spiritual influences

• Adjusters allow us to discern other s.i.

5:2.4It is be­cause of this God frag­ment that in­dwells you that you can hope, as you pro­gress in har­mo­niz­ing with the Ad­juster’s spir­i­tual lead­ings, more fully to dis­cern the pres­ence and trans­form­ing power of those other spir­i­tual in­flu­ences that sur­round you and im­pinge upon you but do not func­tion as an in­te­gral part of you. The fact that you are not in­tel­lec­tu­ally con­scious of close and in­ti­mate con­tact with the in­dwelling Ad­juster does not in the least dis­prove such an ex­alted ex­pe­ri­ence. The proof of fra­ter­nity with the di­vine Ad­juster con­sists wholly in the na­ture and ex­tent of the fruits of the spirit which are yielded in the life ex­pe­ri­ence of the in­di­vid­ual be­liever. “By their fruits you shall know them.”

• difficult to be conscious of

5:2.5It is ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult for the mea­gerly spir­i­tu­al­ized, ma­te­rial mind of mor­tal man to ex­pe­ri­ence marked con­scious­ness of the spirit ac­tiv­i­ties of such di­vine en­ti­ties as the Par­a­dise Ad­justers. As the soul of joint mind and Ad­juster cre­ation be­comes in­creas­ingly ex­is­tent, there also evolves a new phase of soul con­scious­ness which is ca­pa­ble of ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the pres­ence, and of rec­og­niz­ing the spirit lead­ings and other super­ma­te­rial ac­tiv­i­ties, of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors.

• agencies of Infinite Spirit manage practicalities of our daily lives

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

• listed › spirit-gravity of Eternal Son envelops us

6:5.7Though the Eter­nal Son can­not per­son­ally par­tic­i­pate in the be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers, he did sit in coun­cil with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in the eter­nal past, ap­prov­ing the plan and pledg­ing end­less co-op­er­a­tion, when the Fa­ther, in pro­ject­ing the be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers, pro­posed to the Son, “Let us make mor­tal man in our own im­age.” And as the spirit frag­ment of the Fa­ther dwells within you, so does the spirit pres­ence of the Son en­velop you, while these two for­ever work as one for your spir­i­tual ad­vance­ment.

• operate as one spirit, becoming ministry of 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.”

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• listed › mind-gravity circuit of Infinite Spirit
• 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.

9:2.4In ad­di­tion to these Par­a­dise pres­ences, Uran­tians ben­e­fit by the spir­i­tual in­flu­ences and ac­tiv­i­ties of the lo­cal and the super­uni­verse, with their al­most end­less ar­ray of lov­ing per­son­al­i­ties who ever lead the true of pur­pose and the hon­est of heart up­ward and in­ward to­wards the ide­als of di­vin­ity and the goal of su­preme per­fec­tion.

• operate as one spirit, becoming ministry of Supreme

9:2.5The pres­ence of the uni­ver­sal spirit of the Eter­nal Son we know—we can un­mis­tak­ably rec­og­nize it. The pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Third Per­son of De­ity, even mor­tal man may know, for ma­te­rial crea­tures can ac­tu­ally ex­pe­ri­ence the benef­i­cence of this di­vine in­flu­ence which func­tions as the Holy Spirit of lo­cal uni­verse be­stowal upon the races of man­kind. Hu­man be­ings can also in some de­gree be­come con­scious of the Ad­juster, the im­per­sonal pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. These di­vine spir­its which work for man’s up­lift­ing and spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion all act in uni­son and in per­fect co-op­er­a­tion. They are as one in the spir­i­tual op­er­a­tion of the plans of mor­tal as­cen­sion and per­fec­tion at­tain­ment.

• Godward urge in Havona is intense and inescapable

14:2.7The uni­ver­sal spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son is amaz­ingly ac­tive through­out the cen­tral uni­verse. All spirit val­ues and spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties are un­ceas­ingly drawn in­ward to­wards the abode of the Gods. This God­ward urge is in­tense and in­es­cap­able. The am­bi­tion to at­tain God is stronger in the cen­tral uni­verse, not be­cause spirit grav­ity is stronger than in the out­ly­ing uni­verses, but be­cause those be­ings who have at­tained Ha­vona are more fully spir­i­tu­al­ized and hence more re­spon­sive to the ever-pres­ent ac­tion of the uni­ver­sal spirit-grav­ity pull of the Eter­nal Son.

