creativity

• Reflective Spirits were created upon Master Spirits’ attainment of perfect synchrony with Trinity

17:2.2This mo­men­tous trans­ac­tion, oc­cur­ring in the dawn of time, rep­re­sents the ini­tial ef­fort of the Su­preme Cre­ator Per­son­al­i­ties, rep­re­sented by the Mas­ter Spir­its, to func­tion as cocre­ators with the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. This union of the cre­ative power of the Su­preme Cre­ators with the cre­ative po­ten­tials of the Trin­ity is the very source of the ac­tu­al­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing. There­fore, when the cy­cle of re­flec­tive cre­ation had run its course, when each of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its had found per­fect cre­ative syn­chrony with the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, when the forty-ninth Re­flec­tive Spirit had per­son­al­ized, then a new and far-reach­ing re­ac­tion oc­curred in the De­ity Ab­so­lute which im­parted new per­son­al­ity pre­rog­a­tives to the Su­preme Be­ing and cul­mi­nated in the per­son­al­iza­tion of Maj­es­ton, the re­flec­tiv­ity chief and Par­a­dise cen­ter of all the work of the forty-nine Re­flec­tive Spir­its and their as­so­ciates through­out the uni­verse of uni­verses.

• reflective of antecedent creator-spirit activities

56:8.4All cre­ational phe­nom­ena are re­flec­tive of an­te­ced­ent cre­ator-spirit ac­tiv­i­ties. Said Je­sus, and it is lit­er­ally true, “The Son does only those things which he sees the Fa­ther do.” In time you mor­tals may be­gin the rev­e­la­tion of the Su­preme to your fel­lows, and in­creas­ingly may you aug­ment this rev­e­la­tion as you as­cend Par­adis­e­ward. In eter­nity you may be per­mit­ted to make in­creas­ing rev­e­la­tions of this God of evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures on su­preme lev­els—even ul­ti­mate—as sev­enth-stage fi­nal­i­ters.

• diminished by matings between inferior strata

82:6.5Hy­bridiza­tion of su­pe­rior and dis­sim­i­lar stocks is the se­cret of the cre­ation of new and more vig­or­ous strains. And this is true of plants, an­i­mals, and the hu­man species. Hy­bridiza­tion aug­ments vigor and in­creases fer­til­ity. Race mix­tures of the av­er­age or su­pe­rior strata of var­i­ous peo­ples greatly in­crease cre­ative po­ten­tial, as is shown in the pres­ent pop­u­la­tion of the United States of North Amer­ica. When such mat­ings take place be­tween the lower or in­fe­rior strata, cre­ativ­ity is di­min­ished, as is shown by the pres­ent-day peo­ples of south­ern In­dia.

• divine c. unfailingly characterized by unity

105:2.73. The Uni­ver­sal Cre­ator. I AM one with the Eter­nal Son. This union of the Fa­ther and the Son (in the pres­ence of Par­a­dise) ini­ti­ates the cre­ative cy­cle, which is con­sum­mated in the ap­pear­ance of con­joint per­son­al­ity and the eter­nal uni­verse. From the fi­nite mor­tal’s view­point, re­al­ity has its true be­gin­nings with the eter­nity ap­pear­ance of the Ha­vona cre­ation. This cre­ative act of De­ity is by and through the God of Ac­tion, who is in essence the unity of the Fa­ther-Son man­i­fested on and to all lev­els of the ac­tual. There­fore is di­vine cre­ativ­ity un­fail­ingly char­ac­ter­ized by unity, and this unity is the out­ward re­flec­tion of the ab­so­lute one­ness of the du­al­ity of the Fa­ther-Son and of the Trin­ity of the Fa­ther-Son-Spirit.

• can be haphazard or directed and constructive

111:4.9Since this in­ner life of man is truly cre­ative, there rests upon each per­son the re­spon­si­bil­ity of choos­ing as to whether this cre­ativ­ity shall be spon­ta­neous and wholly hap­haz­ard or con­trolled, di­rected, and con­struc­tive. How can a cre­ative imag­i­na­tion pro­duce wor­thy chil­dren when the stage whereon it func­tions is al­ready pre­oc­cu­pied by prej­u­dice, hate, fears, re­sent­ments, re­venge, and big­otries?

• can be turned to destructivity

111:4.11This is the prob­lem: If free­will man is en­dowed with the pow­ers of cre­ativ­ity in the in­ner man, then must we rec­og­nize that free­will cre­ativ­ity em­braces the po­ten­tial of free­will de­struc­tiv­ity. And when cre­ativ­ity is turned to de­struc­tiv­ity, you are face to face with the dev­as­ta­tion of evil and sin—op­pres­sion, war, and de­struc­tion. Evil is a par­tial­ity of cre­ativ­ity which tends to­ward dis­in­te­gra­tion and even­tual de­struc­tion. All con­flict is evil in that it in­hibits the cre­ative func­tion of the in­ner life—it is a species of civil war in the per­son­al­ity.

• inner c. contributes to ennoblement of character

111:4.12In­ner cre­ativ­ity con­tributes to en­no­ble­ment of char­ac­ter through per­son­al­ity in­te­gra­tion and self­hood uni­fi­ca­tion. It is for­ever true: The past is un­change­able; only the fu­ture can be changed by the min­istry of the pres­ent cre­ativ­ity of the in­ner self.

• will aspiring to be Godlike

130:2.10It was on this same day that we first heard that mo­men­tous truth which, stated in mod­ern terms, would sig­nify: “Will is that man­i­fes­ta­tion of the hu­man mind which en­ables the sub­jec­tive con­scious­ness to ex­press it­self ob­jec­tively and to ex­pe­ri­ence the phe­nom­e­non of as­pir­ing to be God­like.” And it is in this same sense that ev­ery re­flec­tive and spir­i­tu­ally minded hu­man be­ing can be­come cre­ative.