The Infinite Spirit

8:6.1Do not al­low the wide­spread be­stowal and the far-flung dis­tri­bu­tion of the Third Source and Cen­ter to ob­scure or oth­er­wise de­tract from the fact of his per­son­al­ity. The In­fi­nite Spirit is a uni­verse pres­ence, an eter­nal ac­tion, a cos­mic power, a holy in­flu­ence, and a uni­ver­sal mind; he is all of these and in­finitely more, but he is also a true and di­vine per­son­al­ity.

8:6.2The In­fi­nite Spirit is a com­plete and per­fect per­son­al­ity, the di­vine equal and co-or­di­nate of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son. The Con­joint Cre­ator is just as real and vis­i­ble to the higher in­tel­li­gences of the uni­verses as are the Fa­ther and the Son; in­deed more so, for it is the Spirit whom all as­cend­ers must at­tain be­fore they may ap­proach the Fa­ther through the Son.

8:6.3The In­fi­nite Spirit, the Third Per­son of De­ity, is pos­sessed of all the at­tri­butes which you as­so­ciate with per­son­al­ity. The Spirit is en­dowed with ab­so­lute mind: “The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.” The Spirit is en­dowed not only with mind but also with will. In the be­stowal of his gifts it is re­corded: “But all these works that one and the self­same Spirit, di­vid­ing to ev­ery man sev­er­ally and as he wills.”

8:6.4“The love of the Spirit” is real, as also are his sor­rows; there­fore “Grieve not the Spirit of God.” Whether we ob­serve the In­fi­nite Spirit as Par­a­dise De­ity or as a lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit, we find that the Con­joint Cre­ator is not only the Third Source and Cen­ter but also a di­vine per­son. This di­vine per­son­al­ity also re­acts to the uni­verse as a per­son. The Spirit speaks to you, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says.” “The Spirit him­self makes in­ter­ces­sion for you.” The Spirit ex­erts a di­rect and per­sonal in­flu­ence upon cre­ated be­ings, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”

8:6.5Even though we be­hold the phe­nom­e­non of the min­istry of the In­fi­nite Spirit to the re­mote worlds of the uni­verse of uni­verses, even though we en­vis­age this same co-or­di­nat­ing De­ity act­ing in and through the un­told le­gions of the man­i­fold be­ings who take ori­gin in the Third Source and Cen­ter, even though we rec­og­nize the om­nipres­ence of the Spirit, nonethe­less, we still af­firm that this same Third Source and Cen­ter is a per­son, the Con­joint Cre­ator of all things and all be­ings and all uni­verses.

8:6.6In the ad­min­is­tra­tion of uni­verses the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit are per­fectly and eter­nally in­teras­so­ci­ated. Though each is en­gaged in a per­sonal min­istry to all cre­ation, all three are di­vinely and ab­so­lutely in­ter­locked in a ser­vice of cre­ation and con­trol which for­ever makes them one.

8:6.7In the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit the Fa­ther and the Son are mu­tu­ally pres­ent, al­ways and in un­qual­i­fied per­fec­tion, for the Spirit is like the Fa­ther and like the Son, and also like the Fa­ther and the Son as they two are for­ever one.

8:6.8[Pre­sented on Uran­tia by a Di­vine Coun­selor of Uversa com­mis­sioned by the An­cients of Days to por­tray the na­ture and work of the In­fi­nite Spirit.]