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Topical Study number 145
"My Important HighLights of The Urantia (Earth) Book"
Part 9
Compiled April 14, 2023 by Dave@PureChristians.org
PAPER 7 RELATION OF THE ETERNAL SON TO THE UNIVERSE, Cont.
2. THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE ETERNAL SON
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7:2.1 On Paradise the presence and personal activity of the Original Son is profound, absolute in the spiritual sense. As we pass outward from Paradise through Havona and into the realms of the seven superuniverses, [including seven trillion human inhabited worlds] we detect less and less of the personal activity of the Eternal Son. In the post-Havona universes [including our local universe] the presence of the Eternal Son is Personalized in the Paradise Sons, [Personality and mind-spirit are transmissible !] conditioned by the experiential realities of the Supreme and the Ultimate, and co-ordinated with the unlimited spirit potential of the Deity Absolute. [In God as Infinite-Absolute all potentials are actuals !]
7:2.4 The administration of the Eternal Son in the superuniverses, being exclusively spiritual and superpersonal, is not discernible by creature personalities. Nonetheless, the all-pervading spiritual urge of the Son's personal influence is encountered in every phase of the activities of all sectors of the domains of the Ancients of Days. [in the administration of the seven superuniverse of 100,000 local universe each] In the local universes, however, we observe the Eternal Son personally present in the persons of the Paradise Sons. Here the infinite Son spiritually and creatively functions in the Persons of the majestic corps of the co-ordinate [full Sovereign Creator Deity to us] Creator Sons. [Our One Perfect Master GodMan Jesus Christ here !!! Jesus IS God the Father and God the Son here to us; and He is One with the Creative (Holy) Infinite Spirit ! Thus Jesus is the fullness of all of Actual I AM God to us !]
3. RELATION OF THE ETERNAL SON TO THE INDIVIDUAL
7:3.2 The spiritual-gravity pull of the Eternal Son constitutes the inherent secret of the Paradise ascension of surviving human souls. All genuine spirit values and all bona fide spiritualized individuals are held within the unfailing grasp of the spiritual Gravity of the Eternal Son. The mortal mind, for example, initiates its career as a material mechanism and is eventually mustered into the Corps of the Finality as a well-nigh perfected spirit existence, becoming progressively less subject to material gravity and correspondingly more responsive to the inward pulling urge of Spirit Gravity during this entire experience. The spirit-gravity circuit literally pulls the soul of man Paradiseward.
7:3.3 The spirit-gravity circuit is the basic channel for transmitting the genuine prayers of the believing human heart from the level of human consciousness to the actual consciousness of Deity. That which represents true spiritual value in your petitions will be seized by the universal circuit of spirit gravity and will pass immediately and simultaneously to all divine personalities concerned. Each will occupy himself with that which belongs to his personal province. Therefore, in your practical religious experience, it is immaterial whether, in addressing your supplications, you visualize the Creator Son of your local universe or the Eternal Son at the center of all things. [All prayers and worship to all names of God, in all human religions, actually first go to our Creator Son Jesus and his Holy Spirit Creative Partner; then these finite human prayers are modified and improved in spirit form and content and sent to the proper Deity Persons. The spirit of God within you -- the Thought Adjuster also helps in this process.]
7:3.5 But how much more perfect is the superb technique of the spiritual world! If anything originates in your consciousness that is fraught with supreme spiritual value, when once you give it expression, no power in the universe can prevent its flashing directly to the Absolute Spirit Personality of all creation.
7:3.6 Conversely, if your supplications are purely material and wholly self-centered, there exists no plan whereby such unworthy prayers can find lodgment in the spirit circuit of the Eternal Son. The content of any petition which is not "spirit indited" can find no place in the universal spiritual circuit; such purely selfish and material requests fall dead; they do not ascend in the circuits of true spirit values. Such words are as "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal."
7:3.7 lt is the motivating thought, the spiritual content, that validates the mortal supplication. Words are valueless.
Paper 7 RELATION OF THE ETERNAL SON TO THE UNIVERSE
4. THE DIVINE PERFECTION PLANS
7:4.1 The Eternal Son is in everlasting liaison with the Father in the successful prosecution of the divine plan of progress: the universal plan for the creation, evolution, ascension, and perfection of will creatures. And, in divine faithfulness, the Son is the eternal equal of the Father.
7:4.2 The Father and his Son are as one in the formulation and prosecution of this gigantic attainment plan for advancing the material beings of time to the perfection of eternity. This project for the spiritual elevation of the ascendant souls of space is a joint creation of the Father and the Son, and they are, with the co-operation of the Infinite Spirit, engaged in associative execution of their divine purpose.
7:4.3 This divine plan of perfection attainment embraces three unique, though marvelously correlated, enterprises of universal adventure:
7:4.4 #1. The Plan of Progressive Attainment. This is the Universal Father's plan of evolutionary ascension, a program unreservedly accepted by the Eternal Son when He concurred in the Father's proposal, "Let Us make mortal creatures in our own Image." This provision for upstepping the creatures of time involves the Father's bestowal of the Thought Adjusters and the endowing of material creatures with the prerogatives of personality.
[What eternal Gifts we each have if we personally choose to survive and follow our loving Father God !]
7:4.5 #2. The Bestowal Plan. The next universal plan is the great Father-revelation enterprise of the Eternal Son and his co-ordinate Sons. This is the proposal of the Eternal Son and consists of his bestowal of the Sons of God upon the evolutionary creations, there to Personalize and Factualize, to Incarnate and make Real, the love of the Father and the mercy of the Son to the creatures of all universes. Inherent in the bestowal plan, and as a provisional feature of this ministration of love, the Paradise Sons act as rehabilitators of that which misguided creature will has placed in spiritual jeopardy. Whenever and wherever there occurs a delay in the functioning of the attainment plan, if rebellion, perchance, should mar or complicate this enterprise, then do the emergency provisions of the bestowal plan become active forthwith. The Paradise Sons stand pledged and ready to function as retrievers, to go into the very realms of rebellion and there restore the spiritual status of the spheres. And such a heroic service a co-ordinate Creator Son [our Master GODMAN Jesus Christ Michael] did perform on Earth in connection with his experiential bestowal career of sovereignty acquirement. [Yes ! "IT IS DONE !"]
7:4.6 #3. The Plan of Mercy Ministry. When the attainment plan and the bestowal plan had been formulated and proclaimed, alone and of himself, the Infinite Spirit projected and put in operation the tremendous and universal enterprise of mercy ministry. This is the service so essential to the practical and effective operation of both the attainment and the bestowal undertakings, and the spiritual personalities of the Third Source and Center all partake of the spirit of mercy ministry which is so much a part of the nature of the Third Person of Deity. Not only in creation but also in administration, the Infinite Spirit functions truly and Literally as the conjoint executive of the Father and the Son. [This includes our Guardian Angels and many other higher Daughters of God.]
7:4.7 The Eternal Son is the personal trustee, the divine custodian, of the Father's universal plan of creature ascension. Having promulgated the universal mandate, "Be you perfect, even as I am perfect," the Father intrusted the execution of this tremendous undertaking to the Eternal Son; and the Eternal Son shares the fostering of this supernal enterprise with his divine co-ordinate, the Infinite Spirit. Thus do the Deities effectively co-operate in the work of creation, control, evolution, revelation, and ministration -- and if required, in restoration and rehabilitation.
5. THE SPIRIT OF BESTOWAL
7:5.1 The Eternal Son without reservation joined with the Universal Father in broadcasting that tremendous injunction to all creation: "Be you perfect, even as your Father in Havona is perfect." And ever since, that invitation-command has motivated all the survival plans and the bestowal projects of the Eternal Son and his vast family of co-ordinate and associated Sons. And in these very bestowals the Sons of God have become to all evolutionary creatures "the way, the truth, and the life." [Our Creator Father-Son is Jesus Christ, and since his Bestowal here on earth, He is the fullness of God to us -- to all humans and all beings in our large local universe made/being still made by our True GodMan Jesus !]
7:5.4 The Eternal Son comes not to mortal man as the divine will, the Thought Adjuster indwelling the human mind, but the Eternal Son did come to mortal man on Earth when the Divine Personality of his Son, Michael of Nebadon, incarnated in the human nature of Jesus of Nazareth. [Our One True GODMAN Jesus Christ Michael !] To share the experience of created personalities, the Paradise Sons of God must assume the very natures of such creatures and incarnate their divine personalities as the actual creatures themselves. Incarnation, the secret of Sonarington, is the technique of the Son's escape from the otherwise all-encompassing fetters of personality absolutism.
7:5.10 The Eternal Son is the exemplary inspiration for all the Sons of God in their ministrations of bestowal throughout the universes of time and space. The co-ordinate [Equal to God; both God the Father and God the Son to us] Creator Sons and the associate Magisterial Sons, together with other unrevealed orders of sonship, all partake of this wonderful willingness to bestow themselves upon the varied orders of creature life and as the creatures themselves. Therefore, in Spirit and because of kinship of nature as well as fact of [Deity] Origin, it becomes true that in the bestowal of each Son of God upon the worlds of space, in and through and by these bestowals, the Eternal Son has bestowed himself upon the intelligent will creatures of the universes.
7:5.11 In Spirit and nature, if not in all attributes, each Paradise Son is a divinely perfect portraiture of the Original Son. It is literally true, whosoever has seen a Paradise Son has seen the Eternal Son of God. [And they also see in our Coordinate Creator Father-Son Jesus GOD the Father as well as GOD the Son and GOD the Spirit here ! They Are One in Spirit and all in the Trinity Sovereign of our Creator Jesus!]
