superuniverses, the seven

106:0.18Re­al­ity growth is con­di­tioned by the cir­cum­stances of the suc­ces­sive uni­verse ages. The cen­tral uni­verse un­der­went no evo­lu­tion­ary change in the Ha­vona age, but in the pres­ent epochs of the super­uni­verse age it is un­der­go­ing cer­tain pro­gres­sive changes in­duced by co-or­di­na­tion with the evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses. The seven super­uni­verses, now evolv­ing, will some­time at­tain the set­tled sta­tus of light and life, will at­tain the growth limit for the pres­ent uni­verse age. But be­yond doubt, the next age, the age of the first outer space level, will re­lease the super­uni­verses from the des­tiny lim­i­ta­tions of the pres­ent age. Re­ple­tion is con­tin­u­ally be­ing super­im­posed upon com­ple­tion.

32:3.1The only cre­ation that is per­fectly set­tled is Ha­vona, the cen­tral uni­verse, which was made di­rectly by the thought of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the word of the Eter­nal Son. Ha­vona is an ex­is­ten­tial, per­fect, and re­plete uni­verse, sur­round­ing the home of the eter­nal De­i­ties, the cen­ter of all things. The cre­ations of the seven super­uni­verses are fi­nite, evo­lu­tion­ary, and con­sis­tently pro­gres­sive.

32:3.2The phys­i­cal sys­tems of time and space are all evo­lu­tion­ary in ori­gin. They are not even phys­i­cally sta­bi­lized un­til they are swung into the set­tled cir­cuits of their super­uni­verses. Nei­ther is a lo­cal uni­verse set­tled in light and life un­til its phys­i­cal pos­si­bil­i­ties of ex­pan­sion and de­vel­op­ment have been ex­hausted, and un­til the spir­i­tual sta­tus of all its in­hab­ited worlds has been for­ever set­tled and sta­bi­lized.

12:1.12The Seven Super­uni­verses are not pri­mary phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tions; nowhere do their bound­aries di­vide a neb­u­lar fam­ily, nei­ther do they cross a lo­cal uni­verse, a prime cre­ative unit. Each super­uni­verse is sim­ply a ge­o­graphic space clus­ter­ing of ap­prox­i­mately one sev­enth of the or­ga­nized and par­tially in­hab­ited post-Ha­vona cre­ation, and each is about equal in the num­ber of lo­cal uni­verses em­braced and in the space en­com­passed. Neb­a­don, your lo­cal uni­verse, is one of the newer cre­ations in Or­von­ton, the sev­enth super­uni­verse.

• intersonship circuit of Eternal Son and Paradise Sons

7:6.7Be­tween the Orig­i­nal Mother Son and these hosts of Par­a­dise Sons scat­tered through­out all cre­ation, there is a di­rect and ex­clu­sive chan­nel of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, a chan­nel whose func­tion is in­her­ent in the qual­ity of spir­i­tual kin­ship which unites them in bonds of near-ab­so­lute spir­i­tual as­so­ci­a­tion. This in­ter­son­ship cir­cuit is en­tirely dif­fer­ent from the uni­ver­sal cir­cuit of spirit grav­ity, which also cen­ters in the per­son of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. All Sons of God who take ori­gin in the per­sons of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties are in di­rect and con­stant com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the Eter­nal Mother Son. And such com­mu­ni­ca­tion is in­stan­ta­neous; it is in­de­pen­dent of time though some­times con­di­tioned by space.

15:9.1The uni­ver­sal cir­cuits of Par­a­dise do ac­tu­ally per­vade the realms of the seven super­uni­verses. These pres­ence cir­cuits are: the per­son­al­ity grav­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son, the mind grav­ity of the Con­joint Ac­tor, and the ma­te­rial grav­ity of the eter­nal Isle.

15:9.2In ad­di­tion to the uni­ver­sal Par­a­dise cir­cuits and in ad­di­tion to the pres­ence-per­for­mances of the Ab­so­lutes and the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties, there func­tion within the super­uni­verse space level only two en­ergy-cir­cuit di­vi­sions or power seg­re­ga­tions: the super­uni­verse cir­cuits and the lo­cal uni­verse cir­cuits.

15:9.3The Super­uni­verse Cir­cuits:

• cosmic mind circuit of Master Spirit

15:9.41. The uni­fy­ing in­tel­li­gence cir­cuit of one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise. Such a cos­mic-mind cir­cuit is lim­ited to a sin­gle super­uni­verse.

• reflective circuit of 7 Reflective Spirits

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

• Thought Adjuster circuits

15:9.63. The se­cret cir­cuits of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors, in some man­ner in­teras­so­ci­ated and routed by Di­vin­ing­ton to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther on Par­a­dise.

• intersonship circuit of Eternal Son and Paradise Sons

15:9.74. The cir­cuit of the in­ter­com­mu­nion of the Eter­nal Son with his Par­a­dise Sons.

• flash presence of Infinite Spirit

15:9.85. The flash pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• broadcasts of Paradise and Havona

15:9.96. The broad­casts of Par­a­dise, the space re­ports of Ha­vona.

• energy circuits of power centers and physical controllers

15:9.107. The en­ergy cir­cuits of the power cen­ters and the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers.

15:9.11The Lo­cal Uni­verse Cir­cuits:

15:9.121. The be­stowal spirit of the Par­a­dise Sons, the Com­forter of the be­stowal worlds. The Spirit of Truth, the spirit of Mi­chael on Uran­tia.

15:9.132. The cir­cuit of the Di­vine Min­is­ters, the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spir­its, the Holy Spirit of your world.

15:9.143. The in­tel­li­gence-min­istry cir­cuit of a lo­cal uni­verse, in­clud­ing the di­versely func­tion­ing pres­ence of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its.

15:9.15When there de­vel­ops such a spir­i­tual har­mony in a lo­cal uni­verse that its in­di­vid­ual and com­bined cir­cuits be­come in­dis­tin­guish­able from those of the super­uni­verse, when such iden­tity of func­tion and one­ness of min­istry ac­tu­ally pre­vail, then does the lo­cal uni­verse im­me­di­ately swing into the set­tled cir­cuits of light and life, be­com­ing at once el­i­gi­ble for ad­mis­sion into the spir­i­tual con­fed­er­a­tion of the per­fected union of the super­cre­ation. The req­ui­sites for ad­mis­sion to the coun­cils of the An­cients of Days, mem­ber­ship in the super­uni­verse con­fed­er­a­tion, are:

15:9.161. Phys­i­cal Sta­bil­ity. The stars and plan­ets of a lo­cal uni­verse must be in equi­lib­rium; the pe­ri­ods of im­me­di­ate stel­lar meta­mor­pho­sis must be over. The uni­verse must be pro­ceed­ing on a clear track; its or­bit must be safely and fi­nally set­tled.

15:9.172. Spir­i­tual Loy­alty. There must ex­ist a state of uni­ver­sal rec­og­ni­tion of, and loy­alty to, the Sov­er­eign Son of God who pre­sides over the af­fairs of such a lo­cal uni­verse. There must have come into be­ing a state of har­mo­nious co-op­er­a­tion be­tween the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets, sys­tems, and con­stel­la­tions of the en­tire lo­cal uni­verse.

15:9.18Your lo­cal uni­verse is not even reck­oned as be­long­ing to the set­tled phys­i­cal or­der of the super­uni­verse, much less as hold­ing mem­ber­ship in the rec­og­nized spir­i­tual fam­ily of the super­gov­ern­ment. Al­though Neb­a­don does not yet have rep­re­sen­ta­tion on Uversa, we of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment are dis­patched to its worlds on spe­cial mis­sions from time to time, even as I have come to Uran­tia di­rectly from Uversa. We lend ev­ery pos­si­ble as­sis­tance to your di­rec­tors and rulers in the so­lu­tion of their dif­fi­cult prob­lems; we are de­sirous of see­ing your uni­verse qual­i­fied for full ad­mis­sion into the as­so­ci­ated cre­ations of the super­uni­verse fam­ily.

• near infinite volume of information circulating on

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.

