Paper 9 Overview: Relation of the Infinite Spirit to the Universe

The Infinite Spirit is the Third Person of Deity who came into being when the Universal Father and Eternal Son united to create a being of perfect spirituality with unique powers. The Infinite Spirit has special abilities that include manipulating energy, controlling mind, and providing spiritual ministry to all creation.

This Paper explains the personal qualities of the Infinite Spirit and how this being serves the universe as a minister of mercy and love. The Infinite Spirit created many spirit helpers who serve throughout the universe and help mortals on their spiritual journey from material worlds toward Paradise.

When the Universal Father and Eternal Son joined together, they created the Infinite Spirit, who has unique abilities to handle energy, mind, and spirit. The Infinite Spirit frees the Father from being limited by perfection and allows new forms of creation to exist.

The Infinite Spirit works as a universal minister, delivering the Father's love and the Son's mercy to all creation. The Infinite Spirit's influence reaches everywhere in space, working with both spiritual and material realities to reveal the unity of God in all things.

The Third Source and Center is known by many names that show his different roles and relationships. He is called God the Spirit, the Infinite Spirit, the Universal Manipulator, the Conjoint Actor, the Absolute Mind, and the God of Action.

Some of the Infinite Spirit's qualities come from the Father, some from the Son, and others are unique to him. The Infinite Spirit works as a universal coordinator who helps all reality work together smoothly. He has absolute power over mind and shares the Father's qualities of omnipresence, omniscience, and acts with mercy and love.

God is spirit in three ways: as himself, through his Son, and through the Infinite Spirit who combines spirit with mind. The Infinite Spirit complements both the Father and the Son by being a personalized spiritualization of both of them.

There are many spiritual connections between the people of Urantia and the Deities of Paradise. The universal spirit of the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit can be recognized by mortals. These divine spirits work together in perfect cooperation to help humans grow spiritually.

The Isle of Paradise is the source of physical gravity that affects everything in the physical universe. This gravity can only be modified by forces and energies that come from the Father and Son, which are linked to the Third Source and Center.

The Infinite Spirit has a special power called antigravity that can work against material gravity. The Infinite Spirit is not energy itself but is the manipulator of energy who creates action, motion, and change. He has many helpers throughout the universe who regulate and stabilize physical energies.

The Third Source and Center has an intellectual nature that is separate from his physical and spiritual qualities. This mind nature can be recognized but does not function independently from the physical or spiritual sides of his personality.

The absolute mind belongs to the Third Person and cannot be separated from his personality. The Infinite Spirit is absolute only in the realm of mind and universal intelligence. He provides different types of mind to the seven superuniverses through the Seven Master Spirits, who are his primary personalities.

The Third Source and Center has unlimited mind potential. If the universe grew infinitely, he could still provide suitable minds to countless creatures. The Third Source and Center rules completely over the domain of created mind.

The Infinite Spirit gives mind to a wide range of life forms, from humans down to the simplest living things. Human mind is an individualized circuit of the cosmic mind given by the Infinite Spirit. Though human intellect comes from animals, it has divine potential and is part of a plan for intellectual evolution.

The Third Source and Center is aware of every mind in all creation and maintains perfect contact with all creatures of mind. The Infinite Spirit controls the absolute mind-gravity circuit, which is part of his personal consciousness.

Just as the Father draws all personality to himself and the Son attracts all spiritual reality, the Infinite Spirit draws all minds to himself. Pure mind is subject only to the gravity pull of the Infinite Spirit. The circuit of mind is dependable, but not all mind function is predictable.

The Conjoint Actor can coordinate all levels of universe reality to allow simultaneous recognition of mental, material, and spiritual things. This power of reflectivity works perfectly on the headquarters worlds of the seven superuniverses.

Reflectivity is the most complex interaction of all phases of existence. It allows universe rulers to know about remote conditions instantly when they occur. This phenomenon seems to involve the experiential mind of the Supreme Being, which was given to the Supreme by the Infinite Spirit.

The Infinite Spirit can share his powers and duties with his personalities and helpers. His first creation act produced the Seven Master Spirits of Paradise, who distribute his influence to the universes.

The Infinite Spirit creates many other beings, including Creative Spirits who work with Creator Sons in local universes. The Third Source can give personality to beings who are not in the Father's personality circuit. The spirit beings made by the Divine and Infinite Spirit help mortal humans climb from chaos to glory.