6. THE PARADISE SONS OF GOD
7:6.1 The lack of a knowledge of the multiple Sons of God is a source of great confusion on Earth. And this ignorance persists in the face of such statements as the record of a conclave of these divine personalities: "When the Sons of God proclaimed joy, and all of the Morning Stars sang together." Every millennium of sector standard time the various orders of the divine Sons forgather for their periodic conclaves.
7:6.2 The Eternal Son is the personal source of the adorable attributes of mercy and service which so abundantly characterize all orders of the descending Sons of God as they function throughout creation. All the divine nature, if not all the infinity of attributes, the Eternal Son unfailingly transmits to the Paradise Sons who go out from the eternal Isle to reveal his divine character to the universe of universes.
7:6.3 The Original and Eternal Son is the offspring-person of the "first" completed and infinite thought of the Universal Father. Every "time" [in past Eternity] the Universal Father and the Eternal Son jointly project a new, original, identical, unique, and absolute Personal Thought, that very instant this creative idea is perfectly and finally Personalized in the Being and Personality of a new and original Creator Son. In spirit nature, divine wisdom, and co-ordinate creative power, these Creator Sons are potentially equal with God the Father and God the Son. [and also the Father-Son Union (Image) of God]
7:6.4 The Creator Sons go out from Paradise into the universes of time and, with the co-operation of the controlling and creative agencies of the Third Source and Center, [Creative Mother Spirits of the Infinite Spirit; here the Holy Spirit Partner (Bride) of Jesus] complete the organization of the local universes of progressive evolution. These Sons are not attached to, nor are they concerned with, the central and universal controls of matter, mind, and spirit. Hence are they limited in their creative acts by the pre-existence, priority, and primacy of the First Source and Center and his co-ordinate Absolutes. These Sons are able to administer only that which they bring into existence. [maybe about 15 quintillion Humans and Beings, and all things made in this local universe] Absolute Administration is inherent in priority of existence and is inseparable from eternity of presence. The Father remains Primal in the universes. [This Supreme Primacy is now in our GODMAN JESUS. The Paradise Father-Infinite states still to us: "This is My Beloved Son; give heed to (obey and follow only) him." (See the Transfiguration of Jesus up on Mt. Hermon in the land of the gentiles)]
7:6.5 Much as the Creator Sons are Personalized by the Father and the Son, so are the Magisterial Sons
Personalized by the Son and the Spirit. These are the Sons who, in the experiences of creature incarnation, earn the right to serve as the judges of survival in the creations of time and space.
7:6.6 The Father, Son, and Spirit also Unite to Personalize the versatile Trinity Teacher Sons, who range the grand universe as the supernal teachers of all personalities, human and divine. And there are numerous other orders of Paradise sonship that have not been brought to the attention of Earth mortals.
7:6.7 Between the Original Mother Son and these hosts of Paradise Sons scattered throughout all creation, there is a direct and exclusive channel of communication, a channel whose function is inherent in the quality of spiritual kinship which unites them in bonds of near-absolute spiritual association. This Intersonship Circuit is entirely different from the universal circuit of Spirit Gravity, which also centers in the Person of the Second Source and Center. All Sons of God who take Origin in the Persons of the Paradise Deities are in direct and constant communication with the Eternal Mother Son. And such communication is instantaneous; it is independent of time though sometimes conditioned by space.
7:6.8 The Eternal Son not only has at all times perfect knowledge concerning the status, thoughts, and manifold activities of all orders of Paradise sonship, but He also has perfection of knowledge at all times regarding everything of spiritual value which exists in the hearts of all creatures in the Primary central creation of Eternity [Perfect and Perfected] and in the Secondary time creations of the co-ordinate Creator Sons. [Perfecting and ascending sons of God in Jesus we are ! Amen !]
7. THE SUPREME REVELATION OF THE FATHER
7:7.1 The Eternal Son is a complete, exclusive, universal, and final revelation of the Spirit and the Personality of the Universal Father. All knowledge of, and information concerning, the Father must come from the Eternal Son and his Paradise Sons. The Eternal Son is from Eternity and is wholly and without spiritual qualification one with the Father. In divine Personality they are Co-ordinate; in spiritual nature they are Equal; in divinity they are Identical.
7:7.2 The character of God could not possibly be intrinsically improved upon in the Person of the Son, for the divine Father is infinitely perfect, but that character and personality are amplified, by divestment of the nonpersonal and nonspiritual, for Revelation to creature beings. The First Source and Center is much more than a personality, but all of the Spirit qualities of the Father Personality of the First Source and Center are spiritually present in the Absolute Personality of the Eternal Son.
7:7.3 The Primal Son and his Sons are engaged in making a universal Revelation of the spiritual and personal nature of the Father to all creation. In the central universe, the superuniverses, the local universes, or on the inhabited planets, it is a Paradise Son [Our Sovereign Savior-Maker-Master Jesus] who Reveals the Universal Father to men and angels. the Eternal son and his Sons reveal the avenue of creature approach to the Universal Father. And even we [Paradise Divine Counselors and others] of high origin understand the Father much more fully as we study the Revelation of his Character and Personality in the Eternal Son and in the Sons of the Eternal son.
7:7.4 The Father comes down to you as a Personality only through the Divine Sons of the Eternal Son. And you attain the Father by this same Living Way; you ascend to the Father by the Guidance of this group of divine sons. and this remains true notwithstanding that your very personality is a direct bestowal of the Universal Father. [To us, our Maker-Master Jesus is HE the Holy Father-Son-Spirit of All Truth of/as/in GOD to us ! SEE JESUS: SEE GOD !]
7:7.5 In all these widespread activities of the far-flung spiritual administration of the Eternal Son, do not forget that the Son is a Person just as truly and actually as the Father is a Person. Indeed, to beings of the onetime human order the Eternal son will be more easy to approach than the Universal Father. In the progress of the pilgrims of time through the circuits of Havona, you will be competent to attain the Son long before you are prepared to discern the Father.
7:7.6 More of the character and merciful nature of the Eternal son of mercy you should comprehend as you meditate on the Revelation of these divine attributes which was made in loving service by your own Creator Son, onetime Son of Man on earth, now the Exalted Sovereign of your local universe -- the Son of Man and the Son of God. [Our GODMAN Father-Son-Spirit JESUS ! and in/as the Trinity Government of All Reality here to us !]
7:7.7 {Indited by a Divine Counselor assigned to formulate this statement depicting the Eternal Son of Paradise.}
PAPER 8 THE INFINITE SPIRIT
0. Introduction:
8:0.1 Back in eternity, when the Universal Father's "first" infinite and absolute thought finds in the Eternal Son such a perfect and adequate word for its divine expression, there ensues the supreme desire of both the Thought-God and the Word-God for a universal and infinite agent of mutual expression and combined action. [The Deed-God; the Divine Action of the Infinite Spirit, Who is also Eternal with the Universal Father and the Eternal Son.]
8:0.2 In the dawn of eternity both the Father and the Son become infinitely cognizant of their mutual interdependence, their eternal and absolute oneness; and therefore do they enter into an infinite and everlasting covenant of divine partnership. This never-ending compact is made for the execution of their united concepts throughout all of the circle of eternity; and ever since this eternity event the Father and the Son continue in this divine union.
8:0.3 We are now face to face with the eternity origin of the Infinite Spirit, the Third Person of Deity. The very instant that God the Father and God the Son conjointly conceive an identical and infinite action -- the execution of an absolute thought-plan -- that very moment, the Infinite Spirit springs full-fledgedly into existence.
8:0.4 In thus reciting the order of the origin of the Deities, I [a Paradise Divine Counselor] do so merely to enable you to think of their relationship. In reality They are all three existent from eternity; They are existential. They are without beginning or ending of days; They are co-ordinate, supreme, ultimate, absolute, and infinite. They are and always have been and ever shall be. And they are three distinctly individualized but eternally associated Persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit. [Even in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, the word "Elohim" -- "The Gods", (plural) is found about 2500 times; the word "Eloah" -- "God", (singular) is only found about 250 times. Yes, the Jews of old were too set in their false religious beliefs to accept much, if at all, of the Divine Revelation of Melchizedek to Abram -- Abraham; and then about 2000 years later, the full Revelation of God in/as Jesus Christ Michael our now Sovereign Savior GODMAN here. Some day, all Truth lovers will accept the True Revelation of God the Father-Infinite and Triune I AM in and as our Holy Creator Father-Son-Spirit Jesus ! Amen ! Then this backward world will progress into ever higher stages of Light and Life in and with our Good Master Jesus ! and thus eventually into All Truth of/as/in the Triune God on Paradise ! Amen !]
1. THE GOD OF ACTION
8:1.1 In the eternity of the past, upon the Personalization of the Infinite Spirit the Divine Personality Cycle becomes perfect and complete. The God of Action is existent, and the vast stage of space is set for the stupendous drama of creation -- the universal adventure -- the divine panorama of the eternal ages.
8:1.2 The first act of the Infinite Spirit is the inspection and recognition of his divine Parents, the Father-Father and the Mother-Son. He, the Spirit, unqualifiedly identifies both of Them. He is fully cognizant of their separate Personalities and infinite attributes as well as of their Combined nature and United function. Next, voluntarily, with transcendent willingness and inspiring spontaneity, the Third Person of Deity, notwithstanding his equality with the First and Second Persons, pledges eternal loyalty to God the Father and acknowledges everlasting dependence upon God the Son.
8:1.3 Inherent in the nature of this transaction and in mutual recognition of the Personality independence of each and the executive Union of all Three, the Cycle of Eternity is established. The Paradise Trinity IS Existent. The stage of universal space is set for the manifold and never-ending panorama of the creative unfolding of the Purpose of the Universal Father through the Personality of the Eternal Son and by the Execution of the God of Action, the Executive Agency for the Reality Performances of the Father-Son creator partnership.
