Discover The Urantia Book \Papers\Advanced \The Seven Supreme Spirit Groups

Paper 17 Overview: The Seven Supreme Spirit Groups

Seven Supreme Spirit groups carry out the work of the Infinite Spirit, coordinating celestial ministry. These diverse beings serve in worship, guidance, energy control, and spiritual progress across all levels of the universes.

Reading Level:

The Seven Supreme Spirit Groups
  • Summary

    This paper presents a comprehensive examination of the seven Supreme Spirit groups, which constitute the universal coordinators of the septiform administration of the grand universe. Three of these groups—the Seven Master Spirits, the Seven Supreme Executives, and the Reflective Spirits—emerge directly from the Paradise Trinity, while the remaining four groups—the Reflective Image Aids, the Seven Spirits of the Circuits, the Local Universe Creative Spirits, and the Adjutant Mind-Spirits—originate from the creative acts of the Infinite Spirit or his associates. Together, these groups form a sophisticated administrative and functional continuum that extends from the Paradise presence of the Master Spirits through the superuniverse governments to the service of the adjutants on evolutionary worlds.

    The Seven Master Spirits serve as the supreme coordinating directors of this intricate administrative realm, operating both directly and through their various associates across all universe levels. Their influence permeates the cosmic administration through a meticulously organized hierarchy of spirit beings, with each group fulfilling specifically designated functions within their respective domains. This revelatory exposition details how these spirit entities collectively establish a comprehensive liaison between the Paradise Trinity and the furthest inhabited worlds, providing insight into the administrative structure that governs the relationship between the Infinite Spirit and the septiform organization of the grand universe.

  • Introduction

    The seven Supreme Spirit groups function as the universal coordinating directors of the seven-segmented administration of the grand universe. This administrative classification differentiates between the first three groups—the Seven Master Spirits, the Seven Supreme Executives, and the Reflective Spirits—which are classified as children of the Paradise Trinity, and the remaining four groups—the Reflective Image Aids, the Seven Spirits of the Circuits, the Local Universe Creative Spirits, and the Adjutant Mind-Spirits—which emerge from the creative acts of the Infinite Spirit or his creative associates of equivalent status.

    These seven Supreme Spirit groups exert their influence across a vast functional domain extending from the personal presence of the Seven Master Spirits at the periphery of the eternal Isle, through the Paradise satellites of the Spirit, the Havona circuits, the governments of the superuniverses, and the administration of local universes, reaching even to the adjutant mind-spirits bestowed upon the realms of evolutionary mind. The Seven Master Spirits function as the coordinating directors of this far-reaching administrative realm, sometimes acting personally and directly in matters pertaining to physical power, mind energy, and spiritual ministry, and other times functioning through their multifarious associates in the execution of administrative regulations, rulings, adjustments, and decisions through the Seven Supreme Executives, the Reflective Spirits, and other designated authorities.

  • 1. The Seven Supreme Executives

    The executive headquarters of the Master Spirits occupy the seven Paradise satellites of the Infinite Spirit, which orbit the central Isle between the shining spheres of the Eternal Son and the innermost Havona circuit. These executive spheres operate under the direction of the Supreme Executives, a group of seven beings who were trinitized by the Father, Son, and Spirit in accordance with the specifications of the Seven Master Spirits. These Executives maintain contact with the various divisions of the superuniverse governments on behalf of the Master Spirits and play a significant role in determining the basic constitutive trends of the seven superuniverses, though they possess diversity of personality and choose one of their number to preside over joint councils.

    The Seven Supreme Executives function as the administrative coordinators of the grand universe, essentially serving as the board of managing directors for the post-Havona creation, though they have no involvement with Paradise's internal affairs and operate within limited spheres of Havona activity. They engage in the direction of physical, intellectual, and spiritual affairs but do not originate policies or modify universe procedures; rather, they execute the plans of divinity promulgated by the Seven Master Spirits without interfering with the rule of the Ancients of Days or the sovereignty of the Creator Sons. Each Executive and their staff are exclusively devoted to the efficient administration of a single superuniverse, functioning from Paradise satellites bearing the same names as their corresponding superuniverses, with the seventh satellite being called Orvonton, from which the staff manages the affairs of the seventh superuniverse.

