Relation of the Infinite Spirit to the Universe

9:8.1The In­fi­nite Spirit pos­sesses full power to trans­mit many of his pow­ers and pre­rog­a­tives to his co-or­di­nate and sub­or­di­nate per­son­al­i­ties and agen­cies.

9:8.2The first De­ity-cre­at­ing act of the In­fi­nite Spirit, func­tion­ing apart from the Trin­ity but in some un­re­vealed as­so­ci­a­tion with the Fa­ther and the Son, per­son­al­ized in the ex­is­tence of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise, the dis­trib­u­tors of the In­fi­nite Spirit to the uni­verses.

9:8.3There is no di­rect rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Third Source and Cen­ter on the head­quar­ters of a super­uni­verse. Each of these seven cre­ations is de­pen­dent on one of the Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise, who acts through the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its sit­u­ated at the cap­i­tal of the super­uni­verse.

9:8.4The next and con­tin­u­ing cre­ative act of the In­fi­nite Spirit is dis­closed, from time to time, in the pro­duc­tion of the Cre­ative Spir­its. Ev­ery time the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son be­come par­ent to a Cre­ator Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit be­comes an­ces­tor to a lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit who be­comes the close as­so­ciate of that Cre­ator Son in all sub­se­quent uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence.

9:8.5Just as it is nec­es­sary to dis­tin­guish be­tween the Eter­nal Son and the Cre­ator Sons, so it is nec­es­sary to dif­fer­en­ti­ate be­tween the In­fi­nite Spirit and the Cre­ative Spir­its, the lo­cal uni­verse co-or­di­nates of the Cre­ator Sons. What the In­fi­nite Spirit is to the to­tal cre­ation, a Cre­ative Spirit is to a lo­cal uni­verse.

9:8.6The Third Source and Cen­ter is rep­re­sented in the grand uni­verse by a vast ar­ray of min­is­ter­ing spir­its, mes­sen­gers, teach­ers, ad­ju­di­ca­tors, helpers, and ad­vis­ers, to­gether with super­vi­sors of cer­tain cir­cuits of phys­i­cal, mor­ontial, and spir­i­tual na­ture. Not all of these be­ings are per­son­al­i­ties in the strict mean­ing of the term. Per­son­al­ity of the fi­nite-crea­ture va­ri­ety is char­ac­ter­ized by:

9:8.71. Sub­jec­tive self-con­scious­ness.

9:8.82. Ob­jec­tive re­sponse to the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity cir­cuit.

9:8.9There are cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties and crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties, and in ad­di­tion to these two fun­da­men­tal types there are per­son­al­i­ties of the Third Source and Cen­ter, be­ings who are per­sonal to the In­fi­nite Spirit, but who are not un­qual­i­fiedly per­sonal to crea­ture be­ings. These Third Source per­son­al­i­ties are not a part of the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity cir­cuit. First Source per­son­al­ity and Third Source per­son­al­ity are mu­tu­ally con­tactable; all per­son­al­ity is con­tactable.

9:8.10The Fa­ther be­stows per­son­al­ity by his per­sonal free will. Why he does so we can only con­jec­ture; how he does so we do not know. Nei­ther do we know why the Third Source be­stows non-Fa­ther per­son­al­ity, but this the In­fi­nite Spirit does in his own be­half, in cre­ative con­junc­tion with the Eter­nal Son and in nu­mer­ous ways un­known to you. The In­fi­nite Spirit can also act for the Fa­ther in the be­stowal of First Source per­son­al­ity.

9:8.11There are nu­mer­ous types of Third Source per­son­al­i­ties. The In­fi­nite Spirit be­stows Third Source per­son­al­ity upon nu­mer­ous groups who are not in­cluded in the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity cir­cuit, such as cer­tain of the power di­rec­tors. Like­wise does the In­fi­nite Spirit treat as per­son­al­i­ties nu­mer­ous groups of be­ings, such as the Cre­ative Spir­its, who are in a class by them­selves in their re­la­tions to en­cir­cuited crea­tures of the Fa­ther.

9:8.12Both First Source and Third Source per­son­al­i­ties are en­dowed with all and more than man as­so­ciates with the con­cept of per­son­al­ity; they have minds em­brac­ing mem­ory, rea­son, judg­ment, cre­ative imag­i­na­tion, idea as­so­ci­a­tion, de­ci­sion, choice, and nu­mer­ous ad­di­tional pow­ers of in­tel­lect wholly un­known to mor­tals. With few ex­cep­tions the or­ders re­vealed to you pos­sess form and dis­tinct in­di­vid­u­al­ity; they are real be­ings. A ma­jor­ity of them are vis­i­ble to all or­ders of spirit ex­is­tence.

9:8.13Even you will be able to see your spir­i­tual as­so­ciates of the lower or­ders as soon as you are de­liv­ered from the lim­ited vi­sion of your pres­ent ma­te­rial eyes and have been en­dowed with a mor­ontia form with its en­larged sen­si­tiv­ity to the re­al­ity of spir­i­tual things.

9:8.14The func­tional fam­ily of the Third Source and Cen­ter, as it is re­vealed in these nar­ra­tives, falls into three great groups:

9:8.15I. The Su­preme Spir­its. A group of com­pos­ite ori­gin that em­braces, among oth­ers, the fol­low­ing or­ders:

9:8.161. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise.

9:8.172. The Re­flec­tive Spir­its of the Super­uni­verses.

9:8.183. The Cre­ative Spir­its of the Lo­cal Uni­verses.

9:8.19II. The Power Di­rec­tors. A group of con­trol crea­tures and agen­cies that func­tion through­out all or­ga­nized space.

9:8.20III. The Per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit. This des­ig­na­tion does not nec­es­sar­ily im­ply that these be­ings are Third Source per­son­al­i­ties though some of them are unique as will crea­tures. They are usu­ally grouped in three ma­jor clas­si­fi­ca­tions:

9:8.211. The Higher Per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

9:8.222. The Mes­sen­ger Hosts of Space.

9:8.233. The Min­is­ter­ing Spir­its of Time.

9:8.24These groups serve on Par­a­dise, in the cen­tral or res­i­den­tial uni­verse, in the super­uni­verses, and they em­brace or­ders that func­tion in the lo­cal uni­verses, even to the con­stel­la­tions, sys­tems, and plan­ets.

9:8.25The spirit per­son­al­i­ties of the vast fam­ily of the Di­vine and In­fi­nite Spirit are for­ever ded­i­cated to the ser­vice of the min­istry of the love of God and the mercy of the Son to all the in­tel­li­gent crea­tures of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space. These spirit be­ings con­sti­tute the liv­ing lad­der whereby mor­tal man climbs from chaos to glory.

9:8.26[Re­vealed on Uran­tia by a Di­vine Coun­selor of Uversa com­mis­sioned by the An­cients of Days to por­tray the na­ture and work of the In­fi­nite Spirit.]