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Paper 34

The Local Universe Mother Spirit

Mighty Messenger

5. The Ministry of the Spirit

34:5.1The 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.

34:5.2On 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.

34:5.3Mor­tal 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.

34:5.4When 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.

34:5.5Though 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.

34:5.6As 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.

34:5.7The 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.