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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 34
THE LOCAL UNIVERSE MOTHER SPIRIT
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WHEN a Creator Son is personalized by the Universal
Father and the Eternal Son, then does the Infinite
Spirit individualize a new and unique representation of
himself to accompany this Creator Son to the realms of
space, there to be his companion, first, in physical
organization and, later, in creation and ministry to the
creatures of the newly projected universe.
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A Creative Spirit reacts to both physical and spiritual
realities; so does a Creator Son; and thus are they
co-ordinate and associate in the administration of a
local universe of time and space.
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These Daughter Spirits are of the essence of the
Infinite Spirit, but they cannot function in the work of
physical creation and spiritual ministry simultaneously.
In physical creation the Universe Son provides the
pattern while the Universe Spirit initiates the
materialization of physical realities. The Son operates
in the power designs, but the Spirit transforms these
energy creations into physical substances. Although it
is somewhat difficult to portray this early universe
presence of the Infinite Spirit as a person,
nevertheless, to the Creator Son the Spirit associate is
personal and has always functioned as a distinct
individual.
1. PERSONALIZATION OF THE CREATIVE SPIRIT
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After the completion of the physical organization of a
starry and planetary cluster and the establishment of
the energy circuits by the superuniverse power centers,
subsequent to this preliminary work of creation by the
agencies of the Infinite Spirit, operating through, and
under the direction of, his local universe creative
focalization, there goes forth the proclamation of the
Michael Son that life is next to be projected in the
newly organized universe. Upon the Paradise recognition
of this declaration of intention, there occurs a
reaction of approval in the Paradise Trinity, followed
by the disappearance in the spiritual shining of the
Deities of the Master Spirit in whose superuniverse this
new creation is organizing. Meanwhile the other Master
Spirits draw near this central lodgment of the Paradise
Deities, and subsequently, when the Deity-embraced
Master Spirit emerges to the recognition of his fellows,
there occurs what is known as a "primary eruption." This
is a tremendous spiritual flash, a phenomenon clearly
discernible as far away as the headquarters of the
superuniverse concerned; and simultaneously with this
little-understood Trinity manifestation there occurs a
marked change in the nature of the creative spirit
presence and power of the Infinite Spirit resident in
the local universe concerned. In response to these
Paradise phenomena there immediately personalizes, in
the very presence of the Creator Son, a new personal
representation of the Infinite Spirit. This is the
Divine Minister. The individualized Creative Spirit
helper of the Creator Son has become his personal
creative associate, the local universe Mother Spirit.
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From and through this new personal segregation of the
Conjoint Creator there proceed the established currents
and the ordained circuits of spirit power and spiritual
influence destined to pervade all the worlds and beings
of that local universe. In reality, this new and
personal presence is but a transformation of the
pre-existent and less personal associate of the Son in
his earlier work of physical universe organization.
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This is the relation of a stupendous drama in few words,
but it represents about all that can be told regarding
these momentous transactions. They are instantaneous,
inscrutable, and incomprehensible; the secret of the
technique and procedure resides in the bosom of the
Paradise Trinity. Of only one thing are we certain: The
Spirit presence in the local universe during the time of
purely physical creation or organization was
incompletely differentiated from the spirit of the
Paradise Infinite Spirit; whereas, after the
reappearance of the supervising Master Spirit from the
secret embrace of the Gods and following the flash of
spiritual energy, the local universe manifestation of
the Infinite Spirit suddenly and completely changes to
the personal likeness of that Master Spirit who was in
transmuting liaison with the Infinite Spirit. The local
universe Mother Spirit thus acquires a personal nature
tinged by that of the Master Spirit of the superuniverse
of astronomic jurisdiction.
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This personalized presence of the Infinite Spirit, the
Creative Mother Spirit of the local universe, is known
in Satania as the Divine Minister. To all practical
intents and spiritual purposes this manifestation of
Deity is a divine individual, a spirit person. And she
is so recognized and regarded by the Creator Son. It is
through this localization and personalization of the
Third Source and Center in our local universe that the
Spirit could subsequently become so fully subject to the
Creator Son that of this Son it was truly said, "All
power in heaven and on earth has been intrusted to him."