8:1.4 The God of Action functions and the dead vaults of space are astir. One billion perfect [Havona] spheres flash into existence. Prior to this hypothetical eternity moment the space-energies inherent in Paradise are existent and potentially operative, but they have no actuality of being; neither can physical gravity be measured except by the reaction of material realities to its incessant pull. There is no material universe at this (assumed) eternally distant moment, but the very instant that one billion worlds materialize, there is in evidence gravity sufficient and adequate to hold them in the everlasting grasp of [infinite] Paradise.
8:1.5 There now flashes through the creation of the Gods the second form of energy, and this outflowing Spirit is instantly grasped by the spiritual gravity of the Eternal Son. Thus the twofold gravity-embraced universe is touched with the Energy of Infinity and immersed in the Spirit of Divinity. In this way is the soil of life prepared for the consciousness of mind made manifest in the associated intelligence circuits of the Infinite Spirit.
8:1.6 Upon these seeds of potential existence, diffused throughout the central creation of the Gods, the Father acts, and creature personality appears. Then does the Presence of the Paradise Deities fill all organized space and begin effectively to draw all things and beings Paradiseward. [Please read this again; it is very profound. And note also that The Paradise Father and Son and Spirit all may see potentials as actuals in eternity and in the Deity and Universal and Unqualified Absolutes -- Three Absolutes as One (also). More later to reflect upon.]
8:1.7 The Infinite Spirit eternalizes concurrently with the birth [a transcendental-ultimate-absolute "after" the Eternal Son and Eternal Paradise, but also fully before our time and space origins] of the Havona worlds, this central universe being created by him and with him and in him in obedience to the combined concepts and united wills of the Father and the Son. The Third Person Deitizes by this very act of Conjoint Creation, and He thus forever becomes the Conjoint Creator.
8:1.8 These are the grand and awful times of the creative expansion of the Father and the Son by, and in, the action of their conjoint associate and exclusive executive, the Third Source and Center. There exists no record of these stirring times. We have only the meager disclosures of the Infinite Spirit to substantiate these mighty transactions, and He merely verifies the fact that the Central Universe and all that pertains thereto eternalized simultaneously with his attainment of Personality and conscious Existence. [In all past and now eternity !]
8:1.9 In brief, the Infinite Spirit testifies that, since He IS Eternal, so also is the Central Universe Eternal. And this is the traditional starting point of the history of the universe of universes. Absolutely nothing is known, and no records are in existence, regarding any event or transaction prior to this stupendous eruption of creative energy and administrative wisdom that crystallized the vast universe which Exists, and so exquisitely functions, at the center of all things. Beyond this event lie the unsearchable transactions of Eternity and the depths of Infinity -- Absolute mystery. [The pure Absolute Spirit Gift of God within you -- the Thought Adjuster -- is also called the Mystery Monitor. Very interesting.]
8:1.10 And we thus portray the sequential origin of the Third Source and Center as an interpretative condescension to the time-bound and space-conditioned mind of mortal creatures. The mind of man must have a starting point for the visualization of universe history, and I have been directed to provide this technique of approach to the historic concept of eternity. In the material mind, consistency demands a First Cause; therefore do we postulate the Universal Father as the First Source and the Absolute Center of all creation, at the same time instructing all creature minds that the Son and the Spirit are coeternal with the Father in all phases of universe history and in all realms of creative activity. And we do this without in any sense being disregardful of the Reality and Eternity of the Isle of Paradise and of the Unqualified, Universal, and Deity Absolutes. [Thus, you now know of Seven Eternal Absolutes. God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit, Paradise, The Deity Absolute, The Universal Absolute, The Unqualified Absolute. In the Book of Revelation in the Bible, there is some mention of seven Spirits of God, seven lamps, etc. Spiritual Reality numbers are mostly 1 and 3 and 7 and infinity. Our decimal number 10 is also 1 times (3 plus 7)]
8:1.11 It is enough of a reach of the material mind of the children of time to conceive of the Father in Eternity. We know that any child can best relate himself to reality by first mastering the relationships of the child-parent situation and then by enlarging this concept to embrace the family as a whole. Subsequently the growing mind of the child will be able to adjust to the concept of family relations, to relationships of the community, the race, and the world, and then to those of the universe, the superuniverse, even the universe of universes. [I believe that there never was a time in Eternity when God the Paradise Father-Infinite I AM did not have an infinite number of perfect and perfected Children and Energy Patterns on infinite-sized Eternal Paradise, the Central Home of the Infinite Father-Son-Spirit-Absolutes. This larger realization slowly developed as I long perused and reflected in prayer and worship in learning and integrating this tremendous Epochal Revelation of Truth which is slowly being presented here. Bigger human souls and minds are now being graciously given a much bigger picture of the Infinite Father-Son-Spirit God ! Never will any human spirit ascender ever stop learning more of the infinity and eternity and absolute and ultimate and supreme characteristics of I AM. You and I may always realize: I am a divinely beloved son of I AM; I am eternally Certain ! Thank You our loving and good ministering Personal Father !]
Topical Study number 145
"My Important HighLights of The Urantia (Earth) Book"
Part 10
Compiled April 17, 2023 by Dave@PureChristians.org
PAPER 8 THE INFINITE SPIRIT, Cont.
2. NATURE OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT
8:2.1 The Conjoint Creator is from eternity and is wholly and without qualification ONE with the Universal Father and the Eternal Son. The Infinite Spirit reflects in perfection not only the nature of the Paradise Father but also the nature of the Original Son.
8:2.2 The Third Source and Center is known by numerous titles: the Universal Spirit, the Supreme Guide, the Conjoint Creator, the Divine Executive, the Infinite Mind, the Spirit of Spirits, the Paradise Mother Spirit, the Conjoint Actor, the Final Co-ordinator, the Omnipresent Spirit, the Absolute Intelligence, the Divine Action; and on your world He is sometimes confused with the cosmic mind.
8:2.3 It is altogether proper to denominate the Third Person of Deity the Infinite Spirit, for God is Spirit. But material creatures who tend towards the error of viewing matter as basic reality and mind, together with spirit, as postulates rooted in matter, would better comprehend the Third Source and Center if he were called the Infinite Reality, the Universal Organizer, or the Personality Co-ordinator. [I also like and say "The Divine Infinite Reality Activator Person"]
8:2.6 Though in every way sharing the perfection, the righteousness, and the love of the Universal Father, the Infinite Spirit inclines towards the mercy attributes of the Eternal Son, thus becoming the mercy Minister of the Paradise Deities to the grand universe. Ever and always -- universally and eternally -- the Spirit is a mercy Minister, for, as the divine Sons reveal the love of God, so the divine Spirit depicts the mercy of God.
8:2.7 It is not possible that the Spirit could have more of goodness than the Father since all goodness takes origin in the Father, but in the acts of the Spirit we can the better comprehend such goodness. The Father's faithfulness and the Son's constancy are made very real to the spirit beings and the material creatures of the spheres by the loving ministry and ceaseless service of the personalities of the Infinite Spirit. [countless angels, super-angels, ministering Spirits on all levels. Each human has a ministering Guardian Angel pair of Seraphim and and the omnipresent local universe Creative Holy Spirit Minister Who is a Co-ordinate Partner of our Creator Father-Son Jesus Christ Michael. More on these good ministering Spirits later.]
8:2.8 The Conjoint Creator inherits all the Father's beauty of Thought and character of Truth. And these sublime traits of divinity are co-ordinated in the near-supreme levels of the cosmic mind in subordination to the infinite and eternal wisdom of the unconditioned and limitless Mind of the Third Source and Center.
3. RELATION OF THE SPIRIT TO THE FATHER AND THE SON
8:3.1 As the Eternal Son is the word expression of the "first" absolute and infinite thought of the Universal Father, so the Conjoint Actor is the perfect execution of the "first" completed creative concept or plan for combined action by the Father-Son personality partnership of absolute thought-word union. The Third Source and Center eternalizes concurrently with the central or fiat [Latin meaing: "Let it be done !"] creation, and only this central creation is eternal in existence among universes. [there are 700,00 local universes in the present Grand Universe; the Master Universe will be (is) larger; and there is full potential Reality for even an Infinite Universe in an infinite Eternity of Eternities. (Whew ! to our minds; but EASY for GOD the Actual Father-Infinite of All !) Amen !]
8:3.3 The Eternal Son and the Conjoint Creator have, as partners and through their Co-ordinate Personalities, [The Michael Creator Sons such as our local universe Sovereign Father-Son Jesus Christ Michael] planned and fashioned every post-Havona universe which has been brought into existence. The Spirit sustains the same personal relation to the Son in all subsequent creation that the Son sustains to the Father in the first and central creation.
8:3.4 A Creator Son [our Sovereign Maker Jesus !] of the Eternal Son and a Creative Spirit [our Holy Mother Spirit] of the Infinite Spirit created you and your universe; and while the Father in faithfulness upholds that which they have organized, it devolves upon this Universe Son and this Universe Spirit to foster and sustain their work as well as to minister to the creatures of their own making. [We are thus Jesusonians with a glorious eternal Destiny in God on Paradise ! Each human is made in Jesus in the Spirit Image of GOD the Holy Father-Son !!!]
8:3.5 The Infinite Spirit is the effective agent of the all-loving Father and the all-merciful Son for the execution of their conjoint project of drawing to themselves all truth-loving souls on all the worlds of time and space. The very instant the Eternal Son accepted his Father's plan of perfection attainment for the creatures of the universes, the moment the ascension project became a Father-Son plan, that instant the Infinite Spirit became the conjoint administrator of the Father and the Son for the execution of their united and eternal purpose. And in so doing the Infinite Spirit pledged all his resources of divine Presence and of spirit Personalities to the Father and the Son; He has dedicated all to the stupendous plan of exalting surviving will creatures to the divine heights of Paradise perfection. [Perfect triune loving ministry to all !]
