mind

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.

9:5.2In the do­main of cre­ated mind the Third Per­son, with his co-or­di­nate and sub­or­di­nate as­so­ciates, rules su­preme. The realms of crea­ture mind are of ex­clu­sive ori­gin in the Third Source and Cen­ter; he is the be­stower of mind. Even the Fa­ther frag­ments find it im­pos­si­ble to in­dwell the minds of men un­til the way has been prop­erly pre­pared for them by the mind ac­tion and spir­i­tual func­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

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.

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.

9:5.5Be­cause the Third Per­son is the source of mind, do not pre­sume to reckon that all phe­nom­ena of mind are di­vine. Hu­man in­tel­lect is rooted in the ma­te­rial ori­gin of the an­i­mal races. Uni­verse in­tel­li­gence is no more a true rev­e­la­tion of God who is mind than is phys­i­cal na­ture a true rev­e­la­tion of the beauty and har­mony of Par­a­dise. Per­fec­tion is in na­ture, but na­ture is not per­fect. The Con­joint Cre­ator is the source of mind, but mind is not the Con­joint Cre­ator.

9:5.6Mind, on Uran­tia, is a com­pro­mise be­tween the essence of thought per­fec­tion and the evolv­ing men­tal­ity of your im­ma­ture hu­man na­ture. The plan for your in­tel­lec­tual evo­lu­tion is, in­deed, one of sub­lime per­fec­tion, but you are far short of that di­vine goal as you func­tion in the taber­na­cles of the flesh. Mind is truly of di­vine ori­gin, and it does have a di­vine des­tiny, but your mor­tal minds are not yet of di­vine dig­nity.

9:5.7Too of­ten, all too of­ten, you mar your minds by in­sin­cer­ity and sear them with un­righ­teous­ness; you sub­ject them to an­i­mal fear and dis­tort them by use­less anx­i­ety. There­fore, though the source of mind is di­vine, mind as you know it on your world of as­cen­sion can hardly be­come the ob­ject of great ad­mi­ra­tion, much less of ado­ra­tion or wor­ship. The con­tem­pla­tion of the im­ma­ture and in­ac­tive hu­man in­tel­lect should lead only to re­ac­tions of hu­mil­ity.

42:10.1The end­less sweep of rel­a­tive cos­mic re­al­ity, from the ab­so­lute­ness of Par­a­dise monota to the ab­so­lute­ness of space po­tency, is sug­ges­tive of cer­tain evo­lu­tions of re­la­tion­ship in the non­spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties of the First Source and Cen­ter—those re­al­i­ties which are con­cealed in space po­tency, re­vealed in monota, and pro­vi­sion­ally dis­closed on in­ter­ven­ing cos­mic lev­els. This eter­nal cy­cle of en­ergy, be­ing cir­cuited in the Fa­ther of uni­verses, is ab­so­lute and, be­ing ab­so­lute, is ex­pan­sile in nei­ther fact nor value; nev­er­the­less the Pri­mal Fa­ther is even now—as al­ways—self-re­al­iz­ing of an ever-ex­pand­ing arena of time-space, and of time-space-tran­scended, mean­ings, an arena of chang­ing re­la­tion­ships wherein en­ergy-mat­ter is be­ing pro­gres­sively sub­jected to the over­con­trol of liv­ing and di­vine spirit through the ex­pe­ri­en­tial striv­ing of liv­ing and per­sonal mind.

42:10.2The uni­ver­sal non­spir­i­tual en­er­gies are re­as­so­ci­ated in the liv­ing sys­tems of non-Cre­ator minds on var­i­ous lev­els, cer­tain of which may be de­picted as fol­lows:

42:10.31. Pread­ju­tant-spirit minds. This level of mind is non­ex­pe­ri­enc­ing and on the in­hab­ited worlds is min­is­tered by the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers. This is me­chan­i­cal mind, the non­teach­able in­tel­lect of the most prim­i­tive forms of ma­te­rial life, but the non­teach­able mind func­tions on many lev­els be­side that of prim­i­tive plan­e­tary life.

42:10.42. Ad­ju­tant-spirit minds. This is the min­istry of a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit func­tion­ing through her seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its on the teach­able (non­me­chan­i­cal) level of ma­te­rial mind. On this level ma­te­rial mind is ex­pe­ri­enc­ing: as sub­hu­man (an­i­mal) in­tel­lect in the first five ad­ju­tants; as hu­man (moral) in­tel­lect in the seven ad­ju­tants; as super­hu­man (mid­wayer) in­tel­lect in the last two ad­ju­tants.

42:10.53. Evolv­ing mor­ontia minds—the ex­pand­ing con­scious­ness of evolv­ing per­son­al­i­ties in the lo­cal uni­verse as­cend­ing ca­reers. This is the be­stowal of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit in li­ai­son with the Cre­ator Son. This mind level con­notes the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the mor­ontia type of life ve­hi­cle, a syn­the­sis of the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual which is ef­fected by the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors of a lo­cal uni­verse. Mor­ontia mind func­tions dif­fer­en­tially in re­sponse to the 570 lev­els of mor­ontia life, dis­clos­ing in­creas­ing as­so­cia­tive ca­pac­ity with the cos­mic mind on the higher lev­els of at­tain­ment. This is the evo­lu­tion­ary course of mor­tal crea­tures, but mind of a non­moron­tia or­der is also be­stowed by a Uni­verse Son and a Uni­verse Spirit upon the non­moron­tia chil­dren of the lo­cal cre­ations.

42:10.6The cos­mic mind. This is the sev­en­fold di­ver­si­fied mind of time and space, one phase of which is min­is­tered by each of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its to one of the seven super­uni­verses. The cos­mic mind en­com­passes all fi­nite-mind lev­els and co-or­di­nates ex­pe­ri­en­tially with the evo­lu­tion­ary-de­ity lev­els of the Su­preme Mind and tran­scen­den­tally with the ex­is­ten­tial lev­els of ab­so­lute mind—the di­rect cir­cuits of the Con­joint Ac­tor.

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.

4:1.8I am en­tirely com­pe­tent to trace out and to an­a­lyze the work­ing of all phe­nom­ena di­rectly re­sult­ing from the func­tion­ing of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit, and, to a large ex­tent, the Isle of Par­a­dise. My per­plex­ity is oc­ca­sioned by en­coun­ter­ing what ap­pears to be the per­for­mance of their mys­te­ri­ous co-or­di­nates, the three Ab­so­lutes of po­ten­tial­ity. These Ab­so­lutes seem to su­per­sede mat­ter, to tran­scend mind, and to super­vene spirit. I am con­stantly con­fused and of­ten per­plexed by my in­abil­ity to com­pre­hend these com­plex trans­ac­tions which I at­trib­ute to the pres­ences and per­for­mances of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, the De­ity Ab­so­lute, and the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute.

3:4.3And so with wis­dom: The fact that mind is so freely dis­tributed to the think­ing of the realms in no wise im­pov­er­ishes the cen­tral source of di­vine wis­dom. As the uni­verses mul­ti­ply, and be­ings of the realms in­crease in num­ber to the lim­its of com­pre­hen­sion, if mind con­tin­ues with­out end to be be­stowed upon these be­ings of high and low es­tate, still will God’s cen­tral per­son­al­ity con­tinue to em­brace the same eter­nal, in­fi­nite, and all-wise mind.

• m. is what responds to Infinite Spirit’s m. circuit
• m. originates exclusively in, and converges in, the Infinite Spirit

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.

• m. is what responds to Infinite Spirit’s m. circuit

0:6.1Any and all things re­spond­ing to the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit of the Fa­ther, we call per­sonal. Any and all things re­spond­ing to the spirit cir­cuit of the Son, we call spirit. Any and all that re­sponds to the mind cir­cuit of the Con­joint Ac­tor, we call mind, mind as an at­tri­bute of the In­fi­nite Spirit—mind in all its phases. Any and all that re­sponds to the ma­te­rial-grav­ity cir­cuit cen­ter­ing in nether Par­a­dise, we call mat­ter—en­ergy-mat­ter in all its meta­mor­phic states.

• ministry to m.

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.

• m. originates exclusively in, and converges in, the Infinite Spirit

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.

• pure m. subject only to gravity grasp of Infinite Spirit

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.

• ministry to m.

12:6.2In the phys­i­cal con­trol of the mas­ter uni­verse the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther ex­er­cises pri­or­ity and pri­macy through the Isle of Par­a­dise; God is ab­so­lute in the spir­i­tual ad­min­is­tra­tion of the cos­mos in the per­son of the Eter­nal Son. Con­cern­ing the do­mains of mind, the Fa­ther and the Son func­tion co-or­di­nately in the Con­joint Ac­tor.

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.

• draws intellectual values to Paradise

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.

• m. originates exclusively in, and converges in, the Infinite Spirit

21:2.7The types and pat­terns of mind are de­ter­mined by the precrea­ture fac­tors of be­ing. Af­ter these have been as­so­ci­ated to con­sti­tute a crea­ture (per­sonal or oth­er­wise), mind is the en­dow­ment of the Third Source and Cen­ter, the uni­ver­sal source of mind min­istry to all be­ings be­low the level of Par­a­dise Cre­ators.

