Relation of the Infinite Spirit to the Universe

9:6.1The Third Source and Cen­ter, the uni­ver­sal in­tel­li­gence, is per­son­ally con­scious of ev­ery mind, ev­ery in­tel­lect, in all cre­ation, and he main­tains a per­sonal and per­fect con­tact with all these phys­i­cal, mor­ontial, and spir­i­tual crea­tures of mind en­dow­ment in the far-flung uni­verses. All these ac­tiv­i­ties of mind are grasped in the ab­so­lute mind-grav­ity cir­cuit which fo­cal­izes in the Third Source and Cen­ter and is a part of the per­sonal con­scious­ness of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

9:6.2Much as the Fa­ther draws all per­son­al­ity to him­self, and as the Son at­tracts all spir­i­tual re­al­ity, so does the Con­joint Ac­tor ex­er­cise a draw­ing power on all minds; he un­qual­i­fiedly dom­i­nates and con­trols the uni­ver­sal mind cir­cuit. All true and gen­uine in­tel­lec­tual val­ues, all di­vine thoughts and per­fect ideas, are unerringly drawn into this ab­so­lute cir­cuit of mind.

9:6.3Mind grav­ity can op­er­ate in­de­pen­dently of ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual grav­ity, but wher­ever and when­ever the lat­ter two im­pinge, mind grav­ity al­ways func­tions. When all three are as­so­ci­ated, per­son­al­ity grav­ity may em­brace the ma­te­rial crea­ture—phys­i­cal or mor­ontial, fi­nite or ab­so­nite. But ir­re­spec­tive of this, the en­dow­ment of mind even in im­per­sonal be­ings qual­i­fies them to think and en­dows them with con­scious­ness de­spite the to­tal ab­sence of per­son­al­ity.

9:6.4Self­hood of per­son­al­ity dig­nity, hu­man or di­vine, im­mor­tal or po­ten­tially im­mor­tal, does not how­ever orig­i­nate in ei­ther spirit, mind, or mat­ter; it is the be­stowal of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Nei­ther is the in­ter­ac­tion of spirit, mind, and ma­te­rial grav­ity a pre­req­ui­site to the ap­pear­ance of per­son­al­ity grav­ity. The Fa­ther’s cir­cuit may em­brace a mind-ma­te­rial be­ing who is un­re­spon­sive to spirit grav­ity, or it may in­clude a mind-spirit be­ing who is un­re­spon­sive to ma­te­rial grav­ity. The op­er­a­tion of per­son­al­ity grav­ity is al­ways a vo­li­tional act of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

9:6.5While mind is en­ergy as­so­ci­ated in purely ma­te­rial be­ings and spirit as­so­ci­ated in purely spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties, in­nu­mer­able or­ders of per­son­al­ity, in­clud­ing the hu­man, pos­sess minds that are as­so­ci­ated with both en­ergy and spirit. The spir­i­tual as­pects of crea­ture mind un­fail­ingly re­spond to the spirit-grav­ity pull of the Eter­nal Son; the ma­te­rial fea­tures re­spond to the grav­ity urge of the ma­te­rial uni­verse.

9:6.6Cos­mic mind, when not as­so­ci­ated with ei­ther en­ergy or spirit, is sub­ject to the grav­ity de­mands of nei­ther ma­te­rial nor spir­i­tual cir­cuits. Pure mind is sub­ject only to the uni­ver­sal grav­ity grasp of the Con­joint Ac­tor. Pure mind is close of kin to in­fi­nite mind, and in­fi­nite mind (the the­o­ret­i­cal co-or­di­nate of the ab­so­lutes of spirit and en­ergy) is ap­par­ently a law in it­self.

9:6.7The greater the spirit-en­ergy di­ver­gence, the greater the ob­serv­able func­tion of mind; the lesser the di­ver­sity of en­ergy and spirit, the lesser the ob­serv­able func­tion of mind. Ap­par­ently, the max­i­mum func­tion of the cos­mic mind is in the time uni­verses of space. Here mind seems to func­tion in a mid-zone be­tween en­ergy and spirit, but this is not true of the higher lev­els of mind; on Par­a­dise, en­ergy and spirit are es­sen­tially one.

9:6.8The mind-grav­ity cir­cuit is de­pend­able; it em­anates from the Third Per­son of De­ity on Par­a­dise, but not all the ob­serv­able func­tion of mind is pre­dictable. Through­out all known cre­ation there par­al­lels this cir­cuit of mind some lit­tle-un­der­stood pres­ence whose func­tion is not pre­dictable. We be­lieve that this un­pre­dictabil­ity is partly at­tributable to the func­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. What this func­tion is, we do not know; what ac­tu­ates it, we can only con­jec­ture; con­cern­ing its re­la­tion to crea­tures, we can only spec­u­late.

9:6.9Cer­tain phases of the un­pre­dictabil­ity of fi­nite mind may be due to the in­com­plete­ness of the Su­preme Be­ing, and there is a vast zone of ac­tiv­i­ties wherein the Con­joint Ac­tor and the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute may pos­si­bly be tan­gent. There is much about mind that is un­known, but of this we are sure: The In­fi­nite Spirit is the per­fect ex­pres­sion of the mind of the Cre­ator to all crea­tures; the Su­preme Be­ing is the evolv­ing ex­pres­sion of the minds of all crea­tures to their Cre­ator.