Infinite Spirit

• defined as › Conjoint Actor, Third Person of Deity

0:2.143. God the Spirit—Con­joint Ac­tor, Uni­ver­sal In­te­gra­tor, and Mind Be­stower. The In­fi­nite Spirit, the Third Per­son of De­ity.

• defined as › source and convergence of all mind

0:3.142. The mind forces are con­ver­gent in the In­fi­nite Spirit; the dif­fer­en­tial and di­ver­gent cos­mic mind in the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its; the fac­tu­al­iz­ing mind of the Su­preme as a time-space ex­pe­ri­ence in Maj­es­ton.

• appearance

0:3.22In this orig­i­nal trans­ac­tion the the­o­ret­i­cal I AM achieved the re­al­iza­tion of per­son­al­ity by be­com­ing the Eter­nal Fa­ther of the Orig­i­nal Son si­mul­ta­ne­ously with be­com­ing the Eter­nal Source of the Isle of Par­a­dise. Co­ex­is­tent with the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of the Son from the Fa­ther, and in the pres­ence of Par­a­dise, there ap­peared the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit and the cen­tral uni­verse of Ha­vona. With the ap­pear­ance of co­ex­is­tent per­sonal De­ity, the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Fa­ther es­caped, as a per­son­al­ity, from oth­er­wise in­ev­i­ta­ble dif­fu­sion through­out the po­ten­tial of To­tal De­ity. Thence­forth it is only in Trin­ity as­so­ci­a­tion with his two De­ity equals that the Fa­ther fills all De­ity po­ten­tial, while in­creas­ingly ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity is be­ing ac­tu­al­ized on the di­vin­ity lev­els of Su­prem­acy, Ul­ti­macy, and Ab­so­lute­ness.

• defined as › source and convergence of all mind

0:5.5The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is the se­cret of the re­al­ity of per­son­al­ity, the be­stowal of per­son­al­ity, and the des­tiny of per­son­al­ity. The Eter­nal Son is the ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity, the se­cret of spir­i­tual en­ergy, mor­ontia spir­its, and per­fected spir­its. The Con­joint Ac­tor is the spirit-mind per­son­al­ity, the source of in­tel­li­gence, rea­son, and the uni­ver­sal mind. But the Isle of Par­a­dise is non­per­sonal and ex­traspir­i­tual, be­ing the essence of the uni­ver­sal body, the source and cen­ter of phys­i­cal mat­ter, and the ab­so­lute mas­ter pat­tern of uni­ver­sal ma­te­rial re­al­ity.

• defined as › source and convergence of all mind

2:7.7The eter­nal quest is for uni­fi­ca­tion, for di­vine co­her­ence. The far-flung phys­i­cal uni­verse co­heres in the Isle of Par­a­dise; the in­tel­lec­tual uni­verse co­heres in the God of mind, the Con­joint Ac­tor; the spir­i­tual uni­verse is co­her­ent in the per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son. But the iso­lated mor­tal of time and space co­heres in God the Fa­ther through the di­rect re­la­tion­ship be­tween the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster and the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Man’s Ad­juster is a frag­ment of God and ev­er­last­ingly seeks for di­vine uni­fi­ca­tion; it co­heres with, and in, the Par­a­dise De­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › agencies of I.S. handle our practical daily affairs

5:3.5When you deal with the prac­ti­cal af­fairs of your daily life, you are in the hands of the spirit per­son­al­i­ties hav­ing ori­gin in the Third Source and Cen­ter; you are co-op­er­at­ing with the agen­cies of the Con­joint Ac­tor. And so it is: You wor­ship God; pray to, and com­mune with, the Son; and work out the de­tails of your earthly so­journ in con­nec­tion with the in­tel­li­gences of the In­fi­nite Spirit op­er­at­ing on your world and through­out your uni­verse.

• Adjusters entirely outside mind circuits of

6:6.3The mind of the Eter­nal Son is like that of the Fa­ther but un­like any other mind in the uni­verse, and with the mind of the Fa­ther it is an­ces­tor to the di­verse and far-flung minds of the Con­joint Cre­ator. The mind of the Fa­ther and the Son, that in­tel­lect which is an­ces­tral to the ab­so­lute mind of the Third Source and Cen­ter, is per­haps best il­lus­trated in the pre­mind of a Thought Ad­juster, for, though these Fa­ther frag­ments are en­tirely out­side of the mind cir­cuits of the Con­joint Ac­tor, they have some form of pre­mind; they know as they are known; they en­joy the equiv­a­lent of hu­man think­ing.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › source of mind

6:8.5Even though the Eter­nal Son is the pat­tern of mor­tal per­son­al­ity at­tain­ment, you find it eas­ier to grasp the re­al­ity of both the Fa­ther and the Spirit be­cause the Fa­ther is the ac­tual be­stower of your hu­man per­son­al­ity and the In­fi­nite Spirit is the ab­so­lute source of your mor­tal mind. But as you as­cend in the Par­a­dise path of spir­i­tual pro­gres­sion, the per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son will be­come in­creas­ingly real to you, and the re­al­ity of his in­finitely spir­i­tual mind will be­come more dis­cern­i­ble to your pro­gres­sively spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing mind.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › executive agency for Father-Son partnership
• nature of the Infinite Spirit › mercy, ministry, and love applied

7:4.63. The Plan of Mercy Min­istry. When the at­tain­ment plan and the be­stowal plan had been for­mu­lated and pro­claimed, alone and of him­self, the In­fi­nite Spirit pro­jected and put in op­er­a­tion the tremen­dous and uni­ver­sal en­ter­prise of mercy min­istry. This is the ser­vice so es­sen­tial to the prac­ti­cal and ef­fec­tive op­er­a­tion of both the at­tain­ment and the be­stowal un­der­tak­ings, and the spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties of the Third Source and Cen­ter all par­take of the spirit of mercy min­istry which is so much a part of the na­ture of the Third Per­son of De­ity. Not only in cre­ation but also in ad­min­is­tra­tion, the In­fi­nite Spirit func­tions truly and lit­er­ally as the con­joint ex­ec­u­tive of the Fa­ther and the Son.

• defined as › Father and Son’s infinite agent of mutual expression and action
• functions of Infinite Spirit › executive agency for Father-Son partnership

8:0.1Back in eter­nity, when the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther’s “first” in­fi­nite and ab­so­lute thought finds in the Eter­nal Son such a per­fect and ad­e­quate word for its di­vine ex­pres­sion, there en­sues the su­preme de­sire of both the Thought-God and the Word-God for a uni­ver­sal and in­fi­nite agent of mu­tual ex­pres­sion and com­bined ac­tion.

8:0.2In the dawn of eter­nity both the Fa­ther and the Son be­come in­finitely cog­nizant of their mu­tual in­ter­de­pen­dence, their eter­nal and ab­so­lute one­ness; and there­fore do they en­ter into an in­fi­nite and ev­er­last­ing covenant of di­vine part­ner­ship. This never-end­ing com­pact is made for the ex­e­cu­tion of their united con­cepts through­out all of the cir­cle of eter­nity; and ever since this eter­nity event the Fa­ther and the Son con­tinue in this di­vine union.

• appearance › conceived in eternity by Father and Son

8:0.3We are now face to face with the eter­nity ori­gin of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Third Per­son of De­ity. The very in­stant that God the Fa­ther and God the Son con­jointly con­ceive an iden­ti­cal and in­fi­nite ac­tion—the ex­e­cu­tion of an ab­so­lute thought-plan—that very mo­ment, the In­fi­nite Spirit springs full-fledgedly into ex­is­tence.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › eternal; divine personality
• nature of the Infinite Spirit › existential Deity synthesis of personality and power

8:0.4In thus recit­ing the or­der of the ori­gin of the De­i­ties, I do so merely to en­able you to think of their re­la­tion­ship. In re­al­ity they are all three ex­is­tent from eter­nity; they are ex­is­ten­tial. They are with­out be­gin­ning or end­ing of days; they are co-or­di­nate, su­preme, ul­ti­mate, ab­so­lute, and in­fi­nite. They are and al­ways have been and ever shall be. And they are three dis­tinctly in­di­vid­u­al­ized but eter­nally as­so­ci­ated per­sons, God the Fa­ther, God the Son, and God the Spirit.

• appearance › conceived in eternity by Father and Son
• appearance › personality cycle complete upon personalization of

8:1.1In the eter­nity of the past, upon the per­son­al­iza­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit the di­vine per­son­al­ity cy­cle be­comes per­fect and com­plete. The God of Ac­tion is ex­is­tent, and the vast stage of space is set for the stu­pen­dous drama of cre­ation—the uni­ver­sal ad­ven­ture—the di­vine pan­o­rama of the eter­nal ages.

• also known as › Third Person of Deity
• appearance › first act recognized his divine parents; pledged loyalty to Father, dependence on Son

8:1.2The first act of the In­fi­nite Spirit is the in­spec­tion and rec­og­ni­tion of his di­vine par­ents, the Fa­ther-Fa­ther and the Mother-Son. He, the Spirit, un­qual­i­fiedly iden­ti­fies both of them. He is fully cog­nizant of their sep­a­rate per­son­al­i­ties and in­fi­nite at­tri­butes as well as of their com­bined na­ture and united func­tion. Next, vol­un­tar­ily, with tran­scen­dent will­ing­ness and in­spir­ing spon­tane­ity, the Third Per­son of De­ity, not­with­stand­ing his equal­ity with the First and Sec­ond Per­sons, pledges eter­nal loy­alty to God the Fa­ther and ac­knowl­edges ev­er­last­ing de­pen­dence upon God the Son.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › executive agency for Father-Son partnership

8:1.3In­her­ent in the na­ture of this trans­ac­tion and in mu­tual rec­og­ni­tion of the per­son­al­ity in­de­pen­dence of each and the ex­ec­u­tive union of all three, the cy­cle of eter­nity is es­tab­lished. The Par­a­dise Trin­ity is ex­is­tent. The stage of uni­ver­sal space is set for the man­i­fold and never-end­ing pan­o­rama of the cre­ative un­fold­ing of the pur­pose of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther through the per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son and by the ex­e­cu­tion of the God of Ac­tion, the ex­ec­u­tive agency for the re­al­ity per­for­mances of the Fa­ther-Son cre­ator part­ner­ship.

• participates or participated › in creation of Havona

8:1.4The God of Ac­tion func­tions and the dead vaults of space are astir. One bil­lion per­fect spheres flash into ex­is­tence. Prior to this hy­po­thet­i­cal eter­nity mo­ment the space-en­er­gies in­her­ent in Par­a­dise are ex­is­tent and po­ten­tially op­er­a­tive, but they have no ac­tu­al­ity of be­ing; nei­ther can phys­i­cal grav­ity be mea­sured ex­cept by the re­ac­tion of ma­te­rial re­al­i­ties to its in­ces­sant pull. There is no ma­te­rial uni­verse at this (as­sumed) eter­nally dis­tant mo­ment, but the very in­stant that one bil­lion worlds ma­te­ri­al­ize, there is in ev­i­dence grav­ity suf­fi­cient and ad­e­quate to hold them in the ev­er­last­ing grasp of Par­a­dise.

8:1.5There now flashes through the cre­ation of the Gods the sec­ond form of en­ergy, and this out­flow­ing spirit is in­stantly grasped by the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son. Thus the two­fold grav­ity-em­braced uni­verse is touched with the en­ergy of in­fin­ity and im­mersed in the spirit of di­vin­ity. In this way is the soil of life pre­pared for the con­scious­ness of mind made man­i­fest in the as­so­ci­ated in­tel­li­gence cir­cuits of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

8:1.6Upon these seeds of po­ten­tial ex­is­tence, dif­fused through­out the cen­tral cre­ation of the Gods, the Fa­ther acts, and crea­ture per­son­al­ity ap­pears. Then does the pres­ence of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties fill all or­ga­nized space and be­gin ef­fec­tively to draw all things and be­ings Par­adis­e­ward.

• also known as › Conjoint Creator
• also known as › Third Person of Deity

8:1.7The In­fi­nite Spirit eter­nal­izes con­cur­rently with the birth of the Ha­vona worlds, this cen­tral uni­verse be­ing cre­ated by him and with him and in him in obe­di­ence to the com­bined con­cepts and united wills of the Fa­ther and the Son. The Third Per­son deitizes by this very act of con­joint cre­ation, and he thus for­ever be­comes the Con­joint Cre­ator.

• also known as › Third Source and Center

8:1.8These are the grand and aw­ful times of the cre­ative ex­pan­sion of the Fa­ther and the Son by, and in, the ac­tion of their con­joint as­so­ciate and ex­clu­sive ex­ec­u­tive, the Third Source and Cen­ter. There ex­ists no rec­ord of these stir­ring times. We have only the mea­ger dis­clo­sures of the In­fi­nite Spirit to sub­stan­ti­ate these mighty trans­ac­tions, and he merely ver­i­fies the fact that the cen­tral uni­verse and all that per­tains thereto eter­nal­ized si­mul­ta­ne­ously with his at­tain­ment of per­son­al­ity and con­scious ex­is­tence.

8:1.9In brief, the In­fi­nite Spirit tes­ti­fies that, since he is eter­nal, so also is the cen­tral uni­verse eter­nal. And this is the tra­di­tional start­ing point of the his­tory of the uni­verse of uni­verses. Ab­so­lutely noth­ing is known, and no rec­ords are in ex­is­tence, re­gard­ing any event or trans­ac­tion prior to this stu­pen­dous erup­tion of cre­ative en­ergy and ad­min­is­tra­tive wis­dom that crys­tal­lized the vast uni­verse which ex­ists, and so ex­qui­sitely func­tions, at the cen­ter of all things. Be­yond this event lie the un­search­able trans­ac­tions of eter­nity and the depths of in­fin­ity—ab­so­lute mys­tery.

• also known as › the Spirit

8:1.10And we thus por­tray the se­quen­tial ori­gin of the Third Source and Cen­ter as an in­ter­pre­ta­tive con­de­scen­sion to the time-bound and space-con­di­tioned mind of mor­tal crea­tures. The mind of man must have a start­ing point for the vi­su­al­iza­tion of uni­verse his­tory, and I have been di­rected to pro­vide this tech­nique of ap­proach to the his­toric con­cept of eter­nity. In the ma­te­rial mind, con­sis­tency de­mands a First Cause; there­fore do we pos­tu­late the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther as the First Source and the Ab­so­lute Cen­ter of all cre­ation, at the same time in­struct­ing all crea­ture minds that the Son and the Spirit are co­eter­nal with the Fa­ther in all phases of uni­verse his­tory and in all realms of cre­ative ac­tiv­ity. And we do this with­out in any sense be­ing dis­re­gard­ful of the re­al­ity and eter­nity of the Isle of Par­a­dise and of the Un­qual­i­fied, Uni­ver­sal, and De­ity Ab­so­lutes.

8:1.11It is enough of a reach of the ma­te­rial mind of the chil­dren of time to con­ceive of the Fa­ther in eter­nity. We know that any child can best re­late him­self to re­al­ity by first mas­ter­ing the re­la­tion­ships of the child-par­ent sit­u­a­tion and then by en­larg­ing this con­cept to em­brace the fam­ily as a whole. Sub­se­quently the grow­ing mind of the child will be able to ad­just to the con­cept of fam­ily re­la­tions, to re­la­tion­ships of the com­mu­nity, the race, and the world, and then to those of the uni­verse, the super­uni­verse, even the uni­verse of uni­verses.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › eternal; divine personality

8:2.1The Con­joint Cre­ator is from eter­nity and is wholly and with­out qual­i­fi­ca­tion one with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son. The In­fi­nite Spirit re­flects in per­fec­tion not only the na­ture of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther but also the na­ture of the Orig­i­nal Son.