2. NATURE OF THE DIVINE MINISTER
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Having undergone marked personality metamorphosis at the
time of life creation, the Divine Minister thereafter
functions as a person and co-operates in a very personal
manner with the Creator Son in the planning and
management of the extensive affairs of their local
creation. To many universe types of being, even this
representation of the Infinite Spirit may not appear to
be wholly personal during the ages preceding the final
Michael bestowal; but subsequent to the elevation of the
Creator Son to the sovereign authority of a Master Son,
the Creative Mother Spirit becomes so augmented in
personal qualities as to be personally recognized by all
contacting individuals.
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From the earliest association with the Creator Son the
Universe Spirit possesses all the physical-control
attributes of the Infinite Spirit, including the full
endowment of antigravity. Upon the attainment of
personal status the Universe Spirit exerts just as full
and complete control of mind gravity, in the local
universe, as would the Infinite Spirit if personally
present.
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In each local universe the Divine Minister functions in
accordance with the nature and inherent characteristics
of the Infinite Spirit as embodied in one of the Seven
Master Spirits of Paradise. While there is a basic
uniformity of character in all Universe Spirits, there
is also a diversity of function, determined by their
origin through one of the Seven Master Spirits. This
differential of origin accounts for the diverse
techniques in the function of the local universe Mother
Spirits in different superuniverses. But in all
essential spiritual attributes these Spirits are
identical, equally spiritual and wholly divine,
irrespective of superuniverse differentiation.
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The Creative Spirit is coresponsible with the Creator
Son in producing the creatures of the worlds and never
fails the Son in all efforts to uphold and conserve
these creations. Life is ministered and maintained
through the agency of the Creative Spirit. "You send
forth your Spirit, and they are created. You renew the
face of the earth."
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In the creation of a universe of intelligent creatures
the Creative Mother Spirit functions first in the sphere
of universe perfection, collaborating with the Son in
the production of the Bright and Morning Star.
Subsequently the offspring of the Spirit increasingly
approach the order of created beings on the planets,
even as the Sons grade downward from the Melchizedeks to
the Material Sons, who actually contact with the mortals
of the realms. In the later evolution of mortal
creatures the Life Carrier Sons provide the physical
body, fabricated out of the existing organized material
of the realm, while the Universe Spirit contributes the
"breath of life."
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While the seventh segment of the grand universe may, in
many respects, be tardy in development, thoughtful
students of our problems look forward to the evolution
of an extraordinarily well-balanced creation in the ages
to come. We predict this high degree of symmetry in
Orvonton because the presiding Spirit of this
superuniverse is the chief of the Master Spirits on
high, being a spirit intelligence embodying the balanced
union and perfect co-ordination of the traits and
character of all three of the eternal Deities. We are
tardy and backward in comparison with other sectors, but
there undoubtedly awaits us a transcendent development
and an unprecedented achievement sometime in the eternal
ages of the future.
3. THE SON AND SPIRIT IN TIME AND SPACE
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Neither the Eternal Son nor the Infinite Spirit is
limited or conditioned by either time or space, but most
of their offspring are.
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The Infinite Spirit pervades all space and indwells the
circle of eternity. Still, in their personal contact
with the children of time, the personalities of the
Infinite Spirit must often reckon with temporal
elements, though not so much with space. Many mind
ministries ignore space but suffer a time lag in
effecting co-ordination of diverse levels of universe
reality. A Solitary Messenger is virtually independent
of space except that time is actually required in
traveling from one location to another; and there are
similar entities unknown to you.
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In personal prerogatives a Creative Spirit is wholly and
entirely independent of space, but not of time. There is
no specialized personal presence of such a Universe
Spirit on either the constellation or system
headquarters. She is equally and diffusely present
throughout her entire local universe and is, therefore,
just as literally and personally present on one world as
on any other.
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Only as regards the element of time is a Creative Spirit
ever limited in her universe ministrations. A Creator
Son acts instantaneously throughout his universe; but
the Creative Spirit must reckon with time in the
ministration of the universal mind except as she
consciously and designedly avails herself of the
personal prerogatives of the Universe Son. In
pure-spirit function the Creative Spirit also acts
independently of time as well as in her collaboration
with the mysterious function of universe reflectivity.
