The Infinite Spirit

8:2.1The Con­joint Cre­ator is from eter­nity and is wholly and with­out qual­i­fi­ca­tion one with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son. The In­fi­nite Spirit re­flects in per­fec­tion not only the na­ture of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther but also the na­ture of the Orig­i­nal Son.

8:2.2The Third Source and Cen­ter is known by nu­mer­ous ti­tles: the Uni­ver­sal Spirit, the Su­preme Guide, the Con­joint Cre­ator, the Di­vine Ex­ec­u­tive, the In­fi­nite Mind, the Spirit of Spir­its, the Par­a­dise Mother Spirit, the Con­joint Ac­tor, the Fi­nal Co-or­di­na­tor, the Om­ni­pres­ent Spirit, the Ab­so­lute In­tel­li­gence, the Di­vine Ac­tion; and on Uran­tia he is some­times con­fused with the cos­mic mind.

8:2.3It is al­to­gether proper to de­nom­i­nate the Third Per­son of De­ity the In­fi­nite Spirit, for God is spirit. But ma­te­rial crea­tures who tend to­wards the er­ror of view­ing mat­ter as ba­sic re­al­ity and mind, to­gether with spirit, as pos­tu­lates rooted in mat­ter, would bet­ter com­pre­hend the Third Source and Cen­ter if he were called the In­fi­nite Re­al­ity, the Uni­ver­sal Or­ga­nizer, or the Per­son­al­ity Co-or­di­na­tor.

8:2.4The In­fi­nite Spirit, as a uni­verse rev­e­la­tion of di­vin­ity, is un­search­able and ut­terly be­yond hu­man com­pre­hen­sion. To sense the ab­so­lute­ness of the Spirit, you need only con­tem­plate the in­fin­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and stand in awe of the eter­nity of the Orig­i­nal Son.

8:2.5There is mys­tery in­deed in the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit but not so much as in the Fa­ther and the Son. Of all as­pects of the Fa­ther’s na­ture, the Con­joint Cre­ator most strik­ingly dis­closes his in­fin­ity. Even if the mas­ter uni­verse even­tu­ally ex­pands to in­fin­ity, the spirit pres­ence, en­ergy con­trol, and mind po­ten­tial of the Con­joint Ac­tor will be found ad­e­quate to meet the de­mands of such a lim­it­less cre­ation.

8:2.6Though in ev­ery way shar­ing the per­fec­tion, the righ­teous­ness, and the love of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the In­fi­nite Spirit in­clines to­wards the mercy at­tri­butes of the Eter­nal Son, thus be­com­ing the mercy min­is­ter of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties to the grand uni­verse. Ever and al­ways—uni­ver­sally and eter­nally—the Spirit is a mercy min­is­ter, for, as the di­vine Sons re­veal the love of God, so the di­vine Spirit de­picts the mercy of God.

8:2.7It is not pos­si­ble that the Spirit could have more of good­ness than the Fa­ther since all good­ness takes ori­gin in the Fa­ther, but in the acts of the Spirit we can the bet­ter com­pre­hend such good­ness. The Fa­ther’s faith­ful­ness and the Son’s con­stancy are made very real to the spirit be­ings and the ma­te­rial crea­tures of the spheres by the lov­ing min­istry and cease­less ser­vice of the per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

8:2.8The Con­joint Cre­ator in­her­its all the Fa­ther’s beauty of thought and char­ac­ter of truth. And these sub­lime traits of di­vin­ity are co-or­di­nated in the near-su­preme lev­els of the cos­mic mind in sub­or­di­na­tion to the in­fi­nite and eter­nal wis­dom of the un­con­di­tioned and lim­it­less mind of the Third Source and Cen­ter.