The Infinite Spirit

8:0.1Back in eter­nity, when the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther’s “first” in­fi­nite and ab­so­lute thought finds in the Eter­nal Son such a per­fect and ad­e­quate word for its di­vine ex­pres­sion, there en­sues the su­preme de­sire of both the Thought-God and the Word-God for a uni­ver­sal and in­fi­nite agent of mu­tual ex­pres­sion and com­bined ac­tion.

8:0.2In the dawn of eter­nity both the Fa­ther and the Son be­come in­finitely cog­nizant of their mu­tual in­ter­de­pen­dence, their eter­nal and ab­so­lute one­ness; and there­fore do they en­ter into an in­fi­nite and ev­er­last­ing covenant of di­vine part­ner­ship. This never-end­ing com­pact is made for the ex­e­cu­tion of their united con­cepts through­out all of the cir­cle of eter­nity; and ever since this eter­nity event the Fa­ther and the Son con­tinue in this di­vine union.

8:0.3We are now face to face with the eter­nity ori­gin of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Third Per­son of De­ity. The very in­stant that God the Fa­ther and God the Son con­jointly con­ceive an iden­ti­cal and in­fi­nite ac­tion—the ex­e­cu­tion of an ab­so­lute thought-plan—that very mo­ment, the In­fi­nite Spirit springs full-fledgedly into ex­is­tence.

8:0.4In thus recit­ing the or­der of the ori­gin of the De­i­ties, I do so merely to en­able you to think of their re­la­tion­ship. In re­al­ity they are all three ex­is­tent from eter­nity; they are ex­is­ten­tial. They are with­out be­gin­ning or end­ing of days; they are co-or­di­nate, su­preme, ul­ti­mate, ab­so­lute, and in­fi­nite. They are and al­ways have been and ever shall be. And they are three dis­tinctly in­di­vid­u­al­ized but eter­nally as­so­ci­ated per­sons, God the Fa­ther, God the Son, and God the Spirit.