spirit

• source of spirit › Eternal Son supreme in s., which converges in him

0:3.153. The uni­verse spirit forces are con­ver­gent in the Eter­nal Son.

• nature of spirit › what responds to Eternal Son’s s. 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.

• nature of spirit › God’s s. absolute in and of himself, unqualified in Son, universal in Spirit, infinite in all of them

1:3.4The spirit na­ture of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is shared fully with his co­ex­is­tent self, the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise. Both the Fa­ther and the Son in like man­ner share the uni­ver­sal and eter­nal spirit fully and un­re­servedly with their con­joint per­son­al­ity co-or­di­nate, the In­fi­nite Spirit. God’s spirit is, in and of him­self, ab­so­lute; in the Son it is un­qual­i­fied, in the Spirit, uni­ver­sal, and in and by all of them, in­fi­nite.

• nature of spirit › fundamental reality of personality experience; goal of all personalities

1:3.5God is a uni­ver­sal spirit; God is the uni­ver­sal per­son. The su­preme per­sonal re­al­ity of the fi­nite cre­ation is spirit; the ul­ti­mate re­al­ity of the per­sonal cos­mos is ab­so­nite spirit. Only the lev­els of in­fin­ity are ab­so­lute, and only on such lev­els is there fi­nal­ity of one­ness be­tween mat­ter, mind, and spirit.

• Absolutes seem to supervene

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.

• Eternal Son has infinite drawing power over
• source of spirit › Eternal Son supreme in s., which converges in him

6:4.1The Eter­nal Son mo­ti­vates the spirit level of cos­mic re­al­ity; the spir­i­tual power of the Son is ab­so­lute in re­la­tion to all uni­verse ac­tu­al­i­ties. He ex­er­cises per­fect con­trol over the in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of all un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated spirit en­ergy and over all ac­tu­al­ized spirit re­al­ity through his ab­so­lute grasp of spirit grav­ity. All pure un­frag­mented spirit and all spir­i­tual be­ings and val­ues are re­spon­sive to the in­fi­nite draw­ing power of the pri­mal Son of Par­a­dise. And if the eter­nal fu­ture should wit­ness the ap­pear­ance of an un­lim­ited uni­verse, the spirit grav­ity and the spirit power of the Orig­i­nal Son will be found wholly ad­e­quate for the spir­i­tual con­trol and ef­fec­tive ad­min­is­tra­tion of such a bound­less cre­ation.

• source of spirit › emerges from potentials of Deity Absolute

6:5.2The Eter­nal Son does not per­son­ally per­vade the po­ten­tials of spirit in­her­ent in the in­fin­ity of the De­ity Ab­so­lute, but as these po­ten­tials be­come ac­tual, they come within the all-pow­er­ful grasp of the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Son.

• nature of spirit › always intelligent, minded

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.

• nature of spirit › habit and personal conduct of Eternal Son

7:0.4The Eter­nal Son is the ac­tual up­holder of the vast cre­ation of spirit re­al­i­ties and spir­i­tual be­ings. The spirit world is the habit, the per­sonal con­duct, of the Son, and the im­per­sonal re­al­i­ties of spirit na­ture are al­ways re­spon­sive to the will and pur­pose of the per­fect per­son­al­ity of the Ab­so­lute Son.

• nature of spirit › undiminished in transmission

7:1.2This grav­ity con­trol of spir­i­tual things op­er­ates in­de­pen­dently of time and space; there­fore is spirit en­ergy undi­min­ished in trans­mis­sion. Spirit grav­ity never suf­fers time de­lays, nor does it un­dergo space diminu­tion. It does not de­crease in ac­cor­dance with the square of the dis­tance of its trans­mis­sion; the cir­cuits of pure spirit power are not re­tarded by the mass of the ma­te­rial cre­ation. And this tran­scen­dence of time and space by pure spirit en­er­gies is in­her­ent in the ab­so­lute­ness of the Son; it is not due to the in­ter­po­si­tion of the anti­grav­ity forces of the Third Source and Cen­ter.

• source of spirit › Eternal Son supreme in s., which converges in him

7:1.4The re­ac­tions and fluc­tu­a­tions of spirit grav­ity are ever true to the con­tent of spir­i­tual val­ues, the qual­i­ta­tive spir­i­tual sta­tus of an in­di­vid­ual or a world. This draw­ing power is in­stantly re­spon­sive to the in­ter- and in­traspirit val­ues of any uni­verse sit­u­a­tion or plan­e­tary con­di­tion. Ev­ery time a spir­i­tual re­al­ity ac­tu­al­izes in the uni­verses, this change ne­ces­si­tates the im­me­di­ate and in­stan­ta­neous read­just­ment of spirit grav­ity. Such a new spirit is ac­tu­ally a part of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter; and just as cer­tainly as mor­tal man be­comes a spir­i­tized be­ing, he will at­tain the spir­i­tual Son, the cen­ter and source of spirit grav­ity.

• source of spirit › emerges from potentials of Deity Absolute

7:1.11Spirit seems to emerge from the po­ten­tials of the De­ity Ab­so­lute; evolv­ing spirit finds cor­re­la­tion in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial and in­com­plete grasps of the Su­preme and the Ul­ti­mate; spirit even­tu­ally finds fi­nal des­tiny in the ab­so­lute grasp of the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son. This ap­pears to be the cy­cle of ex­pe­ri­en­tial spirit, but ex­is­ten­tial spirit is in­her­ent in the in­fin­ity of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter.

• source of spirit › initial outflowing

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.

• nature of spirit › all s. forces are one in function, as one in the Supreme

8:5.4There are many spir­i­tual in­flu­ences, and they are all as one. Even the work of the Thought Ad­justers, though in­de­pen­dent of all other in­flu­ences, un­vary­ingly co­in­cides with the spirit min­istry of the com­bined in­flu­ences of the In­fi­nite Spirit and a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. As these spir­i­tual pres­ences op­er­ate in the lives of Uran­tians, they can­not be seg­re­gated. In your minds and upon your souls they func­tion as one spirit, not­with­stand­ing their di­verse ori­gins. And as this united spir­i­tual min­is­tra­tion is ex­pe­ri­enced, it be­comes to you the in­flu­ence of the Su­preme, “who is ever able to keep you from fail­ing and to pre­sent you blame­less be­fore your Fa­ther on high.”

• in man › many untrammeled lines of force link Urantians directly with Deities

9:2.3There are many un­tram­meled lines of spir­i­tual force and sources of super­ma­te­rial power link­ing the peo­ple of Uran­tia di­rectly with the De­i­ties of Par­a­dise. There ex­ist the con­nec­tion of the Thought Ad­justers di­rect with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the wide­spread in­flu­ence of the spir­i­tual-grav­ity urge of the Eter­nal Son, and the spir­i­tual pres­ence of the Con­joint Cre­ator. There is a dif­fer­ence in func­tion be­tween the spirit of the Son and the spirit of the Spirit. The Third Per­son in his spir­i­tual min­istry may func­tion as mind plus spirit or as spirit alone.

• nature of spirit › always intelligent, minded

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.

• nature of spirit › divine purpose
• spirit mind is divine purpose in action

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.

• nature of spirit › one with energy on Paradise

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.

• nature of spirit › nonexistent to purely material beings

11:3.1On up­per Par­a­dise there are three grand spheres of ac­tiv­ity, the De­ity pres­ence, the Most Holy Sphere, and the Holy Area. The vast re­gion im­me­di­ately sur­round­ing the pres­ence of the De­i­ties is set aside as the Most Holy Sphere and is re­served for the func­tions of wor­ship, trin­i­ti­za­tion, and high spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. There are no ma­te­rial struc­tures nor purely in­tel­lec­tual cre­ations in this zone; they could not ex­ist there. It is use­less for me to un­der­take to por­tray to the hu­man mind the di­vine na­ture and the beau­teous grandeur of the Most Holy Sphere of Par­a­dise. This realm is wholly spir­i­tual, and you are al­most wholly ma­te­rial. A purely spir­i­tual re­al­ity is, to a purely ma­te­rial be­ing, ap­par­ently nonex­is­tent.

• nature of spirit › perceives time as motion Godward

12:5.82. Spirit-per­ceived time—in­sight into mo­tion God­ward and the aware­ness of the mo­tion of as­cent to lev­els of in­creas­ing di­vin­ity.

• source of spirit › Eternal Son supreme in s., which converges in him

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.

• nature of spirit › mind interassociates s. with matter

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.