8:3.6 The Infinite Spirit is a complete, exclusive, and universal revelation of the Universal Father and his Eternal Son. All knowledge of the Father-Son partnership must be had through the Infinite Spirit, the conjoint representative of the divine thought-word union.
4. THE SPIRIT OF DIVINE MINISTRY
8:4.2 God is love, the Son is mercy, the Spirit is ministry -- the ministry of divine love and endless mercy to all intelligent creation. The Spirit is the Personification of the Father's love and the Son's mercy; in him are they eternally united for universal service. The Spirit is love applied to the creature creation, the combined love of the Father and the Son.
8:4.4 When a Creator Son of God accepts the creatorship charge of responsibility for a projected local universe, the personalities of the Infinite Spirit pledge themselves as the tireless ministers of this Michael Son when He goes forth on his mission of creative adventure. Especially in the persons of the Creative Daughters, the local universe Mother Spirits, do we find the Infinite Spirit devoted to the task of fostering the ascension of the material creatures to higher and higher levels of spiritual attainment. And all this work of creature ministry is done in perfect harmony with the purposes, and in close association with the personalities, of the Creator Sons of these local universes. [Our Creator Father-Son of God is Jesus Christ Michael; his Partner is the Creative Minister (Holy Spirit) of the Infinite Spirit.]
8:4.5 As the Sons of God are engaged in the gigantic task of revealing the Father's Personality of love to a universe, so is the Infinite Spirit dedicated to the unending ministry of revealing the combined love of the Father and the Son to the individual minds of all the children of each universe. In these local creations the Spirit does not come down to the material races in the likeness of mortal flesh [Jesus is also the Son of Man and our Very Elder Brfother !] as do certain of the Sons of God, but the Infinite Spirit and his co-ordinate Spirits do downstep themselves, do joyfully undergo an amazing series of divinity attenuations, until they appear as angels to stand by your side and guide you through the lowly paths of earthly existence.
8:4.7 The Conjoint Creator is truly and forever the great ministering Personality, the universal mercy Minister. To comprehend the ministry of the Spirit, ponder the truth that He is the combined portrayal of the Father's unending love and of the Son's eternal mercy. The Spirit's ministry is not, however, restricted solely to the representation of the Eternal Son and the Universal Father. The Infinite Spirit also possesses the power to minister to the creatures of the realm in his own name and right; the Third Person is of divine dignity and also bestows the universal ministry of mercy in his own behalf.
8:4.8 As man learns more of the loving and tireless ministry of the lower orders of the creature family of this Infinite Spirit, he will all the more admire and adore the transcendent nature and matchless character of this combined Action of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son. Indeed is this Spirit "the eyes of the Lord which are ever over the righteous" and "the divine ears which are ever open to their prayers." [God is Spirit ! Amen !]
5. THE PRESENCE OF GOD
8:5.1 The outstanding attribute of the Infinite Spirit is omnipresence. Throughout all the universe of universes there is everywhere present this all-pervading spirit, which is so akin to the presence of a universal and divine mind. Both the Second Person and the Third Person of Deity are represented on all worlds [even on our backwards planet earth !] by their ever-present Spirits.
8:5.2 The Father is infinite and is therefore limited only by volition. [His infinite, absolute, eternal will.] In the bestowal of Adjusters [God's pure. prepersonal spirit portion within each normal human being] and in the encircuitment of personality, the Father acts alone, but in the contact of spirit forces with intelligent beings, He utilizes the Spirits and Personalities of the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit. He is at will spiritually Present equally with the Son or with the Conjoint Actor; He is Present with the Son and in the Spirit. The Father is most certainly everywhere Present, and we [Paradise Divine Counselors on Uversa, the headquarters of our Orvonton Seventh Superuniverse] discern his Presence by and through any and all of these diverse but associated forces, influences, and presences.
8:5.3 In your sacred writings the term Spirit of God seems to be used interchangeably to designate both the Infinite Spirit on Paradise and the Creative Spirit [Bride of Christ, coequal Partner of our Sovereign Father-Son Jesus Christ Michael] of your local universe. The Holy Spirit is the spiritual circuit of this Creative Daughter of the Paradise Infinite Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a circuit indigenous to each local universe and is confined to the spiritual realm of that creation; but the Infinite Spirit is omnipresent. [There are 700,000 local universes in this present Grand Universe of Seven Superuniverses; the past-now-future Master Universe is much larger, but not yet much revealed to humans. There is also the unrevealed Infinite Universe. And there is more ever being revealed as we progress in Spirit and in All Truth. Amen !]
8:5.4 [Very important:] There 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 humans on Earth, 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."
8:5.5 Ever remember that the Infinite Spirit is the Conjoint Actor; both the Father and the Son are functioning in and through him; He is present not only as himself but also as the Father and as the Son and as the Father-Son. In recognition of this and for many additional reasons the spirit presence of the Infinite Spirit is often referred to as "the Spirit of God." [Coordinate Unity of the Godhead and the Coordinate Universe Creators and Creative Spirits !]
8:5.6 It would also be consistent to refer to the liaison of all spiritual ministry as the Spirit of God, for such a liaison is truly the union of the Spirits of God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit, and God the Sevenfold -- even the spirit of God the Supreme.
6. PERSONALITY OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT
8:6.1 Do not allow the widespread bestowal and the far-flung distribution of the Third Source and Center to obscure or otherwise detract from the fact of his Personality. The Infinite Spirit is a universe presence, an eternal action, a cosmic power, a holy influence, and a universal mind; He is all of these and infinitely more, but He is also a true and divine Personality. [I AM of I AM AS I AM; and infinitely more complex without limit]
8:6.2 The Infinite Spirit is a complete and perfect Personality, the divine Equal and Co-ordinate of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son. The Conjoint Creator is just as REAL and visible to the higher intelligences of the universes as are the Father and the Son; indeed more so, for it is the Spirit whom all ascenders must attain before they may approach the Father through the Son.
8:6.3 The Infinite Spirit, the Third Person of Deity, is possessed of all the attributes which you associate with personality. The Spirit is endowed with Absolute Mind: "The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God." The Spirit is endowed not only with mind but also with will. In the bestowal of his Gifts it is recorded: "But all these works that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally and as He wills."
8:6.4 "The love of the Spirit" is real, as also are his sorrows; therefore "Grieve not the Spirit of God." Whether we observe the Infinite Spirit as Paradise Deity or as a local universe Creative Spirit, we find that the Conjoint Creator is not only the Third Source and Center but also a divine Person. This divine Personality [I AM SPIRIT] also reacts to the universe as a Person. The Spirit speaks to you, "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says." "The Spirit himself makes intercession for you." The Spirit exerts a direct and personal influence upon created beings, "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." [Amen ! Thank You our One Holy Father-Son-Spirit of God !]
8:6.5 Even though we behold the phenomenon of the Ministry of the Infinite Spirit to the remote worlds of the universe of universes, even though we envisage this same Coordinating Deity acting in and through the untold legions of the manifold beings who take origin in the Third Source and Center, even though we recognize the omnipresence of the Spirit, nonetheless, we still affirm that this same Third Source and Center is a Person, the Conjoint Creator of all things and all beings and all universes.
8:6.6 In the administration of universes the Father, Son, and Spirit are perfectly and eternally interassociated. Though each is engaged in a Personal Ministry to all creation, all Three are divinely and absolutely interlocked in a service of Creation and Control which forever makes them one.
8:6.7 In the Person of the Infinite Spirit the Father and the Son are mutually Present, always and in unqualified perfection, for the Spirit is like the Father and like the Son, and also like the Father and the Son as they two are forever ONE.
8:6.8 {Presented on your world by a Divine Counselor of Uversa (the headquarters of the seventh superuniverse) commissioned by the Ancients of Days to portray the nature and work of the Infinite Spirit.}
Paper 9 RELATION OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT TO THE UNIVERSE
0. Introduction
9:0.1 A strange thing occurred when, in the presence of Paradise, the Universal Father and the Eternal Son unite to personalize themselves. Nothing in this eternity situation foreshadows that the Conjoint Actor would personalize as an unlimited spirituality coordinated with absolute mind and endowed with unique prerogatives of energy manipulation. His coming into being completes the Father's liberation from the bonds of centralized perfection and from the fetters of personality absolutism. And this liberation is disclosed in the amazing power of the Conjoint Creator to create beings well adapted to serve as ministering spirits even to the material creatures of the subsequently evolving universes.
9:0.1 The Father is infinite in love and volition, in spiritual thought and purpose; He is the universal upholder. The Son is infinite in wisdom and truth, in spiritual expression and interpretation; He is the universal revealer. Paradise is infinite in potential for force endowment and in capacity for energy dominance; it is the universal stabilizer. The Conjoint Actor possesses unique prerogatives of synthesis, infinite capacity to co-ordinate all existing universe energies, all actual universe spirits, and all real universe intellects; the Third Source and Center is the universal unifier of the manifold energies and diverse creations which have appeared in consequence of the divine plan and the eternal purpose of the Universal Father.
9:0.2 The Infinite Spirit, the Conjoint Creator, is a universal and divine Minister. The Spirit unceasingly ministers the Son's mercy and the Father's love, even in harmony with the stable, unvarying, and righteous justice of the Paradise Trinity. His influence and personalities are ever near you; they really know and truly understand you.
9:0.3 Throughout the universes the agencies of the Conjoint Actor ceaselessly manipulate the forces and energies of all space. Like the First Source and Center, the Third is responsive to both the spiritual and the material. The Conjoint Actor is the revelation of the unity of God, in whom all things consist -- things, meanings, and values; energies, minds, and spirits.
