The Infinite Spirit

8:4.1Par­al­lel­ing the phys­i­cal uni­verse wherein Par­a­dise grav­ity holds all things to­gether is the spir­i­tual uni­verse wherein the word of the Son in­ter­prets the thought of God and, when “made flesh,” demon­strates the lov­ing mercy of the com­bined na­ture of the as­so­ci­ated Cre­ators. But in and through all this ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual cre­ation there is a vast stage whereon the In­fi­nite Spirit and his spirit off­spring show forth the com­bined mercy, pa­tience, and ev­er­last­ing af­fec­tion of the di­vine par­ents to­wards the in­tel­li­gent chil­dren of their co-op­er­a­tive de­vis­ing and mak­ing. Ev­er­last­ing min­istry to mind is the essence of the Spirit’s di­vine char­ac­ter. And all the spirit off­spring of the Con­joint Ac­tor par­take of this de­sire to min­is­ter, this di­vine urge to ser­vice.

8:4.2God is love, the Son is mercy, the Spirit is min­istry—the min­istry of di­vine love and end­less mercy to all in­tel­li­gent cre­ation. The Spirit is the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the Fa­ther’s love and the Son’s mercy; in him are they eter­nally united for uni­ver­sal ser­vice. The Spirit is love ap­plied to the crea­ture cre­ation, the com­bined love of the Fa­ther and the Son.

8:4.3On Uran­tia the In­fi­nite Spirit is known as an om­ni­pres­ent in­flu­ence, a uni­ver­sal pres­ence, but in Ha­vona you shall know him as a per­sonal pres­ence of ac­tual min­istry. Here the min­istry of the Par­a­dise Spirit is the ex­em­plary and in­spir­ing pat­tern for each of his co-or­di­nate Spir­its and sub­or­di­nate per­son­al­i­ties min­is­ter­ing to the cre­ated be­ings on the worlds of time and space. In this di­vine uni­verse the In­fi­nite Spirit fully par­tic­i­pated in the seven tran­scen­den­tal ap­pear­ances of the Eter­nal Son; like­wise did he par­tic­i­pate with the orig­i­nal Mi­chael Son in the seven be­stowals upon the cir­cuits of Ha­vona, thereby be­com­ing the sym­pa­thetic and un­der­stand­ing spirit min­is­ter to ev­ery pil­grim of time travers­ing these per­fect cir­cles on high.

8:4.4When a Cre­ator Son of God ac­cepts the cre­ator­ship charge of re­spon­si­bil­ity for a pro­jected lo­cal uni­verse, the per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit pledge them­selves as the tire­less min­is­ters of this Mi­chael Son when he goes forth on his mis­sion of cre­ative ad­ven­ture. Es­pe­cially in the per­sons of the Cre­ative Daugh­ters, the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spir­its, do we find the In­fi­nite Spirit de­voted to the task of fos­ter­ing the as­cen­sion of the ma­te­rial crea­tures to higher and higher lev­els of spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. And all this work of crea­ture min­istry is done in per­fect har­mony with the pur­poses, and in close as­so­ci­a­tion with the per­son­al­i­ties, of the Cre­ator Sons of these lo­cal uni­verses.

8:4.5As the Sons of God are en­gaged in the gi­gan­tic task of re­veal­ing the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity of love to a uni­verse, so is the In­fi­nite Spirit ded­i­cated to the un­end­ing min­istry of re­veal­ing the com­bined love of the Fa­ther and the Son to the in­di­vid­ual minds of all the chil­dren of each uni­verse. In these lo­cal cre­ations the Spirit does not come down to the ma­te­rial races in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh as do cer­tain of the Sons of God, but the In­fi­nite Spirit and his co-or­di­nate Spir­its do down­step them­selves, do joy­fully un­dergo an amaz­ing se­ries of di­vin­ity at­ten­u­a­tions, un­til they ap­pear as an­gels to stand by your side and guide you through the lowly paths of earthly ex­is­tence.

8:4.6By this very di­min­ish­ing se­ries the In­fi­nite Spirit does ac­tu­ally, and as a per­son, draw very near to ev­ery be­ing of the an­i­mal-ori­gin spheres. And all this the Spirit does with­out in the least in­val­i­dat­ing his ex­is­tence as the Third Per­son of De­ity at the cen­ter of all things.

8:4.7The Con­joint Cre­ator is truly and for­ever the great min­is­ter­ing per­son­al­ity, the uni­ver­sal mercy min­is­ter. To com­pre­hend the min­istry of the Spirit, pon­der the truth that he is the com­bined por­trayal of the Fa­ther’s un­end­ing love and of the Son’s eter­nal mercy. The Spirit’s min­istry is not, how­ever, re­stricted solely to the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the Eter­nal Son and the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The In­fi­nite Spirit also pos­sesses the power to min­is­ter to the crea­tures of the realm in his own name and right; the Third Per­son is of di­vine dig­nity and also be­stows the uni­ver­sal min­istry of mercy in his own be­half.

8:4.8As man learns more of the lov­ing and tire­less min­istry of the lower or­ders of the crea­ture fam­ily of this In­fi­nite Spirit, he will all the more ad­mire and adore the tran­scen­dent na­ture and match­less char­ac­ter of this com­bined Ac­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son. In­deed is this Spirit “the eyes of the Lord which are ever over the righ­teous” and “the di­vine ears which are ever open to their prayers.”