12:8.1“God is spirit,” but Par­a­dise is not. The ma­te­rial uni­verse is al­ways the arena wherein take place all spir­i­tual ac­tiv­i­ties; spirit be­ings and spirit as­cend­ers live and work on phys­i­cal spheres of ma­te­rial re­al­ity.

12:8.2The be­stowal of cos­mic force, the do­main of cos­mic grav­ity, is the func­tion of the Isle of Par­a­dise. All orig­i­nal force-en­ergy pro­ceeds from Par­a­dise, and the mat­ter for the mak­ing of un­told uni­verses now cir­cu­lates through­out the mas­ter uni­verse in the form of a super­grav­ity pres­ence which con­sti­tutes the force-charge of per­vaded space.

12:8.3What­ever the trans­for­ma­tions of force in the out­ly­ing uni­verses, hav­ing gone out from Par­a­dise, it jour­neys on sub­ject to the never-end­ing, ever-pres­ent, un­fail­ing pull of the eter­nal Isle, obe­di­ently and in­her­ently swing­ing on for­ever around the eter­nal space paths of the uni­verses. Phys­i­cal en­ergy is the one re­al­ity which is true and stead­fast in its obe­di­ence to uni­ver­sal law. Only in the realms of crea­ture vo­li­tion has there been de­vi­a­tion from the di­vine paths and the orig­i­nal plans. Power and en­ergy are the uni­ver­sal ev­i­dences of the sta­bil­ity, con­stancy, and eter­nity of the cen­tral Isle of Par­a­dise.

12:8.4The be­stowal of spirit and the spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion of per­son­al­i­ties, the do­main of spir­i­tual grav­ity, is the realm of the Eter­nal Son. And this spirit grav­ity of the Son, ever draw­ing all spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties to him­self, is just as real and ab­so­lute as is the all-pow­er­ful ma­te­rial grasp of the Isle of Par­a­dise. But ma­te­rial-minded man is nat­u­rally more fa­mil­iar with the ma­te­rial man­i­fes­ta­tions of a phys­i­cal na­ture than with the equally real and mighty op­er­a­tions of a spir­i­tual na­ture which are dis­cerned only by the spir­i­tual in­sight of the soul.

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.

12:8.6What Par­a­dise is to the phys­i­cal cre­ation, and what the Eter­nal Son is to the spir­i­tual uni­verse, the Con­joint Ac­tor is to the realms of mind—the in­tel­li­gent uni­verse of ma­te­rial, mor­ontial, and spir­i­tual be­ings and per­son­al­i­ties.

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.

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.

12:8.9Though it is hardly pos­si­ble for the mor­tal mind to com­pre­hend the seven lev­els of rel­a­tive cos­mic re­al­ity, the hu­man in­tel­lect should be able to grasp much of the mean­ing of three func­tion­ing lev­els of fi­nite re­al­ity:

12:8.101. Mat­ter. Or­ga­nized en­ergy which is sub­ject to lin­ear grav­ity ex­cept as it is mod­i­fied by mo­tion and con­di­tioned by mind.

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

• nature of spirit › fundamental reality of personality experience; goal of all personalities
• nature of spirit › in pure form, s. is preresponsive to gravity

12:8.123. Spirit. The high­est per­sonal re­al­ity. True spirit is not sub­ject to phys­i­cal grav­ity but even­tu­ally be­comes the mo­ti­vat­ing in­flu­ence of all evolv­ing en­ergy sys­tems of per­son­al­ity dig­nity.

• nature of spirit › absolute of s. converges in Father

12:8.13The goal of ex­is­tence of all per­son­al­i­ties is spirit; ma­te­rial man­i­fes­ta­tions are rel­a­tive, and the cos­mic mind in­ter­venes be­tween these uni­ver­sal op­po­sites. The be­stowal of mind and the min­is­tra­tion of spirit are the work of the as­so­ciate per­sons of De­ity, the In­fi­nite Spirit and the Eter­nal Son. To­tal De­ity re­al­ity is not mind but spirit-mind—mind-spirit uni­fied by per­son­al­ity. Nev­er­the­less the ab­so­lutes of both the spirit and the thing con­verge in the per­son of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• nature of spirit › strives for dominance over matter in personality
• nature of spirit › unchanging

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.

12:8.15In cos­mic evo­lu­tion mat­ter be­comes a philo­sophic shadow cast by mind in the pres­ence of spirit lu­mi­nos­ity of di­vine en­light­en­ment, but this does not in­val­i­date the re­al­ity of mat­ter-en­ergy. Mind, mat­ter, and spirit are equally real, but they are not of equal value to per­son­al­ity in the at­tain­ment of di­vin­ity. Con­scious­ness of di­vin­ity is a pro­gres­sive spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence.

12:8.16The brighter the shin­ing of the spir­i­tu­al­ized per­son­al­ity (the Fa­ther in the uni­verse, the frag­ment of po­ten­tial spirit per­son­al­ity in the in­di­vid­ual crea­ture), the greater the shadow cast by the in­ter­ven­ing mind upon its ma­te­rial in­vest­ment. In time, man’s body is just as real as mind or spirit, but in death, both mind (iden­tity) and spirit sur­vive while the body does not. A cos­mic re­al­ity can be nonex­is­tent in per­son­al­ity ex­pe­ri­ence. And so your Greek fig­ure of speech—the ma­te­rial as the shadow of the more real spirit sub­stance—does have a philo­sophic sig­nif­i­cance.

• nature of spirit › fundamental reality of personality experience; goal of all personalities

12:9.1Spirit is the ba­sic per­sonal re­al­ity in the uni­verses, and per­son­al­ity is ba­sic to all pro­gress­ing ex­pe­ri­ence with spir­i­tual re­al­ity. Ev­ery phase of per­son­al­ity ex­pe­ri­ence on ev­ery suc­ces­sive level of uni­verse pro­gres­sion swarms with clues to the dis­cov­ery of al­lur­ing per­sonal re­al­i­ties. Man’s true des­tiny con­sists in the cre­ation of new and spirit goals and then in re­spond­ing to the cos­mic al­lure­ments of such su­per­nal goals of non­ma­te­rial value.

• nature of spirit
• nature of spirit › fundamental reality of personality experience; goal of all personalities

16:4.6Much of the re­al­ity of the spir­i­tual worlds is of the mor­ontia or­der, a phase of uni­verse re­al­ity wholly un­known on Uran­tia. The goal of per­son­al­ity ex­is­tence is spir­i­tual, but the mor­ontia cre­ations al­ways in­ter­vene, bridg­ing the gulf be­tween the ma­te­rial realms of mor­tal ori­gin and the super­uni­verse spheres of ad­vanc­ing spir­i­tual sta­tus. It is in this realm that the Mas­ter Spir­its make their great con­tri­bu­tion to the plan of man’s Par­a­dise as­cen­sion.

• spirit knowledge must be superconsciously received

19:5.9We know that the Trin­ity Teacher Sons are de­voted to the con­scious en­light­en­ment of uni­verse crea­tures. I have ar­rived at the set­tled con­clu­sion that the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, by super­con­scious tech­niques, are also func­tion­ing as teach­ers of the realms. I am per­suaded that there is a vast body of es­sen­tial spir­i­tual knowl­edge, truth in­dis­pens­able to high spir­i­tual at­tain­ment, which can­not be con­sciously re­ceived; self-con­scious­ness would ef­fec­tively jeop­ar­dize the cer­tainty of re­cep­tion. If we are right in this con­cept, and my en­tire or­der of be­ing shares it, it may be the mis­sion of these In­spired Spir­its to over­come this dif­fi­culty, to bridge this gap in the uni­ver­sal scheme of moral en­light­en­ment and spir­i­tual ad­vance­ment. We think that these two types of Trin­ity-ori­gin teach­ers ef­fect some kind of li­ai­son in their ac­tiv­i­ties, but we do not re­ally know.

• source of spirit › s. design is controlled by Trinity

21:2.8The con­trol of spirit de­signs and types de­pends on the level of their man­i­fes­ta­tion. In the last anal­y­sis, spir­i­tual de­sign is con­trolled by the Trin­ity or by the pre-Trin­ity spirit en­dow­ments of the Trin­ity per­son­al­i­ties—Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit.

• what cannot be spiritualized will eventually be disorganized

21:5.7The el­e­va­tion of a sev­en­fold be­stowal Son to the un­ques­tioned sov­er­eignty of his uni­verse means the be­gin­ning of the end of age­long un­cer­tainty and rel­a­tive con­fu­sion. Sub­se­quent to this event, that which can­not be some­time spir­i­tu­al­ized will even­tu­ally be dis­or­ga­nized; that which can­not be some­time co-or­di­nated with cos­mic re­al­ity will even­tu­ally be de­stroyed. When the pro­vi­sions of end­less mercy and name­less pa­tience have been ex­hausted in an ef­fort to win the loy­alty and de­vo­tion of the will crea­tures of the realms, jus­tice and righ­teous­ness will pre­vail. That which mercy can­not re­ha­bil­i­tate jus­tice will even­tu­ally an­ni­hi­late.

