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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.
*** 9:5.1 The Third Source and
Center 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 adjutants
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 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. 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 Urantia,
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. |
