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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 9
RELATION OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT TO THE UNIVERSE
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A STRANGE thing occurred when, in the presence of
Paradise, the Universal Father and the Eternal Son unite
to personalize themselves. Nothing in this eternity
situation foreshadows that the Conjoint Actor would
personalize as an unlimited spirituality co-ordinated
with absolute mind and endowed with unique prerogatives
of energy manipulation. His coming into being completes
the Father's liberation from the bonds of centralized
perfection and from the fetters of personality
absolutism. And this liberation is disclosed in the
amazing power of the Conjoint Creator to create beings
well adapted to serve as ministering spirits even to the
material creatures of the subsequently evolving
universes.
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The Father is infinite in love and volition, in
spiritual thought and purpose; he is the universal
upholder. The Son is infinite in wisdom and truth, in
spiritual expression and interpretation; he is the
universal revealer. Paradise is infinite in potential
for force endowment and in capacity for energy
dominance; it is the universal stabilizer. The Conjoint
Actor possesses unique prerogatives of synthesis,
infinite capacity to co-ordinate all existing universe
energies, all actual universe spirits, and all real
universe intellects; the Third Source and Center is the
universal unifier of the manifold energies and diverse
creations which have appeared in consequence of the
divine plan and the eternal purpose of the Universal
Father.
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The Infinite Spirit, the Conjoint Creator, is a
universal and divine minister. The Spirit unceasingly
ministers the Son's mercy and the Father's love, even in
harmony with the stable, unvarying, and righteous
justice of the Paradise Trinity. His influence and
personalities are ever near you; they really know and
truly understand you.
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Throughout the universes the agencies of the Conjoint
Actor ceaselessly manipulate the forces and energies of
all space. Like the First Source and Center, the Third
is responsive to both the spiritual and the material.
The Conjoint Actor is the revelation of the unity of
God, in whom all things consist -- things, meanings, and
values; energies, minds, and spirits.
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The Infinite Spirit pervades all space; he indwells the
circle of eternity; and the Spirit, like the Father and
the Son, is perfect and changeless -- absolute.
1. ATTRIBUTES OF THE THIRD SOURCE AND CENTER
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The Third Source and Center is known by many names, all
designative of relationship and in recognition of
function: As God the Spirit, he is the personality
co-ordinate and divine equal of God the Son and God the
Father. As the Infinite Spirit, he is an omnipresent
spiritual influence. As the Universal Manipulator, he is
the ancestor of the power-control creatures and the
activator of the cosmic forces of space. As the Conjoint
Actor, he is the joint representative and partnership
executive of the Father-Son. As the Absolute Mind, he is
the source of the endowment of intellect throughout the
universes. As the God of Action, he is the apparent
ancestor of motion, change, and relationship.
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Some of the attributes of the Third Source and Center
are derived from the Father, some from the Son, while
still others are not observed to be actively and
personally present in either the Father or the Son --
attributes that can hardly be explained except by
assuming that the Father-Son partnership which
eternalizes the Third Source and Center consistently
functions in consonance with, and in recognition of, the
eternal fact of the absoluteness of Paradise. The
Conjoint Creator embodies the fullness of the combined
and infinite concepts of the First and Second Persons of
Deity.
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While you envisage the Father as an original creator and
the Son as a spiritual administrator, you should think
of the Third Source and Center as a universal
co-ordinator, a minister of unlimited co-operation. The
Conjoint Actor is the correlator of all actual reality;
he is the Deity repository of the Father's thought and
the Son's word and in action is eternally regardful of
the material absoluteness of the central Isle. The
Paradise Trinity has ordained the universal order of
progress, and
the providence of God is the domain of the Conjoint
Creator and the evolving Supreme Being. No actual or
actualizing reality can escape eventual relationship
with the Third Source and Center.
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The Universal Father presides over the realms of
pre-energy, prespirit, and personality; the Eternal Son
dominates the spheres of spiritual activities; the
presence of the Isle of Paradise unifies the domain of
physical energy and materializing power; the Conjoint
Actor operates not only as an infinite spirit
representing the Son but also as a universal manipulator
of the forces and energies of Paradise, thus bringing
into existence the universal and absolute mind. The
Conjoint Actor functions throughout the grand universe
as a positive and distinct personality, especially in
the higher spheres of spiritual values, physical-energy
relationships, and true mind meanings. He functions
specifically wherever and whenever energy and spirit
associate and interact; he dominates all reactions with
mind, wields great power in the spiritual world, and
exerts a mighty influence over energy and matter. At all
times the Third Source is expressive of the nature of
the First Source and Center.
