Meredith Sprunger's Synopsis of The Urantia Book
Synopsis of Paper 24
HIGHER PERSONALITIES OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT
1. 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
Of the seven classes composing this group, only the Solitary Messengers and perhaps the Personal Aids range the universe of universes.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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... 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.
5. 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...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.
6. Usatia, the superuniverse chief of all Orvonton directors ... 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.
7. 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 ... they are infallible in function; they never default, neither do they falsify.
8. The Personal Aids of the Infinite Spirit exist for the exclusive assistance of the Paradise presence of the Third Person of Deity... They traverse space much as do the Solitary Messengers but are not persons in the sense that the messengers are…they disclose no differentiation of individuality...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.
9. The Associate Inspectors are the personal embodiment of the authority of the Supreme Executives to the local universes of time and space ... 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.
10. Within a local creation the Assigned Sentinels ... 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.
11. The Supreme Executive, 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.
12. 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...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..
13. 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... Their origin is something of a mystery ... they mysteriously appear as they are needed.
14. 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 Malivorian, the first of the Graduate Guides...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.
15. 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 super universe number one. His arrival was the signal for the establishment of the broadcast service of the universe of universes.
16. 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?
17. 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.
Discussion Questions
1. Is it surprising that spirit energy has circuits and Circuit Supervisors very similar to the circuits of physical energy?
2. Why do the Supreme Executives have a direct and centralized information service in the Associate Inspectors and Assigned Sentinels independent of the administration of the Ancient of Days?
3. What effect do you think the extensive information about the personalities and order of the universe given us in the Urantia Synopsis of Papers will have on our ascension career? How much will we remember when we arrive on the Mansion Worlds?
4. What might be the personal benefit of the age-long companionship with a Graduate Guide on the billion worlds of Havona?
5. How should we face mysteries like that associated with the Havona Servitals and the Graduate Guides?
6. To what extent do you think that our isolation from the spirit circuits of the universe will result in our needing longer training on the Mansion Worlds? Will the Urantia Synopsis of Papers compensate for this deficiency?
7. To what degree do human beings have freedom of will independent of physiological drives and psychological conditioning?
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