Paper 23 Overview: The Solitary Messengers

Solitary Messengers are the personal and universal corps of the Conjoint Creator (Infinite Spirit), serving as vital communication links throughout the universe of universes. They are unique in their ability to travel at tremendous speeds while maintaining their status as personal beings, making them invaluable in the administration of the cosmos. Their creation occurred in a single creative episode, and they function with remarkable independence yet absolute reliability.

The Messengers fulfill numerous responsibilities across seven divisions of service, from representing the Paradise Trinity to revealing truth throughout the realms. They possess specialized abilities that allow them to maintain communication across vast distances, overcome limitations of time and space, and coordinate between diverse spirit personalities. While they prefer to work alone, they actually enjoy this solitude and remain in perfect communication with the intelligence of all creation.

Solitary Messengers constitute the personal and universal corps of the Infinite Spirit, ranking as the first and senior order of the Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit. They represent the initial creative action of the Infinite Spirit functioning alone, as neither the Father nor the Son directly participated in their creation. These unique spirit messengers were all personalized in a single creative episode.

The Divine Counselor narrating this paper notes that their number is stationary and that he has one of these extraordinary beings associated with him on his current mission. While he doesn't know the total number of Solitary Messengers in the universe of universes, records from Uversa indicate approximately 7,690 trillion Messengers operating within the boundaries of Orvonton. He speculates this is likely less than one-seventh of their total number across all creation.

The Infinite Spirit brought the vast corps of Solitary Messengers into being immediately following the creation of the Seven Spirits of the Havona Circuits. These messengers have functioned throughout the grand universe from near eternity and serve as a fundamental component of the Infinite Spirit's technique for self-revelation and personal contact with far-flung creations of time and space. Though they exist from near-eternal times, all Messengers are conscious of their beginning of selfhood.

These solitary spirits came forth as full-fledged and perfectly endowed spirit beings, all equal in status with no subdivisions based on personal variation. Their classifications relate only to their assigned work. Unlike mortals who ascend inward from material worlds toward the Great Centers, these solitary spirits begin at the center of all things and crave assignment to remote creations, even seeking to serve on the outermost worlds of the local universes and beyond. Though called "Solitary" Messengers, they genuinely enjoy working alone and maintain constant communication with the entire intellectual wealth of creation through their ability to "listen in" on all broadcasts in their realm.

Solitary Messengers are not permanently attached to any individual or group of celestial personalities. They serve under the immediate supervision of those directing the realms of their assignment, with no independent organization or government structure among themselves. The Infinite Spirit assigns them to seven divisions of service: Messengers of the Paradise Trinity, Messengers of the Havona Circuits, Messengers of the Superuniverses, Messengers of the Local Universes, Explorers of Undirected Assignment, Ambassadors and Emissaries of Special Assignment, and Revelators of Truth.

These spirit messengers are entirely interchangeable from one type of service to another, with transfers constantly occurring between assignments. There are no separate orders of Solitary Messengers; they are spiritually alike and equal in every respect. Although generally designated by number, the Infinite Spirit knows them by personal names, while others identify them by their assignment designation. As messengers of the Paradise Trinity, they are trusted with confidential matters and never divulge secrets entrusted to them. They serve throughout the superuniverses, functioning variously as emergency communicators, intelligence gatherers, and special ambassadors who can traverse vast cosmic distances at speeds approaching 550,000 miles per second.

The Solitary Messengers are the highest type of perfect and confidential personality available for the quick transmission of important and urgent messages throughout all realms. They serve in an endless variety of assignments, helping both spiritual and material beings, particularly where time is a critical factor. Of all orders assigned to the superuniverse domains, they are the highest and most versatile personalized beings who can come so near to defying time and space.

The universe has various gravity traversers who can move instantaneously, but these are not persons. Other personal beings like seraphim travel at about 558,840 miles per second, while nonenseraphimed beings reach approximately 186,280 miles per second. Solitary Messengers fill a unique niche between these extremes, having variable speeds that can be tremendously fast – one record shows a messenger traveled at 841,621,642,000 miles per second. Despite having no physical form, they possess real and definite personalities, maintaining connections through remote space regions not embraced within established circuits of the grand universe. Their ability to function nearly independent of time and space makes them indispensable to universe administration.

Solitary Messengers function as personality coordinators for all types of spirit beings throughout the spiritual world. Their ministry helps make all personalities of the far-flung spiritual realm feel connected to one another. They contribute significantly to developing group consciousness among all spirit beings, fostering understanding and fraternity across different types and orders of personalities, regardless of how dissimilar they may be.

These messengers demonstrate remarkable ability to coordinate all types of finite personality, even making contact with the absonite regime of the master universe overcontrollers. Some theorize that their creation by the Infinite Spirit relates to the Conjoint Actor's bestowal of Supreme-Ultimate Mind. A particularly intriguing function involves their role as guardian-companions to "children of time and eternity" – special beings created when a finaliter and Paradise Citizen collaborate in trinitization. When assigned to such a being, a Solitary Messenger is forever transferred to the supervision of the Architects of the Master Universe, forming a unique partnership that continues to gather on Vicegerington, though none have ever gone forth from there.