• also known as › Conjoint Actor
• also known as › Omnipresent Spirit
• also known as › other titles

8:2.2The Third Source and Cen­ter is known by nu­mer­ous ti­tles: the Uni­ver­sal Spirit, the Su­preme Guide, the Con­joint Cre­ator, the Di­vine Ex­ec­u­tive, the In­fi­nite Mind, the Spirit of Spir­its, the Par­a­dise Mother Spirit, the Con­joint Ac­tor, the Fi­nal Co-or­di­na­tor, the Om­ni­pres­ent Spirit, the Ab­so­lute In­tel­li­gence, the Di­vine Ac­tion; and on Uran­tia he is some­times con­fused with the cos­mic mind.

• also known as › Third Source and Center

8:2.3It is al­to­gether proper to de­nom­i­nate the Third Per­son of De­ity the In­fi­nite Spirit, for God is spirit. But ma­te­rial crea­tures who tend to­wards the er­ror of view­ing mat­ter as ba­sic re­al­ity and mind, to­gether with spirit, as pos­tu­lates rooted in mat­ter, would bet­ter com­pre­hend the Third Source and Cen­ter if he were called the In­fi­nite Re­al­ity, the Uni­ver­sal Or­ga­nizer, or the Per­son­al­ity Co-or­di­na­tor.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › less mystery than in Father and Son; most strikingly discloses Father’s infinity; adequate to a limitless creation

8:2.4The In­fi­nite Spirit, as a uni­verse rev­e­la­tion of di­vin­ity, is un­search­able and ut­terly be­yond hu­man com­pre­hen­sion. To sense the ab­so­lute­ness of the Spirit, you need only con­tem­plate the in­fin­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and stand in awe of the eter­nity of the Orig­i­nal Son.

8:2.5There is mys­tery in­deed in the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit but not so much as in the Fa­ther and the Son. Of all as­pects of the Fa­ther’s na­ture, the Con­joint Cre­ator most strik­ingly dis­closes his in­fin­ity. Even if the mas­ter uni­verse even­tu­ally ex­pands to in­fin­ity, the spirit pres­ence, en­ergy con­trol, and mind po­ten­tial of the Con­joint Ac­tor will be found ad­e­quate to meet the de­mands of such a lim­it­less cre­ation.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › mercy, ministry, and love applied

8:2.6Though in ev­ery way shar­ing the per­fec­tion, the righ­teous­ness, and the love of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the In­fi­nite Spirit in­clines to­wards the mercy at­tri­butes of the Eter­nal Son, thus be­com­ing the mercy min­is­ter of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties to the grand uni­verse. Ever and al­ways—uni­ver­sally and eter­nally—the Spirit is a mercy min­is­ter, for, as the di­vine Sons re­veal the love of God, so the di­vine Spirit de­picts the mercy of God.

8:2.7It is not pos­si­ble that the Spirit could have more of good­ness than the Fa­ther since all good­ness takes ori­gin in the Fa­ther, but in the acts of the Spirit we can the bet­ter com­pre­hend such good­ness. The Fa­ther’s faith­ful­ness and the Son’s con­stancy are made very real to the spirit be­ings and the ma­te­rial crea­tures of the spheres by the lov­ing min­istry and cease­less ser­vice of the per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

8:2.8The Con­joint Cre­ator in­her­its all the Fa­ther’s beauty of thought and char­ac­ter of truth. And these sub­lime traits of di­vin­ity are co-or­di­nated in the near-su­preme lev­els of the cos­mic mind in sub­or­di­na­tion to the in­fi­nite and eter­nal wis­dom of the un­con­di­tioned and lim­it­less mind of the Third Source and Cen­ter.

• appearance › conceived in eternity by Father and Son
• appearance › eternalized concurrently with Havona
• appearance › Father and Eternal Son found union in

8:3.1As the Eter­nal Son is the word ex­pres­sion of the “first” ab­so­lute and in­fi­nite thought of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, so the Con­joint Ac­tor is the per­fect ex­e­cu­tion of the “first” com­pleted cre­ative con­cept or plan for com­bined ac­tion by the Fa­ther-Son per­son­al­ity part­ner­ship of ab­so­lute thought-word union. The Third Source and Cen­ter eter­nal­izes con­cur­rently with the cen­tral or fiat cre­ation, and only this cen­tral cre­ation is eter­nal in ex­is­tence among uni­verses.

8:3.2Since the per­son­al­iza­tion of the Third Source, the First Source no more per­son­ally par­tic­i­pates in uni­verse cre­ation. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther del­e­gates ev­ery­thing pos­si­ble to his Eter­nal Son; like­wise does the Eter­nal Son be­stow all pos­si­ble au­thor­ity and power upon the Con­joint Cre­ator.

• also known as › Conjoint Creator
• participates or participated › with Eternal Son, planned and fashioned every post-Havona universe

8:3.3The Eter­nal Son and the Con­joint Cre­ator have, as part­ners and through their co-or­di­nate per­son­al­i­ties, planned and fash­ioned ev­ery post-Ha­vona uni­verse which has been brought into ex­is­tence. The Spirit sus­tains the same per­sonal re­la­tion to the Son in all sub­se­quent cre­ation that the Son sus­tains to the Fa­ther in the first and cen­tral cre­ation.

8:3.4A Cre­ator Son of the Eter­nal Son and a Cre­ative Spirit of the In­fi­nite Spirit cre­ated you and your uni­verse; and while the Fa­ther in faith­ful­ness up­holds that which they have or­ga­nized, it de­volves upon this Uni­verse Son and this Uni­verse Spirit to fos­ter and sus­tain their work as well as to min­is­ter to the crea­tures of their own mak­ing.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › executive agency for Father-Son partnership
• functions of Infinite Spirit › has dedicated all to mortal ascension plan

8:3.5The In­fi­nite Spirit is the ef­fec­tive agent of the all-lov­ing Fa­ther and the all-mer­ci­ful Son for the ex­e­cu­tion of their con­joint project of draw­ing to them­selves all truth-lov­ing souls on all the worlds of time and space. The very in­stant the Eter­nal Son ac­cepted his Fa­ther’s plan of per­fec­tion at­tain­ment for the crea­tures of the uni­verses, the mo­ment the as­cen­sion project be­came a Fa­ther-Son plan, that in­stant the In­fi­nite Spirit be­came the con­joint ad­min­is­tra­tor of the Fa­ther and the Son for the ex­e­cu­tion of their united and eter­nal pur­pose. And in so do­ing the In­fi­nite Spirit pledged all his re­sources of di­vine pres­ence and of spirit per­son­al­i­ties to the Fa­ther and the Son; he has ded­i­cated all to the stu­pen­dous plan of ex­alt­ing sur­viv­ing will crea­tures to the di­vine heights of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › all knowledge of Father-Son partnership comes through I.S.

8:3.6The In­fi­nite Spirit is a com­plete, ex­clu­sive, and uni­ver­sal rev­e­la­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his Eter­nal Son. All knowl­edge of the Fa­ther-Son part­ner­ship must be had through the In­fi­nite Spirit, the con­joint rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the di­vine thought-word union.

• ascenders recognize I.S. on 5th Havona circuit; first Deity to be recognized
• functions of Infinite Spirit › Eternal Son only attained through I.S.

8:3.7The Eter­nal Son is the only av­enue of ap­proach to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and the In­fi­nite Spirit is the only means of at­tain­ing the Eter­nal Son. Only by the pa­tient min­istry of the Spirit are the as­cen­dant be­ings of time able to dis­cover the Son.

• presence of I.S. enshrouds Father and Son

8:3.8At the cen­ter of all things the In­fi­nite Spirit is the first of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties to be at­tained by the as­cend­ing pil­grims. The Third Per­son en­shrouds the Sec­ond and the First Per­sons and there­fore must al­ways be first rec­og­nized by all who are can­di­dates for pre­sen­ta­tion to the Son and his Fa­ther.

8:3.9And in many other ways does the Spirit equally rep­re­sent and sim­i­larly serve the Fa­ther and the Son.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › ministers to minds, even of most primitive living things

8:4.1Par­al­lel­ing the phys­i­cal uni­verse wherein Par­a­dise grav­ity holds all things to­gether is the spir­i­tual uni­verse wherein the word of the Son in­ter­prets the thought of God and, when “made flesh,” demon­strates the lov­ing mercy of the com­bined na­ture of the as­so­ci­ated Cre­ators. But in and through all this ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual cre­ation there is a vast stage whereon the In­fi­nite Spirit and his spirit off­spring show forth the com­bined mercy, pa­tience, and ev­er­last­ing af­fec­tion of the di­vine par­ents to­wards the in­tel­li­gent chil­dren of their co-op­er­a­tive de­vis­ing and mak­ing. Ev­er­last­ing min­istry to mind is the essence of the Spirit’s di­vine char­ac­ter. And all the spirit off­spring of the Con­joint Ac­tor par­take of this de­sire to min­is­ter, this di­vine urge to ser­vice.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › mercy, ministry, and love applied

8:4.2God is love, the Son is mercy, the Spirit is min­istry—the min­istry of di­vine love and end­less mercy to all in­tel­li­gent cre­ation. The Spirit is the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the Fa­ther’s love and the Son’s mercy; in him are they eter­nally united for uni­ver­sal ser­vice. The Spirit is love ap­plied to the crea­ture cre­ation, the com­bined love of the Fa­ther and the Son.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › personal presence of actual ministry in Havona
• nature of the Infinite Spirit › omnipresent; pervades all space
• participates or participated › in transcendental appearances of Eternal Son
• participates or participated › with original Michael Son in Havona bestowals

8:4.3On Uran­tia the In­fi­nite Spirit is known as an om­ni­pres­ent in­flu­ence, a uni­ver­sal pres­ence, but in Ha­vona you shall know him as a per­sonal pres­ence of ac­tual min­istry. Here the min­istry of the Par­a­dise Spirit is the ex­em­plary and in­spir­ing pat­tern for each of his co-or­di­nate Spir­its and sub­or­di­nate per­son­al­i­ties min­is­ter­ing to the cre­ated be­ings on the worlds of time and space. In this di­vine uni­verse the In­fi­nite Spirit fully par­tic­i­pated in the seven tran­scen­den­tal ap­pear­ances of the Eter­nal Son; like­wise did he par­tic­i­pate with the orig­i­nal Mi­chael Son in the seven be­stowals upon the cir­cuits of Ha­vona, thereby be­com­ing the sym­pa­thetic and un­der­stand­ing spirit min­is­ter to ev­ery pil­grim of time travers­ing these per­fect cir­cles on high.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › ministers combined love of Father and Son
• functions of Infinite Spirit › ministers to minds, even of most primitive living things

8:4.5As the Sons of God are en­gaged in the gi­gan­tic task of re­veal­ing the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity of love to a uni­verse, so is the In­fi­nite Spirit ded­i­cated to the un­end­ing min­istry of re­veal­ing the com­bined love of the Fa­ther and the Son to the in­di­vid­ual minds of all the chil­dren of each uni­verse. In these lo­cal cre­ations the Spirit does not come down to the ma­te­rial races in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh as do cer­tain of the Sons of God, but the In­fi­nite Spirit and his co-or­di­nate Spir­its do down­step them­selves, do joy­fully un­dergo an amaz­ing se­ries of di­vin­ity at­ten­u­a­tions, un­til they ap­pear as an­gels to stand by your side and guide you through the lowly paths of earthly ex­is­tence.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › draws near all creatures as a person in angels

8:4.6By this very di­min­ish­ing se­ries the In­fi­nite Spirit does ac­tu­ally, and as a per­son, draw very near to ev­ery be­ing of the an­i­mal-ori­gin spheres. And all this the Spirit does with­out in the least in­val­i­dat­ing his ex­is­tence as the Third Per­son of De­ity at the cen­ter of all things.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › ministers also in his own name and right

8:4.7The Con­joint Cre­ator is truly and for­ever the great min­is­ter­ing per­son­al­ity, the uni­ver­sal mercy min­is­ter. To com­pre­hend the min­istry of the Spirit, pon­der the truth that he is the com­bined por­trayal of the Fa­ther’s un­end­ing love and of the Son’s eter­nal mercy. The Spirit’s min­istry is not, how­ever, re­stricted solely to the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the Eter­nal Son and the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The In­fi­nite Spirit also pos­sesses the power to min­is­ter to the crea­tures of the realm in his own name and right; the Third Per­son is of di­vine dig­nity and also be­stows the uni­ver­sal min­istry of mercy in his own be­half.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › omnipresent; pervades all space

8:5.1The out­stand­ing at­tri­bute of the In­fi­nite Spirit is om­nipres­ence. Through­out all the uni­verse of uni­verses there is ev­ery­where pres­ent this all-per­vad­ing spirit, which is so akin to the pres­ence of a uni­ver­sal and di­vine mind. Both the Sec­ond Per­son and the Third Per­son of De­ity are rep­re­sented on all worlds by their ever-pres­ent spir­its.

• defined as › spirit of God

8:5.5Ever re­mem­ber that the In­fi­nite Spirit is the Con­joint Ac­tor; both the Fa­ther and the Son are func­tion­ing in and through him; he is pres­ent not only as him­self but also as the Fa­ther and as the Son and as the Fa­ther-Son. In rec­og­ni­tion of this and for many ad­di­tional rea­sons the spirit pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit is of­ten re­ferred to as “the spirit of God.”

8:5.6It would also be con­sis­tent to re­fer to the li­ai­son of all spir­i­tual min­istry as the spirit of God, for such a li­ai­son is truly the union of the spir­its of God the Fa­ther, God the Son, God the Spirit, and God the Sev­en­fold—even the spirit of God the Su­preme.

8:6.1Do not al­low the wide­spread be­stowal and the far-flung dis­tri­bu­tion of the Third Source and Cen­ter to ob­scure or oth­er­wise de­tract from the fact of his per­son­al­ity. The In­fi­nite Spirit is a uni­verse pres­ence, an eter­nal ac­tion, a cos­mic power, a holy in­flu­ence, and a uni­ver­sal mind; he is all of these and in­finitely more, but he is also a true and di­vine per­son­al­ity.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › Eternal Son only attained through I.S.
• nature of the Infinite Spirit › as real and visible to higher intelligences as Father and Son, indeed more so

8:6.2The In­fi­nite Spirit is a com­plete and per­fect per­son­al­ity, the di­vine equal and co-or­di­nate of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son. The Con­joint Cre­ator is just as real and vis­i­ble to the higher in­tel­li­gences of the uni­verses as are the Fa­ther and the Son; in­deed more so, for it is the Spirit whom all as­cend­ers must at­tain be­fore they may ap­proach the Fa­ther through the Son.

• defined as › Absolute Mind; Infinite Mind
• defined as › source and convergence of all mind

8:6.3The In­fi­nite Spirit, the Third Per­son of De­ity, is pos­sessed of all the at­tri­butes which you as­so­ciate with per­son­al­ity. The Spirit is en­dowed with ab­so­lute mind: “The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.” The Spirit is en­dowed not only with mind but also with will. In the be­stowal of his gifts it is re­corded: “But all these works that one and the self­same Spirit, di­vid­ing to ev­ery man sev­er­ally and as he wills.”

• sorrows of I.S. are real

8:6.4“The love of the Spirit” is real, as also are his sor­rows; there­fore “Grieve not the Spirit of God.” Whether we ob­serve the In­fi­nite Spirit as Par­a­dise De­ity or as a lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit, we find that the Con­joint Cre­ator is not only the Third Source and Cen­ter but also a di­vine per­son. This di­vine per­son­al­ity also re­acts to the uni­verse as a per­son. The Spirit speaks to you, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says.” “The Spirit him­self makes in­ter­ces­sion for you.” The Spirit ex­erts a di­rect and per­sonal in­flu­ence upon cre­ated be­ings, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”

8:6.5Even though we be­hold the phe­nom­e­non of the min­istry of the In­fi­nite Spirit to the re­mote worlds of the uni­verse of uni­verses, even though we en­vis­age this same co-or­di­nat­ing De­ity act­ing in and through the un­told le­gions of the man­i­fold be­ings who take ori­gin in the Third Source and Cen­ter, even though we rec­og­nize the om­nipres­ence of the Spirit, nonethe­less, we still af­firm that this same Third Source and Cen­ter is a per­son, the Con­joint Cre­ator of all things and all be­ings and all uni­verses.