• spirit energy › controlled by Universe Circuit Supervisors

24:1.1The vast power cur­rents of space and the cir­cuits of spirit en­ergy may seem to op­er­ate au­to­mat­i­cally; they may ap­pear to func­tion with­out let or hin­drance, but such is not the case. All these stu­pen­dous sys­tems of en­ergy are un­der con­trol; they are sub­ject to in­tel­li­gent super­vi­sion. Uni­verse Cir­cuit Super­vi­sors are con­cerned, not with the realms of purely phys­i­cal or ma­te­rial en­ergy—the do­main of the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors—but with the cir­cuits of rel­a­tive spir­i­tual en­ergy and with those mod­i­fied cir­cuits which are es­sen­tial to the main­te­nance of both the highly de­vel­oped spir­i­tual be­ings and the mor­ontia or tran­si­tion type of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures. The super­vi­sors do not give ori­gin to cir­cuits of en­ergy and super­es­sence of di­vin­ity, but in gen­eral they have to do with all higher spirit cir­cuits of time and eter­nity and with all rel­a­tive spirit cir­cuits con­cerned in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the com­po­nent parts of the grand uni­verse. They di­rect and ma­nip­u­late all such spirit-en­ergy cir­cuits out­side the Isle of Par­a­dise.

• nature of spirit › strives for dominance over matter in personality

25:1.4In per­son­al­ity re­la­tion­ships the spir­i­tual is dom­i­nant over the ma­te­rial, even though it does not now so ap­pear on Uran­tia; and in the pro­duc­tion of Ha­vona Servi­tals the law of spirit dom­i­nance pre­vails; the es­tab­lished ra­tio yields three spir­i­tual be­ings to one semi­phys­i­cal.

• nature of spirit › s. polarity requires certain angels to work in complemental pairs

26:1.16Super­na­phim are lim­ited in “spirit po­lar­ity” re­gard­ing only one phase of ac­tion, that with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. They can work singly ex­cept when di­rectly em­ploy­ing the ex­clu­sive cir­cuits of the Fa­ther. When they are in power re­cep­tion on the Fa­ther’s di­rect min­istry, super­na­phim must vol­un­tar­ily as­so­ciate in pairs to be able to func­tion. Se­con­a­phim are like­wise lim­ited and in ad­di­tion must work in pairs in or­der to syn­chro­nize with the cir­cuits of the Eter­nal Son. Ser­a­phim can work singly as dis­crete and lo­cal­ized per­son­al­i­ties, but they are able to en­cir­cuit only when po­lar­ized as li­ai­son pairs. When such spirit be­ings are as­so­ci­ated as pairs, the one is spo­ken of as com­ple­men­tal to the other. Com­ple­men­tal re­la­tion­ships may be tran­sient; they are not nec­es­sar­ily of a per­ma­nent na­ture.

• spirit energy › of primary circuits sustains angels

26:1.17These bril­liant crea­tures of light are sus­tained di­rectly by the in­take of the spir­i­tual en­ergy of the pri­mary cir­cuits of the uni­verse. Uran­tia mor­tals must ob­tain light-en­ergy through the veg­e­ta­tive in­car­na­tion, but the an­gelic hosts are en­cir­cuited; they “have food that you know not.” They also par­take of the cir­cu­lat­ing teach­ings of the mar­velous Trin­ity Teacher Sons; they have a re­cep­tion of knowl­edge and an in­take of wis­dom much re­sem­bling their tech­nique of as­sim­i­lat­ing the life en­er­gies.

• in man › spirits of Gods indwell and hover over us

27:7.5All the arts of all the be­ings of the en­tire uni­verse which are ca­pa­ble of in­ten­si­fy­ing and ex­alt­ing the abil­i­ties of self-ex­pres­sion and the con­veyance of ap­pre­ci­a­tion, are em­ployed to their high­est ca­pac­ity in the wor­ship of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. Wor­ship is the high­est joy of Par­a­dise ex­is­tence; it is the re­fresh­ing play of Par­a­dise. What play does for your jaded minds on earth, wor­ship will do for your per­fected souls on Par­a­dise. The mode of wor­ship on Par­a­dise is ut­terly be­yond mor­tal com­pre­hen­sion, but the spirit of it you can be­gin to ap­pre­ci­ate even down here on Uran­tia, for the spir­its of the Gods even now in­dwell you, hover over you, and in­spire you to true wor­ship.

34:6.1With the ad­vanc­ing evo­lu­tion of an in­hab­ited planet and the fur­ther spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion of its in­hab­i­tants, ad­di­tional spir­i­tual in­flu­ences may be re­ceived by such ma­ture per­son­al­i­ties. As mor­tals pro­gress in mind con­trol and spirit per­cep­tion, these mul­ti­ple spirit min­istries be­come more and more co-or­di­nate in func­tion; they be­come in­creas­ingly blended with the over­min­istry of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

• in man › s. bears witness with our s. that we are children of God
• nature of spirit › all s. forces are one in function, as one in the Supreme

34:6.2Al­though Di­vin­ity may be plu­ral in man­i­fes­ta­tion, in hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence De­ity is sin­gu­lar, al­ways one. Nei­ther is spir­i­tual min­istry plu­ral in hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence. Re­gard­less of plu­ral­ity of ori­gin, all spirit in­flu­ences are one in func­tion. In­deed they are one, be­ing the spirit min­istry of God the Sev­en­fold in and to the crea­tures of the grand uni­verse; and as crea­tures grow in ap­pre­ci­a­tion of, and re­cep­tiv­ity for, this uni­fy­ing min­istry of the spirit, it be­comes in their ex­pe­ri­ence the min­istry of God the Su­preme.

34:6.3From the heights of eter­nal glory the di­vine Spirit de­scends, by a long se­ries of steps, to meet you as you are and where you are and then, in the part­ner­ship of faith, lov­ingly to em­brace the soul of mor­tal ori­gin and to em­bark on the sure and cer­tain re­trace­ment of those steps of con­de­scen­sion, never stop­ping un­til the evo­lu­tion­ary soul is safely ex­alted to the very heights of bliss from which the di­vine Spirit orig­i­nally sal­lied forth on this mis­sion of mercy and min­istry.

• nature of spirit › unerringly seeks and attains original levels

34:6.4Spir­i­tual forces unerringly seek and at­tain their own orig­i­nal lev­els. Hav­ing gone out from the Eter­nal, they are cer­tain to re­turn thereto, bring­ing with them all those chil­dren of time and space who have es­poused the lead­ing and teach­ing of the in­dwelling Ad­juster, those who have been truly “born of the Spirit,” the faith sons of God.

• nature of spirit › quickens, gives life
• spirit energy › use results in exhaustion; must be replenished

34:6.5The di­vine Spirit is the source of con­tin­ual min­istry and en­cour­age­ment to the chil­dren of men. Your power and achieve­ment is “ac­cord­ing to his mercy, through the re­new­ing of the Spirit.” Spir­i­tual life, like phys­i­cal en­ergy, is con­sumed. Spir­i­tual ef­fort re­sults in rel­a­tive spir­i­tual ex­haus­tion. The whole as­cen­dant ex­pe­ri­ence is real as well as spir­i­tual; there­fore, it is truly writ­ten, “It is the Spirit that quick­ens.” “The Spirit gives life.”

34:6.6The dead the­ory of even the high­est re­li­gious doc­trines is pow­er­less to trans­form hu­man char­ac­ter or to con­trol mor­tal be­hav­ior. What the world of to­day needs is the truth which your teacher of old de­clared: “Not in word only but also in power and in the Holy Spirit.” The seed of the­o­ret­i­cal truth is dead, the high­est moral con­cepts with­out ef­fect, un­less and un­til the di­vine Spirit breathes upon the forms of truth and quick­ens the for­mu­las of righ­teous­ness.

34:6.7Those who have re­ceived and rec­og­nized the in­dwelling of God have been born of the Spirit. “You are the tem­ple of God, and the spirit of God dwells in you.” It is not enough that this spirit be poured out upon you; the di­vine Spirit must dom­i­nate and con­trol ev­ery phase of hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence.

