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Paper 56

Universal Unity

Mighty Messenger and Machiventa Melchizedek

2. Intellectual Unity

56:2.1The Thought-Fa­ther re­al­izes spirit ex­pres­sion in the Word-Son and at­tains re­al­ity ex­pan­sion through Par­a­dise in the far-flung ma­te­rial uni­verses. The spir­i­tual ex­pres­sions of the Eter­nal Son are cor­re­lated with the ma­te­rial lev­els of cre­ation by the func­tions of the In­fi­nite Spirit, by whose spirit-re­spon­sive min­istry of mind, and in whose phys­i­cal-di­rec­tive acts of mind, the spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties of De­ity and the ma­te­rial reper­cus­sions of De­ity are cor­re­lated the one with the other.

56:2.2Mind is the func­tional en­dow­ment of the In­fi­nite Spirit, there­fore in­fi­nite in po­ten­tial and uni­ver­sal in be­stowal. The pri­mal thought of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther eter­nal­izes in dual ex­pres­sion: the Isle of Par­a­dise and his De­ity equal, the spir­i­tual and Eter­nal Son. Such du­al­ity of eter­nal re­al­ity ren­ders the mind God, the In­fi­nite Spirit, in­ev­i­ta­ble. Mind is the in­dis­pens­able chan­nel of com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial re­al­i­ties. The ma­te­rial evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture can con­ceive and com­pre­hend the in­dwelling spirit only by the min­istry of mind.

56:2.3This in­fi­nite and uni­ver­sal mind is min­is­tered in the uni­verses of time and space as the cos­mic mind; and though ex­tend­ing from the prim­i­tive min­istry of the ad­ju­tant spir­its up to the mag­nif­i­cent mind of the chief ex­ec­u­tive of a uni­verse, even this cos­mic mind is ad­e­quately uni­fied in the super­vi­sion of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, who are in turn co-or­di­nated with the Su­preme Mind of time and space and per­fectly cor­re­lated with the all-em­brac­ing mind of the In­fi­nite Spirit.