• energy circuits of power centers and physical controllers

29:2.14All en­ergy is cir­cuited in the Par­a­dise cy­cle, but the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors di­rect the force-en­er­gies of nether Par­a­dise as they find them mod­i­fied in the space func­tions of the cen­tral and super­uni­verses, con­vert­ing and di­rect­ing these en­er­gies into chan­nels of use­ful and con­struc­tive ap­pli­ca­tion. There is a dif­fer­ence be­tween Ha­vona en­ergy and the en­er­gies of the super­uni­verses. The power charge of a super­uni­verse con­sists of three phases of en­ergy of ten seg­re­ga­tions each. This three­fold en­ergy charge spreads through­out the space of the grand uni­verse; it is like a vast mov­ing ocean of en­ergy which en­gulfs and bathes the whole of each of the seven super­cre­ations.

• planets and universes in light and life attain eternal survival through incorporation in

55:0.3Only those plan­ets which at­tain ex­is­tence in the main cir­cuits of the super­uni­verse are as­sured of con­tin­u­ous sur­vival, but as far as we know, these worlds set­tled in light and life are des­tined to go on through­out the eter­nal ages of all fu­ture time.

• planets and universes in light and life attain eternal survival through incorporation in

55:10.1When a uni­verse be­comes set­tled in light and life, it soon swings into the es­tab­lished super­uni­verse cir­cuits, and the An­cients of Days pro­claim the es­tab­lish­ment of the su­preme coun­cil of un­lim­ited au­thor­ity. This new gov­ern­ing body con­sists of the one hun­dred Faith­fuls of Days, pre­sided over by the Union of Days, and the first act of this su­preme coun­cil is to ac­knowl­edge the con­tin­ued sov­er­eignty of the Mas­ter Cre­ator Son.

54:5.1312. Time, even in a uni­verse of time, is rel­a­tive: If a Uran­tia mor­tal of av­er­age length of life should com­mit a crime which pre­cip­i­tated world-wide pan­de­mo­nium, and if he were ap­pre­hended, tried, and ex­e­cuted within two or three days of the com­mis­sion of the crime, would it seem a long time to you? And yet that would be nearer a com­par­i­son with the length of Lu­cifer’s life even if his ad­ju­di­ca­tion, now be­gun, should not be com­pleted for a hun­dred thou­sand Uran­tia years. The rel­a­tive lapse of time from the view­point of Uversa, where the lit­i­ga­tion is pend­ing, could be in­di­cated by say­ing that the crime of Lu­cifer was be­ing brought to trial within two and a half sec­onds of its com­mis­sion. From the Par­a­dise view­point the ad­ju­di­ca­tion is si­mul­ta­ne­ous with the en­act­ment.

• demarcations between s. will disappear upon actualization of Supreme

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

• each has a separate destiny

15:14.1There are seven ma­jor pur­poses which are be­ing un­folded in the evo­lu­tion of the seven super­uni­verses. Each ma­jor pur­pose in super­uni­verse evo­lu­tion will find fullest ex­pres­sion in only one of the seven super­uni­verses, and there­fore does each super­uni­verse have a spe­cial func­tion and a unique na­ture.

15:14.2Or­von­ton, the sev­enth super­uni­verse, the one to which your lo­cal uni­verse be­longs, is known chiefly be­cause of its tremen­dous and lav­ish be­stowal of mer­ci­ful min­istry to the mor­tals of the realms. It is renowned for the man­ner in which jus­tice pre­vails as tem­pered by mercy and power rules as con­di­tioned by pa­tience, while the sac­ri­fices of time are freely made to se­cure the sta­bi­liza­tion of eter­nity. Or­von­ton is a uni­verse dem­on­stra­tion of love and mercy.

15:14.3It is, how­ever, very dif­fi­cult to de­scribe our con­cep­tion of the true na­ture of the evo­lu­tion­ary pur­pose which is un­fold­ing in Or­von­ton, but it may be sug­gested by say­ing that in this super­cre­ation we feel that the six unique pur­poses of cos­mic evo­lu­tion as man­i­fested in the six as­so­ci­ated super­cre­ations are here be­ing in­teras­so­ci­ated into a mean­ing-of-the-whole; and it is for this rea­son that we have some­times con­jec­tured that the evolved and fin­ished per­son­al­iza­tion of God the Su­preme will in the re­mote fu­ture and from Uversa rule the per­fected seven super­uni­verses in all the ex­pe­ri­en­tial majesty of his then at­tained al­mighty sov­er­eign power.

• each has a separate destiny

15:14.4As Or­von­ton is unique in na­ture and in­di­vid­ual in des­tiny, so also is each of its six as­so­ci­ated super­uni­verses. A great deal that is go­ing on in Or­von­ton is not, how­ever, re­vealed to you, and of these un­re­vealed fea­tures of Or­von­ton life, many are to find most com­plete ex­pres­sion in some other super­uni­verse. The seven pur­poses of super­uni­verse evo­lu­tion are op­er­a­tive through­out all seven super­uni­verses, but each super­cre­ation will give fullest ex­pres­sion to only one of these pur­poses. To un­der­stand more about these super­uni­verse pur­poses, much that you do not un­der­stand would have to be re­vealed, and even then you would com­pre­hend but lit­tle. This en­tire nar­ra­tive pre­sents only a fleet­ing glimpse of the im­mense cre­ation of which your world and lo­cal sys­tem are a part.

15:14.5Your world is called Uran­tia, and it is num­ber 606 in the plan­e­tary group, or sys­tem, of Sa­ta­nia. This sys­tem has at pres­ent 619 in­hab­ited worlds, and more than two hun­dred ad­di­tional plan­ets are evolv­ing fa­vor­ably to­ward be­com­ing in­hab­ited worlds at some fu­ture time.

15:14.6Sa­ta­nia has a head­quar­ters world called Je­ru­sem, and it is sys­tem num­ber twenty-four in the con­stel­la­tion of Nor­la­ti­adek. Your con­stel­la­tion, Nor­la­ti­adek, con­sists of one hun­dred lo­cal sys­tems and has a head­quar­ters world called Eden­tia. Nor­la­ti­adek is num­ber sev­enty in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. The lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don con­sists of one hun­dred con­stel­la­tions and has a cap­i­tal known as Sal­ving­ton. The uni­verse of Neb­a­don is num­ber eighty-four in the mi­nor sec­tor of Ensa.

15:14.7The mi­nor sec­tor of Ensa con­sists of one hun­dred lo­cal uni­verses and has a cap­i­tal called Umi­nor the third. This mi­nor sec­tor is num­ber three in the ma­jor sec­tor of Splan­don. Splan­don con­sists of one hun­dred mi­nor sec­tors and has a head­quar­ters world called Uma­jor the fifth. It is the fifth ma­jor sec­tor of the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton, the sev­enth seg­ment of the grand uni­verse. Thus you can lo­cate your planet in the scheme of the or­ga­ni­za­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­verse of uni­verses.

15:14.8The grand uni­verse num­ber of your world, Uran­tia, is 5,342,482,337,666. That is the reg­istry num­ber on Uversa and on Par­a­dise, your num­ber in the cat­a­logue of the in­hab­ited worlds. I know the phys­i­cal-sphere reg­istry num­ber, but it is of such an ex­traor­di­nary size that it is of lit­tle prac­ti­cal sig­nif­i­cance to the mor­tal mind.

15:14.9Your planet is a mem­ber of an enor­mous cos­mos; you be­long to a well-nigh in­fi­nite fam­ily of worlds, but your sphere is just as pre­cisely ad­min­is­tered and just as lov­ingly fos­tered as if it were the only in­hab­ited world in all ex­is­tence.

15:14.10[Pre­sented by a Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor hail­ing from Uversa.]

• s. require Havona for full development

32:3.14The di­vinely per­fect crea­ture and the evo­lu­tion­ary per­fected crea­ture are equal in de­gree of di­vin­ity po­ten­tial, but they dif­fer in kind. Each must de­pend on the other to at­tain su­prem­acy of ser­vice. The evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses de­pend on per­fect Ha­vona to pro­vide the fi­nal train­ing for their as­cend­ing cit­i­zens, but so does the per­fect cen­tral uni­verse re­quire the ex­is­tence of the per­fect­ing super­uni­verses to pro­vide for the full de­vel­op­ment of its de­scend­ing in­hab­i­tants.