• m. originates exclusively in, and converges in, the Infinite Spirit

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.

• indispensable channel of communication, mediation between spirit and matter
• living ministry associated with energy systems

0:6.8Mind is a phe­nom­e­non con­not­ing the pres­ence-ac­tiv­ity of liv­ing min­istry in ad­di­tion to var­ied en­ergy sys­tems; and this is true on all lev­els of in­tel­li­gence. In per­son­al­ity, mind ever in­ter­venes be­tween spirit and mat­ter; there­fore is the uni­verse il­lu­mi­nated by three kinds of light: ma­te­rial light, in­tel­lec­tual in­sight, and spirit lu­mi­nos­ity.

• creature m. not directly responsive to Father

3:2.5The om­nipo­tence of the Fa­ther per­tains to the ev­ery­where dom­i­nance of the ab­so­lute level, whereon the three en­er­gies, ma­te­rial, mindal, and spir­i­tual, are in­dis­tin­guish­able in close prox­im­ity to him—the Source of all things. Crea­ture mind, be­ing nei­ther Par­a­dise monota nor Par­a­dise spirit, is not di­rectly re­spon­sive to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. God ad­justs with the mind of im­per­fec­tion—with Uran­tia mor­tals through the Thought Ad­justers.

• human m. must be conceded beginnings

6:0.2We speak of God’s “first” thought and al­lude to an im­pos­si­ble time ori­gin of the Eter­nal Son for the pur­pose of gain­ing ac­cess to the thought chan­nels of the hu­man in­tel­lect. Such dis­tor­tions of lan­guage rep­re­sent our best ef­forts at con­tact-com­pro­mise with the time-bound minds of mor­tal crea­tures. In the se­quen­tial sense the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther never could have had a first thought, nor could the Eter­nal Son ever have had a be­gin­ning. But I was in­structed to por­tray the re­al­i­ties of eter­nity to the time-lim­ited minds of mor­tals by such sym­bols of thought and to des­ig­nate the re­la­tion­ships of eter­nity by such time con­cepts of se­quen­tial­ity.

• human m. must be conceded beginnings

6:0.4In an ef­fort to en­able the fi­nite mind of time to form some se­quen­tial con­cept of the re­la­tion­ships of the eter­nal and in­fi­nite be­ings of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, we uti­lize such li­cense of con­cep­tion as to re­fer to the “Fa­ther’s first per­sonal, uni­ver­sal, and in­fi­nite con­cept.” It is im­pos­si­ble for me to con­vey to the hu­man mind any ad­e­quate idea of the eter­nal re­la­tions of the De­i­ties; there­fore do I em­ploy such terms as will af­ford the fi­nite mind some­thing of an idea of the re­la­tion­ship of these eter­nal be­ings in the sub­se­quent eras of time. We be­lieve the Son sprang from the Fa­ther; we are taught that both are un­qual­i­fiedly eter­nal. It is ap­par­ent, there­fore, that no time crea­ture can ever fully com­pre­hend this mys­tery of a Son who is de­rived from the Fa­ther, and yet who is co-or­di­nately eter­nal with the Fa­ther him­self.

• ability to know and be known
• indigenous to Deity

6:6.2Spirit is ever con­scious, minded, and pos­sessed of var­ied phases of iden­tity. With­out mind in some phase there would be no spir­i­tual con­scious­ness in the fra­ter­nity of spirit be­ings. The equiv­a­lent of mind, the abil­ity to know and be known, is in­dige­nous to De­ity. De­ity may be per­sonal, preper­sonal, super­per­sonal, or im­per­sonal, but De­ity is never mind­less, that is, never with­out the abil­ity at least to com­mu­ni­cate with sim­i­lar en­ti­ties, be­ings, or per­son­al­i­ties.

• does not have to be added to spirit
• living ministry associated with energy systems
• not inherent in energy

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.

• endows consciousness despite absence of personality

9:6.3Mind grav­ity can op­er­ate in­de­pen­dently of ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual grav­ity, but wher­ever and when­ever the lat­ter two im­pinge, mind grav­ity al­ways func­tions. When all three are as­so­ci­ated, per­son­al­ity grav­ity may em­brace the ma­te­rial crea­ture—phys­i­cal or mor­ontial, fi­nite or ab­so­nite. But ir­re­spec­tive of this, the en­dow­ment of mind even in im­per­sonal be­ings qual­i­fies them to think and en­dows them with con­scious­ness de­spite the to­tal ab­sence of per­son­al­ity.

• indispensable channel of communication, mediation between spirit and matter

9:6.5While mind is en­ergy as­so­ci­ated in purely ma­te­rial be­ings and spirit as­so­ci­ated in purely spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties, in­nu­mer­able or­ders of per­son­al­ity, in­clud­ing the hu­man, pos­sess minds that are as­so­ci­ated with both en­ergy and spirit. The spir­i­tual as­pects of crea­ture mind un­fail­ingly re­spond to the spirit-grav­ity pull of the Eter­nal Son; the ma­te­rial fea­tures re­spond to the grav­ity urge of the ma­te­rial uni­verse.

• indispensable channel of communication, mediation between spirit and matter

9:6.7The greater the spirit-en­ergy di­ver­gence, the greater the ob­serv­able func­tion of mind; the lesser the di­ver­sity of en­ergy and spirit, the lesser the ob­serv­able func­tion of mind. Ap­par­ently, the max­i­mum func­tion of the cos­mic mind is in the time uni­verses of space. Here mind seems to func­tion in a mid-zone be­tween en­ergy and spirit, but this is not true of the higher lev­els of mind; on Par­a­dise, en­ergy and spirit are es­sen­tially one.

• not fully predictable

9:6.8The mind-grav­ity cir­cuit is de­pend­able; it em­anates from the Third Per­son of De­ity on Par­a­dise, but not all the ob­serv­able func­tion of mind is pre­dictable. Through­out all known cre­ation there par­al­lels this cir­cuit of mind some lit­tle-un­der­stood pres­ence whose func­tion is not pre­dictable. We be­lieve that this un­pre­dictabil­ity is partly at­tributable to the func­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. What this func­tion is, we do not know; what ac­tu­ates it, we can only con­jec­ture; con­cern­ing its re­la­tion to crea­tures, we can only spec­u­late.

• not fully predictable

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.

• not fully predictable

10:7.4We do not find the over­con­trol of Su­prem­acy to be wholly pre­dictable. Fur­ther­more, this un­pre­dictabil­ity ap­pears to be char­ac­ter­ized by a cer­tain de­vel­op­men­tal in­com­plete­ness, un­doubt­edly an ear­mark of the in­com­plete­ness of the Su­preme and of the in­com­plete­ness of fi­nite re­ac­tion to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

• inherently aware of sequentiality

12:5.1Like space, time is a be­stowal of Par­a­dise, but not in the same sense, only in­di­rectly. Time comes by virtue of mo­tion and be­cause mind is in­her­ently aware of se­quen­tial­ity. From a prac­ti­cal view­point, mo­tion is es­sen­tial to time, but there is no uni­ver­sal time unit based on mo­tion ex­cept in so far as the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona stan­dard day is ar­bi­trar­ily so rec­og­nized. The to­tal­ity of space res­pi­ra­tion de­stroys its lo­cal value as a time source.

• not fully predictable

12:6.5The uni­verse is highly pre­dictable only in the quan­ti­ta­tive or grav­ity-mea­sure­ment sense; even the pri­mal phys­i­cal forces are not re­spon­sive to lin­ear grav­ity, nor are the higher mind mean­ings and true spirit val­ues of ul­ti­mate uni­verse re­al­i­ties. Qual­i­ta­tively, the uni­verse is not highly pre­dictable as re­gards new as­so­ci­a­tions of forces, ei­ther phys­i­cal, mindal, or spir­i­tual, al­though many such com­bi­na­tions of en­er­gies or forces be­come par­tially pre­dictable when sub­jected to crit­i­cal ob­ser­va­tion. When mat­ter, mind, and spirit are uni­fied by crea­ture per­son­al­ity, we are un­able fully to pre­dict the de­ci­sions of such a free­will be­ing.

• less responsive to material gravity as it becomes more spiritual

12:8.5As the mind of any per­son­al­ity in the uni­verse be­comes more spir­i­tual—God­like—it be­comes less re­spon­sive to ma­te­rial grav­ity. Re­al­ity, mea­sured by phys­i­cal-grav­ity re­sponse, is the an­tithe­sis of re­al­ity as de­ter­mined by qual­ity of spirit con­tent. Phys­i­cal-grav­ity ac­tion is a quan­ti­ta­tive de­ter­miner of non­spirit en­ergy; spir­i­tual-grav­ity ac­tion is the qual­i­ta­tive mea­sure of the liv­ing en­ergy of di­vin­ity.

• interassociates matter and spirit

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.