    These Supreme Executives have two advisory cabinets: a primary cabinet consisting of representatives chosen by the children of the Infinite Spirit from each superuniverse's headquarters, and a secondary cabinet composed of ascending mortals of Paradise attainment and trinitized sons of glorified mortals. Every thousand Paradise years, the Executives hold a millennial conclave of universal greeting in the presence of Majeston, enabling them to communicate simultaneously with all their associates throughout the grand universe through the unique functioning of universal reflectivity.

  • 2. Majeston—Chief of Reflectivity

    The Reflective Spirits, of divine Trinity origin, number exactly fifty and came into being through a series of seven creative episodes, each involving a liaison between the Paradise Trinity and one of the Seven Master Spirits. This momentous transaction represented the initial effort of the Supreme Creator Personalities, represented by the Master Spirits, to function as cocreators with the Paradise Trinity, a union that forms the very source of the Supreme Being's actuality. When the forty-ninth Reflective Spirit was personalized, a profound reaction occurred in the Deity Absolute, imparting new personality prerogatives to the Supreme Being and culminating in the personalization of Majeston.

    Majeston, a true person and the personal and infallible center of reflectivity phenomena throughout the seven superuniverses, maintains permanent Paradise headquarters near the center of all things at the rendezvous of the Seven Master Spirits. He is exclusively concerned with the coordination and maintenance of the reflectivity service in the far-flung creation and remains uninvolved in other aspects of universe administration. His creation signalized the first supreme creative act of the Supreme Being and triggered a tremendous factualization and alignment of power and functional spirit activities that far exceeded the purposeful intent and conceptual forecasts of the Supreme Being and his associates. This remarkable response from the Deity Absolute to the creative wills of the Supreme Being suggests limitless potential for future developments in the realms of deitization as experiential Deity and the Paradise Trinity achieve new levels of unification.

    The existence of Majeston represents a significant mystery, as he is the only being of divinity created by the Supreme Being in functional liaison with the Deity Absolute. This sets him apart in the catalogue of Paradise personalities, as he functions exclusively in relation to the reflectivity phenomenon and has no apparent personal connection to other universe personalities. His creation marked a milestone in the evolution of the Supreme Being's creative capabilities and foreshadows the possibilities that may emerge as the Supreme and Ultimate attain new levels of divinity in future universe ages.

  • 3. The Reflective Spirits

    The forty-nine Reflective Spirits emerge from Trinity origin, but each of the seven creative episodes that produced them yielded beings whose natures resembled the characteristics of the coancestral Master Spirit involved in their creation. This diversity results in seven distinct types of Reflective Spirits, making it necessary to have one of each type stationed at the headquarters of each superuniverse to achieve perfect reflection of all possible manifestations of the three Paradise Deities throughout the seven superuniverses. These seven dissimilar Reflective Spirits maintain headquarters on the capitals of the superuniverses at each realm's reflective focus, which differs from its point of spiritual polarity.

    The attribute of reflectivity, a phenomenon occurring at the mind levels of the Conjoint Actor, the Supreme Being, and the Master Spirits, is transmissible to beings involved in the functioning of this vast scheme of universal intelligence. A profound mystery exists in that neither the Master Spirits nor the Paradise Deities individually or collectively disclose these powers of universal reflectivity as manifested in the forty-nine liaison personalities of Majeston. The Reflective Spirits function both as transmitting agents and as retentive personalities, with their offspring, the seconaphim, also serving as record-keeping personalities. While formal records pass through angelic recorders, the true spiritual records are assembled by reflectivity and preserved in the minds of appropriate personalities from the Infinite Spirit's family.

    The reflectivity organization operates as both a news-gathering and decree-disseminating mechanism throughout creation, functioning continuously rather than periodically like various broadcast services. Everything significant transpiring on a local universe headquarters is inherently reflected to that superuniverse's capital, and conversely, matters of local universe significance are reflected outward from superuniverse headquarters. This reflectivity service appears automatic or self-operating between the universes of time and the superuniverses, but it is actually highly personal and intelligent, resulting from perfect personality cooperation rather than impersonal presence-performances of the Absolutes. During the present universe age, the range of the extra-Paradise reflectivity service seems limited by the periphery of the seven superuniverses, though it appears independent of time, space, and known subabsolute universe circuits.