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The Third Source and Center perfectly and without
qualification shares the omnipresence of the First
Source and Center, sometimes being called the
Omnipresent Spirit. In a peculiar and very personal
manner the God of mind shares the omniscience of the
Universal Father and his Eternal Son; the knowledge of
the Spirit is profound and complete. The Conjoint
Creator manifests certain phases of the omnipotence of
the Universal Father but is actually omnipotent only in
the domain of mind. The Third Person of Deity is the
intellectual center and the universal administrator of
the mind realms; herein is he absolute -- his
sovereignty is unqualified.
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The Conjoint Actor seems to be motivated by the
Father-Son partnership, but all his actions appear to
recognize the Father-Paradise relationship. At times and
in certain functions he seems to compensate for the
incompleteness of the development of the experiential
Deities -- God the Supreme and God the Ultimate.
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And herein is an infinite mystery: That the Infinite
simultaneously revealed his infinity in the Son and as
Paradise, and then there springs into existence a being
equal to God in divinity, reflective of the Son's
spiritual nature, and capable of activating the Paradise
pattern, a being provisionally subordinate in
sovereignty but in many ways apparently the most
versatile in
action. And such apparent superiority in action is
disclosed in an attribute of the Third Source and Center
which is superior even to physical gravity -- the
universal manifestation of the Isle of Paradise.
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In addition to this supercontrol of energy and things
physical, the Infinite Spirit is superbly endowed with
those attributes of patience, mercy, and love which are
so exquisitely revealed in his spiritual ministry. The
Spirit is supremely competent to minister love and to
overshadow justice with mercy. God the Spirit possesses
all the supernal kindness and merciful affection of the
Original and Eternal Son. The universe of your origin is
being forged out between the anvil of justice and the
hammer of suffering; but those who wield the hammer are
the children of mercy, the spirit offspring of the
Infinite Spirit.
2. THE OMNIPRESENT SPIRIT
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God is spirit in a threefold sense: He himself is
spirit; in his Son he appears as spirit without
qualification; in the Conjoint Actor, as spirit allied
with mind. And in addition to these spiritual realities,
we think we discern levels of experiential spirit
phenomena -- the spirits of the Supreme Being, Ultimate
Deity, and Deity Absolute.
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The Infinite Spirit is just as much a complement of the
Eternal Son as the Son is a complement of the Universal
Father. The Eternal Son is a spiritualized
personalization of the Father; the Infinite Spirit is a
personalized spiritualization of the Eternal Son and the
Universal Father.
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There are many untrammeled lines of spiritual force and
sources of supermaterial power linking the people of
Urantia directly with the Deities of Paradise. There
exist the connection of the Thought Adjusters direct
with the Universal Father, the widespread influence of
the spiritual-gravity urge of the Eternal Son, and the
spiritual presence of the Conjoint Creator. There is a
difference in function between the spirit of the Son and
the spirit of the Spirit. The Third Person in his
spiritual ministry may function as mind plus spirit or
as spirit alone.
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In addition to these Paradise presences, Urantians
benefit by the spiritual influences and activities of
the local and the superuniverse, with their almost
endless array of loving personalities who ever lead the
true of purpose and the honest of heart upward and
inward towards the ideals of divinity and the goal of
supreme perfection.
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The presence of the universal spirit of the Eternal Son
we know -- we
can unmistakably recognize it. The presence of the
Infinite Spirit, the Third Person of Deity, even mortal
man may know, for material creatures can actually
experience the beneficence of this divine influence
which functions as the Holy Spirit of local universe
bestowal upon the races of mankind. Human beings can
also in some degree become conscious of the Adjuster,
the impersonal presence of the Universal Father. These
divine spirits which work for man's uplifting and
spiritualization all act in unison and in perfect
co-operation. They are as one in the spiritual operation
of the plans of mortal ascension and perfection
attainment.
3. THE UNIVERSAL MANIPULATOR
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The Isle of Paradise is the source and substance of
physical gravity; and that should be sufficient to
inform you that gravity is one of the most
real and
eternally dependable things in the whole physical
universe of universes. Gravity cannot be modified or
annulled except by the forces and energies conjointly
sponsored by the Father and the Son, which have been
intrusted to, and are functionally associated with, the
person of the Third Source and Center.
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The Infinite Spirit possesses a unique and amazing power
-- antigravity.