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Though the spirit-gravity circuit of the Eternal Son
operates independently of both time and space, all
functions of the Creator Sons are not exempt from space
limitations. If the transactions of the evolutionary
worlds are excepted, these Michael Sons seem to be able
to operate relatively independent of time. A Creator Son
is not handicapped by time, but he is conditioned by
space; he cannot personally be in two places at the same
time. Michael of Nebadon acts timelessly within his own
universe and by reflectivity practically so in the
superuniverse. He communicates timelessly with the
Eternal Son directly.
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The Divine Minister is the understanding helper of the
Creator Son, enabling him to overcome and atone for his
inherent limitations regarding space, for when these two
function in administrative union, they are practically
independent of time and space within the confines of
their local creation. Therefore, as practically observed
throughout a local universe, the Creator Son and the
Creative Spirit usually function independently of both
time and space since there is always available to each
the time and the space liberation of the other.
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Only absolute beings are independent of time and space
in the absolute sense. The majority of the subordinate
persons of both the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit
are subject to both time and space.
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When a Creative Spirit becomes "space conscious," she is
preparing to recognize a circumscribed "space domain" as
hers, a realm in which to be space free in
contradistinction to all other space by which she would
be conditioned. One is free to choose and act only
within the realm of one's consciousness.
4. THE LOCAL UNIVERSE CIRCUITS
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There are three distinct spirit circuits in the local
universe of Nebadon:
1. The bestowal spirit of the Creator Son, the
Comforter, the Spirit of Truth.
2. The spirit circuit of the Divine Minister, the Holy
Spirit.
3. The intelligence-ministry circuit, including the more
or less unified activities but diverse functioning of
the seven adjutant mind-spirits.
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The Creator Sons are endowed with a spirit of universe
presence in many ways analogous to that of the Seven
Master Spirits of Paradise. This is the Spirit of Truth
which is poured out upon a world by a bestowal Son after
he receives spiritual title to such a sphere. This
bestowed Comforter is the spiritual force which ever
draws all truth seekers towards Him who is the
personification of truth in the local universe. This
spirit is an inherent endowment of the Creator Son,
emerging from his divine nature just as the master
circuits of the grand universe are derived from the
personality presences of the Paradise Deities.
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The Creator Son may come and go; his personal presence
may be in the local universe or elsewhere; yet the
Spirit of Truth functions undisturbed, for this divine
presence, while derived from the personality of the
Creator Son, is functionally centered in the person of
the Divine Minister.
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The Universe Mother Spirit, however, never leaves the
local universe headquarters world. The spirit of the
Creator Son may and does function independently of the
personal presence of the Son, but not so with her
personal spirit. The Holy Spirit of the Divine Minister
would become nonfunctional if her personal presence
should be removed from Salvington. Her spirit presence
seems to be fixed on the universe headquarters world,
and it is this very fact that enables the spirit of the
Creator Son to function independently of the whereabouts
of the Son. The Universe Mother Spirit acts as the
universe focus and center of the Spirit of Truth as well
as of her own personal influence, the Holy Spirit.
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The Creator Father-Son and the Creative Mother Spirit
both contribute variously to the mind endowment of their
local universe children. But the Creative Spirit does
not bestow mind until she is endowed with personal
prerogatives.
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The superevolutionary orders of personality in a local
universe are endowed with the local universe type of the
superuniverse pattern of mind. The human and the
subhuman orders of evolutionary life are endowed with
the adjutant spirit types of mind ministration.
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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: the spirit of
wisdom, the
spirit of worship,
the spirit of
counsel, the spirit of
knowledge,
the spirit of
courage, the spirit of
understanding,
the spirit of
intuition -- of quick perception.
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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.
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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.
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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.
5. THE MINISTRY OF THE SPIRIT
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The Divine Minister co-operates with the Creator Son in
the formulation of life and the creation of new orders
of beings up to the time of his seventh bestowal and,
subsequently, after his elevation to the full
sovereignty of the universe, continues to collaborate
with the Son and the Son's bestowed spirit in the
further work of world ministry and planetary
progression.
