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Seven Supreme Power Directors

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Every paragraph the index cites under Seven Supreme Power Directors, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

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

23:2.195. Ex­plor­ers of Undi­rected As­sign­ment. When the re­serve corps of the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers is over­recruited, there is­sues from one of the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors a call for ex­plo­ration vol­un­teers; and there is never a lack of vol­un­teers, for they de­light to be dis­patched as free and un­tram­meled ex­plor­ers, to ex­pe­ri­ence the thrill of find­ing the or­ga­niz­ing nu­cle­uses of new worlds and uni­verses.

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

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

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

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

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

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

29:1.4These mighty be­ings are the phys­i­cal an­ces­tors of the vast host of the power cen­ters and, through them, of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers scat­tered through­out the seven super­uni­verses. Such sub­or­di­nate phys­i­cal-con­trol or­gan­isms are ba­si­cally uni­form, iden­ti­cal ex­cept for the dif­fer­en­tial ton­ing of each super­uni­verse corps. In or­der to change in super­uni­verse ser­vice, they would merely have to re­turn to Par­a­dise for re­ton­ing. The phys­i­cal cre­ation is fun­da­men­tally uni­form in ad­min­is­tra­tion.

29:2.1The Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors are not able, in­di­vid­u­ally, to re­pro­duce them­selves, but col­lec­tively, and in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, they can and do re­pro­duce—cre­ate—other be­ings like them­selves. Such is the ori­gin of the Su­preme Power Cen­ters of the grand uni­verse, who func­tion in the fol­low­ing seven groups:

29:2.2–10 · nine paragraphs not cited here ·

29:2.21. Su­preme Cen­ter Super­vi­sors.

29:2.32. Ha­vona Cen­ters.

29:2.43. Super­uni­verse Cen­ters.

29:2.54. Lo­cal Uni­verse Cen­ters.

29:2.65. Con­stel­la­tion Cen­ters.

29:2.76. Sys­tem Cen­ters.

29:2.87. Un­clas­si­fied Cen­ters.

29:2.9These power cen­ters to­gether with the Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors are be­ings of high will free­dom and ac­tion. They are all en­dowed with Third-Source per­son­al­ity and dis­close un­ques­tioned vo­li­tional ca­pac­ity of a high or­der. These di­rect­ing cen­ters of the uni­verse power sys­tem are the pos­ses­sors of ex­qui­site in­tel­li­gence en­dow­ment; they are the in­tel­lect of the power sys­tem of the grand uni­verse and the se­cret of the tech­nique of the mind con­trol of all the vast net­work of the far-flung func­tions of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers and the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors.

29:2.101. Su­preme Cen­ter Super­vi­sors. These seven co-or­di­nates and as­so­ciates of the Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors are the reg­u­la­tors of the mas­ter en­ergy cir­cuits of the grand uni­verse. Each cen­ter super­vi­sor is head­quar­tered on one of the spe­cial worlds of the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives, and they work in close as­so­ci­a­tion with these co-or­di­na­tors of gen­eral uni­verse af­fairs.

29:2.11The Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors and the Su­preme Cen­ter Super­vi­sors func­tion both as in­di­vid­u­als and con­jointly with re­gard to all cos­mic phe­nom­ena be­low the lev­els of “grav­ity en­ergy.” When act­ing in li­ai­son, these four­teen be­ings are to uni­verse power what the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives are to gen­eral uni­verse af­fairs, and what the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are to the cos­mic mind.

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

29:3.2The Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors and all their as­so­ciates, as­sis­tants, and sub­or­di­nates are for­ever ex­empt from ap­pre­hen­sion or in­ter­fer­ence by all the tri­bu­nals of all space; nei­ther are they sub­ject to the ad­min­is­tra­tive di­rec­tion ei­ther of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment of the An­cients of Days or of the lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Cre­ator Sons.

29:3.3–5 · three paragraphs not cited here ·

29:3.3These power cen­ters and di­rec­tors are brought into be­ing by the chil­dren of the In­fi­nite Spirit. They are not ger­mane to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Sons of God, though they af­fil­i­ate with the Cre­ator Sons dur­ing the later epochs of uni­verse ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tion. But the power cen­ters are in some way closely as­so­ci­ated with the cos­mic over­con­trol of the Su­preme Be­ing.

29:3.4Power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers un­dergo no train­ing; they are all cre­ated in per­fec­tion and are in­her­ently per­fect in ac­tion. Never do they pass from one func­tion to an­other; al­ways do they serve as orig­i­nally as­signed. There is no evo­lu­tion in their ranks, and this is true of all seven di­vi­sions of both or­ders.

29:3.5Hav­ing no as­cen­dant past to re­vert to in mem­ory, power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers never play; they are thor­oughly busi­nesslike in all their ac­tions. They are al­ways on duty; there is no pro­vi­sion in the uni­ver­sal scheme for the in­ter­rup­tion of the phys­i­cal lines of en­ergy; never for a frac­tion of a sec­ond can these be­ings re­lin­quish their di­rect super­vi­sion of the en­ergy cir­cuits of time and space.

29:3.6The di­rec­tors, cen­ters, and con­trol­lers of power have noth­ing to do with any­thing in all cre­ation ex­cept power, ma­te­rial or semi­phys­i­cal en­ergy; they do not orig­i­nate it, but they do mod­ify, ma­nip­u­late, and di­rec­tion­ize it. Nei­ther do they have any­thing what­ever to do with phys­i­cal grav­ity ex­cept to re­sist its draw­ing power. Their re­la­tion to grav­ity is wholly neg­a­tive.

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

30:1.8818. The Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors.

30:2.91A. The Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors.

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

116:5.43. The Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors.

116:5.5–9 · five paragraphs not cited here ·

116:5.54. The Al­mighty Su­preme.

116:5.65. The God of Ac­tion—the In­fi­nite Spirit.

116:5.76. The Isle of Par­a­dise.

116:5.87. The Source of Par­a­dise—the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

116:5.9These seven groups are func­tion­ally in­sep­a­ra­ble from God the Sev­en­fold and con­sti­tute the phys­i­cal-con­trol level of this De­ity as­so­ci­a­tion.

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

116:5.11The Al­mighty Su­preme is evolv­ing as the over­con­trol­ler of the phys­i­cal power of the grand uni­verse. In the pres­ent uni­verse age this po­ten­tial of phys­i­cal power ap­pears to be cen­tered in the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors, who op­er­ate through the fixed lo­ca­tions of the power cen­ters and through the mo­bile pres­ences of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers.

Onward

See also Universe Power Directors

Cited alongside: Master Spirits, Seven, Supreme Power Centers, Universe Power Directors, Supreme, the, Infinite Spirit, cosmic mind, energy, Havona Servitals