This power is not functionally (observably) present in
either the Father or the Son. This ability to withstand
the pull of material gravity, inherent in the Third
Source, is revealed in the personal reactions of the
Conjoint Actor to certain phases of universe
relationships. And this unique attribute is
transmissible to certain of the higher personalities of
the Infinite Spirit.
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Antigravity can annul gravity within a local frame; it
does so by the exercise of equal force presence. It
operates only with reference to material gravity, and it
is not the action of mind. The gravity-resistant
phenomenon of a gyroscope is a fair illustration of the
effect of
antigravity but of no value to illustrate the cause of
antigravity.
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Still further does the Conjoint Actor display powers
which can transcend force and neutralize energy. Such
powers operate by slowing down energy to the point of
materialization and by other techniques unknown to you.
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The Conjoint Creator is not energy nor the source of
energy nor the destiny of energy; he is the
manipulator
of energy. The Conjoint Creator is action -- motion,
change, modification, co-ordination, stabilization, and
equilibrium. The energies subject to the direct or
indirect control of Paradise are by nature responsive to
the acts of the Third Source and Center and his manifold
agencies.
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The universe of universes is permeated by the
power-control creatures of the Third Source and Center:
physical controllers, power directors, power centers,
and other representatives of the God of Action who have
to do with the regulation and stabilization of physical
energies. These unique creatures of physical function
all possess varying attributes of power control, such as
antigravity, which they utilize in their efforts to
establish the physical equilibrium of the matter and
energies of the grand universe.
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All these material activities of the God of Action
appear to relate his function to the Isle of Paradise,
and indeed the agencies of power are all regardful of,
even dependent on, the absoluteness of the eternal Isle.
But the Conjoint Actor does not act for, or in response
to, Paradise. He acts, personally, for the Father and
the Son. Paradise is not a person. The nonpersonal,
impersonal, and otherwise not personal doings of the
Third Source and Center are all volitional acts of the
Conjoint Actor himself; they are not reflections,
derivations, or repercussions of anything or anybody.
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Paradise is the pattern of infinity; the God of Action
is the activator of that pattern. Paradise is the
material fulcrum of infinity; the agencies of the Third
Source and Center are the levers of intelligence which
motivate the material level and inject spontaneity into
the mechanism of the physical creation.
4. THE ABSOLUTE MIND
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There is an intellectual nature of the Third Source and
Center that is distinct from his physical and spiritual
attributes. Such a nature is hardly contactable, but it
is associable -- intellectually though not personally.
It is distinguishable from the physical attributes and
the spiritual character of the Third Person on mind
levels of function, but to the discernment of
personalities this nature never functions independently
of physical or spiritual manifestations.
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The absolute mind is the mind of the Third Person; it is
inseparable from the personality of God the Spirit.
Mind, in functioning beings, is not separated from
energy or spirit, or both. Mind is not inherent in
energy; energy is receptive and responsive to mind; mind
can be superimposed upon energy, but consciousness is
not inherent in the purely material level. Mind does not
have to be added to pure spirit, for spirit is innately
conscious and identifying. Spirit is always intelligent,
minded in
some way. It may be this mind or that mind, it may be
premind or supermind, even spirit mind, but it does the
equivalent of thinking and knowing. The insight of
spirit transcends, supervenes, and theoretically
antedates the consciousness of mind.
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The Conjoint Creator is absolute only in the domain of
mind, in the realms of universal intelligence. The mind
of the Third Source and Center is infinite; it utterly
transcends the active and functioning mind circuits of
the universe of universes. The mind endowment of the
seven superuniverses is derived from the Seven Master
Spirits, the primary personalities of the Conjoint
Creator. These Master Spirits distribute mind to the
grand universe as the cosmic mind, and your local
universe is pervaded by the Nebadon variant of the
Orvonton type of cosmic mind.
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Infinite mind ignores time, ultimate mind transcends
time, cosmic mind is conditioned by time. And so with
space: The Infinite Mind is independent of space, but as
descent is made from the infinite to the adjutant levels
of mind, intellect must increasingly reckon with the
fact and limitations of space.
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Cosmic force responds to mind even as cosmic mind
responds to spirit. Spirit is divine purpose, and spirit
mind is divine purpose in action. Energy is thing, mind
is meaning, spirit is value. Even in time and space,
mind establishes those relative relationships between
energy and spirit which are suggestive of mutual kinship
in eternity.
