” and is the home world of the vast hosts of un­re­vealed be­ings cre­ated by the Son and the Spirit. This is also the des­tiny sphere of all min­is­ter­ing or­ders of the an­gelic hosts, in­clud­ing super­na­phim, se­con­a­phim, and ser­a­phim. There also serve in the cen­tral and out­ly­ing uni­verses many or­ders of su­perb spir­its who are not “min­is­ter­ing spir­its to those who shall be heirs of sal­va­tion.” All these spirit work­ers in all lev­els and realms of uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties look upon Seraph­ing­ton as their Par­a­dise home.

13:1.20The se­crets of Seraph­ing­ton in­volve a three­fold mys­tery, only one of which I may men­tion—the mys­tery of se­raphic trans­port. The abil­ity of var­i­ous or­ders of ser­a­phim and al­lied spirit be­ings to en­velop within their spirit forms all or­ders of non­ma­te­rial per­son­al­i­ties and to carry them away on lengthy in­ter­plan­e­tary jour­neys, is a se­cret locked up in the sa­cred sec­tors of Seraph­ing­ton. The trans­port ser­a­phim com­pre­hend this mys­tery, but they do not com­mu­ni­cate it to the rest of us, or per­haps they can­not. The other mys­ter­ies of Seraph­ing­ton per­tain to the per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ences of types of spirit servers as yet not re­vealed to mor­tals. And we re­frain from dis­cussing the se­crets of such closely re­lated be­ings be­cause you can al­most com­pre­hend such near or­ders of ex­is­tence, and it would be akin to be­trayal of trust to pre­sent even our par­tial knowl­edge of such phe­nom­ena.

13:1.217. AS­CEND­ING­TON. This unique world is the “bo­som of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit,” the ren­dezvous of the as­cen­dant crea­tures of space, the re­ceiv­ing sphere of the pil­grims of time who are pass­ing through the Ha­vona uni­verse on their way to Par­a­dise. As­cend­ing­ton is the ac­tual Par­a­dise home of the as­cen­dant souls of time and space un­til they at­tain Par­a­dise sta­tus. You mor­tals will spend most of your Ha­vona “va­ca­tions” on As­cend­ing­ton. Dur­ing your Ha­vona life As­cend­ing­ton will be to you what the re­ver­sion di­rec­tors were dur­ing the lo­cal and super­uni­verse as­cen­sion. Here you will en­gage in thou­sands of ac­tiv­i­ties which are be­yond the grasp of mor­tal imag­i­na­tion. And as on ev­ery pre­vi­ous ad­vance in the God­ward as­cent, your hu­man self will here en­ter into new re­la­tion­ships with your di­vine self.

13:1.22The se­crets of As­cend­ing­ton in­clude the mys­tery of the grad­ual and cer­tain build­ing up in the ma­te­rial and mor­tal mind of a spir­i­tual and po­ten­tially im­mor­tal coun­ter­part of char­ac­ter and iden­tity. This phe­nom­e­non con­sti­tutes one of the most per­plex­ing mys­ter­ies of the uni­verses—the evo­lu­tion of an im­mor­tal soul within the mind of a mor­tal and ma­te­rial crea­ture.

13:1.23You will never fully un­der­stand this mys­te­ri­ous trans­ac­tion un­til you reach As­cend­ing­ton. And that is just why all As­cend­ing­ton will be open to your won­der­ing gaze. One sev­enth of As­cend­ing­ton is for­bid­den to me—that sec­tor con­cerned with this very se­cret which is (or will be) the ex­clu­sive ex­pe­ri­ence and pos­ses­sion of your type of be­ing. This ex­pe­ri­ence be­longs to your hu­man or­der of ex­is­tence. My or­der of per­son­al­ity is not di­rectly con­cerned with such trans­ac­tions. It is there­fore for­bid­den to me and even­tu­ally re­vealed to you. But even af­ter it is re­vealed to you, for some rea­son it for­ever re­mains your se­cret. You do not re­veal it to us nor to any other or­der of be­ings. We know about the eter­nal fu­sion of a di­vine Ad­juster and an im­mor­tal soul of hu­man ori­gin, but the as­cen­dant fi­nal­i­ters know this very ex­pe­ri­ence as an ab­so­lute re­al­ity.