34:6.8It is the pres­ence of the di­vine Spirit, the wa­ter of life, that pre­vents the con­sum­ing thirst of mor­tal dis­con­tent and that in­de­scrib­able hunger of the un­spir­i­tu­al­ized hu­man mind. Spirit-mo­ti­vated be­ings “never thirst, for this spir­i­tual wa­ter shall be in them a well of sat­is­fac­tion spring­ing up into life ev­er­last­ing.” Such di­vinely wa­tered souls are all but in­de­pen­dent of ma­te­rial en­vi­ron­ment as re­gards the joys of liv­ing and the sat­is­fac­tions of earthly ex­is­tence. They are spir­i­tu­ally il­lu­mi­nated and re­freshed, morally strength­ened and en­dowed.

• in man › conspiracy of s. forces deliver us from matter

34:6.9In ev­ery mor­tal there ex­ists a dual na­ture: the in­her­i­tance of an­i­mal ten­den­cies and the high urge of spirit en­dow­ment. Dur­ing the short life you live on Uran­tia, these two di­verse and op­pos­ing urges can sel­dom be fully rec­on­ciled; they can hardly be har­mo­nized and uni­fied; but through­out your life­time the com­bined Spirit ever min­is­ters to as­sist you in sub­ject­ing the flesh more and more to the lead­ing of the Spirit. Even though you must live your ma­te­rial life through, even though you can­not es­cape the body and its ne­ces­si­ties, nonethe­less, in pur­pose and ide­als you are em­pow­ered in­creas­ingly to sub­ject the an­i­mal na­ture to the mas­tery of the Spirit. There truly ex­ists within you a con­spir­acy of spir­i­tual forces, a con­fed­er­a­tion of di­vine pow­ers, whose ex­clu­sive pur­pose is to ef­fect your fi­nal de­liv­er­ance from ma­te­rial bond­age and fi­nite hand­i­caps.

34:6.10The pur­pose of all this min­is­tra­tion is, “That you may be strength­ened with power through His spirit in the in­ner man.” And all this rep­re­sents but the pre­lim­i­nary steps to the fi­nal at­tain­ment of the per­fec­tion of faith and ser­vice, that ex­pe­ri­ence wherein you shall be “filled with all the full­ness of God,” “for all those who are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God.”

• nature of spirit › never drives, only leads

34:6.11The Spirit never drives, only leads. If you are a will­ing learner, if you want to at­tain spirit lev­els and reach di­vine heights, if you sin­cerely de­sire to reach the eter­nal goal, then the di­vine Spirit will gen­tly and lov­ingly lead you along the path­way of son­ship and spir­i­tual prog­ress. Ev­ery step you take must be one of will­ing­ness, in­tel­li­gent and cheer­ful co-op­er­a­tion. The dom­i­na­tion of the Spirit is never tainted with co­er­cion nor com­pro­mised by com­pul­sion.

34:6.12And when such a life of spirit guid­ance is freely and in­tel­li­gently ac­cepted, there grad­u­ally de­vel­ops within the hu­man mind a pos­i­tive con­scious­ness of di­vine con­tact and as­sur­ance of spirit com­mu­nion; sooner or later “the Spirit bears wit­ness with your spirit (the Ad­juster) that you are a child of God.” Al­ready has your own Thought Ad­juster told you of your kin­ship to God so that the rec­ord tes­ti­fies that the Spirit bears wit­ness “with your spirit,” not to your spirit.

34:6.13The con­scious­ness of the spirit dom­i­na­tion of a hu­man life is pres­ently at­tended by an in­creas­ing ex­hi­bi­tion of the char­ac­ter­is­tics of the Spirit in the life re­ac­tions of such a spirit-led mor­tal, “for the fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, long-suf­fer­ing, gen­tle­ness, good­ness, faith, meek­ness, and tem­per­ance.” Such spirit-guided and di­vinely il­lu­mi­nated mor­tals, while they yet tread the lowly paths of toil and in hu­man faith­ful­ness per­form the du­ties of their earthly as­sign­ments, have al­ready be­gun to dis­cern the lights of eter­nal life as they glim­mer on the far­away shores of an­other world; al­ready have they be­gun to com­pre­hend the re­al­ity of that in­spir­ing and com­fort­ing truth, “The king­dom of God is not meat and drink but righ­teous­ness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.” And through­out ev­ery trial and in the pres­ence of ev­ery hard­ship, spirit-born souls are sus­tained by that hope which tran­scends all fear be­cause the love of God is shed abroad in all hearts by the pres­ence of the di­vine Spirit.

34:7.1The flesh, the in­her­ent na­ture de­rived from the an­i­mal-ori­gin races, does not nat­u­rally bear the fruits of the di­vine Spirit. When the mor­tal na­ture has been up­stepped by the ad­di­tion of the na­ture of the Ma­te­rial Sons of God, as the Uran­tia races were in a mea­sure ad­vanced by the be­stowal of Adam, then is the way bet­ter pre­pared for the Spirit of Truth to co-op­er­ate with the in­dwelling Ad­juster to bring forth the beau­ti­ful har­vest of the char­ac­ter fruits of the spirit. If you do not re­ject this spirit, even though eter­nity may be re­quired to ful­fill the com­mis­sion, “he will guide you into all truth.”

34:7.2Evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals in­hab­it­ing nor­mal worlds of spir­i­tual prog­ress do not ex­pe­ri­ence the acute con­flicts be­tween the spirit and the flesh which char­ac­ter­ize the pres­ent-day Uran­tia races. But even on the most ideal plan­ets, pre-Adamic man must put forth pos­i­tive ef­forts to as­cend from the purely an­i­mal­is­tic plane of ex­is­tence up through suc­ces­sive lev­els of in­creas­ingly in­tel­lec­tual mean­ings and higher spir­i­tual val­ues.

34:7.3The mor­tals of a nor­mal world do not ex­pe­ri­ence con­stant war­fare be­tween their phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual na­tures. They are con­fronted with the ne­ces­sity of climb­ing up from the an­i­mal lev­els of ex­is­tence to the higher planes of spir­i­tual liv­ing, but this as­cent is more like un­der­go­ing an ed­u­ca­tional train­ing when com­pared with the in­tense con­flicts of Uran­tia mor­tals in this realm of the di­ver­gent ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual na­tures.

34:7.4The Uran­tia peo­ples are suf­fer­ing the con­se­quences of a dou­ble de­pri­va­tion of help in this task of pro­gres­sive plan­e­tary spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. The Cali­gas­tia up­heaval pre­cip­i­tated world-wide con­fu­sion and robbed all sub­se­quent gen­er­a­tions of the moral as­sis­tance which a well-or­dered so­ci­ety would have pro­vided. But even more dis­as­trous was the Adamic de­fault in that it de­prived the races of that su­pe­rior type of phys­i­cal na­ture which would have been more con­so­nant with spir­i­tual as­pi­ra­tions.

34:7.5Uran­tia mor­tals are com­pelled to un­dergo such marked strug­gling be­tween the spirit and the flesh be­cause their re­mote an­ces­tors were not more fully Adamized by the Edenic be­stowal. It was the di­vine plan that the mor­tal races of Uran­tia should have had phys­i­cal na­tures more nat­u­rally spirit re­spon­sive.

34:7.6Not­with­stand­ing this dou­ble dis­as­ter to man’s na­ture and his en­vi­ron­ment, pres­ent-day mor­tals would ex­pe­ri­ence less of this ap­par­ent war­fare be­tween the flesh and the spirit if they would en­ter the spirit king­dom, wherein the faith sons of God en­joy com­par­a­tive de­liv­er­ance from the slave-bond­age of the flesh in the en­light­ened and lib­er­at­ing ser­vice of whole­hearted de­vo­tion to do­ing the will of the Fa­ther in heaven. Je­sus showed man­kind the new way of mor­tal liv­ing whereby hu­man be­ings may very largely es­cape the dire con­se­quences of the Cali­gas­tic re­bel­lion and most ef­fec­tively com­pen­sate for the de­pri­va­tions re­sult­ing from the Adamic de­fault. “The spirit of the life of Christ Je­sus has made us free from the law of an­i­mal liv­ing and the temp­ta­tions of evil and sin.” “This is the vic­tory that over­comes the flesh, even your faith.”