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Mind transmutes the values of spirit into the meanings
of intellect; volition has power to bring the meanings
of mind to fruit in both the material and spiritual
domains. The Paradise ascent involves a relative and
differential growth in spirit, mind, and energy. The
personality is the unifier of these components of
experiential individuality.
5. THE MINISTRY OF MIND
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The Third Source and Center is infinite in mind. If the
universe should grow to infinity, still his mind
potential would be adequate to endow limitless numbers
of creatures with suitable minds and other prerequisites
of intellect.
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In the domain of
created mind the Third Person, with his co-ordinate
and subordinate associates, rules supreme. The realms of
creature mind are of exclusive origin in the Third
Source and Center; he is the bestower of mind. Even the
Father fragments find it impossible to indwell the minds
of men until the way has been properly prepared for them
by the mind action and spiritual function of the
Infinite Spirit.
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The unique feature of mind is that it can be bestowed
upon such a wide range of life. Through his creative and
creature associates the Third Source and Center
ministers to all minds on all spheres. He ministers to
human and subhuman intellect through the adjutants of
the local universes and, through the agency of the
physical controllers, ministers even to the lowest
nonexperiencing entities of the most primitive types of
living things. And always is the direction of mind a
ministry of mind-spirit or mind-energy personalities.
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Since the Third Person of Deity is the source of mind,
it is quite natural that the evolutionary will creatures
find it easier to form comprehensible concepts of the
Infinite Spirit than they do of either the Eternal Son
or the Universal Father. The reality of the Conjoint
Creator is disclosed imperfectly in the very existence
of human mind. The Conjoint Creator is the ancestor of
the cosmic mind, and the mind of man is an
individualized circuit, an impersonal portion, of that
cosmic mind as it is bestowed in a local universe by a
Creative Daughter of the Third Source and Center.
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Because the Third Person is the source of mind, do not
presume to reckon that all phenomena of mind are divine.
Human intellect is rooted in the material origin of the
animal races. Universe intelligence is no more a true
revelation of God who is mind than is physical nature a
true revelation of the beauty and harmony of Paradise.
Perfection is in nature, but nature is not perfect. The
Conjoint Creator is the source of mind, but mind is not
the Conjoint Creator.
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Mind, on Urantia, is a compromise between the essence of
thought perfection and the evolving mentality of your
immature human nature. The plan for your intellectual
evolution is, indeed, one of sublime perfection, but you
are far short of that divine goal as you function in the
tabernacles of the flesh. Mind is truly of divine
origin, and it does have a divine destiny, but your
mortal minds are not yet of divine dignity.
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Too often, all too often, you mar your minds by
insincerity and sear them with unrighteousness; you
subject them to animal fear and distort them by useless
anxiety. Therefore, though the source of mind is divine,
mind as you know it on your world of ascension can
hardly become the object of great admiration, much less
of adoration or worship. The contemplation of the
immature and inactive human intellect should lead only
to reactions of humility.
6. THE MIND-GRAVITY CIRCUIT
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The Third Source and Center, the universal intelligence,
is personally conscious of every
mind, every
intellect, in all creation, and he maintains a personal
and perfect contact with all these physical, morontial,
and spiritual creatures of mind endowment in the
far-flung universes. All these activities of mind are
grasped in the absolute mind-gravity circuit which
focalizes in the Third Source and Center and is a part
of the personal consciousness of the Infinite Spirit.
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Much as the Father draws all personality to himself, and
as the Son attracts all spiritual reality, so does the
Conjoint Actor exercise a drawing power on all minds; he
unqualifiedly dominates and controls the universal mind
circuit. All true and genuine intellectual values, all
divine thoughts and perfect ideas, are unerringly drawn
into this absolute circuit of mind.
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Mind gravity can operate independently of material and
spiritual gravity, but wherever and whenever the latter
two impinge, mind gravity always functions. When all
three are associated, personality gravity may embrace
the material creature -- physical or morontial, finite
or absonite. But irrespective of this, the endowment of
mind even in impersonal beings qualifies them to think
and endows them with consciousness despite the total
absence of personality.
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Selfhood of personality dignity, human or divine,
immortal or potentially immortal, does not however
originate in either spirit, mind, or matter; it is the
bestowal of the Universal Father. Neither is the
interaction of spirit, mind, and material gravity a
prerequisite to the appearance of personality gravity.
The Father's circuit may embrace a mind-material being
who is unresponsive to spirit gravity, or it may include
a mind-spirit being who is unresponsive to material
gravity. The operation of personality gravity is always
a volitional act of the Universal Father.