8:6.6In the ad­min­is­tra­tion of uni­verses the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit are per­fectly and eter­nally in­teras­so­ci­ated. Though each is en­gaged in a per­sonal min­istry to all cre­ation, all three are di­vinely and ab­so­lutely in­ter­locked in a ser­vice of cre­ation and con­trol which for­ever makes them one.

8:6.7In the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit the Fa­ther and the Son are mu­tu­ally pres­ent, al­ways and in un­qual­i­fied per­fec­tion, for the Spirit is like the Fa­ther and like the Son, and also like the Fa­ther and the Son as they two are for­ever one.

8:6.8[Pre­sented on Uran­tia by a Di­vine Coun­selor of Uversa com­mis­sioned by the An­cients of Days to por­tray the na­ture and work of the In­fi­nite Spirit.]

• functions of Infinite Spirit › agencies ceaselessly manipulate all forces and energies
• nature of the Infinite Spirit › personality of unlimited spirituality, absolute mind, prerogatives of energy manipulation

9:0.1A strange thing oc­curred when, in the pres­ence of Par­a­dise, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son unite to per­son­al­ize them­selves. Noth­ing in this eter­nity sit­u­a­tion fore­shad­ows that the Con­joint Ac­tor would per­son­al­ize as an un­lim­ited spir­i­tu­al­ity co-or­di­nated with ab­so­lute mind and en­dowed with unique pre­rog­a­tives of en­ergy ma­nip­u­la­tion. His com­ing into be­ing com­pletes the Fa­ther’s lib­er­a­tion from the bonds of cen­tral­ized per­fec­tion and from the fet­ters of per­son­al­ity ab­so­lutism. And this lib­er­a­tion is dis­closed in the amaz­ing power of the Con­joint Cre­ator to cre­ate be­ings well adapted to serve as min­is­ter­ing spir­its even to the ma­te­rial crea­tures of the sub­se­quently evolv­ing uni­verses.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › finite energy and spirit held together by mind presences of
• functions of Infinite Spirit › universal unifier of manifold energies and diverse creations

9:0.2The Fa­ther is in­fi­nite in love and vo­li­tion, in spir­i­tual thought and pur­pose; he is the uni­ver­sal up­holder. The Son is in­fi­nite in wis­dom and truth, in spir­i­tual ex­pres­sion and in­ter­pre­ta­tion; he is the uni­ver­sal re­vealer. Par­a­dise is in­fi­nite in po­ten­tial for force en­dow­ment and in ca­pac­ity for en­ergy dom­i­nance; it is the uni­ver­sal sta­bi­lizer. The Con­joint Ac­tor pos­sesses unique pre­rog­a­tives of syn­the­sis, in­fi­nite ca­pac­ity to co-or­di­nate all ex­ist­ing uni­verse en­er­gies, all ac­tual uni­verse spir­its, and all real uni­verse in­tel­lects; the Third Source and Cen­ter is the uni­ver­sal uni­fier of the man­i­fold en­er­gies and di­verse cre­ations which have ap­peared in con­se­quence of the di­vine plan and the eter­nal pur­pose of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• family of Infinite Spirit › truly understand mortals

9:0.3The In­fi­nite Spirit, the Con­joint Cre­ator, is a uni­ver­sal and di­vine min­is­ter. The Spirit un­ceas­ingly min­is­ters the Son’s mercy and the Fa­ther’s love, even in har­mony with the sta­ble, un­vary­ing, and righ­teous jus­tice of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. His in­flu­ence and per­son­al­i­ties are ever near you; they re­ally know and truly un­der­stand you.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › agencies ceaselessly manipulate all forces and energies
• nature of the Infinite Spirit › revelation of unity of God

9:0.4Through­out the uni­verses the agen­cies of the Con­joint Ac­tor cease­lessly ma­nip­u­late the forces and en­er­gies of all space. Like the First Source and Cen­ter, the Third is re­spon­sive to both the spir­i­tual and the ma­te­rial. The Con­joint Ac­tor is the rev­e­la­tion of the unity of God, in whom all things con­sist—things, mean­ings, and val­ues; en­er­gies, minds, and spir­its.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › altogether like Father
• nature of the Infinite Spirit › omnipresent; pervades all space

9:0.5The In­fi­nite Spirit per­vades all space; he in­dwells the cir­cle of eter­nity; and the Spirit, like the Fa­ther and the Son, is per­fect and change­less—ab­so­lute.

• also known as › Conjoint Actor
• also known as › Conjoint Creator
• also known as › Universal Manipulator
• apparent ancestor of motion, change, relationship
• defined as › Absolute Mind; Infinite Mind
• defined as › source and convergence of all mind

9:1.1The Third Source and Cen­ter is known by many names, all des­ig­na­tive of re­la­tion­ship and in rec­og­ni­tion of func­tion: As God the Spirit, he is the per­son­al­ity co-or­di­nate and di­vine equal of God the Son and God the Fa­ther. As the In­fi­nite Spirit, he is an om­ni­pres­ent spir­i­tual in­flu­ence. As the Uni­ver­sal Ma­nip­u­la­tor, he is the an­ces­tor of the power-con­trol crea­tures and the ac­ti­va­tor of the cos­mic forces of space. As the Con­joint Ac­tor, he is the joint rep­re­sen­ta­tive and part­ner­ship ex­ec­u­tive of the Fa­ther-Son. As the Ab­so­lute Mind, he is the source of the en­dow­ment of in­tel­lect through­out the uni­verses. As the God of Ac­tion, he is the ap­par­ent an­ces­tor of mo­tion, change, and re­la­tion­ship.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › some attributes from Father, some from Son, others present in neither

9:1.2Some of the at­tri­butes of the Third Source and Cen­ter are de­rived from the Fa­ther, some from the Son, while still oth­ers are not ob­served to be ac­tively and per­son­ally pres­ent in ei­ther the Fa­ther or the Son—at­tri­butes that can hardly be ex­plained ex­cept by as­sum­ing that the Fa­ther-Son part­ner­ship which eter­nal­izes the Third Source and Cen­ter con­sis­tently func­tions in con­so­nance with, and in rec­og­ni­tion of, the eter­nal fact of the ab­so­lute­ness of Par­a­dise. The Con­joint Cre­ator em­bod­ies the full­ness of the com­bined and in­fi­nite con­cepts of the First and Sec­ond Per­sons of De­ity.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › correlator of all actual reality
• functions of Infinite Spirit › providence is domain of

9:1.3While you en­vis­age the Fa­ther as an orig­i­nal cre­ator and the Son as a spir­i­tual ad­min­is­tra­tor, you should think of the Third Source and Cen­ter as a uni­ver­sal co-or­di­na­tor, a min­is­ter of un­lim­ited co-op­er­a­tion. The Con­joint Ac­tor is the cor­re­la­tor of all ac­tual re­al­ity; he is the De­ity re­pos­i­tory of the Fa­ther’s thought and the Son’s word and in ac­tion is eter­nally re­gard­ful of the ma­te­rial ab­so­lute­ness of the cen­tral Isle. The Par­a­dise Trin­ity has or­dained the uni­ver­sal or­der of prog­ress, and the prov­i­dence of God is the do­main of the Con­joint Cre­ator and the evolv­ing Su­preme Be­ing. No ac­tual or ac­tu­al­iz­ing re­al­ity can es­cape even­tual re­la­tion­ship with the Third Source and Cen­ter.

• defined as › source and convergence of all mind
• functions of Infinite Spirit › finite energy and spirit held together by mind presences of
• functions of Infinite Spirit › manipulator and neutralizer of energies of Paradise

9:1.4The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther pre­sides over the realms of pre-en­ergy, pre­spirit, and per­son­al­ity; the Eter­nal Son dom­i­nates the spheres of spir­i­tual ac­tiv­i­ties; the pres­ence of the Isle of Par­a­dise uni­fies the do­main of phys­i­cal en­ergy and ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing power; the Con­joint Ac­tor op­er­ates not only as an in­fi­nite spirit rep­re­sent­ing the Son but also as a uni­ver­sal ma­nip­u­la­tor of the forces and en­er­gies of Par­a­dise, thus bring­ing into ex­is­tence the uni­ver­sal and ab­so­lute mind. The Con­joint Ac­tor func­tions through­out the grand uni­verse as a pos­i­tive and dis­tinct per­son­al­ity, es­pe­cially in the higher spheres of spir­i­tual val­ues, phys­i­cal-en­ergy re­la­tion­ships, and true mind mean­ings. He func­tions specif­i­cally wher­ever and when­ever en­ergy and spirit as­so­ciate and in­ter­act; he dom­i­nates all re­ac­tions with mind, wields great power in the spir­i­tual world, and ex­erts a mighty in­flu­ence over en­ergy and mat­ter. At all times the Third Source is ex­pres­sive of the na­ture of the First Source and Cen­ter.

• also known as › Omnipresent Spirit
• nature of the Infinite Spirit › absolute only in domain of mind
• nature of the Infinite Spirit › omnipresent; pervades all space
• nature of the Infinite Spirit › omniscient; omnipotent in domain of mind

9:1.5The Third Source and Cen­ter per­fectly and with­out qual­i­fi­ca­tion shares the om­nipres­ence of the First Source and Cen­ter, some­times be­ing called the Om­ni­pres­ent Spirit. In a pe­cu­liar and very per­sonal man­ner the God of mind shares the om­ni­science of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his Eter­nal Son; the knowl­edge of the Spirit is pro­found and com­plete. The Con­joint Cre­ator man­i­fests cer­tain phases of the om­nipo­tence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther but is ac­tu­ally om­nipo­tent only in the do­main of mind. The Third Per­son of De­ity is the in­tel­lec­tual cen­ter and the uni­ver­sal ad­min­is­tra­tor of the mind realms; herein is he ab­so­lute—his sov­er­eignty is un­qual­i­fied.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › compensates for incompleteness of evolutionary Deity – the Supreme and the Ultimate

9:1.6The Con­joint Ac­tor seems to be mo­ti­vated by the Fa­ther-Son part­ner­ship, but all his ac­tions ap­pear to rec­og­nize the Fa­ther-Par­a­dise re­la­tion­ship. At times and in cer­tain func­tions he seems to com­pen­sate for the in­com­plete­ness of the de­vel­op­ment of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties—God the Su­preme and God the Ul­ti­mate.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › antigravity

9:1.7And herein is an in­fi­nite mys­tery: That the In­fi­nite si­mul­ta­ne­ously re­vealed his in­fin­ity in the Son and as Par­a­dise, and then there springs into ex­is­tence a be­ing equal to God in di­vin­ity, re­flec­tive of the Son’s spir­i­tual na­ture, and ca­pa­ble of ac­ti­vat­ing the Par­a­dise pat­tern, a be­ing pro­vi­sion­ally sub­or­di­nate in sov­er­eignty but in many ways ap­par­ently the most ver­sa­tile in ac­tion. And such ap­par­ent su­pe­ri­or­ity in ac­tion is dis­closed in an at­tri­bute of the Third Source and Cen­ter which is su­pe­rior even to phys­i­cal grav­ity—the uni­ver­sal man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Isle of Par­a­dise.

9:1.8In ad­di­tion to this super­con­trol of en­ergy and things phys­i­cal, the In­fi­nite Spirit is su­perbly en­dowed with those at­tri­butes of pa­tience, mercy, and love which are so ex­qui­sitely re­vealed in his spir­i­tual min­istry. The Spirit is su­premely com­pe­tent to min­is­ter love and to over­shadow jus­tice with mercy. God the Spirit pos­sesses all the su­per­nal kind­ness and mer­ci­ful af­fec­tion of the Orig­i­nal and Eter­nal Son. The uni­verse of your ori­gin is be­ing forged out be­tween the anvil of jus­tice and the ham­mer of suf­fer­ing; but those who wield the ham­mer are the chil­dren of mercy, the spirit off­spring of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › complement of Son as Son is of Father; personalized spiritualization of Son and Father

9:2.2The In­fi­nite Spirit is just as much a com­ple­ment of the Eter­nal Son as the Son is a com­ple­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The Eter­nal Son is a spir­i­tu­al­ized per­son­al­iza­tion of the Fa­ther; the In­fi­nite Spirit is a per­son­al­ized spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion of the Eter­nal Son and the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• mortals can know presence of I.S. in 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.

9:3.1The Isle of Par­a­dise is the source and sub­stance of phys­i­cal grav­ity; and that should be suf­fi­cient to in­form you that grav­ity is one of the most real and eter­nally de­pend­able things in the whole phys­i­cal uni­verse of uni­verses. Grav­ity can­not be mod­i­fied or an­nulled ex­cept by the forces and en­er­gies con­jointly spon­sored by the Fa­ther and the Son, which have been in­trusted to, and are func­tion­ally as­so­ci­ated with, the per­son of the Third Source and Cen­ter.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › antigravity

9:3.2The In­fi­nite Spirit pos­sesses a unique and amaz­ing power—anti­grav­ity. This power is not func­tion­ally (ob­serv­ably) pres­ent in ei­ther the Fa­ther or the Son. This abil­ity to with­stand the pull of ma­te­rial grav­ity, in­her­ent in the Third Source, is re­vealed in the per­sonal re­ac­tions of the Con­joint Ac­tor to cer­tain phases of uni­verse re­la­tion­ships. And this unique at­tri­bute is trans­mis­si­ble to cer­tain of the higher per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

9:3.3Anti­grav­ity can an­nul grav­ity within a lo­cal frame; it does so by the ex­er­cise of equal force pres­ence. It op­er­ates only with ref­er­ence to ma­te­rial grav­ity, and it is not the ac­tion of mind. The grav­ity-re­sis­tant phe­nom­e­non of a gy­ro­scope is a fair il­lus­tra­tion of the ef­fect of anti­grav­ity but of no value to il­lus­trate the cause of anti­grav­ity.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › manipulator and neutralizer of energies of Paradise

9:3.4Still fur­ther does the Con­joint Ac­tor dis­play pow­ers which can tran­scend force and neu­tral­ize en­ergy. Such pow­ers op­er­ate by slow­ing down en­ergy to the point of ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion and by other tech­niques un­known to you.

• also known as › Conjoint Creator
• also known as › Third Source and Center
• nature of the Infinite Spirit › action—motion, change, modification, co-ordination, stabilization, equilibrium

9:3.5The Con­joint Cre­ator is not en­ergy nor the source of en­ergy nor the des­tiny of en­ergy; he is the ma­nip­u­la­tor of en­ergy. The Con­joint Cre­ator is ac­tion—mo­tion, change, mod­i­fi­ca­tion, co-or­di­na­tion, sta­bi­liza­tion, and equi­lib­rium. The en­er­gies sub­ject to the di­rect or in­di­rect con­trol of Par­a­dise are by na­ture re­spon­sive to the acts of the Third Source and Cen­ter and his man­i­fold agen­cies.

