The Local Universe Mother Spirit

34:6.1With 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.

34:6.2Al­though 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.

34:6.3From 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.

34:6.4Spir­i­tual 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.

34:6.5The 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.”

34:6.6The 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.

34:6.7Those 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.

34:6.8It 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.

34:6.9In 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.

34:6.10The 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.”

34:6.11The 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.

34:6.12And 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.

34:6.13The 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.