Relation of the Infinite Spirit to the Universe

9:2.1God is spirit in a three­fold sense: He him­self is spirit; in his Son he ap­pears as spirit with­out qual­i­fi­ca­tion; in the Con­joint Ac­tor, as spirit al­lied with mind. And in ad­di­tion to these spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties, we think we dis­cern lev­els of ex­pe­ri­en­tial spirit phe­nom­ena—the spir­its of the Su­preme Be­ing, Ul­ti­mate De­ity, and De­ity Ab­so­lute.

9:2.2The In­fi­nite Spirit is just as much a com­ple­ment of the Eter­nal Son as the Son is a com­ple­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The Eter­nal Son is a spir­i­tu­al­ized per­son­al­iza­tion of the Fa­ther; the In­fi­nite Spirit is a per­son­al­ized spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion of the Eter­nal Son and the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

9:2.3There are many un­tram­meled lines of spir­i­tual force and sources of super­ma­te­rial power link­ing the peo­ple of Uran­tia di­rectly with the De­i­ties of Par­a­dise. There ex­ist the con­nec­tion of the Thought Ad­justers di­rect with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the wide­spread in­flu­ence of the spir­i­tual-grav­ity urge of the Eter­nal Son, and the spir­i­tual pres­ence of the Con­joint Cre­ator. There is a dif­fer­ence in func­tion be­tween the spirit of the Son and the spirit of the Spirit. The Third Per­son in his spir­i­tual min­istry may func­tion as mind plus spirit or as spirit alone.

9:2.4In ad­di­tion to these Par­a­dise pres­ences, Uran­tians ben­e­fit by the spir­i­tual in­flu­ences and ac­tiv­i­ties of the lo­cal and the super­uni­verse, with their al­most end­less ar­ray of lov­ing per­son­al­i­ties who ever lead the true of pur­pose and the hon­est of heart up­ward and in­ward to­wards the ide­als of di­vin­ity and the goal of su­preme per­fec­tion.

9:2.5The pres­ence of the uni­ver­sal spirit of the Eter­nal Son we know—we can un­mis­tak­ably rec­og­nize it. The pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Third Per­son of De­ity, even mor­tal man may know, for ma­te­rial crea­tures can ac­tu­ally ex­pe­ri­ence the benef­i­cence of this di­vine in­flu­ence which func­tions as the Holy Spirit of lo­cal uni­verse be­stowal upon the races of man­kind. Hu­man be­ings can also in some de­gree be­come con­scious of the Ad­juster, the im­per­sonal pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. These di­vine spir­its which work for man’s up­lift­ing and spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion all act in uni­son and in per­fect co-op­er­a­tion. They are as one in the spir­i­tual op­er­a­tion of the plans of mor­tal as­cen­sion and per­fec­tion at­tain­ment.