• also known as › God of Action

9:3.6The uni­verse of uni­verses is per­me­ated by the power-con­trol crea­tures of the Third Source and Cen­ter: phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, power di­rec­tors, power cen­ters, and other rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the God of Ac­tion who have to do with the reg­u­la­tion and sta­bi­liza­tion of phys­i­cal en­er­gies. These unique crea­tures of phys­i­cal func­tion all pos­sess vary­ing at­tri­butes of power con­trol, such as anti­grav­ity, which they uti­lize in their ef­forts to es­tab­lish the phys­i­cal equi­lib­rium of the mat­ter and en­er­gies of the grand uni­verse.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › executive agency for Father-Son partnership
• nature of the Infinite Spirit › acts for Father and Son, not Paradise; his nonpersonal doings are volitional acts

9:3.7All these ma­te­rial ac­tiv­i­ties of the God of Ac­tion ap­pear to re­late his func­tion to the Isle of Par­a­dise, and in­deed the agen­cies of power are all re­gard­ful of, even de­pen­dent on, the ab­so­lute­ness of the eter­nal Isle. But the Con­joint Ac­tor does not act for, or in re­sponse to, Par­a­dise. He acts, per­son­ally, for the Fa­ther and the Son. Par­a­dise is not a per­son. The non­per­sonal, im­per­sonal, and oth­er­wise not per­sonal do­ings of the Third Source and Cen­ter are all vo­li­tional acts of the Con­joint Ac­tor him­self; they are not re­flec­tions, deriva­tions, or reper­cus­sions of any­thing or any­body.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › activator of Paradise pattern
• functions of Infinite Spirit › agencies ceaselessly manipulate all forces and energies

9:3.8Par­a­dise is the pat­tern of in­fin­ity; the God of Ac­tion is the ac­ti­va­tor of that pat­tern. Par­a­dise is the ma­te­rial ful­crum of in­fin­ity; the agen­cies of the Third Source and Cen­ter are the levers of in­tel­li­gence which mo­ti­vate the ma­te­rial level and in­ject spon­tane­ity into the mech­a­nism of the phys­i­cal cre­ation.

9:4.1There is an in­tel­lec­tual na­ture of the Third Source and Cen­ter that is dis­tinct from his phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual at­tri­butes. Such a na­ture is hardly con­tactable, but it is as­so­cia­ble—in­tel­lec­tu­ally though not per­son­ally. It is dis­tin­guish­able from the phys­i­cal at­tri­butes and the spir­i­tual char­ac­ter of the Third Per­son on mind lev­els of func­tion, but to the dis­cern­ment of per­son­al­i­ties this na­ture never func­tions in­de­pen­dently of phys­i­cal or spir­i­tual man­i­fes­ta­tions.

9:4.2The ab­so­lute mind is the mind of the Third Per­son; it is in­sep­a­ra­ble from the per­son­al­ity of God the Spirit. Mind, in func­tion­ing be­ings, is not sep­a­rated from en­ergy or spirit, or both. Mind is not in­her­ent in en­ergy; en­ergy is re­cep­tive and re­spon­sive to mind; mind can be super­im­posed upon en­ergy, but con­scious­ness is not in­her­ent in the purely ma­te­rial level. Mind does not have to be added to pure spirit, for spirit is in­nately con­scious and iden­ti­fy­ing. Spirit is al­ways in­tel­li­gent, minded in some way. It may be this mind or that mind, it may be pre­mind or super­mind, even spirit mind, but it does the equiv­a­lent of think­ing and know­ing. The in­sight of spirit tran­scends, super­venes, and the­o­ret­i­cally an­te­dates the con­scious­ness of mind.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › source of mind
• nature of the Infinite Spirit › absolute only in domain of mind
• nature of the Infinite Spirit › omniscient; omnipotent in domain of mind

9:4.3The Con­joint Cre­ator is ab­so­lute only in the do­main of mind, in the realms of uni­ver­sal in­tel­li­gence. The mind of the Third Source and Cen­ter is in­fi­nite; it ut­terly tran­scends the ac­tive and func­tion­ing mind cir­cuits of the uni­verse of uni­verses. The mind en­dow­ment of the seven super­uni­verses is de­rived from the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, the pri­mary per­son­al­i­ties of the Con­joint Cre­ator. These Mas­ter Spir­its dis­tribute mind to the grand uni­verse as the cos­mic mind, and your lo­cal uni­verse is per­vaded by the Neb­a­don vari­ant of the Or­von­ton type of cos­mic mind.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › independent of space and time

9:4.4In­fi­nite mind ig­nores time, ul­ti­mate mind tran­scends time, cos­mic mind is con­di­tioned by time. And so with space: The In­fi­nite Mind is in­de­pen­dent of space, but as de­scent is made from the in­fi­nite to the ad­ju­tant lev­els of mind, in­tel­lect must in­creas­ingly reckon with the fact and lim­i­ta­tions of space.

9:4.5Cos­mic force re­sponds to mind even as cos­mic mind re­sponds to spirit. Spirit is di­vine pur­pose, and spirit mind is di­vine pur­pose in ac­tion. En­ergy is thing, mind is mean­ing, spirit is value. Even in time and space, mind es­tab­lishes those rel­a­tive re­la­tion­ships be­tween en­ergy and spirit which are sug­ges­tive of mu­tual kin­ship in eter­nity.

9:4.6Mind trans­mutes the val­ues of spirit into the mean­ings of in­tel­lect; vo­li­tion has power to bring the mean­ings of mind to fruit in both the ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual do­mains. The Par­a­dise as­cent in­volves a rel­a­tive and dif­fer­en­tial growth in spirit, mind, and en­ergy. The per­son­al­ity is the uni­fier of these com­po­nents of ex­pe­ri­en­tial in­di­vid­u­al­ity.

• mind of I.S. is adequate to endow an infinite universe

9:5.1The Third Source and Cen­ter is in­fi­nite in mind. If the uni­verse should grow to in­fin­ity, still his mind po­ten­tial would be ad­e­quate to en­dow lim­it­less num­bers of crea­tures with suit­able minds and other pre­req­ui­sites of in­tel­lect.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › ministers to minds, even of most primitive living things

9:5.3The unique fea­ture of mind is that it can be be­stowed upon such a wide range of life. Through his cre­ative and crea­ture as­so­ciates the Third Source and Cen­ter min­is­ters to all minds on all spheres. He min­is­ters to hu­man and sub­hu­man in­tel­lect through the ad­ju­tants of the lo­cal uni­verses and, through the agency of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, min­is­ters even to the low­est non­ex­pe­ri­enc­ing en­ti­ties of the most prim­i­tive types of liv­ing things. And al­ways is the di­rec­tion of mind a min­istry of mind-spirit or mind-en­ergy per­son­al­i­ties.

• easier for creatures to conceive than Son or Father, being source of mind
• functions of Infinite Spirit › ancestor of cosmic mind

9:5.4Since the Third Per­son of De­ity is the source of mind, it is quite nat­u­ral that the evo­lu­tion­ary will crea­tures find it eas­ier to form com­pre­hen­si­ble con­cepts of the In­fi­nite Spirit than they do of ei­ther the Eter­nal Son or the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The re­al­ity of the Con­joint Cre­ator is dis­closed im­per­fectly in the very ex­is­tence of hu­man mind. The Con­joint Cre­ator is the an­ces­tor of the cos­mic mind, and the mind of man is an in­di­vid­u­al­ized cir­cuit, an im­per­sonal por­tion, of that cos­mic mind as it is be­stowed in a lo­cal uni­verse by a Cre­ative Daugh­ter of the Third Source and Cen­ter.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › omniscient; omnipotent in domain of mind

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.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › draws all divine and perfect ideas and values in his mind circuit

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.

• Infinite Mind is a law in itself

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.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › perfect expression of Creator’s mind to creatures

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.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › makes possible reflectivity

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.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › ancestor of cosmic mind

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.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › transmits many powers to co-ordinate and subordinate personalities

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.

• family of Infinite Spirit › Seven Master Spirits are primary personalities of

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.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › bestows Third Source personality

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.

• family of Infinite Spirit › some beings not unqualifiedly personal to others

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.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › can act for Father in bestowal of personality

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.

• family of Infinite Spirit › orders of personalities

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.

• family of Infinite Spirit › some beings not unqualifiedly personal to others

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.

• family of Infinite Spirit › children are living ladder whereby man climbs from chaos to glory

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.]

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › oneness with Father and Son

10:0.2The Par­a­dise Trin­ity ef­fec­tively pro­vides for the full ex­pres­sion and per­fect rev­e­la­tion of the eter­nal na­ture of De­ity. The Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity like­wise af­ford a full and per­fect rev­e­la­tion of di­vine jus­tice. The Trin­ity is De­ity unity, and this unity rests eter­nally upon the ab­so­lute foun­da­tions of the di­vine one­ness of the three orig­i­nal and co-or­di­nate and co­ex­is­tent per­son­al­i­ties, God the Fa­ther, God the Son, and God the Spirit.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › executive agency for Father-Son partnership

10:1.4For knowl­edge con­cern­ing the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity and di­vine at­tri­butes we will al­ways be de­pen­dent on the rev­e­la­tions of the Eter­nal Son, for when the con­joint act of cre­ation was ef­fected, when the Third Per­son of De­ity sprang into per­son­al­ity ex­is­tence and ex­e­cuted the com­bined con­cepts of his di­vine par­ents, the Fa­ther ceased to ex­ist as the un­qual­i­fied per­son­al­ity. With the com­ing into be­ing of the Con­joint Ac­tor and the ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion of the cen­tral core of cre­ation, cer­tain eter­nal changes took place. God gave him­self as an ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity to his Eter­nal Son. Thus does the Fa­ther be­stow the “per­son­al­ity of in­fin­ity” upon his only-be­got­ten Son, while they both be­stow the “con­joint per­son­al­ity” of their eter­nal union upon the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › revealed in bestowals of Paradise Sons

10:1.6Since the Par­a­dise Sons of God visit the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds and some­times even there dwell in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, and since these be­stowals make it pos­si­ble for mor­tal man ac­tu­ally to know some­thing of the na­ture and char­ac­ter of di­vine per­son­al­ity, there­fore must the crea­tures of the plan­e­tary spheres look to the be­stowals of these Par­a­dise Sons for re­li­able and trust­wor­thy in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing the Fa­ther, the Son, and the Spirit.

• appearance

10:2.3The Son is in­dis­pens­able to the fa­ther­hood of God. The Spirit is in­dis­pens­able to the fra­ter­nity of the Sec­ond and Third Per­sons. Three per­sons are a min­i­mum so­cial group, but this is least of all the many rea­sons for be­liev­ing in the in­evitabil­ity of the Con­joint Ac­tor.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › executive agency for Father-Son partnership

10:2.4The First Source and Cen­ter is the in­fi­nite fa­ther-per­son­al­ity, the un­lim­ited source per­son­al­ity. The Eter­nal Son is the un­qual­i­fied per­son­al­ity-ab­so­lute, that di­vine be­ing who stands through­out all time and eter­nity as the per­fect rev­e­la­tion of the per­sonal na­ture of God. The In­fi­nite Spirit is the con­joint per­son­al­ity, the unique per­sonal con­se­quence of the ev­er­last­ing Fa­ther-Son union.

• family of Infinite Spirit › Seven Master Spirits are primary personalities of

10:2.7The Eter­nal Son alone ex­pe­ri­ences the full­ness of di­vine per­son­al­ity re­la­tion­ship, con­scious­ness of both son­ship with the Fa­ther and pa­ter­nity to the Spirit and of di­vine equal­ity with both Fa­ther-an­ces­tor and Spirit-as­so­ciate. The Fa­ther knows the ex­pe­ri­ence of hav­ing a Son who is his equal, but the Fa­ther knows no an­ces­tral an­tecedents. The Eter­nal Son has the ex­pe­ri­ence of son­ship, rec­og­ni­tion of per­son­al­ity an­ces­try, and at the same time the Son is con­scious of be­ing joint par­ent to the In­fi­nite Spirit. The In­fi­nite Spirit is con­scious of two­fold per­son­al­ity an­ces­try but is not pa­ren­tal to a co-or­di­nate De­ity per­son­al­ity. With the Spirit the ex­is­ten­tial cy­cle of De­ity per­son­al­iza­tion at­tains com­ple­tion; the pri­mary per­son­al­i­ties of the Third Source and Cen­ter are ex­pe­ri­en­tial and are seven in num­ber.

• family of Infinite Spirit › are Act of God
• functions of Infinite Spirit › executive agency for Father-Son partnership

10:3.3The di­vine Sons are in­deed the “Word of God,” but the chil­dren of the Spirit are truly the “Act of God.” God speaks through the Son and, with the Son, acts through the In­fi­nite Spirit, while in all uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties the Son and the Spirit are ex­qui­sitely fra­ter­nal, work­ing as two equal broth­ers with ad­mi­ra­tion and love for an hon­ored and di­vinely re­spected com­mon Fa­ther.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › eternal; divine personality

10:3.5The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, prior to his self-willed di­vest­ment of the per­son­al­ity, pow­ers, and at­tri­butes which con­sti­tute the Son and the Spirit, seems to have been (phil­o­soph­i­cally con­sid­ered) an un­qual­i­fied, ab­so­lute, and in­fi­nite De­ity. But such a the­o­ret­i­cal First Source and Cen­ter with­out a Son could not in any sense of the word be con­sid­ered the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; fa­ther­hood is not real with­out son­ship. Fur­ther­more, the Fa­ther, to have been ab­so­lute in a to­tal sense, must have ex­isted at some eter­nally dis­tant mo­ment alone. But he never had such a soli­tary ex­is­tence; the Son and the Spirit are both co­eter­nal with the Fa­ther. The First Source and Cen­ter has al­ways been, and will for­ever be, the eter­nal Fa­ther of the Orig­i­nal Son and, with the Son, the eter­nal pro­gen­i­tor of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › manipulator and neutralizer of energies of Paradise
• participates or participated › in everything except physical gravity, spiritual gravity, and personality circuit
• participates or participated › in spheres of mind, matter, and spirit

10:3.19The In­fi­nite Spirit is amaz­ingly uni­ver­sal and un­be­liev­ably ver­sa­tile in all his op­er­a­tions. He per­forms in the spheres of mind, mat­ter, and spirit. The Con­joint Ac­tor rep­re­sents the Fa­ther-Son as­so­ci­a­tion, but he also func­tions as him­self. He is not di­rectly con­cerned with phys­i­cal grav­ity, with spir­i­tual grav­ity, or with the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit, but he more or less par­tic­i­pates in all other uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties. While ap­par­ently de­pen­dent on three ex­is­ten­tial and ab­so­lute grav­ity con­trols, the In­fi­nite Spirit ap­pears to ex­er­cise three super­con­trols. This three­fold en­dow­ment is em­ployed in many ways to tran­scend and seem­ingly to neu­tral­ize even the man­i­fes­ta­tions of pri­mary forces and en­er­gies, right up to the super­ul­ti­mate bor­ders of ab­so­lute­ness. In cer­tain sit­u­a­tions these super­con­trols ab­so­lutely tran­scend even the pri­mal man­i­fes­ta­tions of cos­mic re­al­ity.

• family of Infinite Spirit › provides evidence for universe tribunals

10:6.3Ev­i­dence, the ba­sis of fair­ness (jus­tice in har­mony with mercy), is sup­plied by the per­son­al­i­ties of the Third Source and Cen­ter, the con­joint rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Fa­ther and the Son to all realms and to the minds of the in­tel­li­gent be­ings of all cre­ation.

10:6.4Judg­ment, the fi­nal ap­pli­ca­tion of jus­tice in ac­cor­dance with the ev­i­dence sub­mit­ted by the per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit, is the work of the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity, be­ings par­tak­ing of the Trin­ity na­ture of the united Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › oneness with Father and Son

10:7.1The First, Sec­ond, and Third Per­sons of De­ity are equal to each other, and they are one. “The Lord our God is one God.” There is per­fec­tion of pur­pose and one­ness of ex­e­cu­tion in the di­vine Trin­ity of eter­nal De­i­ties. The Fa­ther, the Son, and the Con­joint Ac­tor are truly and di­vinely one. Of a truth it is writ­ten: “I am the first, and I am the last, and be­side me there is no God.”

• presence of I.S. enshrouds Father and Son

11:1.1Par­a­dise serves many pur­poses in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­ver­sal realms, but to crea­ture be­ings it ex­ists pri­mar­ily as the dwell­ing place of De­ity. The per­sonal pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is res­i­dent at the very cen­ter of the up­per sur­face of this well-nigh cir­cu­lar, but not spher­i­cal, abode of the De­i­ties. This Par­a­dise pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is im­me­di­ately sur­rounded by the per­sonal pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son, while they are both in­vested by the un­speak­able glory of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › initiates motions of space

12:4.31. We think the Con­joint Ac­tor ini­ti­ates mo­tion in space.

