The Infinite Spirit

8:1.1In the eter­nity of the past, upon the per­son­al­iza­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit the di­vine per­son­al­ity cy­cle be­comes per­fect and com­plete. The God of Ac­tion is ex­is­tent, and the vast stage of space is set for the stu­pen­dous drama of cre­ation—the uni­ver­sal ad­ven­ture—the di­vine pan­o­rama of the eter­nal ages.

8:1.2The first act of the In­fi­nite Spirit is the in­spec­tion and rec­og­ni­tion of his di­vine par­ents, the Fa­ther-Fa­ther and the Mother-Son. He, the Spirit, un­qual­i­fiedly iden­ti­fies both of them. He is fully cog­nizant of their sep­a­rate per­son­al­i­ties and in­fi­nite at­tri­butes as well as of their com­bined na­ture and united func­tion. Next, vol­un­tar­ily, with tran­scen­dent will­ing­ness and in­spir­ing spon­tane­ity, the Third Per­son of De­ity, not­with­stand­ing his equal­ity with the First and Sec­ond Per­sons, pledges eter­nal loy­alty to God the Fa­ther and ac­knowl­edges ev­er­last­ing de­pen­dence upon God the Son.

8:1.3In­her­ent in the na­ture of this trans­ac­tion and in mu­tual rec­og­ni­tion of the per­son­al­ity in­de­pen­dence of each and the ex­ec­u­tive union of all three, the cy­cle of eter­nity is es­tab­lished. The Par­a­dise Trin­ity is ex­is­tent. The stage of uni­ver­sal space is set for the man­i­fold and never-end­ing pan­o­rama of the cre­ative un­fold­ing of the pur­pose of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther through the per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son and by the ex­e­cu­tion of the God of Ac­tion, the ex­ec­u­tive agency for the re­al­ity per­for­mances of the Fa­ther-Son cre­ator part­ner­ship.

8:1.4The God of Ac­tion func­tions and the dead vaults of space are astir. One bil­lion per­fect spheres flash into ex­is­tence. Prior to this hy­po­thet­i­cal eter­nity mo­ment the space-en­er­gies in­her­ent in Par­a­dise are ex­is­tent and po­ten­tially op­er­a­tive, but they have no ac­tu­al­ity of be­ing; nei­ther can phys­i­cal grav­ity be mea­sured ex­cept by the re­ac­tion of ma­te­rial re­al­i­ties to its in­ces­sant pull. There is no ma­te­rial uni­verse at this (as­sumed) eter­nally dis­tant mo­ment, but the very in­stant that one bil­lion worlds ma­te­ri­al­ize, there is in ev­i­dence grav­ity suf­fi­cient and ad­e­quate to hold them in the ev­er­last­ing grasp of Par­a­dise.

8:1.5There now flashes through the cre­ation of the Gods the sec­ond form of en­ergy, and this out­flow­ing spirit is in­stantly grasped by the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son. Thus the two­fold grav­ity-em­braced uni­verse is touched with the en­ergy of in­fin­ity and im­mersed in the spirit of di­vin­ity. In this way is the soil of life pre­pared for the con­scious­ness of mind made man­i­fest in the as­so­ci­ated in­tel­li­gence cir­cuits of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

8:1.6Upon these seeds of po­ten­tial ex­is­tence, dif­fused through­out the cen­tral cre­ation of the Gods, the Fa­ther acts, and crea­ture per­son­al­ity ap­pears. Then does the pres­ence of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties fill all or­ga­nized space and be­gin ef­fec­tively to draw all things and be­ings Par­adis­e­ward.

8:1.7The In­fi­nite Spirit eter­nal­izes con­cur­rently with the birth of the Ha­vona worlds, this cen­tral uni­verse be­ing cre­ated by him and with him and in him in obe­di­ence to the com­bined con­cepts and united wills of the Fa­ther and the Son. The Third Per­son deitizes by this very act of con­joint cre­ation, and he thus for­ever be­comes the Con­joint Cre­ator.

8:1.8These are the grand and aw­ful times of the cre­ative ex­pan­sion of the Fa­ther and the Son by, and in, the ac­tion of their con­joint as­so­ciate and ex­clu­sive ex­ec­u­tive, the Third Source and Cen­ter. There ex­ists no rec­ord of these stir­ring times. We have only the mea­ger dis­clo­sures of the In­fi­nite Spirit to sub­stan­ti­ate these mighty trans­ac­tions, and he merely ver­i­fies the fact that the cen­tral uni­verse and all that per­tains thereto eter­nal­ized si­mul­ta­ne­ously with his at­tain­ment of per­son­al­ity and con­scious ex­is­tence.

8:1.9In brief, the In­fi­nite Spirit tes­ti­fies that, since he is eter­nal, so also is the cen­tral uni­verse eter­nal. And this is the tra­di­tional start­ing point of the his­tory of the uni­verse of uni­verses. Ab­so­lutely noth­ing is known, and no rec­ords are in ex­is­tence, re­gard­ing any event or trans­ac­tion prior to this stu­pen­dous erup­tion of cre­ative en­ergy and ad­min­is­tra­tive wis­dom that crys­tal­lized the vast uni­verse which ex­ists, and so ex­qui­sitely func­tions, at the cen­ter of all things. Be­yond this event lie the un­search­able trans­ac­tions of eter­nity and the depths of in­fin­ity—ab­so­lute mys­tery.

8:1.10And we thus por­tray the se­quen­tial ori­gin of the Third Source and Cen­ter as an in­ter­pre­ta­tive con­de­scen­sion to the time-bound and space-con­di­tioned mind of mor­tal crea­tures. The mind of man must have a start­ing point for the vi­su­al­iza­tion of uni­verse his­tory, and I have been di­rected to pro­vide this tech­nique of ap­proach to the his­toric con­cept of eter­nity. In the ma­te­rial mind, con­sis­tency de­mands a First Cause; there­fore do we pos­tu­late the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther as the First Source and the Ab­so­lute Cen­ter of all cre­ation, at the same time in­struct­ing all crea­ture minds that the Son and the Spirit are co­eter­nal with the Fa­ther in all phases of uni­verse his­tory and in all realms of cre­ative ac­tiv­ity. And we do this with­out in any sense be­ing dis­re­gard­ful of the re­al­ity and eter­nity of the Isle of Par­a­dise and of the Un­qual­i­fied, Uni­ver­sal, and De­ity Ab­so­lutes.

8:1.11It is enough of a reach of the ma­te­rial mind of the chil­dren of time to con­ceive of the Fa­ther in eter­nity. We know that any child can best re­late him­self to re­al­ity by first mas­ter­ing the re­la­tion­ships of the child-par­ent sit­u­a­tion and then by en­larg­ing this con­cept to em­brace the fam­ily as a whole. Sub­se­quently the grow­ing mind of the child will be able to ad­just to the con­cept of fam­ily re­la­tions, to re­la­tion­ships of the com­mu­nity, the race, and the world, and then to those of the uni­verse, the super­uni­verse, even the uni­verse of uni­verses.