• technique by which spirit becomes real to creatures

12:8.8Mind is the tech­nique whereby spirit re­al­i­ties be­come ex­pe­ri­en­tial to crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties. And in the last anal­y­sis the uni­fy­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties of even hu­man mind, the abil­ity to co-or­di­nate things, ideas, and val­ues, is super­ma­te­rial.

• organized consciousness not wholly subject to gravity; liberated by spirit

12:8.112. Mind. Or­ga­nized con­scious­ness which is not wholly sub­ject to ma­te­rial grav­ity, and which be­comes truly lib­er­ated when mod­i­fied by spirit.

• spirit strives for dominance over matter in personality through mediation of m.

12:8.14On Par­a­dise the three en­er­gies, phys­i­cal, mindal, and spir­i­tual, are co-or­di­nate. In the evo­lu­tion­ary cos­mos en­ergy-mat­ter is dom­i­nant ex­cept in per­son­al­ity, where spirit, through the me­di­a­tion of mind, is striv­ing for the mas­tery. Spirit is the fun­da­men­tal re­al­ity of the per­son­al­ity ex­pe­ri­ence of all crea­tures be­cause God is spirit. Spirit is un­chang­ing, and there­fore, in all per­son­al­ity re­la­tions, it tran­scends both mind and mat­ter, which are ex­pe­ri­en­tial vari­ables of pro­gres­sive at­tain­ment.

• not fully predictable

14:2.9Ha­vona is a spir­i­tu­ally per­fect and phys­i­cally sta­ble uni­verse. The con­trol and bal­anced sta­bil­ity of the cen­tral uni­verse ap­pear to be per­fect. Ev­ery­thing phys­i­cal or spir­i­tual is per­fectly pre­dictable, but mind phe­nom­ena and per­son­al­ity vo­li­tion are not. We do in­fer that sin can be reck­oned as im­pos­si­ble of oc­cur­rence, but we do this on the ground that the na­tive free­will crea­tures of Ha­vona have never been guilty of trans­gress­ing the will of De­ity. Through all eter­nity these su­per­nal be­ings have been con­sis­tently loyal to the Eter­nals of Days. Nei­ther has sin ap­peared in any crea­ture who has en­tered Ha­vona as a pil­grim. There has never been an in­stance of mis­con­duct by any crea­ture of any group of per­son­al­i­ties ever cre­ated in, or ad­mit­ted to, the cen­tral Ha­vona uni­verse. So per­fect and so di­vine are the meth­ods and means of se­lec­tion in the uni­verses of time that never in the rec­ords of Ha­vona has an er­ror oc­curred; no mis­takes have ever been made; no as­cen­dant soul has ever been pre­ma­turely ad­mit­ted to the cen­tral uni­verse.

• human m. must be conceded beginnings

14:4.10The Ha­vona na­tives are all the off­spring of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. They are with­out crea­ture par­ents, and they are non­re­pro­duc­ing be­ings. We can­not por­tray the cre­ation of these cit­i­zens of the cen­tral uni­verse, be­ings who never were cre­ated. The en­tire story of the cre­ation of Ha­vona is an at­tempt to time-space an eter­nity fact which has no re­la­tion to time or space as mor­tal man com­pre­hends them. But we must con­cede hu­man phi­los­o­phy a point of ori­gin; even per­son­al­i­ties far above the hu­man level re­quire a con­cept of “be­gin­nings.” Nev­er­the­less, the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem is eter­nal.

• different on each Havona sphere

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.

• patterns for local universe m. found in Havona

14:6.33On the worlds of Ha­vona the Spirit and the Daugh­ters of the Spirit find the mind pat­terns for all their groups of spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial in­tel­li­gences, and this cen­tral uni­verse is the some­time des­tiny of those crea­tures which a Uni­verse Mother Spirit jointly spon­sors with an as­so­ci­ated Cre­ator Son.

• cosmic mind endowment of innate recognition of things, meanings, and values – spirit response

16:6.4There ex­ists in all per­son­al­ity as­so­ci­a­tions of the cos­mic mind a qual­ity which might be de­nom­i­nated the “re­al­ity re­sponse.” It is this uni­ver­sal cos­mic en­dow­ment of will crea­tures which saves them from be­com­ing help­less vic­tims of the im­plied a pri­ori as­sump­tions of sci­ence, phi­los­o­phy, and re­li­gion. This re­al­ity sen­si­tiv­ity of the cos­mic mind re­sponds to cer­tain phases of re­al­ity just as en­ergy-ma­te­rial re­sponds to grav­ity. It would be still more cor­rect to say that these super­ma­te­rial re­al­i­ties so re­spond to the mind of the cos­mos.

16:6.5The cos­mic mind un­fail­ingly re­sponds (rec­og­nizes re­sponse) on three lev­els of uni­verse re­al­ity. These re­sponses are self-ev­i­dent to clear-rea­son­ing and deep-think­ing minds. These lev­els of re­al­ity are:

16:6.61. Cau­sa­tion—the re­al­ity do­main of the phys­i­cal senses, the sci­en­tific realms of log­i­cal uni­for­mity, the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of the fac­tual and the non­fac­tual, re­flec­tive con­clu­sions based on cos­mic re­sponse. This is the math­e­mat­i­cal form of the cos­mic dis­crim­i­na­tion.

16:6.72. Duty—the re­al­ity do­main of morals in the philo­sophic realm, the arena of rea­son, the rec­og­ni­tion of rel­a­tive right and wrong. This is the ju­di­cial form of the cos­mic dis­crim­i­na­tion.

16:6.83. Wor­ship—the spir­i­tual do­main of the re­al­ity of re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence, the per­sonal re­al­iza­tion of di­vine fel­low­ship, the rec­og­ni­tion of spirit val­ues, the as­sur­ance of eter­nal sur­vival, the as­cent from the sta­tus of ser­vants of God to the joy and lib­erty of the sons of God. This is the high­est in­sight of the cos­mic mind, the rev­er­en­tial and wor­ship­ful form of the cos­mic dis­crim­i­na­tion.

16:6.9These sci­en­tific, moral, and spir­i­tual in­sights, these cos­mic re­sponses, are in­nate in the cos­mic mind, which en­dows all will crea­tures. The ex­pe­ri­ence of liv­ing never fails to de­velop these three cos­mic in­tu­itions; they are con­sti­tu­tive in the self-con­scious­ness of re­flec­tive think­ing. But it is sad to re­cord that so few per­sons on Uran­tia take de­light in cul­ti­vat­ing these qual­i­ties of coura­geous and in­de­pen­dent cos­mic think­ing.

16:6.10In the lo­cal uni­verse mind be­stowals, these three in­sights of the cos­mic mind con­sti­tute the a pri­ori as­sump­tions which make it pos­si­ble for man to func­tion as a ra­tio­nal and self-con­scious per­son­al­ity in the realms of sci­ence, phi­los­o­phy, and re­li­gion. Stated oth­er­wise, the rec­og­ni­tion of the re­al­ity of these three man­i­fes­ta­tions of the In­fi­nite is by a cos­mic tech­nique of self-rev­e­la­tion. Mat­ter-en­ergy is rec­og­nized by the math­e­mat­i­cal logic of the senses; mind-rea­son in­tu­itively knows its moral duty; spirit-faith (wor­ship) is the re­li­gion of the re­al­ity of spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence. These three ba­sic fac­tors in re­flec­tive think­ing may be uni­fied and co-or­di­nated in per­son­al­ity de­vel­op­ment, or they may be­come dis­pro­por­tion­ate and vir­tu­ally un­re­lated in their re­spec­tive func­tions. But when they be­come uni­fied, they pro­duce a strong char­ac­ter con­sist­ing in the cor­re­la­tion of a fac­tual sci­ence, a moral phi­los­o­phy, and a gen­uine re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence. And it is these three cos­mic in­tu­itions that give ob­jec­tive va­lid­ity, re­al­ity, to man’s ex­pe­ri­ence in and with things, mean­ings, and val­ues.

16:6.11It is the pur­pose of ed­u­ca­tion to de­velop and sharpen these in­nate en­dow­ments of the hu­man mind; of civ­i­liza­tion to ex­press them; of life ex­pe­ri­ence to re­al­ize them; of re­li­gion to en­no­ble them; and of per­son­al­ity to unify them.

• reacts to physical, moral, and faith realities

16:8.15The Uran­tia type of hu­man per­son­al­ity may be viewed as func­tion­ing in a phys­i­cal mech­a­nism con­sist­ing of the plan­e­tary mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the Neb­a­don type of or­gan­ism be­long­ing to the elec­tro­chem­i­cal or­der of life ac­ti­va­tion and en­dowed with the Neb­a­don or­der of the Or­von­ton se­ries of the cos­mic mind of pa­ren­tal re­pro­duc­tive pat­tern. The be­stowal of the di­vine gift of per­son­al­ity upon such a mind-en­dowed mor­tal mech­a­nism con­fers the dig­nity of cos­mic cit­i­zen­ship and en­ables such a mor­tal crea­ture forth­with to be­come re­ac­tive to the con­sti­tu­tive rec­og­ni­tion of the three ba­sic mind re­al­i­ties of the cos­mos:

16:8.161. The math­e­mat­i­cal or log­i­cal rec­og­ni­tion of the uni­for­mity of phys­i­cal cau­sa­tion.