12:4.42. If the Con­joint Ac­tor pro­duces the mo­tions of space, we can­not prove it.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › ancestor of cosmic mind
• functions of Infinite Spirit › finite energy and spirit held together by mind presences of

12:6.3The Third Source and Cen­ter as­sists in the main­te­nance of the equi­lib­rium and co-or­di­na­tion of the com­bined phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual en­er­gies and or­ga­ni­za­tions by the ab­so­lute­ness of his grasp of the cos­mic mind and by the ex­er­cise of his in­her­ent and uni­ver­sal phys­i­cal- and spir­i­tual-grav­ity com­ple­ments. When­ever and wher­ever there oc­curs a li­ai­son be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual, such a mind phe­nom­e­non is an act of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Mind alone can in­teras­so­ci­ate the phys­i­cal forces and en­er­gies of the ma­te­rial level with the spir­i­tual pow­ers and be­ings of the spirit level.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › finite energy and spirit held together by mind presences of
• functions of Infinite Spirit › source of mind

12:8.7The Con­joint Ac­tor re­acts to both ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties and there­fore in­her­ently be­comes the uni­ver­sal min­is­ter to all in­tel­li­gent be­ings, be­ings who may rep­re­sent a union of both the ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual phases of cre­ation. The en­dow­ment of in­tel­li­gence, the min­istry to the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual in the phe­nom­e­non of mind, is the ex­clu­sive do­main of the Con­joint Ac­tor, who thus be­comes the part­ner of the spir­i­tual mind, the essence of the mor­ontia mind, and the sub­stance of the ma­te­rial mind of the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures of time.

• 7 sacred worlds of

13:0.5The seven worlds of the In­fi­nite Spirit are oc­cu­pied by the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, who pre­side over the des­tinies of the seven super­uni­verses, send­ing forth the spir­i­tual il­lu­mi­na­tion of the Third Per­son of De­ity to these cre­ations of time and space. And all Ha­vona, but not the Isle of Par­a­dise, is bathed in these spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing in­flu­ences.

• reflectivity is secret of

13:1.10The se­crets of Spir­it­ing­ton in­volve the im­pen­e­tra­ble mys­ter­ies of re­flec­tiv­ity. We tell you of the vast and uni­ver­sal phe­nom­e­non of re­flec­tiv­ity, more par­tic­u­larly as it is op­er­a­tive on the head­quar­ters worlds of the seven super­uni­verses, but we never fully ex­plain this phe­nom­e­non, for we do not fully un­der­stand it. Much, very much, we do com­pre­hend, but many ba­sic de­tails are still mys­te­ri­ous to us. Re­flec­tiv­ity is a se­cret of God the Spirit. You have been in­structed con­cern­ing re­flec­tiv­ity func­tions in re­la­tion to the as­cen­sion scheme of mor­tal sur­vival, and it does so op­er­ate, but re­flec­tiv­ity is also an in­dis­pens­able fea­ture of the nor­mal work­ing of nu­mer­ous other phases of uni­verse oc­cu­pa­tion. This en­dow­ment of the In­fi­nite Spirit is also uti­lized in chan­nels other than those of in­tel­li­gence gath­er­ing and in­for­ma­tion dis­sem­i­na­tion. And there are other se­crets of Spir­it­ing­ton.

13:4.1Be­tween the in­ner cir­cuit of Ha­vona and the shin­ing spheres of the Eter­nal Son there cir­cle the seven orbs of the In­fi­nite Spirit, worlds in­hab­ited by the off­spring of the In­fi­nite Spirit, by the trin­i­tized sons of glo­ri­fied cre­ated per­son­al­i­ties, and by other types of un­re­vealed be­ings con­cerned with the ef­fec­tive ad­min­is­tra­tion of the many en­ter­prises of the var­i­ous realms of uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties.

• family of Infinite Spirit › Seven Master Spirits are primary personalities of

13:4.2The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are the su­preme and ul­ti­mate rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the In­fi­nite Spirit. They main­tain their per­sonal sta­tions, their power fo­cuses, on the pe­riph­ery of Par­a­dise, but all op­er­a­tions con­cerned with their man­age­ment and di­rec­tion of the grand uni­verse are con­ducted on and from these seven spe­cial ex­ec­u­tive spheres of the In­fi­nite Spirit. The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are, in re­al­ity, the mind-spirit bal­ance wheel of the uni­verse of uni­verses, an all-em­brac­ing, all-en­com­pass­ing, and all-co-or­di­nat­ing power of cen­tral lo­ca­tion.

13:4.3From these seven spe­cial spheres the Mas­ter Spir­its op­er­ate to equal­ize and sta­bi­lize the cos­mic-mind cir­cuits of the grand uni­verse. They also have to do with the dif­fer­en­tial spir­i­tual at­ti­tude and pres­ence of the De­i­ties through­out the grand uni­verse. Phys­i­cal re­ac­tions are uni­form, un­vary­ing, and al­ways in­stan­ta­neous and au­to­matic. But ex­pe­ri­en­tial spir­i­tual pres­ence is in ac­cor­dance with the un­der­ly­ing con­di­tions or states of spir­i­tual re­cep­tiv­ity in­her­ent in the in­di­vid­ual minds of the realms.

13:4.4Phys­i­cal au­thor­ity, pres­ence, and func­tion are un­vary­ing in all the uni­verses, small or great. The dif­fer­ing fac­tor in spir­i­tual pres­ence, or re­ac­tion, is the fluc­tu­at­ing dif­fer­en­tial in its rec­og­ni­tion and re­cep­tion by will crea­tures. Whereas the spir­i­tual pres­ence of ab­so­lute and ex­is­ten­tial De­ity is in no man­ner what­ever in­flu­enced by at­ti­tudes of loy­alty or dis­loy­alty on the part of cre­ated be­ings, at the same time it is true that the func­tion­ing pres­ence of sub­ab­so­lute and ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity is def­i­nitely and di­rectly in­flu­enced by the de­ci­sions, choices, and will-at­ti­tudes of such fi­nite crea­ture be­ings—by the loy­alty and de­vo­tion of the in­di­vid­ual be­ing, planet, sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, or uni­verse. But this spir­i­tual pres­ence of di­vin­ity is not whim­si­cal nor ar­bi­trary; its ex­pe­ri­en­tial vari­ance is in­her­ent in the free­will en­dow­ment of per­sonal crea­tures.

13:4.5The de­ter­miner of the dif­fer­en­tial of spir­i­tual pres­ence ex­ists in your own hearts and minds and con­sists in the man­ner of your own choos­ing, in the de­ci­sions of your minds, and in the de­ter­mi­na­tion of your own wills. This dif­fer­en­tial is in­her­ent in the free­will re­ac­tions of in­tel­li­gent per­sonal be­ings, be­ings whom the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has or­dained shall ex­er­cise this lib­erty of choos­ing. And the De­i­ties are ever true to the ebb and flow of their spir­its in meet­ing and sat­is­fy­ing the con­di­tions and de­mands of this dif­fer­en­tial of crea­ture choice, now be­stow­ing more of their pres­ence in re­sponse to a sin­cere de­sire for the same and again with­draw­ing them­selves from the scene as their crea­tures de­cide ad­versely in the ex­er­cise of their di­vinely be­stowed free­dom of choice. And thus does the spirit of di­vin­ity be­come humbly obe­di­ent to the choos­ing of the crea­tures of the realms.

13:4.6The ex­ec­u­tive abodes of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are, in re­al­ity, the Par­a­dise head­quar­ters of the seven super­uni­verses and their cor­re­lated seg­ments in outer space. Each Mas­ter Spirit pre­sides over one super­uni­verse, and each of these seven worlds is ex­clu­sively as­signed to one of the Mas­ter Spir­its. There is lit­er­ally no phase of the sub-Par­a­dise ad­min­is­tra­tion of the seven super­uni­verses which is not pro­vided for on these ex­ec­u­tive worlds. They are not so ex­clu­sive as the spheres of the Fa­ther or those of the Son, and though res­i­den­tial sta­tus is lim­ited to na­tive be­ings and those who work thereon, these seven ad­min­is­tra­tive plan­ets are al­ways open to all be­ings who de­sire to visit them, and who can com­mand the nec­es­sary means of tran­sit.

13:4.7To me, these ex­ec­u­tive worlds are the most in­ter­est­ing and in­trigu­ing spots out­side of Par­a­dise. In no other place in the wide uni­verse can one ob­serve such var­ied ac­tiv­i­ties, in­volv­ing so many dif­fer­ent or­ders of liv­ing be­ings, hav­ing to do with op­er­a­tions on so many di­verse lev­els, oc­cu­pa­tions at once ma­te­rial, in­tel­lec­tual, and spir­i­tual. When I am ac­corded a pe­riod of re­lease from as­sign­ment, if I chance to be on Par­a­dise or in Ha­vona, I usu­ally pro­ceed to one of these busy worlds of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, there to in­spire my mind with such spec­ta­cles of en­ter­prise, de­vo­tion, loy­alty, wis­dom, and ef­fec­tive­ness. Nowhere else can I ob­serve such an amaz­ing in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of per­son­al­ity per­for­mances on all seven lev­els of uni­verse re­al­ity. And I am al­ways stim­u­lated by the ac­tiv­i­ties of those who well know how to do their work, and who so thor­oughly en­joy do­ing it.

13:4.8[Pre­sented by a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom com­mis­sioned thus to func­tion by the An­cients of Days on Uversa.]

• functions of Infinite Spirit › draws all intellectual values Paradiseward

14:2.8Like­wise does the In­fi­nite Spirit draw all in­tel­lec­tual val­ues Par­adis­e­ward. Through­out the cen­tral uni­verse the mind grav­ity of the In­fi­nite Spirit func­tions in li­ai­son with the spirit grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son, and these to­gether con­sti­tute the com­bined urge of the as­cen­dant souls to find God, to at­tain De­ity, to achieve Par­a­dise, and to know the Fa­ther.

• defined as › Conjoint Actor, Third Person of Deity
• satisfactions afforded by Havona

14:6.173. The In­fi­nite Spirit—the Third Source and Cen­ter. The Ha­vona uni­verse af­fords the In­fi­nite Spirit proof of be­ing the Con­joint Ac­tor, the in­fi­nite rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the uni­fied Fa­ther-Son. In Ha­vona the In­fi­nite Spirit de­rives the com­bined sat­is­fac­tion of func­tion­ing as a cre­ative ac­tiv­ity while en­joy­ing the sat­is­fac­tion of ab­so­lute co­ex­is­tence with this di­vine achieve­ment.

14:6.18In Ha­vona the In­fi­nite Spirit found an arena wherein he could demon­strate the abil­ity and will­ing­ness to serve as a po­ten­tial mercy min­is­ter. In this per­fect cre­ation the Spirit re­hearsed for the ad­ven­ture of min­istry in the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses.

14:6.19This per­fect cre­ation af­forded the In­fi­nite Spirit op­por­tu­nity to par­tic­i­pate in uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion with both di­vine par­ents—to ad­min­is­ter a uni­verse as as­so­ciate-Cre­ator off­spring, thereby prepar­ing for the joint ad­min­is­tra­tion of the lo­cal uni­verses as the Cre­ative Spirit as­so­ciates of the Cre­ator Sons.

14:6.20The Ha­vona worlds are the mind lab­o­ra­tory of the cre­ators of the cos­mic mind and the min­is­ters to ev­ery crea­ture mind in ex­is­tence. Mind is dif­fer­ent on each Ha­vona world and serves as the pat­tern for all spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial crea­ture in­tel­lects.

14:6.21These per­fect worlds are the mind grad­u­ate schools for all be­ings des­tined for Par­a­dise so­ci­ety. They af­forded the Spirit abun­dant op­por­tu­nity to test out the tech­nique of mind min­istry on safe and ad­vi­sory per­son­al­i­ties.

14:6.22Ha­vona is a com­pen­sa­tion to the In­fi­nite Spirit for his wide­spread and un­selfish work in the uni­verses of space. Ha­vona is the per­fect home and re­treat for the un­tir­ing Mind Min­is­ter of time and space.

• also known as › Infinite Mother Spirit

14:6.34The Uni­verse Mother Cre­ator re­mem­bers Par­a­dise and Ha­vona as the place of her ori­gin and the home of the In­fi­nite Mother Spirit, the abode of the per­son­al­ity pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Mind.

• flash presence of

15:9.85. The flash pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• family of Infinite Spirit › Seven Master Spirits are primary personalities of

16:0.1The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise are the pri­mary per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit. In this sev­en­fold cre­ative act of self-du­pli­ca­tion the In­fi­nite Spirit ex­hausted the as­so­cia­tive pos­si­bil­i­ties math­e­mat­i­cally in­her­ent in the fac­tual ex­is­tence of the three per­sons of De­ity. Had it been pos­si­ble to pro­duce a larger num­ber of Mas­ter Spir­its, they would have been cre­ated, but there are just seven as­so­cia­tive pos­si­bil­i­ties, and only seven, in­her­ent in three De­i­ties. And this ex­plains why the uni­verse is op­er­ated in seven grand di­vi­sions, and why the num­ber seven is ba­si­cally fun­da­men­tal in its or­ga­ni­za­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion.

• not all who attain Paradise can immediately discern

16:2.1Just as the Eter­nal and Orig­i­nal Son is re­vealed through the per­sons of the con­stantly in­creas­ing num­ber of di­vine Sons, so is the In­fi­nite and Di­vine Spirit re­vealed through the chan­nels of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and their as­so­ci­ated spirit groups. At the cen­ter of cen­ters the In­fi­nite Spirit is ap­proach­able, but not all who at­tain Par­a­dise are im­me­di­ately able to dis­cern his per­son­al­ity and dif­fer­en­ti­ated pres­ence; but all who at­tain the cen­tral uni­verse can and do im­me­di­ately com­mune with one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, the one pre­sid­ing over the super­uni­verse from which the newly ar­rived space pil­grim hails.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › executive agency for Father-Son partnership
• in superuniverses, I.S. speaks only through Seven Master Spirits

16:2.2To the uni­verse of uni­verses the Par­a­dise Fa­ther speaks only through his Son, while he and the Son con­jointly act only through the In­fi­nite Spirit. Out­side of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona the In­fi­nite Spirit speaks only by the voices of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › exerts personal presence only in Paradise, Havona

16:2.3The In­fi­nite Spirit ex­erts an in­flu­ence of per­sonal pres­ence within the con­fines of the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem; else­where his per­sonal spirit pres­ence is ex­erted by and through one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. There­fore is the super­uni­verse spirit pres­ence of the Third Source and Cen­ter on any world or in any in­di­vid­ual con­di­tioned by the unique na­ture of the super­vi­sory Mas­ter Spirit of that seg­ment of cre­ation. Con­versely, the com­bined lines of spirit force and in­tel­li­gence pass in­ward to the Third Per­son of De­ity by way of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

16:2.4The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are col­lec­tively en­dowed with the su­preme-ul­ti­mate at­tri­butes of the Third Source and Cen­ter. While each one in­di­vid­u­ally par­takes of this en­dow­ment, only col­lec­tively do they dis­close the at­tri­butes of om­nipo­tence, om­ni­science, and om­nipres­ence. No one of them can so func­tion uni­ver­sally; as in­di­vid­u­als and in the ex­er­cise of these pow­ers of su­prem­acy and ul­ti­macy each is per­son­ally lim­ited to the super­uni­verse of im­me­di­ate super­vi­sion.

• Seven Master Spirits distribute I.S. to superuniverses

16:2.5All of ev­ery­thing which has been told you con­cern­ing the di­vin­ity and per­son­al­ity of the Con­joint Ac­tor ap­plies equally and fully to the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, who so ef­fec­tively dis­tribute the In­fi­nite Spirit to the seven seg­ments of the grand uni­verse in ac­cor­dance with their di­vine en­dow­ment and in the man­ner of their dif­fer­ing and in­di­vid­u­ally unique na­tures. It would there­fore be proper to ap­ply to the col­lec­tive group of seven any or all of the names of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Col­lec­tively they are one with the Con­joint Cre­ator on all sub­ab­so­lute lev­els.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › ancestor of cosmic mind

16:9.15Is it strange that the cos­mic mind should be self-con­sciously aware of its own source, the in­fi­nite mind of the In­fi­nite Spirit, and at the same time con­scious of the phys­i­cal re­al­ity of the far-flung uni­verses, the spir­i­tual re­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son, and the per­son­al­ity re­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther?