  • 4. The Reflective Image Aids

    The forty-nine Reflective Image Aids were created by the Reflective Spirits, with each Spirit creating their own Aid, resulting in seven Aids assigned to each superuniverse headquarters. These Image Aids serve as perfect reproductions of their Reflective Mother Spirits in most attributes and characteristics—virtual duplications that lack only the attribute of reflectivity. They function as true images and constant channels of communication between the Reflective Spirits and the superuniverse authorities, serving not merely as assistants but as actual representations of their spiritual ancestors.

    The Reflective Spirits themselves, being true personalities of an order incomprehensible to material beings, require the assistance of their Image Aids for all personal interactions with the Ancients of Days and their associates, even on superuniverse headquarters spheres. In contacts between Image Aids and the Ancients of Days, sometimes one Aid functions acceptably, while in other situations, multiple Aids are required for the full and proper presentation of entrusted communications. Similarly, the Ancients of Days may receive messages through one, two, or all three of their number, depending on the communication's content. These Image Aids serve eternally alongside their ancestral Spirits and command an unbelievable host of helper seconaphim in their work.

    The Image Aids have no direct connection with the training worlds of ascending mortals, as they primarily associate with the intelligence service of the universal scheme of mortal progression. Ascending mortals do not personally interact with them during their sojourn in the Uversa schools because, while these beings appear personal, they lack will; they do not exercise the power of choice and are wholly reflective of the personality and mind of their respective Spirit ancestor. Mortal ascenders generally have limited direct contact with the reflectivity service, as some being of reflective nature typically mediates between them and the actual operation of the service.

  • 5. The Seven Spirits of the Circuits

    The Seven Spirits of the Havona Circuits constitute the joint impersonal representation of the Infinite Spirit and the Seven Master Spirits to the seven circuits of the central universe. Created as the collective offspring of the Master Spirits, they provide a unified, uniform, and coordinated spiritual supervision for the central universe. Each Spirit is limited to permeating a single Havona circuit and has no direct involvement with the regimes of the Eternals of Days who rule the individual Havona worlds. Instead, they maintain liaison with the Seven Supreme Executives and synchronize with the central universe presence of the Supreme Being.

    These Circuit Spirits interact with Havona visitors through their personal offspring, the tertiary supernaphim. Though the Spirits have existed since the Supreme Being's coexistent appearance with the Seven Master Spirits, their function in creating tertiary supernaphim only gained significant importance after the first time pilgrims arrived on Havona's outer circuit during the days of Grandfanda. As pilgrims advance through Havona's circuits, they become aware of the Spirits' presence and can recognize their spiritual influence, but direct personal communion remains impossible. The Circuit Spirits relate to Havona's native inhabitants in a manner similar to how Thought Adjusters relate to mortal creatures: as impersonal spiritual presences that consort with perfect minds but never become permanent parts of Havona personalities.

    The relationship between the Circuit Spirits and Havona natives creates a fascinating parallel with the Thought Adjuster relationship to human beings on evolutionary worlds. Though functionally similar in their approach to providing spiritual guidance and enhancement to their respective subjects, they maintain their distinct identities and never become permanently integrated with the beings they serve. This arrangement demonstrates how spirit influence can operate effectively at different universe levels while preserving the essential identity and autonomy of both the influencing spirit and the being receiving that influence.

  • 6. The Local Universe Creative Spirits

    The creative spirits who function in association with Creator Sons in the organization and management of local universes exhibit remarkable properties whose origin and development warrant further examination. Based on current understanding, these spirits progress through at least six discernible phases of career development, with speculation about a potential seventh phase. Their journey begins with an initial Paradise differentiation when a Creator Son is personalized, triggering a "supreme reaction of complement" within the Infinite Spirit that designates a prepersonal identification of the future local universe consort for that Paradise Son.

    During the preliminary creatorship training of a Michael Son, his future consort undergoes further development of entity and becomes group-conscious of destiny. When the creatorship charge is administered to the Creator Son, the supervising Master Spirit delivers a "prayer of identification" that differentiates the Creative Spirit entity from the Infinite Spirit's person. At the Creator Son's departure for space, the Master Spirit commits this Spirit consort to the Creator Son's keeping with a charge of eternal fidelity. In a profoundly touching episode, the Universal Father acknowledges their eternal union and confirms the bestowal of joint administrative powers by the supervising Master Spirit.