34:7.7Those God-know­ing men and women who have been born of the Spirit ex­pe­ri­ence no more con­flict with their mor­tal na­tures than do the in­hab­i­tants of the most nor­mal of worlds, plan­ets which have never been tainted with sin nor touched by re­bel­lion. Faith sons work on in­tel­lec­tual lev­els and live on spir­i­tual planes far above the con­flicts pro­duced by un­re­strained or un­nat­u­ral phys­i­cal de­sires. The nor­mal urges of an­i­mal be­ings and the nat­u­ral ap­petites and im­pulses of the phys­i­cal na­ture are not in con­flict with even the high­est spir­i­tual at­tain­ment ex­cept in the minds of ig­no­rant, mis­taught, or un­for­tu­nately over­con­sci­en­tious per­sons.

34:7.8Hav­ing started out on the way of life ev­er­last­ing, hav­ing ac­cepted the as­sign­ment and re­ceived your or­ders to ad­vance, do not fear the dan­gers of hu­man for­get­ful­ness and mor­tal in­con­stancy, do not be trou­bled with doubts of fail­ure or by per­plex­ing con­fu­sion, do not fal­ter and ques­tion your sta­tus and stand­ing, for in ev­ery dark hour, at ev­ery cross­road in the for­ward strug­gle, the Spirit of Truth will al­ways speak, say­ing, “This is the way.”

34:7.9[Pre­sented by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily as­signed to ser­vice on Uran­tia.]

• source of spirit › s. takes origin only from s.

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.

• nature of spirit › beyond understanding of human minds

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.

• in man › s. dominance essential to personality unity and survival

40:5.4Spirit iden­ti­fi­ca­tion con­sti­tutes the se­cret of per­sonal sur­vival and de­ter­mines the des­tiny of spir­i­tual as­cen­sion. And since the Thought Ad­justers are the only spir­its of fu­sion po­ten­tial to be iden­ti­fied with man dur­ing the life in the flesh, the mor­tals of time and space are pri­mar­ily clas­si­fied in ac­cor­dance with their re­la­tion to these di­vine gifts, the in­dwelling Mys­tery Mon­i­tors. This clas­si­fi­ca­tion is as fol­lows:

• nature of spirit › essence of life

42:1.1The foun­da­tion of the uni­verse is ma­te­rial, but the essence of life is spirit. The Fa­ther of spir­its is also the an­ces­tor of uni­verses; the eter­nal Fa­ther of the Orig­i­nal Son is also the eter­nity-source of the orig­i­nal pat­tern, the Isle of Par­a­dise.

• nature of spirit › s. personality forms highly individual

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.

• in man › grasps eternal meanings in insignificant activities

43:8.106. Ad­just all of these var­i­ous so­cial­iza­tion tech­niques to the fur­ther­ance of the pro­gres­sive co-or­di­na­tion of the Par­a­dise-as­cen­sion ca­reer; aug­ment uni­verse in­sight by en­hanc­ing the abil­ity to grasp the eter­nal goal-mean­ings con­cealed within these seem­ingly in­signif­i­cant time-space ac­tiv­i­ties.

• nature of spirit › strives for dominance over matter in personality

44:0.15All these ac­tiv­i­ties of the mor­ontia and spirit worlds are real. To spirit be­ings the spirit world is a re­al­ity. To us the ma­te­rial world is the more un­real. The higher forms of spir­its freely pass through or­di­nary mat­ter. High spir­its are re­ac­tive to noth­ing ma­te­rial ex­cept­ing cer­tain of the ba­sic en­er­gies. To ma­te­rial be­ings the spirit world is more or less un­real; to spirit be­ings the ma­te­rial world is al­most en­tirely un­real, be­ing merely a shadow of the sub­stance of spirit re­al­i­ties.

44:0.16I can­not, with ex­clu­sive spirit vi­sion, per­ceive the build­ing in which this nar­ra­tive is be­ing trans­lated and re­corded. A Di­vine Coun­selor from Uversa who chances to stand by my side per­ceives still less of these purely ma­te­rial cre­ations. We dis­cern how these ma­te­rial struc­tures ap­pear to you by view­ing a spirit coun­ter­part pre­sented to our minds by one of our at­tend­ing en­ergy trans­form­ers. This ma­te­rial build­ing is not ex­actly real to me, a spirit be­ing, but it is, of course, very real and very ser­vice­able to ma­te­rial mor­tals.

• spirit energy › melody produced by management of 7 s. forces

44:1.53. En­ergy im­pinge­ments—mel­ody pro­duced by the skill­ful man­age­ment of the mor­ontia and spirit en­er­gies.

• spirit energy › acts in accordance with established laws

44:5.43. Spir­i­tual-en­ergy ma­nip­u­la­tors. The ma­nip­u­la­tors of spir­i­tual en­ergy are an in­trigu­ing group. Spir­i­tual en­ergy acts in ac­cor­dance with es­tab­lished laws, just as does phys­i­cal en­ergy. That is, spirit force, when stud­ied, yields de­pend­able de­duc­tions and can be pre­cisely dealt with, even as can the phys­i­cal en­er­gies. There are just as cer­tain and re­li­able laws in the spirit world as ob­tain in the ma­te­rial realms. Dur­ing the last few mil­lions of years many im­proved tech­niques for the in­take of spir­i­tual en­ergy have been ef­fected by these stu­dents of the fun­da­men­tal laws of the Eter­nal Son gov­ern­ing spirit en­ergy as ap­plied to the mor­ontia and other or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings through­out the uni­verses.

• spirit energy › use results in exhaustion; must be replenished

44:5.87. The teach­ers of rest. Di­vine rest is as­so­ci­ated with the tech­nique of spir­i­tual-en­ergy in­take. Mor­ontia and spirit en­ergy must be re­plen­ished just as cer­tainly as phys­i­cal en­ergy, but not for the same rea­sons. I am, per­force, com­pelled to em­ploy crude il­lus­tra­tions in my at­tempts to en­lighten you; nev­er­the­less, we of the spirit world must stop our reg­u­lar ac­tiv­i­ties pe­ri­od­i­cally and be­take our­selves to suit­able places of ren­dezvous where we en­ter the di­vine rest and thus re­cu­per­ate our de­plet­ing en­er­gies.

44:5.9You will re­ceive your first lessons in these mat­ters when you reach the man­sion worlds af­ter you have be­come mor­ontia be­ings and have be­gun to ex­pe­ri­ence the tech­nique of spirit af­fairs. You know of the in­ner­most cir­cle of Ha­vona and that, af­ter the pil­grims of space have tra­versed the pre­ced­ing cir­cles, they must be in­ducted into the long and re­viv­i­fy­ing rest of Par­a­dise. This is not only a tech­ni­cal re­quire­ment of tran­sit from the ca­reer of time to the ser­vice of eter­nity, but it is also a ne­ces­sity, a form of rest re­quired to re­plen­ish the en­ergy losses in­ci­dent to the fi­nal steps of the as­cen­dant ex­pe­ri­ence and to store re­serves of spirit power for the next stage of the end­less ca­reer.

44:5.10These en­ergy ma­nip­u­la­tors also func­tion in hun­dreds of other ways too nu­mer­ous to cat­a­logue, such as coun­sel­ing with the ser­a­phim, cheru­bim, and sa­no­bim re­gard­ing the most ef­fi­cient modes of en­ergy in­take and as to the main­te­nance of the most help­ful bal­ances of di­ver­gent forces be­tween ac­tive cheru­bim and pas­sive sa­no­bim. In many other ways do these ex­perts lend as­sis­tance to mor­ontia and spirit crea­tures in their ef­forts to un­der­stand the di­vine rest, which is so es­sen­tial to the ef­fec­tive uti­liza­tion of the ba­sic en­er­gies of space.

• in man › only moral beings seek for spiritual insight

52:6.53. Eth­i­cal awak­en­ing. Only eth­i­cal con­scious­ness can un­mask the im­moral­ity of hu­man in­tol­er­ance and the sin­ful­ness of frat­ri­ci­dal strife. Only a moral con­science can con­demn the evils of na­tional envy and racial jeal­ousy. Only moral be­ings will ever seek for that spir­i­tual in­sight which is es­sen­tial to liv­ing the golden rule.

• nature of spirit › in pure form, s. is preresponsive to gravity

56:1.3Grav­ity uni­fi­ca­tion is uni­ver­sal and un­vary­ing; pure-en­ergy re­sponse is like­wise uni­ver­sal and in­es­cap­able. Pure en­ergy (pri­mor­dial force) and pure spirit are wholly pre­re­spon­sive to grav­ity. These pri­mal forces, in­her­ing in the Ab­so­lutes, are per­son­ally con­trolled by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; hence does all grav­ity cen­ter in the per­sonal pres­ence of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther of pure en­ergy and pure spirit and in his super­ma­te­rial abode.