• family of Infinite Spirit › central personality registries kept on Paradise spheres of Infinite Spirit

17:1.6On the ex­ec­u­tive sphere of the sev­enth super­uni­verse the staff en­gaged in keep­ing straight the af­fairs of Or­von­ton runs into num­bers be­yond hu­man com­pre­hen­sion and em­braces prac­ti­cally ev­ery or­der of ce­les­tial in­tel­li­gence. All super­uni­verse ser­vices of per­son­al­ity dis­patch (ex­cept In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its and Thought Ad­justers) pass through one of these seven ex­ec­u­tive worlds on their uni­verse jour­neys to and from Par­a­dise, and here are main­tained the cen­tral reg­istries for all per­son­al­i­ties cre­ated by the Third Source and Cen­ter who func­tion in the super­uni­verses. The sys­tem of ma­te­rial, mor­ontial, and spir­i­tual rec­ords on one of these ex­ec­u­tive worlds of the Spirit amazes even a be­ing of my or­der.

• participates or participated › in birth of local universe Mother Spirits

17:6.31. Ini­tial Par­a­dise Dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion. When a Cre­ator Son is per­son­al­ized by the joint ac­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son, si­mul­ta­ne­ously there oc­curs in the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit what is known as the “su­preme re­ac­tion of com­ple­ment.” We do not com­pre­hend the na­ture of this re­ac­tion, but we un­der­stand that it des­ig­nates an in­her­ent mod­i­fi­ca­tion of those per­son­al­iz­able pos­si­bil­i­ties which are em­braced within the cre­ative po­ten­tial of the Con­joint Cre­ator. The birth of a co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Son sig­nal­izes the birth within the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit of the po­ten­tial of the fu­ture lo­cal uni­verse con­sort of this Par­a­dise Son. We are not cog­nizant of this new preper­sonal iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of en­tity, but we know that this fact finds place on the Par­a­dise rec­ords of the ca­reer of such a Cre­ator Son.

17:6.42. Pre­lim­i­nary Cre­ator­ship Train­ing. Dur­ing the long pe­riod of the pre­lim­i­nary train­ing of a Mi­chael Son in the or­ga­ni­za­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion of uni­verses, his fu­ture con­sort un­der­goes fur­ther de­vel­op­ment of en­tity and be­comes group con­scious of des­tiny. We do not know, but we sus­pect that such a group-con­scious en­tity be­comes space cog­nizant and be­gins that pre­lim­i­nary train­ing req­ui­site to the ac­quire­ment of spirit skill in her fu­ture work of col­lab­o­ra­tion with the com­ple­men­tal Mi­chael in uni­verse cre­ation and ad­min­is­tra­tion.

17:6.53. The Stage of Phys­i­cal Cre­ation. At the time the cre­ator­ship charge is ad­min­is­tered to a Mi­chael Son by the Eter­nal Son, the Mas­ter Spirit who di­rects the super­uni­verse to which this new Cre­ator Son is des­tined gives ex­pres­sion to the “prayer of iden­ti­fi­ca­tion” in the pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit; and for the first time, the en­tity of the sub­se­quent Cre­ative Spirit ap­pears as dif­fer­en­ti­ated from the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit. And pro­ceed­ing di­rectly to the per­son of the pe­ti­tion­ing Mas­ter Spirit, this en­tity is im­me­di­ately lost to our rec­og­ni­tion, be­com­ing ap­par­ently a part of the per­son of this Mas­ter Spirit. The newly iden­ti­fied Cre­ative Spirit re­mains with the Mas­ter Spirit un­til the mo­ment of the de­par­ture of the Cre­ator Son for the ad­ven­ture of space; where­upon the Mas­ter Spirit com­mits the new Spirit con­sort to the keep­ing of the Cre­ator Son, at the same time ad­min­is­ter­ing to the Spirit con­sort the charge of eter­nal fi­delity and un­end­ing loy­alty. And then oc­curs one of the most pro­foundly touch­ing episodes which ever take place on Par­a­dise. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther speaks in ac­knowl­edg­ment of the eter­nal union of the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit and in con­fir­ma­tion of the be­stowal of cer­tain joint pow­ers of ad­min­is­tra­tion by the Mas­ter Spirit of super­uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion.

17:6.6The Fa­ther-united Cre­ator Son and Cre­ative Spirit then go forth on their ad­ven­ture of uni­verse cre­ation. And they work to­gether in this form of as­so­ci­a­tion through­out the long and ar­du­ous pe­riod of the ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tion of their uni­verse.

17:6.74. The Life-Cre­ation Era. Upon the dec­la­ra­tion of in­ten­tion to cre­ate life by the Cre­ator Son, there en­sue on Par­a­dise the “per­son­al­iza­tion cer­e­monies,” par­tic­i­pated in by the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and per­son­ally ex­pe­ri­enced by the super­vis­ing Mas­ter Spirit. This is a Par­a­dise De­ity con­tri­bu­tion to the in­di­vid­u­al­ity of the Spirit con­sort of the Cre­ator Son and be­comes man­i­fest to the uni­verse in the phe­nom­e­non of “the pri­mary erup­tion” in the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Si­mul­ta­ne­ously with this phe­nom­e­non on Par­a­dise, the here­to­fore im­per­sonal Spirit con­sort of the Cre­ator Son be­comes, to all prac­ti­cal in­tents and pur­poses, a bona fide per­son. Hence­forth and forever­more, this same lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit will be re­garded as a per­son and will main­tain per­sonal re­la­tions with all the per­son­al­ity hosts of the en­su­ing life cre­ation.

• also known as › Conjoint Actor

17:8.1The seven groups of Su­preme Spir­its con­sti­tute the nu­cleus of the func­tional fam­ily of the Third Source and Cen­ter both as the In­fi­nite Spirit and as the Con­joint Ac­tor. The do­main of the Su­preme Spir­its ex­tends from the pres­ence of the Trin­ity on Par­a­dise to the func­tion­ing of mind of the evo­lu­tion­ary-mor­tal or­der on the plan­ets of space. Thus do they unify the de­scend­ing ad­min­is­tra­tive lev­els and co-or­di­nate the man­i­fold func­tions of the per­son­nel thereof. Whether it is a Re­flec­tive Spirit group in li­ai­son with the An­cients of Days, a Cre­ative Spirit act­ing in con­cert with a Mi­chael Son, or the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its en­cir­cuited around the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, the ac­tiv­ity of the Su­preme Spir­its is en­coun­tered ev­ery­where in the cen­tral, su­per-, and lo­cal uni­verses. They func­tion alike with the Trin­ity per­son­al­i­ties of the or­der of “Days” and with the Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties of the or­der of “Sons.”

• family of Infinite Spirit › Seven Master Spirits are primary personalities of

17:8.9Func­tional unity, in­her­ent in the Con­joint Ac­tor, is dis­closed to the evolv­ing uni­verses in the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, his pri­mary per­son­al­i­ties. But in the per­fected super­uni­verses of the fu­ture this unity will un­doubt­edly be in­sep­a­ra­ble from the ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme.

• also known as › Universal Intelligence
• nature of the Infinite Spirit › omniscient; omnipotent in domain of mind

24:2.1Not­with­stand­ing that the cos­mic mind of the Uni­ver­sal In­tel­li­gence is cog­nizant of the pres­ence and where­abouts of all think­ing crea­tures, there is op­er­a­tive in the uni­verse of uni­verses an in­de­pen­dent method of keep­ing count of all will crea­tures.

• personification of I.S. is first Paradise record

25:6.6On Uversa these se­nior Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers can show the rec­ords of ev­ery­thing of cos­mic im­port in all Or­von­ton since the far-dis­tant times of the ar­rival of the An­cients of Days, while on the eter­nal Isle the Cus­to­di­ans of Rec­ords guard the ar­chives of that realm which tes­tify to the trans­ac­tions of Par­a­dise since the times of the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• ascenders recognize I.S. on 5th Havona circuit; first Deity to be recognized

26:7.1Trin­ity guides are the tire­less min­is­ters of the fifth cir­cle of the Ha­vona train­ing of the ad­vanc­ing pil­grims of time and space. The spir­i­tual grad­u­ates are here des­ig­nated “can­di­dates for the De­ity ad­ven­ture” since it is on this cir­cle, un­der the di­rec­tion of the Trin­ity guides, that the pil­grims re­ceive ad­vanced in­struc­tion con­cern­ing the di­vine Trin­ity in prepa­ra­tion for the at­tempt to achieve the per­son­al­ity rec­og­ni­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit. And here the as­cend­ing pil­grims dis­cover what true study and real men­tal ef­fort mean as they be­gin to dis­cern the na­ture of the still-more-tax­ing and far-more-ar­du­ous spir­i­tual ex­er­tion that will be re­quired to meet the de­mands of the high goal set for their achieve­ment on the worlds of this cir­cuit.

• Trinity guides help Havona pilgrims find

26:7.2Most faith­ful and ef­fi­cient are the Trin­ity guides; and each pil­grim re­ceives the un­di­vided at­ten­tion, and en­joys the whole af­fec­tion, of a sec­ondary super­na­phim be­long­ing to this or­der. Never would a pil­grim of time find the first ap­proach­able per­son of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity were it not for the help and as­sis­tance of these guides and the host of other spir­i­tual be­ings en­gaged in in­struct­ing the as­cend­ers re­spect­ing the na­ture and tech­nique of the forth­com­ing De­ity ad­ven­ture.

• ascenders recognize I.S. on 5th Havona circuit; first Deity to be recognized

26:7.5The as­cender’s com­pan­ions of the tran­sit trio are not re­quired to en­able him to lo­cate the ge­o­graphic pres­ence of the spir­i­tual lu­mi­nos­ity of the Trin­ity, rather to af­ford all pos­si­ble as­sis­tance to a pil­grim in his dif­fi­cult task of rec­og­niz­ing, dis­cern­ing, and com­pre­hend­ing the In­fi­nite Spirit suf­fi­ciently to con­sti­tute per­son­al­ity rec­og­ni­tion. Any as­cen­dant pil­grim on Par­a­dise can dis­cern the ge­o­graphic or lo­ca­tional pres­ence of the Trin­ity, the great ma­jor­ity are able to con­tact the in­tel­lec­tual re­al­ity of the De­i­ties, es­pe­cially the Third Per­son, but not all can rec­og­nize or even par­tially com­pre­hend the re­al­ity of the spir­i­tual pres­ence of the Fa­ther and the Son. Still more dif­fi­cult is even the min­i­mum spir­i­tual com­pre­hen­sion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

26:7.6Sel­dom does the quest for the In­fi­nite Spirit fail of con­sum­ma­tion, and when their sub­jects have suc­ceeded in this phase of the De­ity ad­ven­ture, the Trin­ity guides pre­pare to trans­fer them to the min­istry of the Son find­ers on the fourth cir­cle of Ha­vona.

• also known as › Conjoint Actor

28:3.2These se­con­a­phim of the super­uni­verses are the off­spring of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its, and there­fore re­flec­tiv­ity is in­her­ent in their na­ture. They are re­flec­tively re­spon­sive to all of each phase of ev­ery crea­ture of ori­gin in the Third Source and Cen­ter and the Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons, but they are not di­rectly re­flec­tive of the be­ings and en­ti­ties, per­sonal or oth­er­wise, of sole ori­gin in the First Source and Cen­ter. We pos­sess many ev­i­dences of the ac­tu­al­ity of the uni­ver­sal in­tel­li­gence cir­cuits of the In­fi­nite Spirit, but even if we had no other proof, the re­flec­tive per­for­mances of the se­con­a­phim would be quite suf­fi­cient to demon­strate the re­al­ity of the uni­ver­sal pres­ence of the in­fi­nite mind of the Con­joint Ac­tor.

• seconaphim interpret mind of I.S. for Ancients of Days

28:4.41. The Voice of the Con­joint Ac­tor. In each super­uni­verse the first pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth one of that or­der sub­se­quently cre­ated ex­hibit a high or­der of adapt­abil­ity for un­der­stand­ing and in­ter­pret­ing the mind of the In­fi­nite Spirit to the An­cients of Days and their as­so­ciates in the super­gov­ern­ments. This is of great value on the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verses, for, un­like the lo­cal cre­ations with their Di­vine Min­is­ters, the seat of a super­gov­ern­ment does not have a spe­cial­ized per­son­al­iza­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Hence these sec­o­raphic voices come the near­est to be­ing the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Third Source and Cen­ter on such a cap­i­tal sphere. True, the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its are there, but these moth­ers of the sec­o­raphic hosts are less truly and au­to­mat­i­cally re­flec­tive of the Con­joint Ac­tor than of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

• family of Infinite Spirit › in personality registers

30:1.70C. The Fam­ily of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

30:1.711. Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers.

30:1.722. Uni­verse Cir­cuit Super­vi­sors.

30:1.733. Cen­sus Di­rec­tors.

30:1.744. Per­sonal Aids of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

30:1.755. As­so­ciate In­spec­tors.

30:1.766. As­signed Sen­tinels.

30:1.777. Grad­u­ate Guides.

30:1.788. Ha­vona Servi­tals.

30:1.799. Uni­ver­sal Con­cil­ia­tors.

30:1.8010. Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions.

30:1.8111. Super­na­phim.

30:1.8212. Se­con­a­phim.

30:1.8313. Ter­tiaphim.

30:1.8414. Om­niaphim.

30:1.8515. Ser­a­phim.

30:1.8616. Cheru­bim and Sa­no­bim.

• family of Infinite Spirit › orders of personalities › unrevealed beings

30:1.8717. Un­re­vealed Spirit-ori­gin Be­ings.

30:1.8818. The Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors.

30:1.8919. The Su­preme Power Cen­ters.

30:1.9020. The Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

30:1.9121. The Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › fragmentizes portions of his spirit to indwell Spirit-fusion mortals
• premind fragmentations of

30:1.101The frag­men­ta­tions of the pre­mind spirit of the Third Source and Cen­ter, though hardly com­pa­ra­ble to the Fa­ther frag­ments, should be here re­corded. Such en­ti­ties dif­fer very greatly from Ad­justers; they do not as such dwell on Spir­it­ing­ton, nor do they as such tra­verse the mind-grav­ity cir­cuits; nei­ther do they in­dwell mor­tal crea­tures dur­ing the life in the flesh. They are not preper­sonal in the sense that the Ad­justers are, but such frag­ments of pre­mind spirit are be­stowed upon cer­tain of the sur­viv­ing mor­tals, and fu­sion there­with con­sti­tutes them Spirit-fused mor­tals in con­tradis­tinc­tion to Ad­juster-fused mor­tals.

• in Uversa personality register

30:2.133. The In­fi­nite Spirit.

• family of Infinite Spirit › in personality registers

30:2.65V. PER­SON­AL­I­TIES OF THE IN­FI­NITE SPIRIT.

• family of Infinite Spirit › orders of personalities › Higher Personalities of Infinite Spirit

30:2.66A. Higher Per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

30:2.671. Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers.

30:2.682. Uni­verse Cir­cuit Super­vi­sors.

30:2.693. Cen­sus Di­rec­tors.

30:2.704. Per­sonal Aids of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

30:2.715. As­so­ciate In­spec­tors.

30:2.726. As­signed Sen­tinels.

30:2.737. Grad­u­ate Guides.

• family of Infinite Spirit › orders of personalities › Messenger Hosts of Space

30:2.74B. The Mes­sen­ger Hosts of Space.

30:2.751. Ha­vona Servi­tals.

30:2.762. Uni­ver­sal Con­cil­ia­tors.

