Paper 24 Overview: Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit

The Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit function throughout the grand universe in seven distinct categories: Solitary Messengers, Universe Circuit Supervisors, Census Directors, Personal Aids of the Infinite Spirit, Associate Inspectors, Assigned Sentinels, and Graduate Guides. Each group has specific responsibilities that contribute to the spiritual administration of the universes, with varying jurisdictions ranging from Paradise to the inhabited worlds.

These personalities possess specialized abilities suited to their functions, such as the antigravity powers of Solitary Messengers, Circuit Supervisors, Census Directors, and Personal Aids. While most are stationed in particular locations within the universe administration, Solitary Messengers and Personal Aids have broader mobility, traveling throughout the universe of universes as needed for their duties.

On Uversa, the Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit are classified into three major divisions: the Higher Personalities, the Messenger Hosts of Space, and the Ministering Spirits of Time. The seven types of Higher Personalities function throughout the grand universe, each with specific jurisdictions and responsibilities.

Most of these higher personalities operate from established headquarters, but they are not necessarily attached to the administrative structures of the realms where they serve. Of all these groups, only the Solitary Messengers and possibly the Personal Aids range throughout the entire universe of universes, while the others generally have more defined areas of service.

Universe Circuit Supervisors control the spiritual energy circuits and their modified forms that are essential for maintaining both highly developed spiritual beings and transitional intelligent creatures. They do not control physical energy but instead manage all higher spirit circuits outside Paradise, directing the proper channels for spirit energy and supervising spirit-energy circuits.

Created exclusively by the Infinite Spirit, these supervisors function in four orders: Supreme, Associate, Secondary, and Tertiary Circuit Supervisors. They are permanently assigned to their original group, making them specialists with extensive experience in their field. They have the authority to isolate worlds from certain spiritual circuits if necessary, such as when a Planetary Prince rebels against the Universal Father.

The Census Directors maintain an independent method of keeping count of all will creatures in the universe of universes. They are specially created by the Infinite Spirit with the unique ability to immediately detect the birth of will in any part of the grand universe through a technique that allows them to be instantly aware of the numbers and locations of all will creatures.

These directors have specific jurisdictions, with seven operating in Havona, one presiding at each superuniverse headquarters, and thousands stationed at the capitals of local universes. They are concerned with human beings only to record their will function, not to track their lives or deeds. They register a new will creature when their first act of will is performed and record their death when the last act of will takes place.

The Personal Aids of the Infinite Spirit likely exist in numbers reaching into the trillions, although their exact count is not recorded on Uversa. They were created specifically to assist the Paradise presence of the Third Person of Deity and function exclusively for this purpose, though they can appear anywhere the circuits of the Conjoint Creator extend.

These Aids are all equal and identical, showing no differentiation of individuality, which makes them difficult for other beings to recognize as true persons. Although the Infinite Spirit regards them as real personalities, they do not manifest a spirit presence that other spirit beings can easily detect. This characteristic likely makes them more effective servants of the Third Person of Deity.

The Associate Inspectors embody the authority of the Seven Supreme Executives in the local universes. They are the joint offspring of the Infinite Spirit and the Seven Master Spirits of Paradise, with approximately seven hundred thousand personalized during the early universe ages, and their reserve corps remains on Paradise. They work directly under the supervision of the Seven Supreme Executives.

Each local universe has an Associate Inspector stationed at its headquarters sphere, where they work closely with the resident Union of Days. The inspectors receive reports exclusively from their subordinates, the Assigned Sentinels, who are stationed on the capitals of local systems of inhabited worlds. After receiving these reports, they report only to their immediate superior, the relevant Supreme Executive of the superuniverse.

The Assigned Sentinels function as coordinating personalities and liaison representatives of the Seven Supreme Executives. Created on Paradise by the Infinite Spirit, there are exactly seven billion Assigned Sentinels in existence. They represent the Supreme Executives in the ten thousand systems of each local universe, serving under the authority of the respective superuniverse's Supreme Executive.

Within local universes, the Assigned Sentinels serve in rotation, transferring from system to system approximately every millennium. They are high-ranking personalities on system capitals but do not participate in system deliberations. Their primary focus is keeping the Associate Inspector of their universe fully informed about matters relating to the welfare and condition of their assigned systems.

The Graduate Guides sponsor and conduct the advanced university of technical instruction and spiritual training essential for mortal attainment of the goal of the ages. These highly personal beings are devoted exclusively to guiding mortal graduates from the superuniverses through the Havona course of instruction that prepares ascending pilgrims for Paradise and the Corps of the Finality.

Each Guide remains with a pilgrim throughout their entire Havona career, from their arrival on the receiving world of the outer Havona circuit until they complete the progression. The first Graduate Guide, Malvorian, greeted the first mortal pilgrim to reach Havona and guided him through each circuit until he stood in the presence of the Source and Destiny of all personality, eventually crossing the threshold to Paradise.

Graduate Guides are believed to be the perfected or more experienced members of another order of central universe creatures, the Havona Servitals. This theory is supported by the pattern of experienced servitals vanishing after receiving the "divine embrace" from the Luminous Persons, followed by the appearance of new Graduate Guides. About one quarter of servitals who experience this embrace never return to service.

The close relationship between Graduate Guides and Havona Servitals further suggests their connection, as they form extraordinary attachments that suggest deep affinity. The arrival of mortal ascenders in Havona initiated significant changes in the central universe, including the appearance of Graduate Guides. This transformation process appears to be connected to the evolving Supreme Being and the integration of experiential reality into the perfect central creation.