32:3.15The two prime man­i­fes­ta­tions of fi­nite re­al­ity, in­nate per­fec­tion and evolved per­fec­tion, be they per­son­al­i­ties or uni­verses, are co-or­di­nate, de­pen­dent, and in­te­grated. Each re­quires the other to achieve com­ple­tion of func­tion, ser­vice, and des­tiny.

• outer-spacers will approach Havona through s.

40:10.8What the ul­ti­mate des­tiny of these sta­tion­ary or­ders of lo­cal and of super­uni­verse cit­i­zen­ship will be we do not know, but it is quite pos­si­ble that, when the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters are pi­o­neer­ing the ex­pand­ing fron­tiers of di­vin­ity in the plan­e­tary sys­tems of the first outer space level, their Son- and Spirit-fused breth­ren of the as­cen­dant evo­lu­tion­ary strug­gle will be ac­cept­ably con­tribut­ing to the main­te­nance of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial equi­lib­rium of the per­fected super­uni­verses while they stand ready to wel­come the in­com­ing stream of Par­a­dise pil­grims who may, at that dis­tant day, pour in through Or­von­ton and its sis­ter cre­ations as a vast spirit-quest­ing tor­rent from these now un­charted and un­in­hab­ited galax­ies of outer space.

• outer-spacers will approach Havona through s.

56:7.9Nev­er­the­less, we deem that the per­fected super­uni­verses will in some way be­come a part of the Par­a­dise-as­cen­sion ca­reers of those be­ings who may in­habit these outer cre­ations. It is quite pos­si­ble that in that fu­ture age we may wit­ness outer-spac­ers ap­proach­ing Ha­vona through the seven super­uni­verses, ad­min­is­tered by God the Su­preme with or with­out the col­lab­o­ra­tion of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

• to become, within their potentials, perfect as Havona

117:7.13The pres­ent goal of the super­uni­verses is to be­come, as they are and within their po­ten­tials, per­fect, even as is Ha­vona. This per­fec­tion per­tains to phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual at­tain­ment, even to ad­min­is­tra­tive, gov­ern­men­tal, and fra­ter­nal de­vel­op­ment. It is be­lieved that, in the ages to come, the pos­si­bil­i­ties for dishar­mony, mal­ad­just­ment, and mis­adap­ta­tion will be even­tu­ally ex­hausted in the super­uni­verses. The en­ergy cir­cuits will be in per­fect bal­ance and in com­plete sub­ju­ga­tion to mind, while spirit, in the pres­ence of per­son­al­ity, will have achieved the dom­i­nance of mind.

• demarcations between s. will disappear upon actualization of Supreme

117:7.15This con­cept im­plies the ac­tual sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme in the grand uni­verse. It is al­to­gether likely that the pres­ent Trin­ity ad­min­is­tra­tors will con­tinue as his vicegerents, but we be­lieve that the pres­ent de­mar­ca­tions be­tween the seven super­uni­verses will grad­u­ally dis­ap­pear, and that the en­tire grand uni­verse will func­tion as a per­fected whole.

56:1.1The phys­i­cal or ma­te­rial cre­ation is not in­fi­nite, but it is per­fectly co-or­di­nated. There are force, en­ergy, and power, but they are all one in ori­gin. The seven super­uni­verses are seem­ingly dual; the cen­tral uni­verse, tri­une; but Par­a­dise is of sin­gle con­sti­tu­tion. And Par­a­dise is the ac­tual source of all ma­te­rial uni­verses—past, pres­ent, and fu­ture. But this cos­mic deriva­tion is an eter­nity event; at no time—past, pres­ent, or fu­ture—does ei­ther space or the ma­te­rial cos­mos come forth from the nu­clear Isle of Light. As the cos­mic source, Par­a­dise func­tions prior to space and be­fore time; hence would its deriva­tions seem to be or­phaned in time and space did they not emerge through the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, their ul­ti­mate re­pos­i­tory in space and their re­vealer and reg­u­la­tor in time.

11:8.73. Post­grav­ity Stages (Uni­verse Power). In this stage, en­ergy-mat­ter dis­closes re­sponse to the con­trol of lin­ear grav­ity. In the cen­tral uni­verse these phys­i­cal sys­tems are three­fold or­ga­ni­za­tions known as tri­ata. They are the super­power mother sys­tems of the cre­ations of time and space. The phys­i­cal sys­tems of the super­uni­verses are mo­bi­lized by the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors and their as­so­ciates. These ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tions are dual in con­sti­tu­tion and are known as gravita. The dark grav­ity bod­ies en­cir­cling Ha­vona are nei­ther tri­ata nor gravita, and their draw­ing power dis­closes both forms of phys­i­cal grav­ity, lin­ear and ab­so­lute.

• comprised of › 1 trillion inhabitable planets

12:1.13The Grand Uni­verse is the pres­ent or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ation. It con­sists of the seven super­uni­verses, with an ag­gre­gate evo­lu­tion­ary po­ten­tial of around seven tril­lion in­hab­ited plan­ets, not to men­tion the eter­nal spheres of the cen­tral cre­ation. But this ten­ta­tive es­ti­mate takes no ac­count of ar­chi­tec­tural ad­min­is­tra­tive spheres, nei­ther does it in­clude the out­ly­ing groups of un­or­ga­nized uni­verses. The pres­ent ragged edge of the grand uni­verse, its un­even and un­fin­ished pe­riph­ery, to­gether with the tremen­dously un­set­tled con­di­tion of the whole as­tro­nom­i­cal plot, sug­gests to our star stu­dents that even the seven super­uni­verses are, as yet, un­com­pleted. As we move from within, from the di­vine cen­ter out­ward in any one di­rec­tion, we do, even­tu­ally, come to the outer lim­its of the or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ation; we come to the outer lim­its of the grand uni­verse. And it is near this outer bor­der, in a far-off cor­ner of such a mag­nif­i­cent cre­ation, that your lo­cal uni­verse has its event­ful ex­is­tence.

• presided over and pervaded by one Master Spirit

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

15:2.1Only the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther knows the lo­ca­tion and ac­tual num­ber of in­hab­ited worlds in space; he calls them all by name and num­ber. I can give only the ap­prox­i­mate num­ber of in­hab­ited or in­hab­it­able plan­ets, for some lo­cal uni­verses have more worlds suit­able for in­tel­li­gent life than oth­ers. Nor have all pro­jected lo­cal uni­verses been or­ga­nized. There­fore the es­ti­mates which I of­fer are solely for the pur­pose of af­ford­ing some idea of the im­men­sity of the ma­te­rial cre­ation.

15:2.2There are seven super­uni­verses in the grand uni­verse, and they are con­sti­tuted ap­prox­i­mately as fol­lows:

• comprised of › 1 billion local systems

15:2.31. The Sys­tem. The ba­sic unit of the super­gov­ern­ment con­sists of about one thou­sand in­hab­ited or in­hab­it­able worlds. Blaz­ing suns, cold worlds, plan­ets too near the hot suns, and other spheres not suit­able for crea­ture habi­ta­tion are not in­cluded in this group. These one thou­sand worlds adapted to sup­port life are called a sys­tem, but in the younger sys­tems only a com­par­a­tively small num­ber of these worlds may be in­hab­ited. Each in­hab­ited planet is pre­sided over by a Plan­e­tary Prince, and each lo­cal sys­tem has an ar­chi­tec­tural sphere as its head­quar­ters and is ruled by a Sys­tem Sov­er­eign.