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While mind is energy associated in purely material
beings and spirit associated in purely spiritual
personalities, innumerable orders of personality,
including the human, possess minds that are associated
with both energy and spirit. The spiritual aspects of
creature mind unfailingly respond to the spirit-gravity
pull of the Eternal Son; the material features respond
to the gravity urge of the material universe.
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Cosmic mind, when not associated with either energy or
spirit, is subject to the gravity demands of neither
material nor spiritual circuits. Pure mind is subject
only to the universal gravity grasp of the Conjoint
Actor. Pure mind is close of kin to infinite mind, and
infinite mind (the theoretical co-ordinate of the
absolutes of spirit and energy) is apparently a law in
itself.
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The greater the spirit-energy divergence, the greater
the observable function of mind; the lesser the
diversity of energy and spirit, the lesser the
observable function of mind. Apparently, the maximum
function of the cosmic mind is in the time universes of
space. Here mind seems to function in a mid-zone between
energy and spirit, but this is not true of the higher
levels of mind; on Paradise, energy and spirit are
essentially one.
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The mind-gravity circuit is dependable; it emanates from
the Third Person of Deity on Paradise, but not all the
observable function of mind is predictable. Throughout
all known creation there parallels this circuit of mind
some little-understood presence whose function is not
predictable. We believe that this unpredictability is
partly attributable to the function of the Universal
Absolute. What this function is, we do not know; what
actuates it, we can only conjecture; concerning its
relation to creatures, we can only speculate.
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Certain phases of the unpredictability of finite mind
may be due to the incompleteness of the Supreme Being,
and there is a vast zone of activities wherein the
Conjoint Actor and the Universal Absolute may possibly
be tangent. There is much about mind that is unknown,
but of this we are sure: The Infinite Spirit is the
perfect expression of the mind of the Creator to all
creatures; the Supreme Being is the evolving expression
of the minds of all creatures to their Creator.
7. UNIVERSE REFLECTIVITY
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The Conjoint Actor is able to co-ordinate all levels of
universe actuality in such manner as to make possible
the simultaneous recognition of the mental, the
material, and the spiritual. This is the phenomenon of
universe
reflectivity, that unique and inexplicable power to
see, hear, sense, and know all things as they transpire
throughout a superuniverse, and to focalize, by
reflectivity, all this information and knowledge at any
desired point. The action of reflectivity is shown in
perfection on each of the headquarters worlds of the
seven superuniverses. It is also operative throughout
all sectors of the superuniverses and within the
boundaries of the local universes. Reflectivity finally
focalizes on Paradise.
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The phenomenon of reflectivity, as it is disclosed on
the superuniverse headquarters worlds in the amazing
performances of the reflective personalities there
stationed, represents the most complex interassociation
of all phases of existence to be found in all creation.
Lines of spirit can be traced back to the Son, physical
energy to Paradise, and mind to the Third Source; but in
the extraordinary phenomenon of universe reflectivity
there is a unique and exceptional unification of all
three, so associated as to enable the universe rulers to
know about remote conditions instantaneously,
simultaneously with their occurrence.
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Much of the technique of reflectivity we comprehend, but
there are many phases which truly baffle us. We know
that the Conjoint Actor is the universe center of the
mind circuit, that he is the ancestor of the cosmic
mind, and that cosmic mind operates under the dominance
of the absolute mind gravity of the Third Source and
Center. We know further that the circuits of the cosmic
mind influence the intellectual levels of all known
existence; they contain the universal space reports, and
just as certainly they focus in the Seven Master Spirits
and converge in the Third Source and Center.
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The relationship between the finite cosmic mind and the
divine absolute mind appears to be evolving in the
experiential mind of the Supreme. We are taught that, in
the dawn of time, this experiential mind was bestowed
upon the Supreme by the Infinite Spirit, and we
conjecture that certain features of the phenomenon of
reflectivity can be accounted for only by postulating
the activity of the Supreme Mind. If the Supreme is not
concerned in reflectivity, we are at a loss to explain
the intricate transactions and unerring operations of
this consciousness of the cosmos.
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Reflectivity appears to be omniscience within the limits
of the experiential finite and may represent the
emergence of the presence-consciousness of the Supreme
Being. If this assumption is true, then the utilization
of reflectivity in any of its phases is equivalent to
partial contact with the consciousness of the Supreme.
8. PERSONALITIES OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT
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The Infinite Spirit possesses full power to transmit
many of his powers and prerogatives to his co-ordinate
and subordinate personalities and agencies.
