PAPER 24
- HIGHER PERSONALITIES OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT
On UVERSA we
divide all personalities and entities of the
Conjoint Creator into three grand divisions: the
Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit, the
Messenger Hosts of Space, and the Ministering
Spirits of Time, those spirit beings who are
concerned with teaching and ministering to the will
creatures of the ascendant scheme of mortal
progression.
Those Higher
Personalities of the Infinite Spirit that find
mention in these narratives function throughout the
grand universe in seven divisions:
1. Solitary
Messengers.
2. Universe
Circuit Supervisors.
3. Census
Directors.
4. Personal
Aids of the Infinite Spirit.
5. Associate
Inspectors.
6. Assigned
Sentinels.
7. Graduate
Guides.
Solitary
Messengers, Circuit Supervisors, Census Directors,
and the Personal Aids are characterized by the
possession of tremendous endowments of antigravity.
The Solitary Messengers are without known general
headquarters; they roam the universe of universes.
The Universe Circuit Supervisors and the Census
Directors maintain headquarters on the capitals of
the superuniverses. The Personal Aids of the
Infinite Spirit are stationed on the central Isle of
Light. The Associate Inspectors and the Assigned
Sentinels are respectively stationed on the capitals
of the local universes and on the capitals of their
component systems. The Graduate Guides are resident
in the Havona universe and function on all its
billion worlds. Most of these higher personalities
have stations in the local universes, but they are
not organically attached to the administrations of
the evolutionary realms.
Of the seven
classes composing this group, only the Solitary
Messengers and perhaps the Personal Aids range the
universe of universes. Solitary Messengers are
encountered from Paradise outward: through the
Havona circuits to the superuniverse capitals and
thence out through the sectors and local universes,
with their subdivisions, and even to the inhabited
worlds. Although Solitary Messengers belong to the
Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit, their
origin, nature, and service have been discussed in
the preceding paper.
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1. THE
UNIVERSE CIRCUIT SUPERVISORS
The vast power
currents of space and the circuits of spirit energy
may seem to operate automatically; they may appear
to function without let or hindrance, but such is
not the case. All these stupendous systems of energy
are under control; they are subject to intelligent
supervision. Universe Circuit Supervisors are
concerned, not with the realms of purely physical or
material energy--the domain of the Universe Power
Directors--but with the circuits of relative
spiritual energy and with those modified circuits
which are essential to the maintenance of both the
highly developed spiritual beings and the morontia
or transition type of intelligent creatures. The
supervisors do not give origin to circuits of energy
and superessence of divinity, but in general they
have to do with all higher spirit circuits of time
and eternity and with all relative spirit circuits
concerned in the administration of the component
parts of the grand universe. They direct and
manipulate all such spirit-energy circuits outside
the Isle of Paradise.
Universe Circuit
Supervisors are the exclusive creation of the
Infinite Spirit, and they function solely as the
agents of the Conjoint Actor. They are personalized
for service in the following four orders:
1. Supreme Circuit
Supervisors.
2. Associate
Circuit Supervisors.
3. Secondary
Circuit Supervisors.
4. Tertiary
Circuit Supervisors.
The supreme
supervisors of Havona and the associate supervisors
of the seven superuniverses are of completed
numbers; no more of these orders are being created.
The supreme supervisors are seven in number and are
stationed on the pilot worlds of the seven Havona
circuits. The circuits of the seven superuniverses
are in the charge of a marvelous group of seven
associate supervisors, who maintain headquarters on
the seven Paradise spheres of the Infinite Spirit,
the worlds of the Seven Supreme Executives. From
here they supervise and direct the circuits of the
superuniverses of space.
On these Paradise
spheres of the Spirit the seven associate circuit
supervisors and the first order of the Supreme Power
Centers effect a liaison which, under the direction
of the Supreme Executives, results in the
sub-Paradise co-ordination of all material and
spiritual circuits passing out to the seven
superuniverses.