• comprised of › 10 million constellations

15:2.42. The Con­stel­la­tion. One hun­dred sys­tems (about 100,000 in­hab­it­able plan­ets) make up a con­stel­la­tion. Each con­stel­la­tion has an ar­chi­tec­tural head­quar­ters sphere and is pre­sided over by three Vo­ron­da­dek Sons, the Most Highs. Each con­stel­la­tion also has a Faith­ful of Days in ob­ser­va­tion, an am­bas­sador of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

• comprised of › 100,000 local universes

15:2.53. The Lo­cal Uni­verse. One hun­dred con­stel­la­tions (about 10,000,000 in­hab­it­able plan­ets) con­sti­tute a lo­cal uni­verse. Each lo­cal uni­verse has a mag­nif­i­cent ar­chi­tec­tural head­quar­ters world and is ruled by one of the co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Sons of God of the or­der of Mi­chael. Each uni­verse is blessed by the pres­ence of a Union of Days, a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

• 1000 minor sectors

15:2.64. The Mi­nor Sec­tor. One hun­dred lo­cal uni­verses (about 1,000,000,000 in­hab­it­able plan­ets) con­sti­tute a mi­nor sec­tor of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment; it has a won­der­ful head­quar­ters world, where­from its rulers, the Re­cents of Days, ad­min­is­ter the af­fairs of the mi­nor sec­tor. There are three Re­cents of Days, Su­preme Trin­ity Per­son­al­i­ties, on each mi­nor sec­tor head­quar­ters.

• comprised of › 10 major sectors

15:2.75. The Ma­jor Sec­tor. One hun­dred mi­nor sec­tors (about 100,000,000,000 in­hab­it­able worlds) make one ma­jor sec­tor. Each ma­jor sec­tor is pro­vided with a su­perb head­quar­ters and is pre­sided over by three Per­fec­tions of Days, Su­preme Trin­ity Per­son­al­i­ties.

• ruled by 3 Ancients of Days

15:2.86. The Super­uni­verse. Ten ma­jor sec­tors (about 1,000,000,000,000 in­hab­it­able plan­ets) con­sti­tute a super­uni­verse. Each super­uni­verse is pro­vided with an enor­mous and glo­ri­ous head­quar­ters world and is ruled by three An­cients of Days.

• ruled indirectly by Seven Master Spirits

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

15:2.10Ex­clud­ing the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona spheres, the plan of uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion pro­vides for the fol­low­ing units:

15:2.11Super­uni­verses 7

• comprised of › 10 major sectors

15:2.12Ma­jor sec­tors 70

• 1000 minor sectors

15:2.13Mi­nor sec­tors 7,000

• comprised of › 100,000 local universes

15:2.14Lo­cal uni­verses 700,000

• comprised of › 10 million constellations

15:2.15Con­stel­la­tions 70,000,000

• comprised of › 1 billion local systems

15:2.16Lo­cal sys­tems 7,000,000,000

15:2.17In­hab­it­able plan­ets 7,000,000,000,000

15:2.18Each of the seven super­uni­verses is con­sti­tuted, ap­prox­i­mately, as fol­lows:

15:2.19One sys­tem em­braces, ap­prox­i­mately 1,000 worlds

15:2.20One con­stel­la­tion (100 sys­tems) 100,000 worlds

15:2.21One uni­verse (100 con­stel­la­tions) 10,000,000 worlds

15:2.22One mi­nor sec­tor (100 uni­verses) 1,000,000,000 worlds

15:2.23One ma­jor sec­tor (100 mi­nor sec­tors) 100,000,000,000 worlds

• comprised of › 1 trillion inhabitable planets

15:2.24One super­uni­verse (10 ma­jor sec­tors) 1,000,000,000,000 worlds

15:2.25All such es­ti­mates are ap­prox­i­ma­tions at best, for new sys­tems are con­stantly evolv­ing while other or­ga­ni­za­tions are tem­porar­ily pass­ing out of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence.

• capitals › has sun which gives light without heat
• headquarters near center of superuniverse

15:7.1While each super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment pre­sides near the cen­ter of the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses of its space seg­ment, it oc­cu­pies a world made to or­der and is peo­pled by ac­cred­ited per­son­al­i­ties. These head­quar­ters worlds are ar­chi­tec­tural spheres, space bod­ies specif­i­cally con­structed for their spe­cial pur­pose. While shar­ing the light of near-by suns, these spheres are in­de­pen­dently lighted and heated. Each has a sun which gives forth light with­out heat, like the satel­lites of Par­a­dise, while each is sup­plied with heat by the cir­cu­la­tion of cer­tain en­ergy cur­rents near the sur­face of the sphere. These head­quar­ters worlds be­long to one of the greater sys­tems sit­u­ated near the as­tro­nom­i­cal cen­ter of their re­spec­tive super­uni­verses.

• capitals › surrounded by 490 spheres

15:7.10Uversa, the head­quar­ters of Or­von­ton, your super­uni­verse, is im­me­di­ately sur­rounded by the seven higher uni­ver­si­ties of ad­vanced spir­i­tual train­ing for as­cend­ing will crea­tures. Each of these seven clus­ters of won­der spheres con­sists of sev­enty spe­cial­ized worlds con­tain­ing thou­sands upon thou­sands of re­plete in­sti­tu­tions and or­ga­ni­za­tions de­voted to uni­verse train­ing and spirit cul­ture wherein the pil­grims of time are re-ed­u­cated and re-ex­am­ined prepara­tory to their long flight to Ha­vona. The ar­riv­ing pil­grims of time are al­ways re­ceived on these as­so­ci­ated worlds, but the de­part­ing grad­u­ates are al­ways dis­patched for Ha­vona di­rect from the shores of Uversa.

• capitals › directionize energy to local universes

15:8.1The head­quar­ters spheres of the super­uni­verses are so con­structed that they are able to func­tion as ef­fi­cient power-en­ergy reg­u­la­tors for their var­i­ous sec­tors, serv­ing as fo­cal points for the di­rec­tion­iza­tion of en­ergy to their com­po­nent lo­cal uni­verses. They ex­ert a pow­er­ful in­flu­ence over the bal­ance and con­trol of the phys­i­cal en­er­gies cir­cu­lat­ing through or­ga­nized space.

• presided over and pervaded by one Master Spirit

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.

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

• composition of co-ordinate councils

15:10.3Each super­uni­verse is pre­sided over by three An­cients of Days, the joint chief ex­ec­u­tives of the super­gov­ern­ment. In its ex­ec­u­tive branch the per­son­nel of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment con­sists of seven dif­fer­ent groups:

15:10.41. An­cients of Days.

15:10.52. Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom.

15:10.63. Di­vine Coun­selors.

15:10.74. Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors.

15:10.85. Mighty Mes­sen­gers.

15:10.96. Those High in Au­thor­ity.

15:10.107. Those with­out Name and Num­ber.

15:10.11The three An­cients of Days are im­me­di­ately as­sisted by a corps of one bil­lion Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, with whom are as­so­ci­ated three bil­lion Di­vine Coun­selors. One bil­lion Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors are at­tached to each super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. These three groups are Co-or­di­nate Trin­ity Per­son­al­i­ties, tak­ing ori­gin di­rectly and di­vinely in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

15:10.12The re­main­ing three or­ders, Mighty Mes­sen­gers, Those High in Au­thor­ity, and Those with­out Name and Num­ber, are glo­ri­fied as­cen­dant mor­tals. The first of these or­ders came up through the as­cen­dant regime and passed through Ha­vona in the days of Grand­fanda. Hav­ing at­tained Par­a­dise, they were mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, em­braced by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, and sub­se­quently as­signed to the su­per­nal ser­vice of the An­cients of Days. As a class, these three or­ders are known as Trin­i­tized Sons of At­tain­ment, be­ing of dual ori­gin but now of Trin­ity ser­vice. Thus was the ex­ec­u­tive branch of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment en­larged to in­clude the glo­ri­fied and per­fected chil­dren of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

15:10.13The co-or­di­nate coun­cil of the super­uni­verse is com­posed of the seven ex­ec­u­tive groups pre­vi­ously named and the fol­low­ing sec­tor rulers and other re­gional over­seers:

15:10.141. Per­fec­tions of Days—the rulers of the super­uni­verse ma­jor sec­tors.