• nature of spirit › absolute of s. converges in Father

56:1.4Pure en­ergy is the an­ces­tor of all rel­a­tive, non­spirit func­tional re­al­i­ties, while pure spirit is the po­ten­tial of the di­vine and di­rec­tive over­con­trol of all ba­sic en­ergy sys­tems. And these re­al­i­ties, so di­verse as man­i­fested through­out space and as ob­served in the mo­tions of time, are both cen­tered in the per­son of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. In him they are one—must be uni­fied—be­cause God is one. The Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity is ab­so­lutely uni­fied.

• ministry unified in Creator Sons and Mother Spirits

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.

• in man › man’s threefold endowment of Adjuster, Spirit of Truth, and Holy Spirit
• nature of spirit › originates from one source in threefold expression

56:3.6Spirit must al­ways and ul­ti­mately be­come three­fold in ex­pres­sion and Trin­ity-uni­fied in fi­nal re­al­iza­tion. Spirit orig­i­nates from one source through a three­fold ex­pres­sion; and in fi­nal­ity it must and does at­tain its full re­al­iza­tion in that di­vine uni­fi­ca­tion which is ex­pe­ri­enced in find­ing God—one­ness with di­vin­ity—in eter­nity, and by means of the min­istry of the cos­mic mind of the in­fi­nite ex­pres­sion of the eter­nal word of the Fa­ther’s uni­ver­sal thought.

• in man › transitions of s. co-operation always gradual

65:7.7The ad­ju­tants func­tion ex­clu­sively in the evo­lu­tion of ex­pe­ri­enc­ing mind up to the level of the sixth phase, the spirit of wor­ship. At this level there oc­curs that in­ev­i­ta­ble over­lap­ping of min­istry—the phe­nom­e­non of the higher reach­ing down to co-or­di­nate with the lower in an­tic­i­pa­tion of sub­se­quent at­tain­ment of ad­vanced lev­els of de­vel­op­ment. And still ad­di­tional spirit min­istry ac­com­pa­nies the ac­tion of the sev­enth and last ad­ju­tant, the spirit of wis­dom. Through­out the min­istry of the spirit world the in­di­vid­ual never ex­pe­ri­ences abrupt tran­si­tions of spirit co-op­er­a­tion; al­ways are these changes grad­ual and re­cip­ro­cal.

• nature of spirit › always intelligent, minded

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.

• in man › s. influences operating on Urantia, listed

92:0.21. The ad­ju­tant of wor­ship—the ap­pear­ance in an­i­mal con­scious­ness of super­an­i­mal po­ten­tials for re­al­ity per­cep­tion. This might be termed the pri­mor­dial hu­man in­stinct for De­ity.

92:0.32. The ad­ju­tant of wis­dom—the man­i­fes­ta­tion in a wor­ship­ful mind of the ten­dency to di­rect its ado­ra­tion in higher chan­nels of ex­pres­sion and to­ward ever-ex­pand­ing con­cepts of De­ity re­al­ity.

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

92:0.5The co-or­di­nate func­tion­ing of these three di­vine min­is­tra­tions is quite suf­fi­cient to ini­ti­ate and pros­e­cute the growth of evo­lu­tion­ary re­li­gion. These in­flu­ences are later aug­mented by Thought Ad­justers, ser­a­phim, and the Spirit of Truth, all of which ac­cel­er­ate the rate of re­li­gious de­vel­op­ment. These agen­cies have long func­tioned on Uran­tia, and they will con­tinue here as long as this planet re­mains an in­hab­ited sphere. Much of the po­ten­tial of these di­vine agen­cies has never yet had op­por­tu­nity for ex­pres­sion; much will be re­vealed in the ages to come as mor­tal re­li­gion as­cends, level by level, to­ward the su­per­nal heights of mor­ontia value and spirit truth.

• in man › inner spiritual communion

101:1.3The di­vine spirit makes con­tact with mor­tal man, not by feel­ings or emo­tions, but in the realm of the high­est and most spir­i­tu­al­ized think­ing. It is your thoughts, not your feel­ings, that lead you God­ward. The di­vine na­ture may be per­ceived only with the eyes of the mind. But the mind that re­ally dis­cerns God, hears the in­dwelling Ad­juster, is the pure mind. “With­out ho­li­ness no man may see the Lord.” All such in­ner and spir­i­tual com­mu­nion is termed spir­i­tual in­sight. Such re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ences re­sult from the im­press made upon the mind of man by the com­bined op­er­a­tions of the Ad­juster and the Spirit of Truth as they func­tion amid and upon the ideas, ide­als, in­sights, and spirit striv­ings of the evolv­ing sons of God.

• nature of spirit › faculty of human personality

101:1.5While re­li­gion is not the prod­uct of the ra­tio­nal­is­tic spec­u­la­tions of a ma­te­rial cos­mol­ogy, it is, nonethe­less, the cre­ation of a wholly ra­tio­nal in­sight which orig­i­nates in man’s mind-ex­pe­ri­ence. Re­li­gion is born nei­ther of mys­tic med­i­ta­tions nor of iso­lated con­tem­pla­tions, al­beit it is ever more or less mys­te­ri­ous and al­ways in­de­fin­able and in­ex­pli­ca­ble in terms of purely in­tel­lec­tual rea­son and philo­sophic logic. The germs of true re­li­gion orig­i­nate in the do­main of man’s moral con­scious­ness, and they are re­vealed in the growth of man’s spir­i­tual in­sight, that fac­ulty of hu­man per­son­al­ity which ac­crues as a con­se­quence of the pres­ence of the God-re­veal­ing Thought Ad­juster in the God-hun­gry mor­tal mind.

• in man › impresses men that they ought to believe in God

101:1.7Thus it may be seen that re­li­gious long­ings and spir­i­tual urges are not of such a na­ture as would merely lead men to want to be­lieve in God, but rather are they of such na­ture and power that men are pro­foundly im­pressed with the con­vic­tion that they ought to be­lieve in God. The sense of evo­lu­tion­ary duty and the obli­ga­tions con­se­quent upon the il­lu­mi­na­tion of rev­e­la­tion make such a pro­found im­pres­sion upon man’s moral na­ture that he fi­nally reaches that po­si­tion of mind and that at­ti­tude of soul where he con­cludes that he has no right not to be­lieve in God. The higher and super­phil­o­sophic wis­dom of such en­light­ened and dis­ci­plined in­di­vid­u­als ul­ti­mately in­structs them that to doubt God or dis­trust his good­ness would be to prove un­true to the realest and deep­est thing within the hu­man mind and soul—the di­vine Ad­juster.

• in man › s. bears witness with our s. that we are children of God

101:2.13True re­li­gion is an in­sight into re­al­ity, the faith-child of the moral con­scious­ness, and not a mere in­tel­lec­tual as­sent to any body of dog­matic doc­trines. True re­li­gion con­sists in the ex­pe­ri­ence that “the Spirit it­self bears wit­ness with our spirit that we are the chil­dren of God.” Re­li­gion con­sists not in the­o­logic propo­si­tions but in spir­i­tual in­sight and the sub­lim­ity of the soul’s trust.

• source of spirit › s. philosophy is endowment of Spirit of Truth
• source of spirit › s. reason is endowment of Holy Spirit

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

• in man › Adjusters constantly communicate with human subjects

101:4.3Truth is al­ways a rev­e­la­tion: au­torev­e­la­tion when it emerges as a re­sult of the work of the in­dwelling Ad­juster; ep­ochal rev­e­la­tion when it is pre­sented by the func­tion of some other ce­les­tial agency, group, or per­son­al­ity.

• in man › seeks truth of living

101:9.5The en­light­ened spir­i­tual con­scious­ness of civ­i­lized man is not con­cerned so much with some spe­cific in­tel­lec­tual be­lief or with any one par­tic­u­lar mode of liv­ing as with dis­cov­er­ing the truth of liv­ing, the good and right tech­nique of re­act­ing to the ever-re­cur­ring sit­u­a­tions of mor­tal ex­is­tence. Moral con­scious­ness is just a name ap­plied to the hu­man rec­og­ni­tion and aware­ness of those eth­i­cal and emerg­ing mor­ontial val­ues which duty de­mands that man shall abide by in the day-by-day con­trol and guid­ance of con­duct.

• source of spirit › genesis, manifestation, and destiny in 3rd triunity

104:4.20From spirit po­tency to Par­a­dise spirit, all spirit finds re­al­ity ex­pres­sion in this tri­une as­so­ci­a­tion of the pure spirit essence of the Fa­ther, the ac­tive spirit val­ues of the Son-Spirit, and the un­lim­ited spirit po­ten­tials of the De­ity Ab­so­lute. The ex­is­ten­tial val­ues of spirit have their pri­mor­dial gen­e­sis, com­plete man­i­fes­ta­tion, and fi­nal des­tiny in this tri­unity.