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On the inhabited worlds the Spirit begins the work of
evolutionary progression, starting with the lifeless
material of the realm, first endowing vegetable life,
then the animal organisms, then the first orders of
human existence; and each succeeding impartation
contributes to the further unfolding of the evolutionary
potential of planetary life from the initial and
primitive stages to the appearance of will creatures.
This labor of the Spirit is largely effected through the
seven adjutants, the spirits of promise, the unifying
and co-ordinating spirit-mind of the evolving planets,
ever and unitedly leading the races of men towards
higher ideas and spiritual ideals.
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Mortal man first experiences the ministry of the Spirit
in conjunction with mind when the purely animal mind of
evolutionary creatures develops reception capacity for
the adjutants of worship and of wisdom. This ministry of
the sixth and seventh adjutants indicates mind evolution
crossing the threshold of spiritual ministry. And
immediately are such minds of worship- and
wisdom-function included in the spiritual circuits of
the Divine Minister.
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When mind is thus endowed with the ministry of the Holy
Spirit, it possesses the capacity for (consciously or
unconsciously) choosing the spiritual presence of the
Universal Father -- the Thought Adjuster. But it is not
until a bestowal Son has liberated the Spirit of Truth
for planetary ministry to all mortals that all normal
minds are automatically prepared for the reception of
the Thought Adjusters. The Spirit of Truth works as one
with the presence of the spirit of the Divine Minister.
This dual spirit liaison hovers over the worlds, seeking
to teach truth and to spiritually enlighten the minds of
men, to inspire the souls of the creatures of the
ascending races, and to lead the peoples dwelling on the
evolutionary planets ever towards their Paradise goal of
divine destiny.
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Though the Spirit of Truth is poured out upon all flesh,
this spirit of the Son is almost wholly limited in
function and power by man's personal reception of that
which constitutes the sum and substance of the mission
of the bestowal Son. The Holy Spirit is partly
independent of human attitude and partially conditioned
by the decisions and co-operation of the will of man.
Nevertheless, the ministry of the Holy Spirit becomes
increasingly effective in the sanctification and
spiritualization of the inner life of those mortals who
the more fully obey the divine leadings.
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As individuals you do not personally possess a
segregated portion or entity of the spirit of the
Creator Father-Son or the Creative Mother Spirit; these
ministries do not contact with, nor indwell, the
thinking centers of the individual's mind as do the
Mystery Monitors. Thought Adjusters are definite
individualizations of the prepersonal reality of the
Universal Father, actually indwelling the mortal mind as
a very part of that mind, and they ever work in perfect
harmony with the combined spirits of the Creator Son and
Creative Spirit.
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The presence of the Holy Spirit of the Universe Daughter
of the Infinite Spirit, of the Spirit of Truth of the
Universe Son of the Eternal Son, and of the
Adjuster-spirit of the Paradise Father in or with an
evolutionary mortal, denotes symmetry of spiritual
endowment and ministry and qualifies such a mortal
consciously to realize the faith-fact of sonship with
God.
6. THE SPIRIT IN MAN
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With the advancing evolution of an inhabited planet and
the further spiritualization of its inhabitants,
additional spiritual influences may be received by such
mature personalities. As mortals progress in mind
control and spirit perception, these multiple spirit
ministries become more and more co-ordinate in function;
they become increasingly blended with the overministry
of the Paradise Trinity.
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Although Divinity may be plural in manifestation, in
human experience Deity is singular, always
one. Neither
is spiritual ministry plural in human experience.
Regardless of plurality of origin, all spirit influences
are one in function. Indeed they are one, being the
spirit ministry of God the Sevenfold in and to the
creatures of the grand universe; and as creatures grow
in appreciation of, and receptivity for, this unifying
ministry of the spirit, it becomes in their experience
the ministry of God the Supreme.
