The Infinite Spirit

8:3.1As the Eter­nal Son is the word ex­pres­sion of the “first” ab­so­lute and in­fi­nite thought of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, so the Con­joint Ac­tor is the per­fect ex­e­cu­tion of the “first” com­pleted cre­ative con­cept or plan for com­bined ac­tion by the Fa­ther-Son per­son­al­ity part­ner­ship of ab­so­lute thought-word union. The Third Source and Cen­ter eter­nal­izes con­cur­rently with the cen­tral or fiat cre­ation, and only this cen­tral cre­ation is eter­nal in ex­is­tence among uni­verses.

8:3.2Since the per­son­al­iza­tion of the Third Source, the First Source no more per­son­ally par­tic­i­pates in uni­verse cre­ation. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther del­e­gates ev­ery­thing pos­si­ble to his Eter­nal Son; like­wise does the Eter­nal Son be­stow all pos­si­ble au­thor­ity and power upon the Con­joint Cre­ator.

8:3.3The Eter­nal Son and the Con­joint Cre­ator have, as part­ners and through their co-or­di­nate per­son­al­i­ties, planned and fash­ioned ev­ery post-Ha­vona uni­verse which has been brought into ex­is­tence. The Spirit sus­tains the same per­sonal re­la­tion to the Son in all sub­se­quent cre­ation that the Son sus­tains to the Fa­ther in the first and cen­tral cre­ation.

8:3.4A Cre­ator Son of the Eter­nal Son and a Cre­ative Spirit of the In­fi­nite Spirit cre­ated you and your uni­verse; and while the Fa­ther in faith­ful­ness up­holds that which they have or­ga­nized, it de­volves upon this Uni­verse Son and this Uni­verse Spirit to fos­ter and sus­tain their work as well as to min­is­ter to the crea­tures of their own mak­ing.

8:3.5The In­fi­nite Spirit is the ef­fec­tive agent of the all-lov­ing Fa­ther and the all-mer­ci­ful Son for the ex­e­cu­tion of their con­joint project of draw­ing to them­selves all truth-lov­ing souls on all the worlds of time and space. The very in­stant the Eter­nal Son ac­cepted his Fa­ther’s plan of per­fec­tion at­tain­ment for the crea­tures of the uni­verses, the mo­ment the as­cen­sion project be­came a Fa­ther-Son plan, that in­stant the In­fi­nite Spirit be­came the con­joint ad­min­is­tra­tor of the Fa­ther and the Son for the ex­e­cu­tion of their united and eter­nal pur­pose. And in so do­ing the In­fi­nite Spirit pledged all his re­sources of di­vine pres­ence and of spirit per­son­al­i­ties to the Fa­ther and the Son; he has ded­i­cated all to the stu­pen­dous plan of ex­alt­ing sur­viv­ing will crea­tures to the di­vine heights of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion.

8:3.6The In­fi­nite Spirit is a com­plete, ex­clu­sive, and uni­ver­sal rev­e­la­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his Eter­nal Son. All knowl­edge of the Fa­ther-Son part­ner­ship must be had through the In­fi­nite Spirit, the con­joint rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the di­vine thought-word union.

8:3.7The Eter­nal Son is the only av­enue of ap­proach to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and the In­fi­nite Spirit is the only means of at­tain­ing the Eter­nal Son. Only by the pa­tient min­istry of the Spirit are the as­cen­dant be­ings of time able to dis­cover the Son.

8:3.8At the cen­ter of all things the In­fi­nite Spirit is the first of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties to be at­tained by the as­cend­ing pil­grims. The Third Per­son en­shrouds the Sec­ond and the First Per­sons and there­fore must al­ways be first rec­og­nized by all who are can­di­dates for pre­sen­ta­tion to the Son and his Fa­ther.

8:3.9And in many other ways does the Spirit equally rep­re­sent and sim­i­larly serve the Fa­ther and the Son.