30:2.773. Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers.

30:2.784. Cus­to­di­ans of Rec­ords on Par­a­dise.

30:2.795. Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers.

30:2.806. Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions.

30:2.817. Par­a­dise Com­pan­ions.

• family of Infinite Spirit › orders of personalities › Ministering Spirits of Time

30:2.82C. The Min­is­ter­ing Spir­its.

30:2.831. Super­na­phim.

30:2.842. Se­con­a­phim.

30:2.853. Ter­tiaphim.

30:2.864. Om­niaphim.

30:2.875. Ser­a­phim.

30:2.886. Cheru­bim and Sa­no­bim.

30:2.897. Mid­way­ers.

• family of Infinite Spirit › orders of personalities › Universe Power Directors

30:2.90VI. THE UNI­VERSE POWER DI­REC­TORS.

30:2.91A. The Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors.

30:2.92B. Su­preme Power Cen­ters.

30:2.931. Su­preme Cen­ter Super­vi­sors.

30:2.942. Ha­vona Cen­ters.

30:2.953. Super­uni­verse Cen­ters.

30:2.964. Lo­cal Uni­verse Cen­ters.

30:2.975. Con­stel­la­tion Cen­ters.

30:2.986. Sys­tem Cen­ters.

30:2.997. Un­clas­si­fied Cen­ters.

30:2.100C. Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

30:2.1011. As­so­ciate Power Di­rec­tors.

30:2.1022. Me­chan­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

30:2.1033. En­ergy Trans­form­ers.

30:2.1044. En­ergy Trans­mit­ters.

30:2.1055. Pri­mary As­so­ci­a­tors.

30:2.1066. Sec­ondary Dis­so­ci­a­tors.

30:2.1077. Fran­dalanks and Chro­nol­deks.

30:2.108D. Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors.

30:2.1091. Cir­cuit Reg­u­la­tors.

30:2.1102. Sys­tem Co-or­di­na­tors.

30:2.1113. Plan­e­tary Cus­to­di­ans.

30:2.1124. Com­bined Con­trol­lers.

30:2.1135. Li­ai­son Sta­bi­liz­ers.

30:2.1146. Se­lec­tive As­sorters.

30:2.1157. As­so­ciate Reg­is­trars.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › omnipresent; pervades all space

33:3.1While per­vad­ing all the uni­verses of time and space, the In­fi­nite Spirit func­tions from the head­quar­ters of each lo­cal uni­verse as a spe­cial­ized fo­cal­iza­tion ac­quir­ing full per­son­al­ity qual­i­ties by the tech­nique of cre­ative co-op­er­a­tion with the Cre­ator Son. As con­cerns a lo­cal uni­verse, the ad­min­is­tra­tive au­thor­ity of a Cre­ator Son is su­preme; the In­fi­nite Spirit, as the Di­vine Min­is­ter, is wholly co-op­er­a­tive though per­fectly co-or­di­nate.

• also known as › Conjoint Creator

34:1.2From and through this new per­sonal seg­re­ga­tion of the Con­joint Cre­ator there pro­ceed the es­tab­lished cur­rents and the or­dained cir­cuits of spirit power and spir­i­tual in­flu­ence des­tined to per­vade all the worlds and be­ings of that lo­cal uni­verse. In re­al­ity, this new and per­sonal pres­ence is but a trans­for­ma­tion of the pre-ex­is­tent and less per­sonal as­so­ciate of the Son in his ear­lier work of phys­i­cal uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › independent of space and time

34:3.1Nei­ther the Eter­nal Son nor the In­fi­nite Spirit is lim­ited or con­di­tioned by ei­ther time or space, but most of their off­spring are.

• family of Infinite Spirit › largely independent of space
• nature of the Infinite Spirit › omnipresent; pervades all space

34:3.2The In­fi­nite Spirit per­vades all space and in­dwells the cir­cle of eter­nity. Still, in their per­sonal con­tact with the chil­dren of time, the per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit must of­ten reckon with tem­po­ral el­e­ments, though not so much with space. Many mind min­istries ig­nore space but suf­fer a time lag in ef­fect­ing co-or­di­na­tion of di­verse lev­els of uni­verse re­al­ity. A Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger is vir­tu­ally in­de­pen­dent of space ex­cept that time is ac­tu­ally re­quired in trav­el­ing from one lo­ca­tion to an­other; and there are sim­i­lar en­ti­ties un­known to you.

34:3.3In per­sonal pre­rog­a­tives a Cre­ative Spirit is wholly and en­tirely in­de­pen­dent of space, but not of time. There is no spe­cial­ized per­sonal pres­ence of such a Uni­verse Spirit on ei­ther the con­stel­la­tion or sys­tem head­quar­ters. She is equally and dif­fusely pres­ent through­out her en­tire lo­cal uni­verse and is, there­fore, just as lit­er­ally and per­son­ally pres­ent on one world as on any other.

38:0.1There are three dis­tinct or­ders of the per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit. The im­petu­ous apos­tle un­der­stood this when he wrote re­spect­ing Je­sus, “who has gone to heaven and is on the right hand of God, an­gels and au­thor­i­ties and pow­ers be­ing made sub­ject to him.” An­gels are the min­is­ter­ing spir­its of time; au­thor­i­ties, the mes­sen­ger hosts of space; pow­ers, the higher per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

38:0.2As the super­na­phim in the cen­tral uni­verse and the se­con­a­phim in a super­uni­verse, so the ser­a­phim, with the as­so­ci­ated cheru­bim and sa­no­bim, con­sti­tute the an­gelic corps of a lo­cal uni­verse.

38:0.3The ser­a­phim are all fairly uni­form in de­sign. From uni­verse to uni­verse, through­out all seven of the super­uni­verses, they show a min­i­mum of vari­a­tion; they are the most nearly stan­dard of all spirit types of per­sonal be­ings. Their var­i­ous or­ders con­sti­tute the corps of the skilled and com­mon min­is­ters of the lo­cal cre­ations.

• family of Infinite Spirit › children of I.S. referred to as daughters of God

38:2.2Though ser­a­phim are very af­fec­tion­ate and sym­pa­thetic be­ings, they are not sex-emo­tion crea­tures. They are much as you will be on the man­sion worlds, where you will “nei­ther marry nor be given in mar­riage but will be as the an­gels of heaven.” For all who “shall be ac­counted wor­thy to at­tain the man­sion worlds nei­ther marry nor are given in mar­riage; nei­ther do they die any more, for they are equal to the an­gels.” Nev­er­the­less, in deal­ing with sex crea­tures it is our cus­tom to speak of those be­ings of more di­rect de­scent from the Fa­ther and the Son as the sons of God, while re­fer­ring to the chil­dren of the Spirit as the daugh­ters of God. An­gels are, there­fore, com­monly des­ig­nated by fem­i­nine pro­nouns on the sex plan­ets.

• family of Infinite Spirit › lowest expression of I.S. is in angels

40:5.2Like­wise does the Orig­i­nal and In­fi­nite Spirit, by a long se­ries of de­creas­ingly di­vine and in­creas­ingly hu­man or­ders, draw nearer and nearer to the strug­gling crea­tures of the realms, reach­ing the limit of ex­pres­sion in the an­gels—than whom you were cre­ated but a lit­tle lower—who per­son­ally guard and guide you in the life jour­ney of the mor­tal ca­reer of time.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › manipulator and neutralizer of energies of Paradise

41:5.8The ac­tion of cer­tain sec­ondary and other undis­cov­ered en­er­gies pres­ent in the space re­gions of your lo­cal uni­verse is such that so­lar-light em­a­na­tions ap­pear to ex­e­cute cer­tain wavy phe­nom­ena as well as to be chopped up into in­finites­i­mal por­tions of def­i­nite length and weight. And, prac­ti­cally con­sid­ered, that is ex­actly what hap­pens. You can hardly hope to ar­rive at a bet­ter un­der­stand­ing of the be­hav­ior of light un­til such a time as you ac­quire a clearer con­cept of the in­ter­ac­tion and in­ter­re­la­tion­ship of the var­i­ous space-forces and so­lar en­er­gies op­er­at­ing in the space re­gions of Neb­a­don. Your pres­ent con­fu­sion is also due to your in­com­plete grasp of this prob­lem as it in­volves the in­teras­so­ci­ated ac­tiv­i­ties of the per­sonal and non­per­sonal con­trol of the mas­ter uni­verse—the pres­ences, the per­for­mances, and the co-or­di­na­tion of the Con­joint Ac­tor and the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › ministers to minds, even of most primitive living things

42:10.7On Par­a­dise, mind is ab­so­lute; in Ha­vona, ab­so­nite; in Or­von­ton, fi­nite. Mind al­ways con­notes the pres­ence-ac­tiv­ity of liv­ing min­istry plus var­ied en­ergy sys­tems, and this is true of all lev­els and of all kinds of mind. But be­yond the cos­mic mind it be­comes in­creas­ingly dif­fi­cult to por­tray the re­la­tion­ships of mind to non­spir­i­tual en­ergy. Ha­vona mind is sub­ab­so­lute but super­evo­lu­tion­ary; be­ing ex­is­ten­tial-ex­pe­ri­en­tial, it is nearer the ab­so­nite than any other con­cept re­vealed to you. Par­a­dise mind is be­yond hu­man un­der­stand­ing; it is ex­is­ten­tial, non­spa­tial, and non­tem­po­ral. Nev­er­the­less, all of these lev­els of mind are over­shad­owed by the uni­ver­sal pres­ence of the Con­joint Ac­tor—by the mind-grav­ity grasp of the God of mind on Par­a­dise.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › source of mind

44:5.32. Mind-en­ergy ma­nip­u­la­tors. These are the ex­perts of in­ter­com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween mor­ontia and other types of in­tel­li­gent be­ings. This form of com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween mor­tals is prac­ti­cally nonex­is­tent on Uran­tia. These are the spe­cial­ists who pro­mote the abil­ity of the as­cend­ing mor­ontia be­ings to com­mu­ni­cate with one an­other, and their work em­braces nu­mer­ous unique ad­ven­tures in in­tel­lect li­ai­son which are far be­yond my power to por­tray to the ma­te­rial mind. These ar­ti­sans are the keen stu­dents of the mind cir­cuits of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › source of mind

49:4.8Mind is the be­stowal of the In­fi­nite Spirit and func­tions quite the same in di­verse en­vi­ron­ments. The mind of mor­tals is akin, re­gard­less of cer­tain struc­tural and chem­i­cal dif­fer­ences which char­ac­ter­ize the phys­i­cal na­tures of the will crea­tures of the lo­cal sys­tems. Re­gard­less of per­sonal or phys­i­cal plan­e­tary dif­fer­ences, the men­tal life of all these var­i­ous or­ders of mor­tals is very sim­i­lar, and their im­me­di­ate ca­reers af­ter death are very much alike.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › fragmentizes portions of his spirit to indwell Spirit-fusion mortals

49:6.6While the older worlds of mor­tal ex­is­tence har­bor those highly de­vel­oped and ex­qui­sitely spir­i­tual types of hu­man be­ings who are vir­tu­ally ex­empt from the mor­ontia life, the ear­lier ages of the an­i­mal-ori­gin races are char­ac­ter­ized by prim­i­tive mor­tals who are so im­ma­ture that fu­sion with their Ad­justers is im­pos­si­ble. The reawak­en­ing of these mor­tals is ac­com­plished by the guard­ian ser­a­phim in con­junc­tion with an in­di­vid­u­al­ized por­tion of the im­mor­tal spirit of the Third Source and Cen­ter.

• family of Infinite Spirit › lowest expression of I.S. is in angels

50:1.1The Plan­e­tary Prince and his as­sis­tant breth­ren rep­re­sent the near­est per­son­al­ized ap­proach (aside from in­car­na­tion) that the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise can make to the lowly crea­tures of time and space. True, the Cre­ator Son touches the crea­tures of the realms through his spirit, but the Plan­e­tary Prince is the last of the or­ders of per­sonal Sons ex­tend­ing out from Par­a­dise to the chil­dren of men. The In­fi­nite Spirit comes very near in the per­sons of the guard­i­ans of des­tiny and other an­gelic be­ings; the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther lives in man by the preper­sonal pres­ence of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors; but the Plan­e­tary Prince rep­re­sents the last ef­fort of the Eter­nal Son and his Sons to draw near you. On a newly in­hab­ited world the Plan­e­tary Prince is the sole rep­re­sen­ta­tive of com­plete di­vin­ity, spring­ing from the Cre­ator Son (the off­spring of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son) and the Di­vine Min­is­ter (the uni­verse Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit).

• functions of Infinite Spirit › finite energy and spirit held together by mind presences of

56:2.1The Thought-Fa­ther re­al­izes spirit ex­pres­sion in the Word-Son and at­tains re­al­ity ex­pan­sion through Par­a­dise in the far-flung ma­te­rial uni­verses. The spir­i­tual ex­pres­sions of the Eter­nal Son are cor­re­lated with the ma­te­rial lev­els of cre­ation by the func­tions of the In­fi­nite Spirit, by whose spirit-re­spon­sive min­istry of mind, and in whose phys­i­cal-di­rec­tive acts of mind, the spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties of De­ity and the ma­te­rial reper­cus­sions of De­ity are cor­re­lated the one with the other.

56:2.2Mind is the func­tional en­dow­ment of the In­fi­nite Spirit, there­fore in­fi­nite in po­ten­tial and uni­ver­sal in be­stowal. The pri­mal thought of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther eter­nal­izes in dual ex­pres­sion: the Isle of Par­a­dise and his De­ity equal, the spir­i­tual and Eter­nal Son. Such du­al­ity of eter­nal re­al­ity ren­ders the mind God, the In­fi­nite Spirit, in­ev­i­ta­ble. Mind is the in­dis­pens­able chan­nel of com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial re­al­i­ties. The ma­te­rial evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture can con­ceive and com­pre­hend the in­dwelling spirit only by the min­istry of mind.

56:2.3This in­fi­nite and uni­ver­sal mind is min­is­tered in the uni­verses of time and space as the cos­mic mind; and though ex­tend­ing from the prim­i­tive min­istry of the ad­ju­tant spir­its up to the mag­nif­i­cent mind of the chief ex­ec­u­tive of a uni­verse, even this cos­mic mind is ad­e­quately uni­fied in the super­vi­sion of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, who are in turn co-or­di­nated with the Su­preme Mind of time and space and per­fectly cor­re­lated with the all-em­brac­ing mind of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• defined as › source and convergence of all mind

56:3.1As the uni­ver­sal mind grav­ity is cen­tered in the Par­a­dise per­sonal pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit, so does the uni­ver­sal spirit grav­ity cen­ter in the Par­a­dise per­sonal pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is one, but to time-space he is re­vealed in the dual phe­nom­ena of pure en­ergy and pure spirit.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › existential Deity synthesis of personality and power

56:7.3The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, and the In­fi­nite Spirit are ex­is­ten­tial de­ity man­i­fes­ta­tions to in­tel­li­gent crea­tures and are not, there­fore, sim­i­larly ex­panded in per­son­al­ity re­la­tions with the mind and spirit crea­tures of all cre­ation.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › knows Father as infinity

56:9.6God the Fa­ther is dis­cern­i­ble on all lev­els from the fi­nite to the in­fi­nite, and though his crea­tures from Par­a­dise to the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds have var­i­ously per­ceived him, only the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit know him as an in­fin­ity.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › finite energy and spirit held together by mind presences of

103:7.3But as as­cend­ing man reaches in­ward and Par­adis­e­ward for the God ex­pe­ri­ence, he will like­wise be reach­ing out­ward and space­ward for an en­ergy un­der­stand­ing of the ma­te­rial cos­mos. The pro­gres­sion of sci­ence is not lim­ited to the ter­res­trial life of man; his uni­verse and super­uni­verse as­cen­sion ex­pe­ri­ence will to no small de­gree be the study of en­ergy trans­mu­ta­tion and ma­te­rial meta­mor­pho­sis. God is spirit, but De­ity is unity, and the unity of De­ity not only em­braces the spir­i­tual val­ues of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son but is also cog­nizant of the en­ergy facts of the Uni­ver­sal Con­trol­ler and the Isle of Par­a­dise, while these two phases of uni­ver­sal re­al­ity are per­fectly cor­re­lated in the mind re­la­tion­ships of the Con­joint Ac­tor and uni­fied on the fi­nite level in the emerg­ing De­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › correlator of all actual reality

104:4.43The Con­joint Ac­tor uni­ver­sally in­te­grates the vary­ing func­tional as­pects of all ac­tu­al­ized re­al­ity on all lev­els of man­i­fes­ta­tion, from finites through tran­scen­den­tals and on to ab­so­lutes. The Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute per­fectly com­pen­sates the dif­fer­en­tials in­her­ent in the vary­ing as­pects of all in­com­plete re­al­ity, from the lim­it­less po­ten­tial­i­ties of ac­tive-vo­li­tional and causative De­ity re­al­ity to the bound­less pos­si­bil­i­ties of static, re­ac­tive, non­de­ity re­al­ity in the in­com­pre­hen­si­ble do­mains of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

• defined as › member of triodity of actuality

104:5.2The Tri­odity of Ac­tu­al­ity. This tri­odity con­sists in the in­ter­re­la­tion­ship of the three ab­so­lute ac­tu­als:

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › existential Deity synthesis of personality and power

104:5.6The Eter­nal Son is the ab­so­lute of spirit re­al­ity, the ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity. The Par­a­dise Isle is the ab­so­lute of cos­mic re­al­ity, the ab­so­lute pat­tern. The Con­joint Ac­tor is the ab­so­lute of mind re­al­ity, the co-or­di­nate of ab­so­lute spirit re­al­ity, and the ex­is­ten­tial De­ity syn­the­sis of per­son­al­ity and power. This tri­une as­so­ci­a­tion even­tu­ates the co-or­di­na­tion of the sum to­tal of ac­tu­al­ized re­al­ity—spirit, cos­mic, or mindal. It is un­qual­i­fied in ac­tu­al­ity.