On 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.
A tertiary circuit
supervisor functions on the headquarters world of
every local universe. This order, like the secondary
supervisors, is of continuous creation, being
created in groups of seven hundred. They are
assigned to the local universes by the Ancients of
Days.
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Circuit
supervisors are created for their specific tasks,
and they eternally serve in the groups of their
original assignment. They are not rotated in service
and hence make an agelong study of the problems
found in the realms of their original assignment.
For example: Tertiary circuit supervisor No. 572,842
has functioned on Salvington since the early concept
of your local universe, and he is a member of the
personal staff of Michael of Nebadon.
Whether acting in
the local or higher universes, circuit supervisors
direct all concerned as to the proper circuits to
employ for the transmission of all spirit messages
and for the transit of all personalities. In their
work of circuit supervision these efficient beings
utilize all agencies, forces, and personalities in
the universe of universes. They employ the
unrevealed "high spirit personalities of circuit
control" and are ably assisted by numerous staffs
composed of personalities of the Infinite Spirit. It
is they who would isolate an evolutionary world if
its Planetary Prince should rebel against the
Universal Father and his vicegerent Son. They are
able to throw any world out of certain universe
circuits of the higher spiritual order, but they
cannot annul the material currents of the power
directors.
The Universe
Circuit Supervisors have something of the same
relationship to spirit circuits that the Universe
Power Directors have to material circuits. The two
orders are complemental, together having the
oversight of all spirit and all material circuits
that are controllable and manipulatable by
creatures.
The circuit
supervisors exercise certain oversight of those mind
circuits which are spirit associated much as the
power directors have certain jurisdiction over those
phases of mind which are physical-energy
associated--mechanical mind. In general the
functions of each order are expanded by liaison with
the other, but the circuits of pure mind are subject
to the supervision of neither. Neither are the two
orders co-ordinate; in all their manifold labors the
Universe Circuit Supervisors are subject to the
Seven Supreme Power Directors and their
subordinates.
While the circuit
supervisors are entirely alike within their
respective orders, they are all distinct
individuals. They are truly personal beings, but
they possess a type of other-than-Father-endowed
personality not encountered in any other type of
creature in all universal existence.
Although you will
recognize and know them as you journey inward
towards Paradise, you will have no personal
relations with them. They are circuit supervisors,
and they attend strictly and efficiently to their
business. They deal solely with those personalities
and entities having the oversight of those
activities which are concerned with the circuits
subject to their supervision.
2. THE
CENSUS DIRECTORS
Notwithstanding
that the cosmic mind of the Universal Intelligence
is cognizant of the presence and whereabouts of all
thinking creatures, there is operative in the
universe of universes an independent method of
keeping count of all will creatures.
The Census
Directors are a special and completed creation of
the Infinite Spirit, and they exist in numbers
unknown to us. They are so created as to be able to
maintain perfect synchrony with the reflectivity
technique of the superuniverses,
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while at the same
time they are personally sensitive and responsive to
intelligent will. These directors, by a
not-fully-understood technique, are made immediately
aware of the birth of will in any part of the grand
universe. They are, therefore, always competent to
give us the number, nature, and whereabouts of all
will creatures in any part of the central creation
and the seven superuniverses. But they do not
function on Paradise; there is no need for them
there. On Paradise knowledge is inherent; the
Deities know all things.
Seven Census
Directors operate in Havona, one being stationed on
the pilot world of each Havona circuit. Excepting
these seven and the reserves of the order on the
Paradise worlds of the Spirit, all Census Directors
function under the jurisdiction of the Ancients of
Days.
One 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.
In 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.
From 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.
The Census
Directors are concerned with human beings--as with
other will creatures--only to the extent of
recording the fact of will function. They are not
concerned with the records of your life and its
doings; they are not in any sense recording
personalities. The Census Director of Nebadon,
number 81,412 of Orvonton, now stationed on
Salvington, is at this very moment personally
conscious and aware of your living presence here on
Urantia; and he will afford the records confirmation
of your death the moment you cease to function as a
will creature.