16:8.172. The rea­soned rec­og­ni­tion of the obli­ga­tion of moral con­duct.

16:8.183. The faith-grasp of the fel­low­ship wor­ship of De­ity, as­so­ci­ated with the lov­ing ser­vice of hu­man­ity.

• cosmic mind endowment of innate recognition of things, meanings, and values – spirit response

16:9.1The cos­mic-mind-en­dowed, Ad­juster-in­dwelt, per­sonal crea­ture pos­sesses in­nate rec­og­ni­tion-re­al­iza­tion of en­ergy re­al­ity, mind re­al­ity, and spirit re­al­ity. The will crea­ture is thus equipped to dis­cern the fact, the law, and the love of God. Aside from these three in­alien­ables of hu­man con­scious­ness, all hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence is re­ally sub­jec­tive ex­cept that in­tu­itive re­al­iza­tion of va­lid­ity at­taches to the uni­fi­ca­tion of these three uni­verse re­al­ity re­sponses of cos­mic rec­og­ni­tion.

• can think even when deprived of power of choice

29:4.13Per­son­al­ity is not nec­es­sar­ily a con­comi­tant of mind. Mind can think even when de­prived of all power of choice, as in nu­mer­ous of the lower types of an­i­mals and in cer­tain of these sub­or­di­nate phys­i­cal con­trol­lers. Many of these more au­to­matic reg­u­la­tors of phys­i­cal power are not per­sons in any sense of the term. They are not en­dowed with will and in­de­pen­dence of de­ci­sion, be­ing wholly sub­servient to the me­chan­i­cal per­fec­tion of de­sign for the tasks of their al­lot­ment. Nonethe­less all of them are highly in­tel­li­gent be­ings.

• lowest m. is controlled by Master Physical Controllers, then adjutant mind-spirits, then encircuited in Mother Spirit

36:5.15Liv­ing mind, prior to the ap­pear­ance of ca­pac­ity to learn from ex­pe­ri­ence, is the min­istry do­main of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers. Crea­ture mind, be­fore ac­quir­ing the abil­ity to rec­og­nize di­vin­ity and wor­ship De­ity, is the ex­clu­sive do­main of the ad­ju­tant spir­its. With the ap­pear­ance of the spir­i­tual re­sponse of the crea­ture in­tel­lect, such cre­ated minds at once be­come super­minded, be­ing in­stantly en­cir­cuited in the spirit cy­cles of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit.

• derived only from pre-existent m.

36:6.2Things ma­te­rial may en­joy an in­de­pen­dent ex­is­tence, but life springs only from life. Mind can be de­rived only from pre-ex­is­tent mind. Spirit takes ori­gin only from spirit an­ces­tors. The crea­ture may pro­duce the forms of life, but only a cre­ator per­son­al­ity or a cre­ative force can sup­ply the ac­ti­vat­ing liv­ing spark.

• universe is creation of m.

42:11.1In the eval­u­a­tion and rec­og­ni­tion of mind it should be re­mem­bered that the uni­verse is nei­ther me­chan­i­cal nor mag­i­cal; it is a cre­ation of mind and a mech­a­nism of law. But while in prac­ti­cal ap­pli­ca­tion the laws of na­ture op­er­ate in what seems to be the dual realms of the phys­i­cal and the spir­i­tual, in re­al­ity they are one. The First Source and Cen­ter is the pri­mal cause of all ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion and at the same time the first and fi­nal Fa­ther of all spir­its. The Par­a­dise Fa­ther ap­pears per­son­ally in the ex­tra-Ha­vona uni­verses only as pure en­ergy and pure spirit—as the Thought Ad­justers and other sim­i­lar frag­men­ta­tions.

42:11.2Mech­a­nisms do not ab­so­lutely dom­i­nate the to­tal cre­ation; the uni­verse of uni­verses in toto is mind planned, mind made, and mind ad­min­is­tered. But the di­vine mech­a­nism of the uni­verse of uni­verses is al­to­gether too per­fect for the sci­en­tific meth­ods of the fi­nite mind of man to dis­cern even a trace of the dom­i­nance of the in­fi­nite mind. For this cre­at­ing, con­trol­ling, and up­hold­ing mind is nei­ther ma­te­rial mind nor crea­ture mind; it is spirit-mind func­tion­ing on and from cre­ator lev­els of di­vine re­al­ity.

• less responsive to material gravity as it becomes more spiritual

42:11.4Mo­tion and uni­verse grav­i­ta­tion are twin facets of the im­per­sonal time-space mech­a­nism of the uni­verse of uni­verses. The lev­els of grav­ity re­sponse for spirit, mind, and mat­ter are quite in­de­pen­dent of time, but only true spirit lev­els of re­al­ity are in­de­pen­dent of space (non­spa­tial). The higher mind lev­els of the uni­verse—the spirit-mind lev­els—may also be non­spa­tial, but the lev­els of ma­te­rial mind, such as hu­man mind, are re­spon­sive to the in­ter­ac­tions of uni­verse grav­i­ta­tion, los­ing this re­sponse only in pro­por­tion to spirit iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. Spirit-re­al­ity lev­els are rec­og­nized by their spirit con­tent, and spir­i­tu­al­ity in time and space is mea­sured in­versely to the lin­ear-grav­ity re­sponse.

• can attenuate action of gravity on mass

42:11.5Lin­ear-grav­ity re­sponse is a quan­ti­ta­tive mea­sure of non­spirit en­ergy. All mass—or­ga­nized en­ergy—is sub­ject to this grasp ex­cept as mo­tion and mind act upon it. Lin­ear grav­ity is the short-range co­he­sive force of the macro­cos­mos some­what as the forces of in­tra-atomic co­he­sion are the short-range forces of the mi­cro­cos­mos. Phys­i­cal ma­te­ri­al­ized en­ergy, or­ga­nized as so-called mat­ter, can­not tra­verse space with­out af­fect­ing lin­ear-grav­ity re­sponse. Al­though such grav­ity re­sponse is di­rectly pro­por­tional to mass, it is so mod­i­fied by in­ter­ven­ing space that the fi­nal re­sult is no more than roughly ap­prox­i­mated when ex­pressed as in­versely ac­cord­ing to the square of the dis­tance. Space even­tu­ally con­quers lin­ear grav­i­ta­tion be­cause of the pres­ence therein of the anti­grav­ity in­flu­ences of nu­mer­ous super­ma­te­rial forces which op­er­ate to neu­tral­ize grav­ity ac­tion and all re­sponses thereto.

• never ceases to progress; always creative

42:12.1The evo­lu­tion of mech­a­nisms im­plies and in­di­cates the con­cealed pres­ence and dom­i­nance of cre­ative mind. The abil­ity of the mor­tal in­tel­lect to con­ceive, de­sign, and cre­ate au­to­matic mech­a­nisms demon­strates the su­pe­rior, cre­ative, and pur­po­sive qual­i­ties of man’s mind as the dom­i­nant in­flu­ence on the planet. Mind al­ways reaches out to­wards:

42:12.21. Cre­ation of ma­te­rial mech­a­nisms.

42:12.32. Dis­cov­ery of hid­den mys­ter­ies.

42:12.43. Ex­plo­ration of re­mote sit­u­a­tions.

42:12.54. For­mu­la­tion of men­tal sys­tems.

42:12.65. At­tain­ment of wis­dom goals.

42:12.76. Achieve­ment of spirit lev­els.

42:12.87. The ac­com­plish­ment of di­vine des­ti­nies—su­preme, ul­ti­mate, and ab­so­lute.

• always competent to produce suitable body

42:12.9Mind is al­ways cre­ative. The mind en­dow­ment of an in­di­vid­ual an­i­mal, mor­tal, mor­ontian, spirit as­cender, or fi­nal­ity at­tainer is al­ways com­pe­tent to pro­duce a suit­able and ser­vice­able body for the liv­ing crea­ture iden­tity. But the pres­ence phe­nom­e­non of a per­son­al­ity or the pat­tern of an iden­tity, as such, is not a man­i­fes­ta­tion of en­ergy, ei­ther phys­i­cal, mindal, or spir­i­tual. The per­son­al­ity form is the pat­tern as­pect of a liv­ing be­ing; it con­notes the ar­range­ment of en­er­gies, and this, plus life and mo­tion, is the mech­a­nism of crea­ture ex­is­tence.

