PAPER 24
HIGHER PERSONALITIES OF THE INFINITE
SPIRIT
24:0.1 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.
24:0.2 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.
24:0.3 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.
24:0.4 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.
1. THE UNIVERSE CIRCUIT SUPERVISORS
24:1.1 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.
24:1.2 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.
24:1.3 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.
24:1.4 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.
24:1.5 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.
24:1.6 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.
24:1.7 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.
24:1.8 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.
24:1.9 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.
24:1.10 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.
24:1.11 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.
24:1.12 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
24:2.1 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.
24:2.2 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, 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.
24:2.3 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.
24:2.4 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.
24:2.5 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.
24:2.6 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.
24:2.7 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.
24:2.8 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.
24:2.9 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.
3. PERSONAL AIDS OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT
24:3.1 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.
24:3.2 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.
24:3.3 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.
24:3.4 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
24:4.1 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.
24:4.2 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.
24:4.3 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
24:5.1 The Assigned Sentinels are co-ordinating
personalities and liaison representatives of the Seven Supreme Executives.
They were personalized on Paradise by 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.
24:5.2 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.
24:5.3 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.
24:5.4 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.
24:5.5 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
24:6.1 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.
24:6.2 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.
24:6.3 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.
24:6.4 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.
24:6.5 On the Paradise records of Havona, in the
section denominated "Graduate Guides," there appears this initial
entry:
24:6.6 "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."
24:6.7 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.
24:6.8 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.
24:6.9 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
24:7.1 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 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?
24:7.2 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.
24:7.3 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.
24:7.4 There appears on the high records a
succession of such entries as this:
24:7.5 "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."
24:7.6 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.
24:7.7 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.
24:7.8 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.
24:7.9 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 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.
24:7.10 Presented
by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.
