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THE SPIRIT OF BESTOWAL
THE INFINITE SPIRIT |
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CEDOMIL
VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D. |
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In the
previous Interim-Papers we have reviewed the meanings of the TRUE WORSHIP of
the Paradise Universal Father, the PRAYER SUPPLICATIONS to the realms of the
Paradise Eternal Son and His Spirit of Truth, and qualified PRAYER
REALIZATIONS by the spirit agencies of the Holy Spirit, the Mind of the
Paradise Conjoint Actor. The following
Interim-Paper is devoted to further enlightenment about the true nature of
God.
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URANTIA BOOK—PAPER 9 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
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. 9:2.3 There are many untrammeled lines
of spiritual force and sources of supermaterial
power linking the people of Urantia directly with
the Deities of Paradise.
There exist the connection of the Thought Adjusters
direct with the Universal Father, the widespread influence of the
spiritual-gravity urge of the Eternal Son, and the spiritual
presence of the Conjoint Creator.
There is a difference in function between the spirit of the Son and the
spirit of the Spirit. The Third Person in his spiritual ministry may function
as mind plus spirit or as spirit alone. 9:2.4 In addition to these Paradise
presences, Urantians benefit by the spiritual
influences and activities of the local and the superuniverse,
with their almost endless array of loving personalities who ever lead the
true of purpose and the honest of heart upward and inward towards the ideals
of divinity
and the goal of supreme perfection. 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. 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
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