42:12.10Even spirit be­ings have form, and these spirit forms (pat­terns) are real. Even the high­est type of spirit per­son­al­i­ties have forms—per­son­al­ity pres­ences in ev­ery sense anal­o­gous to Uran­tia mor­tal bod­ies. Nearly all be­ings en­coun­tered in the seven super­uni­verses are pos­sessed of forms. But there are a few ex­cep­tions to this gen­eral rule: Thought Ad­justers ap­pear to be with­out form un­til af­ter fu­sion with the sur­viv­ing souls of their mor­tal as­so­ciates. Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, Per­sonal Aids of the In­fi­nite Spirit, Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers, Tran­scen­den­tal Re­cord­ers, and cer­tain oth­ers are also with­out dis­cov­er­able form. But these are typ­i­cal of the ex­cep­tional few; the great ma­jor­ity have bona fide per­son­al­ity forms, forms which are in­di­vid­u­ally char­ac­ter­is­tic, and which are rec­og­niz­able and per­son­ally dis­tin­guish­able.

42:12.11The li­ai­son of the cos­mic mind and the min­istry of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its evolve a suit­able phys­i­cal taber­na­cle for the evolv­ing hu­man be­ing. Like­wise does the mor­ontia mind in­di­vid­u­al­ize the mor­ontia form for all mor­tal sur­vivors. As the mor­tal body is per­sonal and char­ac­ter­is­tic for ev­ery hu­man be­ing, so will the mor­ontia form be highly in­di­vid­ual and ad­e­quately char­ac­ter­is­tic of the cre­ative mind which dom­i­nates it. No two mor­ontia forms are any more alike than any two hu­man bod­ies. The Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors spon­sor, and the at­tend­ing ser­a­phim pro­vide, the un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated mor­ontia ma­te­rial where­with the mor­ontia life can be­gin to work. And af­ter the mor­ontia life it will be found that spirit forms are equally di­verse, per­sonal, and char­ac­ter­is­tic of their re­spec­tive spirit-mind in­dwellers.

42:12.12On a ma­te­rial world you think of a body as hav­ing a spirit, but we re­gard the spirit as hav­ing a body. The ma­te­rial eyes are truly the win­dows of the spirit-born soul. The spirit is the ar­chi­tect, the mind is the builder, the body is the ma­te­rial build­ing.

42:12.13Phys­i­cal, spir­i­tual, and mindal en­er­gies, as such and in their pure states, do not fully in­ter­act as ac­tu­als of the phe­nom­e­nal uni­verses. On Par­a­dise the three en­er­gies are co-or­di­nate, in Ha­vona co-or­di­nated, while in the uni­verse lev­els of fi­nite ac­tiv­i­ties there must be en­coun­tered all ranges of ma­te­rial, mindal, and spir­i­tual dom­i­nance. In non­per­sonal sit­u­a­tions of time and space, phys­i­cal en­ergy seems to pre­dom­i­nate, but it also ap­pears that the more nearly spirit-mind func­tion ap­proaches di­vin­ity of pur­pose and su­prem­acy of ac­tion, the more nearly does the spirit phase be­come dom­i­nant; that on the ul­ti­mate level spirit-mind may be­come all but com­pletely dom­i­nant. On the ab­so­lute level spirit cer­tainly is dom­i­nant. And from there on out through the realms of time and space, wher­ever a di­vine spirit re­al­ity is pres­ent, when­ever a real spirit-mind is func­tion­ing, there al­ways tends to be pro­duced a ma­te­rial or phys­i­cal coun­ter­part of that spirit re­al­ity.

42:12.14The spirit is the cre­ative re­al­ity; the phys­i­cal coun­ter­part is the time-space re­flec­tion of the spirit re­al­ity, the phys­i­cal reper­cus­sion of the cre­ative ac­tion of spirit-mind.

• always dominant over matter

42:12.15Mind uni­ver­sally dom­i­nates mat­ter, even as it is in turn re­spon­sive to the ul­ti­mate over­con­trol of spirit. And with mor­tal man, only that mind which freely sub­mits it­self to the spirit di­rec­tion can hope to sur­vive the mor­tal time-space ex­is­tence as an im­mor­tal child of the eter­nal spirit world of the Su­preme, the Ul­ti­mate, and the Ab­so­lute: the In­fi­nite.

• infallible, according to Lucifer

53:4.4While there had been two pre­vi­ous re­bel­lions in Neb­a­don, they were in dis­tant con­stel­la­tions. Lu­cifer held that these in­sur­rec­tions were un­suc­cess­ful be­cause the ma­jor­ity of the in­tel­li­gences failed to fol­low their lead­ers. He con­tended that “ma­jori­ties rule,” that “mind is in­fal­li­ble.” The free­dom al­lowed him by the uni­verse rulers ap­par­ently sus­tained many of his ne­far­i­ous con­tentions. He de­fied all his su­pe­ri­ors; yet they ap­par­ently took no note of his do­ings. He was given a free hand to pros­e­cute his se­duc­tive plan with­out let or hin­drance.

• indispensable channel of communication, mediation between spirit and matter

56:1.6The mo­ment you de­part from the un­qual­i­fied con­cept of the in­fi­nite per­son­al­ity of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, you must pos­tu­late MIND as the in­ev­i­ta­ble tech­nique of uni­fy­ing the ever-widen­ing di­ver­gence of these dual uni­verse man­i­fes­ta­tions of the orig­i­nal mono­thetic Cre­ator per­son­al­ity, the First Source and Cen­ter—the I AM.

• unified at level of Master Spirits with Supreme Being, as cosmic mind subordinate to Absolute Mind

56:3.4While mind is more uni­fied on the level of the Mas­ter Spir­its in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Su­preme Be­ing and as the cos­mic mind in sub­or­di­na­tion to the Ab­so­lute Mind, the spirit min­istry to the evolv­ing worlds is more di­rectly uni­fied in the per­son­al­i­ties res­i­dent on the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verses and in the per­sons of the pre­sid­ing Di­vine Min­is­ters, who are in turn well-nigh per­fectly cor­re­lated with the Par­a­dise grav­ity cir­cuit of the Eter­nal Son, wherein oc­curs fi­nal uni­fi­ca­tion of all time-space spirit man­i­fes­ta­tions.

• teachable levels activated by adjutant mind-spirits

65:0.6The me­chan­i­cal-non­teach­able lev­els of or­gan­is­mal en­vi­ron­men­tal re­sponse are the do­mains of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers. The ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its ac­ti­vate and reg­u­late the adap­ta­tive or non­me­chan­i­cal-teach­able types of mind—those re­sponse mech­a­nisms of or­gan­isms ca­pa­ble of learn­ing from ex­pe­ri­ence. And as the spirit ad­ju­tants thus ma­nip­u­late mind po­ten­tials, so do the Life Car­ri­ers ex­er­cise con­sid­er­able dis­cre­tionary con­trol over the en­vi­ron­men­tal as­pects of evo­lu­tion­ary pro­cesses right up to the time of the ap­pear­ance of hu­man will—the abil­ity to know God and the power of choos­ing to wor­ship him.

• endowed with ability to learn, memory, differential response
• profits from experience

65:6.8Physics and chem­istry alone can­not ex­plain how a hu­man be­ing evolved out of the primeval pro­to­plasm of the early seas. The abil­ity to learn, mem­ory and dif­fer­en­tial re­sponse to en­vi­ron­ment, is the en­dow­ment of mind. The laws of physics are not re­spon­sive to train­ing; they are im­mutable and un­chang­ing. The re­ac­tions of chem­istry are not mod­i­fied by ed­u­ca­tion; they are uni­form and de­pend­able. Aside from the pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, elec­tri­cal and chem­i­cal re­ac­tions are pre­dictable. But mind can profit from ex­pe­ri­ence, can learn from re­ac­tive habits of be­hav­ior in re­sponse to rep­e­ti­tion of stim­uli.

• cosmic mind endowment of innate recognition of things, meanings, and values – spirit response

65:6.10The phys­i­cal brain with its as­so­ci­ated ner­vous sys­tem pos­sesses in­nate ca­pac­ity for re­sponse to mind min­istry just as the de­vel­op­ing mind of a per­son­al­ity pos­sesses a cer­tain in­nate ca­pac­ity for spirit re­cep­tiv­ity and there­fore con­tains the po­ten­tials of spir­i­tual prog­ress and at­tain­ment. In­tel­lec­tual, so­cial, moral, and spir­i­tual evo­lu­tion are de­pen­dent on the mind min­istry of the seven ad­ju­tant spir­its and their super­phys­i­cal as­so­ciates.

• lower functions directed from system capitals

65:7.1The seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are the ver­sa­tile mind min­is­ters to the lower in­tel­li­gent ex­is­tences of a lo­cal uni­verse. This or­der of mind is min­is­tered from the lo­cal uni­verse head­quar­ters or from some world con­nected there­with, but there is in­flu­en­tial di­rec­tion of lower-mind func­tion from the sys­tem cap­i­tals.

• always dominant over matter

65:8.5In the cos­mic evo­lu­tion­ary lab­o­ra­to­ries mind is al­ways dom­i­nant over mat­ter, and spirit is ever cor­re­lated with mind. Fail­ure of these di­verse en­dow­ments to syn­chro­nize and co-or­di­nate may cause time de­lays, but if the in­di­vid­ual re­ally knows God and de­sires to find him and be­come like him, then sur­vival is as­sured re­gard­less of the hand­i­caps of time. Phys­i­cal sta­tus may hand­i­cap mind, and men­tal per­ver­sity may de­lay spir­i­tual at­tain­ment, but none of these ob­sta­cles can de­feat the whole-souled choice of will.

