8. PERSONALITIES OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT – P.105
P.105 – §6 The Infinite Spirit possesses full power
to transmit many of his powers and prerogatives to his co-ordinate and
subordinate personalities and agencies.
P.105 – §7 The first Deity-creating act of the Infinite
Spirit, functioning apart from the Trinity but in some unrevealed association
with the Father and the Son, personalized
P.106 – §0 in the existence of the Seven Master Spirits
of Paradise, the distributors of the Infinite Spirit to the universes.
P.106 – §1 There is no direct representative of the
Third Source and Center on the headquarters of a superuniverse. Each of
these seven creations is dependent on one of the Master Spirits of Paradise,
who acts through the seven Reflective Spirits situated at the capital
of the superuniverse.
P.106 – §2 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 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.
P.106 – §3 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.
P.106 – §4 The Third Source and Center is represented
in the grand universe by a vast array of ministering spirits, messengers,
teachers, adjudicators, helpers, and advisers, together with supervisors
of certain circuits of physical, morontial, and spiritual nature. Not
all of these beings are personalities in the strict meaning of the term.
Personality of the finite-creature variety is characterized by:
P.106 – §5 1. Subjective self-consciousness.
P.106 – §6 2. Objective response to the Father’s
personality circuit.
P.106 – §7 There are creator personalities and creature
personalities, and in addition to these two fundamental types there are
personalities of the Third Source and Center, beings who are personal
to the Infinite Spirit, but who are not unqualifiedly personal to creature
beings. These Third Source personalities are not a part of the Father’s
personality circuit. First Source personality and Third Source personality
are mutually contactable; all personality is contactable.
P.106 – §8 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.
P.106 – §9 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.
P.106 – §10 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.
P.107 – §1 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
form with its enlarged sensitivity to the reality of spiritual things.
P.107 – §2 The functional family of the Third Source
and Center, as it is revealed in these narratives, falls into three great
groups:
P.107 – §3 I. The Supreme Spirits. A group of composite
origin that embraces, among others, the following orders:
P.107 – §4 1. The Seven Master Spirits of Paradise.
P.107 – §5 2. The Reflective Spirits of the Superuniverses.
P.107 – §6 3. The Creative Spirits of the Local Universes.
P.107 – §7 II. The Power Directors. A group of control
creatures and agencies that function throughout all organized space.
P.107 – §8 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:
P.107 – §9 1. The Higher Personalities of the Infinite
Spirit.
P.107 – §10 2. The Messenger Hosts of Space.
P.107 – §11 3. The Ministering Spirits of Time.
P.107 – §12 These groups serve on Paradise, in the
central or residential universe, in the superuniverses, and they embrace
orders that function in the local universes, even to the constellations,
systems, and planets.
P.107 – §13 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.
P.107 – §14 [Revealed on Urantia by a Divine Counselor
of Uversa commissioned by the Ancients of Days to portray the nature and
work of the Infinite Spirit.]
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