15:10.152. Re­cents of Days—the di­rec­tors of the super­uni­verse mi­nor sec­tors.

15:10.163. Unions of Days—the Par­a­dise ad­vis­ers to the rulers of the lo­cal uni­verses.

15:10.174. Faith­fuls of Days—the Par­a­dise coun­selors to the Most High rulers of the con­stel­la­tion gov­ern­ments.

15:10.185. Trin­ity Teacher Sons who may chance to be on duty at super­uni­verse head­quar­ters.

15:10.196. Eter­nals of Days who may hap­pen to be pres­ent at super­uni­verse head­quar­ters.

15:10.207. The seven Re­flec­tive Im­age Aids—the spokes­men of the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its and through them rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise.

15:10.21The Re­flec­tive Im­age Aids also func­tion as the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of nu­mer­ous groups of be­ings who are in­flu­en­tial in the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments, but who are not, at pres­ent, for var­i­ous rea­sons, fully ac­tive in their in­di­vid­ual ca­pac­i­ties. Em­braced within this group are: the evolv­ing super­uni­verse per­son­al­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing, the Un­qual­i­fied Super­vi­sors of the Su­preme, the Qual­i­fied Vicegerents of the Ul­ti­mate, the un­named li­ai­son re­flec­ti­va­tors of Maj­es­ton, and the super­per­sonal spirit rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Eter­nal Son.

15:10.22At al­most all times it is pos­si­ble to find rep­re­sen­ta­tives of all groups of cre­ated be­ings on the head­quar­ters worlds of the super­uni­verses. The rou­tine min­is­ter­ing work of the super­uni­verses is per­formed by the mighty se­con­a­phim and by other mem­bers of the vast fam­ily of the In­fi­nite Spirit. In the work of these mar­velous cen­ters of super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, con­trol, min­istry, and ex­ec­u­tive judg­ment, the in­tel­li­gences of ev­ery sphere of uni­ver­sal life are min­gled in ef­fec­tive ser­vice, wise ad­min­is­tra­tion, lov­ing min­istry, and just judg­ment.

15:11.1It is on such worlds as Uversa that the be­ings rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the au­toc­racy of per­fec­tion and the democ­racy of evo­lu­tion meet face to face. The ex­ec­u­tive branch of the super­gov­ern­ment orig­i­nates in the realms of per­fec­tion; the leg­isla­tive branch springs from the flow­er­ing of the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses.

15:11.2The de­lib­er­a­tive as­sem­bly of the super­uni­verse is con­fined to the head­quar­ters world. This leg­isla­tive or ad­vi­sory coun­cil con­sists of seven houses, to each of which ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse ad­mit­ted to the super­uni­verse coun­cils elects a na­tive rep­re­sen­ta­tive. These rep­re­sen­ta­tives are cho­sen by the high coun­cils of such lo­cal uni­verses from among the as­cend­ing-pil­grim grad­u­ates of Or­von­ton who are tar­ry­ing on Uversa, ac­cred­ited for trans­port to Ha­vona. The av­er­age term of ser­vice is about one hun­dred years of super­uni­verse stan­dard time.

15:11.3Never have I known of a dis­agree­ment be­tween the Or­von­ton ex­ec­u­tives and the Uversa as­sem­bly. Never yet, in the his­tory of our super­uni­verse, has the de­lib­er­a­tive body ever passed a rec­om­men­da­tion that the ex­ec­u­tive di­vi­sion of the super­gov­ern­ment has even hes­i­tated to carry out. There al­ways has pre­vailed the most per­fect har­mony and work­ing agree­ment, all of which tes­ti­fies to the fact that evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings can re­ally at­tain the heights of per­fected wis­dom which qual­i­fies them to con­sort with the per­son­al­i­ties of per­fect ori­gin and di­vine na­ture. The pres­ence of the de­lib­er­a­tive as­sem­blies on the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters re­veals the wis­dom, and fore­shad­ows the ul­ti­mate tri­umph, of the whole vast evo­lu­tion­ary con­cept of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his Eter­nal Son.

15:12.1When we speak of ex­ec­u­tive and de­lib­er­a­tive branches of the Uversa gov­ern­ment, you may, from the anal­ogy of cer­tain forms of Uran­tian civil gov­ern­ment, rea­son that we must have a third or ju­di­cial branch, and we do; but it does not have a sep­a­rate per­son­nel. Our courts are con­sti­tuted as fol­lows: There pre­sides, in ac­cor­dance with the na­ture and grav­ity of the case, an An­cient of Days, a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom, or a Di­vine Coun­selor. The ev­i­dence for or against an in­di­vid­ual, a planet, sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, or uni­verse is pre­sented and in­ter­preted by the Cen­sors. The de­fense of the chil­dren of time and the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets is of­fered by the Mighty Mes­sen­gers, the of­fi­cial ob­servers of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment to the lo­cal uni­verses and sys­tems. The at­ti­tude of the higher gov­ern­ment is por­trayed by Those High in Au­thor­ity. And or­di­nar­ily the ver­dict is for­mu­lated by a vary­ing-sized com­mis­sion con­sist­ing equally of Those with­out Name and Num­ber and a group of un­der­stand­ing per­son­al­i­ties cho­sen from the de­lib­er­a­tive as­sem­bly.

15:12.2The courts of the An­cients of Days are the high re­view tri­bu­nals for the spir­i­tual ad­ju­di­ca­tion of all com­po­nent uni­verses. The Sov­er­eign Sons of the lo­cal uni­verses are su­preme in their own do­mains; they are sub­ject to the super­gov­ern­ment only in so far as they vol­un­tar­ily sub­mit mat­ters for coun­sel or ad­ju­di­ca­tion by the An­cients of Days ex­cept in mat­ters in­volv­ing the ex­tinc­tion of will crea­tures. Man­dates of judg­ment orig­i­nate in the lo­cal uni­verses, but sen­tences in­volv­ing the ex­tinc­tion of will crea­tures are al­ways for­mu­lated on, and ex­e­cuted from, the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse. The Sons of the lo­cal uni­verses can de­cree the sur­vival of mor­tal man, but only the An­cients of Days may sit in ex­ec­u­tive judg­ment on the is­sues of eter­nal life and death.

15:12.3In all mat­ters not re­quir­ing trial, the sub­mis­sion of ev­i­dence, the An­cients of Days or their as­so­ciates ren­der de­ci­sions, and these rul­ings are al­ways unan­i­mous. We are here deal­ing with the coun­cils of per­fec­tion. There are no dis­agree­ments nor mi­nor­ity opin­ions in the de­crees of these su­preme and su­perla­tive tri­bu­nals.

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

• comprised of › 10 major sectors

15:13.1A ma­jor sec­tor com­prises about one tenth of a super­uni­verse and con­sists of one hun­dred mi­nor sec­tors, ten thou­sand lo­cal uni­verses, about one hun­dred bil­lion in­hab­it­able worlds. These ma­jor sec­tors are ad­min­is­tered by three Per­fec­tions of Days, Su­preme Trin­ity Per­son­al­i­ties.

15:13.2The courts of the Per­fec­tions of Days are con­sti­tuted much as are those of the An­cients of Days ex­cept that they do not sit in spir­i­tual judg­ment upon the realms. The work of these ma­jor sec­tor gov­ern­ments has chiefly to do with the in­tel­lec­tual sta­tus of a far-flung cre­ation. The ma­jor sec­tors de­tain, ad­ju­di­cate, dis­pense, and tab­u­late, for re­port­ing to the courts of the An­cients of Days, all mat­ters of super­uni­verse im­por­tance of a rou­tine and ad­min­is­tra­tive na­ture which are not im­me­di­ately con­cerned with the spir­i­tual ad­min­is­tra­tion of the realms or with the out­work­ing of the mor­tal-as­cen­sion plans of the Par­a­dise Rulers. The per­son­nel of a ma­jor sec­tor gov­ern­ment is no dif­fer­ent from that of the super­uni­verse.

15:13.3As the mag­nif­i­cent satel­lites of Uversa are con­cerned with your fi­nal spir­i­tual prepa­ra­tion for Ha­vona, so are the sev­enty satel­lites of Uma­jor the fifth de­voted to your super­uni­verse in­tel­lec­tual train­ing and de­vel­op­ment. From all Or­von­ton, here are gath­ered to­gether the wise be­ings who la­bor un­tir­ingly to pre­pare the mor­tals of time for their fur­ther prog­ress to­wards the ca­reer of eter­nity. Most of this train­ing of as­cend­ing mor­tals is con­ducted on the sev­enty study worlds.

• presided over and pervaded by one Master Spirit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• presided over and pervaded by one Master Spirit

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

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

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18:4.8The work of the pil­grims of time on the worlds sur­round­ing a ma­jor sec­tor head­quar­ters is chiefly of an in­tel­lec­tual na­ture in con­trast with the more phys­i­cal and ma­te­rial char­ac­ter of the train­ing on the seven ed­u­ca­tional spheres of a mi­nor sec­tor and with the spir­i­tual un­der­tak­ings on the four hun­dred ninety uni­ver­sity worlds of a super­uni­verse head­quar­ters.

• capitals › 84,691 secondary Circuit Supervisors on

24:1.9On the head­quar­ters worlds of each super­uni­verse are sta­tioned the sec­ondary super­vi­sors for the lo­cal uni­verses of time and space. The ma­jor and mi­nor sec­tors are ad­min­is­tra­tive di­vi­sions of the super­gov­ern­ments but are not con­cerned in these mat­ters of spirit-en­ergy super­vi­sion. I do not know how many sec­ondary cir­cuit super­vi­sors there are in the grand uni­verse, but on Uversa there are 84,691 of these be­ings. Sec­ondary super­vi­sors are be­ing cre­ated right along; from time to time they ap­pear in groups of sev­enty on the worlds of the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives. We ob­tain them on req­ui­si­tion as we ar­range for the es­tab­lish­ment of sep­a­rate cir­cuits of spirit en­ergy and li­ai­son power to the newly evolv­ing uni­verses of our ju­ris­dic­tion.

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24:2.4One Cen­sus Di­rec­tor pre­sides at the head­quar­ters of each super­uni­verse, while sub­ject to such a chief di­rec­tor are thou­sands upon thou­sands, one on the cap­i­tal of ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse. All per­son­al­i­ties of this or­der are equal ex­cept­ing those on the Ha­vona pi­lot worlds and the seven super­uni­verse chiefs.

24:2.5In the sev­enth super­uni­verse there are one hun­dred thou­sand Cen­sus Di­rec­tors. And this num­ber con­sists en­tirely of those assignable to lo­cal uni­verses; it does not in­clude the per­sonal staff of Us­a­tia, the super­uni­verse chief of all Or­von­ton di­rec­tors. Us­a­tia, like the other super­uni­verse chiefs, is not di­rectly at­tuned to the reg­is­tra­tion of in­tel­li­gent will. He is solely at­tuned to his sub­or­di­nates sta­tioned in the Or­von­ton uni­verses; thus he acts as a mag­nif­i­cent to­tal­ing per­son­al­ity for their re­ports com­ing in from the cap­i­tals of the lo­cal cre­ations.

24:2.6From time to time the of­fi­cial re­cord­ers of Uversa place on their rec­ords the sta­tus of the super­uni­verse as it is in­di­cated by the reg­is­tra­tions in and upon the per­son­al­ity of Us­a­tia. Such cen­sus data is in­dige­nous to the super­uni­verses; these re­ports are trans­mit­ted nei­ther to Ha­vona nor to Par­a­dise.

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

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

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25:3.1Con­cil­ia­tors main­tain group head­quar­ters on the cap­i­tal of their super­uni­verse, where their pri­mary re­serve corps is held. Their sec­ondary re­serves are sta­tioned on the cap­i­tals of the lo­cal uni­verses. The younger and less ex­pe­ri­enced com­mis­sion­ers be­gin their ser­vice on the lower worlds, worlds like Uran­tia, and are ad­vanced to the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of greater prob­lems af­ter they have ac­quired riper ex­pe­ri­ence.

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25:3.137. Con­cil­ia­tors to the Super­uni­verse. Here the con­cil­ia­tors be­come co-or­di­nate—four mu­tu­ally un­der­stood and per­fectly func­tion­ing ar­biter-teach­ers. The di­vine ex­e­cu­tioner is di­vested of re­tribu­tive power and be­comes the phys­i­cal voice of the spirit trio. By this time these coun­selors and teach­ers have be­come ex­pertly fa­mil­iar with most of the ac­tual prob­lems and dif­fi­cul­ties en­coun­tered in the con­duct of super­uni­verse af­fairs. Thus they be­come won­der­ful ad­vis­ers and wise teach­ers of the as­cend­ing pil­grims who are in res­i­dence on the ed­u­ca­tional spheres sur­round­ing the head­quar­ters worlds of the super­uni­verses.

25:3.14All con­cil­ia­tors serve un­der the gen­eral super­vi­sion of the An­cients of Days and un­der the im­me­di­ate di­rec­tion of the Im­age Aids un­til such time as they are ad­vanced to Par­a­dise. Dur­ing the Par­a­dise so­journ they re­port to the Mas­ter Spirit who pre­sides over the super­uni­verse of their ori­gin.

25:3.15The super­uni­verse reg­istries do not enu­mer­ate those con­cil­ia­tors who have passed be­yond their ju­ris­dic­tion, and such com­mis­sions are widely scat­tered through the grand uni­verse. The last re­port of reg­istry on Uversa gives the num­ber op­er­at­ing in Or­von­ton as al­most eigh­teen tril­lion com­mis­sions—over sev­enty tril­lion in­di­vid­u­als. But these are only a very small frac­tion of the mul­ti­tude of con­cil­ia­tors that have been cre­ated in Or­von­ton; that num­ber is of an al­to­gether higher mag­ni­tude and is the equiv­a­lent of the to­tal num­ber of Ha­vona Servi­tals, with al­lowances for the trans­mu­ta­tion into Grad­u­ate Guides.

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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.

• capitals › Universe Power Directors differently toned in each

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.

• capitals › 1000 superuniverse centers stationed on

29:2.133. Super­uni­verse Cen­ters. Oc­cu­py­ing an enor­mous area on the cap­i­tal sphere of each of the seven super­uni­verses are one thou­sand power cen­ters of the third or­der. Three cur­rents of pri­mary en­ergy of ten seg­re­ga­tions each come in to these power cen­ters, but seven spe­cial­ized and well-di­rected, though im­per­fectly con­trolled, cir­cuits of power go forth from their seat of united ac­tion. This is the elec­tronic or­ga­ni­za­tion of uni­verse power.

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

• co-ordinated by 7 Architects of Master Universe

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

26:8.5The de­feated can­di­dates for the De­ity ad­ven­ture are placed un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the chiefs of as­sign­ment, a group of pri­mary super­na­phim, and are re­manded to the work of the realms of space for a pe­riod of not less than one mil­len­nium. They never re­turn to the super­uni­verse of their na­tiv­ity, al­ways to that super­cre­ation most pro­pi­tious for their re­train­ing in prepa­ra­tion for the sec­ond De­ity ad­ven­ture. Fol­low­ing this ser­vice, on their own mo­tion, they re­turn to the outer cir­cle of Ha­vona, are im­me­di­ately es­corted to the cir­cle of their in­ter­rupted ca­reer, and at once re­sume their prepa­ra­tions for the De­ity ad­ven­ture. Never do the sec­ondary super­na­phim fail to pi­lot their sub­jects suc­cess­fully on the sec­ond at­tempt, and the same super­aphic min­is­ters and other guides al­ways at­tend these can­di­dates dur­ing this sec­ond ad­ven­ture.

55:12.1We can­not pos­i­tively fore­cast what would oc­cur when a super­uni­verse be­came set­tled in light be­cause such an event has never fac­tu­al­ized. From the teach­ings of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, which have never been con­tra­dicted, we in­fer that sweep­ing changes would be made in the en­tire or­ga­ni­za­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion of ev­ery unit of the cre­ations of time and space ex­tend­ing from the in­hab­ited worlds to the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters.