• in man › Adjusters constantly communicate with human subjects

108:6.7The Ad­justers are the eter­nal an­ces­tors, the di­vine orig­i­nals, of your evolv­ing im­mor­tal souls; they are the un­ceas­ing urge that leads man to at­tempt the mas­tery of the ma­te­rial and pres­ent ex­is­tence in the light of the spir­i­tual and fu­ture ca­reer. The Mon­i­tors are the pris­on­ers of undy­ing hope, the founts of ev­er­last­ing pro­gres­sion. And how they do en­joy com­mu­ni­cat­ing with their sub­jects in more or less di­rect chan­nels! How they re­joice when they can dis­pense with sym­bols and other meth­ods of in­di­rec­tion and flash their mes­sages straight to the in­tel­lects of their hu­man part­ners!

• in man › Adjusters constantly communicate with human subjects

110:1.1Ad­justers should not be thought of as liv­ing in the ma­te­rial brains of hu­man be­ings. They are not or­ganic parts of the phys­i­cal crea­tures of the realms. The Thought Ad­juster may more prop­erly be en­vis­aged as in­dwelling the mor­tal mind of man rather than as ex­ist­ing within the con­fines of a sin­gle phys­i­cal or­gan. And in­di­rectly and un­rec­og­nized the Ad­juster is con­stantly com­mu­ni­cat­ing with the hu­man sub­ject, es­pe­cially dur­ing those sub­lime ex­pe­ri­ences of the wor­ship­ful con­tact of mind with spirit in the super­con­scious­ness.

• in man › blunder to exalt reaction of mind to divine dignity

110:5.5It is ex­tremely dan­ger­ous to pos­tu­late as to the Ad­juster con­tent of the dream life. The Ad­justers do work dur­ing sleep, but your or­di­nary dream ex­pe­ri­ences are purely phys­i­o­logic and psy­cho­logic phe­nom­ena. Like­wise, it is haz­ardous to at­tempt the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of the Ad­justers’ con­cept reg­istry from the more or less con­tin­u­ous and con­scious re­cep­tion of the dic­ta­tions of mor­tal con­science. These are prob­lems which will have to be solved through in­di­vid­ual dis­crim­i­na­tion and per­sonal de­ci­sion. But a hu­man be­ing would do bet­ter to err in re­ject­ing an Ad­juster’s ex­pres­sion through be­liev­ing it to be a purely hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence than to blun­der into ex­alt­ing a re­ac­tion of the mor­tal mind to the sphere of di­vine dig­nity. Re­mem­ber, the in­flu­ence of a Thought Ad­juster is for the most part, though not wholly, a super­con­scious ex­pe­ri­ence.

• in man › Adjuster can speak directly and immediately with 1st psychic circler

110:6.15The first cir­cle. The Ad­juster can­not, or­di­nar­ily, speak di­rectly and im­me­di­ately with you un­til you at­tain the first and fi­nal cir­cle of pro­gres­sive mor­tal achieve­ment. This level rep­re­sents the high­est pos­si­ble re­al­iza­tion of mind-Ad­juster re­la­tion­ship in the hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence prior to the lib­er­a­tion of the evolv­ing mor­ontia soul from the ha­bil­i­ments of the ma­te­rial body. Con­cern­ing mind, emo­tions, and cos­mic in­sight, this achieve­ment of the first psy­chic cir­cle is the near­est pos­si­ble ap­proach of ma­te­rial mind and spirit Ad­juster in hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence.

• mind does not have to be added to s.

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.)

116:6.1In the evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses en­ergy-mat­ter is dom­i­nant ex­cept in per­son­al­ity, where spirit through the me­di­a­tion of mind is strug­gling for the mas­tery. The goal of the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses is the sub­ju­ga­tion of en­ergy-mat­ter by mind, the co-or­di­na­tion of mind with spirit, and all of this by virtue of the cre­ative and uni­fy­ing pres­ence of per­son­al­ity. Thus, in re­la­tion to per­son­al­ity, do phys­i­cal sys­tems be­come sub­or­di­nate; mind sys­tems, co-or­di­nate; and spirit sys­tems, di­rec­tive.

116:6.2This union of power and per­son­al­ity is ex­pres­sive on de­ity lev­els in and as the Su­preme. But the ac­tual evo­lu­tion of spirit dom­i­nance is a growth which is pred­i­cated on the free­will acts of the Cre­ators and crea­tures of the grand uni­verse.

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.

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.

116:6.5There is an in­ter­de­pen­dence of all forces and per­son­al­i­ties through­out the uni­verse of uni­verses. Cre­ator Sons and Cre­ative Spir­its de­pend on the co-op­er­a­tive func­tion of the power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers in the or­ga­ni­za­tion of uni­verses; the Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors are in­com­plete with­out the over­con­trol of the Mas­ter Spir­its. In a hu­man be­ing the mech­a­nism of phys­i­cal life is re­spon­sive, in part, to the dic­tates of (per­sonal) mind. This very mind may, in turn, be­come dom­i­nated by the lead­ings of pur­po­sive spirit, and the re­sult of such evo­lu­tion­ary de­vel­op­ment is the pro­duc­tion of a new child of the Su­preme, a new per­sonal uni­fi­ca­tion of the sev­eral kinds of cos­mic re­al­ity.

116:6.6And as it is with the parts, so it is with the whole; the spirit per­son of Su­prem­acy re­quires the evo­lu­tion­ary power of the Al­mighty to achieve com­ple­tion of De­ity and to at­tain des­tiny of Trin­ity as­so­ci­a­tion. The ef­fort is made by the per­son­al­i­ties of time and space, but the cul­mi­na­tion and con­sum­ma­tion of this ef­fort is the act of the Al­mighty Su­preme. And while the growth of the whole is thus a to­tal­iz­ing of the col­lec­tive growth of the parts, it equally fol­lows that the evo­lu­tion of the parts is a seg­mented re­flec­tion of the pur­po­sive growth of the whole.

116:6.7On Par­a­dise, monota and spirit are as one—in­dis­tin­guish­able ex­cept by name. In Ha­vona, mat­ter and spirit, while dis­tin­guish­ably dif­fer­ent, are at the same time in­nately har­mo­nious. In the seven super­uni­verses, how­ever, there is great di­ver­gence; there is a wide gulf be­tween cos­mic en­ergy and di­vine spirit; there­fore is there a greater ex­pe­ri­en­tial po­ten­tial for mind ac­tion in har­mo­niz­ing and even­tu­ally uni­fy­ing phys­i­cal pat­tern with spir­i­tual pur­poses. In the time-evolv­ing uni­verses of space there is greater di­vin­ity at­ten­u­a­tion, more dif­fi­cult prob­lems to be solved, and larger op­por­tu­nity to ac­quire ex­pe­ri­ence in their so­lu­tion. And this en­tire super­uni­verse sit­u­a­tion brings into be­ing a larger arena of evo­lu­tion­ary ex­is­tence in which the pos­si­bil­ity of cos­mic ex­pe­ri­ence is made avail­able alike to crea­ture and Cre­ator—even to Su­preme De­ity.

116:6.8The dom­i­nance of spirit, which is ex­is­ten­tial on ab­so­lute lev­els, be­comes an evo­lu­tion­ary ex­pe­ri­ence on fi­nite lev­els and in the seven super­uni­verses. And this ex­pe­ri­ence is shared alike by all, from mor­tal man to the Su­preme Be­ing. All strive, per­son­ally strive, in the achieve­ment; all par­tic­i­pate, per­son­ally par­tic­i­pate, in the des­tiny.

• nature of spirit › s. patterns do not occupy, displace, or contain space

118:3.7All pat­terns of re­al­ity oc­cupy space on the ma­te­rial lev­els, but spirit pat­terns only ex­ist in re­la­tion to space; they do not oc­cupy or dis­place space, nei­ther do they con­tain it. But to us the mas­ter rid­dle of space per­tains to the pat­tern of an idea. When we en­ter the mind do­main, we en­counter many a puz­zle. Does the pat­tern—the re­al­ity—of an idea oc­cupy space? We re­ally do not know, al­beit we are sure that an idea pat­tern does not con­tain space. But it would hardly be safe to pos­tu­late that the im­ma­te­rial is al­ways non­spa­tial.