• sin causes m. to lose equilibrium

67:1.3In all the ad­min­is­tra­tive work of a lo­cal uni­verse no high trust is deemed more sa­cred than that re­posed in a Plan­e­tary Prince who as­sumes re­spon­si­bil­ity for the wel­fare and guid­ance of the evolv­ing mor­tals on a newly in­hab­ited world. And of all forms of evil, none are more de­struc­tive of per­son­al­ity sta­tus than be­trayal of trust and dis­loy­alty to one’s con­fid­ing friends. In com­mit­ting this de­lib­er­ate sin, Cali­gas­tia so com­pletely dis­torted his per­son­al­ity that his mind has never since been able fully to re­gain its equi­lib­rium.

• indispensable channel of communication, mediation between spirit and matter

101:5.83. The hu­man mind, the mech­a­nism for in­ter­com­mu­ni­ca­tion and in­teras­so­ci­a­tion be­tween spirit and mat­ter, be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual.

• leads back to Deity

101:10.4It is only through the mor­ontial av­enue lead­ing to spir­i­tual in­sight that man can ever break the fet­ters in­her­ent in his mor­tal sta­tus in the uni­verse. En­ergy and mind do lead back to Par­a­dise and De­ity, but nei­ther the en­ergy en­dow­ment nor the mind en­dow­ment of man pro­ceeds di­rectly from such Par­a­dise De­ity. Only in the spir­i­tual sense is man a child of God. And this is true be­cause it is only in the spir­i­tual sense that man is at pres­ent en­dowed and in­dwelt by the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. Man­kind can never dis­cover di­vin­ity ex­cept through the av­enue of re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence and by the ex­er­cise of true faith. The faith ac­cep­tance of the truth of God en­ables man to es­cape from the cir­cum­scribed con­fines of ma­te­rial lim­i­ta­tions and af­fords him a ra­tio­nal hope of achiev­ing safe con­duct from the ma­te­rial realm, whereon is death, to the spir­i­tual realm, wherein is life eter­nal.

• unity

102:2.5Even the dis­cov­er­ies of sci­ence are not truly real in the con­scious­ness of hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence un­til they are un­rav­eled and cor­re­lated, un­til their rel­e­vant facts ac­tu­ally be­come mean­ing through en­cir­cuit­ment in the thought streams of mind. Mor­tal man views even his phys­i­cal en­vi­ron­ment from the mind level, from the per­spec­tive of its psy­cho­log­i­cal reg­istry. It is not, there­fore, strange that man should place a highly uni­fied in­ter­pre­ta­tion upon the uni­verse and then seek to iden­tify this en­ergy unity of his sci­ence with the spirit unity of his re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence. Mind is unity; mor­tal con­scious­ness lives on the mind level and per­ceives the uni­ver­sal re­al­i­ties through the eyes of the mind en­dow­ment. The mind per­spec­tive will not yield the ex­is­ten­tial unity of the source of re­al­ity, the First Source and Cen­ter, but it can and some­time will por­tray to man the ex­pe­ri­en­tial syn­the­sis of en­ergy, mind, and spirit in and as the Su­preme Be­ing. But mind can never suc­ceed in this uni­fi­ca­tion of the di­ver­sity of re­al­ity un­less such mind is firmly aware of ma­te­rial things, in­tel­lec­tual mean­ings, and spir­i­tual val­ues; only in the har­mony of the tri­unity of func­tional re­al­ity is there unity, and only in unity is there the per­son­al­ity sat­is­fac­tion of the re­al­iza­tion of cos­mic con­stancy and con­sis­tency.

• cosmic mind endowment of innate recognition of things, meanings, and values – spirit response

103:7.11All di­vi­sions of hu­man thought are pred­i­cated on cer­tain as­sump­tions which are ac­cepted, though un­proved, by the con­sti­tu­tive re­al­ity sen­si­tiv­ity of the mind en­dow­ment of man. Sci­ence starts out on its vaunted ca­reer of rea­son­ing by as­sum­ing the re­al­ity of three things: mat­ter, mo­tion, and life. Re­li­gion starts out with the as­sump­tion of the va­lid­ity of three things: mind, spirit, and the uni­verse—the Su­preme Be­ing.

103:7.12Sci­ence be­comes the thought do­main of math­e­mat­ics, of the en­ergy and ma­te­rial of time in space. Re­li­gion as­sumes to deal not only with fi­nite and tem­po­ral spirit but also with the spirit of eter­nity and su­prem­acy. Only through a long ex­pe­ri­ence in mota can these two ex­tremes of uni­verse per­cep­tion be made to yield anal­o­gous in­ter­pre­ta­tions of ori­gins, func­tions, re­la­tions, re­al­i­ties, and des­tinies. The max­i­mum har­mo­niza­tion of the en­ergy-spirit di­ver­gence is in the en­cir­cuit­ment of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its; the first uni­fi­ca­tion thereof, in the De­ity of the Su­preme; the fi­nal­ity unity thereof, in the in­fin­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter, the I AM.

103:7.13Rea­son is the act of rec­og­niz­ing the con­clu­sions of con­scious­ness with re­gard to the ex­pe­ri­ence in and with the phys­i­cal world of en­ergy and mat­ter. Faith is the act of rec­og­niz­ing the va­lid­ity of spir­i­tual con­scious­ness—some­thing which is in­ca­pable of other mor­tal proof. Logic is the syn­thetic truth-seek­ing pro­gres­sion of the unity of faith and rea­son and is founded on the con­sti­tu­tive mind en­dow­ments of mor­tal be­ings, the in­nate rec­og­ni­tion of things, mean­ings, and val­ues.

• certain meanings of m. are transcendental

105:7.117. Cer­tain mean­ings of mind.

• indispensable channel of communication, mediation between spirit and matter

107:5.1Evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals are prone to look upon mind as a cos­mic me­di­a­tion be­tween spirit and mat­ter, for that is in­deed the prin­ci­pal min­istry of mind as dis­cern­i­ble by you. Hence it is quite dif­fi­cult for hu­mans to per­ceive that Thought Ad­justers have minds, for Ad­justers are frag­men­ta­tions of God on an ab­so­lute level of re­al­ity which is not only preper­sonal but also prior to all en­ergy and spirit di­ver­gence. On a monis­tic level an­te­ced­ent to en­ergy and spirit dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion there could be no me­di­at­ing func­tion of mind, for there are no di­ver­gen­cies to be me­di­ated.

• cosmic mind endowment of innate recognition of things, meanings, and values – spirit response

111:1.2There is a cos­mic unity in the sev­eral mind lev­els of the uni­verse of uni­verses. In­tel­lec­tual selves have their ori­gin in the cos­mic mind much as neb­u­lae take ori­gin in the cos­mic en­er­gies of uni­verse space. On the hu­man (hence per­sonal) level of in­tel­lec­tual selves the po­ten­tial of spirit evo­lu­tion be­comes dom­i­nant, with the as­sent of the mor­tal mind, be­cause of the spir­i­tual en­dow­ments of the hu­man per­son­al­ity to­gether with the cre­ative pres­ence of an en­tity-point of ab­so­lute value in such hu­man selves. But such a spirit dom­i­nance of the ma­te­rial mind is con­di­tioned upon two ex­pe­ri­ences: This mind must have evolved up through the min­istry of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its, and the ma­te­rial (per­sonal) self must choose to co-op­er­ate with the in­dwelling Ad­juster in cre­at­ing and fos­ter­ing the mor­ontia self, the evo­lu­tion­ary and po­ten­tially im­mor­tal soul.

• invariably seeks for spirit co-ordination
• totality of m. is dominant over its parts

111:2.1Through­out the mind func­tions of cos­mic in­tel­li­gence, the to­tal­ity of mind is dom­i­nant over the parts of in­tel­lec­tual func­tion. Mind, in its essence, is func­tional unity; there­fore does mind never fail to man­i­fest this con­sti­tu­tive unity, even when ham­pered and hin­dered by the un­wise ac­tions and choices of a mis­guided self. And this unity of mind in­vari­ably seeks for spirit co-or­di­na­tion on all lev­els of its as­so­ci­a­tion with selves of will dig­nity and as­cen­sion pre­rog­a­tives.

• universal urges of m. are creature desiring to know God, God desiring to attain creature’s experience

111:2.8The mid­way crea­tures have long de­nom­i­nated this evolv­ing soul of man the mid-mind in con­tradis­tinc­tion to the lower or ma­te­rial mind and the higher or cos­mic mind. This mid-mind is re­ally a mor­ontia phe­nom­e­non since it ex­ists in the realm be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual. The po­ten­tial of such a mor­ontia evo­lu­tion is in­her­ent in the two uni­ver­sal urges of mind: the im­pulse of the fi­nite mind of the crea­ture to know God and at­tain the di­vin­ity of the Cre­ator, and the im­pulse of the in­fi­nite mind of the Cre­ator to know man and at­tain the ex­pe­ri­ence of the crea­ture.

