Relation of the Infinite Spirit to the Universe

9:7.1The Con­joint Ac­tor is able to co-or­di­nate all lev­els of uni­verse ac­tu­al­ity in such man­ner as to make pos­si­ble the si­mul­ta­ne­ous rec­og­ni­tion of the men­tal, the ma­te­rial, and the spir­i­tual. This is the phe­nom­e­non of uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity, that unique and in­ex­pli­ca­ble power to see, hear, sense, and know all things as they tran­spire through­out a super­uni­verse, and to fo­cal­ize, by re­flec­tiv­ity, all this in­for­ma­tion and knowl­edge at any de­sired point. The ac­tion of re­flec­tiv­ity is shown in per­fec­tion on each of the head­quar­ters worlds of the seven super­uni­verses. It is also op­er­a­tive through­out all sec­tors of the super­uni­verses and within the bound­aries of the lo­cal uni­verses. Re­flec­tiv­ity fi­nally fo­cal­izes on Par­a­dise.

9:7.2The phe­nom­e­non of re­flec­tiv­ity, as it is dis­closed on the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters worlds in the amaz­ing per­for­mances of the re­flec­tive per­son­al­i­ties there sta­tioned, rep­re­sents the most com­plex in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of all phases of ex­is­tence to be found in all cre­ation. Lines of spirit can be traced back to the Son, phys­i­cal en­ergy to Par­a­dise, and mind to the Third Source; but in the ex­traor­di­nary phe­nom­e­non of uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity there is a unique and ex­cep­tional uni­fi­ca­tion of all three, so as­so­ci­ated as to en­able the uni­verse rulers to know about re­mote con­di­tions in­stan­ta­neously, si­mul­ta­ne­ously with their oc­cur­rence.

9:7.3Much of the tech­nique of re­flec­tiv­ity we com­pre­hend, but there are many phases which truly baf­fle us. We know that the Con­joint Ac­tor is the uni­verse cen­ter of the mind cir­cuit, that he is the an­ces­tor of the cos­mic mind, and that cos­mic mind op­er­ates un­der the dom­i­nance of the ab­so­lute mind grav­ity of the Third Source and Cen­ter. We know fur­ther that the cir­cuits of the cos­mic mind in­flu­ence the in­tel­lec­tual lev­els of all known ex­is­tence; they con­tain the uni­ver­sal space re­ports, and just as cer­tainly they fo­cus in the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and con­verge in the Third Source and Cen­ter.

9:7.4The re­la­tion­ship be­tween the fi­nite cos­mic mind and the di­vine ab­so­lute mind ap­pears to be evolv­ing in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial mind of the Su­preme. We are taught that, in the dawn of time, this ex­pe­ri­en­tial mind was be­stowed upon the Su­preme by the In­fi­nite Spirit, and we con­jec­ture that cer­tain fea­tures of the phe­nom­e­non of re­flec­tiv­ity can be ac­counted for only by pos­tu­lat­ing the ac­tiv­ity of the Su­preme Mind. If the Su­preme is not con­cerned in re­flec­tiv­ity, we are at a loss to ex­plain the in­tri­cate trans­ac­tions and unerring op­er­a­tions of this con­scious­ness of the cos­mos.

9:7.5Re­flec­tiv­ity ap­pears to be om­ni­science within the lim­its of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial fi­nite and may rep­re­sent the emer­gence of the pres­ence-con­scious­ness of the Su­preme Be­ing. If this as­sump­tion is true, then the uti­liza­tion of re­flec­tiv­ity in any of its phases is equiv­a­lent to par­tial con­tact with the con­scious­ness of the Su­preme.