Holy Spirit

36:5.16The ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are in no man­ner di­rectly re­lated to the di­verse and highly spir­i­tual func­tion of the spirit of the per­sonal pres­ence of the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the Holy Spirit of the in­hab­ited worlds; but they are func­tion­ally an­te­ced­ent to, and prepara­tory for, the ap­pear­ance of this very spirit in evo­lu­tion­ary man. The ad­ju­tants af­ford the Uni­verse Mother Spirit a var­ied con­tact with, and con­trol over, the ma­te­rial liv­ing crea­tures of a lo­cal uni­verse, but they do not reper­cuss in the Su­preme Be­ing when act­ing on preper­son­al­ity lev­els.

137:8.10“John did in­deed bap­tize you in to­ken of re­pen­tance and for the re­mis­sion of your sins, but when you en­ter the heav­enly king­dom, you will be bap­tized with the Holy Spirit.

86:5.13Prim­i­tive men thought that the soul was as­so­ci­ated with the breath, and that its qual­i­ties could be im­parted or trans­ferred by the breath. The brave chief would breathe upon the new­born child, thereby im­part­ing cour­age. Among early Chris­tians the cer­e­mony of be­stow­ing the Holy Spirit was ac­com­pa­nied by breath­ing on the can­di­dates. Said the Psalmist: “By the word of the Lord were the heav­ens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.” It was long the cus­tom of the el­dest son to try to catch the last breath of his dy­ing fa­ther.

138:5.2When they had re­freshed them­selves, Je­sus took the twelve apart for a sea­son to pray with them and to in­struct them in the na­ture and work of the Holy Spirit, but again did they largely fail to com­pre­hend the mean­ing of those won­der­ful truths which he en­deav­ored to teach them. One would grasp one point and one would com­pre­hend an­other, but none of them could en­com­pass the whole of his teach­ing. Al­ways would they make the mis­take of try­ing to fit Je­sus’ new gospel into their old forms of re­li­gious be­lief. They could not grasp the idea that Je­sus had come to pro­claim a new gospel of sal­va­tion and to es­tab­lish a new way of find­ing God; they did not per­ceive that he was a new rev­e­la­tion of the Fa­ther in heaven.

135:7.2As John jour­neyed north, he thought much about Je­sus. He paused at more than a dozen places as he trav­eled up the Jor­dan. It was at Adam that he first made ref­er­ence to “an­other one who is to come af­ter me” in an­swer to the di­rect ques­tion which his dis­ci­ples asked him, “Are you the Mes­siah?” And he went on to say: “There will come af­ter me one who is greater than I, whose san­dal straps I am not wor­thy to stoop down and un­loose. I bap­tize you with wa­ter, but he will bap­tize you with the Holy Spirit. And his shovel is in his hand thor­oughly to cleanse his thresh­ing floor; he will gather the wheat into his gar­ner, but the chaff will he burn up with the judg­ment fire.”

135:9.4About three weeks af­ter Je­sus had left them, there ar­rived on the scene at Pella a new dep­u­ta­tion from the priests and Phar­isees at Je­ru­sa­lem. They asked John di­rectly if he was Eli­jah or the prophet that Moses prom­ised; and when John said, “I am not,” they made bold to ask, “Are you the Mes­siah?” and John an­swered, “I am not.” Then said these men from Je­ru­sa­lem: “If you are not Eli­jah, nor the prophet, nor the Mes­siah, then why do you bap­tize the peo­ple and cre­ate all this stir?” And John replied: “It should be for those who have heard me and re­ceived my bap­tism to say who I am, but I de­clare to you that, while I bap­tize with wa­ter, there has been among us one who will re­turn to bap­tize you with the Holy Spirit.”

135:9.7It was early on the morn­ing of Sab­bath, Febru­ary 23, that the com­pany of John, en­gaged in eat­ing their morn­ing meal, looked up to­ward the north and be­held Je­sus com­ing to them. As he ap­proached them, John stood upon a large rock and, lift­ing up his sonorous voice, said: “Be­hold the Son of God, the de­liv­erer of the world! This is he of whom I have said, ‘Af­ter me there will come one who is pre­ferred be­fore me be­cause he was be­fore me.’ For this cause came I out of the wilder­ness to preach re­pen­tance and to bap­tize with wa­ter, pro­claim­ing that the king­dom of heaven is at hand. And now comes one who shall bap­tize you with the Holy Spirit. And I be­held the di­vine spirit de­scend­ing upon this man, and I heard the voice of God de­clare, ‘This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.’”

16:4.135. The be­stowal of the min­istry spirit of a lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit, known on Uran­tia as the Holy Spirit.

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.