• listed › superuniverse Master Spirit, through local universe Mother Spirit

16:5.3The Seven Mas­ter Spir­its do not di­rectly in­vade the ma­te­rial minds of the in­di­vid­ual crea­tures on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space. The mor­tals of Uran­tia do not ex­pe­ri­ence the per­sonal pres­ence of the mind-spirit in­flu­ence of the Mas­ter Spirit of Or­von­ton. If this Mas­ter Spirit does at­tain any sort of con­tact with the in­di­vid­ual mor­tal mind dur­ing the ear­lier evo­lu­tion­ary ages of an in­hab­ited world, it must oc­cur through the min­istry of the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit, the con­sort and as­so­ciate of the Cre­ator Son of God who pre­sides over the des­tinies of each lo­cal cre­ation. But this very Cre­ative Mother Spirit is, in na­ture and char­ac­ter, quite like the Mas­ter Spirit of Or­von­ton.

• listed › superuniverse Master Spirit, through local universe Mother Spirit

16:6.2On a world like Uran­tia we do not en­counter the di­rect in­flu­ence of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its in the af­fairs of the hu­man races. You live un­der the im­me­di­ate in­flu­ence of the Cre­ative Spirit of Neb­a­don. Nev­er­the­less these same Mas­ter Spir­its dom­i­nate the ba­sic re­ac­tions of all crea­ture mind be­cause they are the ac­tual sources of the in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual po­ten­tials which have been spe­cial­ized in the lo­cal uni­verses for func­tion in the lives of those in­di­vid­u­als who in­habit the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space.

• spirit world is real

28:5.21I as­sure you that all these trans­ac­tions of the spirit world are real, that they take place in ac­cor­dance with es­tab­lished us­ages and in har­mony with the im­mutable laws of the uni­ver­sal do­mains. The be­ings of ev­ery newly cre­ated or­der, im­me­di­ately upon re­ceiv­ing the breath of life, are in­stantly re­flected on high; a liv­ing por­trayal of the crea­ture na­ture and po­ten­tial is flashed to the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters. Thus, by means of the dis­cern­ers, are the Cen­sors made fully cog­nizant of ex­actly “what man­ner of spirit” has been born on the worlds of space.

• operate as one spirit, becoming ministry of Supreme

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

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

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

34:5.7The pres­ence of the Holy Spirit of the Uni­verse Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit, of the Spirit of Truth of the Uni­verse Son of the Eter­nal Son, and of the Ad­juster-spirit of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther in or with an evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tal, de­notes sym­me­try of spir­i­tual en­dow­ment and min­istry and qual­i­fies such a mor­tal con­sciously to re­al­ize the faith-fact of son­ship with God.

• listed › Paradise Trinity
• operate as one spirit, becoming ministry of Supreme

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.

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.

• conspiracy of spirit forces effects our deliverance 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.

• enhance through group spiritual association

43:8.117. And then, cli­max all of these pro­ce­dures of mul­ti­so­cial­iza­tion with the con­cur­rent en­hance­ment of spir­i­tual in­sight as it per­tains to the aug­men­ta­tion of all phases of per­sonal en­dow­ment through group spir­i­tual as­so­ci­a­tion and mor­ontia co-or­di­na­tion. In­tel­lec­tu­ally, so­cially, and spir­i­tu­ally two moral crea­tures do not merely dou­ble their per­sonal po­ten­tials of uni­verse achieve­ment by part­ner­ship tech­nique; they more nearly quadru­ple their at­tain­ment and ac­com­plish­ment pos­si­bil­i­ties.

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

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.

• Life Carriers conspired to lead Andon and Fonta north, once they decided to flee

62:5.9While we were all greatly con­cerned with what these two lit­tle sav­ages were plan­ning, we were pow­er­less to con­trol the work­ing of their minds; we did not—could not—ar­bi­trar­ily in­flu­ence their de­ci­sions. But within the per­mis­si­ble lim­its of plan­e­tary func­tion, we, the Life Car­ri­ers, to­gether with our as­so­ciates, all con­spired to lead the hu­man twins north­ward and far from their hairy and par­tially tree-dwell­ing peo­ple. And so, by rea­son of their own in­tel­li­gent choice, the twins did mi­grate, and be­cause of our super­vi­sion they mi­grated north­ward to a se­cluded re­gion where they es­caped the pos­si­bil­ity of bi­o­logic degra­da­tion through ad­mix­ture with their in­fe­rior rel­a­tives of the Pri­mates tribes.

• transitions of spirit 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.

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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.

• listed

113:4.6The min­is­ter­ing per­son­al­ity of the guard­ian ser­a­phim, the God pres­ence of the in­dwelling Ad­juster, the en­cir­cuited ac­tion of the Holy Spirit, and the Son-con­scious­ness of the Spirit of Truth are all di­vinely cor­re­lated into a mean­ing­ful unity of spir­i­tual min­istry in and to a mor­tal per­son­al­ity. Though hail­ing from dif­fer­ent sources and dif­fer­ent lev­els, these ce­les­tial in­flu­ences are all in­te­grated in the en­velop­ing and evolv­ing pres­ence of the Su­preme Be­ing.

• 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.