55:12.2It is gen­er­ally be­lieved that large num­bers of the oth­er­wise un­at­tached crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons are to be as­sem­bled on the head­quar­ters and di­vi­sional cap­i­tals of the set­tled super­uni­verses. This may be in an­tic­i­pa­tion of the some­time ar­rival of outer-spac­ers on their way in to Ha­vona and Par­a­dise; but we re­ally do not know.

55:12.3If and when a super­uni­verse should be set­tled in light and life, we be­lieve that the now ad­vi­sory Un­qual­i­fied Super­vi­sors of the Su­preme would be­come the high ad­min­is­tra­tive body on the head­quar­ters world of the super­uni­verse. These are the per­son­al­i­ties who are able to con­tact di­rectly with the ab­so­nite ad­min­is­tra­tors, who will forth­with be­come ac­tive in the set­tled super­uni­verse. Al­though these Un­qual­i­fied Super­vi­sors have long func­tioned as ad­vis­ers and coun­selors in ad­vanced evo­lu­tion­ary units of cre­ation, they do not as­sume ad­min­is­tra­tive re­spon­si­bil­i­ties un­til the au­thor­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing be­comes sov­er­eign.

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.

55:12.5None of us en­ter­tain a sat­is­fac­tory con­cept of what will hap­pen when the grand uni­verse (the seven super­uni­verses as de­pen­dent on Ha­vona) be­comes en­tirely set­tled in light and life. That event will un­doubt­edly be the most pro­found oc­cur­rence in the an­nals of eter­nity since the ap­pear­ance of the cen­tral uni­verse. There are those who hold that the Su­preme Be­ing him­self will emerge from the Ha­vona mys­tery en­shroud­ing his spirit per­son and will be­come res­i­den­tial on the head­quar­ters of the sev­enth super­uni­verse as the al­mighty and ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eign of the per­fected cre­ations of time and space. But we re­ally do not know.

55:12.6[Pre­sented by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily as­signed to the Arch­an­gel Coun­cil on Uran­tia.]

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.

30:4.34This nar­ra­tive, to­gether with what has been re­vealed to you and with what you may ac­quire in con­nec­tion with in­struc­tion re­spect­ing your own world, pre­sents an out­line of the ca­reer of an as­cend­ing mor­tal. The story varies con­sid­er­ably in the dif­fer­ent super­uni­verses, but this recital af­fords a glimpse of the av­er­age plan of mor­tal pro­gres­sion as it is op­er­a­tive in the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don and in the sev­enth seg­ment of the grand uni­verse, the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton.

5:1.9The fact that vast time is in­volved in the at­tain­ment of God makes the pres­ence and per­son­al­ity of the In­fi­nite none the less real. Your as­cen­sion is a part of the cir­cuit of the seven super­uni­verses, and though you swing around it count­less times, you may ex­pect, in spirit and in sta­tus, to be ever swing­ing in­ward. You can de­pend upon be­ing trans­lated from sphere to sphere, from the outer cir­cuits ever nearer the in­ner cen­ter, and some day, doubt not, you shall stand in the di­vine and cen­tral pres­ence and see him, fig­u­ra­tively speak­ing, face to face. It is a ques­tion of the at­tain­ment of ac­tual and lit­eral spir­i­tual lev­els; and these spir­i­tual lev­els are at­tain­able by any be­ing who has been in­dwelt by a Mys­tery Mon­i­tor, and who has sub­se­quently eter­nally fused with that Thought Ad­juster.

15:1.4In this age and as di­rec­tion is re­garded on Uran­tia, super­uni­verse num­ber one swings al­most due north, ap­prox­i­mately op­po­site, in an east­erly di­rec­tion, to the Par­a­dise res­i­dence of the Great Sources and Cen­ters and the cen­tral uni­verse of Ha­vona. This po­si­tion, with the cor­re­spond­ing one to the west, rep­re­sents the near­est phys­i­cal ap­proach of the spheres of time to the eter­nal Isle. Super­uni­verse num­ber two is in the north, prepar­ing for the west­ward swing, while num­ber three now holds the north­ern­most seg­ment of the great space path, hav­ing al­ready turned into the bend lead­ing to the southerly plunge. Num­ber four is on the com­par­a­tively straight­away southerly flight, the ad­vance re­gions now ap­proach­ing op­po­si­tion to the Great Cen­ters. Num­ber five has about left its po­si­tion op­po­site the Cen­ter of Cen­ters while con­tin­u­ing on the di­rect southerly course just pre­ced­ing the east­ward swing; num­ber six oc­cu­pies most of the south­ern curve, the seg­ment from which your super­uni­verse has nearly passed.

15:1.5Your lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don be­longs to Or­von­ton, the sev­enth super­uni­verse, which swings on be­tween super­uni­verses one and six, hav­ing not long since (as we reckon time) turned the south­east­ern bend of the super­uni­verse space level. To­day, the so­lar sys­tem to which Uran­tia be­longs is a few bil­lion years past the swing around the south­ern cur­va­ture so that you are just now ad­vanc­ing be­yond the south­east­ern bend and are mov­ing swiftly through the long and com­par­a­tively straight­away north­ern path. For un­told ages Or­von­ton will pur­sue this al­most di­rect northerly course.

25:6.6On Uversa these se­nior Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers can show the rec­ords of ev­ery­thing of cos­mic im­port in all Or­von­ton since the far-dis­tant times of the ar­rival of the An­cients of Days, while on the eter­nal Isle the Cus­to­di­ans of Rec­ords guard the ar­chives of that realm which tes­tify to the trans­ac­tions of Par­a­dise since the times of the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• only Solitary Messengers and Inspired Trinity Spirits can go directly from one to another
• travel between s. is by way of Havona, worlds of Master Spirits

23:2.153. Mes­sen­gers of the Super­uni­verses. The An­cients of Days, those per­son­al­i­ties of Trin­ity ori­gin who pre­side over the des­tinies of the seven super­uni­verses, those trios of di­vine power and ad­min­is­tra­tive wis­dom, are boun­ti­fully sup­plied with Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers. It is only through this or­der of mes­sen­gers that the tri­une rulers of one super­uni­verse can di­rectly and per­son­ally com­mu­ni­cate with the rulers of an­other. Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers are the only avail­able type of spirit in­tel­li­gence—aside, pos­si­bly, from the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its—that can be dis­patched from the head­quar­ters of one super­uni­verse di­rectly to the head­quar­ters of an­other. All other per­son­al­i­ties must make such ex­cur­sions by way of Ha­vona and the ex­ec­u­tive worlds of the Mas­ter Spir­its.

• energy differential prevents direct communication between

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.

• energy differential prevents direct communication between

39:2.4The in­tel­li­gence corps of the var­i­ous lo­cal uni­verses can and do in­ter­com­mu­ni­cate but only within a given super­uni­verse. There is a dif­fer­en­tial of en­ergy which ef­fec­tively seg­re­gates the busi­ness and trans­ac­tions of the var­i­ous super­gov­ern­ments. One super­uni­verse can or­di­nar­ily com­mu­ni­cate with an­other super­uni­verse only through the pro­vi­sions and fa­cil­i­ties of the Par­a­dise clear­ing­house.

12:4.15But the great­est of all such dis­tor­tions arises be­cause the vast uni­verses of outer space, in the realms next to the do­mains of the seven super­uni­verses, seem to be re­volv­ing in a di­rec­tion op­po­site to that of the grand uni­verse. That is, these myr­i­ads of neb­u­lae and their ac­com­pa­ny­ing suns and spheres are at the pres­ent time re­volv­ing clock­wise about the cen­tral cre­ation. The seven super­uni­verses re­volve about Par­a­dise in a coun­ter­clock­wise di­rec­tion. It ap­pears that the sec­ond outer uni­verse of galax­ies, like the seven super­uni­verses, re­volves coun­ter­clock­wise about Par­a­dise. And the as­tro­nomic ob­servers of Uversa think they de­tect ev­i­dence of rev­o­lu­tion­ary move­ments in a third outer belt of far-dis­tant space which are be­gin­ning to ex­hibit di­rec­tional ten­den­cies of a clock­wise na­ture.