Census Directors
register the existence of a new will creature when
the first act of will is performed; they indicate
the death of a will creature when the last act of
will takes place. The partial emergence of will
observed in the reactions of certain of the higher
animals does not belong to the domain of the Census
Directors. They keep count of nothing but bona fide
will creatures, and they are responsive to nothing
but will function. Exactly how they register
the function of will, we do not know.
These beings
always have been, and always will be, Census
Directors. They would be comparatively useless in
any other division of universe labor. But they are
infallible in function; they never default, neither
do they falsify. And notwithstanding their marvelous
powers and unbelievable prerogatives, they are
persons; they have recognizable spirit presence and
form.
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3.
PERSONAL AIDS OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT
We have no
authentic knowledge as to the time or manner of the
creation of the Personal Aids. Their number must be
legion, but it is not of record on Uversa. From
conservative deductions based on our knowledge of
their work, I venture to estimate that their number
extends high into the trillions. We hold the opinion
that the Infinite Spirit is not limited as to
numbers in the creation of these Personal Aids.
The Personal Aids
of the Infinite Spirit exist for the exclusive
assistance of the Paradise presence of the Third
Person of Deity. Although attached directly to the
Infinite Spirit and located on Paradise, they flash
to and fro to the uttermost parts of creation.
Wherever the circuits of the Conjoint Creator
extend, there these Personal Aids may appear for the
purpose of executing the bidding of the Infinite
Spirit. They traverse space much as do the Solitary
Messengers but are not persons in the sense that the
messengers are.
The Personal Aids
are all equal and identical; they disclose no
differentiation of individuality. Though the
Conjoint Actor looks upon them as true
personalities, it is difficult for others to regard
them as real persons; they do not manifest a spirit
presence to other spirit beings. Paradise-origin
beings are always aware of the proximity of these
Aids; but we do not recognize a personality
presence. The lack of such a presence-form
undoubtedly renders them all the more serviceable to
the Third Person of Deity.
Of all the
revealed orders of spirit beings taking origin in
the Infinite Spirit, the Personal Aids are about the
only ones you will not encounter on your inward
ascent to Paradise.
4. THE
ASSOCIATE INSPECTORS
The Seven Supreme
Executives, on the seven Paradise spheres of the
Infinite Spirit, collectively function as the
administrative board of supermanagers for the seven
superuniverses. The Associate Inspectors are the
personal embodiment of the authority of the Supreme
Executives to the local universes of time and space.
These high observers of the affairs of the local
creations are the joint offspring of the Infinite
Spirit and the Seven Master Spirits of Paradise. In
the near times of eternity seven hundred thousand
were personalized, and their reserve corps abides on
Paradise.
Associate
Inspectors work under the direct supervision of the
Seven Supreme Executives, being their personal and
powerful representatives to the local universes of
time and space. An inspector is stationed on the
headquarters sphere of each local creation and is a
close associate of the resident Union of Days.
The Associate
Inspectors receive reports and recommendations only
from their subordinates, the Assigned Sentinels,
stationed on the capitals of the local systems of
inhabited worlds, while they make reports only to
their immediate superior, the Supreme Executive of
the superuniverse concerned.
5. THE
ASSIGNED SENTINELS
The Assigned
Sentinels are co-ordinating personalities and
liaison representatives of the Seven Supreme
Executives. They were personalized on Paradise by
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the Infinite
Spirit and were created for the specific purposes of
their assignment. They are of stationary numbers,
and there are exactly seven billion in existence.
