Administration of the Local Universe

33:3.1While per­vad­ing all the uni­verses of time and space, the In­fi­nite Spirit func­tions from the head­quar­ters of each lo­cal uni­verse as a spe­cial­ized fo­cal­iza­tion ac­quir­ing full per­son­al­ity qual­i­ties by the tech­nique of cre­ative co-op­er­a­tion with the Cre­ator Son. As con­cerns a lo­cal uni­verse, the ad­min­is­tra­tive au­thor­ity of a Cre­ator Son is su­preme; the In­fi­nite Spirit, as the Di­vine Min­is­ter, is wholly co-op­er­a­tive though per­fectly co-or­di­nate.

33:3.2The Uni­verse Mother Spirit of Sal­ving­ton, the as­so­ciate of Mi­chael in the con­trol and ad­min­is­tra­tion of Neb­a­don, is of the sixth group of Su­preme Spir­its, be­ing the 611,121^st of that or­der. She vol­un­teered to ac­com­pany Mi­chael on the oc­ca­sion of his lib­er­a­tion from Par­a­dise obli­ga­tions and has ever since func­tioned with him in cre­at­ing and gov­ern­ing his uni­verse.

33:3.3The Mas­ter Cre­ator Son is the per­sonal sov­er­eign of his uni­verse, but in all the de­tails of its man­age­ment the Uni­verse Spirit is codi­rec­tor with the Son. While the Spirit ever ac­knowl­edges the Son as sov­er­eign and ruler, the Son al­ways ac­cords the Spirit a co-or­di­nate po­si­tion and equal­ity of au­thor­ity in all the af­fairs of the realm. In all his work of love and life be­stowal the Cre­ator Son is al­ways and ever per­fectly sus­tained and ably as­sisted by the all-wise and ever-faith­ful Uni­verse Spirit and by all of her di­ver­si­fied ret­inue of an­gelic per­son­al­i­ties. Such a Di­vine Min­is­ter is in re­al­ity the mother of spir­its and spirit per­son­al­i­ties, the ever-pres­ent and all-wise ad­viser of the Cre­ator Son, a faith­ful and true man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Par­a­dise In­fi­nite Spirit.

33:3.4The Son func­tions as a fa­ther in his lo­cal uni­verse. The Spirit, as mor­tal crea­tures would un­der­stand, en­acts the role of a mother, al­ways as­sist­ing the Son and be­ing ev­er­last­ingly in­dis­pens­able to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­verse. In the face of in­sur­rec­tion only the Son and his as­so­ci­ated Sons can func­tion as de­liv­er­ers. Never can the Spirit un­der­take to con­test re­bel­lion or de­fend au­thor­ity, but ever does the Spirit sus­tain the Son in all of ev­ery­thing he may be re­quired to ex­pe­ri­ence in his ef­forts to sta­bi­lize gov­ern­ment and up­hold au­thor­ity on worlds tainted with evil or dom­i­nated by sin. Only a Son can re­trieve the work of their joint cre­ation, but no Son could hope for fi­nal suc­cess with­out the in­ces­sant co-op­er­a­tion of the Di­vine Min­is­ter and her vast as­sem­blage of spirit helpers, the daugh­ters of God, who so faith­fully and valiantly strug­gle for the wel­fare of mor­tal men and the glory of their di­vine par­ents.

33:3.5Upon the com­ple­tion of the Cre­ator Son’s sev­enth and fi­nal crea­ture be­stowal, the un­cer­tain­ties of pe­ri­odic iso­la­tion ter­mi­nate for the Di­vine Min­is­ter, and the Son’s uni­verse helper be­comes for­ever set­tled in surety and con­trol. It is at the en­throne­ment of the Cre­ator Son as a Mas­ter Son, at the ju­bilee of ju­bilees, that the Uni­verse Spirit, be­fore the as­sem­bled hosts, first makes pub­lic and uni­ver­sal ac­knowl­edg­ment of sub­or­di­na­tion to the Son, pledg­ing fi­delity and obe­di­ence. This event oc­curred in Neb­a­don at the time of Mi­chael’s re­turn to Sal­ving­ton af­ter the Uran­tian be­stowal. Never be­fore this mo­men­tous oc­ca­sion did the Uni­verse Spirit ac­knowl­edge sub­or­di­na­tion to the Uni­verse Son, and not un­til af­ter this vol­un­tary re­lin­quish­ment of power and au­thor­ity by the Spirit could it be truth­fully pro­claimed of the Son that “all power in heaven and on earth has been com­mit­ted to his hand.”

33:3.6Af­ter this pledge of sub­or­di­na­tion by the Cre­ative Mother Spirit, Mi­chael of Neb­a­don nobly ac­knowl­edged his eter­nal de­pen­dence on his Spirit com­pan­ion, con­sti­tut­ing the Spirit coruler of his uni­verse do­mains and re­quir­ing all their crea­tures to pledge them­selves in loy­alty to the Spirit as they had to the Son; and there is­sued and went forth the fi­nal “Procla­ma­tion of Equal­ity.” Though he was the sov­er­eign of this lo­cal uni­verse, the Son pub­lished to the worlds the fact of the Spirit’s equal­ity with him in all en­dow­ments of per­son­al­ity and at­tri­butes of di­vine char­ac­ter. And this be­comes the tran­scen­dent pat­tern for the fam­ily or­ga­ni­za­tion and gov­ern­ment of even the lowly crea­tures of the worlds of space. This is, in deed and in truth, the high ideal of the fam­ily and the hu­man in­sti­tu­tion of vol­un­tary mar­riage.

33:3.7The Son and the Spirit now pre­side over the uni­verse much as a fa­ther and mother watch over, and min­is­ter to, their fam­ily of sons and daugh­ters. It is not al­to­gether out of place to re­fer to the Uni­verse Spirit as the cre­ative com­pan­ion of the Cre­ator Son and to re­gard the crea­tures of the realms as their sons and daugh­ters—a grand and glo­ri­ous fam­ily but one of un­told re­spon­si­bil­i­ties and end­less watch­care.

33:3.8The Son ini­ti­ates the cre­ation of cer­tain of the uni­verse chil­dren, while the Spirit is solely re­spon­si­ble for bring­ing into ex­is­tence the nu­mer­ous or­ders of spirit per­son­al­i­ties who min­is­ter and serve un­der the di­rec­tion and guid­ance of this self­same Mother Spirit. In the cre­ation of other types of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties, both the Son and the Spirit func­tion to­gether, and in no cre­ative act does the one do aught with­out the coun­sel and ap­proval of the other.