• appearance
• functions of Infinite Spirit › executive agency for Father-Son partnership

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.

• defined as › an Absolute of Infinity
• defined as › source and convergence of all mind
• functions of Infinite Spirit › activator of Paradise pattern

105:3.54. The Third Source and Cen­ter. Third Per­son of De­ity, the Con­joint Ac­tor; in­fi­nite in­te­gra­tor of Par­a­dise cos­mic en­er­gies with the spirit en­er­gies of the Eter­nal Son; per­fect co-or­di­na­tor of the mo­tives of will and the me­chan­ics of force; uni­fier of all ac­tual and ac­tu­al­iz­ing re­al­ity. Through the min­is­tra­tions of his man­i­fold chil­dren the In­fi­nite Spirit re­veals the mercy of the Eter­nal Son while at the same time func­tion­ing as the in­fi­nite ma­nip­u­la­tor, for­ever weav­ing the pat­tern of Par­a­dise into the en­er­gies of space. This self­same Con­joint Ac­tor, this God of Ac­tion, is the per­fect ex­pres­sion of the lim­it­less plans and pur­poses of the Fa­ther-Son while func­tion­ing him­self as the source of mind and the be­stower of in­tel­lect upon the crea­tures of a far-flung cos­mos.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › fragmentizes portions of his spirit to indwell Spirit-fusion mortals

107:1.7As the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther frag­men­tizes his preper­sonal De­ity, so does the In­fi­nite Spirit in­di­vid­u­ate por­tions of his pre­mind spirit to in­dwell and ac­tu­ally to fuse with the evo­lu­tion­ary souls of the sur­viv­ing mor­tals of the spirit-fu­sion se­ries. But the na­ture of the Eter­nal Son is not thus frag­mentable; the spirit of the Orig­i­nal Son is ei­ther dif­fuse or dis­cretely per­sonal. Son-fused crea­tures are united with in­di­vid­u­al­ized be­stowals of the spirit of the Cre­ator Sons of the Eter­nal Son.

• Solitary Messengers traverse space over mind circuits of

107:6.5That the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors are thus as­so­ci­ated with the ma­te­rial cir­cuits of the uni­verse of uni­verses is in­deed puz­zling. But it re­mains a fact that they flash through­out the en­tire grand uni­verse over the ma­te­rial-grav­ity cir­cuits. It is en­tirely pos­si­ble that they may even pen­e­trate the outer space lev­els; they cer­tainly could fol­low the grav­ity pres­ence of Par­a­dise into these re­gions, and though my or­der of per­son­al­ity can tra­verse the mind cir­cuits of the Con­joint Ac­tor also be­yond the con­fines of the grand uni­verse, we have never been sure of de­tect­ing the pres­ence of Ad­justers in the un­charted re­gions of outer space.

• also known as › Omnipresent Spirit
• seraphic guardians correlate influences of

113:3.2More es­pe­cially can and does this se­raphic guard­ian cor­re­late the man­i­fold agen­cies and in­flu­ences of the In­fi­nite Spirit, rang­ing from the do­mains of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its up to the Holy Spirit of the Di­vine Min­is­ter and to the Om­ni­pres­ent Spirit pres­ence of the Par­a­dise Third Source and Cen­ter. Hav­ing thus uni­fied and made more per­sonal these vast min­istries of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the ser­a­phim then un­der­takes to cor­re­late this in­te­grated in­flu­ence of the Con­joint Ac­tor with the spirit pres­ences of the Fa­ther and the Son.

• defined as › Absolute of actuality

115:3.72. The Ac­tual. The union of the three Ab­so­lutes of ac­tu­al­ity, the Sec­ond, Third, and Par­a­dise Sources and Cen­ters. This tri­odity of the Eter­nal Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit, and the Par­a­dise Isle con­sti­tutes the ac­tual rev­e­la­tion of the orig­i­nal­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter.

115:3.83. The Po­ten­tial. The union of the three Ab­so­lutes of po­ten­tial­ity, the De­ity, Un­qual­i­fied, and Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lutes. This tri­odity of ex­is­ten­tial po­ten­tial­ity con­sti­tutes the po­ten­tial rev­e­la­tion of the orig­i­nal­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter.

115:3.9The in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of the Orig­i­nal, the Ac­tual, and the Po­ten­tial yields the ten­sions within in­fin­ity which re­sult in the pos­si­bil­ity for all uni­verse growth; and growth is the na­ture of the Sev­en­fold, the Su­preme, and the Ul­ti­mate.

115:3.10In the as­so­ci­a­tion of the De­ity, Uni­ver­sal, and Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lutes, po­ten­tial­ity is ab­so­lute while ac­tu­al­ity is emer­gent; in the as­so­ci­a­tion of the Sec­ond, Third, and Par­a­dise Sources and Cen­ters, ac­tu­al­ity is ab­so­lute while po­ten­tial­ity is emer­gent; in the orig­i­nal­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter, we can­not say that ei­ther ac­tu­al­ity or po­ten­tial­ity is ei­ther ex­is­tent or emer­gent—the Fa­ther is.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › finite energy and spirit held together by mind presences of

115:3.14It is in the tri­odity of ac­tu­al­ity that the ex­is­tents of the cos­mos have their cen­ter; be it spirit, mind, or en­ergy, all cen­ter in this as­so­ci­a­tion of the Son, the Spirit, and Par­a­dise. The per­son­al­ity of the spirit Son is the mas­ter pat­tern for all per­son­al­ity through­out all uni­verses. The sub­stance of the Par­a­dise Isle is the mas­ter pat­tern of which Ha­vona is a per­fect, and the super­uni­verses are a per­fect­ing, rev­e­la­tion. The Con­joint Ac­tor is at one and the same time the mind ac­ti­va­tion of cos­mic en­ergy, the con­cep­tu­al­iza­tion of spirit pur­pose, and the in­te­gra­tion of the math­e­mat­i­cal causes and ef­fects of the ma­te­rial lev­els with the vo­li­tional pur­poses and mo­tives of the spir­i­tual level. In and to a fi­nite uni­verse the Son, Spirit, and Par­a­dise func­tion in and upon the Ul­ti­mate as he is con­di­tioned and qual­i­fied in the Su­preme.

• defined as › Absolute Mind; Infinite Mind

116:1.3Through­out the evo­lu­tion­ary ages the phys­i­cal power po­ten­tial of the Su­preme is vested in the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors, and the mind po­ten­tial re­poses in the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. The In­fi­nite Mind is the func­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit; the cos­mic mind, the min­istry of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its; the Su­preme Mind is in pro­cess of ac­tu­al­iz­ing in the co-or­di­na­tion of the grand uni­verse and in func­tional as­so­ci­a­tion with the rev­e­la­tion and at­tain­ment of God the Sev­en­fold.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › finite energy and spirit held together by mind presences of

116:3.21. The mind fo­cal­iza­tions of the Third Source and Cen­ter. The fi­nite do­mains of en­ergy and spirit are lit­er­ally held to­gether by the mind pres­ences of the Con­joint Ac­tor. This is true from the Cre­ative Spirit in a lo­cal uni­verse through the Re­flec­tive Spir­its of a super­uni­verse to the Mas­ter Spir­its in the grand uni­verse. The mind cir­cuits em­a­nat­ing from these var­ied in­tel­li­gence fo­cuses rep­re­sent the cos­mic arena of crea­ture choice. Mind is the flex­i­ble re­al­ity which crea­tures and Cre­ators can so read­ily ma­nip­u­late; it is the vi­tal link con­nect­ing mat­ter and spirit. The mind be­stowal of the Third Source and Cen­ter uni­fies the spirit per­son of God the Su­preme with the ex­pe­ri­en­tial power of the evo­lu­tion­ary Al­mighty.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › compensates for incompleteness of evolutionary Deity – the Supreme and the Ultimate

116:4.2Dur­ing those ages in which the sov­er­eignty of Su­prem­acy is un­der­go­ing its time de­vel­op­ment, the al­mighty power of the Su­preme is de­pen­dent on the di­vin­ity acts of God the Sev­en­fold, while there seems to be a par­tic­u­larly close re­la­tion­ship be­tween the Su­preme Be­ing and the Con­joint Ac­tor to­gether with his pri­mary per­son­al­i­ties, the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. The In­fi­nite Spirit as the Con­joint Ac­tor func­tions in many ways which com­pen­sate the in­com­ple­tion of evo­lu­tion­ary De­ity and sus­tains very close re­la­tions to the Su­preme. This close­ness of re­la­tion­ship is shared in mea­sure by all of the Mas­ter Spir­its but es­pe­cially by Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Seven, who speaks for the Su­preme. This Mas­ter Spirit knows—is in per­sonal con­tact with—the Su­preme.

• defined as › part of God the Sevenfold

116:5.9These seven groups are func­tion­ally in­sep­a­ra­ble from God the Sev­en­fold and con­sti­tute the phys­i­cal-con­trol level of this De­ity as­so­ci­a­tion.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › activator of Paradise pattern

116:5.14In the fi­nal anal­y­sis, all en­ergy re­sponds to mind, and the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers are the chil­dren of the mind God, who is the ac­ti­va­tor of Par­a­dise pat­tern. The in­tel­li­gence of the power di­rec­tors is un­remit­tingly de­voted to the task of bring­ing about ma­te­rial con­trol. Their strug­gle for phys­i­cal dom­i­nance over the re­la­tion­ships of en­ergy and the mo­tions of mass never ceases un­til they achieve fi­nite vic­tory over the en­er­gies and masses which con­sti­tute their per­pet­ual do­mains of ac­tiv­ity.

• appearance › Father and Eternal Son found union in

118:9.8In the eter­nity of the past the Fa­ther and the Son found union in the unity of the ex­pres­sion of the In­fi­nite Spirit. If, in the eter­nity of the fu­ture, the Cre­ator Sons and the Cre­ative Spir­its of the lo­cal uni­verses of time and space should at­tain cre­ative union in the realms of outer space, what would their unity cre­ate as the com­bined ex­pres­sion of their di­vine na­tures? It may well be that we are to wit­ness a hith­erto un­re­vealed man­i­fes­ta­tion of Ul­ti­mate De­ity, a new type of super­ad­min­is­tra­tor. Such be­ings would em­brace unique pre­rog­a­tives of per­son­al­ity, be­ing the union of per­sonal Cre­ator, im­per­sonal Cre­ative Spirit, mor­tal-crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence, and pro­gres­sive per­son­al­iza­tion of the Di­vine Min­is­ter. Such be­ings could be ul­ti­mate in that they would em­brace per­sonal and im­per­sonal re­al­ity, while they would com­bine the ex­pe­ri­ences of Cre­ator and crea­ture. What­ever the at­tri­butes of such third per­sons of these pos­tu­lated func­tion­ing trin­i­ties of the cre­ations of outer space, they will sus­tain some­thing of the same re­la­tion to their Cre­ator Fa­thers and their Cre­ative Moth­ers that the In­fi­nite Spirit does to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son.

• functions of Infinite Spirit › life comes into being by action of

130:4.7Life is an adap­ta­tion of the orig­i­nal cos­mic cau­sa­tion to the de­mands and pos­si­bil­i­ties of uni­verse sit­u­a­tions, and it comes into be­ing by the ac­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Mind and the ac­ti­va­tion of the spirit spark of the God who is spirit. The mean­ing of life is its adapt­abil­ity; the value of life is its pro­gress­abil­ity—even to the heights of God-con­scious­ness.

• Father treats I.S. as equal

133:2.2And then, in bid­ding him farewell, Je­sus said: “My brother, al­ways re­mem­ber that man has no right­ful au­thor­ity over woman un­less the woman has will­ingly and vol­un­tar­ily given him such au­thor­ity. Your wife has en­gaged to go through life with you, to help you fight its bat­tles, and to as­sume the far greater share of the bur­den of bear­ing and rear­ing your chil­dren; and in re­turn for this spe­cial ser­vice it is only fair that she re­ceive from you that spe­cial pro­tec­tion which man can give to woman as the part­ner who must carry, bear, and nur­ture the chil­dren. The lov­ing care and con­sid­er­a­tion which a man is will­ing to be­stow upon his wife and their chil­dren are the mea­sure of that man’s at­tain­ment of the higher lev­els of cre­ative and spir­i­tual self-con­scious­ness. Do you not know that men and women are part­ners with God in that they co-op­er­ate to cre­ate be­ings who grow up to pos­sess them­selves of the po­ten­tial of im­mor­tal souls? The Fa­ther in heaven treats the Spirit Mother of the chil­dren of the uni­verse as one equal to him­self. It is God­like to share your life and all that re­lates thereto on equal terms with the mother part­ner who so fully shares with you that di­vine ex­pe­ri­ence of re­pro­duc­ing your­selves in the lives of your chil­dren. If you can only love your chil­dren as God loves you, you will love and cher­ish your wife as the Fa­ther in heaven hon­ors and ex­alts the In­fi­nite Spirit, the mother of all the spirit chil­dren of a vast uni­verse.”

• accepted Michael’s bestowal at transfiguration

158:3.32. The tes­ti­mony of the sat­is­fac­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit as to the full­ness of the Uran­tia be­stowal in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh. The uni­verse rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the im­me­di­ate as­so­ciate of Mi­chael on Sal­ving­ton and his ever-pres­ent coworker, on this oc­ca­sion spoke through the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek.

• nature of the Infinite Spirit › altogether like Father

169:4.10He was, in­deed, the Son of even the Elo­him God; but in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh and to the mor­tal sons of God, he chose to limit his life rev­e­la­tion to the por­trayal of his Fa­ther’s char­ac­ter in so far as such a rev­e­la­tion might be com­pre­hen­si­ble to mor­tal man. As re­gards the char­ac­ter of the other per­sons of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, we shall have to be con­tent with the teach­ing that they are al­to­gether like the Fa­ther, who has been re­vealed in per­sonal por­trai­ture in the life of his in­car­nated Son, Je­sus of Naz­a­reth.