9:0.4 The Infinite Spirit pervades all space; He indwells the circle of eternity; and the Spirit, like the Father and the Son, is perfect and changeless -- absolute.
1. ATTRIBUTES OF THE THIRD SOURCE AND CENTER
9:1.1 The Third Source and Center is known by many names, all designative of relationship and in recognition of function: As God the Spirit, He is the personality co-ordinate and divine equal of God the Son and God the Father. As the Infinite Spirit, He is an omnipresent spiritual influence. As the Universal Manipulator, He is the ancestor of the power-control creatures and the activator of the cosmic forces of space. As the Conjoint Actor, He is the joint representative and partnership executive of the Father-Son. As the Absolute Mind, He is the source of the endowment of intellect throughout the universes. As the God of Action, He is the apparent ancestor of motion, change, and relationship.
9:1.2 Some of the attributes of the Third Source and Center are derived from the Father, some from the Son, while still others are not observed to be actively and personally present in either the Father or the Son -- attributes that can hardly be explained except by assuming that the Father-Son partnership which eternalizes the Third Source and Center consistently functions in consonance with, and in recognition of, the eternal fact of the absoluteness of Paradise. The Conjoint Creator embodies the fullness of the combined and infinite concepts of the First and Second Persons of Deity. [Later, more relationships with the Three Absolutes: Deity, Unqualified and Universal will be presented. Thus, there are a total of Seven Coordinate Absolutes in God as Infinite Reality: The Universal Father, The Eternal Son, The Infinite Spirit, Paradise, The Deity Absolute, The Unqualified Absolute, The Universal Absolute.]
9:1.3 While you envisage the Father as an original creator and the Son as a spiritual administrator, you should think of the Third Source and Center as a universal co-ordinator, a minister of unlimited co-operation. The Conjoint Actor is the correlator of all actual reality; He is the Deity repository of the Father's thought and the Son's word and in action is eternally regardful of the material absoluteness of the central Isle. The Paradise Trinity has ordained the universal order of progress, and the providence of God is the domain of the Conjoint Creator and the evolving Supreme Being. No actual or actualizing reality can escape eventual relationship with the Third Source and Center.
9:1.4 The Universal Father presides over the realms of pre-energy, prespirit, and personality; the Eternal Son dominates the spheres of spiritual activities; the presence of the Isle of Paradise unifies the domain of physical energy and materializing power; the Conjoint Actor operates not only as an infinite spirit representing the Son but also as a universal manipulator of the forces and energies of Paradise, thus bringing into existence the universal and absolute mind. The Conjoint Actor functions throughout the grand universe as a positive and distinct Personality, especially in the higher spheres of spiritual values, physical-energy relationships, and true mind meanings. He functions specifically wherever and whenever energy and spirit associate and interact; He dominates all reactions with mind, wields great power in the spiritual world, and exerts a mighty influence over energy and matter. At all times the Third Source is expressive of the nature of the First Source and Center.
9:1.5 The Third Source and Center perfectly and without qualification shares the omnipresence of the First Source and Center, sometimes being called the Omnipresent Spirit. In a peculiar and very personal manner the God of mind shares the omniscience of the Universal Father and his Eternal Son; the knowledge of the Spirit is profound and complete. The Conjoint Creator manifests certain phases of the omnipotence of the Universal Father but is actually omnipotent only in the domain of mind. The Third Person of Deity is the intellectual center and the universal administrator of the mind realms; herein is He Absolute his sovereignty is unqualified.
9:1.6 The Conjoint Actor seems to be motivated by the Father-Son partnership, but all his actions appear to recognize the Father-Paradise relationship. At times and in certain functions He seems to compensate for the incompleteness of the development of the experiential Deities -- God the Supreme and God the Ultimate.
9:1.7 And herein is an infinite mystery: That the Infinite simultaneously revealed his infinity in the Son and as Paradise, and then there springs into existence a being equal to God in divinity, reflective of the Son's spiritual nature, and capable of activating the Paradise pattern, a being provisionally subordinate in sovereignty but in many ways apparently the most versatile in action. And such apparent superiority in action is disclosed in an attribute of the Third Source and Center which is superior even to physical gravity -- the universal manifestation of the Isle of Paradise.
9:1.8 In addition to this supercontrol of energy and things physical, the Infinite Spirit is superbly endowed with those attributes of patience, mercy, and love which are so exquisitely revealed in his spiritual ministry. The Spirit is supremely competent to minister love and to overshadow justice with mercy. God the Spirit possesses all the supernal kindness and merciful affection of the Original and Eternal Son. The universe of your origin is being forged out between the anvil of justice and the hammer of suffering; but those who wield the hammer are the children of mercy, the spirit offspring of the Infinite Spirit. [God's invitation-command to each of us is: "Be you perfect; even as I AM perfect." "Follow and obey your Creator Father-Son Jesus Christ Michael." "In Him (our Sovereign Jesus) here, I AM; and WE (the Trinity Government) ARE." (This last sentence is my interpretive, inspired paraphrase of our universe spiritual reality; more later)]
Topical Study number 145
"My Important HighLights of The Urantia (Earth) Book"
Part 11
Compiled April 19, 2023 by Dave@PureChristians.org
Paper 9 RELATION OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT TO THE UNIVERSE, Cont.
2. THE OMNIPRESENT SPIRIT
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9:2.1 God is Spirit in a threefold sense: He himself is Spirit; in his Son he appears as Spirit without qualification; in the Conjoint Actor, as Spirit allied with Mind. And in addition to these spiritual realities, we [Paradise Divine Counselors out here teaching us] think we discern levels of experiential spirit phenomena -- the spirits of the Supreme Being, Ultimate Deity, and Deity Absolute.
9:2.2 The Infinite Spirit is just as much a complement of the Eternal Son as the Son is a complement of the Universal Father. The Eternal Son is a spiritualized Personalization of the Father; the Infinite Spirit is a personalized Spiritualization of the Eternal Son and the Universal Father. [The Universal Father as Infinite is volition - will; HE wills these Eternal and Absolute Realities; and they ARE ... One and Coordinated ... Infinite Unity *and* Infinite Diversity ... Personal and impersonal Paradise Pattern-Force ... and much more without end ! Amen !]
9:2.3 There are many untrammeled [unrestrained] lines of spiritual force and sources of supermaterial power linking the people of your planet directly with the Deities of Paradise. There exist the connection of the Thought Adjusters [God's perfect prepersonal Spirit will within your mind and soul] 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.
9:2.4 In addition to these Paradise presences, you derive 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.
9:2.5 The 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. [The Coequal Partner with our Sovereign Father-Son Jesus Christ] 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. [Here on Earth, since Pentecost in A.D. 30, we are blessed with the omnipresent Spirit of Truth Who Is freely poured out upon all flesh ! He is the Spirit of the Paradise Universal Father-Infinite and our Sovereign Creator Father-Son as ONE SPIRIT. The Holy Spirit here of the Infinite Spirit is also One with He the Father-Son Spirit of Truth. I often state this as "HE the Holy Father-Son-Spirit of Truth" -- even ALL TRUTH -- even GOD. See John 16:7-16 and Rev 21:3-7 on this. All very True and Sacred in our eternal personal God-consciousness ! "I am a beloved son of I AM; Thank You Jesus !!!" ]
3. THE UNIVERSAL MANIPULATOR
9:3.1 The Isle of Paradise is the source and substance of physical gravity; and that should be sufficient to inform you that gravity is one of the most real and eternally dependable things in the whole physical universe of universes. Gravity cannot be modified or annulled except by the forces and energies conjointly sponsored by the Father and the Son, which have been intrusted to, and are functionally associated with, the person of the Third Source and Center.
9:3.5 The Conjoint Creator is not energy nor the source of energy nor the destiny of energy; He is the manipulator of energy. The Conjoint Creator [also called the Divine Activator] is action -- motion, change, modification, co-ordination, stabilization, and equilibrium. The energies subject to the direct or indirect control of Paradise are by nature responsive to the acts of the Third Source and Center and his manifold agencies.
9:3.6 The universe of universes is permeated by the power-control creatures of the Third Source and Center: physical controllers, power directors, power centers, and other representatives of the God of Action who have to do with the regulation and stabilization of physical energies. These unique creatures of physical function all possess varying attributes of power control, such as antigravity, which they utilize in their efforts to establish the physical equilibrium of the matter and energies of the grand universe.
9:3.7 All these material activities of the God of Action appear to relate his function to the Isle of Paradise, and indeed the agencies of power are all regardful of, even dependent on, the absoluteness of the eternal Isle. But the Conjoint Actor does not act for, or in response to, Paradise. He acts, personally, for the Father and the Son. Paradise is not a person. The nonpersonal, impersonal, and otherwise not personal doings of the Third Source and Center are all volitional acts of the Conjoint Actor himself; they are not reflections, derivations, or repercussions of anything or anybody.