• in man › s. dominance essential to personality unity and survival

133:7.10A hu­man mind, built up solely out of the con­scious­ness of phys­i­cal sen­sa­tions, could never at­tain spir­i­tual lev­els; this kind of ma­te­rial mind would be ut­terly lack­ing in a sense of moral val­ues and would be with­out a guid­ing sense of spir­i­tual dom­i­nance which is so es­sen­tial to achiev­ing har­mo­nious per­son­al­ity unity in time, and which is in­sep­a­ra­ble from per­son­al­ity sur­vival in eter­nity.

• spirit work impossible in absence of spiritual power

158:6.4“How long will it take you to learn that you can­not time-shorten the course of es­tab­lished nat­u­ral phe­nom­ena ex­cept when such things are in ac­cor­dance with the Fa­ther’s will? nor can you do spir­i­tual work in the ab­sence of spir­i­tual power. And you can do nei­ther of these, even when their po­ten­tial is pres­ent, with­out the ex­is­tence of that third and es­sen­tial hu­man fac­tor, the per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence of the pos­ses­sion of liv­ing faith. Must you al­ways have ma­te­rial man­i­fes­ta­tions as an at­trac­tion for the spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties of the king­dom? Can you not grasp the spirit sig­nif­i­cance of my mis­sion with­out the vis­i­ble ex­hi­bi­tion of un­usual works? When can you be de­pended upon to ad­here to the higher and spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties of the king­dom re­gard­less of the out­ward ap­pear­ance of all ma­te­rial man­i­fes­ta­tions?”

• in man › meaning of meanings

160:1.5An­i­mals re­spond nobly to the urge of life, but only man can at­tain the art of liv­ing, al­beit the ma­jor­ity of man­kind only ex­pe­ri­ence the an­i­mal urge to live. An­i­mals know only this blind and in­stinc­tive urge; man is ca­pa­ble of tran­scend­ing this urge to nat­u­ral func­tion. Man may elect to live upon the high plane of in­tel­li­gent art, even that of ce­les­tial joy and spir­i­tual ec­stasy. An­i­mals make no in­quiry into the pur­poses of life; there­fore they never worry, nei­ther do they com­mit sui­cide. Sui­cide among men tes­ti­fies that such be­ings have emerged from the purely an­i­mal stage of ex­is­tence, and to the fur­ther fact that the ex­ploratory ef­forts of such hu­man be­ings have failed to at­tain the artis­tic lev­els of mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence. An­i­mals know not the mean­ing of life; man not only pos­sesses ca­pac­ity for the rec­og­ni­tion of val­ues and the com­pre­hen­sion of mean­ings, but he also is con­scious of the mean­ing of mean­ings—he is self-con­scious of in­sight.

• in man › s. force breaks through material resistance

166:3.8Even the apos­tles were un­able fully to com­pre­hend his teach­ing as to the ne­ces­sity for us­ing spir­i­tual force for the pur­pose of break­ing through all ma­te­rial re­sis­tance and for sur­mount­ing ev­ery earthly ob­sta­cle which might chance to stand in the way of grasp­ing the all-im­por­tant spir­i­tual val­ues of the new life in the spirit as the lib­er­ated sons of God.

• in man › kingdom endowment of spiritual liberty

170:2.1The Mas­ter made it clear that the king­dom of heaven must be­gin with, and be cen­tered in, the dual con­cept of the truth of the fa­ther­hood of God and the cor­re­lated fact of the broth­er­hood of man. The ac­cep­tance of such a teach­ing, Je­sus de­clared, would lib­er­ate man from the age-long bond­age of an­i­mal fear and at the same time en­rich hu­man liv­ing with the fol­low­ing en­dow­ments of the new life of spir­i­tual lib­erty:

170:2.21. The pos­ses­sion of new cour­age and aug­mented spir­i­tual power. The gospel of the king­dom was to set man free and in­spire him to dare to hope for eter­nal life.

170:2.32. The gospel car­ried a mes­sage of new con­fi­dence and true con­so­la­tion for all men, even for the poor.

170:2.43. It was in it­self a new stan­dard of moral val­ues, a new eth­i­cal yard­stick where­with to mea­sure hu­man con­duct. It por­trayed the ideal of a re­sul­tant new or­der of hu­man so­ci­ety.

• nature of spirit › strives for dominance over matter in personality

170:2.54. It taught the pre-em­i­nence of the spir­i­tual com­pared with the ma­te­rial; it glo­ri­fied spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties and ex­alted super­hu­man ide­als.

170:2.65. This new gospel held up spir­i­tual at­tain­ment as the true goal of liv­ing. Hu­man life re­ceived a new en­dow­ment of moral value and di­vine dig­nity.

170:2.76. Je­sus taught that eter­nal re­al­i­ties were the re­sult (re­ward) of righ­teous earthly striv­ing. Man’s mor­tal so­journ on earth ac­quired new mean­ings con­se­quent upon the rec­og­ni­tion of a no­ble des­tiny.

170:2.87. The new gospel af­firmed that hu­man sal­va­tion is the rev­e­la­tion of a far-reach­ing di­vine pur­pose to be ful­filled and re­al­ized in the fu­ture des­tiny of the end­less ser­vice of the sal­vaged sons of God.

• nature of spirit › strives for dominance over matter in personality

170:4.135. The tran­scen­dency of the spir­i­tual over the ma­te­rial in hu­man per­son­al­ity.

• in man › s. is willing, but flesh is weak

182:3.4And then, for a third time, the Mas­ter with­drew and prayed: “Fa­ther, you see my sleep­ing apos­tles; have mercy upon them. The spirit is in­deed will­ing, but the flesh is weak. And now, O Fa­ther, if this cup may not pass, then would I drink it. Not my will, but yours, be done.” And when he had fin­ished pray­ing, he lay for a mo­ment pros­trate on the ground. When he arose and went back to his apos­tles, once more he found them asleep. He sur­veyed them and, with a pity­ing ges­ture, ten­derly said: “Sleep on now and take your rest; the time of de­ci­sion is past. The hour is now upon us wherein the Son of Man will be be­trayed into the hands of his en­e­mies.” As he reached down to shake them that he might awaken them, he said: “Arise, let us be go­ing back to the camp, for, be­hold, he who be­trays me is at hand, and the hour has come when my flock shall be scat­tered. But I have al­ready told you about these things.”

• nature of spirit › matter and morontia are reflected shadow of s.

189:1.3Man­kind is slow to per­ceive that, in all that is per­sonal, mat­ter is the skele­ton of mor­ontia, and that both are the re­flected shadow of en­dur­ing spirit re­al­ity. How long be­fore you will re­gard time as the mov­ing im­age of eter­nity and space as the fleet­ing shadow of Par­a­dise re­al­i­ties?

• in man › man’s threefold endowment of Adjuster, Spirit of Truth, and Holy Spirit

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

• in man › most powerful driving force in world

194:3.4If re­li­gion is an opi­ate to the peo­ple, it is not the re­li­gion of Je­sus. On the cross he re­fused to drink the dead­en­ing drug, and his spirit, poured out upon all flesh, is a mighty world in­flu­ence which leads man up­ward and urges him on­ward. The spir­i­tual for­ward urge is the most pow­er­ful driv­ing force pres­ent in this world; the truth-learn­ing be­liever is the one pro­gres­sive and ag­gres­sive soul on earth.

• in man › moral values and spiritual meanings

196:3.10The hu­man mind does not cre­ate real val­ues; hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence does not yield uni­verse in­sight. Con­cern­ing in­sight, the rec­og­ni­tion of moral val­ues and the dis­cern­ment of spir­i­tual mean­ings, all that the hu­man mind can do is to dis­cover, rec­og­nize, in­ter­pret, and choose.

• in man › knowledge of sonship with God

196:3.34The great chal­lenge to mod­ern man is to achieve bet­ter com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the di­vine Mon­i­tor that dwells within the hu­man mind. Man’s great­est ad­ven­ture in the flesh con­sists in the well-bal­anced and sane ef­fort to ad­vance the bor­ders of self-con­scious­ness out through the dim realms of em­bry­onic soul-con­scious­ness in a whole­hearted ef­fort to reach the bor­der­land of spirit-con­scious­ness—con­tact with the di­vine pres­ence. Such an ex­pe­ri­ence con­sti­tutes God-con­scious­ness, an ex­pe­ri­ence might­ily con­fir­ma­tive of the pre-ex­is­tent truth of the re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence of know­ing God. Such spirit-con­scious­ness is the equiv­a­lent of the knowl­edge of the ac­tu­al­ity of son­ship with God. Oth­er­wise, the as­sur­ance of son­ship is the ex­pe­ri­ence of faith.