• confined to local universe
• spiritual circuit of local universe Mother Spirit

8:5.3In your sa­cred writ­ings the term Spirit of God seems to be used in­ter­change­ably to des­ig­nate both the In­fi­nite Spirit on Par­a­dise and the Cre­ative Spirit of your lo­cal uni­verse. The Holy Spirit is the spir­i­tual cir­cuit of this Cre­ative Daugh­ter of the Par­a­dise In­fi­nite Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a cir­cuit in­dige­nous to each lo­cal uni­verse and is con­fined to the spir­i­tual realm of that cre­ation; but the In­fi­nite Spirit is om­ni­pres­ent.

• spiritual circuit of local universe Mother Spirit

15:9.132. The cir­cuit of the Di­vine Min­is­ters, the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spir­its, the Holy Spirit of your world.

• spiritual circuit of local universe Mother Spirit

34:4.32. The spirit cir­cuit of the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the Holy Spirit.

• spiritual circuit of local universe Mother Spirit

34:4.7The Uni­verse Mother Spirit, how­ever, never leaves the lo­cal uni­verse head­quar­ters world. The spirit of the Cre­ator Son may and does func­tion in­de­pen­dently of the per­sonal pres­ence of the Son, but not so with her per­sonal spirit. The Holy Spirit of the Di­vine Min­is­ter would be­come non­func­tional if her per­sonal pres­ence should be re­moved from Sal­ving­ton. Her spirit pres­ence seems to be fixed on the uni­verse head­quar­ters world, and it is this very fact that en­ables the spirit of the Cre­ator Son to func­tion in­de­pen­dently of the where­abouts of the Son. The Uni­verse Mother Spirit acts as the uni­verse fo­cus and cen­ter of the Spirit of Truth as well as of her own per­sonal in­flu­ence, the Holy Spirit.

• enables possessor to choose Adjuster

34:5.4When mind is thus en­dowed with the min­istry of the Holy Spirit, it pos­sesses the ca­pac­ity for (con­sciously or un­con­sciously) choos­ing the spir­i­tual pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther—the Thought Ad­juster. But it is not un­til a be­stowal Son has lib­er­ated the Spirit of Truth for plan­e­tary min­istry to all mor­tals that all nor­mal minds are au­to­mat­i­cally pre­pared for the re­cep­tion of the Thought Ad­justers. The Spirit of Truth works as one with the pres­ence of the spirit of the Di­vine Min­is­ter. This dual spirit li­ai­son hov­ers over the worlds, seek­ing to teach truth and to spir­i­tu­ally en­lighten the minds of men, to in­spire the souls of the crea­tures of the as­cend­ing races, and to lead the peo­ples dwell­ing on the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets ever to­wards their Par­a­dise goal of di­vine des­tiny.

• increasingly effective when mortals obey divine leadings

34:5.5Though the Spirit of Truth is poured out upon all flesh, this spirit of the Son is al­most wholly lim­ited in func­tion and power by man’s per­sonal re­cep­tion of that which con­sti­tutes the sum and sub­stance of the mis­sion of the be­stowal Son. The Holy Spirit is partly in­de­pen­dent of hu­man at­ti­tude and par­tially con­di­tioned by the de­ci­sions and co-op­er­a­tion of the will of man. Nev­er­the­less, the min­istry of the Holy Spirit be­comes in­creas­ingly ef­fec­tive in the sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion and spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion of the in­ner life of those mor­tals who the more fully obey the di­vine lead­ings.

• does not indwell individual minds

34:5.6As in­di­vid­u­als you do not per­son­ally pos­sess a seg­re­gated por­tion or en­tity of the spirit of the Cre­ator Fa­ther-Son or the Cre­ative Mother Spirit; these min­istries do not con­tact with, nor in­dwell, the think­ing cen­ters of the in­di­vid­ual’s mind as do the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors. Thought Ad­justers are def­i­nite in­di­vid­u­al­iza­tions of the preper­sonal re­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, ac­tu­ally in­dwelling the mor­tal mind as a very part of that mind, and they ever work in per­fect har­mony with the com­bined spir­its of the Cre­ator Son and Cre­ative Spirit.

• more effective in light and life

55:6.4The Ad­justers con­tinue to come as in for­mer evo­lu­tion­ary eras, and as the epochs pass, these mor­tals are in­creas­ingly able to com­mune with the in­dwelling Fa­ther frag­ment. Dur­ing the em­bry­onic and prespir­i­tual stages of de­vel­op­ment the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are still func­tion­ing. The Holy Spirit and the min­istry of an­gels are even more ef­fec­tive as the suc­ces­sive epochs of set­tled life are ex­pe­ri­enced. In the fourth stage of light and life the ad­vanced mor­tals seem to ex­pe­ri­ence con­sid­er­able con­scious con­tact with the spirit pres­ence of the Mas­ter Spirit of super­uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion, while the phi­los­o­phy of such a world is fo­cused upon the at­tempt to com­pre­hend the new rev­e­la­tions of God the Su­preme. More than one half of the hu­man in­hab­i­tants on plan­ets of this ad­vanced sta­tus ex­pe­ri­ence trans­la­tion to the mor­ontia state from among the liv­ing. Even so, “old things are pass­ing away; be­hold, all things are be­com­ing new.”