9:3.8 Paradise is the pattern of infinity; the God of Action is the Activator of that pattern. Paradise is the material fulcrum of infinity; the agencies of the Third Source and Center are the levers of intelligence which motivate the material level and inject spontaneity into the mechanism of the physical creation. [The Infinite Spirit controls 30 different primal energies-forces-powers from Paradise; 27 of them are available now out in the many local universes of the seven huge superuniverses of the present Grand Universe. Our human scientists here now know only 4 of these 27 different primal forces-energies-powers: strong nuclear, weak nuclear, electromagnetic, and (local, linear, physical) gravity; 23 of them are STILL UNKNOWN to us ! Much good work needs to be done in physics, as well as in religion, and in philosophy. Great ! (Triune universe reality of Spirit and Matter-force unified by Mind)]
4. THE ABSOLUTE MIND
9:4.2 The 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. [The four Gravity Presence Circuits are: (in some senses, high to low, but all Absolute) 1. Personality (of the Father-Infinite I AM) 2. Spirit of the Eternal Son 3. Mind of the Infinite Spirit 4. Force-energy from Paradise as focus of infinite Pattern. More later]
9:4.3 The Conjoint Creator is absolute only in the domain of mind, in the realms of universal intelligence. The mind of the Third Source and Center is infinite; it utterly transcends the active and functioning mind circuits of the universe of universes. The mind endowment of the seven superuniverses is derived from the Seven Master Spirits, the primary personalities of the Conjoint Creator. These Master Spirits distribute mind to the grand universe as the cosmic mind, and your local universe is pervaded by the Nebadon variant of the Orvonton type of cosmic mind.
9:4.4 Infinite mind ignores time, ultimate mind transcends time, cosmic mind is conditioned by time. And so with space: The Infinite Mind is independent of space, but as descent is made from the infinite to the adjutant levels [seven levels in humans, five levels in the higher animals here] of mind, intellect must increasingly reckon with the fact and limitations of space.
9:4.5 Cosmic force responds to mind even as cosmic mind responds to spirit. Spirit is divine purpose, and spirit mind is divine purpose in action. Energy is thing, mind is meaning, spirit is value. Even in time and space, mind establishes those relative relationships between energy and spirit which are suggestive of mutual kinship in eternity.
9:4.6 Mind transmutes the values of spirit into the meanings of intellect; volition [will in personalities] has power to bring the meanings of mind to fruit in both the material and spiritual domains. The Paradise ascent involves a relative and differential growth in spirit, mind, and energy. The personality is the unifier of these components of experiential individuality. [a human being is personality, spirit, soul, mind, and body. (physical matter) In a well-balanced human, they are all correlated and unified by personality.]
5. THE MINISTRY OF MIND
9:5.1 The Third Source and Center [The Infinite Spirit in all aspects] is infinite in mind. If the universe should grow to infinity, still his mind potential would be adequate to endow limitless numbers of creatures with suitable minds and other prerequisites of intellect.
9:5.2 In the domain of created mind the Third Person, with his co-ordinate and subordinate associates, rules supreme. The realms of creature mind are of exclusive origin in the Third Source and Center; He is the bestower of mind. Even the Father fragments find it impossible to indwell the minds of men until the way has been properly prepared for them by the mind action and spiritual function of the Infinite Spirit.
9:5.3 The unique feature of mind is that it can be bestowed upon such a wide range of life. Through his creative and creature associates the Third Source and Center ministers to all minds on all spheres. He ministers to human and subhuman intellect through the [seven] adjutants [mind-spirits] of the local universes and, through the agency of the physical controllers, ministers even to the lowest nonexperiencing entities of the most primitive types of living things. And always is the direction of mind a ministry of mind-spirit or mind-energy personalities.
9:5.4 Since the Third Person of Deity is the source of mind, it is quite natural that the evolutionary will creatures find it easier to form comprehensible concepts of the Infinite Spirit than they do of either the Eternal Son or the Universal Father. [The Three Persons of the Existential Paradise Trinity] The reality of the Conjoint Creator is disclosed imperfectly in the very existence of human mind. The Conjoint Creator is the ancestor of the cosmic mind, and the mind of man is an individualized circuit, an impersonal portion, of that cosmic mind as it is bestowed in a local universe by a Creative Daughter of the Third Source and Center. [This local universe Creative Spirit is the coordinate, cooperative Partner ("Bride") of our Sovereign Father-Son Jesus Christ Michael; thus in Jesus is now ALL of the fullness of GOD here in our local universe !]
9:5.5 Because the Third Person is the source of mind, do not presume to reckon that all phenomena of mind are divine. Human intellect is rooted in the material origin of the animal races. Universe intelligence is no more a true revelation of God who is Mind than is physical nature a true revelation of the beauty and harmony of Paradise. Perfection is in nature, but nature is not perfect. The Conjoint Creator is the source of mind, but mind is not the Conjoint Creator.
9:5.6 Mind, on your world, is a compromise between the essence of thought perfection and the evolving mentality of your immature human nature The plan for your intellectual evolution is, indeed, one of sublime perfection, but you are far short of that divine goal as you function in the tabernacles of the flesh. Mind is truly of divine origin, and it does have a divine destiny, but your mortal minds are not yet of divine dignity.
9:5.7 Too often, all too often, you mar your minds by insincerity and sear them with unrighteousness; you subject them to animal fear and distort them by useless anxiety. Therefore, though the source of mind is divine, mind as you know it on your world of ascension can hardly become the object of great admiration, much less of adoration or worship. The contemplation of the immature and inactive human intellect should lead only to reactions of humility. [It is roughly estimated that an average human here presently uses only about 5% to 10% of his or her mind capacity. Many humans stumble around mostly mentally inactive, using the lower animal mind brain-stem. We can all strive to become much more aware of reality. Perusing this revelation of Truth, presented partly here to date, will also help.]
6. THE MIND-GRAVITY CIRCUIT
9:6.1 The Third Source and Center, the universal intelligence, is personally conscious of every mind, every intellect, in all creation, and He maintains a personal and perfect contact with all these physical, morontial, [an intermediate soul level reality which is now super-physical and sub-spiritual] and spiritual creatures of mind endowment in the far-flung universes. All these activities of mind are grasped in the absolute Mind-gravity Circuit which focalizes in the Third Source and Center and is a part of the personal consciousness of the Infinite Spirit.
9:6.3 Mind gravity can operate independently of material [Paradise Origin Physical] and Spiritual gravity, but wherever and whenever the latter two impinge, Mind gravity always functions. When all three are associated, Personality gravity may embrace the material creature -- physical or morontial, finite [supreme] or absonite [transcendental or ultimate]. But irrespective of this, the endowment of mind even in impersonal beings qualifies them to think and endows them with consciousness despite the total absence of personality. [Personality includes super-consciousness: consciousness of consciousness: I am of I AM !]
9:6.4 Selfhood of personality dignity, human or divine, immortal or potentially immortal, does not however originate in either spirit, mind, or matter; it is the bestowal of the Universal Father. Neither is the interaction of spirit, mind, and material gravity a prerequisite to the appearance of Personality Gravity. The Father's Circuit may embrace a mind-material being who is unresponsive to spirit gravity, or it may include a mind-spirit being who is unresponsive to material gravity. The operation of Personality Gravity is always a volitional act of the Universal Father.
9:6.9 Certain phases of the unpredictability of finite mind may be due to the incompleteness of the Supreme Being, and there is a vast zone of activities wherein the Conjoint Actor and the Universal Absolute may possibly be tangent. There is much about mind that is unknown, but of this we are sure: The Infinite Spirit is the perfect expression of the Mind of the [Infinite Paradise] Creator to all creatures; the Supreme Being is the evolving expression of the minds of all creatures to their Creator.
7. UNIVERSE REFLECTIVITY
9:7.1 The Conjoint Actor is able to co-ordinate all levels of universe actuality in such manner as to make possible the simultaneous recognition of the mental, the material, and the spiritual. This is the phenomenon of universe reflectivity, that unique and inexplicable power to see, hear, sense, and know all things as they transpire throughout a superuniverse, [each having 100,000 local universes] and to focalize, by reflectivity, all this information and knowledge at any desired point. The action of reflectivity is shown in perfection on each of the headquarters worlds of the seven superuniverses. It is also operative throughout all sectors of the superuniverses and within the boundaries of the local universes. Reflectivity finally focalizes on Paradise.
9:7.2 The phenomenon of reflectivity, as it is disclosed on the superuniverse headquarters worlds in the amazing performances of the reflective personalities there stationed, represents the most complex interassociation of all phases of existence to be found in all creation. Lines of spirit can be traced back to the Son, physical energy to Paradise, and mind to the Third Source; but in the extraordinary phenomenon of universe reflectivity there is a unique and exceptional unification of all three, so associated as to enable the universe rulers to know about remote conditions instantaneously, simultaneously with their occurrence.
8. PERSONALITIES OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT
9:8.4 The next and continuing creative act of the Infinite Spirit is disclosed, from time to time, in the production of the Creative Spirits. Every time the Universal Father and the Eternal Son become parent to a Creator [Michael] Son, the Infinite Spirit becomes ancestor to a local universe Creative Spirit who becomes the close associate of that Creator Son in all subsequent universe experience.
9:8.5 Just as it is necessary to distinguish between the Eternal Son and the Creator Sons, so it is necessary to differentiate between the Infinite Spirit and the Creative Spirits, the local universe co-ordinates of the Creator Sons. What the Infinite Spirit is to the total creation, a Creative Spirit is to a local universe. [Very important: The Creative (Holy) Spirit here is the Infinite Spirit here to us; our Master Jesus Christ Michael is both the Paradise Father and Eternal Son to us; all Five Coordinate Deity Persons here are as ONE in Spirit to us ! Much more on this here later.]
9:8.10 The 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. [The Father's Gift of Personality makes each and every human being here potentially a Divine-Human with Divine God-given Dignity and Divine God-given Rights ! When almost all Humans believe and live as Jesus Teaches: to LOVE each and every Human Person as GOD and JESUS LOVE THEM ! then this still backward world will be in the first stages of Divine Light and Eternal Life !]
9:8.11 There 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.
9:8.12 Both First Source and Third Source personalities are endowed with all and more than man associates with the concept of personality; they have minds embracing memory, reason, judgment, creative imagination, idea association, decision, choice, and numerous additional powers of intellect wholly unknown to mortals. With few exceptions the orders revealed to you possess form and distinct individuality; they are real beings. A majority of them are visible to all orders of spirit existence.