• equal to Paradise in beauty
• reunion spheres, permanent cosmic addresses

13:2.1These home worlds of the di­verse or­ders of spir­i­tual be­ings are tremen­dous and stu­pen­dous spheres, and they are equal to Par­a­dise in their match­less beauty and su­perb glory. They are ren­dezvous worlds, re­union spheres, serv­ing as per­ma­nent cos­mic ad­dresses. As fi­nal­i­ters you will be domi­ciled on Par­a­dise, but As­cend­ing­ton will be your home ad­dress at all times, even when you en­ter ser­vice in outer space. Through all eter­nity you will re­gard As­cend­ing­ton as your home of sen­ti­men­tal mem­o­ries and rem­i­nis­cent rec­ol­lec­tions. When you be­come sev­enth-stage spirit be­ings, pos­si­bly you will give up your res­i­den­tial sta­tus on Par­a­dise.

• status acquired by service as well as origin

13:2.5You might as­sume that Cre­ator Sons, be­ing of Fa­ther-Son ori­gin, would re­gard Vicegering­ton as their home, but such is not the case in this uni­verse age of the func­tion of God the Sev­en­fold. And there are many sim­i­lar prob­lems that will per­plex you, for you are sure to en­counter many dif­fi­cul­ties as you at­tempt to un­der­stand these things which are so near Par­a­dise. Nor can you suc­cess­fully rea­son out these ques­tions; you know so lit­tle. And if you knew more about the Fa­ther’s worlds, you would sim­ply en­counter more dif­fi­cul­ties un­til you knew all about them. Sta­tus on any of these se­cret worlds is ac­quired by ser­vice as well as by na­ture of ori­gin, and the suc­ces­sive uni­verse ages may and do re­dis­tribute cer­tain of these per­son­al­ity group­ings.

18:1.1There are seven worlds in the in­ner­most cir­cuit of the Par­a­dise satel­lites, and each of these ex­alted worlds is pre­sided over by a corps of ten Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy. They are not cre­ators, but they are su­preme and ul­ti­mate ad­min­is­tra­tors. The con­duct of the af­fairs of these seven fra­ter­nal spheres is wholly com­mit­ted to this corps of sev­enty su­preme di­rec­tors. Though the off­spring of the Trin­ity super­vise these seven sa­cred spheres near­est Par­a­dise, this group of worlds is uni­ver­sally known as the per­sonal cir­cuit of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

18:1.2The Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy func­tion in groups of ten as co-or­di­nate and joint di­rec­tors of their re­spec­tive spheres, but they also func­tion in­di­vid­u­ally in par­tic­u­lar fields of re­spon­si­bil­ity. The work of each of these spe­cial worlds is di­vided into seven ma­jor de­part­ments, and one of these co-or­di­nate rulers pre­sides over each such di­vi­sion of spe­cial­ized ac­tiv­i­ties. The re­main­ing three act as the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives of tri­une De­ity in re­la­tion to the other seven, one rep­re­sent­ing the Fa­ther, one the Son, and one the Spirit.

18:1.3Al­though there is a def­i­nite class re­sem­blance which typ­i­fies the Trin­i­tized Se­crets of Su­prem­acy, they also dis­close seven dis­tinct group char­ac­ter­is­tics. The ten su­preme di­rec­tors of Di­vin­ing­ton af­fairs are re­flec­tive of the per­sonal char­ac­ter and na­ture of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and so it is with each of these seven spheres: Each group of ten re­sem­bles that De­ity or De­ity as­so­ci­a­tion which is char­ac­ter­is­tic of their do­main. The ten di­rec­tors who rule As­cend­ing­ton are re­flec­tive of the com­bined na­ture of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit.

18:1.4I can re­veal very lit­tle about the work of these high per­son­al­i­ties on the seven sa­cred worlds of the Fa­ther, for they are truly the Se­crets of Su­prem­acy. There are no ar­bi­trary se­crets as­so­ci­ated with the ap­proach to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, or the In­fi­nite Spirit. The De­i­ties are an open book to all who at­tain di­vine per­fec­tion, but all the Se­crets of Su­prem­acy can never be fully at­tained. Al­ways will we be un­able fully to pen­e­trate the realms con­tain­ing the per­son­al­ity se­crets of De­ity as­so­ci­a­tion with the sev­en­fold group­ing of cre­ated be­ings.

18:1.5Since the work of these su­preme di­rec­tors has to do with the in­ti­mate and per­sonal con­tact of the De­i­ties with these seven ba­sic group­ings of uni­verse be­ings when domi­ciled on these seven spe­cial worlds or while func­tion­ing through­out the grand uni­verse, it is fit­ting that these very per­sonal re­la­tions and ex­traor­di­nary con­tacts should be held sa­credly se­cret. The Par­a­dise Cre­ators re­spect the pri­vacy and sanc­tity of per­son­al­ity even in their lowly crea­tures. And this is true both of in­di­vid­u­als and of the var­i­ous sep­a­rate or­ders of per­son­al­i­ties.

18:1.6To be­ings of even high uni­verse at­tain­ment these se­cret worlds ever re­main a test of loy­alty. It is given us fully and per­son­ally to know the eter­nal Gods, freely to know their char­ac­ters of di­vin­ity and per­fec­tion, but it is not granted us fully to pen­e­trate all of the per­sonal re­la­tions of the Par­a­dise Rulers with all of their crea­ture be­ings.

• natives, in personality register

30:2.12610. Na­tives of the Fa­ther’s Par­a­dise Spheres.

• exist on transcendental level

106:0.64. Ul­ti­mates. This level en­com­passes that which is of mas­ter uni­verse sig­nif­i­cance and im­pinges on the des­tiny level of the com­pleted mas­ter uni­verse. Par­a­dise-Ha­vona (es­pe­cially the cir­cuit of the Fa­ther’s worlds) is in many re­spects of ul­ti­mate sig­nif­i­cance.

6:6.4The Eter­nal Son is wholly spir­i­tual; man is very nearly en­tirely ma­te­rial; there­fore much per­tain­ing to the spirit per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son, to his seven spir­i­tual spheres en­cir­cling Par­a­dise and to the na­ture of the im­per­sonal cre­ations of the Par­a­dise Son, will have to await your at­tain­ment of spirit sta­tus fol­low­ing your com­ple­tion of the mor­ontia as­cen­sion of the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. And then, as you pass through the super­uni­verse and on to Ha­vona, many of these spirit-con­cealed mys­ter­ies will clar­ify as you be­gin to be en­dowed with the “mind of the spirit”—spir­i­tual in­sight.

• 7 worlds of pure-spirit existence
• source of threefold light of Paradise and Havona

13:3.1The seven lu­mi­nous spheres of the Eter­nal Son are the worlds of the seven phases of pure-spirit ex­is­tence. These shin­ing orbs are the source of the three­fold light of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona, their in­flu­ence be­ing largely, but not wholly, con­fined to the cen­tral uni­verse.

• personality not present on

13:3.2Per­son­al­ity is not pres­ent on these Par­a­dise satel­lites; there­fore is there lit­tle con­cern­ing these pure-spirit abodes which can be pre­sented to the mor­tal and ma­te­rial per­son­al­ity. We are taught that these worlds teem with the oth­er­wise-than-per­sonal life of the be­ings of the Eter­nal Son. We in­fer that these en­ti­ties are be­ing as­sem­bled for min­istry in the pro­jected new uni­verses of outer space. The Par­a­dise philoso­phers main­tain that each Par­a­dise cy­cle, about two bil­lion years of Uran­tia time, wit­nesses the cre­ation of ad­di­tional re­serves of these or­ders on the se­cret worlds of the Eter­nal Son.

13:3.3As far as I am in­formed, no per­son­al­ity has ever been on any one of these spheres of the Eter­nal Son. I have never been as­signed to visit one of these worlds in all my long ex­pe­ri­ence in and out of Par­a­dise. Even the per­son­al­i­ties cocre­ated by the Eter­nal Son do not go to these worlds. We in­fer that all types of im­per­sonal spir­its—re­gard­less of parent­age—are ad­mit­ted to these spirit homes. As I am a per­son and have a spirit form, no doubt such a world would seem empty and de­serted even if I were per­mit­ted to pay it a visit. High spirit per­son­al­i­ties are not given to the grat­i­fi­ca­tion of pur­pose­less cu­rios­ity, purely use­less ad­ven­ture. There is at all times al­to­gether too much in­trigu­ing and pur­pose­ful ad­ven­ture to per­mit the de­vel­op­ment of any great in­ter­est in those projects which are ei­ther fu­tile or un­real.

• 7 Master Spirits conduct operations from
• Havona, but not Paradise, bathed in spiritual illumination of

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.

• 7 worlds, inhabited by offspring of Infinite Spirit and trinitized sons

13:4.1Be­tween the in­ner cir­cuit of Ha­vona and the shin­ing spheres of the Eter­nal Son there cir­cle the seven orbs of the In­fi­nite Spirit, worlds in­hab­ited by the off­spring of the In­fi­nite Spirit, by the trin­i­tized sons of glo­ri­fied cre­ated per­son­al­i­ties, and by other types of un­re­vealed be­ings con­cerned with the ef­fec­tive ad­min­is­tra­tion of the many en­ter­prises of the var­i­ous realms of uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties.

• 7 Master Spirits conduct operations from

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.

13:4.4Phys­i­cal au­thor­ity, pres­ence, and func­tion are un­vary­ing in all the uni­verses, small or great. The dif­fer­ing fac­tor in spir­i­tual pres­ence, or re­ac­tion, is the fluc­tu­at­ing dif­fer­en­tial in its rec­og­ni­tion and re­cep­tion by will crea­tures. Whereas the spir­i­tual pres­ence of ab­so­lute and ex­is­ten­tial De­ity is in no man­ner what­ever in­flu­enced by at­ti­tudes of loy­alty or dis­loy­alty on the part of cre­ated be­ings, at the same time it is true that the func­tion­ing pres­ence of sub­ab­so­lute and ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity is def­i­nitely and di­rectly in­flu­enced by the de­ci­sions, choices, and will-at­ti­tudes of such fi­nite crea­ture be­ings—by the loy­alty and de­vo­tion of the in­di­vid­ual be­ing, planet, sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, or uni­verse. But this spir­i­tual pres­ence of di­vin­ity is not whim­si­cal nor ar­bi­trary; its ex­pe­ri­en­tial vari­ance is in­her­ent in the free­will en­dow­ment of per­sonal crea­tures.

13:4.5The de­ter­miner of the dif­fer­en­tial of spir­i­tual pres­ence ex­ists in your own hearts and minds and con­sists in the man­ner of your own choos­ing, in the de­ci­sions of your minds, and in the de­ter­mi­na­tion of your own wills. This dif­fer­en­tial is in­her­ent in the free­will re­ac­tions of in­tel­li­gent per­sonal be­ings, be­ings whom the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has or­dained shall ex­er­cise this lib­erty of choos­ing. And the De­i­ties are ever true to the ebb and flow of their spir­its in meet­ing and sat­is­fy­ing the con­di­tions and de­mands of this dif­fer­en­tial of crea­ture choice, now be­stow­ing more of their pres­ence in re­sponse to a sin­cere de­sire for the same and again with­draw­ing them­selves from the scene as their crea­tures de­cide ad­versely in the ex­er­cise of their di­vinely be­stowed free­dom of choice. And thus does the spirit of di­vin­ity be­come humbly obe­di­ent to the choos­ing of the crea­tures of the realms.

• always open to all beings

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.

13:4.7To me, these ex­ec­u­tive worlds are the most in­ter­est­ing and in­trigu­ing spots out­side of Par­a­dise. In no other place in the wide uni­verse can one ob­serve such var­ied ac­tiv­i­ties, in­volv­ing so many dif­fer­ent or­ders of liv­ing be­ings, hav­ing to do with op­er­a­tions on so many di­verse lev­els, oc­cu­pa­tions at once ma­te­rial, in­tel­lec­tual, and spir­i­tual. When I am ac­corded a pe­riod of re­lease from as­sign­ment, if I chance to be on Par­a­dise or in Ha­vona, I usu­ally pro­ceed to one of these busy worlds of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, there to in­spire my mind with such spec­ta­cles of en­ter­prise, de­vo­tion, loy­alty, wis­dom, and ef­fec­tive­ness. Nowhere else can I ob­serve such an amaz­ing in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of per­son­al­ity per­for­mances on all seven lev­els of uni­verse re­al­ity. And I am al­ways stim­u­lated by the ac­tiv­i­ties of those who well know how to do their work, and who so thor­oughly en­joy do­ing it.

13:4.8[Pre­sented by a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom com­mis­sioned thus to func­tion by the An­cients of Days on Uversa.]

• 7 Master Spirits conduct operations from

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.

• 7 Master Spirits conduct operations from
• outermost of 3 circuits

17:1.1The ex­ec­u­tive head­quar­ters of the Mas­ter Spir­its oc­cupy the seven Par­a­dise satel­lites of the In­fi­nite Spirit, which swing around the cen­tral Isle be­tween the shin­ing spheres of the Eter­nal Son and the in­ner­most Ha­vona cir­cuit. These ex­ec­u­tive spheres are un­der the di­rec­tion of the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives, a group of seven who were trin­i­tized by the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit in ac­cor­dance with the spec­i­fi­ca­tions of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its for be­ings of a type that could func­tion as their uni­ver­sal rep­re­sen­ta­tives.