• initial supermind bestowal; universally bestowed

92:0.43. The Holy Spirit—this is the ini­tial super­mind be­stowal, and it un­fail­ingly ap­pears in all bona fide hu­man per­son­al­i­ties. This min­istry to a wor­ship-crav­ing and wis­dom-de­sir­ing mind cre­ates the ca­pac­ity to self-re­al­ize the pos­tu­late of hu­man sur­vival, both in the­o­logic con­cept and as an ac­tual and fac­tual per­son­al­ity ex­pe­ri­ence.

• spiritual circuit of local universe Mother Spirit

101:3.2Faith-in­sight, or spir­i­tual in­tu­ition, is the en­dow­ment of the cos­mic mind in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Thought Ad­juster, which is the Fa­ther’s gift to man. Spir­i­tual rea­son, soul in­tel­li­gence, is the en­dow­ment of the Holy Spirit, the Cre­ative Spirit’s gift to man. Spir­i­tual phi­los­o­phy, the wis­dom of spirit re­al­i­ties, is the en­dow­ment of the Spirit of Truth, the com­bined gift of the be­stowal Sons to the chil­dren of men. And the co-or­di­na­tion and in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of these spirit en­dow­ments con­sti­tute man a spirit per­son­al­ity in po­ten­tial des­tiny.

• initial supermind bestowal; universally bestowed
• spiritual circuit of local universe Mother Spirit

103:0.1All of man’s truly re­li­gious re­ac­tions are spon­sored by the early min­istry of the ad­ju­tant of wor­ship and are cen­sored by the ad­ju­tant of wis­dom. Man’s first super­mind en­dow­ment is that of per­son­al­ity en­cir­cuit­ment in the Holy Spirit of the Uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit; and long be­fore ei­ther the be­stowals of the di­vine Sons or the uni­ver­sal be­stowal of the Ad­justers, this in­flu­ence func­tions to en­large man’s view­point of ethics, re­li­gion, and spir­i­tu­al­ity. Sub­se­quent to the be­stowals of the Par­a­dise Sons the lib­er­ated Spirit of Truth makes mighty con­tri­bu­tions to the en­large­ment of the hu­man ca­pac­ity to per­ceive re­li­gious truths. As evo­lu­tion ad­vances on an in­hab­ited world, the Thought Ad­justers in­creas­ingly par­tic­i­pate in the de­vel­op­ment of the higher types of hu­man re­li­gious in­sight. The Thought Ad­juster is the cos­mic win­dow through which the fi­nite crea­ture may faith-glimpse the cer­tain­ties and di­vini­ties of lim­it­less De­ity, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• enables possessor to choose Adjuster

108:2.2The Ad­justers can­not in­vade the mor­tal mind un­til it has been duly pre­pared by the in­dwelling min­istry of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its and en­cir­cuited in the Holy Spirit. And it re­quires the co-or­di­nate func­tion of all seven ad­ju­tants to thus qual­ify the hu­man mind for the re­cep­tion of an Ad­juster. Crea­ture mind must ex­hibit the wor­ship out­reach and in­di­cate wis­dom func­tion by ex­hibit­ing the abil­ity to choose be­tween the emerg­ing val­ues of good and evil—moral choice.

• spiritual circuit of local universe Mother Spirit

194:2.11Since the be­stowal of the Spirit of Truth, man is sub­ject to the teach­ing and guid­ance of a three­fold spirit en­dow­ment: the spirit of the Fa­ther, the Thought Ad­juster; the spirit of the Son, the Spirit of Truth; the spirit of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit.

194:2.12In a way, man­kind is sub­ject to the dou­ble in­flu­ence of the sev­en­fold ap­peal of the uni­verse spirit in­flu­ences. The early evo­lu­tion­ary races of mor­tals are sub­ject to the pro­gres­sive con­tact of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. As man pro­gresses up­ward in the scale of in­tel­li­gence and spir­i­tual per­cep­tion, there even­tu­ally come to hover over him and dwell within him the seven higher spirit in­flu­ences. And these seven spir­its of the ad­vanc­ing worlds are:

28:5.22So it is with mor­tal man: The Mother Spirit of Sal­ving­ton knows you fully, for the Holy Spirit on your world “searches all things,” and what­so­ever the di­vine Spirit knows of you is im­me­di­ately avail­able when­ever the sec­o­raphic dis­cern­ers re­flect with the Spirit con­cern­ing the Spirit’s knowl­edge of you. It should, how­ever, be men­tioned that the knowl­edge and plans of the Fa­ther frag­ments are not re­flectible. The dis­cern­ers can and do re­flect the pres­ence of the Ad­justers (and the Cen­sors pro­nounce them di­vine), but they can­not de­ci­pher the con­tent of the mind­ed­ness of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors.