Relation of the Infinite Spirit to the Universe

9:1.1The Third Source and Cen­ter is known by many names, all des­ig­na­tive of re­la­tion­ship and in rec­og­ni­tion of func­tion: As God the Spirit, he is the per­son­al­ity co-or­di­nate and di­vine equal of God the Son and God the Fa­ther. As the In­fi­nite Spirit, he is an om­ni­pres­ent spir­i­tual in­flu­ence. As the Uni­ver­sal Ma­nip­u­la­tor, he is the an­ces­tor of the power-con­trol crea­tures and the ac­ti­va­tor of the cos­mic forces of space. As the Con­joint Ac­tor, he is the joint rep­re­sen­ta­tive and part­ner­ship ex­ec­u­tive of the Fa­ther-Son. As the Ab­so­lute Mind, he is the source of the en­dow­ment of in­tel­lect through­out the uni­verses. As the God of Ac­tion, he is the ap­par­ent an­ces­tor of mo­tion, change, and re­la­tion­ship.

9:1.2Some of the at­tri­butes of the Third Source and Cen­ter are de­rived from the Fa­ther, some from the Son, while still oth­ers are not ob­served to be ac­tively and per­son­ally pres­ent in ei­ther the Fa­ther or the Son—at­tri­butes that can hardly be ex­plained ex­cept by as­sum­ing that the Fa­ther-Son part­ner­ship which eter­nal­izes the Third Source and Cen­ter con­sis­tently func­tions in con­so­nance with, and in rec­og­ni­tion of, the eter­nal fact of the ab­so­lute­ness of Par­a­dise. The Con­joint Cre­ator em­bod­ies the full­ness of the com­bined and in­fi­nite con­cepts of the First and Sec­ond Per­sons of De­ity.

9:1.3While you en­vis­age the Fa­ther as an orig­i­nal cre­ator and the Son as a spir­i­tual ad­min­is­tra­tor, you should think of the Third Source and Cen­ter as a uni­ver­sal co-or­di­na­tor, a min­is­ter of un­lim­ited co-op­er­a­tion. The Con­joint Ac­tor is the cor­re­la­tor of all ac­tual re­al­ity; he is the De­ity re­pos­i­tory of the Fa­ther’s thought and the Son’s word and in ac­tion is eter­nally re­gard­ful of the ma­te­rial ab­so­lute­ness of the cen­tral Isle. The Par­a­dise Trin­ity has or­dained the uni­ver­sal or­der of prog­ress, and the prov­i­dence of God is the do­main of the Con­joint Cre­ator and the evolv­ing Su­preme Be­ing. No ac­tual or ac­tu­al­iz­ing re­al­ity can es­cape even­tual re­la­tion­ship with the Third Source and Cen­ter.

9:1.4The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther pre­sides over the realms of pre-en­ergy, pre­spirit, and per­son­al­ity; the Eter­nal Son dom­i­nates the spheres of spir­i­tual ac­tiv­i­ties; the pres­ence of the Isle of Par­a­dise uni­fies the do­main of phys­i­cal en­ergy and ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing power; the Con­joint Ac­tor op­er­ates not only as an in­fi­nite spirit rep­re­sent­ing the Son but also as a uni­ver­sal ma­nip­u­la­tor of the forces and en­er­gies of Par­a­dise, thus bring­ing into ex­is­tence the uni­ver­sal and ab­so­lute mind. The Con­joint Ac­tor func­tions through­out the grand uni­verse as a pos­i­tive and dis­tinct per­son­al­ity, es­pe­cially in the higher spheres of spir­i­tual val­ues, phys­i­cal-en­ergy re­la­tion­ships, and true mind mean­ings. He func­tions specif­i­cally wher­ever and when­ever en­ergy and spirit as­so­ciate and in­ter­act; he dom­i­nates all re­ac­tions with mind, wields great power in the spir­i­tual world, and ex­erts a mighty in­flu­ence over en­ergy and mat­ter. At all times the Third Source is ex­pres­sive of the na­ture of the First Source and Cen­ter.

9:1.5The Third Source and Cen­ter per­fectly and with­out qual­i­fi­ca­tion shares the om­nipres­ence of the First Source and Cen­ter, some­times be­ing called the Om­ni­pres­ent Spirit. In a pe­cu­liar and very per­sonal man­ner the God of mind shares the om­ni­science of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his Eter­nal Son; the knowl­edge of the Spirit is pro­found and com­plete. The Con­joint Cre­ator man­i­fests cer­tain phases of the om­nipo­tence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther but is ac­tu­ally om­nipo­tent only in the do­main of mind. The Third Per­son of De­ity is the in­tel­lec­tual cen­ter and the uni­ver­sal ad­min­is­tra­tor of the mind realms; herein is he ab­so­lute—his sov­er­eignty is un­qual­i­fied.

9:1.6The Con­joint Ac­tor seems to be mo­ti­vated by the Fa­ther-Son part­ner­ship, but all his ac­tions ap­pear to rec­og­nize the Fa­ther-Par­a­dise re­la­tion­ship. At times and in cer­tain func­tions he seems to com­pen­sate for the in­com­plete­ness of the de­vel­op­ment of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties—God the Su­preme and God the Ul­ti­mate.

9:1.7And herein is an in­fi­nite mys­tery: That the In­fi­nite si­mul­ta­ne­ously re­vealed his in­fin­ity in the Son and as Par­a­dise, and then there springs into ex­is­tence a be­ing equal to God in di­vin­ity, re­flec­tive of the Son’s spir­i­tual na­ture, and ca­pa­ble of ac­ti­vat­ing the Par­a­dise pat­tern, a be­ing pro­vi­sion­ally sub­or­di­nate in sov­er­eignty but in many ways ap­par­ently the most ver­sa­tile in ac­tion. And such ap­par­ent su­pe­ri­or­ity in ac­tion is dis­closed in an at­tri­bute of the Third Source and Cen­ter which is su­pe­rior even to phys­i­cal grav­ity—the uni­ver­sal man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Isle of Par­a­dise.

9:1.8In ad­di­tion to this super­con­trol of en­ergy and things phys­i­cal, the In­fi­nite Spirit is su­perbly en­dowed with those at­tri­butes of pa­tience, mercy, and love which are so ex­qui­sitely re­vealed in his spir­i­tual min­istry. The Spirit is su­premely com­pe­tent to min­is­ter love and to over­shadow jus­tice with mercy. God the Spirit pos­sesses all the su­per­nal kind­ness and mer­ci­ful af­fec­tion of the Orig­i­nal and Eter­nal Son. The uni­verse of your ori­gin is be­ing forged out be­tween the anvil of jus­tice and the ham­mer of suf­fer­ing; but those who wield the ham­mer are the chil­dren of mercy, the spirit off­spring of the In­fi­nite Spirit.