Much as an
Associate Inspector represents the Seven Supreme
Executives to a whole local universe, so in each of
the ten thousand systems of that local creation
there is an Assigned Sentinel, who acts as the
direct representative of the far-distant and supreme
board of supercontrol for the affairs of all seven
superuniverses. The sentinels on duty in the local
system governments of Orvonton are acting under the
direct authority of Supreme Executive Number Seven,
the co-ordinator of the seventh superuniverse. But
in their administrative organization all sentinels
commissioned in a local universe are subordinate to
the Associate Inspector stationed at universe
headquarters.
Within a local
creation the Assigned Sentinels serve in rotation,
being transferred from system to system. They are
usually changed every millennium of local universe
time. They are among the highest ranking
personalities stationed on a system capital, but
they never participate in deliberations concerned
with system affairs. In the local systems they serve
as the ex officio heads of the four and twenty
administrators hailing from the evolutionary worlds,
but otherwise, ascending mortals have little contact
with them. The sentinels are almost exclusively
concerned in keeping the Associate Inspector of
their universe fully informed on all matters
relating to the welfare and state of the systems of
their assignment.
Assigned Sentinels
and Associate Inspectors do not report to the
Supreme Executives through a superuniverse
headquarters. They are responsible solely to the
Supreme Executive of the superuniverse concerned;
their activities are distinct from the
administration of the Ancients of Days.
The Supreme
Executives, Associate Inspectors, and Assigned
Sentinels, together with the omniaphim and a host of
unrevealed personalities, constitute an efficient,
direct, centralized, but far-flung system of
advisory and administrative co-ordination of all the
grand universe of things and beings.
6. THE
GRADUATE GUIDES
The Graduate
Guides, as a group, sponsor and conduct the high
university of technical instruction and spiritual
training which is so essential to mortal attainment
of the goal of the ages: God, rest, and then
eternity of perfected service. These highly personal
beings take their name from the nature and purpose
of their work. They are exclusively devoted to the
tasks of guiding the mortal graduates from the
superuniverses of time through the Havona course of
instruction and training which serves to prepare the
ascending pilgrims for admission to Paradise and the
Corps of the Finality.
I am not forbidden
to undertake to tell you of the work of these
Graduate Guides, but it is so ultraspiritual that I
despair of being able to adequately portray to the
material mind a concept of their manifold
activities. On the mansion worlds, after your vision
range is extended and you are freed from the fetters
of material comparisons, you can begin to comprehend
the meaning of those realities which "eye cannot see
nor ear hear, and which have never entered the
concept of human minds," even those things which
"God has prepared for those who love such eternal
verities." You are not always to be so limited in
the range of your vision and spiritual
comprehension.
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The Graduate
Guides are engaged in piloting the pilgrims of time
through the seven circuits of Havona worlds. The
guide who greets you upon your arrival on the
receiving world of the outer Havona circuit will
remain with you throughout your entire career on the
heavenly circuits. Though you will associate with
countless other personalities during your sojourn on
a billion worlds, your Graduate Guide will follow
you to the end of your Havona progression and will
witness your entrance into the terminal slumber of
time, the sleep of eternity transit to the Paradise
goal, where, upon awakening, you will be greeted by
the Paradise Companion assigned to welcome you and
perhaps to remain with you until you are initiated
as a member of the Mortal Corps of the Finality.
The number of
Graduate Guides is beyond the power of human minds
to grasp, and they continue to appear. Their origin
is something of a mystery. They have not existed
from eternity; they mysteriously appear as they are
needed. There is no record of a Graduate Guide in
all the realms of the central universe until that
far-distant day when the first mortal pilgrim of all
time made his way to the outer belt of the central
creation. The instant he arrived on the pilot world
of the outer circuit, he was met with friendly
greetings by Malvorian, the first of the Graduate
Guides and now the chief of their supreme council
and the director of their vast educational
organization.
On the Paradise
records of Havona, in the section denominated
"Graduate Guides," there appears this initial entry:
"And Malvorian,
the first of this order, did greet and instruct the
pilgrim discoverer of Havona and did conduct him
from the outer circuits of initial experience, step
by step and circuit by circuit, until he stood in
the very presence of the Source and Destiny of all
personality, subsequently crossing the threshold of
eternity to Paradise."