14:1.9The bil­lion worlds of Ha­vona are ar­ranged in seven con­cen­tric cir­cuits im­me­di­ately sur­round­ing the three cir­cuits of Par­a­dise satel­lites. There are up­wards of thirty-five mil­lion worlds in the in­ner­most Ha­vona cir­cuit and over two hun­dred and forty-five mil­lion in the out­er­most, with pro­por­tion­ate num­bers in­ter­ven­ing. Each cir­cuit dif­fers, but all are per­fectly bal­anced and ex­qui­sitely or­ga­nized, and each is per­vaded by a spe­cial­ized rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit, one of the Seven Spir­its of the Cir­cuits. In ad­di­tion to other func­tions this im­per­sonal Spirit co-or­di­nates the con­duct of ce­les­tial af­fairs through­out each cir­cuit.

15:3.147. The move­ment of Or­von­ton and six as­so­ci­ated super­uni­verses around Par­a­dise and Ha­vona, the coun­ter­clock­wise pro­ces­sional of the super­uni­verse space level.

15:3.15These mul­ti­ple mo­tions are of sev­eral or­ders: The space paths of your planet and your so­lar sys­tem are ge­netic, in­her­ent in ori­gin. The ab­so­lute coun­ter­clock­wise mo­tion of Or­von­ton is also ge­netic, in­her­ent in the ar­chi­tec­tural plans of the mas­ter uni­verse. But the in­ter­ven­ing mo­tions are of com­pos­ite ori­gin, be­ing de­rived in part from the con­sti­tu­tive seg­men­ta­tion of mat­ter-en­ergy into the super­uni­verses and in part pro­duced by the in­tel­li­gent and pur­pose­ful ac­tion of the Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers.

40:8.4Much as the mor­ontia spheres of Neb­a­don are shared with the Spirit-fused mor­tals, so do these Son-fused crea­tures share the ser­vices of Or­von­ton with their Ad­juster-fused breth­ren who are jour­ney­ing in­ward to­wards the far-dis­tant Isle of Par­a­dise. They are truly your breth­ren, and you will greatly en­joy their as­so­ci­a­tion as you pass through the train­ing worlds of the super­uni­verse.

40:8.5Son-fused mor­tals are not a nu­mer­ous group, there be­ing less than one mil­lion of them in the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton. Aside from res­i­den­tial des­tiny on Par­a­dise they are in ev­ery way the equals of their Ad­juster-fused as­so­ciates. They fre­quently jour­ney to Par­a­dise on super­uni­verse as­sign­ment but sel­dom per­ma­nently re­side there, be­ing, as a class, con­fined to the super­uni­verse of their na­tiv­ity.

40:10.4We have an­a­lyzed this prob­lem and have reached the un­doubted con­clu­sion that the con­sign­ment of all mor­tals to an ul­ti­mate Par­a­dise des­tiny would be un­fair to the time-space uni­verses inas­much as the courts of the Cre­ator Sons and of the An­cients of Days would then be wholly de­pen­dent on the ser­vices of those who were in tran­sit to higher realms. And it does seem to be no more than fit­ting that the lo­cal and the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments should each be pro­vided with a per­ma­nent group of as­cen­dant cit­i­zen­ship; that the func­tions of these ad­min­is­tra­tions should be en­riched by the ef­forts of cer­tain groups of glo­ri­fied mor­tals who are of per­ma­nent sta­tus, evo­lu­tion­ary com­ple­ments of the aban­don­ters and of the susa­tia. Now it is quite ob­vi­ous that the pres­ent as­cen­sion scheme ef­fec­tively pro­vides the time-space ad­min­is­tra­tions with just such groups of as­cen­dant crea­tures; and we have many times won­dered: Does all this rep­re­sent an in­tended part of the all-wise plans of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse de­signed to pro­vide the Cre­ator Sons and the An­cients of Days with a per­ma­nent as­cen­dant pop­u­la­tion? with evolved or­ders of cit­i­zen­ship that will be­come in­creas­ingly com­pe­tent to carry for­ward the af­fairs of these realms in the uni­verse ages to come?

15:1.1Within the lim­ited range of the rec­ords, ob­ser­va­tions, and mem­o­ries of the gen­er­a­tions of a mil­lion or a bil­lion of your short years, to all prac­ti­cal in­tents and pur­poses, Uran­tia and the uni­verse to which it be­longs are ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the ad­ven­ture of one long and un­charted plunge into new space; but ac­cord­ing to the rec­ords of Uversa, in ac­cor­dance with older ob­ser­va­tions, in har­mony with the more ex­ten­sive ex­pe­ri­ence and cal­cu­la­tions of our or­der, and as a re­sult of con­clu­sions based on these and other find­ings, we know that the uni­verses are en­gaged in an or­derly, well-un­der­stood, and per­fectly con­trolled pro­ces­sional, swing­ing in ma­jes­tic grandeur around the First Great Source and Cen­ter and his res­i­den­tial uni­verse.

15:1.2We have long since dis­cov­ered that the seven super­uni­verses tra­verse a great el­lipse, a gi­gan­tic and elon­gated cir­cle. Your so­lar sys­tem and other worlds of time are not plung­ing head­long, with­out chart and com­pass, into un­mapped space. The lo­cal uni­verse to which your sys­tem be­longs is pur­su­ing a def­i­nite and well-un­der­stood coun­ter­clock­wise course around the vast swing that en­cir­cles the cen­tral uni­verse. This cos­mic path is well charted and is just as thor­oughly known to the super­uni­verse star ob­servers as the or­bits of the plan­ets con­sti­tut­ing your so­lar sys­tem are known to Uran­tia as­tron­o­mers.

15:1.3Uran­tia is sit­u­ated in a lo­cal uni­verse and a super­uni­verse not fully or­ga­nized, and your lo­cal uni­verse is in im­me­di­ate prox­im­ity to nu­mer­ous par­tially com­pleted phys­i­cal cre­ations. You be­long to one of the rel­a­tively re­cent uni­verses. But you are not, to­day, plung­ing on wildly into un­charted space nor swing­ing out blindly into un­known re­gions. You are fol­low­ing the or­derly and pre­de­ter­mined path of the super­uni­verse space level. You are now pass­ing through the very same space that your plan­e­tary sys­tem, or its pre­de­ces­sors, tra­versed ages ago; and some day in the re­mote fu­ture your sys­tem, or its suc­ces­sors, will again tra­verse the iden­ti­cal space through which you are now so swiftly plung­ing.

15:1.6Uran­tia be­longs to a sys­tem which is well out to­wards the bor­der­land of your lo­cal uni­verse; and your lo­cal uni­verse is at pres­ent travers­ing the pe­riph­ery of Or­von­ton. Be­yond you there are still oth­ers, but you are far re­moved in space from those phys­i­cal sys­tems which swing around the great cir­cle in com­par­a­tive prox­im­ity to the Great Source and Cen­ter.

• a few Havona pilgrims from s. #1 fail to attain Infinite Spirit on first attempt

26:8.4Not many pil­grims ex­pe­ri­ence the de­lay of seem­ing fail­ure in the De­ity ad­ven­ture. Nearly all at­tain the In­fi­nite Spirit, though oc­ca­sion­ally a pil­grim from super­uni­verse num­ber one does not suc­ceed on the first at­tempt. The pil­grims who at­tain the Spirit sel­dom fail in find­ing the Son; of those who do fail on the first ad­ven­ture, al­most all hail from super­uni­verses three and five. The great ma­jor­ity of those who fail on the first ad­ven­ture to at­tain the Fa­ther, af­ter find­ing both the Spirit and the Son, hail from super­uni­verse num­ber six, though a few from num­bers two and three are like­wise un­suc­cess­ful. And all this seems clearly to in­di­cate that there is some good and suf­fi­cient rea­son for these ap­par­ent fail­ures; in re­al­ity, sim­ply un­escapable de­lays.