• all personalities pass through, going to and from Paradise
• central personality registries for all children of Infinite Spirit

17:1.6On the ex­ec­u­tive sphere of the sev­enth super­uni­verse the staff en­gaged in keep­ing straight the af­fairs of Or­von­ton runs into num­bers be­yond hu­man com­pre­hen­sion and em­braces prac­ti­cally ev­ery or­der of ce­les­tial in­tel­li­gence. All super­uni­verse ser­vices of per­son­al­ity dis­patch (ex­cept In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its and Thought Ad­justers) pass through one of these seven ex­ec­u­tive worlds on their uni­verse jour­neys to and from Par­a­dise, and here are main­tained the cen­tral reg­istries for all per­son­al­i­ties cre­ated by the Third Source and Cen­ter who func­tion in the super­uni­verses. The sys­tem of ma­te­rial, mor­ontial, and spir­i­tual rec­ords on one of these ex­ec­u­tive worlds of the Spirit amazes even a be­ing of my or­der.

• great conclaves take place on

17:1.9From time to time, great con­claves take place on these Par­a­dise satel­lites of the Spirit. Trin­i­tized sons as­signed to these worlds, to­gether with the as­cend­ers who have at­tained Par­a­dise, as­sem­ble with the spirit per­son­al­i­ties of the Third Source and Cen­ter in the re­unions of the strug­gles and tri­umphs of the as­cen­dant ca­reer. The Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives al­ways pre­side over such fra­ter­nal gath­er­ings.

• 7 Master Spirits conduct operations from
• Associate Circuit Supervisors stationed on

24:1.7The su­preme super­vi­sors of Ha­vona and the as­so­ciate super­vi­sors of the seven super­uni­verses are of com­pleted num­bers; no more of these or­ders are be­ing cre­ated. The su­preme super­vi­sors are seven in num­ber and are sta­tioned on the pi­lot worlds of the seven Ha­vona cir­cuits. The cir­cuits of the seven super­uni­verses are in the charge of a mar­velous group of seven as­so­ciate super­vi­sors, who main­tain head­quar­ters on the seven Par­a­dise spheres of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the worlds of the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives. From here they super­vise and di­rect the cir­cuits of the super­uni­verses of space.

• reserves of Census Directors stationed on

24:2.3Seven Cen­sus Di­rec­tors op­er­ate in Ha­vona, one be­ing sta­tioned on the pi­lot world of each Ha­vona cir­cuit. Ex­cept­ing these seven and the re­serves of the or­der on the Par­a­dise worlds of the Spirit, all Cen­sus Di­rec­tors func­tion un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the An­cients of Days.

• natives of, in personality register

30:2.1259. Na­tives of the Par­a­dise Spheres of the Spirit.

12:1.10Ha­vona, the cen­tral uni­verse, is not a time cre­ation; it is an eter­nal ex­is­tence. This never-be­gin­ning, never-end­ing uni­verse con­sists of one bil­lion spheres of sub­lime per­fec­tion and is sur­rounded by the enor­mous dark grav­ity bod­ies. At the cen­ter of Ha­vona is the sta­tion­ary and ab­so­lutely sta­bi­lized Isle of Par­a­dise, sur­rounded by its twenty-one satel­lites. Ow­ing to the enor­mous en­cir­cling masses of the dark grav­ity bod­ies about the fringe of the cen­tral uni­verse, the mass con­tent of this cen­tral cre­ation is far in ex­cess of the to­tal known mass of all seven sec­tors of the grand uni­verse.

14:1.32. The clock­wise pro­ces­sional of the three Par­a­dise and the seven Ha­vona cir­cuits.

13:0.7The twenty-one Par­a­dise satel­lites serve many pur­poses in both cen­tral and super­uni­verses not dis­closed in these nar­ra­tives. You are able to un­der­stand so lit­tle of the life of these spheres that you can­not hope to gain any­thing like a con­sis­tent view of them, ei­ther as to na­ture or func­tion; thou­sands of ac­tiv­i­ties are there go­ing on which are un­re­vealed to you. These twenty-one spheres em­brace the po­ten­tials of the func­tion of the mas­ter uni­verse. These pa­pers af­ford only a fleet­ing glimpse of cer­tain cir­cum­scribed ac­tiv­i­ties per­tain­ing to the pres­ent uni­verse age of the grand uni­verse—rather, one of the seven sec­tors of the grand uni­verse.