9:8.13 Even you will be able to see your spiritual associates of the lower orders as soon as you are delivered from the limited vision of your present material eyes and have been endowed with a morontia [soul body] form with its enlarged sensitivity to the reality of spiritual things.
9:8.14 The functional family of the Third Source and Center, as it is revealed in these narratives, falls into three great groups:
9:8.15 I. The Supreme Spirits. A group of composite origin that embraces, among others, the following orders:
9:8.16 #1. The Seven Master Spirits of Paradise.
9:8.17 #2. The Reflective Spirits of the Superuniverses.
9:8.18 #3. The Creative Spirits of the Local Universes.
107B (9:8.19) II. The Power Directors. A group of control creatures and agencies that function throughout all organized space.
107B (9:8.20) III. The Personalities of the Infinite Spirit. This designation does not necessarily imply that these beings are Third Source personalities though some of them are unique as will creatures. They are usually grouped in three major classifications:
9:8.21 #1. The Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit.
9:8.22 #2. The Messenger Hosts of Space.
9:8.23 #3. The Ministering Spirits of Time.
9:8.24 These groups serve on Paradise, in the central or residential universe [Havona with one billion immense spheres], in the [seven] superuniverses, and they embrace orders that function in the [700,000] local universes, even to the constellations, systems, and planets. [each local universe will have ten million human inhabited planets of perfecting sons of God -- as we are !]
9:8.25 The spirit personalities of the vast family of the Divine and Infinite Spirit are forever dedicated to the service of the ministry of the love of God and the mercy of the Son to all the intelligent creatures of the evolutionary worlds of time and space. These spirit beings constitute the living ladder whereby mortal man climbs from chaos to glory. [Some readers of this Revelation have also stated: "from clod to God" and "from slime to Sublime" and from "oozed to EnThused" Ha ha.]
9:8.26 {Revealed on Earth by a Divine Counselor of Uversa (the headquarters sphere of our seventh superuniverse of Orvonton which has/will have about one trillion human inhabited planets and other higher administrative spheres) commissioned by the Ancients of Days to portray the nature and work of the Infinite Spirit.}
Topical Study number 145
"My Important HighLights of The Urantia (Earth) Book"
Part 12
Compiled April 21, 2023 by Dave@PureChristians.org
Paper 10 THE PARADISE TRINITY
0. Introduction
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10:0.1 The Paradise Trinity of eternal Deities facilitates the Father's escape from personality absolutism. [I AM as ONE ALL REALITY] The Trinity perfectly associates the limitless expression of God's infinite personal will with the absoluteness of Deity. The Eternal Son and the various Sons [example: our Master Creator Son - GodMan Who is Jesus Christ Michael !] of divine origin, together with the Conjoint Actor [the Infinite Spirit acting for the Father and Son and Father-Son union and using Paradise force-energy in the universe] and his universe children, [our Holy Creative Spirit Partner of Jesus] effectively provide for the Father's liberation from the limitations otherwise inherent in primacy, perfection, changelessness, eternity, universality, absoluteness, and infinity.
10:0.2 The Paradise Trinity effectively provides for the full expression and perfect revelation of the eternal nature of Deity. The Stationary Sons of the Trinity likewise afford a full and perfect revelation of divine justice. The Trinity is Deity unity, and this unity rests eternally upon the absolute foundations of the divine oneness of the three original and co-ordinate and coexistent personalities, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit. [God's perfect justice includes his infinite love and mercy ! God is just as infinitely loving and lavishly merciful to all Beings as our good Master Jesus is loving and merciful to us ! To see God the Father-Infinite I AM; we should look to the perfect Life and Teachings of our Creator Father-Son Jesus in Spirit and in his Father-Son Eternal Truth !]
10:0.3 From the present situation on the circle of eternity, looking backward into the endless past, we [high Stationary Trinity Sons of God at the headquarters (Uversa) of our superuniverse] can discover only one inescapable inevitability in universe affairs, and that is the Paradise Trinity. I [a Universal Censor] deem the Trinity to have been inevitable. As I view the past, present, and future of time, I consider nothing else in all the universe of universes to have been inevitable. The present master universe, viewed in retrospect or in prospect, is unthinkable without the Trinity. Given the Paradise Trinity, we can postulate alternate or even multiple ways of doing all things, but without the Trinity of Father, Son, and Spirit we are unable to conceive how the Infinite could achieve threefold and co-ordinate personalization in the face of the absolute oneness of Deity. No other concept of creation measures up to the Trinity standards of the completeness of the absoluteness inherent in Deity unity coupled with the repleteness [perfect completeness in all situations] of volitional liberation inherent in the threefold personalization of Deity.
1. SELF-DISTRIBUTION OF THE FIRST SOURCE AND CENTER
10:1.1 It would seem that the Father, back in eternity, inaugurated a policy of profound self-distribution. There is inherent in the selfless, loving, and lovable nature of the Universal Father something which causes him to reserve to himself the exercise of only those powers and that authority which He apparently finds it impossible to delegate or to bestow.
10:1.2 The Universal Father all along has divested himself of every part of himself that was bestowable on any other Creator or creature. He has delegated to his divine Sons and their associated intelligences every power and all authority that could be delegated. He has actually transferred to his Sovereign Sons, in their respective universes, [our Sovereign GodMan Jesus Christ Michael] every prerogative of administrative authority that was transferable. In the affairs of a local universe, He has made each Sovereign Creator Son just as perfect, competent, and authoritative as is the Eternal Son in the original and central universe. He has given away, actually bestowed, with the dignity and sanctity of personality possession, all of himself and all of his attributes, everything He possibly could divest himself of, in every way, in every age, in every place, and to every person, and in every universe except that of his central indwelling. [God is fully now in Jesus and Jesus is fully in God ! Jesus now has all Power and Authority here of all of Deity to us: God the Father and God the Son and God the Spirit. Jesus is the very Personal fullness of God to us. HE IS I AM here ! I am blessed in Spirit to Know this Eternal Truth personally since my Spirit Birth-Day Eternity since May 24, 1977 and forevermore. Thank You Jesus ! You are here ! Ever Guiding us as He the Holy Father-Son-Spirit of Truth ! Even All Truth ! (also see John ch 16, ch 17 and Rev 21:3-7 and others in Spirit and in Father-Son Truth)]
10:1.3 Divine Personality is not self-centered; self-distribution and sharing of Personality characterize divine freewill selfhood. Creatures crave association with other personal creatures; Creators are moved to share divinity with their universe children; the Personality of the Infinite is disclosed as the Universal Father, [I AM] Who shares Reality of Being and Equality of Self with two Co-ordinate Personalities, the Eternal Son and the Conjoint Actor.
10:1.4 For knowledge concerning the Father's Personality and divine attributes we will always be dependent on the Revelations of the Eternal Son, for when the conjoint act of creation was effected, when the Third Person of Deity sprang [in all past and now and forever ETERNALLY !] into personality existence and executed the combined concepts of his divine Parents, the Father ceased to exist as the unqualified Personality. With the [eternal] coming into being of the Conjoint Actor and the materialization of the central core of creation, [Paradise and Havona] certain eternal changes took place. God gave HimSelf as an absolute Personality to his Eternal Son. Thus does the Father bestow the "Personality of infinity" upon his only-begotten Son, while They both bestow the "Conjoint Personality" of their Eternal Union upon the Infinite Spirit.
10:1.5 For these and other reasons beyond the concept of the finite mind, it is exceedingly difficult for the human creature to comprehend God's Infinite Father-Personality except as it is universally revealed in the Eternal Son and, with the Son, is universally active in the Infinite Spirit.
10:1.6 Since the Paradise Sons of God [our universe Maker Jesus] visit the evolutionary worlds and sometimes even there dwell in the likeness of mortal flesh, [Incarnate Eternal GODMAN Jesus] and since these Bestowals make it possible for mortal man actually to KNOW something of the nature and character of [I AM] Divine Personality, therefore must the creatures of the planetary spheres [and thus we mortal sons of God on earth] look to the Bestowals of these Paradise Sons for reliable and trustworthy information regarding the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. [Later here, we will highlight spiritual gems of Truth and wisdom in a fuller Revelation of the matchless Life and Teachings of Jesus when He was Incarnate here on earth, from 7 BC to AD 30; then He and the Father-Infinite I AM freely sent Their One Combined Spirit of Truth upon all flesh and thus all human persons ! see John 16:7-16 very carefully and ask for personal revelation to give you the full Conviction of All Truth in/as Jesus and the Paradise Father I AM as One here in Spirit !]
2. DEITY PERSONALIZATION
10:2.1 By the technique of trinitization the Father divests himself of that unqualified spirit Personality which IS the Son, but in so doing He constitutes himself the Father of this very Son and thereby possesses himself of unlimited capacity to become the divine Father of all subsequently created, eventuated, or other personalized types of intelligent will creatures. As the absolute and unqualified Personality the Father can function only as and with the Son, but as a personal Father He continues to bestow personality upon the diverse hosts of the differing levels of intelligent will creatures, and He forever maintains Personal Relations of loving association with this vast [probably an infinite number !] Family of universe children.
10:2.2 After the Father has bestowed upon the Personality of his Son the fullness of himself, and when this act of self-bestowal is complete and perfect, of the infinite power and nature which are thus existent in the Father-Son union, the Eternal Partners conjointly bestow those qualities and attributes which constitute still another Being like Themselves; and this Conjoint Personality, the Infinite Spirit, completes the Existential (and thus Paradise-Eternal) Personalization of Deity.