• does not have to be added to spirit

112:0.1412. It is one thing which can be added to spirit, thus il­lus­trat­ing the pri­macy of the Fa­ther in re­la­tion to the Son. (Mind does not have to be added to spirit.)

• innately forms universe frame in which to think

115:1.1Par­tial, in­com­plete, and evolv­ing in­tel­lects would be help­less in the mas­ter uni­verse, would be un­able to form the first ra­tio­nal thought pat­tern, were it not for the in­nate abil­ity of all mind, high or low, to form a uni­verse frame in which to think. If mind can­not fathom con­clu­sions, if it can­not pen­e­trate to true ori­gins, then will such mind un­fail­ingly pos­tu­late con­clu­sions and in­vent ori­gins that it may have a means of log­i­cal thought within the frame of these mind-cre­ated pos­tu­lates. And while such uni­verse frames for crea­ture thought are in­dis­pens­able to ra­tio­nal in­tel­lec­tual op­er­a­tions, they are, with­out ex­cep­tion, er­ro­neous to a greater or lesser de­gree.

• without divergencies, m. has no basis to formulate concepts

115:3.2Mind can never hope to grasp the con­cept of an Ab­so­lute with­out at­tempt­ing first to break the unity of such a re­al­ity. Mind is uni­fy­ing of all di­ver­gen­cies, but in the very ab­sence of such di­ver­gen­cies, mind finds no ba­sis upon which to at­tempt to for­mu­late un­der­stand­ing con­cepts.

• never ceases to progress; always creative

116:1.5We re­ally know less about the mind of Su­prem­acy than about any other as­pect of this evolv­ing De­ity. It is un­ques­tion­ably ac­tive through­out the grand uni­verse and is be­lieved to have a po­ten­tial des­tiny of mas­ter uni­verse func­tion which is of vast ex­tent. But this we do know: Whereas physique may at­tain com­pleted growth, and whereas spirit may achieve per­fec­tion of de­vel­op­ment, mind never ceases to pro­gress—it is the ex­pe­ri­en­tial tech­nique of end­less prog­ress. The Su­preme is an ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity and there­fore never achieves com­ple­tion of mind at­tain­ment.

• cosmic arena of creature choice
• flexible reality
• indispensable channel of communication, mediation between spirit and matter

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.

• indispensable channel of communication, mediation between spirit and matter

116:3.43. The in­dwelling pres­ences of the First Source and Cen­ter. Mind uni­fies spirit cau­sa­tions with en­ergy re­ac­tions; be­stowal min­istry uni­fies di­vin­ity de­scen­sions with crea­ture as­cen­sions; and the in­dwelling frag­ments of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther ac­tu­ally unify the evolv­ing crea­tures with God on Par­a­dise. There are many such pres­ences of the Fa­ther which in­dwell nu­mer­ous or­ders of per­son­al­i­ties, and in mor­tal man these di­vine frag­ments of God are the Thought Ad­justers. The Mys­tery Mon­i­tors are to hu­man be­ings what the Par­a­dise Trin­ity is to the Su­preme Be­ing. The Ad­justers are ab­so­lute foun­da­tions, and upon ab­so­lute foun­da­tions free­will choice can cause to be evolved the di­vine re­al­ity of an eter­naliter na­ture, fi­nal­i­ter na­ture in the case of man, De­ity na­ture in God the Su­preme.

• responsive to energy

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.

• indispensable channel of communication, mediation between spirit and matter

116:6.3On ab­so­lute lev­els, en­ergy and spirit are one. But the mo­ment de­par­ture is made from such ab­so­lute lev­els, dif­fer­ence ap­pears, and as en­ergy and spirit move space­ward from Par­a­dise, the gulf be­tween them widens un­til in the lo­cal uni­verses they have be­come quite di­ver­gent. They are no longer iden­ti­cal, nei­ther are they alike, and mind must in­ter­vene to in­ter­re­late them.

• responsive to energy

116:6.4That en­ergy can be di­rec­tion­ized by the ac­tion of con­trol­ler per­son­al­i­ties dis­closes the re­spon­sive­ness of en­ergy to mind ac­tion. That mass can be sta­bi­lized through the ac­tion of these same con­trol­ling en­ti­ties in­di­cates the re­spon­sive­ness of mass to the or­der-pro­duc­ing pres­ence of mind. And that spirit it­self in vo­li­tional per­son­al­ity can strive through mind for the mas­tery of en­ergy-mat­ter dis­closes the po­ten­tial unity of all fi­nite cre­ation.

• circuits of m. are never permanent possessions of ascenders

117:5.7The great cir­cuits of en­ergy, mind, and spirit are never the per­ma­nent pos­ses­sions of as­cend­ing per­son­al­ity; these min­istries re­main for­ever a part of Su­prem­acy. In the mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence the hu­man in­tel­lect re­sides in the rhyth­mic pul­sa­tions of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its and ef­fects its de­ci­sions within the arena pro­duced by en­cir­cuit­ment within this min­istry. Upon mor­tal death the hu­man self is ev­er­last­ingly di­vorced from the ad­ju­tant cir­cuit. While these ad­ju­tants never seem to trans­mit ex­pe­ri­ence from one per­son­al­ity to an­other, they can and do trans­mit the im­per­sonal reper­cus­sions of de­ci­sion-ac­tion through God the Sev­en­fold to God the Su­preme. (At least this is true of the ad­ju­tants of wor­ship and wis­dom.)

117:5.8And so it is with the spir­i­tual cir­cuits: Man uti­lizes these in his as­cent through the uni­verses, but he never pos­sesses them as a part of his eter­nal per­son­al­ity. But these cir­cuits of spir­i­tual min­istry, whether Spirit of Truth, Holy Spirit, or super­uni­verse spirit pres­ences, are re­cep­tive and re­ac­tive to the emerg­ing val­ues in as­cend­ing per­son­al­ity, and these val­ues are faith­fully trans­mit­ted through the Sev­en­fold to the Su­preme.

• grows out of material existence illuminated by cosmic mind

180:5.3In­tel­li­gence grows out of a ma­te­rial ex­is­tence which is il­lu­mi­nated by the pres­ence of the cos­mic mind. Wis­dom com­prises the con­scious­ness of knowl­edge el­e­vated to new lev­els of mean­ing and ac­ti­vated by the pres­ence of the uni­verse en­dow­ment of the ad­ju­tant of wis­dom. Truth is a spir­i­tual re­al­ity value ex­pe­ri­enced only by spirit-en­dowed be­ings who func­tion upon super­ma­te­rial lev­els of uni­verse con­scious­ness, and who, af­ter the re­al­iza­tion of truth, per­mit its spirit of ac­ti­va­tion to live and reign within their souls.

30:1.113There are spir­its: spirit en­ti­ties, spirit pres­ences, per­sonal spir­its, preper­sonal spir­its, super­per­sonal spir­its, spirit ex­is­tences, spirit per­son­al­i­ties—but nei­ther mor­tal lan­guage nor mor­tal in­tel­lect are ad­e­quate. We may how­ever state that there are no per­son­al­i­ties of “pure mind”; no en­tity has per­son­al­ity un­less he is en­dowed with it by God who is spirit. Any mind en­tity that is not as­so­ci­ated with ei­ther spir­i­tual or phys­i­cal en­ergy is not a per­son­al­ity. But in the same sense that there are spirit per­son­al­i­ties who have mind there are mind per­son­al­i­ties who have spirit. Maj­es­ton and his as­so­ciates are fairly good il­lus­tra­tions of mind-dom­i­nated be­ings, but there are bet­ter il­lus­tra­tions of this type of per­son­al­ity un­known to you. There are even whole un­re­vealed or­ders of such mind per­son­al­i­ties, but they are al­ways spirit as­so­ci­ated. Cer­tain other un­re­vealed crea­tures are what might be termed mindal- and phys­i­cal-en­ergy per­son­al­i­ties. This type of be­ing is non­re­spon­sive to spirit grav­ity but is nonethe­less a true per­son­al­ity—is within the Fa­ther’s cir­cuit.

65:0.1Ba­sic evo­lu­tion­ary ma­te­rial life—pre­mind life—is the for­mu­la­tion of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers and the life-im­par­ta­tion min­istry of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its in con­junc­tion with the ac­tive min­is­tra­tion of the or­dained Life Car­ri­ers. As a re­sult of the co-or­di­nate func­tion of this three­fold cre­ativ­ity there de­vel­ops or­gan­is­mal phys­i­cal ca­pac­ity for mind—ma­te­rial mech­a­nisms for in­tel­li­gent re­ac­tion to ex­ter­nal en­vi­ron­men­tal stim­uli and, later on, to in­ter­nal stim­uli, in­flu­ences tak­ing ori­gin in the or­gan­is­mal mind it­self.