    The Creative Spirit advances further during the life-creation era when the Creator Son declares his intention to create life, triggering "personalization ceremonies" on Paradise that result in a "primary eruption" in the Infinite Spirit's person. This transforms the previously impersonal Spirit consort into a bona fide person capable of maintaining personal relationships with all personality hosts in their creation. Upon the Creator Son's return after completing his seventh bestowal and acquiring full sovereignty, he elevates the Universe Mother Spirit to co-sovereignty status. During the ages of light and life, the Creative Spirit enters a sixth phase, though the exact nature of this experience remains largely unrevealed. A seventh and unrevealed career may await these beings, potentially coinciding with new assignments for finaliters and other high spirit beings in future universe ages.

  • 7. The Adjutant Mind-Spirits

    The adjutant mind-spirits represent the sevenfold mind bestowal that a local universe Mother Spirit confers upon the living creatures resulting from the conjoint creation of a Creator Son and Creative Spirit. This bestowal becomes possible once the Spirit achieves personality prerogatives, a status attained during the life-creation era of local universe development. The adjutants provide the foundational mind endowment that enables material beings on evolutionary worlds to perceive and interact with both physical and spiritual realities in their environments.

    Although the paper does not elaborate extensively on the nature and function of these adjutant mind-spirits, it indicates that a more appropriate and detailed explanation appears in the narratives concerning Nebadon, our local universe. These adjutants constitute a critical bridge between purely material existence and spiritual potential in evolutionary creatures, providing the mental capacity necessary for moral choice, personality expression, and eventually, spiritual receptivity. They represent the local universe Mother Spirit's direct contribution to the mind endowment of the material creation and form an essential component in the grand design of universal ascension.

    The adjutant mind-spirits' operation illustrates how the influence of the Supreme Spirit groups extends to the most fundamental levels of creature existence, providing even the most primitive evolutionary beings with mind capacities that can eventually lead to cosmic citizenship. This mind endowment from the local universe Mother Spirit forms part of the unbroken chain of spiritual ministry that extends from the Paradise Trinity to the material worlds of time and space.

  • 8. Functions of the Supreme Spirits

    The seven Supreme Spirit groups collectively form the nucleus of the functional family of the Third Source and Center, operating in dual capacity as both the Infinite Spirit and the Conjoint Actor. Their domain extends from the Trinity's presence on Paradise to the functioning of evolutionary-mortal mind on the space worlds, thereby unifying the descending administrative levels and coordinating the functions of the various universe personalities. Whether functioning as Reflective Spirits in liaison with the Ancients of Days, Creative Spirits working with Michael Sons, or the Master Spirits encircuited around the Paradise Trinity, their activities permeate all levels of universe existence from the central and super-universes to the local realms.

    In collaboration with the Infinite Mother Spirit, these Supreme Spirit groups create the vast family of ministering spirits that serve throughout the universes. Primary supernaphim originate directly from the Infinite Spirit, secondary beings of this order are created by the Master Spirits, and tertiary supernaphim come from the Seven Spirits of the Circuits. The Reflective Spirits collectively produce the mighty seconaphim that serve in the superuniverses, while each Creative Spirit becomes the mother of the angelic hosts of her local universe, though these seraphic ministers follow the patterns established in the central universe.

    The Seven Master Spirits function as the coordinators of the inhabited creation in multiple capacities: collectively they nearly equivalate to the Trinity's divinity level; individually they exhaust the primary associable possibilities of triune Deity; they serve as repositories of the spirit-mind-power sovereignty that the Supreme Being does not yet personally exercise; they synchronize superuniverse governments with the universal reflectivity center through the Reflective Spirits; and they contribute to the Creator Son-Creative Spirit union that constitutes the final level of God the Sevenfold in the local universes. The functional unity inherent in the Conjoint Actor manifests through these Seven Master Spirits, and in the perfected superuniverses of the future, this unity will likely become inseparable from the experiential sovereignty of the Supreme Being.