Sep 29, 2026 · 2 hr 3 min · 10 segments
In this episode of The Cosmic Citizen, we took another dive into Urantia Paper 24, exploring the fascinating mechanics behind the Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit. We focused specifically…
Paula ThompsonHost
Andre RadatusHostPamela ChaddockHostChuck ThurstonHostMarvin GawrynHost"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.
These are an completed creation of the Infinite Spirit, and they exist in numbers unknown to us.
They are so created as to be able to maintain perfect synchrony with the reflectivity technique of the superuniverses, while at the same time they are personally sensitive and responsive to intelligent will."
will."These 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 superuniverses.
[laughs] You can't bear people? [laughs] Seven Census Directors operate in Havona, one being stationed on the pilot world of each Havona circuit.
Excepting these seven and the reserves of the order on the Paradise worlds of the Spirit, all Census Directors function under the jurisdiction of the Ancients of Days.
One Census Director presides at the headquarters of each superuniverse, while subject to such a chief director are thousands upon thousands, one on the capital of every local universe.
All personalities of this order are equal, excepting those on the Havona pilot worlds and the seven superuniverse chiefs.
In the seventh superuniverse, there are 100,000 Census Directors, and this number consists entirely of those assignable to local universes.
It does not include the personal staff of Urantia, the superuniverse chief of all Orvonton directors.
Urantia, 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.
From time to time, the official recorders of Uversa place on their records the status of the superuniverse as it is indicated by the registrations in and upon the personalities of Urantia...
The Census Directors are concerned with human beings, as with other will creatures, only to the extent of recording the fact of will function.
"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.
These are an completed creation of the Infinite Spirit, and they exist in numbers unknown to us.
They are so created as to be able to maintain perfect synchrony with the reflectivity technique of the superuniverses, while at the same time they are personally sensitive and responsive to intelligent will."
will."These 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 superuniverses.
[laughs] You can't bear people? [laughs] Seven Census Directors operate in Havona, one being stationed on the pilot world of each Havona circuit.
Excepting these seven and the reserves of the order on the Paradise worlds of the Spirit, all Census Directors function under the jurisdiction of the Ancients of Days.
One Census Director presides at the headquarters of each superuniverse, while subject to such a chief director are thousands upon thousands, one on the capital of every local universe.
All personalities of this order are equal, excepting those on the Havona pilot worlds and the seven superuniverse chiefs.
In the seventh superuniverse, there are 100,000 Census Directors, and this number consists entirely of those assignable to local universes.
It does not include the personal staff of Urantia, the superuniverse chief of all Orvonton directors.
Urantia, 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.
From time to time, the official recorders of Uversa place on their records the status of the superuniverse as it is indicated by the registrations in and upon the personalities of Urantia...
The Census Directors are concerned with human beings, as with other will creatures, only to the extent of recording the fact of will function.
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