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The first Deity-creating act of the Infinite Spirit,
functioning apart from the Trinity but in some
unrevealed association with the Father and the Son,
personalized in the existence of the Seven Master
Spirits of Paradise, the distributors of the Infinite
Spirit to the universes.
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There is no direct representative of the Third Source
and Center on the headquarters of a superuniverse. Each
of these seven creations is dependent on one of the
Master Spirits of Paradise, who acts through the seven
Reflective Spirits situated at the capital of the
superuniverse.
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The next and continuing creative act of the Infinite
Spirit is disclosed, from time to time, in the
production of the Creative Spirits. Every time the
Universal Father and the Eternal Son become parent to a
Creator Son, the Infinite Spirit becomes ancestor to a
local universe Creative Spirit who becomes the close
associate of that Creator Son in all subsequent universe
experience.
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Just as it is necessary to distinguish between the
Eternal Son and the Creator Sons, so it is necessary to
differentiate between the Infinite Spirit and the
Creative Spirits, the local universe co-ordinates of the
Creator Sons. What the Infinite Spirit is to the total
creation, a Creative Spirit is to a local universe.
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The Third Source and Center is represented in the grand
universe by a vast array of ministering spirits,
messengers, teachers, adjudicators, helpers, and
advisers, together with supervisors of certain circuits
of physical, morontial, and spiritual nature. Not all of
these beings are personalities in the strict meaning of
the term. Personality of the finite-creature variety is
characterized by:
1. Subjective self-consciousness.
2. Objective response to the Father's personality
circuit.
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There are creator personalities and creature
personalities, and in addition to these two fundamental
types there are
personalities of the Third Source and Center, beings
who are personal to the Infinite Spirit, but who are not
unqualifiedly personal to creature beings. These Third
Source personalities are not a part of the Father's
personality circuit. First Source personality and Third
Source personality are mutually contactable; all
personality is contactable.
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The Father bestows personality by his personal free
will. Why he does so we can only conjecture; how he does
so we do not know. Neither do we know why the Third
Source bestows non-Father personality, but this the
Infinite Spirit does in his own behalf, in creative
conjunction with the Eternal Son and in numerous ways
unknown to you. The Infinite Spirit can also act for the
Father in the bestowal of First Source personality.
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There are numerous types of Third Source personalities.
The Infinite Spirit bestows Third Source personality
upon numerous groups who are not included in the
Father's personality circuit, such as certain of the
power directors. Likewise does the Infinite Spirit treat
as personalities numerous groups of beings, such as the
Creative Spirits, who are in a class by themselves in
their relations to encircuited creatures of the Father.
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Both First Source and Third Source personalities are
endowed with all and more than man associates with the
concept of personality; they have minds embracing
memory, reason, judgment, creative imagination, idea
association, decision, choice, and numerous additional
powers of intellect wholly unknown to mortals. With few
exceptions the orders revealed to you possess form and
distinct individuality; they are real beings. A majority
of them are visible to all orders of spirit existence.
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Even you will be able to see your spiritual associates
of the lower orders as soon as you are delivered from
the limited vision of your present material eyes and
have been endowed with a morontia form with its enlarged
sensitivity to the reality of spiritual things.
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The functional
family of the Third Source and Center, as it is
revealed in these narratives, falls into three great
groups:
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I. The Supreme
Spirits. A group of composite origin that embraces,
among others, the following orders:
1. The Seven Master Spirits of Paradise.
2. The Reflective Spirits of the Superuniverses.
3. The Creative Spirits of the Local Universes.
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II. The Power
Directors. A group of control creatures and agencies
that function throughout all organized space.
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III. The
Personalities of the Infinite Spirit. This
designation does not necessarily imply that these beings
are Third Source personalities though some of them are
unique as will creatures. They are usually grouped in
three major classifications:
1. The Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit.
2. The Messenger Hosts of Space.
3. The Ministering Spirits of Time.
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These groups serve on Paradise, in the central or
residential universe, in the superuniverses, and they
embrace orders that function in the local universes,
even to the constellations, systems, and planets.
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The spirit personalities of the vast family of the
Divine and Infinite Spirit are forever dedicated to the
service of the ministry of the love of God and the mercy
of the Son to all the intelligent creatures of the
evolutionary worlds of time and space. These spirit
beings constitute the living ladder whereby mortal man
climbs from chaos to glory.
9:8.18
Revealed on Urantia by a Divine Counselor of Uversa
commissioned by the Ancients of Days to portray the
nature and work of the Infinite Spirit.
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