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Paper 56

Universal Unity

Mighty Messenger and Machiventa Melchizedek

3. Spiritual Unification

56:3.1As the uni­ver­sal mind grav­ity is cen­tered in the Par­a­dise per­sonal pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit, so does the uni­ver­sal spirit grav­ity cen­ter in the Par­a­dise per­sonal pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is one, but to time-space he is re­vealed in the dual phe­nom­ena of pure en­ergy and pure spirit.

56:3.2Par­a­dise spirit re­al­i­ties are like­wise one, but in all time-space sit­u­a­tions and re­la­tions this sin­gle spirit is re­vealed in the dual phe­nom­ena of the spirit per­son­al­i­ties and em­a­na­tions of the Eter­nal Son and the spirit per­son­al­i­ties and in­flu­ences of the In­fi­nite Spirit and as­so­ci­ated cre­ations; and there is yet a third—pure-spirit frag­men­ta­tions—the Fa­ther’s be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers and other spirit en­ti­ties which are preper­sonal.

56:3.3No mat­ter on what level of uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties you may en­counter spir­i­tual phe­nom­ena or con­tact with spirit be­ings, you may know that they are all de­rived from the God who is spirit by the min­istry of the Spirit Son and the In­fi­nite Mind Spirit. And this far-flung spirit func­tions as a phe­nom­e­non on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time as it is di­rected from the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verses. From these cap­i­tals of the Cre­ator Sons come the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Truth, to­gether with the min­istry of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its, to the lower and evolv­ing lev­els of ma­te­rial minds.

56:3.4While mind is more uni­fied on the level of the Mas­ter Spir­its in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Su­preme Be­ing and as the cos­mic mind in sub­or­di­na­tion to the Ab­so­lute Mind, the spirit min­istry to the evolv­ing worlds is more di­rectly uni­fied in the per­son­al­i­ties res­i­dent on the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verses and in the per­sons of the pre­sid­ing Di­vine Min­is­ters, who are in turn well-nigh per­fectly cor­re­lated with the Par­a­dise grav­ity cir­cuit of the Eter­nal Son, wherein oc­curs fi­nal uni­fi­ca­tion of all time-space spirit man­i­fes­ta­tions.

56:3.5Per­fected crea­ture ex­is­tence can be at­tained, sus­tained, and eter­nal­ized by the fu­sion of self-con­scious mind with a frag­ment of the pre-Trin­ity spirit en­dow­ment of some one of the per­sons of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. The mor­tal mind is the cre­ation of the Sons and Daugh­ters of the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit and, when fused with the Thought Ad­juster from the Fa­ther, par­takes of the three­fold spirit en­dow­ment of the evo­lu­tion­ary realms. But these three spirit ex­pres­sions be­come per­fectly uni­fied in the fi­nal­i­ters, even as they were in eter­nity so uni­fied in the Uni­ver­sal I AM ere he ever be­came the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther of the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit.

56:3.6Spirit must al­ways and ul­ti­mately be­come three­fold in ex­pres­sion and Trin­ity-uni­fied in fi­nal re­al­iza­tion. Spirit orig­i­nates from one source through a three­fold ex­pres­sion; and in fi­nal­ity it must and does at­tain its full re­al­iza­tion in that di­vine uni­fi­ca­tion which is ex­pe­ri­enced in find­ing God—one­ness with di­vin­ity—in eter­nity, and by means of the min­istry of the cos­mic mind of the in­fi­nite ex­pres­sion of the eter­nal word of the Fa­ther’s uni­ver­sal thought.