Third Source personalities

• beings personal to Infinite Spirit but who are not in Father’s personality circuit

9:8.6The Third Source and Cen­ter is rep­re­sented in the grand uni­verse by a vast ar­ray of min­is­ter­ing spir­its, mes­sen­gers, teach­ers, ad­ju­di­ca­tors, helpers, and ad­vis­ers, to­gether with super­vi­sors of cer­tain cir­cuits of phys­i­cal, mor­ontial, and spir­i­tual na­ture. Not all of these be­ings are per­son­al­i­ties in the strict mean­ing of the term. Per­son­al­ity of the fi­nite-crea­ture va­ri­ety is char­ac­ter­ized by:

9:8.71. Sub­jec­tive self-con­scious­ness.

9:8.82. Ob­jec­tive re­sponse to the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity cir­cuit.

• contactable by beings in Father’s personality circuit

9:8.9There are cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties and crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties, and in ad­di­tion to these two fun­da­men­tal types there are per­son­al­i­ties of the Third Source and Cen­ter, be­ings who are per­sonal to the In­fi­nite Spirit, but who are not un­qual­i­fiedly per­sonal to crea­ture be­ings. These Third Source per­son­al­i­ties are not a part of the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity cir­cuit. First Source per­son­al­ity and Third Source per­son­al­ity are mu­tu­ally con­tactable; all per­son­al­ity is con­tactable.

9:8.10The Fa­ther be­stows per­son­al­ity by his per­sonal free will. Why he does so we can only con­jec­ture; how he does so we do not know. Nei­ther do we know why the Third Source be­stows non-Fa­ther per­son­al­ity, but this the In­fi­nite Spirit does in his own be­half, in cre­ative con­junc­tion with the Eter­nal Son and in nu­mer­ous ways un­known to you. The In­fi­nite Spirit can also act for the Fa­ther in the be­stowal of First Source per­son­al­ity.

9:8.11There are nu­mer­ous types of Third Source per­son­al­i­ties. The In­fi­nite Spirit be­stows Third Source per­son­al­ity upon nu­mer­ous groups who are not in­cluded in the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity cir­cuit, such as cer­tain of the power di­rec­tors. Like­wise does the In­fi­nite Spirit treat as per­son­al­i­ties nu­mer­ous groups of be­ings, such as the Cre­ative Spir­its, who are in a class by them­selves in their re­la­tions to en­cir­cuited crea­tures of the Fa­ther.

9:8.12Both First Source and Third Source per­son­al­i­ties are en­dowed with all and more than man as­so­ciates with the con­cept of per­son­al­ity; they have minds em­brac­ing mem­ory, rea­son, judg­ment, cre­ative imag­i­na­tion, idea as­so­ci­a­tion, de­ci­sion, choice, and nu­mer­ous ad­di­tional pow­ers of in­tel­lect wholly un­known to mor­tals. With few ex­cep­tions the or­ders re­vealed to you pos­sess form and dis­tinct in­di­vid­u­al­ity; they are real be­ings. A ma­jor­ity of them are vis­i­ble to all or­ders of spirit ex­is­tence.

• Supreme Power Centers

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

• Spirit-fused mortals are not

40:9.1As­cend­ing Spirit-fused mor­tals are not Third Source per­son­al­i­ties; they are in­cluded in the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity cir­cuit, but they have fused with in­di­vid­u­al­iza­tions of the pre­mind spirit of the Third Source and Cen­ter. Such Spirit fu­sion never oc­curs dur­ing the span of nat­u­ral life; it takes place only at the time of mor­tal reawak­en­ing in the mor­ontia ex­is­tence on the man­sion worlds. In the fu­sion ex­pe­ri­ence there is no over­lap­ping; the will crea­ture is ei­ther Spirit fused, Son fused, or Fa­ther fused. Those who are Ad­juster or Fa­ther fused are never Spirit or Son fused.