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Paper 9

Relation of the Infinite Spirit to the Universe

Divine Counselor

9:0.1A strange thing oc­curred when, in the pres­ence of Par­a­dise, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son unite to per­son­al­ize them­selves. Noth­ing in this eter­nity sit­u­a­tion fore­shad­ows that the Con­joint Ac­tor would per­son­al­ize as an un­lim­ited spir­i­tu­al­ity co-or­di­nated with ab­so­lute mind and en­dowed with unique pre­rog­a­tives of en­ergy ma­nip­u­la­tion. His com­ing into be­ing com­pletes the Fa­ther’s lib­er­a­tion from the bonds of cen­tral­ized per­fec­tion and from the fet­ters of per­son­al­ity ab­so­lutism. And this lib­er­a­tion is dis­closed in the amaz­ing power of the Con­joint Cre­ator to cre­ate be­ings well adapted to serve as min­is­ter­ing spir­its even to the ma­te­rial crea­tures of the sub­se­quently evolv­ing uni­verses.

9:0.2The Fa­ther is in­fi­nite in love and vo­li­tion, in spir­i­tual thought and pur­pose; he is the uni­ver­sal up­holder. The Son is in­fi­nite in wis­dom and truth, in spir­i­tual ex­pres­sion and in­ter­pre­ta­tion; he is the uni­ver­sal re­vealer. Par­a­dise is in­fi­nite in po­ten­tial for force en­dow­ment and in ca­pac­ity for en­ergy dom­i­nance; it is the uni­ver­sal sta­bi­lizer. The Con­joint Ac­tor pos­sesses unique pre­rog­a­tives of syn­the­sis, in­fi­nite ca­pac­ity to co-or­di­nate all ex­ist­ing uni­verse en­er­gies, all ac­tual uni­verse spir­its, and all real uni­verse in­tel­lects; the Third Source and Cen­ter is the uni­ver­sal uni­fier of the man­i­fold en­er­gies and di­verse cre­ations which have ap­peared in con­se­quence of the di­vine plan and the eter­nal pur­pose of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

9:0.3The In­fi­nite Spirit, the Con­joint Cre­ator, is a uni­ver­sal and di­vine min­is­ter. The Spirit un­ceas­ingly min­is­ters the Son’s mercy and the Fa­ther’s love, even in har­mony with the sta­ble, un­vary­ing, and righ­teous jus­tice of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. His in­flu­ence and per­son­al­i­ties are ever near you; they re­ally know and truly un­der­stand you.

9:0.4Through­out the uni­verses the agen­cies of the Con­joint Ac­tor cease­lessly ma­nip­u­late the forces and en­er­gies of all space. Like the First Source and Cen­ter, the Third is re­spon­sive to both the spir­i­tual and the ma­te­rial. The Con­joint Ac­tor is the rev­e­la­tion of the unity of God, in whom all things con­sist—things, mean­ings, and val­ues; en­er­gies, minds, and spir­its.

9:0.5The In­fi­nite Spirit per­vades all space; he in­dwells the cir­cle of eter­nity; and the Spirit, like the Fa­ther and the Son, is per­fect and change­less—ab­so­lute.