65:0.2There are, then, three dis­tinct lev­els of life pro­duc­tion and evo­lu­tion:

65:0.31. The phys­i­cal-en­ergy do­main—mind-ca­pac­ity pro­duc­tion.

65:0.42. The mind min­istry of the ad­ju­tant spir­its—im­ping­ing upon spirit ca­pac­ity.

65:0.53. The spirit en­dow­ment of mor­tal mind—cul­mi­nat­ing in Thought Ad­juster be­stowal.

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.

6:6.1The Eter­nal Son is spirit and has mind, but not a mind or a spirit which mor­tal mind can com­pre­hend. Mor­tal man per­ceives mind on the fi­nite, cos­mic, ma­te­rial, and per­sonal lev­els. Man also ob­serves mind phe­nom­ena in liv­ing or­gan­isms func­tion­ing on the sub­per­sonal (an­i­mal) level, but it is dif­fi­cult for him to grasp the na­ture of mind when as­so­ci­ated with super­ma­te­rial be­ings and as a part of ex­clu­sive spirit per­son­al­i­ties. Mind must, how­ever, be dif­fer­ently de­fined when it refers to the spirit level of ex­is­tence, and when it is used to de­note spirit func­tions of in­tel­li­gence. That kind of mind which is di­rectly al­lied with spirit is com­pa­ra­ble nei­ther to that mind which co-or­di­nates spirit and mat­ter nor to that mind which is al­lied only with mat­ter.

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.

6:6.4The Eter­nal Son is wholly spir­i­tual; man is very nearly en­tirely ma­te­rial; there­fore much per­tain­ing to the spirit per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son, to his seven spir­i­tual spheres en­cir­cling Par­a­dise and to the na­ture of the im­per­sonal cre­ations of the Par­a­dise Son, will have to await your at­tain­ment of spirit sta­tus fol­low­ing your com­ple­tion of the mor­ontia as­cen­sion of the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. And then, as you pass through the super­uni­verse and on to Ha­vona, many of these spirit-con­cealed mys­ter­ies will clar­ify as you be­gin to be en­dowed with the “mind of the spirit”—spir­i­tual in­sight.

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.

9:4.3The 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.

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.

• morontia mind › created by Morontia Power Supervisors

16:4.5Un­ques­tion­ably, when we en­counter the func­tional ac­tiv­i­ties of the var­i­ous Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors, we are face to face with cer­tain of the un­re­vealed ac­tiv­i­ties of the Mas­ter Spir­its. Who, aside from these an­ces­tors of both phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and spirit min­is­ters, could have con­trived so to com­bine and as­so­ciate ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual en­er­gies as to pro­duce a hith­erto nonex­is­tent phase of uni­verse re­al­ity—mor­ontia sub­stance and mor­ontia mind?

• nonteachable levels of mind (preadjutant mind) › domain of Master Physical Controllers and Supreme Power Centers

29:2.9These power cen­ters to­gether with the Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors are be­ings of high will free­dom and ac­tion. They are all en­dowed with Third-Source per­son­al­ity and dis­close un­ques­tioned vo­li­tional ca­pac­ity of a high or­der. These di­rect­ing cen­ters of the uni­verse power sys­tem are the pos­ses­sors of ex­qui­site in­tel­li­gence en­dow­ment; they are the in­tel­lect of the power sys­tem of the grand uni­verse and the se­cret of the tech­nique of the mind con­trol of all the vast net­work of the far-flung func­tions of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers and the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors.

• nonteachable levels of mind (preadjutant mind) › contacted by adjutant mind-spirit of intuition

36:5.61. The spirit of in­tu­ition—quick per­cep­tion, the prim­i­tive phys­i­cal and in­her­ent re­flex in­stincts, the di­rec­tional and other self-preser­va­tive en­dow­ments of all mind cre­ations; the only one of the ad­ju­tants to func­tion so largely in the lower or­ders of an­i­mal life and the only one to make ex­ten­sive func­tional con­tact with the non­teach­able lev­els of me­chan­i­cal mind.

• nonteachable levels of mind (preadjutant mind) › domain of Master Physical Controllers and Supreme Power Centers

36:5.14These mind-ad­ju­tants of a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit are re­lated to crea­ture life of in­tel­li­gence sta­tus much as the power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers are re­lated to the non­liv­ing forces of the uni­verse. They per­form in­valu­able ser­vice in the mind cir­cuits on the in­hab­ited worlds and are ef­fec­tive col­lab­o­ra­tors with the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers, who also serve as con­trol­lers and di­rec­tors of the pread­ju­tant mind lev­els, the lev­els of non­teach­able or me­chan­i­cal mind.

• m. of the spirit, possessed by spirit ascenders

39:2.63. Spirit Co-or­di­na­tors. The third group of su­pe­rior ser­a­phim are based on Sal­ving­ton but func­tion in the lo­cal uni­verse any­where they can be of fruit­ful ser­vice. While their tasks are es­sen­tially spir­i­tual and there­fore be­yond the real un­der­stand­ing of hu­man minds, you will per­haps grasp some­thing of their min­istry to mor­tals if it is ex­plained that these an­gels are in­trusted with the task of prepar­ing the as­cen­dant so­journ­ers on Sal­ving­ton for their last tran­si­tion in the lo­cal uni­verse—from the high­est mor­ontia level to the sta­tus of new­born spirit be­ings. As the mind plan­ners on the man­sion worlds help the sur­viv­ing crea­ture to ad­just to, and make ef­fec­tive use of, the po­ten­tials of mor­ontia mind, so do these ser­a­phim in­struct the mor­ontia grad­u­ates on Sal­ving­ton re­gard­ing the newly at­tained ca­pac­i­ties of the mind of the spirit. And they serve the as­cen­dant mor­tals in many other ways.

• nonteachable levels of mind (preadjutant mind) › domain of Master Physical Controllers and Supreme Power Centers

41:2.6These be­ings of the en­ergy realms do not di­rectly con­cern them­selves with en­ergy as a com­po­nent fac­tor of liv­ing crea­tures, not even with the do­main of phys­i­o­log­i­cal chem­istry. They are some­times con­cerned with the phys­i­cal pre­lim­i­nar­ies of life, with the elab­o­ra­tion of those en­ergy sys­tems which may serve as the phys­i­cal ve­hi­cles for the liv­ing en­er­gies of el­e­men­tary ma­te­rial or­gan­isms. In a way the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers are re­lated to the pre­liv­ing man­i­fes­ta­tions of ma­te­rial en­ergy as the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are con­cerned with the prespir­i­tual func­tions of ma­te­rial mind.

• nonteachable levels of mind (preadjutant mind) › domain of Master Physical Controllers and Supreme Power Centers

65:7.5The seven ad­ju­tant spir­its do not make con­tact with the purely me­chan­i­cal or­ders of or­gan­is­mal en­vi­ron­men­tal re­sponse. Such prein­tel­li­gent re­sponses of liv­ing or­gan­isms per­tain purely to the en­ergy do­mains of the power cen­ters, the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, and their as­so­ciates.

• morontia mind › co-operating material and spiritual minds

110:2.6To the ex­tent that this iden­tity is re­al­ized, you are men­tally ap­proach­ing the mor­ontia or­der of ex­is­tence. Mor­ontia mind is a term sig­ni­fy­ing the sub­stance and sum to­tal of the co-op­er­at­ing minds of di­versely ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual na­tures. Mor­ontia in­tel­lect, there­fore, con­notes a dual mind in the lo­cal uni­verse dom­i­nated by one will. And with mor­tals this is a will, hu­man in ori­gin, which is be­com­ing di­vine through man’s iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the hu­man mind with the mind­ed­ness of God.

• morontia mind › conjoined ministry of cosmic mind and superadjutant m. of Creative Spirit

110:6.21The seven cir­cles em­brace mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence ex­tend­ing from the high­est purely an­i­mal level to the low­est ac­tual con­tac­tual mor­ontia level of self-con­scious­ness as a per­son­al­ity ex­pe­ri­ence. The mas­tery of the first cos­mic cir­cle sig­nal­izes the at­tain­ment of pre­moron­tia mor­tal ma­tu­rity and marks the ter­mi­na­tion of the con­joint min­istry of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its as an ex­clu­sive in­flu­ence of mind ac­tion in the hu­man per­son­al­ity. Be­yond the first cir­cle, mind be­comes in­creas­ingly akin to the in­tel­li­gence of the mor­ontia stage of evo­lu­tion, the con­joined min­istry of the cos­mic mind and the super­ad­ju­tant en­dow­ment of the Cre­ative Spirit of a lo­cal uni­verse.

• morontia mind › evolves by direct contact with cosmic mind

112:6.6There are no in­flu­ences in the lo­cal uni­verse ca­reer com­pa­ra­ble to the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its of hu­man ex­is­tence. The mor­ontia mind must evolve by di­rect con­tact with cos­mic mind, as this cos­mic mind has been mod­i­fied and trans­lated by the cre­ative source of lo­cal uni­verse in­tel­lect—the Di­vine Min­is­ter.