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From the heights of eternal glory the divine Spirit
descends, by a long series of steps, to meet you as you
are and where you are and then, in the partnership of
faith, lovingly to embrace the soul of mortal origin and
to embark on the sure and certain retracement of those
steps of condescension, never stopping until the
evolutionary soul is safely exalted to the very heights
of bliss from which the divine Spirit originally sallied
forth on this mission of mercy and ministry.
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Spiritual forces unerringly seek and attain their own
original levels. Having gone out from the Eternal, they
are certain to return thereto, bringing with them all
those children of time and space who have espoused the
leading and teaching of the indwelling Adjuster, those
who have been truly "born of the Spirit," the faith sons
of God.
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The divine Spirit is the source of continual ministry
and encouragement to the children of men. Your power and
achievement is "according to his mercy, through the
renewing of the Spirit." Spiritual life, like physical
energy, is consumed. Spiritual effort results in
relative spiritual exhaustion. The whole ascendant
experience is real as well as spiritual; therefore, it
is truly written, "It is the Spirit that quickens." "The
Spirit gives life."
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The dead theory of even the highest religious doctrines
is powerless to transform human character or to control
mortal behavior. What the world of today needs is the
truth which your teacher of old declared: "Not in word
only but also in power and in the Holy Spirit." The seed
of theoretical truth is dead, the highest moral concepts
without effect, unless and until the divine Spirit
breathes upon the forms of truth and quickens the
formulas of righteousness.
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Those who have received and recognized the indwelling of
God have been born of the Spirit. "You are the temple of
God, and the spirit of God dwells in you." It is not
enough that this spirit be poured out upon you; the
divine Spirit must dominate and control every phase of
human experience.
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It is the presence of the divine Spirit, the water of
life, that prevents the consuming thirst of mortal
discontent and that indescribable hunger of the
unspiritualized human mind. Spirit-motivated beings
"never thirst, for this spiritual water shall be in them
a well of satisfaction springing up into life
everlasting." Such divinely watered souls are all but
independent of material environment as regards the joys
of living and the satisfactions of earthly existence.
They are spiritually illuminated and refreshed, morally
strengthened and endowed.
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In every mortal there exists a dual nature: the
inheritance of animal tendencies and the high urge of
spirit endowment. During the short life you live on
Urantia, these two diverse and opposing urges can seldom
be fully reconciled; they can hardly be harmonized and
unified; but throughout your lifetime the combined
Spirit ever ministers to assist you in subjecting the
flesh more and more to the leading of the Spirit. Even
though you must live your material life through, even
though you cannot escape the body and its necessities,
nonetheless, in purpose and ideals you are empowered
increasingly to subject the animal nature to the mastery
of the Spirit. There truly exists within you a
conspiracy of spiritual forces, a confederation of
divine powers, whose exclusive purpose is to effect your
final deliverance from material bondage and finite
handicaps.
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The purpose of all this ministration is, "That you may
be strengthened with power through His spirit in the
inner man." And all this represents but the preliminary
steps to the final attainment of the perfection of faith
and service, that experience wherein you shall be
"filled with all the fullness of God," "for all those
who are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God."
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The Spirit never
drives, only leads. If you are a willing learner, if
you want to attain spirit levels and reach divine
heights, if you sincerely desire to reach the eternal
goal, then the divine Spirit will gently and lovingly
lead you along the pathway of sonship and spiritual
progress. Every step you take must be one of
willingness, intelligent and cheerful co-operation. The
domination of the Spirit is never tainted with coercion
nor compromised by compulsion.
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And when such a life of spirit guidance is freely and
intelligently accepted, there gradually develops within
the human mind a positive consciousness of divine
contact and assurance of spirit communion; sooner or
later "the Spirit bears witness with your spirit (the
Adjuster) that you are a child of God." Already has your
own Thought Adjuster told you of your kinship to God so
that the record testifies that the Spirit bears witness
"with your
spirit," not to
your spirit.
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The consciousness of the spirit domination of a human
life is presently attended by an increasing exhibition
of the characteristics of the Spirit in the life
reactions of such a spirit-led mortal, "for the fruits
of the spirit are love, joy, peace, long-suffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance."
