The seven adjutant mind-spirits
are the creation of the Divine Minister of a local
universe. These mind-spirits are similar in character but
diverse in power, and all partake alike of the nature of the
Universe Spirit, although they are hardly regarded as
personalities apart from their Mother Creator. The seven adjutants have been given the following names:
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of quick perception. These are the "seven
spirits of God," "like lamps burning before the throne,"
which the prophet saw in the symbols of vision. But he
did not see
the seats of the four and twenty
sentinels about these seven adjutant mind-spirits. This record
represents the confusion of two presentations, one pertaining to
the universe headquarters and the other to the system capital.
The seats of the four and twenty elders are on Jerusem, the
headquarters of your local system of inhabited worlds.
But it was of Salvington that John wrote:
"And out of the throne proceeded
lightnings and thunderings and voices"
the universe broadcasts to the local systems. He also
envisaged the directional control creatures of the local
universe, the living compasses of the headquarters world. This
directional
control in Nebadon is maintained by the four
control creatures of Salvington, who operate over the universe
currents and are ably assisted by the first functioning mind-
spirit, the adjutant of intuition, the spirit of "quick
understanding." But the description of these four
creatures--called beasts--has been sadly marred;
they are of unparalleled beauty
and exquisite form. The four points
of the compass are universal and inherent in the
life of Nebadon. All living creatures possess bodily units
which are sensitive and responsive to these directional currents.
These creature creations are duplicated on down through the
universe
to the individual planets and, in conjunction with the
magnetic forces of the worlds, so activate the hosts of microscopic
bodies in the animal organism that these direction cells
ever point north and south. Thus is the sense of
orientation forever fixed in the living
beings of the universe.
This sense is not wholly wanting
as a conscious possession by mankind. These
bodies were first observed on Urantia about the time
of this narration.
