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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.
*** 9:8 PERSONALITIES OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT 9:8.1
The
Infinite Spirit possesses full power to
transmit many of his powers and prerogatives to his co-ordinate and
subordinate personalities and agencies. 9:8.2
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 in the existence of the Seven Master Spirits of Paradise, the distributors of the Infinite
Spirit to the universes. 9:8.3
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 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 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. 9:8.6
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: 1. Subjective self-consciousness. 2. Objective response to the Father's personality circuit. 9:8.7
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. 9:8.8
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. 9:8.9
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. 9:8.10
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. 9:8.11
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. 9:8.12
The functional family of the Third Source and Center, as it is revealed in these
narratives, falls into three great groups: 9:8.13 The Supreme Spirits. A group of composite origin that embraces, among others,
the following orders: 1. The Seven Master
Spirits of 2. The Reflective
Spirits of the Superuniverses. 3. The Creative
Spirits of the Local Universes. 9:8.14 The Power Directors. A group of control creatures and agencies that function
throughout all organized space. 9:8.15 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: 1. The Higher
Personalities of the Infinite Spirit. 2. The Messenger Hosts
of Space. 3. The Ministering
Spirits of Time. 9:8.16
These
groups serve on 9:8.17
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. 9:8.18 [Revealed on Urantia by a Divine
Counselor of Uversa commissioned
by the Ancients Days to portray the nature
and work of the Infinite Spirit.] |