At that
far-distant time I was attached to the service of
the Ancients of Days on Uversa, and we all rejoiced
in the assurance that, eventually, pilgrims from our
superuniverse would reach Havona. For ages we had
been taught that the evolutionary creatures of space
would attain Paradise, and the thrill of all time
swept through the heavenly courts when the first
pilgrim actually arrived.
The name of this
pilgrim discoverer of Havona is Grandfanda,
and he hailed from planet 341 of system 84 in
constellation 62 of local universe 1,131 situated in
superuniverse number one. His arrival was the signal
for the establishment of the broadcast service of
the universe of universes. Theretofore only the
broadcasts of the superuniverses and the local
universes had been in operation, but the
announcement of the arrival of Grandfanda at the
portals of Havona signalized the inauguration of the
"space reports of glory," so named because the
initial universe broadcast reported the Havona
arrival of the first of the evolutionary beings to
attain entrance upon the goal of ascendant
existence.
Graduate Guides
never leave the Havona worlds; they are dedicated to
the service of the graduate pilgrims of time and
space. And you will sometime meet these noble beings
face to face if you do not reject the certain and
all-perfected plan designed to effect your survival
and ascension.
7. ORIGIN
OF THE GRADUATE GUIDES
Though evolution
is not the order of the central universe, we believe
that the Graduate Guides are the perfected or more
experienced members of another
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order of central
universe creatures, the Havona Servitals. Graduate
Guides show such a breadth of sympathy and such a
capacity for understanding the ascendant creatures
that we are convinced they have gained this culture
by actual service in the superuniverse realms as the
Havona Servitals of universal ministry. If this view
is not correct, how then can we account for the
continuous disappearance of the senior or more
experienced servitals?
A servital will be
long absent from Havona on superuniverse assignment,
having been on many such missions previously, will
return home, be granted the privilege of "personal
contact" with the Paradise Central Shining, will be
embraced by the Luminous Persons, and disappear from
the recognition of his spirit fellows, never more to
reappear among those of his kind.
On returning from
superuniverse service, a Havona Servital may enjoy
numerous divine embraces and emerge therefrom merely
an exalted servital. Experiencing the luminous
embrace does not necessarily signify that the
servital must translate into a Graduate Guide, but
almost one quarter of those who achieve the divine
embrace never return to the service of the realms.
There appears on
the high records a succession of such entries as
this:
"And servital
number 842,842,682,846,782 of Havona, named Sudna,
came over from the superuniverse service, was
received on Paradise, knew the Father, entered the
divine embrace, and is not."
When such an entry
appears on the records, the career of such a
servital is closed. But in just three moments (a
little less than three days of your time) a newborn
Graduate Guide "spontaneously" appears on the outer
circuit of the Havona universe. And the number of
Graduate Guides, allowing for a slight difference,
due no doubt to those in transition, exactly equals
the number of vanished servitals.
There is an
additional reason for supposing the Graduate Guides
to be evolved Havona Servitals, and that is the
unfailing tendency of these guides and their
associated servitals to form such extraordinary
attachments. The manner in which these supposedly
separate orders of beings understand and sympathize
with one another is wholly inexplicable. It is
refreshing and inspiring to witness their mutual
devotion.
The 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.
The Havona now
traversed by ascending mortals differs in many
respects from the central universe as it was before
the times of Grandfanda. The arrival of mortal
ascenders on the Havona circuits inaugurated
sweeping modifications
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in the
organization of the central and divine creation,
modifications undoubtedly initiated by the Supreme
Being--the God of evolutionary creatures--in
response to the arrival of the first of his
experiential children from the seven superuniverses.
The appearance of the Graduate Guides, together with
the creation of the tertiary supernaphim, is
indicative of these performances of God the Supreme.
[Presented by a
Divine Counselor of Uversa.] |