Such spirit-guided and divinely illuminated mortals,
while they yet tread the lowly paths of toil and in
human faithfulness perform the duties of their earthly
assignments, have already begun to discern the lights of
eternal life as they glimmer on the faraway shores of
another world; already have they begun to comprehend the
reality of that inspiring and comforting truth, "The
kingdom of God is not meat and drink but righteousness,
peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit." And throughout every
trial and in the presence of every hardship, spirit-born
souls are sustained by that hope which transcends all
fear because the love of God is shed abroad in all
hearts by the presence of the divine Spirit.
7. THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH
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The flesh, the inherent nature derived from the
animal-origin races, does not naturally bear the fruits
of the divine Spirit. When the mortal nature has been
upstepped by the addition of the nature of the Material
Sons of God, as the Urantia races were in a measure
advanced by the bestowal of Adam, then is the way better
prepared for the Spirit of Truth to co-operate with the
indwelling Adjuster to bring forth the beautiful harvest
of the character fruits of the spirit. If you do not
reject this spirit, even though eternity may be required
to fulfill the commission, "he will guide you into all
truth."
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Evolutionary mortals inhabiting normal worlds of
spiritual progress do not experience the acute conflicts
between the spirit and the flesh which characterize the
present-day Urantia races. But even on the most ideal
planets, pre-Adamic man must put forth positive efforts
to ascend from the purely animalistic plane of existence
up through successive levels of increasingly
intellectual meanings and higher spiritual values.
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The mortals of a normal world do not experience constant
warfare between their physical and spiritual natures.
They are confronted with the necessity of climbing up
from the animal levels of existence to the higher planes
of spiritual living, but this ascent is more like
undergoing an educational training when compared with
the intense conflicts of Urantia mortals in this realm
of the divergent material and spiritual natures.
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The Urantia peoples are suffering the consequences of a
double deprivation of help in this task of progressive
planetary spiritual attainment. The Caligastia upheaval
precipitated world-wide confusion and robbed all
subsequent generations of the moral assistance which a
well-ordered society would have provided. But even more
disastrous was the Adamic default in that it deprived
the races of that superior type of physical nature which
would have been more consonant with spiritual
aspirations.
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Urantia mortals are compelled to undergo such marked
struggling between the spirit and the flesh because
their remote ancestors were not more fully Adamized by
the Edenic bestowal. It was the divine plan that the
mortal races of Urantia should have had physical natures
more naturally spirit responsive.
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Notwithstanding this double disaster to man's nature and
his environment, present-day mortals would experience
less of this apparent warfare between the flesh and the
spirit if they would enter the spirit kingdom, wherein
the faith sons of God enjoy comparative deliverance from
the slave-bondage of the flesh in the enlightened and
liberating service of wholehearted devotion to doing the
will of the Father in heaven. Jesus showed mankind the
new way of mortal living whereby human beings may very
largely escape the dire consequences of the Caligastic
rebellion and most effectively compensate for the
deprivations resulting from the Adamic default. "The
spirit of the life of Christ Jesus has made us free from
the law of animal living and the temptations of evil and
sin." "This is the victory that overcomes the flesh,
even your faith."
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Those God-knowing men and women who have been born of
the Spirit experience no more conflict with their mortal
natures than do the inhabitants of the most normal of
worlds, planets which have never been tainted with sin
nor touched by rebellion. Faith sons work on
intellectual levels and live on spiritual planes far
above the conflicts produced by unrestrained or
unnatural physical desires. The normal urges of animal
beings and the natural appetites and impulses of the
physical nature are not in conflict with even the
highest spiritual attainment except in the minds of
ignorant, mistaught, or unfortunately overconscientious
persons.
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Having started out on the way of life everlasting,
having accepted the assignment and received your orders
to advance, do not fear the dangers of human
forgetfulness and mortal inconstancy, do not be troubled
with doubts of failure or by perplexing confusion, do
not falter and question your status and standing, for in
every dark hour, at every crossroad in the forward
struggle, the Spirit of Truth will always speak, saying,
"This is the way."
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Presented by a Mighty Messenger temporarily assigned to
service on Urantia.
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