10:2.3 The Son is indispensable to the Fatherhood of God. The Spirit is indispensable to the Fraternity of the Second and Third Persons. Three persons are a minimum social group, but this is least of all the many reasons for believing in the inevitability of the Conjoint Actor. [About 40% of good Christians here on earth are too simple-minded to struggle with the infinite complexities of the Paradise Existential Trinity, Triodities and Triunities and more. (to be partly explained later) Maybe about 60% of Christians are intelligent enough to grasp a little of the Trinity Government of All Reality now here in our Master Jesus. God is Infinite and it will take us forevermore to continue to grow in Trinity-Infinity comprehension and divine spirituality ! Never will we run out of these increases ! A wise Theologian one said: "If God were SMALL enough for our present human comprehensions, He would not be BIG enough for all of our needs !' On the Trinity it is very important to grasp that the Paradise Trinity is infinite Deity UNITY of Three Coordinate Persons: God the Universal Father and God the Eternal Son and God the Infinite Spirit; (Conjoint Actor) and that all the fullness of God as Father-Son-Spirit IS NOW IN JESUS here with us in Spirit and in Truth !!!]
10:2.4 The First Source and Center is the infinite Father-Personality, the unlimited Source Personality. The Eternal Son is the unqualified Personality-Absolute, that divine Being who stands throughout all time and eternity as the perfect Revelation of the personal nature of God. The Infinite Spirit is the Conjoint Personality, the unique Personal consequence of the Everlasting Father-Son Union.
10:2.5 The Personality of the First Source and Center is the Personality of Infinity minus the Absolute Personality of the Eternal Son. The Personality of the Third Source and Center is the superadditive consequence of the Union of the liberated Father-Personality and the Absolute Son-personality.
10:2.6 The Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit are unique Persons; none is a duplicate; each is Original; all are United.
110 (10:2.7) The Eternal Son alone experiences the fullness of divine Personality Relationship, consciousness of both Sonship with the Father and Paternity to the Spirit and of divine Equality with both Father-ancestor and Spirit-associate. The Father knows the experience of having a Son who is his equal, but the Father knows no ancestral antecedents. [God the Paradise Father-Infinite I AM is the One Uncaused Cause of all Reality !!!] The Eternal Son has the experience of sonship, recognition of personality ancestry, and at the same time the Son is conscious of being joint parent to the Infinite Spirit. The Infinite Spirit is conscious of twofold personality ancestry but is not parental to a co-ordinate Deity personality. With the Spirit the existential cycle of Deity personalization attains completion; the primary personalities of the Third Source and Center are experiential and are seven in number.
10:2.8 I am of origin in the Paradise Trinity. I know the Trinity as unified Deity; I also know that the Father, Son, and Spirit exist and act in their definite personal capacities. I positively know that they not only act personally and collectively, but that they also co-ordinate their performances in various groupings, so that in the end they function in seven different singular and plural capacities. And since these seven associations exhaust the possibilities for such divinity combination, it is inevitable that the realities of the universe shall appear in seven variations of values, meanings, and personality. [1. God the Father 2. God the Son 3. God the Spirit 4. Father-Son Union 5. Father-Spirit Union 6. Son-Spirit Union 7. Father and Son and Spirit Union (Sorry, this #7 is not the same as the full Trinity function ! A little more on this later)]
3. THE THREE PERSONS OF DEITY
10:3.1 Notwithstanding there is only one Deity, there are three positive and divine Personalizations of Deity. Regarding the endowment of man with the divine Adjusters, the Father said: "Let US make mortal man in OUR own Image." [See Gen 1:26,27] Repeatedly throughout the [sacred writings on earth] there occurs this reference to the acts and doings of plural Deity, clearly showing recognition of the existence and working of the three Sources and Centers. [Yes ! In the Old Testament, God is the plural Deity word "Elohim" found about 2500 times; God, singular, "Elohim" is only found about 250 times. Melchizedek, a high Son of God directly under Jesus came suddenly to Abram (later he changed his name to Abraham) and was able to Reveal some basic Trinity Truths to a very few more spiritually advanced humans at Ur, about 4,000 years ago. Much was lost, but we DO have "Elohim" = "the Gods" = plural Deity = the Paradise Trinity TEN TIMES more in the Old Testament than "Eloah" = God, singular. Many humans in the Middle East are still too stubborn to see our Divine Light and Life of Jesus here ...but not for much longer ! This is a great time of great Revelation of Truth to all peoples of earth ! Amen ! "Every knee shall bow ..." (every soul will freely submit) to our Wonderful Father-Son-Spirit Jesus ! "Behold our True God Jesus ! For the time is NOW at hand ..."]
10:3.2 We are taught that the Son and the Spirit sustain the same and equal relations to the Father in the Trinity association. In eternity and as Deities they undoubtedly do, but in time and as Personalities they certainly disclose relationships of a very diverse nature. Looking from Paradise out on the universes, these relationships do seem to be very similar, but when viewed from the domains of space, they appear to be quite different.
10:3.3 The divine Sons are indeed the "Word of God," [see John ch 1] but the Children of the Spirit are truly the "Act of God." God speaks through the Son and, with the Son, acts through the Infinite Spirit, while in all universe activities the Son and the Spirit are exquisitely Fraternal, working as two equal Brothers with admiration and love for an honored and divinely respected common Father.
10:3.4 The Father, Son, and Spirit are certainly Equal in nature, Co-ordinate in Being, but there are unmistakable differences in their universe performances, and when acting alone, each Person of Deity is apparently limited in absoluteness.
10:3.5 The Universal Father, prior to his self-willed divestment of the personality, powers, and attributes which constitute the Son and the Spirit, seems [a needed condescension to very limited human minds] to have been (philosophically considered) an unqualified, absolute, and infinite Deity. But such a theoretical First Source and Center without a Son could not in any sense of the word be considered the Universal Father; fatherhood is not real without sonship. Furthermore, the Father, to have been absolute in a total sense, must have existed at some eternally distant moment alone. But HE NEVER had such a solitary existence; the Son and the Spirit are both co-eternal with the Father. The First Source and Center has always been, and will forever be, the eternal Father of the Original Son and, with the Son, the eternal progenitor of the Infinite Spirit. [So True ! Please believe this, even though your mind probably gets much confused in trying to reach up to this existential Deity level. In a believing soul, led by Jesus, it doesn't seem so hard to begin to have faint graspings of eternal Unity and infinite universal Diversity of God as Infinite and His So-Be-as-I-WE- wish -- Willed (volitional) Reality-Realities. Spirit and Theology take some willed effort and it is more than well worth it ! Wow ! Seek God wholeheartedly and suddenly or slowly much more will be given to you ...without end !]
10:3.6 We observe that the Father has divested himself of all direct manifestations of absoluteness except Absolute Fatherhood and Absolute Volition. We do not know whether volition [will] is an inalienable attribute of the Father; we can only observe that He did not divest himself of volition. Such infinity of will must have been eternally inherent in the First Source and Center. [God the Universal Father as Personal and pre-Personal and super-Personal and much more -- God as the Infinite I AM Primal-Final Father-Force-Source-Center --Trinity -- more to infinity and infinitude of the Infinite I AM]
10:3.7 In bestowing absoluteness of Personality upon the Eternal Son, the Universal Father escapes from the fetters [limitations] of personality absolutism, but in so doing He takes a step which makes it forever impossible for him to act alone as the Personality- absolute. And with the final Personalization of coexistent Deity -- the Conjoint Actor -- there ensues the critical trinitarian interdependence of the three divine Personalities with regard to the totality of Deity function in absolute.
10:3.8 God is the Father-Absolute of all personalities in the universe of universes. The Father is personally absolute in liberty of action, but in the universes of time and space, made, in the making, and yet to be made, the Father is not discernibly absolute as total Deity except in the Paradise Trinity.
10:3.9 The First Source and Center functions outside of Havona in the phenomenal universes as follows:
10:3.10 #1. As Creator, through the Creator Sons, his grandsons. [the Creator Sons of the Original Son: The Eternal Son]
10:3.11 #2. As Controller, through the gravity center of Paradise.
10:3.12 #3. As Spirit, through the Eternal Son.
10:3.13 #4. As Mind, through the Conjoint Creator.
10:3.14 #5. As a Father, He maintains parental contact with all creatures through his Personality Circuit.
10:3.15 #6. As a Person, he acts directly throughout creation by his exclusive fragments -- in mortal man by the Thought Adjusters.
10:3.16 #7. As total Deity, He functions only in the Paradise Trinity.
10:3.17 All these relinquishments and delegations of jurisdiction by the Universal Father are wholly voluntary and self-imposed. The all-powerful [Omnipotent, Sovereign] Father purposefully assumes these limitations of universe Authority.
10:3.18 The Eternal Son seems to function as one with the Father in all spiritual respects except in the bestowals of the God fragments and in other prepersonal activities. Neither is the Son closely identified with the intellectual activities of material creatures nor with the energy activities of the material universes. As Absolute the Son functions as a Person and only in the domain of the Spiritual Universe.
10:3.19 The Infinite Spirit is amazingly universal and unbelievably versatile in all his operations. He performs in the spheres of mind, matter, and spirit. The Conjoint Actor represents the Father-Son association, but He also functions as himself. He is not directly concerned with physical gravity, with spiritual gravity, or with the Personality Circuit, but He more or less participates in all other universe activities. While apparently dependent on three existential and absolute Gravity controls, the Infinite Spirit appears to exercise three supercontrols. This three-fold endowment is employed in many ways to transcend and seemingly to neutralize even the manifestations of primary forces and energies, right up to the superultimate borders of absoluteness. In certain situations these supercontrols absolutely transcend even the primal manifestations of cosmic reality. [more later ... to amaze and inspire you to seek God in/as Jesus here in Spirit ! Amen ! Part 2 of 2 on The Paradise Trinity next.]
